Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him flee before him.

27 – 28 September 2023

Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him flee before him.

The above is Psalms 68:1, which is followed by a description of the LORD manifesting His presence as He confirms His word, freely sending it upon all, like rain from the clouds of heaven. It tells of when men realize this event and exalt His word by singing it as received, as a free gift, continuing the process. The process is through the flesh of those who receive it as His words, answer His call, and, chosen by Him, are glorified, further revealing in them His presence.

Friends, the people who oppose this are those in power who will never see Him because of the corruption that clouds their minds and those of any remaining under their evil spell. Proverbially, these are the spells that chain men in hell, the bars and gates that hold them there. These men are in all the pulpits, telling their stories after giving you crumbs from the word of God, and for it, they ask all to subsidize their continued misleading.

Thus says the LORD:
Proverbs 7
24 Hearken unto me now therefore, O you children, and attend to the words of my mouth.
25 Let not your heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.
26 For she has cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.
27 Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.

Proverbs 19
1 Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.
2 Also, that the [sleeping] soul be without knowledge, it is not good; and he that hastens [away from the LORD’s long-suffering correction] with his feet sins.
3 The foolishness of man perverts his way: and his heart [his corrupt foundational mind] frets [za’aph – is enraged] against the LORD.
4 Wealth [worldly prospering] makes many friends; but the poor [without any worldly power] is separated from his neighbor.
5 A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaks lies shall not escape.
6 Many will intreat [chalah – many ask for relief of their problems] the favor [paniym – in the presence] of the prince: and every man [who asks] is a friend to him that gives [worldly] gifts [why then is it not so with God people who the LORD gives these heavenly treasures that are the cure for their deep ailments].
7 All the brethren of the poor do hate him [because he has no worldly gift to give them]: how much more do his friends go far from him? he pursues them with words [these treasures], yet they are wanting to him [unsatisfied with this free offering of God].
8 He that [receiving him] gets wisdom loves his own soul [which this gift awakens into life]: he that keeps [shamar – that guards and protects from corruption] understanding shall find good.
9 A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaks lies shall perish.
10 Delight is not seemly [suitable] for a fool; much less for a servant [‘ebed – who is as Cannan, who should be a servant but instead have now become tyrants – see its use in Genesis 9:25 thru 27] to have rule over princes.
11 The discretion of a man defers his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.
12 The king’s wrath is as the roaring of a lion; but his favor is as dew upon the grass [as the word of God appearing on earth beginning this new day].
13 A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping [when words never end the argument].
14 House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the LORD.
15 Slothfulness [not working, not diligently seeking the LORD and His will] casts into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger [without His word from heaven].
16 He that keeps [shamar] the commandment keeps [shamar] his own soul; but he that despises his [the LORD’s good] ways shall die.
17 He that has pity upon the poor lends [himself] unto the LORD [joining with Him in His giving]; and that which he has given will he [the LORD] pay him again.
18 Chasten your son while there is hope, and let not your soul spare [him from correction] for his crying.
19 A man of great wrath shall suffer punishment: for if you deliver him, yet you must do it again.
20 Hear [shama’ – obey] counsel [‘etsah], and receive instruction, that you mayest be wise in your latter end [‘achariyth – in these last days].
21 There are many devices [machashabah – contrivances, the machines of Satan’s siege against good counsel] in a man’s heart [men’s minds possessed by him]; nevertheless the counsel of the LORD, that shall stand.
22 The desire of a man is his kindness [the LORD’s mercy to those who don’t forsake it for worthless lies]: and a poor man is better than a liar.
23 The fear of the LORD tends to life: and he that has it shall abide satisfied [with these treasures of heaven]; he shall not be visited [paqad] with evil [when the LORD comes as the Chief Overseer of the earth against the wicked].
24 A slothful man hides his hand in his bosom, and will not so much as bring it to his mouth again [to eat this bread of life and freely give it as received].
25 Smite a scorner, and the simple will beware: and reprove one that has understanding, and he will understand knowledge.
26 He that wastes his father [who instructs and corrects him into a good way], and chase away his mother [who teaches him good wisdom and the knowledge of God], is a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach.
27 Cease, my son, to hear [shama’ – obey] the instruction that causes to err from the words of knowledge.
28 An ungodly witness [not telling what is truly seen] scorns [the LORD’s] judgment: and the mouth of the wicked devours [only eats and speaks words of] iniquity.
29 Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.

Psalms 68
1 Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him flee before him [paniym – at His presence].
2 As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: as wax melts before [paniym – in the presence of] the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence [paniym] of God.
3 But let the righteous be glad; let them rejoice before [paniym – in the presence of] God: yea, let them exceedingly rejoice.
4 Sing unto God, sing praises to his name: extol him that rides upon the heavens by his name Jah [Yahh – spiritually from the once used word ya’ah, rendered “appertain” in Jeremiah 10:7, speaking of there being none like Him among all the wise men of the earth], and rejoice before him [paniym – in His presence].
5 A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
6 God set the solitary in families: he bringeth out [of death and hell] those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.
7 O God, when you went forth before [paniym – present among] your people, when you did march through the wilderness [among the desolate]; Selah:
8 The earth shook, the heavens also dropped at the presence [paniym] of God: even Sinai [the sleep that came from altering the word of God, a time when thorns, misleaders, over grew the world left in the care of men who were supposed to guard and protect it against corrupt] itself was moved at the presence [paniym] of God, the God of Israel.
9 You, O God, did send a plentiful [ndabah – in one who is a willing offering] rain [Your word from heaven], whereby you did confirm [kuwn – to resurrect] your inheritance, when it was weary [la’ah, a nineteen time used word referring us to it uses in Isaiah 47:13, Jeremiah 9:5, and Ezekiel 24:12 – all below speaking of the things that wearied God’s people and caused their desolation].
10 Your congregation has dwelt therein [the rain You sent]: you, O God, have prepared [kuwn – resurrected] of your goodness for the poor [who are without worldly power].
11 The LORD gave the [this] word: great was the company of those that published it [basar – announcing these good tidings, this goodness He has given to the poor].
12 Kings of armies did flee apace: and she that tarried at home [waited on the LORD] divided the spoil.
13 Though you have lien among the pots, yet shall you be as the wings of a dove [flying in heaven with His strength of His understanding, which is a sign of the end reached] covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold [the treasures that lifted you into heaven].
14 When the Almighty scattered kings in it, it was white as snow in Salmon.
15 The hill of God is as the hill of Bashan; an high hill as the hill of Bashan [fruitfulness].
16 Why leap you, you high hills? this is the hill which God desires to dwell in; yea, the LORD will dwell in it forever.
17 The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of angels: the LORD is among them, as in Sinai [as fire against the misleaders who altered My word and caused your sleep in death], in the holy place [above My mercy seat].
18 You have ascended on high, you have led captivity captive: you have received gifts for men; yea, for the rebellious also, that the LORD God might dwell among them.
19 Blessed be the LORD, who daily loads us with benefits, even the God of our salvation. Selah.
20 He that is our God is the God of salvation; and unto God the LORD belong the issues from death.
21 But God shall wound the head of his enemies, and the hairy scalp of such an one as goes on still in his trespasses.
22 The LORD said, I will bring again from Bashan [fruitfulness], I will bring my people again from the depths [mtsowlah] of the sea [these are the deep Jonah also called the belly of hell]:
23 That your foot may be dipped in the blood of your enemies, and the tongue of your dogs in the same.
24 They have seen your goings, O God; even the goings of my God, my King, in the sanctuary [qodesh – this is the most holy place, in the LORD’s manifested presence].
25 The singers went before, the players on instruments followed after; among them were the damsels playing with timbrels.
26 Bless you God in the congregations, even the LORD, from the fountain of Israel.
27 There is little Benjamin with their ruler, the princes of Judah and their council, the princes of Zebulun, and the princes of Naphtali.
28 Your God has commanded your strength: strengthen, O God, that which you have wrought for us.
29 Because of your temple at Jerusalem shall kings bring presents unto you.
30 Rebuke the company of spearmen, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the people, till every one submit himself with pieces of silver: scatter you the people that delight in war.
31 Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God.
32 Sing unto God, you kingdoms of the earth; O sing praises unto the LORD; Selah:
33 To him that rides upon the heavens of heavens, which were of old; lo, he does send out his voice, and that a mighty voice.
34 Ascribe you strength unto God: his excellency is over Israel, and his strength is in the clouds.
35 O God, you are terrible out of your holy places: the God of Israel is he that gives strength and power unto his people. Blessed be God.

Isaiah 47
1 Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon [of confusion], sit on the ground: there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans [who use your words to manipulate and control My people into following your evil]: for you shall no more be called tender and delicate.
2 Take the millstones, and grind meal [qemach]: uncover your locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over [‘abar] the rivers [uncover your word of falsehood and lies, and in doing Passover from death into life].
3 Your nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, your shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and I will not meet you as a man.
4 As for our redeemer, the LORD of hosts [a man of war] is his name [identity], the Holy One of Israel.
5 Sit you silent [Shunammite], and get you into darkness [ignorance], O daughter of the Chaldeans [enchanters and sorcerers, using your words to manipulate and control the ignorant]: for you shall no more be called, The lady of kingdoms.
6 I was wroth with my people, I have polluted my inheritance, and given them into your hand: you did show them no mercy; upon the ancient have you very heavily laid your yoke.
7 And you said, I shall be a lady forever: so that you did not lay these things to your heart, neither did remember the latter end [‘achariyth – these last days of your darkness] of it.
8 Therefore hear now this, you that are given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in your heart, I am, and none else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children:
9 But these two things shall come to you in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come upon you in their perfection for the multitude of your sorceries, and for the great abundance of your enchantments.
10 For you have trusted in your wickedness: you have said, None see me. Your wisdom and your knowledge, it has perverted you; and you have said in your heart, I am, and none else beside me.
11 Therefore shall evil come upon you; you shall not know from whence it rises: and mischief shall fall upon you; you shall not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon you suddenly, which you shall not know.
12 Stand now with your enchantments, and with the multitude of your sorceries, wherein you have labored from your youth; if so be you shall be able to profit, if so be you mayest prevail.
13 You are wearied [la’ah] in the multitude of your counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, [all the falsely so-called wise men and experts of this corrupt and insane world] stand up, and save you from these things that shall come upon you.
14 Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: there shall not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before it.
15 Thus shall they be unto you with whom you have labored, even your merchants, from your youth: they shall wander [deceive] every one to his quarter; none shall save you.

Jeremiah 9
1 Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
2 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
3 And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, says the LORD.
4 Take you heed every one of his neighbor, and trust you not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will walk with slanders.
5 And they will deceive every one his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary [la’ag] themselves to commit iniquity.
6 Your habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, says the LORD.
7 Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people?
8 Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaks deceit: one speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in heart he lays his wait [to make him his prey].
9 Shall I not visit [paqad – manifest my presence as the Chief Overseer of the earth, against] them for these things? says the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

Ezekiel 24 begins with the LORD telling Ezekiel (the son of man) to name the day, even of this same day. The day is “the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth day.” The number nine speaks of final judgment, and the number ten describes ordinal perfection (completion), here spiritually denoting the judgment and completion of church and state governments (sun and moon).

Israel, reduced by idol worship, ended under Hosea in the ninth year of his reign, 2 Kings 17:6 telling us, “In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria: took Samaria [the capitol], and carried Israel away into Assyria.” This event, in our time (again spiritually), speaks of the Democrat Party, their leaders with the people at large, falling to the communists and now tyrannically ruling by evil force (they, beginning demagogues, ending tyrants, overturned the liberty of our republic {Federalist #1}).

In Ezekiel 24, the day to be named is the same day mentioned in 2 Kings 25:1 (also spoken of in Jeremiah 39:1), which begins the end of Judah (now spiritually the Republicans, the corrupt crop leading the remnant of the republic). Ezekiel describes these events after the final two verses of chapter 23 say, “48 Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness. 49 And they shall recompense your lewdness upon you, and you shall bear the sins of your idols: and you shall know that I am the LORD God.”

The following, ending with 1 Corinthians 10, is the initial portion of the post of 9 July 2021, with today’s additions in double brackets:

Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; and let Him be your fear, and let Him be your dread.

The above is the LORD describing the process of sanctification, which ends with our exalting Him, as He describes Himself above, as a man of war, the Commander and Chief (“of hosts”) of the army of heaven, which He musters, sanctifies, and commands.

This process is precisely described in Isaiah, in successive uses of the Hebrew word qadash, rendered above “sanctify,” meaning “to be (causatively, make, pronounce or observe as) clean (ceremonially or morally).”

We understand, from 2 Timothy 2:21, this is a process of purging us of the “scum” spoken of in Ezekiel 24:13, by the LORD’s good judgment, so we become “meet” for the Master’s (The LORD of Hosts’) use, prepared for every good work.

2 Timothy 2
3 You therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ [Jehovah’s Salvation in the flesh].
4 No man that wars entangles himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who has chosen him to be a soldier.
5 And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully.
6 The husbandman [he that works in the earth] that labors must be first partaker of the fruits.
7 Consider what I say; and the LORD give you [first] understanding in all things.
8 Remember that Jesus Christ of the seed of David was raised from the dead [the first- fruit, now, of the resurrection of the dead] according to my gospel:
9 Wherein I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, even unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound [nor can any man shut what the LORD has now opened].
10 Therefore I endure all things for the elect’s sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
11 It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him:
12 If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us:
13 If we believe not [He is resurrected in me], yet he abides faithful [in me]: he cannot deny himself. [I tell you the truth, I confess without fear, Jehovah’s Salvation, Jesus, is alive from the dead, Christ, in my flesh!]
14 Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the LORD that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers.
15 Study to show yourself approved unto God, a workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
16 But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.
17 And their word will eat as does a canker: of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus [those who forbid you from Joining with the LORD, in one body, one flesh, as His only son, and forbidding this they hid behind the spurious mask of caring for your soul];
18 Who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already [the resurrection comes when you are freed from the lies of the false prophets and false teachers whose words and ways have carried Humanity into death and hell]; and overthrow the faith of some.
19 Nevertheless the foundation [I Am] of God stands sure, having this seal, The LORD knows them that are his. And, let every one that names the name of Christ depart from [purge out, incise, exercise, work out of yourself] iniquity.
20 But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honor, and some to dishonor.
21 If a man therefore purge himself from these [the vessels of dishonor, in which remains the scum], he shall be a vessel unto honor, sanctified [made holy], and meet for the master’s use, and prepared unto every good work.
22 Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the LORD out of a pure heart.
23 But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strife [the way of the wicked, argument, continuously questioning with known lies and false accusation, intended to produce endless confusion].
24 And the servant of the LORD must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient,
25 In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;
26 And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil [endless questioning, using lies and false accusation, even when known to be such – with intention, leading captive silly women who are never able to come to the knowledge of the truth], who are taken captive by him at his will.

2 Timothy 3
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
4 Traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such [devils taking you captive] turn away.
6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
8 Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses [against him casting down rods which turned to serpents, which Aaron’s rod, turned into a serpent, ate] so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith [false prophets with not a word of God in them, speaking their own words against the son of man God has sent to free His people from this oppression].
9 But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as theirs also was.
10 But you have fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, charity, patience,
11 Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the LORD delivered me.
12 Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.
13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
14 But continue you in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing of whom you have learned them;
15 And that from a child you have known the holy scriptures, which are able to make you wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
17 That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works [which is the good fight we fight].

2 Timothy 4
1 I charge you therefore before God, and the LORD Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;
2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine.
3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
5 But watch you in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of your ministry.

Ezekiel 24
9 Therefore thus says the LORD God; Woe to the bloody city! I will even make the pile for fire great.
10 Heap on wood, kindle the fire, consume the flesh, and spice it well, and let the bones be burned.
11 Then set it empty upon the coals thereof, that the brass of it may be hot, and may burn, and that the filthiness of it may be molten in it, that the scum of it may be consumed.
12 She has wearied [[la’ah]] herself with lies, and her great scum went not forth out of her: her scum shall be in the fire.
13 In your filthiness is lewdness: because I have purged you, and you were not purged, you shall not be purged from your filthiness any more, till I have caused my fury to rest [nuwach] upon you.
14 I the LORD have spoken it: it shall come to pass, and I will do it; I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will I repent; according to your ways, and according to your doings, shall they judge you, says the LORD God.
15 Also the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
16 Son of man, behold, I take away from you the desire of your eyes with a stroke: yet neither shall you mourn nor weep, neither shall your tears run down.
17 Forbear to cry, make no mourning for the dead, bind the tire of your head upon you, and put on your shoes upon your feet [prepare to go out of their, the dead’s, house], and cover not your lips [‘atah sapham], and eat not the bread of [dead] men.
18 So I spoke unto the people in the morning: and at even my wife died; and I did in the morning as I was commanded.
19 And the people said unto me, Will you not tell us what these things are to us, that you do so?
20 Then I answered them, The word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
21 Speak unto the house of Israel, Thus says the LORD God; Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the excellency of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pities; and your sons and your daughters whom you have left shall fall by the sword [this word of God to the rebels].
22 And you shall do as I have done: you shall not cover your lips [‘atah sapham – you shall not keep my word from being heard, my mouth will be uncovered], nor eat the bread of men [the misleading words of men shall not be taken into your minds].
23 And your tires shall be upon your heads, and your shoes upon your feet [you shall leave the houses of the dead]: you shall not mourn nor weep; but you shall pine away [maqaq – as in Zechariah 14:12 speaking of the plague, “Their [works of the] flesh shall consume away [maqaq] while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes [the thing they say they understand] shall consume away [maqaq] in their holes [chowr], and their tongue [their defiled words with which they deceive and mislead the world] shall consume away [maqaq] in their mouth.] for your iniquities, and mourn one toward another.
24 Thus Ezekiel is unto you a sign: according to all that he has done shall you do: and when this comes, you shall know that I am the LORD God.
25 Also, you son of man, shall it not be in the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that whereupon they set their minds, their sons and their daughters,
26 That he that escapes in that day shall come unto you, to cause you to hear it with your ears?
27 In that day shall your mouth be opened to him which is escaped, and you shall speak [this word of understanding], and be no more dumb: and you shall be a sign unto them; and they shall know that I am the LORD.

In demonstrating the process, the LORD, in the first of eight uses of qadash in Isaiah, begins in Isaiah 5:16, speaking of the captivity of His people, as mentioned above in 2 Timothy.

Isaiah 5
… they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands.
13 Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honorable men are famished [without the word from the mouth of God], and their multitude dried up with thirst [for the waters, the word of God, from heaven].
14 Therefore hell has enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoices, shall descend into it [hell].
15 And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled:
16 But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted [as the son of man must be lifted up, as Moses lifted the serpent in the wilderness] in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified [qadash – declared Holy, in His Holy One through who He manifests His presence] in righteousness.
17 Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.
18 Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity [of worthlessness], and sin as it were with a cart rope:
19 That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, that we may know it!
20 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness [ignorance] for light [understanding], and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
21 Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
22 Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle [mix their lies and false accusation into] strong drink:
23 Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!
24 Therefore [in this judgment] as the fire devours the stubble, and the flame consumes the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

In the above, the LORD tells of how He is exalted, when His judgment and righteousness come as consuming fire against those who’ve despised the word of the one He’s called Holy. In the following use, in Isaiah 8:13, the title verse, He calls His people to declare Him Holy (righteous, and His word pure). He describes the wicked misleaders as wizards that peep and mutter, speaking the familiar words of the known dead, seeking to ill-advise and mislead His people into deeper darkness and anguish.

These men and those who follow them are the confederacy of the ignorant, the legions of Satan arrayed against the Holy One described as the foundation stone. This stone, as seen in the previous post, is as in Joshua 24:26 & 27, which says, “26 And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God, and took a great stone, and set it up there under an oak, that was by the sanctuary of the LORD. 27 And Joshua said unto all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness unto us; for it has heard all the words of the LORD which he spoke unto us: it shall be therefore a witness unto you, lest you deny your God.”

The tree and the stone are referring us to Genesis 49, as Jacob tells his sons what shall befall them in these last days [[‘avhariyth]], and speaks of Joseph as a bough (branch) of a tree by the well, that goes over the wall. From the LORD’s blessing him, with the blessings of the deep and of heaven, the strength (understanding) of Almighty God, comes the Shepherd and Stone (all the same word, ‘eben), the king who prevails and is crowned.

Genesis 49
22 Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well [a tree of life by these waters of God]; whose branches run over the wall [the wall of lies men have created and teach]:
23 The archers [ba’al – the gods of this world whose teaching has blinded all form seeing the Father, in the son, the seed of the women who brings forth the man child – see Revelation 12:5] have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him:
24 But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the Shepherd, the Stone of Israel:)
25 Even by the God of your father, who shall help [‘azar] you; and by the Almighty, who shall bless [barak] you with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lies under [the deep meaning that lies below the surface], blessings of the breasts, and of the womb [seed, the son]:
26 The blessings of your father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors [harah – all those who have come before us, and were only blessed with part of what is perfected in our return to the LORD] unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head [see Zechariah 9:16 above] of him that was separate from his brethren.

1 Corinthians 10
1 Moreover, brethren, I would not that you should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;
2 And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;
3 And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ [Jehovah’s Salvation manifested in the flesh (Immanuel), Commanding His people with good leadership].
5 But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
6 Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
7 Neither be you idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.
8 Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
9 Neither let us tempt Christ [let us not doubt or deny Jehovah’s presence manifested in the flesh], as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.
10 Neither murmur you, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.
11 Now all these things happened unto them for examples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.
12 Wherefore let him that thinks he stands take heed lest he fall.
13 There has no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that you are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that you may be able to bear it.
14 Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry [and in doing escape those denying and doubting Christ, and misleading into darkness].
15 I speak as to wise men; judge you what I say.
16 The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?
17 For we being many are one bread, and ONE BODY: for we are all partakers of that one bread.

Jeremiah 10
1 Hear you the word which the LORD speaks unto you, O house of Israel:
2 Thus says the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen [gowy – those who don’t know me], and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven [this full understanding]; for the heathen are dismayed at them.
3 For the customs of the people are vain: for [to make idols they put in my place and call by my name] one cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.
5 They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne [carried], because they cannot go [walk]. Be not afraid of them [because they are nothing]; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.
6 Forasmuch as there is none like unto you, O LORD; you are great, and your name is great in Might.
7 Who would not fear you, O King of nations? for to you does it appertain [ya’ah – to reveal Your presence by removing the scum]: forasmuch as among all the wise men of the nations [gowy – who don’t know You, because they are corrupted and ignorant], and in all their kingdoms, there is none like unto you [with full understanding].
8 But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities [worthlessness].
9 Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder: blue and purple is their clothing: they are all the work of cunning men [makers of idols they call by My name].
10 But the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation.
11 Thus shall you say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens.
12 He has made the earth by his power, he has established the world by his wisdom, and has stretched out the heavens by his discretion.
13 When he uttereth his voice [as the seven thunders revealing what was reserved from this purpose], there is a multitude of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.
14 Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
15 They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation [pquddah – now when the LORD has come as the Chief Overseer of the earth] they shall perish.
16 The portion of Jacob is not like them: for he is the former of all things; and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: The LORD of hosts is his name.
17 Gather up your wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the fortress.
18 For thus says the LORD, Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this once, and will distress them, that they may find it so.
19 Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous; but I said, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it.
20 My tabernacle is spoiled, and all my cords are broken: my children are gone forth of me, and they are not [there are none left with understanding]: there is none to stretch forth my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.
21 For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered.
22 Behold, the noise [qowl – the voice] of the bruit [shmuw’ah – those who have heard the voice of Jehovah] is come, and a great commotion out of the north country [among the ignorant], to make the cities of Judah [the misleaders, who by the abominations they put in my, caused it to become] desolate, and a den of dragons [of those who devour with their ever open mouths].
23 O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself [they are ignorant of their own ignorance]: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps [in a good way].
24 O LORD, correct me, but with judgment; not in your anger, lest you bring me to nothing.
25 Pour out your fury upon the heathen that know you not, and upon the families that call not on your name: for they have [like dragons, with their mouths] eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation [which they filled with abominations] desolate.

Revelation [Apokalupsis – the disclosure of the LORD’s presence] 15
1 And I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvelous, seven angels having the seven last plagues; for in them is filled up the wrath of God.
2 And I saw as it were a sea of glass [God’s people at large, calmed by the LORD’s presence realized] mingled with fire [this word from His mouth]: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast [Babylon: the confusion and insanity that rules the world], and over his image [the creations of men], and over his mark [confused minds], and over the number of his name [the mask behind which they hide], stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God.
3 And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, [repeating the words they’ve been given, full understanding from heaven as the former and latter rain] saying, Great and marvelous are your works, LORD God Almighty; just and true are your ways, you King of saints.
4 Who shall not fear you, O LORD, and glorify your name [quoted above in Jeremiah 10:6 & 7]? for you only are holy: for all nations shall come and worship before you; for your judgments are made manifest.
5 And after that I looked, and, behold, the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony [this word of God] in heaven was opened:
6 And the seven angels came out of the temple, having the seven plagues, clothed in pure and white linen, and having their breasts girded with golden girdles.
7 And one of the four beasts gave unto the seven angels seven golden vials full of the wrath of God, who lives forever and ever.
8 And the temple was filled with smoke [to rid it of the vermin infesting it] from the glory of God [His presence revealed by His word], and from his power; and no man was able to enter into the temple, till the seven plagues of the seven angels were fulfilled.

Psalms 113
1 Praise you the LORD. Praise, O you servants of the LORD, praise the name of the LORD.
2 Blessed be the name of the LORD from this time forth and for evermore.
3 From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same the LORD’s name is to be praised.
4 The LORD is high above all nations, and his glory above the heavens.
5 Who is like unto the LORD our God, who dwells on high,
6 Who humbles himself to behold the things that are in heaven, and in the earth!
7 He raises up the poor out of the dust, and lifts the needy out of the dunghill;
8 That he may set him with princes, even with the princes of his people.
9 He makes the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise you the LORD.

Psalms 114
1 When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language;
2 Judah was his sanctuary, and Israel his dominion.
3 The sea [the remainder of humanity at large] saw it, and fled: Jordan [the words of wicked men, which carried all in the descent into death] was driven back.
4 The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs.
5 What ailed you, O you sea, that you fled? you Jordan, that you were driven back?
6 You mountains, that you skipped like rams; and you little hills, like lambs?
7 Tremble, you earth, at the presence [paniym] of the LORD [whose presence did these things], at the presence [paniym] of the God of Jacob;
8 Which turned the rock [the LORD alive in Me] into a standing water, the flint [His words from my mouth, which kindle the fire of His Spirit alive in man] into a fountain of [living] waters.

Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart, and put the stumbling-block of their iniquity before their face: should I be enquired of at all by them?

25 – 26 September 2023

Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart, and put the stumbling-block of their iniquity before their face: should I be enquired of at all by them?

The LORD begins today in the above, Ezekiel 14:3, speaking to the elders of His people who have come and sit before the son of man, to enquire of the LORD. The subject of this inquisition is the LORD’s presence, which is hidden from them by the stumbling-blocks of their iniquity.

The Hebrew words rendered “before their face” are nokach paniym, meaning against [His] presence. The word rendered “inquire” is darash, meaning “to tread or frequent; usually to follow (for pursuit or search); by implication, to seek or ask; specifically to worship [which is seeking Him]).”

This latter word (darash), appearing twice in the title verse (also rendered “at all”), is referring us to its use, twice, in Isaiah 8:19, saying, “And when they shall say unto you, Seek [darash] unto them that have familiar spirits [of the known dead speaking the ways of death and hell], and unto wizards [the falsely so-called “experts”] that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek [darash] unto their God? [instead of looking] for the living to the dead?”

The word (in the title verse) rendered stumbling-block, is the fourteen times used word mikshowl, spiritually meaning it is the snare (net) of hell (mikmor sheol). It, in context, also appears in Isaiah 8, in verse 14, saying “And he [the LORD with us] shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence [mikshowl] to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.”

This verse (Isaiah 8:14), speaking of those who stumble and are offended by the LORD’s presence, and thereby caught in the snare of hell, is preceded by the below portion, speaking of those they are listening to and obeying, who put themselves in the LORD’s place.

Isaiah 8
5 The LORD spoke also unto me again, saying,
6 Forasmuch as this people refuse the waters of Shiloah [the word that flows from God and is the foundation of true peace and security] that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin [the communists in power over church and state – those “firm” in their rejection of the LORD’s presence] and Remaliah’s son [the leaders of God people, joined with the communists against all His people at large];
7 Now therefore, behold, the LORD bringeth up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria [the communists in power], and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels [the flood that, when obeyed, carried all into death and hell], and go over all his banks:
8 And he shall pass through Judah [against all God’s leaders, and they shall all become as drunken men, “For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.”]; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of your land [as a flood], O Immanuel [‘immanuw ‘el – into which tribulation the LORD has now manifested His presence as God with us].
9 Associate yourselves, O you people, and you shall be broken in pieces; and give ear, all you of far countries [merchaq ‘erets – this decreed time of the LORD upon the earth]: gird [prepare yourselves for the battle against His appearing] yourselves, and you shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves [prepare your weapons of deception, false accusation, and misleading], and you shall be broken in pieces.
10 Take counsel together, and it shall come to naught; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us [‘immanuw ‘el – remember, from the post of 12 August 2023, the untranslated part of this word: the once used word manuwn, telling God is with us in the perpetual son, as it appears in Proverbs 29:21, saying “He that delicately brings up his servant from a child shall have him become his son {manuwn} at the length {‘achariyth – in these last days.”}].
11 For the LORD spoke thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying,
12 Say you not, A confederacy [with the wicked and ignorant], to all them to whom this people shall say, A confederacy; neither fear you their fear [of the fires of lies and false accusation they bring upon all who refuse to bow to their wickedness and ignorance], nor be afraid.
13 Sanctify [declare Him alone holy, and separate yourselves from the wicked for the work set before us by] the LORD of hosts [who is a man of war] himself; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.

The following, ending with 1 Thessalonians 5, is from the post of 10 – 12 August 2023:

Therefore, the LORD himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

Isaiah 7:15
Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.

The name Immanuel, in the title verse, Isaiah 7:14, is said to only appear elsewhere in Isaiah 8:8. In the Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary, it’s said to be from ‘Immanuw’el, purportedly a compounding of the words (#5973) ‘im, meaning “with (i.e., in conjunction with);” and (#410) ‘el, meaning “strength; as adjective, mighty; especially the Almighty (but used also of any deity):–God.”

When we examine the original text we find a gross misrepresentation in the translation. We find the word ‘Immanuw’el isn’t there, neither is it found anywhere in the original text. What we do find are two words, the first ‘immanuw, in both appearances, said to be the full name (#6005) ‘Immanuw’el; the second word is ‘el, God.

The word ‘immanuw, when appearing here and in other places other than here, isn’t assigned a number (and, therefore, neither is it given a definition) by Strong. In these different places, when used speaking of God or the LORD God, it is rendered “with us.”

We know from Matthew 1:23, where Isaiah is quoted, the translation is correct, “being interpreted ‘God with us.'” When this interpretation appears (as “God is with us”) in Isaiah 8:10 it’s from the exact words (‘immanuw ‘el) earlier rendered Immanuel.

The untranslated part, manuw, is from two words, ma, meaning “what,” and nuw, from nuwn meaning, “to resprout, i.e., propagate by shoots; figuratively, to be perpetual:– be continued.” The Hebrew word manuwn only appears one time, in Proverbs 29:21, when describing how (what?) the “resprouting,” the manifestation in the flesh, occurs.

Before looking at this concept (in Proverbs 29), in the context of Isaiah 7:15, we must remember the word nuwn is the name Nun, which describes Joshua (Jesus) as the son in perpetuity (of Nun). Proverbs 29 begins with a contrast against verse 21, verses 1 & 2 saying, “He, that being often reproved hardens his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy. When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked bear rule, the people mourn.”

Proverbs, the word, literally describes things to be considered and understood “before action.” The word “authority,” above in Proverbs 29:2, speaking of the consent of the governed, the consensus of the majority, is “rabah,” meaning “to increase (in whatever respect).”

The LORD uses it here to refer us to Genesis 1:28, where He gave us dominion over the earth and all that is therein, in the day He created us.

Genesis 1
26 And God said, Let us make man [[‘Adam]] in our image [[tselem]], after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.
27 So God created man [[‘Adam]] in his own image [[tselem]], in the image [[tselem]] of God created he him; male [[zakar]] and female [[nqebah]] created he them.
28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply [rabah], and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.
29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creeps upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

When the LORD speaks of making us in His “likeness,” it’s the twenty-five times used word dmuwth, meaning “resemblance; concretely, model, shape; adverbially, like:–fashion, like (-ness, as), manner, similitude.” This is the objective the LORD Himself long-suffers to complete, as He has throughout history, perpetually (manuwn) manifesting His presence, in His chosen flesh He first prepares (with “butter and honey”), to bring many children to this same glory.

The last appearance of dmuwth is in Daniel 10:16, when Daniel sees the sons God has made to Himself, to open the mouths of His people in this time of (Daniel rising) the judgment of God.

Daniel 10
14 Now I am come to make you understand what shall befall your people in the latter days [‘achariyth]: for yet the vision is for many days.
15 And when he had spoken such words unto me, I set my face toward the ground, and I became dumb.
16 And, behold, one like the similitude [dmuwth – made in the likeness of God] of the sons of men touched my lips: then I opened my mouth, and spoke, and said unto him that stood before me, O my LORD, by the vision my sorrows are turned upon me, and I have retained no strength.
17 For how can the servant of this my LORD talk with this my LORD? for as for me, straightway there remained no strength [understanding of my own] in me, neither is there breath [life] left in me.
18 Then there came again and touched me one like the appearance of a man, and he strengthened me,
19 And said, O man greatly beloved, fear not: peace be unto you, be strong, yea, be strong [receive this understand]. And when he had spoken [this word from the mouth of God, which is light and life] unto me, I was strengthened, and said, Let my LORD speak; for you have strengthened me.
20 Then said he, Know you wherefore I come unto you? and now will I return to fight with the prince of Persia [parac – the same as the word used in the hand writing on the wall, to tell of “dividing” and ending of the kingdom of Babylon: confusion]: and when I am gone forth, lo, the prince of Grecia [yayin – from who shall effervesce wickedness and flood the world with ignorance now turned insanity] shall come.
21 But I will show you that which is noted in the scripture of truth: and there is none that holds with me in these things, but Michael [who is like God, made in His image and likeness] your prince.

Proverbs 29:21 says, “He that delicately brings up his servant from a child shall have him become his son [manuwn] at the length [‘achariyth – in these last days].”

1 Corinthians 13
8 Charity [freely giving this word of God as received from Him] never fails: but whether there be prophecies [men’s interpretations], they shall fail; whether there be tongues [ignorantly speaking the written word of God], they shall cease; whether there be knowledge [men’s understanding], it shall vanish away.
9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
10 But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
12 For now we see through a glass, darkly [ignorantly]; but then face to face [realizing the LORD’s presence in His children speaking His children into life]: now I know in part; but then shall I know [I Am His child] even as also I am known [by Him to be His child].
13 And now abides faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity [freely giving this understanding].

Daniel 12
1 And at that time shall Michael [who is made in God’s likeness] stand up [‘amad – resurrected in these last days], the great prince which stand for the children of your people: and there shall be a time of trouble [tsarah – the tribulation], such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time your people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the [now opened] book.
2 And many of them that sleep [this is Abram deep sleep – Genesis 15:12] in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
3 And they that be wise shall shine [give understanding] as the brightness of the firmament [the exposition that divides the words of men from the words of God]; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars forever and ever.
4 But you, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end [qets]: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.

8 And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my LORD [‘adown], what shall be the end [‘achariyth – the last days] of these things?

As often discusses, this chapter gives the formula (time and times – both from mow’ed, meaning the appointed time) and numbers of days that add up to the time of Abram’s deep sleep, beginning then and ending now: when the LORD Himself reveals them as He opens the book and we find ourselves written therein.

Daniel 12
9 And he said, Go your way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.
10 Many shall be purified [of the corruption that hold them in death’s sleep], and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.
11 And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination [men’s word’s and ways, as idols put in God’s place] that makes desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days [the time, and one of the times].
12 Blessed is he that waits, and comes to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days [the other of the times – adding the time 1290 + (to the times 1290 + 1335) = the number of years since Abram’s {Abraham’s} deep sleep began].
13 But go you your way till the end [qets – the full end, now when we are awakened] be: for you shall rest, and stand [‘amad – from the sleep in death resurrected] in your lot at the end [qets – the full end] of the days [here spoken of].

Hebrews 2
1 Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.
2 For if the word spoken by angels [as in Daniel 12] was steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward;
3 How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the LORD [here alive in Me first], and was confirmed [alive] unto us by them that heard him;
4 God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost [these treasures given by Him as He spoke and worked unknown, to lead into all truth], according to his own will?
5 For unto the angels [His messengers] has he not put in subjection the world to come, whereof we speak.
6 But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that you are mindful of him? or the son of man that you visit him [as the Chief Overseer of the earth]?
7 You made him a little lower than the angels [as we know, these words in the original Hebrew text say he is, we are, sent, made, lacking the understanding of God, which is sleep and death]; you [LORD] crowned him [us] with [Your] glory and honor [giving us Your understanding which is Your presence manifested in us], and did set him over the works of your hands [dominion over all creation]:
8 You have put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing that is not put under him. But now we see not yet [not understanding that] all things [are already] put under him.
9 But we see Jesus [Jehovah’s Salvation in the flesh], who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, [from where He has now risen and is] crowned with glory and honor; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.
10 For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain [commander] of their salvation perfect through sufferings.
11 For both he that sanctifies [make us holy] and they who are sanctified [made holy] are all of one [BODY]: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren [children of God],
12 Saying, I will declare your name [identity] unto my brethren, in the midst of the church will I sing praise unto you.
13 And again, I will put my trust in him. And again, Behold I and the children which God has given me [are for signs and wonders to His people].
14 Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil [through those he possesses, who misled into ignorance, sleep, and death];
15 And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
16 For truly he took not on him the nature of angels [as simply a messenger]; but he took on him the seed of Abraham [the seed of promise, from where the king comes].
17 Wherefore in all things it behooved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.
18 For in that he himself has suffered being tempted [to doubt God is with us, alive in those who rise as His children by correction away from corrupt thinking], he is able to succor [rescue] them that are tempted.

The first time the word ‘immanuw appears speaking of God manifesting Himself into human flesh, as the Overseer of God’s plan to make man in His likeness, is in Genesis 31:50. In this passage, we’re told there’s no man to witness to what God’s sleeping people would soon, in their deep sleep, forget.

The words in verse 50 saying this are translated as “no man is with us; see, God is witness,” from the Hebrew words, ‘aiyn ‘ish ‘immanu ra’ah ‘elohiym ‘ed beyn, meaning “there is no man with us perpetually seeing as God and judging between us by rightly dividing (light from darkness).” The passage is the source of the LORD’s words, in Luke 19:40, saying, “I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out.”

The word beyn, meaning “a distinction; but used only as a prep, between (repeated before each noun, often with other particles); also as a conjunction, either…or,” first appears nine times in Genesis 1. It first tells of the light (understanding) divided from the darkness (ignorance), next of the water below (the words of men) divided from the waters above (the words of God), in the firmament (this exposition), which God then named Heaven. The final four times come in verses 14 and 18.

Genesis 1
14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide [beyn] the day from [beyn] the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
16 And God made two great lights [sun and moon, church and state governments as God intended them to have His understanding]; the greater light to rule the day [those who understand self-governance], and the lesser light to rule the night [the ignorant who reject His understanding]: he made the stars also [His people shining in the darkness].
17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light [understanding] upon the earth,
18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide [beyn] the light from [beyn] the darkness: and God saw that it was good.

Genesis 31
44 Now therefore come you, let us make a covenant, I and you; and let it be for a witness [‘ed] between [beyn] me and you.
45 And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.
46 And Jacob said unto his brethren, Gather stones; and they took stones, and made an heap [gal]: and they did eat there upon the heap [gal].
47 And Laban [said to mean white, as in Lebanon, where purity should be seen on high, and instead his judgment is corrupted into injustice in his governance] called it Jegarsahadutha [exhausting to record]: but Jacob called it Galeed [gal ‘ed].
48 And Laban said, This heap [gal] is a witness [‘ed] between [beyn] me and you this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed [gal ‘ed – the heap is water from these stones, now in this appointed time: mow’ed];
49 And Mizpah [the watchtower, where things far off are seen]; for he said, The LORD watch [tsaphah – meaning “to peer into the distance; by implication, to observe, await”] between [beyn] me and you, when we are absent [cathar – to hide (by covering)] one from another [rea’ – from our neighbors].
50 If you shall afflict my daughters, or if you shall take other wives beside my daughters, no man is with us [‘immanuw]; see [ra’ah – seeing as], God is witness [‘ed] betwixt [beyn] me and you.
51 And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap [gal], and behold this pillar, which I have cast [yarah – meaning water flows from it, as teaching from the mouth of God, as in the name Jerusalem; yarah shalam, teaching His ways of sustainable peace and security between neighbors] between [beyn] me and you:
52 This heap [gal] be witness [‘ed], and this pillar be witness, that I will not pass over this heap to you, and that you shall not pass over [‘abar – now when we Passover from death into life] this heap [gal – from where these waters flow] and this pillar unto me [Laban – those still sleeping], for harm.
53 The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor [meaning he is asleep – Abraham’s brother, from whom Laban in descended], the God of their father, judge betwixt [beyn] us. And Jacob swore by the fear of his father Isaac.
54 Then Jacob offered sacrifice upon the mount, and called his brethren to eat bread [and be awakened]: and they did eat bread, and tarried all night [luwn – they stayed permanently] in the mount [har – speaking of har-meggiddon, Armageddon, this appointed time, the rendezvous with the LORD who is here risen again {‘immanuw}, now to defeat death and hell].

1 Thessalonians 4
9 But as touching brotherly love you need not that I write unto you: for you yourselves are taught of God to love one another.
10 And indeed you do it toward all the brethren which are in all Macedonia [the houses of dead flesh, where men sleep]: but we beseech you, brethren, that you increase more and more;
11 And that you study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;
12 That you may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that you may have lack of nothing.
13 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that you sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
15 For this we say unto you by the word of the LORD, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the LORD shall not prevent [not rise as His ONE BODY without] them which are asleep.
16 For the LORD himself shall descend from heaven with a shout [His voice as a trumpet calling all to gather to Him], with the voice of the archangel [the one who isn’t simply a messenger, but in him is the LORD’s presence manifested as God with us], and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up [harpazo, natsal, as a brand plucked from the fires of hell] together [in ONE BODY] with them in the clouds [full understanding], to meet the LORD in the air [He’s cleared of the smoke that came from the bottomless pit]: and so shall we ever be with the LORD.
18 Wherefore comfort [lead into all truth] one another with these words.

1 Thessalonians 5
1 But of the times and the seasons, brethren, you have no need that I write unto you.
2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the LORD so comes as a thief in the night [unknown to those sleeping].
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety [which is now the false premise of all tyranny]; then sudden destruction comes upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
4 But you, brethren, are not in darkness [not ignorant of this time or the presence of tyrants and antichrists], that that day should overtake you as a thief.
5 You are all the children of light [understanding], and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.

Ezekiel 14
1 Then came certain of the elders of Israel unto me, and sat before me.
2 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
3 Son of man, these men have set up [above My word] their idols [their own creations] in their heart [minds], and put the stumbling-block [mikshowl – the snare of hell] of their iniquity [evil misleading] before their face [nokach paniym – against My presence]: should I be enquired [darash] of at all [narach] by them [those who put themselves in My place and tell men to seek them instead of seeking Me]?
4 Therefore speak unto them, and say unto them, Thus says the LORD God; Every man of the house of Israel that sets up his idols [his own creations] in his heart, and [thereby] puts the stumbling-block [mishowl – the snare of hell] of his iniquity [‘avon – evil misleading] before his face [nokach paniym – against My presence], and comes to the prophet; I the LORD will answer him that comes according to the multitude of his idols [carrying them from confusion into delusion and now ending in insanity];
5 That I may take the house of Israel in their own heart [their now insane minds], because they are all estranged from me through their idols.
6 Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus says the LORD God; Repent [shuwb], and turn [shuwb] yourselves from [this is an untranslated word, matsel, meaning the {what?} shadow of] your idols; and turn away [shuwb – return to] your faces [paniym – My presence] from [matsel – from the shadow of which you are ignorant, blocking this light with] all your abominations [you’ve put in place of the holy].
7 For every one of the house of Israel, or of the stranger that sojourns in Israel, which separates himself from me, and sets up his idols in his heart, and puts the stumbling-block [mikshowl – the snare of hell] of his iniquity [‘avon – evil misleading] before his face [nokach paniym – against My presence], and comes to a prophet to enquire of him concerning me; I the LORD will answer him by myself [as I here do, of which, because of your abomination that are the stumbling-block, you are ignorant]:
8 And I will set my face [paniym – presence] against that man, and will make him a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from the midst of my people; and you shall know that I am the LORD.
9 And if the prophet be deceived when he has spoken a thing, I the LORD have [by letting his confusion turn into his delusions] deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand upon him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel.
10 And they shall bear the punishment [‘avon – the consequences of his evil misleading] of their iniquity: the punishment [‘avon] of the prophet shall be even as the punishment [‘avon] of him that seeks [darash] unto him;
11 That the house of Israel may go no more astray from me, neither be polluted any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be my people, and I may be their God, says the LORD God.
12 The word of the LORD came again to me, saying,
13 Son of man, when the land sins against me by trespassing grievously, then will I stretch out my hand upon it, and will break the staff of the bread thereof [the ways and ideas that guide them], and will send famine [from hearing My word from these places] upon it, and will cut off man and beast from it:
14 Though these three men [are here alive in the resurrection], Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but [only] their own souls by their righteousness, says the LORD God.
15 If I cause noisome [ra’ – evil] beasts [chay – living flesh: men without My Spirit] to pass through [‘abar – cause their flesh to become animated] the land [‘erets – upon the earth], and they spoil it, so that it be desolate [as it is], that no man may pass through [‘abar – Passes over from death into life by My Spirit] because of the beasts:
16 Though these three men were in it, as I live, says the LORD God, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters; they only shall be delivered [natsal, equivalent of the Greek word harpazo, “caught up,” “pulled” from the fires of hell], but the land [‘erets – earth] shall be desolate.
17 Or if I bring a sword [this word of God rejected] upon that land [‘erets – the earth], and say, Sword [this word from the mouth of the LORD], go through [‘abar – bring those who receive it as My word from death into life] the land [‘erets – on the earth]; so that I cut off [make a My new covenant, when all shall know Me] man and beast from it [hell]:
18 Though these three men were in it, as I live [chay – I Am alive in the flesh], says the LORD God [‘Adonay Jehovih – the King of kings and LORD of lords], they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they only shall be delivered [natsal – pluck] themselves [from the fires of hell].
19 Or if I send a pestilence [dis-ease, the agitation that is due hell] into that land [‘erets – the earth], and pour out my fury upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast:
20 Though Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as I live [chay – am alive in the flesh], says the LORD God [‘Adonay Jehovih], they shall deliver [natsal] neither son nor daughter; they shall but deliver [natsal] their own souls by their righteousness [a mind cleansed from the stumbling-blocks of iniquity].
21 For thus says the LORD God; How much more when I send my four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the noisome beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast?
22 Yet, behold, therein shall be left a remnant that shall be brought forth, both sons and daughters: behold, they shall come forth unto you, and you shall see [the LORD again in] their [high] way and their doings: and you shall be comforted [nacham – led into all truth, which is My new covenant] concerning the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, even concerning all that I have brought upon it.
23 And they shall comfort [nacham] you [end your confusion and lead you into all truth], when you see [and know Me again in] their ways and their doings: and you shall know that I have not done without cause all that I have done in it, says the LORD God.

1 Corinthians 3
8 Now he that planted [us in the earth] and he that waters [bringing us to life out of it] are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labor.
9 For we are laborers together with God: you are God’s husbandry, you are God’s building.
10 According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise master-builder, I have laid the foundation, and another builds thereon. But let every man take heed how he builds thereupon.
11 For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ [Jehovah’s Salvation alive in our flesh].
12 Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;
13 Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day [this light that has now come] shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is.
14 If any man’s work abide which he has built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.
15 If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.
16 Know you not that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?
17 If any man defiles [with corrupt teaching and evil misleading] 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 seem to be wise in this world, let him become a fool [in the LORD’s presence], that he may be wise.
19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written [in Job 5:13], He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
20 And again [in Psalms 94:11], The LORD knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.
21 Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are yours;
22 Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours;
23 And you are Christ’s [the LORD alive in us]; and Christ [the LORD alive in us] is God’s.

The apostrophes in the last verse above aren’t there in the original text, therefor it reads, “And you are Christ [the LORD alive in us making us His ONE BODY]; and Christ [the LORD alive in us] is God.”

Job 5
1 Call now, if there be any that will answer you; and to which of the saints [who sees and judges as God does] will you turn?
2 For wrath kills the foolish man, and envy slays the silly one. [foolish wrath and envy are what cloud the eye and corrupt good judgment.]
3 I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
4 His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.
5 Whose harvest the hungry eat up, and taketh it even out of the thorns [from misleaders and deceivers], and the robber [tsammiym – the snare] swallows up [into the belly of hell] their substance [chayil – the strength {understanding} that is the light and life in their flesh].
6 Although affliction [‘aven – worthlessness] comes not forth of the dust [but the ashes of the earth’s ruin come when worthless is exalted], neither does trouble [‘amal] spring out of the ground [‘adamah – from the faithful children of God];
7 Yet man [‘adam] is born unto trouble [‘amal], as the sparks fly upward [rising in darkness where their light disappears].
8 I would seek [darash] unto God, and unto God [in whom we can be confident] would I commit my cause:
9 Which [only] does great things and unsearchable; marvelous [eye opening] things without number:
10 Who gives rain [His word from heaven] upon the earth, and send waters upon the fields [from where life comes]:
11 To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may [by His understanding] be exalted to safety.
12 He disappoints the devices [machashabah – the contrivances, which are their siege machines] the of the crafty [‘aruwm – the “subtlety” of Satan, the serpent of Genesis 3:1], so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise [tuwshiyah – the wisdom by which they think they will achieve what they desire, which is to make man in their evil image and likeness].
13 He takes the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward [those who twist and pervert truth] is carried headlong [into self-destruction].
14 They meet [join together] with darkness [the ignorant] in the day time [now when light is present], and grope in the noonday [when all is clearly seen, when full understanding has come and all the shadows disappear] as in the night [as if they are still hidden in ignorance].
15 But he [the LORD with us] saves the poor [who are without worldly power] from the sword, [which is] from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty [in power].
16 So the poor have hope, and iniquity stops her mouth.
17 Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects: therefore, despise not you the chastening of the Almighty:
18 For he makes sore, and binds up: he wounds, and his hands make whole.
19 He shall deliver you in six troubles [tsarah – tribulations]: yea, in seven [when the seventh angel sounds and understanding returns to the earth] there shall no evil touch you.
20 In famine [when His word, this word {not the counterfeit}, is no longer heard on the earth] he shall redeem you from death: and in war from the power of the sword [from the mouths of subtle serpents].
21 You shall be hid from the scourge [showt – that removes the lies and falsehoods under which the wicked think they can hide] of the [righteous] tongue: neither shall you be afraid of destruction [of the wicked] when it comes.
22 At destruction and famine [ending there words] you shall laugh: neither shall you be afraid of the beasts of the earth [the animated flesh without MY Spirit].
23 For you shall be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with you.
24 And you shall know that your tabernacle shall be in peace; and you shall visit [paqad – by the LORD, who is the Chief Overseer of the earth, and] your habitation, and shall not sin.
25 You shall know also that your seed shall be great, and your offspring as the grass of the earth.
26 You shall come to [and from] your grave in a full age [kelach – this completion], like as a shock of corn [grown ears] comes in [‘alah – rise] in his season.
27 Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear [shama’ – obey] it, and know you it for your good.

Psalms 94
1 O LORD God, to whom vengeance belongs; O God, to whom vengeance belongs, show yourself.
2 Lift up yourself, you judge of the earth: render a reward to the proud.
3 LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph?
4 How long shall they utter and speak hard things [‘athaq – arrogant words]? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?
5 They break in pieces your people, O LORD, and afflict your heritage.
6 They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless [in the womb].
7 Yet they say, The LORD shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob regard it.
8 Understand, you brutish among the people: and you fools, when will you be wise?
9 He that planted the ear [to now hear], shall he not hear? he that formed the eye [to now see], shall he not see?
10 He that chastises the heathen, shall not he correct? he that teaches man [‘adam] knowledge, shall not he know?
11 The LORD knows the thoughts of man, that they are vanity [worthless].
12 Blessed is the man whom you chastens, O LORD, and teaches him out of your law;
13 That you may give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked.
14 For the LORD will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.
15 But judgment shall return unto righteousness: and all the upright in heart shall follow it.
16 Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? or who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?
17 Unless the LORD had been my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence [not speaking Your word as commanded, singing Your songs with You].
18 When I said, My foot slips; your mercy, O LORD, held me up.
19 In the multitude of my thoughts within me your comforts delight my soul.
20 Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with you, which frame mischief by a law?
21 They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.
22 But the LORD is my defense; and my God is the rock of my refuge.
23 And he shall bring upon them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own wickedness; yea, the LORD our God shall cut them off

That which has been is named already, and it is known that it is man: neither may he contend with him that is mightier than he.

19 – 23 September 2023

That which has been is named already, and it is known that it is man: neither may he contend with him that is mightier than he.

The above, Ecclesiastes 6:10, is referring us to God creating (bara’) man (‘adam) in His image (tselem). Genesis 1:27 tells us He created (bara’) them male (zakar – to remember) and female (nqebah, from naqab, to express or pierce), and collectively called (qara’) their name Adam (‘adam).

The LORD’s image, tselem (see the post of 27 October 2019), is His family (generations), in which He lives in this earth age.

Ecclesiastes 6
1 There is an evil which I have seen under the sun [light left in the care of man, those joined as keepers who, through generations, guard and protect the oracles received from God: the church], and it is common among men [‘adam]:
2 A man [‘iysh – an individual] to whom God has given riches [as I have here now], wealth, and honor, so that he wants [chacer – lacks] nothing [“For He has made him a little lower {chacer} than the angels {‘elohiym}, and has crowned him with glory and honor.” Psalms 8:5 and Hebrews 2:7 & 9] for his soul of all that he desires, yet God gives him not power [shalat – only used eight times, here meaning he is not given the authority to keep it in his mouth only] to eat thereof, but a stranger [‘iysh – another man] eats it [takes it into his mouth where it is then corrupted from the original]: this is vanity, and it is an evil [misleading] disease [that ends in death, where we have all now reached].
3 If a man [‘iysh – this stranger] begets a hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good [if he removes some of the original understanding and thereby starts a falling away from God’s word as delivered], and also that he has no burial [if his trespass continues without end]; I say, that an untimely birth [nephel – ending error before it takes hold of the next generation] is better than he. [The word nephel only appears two other times: Job 3:16, where Job calls it a hiding place, and Psalms 58:8, speaking of when the wicked, who from the womb go astray, melt away as an untimely birth.]
4 For he comes in with vanity [worthless words that mislead], and departs in darkness [ignorance of his own straying], and his name [his identity as a misleader] shall be covered with darkness [shall be hidden by his own worthless ignorance].
5 Moreover, he has not seen the sun [the original light], nor known any thing: this [ignorance] has more rest [nachath – causes descent that silences the truth] than the other [increasing as it further strays from the original].
6 Yea, though he [his errors] live a thousand years twice told, yet has he seen no good [never knowing the original as received]: do not all [by this degeneration over time] go to one place [death, where all ‘adam has now arrived]?
7 [For now] All the labor of man [‘adam] is for his mouth [to, with words, gathering into the belly of hell], and yet the appetite is not filled [until he devours all].
8 For what has the wise more than the fool [they are both alike ignorant, dead, and in hell they’ve created]? what has the poor [those without power], that knows to walk before the living [from whom understanding comes by the light, the life, in them]?
9 Better is the sight of the eyes [by which we see the LORD present] than the wandering of the desire [those who are never satisfied]: this [wandering] is also vanity [worthless] and vexation of [r’uwth – striving against the] spirit.
10 That which has been is named already, and it is known that it is man [‘adam]: neither may he [he is not able to] contend [diyn – to strive any longer with, plead with worthless words against, the LORD here unknown in the judgment] with him that is mightier [taqqiyph – only appearing here] than he. [Genesis 6:3 And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive {diyn} with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be a hundred and twenty years {the time until the flood that has come would come}.]
11 Seeing there be many things [dabar – words and matters] that increase vanity [worthlessness], what is man [‘adam] the better?
12 For who knows what is good for man [‘adam] in this life, all the days of his vain [worthless] life which he spends as a shadow [tsel – flesh that blocks the light that is the LORD present alive in us]? for who can tell [nagad – stand boldly against] a man [‘adam] what shall be after [‘achar – in this last end] him under the sun [where the original light should be and now isn’t]?

Friends, I tell you again, this flesh is merely a vehicle we inhabit for a time. It dies while we never do, moving through eternity, not from one life to another, one life that never ends. This truth is the reality all humanity has, as it slept, forgotten.

1 Corinthians 15
42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:
43 It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power:
44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.
45 And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit [awakening to their immortality those sleeping in their now dead flesh].
46 Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.
47 The first man [‘adam] is of the earth, earthy; the second man [‘adam – the ‘iysh, to whom this light is first given] is the LORD from heaven.
48 As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.
49 And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.
50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither does corruption inherit incorruption.
51 Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
55 O death, where is your sting? O grave, where is your victory?
56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law [the written word that can be altered into corruption].
57 But thanks be to God, which gives us the victory through our LORD Jesus Christ [Jehovah’s Salvation that appears un-corruptible in the flesh speaking and working to restore order].
58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be you steadfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the LORD, forasmuch as you know that your labor is not in vain [not worthless] in the LORD.

Psalms 58
1 Do you indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do you judge uprightly, O you sons of men [‘adam]?
2 Yea, in heart [your minds darkened by corruption] you work wickedness; you weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
3 The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
4 Their poison [the words in their mouths] is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stops her ear [refusing to hear and obey this word of the LORD];
5 Which will not hearken to [shama’ – obey] the voice of charmers, charming [chabar – calling them to join Him] never so wisely [but they refuse to hear and obey].
6 Break their teeth [with which they devour], O God, in their mouth [with which they swallow into the belly of hell]: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.
7 Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bends his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.
8 As a snail which melts, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth [nephel] of a woman, that they may not see the sun [this light that has come].
9 Before your pots can feel the thorns [the effects of their misleading], he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.
10 The righteous shall rejoice when he sees [this is] the [LORD’s] vengeance: he shall wash his feet [of the corruption picked up in our journey] in the blood of the wicked.
11 So that a man shall say, Truly there is a reward for the righteous: truly he is a God that judges in the earth.

Friends, we are those to whom the LORD reveals Himself and our nature: His immortal children dwelling with Him in the flesh. A deeper understanding of this is discovered in the origin of the word taqqiyph, in Ecclesiastes 6:10 above, rendered “mightier,” when speaking of man unable to prevail against God. It is the three times used Hebrew word taqaph, meaning “to overpower:–prevail (against).”

It (taqaph) speaks of what prevailed against us, man {‘adam), without the LORD, not understanding or obeying His good leading, and against which (antagonists) He in us prevails. This is the peace (confident security that He is able, and with Him we are also able) that overcomes the world and gets the victory over death.

You that the LORD knows, hear and obey His word, and rise:

Job 14
1 Man [‘adam – a human] that is born of a woman [‘ishshah; ‘iysh seh – an individual among the flock] is of few days and full of trouble [rogez – agitation that rages in his time].
2 He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down: he flees also as a shadow [tsel – one that is a product of a time without light], and continues not.
3 And do you open your eyes upon such a one [caught in such a time], and bring me into judgment with you?
4 Who [except you LORD, by your judgment] can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one [man].
5 Seeing his days are determined [charats – the decreed end], the number of his months are with you, you have appointed his bounds [choq – the appointed time decreed] that he cannot pass [‘abar – that without You he cannot Passover from death into life];
6 Turn from him, that he may rest [sleep in the flesh], till he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day [the end when the recompense comes].
7 For [as is ‘adam] there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.
8 Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground [‘aphar – the ashes of the earth’s ruin, from where God created the first and second ‘adam];
9 Yet through the scent of water [perceiving the word of God] it will bud [be quickened to life], and bring forth boughs like a plant.
10 But man [geber – the mighty] dies, and wastes away: yea, man [‘adam] gives up the ghost [gava’ – with his last breath his unknown essence leaves his body], and where is he [no man knows]?
11 As the waters fail from the sea [as the word of God loses its original meaning, and its value is lost in the degeneration through successive generations], and the flood [of men’s corruption] decays and dries [it] up:
12 So man lieth down [sleeps in death unaware], and rises not: till the heavens [all understanding] be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.
13 O that you would hide me [as You have hidden me] in the grave [sheol – in hell among the sleeping dead], that you would keep me secret, until your wrath be past [and my enemies have become my footstool], that you would appoint [as you have appointed] me a set time [choq – this decreed end], and remember me [zakar, the same {identical} word rendered male in the creation of ‘adam, and the “man child” spoken of in Isaiah 66:7, the passage saying “5 Hear the word of the LORD, you that tremble at his word; Your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for my name’s sake, said, Let the LORD be glorified: but he shall appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed. 6 A voice of noise from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of the LORD that renders recompense to his enemies. 7 Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child [zakar]. 8 Who has heard such a thing? who has seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? or shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children. 9 Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? says the LORD: shall I cause to bring forth, and shut the womb? says your God.”]!
14 If a man [geber] die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change [chaliyphah– it speaks of changing our outer cover of flesh; only used one other time in Job; see Job 10:17 below] come.
15 You shall call [to awaken me], and I [when I am awakened] will answer you: you will have a desire to the work of your hands [making me in Your image and likeness].
16 For now you number my steps [understanding the corruption picked up along the way]: do you not watch over [shamar – you don’t protect and defend] my sin [the corrupt offering]?
17 My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and you sew up my iniquity [you remove {by uncovering} the things we have put together: forged in Your name].
18 And surely the mountains [the high place of the earth] falling [away from good into evil] comes to naught, and the rock [the worthless governments in which the ignorant trust] is removed out of his place.
19 The waters wear the stones [that seem immovable]: [as] you [LORD] wash away the [corrupt] things which grow out of the dust [ruin] of the earth; and you [LORD] destroy the [worthless] hope of man [‘enowsh – those who choose to remain dead flesh, their promised utopia which is now realized to be hell].
20 You prevail [taqaph] forever against him, and he passes: you change [shanah – duplicate] his countenance [paniym], and send him away [into ignorance of his own presence in hell].
21 His sons come to honor, and he knows it not; and they are brought low, but he perceives it not of them [knowing not that he is them in hell].
22 But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his [unknown] soul within him shall mourn.

Job 10
1 My soul is weary of [paqat – only appearing here, loathes] my life; I will leave my complaint [siyach – contemplation] upon myself; [in death’s sleep] I will speak in the bitterness [mar] of my soul. [Ecclesiastes 7:26 And I find more bitter {mar} than death the woman {‘ishshah – an individual among the flock}, whose heart {corrupted mind} is snares and nets, and her hands {works} as bands {holding men in hell}: whoso please God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her {forever held in death}.]
2 I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; show me wherefore you contend with me.
3 Is it good unto you that you shouldest oppress, that you shouldest despise the work of your hands [making me in Your image and likeness], and shine upon [giving me understanding by] the counsel of the wicked?
4 Have you eyes of flesh? or sees you as man sees? [as Job does here, not understand “As I live, says the LORD God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn you, turn you from your evil ways; for why will you die, O house of Israel?” Ezekiel 33:11, and 2 Peter 3:9 The LORD is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness {thinking He delays His coming, while they are ignorant of presence among them working and speaking}; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.10 But the day of the LORD will come as a thief {unknown} in the night {in the darkness of men’s ignorance, in which they sleep}; in the which the {corrupt} heavens shall pass away with a great noise {His voice heard but un-comprehended}, and the elements {stoicheion – the corrupt ways and ideas of wicked men} shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.]
5 Are your days [of ignorance] as the days of man [‘enowsh – those who choose to remain dead]? are your years as man’s [geber – the mighty of the world who are ignorant of] days,
6 That you enquire after my iniquity, and search after my sin?
7 You know that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of your hand.
8 Your hands have made me and fashioned me together round about [from the ruin of the previous age]; yet you do destroy me [Job, God’s sleeping people who are hated in by the world, still not understanding these are the refining fires in which all realized the fall and where it has led, and will, once they see again, enshrine into maxim].
9 Remember, I beseech you, that you have made me as the clay; and will you bring me into dust again [again, God’s people in ignorance not knowing they brought themselves into this ruin, from where, when they to it awaken, He will create them anew]?
10 Have you not poured me out as milk [taught me these things that awaken me], and curdled me like cheese [bringing these ideas together into a firm foundation]?
11 You have [again] clothed me with skin and flesh, and have fenced me with bones and sinews.
12 You have granted me life and favor, and your visitation [pquddah – appearing as the Chief Overseer of the earth to restore order] has preserved [shamar – guarded and protected] my spirit.
13 And these things have you hid in your heart [in the Mind of God only]: I know that this is with you.
14 If I sin, then you mark me, and you will not acquit me from my iniquity.
15 If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head [with pride, knowing the work correcting me is Yours]. I am full of confusion; therefore see you my affliction;
16 For it increases. You hunt me as a fierce lion: and again you show yourself marvelous upon me [opening my eyes to see You].
17 You renew your witnesses against me, and increase your indignation upon me; changes [chaliyphah – into my new flesh] and [the necessary] war are against me [to prevail against corruption and quicken into life again those thereby exercised].
18 Wherefore then have you brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!
19 I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave [again].
20 Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
21 Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
22 A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.

Hebrews 12
11 Now no chastening for the present seems to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.
12 Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;
13 And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.
14 Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the LORD:
15 Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;
16 Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau [as the enemies mixed among us], who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.
17 For you know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.
18 For you are not come [as the enemies have] unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
19 And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more:
20 (For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart:
21 And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:)
22 But you are come unto mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaks better things than that of Abel [whose blood spoke from the earth].
25 See that you refuse not him that speak. For if they escaped not who refused him that spoke on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaks from heaven:
26 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he has promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.
27 And this word, Yet once more, signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.
28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
29 For our God is a consuming fire.

The other two times the word taqaph appears are in Job 15:24 and Ecclesiastes 4:12. In the first of these, it comes in words spoken by Eliphaz the Temanite, names meaning his god is gold (he serves his lust for worldly wealth) and is one of the so-called wise men of the world. He is one of Job’s three (falsely so-called) friends through whom Satan works. Their work is false accusations, with which they openly (before the eyes of a now awakened world) describe and condemn themselves (of which they are ignorant).

Job 15
1 Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said [as the false accusers now falsely accuse this word of God],
2 Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind [and devour the work of God with His open mouth]?
3 Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?
4 Yea, you cast off [the] fear [of God], and restrain prayer [siychah – contemplation of] before [paniym – the presence of] God.
5 For your mouth utters your iniquity [evil misleading], and you choose [to follow] the tongue of the crafty [‘aruwm – the “subtlety” of the serpent in Genesis 3:1].
6 Your own mouth condemns you, and not I: yea, your own lips testify against you.
7 Are you the first man that was born? or were you made before the hills?
8 Have you heard the secret of God? and do you restrain wisdom to yourself?
9 What know you, that we know not? what understand you, which is not in us?
10 With us are both the gray-headed and very aged men, much elder than your father.
11 Are the consolations of God small with you? is there any secret thing with you?
12 Why does your heart carry you away? and what do your eyes wink at,
13 That you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?
14 What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
15 Behold, he [the LORD] puts no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.
16 How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinks iniquity like water?
17 I will show you, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare;
18 Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:
19 Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.
20 The wicked man travails with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.
21 A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
22 He believes not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.
23 He wanders abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knows that the day of darkness is ready [already] at his hand.
24 Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail [taqaph] against him, as a king ready to the battle.
25 For he stretch out his hand against God [as Satan in these accusers is], and strengthens himself against the Almighty.
26 He run upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses [eminent places] of his bucklers [that are His shield]:
27 Because he [Satan] covers his face [paniym – presence] with his fatness [in these men’s prospering by evil], and makes collops of fat [their abundance] on [covers] his flanks.
28 And he dwells [prosperously] in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabits [where none will remain], which are ready to become heaps.
29 He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance [his strength, which is deception, beginning subtle and now openly] continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection [minleh – only appearing here, meaning completion; of his goal to destroy humanity by making it in his, Satan’s, image and likeness: the opposition to God’s work: it’s opposite] thereof upon the earth.
30 He shall not depart out of darkness [ignorance]; the flame [of the fires they created] shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth [the evil spirit in his words] shall he go away.
31 Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity [his worthless thoughts]: for vanity [worthlessness] shall be his recompense.
32 It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green [shall not bring any life].
33 He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.
34 For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.
35 They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepares [to vomit] deceit [from their mouths].

The word minleh (to this point wondered at), above in verse 29, is from an also once used word, nalah, also meaning “to complete:–make an end.” Its one appearance comes in Isaiah 33:1 as the LORD there speaks of the end of this “treachery,” from the word bagad, speaking of Satan’s work, meaning “to cover (with a garment); figuratively, to act covertly; by implication, to pillage.” This latter word refers us back to its only appearance in Job, in Job 6:15, where it’s a third witness (the word as a threefold cord – the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost as one) that it’s Satan working through the false accusations of Job’s three friends, who he there also calls his brethren.

Isaiah 33
1 Woe to you that spoil, and you were not spoiled; and deal treacherously [bagad], and they dealt not treacherously [bagad] with you! when you shall cease to spoil, you shall be spoiled; and when you shall make an end [nalah] to deal treacherously [bagad], they shall deal treacherously [bagad] with you.
2 O LORD, be gracious unto us; we have waited for you: be you their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble [tsarah – this tribulation].
3 At the noise of the tumult the people fled; at the lifting up of yourself the nations were scattered.
4 And your spoil shall be gathered like the gathering of the caterpillar: as the running to and fro of locusts shall he run upon them.
5 The LORD is exalted; for he dwells on high: he has filled Zion with judgment and righteousness.
6 And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times, and strength of salvation: the fear of the LORD is his treasure.
7 Behold, their valiant ones shall cry without: the ambassadors of [deception, falsely claiming we are at] peace shall weep bitterly.
8 The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceases: he has broken the covenant [between God and man], he has despised the cities, he regards no man.
9 The earth mourns and languishes: Lebanon [the place where purity should be seen on high] is ashamed and hewn down: Sharon [where understanding was before in plain sight] is like a wilderness; and Bashan [the fruitfulness] and Carmel [in this land that was before like a well-tended garden] shake off their fruits.
10 Now will I rise, says the LORD; now will I be exalted; now will I lift up myself.
11 You shall conceive chaff, you shall bring forth stubble: your breath [the evil spirit in the wicked opposing Me], as fire, shall devour you.
12 And the people shall be as the burnings of lime: as thorns [these men whose power is to mislead] cut up shall they be burned in the fire.
13 Hear, you that are far off, what I have done; and, you that are near, acknowledge my might.
14 The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness has surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?
15 He that walketh righteously, and speaks uprightly; he that despises the gain of oppressions, that shakes his hands from holding of bribes [I see you Brandon, and I see all your fellow extortioners], that stops his ears from hearing of blood [the false accusation meant to destroy the innocent who oppose you and your evil ilk], and [all while he] shut his eyes from seeing evil;
16 He shall dwell on high: his place of defense shall be the munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure.
17 Your eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the land that is very far off.
18 Your heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?
19 You shall not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech [speaking this word of God] than you can perceive [because it is the word of God you reject]; of a stammering tongue [a foreign language, truth you don’t speak], that you can not understand.
20 Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: your eyes shall see [New Heavenly] Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down; not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken.
21 But there the glorious LORD will be unto us a place of broad rivers and streams [through which His teaching flows into the sea: the people at large]; wherein shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby [none of the corrupt and corrupting institutions of church and state now in power over the sea].
22 For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king [from whom these things flow]; he will save us.
23 Your tackling are loosed; they could not well strengthen their mast, they could not spread the sail [nec – could not bring forth the son of man, the voice now exalted, spreading the LORD’s Spirit upon all]: then is the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame take the prey.
24 And the inhabitants [abiding in Him] shall not say, I am sick: the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity.

Job 6
13 Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me? [God’s hated people should understand they have received this help.]
14 To him that is afflicted pity should be shown from his friend [friends]; but he [they] forsake the fear of the Almighty.
15 My brethren have dealt deceitfully [bagad – treacherously] as a brook [whose corrupt waters have flowed into the sea], and as the stream of brooks [dried up] they pass away;
16 Which are blackish [full of ignorance] by reason of the ice [the word of God frozen, reserved for this moment], and wherein the snow is hid [in the cloud where the elements of understanding were reserved after they left the earth]:
17 What time they wax warm [and the word reserved therein the snow and ice flow as waters from heaven], they [the words that flow from the wicked] vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed [dried up] out of their place.
18 The paths of their [corrupt] way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.
19 The troops of Tema [the wise] looked, the companies of Sheba [who’ve taken oaths to serve the LORD] waited for them.
20 They were confounded because they had hoped [in their own creations]; they came thither, and were ashamed [disappointed because the end they promised wasn’t the true end the LORD promised].
21 For now you are nothing; you see my casting down, and are afraid.
22 Did I say, Bring unto me? or, Give a reward for me of your substance?
23 Or, Deliver me from the enemy’s hand? or, Redeem me from the hand of the mighty?
24 Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
25 How forcible are right words! but what does your arguing reprove?
26 Do you imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?
27 Yea, you overwhelm the fatherless, and you dig a pit for your friend.
28 Now therefore be content, look upon me; for it is evident unto you if I lie.
29 Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it.
30 Is there iniquity in my tongue [speaking the word the LORD has given me]? cannot my taste discern [your] perverse things?

Ecclesiastes 4
1 So I returned [from death], and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter [no man teaching them into all truth, leading them from the dead to join me in life]; and on the side of their oppressors there was power [to deceive and hold men in death]; but they had no comforter.
2 Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living [who’ve already awakened to everlasting contempt, who know they are here to do the work of Satan and willingly do it] which are yet alive.
3 Yea, better is he than both they, which has not yet been [born again], who has not seen [realized] the evil work that is done under the sun.
4 Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbor. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
5 The fool [not knowing this time] folds his hands together [not working with me], and [in his ignorance and sloth] eats his own flesh.
6 Better is a handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.
7 Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun.
8 There is one [alive from the dead doing the LORD’s will] alone, and there is not a second; yea, he has neither child nor brother: yet is there no end [qets] of all his labor; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither says he, For whom do I labor, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.
9 Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labor.
10 For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falls; for he has not another to help him up.
11 Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone?
12 And if one prevails [taqaph] against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken [the LORD in me unknown, the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost as ONE].
13 Better is a poor [micken – only used here and three time in Ecclesiastes 9:15 & 16; meaning without worldly power, who in the end is realized to be the true king] and a wise child [yeled] than an old and foolish king [as is feeble Brandon], who will no more be admonished.
14 For out of prison [‘acar – with this yoke] he comes to reign; whereas also he that is born in his kingdom [joined, yoked, with him] becometh poor [ruwsh – destitute of understanding].
15 I considered all the living which walk under the sun, with the second child [yeled – the wise child who is sent to deliver out of the hand of the wicked] that shall stand up [‘amad – as Michael, who is the image and likeness of God] in his stead [against the wicked and feeble king].
16 There is no end [qets] of [the lives of] all the people, even of all that have been before them: they also that come after [Solomon – in these last days of darkness: ignorance] shall not rejoice [samach – be brightened] in him [in the wise child]. Surely this also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

Ecclesiastes 9
10 Whatsoever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave [sheol – in hell where all the dead are housed], whither you go [and now “find” yourselves].
11 I returned [to a right mind], and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance [pega’ – occurrence, in which humanity finds itself] happens to them all [here in hell, in the death warned of in Genesis 2:17].
12 For man [‘adam] also knows not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly [pith’own – this is the epiphany, the moment of realizing the reality we find ourselves in] upon them.
13 This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me:
14 There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it:
15 Now there was found in it a poor [micken] wise man [‘adam], and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered [zakar] that same poor [micken] man [‘iysh].
16 Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor [micken] man’s wisdom is despised [among the dead], and his words are not heard [because the language of the dead is lies: deception, confusion, and insanity wherefore the dead are unable to distinguish between their delusions and this reality].
17 The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that rule among fools.
18 Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner [whose voice is exalted] destroys much good.

Fiends, the few of you who will read this far, the world doesn’t believe in God and, therefore, can’t comprehend this as reality. They will see these words as those of one using masterfully arranged creations to deceive and manipulate people, as they do with their lies and deceptions. They have no idea I Am not alone and that the Creator of all is truly alive in Me doing the work, present to save His people as promised. There is only one way this ends: with the creation of a new earth built upon the ruin of the old and corrupt.

John 8
25 Then said they unto him, Who are you? And Jesus says unto them, Even the same that I said unto you from the beginning.
26 I have many things to say and to judge of you: but he that sent me is true; and I speak to the world those things which I have heard of him.
27 They understood not that he spoke to them of the Father [alive in me].
28 Then said Jesus unto them, When you have lifted up the Son of man, then shall you know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father has taught me, I speak these things.
29 And he that sent me is with me: the Father has not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him.
30 As he spoke these words, many believed on him.
31 Then said Jesus to those [Christians and] Jews which believed on him, If you continue in my word, then are you my disciples indeed;
32 And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

John 14
10 Believe you not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he does the works.
11 Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works’ sake.
12 Truly, truly, I say unto you, He that believes on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.
13 And whatsoever you shall ask in my name [in my identity, manifesting My presence in you], that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
14 If you shall ask any thing in my name [in my identity], I will do it.
15 If you love me, keep my commandments.
16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter [the Paraclete, I Am in me], that he may abide with you forever;
17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it sees him not, neither knows him [because I Am a poor man: without worldly power]: but you know him; for he dwells with you, and shall be in you.
18 I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
19 Yet a little while, and the world sees me no more; but you see me [My identity now manifested in these words and works]: because I live, you shall live also.
20 At that day you shall know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.

John 16
29 His disciples said unto him, Lo, now speak you plainly, and speak no proverb.
30 Now are we sure that you know all things, and need not that any man should ask you: by this we believe that you came forth from God.
31 Jesus answered them, Do you now believe?
32 Behold, the hour comes, yea, is now come, that you shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me alone: and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.
33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me you might have peace. In the world you shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

1 Thessalonians 5
1 But of the times and the seasons, brethren, you have no need that I write unto you.
2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the LORD so comes as a thief [unknown to the ignorant] in the night.
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety [not acknowledging the war at hand]; then sudden destruction comes upon them, as travail upon a woman with child [the son of man waiting patiently until Christ is formed, born from the dead, in you]; and they shall not escape.
4 But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
5 You are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
7 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
8 But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.
9 For God has not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our LORD Jesus Christ,
10 Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
11 Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also you do.
12 And we beseech you, brethren, to know them [that it is the LORD in us doing the work] which labor among you, and are over you in the LORD, and admonish you;
13 And to esteem them very highly in love for their work’s sake. And be at peace among yourselves.
14 Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men.
15 See that none render evil for evil unto any man; but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all men.

Psalms 147
1 Praise you the LORD: for it is good to sing praises unto our God; for it is pleasant; and praise is comely.
2 The LORD does build up [New Heavenly] Jerusalem: he gathers together the outcasts of Israel.
3 He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.
4 He tells the number of the stars; he calls them all by their names.
5 Great is our LORD, and of great power: his understanding is infinite.
6 The LORD lifts up the meek: he casts the wicked down to the ground.
7 Sing unto the LORD with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the harp unto our God:
8 Who covers the heaven [full understanding] with clouds, who prepares rain [from where He sends His word giving understanding] for the earth, who makes grass to grow upon the mountains [giving life to the earth through those He exalts by His word].
9 He gives to the beast [those without His Spirit and life] his food, and to the young ravens [those covered in darkness: ignorance] which cry.
10 He delights not in the strength of the horse [those who say they can carry the burden of the world]: he taketh not pleasure in the legs of a man.
11 The LORD taketh pleasure in them that fear him, in those that hope in his mercy.
12 Praise the LORD, O [New Heavenly] Jerusalem [My people in whom I dwell]; praise your God, O Zion.
13 For he has strengthened the bars of your gates; he has blessed your children within you.
14 He makes peace in your borders, and fills you with the finest of the wheat.
15 He sends forth his commandment upon earth: his word runs very swiftly.
16 He gives snow like wool: he scatters the hoarfrost like ashes.
17 He casts forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold [when His word remains reserved with Him at His throne]?
18 He sends out his word, and melts them [sending His word upon all]: he causes his wind to blow, and the waters flow [and His Spirit moves upon them bringing light, understanding, again to the earth].
19 He shows his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel.
20 He has not dealt so with any nation: and as for his judgments, they have not known them. Praise you the LORD.

Psalms 137
1 By the rivers of Babylon [the waters of confusion], there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
2 We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.
3 For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
4 How shall we sing the LORD’s song in a strange land?
5 If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.
6 If I do not remember you, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.
7 Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom [the enemies mixed among us at war with us] in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Raze it [destroy it to the ground], raze it, even to the foundation thereof.
8 O daughter of Babylon, who are to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewards you as you have served us.
9 Happy shall he be, that takes and dashes your little ones [created in your evil image and likeness] against the stones [the Rock of our Salvation].

A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.

15 – 18 September 2023

A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.

The LORD began today in the following passage of Ecclesiastes.

Ecclesiastes 1
3 What profit has a man of all his labor which he taketh under the sun?
4 One generation passes away, and another generation comes: but the earth abides forever.
5 The sun also arises [giving light to the earth], and the sun goes down, and [understanding] hastes to his place [with the LORD] where he arose.
6 The wind goes toward the south [His Spirit moves upon those looking for the light to return], and turns about unto the north [and man being impatient looks to the place of darkness for it]; it whirls about continually, and the wind returns again according to his circuits [when the end of this darkness and agitation meets the beginning and the true light comes].
7 All the rivers [the words of God and man] run into the sea [humanity at large]; yet the sea is not full [male’ – used once later, in Ecclesiastes 11:5, telling of the child unborn, saying “As you know not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so you know not the works of God who makes all.” It is here speaking of not establishing the difference in the value of God’s word over man’s – and therefore the birth doesn’t come]; [because this distinction isn’t made,] unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither [light to light and darkness to darkness] they return again.
[Ecclesiastes 11: 6 In the morning {when the light is present} sow your seed, and in the evening {you see the coming darkness} withhold not your hand {continue in this work of sowing}: for you know not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike {producing} good. 7 Truly the light {understanding} is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun {the light when it comes}: 8 But if a man lives {by seeing the light} many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness {the ways of ignorance that bring the shadow of death upon the earth}; for they shall be many. All that comes {when those born by the light forget the ways of darkness} is vanity {worthless}. 9 Rejoice, O young man, in your youth; and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth {acting childish and regarding childish thing}, and walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes: but {if you fail to put these things away and, therefore, never grow into men} know you, that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.]
8 All things are full of labor; man cannot utter it [but God brings it to light, so they understand what they are experiencing]: the eye [of incorrigible children] is not satisfied with seeing [His presence in it], nor the ear filled with hearing [the voice of God].
9 The thing that has been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.
10 Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it has been already of old time, which was before us. [These are the circuits of the ages before us, the beginnings and ends of light and darkness. They are the law of the natural man, until he is born again a spiritual man learned to put away childish things.]
11 There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.
12 I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem.
13 And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail has God given to the sons of man to be exercised [work out the propensity for evil] therewith.
14 I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
15 That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
16 I communed with my own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience [by which I learned] of wisdom and knowledge.
17 And I gave my heart to know [understand] wisdom, and to know [to understand] madness [the insanity of man] and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit [because the work is endless and some men, the insane rejecting reality, will never learn, even when experiencing its effects, instead choosing the darkness, because their deeds are evil].
18 For in much wisdom is much grief [knowing that men choose to destroy themselves rather than change their minds]: and he that increases knowledge increases sorrow.

The title speaks of the time when evil men and nations, because of enmity, cross the line of self-destruction into the destruction of all good around them. These are the times we (those who understand: who now see it in the experience, after hearing it from the mouth of God) live in.

There are those who are offended by my saying I hate (evil and those by it willingly possessed) with a perfect hatred and count these enemies of God, the enemies of all good, as my enemies. These same (offended) men, joined in the confederacy of ignorance (in Babylon), are not offended at all by evil, but yet are (offended) by God and the good He is, through us, working and speaking.

The words rendered “perfect hatred,” in Psalms 139:22, are takliyth sin’ah, the first used five times and the other seventeen times. The word there rendered “hate” is sane’; here referring us to God’s (falsely so-called) hate manifest through us, hating those who hate God. (True hate is having the good the world needs and refusing to give it to those in need – the opposite of charity: agape. Evil is replacing good with deception and manipulation to mislead the needy into following you into self-destruction.)

The word sane’ is said to be a primitive root; without derivation given. Its deep affinity is to two, almost identical, words; the three times used shana’, meaning to alter, and the word shena’ (shanah), meaning sleep. These words speak of those who (putting themselves in God’s place, the sons of perdition who replace good with evil) altered the meaning of God’s word (now all truth) as delivered and thereby cause the long deep sleep of God’s people.

Psalms 139
14 I will praise you; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvelous are your works; and that my soul knows right well.
15 My substance was not hid from you, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
16 Your eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in your book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.
17 How precious also are your thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!
18 If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with you.
19 Surely you will slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, you bloody men.
20 For they speak against you wickedly, and your enemies take your name in vain.
21 Do not I hate them [do not I appear to them as one asleep and that alters You], O LORD, that hate you [that altered You and therefore sleep]? and am not I grieved with [quwt – a six times used word meaning cut off, from] those that rise up [from their sleep] against you?
22 I hate them [I oppose those who have altered You and remain asleep] them with perfect [takliyth] hatred [sin’ah]: I count them my enemies.
23 Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
24 And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

Psalms 95
1 O come, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation.
2 Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms.
3 For the LORD is a great God, and a great King above all gods.
4 In his hand are the deep places of the earth: the strength of the hills is his also.
5 The sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land.
6 O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker.
7 For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. Today if you will hear his voice,
8 Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.
10 Forty years [a symbolic time of wandering in the wilderness] long was I grieved with [quwt – cut off from – see Daniel 9:26 below] this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:
11 Unto whom I swore in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.

Daniel 9
24 Seventy weeks are determined upon your people and upon your holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.
26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off [from sight, from the eye], but not for [from] himself: and the people of the prince [the wicked in power in this time of blindness] that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood [see Psalms 90:5 below; this is what puts humanity to sleep], and unto the end [qets] of the war desolations are determined [charats].
27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst 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] shall be poured upon the desolate.

Psalms 90
1 LORD, you have been our dwelling place in all generations.
2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.
3 You turn man to destruction; and sayest, Return, you children of men.
4 For a thousand years in your sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
5 You carry them away as with a flood [of men’s words that alter all understanding]; they are as a sleep [shanah]: in the morning [when light comes] they are like grass which grows up.
6 In the morning it flourish, and grows up; in the evening [when light departs] it is cut down, and wither.
7 For we are consumed by your anger, and by your wrath are we troubled.
8 You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your countenance [understanding that comes by Your presence].
9 For all our days are passed away in your wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.
10 The days of our years [shaneh – the time of our sleep that comes from altering the LORD] are threescore years and ten [the time of our foretold desolation, in Babylon and beyond Damascus {where the works is stopped and we are in silence and sorrow}]; and if by reason of strength [our relying on our own understanding and not receiving Your correction] they be fourscore years, yet is their strength [in their understanding, which is worthless, they] labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly [flee] away.
11 Who knows the power of your anger? even according to your fear, so is your wrath.
12 So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
13 Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent you concerning your servants.
14 O satisfy us early with your mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
15 Make us glad according to the days wherein you have afflicted us [and in the experience, we understood and were corrected], and the years wherein we have seen evil.
16 Let your work appear unto your servants, and your glory unto their children.
17 And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish you the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish you it.

Acts 7
30 And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him [while he was wandering] in the wilderness of mount Sina [in Hebrew Ciynay – said to be of an uncertain derivation, while spiritually referring to sin’ah] an angel of the LORD in a flame of fire in a bush.
31 When Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight: and as he drew near to behold it, the voice of the LORD came unto him,
32 Saying, I Am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Then Moses trembled, and durst not behold.
33 Then said the LORD to him, Put off your shoes from your feet: for the place [in the LORD’s manifested presence] where you stand is holy ground.
34 I have seen, I have seen the affliction of my people which is in Egypt [as here and now; oppressed by tyrants], and I have heard their groaning, and am come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send you into Egypt [as the LORD has sent me].
35 This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made you a ruler and a judge? the same did God send to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel [the manifestation of the LORD’s presence in His word] which appeared to him in the bush [which burned but never burnt up].
36 He brought them out, after that he had shown wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years [while the people at large wandered and wondered at what they had and were experiencing].
37 This is that Moses, which said unto the children of Israel, A prophet shall the LORD your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me [who I Am]; him shall you hear [obey – akouo, see Luke 8 below].
38 This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spoke to him in the mount Sina [sin’ah – while you remained in your deep sleep of ignorance that result from those who changed to LORD into something unrecognizable], and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles [His life-giving word that awakens us to life] to give unto us [in need]:
39 To whom our fathers would not obey [as almost all have now], but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt [the bondage of sin’ah],
40 Saying unto Aaron [the self-professed light givers among you], Make us gods to go before us: for as for this Moses, which brought us out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.
41 And they made a calf in those days [which they put in the LORD’s place and called their gods], and offered sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands [as men now do, commending themselves among themselves, for their consensus of ignorance and deception].
42 Then God turned, and gave them up to worship [serve] the host of heaven [those in places where understanding should be, but is replaced with agenda-driven opinion and evil consensus]; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O you house of Israel, have you offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness?
43 Yea, you took up the tabernacle of Moloch [your evil king, who you serve by offering your children in his fires, now destroying them (your children) mind and body], and the star of your god Remphan [those who stand in the LORD’s place], figures which you made to worship them: and I will carry you away beyond Babylon [quoted from Amos 5:27 where it is “beyond Damascus,” thereby telling us beyond Babylon, confusion, the work of the LORD through His people is ended and they sit silent in sorrow {demascus, in Amos 5, were we are told “Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness {a time of ignorance}, and not light {without understanding}? even very dark, and no brightness {no light coming through His people speaking His word} in it?”].
44 Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness, as he had appointed, speaking unto Moses, that he should make it according to the fashion that he had seen [spiritually speaking of this word, meant to be given, to those in need, as received].
45 Which also our fathers that came after brought in with Jesus [Joshua – Jehovah’s Salvation manifest in the flesh of His perpetual son {of Nun}] into the possession of the Gentiles, whom God drove out before the face of our fathers, unto the days of David;
46 Who found favor before God, and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.
47 But Solomon built him a house.
48 Howbeit the Most High dwells not in temples made with hands [but rather He dwells in the flesh of His children]; as says the prophet,
49 Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool: what house will you build me? says the LORD: or what is the place of my rest?
50 Has not my hand made all these things?
51 You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears [flesh covering what you should hear and see], you do always resist the Holy Ghost [the LORD, who you don’t know, speaking and working among you in the flesh of those who obey and keep His word]: as your fathers did, so do you.
52 Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which showed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom you have been now the betrayers and murderers:
53 Who have received the law by the disposition of angels [the messengers God sends], and have not kept it.

Luke 8
17 For nothing is secret [kruptos – cryptic, concealed], that shall not be made manifest [phaneros – shinning: appearing {as the light of the candle}]; neither any thing hid [apokruphos – taken away by covering the shinning], that shall not be known and come [erchomai – ereo chraomai: through uttering things needed] abroad [eis phaneros – among you shinning].
18 Take heed [blepo – regard, obey] therefore how you hear [akouo – see verses 21 & 25 below]: for whosoever has, to him shall be given; and whosoever has not, from him shall be taken even that which he seems to have.
19 Then came to him his mother and his brethren, and could not come at him for the press.
20 And it was told him by certain which said, Your mother and your brethren stand without, desiring to see you.
21 And he answered and said unto them, My mother and my brethren are these which hear [akouo] the word of God, and do it.
22 Now it came to pass on a certain day, that he went into a ship with his disciples: and he said unto them, Let us go over unto the other side of the lake. And they launched forth.
23 But as they sailed he [His understanding given to them was altered, and His ONE BODY] fell asleep: and there came down a storm of wind on the lake; and they were filled with water, and were in jeopardy.
24 And they came to him, and awoke him, saying, Master [Teacher], master, we perish. Then he arose, and rebuked the wind and the raging of the water: and they ceased, and there was a calm.
25 And he said unto them, Where is your faith? And they being afraid wondered, saying one to another, What manner of man is this! for he commands even the winds and water, and they obey [hupakouo – are under, subordinate to, what is heard from] him.
26 And they arrived at the country of the Gadarenes [“the reward at the end”], which is over against [on the other side of] Galilee [for the inner circle, who here crossed from death into life in the new heaven on earth].

Amos 5
1 Hear you this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel.
2 The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her land; there is none to raise her up.
3 For thus says the LORD God; The city that went out by a thousand shall leave a hundred, and that which went forth by a hundred shall leave ten, to the house of Israel.
4 For thus says the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek you me, and you shall live:
5 But seek not Bethel [the house of God, where idols sit in His place preaching and teaching their own words and ways], nor enter into Gilgal [where the waters are always agitated and boiling], and pass not to Beersheba [the seven wells: the churches where the word of God is corrupted]: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to naught.
6 Seek the LORD, and you shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph [Ephraim, God’s people in this generation], and devour it, and there be none to quench it in Bethel.
7 You who turn [changed] judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,
8 Seek him that makes the seven stars and Orion [kciyl – giving light again to the foolish], and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night [by revealing the ignorance of all humanity]: that calls for the waters of the sea [this word to be sent to them all, for they are all in need], and pour them out upon the face of [all humanity now present on] the earth: The LORD is his name:
9 That strengthens the spoiled [with His wisdom and understanding] against the strong [the tyrants in power], so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress [the strongholds of the wicked: deceptions that induce confusion and ignorance, which have now turned into the mass insanity of those hearing and obeying them].
10 They hate him that rebukes in the gate [between heaven and hell], and they abhor him that speaks uprightly.
11 Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor [those without power], and you take from him burdens of wheat: you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink wine of them.
12 For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe [I see you Brandon], and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.
13 Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time [not speaking your own words and ways, the corrupt elements {stoicheion} of the world they made without form and void, which melt way in the fires these same corrupt words and ways have caused]; for it is an evil time.
14 Seek good, and not evil, that you may live: and so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as you have spoken [when your mouths are opened speaking His word the world needs].
15 Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.
16 Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the LORD, says thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman [the keepers of the earth, those who’ve diligently sought the LORD] to mourning, and such as are skillful of lamentation to wailing.
17 And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will pass through you, says the LORD.
18 Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness [a time when all are ignorant of Him], and not light.
19 As if a man did flee from a lion [those devouring them], and a bear met him [to others that devour them]; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall [trusted in the protection therein promised], and a serpent bit him [the venomous words there misled them into death].
20 Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?
21 I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.
22 Though you offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts.
23 Take you away from me the noise of your songs [your corrupt words you repeat with those misleading you]; for I will not hear the melody of your viols.
24 But let [this] judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
25 Have you offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years [now wandering without understanding], O house of Israel?
26 But you have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which you made to yourselves.
27 Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, says the LORD, whose name is The God of hosts [the commander of the army of light].

The word husbandmen, above in Amos, from the seven times used word ‘ikkar, meaning “to dig,” is very specifically used to refer us to its uses in Jeremiah 14:4.

Jeremiah 14
1 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the dearth [batstoreth – speaking of not trusting this word as the LORD’s – only used elsewhere in Jeremiah 17:8, the passage saying “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, 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 {batstsoreth}, neither shall cease from yielding fruit. 9 The heart 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.”].
2 Judah [the corrupt crop of misleaders] mourns, and the gates [their corrupt preaching and teaching the ways out of hell into heaven] thereof languish; they are black unto the ground [‘erets – their words and way have brought ignorance of God’s upon the earth]; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up [the cries for help have been heard by the LORD in heaven].
3 And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters [their words and ways]: they came to the [slime] pits, and found no water [instead they found mire]; they returned with their vessels empty; they were [are] ashamed and confounded [they are confused and not able to reach the end they promised], and covered their heads [they choose to remain ignorant].
4 Because the ground is chapt [because they refuse to accept this latter rain, this word as the word sent from heaven], for there was no rain in the earth, the plowmen [‘ikkar] were ashamed, they covered their heads.
5 Yea, the hind also calved in the field [the children they produce], and forsook it [like these misleaders, they refuse this word of the LORD], because there was no grass [nothing in them that produced life on the earth].
6 And the wild asses [unaccustomed to carrying this word of God] did stand in the high places [preaching, teaching, misleading], they snuffed up the wind like dragons [they continued devouring with their open mouths]; their eyes did fail, because there was no grass [no life in them].
7 O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, do you it for your name’s sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against you.
8 O the hope of Israel, the savior thereof in time of trouble [tsarah – this time of tribulation that is upon us, of which all are ignorant because of the corrupt preaching and teaching that has filled their minds with fiction], [the following are questions just answered] why should you be as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring [‘achar – here in the last days unknown] man that turns aside to tarry for a night?
9 Why shouldest you be as a man astonished, as a mighty man that cannot save? yet you, O LORD, are in the midst of us [of which all are unaware], and we are called by your name; leave us not.
10 Thus says the LORD unto this people, Thus have they loved to wander [into apostasy, standing among the dead, away from Me because they say they are holier than I Am], they have not refrained their feet, therefore the LORD does not accept them; he will now remember their iniquity, and visit [paqad – come as He has, as the Chief Overseer of the earth] their sins [to reset the good foundations of the earth].
11 Then said the LORD unto me, Pray not for this people [who refuse to know Me] for their good [because they choose to remain in darkness, because the deeds are evil].
12 When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and an oblation, I will not accept them: but I will consume them by the sword [the word from My mouth that should be for their health and cure], and by the famine [refusing this word], and by the pestilence [the dis-ease their rejection produces].
13 Then said I, Ah, LORD God! behold, the prophets say unto them, You shall not see the sword, neither shall you have famine; but I will give you assured peace in this place.
14 Then the LORD said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spoke unto them: they prophesy unto you a false vision and divination, and a thing of naught, and the deceit of their heart [creation from their own evil minds].
15 Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the prophets that prophesy in my name, and I sent them not, yet they say, Sword and famine shall not be in this land; By sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed.

The only other time the Greek word Sina [said to mean thorny – the place of misleaders, those that overgrew the earth left in man’s care] is mentioned is in Galatians 4:24 & 25, there speaking of those who return to the same false teaching and preaching that produced the tribulation. Remember, this (Sina) speaks of a time of sleep in the ignorance produced by the same corrupt preaching and teaching (elements) that changed God into a false image.

Romans 1
16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believes; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;
19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God has shown it unto them.
20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
23 And changed [allasso – the change that must be reversed, the mystery spoken of in 1 Corinthians 15:51 & 52, that comes “at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed {allasso}.” Verse 54 saying it is “when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.”] the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things.
24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves:
25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature [their creations] more than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

Galatians 4
1 Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child [refusing to put away childish things], differs nothing from a servant, though he be LORD of all;
2 But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father.
3 Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements [stoicheion – the same element Peter tells us, in 2 Peter 3, melt away, and of which he asks the question, “what manner of persons ought you to be in all holy conversation {repeating this word as received} and godliness {manifesting the presence of God in your flesh, to those in need”] of the world: [1 Timothy 3: 16 And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was {is} manifest in the {word become} flesh, justified in the Spirit {while unknown}, seen of angels {those who become His messengers}, preached unto the Gentiles {those who don’t yet know Him}, believed on in the world, received up into glory {realized to be His presence}.]
4 But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
5 To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
6 And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
7 Wherefore you are no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
8 Howbeit then, when you knew not God [as He worked among you as the Holy Ghost leading you into all truth], you did service unto [served] them which by nature are no gods.
9 But now, after that you have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn you again to the weak and beggarly elements [stoicheion], whereunto you desire again to be in bondage?
10 You observe [you see very plainly these] days, and months, and times, and years.
11 I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labor in vain.
12 Brethren, I beseech you, be as I Am; for I Am as you are: you have not injured me at all.
13 You know how through infirmity [weakness showing the power in me is the LORD] of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.
14 And my temptation which was in my flesh you despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an angel [the messenger] of God, even as Christ Jesus.
15 Where is then the [now corrupt] blessedness you spoke of [justification by faith without the purification, holiness, by the law]? for I bear you record, that, if it had been possible, you [thinking I was unable to see this] would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me.
16 Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth [that your changing this meaning, making it an idol, keeps you from the perfection that comes with obeying the mouth of the LORD speaking, giving you understanding and showing you the high way]?
17 They [the corruptors] zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you [for your mind changed from their corruption], that you might affect them [by the LORD speaking this understanding through you].
18 But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.
19 My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,
20 I desire to be present with you now, and to change [allasso] my voice; for I stand in doubt of you [seeing you now doubt Christ is in me teaching you until He is formed in you].
21 Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, do you not hear the law?
22 For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman [eleutheros].
23 But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman [eleutheros] was by promise.
24 Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai [among thorns – misleaders and deceivers], which genders to bondage, which is Agar [flight – who say you will fly away].
25 For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answers to Jerusalem which now is [which is also spiritually called Sodom and Egypt: in the flames of oppression], and is in bondage [taught by misleaders and deceivers] with her children.
26 But Jerusalem [who are taught by the LORD] which is above is free [eleutheros – by knowing the truth], which is the mother [the Church Universal] of us all.
27 For it is written [in Isaiah 54:1], Rejoice, you barren that bears [tikto] not; break forth and cry, you that travail not: for the desolate has many more children than she which has a husband [the Father who has travailed {referring to Isaiah 53:11} for you, to bring forth the man child who is to rule all nations with a rod of iron].
28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.
29 But as then he that was born after the flesh [God’s still sleeping people, remaining in ignorance] persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.
30 Nevertheless what says the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the free woman [eleutheros].
31 So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free [eleutheros – who the son has made free by giving God’s gift of truth].

Galatians 5
1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty [eleutheria] wherewith Christ has made us free [elutheroo], and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage [without the liberty that comes with hearing and obeying the voice of the Father, and fulfilling the law].

13 For, brethren, you have been called unto liberty [eleutheria]; only use not liberty [eleutheria] for an occasion to the flesh, but by love [agape – give these treasures as given] serve one another.
14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; You shall love [agapao – give this word as given] your neighbor as yourself.
15 But if you bite and devour one another, take heed that you be not consumed one of another [as in the camp where the serpents were, against which the son of man is lifted as Moses lifted the fiery brazen serpent in the wilderness – see Numbers 21:8 and John 3:14 & 15].
16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
17 For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that you cannot do the things that you would.
18 But if you be led of the Spirit, you are not under the law.

The “change” is described in the (five) uses of the takliyth and the once used [same meaning] word tiklah, both from the word kalah, which we well know means the full end. In these uses it’s spiritually speaking of the complete restoration of what (the knowledge and understanding of God) men altered (eating from the forbidden tree, reversing good and evil) and thereby brought upon all humanity the long deep sleep (the death warned of in Genesis 2:17) we now experience as confusion and mass insanity (here in hell) under the corrupt elements now ruling the world.

Psalms 119
87 They had almost consumed me upon earth; but I forsook not your precepts.
88 Quicken [from death into life] me after your lovingkindness; so shall I keep the testimony of your mouth.
89 Forever, O LORD, your word is settled in heaven.
90 Your faithfulness is unto all generations: you have established the earth, and it abides.
91 They continue this day according to your ordinances: for all are your servants.
92 Unless your law had been my delights, I should then have perished in my affliction.
93 I will never forget your precepts: for with them you have quickened me.
94 I am yours, save me: for I have sought your precepts.
95 The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: but I will consider your testimonies.
96 I have seen an end [qets] of all perfection [tiklah]: but your commandment is exceeding broad.
97 O how love I your law! it is my meditation all the day.
98 You through your commandments have made me wiser than my enemies: for they are ever with me.
99 I have more understanding than all my teachers: for your testimonies are my meditation.
100 I understand more than the ancients, because I keep your precepts.
101 I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep your word.
102 I have not departed from your judgments: for you have taught me.
103 How sweet are your words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
104 Through your precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate [sane’] every false way [understanding them to be what change understanding into darkness and cause the sleep therein].
105 Your word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path [giving me understanding of the way You lead me out of hell].
106 I have sworn, and I will perform it, that I will keep your righteous judgments.
107 I am afflicted very much: quicken me [out of death into life], O LORD, according unto your word.
108 Accept, I beseech you, the freewill offerings of my mouth [as I publish and speak the words You have given me], O LORD, and teach me your judgments.
109 My soul is continually in my hand: yet do I not forget your law.
110 The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from your precepts.
111 Your testimonies have I taken as a heritage forever: for they are the rejoicing of my heart.
112 I have inclined my heart to perform your statutes always, even unto the end.
113 I hate [sane’] vain thoughts: but your law do I love.
114 You are my hiding place and my shield: I hope in your word.
115 Depart from me, you evildoers: for I will keep the commandments of my God.

Nehemiah 3
9 And next to him repaired Ezer [these treasures restored] the son of Jeshua [Yeshuwa’ – Jesus, Jehovah’s Salvation manifested in the flesh of His perpetual son], the ruler of Mizpah [the watchtower, who is the Chief Overseer of the earth], another piece over against the going up to the armory [who is raised with these weapons] at the turning of the wall [changing, returning our protection].
20 After him Baruch [those by this blessed] the son of Zabbai [restoring “purity” to God’s word] earnestly repaired the other piece [of our protection], from the turning of the wall unto the door [brought the entry] of the house of Eliashib [God restored] the high priest.
21 After him repaired Meremoth [elevated – raised into heaven by] the son of Urijah [the flame, light, of Jehovah] the son of Koz [thorns – against the misleaders among us] another piece, from the door of [the entry into] the house of Eliashib [God restores] even to the end [takliyth – the full end in perfection] of the house of Eliashib [God has restored].
22 And after him repaired the priests [by giving this understanding], [to] the men of the plain [those to whom the LORD plainly reveals His presence].

Job 26
8 He binds up the waters in his thick clouds [the elements of understanding therein suspended]; and the cloud is not rent under them [they remain reserved there until the LORD, in His time, sends them].
9 He holds back [achaz’ – covers] the face [paniym – the presence] of his throne, and spreads [parshez – only appears here, meaning His throne is the place where He holds the separated elements] his cloud upon it.
10 He has compassed [choq chuwg – decrees the full circle: where the end meets the beginning again] the waters with bounds [in His word], until the day [light] and night [dakness] come to an end [takliyth – the completion: in perfection].
11 The pillars of heaven tremble [so corruption is from there removed] and are astonished [tamahh – wonder marvelously] at his reproof [correction].
12 He divides the sea with his power, and by his understanding he smites through the proud.
13 By his spirit he has garnished the heavens [filling it again with His light]; his hand has formed the crooked serpent.
14 Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him [men still refusing to declare His presence manifested in His way, which they, seeing them, still wonder and are dumbfounded]? but the thunder [the voice of the light] of his power who can understand?

Job 28
1 Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they fine it.
2 Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the stone [there are treasures hidden in the earth, supernaturally engineered into this word of God, that must be dug up, diligently searched for, and when found refined to remove impurities: the corruption from being present in the earth where they were hidden].
3 He sets an end [qets] to darkness, and [diligently] searches out all perfection [takliyth]: the stones of darkness [ignorance wherein these treasures are held], and the shadow of death [ignorance of them casts].
4 The flood breaks out from the inhabitant [of darkness]; [corrupting] even the waters [the present word of God] forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they [with understanding] are gone away from men.
5 As for the earth, out of it comes bread [the ways and ideas made by men]: and under it is turned up as it were fire.
6 The stones of it are the place of sapphires [treasures hidden in these stones]: and it has dust of [‘aphar – in the ashes of the earth’s ruin is hidden] gold.
7 There is a path which no fowl knows, and which the vulture’s eye has not seen:
8 The lion’s whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.
9 He [the LORD who only knows this path] puts forth his hand upon the rock [making these treasures flow]; he overturns the mountains [the corrupt high place of the earth] by the roots.
10 He cuts out rivers among the rocks [from where these waters flow]; and his eye sees every precious thing [the treasures therein hidden].
11 He binds the floods [of men’s corrupt words and ways] from overflowing; and the thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light [understanding].
12 But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding?
13 Man knows not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living.
14 The depth says, It is not in me: and the sea says, It is not with me.
15 It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.
16 It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.
17 The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of it shall not be for jewels of fine gold.
18 No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom is above rubies.
19 The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued with pure gold.
20 Whence then comes wisdom? and where is the place of understanding?
21 Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept closed from the fowls of the air.
22 Destruction and death [where the LORD sends wisdom and understanding] say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.
23 [Only] God understands the way thereof, and he knows the place thereof.
24 For he looks to the ends of the earth [the full circle, when the end meets the beginning again], and sees under the whole heaven [full understanding];
25 To make the weight for the winds; and he weighs the waters by measure.
26 When he made a decree [choq – as in Job 26:10 above] for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder [understanding and its voice]:
27 Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out.
28 And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the LORD, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.

The other use of the word takliyth, in Job, comes in Job 11:7, as one of Job’s friends, while falsely accusing Job, ignorantly tells of his own (so-called) understanding, in which he is ignorantly condemning himself.

John 16
8 And when he [the Paraclete] is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:
9 Of sin, because they believe not on me [that I Am speaking through him];
10 Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and you see me no more [until you see me again, the Father alive in me];
11 Of judgment, because the prince [those who misled into ignorance of My presence] of this world is judged.
12 I have yet many things to say unto you, but you cannot bear them now.
13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear [from Me], that shall he speak: and he will show you things to come.
14 He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine [treasures], and shall show it unto you.
15 All things that the Father has are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall show it unto you.
16 A little while, and you shall [because of the misleading of the powers, princes, of this world] not see me: and again, a little while, and you shall see me, because I go to the Father.

32 Behold, the hour comes, yea, is now come, that you shall be scattered, every man to his own [ways and ideas, opinions with which you replace knowledge], and shall leave me alone: and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me [I Am not cut off from myself].
33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me you might have peace. In the world you shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the [powers of the] world.

Job 11
1 Then answered Zophar [departing, representing those who’ve changed the knowledge of God, while ignorantly thinking they have perfect understanding] the Naamathite [meaning their agreement, with others lost in error, makes them outwardly appear pleasant], and said,
2 Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full of talk be justified?
3 Should your lies [the false accusation against this word from the mouth of God] make men hold their peace? and when you mock [la’ag – laugh at our worthless ignorance], shall no man make you ashamed [by our {ignorant} answers disappoint you, so you are unable to reach your expected end, when our darkness is overcome by light]?
4 For you have said, My doctrine [leqach – received instruction] is pure, and I am clean in your eyes.
5 But oh that God would speak [as He has against them by their own words, of which these false accusers are ignorant], and open his lips against you [as He has with your own mouths, drawing you into open light, showing Satan, the false accuser, is the spirit possessing you as you do his work];
6 And that he would show you the secrets of wisdom, that they are double to that which is! Know therefore that God exacts of you less than your iniquity deserves.
7 Can you by searching find out God? can you find out the Almighty unto perfection [takliyth] [which only He reveals to those He calls and chooses]?
8 It is as high as heaven; what can you do? deeper than hell; what can you know?
9 The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
10 If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together [understanding to Himself only], then who can hinder him [shuwb – who can return it without His revelation]?
11 For he knows vain men [their thoughts are worthless]: he sees wickedness also [of which they themselves are ignorant]; will he not then consider [biyn – understand] it?
12 For vain men would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass’s colt [ignorantly wandering in the wildness].
13 If you prepare your heart, and stretch out your hands toward him;
14 If iniquity be in your hand [as it is in the work of the false accusers], put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in your tabernacles.
15 For then shall you lift up your face [nasa’ paniym – then shall you understand you are in the LORD’s presence] without spot; yea, you shall be steadfast, and shall not fear:
16 Because you shall forget your misery, and remember it as waters that pass away [‘abar – words away from which you Passover from death into life]:
17 And your age [cheled – new age of this world] shall be clearer than the noonday [when understanding has fully come]: you shall shine forth [giving this word as received], you shall be as the morning [the new day come].
18 And you shall be secure, because there is hope [in this expected end]; yea, you shall dig about you, and you shall take your rest in safety.
19 Also you shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid; yea, many shall make suit unto you.
20 But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost.

Psalms 49
1 Hear [shama’ – obey] this, all you people; give ear [‘azan – comprehend], all you inhabitants of the world [cheled]:
2 Both low and high, rich and poor, together.
3 My mouth shall speak of wisdom; and the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding.
4 I will incline my ear to a parable [in which the LORD’s deep meaning is held and revealed by Him only]: I will open my dark saying upon the harp.
5 Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, when the iniquity of my heels [the corruption picked up in our journey] shall compass me about [because the LORD will, has, washed it away]?
6 They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;
7 None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him:
8 (For the redemption of their soul is precious, and it ceaseth forever:)
9 That he should still live forever, and not see corruption.
10 For he sees that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.
11 Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue forever, and their dwelling places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names.
12 Nevertheless man being in honor abides not: he is [without the LORD’s spirit] like the beasts that perish.
13 This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approves their sayings [continuing in their error, corruption they, without the LORD’s correction, can never return from]. Selah.
14 Like sheep they are laid in the grave [sheol- hell]; death [maveth] shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning [when this light has fully come]; and their beauty [their outward pleasantness] shall consume in the grave [sheol – in the hell they’ve created] from their dwelling.
15 But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave [sheol – from hell]: for he shall receive me. Selah.
16 Be not you afraid when one is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased;
17 For when he dies he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall not descend after him.
18 Though while he lived he blessed his soul: and men will praise you, when you do well to yourself.
19 He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light [understanding].
20 Man that is in honor, and understands not, is like the beasts [without the LORD’s spirit] that perish [devoured by their own devouring mouths].

Your dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, you that dwell in dust: for your dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.

12 – 14 September 2023

Your dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, you that dwell in dust: for your dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.

Above, in Isaiah 26:19, three different Hebrew words are rendered “dead,” the last of these, the eight times used word rapha’, meaning “properly, lax, i.e. (figuratively) a ghost (as dead; in plural only).” The word used saying the earth will “cast out” these dead is naphal, which appears in the verse prior speaking of the world not yet “falling” into the birth canal.

The word rapha’, from an identical word meaning health and cure, is deeply misunderstood until looked at in the context of its (seven) other uses, while considering its affinity to its origin. One of these uses comes earlier in verse 14, one of the other two times it appears in Isaiah.

Again, as in previous posts, the LORD is speaking of the open mouths (singing – repeating this testimony) of those raised (by understanding effectually working to awaken them) from their deep sleep in this (rapha’) death, as in Daniel 12. As often discussed, it’s when Michael (who is like God) stands in the tribulation, the time of Jacob’s trouble (tsarah – the tribulation), and “many of them that sleep in the dust [ruin] of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.”

The other time rapha’ appears in Isaiah is in Isaiah 14:9, as the LORD is speaking to Lucifer (the commander-in-chief misleader).

Isaiah 14
5 The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked, and the scepter of the rulers.
6 He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hinders.
7 The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing [speaking this word of the LORD, restoring sanity into its place of power].
8 Yea, the fir trees [the upright] rejoice at you, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since you [the wicked who were in power] are laid down, no feller is come up against us.
9 Hell from beneath is moved for you to meet you at your coming: it stirs up the dead [rapha’] for you, even all the chief ones of the earth; it has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
10 All they shall speak and say unto you, Are you also become weak as we? are you become like unto us?
11 Your pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of your viols: the worm is spread under you, and the worms cover you.
12 How are you fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how are you cut down to the ground, which did weaken the nations!
13 For you have said in your heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the Most High.
15 Yet you shall be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
16 They that see you shall narrowly look upon you, and consider you, saying, Is this the man [Obama] that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;
17 That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?
18 All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house.
19 But you are cast out of your grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcass trodden under feet.
20 You shall not be joined with them in burial, because you have destroyed your land, and slain your people: the seed of evildoers [as all history shall remember you] shall never be renowned.
21 Prepare slaughter for his children [his ilk in control of our government] for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.
22 For I will rise up against them, says the LORD of hosts, and cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant, and son, and nephew, says the LORD.
23 I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, says the LORD of hosts.
24 The LORD of hosts has sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:
25 That I will break the Assyrian [the communists] in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders.
26 This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth: and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations.
27 For the LORD of hosts has purposed, and who shall disannul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?

Isaiah 26
1 In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks.
2 Open you the gates, that the righteous nation which keeps the truth may enter in.
3 You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on you: because he trusts in you.
4 Trust you in the LORD forever: for in the LORD Jehovah is everlasting strength:
5 For he bringeth down them that dwell on high; the lofty city, he lays it low; he lays it low, even to the ground; he bringeth it even to the dust.
6 The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy.
7 The way of the just is uprightness: you, most upright, do weigh the path of the just.
8 Yea, in the way of your judgments, O LORD, have we waited for you; the desire of our soul is to your name [identity], and to the remembrance of you.
9 With my soul have I desired you in the night [this time of ignorance]; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek you early: for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
10 Let favor be shown to the wicked [the free gift sown among the fool and wise, as the sunrise upon all, yet the fool will not depart from his foolishness], yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD.
11 LORD, when your hand is lifted up [Your power seen as greater than all the powers of man], they will not see: but they shall see, and be ashamed for their envy at the people; yea, the fire of your enemies shall devour them.
12 LORD, you will ordain peace for us: for you also have wrought all our works in us.
13 O LORD our God, other gods beside you have had dominion over us: but by you only will we make mention of your name [the character that identifies you, showing You distinct].
14 They [the false gods of this world] are dead [muwth], they shall not live; they are deceased [rapha’], they shall not rise: therefore have you visited [paqad – as the Chief Overseer of the earth] and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.
15 You have increased [yacaph – joined yourself to] the nation [making yourself known to those who haven’t known you], O LORD, you have increased the nation: you are glorified: you have removed it far [rachaq – into this then far off time, now when the world is ruled by evil decree] unto all the ends [qetsev – the limit, ending the old heaven and earth and beginning the new] of the earth.
16 LORD, in trouble have they visited [paqad] you [asked you to take charge over the earth], they poured out a prayer when your chastening [correction] was upon them.
17 Like as a woman with child, that draw near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and cries out in her pangs; so have we been in your sight [paniym – in Your presence], O LORD.
18 We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind [a foul spirit, not seen but known to be present, speaking of the stink of Lucifer]; we have not wrought any deliverance [yshuw’ah – Jesus] in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen [naphal – into the birth canal].
19 Your dead [muwth] men shall live, together with my dead body [nbelah – the carcass of the body of Christ] shall they arise. Awake and sing [repeat these words as received], you that dwell in dust [the ruin of the earth]: for your dew is as the dew of herbs [bringing life on this third day of the new creation], and the earth shall cast out [naphal] the dead [rapha’].
20 Come, my people, enter you into your chambers, and shut your doors about you: hide yourself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation [za’am] be overpast.
21 For, behold, the LORD comes out of his place to punish [paqad – as the Chief Overseer] the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain [harag – those they’ve stuck down into death].

The naphal is the rebirth from death (rapha’), above spoken of the earth and its inhabitants. It (naphal) is the “fall” into deep sleep and the rising from it (awakening).

It (naphal) is first used in Genesis 2:21, speaking of when deep sleep that “fell” upon Adam, during which the LORD, from his body, created woman. It next (in Genesis 4:5 & 6) speaks of the “fallen” countenance of Cain, and later (in Genesis 14:10) of the slime pits into which the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah “fell” and remained.

It then appears (Genesis 15:12), saying, “And when the sun was going down [when light, understanding, departed], a deep sleep fell [naphal] upon Abram [Abraham]; and, lo, an horror of great darkness [ignorance] fell [naphal] upon him.” As we understand, this is the sleep [rapha’] from which the LORD here and now has awakened us, as foretold in Daniel 12.

The first use of rapha’ comes in Job 26:5, as the LORD today reveals it to us, as in Genesis 1, His Spirit alive in me moving upon the face of the waters to reveal the darkened deep, and from it bring light: understanding reserved there for this moment and His purpose: revealing His presence.

Genesis 1
2 And the earth was without form [tohuw], and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved [diligently searched out and refined] upon the face of the waters [the word present].
3 And God said, Let there be light [understanding]: and there was light.
4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness [the ignorance that came through corruption].
5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening [the darkness coming] and the morning [and the light returning] were the first day.

Job 26
2 How have you [as the LORD has here] helped him that is without power? how save you the arm that has no strength?
3 How have you counseled him that has no wisdom? and how have you plentifully declared the thing as it is?
4 To whom have you uttered words? and whose spirit came from you?
5 Dead [rapha’] things [the matters of death and life] are formed from under the waters [in the darkened deep], and the inhabitants thereof.
6 Hell is naked before him, and destruction has no covering.
7 He stretches out the north [darkness – ignorance, the cover spread over the deep] over the empty place [tohuw – “without form”], and hangs [talah – suspends] the earth upon nothing [bliymah – only used here; nothingness: “the void”].
8 He binds up the waters in his thick clouds [the elements of understanding therein suspended]; and the cloud is not rent under them [they remain reserved there until the LORD, in His time, sends them].
9 He holds back [achaz’ – covers] the face [paniym – the presence] of his throne, and spreads [parshez – only appears here, meaning His throne is the place where He holds the separated elements] his cloud upon it.
10 He has compassed [choq chuwg – decrees the full circle: where the end meets the beginning again] the waters with bounds [in His word], until the day [light] and night [dakness] come to an end [tiklah – the completion: in perfection].
11 The pillars of heaven tremble [so corruption is from there removed] and are astonished [tamahh – wonder marvelously] at his reproof [correction].
12 He divides the sea with his power, and by his understanding he smites through the proud.
13 By his spirit he has garnished the heavens [filling it again with His light]; his hand has formed the crooked serpent.
14 Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him [men still refusing to declare His presence manifested in His way, which they, seeing them, still wonder and are dumbfounded]? but the thunder [the voice of the light] of his power who can understand?

The word rendered “crooked,” bariyach, only appears two other times, in Isaiah 21:7 and 43:14. In the first of these uses, we understand it is leviathan, which we know is also used in describing Satan’s work through Job’s three so-called friends. It (leviathan) has the same origin as the name Levites, speaking of the priesthood, from whom the word from the mouth of God is supposed to be spoken. It is also there His word was and is corrupted (“piercing [bariyach]” the LORD’s hands and feet), and from where such corruption now flows in its place. It (bariyach), in Isaiah’s second use of it, tells us these corruptors are the “nobles [bariyach]” of Babylon, speaking of those whose power to rule is the corruption they speak and its resulting confusion, now turned mass insanity (the mass inability to distinguish between their delusions and reality).

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 [bariyach] serpent [as misleaders among them], even leviathan [Levi – the priesthood] that crooked serpent [as thorns and briers]; and he [the LORD with us] shall slay the dragon [tanniyn – the whale, the open mouths of men that carried all humanity into the belly of 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.

Isaiah 43
7 Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him.
8 Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf that have ears.
9 Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the people be assembled: who among them can declare this, and show us former things? let them bring forth their witnesses, that they may be justified: or let them hear, and say, It is truth.
10 You are my witnesses, says the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that you may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.
11 I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no savior.
12 I have declared, and have saved, and I have shown, when there was no strange god among you: therefore you are my witnesses, says the LORD, that I am God.
13 Yea, before the day was I am he; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let it?
14 Thus says the LORD, your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and have brought down all their nobles [bariyach], and the Chaldeans, whose cry is in the ships [all the corrupt institutions of church and state].
15 I am the LORD, your Holy One, the creator of Israel, your King.
16 Thus says the LORD, which makes a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters;
17 Which bringeth forth the chariot and horse, the army and the power; they shall lie down together, they shall not rise: they are extinct, they are quenched as tow.
18 Remember you not the former things, neither consider the things of old.
19 Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall you not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.

Acts 13
38 Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins:
39 And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.
40 Beware therefore, lest that come upon you, which is spoken of in the prophets [Habakkuk 1:5];
41 Behold, you despisers, and wonder [wonder marvelously – tamahh tamahh], and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which you shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto you.

Job 28
1 Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they fine it.
2 Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the stone [there are treasures hidden in the earth, supernaturally engineered into this word of God, that must be dug up, diligently searched for, and when found refined to remove impurities: the corruption from being present in the earth where they were hidden].
3 He sets an end to darkness, and [diligently] searches out all perfection: the stones of darkness [ignorance wherein these treasures are held], and the shadow of death.
4 The flood breaks out from the inhabitant [of darkness]; [corrupting] even the waters [the present word of God] forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they [with understanding] are gone away from men.
5 As for the earth, out of it comes bread [the ways and ideas made by men]: and under it is turned up as it were fire.
6 The stones of it are the place of sapphires [treasures hidden in these stones]: and it has dust of [‘aphar – in the ashes of the earth’s ruin is hidden] gold.
7 There is a path which no fowl know, and which the vulture’s eye has not seen:
8 The lion’s whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.
9 He [the LORD who only knows this path] puts forth his hand upon the rock [making these treasures flow]; he overturns the mountains [the corrupt high place of the earth] by the roots.
10 He cuts out rivers among the rocks [from where these waters flow]; and his eye see every precious thing [the treasures therein hidden].
11 He binds the floods [of men corrupt words and ways] from overflowing; and the thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light [understanding].
12 But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding?
13 Man knows not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living.
14 The depth says, It is not in me: and the sea says, It is not with me.
15 It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.
16 It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.
17 The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of it shall not be for jewels of fine gold.
18 No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom is above rubies.
19 The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued with pure gold.
20 Whence then comes wisdom? and where is the place of understanding?
21 Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept closed from the fowls of the air.
22 Destruction and death [where the LORD sends wisdom and understanding] say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.
23 [Only] God understands the way thereof, and he knows the place thereof.
24 For he looks to the ends of the earth [the full circle, when the end meets the beginning again], and sees under the whole heaven [full understanding];
25 To make the weight for the winds; and he weighs the waters by measure.
26 When he made a decree [choq – as in Job 26:10 above] for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder [understanding and its voice]:
27 Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out.
28 And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the LORD, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.

Three of the uses of rapha’ come in Proverbs (2:18, 9:18, & 21:16) telling us this death is the lack of understanding.

Proverbs 2
1 My son, if you will receive my words, and hide my commandments with you;
2 So that you incline your ear unto wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;
3 Yea, if you cry after knowledge, and lift up your voice for understanding;
4 If you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hid treasures;
5 Then shall you understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.
6 For the LORD gives wisdom: out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.
7 He lays up [tsaphan – hidden and reserved] sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.
8 He keeps [natsar – guards and protects] the paths of judgment, and preserve [shamar – warn away from corruption] the way of his saints.
9 Then shall you understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path.
10 When wisdom enters into your heart [mind], and knowledge is pleasant unto your soul;
11 Discretion shall preserve [shamar] you, understanding shall keep [natsar] you:
12 To deliver you [natsal – same as harpazo, “caught up,” meaning pulling us from the fires] from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaks froward things [twisted and perverted truth];
13 Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness [ignorance];
14 Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness [the twisted and perverted truth] of the wicked;
15 Whose ways are crooked, and they froward [they twist and pervert truth] in their paths:
16 [The treasures the LORD gives us are] To deliver you from the strange woman [corrupt teaching], even from the stranger which flatters with her words [when you’ve learned her ignorance];
17 Which forsake the guide [the good wisdom and understanding of the LORD] of her youth, and forget the covenant of her God.
18 For her house inclines unto death [maveth – state and place, in hell], and her paths unto the dead [rapha’ – the fall into deep sleep, complete demoralization and willing insanity, when the mind can’t distinguish between its own delusions and reality].
19 None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.
20 That you mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.
21 For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.
22 But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.

Proverbs 9
1 Wisdom has built her house, she has hewn out her seven pillars [the completion of God’s work]:
2 She has killed her beasts; she has mingled her wine; she has also furnished her table [and those who eat here find the good path to life].
3 She has sent forth her maidens: she cries upon the highest places of the city,
4 Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: as for him that wants understanding, she says to him,
5 Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mingled.
6 Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.
7 He that reproves a scorner gets to himself shame: and he that rebukes a wicked man gets himself a blot. [Because these the incorrigibles, who refuse correction, remain lawless, disturbing the peace, agitating the general welfare, whose end is separation from God and His children forever, which is their choice]
8 Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate you: rebuke a wise man, and he will love you.
9 Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.
10 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.
11 For by me your days shall be multiplied, and the years of your life shall be increased.
12 If you be wise, you shall be wise for yourself: but if you scorn, you alone shall bear it.
13 A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knows nothing.
14 For she sits at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,
15 To call passengers who go right on their ways:
16 Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: and as for him that wants [lacks] understanding, she says to him,
17 Stolen [ganab – deceiving] waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret [cather – conversation covering evil intentions] is pleasant.
18 But he knows not that the dead [rapha’] are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell [sheol].

Proverbs 21
1 The king’s heart [mind] is in the hand [work] of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turns it whithersoever he will.
2 Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the LORD ponders the hearts [minds of men].
3 To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.
4 A high look, and a proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked, is sin.
5 The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but of every one that is hasty only to want.
6 The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.
7 The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; because they refuse to do judgment.
8 The way of man is froward [twisting and perverting truth] and strange: but as for the pure, his work is right.
9 It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.
10 The soul of the wicked desires evil: his neighbor finds no favor in his eyes.
11 When the scorner is punished, the simple is made wise: and when the wise is instructed, he receives knowledge.
12 The righteous man wisely considers the house of the wicked: but God overthrows the wicked for their wickedness.
13 Whoso stops his ears at the cry of the poor [those without power – like the many Jan. 6 martyrs now imprisoned by the evil tyrant in power], he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard.
14 A gift in secret pacifies anger: and a reward in the bosom strong wrath.
15 It is joy to the just to do judgment: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.
16 The man that wanders out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead [rapha’].
17 He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.
18 The wicked shall be a ransom for the righteous, and the transgressor for the upright.
19 It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and angry woman.
20 There is treasure to be desired and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man spends it up.
21 He that follows after righteousness and mercy finds life, righteousness, and honor.
22 A wise man scales the city of the mighty [in power], and casts down the strength of the confidence thereof.
23 Whoso keeps his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles.
24 Proud and haughty scorner is his name, who deals in proud wrath.
25 The desire of the slothful kills him; for his hands refuse to labor.
26 He covets greedily all the day long: but the righteous gives [as the LORD commands] and spare not.
27 The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination: how much more, when he brings it with a wicked mind?
28 A false witness shall perish: but the man that hears [shama’ – obeys] speaks constantly [as the LORD has commanded].
29 A wicked man hardens his face: but as for the upright, he directs his way.
30 There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the LORD.
31 The horse is prepared against the day of battle: but safety is of the LORD.

The word in the title verse rendered “herbs” is the four times used word ‘owrah, meaning “luminousness,” from ‘owr, meaning “illumination or (concrete) luminary (in every sense, including lightning, happiness, etc.):–bright, clear, + day, light (-ning), morning, sun.” It’s speaking of the dew, the word of God that appears (distills – is separated from impurities) as the light of a new day, which brings the rebirth (naphal) from death (rapha’).

The first time ‘owrah appears, in 2 Kings 4:39, also rendered “herbs,” it comes just after Elisha (God is salvation: God will save us) has raised the son of the Shunammite from death. We aren’t told, in this chapter, her name; only that she is a great woman of Shunem (meaning quiet).

There is another Shunammite spoken of earlier in 1 Kings 1 & 2, who comforted David in his old age. Her name is Abishag, meaning father (ab) of error, from the word shagah, meaning “to stray (causatively, mislead), usually (figuratively) to mistake, especially (morally) to transgress; by extension (through the idea of intoxication) to reel, (figuratively) be enraptured.”

Spiritually, the passage is speaking of this child as the modern sons of the prophets who’ve wandered into error, the Spirit of God no longer speaking through them, and they died.

The word shagah is only used three times by Isaiah, all in Isaiah 28:7, saying of those who made a covenant with death and are in agreement with hell, “But they also have erred [shagah] through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred [shagah] through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err [shagah] in vision, they stumble in judgment.”

Isaiah 28
8 For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.
9 Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine [shmuw’ah – this report that must be heard as the word from the mouth of Jehovah]? them that are weaned from the milk, and [now] drawn from the breasts [of the Ancient of Days: the wisdom and understanding of God].
10 For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:
11 For with stammering lips and another tongue [the truth they don’t understand because it’s a foreign language to them] will he speak to this people.
12 To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith you may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.
13 But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, you scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because you have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus says the LORD God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believes shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then you shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goes forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report [shmuw’ah – this voice of the LORD].

2 Kings 2
15 And he [Elisha] said, Call her [Abishag]. And when he [Gahazi – into the valley of vision] had called her, she stood in the door.
16 And he said, About this season [mow’ed – this appointed time], according to the time of life, you shall embrace a son. And she said, Nay, my LORD [‘adown], you man of God, do not lie unto your handmaid.
17 And the woman conceived, and bare a son at that season [mow’ed] that Elisha had said unto her, according to the time of life [when he is raise again from death to life].
18 And when the child was grown, it fell on a day, that he went out to his father to the reapers.
19 And he said unto his father, My head, my head. And he said to a lad, Carry him to his mother.
20 And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees till noon [when the sun was fully risen: now when full understanding is given by the LORD], and then died.

32 And when Elisha [God will save] was come into the house, behold, the child was dead, and laid upon his bed.
33 He went in therefore, and shut the door upon them twain, and prayed unto the LORD.
34 And he went up [rose up among the dead prophets], and lay upon the child, and put his mouth upon his mouth [breath this life into Him, giving them this understanding as received], and his eyes upon his eyes [and they saw the unseen, as God sees], and his hands upon his hands [and understood it is the LORD’s work that is their work]: and stretched [the LORD condescended] himself upon the child; and the [dead] flesh of the child waxed warm [the LORD’s Spirit came to life in them, raising them by His rising].
35 Then he returned [shuwb – to their right minds], and walked in the house to and fro [diligently seeking the LORD]; and went up [were risen to life], and stretched [and the LORD’ through them condescended] himself upon him: and the child sneezed [gave these waters of life from His mouth] seven times [doing the LORD’s work upon the earth], and the child opened his eyes [and saw as God sees, with full understanding].
36 And he called Gehazi [into the valley of this vision], and said, Call this Shunammite [those whose mouths are not yet opened]. So he called her. And when she was come in unto him, he said, Take up [rise up with] your son.
37 Then she went in, and fell [naphal – came from death to life] at his feet, and bowed herself to the ground, and took up her son, and went out.
38 And Elisha [continuing the work of God’s Salvation] came again to Gilgal [where the waters are always boiling]: and there was a dearth [famine for hearing this word of God] in the land [the earth]; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him: and he said unto his servant, Set on the great pot, and seethe pottage for the sons of the prophets.
39 And one went out into the field [sadeh] to gather herbs [‘orwah – light, understanding of God], and found a wild [sadeh] vine, and gathered thereof wild [sadeh] gourds his lap full [these word tell of splitting wide open what was covered, referring to the shagah], and came and shred [palach – broke open] them into the pot of pottage: for they knew them not.
40 So they poured out for the men to eat. And it came to pass, as they were eating of the pottage, that they cried out, and said, O you man of God, there is death [maveth] in the pot. And they could not eat thereof.
41 But he said, Then bring meal [the work done at the millstone]. And he cast it into the pot; and he said, Pour out for the people, that they may eat. And there was no harm [ra’ dabar – no evil words] in the pot.

The word “meal” is qemach, and refers us to its use in Isaiah 47:2, speaking of it as the work uncovering the cause of the fall away from understanding into deep sleep.

Isaiah 47
1 Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon [of confusion], sit on the ground: there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans [who use your words to manipulate and control My people into following your evil]: for you shall no more be called tender and delicate.
2 Take the millstones, and grind meal [qemach]: uncover your locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over [‘abar] the rivers [uncover your word of falsehood and lies, and in doing Passover from death into life].
3 Your nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, your shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and I will not meet you as a man.
4 As for our redeemer, the LORD of hosts [a man of war] is his name [identity], the Holy One of Israel.
5 Sit you silent [Shunammite], and get you into darkness [ignorance], O daughter of the Chaldeans [enchanters and sorcerers, using your words to manipulate and control the ignorant]: for you shall no more be called, The lady of kingdoms.
6 I was wroth with my people, I have polluted my inheritance, and given them into your hand: you did show them no mercy; upon the ancient have you very heavily laid your yoke.
7 And you said, I shall be a lady forever: so that you did not lay these things to your heart, neither did remember the latter end [‘achariyth – these last days of your darkness] of it.
8 Therefore hear now this, you that are given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in your heart, I am, and none else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children:
9 But these two things shall come to you in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come upon you in their perfection for the multitude of your sorceries, and for the great abundance of your enchantments.
10 For you have trusted in your wickedness: you have said, None see me. Your wisdom and your knowledge, it has perverted you; and you have said in your heart, I am, and none else beside me.
11 Therefore shall evil come upon you; you shall not know from whence it rises: and mischief shall fall upon you; you shall not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon you suddenly, which you shall not know.
12 Stand now with your enchantments, and with the multitude of your sorceries, wherein you have labored from your youth; if so be you shall be able to profit, if so be you mayest prevail.
13 You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, [all the falsely so-called wise men and experts of this corrupt and insane world] stand up, and save you from these things that shall come upon you.
14 Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: there shall not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before it.
15 Thus shall they be unto you with whom you have labored, even your merchants, from your youth: they shall wander [deceive] every one to his quarter; none shall save you.

Revelation 18
1 And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened [given understanding] with his glory.
2 And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that you be not partakers of her sins, and that you receive not of her plagues.
5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.
6 Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she has filled fill to her double.
7 How much she has glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she says in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.
8 Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the LORD God who judges her.
9 And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning,
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is your judgment come.

20 Rejoice over her, you heaven, and you holy apostles and prophets; for God has avenged you on her.
21 And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.

Revelation 19
1 And after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honor, and power, unto the LORD our God:
2 For true and righteous are his judgments: for he has judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and has avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.
3 And again they said, Alleluia And her smoke rose up forever and ever.
4 And the four and twenty elders and the four beasts fell down and worshipped God that sat on the throne, saying, Amen; Alleluia.
5 And a voice came out of the throne, saying, Praise our God, all you his servants, and you that fear him, both small and great.
6 And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thundering, saying, Alleluia: for the LORD God omnipotent reigns.
7 Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honor to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife has made herself ready.
8 And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.
9 And he says unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he says unto me, These are the true sayings of God.
10 And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See you do it not: I Am your fellows-servant, and of your brethren that have the testimony of Jesus [Jehovah’s Salvation manifested as His glory seen in us]: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy [speaking the Truth as God has given it to us].
11 And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he does judge and make war.
12 His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself.
13 And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.
14 And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.
15 And out of his mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treads the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
16 And he has on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, King Of Kings, And LORD Of Lords.
17 And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God;
18 That you may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.
19 And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army.
20 And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
21 And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.

The word sadeh, in 2 Kings 4:39 above, is referring us to its use in Psalms 132:6, there speaking of what was heard (speaking of it) in Ephratah (in Ephrath, in Genesis 35, of Rachel’s birthing a son). The Psalm is also quoted in Acts 2:30, as we are told of it now occurring.

Acts 2
17 And it shall come to pass in the last days [the ‘achariyth], says God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh [as He has]: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy [Speaking this word of Gad as they have received it], and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:
18 And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy [so open your mouths and speak]:
19 And I will show wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke:
20 The sun shall be turned into darkness [the church now seen as without this understanding], and the moon into blood [civil government, lacking the same, now draining the life from those they tyrannically rule], before the great and notable day of the LORD come [when your mouths are opened]:
21 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name [His identity] of the LORD shall be saved.
22 You men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as you yourselves also know:
23 Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:
24 Whom God has raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.
[Hebrews 6:4 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, 5 And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, 6 If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame. 7 For the earth which drinks in the rain that comes oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs {‘owrah – understanding as light} meet for them by whom it is dressed, receives blessing from God: 8 But that which bears thorns and briers {piercing misleaders} is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned. 9 But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.]
25 For David speaks concerning him [concerning His presence manifested and declared], I foresaw the LORD always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved:
26 Therefore did my heart rejoice, and my tongue [when I spoke as commanded] was glad; moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope:
27 Because you will not leave my soul [here] in hell, neither will you suffer your Holy One to see corruption.
28 You have made known to me the ways of life; you shall make me full of joy with your countenance [Your presence revealed].
29 Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulcher is with us unto this day.
30 Therefore being a prophet [speaking through Psalms 132], and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne;
31 He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption.
32 This Jesus has God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses. [speaking of what was heard in Ephrath, Genesis 35:17 saying, “Fear not; you shall have this son also.”]
33 Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he has shed forth this, which you now see and hear.
34 For David is not ascended into the heavens: but he says himself, The LORD [Jehovah] said unto my LORD [‘adown], Sit you on my right hand,
35 Until I make your foes your footstool.
36 Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God has made the same Jesus, whom you have crucified, both LORD [‘adown] and Christ.

Genesis 35
15 And Jacob called the name of the place where God spake with him, Bethel [the house, family, of God].
16 And they journeyed from Bethel; and there was but a little way to come to Ephrath [the ruin upon which come the second blessing]: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labor.
17 And it came to pass, when she was in hard labor, that the midwife said unto her, “Fear not; you shall have this son also.”

Psalms 132
1 LORD, remember David, and all his afflictions:
2 How he swore unto the LORD, and vowed unto the mighty God of Jacob;
3 Surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house, nor go up into my bed;
4 I will not give sleep to my eyes, or slumber to my eyelids,
5 Until I find out a place for the LORD, a habitation for the mighty God of Jacob.
6 Lo, we heard of it at Ephratah: we found it in the fields of the wood.
7 We will go into his tabernacles: we will worship at his footstool.
8 Arise, O LORD, into your rest; you, and the ark of your strength.
9 Let your priests be clothed with righteousness; and let your saints shout for joy.
10 For your servant David’s sake turn not away the face of your anointed.
11 The LORD has sworn in truth unto David; he will not turn from it; Of the fruit of your body will I set upon your throne.
12 If your children will keep my covenant and my testimony that I shall teach them, their children shall also sit upon your throne for evermore.
13 For the LORD has chosen Zion; he has desired it for his habitation.
14 This is my rest for ever: here will I dwell; for I have desired it.
15 I will abundantly bless her provision: I will satisfy her poor with bread.
16 I will also clothe her priests with salvation: and her saints shall shout aloud for joy.
17 There will I make the horn of David to bud: I have ordained a lamp [this understanding that shows the LORD’s way to us] for my anointed.
18 His enemies will I clothe with shame: but upon himself shall his crown flourish.

The son is again born into this time “far off,” and is clothed with the LORD’s righteousness as light, ascending to the promised throne. These are all now past tense.

Psalms 139
1 O LORD, you have searched me, and known me.
2 You know my down-sitting and my uprising, you understand my thought afar off [rachowq – ra’ choq, this time when the world is ruled by evil decree].
3 You compass my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways.
4 For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, you know it altogether.
5 You have beset me behind and before, and laid your hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.
7 Whither shall I go from your spirit? or whither shall I flee from your presence [paniym]?
8 If I ascend up into heaven, you are there: if I make my bed [and sleep] in hell, behold, you are there.
9 If I take the wings of the morning [if I rise into heaven with the coming of Your light and this new day], and dwell in the uttermost parts [‘achariyth] of the sea [this generation in these last days of darkness];
10 Even there shall your hand lead me, and your right hand shall hold me.
11 If I say, Surely the darkness [ignorance of your presence] shall cover me [and all the earth]; even the night shall be light [‘owr] about me [giving me understanding of the condition and the path to escape it].
12 Yea, the darkness hides not from you; but the night shines [‘owr] as the day: the darkness and the light [‘owrah] are both alike to you.
13 For you have possessed my reins: you have covered me in my mother’s womb [hidden me there until this birth].
14 I will praise you; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvelous are your works; and that my soul knows right well.
15 My substance was not hid from you, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth [here in hell].
16 Your eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in your book all my members were written, which in continuance [as Your word effectually worked to bring my dead body back to life] were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.
17 How precious also are your thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!
18 If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake [to life], I Am still with you.
19 Surely you will slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, you bloody men.
20 For they speak against you wickedly, and your enemies take your name in vain.
21 Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate you? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against you?
22 I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them my enemies.
23 Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
24 And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city! She obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in the LORD; she drew not near to her God.

9 – 11 September 2023

Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city! She obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in the LORD; she drew not near to her God.

The above, Zephaniah 3:1 & 2, is the final “woe,” when correction has come by the LORD’s long-suffering and had no effect on the incorrigibly wicked.

Revelation 12
7 And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,
8 And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven [no longer looking to the deceivers to report truth: knowing there is no truth in them].
9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceived the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels [his evil messengers, reporting known lies and false accusations] were cast out with him.
10 And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.
11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.
12 Therefore rejoice, you heavens, and you that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knows that he hath but a short time.
13 And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child.
14 And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.
15 And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.
16 And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth [and the blood of those they killed, by their bioweapons, evil prescriptions, and lockdowns, for their evil purposes cried out], and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.
17 And the dragon was wroth with the woman [because she brought forth the man], and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep [obey] the commandments of God, and have the testimony [this word of God they repeat] of Jesus Christ.

The time described above is that spoken of in Daniel 12, when Michael (who is like God) stands, and in the tribulation, the time of Jacob’s trouble (tsarah – the tribulation), “many of them that sleep in the dust [ruin] of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.”

We know this is now, a time of war and not peace, a time to gather to the LORD and not remain scattered.

Jeremiah 30
5 For thus says the LORD; We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace.
6 Ask you now, and see whether a man does travail with child [as My people do to bring forth the son of man]? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness [all are weak and fainting until they bring him forth]?
7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble [tsarah – the tribulation], but he shall be saved out of it.
8 For it shall come to pass in that day, says the LORD of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off your neck, and will burst your bonds, and strangers shall no more serve themselves of him:
9 But they shall serve the LORD their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up unto them.
10 Therefore fear you not, O my servant Jacob, says the LORD; neither be dismayed, O Israel: for, lo, I will save you [the things described hereafter are the causes of the tribulation, which are reversed saving us] from afar [rachowq – from the evil decrees of this time], and your seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be in rest, and be quiet, and none shall make him afraid.
11 For I am with you, says the LORD, to save you [when you know Me]: though I make a full end of all nations [qowy – all who don’t know Me] whither I have scattered you, yet I will not make a full end [kalah] of you: but I will correct you in measure, and will not leave you altogether unpunished.
12 For thus says the LORD, Your bruise is incurable, and your wound is grievous.
13 There is none to plead your cause, that you mayest be bound up: you have no healing medicines [rphu’ak – a key word referring us to its other two uses – see below, this is the cure the enemy prescribes, which is more of the cause, more of their evil misleading and ignorance].
14 All your lovers have forgotten you; they seek you not; for I have wounded you with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the multitude of your iniquity; because your sins were increased.
15 Why cry you for your affliction? your sorrow is incurable for the multitude of your iniquity: because your sins were increased, I have done these things unto you.
16 Therefore all they that devour you [with their open mouths] shall be devoured [by the mouth of the LORD exalted against them]; and all your adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; and they that spoil you shall be a spoil, and all that prey upon you will I give for a prey.
17 For I will restore health [‘aruwkah – a six times used word speaking of our perfection, wholeness in His ONE BODY ] unto you, and I will heal you of your wounds, says the LORD; because they called you an Outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no man seeks after.
18 Thus says the LORD; Behold, I will bring again the captivity of Jacob’s tents, and have mercy on his dwelling-places; and the city shall be built upon her own heap, and the palace shall remain after the manner thereof.
19 And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice [speaking as the mouth of the LORD] of them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small.
20 Their children also shall be as aforetime, and their congregation shall be established before me [paniym – now in My presence], and I will punish [paqad – when I Am known to be here as the Chief Overseer of the earth] all that oppress them.
21 And their [My awakened people’s] nobles shall be of themselves, and their governor shall proceed from the midst of them; and I will cause him to draw near, and he shall approach unto me: for who is this that engaged his heart to approach unto me? says the LORD.
22 And you shall be my people, and I will be your God.
23 Behold, the whirlwind of the LORD [from where His voice is heard] goes forth with fury, a continuing whirlwind: it shall fall with pain upon the head of the wicked.
24 The fierce anger of the LORD shall not return, until he hath done it, and until he has performed the intents of his heart: in the latter days [‘achariyth – these last days] you shall consider [biyn – understand] it.

In the following chapters, we read of the work that brings the foretold health, using the word ‘aruwkah. The first of these is 2 Chronicles 24:13, where (with the word ‘alah, meaning to rise) it is rendered “perfection.”

2 Chronicles 24
4 And it came to pass after this, that Joash [Jehovah has given] was minded to repair the house of the LORD.
5 And he gathered together the priests and the Levites [joined with the LORD], and said to them, Go out unto the cities of Judah, and gather of all Israel money to repair the house of your God from year to year, and see that you hasten the matter. Howbeit the Levites hastened it not.
6 And the king called for Jehoiada [who knows the identity of Jehovah] the chief [Overseer], and said unto him, Why hast you not required of the Levites to bring in out of Judah and out of Jerusalem the collection [gathering all God’s people into His ONE BODY], according to the commandment of Moses the servant of the LORD, and of the congregation of Israel, for the tabernacle of witness [to send forth this word of God as commanded]?
7 For the sons of Athaliah [afflicted by Jehovah], that wicked woman, had broken up [scattered the LORD’s people] the house of God; and also all the dedicated things of the house of the LORD did they bestow upon Baalim [the men they’ve made the idols of this world, which they put in God’s place: the erroneous teaching and preaching words and ways created by them].
8 And at the king’s commandment they made a chest [‘arown – the ark of the testament], and set it without at the gate of the house of the LORD.
9 And they made a proclamation through Judah and Jerusalem, to bring in to the LORD the collection [mas’eth – words as a rising flame] that Moses the servant of God laid upon Israel in the wilderness.
10 And all the princes and all the people rejoiced, and brought in, and cast into the chest, until they had made an end [kalah – a full end of these idols].
11 Now it came to pass, that at what time the chest was brought unto the king’s office by the hand of the Levites, and when they saw that there was much money [these treasures of God outside the corrupt houses], the king’s scribe and the high priest’s officer came and emptied the chest, and took it, and carried it to his place again. Thus they did day by day, and gathered money [these treasures] in abundance.
12 And the king and Jehoiada gave it to such as did the work of the service of the house of the LORD, and hired masons and carpenters to repair the house of the LORD, and also such as wrought iron and brass to mend the house of the LORD.
13 So the workmen wrought, and the work was perfected [‘aruwkah ‘alah – and God’s people were healed and raises] by them, and they set the house of God in his state, and strengthened it [with understanding from His mouth].

Nehemiah 4
7 But it came to pass, that when Sanballat [whose strength is deception], and Tobiah [who say they are doing good for the LORD], and the Arabians [who are enemies mixed among us], and the Ammonites [who scatter God’s people], and the Ashdodites [who the LORD will destroy], heard that the walls [understanding – truth that protects them from enemies] of Jerusalem were made up [‘aruwkah ‘alah – were receiving health and rising], and that the breaches [their scattering] began to be stopped, then they were very wroth,
8 And conspired all of them together to come and to fight against [God’s people – New Heavenly] Jerusalem, and to hinder it.
9 Nevertheless we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.
10 And Judah [the leaders of God’s people] said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and there is much rubbish [‘aphar – ashes of ruin]; so that we are not able to build the wall.
11 And our adversaries said, They shall not know, neither see, till we come in the midst among them, and slay them, and cause the work to cease.
12 And it came to pass, that when the Jews which dwelt by them came, they said unto us ten times, From all places whence you shall return unto us they will be upon you.
13 Therefore set I in the lower places behind the wall, and on the higher places, I even set the people after their families with their swords, their spears, and their bows.
14 And I looked, and rose up, and said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, Be not you afraid of them: remember the LORD, which is great and terrible, and fight for your brethren, your sons, and your daughters, your wives, and your houses.
15 And it came to pass, when our enemies heard that it was known unto us, and God had brought their counsel to naught, that we returned all of us to the wall, every one unto his work.

Isaiah 58
6 Is not this the fast [to abstain from the evil counsel of the wicked mixed among you] that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke?
7 Is it not to deal your bread [the word from the mouth of the LORD, which they have not known] to the hungry, and that you bring the poor [those without worldly power into My ONE BODY] that are cast out to your house? when you sees the naked [without protection from the evil elements of the world], that you cover him [with My words]; and that you hide not yourself from your own flesh?
8 Then shall your light [understanding] break forth as the morning [a new day for the earth], and your health [‘aruwkah] shall spring forth speedily: and your righteousness shall go before you; the glory of the LORD [His presence revealed in you] shall be your reward.
9 Then shall you call, and the LORD shall answer; you shall cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If you take away from the midst of you the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity [your own worthless words];
10 And if you draw out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall your light rise in obscurity, and your darkness be as the noon day:
11 And the LORD shall guide you continually, and satisfy your soul in drought, and make fat your bones: and you shall be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
12 And they that shall be of you shall build the old waste places: you shall raise up the foundations of many generations; and you shall be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.

Jeremiah 8
1 At that time, says the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves [qeber – the tombs where their dead bodies are kept]:
2 And they shall spread them before the sun [the church they’ve corrupted], and the moon [civil government also totally darkened and draining the life of those they tyrannically rule], and all the host of heaven [all God’s people at large], [their Father’s wife] whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.
3 And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places whither I have driven them, says the LORD of hosts.
4 Moreover you shall say unto them, Thus says the LORD; Shall they fall [away to these misleaders], and not arise? shall he turn away [from their LORD], and not return?
5 Why then is this people of Jerusalem slid back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return [to this truth by My correction].
6 I hearkened and heard, but they spoke not aright: no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? everyone turned to his course, as the horse rushes into the battle [under the men taking them there].
7 Yea, the stork in the heaven knows her appointed times [mow’ed]; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe [shamar – obey] the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.
8 How do you say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain.
9 The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them?
10 Therefore will I give their wives [those who followed them] unto others, and their fields to them [that do obey the LORD’s commands] that shall inherit them: for every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness [they judge their success by their worldly wealth, knowing not that they are without heavenly treasure], from the prophet even unto the priest every one [is puffed up, swelled with pride, and] deals falsely.
11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace [they sit still while they enemies are among them warring against their bodies and minds: life, liberty, and property].
12 Were they ashamed when they [these misleaders] had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation [pquddah – now when the LORD has come as the Chief Overseer of the earth] they shall be cast down, says the LORD.
13 I will surely consume them [with this word from My mouth], says the LORD: there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and the things that I have given them shall pass away from them [as it is occurring before their eyes, they see it and know it, but those they follow lead them into sitting still].
14 Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defensed cities [the places that hear and obey the voice of the LORD, who have joined His ONE BODY, and subordinate their will to His good leadership], and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God has put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.
15 We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble!
16 The snorting of his horses [under misleaders running into the battle against us] was heard from Dan [which is the judgment of God, as He warned and all have forgotten]: the whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones [the communists joined with the wicked in power]; for they are come, and have devoured the land, and all that is in it; the city, and those that dwell therein.
17 For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you [whose venom is in their mouths speaking nothing except lies, yet their army follows them, and their known lies, because of the enmity], which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, says the LORD.
18 When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me.
19 Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a far country [merchaq – this appointed time the LORD decreed]: Is not the LORD in Zion? is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with strange vanities [worthless ways far from God]?
20 The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.
21 For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black [my people chose death and remain blind to the LORD’s presence, while claiming they are wise and see everything]; astonishment has taken hold on me [the dead body of Christ].
22 Is there no balm in Gilead [in this testimony]; is there no physician there? why then is not the health [‘aruwkah] of the daughter of my people recovered?

Friends, this word isn’t going to be heard from the prominent and wise of this world. They reject it because they are ashamed of those from whom it is heard.

1 Corinthians 1
19 For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.
20 Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
21 For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
22 For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:
23 But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness;
24 But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.
25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
26 For you see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:
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.
30 But of him are you in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:
31 That, according as it is written [in Jeremiah 9:24], He that glorieth, let him glory in [that he understands and knows] the LORD.

Jeremiah 9
20 Yet hear [shama’ – obey] the word of the LORD, O you women [teachers], and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbor lamentation.
21 For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets.
22 Speak, Thus say the LORD, Even the carcasses of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman, and none shall gather them.
23 Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches:
24 But let him that glories glory in this, that he understands and knoweth me, that I am the Lord which exercises lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, say the LORD.

The following, ending with Ephesians 3, are excerpts from the post of 13 – 14 August 2023 (with additions in double brackets).

Thus says the LORD; If you can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season; 

In the above, Jeremiah 33:20, the LORD speaks of what is written in Genesis 1, the time of light and darkness covering His people. In the latter, He tells of the great lights in heaven: the sun and moon representing church and state governments (places where understanding, light, should be and from there propagated). He is speaking of the times when it (light) is and isn’t there, as seasons that have inseparably continued throughout history. When (light is) therein, they’ve (obtaining the consent of the governed) produced great empires, which in prosperity (forgetting and abandoning the light) vile men lusting for wealth (perverse gratification) rose to power, beginning demagogues and ending tyrants (as in the present darkness). 

In this circuit of time, beginning and ending ages, there is always another season to follow, as the LORD promised. This generation finds itself in the darkest of times, amid another night, covering the world in its shadow of death. The promise (the unbreakable covenant) the LORD made with His people, those who trust (have faith) in Him, is He will rise as light in the darkness, and from the event shall come a new day (“world without end, Amen”).

Speaking of this moment, the ‘achariyth, these last days of darkness, the rescue that comes in this time of Jacob’s trouble, is foretold (from the mouth of the LORD) in the passage surrounding the title. 

Jeremiah 33
14 Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will perform that good thing which I have promised unto the house of Israel and to the house of Judah.
15 In those days, and at that time, will I cause the Branch of righteousness to grow up unto David; and he shall execute judgment and righteousness in the land [‘erets].
16 In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely: and this is the name wherewith she shall be called, The LORD our righteousness.
17 For thus says the LORD; David shall never want a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel;
18 Neither shall the priests the Levites want a man before me to offer burnt offerings, and to kindle meat offerings, and to do sacrifice continually.
19 And the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah, saying,
20 Thus says the LORD; If you can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season;
21 Then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers.
22 As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites that minister unto me.
23 Moreover the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying,
24 Consider you not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which the LORD has chosen, he has even cast them off? thus they have despised my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.
25 Thus says the LORD; If my covenant be not with day and night, and if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth [‘erets];
26 Then will I cast away the seed of Jacob and David my servant, so that I will not take any of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity [by My good spell: this gospel that will captivate those of sound mind] to return, and have mercy on them.

The chapter, Jeremiah 33, begins with the LORD, as the Creator, telling us to call upon Him (having faith) and He will answer, showing “you great and mighty things, which you know not.”

Jeremiah 33
1 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah the second time, while he was yet shut up in the court of the prison [as I Am also a prisoner for the LORD’s sake, concerning His people], saying,
2 Thus says the LORD the maker thereof [the earth and all therein], the LORD that formed it, to establish it; the LORD is his name;
3 Call unto me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you know not.
4 For thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are thrown down by the mounts [by the siege engines of the enemy], and by the sword;
5 They [the leaders of God’s people] come to fight with the Chaldeans [those using their words as weapons of war against us], but it is to fill them with the dead bodies of men [those who are among God’s people exalting there words and ways above His, to keep their power over them], whom I have slain in my anger and in my fury, and for all whose [blinding] wickedness I have hid my face from this city.
6 Behold, I will bring it health [[‘aruwkah]] 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 an habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down.
13 In the cities of the mountains, in the cities of the vale, and in the cities of the south, and in the land of Benjamin [this nation that is My right hand], and in the places about [Heavenly New] Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah [the new crop of Godly leaders], shall the flocks pass [‘abar – shall Passover from death into life] again under the hands of him that tells them, says the LORD.

As we’ve often discussed, the word rendered “tells” is the twenty-eight times used Hebrew word manah, meaning “to weigh out; by implication, to allot or constitute officially; also to enumerate or enroll:–appoint, count, number, prepare, set, tell.” It (manah) here speaks of my authority, vested in me by The Almighty, to officially constitute this new heaven, earth, and His new nation: His kingdom on earth. The only people who will have a problem with His doing so are those who have always resisted Him (they choose darkness because their deeds are evil).

(And for those asking what I want or have asked for, the answer is nothing. I Am what and where I Am supposed to be, already seated with all I need. Thank You, LORD. Amen!) 

The quote above, “world without end,” appears twice in the written word of God, first in Isaiah 45:17 and then in Ephesians 3:21.

Isaiah 45
1 Thus says the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus [an appellative speaking the king who is the LORD in the furnace with us], whose right hand I have held, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates [out of hell into his kingdom]; and the gates shall not be shut;
2 I will go before you, and make the crooked places straight [the polluted pure]: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:
3 And I will give you the treasures of darkness [hidden in men’s ignorance], and hidden riches of secret place [these treasures from the LORD’s treasure houses in the clouds], that you mayest know that I, the LORD, which call you by your name [your real identity], am the God of Israel [which I named and called you by].
4 For Jacob my servant’s sake, and Israel my elect, I have even called you by your name: I have surnamed you, though you have not known me.
5 I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded you, though you have not known me [as it has been until these last days]:
6 That they may know from the rising of the sun [the light of this new day], and from the west [its shining into the darkness that was covering the earth], that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else.
7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil [the misleaders against whom My righteousness is contrasted]: I the LORD do all these things.
8 Drop down, you heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open [her mouth], and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I the LORD have created it.
9 Woe unto him that strives with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds [worthless vessels created of the earth]. Shall the clay say to him that fashioned it, What make you? or your work, He has no hands?
10 Woe unto him that says unto his father, What begot you? or to the woman, What have you brought forth?
11 Thus says the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands command you me.
12 I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out [this exposition, the firmament of] the heavens, and all their host have I commanded.
13 I have raised him [I Am] up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let go my captives, not for price nor reward, says the LORD of hosts [I Am who is a man of war].
14 Thus says the LORD, The labor of Egypt [mitsrayim – two {double} straits, oppression, which the LORD said {in Matthew 7:13 &14} must be avoided as we navigate the way into His kingdom], and merchandise of Ethiopia [men covered in darkness] and of the Sabeans [drunken with power and thereby become without right reasoning], men of stature, shall come over unto you, and they shall be yours: they shall come after you; in chains [restrained by My law] they shall come over, and they shall fall down unto you, they shall make supplication unto you, saying, Surely God is in you; and there is none else, there is no [other] God.
15 Truly you are a God that hides yourself [as You walk among the ignorant], O God of Israel, the Savior.
16 They shall be ashamed, and also confounded [kalam], all of them: they shall go to confusion [klimmah] together that are makers of idols.
17 But Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting salvation: you shall not be ashamed nor confounded [kalam] world without end.
18 For thus says the LORD that created the heavens [the place where full understand resides]; God himself that formed the [old that became without form, and void – now made new] earth [wherein dwells righteousness] and made it; he has established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else.
19 I have not spoken in secret [but right here in the open sight of those only blinded by their own corrupted minds], in a dark place [to those so ignorant and proud that they will never see] of the earth: I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek you me in vain: I the LORD speak righteousness, I declare things that are right [by which the good seed comes to life].
20 Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together [into the LORD’s ONE BODY], you that are escaped of the nations [all those who haven’t known the LORD]: they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image [the idols they’ve created, even calling them by My name], and pray unto a god that cannot save.
21 Tell you, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together: who has declared this from ancient time [qedem – see Isaiah 51:9]? who has told it from that time [the word here is miyn {with affinity to min} which speak of the beginning of the species: king]? have not I the LORD? and there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Savior; there is none beside me.
22 Look unto me [as the fiery serpent was lifted by Moses in the wilderness], and be you saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.
23 I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.
24 Surely, shall one say, in the LORD have I righteousness and strength: even to him shall men come; and all that are incensed [zealous for their ignorance] against him shall be ashamed [when this end comes and they find themselves to have wrestled with the word of God into their own perishing].
25 In the LORD shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory.

Ephesians 3
1 For this cause I Paul [Timothy], the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles,
2 If you have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward:
3 How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words,
4 Whereby, when you read, you may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ)
5 Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit [His working unknown to reveal Himself in us through us];
6 That the Gentiles [those who don’t truly know Him, even the sleeping dead that think they do] should be fellow heirs, and of the same [ONE] body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel:
7 Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power.
8 Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;
9 And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world has been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ:
10 To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God,
11 According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our LORD:
12 In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him.
13 Wherefore I desire that you faint not at my tribulations for you, which is your glory.
14 For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our LORD Jesus Christ,
15 Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named,
16 That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;
17 That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love,
18 May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;
19 And to know the love of Christ, which passes knowledge, that you might be filled with all the fulness of God.
20 Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,
21 Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.

The places where the LORD further speaks of the evil prescriptions (rphu’ah) of the wicked, are Jeremiah 46:11 and Ezekiel 30:21.

Jeremiah 46
3 Order you the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle.
4 Harness the horses; and get up, you horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets; furbish the spears, and put on the brigandines.
5 Wherefore have I seen them dismayed and turned away back? and their mighty ones are beaten down, and are fled apace, and look not back: for fear was round about, says the LORD.
6 Let not the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; they shall stumble, and fall toward the north [into darkness] by the river Euphrates [as these blessings flow from the LORD].
7 Who is this that comes up as a flood, whose waters are moved as the rivers?
8 Egypt [the tyrants in power among us] rises up [with deceptive words and evil works] like a flood, and his waters are moved like the rivers; and he says, I will go up, and will cover the earth; I will destroy the city [corrupt Jerusalem] and the inhabitants thereof.
9 Come up, you horses; and rage, you chariots; and let the mighty men come forth; the Ethiopians [those covered in ignorance] and the Libyans, that handle the shield; and the Lydians [who set fire to the earth], that handle and bend the bow.
10 For this is the day of the LORD God of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour, and it shall be satiate and made drunk with their blood: for the LORD God of hosts hath a sacrifice in the north country [those ignorant of their own ignorance] by the river Euphrates [this word of the LORD, from which flows His blessings].
11 Go up into Gilead [rise up against this testimony from His mouth], and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt: in vain shall you use many medicines [rphu’ah – prescribing more of the same deceptions as cure]; for you shall not be cured.
12 The nations have heard of your shame, and your cry hath filled the land: for the mighty man hath stumbled against the mighty, and they are fallen both together.
13 The word that the LORD spoke to Jeremiah the prophet, how Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon [the lies of the false prophets that cause the desolation of the earth] should come and smite the land of Egypt [the tyrants in power].
14 Declare [the Word of God] you in Egypt [against the oppressors], and publish in Migdol [against their high places], and publish in Noph [against their prominent misleaders] and in Tahpanhes [warring against the presence of the LORD, rejecting His mercy in the words from His mouth]: say you, Stand fast, and prepare you; for the sword [this word that should have been your health] shall devour round about you.
15 Why are your valiant men swept away? they stood not, because the LORD did drive them.
16 He made many to fall, yea, one fell upon another: and they said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people, and to the land of our nativity, from the oppressing sword.
17 They did cry there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he hath passed the time appointed [mow’ed].
18 As I live, says the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts, Surely as Tabor is among the mountains, and as Carmel by the sea, so shall he come [their own ways retuned upon them].

Ezekiel 30
1 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus says the LORD God; Howl you, Woe worth the day!
3 For the day is near, even the day of the LORD is near, a cloudy day; it shall be the time of the heathen.
4 And the sword shall come upon Egypt, and great pain shall be in Ethiopia, when the slain shall fall in Egypt, and they shall take away her multitude, and her foundations shall be broken down.
5 Ethiopia, and Libya, and Lydia, and all the mingled people, and Chub, and the men of the land that is in league, shall fall with them by the sword.
6 Thus says the LORD; They also that uphold Egypt shall fall; and the pride of her power shall come down: from the tower of Syene [the high places whose false teaching vails My presence] shall they fall in it by the sword, says the LORD God.
7 And they shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are wasted.
8 And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I have set a fire in Egypt, and when all her helpers shall be destroyed.
9 In that day shall messengers [declaring My presence] go forth from me in ships [the churches] to make the careless Ethiopians [those covered in darkness] afraid, and great pain shall come upon them, as in the day of Egypt: for, lo, it comes.
10 Thus says the LORD God; I will also make the multitude of Egypt to cease by the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon [the lies of the false prophets that caused the desolation of the earth, shall return upon the heads of the tyrants in power].
11 He and his people with him, the terrible of the nations, shall be brought to destroy the land: and they shall draw their swords against Egypt, and fill the land with the slain.
12 And I will make the rivers [of their deceptions] dry, and sell the land into the hand of the wicked: and I will make the land waste, and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I the LORD have spoken it.

18 At Tehaphnehes [those warring against the presence of the LORD, who’ve rejected His mercy] also the day shall be darkened [the light in them shall be understood to be ignorance], when I shall break there the yokes of Egypt: and the pomp of her strength shall cease in her: as for her, a cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall go into captivity.
19 Thus will I execute judgments in Egypt: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
20 And it came to pass in the eleventh year [this time when confusion rules the world], in the first month [of the new creation], in the seventh day [the days of the LORD] of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
21 Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and, lo, it shall not be bound up to be healed [nathan rphu’ah – not given a cure by their evil the prescribe], to put a roller [a bandage – mask: face bandage] to bind it, to make it strong to hold the sword.
22 Therefore thus says the LORD God; Behold, I am against Pharaoh [Brandon, the idiot son of Obama and his husband] king of Egypt, and will break his arms [his strength: forced deception], the strong, and that which was broken; and I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand.

Zephaniah 3
1 Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city!
2 She obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in the LORD; she drew not near to her God.
3 Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.
4 Her prophets are light and treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.
5 The just LORD is in the midst thereof; he will not do iniquity: every morning does he bring his judgment to light, he fails not; but the unjust know no shame.
6 I have cut off the nations: their towers [high places] are desolate; I made their streets waste, that none passes by: their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, that there is none inhabitant.
7 I said, Surely you will fear me, you will receive instruction; so their dwelling should not be cut off, howsoever I punished [paqad – as the Chief Overseer came to] them: but they rose early, and corrupted all their doings.
8 Therefore wait you upon me, says the LORD, until the day that I rise up to the prey: for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them my indignation [za’am], even all my fierce anger: for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.
9 For then will I turn to the people a pure [uncorrupted] language, that they may all call upon the name [identity] of the LORD, to serve him with one consent.
10 From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia [the words that covered God’s people in darkness] my suppliants [who have cried of to Me for help], even the daughter of my dispersed [My scattered Body], shall bring my offering [the knowledge of God, which I desire].
11 In that day shall you not be ashamed for all your doings, wherein you hast transgressed against me: for then I will take away out of the midst of you them that rejoice in your pride, and you shall no more be haughty because of my holy mountain.
12 I will also leave in the midst of you an afflicted and poor people, and they shall trust in the name of the LORD.
13 The remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity, nor speak lies; neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth: for they shall feed and lie down, and none shall make them afraid.
14 Sing, O daughter of Zion; shout [open your mouths I have filled with My word], O Israel; be glad and rejoice with all the heart, O daughter of Jerusalem.
15 The LORD hath taken away your judgments, he hath cast out your enemy: the king of Israel, even the LORD, is in the midst of you: you shall not see evil any more.
16 In that day it shall be said to Jerusalem, Fear you not: and to Zion, Let not your hands be slack.
17 The LORD your God in the midst of you is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over you with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over you with singing.
18 I will gather them that are sorrowful for the solemn assembly, who are of you, to whom the reproach of it was a burden.
19 Behold, at that time I will undo all that afflict you: and I will save her that halted [was lame and went astray], and gather her that was driven out; and I will get them praise and fame in every land where they have been put to shame.
20 At that time will I bring you again, even in the time that I gather you: for I will make you a name and a praise among all people of the earth, when I turn back your captivity before your eyes, says the LORD.

Psalms 94
1 O LORD God, to whom vengeance belongs; O God, to whom vengeance belongs, show yourself.
2 Lift up yourself, you judge of the earth: render a reward to the proud.
3 LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph?
4 How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?
5 They break in pieces your people, O LORD, and afflict your heritage.
6 They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.
7 Yet they say, The LORD shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob regard it.
8 Understand, you brutish among the people: and you fools, when will you be wise?
9 He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?
10 He that chastises the heathen, shall not he correct? he that teaches man knowledge, shall not he know?
11 The LORD knows the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.
12 Blessed is the man whom you chasten, O LORD, and teaches him out of your law;
13 That you mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked.
14 For the LORD will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.
15 But judgment shall return unto righteousness: and all the upright in heart shall follow it.
16 Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? or who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?
17 Unless the LORD had been my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence.
18 When I said, My foot slips; your mercy, O LORD, held me up.
19 In the multitude of my thoughts within me your comforts [the truth into which you have led me] delight my soul.
20 Shall the throne of iniquity [the wicked now in power] have fellowship with you [LORD], which frame mischief by a law [they pervert]?
21 They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.
22 But the LORD is my defense; and my God is the rock of my refuge.
23 And he shall bring upon them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own wickedness; yea, the LORD our God shall cut them off.

It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength.

7 – 8 September 2023

It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength.

The words rendered “the strength of his skin” speak of the members of his, the wicked’s, dead body, and its destruction, by the devouring mouth of the firstborn from the dead. The word here rendered “death” is maveth, meaning “death (natural or violent); concretely, the dead, their place or state (hades [hell]); figuratively, pestilence, ruin.”  

In it (the use of the word maveth), the LORD refers us to it appearing twice, in Isaiah 28:15 & 18, speaking of the above and His presence here to rescue His people from those holding them in death and hell. The chapter begins with the LORD speaking of and to “the crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim;” who are the wicked in power over God’s people in this current generation, who incorrigibly refuse this teaching, precept upon precept, line upon line, which He tells them is the promised rest and refreshing. Because of their refusal, the foretold scourging comes, metaphorically described as water and hail breaking forth upon these wicked misleaders.

The word rendered “firstborn” is bkowr, meaning “firstborn; hence, chief:–eldest (son), firstborn(-ling),” speaking of the Chief Overseer, the ranking member of the LORD’s ONE BODY. This word, the LORD using it, refers us to Jeremiah 31:9, where we’re told it’s Ephraim, God’s people at large in this generation, separated from his wicked leaders, under the LORD’s leading, corrected as one unaccustomed to the yoke, joined in His work with Him, so all will know Him when He thereby writes His word into their minds.

Isaiah 28 
1 Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim [God’s people in this generation], whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat [shemem – which is the LORD’s anointing when they are brought down] valleys of them that are overcome with wine [and are thereby unaware of it coming]!
2 Behold, the LORD [‘Adonay – the King of kings] has a mighty and strong one [‘ammiyts – a five-time used word, only appearing one other time in Isaiah; Isaiah 40:26 saying, “Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who has created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calls them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong {‘ammiyts} in power; not one fails.”], which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing [see verse 21 below, which brings calm to the sea], shall cast down [nuwach – bring rest] to the earth with the hand.
3 The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet [as if by great hailstones from heaven]:
4 And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat [shemem – when their mocking {blashemy} proclaims the King, when they are brought down by their own ignorance] valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer; which when he that looks upon it sees, while it is yet in his hand he eats it up.
5 In that day shall the LORD [Jehovah] of hosts [manifested in His man of war] be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem [tsphiyrah – a crowning as the mourning] of beauty, unto the residue [sh’ar – the elect remnant spoken of in Isaiah 10] of his people,
6 And for a spirit of judgment to him that sits in judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate.
7 But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
8 For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.
9 Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine [shmuw’ah – hearing the voice of Jehovah – the rumor of Ezekiel 7:26]? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts [who now draw from the Ancient of days].
10 For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:
11 For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak [truth they don’t understand] to this people.
12 To whom he said, This is the rest [mnuwchah – resting place, in heaven, in the LORD’s presence, in full understanding] wherewith you may cause the weary to rest [nuwach – noah, the rest at the end reached]; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.
13 But the word of the LORD [Jehovah] was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD [Jehovah], you scornful men [mockers and blasphemers vilifying this word and work of God: in and through the Paraclete, the Holy Ghost the world doesn’t know], that [without justice] rule this people which is in [New Heavenly] Jerusalem.
15 Because you have [ignorantly] said, We have made a covenant with death [maveth], and with hell [sheol – the habitation of the dead] are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus says the LORD GOD [‘Adonay Jehovih – KING of kings and LORD of lords], Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believes shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death [maveth] shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell [sheol] shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then you shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goes forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report [shmuw’ah – the sound doctrine, teaching, and the rumor of Ezekiel 7:26, which is the voice of Jehovah heard].
20 For the bed is shorter than that a [sleeping] man can stretch himself on it: and the covering [the lies and falsehoods under which they hide is] narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.
21 For the LORD [Jehovah] shall rise up as in mount Perazim [2 Samuel 5:20 – as water from His throne, breaking forth upon His and David’s enemies], he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon [Joshua 10:10 & 11 – His word reserved {frozen} in heaven, sent as great hailstones upon the wicked: the current corrupt crop sitting in power], that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange [known to no one except Him] act.
22 Now therefore be you not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the LORD GOD [‘Adonay Jehovih – KING of kings and LORD of lords], of hosts [a man of war and Commander, Chief, of the armies of heaven] a consumption [kalah – a full end, as in Daniel 9:27], even determined [charats – decreed, as in Joshua 10:21 saying “And all the people returned to the camp to Joshua {Jesus} at Makkedah {as one flock under one shepherd} in peace: none moved {charats} his tongue against any of the children of Israel.” And 2 Samiel 5:24, the LORD saying to David, “And let it be, when you hear {shama’ – obey} the sound {qowl – the voice} of a going in the tops of the mulberry trees {baka’, from which come bkowr – telling us this is the voice of the “firstborn”}, that then you shall bestir yourself: for then shall the LORD go out before {paniym – His presence will be manifested with, in} you, to smite the host of the Philistines {the enemy army now mixed among you}.”] upon the whole earth.
23 Give you ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech.

As we know, the scourge mentioned above is from the eleven times used word showt, which only appears one other time in Isaiah, in Isaiah 10:26, telling us it’s the end of the LORD’s indignation, in the destruction of the wicked. It’s when, against Midian, all God’s people are called to destroy this existential threat.

Isaiah 10
21 The remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God.
22 For though your people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return: the consumption [killayown – only here and Deuteronomy 28:65 where it is a “falling” eye, as in what these men say they’ve seen, as in Zachariah 14:12] decreed [charats] shall overflow with righteousness.
23 For the LORD God of hosts shall make a consumption [kalah – a full end], even determined [charats], in the midst of all the land.
24 Therefore thus says the LORD God of hosts, O my people that dwell in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian [communists in power]: he shall smite you with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against you, after the manner of Egypt [as tyrants oppressing all God’s people].
25 For yet a very little while, and the indignation [za’am] shall cease, and my anger in their destruction.
26 And the LORD of hosts shall stir up a scourge [showt] for him according to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb [those who trust in their cover of darkness – against who the LORD calls His people as light, mustering them to the battle and final destruction of these enemies among us]: and as his rod was upon the sea, so shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt [and the sea, God’s people at large, will come together again and overthrow them].
27 And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off your shoulder, and his yoke from off your neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing [of the King].

Jeremiah 31
9 They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn [bkowr].
10 Hear the word of the LORD, O you nations, and declare it in the isles [without this word] afar off [merchaq – the LORD’s righteous decrees, declaring the appointed time, the expected end, is reached], and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a [one] shepherd does his [one] flock.
11 For the LORD has redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand of him that was stronger than he.
12 Therefore they shall come and sing [this word of the LORD] in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd [the resulting prosperity]: and their soul shall be as a watered garden [hearing this word of God from this fountain of ONE calling]; and they shall not sorrow any more at all.
13 Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together: for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them [leading them into all truth], and make them rejoice from their sorrow.
14 And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, says the LORD.
15 Thus says the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah [the place of deception and betrayal], lamentation [as in Hinnom], and bitter weeping; Rachel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not [her children are not yet, by her teaching this word of God, born again in these last days].
16 Thus says the LORD; Refrain your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears: for your work shall be rewarded, says the LORD; and they shall come again from the land of the enemy.
17 And there is hope [tiqvah] in your end [‘achariyth – these last days, of which Jacob told His children – see Genesis 49:1], says the LORD, that your children shall come again to their own border [this new nation build upon the ruin of the old].
18 I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; You have chastised [corrected] me, and I was chastised [and by correction became the Father’s born again children], as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn [shuwb] you me, and I shall be turned [shuwb]; for you are the LORD my God.
19 Surely after that I was turned [shuwb], I repented; and after that I was instructed [yada’ – corrected into the knowledge of the Father], I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.
20 Is Ephraim [God’s people in this generation – Rachel’s grandchildren] my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I spoke against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, says the LORD.
21 Set you up waymarks [to show the way], make you high heaps: set your heart toward the highway, even the way [derek] which you went: turn again [shuwb – to the LORD], O virgin of Israel, turn again [shuwb – with the LORD] to these your cities.
22 How long will you go about, O you backsliding daughter? for the LORD has created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man [the flesh from where this word of God is heard].
23 Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As yet they shall use this speech in the land of Judah and in the cities thereof, when I shall bring again their captivity; The LORD bless you, O habitation of justice, and mountain of holiness.
24 And there shall dwell in Judah itself, and in all the cities thereof together, husbandmen, and they that go forth with flocks.
25 For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul.
26 Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet [while sleeping I was strengthened] unto me.
27 Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man, and with the seed of beast.
28 And it shall come to pass, that like as I have watched over them, to pluck up, and to break down, and to throw down, and to destroy, and to afflict; so will I watch over them, to build, and to plant, says the LORD.
29 In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.
30 But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eateth the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge [the children shall no longer suffer because of the deeds of those before them].
31 Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was a husband unto them, says the LORD:
33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, says the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, says the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.

Job 18
5 Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.
6 The light shall be dark [the understanding of the wicked shall be realized to be ignorance] in his tabernacle, and his candle [leading the ignorant in the darkness] shall be put out with him.
7 The steps of his strength [the way of deception] shall be straitened [constrained], and his own counsel [the evil decrees they now prescribe] shall cast him down.
8 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks upon a snare [of which they are ignorant].
9 The gin [calamity] shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him.
10 The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.
11 Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.
12 His strength shall be hungerbitten [none shall swallow his deceptions], and destruction shall be ready at his side.
13 It shall devour the strength of his skin [the members of their evil body]: even the firstborn [bkowr] of death [maveth] shall [awaken to] devour his strength [end their deceptions].
14 His confidence [in their power to deceive] shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors [into perdition].
15 It [destruction] shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
16 His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.
17 His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.
18 He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

The wicked, those whose ways are death, who are now in power, are spoken of in Isaiah 14:28, cryptically described as in the year king Ahaz died (maveth). He goes on to say out of his root shall come an evil serpent (to rule), and this will produce (bear the fruit of) a fiery flying serpent (the One lifted as Moses did the serpent in the wilderness, whose voice is exalted above all others). This one is then called the firstborn (bkowr) of the poor (without worldly power), who, in this time of famine for hearing the word of God, is fed, and this brings rest, in safety, to those in need, and those not fed, the wicked who refuse this word, are slain by their rejection (then as a sword from my mouth).

The name Ahaz is from the word ‘achaz, meaning to take hold (as in epithesses – see the previous post), here speaking of the birth pains of the earth, which bring the fruit, the birth of the firstborn. This death, symbolically of Ahaz’s, is the end of the wickedness that has taken hold of the earth, ending the indignation as the LORD appears to the world. This is later, in Isaiah 25:8, described as the LORD’s victory over death (maveth).

Isaiah 13
6 Howl you; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man’s heart shall melt [the corrupt understanding of the world shall end with the reality of God established]:
8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold [‘achaz] of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travails [to bring forth her firstborn]: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
9 Behold, the day of the LORD comes, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
10 For the stars of heaven [the people of God] and the constellations thereof shall not give their light [their corrupt understanding shall be silenced]: the sun shall be darkened [the church realized to be without understanding] in his [the man, I Am, born from the dead] going forth, and the moon [civil government] shall not cause her light to shine [because they are ignorant and possessed by the devils, misleaders in power – these are symbolized in the following chapter as possessed by Lucifer, the false light, Obama and His minions].
11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness [hubris] of the terrible [the king of terrors].
12 I will make a man [the firstborn of the poor] more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.

Isaiah 14
1 For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.
2 And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in the LAND OF THE LORD for servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.
3 And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall give you rest from your sorrow, and from your fear, and from the hard bondage wherein you were made to serve,
4 That you shall take up this proverb against the king of Babylon [those who now rule the world by their lies and deception, which intentionally demoralized those they first made ignorant], and say, How has the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!
5 The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked, and the scepter of the rulers.
6 He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hinders.
7 The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing [speaking this word of the LORD, restoring sanity into its place of power].
8 Yea, the fir trees rejoice at you, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since you [the wicked who were in power] are laid down, no feller is come up against us.
9 Hell from beneath is moved for you to meet you at your coming: it stirs up the dead for you, even all the chief ones of the earth; it has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
10 All they shall speak and say unto you, Are you also become weak as we? are you become like unto us?
11 Your pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of your viols: the worm is spread under you, and the worms cover you.
12 How are you fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how are you cut down to the ground, which did weaken the nations!
13 For you have said in your heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the Most High.
15 Yet you shall be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
16 They that see you shall narrowly look upon you, and consider you, saying, Is this the man [Obama] that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;
17 That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?
18 All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house.
19 But you are cast out of your grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcass trodden under feet.
20 You shall not be joined with them in burial, because you have destroyed your land, and slain your people: the seed of evildoers [as all history shall remember you] shall never be renowned.
21 Prepare slaughter for his children [his ilk in control of our government] for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.
22 For I will rise up against them, says the LORD of hosts, and cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant, and son, and nephew, says the LORD.
23 I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, says the LORD of hosts.
24 The LORD of hosts has sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:
25 That I will break the Assyrian [the communists] in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders.
26 This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth: and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations.
27 For the LORD of hosts has purposed, and who shall disannul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?
28 In the year that king Ahaz died [maveth] was this burden [when the birth pains end, and the Church brings forth her firstborn from the dead].
29 Rejoice not you, whole Palestina [invading army mixed among us], because the rod of him that smote you is broken: for out of the serpent’s root [the devil’s seed] shall come forth a cockatrice [Lucifer, in the person of Obama], and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent [the son of man who is lifted as a serpent against serpents, and all who look to him shall live – I Am the son of man].
30 And the firstborn [bkowr] of the poor shall feed [on butter and honey, and thereby know to refuse evil and choose good], and the needy [who look to me] shall lie down in safety: and I will kill your root [of the wicked misleaders] with famine [self-inflicted by refusing to obey this word], and he [the LORD alive in me] shall slay your [evil] remnant [of Satan].
31 Howl, O gate; cry, O city; you, whole Palestina [the evil army mixed among us], are dissolved: for there shall come from the north a smoke, and none shall be alone in his appointed times.
32 What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation [those who haven’t known the LORD or understood His way]? That the LORD has founded Zion, and the poor of his people shall trust in it.

The following, ending with Psalms 40, is from the post of 27 – 28 July 2023 (with addition in double brackets).

Isaiah 25
1 O LORD, you are my God; I will exalt you, I will praise your name; for you have done wonderful things; your counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.
2 For you have made of a city a heap; of a defensed city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.
3 Therefore shall the strong people glorify you, the city of the terrible nations shall fear you.
4 For you have been a strength [understanding] to the poor [those without power], a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.
5 You shall bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low.
6 And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.
7 And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the vail that is spread over all nations.
8 He will swallow up death [[meveth]] in victory; and the LORD God will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD has spoken it.
9 And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.
10 For in this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest, and Moab [the gates of hell: the open mouths of wicked men] shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down for the dunghill.
11 And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that swims spreads forth his hands to swim [dividing the waters, to stay above them]: and he shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their hands.
12 And the fortress of the high fort of your walls shall he bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust.

As we know from previous discussions, the “cover” (from the once used word lowt) “cast over” (from the three times used word luwt) all people, which the LORD removes, refer us to the other two times luwt appears.

In the first, 1 Samuel 22:9, it’s the “wrapping” David removes from the sword he took from Goliath, with which he cut off his head. The sword is then, in the following verses, revealed to be deception, which causes David’s enemies to disregard him.

1 Samuel 21
9 And the priest said, The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you slew in the valley of Elah, behold, it is here wrapped [luwt] in a cloth behind the ephod: if you will take that, take it: for there is no other save that here. And David said, There is none like that; give it me.
10 And David arose and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish the king of Gath.
11 And the servants of Achish said unto him, Is not this David the king of the land? did they not sing one to another of him in dances, saying, Saul has slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands?
12 And David laid up these words in his heart, and was sore afraid of Achish [“I will blacken” hide myself in there ignorance, so they think I AM “only a man”] the king of Gath [“winepress,” as I come as judgment].
13 And he changed his behavior before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down upon his beard.
14 Then said Achish unto his servants, Lo, you see the man is mad: wherefore then have you brought him to me?
15 Have I need of mad men, that you have brought this fellow to play the mad man in my presence? shall this fellow come into my house?

The other use (of luwt) comes in 1 Kings 19:13, when Elijah (Jehovah is God) “wrapped” his face (paniym – presence) in his mantle (covering God’s glory in him), which (mantle) he later cast upon Elisha (God is Salvation).

Jeremiah 50
24 I have laid a snare for you, and you are also taken, O Babylon, and you were not aware: you are found, and also caught, because you have strived against the LORD.
25 The LORD has opened his armory, and has brought forth the weapons of his indignation [za’am]: for this is the work of the LORD God of hosts in the land of the Chaldeans [against those who’ve used their words to manipulate humanity into hell].
26 Come against her from the utmost border [qets – this full end], open her storehouses: cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly: let nothing of her be left.
27 Slay all her bullocks [those doing this work of misleading into hell]; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation [pquddah – now, when I Am here as the Chief Overseer of the earth].
28 The voice of them that flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to [open their mouth and] declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, the vengeance of his temple.
29 Call together the archers against Babylon: all you that bend the bow, camp against it round about; let none thereof escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she has done, do unto her: for she has been proud against the LORD, against the Holy One of Israel.
30 Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all her men of war shall be cut off in that day, says the LORD.
31 Behold, I am against you, O you most proud, says the LORD God of hosts: for your day is come, the time that I will visit you.
32 And the most proud shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up: and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all round about him.
33 Thus says the LORD of hosts; The children of Israel and the children of Judah were oppressed together: and all that took them captives held them fast; they refused to let them go.
34 Their Redeemer is strong; the LORD of hosts [a man of war] is his name [My identity]: he shall thoroughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the land, and disquiet [raqaz – pour His anger upon] the inhabitants of Babylon.
35 A sword [of David] is upon the Chaldeans, says the LORD, and upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise men.
36 A sword is upon the liars; and they shall dote: a sword is upon her mighty men; and they shall be dismayed.
37 A sword is upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the mingled people that are in the midst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword is upon her treasures; and they shall be robbed.
38 A drought is upon her waters; and they shall be dried up: for it is the land of graven images, and they are mad [become insane] upon their idols.
39 Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild beasts of the islands shall dwell there, and the owls shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited forever; neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.
40 As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor cities thereof, says the LORD; so shall no man abide there, neither shall any son of man dwell therein.
41 Behold, a people shall come from the north [shall come out of ignorance], and a great [new] nation, and many kings shall be raised up from the coasts [the end of the old and corrupt, where their proud waves are stayed, beginning the new] of the earth.
42 They shall hold the bow and the lance: they are cruel, and will not show mercy: their voice shall roar like the sea, and they shall ride upon horses, everyone put in array, like a man to the battle, [as My awakened army] against you, O daughter of Babylon.
43 The king of Babylon has heard the report [[shama’ shema’ – understood and obeyed – acted knowing the time is of his end]] of them, and his hands waxed feeble: anguish [[tsarah – tribulation he caused]] took hold [[epithesis]] of him, and pangs as of a woman in travail [fearing what they have brought forth].
44 Behold, he [the LORD, I Am] shall come up like a lion from [roaring against] the swelling [proud waves] of Jordan [words that carried all in the descent into death] unto the habitation of the strong [in power]: but I will make them [the wicked] suddenly run away from her [My people they have oppressed]: and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint [[paqad – who I will make Chief Overseer]] over her? for who is like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who is that shepherd that will stand before me? [All these are references to Michael, who is like God and stands for God’s people in this time of Jacob’s trouble {{tsarah}}, and Shiloh, who comes as the shepherd and stone of God’s people – the king of peace, and king of righteousness, in the order of Melchizedek]
45 Therefore hear you the counsel of the LORD, that he has taken against Babylon; and his purposes, that he has purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the least of the flock [{{as in Ahasuerus}} “I will be silent and poor {without earthly power}”] shall draw them out: surely he shall make their habitation desolate with them.
46 At the noise [qowl – the LORD’s voice] of the taking of Babylon the earth is moved, and the cry is heard among the nations.

Revelation 18
1 And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened [given understanding] with his glory.
2 And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that you be not partakers of her sins, and that you receive not of her plagues.
5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.
6 Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she has filled fill to her double.
7 How much she has glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she says in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.
8 Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the LORD God who judges her.
9 And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning,
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is your judgment come.

Hebrews 10
12 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God;
13 From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.
14 For by one offering he has perfected forever them that are sanctified.
15 Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before,
16 This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the LORD, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;
17 And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
18 Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.
19 Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,
20 By a new and living way, which he has consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;
21 And having a high priest over the house of God;
22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
23 Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)
24 And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:
25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as you see the day approaching.
26 For if we sin willfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more sacrifice for sins,
27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
28 He that despised Moses’ law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:
29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose you, shall he be thought worthy, who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and has done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
30 For we know him that has said, Vengeance belongs unto me, I will recompense, says the LORD. And again, The LORD shall judge his people.
31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

Psalms 40
1 I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.
2 He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.
3 And he has put a new song [His word] in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD.
4 Blessed is that man that makes the LORD his trust, and respects not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.
5 Many, O LORD my God, are your wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto you: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.
6 Sacrifice and offering you did not desire; my ears have you opened: burnt offering and sin offering have you not required.
7 Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume [mgillah] of the book [cepher] it is written of me,
8 I delight to do your will, O my God: yea, your law is within my heart.
9 I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, you know.
10 I have not hid your righteousness within my heart; I have declared your faithfulness and your salvation: I have not concealed your lovingkindness and your truth from the great congregation.
11 Withhold not you your tender mercies from me, O LORD: let your lovingkindness and your truth continually preserve me.
12 For innumerable evils have compassed me about: my iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of my head: therefore my heart [mind] fails me.
13 Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help me.
14 Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.
15 Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha.
16 Let all those that seek you rejoice and be glad in you: let such as love your salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified.
17 But I am poor and needy; yet the LORD thinketh upon me: you are my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.

Psalms 20 
1 The LORD hear you in the day of trouble [tsarah – the tribulation]; the name [identity] of the God of Jacob defend you;
2 Send you help from the sanctuary, and strengthen you out of Zion;
3 Remember all your offerings, and accept your burnt sacrifice; Selah.
4 Grant you according to your own heart, and fulfill all your counsel.
5 We will rejoice in your salvation, and in the name [identity] of our God we will set up our banners: the LORD fulfill all your petitions.
6 Now know I that the LORD saves his anointed; he will hear him from his holy heaven with the saving strength of his right hand.
7 Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name [identity] of the LORD our God.
8 They [the wicked] are brought down and fallen: but we are risen, and stand upright.
9 Save, LORD: let the king hear us when we call.

Psalms 89
14 Justice and judgment are the habitation of your throne: mercy and truth shall go before your face [paniym – manifest Your presence].
15 Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound [of Your voice]: they shall walk, O LORD, in the light of your countenance [paniym – understanding Your presence].
16 In your name [identity] shall they rejoice all the day: and in your righteousness shall they be exalted.
17 For you are the glory of their strength: and in your favor, our horn shall be exalted.
18 For the LORD is our defense; and the Holy One of Israel is our king.
19 Then you spoke in vision to your holy one, and said, I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people.
20 I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him:
21 With whom my hand shall be established: my arm also shall strengthen him.
22 The enemy shall not exact upon him; nor the son of wickedness afflict him.
23 And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him.
24 But my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him: and in my name [identity] shall his horn [power to rule] be exalted.
25 I will set his hand also in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers.
26 He shall cry unto me, You are my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation.
27 Also I will make him my firstborn [bkowr], higher than the kings of the earth.
28 My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him.
29 His seed also will I make to endure forever, and his throne as the days of heaven.
30 If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments;
31 If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments;
32 Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.
33 Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.
34 My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
35 Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David.
36 His seed shall endure forever, and his throne as the sun before me.
37 It shall be established forever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven. Selah.

I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD sustained me.

3 – 5 September 2023

I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD sustained me.

The above, Psalms 3:5, spiritually speaks of death and from it rising. In this Psalm, it’s David writing when he fled from Absalom, his son who took his place and made himself king. 

The word rendered “sustained” is the forty-eight (6×8, the creation of man) times used Hebrew word camak, meaning “to prop (literally or figuratively); reflexively, to lean upon or take hold of (in a favorable or unfavorable sense).” It speaks of our “confidence” in the “person” of the LORD, which is the “substance” of our faith in what isn’t seen but appears spiritually to our enlightened mind (awakened into life) as He leads us out of darkness (out of our sleep in death). As we’ve seen, the above words in quotation marks are in various places rendered from the Greek word hupostasis, which literally translates to under standing.

Hebrews 1
1 God, who at sundry times [polumeros – only appearing here, meaning “in many portions, i.e. variously as to time and agency (piecemeal)”] and in divers manners [polutropos – also only here, meaning, “in many ways, i.e. variously as to method or form.”] spoke in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,
2 Has in these last days spoken [the LORD speaking here and now] unto us by his Son, whom he has appointed heir of all things [spoken by the many prophets, meant to be perfected as the better thing the Father has prepared for us], by whom also he made the worlds [the old, upon whose ruin he created the current age now ending in total corruption, and is in like manner making the New];
3 Who being the brightness [the understanding of His glory: His manifested presence], and the express image [charakter – the exact copy, “character”] of his person [hupostasis], and upholding all things by the word [carrying the full load of the light] of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high [until now when He again stands with us, in us]:
4 Being made so much better than the angels, as he has by inheritance obtained a more excellent name [identity] than they.

Hebrews 3
14 For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence [hupostasis – person and substance] steadfast unto the end;
15 While it is said, Today if you will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.
16 For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.
17 But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?
18 And to whom swore he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?
19 So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief [a lack of faith in what they heard, thereby not allowing the word to touch and change them, and they, therefore, without understanding, remaining corrupted, wouldn’t obey].

Hebrews 11
1 Now faith is the substance [hupostasis – the confidence] of things hoped for, the evidence of things [the person] not seen.
2 For by it the elders obtained a good report.
3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.
4 By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaks.
5 By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.
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.
7 By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.
8 By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.
9 By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:
10 For he looked for a city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

The word camak is most often used speaking of “laying on” hands (of those benefitting from it) on the sacrifice, which spiritually speaks of our trust (faith) in the LORD’s sacrifice, which transmits to (imposing upon) us the understanding from the Father alive in Him. As we know, this is the love of God, Christian charity manifesting it and His presence with us, in us, paying the price to give as He, to us, freely gave (taking up His cross and following Him, lightly yoked with Him in His work).

This transference only comes after preparation by purification, and subsequently, when what is learned is obeyed and acted upon, it produces perfection (realizing His presence in His correction, then seeing Him, and with His rising in us coming from death to life).

The Greek word speaking of this is the four times used word epithesis, meaning “an imposition (of hands officially):–laying (putting) on.”

When it (epithesis) is first spoken of, in Acts 8:18, it comes after Stephen’s (meaning crown) is killed, spiritually speaking of the united crown (of righteousness) ending with Solomon. In chapter 6, when he (Stephen) is introduced, we’re told those in the synagogue arguing against him, “were not able to resist [satan] the wisdom and the spirit [of the LORD] by which he spoke.” 

Luke 21
12 But before all these [before the tribulation now upon us, they shall corrupt all understanding, by this means imposing upon you an atmosphere {air} of mass delusion – this is the working of Satan, with his lying signs and wounders, that completes the apostacy, the falling away {bringing delusion} that precedes the coming of the LORD to save from perdition all who receive this love of the truth – see 2 Thessalonians 2], they shall lay [epiballo – to throw upon {these things as a snare}] their hands [Satan’s works] on you, and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues, and into prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for my name’s sake [so I can, in you, manifest My presence against their insanity].
13 And it shall turn to you for a testimony.
14 Settle it therefore in your hearts, not to meditate before what you shall answer:
15 For I will give you a mouth [these words] and wisdom, which all your adversaries [those opposing you] shall not be able to gainsay [antepo – refute or deny] nor resist [antistemi – stand against]. 
16 And you shall be betrayed both by parents, and brethren, and kinsfolks, and friends; and some of you shall they cause to be put to death.
17 And you shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake.
18 But there shall not an hair of your head perish.
19 In your patience possess you your souls.

1 Peter 5
6 Humble yourselves therefore [subordinate] under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt [crown you when He reveals His presence in] you in due time:
7 Casting all your care upon him; for he cares [melo] for you.
8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
9 Whom resist [epiballo] steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.
10 But the God of all grace, who has called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that you have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle [themelioo] you.
11 To him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen

The word themelioo, used five other time, means “to lay a basis for, i.e. (literally) erect, or (figuratively) consolidate:–(lay the) found(- ation), ground, settle.” It speaks of the new creation, His ONE BODY, as the foundation of the New heaven and earth He’s creating.

Hebrews 1
8 But unto the Son he says, Your throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a scepter of righteousness is the scepter of your kingdom.
9 You have loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.
10 And, You, LORD, in the beginning have laid the foundation [themelioo] of the earth; and the heavens are the works of your hands:
11 They shall perish; but you remain; and they all shall wax old as does a garment;
12 And as a vesture shall you fold them up, and they shall be changed [allasso]: but you are the same, and your years shall not fail.
13 But to which of the angels said he at any time, Sit on my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool?
14 Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?

Verses 10 thru 12 above are quoted from Psalms 102:25 thru 27, a Psalms that is the prayer of the afflicted, as Peter speaks of above, and the LORD answering here and now, revealing His before hidden (in men’s ignorance) presence.

Psalms 102
1 Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come unto you.
2 Hide not your face from me in the day when I am in trouble [tsar – under the hand of our enemies]; incline your ear unto me: in the day when I call answer me speedily.
3 For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as a hearth.
4 My heart [understanding] is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread [this word You’ve set before us].
5 By reason of the voice of my groaning [speaking your own words] my bones cleave to my skin.
6 I am like a pelican of the wilderness [midbar – the desert, as one without the water by which you live]: I am like an owl [hunting in the darkness] of the desert [chorbah – in a drought].
7 I watch [awakened from my sleep], and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top [looking for others to rise into heaven with me].
8 My enemies reproach me all the day; and they that are mad [sending their insanity] against me are sworn against me.
9 For I have eaten ashes [the ruin of the earth] like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping.
10 Because of your indignation [za’am – anger against the madness destroying My people] and your wrath: for you have lifted me up, and cast me down.
11 My days are like a shadow that declines; and I am withered like grass.
12 But you, O LORD, shall endure forever; and your remembrance unto all generations.
13 You shall arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favor her, yea, the set time, is come.
14 For your servants take pleasure in her stones [Your people You build upon the foundation you laid], and favor the dust thereof [the ruin upon which Your New Creation is built].
15 So the heathen shall fear the name of the LORD, and all the kings of the earth your glory.
16 When the LORD shall build up Zion, he shall appear in his glory.
17 He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer.
18 This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be created shall praise the LORD.
19 For he has looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from heaven did the LORD behold the earth;
20 To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death;
21 [Loosed] To declare the name [identity] of the LORD in Zion, and his praise in Jerusalem;
22 When the people are gathered together [into His ONE BODY], and the kingdoms, to serve the LORD.
23 He weakened my strength in the way; he shortened my days. [Mark 13:20 And except that the LORD had shortened those days, no flesh should be saved: but for the elect’s sake, whom he has chosen, he has shortened the days. 21 And then if any man shall say to you, Lo, here is Christ; or, lo, he is there; believe him not: {because He is in your mouth: alive in You when you speaks this word confessing He is alive and present in you}.]
24 I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days: your years are throughout all generations.
25 Of old [paniym – by Your presence You] have you laid the foundation [yacad – meaning “to set (literally or figuratively); intensively, to found; reflexively, to sit down together, i.e. settle, consult”] of the earth: and the heavens [this full understanding, when realized as your presence] are the work of your hands.
26 They [the wicked who’ve, with confusion, destroyed this understanding, and the old earth and heaven they’ve corrupted] shall perish, but you shall endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shall you change them, and they shall be changed:
27 But you are the same, and your years shall have no end.
28 The children of your servants [who obey and are lightly yoked with You in Your work] shall continue, and their seed shall be established before you.

Colossians 1
1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy [I Am] our brother,
2 To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ which are at Colosse [those who cleave to, are joined with, the LORD, lightly yoked with Him in His work]: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the LORD Jesus Christ.
3 We give thanks to God and the Father of our LORD Jesus Christ, praying always for you,
4 Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which you have to all the saints,
5 For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof you heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel;
6 Which is come unto you, as it is in all the world; and brings forth fruit, as it does also in you, since the day you heard of it, and knew the grace of God in truth:
7 As you also learned of Epaphras [from apano and phrazo – meaning he is, as I Am, the “ranking” member among them “declaring and defining” these same words] our dear fellow-servant, who is for you a faithful minister of Christ;
8 Who also declared unto us your love [agape – giving these words as received] in the Spirit.
9 For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that you might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;
10 That you might walk worthy of the LORD unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
11 Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;
12 Giving thanks unto the Father, which has made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light [who have this same understanding given from the present LORD]:
13 Who has delivered us from the power of darkness [ignorance of His presence], and has translated [methistano – transferred] us into the kingdom of his dear Son:
14 In whom we have redemption through his blood [His sacrifice to deliver the Father’s words and declare He is alive in Him], even the forgiveness of sins:
15 Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:
16 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him [when the crown that is His birthright is returned]:
17 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
18 And he is [I Am the ranking member] the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
19 For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell;
20 And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.
21 And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now has he reconciled
22 In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:
23 If you continue in the faith grounded [themelioo – built upon this foundation] and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which you have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul [Timothy] Am made a minister;
24 Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his [ONE] body’s sake, which is the church:
25 Whereof I [Timothy] Am made a minister, according to the dispensation [oikonomia – “administration (of a household or estate); specially, a (religious) ‘economy'” – by the prophesies given before of me, and the laying on {epithesis} of the hands of the elders] of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God;
26 Even the mystery which has been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints [in who His presence is revealed]:
27 To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:
28 Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus [seeing the Father in the son, His ONE BODY]:
29 Whereunto I also labor, striving according to his working, which works in me mightily.

1 Peter 2
4 To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious,
5 You also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
6 Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Zion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believes on him shall not be confounded.
7 Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner,
8 And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.
9 But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy [New] nation, a peculiar people; that you should show forth the praises of him who has called you out of darkness [ignorance of God] into his marvelous [eye opening] light [understanding];
10 Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
11 Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims [who’ve now reached the day of perfection, in our destination city: New Heavenly Jerusalem], abstain from fleshly lusts [for vain glory], which war against the soul;
12 Having your conversation [anstrophe] honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation [now when He has come as the Chief Overseer, the ranking member of the LORD’s ONE BODY].

These same wicked men who destroyed this crown (spiritually described in Stephen), through who Satan worked and spoke (then as he now does), therefore, because their darkness couldn’t overcome the light in Stephen, “set up false witnesses, which said, ‘This man ceases not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law: For we have heard him say, that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place [the before holy place wherein they replaced God with the abomination that cause their desolation: the self-destruction of the self-deluded], and shall change the customs [with a new and living way, changing the sacrifice that could never remove corruption, into the LORD speaking His salvation, correction, through those He crowned with this honor] which Moses delivered us.'”

In Acts 7, Stephen speaks of the kings the LORD raised to save His people, ending with Solomon, who built Him a house, which became quickly corrupted. He then, quoting from Isaiah 66:1 & 2, tells of the dwelling place (in us) the LORD builds for Himself.

Acts 7 
48 Howbeit the Most High dwells not in temples made with hands; as says the prophet [Isaiah],
49 Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool: what house will you build me? says the LORD: or what is the place of my rest?
50 Has not my hand made all these things?
51 You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears [you are unable to understand or hear Him because you haven’t removed the flesh from you thinking], you do always resist [this is the definition of the word satan] the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do you.
52 Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which showed before of the coming of the Just One [who boldly declared the LORD alive in him]; of whom you have been now the betrayers and murderers:
53 Who have received the law by the disposition of angels [the messengers the LORD sends], and have not kept it.
54 When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth.
55 But he, being full of the Holy Ghost [the LORD in him unknown], looked up steadfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,
56 And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened [this time when understanding has returned], and the Son of man [specific wording referring to now] standing on the right hand of God.
57 Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord,
58 And cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man’s feet, whose name was Saul.
59 And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, LORD Jesus, receive my spirit.
60 And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, LORD, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep.

Saul (Paul’s name before His change and the scales fell from His eyes {see Acts 9:18}, when he was filled with the Holy Spirit, the LORD coming alive in Him) represents those among God’s people unknowingly battling against Him, and against His anointed taking the throne, spiritually as king Saul did to David. 

In Acts, this persecution caused the scattering of the church (except the apostles) away from Jerusalem. What follows is a description of the new and living way: the baptism, the washing away of corruption, into repentance, followed by the apostles (who didn’t leave Jerusalem: the teaching of peace and security that flows directly through them from the LORD), that comes by them (the apostles’) laying on (epithesis) of their hands (the LORD’s work through them).

Acts 8
4 Therefore they that were scattered abroad went every where preaching the word.
5 Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria [where they worship idols put in God’s place and called by His name], and preached Christ unto them.
6 And the people with one accord gave heed unto those things which Philip spoke, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did.
7 For unclean spirits, crying with loud voice, came out of many that were possessed with them: and many taken with palsies [whose minds became feeble and weak], and that were lame [straying from the right way], were healed.
8 And there was great joy [the presence of God with them realized in Phillip] in that city.
9 But there was a certain man, called Simon, which beforetime in the same city used sorcery [mageuo – only used here, meaning magicians, the wise men of the world, false prophets who use their falsely so-called wisdom {lies} to manipulate and control people into doing what they want], and bewitched [existemi – meaning “to put (stand) out of wits, i.e. astound, or (reflexively) become astounded, insane”] the people of Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one [spiritually, all the voices this world follows as idols put in God’s place]:
10 To whom they all gave heed, from the least to the greatest, saying, This man is the great power of God.
11 And to him they had regard, because that of long time he had bewitched [existemi – made them insane, so confused and deluded they can’t tell the difference between their own delusions and reality] them with sorceries [mageia – false teaching and false prophesies].
12 But when they believed Philip preaching the things concerning the kingdom of God, and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized [repentance: turning away from what caused their insanity], both men and women.
13 Then Simon himself believed also: and when he was baptized, he continued with Philip, and wondered, beholding the miracles and signs which were done.
14 Now when the apostles which were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent unto them Peter [the rock that can be trusted] and John [the sign of the end reached]:
15 Who, when they were come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Ghost [the LORD in them]:
16 (For as yet he was fallen upon none of them: only they were baptized [purified of corruption] in the name of the LORD Jesus.)
17 Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost.
18 And when Simon saw that through laying on [epithesis – superimposition of the thesis, the thesauros, the dispensation of these treasures] of the apostles’ hands the Holy Ghost was given, he offered them money,
19 Saying, Give me also this power, that on whomsoever I lay hands, he may receive the Holy Ghost.
20 But Peter said unto him, Your money perish with you, because you have thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money.
21 You have neither part nor lot in this matter: for your heart is not right in the sight of God.
22 Repent therefore of this your wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.
23 For I perceive that you are in the gall of bitterness, and in the bond of [possessed by] iniquity.

The next two times the word epithesis is used it’s as Paul, the LORD in him, speaks to me of it occurring in me.

1 Timothy 4
9 This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation.
10 For therefore we both labor and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God [alive in us], 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 I put away childish things and became the first man born from the dead]; but be you an example of the believers, in word, in conversation [anastrophe], in charity [agape – freely give these treasures as received], in spirit, in faith, in purity.
13 Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.
14 Neglect [amelio] not the gift [this grace and treasure] that is in you, which was given you by prophecy, with the laying on [epithesis] of the hands of the presbytery [the elders, the forefathers, through who the LORD sent this word forward].
15 Meditate upon these things; give yourself wholly to them; that your profiting may appear to all.
16 Take heed unto yourself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this you shall both save yourself, and them that hear you.

The warning, above in verse 14, not to “neglect” these words received (from the five times used word ameleo – meaning “from 1 (as a negative particle) and 3199 [melo – to care]; to be careless of:–make light of, neglect, be negligent, no regard”), refers us to its other warnings (which we’ll look at before continuing to the final two uses of epithesis).

Matthew 5
1 And Jesus answered and spoke unto them again by parables, and said,
2 The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son,
3 And sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not come.
4 Again, he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them which are bidden, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come unto the marriage.
5 But they made light of it [ameleo], and went their ways, one to his farm, another to his merchandise:
6 And the remnant took his servants, and entreated them spitefully, and slew them.
7 But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth: and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.
8 Then says he to his servants, The wedding is ready, but they which were bidden were not worthy.
9 Go you therefore into the highways, and as many as you shall find, bid to the marriage.
10 So those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good: and the wedding was furnished with guests.
11 And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment [light, His understanding – see Psalms 104:2 below]:
12 And he says unto him, Friend, how came you in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless.
13 Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness [ignorance], there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
14 For many are called, but few are chosen.

Hebrews 2
1 Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.
2 For if the word spoken by angels was steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward;
3 How shall we escape, if we neglect [ameleo] so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken [lambano – first taking hold] by the LORD, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him [heard this word as His voice];
4 God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost [the LORD in them working and speaking unknown], according to his own will?
5 For unto the angels has he not put in subjection the world to come, whereof we speak.
6 But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that you are mindful of him? or the son of man that you visit [episkeptomai] him [as the Chief Overseer of the earth]?
7 You made him a little lower than the angels [as we know, the words here in the Hebrew text, from Psalms 8:5, are chacer’ elohiym, meaning he comes lacking the full understanding of God, so, in revealing them in Him, he would be crowned with what he, here in death, lacked]; you crowned him with glory and honor [revealing Your presence and understanding in him, in me, in us], and did set him over the works of your hands:
8 You have put all things [the works of Your hand] in subjection under his feet. For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing that is not [now] put under him. But now we see not yet all things [are already] put under him.
9 But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels [strategically lacking understanding] for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor; that he by the grace [revealing these treasures] of God should taste death for every man [thereby rising from death into life].
10 For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain [the highest ranking member] of their salvation perfect through sufferings.
11 For both he that sanctifies [makes and declares us Holy] and they who are sanctified [made holy] are all of one [BODY]: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,
12 Saying, I will declare your name [Your identity alive in me] unto my brethren, in the midst of the church will I sing praise unto you.
13 And again, I will put my trust in him. And again, Behold I and the children which God has given me.
14 Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;
15 And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

2 Peter 1
8 For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that you shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our LORD Jesus Christ.
9 But he that lacks these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and has forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.
10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if you do these things, you shall never fall:
11 For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our LORD and Savior Jesus Christ.
12 Wherefore I will not be negligent [ameleo] to put you always in remembrance of these things, though you know them, and be established in the [LORD, who is the] present truth.

Hebrews 8
9 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not [ameleo], says the LORD.
10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.

2 Timothy 1
Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus,
2 To Timothy, my dearly beloved son: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our LORD.
3 I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, that without ceasing I have remembrance of you in my prayers night and day;
4 Greatly desiring to see you, being mindful of your tears, that I may be filled with joy;
5 When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in you, which dwelt first in your grandmother Lois [agreement {with God}], and your mother Eunice [good victory]; and I am persuaded that in you also.
6 Wherefore I put you in remembrance that you stir up the gift [the treasures] of God, which is in you by the putting on [epithesis] of my hands.
7 For God has not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
8 Be not you therefore ashamed of the testimony of our LORD, nor of me his prisoner: but be you partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God;
9 Who has saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,
10 But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Savior Jesus Christ [alive in us], who has abolished death, and has brought life and immortality to light [to understanding] through the gospel:
11 Whereunto I am appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles [all who haven’t known Him].
12 For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.
13 Hold fast the form of sound words, which you have heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
14 That good thing which was committed unto you keep by the Holy Ghost [the LORD unknown] which dwelleth in us.

Hebrews 5
8 Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered;
9 And being made perfect [by His obedience], he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;
10 Called of God a high priest after the order of Melchisedec.
11 Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing you are dull of hearing [not yet knowing whose voice you are hearing].
12 For when for the time you ought to be teachers, you have need that one teach you again which be the first principles [stoicheion – bringing together the separated “elements”] of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.
13 For every one that uses milk is unskillful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe [a child who hasn’t yet put away childish things].
14 But strong meat belongs to them that are of full age [by putting away childish things, become men], even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

Hebrews 6
1 Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection [by obedience, knowing and choosing good, long-suffering to finish this work of charity]; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,
2 Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on [epithesis] of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.
3 And this will we do, if God permit.
4 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost [the LORD working and speaking while unknown],
5 And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,
6 If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.
7 For the earth which drinks in the rain that comes oft upon it [as men receive this word from heaven, from the mouth of God], and brings forth herbs [life from the earth] meet [fitting] for them by whom it is dressed, receives blessing from God:
8 But that which bears thorns [misleaders] and briers [deceivers] is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.
9 But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.
10 For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labor of love, which you have shown toward his name, in that you have ministered to the saints, and do minister.
11 And we desire that every one of you do show the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end:
12 That you be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

Psalms 8
1 O LORD, our LORD, how excellent is your name [Your identity] in all the earth! who have set your glory above the heavens.
2 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings have you ordained strength because of your enemies, that you might still the enemy and the avenger.
3 When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have ordained;
4 What is man, that you are mindful of him? and the son of man, that you visit [paqad] him [came as the Chief Overseer of the earth]?
5 For you have made him a little lower [chacer – lacking the full understanding] than the angels [‘elohiym – of God], and have crowned him with glory and honor [by giving me, we, the understanding I, we, strategically lacked].
6 You made him to have dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet:
7 All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;
8 The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passes through the paths of the seas.
9 O LORD our LORD, how excellent is your name [identity known] in all the earth!

Psalms 104
1 Bless the LORD, O my soul. O LORD my God, you are very great; you are clothed with honor and majesty.
2 Who covers yourself with light [understanding] as with a garment: who stretches out the heavens [giving full understanding in this exposition] like a curtain:
3 Who lay the beams of his chambers in the waters [this word of God from heaven]: who makes the clouds [where this understanding is held when it left the earth] his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind:
4 Who makes his angels [messengers] spirits; his ministers a flaming fire:
5 Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed forever.
6 You covered it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains.
7 At your rebuke they [the mountains; the corrupt governments of the world] fled; at the voice of your thunder [the sound of the light] they hasted away.
8 They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which you have founded for them.
9 You have set a bound that they [the corrupt governments and the men who defend their evil] may not pass over [‘abar – not Passover from death into life]; that they turn not again to cover the earth [in darkness].
10 He send the springs [of life-giving waters] into the valleys, which run among the hills [the new government that will rise from the ruins].
11 They give drink [to those who haven’t hear My word] to every beast [without My spirit] of the field: the wild asses quench their thirst.
12 By them shall the fowls of the heaven have their habitation [there in full understanding], which sing [repeating My words] among the branches.
13 He waters the hills from his chambers: the earth is satisfied with the fruit of your works.
14 He causes the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb [new life on the earth] for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;
15 And wine that makes glad the heart of man [the minds it changes], and oil [this anointing] to make his face [paniym – the LORD’s presence in His anointed] to shine [giving light to the world], and bread [this full understanding] which strengthens man’s heart [mind].
16 The trees of the LORD are full of sap; the cedars of Lebanon, which he has planted;
17 Where the birds make their nests: as for the stork, the fir trees are her house.
18 The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats; and the rocks for the conies.
19 He appointed the moon for seasons [mow’ed – showing the appointed time, civil governments in times of ignorance]: the sun [church] knows his going down [and becoming dark].
20 You makes darkness [ignorance], and it is night: wherein all the beasts [wicked] of the forest do creep forth.
21 The young lions roar [as the words of children without understanding] after their prey, and seek their meat [this deep understanding] from God.
22 The sun arises [they receive this understanding of this new day], they gather themselves together [into His ONE BODY], and lay them down [have rest] in their dens.
23 Man goes forth unto his work [into which the LORD send him] and to his labor until the evening [until the darkness overtakes him].
24 O LORD, how manifold are your works! in wisdom have you made them all: the earth is full of your riches [these treasures].
25 So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts.
26 There go the ships [the institutions of church and state government]: there is that leviathan [from who teaching flows as a river], whom you have made to play therein.
27 These wait all upon you [for Your correction]; that you mayest give them their meat [this deep meaning] in due season.
28 That you give them they gather [in Your ONE BODY]: you open your hand, they are filled with good.
29 You hide your face [paniym – Your presence], they are troubled: you takes away their breath [their life: your Spirit in them], they die, and return to their dust [the ashes of the earth’s ruin].
30 You send forth your spirit [to move upon the face of the darkened deep, the word present but not understood], they are created: and you renew [chadash – You rebuild] the face [paniym – the presence] of the earth [‘adamah – Your people You’ve created].
31 The glory of the LORD shall endure forever: the LORD shall rejoice in his works [this New Creation].
32 He looked on the earth, and it trembles: he touches the hills, and they smoke.
33 I will sing [teaching this word of the LORD as received] unto the LORD as long as I live: I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.
34 My meditation of him shall be sweet: I will be glad in the LORD.
35 Let the sinners be consumed out of the earth, and let the wicked be no more. Bless you the LORD, O my soul. Praise you the LORD.

Psalms 3
1 LORD, how are they increased that trouble me! many are they that rise up against me.
2 Many there be which say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. Selah.
3 But you, O LORD, are a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of my head [above all others].
4 I cried unto the LORD with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill. Selah.
5 I laid me down and slept [in death]; I awaked; for the LORD sustained [camak – laying on me His work in] me.
6 I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, that have set themselves against me round about.
7 Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God: for you have smitten all my enemies upon the cheek bone; you have broken the teeth of the ungodly.
8 Salvation belong unto the LORD: your blessing is upon your people. Selah.

And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.

31 August – 2 September 2023

And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.

The above (Daniel 7:27) is speaking of now when the last days of darkness have come, and end with all dominions of the earth serving and obeying the Most High. The word here rendered “obey” is the Aramaic word shma’, from shama’, both meaning to hear and become obedient to what is heard.

As we know, this is the crux of the problem: the cure rejected: the words that would heal the slide into the abyss are refused, because there is no faith that they are the words from the mouth of Jehovah, the Most High. (From the post of 25 August 2023, speaking of the current demoralization of God’s people, “Hosea 7:1 When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim [God’s people at large in this generation] was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria [their leaders who lead them to follow idols they call by My name, who they put in My place]: for they commit falsehood; and the thief comes in, and the troop of robbers spoils without.”)

Daniel 7 speaks of the end of this demoralization as coming after the final king (Obama, by his “Doctrine,” as system-wide policy to implement untenable proposals into law) and his kingdom (Babylon: confusion that ruled the world into delusion, and now ends in mass insanity) have “worn out” the saints of the Most High. (Hosea 7:3 then, speaking of the condition wicked men have produced, says, “They make the king [Obama] glad with their wickedness, and the princes [his idiot son Brandon, and the other useful idiots with him, thinking they aren’t going to reap the whirlwind] with their lies.”)

Paul, in Romans 10, very plainly speaks to this resurrection (coming out of confusion into life), Christ’s coming, by the faith now lacking, when this word in the mouths of His people, is spoken and heard as the word from the mouth of Jehovah.

Romans 10
6 But the righteousness which is of faith speaks on this wise, Say not in your heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down from above:)
7 Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.)
8 But what says it [these are quotes from Deuteronomy 30, there, what is here rendered “Christ,” is the word of God heard, shama’, and obeyed]? The word is nigh you, even in your mouth, and in your heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach;
9 That if you shall confess with your mouth the LORD Jesus, and shall believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead [believe He is alive in us speaking and working, which I preach and boldly confess is the truth in me], you shall be saved.
10 For with the heart [the mind that understands] man believes unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
11 For the scripture says, Whosoever believes on him shall not be ashamed.
12 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same LORD over all is rich unto all that call upon him.
13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the LORD shall be saved.
14 How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?
15 And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!
16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel [because there is no faith it is His voice]. For Isaiah says [in Isaiah 53:1], LORD, who has believed our report [as we know, the Hebrew word rendered “report” is shmuw’ah, from shama’ Yahh, meaning who has heard the voice as Jehovah’s; the verse continues to say to those that do, Jehovah is revealed in His work]?
17 So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing [Him] by [faith it is] the word of God.
18 But I say, Have they not heard? Yes truly, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the [darkness and beginning the New] world.
19 But I say, Did not Israel know? First Moses says, I will provoke you to jealousy by them that are no people, and by a foolish nation I will anger you.
20 But Isaiah is very bold, and says, I was found of them that sought me not; I was made manifest unto them that asked not after me.
21 But to Israel he says, All day long I have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying [faithless] people.

Deuteronomy 30
1 And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon you [as they have], the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you shall call them to mind among all the nations, whither the LORD your God has driven you,
2 And shall return unto the LORD your God, and shall obey his voice according to all that I command you this day, you and your children, with all your heart, and with all your soul;
3 That then the LORD your God will turn your captivity, and have compassion upon you, and will return and gather you from all the nations, whither the LORD your God has scattered you.
4 If any of your be driven out unto the outmost parts of heaven, from thence will the LORD your God gather you, and from thence will he fetch you:
5 And the LORD your God will bring you into the land which your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it; and he will do you good, and multiply you above your fathers.
6 And the LORD your God [with His words] will circumcise your heart [removing the flesh {temporal thinking} that covers your mind], and the heart of your seed, to love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, that you mayest live.
7 And the LORD your God will put all these curses upon your enemies [as promised to Abraham], and on them that hate you, which persecuted you.
8 And you shall return and obey [shama’ – meaning “to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.)”] the voice of the LORD, and do all his commandments which I command you this day.
9 And the LORD your God will make you plenteous in every work of your hand, in the fruit of your body, and in the fruit of your cattle, and in the fruit of your land, for good: for the LORD will again rejoice over you for good, as he rejoiced over your fathers:
10 If you shall hearken [shama’] unto the voice of the LORD your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, and if you turn unto the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul.
11 For this commandment which I command you this day, it is not hidden from you, neither is it far off [rachowq – it is not an evil decree].
12 It is not in heaven, that you shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear [shama’] it, and do it?
13 Neither is it beyond the sea, that you shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear [shama’] it, and do it?
14 But the word is very near unto you, in your mouth, and in your heart [your now circumcised mind], that you may do it.
15 See, I have set before you this day life and good, and death and evil;
16 In that I command you this day to love the LORD your God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that you mayest live and multiply: and the LORD your God shall bless you in the land [‘ erets – this earth] whither you go to possess it.
17 But if your heart turn away, so that you will not hear [shama’ – hear intelligently and obey], but shall be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;
18 I denounce unto you this day, that you shall surely perish, and that you shall not prolong your days upon the land [‘adamah – this nation given to God’s people], whither you pass over [‘abar – Passover from death into life] Jordan [the word of men that have carried all in the descent into death and hell] to go to possess it.
19 I call heaven [remember, heaven in Hebrew is the word shamayim, the combining of the words shama’ and mayim, literally meaning to hear and obey the waters, the word of God sent from the cloud] and earth [‘erets – its condition now without hearing and obeying the waters of the former and latter rain, the word of God sending understanding to the earth] to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both you and your seed may live:
20 That you mayest love the LORD your God, and that you mayest obey [shama’] his voice, and that you mayest cleave unto him: for he is your life, and the length of your days: that you mayest dwell in the land which the LORD swore unto your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.

Friends, it’s a simple plan, hear and speak this word as the word of God, confessing it is Him present, alive in us speaking and working, retuned to our sight according to the scripture, the written word understood, in the manner, precept upon precept, line upon line, He therein promised.

Daniel 7
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast [Babylon – the confusion that now rules the world when all her kings are without the knowledge of God and worshiping idols with which they replaced Him] shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour [and swallow into the belly of hell] the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.
24 And the ten horns [representing of all worldly powers, in the pattern of Ephraim and Samaria] out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another [Obama] shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings [this represent the three branches of our government, each meant to be equal {with checks and balances to remain such} and restrained by our Constitution, which he, as the lawless one, destroyed as policy].
25 And he shall speak great words [of pride] against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.
26 But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end.
27 And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven [shamayim], shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey [shma’] him.
28 Hitherto is the end of the matter. As for me Daniel, my cogitations much troubled me, and my countenance changed in me: but I kept the matter in my heart.

Before discussing the above in more detail, the following, ending with Isaiah 29, is from the post of 25 August 2023, which Facebook’s censors refused to let be “boosted” to a larger audience (the reason why is self-evident). 

They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

The above comes as the LORD speaks (Spiritually to us of now) of the wickedness and lies of His people at large, into which the same abovementioned king and princes led them, which is why they are glad.

This dilemma is spoken of throughout the chapter, Hosea 7, a Book in which the LORD describes His people as adulterers, leaving Him to follow others into wickedness and lies.

Friends, I must again define this wickedness, and these lies, as intended products of Obama’s self-justification (of his sexual perversion: his anima; and his animus: his instinctual opposition to anything good or truthful. As we understand, these goads, elevated by his study (acceptation) of wicked philosophies before his, prompted him to develop and institute the “Obama Doctrine.” We know this to be wickedness and lies: the elevation of deviance and communism, using engineered deception, lies and false accusations as policy to implement untenable proposals into law. 

As often discussed here as it was occurring, we also know, when his presidential initiatives were thwarted by legislative majorities elected to counter him, he, in the following six years of his administration, embedded like-minded judges, and, more devastatingly, appointed like-minded (perverse, lawless, or communist) bureaucrats. These enemies of good government, would, did, and do, when the people had, and have, the opportunity again to elect someone to reverse the national damage his presidency did and does, would administratively oppose by tampering, undermining, and weaponizing government, attack and extinguish any such attempts along with those attempting them. 

These unelected bureaucrats: the “deep state:” deeply embedded agents of evil intent on implementing Obama’s vision of a Post America World; brought to completion the demoralization of her population: a means of destruction begun (long abandoned) by Soviet-era communists, and revived by Chinees communists (and other complicit powers of the world) to combat Trump and those that elected him (for the above stated reason). By these means, they (China) elected their man, through whom they went full-bore to finish their task.

Again, the definition of “demoralize” is here below given, first from Merriam-Webster Dictionary, as noun and verb, and then from Wikipedia (with the necessary context in brackets), its meaning in warfare:

Noun:
1: to cause to turn aside or away from what is good or true or morally right : to corrupt the morals of
2: a: to weaken the morale of: DISCOURAGE, DISPIRIT
b: to upset or destroy the normal functioning of 
c: to throw into disorder

Verb:
1: to make bad or evil
2: to weaken in spirit or discipline

“Demoralization is, in a context of warfare, national security, and law enforcement, a process in psychological warfare with the objective to erode morale among enemy combatants and/or noncombatants. That can encourage them to retreat, surrender, or defect rather than defeating them in combat.

“Demoralization methods are military tactics such as hit-and-run attacks [every weather event is caused by climate change], such as snipers disturbing the enemy with less-lethal weapons [bio weapons, like viruses] and incapacitating agents [like the vaccines], and intimidation [J6 prosecutions] such as display of force concentration [as they openly show they control all Federal Law Enforcement]. Some methods on the strategic scale are commerce raiding [intentionally destroying the dollar and independent banking], strategic bombing [Maui, before it, East Palestine, Ohio, and all the other fires], static operations such as sieges [against Trump] and naval blockades [to prevent goods from reaching the market place], and propaganda [the most obvious, through state controlled news and social media, endlessly spewing misinformation, disinformation, known lies, and known false accusation, all attacks on truth and reality].”

It is essential to understand these are attacks meant to touch (affect) the mind, only bringing their desired end (the effect) on those who “retreat, surrender, or defect.” They have no power to affect the war’s outcome, or those who stand with sound minds against them. In our day, the people they do affect, who “retreat, surrender, or defect,” are our (mainstream and conformist) political and church leaders and those who, with them, cower. The remaining remnant of us pushes ever forward on this battlefield of reality while on the way, winning and awakening the minds and souls of those who were before demoralized and without hope.

Hosea 7
1 When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim [God’s people at large in this generation] was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria [their leaders who lead them to follow idols they call by My name, who they put in My place]: for they commit falsehood; and the thief comes in, and the troop of robbers spoils without.
2 And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they are before [neged – in front of] my face [paniym – My presence].
3 They make the king [Obama] glad with their wickedness, and the princes [his idiot son Brandon, and the other useful idiots with him, thinking they aren’t going to reap the whirlwind] with their lies.
4 They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who cease from raising after he has kneaded the dough, until it be leavened [they rest after sowing corruption, until all is corrupted into mass delusion].
5 In the day of our king the princes have made him sick [drunken into a state of mental illness] with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners [the wicked liars and false accusers of our time].
6 For they have made ready their heart [the corrupt foundations of their minds] like an oven, whiles they lie in wait [for the new day they think will come, with them in control of the world and all therein]: their baker sleeps [those who, with their mouths, think they will bring this about] all the night [not knowing their own ignorance of reality]; in the morning [when this light of the actual new day comes and the people awaken] it burns as a flaming fire.
7 They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen: there is none among them that calleth unto Me [the LORD now present].
8 Ephraim, he has mixed himself among the people [the foreign invaders the enemy let in to replace us]; Ephraim is a cake not turned [and they are ignorant that they are burning up in their own fires].
9 Strangers [enemies mixed among them with ways far from God’s] have devoured his strength, and he knows it not [because they sleep in ignorance]: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him [this is his last days, his old age, and he is sleeping through it], yet he knows not.
10 And the pride [refusing correction] of Israel testifies to his face: and they do not return to the LORD their God, nor seek him for all this.
11 Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart [not knowing he’s reached the expected end, because his mind of understanding is gone]: they call to Egypt [to their oppressors for help], they go to Assyria [they go to the communists for help].
12 When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them [as a snare upon the whole earth]; I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven [removing their strength, which is understanding the time and what they are experiencing]; I will chastise [correct them] them, as their congregation has heard [of the scourge of correction that was foretold and explained here in detail].
13 Woe unto them! for they have fled from me [into the snare of those destroying them]: destruction unto them! because they have transgressed against me: though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me.
14 And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds [as I commanded them, to open their mouth, yet all refuse]: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, and they rebel against me.
15 Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me.
16 They return, but not to the Most High [but instead to those who destroyed them, foolishly thinking they will lead them anywhere else other than where they have]: they are like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword [by this word from My mouth] for the rage [za’am – My indignation because] of their tongue [speaking what they shouldn’t and not what they should]: this shall be their derision in the land [‘erets – this earth moment] of Egypt [when it is ruled by tyrants in power].

The word “derision” (describing the condition of the earth because those leading God’s people refuse to make His presence known, instead remaining in the mass delusions of the time believing He isn’t present) is from the seven times used word la’ag, meaning “derision, scoffing:–derision, scorn (-ing)”

We have, in previous posts, looked at two other uses (of the same exact word, used 18 times, given two different numbers, both meaning the same thing) in Psalms 2:4 and Proverbs 1:26.

Proverbs 1
22 How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? and the scorners [luwts – scoffers, because of your own private interpretations] delight in their scorning [latsown – contemptuous ridicule and mockery], and fools hate knowledge?
23 Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
24 Because I have called, and you refused; I have stretched out my hand [giving understanding from heaven], and no man regarded;
25 But you have set at naught all my counsel [‘etsah], and would none of my reproof:
26 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock [la’ag – I will speak with stammering words you don’t understand] when your fear comes [because you delight in mockery];
27 When your fear comes as desolation, and your destruction comes as a whirlwind [by My Almighty Spirit working to bring these things upon you]; when distress [tsarah – tribulation] and anguish comes upon you.
28 Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me [because “this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honor me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men”]:
29 For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
30 They would none of my counsel [‘etsah]: they despised all my reproof.
31 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices [mow’etsah – their own evil counsel].

Psalms 2
1 Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed [I Am], saying,
3 Let us break their bands [the law of nature] asunder, and cast away their cords [the law of God] from us.
4 He that sits in the heavens [the place of His strength: full understanding: Omnipotence] shall laugh [sachaq – at the foolishness they decree and call wisdom]: the LORD shall have them in derision [la’ag – mock them because of their ignorance of which they are willfully ignorant].
5 Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.
6 Yet have I set my king [I Am] upon my holy hill of Zion.
7 I will declare [announce] the decree [choq]: “The LORD has said unto me, ‘You are my Son; this day have I begotten you.'”
8 Ask of me, and I shall give you the heathen for your inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the Earth for your possession.
9 You shall break them with a rod of iron [the law of nature and nature’s God]; you shall dash them [the old and fully corrupt] in pieces like a potter’s vessel.
10 Be wise now therefore, O you kings: be instructed, you judges of the earth.
11 Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
12 Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.

Isaiah 28
11 For with stammering lips and another tongue [this truth you don’t understand and have mocked] will he speak to this people.
12 To whom he said, This is the rest [mnuwchah – manoah: this rest] wherewith you may cause the weary to rest [nuwach – Noah: those who reach the expected end]; and this is the refreshing [marge’ah – only used here; ma raga’: what quieting of {rest from} the proud waves of the sea: who are agitating humanity]: yet they would not hear.
13 But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken [shabar], and snared [yaqosh], and taken [lakad].
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, you scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because you have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell [sheol – the habitation of the dead] are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus says the LORD God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation [for the new earth]: he that believes shall not make haste [chuwsh – when I hasten the end of the wicked]. [Isaiah 60:22 A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one {tsa’iyr} a strong nation: I the LORD will hasten {chuwsh} it in his time {when the LORD is revealed by His everlasting light manifested in the flesh}.]
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail [this word frozen in heaven until now] shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place [the lies of the wicked].
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell [Sheol] shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge [of correction] shall pass through, then you shall be trodden down [as dung upon the dunghill] by it.
19 From the time that it goes forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation [because of the filthy conversation of the wicked] only to understand the report [shmuw’ah – to hear this word as the voice of Jehovah].
20 For the bed is shorter than that a [sleeping] man can stretch himself on it: and the covering [maccekah] narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.
21 For the LORD shall rise up as in mount Perazim [as when He broke forth as waters breaking forth upon David’s enemies], he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon [when He sent a great hail from heaven], that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act [at which all wonder].
22 Now, therefore, be you not mockers [luwts – with your own {private} interpretations], lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the LORD God of hosts a consumption [kalah – a completing end], even determined [charats – decreed] upon the whole earth.

Isaiah 29
10 For the LORD has poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers has he covered [kacah].
11 And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book [cepher] that is sealed [chatham], which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray you: and he says, I cannot; for it is sealed [chatham]:
12 And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray you: and he says, I am not learned.
13 Wherefore the LORD said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honor me, but have removed their heart [the foundations of their mind – their corrupt stiocheion] far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:
14 Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvelous [eye opening] work among this people, even a marvelous work and a wonder [pele’ – at which all have wondered]: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.
15 Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their [wicked] counsel [‘etsah] from the LORD, and their works are in the dark [hidden in the ignorance, in the false reality: delusions and insanity, they’ve created], and they say, Who sees us? and who knows us?
16 Surely your turning of things upside down [the overthrow of rational thought] shall be esteemed as the potter’s [yatsar] clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed [yatser] say of him that framed [yatsar – wrote it into His published plan] it, He had no understanding?

The word rendered “end” in Daniel 7:26 & 28 above, is the five times (all by Daniel) used Aramaic word cowph, from the almost identical, also appearing five times, Hebrew word, meaning “a termination:–conclusion, end, hinder participle.” Daniel, the LORD in him speaking (writing) and working (diligently searching the oracles), is referring to the time described and the instructions given in the uses of the Hebrew word (cowph).

2 Chronicles 20
1 It came to pass after this also, that the children of Moab [men whose mouths have become the gates holding God’s people in hell], and the children of Ammon [the heathen among us who’ve gone tribal against us], and with them other beside the Ammonites, came against Jehoshaphat [the judgment of Jehovah] to battle.
2 Then there came some that told Jehoshaphat, saying, There comes a great multitude against you from beyond the sea on this side Syria [this generation that exalts its words and ways above God’s]; and, behold, they be in Hazazontamar [this time of rightly dividing the waters], which is Engedi [separating the waters of this sacrifice, from the words of men].
3 And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the LORD, and proclaimed a fast [to not eat or drink the words of men who exalt their words above the LORD’s] throughout all Judah [the elect remnant].
4 And Judah gathered themselves together, to ask help of the LORD: even out of all the cities of Judah they came to seek the LORD.
5 And Jehoshaphat [the judgment of Jehovah] stood in the congregation of Judah [the elect remnant] and Jerusalem [into who flowed these water of the LORD teaching His ways of peace and security], in the house of the LORD, before the new court,
6 And said, O LORD God of our fathers, are not you God in heaven? and rule not you over all the kingdoms of the heathen? and in your hand is there not power and might, so that none is able to withstand you?
7 Are not you our God, who did drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel, and gave it to the seed of Abraham your friend forever?
8 And they dwelt therein, and have built you a sanctuary therein for your name, saying,
9 If, when evil comes upon us, as the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we stand before this house, and in your presence [paniym], (for your name [identity] is in this house,) and cry unto you in our affliction, then you will hear [shama’ – hear our obedience] and help.
10 And now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and mount Seir [the devils leading all into death and hell on the earth], whom you would not let Israel invade, when they came out of the land of Egypt [from under the rule of tyrants], but they turned from them, and destroyed them not;
11 Behold, I say, how they reward us [for the mercy You showed them], to come to cast us out of your possession, which you have given us to inherit.
12 O our God, will you not judge them? for we have no might against this great company that comes against us; neither know we what to do: but our eyes are upon you.
13 And all Judah [the elect remnant] stood before the LORD, with their little ones, their wives, and their children.
14 Then upon Jahaziel [the pure in heart who see God] the son of Zechariah [who remember Jehovah], the son of Benaiah [children who Jehovah has built into His habitation, His house, His family], the son of Jeiel [who the LORD has pulled from the fires to Himself], the son of Mattaniah [by His gift, His grace poured upon us], a Levite [who’ve joined themselves to the LORD, in His ONE BODY] of the sons of Asaph [children His has gathered to Himself], came the Spirit of the LORD [Jehovah] in the midst of the congregation [His ONE BODY, the risen Body of Christ];
15 And he said, Hearken [qashab – let these things pierce your ear and enter into your minds] you, all Judah [My elect remnant], and you inhabitants of Jerusalem [to whom this word has flowed], and you king Jehoshaphat [the judgement of Jehovah], Thus says the LORD unto you, Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God’s.
16 Tomorrow go you down against them: behold, they come up by the cliff [ma’aleh – what rising] of Ziz [only used here, from the word tsiyts, referring us to its use in Jeremiah 33:6 when the LORD show us great and mighty things which we knew not, revealing peace and abundance, which bring us health and cure]; and you shall find them at the end [cowph] of the brook [this river of living water, the end of the conversation above the LORD’s mercy seat: Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever], before [paniym – in His presence in] the wilderness [where they are nourished] of Jeruel [taught by God].
17 You shall not need to fight in this battle: set yourselves, stand you still, and see the salvation of the LORD with you, O Judah and Jerusalem: fear not, nor be dismayed; tomorrow go out against them: for the LORD will be with you.
18 And Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground: and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell before the LORD, worshipping the LORD.
19 And the Levites, of the children of the Kohathites [this gathering], and of the children of the Korhites, stood up to praise the LORD God of Israel with a loud voice on high [speaking His words, teaching as He taught us].
20 And they rose early [in this resurrection] in the morning [when the light of this new day shined upon them], and went forth into the wilderness of Tekoa [out of the prison where they were held in ignorance]: and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat [the Judgment of Jehovah] stood and said, Hear [shama’ – obey] me, O Judah, and you inhabitants of Jerusalem; Believe in the LORD your God, so shall you be established; believe his prophets, so shall you prosper.

John 6
28 Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God?
29 Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that you believe on him whom he has sent.
30 They said therefore unto him, What sign show you then, that we may see, and believe you? what do you work?

Ecclesiastes 3 says there is “a time to embrace [chabaq – to take hold of wisdom and understanding], and a time to refrain from embracing [chabaq – refrain from folding your hands in idleness, and work this work of the LORD];” so we understand what is stated in verse 1, saying “To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:”

Ecclesiastes 3
2 A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
3 A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
4 A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
5 A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
6 A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
7 A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
8 A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
9 What profit has he that works in that wherein he labors?
10 I have seen the travail [the labor to bring forth wisdom and understanding], which God has given to the sons of men to be exercised [working out corruption] in it. [2 Timothy 2:5 Study to show yourself approved unto God, a workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.]
11 He [the LORD’s work] has made every thing beautiful in his time: also he has set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out [without His work revealing it to us] the work that God makes from the beginning to the end [cowph – the end of the old corrupt world].
12 I know that there is no good in them [the corrupt], but for a man to rejoice [in the LORD’s work making all thing beautiful again, in His time], and to do good in his life.
13 And also that every man should eat and drink [of the gift, this feast of charity], and enjoy the good of all his labor [exercising himself from corruption], it is the gift [grace] of God.
14 I know that, whatsoever God does, it shall be forever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God does it, that men should fear before him.
15 That which has been is now; and that which is to be has already been; and God requires that which is past.
16 And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.
17 I said in my heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.
18 I said in my heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts [without His Spirit with us, alive in us].

Ecclesiastes 7 
1 A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one’s birth.
2 It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end [cowph – all here in death] of all men; and the living [who come to life from the dead] will lay it to his heart. [2 Corinthians 5: because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: 15 And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again. 16 Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more. 17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. 1 Corinthians 15: 45 And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit {bringing the dead to life}. 46 Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.]
3 Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.
4 The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.
5 It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.
6 For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.
7 Surely oppression makes a wise man [of the world] mad [delusional]; and a gift destroys the heart.
8 Better is the end [‘achariyth – these last days of darkness] of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
9 Be not hasty in your spirit to be angry: for anger rests in the bosom of fools.
10 Say not you, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for you do not enquire wisely concerning this.
11 Wisdom is good with an inheritance: and by it there is profit to them that see the sun [the new day].
12 For wisdom is a defense [the greater strength], and money is a defense [the strength of the world]: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom gives life to them that have it.
13 Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he has made crooked?
14 In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also has set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.
15 All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perishes in his righteousness [explained in verse 16], and there is a wicked man that prolongs his life in his wickedness [explained in verse 17].
16 Be not righteous over much; neither make yourself over wise: why should you destroy yourself?
17 Be not over [tolerating and ignoring] much wicked, neither be you foolish: why should you die before your time?
18 It is good that you should take hold of this; yea, also from this withdraw not your hand: for he that fears God shall come forth of them all.
19 Wisdom strengthens [‘azaz] the wise more than ten mighty men which are in the city.
20 For there is not a just man upon earth, that does good, and sins not.
21 Also take no heed unto all words that are spoken; lest you hear your servant curse you:
22 For oftentimes also your own heart knows that you yourself likewise have cursed others.
23 All this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me.
24 That which is far off, and exceeding deep, who can find it out?
25 I applied my heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness:
26 And I find more bitter than death the woman [church – teacher], whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleases [is in agreement with] God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.
27 Behold, this have I found, says the preacher, counting one by one [precept upon precept, line upon line], to find out the account:
28 Which yet my soul seeks, but I find not: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman [church – teacher] among all those have I not found.
29 Lo, this only have I found, that God has made man upright; but they have sought out [baqash] many inventions.

Ecclesiastes 12
9 And moreover, because the preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge; yea, he gave good heed, and sought out, and set in order many proverbs.
10 The preacher sought to find out acceptable words: and that which was written was upright, even words of truth.
11 The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails fastened by the masters of assemblies [‘acuppah – only appearing here, meaning “a collection of (learned) men (only in the plural)”], which are given from one shepherd.
12 And further, by these, my son, be admonished [zahar – be enlightened, so you shine forth the same glory of the LORD in you]: of making many books there is no end [qets]; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
13 Let us hear the conclusion [cowph] of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man [‘adam – the people the LORD brings to life].
14 For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.

Joel 2
12 Therefore also now, says the LORD, turn you even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:
13 And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repents him of the evil.
14 Who knows if he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him; even a meat offering and a drink offering unto the LORD your God?
15 Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast [abstain from the words of men], call a solemn assembly [gather to the one shepherd, I Am the ONE BODY of Christ]:
16 Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet.
17 Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare your people, O LORD, and give not your heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God?
18 Then will the LORD be jealous for his land, and pity his people.
19 Yea, the LORD will answer and say unto his people, Behold, I will send you corn, and wine, and oil, and you shall be satisfied therewith [this feast of charity]: and I will no more make you a reproach among the heathen:
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army [of darkness], and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea [making their presence, as the sons of perdition, known to this generation upon who this light has lighted], and his hinder part [cowph – their end] toward the utmost [‘acharown – in these last days of darkness] sea [covering all people], and his stink shall come up, and his ill savor shall come up, because he has done great things [speaking against the LORD and His anointed – the ONE BODY He has chosen and prepared].
21 Fear not, O land [‘adamah – My people in this nation of ruin]; be glad and rejoice: for the LORD will do great things [creating His new nation upon the ruin of the old].
22 Be not afraid, you beasts of the field [those sleeping in death without the LORD’s Spirit]: for the pastures of the wilderness do spring [and with them you will rise from death into life], for the tree [of life] bears her fruit, the fig tree and the vine do yield their strength [flowing understand into all].
23 Be glad then, you children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he has given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month [of His new creation].

Psalms 87
1 His foundation is in the holy mountains.
2 The LORD loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.
3 Glorious things are spoken of you, O city of God. Selah.
4 I will make mention of Rahab [the oppression of tyrants] and Babylon [the confusion that now rules the world] to them that know me: behold Philistia [the invading army of mixed among us], and Tyre [the false church and state governments], with Ethiopia [all those covered in darkness]; this man was born there [by changing away from these traits: becoming God’s new creation].
5 And of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born [come to life] in her: and the highest himself shall establish her.
6 The LORD shall count [caphar – what is “told,” when Habakkuk 1:5 says “Behold you among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvelously: for I will work a work in your days which you will not believe, though it be told {caphar} you” by a man], when he writes up the people, that this man was [the first] born there. Selah.
7 As well the singers as the players on instruments shall be there [repeating these words with m]: all my springs [of living waters] are in you.

Joel 1
1 The word of the LORD [Jehovah] that came to Joel [Jehovah is God] the son of Pethuel [the vision of God].
2 Hear this, you old men, and give ear, all you inhabitants of the land. Has this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers?
3 Tell you [caphar] your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation [so this time is never forgotten, understanding it is all the product of the word of God not heard or obeyed, and hell ensued].
4 That which the palmerworm has left has the locust eaten; and that which the locust has left has the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm has left has the caterpillar eaten [all these devouring with the mouths, until they have devoured all].
5 Awake [from your sleep in death], you drunkards, and weep; and howl, all you drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it [the word of God] is cut off from your mouth.
6 For a nation is come up upon my land [as an invading army], strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lions [their mouths by which they roar and devour], and he has the cheek teeth of a great lion.
7 He has laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he has made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.
8 Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for [the LORD] the husband of her youth.
9 The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD’s ministers, mourn.
10 The field is wasted, the land mourns; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languishes.
11 Be you ashamed, O you husbandmen; howl, O you vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished.
12 The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languishes; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy [of knowing the LORD] is withered away from the sons of men.
13 Gird yourselves, and lament, you priests: howl, you ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God.
14 Sanctify you a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the LORD your God, and cry unto the LORD,
15 Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come [as it now has].

Psalms 51 [all God’s people say]
1 Have mercy upon me, O God, according to your lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of your tender mercies blot out my transgressions.
2 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
3 For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.
4 Against you, you only, have I sinned, and done this evil in your sight: that you might be justified when you speak, and be clear when you judge.
5 Behold, I was shaped in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
6 Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part you shall make me to know wisdom.
7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
8 Make me to hear joy and gladness [when I know your voice]; that the bones which you have broken may rejoice.
9 Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities.
10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
11 Cast me not away from your presence; and take not your holy spirit from me.
12 Restore unto me the joy of your salvation; and uphold me with your free spirit.
13 Then will I teach transgressors your ways; and sinners shall be converted unto you.
14 Deliver me from blood-guiltiness, O God, you God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of your righteousness.
15 O LORD, open you my lips; and my mouth shall show forth your praise.
16 For you desire not sacrifice; else would I give it: you delight not in burnt offering.
17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
18 Do good in your good pleasure unto Zion: build you the walls of Jerusalem.
19 Then shall you be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon your altar.

Psalms 121
1 I will lift up my eyes unto the hills, from whence comes my help.
2 My help comes from the LORD, which made heaven and earth.
3 He will not suffer your foot to be moved: he that keeps you will not slumber.
4 Behold, he that keeps Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.
5 The LORD is your keeper: the LORD is your shade upon your right hand.
6 The sun shall not smite you by day, nor the moon by night.
7 The LORD shall preserve you from all evil: he shall preserve your soul.
8 The LORD shall preserve your going out and your coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.

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