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.
