16 – 20 February 2024 PART 2 OF 2
Isaiah 41
15 Behold, I will make you a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth [mouths doing My work, separating the flesh]: you shall thresh the mountains [seats of power, removing the chaff and gathering the wheat], and beat them small, and shall make the hills [every misleader] as chaff.
16 You shall fan them, and the wind [My Spirit speaking and working through you] shall carry them away, and the whirlwind [from where the voice of the Almighty is heard] shall scatter them: and you shall rejoice in the LORD, and shall glory in the Holy One of Israel.
17 When the poor and needy seek water [this word of God], and there is none, and their tongue fails for thirst [and because they are without it their words fail to change their condition], I the LORD will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.
18 I will open rivers in high places [and My word will be sent through My people who hear and obey My commands], and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
19 I will plant [My good seed, a new crow of leaders] in the wilderness [men as] the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert [my upright among those who haven’t heard My word, as] the fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together:
20 That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of the LORD has done this, and the Holy One of Israel has created it.
21 Produce your cause, says the LORD; bring forth your strong reasons, says the King of Jacob.
22 Let them bring them forth, and show us what shall happen: let them show the former things, what they be, that we may consider them, and know the latter end [‘achariyth – these last days of darkness] of them; or declare us things for to come.
23 Show the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that you are gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold it together.
24 Behold, you are of nothing, and your work of naught: an abomination is he that chooses you.
25 I have raised up one from the north [out of ignorance], and he [I Am] shall come: from the rising of the sun [this understanding shining upon the earth through My ONE BODY] shall he call upon my name: and he shall come upon princes as upon mortar [men holding Babylon together, by the confusion, lies as policy, ruling the world] and as the potter treads clay.
26 Who has declared from the beginning, that we may know? and beforetime, that we may say, He is righteous? yea, there is none that shows, yea, there is none that declares, yea, there is none that hears your words.
27 The first [that does declare it is the present LORD that does this] shall say to Zion, Behold, behold them [see these things and understand the time they declare]: and I will give to Jerusalem one that bringeth good tidings.
28 For I beheld, and there was no man; even among them, and there was no counselor, that, when I asked of them, could answer a word.
29 Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.
Jeremiah 23
16 Thus says the LORD of hosts [a man of war, I Am], Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain [worthless]: they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the LORD.
17 They say still unto them that despise me, The LORD has said, You shall have peace; and they say unto every one that walketh after the imagination of his own heart, No evil shall come upon you.
18 For who has stood in the counsel of the LORD, and has perceived [it is Him] and heard his word? who has marked his word, and heard it?
19 Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD is gone forth in fury, even a grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked.
20 The anger of the LORD shall not return, until he has executed, and till he has performed the thoughts of his heart: in the latter days [‘achariyth] you shall consider [biyn – understand] it perfectly [biynah – this is the understanding given by Jehovah, which comes to and through men of His choosing].
21 I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran [saying they have biynah]: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied [in My name].
22 But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear my words, then they should have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.
23 Am I a God at hand, says the LORD, and not a God afar off [rachowq – not a God of these men’s evil decrees]?
24 Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? says the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? says the LORD.
25 I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.
26 How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies? yea, they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart;
27 Which think to cause my people to forget my name [My identity] by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbor, as their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal [the idols men like them created and called by My name].
28 The prophet that has a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that has my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? says the LORD.
29 Is not my word like as a fire? says the LORD; and like a hammer that breaks the [false] rock [in whose words men trust] in pieces?
30 Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, says the LORD, that steal my words every one from his neighbor [and instead feed them their creations, misleading them with their evil].
31 Behold, I am against the prophets, says the LORD, that use their tongues, and say, He [the LORD] says [when I haven’t said anything to them other than what I here to all say, as the sun rises upon all, shining from east to west, upon all who come out of these tents of evil and receive my correction, this light, and come into My ONE BODY, My One House, wherein I dwell].
32 Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams, says the LORD, and do tell them [their own words, saying God says when He hasn’t], and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their lightness [giving no value to this true word of God]; yet I sent them not, nor commanded them: therefore they shall not profit this people at all [as they haven’t], says the LORD.
Psalms 35
1 Plead my cause, O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me.
2 Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for my help.
3 Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against them [the false accusers] that persecute me: [false Christs that] say unto my soul, I am your salvation.
4 Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt.
5 Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the LORD chase them.
6 Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the LORD persecute them.
7 For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.
8 Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he has hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.
9 And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD: it shall rejoice in his salvation.
Isaiah 11
1 And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots:
2 And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding [biynah – understand that is only given by the LORD Himself], the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD;
3 And shall make him of quick understanding [ruwach – he is made a quickening Spirit] in the fear of the LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes [but by the eyes of the LORD], neither reprove after the hearing of his ears [not abiding men’s word, but hearing and speaking as the Father leads me]:
4 But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth: with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath [Spirit] of his lips shall he slay the wicked.
And the upright, awakening say:
Psalms 39
1 I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.
2 I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.
3 My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spoke I with my tongue,
4 LORD, make me to know my end, and the measure of my days, what it is: that I may know how frail I am.
5 Behold, you have made my days as a handbreadth; and my age [cheled] as nothing before you [In Your presence]: truly every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.
6 Surely every man walks in a vain show: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heaps up riches, and knows not who shall gather them.
7 And now, LORD, what wait I for? my hope is in you.
8 Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.
9 I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because you did it.
10 Remove your stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of your hand [as against a false rock].
11 When you with rebukes correct man for iniquity, you make his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.
12 Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry [which He will when He hears it is with this understanding]; hold not your peace at my tears: for I am a stranger [who hasn’t known He is] with you, and a sojourner [traveling to this expected end], as all my fathers were.
13 O spare me, that I may recover strength [which is understanding], before I go hence, and be no more.
1 Peter 4
12 Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:
13 But rejoice, inasmuch as you are partakers of Christ’s sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, you may be glad also with exceeding joy.
14 If you be reproached for the name of Christ [His identity manifested in you by His word, this same word, made flesh], happy are you; for the spirit of glory and of God rests upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part [in you] he is glorified.
15 But let none of you suffer as a murderer [as many among you are], or as a thief [as many among you are], or as an evildoer [as many among you are], or as a busybody in other men’s matters [as many among you are].
16 Yet if any man suffer as a Christian [for Christ’s indemnity revealed in you by this understanding, His One Mind, His voice speaking it], let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf.
17 For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?
18 And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
19 Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator [in this new heaven and earth age, wherein dwells His righteousness].
Friends, the enemies cannot create anything good. They are destroyers and destruction is their only creation. Come out from among them that you be not caught up in their self-destruction.
Psalms 49
1 Hear [shama’ – and obey] this, all you people; give ear, all you inhabitants of the world [cheled – this now ending age of darkness]:
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 [tabuwn – considering Your intelligence, heard in Your argument].
4 I will incline my ear to a parable [this thing you reveal to us from Your word]: I will open my dark saying upon the harp [striking these notes into a pleasant song worth repeating].
5 Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, when the iniquity of my heels [the corruption picked up in man’s journey through time] shall compass me about?
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 ceases forever:)
9 That he should still live forever, and not see corruption.
10 For he [man] 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 like the beasts that perish.
13 This their [man’s] way is their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings [their words, ideas they degenerately corrupt until this end is reached, when all are dead and none know it]. Selah.
14 Like sheep they are laid in the grave [sheol – hell, of which the dead are ignorant]; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning [when this light comes and awakens them]; and their beauty [the wicked’s who refuse the light and choose darkness, because their deeds are evil and their pride keeps them from repentance] shall consume in the grave [in hell] from their dwelling.
15 But God will redeem my soul from the power [deceptions, and delusions] of the grave [sheol – hell]: for he shall receive me [when I receive Him]. 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 [in the flesh] 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 [this understanding].
20 Man that is in honor, and understands [biyn] not, is like the beasts [without the LORD’s Spirit] that perish.
Then the LORD made known these things to His friends:
Daniel 2
18 That they would desire mercies of the God of heaven concerning this secret; that Daniel [the judgment of God personified] and his fellows should not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon [now in this time when man’s confusion and the resulting delusion, evil decrees, rule the world].
19 Then was the secret revealed unto Daniel in a night vision [seeing by the eyes of the LORD]. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven.
20 Daniel answered and said, Blessed be the name of God forever and ever: for wisdom and might are his:
21 And he changes the times [ages] and the seasons: he removes kings, and sets up kings: he gives wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding [the only time the Chaldee version of the word biynah appears]:
22 He reveals the deep and secret things: he knows what is in the darkness, and the light [understanding] dwelleth with him [alone].
23 I thank you, and praise you, O you God of my fathers, who have given me wisdom and might, and have made known unto me now what we desired of you: for you have now made known unto us the king’s matter.
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.
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 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.
Matthew 11
25 At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank you, O Father, LORD of heaven and earth, because you have hid these things from the wise and prudent, and have revealed them unto babes.
26 Even so, Father: for so it seemed good in your sight.
27 All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knows the Son, but the Father; neither knows any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.
28 Come unto me, all you that labor and are [by men] heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and you shall find rest unto your souls.
30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
Psalms 89
1 I will sing of the mercies of the LORD forever: with my mouth will I make known your faithfulness to all generations.
2 For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: your faithfulness shall you establish in the very heavens.
3 I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant,
4 Your seed will I establish forever, and build up your throne to all generations. Selah.
5 And the heavens shall praise your wonders, O LORD: your faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints.
6 For who in the heaven [where understanding is found] can be compared unto the LORD? who among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the LORD?
7 God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him.
8 O LORD God of hosts, who is a strong LORD like unto you? or to your faithfulness round about you?
9 You rule the raging of the sea: when the [proud] waves thereof arise, you stillest them.
10 You have broken Rahab [the spirit of the arrogant] in pieces, as one that is slain; you have scattered your enemies with your strong arm.
11 The heavens are yours, the earth also is yours: as for the world and the fulness thereof, you have founded them.
12 The north and the south you have created them: Tabor [those You’ve raised] and Hermon [Your sanctuary, in Your presence] shall rejoice in your name [identity].
13 You have a mighty arm: strong is your hand, and high is your right hand.
14 Justice and judgment are the habitation of your throne: mercy and truth shall go before your face.
15 Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O LORD, in the light of your countenance [understanding Your presence].
16 In your name 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 [governing as He governs] shall be exalted.
18 For the LORD is our defense; and the Holy One of Israel [the people that enter His promised kingdom, receiving Him] is our king.
19 Then you spokes 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 [Thank You Father]:
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 [His presence in me], and plague them that hate him.
24 But my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him: and in my name shall his horn [government] be exalted.
25 I will set his hand also in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers [this word flowing into the sea: all people at large].
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, 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 [as they have], and walk not in my judgments;
31 If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments;
32 Then will I visit [come as the Chief Overseer in My chosen, as I have against] their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.
33 Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him [His children who return to Him by receiving His correction], 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 [I Am this proven], and his throne as the sun [this light sent upon all] before me.
37 It shall be established for ever as the moon [restoring order to civil government], and as a faithful witness in heaven [giving My understanding as received]. Selah.
38 But you have cast off and abhorred, you have been wroth with your anointed [for the sake of Your children now in the fires].
39 You have made void the covenant of your servant: you have profaned his crown by casting it to the ground.
40 You have broken down all his hedges; you have brought his strong holds to ruin.
41 All that pass by the way spoil him: he is a reproach to his neighbors.
42 You have set up the right hand of his adversaries; you have made all his enemies to rejoice.
43 You have also turned the edge of his sword, and have not made him to stand in the battle.
44 You have made his glory to cease, and cast his throne down to the ground.
45 The days of his youth have you shortened: you have covered him with shame. Selah.
46 How long, LORD? will you hide yourself forever? shall your wrath burn like fire?
47 Remember how short [cheled – this age] my time is: wherefore have you made all men in vain?
48 What man is he that lives, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave [sheol]? Selah.
49 LORD, where are your former loving-kindnesses, which you swore unto David in your truth?
50 Remember, LORD, the reproach of your servants; how I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty people;
51 Wherewith your enemies have reproached, O LORD; wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of your anointed.
52 Blessed be the LORD for evermore. Amen, and Amen.
1 Timothy 6
15 Which in his times he shall show, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and LORD of lords;
16 Who only has immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man has seen, nor can see: to whom be honor and power everlasting. Amen.
Isaiah 29
14 Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvelous work among this people, even a marvelous work [opening their eyes to see as I see] and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding [biynah – those saying they have an understanding of God] of their prudent men shall be hid.
15 Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who sees us? and who knows us?
16 Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter’s clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding [biyn]?
17 Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon [purity seen on high] shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest [a new crop of upright men]?
18 And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity [‘ophel – the things obscured], and out of darkness.
19 The meek [who shall inherit the earth] also shall increase their joy in the LORD, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
20 For the terrible one is brought to naught, and the scorner is consumed [kalah], and all that watch for iniquity are cut off [karath]:
21 That make a man an offender for a word [claiming they are offended by this word of God], and lay a snare for him that reproves in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of naught [their worthless words].
22 Therefore thus says the LORD, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob, Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his face now wax pale.
23 But when he sees his children, the work of my hands, in the midst of him, they shall sanctify my name, and sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel.
24 They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding [biynah], and they that murmured [against Me] shall learn doctrine.
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 as with a garment: who stretches out the heavens like a curtain:
3 Who lays the beams of his chambers in the waters: who makes the clouds his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind:
4 Who makes his angels 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 fled; at the voice of your thunder 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 [for the wicked] that they may not pass over [‘abar – from death into life]; that they turn not again to cover the earth [in darkness].
10 He sends the springs into the valleys, which run among the hills.
11 They give drink [Your word] to every beast of the field [those in the earth without Your Spirit]: the wild asses [wandering in the wilderness] quench their thirst.
12 By them shall the fowls [who by the strength of Your understanding rise] of the heaven have their habitation, which sing [repeating this word as received] among the branches [to those who will by it become fruitful].
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 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, and oil to make his face [presence] to shine, and bread which strengthen man’s heart.
16 The trees [men sown] 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 [civil government] for seasons [of darkness and light]: the sun knows his going down [when understanding leaves the earth].
20 You make darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts [those lacking Your Spirit] of the forest [the corrupt crop] do creep forth.
21 The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat [this deep understanding that returns their strength] from God.
22 The sun [light, understanding] arises, they gather themselves together [into His ONE BODY], and lay them [the wicked who hunt souls in the darkness] down in their dens [their holes, taken in their own pits, in the earth].
23 Man goes forth unto his work and to his labor until the evening [working to make the earth bring forth fruit, as long as understanding is present].
24 O LORD, how manifold are your works! in wisdom have you made them all: the earth [by Your work] is full of your riches.
25 So is this great and wide sea [of human existence], wherein are things [wickedness in the darkness] creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts.
26 There go the ships [institution created by men, that ride upon the sea of humanity]: there is that leviathan [the word that flows from these institution of church and state], whom you have made to play therein.
27 These wait all upon you [to be restored into righteousness, or be destroyed by their own evil ways]; that you mayest give them their meat [this understanding] in due season [now when the age of darkness has run its full course and will by the law of nature be changed].
28 That you give them they gather: you open your hand [giving these treasures], they are filled with good.
29 You hide your face [paniym – Your presence], they are troubled: you take away their breath [Your Spirit from them], they die, and return to their dust [the ruin of the earth under those without His Spirit leading them].
30 You send forth your spirit, they are created [new again from the dust]: and you renew the face of the earth.
31 The glory of the LORD shall endure forever: the LORD shall rejoice in his works.
32 He looks on the earth, and it trembles [to shake the wicked from it]: he touches the hills, and they smoke [witnessing to the fires therein].
33 I will sing [repeating His word as received] unto the LORD as long as I live [showing we are no longer dead]: I will sing praise to my God while I have my being [‘owd – in every iteration of my flesh, wherein my immortal self continues].
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.
