Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.

29 – 31 March 2024

Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.

The LORD begins today in Jeremiah 13:16 above, which comes in a chapter we know begins with Him, to and through Jeremiah, speaking a parable about a “girdle” hidden in the earth.

As we also know, this “girdle” speaks of the LORD’s preparation: His word, treasures hidden therein, provision He made throughout history, to be revealed in these last days when humanity is threatened by the now apparent existential assault of its own evil against its ignorance, misleading the world, humanity, into suicide.

The word “girdle,” rendered from the fourteen times used (eight times in Jeremiah 13) Hebrew word ‘ezowr, meaning “from 246; something girt; a belt, also a band.” It’s from (246) ‘aziqqiym, which is said to be a variation of the seven times uses word ziyqah, again in the context of preparation, meaning “properly, what leaps forth, i.e. flash of fire, or a burning arrow; also (from the original sense of the root) a bond:– chain, fetter, firebrand, spark.”

Two of the seven times ziyqah is used are in Isaiah 50:11, a chapter we saw in the previous post, which is excerpted below (with today’s additions in double brackets).

Isaiah 50
2 Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea [silencing the vain words of wicked men], I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish [the death below their word’s surface] stink [so men perceive its, death’s, presence therein], because there is no water [no word of God heard from them], and die for thirst [without these life-giving words, by the understanding there in the deep waters].
3 I clothe the heavens with blackness [the ignorance that now covers the world], and I make sackcloth [humanity morning its own death] their covering.
4 The LORD God has given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakens morning by morning, he wakens my ear to hear [shama’ – and obey] as the learned.
5 The LORD God has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back [to follow corruption].
6 I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting [the sacrifice necessary to deliver the LORD’s word, declaring it is Him present].
7 For the LORD God will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint [[My presence against which these men’s strikes produce the sparks]], and I know that I shall not be ashamed.
8 He is near that justified me; who will contend with me? let us stand together: who is my adversary? let him come near to me.
9 Behold, the LORD God will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up.
10 Who is among you that fears the LORD, that obeys [shama’] the voice of his servant [speaking His word as commanded], that walk in darkness [ignorance come from remaining in corruption], and has no light [understand that is life]? let him trust in the name [identity] of the LORD, and stay upon his God.
11 Behold [see Him], all you that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves about with sparks [[ziyqah]]: walk in the light [understanding] of your [own strange] fire, and in the sparks [[ziyqah]] that you have kindled. This shall you have of my hand [returning your own word upon you]; you shall lie down in sorrow [remaining dead [[sleeping in your own corruption]]].

1 Thessalonians 4
9 But as touching brotherly love [giving this word to those, friend and foe, who need it] you need not that I write unto you: for you yourselves are [here and now] taught of God to love one another.
10 And indeed you do it toward all the brethren which are in all Macedonia [all the house, churches, full of dead, sleeping, flesh]: but we beseech you, brethren, that you increase more and more;
11 And that you study to be quiet [yourselves silencing the former corruption, speaking things that were not true, as do the dead], and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you [to given this understanding as received, because in it is the power to awaken the sleeping and raise the dead to life];
12 That you may walk honestly [with this truth] toward them that are without, and that you may have lack of nothing [because of these provisions the LORD has given you].
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 [because they don’t believe the dead rise or that the sleeping can be awakened].
14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him [now when all but the very small elect remnant remain sleeping]. [Again I must digress: those saying a great awakening is happening now are incorrect. People are stirred, knowing evil is present as never before, but they remain asleep until they realize the light that has come, the present good that only comes from God and his word here preached and taught, by the small voice of His elect, who have been first raise by the Archangel manifesting His presence and calling all to God, the origin of the voice, into His united ONE BODY, resurrected from death as He pulls us from the fires of hell.]
15 For this we say unto you by the [this] word of the LORD, that we which are alive and remain [the elect who remain with Him, which is life in His light] unto the coming [parousia – meaning “a being near, i.e. advent (often, return; specially, of Christ to punish Jerusalem, or finally the wicked); (by implication) physically, aspect”] of the LORD shall not prevent [phthano] them which are asleep [without any signs of life, which is light shining from them once the eyes of their understanding are opened].
16 For the LORD himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel [I Am the one He’s chosen to manifest His presence in me first, in this conversation at His mercy seat, in this judgment], and with the trump of God [calling all to awaken and gather to Him in His ONE BODY]: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up [harpazo – pulled from the fire of hell] together with them in the clouds [to His throne, wherein He sits clothed with full understanding], to meet [join as one flesh with] the LORD in the air [He’s cleared of the smoke from the bottomless pit, which darkened the church (the sun) and all the earth]: and so shall we ever be with the LORD.
18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

Jude 1 [also excerpted from the previous post]
3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that you should earnestly contend for the faith which was once [long ago] delivered unto the saints [hagios].
4 For [since then] there are certain men crept in [among you] unawares, who were before of old ordained to this [present] condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness [aselgeia – incontinence, their corrupt conversation they cannot control themselves from spewing], and denying the only LORD God [as it is now logically apparent], and our LORD Jesus Christ.
5 I will therefore put you in remembrance, though you once knew this, how that the LORD, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not [this is what men should fear].
6 And the angels which kept not their first estate [left the charge they vowed to keep, which is to deliver the LORD’s message as received], but left their own habitation [and spoke their own ways and ideas against the LORD], he has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness [their own ignorance] unto the judgment of the great day.
7 Even as Sodom [consumed in flaming fire] and Gomorrah [left an uninhabitable ruin], and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
8 Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.
9 Yet Michael [who is like God, made in His image to manifest His presence] the archangel [who is sent to stand in these last days with this message for humanity, against the whiles of the devils], when contending with the devil[s – the misleaders crept in among us unaware] he disputed about the body of Moses [the LORD’s body of work through Him: the Law], durst not bring against him a railing accusation [blasphemia krisis – he didn’t decide to speak evil against him], but said, The LORD rebuke you [as we are to openly rebuke evil speaking, but not render evil for evil].
10 But these speak evil [their corrupt conversation, uncontrollably spewing their own ignorance of God and, not knowing the time, of these last days] of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts [without the LORD’s Spirit], in those things they corrupt themselves. [see Romans 13, verse 11 saying “And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed {the present reality of what we hoped for}.”],
11 Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.
12 These are spots in your feasts of charity [their evil conversation staining the message the LORD has given, refusing to give it as received], when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear [ignorant of their own destruction]: clouds they are without water [in who this understanding now is, but they refuse to give it as commanded], carried about of winds [of their own false doctrines]; [corrupt] trees whose [corrupt] fruit withers, without fruit, twice dead [of old and now again choosing death], plucked up by the roots;
13 Raging waves of the sea [evil men, blinded by their pride, risen over humanity], foaming out [words from their mouth] their own shame; wandering stars [planets, deceivers, moving erratically in the heavens, places where understanding should be, who can’t be relied on to navigate in the darkness, as can the true stars], to whom [these deceivers] is reserved the blackness of darkness [to wander in their own ignorance] forever.
14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the LORD comes with ten thousands of his saints [hagios – the true stars of heaven [[who remain alive with the LORD]]],
15 To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken [their blasphemy] against him.
16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouths speak great swelling words [of pride], having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage [excusing evil, even calling it good, if it is to their advantage to do so].
17 But, beloved, remember you the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our LORD Jesus Christ;
18 How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time [the time we know is upon us, the last days of darkness covering the earth], who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.
19 These be they who separate themselves [from God and His ONE BODY], sensual, having not the [ONE] Spirit.
20 But you, beloved, building up yourselves [upon this teaching from the LORD himself] on your most holy [hagios] faith [in Christ, the LORD with us, in us, and we in Him], praying in the Holy [hagios] Ghost [conversing with the LORD present, but unseen by the corrupt world],
21 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy [in this conversation at the mercy seat] of our LORD Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
22 And of some have compassion, making a difference [changing their mind, by giving the word from the LORD, declaring it is His presence manifested, come to effectually work to save the world from itself, freeing it from those intentionally corrupting all truth]:
23 And others save with fear [telling them destruction is the end to come for those remaining in the fires these men’s corrupt conversations cause], pulling [harpazo – the word rendered “caught up” in 1 Thessalonians 4:17, which the false prophets, with their evil speaking twist into the false doctrine of an off the planet “rapture,” which is, in reality, His, in us, “pulling”] them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted [stained by the corrupt conversation] by the flesh [those having not the LORD’s Spirit, and therefore remaining ignorant of Him, His truth, and the time at hand, when we gather into His ONE BODY with Him].
24 Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling [with the wicked], and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory [His manifested presence] with exceeding joy [when you realize it is Him and that we’ve reached the end He promised],
25 To the only wise God our Savior, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.

The seven times used Greek word phthano, seen in 1 Thessalonians 4:15, rendered “prevent,” speaks of the elect not rising into the ONE BODY until the sleeping masses are wakened to the moment by hearing the LORD’s still small voice. It (phthano) means “to be beforehand, i.e. anticipate or precede; by extension, to have arrived at:–(already) attain, come, prevent.”

It (phthano) is used one other time as Paul speaks to the Thessalonians, in 1 Thessalonians 2:16 as he describes them receiving his word as the word of God, as it is, as this word is, and thereby (receiving the LORD’s Conversation) are “in the presence of the LORD Jesus Christ at His coming.” In this same description, he speaks of those he later, in 2 Thessalonians 2 & 3, calls the wicked who are sitting in God’s place opposing Him, who are their own countrymen, not allowing them to speak this same word of God to those who don’t know the LORD, upon which (wicked) the LORD’s wrath has come (as foretold by Enoch).

1 Thessalonians 2
3 For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile:
4 But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, which tries our hearts.
5 For neither at any time used we flattering words, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness; God is witness:
6 Nor of men sought we glory, neither of you, nor yet of others, when we might have been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ.
7 But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherishes her children:
8 So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because you were dear unto us.
9 For you remember, brethren, our labor and travail: for laboring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.
10 You are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe:
11 As you know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father does his children,
12 That you would walk worthy of God [renouncing “the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God. 3 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: 4 In whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light {understanding} of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.” 2 Corinthians 4], who has called you unto his kingdom and glory.
13 For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when you received the word of God which you heard of us [exactly as here and now], you received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually works [as the power changing your minds] also in you that believe.
14 For you, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judah are in Christ Jesus: for you also have suffered like things of your own countrymen [as you do here and now], even as they have of the Jews:
15 Who both killed the LORD Jesus [as the false teachers and devil among us have, through their blinding corruption], and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:
16 Forbidding us to speak [this word of God, as received] to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins always: for the wrath [the LORD’s vengeance in the same word, as is spoken of in Hebrews 10:30, quoting Deuteronomy 32: 35 & 36] is come [phthano] upon them to the uttermost [telos – this end the LORD determined, “from a primary tello (to set out for a definite point or goal); properly, the point aimed at as a limit, i.e. (by implication) the conclusion of an act or state (termination (literally, figuratively or indefinitely), result (immediate, ultimate or prophetic), purpose); specially, an impost or levy (as paid)”].
17 But we, brethren, being taken from you for a short time in presence, not in heart, endeavored the more abundantly to see [the LORD’s presence manifest in] your face with great desire.
18 Wherefore we would have come [erchomai – through speaking this word of God] unto you, even I Paul, once and again; but Satan [the spirit in them working] hindered us.
19 For what is our hope [we wait for and fully expect], or joy [the LORD’s presence realized in you], or crown of rejoicing [when He is realized working and speaking in us]? Are not even you [who’ve received this word of God as His word, as it is] in the presence of our LORD Jesus Christ at his coming [parousia]?
20 For you are our glory [when His presence is in you manifested] and joy [realized by you and those who through you hear and obey Him].

Matthew 12
24 But when the Pharisees [the religious, who’ve scattered the dead body of Christ] heard it, they said, This fellow does not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils.
25 And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand:
26 And if Satan cast out Satan, he is divided against himself; how shall then his kingdom stand?
27 And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your children cast them out? therefore they shall be your judges.
28 But if I cast out devils by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God is come [phthano] unto you.
29 Or else how can one enter into a strong man’s house, and spoil his goods, except he first bind the strong man? and then he will spoil his house [as the corrupt houses are spoiled by the present LORD].
30 He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathers not with me scatters abroad.
31 Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men.
32 And whosoever speaks a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaks against the Holy Ghost [the LORD speaking and working unknown to those dead in their own ignorance, proven by them not knowing it’s Him even as He tells them – Acts 13:41 Behold {see Him}, you despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which you shall in no wise believe, though a man declares it {as I Am} unto you.], it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come.
33 Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit.
34 O generation of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart [the foundational mind] the mouth speaks.
35 A good man out of the good treasure of the heart brings forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.
36 But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the [this] day of judgment.
37 For by your words you shall be justified, and by your words you shall be condemned.
38 Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from you.
39 But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonah [coming from the belly of hell and calling all to repent]:
40 For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly [and from there said, “I cried by reason of my affliction unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and you heard my voice.]; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth [which is the habitation of the dead, in the grave in the earth, sheol].
41 The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and, behold, a greater than Jonah is here.
42 The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.

As seen in previous posts: The name Nineveh leads us to the three times used Hebrew word niyn (meaning progeny), from the once-used word nuwn, meaning “to resprout, i.e. propagate by shoots; figuratively, to be perpetual.” As previously discussed, the proper name Nun (Nuwn) is of the father of Oshea (salvation or deliverer), whom Moses named Joshua (Jehovah’s Salvation). Joshua (Jesus – Jehovah’s Salvation personified) is the name (identity) of the perpetual son in whom Jehovah is manifested saving His people. In this context, in the above verse, the LORD’s people are identified by the name Nineveh, the dwelling place of the perpetual children of God (children of the Most High {‘elyown}), who rise in judgment in this last generation (the last of the old which becomes the first of the new).

The above definition is depicted in Psalms 72 where the word nuwn appears in verse 17.

Psalms 72
1 Give the king your judgments, O God, and your righteousness unto the king’s son.
2 He shall judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with judgment.
3 The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the little hills, by righteousness.
4 He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor.
5 They shall fear you as long as the sun and moon endure, throughout all generations.
6 He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth.
7 In his days shall the righteous flourish; and abundance of peace so long as the moon endures.
8 He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth.
9 They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him; and his enemies shall lick the dust.
10 The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents: the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.
11 Yea, all kings shall fall down before him: all nations shall serve him.
12 For he shall deliver the needy when he cries; the poor also, and him that has no helper.
13 He shall spare the poor and needy, and shall save the souls of the needy.
14 He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and precious shall their blood be in his sight.
15 And he shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of Sheba: prayer also shall be made for him continually; and daily shall he be praised.
16 There shall be a handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains; the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon: and they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.
17 His name shall endure forever: his name shall be continued [nuwn] as long [paniym – Jehovah’s perpetual presence in the king’s son] as the sun: and men shall be blessed in him: all nations shall call him blessed.
18 Blessed be the LORD God, the God of Israel, who only does wondrous things.
19 And blessed be his glorious name forever: and let the whole earth be filled with his glory; Amen, and Amen.

Jeremiah 13
15 Hear [shama’ – and obey] you, and give ear; be not proud: for the LORD has spoken.
16 Give glory to the LORD your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.
17 But if you will not hear [shama’ – and obey] it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride; and my eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the LORD’s flock is carried away captive.
18 Say unto the king and to the queen, Humble yourselves, sit down: for your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory.
19 The cities of the south shall be shut up, and none shall open them: Judah shall be carried away captive all of it, it shall be wholly carried away captive.
20 Lift up your eyes, and behold them that come from the north [out of darkness]: where is the flock that was given you, your beautiful flock?
21 What will you say when he shall punish [paqad – come as the Chief Overseer of the earth, to] you? for you have taught them to be captains, and as chief over you: shall not sorrows take you, as a woman in travail?
22 And if you say in your heart, Wherefore come these things upon me? For the greatness of your iniquity are your skirts discovered, and your heels made bare.
23 Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may you also do good, that are accustomed to do evil [whose flesh mind is stained by darkness and misled you into desolation and tribulation].
24 Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passes away by the wind of [their false doctrines: corruption they learned, which brought them into] the wilderness.
25 This is your lot [of those who refuse to hear His voice and obey His commands], the portion of your measures from me, says the LORD; because you have forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.

The point above, as we know, is found in the word shama’, which, in earlier verses, is used saying:

9 Thus says the LORD, After this manner will I mar [shachath – cause to decay into ruin] the pride of Judah [the preparation the leaders of God’s people corrupted, and in their pride refuse to hear My correction back to purity], and the great pride of Jerusalem [God’s people into which these unfaithful leaders worked their leaven, until the whole is corrupted and worthless]. [Matthew 16: 12 “Then understood they how that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of” their leaders who’ve corrupted God’s word as delivered and thereby led the world into darkness and death].
10 This evil people, which refuse to hear [shama’ – or obey] my words, which walk in the imagination of their heart [the creation of their own minds: abomination they put in My place and call by My name], and walk after other gods, to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle [‘ezowr – the preparation left them], which is good for nothing.
11 For as the girdle [‘ezowr] cleaves to the loins of a man, so have I caused to cleave unto me the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah, says the LORD; that they might be unto me for a people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for a glory: but they would not hear [shama’].

The deeper meaning in these verses is found in the word dabaq, twice rendered “cleave” in verse 11, meaning “to impinge, i.e. cling or adhere; figuratively, to catch by pursuit.” It (dabaq) is speaking of God causing His people to depart from these unfaithful and corrupt men, and hear Him alone, joining Him in His ONE BODY as one flesh.

Ephesians 5
32 This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.

The first time the word (dabaq) appears is in Genesis 2:24, saying, “Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave {dabaq} unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.”

The following verse (25) says, “And they were both naked [‘arowm], the man and his wife, and were not ashamed [realizing they reached the expected end].” This verse speaks of man’s creation from the ruin (dust: ashes) of the old earth, raised from death and hell, which are also naked before (in the presence of) the LORD (who sees everything).

Job 26
2 How [as God has] have you helped him that is without power? how [as God has] save you the arm that has no strength?
3 How [as God has] have you counselled him that has no wisdom? and how [as God has] have you plentifully declared the thing as it is?
4 To whom [as God has] have you uttered words? and whose spirit came from you?
5 Dead things are formed from under the waters [in the darkened deep where understanding isn’t seen] and the [dead] inhabitants thereof.
6 Hell [sheol – the habitation of the dead] is naked [dabaq] before him, and destruction [in the words of corrupt men] has no covering [because He has removed it in this apocalypse].
7 He stretches out the north [revealing the darkness] over the empty place [tohuw – “without form” of Genesis 1:2 & Jeremiah 4:23, which the earth became and has become; and the “confusion” of Isaiah 34:11], and hangs [suspends the progress of] the earth upon nothing [the void – of understanding].
8 He binds up the waters in his thick clouds [where understanding is suspended, held in separated elements when it left the earth]; and the cloud is not rent under them [not sending it again to the earth, until the appointed time].
9 He holds back the face [paniym – the presence] of his throne, and spreads his cloud upon it [as a curtain behind which it is hidden].
10 He has compassed [chuwg – meaning full circuit, and only appearing here] the waters with bounds [choq – His decreed appointed time], until the day and night [the time of light tuned to darkness – the full circle of the age] come to an end [takliyth – only used five times, meaning “completion; by implication, an extremity:–end, perfect(-ion)”].
11 The pillars [the established places where understanding should be found] of heaven tremble [so the wicked are shaken from them] and are astonished [tamahh – suddenly dumbfounded] at his reproof.
12 He divides the sea [separating humanity from those who’ve led them into darkness and hold them there in death and hell] with his power, and by his understanding [this light, that is life] he smites through the proud.
13 By his spirit he has garnished [shiphrah – only found here, meaning to fully furnished with light] the heavens; his hand [His work] has formed [chalal – wounded or dissolved] the crooked serpent [the misleaders who now flee away, as serpents slithering through the ruin they’ve made the earth, as seen in the constellations].
14 Lo, these are parts [qatsah – the ends of ages] of his ways: but how little a portion is heard [shama’ – is obeyed] of him? but the thunder [this voice of lightning] of his power who can understand [biyn]?

Deuteronomy 10
20 You shall fear the LORD your God; him shall you serve, and to him shall you cleave [dabaq], and swear by his name.
21 He is your praise, and he is your God, that has done for you these great and terrible things, which your eyes have seen.

Deuteronomy 11
16 Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and you turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;
17 And then the LORD’s wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land [‘adamah – humanity’s new birth] yield not her fruit; and lest you perish quickly from off the good land [‘erets – the earth] which the LORD gives you.
18 Therefore shall you lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.
19 And you shall teach them your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, when you lay down, and when you rise up.
20 And you shall write them upon the door posts of your house, and upon your gates:
21 That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land [‘adamah – humanity’s resurrection to life again in the LORD’s presence] which the LORD swore unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.
22 For if you shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave [dabaq] unto him;
23 Then will the LORD drive out all these nations from before you, and you shall possess greater nations and mightier than yourselves.
24 Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon [from the desolation of the high places where should be purity], from the river, the river Euphrates [this fruitful word that flows from God on high], even unto the uttermost [‘acharown] sea [this last generation in darkness] shall your coast [the limit of the old and corrupt heaven and earth] be.
25 There shall no man be able to stand before you: for the LORD your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you upon all the land [‘erets – the earth] that you shall tread upon, as he has said unto you.
26 Behold, I set before you this day a blessing [this word that flows from the mouth of God alone] and a curse [the doom that comes by cleaving to the corrupt men who’ve led you here into death and hell];
27 A blessing, if you obey [shama’] the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you this day:
28 And a curse, if you will not obey [shama’] the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which you have not known.

Friends, the crux of the matter is faith: believing it is God speaking from the flesh He chooses, not as man sees, but as He Omnipotently sees.

As we’ve seen, the name Samuel is from the words shama’ and El, and speaks of those who do hear and believe, and then do as commanded – which is a simple message: to give His word as received, declaring it is Him alive coming to us, and then alive in us: those who receive Him and carry forward His message.

Hebrews 11
6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that comes to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
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 [who refused the preparation that was prepared before their eyes], and became heir [of this new heaven and earth] 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.

39 And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise:
40 God having provided [this pure preparation] some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect [reaching this expected end].

Hebrews 12
1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses [those in whom this word now dwells, as a preparation to be from them given], let us lay aside every weight, and the sin [the errors of corruotion] which does so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
3 For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners [the corrupt] against himself, lest you be wearied and faint in your minds.
4 You have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.
5 And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks unto you as unto children, My son, despise not you the chastening of the LORD, nor faint when you are rebuked of him:
6 For whom the LORD loves he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives.

Isaiah 45
1 thus says the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus [I Am – the LORD walking with us in the furnace], whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates [out of death and hell]; and the gates [into heaven] shall not be shut;
2 I will go before you, and make the crooked places straight [making pure what was corruopted]: 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 [this truth only hidden in men’s taught ignorance], and hidden riches of secret places, that you mayest know that I, the LORD, which call you by your name, am the God of Israel.
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 [‘azar – with these provisions I prepared: these treasures given] you, though you have not known me [while I spoke and worked among you]:
6 That they may know from the rising of the sun [this understanding returning to His people], and from the west [to be shined upon all in due time], that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else.
7 I [mold into] form [yatsar] the light [to again give the earth form], and create [bara’ – to cut down] darkness: I make [‘asah – not only speak, but do] peace, and create [bara’ – to cut down] evil: I the LORD do [‘asah] all these things.
8 Drop down [ra’aph – this latter rain as distilled waters: purified words], you heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth [‘erets] open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together [to fill the void]; I the LORD have created it [bara’ – after I cut down].
9 Woe unto him that strives with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioned it, What makest you? or your work, He has no hands?
10 Woe unto him that says unto his father, What beget 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 [corrected] sons, and concerning the work of my hands command you me.
12 I have [again] made [‘asah] the earth, and created [bara’ – cut down] man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens [this understanding given in the firmament: this exposition], and all their host [my army I Am raising to life again] have I commanded [to hear My voice and obey My correction].
13 I have raised him up [into life] in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways: he shall build my city [New Heavenly Jerusalem, upon the ruin of the old], and he shall let go my captives, not for price nor reward, says the LORD of hosts [I Am, a man of war].
14 Thus says the LORD, The labor of Egypt [the wicked tyrants sitting in seats of power over God’s people], and merchandise of Ethiopia [those covered in darkness] and of the Sabeans [the drunkards, drunk with power and pride], men of stature, shall come over unto you, and they shall be yours: they shall come after you; in chains [ziyqah – as sparks seen after striking the flint, and caused the fires burning up the earth] 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 God.
15 Truly you are a God that hides yourself [in flesh], O God of Israel, the Savior.
16 They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they shall go to confusion together that are makers of idols.
17 But Israel [My people who, by faith, receive Me and My promise] shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting salvation: you shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end.
18 For thus says the LORD that created the heavens [old and new]; God himself that formed [yatsar] the earth [‘erets] and made it [bara’ – cut it down]; he has established [kuwn] it, he created [bara’ – cut down] it not in vain [for no reason], he formed it [yatsar – gave it form again] to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else.
19 I have not spoken in secret [but rather here before the eyes of all], in a dark place of [not with the words of ignorance that rule] the earth [‘erets], I said not unto the seed of Jacob [those unaware they are wrestling with Me and My word], [diligently] Seek you me in vain [for no reason, but I promised you would find Me when faith comes]: I the LORD speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.
20 Assemble yourselves [into My ONE BODY] and come; draw near together, you that are escaped of the nations [those who remain in darkness refusing the hear, see, and obey Me]: they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image [abominations they put in My place and call 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 [shama’ – in the flesh the first to hear and obey these provisions, at My will raising Myself as needed, as the Chief Overseer of the earth: its author and finisher] this from ancient time? who has told it from that time? 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, 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 against him shall be ashamed.
25 In the LORD shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory.

Deuteronomy 13
1 If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and gives you a sign or a wonder,
2 And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spoke unto you, saying, Let us go after other gods, which you have not known, and let us serve them;
3 You shall not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proves you, to know whether you love the LORD your God [above all other gods] with all your heart and with all your soul.
4 You shall walk after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and you shall serve him, and cleave [dabaq] unto him.

Deuteronomy 30
11 For this commandment which I command you this day, it is not hidden from you, neither is it far off [rachowq – it isn’t an evil decree as those now ruling this corrupt world].
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 it [shama’], and do it [‘asah]?
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 it [shama’], and do it [‘asah]?
14 But the word is very nigh unto you, in your mouth [to be spoken as commanded], and in your heart, that you mayest do it [‘asah].
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 – earth] whither you go to possess it.
17 But if your heart turn away, so that you will not hear [shama’ – and obey: do], 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 – the people I Am creating], whither you pass over [‘abar – from death into life] Jordan [overcoming the words of men that carried all humanity in its descent into death and hell] to go to possess it.
19 I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life [choose this understanding from the mouth of God, over all other voices], 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 [dabaq] unto him: for he is your life, and the length of your days: that you mayest dwell in the land [‘adamah – this new generation the LORD is creating] which the LORD swore unto your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.

1 Samuel 16
11 And Samuel [Shama’ El – those who hear and obey God’s voice] said unto Jesse, Are here all your children? And he said, There remains yet the youngest, and, behold, he keeps the sheep. And Samuel said unto Jesse, Send and fetch him: for we will not sit down till he comes hither.
12 And he sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, and withal of a beautiful countenance, and goodly to look to. And the LORD said, Arise, anoint him: for this is he. [“for the LORD sees not as man sees; for man looks on the outward appearance, but the LORD looks on the heart.”]

Psalms 65
1 Praise waits for you, O God, in Zion: and unto you shall the vow be performed.
2 O you that hears prayer, unto you shall all flesh come.
3 Iniquities prevail against me: as for our transgressions, you shall purge them away.
4 Blessed is the man whom you choose, and cause to approach unto you, that he may dwell in your courts: we shall be satisfied with the goodness of your house, even of your holy temple.
5 By terrible things in righteousness will you answer us, O God of our salvation; who are the confidence of all the ends of the earth [ending the old and beginning the new], and of them that are afar off [rachowq – now when the world is ruled by evil decree] upon the sea [this last generation that becomes the first]:
6 Which by his strength [understanding and its power to correct] sets [kuwn] fast the mountains [the new government apart from the corrupt]; being girded [‘azar – provided] with power:
7 Which stills the noise of the seas, the noise of their waves, and the tumult of the people.
8 They also that dwell in the uttermost parts are afraid at your tokens [showing the time]: you make the outgoings of the morning and evening to rejoice.
9 You visit [paqad – as the Chief Overseer] the earth [‘erets], and water it [with Your word]: you greatly enriched it with the river of God [sent to the sea], which is full of water: you preparest them corn, when you have so provided for it [these treasures reserved to be revealed in this time of war].
10 You water the ridges thereof abundantly: you settle the furrows thereof: you make it soft with showers: you bless the springing [of new life] thereof.
11 You crown the year with your goodness; and your paths drop fatness.
12 They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness: and the little hills rejoice on every side.
13 The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing.

Job 38
4 Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if you have understanding.
5 Who has laid the measures thereof, if you know? or who has stretched the line upon it?
6 Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone [I Am] thereof;
7 When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

Psalms 82
1 God stands in the congregation of the mighty; he judges among the gods.
2 How long will you judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.
3 Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
4 Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked.
5 They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness [ignorance]: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.
6 I have said, You are gods; and all of you are children of the Most High.
7 But you shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes.
8 Arise, O God, judge the earth: for you shall inherit all nations.