21 – 25 April 2024
Behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.
The above, from Isaiah 65:17, comes after the LORD says He is found by those who weren’t seeking Him, while at the same time the religious, who are seeking Him, but looking in the corrupt false teaching of the false prophets they follow and obey, are telling Him to stay away from them because He isn’t as holy as they are.
Matthew 7
20 Wherefore by their fruits you shall know them.
21 Not every one that says unto me, LORD, LORD, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that does the will of my Father which is in heaven.
22 Many [doing their own will and refusing to do the Father’s] will say to me in that day, LORD, LORD, have we not prophesied in your name? and in your name have cast out devils? and in your name done many wonderful works?
23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me [from the midst of My ONE BODY], you that work iniquity [scattering and misleading My people into death and hell].
24 Therefore whosoever hears these sayings of mine, and does them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a Rock [from whom this word of God flows]:
25 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a Rock.
26 And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and does them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand [the ever-changing positions of men]:
27 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.
28 And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended these sayings, the people were astonished at his doctrine:
29 For he taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes [who say they know the written word of God, while not knowing the Writer thereof].
Isaiah 65
11 But you are they that forsake the LORD, that forget my holy mountain, that prepare a table for that troop [the enemy army at war against Me], and that furnish the drink offering unto that number.
12 Therefore will I number you to the sword, and you shall all bow down to the slaughter: because when I called, you did not answer; when I spoke, you did not hear [shama’ – meaning “to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.)”]; but did evil before my eyes, and did choose [your own ways] that wherein I delighted not.
13 Therefore thus says the LORD God, Behold, my servants shall eat, but you shall be hungry: behold, my servants shall drink, but you shall be thirsty: behold, my servants shall rejoice, but you shall be ashamed:
14 Behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but you shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation [sheber – the destruction and affliction that comes from following false interpretations hidden behind a wall of lies] of [evil] spirit.
15 And you shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen: for the LORD God shall slay you, and call his servants by another [new] name:
16 That he who blesses himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth; and he that swears in the earth shall swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles [tsarah – tribulation] are forgotten, and because they are hid from my eyes.
17 For, behold, I create [bara’ – after cutting down the old and corrupt] new heavens and a new earth [wherein dwell righteousness]: and the former [corruption] shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.
18 But be you glad and rejoice forever in that which I create: for, behold, I create [New Heavenly] Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.
19 And I will rejoice in [New Heavenly] Jerusalem, and joy in my people: and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying.
2 Peter 3
1 This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds [by which we see the LORD] by way of remembrance [who you are in Christ]:
2 That you may be mindful [remember] of the words which were spoken before by the holy [uncorrupted] prophets [who repeated my words as received], and of the commandment of us the apostles of the LORD and Savior:
3 Knowing this first, that there shall [have] come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God [this same word of God] the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition [apoleia] of ungodly men.
8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the LORD as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
9 The LORD is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but [they being blind, don’t see He] is [here] long-suffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
10 But the day of the LORD will come [as it has come] as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements [stoicheion – the corrupt foundational ideas and ways of men] shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in all holy [uncorrupted] conversation and godliness,
12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements [stoicheion] shall melt with fervent heat?
13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwells righteousness.
14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that you look for such things, be diligent that you may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.
15 And account that the longsuffering of our LORD is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him has written unto you;
16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable [asteriktos – able to be moved by deceivers] wrestle, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction [apoleia – perdition].
The “commandment,” from the Greek word entole, spoken of above in 2 Peter 3:2, is LORD thereby referring us to the same “commandment” given (to me) in 1 Timothy 6.
1 Timothy 6
1 Let as many servants as are under the yoke [joined here with the revealed LORD] count their own masters [despotes – to whom they are bound together] worthy of all honor, that the name [identity] of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed.
2 And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren; but rather do them service, because they are faithful and beloved, partakers of the benefit. These things teach and exhort.
3 If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our LORD Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness;
4 He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strife of words, whereof comes envy, strife, railings, evil surmising,
5 Perverse disputing of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw yourself.
6 But godliness with contentment is great gain.
7 For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.
8 And having food and raiment let us be therewith content.
9 But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.
10 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
11 But you, O man of God [I Am, Timothy, the title only appearing here in the New Testament], flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.
12 Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto you are also called, and have professed [homologeo] a good profession [homologia – given the same words] before many witnesses.
13 I give you charge in the sight of God, who quickens all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession [homologia];
14 That you keep this commandment [entole – the charge I have vowed to keep] without spot [unstained by men’s corruption], unrebukable, until the appearing [epiphaneia – the epiphany, the moment of realization, of the presence] of our LORD Jesus Christ:
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.
17 Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not high-minded [thinking their wealth makes them superior], nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who gives us richly all things to enjoy;
18 That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate [this good word of God];
19 Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay [as I have] hold on eternal life.
20 O Timothy, keep that which is committed to your trust [this dispensation the Father has given me], avoiding profane and vain babblings [which have become the language of this generation], and oppositions of science falsely so called [antithesis gnosis pseudonumos – the arguments falsely named knowledge {anti-truth used against this truth of God}]:
21 Which some professing [epaggellos – announce themselves as if they are the authors and finishers] have erred concerning the faith.
Hebrews 12
20 (For they could not endure that which was commanded [to do God’s will, obey His commands, and seek peace with all men], And if so much as a beast [refusing His Spirit] touch the mountain [those without His correction, who attempt to come into His presence], it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart:
21 And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:)
22 But you are come unto mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaks better things than that of Abel.
25 See that you refuse not him that speaks. For if they escaped not who refused him that spoke on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaks from heaven [the kingdom of God, full understanding in His presence]:
26 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he has promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.
27 And this word, Yet once more, signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made [the leaven, which, by the unfaithful, has been fully worked into the lump, corrupting it all], that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.
28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
29 For our God is a consuming fire.
Hebrews 13
1 Let brotherly love [philadelphia – friendliness to brothers] continue [contrasted with Esau, the enemies mixed among us claiming to be friends and brothers while they war against us, seeking to destroy us, our culture, and our nation under God].
2 Be not forgetful to entertain strangers [those whose word’s you don’t yet understand]: for thereby some have entertained angels [the messengers of God] unawares.
3 Remember them that are in bonds [bound to a charge], as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body [ONE BODY joined with them].
4 Marriage is honorable in all [joining into ONE BODY], and the bed undefiled [as did Reuben, who went into His father’s bed and defiled it, in the pattern of the sons of perdition who put themselves in God’s place and there oppose Him]: but whoremongers [who buy and sell the souls of men] and adulterers God will judge [those who’ve left Him to follow other men who’ve put themselves in His place].
5 Let your conversation be without covetousness [lust for what you don’t have]; and be content with such things as you have [pareimi – which is the LORD’s presence, His “coming” (parousia), with and in us]: for he has said, I will never leave you, nor forsake you.
6 So that we may boldly say, The LORD is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.
7 Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the [this] word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation [where we have now arrived, understanding on this third day, “forever” as below].
8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever.
9 Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines [of false teachers and false prophets]. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace [this gift, His treasure He has long suffered to make sure our understanding]; not with meats [not with things created by dead flesh], which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.
10 We have an altar [that is undefiled by man], whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle [the old corrupt body, from where we must depart].
11 For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp.
12 Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify [separate us from the old body] the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate [into the wilderness].
13 Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach. [Psalms 69:9 For the zeal of your house has eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproach you are fallen upon me.]
14 For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come [New Jerusalem in the new heaven and earth, wherein dwells righteousness].
15 By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.
16 But to do good and to communicate [freely giving this word of God as received] forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
17 Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.
When the LORD, in Hebrews 13:1, speaks of the philadelphia (brotherly love) continuing, He is referring us to its other (five) and its use as a proper name in Revelation 3:7.
Romans 12
9 Let love be without dissimulation [fraudulent, as is Esau’s toward us]. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.
10 Be kindly affectioned [philostorgos – friendly to those we call brethren] one to another with brotherly love [philadelphia]; in honor preferring one another;
11 Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the LORD;
12 Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer [conversation with the LORD];
13 Distributing [this word received in the conversation] to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality [philonexia – the same word rendered “entertain strangers” in Hebrews 13:2, speaking of this before unheard word, not understood to be coming from Him through His messengers showing His friendship].
1 Thessalonians 4
6 That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the LORD is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.
7 For God has not called [kaleo] us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.
8 He therefore that despises, despises not man, but God, who has also given unto us his holy Spirit.
9 But as touching brotherly love [philadelphia] you need not that I write unto you: for you yourselves are taught of God to love [agapao – to give this word as received] one another.
10 And indeed you do it toward all the brethren which are in all Macedonia [held in the houses of dead flesh, the churches where they therein sleep]: but we beseech you, brethren, that you increase [in understanding] more and more;
11 And that you study to be quiet [stop your own worthless words, ignorance you’ve been taught by the dead, which teaching keeps the dead asleep], and to do [mind] your own business, and to work [this work of God] with your own hands [as His], as we commanded you;
12 That you may walk honestly toward them that are without [to help them come out of these tombs and into the light], and that you [as ONE BODY] may have lack of nothing.
13 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that you sorrow not, even as others which have no hope [of the dead rising].
14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring [to life] with him.
15 For this we say unto you by the word of the LORD [speaking and working through us], that we [the elect remnant] which are alive and remain [who’ve survived the enemy attacks on our sound minds] unto the coming [parousia – the presence, referring to its uses in 2 Thessalonians 2: 8 & 9 below] of the LORD shall not prevent [phthano – refers us to its use in Matthew 12:28 and Luke 11:20 where the LORD tells of His “coming” when He has, by the finger of God, cast out Satan, the devils possessing] them which are asleep.
16 For the LORD himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel [I Am, His messenger], and with the trump of God [this voice calling all to awaken and join 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 – as in Jude 1:23, shall be pulled from the fires] together [into His ONE BODY] with them in the clouds [into full understanding], to meet the LORD in the air [He has cleared of the smoke from the bottomless pit, the endless fall away from God, which darkened the sun: caused ignorance in the churches: as meal fully leavened by the unfaithful]: and so shall we ever be with the LORD.
18 Wherefore comfort [parakaleo – call alongside: the LORD unknown in you calling all into His ONE BODY] one another with these words [we are commanded by the Master to speak as received].
As we know, the wicked Paul later speaks in 2 Thessalonians 2, are those he also describes in 1 Thessalonians 2 and later in 2 Thessalonians 3. In the first, they are those he describes as Satan hindering him, the powers, not allowing this word received as God’s (by those who are thereby in the presence of the LORD Jesus Christ at His coming; parousia) to be spoken, revealing Him to those who don’t know Him. In the second, they are wicked and unreasonable men who refuse to give this word free course so it can be received as it has by those He now, thereby, dwells in and speaks through (unseen and unknown, as the Paraclete, the ONE alongside calling, long-suffering until He chooses to reveal Himself). He says we should pray, converse with the LORD, to be freed from these wicked men who are the mystery of iniquity already at work sitting in God’s place, doing the work of Satan, with lying signs and wonders misleading all into mass delusion; men he says are withholding and letting (katecho – to hold down) God’s people, keeping them from rising to meet the LORD (in the air cleared, when light is again seen, bringing them into full understanding: into heaven). He says these men, possessed by the spirit of Satan, will do so, sit in God’s place holding His people down, until they are (mesos) taken out of our midst (exercised from, worked out of, our minds by His word that effectually therein works).
Friends, I tell you the truth: the whole (now dead body of Christ) is leavened, meaning they are those who’ve put themselves in God’s place throughout history have corrupted all His word, which each interprets (believing they are awake, whose voices are the loudest), thinking they know the LORD but never have, and prove it by going their own way over and over again. I have no control over what men choose and will not force anyone to accept this message, but, by their choice (krisis – the decision they make) they will, judged by their words, live or remain dead (endlessly looking everywhere while seeing nothing, ever learning worthless things and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth: the knowledge of God). “For many are called [kletos], but few are chosen.”
1 Corinthians 1
9 God is faithful, by whom you were called [kaleo] unto the fellowship [koinonia – partnership: participation in His long-suffering] of his Son Jesus Christ our LORD. [Philippians 3: 10 That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship {koinonia} of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death; 11 If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.]
10 Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name [identity] of our LORD Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing [according to this word], and that there be no divisions among you; but that you be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
The word koinonia is (by Divine intention) a homophone (and synonym) with the Hebrew name Conaniah (Cononiah & Coniah; respectively a Levite ruler and the last of the enthroned kings, who also appears in Matthew’s lineage of Jesus), from the words kuwn and Jehovah, meaning Jehovah will establish (those who join Him in His long-suffering).
The word “chosen,” speaking of those to whom the LORD reveals Himself after His work unknown, is eklektos, the word also rendered “elect.” It (eklektos) is said to be from the words ek and lego, meaning through hearing this word as His word; lego meaning to “lay” forth, i.e. (figuratively) relate (in words (usually of systematic or set discourse)) by implication, to give meaning.
This preaching is the “entrance” Paul describes in 1 Thessalonians 2:1, from the five times used word eisodos (which comes after the exodus: departing those oppressing you by their corrupt teaching) and time in the wilderness (the time when LORD, through His chosen leader, with manna from heaven and water from His Rock, overwrites our minds replacing corruption with His righteousness). Paul, after telling of the entrance and those who receive his word as they are, from the LORD speaking directly to them through him (as the Paraclete, working unknown in this way, and speaking of reaching the promised expected end), through asking a question, tells them (as I tell you, those who’ve received this word as the word of God the Father) they are in the presence of the LORD Jesus Christ at His coming (parousia).
This sequence of events is the pattern of entering the LORD’s presence: into the Holy of Holies, seeing him hidden behind a veil of flesh, hearing Him at His mercy seat, as depicted by the cherubims face to face, and rising with their wings into full understanding: the joy of the giver and receiver when realizing we are in His presence manifested, in our flesh, in the conversation.
Friends, these are simple descriptions, only hidden in the blinding corruption men cultivated throughout history. They silenced this truth and replaced it with their own opinions they teach as doctrine, which brought forth the corrupt fruit of mass confusion, turned delusion, and now become the mass insanity by which wicked men, in church and state, rule the world.
Hear Him speaking, and, for good’s sake, obey Him.
Acts 13
23 Of this man’s seed has God according to his promise raised unto Israel a Saviour, Jesus:
24 When John had first preached before his coming [eisodos] the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.
25 And as John fulfilled his course, he said, Whom think you that I am? I am not he. But, behold, there comes one after me, whose shoes of his feet I am not worthy to loose.
26 Men and brethren, children of the stock of Abraham [children born again into God’s promise to him], and whosoever among you fears God, to you is the word of this salvation sent.
27 For they that dwell at [old and corrupt] Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not [the LORD present veiled in his flesh], nor yet the voices of the prophets [through which He spoke of Himself coming in this way] which are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him [as He foretold].
28 And though they found no cause of death in him, yet desired they Pilate [in my time, Tom Fetzer and Robin Hayes] that he should be slain.
29 And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a sepulcher [among the dead].
30 But God raised him from the dead:
31 And he was seen many days of them which came up [rose from their grave to life] with him from Galilee [His inner circle, who with me went through this full cycle] to [New Heavenly] Jerusalem, who [the elect who reach this entry, when opening their mouth and speaking this word as given] are his witnesses unto the people.
32 And we declare unto you glad tidings, how that the promise which was made unto the fathers,
33 God has fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he has raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in the second psalm [the Father here declaring us, His ONE BODY], “You are my Son, this day have I begotten you” [Hear Him].
34 And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he said on this wise, I will give you the sure mercies of David [correcting us, and never leaving us].
35 Wherefore he says also in another psalm, You shall not suffer your Holy One to see corruption.
36 For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption [in death, here and now in hell]:
37 But he, whom God raised again [from death and hell], saw no corruption.
38 Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins:
39 And by him all that believe are justified from all things [from past corruption raised into His righteousness], from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses [only by this long-suffering voice of the LORD heard and followed].
40 Beware therefore, lest that come upon you, which is spoken of in the prophets;
41 Behold, you despisers [of this truth], and wonder [not knowing what you are experiencing], and perish [in your own corruption]: for I work a work in your days, a work which you shall in no wise believe, though a man [in whom I live] declare it unto you [as I Am].
1 Corinthians 1
19 For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.
20 Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
21 For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
22 For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:
23 But we preach Christ crucified [long-suffering, preaching a message the world thinks is foolishness, to save the wise and the world from their opinions], unto the Jews a stumbling-block, and unto the Greeks foolishness;
24 But unto them which are called [kletos – by the Paraclete, the LORD coming unknown to those ignorant of Him], both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God [in which He reveals Himself to His “chosen”].
25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
26 For you see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:
27 But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God has chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;
28 And base things of the world, and things which are despised, has God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to naught things that are:
29 That no flesh should glory in his presence.
30 But of him are you in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:
31 That, according as it is written, He that glories, let him glory in the LORD [see Jeremiah 9:24].
Jeremiah 9
20 Yet hear the word of the LORD, O you women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbor lamentation.
21 For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces [of church and state], to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets.
22 Speak, Thus says the LORD, Even the carcasses of men shall fall as dung upon the open field [the now totally corrupt earth, where all but the elect are dead], and [the elect remnant only remain alive] as the handful after the harvestman, and none [none of the leaders, men sitting in seats of power, whose voices the dead follow] shall gather them.
23 Thus says the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches:
24 But let him that glories glory in this, that he understands [my voice] and knows me, that I am the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, says the LORD.
Before Paul speaks of the eisodos, in 1 Thessalonians 2:1, he describes it precisely, in 1 Thessalonians 1:9, to the Thessalonians (of Thessalonike); the name meaning they are those who’ve gotten the “victory over falsity;” now speaking of those who’ve gotten the victory over the false teaching of false prophets mixed among us.
1 Thessalonians 1
4 Knowing, brethren beloved [agapao – to whom this word of the LORD has come], your election [ekloge – through this word, ek lego] of God.
5 For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost [the Paraclete working among you unknown], and in much assurance; as you know what manner of men we were among you for your sake.
6 And you became followers of us, and of the LORD, having received the word in much affliction [thlipsis – tribulation, as in Matthew 24:9, 21, & 29], with joy of the Holy Ghost [when you realized our preaching is the LORD present with us, in us].
7 So that you were examples to all that believe in Macedonia and Achaia [who were in the houses of dead flesh, in tribulation].
8 For from you [your opened mouths] sounded out the word of the LORD not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith to God-ward [declaring His presence in this word heard as received] is spread abroad; so that we need not to speak any thing [because you are speaking the same words you received from us: from Paul and now Timothy, I Am].
9 For they themselves show of us what manner of entering in [eisodos – preaching that culminates in realizing we are in the LORD’s presence] we had unto you, and how you turned to God from idols to [now] serve the living and true God [as I Am serving Him];
10 And to wait for [anemeno – only used here, and means to repeat the presence of] his Son from heaven [with full understanding], whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.
1 Peter 1
2 Elect [eklektos] according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our LORD Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy has begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
4 To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fades not away, reserved [for this moment] in heaven for you,
5 Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time [this ‘achariyth, the foretold end of darkness, when the old heaven and earth end and are replaced with the new, wherein dwells righteousness].
6 Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, you are in heaviness through manifold temptations [that works into patience]:
7 That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perishes, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honor and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:
8 Whom having not seen, you love; in whom, though now you see him not, yet believing [it is His presence manifested in our conversation], you [at this realization] rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory [His presence manifested in you as you speak this same word]:
9 Receiving the end of your faith [in His presence], even the salvation of your souls.
10 Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace [this gift] that should come unto you:
11 Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it [He] testified beforehand the [long-] sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.
12 Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost [the Paraclete, the LORD unknown speaking and working among us] sent down from heaven [with full understanding]; which things the angels [those given parts of the message] desire to look into.
13 Wherefore gird up the loins [prepare your inner man] of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace [this gift, from which comes salvation] that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;
14 As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
15 But as he which has called [kaleo] you is holy, so be you holy [without corruption] in all manner of conversation [in which the LORD’s presence is revealed];
16 Because it is written, Be you holy [in your conversation]; for I am holy.
17 And if you call on the Father, who without respect of persons judges according to every man’s work [whether redeeming and gathering by His words or scattering with their own], pass the time of your sojourning here [as pilgrims and strangers in the corrupt world] in fear:
18 Forasmuch as you know that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers [who taught you their degenerate corruption];
19 But with the precious blood [this necessary sacrifice to deliver the Father’s word while declaring it is His presence] of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:
20 Who truly was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times [this ‘achariyth] for you,
21 Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.
22 Seeing you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren [philadelphia], see that you love [agapao – give this word as receive] one another with a pure heart [you minds without the former corruption, by which we see the LORD; Matthew 5:8, saying “Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.”] fervently [ektenos – ek tino, only appearing here, meaning through paying the necessary price, which is taking up His cross and following Him alone, out of corruption into understanding, out of death and hell into life and heaven]
23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which lives and abides forever.
24 For all [corruptible] flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower thereof falls away:
25 But the [uncorrupted] word of the LORD endures forever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.
These last verses are quoted from Isaiah 40:6 – 8, words the LORD tells Isaiah to speak (and write). The same words the LORD tells Peter to repeat, whereby He invokes the words following.
Isaiah 40
6 The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:
7 The grass withers, the flower fades: because the spirit of the LORD blows upon it: surely the people is grass.
8 The grass withers, the flower fades: but the word of our God shall stand [uncorrupted] forever.
9 O Zion [a people not a place {as described in Hebrews 12 above}, from the words tsiyuwn {conspicuousness}, from tisyown {dry place, wilderness}; speaking of the people raised there to rule the world {the meek who inherit the earth; as in Matthew 5:5} as the LORD’s arm; this {conspicuousness} is what the LORD speaks of as the {shining city on a hill: his enlightened people: as in Matthew 5, see below], that bring good tidings, get you up into the high mountain [under the LORD’s rule, in His kingdom her on the earth]; O Jerusalem, that brings good tidings, lift up your voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God!
10 Behold, the LORD God will come with strong hand, and his arm shall rule for him: behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.
11 He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.
12 Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
13 Who has directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his counselor has taught him?
14 With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and showed to him the way of understanding?
Matthew 5
1 And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him:
2 And he opened his mouth [as the Father commanded me], and taught them, saying,
3 Blessed are the poor in spirit [without worldly power or postion]: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
4 Blessed are they that mourn [for the earth become without form and void, when all understanding is darkened]: for they shall be comforted.
5 Blessed are the meek [not destroying as do the destroyers of the earth]: for they shall inherit the earth.
6 Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
7 Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.
8 Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
9 Blessed are the peacemakers [teaching and preaching His ways of sustainable peace and security through mutual respect for the life, liberty, and property of all, through equal justice]: for they shall be called the children of God.
10 Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
11 Blessed are you, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
13 You are the salt of the earth: but if the salt [God’s people] have lost his savor, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.
14 You are the light [understanding and life] of the world. A [conspicuous] city that is set on a hill [Zion] cannot be hid.
15 Neither do men light a candle [as I have enlightened you], and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it gives light [this word, this understanding, this life] unto all that are in the house [all who are invited into the family of God, made His children by His correction].
16 Let your light so shine [as the sun rising, shining from east to west, this word the Father has given us to be given] before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
18 For truly I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
19 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do [obey and repeat this word] and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
20 For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees [the religious who are now realized to be the darkened sun], you shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Hebrews 12
1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses [Hebrews 11:39 And these all, having obtained a good report {the Father testifying of them in His testimony, the shmuw’ah, that they believed Him, and did His will on earth} through faith, received not the promise: 40 God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.], let us lay aside every weight [the burdens of men’s words], and the sin [missing the mark {of righteousness through faith}] 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 [the crowning that comes when God is seen in him] 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 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 [agapao – shows charity] he chastens [corrects through the testimony He gives, through those He first gave His treasures], and scourges every son whom he receives.
7 If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chastens not?
8 But if you be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are you bastards, and not sons.
14 Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the LORD:
15 Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;
16 Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau [who became an enemy among us], who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.
17 For you know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.
2 Thessalonians 2
1 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming [parousia] of our LORD Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together [episunagoge – only used here and in Hebrews 10:25 where we’re told not to forsake this {egkateleipo – meaning let this survive when all else doesn’t, as in Hebrews 13:5, when the LORD says he is the one who will remain when all others don’t} as do others; it means a complete collection] unto him,
2 That you be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.
3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away [apostasia – apostasy, defection from truth, standing away from God {because the fallen say they are holier than Him, as in Isaiah 65:5}, as in the bottomless pit John see in Revelation 9:2] first, and that man of sin be revealed [those putting themselves in the Father’s place, in the pattern of Rueben], the son of perdition [apoleia – as in 2 Peter 2:1, 2 & 3 & 3:7 & 16, as used in Revelation twice {in Revelation 17:8 & 11, which happen to the eighth church, who becomes part of Babylon {the mass confusion that rules the world} and ascended from the bottomless pit into perdition, which we’re told in 2 Peter 3:16 is the destruction that comes to the ignorant who wrestle with this word of God to their own “destruction”];
4 Who oppose and exalt himself [Satan in them working and speaking] above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sits in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God [as do the many antichrists among us, preaching and teaching their own ways and ideas in LORD’s name].
5 Remember you not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
6 And now you know what withholds [katecho – holds you, keeping God’s people from joining Him in His ONE BODY] that he might be revealed in his time.
7 For the mystery of iniquity does already work [these wicked men we’re already working, as Paul earlier describes in 1 Thessalonians 2, Satan working in them to keep this true word of God from being heard, as he also speaks of in 2 Thessalonians 3] only he who now lets [katecho – who were then holding God’s people down, oppressing them so the word of God wouldn’t have free course and be receives as His, as it is] will let [will hold you down], until he be taken out of the way [mesos – these men and their teaching taken out of our midst].
8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the LORD shall consume [as in Hebrews 12 above] with the spirit of [fire from] His mouth [shaking heaven and earth, so the wicked are shaken from them], and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming [parousia]:
9 Even him [the LORD], whose coming [parousia] is after the working of Satan [in wicked men] with all power [in church and state] and signs and lying wonders [which caused the apostasy and fool men into following them and not the LORD among us, who said “I will never leave you or forsake you”],
10 And [these wicked men] with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. [And I must again here digress; I hear many people speaking of those they think are prophets because they saw this or that event occurring. These men are not prophets of God, and we know because they lack one thing, the knowledge of God. These are those bumbling about seeking what they will never find, never saying “Thus says the LORD” and, not knowing the time of their visitation, never speaking the words He here alone reveals. Thus says the LORD, “If they speak not according to this word there is no light in them.” They are those, too superstitious, Paul {the LORD in him} speaks to and of on Mars’ Hill.]
11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie [believing their own opinions are truth, as they do: “I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spoke, they did not hear: but they did evil before my eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not.” Isaiah 66:4]:
12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
13 But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethren beloved of the LORD, because God has from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:
14 Whereunto he called [kaleo] you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our LORD Jesus Christ.
15 Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions [paradosis – transmitted, given as received, as in I Corinthians 11:2] which you have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.
16 Now our LORD Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which has loved [agapao – given His word to] us, and has given us everlasting consolation [paraklesis – from the Paraclete, the LORD working among us unknown] and good hope through grace [this gift],
17 Comfort [parakaleo] your hearts [continue His calling from your sound mind], and establish you in every good word and work.
1 Peter 2
1 Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speaking,
2 As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that you may grow thereby:
3 If so be you have tasted that the LORD is gracious.
4 To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen [eklektos] of God, and precious,
5 You also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
6 Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Zion a chief corner stone, elect [eklektos], precious: and he that believes on him shall not be confounded.
7 Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner,
8 And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.
9 But you are a chosen [eklektos] generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people; that you should show forth the praises of him who has called you out of darkness into his marvelous light;
10 Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
11 Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
12 Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles [those who don’t know the LORD]: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation [episkope – the days of the Chief Overseer].
Above, Peter tells us (those who remain alive in this ‘achariyth, these last days) the one coming is (as I Am) one of God’s elect, joined with all His other elect in His ONE BODY.
Thus says the LORD:
Isaiah 32
9 Rise up, you women that are at ease [lukewarm church]; hear my voice, you careless daughters; give ear unto my speech.
10 Many days and years shall you be troubled, you careless women: for the vintage shall fail, the gathering [into MyONE BODY] shall not come.
11 Tremble, you women that are at ease; be troubled, you careless ones: strip you [from your sleep in death], and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins.
12 They [My children you refuse to nourish with My word] shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.
13 Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers [misleaders and deceivers]; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:
14 Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens [of beast without My Spirit] forever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;
15 Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest.
16 Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field.
17 And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance forever.
18 And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places;
19 When it shall hail [My word reserved in heaven for this timeof war, sent against the current crop of corrupt leaders], coming down on the forest; and the city shall be low in a low place.
20 Blessed are you that sow beside all waters [giving My word as received], that send forth thither the feet of the ox and the ass [doing My work in the earth].
Isaiah 33
1 Woe to you that spoil, and you were not spoiled; and deal treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with you! when you shall cease to spoil, you shall be spoiled; and when you shall make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with you.
2 O LORD, be gracious unto us; we have waited for [qavah – expected] you: be you their arm every morning, our salvation [yshuw’ah – Joshua: our Jesus, Jehovah’s Salvation in the flesh of His declared perpetual son] also in the time of trouble [trarah – this tribulation].
3 At the noise [qowl- the voice of Jehovah] of the tumult [hamown – the shout of His multitude] the people fled; at the lifting up [romemuth – only used here, meaning exaltation; the voice of the LORD raised above all others] of yourself the nations were scattered.
4 And your spoil shall be gathered like the gathering of the caterpillar [until nothing is left]: as the running to and fro [seeking the knowledge of the LORD] of locusts shall he run upon them [until none are left untouched by the understanding, wisdom, and knowledge they give as received].
5 The LORD is exalted; for he dwells on high: he has filled Zion with judgment and righteousness.
6 And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability [‘emuwn – faithfulness and truth of His office as the Chief Overseer of the earth] of your times, and strength of salvation [yshuw’ah]: the fear of the LORD is his treasure.
Revelation 3
7 And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things says he that is holy, he that is true, he that has the key of David, he that opens, and no man shuts; and shuts, and no man opens;
8 I know your works: behold, I have set before you an open door, and no man can shut it: for you have a little strength, and have kept my word, and have not denied my name.
9 Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews [who say they are the elect, “These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is LORD of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen {eklektos}, and faithful.” Revelation 17:14], and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before your feet, and to know that I have loved you.
10 Because you have kept the word of my patience, I also will keep you from the hour of temptation [when all doubt My presence], which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.
11 Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which you have, that no man take your crown.
12 Him that overcomes [the ignorance and confusion that rules the world] will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is New [Heavenly] Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.
13 He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says unto the churches.
14 And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things says the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;
15 I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot: I would you were cold or hot.
16 So then because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew you out of my mouth.
17 Because you [ignorant of your condition] say, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and know not that you are wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
18 I counsel you to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that you mayest be rich; and white raiment, that you mayest be clothed, and that the shame of your nakedness do not appear; and anoint your eyes with eye-salve, that you mayest see.
19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
20 Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
21 To him that overcomes will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.
22 He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says unto the churches.
Psalms 17
1 Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that go not out of feigned [deceiving] lips.
2 Let my sentence come forth from your presence; let your eyes behold the things that are equal.
3 You have proved my heart; you have visited [paqad – as the Chief Overseer of the earth] me in the night; you have tried me, and shall find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.
4 Concerning the works of men, by the word of your lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer.
5 Hold up my goings in your paths, that my footsteps slip not.
6 I have called upon you, for you will hear me, O God: incline your ear unto me, and hear my speech.
7 Show your marvelous lovingkindness, O you that saves by your right hand them which put their trust in you from those that rise up against them.
8 Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of your wings,
9 From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who compass me about.
10 They are enclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.
11 They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth;
12 Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
13 Arise, O LORD, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, which is your sword:
14 From men which are your hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly you fill with your hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.
15 As for me, I will behold your face [presence] in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with your likeness.
