6 – 9 May 2024
Then the spirit took me up, and I heard behind me a voice of a great rushing, saying, Blessed be the glory of the LORD from his place.
The above, Ezekiel 3:12, is Ezekiel speaking of the presence of the LORD he experienced, how He unfolded Himself to him, and then (recorded in the prior verse) told him to write and send what He saw to those of the captivity (here and now in Babylon). In the title verse, he sees this encompassing event as a wheel within a wheel: the word of God received as His word, giving him understanding wherein is light and the creation of life, which he then, in written form, sends forward to give the same understanding to those for whom the LORD predestined it.
Ezekiel 3
8 Behold, I have made your face strong against [‘ummah] their faces, and your forehead strong against [‘ummah] their foreheads [depicted in the cherubim face to face above the mercy seat, where My presence is manifested in the conversation].
9 As an adamant harder than flint have I made your forehead: fear them not, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house.
10 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, all my words that I shall speak unto you receive in your heart [mind], and hear with your ears.
11 And go, get you to them of the captivity, unto the children of your people, and speak [with My voice] unto them, and tell them, Thus says the LORD God; whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear.
Suffer me once again while I must digress. Throughout history, and in our time, many have speculated, fanaticized, and fictitiously, in words and images, depicted their opinions, delusions they called reality, of Ezekiel’s wheel within a wheel. These acts of ignorance are works of men unable to fully comprehend the meaning in his (Ezekiel’s) exact description of the LORD manifesting His presence in a conversation that transcends time and joins dimensions (physical and metaphysical, words and thoughts uniting, as reality).
The Hebrew word in the title verse rendered “rushing” (which he tells us is a “voice:” qowl), is ra’ash, which we’ve seen is the word rendered “shaking” in Ezekiel 37:7, speaking of what brings the dead bones together.
This joining is depicted in the words of the original text of Ezekiel 3:13, saying “I heard also the noise [qowl – the voice] of the wings [giving the strength that raises us into heaven] of the living creatures [chay – creating life] that touched [nashaq – joining] one [‘ishshah – woman; the church] another [‘achowth – to her sisters], and the noise [qowl – voice] of the wheels [of this understanding sent] over against [as in Ezekiel 3:8 above, ‘ummah – sent alongside them: the LORD’s Spirit moving upon them as the Paraclete to] them, and a noise [qowl] of a great rushing [ra’ash – bringing the dead bones together].”
This form of the word ra’ash only appears two other times in Ezekiel; the first, in Ezekiel 12:18, as he is told to eat this word of God with “trembling,” meaning to take great care, use much discretion, in how it is divided, not to do it violence as so many others have, but shaking from it the wickedness they’ve added.
The other (use of ra’ash #7494) comes in Ezekiel 38:19, as the LORD speaks of this shaking in this generation of God’s new creation.
Ezekiel 12
17 Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
18 Son of man, eat your bread with quaking [ra’ash], and drink your water with trembling and with carefulness;
19 And say unto the people of the land, Thus says the LORD God of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and of the land of Israel; They shall eat their bread with carefulness, and drink their water with astonishment, that her land may be desolate from all that is therein, because of the violence of all them that dwell therein.
20 And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be desolate; and you shall know that I am the LORD.
21 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
22 Son of man, what is that proverb that you have in the land of Israel, saying, The days are prolonged, and every vision fails?
23 Tell them therefore, Thus says the LORD God; I will make this proverb to cease, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel; but say unto them, The days are at hand, and the effect of every vision.
24 For there shall be no more any vain vision nor flattering divination within the house of Israel.
25 For I am the LORD: I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall come to pass; it shall be no more prolonged: for in your days, O rebellious house, will I say the word, and will perform it, says the LORD God.
26 Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying.
27 Son of man, behold, they of the house of Israel say, The vision that he sees is for many days to come, and he prophesies of the times that are far off [rachowq – this time when the world is ruled by the evil decrees of wicked men in power].
28 Therefore say unto them, Thus says the LORD God; There shall none of my words be prolonged any more, but the word which I have spoken shall be done, says the LORD God.
The word rendered “carefulness” in verses 18 & 19 above is d’agah, meaning “anxiety:–care(-fulness), fear, heaviness, sorrow.” In its one other use in Ezekiel, in Ezekiel 4:14, we are told why men should fear this, because those who don’t use the LORD’s word “with care” will “consume away,” from the word maqaq, which we know from its use three times in Zechariah 14:12.
It (d’agah) bears an unstated affinity to the word dag, dagah, and Dagown; which we know, respectively, as the “fish” that swallowed Jonah, in whose (“fish’s”) belly he was held, and the idol Dagon, all speaking of what (deception below the surface of the water) agitates the sea and cause the storms upon its waters. We also understand this “fish’s belly” is where and what Jonah called (in Jonah 2:2) the “belly of hell,” which the LORD said was the “belly of the earth,” where (among the dead) He said He would be held for three days and three nights until (from there He rises from among the dead) we see Him again and with Him rise.
By this understanding we realized the “care” and “carefulness,” with which we should eat bread and drink water, meaning what teaching and words we consume, which form our understanding, because if they are defiled (corrupted by men’s excrement), they are the belly of hell into which we’re swallowed and held until we again see the LORD and He frees us by His uncorrupted truth.
Ezekiel 4
7 Therefore you shall set your face [as an adamant harder than flint] toward the siege of Jerusalem [God’s people held in corruption], and your arm [My presence working in You] shall be uncovered, and you shall prophesy against it.
8 And, behold, I will lay bands upon you, and you shall not turn you from one side to another, till you have ended [kalah] the days of your siege.
13 And the LORD said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread [the written word to which men have added pollution] among the Gentiles, whither I will drive them.
14 Then said I, Ah LORD God! behold, my soul has not been polluted: for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which dies of itself [the words of the dead that defile], or is torn in pieces [separating the elements of understanding]; neither came there abominable flesh [the idols men created, put in the LORD’s place, and call by His name] into my mouth.
15 Then he said unto me, Lo, I have given you cow’s dung for man’s dung, and you shall prepare your bread therewith [showing men’s teaching the LORD’s word is corrupted by excrement they have added].
16 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread [teaching by which men mislead My flock] in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care [d’agah]; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment:
17 That they may want [lack this uncorrupted] bread and water, and be astonished [shamem – stupefied, mentally desolate, not know] one [‘ish – a man] with another [‘ach – his brother, relating to Ezekiel 3:13], and consume [maqaq] away for their iniquity.
Ezekiel’s vision is of the presence of God manifested into our minds, unseen in His word, by which He interacts with our thoughts, reshapes our perception, by which we realize He is the metaphysical influence, His identity, as His words create physical reality from the aether (the unseen waves of these interactions).
From here, they (the above-stated means) carry us to the word aurion (the same as air, the unseen substance we unconsciously breathe to live), said to mean fresh air, used fifteen times, and rendered “morrow,” “tomorrow,” and “next day.”
Its (aurion’s) seemingly most innocuous uses come as LORD Jesus speaks (unknown to those hearing it) in patterns telling of His time here in the belly of hell, the time (in abeyance) between then and when He is seen again in glory, as the LORD of the furnace (Cyrus), walking with us in the flames and not burning up, as in the bush.
Matthew 6
1 Take heed that you do not your alms [giving this word as received, making a show of charity] before men, to be seen [admired and praised] of them: otherwise you have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.
2 Therefore when you do your alms, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Truly I say unto you, They have their reward.
3 But when you do alms [giving this word], let not your left hand know what your right hand does [Ecclesiastes 11:1 Cast your bread upon the waters {giving it to those who don’t know its manna from the mouth of the LORD}: for you shall find it after many days.]:
4 That your alms [what you are giving] may be in secret: and your Father which sees in secret himself shall reward you openly [opening these treasures to those who then obey and give as He has given].
5 And when you pray [speak, converse, with the Farther], you shall not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Truly I say unto you, They have their reward.
6 But you, when you pray [converse with the Father], enter into your closet [tameion – a four times used word, here meaning storage room], and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father which is in secret; and your Father which sees in secret shall reward you openly. [This verse refers us to Luke 12:2 & 3, saying “For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known. Therefore, whatsoever you have spoken in darkness {to the deaf and ignorant} shall be heard in the light {when understanding comes}; and that which you have spoken in the ear in closets {tameion} shall be proclaimed upon the housetops {openly}.”]
7 But when you pray, use not vain [worthless] repetitions, as the heathen [who don’t know the LORD] do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
8 Be not you therefore like unto them: for your Father knows what things you have need of, before you ask him.
9 After this manner [ask for things of true value] therefore pray you: Our Father which are in heaven, Hallowed be your name [your identity when it’s revealed from Your place of full understanding].
10 Your kingdom come, Your will be done in earth, as it is in heaven [giving this full understanding upon all freely, as received].
11 Give us this day our daily bread [this word from Your mouth].
12 And forgive us our debts [the sin on our account, which we cannot pay for], as we forgive our debtors.
13 And lead us not into temptation [as those who’ve misled have doubted Your presence with us], but deliver us from evil [the misleading of these doubters]: For yours is the kingdom, and the power [to change us], and the glory [Your presence therein manifested], forever. Amen.
14 For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:
15 But if you forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
16 Moreover when you fast [abstaining from men’s corrupt teaching], be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Truly I say unto you, They have their reward.
17 But you, when you fast, anoint your head, and wash your face;
18 That you appear not unto men to fast, but unto your Father which is in secret: and your Father, which sees in secret, shall reward you openly.
19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth [to be admired and praised of men], where moth and rust does corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven [from where is received this understanding, which is of the greatest value], where neither moth nor rust does corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
22 The light [understanding] of the body is the eye [seeing as the LORD sees], if therefore your eye be single [all seeing as the LORD sees], your whole [ONE] body shall be full of light [this understanding].
23 But if your eye be evil [misleading], your whole body shall be full of darkness [in ignorance]. If therefore the light [understanding] that is in you be darkness [ignorance], how great is that darkness [ignorance]!
24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon [confidence in self or earthly wealth, the darkness that comes by trusting your own worthless opinions, as if they were truth].
25 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what you shall eat, or what you shall drink; nor yet for your body, what you shall put on. Is not the life more than meat [more than your flesh], and the body [is more] than raiment [your flesh cover]?
26 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much better than they?
27 Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?
28 And why take you thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:
29 And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
30 Wherefore, if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow [aurion – as waves of light sent into this time of clarity] is cast into the oven [klibano – when the LORD takes hold of those He’s called], shall he not much more clothe you [into His Glorious ONE BODY], O you of little faith?
31 Therefore take no thought [be careful not to create your own worthless bread and water], saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
32 (For after all these things do the Gentiles [who don’t know the LORD will provide the things we need] seek:) for your heavenly Father knows that you have need of all these things [and he will give bread, water, and a body to cover us].
33 But seek you first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow [aurion – the manifestations of metaphysical into reality]: for the morrow [aurion – the metaphysical] shall take thought [make provisions] for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil [kakia – malice] thereof.
What is “sufficient” (enough) is those who’ve “taken thought,” conspired, to do evil intentionally, with malice. The point is, don’t add to it (the intentional evil) evil done in ignorance (partial understanding) by “taking thought,” conceiving ways to provide things only the LORD can, thereby putting yourself in His place as the Provider.
The word rendered six times above as “take thought” is merimnao, meaning to be anxious about. It’s from meros, from meiromai, meaning to get as a section or allotment.
1 Corinthians 13
8 Charity [agape – giving this word as received] never fail: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues [the word of the LORD without understanding its meaning], they shall cease; whether there be [men’s] knowledge, it shall vanish away.
9 For we know in part [meros], and we prophesy in part [meros].
10 But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part [meros] shall be done away.
11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
12 For now we see through a glass, darkly [ignorantly, until this word of the LORD’s charity comes]; but then face to face: now I know in part [meros]; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
13 And now abides faith, hope, charity [agape], these three; but the greatest of these is charity [agape – giving this word as the LORD has given it].
1 Peter 2
1 Wherefore laying aside all malice [kakia], and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speaking,
2 As newborn babes, [as little children] desire the sincere milk of the word, that you may grow [into men] 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 [manifesting Himself alive in us when we obey the Father and speak His word].
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 [but shall come to full understanding].
7 Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient [and refuse to speak as commanded], the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner,
8 And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.
9 But you are a chosen [eklektos] generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people; that you should show forth the praises of him who has called [kaleo] you out of darkness [ignorance] into his marvelous [eye opening] light [understanding];
10 Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy [in this conversation with Him at His mercy seat].
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: 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 – when He has come, now realized, as the Chief Overseer of the earth].
Paul tells us exactly the name, the identity of the chosen one the LORD would send. The disobedient, the incorrigibles, the despisers who will forever wonder what they are experiencing, even though a man (I Am), risen from among the dead, declares it to them.
Philippians 2
5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
9 Wherefore God also has highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:
10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;
11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is LORD, to the glory of God the Father.
12 Wherefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
13 For it is God which works in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
14 Do all things without murmurings and disputings:
15 That you may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom you shine as lights in the world;
16 Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither labored in vain.
17 Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.
18 For the same cause also do you joy, and rejoice with me.
19 But I trust in the LORD Jesus to send Timothy shortly unto you, that I also may be of good comfort, when I know your state [peri].
20 For I have no man likeminded, who will naturally [only used here, gnesios, from genesis, bring the new creation] care [merimnao – supply the parts unknown] for your state [peri].
21 For all seek their own [ways, creating their provisions, their own opinions], not the things which are Jesus Christ’s [and provided, rightly divided, to us by Him].
22 But you know the proof of him [having tasted it], that, as a son with the father, he has served with me in the gospel.
23 Him therefore I hope to send presently [exautes – instantly], so soon as I shall see [apeido – fully understand: know and see Him] how it will go with [peri – state of] me [after Timothy has cared for him here, and he knows it, as in verse 19 & 29 above].
Do you understand what Paul knew he would see, and be resurrected by? He knew He would see what Ezekiel saw unfold before his eyes.
2 Timothy 4
1 I [Paul] charge you therefore [Timothy, I Am] before God, and the LORD Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing [epiphaneia – epiphany, the sudden realization] and his kingdom;
2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine.
3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
5 But watch you in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of your ministry.
6 For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure [analusis – “a dissolving (into separate parts)”] is at hand.
7 I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:
8 Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the LORD, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love [agapao – give His word reassembling the parts, which is] His appearing [epiphaneia – epiphany].
Ezekiel 1
1 Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river of Chebar [“far off,” where his word would be sent, as the LORD’s word, before his, was sent to him, in written form], that the heavens were opened [and understanding was given by the word as the LORD’s presence moved upon it], and I saw visions [of the manifested presence and identity] of God.
2 In the fifth day of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin’s [Coniah – Jehovah will establish in the] captivity,
3 The word of the LORD [Jehovah] came expressly [hayah – as Jehovah’s manifested presence] unto Ezekiel [who God has strengthened] the priest, the son of Buzi [with contempt], in the land of [‘erets – the earth under the rule of] the Chaldeans [those using their dark, deceptive, words as the means, manipulation, of control] by the river Chebar [the word of the LORD that is carried “far off” through time]; and the hand [work] of the LORD [in His word] was there upon him.
4 And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind [the LORD’s Almighty Spirit moving upon the earth, from where His voice is heard] came out of the north [was heard out of this time of ignorance, when darkness covers the deep understanding of the earth], a great cloud [wherein understanding is held when its elements became separated and removed from the earth], and a fire [as a sword from His mouth rightly dividing His word from the corruption men added to it] enfolding itself, and a brightness [understanding shining from Him] was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the color of amber [chashmal, with affinity to the word chuwsh, meaning to hurry, be eager, as something made ready: a provision deployed], out of the midst of the fire.
5 Also out of the midst [from the word] thereof came the likeness [dmuwth – representations] of four living creatures [chay – creating life, from the light: the understanding they give]. And this was their appearance; they had the likeness of a man.
6 And every one had four faces, and every one had four wings [elevating each straight into the next level in the conversation].
7 And their feet were straight feet [never turning back as they went]; and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf’s foot [rightly divided and their work clean to be consumed]: and they sparkled [natsats – shined brightly, giving understanding as they went] like the color [‘ayin – the eye, as a fountain of life] of burnished brass [polished so, in reflection, things are seen clearly].
8 And they had the hands of a man [doing the work] under their wings [joining all their work as One work] on their four sides; and they four had their faces [paniym – manifesting the LORD’s presence, the by the vision, eye, of God, as in verses 1 & 7] and their wings [their understanding lifting them].
9 Their wings were joined one to another [one conversation, in which the LORD manifests His presence]; they turned not when they went; they went every one straight forward.
10 As for the likeness of their faces [paniym – the LORD’s glory revealed in them], they four had the face of [paniym] a man [His presence manifested in the flesh], and the face [paniym] of a lion [His Almighty voice heard and received as His], [as depicted in the cherubim] on the right side [after it is received as such]: and they four had the face [paniym] of an ox [sent into the field, the earth, to do the LORD’s work] on the left side [as the other cherubim above the mercy seat, wherein the LORD presence is manifested in the conversation]; they four also had the face [paniym] of an eagle [raised in glory, the strength of the LORD’s full understanding exalted above all other voices].
[It is important to here pause and consider this representation is explaining the mystery of godliness, as Paul, the LORD in him, delineates it in 1 Timothy 3:16, saying “And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was {is} manifest in the flesh {the man}, justified in the Spirit {working therein unknown, as a roaring lion, until he is}, seen of angels {when His word is received as His, seeing him, they become His messengers He sends into His field, as the ox}, preached {by the same understanding He’s given} unto the Gentiles {with the same conversation, the LORD engaging those who haven’t known Him}, believed {that His word is His presence manifested in the flesh of those He chooses and sends with His word} on in the world {His field}, received {by those hearing Him speaking} up into glory {as an eagle, with His strength, rising with full understanding to meet Him in heaven, a state of men’s minds here on the earth}.]
11 Thus were their faces [paniym – the LORD presence manifested in this way]: and their wings were stretched upward; two wings of every one were joined one to another, and two covered their bodies [so they are not seen, but the LORD in them, lifting them, is realized to be the ONE, Yahh, to whom it appertains {ya’ah}].
12 And they went every one straight forward: whither the spirit [the LORD in them unknown working] was to go, they went; and they turned not when they went.
13 As for the likeness [dmuwth – the representation] of the living creatures [chay, as they created life, the LORD in them the source of the light: His understanding sent through this means], their appearance was like burning coals [gechel – glowing] of fire, and like the appearance of lamps [giving light so men can see their way in this time of darkness]: it [the glowing fire of these lamps] went up and down among the living creatures [chay – giving life to any who receive it as the LORD’s light]; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning [understanding from the cloud, from where His voice roared as thunder].
14 And the living creatures [chay – the life they gave] ran [ratsa’ – said to mean received, as in an almost identical word {ratsa’}, meaning to pierce; here Ezekiel is speaking of the epiphany, when the word pierced his ear and entered his mind, and he came to life: became the “living creatures”] and returned [shuwb – returned to his right mind and realized the LORD was with him and now alive in him] as the appearance of a flash of lightning [bazaq, only used here, speaking the epiphany as spoiling, causing him to disesteem, everything he thought he knew before]. [Philippians 3: 8 Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my LORD: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things {I thought I knew}, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, 9 And be found in him, not having my own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith {in His presence with me, in me}: 10 That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death; 11 If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.]
15 Now as I beheld the living creatures [Now, when I clearly see the life and how it comes], behold [I clearly saw] one wheel [‘owphan, this is a chariot wheel, as connected by an “axletree” to a wheel on the other side; it is a representation of the full course of the work of the Creator of life] of upon the earth by the living creatures, with his four faces [paniym – the full work of the LORD, giving Ezekiel full understanding and thereby raising him to life].
16 The appearance of the wheels [‘owphan – meaning to revolve, meaning going through this same cycle over and over again] and their work [the LORD’s work in this way] was like unto the color [‘ayin – was to be seen, by the eye and the description from the fountain, as] of a beryl [tarshiysh – a seven time used word always rendered beryl; it’s the name Tarshish, an epithet telling us it is like merchant ship traveling upon the sea; which, with further deconstruction, reveals a deeper meaning of it plucking {sharash} us from the mouths that are hell’s gates {tra’}] : and they four had one likeness [One message, One conversation]: and their appearance and their work [the LORD work in this manner] was as it were a wheel [‘owphan – a full revolution, giving life in this manner, sent thought time in written form, connected on the other side to those receiving it in the future into which it is sent] in the middle [tavek – bisected, connected in the center: both by the ONE, Yahh present in the work, to whom it appertains {ya’ah}, who rightly divides it] a wheel [the same understanding received, in the same way, producing the same life in the receiver who receives it as the LORD presence with them, and in them].
17 When they went, they went upon their four sides: and they turned not when they went.
18 As for their rings [gab – also meaning their back, what is seen after their work, when the LORD therein has long-suffered to take it full course], they were so high that they were dreadful [this is the fear that fell upon the men in the ship taking Jonah to Tarshish, when they realized {Jonah 1:16} it was the LORD to whom the storm appertained, and they vowed vows {nadar neder}]; and their rings [gab – when their work was complete] were full of eyes [‘ayin – all the colors therein, of the rightly divided light, were seen] round about [cabiyb – in the full circle of the LORD’s work in] them four.
19 And when the living creatures [the Creator of life] went, the wheels [this full circuit of His work] went by them: and when the living creatures were lifted up [the LORD’s work exalted, His word separated] from [the works of men of] the earth, the wheels [His words] were lifted up [exalted above the words of men].
20 Whithersoever the spirit [of the LORD unknown] was to go, they [those the LORD chooses to work through and reveal Himself] went, thither was their spirit [the LORD unknown in them] to go; and the wheels were lifted up over against them [to those who don’t know Him]: for the spirit of the living creature [the Creator of life] was in the wheels.
21 When those went, these went; and when those stood [to make Him known], these stood; and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature [the LORD, the Creator of life, is in them unknown doing the work] was in the wheels [the word sent and the flesh in whom He works].
22 And the likeness of the firmament [the exposition, spreading out the heaven before men, wherein the water of the earth are separated from the word of God, which the LORD calls Heaven {Genesis 1:6 – 8}] upon the heads [in the LORD’s mind] of the living creature [the Creator of life] was as the color [‘ayin – seen, by the words from the Fountain of living waters] of the terrible crystal [yare’ qerach – ice to be feared; the word of the LORD that He reserved, froze, in the cloud, to from there be sent now in this time of war], stretched forth [natah – bowed down the heavens, in the exposition; as seen in the previous post in Psalms 86:1 & 2 Samuel 22:10, when the LORD came down to help David when He asked] over their heads above [in the conversation wherein His presence is manifested above His mercy seat].
23 And under the firmament [in this exposition that rightly divides truth from falsehood] were their wings straight, the one toward the other: every one had two, which covered on this side, and every one had two, which covered on that side, their bodies.
24 And when they went, I heard the noise [qowl – the voice] of their wings, like the noise [qowl – the voice] of great waters, as the voice [qowl] of the Almighty, the voice [qowl] of speech, as the noise [qowl] of a host [the LORD awakened army, He raises at His will]: when they stood, they let down their wings.
25 And there was [hayah] a voice [qowl – of the LORD’s presence] from the firmament [this exposition] that was over their heads [in the conversation above His mercy seat], when they stood, and had let down their wings.
26 And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne [of the LORD], as the appearance of a sapphire stone [cappiyr – referring to the first use of the word, Exodus 24:10, saying “And they {the obedient} saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone {cappiyr}, and as it {His way} were the body of heaven in his clearness.]: and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man [‘adam – the second Adam, who is sent, I Am, as a quickening Spirit] above upon it.
27 And I saw as the color of amber [chashmal, with affinity to the word chuwsh, meaning to hurry, be eager, as something made ready: a provision deployed], as the appearance of fire round about within it, from the appearance of his loins even upward, and from the appearance of his loins even downward, I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had brightness [light] round about.
28 As the appearance of the bow [the light divided into its many colors] that is in the cloud in the day of rain [as a sign from the LORD, the remembrance that He would never again destroy all flesh with a flood, but would come to the rescue of any and all who receive Him and enter His new heaven and earth with Him], so was the appearance of the brightness [the understanding] round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory [as in 1 Timothy 3:16 above, when He is exalted] of the LORD. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one [I Am, the man] that spoke.
Friends, these are the wheels we’ve all now experienced, just as did Ezekiel. He, the LORD speaking through him, goes on in the following two chapters to describe the same event in much less cryptic terms. Please don’t misunderstand: the LORD is the One doing the work and speaking, freeing us to open our mouths when the cycle has run His course and overwritten our minds with His understanding. He, the Almighty, is truly alive in me, as He is in any who receive Him and lend themselves to diligently follow and learn of Him.
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.
Matthew 11
25 At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank you, O Father, LORD of heaven and earth, because you have hid these things from the wise and prudent, and have revealed them unto babes.
26 Even so, Father: for so it seemed good in your sight.
27 All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knows the Son, but the Father; neither knows any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.
28 Come unto me, all you that labor and are heavy laden [with the burdens of men’s corruption], and I will give you rest.
29 Take my yoke upon you [join me in my work], and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and you shall find rest unto your souls.
30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
Ezekiel 2
1 And he said unto me, Son of man, stand [as in Ezekiel 1:21, 24, & 25 above] upon your feet, and I will speak unto you [to make My presence known to you and in you]
2 And the spirit entered into me when he spoke unto me, and set me upon my feet, that I heard him that spoke unto me.
3 And he said unto me, Son of man, I send you to the children of Israel, to a rebellious nation that has rebelled against me: they and their fathers have transgressed against me, even unto this very day.
4 For they are impudent children and stiff-hearted. I do send you unto them; and you shall say unto them, Thus says the LORD God.
5 And they, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear, (for they are a rebellious house,) yet shall know that there has been a prophet among them.
6 And you, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns [deceivers and misleaders] be with you, and you do dwell among scorpions [whose words are poisonous]: be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house.
7 And you shall speak my words unto them [in your flesh I shall manifest My presence, revealing the mystery of godliness. You shall see Me as I Am and become My angel preaching My words to those who haven’t known Me. They shall believe I Am alive in you and in your flesh I shall be glorified], whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear: for they are most rebellious.
8 But you, son of man, hear what I say unto you; Be not you rebellious like that rebellious house: open your mouth, and eat that I give you.
9 And when I looked, behold, a hand was sent unto me; and, lo, a roll [mgillah – the volume] of a book was therein;
10 And he spread it [in the exposition] before [paniym – by His presence to] me; and it was written within and without: and there was written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe.
Ezekiel 3
1 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, eat that you find [as you diligently seek Me]; eat this roll [mgillah], and go speak unto the house of Israel.
2 So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that roll [mgillah].
3 And he said unto me, Son of man, cause your belly to eat, and fill your bowels with this roll [mgillah] that I give you. Then did I eat it; and it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness.
4 And he said unto me, Son of man, go, get you unto the house of Israel, and speak with my words unto them.
5 For you are not sent to a people of a strange speech and of a hard language, but to the house of Israel;
6 Not to many people of a strange speech and of a hard language, whose words you can not understand. Surely, had I sent you to them, they would have hearkened unto you.
7 But the house of Israel will not hearken unto [shama’ – and obey] you; for they will not hearken unto [shama’ – and obey] me: for all the house of Israel are impudent and hardhearted.
8 Behold, I have made your face [paniym – My presence] strong against their faces [as depicted in the cherubim above the mercy seat], and your forehead strong against their foreheads.
9 As an adamant [shamiyr – as to pierce their hardened minds] harder than flint have I made your forehead: fear them not, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house.
10 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, all my words that I shall speak unto you receive in your heart [into your mind, your memory], and hear [shama’ – and obey] with your ears [and I will broaden your ear when you commit My words to memory, and your ability to hear Me will increase].
11 And go, get you to them of the captivity [write my words to be sent to this time and place], unto the children of your people [who will therein find themselves written], and speak unto them, and tell them, Thus says the LORD God; whether they will hear [shama’ – obey], or whether they will forbear [and refuse to hear or obey].
12 Then the spirit took me up, and I heard behind me a voice of a great rushing [ra’ash – the shaking that brings the dead bones together, and cautions men to be careful how they handle this word and to whom they listen], saying, Blessed be the glory of the LORD from his place.
13 I heard also the noise [qowl – voice] of the wings of the living creatures that touched one another, and the noise [qowl – voice] of the wheels over against them, and a noise [qowl – voice] of a great rushing [ra’ash – the voice of the LORD now shaking heaven and earth].
Hebrews 12
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 [messengers sent to preach this same word],
23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written [in the volume of the book] 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 [Abel whose blood spoke from the] earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaks from heaven [this place of full understanding, here in Heavenly New Jerusalem, here on the earth]:
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 [corrupt] things that are shaken, as of things that are made [by men], that those things [of the LORD] which cannot be shaken may remain.
28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace [receive this gift], whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
29 For our God is a consuming fire.
Hebrews 10
7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do your will, O God.
8 Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin you would not, neither had pleasure therein; which are offered by the law;
9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do your will, O God [obeying your call, and taking up Your cross, making the necessary sacrifice, in which you delight], He takes away the first, that he may establish the second [the new and living way].
10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
11 And every priest stands daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:
12 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God;
13 From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.
14 For by one offering he has perfected forever them that are sanctified.
15 Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before,
16 This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the LORD, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;
17 And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
18 Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.
19 Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest [into the presence of the LORD] by the blood [necessary sacrifice] of Jesus,
20 By a new and living way, which he has consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh [in whom He chooses to manifest His presence];
21 And having a high priest over the house of God;
22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
23 Let us hold fast the profession of our faith [in His presence] without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)
24 And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:
25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together [into His ONE BODY as He commands], as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as you see the day approaching.
26 For if we sin willfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more sacrifice for sins,
27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
28 He that despised Moses’ law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:
29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose you, shall he be thought worthy, who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and has done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
30 For we know him that has said, Vengeance belongs unto me, I will recompense, says the LORD. And again, The LORD shall judge his people.
31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
Psalms 40
1 I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.
2 He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.
3 And he has put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD.
4 Blessed is that man that makes the LORD his trust, and respects not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.
5 Many, O LORD my God, are your wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto you: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.
6 Sacrifice and offering you did not desire; my ears have you opened [to hear and obey Your voice alone]: burnt offering and sin offering have you not required.
7 Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume [mgillah] of the book it is written of me,
8 I delight to do your will, O my God: yea, your law is within my heart [in my mind].
9 I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, you know.
10 I have not hid your righteousness within my heart; I have declared your faithfulness and your salvation: I have not concealed your lovingkindness and your truth from the great congregation.
11 Withhold not you your tender mercies from me, O LORD: let your lovingkindness and your truth continually preserve me.
12 For innumerable evils have compassed me about: my iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of my head: therefore my heart fails me.
13 Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help me.
14 Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.
15 Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha.
16 Let all those that seek you rejoice and be glad in you: let such as love your salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified.
17 But I am poor and needy; yet the LORD thinks upon me: you are my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.
