The West (the Northern Western Hemisphere and Europe), based on an insatiable desire to export the same satanic values (as strategies) now destroying it, pushed them and NATO to Russia’s border, putting under threat Ethnic Russians living there and the Russian Border itself. They (the West) provoked the War in Ukraine and then incrementally escalated it in a pattern all knew and warned would reach the brink of extinction, at which humanity now finds itself. It is a reality (the verge of extinction) that those in power in the West deny, even after they lied all along the way, saying they, knowing the calamity it could bring, would never take us here.
The latest escalation, after munitions, tanks, and fighter jets, is to send Ukraine long-range missiles capable of striking deep into Russia while publicly stating the willingness and intention to do so.
Russia has responded by saying such strikes would be considered by it as an Act of War by the U.S. and NATO.
Such strikes by NATO, even if launched from Ukrainian soil, would be the first step into the nuclear abyss, which would very quickly escalate into an unrestrainable sequence of exchanges that would kill billions, definitely destroying all the Northern Hemisphere and most likely much of the Southern.
This moment is the time to STOP and realize those in power in the West are frantic (panicking) about losing their power and acting in irrational ways proving they are insane and further justifying their removal.
This analysis is the self-evident reality that humanity faces. Behold, I set before you life and death. Choose life!
But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he has declared to his servants the prophets.
Friends, I, once again, as I have often, heard tell (this time in the Tucker podcast with Glenn Beck) of scholars contemplating the LORD’s return. In this conversation, it was declared as fact that many of the New Testament writers falsely thought and wrote as if they were in the “end times,” meaning about to encounter the LORD at His return.
The first (of several) misrepresentations of the facts is that these writers were speaking of themselves as “about to encounter the LORD’s presence;” when (in fact) they had already realized Him. Instead, they spoke of those they were writing to, of their understanding that by receiving their words as the voice of Jehovah, they were thereby also in His presence.
Again, the most complete description of this is in Paul’s writing to the Thessalonians, speaking of them receiving His word as the word of God, as they are, and concluded they were thereby “in the presence of the LORD Jesus Christ at His coming.”
He (Paul in 1 Thessalonians 2:19 & 20) speaks of the above as his “crown of rejoicing,” their “joy,” and his “hope,” meaning the LORD crowned him by revealing His presence in him: glory manifested through the understanding He alone gives, which is his hope (joy in their realization of Him).
Hebrews 2 1 Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to [obey] the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip. 2 For if the word spoken by angels [His messengers sent] was steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward; 3 How [if we refuse to obey] shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the LORD [the Father revealed in the son first, to bring all His children He has given me, to the same glory], and was confirmed [repeating the same message the LORD gave them] unto us by them that heard him; 4 God also bearing them witness, both with [Isaiah 8:18, saying “I and the children the LORD has given me, are for”] signs and wonders [to His people at large], and with divers miracles [this alludes to the “divers” manner spoken of in Hebrews 1:1; of the many different ways and times, by which the Father previously spoke through men, until now when He, in the son He filled full of understanding all these divers elements, congealed them in him, into this miraculous, eye-opening, gospel], and gifts [these treasures sent] of the Holy Ghost [as He works unknown leading us into all truth], according to his own will? 5 For unto the angels has he not put in subjection the world to come, whereof we speak. 6 But one in a certain place [Psalms 8] testified [of the son], saying, “What is man, that you are mindful of him? or the son of man that you visit [paqad – manifest Your presence as the Chief Overseer of the earth, in] him? 7 You made him a little lower than the angels [as we’ve seen, the words here are chacer ‘elohiym, telling us the son is intentionally sent lacking the full knowledge of God; the Psalm then saying this is planned so the son {I Am: His presence in this moment manifested in the flesh He’s chosen} can be crowned by the Father with His understanding: revelation only known to the Father]; you crowned him with glory and honor, and did set him over the works of your hands: 8 You have put all things in subjection under his feet.” For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing that is not put under him. But now we [in our blindness] see not yet [that] all things [are] put under him [not hearing and obeying this word as the Father’s voice, as it is]. 9 But we [again] see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death [sent without understanding], [now, when we see Him again] crowned with glory and honor [raised to life by the light of the Father in him]; that he by the grace of God should taste death [and be raise from it] for every man. 10 For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain [archegos – only used three other times; in Acts 3:15, speaking of the son as the “Prince” of life, who the religious and civil power denied, conspired against, and killed; Acts 5:31 as the risen “Prince” who is seated at the Father’s right hand {from where Habakkuk 3:4 says, in this writing, comes His hidden power as rays of light}; and Hebrews 12:2 saying He is “the Author and Finisher of our Faith”] of their salvation perfect [teleioo – made complete, filled full] through sufferings [the same affliction, tribulation, doubting the LORD is present, that, through proof of him {I Am}, makes us ready, willing, to be quickened from corruption into life]. 11 For both he that sanctifies [purges us from corruption, making us holy] and they who are sanctified [purged and made holy] are all of one [Body of Christ]: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren, 12 Saying, I will declare your name [identity] unto my brethren, in the midst of the church will I sing [repeating the words You’ve given me] praise unto you. 13 And again, I will put my trust in him. And again, Behold I and the children which God has given me [when our mouths are opened with His words, are for signs and wonders to God’s people at large]. 14 Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he [the Father] also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death [coming lacking understanding] he might [self-manifesting His light, life, in the flesh, to] destroy him that had the power of [to deceive men into ignorance of God and to instead follow them into] death, that is, the devil [the misleaders who put themselves in His place]; 15 And deliver them [the misled] who through fear of death [not understanding it is a state of mind], were all their lifetime subject to bondage [but you shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free from death]. 16 For truly he took not on him the nature of angels [a mere messenger given a message]; but he took on him the seed of Abraham [to whom the LORD promised a son, an heir who would become as many as the sand of the shore and the stars of heaven]. 17 Wherefore in all things it behooved him to be made like unto his brethren [born into dead flesh here in hell], that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people. 18 For in that he himself has suffered being tempted [to doubt the Father’s presence with him here in hell, to from it raise us], he is able to succor [rescue] them that are tempted [to doubt Him].
Psalms 8 A Psalm of David 1 O LORD [Jehovah], our LORD [‘adown – our king], how excellent is your name [identity] in all the earth! who have set [nathan – given] your glory [Your manifested presence] above the heavens [the places where understanding should be found]. 2 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings [declaring Your word as You commanded, saying “Hosanna {save now}, Blessed is he who comes in the name {identity} of the LORD] have you ordained strength because of your enemies, that you might still [shabath – sabbath: interrupting their work, putting them to silence so Your correction is heard above all other voices of] the enemy and the avenger. 3 When I consider your heavens [this understanding You’ve given to us], the work of your fingers, the moon [just civil government; ruling as You rule, with truth and equal justice] and the stars [Your people in this new heaven, filled with Your light here on earth, wherein dwells righteousness], which you have ordained [kuwn – prepared, raised, and established]; 4 What is man, that you are mindful of him? and the son of man, that you visit [paqad] him? 5 For you have made him a little lower than [chacer – lacking the understanding] the angels [‘elohiym – of God], and have crowned him with [Your] glory and [Your] honor [His understanding given to and through me]. 6 You made him to have dominion [mashal – rule] over the works of your hands [referring to this light given from there]; you have put all things under his feet: 7 All sheep and oxen [Your flock], yea, and the beasts of the field [the dead in the earth, those without Your Spirit]; 8 The fowl of the air [those who, by Your strength, rise into the place where understanding should be found], and the fish of the sea [the life unseen and found below the surface of the waters on the earth: provided for all humanity], and whatsoever passes through the paths of the seas [man on his unknowing journey through generations]. 9 O LORD our LORD, how excellent is your name [identity] in all the earth!
Amid the above-referenced conversation with the Thessalonians, Paul speaks of Satan hindering him, and doing so through those “Forbidding us to speak [this same word of God they received] to the Gentiles [who haven’t known the LORD in this way], that they might be saved [in the same way, by receiving his word as the word of God, as it is].”
Paul, after the above quote, from 1 Thessalonians 2:16, says these men, through whom Satan works, do so, “to fill up their sins always: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost [telos – the end times, when understanding, truth, is revealed and ignorance is vanquished, by ‘the presence of our LORD Jesus Christ at His coming’].”
Revelation 22 10 And he says unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand [to speak these words of God as received, declaring He is alive in you speaking and working]. 11 He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still. 12 And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be. 13 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning [arche] and the end [telos – of ages, this end times come upon this ignorant world], the first and the last. 14 Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city [New Heavenly Jerusalem]. 15 For [separated] without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loves and makes a lie. 16 I Jesus have sent my angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I Am the root [of the tree of life] and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star [this understanding, as the sun rises, shined upon all from east to west]. 17 And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that hears [His voice] say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely. 18 For I testify unto every man that hears the words of the prophecy of this book [as the word of God from His mouth, by which man lives], If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: 19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book [this writing] of this prophecy [meant to be given as received], God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book. 20 He which testifies these things says, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, LORD Jesus. 21 The grace of our LORD Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.
The second of the many misrepresentations is that the LORD left anywhere except man’s sight, hidden only in their blinding ignorance.
John 16 7 Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away [when understanding leaves the earth and I Am no longer seen], the Comforter will not come unto you [My presence unknown, speaking and working to lead into all truth]; but if I depart, I will send him unto you. 8 And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: 9 Of sin, because they believe not on me [that I Am present]; 10 Of righteousness, because I go to my Father [who alone knows me], and you see me no more; 11 Of judgment, because the prince [those who’ve led My people into darkness, death, and hell] of this world is judged. 12 I have yet many things to say unto you, but you cannot bear them now. 13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear [from the mouth of the Father alive in me], that shall he speak: and he will show you things to come. 14 He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall show it unto you. 15 All things [needed] that the Father has are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall show it unto you. 16 A little while, and you shall not see me: and again, a little while, and you shall see me, because I go to the Father [alive in me]. 17 Then said some of his disciples among themselves, What is this that he says unto us, A little while, and you shall not see me: and again, a little while, and you shall see me: and, Because I go to the Father? 18 They said therefore, What is this that he says, A little while? we cannot tell what he says. 19 Now Jesus knew that they were desirous to ask him, and said unto them, Do you enquire among yourselves of that I said, A little while, and you shall not see me: and again, a little while, and you shall see me? 20 Truly, truly, I say unto you, That you shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and you shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy [when you again see me Me, at the realization of My presence in the flesh of those I’ve chosen]. 21 A woman when she is in travail has sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembers no more the anguish, for joy that a man [having put away childish things] is born into the world. 22 And you now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy [relization] no man taketh from you.
The seven times the words “little while” appear above it is from the sixteen times used word mikron, a small space of time or degree. It is the time of Peter’s denial, through the three watches of the night, while darkness, men’s ignorance of God’s presence, covers the earth.
John 13 31 Therefore, when he [the betrayers – the leaders of God’s people who’ve fallen away from Him and His truth] was gone out [separated from Him], Jesus said, Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him. 32 If God be glorified in him, God shall also glorify him in himself, and shall straightway glorify him. 33 Little children, yet a little while [mikron] I Am with you. You shall seek me: and as I said unto the Jews, Whither I go, you cannot come; so now I say to you. 34 A new commandment I give unto you, That you love [agapao – that you give this word as received] one another; as I have loved [agapao – given this word to] you, that you also love [agapao – give it to] one another. 35 By this shall all men know that you are my disciples, if you have love [agape – give this word] one to another. 36 Simon Peter [whose dead flesh now sleeps] said unto him, LORD, where go you? Jesus answered him, Where I go, you can not follow me now [to the Father, alone with Him in this place of full understanding]; but you shall follow me afterward [husteron – after your correction into life; only used here in John, and only appears one other time after, in Hebrews 12:11 Now no chastening {correction} for the present seems to be joyous {not known to be the presence of the LORD revealed}, but grievous: nevertheless afterward {husteron} it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised {have had blinding corruption worked out of them} thereby]. 37 Peter said unto him, LORD, why cannot I follow you now? I will lay down my life for your sake. 38 Jesus answered him, Will you lay down your life for my sake? Truly, truly, I say unto you, The cock [alektor] shall not crow [phoneo], till you have denied me thrice [then shall the light return].
Matthew 26 36 Then comes Jesus with them unto a place called Gethsemane [the place of the “oil press,” at the foot of the Mount of Olives, where the oil that feeds the lamp giving light is pressed out], and says unto the disciples, Sit you here, while I go and pray [convers with my Father] yonder. [The words used here speak of the things needed, understanding, removed, which brings sorrow and death.] 37 And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee [James and John {Jacob and the signs of the end reached} upon whom these things needed were conferred {zabad}], and began to be sorrowful and very heavy [as in Shechem]. 38 Then says he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death [into this time, sent lacking understanding]: tarry you here [remain with this understanding], and watch with me [for this expected end]. 39 And he went a little farther [this mikron], and fell [piotes – understanding was removed from His body] on his face [not knowing the Father’s presence with me, in me], and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me [this time of death when I Am without understanding]: nevertheless not as I will, but as you will. 40 And he comes unto the disciples, and found them [here and now] asleep, and says unto Peter, What, could you not watch with me one hour? 41 Watch and pray [convers with the Father and expect Him to answer], that you enter not into temptation [when you, as now doubt and deny My presence]: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. 42 He went away again the second time, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, your will be done. 43 And he came and found them asleep again: for their eyes [without light] were heavy. 44 And he left them, and went away again, and prayed the third time, saying the same words. 45 Then comes he to his disciples, and says unto them, Sleep on now, and take your rest: behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners. 46 Rise, let us be going: behold, he is at hand that does betray me.
63 But Jesus held his peace, And the high priest answered and said unto him, I adjure you by the living God, that you tell us whether you be the Christ, the Son of God. 64 Jesus says unto him, You have said: nevertheless I say unto you, Hereafter shall you see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven [by the power of God returning from there this understanding]. 65 Then the high priest rent his clothes, saying, He has spoken blasphemy [falsely accusing me because I say I Am the son of God]; what further need have we of witnesses? Behold [see their projection], now you have heard his blasphemy. 66 What think you? They answered and said, He is guilty of death. 67 Then did they spit in his face, and buffeted him; and others smote him with the palms of their hands, 68 Saying, Prophesy unto us, you Christ, Who is he that smote you? [It is those whose identities are covered by the ashes of the ruin of the world they destroyed.] 69 Now Peter sat without in the palace: and a damsel [the fallen church] came unto him, saying, You also were with Jesus of Galilee [Conversing with me here in this wheel within a wheel]. 70 But he denied before them all, saying, I know not what you sayest. 71 And when he was gone out into the porch, another maid saw him, and said unto them that were there, This fellow was also with Jesus of Nazareth [separated from His brethren, as was Joseph David’s ‘adown]. 72 And again he denied with an oath, I do not know the man. 73 And after a while [mikron – at the end of this time of doubting My presence] came unto him they that stood by, and said to Peter, Surely you also are one of them; for your speech betrays you. 74 Then began he to curse and to swear, saying, I know not the man. And immediately the cock crew [elektor phaneo]. 75 And Peter [the leaders of God’s people now sleeping in death with His dead body] remembered the word [these words] of Jesus, which said unto him, Before the cock crow, you shall deny me thrice. And he went out, and wept bitterly.
Now is the time of this sun rising, when this understanding is returned to create this new heaven and earth, where, in this truth, dwells righteousness.
Revelation 10 1 And I saw another mighty angel [I Am the seventh angel] come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow [the rightly divided light] was upon his head [the sign of this end reached], and his face [presence] was as it were the sun [in the church He is raising from death], and his feet as pillars of fire [destroying darkness in every place it hides]: 2 And he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea [among this last generation], and his left foot on the earth [I Am creating], 3 And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roars [the second face of the unfolding presence of God manifested]: and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices [of the seven colors of the rightly divided word]. 4 And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not [because they are reserved in the cloud until this appointed time of this expected end]. 5 And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven, 6 And swore by him that lives forever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer: 7 But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he has declared to his servants the prophets [see the many examples below describing this ‘achariyth: this last of the last days when we see Him again: by faith understand His always presence]. 8 And the voice [of the Father speaking] which I heard from heaven [this place of full understanding] spoke unto me again, and said, Go and take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel which standeth upon the sea and upon the earth. 9 And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little book. And he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make your belly bitter [because you must vomit it, repeat it, as the sign of the end, as Jonah from the belly of hell], but it shall be in your mouth sweet as honey [returning strength to My people it raises to life again]. 10 And I took the little book out of the angel’s hand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter. 11 And he said unto me, You must prophesy again [speaking this word as received] before many peoples [who have not known Me], and nations, and tongues, and kings.
2 Corinthians 11 1 Would to God you could bear with me a little [mikron – in this exposition while you deny Me and remain ignorant of My presence in this word and work] in my folly: and indeed bear with me. 2 For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband [joining the LORD in His ONE BODY], that I may present you as a chaste virgin [not joined with any other, but] to Christ [the LORD manifesting His presence with us, in us]. 3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ [which is speaking His word and declaring it is His presence in you speaking and working to save the world]. 4 For if he that comes preaches another Jesus [as do all the false teachers and false prophets of our time], whom we have not preached, or if you receive another spirit, [in] which you have not received [the Spirit of the LORD], or another gospel, [by] which you have not accepted [the present LORD], you might well bear with him. 5 For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles. 6 But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been thoroughly made manifest among you in all things. [Are you not in the presence of the LORD Jesus Christ at His coming?”] 7 Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that you might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely?
Hebrews 10 26 For if we sin willfully [continue following blinding ignorance taught by the wicked in power] after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more sacrifice [this long-suffering that corrects us away] 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. 32 But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after you were illuminated, you endured a great fight of afflictions [of unbelievers]; 33 Partly, whilst you were made a gazing-stock [publicly mocked] both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst you became companions of them that were so used. 34 For you had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that you have in heaven [when this understanding has overcome all darkness] a better and an enduring substance. 35 Cast not away, therefore, your confidence, which has great recompense of reward. 36 For you have need of patience, that, after you have done the will of God [speaking His word as received], you might receive the promise. 37 For yet a little while [mikron – until the darkness ends], and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry. 38 Now the just shall live by faith [that the LORD is present, manifested in His word]: but if any man draw back [hupostello – withholds this word], my soul shall have no pleasure in him. 39 But we are not of them who draw back [hupostole] unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.
The word hupostole only appears this once, and hupostello three other times, as seen below.
Galatians 2 11 But when Peter [the leaders of God’s people] was come to Antioch [become antichrist by succumbing to the will of the mob], I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed. 12 For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew [hupostello – held back the most important parts of this gospel] and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision. 13 And the other Jews dissembled likewise [joined in taking away discernment] with him; insomuch that Barnabas [the children who were at rest: in peace] also was carried away with [led away into] their dissimulation [this condemnation]. 14 But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If you, being a Jew [Judah – the old and corrupt crop of leaders], live after the manner of Gentiles [rejecting their false teaching], and not as do the Jews, why compel you the Gentiles to live as do the Jews [to follow their false ways]? 15 We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles, 16 Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law [which men have corrupted], but by the faith of Jesus Christ [alive with us, in us], even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ [the LORD alive in us], and not by the works of the law [men have corrupted]: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. 17 But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners [teaching the same old corruption], is, therefore, Christ the minister of sin? God forbid. 18 For if I build again the [corrupt] things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor. 19 For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God. 20 I Am [by their corrupt law] crucified with Christ: nevertheless, I live; yet not I, but Christ lives in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
Acts 20 19 Serving the LORD with all humility of mind, and with many tears, and temptations, which befell me by the lying in wait of the Jews [the current crop of corrupt leaders]: 20 And how I kept back [hupostello] nothing that was profitable unto you, but have shown you, and have taught you publicly, and from house to house, 21 Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance [from corruption] toward God, and faith toward our LORD Jesus Christ. 22 And now, behold, I go bound in the spirit unto [New Heavenly] Jerusalem [all God’s people], not knowing the things that shall befall me there: 23 Save [except that I know] that the Holy Ghost witnesses in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me [there because I speak this word of God and declare it is His presence with us, in us]. 24 But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the LORD Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God. 25 And now, behold, I know that you all, among whom I have gone preaching the kingdom of God, shall see my face no more. 26 Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men [because I have warned the righteous and the wicked of His presence with us and of the ends of the world: heaven and earth]. 27 For I have not shunned [hupostello] to declare unto you all the counsel of God. 28 Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost has made you overseers [episkopos], to [with this word you have received] feed the church of God, which he has purchased with his own blood [His sacrifice to deliver it as received and declare it is the Father’s, who is alive in his flesh]. 29 For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock [scattering and devouring it into the belly of hell]. 30 Also of your own selves [the elders of God people, who are in positions as overseers of His flock] shall men arise, speaking perverse [distorted] things, to draw away disciples after them. 31 Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears. 32 And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified. 33 I have coveted no man’s silver, or gold, or apparel. 34 Yea, you yourselves know, that these hands have ministered [served] unto my necessities, and to them that were with me. 35 I have shown [freely given] you all things, how that so laboring you ought to support [antilambanomai – be against receiving from] the weak, and to remember the words of the LORD Jesus, how he said, “It is more blessed to give than to receive [lambano].”
It is thought that the LORD’s statement above was never recorded. It is a paraphrase of Luke 14:14 & 15, which is speaking of now when those who are freely giving this word are blessed by the LORD.
Luke 14 11 For whosoever exalts himself shall be abased; and he that humbles [tapeinoo – is willing to be humiliated for what seems to the ignorant to be foolishness] himself shall be exalted. 12 Then said he also to him that bade him, When you make a dinner or a supper [this feast here served], call not your friends, nor your brethren, neither your kinsmen, nor your rich neighbors; lest they also bid you again, and a recompense be made you. 13 But when you make a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind: 14 And [for giving as commanded and not receiving anything in return] you shall be blessed [of the LORD]; for they cannot recompense you: for you shall be recompensed [from the LORD] at the resurrection of the just. 15 And when one of them that sat at meat with him heard these things, he said unto him, Blessed is he that shall eat bread [this word from the mouth of the LORD, by which men are brought from death into life] in the kingdom of God.
Matthew 18 1 At the same time came the disciples unto Jesus, saying, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven? 2 And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them, 3 And said, Truly I say unto you, Except you be converted [strepho – reverse your thinking], and become as little children [knowing nothing and ready to receive this teaching], you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. 4 Whosoever, therefore, shall humble [tapinoo – be subjected to humiliation for admitting you know nothing] himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven. 5 And whoso shall receive [dechomai – giving the thing needed] one such little child in my name receives [dechomai – giving the things needed to enter] me [My ONE BODY]. 6 But whoso [because of their belief] shall offend [scandalize – humiliate] one of these little ones which believes in me [that I Am present with them, in them], it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea. 7 Woe unto the world because of offenses [skandalon – those the world humiliates for believing in Me]! for it must needs be [because of the ignorance of Me of this generation] that offenses [skandalon] come; but woe to that man by whom the offense [skandalon – humiliation] comes! 8 Wherefore if your hand [those trusting in their own worthless works] or your foot [going their own way] offend [skandalizo – humiliate] you [for believing in Me], cut them off, and cast them from you: it is better for you to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into [hell’s] everlasting fire. 9 And if your eye [seeing evil: misleading the body] offend [scandalize – humiliate] you [for seeing as I see], pluck it out, and cast it from you: it is better for you to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire. 10 Take heed that you despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, That in heaven [this time when full understanding is apparent] their angels [the messengers the LORD sends with it] do always behold the face [see and stand in the presence] of my Father which is in heaven. 11 For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost [in the darkness].
Matthew 23 11 But he that is greatest among you shall be your servant. 12 And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble [tapeinoo] himself shall be exalted. 13 But woe unto you, scribes [who say they know the law but have instead corrupted its spirit] and Pharisees [the religious leaders who’ve scattered the one body], hypocrites! for you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for you neither go in yourselves, neither suffer you them that are entering to go in. 14 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense make long prayer: therefore you shall receive the greater damnation. 15 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, you make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.
Philippians 2 2 Fulfil you my joy, that you be likeminded [phroneo], having the same love [agape – giving as you have been given], being of one accord, of one mind [phroneo]. 3 Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind [tapeinophrosune – willing to suffer humiliation, because of the light in you] let each esteem other better than themselves. 4 Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others [giving these things needed]. 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 [serving to others these thing needed], and was made in the likeness of men: 8 And being found in fashion as a man [I Am in me], he humbled [tapeinoo – willing to suffer humiliation because of the light, understanding, life in me] 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 [identity – in me, Timothy] 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 [the confession He is alive in you, which is] your own salvation with fear and trembling. 13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure [bringing many children to life and revealing His glory in them]. 14 Do all things without murmurings and disputings [because nothing can be done against the truth time reveals]: 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 [when the LORD is revealed present in you], 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 [that the LORD is with us, in us revealed], I joy, and rejoice with you all [when He is realized with us, in us]. 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 [tacheos – quickly] unto you, that I also may be of good comfort, when I know your state [peri – when you are completed]. 20 For I have no man likeminded, who will naturally [gnesios – creating this generation in this new heaven and earth] care for your state [peri – bringing you to completion]. 21 For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ’s. 22 But you know the proof [dokime] of him [the proof, in this experience, of Christ speaking through me, which is the voice of the LORD alive], that, as a son with the father, he has served with me in the gospel.
Isaiah 46 8 Remember this [that the idols men created and put in GOD’s place cannot answer your prayers or save you from this tribulation here in hell’s fires], and show yourselves men [who’ve put away childish things]: bring it again to mind, O you transgressors. 9 Remember the former things of old: for I Am God, and there is none else; I Am God, and there is none like me, 10 Declaring the end [‘achariyth – the last days of the old and corrupt] from the beginning [of the new heaven and earth], and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure: 11 Calling a ravenous bird from the east [those flying in heaven at this horizon from where the light rises], the man [I Am] that executes my counsel from a far country [merchaq – this appointed time the LORD has decreed]: yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it. 12 Hearken [shama’ – hear My voice and obey My commands] unto me, you stouthearted, that are far from righteousness: 13 I bring near [into your mind] my righteousness; it shall not be far off [rachaq – it shall not be as the evil decrees of this time, by which the wicked rule you], and my salvation shall not tarry [‘achar – it shall not be in some future time]: and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel [those who receive this promised, expected, end] my glory.
Isaiah 47 4 As for our redeemer, the LORD of hosts [a man is war] is his name, the Holy One of Israel. 5 Sit you silent [stop your lies], and get you into darkness [your own ignorance], O daughter of the Chaldeans [who’ve used deceptions to manipulate and control all the world into death and hell]: for you shall no more be called, The lady of kingdoms. 6 I was wroth with my people, I have polluted my inheritance, and given them into your hand: you did show them no mercy; upon the ancient [needed things] have you very heavily laid your yoke [of deception]. 7 And you said, I shall be a lady forever: so that you did not lay these things [needed] to your heart [mind], neither did remember the latter end [‘achariyth – these last days] of it [none recognizing it is now]. 8 Therefore hear now this, you that are given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in your heart, I am, and none else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children: 9 But these two things shall come to you in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come upon you in their perfection [this completion] for the multitude of your sorceries [using your words to cast evil spells upon the dead whose minds aren’t working], and for the great abundance of your enchantments. 10 For you have trusted in your wickedness: you have said, None sees me. Your wisdom and your knowledge, it has perverted you; and you have said in your heart [minds], I am [god], and none else [saying there is no God] beside me. 11 Therefore shall evil come upon you; you shall not know from whence [where or when] it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon you; you shall not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon you suddenly, which you shall not know [because you are dead and your mind doesn’t recognize anything]. 12 Stand now with your enchantments, and with the multitude of your sorceries, wherein you have labored from your youth; if so be you shall be able to profit, if so be you mayest prevail. 13 You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels [all the voices of confusion, opinions dead men call truth]. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save you from these things that shall come upon you. 14 Behold, they shall be as stubble; the [hell] fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: there shall not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before it. 15 Thus shall they be unto you with whom you have labored, even your merchants, from your youth: they shall wander every one to his quarter; none shall save you.
Revelation 18 17 For in one hour so great riches is come to naught. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off, 18 And cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like unto this great city! 19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea [the corrupt institutions that rule over humanity] by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate. 20 Rejoice over her, you heaven, and you holy apostles and prophets; for God has avenged you on her. 21 And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone [their own works around their neck, stopping the words of those who’ve humiliated His saints, apostles, and prophets], and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon [the mass confusion now turned to insanity that rules the world and destroys itself] be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all. 22 And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, [repeating your deception you’ve taught them] shall be heard no more at all in you; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be [creating your deception], shall be found any more in you; and the sound of a millstone [their works] shall be heard no more at all in you; 23 And the light of a candle [your corrupt understanding you teach to deaden the collective mind of man] shall shine no more at all in you; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in you: for your merchants were the great men of the earth; for by your sorceries were all nations deceived. 24 And in her was found the blood [draining the life] of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain [made dead] upon the earth.
Revelation 19 1 And after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven [repeating these words as received], saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honor, and power, unto the LORD our God [present with us, in us]: 2 For true and righteous are his judgments: for he has judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and has avenged the blood of his servants at her hand. 3 And again they said, Alleluia And her smoke rose up forever and ever. 4 And the four and twenty elders and the four beasts [the faces of the wheel within the wheel, completing the unfolding presence of the LORD God with us, in us] fell down and worshipped God that sat on the throne, saying, Amen; Alleluia. 5 And a voice came out of the throne, saying, Praise our God, all you his servants, and you that fear him, both small and great. 6 And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings [the sound of light from the cloud], saying, Alleluia: for the LORD God omnipotent reigns [and confusion no longer does]. 7 Let us be glad and rejoice [realizing His presence], and give honor to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife has made herself ready. 8 And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints. 9 And he says unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he says unto me, These are the true sayings of God. 10 And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me [as I Am saying to you], See you do it not: I am your fellow-servant, and of your brethren that have the testimony of Jesus [Jehovah’s Salvation manifested in His word through our flesh]: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. 11 And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he does judge and make war. 12 His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name [Timothy] written, that no man knew, but he himself. 13 And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God. 14 And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. 15 And out of his mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treads the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. 16 And he has on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, King Of Kings, And LORD Of Lords. 17 And I saw an angel standing in the sun [in the church]; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God; 18 That you may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great. 19 And I saw the beast [Babylon], and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army. 20 And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark [in their minds and their works] of the beast [of confusion], and them that worshipped his image [the deceptions created by the insane in power]. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone. 21 And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.
Jeremiah 23 16 Thus says the LORD of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain: they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the LORD. 17 They say still unto them that despise me, The LORD has said, You shall have peace; and they say unto every one that walketh after the imagination of his own heart, No evil shall come upon you. 18 For who has stood in the counsel of the LORD, and has perceived and heard his word? who has marked his word, and heard it? 19 Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD is gone forth in fury, even a grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked. 20 The anger of the LORD shall not return, until he has executed, and till he has performed the thoughts of his heart: in the latter days [‘achariyth] you shall consider [biyn – understand] it perfectly [biynah – because it is understanding given by Jehovah]. 21 I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied. 22 But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear my words, then they should have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings. 23 Am I a God at hand, says the LORD, and not [also] a God afar off [rachowq – in this time when the world is ruled by the evil decrees of the wicked in power]? 24 Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? says the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? says the LORD. 25 I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed. 26 How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies? yea, they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart; 27 Which think to cause my people to forget my name [identity] by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbor, as their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal [the idols they created, put in My place, and call by My name]. 28 The prophet that has a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that has my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? says the LORD. 29 Is not my word like as a fire? says the LORD; and like a hammer that breaks the [false] rock in pieces? 30 Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, says the LORD, that steal my words [refusing to give it as commanded] every one from his neighbor. 31 Behold, I am against the prophets, says the LORD, that use their tongues, and say, He says.
Jeremiah 29 9 For they prophesy falsely unto you in my name: I have not sent them, says the LORD. 10 For thus says the LORD, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit [paqad – as the Chief Overseer of the earth] you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place. 11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end [‘achariyth]. 12 Then shall you call upon me, and you shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you. 13 And you shall seek me, and find me, when you shall search for me with all your heart. 14 And I will be found of you, says the LORD: and I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you, says the LORD; and I will bring you again into the place whence I caused you to be carried away captive. 15 Because you have said, The LORD has raised us up prophets in Babylon [here and now when confusion and insanity rule the world]; 16 Know that thus says the LORD of the king that sits upon the throne of David, and of all the people that dwell in this city, and of your brethren that are not gone forth with you into captivity; 17 Thus says the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will send upon them the sword [the word they refuse to hear as My voice], the famine [without it], and the pestilence [the dis-ease that comes without it], and will make them like vile figs, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil.
Psalms 37 27 Depart from evil, and do good; and dwell for evermore. 28 For the LORD loves judgment, and forsakes not his saints; they are preserved forever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off. 29 The righteous shall inherit the land [‘erets – the earth], and dwell therein forever. 30 The mouth of the righteous speaks wisdom, and his tongue talks of judgment. 31 The law of his God is in his heart; none of his steps shall slide. 32 The wicked watch the righteous, and seek to slay him. 33 The LORD will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged. 34 Wait on the LORD, and keep his way, and he shall exalt you to inherit the land: when the wicked are cut off, you shall see it. 35 I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree. 36 Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found. 37 Mark the perfect [tam – Tim] man, and behold the upright: for the end of [‘achariyth – in these last days] that man is peace [Shiloh]. 38 But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of [‘achariyth – the last days when] the wicked shall be cut off [karath]. 39 But the salvation of the righteous is of the LORD: he is their strength in the time of trouble [tsarah – this tribulation here in hell]. 40 And the LORD shall help them, and deliver them: he shall deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in him.
Psalms 73 1 Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean [pure] heart [by which we see God]. 2 But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped. 3 For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. 4 For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm. 5 They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men. 6 Therefore pride compasses them about as a chain; violence covers them as a garment. 7 Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish. 8 They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily. 9 They set their mouth against the heavens [this full understanding], and their tongue walks through the earth [darkening it]. 10 Therefore his people return here [to His words]: and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them. 11 And they say, How does God know? and is there knowledge in the Most High? 12 Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches. 13 Truly I have cleansed my heart [mind] in vain, and washed my hands [my works] in innocence. 14 For all the day long have I been plagued [touched by the ignorant], and chastened [refuted] every morning. 15 If I say, I will speak thus [this word of God]; behold, I should offend against [be humiliated by] the generation of your children. 16 When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me; 17 Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end [‘achariyth – these last days of darkness, the last days of the ignorance that blinds men’s minds to the presence of God with us, in us]. 18 Surely you did set them in slippery places: you cast them down into destruction. 19 How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors. 20 As a dream when one awakes [and realizes none of his thoughts are true and real, but are creations of his sleeping mind]; so, O LORD, when you awake, you shall despise their image [the creation they made, put in My place, and call by My name]. 21 Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins [the inner thoughts that control men’s actions and words]. 22 So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before you. 23 Nevertheless I am continually with you: you have held me by my right hand. 24 You shall guide me with your counsel, and afterward receive me to glory. 25 Whom have I in heaven but you? and there is none upon earth that I desire besides you. 26 My flesh and my heart [mind] fail: but God is the strength [understanding] of my heart [mind], and my portion forever. 27 For, lo, they that are far from you shall perish: you have destroyed all them that go a whoring from you. 28 But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the LORD God, that I may declare all your works [this word by which men are saved].
And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand.
The above is the LORD speaking of why he speaks in parables, this specific one speaking of Himself sowing this word into men’s minds. Ultimately, the passage describes the resurrection and the salvation of the world.
The passage before this parable, itself a parable, speaks of the church in sin, with her tears washing away the mire from the LORD’s feet, washing away the corruption His people (His dead body she also anoints to cover the savor of death) picked up in their journey in the earth toward this moment, this rendezvous.
Luke 7 31 And the LORD said, Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation [here and now]? and to what are they like? 32 They are like unto children [who have not yet put away childish things] sitting in the marketplace, and calling one to another, and saying, We have piped unto you, and you have not danced; we have mourned to you, and you have not wept. [I Am not here to do your will but the will of My Father who sent me.] 33 For John [the dove, the sign of the end: calling all to repentance] the Baptist [who took all below the surface of the waters to wash the blinding corrupt picked up through time] came neither eating bread [men corrupted] nor drinking wine [that changed men’s mind and carried them away into ignorance and death]; and you say, He has a devil [you, only knowing corruption, vilify and demonize the LORD’s work through him, which is blasphemy]. 34 The Son of man is come eating [this word from the mouth of the LORD, by which men lives] and drinking [this pure blood from the grapes of the Father’s wrath, this pure word men refuse to hear as His]; and you say, Behold a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners! 35 But wisdom is justified of all her children [by receiving this correction]. 36 And one [Simon {the leper}, stony ground later spoken of, Peter, now] of the Pharisees [those who’ve scattered the LORD’s flock] desired him that he would eat with him. And he went into the Pharisee’s house, and sat down to meat [to converse with him of these things of deep understanding, in which conversation the Father’s presence is manifested]. 37 And, behold, a woman [the dead body of Christ] in the city, which was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus [with his dead body] sat at meat [anakeimai – lay dead] in the Pharisee’s house [conversing with those sitting in seats of power over the institution where this understanding should be and isn’t], brought an alabaster box [alla bastazo; meaning many things shall be removed] of ointment [muron – as vapors, the separated elements of understanding, into the cloud], 38 And stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet [of the corruption pick up through time] with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment. 39 Now when the Pharisee which had bidden him saw it, he spoke within himself, saying, This man, if he were a prophet, would have known who and what manner of woman this is that touches him: for she is a sinner. 40 And Jesus answering said unto him, Simon, I have somewhat to say unto you. And he says, Master, say on. 41 There was a certain creditor which had two debtors: the one owed five hundred pence, and the other fifty. 42 And when they had nothing to pay, he frankly forgave them both. Tell me therefore, which of them will love him most? 43 Simon answered and said, I suppose that he, to whom he forgave most. And he said unto him, You have rightly judged. 44 And he turned to the woman, and said unto Simon, See you this woman [My dead body]? I entered into your house, you gave me no water for my feet [refusing to remove the corruption picked up along the way, by which my body was scattered and killed]: but she has washed my feet with tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head. 45 You gave me no kiss: but this woman since the time I came in has not ceased to kiss my feet [where she sat hearing this correction, learning my Father’s words and ways, which she, being sorry for her sin, willingly received]. 46 My head with oil you did not anoint: but this woman has anointed my feet with ointment. 47 Wherefore I say unto you, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved [agapao – giving this word as commanded] much: but to whom little is forgiven, the same loves [agapao] little [refusing to give it as commanded]. 48 And he says unto her [because you have love and kept My words], [Church, My ONE risen BODY] Your sins are forgiven. 49 And they that sat at meat [heard the deep meaning from the mouth of God] with him began to say within themselves, Who is this that forgive sins also? 50 And he said to the woman, Your faith [that this word is the Father manifesting His presence with us, in us] has saved you; go in peace.
Luke 8 1 And it came to pass afterward [after the cleansing in this baptism], that he went throughout every city and village [as the sun rising and shining this understanding from east to west], preaching and showing the glad tidings of the kingdom of God [entered by those who receive this teaching]: and the twelve were with him, 2 And certain women [again, the scattered church], which had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities, Mary [rebelling against the corrupt status quo] called Magdalene [in the resurrection, the first saved, mustered, into His ONE BODY, here at Armageddon], out of whom went seven devils [casting out the corrupt of those possessed by Saran, misleading, scattering, and destroying the life, understanding, and the knowledge of God, in their minds], 3 And Joanna [to whom Jehovah has graciously given {His word}] the wife of Chuza [seer] Herod’s [those heroic in opposition of God] steward [epitropos – over {seeing} the conversation {in which the Father’s presence is manifested}], and Susanna [whose voices are the last trumpet sounding, shouting this voice of the Father’s archangel], and many others, which ministered [serving these things, this grace] unto him [gathering into His OND BODY] of their substance [huoarchonta – huper arche ontos, meaning, regarding these first principles: truth given as received}]. 4 And when much people were gathered together [into His Kingdom, His ONE BODY], and were come to him out of every city, he spoke by a parable [from the Greek word para and the Hebrew word habal, meaning these sayings are with us but, through straying, become worthless: without understanding]: 5 A sower went out to sow his seed [these written words]: and as he sowed, some fell by the way side; and it was trodden down, and the fowls of the air [in places where understanding should found but isn’t] devoured it. 6 And some fell upon a rock [from whom this word of God should flow, but instead devils are there preaching their own words]; and as soon as it [truth] was sprung up, it withered away, because it lacked moisture [not continuing in this word]. 7 And some fell among thorns [misleaders]; and the thorns sprang up with it, and choked it. 8 And other fell on good ground, and sprang up, and bare fruit a hundredfold. And when he had said these things, he cried, He that has ears to hear, let him hear [this deep meaning found]. 9 And his disciples asked him, saying, What might this parable be [what is the deep meaning reserved therein, frozen, for this time of this just war]? 10 And he said, Unto you [who have loved and kept My words] it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others in parables [without understanding this moment, become worthless to those choosing to remain in ignorance]; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand [choosing to remain in darkness, in ignorance, because their deeds are evil: misleading with their own vain words and not giving this word as commanded]. 11 Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God. 12 Those by the way side are they that hear; then comes the devil [the misleaders possessed by Satan, who’ve left their first estate, now giving their own misleading words instead of the LORD’s], and taketh away the word out of their hearts [minds], lest they should believe [this word is the Father’s, in which conversation He is manifesting His presence] and be saved. 13 They on the rock [false teachers and false prophets in whom people vainly put their trust] are they, which, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root [lacking the first principles of these oracles of God] which for a while believe, and in time of temptation [doubting the Father’s presence] fall away. 14 And that which fell among [eis] thorns [misleaders] are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares, riches, and pleasures of this life, and [not giving this word as received, not declaring it is the Father’s presence in them manifesting Himself to the world in need] bring no fruit to perfection [completion in the expected end in His presence]. 15 But that on the good ground are they [resurrected from death with Me], which in an honest and good heart [hearing and seeing the Father in His children], having heard the word [as His], keep it, and [giving the same word as He commands] bring forth fruit with patience [long suffering to bring this same perfection in others, after our own kind]. 16 No man, when he has lighted a candle [as He has enlightened us], covers it with a vessel, or put it under a bed [to burn up those sleeping {in death}]; but sets it on a candlestick [lifting it as Moses lifted the fiery serpent in the wilderness, as the son of man must be lifted], that they which enter in may see the light [and be saved from the bites of the serpents among them, whose poison from their mouths kills the minds of any who follow their evil leading]. 17 For nothing is secret [held in ignorance], that shall not be made manifest [with the Father’s presence]; neither any thing hid, that shall not be known and come abroad [eis – among thorns, exposing these evil misleaders who now resist, oppose, and blaspheme this work and word of God]. 18 Take heed therefore how you hear [this word]: for whosoever has [understanding and faith it is the Father’s], to him shall be given; and whosoever has not this [faith], from him shall be taken even that which he seems to have. 19 Then came to him his mother and his brethren, and could not come at him for the press [of the ignorant crowd, and the culture created by the mass media broadcasting the work and words of Satan’s decpetion]. 20 And it was told him by certain which said, Your mother and your brethren stand without, desiring to see you. 21 And he answered and said unto them, My mother and my brethren are these which hear the word of God, and do it [give it as He’s commanded: as received and declaring it is His presence with us, in us]. 22 Now it came to pass on a certain day, that he went into a ship [one of the church institutions, the first to obey and pass over from death into life] with his disciples: and he said unto them, Let us go over unto the other side of the lake [the same course set before all, to go from ignorance to understanding upon these living waters]. And they launched forth. 23 But as they sailed he fell asleep [in the sleeping minds]: and there came down a storm of wind [of false doctrines against the truth] on the lake; and they were filled with water [not knowing the difference between truth and men’s creations], and were in jeopardy. 24 And they came to him, and awoke him, saying, Master, master, we [are unsure and] perish. Then he arose [as the first begotten of God from among the dead, in victory over death and hell], and rebuked the wind [the false doctrines, and the devils spewing them] and the raging [roaring waves] of the water [men’s words]: and they ceased, and there was a calm [as a sea of glass mixed with this fire]. 25 And he said unto them, Where is your faith [in My saying I will never leave you or forsake you]? And they being afraid wondered, saying one to another, What manner of man is this! for he commands even the winds and water, and they obey him.
Revelation 15 1 And I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvelous, seven angels having the seven last plagues; for in them is filled up the wrath of God [this word which the wicked refuse to hear as the Father’s voice]. 2 And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast [those without the LORD’s Spirit, sitting in seats of power over church and state, resisting, opposing, and blaspheming His work and word], and over his image [all their lies they put in My place and call by My name, which is Truth], and over his mark [in their head and hand: the insanity in their minds, which is obvious in their works], and over the number of his name [identity found in the number of a Man, Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary number 666, ‘apher, the ashes of the earth’s ruin, covering the faces, the presence, of the true and false prophets; only used twice, in 1 Kings 20:38 & 41], stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God. 3 And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb [these written words meant to be repeated as received] saying, Great and marvelous [in opening our eyes to see good and evil, teaching us to choose good and refuse evil] are your works, LORD God Almighty; just and true are your ways, you King of saints. 4 Who shall not fear you, O LORD, and glorify your name [Your identity manifested with us, in us]? for you only are holy: for all nations [all who haven’t know You] shall come and worship before you; for your judgments are made manifest [by Your presence]. 5 And after that I looked, and, behold, the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was opened: 6 And the seven angels came out of the temple, having the seven plagues, clothed in pure and white linen [purity by which man sees God], and having their breasts girded with golden girdles. 7 And one of the four beasts gave unto the seven angels seven golden vials full of the wrath of God [this word which men still refuse], who lives forever and ever. 8 And the temple was filled with [a pillar of] smoke [by day, in this time light – anger, to smoke out the vermin infesting the temple] from the glory of God, and from his power; and no man was able to enter into the temple, till the seven plagues of the seven angels were fulfilled [teleo].
Matthew 26 1 And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished [teleo] all these sayings, he said unto his disciples, 2 You know that after two days is the feast of the Passover [when all shall pass from death into life], and the Son of man is betrayed to be crucified. 3 Then assembled together the chief priests, and [kai] the scribes, and [kai] the elders of the people, unto the palace of the high priest, who was called [lego – describing] Caiaphas [kaiapha in the original text, from kai’ apher, meaning he is the one whose identity is hidden in the ashes of the earth’s ruin; with affinity to the Greek word aphanes, meaning not apparent] 4 And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty [dolos – a twelve times used word also rendered guile and deceit], and [kai] kill him [that He is seen no longer, not apparent because of the deceit and guile]. 5 But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar among the people. 6 Now when Jesus was in Bethany [the house of misery, where the dead are found], in the house of Simon the leper [Peter’s dead flesh], 7 There came unto him a woman having an alabaster box [filled with things soon to be romoved] of very precious ointment [to cover the smell of death], and poured it on his head [in his mind where only they would remain], as he sat at meat [anakeimai – lay dead, all understanding removed]. 8 But when his disciples saw it, they had indignation, saying, To what purpose is this waste? 9 For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor. 10 When Jesus understood it, he said unto them, Why trouble you the woman? for she has wrought a good work upon me. 11 For you have the poor always with you; but me you have not always. 12 For in that she has poured this ointment on my body, she did it for my burial. 13 Truly I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, there shall also this, that this woman has done, be told for a memorial of her. 14 Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went unto the chief priests, 15 And said unto them, What will you give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver. 16 And from that time he sought the opportunity to betray him. 17 Now the first day of the feast of unleavened bread [removing all corrupt from the word of God] the disciples came to Jesus, saying unto him, Where will you that we prepare for you to eat the passover? 18 And he said, Go into the city to such a man, and say unto him, The Master says, My time is at hand; I will keep the passover at your house with my disciples. 19 And the disciples did as Jesus had appointed them; and they made ready the passover.
The following, ending with Ephesians 5, are excerpts from the post of 13 May 2019.
Bethany: the story of God’s people’s fall into a house of misery, wherein they ripen and from where they are raised.
The passages surrounding the eleven times the name Bethany appears first tell of the corrupted priesthood, the defiled temple, and vain worship in general; all products of the abomination brought into the temple and put in God’s place. These further speak of the LORD leaving corrupted Jerusalem, and going to Bethany and Bethphage, meaning the house (family) of misery and of unripe figs. In the family are Mary, Martha, and (dead) Lazarus, a house (Christian and Jew) outside the established corrupt order, both the women’s names meaning and telling of them being those who rebelled against the (corrupt) status quo.
As we know, Lazarus is the Greek rendering of the Hebrew name Eleazar, meaning he is who God helps. He is historically the son of Aaron, who was raised to the priesthood after his two brothers (Christians and Jews) became idol worshipers and offered strange fire (ways far from and thereby foreign) to God.
It is in this family (house) the LORD is anointed (by those who have come out of corruption), and where abides the priesthood the LORD raised from the dead.
These are the easily understood and recognized embedded meanings. The deeper meaning is in telling of how the fall occurred, how it has now again, and how the restoration comes.
The next step is to investigate the name Judas (Judah) Iscariot, which is from the Hebrew words Yhuwdah’ iysh qirya’. These words tell of those who are the celebrated men, the celebrity leaders of God’s people, of His city (among His people in Zion and Jerusalem). Examining the usages of these words, we see they tell of betrayal, which ends in the release of the vessels carried away into confusion (Babylon), where they were held in the treasure house of the idols of Babylon.
The word ‘iysh only appears one time, rendered “show yourselves men” in Isaiah 46:8, where we’re told the betrayers are called to remember. The chapter begins by speaking of when Bel and Nebo bow down (yield); these are the idols of the corrupt house into which the vessels were carried and held. This carrying away is described in Daniel 1:2, where we see it is into Shinar, the sleep Daniel speaks of in Daniel 12:2. We have seen this as when the book is sealed, in the treasure house of these idols, meaning in the current corrupted church by its dead priests. We understand the restoration, the rebuilding of God’s house, His city and wall, come with the fall of the wall these men have built, which can’t be trusted and will surely fall on any near it when it does (because it is built with stones of emptiness {bohuw}, upon a foundation of confusion {tohuw} – Isaiah 34:11).
The betrayal is spoken of in Ezra 4, the only place the word qirya’ appears; and where it is rendered “city.” There it tells of the rebuilding of the wall and how it was halted by the adversaries, who heard the sound of the trumpet and great noise (Ezra 3:10 & 11). These enemies first said they wanted to help build, and when their attempts at subversion were rejected by Zerubbabel and Joshua (Jesus), they frustrated the building all the days of Cyrus, until the days of Darius.
All these names speak of the same people joined together into ONE BODY with the LORD, and the prophecies unsealed tell of my coming as the first begotten from the dead, sent to raise many of God’s children into the same glory.
Ephesians 5 30 For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. 31 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. 32 This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
Matthew 26 57 And they that had laid hold on Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were assembled. 58 But Peter followed him afar off unto the high priest’s palace, and went in, and sat with the servants, to see the end. 59 Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false witness against Jesus, to put him to death; 60 But found none: yea, though many false witnesses came, yet found they none. At the last came two false witnesses, 61 And said, This fellow said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days. 62 And the high priest arose, and said unto him, Answer you nothing? what is it which these witness against you? 63 But Jesus held his peace, And the high priest answered and said unto him, I adjure you by the living God, that you tell us whether you be the Christ, the Son of God. 64 Jesus says unto him, You have said: nevertheless I say unto you, Hereafter shall you see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven. 65 Then the high priest rent his clothes, saying, He has spoken blasphemy; what further need have we of witnesses? behold, now you have heard his blasphemy. 66 What think you? They answered and said, He is guilty of death. 67 Then did they spit in his face, and buffeted him; and others smote him with the palms of their hands, 68 Saying, Prophesy unto us, you Christ, Who is he that smote you? [It is those hiding their faces in the ruin of the earth they destroyed] 69 Now Peter sat without in the palace: and a damsel came unto him, saying, You also were with Jesus of Galilee. 70 But he denied before them all, saying, I know not what you say. 71 And when he was gone out into the porch, another maid saw him, and said unto them that were there, This fellow was also with Jesus of Nazareth. 72 And again he denied with an oath, I do not know the man. 73 And after a while came unto him they that stood by, and said to Peter, Surely you also are one of them; for your speech betrays you. 74 Then began he to curse and to swear, saying, I know not the man. And immediately the cock crew. 75 And Peter remembered the word of Jesus, which said unto him, Before the cock crow, you shall deny me thrice. And he went out, and wept bitterly.
The above speaks of now when all those leading God’s people, (false) rocks in whom men put their trust, deny the LORD’s presence, as they have in the other two watches in the night. The “cock” (alektor) “crowing” (phoneo) is during the third watch of the night, which signals the end of darkness and the mourning arrived (when light returns and shines understanding from east to west).
The Greek words, alektor and phoneo, appear only once, in Mark 13:35, as one word (alektorophonia).
Mark 13 19 For in those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created unto this time, neither shall be. 20 And except that the LORD had shortened those days, no flesh should be saved: but for the elect’s sake, whom he has chosen, he has shortened the days. 21 And then if any man shall say to you, Lo, here is Christ; or, lo, he is there; believe him not: 22 For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall show signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect. 23 But take you heed: behold, I have foretold you all things. 24 But in those days, after that tribulation [after the many false prophets have come and deceived all but the very elect remnant], the sun shall be darkened [the church institutions now realized to be without any understanding], and the moon shall not give her light [all civil government institutions now also realized to be lacking the same understanding], 25 And the stars of heaven [God’s people who have this light] shall fall [are realized to be without it, in apostasy, meaning they are standing separated from the LORD and His truth], and the powers that are in heaven [where understanding should be found and isn’t] shall be shaken [so the wicked are shaken from these places]. 26 And then shall they see the Son of man coming in the clouds [where understanding is found, as light therein] with great power and glory [shining from east to west in the morning now come]. 27 And then shall he send his angels [repeating this message as received], and shall gather together [into His ONE BODY] his elect from the four winds [out of the false doctrines and misleaders who’ve scattered and possess them], from the uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven. 28 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When her branch is yet tender, and puts forth leaves, you know that summer is near: 29 So you in like manner, when you shall see these things come to pass [new life returning, by what now flows from this deep root], know that it is nigh, even at the doors. 30 Truly I say unto you, that this generation shall not pass [parerchomai], till all these things be done. 31 [The old and corrupt] Heaven and earth shall pass away [parerchomai]: but my words shall not pass away [parerchomai]. 32 But of that day and that hour know no man [as none now know it’s come upon all as a thief in the night, because none watched], no, not the angels which are in heaven [those in places where understanding should be heard from these messengers who’ve now left their first estate and instead give their own words], neither the Son, but the Father [alive in me]. 33 Take you heed, watch and pray [convers with the Father]: for you know not when the time is. 34 For the Son of Man is as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch [gregoreuo – keep awake]. 35 Watch [gregoreuo – keep awake] you therefore: for you know not when the master of the house comes, at even [first watch], or at midnight [second watch], or at the cockcrowing [alektorophonia – the third watch], or in the morning [when light returns]: 36 Lest coming suddenly he finds you sleeping. 37 And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch [gregoreuo].
Matthew 24 42 Watch [gregoreuo] therefore: for you know not what hour your LORD does come. 43 But know this, that if the goodman of the house [oikidespotes – heads of the family] had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched [gregoreuo – stayed awake], and would not have suffered his house [oikia] to be broken up [his family to be scattered]. 44 Therefore be you also ready: for in such an hour as you think not the Son of man comes. 45 Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his LORD has made ruler over his household, to give them meat [this deep understanding] in due season? 46 Blessed is that servant, whom his LORD when he comes shall find so doing [giving this meat as received]. 47 Truly I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.
The word rendered “household” in verse 45 above is the four times used word therapeia, from therapon, meaning servant; therapeia, meaning those served this meat.
In this therapeia (therapy), that heals the body, is hidden the deep meaning of the LORD’s words, above in Mark 13:28, about watching for the leaves to shoot forth, by which we know this “due season” (“summer”), is even at the door.
Luke 12 34 For where your treasure is, there will your heart [mind] be also. 35 Let your loins be girded about [prepared with this preparation], and your lights [understanding] burning; 36 And you yourselves like unto men that wait for their LORD, when he will return from the wedding; that when he comes and knocks [knowing He is at the door; as in Mark 13:29 above], they may open unto him immediately. 37 Blessed are those servants, whom the LORD when he comes shall find watching [gregoreuo – keeping awake]: truly I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat [giving them this deep understanding], and will come forth [parerchomai – when the old heaven and earth have passed away, but My word hasn’t] and serve them. 38 And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants. 39 And this know, that if the goodman of the house [the head of the family] had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched [gregoreuo – stayed awake], and not have suffered his house [oikos – his family] to be broken through [scattered]. 40 Be you therefore ready also: for the Son of man comes at an hour when you think not. 41 Then Peter [who is now sleeping] said unto him, LORD, speak you this parable unto us, or even to all? 42 And the LORD said, Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom his LORD shall make ruler over his household [therapeia], to give them their portion of meat [this deep understanding] in due season? 43 Blessed is that servant, whom his LORD when he comes shall find so doing [serving this meat as received, healing those who’ve became feeble and sleep without it]. 44 Of a truth I say unto you, that he will make him ruler over all that he has.
Luke 9 1 Then he called his twelve disciples together, and gave them power and authority over all devils [to cast out misleaders possessed by Satan], and to [serve this meat to] cure diseases. 2 And he sent them to preach the kingdom of God, and to [serve this meat to] heal the sick. 3 And he said unto them, Take nothing for your journey, neither staves, nor scrip, neither bread, neither money; neither have two coats apiece. 4 And whatsoever house you enter into, there abide, and thence depart. 5 And whosoever will not receive you, when you go out of that city, shake off the very dust [the ashes of the earth ruin] from your feet [washing away the corruption the world picked up through time] for a testimony against them. 6 And they [obeying His commands] departed, and went through the towns, preaching the gospel, and healing [therapeuo] everywhere. 7 Now Herod [those heroic in their opposition of the LORD] the tetrarch heard of all that was done by him: and he was perplexed, because that it was said of some, that John was risen from the dead; 8 And of some, that Elijah had appeared; and of others, that one of the old prophets was risen again. 9 And Herod said, John [who, bringing many below the surface of these words, called all to repentance from dead works] have I beheaded: but who is this, of whom I hear such things? And he desired to see him. 10 And the apostles, when they were returned, told him all that they had done. And he took them, and went aside privately into a desert place belonging to the city called Bethsaida [the house of fish, where life once hidden below the surface, in the darkened deep, is brought forth]. 11 And the people, when they knew it, followed him: and he received them, and spoke unto them of the kingdom of God, and healed them that had need of healing [therapeia].
Revelation 22 1 And he showed me a pure river of [this] water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. 2 In the midst of the street of it [the way it came], and on either side [this word sent and received] of the river, was there the tree of life [sent to give life], which bare twelve manner of fruits [the perfection of God’s government on the earth as it is in heaven], and yielded her fruit every month [the time of the new moon: new civil government as God intended it, to secure our God-given rights]: and the leaves [we now see put forth] of the tree [of life] were for the healing [therapeia – to return understanding] of the nations [who haven’t known the LORD God]. 3 And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him: 4 And they shall see his face [His presence]; and his name [identity] shall be in their foreheads [in the forefront of their minds]. 5 And there shall be no night [ignorance of God] there; and they need no candle [no man to guide them], neither light of the sun [neither understanding from the church institutions]; for the LORD God gives them light [understanding]: and they [joined with Him in His ONE BODY] shall reign forever and ever. 6 And he said unto me, These sayings are faithful and true: and the LORD God of the holy prophets sent his angel [His messenger – I Am] to show unto his servants the things which must shortly be done. 7 Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he that keep [tereo] the sayings of the prophecy of this book. 8 And I John [the dove, the sign of the end reached] saw these things, and heard them. And when I had heard [as the voice of the LORD] and seen [it is the LORD’s presence manifested in His word made flesh], I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel [His messenger – I Am] which showed me these things. 9 Then says he unto me [as I Am saying to you], See you do it not: for I Am your fellow-servant, and of your brethren the prophets, and of them which keep [tereo] the sayings of this book: worship God. 10 And he says unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand [to speak these words of God as received, declaring He is alive in you speaking and working]. 11 He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still. 12 And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be. 13 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end [of ages], the first and the last. 14 Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city [New Heavenly Jerusalem]. 15 For [separated] without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loves and makes a lie. 16 I Jesus have sent my angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I Am the root [of the tree of life] and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star [this understanding, as the sun rises, shined upon all from east to west]. 17 And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that hears [His voice] say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely. 18 For I testify unto every man that hears the words of the prophecy of this book [as the word of God from His mouth, by which man lives], If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: 19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book [this writing] of this prophecy [meant to be given as received], God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book. 20 He which testifies these things says, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, LORD Jesus. 21 The grace of our LORD Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.
The only time the word gregoreuo (watch) appears in Revelation is in Revelation 3:2 & 3, and 16:15.
Revelation 3 1 And unto the angel of the church in Sardis [red ones] write; These things says he that has the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know your [dead] works, that you have a name [identity] that you live [in the flesh], and are dead [without My Spirit leading you]. 2 Be watchful [gregoreuo], and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found your works perfect before God. 3 Remember therefore how you have received and heard [My voice], and hold fast, and repent [from dead works]. If therefore you shall not watch [gregoreuo], I will come on you as a thief, and you shall not know what hour I will come upon you. 4 You have a few names even in Sardis which have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with me in white [purity, by which I Am seen]: for they are worthy. 5 He that overcomes [the wicked misleaders in power], the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels [messengers He sends with this message]. 6 He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says unto the churches.
Revelation 16 10 And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast [the living flesh without the LORD’s Spirit]; and his kingdom [the hell he has made the earth] was full of darkness [full of ignorance]; and they gnawed their tongues for pain [created by their words and ways], 11 And blasphemed [vilified and falsely accused] the God of heaven [who has full understanding] because of their pains and their sores [blaming Him for the misery, the hell, their ways and ideas caused], and repented not of their deeds [that caused this tribulation]. 12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up [and what was hidden below the surface of these waters, now turned blood, are seen], that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared [the new girdle of the coming sun rise]. 13 And I saw three unclean spirits [the three angels spoken of above, now unclean, with defiled messages that drain the life from the world] like frogs [like from where they were before hidden below the surface of the water, evil before hidden in these men’s words, now revealed] come [as words] out of the mouth of the dragon [those devouring with wide open mouths, like serpents and whales], and out of the mouth of the beast [those without the LORD’s Spirit, vermin infesting the institution of church and state government], and out of the mouth of the false prophet [speaking known lies meant to mislead and control those following their evil prescriptions]. 14 For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty. 15 Behold, I [have] come as a thief. Blessed is he that watches [gregoreuo – stay awake], and keeps his garments [from being defiled by these wicked men’s dead flesh minds], lest he walk naked, and they see his shame [which is their glory]. [Philippians 3:17 Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as you have us for an example. 18 (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are {marked as} the enemies of the cross of Christ: 19 Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.) 20 For our conversation is in heaven {from where the LORD gives us this understanding, in this conversation above His mercy seat, from where and by which He saves us}; from whence also we look for the Savior, the LORD Jesus Christ: 21 Who shall change our vile body {the church these men defiled with their evil misleading}, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body {in which glory he is revealed}, according to the working {the power when His word is received as His} whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.] 16 And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon [mountain of the rendezvous – this appointed time He set to reveal Himself to us in this war]. 17 And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air [clearing it of the smoke that came when the bottomless pit, the endless fall away from God, was opened by Lucifer, the star fallen from heaven bringing darkness – see Revelation 9:1 & 2 – this is the same “air” {aer} where we meet {at this appointed time – the rendezvous with} the LORD, spoken in 1 Thessalonians 4:17]; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven [from the Father with full understanding], from the throne, saying, “It is done” [“It is enough”]. 18 And there were voices, and thunders [the sound of the light], and lightning [understanding from the cloud also mentioned in 1 Thessalonians 4:17]; and there was a great earthquake [from the voice speaking, shaking heaven and earth, so the wicked are shaken from them – see Hebrews 13:25 – 29, and Job 38:13], such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great [hold on it’s coming]. 19 And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon [the confusion, delusion, and mass insanity that now rules the world] came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath. 20 And every island [where this word hasn’t been heard] fled away, and the mountains [the places where the spiritually wicked sit in power] were not found. 21 And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven [this word there frozen, reserved for this time of war {See Job 38:22 & 23, and 2 Peter 3:5 – 7}, in heaven for the appointed time, from where it is sent against the current crop of corrupt leaders], every stone about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great.
1 Thessalonians 5 1 But of the times and the seasons, brethren, you have no need that I write unto you. 2 For yourselves know perfectly [because you have now been filled full by Him] that the day of the LORD so comes as a thief in the night [as it has upon all but the very elect]. 3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety [as the wicked falsely claim will come by their evil deeds]; then sudden destruction comes upon them, as travail upon a woman with child [knowing not what their evil has brought forth: awakening the children of light]; and they shall not escape. 4 But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. 5 You are all the children of light, and the children of the day [in whom this understanding has risen]: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. 6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch [gregoreuo] and be sober. 7 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. 8 But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for a helmet, the hope of salvation. 9 For God has not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our LORD Jesus Christ, 10 Who died for us, that, whether we wake [gregoreuo] or sleep, we should live together with him. 11 Wherefore comfort yourselves together [leading all into this truth], and edify [build up] one another, even as also you do [giving this word as received].
1 Peter 5 6 Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time: 7 Casting all your care upon him; for he cares for you. 8 Be sober, be vigilant [gregoreuo – stay awake]; because your adversary the devil [the misleaders possessed by Satan], as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: 9 Whom resist steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world. 10 But the God of all grace, who has called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that you have suffered a while, make you perfect, establish, strengthen, settle you [themelioo – make us the foundation of the new heaven and earth He is creating]. 11 To him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
Psalms 80 1 Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, you that lead Joseph like a flock; you that dwellest between the cherubims [in the conversation above Your mercy seat], shine forth [Your understanding]. 2 Before [paniym – Manifesting Your presence in] Ephraim [Your people upon whom this double blessing has come] and Benjamin [Who are Your right hand] and Manasseh [who’ve awakened to the things forgotten] stir up your strength, and come and save us. 3 Turn us again, O God, and cause your face [paniym – Your presence] to shine [upon all the darkened world]; and we shall be saved. 4 O LORD God of hosts [a man of war], how long will you be angry [‘ashan – smoke, which now fills the temple; see Revelation 15:8 above] against the prayer of your people? 5 [With the vain words of devils, which we repeat] You feed them with the bread of tears; and give them tears to drink in great measure. 6 [With the vain words of idols, which we repeat] You make us a strife unto our neighbors: and our enemies laugh among themselves. 7 Turn us again [to Your words, to repeat them as received], O God of hosts [a man of war], and cause your face [paniym – Your presence in Your word] to shine; and we shall be saved. 8 You have brought a vine out of Egypt [Your people away from the words of oppression, away from the possession of devils who tell us their idols are gods]: you have cast out [of their seat of power] the heathen [who haven’t known You], and planted it [Your people in this new earth You are creating]. 9 You prepared [with this provision] room before [paniym – manifesting Your presence] it [Your people You have created], and did cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land [‘erets – completed the new earth]. 10 The hills were [Your new government is] covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs [through whom You flow life from the deep root] thereof were like the goodly cedars [bringing forth everlasting life]. 11 She sent out her boughs unto the sea [to all humanity], and her branches unto the river [this word flowing into the sea]. 12 Why have you then broken down her hedges [the vain protection of Your people choose], so that all they which pass [‘abar – all that are passing from death into life] by the way do pluck her [gather them, like a brand plucked from the fires they choose]? 13 The boar [the swine still wallowing in their mire] out of the wood does waste it, and the wild beast of the field [the wicked without Your Spirit] does devour it [Your people into the belly of hell]. 14 Return, we beseech you, O God of hosts [a man of war]: look down from heaven [Your place of full understanding], and behold [ra’ah – shepherd us], and visit [paqad – as the Chief Overseer of the earth] this vine; 15 And the vineyard which your right hand has planted, and the branch that you [by giving us this understanding] made strong for yourself [to dwell with us, in us]. 16 It is [the wicked choosing the belly of hell are] burned with fire, it is cut down [like thorns to be burnt in the fire]: they perish at the rebuke of your countenance [paniym – Your presence manifested]. 17 Let your hand [Your word and work] be upon the man of your right hand, upon the son of man whom you made strong for yourself. 18 So will not we go back from you: quicken us [from death into life], and we will call upon your name [speaking your word and confessing it is You manifesting Your presence with us, in us]. 19 Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts [I Am, a man of war], cause your face [paniym – Your presence] to shine [forth this understanding as received]; and we shall be saved.
Romans 9 6 But the righteousness which is of faith speaks on this wise, Say not in your heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down from above:) 7 Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.) 8 But what says it [describing how He comes down from heaven and is resurrected from the dead]? The [LORD manifested in His] word is near you, even in your mouth, and in your heart [mind]: that is, the word of faith [He is present with us, manifested in us when we speak His word], which we preach; 9 That if you shall confess with your mouth the LORD Jesus [is present in you, in His word], and shall believe in your heart that God has [in this manner] raised him from the dead, you shall be saved. 10 For with the heart [mind, upon this firm foundation] man believes unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. [It’s a simple plan!] 11 For the scripture says [in Isaiah 28:16], Whosoever believes on him shall not be ashamed. [Isaiah 28:16 Therefore thus says the LORD God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believes shall not make haste {flee in shame}. 17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail {this word reseverd, frozen in heaven, to be sent in this time of war} shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.] 12 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same LORD over all is rich unto [having grace enough for] all that call upon him. 13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the LORD shall be saved. 14 [If you continue to keep your mouths closed] How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? 15 And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things! 16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaias says [in Isaiah 53:1], LORD, who has believed our report? [in Hebrew the word is shmuw’ah, from shama’ Yahh, meaning hearing this word as Jehovah, the Father, speaking, and obeying His command to speak, the arm of the LORD is revealed] 17 So then faith comes by hearing [Him speaking], and hearing by the word of God [spoken by those who’ve heard and obeyed].
The word, in Psalms 80:16 above, rendered “cut down,” kacach, refers us to its only other use, in Isaiah 33:12.
Isaiah 33 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 of your times, and strength of salvation: the fear of the LORD is his treasure. 7 Behold, their valiant ones shall [open their mouths and] cry without: the ambassadors [mal’ak – the LORD’s angels, speaking His word as received] of peace shall weep bitterly. 8 [They weep and cry because] The [LORD’s] highways lie waste, the wayfaring [‘abar – those passing from death into life] man ceases: [because] he has broken the covenant, he has despised the cities, he regards no man. 9 The earth mourns and languishes: Lebanon is ashamed [purity has fled and from its place on high] and hewn down: Sharon [this plain, understanding clearly seen] is like a wilderness; and Bashan and Carmel [the earth as a fruitful garden] shake off their fruits. 10 Now will I rise, says the LORD; now will I be exalted; now will I lift up myself. 11 You shall conceive chaff, you shall bring forth stubble: your breath [your own words you have chosen], as fire, shall devour you. 12 And the people shall be as the burnings of lime: as thorns [misleaders] cut up [kacah] shall they be burned in the fire. 13 Hear [shama’ – and obey], you that are far off [rachowq – in this time ruled by the evil decrees of wicked men in power over church and state], what I have done; and, you that are near [in whose throats My words now wait to be spoken], acknowledge my might. 14 The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness has surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire [from the mouth of the LORD]? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings [of our God, I Am as a burning bush never burning out]? 15 He that walks righteously, and speaks uprightly; he that despise the gain of oppressions, that shakes his hands from holding of bribes, that stop his ears from hearing of blood [words that drain away the life of man], and shut his eyes from seeing evil [by which they deceive and mislead]; 16 He shall dwell on high: his place of defense shall be the munitions of rocks [these treasures from His armory]: bread shall be given him [from the mouth of God]; his waters [this word spoken] shall be sure. 17 Your eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the land [‘erets – the new earth] that is very far off [merchaq – this appointed time the LORD decreed, here at this mountain of the rendezvous, Armageddon].
Psalms 27 1 The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? 2 When the wicked, even my enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell. 3 Though a host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident. 4 One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple. 5 For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock. 6 And now shall my head be lifted up above my enemies round about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy [realizing His presence with me, in me]; I will sing [repeating the words He has given me], yea, I will sing praises unto the LORD. 7 Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer me. 8 When you said, Seek you my face [paniym – My presence]; my heart [mind] said unto you, Your face [paniym – Your presence], LORD, will I seek. 9 Hide not your face [paniym – Your presence] far from me; put not your servant away in anger: you have been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation. 10 When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up [gather me to Himself, into His ONE BODY]. 11 Teach me your way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path, because of my enemies. 12 Deliver me not over unto the will of my enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty [evil misleading, as do the known liars now in power]. 13 I had fainted [remained among the dead], unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land [‘erets – the new earth] of the living. 14 Wait on [qavah – expect and join with] the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart: wait [qavah – expect and join], I say, on [with] the LORD.
And they that shall be of you shall build the old waste places: you shall raise up the foundations of many generations; and you shall be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
The above, Isaiah 59:12, is followed by an “if” statement and preceded by verses that begin with the LORD calling His people to open their mouths like a trumpet. The title verse tells of the effect when they do (open their mouths as commanded), which (effect) is upon the things mentioned (waste places, the foundations, the paths to dwell in), which (conditions) must (logically) be accepted before being restored. Making it (the condition) known is what the LORD is calling His people to do, by their opened mouths speaking these same words, Him interrupting the world by His songs sung, as His trumpet sounding making this time (of restoration in the expected end) known, calling all to repent and join Him.
Friends, again I tell you this (God’s people opening their mouths, as at Jericho) occurring isn’t a matter of “if” it will, but of “when” it will. I fear it may not occur until this generation (as in the forty years in the wilderness) dies off, and the next is freed: unspotted by the teaching of the oppressors whose ways (the corrupt rudiments, stoicheion, of the world) hold it in ever-increasing tribulation, which is consuming it.
Isaiah 57 15 For thus says the high and lofty One that inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart [minds] of the contrite ones. 16 For I will not contend forever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made. 17 For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly [twisting and perverting truth] in the way of his heart [mind]. 18 I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead [nachah – only appearing in the Prophets here and Isaiah 58:11] him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners [who acknowledge their condition]. 19 I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him that is far off [rachowq – caught in this time when the world is ruled by the evil decrees of the wicked in power over church and state], and to him that is near [seeking Me], says the LORD; and I will heal him. 20 But the wicked are like the troubled sea [agitating all humanity, seeking to consume it], when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt. 21 There is no peace, says my God, to the wicked.
Isaiah 58 1 Cry aloud [as the LORD’s innumerable company of angels], spare not, lift up your voice like a trumpet, and show my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob [unknowingly wrestling with Me] their sins. 2 Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God. 3 Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and you see [it] not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and you take no knowledge [of it]? Behold [see – understand], in the day of your fast [you have chosen] you find pleasure [in refusing the word and choosing your own], and exact [tyrannize] all your labors [workers, taxing and inflating way his wages]. 4 Behold, you fast [refuse this word] for [to continue] strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: you shall not fast as you do this day, to make your voice [and not Mine] to be heard on high. 5 Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? will you call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD? 6 Is not this the fast [abstaining from your own words] that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke [that binds them to the wicked powers]? 7 Is it not to deal your bread [this full body of My word and work] to the hungry, and that you bring the poor [without worldly power] that are cast out to your house [into My ONE BODY, My family]? when you see the naked [with no protection from the corrupt elements of the world], that you cover him [with My righteousness]; and that you hide not yourself from your own flesh [the ONE BODY]? 8 Then shall your light [this understanding] break forth as the morning [bringing this new day, the new heaven and earth, wherein Dwells righteousness], and your health shall spring forth speedily: and your righteousness shall go before you [paniym – will be My presence manifested]; the glory of the LORD [revealed in you] shall be your reward. 9 Then shall you call, and the LORD shall answer; you shall cry, and he shall say, Here I Am. If you take away from the midst of you the yoke [of the wicked], the putting forth of the finger [accusing the innocent], and speaking vanity [worthless words]; 10 And if you draw out your soul [the life in you] to the hungry [seeking this understanding, manna sent from heaven], and satisfy [give what is needed to] the afflicted soul; then shall your light [this understanding] rise in obscurity [its hiding place in the darkened deep, ignorance that now covers the earth], and your darkness be [become] as the noon-day [when the sun if fully risen, and shadows are at their smallest; also the “window” of the ark, through which Noah knew the flood waters were abating, out of which he sent the dove, like Jonah from the belly of hell]: 11 And the LORD shall [here and now] guide [nachah] you continually, and satisfy your soul in drought [where His word hasn’t been heard], and make fat your bones: and you shall be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not. 12 And they that shall be of you [from an unnumbered word, meaning impoverished, those without worldly power] shall build the old waste places: you shall raise up the foundations of many generations; and you [those who open their mouths, following the LORD’s guidance] shall be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in. 13 If you turn away your foot from the sabbath [revceiving Me when I interrupt with My guidance, this good leading], from doing your pleasure [choosing your own ways and refusing Mine] on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honorable; and shall honor him, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking your own words: 14 Then shall you delight yourself in the LORD; and I will cause you to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father: for the mouth of the LORD has spoken it.
The word (nachah) the LORD uses above in Isaiah 57:18 & 58:11, is the same word He uses, in Job 38:32, speaking of the stars He calls forth and “guides” (into shining in the darkness).
Job 38 1 Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said, 2 Who is this that darkens counsel by [misguided, misleading] words without knowledge [of God]? 3 Gird up now your loins [prepare yourselves for this journey into the unknown] like a man; for I will demand of you, and answer you me. 4 Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth [here and now, as I did the old]? declare, if you have understanding. 5 Who has laid the measures thereof [from beginning to its end and now again beginning it], if you know? or who has stretched the [measuring] line upon it? 6 Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof [now turning it again to Me]; 7 When the morning stars sang together [speaking My words, bringing this new day], and all the sons of God shouted for joy [realizing My presence with them, in them as light and life]? 8 Or who shut up the sea [humanity] with doors, when it brake forth [with its own words and ways of corruption], as if it had issued out of the womb [thinking to create themselves into something they made in their own evil image]? 9 When I made the cloud [the earth without the understanding held there] the garment thereof, and thick darkness [their ignorance and confusion their ways create] a swaddling-band [protecting them from themselves] for it, 10 And [by their own doing] brake up for it my decreed [choq – this appointed time and] place, and set bars and doors [holding them in the hell they created], 11 And said, Hitherto shall you come, but no further: and here shall your proud waves be stayed [shiyth – made to end, at the beginning by this word again established]? 12 Have you commanded the morning [this sun to rise upon all] since your days; and caused the day-spring [shachar – dawn] to know his place; 13 That it might take hold of the ends [ending the old age and beginning the new] of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it? 14 It is turned as clay to the seal [this shaking is My signature pressed into the earth]; and they stand as a garment [the covering of My ONE flesh Body]. 15 And from the wicked their light [understanding] is withholden, and the high arm [the wicked in power] shall be broken. 16 Have you entered into the springs of the sea? or have you walked in search of the depth [this deep understanding held below the surface]? 17 Have the gates of death [and hell] been opened unto you? or have you seen the doors of the shadow of death? 18 Have you perceived the breadth [start to finish] of the earth? declare if you know it all. 19 Where is the way where light dwelleth [it is with God alone]? and as for darkness, where is the place thereof [which is in the earth that’s rejected Him], 20 That you shouldest take it to the bound thereof [now, when every eye sees the result of following the wicked into debilitating and dysfunctional insanity], and that you should know the paths [followed] to the house thereof? 21 Know you it, because you were then born? or because the number of your days is great? 22 Have you entered into the treasures of the snow? or have you seen the treasures of the hail [the LORD’s understanding frozen in heaven, there reserved until it’s now sent, both as purity and against the current corrupt crop of the wicked in power], 23 Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and [My just] war? 24 By what way is the light parted [into these many colors, showing the sign that I have not come to destroy, as men have, but to save, to rescue the willing from destruction], which scatters the east wind [My Almighty Spirit working to change the minds of man] upon the earth? 25 Who has divided a watercourse [revealing, in the experience, what man’s words and ways of ignorance produce] for the overflowing of waters, or a way for the lightning of thunder [My voice heard as the sound of understanding from the cloud]; 26 To cause it to rain [My word from heaven] on the earth, where no man is; on the wilderness, wherein there is no man; 27 To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender herb [new life] to spring forth? 28 Has the rain a father? or who has begotten the drops of dew? 29 Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who has gendered it [brought it forth in a known form from its progenitor]? 30 The waters are hid as with a stone [in me, hidden in my flesh, from where His voice flows], and the face of [paniym – manifesting the LORD’s presence, revealing] the deep [that] is frozen. 31 Can you bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion? 32 Can you bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or can you guide [nachah – lead] Arcturus with his sons? [now, when God’s people have become as many at the stars of heaven He’s awakened, as He promised] 33 Know you the ordinances [chuqqah – the limit ordained and appointed] of heaven? can you set the dominion thereof in [by unbreakable decree, ruling] the earth? 34 Can you lift up your voice to the clouds [where My understanding is held], that abundance of waters [My words] may cover you? 35 Can you send lightnings [understanding from there], that they may go and say unto you, Here we are [as in me, saying here I Am]? 36 Who has put [shiyth – stayed the proud wave of the wicked, by] wisdom in the inward parts? or who has given understanding to the heart [mind]? 37 Who can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay the bottles of heaven [keep understanding held there], 38 When [ignorance covers the earth without this word of God] the dust grows into hardness, and the clods cleave fast together? 39 Will you hunt the prey [seek this understanding] for the lion? or fill the appetite of the young lions, 40 When they couch in their dens, and abide in the covert to lie in wait [for it to come from the mouth of lions]? 41 Who provides for the raven [covered in darkness] his food? when his young ones cry unto God, they wander for lack of meat [without this deep understanding].
The word nachah, speaking of being led by the LORD, the Father with us, in us, working unknown, is the only way to salvation.
The reality is that the fall has taken man (humanity) to this moment where he’s engineered his destruction here in hell: the death foretold in the garden. It is now when all humanity, thinking it is wise and lacking any understanding of God, is without the intellectual acuity needed (without Him, become fools unable) to overcome the current, imminent, extinction-level event. This moment is a boundary uncrossable without Divine intervention, this interruption, calling everyone to stop and reset the foundations upon which sound reasoning is possible.
The adage about insanity, that it’s doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result, is (actually) a scientific process ignored. When the same result occurs repeatedly, it proves the process producing it true (as the cause). This process is absolutely true. For example, man’s wars never result in lasting peace. A lie ignored never becomes true. A denial of reality never changes it. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Everything except God and eternity has a beginning and an end.
Now that we have reached ours (this end), after repeated wars, repeated lies, and repeated denials of reality, when the insane have usurped their way into absolute, unrestrained power, the now completely corrupt world they lead will end one of two ways: in a nuclear fireball or by the consuming fire of the LORD’s presence revealed. The first is the end of humanity, and the latter is its life from the dead.
Job 12 9 Who knows not in all these that the hand of the LORD has wrought this? 10 In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind. 11 Does not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his meat [this deep understanding]? 12 With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. 13 With him is wisdom and strength, he has counsel and understanding. 14 Behold, he breaks down, and it cannot be built again: he shuts up a man, and there can be no opening. 15 Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up: also he sends them out, and they overturn the earth. 16 With him is strength and wisdom: the deceived and the deceiver are his. 17 He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and makes the judges fools. 18 He looses the bond of kings, and girds [prepares] their loins with a girdle [this preparation provided by Him]. 19 He leadeth princes away spoiled, and overthrows the mighty. 20 He removes away the speech of the trusted, and takes away the understanding of the aged. 21 He pours contempt upon princes, and weakens the strength of the mighty. 22 He discovers deep things out of darkness [that are held in men’s ignorance], and brings out to light the shadow of death [understanding the looming threat]. 23 He increases the nations, and destroys them: he enlarges the nations, and straitens [nachah] them again [guides them into salvation, returning right reasoning]. 24 He taketh away the heart [mind] of the chief of the people of the earth [now insane], and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way. 25 They grope in the dark [their own ignorance] without light [without this understanding], and he makes them to stagger like a drunken man.
Proverbs 11 1 A false balance [unequal justice that now saturates the world] is an abomination to the LORD: but a just weight [equal justice] is his delight. 2 When pride comes, then comes shame: but with the lowly is wisdom. 3 The integrity of the upright shall guide [nachah] them: but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them. 4 Riches profit not in the day of wrath [when men reject this understanding]: but [the LORD’s] righteousness delivers [natsal – {from the fire} plucks, “caught up”] from death. 5 The righteousness of the perfect [tamiym – filled full, completed by the LORD’s word] shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness. 6 The righteousness of the upright shall deliver [natsal] them: but transgressors shall be taken in their own naughtiness [havvah – their mischievous desires]. 7 When a wicked man dies, his expectation shall perish: and the hope of unjust men perishes. 8 The righteous is delivered out of trouble, and the wicked comes in his stead. 9 A hypocrite with his mouth destroys his neighbor: but through knowledge shall the just be delivered. 10 When it goes well with the righteous, the city rejoices: and when the wicked perish, there is shouting. 11 By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted: but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked. 12 He that is void of wisdom despises his neighbor: but a man of understanding holds his peace. 13 A talebearer reveals secrets: but he that is of a faithful spirit conceals the matter. 14 Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counselors there is safety. 15 He that is surety for a stranger [he that joins with those who turn from this truth] shall smart [ra’ – receive evil] for it: and he that hates suretiship is sure [can be trusted]. 16 A gracious woman retains honor: and strong men retain riches. 17 The merciful man does good to his own soul: but he that is cruel [without mercy] troubles his own flesh. 18 The wicked work a deceitful work: but to him that sows righteousness shall be a sure reward. 19 As righteousness tends to life: so he that pursues evil pursues it to his own death. 20 They that are of a froward heart [a mind filled with twisted and perverted truth] are an abomination to the LORD: but such as are upright in their way are his delight. 21 Though hand joins in hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished: but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered. 22 As a jewel of gold in a swine’s snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion. 23 The desire of the righteous is only good: but the expectation of the wicked is wrath. 24 There is that scatters, and yet increases; and there is that withholds more than is meet, but it tends to poverty. 25 The liberal [brakah – blessing with this word of God] soul shall be made fat: and he that waters shall be watered also himself. 26 He that withholds corn [this nourishment], the people shall curse him: but blessing shall be upon the head of him that sells [rightly interprets] it. 27 He that diligently seeks good procures favor: but he that seeks mischief, it shall come unto him. 28 He that trusts in his riches shall fall; but the righteous shall flourish as a branch [bringing forth life]. 29 He that troubles his own house shall inherit the wind [a storm]: and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart. 30 The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that wins souls is wise. 31 Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth: much more the wicked and the sinner.
Romans 8 6 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. 7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. 8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. 9 But you are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. 10 And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. 11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken [from death into life] your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwells in you. 12 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. 13 For if you live after the flesh, you shall die: but if you through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, you shall live. 14 For as many as are led [ago] by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
As we’ve seen, the word agape, rendered “love” and “charity,” has an affinity to the words ago and apo, meaning to lead away. It (agape) is speaking of the word of God given as received, which is the “charity” that never fails to lead us away from death and darkness (ignorance) into life and light (understanding).
Exodus 15 3 The LORD is a man of [just] war: the LORD is his name. 4 Pharaoh’s chariots and his host has he cast into the sea: his chosen captains also are drowned in the Red sea [this written word sent to all humanity]. 5 The depths have covered them: they sank into the bottom as a stone. 6 Your right hand, O LORD, is become glorious in power: your right hand, O LORD, has dashed in pieces the enemy. 7 And in the greatness of your excellency you have overthrown them that rose up against you: you sent forth your wrath [this word they refuse], which consumed them as stubble. 8 And with the blast of your nostrils the waters were gathered together, the floods stood upright as a heap, and the depths [these elements of understanding] were congealed in the heart [minds] of the sea. 9 The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them. 10 You did blow with your wind, the sea covered them: they sank as lead in the mighty waters. 11 Who is like unto you, O LORD, among the gods? who is like you, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders? 12 You stretched out your right hand, the earth swallowed them. 13 You in your mercy have led forth [nachah] the people which you have redeemed: you have guided them in your strength unto your holy habitation. 14 The people shall hear, and be afraid: sorrow shall take hold on the inhabitants of Palestina [the invading enemy army among us].
Deuteronomy 32 1 Give ear, O you heavens [places where this understanding should be found], and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth. 2 My doctrine shall drop as the rain [these words from the cloud in heaven], my speech shall distil as the dew [from the mouth of God, without corruption and now appearing on the earth beginning this new day], as the small rain upon the tender herb [new life springing from the earth], and as the showers upon the grass [causing the living to grown and cover it]: 3 Because I will [here] publish the name of the LORD: ascribe you greatness unto our God. 4 He is the Rock [from whom this word flows], his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he. 5 They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation. 6 Do you thus requite [calling Him evil because you think you are good] the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is not he your father that has bought you? has he not made you, and established you? 7 Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask your father, and he will show you; your elders, and they will tell you. 8 When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds [gbuwlah] of the people according to the number of the children of Israel. [This verse refers to the “limit,” the uncrossable border now reached, as described in Ezekiel 48:28, and after in the Minor Prophets, using the word gbuwl.] 9 For the LORD’s portion [He inherits this generation in which He will dwell] is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. 10 He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye [the pupil, by His teaching, seeing as He sees]. 11 As an eagle [the fourth face of the LORD’s unfolding presence manifested, which Ezekiel saw in the wheel within a wheel] stirs up her nest, flutters over her young, spreads abroad her wings, taketh them, bears them on her wings [carrying them until they fly as He does, in the heavens, with the strength of His full understanding received]: 12 So the LORD alone [here and now with me] did lead [nachah] him, and there was no strange god with him. 13 He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock; 14 Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and you did drink the pure blood of the grape [be which we learn to choose good and refuse the evil]. 15 But Jeshurun waxed fat [God’s people prospered by refusing evil and choosing good], and kicked: you are waxen fat, you are grown thick, you are covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of [from where this butter and honey flows] his salvation. 16 They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger. 17 They sacrificed unto devils [misleaders among God’s people, possessed by Satan, doing his work resisting and opposing this word of God], not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not. 18 Of the Rock that begat you you are unmindful, and have forgotten God that formed you. 19 And when the LORD saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters. 20 And he said, I will hide my face [paniym – My presence] from them, I will see what their end [‘achariyth – these last days] shall be: for they are a very froward generation [in whom all truth is twisted and perverted – “every table is filled with vomit and there is no place clean”], children in whom is no faith [none believe God is with us, as He is always]. 21 They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities [their worthless thoughts]: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation [here and now speaking to those who haven’t known Me, long-suffering, to reveal, unhide My presence in the flesh I’ve chosen]. 22 For a fire is kindled in my anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell [wherein all now find themselves, a reality that exists even if it is, because all are dead, denied], and shall consume the [old and corrupt] earth with her increase, and set on fire [by] the foundations [the corrupt element] of the mountains [of all governments and powers]. 23 I will heap [their own] mischiefs upon them; I will spend my [flaming] arrows upon them [this word heard from My mouth, from My people who’ve become My children by correction]. 24 They shall be burnt with hunger [by not receiving this word and warning], and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts [the word of death from those without My Spirit] upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust [those slithering in the ruin of the earth they’ve destroyed]. 25 The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs. 26 I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men: 27 Were it not that I [for them] feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the LORD has not done all this. 28 For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them. 29 O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end [‘achariyth – these last days]! 30 How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up? 31 For their rock [the antichrists in whose words they trust] is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges. 32 For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter: 33 Their wine is the poison of dragons [tanniyn – whose mouths are as serpents and whales, wide open devouring prey, humanity, into the belly of the earth, the belly hell], and the cruel venom of asps. 34 Is not this laid up in store with me [reserved in the cloud for My use in this time of My just war here at Armageddon], and sealed up among my treasures [in heaven, My throne in the cloud, where full understanding is found]? 35 To me belongs vengeance and recompense [not as is the wrath of man’s destruction, but in righteousness, building a new heaven and earth, and saving those who receive it]; their [the wicked in power] foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste. 36 For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left [with understanding, proving they are dead]. 37 And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock [the many antichrists] in whom they trusted, 38 Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offerings? let them rise up and help you, and be your protection. 39 See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver [natsal] out of my hand. 40 For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live forever. 41 If I whet my glittering sword, and my hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to my enemies, and will reward them that hate me. 42 I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy. 43 Rejoice, O you nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land [‘adamah – the first generation of the new heaven and earth I Am creating], and to his people. 44 And Moses [Timothy] came and spake all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he, and Hoshea [who is called Jesus] the [perpetual] son of Nun. 45 And Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel: 46 And he said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words which I testify among you this day, which you shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law. 47 For it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life: and through this thing you shall prolong your days in the land [‘adamah – this fist generation], whither you go over [‘abar – when you pass from death into life] Jordan [the river that flowed words of the dead into the sea, to all humanity, carrying all into death, in the dead sea] to possess it [and making it to flow these living waters that bring life to the earth again].
Revelation 21 1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea [no longer is all humanity, good and evil, mixed in one body]. 2 And I John saw the holy city, New [Heavenly] Jerusalem [the LORD’s ONE BODY], coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. 4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and [in His victory] there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. 5 And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful. 6 And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end [of ages]. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely. 7 He that overcomes [nikao] shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. 8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part [separated from God’s people] in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
Revelation 22 1 And he showed me a pure river of [of this] water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. 2 In the midst of the street of it [the way it came], and on either side [this word sent and received] of the river, was there the tree of life [sent to give life], which bare twelve manner of fruits [the perfection of God’s government on the earth as it is in heaven], and yielded her fruit every month [the time of the new moon: new civil government as God intended it, to secure our God-given rights]: and the leaves of the tree [of life] were for the healing [to return understanding] of the nations [who haven’t known the LORD God]. 3 And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him: 4 And they shall see his face [His presence]; and his name [identity] shall be in their foreheads [in the forefront of their minds]. 5 And there shall be no night [ignorance of God] there; and they need no candle [no man to guide them], neither light of the sun [neither understanding from the church institutions]; for the LORD God gives them light [understanding]: and they [joined with Him in His ONE BODY] shall reign forever and ever. 6 And he said unto me, These sayings are faithful and true: and the LORD God of the holy prophets sent his angel [His messenger – I Am] to show unto his servants the things which must shortly be done. 7 Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he that keep [tereo] the sayings of the prophecy of this book. 8 And I John [the dove, the sign of the end reached] saw these things, and heard them. And when I had heard [as the voice of the LORD] and seen [it is the LORD’s presence manifested in His word made flesh], I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel [His messenger – I Am] which showed me these things. 9 Then says he unto me [as I Am saying to you], See you do it not: for I Am your fellow-servant, and of your brethren the prophets, and of them which keep [tereo] the sayings of this book: worship God. 10 And he says unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand [to speak these words of God as received, declaring He is alive in you speaking and working]. 11 He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still. 12 And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be. 13 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end [of ages], the first and the last. 14 Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city [New Heavenly Jerusalem]. 15 For [separated] without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loves and makes a lie. 16 I Jesus have sent my angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I Am the root [of the tree of life] and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star [this understanding, as the sun rises, shined upon all from east to west]. 17 And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that hears [His voice] say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely. 18 For I testify unto every man that hears the words of the prophecy of this book [as the word of God from His mouth, by which man lives], If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: 19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book [this writing] of this prophecy [meant to be given as received], God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book. 20 He which testifies these things says, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, LORD Jesus. 21 The grace of our LORD Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.
Ezekiel 48 28 And by the border [gbuwl] of Gad [where the LORD musters His army into this battle], at the south side southward [away from darkness], the border [gbuwl] shall be even from Tamar [through Zarah, the rising light who is peace: Shiloh] unto the waters of strife [mriybah, the storm into which the tree of life {tamar} is cast, calming them, turning the bitterness {of the Jordan} into sweet] in Kadesh [holy, purity by which man again sees God], and to the river [of living waters] toward the great sea [humanity in this last generation that, by the LORD’s correction, becomes the first].
Malachi 4 1 For, behold, the day comes, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that comes shall burn them up, says the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. 2 But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and you shall go forth, and grow up as calves [‘egal – Ephraim] of the stall. 3 And you shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, says the LORD of hosts. 4 Remember you the law of Moses [Timothy] my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb [in the wilderness, where I taught you to refuse evil and choose good] for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments. 5 Behold, I will send you Elijah [Jehovah Is God] the prophet [to with this fire from My mouth destroy all the false prophets of Baal] before [paniym – as My presence manifested in] the coming of the great and dreadful day [this set time, at Armageddon] of the LORD: 6 And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse [the consequence due those who’ve carried it into hell].
Micah 5 1 Now gather yourself in troops [gadad – as Gad, mustered as My army], O daughter of troops: he has laid siege against us: they [the wicked] shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod [shebet – with the scepter of deception, by which they rule] upon the cheek. 2 But you, Bethlehem Ephratah [the children upon whom My blessing has come, My family raised by the bread of heaven], though you be little among the thousands of Judah [the many leaders among God’s people], yet out of you shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel [those who, by their faith in My presence, receive this promised end]; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting. 3 Therefore will he give them up, until the time that she which travails has brought forth [the son of man sent to be king, I Am]: then the [elect] remnant of his brethren shall return [giving this word, singing these songs] unto the children of Israel. 4 And he shall stand [rise to life] and feed in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty of the name [in the identity] of the LORD his God; and they shall abide: for now shall he be great unto the ends of the earth [ending the old and corrupt, beginning the new]. 5 And this man [I Am] shall be the peace, when the Assyrian [communists] shall come into our land [‘erets – ruling over this corrupt earth]: and when he shall tread in our palaces [as they do here and now through those they bought and possess], then shall we raise against him seven shepherds [Godly leaders who see as God sees], and eight principal men [beginning this new heaven and earth by speaking this word God as commanded]. 6 And they shall waste the land [‘erets] of Assyria [the old earth ruled by communists foreign and domestic] with the sword [this word from the mouth of God], and the land [‘erets – this earth] of Nimrod [ther rebels turned into valiant men of God] in the entrances thereof [here at the gates of heaven and hell]: thus shall he deliver [natsal – “caught up” out of the fires of hell, He shall “pluck”] us from the Assyrian [the communists], when he comes into our land [‘ertes – the earth God has given us], and when he treads within our borders [gbuwl – this time of his end and our rising]. 7 And the [elect] remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many people as a dew from the LORD [whose word is heard from them], as the showers upon the grass [causing life to again cover the earth], that tarries [qavah – expect] not for [this to come through] man, nor waits for [it to come from] the sons of men. 8 And the [elect] remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles [among those who haven’t known it is coming from the LORD] in the midst of many people [in us, with us] as a lion [the second face Ezekiel saw in the unfolding presence of the LORD manifested in the wheel within a wheel] among the beasts of the forest [the falsely so-called upright of the world, who are without the LORD’s spirit], as a young lion [newly born] among the flocks of sheep [the LORD scattered people]: who, if he go through, both treads down, and tears in pieces [the wicked misleaders who oppose Him and His work], and none can deliver [natsal, the equivalent of the Greek word harpazo, both meaning none can ”pluck” them out of His hand]. 9 Your hand [the LORD’s work through His ONE BODY] shall be lifted up [risen to life] upon your adversaries, and all your enemies shall be cut off [karath].
John 10 23 And Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon’s porch [where people came to hear His wisdom]. 24 Then came the Jews [the religious, the current crop of corrupt leaders] round about him, and said unto him, How long do you make us to doubt [the Father’s presence, because they refuse to hear what He has repeatedly said]? If you be the Christ, tell us plainly [how much plainer can It be]. 25 Jesus answered them, I told you, and you believed not: the works that I do in my Father’s name [identity], they bear witness of me. 26 But you believe not, because you are not of my sheep, as I said unto you. 27 My sheep hear my voice [as the Father’s voice], and I know them, and they follow me: 28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck [harpazo] them out of my hand. 29 My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck [harpazo] them out of my Father’s hand. 30 I and my Father are one. 31 Then the Jews [the religious] took up stones again to stone him. 32 Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shown you from my Father; for which of those works do you stone me? 33 The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone you not; but for blasphemy; and because that you, being a man, make yourself God. 34 Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, You are gods? 35 If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken; 36 Say you of him, whom the Father has sanctified [declared holy, for this work], and sent into the world, You blaspheme; because I said, I Am the Son of God? 37 If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. 38 But if I do, though you believe not me, believe the works: that you may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him. 39 Therefore they sought again to take him: but he escaped out of their hand, 40 And went away again beyond Jordan [beyond, leaving behind the words that carried all into death and hell] into the place where John at first baptized [took everyone below the surface of these waters]; and there he abode [apart from darkness, hidden there in man’s ignorance].
Ezekiel 33 27 Say you thus unto them, Thus says the LORD God; As I live, surely they that are in the wastes shall fall by the sword [this word they refuse], and him that is in the open field will I give to the beasts [those without My Spirit] to be devoured, and they that be in the forts and in the caves shall die of the pestilence [the dis-ease that comes without this word]. 28 For I will lay the land [‘erets – the earth] most desolate, and the pomp of her strength shall cease; and the mountains of Israel [governments of church and state] shall be desolate, that none shall pass through [’abar – none shall pass from death into life]. 29 Then shall they know that I Am the LORD, when I have laid the land [’erets] most desolate because of all their abominations which they have committed. 30 Also, you son of man, the children of your people still are talking against you by the walls and in the doors of the houses, and speak one to another, every one to his brother, saying, Come, I pray you, and hear what is the word that comes forth from the LORD. 31 And they come unto you as the people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but they will not do them [refusing to sing these songs]: for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart [minds] go after their covetousness. 32 And, lo, you are unto them as a very lovely song of one that has a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument: for they hear your words, but they do them not. 33 And when this comes to pass, (lo, it will come [as it has],) then shall they know that a prophet has been among them.
Jeremiah 31 12 Therefore they shall [when they awaken from their sleep in death] come and sing [this word] in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all. 13 Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together: for I will turn their mourning into joy [realizing My presence with them, in them], and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow. 14 And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, says the LORD. 15 Thus says the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rachel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not [not yet returned to the LORD]. 16 Thus says the LORD; Refrain your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears: for your work [teaching them to refuse evil and choose good] shall be rewarded, says the LORD; and they shall come again from the land [‘erets – the earth] of the enemy. 17 And there is hope in your end [’achariyth – these last days], says the LORD, that your children shall come again to their own border [gbuwl]. 18 I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; You have chastised [corrected] me, and I was chastised [corrected], as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn you me, and I shall be turned [to You again]; for you are the LORD my God. 19 Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth. 20 Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I spoke against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, says the LORD. 21 Set you up waymarks, make you high heaps: set your heart [minds] toward the highway [of the LORD], even the way which you went: turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these your cities. 22 How long will you go about, O you backsliding daughter? for the LORD has created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man [I Am]. 23 Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As yet they shall use this speech in the land of Judah and in the cities thereof, when I shall bring again their captivity; The LORD bless you, O habitation of justice, and mountain of holiness.
Psalms 8 1 O LORD, our LORD, how excellent is your name [identity] in all the earth! who have set your glory above the heavens. 2 Out of the mouth [Your words spoken] of babes and sucklings have you ordained strength because of your enemies, that you might still [silence] the enemy and the avenger. 3 When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon [civil government] and the stars [Your people as lights in the darkness], which you have ordained; 4 What is man, that you are mindful of him? and the son of man, that you visitest [paqad] him [as the Chief Overseer of the earth]? 5 For you have made him a little lower [chacer – to lack] than the angels [‘elohiym – made him flesh without the understanding of God], and have [by Your understanding given into His mind] crowned him with glory and honor. 6 You made him to have dominion over the works of your hands [here and now unknown among us speaking and working]; you have [here and now] put all things under his feet: 7 All sheep [Your flock] and oxen [doing Your work], yea, and the beasts [those without Your Spirit] of the field; 8 The fowl of the air [with Your understanding rising], and the fish [the life unseen below the surface] of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through [‘abar – from death into life] the paths of the seas [by Your way in this generation]. 9 O LORD our LORD, how excellent is your name [identity] in all the earth!
Psalms 104 1 Bless the LORD, O my soul. O LORD my God, you are very great; you are clothed with honor and majesty. 2 Who covers yourself with light [understanding] as with a garment: who stretches out [in this exposition] the heavens like a curtain: 3 Who lays the beams of his chambers in the waters [this word]: who makes the clouds [wherein this understanding is reserved for this time of war] his chariot: who walketh [like an eagle] upon the wings of the wind: 4 Who makes his angels [messengers] spirits; his ministers [speaking His word] a flaming fire: 5 Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed forever. 6 You covered it with the deep [understanding] as with a garment: the waters stood [were raised] above the mountains [the governments of church and state]. 7 At your rebuke they fled; at the voice of your thunder [the sound of the light in the cloud] they hasted away. 8 They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which you have founded for them. 9 You have set a bound [gbuwl] that they may not pass over [‘abar – from death into life]; that they turn not again to cover the earth. 10 He sends the springs[these living waters] into the valleys [the low places of the earth], which run among the hills. 11 They give drink to every beast [those with His Spirit] of the field: the wild asses [scattered in the wilderness] quench their thirst. 12 By them shall the fowls of the heaven [who receive this understanding] have their habitation, which sing [this word] among the branches [those bearing fruit by this word flowing through them]. 13 He waters the hills from his chambers [in the cloud]: the earth is satisfied with the fruit of your works. 14 He cause the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth; 15 And wine that makes glad the heart [changing the minds] of man, and oil [anointing] to make his face [paniym] to shine [the presence the LORD with us, in us sending this understanding], and bread [from the mouth of God] which strengthens man’s heart [mind]. 16 The trees of the LORD are full of sap [flowing life into its branches]; the cedars of Lebanon, which he has planted [in the earth]; 17 Where the birds [who by His strength fly] make their nests [where they reproduce]: as for the stork, the fir trees are her house. 18 The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats; and the rocks for the conies. 19 He appointed the moon [civil government] for seasons [of light and darkness]: the sun knows his going down [when understanding leave it]. 20 You makes darkness [men ignorant], and it is night: wherein all the beasts [without His Spirit] of the forest do creep forth. 21 The young lions [newly born] roar after their prey, and seek their meat [this deep understanding] from God. 22 The sun arises [when understanding returns to the church], they gather themselves together [into the LORD’s ONE BODY], and lay them down in their dens. 23 Man goes forth [advances] unto his work and to his labor [when understanding, light, is present] until the evening [when ignorance covers the earth]. 24 O LORD, how manifold are your works! in wisdom have you made them all: the earth is full of your riches [this grace]. 25 So is this great and wide sea [all humanity good and evil], wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts [all without the LORD’s Spirit]. 26 There go the ships [the institutions of government in church and state]: there is that leviathan [the river through which words and ideas flow into the sea: humanity], whom you have made to play therein. 27 These wait all upon you [to be refreshed]; that you mayest give them their meat [this understanding] in due season [this time now present]. 28 That [this manna] you give them they gather: you open your hand [by Your work you send Your treasures], they are filled with good. 29 You hide [cathar – in their ignorance] your face [paniym – your presence], they are troubled: you take away their breath [when understanding is absent], they die, and return to their dust [the ruin of the earth where they are returned, from where they are raised again in Your new creation]. 30 You send forth your spirit, they are created: and you renew the face of [paniym – by Your presence] the earth. 31 The glory of the LORD shall endure forever: the LORD shall rejoice in his works. 32 He looks on the earth, and it trembles: he touches the hills, and they smoke. 33 I will sing [this same word] unto the LORD as long as I live: I will sing praise to my God while I have my being. 34 My meditation of him shall be sweet: I will be glad in the LORD. 35 Let the sinners [chatta’ – criminals in power] be consumed [tamam – be completed, perished] out of the earth, and let the wicked [the sons of perdition] be no more. Bless you the LORD, O my soul. Praise you the LORD.
And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
Friends, the LORD begins today with a warning to those preaching a perverted doctrine in His name, giving false hope, and producing an unfounded mental state of security in those who should fear.
The word “fear,” above in Jude 1:23, is the Greek word phobos. It is most often used when speaking of it coming upon those realizing the LORD’s presence. It’s a healthy fear that causes self-examination: trying our thoughts, checking for corruption in our (all) minds spotted by the creations of men, which causes us to resist and oppose the LORD now manifesting His presence in removing it (corruption).
The word “fire” is from pur, “saved” from sozo, “pulling” from harpazo, and “spotted” is spilos, which refers us to verse 12 where it is spilas.
Jude 1 10 But these [corrupt men] speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts [without the LORD’s Spirit, and thereby condemning themselves], in those things they corrupt themselves. 11 Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain [who killed His brother, “And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous.”], and ran greedily after the error of Balaam [cursing God’s people] for reward, and perished in the gainsaying [antilogia – against this rightly arranged word, meaning “dispute, disobedience:–contradiction, gainsaying, strife,” of antichrists] of Core. 12 These are spots [spilas – stains upon your minds] in your feasts of charity [agape – here when this word of God is given as received, to be given unspotted by the flesh], when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear [aphobos]: clouds [where understanding should be and isn’t] they are without water [without this word of God from heaven], carried about of winds [of false doctrines]; trees whose fruit witherd [and now testifies against them], without [good] fruit, [in this seconds death] twice dead, plucked up by the roots [ekrizoo – a four times used word referring us to Matthew 15:13, saying “Every plant, which my heavenly Father has not planted, shall be rooted up {ekrizoo}”]; 13 Raging [agrios – wild, proud of their creations] waves of the sea [crashing against this termination point, this last generation, where they proceed no further], [and are] foaming out their own shame; wandering stars [planets – planets whose positions are ever-changing, if relied on to navigate in the darkness deceiving those doing so], to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness [the ignorance of their own ignorance] forever. 14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the LORD comes with ten thousands of his saints, 15 To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him [resisting and opposing the love of His truth]. 16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speak great swelling words [endless proud waves], having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage [their position of power, corrupt men commending, and commended of, other corrupt men]. 17 But, beloved, remember you the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our LORD Jesus Christ; 18 How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts. 19 These be they who separate themselves [from the LORD and His truth], sensual, having not the Spirit [but think they are those who aren’t condemned by these actions, thinking their positions, called “good” men, will save them]. 20 But you, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith [in the LORD with us, in us, by whom we are led and do not, thereby, come into condemnation]. 21 Keep [tereo – guard and protect] yourselves in the love [agape – in this conversation, this word] of God, looking for the mercy [at His mercy seat, where His presence is manifested in the conversation] of our LORD Jesus Christ unto eternal life. 22 And of some have compassion [eleeo – giving this same word, the same conversation as received], making a difference [diakrino – separating them from corruption through their decision to receive what is heard in the conversation]: 23 And others save [sozo] with fear [phobos], pulling [harpazo – “caught up,” meaning to “seize” them into heaven, this full understanding, at this trumpet sounding: this voice of the LORD’s archangel manifesting His presence in this conversation] them out of the fire [pur]; hating even the garment spotted [spilos] by the flesh. 24 Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence [katenopion] of his glory with exceeding joy [when you realize it is Him with us, in us], 25 To the only wise God our Savior, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.
Those preaching the Gospel must do so in a complete exposition (the firmament God calls Heaven: giving FULL understanding), not in bits that mislead away from the true meaning and often into its reversing. This later method is the way of the modern “news” industry, all Babylon, including the dead body of Christ, taking bits of information out of context to depict it as suits their private agenda, often while calling good evil and evil good, calling truth lies and lies truth.
This nation, under God, has since Obama, as established doctrine, used (uses) lies as the means of achieving policy objectives. Their ultimate goal is the destruction of our Christian heritage, the foundation of self-government under the Laws of Nature and Nature’s God, and “fundamentally transform” it into a dysphoric satanic autocracy, the false utopia where, without any order, Satan, through the devils he possesses, rules what we know is hell. It is out of these fires, in this tribulation, that the LORD openly manifests His presence, “pulling” us from them.
2 Corinthians 2 14 Now thanks be unto God, which always causes us to triumph in Christ, and makes manifest the savor [the perception] of his knowledge by us in every place. 15 For we are unto God a sweet savor [the perception] of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish: 16 To the one we are the savor [the perception] of death unto death; and to the other the savor [the perception] of life unto life. And who is sufficient for [hikanos – who is worthy of] these things? 17 For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight [katenopion – as the presence] of God speak we in Christ.
Hear His voice and do as He commands! Only in doing this is a man saved. This is not a drill, not an exercise in vain speech. The time is at hand; let us keep our vow to Him.
Examine yourselves to reveal if you are in the faith or not. Only therein is a man saved. Are you in His Spirit, following His voice, His commands? Or are you following corrupt men, devils who put themselves in His place?
Philippians 3 17 Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as you have us for an example. 18 (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: 19 Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.) 20 For our conversation is [here] in heaven [here only, where understanding should be and is found]; from whence [in this conversation] also we look for the Savior [who saves us], the LORD Jesus Christ: 21 Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working [of His word in us and then from us] whereby he is able even to subdue [hupotasso – bring into obedience] all things unto himself.
Hebrews 2 1 Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to [obey] the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip. 2 For if the word spoken by angels [messengers] was steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience [refusing to obey the message] received a just recompense of reward; 3 How shall we escape, if we neglect [ameleo – are apathetic: meaning given as “to be careless of:–make light of, neglect, be negligent, no regard”] so great salvation [this promised end]; which at the first began to be spoken by the LORD, and was confirmed [repeated from the mouths of faithful witnesses, His angels] unto us by them that heard him [His voice as the mouth of God]; 4 God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts [this understanding that only come from Him, by which the son is crowned] of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will? 5 For unto the angels has he not put in subjection [hupotasso] the world to come, whereof we speak [wherein dwells His righteousness]. 6 But one in a certain place [Psalms 8:4 – 6] testified, saying, What is man, that you are mindful of him? or the son of man that you visit him [as the Chief Overseer of the earth, to relay the foundations which evil man corrupted and destroyed]? 7 You made him [man] a little lower than the angels [in Hebrew, chacer’ elohiym: sent into flesh lacking the full understanding of God]; you [giving Your understanding] crowned him with glory and honor, and did set him [man, in Christ] over the works of your hands: 8 You have put all things [the world, and the fulness thereof] in subjection [hupotasso] under his feet. For in that he put all in subjection [hupotasso] under him, he left nothing that is not put under him. But now [because man is yet without Christ, not led by His Spirit] we see not yet all things [are] put under [hupotasso] him. 9 But we see Jesus [Jehovah’s salvation veil in the flesh], who was made a little lower than the angels for [sent without understanding] the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor [the Father’s understanding revealed here and now]; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man. 10 For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto [the same] glory, to make the captain [archegos – arche ago; the leader of the beginning, only used three other times, “a chief leader:–author, captain, prince”] of their salvation perfect through [long] sufferings [not willing that any should perish, but that all would come to repentance, in which is salvation]. 11 For both he that sanctifies [makes pure, removes corruption] and they who are sanctified are all of ONE [BODY]: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren, 12 Saying, I will declare your name [Jehovah’s identity, alive in me] unto my brethren, in the midst of the church [His ONE BODY] will I sing [repeat His word, exalting them above all other] praise unto you. 13 And again, I will put my trust in him. And again, Behold I and the children which God has given me [are for signs and wonders to His people]. 14 Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil [the misleaders who put themselves in His place, opposing and resisting this sanctification]; 15 And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. 16 For truly he took not on him the nature of angels [messengers, not subject to death]; but he took on him the seed of Abraham [subject to death in the flesh]. 17 Wherefore in all things it behooved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to [the knowledge of] God, to make reconciliation [cheerfully, showing mercy, willingly giving this correction as received] for the sins of the people. 18 For in that he himself has suffered being tempted, he is able to succor [rescue] them that are tempted [to doubt the presence of the Father in our flesh].
Hebrews 3 1 Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus [Jehovah’s Salvation in my flesh manifesting Himself present, declaring Himself and me His son, sent to raise many sons into the same glory]; 2 Who was faithful to him [My Father] that appointed him [me], as also Moses was faithful in all his house. 3 For this man [I Am] was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who has built the house has more honor than the house. 4 For every house is built by some man; but he that built all things is God. 5 And Moses truly was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after; 6 But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end. 7 Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost says, Today if you will hear his voice, 8 Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: 9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years. 10 Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do always err in their heart [their corrupt minds]; and [because of the corruption they learned under their oppressors, with which they choose to remain, instead of being led by the Spirit into the promised end] they have not known my ways. 11 So I swore in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.) 12 Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. 13 But exhort one another daily, while it is called Today; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. 14 For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast unto the end; 15 While it is said, Today if you will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation. 16 For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses. 17 But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned [not believing the LORD’s words, and not doing as He commanded through His chosen leader], whose carcasses fell in the wilderness? 18 And to whom swore he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not? 19 So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.
Acts 3 14 But you denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer [those refusing to give this word from the mouth of God, whereby man lives] to be granted unto you; 15 And killed the Prince [archegos – the one sent, I AM, to lead you into this new beginning] of life, whom God has raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses. 16 And his name [identity with us] through faith in his name [faith in His identity with us, in us] has made this man strong, whom you see and know: yea, the faith which is by him has given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all. 17 And now, brethren, I know that through ignorance [of God and His ways] you did it, as did also your rulers. 18 But those things, which God before had showed by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he has so fulfilled. 19 Repent you therefore, and be converted, that your sins [your errors in ignorance] may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the LORD revealed with us, by opened mouths those who’ve witnessed it]. 20 And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you: 21 Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things [when understanding is returned], which God has spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began. 22 For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the LORD your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall you hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you. 23 And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people. 24 Yea, and all the prophets from Samuel [shama’ el – who heard and obeyed the voice of the LORD] and those that follow after, as many as have spoken, have likewise foretold of these days [today]. 25 You are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in your seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed. 26 Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities.
Acts 5 17 Then the high priest rose up, and all they that were with him, (which is the sect of the Sadducees [not believing this is the resurrection],) and were filled with indignation, 18 And laid their hands on the apostles [apo stello, meaning, the obedient who “stand away,” are set apart, from those not obeying], and put them in the common [demosios – publicly {not allowing their words to be heard}] prison [modern day censorship]. 19 But the angel [I Am] of the LORD [manifesting His presence] by night [this time when ignorance of God covers the earth] opened the prison doors, and brought them forth, and said, 20 Go, stand [in life with me] and speak [this word as received] in the temple to the people all the words of this life. 21 And when they heard that, they entered into the temple early in the morning [now when this understanding has come as the light of this new day], and taught. But the high priest [the religious leaders, the keepers of the prison] came, and they that were with him, and called the council together, and all the senate of the children of Israel [those upon whom this promised end has come], and sent to the prison to have them brought. 22 But when the officers came, and found them not in the prison, they returned and told, 23 Saying, The prison truly found we shut with all safety, and the keepers standing without before the doors: but when we had opened, we found no man within. 24 Now when the high priest and the captain of the temple and the chief priests heard these things, they doubted of them whereunto this [freeing of minds] would grow. 25 Then came one and told them, saying, Behold, the men whom you put in prison are standing [alive from the dead] in the temple, and teaching [this same word to] the people. 26 Then went the captain with the officers, and brought them without violence: for they feared the people, lest they should have been stoned. 27 And when they had brought them, they set them before the council: and the high priest asked them, 28 Saying, Did not we straitly command you that you should not teach in this name [manifested the identity of the risen LORD]? and, behold, you have filled [old and corrupt] Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this man’s blood upon us [the prison keepers, who took Him and publicly killed Him, removing Him from sight with their corruption]. 29 Then Peter and the other apostles [standing away from those refusing to obey the voice of the LORD] answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men. 30 The God of our fathers raised up [from death] Jesus, whom you slew and hanged on a tree. 31 Him has God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince [archegos – the leader of the new beginning] and a Savior, for to give repentance to Israel [His people who receive Him and this promised end], and forgiveness of sins. 32 And we are his witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Ghost [the LORD’s presence unknown, working and speaking to those who haven’t known Him], whom God has given to them that obey him. 33 When they heard that, [refusing to obey] they were cut to the heart [vexed by obvious contradictions in their thinking], and took counsel to slay them [“as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous”]. 34 Then stood there up one in the council, a Pharisee, named Gamaliel [from gamal, meaning he is doing the right, good, thing], a doctor of the law, had in reputation among all the people, and commanded to put the apostles forth a little space [apart from those not obeying the voice of the LORD]; 35 And said unto them, You men of Israel, take heed to yourselves what you intend to do as touching these men. 36 For before these days rose up Theudas [claiming he was “God-given,” as do the many false prophets and false teachers now sitting in God’s place], boasting himself to be somebody; to whom a number of men, about four hundred, joined themselves: who was slain; and all, as many as obeyed him, were scattered, and brought to naught. 37 After this man rose up Judas [Judah, the corrupt leaders] of Galilee [saying they have ancient wisdom from the word of God] in the days of the taxing, and drew away much people after him: he also perished; and all, even as many as obeyed him, were dispersed. 38 And now I say unto you, Refrain [stand away from those obeying this word of God] from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to naught: 39 But if it be of God, you cannot overthrow it; lest haply you be found even to fight against God. 40 And to him they agreed: and when they had called the apostles, and beaten them, they commanded that they should not speak in the name [in the identity] of Jesus, and let them go. 41 And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name. 42 And daily in the temple, and in every house, they ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Christ [this same word of Jehovah’s Salvation].
The final time the word archegos appears is in Hebrews 12:2, speaking of the writer of this written word of God.
Hebrews 12 1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses [in whom is this understanding from heaven], let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which does so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race [the course] that is set before us, 2 Looking unto Jesus the author [archegos – the writer leading us into this new beginning] and finisher [teleiotes – completer] of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. 3 For consider him that endured such contradiction [antilogia] of sinners against himself, lest you be wearied and faint in your minds.
8 But if you be without chastisement [this correction], whereof all are partakers, then are you bastards, and not sons. 9 Furthermore, we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live? 10 For they truly for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness. 11 Now no chastening for the present seems to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised [when corruption is worked out of the children] thereby. 12 Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees; 13 And make straight paths [the course] for your feet, lest that which is lame [and strayed off course] be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed. 14 Follow peace with all men, and holiness [purity], without which no man shall see the LORD:
21 And so terrible was the sight [of the LORD’s presence manifested to those who reject Him and His word], that Moses said, I exceedingly fear [eimi ekphobos – in his presence I fear] and quake:) 22 But you are come unto mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the [New] Heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels [His messengers], 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: 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 [corruption] that are shaken, as of things that are made [added by men], that those things [uncorrupted] which cannot be shaken [and are hereby seen] may remain. 28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace [receiving this gift of correction], whereby [giving the gift as received] we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: 29 For our God is a consuming fire.
The word above, speaking of how we should serve God, acceptably with “godly fear,” is the twice-used word eulabeia, literally meaning to take hold of good (refusing evil).
As we know, this aspect is spoken of Immanuel, who eats butter and honey, by which he learns to refuse evil and choose good. It’s an idiom inferred to one who is first called Mahershalalhashbaz (maher-shalal-chuwsh-baz), meaning He hastes to the spoil and speedy to the prey, to recover that which the Assyrian (communists) took. It speaks of the short work of the LORD upon the earth, by the hand of the virgin-born son (not born of flesh, but begotten through God’s Spirit working unknown).
The words telling of the “spoil” and “prey” are then used together by Isaiah, in Isaiah 10:6, speaking of the LORD sending the Assyrian (communists in power) as His rod against His hypocritical people who’ve degenerated into a state of corruption, to take them (the spoil and prey).
As we know, in Isaiah 8, Isaiah speaking of Immanuel, says He, God with us, appears once the Assyrian has done His full work, which he describes as the consequences of adopting ways known to bring the death of nations.
Isaiah 8 13 Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread. 14 And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offense to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 15 And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken. 16 Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples. 17 And I will wait upon the LORD, that hides his face [presence] from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him. 18 Behold, I and the children whom the LORD has given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, which dwells in mount Zion. 19 And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits [the voices of the known dead, speaking the ways of death], and unto wizards [the “experts” of this corrupt world] that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? [Should they be looking] for the living to the dead? 20 [Or should they be looking] To the law and to the testimony [these treasures?]: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light [understanding] in them.
Isaiah 10 1 Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees [by which they rule this generation], and that write grievousness which they have prescribed [saying more of the cause is the cure]; 2 To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey [shalal], and that they may rob [bazaz] the fatherless! 3 And what will you do in the day of visitation [pquddah – now when the LORD has come as the Chief Overseer of the earth], and in the desolation which shall come from far [merchaq – this time the LORD decreed, when righteousness returns]? to whom will you flee for help? and where will you leave your glory? 4 Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. 5 O Assyrian [communists], the rod of my anger, and the staff in their hand is my indignation. 6 I will send him against a hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take [shalal] the spoil [shalal], and to take [bazaz] the prey [baz], and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
The only other time the word eulabeia appears is in Hebrews 5:7, speaking of Christ and His ONE BODY.
Isaiah 7 13 And he said, Hear you now, O house of David; Is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will you weary my God also? 14 Therefore the LORD himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. 15 Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.
21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall nourish [with this grace] a young cow [‘eglah – Ephraim] and two sheep [tso’n – flocks]; 22 And it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk that they shall give he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall every one eat that is left [yathar – that remains, who’ve learned to refuse evil and choose good] in the land [‘erets – the earth].
Hosea 10 10 It is in my desire that I should chastise [correct] them; and the people [children of iniquity] shall be gathered against them, when they shall bind themselves in their two furrows [‘ayin – two fountains]. 11 And Ephraim is as a heifer [‘eglah] that is taught, and loveth to tread out the corn; but I passed over [‘abar – brought her to life] upon her fair neck [open her mouth to release the word held therein]: I will make Ephraim to ride; Judah shall plow, and Jacob shall break his clods. 12 Sow to yourselves in righteousness [choose good], reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till he come and rain righteousness [this latter rain, this living word of God] upon you. [Hebrews 11:6 But without faith {that He is present with us, in us} 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.] 13 You [until this time] have plowed wickedness, you have reaped iniquity; you have eaten the fruit of lies: because you did trust in your [own] way, in the multitude of your mighty men [the wicked sitting in seats of power over church and state]. 14 Therefore shall a tumult [sha’own – the voices of my children roaring as lions] arise [quwm] among your people, and all your fortresses shall be spoiled, as Shalman [those worshipping the fires they’ve caused] spoiled Betharbel [the houses upon which God’s ambush has come] in the day of battle: the mother [your teachers who’ve taught you to choose evil and refuse this good] was dashed in pieces upon her children. 15 So shall Bethel [the risen house, the family, of God] do unto you because of your great wickedness: in a morning [when this light has come] shall the king of Israel utterly be cut off [damah – be stilled and silenced].
Hosea 11 11 When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt. 2 As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images. 3 I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms; but they knew not that I healed them. 4 I drew them with cords of a man [in whom I Am working and speaking unknown], with bands of love: and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws [to open their mouth], and I laid meat [this deep understanding] unto them. 5 He shall not return into the land [‘erets] of Egypt [the old earth ruled by oppressors], and the Assyrian [the communists] shall be his king, because they refused to return [from their apostasy]. 6 And the sword shall abide on his cities, and shall consume his branches, and devour them, because of their own counsels. 7 And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they [the elect remanent] called them to the Most High, none at all would exalt him [His voice above all other voices]. 8 How shall I give you up, Ephraim? how shall I deliver you, Israel? how shall I make you as Admah [the new earth]? how shall I set you as Zeboim [My goodly horse in the battle]? my heart is turned within me, my repentings are kindled together. 9 I will not execute the fierceness of my anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not man; the Holy One in the midst of you: and I will not enter into the city. 10 They [My elect remanat] shall walk [teaching My ways] after the LORD [after My word has effectually worked in them opening their mouth]: he shall roar like a lion: when he shall roar, then the children shall tremble [charad – fear My name, My identity revealed in My word] from the west [upon whom this understanding has shined from the east]. 11 They shall tremble [charad – fear] as a bird out of Egypt [leaving behind their opprssors], and as a dove [knowing this is the promised end reached] out of the land [‘erets – out of the old and corrupt earth] of Assyria [ruled by communists in power]: and I will place them [yashab – that remain] in their houses [their new family, in this new earth], says the LORD. 12 Ephraim [this generation in double ruin] compassed me about with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit: but Judah [My elect remnant] yet rules with God, and is faithful with the saints.
Hebrews 5 5 So also Christ glorified not himself to be made a high priest; but [was made one by] he that said unto him, You are my Son, today have I begotten you. 6 As he says also in another place, You are a priest forever after the order of Melchisedec [“first being by interpretation King of righteousness, and after that also King of Salem, which is, King of peace; Without father, without mother, without {earthly} descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abides a priest continually”]. 7 Who [Christ, the son of man] in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared [eulabeia – refused evil and chose good]; 8 Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered [in this tribulation when the world is ignorant of the Jehovah’s presence veiled in flesh]; 9 And being made perfect [teleioo – completed], he became the author [aitios – the first cause] of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him; 10 Called of God a high priest after the order of Melchisedec. 11 Of whom we have many things to say, and hard [dusermeneutos, dus ereo men eutonos – hard to utter the affirmation of His might] to be uttered [loge – to be laid out {because it, He, is only seen, after His voice is heard and obey as the voice of God speaking}], seeing you are dull of [nothros – meaning “sluggish, i.e. (literally) lazy, or (figuratively) stupid {willfully, only knowing the corrupt elements of the world, rudiment by which the world is held in bondage and possessed by devils}”] hearing [Him speaking]. 12 For when for the time you ought to be teachers, you have need that one teach you again which be the first [arche – here laid out in the beginning of the new heaven and earth, wherein dwells righteousness] principles [stoicheion – the elements] of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk [which congeals, as elements brought together, making butter], and not of strong meat [this deep understanding, as honey from the carcass of a lion]. 13 For every one that uses milk is unskillful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe. 14 But strong meat belongs to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised [of corruption] to discern both good and evil [to choose good and refuse evil].
The “oracles” of God, the wheel within a wheel, through which we are given life (zao), is from the four times used Greek word logion. I tell you once again, in this word of God is the life of the new world, heaven and earth, it creates. It must be given as received by those hearing and obeying the voice of the LORD, doing His work for which He’s prepared us.
Romans 3 3 What advantage then has the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision? [Romans 2:28 For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: 29 But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.] 2 Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles [logian – the spoken word then given, written, as received] of God. 3 For what if some did not believe [that in His word His presence is manifested giving us life]? shall their unbelief make the faith [of others] of God without effect? 4 God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That you might be justified in your sayings [speaking His word as received], and might overcome when you are judged [by unbelievers]. 5 But if our unrighteousness commends [suniemi – causes the battle to be joined, by the standing of] the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance [if error and trespass are necessary to bring forth correction]? (I speak as a man [whose thinking is corrupted]) 6 God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world [rising against all error and trespass]? 7 For [hypothetically, speaking as those who are in error and trespass] if the truth of God has more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner? 8 And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good [of God] may come? whose damnation is just. 9 What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles [those who claim they know Him and those who don’t], that they are all under sin; 10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: 11 There is none that understandeth [as it is here proven that none have known the LORD at His appearing and kingdom], there is none that seeks after God. [Romans 10:20 But Esaias is very bold, and says, I was found of them that sought me not; I was made manifest unto them that asked not after me.] 12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that does good, no, not one [that doesn’t choose evil]. 13 Their throat is an open sepulcher [from where comes the words of the dead]; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps [sepents, devils slithering among them] is under their lips: 14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: 15 Their feet are swift to shed blood: 16 Destruction and misery are in their ways: 17 And the way of peace have they not known: 18 There is no fear [phobos] of God before their eyes. 19 Now we know that what things soever the law [the written word of God] says, it says to them who are under the law [because they are without faith that the LORD is always present and reveals Himself in this judgment against all unrighteousness]: that every mouth [speaking against Him] may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. 20 Therefore by the deeds of the law [the written word men pervert and twist] there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin. 21 But now the righteousness of God without [men’s corrupt understanding of] the law is manifested, being witnessed by the [deep meaning He reveals in the] law and the prophets; 22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ [believing it is Jehovah’s Salvation manifested in the flesh He chooses] unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference: 23 For all have sinned [having their mind corrupt by the degeneration into ignorance of God], and come short of the glory of God [manifested in them]; 24 Being justified freely by his grace [this gift] through the redemption [from death] that is in Christ Jesus: 25 Whom God has set forth [protithemai – made the first to stand in resurrection] to be a propitiation [hilasterion – to be the mercy seat, where His presence is manifested in this conversation] through faith in his blood [the sacrifice necessary to deliver His word and declare it is His presence manifested], to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance [anoche – only appearing here and in Romans 2:4 Or despise you the riches of his goodness and forbearance {anoche} and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?] of God; 26 To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believes in Jesus [believe this is Jehovah’s Salvation manifested in the flesh]. 27 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith [receiving this gift of God, as from Him, as it is]. 28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law. 29 Is he the God of the Jews [those who claim they know Him] only? is he not also of the Gentiles [those who don’t claim they know Him]? Yes, of the Gentiles also: 30 Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision [believers] by [their] faith, and uncircumcision [unbelievers] through [our] faith [believing this is His word and presence, giving it as received]. 31 Do we then make void the [written word] law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish [resurrecting it by understanding given to] the law.
The “oracles” are the word of God received directly from Him, as here and now, which Moses foretold.
Acts 7 37 This is that Moses, which said unto the children of Israel, A prophet shall the LORD your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall you hear. 38 This is he [Jehovah’s presence manifested], that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spoke to him in the mount Sina [among thorns: misleaders, appearing as a tree of life burning and never burning out], and [as] with our fathers: who received the lively [zao] oracles [logion] to give unto us [as received]: 39 To whom [as now] our fathers would not obey, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts [minds] turned back again into Egypt [choosing to remain with the corruption and confusion they learned there], 40 Saying unto Aaron [those given this light, understanding, to give it as first received], Make us gods to go before us: for as for this Moses, which brought us out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him. 41 And they made a calf in those days [and put it in God’s place], and offered sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands. 42 Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host [fallen messenger who left their first estate, no longer giving God’s word as received, and in His place they put their own words] of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O you house of Israel, have you offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness? 43 Yea, you took up the tabernacle of Moloch [in whose fires your children are sacrificed], and the star of your god Remphan, figures which you made to worship them: and I will carry you away beyond Babylon [now in mass delusion and insanity]. [This is quoted from Amos 5:25 & 26, earlier verses saying, 10 They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaks uprightly. 11 Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and you take from him burdens of wheat: you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink wine of them. 12 For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right. 13 Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time. 14 Seek good, and not evil, that you may live: and so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as you have spoken. 15 Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.] 44 Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness, as he had appointed, speaking unto Moses, that he should make it according to the fashion that he had seen. 45 Which also our fathers that came after brought in with Jesus [Joshua – the perpetual son] into the possession of the Gentiles, whom God drove out before the face of our fathers, unto the days of David; 46 Who found favor before God, and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob. 47 But Solomon built him a house. 48 Howbeit the Most High dwells not in temples made with hands [but He lives in the minds of men]; as says the prophet, 49 Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool: what house will you build me? says the LORD: or what is the place of my rest? 50 Has not my hand made all these things? 51 You stiff-necked [refusing to speak the words held therein] and uncircumcised in heart [flesh blinding your minds] and ears [not hearing this voice as the word of God], you do always [doing the work of Satan] resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do you. 52 Which of the prophets [through whom My word comes] have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which showed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom you have been now the betrayers and murderers: 53 Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it [from corruption].
1 Peter 4 1 Forasmuch then as Christ has suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin; 2 That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God. 3 For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revelling, banqueting, and abominable idolatries: 4 Wherein they think it strange that you run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you: 5 Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead. 6 For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit. 7 But the end of all things is at hand: be you therefore sober, and watch unto prayer. 8 And above all things have fervent charity [agape – giving this word of God as received] among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins. 9 Use hospitality [generously giving] one to another without grudging. 10 As every man has received the gift [this word of God freely given], even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards [overseers] of the manifold grace [the many facets of this gift] of God. 11 If any man speaks, let him speak as [according to, in agreement with] the oracles [logion] of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability [strength] which God gives: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion forever and ever. Amen. 12 Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: 13 But rejoice, inasmuch as you are partakers of Christ’s sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed [with us], you may be glad also with exceeding joy [when His presence is realized in us]. 14 If you be reproached for the name [the identity] of Christ [in us], happy are you; for the spirit of glory and of God rests upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified. 15 But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men’s matters. 16 Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf. 17 For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begins at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God? 18 And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear? 19 Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.
John 21 14 This is now the third time that Jesus showed himself to his disciples, after that he was risen from the dead.
2 Corinthians 13 1 This is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established. 2 I told you before, and foretell you, as if I were present, the second time; and being absent now I write to them which heretofore have sinned, and to all other, that, if I come again, I will not spare: 3 Since you seek a proof [dokime] of Christ speaking in me, which to you-ward is not weak, but is mighty in you. 4 For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he lives by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you. 5 Examine yourselves, whether you be in the faith; prove [dokimazo] your own selves. Know you not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except you be reprobates [adokimos – without proof]? 6 But I trust that you shall know that we are not reprobates [adokimos – without proof]. 7 Now I pray to God that you do no evil; not that we should [by choosing good] appear approved [dokimos], but that you should do that which is honest [telling truth], though we [to deceivers] be as reprobates [adokimos]. 8 For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth. 9 For we are glad [chairo – we rejoice in knowing the LORD’s presence], when we are weak, and you are strong: and this also we wish, even your perfection [when you are filled full, completed, by this understanding]. 10 Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the LORD has given me to edification [this teaching which builds you into the LORD’s habitation], and not to destruction. 11 Finally, brethren, farewell [chairo – rejoice in knowing the LORD’s presence with us, in us]. Be perfect, be of good comfort [led into all truth, choosing good], be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you. 12 Greet one another with a holy kiss. 13 All the saints salute you. 14 The grace [this gift] of the LORD Jesus Christ, and the love [agape – this word given as received] of God, and the communion [koinoneia – this conversation with the Father who is unknown to the corrupt world that refuses Him] of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen.
Psalms 95 1 O come, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation. 2 Let us come before his presence [paniym] with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms. 3 For the LORD is a great God, and a great King above all gods. 4 In his hand are the deep places of the earth: the strength of the hills is his also. 5 The sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land. 6 O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before [paniym – in the presence of] the LORD our maker. 7 For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. Today if you will hear his voice, 8 Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness: 9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work. 10 Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways: 11 Unto whom I swore in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.
