Month: October 2024

7 – 10 October 2024

Many times did he deliver them; but they provoked him with their counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity.

The word above, in Psalms 106:43, also appearing in verses 7 & 33, rendered “provoked,” is marah, meaning “to be (causatively, make) bitter (or unpleasant); (figuratively) to rebel (or resist; causatively, to provoke):–bitter, change, be disobedient, disobey, grievously, provocation, provoke(-ing), (be) rebel (against, -lious).”

This occurrence is the “provocation” when God’s people reject His voice through those He sends in His name, whom they, because of His flesh veil, refuse to obey. What follows this initial inevitable event is His more assertively declaring Himself present through an ever-increased brilliance, His Glory, which becomes undeniably self-evident.

The declaration of His presence by those speaking His word and the refusal to obey His command to do so, is the provocation of Moses in the desert of Zin, at Meribah (mriybah), which kept him from entering the Promised Land.

The title verse tells us it (marah) is men elevating their own counsel, their advice they obey, above the LORD’s.

This sequence of events is described earlier, before the title verse, saying:

32 They angered him also at the waters of strife [mriybah], so that it went ill with Moses for their sakes:
33 Because they provoked [marah] his spirit, so that he spoke unadvisedly with his lips.
34 They did not destroy the nations, concerning whom the LORD commanded them:
35 But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works.
36 And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them.
37 Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils [shed – only used here and Deuteronomy 32:17],
38 And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan [in pattern, the heathen now possessing this nation]: and the land was polluted with blood.
39 Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions.
40 Therefore was the wrath of the LORD kindled against his people, insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance.
41 And he gave them into the hand of the heathen; and they that hated them ruled over them.
42 Their enemies also oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their hand.
43 Many times did he deliver them; but they provoked [marah] him with their counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity.

Deuteronomy 32
15 But Jeshurun [God’s people prospering under His command] waxed fat, and kicked: you are waxen fat, you are grown thick, you are covered with fatness [prosperity]; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
16 They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.
17 They sacrificed unto devils [shen – demons, misleaders, and dividers possessed by Satan], 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 [from where His word flows] 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 – presence] from them, I will see what their end [‘achariyth – until these last days when I Am seen again] shall be: for they are a very froward generation [that twisted and perverted all truth], children in whom is no faith [therefor, they doubt My presence].
21 They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
22 For a fire is kindled in my anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell [here and now present, when all are subject to Satan and his devils], and shall consume the [old and totally corrupt] earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains [the corruption that pervades all government].

The current institutional degeneration of all truth and all good judgment is described in the word in the title verse rendered “brought low,” from the three times used Hebrew word, makak, meaning “to tumble (in ruins); figuratively, to perish.” It is used with affinity to the macac, meaning “to liquefy; figuratively, to waste (with disease), to faint (with fatigue, fear or grief):–discourage, faint, be loosed, melt (away), refuse, X utterly,” and maqaq, meaning “to melt; figuratively, to flow, dwindle, vanish:–consume away, be corrupt, dissolve, pine away.”

Job 24
12 Men groan [na’aq – only used here and Ezekiel 30:24] from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded [chalal] cries out: yet God lays not folly to them. [Ezekiel 30:24 And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon {the power of their own confusion, turned into delusion and insanity}, and put my sword {My word} in his hand {revealing the darkness in their works}: but I will break Pharaoh’s arms {the works of the tyrants in power}, and he shall groan {na’aq} before him with the groanings of a deadly wounded {chalal} man.]
13 They are of those that rebel [marad] against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof [understanding].
14 The murderer [with words and ways that bring death] rising with the light [speaking against this understanding] kills the poor and needy, and in the night [this time of ignorance] is as a thief [unknown].
15 The eye also of the adulterer [the unfaithful] waits for the twilight [when this understanding is taken away by the thief], saying, No eye shall see me: and disguises his face [to keep himself and his intentions unknown].
16 In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.
17 For the morning [when this understanding comes] is to them even as the shadow of death [revealing the ignorance in them]: if one knows them [their evil intentions], they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.
18 He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholds not [they refuse to see] the way of the vineyards [that bring forth good fruit].
19 Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so does the grave those which have sinned.
20 The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.
21 He evil entreats the barren [scepter] that bears not: and does not good to the widow [My people who have no living man to protect and defend them].
22 He draws [into destruction] also the mighty with his power: he rises up, and no man is sure of life.
23 Though it be given him [to think] to be in safety, whereon he rests; yet his [evil] eyes are upon their ways.
24 They [the wicked and the powerful] are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low [makak – they melt away from the heat of the fires they create]; they are taken out of the way as all other, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn [that is without seed].
25 And if it be not so now [yet], who will make me a liar, and make my speech worth nothing?

The only other use of makak comes in the Ecclesiastes 10:18.

Ecclesiastes 10
1 Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savor: so does [so do we perceive death in] a little folly [cikluwth – foolishness] him that is in reputation for wisdom and honor.
2 A wise man’s heart [mind] is at his right hand [when he is looking toward this sun rising]; but a fool’s heart [mind] at his left [when his back is turned to its light].
3 Yea also, when he that is a fool walks by the way [turns his back and wanders away from the light], his wisdom fails him, and he says to everyone [that remains in the light] that he is a fool.
4 If the [evil] spirit of the ruler rises up against [over] you, leave [nuwach] not your place [in the light]; for yielding [marpe’ – the cure is not joining in their evil] pacifies [nuwach] great offenses [separates you from their evil crimes].
5 There is an evil which I have seen under the sun [by this understanding you’ve received], as an error which proceeds from the ruler:
6 Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich [with these treasures] sit in low place [shephel – without any worldly honor or power]. [The word shephel only appears here and in Psalms 136:23, the passage, speaking of the LORD, says, “23 Who remembered us in our low estate {shephel}: for his mercy endures forever: 24 And has redeemed us from our enemies: for his mercy endure forever. 25 Who gives food to all flesh: for his mercy endures forever. 26 O give thanks unto the God of heaven: for his mercy endures forever.”]
7 I have seen servants upon horses [in power], and princes walking as servants [I Am] upon the earth.
8 He that digs a pit shall [blindly] fall into it; and whoso breaks a hedge [this protection the LORD has provided], a serpent [with poisonous words] shall bite him.
9 Whoso removes stones [from whom flows this word] shall be hurt therewith; and he that cleaves wood [cuts down the upright speaking as the LORD commanded] shall be endangered thereby.
10 If the iron is blunt, and he does not whet [sharpen] the edge [paniym – to receive the LORD’s presence with us, in us], then must he put to more strength [more understanding]: but [sharpened] wisdom is profitable to direct [kasher – succeeds; easily rightly divides: discerns, receives, meaning and gives understanding].
11 Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment [kachash – without this gospel: good spell, God’s spell spoken by Him with us, in us]; and a babbler is no better [than a serpent whose words are poison].
12 The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious [freely giving this word of God]; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.
13 The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness [cikluwth]: and the end of his talk is mischievous madness [destructive insanity: denying truth and self-evident reality ].
14 A fool also is full of [poisonous] words: a man [without God’s wisdom] cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him [that he will listen and obey]?
15 The labor of the foolish wearies every one of them [that hear and obey him], because he knows not how to go to the city [the way into the LORD’s kingdom, where is peace and security].
16 Woe to you, O land [‘erets – earth], when your king is a child [without understanding], and your princes eat in the morning [their own words and ways before the day breaks, not waiting for this light to come]!
17 Blessed are you, O land [‘erets – earth], when your king is the son of nobles [chor – pure, born again out of corruption], and your princes eat in due season [waiting for this light to come shining this understanding from east to west], for strength, and not for drunkenness [not making the mind dysfunctional]!
18 By much slothfulness the building [like the mind] decays; and through idleness of the hands [not doing the necessary work to keep the mind from decay] the house drops through.
19 A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money [keceph – silver, these riches from God’s] answers all things [provides this feast and this wine].
20 Curse not the king, no not in your [corrupt] thought [by which you contradict the LORD speaking and working unknown]; and curse not the rich [those who have this understanding] in your bed-chamber [where you sleep in death without this understanding]: for a bird of the air [those risen into heaven by the LORD’s strength] shall carry the voice, and that which has wings [speaking His word that raises us with Him] shall tell the matter.

The word “blunt,” in verse 10 above, is from the four times used Hebrew word qahah, meaning “to be dull.” In all its other uses it is rendered “set on edge.” This phrase appears in a Hebrew idiom that says children’s teeth are set on edge because their father ate sour grapes. Both passages (Jeremiah 31:29 & 30 and Ezekiel 18:2) are accompanied by the LORD describing how he sharpens iron with iron: His Spirit with us working to raise Himself, His presence, in us.

Jeremiah 31
1 At the same time [‘eth], says the LORD, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people [My children raised in My image and likeness].
2 Thus says the LORD, The people which were left of the sword found grace [this gift, these treasures] in the wilderness; even Israel [those who, by faith, receive this promised end], when I went to cause him to rest.
3 The LORD has appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved you with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn you.
4 Again I will build you, and you shall be built, O virgin of Israel: you shall again be adorned with your tabrets, and shall go forth in the dances of them that make merry.
5 You shall yet plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria: the planters shall plant, and shall eat them as common things.
6 For there shall be a day, that the watchmen upon the mount Ephraim shall cry, Arise you, and let us go up to Zion unto the LORD our God.
7 For thus says the LORD; Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout among the chief of the nations: publish you, praise you, and say, O LORD, save your people, the remnant of Israel.
8 Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the coasts of the earth, and with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her that travails with child together: a great company shall return thither.
9 They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
10 Hear the word of the LORD, O you nations, and declare it in the isles afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd does his flock.
11 For the LORD has redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand of him that was stronger than he.
12 Therefore they shall come and sing 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, 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 [the city on the hill – from where the light will shine], lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rahel [Rachel – the teachers of God’s people, who are yet barren] weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not.
16 Thus says the LORD; Refrain your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears: for your work shall be rewarded, says the LORD; and they shall come again from the land of the enemy.
17 And there is hope in your end, says the LORD, that your children shall come again to their own border.
18 I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; You have chastised [corrected] me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn you me, and I shall be turned; for you are the LORD my God.
19 Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed [by this teaching], 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 toward the highway, 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.
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.
24 And there shall dwell in Judah itself, and in all the cities thereof together, husbandmen, and they that go forth with flocks.
25 For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul.
26 Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me.
27 Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man, and with the seed of beast.
28 And it shall come to pass, that like as I have watched over them, to pluck up, and to break down, and to throw down, and to destroy, and to afflict; so will I watch over them, to build, and to plant, says the LORD.
29 In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children’s teeth are set on edge [qahah].
30 But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eats the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge [qahah].
31 Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah [when I save My people from the consequences of the degenerative ignorance that consumed them and brought death upon all humanity]:
32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they break, although I was a husband unto them, says the LORD:
33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, says the LORD, [by this instruction] I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, says the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
35 Thus says the LORD, which gives the sun [the church] for a light [to give this understanding] by day, and the ordinances of the moon [just civil government] and of the stars [My enlightened people] for a light by night, which divides the sea [revealing the heart, minds, of men] when the waves [of proud men] thereof roar; The LORD of hosts is his name:
36 If those ordinances depart from before me, says the LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me forever.
37 Thus says the LORD; If heaven [where only, at the LORD’s throne, does this understanding remain eternally uncorrupted] above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth [of the old and corrupt, restoring them again] searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, says the LORD.
38 Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that the city shall be built to the LORD from the tower of Hananeel [the favor of God] unto the gate of the corner [the entry, the return of God’s people to Him].
39 And the measuring line shall yet go forth over against it upon the hill Gareb [this right assessment that heals their wounds], and shall compass about to Goath [when the shepherds hear this word from the flock].
40 And the whole valley of the dead bodies, and of the ashes [the ruin caused by the enemies mixed among us], and all the fields unto the brook of Kidron [the words of darkness], unto the corner of the horse gate toward the east [the return of strength when they look toward the sun {sons} rising], shall be holy unto the LORD [when He raises the dead to life again]; it shall not be plucked up [out of His hand], nor thrown down [by the men they follow] any more forever.

Ezekiel 18
1 The word of the LORD came unto me again, saying,
2 What mean you, that you use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge [qahah]?
3 As I live, says the LORD God, you shall not have occasion any more to use this proverb in Israel.
4 Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sins, it shall die.

18 As for his father, because he oppressed, spoiled his brother by violence, and did that which is not good among his people, lo, even he shall die in his iniquity.
19 Yet say you, Why? does not the son bear the iniquity of the father? When the son has done that which is lawful and right, and has kept all my statutes, and has done them, he shall surely live.
20 The soul that sins, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
21 But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he has committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
22 All his transgressions that he has committed, they shall not be mentioned unto him: in his righteousness that he has done he shall live.
23 Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? says the LORD God: and not that he should return from his ways, and live?
24 But when the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that the wicked man does, shall he live? All his righteousness that he has done shall not be mentioned: in his trespass that he has trespassed, and in his sin that he has sinned, in them shall he die.
25 Yet you say, The way of the LORD is not equal. Hear now, O house of Israel; Is not my way equal? are not your ways unequal?
26 When a righteous man turns away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and dies in them; for his iniquity that he has done shall he die.
27 Again, when the wicked man turns away from his wickedness that he has committed, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.
28 Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions that he has committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
29 Yet says the house of Israel, The way of the LORD is not equal. O house of Israel, are not my ways equal? are not your ways unequal?
30 Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, says the LORD God. Repent, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin.
31 Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby you have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will you die, O house of Israel?
32 For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dies, says the LORD God: wherefore turn yourselves, and live you.

The LORD has sharpened His children and made us the instrument of His threshing. The harvest time is at hand, and the LORD has called and sent His children into His field to reap.

Isaiah 6
8 Also I heard the voice of the LORD, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here Am I; send me.
9 And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear you indeed, but understand not; and see you indeed, but perceive not.
10 Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert [repent and be corrected by this teaching], and be healed.
11 Then said I, LORD, how long? And he answered, Until [now when] the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate,
12 And the LORD have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.
13 But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof.

Matthew 21
28 But what think you? A certain man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go work today in my vineyard.
29 He answered and said, I will not: but afterward he repented, and went.
30 And he came to the second, and said likewise. And he answered and said, I go, sir: and went not.
31 Whether of them twain did the will of his father? They say unto him, The first. Jesus says unto them, Truly I say unto you, That the publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you.
32 For John [the dove, this sign of Jonah, this sign of the end reached] came unto you in the way of righteousness [repentance and correction, taking all below the surface of these waters, this life-giving word from the mouth of God], and you believed him not: but the publicans and the harlots believed him: and you, when you had seen it, repented not afterward, that you might believe him.
33 Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country:
34 And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it.
35 And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.
36 Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they did unto them likewise.
37 But last of all he sent unto them his son, saying, They will reverence my son.
38 But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance.
39 And they caught him, and cast him out of the vineyard, and slew him [as they did].
40 When the LORD therefore of the vineyard comes, what will he do unto those husbandmen?
41 They say unto him, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out his vineyard unto other husbandmen, which shall render him the fruits in their seasons.
42 Jesus says unto them, Did you never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the LORD’s doing, and it is marvelous in [opening] our eyes?
43 Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a [faithful] nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.
44 And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.

Isaiah 41
1 Keep silence before me, O islands [you without my word among My people]; and let the people renew their strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near together to judgment.
2 Who raised up the righteous man from the east [as the rising of the sun, giving understanding upon the earth], called him to his foot [resurrecting me to life], gave the nations before him, and made him rule over kings? he gave them as the dust to his sword, and as driven stubble to his bow.
3 He pursued them, and passed safely; even by the way that he had not gone with his feet.
4 Who has wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning [to this same life]? I the LORD, the first, and with the last; I Am he.
5 The isles saw it, and feared; the ends of the earth were afraid, drew near, and came [‘athah – at the LORD’s arrival].
6 They [ignorant of his arrival, they turned to their idols they created] helped every one his neighbor; and every one said to his brother, Be of good courage [trust in the idols we call by the LORD’s name].
7 So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and he that smooths with the hammer him that smote the anvil, saying, It is ready for the soldering: and he fastened it with nails, that it should not be moved.
8 But you, Israel, are my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend.
9 You whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called you from the chief men thereof, and said unto you, You are my servant; I have chosen you, and not cast you away.
10 Fear you not; for I am with you: be not dismayed; for I am your God: I will strengthen you; yea, I will help you; yea, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.
11 Behold, all they that were incensed against you shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they that strive with you shall perish.
12 You shall seek them, and shall not find them, even them that contended with you: they that war against you shall be as nothing, and as a thing of naught.
13 For I the LORD your God will hold your right hand, saying unto you, Fear not; I will help you.
14 Fear not, you worm Jacob, and you men of Israel; I will help you, says the LORD, and your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.
15 Behold, I will make you a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: you shall thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shall make the hills as chaff.
16 You shall fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and you shall rejoice in the LORD, and shall glory in the Holy One of Israel.
17 When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue fails for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.
18 I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
19 I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together:
20 That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of the LORD has done this, and the Holy One of Israel has created it.
21 Produce your cause, says the LORD; bring forth your strong reasons, says the King of Jacob.
22 Let them bring them forth, and show us what shall happen: let them show the former things, what they be, that we may consider them, and know the latter end [‘achariyht – the last days] of them; or declare us [shama’ – that we may obey] things for to come.
23 Show the things that are to come [‘athah – at the LORD’s arrival] hereafter [‘achowr – at this end], that we may know that you are gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold it together.
24 Behold, you are of nothing, and your work of naught: an abomination is he that chooses you.
25 I have raised up one from the north [among the ignorant], and he shall come [‘athah – at the LORD’s arriving]: from the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name: and he shall come upon princes as upon morter, and as the potter treads clay.
26 Who has declared from the beginning, that we may know? and beforetime, that we may say, He is righteous? yea, there is none that shows, yea, there is none that declares [shama’ – obeys], yea, there is none that hears [shama’ – obeys] your words.
27 The first shall say to Zion, Behold, behold them: and I will give to Jerusalem one that brings good tidings.
28 For I beheld, and there was no man; even among them, and there was no counselor, that, when I asked of them, could answer a word.
29 Behold, they are all vanity [worthless]; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.

Isaiah 30
8 Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to [now] come forever and ever:
9 That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD:
10 Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things [that make the ignorant feel good while they follow them into destruction], prophesy deceits:
11 Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel [I Am] to cease from before us.
12 Wherefore thus says the Holy One of Israel, Because you despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:
13 Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly at an instant [when the stones “immediately cry out”].
14 And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters’ vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit.
15 For thus says the LORD God, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall you be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and you [who choose to remain silent in ignorance] would not.

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 [the armies of darkness] 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 [ra’ – evil] he shall hide [tsaphan] me in his pavilion: in the secret [cether] of his tabernacle shall he hide [cathar] me; he shall set me up [ruwm – raise me] upon a Rock [revealing His presence when His word flows from me as living waters].
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; I will sing, 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, [diligently] Seek you my face [paniym – presence]; my heart [mind] said unto you, Your face [paniym – presence], LORD, will I [diligently] seek.
9 Hide [cathar] not your face [paniym – 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 [when my teachers and leaders go into corruption], then the LORD will take me up [‘acaph – gather me 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.
13 I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
14 Wait [qavah – expect, and join] on [‘el – with] the LORD [when He appears]: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart [giving understanding to your mind]: wait [qavah – expect, and join], I say, on [‘el – with] the LORD [when you see Him among you].

5 – 6 October 2024

The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.

Continuing: the above, Isaiah 32:4, speaks of the result of the previous three verses. Additional effects follow it, the first of which is the title of the previous post, saying, “The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said to be bountiful.”

Isaiah 32
1 Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in [good] judgment [not by political calculation].
2 And a man shall be as a hiding place from the wind [the evil doctrines of the day, lies as policy], and a covert from the tempest [the storms of our time]; as [calmed] rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock [from where the LORD’s word flows] in a weary land.
3 And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim [but enlightened], and the ears of them that hear [shama’ – obey] shall hearken [qashab – “to prick up the ears,” when what is heard pierces the ear and enters the mind].
4 The heart also of the rash [mahar – those that were carried headlong into ignorance] shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly [tsach – “dazzling, i.e. sunny, bright, (figuratively) evident,” speaking the light they received]. [Job 5:13 He takes the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward {those who, as policy, twist and pervert truth} is carried headlong {mahar}.]
5 The vile person [nabal – the wickedly foolish who withhold what is needed from those in need] shall be no more called liberal [nadiyb – “properly, voluntary, i.e. generous; hence, magnanimous”], nor the churl [kiylah – those withholding; only used here and in verse 7] said to be bountiful.
6 For the vile person [nabal – the wicked advising known foolishness, while they withhold what is needed] will speak villainy [nbalah – words meant to consume {balah} those obeying them], and his heart [mind] will work iniquity [worthless exertion, making a spurious show], to practice hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he [the vile person] will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
7 The instruments [kliy – the preparations, to be provided] also of the churl [kiylah] are evil: he devises wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speak right.
8 But the [truly] liberal [nadiyb] devises liberal [nadiyb] things [to be given in abundance as needed]; and by liberal [nadiyb] things [by giving what is needed] shall he stand.
9 Rise up [into life], you women [My ONE living BODY, Church] that are at ease [sha’anan – quiet and not doing the LORD’s work]; hear [shama’ – obey] my voice [qowl], you careless [batach – whose misplaced faith {trust} is in your own words and ways] daughters; give ear unto my speech.
10 Many days and years shall you be troubled [as you have been], you careless [batach] women: for the vintage [you fruit] shall fail [as it has – as a barren scepter, a branch that bears no fruit], the gathering shall not come [as it hasn’t, and you remain a scattered flock].
11 Tremble [knowing the things in which you have put your trust {men and their now evil rule} are worthless when needed], you women that are at ease [sha’anan – quite, and work has ceased, {you are carried away “beyond Damascus,” meaning “silent is the sackcloth weaver”}]; be troubled, you careless [batach] ones: strip you [of your misplaced trust], and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins [mourning your now known condition: fear and tremble knowing you have separated yourself from the LORD, His sanctuary in His presence].
12 They shall lament for [the loss of] the teats [the LORD’s teaching that once flowed to you and through you], for the pleasant fields [from where once much life came], for the fruitful vine [that once produced abundant fruit].
13 Upon the land [‘adamah – in this last generation] of my people shall come up thorns [misleaders that have overgrown the unworked fields] and briers [deceiver]; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city [where My presence was once realized with you, in you]:
14 Because the palaces shall be forsaken [and none reign in righteousness, with good judgment]; the multitude of the city shall be left [without understanding, without any to help when needed]; the forts and towers [the places in which My people have worthlessly trusted] shall be for dens [of darkness, where there is no understanding] forever, a joy of wild asses [realizing they are wandering alone in the wilderness], a pasture of flocks [feeding on the corruption growing from the earth in flames and ruin];
15 Until the Spirit [the LORD’s speaking and working unknown, through His Paraclete, leading us into all truth] be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest [of truly upright men].
16 Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field.
17 And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness [listening, and no longer speaking vain words] and assurance [in the LORD only] forever.
18 And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places;
19 When it shall hail [now when the word of God, reserved {frozen} in heaven for this time of war, is sent against the current crop of corrupt leaders], coming down on the [corrupt] forest; and the [corrupt] city shall be low in a low place.
20 Blessed are you that sow beside all waters [where now there so much destruction from the muddied waters, doing the LORD’s work, giving His people what is needed, these pure waters, as commanded – the metaphor for this moment, necessary in Spirit and Truth], that send forth thither the feet of the ox [doing His work in the earth] and the ass [carrying the word of God to His people].

Friends, during my many years of preaching (the LORD’s teaching) here and while campaigning for public office, I’ve warned of the danger of trust misplaced in government institutions. In the U.S., they survived longer than most others before the evitable corruption occurred; they abandoned the principles (purpose) of their founding, and to them (their founding principles) became antithetical. These (institutions) now serve to preserve themselves rather than We the People; our servants became our masters, and beginning as demagogues, they’ve ended as tyrants. 

The most vulnerable people among us are those who’ve put their trust in these corrupt institutions because when they collapse (because of mismanagement or willful neglect, like FEMA), those relying on them are left helpless. In the current case, to preserve themselves, we see them using their (corrupt government) power to stop private groups and citizens from helping (while they, as is government policy, deny it and gaslight those experiencing the reality). 

Job 5
1 Call now, if there be any that will answer you; and to which of the saints will you turn?
2 For wrath kills the foolish [‘eviyl] man, and envy slays the silly one.
3 I have seen the foolish [‘eviyl] taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation [their corrupt institutions].
4 His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate [by the crowd trying to escape the hell’s fires they’ve created], neither is there any to deliver them.
5 Whose harvest the hungry eat up, and taketh it [their evil advice] even out of the thorns [from misleaders], and the robber swallows up their substance.
6 Although affliction comes not forth of the dust [the earth’s ruin didn’t cause the current troubles, the cause of the troubles are the same that produced the earth’s ruin], neither does trouble spring out of the ground [but it is rather the creation of evil men in power];
7 Yet man is born unto trouble [into the time ruled by the ignorant and confused], as the sparks fly upward [into the darkness].
8 I [finding myself in such a time] would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:
9 Which does great things and unsearchable; marvelous [eye opening] things without number:
10 Who gives rain [this word from heaven] upon the earth, and sends waters upon the fields [to cause new life to spring forth, to nourish the needy]:
11 To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn [realizing their condition] may be exalted to safety.
12 He [the LORD] disappoints the devices of the crafty [using subtle deceptions, thinking they are unseen], so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
13 He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward [twisting and perverting truth] is carried headlong [mahar – into destruction by their own words and ways].
14 They meet with darkness [in ignorance] in the day time [this time when understanding has come, which they reject], and grope [are unable to grasp this understanding] in the noonday as in the night.
15 But he [the LORD] saves the poor [without worldly power] from the sword [the evil words of men], from their mouth, and from the hand [the evil works] of the mighty.
16 So the poor has hope, and iniquity stops her mouth.
17 Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects: therefore, despise not you the chastening of the Almighty:
18 For he maketh sore, and binds up: he wounds, and his hands make whole.
19 He shall deliver you in six troubles: yea, in seven [His completing, perfecting, us] there shall no evil touch you.
20 In famine he shall redeem you from death: and in war from the power of the sword.
21 You shall be hid from the scourge of the tongue [of misleading men]: neither shall you be afraid of destruction when it comes.
22 At destruction and famine you shall laugh: neither shall you be afraid of the beasts [men without the LORD’s Spirit] of the earth.
23 For you shall be in league [joined in ONE BODY] with the stones of the field [from whom flows the word of God]: and the beasts [those without the LORD’s Spirit] of the field shall be at peace with you.
24 And you shall know that your tabernacle shall be in peace; and you shall visit [paqad – you shall be the chief overseers of the earth to] your habitation, and shall not sin.
25 You shall know also that your seed shall be great, and your offspring as the grass of the earth.
26 You shall come to your grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn comes in in his season [with many seeds from one].
27 Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know you it for your good.

In the context of this conversation, speaking of (Godly charity) liberally giving what is needed and of those (vile persons who falsely call themselves liberal) who withhold it, the name Nabal is used in 1 Samuel 25.

1 Samuel 25
3 Now the name of the man was Nabal [foolishly wicked]; and the name of his wife Abigail [whose father is joy: meaning she realizes the LORD’s presence always]: and she was a woman of good understanding, and of a beautiful countenance: but the man was churlish and evil in his doings; and he was of the house of Caleb [Judah – the current crop of corrupt leaders, as dogs ever barking in the darkness].
4 And David heard in the wilderness that Nabal did shear his sheep.
5 And David sent out ten young men, and David said unto the young men, Get you up to Carmel [this land that is as the Garden of Eden], and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name:
6 And thus shall you say to him that lives in prosperity, Peace be both to you, and peace be to your house, and peace be unto all that you have.
7 And now I have heard that you have shearers: now your shepherds which were with us, we hurt them not, neither was there ought missing unto them, all the while they were in Carmel.
8 Ask your young men, and they will show you. Wherefore let the young men find favor in your eyes: for we come in a good day: give, I pray you, whatsoever comes to your hand unto your servants, and to your son David.
9 And when David’s young men came, they spoke to Nabal according to all those words in the name of David, and ceased.
10 And Nabal answered David’s servants, and said, Who is David? and who is the son of Jesse? there be many servants now a days that break away every man from his master.
11 Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my flesh that I have killed for my shearers, and give it unto men, whom I know not whence they be?
12 So David’s young men turned their way, and went again, and came and told him all those sayings.
13 And David said unto his men, Gird you on every man his sword [this word of God which they refuse]. And they girded [prepared] on every man his sword; and David also girded on his sword: and there went up after David about four hundred men; and two hundred abode by the stuff.
14 But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal’s wife, saying, Behold, David sent messengers [mal’ak – the angels of the LORD’s presence] out of the wilderness to salute our master [‘adown – king]; and he railed [‘iyt – only used elsewhere in 1 Samuel 15:19, when Saul refused to do as the LORD commanded, and instead “did fly” upon the spoil of the enemy] on them.
15 But the men were very good unto us, and we were not hurt, neither missed we any thing, as long as we were conversant with them, when we were in the fields:
16 They were a wall [of protection] unto us both by night and day [giving their light into our darkness], all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.
17 Now therefore know and consider what you will do; for evil is determined against our master [‘adown – king], and against all his household: for he is such a son of Belial [the false gods of this world, idols men created and put in God’s place], that a man cannot speak to him.
18 Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched corn, and a hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses.
19 And she said unto her servants, Go on before me; behold, I come after you. But she told not her husband Nabal.
20 And it was so, as she rode on the ass, that she came down by the covert [cether – secretly] on the hill, and, behold, David and his men came down against her; and she met them.
21 Now David had said, Surely in vain [with no effect on the wicked and unreasonable] have I kept all that this fellow has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained unto him: and he has requited me evil for good.
22 So and more also do God unto the enemies of David, if I leave of all that pertain to him by the morning light [this understanding sent and warning given] any that pisses [shathan – to make water, speak] against the wall [the protection the LORD gave while correcting the reasonable].
23 And when Abigail saw David, she hasted, and lighted off the ass, and fell before David on her face, and bowed herself to the ground,
24 And fell at his feet, and said, Upon me, my LORD [‘adown – king], upon me let this iniquity be: and let your handmaid, I pray you, speak in your audience, and hear the words of your handmaid.
25 Let not my LORD [‘adown – king] I pray you, regard this man of Belial, even Nabal: for as his name is, so is he; Nabal [stupid, without any fear of God] is his name [his identity], and folly [nbalah – meaning “foolishness, i.e. (morally) wickedness; concretely, a crime.”] is with him: but I your handmaid saw not the young men of my LORD [‘adown – king], whom you did send.
26 Now therefore, my LORD [‘adown – king], as the LORD [Jehovah] lives, and as your soul lives seeing the LORD [Jehovah] has withheld you from coming to shed blood, and from avenging yourself with your own hand, now let your enemies, and they that seek evil to my LORD [‘adown – king], be as Nabal.
27 And now this blessing which your handmaid has brought unto my LORD [‘adown – king], let it even be given unto the young men that follow my LORD [‘adown – king].
28 I pray you, forgive the trespass of your handmaid: for the LORD [Jehovah] will certainly make my LORD [‘adown – king] a sure house; because my LORD [‘adown – king] fights the battles of the LORD [Jehovah], and evil has not been found in you all your days.
29 Yet a man is risen to pursue you, and to seek your soul: but the soul of my LORD [‘adown – king] shall be bound [tsarar – the grievous correction of the LORD’s children] in the bundle of life with the LORD [Jehovah] your God; and the souls of your enemies, them shall he sling out [qala’], as out of the middle of a sling [qala’].
30 And it shall come to pass, when the LORD [Jehovah] shall have done to my LORD [‘adown – king] according to all the good that he has spoken concerning you, and shall have appointed you ruler over Israel [His family He raises to now rule the earth];
31 That this shall be [hayah – I Am] no grief unto you, nor offense of heart unto my LORD [‘adown – king], either that you have shed blood causeless, or that my LORD [‘adown – king] has avenged himself: but when the LORD [Jehovah] shall have dealt well with my LORD [‘adown – king], then remember your handmaid.
32 And David said to Abigail, Blessed be the LORD [Jehovah] God of Israel, which sent you this day to meet me:
33 And blessed be your advice [ta’am – the understanding and judgment we have tasted and it is good], and blessed be you, which have kept me this day from coming to shed blood, and from avenging myself with my own hand.
34 For in very deed, as the LORD [Jehovah] God of Israel lives, which has kept me back from hurting you, except you had hasted and come to meet me, surely there had not been left unto Nabal by the morning light [this understanding now heard in her] any that pisseth [shathan – that make water, speaks] against the wall [this protection the LORD offers].
35 So David received of her hand that which she had brought him, and said unto her, Go up in peace to your house; see, I have hearkened to your voice, and have accepted your person.
36 And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken: wherefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.
37 But it came to pass in the morning [when this understanding comes as the light of a new day], when the wine was gone out of Nabal [and His wicked mind understood the LORD’s presence and mercy were manifested toward him in the conversation with His messengers], and his wife had told him these things, that his heart [mind] died within him, and he became as a stone [had a stroke].
38 And it came to pass about ten days after, that the LORD smote Nabal, that he died.
39 And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed be the LORD [Jehovah], that has pleaded [riyb – defended] the cause [riyb – those wrestling with this word] of my reproach [cherpah – trying to disgrace me] from the hand of Nabal, and has kept his servant from evil: for the LORD has returned the wickedness of Nabal upon his own head. And David sent and communed with Abigail, to take her to him to wife.
40 And when the servants of David were come to Abigail to Carmel, they spoke unto her, saying, David sent us unto you, to take you to him to wife.
41 And she arose, and bowed herself on her face to the earth, and said, Behold, let your handmaid be a servant to wash the feet [removing all the corruption they picked up during their journey through time] of the servants of my LORD [‘adown – king].
42 And Abigail hasted, and arose and rode upon an ass, with five damsels [the five wise virgins whose lamp are filled] of hers that went after her; and she went after the messengers [mal’ak – the angels of the LORD] of David, and became his wife.
43 David also took Ahinoam [brethren who please the LORD] of Jezreel [whom He sowed into the new earth]; and they were also both of them his wives [joined with me into the ONE BODY of Christ, as ONE Flesh in which the LORD dwells].
44 But Saul [who the people desired to be their king] had given Michal [those who were once the likeness of God] his daughter, David’s wife, to Phalti [delivered them to] the son of Laish [the mouths of lions], which was of Gallim [to and through whom these living springs of water have come].

The name Gallim (meaning springs) only appears one other time, in Isaiah 10:30, speaking of when they open their mouths, when the burden of the communists in power is removed, and the LORD’s indignation ends in the destruction of His and our enemies.

Isaiah 10
1 Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed;
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, and that they may rob the fatherless!
3 And what will you do in the day of visitation [pquddah {from paqad, the vitiation in this appointed time}], and in the desolation which shall come from far? 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 in power], 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 the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
7 Howbeit he means not so, neither does his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few.
8 For he says, Are not my princes altogether kings?
9 Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?
10 As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;
11 Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?
12 Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the LORD has performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish [paqad – visit as the Chief Overseer of the earth] the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria [the communists], and the glory of his high looks.
13 For he says, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I am prudent: and I have removed the bounds of the people, and have robbed their treasures, and I have put down the inhabitants like a valiant man:
14 And my hand has found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one gathers eggs that are left, have I gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped.
15 Shall the axe boast itself against him that hews therewith? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that shakes it? as if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were no wood.
16 Therefore shall the LORD, the LORD of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire.
17 And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers [misleaders and deceivers] in one day;
18 And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standard-bearer [nacac] faints [macac – melts away].
19 And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them.
20 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob [the name of all Israel {Ephraim and Judah} when they were still unknowingly wrestling with God], shall no more again stay upon him that smote them [the neglectful thorns and briers whose leadership is the root of the problem]; but shall stay upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
21 The remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God.
22 For though your people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness.
23 For the LORD God of hosts shall make a consumption, even determined, in the midst of all the land.
24 Therefore thus says the LORD God of hosts, O my people that dwell in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian [the communists]: he shall smite you with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against you, after the manner of Egypt.
25 For yet a very little while, and the indignation shall cease, and my anger in their destruction.
26 And the LORD of hosts shall stir up a scourge for him according to the slaughter of Midian [those who cause endless strife among God’s people] at the rock of Oreb [whose kings trust in ignorance and darkness they’ve caused]: and as his rod was upon the sea, so shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt [and these waters, as fire from my mouth, shall consume them, as decreed – after the anointing {machach – “until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate”} which is the final step before we rise as ONE BODY].
27 And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden [the enemies in power, communist oppressors, mixed among us] shall be taken away from off your shoulder, and his yoke [joining God people with them] from off your neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing [shemem].
28 He is come to Aiath [the heap of ruin], he is passed to Migron [the precipice]; at Michmash [where it is hidden] he has laid up [paqad – reserved for this appointed time of My visitation] his carriages [to take the wicked out of the way]:
29 They are gone over the passage: they have taken up their lodging at Geba [the high places of power]; Ramah [this time when men who make themselves gods] is afraid; Gibeah of Saul [the high ones the people desired] is fled.
30 Lift up your voice, O daughter of Gallim [of these springs of living waters]: cause it to be heard unto Laish [as the roar of a Lion], O poor [‘aniy – humble] Anathoth [who’ve heard the LORD].
31 Madmenah [the dunghill – when the high places are full of it] is removed; the inhabitants of Gebim [those who’ve poisoned, polluted with dung, the well] gather themselves to flee.
32 As yet shall he remain at Nob [in their high places] that day: he shall shake his hand against the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.
33 Behold, the LORD, the LORD of hosts, shall lop the bough with terror: and the high ones of stature shall be hewn down [with the sword of the LORD and of Gideon {the man of War, and the hewer of the powerful}], and the haughty shall be humbled.
34 And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon [the so-called upright in high places, the corrupt who think they are pure by their own twisted and perverted definitions] shall fall by a mighty one.

Ezekiel 37
11 Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for [scattered from] our parts.
12 Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus says the LORD God; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves [here in the earth], and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land [‘adamah – this generation, the last that becomes the first] of Israel [My people who, by faith and obedience, receive this promised end].
13 And you shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves [here in the earth, brought My people from death into this new life],
14 And shall put My Spirit in you, and you shall live, and I shall place you in your own land [‘adamah – this new generation, the first of My new creation of heaven and earth]: then shall you know that I the LORD have spoken it, and performed it, says the LORD.
15 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,
16 Moreover, you son of man, take you one stick, and write upon it, For Judah [the elect remnant, the first fruits], and for the children of Israel his companions [chaber – those united with them]: then take another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph [David’s king {‘adown}, whose birthright is the throne], the stick of Ephraim [his seed upon whom this double blessing has come, who were before in double ruin] and for all the house of Israel his companions [chaber]:
17 And join them one to another into one stick; and they shall become ONE [BODY of Christ] in your hand.
18 And when the children of your people shall speak unto you, saying, Will you not show us what you meanest by these?
19 Say unto them, Thus says the LORD God; Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows [chaber], and will put them with him, even with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be [hayah – become] ONE [BODY of Christ] in my hand.
20 And the sticks whereon you write [these words into their minds] shall be in your [the son of man’s] hand before their eyes [which all now see].
21 And say unto them, Thus says the LORD God; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen [those who don’t know Me], whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land [‘adamah – this new generation of My creation]:
22 And I will make them one [new] nation in the land [‘erets – this new earth] upon the mountains of Israel [My new governments of church and state]; and one king [I Am] shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations [of many scattered tribes], neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all.
23 Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwelling-places, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.
24 And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them. 
25 And they shall dwell in the land [‘erets – this earth] that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their children’s children forever: and my servant David shall be their prince forever.
26 Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore.
27 My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
28 And the heathen shall know that I the LORD do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary [My presence with them, in them, and they in Me] shall be in the midst of them for evermore.

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 – they are now those outside and those inside His Kingdom on the earth].
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 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 in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
9 And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will show you the bride, the Lamb’s wife.
10 And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God,
11 Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal;
12 And had a wall [keeping out the things mentioned in verses 8 and 27, and the only way in is through the gates, receiving this gift of God’s treasures] great and high, and had twelve [all these twelves and multiples thereof speak of “Governmental perfection”] gates [the only ways in], and at the gates twelve angels [speaking these treasure as received], and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel:
13 On the east three gates; on the north three gates; on the south three gates; and on the west three gates.
14 And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
15 And he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof.
16 And the city lies foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.
17 And he measured the wall thereof, a hundred and forty and four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the angel [I Am, The LORD’s presence manifested in the conversation, giving this message, which is His grace, His treasures by which we enter His Kingdom].
18 And the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass.
19 And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones [these treasures of heaven that flow as if from these stones]. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald;
20 The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolyte; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst.
21 And the twelve gates were twelve pearls: every several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass.
22 And I saw no temple therein: for the LORD God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it.
23 And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.
24 And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honor into it.
25 And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there.
26 And they shall bring the glory and honor of the nations into it.
27 And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defiles, neither whatsoever works abomination, or makes a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb’s book of life.

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 insitutions]; 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.

Psalms 24
1 The earth is the LORD’s, and the fullness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
2 For he has founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.
3 Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place?
4 He that has clean hands, and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
5 He shall receive the blessing from the LORD, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.
6 This is the generation of them that seek him, that seek your face, O Jacob. Selah.
7 Lift up your heads, O you gates; and be you lifted up, you everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
8 Who is this King of glory? The LORD strong and mighty, the LORD mighty in battle.
9 Lift up your heads, O you gates; even lift them up, you everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
10 Who is this King of glory? The LORD of hosts, he is the King of glory. Selah.

5 – 6 October 2024