17 – 21 October 2024
The secret of the LORD is with them that fear him; and he will show them his covenant. My eyes are ever toward the LORD; for he shall pluck my feet out of the net.
The LORD begins today in the above, Psalms 25:14 & 15, which also appear as the “Verse of the Day” at biblegateway.com.
The “net” spoken of refers to when lawless men have risen to power and subjugated God’s people, forcing them to obey their evil will.
Psalms 25
1 Unto You, O LORD, do I lift up my soul.
2 O my God, I trust in You: let me not be ashamed, let not my enemies triumph over me.
3 Yea, let none that wait on [qavah – expect] You be ashamed: let them be ashamed which transgress without cause.
4 Show me Your ways, O LORD; teach me Your paths.
5 Lead me in Your truth, and teach me: for You are the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait [qavah – expect] all the day.
6 Remember, O LORD, Your tender mercies and Your loving-kindnesses; for they have been ever of old.
7 Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to thy mercy remember You me for thy goodness’ sake, O LORD.
8 Good and upright is the LORD: therefore will he teach sinners in the way.
9 The meek will He guide in judgment: and the meek will He teach His way.
10 All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
11 For thy name’s sake, O LORD, pardon mine iniquity; for it is great.
12 What man is He that fears the LORD? him shall He teach in the way that He shall choose.
13 His soul shall dwell at ease; and his seed shall inherit the earth.
14 The secret of the LORD is with them that fear Him; and He will show them His covenant.
15 My eyes are ever toward the LORD; for He shall pluck my feet out of the net [the snare upon all the earth, here in the trial in tribulation’s fires].
16 Turn You unto me, and have mercy upon me; for I am desolate and afflicted.
17 The troubles [tsarah – tribulation] of my heart [mind] are enlarged: O bring You me out of my distresses.
18 Look upon my affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins.
19 Consider mine enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred.
20 O keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed; for I put my trust in You.
21 Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on [qavah – expect] You.
22 Redeem Israel [Your people who receive You and Your promised end], O God, out of all his troubles [tsarah – this tribulation].
Again, suffer my foolishness a little longer as I once again digress. Our government, this nation, and the world are caught in just such a net. Those now in power in the US are preparing to go to war with the citizens they govern. With total disregard for The Posse Comitatus Act, which prohibits the US Government from using the Military against the civilian population, the DoD has authorized such use through a 27 September 2024 revision to Directive 5240.1 (now designated 5240.1-R).
Section 3.3 of the directive begins by saying, “Defense Intelligence Components may provide personnel to assist a Federal department or agency, including a Federal law enforcement agency, or a State or local law enforcement agency when lives are in danger, in response to a request for such assistance…”
In Section 3.3.2 (c) it says, by Secretary of Defense approval, reserved to him alone, the following will be provided: “Assistance in responding with assets [persons or equipment] with potential for lethality, or any situation in which it is reasonably foreseeable that providing the requested assistance may involve the use of force that is likely to result in lethal force, including death or serious bodily injury. It also includes all support to civilian law enforcement officials in situations where a confrontation between civilian law enforcement and civilian individuals or groups is reasonably anticipated.”
They know they are breaking the law with this authorization. It’s another instance of them knowing we know they’re lawless and saying, “What are you going to do about it?”
The answer is “nothing” as we commit national suicide. The only true defense against this is preemptive, making service people aware that any such order is not lawful and, therefore, must not be obeyed; neither is “just following orders” a valid defense against any crime (using deadly force against U.S. citizens) committed.
As John Adams warned, “While our country remains untainted with the principles and manners which are now producing desolation in so many parts of the world; while she continues sincere, and incapable of insidious and impious policy, we shall have the strongest reason to rejoice in the local destination assigned us by Providence. But should the people of America once become capable of that deep simulation (that is, hypocrisy) towards one another, and towards foreign nations, which assumes the language of justice and moderation while it is practicing iniquity and extravagance, and displays in the most captivating manner the charming pictures of candor, frankness, and sincerity, while it is rioting in rapine [seizing property by violence] and insolence, this country will be the most miserable habitation in the world; because we have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
The word net in the title verse is resheth, meaning “a net (as catching animals):–net(- work).” We know from its use in Exodus it’s the brass grill of the altar, presumably upon which the sacrifice was cooked. In Job 18:8, it appears while Bildad the Shuhite (names meaning he confuses love and wealth), one of Job’s three accusers through which Satan worked, condemns himself in his blind misrepresentation of God’s word (accusing Job of what he, Bildad, is in the act of committing).
Job 18
1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
2 How long will it be ere you make an end of words? mark, and afterward, we will speak.
3 Wherefore are we counted as beasts [without the LORD’s Spirit], and reputed vile in your sight?
4 He [that counts men as beast and vile] tears himself in his anger: shall the [corrupt] earth be forsaken [ended] for you? and shall the rock [from where understanding flows] be removed out of his place?
5 Yea, the light [understanding] of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire [that brings the same light in others] shall not shine.
6 The light shall be dark in his tabernacle [of which they are unaware], and his candle shall be put out with him.
7 The steps of his strength shall be straitened [constrained by the obstacle of his ignorance, and that of those he seeks understanding from], and his own counsel shall cast him down.
8 For he is cast into a net [resheth – these tribulation fires] by his own feet [his own ways], and he walks upon a snare.
9 The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him.
10 The snare is laid for him in the ground [‘erets – this earth], and a trap for him in the way.
11 Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.
12 His strength [understanding] shall be hunger-bitten [lacking without this word of God], and destruction shall be ready at his side [of which the wicked false accusers are unaware].
13 It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death [awakened to the reality they are dead] shall devour his strength [taking away any remaining understanding and replacing it with known insanity].
14 His confidence [in vain understanding] shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it [his confidence in untrue things] shall bring him to the king of terrors [into the possession of Satan – death].
15 It [death] shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his [bliy – because he refuses correction and remains without understanding]: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
16 His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.
17 His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.
18 He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
The word used in verse 14 above to tell of what brings the incorrigibles into Satan’s, death’s, possession, rendered “shall bring him,” is the eight times used word tsa’ad, meaning “to pace, i.e. step regularly; (upward) to mount; (along) to march; (down and causatively) to hurl.” The description of this occurrence, hurling one’s self headlong into it, appears in Proverbs 7:8 below.
The following is from the post of 17 August 2022, without any additions other than adding when the word tsa’ad is used. The double brackets that appear therein denote additions made on the original date. The post also mentions that my wordxp.com blog was de-platformed, and all its archived posts were lost. They were not. I put my IT guy on it, and he found and fixed the cause: a minor change in the WordPress software.
Therefore, the LORD will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their secret parts.
The above, Isaiah 3:17, comes in the final portion of the chapter, in one of the most unfounded interpretations of the original Hebrew text.
The words “will smite with a scab” are from the six times used word caphach, meaning, “or saphach (Isaiah 3:17) {saw-fakh’}; a primitive root; properly, to scrape out, but in certain peculiar senses (of removal or association):–abiding, gather together, cleave, smite with the scab.”
The sense of smiting comes from its affinity to the ten times used word caphaq, meaning “or saphaq (1 Kings 20:10; Job 27:23; Isaiah 2:6) {saw-fak’}; a primitive root; to clap the hands (in token of compact, derision, grief, indignation, or punishment); by implication of satisfaction, to be enough; by implication of excess, to vomit:–clap, smite, strike, suffice, wallow.”
The title is telling an association (gathering together for punishment): the crown on the head of God’s people as a scab upon (covering) a wound, which (association, crown, and people) are further described in the chapter and beyond.
(See the post of 17 July 2018, from which some of the following is repeated – paragraphs denoted with **, and addition with [[ ]])
**Friends, do you understand the old earth is the grave we have willingly been sent into, to preach the word of life to those bound here in darkness?
**Isaiah 3 is the beginning of the decline into desolation, and Isaiah 66 its end.
**Isaiah 3
1 For, behold, the LORD, the LORD of hosts, does take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water.
2 The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient,
3 The captain of fifty, and the honorable man, and the counselor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator.
4 And I will give [those whose minds are quickly shaken – na’ar] children to be their princes, and babes [their delusions – ta’aluwl] shall rule over them.
5 And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbor: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honorable.
6 When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father, saying, You have clothing, be you our ruler, and let this ruin be under your hand:
7 In that day shall he swear, saying, I will not be a healer; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing: make me not a ruler of the people.
8 For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of his glory.
9 The show of their countenance does witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.
10 Say you to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.
11 Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.
12 As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead you cause you to err, and destroy the way of your paths.
13 The LORD stands up to plead, and stands to judge the people.
14 The LORD will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof: for you have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses.
15 What mean you that you beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? says the LORD God of hosts.
16 Moreover the LORD says, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty [[arrogant – thinking God owes them something]], and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes [[their conversation and vision are with covetousness]], walking and mincing [[taphaph – tripping]] as they go, and making a tinkling [[‘akac – as fetters]] with their feet [[both these words only appear here – speaking of covetousness, not content with what He has given, never saying it is enough, as the fetters that trip them up in the walk in the wrong “way of your paths”]]:
17 Therefore the LORD will smite with a scab [caphach – will gather together] the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their secret parts.
18 In that day the LORD will take away the bravery of [[tiph’arah – the glorying in]] their tinkling ornaments [[‘ekec – the same as ‘akac, only appearing here and Proverbs 7:22 “as a fool to the correction of the stocks” – see below]] about their feet, [[the following describes the coverings in which God’s people glory, which is their vain bravery and arrogance against God]] and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon,
19 The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,
20 The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings,
21 The rings, and nose jewels,
22 The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples, and the crisping pins,
23 The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails.
24 And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty.
25 Your men shall fall by the sword, and your mighty in the war.
26 And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground.
Pardon me while I digress: I listen to the “Message” Contemporary Christian Music station on SiriusXM radio. I enjoy the music, but the DJs’ preaching, when tried, is found wanting. They only speak of the love of God (as mindless emotion, a reflex without intention, a word without demonstrative evidence – not as Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever) and never of judgment or diligently seeking the knowledge of Him in His word. They are no different than most other false teachers and false preachers, flattering those who follow them, keeping them comfy (lukewarm) and to hell with everyone else, scratching (the surface of) their itching ears, so they continue with them, even into perdition because they receive not the love of the truth. Jonah 2:8 They that observe lying vanities [worthless lies] forsake their own mercy. 9 But I will sacrifice unto you with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that that I have vowed [and go as promised – See Matthew 21:28 thru 31]. Salvation is of the LORD.
Proverbs 7
1 My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with you.
2 Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of your eye.
3 Bind them upon your fingers, write them upon the table of your heart.
4 Say unto wisdom, You are my sister; and call understanding your kinswoman:
5 That they may keep you from the strange woman, from the stranger which flatters with her words.
6 For [returning from My long journey, of which the unfaithful are unaware] at the window of my house I looked through my casement,
7 And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,
8 Passing through the street near her corner; and he went [tsa’ad] the way to her house,
9 In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night [in full ignorance]:
10 And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of a harlot, and subtle of heart.
11 (She is loud and stubborn [arrogant]; her feet abide not in her house:
12 Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)
13 So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent [brazen in her outward glory] face said unto him,
14 I have peace offerings with me; this day have I paid my vows.
15 Therefore came I forth to meet you, diligently to seek your face, and I have found you.
16 I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.
17 I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
18 Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.
19 For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey:
20 He has taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed [she being ignorant says this, not knowing He has been here].
21 With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.
22 He goes after her straightway, as an ox goes [unaware] to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks [‘ekec];
23 Till a [fiery] dart [of the wicked] strikes through his liver [his inner-most thoughts – from which there is no recovery]; as a bird hastens to the snare, and knows not that it is for his life.
24 Hearken unto me now therefore, O you children, and attend to the words of my mouth.
25 Let not your heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her [way of her] paths.
26 For she has cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.
27 Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.
**I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them.
**Continuing: the above is from Isaiah 66:4 and is the LORD speaking to those who are being consumed by their own hate as they try to destroy those they hate without a cause.
**Psalms 35
11 False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.
12 They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul.
13 But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into my own bosom.
14 I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourns for his mother.
15 But in my adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:
16 With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.
17 LORD, how long will you look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions.
18 I will give you thanks in the great congregation: I will praise you among much people.
19 Let not them that are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye [secretly conspire] that hate me without a cause.
20 For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land [those who reject and are therefore not shaken by their lies].
**Isaiah 66
4 I also will choose their delusions [[ta’aluwl]], and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spoke, they did not hear: but they did evil before my eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not.
5 Hear the word of the LORD, you that tremble at his word; Your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for my name’s sake, said, Let the LORD be glorified: but he shall appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed.
6 A voice of noise from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of the LORD that rendered recompense [the reward they deserve] to his enemies.
7 Before she [Zion – God’s faithful people] travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child.
8 Who has heard such a thing? who has seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? or shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.
9 Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? says the LORD: shall I cause to bring forth, and shut the womb? says your God.
**The Hebrew word ta’aluwl, above translated “delusions,” is compounded from two words, ta’ah, meaning to mark out or designate, and ‘alal, meaning to effect thoroughly, as in to overdo and maltreat. It is only used one other time, in Isaiah 3:4, where it is inappropriately rendered “babes” in telling of all the leaders and elites replaced by “children” and “babes.” The word “children” is from na’ar, meaning to be shaken, as in those who become easily (irrationally) disturbed. Na’ar is the word used in Job 38:13 to tell of the wicked “shaken” out of the earth, as a mark (seal) of the end of the (old) earth. We know the new heaven and new earth are mentioned in Isaiah 66:22, where these delusional men who have been pointed out (marked) are themselves preplaced with those God has raised up.
**Friends, I am plainly telling you that what we are seeing, in the fake news media, false prophets in church and state, and all the political, academic, and entertainment elites, is a lie they created and now use as justification for mass hysteria. It is their lie turned into mass delusion, in which they have placed all their faith and are, using all their powers of deception, trying to validate what only exists in their deluded minds. This is the arm of the LORD made quite bare, as He asks, “Who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?”
**Isaiah 52
6 Therefore my people shall know my name: therefore they shall know in that day that I am he that does speak: behold, it is I.
7 How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that brings good tidings, that publishes peace; that brings good tidings of good, that publishes salvation; that says unto Zion, Your God reigns!
8 Your watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall they sing: for they shall see eye to eye, when the LORD shall bring again Zion.
9 Break forth into joy, sing together, you waste places of Jerusalem: for the LORD has comforted his people, he has redeemed Jerusalem.
10 The LORD has made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.
11 Depart you, depart you, go you out from thence, touch no unclean thing; go you out of the midst of her; be you clean, that bear the vessels of the LORD.
12 For you shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for the LORD will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your reward.
13 Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high.
14 As many were astonished at you; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:
15 So shall he sprinkle many nations; the kings shall shut their mouths at him: for that which had not been told them shall they see; and that which they had not heard shall they consider.
**Isaiah 53
1 Who has believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?
2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he has no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
4 Surely he has borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth.
8 He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
9 And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
10 Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he has put him to grief: when you shall make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
11 He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
12 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he has poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
(As you may have seen in some of my other posts, my blog (wordxp.com) has been de-platformed and all the archived posts that were easily accessed there have been wiped away. The reason is, as with many others’ sites, what is now occurring, the exponentially increasing mass delusion tuned insanity, was in these many posts foretold and warned of (including de-platforming, denial of reality, erasing truth, and its replacement with blatant self-contradiction). So, I again ask, “Who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?”)
Deuteronomy 18
9 When you are come into the land which the LORD your God gives you, you shall not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.
10 There shall not be found among you any one that makes his son or his daughter to pass through the fire [of all the following, mentioning people who use their evil words and ways to deceive, manipulate, and control the masses], or that uses divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch.
11 Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
12 For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD your God does drive them out from before you.
13 You shall be perfect with the LORD your God.
14 For these nations, which you shall possess, hearkened unto observers of times, and unto diviners: but as for you, the LORD your God has not suffered you so to do.
15 The LORD your God will raise up unto you a Prophet from the midst of you, of your brethren, like unto me; unto him you shall hearken;
16 According to all that you desired of the LORD your God in Horeb [desolation] in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not.
17 And the LORD said unto me, They have well spoken that which they have spoken.
18 I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto you, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.
19 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.
20 But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die.
21 And if you say in your heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD has not spoken?
22 When a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD has not spoken, but the prophet has spoken it presumptuously: you shall not be afraid of him.
The following, ending with Malachi 3, is from the post of 13 November 2018:
Arise, shine; for your light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon you. For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon you, and his glory shall be seen upon you.
The above is Isaiah 60:1 & 2 and describes the LORD (Jehovah) coming near as light in the dark world, which we know is speaking of understanding coming into confusion: ordered thought into agitation and chaos. Understanding comes near us as light in the LORD’s preaching His word, which is in us the anointing: Christ in the preacher. When the LORD’s presence is revealed: realized by those upon whom the light has shined, they, as a result, rise to life by the same anointing. As we see above, those who “Arise” are called to themselves shine, showing God’s glory through their understanding, as light into the same darkness.
Isaiah 60:1 & 2 are a continuation of the thoughts and ideas the LORD illuminates in the prior chapter. In it, He explains why there is darkness, and ends by describing the remedy as His anointing, first in one and then exponentially, pouring it out through the many who are called to “Arise” and “shine.”
Isaiah 59
1 Behold, the LORD’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:
2 But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.
3 For your hands are defiled with blood [what drains life and causes the shadow of death to cover the earth], and your fingers with iniquity [injustice and untruth]; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue has muttered perverseness [twisted judgment].
4 None call for justice, nor any pleads for truth: they trust in vanity [they trust in what has no value], and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
5 They hatch cockatrice’ eggs, and weave the spider’s web: he that eats of their eggs dies, and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper [the venomous beast of confusion].
6 Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.
7 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.
8 The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goes therein shall not know peace.
9 Therefore is judgment far from us, neither does justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.
10 We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noon day as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.
11 We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves [they speak their own words and think they will produce their expected conclusion]: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us [disappointment becomes apparent when their promises aren’t realized – as if waking from a dream and realizing it was just as dream: products of the stupefied mind that were never going to become reality – See Isaiah 29:8].
12 For our transgressions are multiplied before you, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them;
13 In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
14 And judgment is turned away backward, and justice stands afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.
15 Yea, truth fails; and he that departs from evil makes himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.
16 And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him.
17 For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloak.
18 According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompense [a deserved response] to his enemies; to the islands [the dry places – risen out of the sea – meaning those who are without the word of God and have control over the masses] he will repay recompense.
19 So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west [where the sun sets and there is no light – where understanding has departed], and his glory from the rising of the sun [when His light comes, Arising and Shining into the darkness]. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.
20 And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob [those who were ignorantly wrestling with God and His words, shall turn to Him when they see the standard – the light], says the LORD.
21 As for me, this is my covenant with them, says the LORD; My spirit that is upon you, and my words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your seed, nor out of the mouth of your seed’s seed, says the LORD, from henceforth and forever.
Friends, as discussed in the previous post, the LORD has given us this understanding, exhaled His life-giving words into us, so we would then exhale them; as the last verse above says. The LORD then calls and sends us, saying, “Arise, shine; for your light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon you. For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon you, and his glory shall be seen upon you.”
This call comes to those who “turn” to the LORD from transgression, which we know is what Paul speaks of in 2 Corinthians 3:16 when he says it is what removes the veil keeping people from understanding the word of God. As we have many times seen, he goes on to further describe it as the gospel hidden from those who have been blinded by following the gods of this world. These gods are the mighty men of this age: the unreasonable and wicked men who refuse the love of God’s truth and instead choose what is causing them and their followers to perish. We are told they and their ideas are what hold God’s people down [from “Arising” to meet Him when He comes as the light], and will hold them down [in the darkness] until they are taken out of the way.
2 Corinthians 3
12 Seeing then that we have such hope [of God’s glory in us], we use great plainness of speech:
13 And not as Moses, which put a veil over his face, that the children of Israel could not steadfastly look to the end [God’s glory in man] of that which is abolished [the veil]:
14 But their minds were blinded: for until this day remains the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ [the anointing sent to us and which is then in us when we receive it].
15 But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart [their reasoning mind].
16 Nevertheless when it shall turn to the LORD [see Him in those preaching this His true gospel], the vail shall be taken away.
17 Now the LORD is that Spirit [who comes to us and is then in us]: and where the Spirit of the LORD is, there is liberty.
18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the LORD, are changed into the same image from [seeing His] glory to [it producing our] glory, even as by the Spirit of the LORD.
2 Corinthians 4
1 Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;
2 But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.
3 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:
4 In whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them. [His gospel reproduces in His image, not in the image of the preacher.]
5 For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the LORD; and ourselves your servants for Jesus’ sake.
6 For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, has shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face [presence] of Jesus Christ.
7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
Here following is the deep that has become hidden by the slothful lacking curiosity, who have neglected their call and become ignorant, who “have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith.”
The “standard” mentioned in Isaiah 59:19 above, which the Spirit of the LORD lifts up, is from (actually written in the original text) the Hebrew word nacac, meaning to gleam, as in to become conspicuous as a signal. (It is the sign the LORD speaks of in Matthew 24:27 and 30, as the light {understanding} seen in heaven, after verse 29 tells us all the lights there are darkened {become without understanding}.)
For some reason, the translators incorrectly identified this “standard” as from the word nuwc, which means to flee away, and could therefore possibly be referring to the false lights fleeing away into darkness, so the light of the Spirit of the LORD becomes conspicuous. Nacac seems to better fit the context by its meaning in its only other appearance in the word of God. It is the “ensign” in Zechariah 9:16, which tells of God’s elect (you) as the Jewels in his crown [[replacing the scab]], lifted as lights conspicuously shining as a signal of His presence (glory). This is what Isaiah 60:1 & 2 are describing: when His elect become the Jewels He has made up (see Malachi 3:17 below), and as the LORD says in Job 38:7, “When the mourning stars sang together, and all the sons [children] of God shouted for joy.”
Here is the Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary definition: Strong’s #5264: nacac (pronounced naw-sas’) a primitive root; to gleam from afar, i.e. to be conspicuous as a signal; or rather perhaps a denominative from 5251 (and identical with 5263, through the idea of a flag as fluttering in the wind); to raise a beacon:–lift up as an ensign.
Zechariah 9
3 And Tyrus [the false rock] did build herself a strong hold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets [which clouded the waters, God’s word, and blinded her from seeing His way].
4 Behold, the LORD will cast her out, and he will smite her power in the sea [by the masses]; and she shall be devoured with fire.
5 Ashkelon [those tried in the fires] shall see it, and fear; Gaza [the powerful – the mighty men of the age] also shall see it, and be very sorrowful, and Ekron [as Saul shall be replaced]; for her expectation shall be ashamed; and the king shall perish from Gaza [as did Saul, they shall lose their power], and Ashkelon [the place of this trial – confusion] shall not be inhabited.
6 And the illegitimate children shall dwell in Ashdod [without power], and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines [those who by choice remain in their own mire they have stirred].
7 And I will take away his blood [the words that drain life] out of his mouth, and his abominations [idols – ideas created by men] from between his teeth [as when David fought the lion and the bear]: but he that remains [comes through this purification], even he, shall be for our God, and he shall be as a governor in Judah, and Ekron as a Jebusite [will be as those cast out of Jebus so God’s people could enter and it could become Jerusalem – taught and founded on God’s ways of peace].
8 And I will encamp about my house because of the army, because of him that passes by, and because of him that returns: and no oppressor shall pass through them any more: for now have I seen with my eyes.
9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, your King comes unto you: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon a donkey, and upon a colt the foal of a donkey [those released from those who have ruled over them with oppression – referring to Genesis 49:7 thru 12, and 22 thru 26]
10 And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem, and the battle bow shall be cut off: and he shall speak peace unto the heathen: and his dominion shall be from sea even to sea, and from the river even to the ends of the earth.
11 As for you also, by the blood of your covenant I have sent forth your prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water.
12 Turn you to the strong hold, you prisoners of hope: even to day do I declare that I will render double unto you;
13 When I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim [referring to Genesis 49:24 and the bowman who shoots the longshot arrow, as a stone slung by David], and raised up your sons, O Zion, against your sons, O Greece [the mired and intoxicated], and made you as the sword of a mighty man.
14 And the LORD shall be seen over them, and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning: and the LORD God shall blow the trumpet, and shall go with whirlwinds of the south.
15 The LORD of hosts shall defend them; and they shall devour, and subdue with sling stones [as David]; and they shall drink, and make a noise as through wine; and they shall be filled like bowls, and as the corners of the altar.
16 And the LORD their God shall save them in that day as the flock of his people: for they shall be as the stones [Jewels] of a crown, lifted up as an ensign [nacac] upon his land.
17 For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! [the feast He has provided] corn shall make the young men cheerful, and new wine the maids.
Malachi 3
1 Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the LORD, whom you seek, shall suddenly [the sudden event discussed in the prior post – when God’s people speak up – see Isaiah 29:5 & 6, when the LORD visits and His people make a great noise] come to his temple [to dwell in His people], even the messenger of the covenant, whom you delight in: behold, he shall come, says the LORD of hosts.
2 But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appears? for he is like a refiner’s fire, and like fullers’ soap:
3 And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness.
4 Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the LORD, as in the days of old, and as in former years.
5 And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers [those using their words to manipulate and control others], and against the adulterers [those who have left God and joined with idols – the ideas of the corrupted age], and against false swearers [dissemblers], and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages [who steal by taxation – toward a communist end], the widow, and the fatherless [those who have no man to protect and provide for them – in need of true religion], and that turn aside the stranger from his right [those who apply the law unjustly – with respect to the person], and fear not me [and fear not that the LORD is the avenger of these injustices], says the LORD of hosts.
6 For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore you sons of Jacob are not consumed.
7 Even from the days of your fathers you are gone away from my ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, says the LORD of hosts. But you said, Wherein shall we return?
8 Will a man rob God? Yet you have robbed me. But you say, Wherein have we robbed you? In tithes and offerings.
9 You are cursed with a curse: for you have robbed me, even this whole nation.
10 Bring you all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in my house, and prove me now herewith, says the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
11 And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, says the LORD of hosts.
12 And all nations shall call you blessed: for you shall be a delightsome land, says the LORD of hosts.
13 Your words have been stout against me, says the LORD. Yet you say, What have we spoken so much against you?
14 You have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts?
Revelation 3
13 He that has an ear let him hear what the Spirit says unto the churches.
14 And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans [meaning they are the church in this generation, who must awaken and bring “justice to the people”] write; These things says the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the [new] creation of God;
15 I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot: I would you were cold or hot.
16 So then, because you are lukewarm and neither cold nor hot, I will spew you out of my mouth.
17 Because you say, “I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing;” and know not that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked:
18 I counsel you to buy of me gold tried in the fire [these treasures of heaven, God’s understanding revealed], that you may be rich; and white raiment [of purity], that you may be clothed [with My righteousness], and that the shame [of not reaching what your false prophets and false teachers said they saw and understood] of your nakedness do not appear; and anoint your eyes with eye-salve [this eye-opening truth], that you may see.
19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten [correct]: be zealous therefore, and repent [come back to the path from which you’ve strayed].
20 Behold, I stand at the door and knock: if any man hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will sup with him, and he with me.
21 To him that overcomes will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.
Matthew 24
21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.
23 Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.
24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
25 Behold, I have told you before.
26 Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.
27 For as the lightning comes out of the east, and shines even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
28 For wheresoever the carcass [the dead body of Christ] is, there will the eagles be gathered together.
29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven [in full understanding]: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven [where the elements of understanding were held when they left the earth] with power and great glory.
31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of [the old and corrupt] heaven [in]to the other [into this new, third, heaven, where is again full understanding].
**Psalms 36
1 The transgression of the wicked says within my heart [reason tells me], that there is no fear of God before his eyes.
2 For he flatters himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity be found to be hateful.
3 The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he has left off to be wise, and to do good.
4 He devises mischief upon his bed; he sets himself in a way that is not good; he abhors not evil.
5 Your mercy, O LORD, is in the heavens; and your faithfulness reaches unto the clouds.
6 Your righteousness is like the great mountains; your judgments are a great deep: O LORD, you preserve man and beast.
7 How excellent is your lovingkindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of your wings.
8 They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of your house; and you shall make them drink of the river of your pleasures.
9 For with you is the fountain of life: in your light shall we see light.
10 O continue your lovingkindness unto them that know you; and your righteousness to the upright in heart.
11 Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand of the wicked remove me.
12 There are the workers of iniquity fallen: they are cast down, and shall not be able to rise.
