26 – 27 November 2024
And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Son of man, set your face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them,
As we know, the Hebrew word most often rendered “face” is paniym, which is, in almost all cases, speaking of the LORD’s manifested presence in His word. This latter aspect is described above (in Ezekiel 6:1 & 2) as prophesying: speaking (or writing) words given by God as they are received.
The “mountains” are governments of church and state, risen from the earth, and “Israel” speaks of God’s people, to whom this expected end has come and is received as such.
Ezekiel 6
3 And say, You mountains of Israel, hear the word of the LORD God; Thus says the LORD God to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers [the words that flow from you], and to the valleys [to the lowly without worldly power]; Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword [this word you refuse to hear and obey] upon you, and I will destroy your high places.
4 And your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be broken: and I will cast down your slain men before [paniym – by My presence manifested in My word against] your idols.
5 And I will lay the dead carcasses [of the body of Christ] of the children of Israel before [paniym – by My presence manifested against] their idols; and I will scatter your bones [the dead bones of Ezekiel 37, brought together and to life by the same voice, prophesying, now shaking {ra’ash} heaven and earth] round about your altars.
6 In all your dwelling-places the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your images may be cut down, and your works may be abolished.
7 And the slain shall fall in the midst of you, and you shall know that I Am the LORD.
8 Yet will I leave a [very elect] remnant [that shall receive Me], that you may have some that shall [by receiving Me] escape the sword among the nations [who haven’t known Me], when you shall be scattered through the countries.
9 And they that escape of you shall remember me [understanding My manner is in My word] among the nations whither they shall be carried captives [beyond Babylon, in this time when insanity rules the world], because I Am broken with their [those who refuse to know Me, because of their] whorish heart, which has departed from me, and with their eyes, which go a whoring after their idols [men created, put in My place, and in vain call by My name]: and they shall loathe themselves for [paniym – when they realize My presence manifested against] the evils which they have committed in all their abominations [they created and put in My place].
10 And they shall know that I Am the LORD, and that I have not said in vain that I would do this evil unto them.
11 Thus says the LORD God; Smite with your hand [with this written word], and stamp with your foot [draw their attention to My ways], and say, Alas for all the evil abominations of the house of Israel! for they shall fall by the sword [according to this word they refuse to hear and obey], by the famine [without this word from the mouth of the LORD], and by the pestilence [the dis-ease that comes from their refusal].
12 He that is far off [rachowq – those who remain under the rule of the evil decrees of the insanely wicked in power] shall die of the pestilence; and he that is near shall fall by the sword; and he that remains and is besieged shall die by the famine: thus will I accomplish my fury upon them.
13 Then shall you know that I Am the LORD, when their slain men shall be among their idols round about their altars, upon every high hill, in all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree [the men the corrupt world says are upright], and under every thick oak, the place where they did offer sweet savor [their prayers] to all their idols.
14 So will I stretch out my hand upon them, and make the land desolate, yea, more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblath, in all their habitations: and they shall know that I Am the LORD.
The name Diblah, which only appears once, speaks of the effect of the “evil report” (dibbah), like that of the spies sent from the wilderness to the Promised Land. It (now) describes men not seeing as God sees, and not receiving the promised end because they fear the enemies now possessing this earth. They don’t believe the LORD is truly with us and that we are, therefore, under His command, invincible.
Hebrews 3
7 Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost says, Today if you will hear his voice,
8 Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
10 Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do always err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.
11 So I swore in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)
12 Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
13 But exhort one another daily, while it is called Today; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
14 For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence [that the LORD is with us, in us] steadfast unto the [expected] end;
15 While it is said, Today if you will hear his voice, harden not your hearts [minds], as in the provocation.
16 For some, when they had heard [His voice], did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses [entered the Promised Land, now the new earth].
17 But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?
18 And to whom swore he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?
19 So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief [that the LORD is always with us, and under His command, we are invincible].
Hebrews 4
1 Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.
2 For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.
3 For we which have believed [that this preaching is the word from the mouth of the LORD] do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works [provided in the first creation, in His word] were finished from the foundation of the world.
4 For he spoke in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works.
5 And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest.
6 Seeing therefore it remains that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief:
7 Again, he limits a certain day, saying in David, Today, after so long a time; as it is said, Today if you will hear his voice, harden not your hearts [open your minds to what is here heard, and obey His voice].
8 For if Jesus [Joshua] had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.
9 There remains, therefore, a rest to the people of God.
10 For he that is entered into his rest, he also has ceased from his own works, as God did from his.
11 Let us labor therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.
12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
13 Neither is there any creature [any of God’s creation] that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom [I Am] we have to do.
14 Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the [perpetual] Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.
15 For we have not a high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.
16 Let us, therefore, come boldly unto the throne of grace [into His presence, where His voice is heard], that we may [in the conversation at His mercy seat] obtain mercy, and find grace [this gift of these treasures] to help in time of need.
In verse 8 above, the reference to Joshua is the LORD referring us to Joshua 1 and Him there telling of this moment when we possess the earth (today, when His light covers it).
Joshua 1
1 Now after the death of Moses the servant of the LORD it came to pass, that the LORD spoke unto Joshua [Jesus] the son of Nun [the son in perpetuity], Moses’ minister, saying,
2 Moses my servant is dead; now therefore arise, go over [‘abar – pass from death into life] this Jordan [the words of men that have carried all humanity in the descent into death], you, and all this people, unto the land [‘erets – the earth] which I do give to them, even to the children of Israel [those who receive this expected end].
3 Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that have I given unto you, as I said unto Moses.
4 From the wilderness and this Lebanon [the end of purity in high place] even unto the great river, the river Euphrates [these fruitful words that flow to all humanity], all the land [‘erets] of the Hittites [from chathath – dismayed, the earth become desolate, confused, and fearful], and unto the great sea [all humanity] toward the going down of the sun [now when all understanding: light and life, have departed the earth], shall be your coast [gbuwl – this limit of the sea: the end of this age and the beginning of the new].
5 There shall not any man be able to stand before [paniym – My presence manifested in] you all the days of your life: as I was with Moses, so I will be with you: I will not fail you, nor forsake you.
6 Be strong and of a good courage: for unto this people shall you divide for an inheritance the land [‘erets – the earth], which I swore unto their fathers to give them.
7 Only be you strong and very courageous, that you mayest observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded you: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that you mayest prosper whithersoever you go.
8 This book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth; but you shall meditate therein day and night, that you mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.
9 Have not I commanded you? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be you dismayed [chathath]: for the LORD your God is with you whithersoever you go.
10 Then Joshua commanded the officers of the people, saying,
11 Pass through the host, and command the people, saying, Prepare you victuals; for within three days [today] you shall pass over [‘abar – from death into life] this Jordan, to go in to possess the land [‘erets – the earth], which the LORD your God gives you to possess it.
12 And to the Reubenites [the firstborn from the dead], and to the Gadites [the LORD’s risen army], and to half the tribe of Manasseh [who now remember the LORD], spoke Joshua, saying,
13 Remember the word which Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, saying, The LORD your God has given you rest, and has given you this land [‘erets – this earth].
14 Your wives, your little ones, and your cattle, shall remain in the land [‘erets – the old earth] which Moses gave you on this side Jordan; but you shall pass [‘abar – from death into life] before [paniym – manifesting My presence to] your brethren armed [with this word of the LORD from your mouths], all the mighty men of valor, and help them;
15 Until the LORD has given your brethren rest, as he has [by His word] given you, and they also have possessed the land [‘erets – the earth] which the LORD your God gives them: then you shall return unto the land of your possession, and enjoy it, which Moses the LORD’s servant gave you on this side Jordan toward the sunrising [giving you understanding first].
16 And they answered Joshua, saying, All that you command us we will do, and whithersoever you send us, we will go [obeying, giving this word of the LORD as received].
17 According as we hearkened unto [shama’ – and obeyed] Moses in all things, so will we hearken unto [shama’ – and obey] you: only the LORD your God be with you, as he was with Moses.
18 Whosoever he be that does rebel against your commandment, and will not hearken unto [shama’ – and obey] your words in all that you command him, he shall be put to death [remain dead]: only be strong and of a good courage.
Hebrews 12
22 But you are come unto mount Zion [the LORD’s government on the earth], and unto the city of the living God, the [New] heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels [messengers He sends with His message],
23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant [My promise that I would write My law into your minds and that all will know Me with you, in you], and to the blood of sprinkling [this necessary sacrifice shined upon all from east to west], that speaks better things than that of Abel.
25 See that you refuse not him that speaks. For if they escaped not who refused him that spoke on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaks from heaven [this place of full understanding]:
26 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he has promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.
27 And this word, Yet once more, signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.
28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
29 For our God is a consuming fire.
Hebrews 13
5 Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as you have: for he has said, I will never leave you, nor forsake you.
6 So that we may boldly say, The LORD is my helper [“in time of need”], and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.
7 Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation.
8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever.
9 Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines [created by presumptuous men]. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace [these gifts from the LORD]; not with meats [works of flesh], which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.
Hebrews 2
1 Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to [obey] the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.
2 For if the word spoken by angels [His messengers sent] was steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward;
3 How [if we refuse to obey] shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the LORD [the Father revealed in the son first, to bring all His children He has given me, to the same glory], and was confirmed [repeating the same message the LORD gave them] unto us by them that heard him;
4 God also bearing them witness, both with [Isaiah 8:18, saying “I and the children the LORD has given me, are for”] signs and wonders [to His people at large], and with divers miracles [this alludes to the “divers” manner spoken of in Hebrews 1:1; of the many different ways and times, by which the Father previously spoke through men, until now when He, in the son He filled full of understanding all these divers elements, congealed them in him, into this miraculous, eye-opening, gospel], and gifts [these treasures sent] of the Holy Ghost [as He works unknown leading us into all truth], according to his own will?
5 For unto the angels has he not put in subjection the world to come, whereof we speak.
6 But one in a certain place [Psalms 8] testified [of the son], saying, “What is man, that you are mindful of him? or the son of man that you visit [paqad – manifest Your presence as the Chief Overseer of the earth, in] him?
7 You made him a little lower than the angels [as we’ve seen, the words here are chacer’ elohiym, telling us the son is intentionally sent lacking the full knowledge of God; the Psalm then saying this is planned so the son {I Am: His presence in this moment manifested in the flesh He’s chosen} can be crowned by the Father with His understanding: revelation only known to the Father]; you crowned him with glory and honor, and did set him over the works of your hands:
8 You have put all things in subjection under his feet.” For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing that is not put under him. But now we [in our blindness] see not yet [that] all things [are] put under him [not hearing and obeying this word as the Father’s voice, as it is].
9 But we [again] see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death [sent without understanding], [now, when we see Him again] crowned with glory and honor [raised to life by the light of the Father in him]; that he by the grace of God should taste death [and be raise from it] for every man.
10 For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain [archegos – only used three other times; in Acts 3:15, speaking of the son as the “Prince” of life, who the religious and civil power denied, conspired against, and killed; Acts 5:31 as the risen “Prince” who is seated at the Father’s right hand {from where Habakkuk 3:4 says, in this writing, comes His hidden power as rays of light}; and Hebrews 12:2 saying He is “the Author and Finisher of our Faith”] of their salvation perfect [teleioo – made complete, filled full] through sufferings [the same affliction, tribulation, doubting the LORD is present, that, through proof of him {I Am}, makes us ready, willing, to be quickened from corruption into life].
11 For both he that sanctifies [purges us from corruption, making us holy] and they who are sanctified [purged and made holy] are all of one [Body of Christ]: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,
12 Saying, I will declare your name [identity] unto my brethren, in the midst of the church will I sing [repeating the words You’ve given me] praise unto you.
13 And again, I will put my trust in him. And again, Behold I and the children which God has given me [when our mouths are opened with His words, are for signs and wonders to God’s people at large].
14 Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he [the Father] also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death [coming lacking understanding] he might [self-manifesting His light, life, in the flesh, to] destroy him that had the power of [to deceive men into ignorance of God and to instead follow them into] death, that is, the devil [the misleaders who put themselves in His place];
15 And deliver them [the misled] who through fear of death [not understanding it is a state of mind], were all their lifetime subject to bondage [but you shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free from death].
16 For truly he took not on him the nature of angels [a mere messenger given a message]; but he took on him the seed of Abraham [to whom the LORD promised a son, an heir who would become as many as the sand of the shore and the stars of heaven].
17 Wherefore in all things it behooved him to be made like unto his brethren [born into dead flesh here in hell], that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.
18 For in that he himself has suffered being tempted [to doubt the Father’s presence with him here in hell, to from it raise us], he is able to succor [rescue] them that are tempted [to doubt Him].
Psalms 8
A Psalm of David
1 O LORD [Jehovah], our LORD [‘adown – our king], how excellent is your name [identity] in all the earth! who have set [nathan – given] your glory [Your manifested presence] above the heavens [the places where understanding should be found].
2 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings [declaring Your word as You commanded, saying “Hosanna {save now}, Blessed is he who comes in the name {identity} of the LORD] have you ordained strength because of your enemies, that you might still [shabath – sabbath: interrupting their work, putting them to silence so Your correction is heard above all other voices of] the enemy and the avenger.
3 When I consider your heavens [this understanding You’ve given to us], the work of your fingers, the moon [just civil government; ruling as You rule, with truth and equal justice] and the stars [Your people in this new heaven, filled with Your light here on earth, wherein dwells righteousness], which you have ordained [kuwn – prepared, raised, and established];
4 What is man, that you are mindful of him? and the son of man, that you visit [paqad] him?
5 For you have made him a little lower than [chacer – lacking the understanding] the angels [‘elohiym – of God], and have crowned him with [Your] glory and [Your] honor [His understanding given to and through me].
6 You made him to have dominion [mashal – rule] over the works of your hands [referring to this light given from there]; you have put all things under his feet:
7 All sheep and oxen [Your flock], yea, and the beasts of the field [the dead in the earth, those without Your Spirit];
8 The fowl of the air [those who, by Your strength, rise into the place where understanding should be found], and the fish of the sea [the life unseen and found below the surface of the waters on the earth: provided for all humanity], and whatsoever passes through the paths of the seas [man on his unknowing journey through generations].
9 O LORD our LORD, how excellent is your name [identity] in all the earth!
The word dibbah is only used 9 times and only twice in the prophets (Jeremiah 20:10 and Ezekiel 36:3). In both cases it’s when the LORD is speaking to the mountains (governments) and the men in them governing God’s people.
Jeremiah 20
1 Now Pashur [from the once used word pashach, meaning those who’ve torn the LORD’s body in pieces] the son of Immer [who refuse to stop speaking their false teaching] the priest, who was also chief governor in the house of the LORD, heard that Jeremiah prophesied these things [against them].
2 Then Pashur smote Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks [disfiguring this message] that were in the high gate of Benjamin [keeping God’s people from entering His presence by seeing His work in His word], which was by the house of the LORD.
3 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Pashur brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah unto him, The LORD has not called your name Pashur, but Magormissabib [encircled by fear on every side].
4 For thus says the LORD, Behold, I will make you a terror to yourself, and to all your friends: and they shall fall by the sword [the words] of their enemies, and your eyes shall behold it: and I will give all Judah [all the leaders of God’s people] into the hand of the king of Babylon [the confusion that now rules the world, in all the institutions of church and state], and he shall carry them captive into Babylon [into confusion now turned delusion, none knowing the difference between this reality and the creations of their own lame minds], and shall slay them with the sword [their words, their false teaching].
5 Moreover I will deliver all the strength [understanding] of this city, and all the labors thereof, and all the precious things thereof [these treasures none have guarded against corruption], and all the treasures of the kings of Judah will I give into the hand of their enemies, which shall spoil them, and take them, and carry them to Babylon [into confusion].
6 And you, Pashur, and all that dwell in your [scattered] house shall go into captivity: and you shall come to Babylon, and there you shall die, and shall be buried there, you, and all your friends, to whom you have prophesied lies [in the LORD’s name].
7 [Then the repentant false prophets, the dead leading His dead body, say] O LORD, you have deceived me, and I was deceived; you are stronger than I, and have prevailed: I am in derision daily, everyone mocks me.
8 For since I spoke, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil; because the word of the LORD was made a reproach unto me, and a derision, daily.
9 Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in my heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing [not speaking this word now in their minds], and I could not stay.
10 For I heard the defaming [dibbah] of many, fear on every side [as above]. Report, say they, and we will report it. All my familiars [who know they are easily swayed into wandering away into their own corrupt ideas] watched for my halting [going lame and wandering away from the right way], saying, Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him [to go against this word of the LORD], and we shall take our revenge on him.
11 But the LORD is with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be greatly ashamed [disappointed when they don’t get what they hoped for: the priesthood going against this word of the LORD]; for they shall not prosper: their everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten.
12 But, O LORD of hosts [I Am, a man of war], that tries the righteous, and sees the reins [the inner thoughts] and the heart [minds], let me see your vengeance on them: for unto you have I opened my cause [to rise with You into Your righteousness].
13 Sing unto the LORD [these words He has written into our minds], praise you the LORD: for he has delivered the soul of the poor [those without worldly power, without the corrupt wisdom of this corrupt world] from the hand of evildoers.
14 Cursed be the day wherein I was born [into confusion]: let not the day wherein my mother [my teachers who taught me corruption] bare me be blessed.
15 Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto you [into the corruption passed down through generations]; making him very glad.
16 And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning [when this understanding has now come], and the shouting at noontide;
17 Because he slew me not from the womb [born into corruption]; or that my mother might have been my grave [teaching that holds the corrupt here in the belly of the earth], and her womb to be always great with me.
18 Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow that my days should be consumed with shame?
The above is in the context of Lamentation 3, where, in verse 11, Jeremiah uses pashach, speaking of the corrupt priesthood, rendered “pulled me in pieces.” The chapter begins describing (now) when the priesthood realizes this is part of the LORD’s plan to raise them from corruption into life with Him as He rises in them.
Lamentations 3
3 I Am the man [Pashur] that has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
2 He has led me, and brought me into darkness [ignorance, by degeneration into corruption], but not into light [void of understanding].
3 Surely against me is he turned; he turns his hand against me all the day [by His light now come].
4 My flesh and my skin has he made old; he has broken my bones.
5 He has built against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
6 He has set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.
7 He has hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he has made my chain heavy.
8 Also when I cry and shout, he shuts out my prayer.
9 He has enclosed my ways with hewn stone [with their own creations], he has made my paths crooked.
10 He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.
11 He has turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces [pashach]: he has made me desolate.
12 He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
13 He has caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins [innermost thoughts].
14 I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
15 He has filled me with bitterness, he has made me drunken with wormwood.
16 He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he has covered me with ashes.
17 And you have removed my soul far off from peace: I forgot prosperity.
18 And I said, My strength [understanding] and my hope is perished from the LORD:
19 Remembering my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
20 My soul has them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
21 This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope [that You will save].
22 It is of the LORD’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
23 They are new every morning: great is your faithfulness.
24 The LORD is my portion, says my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
25 The LORD is good unto them that wait for him [expecting His salvation], to the soul that [diligently] seeks him.
26 It is good that a man should both hope and quietly [not speaking his own words] wait for the salvation of the LORD.
27 It is good for a man that he bear the yoke [the corrupt he was taught] in his youth.
28 He sits alone and keeps silence, because he has borne it upon him.
29 He puts his mouth in the dust [realizing his words are the ruin of the old and corrupt world]; if so be there may be hope.
30 He gives his cheek to him that smites him: he is filled full with reproach.
31 For the LORD will not cast off forever:
32 But though he causes grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.
33 For he does not afflict willingly [leb – heart, the mind] nor grieve the children of men [because, 2 Peter 3:9 The LORD is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is {always here among us} longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.].
34 [He isn’t here working] To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth.
35 To turn aside the right of a man before the face of [paniym – His presence manifested as] the Most High,
36 [He isn’t here] To subvert a man in his cause, the LORD approve not.
37 Who is he that says, and it comes to pass [it is understood by Him speaking], when the LORD commands it not?
38 Out of the mouth of the Most High proceeds not evil and good?
39 Wherefore does a living man complain [about the LORD’s good correction], a man for the punishment [guilt] of his sins?
40 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
41 Let us lift up our heart [our minds] with our hands [our works] unto God in the heavens [from where He’s sent this understanding].
42 We have transgressed and have rebelled: you have not pardoned [because we remain in corruption, but He long-suffers in the necessary sacrifice to correct us].
43 You have covered with anger, and persecuted us: you have slain, you have not pitied.
44 You have covered yourself with a cloud [hidden when understanding left the earth], that our prayer should not pass through.
45 You have made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.
46 All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.
47 Fear and a snare is come upon us [as in Jeremiah 20:3, and Magormissabib], desolation and destruction.
48 My eye run down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
49 My eye trickle down, and cease not, without any intermission.
50 Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven.
51 My eye affect my heart [mind] because of all the daughters of my city.
52 My enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.
53 They have cut off my life in the dungeon [of ignorance], and cast a stone upon me.
54 Waters flowed over my head; then I said, I am cut off.
55 I called upon your name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.
56 You have heard my voice: hide not your ear at my breathing, at my cry.
57 You drew near in the day that I called upon you: you said, Fear not.
58 O LORD, you have pleaded the causes of my soul; you have redeemed my life.
59 O LORD, you have seen my wrong: judge you my cause.
60 You have seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me.
61 You have heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me;
62 The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.
63 Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their music.
64 Render unto them a recompense, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.
65 Give them sorrow of heart, your curse unto them.
66 Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.
Ezekiel 36
1 Also, you son of man, prophesy [speak My words] unto the mountains [the governments] of Israel [My people who’ve reached this expected end], and say, You mountains of Israel, hear the word of the LORD:
2 Thus says the LORD God; Because the enemy has said against you, Aha, even the ancient high places are ours in possession:
3 Therefore prophesy and say, Thus says the LORD God; Because they have made you [My governments of church and state, as I intended them] desolate [without light], and swallowed you up on every side, that you might be a possession unto the residue of the heathen [who haven’t known Me], and you are taken up in the lips of talkers [speaking their language of deceit and misleading], and are an infamy [dibbah] of the people:
4 Therefore, you mountains of Israel, hear the word of the LORD God; Thus says the LORD God to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes, and to the cities that are forsaken, which became a prey and derision to the residue of the heathen that are round about;
5 Therefore thus says the LORD God; Surely in the fire of my jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the heathen, and against all Idumea [the enemies among us, our brethren who seek to destroy us and our better culture that calls good good and evil evil], which have appointed my land into their possession with the joy of all their heart, with despiteful minds, to cast it out for a prey.
6 Prophesy therefore concerning the land [‘adamah – the first generation of My new creation] of Israel, and say unto the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, Thus says the LORD God; Behold, I have spoken in my jealousy and in my fury, because you have borne the shame of the heathen:
7 Therefore thus says the LORD God; I have lifted up my hand, Surely the heathen that are about you, they shall bear their shame.
8 But you, O mountains of Israel, you shall shoot forth your branches, and yield your fruit to my people of Israel; for they are at hand to come [readied to be brought to life from the dead].
9 For, behold, I Am for you, and I will turn unto you, and you shall be tilled and sown [in My new heaven and earth]:
10 And I will multiply men upon you, all the house of Israel, even all of it: and the cities shall be inhabited, and the wastes shall be built [upon the ruin of the old]:
11 And I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increase and bring fruit: and I will settle you after your old estates, and will do better unto you than at your beginnings: and you shall know that I Am the LORD.
12 Yea, I will cause men to walk upon you, even my people Israel; and they shall possess you, and you shall be their inheritance, and you shall no more henceforth bereave them of [good] men.
13 Thus says the LORD God; Because they say unto you, You land devours up men, and have bereaved your nations:
14 Therefore you shall devour men no more, neither bereave your nations any more, says the LORD God.
15 Neither will I cause men to hear in you the shame of the heathen any more, neither shall you bear the reproach of the people any more, neither shall you cause your nations to fall any more, says the LORD God.
16 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
17 Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land [‘adamah – the last generation of the old and corrupt heaven and earth], they defiled it by their own way and by their doings: their way was before me [paniym – in My presence] as the uncleanness of a removed [unclean] woman [separated from Me].
18 Wherefore I [unknown to them] poured my fury upon them for the blood that they had shed upon the land [‘erets – the earth], and for their idols wherewith they had polluted it:
19 And I scattered them among the heathen, and they were dispersed through the countries: according to their way and according to their doings I judged them.
20 And when they entered unto the heathen, whither they went, they [calling their abominations by My name] profaned my holy name, when they said to them, These are the people of the LORD, and are gone forth out of his land [‘erets – the earth in its “old estate”]
21 But I had pity for my holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the heathen, whither they went.
22 Therefore say unto the house of Israel, thus says the LORD God; I do not this for your sakes, O house of Israel, but for my holy name’s sake, which you have profaned among the heathen, whither you went.
23 And I will sanctify [make and declare Holy again] my great name, which was profaned among the heathen, which you have profaned in the midst of them; and the heathen shall know that I Am the LORD, says the LORD God, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.
24 For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land [‘adamah – this first generation of My new creation].
25 Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you [to cleanse you of corruption], and you shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.
27 And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and you shall keep my judgments, and do them.
28 And you shall dwell in the land [‘erets – the new earth I Am creating, as in its “old estate”] that I gave to your fathers; and you shall be my people, and I will be your God.
29 I will also save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will call for the corn [the fruit from that which I Am planting], and will increase it, and lay no famine [for hearing this word of God] upon you.
30 And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that you shall receive no more reproach of famine [of not hearing My word] among the heathen [those who haven’t known me, for all shall know me, from the least to greatest].
31 Then shall you remember your own evil ways, and your doings that were not good, and shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations.
32 Not for your sakes do I this, says the LORD God, be it known unto you: be ashamed and confounded for your own ways, O house of Israel.
33 Thus says the LORD God; In the day that I shall have cleansed you from all your iniquities I will also cause you to dwell in the cities, and the wastes shall be built [upon the ruin of the old].
34 And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by [‘abar – the sight of all who’ve passed from death into life with Me].
35 And they shall say, This land [‘erets – this earth] that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden [the old estate]; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are become fenced, and are inhabited.
36 Then the heathen [who haven’t known me] that are left round about you shall know that I the LORD build the ruined places, and plant that that was desolate: I the LORD have spoken it, and I will do it.
37 Thus says the LORD God; I will yet for this be enquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them; I will increase them with [good] men like a flock.
38 As the holy flock, as the flock of [New Heavenly] Jerusalem in her solemn feasts; so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men: and they shall know that I Am the LORD.
Psalms 91
1 He that dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
2 I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.
3 Surely he shall deliver you from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.
4 He shall cover you with his feathers, and under his wings shall you trust: his truth shall be your shield and buckler.
5 You shall not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flies by day;
6 Nor for the pestilence that walks in darkness; nor for the destruction that wastes at noonday.
7 A thousand shall fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand; but it shall not come nigh you.
8 Only with your eyes shall you behold and see the reward of the wicked.
9 Because you have made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the Most High, your habitation;
10 There shall no evil befall you, neither shall any plague come nigh your dwelling.
11 For he shall give his angels charge over you, to keep you in all your ways.
12 They shall bear you up in their hands, lest you dash your foot against a stone.
13 You shall tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shall you trample under feet.
14 Because he has set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he has known my name.
15 He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble [tsarah – this time of tribulation]; I will deliver him, and honor him.
16 With long life will I satisfy him, and show him my salvation [yshuw’ah – Jesus: Jehovah Salvation manifested in our flesh].
