20 – 24 November 2024
Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.
The LORD begins today in Ezekiel 7:23, a chapter speaking precisely of this end time when the crowning of the LORD’s Anointed is described (twice) as the “morning.” The word appears in verses 7 & 10, rendered from the three-times used Hebrew word tsphiyrah, meaning an encircling (full course beginning to end) of the head (mind) and a change in course (a turn in affairs).
Ezekiel 7
1 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Also, you son of man, thus says the LORD God [‘Adonay Jehovih – the King of king and LORD of lords] unto the land [‘adamah – this generation I Am creating] of Israel; An end [qets], the end [qets] is come upon the four corners of the land [‘erets – the earth where My people are scattered].
3 Now is the end [qets] come upon you, and I will send my anger upon you, and will judge you according to your ways, and will recompense upon you all your abominations [tow’edah].
4 And my eye shall not spare you, neither will I have pity: but I will recompense your ways upon you, and your abominations [tow’ebah] shall be in the midst of you: and you shall know that I Am the LORD.
5 Thus says the LORD God [‘Adonay Jehovih]; An evil [ra’], an only evil [ra’], behold, is come.
6 An end [qets] is come, the end [qets] is come: it watches [quwts – it awakens, in the morning] for you; behold, it is come.
7 The morning [tsphiyrah – the diadem of Isaiah 28:5, the crown upon the head of the LORD of the army of heaven] is come unto you, O you that dwell in the land [‘erets – the old and corrupt earth]: the time is come, the day of trouble is near [qarowb], and not the sounding again [hed – only used here, meaning the evil decrees] of the mountains [from the corrupt governments of church and state].
8 Now will I shortly [qarowb] pour out my fury upon you, and accomplish [kalah – as used twice in Daniel 12:7; to finish] my anger upon you: and I will judge you according to your ways, and will recompense you for all your abominations [tow’ebah].
9 And my eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will recompense you according to your ways and your abominations [tow’ebah] that are in the midst of you; and you shall know that I Am the LORD that smites.
10 Behold the day, behold, it is come: the morning [tsphiyrah – the crowning] is gone forth; the rod has blossomed, pride has budded.
11 Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness: none of them shall remain, nor of their multitude, nor of any of theirs: neither shall there be wailing for them.
12 The time is come, the day draws near: let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn: for wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.
13 For the seller shall not return to that which is sold, although they were yet alive: for the vision is touching the whole multitude thereof, which shall not return; neither shall any strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life.
14 They [the faithful of the LORD] have blown the trumpet [giving ample warning], even to make all ready; but none goes to the battle: for my wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.
15 The sword [this word they refuse] is without [the camp], and the pestilence [the disease that comes upon the wicked at My presence manifested] and the famine [God’s people refusing His word] within: he that is in the field shall die with the sword; and he that is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him.
16 But they that escape [palat] of them shall escape [paliyt], and shall be on the mountains [going into God’s new government] like doves of the valleys [as signs to the lowly of the end reached], all of them mourning [the end of the old and corrupt heaven and earth], every one for his iniquity.
17 All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water.
18 They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads.
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold [all the things the old and corrupt world thought were of value] shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it [the things in which they trust] is the stumbling-block [mikshowl – the likeness of hell, following things desired] of their iniquity.
20 As for the beauty of his ornament [the words with which the LORD has clothed, adorned, us], he set it in majesty [ga’own – He exalted it above all worldly value]: but they made the images of their abominations [tow’ebah] and of their detestable things therein: therefore have I set it [My majesty] far from them.
21 And I will give it [images you’ve created] into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall pollute it.
22 My face [paniym – My presence] will I turn also from them, and they shall pollute my secret [tsaphan] place [so none see any value in the treasure]: for the robbers shall enter into it, and defile it.
23 Make a chain [rattowq – only used elsewhere in 1 Kings 6:21, where it a “chain” overlayed {tsaphah} with gold, desired worldly value, that hides the true treasure within {the ‘abar – the way to pass over from death into life} in the oracle {the holy of holies, in the LORD’s presence manifested in the conversation}]: for the land is full of bloody crimes [mishpat – a judgment against truth tellers], and the city is full of violence [against this word of God].
24 Wherefore I will bring the worst of the heathen, and they shall possess their houses [as I have]: I will also make the pomp of the strong to cease; and their holy places shall be defiled [as they are: Isaiah 28:8 For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.].
25 Destruction comes; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none.
26 Mischief [hovah, from havah] shall come upon mischief [hovah], and rumor [shmuw’ah – this voice of Jehovah heard] shall be upon rumor [shmuw’ah – His voice teaching, precept upon precept, line upon line] then shall they seek a vision of the [false] prophet[s]; but the law shall perish from the priest[s], and counsel from the ancients [all the robbers who’ve put themselves in My place]. [The word hovah, referring to the effects of the strong delusion the LORD has sent upon the insane, only appears one other time, in Isaiah 47:11, saying “Therefore shall evil come upon you; you shall not know from whence it rises: and mischief {hovah} shall fall upon you; you shall not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon you suddenly, which you shall not know {because you’ve been chained in your own ignorance}.”]
27 The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land [‘erets – the earth] shall be troubled: I will do unto them after their way, and according to their deserts [mishpat – according to their corrupt judgment, by the precedent of their evil shall the evil judge them, and thereby] will I judge [shaphat] them; and they shall know that I Am the LORD
Isaiah 28
5 In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem [tsphiyrah] of beauty, unto the residue of his people,
6 And for a spirit of judgment [mishpat] to him that sits in judgment [misphat], and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate.
7 But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble [puwq – only used here and in Jeremiah 10:4, speaking men refusing to be moved from their erroneous views] in judgment [pliyliyah – only used here, speaking of the men failing this grace of God, as in Hebrews 12:15 saying “Looking {examining} diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;” like in Jeremiah 10:4].
8 For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.
9 Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine [shmuw’ah – understand that this is the voice of Jehovah heard]? them that are weaned from the milk, and [have] drawn from the breasts [of the Ancient of Days].
10 For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:
11 For with stammering lips and another tongue [truth that is as a foreign language to those who only know men’s creations] will he speak to this people.
12 To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith you may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear [it as the voice of the LORD, and obey His commands].
13 But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, you scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because you have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies [kazab – only used by Isaiah here and in verse 17] our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus says the LORD God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believes shall not make haste [flee away in shame].
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies [kazab], and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then you shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goes forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report [shmuw’ah].
20 For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.
21 For the LORD shall rise up as in mount Perazim [2 Samuel 5:20 & 21: as waters, this word of God, breaking forth upon His and David’s enemies], he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon [Joshua 10:10 & 11: God’s word, reserved in heaven for this moment, coming as hailstones upon the current crop of corrupt leaders], that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act.
22 Now, therefore, be you not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the LORD God of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth.
23 Give you ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech.
Jeremiah 10
1 Hear you the word which the LORD speaks unto you, O house of Israel [the LORD’s family who receive the expected end]:
2 Thus says the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen [those who refuse to know Me and My ways], and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven [this understand sent from the cloud there]; for the heathen are dismayed at them.
3 For the customs of the people are vain: for one cuts a tree out of the forest [a man thought to be upright], the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not [puwq – that they remain steadfast in their erroneous views: doctrines].
5 They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not [this true word of God]: they must needs be borne [carried], because they cannot go [tsa’ad – they refuse to join the ranks of the LORD]. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.
6 Forasmuch as there is none like unto you, O LORD; you are great, and your name [identity] is great in might.
7 Who would not fear you, O King of nations [over those who haven’t known your identity, even the dismayed]? for to you does it appertain [ya’ah – the only time this word is used, speaking of Yahh: the LORD]: forasmuch as among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is none like unto you.
8 But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock [the trees: the falsely so-called upright men as idols they worship] is a doctrine of vanities.
9 Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish [worthless doctrines said to be valuable by those who’ve fled from the LORD and their vows to Him], and gold from Uphaz [only used here and in Daniel 10:5; words that are said to be the preparation, the girding, of God’s people], the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder [tsaraph – said to be the refiners of God’s people]: blue and purple is their clothing: they are all the work of cunning [chakam – wise] men [falsely so-called].
10 But the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations [those who refuse to know Him] shall not be able to abide his indignation [za’am – which ends with the destruction of the wicked in power].
11 Thus shall you say unto them [these men who haven’t known the LORD and take His name in vain], The [falsely so-called] gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens.
12 He has made the earth by his power, he has established the world by his wisdom, and has [in this firmament, this exposition] stretched out the heavens by his discretion [tabuwn – in all its other occurrences it’s rendered understanding, except in Job 32:11 where it’s “reasons,” and Psalms 136:5 where it’s “wisdom”].
13 When he [here and now] utters his voice, there is a multitude of waters [His word] in the heavens, and he causes the vapors [the separated elements of understanding] to ascend from the ends of the earth [ending the old and corrupt, beginning the new]; he makes lightning with rain [understanding of His word sent from the cloud where the elements were held when they left the earth], and bringeth forth the wind [His Almighty Spirit moving upon the darkened deep] out of his treasure [‘owtsar – the LORD’s armory: referring to the word’s use in Jeremiah 50:25].
14 Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder [tsarah] is confounded [yabesh – speaking of them withering away as the LORD’s Almighty Spirit move {blows} upon them; as in Isaiah 40:7 & 8] by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath [life] in them.
15 They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation [pquddah – now when the LORD is openly manifesting His presence as the Chief Overseer of the earth] they shall perish.
16 The portion of Jacob [God’s people who’ve unaware wrestled with Him and His word] is not like them: for he is the former of all things; and Israel [those who receive Him at His appearing and kingdom come] is the rod of his inheritance: The LORD of hosts [I Am, a man of war] is his name [identity].
17 Gather up your wares [kin’ah – only used here; these gifts you will take into the new] out of the land [‘erets – the old and corrupt earth], O inhabitant of the fortress [matsowr – who were under enemy siege].
18 For thus says the LORD, Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land [‘ertes – of the old and corrupt earth] at this once, and will distress them, that they may find it so.
19 Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous [this is the wound spoken of in Nahum 3:19; inflicted by those in power, leading in the church and state]; but I said, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it.
20 My tabernacle is spoiled, and all my cords are broken: my children are gone forth of me, and they are not: there is none to stretch forth my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.
21 For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered [from them; as they now are].
22 Behold, the noise [qowl – the voice] of the bruit [shmuw’ah – this report, the voice that must be heard and obey as Jehovah’s, who men haven’t believed even though a man, I Am, is declaring it] is come, and a great commotion [ra’ash – the “shaking” that bring the dead bones together, as in Ezekiel 37:7; and the result of the LORD’s voice, as in Ezekiel 38:19] out of the north country [upon those who remain in darkness, in ignorance], to make the cities of Judah [the old and corrupt leaders] desolate, and a den of dragons [tanniyn – men as serpents and whales, who with their wide open mouths devoured God’s people, and swallowed them into the belly of death and hell].
23 O LORD, I know that the way of man [into life] is not in himself: it is not in man that walk [his own ways] to direct his steps.
24 O LORD, correct me, but with judgment; not in your anger, lest you bring me to nothing.
25 Pour out your fury upon the heathen that know you not, and upon the families that call not on your name [Your identity, to whom it appertains]: for they [the wicked sitting in Your place] have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him [into death], and consumed him [here in hell], and have made his habitation desolate.
Ezekiel 37
7 So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise [qowl – the voice of the yet unknown LORD heard], and behold a shaking [ra’ash], and the [scattered] bones [of the dead body of Christ] came together, bone to his bone [because we are flesh of His flesh, bone of His bone].
Ezekiel 38
14 Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog [as we know, this name refers to Agag, who Saul didn’t destroy as the LORD commanded: and who represents the enemy leaders who’ve warred against God and His people throughout history] Thus says the LORD God; In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth safely, shall you not know it?
15 And you shall come from your place out of the north parts [the earth covered in darkness, now when there is no knowledge of God], you, and many people with you, all of them riding upon horses [into this battle against God’s people], a great company, and a mighty army:
16 And you shall come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land [when understanding has left the earth]; it shall be in the latter days [‘achariyth – these last days], and I will bring you against my land [‘erets – earth], that the heathen [who haven’t know me] may know me, when I shall be sanctified [qadash – declared to be the Holy One] in you, O Gog, before their eyes.
17 Thus says the LORD God; Are you he of whom I have spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those days many years that I would bring you against them?
18 And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, says the LORD God, that my fury shall come up in my face.
19 For [here and now] in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking [ra’ash] in the land of Israel;
20 So that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face of [paniym – in My presence on] the earth, shall shake [ra’ash] at my presence [paniym], and the mountains [all the corrupt governments of church and state] shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground [‘erets – the earth].
21 And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains [governments], says the LORD God: every man’s sword shall be against his brother.
22 And I will plead against him with pestilence [deber {from dabar}, meaning the way they caused disease, by destroying all order, calling evil good and good evil] and with blood [this necessary sacrifice]; and I will rain [this word and understanding from heaven] upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones [to destroy the current crop of corrupt leaders], fire, and brimstone [from My mouth].
23 Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will be known in the eyes of many nations [who haven’t known Me], and they shall know that I Am the LORD.
Jeremiah 50
25 The LORD has opened his armory [‘owtsar], and has brought forth the weapons of his indignation: for this is the work of the LORD God of hosts in the land [‘erets – the earth] of the Chaldeans [those who’ve used their deceptions as spells to manipulate and control God’s people into doing evil and refusing good].
26 Come against her from the utmost border [qets – this end reached], open her storehouses: cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly: let nothing of her be left.
27 Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation [pquddah – now when the LORD has openly manifested His presence as the Chief Overseer of the earth].
28 The voice of them that flee and escape out of the land of Babylon [the old earth now ruled by confusion now turned insanity], to declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, the vengeance of his temple. [We’re told in Jeremiah 51:12 this vengeance comes when we “Set up the standard {nec – the pole upon which the son of man must be lifted, so this voice is heard above all others} upon the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes: for the LORD has both devised and done that which he spoke against the inhabitants of Babylon.]
29 Call together the archers against Babylon: all you that bend the bow, camp against it round about; let none thereof escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she has done, do unto her: for she has been proud against the LORD, against the Holy One of Israel.
30 Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all her men of war shall be cut off in that day, says the LORD.
31 Behold, I am against you, O you most proud [zadown – this refers to Deuteronomy 18:22 where it’s “presumptuously” speaking of the false prophesies of false prophets], says the LORD God of hosts: for your day is come, the time that I will visit you.
32 And the most proud [zadown] shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up: and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all round about him.
33 Thus says the LORD of hosts; The children of Israel and the children of Judah were oppressed together: and all that took them captives held them fast; they refused to let them go.
34 Their Redeemer is strong; the LORD of hosts is his name: he shall thoroughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the land [‘erets – the earth], and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.
35 A sword is upon the Chaldeans, says the LORD, and upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise men.
36 A sword is upon the liars; and they shall dote [ya’al – be found fools]: a sword is upon her mighty men; and they shall be dismayed.
37 A sword is upon their horses, and upon their chariots [their strength, that carries them into the battle], and upon all the mingled people that are in the midst of her; and they shall become as [weak as] women: a sword is upon her treasures [the things they think are valuable, their ability to deceive]; and they shall be robbed [of their power].
38 A drought is upon her waters; and they shall be dried up: for it is the land [‘erets – earth] of graven images [the worthless creations of men’s darkened minds], and they are mad [insane – unable to distinguish between reality and the creation of their minds] upon their idols.
39 Therefore the wild beasts [without My Spirit] of the desert [who are thereby desolate] with the wild beasts [without My Spirit] of the islands [without My word that give life] shall dwell there, and the owls [those who hunt souls in the darkness] shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited forever; neither shall it be dwelt in from [the last] generation [in]to [the first] generation [of My new creation].
40 As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighboring cities thereof, says the LORD; so shall no man abide there, neither shall any son of man dwell therein.
41 Behold, a people shall come from the north [out of darkness], and a great nation [who hasn’t know Me, shall know Me], and many kings shall be raised up [‘uwr – awaken] from the coasts [yrekah – inside {the belly}] of the earth.
42 They shall hold the bow and the lance: they are cruel, and will not show mercy: their voice shall roar [the second face of the unfolding presence of the LORD, a man roaring His word as a lion] like the sea [God’s people at large, into whom this word has flowed], and they shall ride upon horses [with the LORD’s strength], every one put in array, like a man to the battle, against you, O daughter of Babylon [of confusion and insanity].
43 The king of Babylon has heard the report of them [from the mouths of those who’ve heard and obeyed this voice of Jehovah], and his hands waxed feeble: anguish took hold of him, and pangs as of a woman in travail [now knowing they have awakened the LORD’s people].
44 Behold, he [the LORD with and in His people] shall come up like a lion [roaring His word] from [against] the swelling of Jordan [the proud whose word have carried all in the descent into death and hell] unto the habitation of the strong: but I will make them [the wicked in power] suddenly run away from her [the LORD’s people unto whom this expected end has come]: and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint [paqad] over her [as the Chief Overseer]? for who is like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who is that shepherd [ra’ah – the seer seeing as I see] that will stand before me [paniym – manifesting, declaring, My presence with him, in him]?
45 Therefore hear [shama’ – and obey] you the counsel of the LORD, that he has taken against Babylon; and his purposes, that he has purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the least of the flock [I Am] shall draw them out [into this light]: surely he shall make their habitation desolate with them.
46 At the noise [qowl – this voice of the LORD] of the taking of Babylon the earth is moved [ra’ash – shaken, awakening the dead to life], and the cry is heard [shama’ – is obeyed] among the nations [who now know the LORD].
Nahum 3
13 Behold, your people in the midst of you [Babylon – ruled by confusion] are [as weak as] women: the gates of your land shall be set wide open unto your enemies: the fire shall devour your bars.
14 Draw you waters for the siege, fortify your strong holds: go into clay, and tread the mortar, make strong the brickkiln.
15 There shall the fire devour you; the sword shall cut you off, it shall eat you up like the cankerworm: make yourself many as the cankerworm, make yourself many as the locusts.
16 You have multiplied your merchants above the stars of heaven [against God’s now enlightened people]: the cankerworm spoils, and flee away [at the sound of this roaring].
17 Your crowned are as the locusts [that have devoured all life], and your captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun rises [with this light] they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.
18 Your shepherds slumber [sleep in death], O king of Assyria [the communists in power]: your nobles shall dwell in the dust [the ruin of the old earth they destroyed: made without form and void: made confused and empty]: your people are scattered upon the mountains [by the corrupt governments now infested by devils], and no man gathers them.
19 There is no healing of your bruise; your wound is grievous: all that hear the bruit of you shall clap the hands over you: for upon whom has not your wickedness passed continually?
The word rendered “dismayed,” used twice in Jeremiah 10:2 and once in 50:36, speaking of those refusing this word, who are thereby confounded, is chathath, meaning “to prostrate; hence, to break down, either (literally) by violence, or (figuratively) by confusion and fear.”
Job 32
7 I said, Days should speak, and a multitude of years should teach wisdom.
8 But there is a spirit [of the LORD] in man: and the inspiration [nshamah – breath, the Spirit exhaled through His mouth] of the Almighty gives them understanding.
9 Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand judgment [mishpat].
10 Therefore I said, Hearken to [shama’ – and obey the voice of the LORD spoken from] me; I also will show my opinion [dea’ – the knowledge of God alive in me].
11 Behold, I waited for your words [millah]; I gave ear to your reasons [tabown – to hear your understanding], while you searched out what to say.
12 Yea, I attended unto you, and, behold, there was none of you that convinced [yakach – judges correctly] Job [God’s people hated by this generation], or that answered his words [justifying themselves]:
13 Lest [if you did rightly judge] you should say, We have found out wisdom: God thrusts him down [nadaph – has shaken him, to awaken him], not man.
14 Now he [the LORD] has not directed [rightly arranged] his words [millah] against me [but against you who are doing Satan’s work]: neither will I answer [shuwb – return to] him [the LORD] with your [ignorant] speeches.
15 They were amazed [chathath – dismayed], they answered no more: they left off speaking [millah].
16 When I had waited, (for they spoke not, but stood still, and answered no more;)
17 I said, I will answer also my part, I also will show my opinion [dea’ – the understanding of the LORD in me].
18 For I Am full of the matter [millah – these words of the LORD alive in me, to Whom it appertains], the spirit [of the LORD] within me constrains me [from speaking worthless words].
19 Behold, my belly is as wine [in me He has put His understanding that changes the minds of those who receive them as His voice] which has no vent; it is ready to burst like new bottles.
20 I will speak, that I may be refreshed: I will open my lips and answer [with the word He has put within me].
21 Let me not, I pray you, accept any man’s person, neither let me give flattering titles unto man.
22 For I know not to give flattering titles; in so doing my maker would soon take me away.
Job 36
1 Elihu [He is God {speaking unknown}] also proceeded, and said,
2 Suffer me a little, and I will show you that I have yet to speak [millah] on God’s behalf [this last word isn’t in the original text, which actually says “I will show yet more God words”].
3 I will fetch [nasa’ – exalt] my knowledge [dea’] from afar [rachowq – in his time when the world is ruled by the evil decrees of wicker men in power, when full understanding has come], and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker [Who has made me in His image and likeness].
4 For truly my words [millah] shall not be false: he that is perfect in knowledge is with you [in me].
5 Behold, God is mighty, and despises not any: he is mighty in strength and wisdom.
6 He preserves not the life of the wicked: but gives right to the poor.
7 He withdraws not his eyes from the righteous: but with kings are they on the throne; yea, he does establish them forever, and they are exalted.
8 And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction;
9 Then he shows them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded.
10 He opens also their ear to discipline, and commands that they return from iniquity.
11 If they [hear these words as His, and] obey [shama’] and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
12 But if they [refuse to hear these words as His, and] obey [shama’] not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.
13 But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry not when he binds them [by their own inquity].
14 They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean.
15 He delivers the poor in his affliction, and opens their ears [to hear His word] in oppression.
16 Even so would he have removed you out of the strait [of oppression] into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and that [these treasures] which should be set on your table should be full of fatness [prosperity].
17 But you have fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: [their cruel] judgment and [reversed] justice take hold on you.
18 Because there is wrath, beware lest he take you away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver you.
19 Will he esteem your riches? no, not gold, nor all the forces of strength.
20 Desire not the night [this time when ignorance of God covers the earth], when people are cut off [from the LORD’s presence] in their place.
21 Take heed, regard [panah – return] not [to] iniquity: for this [remaining in iniquity] have you chosen rather than affliction.
22 Behold, God exalts by his power [in His revealed word that effectually works in our minds]: who teaches like him?
23 Who has enjoined him [paqad – seeing as He sees, joined Him as Chief Overseer, Chief Shepherd, of the earth, which is] his way? or who can say [blaspheming Him], You have wrought iniquity?
24 Remember that you [when His glory is revealed in you] magnify his work, which men behold.
25 Every man may see it [His presence with us, in us]; man may behold it afar off [rachowq – this time when the world is ruled by the evil decrees of the wicked in power, now when this full understanding has come].
26 Behold [see as He sees], God is great, and we [not realizing His presence in His word] know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.
27 For he makes small the drops of water [His word sent from the least among men – I Am]: they pour down rain [His word from the cloud of heaven] according to the vapor thereof [by assembling the same elements of understand that left the earth and were held in the cloud, with Him at His throne]:
28 Which the clouds do drop and distill upon man abundantly.
29 Also, can any understand the spreading of the clouds [this exposition in the firmament, which God calls heaven], or the noise of his tabernacle?
30 Behold, he spreads his light [His understanding] upon it, and covers the bottom [sheresh – uncovers this deep understanding] of the sea [which He flows into His people].
31 For by them judges he the people; he gives meat [that gives His strength] in abundance.
32 With clouds he covers the light; and commands it not to shine by the cloud that comes betwixt [paga’ – where it is held in abeyance until this time of war].
33 The noise thereof shows concerning it, the cattle [His flock] also concerning the vapor.
The word “noise,” in verse 29 above, rendered from the four times used word tshu’ah, is used in Isaiah 22:2 & Zachariah 4:7 to definitively tell us that the LORD’s tabernacle (made without the hands of man) is His people in whom He dwells.
The word rendered “noise” in verse 33 is the three times used word rea’, which refers us to its use in Exodus 32:17 and Micah 4:9.
Take heed:
Acts 13
38 Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins:
39 And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.
40 Beware, therefore, lest that come upon you, which is spoken of in the prophets;
41 Behold, you despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which you shall in no wise believe, though a man [here and now] declares it unto you.
Acts 17
29 Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God [flesh of His flesh, bone of His bone], we ought not to think that the God head is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man’s device.
30 And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commands all men everywhere to repent:
31 Because he has appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man [I Am] whom he has ordained; whereof he has given assurance unto all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.
Friends, there’s a great battle still ahead to recover God’s people from the institutions of church and state that hold them in darkness. There is no rest until the ONE BODY of Christ has risen with an understanding of this moment and the LORD’s presence.
Isaiah 22
1 The burden of the valley of vision [this word by which the lowly see as the LORD sees]. What ails you now, that you are wholly gone up to the housetops [to escape the necessary conflict at hand]?
2 You that are full of stirs [tshu’ah], a tumultuous city, joyous city: your slain men are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle [but as cowards running from the battle].
3 All your rulers are fled together, they are bound by the archers [the false accusations of the enemies]: all that are found in you are bound together [by their fear of the wicked in power], which have fled from far [rachowq – from the evil decrees that rule this time].
4 Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labor not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.
5 For it is a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of perplexity by the LORD God [the King of kings and LORD of lords] of hosts [a man of war] in the valley of vision, breaking down the walls [which hold back this word and keep My people from seeing My presence in My work], and of crying to the mountains [the LORD’s call to open your mouths against the wicked in power in every institution of government in church and state].
6 And Elam bare the quiver [all who’ve lived throughout all eternity] with chariots of men and horsemen, and Kir [the wall, the lies and falsehood, interpretations’ effect that keeps wicked men in power and the world in ignorance] uncovered the shield [magen – the LORD with us as the buckler of the earth].
7 And it shall come to pass, that your choicest valleys [the low places in which the LORD reveals Himself] shall be full of chariots, and the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate [out of hell into heaven, from darkness and death into light and life].
8 And he discovered [galah – revealed in this apocalypse] the covering [macak – removing the veil and showing My presence to My elect remnant] of Judah, and you did look in that day to the armor [nasheq – revealing these weapons of My warfare] of the house of the forest [to the upright who’ve become My family by receiving me].
9 You have seen also the breaches of the city of David [My people scattered from their king], that they are many: and you gathered together the waters of the lower pool [this word sent to the lowly].
10 And you have numbered the [understood the many] houses of [old and corrupt] Jerusalem, and the houses have you broken down to fortify the wall [keeping back this word and not giving it as commanded].
11 You made also a ditch between the two walls [lie and falsehood, agreement with death and hell, under which your leaders think they hide] for the water of the old pool [keeping My written word held in your channels of ignorance]: but you have not looked unto the maker thereof [who inspired it], neither had respect unto him that fashioned it long ago [rachowq – to be revealed in this time when the earth is ruled by evil decree].
12 And in that day did the LORD God of hosts [the King of kings and LORD of lords, who is a man of war] call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth [when these things are revealed]:
13 And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die [going willingly, without opposition, into your own destruction, which is obviously coming to the sluggards who sleep on, refusing to believe this is that day, the light, of the LORD].
14 And it was revealed in my ears by the LORD of hosts, Surely this iniquity shall not be purged from you till you die, says the LORD God of hosts.
15 Thus says the LORD God of hosts, Go, get you unto this treasurer [cakan – those to whom this word was entrusted], even unto Shebna [who’ve prospered by their control], which is over the house, and say,
16 What have you here? and whom have you here, that you have hewed you out a sepulcher here [where you store the dead], as he that hewn him out a sepulcher on high, and that graven a habitation for himself in a rock [from where My word should flow, but instead it is held back and replaced with men’s creations]?
17 Behold, the LORD will carry you away with a mighty captivity, and will surely cover you [‘atah – with your own confusion; see Psalms 109:29, saying “Let my adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover {‘atah} themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.”].
18 He will surely violently turn and toss you like a ball into a large country [rachab ‘erets – a confused earth]: there shall you die, and there the chariots of your glory shall be the shame of your lord’s house [the men you follow as gods you’ve exalted above Me].
19 And I will drive you from your station, and from your state shall he pull you down.
20 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim [God raised, to be established {from quwm}] the son of Hilkiah [whose inheritance is Jehovah]:
21 And I will clothe him with your robe, and strengthen him with your girdle [this cover and preparation, contrasted against the other time ‘atah appears in Psalms 109, in verse 19, speaking of the wicked, anointed {of Satan} devils, who are cut off from the earth, saying, “19 Let it be unto him as the garment which covers {‘atah} him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually. 20 Let this be the reward of my adversaries {satan} from the LORD, and of them that speak evil against my soul.”], and I will commit your government [memshalah – governments of church and state] into his [my] hand: and he [the LORD in me] shall be a Father to the inhabitants of [New Heavenly] Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah [the elect remnant that receive me in the name of the LORD]. [Matthew 23:39 For I say unto you, You shall not see me from here forward, until you shall say, Blessed is he that comes in the name of the LORD.]
22 And the key [that opens the door] of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; so he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.
23 And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a glorious throne to his father’s house.
24 And they shall hang [the understanding of all the law and the prophets] upon him all the glory of his father’s house, the offspring and the issue [all those born by coming into His light], all [the holy] vessels of small quantity, from the [holy] vessels of cups, even to all the [holy] vessels of flagons.
25 In that day, says the LORD of hosts, shall the nail [upon which hangs the corrupt understanding of all the law and prophets] that is fastened in the sure [in which all trust] place be removed, and be cut down, and fall; and the burden that was upon it shall be cut off: for the LORD has spoken it.
The matter, the controversy as we know it, is a lack of subordination to the power God has raised. It (rebellion, in which all worldly powers are now engaged, as dogs barking in the night, this time when ignorance covers the earth, against God’s good government in church and state) is the topic of Psalms 109 (& 110), and what the LORD speaks of in Matthew 23.
Matthew 23
31 Wherefore you be witnesses unto [against] yourselves, that you are the children of them which killed the prophets.
32 Fill you up then the measure of your fathers.
33 You serpents [whose poison, which rots the minds of men, is in your mouths], you generation of vipers, how can you escape the damnation of hell [the result of your own cursing come upon you]?
34 Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them you shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall you scourge in your synagogues [all your gathering places, where truth and justice should be administered], and persecute them from city to city:
35 That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel [speaking of all in who the spirit of Cain is manifested, who kill their brothers, “Because his {Cain’s} own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous.”] unto the blood of Zacharias [all these righteous men, who the LORD now brings to remembrance] son of Barachias [who are the blessed of Jehovah], whom you slew between the temple and the altar [offering them as your evil sacrifice]. [Isaiah 66:3 …Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delight in their abominations. 4 I also will choose their delusions {their insanity they can’t differentiate from reality}, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they did not hear: but they did evil before my eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not.]
36 Truly I say unto you, All these things shall [have now] come upon this generation.
37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you that kill the prophets, and stones them which are sent unto you, how often would I have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and you would not!
38 Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.
39 For I say unto you, You shall not see me henceforth, till you shall say, Blessed is he that comes in the name of the LORD.
Psalms 109
1 Hold not your peace, O God of my praise;
2 For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.
3 They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.
4 For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer [conversing with the LORD who’s given me understanding of the matter].
5 And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
6 Set you a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand [as the spirit inspiriting them].
7 When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer [unto the gods, idols men created and put in my place, which they deceitfully call by My name] become sin.
8 Let his days be few; and let another take his office [pquddah – as the overseers, watchmen, of the earth].
9 Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow [the insane who speak and work their evil].
10 Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
11 Let the extortioner [who steals their inheritance from them] catch all that he has; and let the strangers spoil his labor.
12 Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favor his fatherless children.
13 Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out [cut off from the earth].
14 Let the iniquity of his fathers [whose knowledge is to do evil to his brothers] be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother [their teachers who teach them wisdom is to speak and work evil] be blotted out.
15 Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.
16 Because that he remembered not to show mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart [who their evil ways made desolate].
17 As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.
18 As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.
19 Let it be unto him as the garment which covers [‘atah] him, and for a girdle [preparation] wherewith he is girded continually.
20 Let this be the reward of my adversaries [satan – the reward to those who attack and accuse me] from the LORD, and of them that speak evil against my soul.
21 But do you for me, O God the LORD, for your name’s sake [in which you have sent me]: because your mercy [in our conversation at Your mercy seat] is good, deliver you me.
22 For I am poor and needy [without worldly power], and my heart is wounded within me.
23 I am gone like the shadow when it declines [as Your sun rises, showing Your glory]: I am tossed up and down as the locust [by the same winds destroying the destroyers].
24 My knees are weak through fasting [Your people remain weak through refusing Your word as Yours]; and my flesh [of Your dead body] fails of fatness [because they refuse to prosper by these treasures You’ve sent them].
25 I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shake their heads [refusing me].
26 Help me, O LORD my God [King of kings and LORD of lords]: O save me according to your mercy:
27 That they may know that this is your hand; that you, LORD, have done it.
28 Let them curse, but bless you: when they arise, let them be ashamed; but let your servant rejoice.
29 Let my adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover [‘atah] themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.
30 I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth; yea, I will praise him among the multitude.
31 For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul.
Zachariah 4
6 Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel [who is the national leader born by coming out of confusion], saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, says the LORD of hosts [I Am, a man of war].
7 Who are you, O great mountain [corrupt governments of church and state]? before Zerubbabel you shall become a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings [tshu’ah], crying, Grace, grace unto it.
8 Moreover, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
9 The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also finish it; and you shall know that the LORD of hosts has sent me unto you.
10 For who has despised the day of small things? for they shall rejoice and shall see the plummet [this right assessment that precedes the victory] in the hand of Zerubbabel with those seven [the church]; they are the eyes of the LORD [seeing as He sees], which run to and fro [giving this knowledge of God] through the whole earth.
Exodus 32
17 And when Joshua heard the noise [qowl – the voices] of the people as they shouted [rea’], he said unto Moses, There is a noise [qowl – voices] of war in the camp.
18 And he said, It is not the voice of them that shout for mastery, neither is it the voice of them that cry for being overcome: but the noise of them that sing do I hear [repeating the words of men they made idols they put in God’s place].
19 And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses’ [my] anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount.
20 And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it in the fire, and ground it to powder, and strawed it upon the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it.
21 And Moses said unto Aaron [the light givers now making idols], What did this people unto you, that you have brought so great a sin upon them?
22 And Aaron said, Let not the anger of my LORD wax hot: you knowest the people, that they are set on mischief.
23 For they said unto me, Make us gods, which shall go before us: for as for this Moses [the LORD’s prophet, The LORD’s voice who alone was drawn from the waters below], the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we know not what is become of him.
Acts 17
23 For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, To The Unknown God. Whom therefore you ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.
24 God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is LORD of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;
25 Neither is worshipped with men’s hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he gives to all life, and breath, and all things;
26 And has made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;
27 That they should seek the LORD, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us [always present with us, in us]:
28 For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring [flesh of His flesh, bone of His bone].
Deuteronomy 18
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 [shama’] 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 [hayah] not [is not understood or realized, comes not into being], nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD has not spoken, but the prophet has spoken it presumptuously [zadown]: you shall not be afraid of him.
Micah 4
6 In that day, says the LORD, will I assemble her that halts [became lame and wandered off the right path], and I will gather her that is driven out, and her that I have afflicted;
7 And I will make her that halts [was lame] a remnant, and her that was cast far off a strong nation: and the LORD shall reign over them in mount Zion from henceforth, even forever.
8 And you, O tower of the flock [who see as the LORD sees], the stronghold of the daughter of Zion, unto you shall it come, even the first dominion; the kingdom shall come to the daughter of [New Heavenly] Jerusalem [into whom this teach has flowed].
9 Now why do you cry [rea’] out aloud? is there no king in you? is your counsellor perished? for pangs have taken you as a woman in travail [to bring forth the ONE BODY of Christ].
10 Be in pain, and labor to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail: for now shall you go forth out of the city [out of corrupt church and state institutions], and you shall dwell in the field, and you shall go even to [realizing this is] Babylon; there shall you be delivered; there the LORD shall redeem you from the hand of your enemies.
11 Now also many nations [who haven’t known the LORD] are gathered against you, that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye look upon Zion.
12 But they know not the thoughts of the LORD, neither understand they his counsel: for he shall gather them as the sheaves into the floor.
13 Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will make your horn iron, and I will make your hoofs brass: and you shall beat in pieces many people: and I will consecrate their gain unto the LORD, and their substance unto the LORD of the whole earth.
Psalms 136
3 O give thanks to the LORD of lords: for his mercy endures forever.
4 To him who alone does great wonders: for his mercy endures forever.
5 To him that by wisdom made the heavens: for his mercy endures forever.
6 To him that stretched out the earth above the waters: for his mercy endures forever.
7 To him that made great lights: for his mercy endures forever:
8 The sun [the enlightened church government] to rule by day [the enlightened]: for his mercy endures forever:
9 The moon [enlightened civil government] and stars [God’s enlightened people] to rule by night [the ignorant who reject the light]: for his mercy endures forever.
Psalms 110
A Psalm of David
1 The LORD [Jehovah] said unto my LORD [‘adown – the king He will establish], Sit you at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool.
2 The LORD [Jehovah] shall send the rod of your strength out of Zion: rule you in the midst of your enemies [as I do, as commanded by the Higher power].
3 Your people shall be willing in the day of your power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning [this day now come]: you have the dew of your youth.
4 The LORD [Jehovah] has sworn, and will not repent, You are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek [the king of righteousness, and king of peace].
5 The LORD [‘Adonay – the King of kings] at your right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath.
6 He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill the places with the dead bodies; he shall wound the heads [ro’sh – those whose evil ideas and ways rule] over many countries [‘erets – over the earth].
7 He shall drink of the brook in the way [this word sent into this time, to be revealed, by which]: therefore, shall he lift up [ruwm – raise and exalt] the head [ro’sh – His righteous ideas and way].
