8 – 13 December 2024
Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and, lo, it shall not be bound up to be healed, to put a roller to bind it, to make it strong to hold the sword.
The above, Ezekiel 30:21, speaks of the LORD destroying the evil (oppressors) in power, bringing upon them the confusion (Babylon) they wrought, in a just and inevitable reward (recompense). As we well know, Babylon (mass confusion) is the product of ruling by forced delusion, deception, and mass gaslighting as manipulation to implement (an evil agenda of) untenable policies.
The LORD speaks of Him breaking their hold on us, and them not being “healed,” from the words nathan and rphu’ah. The first of these (nathan) means to give, speaking of their words (sword), which will “not” again be heard (heeded) by those awakened and enlightened to their evil by its effects (corruption and destruction) on heaven and earth. The second word (rphu’ah) means medicine, which speaks of the manipulation (more of the cause producing the effect needing remedy) they prescribe as a cure (solutions which, intentionally, cause more of the same effect), which, the intellectually enlightened, the sane, will never again accept.
The word “roller” is the once-used Hebrew word chittuwl, meaning covering or bandage; a definition we know, according to the Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon, is also that of the twice-used word ‘apher, a word briefly discussed in the previous post.
The Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary definition is, (#666 ‘apher) from the same as 665 (in the sense of covering); a turban:–ashes.
As we’ve seen in other previous posts, these later words speak of the ashes of the earth’s ruin: the mask behind which the false prophets hide. When this mask of ruin (the destruction of truth, denying it is essential to maintaining sanity and civilization – denying the ultimate truth that there is a God and He does intervene in the affairs of man) is taken away, when we see evil and good in a clear light, it comes by truth restored to its rightfully elevated station.
The word rendered “broken,” speaking of the effect of this word of God against the means of the (wicked) oppressors, is shabar, which speaks of the breaking forth of water signaling the birth of God’s new creation: His people in this first generation of the resurrection.
Ezekiel 30
8 And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I have set a fire in Egypt [Mitsrayim – double straits, a way narrowed by obstacles that must be avoided to pass through death into life], and when all her helpers [all trying to save the oppressors so they can continue to oppress] shall be destroyed [shabar – broken by this word of the LORD].
9 In that day shall messengers [mal’ak – with this message from the LORD] go forth from me in ships [the church] to make the careless Ethiopians [those covered by ignorance; darkness] afraid, and great pain shall come upon them, as in the day of Egypt: for, lo, it comes.
10 Thus says the LORD God; I will also make the multitude of Egypt to cease by the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon [the lies of the false prophets that cause the confusion that now rules the delusionally insane world].
11 He and his people with him, the terrible [‘ariyts – in great power, the king of Bablon] of the nations, shall be brought to destroy the land [‘erets – the earth]: and they shall draw their swords [destroying words] against Egypt, and fill the land [‘erets – the earth] with the slain [chalal – the “deadly wound” of verse 24 below].
12 And I will make the rivers dry [void of truth, without this word of the LORD], and sell the land [‘erets – the earth] into the hand of the wicked: and I will make the land [‘erets – the earth] waste, and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I the LORD have spoken it.
13 Thus says the LORD God; I will also destroy the idols, and I will cause their images to cease out of Noph [the capital]; and there shall be no more a prince of the land [‘erets – the earth] of Egypt: and I will put a fear in the land [‘erets – the earth] of Egypt.
14 And I will make Pathros [those who falsely interpret My words] desolate, and will set fire in Zoan [the places departed from Me and My truth], and will execute judgments in No [those disrupting order, disturbing the waters].
15 And I will pour my fury upon Sin [the misleaders], the strength of Egypt; and I will cut off the multitude of No [those disrupting order, disturbing the waters].
16 And I will set fire in Egypt: Sin [the misleaders] shall have great pain, and No [those disrupting order, disturbing the waters] shall be rent asunder, and Noph [the capital] shall have distresses [a narrowing – be dismantled, the obstacles removed] daily.
17 The young men of Aven [worthless wickedness] and of Pibeseth [whose mouths loathe truth, and who without cause hate God’s People] shall fall by the sword: and these cities shall go into captivity.
18 At Tehaphnehes [referring us to Jeremiah 46:14, when pity is shown to the lowly] also the day shall be darkened [when this understanding comes to the ignorant], when I shall break [shabar] there the yokes of Egypt [joining the oppressed to those oppressing them]: and the pomp of her strength [power to deceive] shall cease in her: as for her, a cloud [from where this understanding comes] shall cover her, and her daughters shall go into captivity.
19 Thus will I execute judgments in Egypt: and they shall know that I Am the LORD.
20 And it came to pass in the eleventh year [this time of confusion], in the first month [of the new creation], in the seventh day [this time of the LORD’s light] of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
21 Son of man [I Am], I have broken [shabar] the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and, lo, it shall not be bound up to be healed, to put a roller to bind it, to make it strong to hold the sword.
22 Therefore thus says the LORD God; Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break [shabar] his arms, the strong, and that which was broken; and I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand.
23 And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries [‘erets – the earth].
24 And I [the LORD] will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon [the works of confusion that continue to rule over the oppressors], and put my sword in his hand [this word, truth that shows them to be insane: unable to accept reality and abandon their delusions]: but I will break [shabar] Pharaoh’s arms, and he shall groan [na’aq – only appearing here, and in Job 24:12 where we’re told it’s their rebellion against the light, which cause their pain and destruction] before him [paniym – at this manifested presence of the LORD] with the groanings [n’aqah – only used three other times, speaking of the groanings of the oppressed, to whom the LORD comes to save] of a deadly wounded man [chalal].
25 But I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and the arms of Pharaoh shall fall down; and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall stretch it out upon the land [‘erets – the earth] of Egypt.
26 And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them among the countries [‘erets – the earth]; and they shall know that I Am the LORD.
Job 24
1 Why, seeing times are not hidden from [tsaphan – or kept secret by] the Almighty, do they that know [chazah – perceive] him not see his days [of His light]?
2 Some remove [nasag – not knowing they have reached] the landmarks [gbuwlah – this limit of the sea decreed by the LORD]; they violently take away flocks [rob His people of this understanding], and feed thereof [ra’ah – as devouring shepherds].
3 They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
4 They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
5 Behold, as wild asses in the desert [wander aimlessly], go they forth to their work; rising betimes [shachar] for a prey [to devour those seeking the LORD]: the wilderness yields food for them and for their children.
6 They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.
7 They cause the naked to lodge without clothing [without protection from the corrupt element of the wicked], that they have no covering in the cold.
8 They are wet with the showers of the mountains [the corrupt governments of church and state], and embrace the [false] rock for want of a shelter.
9 They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
10 They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;
11 Which make oil [their destructive words they claim are a cure] within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.
12 Men [oppressed] groan [qa’an] from out of the city, and the soul of the [deadly] wounded [chalal] cries out: yet God laid not [these men’s] folly to them [“folly” here is tiphlah, which only appears elsewhere in Job 1:22 where its Job {saying he would} not charging God “foolishly” when what He gave him was taken away, and Jeremiah 23:13, saying “And I have seen folly {tiphlah} in the prophets of Samaria {who put idols in My place, which they call by My name}; they prophesied in Baal {in the creations of their own minds}, and caused my people Israel to err.”]
13 They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
14 The murderer rising with the light [withholding this word] kills the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief [that removes all understanding].
15 The eye [seeing for themselves] also of the adulterer [those who’ve left the LORD to follow wicked misleaders] waits for the twilight [to take away this light from those in need], saying, No eye shall see me: and disguises his face [with the ashes {666} of the earth’s ruin].
16 In the dark [by the ignorance they’ve created] they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime [when this light has come, and the destroyers come thieves saying their same old corruption is understanding]: they know not the light [this understanding in which is life].
17 For the morning [this light risen in this new day] is to them [the wicked] even as the shadow of [their own] death: if one knows them [that they are the wicked], they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.
18 He is swift [qal – referring us to Isaiah 19:1] as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholds not the way of the vineyards. [Isaiah 19:1 The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rides upon a swift {qal} cloud {from where comes these waters that were there frozen for this moment}, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved {shaken} at his presence {paniym – the LORD manifested in His word sent from the cloud}, and the heart {minds – the corrupt foundation elements} of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.]
19 Drought and heat [those in the fires without this word shall] consume [rob from those who need] the snow waters: so does the grave [sheol – hell] those which have sinned.
20 The womb shall forget him [they shall not be born again from death into life]; the worm [the animated flesh of the dead here in hell] shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken [shabar] as a tree [cut off from this life-giving root].
21 He [the wicked] evil entreats [ra’ah – with evil shepherds] the barren that bears not: and does not good [refusing to give this word as received] to the widow.
22 He draweth also the mighty with his power [to deceive]: he riseth up [when the words of the wicked are exalted], and no man is sure of life.
23 Though it [this word that is the LORD’s good shepherding] be given him to be in safety, whereon he [the LORD] rests; yet his [the LORD’s] eyes are upon their ways [their own ways, choosing to give their own corrupt words and refusing to give His as commanded].
24 They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they [those holding God’s people down {katecho}] are taken out of the way as all other, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.
25 And if it be not so now [‘ephow], who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?
This last sentence refers to (“now”) when it is realized, which is described in Job 19.
Job 19
21 Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O you my friends; for the hand of God has touched me.
22 Why do you persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
23 Oh that my words were now [‘ephow] written! oh that they were printed in a book!
24 That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock [I Am] forever!
25 For I know that my redeemer lives, and that he shall stand at the latter day [‘acharown] upon the earth:
26 And though after my skin worms [the dead] destroy this body, yet in my [new] flesh shall I [after hearing Him] see God:
27 Whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another [zuwr – and not a stranger]; though my reins [my innermost thought, the foundational elements of my understanding] be consumed [kalah – be fully ended] within me [so that I Am raised to new life here in my new flesh].
28 But you should say, “Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter [exposing those falsely speaking in the LORD’s name] is found in me?”
29 Be you afraid of the sword [rejecting this word of His correction]: for [His] wrath [‘aph] brings the punishments of the [the consequences warned of by His word] the sword, that you may know there is a judgment [duwn – is a righteous cause].
Job 35
1 Elihu [He is the LORD] spoke moreover, and said,
2 Think you this to be right, that you said, “My righteousness is [your understanding, words, and ways are] more [correct] than God’s?”
3 For you said, “What advantage will it be unto you?” and, “What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin [blinding corruption]?”
4 I will answer you [God’s hated people], and your companions [accusers speaking their own understanding in the name of the LORD] with you.
5 Look unto the heavens [this place of full understanding], and see; and behold the clouds [from where this understanding comes] which are higher than you.
6 If you sin, what do you against him [His word stands and yours is seen to be worthless]? or if your transgressions [vain words] be multiplied, what do you unto him?
7 If you be righteous [if you, Job and his three friends, are correct in some of your words (as they are), but are without full understanding, not see who is speaking, as they in their partial understanding condemn themselves], what give you him? or what receives he of your hand?
8 Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are; and your righteousness may profit the son of man.
9 By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm [the strength, power] of the mighty.
10 But none says, “Where is God my maker, who gives songs in the night [His word to be spoken in this time of ignorance of His presence];
11 Who teaches us more than the beasts [men without His Holy Spirit] of the earth, and makes us wiser than [strengthening us so we rise in full understanding, like] the fowls of heaven?”
12 There they cry [to the LORD for help], but none gives answer [with this word, as the LORD commands], because of the pride of evil men [who hold them down {katecho – let}, and will let {hold them down, keeping them from rising into heaven like eagles}, until they are taken out of the way {mesos – our midst} – see 2 Thessalonians 2:7].
13 Surely God will not hear vanity [their worthless words, the same old corruption that led them here], neither will the Almighty regard it.
14 Although you [lacking faith] sayest you shall not see him, yet judgment [duwn] is before him [paniym – manifesting His presence in His word: His sword]; therefore trust you in him.
15 But now, because [lacking faith and trust] it is not so, he has visited [paqad – appeared as the Chief Oversee of the earth] in his anger [‘aph]; yet he knows it not in great extremity:
16 Therefore does Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplies words without knowledge.
As we know, as were told in the later verses of Job, Job next hears the voice of Elihu speaking as the word of the LORD from the whirlwind, and he then, putting his hand over his mouth, realizes he is seeing the LORD.
Job 38
1 Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind [ca’ar], and said,
2 Who is this that darkens counsel [speaks ignorance] by words without knowledge?
3 Gird up [prepare your mind to change positions] now your loins like a man; for I will demand of you, and answer you me.
4 Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if you have understanding.
5 Who has laid the measures thereof, if you know [who is speaking these things into existence]? or who has stretched the line upon it [rightly declaring the time and My presence as promised]?
6 Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner-stone [I Am] thereof; [This verse is a direct contrast to Isaiah 34:11, which, speaking of the condition {“without form and void”} the earth had become before the creation, says “He {the LORD} shall stretch out upon it the line of {assess it to be} confusion {tohuw – without form}, and the stones of {built upon the foundation of confusion} emptiness {bohuw – void of light: understanding}.” We’re told earlier in verse 8, that “For it is the day of the LORD’s vengeance, and the year of recompenses for the controversy of Zion.” The “controversy” is who is better suited to rule the world, the LORD who created it or the men who’ve made it without form and void}?”]
7 When the morning stars [rising with this light of the new day] sang together [repeating this same word], and all the sons of God [by receiving His correction] shouted for joy [realizing His presence opened their mouths as commanded]?
8 Or who shut up the sea [humanity at large] with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?
9 When I made the cloud [from where comes this understanding] the garment thereof, and thick darkness [their own ignorance] a swaddling-band for it [binding humanity, to protect it from its own flailing, like with bars and doors],
10 And broke [shabar] up for it my decreed place [choq – with my righteous declarations, decrees], and set bars and doors,
11 And said, Hitherto shall you come, but no further: and here shall your proud waves [of the wicked] be stayed?
Isaiah 29
6 You shall be visited [paqad] of the LORD of hosts [a man of war, in whom the LORD manifests His presence as the Chief Overseer of the earth] with thunder, and with earthquake [ra’ash – the “shaking” that bring the dead bones together – Ezekiel 37:7], and great noise [qowl – His voice here heard], with storm and tempest [ca’ar – the whirlwind from where the LORD’s voice is heard as His, changing the face of the earth as He moves upon the darkened deep, and light {understanding} comes into being], and the flame of devouring fire [from His mouth].
7 And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel [the lion of God – the second face of the LORD’s unfolding presence manifested], even all that fight against her and her munition, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision [realizing everything they created while they slept in death were creations of their sleeping minds].
8 It shall even be as when a hungry man dreams, and, behold, he eats; but he awakes, and his soul is empty [like in Isaiah 34:11 – void of understanding]; or as when a thirsty man dreams, and, behold, he drinks; but he awakes, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul has appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against mount Zion [the LORD’s new government on the earth].
9 Stay yourselves, and wonder [what you are experiencing]; cry you out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.
10 For the LORD has poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep [tardemah – this is Abram’s “deep sleep,” spoken of in Genesis 15:12], and has closed your eyes [and you have seen nothing you say you’ve seen in His word]: the prophets and your rulers, the seers has he covered [in the darkness of their own ignorance].
11 And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book [the written word of God] that is sealed [until now when it is here opened as the LORD crowns His anointed with His understanding], which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray you: and he says, I cannot; for it is sealed [by the LORD]:
12 And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray you: and he says, I am not learned.
13 Wherefore the LORD said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth [claiming they know Me], and with their lips do honor me, but have removed their heart [minds] far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men [as ignorant of Me as those they teach]:
14 Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvelous [eye opening] work among this people [who will hear My voice and realize {see} My presence], even a marvelous work and a wonder [an experience they will not understand until they hear My voice as the One speaking]: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid [but yet, even though I have told them this would come, in their pride in untrue things, they continue looking for their dreams to come true].
15 Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark [in ignorance], and they say, Who sees us? and who knows us?
16 Surely your turning of things upside down [calling your corruption truth and truth corruption] shall be esteemed as the potter’s clay [molded into whatever the LORD chooses]: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?
17 Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon [purity seen on high] shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest [a new crop of upright men]?
18 And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity [‘ophel – the things obscured], and out of darkness [out of ignorance].
19 The meek [who shall inherit the earth] also shall increase their joy in the LORD [seeing, realizing, His presence], and the poor [without worldly power] among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
20 For the terrible one [‘ariyts – in great power, the king of Babylon] is brought to naught, and the scorner is consumed [kalah], and all that watch for iniquity are cut off [karath]:
21 That make a man an offender for a word [claiming they are offended by this true word of God], and lay a snare for him that reproves in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of naught [their worthless words].
22 Therefore thus says the LORD, who redeemed Abraham [from his deep sleep], concerning the house of Jacob, Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his face now wax pale.
23 But when he sees his children, the work of my hands, in the midst of him, they shall sanctify my name, and sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel.
24 They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding [biynah], and they that murmured [against Me] shall learn doctrine.
Jeremiah 46
10 For this is the day of the LORD God of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour, and it shall be satiate and made drunk with their blood: for the LORD God of hosts has a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.
11 Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt: in vain shall you use many medicines; for you shall not be cured.
12 The nations have heard of your shame, and your cry has filled the land: for the mighty man has stumbled against the mighty, and they are fallen both together
13 The word that the LORD spoke to Jeremiah the prophet, how Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon [the lies of the false prophets that cause the now mass delusion that covers the world in insanity] should come and smite the land of Egypt [of the oppressors].
14 Declare you in Egypt [this land of oppression], and publish in Migdol [the towers from which they fire their machines of war, their poisonous words], and publish in Noph [among their powers, the mighty to deceive] and in Tahpanhes [who show no pity]: say you, Stand fast, and prepare [kuwn – when My word is established, to direct] you; for the sword shall devour round about you.
15 Why are your valiant men swept away? they stood not, because the LORD did drive them.
16 He made many to fall, yea, one fell upon another: and they said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people, and to the land of our nativity, from the oppressing sword.
17 They did cry there, Pharaoh king of Egypt [the house of the oppressors] is but a noise [sha’own – whose words flood against us, rushing as machines of war against us]; he has passed the time appointed [mow’ed – used only one other time in Jeremiah, rendered “appointed time,” as the LORD speaks of creatures knowing theirs, but His people not knowing His judgment. He says it’s when His people refuse to turn from their wickedness, while saying they’re wise and His law is with them].
18 As I live, says the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts, Surely as Tabor is among the mountains, and as Carmel by the sea, so shall he come.
19 O you daughter dwelling in Egypt [in oppression], furnish yourself to go into captivity: for Noph [the powers of oppression] shall be waste and desolate without an inhabitant.
20 Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction comes; it comes out of the north [the darkness – from their own ignorance].
21 Also her hired men are in the midst of her like fatted bullocks; for they also are turned back, and are fled away together: they did not stand, because the day of their calamity was come upon them, and the time of their visitation [pquddah – from paqad, punishment].
22 The voice [of the Chief Overseer] thereof shall go like a serpent [the voice of the son of man, raised as Moses lifted the serpent in the wilderness]; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood [as was Gideon to Midian and her kings].
23 They shall cut down her forest, says the LORD, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and are innumerable.
24 The daughter of Egypt shall be confounded; she shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the north [the ignorant].
25 The LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, says; Behold, I will punish the multitude of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with their gods, and their kings; even Pharaoh, and all them that trust in him:
26 And I will deliver them into the hand of those that seek their lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of his servants: and afterward it shall be inhabited, as in the days of old, says the LORD.
27 But fear not you, O my servant Jacob, and be not dismayed, O Israel: for, behold, I will save you from afar off, and your seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and be in rest and at ease, and none shall make him afraid.
28 Fear you not, O Jacob my servant, says the LORD: for I am with you; for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven you: but I will not make a full end of you, but correct you in measure; yet will I not leave you wholly unpunished.
Jeremiah 8
1 At that time, says the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves [qeber – the tombs where their dead bodies are kept]:
2 And they shall spread them before the sun [the church they’ve corrupted], and the moon [civil government also totally darkened and draining the life of those they tyrannically rule], and all the host of heaven [all God’s people at large], [their Father’s wife] whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.
3 And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places whither I have driven them, says the LORD of hosts.
4 Moreover you shall say unto them, Thus says the LORD; Shall they fall [away to these misleaders], and not arise? shall he turn away [from their LORD], and not return?
5 Why then is this people of Jerusalem slid back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return [to this truth by My correction].
6 I hearkened [qashab – I let His words pierce my ear and end enter my mind] and heard [shama’ – and obeyed His voice I heard], but they spoke not aright: no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? everyone turned to his course, as the horse rushes into the battle [carrying the men taking them there].
7 Yea, the stork in the heaven knows her appointed times [mow’ed]; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD [at this time He appointed].
8 How do you say, We are wise, and the law [this written word] of the LORD is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain.
9 The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them?
10 Therefore will I give their wives [those they mislead] unto others, and their fields to them [that do obey the LORD’s commands] that shall inherit them: for every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness [they judge their success by their worldly prosperity, knowing not that they are without heavenly treasure], from the prophet even unto the priest every one [is puffed up, swelled with pride, and] deals falsely.
11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace [they sit still while their enemies are among them warring against their bodies and minds: life, liberty, and property].
12 Were they ashamed when they [under these misleaders] had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation [pquddah – now when the LORD has appeared as the Chief Overseer of the earth] they shall be cast down, says the LORD.
13 I will surely consume them [with this word from My mouth], says the LORD: there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and the things that I have given them shall pass away from them [as it is occurring before their eyes, they see it and know it, but those they follow lead them into sitting still].
14 Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities [the places that hear and obey the voice of the LORD, who have joined His ONE BODY, and subordinate their will to His good leadership], and let us [put our hands over our mouths and] be silent there: for the LORD our God has put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.
15 We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble!
16 The snorting of his horses [under misleaders running into the battle against us] was heard from Dan [which is the judgment of God, as He warned and all have forgotten]: the whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones [the communists joined with the wicked in power]; for they are come, and have devoured the land, and all that is in it; the city, and those that dwell therein.
17 For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you [whose venom is in their mouths speaking nothing except lies, yet their army follows them, and their known lies, because of the enmity], which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, says the LORD.
18 When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me.
19 Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a far country [merchaq – this appointed time the LORD decreed]: Is not the LORD in Zion? is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with strange vanities [worthless ways far from God]?
20 The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.
21 For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black [my people chose death and remain blind to the LORD’s presence, while claiming they are wise and see everything]; astonishment has taken hold on me [the dead body of Christ].
22 Is there no balm in Gilead [in this testimony]; is there no physician there [prescribing this cure]? why then is not the health [‘aruwkah] of the daughter of my people recovered?
Job 42
1 Then Job answered the LORD, and said,
2 I know that you can do every thing, and that no thought can be withheld from you.
3 [You said unto me: God’s hated people] “Who is he that hides counsel without [by lacking] knowledge [of Me]?” therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not [but you showed us].
4 [The LORD said unto Job] “Hear [shama’ – My voice, and obey], I beseech you, and I will speak: I will demand of you, and declare you unto me [that you know Me].”
5 [And Job said] “I have heard of you by the hearing of the ear: but [after I heard, realized, it is Your voice] now my eye sees you.”
6 Wherefore [when Job realized the LORD’s presence, he said] I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes [of the ruin of heaven and earth realized to be the result of our ignorance of Your presence].
7 And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite [those whose God is their worldly prosperity, which they claim validates their worldly {falsely so-called} wisdom], My wrath is kindled against you, and against your two friends: for you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job [here and now] has.
The “obscurity” spoken of in Isaiah 29:18 above, from the nine times used word ‘ophel, leads us to understand it’s the darkness out of which the LORD has saved us. It’s speaking of the sun setting: when understanding, light, and life have left the earth.
The word first appears in Job 3:6, where it is the “darkness” from where leviathan, “mourning,” was about to rise. As we know, leviathan is there defined as the false accusation of Job’s three friends, through whom Satan worked with misinterpretation and misrepresentation of God’s word.
Job 3
2 And Job [being born as dead flesh, without full understanding, into this new creation] spoke, and said,
3 Let the day [understanding] perish wherein I was born, and the night [this time when ignorance covers the earth] in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.
4 Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light [understanding] shine upon it.
5 Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud [wherein is held the understanding removed from the earth] dwell upon it; let the blackness [ignorance of the LORD’s presence] of the day terrify it.
6 As for that night, let darkness [‘ophel] seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months [let the time darkness ends not be known].
7 Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice [declaring the realization of the LORD’s presence] come therein.
8 Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning [leviathan – the rivers of cursing that come from those speaking darkness in the LORD’s name].
9 Let the stars [God’s people thereby darkened] of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day [even now when it has come upon them]:
10 Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb [who bore Job as dead flesh into this darkness], nor hid sorrow from my eyes.
11 Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the [earth’s] belly?
Job 10
15 If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore, see you my affliction;
16 For it increases. You hunt me as a fierce lion [roaring these words]: and again you show yourself marvelous upon me [opening my eyes daily].
17 You renew your witnesses against me, and increase your indignation upon me; changes [this new flesh] and war [of light] are against [the ignorance and death of] me.
18 Wherefore then have you brought me forth out of the womb [as dead flesh]? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!
19 I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
20 Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
21 Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land [‘erets – this earth] of darkness and the shadow of death;
22 A land of darkness [‘ophel], as darkness [‘ophel] itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order [ceder – only used here, meaning when things are rightly arranged], and where the light [understanding] is as darkness [ignorance of the LORD].
Job 23
3 Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his [mercy] seat [where He is realized in the conversation]!
4 I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
5 I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.
6 Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength [understanding] in me.
7 There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered forever from my judge.
8 Behold, I go forward [into this time], but he is not there [found]; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:
9 On the left hand, where he does work, but I cannot behold [see] him: he hides himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him:
10 But he knows the way that I take [until I hear Him, and then see Him]: when he has tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
11 My foot has held [understood] his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.
12 Neither have I gone back [departed] from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
13 But he is in one mind [to raise His ONE BODY to life from death], and who can turn him? and what his soul desires, even that he does.
14 For he performs the thing that is appointed [choq – decreed] for me: and many such things are with him.
15 Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him.
16 For God maketh my heart soft [makes our minds changeable], and the Almighty troubles me [His Spirit moves me to understand this time and His presence in the light]:
17 Because I was not cut off before [paniym – by His manifested presence in] the darkness [‘ophel], neither has he covered [kacah – neither has He kept secret in] the darkness [‘ophel] from my face [paniym – His presence manifested].
Job 28
1 Surely there is a vein for the silver [where it’s found in the earth], and a place for gold where they fine it [in the fires].
2 Iron [strength, like silver] is taken out of the [belly of the] earth, and brass [these words, like gold] is molten out of the stone [in tribulation’s fires brought from God’s people].
3 He sets an end [qets] to darkness, and searches out all perfection: the stones of darkness [‘ophel, with affinity to Ophir: fine gold, these treasures, brought from the belly of the earth], and the shadow of death.
4 The flood [of these life-giving waters] breaks out from the inhabitant; even the waters forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men.
5 As for the earth, out of it comes bread [these treasures from the mouth of God, by which man lives]: and under it is turned up as it were fire [the tribulation that brings His word from His people].
6 The stones of it [God’s people from whom His word flows] are the place of sapphires: and it has dust of [from the earth’s ruin comes] gold.
7 There is a path which no fowl [those in places where understanding should be found] knows, and which the vulture’s [feeding on the dead] eye has not seen:
8 The lion’s whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion [those who say they are speaking God’s word] passed by it.
9 He [the LORD] puts forth his hand upon the rock [He sends His word by one who can trusted]; he overturns the mountains [the corrupt governments of church and state] by the roots [showing the foundations have been corrupted].
10 He cuts out rivers among the rocks [new ways to send His pure word to His people]; and his eye sees every precious thing.
11 He binds the floods [the corrupt word of the wicked in power] from overflowing; and the [corrupt] thing that is hid [below the surface of their words] brings he forth to light [understanding].
12 But where shall [this] wisdom be found? and where is the place of [this] understanding?
13 Man knows not the price thereof [is a life given]; neither is it found in the land of the living [but rather it is found here among the dead].
14 The depth [of man’s understanding] says, It is not in me: and the sea [all humanity] says, It is not with me.
15 It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.
16 It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir [these treasures found here in the darkness], with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.
17 The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of it shall not be for jewels of fine gold.
18 No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of [this] wisdom is above rubies.
19 The topaz of Ethiopia [cover by darkness] shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued with pure gold.
20 Whence then comes [this] wisdom? and where is the place of [this] understanding?
21 Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept closed from the fowls of the air.
22 Destruction and death [where it is now found] say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears [as the voice of God, that comes before we see Him].
23 God [alone] understands the way thereof, and he [alone] knows the place thereof.
24 For he looks to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the whole heaven;
25 To make the weight for the winds [His Almighty Spirit that moves upon the waters of the darkened deep]; and he weighs [orderly distributes] the waters [His word] by measure.
26 When he made a decree [choq – declared, promised] for the rain [that He would send this word from heaven], and [make] a way for the lightning of the thunder [for this understanding to be heard as His voice]:
27 Then did he see it [is His presence manifested to us], and [and by His voice] declare it; he prepared it, yea, and [here and now] searched it out.
28 And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the LORD, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.
Jeremiah, after only using the word mow’ed twice in Jeremiah, then uses it six times in Lamentation., again describing the “appointed time:” now when the LORD gathers His “congregation:” His ONE BODY.
In these chapters (Lamentations 1 & 2) Jeremiah is speaking of himself as the LORD’s One dead Body, without His One Mind, and therefore possessed by misleaders among them in power (as teachers and preachers) who’ve led them into (and hold them in) desolation.
Lamentation 1
3 Judah [the leaders of God’s people] is gone into captivity [possessed by an evil spirit] because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwells among the heathen, she finds no rest: all her persecutors overtook [nasag – only used three other times by Jeremiah {Jeremiah 39:5, 42:16, & 52:8}, twice speaking of Zedekiah {the righteousness of Jehovah} being overtaken, and the other below] her between the straits [metsar – speaking of going into Egypt {metsraiym}, describing pressure from oppressors].
4 The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts [mow’ed – because this is her appointed time and none obey or enter in the LORD’s One mind {as in Job 23:13 above}: One Body]: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.
5 Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the LORD has afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before [their minds are possessed by] the enemy.
Jeremiah 42
13 But if you say, We will not dwell in this land [‘erets – this good earth, as the LORD created it and saw it was good], neither obey [shama’] the voice of the LORD your God,
14 Saying, No; but we will go into the land of Egypt [into oppression], where [surrendering to their ways] we shall see no war, nor hear [shama’ – nor obey] the sound of [qowl – this voice of the LORD] the trumpet, nor have hunger of bread [nor have this word from His mouth, by which we live]; and there will we dwell:
15 And now therefore hear [shama’ – and obey] the word of the LORD, you remnant of Judah; Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; If you wholly set your faces [paniym – My presence in you] to enter into Egypt, and go to sojourn there;
16 Then it shall come to pass, that the sword [this word you will there learn to refuse], which you feared, shall overtake [nasag] you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine [without this word], whereof you were afraid, shall follow close after you there in Egypt; and there you shall [without My word] die.
17 So shall it be with all the men that set their faces to go into Egypt to sojourn there; they shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence [the dis-ease that comes without My good leading]: and none of them shall remain or escape from the evil that I will bring upon them [the consequences of following evil leading].
18 For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As my anger and my fury has been poured forth upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem; so shall my fury be poured forth upon you, when you shall enter into Egypt: and you shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach; and you shall see this place [this good earth as I created it] no more.
19 The LORD has said concerning you, O you remnant of Judah [leaders of God’s people]; Go you not into Egypt: know certainly that I have admonished you this day.
20 For you dissembled in your hearts, when you sent me unto the LORD your God, saying, Pray for us unto the LORD our God; and according unto all that the LORD our God shall say, so declare unto us, and we will do it.
Lamentations 2
11 All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and consider; for I am [the LORD’s one flesh body has] become vile.
12 Is it nothing to you, all you that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the LORD has afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.
13 From above has he sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them: he has spread a net for my feet, he has turned me back: he has made me desolate and faint all the day.
14 The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are wreathed, and come up upon my neck: he has made my strength to fall, the LORD has delivered me into their hands, from whom I am not able to rise up.
15 The LORD has trodden under foot all my mighty men in the midst of me: he has called an assembly [mow’ed – this appointed time] against me to crush [shabar – by these waters breaking forth] my young men [who reject the ancient good ways]: the LORD has trodden the virgin, the daughter of Judah, as in a winepress.
Lamentations 2
5 The LORD was as an enemy: he has swallowed up Israel, he has swallowed up all her palaces: he has destroyed his strong holds, and has increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.
6 And he has violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: he has destroyed his places of the assembly [mow’ed]: the LORD has caused the solemn feasts [mow’ed] and sabbaths [this appointed time of course correction, when He interrupts our words and works] to be forgotten in Zion, and has despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.
7 The LORD has cast off his altar, he has abhorred his sanctuary, he has given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have made a noise [qowl – their voice to be heard, instead of the voice of the LORD] in the house of the LORD, as in the day of a solemn feast [mow’ed – this appointed time].
8 The LORD has purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he has stretched out a line, he has not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together.
18 Their heart cried unto the LORD, O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night: give yourself no rest; let not the apple of your eye cease [be pupils taught to see as He sees].
19 Arise, cry out in the night [this time when ignorance of the LORD covers the earth]: in the beginning of the watches [seeing in the darkness] pour out your heart [His mind in you] like water before the face [paniym – manifesting the presence] of the LORD: lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young children, that faint for hunger [without this word] in the top of every street.
20 Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom you have done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the LORD?
21 The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword [this word they reject]; you have slain them in the day of your anger; you have killed, and not pitied.
22 You have called as in a solemn day [mow’ed – at this appointed time] my terrors round about, so that in the day of the LORD’s anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up has my enemy consumed [kalah – made a full end].
Psalms 37
1 Fret not yourself because of evildoers, neither be you envious against the workers of iniquity.
2 For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.
3 Trust in the LORD, and do good; so shall you dwell in the land [‘erets – this new earth He is creating], and truly you shall be fed [with this word from the LORD’s mouth].
4 Delight yourself also in the LORD: and he shall give you the desires of your heart.
5 Commit your way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.
6 And he shall bring forth your righteousness as the light [this understanding], and your judgment as the noonday [this full understanding come].
7 Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not yourself because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.
8 Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not yourself in any wise to do evil.
9 For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon [qavah – expect] the LORD, they shall inherit the earth.
10 For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, you shall diligently consider his place, and it shall not be.
11 But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.
12 The wicked plot against the just, and gnashes upon him with his teeth.
13 The LORD shall laugh at him: for he sees that his day is coming.
14 The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of upright conversation.
15 Their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bows shall be broken [shabar].
16 A little that a righteous man has is better than the riches of many wicked.
17 For the arms of the wicked shall be broken [shabar]: but the LORD upholds the righteous.
18 The LORD knows the days of the upright: and their inheritance shall be forever.
19 They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.
20 But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the LORD shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away.
21 The wicked borrow, and pay not again: but the righteous show mercy, and gives.
22 For such as be blessed of him shall inherit the earth; and they that be cursed of him shall be cut off.
23 The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he delights in his way.
24 Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the LORD upholds him with his hand.
25 I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.
26 He is ever merciful, and lends; and his seed is blessed.
27 Depart from evil, and do good; and dwell for evermore.
28 For the LORD loves judgment, and forsakes not his saints; they are preserved forever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.
29 The righteous shall inherit the land [‘erets – the earth], and dwell therein forever.
30 The mouth of the righteous speak wisdom, and his tongue talks of judgment.
31 The law of his God is in his heart [mind]; none of his steps shall slide.
32 The wicked watch the righteous, and seek to slay him.
33 The LORD will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged.
34 Wait on [qavah – expect] the LORD, and keep his way, and he shall exalt you to inherit the land [‘erets – the earth]: when the wicked are cut off, you shall see it.
35 I have seen the wicked in great power [‘ariyts – as Babylon], and spreading himself like a green bay tree.
36 Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
37 Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of [‘achariyth – in these last days] that man is peace [Shiloh – Genesis 49:10 The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.].
38 But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of [‘achariyth – in these last days] the wicked shall be cut off [karath].
39 But the salvation of the righteous is of the LORD: he is their strength [understanding] in the time of trouble [tsarah – this time of tribulation].
40 And the LORD shall help them, and deliver them: he shall deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in him.
