Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sins, it shall die.

15 December 2024

Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sins, it shall die.

The word rendered “sins” in Ezekiel 18:4 above is the many times used word chata’, meaning “to miss; hence (figuratively and generally) to sin; by inference, to forfeit, lack, expiate, repent, (causatively) lead astray, condemn.”

The LORD, beginning above, leads us in the surrounding verses to understand its intended message: that life (understanding) and death (ignorance) are found in this sin (misleading by misinterpretation).

To preface this understanding, God’s people rejecting the truth of the “sealed book” is the greatest aspect (cause) of misinterpretation. Throughout Scripture, we are told the book, the written word of God, is sealed until the end. Those interpreting it either reject this widely stated truth or must believe the end came long ago when their fathers, whose words they follow and repeat, began to misinterpret it.

The above is the mystery of iniquity already at work, which Paul speaks of, in 2 Thessalonians 2:7, as already at work. Paul then describes it as the “working of Satan,” with lying signs and wonders (of false prophets), after which the LORD comes (with correction to those who’ve “waited” for, expected, Him – which is the love of His truth these workers of iniquity reject).

Paul warns, in Acts 20:29, that grievous wolves (scattering and devouring) would come after his departure and not spare the flock.

Friends, I tell you the truth that all the writers of God’s lasting word, inspirited by the LORD, knew the Book was to remain sealed until this moment, “waiting” for the LORD to send His first begotten (I Am), to crown him by its unsealing. All these writers, therefore, wrote in a manner in which the true meaning, the understanding they were conveying, remained sealed.

Matthew 24
33 So likewise you, when you shall see all these things [which have until now been sealed], know that it is near, even at the doors.
34 Truly I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.
35 Heaven and earth shall pass away [as they have], but my words shall not pass away.
36 But of that day and hour knows no man [because it is sealed until this moment], no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
37 But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark [here alone, where all the living are protected from the words of men],
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

Acts 20
26 Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I Am pure [seeing the LORD] from the blood of all men [misleading none].
27 For I have not shunned to declare [speaking with the LORD voice] unto you all the counsel of God.
28 Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost [the LORD unknown to those who are without this understanding] has made you overseers, to feed the church of God [giving this understanding], which he has purchased with his own blood [giving His life to deliver this message].
29 For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.
30 Also of your own selves [among those who know this truth] shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.
31 Therefore, watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.
32 And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace [these treasures revealed], which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified [are purified of corruption, and therefore see the LORD].
33 I have coveted no man’s silver, or gold, or apparel [which is the root of all evil].
34 Yea, you yourselves know, that these hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me.
35 I have shown you all things, how that so laboring [diligently seeking] you ought to support the weak, and to remember the [pure] words of the LORD Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give [there is a greater blessing in giving this word] than to receive.

John, speaking of understanding that comes only by the voice of God heard, says it is first heard (while sealed) as seven thunders, and then (now) from the seventh angel, whose voice ends the mystery of God.

Revelation 10
1 And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud [with full understanding that left the earth and was held there]: and a rainbow [the light divided into many colors, like Joseph’s coat] was [light rightly divided as a crown] upon his head, and his face [presence] was as it were the sun [the full understanding of the Church], and his feet as pillars of fire [protecting God’s people who followed Him in His ways in this time of light]:
2 And he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea [His way is among humanity], and his left foot on the earth [His way is here on the earth],
3 And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roars [the second face of the LORD’s unfolding presence manifested]: and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices [the sound of the light, understanding heard as the voice of the LORD unknown].
4 And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not [because they are sealed until this end].
5 And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven,
6 And swore by him that lives forever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should [here and now] be time no longer [in this end time when the book is unsealed]:
7 But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he has declared to his servants the prophets [who knew their work would be sealed until this time].
8 And the voice which I heard from heaven [this place of full understanding] spoke unto me again, and said, Go and take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel which stands [with this work that was done] upon the sea and upon the earth.
9 And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little book. And he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make your belly bitter [knowing it must be spoken from the mouth again], but it shall [when spoken as received] be in your mouth sweet as honey.
10 And I took the little book out of the angel’s hand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter [and knew it had come from my mouth again].
11 And he said unto me, You must prophesy [speak this same word of the LORD as received from Him] again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings.

In the context of the corruption of the written word over the many years when God’s people slept and the book was sealed to all but His elect (those He chooses), Ezekiel precedes the title verse with the following:

Ezekiel 18
1 The word of the LORD came unto me again, saying,
2 What mean you, that you use this proverb concerning the land [‘adamah – this new generation I Am creating] of Israel, saying, “The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge?”
3 As I live, says the LORD God, you shall not have occasion any more to use this proverb in Israel.

The word rendered “sour grapes” is the four-times used word bocer, meaning “unripe grapes.” It speaks of fruit eaten before it was time, by those throughout history who have presumptuously interpreted what God sealed (in the book), which has ruined their children’s mouths.

Ezekiel 18
14 Now, lo, if he beget a son, that see all his father’s sins which he has done, and considers [ra’ah – sees, understands what has been done], and does not such like,
15 That has not eaten upon the mountains [not eaten the words of the corrupt institutions of church and state], neither has lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel [which men created and put in My place and called by My name], has not [with their creations] defiled [the minds] his neighbor’s wife,
16 Neither has oppressed any, has not withheld the pledge [not sworn falsely to things that aren’t true], neither has spoiled by violence, but has given his bread [this word from the mouth of God, by which man lives] to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment [to protect them from the elements of understanding, which men corrupted],
17 That has taken off his [wicked] hand [the violence of oppression] from the poor [those without worldly power], that has not received usury nor increase [the bondage of excessive interest and inflation], has executed my judgments, has walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father, he shall surely live.
18 As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, spoiled his brother by violence, and did that which is not good among his people, lo, even he shall die in his iniquity.
19 Yet say you, Why? does not the son bear the iniquity of the father? When the son has done that which is lawful and right, and has kept all my statutes, and has done them, he shall surely live.
20 The soul that sins, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
21 But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he has committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
22 All his transgressions that he has committed, they shall not be mentioned unto him: in his righteousness that he has done he shall live.
23 Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? says the LORD God: and not that he should return from his ways, and live?
24 But when the righteous turn away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that the wicked man does, shall he live? All his righteousness that he has done shall not be mentioned: in his trespass that he has trespassed, and in his sin that he has sinned [chata’], in them shall he die.
25 Yet you say, The way of the LORD is not equal. Hear now, O house of Israel; Is not my way equal? are not your ways unequal?
26 When a righteous man turns away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and dies [as a consequence] in them; for his iniquity that he has done shall he die.
27 Again, when the wicked man turns away from his wickedness that he has committed, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.
28 Because he considers, and turns away from all his transgressions that he has committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
29 Yet says the house of Israel, The way of the LORD is not equal. O house of Israel, are not my ways equal? are not your ways unequal?
30 Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, says the LORD God. Repent, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin.
31 Cast away from you all your transgressions [pesha’ – revolting against My rule], whereby you have transgressed [pasha’ – trespassing into things forbidden]; and make you a new heart [uncorrupted mind] and a new [holy] spirit: for why will you die, O house of Israel?
32 For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dies, says the LORD God: wherefore turn yourselves, and live you.

The first time the word bocer appears is in Isaiah 18:5, where the LORD speaks of and to His people here and now.

Isaiah 18
1 Woe to the land [‘erets – the earth] shadowing [blocking the light] with wings [the voice of falsely so-called wise men], which is beyond [this other side, after] the rivers [the words that have flowed into the sea: humanity] of Ethiopia [covering it in darkness]:
2 That send [to which the LORD sends] ambassadors [tsiyr – with this errand, as birth pains] by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters [with these words], saying, Go, you swift messengers [mala’k – the angels of the LORD, speaking this word as received], to a nation scattered and peeled [mowrat – only used here and below, meaning obstinate and separated from the LORD], to a people terrible [fearing men] from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land [‘erets – the old and corrupt earth] the rivers [words of men] have spoiled!
3 All you inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth [‘erets], see you, when he lifts up an ensign [nec – the pole upon which Moses lifted the fiery serpent in the wilderness; like the son of man must be lifted, so this voice is heard and exalted above all other voices] on the mountains; and when he blows a trumpet [this voice heard calling all to gather to the LORD, into His ONE BODY], hear [shama’ – and obey] you.
4 For so the LORD said unto me, I will take my rest [of all My work and the book will be sealed, until the end], and I will consider in [diligently search] my dwelling place [My throne in the cloud] like a clear [speaking plainly] heat [revealing My word frozen there, to be sent as the latter rain in this time of war] upon herbs [the new life springing forth on this third day], and like a cloud of dew [understanding appearing on the earth on this new day] in the heat of harvest [gathering all the elements of understanding into this exposition].
5 For afore [paniym – I will manifest My presence in] the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape [bocer – the fruit that wasn’t ready] is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off [karath] the sprigs [zalzal – only used here, from an almost identical word meaning to shake or quake, speaking the things created by men shaken and removed] with pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the branches [ntiyshah – only used three times, speaking of their battlements]. [Jeremiah 5:10 Go you up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements {ntiyshah}; for they are not the LORD’s.]
6 They shall be left together unto the [and God’s people shall be freed and united] fowls of the mountains [by this understands risen with Him into His new governments here on the earth], and to the beasts [those who remain without the LORD’s Spirit] of the earth: and the fowls shall summer [their days shall be long] upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter [have little light] upon them.
7 In that time shall the present [shay] be brought unto the LORD of hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts [a man of war], the mount Zion [His government upon the earth].

The three times used word shay, meaning a gift, is said to probably be from shavah, meaning “to level, i.e. equalize; figuratively, to resemble; by implication, to adjust (i.e. counterbalance, be suitable, compose, place, yield, etc.).”

Isaiah 28
22 Now, therefore, be you not mockers [luwts – the “scorners” of Isaiah 29:20, the “teacher” of Isaiah 43:27, which we know from Job 33:23 speaks of an “interpreter”], lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the LORD God of hosts a consumption [kalah – a full end], even determined [charats – and decreed] upon the whole earth [‘erets].
23 Give you ear, and hear [shama’ – and obey] my voice; hearken, and hear [shama’ – and obey] my speech.
24 Does [not] the plowman plow [the earth] all day to sow [to plant a new crop there]? does he open [pathach – reveal by His mouth what was sealed] and break the clods of his ground [‘adamah – this new generation that was hardened by a lack this word from heaven]?
25 When he has made plain [shavah] the face [paniym – His presence] thereof, does he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place?
26 For his God does instruct [yacar – correct] him to discretion [mishpat – in this judgment], and does teach [yarah – flows this understanding into] him.

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 [luwts – teachers misinterpreting My word] 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 [corrects] 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.

Isaiah 43
18 Remember you not the former things, neither consider the things of old [which your fathers corrupted].
19 Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall you not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers [of these pure life-giving waters] in the desert.
20 The beast [those who were without My Spirit] of the field shall honor me, the dragons [tan – men as serpents and whales who devoured My people with their wide open mouths and swallowed them into hell] and the owls [men who hunt souls in the darkness]: because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen.
21 This people have I formed for myself; they shall [open their mouths and] show forth my praise.
22 But you have not called upon me, O Jacob; but you have been weary of me, O Israel.
23 You have not brought me the small cattle of your burnt offerings; neither have you honored me with your sacrifices. I have not caused you to serve with an offering, nor wearied you with incense.
24 You have bought me no sweet cane with money, neither have you filled me with the fat of your sacrifices: but you have made me to serve with your sins, you have wearied me with your iniquities.
25 I, even I, am he that blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and will not remember your sins.
26 Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare you, that you mayest be justified.
27 Your first father has sinned, and your teachers [luwts – the scorners who misinterpreted My word, and robbed My people of the life there in its understanding] have transgressed [trespassed into the place forbidden] against me [even after they were told it is sealed until this moment].
28 Therefore I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary [who did this], and have given Jacob to the curse [plainly warned of], and Israel to reproaches [gidduwph – these men’s reviling: scorning and vilifying this word of God].

The word gidduwph only appears two other times, Isaiah 51:7 and Zephaniah 2:8.

Isaiah 51
3 For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody [the word of God as a song He’s put in our mouths].
4 Hearken unto me, my people; and give ear unto me, O my nation: for a law shall proceed from me, and I will make my judgment to rest for a light of the people.
5 My righteousness is near; my salvation is gone forth, and my arms shall judge the people; the isles [dry places without this word] shall wait upon [qavah – expect] me, and on my arm shall they trust.
6 Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens [the old and corrupt understanding] shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be forever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.
7 Hearken unto [shama’ – and obey] me, you that know righteousness, the people in whose heart [mind] is my law; fear you not the reproach of men, neither be you afraid of their revilings [gidduwph].
8 For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be forever, and my salvation from [the last] generation to [the first of the new] generation.
9 Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Are you not it that has cut Rahab [the proud], and wounded the dragon?
10 Are you not it which has dried the sea, [and sealed] the waters of the great deep; that has made the depths of the sea [revealed] a way for the ransomed to Passover [from death into life]?
11 Therefore the redeemed of the LORD shall return [to this understanding in the LORD’s presence], and come with singing [this word] unto Zion [His throne, government, on the earth]; and everlasting joy [in this realization] shall be upon their head [in their mind, for all shall know Me]: they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning shall flee away.
12 I, even I, am he that comforts you: who are you, that you shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made as grass;
13 And forgets the LORD your maker, that has stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and have feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor?
14 The captive exile hastens [mahar – are quickened into life] that he may be loosed, and that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread [this word from the mouth of the LORD] should fail.
15 But I am the LORD your God, that divided the sea, whose [proud] waves roared [as if they were speaking My word, when they were speaking their own corruption]: The LORD of hosts [I Am, a man of war] is his name [His identity].
16 And I have put my words in your mouth, and I have covered you in the shadow of my hand [My work], that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, You are my people.
17 Awake, awake, stand up, O [New Heavenly] Jerusalem, which have drunk at the hand of the LORD the cup of his fury; you have drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling, and wrung them out.
18 There is none [no not one] to guide her among all the sons whom she has brought forth; neither is there any that takes her by the hand [not one] of all the sons that she has brought up.
19 These two things are come unto you; who shall be sorry for you? desolation and destruction, and [caused by] the famine [without this word of God], and the sword [and then refusing it when He gives it]: by whom shall I comfort you [lead you into all truth]?
20 [All of] Your sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the LORD, the rebuke of your God.
21 Therefore hear [shama’ – My word and obey] now this, you afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine:
22 Thus says your LORD the LORD, and your God that pleads the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of your hand the cup of trembling, even the dregs of the cup of my fury; you shall no more drink it again:
23 But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict you; which have said to your soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and you have laid your body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over [‘abar – trodden under foot by those thinking they would thereby pass from death into life].

Jeremiah 31
17 And there is hope in your end [‘achariyth – these last days of darkness], says the LORD, that your children shall come again to their own border [the beginning of this new earth].
18 I have surely heard Ephraim [God’s people in this generation, meaning both heap of double ruin and heap of double blessing, “double” referring to the dead here raised to life, as the children of Joseph: the one separated from his brethren until he is revealed as the king of their salvation] bemoaning himself thus; You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn you me, and I shall be turned; for you are the LORD my God.
19 Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.
20 Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I spoke against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore, my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, says the LORD.
21 Set you up waymarks, make you high heaps: set your heart toward the highway, even the way which you went: turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these your cities.
22 How long will you go about, O you backsliding daughter? for the LORD has created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass [cabab – be led by and gather around; referring us to its use in Deuteronomy 32:10] a man [I Am].
23 Thus says the LORD of hosts [a man of war], the God of Israel; As yet they shall use this speech in the land of Judah and in the cities thereof, when I shall bring again their captivity; The LORD bless you, O habitation of justice, and mountain of holiness.
24 And there shall dwell in Judah itself, and in all the cities thereof together, husbandmen, and they that go forth with flocks.
25 For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul.
26 Upon this I awaked [from Abram’s deep sleep], and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me.
27 Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah [into the earth] with the seed of man, and with the seed of beast.
28 And it shall come to pass, that like as I have watched over them, to pluck up, and to break down, and to throw down, and to destroy, and to afflict; so will I watch over them, to build, and to plant, says the LORD.
29 In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape [bocer], and the children’s teeth are set on edge.
30 But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eateth the sour grape [bocer], his teeth shall be set on edge.
31 Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was a husband unto them, says the LORD:
33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, says the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts [minds]; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, says the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.

Job 33:23
14 For God speaks once, yea twice, yet man perceives it not.
15 In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;
16 Then he opens the ears of men, and seals their instruction,
17 That he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.
18 He keeps back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.
19 He is chastened [corrected] also with pain upon his bed [while he sleeps], and the multitude of his bones with strong pain:
20 So that his life abhors bread [this word from the mouth of the LORD], and his soul dainty meat [deep understanding that strengthens].
21 His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones that were not seen stick out.
22 Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers.
23 If there be a messenger [mal’ak – an angel of the LORD’s presence] with him, an interpreter [luwts], one among a thousand, to show unto man his uprightness:
24 Then he is gracious unto him, and says, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.
25 His flesh shall be fresher than a child’s: he shall return to the days of his youth:
26 He shall pray unto God, and he will be favorable unto him: and he shall see his face [paniym – the LORD presence, after hearing His voice] with joy: for he will render unto man his righteousness.
27 He looks upon men, and if any say, I have sinned [chata’], and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;
28 He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light [this understanding].
29 Lo, all these things works God oftentimes with man,
30 To bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living.

Zephaniah 2
8 I have heard the reproach of Moab [men whose mouths are the gates of hell], and the revilings [gidduwph] of the children of Ammon [those who exalt their words above the LORD’s words], whereby they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border [qbuwl – this limit, where their proud wave shall be stopped].
9 Therefore as I live, says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them.
10 This shall they have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of the LORD of hosts.
11 The LORD will be terrible unto them: for he will famish [end all the words of] all the gods of the earth; and men shall worship him, everyone from his place, even all the isles [dry places that were without this word] of the heathen [who haven’t heard of seen the present LORD].
12 You Ethiopians [all those covered in darkness: their own ignorance of which they are ignorant] also, you shall be slain by my sword [this word of the LORD, which they refuse].

Psalms 68
1 Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him flee before him [paniym – His presence].
2 As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: as wax melt before [paniym – His presence as] the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence [paniym] of God.
3 But let the righteous be glad; let them rejoice [realize] before [paniym – the presence of] God: yea, let them exceedingly rejoice.
4 Sing unto God, sing praises to his name: extol him that rides upon the heavens by his name [identity] Jah, and rejoice [realize] before him [paniym – His presence].
5 A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
6 God set the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.
7 O God, when you went forth before [paniym – Your presence with] your people, when you did march through the wilderness; Selah:
8 The earth shook, the heavens also dropped at the presence [paniym] of God: even Sinai [the places of misleaders in power] itself was moved at the presence [paniym] of God, the God of Israel.
9 You, O God, did send a plentiful rain, whereby you did confirm your inheritance, when it was weary.
10 Your congregation has dwelt therein: you, O God, have prepared of your goodness for the poor.
11 The LORD gave the word: great was the company of those that published it.
12 Kings of armies did flee apace: and she that tarried at home divided the spoil.
13 Though you have been lien among the pots, yet shall you be as the wings [voices] of a dove [knowing this is the expected end reached] covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.
14 When the Almighty scattered kings in it, it was white as snow in Salmon [His pure word sent from the cloud where it was frozen, reserved, for this moment of war, sent to protect His people from corruption: false light].
15 The hill of God is as the hill of Bashan [is fruitful]; a high hill as the hill of Bashan [is fruitful].
16 Why leap you, you high hills? this is the hill which God desires to dwell in; yea, the LORD will dwell in it forever.
17 The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of angels [messengers with His word]: the LORD is among them, as in Sinai [sent against thorns: misleaders], in the holy place.
18 You have ascended on high, you have led captivity captive: you have received gifts [presents] for men; yea, for the rebellious also, that the LORD God might dwell among them.
19 Blessed be the LORD, who daily loads us with benefits, even the God of our salvation. Selah.
20 He that is our God is the God of salvation; and unto God the LORD belong the issues [towtsa’ah – the exit] from death.
21 But God shall wound the head of his enemies, and the hairy scalp of such an one as goes on still in his trespasses.
22 The LORD said, I will bring again from Bashan [fruitfulness], I will bring my people again from the [darkened] depths of the sea:
23 That your foot may be dipped in the blood of your enemies, and the tongue of your dogs in the same.
24 They have seen your goings, O God; even the goings of my God, my King, in the sanctuary [of His presence].
25 The singers [repeating this word He’s given us] went before, the players on instruments followed after; among them were the damsels playing with timbrels.
26 Bless you God in the congregations [repeating this word], even the LORD, from the fountain of Israel [the rock from where this word flows].
27 There is little Benjamin [the sons born by the LORD’s right hand] with their ruler, the princes of Judah [the elect remnant, the new crop of leaders] and their council, the princes of Zebulun [who exalt the word of the LORD above all other voices], and the princes of Naphtali [who wrestled with the present LORD until they heard and then saw Him].
28 Your God has commanded your strength: strengthen, O God, that which you have wrought for us.
29 Because of your temple at [New Heavenly] Jerusalem shall kings bring presents [shay] unto you.
30 Rebuke the company of spearmen, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the people, till every one submits himself with pieces of silver: scatter you the people that delight in war.
31 Princes shall come out of Egypt [away from those oppressing them]; Ethiopia [those covered in their own ignorance] shall soon stretch out her hands unto God.
32 Sing unto God, you kingdoms of the earth; O sing praises unto the LORD; Selah:
33 To him that rides upon the heavens of heavens, which were of old [before corruption]; lo, he does send out his voice, and that a mighty voice.
34 Ascribe you strength [this understanding] unto God: his excellency is over Israel, and his strength is in the clouds [where understanding is when it leaves the earth].
35 O God, you are terrible out of your holy places: the God of Israel is he that gives strength and power unto his people. Blessed be God.

Psalms 76
1 In Judah [among His elect remnant] is God known: his name [identity] is great in Israel.
2 In Salem [peace] also is his tabernacle, and his dwelling place in Zion [His throne on the earth].
3 There broke he the arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the battle. Selah.
4 You are more glorious and excellent than the mountains of prey.
5 The stouthearted [obstinate] are spoiled, they have slept their sleep: and none of the men of might have found their hands [the end they sought in their corrupt works].
6 At your rebuke, O God of Jacob, both the chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep.
7 You, even you, are to be feared: and who may stand in your sight when once you are angry?
8 You did cause judgment to be heard from heaven; the earth feared, and was still,
9 When God arose to judgment, to save all the meek of the earth [who will inherit it]. Selah.
10 Surely the wrath of man shall praise you: the remainder of wrath shall you restrain.
11 Vow, and pay unto the LORD your God: let all that be round about him bring presents [shay] unto him that ought to be feared.
12 He shall cut off the [evil] spirit of princes: he is terrible [yare’ – to be revered or feared by] the kings of the earth.