24 – 28 January 2025
Are you not from everlasting, O LORD my God, my Holy One? we shall not die. O LORD, you have ordained them for judgment; and, O mighty God, you have established them for correction.
The title verse is Habakkuk 1:12, a verse I chose after the LORD started in Habakkuk 1:1 and directed me to devote this post to an exposition of the entire three-chapter book.
The name Habakkuk only appears twice, in Habakkuk 1:1, speaking of the burden he carries, and in 3:1, telling of his prayer. The name is from the thirteen times used word chabaq, meaning “to clasp (the hands or in embrace):–embrace, fold.”
The word (chabaq) refers us to its use in 2 Kings 4:16, speaking of this appointed time (mow’ed, meaning both “appointed time” and “congregation”) when we (I and those who’ve received the LORD here in His word: as the bread of heaven now in our flesh) bring forth and raise up the united ONE BODY of Christ.
2 Kings 4
1 Now there cried a certain [‘achad – one] woman [‘ishshah] of the wives [‘ishshah] of the sons of the prophets unto Elisha [God’s Salvation {plan} manifested in the flesh], saying, Your servant my husband is dead [the prophets all God’s people were joined to]; and you knowest that [when] your servant [was alive he] did fear the LORD: and the creditor is come to take unto him my two sons [Judah and Israel] to be bondmen.
2 And Elisha said unto her, What shall I do for you? tell me, what have you in the house? And she said, Your handmaid has not any thing in the house, save a pot of oil [the anointing oil, understanding of the word of God in men’s minds].
3 Then he said, Go, borrow you vessels abroad of all your neighbors, even empty vessels [people lacking understanding this word of God]; borrow not a few.
4 And when you are come in, you shall shut the door upon you and upon your sons, and shall pour out into all those vessels, and you shall set aside [naca’ – start on their journey] that which is full.
5 So she [obediently] went from him, and shut the door upon her and upon her sons, who brought the vessels to her; and she poured out.
6 And it came to pass, when the vessels were full, that she said unto her son, Bring me yet a vessel. And he said unto her, There is not a vessel more. And the oil stayed [‘amad – to endure, or stand, as in Habakkuk 2:1, silent waiting for the LORD to speak correction as needed, to bring us back to the true meaning of His enduring word].
7 Then she came and told the man of God. And he said, Go, sell the oil, and pay your debt [do the work you’ve vowed to do], and live [chayah] you and your children of the rest [yather – meaning “to jut over or exceed; by implication, to excel; (intransitively) to remain or be left; causatively, to leave, cause to abound, preserve.” This is the opposite of the sons of perdition, like Reuben in Genesis 49:4 who will not “excel” {yathar – will not remain}].
8 And it fell on a day, that Elisha [God’s Salvation in the flesh] passed [‘abar – passed from death into life] to Shunem [in the resting place of Judah and Israel], where was a great woman [all God’s people at large]; and she constrained [chazaq – joined] him to eat bread [lechem]. And so it was, that as oft as he passed by [‘abar – appears as the word made flesh in one who passes from death into life], he turned in thither to eat bread [to rightly divide the written word of God that remains and endures].
9 And she said unto her husband, Behold now, I perceive that this is a holy man of God, which passed [‘abar – from death into life] by us continually [tamiyd – meaning “to stretch; properly, continuance (as indefinite extension); but used only (attributively as adjective) constant (or adverbially, constantly); ellipt. the regular (daily) sacrifice”].
10 Let us make a little chamber [an insignificant place where His word is exalted above all others], I pray you, on the wall [these place where these messages are posted]; and let us set for him there a bed [where the dead can find rest], and a table [upon which this feast is spread], and a stool [the throne], and a candlestick [giving light into the darkness]: and it shall be, when he comes to us, that he shall turn in thither.
11 And it fell on a day, that he came thither, and he turned into the chamber [‘aliyah – where Jehovah rises in the dead raising them to life with Him], and lay [the dead body of Christ waiting to be raised] there.
12 And he said to Gehazi [those perceiving the LORD in His exalted word, now seeing as He sees] his servant, Call this Shunammite [the resting {sleeping in death} place of God people]. And when he [the LORD in the flesh] had called her, she stood [‘amad] before him [paniym – in the presence of the LORD manifested in the flesh].
13 And he said unto him, Say now unto her, Behold, you have been careful for us with all this care; what is to be done for you? would you be spoken for to the king, or to the captain of the host? And she answered, I dwell among my own people.
14 And he [the LORD] said, What then is to be done for her? And Gehazi answered, Truly she has no child, and her husband is old [of the old world and ending].
15 And he [the LORD] said, Call her. And when he [those who perceive the LORD’s presence in His exalted word] had called her, she stood in the door [pethach – the gate out of hell into heaven, out of death into life].
16 And he [the LORD] said, About this season [mow’ed – this appointed time of our congregation], according to the time of life [chay – when life returns], you shall embrace [chabaq] a son. And she said, Nay, my LORD [‘adown – my king], you man of God, do not lie unto your handmaid.
17 And the woman conceived [harah – as in Isaiah 7:14], and bare a son at that season [mow’ed – at this appointed time and congregation] that Elisha had said unto her, according to the time of life [chay].
18 And when the child was grown, it fell on a day, that he went out to his father [the old and corrupt world now ending] to the reapers [reaping corruption: the iniquity sown therein].
19 And he said unto his father, My head [thing sown therein], my head [corruption and iniquity therein]. And he said to a lad, Carry him to his mother [God’s people at large].
20 And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees till noon [this time when this light if fully risen], and then died [representing the now dead body of Christ].
21 And she went up, and laid him on the bed of [where the dead rest, in the chamber where they are raised to life again by the LORD rising in them] the man of God, and shut the door upon him, and went out.
22 And she called unto her husband [the old and corrupt world now ending], and said, Send me, I pray you, one of the young men, and one of the asses, that I may run to the man of God, and come again [to life].
23 And he said, Wherefore will you go to him today? it is neither new moon, nor sabbath [the old and corrupt now saying this isn’t the appointed time nor is it the time of the congregation]. And she said, It shall be well [shalowm – the time of the completion: the time of “health, prosperity, peace”].
24 Then she saddled an ass, and said to her servant, Drive [nahag – lead forth, away from the old], and go forward; slack not your riding for me, except I bid you. [Hebrews 10:36 For you have need of patience, that, after you have done the will of God, you might receive the promise {the expected end}. 37 For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry. 38 Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. 39 But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.]
25 So she went and came unto the man of God to mount Carmel [the garden {place of protection} like Eden]. And it came to pass, when the man of God saw her afar off [here the hidden word meged – perceived these are the first-fruits, the precious things, the fruit that pleases the LORD, as in Song of Solomon 7:13, here at Har-Megiddon], that he said to Gehazi his servant, Behold, yonder is that Shunammite:
26 Run now, I pray you, to meet her, and say unto her, Is it well [shalowm] with you? is it well [shalowm] with your husband? is it well [shalowm] with the child? And she answered, It is well [shalowm]: [Are all complete, ready to join the LORD in His ONE risen BODY?]
27 And when she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught him by the feet: but Gehazi came near to thrust her away. And the man of God said, Let her alone; for her soul is vexed [marar – bitterness] within her: and the LORD has hid it from me, and has not told me [until this moment, this appointed time of the congregation].
Zachariah 12 [From the post of 7 November 2024]
8 In that day shall the LORD defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem [[His people at large]]; and he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as David; and the house of David shall be as God, as the angel [mal’ak – messengers delivering the message] of the LORD before [paniym – manifesting His presence to] them.
9 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations [who refuse to know the LORD, and make peace with Him] that come against Jerusalem.
10 And I will [as a fountain opened] pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourn for his only son, and shall be in bitterness [[marar]] for him, as one that is in bitterness [[marar]] for his firstborn.
11 In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon. [The reference in the two previous verses are, first to Joash {the fire of Jehovah}, the one pierced when he was in the battle in disguise {the LORD unknown among us as the Holy Spirit}. The second is when God’s people mourn, realizing they have been following false prophets and idols they’ve raised into God’s place, thereby causing them to not recognize the LORD among them. Hadad-Rimmon are names of idols, meaning the fruit of the mighty. Megiddon is Armageddon, the battle, at this planned {scripted} time, when the LORD manifests His presence and power in us, by His Spirit speaking and working unknown, to vanquish the many enemies, shepherds and false prophet, who’ve scattered His sheep, His family, the little ones He is now gathering to Himself.]
12 And [because of uncleanness] the land shall mourn, every family apart [bad]; the family of the house of David apart [bad], and their wives apart [bad]; the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart [bad];
13 The family of the house of Levi apart [bad], and their wives apart [bad]; the family of Shimei apart [bad], and their wives apart [bad];
14 All the families that remain, every family apart [bad], and their wives apart [bad].
2 Kings 4
28 Then she said, Did I desire a son of my LORD? did I not say, Do not deceive me?
29 Then he said to Gehazi, Gird up your loins, and take my staff in your hand, and go your way: if you meet any man, salute him not; and if any salute you, answer him not again: and lay my staff upon the face of [paniym – manifesting My presence in My word to] the child [those sleeping in death].
30 And the mother of the child said, As the LORD lives [chay], and as your soul lives [chay], I will not leave you. And he arose, and followed her.
31 And Gehazi passed on [‘abar – risen from death] before them [paniym – manifesting the LORD’s presence in His word], and laid the staff upon the face of [paniym – manifesting the LORD presence to] the child; but there was neither voice [these words were not yet heard from them], nor hearing [not yet hearing them as the LORD’s and therefore not yet obeying and speaking them]. Wherefore he went again to meet him, and told him, saying, The child is not awaked [from his sleep in death].
32 And when Elisha was come into the house, behold, the child was dead, and laid upon his bed.
33 He went in, therefore, and shut the door upon them twain, and prayed unto the LORD.
34 And he went up, and lay upon [He, the LORD God, arose and laid down with, descended into] the child, and put his mouth upon his mouth [putting His words in the mouth of the risen dead], and his eyes upon his eyes [to see as the LORD sees], and his hands upon his hands [the LORD’s work became their work]: and stretched himself [casting His presence] upon the child; and the flesh of the child waxed warm [and the flame of His presence raised them to life].
35 Then he returned [shuwb – turned from death into life], and walked in the house [the family of God] to and fro; and went up [the LORD risen in them], and stretched himself [manifesting His risen presence] upon him: and the child sneezed [zarar – only used here, meaning diffuse] seven times [spread the LORD’s word from their mouths], and the child opened [paqach] his eyes. [Isaiah 42: 6 I the LORD have called you in righteousness, and will hold your hand, and will keep you, and give you for a covenant of the people, for a light {understanding, life} of the Gentiles {those who haven’t known Me}; 7 To open {paqach} the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison {as in Acts 16 in the previous post}, and them that sit in darkness {in ignorance of God} out of the prison house {the corrupt churches all}. 8 I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images {men have created and put in My place}. 9 Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth, I tell you of them. 10 Sing unto the LORD a new song {these words He’s put in our mouths}, and his praise from the end of the {old and corrupt} earth, you that go down to the sea {sign to all humanity at large}, and all that is therein; the isles {the places without these life-giving waters}, and the inhabitants thereof.]
36 And he called Gehazi, and said, Call this Shunammite. So he called her. And when she was come in unto him, he said, Take up [be lifted with] your son. [This is the harpazo, which the devils {misleaders} in the churches twist into and off the planet rapture. It’s the mystery of when the sleeping dead awaken, and we rise with them into heaven with the risen LORD, as His ONE BODY.]
37 Then she went in, and fell at his feet, and bowed herself to the ground [‘erets – the earth], and took up [is lifted in the resurrection with] her son, and went out [left the old and corrupt world behind].
38 And Elisha came again to Gilgal [the wheel within a wheel, this written word which has long been in a state of agitation because of the devils {misleaders} in the church doing Satan’s work of confusion and insanity]: and there was a dearth [famine – without hearing this word of God] in the land [‘erets – the earth]; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him [paniym – in the LORD’s presence unaware]: and he said unto his servant, Set on the great pot [ciyr – used {in Psalms 60:8 & 108:9} speaking of Moab {the mouths of men which are the gates of holding all in hell} as the LORD’s “washpot;” {in Isaiah 34:13} speaking of thorns and briers {misleaders and deceivers} that came up in our palaces, and {in Ezekiel 24:6} of the “pots” in which scum {corruption} remains], and seethe [bashal – to remove the scum from] pottage for the sons of the prophets.
39 And one [false prophet and false teacher] went out into the field [sadeh – to spread out, as in presumptuous personal opinions {private interpretations} that become false doctrine and false teaching expounded as doctrine or policy] to gather herbs [things grown from the earth {see Job 39:15 below}], and found a wild [sadeh] vine, and gathered thereof wild [sadeh] gourds his lap full, and came and shred them into the pot of pottage: for they knew them not [that there was death in what was added].
40 So they poured out for the men to eat. And it came to pass, as they were eating of the pottage, that they cried out, and said, O you man of God, there is [truly] death in the pot. And they could not eat thereof.
41 But he said, Then bring meal [flour without leaven, without corruption men add]. And he cast it into the pot; and he said, Pour out for the people, that they may eat. And there was no harm [dabar – corrupt words] in the pot.
42 And there came a man from Baalshalisha [the old and corrupt prophets who are restored on this third day of resurrection], and brought the man of God bread [lechem] of the first-fruits [of their restoration], twenty loaves [lachem – bread] of barley [without leaven], and full ears of corn in the husk thereof. And he said, Give [this word as you have received it, without additions] unto the people, that they may eat.
43 And his servitor said, What, should I set this before a hundred men? He said again, Give the people, that they may eat: for thus says the LORD, They shall eat, and shall leave thereof [yathar – remain].
44 So he set it before [paniym – gave this understanding as the LORD’s presence into their flesh raising them to life with His rising in] them, and they did eat, and left thereof [yathar – remained], according to the word of the LORD.
Habakkuk 1
1 The burden which Habakkuk [when the son is embraced, at this appointed time of the congregation, the gathering of the ONE BODY of Christ, when the sleeping dead awaken and rise into life, with the LORD and His children already awake, all rising together into {heaven} full understanding, where we shall be with Him forever] the prophet did see.
2 O LORD, how long shall I cry, and you will not hear! even cry out unto you of violence [done to your people by those misleading them], and you will not save!
3 Why dost you show me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention.
4 Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment does never go forth: for the wicked does compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceeds.
5 Behold you among the heathen [mixed among those who haven’t known Me], and regard, and wonder marvelously: for I will work a work in your days which you will not believe, though it be told you. [As we know, this verse is quoted in Acts 13, speaking of what isn’t believed, though a man {I Am} has been declaring it to you. Acts 13:37 But he, whom God raised again, saw no corruption. 38 Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins: 39 And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses. 40 Beware, therefore, lest that come upon you, which is spoken of in the prophets; 41 Behold, you despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which you {those who despise this word and choose instead their corruption and sin} shall in no wise believe, though a man declares it unto you.]
6 For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans [those who use their corrupt words to manipulate and control men’s minds into choosing evil and refusing good], that bitter and hasty nation [quick to speak evil against good], which shall march [have marched] through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwelling-places [the institutions of church and state government] that are not theirs.
7 They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves [and not from the LORD].
8 Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves: and their horsemen shall spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from far; they shall fly as the eagle [saying they have full understanding] that hastes to eat [devouring those who follow them].
9 They shall come all for violence: their faces [paniym – the presence of Satan in them] shall sup up [mgammah – {what gama’} only used here, and referring us to one of the two uses of the word gama’, in Job 39:24, speaking of this time and describing the horses mentioned above] as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand [upon which they build their houses].
10 And they shall scoff at the kings, and the princes shall be a scorn unto them: they shall deride every strong hold; for they shall heap dust [of the earth’s ruin], and take it.
11 Then shall his mind change, and he shall pass over, and offend, imputing this his power unto his god.
Job 39
1 Knowest you the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? or can you mark when the hinds do calve?
2 Can you number the months that they fulfill? or knowest you the time when they bring forth?
3 They bow themselves, they bring forth their young ones, they cast out their sorrows.
4 Their young ones are in good liking, they grow up with corn; they go forth, and return not unto them.
5 Who has sent out the wild ass free? or who has loosed the bands of the wild ass?
6 Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.
7 He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he the crying of the driver.
8 The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searches after every green thing.
9 Will the unicorn [the one and only power] be willing to serve you, or abide by your crib?
10 Can you bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after you?
11 Will you trust him, because his strength is great? or will you leave your labor to him?
12 Will you believe him, that he will bring home your seed, and gather it into your barn?
13 Gave you the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich [like understanding to the prophets]?
14 Which leaves her eggs [the things they laid {spread} out] in the earth, and warms them in dust [this time here in the ruin of the earth],
15 And forget that the foot may crush them, or that the wild [sadeh – false prophets and false teachers] beast [now risen into shame and everlasting contempt, as in Daniel 12:2] may break [duwsh – be trodden down in this judgment by] them.
16 She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers: her labor is in vain [worthless] without fear [of the ever-present LORD against whom they’ve awakened];
17 Because God has deprived her of wisdom, neither has he imparted to her understanding.
18 What time she lifts up [mara’ – rebels against Him] herself on high [putting themselves in God’s place], she scorns [marowm – sport: they play with them as if this is a game] the horse and his rider [young ones they without fear send against the LORD in this war]
19 Have you [as I have] given the horse strength [this understanding I give My children]? have you [as I have] clothed his neck [prepared and poised words there to be spoken] with thunder [as this voice of understanding from the cloud]?
20 Can you [as I have] make him afraid as a grasshopper [fear you and go forth in swarms to devour the corrupt crop grown from the earth]? the glory [My presence manifested] of his nostrils [narchar – only used here and in Jeremiah 8:16] is terrible.
Jeremiah 8
10 Therefore will I give their [the false prophets’ and the false teachers’] wives unto others, and their fields to them that shall inherit them: for every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness, from the prophet even unto the priest every one deals falsely.
11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
12 Were they [the priests, the false prophets, and false teachers in the church] ashamed when they had committed abomination [they put in My place and call by Me name]? 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 manifests His presence as the Chief Overseer of the earth] they shall be cast down, says the LORD.
13 I will surely consume them, says the LORD: there shall be no grapes on the [wild] 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.
14 Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves [into His ONE BODY with Him], and let us enter into the defensed cities, and let us 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 [because His people refuse Him: their physician and His balm] behold trouble!
16 The snorting [nachar] of his horses was heard from Dan [this judgment]: the whole land trembled at the sound [qowl – this voice] of the neighing of his strong ones; 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, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you [with deadly words], says the LORD.
18 When I would comfort myself against sorrow [by leading my people into all truth, in this tribulation reminding them of My words], my heart is faint in me [the collective mind of My people is {sick} sleeping in death].
19 Behold the voice [qowl] of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a far country [merchaq – unknowingly in this appointed time, this rendezvous 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 [their blinding creations], and with strange vanities?
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 are held by their ignorance of Me here in death and hell]; astonishment has taken hold on me [the dead body of Christ].
22 Is there no balm in Gilead [this mountain of testimony]; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?
Job 39
21 He [the LORD’s ignorant people] paws in the valley, and rejoice in his strength [their own understanding]: he goes on to meet the armed men.
22 He [not knowing the LORD is present] mocks at fear, and is not affrighted; neither turns he back from the sword [this word from His mouth which they refuse].
23 The quiver [of their young ones] rattles against him, the glittering spear and the shield.
24 He swallows the ground [‘erets – the earth into the belly of death and hell] with fierceness and rage: neither believes he that it is the sound of the trumpet [the LORD’s voice heard from His archangel, calling all to gather into His ONE BODY] .
25 He says among the trumpets, Ha, ha [we have heard His words but will go our own way]; and he smells the battle afar off [rachowq – in this time ruled by the evil decrees of wicked in power {referring to its use in Job 36:25}], the thunder [the voices] of the captains, and the shouting. [Job 36: 25 Every man may see it; man may behold it afar off {rachowq}. 26 Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out. 27 For he maketh small the drops of water {His word from heaven}: they pour down rain according to the vapor {separated elements} thereof: 28 Which the clouds do drop and distil upon man abundantly.]
26 Does the hawk [nets – also meaning blossom, and bringing forth after its own kind] fly [‘abar – a once used homonym {of ‘abar, meaning to cross over}, also speaking of rising from death into life] by your wisdom, and stretch her wings [this conversation by which we rise] toward the south [teyman – looking toward this light rising, which is wisdom]?
27 Does the eagle [the final face of the unfolding presence of the LORD] mount up [rise into heaven] at your command, and make her nest on high?
28 She dwells and abides on the rock [in Christ], upon the crag of the rock, and the strong place.
29 From thence she seeks the prey, and her eyes [seeing as the LORD sees] behold afar off [rachowq – this time].
30 Her young ones also suck up blood [of this necessary sacrifice]: and where the slain are [the carcass, the dead body of Christ], there is she.
Habakkuk 1
12 Are you not from everlasting, O LORD my God, my Holy One? we shall not die. O LORD, you have ordained them [the wicked in power] for judgment; and, O mighty God, you have established them for correction.
13 You are of purer eyes than to behold evil, and can not look on iniquity: wherefore look you upon them that deal treacherously, and hold your tongue when the wicked devour the man that is more righteous than he?
14 And make men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?
15 They [the wicked in power] take up all of them with the angle [chakkah – meaning “a hook (as adhering)” {to the mouth}: only used elsewhere in Job 41:1 and Isaiah 19:8], they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag: therefore, they rejoice and are glad.
16 Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their drag; because by them their portion is fat, and their meat plenteous.
17 Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations [those who haven’t {don’t} known the LORD]?
Job 41
1 Can you draw out leviathan with a hook [chakkah]? or his tongue [words by which they are judged] with a cord [plumline, as a fishing line] which you let down [into the deep]?
As we know, what is drawn out are Job’s three falsely so-called friends, who (in Job 3:8) are the “mourning” (leviathan) about to be raised up; which speaks of Satan working through them: in their false accusations, misinterpretation, and misrepresentations of God and His word.
Amos 7
4 Thus has the LORD God showed unto me: and, behold, the LORD God called to contend by fire, and it devoured the great deep [thowm – understanding; referring us to its use below in Habakkuk 3:10; the same depth that closed around Jonah {Jonah 2:5}], and did eat up a [corrupt] part.
5 Then said I, O LORD God, cease, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.
6 The LORD repented for this: This also shall not be, says the LORD God.
7 Thus he showed me: and, behold, the LORD stood upon a wall made by a plumbline [‘anak – weighted line, taking the hook deep], with a plumbline [‘anak] in his hand.
8 And the LORD said unto me, Amos [afintity to ‘amaq – “deep”], what seest thou? And I said, A plumbline [‘anak]. Then said the Lord, Behold, I will set a plumbline in the midst of my people Israel: I will not again pass by [never be silent and unknown to] them anymore:
Isaiah 19 [from the post of 13 December 2023, with today’s additions in double brackets]
1 The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rides upon a swift cloud [with full understanding], and shall come into Egypt [this land under tyrants]: and the idols [the false gods they worship] of Egypt shall be moved at his [the LORD’s] presence [paniym], and the heart [the corrupt elements, the foundation of their minds] of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.
2 And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians [as the LORD speaks of, when the morrow is anxious against itself]: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbor; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.
3 And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols [the gods of this world, whose advice is destroying the world], and to the charmers [who claim they are peace makers, when their ways are at war against the truth], and to them that have familiar spirits [the known dead speaking ways we know lead to death], and to the wizards [the falsely so-called experts of this world].
4 And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel LORD [‘adown – a king over the earth – speaking of Obama and his idiot son Brandon]; and a fierce [‘az – referring to its use in Isaiah 56:11 where they are “greedy” dogs which can never have enough] king shall rule over them, says the LORD [‘adown – the King of kings], the LORD [Jehovah] of hosts.
5 And the waters shall [the words of these tyrants] fail [nashath – referring to its other two uses, in Isaiah 41:17 and Jeremiah 51:30] from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up. [Isaiah 41:17 When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue {of Tyrus} fails {nashath} for thirst {because the people are seeking good advice and not evil}, I the LORD will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them. 18 I will open rivers {of these life-giving waters} in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water. And Jeremiah 51:29 And the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every purpose of the LORD shall be performed against Babylon {the confusion by which these tyrants rule}, to make the land of Babylon a desolation without an inhabitant. 30 The mighty men of Babylon have forborne to fight, they have remained in their holds: their might has failed {nashath}; they became as women: they have burned her dwelling-places; her bars are broken. 31 One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to show the king of Babylon that his city is taken at one end, 32 And that the passages are stopped, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.]
6 And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defense shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags [what has grown in the mire of these corrupt waters] shall wither.
7 The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and every thing sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away, and be no more.
8 The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle [[[chakkah]] to trap and devour souls] into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon [paniym – in the LORD’s presence] the waters shall languish.
9 Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave networks [of evil], shall be confounded [snared in their own traps].
10 And they shall be broken in the [evil] purposes thereof, all that make sluices [controlling information] and ponds [keeping it from flowing] for fish.
11 Surely the princes of Zoan [those who’ve departed from truth] are fools, the counsel of the wise counselors of Pharaoh is become brutish [telling known lies]: how say you unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?
12 Where are they? where are your wise men? and let them tell you now, and let them know what the LORD of hosts [a man of war] has purposed upon Egypt.
13 The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph [those who present lies] are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt [the land ruled by these tyrants], even they [the liers {liars – wake up sleepers} and the deceived] that are the stay [the false rock] of the tribes thereof.
14 The LORD has mingled a perverse [twisted] spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof [as it is this day, here in this nation], as a drunken man staggers in his vomit.
15 Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head or tail, branch or rush, may do. [referring to Isaiah 9:14 – 16, saying “Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush {what has grown from these men’s evil leading}, in one day. The ancient and honorable, he is the head; and the prophet that teaches lies, he is the tail. For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed.”]
16 In that day [this time when light has come] shall Egypt be like unto women: and it shall be afraid and fear because of the [paniym – in the LORD’s presence] shaking of the hand of the LORD of hosts, which he shakes over it.
17 And the land of Judah [the elect remnant speaking the word of the LORD, shaking heaven and earth, to shake the wicked from them] shall be a terror unto Egypt [all the oppressors], every one that makes mention thereof [speaking their evil words and ways] shall be afraid in himself [oppressor against oppressor], because of the [paniym – the LORD’s presence giving] counsel of the LORD of hosts [a man of war], which he has determined against it.
18 In that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt speak the language of Canaan [as the land taken for God’s people, by His power to change minds], and swear to the LORD of hosts [a man of war]; one shall be called, The city of destruction [from the once used word herec, from harac, referring us to its uses in Isaiah 22:19 & 49:17]. [Isaiah 22:19 And I will drive you from your station {the places where you stand against the LORD}, and from your state {of hubris} shall he pull you down {harac}. 20 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim {who God raises} the son of Hilkiah {Jehovah is my inheritance}: 21 And I will clothe him with your robe, and strengthen him with your girdle {your preparation}, and I will commit your government into his hand: and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah. 22 And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; so he shall open {the gates of hell}, and none shall shut; and he shall shut {the wicked in the hell where they choose to remain}, and none shall open. 23 And I will fasten him {that can be relied on} as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a glorious throne to his father’s house. And Isaiah 49:17 Your children shall make haste; your destroyers {harac} and they that made you waste shall go forth of you.]
19 In that day shall there be an altar to the LORD in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar [one stationed] at the border [gbuwl – at the limit, at the appointed time, the mow’ed] thereof to the LORD.
20 And it [the pillar at the border] shall be for a sign [‘owth] and for a witness [‘ed] unto the LORD of hosts [a man of war] in the land of Egypt [the earth under these oppressors]: for they shall cry unto the LORD because of [paniym – to manifest His presence against] the oppressors, and he shall send them a savior, and a great one, and he shall deliver [natsal – same as harpazo, “caught up,” “pulled”] them [from the fires of hell].
21 And the LORD shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know the LORD in that day [this time of light], and shall do sacrifice and oblation; yea, they shall vow a vow unto the LORD, and perform it [shalam – “pay” it, as did Jonah [[Jonah 2:8 They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy. 9 But I will sacrifice {this necessary sacrifice} unto you {LORD} with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that that I have vowed. Salvation is of the LORD. 10 And the LORD spoke unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.]]].
22 And the LORD shall smite Egypt: he shall smite and heal it: and they shall return even to the LORD, and he shall be intreated [‘athar] of them, and shall heal them.
23 In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt [oppression] to [for those who were communists] Assyria, and the Assyrian [the former communists, whose minds are changed] shall come into Egypt [this land, earth, that was before rule by oppression], and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve [the LORD] with the Assyrians.
24 In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land [‘erets – the earth]:
25 Whom the LORD of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands [whose minds are changed], and Israel my inheritance [all now changed, as in 1 Corinthians 15:51 & 52].
Habakkuk 2
1 I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he [the LORD] will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved.
2 And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that reads it.
3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time [mow’ed], but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.
4 Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live [forever] by his faith [Heb. 10:38].
The following, ending in 1 Corinthians 1, is from the post of 7 December 2023.
The only other time the word mliytsah appears is in Habakkuk 2:6, where it’s translated as a “taunting” proverb (chiydah) against those we know (by posts from 20 January 2018 and 5 February 2023) are antichrists of our time: false prophets and false teachers in church and state, who sit in God’s place, showing themselves as the false gods of this evil and insane world.
As previously discussed, these men are said to cover themselves (their identities and actions) in “thick clay,” from the word ‘abtiyt.
From 20 January 2018:
If the Righteous Scarcely be Saved, Where Shall the Ungodly and the Sinner Appear? (Judgment must begin at the house of God.)
Psalms 75
1 Unto you, O God, do we give thanks, unto you do we give thanks: for that your name is near your wondrous works declare.
2 When I shall receive the congregation [[mow’ed – Your people at this appointed time]] I will judge uprightly.
3 The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. Selah.
4 I said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly: and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn [[your foolish power against God Almighty]]:
5 Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.
6 For promotion comes neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.
7 But God is the judge: he puts down one, and sets up another.
8 For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he pours out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them.
9 But I will declare forever; I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.
10 All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.
The title is a quote from parts of 1 Peter 4:17 & 18, and is a trumpet sounding, calling all to the battle, to cleanse what has been defiled by the vermin infestation. As we know, the vermin claim to have the Holy Spirit, while theirs is the spirit now at work in the children of disobedience. We see this is Peter’s stating the mission objective, after he tells us judgment must begin at the house of God, and says the end is the manifestation of those who do and don’t OBEY the gospel of God.
We have reached the point, even if you don’t see it yet and still keep it covered up, the religious leaders, all the false teachers and false prophets, know of these messages. They are fully aware that the LORD is speaking to them, long-suffering in manifesting His presence, correction, and purpose. This is done so they would fulfill the word of God, as it is written in Ezekiel 33 of them: “31 And they come unto you as the people comes, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their covetousness. 32 And, lo, you are unto them as a very lovely song of one that has a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument: for they hear your words, but they do them not. 33 And when this comes to pass, (lo, it will come,) then shall they know that a prophet has been among them.”
The above passage from Ezekiel 33 is the LORD GOD speaking of judgment, when the wicked are corrected, and are given the opportunity to turn from their wickedness. The works here that are mentioned as the wickedness, even in those who think their works are righteous, is their covetousness. As is seen in verse 31 above, they hear and like the sound of the words, but when they realize it is their works it is speaking against, their covetousness keeps them from doing the right thing.
The word covetousness is from the Hebrew word is betsa’, meaning plunder.
Here is the Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary definition of betsa’, (which we know includes the translated forms after giving the definition:) Strong’s #1215: betsa` (pronounced beh’-tsah) from 1214; plunder; by extension, gain (usually unjust):–covetousness, (dishonest) gain, lucre, profit.
It is the word used in Habakkuk 2:9, also translated “covetousness,” to tell of those who sell their souls, even while the earth is filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, (glory, meaning His manifested presence). We are told they are those who have built their own kingdoms, and as James says, they have heaped treasure together for the last days, which become a witness against them.
Habakkuk 2
4 Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright [seen by the plumbline – Amos 7] in him: but the just shall live by his faith.
5 Yea also, because he transgresses by wine, he is a proud man, neither keeps at home [see 1 John 2:10], who enlarges his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathers unto him all nations, and heaped unto him all people:
6 Shall not all these take up a parable [[mashal]] against him, and a taunting [[mliytsah – wise interpretation]] proverb [[chiydah]] against him, and say, Woe to him that increases that which is not his! how long? and to him that lades himself with thick clay [who has burdened those he’s taken pledges from – ‘abtiyt]!
7 Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite you, and awake that shall vex you, and you shall be for booties unto them?
8 Because you have spoiled many nations, all the remnant of the people shall spoil you; because of men’s blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein.
9 Woe to him that covets an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil!
10 You have consulted shame to your house by cutting off many people, and have sinned against your soul.
11 For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.
12 Woe to him that builds a town with blood, and establishes a city by iniquity!
13 Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts that the people shall labor in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for very vanity?
14 For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.
15 Woe unto him that gives his neighbor drink, that puts your bottle to him, and makes him drunken also, that you may look on their nakedness!
16 You are filled with shame for glory: drink you also, and let your foreskin be uncovered: the cup of the LORD’s right hand shall be turned unto you, and shameful spewing shall be on your glory.
(Strong’s #5671: ‘abtiyt (pronounced ab-teet’) from 5670; something pledged, i.e. (collectively) pawned goods:–thick clay (by a false etymology). This speaks of the money these men extort from those who follow their misleading and false teaching.)
It speaks directly to the TV preachers, the false prophets who themselves are antichrist. The LORD says it is their riches that testify against them. Why do God’s people not preach and teach this truth, and expose those doing violence to God’s people? Are there any that call for judgment, and will stand for truth? Sadly, very few of the mighty and powerful will dare do so, because they themselves have things they covet and are willing to sell their souls for: positions, power, control, and worst of all – being too proud to admit they are part of the problem, and themselves in need of correction, which is why they all reject the word God has sent them.
1 Corinthians 1
26 For you see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:
27 But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God has chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;
28 And base things of the world, and things which are despised, has God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to naught things that are:
29 That no flesh should glory in his presence.
And, ending with 1 Peter 4, from 5 February 2023:
Proverbs 6
9 How long will you sleep, O sluggard? when will you arise out of your sleep?
10 Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
11 So shall your poverty come as one that travels, and your want as an armed man.
12 A naughty [bliya’al – rejecting discipline] person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth [twisting and perverting truth].
13 He winks with his eyes [signaling his evil intentions to his evil allies], he speaks with his feet [misleading those following his evil advice], he teaches with his [false accusing] fingers;
14 Frowardness is in his heart [the foundation of his mind is upon twisted and perverted truth], he devises mischief continually; he soweth discord [madown – dividing those opposing his evil].
15 Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly [pith’own]; suddenly [petha’] shall he be broken without remedy [marpe’].
16 These six things does the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him [nephesh – dividing His ONE BODY]:
17 A proud look [one], a lying tongue [two], and hands that shed innocent blood [three],
18 A heart that devises wicked imaginations [four], feet that be swift in running to mischief [five],
19 A false witness that speaks lies [six], and he that soweth discord [mdan – from madown, evil judgment {that follows the other six}] among brethren [seven – the abomination].
20 My son, keep your father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of your mother:
21 Bind them continually upon your heart, and tie them about your neck.
22 When you go, it shall lead you; when you sleep, it shall keep you; and when you awake, it shall talk with you.
Proverbs 29
1 He, that being often reproved hardens his neck, shall suddenly [petha’] be destroyed, and that without remedy.
2 When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked bear rule, the people mourn.
3 Whoso loves wisdom rejoices his father: but he that keeps company with harlots [the unfaithful churches] spends his substance.
4 The king by [good] judgment establishes the land [‘erets – the earth]: but he that receives gifts [as does Bandon from the communists] overthrows it [with unjust evil judgment repaying his gift – now when the {balloon} payment is due].
5 A man that flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.
6 In the transgression of an evil man there is a snare: but the righteous does sing [these words of the LORD] and rejoice.
7 The righteous considers the cause of the poor: but the wicked regards not to know it.
8 Scornful men bring a city into a snare: but wise men turn away wrath.
The above, Proverbs 29:1, speaking of those often “reproved” (towkechah – corrected; in the LORD’s long-suffering, not willing that any should perish, but that all would come to repentance) refers us to the final use of petha’, in Habakkuk 2:7. There it describes now when the sleeping, those “reproved” by the LORD, awaken at the appointed time (mow’ed), the end (qets) when the passage speaks. It says their opened mouths, in parable and taunting, vex the wicked who are laden with “thick clay.”
As previously discussed, “thick clay” (appearing in Habakkuk 2:6) is from the once-used Hebrew word ‘abtiyt, said to mean “something pledged, i.e. (collectively) pawned goods.” The rendering as “thick clay” is said (by Strong) to be from a false etymology, and he gives his meaning based on the statement before: “Woe to him that increases [by] that which is not his! how long [until the sluggard, held under the power that is to sit still, awakens]? and to him that lades himself with thick clay [pawning what isn’t his – or taking bribes for selling out what isn’t his to sell]!”
The rendering as “thick clay” is from the two words ‘ab and tiyt, respectively meaning “an envelope, i.e. darkness; specifically, a (scud) cloud; also a copse [thicket of small trees or shrubs];” and “from an unused root meaning, apparently to be sticky (rath. perb. a demon. from 2894, through the idea of dirt to be swept away); mud or clay; figuratively, calamity.” In this context, it speaks of the calamity of darkness that burdens the people sleeping: unaware of the wickedness at work and, of the experience, asking “how long” the people will remain unaware.
Habakkuk 2
17 For the violence of Lebanon [the purity that should be seen in high places, which you’ve corrupted] shall cover you, and the spoil of beasts [those without My Spirit leading them], which made them afraid, because of men’s blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein.
18 What profits the graven image that the maker thereof has graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusts therein, to make dumb idols?
19 Woe unto him that says to the [known dead] wood, Awake; to the dumb stone [from whom no words of value come], Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it is laid over with gold and silver [which the world says have value], and there is no breath [ruwach – it is without My Spirit and therefore having to power to give life to the dead] at all in the midst of it.
20 But the LORD is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him [and exalt His voice above all others].
In Isaiah 30:8 and Habakkuk 2:2, the LORD, through these writers, writes of our experience, giving us the understanding that His presence must be spoken of, as He speaks through those in whose mouths He’s put His words (as I have believed and have spoken). It is now when the earth is filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, which glory is revealed by these waters, His word from our mouths, covering, as the sun shines from the east to the west, all humanity, who by faith comes out of the house of corruption blinding them, into the light.
2 Samuel 23
1 Now these be the last words of David. David the son of Jesse said, and the man who was raised up on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel, said,
2 The Spirit of the LORD spoke by me, and his word was in my tongue.
3 The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spoke to me, He that rules over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God.
4 And he shall be as the light of the morning [the understanding of the new day], when the sun rises [and shines from the east to the west], even a morning without clouds [even a new day when understanding has fully returned to the earth]; as the tender grass springing out [new life returns to] the earth by of clear shining [of understanding] after rain [this word of God sent from heaven].
1 Thessalonians 4
13 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep [koima – made still and silent], that you sorrow not, even as others which have no hope [of them being reanimated].
14 For if we believe that Jesus died [apothnesko – to die away {from sight}] and rose again [from stillness and silence], even so them also which sleep [koimai – those that are lifeless: still and silent] in Jesus will God bring with [ago – lead by] him [quickening into life].
15 For this we say unto you by the word of the LORD, that we which are alive [zao] and remain unto the coming of the LORD shall not prevent [rise as ONE BODY before] them which are asleep [koimai – the lifeless, in whom His Spirit has not yet been awakened, as it will be by the effectual working of this word once heard and received].
16 For the LORD himself shall descend from heaven [full understanding] with a [an awakening] shout, with the voice of the archangel [His messenger from whom His shout is heard], and with the trump of God [calling all to gather to Him in His ONE BODY]: and the dead [nekros – lifeless {sleeping minds}] in Christ shall rise first:
17 Then we which are alive [zao – already quickened from death into life] and remain [faithfully speaking His word as received] shall be caught up [harpazo – pulled from the fires] together with them in the clouds [into full understanding], to meet the LORD in the air [cleared of the smoke from the bottomless pit, which darkened the sun: made the church lifeless without light]: and so shall we ever be with the LORD [in heaven, in full understanding on the earth].
18 Wherefore comfort [lead into all truth] one another with these words.
1 Peter 4
11 If any man speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God gives: that God in all things may be glorified [as the giver of the word] through Jesus Christ [through Jehovah’s Salvation manifested in our flesh], to whom be praise and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
12 Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial [from the world who doesn’t know the LORD and can’t hear Him speaking] which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:
13 But rejoice, inasmuch as you are partakers of Christ’s [long] sufferings [not willing that any should perish, but that all would come to repentance]; that, when his glory [His presence in you] shall be revealed, you may be glad also with exceeding joy [that those recognizing Him have been made perfect by His word, power, effectually working in them, changing them, opening their eyes and ears to His gospel].
14 If you be reproached for the name [His identity in you] of Christ, happy are you; for the spirit of glory and of God rests upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.
Habakkuk 3 [All following is from the post of 28 August 2023]
1 A prayer of Habakkuk [taken by {God’s} hand] the prophet upon Shigionoth [to those who have strayed into error].
2 O LORD, I have heard your speech, and was afraid: O LORD, revive [quicken – bring to life] your work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known [give us understanding – knowledge]; in wrath remember mercy [and it is so, My wrath is understanding, and those who forsake it reject mercy].
3 God came from Teman [the right hand {power} from looking toward the sun rise {for light}], and the Holy One from mount Paran [the cloud, where understanding of the knowledge is given by the light seen in it – see Numbers 10:11 thru 14 & Job 37:21 & 38:34 thru 38]. Selah [think about it]. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise.
4 And his brightness was as the light [understanding sent]; he had horns [rays of light] coming out of his hand: and there was the hiding of his power.
5 Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet.
6 He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow [all the place that have raised themselves up from the earth]: his ways are everlasting.
7 I saw the tents of Cushan [the houses of darkness] in affliction: and the curtains [separation] of the land of Midian [strife] did tremble [agitation as the product].
8 Was the LORD displeased against the rivers [the means by which the waters of death flowed]? was your anger against the rivers? was your wrath against the sea [the people who became agitated by what flowed into them], that you did ride upon your horses [God’s people become His goodly horse in the battle – see Zechariah 10:3 for who the anger is against] and your chariots of salvation [the product of the LORD’s power raised in His people]?
9 Your bow was made quite naked [see Isaiah 52:10], according to the oaths of the tribes [see Genesis 49:8 thru 12, & 22 thru 26], even your word. Selah [think about it]. You did cleave the earth with rivers [this rightly divided pure word of God, flowing directly from Him].
10 The mountains [the high places of men – see Ephesians 6:12] saw you, and they trembled: the [these] overflowing of the water passed by [‘abar – Passed over raising them from death into life]: the deep [[thowm]] uttered his voice, and lifted up his hands [exalting His handiwork, the light coming from His hand, where is His power] on high.
11 The sun and moon [church and civil government] stood still in their habitation: at the light [understanding] of your arrows [Ephraim – God’s children in this generation] they went, and at the shining of your glittering spear [this word coming from the hand of God].
12 You did march through the land in indignation, you did thresh the heathen in anger.
13 You went forth for the salvation of your people, even for salvation with your anointed [I am]; you wounded the head out of the house of the wicked, by discovering the foundation unto the neck. Selah [think about it].
14 You did strike through with his staves the head of his villages: they came out as a whirlwind to scatter me: their rejoicing was as to devour the poor secretly.
15 You did walk through the sea with your horses, through the heap of great waters.
16 When I heard, my belly trembled; my lips quivered at the voice: rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in myself, that I might rest in the day of trouble: when he comes up unto the people, he will invade them with his troops [the enemy that has come and why there is no life or fruit, and why the herd is scattered].
17 Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labor of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls:
18 Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation.
19 The LORD God is my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds’ feet, and he will make me to walk upon my high places.
To the chief singer on my stringed instruments.
The word rendered “stringed instrument” is the Hebrew word ngiynah, a fourteen times used word meaning a taunting song when used to tell of man’s actions, and of the LORD’s smiting the enemies of His people.
Psalms 3
1 LORD, how are they increased that trouble me! many are they that rise up against me.
2 Many there be which say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. Selah.
3 But you, O LORD, are a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of my head.
4 I cried unto the LORD with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill. Selah.
5 I laid me down and slept; I awakened; for the LORD sustained me.
6 I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, that have set themselves against me roundabout.
7 Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God: for you have smitten all my enemies upon the cheekbone; you have broken the teeth of the ungodly.
8 Salvation belongs unto the LORD: your blessing is upon your people. Selah.
To the Chief Musician, on Ngiynah, (when He has struck down the enemies.)
