7 – 10 February 2025
He has shown strength with his arm; He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts. He has put down the mighty from their seats and exalted them of low degree.
The word above (Luke 1:51 & 52) rendered “imagination” is the thirteen times used Greek word dianoia, meaning “deep thought, properly, the faculty (mind or its disposition), by implication, its exercise:– imagination, mind, understanding.” It speaks of our ability to reason.
The Merriam-Webster Dictionary definition of reason is: 1: to use the faculty of reason so as to arrive at conclusions; 2: to talk with another so as to influence actions or opinions.
It (dianoia) is, in God’s children, describing Christian charity (agape, literally translating to lead away {from darkness: ignorance}, rendered love or charity: as giving of one’s self ) and the essence of the two greatest commandments (which coincide sequentially with the two above definitions of reason {intellectually concluding God is present in His word, and, under His influence, giving Him to bring others under His influence}).
Matthew, Mark, and Luke all use the word (dianoia) in telling of the LORD speaking of these two commandments. Matthew follows with telling us, “On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.” Mark follows them with the LORD saying that those who know these greatest commandments “are not far from the kingdom of God [which is reached by not merely knowing but doing them].”
Matthew and Mark both write of the LORD then asking the religious, “How say the scribes [who purportedly know the word of God] that Christ is the son of David?” The LORD is bringing to light that the scribes, like the modern falsely so-called “experts,” don’t know Christ is the son of Joseph, David’s LORD (‘adown), who Jehovah (in Psalms 110:1, written by David) tells to sit at His right hand until He makes His enemies His footstool.
In Luke, after describing the LORD speaking of the two greatest commandments, he records Him plainly saying to those who know them, “You have answered right: this do, and you shall live.” James 2:26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
The title verses speak of those lacking, whose wrong conclusions, upon which they rely, put them on the wrong side of history, as enemies the LORD makes His footstool.
Psalms 110
A Psalms of David
1 The LORD [Jehovah] said unto my LORD [‘adown – the king He will establish, the seed of Joseph], Sit you at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool.
2 The LORD [Jehovah] shall send the rod of your strength out of Zion: rule you in the midst of your enemies [as I do, as commanded by the Highest power].
3 Your people shall be willing in the day of your power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning [this day now come]: you have the dew of your youth [this word of God by which we’re born as His new creations in the new earth].
4 The LORD [Jehovah] has sworn, and will not repent, You are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek [the king of righteousness, and king of peace].
5 The LORD [‘Adonay – the King of kings] at your right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath.
6 He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill the places with the dead bodies; he shall wound the heads [ro’sh – those whose evil ideas and ways rule] over many countries [‘erets – over the earth].
7 He shall drink of the brook in the way [this word sent into this time, to be revealed, by which]: therefore, shall he lift up [ruwm – raise and exalt] the head [ro’sh – His righteous ideas and way].
Genesis 49
18 (I have waited for your salvation, O LORD.)
22 Joseph is a fruitful bough [parah ben – fruitful son], even a fruitful bough [parah ben – fruitful son] by a well [a tree of life by these waters of God]; whose branches run over the wall [the wall of lies men have created and teach]:
23 The archers [ba’al – the gods of this world whose teaching has blinded all from seeing the Father, in the son, the seed of the women who brings forth the man child] have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him:
24 But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the Shepherd, the Stone of Israel:)
25 Even by the God of your father, who shall help you; and by the Almighty, who shall bless [barak] you with blessings [brakah] of heaven above, blessings [brakah] of the deep that lies under [the deep meaning that lies below the surface], blessings [brakah] of the breasts, and of the womb [seed, the son]:
26 The blessings [brakah] of your father have prevailed above the blessings [brakah] of my progenitors [all those who have come before us, and were only blessed with part of what is perfected in our return to the LORD] unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.
Ephesians 1
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our LORD Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:
4 According as he has chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
5 Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
6 To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he has made us accepted in the beloved.
7 In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;
8 Wherein he has abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence;
9 Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he has purposed in himself:
10 That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:
11 In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:
12 That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.
13 In whom you also trusted, after that you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that you believed, you were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,
14 Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.
15 Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the LORD Jesus, and love unto all the saints,
16 Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers;
17 That the God of our LORD Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:
18 The eyes of your understanding [dianoia] being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
19 And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,
20 Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,
21 Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:
22 And has put all things under his feet [making them His footstool], and gave him to be the head [lifted up] over all things to the church,
23 Which is his [ONE] body, the fulness of him that fills all in all.
Ephesians 2
1 And you has he quickened [into life], who were dead in trespasses and sins;
2 Wherein in time past you walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now works in the children of disobedience:
3 Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind [dianoia]; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
4 But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
5 Even when we were dead in sins, has quickened us together with Christ, (by [this gift of] grace you are saved;)
6 And has raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places [where understanding should be found and is] in Christ Jesus:
7 That in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
8 For by grace are you saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
9 Not of [men’s] works, lest any man should boast.
10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God has before ordained that we should walk in them [doing His work].
The word dianoia is the equivalent of the Hebrew word qereb, said to mean “the nearest part, i.e. the center, whether literal, figurative or adverbial (especially with preposition).” We know this from its appearance twice, quoting Jeremiah 31:33, where it (qered) is rendered “inward parts,” in Hebrews 8:10 and 10:16, where dianoia is rendered “mind.”
Jeremiah 31
3 The LORD has appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved you with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn you.
6 For there shall be a day, that the watchmen upon the mount Ephraim shall cry, Arise you, and let us go up to Zion unto the LORD our God.
7 For thus says the LORD; Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout among the chief of the nations: publish you, praise you, and say, O LORD, save your people, the remnant of Israel.
18 I have surely heard Ephraim 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 spake 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.
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 [qereb], and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, 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.
Hebrews 10
7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do your will, O God.
15 Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us [the LORD unknown speaking through Jeremiah]: for after that he had said before,
16 This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the LORD, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds [dianoia] will I write them;
17 And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
18 Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.
19 Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter [through the veil] into the holiest [the LORD’s presence manifested in the conversation at His mercy seat] by the blood of Jesus [the necessary sacrifice, declaring Jehovah’s salvation manifested in our flesh, in His words],
20 By a new and living way [not dying but coming to life thereby], which he has consecrated [egkainizo – “to renew, i.e. inaugurate,” another new first] for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh [from where He is hidden from the sight of those who don’t believe it’s Him appearing as of old];
21 And having a high priest over the house of God;
22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
23 Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)
24 And let us consider one another to provoke unto love [agape – giving this word as received] and to good works [because faith without works is death]:
25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together [episunagoge – a complete collection: into His ONE BODY, only used here and in 2 Thessalonians 2:1], as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as you see the day approaching.
26 For if we sin willfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth [this is the love rejected by those 2 Thessalonians 2 tells us of, who have fallen away into apostasy that came by the working of Satan in the sons of perdition, preachers and teachers sitting in God’s place misleading with lying signs and wonders], there remains no more sacrifice for sins,
27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
28 He that despised Moses’ law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:
29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose you, shall he be thought worthy, who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and has done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
30 For we know him that has said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, says the LORD. And again, The LORD shall judge his people.
31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
36 For you have need of patience, that, after you have done the [good] will of God, you might receive the promise.
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 [hupostello], my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
39 But we are not of them who draw back [hupostole] unto perdition [apoleia]; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.
We know from the use of qereb, in Isaiah 19:1 & 3, it is the counsel of oppressors (Egypt) that melts away, which is what Peter speaks of, in 2 Peter 3, as the stoicheion (elements: foundational principles, the rudiments of this corrupt world) that melt away with the old heaven and earth, after he begins with by using the word dianoia to tell of his writing as the preparation, which brings remembrance at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
Isaiah 19
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 [qereb].
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 [qereb] 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 peacemakers, 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].
Exodus 23
18 You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread [not adding to, corrupting, this word]; neither shall the fat [prospering] of my sacrifice remain [luwn – stop] until the morning [until the light, full understanding, comes].
19 The first [I Am] of the firstfruits [you are] of your land [‘adamah – the people of the LORD’s new creation] you shall bring into the house of the LORD your God. You shall not seethe [nashal – ripen] a kid in his mother’s milk [the childish with words meant for his teachers].
20 Behold, I send an Angel [with MY words] before [paniym – as My presence to] you, to keep [shamar – to guard and protect you from corruption] you in the way, and to bring you into the place which I have prepared [this new earth into which now flows milk and honey, that you might know to choose good and refuse evil].
21 Beware of him, and obey [shama’] his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name [identity] is in him [qereb].
22 But if you shall indeed obey [shama’] his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto your enemies, and an adversary unto your adversaries.
The word qereb appears in Exodus 17:7, when describing the temptation, when God’s people asked “Is the LORD among [qereb] us, or not.” As we know, the LORD answered the question with water flowing from a Rock, who we know (from 1 Corinthians 10:4) is Christ (the LORD’s identity manifested in Moses’ flesh).
The “nearness” we also know is what Paul describes to the Athenians at Mars’ Hill.
Exodus 17
1 And all the congregation [all God’s people] of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin [Ciyn – meaning thorns, speaking of the desolation caused by misleaders], after their journeys [throughout their time in the age of the earth], according to the commandment of the LORD, and pitched in Rephidim [the place where they now rest in death]: and [because they were among thorns] there was no water [uncorrupted word of God] for the people to drink.
2 Wherefore [for this cause] the people did chide with Moses [who was drawn by God from the corrupt waters], and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why chide you with me? wherefore do you tempt the LORD [doubt His presence with us in me]?
3 And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore is this that you have brought us up out of Egypt [out from among our oppressor, where we learned the ways and words of thorns and briers], to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst [for without the word from the mouth of God we will not live]?
4 And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, What shall I do unto this people? they be almost ready to stone me.
5 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go on before the people, and take with you of the elders of Israel [teach my teachers]; and your rod, wherewith you smote [nakah – showing them to be what drained their life, making them blind and dumb] the river, take in your hand, and go.
6 Behold, I will stand before you [paniym – manifesting my presence] there upon the rock in Horeb [desert – which was before without water]; and you shall smite [nakah – revealing the life now in the water of] the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel [teaching them the ways of peace that flow from the mouth of the LORD].
7 And he called the name of the place Massah [temptation], and Meribah [strife and contention], because of the chiding [riyb – “a contest (personal or legal),” as competing voices] of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the LORD, saying, Is the LORD among [qereb] us, or not?
Acts 17
22 Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars’ hill [aerieos pagos – this peak of the war], and said, You men of Athens [named from the Greek goddess of wisdom, meaning “uncertainty,” as in wondering about everything and knowing nothing], I perceive that in all things you are too superstitious [deisidaimonesteros – literally meaning they are afraid to receive the treasures that will strengthen them: giving certainty to the uncertain].
23 For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, To The Unknown God. Whom therefore you ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.
24 God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is LORD of heaven and earth, dwells not in temples made with hands;
25 Neither is worshipped with men’s hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he gives to all life, and breath, and all things;
26 And has made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined [horizo – from where the sun rises] the times before appointed [protasso – prearranged, prescribed: before written, per ordained], and the bounds [horothesia – laying out the limit: the termination point] of their habitation;
27 That they should seek the LORD [first], if haply they might feel after him [after he has effectually worked in us], and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:
28 For in him [only do] we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring [in whom He will live, if we become His prepared habitation].
29 Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man’s device [enthumesis – only appearing four times, all others rendered “thoughts;” here in context discerned to be men’s fictitious writing].
30 And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commands all men every where to repent [and purge out the blinding corruption]:
31 Because he has appointed a day [a sun rising, after the darkness: ignorance], in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he has ordained [horizo – who is the place from where the sun rises, beginning this new day: age]; whereof he has given assurance unto all men, in that he has raised him from the dead [out of confusion, out of hell, into life in heaven: full understanding].
1 Corinthians 10
1 Moreover, brethren, I would not that you should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;
2 And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;
3 And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.
5 But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
6 Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil [misleading] things, as they also lusted.
7 Neither be you idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.
8 Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
9 Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.
10 Neither murmur you, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.
11 Now all these things happened unto them for examples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.
12 Wherefore let him that thinketh he stands take heed lest he fall.
13 There has no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that you are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that you may be able to bear it.
14 Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.
15 I speak as to wise men; judge you what I say.
16 The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?
17 For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread.
18 Behold Israel after the flesh: are not they which eat of the sacrifices partakers of the altar?
19 What say I then? that the idol is any thing, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing?
20 But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils [the gods of the world, the misleaders, the false stars, who lead men astray], and not to God: and I would not that you should have fellowship with devils.
21 You cannot drink the cup of the LORD, and the cup of devils: you cannot be partakers of the LORD’s table, and of the table of devils.
2 Corinthians 3
14 But their minds were blinded: for until this day remains the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ.
15 But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.
16 Nevertheless when it shall turn to the LORD, the vail shall be taken away.
17 Now the LORD is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the LORD is, there is liberty.
18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the LORD, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the LORD.
2 Corinthians 4
1 Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;
2 But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.
3 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:
4 In whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
5 For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the LORD; and ourselves your servants for Jesus’ sake.
6 For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, has shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
8 We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;
9 Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;
10 Always bearing about in the body the dying of the LORD Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.
1 Peter 1
2 Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification [our separation from corruption into doing His work] of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood [of the sacrifice] of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our LORD Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy has begotten us again [into life with Him] unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
4 To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fades not away, reserved in heaven for you,
5 Who are [by His foreknowledge] kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed [apokalupto – ready to be uncovered] in the last time [understanding this time perfectly].
6 Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, you are in heaviness through manifold temptations [corruption and deception of the world tempting you to doubt the LORD’s presence and this Day of the LORD]:
7 That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perishes, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honor and glory at the appearing [back into sight] of Jesus Christ:
8 Whom having not seen, you love; in whom, though now you see him not, yet believing, you rejoice with joy [realizing His presence] unspeakable and full of glory:
9 Receiving the [expected] end of your faith [Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever], even the salvation of your souls.
10 Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you:
11 Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it [He] testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.
12 Unto whom it was revealed [apokalupto], that not unto themselves, but unto us [now in these last days of darkness] they did minister the things [all scripture is given for this moment], which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into [God having provided this better thing for us, that they without us would not be perfected: not fully understood until now].
13 Wherefore gird up the loins [prepare yourselves with these provisions] of your mind [dianoia], be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be [is now] brought unto you at the revelation [apokalupsis] of Jesus Christ;
14 As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves [sunchematizo] according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
15 But as he which has called you is holy, so be you holy in all manner of conversation [without the corruption of dissimulation: speaking with the LORD at His mercy seat, and then obeying, giving as received, which end is revealing Jesus Christ in us, the same yesterday, today, and forever];
16 Because it is written, Be you holy [without corruption]; for I am holy [without corruption].
17 And if you call on the Father, who without respect of persons judges according to every man’s work, pass the time of your sojourning here [in the earth] in fear:
18 Forasmuch as you know that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain [worthless and corrupted] conversation received by tradition from your fathers;
19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:
20 Who truly [by the foreknowledge of God the Father] was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest [in the flesh] in these last times for you,
21 Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.
22 Seeing you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned [anupokritos – without dissimulation] love of the brethren [philadelphia], see that you love [agapao – freely give the word as received, boldly declaring it is from the mouth of God] one another with a pure heart [uncorrupted mind] fervently:
23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which lives and abides forever [only hidden from sight by the blinding corruption taught by the gods of this world, men who put themselves in the Father’s place].
24 For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory [corrupt understanding grown from the earth] of man as the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower thereof [the proud] falls away:
25 But the word of the LORD endures forever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.
2 Peter 1
11 For so an entrance [eisodos – into the kingdom of God] shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our LORD and Savior Jesus Christ.
12 Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though you know them, and be established in the present truth.
13 Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;
14 Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our LORD Jesus Christ has shown me.
15 Moreover I will endeavor that you may be able after my decease [exodos – after leaving the old body {come to remembrance and out of the old body, which shall not remain}] to have these things always in remembrance.
16 For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our LORD Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
17 For he received from God the Father honor and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased [HEAR Him].
18 And this voice which came from heaven [when we received full understanding from the LORD] we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount.
19 We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto you do well that you take heed, as unto a light that shines in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star [phosphoros] arise in your hearts [minds]:
20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation [as have the many antichrists with their many opposing opinions, delusions they teach and preach as truth].
21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man [as they do now through the many false teachers and their false teaching now among us]: but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Ghost [the LORD alive in them, unknown to the world and working all things toward this moment of awakening by His ONE and ONLY righteous interpretation].
2 Peter 2
1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily [secretly, from their own imaginations, create lies] shall bring in damnable [apoleia – that cause them and those who follow their ways to perish] heresies, even denying the LORD that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction [apoleia – perdition].
2 And many shall follow their pernicious [aploeia – the ways that lead to their own destruction] ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of [as it is this day].
3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned [fraudulent] words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingers not, and their damnation [apoleia – perishing, perdition] slumbers not [because they are awakened “to shame and everlasting contempt”].
2 Peter 3
1 This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds [dianoia] by way of remembrance:
2 That you may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the LORD and Saviour:
3 Knowing this first, that there shall [have] come in the last days scoffers [not believing the LORD is present with us, in us], walking after their own lusts,
4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep [into death], all things continue as they were from the beginning of the [old] creation.
5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God [this same word of God] the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved [for this appointed time of the LORD’s just war against the darkness] unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition [apoleia] of ungodly men.
8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the LORD as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
9 The LORD is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is [always with us, hidden only in men’s ignorance] longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
10 But the day of the LORD will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements [stoicheion – the corrupt foundational ideas and ways of men] shall melt with fervent heat, the [old corrupt] earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements [stoicheion] shall melt with fervent heat?
13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwells righteousness.
14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that you look for such things, be diligent that you may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.
15 And account that the longsuffering of our LORD is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him has written unto you;
16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrestle, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction [apoleia – perdition].
Hebrews 2
1 Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to [obey] the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.
2 For if the word spoken by angels [His messengers sent] was steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward;
3 How [if we refuse to obey] shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the LORD [the Father revealed in the son first, to bring all His children He has given me to the same glory], and was confirmed [repeating the same message the LORD gave them] unto us by them that heard him;
4 God also bearing them witness, both with [Isaiah 8:18, saying “I and the children the LORD has given me, are for”] signs and wonders [to His people at large], and with divers miracles [this alludes to the “diverse” manner spoken of in Hebrews 1:1; of the many different ways and times, by which the Father previously spoke through men, until now when He, in the son He filled full of understanding all these diverse elements, congealed them in him, into this miraculous, eye-opening, gospel], and gifts [these treasures sent] of the Holy Ghost [as He works unknown leading us into all truth], according to his own will?
The following is from the post of 19 October 2022.
Habakkuk 2
18 What profits the graven image [the creation of wicked men] 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 wood [of the houses of the dead], Awake; to the dumb stone [the idols put in God’s place], Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it is laid over with gold and silver, and there is no breath [life] at all in the midst of it [because they speak not according to this word].
20 But the LORD is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.
These final verses (Habakkuk 2:18 thru 20) are the converse, the opposite proposition, of Jeremiah 31:33 & 34. The word (in verse 20) rendered “in the midst of” is qereb, meaning “the nearest part, i.e. the center, whether literal, figurative or adverbial (especially with preposition).” It is speaking of the forefront (thoughts: the mark in the forehead) of the mind, the ideas put there and propagated through words and action (works: as the mark in the hand).
There is currently, in public discussion, a great argument regarding Freedom of Speech, now under attack by censorship from those in power who bear the “mark” of Satan (opposing in thought and work all that is considered good and true – reversing reality and recognized, valid, standards).
The LORD (Divine Intellect) takes a different approach to “silencing” Satan (through his messengers). It is to let him speak and do his work, and then in the resulting desolation and chaos, remind us of His spoken truth and their recognizable results (peace and prosperity), proving their validity, thus silencing those preaching and teaching otherwise.
This is science, letting the experiment run its course, and letting humanity come to its own consistent conclusion – that despotic tyrannies, oppression, communism (self-centered, self-pleasing, self-serving centralizations of power among a corrupt few), no matter what it promises, always degrade into disorder, mass misery, and the self-destruction of these powers and the systems through which they rule.
As a necessity, the publication and review of this process must occur, and when it does, as it now is, knowing their time is short, the oppressors’ final act is to censor and silence what becomes “self-evident truths” when heard and realized. “Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knows that he has but a short time.”
Revelation 12
13 And when the dragon [those devouring with deception from their mouths] saw that he was cast [exposed] unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child.
14 And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle [[the final face of the unfolding presence of the LORD manifested]], that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished [with truth] for a time, and times, and half a time, [away] from the face [spewing lies] of the serpent.
15 And the serpent cast out [exposing evil intentions] of his mouth water [words that created confusion and disorder] as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away [into silence and destruction] of the flood.
16 And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth [breaking the silence with the self-evident result of the devils’ words and works], and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.
17 And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed [exposing these devils], which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
John, earlier in Revelation 12:5, speaking of the “man child” mentioned above in verse 12, tells us he will “rule” (poimaino) as the shepherd who feeds (“nourished” with truth) the woman in the wilderness. The same verse (5) describes what he feeds her comes from God’s throne in heaven, where he was caught up (harpazo), meaning the Father brought Him into full understanding (giving him the gift he gives as received – the love of the truth).
2 Thessalonians 2
8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the LORD shall consume with the spirit of [truth from] his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness [understanding] of his coming:
9 Even him [the son of man – who is the man child], whose coming is after the working [the deception that covered and destroyed all truthful discourse] of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders [from his mouth – the mass media, news and social],
10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish [by following them and receiving their mark]; because they received not the love [agape – this gift of understanding, given as it was received from the Father] of the truth, that they might be saved.
11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
13 But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethren beloved of the LORD, because God has from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:
14 Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our LORD Jesus Christ [which is God’s truth revealed in you and through you].
Revelation 12
5 And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule [poimaino] all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up [[harpazo]] unto God, and to his throne.
6 And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.
The word “rod” is from the twelve times used Greek word rhabdos, meaning “a stick or wand (as a cudgel, a cane or a baton of royalty).” It refers to its appearance twice in Hebrews 1:8, quoting Psalm 45:6 & 7, and referring to Psalms 2:9, & Revelation 2:27.
In Psalms 45 the scepter (shebet) is “right” (miyshowr – a level plain [playing field], concord, straightness, justice) given because he (the son of man – the man child) loves “righteousness” (tsedeq – the right, equity, prosperity), and hated “wickedness” (resha’, from rasha’ – morally to be, do, or declare wrong, to disturb or violate [like Jezebel]).
Hebrews 1
5 For unto which of the angels [His messengers sent to deliver His message as received] said he at any time, “You are my Son, this day have I begotten you?” And again, “I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?”
6 And again, when he brings in the first-begotten [prototokos – the first seed springing forth to life] into the world, he says, “And let all the angels [messengers] of God worship him.”
7 And of the angels [messengers] he says, “Who makes his angels [messengers] spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire.”
8 But unto the Son he says, “Your throne, O God, is forever and ever [from age to age, ending the old and corrupt, beginning the new]: a scepter [rhabdos] of righteousness is the scepter [rhabdos] of your kingdom.
9 You have loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.
10 And, You, LORD, in the beginning have laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of your hands:
11 They shall [in the hands of corrupt men] perish; but you remain; and they all shall wax old as does a garment;
12 And as a vesture shall you fold them up, and they shall be changed [allasso]: but you are the same, and your years shall not fail.
13 But to which of the angels said he at any time, Sit on my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool?
14 Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?
Revelation 2
17 He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says unto the churches; To him that overcomes will I give to eat of the hidden manna [this word from the mouth of God, which isn’t known], and will give him a white [pure] stone, and in the stone a new name written [the LORD’s identity manifested in me], which no man knows except he that receives it [as the word from the mouth of the LORD].
18 And unto the angel of the church in Thyatira [the odor of affliction – the travail in tribulation] write; These things says the Son of God, who has his eyes like unto a flame of fire, and his feet are like fine brass;
19 I know your works, and charity, and service, and faith, and your patience, and your works; and the last to be more than the first.
20 Notwithstanding I have a few things against you, because you suffer that [unfaithful] woman Jezebel, which calls herself a prophetess [who falsely claims she speaks the word of God], to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication [to interact with men they put in God’s place], and to eat things [the words of corrupt men] sacrificed unto idols.
21 And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not.
22 Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds [wicked works: preaching their words and refusing this word from the mouth of the Father].
23 And I will kill her children with death [from where only I have the power to raise them again]; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searches the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works.
24 But unto you I say, and unto the rest in Thyatira, as many as have not this doctrine, and which have not known the depths of Satan [in the unfaithful misleading in the churches], as they speak; I will put upon you none other burden [other than to know Me – “For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light”].
25 But that which you have already hold fast till I come.
26 And he that overcomes, and keeps my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations:
27 And he shall rule [poimaino] them with a rod [rhabdos] of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers [as the old earth destroyed]: even [feeding them as a shepherd, giving] as I received of my Father.
28 And I will give him the morning star [the understanding of the new day].
29 He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says unto the churches.
Isaiah 7
4 And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by your name, to take away our reproach.
2 In that day shall the branch of the LORD be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel.
3 And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that remains in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem:
4 When the LORD shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst [qereb] thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.
5 And the LORD will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory [of the LORD manifested] shall be a defense.
Isaiah 63
4 For the day of vengeance is in my heart, and the year of my redeemed is come.
5 And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: therefore my own arm brought salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me.
6 And I will tread down the people in my anger, and make them drunk in my fury, and I will bring down their strength to the earth.
7 I will mention the lovingkindnesses of the LORD, and the praises of the LORD, according to all that the LORD has bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he has bestowed on them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses.
8 For he said, Surely they are my people, children that will not lie: so he was their Savior.
9 In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel [messenger] of his presence [paniym – in who He manifested His presence] saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.
10 But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.
11 Then he remembered the days of old, Moses, and his people, saying, Where is he that brought them up out of the sea with the shepherd of his flock? where is he that put his holy Spirit within [qereb] him?
12 That led them by the right hand of Moses with his glorious arm, dividing the water before them, to make himself an everlasting name?
13 That led them through the deep, as a horse in the wilderness, that they should not stumble?
14 As a beast goes down into the valley, the Spirit of the LORD caused him to rest: so did you lead your people, to make yourself a glorious name.
Psalms 2
1 Why do the heathen [gowy – those who don’t know God] rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,
3 Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.
4 He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the LORD shall have them in derision.
5 Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.
6 Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.
7 I will declare the decree: the LORD has said unto me, You are my Son; this day have I begotten you.
8 Ask of me, and I shall give you the heathen for your inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for your possession.
9 You shall break them with a rod of iron; you shall dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.
10 Be wise now therefore, O you kings: be instructed, you judges of the earth.
11 Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
12 Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.
Revelation 19
10 And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, [as I say unto you] See you do it not: I am your fellow-servant, and of your brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus [Jehovah’s Salvation] is the spirit of prophecy.
11 And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he does judge and make war.
12 His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself [my name is Timothy, a man of war in whom the LORD manifests His presence].
13 And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God [manna no man knew as the word from the mouth of the LORD].
14 And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.
15 And out of his mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule [poimaino] them with a rod [rhabdos] of iron: and he treads the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
16 And he has on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, King Of Kings, And LORD Of Lords.
17 And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God;
18 That you may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.
19 And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army.
20 And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
21 And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.
Psalms 45
1 My heart is inditing [overflowing] a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
2 You are fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into your lips: therefore God has blessed you forever.
3 Gird your sword [this word of God] upon your thigh, O Most Mighty, with your glory and your majesty.
4 And in your majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness and righteousness; and your right hand shall teach you terrible things.
5 Your arrows are sharp in the heart of the king’s enemies; whereby the people fall under you.
6 Your throne, O God, is forever and ever: the scepter of your kingdom is a right [miyshowr] scepter.
7 You love righteousness [tsedeq], and hate wickedness [resha’]: therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.
8 All your garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia [the odors of life], out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made you glad.
9 Kings’ daughters were among your honorable women: upon your right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir [the treasures of Solomon].
10 Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline your ear; forget also your own people, and your father’s house;
11 So shall the king greatly desire your beauty: for he is your LORD; and worship you him.
12 And the daughter of Tyre [the false rock in which they trusted – now turned to the LORD again] shall be there with a gift; even the rich among the people shall entreat your favor.
13 The king’s daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of wrought gold.
14 She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework: the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto you.
15 With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought: they shall enter into the king’s palace.
16 Instead of your fathers shall be your children, whom you may make princes in all the earth.
17 I will make your name to be remembered in all generations: therefore shall the people praise you forever and ever.
