6 – 8 March 2025
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.
The word rendered “of old,” above in Jeremiah 31:3, is rachowq, from the words meaning evil (ra’) and decree (choq – “an enactment”). As we know, it speaks of this appointed time, now when the world is ruled by the evil decrees of the wicked (remaining) in seats of power (in church and state).
The word rendered “appeared” is ra’ah, meaning to see, speaking of this time as when the LORD is again seen, after not being seen because man became blinded to Him by the degenerate ignorance of the institutions charged with protecting this understanding (sight) from corruption.
The word rendered “loved” is ‘ahabah, from the word ‘ahab, meaning to have affection. Its unstated affinity is to the words yahab (to give) and ya’ab (to long), which literally deconstructs into Yahh (from ya’ah, to whom this understanding appertains) and ‘ab (Father). In these words, the LORD reinforces the understanding of the Greek word agape (leading away {from ignorance}) as Christian love: charity, giving understanding as received from Him.
The following, ending with 2 Corinthians 4, is from the post of 30 April 2024, which, like today, is the LORD exponentially compounding our understanding, precept upon precept, line upon line.
[From] 27 – 30 April 2024
God has fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he has raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in the second psalm, “You are my Son, this day have I begotten you.”
The above, Acts 13:33, is speaking of the same “glad tidings” heard here, which is of the promises made to the fathers (Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, et al.), fulfilled now, in the manner the title describes. The word there rendered “raised up” is said to be anistemi, meaning to stand up.
The word (rendered “raised up”) in the original text is anastasis, meaning “a standing up again, i.e. (literally) a resurrection from death (individual, genitive case or by implication, (its author)), or (figuratively) a (moral) recovery (of spiritual truth).” It is from this word’s meaning that the word “again” is added, which doesn’t appear in the original text.
Even deeper, the Greek words rendered “I have begotten” are ego gennao, meaning I (Am) regenerated through procreation. The word said to be gennao, in the original text, is written as gegenneka, ge meaning soil: meaning from the earth, like from where Adam was created.
This understanding refers us to the LORD declaring His name to Moses in Exodus 3:14, saying “I Am That I Am: and he said, Thus shall you say unto the children of Israel, I Am [in the flesh of Moses in that generation] has sent me unto you.”
As we know, the word rendered “I Am” is hayah, meaning “to exist, i.e. be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary).” It (hayah) is said to be the origin of the name Jehovah, said to mean “(the) self-Existent or Eternal.” The full origin of the name is in hayah, and ya’ah, the once used (in Jeremiah 10:7) word meaning “to be suitable:– [Yahh, to whom it] appertain.”
He (the LORD), again speaking to Moses, says in the following verse, “Thus shall you say unto the children of Israel, the LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me unto you: this is my name forever [I Am in every generation], and this is my memorial [zeker – be remembered, by recall, the same calling, kaleo, of God, working and speaking unknown in this generation] unto all generations.”
It is from this latter verse, with this understanding, the LORD Jesus, in Matthew 22:31 & 32, referring to it, says, “But as touching the resurrection [anastasis] of the dead, have you not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.
Jeremiah 10
1 Hear [shama’ – and obey] you the word which the LORD speaks unto you, O house of Israel:
2 Thus says the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen [those who haven’t known Me in any generation], and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven [this full understanding seen here and now]; for the heathen [who don’t know I Am in every generation] are dismayed at them.
3 For the customs of the people are vain: for one cut a tree out of the forest [men they think are upright], the work of the hands of the workman [making them idols], with the axe.
4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not [from the corrupt positions they’ve created]. [[These are the hypocrites, the hyper critical, congenital liars, witnesses against their own ignorance, exposing themselves, who are forever spewing their fallacious opinions, who will never stop, never come to the present light, because their deeds are evil. They have made their choice and therefore, by their endless disruption of peace, condemn themselves to separation from the law-abiding and peaceful.]]
5 They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not [according to this word, because there is no light in them]: they must need be borne [carried], because they cannot go [move on their own, but must be moved out of the way by the Spirit of the LORD moving upon the darkened deep]. Be not afraid of them; for [[if we refuse to be affected]] they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good [[they are unable to produce a positive effect]].
6 Forasmuch as there is none like unto you, O LORD; you are great, and your name is great in might.
7 Who would not fear you, O King of nations? for to you does it appertain [ya’ah – [[only appearing this once]] pertaining to I Am]: forasmuch as among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is none like unto you [none knowing the things only You know and teach us].
8 But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is [their idols are] a doctrine of vanities [worthless words].
9 Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder [tsaraph – the refining of earthly value and outer appearance]: blue and purple is their clothing [covering the deception within, by which they rule]: they are all the work of cunning men [chakam – the wise men of this world, who the LORD confounds with His truth].
10 But the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth [‘erets] shall tremble [to shake the wicked from it], and the nations [those refusing to know I Am] shall not be able to abide his indignation [za’am – which ends in these men’s destruction, which they should fear].
11 Thus shall you say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth [‘erets], even they shall perish from the [new] earth, and from under these [new] heavens.
12 He has made the earth by his power, he has established the world by his wisdom, and has stretched out the heavens [this understanding spread before you] by his discretion.
13 When he utters his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens [by which His word from there comes], and he causes the vapors [the separated element of understanding] to ascend [leave the earth] from the ends of the earth [‘erets – being without understanding, ending the old and corrupt]; [and beginning the new] he [congealing the elements] makes lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures [by His Spirit moving upon the darkness He gives these gifts].
14 Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder [tsaraph] is confounded by the graven image [the idol they’ve created]: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath [life] in them.
15 They are vanity [worthless words], and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation [pquddah – this time when I Am come as the Chief Overseer of the earth] they shall perish.
16 The portion of Jacob is not like them: for he is the former of all things; and Israel [my family, the children of My correction] is the rod [shebet – the scepter to rule this new earth] of his inheritance: The LORD of hosts [a man of war] is his name [I Am, His denity].
17 Gather up your wares [pack and move] out of the land [‘erets – the old earth], O inhabitant of the fortress [matsowr – the place of oppression, against which I Am laying siege].
18 For thus says the LORD, Behold, I will sling [qala’ – a seven times used word referring us to its use in 1 Samuel 25:29; see below] out the inhabitants of the land [‘erets] at this once, and will distress them, that they may find it so.
19 Woe is me for my [the carcass of My dead body] hurt! my wound is grievous; but I said, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it.
20 My tabernacle is spoiled, and all my cords are broken: my children are gone forth of me, and they are not [the same words Rachel cries out, in Jeremiah 31:15, speaking of Ephraim: God’s people at large in this last and first generation]: there is none to stretch forth my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.
21 For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered [as it is].
22 Behold, the noise [qowl – the voice] of the bruit [shmuw’ah – the report heard from Jehovah, I Am in this generation of the dead who are raised to life] is come, and a great commotion [ra’ash – the voice “shaking” heaven and earth, which brings the dead bones together and causes men to discern and choose good over evil] out of the north country [revealed from the darkness of men’s ignorance], to make the cities of Judah [the current crop of corrupt leaders] desolate, and a den of dragons [tanniym – men as serpents and whales, with their wide open mouths devouring men and swallowing them into the belly of hell].
23 O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself [but to You it appertains, to guide and direct him into a good way]: it is not in man that walks [astray into his own evil way] to direct his steps.
24 O LORD, correct me [back onto the right path], but with judgment; not in your anger, lest you bring me to nothing.
25 Pour out your fury upon the heathen that know you not, and upon the families that call not on your name [You manifested identity: I Am]: for they have eaten up Jacob [and swallowed him into the belly of hell], and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation [this old and totally corrupt earth] desolate.
Matthew 12
30 He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathers not with me scatters abroad.
31 Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men.
32 And whosoever speaks a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaks against the Holy Ghost [the LORD speaking and working unknown to those dead in their own ignorance, proven by them not knowing it’s Him even as He tells them – Acts 13:41 Behold {see Him}, you despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which you shall in no wise believe, though a man declares it {as I Am} unto you.], it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come.
33 Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit.
34 O generation of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart [the foundational mind] the mouth speaks.
35 A good man out of the good treasure of the heart brings forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.
36 But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the [this] day of judgment.
37 For by your words you shall be justified, and by your words you shall be condemned.
38 Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from you.
39 But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonah [coming from the belly of hell and calling all to repent]:
40 For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly [and from there said, “I cried by reason of my affliction unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and you heard my voice.”]; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth [which is the habitation of the dead, in the grave in the earth, sheol].
41 The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and, behold, a greater than Jonah is here.
42 The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.
1 Corinthians 1
9 God is faithful, by whom you were called [kaleo] unto the fellowship [koinonia – partnership: participation in His long-suffering] of his Son Jesus Christ our LORD. [Philippians 3:10 That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection {anastasis}, and the fellowship {koinonia} of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death; 11 If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of {exanastasis – only used this once, meaning through rising again from} the dead.]
10 Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name [identity] of our LORD Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing [according to this word], and that there be no divisions among you; but that you be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
1 Corinthians 15
12 Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection [anastasis] of the dead [again here on the earth]?
Job 19
25 For I know that my redeemer lives, and that he shall stand [quwm – rise in the resurrection] at the latter day [‘acharown] upon the earth [‘aphar – the dust, the ground from where man is generated again]:
26 And though after [‘achar] my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my [new] flesh shall I see God:
27 Whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed [kalah] within me.
28 But you should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root [sheresh – the deep meaning] of the matter [dabar – of His word] is found [matsa’] in me [to whom it appertains]? [Isaiah 65:1 I am sought of them that asked not for me; I Am found {matsa’} of them that sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation that was not called by my name.]
29 Be you afraid of the sword [this word of God you despisers of His good refuse]: for wrath brings the punishments of the sword, that you may know there is a judgment.
1 Corinthians 15
13 But if there be no resurrection [anastasis] of the dead [in the flesh], then is Christ not risen:
14 And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.
15 Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not.
16 For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised:
17 And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; you are yet in your sins.
18 Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.
19 If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.
20 But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.
21 For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection [anastasis] of the dead.
22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming [parousia].
24 Then comes the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all [corrupt] rule and all [corrupt] authority and [corrupt] power.
25 For he must reign, till he has put all enemies under his feet.
26 The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
27 For he has put all things under his feet. But when he says all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him.
28 And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.
29 Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? why are they then baptized for the dead [into Christ’s death, from where we are resurrected]?
42 So also is the resurrection [anastasis] of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:
43 It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power:
44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural [flesh] body, and there is a spiritual [flesh] body.
45 And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam [the first fruit of the new creation] was made a quickening spirit [I Am, with His rising from the dead in me, He will bring many to life].
46 Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.
47 The first man [natural Adam] is of the earth, earthy; the second man [Spiritual Adam] is the LORD from heaven.
48 As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.
49 And as we have borne the image [eikon – likeness that marks us as possessed by Him] of the earthy, we shall also bear the image [eikon] of the heavenly.
50 Now this I say, brethren, that [those bearing the mark of the beast, without the LORD’s Spirit] flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither does corruption [that marks the flesh as without the LORD’s Spirit possessing it] inherit incorruption.
51 Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep [as dead flesh], but we shall all be changed [allasso by His understanding as it unfolds, removing all corruption],
52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye [enlightening the mind so we see Him as He is, with us, in us], at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound [the voice of His messenger, I Am, His archangel, shouting, calling, kaleo, all to join in His ONE LIVING BODY] and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed [into His ONE BODY, in the air cleared of corruption, cleared of the smoke that came from the bottomless pit, into heaven, full understanding with Him, purity by which we see God].
53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal [flesh] must put on [spiritual] immortality [which is the anastasis].
54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
55 O death, where is your sting? O grave, where is your victory?
Friends, the twenty three times used word eikon (“image”), meaning “a likeness, i.e. (literally) statue, profile, or (figuratively) representation, resemblance,” is used ten times by John in Revelation, all describing the “image” of the beast that all the world worships. The beast there is Babylon, confusion, which (with endless opinions replacing truth and understanding) corrupts all language (truthful discourse) and brings the world into its current state of insanity.
This state of insanity is what those who think they are enlightened refuse to admit affects them. Thinking they know everything, rejecting this word of God, they fail to realize they are also those sitting in God’s place holding His people down with opinions presented as truth and are potentially more dangerous than those more openly showing the mark (of confusion).
John only uses the word (eikon) in the abovementioned appearances in Revelation. The three other Gospels each use it once, all in the LORD’s telling of the “image” of Caesar (the powers that sever the world from God), which shows possession of the thing bearing it (the mark, the graven image).
Paul, in his other uses of the word eikon, tells us precisely its meaning.
Romans 1
16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believes [it is Him speaking and working to save them from themselves, from their own darkened minds]; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith [the one speaking who first believes it is Him] to faith [of the hearers who then believe it is His]: as it is written, The just shall live by faith [believing He is come to save them].
18 For the wrath of God is revealed [in the same word] from heaven [from where come this full understanding] against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness [saying this truth is corruption and their corrupt opinions are truth];
19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them [in their glory, the confused and now insane world their words have produced]; for God has showed it unto them.
20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world [hidden here for this moment, behind the veil, these same men’s ignorance, in the flesh of God’s chosen, His eklektos] are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made [by assembling, rightly ordering, the elements of understanding that were separated until now], even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations [dialogismos – their dialog, their corrupt communication], and [forever debating] their foolish heart was darkened [became ignorant].
22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
23 And changed the glory [the manifested presence] of the uncorruptible God into an image [eikon] made [they created] like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things.
24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own [flesh] bodies between themselves:
25 Who changed [allasso – the change that needs to be changed] the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature [the creations of God] more than the Creator, who is blessed [with these treasures given to be given] forever. Amen.
Romans 8
26 Likewise [with these blessings] the Spirit also helps our infirmities [the maladies that make us weak]: for we [in the weakness of our ignorance] know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself makes intercession [sunantilambanomai – only used twice, meaning He takes hold of us to oppose what has taken hold of us] for us with groanings [stenagmos – only used twice, meaning standing close because of our ignorance] which cannot be uttered [cannot be spoken – because all have become ignorant of them – the only other time the word stenagmos appears in Acts 7:34, where we are told it is what {our ignorance} the LORD heard from His people held in Egypt, {“and am come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send you into Egypt {now against the image of the beast, against Babylon}. This Moses {now I Am, me, Timothy} whom they refused, saying, Who made you a ruler and a judge? the same did God send to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel which appeared to him in the bush.”].
27 And he that searches the hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because he makes intercession for the saints [knowing they are also in need of this change] according to the will of God.
28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called [kletos] according to his purpose.
29 For whom he did foreknow [know before, the faithful throughout history], he also did predestinate [proorizo – to limit in advance, at this horizon] to be conformed to the image [eikon] of his Son, that he might be [as the first light on the horizon] the firstborn among many brethren.
30 Moreover whom he did predestinate [proorizo], them he also called [kaleo]: and whom he called [kaleo], them he also justified [dikaioo – freed from corruption]: and whom he justified [freed from corruption], them he also glorified [manifesting His presence in them].
31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect [eklektos – His chosen]? It is God that justifies [frees us from corruption and thereby death].
34 Who is he that condemns? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.
2 Corinthians 3
12 Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech:
13 And not as Moses, which put a veil over his face, that the children of Israel could not steadfastly look to the end of that which is abolished [the ignorance of the LORD among us in Moses’ flesh]:
14 But their minds were blinded: for until this day remains the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament [not knowing it was written by those in whom the LORD chose to dwell, working and speaking through them]; which vail is done away in Christ [who declares it is the LORD, Jehovah, the Father in him doing the work, as now, here speaking and working in my, our, flesh].
15 But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail [of ignorance, thinking it’s the work of men] is upon their heart.
16 Nevertheless when it shall turn [away from the corrupt teaching of men] to the LORD, the vail [of ignorance] shall be taken away.
17 Now the LORD is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the LORD is, there is liberty [freedom from corruption].
18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the LORD [in us], are changed [metamorphoo – the transfiguration of Christ, as in Matthew 17:2 and Mark 9:2] into the same image [eikon] from glory [His presence revealed in one flesh in which He works and speaks] to glory [in those receiving Him, who are transformed into the same image], even as by the Spirit of the LORD.
The only other time metamorphoo appears is in Romans 12:2.
Romans 12
1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God [heard here at His mercy seat where His presence is manifested in this conversation], that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service [serving as I Am serving].
2 And be not conformed to this world: but be you transformed [metamorphoo] by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
3 For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God has dealt to every man the measure of faith.
4 For as we have many members in ONE BODY, and all members have not the same office:
5 So we, being many, are ONE BODY in Christ, and every one members one of another.
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 [understanding] of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image [eikon] 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 [understanding] of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face [presence] of Jesus Christ.
7 But we have this treasure [the gift of this understanding He has given to us] in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may [be known to] 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 [which is His light] also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.
11 For we which live are always delivered unto death for Jesus’ sake, that the life [light] also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.
12 So then death works in us [as we sacrifice, long-suffer, in His service], but life [understanding] in you.
13 We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed [it is His presence in my flesh], and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore [should] speak [which reveals Him alive in us];
14 Knowing that he which raised up the LORD Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus, and shall present us with you.
15 For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace [this gift] might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.
16 For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;
18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
The points in Jeremiah 10:7 & 8 and in the last verses above speak of understanding what is experienced, as Paul says in Act 17:27 to those ignorantly worshipping God, “if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us.” It is to understand what is affecting us, changing us, and realize to whom it all appertains.
Jeremiah 10
6 Forasmuch as there is none like unto you, O LORD; you are great, and your name is great in might.
7 Who would not fear you, O King of nations? for to you does it appertain [ya’ah – only appearing this once; pertaining to I Am]: forasmuch as among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is none like unto you [none knowing the things only You know and teach us].
8 But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is [their idols are] a doctrine of vanities [worthless words].
It is in this context (seeing the unseen by His effect on us) that verse 15 above is quoted in Revelation 15:3.
Luke 8
22 Now it came to pass on a certain day [today if you will hear His voice], that he went into a ship [one of the church institutions, the first to obey and pass over from death into life] with his disciples: and he said unto them, Let us go over unto the other side of the lake [the same course set before all, to go from ignorance to understanding upon these living waters]. And they launched forth.
23 But as they sailed he fell asleep [in death]: and there came down a storm of wind [of false doctrines against the truth] on the lake; and they were filled with water [not knowing the difference between truth and men’s creations], and were in jeopardy.
24 And they came to him, and awoke him, saying, Master, master, we [are unsure and] perish. Then he arose [as the first begotten of God from among the dead, in victory over death and hell], and rebuked the wind [the false doctrines, and the devils spewing them] and the raging [roaring waves] of the water [men’s words]: and they ceased, and there was a calm [as a sea of glass mixed with this fire: this word from the mouth of the LORD].
25 And he said unto them, Where is your faith [in My saying I will never leave you or forsake you]? And they being afraid wondered [what they were experiencing], saying one to another, What manner of man is this! for he commands even the winds and water, and they obey him [and in obedience humanity is calmed].
Revelation 15
1 And I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvelous, seven angels having the seven last plagues [this full understanding now readied to be poured out]; for in them is filled up the wrath of God [this word which the wicked refuse to hear as the Father’s voice].
2 And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire [this wrath that calms the agitated and consumes the wicked]: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast [those without the LORD’s Spirit, sitting in seats of power over church and state, resisting, opposing, and blaspheming His work and word], and over his image [all their lies they put in My place and call by My name, which is Truth], and over his mark [in their head and hand: the insanity in their minds, which is obvious in their works], and over the number of his name [identity found in the number of a man, Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary number 666, ‘apher, the ashes of the earth’s ruin, covering the faces, the presence, of the true and false prophets; only used twice, in 1 Kings 20:38 & 41], stand on the sea of glass [overcoming the lies of false prophets and false teachers, calmed], having the harps of God [receiving from Him the instruments that calm it].
3 And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb [these written words meant to be repeated as received, precept upon precept, line upon line] saying, Great and marvelous [in opening our eyes to see good and evil, teaching us to choose what brings a good effect and refuse what can only result in evil] are your works, LORD God Almighty; just and true are your ways, you King of saints.
4 Who shall not fear you, O LORD, and glorify your name [Your identity manifested with us, in us]? for you only are holy: for all nations [all who haven’t known You] shall come and worship before you; for your judgments are made manifest [by Your presence].
5 And after that I looked, and, behold, the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven [where full understand is] was opened:
6 And the seven angels came out of the temple, having the seven plagues, clothed in pure and white linen [purity by which man sees God], and having their breasts girded with golden girdles [the preparation of these treasures].
7 And one of the four beasts gave unto the seven angels seven golden vials full of the wrath of God [this word which men still refuse], who lives forever and ever.
8 And the temple [on earth] was filled with [a pillar of] smoke [by day, in this time light – anger, to smoke out the vermin infesting the temple] from the glory of God, and from his power [to effect good]; and no man was able to enter into the temple [on earth until it was purged], till the seven plagues of the seven angels [the LORD’s messengers with His message] were fulfilled [teleo – until it was filled with this understanding sent from heaven].
Isaiah 26
1 In that day shall this song be sung in the land [‘erets – in the earth] of Judah [by the elect remnant]; We have [are become] a strong city [New Heavenly Jerusalem]; salvation [yshuw’ah – Jehovah’s Salvation: Joshua: Jesus: the perpetual son of man, the ONE risen BODY of Christ] will God appoint for walls [for protection] and bulwarks [cheyl – our defense: His army].
2 Open you the gates [out of death and hell], that the righteous nation which keep the truth may enter in [to heaven].
3 You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on you: because he trusts in you.
4 Trust you in the LORD forever: for in the LORD [Yahh = to whom it is suited] Jehovah is everlasting strength [understanding]:
5 For he brings down them [the proud] that dwell on high; the lofty city, he lays it low; he lays it low, even to the ground; he bringeth it even to the dust [into the ruin of the earth under their rule].
6 The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor [without worldly power], and the steps of the needy [the humble who acknowledge they are in need of this understanding].
7 The way of the just is uprightness: you, Most Upright, do weigh the path of the just.
8 Yea, in the way of your judgments, O LORD, have we waited for you; the desire of our soul is to your name, and to the remembrance [zeker – realizing Your manner] of you [we understand we are those possessed by, joined with, Your Spirit and raised here with You].
9 With my soul have I desired you in the night [when ignorance of Your presence covered the world]; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek you early: for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
10 Let favor be shown to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land [‘erets – earth] of uprightness [when this light has come into the darkness] will he deal unjustly [choosing darkness because their deeds are evil], and will not behold [ra’ah – they refuse to see] the majesty of the LORD.
11 LORD, when your hand is lifted up [when Your word and work are exalted], they will not see: but [when the effect of their evil come upon them] they shall see, and be ashamed for their envy at the people [experiencing Your good effect: the expected end we’ve waited for]; yea, the fire of your enemies shall devour them [they, with the old heaven and earth, melt away with their evil works].
12 LORD, you will ordain peace for us: for you also have wrought all our [Your] works in us [producing the good effect].
13 O LORD our God, other [evil] lords beside you have had dominion over us: but by you only will we make mention of your name [Your identity].
14 They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore, have you visited [paqad – manifested Your presence as the Chief Shepherd and Overseer of the earth] and destroyed them, and made all their memory [zeker] to perish [all perception of their nature, not knowing they are evil souls, possessed by an evil spirit, who’ve resisted and opposed God and His plan throughout history].
15 You have increased the nation [those who haven’t known You], O LORD, you have increased the nation [As it is this day, when only a very few know You]: you [in them] are glorified: you havw removed it far [rachaq – brought us to this time when the world us ruled by the evil decrees of evil men in power] unto all the ends [here ending the old beginning the new] of the earth [‘erets].
16 LORD, in trouble [tsar] have they visited you [paqad – have received You as the Chief Shepherd and Overseer of the earth], they poured out a prayer when your chastening [this good correction] was upon them.
17 Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and cries out in her pangs [anger against the birth pains]; so have we been in your sight, O LORD.
18 We have [ignorantly] been with child, we have been in pain [not understood], we have as it were brought forth wind [a foul spirit which we now perceive]; [rebelling against the new birth] we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; [because of the rebellion, the refusal declare the present LORD] neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen [into this birth canal, where these waters have already broken forth].
19 Your dead men [by receiving My Spirit] shall live, together with my dead body [of Christ] shall they arise. Awake and sing [these words], you that dwell in dust [of the earth’s ruin]: for your dew [this word of the LORD that appears on the earth with the new day] is as the dew of herbs [in this third day of this new creation], and the [belly of the] earth shall cast out the dead.
20 Come, my people, enter you into your chambers [cheder – in death in the belly of the earth], and shut your doors about you: hide yourself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast [‘abar – and we rise from death into life].
21 For, behold, the LORD comes out of his place to punish [paqad – as the Chief Shepherd and Overseer of the earth] the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood [reveal what has drained the life from the earth], and shall no more cover her slain [hid here in the belly of the earth].
The word cheder, describing where the LORD hides His people until the indignation is overpast, refers us to its other uses below.
Proverbs 7
21 With her [the unfaithful harlot church, who the present LORD sees, though she doesn’t know He’s here as she speaks to the simple minded who should remain free from her {unaffected} and doing the LORD’s work] much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him [into her bed where they sleep in death, in the belly of the earth: hell].
22 He goes after her straightway, as an ox [working in the earth, the third face of the LORD’s unfolding presence, here interrupted] goes to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks [no longer able to continue his work];
23 Till a dart strike through his liver [his innermost thoughts]; as a bird hastes to the snare [never rising into heaven], and knows not that it is for his life.
24 Hearken unto me now therefore, O you children, and attend to the words of my mouth.
25 Let not your heart [mind] decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.
26 For she has cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.
27 Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers [cheder] of death.
2 Corinthians 5
14 For the love of Christ constrains us [joins us together, to follow the dead into death, that the LORD through us will here raise them to life with His rising with us in us, rescuing all in all]; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:
15 And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.
16 Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh [wherein the LORD is risen], yet now henceforth know we him no more.
17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
Proverbs 18
4 The words of a man’s mouth are as deep waters, and the wellspring of wisdom as a flowing brook.
5 It is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to overthrow the righteous in judgment.
6 A fool’s lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes.
7 A fool’s mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.
8 The words of a talebearer [nirgan – a slanderer] are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts [cheder] of the belly [taking the world into hell].
9 He also that is slothful in his work [not diligently searching for truth and instead blindly accepting falsehoods] is brother to him that is a great waster.
10 The name [identity] of the LORD [who searched the innermost thought of men’s minds] is a strong tower: the righteous runs into it, and is safe.
11 The rich man’s wealth is his strong city, and as a high wall [ready to fall] in his own conceit.
12 Before destruction, the heart of man is haughty, and before honor is humility.
Proverbs 20
23 Divers weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance [injustice] is not good.
24 Man’s goings are of the LORD; how can a man [without Him] then understand his own way?
25 It is a snare to the man who devours that which is holy, and after vows to make enquiry. [Can a thief be trusted to investigate his robbery, or can a destroyer be trusted to build what he destroys?]
26 A wise king scatters the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them [constantly remembering their wickedness when it is seen].
27 The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts [cheder] of the belly.
28 Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne is upheld by mercy.
29 The glory of young men is their strength [understanding]: and the beauty of old men is the grey head [always remembering the things he’s experienced in his long life].
30 The blueness of a wound cleanse away evil [repairing damaged flesh]: so do stripes [the pain of correction] the inward parts [cheder] of the belly.
Proverbs 24
1 Be not you envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them.
2 For their heart studies destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.
3 Through wisdom is a house built; and by understanding it is established:
4 And by knowledge shall the chambers [cheder] be filled with all precious and pleasant riches.
5 A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge increases strength.
6 For by wise counsel you shall make your war: and in multitude of counsellors there is safety.
The above (Proverbs 24) tells of the end of the LORD’s indignation (za’am), with the destruction of those who’ve taken the world into the belly of hell (sheol where the dead are housed).
Isaiah 10
1 Woe unto them that decree [chaqaq] unrighteous decrees [cheqeq], and that write grievousness which they have prescribed [saying it’s a cure when it’s more of the same cause];
2 To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!
3 And what will you do in the day of visitation [pquddah – the same as paqad], and in the desolation which shall come from far [merchaq – the appointed time the LORD decreed]? to whom will you flee for help? and where will you leave your glory?
4 Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
5 O Assyrian [the communists here and abroad at war with God and His people], the rod of my anger, and the staff in their hand is my indignation [za’am].
6 I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
7 Howbeit he means not so, neither does his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few.
8 For he says, Are not my princes altogether kings?
23 For the LORD God of hosts shall make a consumption [kalah], even determined [charats], in the midst of all the land [‘erets – the earth].
24 Therefore thus says the LORD God of hosts, O my people that dwell in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian [the communists]: he shall smite you with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against you, after the manner of Egypt.
25 For yet a very little while, and the indignation [za’am] shall cease, and my anger in their destruction.
26 And the LORD of hosts shall stir up a scourge for him according to the slaughter of Midian [those who cause endless strife among God’s people] at the rock of Oreb [whose kings trust in ignorance and darkness they’ve caused]: and as his rod was upon the sea, so shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt [and these waters, as fire from my mouth, shall consume them, as decreed – after the anointing {machach – “until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate”} which is the final step before we rise as ONE BODY].
27 And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden [the enemies in power, communist oppressors, mixed among us] shall be taken away from off your shoulder, and his yoke [joining God people with them] from off your neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing [shemem].
28 He is come to Aiath [the heap of ruin], he is passed to Migron [the precipice]; at Michmash [where it is hidden] he has laid up [paqad – reserved for this appointed time of My visitation] his carriages [to take the wicked out of the way]:
29 They are gone over the passage: they have taken up their lodging at Geba [the high places of power]; Ramah is [in this time when men who make themselves gods are] afraid; Gibeah of Saul [the high ones the people desired] is fled.
30 Lift up your voice, O daughter of Gallim [of these springs of living waters]: cause it to be heard unto Laish [as the roar of a Lion], O poor [‘aniy – humble] Anathoth [who’ve heard the LORD].
31 Madmenah [the dunghill – when the high places are full of it] is removed; the inhabitants of Gebim [those who’ve poisoned, polluted with dung, the well] gather themselves to flee.
32 As yet shall he remain at Nob [in their high places] that day: he shall shake his hand against the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.
33 Behold, the LORD, the LORD of hosts, shall lop the bough with terror: and the high ones of stature shall be hewn down [with the sword of the LORD and of Gideon {the man of War, and the hewer of the powerful}], and the haughty shall be humbled.
34 And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon [the so-called upright in high places, the corrupt who think they are pure by their own twisted and perverted definitions] shall fall by a mighty one.
Isaiah 27
1 In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish [paqad – visit as the Chief Overseer of the earth] leviathan [those to which the people are joined] the piercing [bariyach] serpent [as misleaders among them], even leviathan [Levi – the priesthood] that crooked serpent [as thorns and briers]; and he [the LORD with us] shall slay the dragon [tanniyn – the whale, the open mouths of men that carried all humanity into the belly of hell and holds it therein – or the crocodile, death lurking below the surface of these men’s words, in their rivers] that is in the sea [that flows to the people].
2 In that day sing [repeat these words] you unto her, A vineyard of red wine [to change their minds].
3 I the LORD do keep it [the earth]; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day.
4 Fury is not in me: who would set the briers [deceivers] and thorns [shayith – misleaders] against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together.
5 Or let him take hold of my strength [this understanding], that he may make peace with me; and he shall make peace with me.
6 He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.
Isaiah 50
4 The LORD God has given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakens morning by morning, he wakens my ear to hear as the learned.
5 The LORD God has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back.
6 I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.
7 For the LORD God will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.
The word “flint” is from the five times used Hebrew word challamiysh, said to be from chalam, meaning to dream: Divine lucid thought while in the deep sleep (in death): seeing the promise (eternity) far off (merchaq – by the LORD’s decree) and acting on its reality.
Isaiah 38
9 The writing of Hezekiah [Jehovah is strength: understanding] king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered [chayay – received understanding: life] of his sickness:
10 I said in the cutting off of my days [when understanding of Jehovah leaves the earth], I shall go to the gates of the grave [sh’owl – sheol: hell, held there by the minds and mouths of ignorance]: I am [in death’s sleep] deprived of the residue of my years.
11 I said, I shall not see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.
12 My age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd’s tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life [as cloth cut from the loop]: he will cut me off with pining sickness [dallah – dangling thread of this cut cloth]: from day even to night will you make an end of me.
13 I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day even to night [during this time of sleep in darkness] will you make an end of [shalam – in this rest shall Your peace complete, perfect] me.
14 Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter [during this time my mouth chattered worthlessly]: I did mourn as a dove [waiting for this expected end]: my eyes fail with looking upward [forgetting you are always with me]: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake [to rescue me from ignorance] for me.
15 What shall I say? he has both spoken unto me, and himself has done it [carried me through time and space while I slept in death]: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of [ignorance or] my [immortal] soul.
16 O LORD, by these things men live, and in all these things is the life of my spirit: so will you recover me [chalam – by these lucid thoughts while I sleep], and make me to live.
17 Behold, for peace I had great bitterness [while I was in ignorance of Your presence]: but you have in love [chashaq – joined Yourself] to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for you have cast all my sins behind your back.
18 For the grave [sh’owl – sheol: hell] cannot praise you, death can not celebrate you: they that [choose to] go down into the pit cannot hope for your truth [to recover them from the corruption they choose].
19 The living [chay], the living [chay], he shall praise you, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known your truth.
20 The LORD was ready to save me: therefore, we will sing my songs [speak these words of life as He has given] to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the LORD.
Deuteronomy 8
1 All the commandments which I command you this day shall you observe to do, that you may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers.
2 And you shall remember all the way which the LORD your God led you these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you, and to prove you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or not.
3 And he humbled you, and suffered you to hunger, and fed you with manna, which you knew not, neither did your fathers know; that he might make you know that man does not live by bread only, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of the LORD does man live.
14 Then [when you’ve prospered because you heard the LORD’s voice and obeyed] your heart be lifted up, and you forget the LORD your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage;
15 Who led you through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein [misleaders possessed by Satan] were [like] fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; who brought you forth [this life giving] water out of the rock of flint [challamiysh – the man {‘iysh} whose mind I first awakened from death’s sleep];
16 Who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers knew not [that it was this same word from the mouth of the LORD], that he might humble you, and that he might prove you, to do you good [and refuse evil misleading] at your latter end [‘achariyth];
17 And you say in your heart, “My power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth.”
18 But you shall remember [zakar] the LORD your God: for it is he that gives you power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he swore unto your fathers, as it is this day.
19 And it shall be, if you do at all forget the LORD your God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that you shall surely perish.
20 As the nations which the LORD destroyed before your face [paniym – by manifesting His presence], so shall you perish; because you would not be obedient unto the voice of the LORD your God.
Deuteronomy 32
1 Give ear, O you heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.
2 My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:
3 Because I will publish the name [identity] of the LORD: ascribe you greatness unto our God.
4 He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
12 So the LORD alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.
13 He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil [this anointing] out of the flinty rock [challamiysh – in whose flesh Jehovah manifests His salvation];
14 Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and you did drink the pure blood of the grape [by which we know to choose good and refuse evil, and thereby purified we see the Father with, in us, all in all].
Job 28
1 Surely there is a vein for the silver [where it’s found in the earth], and a place for gold where they fine it [in the fires].
2 Iron [strength, like silver] is taken out of the [belly of the] earth, and brass [these words, like gold] is molten out of the stone [in tribulation’s fires brought from God’s people].
3 He sets an end [qets] to darkness, and searches out all perfection: the stones of darkness [‘ophel, with affinity to Ophir: fine gold, these treasures, brought from the belly of the earth], and the shadow of death.
4 The flood [of these life-giving waters] breaks out from the inhabitant; even the waters forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men.
5 As for the earth, out of it comes bread [these treasures from the mouth of God, by which man lives]: and under it is turned up as it were fire [the tribulation that brings His word from His people].
6 The stones of it [God’s people from whom His word flows] are the place of sapphires: and it has dust of [from the earth’s ruin comes] gold.
7 There is a path which no fowl [those in places where understanding should be found] knows, and which the vulture’s [feeding on the dead] eye has not seen:
8 The lion’s whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion [those who say they are speaking God’s word] passed by it.
9 He [the LORD] puts forth his hand upon the rock [challamiysh – He sends His word by one who can be trusted]; he overturns the mountains [the corrupt governments of church and state] by the roots [showing the foundations have been corrupted].
10 He cuts out rivers among the rocks [new ways to send His pure word to His people]; and his eye sees every precious thing.
11 He binds the floods [the corrupt words of the wicked in power] from overflowing; and the [corrupt] thing that is hid [below the surface of their words] brings he forth to light [understanding].
12 But where shall [this] wisdom be found? and where is the place of [this] understanding?
13 Man knows not the price thereof [is a life given]; neither is it found in the land of the living [but rather it is found here among the dead].
14 The depth [of man’s understanding] says, It is not in me: and the sea [all humanity] says, It is not with me.
15 It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.
16 It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir [these treasures found here in the darkness], with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.
17 The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of it shall not be for jewels of fine gold.
18 No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of [this] wisdom is above rubies.
19 The topaz of Ethiopia [cover by darkness] shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued with pure gold.
20 Whence then comes [this] wisdom? and where is the place of [this] understanding?
21 Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept closed from the fowls of the air.
22 Destruction and death [where it is now found] say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears [as the voice of God, that comes before we see Him].
23 God [alone] understands the way thereof, and he [alone] knows the place thereof.
24 For he looks to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the whole heaven;
25 To make the weight for the winds [His Almighty Spirit that moves upon the waters of the darkened deep]; and he weighs [orderly distributes] the waters [His word] by measure.
26 When he made a decree [choq – declared, promised] for the rain [that He would send this word from heaven], and [make] a way for the lightning of the thunder [for this understanding to be heard as His voice]:
27 Then did he see it [is His presence manifested to us], and [and by His voice] declare it; he prepared it, yea, and [here and now] searched it out.
28 And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the LORD, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.
Psalms 114
1 When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language [void of truth and justice, without which {form} there can be no peace – “And the earth was {hayah – became} without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of [paniym – ignorance of His presence covered] the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face [paniym – His presence unknown, speaking and working to reveal Himself below the surface in the darkned deep] of the waters [His written word present].”];
2 Judah [His elect remnant] was his sanctuary, and Israel [His people at large who receive this expected end] his dominion.
3 The sea [all humanity] saw it, and fled: Jordan [the word that carried all the humanity in its descent into death] was driven back.
4 The mountains [the governments of the church] skipped like rams, and the little hills [civil governments] like lambs.
5 What ailed you, O you sea [all humanity], that you fled [from His manifested presence]? you Jordan [words of death], that you were driven back?
6 You mountains [church governments], that you skipped like rams; and you little hills [civil governments], like lambs?
7 Tremble, you earth, at the presence [paniym] of the LORD, at the presence [paniym] of the God of Jacob;
8 Which turned the rock [Christ] into a standing water [His written word], the flint [challamiysh – the first man given Divine understanding and awakened from death] into a fountain of waters.
