21 – 22 April 2025
The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone you not; but for blasphemy; and because that you, being a man, make yourself God.
With the realization that all the written word of God is intended for this moment, to give us an understanding of our current experience, the above verse (John 10:33) does just that. The spiritually intended meaning of stoning is that it speaks of those people trust and listen to, casting words (accusations) in the LORD’s name. It’s an act of the zealously religious leaders, who learned and teach lies, here specifically the rapture, which is the most egregious abuse, scriptural malpractice, that causes otherwise well-intentioned people to believe and hope for something that will never occur as described. It is so ingrained in its believers that speaking against it (the lie) brings immediate stoning (as described here) in God’s name. See James 3:11 below.
James 3
1 My brethren, be not many masters [didaskelos – teachers, the subject of all below], knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.
2 For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.
3 Behold, we put bits in the horses’ mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body.
4 Behold also the ships [ploion], which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds [anemos – of false doctrines], yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor wills.
5 Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasts great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindles!
6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defiles [corrupts, leavens] the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
7 For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and has been tamed of mankind:
8 But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
9 Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse [kayaraomai – meaning to doom {to condemnation and perdition}, in context, by vilifying this word and work of the present LORD whose come to save them from lies and the devils telling them] we men, which are made [ginomai – come into being, become] after [kata – in accord] the similitude [homoiosis – only used here, meaning by assimilation] of God [by having His One minds].
10 Out of the same mouth proceeds blessing and cursing [as they do from the good-intentioned who speak lies in the LORD’s name]. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.
11 Does a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?
12 Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.
13 Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him show out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.
14 But if you have bitter envying [zelos – zealously defending and desiring things that are not true] and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
15 This wisdom descends not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.
16 For where envying [zelos] and strife [arguing against the truth] is, there is confusion [Babylon] and every evil work.
17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure [without corruption], then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
18 And the fruit of righteousness [truth] is sown in peace of them that make peace [ending the argument].
The “door” the LORD describes Himself as, below in John 10, through which He is seen: enters, becomes apparent: is heard (knocking) and then seen again (when the door is opened) in His word and work, is thura, meaning “a portal or entrance (the opening or the closure, literally or figuratively).”
1 Corinthians 16
5 Now I will come unto you, when I shall pass through Macedonia [through death, through the houses, churches, filled with dead flesh, into life]: for I do pass through Macedonia.
6 And it may be that I will abide, yea, and winter [during this time when the days are darkened and shortened] with you, that you may bring me on my journey [into life] whithersoever I go.
7 For I will not see you now by the way; but I trust to tarry [I will remain] a while with you, if the LORD permit.
8 But I will tarry [remain] at Ephesus [permitted to speak] until Pentecost [the fiftieth day, the Jubilee, when all are freed from death’s sleep, with the LORD’s rising with us, in us].
9 For a great door [thura] and effectual [the power of God word working in us] is opened unto me, and there are many adversaries.
10 Now if Timotheus comes [erchomai – flowing these utterances], see that he may be with you without fear: for he works the work of the LORD, as I also do.
11 Let no man therefore despise him: but conduct him forth in peace, that he may come [erchomai] unto me: for I look for him with the brethren.
Colossians 4
1 Masters [kurios – The word most often rendered LORD], give unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that you also have a Master [kurios – the LORD of lords] in heaven [the ONE God who is always in the place of full understanding].
2 Continue in prayer [conversation with Him at His mercy seat], and watch [from Him, hearing Him and expecting to see Him] in the same with thanksgiving;
3 Withal praying also for us, that God would open unto us a door [thura] of utterance [giving us His word to be spoken in His name manifesting His presence with us, in us], to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds:
4 That I may make it [His presence] manifest, as I ought to speak.
5 Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.
6 Let your speech be always with grace [this gift from Him, in which His mercy is found], seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer every man.
John 10
1 Truly, truly, I say unto you, He that enter [eiserchomai – the point reached, the realized origin from where this utterance flows] not by the door [thura] into the sheepfold, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.
2 But he that enters [eiserchomai] in by the door [thura] is the shepherd of the sheep.
3 To him the porter [thuroros – the those called to watch the portal, a four times used word referring us to it use in Mark 13:34] opens; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name [by their identity, as in verse 34 below, saying “I said, You are gods”], and leads them out. [Mark 13:26 And then shall they see the Son of man coming in the clouds with great power and glory {teaching this understanding held there}. 27 And then shall he send his angels {His messenger with this message}, and shall gather together his elect from the four winds {where they have been scattered by those who put themselves in God’s place, to be worshipped as if they are God}, from the uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven. 28 Now learn a parable of the fig tree {the God’s people}; When her branch is yet tender, and puts forth leaves {new life appearing in those who’ve entered with Him}, you know that summer is near: 29 So you in like manner, when you shall see these things come to pass, know that it is nigh, even at the doors {thura – Him known}. 30 Truly I say unto you, that this generation shall not pass, till all these things be done. 31 Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away. 32 But of that day and that hour knows no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father. 33 Take you heed, watch and pray: for you know not when the time is. 34 For the Son of Man is as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and commanded the porter {thuroros} to watch. 35 Watch you therefore: for you know not when the master of the house comes, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning: 36 Lest coming suddenly he finds you sleeping. 37 And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.]
4 And when he puts forth [as leaves, which are for the “healing of the nations:” {those who haven’t known Him, haven’t heard or seen Him, in}] his own sheep, he goes before [emprosthen – manifesting His presence with them, in them, to lead] them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice.
5 And a stranger [not following the LORD, teaching strange fire] will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.
6 This parable [word in which a deeper meaning is held below the surface] spoke Jesus unto them: but they understood not [until now at this appointed time] what things they were which he spoke unto them.
7 Then said Jesus unto them again, Truly, truly, I say unto you, I am the door [thura] of the sheep.
8 All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them.
9 I am the door [thura]: by me if any man enter in [eiserchomai – reaches this expected end, the LORD realized as the origin of this word as if flowing from a stone that can be trusted], he shall be saved, and shall go in [eiserchomai] and out, and find [green] pasture.
10 The thief comes not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I Am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly [These are the first words the LORD ever spoke through me and declared it was Him speaking.].
11 I Am the good shepherd: the good shepherd gives his life for the sheep. [Psalms 23:1 The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. 2 He makes me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. 3 He restores my soul {to life}: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s {identity} sake {to establish Himself present}. 4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for you are with me; your rod and your staff they comfort me. 5 You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies: you anoint my head with oil; my cup runs over. 6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever.]
12 But he that is a hireling [misthtos – wage workers, speaking of those preaching in the false churches for money, away from which the LORD’s disciples must come], and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, see the wolf coming, and leaves the sheep, and flees: and the wolf catches [harpazo – “caught up” in false doctrines, here specifically speaking of the false rapture doctrine, and the endless arguing about vain foundationless opinions] them, and scatters the sheep.
13 The hireling [misthotos] flees, because he is a hireling [misthotos], and cares not for the sheep. [The word misthotos only appears one other time, in Mark 1:20, saying “And straightway he called them {His disciples}: and they left their father Zebedee in the ship {ploion – the corrupt church institution} with the hired servants [misthotos – hired to preach corruption}, and {putting Satan behind, opiso, them} went after {opiso – followed} him.]
14 I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.
15 As the Father knows me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.
16 And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold [the LORD’s ONE risen BODY], and one [good] shepherd.
17 Therefore does my Father love [agapao – gives His word without limit to] me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.
18 No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power [by His word in me] to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father [that by speaking His word I live by Him alive in me]. [Romans 10:9 That if you shall confess with your mouth the LORD Jesus [is alive in you], and shall believe in your heart [mind] that God has [in this manner] raised him from the dead, you shall be saved.10 For with the heart [mind] man believes [He is present with us, in us] unto [His] righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.]
19 There was a division, therefore, again among the Jews [the religious leaders haven’t known Him] for these sayings.
20 And many of them said, He has a devil [a misleader possessed by Satan], and is mad [insane]; why hear you him?
21 Others said, These are not the words of him that has a devil. Can a devil open the eyes of the blind?
22 And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication [agkainia – only used here, with affinity to the words egeiro {awakening} and kainos {new}], and it was winter [when the days are darkened and shortened].
23 And Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon’s porch [teaching Solomon’s wisdom to those who haven’t known the LORD].
24 Then came the Jews [the religious leaders] round about him, and said unto him, How long do you make us to doubt? If you be the Christ, tell us plainly.
25 Jesus answered them, I told you, and you believed not: the works that I do in my Father’s name [manifesting His identity], they bear witness of me.
26 But you believe not, because you are not of my sheep [and therefore you know not the Father’s voice], as I said unto you.
27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:
28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck [harpazo – catch them away with their false teaching] them out of my hand.
29 My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck [harpazo – catch away with their false doctrines] them out of my Father’s hand.
30 I and my Father are one.
31 Then the Jews [the religious leaders] took up stones [the false doctrine they speak in the LORD’s name] again to stone him.
32 Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shown you from my Father; for which of those works do you stone me?
33 The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone you not; but for blasphemy; and because that you, being a man, make yourself God.
34 Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law [in Psalms 82:6], I said, You are gods?
35 If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken;
36 Say you of him, whom the Father has sanctified, and sent into the world, You blaspheme; because I said, I Am the Son of God [brought to life in the flesh by His correction, His Spirit alive in me]?
37 If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not.
38 But if I do, though you believe not me, believe the works: that you may know, and believe, that the Father is [alive] in me, and I [Am alive] in him.
39 Therefore they sought again to take him: but he escaped out of their hand,
40 And went away again beyond Jordan [to be seen again after the resurrection, passing over into life by overcoming those sitting in God’s place] into the place where John at first baptized; and there he abode.
41 And many resorted unto him, and said, John did no miracle: but all things that John spoke of this man were true.
42 And many believed on him there.
The superstitious, the false preachers, the ignorant, have trouble understanding the above words, when the LORD tells us we are gods. They are all very quick to say, “we are not God.” We are, in fact, God, His offspring joined with Him by One mind and become His ONE immortal BODY.
Acts 17 (see below) says we are His offspring, as Paul tells those he finds worshipping a God they don’t know. Hebrews 12 says the sons of God are those who receive His correction, and those without it they are illegitimate (children of a strange father).
As we know, when the LORD above quotes Psalms 82:6, the Hebrew word rendered “gods” is ‘elohiym (One God plural). As we have also seen, in the several times Psalms 8 is quoted, when we’re told of Christ being made a little lower than the angels, the Hebrew words are chacer (“a little lower”) ‘elohiym (angels), meaning intentionally sent lacking the full understanding of God. Hebrews 2:9 tells us this is His suffering of death, so that in receiving what only the Father could give (full understanding that raises us to life), he is crowned by Father’s glory manifested in him.
Psalms 8
A Psalms of David
1 O LORD, our LORD, how excellent is your name in all the earth! who have set your glory above the heavens.
2 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings have you ordained strength because of your enemies, that you might still [shabath – stop the work of] the enemy and the avenger.
3 When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars [governments of state and church], which you have ordained [to rule with truth and justice, to secure the rights your given man, as you rule];
4 What is man, that you are mindful of him? and the son of man, that you visit him [paqad – make your presence known in me, as the Chief Overseer of the earth, to reset the right foundations of the earth]?
5 For you have made him a little lower than the angels [chacer ‘elohiym – as planned, lacking the full understanding which only God possesses], and have [by giving me, and all who through me receive it from Him, this understanding] crowned him with glory and honor.
6 You made him to have dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet:
7 All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;
8 The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea [all the beasts of the earth, including men, all without the LORD’s Spirit], and whatsoever passes through [‘abar – all that Passover into life in this resurrection from death] the paths [‘orach – as pilgrims traveling] of the seas [through the ages and generations].
9 O LORD [Jehovah] our LORD [‘adown – our King], how excellent is your name [identity – seeing Your presence] in all the earth!
To the chief Musician [natsach – Chief Overseer] upon Muth-labben [upon the death of Goliath, cutting off his head with this sword]
John 10:35 & 36 are the LORD telling us these truths, and in the verse before referring us to Psalms 82, a Psalm of Asaph, meaning it is speaking of gathering (the family of God to the Father). The Hebrew word, rendered “God” and “gods” several times in this Psalm, is Elohim (‘elohiym). It is from the words’ el, meaning strength and mighty, and hem, meaning they (like masses of people), which is from the word huw (hiy), meaning self (singular).
The name is referring us to the Father’s declaration in creating us, saying in Genesis 1:26 & 27, He created us, first in His (“Our”) image and then in His likeness. The name there used for the creator is Elohim (‘elohiym), defining the One from whom the many come, children in His image given the ability (endowed with a mind) to then, by calling and choice, become His likeness.
Psalms 82
1 God stands in the congregation of the mighty; he judges among the gods.
2 How long will you judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.
3 Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
4 Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked.
5 They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.
6 I have said, You are gods; and all of you are children of the Most High.
7 But you shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes.
8 Arise, O God, judge the earth: for you shall inherit all nations.
The above is speaking of those who will die like men, because they refuse His correction, the breath of His mouth and the work of His hand, and choose to remain as merely a shadow, following idols blocking the Father’s light.
This is what Paul speaks of in Acts 17 when talking to those who worship a God they don’t know, who don’t yet recognize their Father moving among them and in them.
Acts 17
… I perceive that in all things you are too superstitious [too religious – “holier than you”].
23 For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, To The Unknown God [the unknown Father]. 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 [but rather, He dwells in man];
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 the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation [when this age of ignorance would {now} end];
27 That they should seek the LORD, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us [in us]:
28 For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
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.
30 And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commands all men every where to repent:
31 Because he has appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he has ordained; whereof he has given assurance unto all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.
32 And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, We will hear you again of this matter.
The following is the complete post of 24 July 2017:
Continuing: beginning with a deeper examination of Hebrews 4, and the concept of “today” being the time we enter into the rest God has prepared for us, wherein dwells those who have put on the righteousness of Christ.
Hebrews 4
6 Seeing therefore it remains that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief:
7 Again, he limits a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if you will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
8 For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.
9 There remains therefore a rest to the people of God.
10 For he that is entered into his rest, he also has ceased from his own works, as God did from his.
11 Let us labor therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.
The idea, as discussed in the prior post, of our working toward this “rest” is found in the Greek word it is translated from; katapausis, literally meaning to pause and sit down (eight of the nine times it is used are here in Hebrews 4 – the other Acts 7:49). Eiserchomai is the one word translated as “enter into,” meaning to reach a point, which is the “limit” we are told of in verse 7, from the Greek word horizo (horizon). This “horizon” is what is meant when today is written as “to day,”
These words are telling of a time when we will sit down and pause, having heard the voice (of God) bringing us to day, having reached this horizon (sun rise), and now in the day we must work toward this rest.
The word horizo, the “limit” set by God, is used eight times; three as “determined,” twice as “ordained,” once as “determinate,” and once as “declared.” These are all used in telling of the time when God will reap the earth with His judgment (rightly dividing the word and wielding it as His two-edged sword cutting fiction away from truth).
Luke in Acts 17, records Paul speaking to those who ignorantly worship God, ignorance proven in their ways. Paul speaks of the time “determined” to end this ignorance, and goes on to define it as when God will judge the earth by the man He has “ordained” to do so.
Acts 17
22 Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars’ hill, and said, You men of Athens, I perceive that in all things you are too superstitious.
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]] the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;
27 That they should seek the LORD, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:
28 For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
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 are and man’s device.
30 And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commands all men every where to repent:
31 Because he has appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he has ordained [[horizo]]; whereof he has given assurance unto all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.
32 And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, We will hear you again of this matter.
Luke 22:22 first used “horizo” in speaking of those who it was “determined” (by their then rebellion and rejection of the grace of God’s correction), to betray the Son of man. “22 And truly the Son of man goes, as it was determined: but woe unto that man by whom he is betrayed!” He (Luke) further explains this as he next uses the word in Act 2:23 in telling of the “determinate” counsel and foreknowledge of God, which sent the deliverer in the time of need, and man rejecting His counsel took Him to be crucified (public mocking and ridicule, even into death’s silence).
Acts 2
21 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be saved.
22 You men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as you yourselves also know:
23 Him, being delivered by the determinate [[horizo]] counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:
24 Whom God has raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be held of it.
25 For David speaks concerning him, I foresaw the LORD always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved:
26 Therefore did my heart rejoice, and my tongue was glad; moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope:
27 Because you will not leave my soul in hell, neither will you suffer your Holy One to see corruption.
28 You have made known to me the ways of life; you shall make me full of joy with your countenance [[prosopon – presence]].
Luke then uses it (horizo) in Acts 10:42 as Peter speaks, also telling of God raising Christ, and our being witnesses, at this point (limit – today) to proclaim the Son who God has ordained [[horizo]] to judge the quick (those who have come to life) and the dead (those who choose to remain in death).
Acts 10
40 Him God raised up the third day, and shewed him openly;
41 Not to all the people, but unto witnesses chosen before God, even to us, who did eat and drink with him after he rose from the dead.
42 And he commanded [here and now] us to preach unto the people, and to testify that it is he which was ordained [horizo] of God to be the Judge of quick and dead.
43 To him give all the prophets witness, that through his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins.
44 While Peter yet spake these words, the Holy Ghost [the LORD’s presence unknown] fell on all them which heard the word.
In the context of what I declared in the prior post, reluctantly speaking of myself, Paul uses horizo to tell of such a declaration, in Romans 1:4.
Romans 1 (Rome means strength – spiritually as in those formerly in confusion brought back to health: quickened)
1 Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God,
2 (Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures,)
3 Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our LORD, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh;
4 And declared [[horizo]] to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:
5 By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among all nations, for his name [[manifesting His identity]]:
6 Among whom are you also the called of Jesus Christ:
7 To all that be in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the LORD Jesus Christ.
8 First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world.
9 For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers;
10 Making request, if by any means now at length I might have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come unto you.
11 For I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift, to the end you may be established;
12 That is, that I may be comforted together with you by the mutual faith both of you and me.
13 Now I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes I purposed to come unto you, (but was let hitherto,) that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other Gentiles.
14 I am debtor both to the Greeks, and to the Barbarians; both to the wise, and to the unwise.
15 So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to you that are at Rome also.
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 His and Him present therein]]; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth [[captive]] in [[their]] unrighteousness;
19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God has shewed it unto them.
20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, 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, and their foolish heart [[mind]] was darkened.
22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
23 And changed the glory of the un-corruptible God into an image made 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 bodies between themselves:
25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet.
28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
31 Without understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
Psalms 95
1 O come, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation.
2 Let us come before his presence [[paniym]] with thanksgiving, and [[at this realization]] make a joyful noise unto him with psalms.
3 For the LORD is a great God, and a great King above all gods.
4 In his hand are the deep places of the earth: the strength of the hills is his also.
5 The sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land.
6 O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before [[paniym – in the presence of]] the LORD our maker.
7 For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. To day if you will hear his voice,
8 Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation [[when you doubted I was among you – see Exodus 17:7]] in the wilderness:
9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.
10 Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:
11 Unto whom I swore in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.
The following, ending with Amen, is the complete post of 31 May 2018:
He which testifies these things says, “Surely I come quickly.” Amen. Even so, come, LORD Jesus.
Continuing: In the prior post, we again discussed Deuteronomy 30 and Romans 10, telling us where the LORD is found, meaning He is there and becomes apparent (appears) to our formerly blinded mind.
Romans 10
6 But the righteousness which is of faith speaks on this wise, Say not in your heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down from above:)
7 Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.)
8 But what says it? The word is nigh you, even in your mouth, and in your heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach;
9 That if you shall confess with your mouth the LORD Jesus, and shall believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead, you shall be saved.
10 For with the heart man believes unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
11 For the scripture says [in Isaiah 28:16], Whosoever believes on him shall not be ashamed.
12 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek [believers and unbelievers]: for the same LORD over all is rich unto all that call upon him.
13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the LORD shall be saved.
14 How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?
15 And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written [in Isaiah 52:7], How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!
16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says [Isaiah 53:1], LORD, who has believed our report?
17 So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
18 But I say, Have they not heard? Yes truly, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world.
19 But I say, Did not Israel know? First Moses says, I will provoke you to jealousy by them that are no people, and by a foolish nation I will anger you.
20 But Isaiah is very bold, and says [Isaiah 65:1], I was found of them that sought me not; I was made manifest unto them that asked not after me.
21 But to Israel he says [Isaiah 65:2], All day long I have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people.
In the context of these passages, the word translated “come” in Revelation 22:20 above (and many other places when discussing the LORD’s appearing) is erchomai. Very little is said in the Strong’s Greek Dictionary and Thayer’s Greek Lexicon about the origin of the word. Upon examination, it appears John is giving us the meaning in Revelation 22 in the seven times the word is used after telling of the pure waters that flow from the throne of God and the Lamb, as he did in recording the LORD precisely telling us in John 14.
We know in John 14:23 the LORD answers this question, which appears in the original text as Judas, not the Iscariot, asking Him the question, “What will occur that we will know you are about to reveal yourself?” We know the LORD answers describing what must occur is a person must love Him and keep his word, and He and the Father will make their abode (mone – staying) with them. This Greek word, mone, is only used two times, once here in verse 23, and in verse 2 where the LORD tells us where he is going: to prepare the “mansions” (mone), when and where He will come (erchomai – appear) again and receive us to Himself.
The context of John 14 is the Comforter coming to lead us into all truth. It is the staying place where the LORD will abide forever, which appears as His word living in us flows from us, His throne. The word rendered “keep” in verse 23 is tereo, meaning to guard (from loss or injury by keeping a constant eye upon). We know this is what John says in Revelation 22:18 & 19 where he warns against adding to or taking ways from the word of God. This staying, the keeping, is what we have many times discussed about the angels of God, His messengers who deliver His word, it flowing from them exactly as it has flowed from Him into them.
This takes us to the meaning of erchomai, apparently from the words ereo, meaning to utter, as in to speak or say; from the word rheo (or rheuo), meaning to flow (or run as water); and the word cheo, meaning to pour, (as in cheimon, meaning to storm in a rainy season). Cheo is from the word chasma (chasm), which we have studied and know is the word only used once when the LORD tells of the great “gulf” fixed between the living and the dead (Luke 16:26). If you remember our discussions, chasma is the origin of another one time used word, ketos, which is translated “whale’s,” as the LORD is telling of the heart (reasoning mind) of the earth as where He will be during the three days between his leaving and coming (appearing) again. We see this is the same chasma in death, which Jonah speaks of in Jonah 2 before he again, from the belly of hell, remembers and looks to the LORD’s abode (and out of death is raised into life). He realizes he has run from the truth and says, “They that observe lying vanities [worthless and untrue words] forsake their own mercy.”
These are all speaking of our ignorance and silence of truth (as death), and as Jonah, the sacrifice to the LORD are the voices of our understanding again heard. The place from where Jonah prays to the LORD, which is translated as the “fish’s” belly and from where the LORD heard him is the belly of hell (Sheol, the habitation of the dead); from the word da’g. We know from our studies, da’g is from the Hebrew word da’ag, meaning to be anxious, as in to fear men and therefore refuse God and withdraw into silence. The word (da’ag) is only used seven times, and only once in Isaiah, where in Isaiah 57:11 the LORD speaks of this specific point. It is telling of the underlying agitation that causes the storms, from which we pour out our prayers to God, He is faithful to pour in His word of understanding, to rescue and heal us. We must then love and keep Him and His truth, because He first loved us, while we were yet in our errors. The great gulf between the living and the dead is the same between those who choose righteousness or to remain in wickedness. The storms of the wicked never cease.
Isaiah 57
1 The righteous perishes [‘abad – wander away], and no man lays it to heart: and merciful men are taken away [‘acaph – gathered], none considering that the righteous is taken away [‘acaph] from the evil to come.
2 He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness.
3 But draw near hither, you sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore.
4 Against whom do you sport yourselves? against whom make you a wide mouth, and draw out the tongue? are you not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood.
5 Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?
6 Among the smooth stones of the stream is your portion; they, they are your lot: even to them have you poured a drink offering, you have offered a meat offering. Should I receive comfort in these?
7 Upon a lofty and high mountain have you set your bed: even there went you up to offer sacrifice.
8 Behind the doors also and the posts have you set up your remembrance: for you have discovered yourself to another than me, and are gone up; you have enlarged your bed, and made you a covenant with them; you loved their bed where you saw it.
9 And you went to the king with ointment, and did increase your perfumes, and did send your messengers far off, and did debase yourself even unto hell [Sheol].
10 You are wearied in the greatness of your way; yet said you not, There is no hope: you have found the life of your hand; therefore you were not grieved.
11 And of whom have you been afraid [da’ag] or feared, that you have lied, and have not remembered me, nor laid it to your heart? have not I held my peace even of old, and you fear me not?
12 I will declare your righteousness, and your works; for they shall not profit you.
13 When you cry, let your companies deliver you; but the wind shall carry them all away; vanity shall take them: but he that puts his trust in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain;
14 And shall say, Cast you up, cast you up, prepare the way, take up the stumbling-block out of the way of my people.
15 For thus says the high and lofty One that inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
16 For I will not contend forever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made.
17 For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly [in twisted and perverted truth] in the way of his heart [his own reasoning].
18 I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners.
19 I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, says the LORD; and I will heal him.
20 But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
21 There is no peace, says my God, to the wicked.
Isaiah 58
1 Cry aloud, spare not, lift up your voice like a trumpet, and show my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.
2 Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.
3 Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and you see not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and you take no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, and exact all your labors.
4 Behold, you fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: you shall not fast as you do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high.
5 Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? will you call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?
6 Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke?
7 Is it not to deal your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor that are cast out to your house? when you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you hide not yourself from your own flesh?
8 Then shall your light break forth as the morning, and your health shall spring forth speedily: and your righteousness shall go before you; the glory of the LORD shall be your reward [‘acaph – gathering place].
9 Then shall you call, and the LORD shall answer; you shall cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If you take away from the midst of you the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity;
10 And if you draw out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall your light rise in obscurity, and your darkness be as the noon day:
11 And the LORD shall guide you continually, and satisfy your soul in drought, and make fat your bones: and you shall be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
12 And they that shall be of you shall build the old waste places: you shall raise up the foundations of many generations; and you shall be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
13 If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath [the LORD’s interruptions – to stop our works], from doing your pleasure on my holy day; and call the Sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honorable; and shall honor him, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking your own words:
14 Then shall you delight yourself in the LORD; and I will cause you to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father: for the mouth of the LORD has spoken it.
John 14 [The LORD showing us the confession (the LORD alive in me) Paul speaks of in Romans 10 above.]
1 Let not your heart be troubled: you believe in God, believe also in me.
2 In my Father’s house are many mansions [[mone]]: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there you may be also.
4 And where I go you know, and the way you know.
5 Thomas said unto him, LORD, we know not where you go; and how can we know the way?
6 Jesus said unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man comes unto the Father, but by me.
7 If you had known me, you should have known my Father also: and from henceforth you know him, and have seen him.
8 Philip said unto him, LORD, show us the Father, and it suffices us [makes us complete – the perfecting – seeing the LORD God face to face as in a mirror].
9 Jesus said unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet have you not known me, Philip? he that has seen me has seen the Father; and how say you then, Show us the Father?
10 Believe you not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwells in me, he does the works.
11 Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works’ sake.
12 Truly, truly, I say unto you, He that believes on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.
13 And whatsoever you shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
14 If you shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.
15 If you love me, keep my commandments.
16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you forever;
17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it sees him not, neither knows him: but you know him; for he dwells with you, and shall be in you.
18 I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
19 Yet a little while, and the world sees me no more; but you see me: because I live, you shall live also.
20 At that day you shall know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.
21 He that has my commandments, and keeps them, he it is that loves me: and he that loves me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.
22 Judas said unto him, not Iscariot, LORD, how is it that you will manifest yourself unto us, and not unto the world?
23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man loves me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
24 He that loves me not keeps not my sayings: and the word which you hear is not mine, but the Father’s which sent me.
25 These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you.
26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
27 Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world gives, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
28 You have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If you loved me, you would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I.
29 And now I have told you before it come to pass, that, when it is come to pass, you might believe.
30 Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world comes, and has nothing in me.
31 But that the world may know that I love the Father; and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence.
Revelation 22
1 And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.
2 In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
3 And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him:
4 And they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads.
5 And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the LORD God gives them light: and they shall reign forever and ever.
6 And he said unto me, These sayings are faithful and true: and the LORD God of the holy prophets sent his angel to show unto his servants the things which must shortly be done.
7 Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he that keeps the sayings of the prophecy of this book.
8 And I John saw these things, and heard them. And when I had heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel which showed me these things.
9 Then said he unto me [[as I say unto you]], See you do it not: for I am your fellow-servant, and of your brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book: worship God.
10 And he said unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand.
11 He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.
12 And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.
13 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.
14 Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
15 For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loves and makes a lie.
16 I Jesus have sent my angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.
17 And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that hears say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.
18 For I testify unto every man that hears the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:
19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.
20 He which testifies these things says, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, LORD Jesus.
This last verse is our testimony. The LORD has appeared in me.
Isaiah 8
13 Sanctify the LORD of Hosts Himself; and let Him be your fear, and let Him be your dread.
14 And He shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
15 And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.
16 Bind up the testimony, seal the law among My disciples.
17 And I will wait upon the LORD, that hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for Him [in the mirror of His word].
18 Behold, I and the children whom the LORD has given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of Hosts, which dwells in mount Zion.
19 And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? [Should they be looking] for the living to the dead?
20 [Or] To the law and to the testimony[?]: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
21 And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry [because they refuse this meat], they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.
22 And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.
Isaiah 9
2 The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them has the light shined.
3 You have multiplied the nation, and not increased the joy: they joy before you according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.
4 For you have broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian [when Gideon with the shout of “the sword of the LORD,” put those who were troubling God people to flight].
5 For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire [from this same word of God].
6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
7 Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth [See John 14:31 above] even forever. The zeal of the LORD of Hosts will perform this.
8 The LORD sent a word into Jacob, and it has lighted upon Israel.
Amen!
Psalms 120
1 In my distress I cried unto the LORD, and he heard me.
2 Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.
3 What shall be given unto you? or what shall be done unto you, you false tongue?
4 Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.
5 Woe is me, that I sojourn [stop in my journey] in Mesech [those the LORD has drawn into open sight], that I dwell in the tents of Kedar [darkness – ignorance and confusion]!
6 My soul has long dwelt with him that hates peace.
7 I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war.
