Month: May 2025

25 – 26 May 2025

They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

The LORD begins today above, in Hosea 7:3, as an adversary against the wickedness and lies that hold His people here in hell, of which they remain ignorant, even while they continue in its fire.

The word rendered “lies” is the six times used Hebrew word kachash, meaning “literally, a failure of flesh, i.e. emaciation; figuratively, hypocrisy:–leanness, lies, lying.”

Hosea 7
4 They are all adulterers [who’ve left the LORD and joined themselves to wickedness and lies], as an oven heated by the baker, who ceases from raising after he has kneaded the dough [working in corruption], until it be leavened [until now when the whole is corrupt].
5 In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine [that have stupefied their mind]; he stretched out his hand [to join with] with scorners [latsats – to mock and deride truth with their misinterpretations; the cover removed in this apocalypse].
6 For they have made ready their heart [their foundational minds, upon which they base all their words and actions] like an oven, whiles they lie in wait [to be deceived and deceive]: their baker sleeps [in death] all the night [while ignorance of the LORD and Truth covers the earth]; in the morning [now when His light has come] it [their corrupted minds] burns as a flaming fire.
7 They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen: there is none among them that calleth unto me.
8 Ephraim [God’s people in this last generation], he has mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned [haphak – not changed].
9 Strangers have devoured his strength [understanding], and he knows it not: yea, gray hairs [this end of the age] are here and there upon him, yet he knows not.
10 And the pride [confidence in things that are untrue] of Israel testifies [‘anah] to his face [paniym – in their ignorance of My presence]: and they do not return to the LORD their God, nor seek him for all this.
11 Ephraim also is like a silly dove [not knowing this is the sign of the end reached] without heart [mind]: they call to Egypt [those oppressing them in church and state], they go to Assyria [the communists possessing these institutions].
12 When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven [removing them from these places where understanding should be found]; I will chastise [correct] them [purging corruption from them], as their congregation has heard.
13 Woe unto them! for they have fled from me: destruction unto them! because they have transgressed against me: though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me.
14 And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for [corrupt] corn and wine, and they rebel against me.
15 Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me.
16 They return [to their same old corrupt ways], but not to the Most High: they are like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue [against Me]: this shall be their derision in the land [‘erets] of Egypt [the earth in this double strait: oppression in church and state].

The word “derision” is from the seven times used word la’ag, which refers to the working of Satan, speaking through those whose minds he possesses. We know this from the first time the word appears, in Job 34:7, where it is the “scorning” of Job’s three so-called friends, which we know is also the “mourning” (leviathan) raised up (Job 3:8) as Satan works through them (in their false accusation and self-incriminating misinterpretations).

Ezekiel 36
1 Also, you son of man, prophesy unto the mountains [the governments of church and state] of Israel [those who receive this promised end], and say, You mountains of Israel, hear the word of the LORD:
2 Thus says the LORD God; Because the enemy [Satan, working in the communists he possesses] has said against you, Aha, even the ancient high places [bamah] are ours in possession:
3 Therefore prophesy and say, Thus says the LORD God; Because they have made you [the high places] desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that you might be a possession unto the residue of the heathen [gowy – those who haven’t know Me], and you are taken up in the lips of talkers, and are an infamy of the people:
4 Therefore, you mountains [high places] of Israel, hear the word of the LORD God; Thus says the LORD God to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers [flowing the word of these talkers into the sea: humanity at large], and to the valleys [those the mountains loom over], to the desolate wastes [they have become], and to the cities that are forsaken, which became a prey and derision [la’ag] to the residue of the heathen [gowy] that are round about;
5 Therefore thus says the LORD God; Surely in the fire of my jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the heathen [gowy], and against all Idumea [Edom, the enemies mixed among us], which have appointed my land into their possession with the joy of all their heart, with despiteful minds, to cast it out for a prey.
6 Prophesy therefore concerning the land of Israel, and say unto the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, Thus says the LORD God; Behold, I have spoken in my jealousy and in my fury, because you have borne the shame of the heathen [gowy]:
7 Therefore thus says the LORD God; I have lifted up my hand, Surely the heathen [gowy] that are about you, they shall bear their shame.
8 But you, O mountains of Israel, you shall shoot forth your branches, and yield your fruit to my people of Israel; for they are at hand to come.
9 For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn unto you, and you shall be tilled and sown [with good seed]:
10 And I will multiply men upon you, all the house of Israel, even all of it: and the cities shall be inhabited, and [upon] the wastes shall be built:
11 And I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increase and bring fruit: and I will settle you after your old estates, and will do better unto you than at your beginnings: and you shall know that I am the LORD.
12 Yea, I will cause men to walk upon you, even my people Israel; and they shall possess you, and you shall be their inheritance, and you shall no more henceforth bereave them of men.
13 Thus says the LORD God; Because they say unto you, You land devourers up men, and have bereaved your nations [gowy]:
14 Therefore you shall devour men no more, neither bereave your nations [gowy] any more, says the LORD God.
15 Neither will I cause men to hear in you the shame of the heathen [gowy] any more, neither shall you bear the reproach [cherpah] of the people any more, neither shall you cause your nations [gowy] to fall any more, says the LORD God.
16 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
17 Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land, they defiled it by their own way and by their doings: their way was before me as the uncleanness of a removed woman.
18 Wherefore I poured my fury upon them for the blood that they had shed upon the land, and for their idols wherewith they had polluted it:
19 And I scattered them among the heathen [gowy], and they were dispersed through the countries: according to their way and according to their doings I judged them.
20 And when they entered unto the heathen [gowy], whither they went, they profaned my holy name, when they said to them, These are the people of the LORD, and are gone forth out of his land.
21 But I had pity for my holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the heathen [gowy], whither they went.
22 Therefore say unto the house of Israel, thus says the LORD God; I do not this for your sakes, O house of Israel, but for my holy name’s sake, which you have profaned among the heathen [gowy], whither you went.
23 And I will sanctify [declare] my great name [identity], which was profaned among the heathen [gowy], which you have profaned in the midst of them; and the heathen [gowy] shall know that I am the LORD, says the LORD God, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.
24 For I will take you from among the heathen [gowy], and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.
25 Then will I sprinkle [this] clean water upon you, and you shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
26 A new heart [mind] also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of [My mind and Spirit into your] flesh.
27 And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and you shall keep my judgments, and do them.
28 And you shall dwell in the land [‘erets – the earth] that I gave to your fathers; and you shall be my people, and I will be your God.
29 I will also save you from all your uncleanness: and I will call for the corn, and will increase it, and lay no famine [for this word of God] upon you.
30 And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that you shall receive no more reproach [cherpah] of famine among the heathen [gowy].
31 Then shall you remember your own evil ways, and your doings that were not good, and shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations [you created, put in my place, and called by My name].
32 Not for your sakes do I this, says the LORD God, be it known unto you: be ashamed and confounded for your own ways, O house of Israel.
33 Thus says the LORD God; In the day that I shall have cleansed you from all your iniquities I will also cause you to dwell in the cities, and the wastes shall be built.
34 And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by.
35 And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are become fenced, and are inhabited.
36 Then the heathen [gowy] that are left round about you shall know that I the LORD build [upon] the ruined places, and plant that that was desolate: I the LORD have spoken it, and I will do it.
37 Thus says the LORD God; I will yet for this be enquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them; I will increase them with men like a flock.
38 As the holy flock, as the flock of Jerusalem in her solemn feasts; so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men: and they shall know that I am the LORD.

As we know, the following Chapter (37) describes the LORD telling the son of man to prophesy unto the dead bones, God’s people who are thereby raised in the flesh. The LORD then tells him to prophesy (speak His word) unto the wind, breathing His breath (Spirit) into them, and their dead flesh is raised to life.

The LORD tells of this, here and now, as when we are brought from the grave, hell into which we descended along with the wicked. This descent is foretold in Ezekiel 31, which speaks of the grand intention of communism; which is unsustainable and devolves into mass oppression and misery in the name of guaranteed provision. This end is the point where we now stand: the US and Western civilization descended into progressivism (communism by another name), pagan materialism, and policies that brought all into reliance on government on the brink of collapse.

We know, in God’s word, this is when the sun, the church, has become darkened, without any understanding, fractured, no longer relying on God, turned to civil governments, the moon, without light (because of the sun’s darkness) and turned into blood, meaning it is slowly but surely draining life from those it governs. This is the truth. Government is the problem, not the solution. It is the cause, and the cause can never be the cure. Removing the cause is the solution.

There is currently a lot of commending one another, while the underlying problem is ignored. The central tenet of communism is the seizure and control of all economies (wealth). They don’t have to own everything if they control it. The Federal Reserve System must be abandoned, and excessive interest rates outlawed.

The Hebrew word for interest (usury) in the word of God is nashak, meaning “to strike with a sting (as a serpent); figuratively, to oppress with interest on a loan:–bite, lend upon usury.” One of the LORD’s rules about usury is it can be charged when lending to strangers (nokriy), but never charged to our own people. Those who do so prove they aren’t part of the ONE BODY, but instead think of us as strangers they can drain life from. They (the Fed and all lenders under their rate control) treat us as strangers and have thereby become our (the borrowers’) existential threat.

Deuteronomy 23
19 You shall not lend upon usury [nashak] to your brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury [nashak]:
20 Unto a stranger [nokriy] you mayest lend upon usury [nashak]; but unto your brother you shall not lend upon usury [nashak]: that the LORD your God may bless you in all that you set your hand to in the land [‘erets – the earth] whither you go to possess it.
21 When you shall vow a vow unto the LORD your God, you shall not slack to pay it: for the LORD your God will surely require it of you; and it would be sin in you.

Ezekiel 31
2 Son of man, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt [the king now possessing the oppressed], and to his multitude; Whom are you like in your greatness?
3 Behold, the Assyrian [the communists] was a cedar in Lebanon [upright men] with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of a high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs.
4 The waters [words declaring your good intentions] made him great, the deep set him up on high with her rivers running round about his plants, and sent her little rivers unto all the trees of the field.
5 Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of the field, and his boughs were multiplied, and his branches became long because of the multitude of waters, when he shot forth [and we’re all governed by communism now, here in hell].
6 All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt all great nations.
7 Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches: for his root was by great waters.
8 The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him [the original deceiver]: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chestnut trees were not like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty [Satan the fallen one].
9 I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches: so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied him.
10 Therefore thus says the LORD God; Because you have lifted up yourself in height, and he has shot up his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;
11 I have therefore delivered him into the hand of the mighty one of the heathen [gowy – those who haven’t known Me]; he shall surely deal with him: I have driven him out for his wickedness.
12 And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the rivers of the land; and all the people of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.
13 Upon his ruin shall all the fowls of the heaven remain [the places where understanding should be found and now isn’t], and all the beasts of the field [those without My spirit] shall be upon his branches:
14 To the end [ma’an – for the purpose] that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their height, neither shoot up their top among the thick boughs, neither their trees stand up in their height, all that drink water: for they are all [the righteous and the wicked] delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the earth [here in hell], in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit.
15 Thus says the LORD God; In the day when he went down to the grave [sh’owl – hell] I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for [hid understanding from] him, and I restrained the floods thereof, and [My word] the great waters were stayed: and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him [and now all are dead here in hell].
16 I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to hell [sh’owl] with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink [these life giving] water, shall be comforted [nacham – shall be led into all truth] in the nether parts of the earth [here in hell].
17 They also went down into hell with him unto them that be slain with the sword [this word they refuse]; and they that were his arm [revealed, who receive this report], that dwelt under his shadow [protected] in the midst of the heathen [gowy – among those who don’t know the LORD with us, in us, here into hell come to save those who believe this report].
18 To whom are you thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet shall you be brought down with the trees of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth: you shall lie in the midst of the uncircumcised [in the midst of hell in flesh bodies – the dead who have no idea they are dead and in hell] with them that be slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, says the LORD God.

The following is from the post of 28 July 2023:

Ezekiel 37
1 The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones,
2 And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry [[without these life-giving waters]].
3 And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O LORD God, you know.
4 Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O you dry bones, hear [shama’ – obey] the word of the LORD.
5 Thus says the LORD God unto these bones; Behold [see and understand], I will cause breath [this word from My mouth] to enter into you, and you shall live:
6 And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live; and you shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So I [obeyed and] prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise [qowl – the voice of the LORD], and behold a shaking [[ra’ash]], and the bones came together, bone to his bone.
8 And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them above: but there was no breath in them.
9 Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus says the LORD God; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live. [These are the four winds {the LORD’s Spirit} that come after {in the words of} the elect remnant are sealed, which releases {makes known} the second death of the wicked and raises God’s people at large to life – see Revelation 7 below]
10 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.
11 Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts [who still remain in the tribulation].
12 Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus says the LORD God; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.
13 And you shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves,
14 And shall put my spirit in you, and you shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall you know that I the LORD have spoken it, and performed it, says the LORD.
15 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,
16 Moreover, you son of man, take you one stick, and write upon it, For Judah [the elect remnant], and for the children of Israel his companions: then take another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph [those God will add, when they come out of the tribulation], the stick of Ephraim [God’s people at large in this generation] and for all the house of Israel his companions:
17 And join them one to another into one stick; and they shall become one in your hand.
18 And when the children of your people shall speak unto you, saying, Will you not show us what you mean by these?
19 Say unto them, Thus says the LORD God; Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, even with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one [BODY] in my hand.
20 And the sticks whereon you write shall be in your hand before their eyes.
21 And say unto them, Thus says the LORD God; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen [the dead who don’t know me], whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land [this new nation]:
22 And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all.
23 Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwelling places, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them [of their corruption]: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.
24 And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them.
25 And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their children’s children forever: and my servant David shall be their prince forever.
26 Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them [when I write My word into their minds, and we will all have one mind]: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore.
27 My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
28 And the heathen shall know that I the LORD do sanctify [make holy] Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore.

Revelation 7
1 And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree.
2 And I saw another angel ascending from the east [as the light of this new day, to give understanding into the head of the elect remnant], having the seal of [as a slave, prisoner, obeying] the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt [adikeo] the earth and the sea,
3 Saying, Hurt [adikeo – in Revelation 2:11, the “hurt” of the second death, and in Revelation 22:11 it’s twice the “unjust” who remain unjust] not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed [made slave, prisoners, obeying as] the servants of our God in their foreheads [His word always at the forefront of their minds, with dominion over their thinking].
4 And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed a hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel [those who will reign on the earth as God reigns, with righteousness].

9 After this [when the elect remnant are sealed into obedience and open their mouths] I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;
10 And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sit upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.
11 And all the angels stood round about the throne, and about the elders and the four beasts, and fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God,
12 Saying, Amen: Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honor, and power, and might, be unto our God forever and ever. Amen.
13 And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they?
14 And I said unto him, Sir, you know. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes [of corruption], and made them white [pure] in the blood of the Lamb.
15 Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sits on the throne shall dwell among them.
16 They shall hunger no more, neither thirst anymore; neither shall the sun light [the church shall no longer teach their own word and ways] on them, nor any heat.
17 For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them [with understanding], and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes [quoted from Isaiah 25:8, which also speaks of when death is swallowed up in victory].

1 Corinthians 15
51 Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep [in death], but we shall all be changed,
52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
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?

Revelation 22
4 And they shall see his face [presence]; and his name [identity] 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 [I Am] 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 [the messenger – I Am] 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 [guard and protect from corruption] the sayings of this book: worship God.
10 And he says unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand.
11 He that is unjust [adikeo], let him be unjust [adikeo – which is choosing the second death: the dead choosing to stay dead rather than rising with us into life] 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 [just mentioned] shall be.
13 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end [of ages], the first and the last.
14 Blessed are they that [obey and] 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 [to force it to say what God hasn’t said], 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 [to force it to say what God hasn’t said], 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.
21 The grace of our LORD Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.

Isaiah 25
1 O LORD, you are my God; I will exalt you, I will praise your name; for you have done wonderful things; your counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.
2 For you have made of a city a heap; of a defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.
3 Therefore shall the strong people glorify you, the city of the terrible nations shall fear you.
4 For you have been a strength [understanding] to the poor [those without power], a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm [[ as in shathan – making water]] against the wall.
5 You shall bring down the noise [[vioces]] of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low.
6 And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all people a feast [[this table full]] of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.
7 And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast [[ignorance and falsehood]] over all people, and the vail that is spread over all nations.
8 He will swallow up death in victory; and the LORD God will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD has spoken it.
9 And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.
10 For in this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest, and Moab [the gates of hell: the open mouths of wicked men] shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down for the dunghill.
11 And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that swims spreads forth his hands to swim [dividing the waters, to stay above them]: and he shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their hands.
12 And the fortress of the high fort of your walls shall he bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust.

As we know from previous discussions, the “cover” (from the once used word lowt) “cast over” (from the three times used word luwt) all people, which the LORD will remove, refer us to the other two times luwt appears.

In the first, 1 Samuel 22:9, it’s the “wrapping” David removes from the sword he took from Goliath, with which he cut off his head. The sword is then, in the following verses, revealed to be deception [[their misconceptions used as strategic concealment]], which causes David’s enemies to disregard him.

1 Samuel 21
9 And the priest said, The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you slew in the valley of Elah, behold, it is here wrapped [luwt] in a cloth behind the ephod: if you will take that, take it: for there is no other save that here. And David said, There is none like that; give it me.
10 And David arose and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish [[the Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon says this name, speaking of their ignirance and misconception, means “I will blacken (or terrify)” or “only a man”]] the king of Gath.
11 And the servants of Achish said unto him, Is not this David the king of the land? did they not sing one to another of him in dances, saying, Saul has slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands?
12 And David laid up these words in his heart, and was sore afraid of Achish [“I will blacken” hide myself in there ignorance, so they think I AM “only a man”] the king of Gath [“winepress,” as I come as judgment].
13 And he changed his behavior before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down upon his beard.
14 Then said Achish unto his servants, Lo, you see the man is mad: wherefore then have you brought him to me?
15 Have I need of mad men, that you have brought this fellow to play the mad man in my presence? shall this fellow come into my house?

The other use (of luwt) comes in 1 Kings 19:13, when Elijah (Jehovah is God) “wrapped” his face (paniym – presence) in his mantle (covering God’s glory in him), which (mantle) he later cast upon Elisha (God is Salvation).

Jeremiah 50
24 I have laid a snare for you, and you are also taken, O Babylon, and you were not aware: you are found, and also caught, because you have strived against the LORD.
25 The LORD has opened his armory, and has brought forth the weapons of his indignation [za’am]: for this is the work of the LORD God of hosts in the land of the Chaldeans [against those who’ve used their words to manipulate humanity into hell].
26 Come against her from the utmost border [qets – this full end], open her storehouses: cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly: let nothing of her be left.
27 Slay all her bullocks [those doing this work of misleading into hell]; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation [pquddah – now, when I Am here as the Chief Overseer of the earth].
28 The voice of them that flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to [open their mouth and] declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, the vengeance of his temple.
29 Call together the archers against Babylon: all you that bend the bow, camp against it round about; let none thereof escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she has done, do unto her: for she has been proud against the LORD, against the Holy One of Israel.
30 Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all her men of war shall be cut off in that day, says the LORD.
31 Behold, I am against you, O you most proud, says the LORD God of hosts: for your day is come, the time that I will visit you.
32 And the most proud shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up: and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all round about him.
33 Thus says the LORD of hosts; The children of Israel and the children of Judah were oppressed together: and all that took them captives held them fast; they refused to let them go.
34 Their Redeemer is strong; the LORD of hosts [a man of war] is his name [My identity]: he shall thoroughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the land, and disquiet [raqaz – pour His anger upon] the inhabitants of Babylon.
35 A sword [of David] is upon the Chaldeans, says the LORD, and upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise men.
36 A sword is upon the liars; and they shall dote: a sword is upon her mighty men; and they shall be dismayed.
37 A sword is upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the mingled people that are in the midst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword is upon her treasures; and they shall be robbed.
38 A drought is upon her waters; and they shall be dried up: for it is the land of graven images, and they are mad [become insane] upon their idols.
39 Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild beasts of the islands shall dwell there, and the owls shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited forever; neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.
40 As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor cities thereof, says the LORD; so shall no man abide there, neither shall any son of man dwell therein.
41 Behold, a people shall come from the north [shall come out of ignorance], and a great [new] nation, and many kings shall be raised up from the coasts [the end of the old and corrupt, where their proud waves are stayed, beginning the new] of the earth.
42 They shall hold the bow and the lance: they are cruel, and will not show mercy: their voice shall roar like the sea, and they shall ride upon horses, everyone put in array, like a man to the battle, [as My awakened army] against you, O daughter of Babylon.
43 The king of Babylon has heard the report of them, and his hands waxed feeble: anguish took hold of him, and pangs as of a woman in travail [fearing what they have brought forth].
44 Behold, he [the LORD, I Am] shall come up like a lion from [roaring against] the swelling [proud waves] of Jordan [words that carried all in the descent into death] unto the habitation of the strong [in power]: but I will make them [the wicked] suddenly run away from her [My people they have oppressed]: and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over her? for who is like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who is that shepherd that will stand before me? [All these are references to Michael, who is like God and stands for God’s people in this time of Jacob’s trouble, and Shiloh, who comes as the shepherd and stone of God’s people – the king of peace, and king of righteousness, in the order of Melchizedek]
45 Therefore hear you the counsel of the LORD, that he has taken against Babylon; and his purposes, that he has purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the least of the flock [“I will be silent and poor {without earthly power}” [[the meaning of the name Ahasuerus, Esther’s husband]]] shall draw them out: surely he shall make their habitation desolate with them.
46 At the noise [qowl – the LORD’s voice] of the taking of Babylon the earth is moved [[ra’ash – the shaking of the dead bones]], and the cry is heard among the nations.

Revelation 18
1 And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened [given understanding] with his glory.
2 And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that you be not partakers of her sins, and that you receive not of her plagues.
5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.
6 Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she has filled fill to her double.
7 How much she has glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she says in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.
8 Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the LORD God who judges her.
9 And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning,
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is your judgment come.

Hebrews 10
12 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God;
13 From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.
14 For by one offering he has perfected forever them that are sanctified.
15 Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before,
16 This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the LORD, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;
17 And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
18 Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.
19 Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,
20 By a new and living way, which he has consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;
21 And having a high priest over the house of God;
22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
23 Let us hold fast the profession of our faith [[that the LORD is with us, in us]] without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)
24 And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:
25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together [[episunagoge – only used here and 2 Thessalonians 2:1: the complete collection at this end time, after the falling away wrought by the work of Satan]], as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as you see the day [[this light]] approaching.
26 For if we sin willfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more sacrifice for sins,
27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
28 He that despised Moses’ law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:
29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose you, shall he be thought worthy, who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and has done despite unto the Spirit of [[this]] grace?
30 For we know him that has said, Vengeance belongs unto me, I will recompense, says the LORD. And again, The LORD shall judge his people.
31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

Psalms 40
1 I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.
2 He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.
3 And he has put a new song [His word] in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD.
4 Blessed is that man that makes the LORD his trust, and respects not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.
5 Many, O LORD my God, are your wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto you: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.
6 Sacrifice and offering you did not desire; my ears have you opened: burnt offering and sin offering have you not required.
7 Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume [mgillah] of the book [cepher] it is written of me,
8 I delight to do your will, O my God: yea, your law is within my heart.
9 I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, you know.
10 I have not hid your righteousness within my heart; I have declared your faithfulness and your salvation: I have not concealed your lovingkindness and your truth from the great congregation.
11 Withhold not you your tender mercies from me, O LORD: let your lovingkindness and your truth continually preserve me.
12 For innumerable evils have compassed me about: my iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of my head: therefore my heart [mind] fails me.
13 Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help me.
14 Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.
15 Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha.
16 Let all those that seek you rejoice and be glad in you: let such as love your salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified.
17 But I am poor and needy; yet the LORD thinks upon me: you are my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.

21 – 23 May 2025

They also that render evil for good are my adversaries; because I follow the thing that good is.

The LORD begins today in Psalms 38:20 above, where the word rendered “adversaries” is satan, whereby we understand he, his evil spirit possessing flesh, is in those who render evil for good. As we know, these are liars and false accusers mixed among us, now very prominently drawn into the light, led by Obama, who made these tactics official policy.

Before proceeding, the LORD leads me to repost excerpts from three different 2017 posts, which outline the problem and the plan as He has declared it.

From the post of 5 March 2017:

Friends, I don’t know how much plainer it can be; Isaiah 8 tells us of the LORD coming as the glory and presence of God among us in the one speaking His guidance. Therein, we see, as we now see, the men the Word of God is sent to, instead, choose to unite in a confederacy led by those who have led them and the world into chaos by listening to their death-inducing advice.

The LORD then tells of these people, by listening to the ignorant, descend further into trouble, darkness, dimness, and anguish.

Those who have listened to the LORD’s voice, following His living way and not surrendering to the counsel of the dead, have, in doing, seen the Light.

The chapters describe two types of the dead: those described as being the Assyrians with the Philistines and those thinking they are following God but are instead in a state of total rebellion, having joined with the others against the LORD. The Assyrians [[communists]] represent the corrupted rulers that have invaded and now infest and control our government, as in Obama and those he has so deeply embedded in all of our government. As we have discussed here many times in the past, he so ingrained his policy and regulations, along with the people, to ensure their survival, with the intention to make it almost impossible to weed them out. The other group is those who claim to be God’s people but have, in fact, either become effeminized, purchased by the promise of a communist utopia, or surrendered to relativism demanded by the pop culture.

But unto those who have received the Word of God, even though we dwell in the land covered by this shadow of death, Jehovah has risen as a Shining Light.

The LORD says because of this man-caused darkness, and the continued rejection of God’s word by those claiming they are His people, he will cut off from among His people, “head and tail, branch and rush, in one day. 15 The ancient and honorable, he is the head; and the prophet that teaches lies, he is the tail. 16 For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed. 17 Therefore the LORD shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for everyone is a hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this, his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.”

I know this rejection means self-inflicting a terrible end for these men destroying the earth through corrupted leading, and for this, I am filled with great sorrow. This is why the LORD in the prior post preceded the above description with the warning to the wicked, found in Ezekiel 33. There we read of the wicked (as in Isaiah 9:12, as the Assyrians [[communists]], the infesting leaders, and the Philistines [[the invading foreign army among us]], following them with continued attacks from behind) and the righteous, who are called God’s people. The latter think their righteous works will save them as they commit wickedness by rejecting the Word of God and say they will rebuild what they themselves know has become a shambles by their own hand.

From 26 July 2017:

Do you believe in the miraculous? Does God still create miracles where there seems to be no natural way? The small miracles happen every day, but because they remain small, man is able to ignore them by attributing their occurrence to chance or coincidence. The premise of today’s post is, as we have heard from the LORD, this national government, ruling a people under God, has failed, as the ship of state floundered in the storm and is now crashed against the stone and broken. (Daniel 2:35 Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing-floors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.)

The evidence is seen in the Republican Party, having majority control of all three branches of government, proving itself unable to govern, unwilling (unable) to implement the policies upon which it campaigned and was elected. Defeated by its own underlying contradictions exposing its deceptive public mask, it is now seen to have subordinated its honor and goals to special interest money (lawful graft). Controlled by fear of the Obama (communist) embeds in all of the deep seats of power and a fake news media openly hostile to our nation’s original founding principle, it now lashes out against those who see they have been fooled into voting them into power, again, and again, and…

Considering this, the church remains fractured, confused, leaderless yet inescapably aware that it is a time for action. The obvious stands before its face, calling it to stand, yet it remains held down by the same corrupted feckless leaders they know have only made merchandise of them and comforted themselves into resting when We should be rising.

To wit, thus says the LORD, “Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, says the LORD of hosts. 7 Who are you, O great mountain [[corrupt government]]? before Zerubbabel you shall become a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shouting, crying, Grace, grace unto it. 8 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 9 The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also finish it; and you shall know that the LORD of hosts has sent me unto you. 10 For who has despised the day of small things? for they shall rejoice [[knowing it is the LORD’s presence manifested]], and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel with those seven [[the church led by the cleansed priesthood]]; they are the eyes of the LORD [[seeing as He sees]], which run to and fro through the whole earth.”

I have shared my mission plan for many years, uniting the church under one head (who has risen into this same mission), and in doing so, saving it from self-destruction. Together, we do the same for the nation and the world. This is the charge I’ve been given, and I will not rest until it is accomplished. The above passage is from Zechariah 4, and it tells of the seven churches, the same seven churches spoken of in Revelation. It is specifically to those leading (misleading) all these fractured and fallen groups in church and state, and I say to them now: Get out of the way and let us work.

From the post of 18 August 2017, ending with 1 Peter 2:

Blessed are They Which are Persecuted for Righteousness’ Sake (covered in the Blood of the Lamb): for Theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven

The above is a quote (minus my parenthetical insertion) found in Matthew 5:10, telling of the way, the truth, and the life, that comes to those who follow Christ’s leading into perfection.

Friends, I tell you the truth: it (all the mainstream news and teaching is corrupted by lies) is all fake news manufactured from whole cloth with the intention of destroying this movement toward righteousness. It is all a great deception with them projecting their wishes upon and who will allow themselves to be devoured. Theirs is the great deception spewed from the mouth of the dragon (the vermin infesting our institutions – the fake news media, the false churches, corrupted political parties, the crony capitalists, and the Obama moles – imbeds and underminers), because they know their time is short. So here we stand in the wilderness, having departed from all the corrupted misleaders, still keeping the commandments of God, and having the testimony of the LORD Jesus Christ, knowing, with great confidence in His promises, and knowing that our deliverance is at hand.

Revelation 12
11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.
12 Therefore rejoice, you heavens, and you that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knows that he has but a short time.
13 And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child.
14 And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.
15 And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.
16 And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.
17 And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.

Isaiah 53 speaks of those who believe the report, the truth they are hearing, and to those who do receive it is the arm of the LORD revealed. It goes on to tell of those who have witnessed all that is occurring (not yet believing the report), as it describes seeing its persecution and rejection, when all have become like sheep going astray from their shepherd. The passage is what Peter is referring to in 1 Peter 2:25 when he speaks of those (I and the Children God have given me) who have returned to this same shepherd. Peter is telling of this time, when the glory of the Father is revealed in His church having judged itself, suffering for righteousness, for the sake of the LORD’s truth.

Isaiah 53
6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he opens not his mouth.
8 He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
9 And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
10 Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he has put him to grief: when you shall make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
11 He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
12 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he has poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

1 Peter 2
15 For so is the will of God, that with well doing you may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:
16 As free, and not using your liberty for a cloak of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.
17 Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.
18 Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the forward [those living in the delusions of a twisted and perverted way, truth and life].
19 For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.
20 For what glory is it, if, when you be buffeted for your faults, you shall take it patiently? but if, when you do well, and suffer for it, you take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.
21 For even hereunto were you called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that you should follow his steps:
22 Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:
23 Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judges righteously:
24 Who his own self borne our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes you were healed.
25 For you were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.

The word “render” in today’s title verse is from shalam (the salem in Jerusalem, a name meaning teaching through which flows the LORD’s way into sustainable peace and security). Its Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary definition is, “to be safe (in mind, body or estate); figuratively, to be (causatively, make) completed; by implication, to be friendly; by extension, to reciprocate (in various applications).”

The verse (19) before tells of what (evil) is rendered (“for” – tachath – meaning “the bottom (as depressed); only adverbially, below (often with prepositional prefix underneath), in lieu of.”) to undermine good. “But my enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully [sheqer – meaning “an untruth; by implication, a sham (often adverbial)] are multiplied [rabab – Legion].”

The word in verse 19 rendered “hate” is sane’, also translated as “enemy, foe, (be) hate(-ful, -r), odious, X utterly.”

This latter word (sane’) is the origin (with affinity) of the word satan, which makes perfect sense: if God is love, then Satan, His opposite, is hate.

Who is God? He is love, agape, a name with affinity to the words ago and apo, meaning He is the one who leads (ago) us away (apo) from darkness into His light (truth).

1 John 4
8 He that loves not knows not God; for God is love.
9 In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
12 No man has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.
13 Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.
14 And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the world.
15 Whosoever shall confess that Jesus [Jehovah’s Salvation manifested in the flesh] is the Son of God, God dwells in him, and he in God.
16 And we have known and believed the love that God has to us. God is love; and he that dwells in love dwells in God, and God in him.
17 Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because [in this judgment we realize] as he is, so are we, [life, truth, and light] in this world.

John 8
42 Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, you would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.
43 Why do you not understand my speech? even because you cannot hear my word.
44 You are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks of his own [language]: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
45 And because I tell you the truth, you believe me not.
46 Which of you convinces me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do you not believe me?
47 He that is of God heareth God’s words: you therefore hear them not, because you are not of God.
48 Then answered the Jews, and said unto him, Say we not well that you are a Samaritan [worshipping idols men put in God’s place and call by His name], and have a devil?
49 Jesus answered, I have not a devil [the One possessing me is not Satan]; but I honor my Father, and you do dishonor me.
50 And I seek not my own glory: there is one that seeks and judges.
51 Truly, truly, I say unto you, If a man keeps my sayings [which are life, truth, and light], he shall never see death.

It is only in understanding love and hate that we can fully understand God and Satan. God can become an adversary but differs from Satan in that He is so to lead us away from death, darkness, and destruction (the wrong way wrought by Satan) into light.

Like done to the LORD above, there are now many (falsely so-called Christians) who will call me a devil (a misleader possessed by Satan) only because I oppose their truly misleading (effeminate) opinions about God and true love. Many of these men, not seeing the LORD sent me to stand against their way, will choose to remain in darkness and continue headlong into destruction.

Considering the previous post, these men are ignorant that they are those opposing God (pissing, shathan, with affinity to satan, making defiled water, against a wall) and can only be saved if they open (shatham) their eyes and see as the LORD sees.

Numbers 22
31 Then the LORD opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way, and his sword [this word of God] drawn in his hand: and he bowed down his head [subordinated his mind to the LORD’s mind], and fell flat on his face.
32 And the angel of the LORD said unto him, Wherefore have you smitten your ass [My lowly people under you] these three times? behold, I went out to withstand [satan] you, because your way is perverse before me:
33 And the ass saw me, and turned from me these three times: unless she had turned from me, surely now also I had slain you, and saved her alive.
34 And Balaam said unto the angel of the LORD, I have sinned; for I knew not that you stood in the way against me: now, therefore, if it displease you, I will get me back again [into the right way].
35 And the angel of the LORD said unto Balaam, Go with the men [whose way curses My people]: but only the word that I shall speak unto you, that you shall speak. So Balaam went with the princes of Balak [the destroyers of those who listen to and follow them].

Luke 11
13 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit [Himself unknown among you speaking and working] to them that ask him?
14 And he was casting out a devil [freeing those possessed by Satan], and it was dumb [unable to speak this word of the LORD]. And it came to pass, when the devil was gone out, the dumb spoke; and the people wondered [at these words they were hearing].
15 But some of them said, He casts out devils through Beelzebub [baal-zbuwb – the flies who call their idols by the LORD’s name] the chief of the devils [those possessed by Satan].
16 And others, tempting him, sought of him a sign from heaven.
17 But he, knowing their thoughts, said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and a house divided against a house falls.
18 If Satan also be divided against himself, how shall his kingdom stand? because you say that I cast out devils through Beelzebub.
19 And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your sons cast them out? therefore shall they be your judges.
20 But if I with the finger of God cast out devils, no doubt the kingdom of God is come upon you.
21 When a strong man [the false prophets, teachers, and preachers of God’s people] armed keep his palace, his goods are in peace [secure]:
22 But when a stronger than he shall come upon him, and overcome him, he taketh from him all his armor wherein he trusted, and divides his spoils.
23 He that is not with me is against me: and he that gathers not [into the LORD’s ONE BODY] with me scatters.
24 When the unclean spirit [like frogs] is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he says, I will return unto my house [the church they left] whence I came out.
25 And when he comes, he finds it swept and garnished [cleaned of what defiled it].
26 Then goes he, and taketh to him seven other spirits [the same old corruption the church has created since the beginning] more wicked than himself; and they enter in, and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first [having misplaced confidence they are saved they become incorrigible].
27 And it came to pass, as he spoke these things, a certain woman of the company lifted up her voice, and said unto him, Blessed is the womb that bare you, and the paps which you have sucked.
28 But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear [My words as] the word of God [which they are in truth], and keep it.
29 And when the people were gathered thick together, he began to say, This is an evil generation: they seek a sign; and there shall no sign be given it, but the sign of Jonah the prophet [condemning this generation as evil and calling all to repent].
30 For as Jonah was a sign unto the Ninevites, so shall also the Son of man be to this generation.
31 The queen of the south [who heard and now sees as the LORD sees] shall rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation, and condemn them: for she came from the utmost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.
32 The men of Nineve [this generation of perpetual children] shall rise up [from death into life] in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and, behold, a greater than Jonah is here.
33 No man, when he has lighted a candle, puts it in a secret place, neither under a bushel, but on a candlestick, that they which come in may see the light.
34 The light [understanding and life] of the body is the eye [seeing as the LORD sees]: therefore when your eye is single, your whole body also is full of light; but when your eye is evil, your body also is full of darkness [ignorance and death].
35 Take heed therefore that the light which is in you be not darkness.
36 If your whole body therefore be full of light, having no part dark, the whole shall be full of light, as when the bright shining of a candle does give you light.

The phrase “the finger of God,” in verse 20 above, only appears this one time in the New Testament and three times in the Old. The LORD using it here in Luke is with Exodus 8:19 in mind. The other two uses, Exodus 31:8 and Deuteronomy 9:10, tell of it (the finger of God), writing the two tables of stone (the two Testaments).

1 John 2
1 My little children [born again in this first generation of the LORD’s new creation], these things write I unto you, that you sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate [Parakletos] with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
2 And he is the propitiation [hilasmos – the willing intercessor, see Jonadab in the previous post, and Deuteronomy 9:19 & 20 below] for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
3 And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
4 He that says, I know him, and keep not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
5 But whoso keeps his word, in him truly is the love of God perfected [teleioo – completed, by giving His word as received]: hereby know we that we are in him.
6 He that says he abides in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.
7 Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which you have heard from the beginning.
8 Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now shines [this understanding and life, given as received].
9 He that says he is in the light, and hates his brother, is in darkness even until now.
10 He that loveth his brother abides in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him.
11 But he that hates his brother is in darkness, and walks in darkness, and knows not whither he goes, because that darkness has blinded his eyes.
12 I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name’s sake [that His identity can be manifested in you].
13 I write unto you, fathers, because you have known him that is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because you have overcome the wicked one [Satan whose way is destruction and death]. I write unto you, little children, because you have known the Father.
14 I have written unto you, fathers, because you have known him that is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the wicked one.
15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man loves the [corrupt old] world, the love of the Father is not in him.

Deuteronomy 9
10 And the LORD delivered unto me two tables of stone written with the finger [‘etsba’] of God; and on them was written according to all the words, which the LORD spoke with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.
11 And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the LORD gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant.
12 And the LORD said unto me, Arise, get you down quickly from hence; for your people which you have brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; they are quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image.
13 Furthermore the LORD spoke unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiff-necked people:
14 Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven: and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.
15 So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.
16 And I looked, and, behold, you had sinned against the LORD your God, and had made you a molten calf: you had turned aside quickly out of the way which the LORD had commanded you.
17 And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes.
18 And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins which you sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
19 For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith the LORD was wroth against you to destroy you. But the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also.
20 And the LORD was very angry with Aaron [the light-bringers now turned to idols] to have destroyed him: and I prayed for Aaron also the same time.
21 And I took your sin, the calf which you had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small, even until it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook [flowing the word of God] that descended out of the mount.

Exodus 8
16 And the LORD said unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch out your rod, and smite the dust of the land [‘aphar ‘erets – the ashes of the earth’s ruin], that it may become [hayah – as the earth became without form and void, after the deep was darkened] lice [ken – into the void, endless worthless of opinions] throughout all the land [‘erets] of Egypt [the earth in a double strait: the oppression of church and state].
17 And they did so [ken]; for Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod, and smote the dust of the earth, and it became lice [ken] in man, and in beast; all the dust of the land became lice [ken] throughout all the land of Egypt.
18 And the magicians [chartom – those who before controlled opinions] did so [ken] with their enchantments [lat – secretly] to bring forth lice [ken – trying to control opinions], but they could not: so there were lice [ken – many diverse opinions] upon man, and upon beast.
19 Then the magicians [chartom – the mainstream {news and social} media and the intelligence agencies] said unto Pharaoh [the powers they served], This is the finger of God: and Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had said.
20 And the LORD said unto Moses, Rise up early in the morning [now when this understanding has come], and stand before Pharaoh [the powers]; lo, he comes forth to the water [this word of God, written by the finger of God]; and say unto him, Thus says the LORD, Let my people go, that they may serve me.
21 Else, if you will not let my people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies upon you, and upon your servants, and upon your people, and into your houses: and the houses of the Egyptians shall be full of swarms of flies, and also the ground whereon they are.
22 And I will sever in that day the land [‘ertes – the earth, now when His light has returned] of Goshen [meaning “draw near,” the name next appears in Genesis 9:26, saying “Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, was there no hail {this word frozen in heaven and sent to destroy the current crop of corrupt leaders}.], in which my people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there; to the end you mayest know that I am the LORD in the midst of the earth.

The “swarm of flies” is from the Hebrew word ‘arob, which is conspicuously a reversal of the word ‘abar, meaning to fly (with full understanding).

It (‘arob) is from the word ‘arab, meaning “to braid, i.e. intermix; technically, to traffic (as if by barter); also or give to be security (as a kind of exchange):–engage, (inter-)meddle (with), mingle (self), mortgage, occupy, give pledges, be(-come, put in) surety, undertake.”

These words (‘arob and ‘arab) speak of “economy:” all things moving through society and the corruption of their management. They speak of people putting their trust in these systems, and once they do, they are betrayed, and the systems become a means of control and enslavement.

These lice (from the eight times used word ken) only appear once (Psalms 105:31) outside the above chapter, and the flies (from the nine times used word ‘arob) only appears twice outside it (Psalms 78:45 & Psalms 105:31).

Psalms 78
1 Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
2 I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings [held in men’s ignorance] of old:
3 Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
4 We will not hide them from their children, showing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he has done.
5 For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:
6 That the generation to come [in this new creation] might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children:
7 That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:
8 And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not steadfast with God.
9 The children of Ephraim [God’s people, the last generation of the old and corrupt creation, in double ruin], being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.
10 They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;
11 And forgot his works, and his wonders that he had showed them.
12 Marvelous [eye opening] things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
13 He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as a heap.
14 In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire.
15 He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths.
16 He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.
17 And they sinned yet more against him by provoking [doubting the presence of] the Most High in the wilderness.
18 And they tempted [doubted] God in their heart [minds] by asking meat for their lust.
19 Yea, they spoke against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?
20 Behold, he smote the rock [I Am], that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can he give bread also? can he provide flesh for his people?
21 Therefore the LORD heard this, and was wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel;
22 Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:
23 Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven,
24 And had rained down manna [which they knew not that it was this same word from the mouth of God] upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven.
25 Man did eat angels’ food [this message put in the mouth of His chosen messengers]: he sent them meat [this deep understanding] to the full.
26 He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power he brought in the south wind.
27 He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea:
28 And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations.
29 So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire;
30 They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths,
31 The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel.
32 For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works.
33 Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.
34 When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and enquired early after God.
35 And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer.
36 Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues.
37 For their heart [mind] was not right with him, neither were they steadfast in his covenant.
38 But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.
39 For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passes away, and comes not again.
40 How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!
41 Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.
42 They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy.
43 How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan.
44 And had turned their rivers into blood [to be seen as words draining the life from those who obeyed them]; and their floods, that they could not drink.
45 He sent divers sorts of flies [‘arob] among them, which devoured them; and frogs [unclean spirits from men’s mouths, hidden below the surface of the waters], which destroyed them.
46 He gave also their increase unto the caterpillar, and their labor unto the locust.
47 He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycamore trees with frost.
48 He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.
49 He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble [tsarah – tribulation], by sending evil angels [with evil messages] among them.
50 He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;
51 And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham:
52 But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
53 And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
54 And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, even to this mountain, which his right hand had purchased.
55 He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
56 Yet they tempted and provoked the Most High God, and kept not his testimonies:
57 But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
58 For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
59 When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:
60 So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men;
61 And [by their own poor choices] delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy’s hand.
62 He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance.
63 The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage.
64 Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.
65 Then the LORD awoke as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouts by reason of wine.
66 And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach.
67 Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not [a leader from] the tribe of Ephraim [God’s people at large]:
68 But chose the tribe of Judah [the elect remnant], the mount Zion which he loved.
69 And he built his sanctuary [His manifested presence] like high palaces, like the earth which he has established forever.
70 He chose David [I Am] also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:
71 From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.
72 So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.

Psalms 105
1 O give thanks unto the LORD; call upon his name: make known his deeds among the people.
2 Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him: talk you of all his wondrous works.
3 Glory you in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the LORD.
4 Seek the LORD, and his strength: seek his face [paniym – His presence] evermore.
5 Remember his marvelous works that he has done; his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth;
6 O you seed of Abraham his servant, you children of Jacob his chosen.
7 He is the LORD our God: his judgments are in all the earth.
8 He has remembered his covenant forever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations.
9 Which covenant he made with Abraham, and his oath unto Isaac;
10 And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant:
11 Saying, Unto you will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance:
12 When they were but a few men in number; yea, very few, and strangers in it.
13 When they went from one nation to another, from one kingdom to another people;
14 He suffered no man to do them wrong: yea, he reproved kings for their sakes;
15 Saying, Touch not my anointed, and do my prophets no harm.
16 Moreover he called for a famine upon the land: he brakes the whole staff of bread.
17 He sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was sold for a servant:
18 Whose feet they hurt with fetters: he was laid in iron:
19 Until the time that his word came: the word of the LORD tried him.
20 The king sent and loosed him; even the ruler of the people, and let him go free.
21 He made him LORD [‘adown] of his house, and ruler of all his substance:
22 To bind his princes at his pleasure; and teach his senators wisdom.
23 Israel also came into Egypt; and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.
24 And he increased his people greatly; and made them stronger than their enemies.
25 He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal subtly with his servants.
26 He sent Moses his servant; and Aaron whom he had chosen.
27 They showed his signs among them, and wonders in the land of Ham.
28 He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not against his word.
29 He turned their waters into blood [showing the words are draining life from those who drink], and slew their fish [ending life that was before found below the surface, in deep understanding].
30 Their land brought forth frogs [unclean spirits from the mouths of men] in abundance in the chambers of their kings. [Revelation 16:13 And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon {those devouring men with their always wide open mouths}, and out of the mouth of the beast {those without the LORD’s spirit speaking confusion: Babylon}, and out of the mouth of the false prophet{s – those telling of an end that will never come}]. 14 For they are the spirits of devils {men possessed by Satan}, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty. 15 Behold, I come as a thief {unknown in men’s darkness: ignorance}. Blessed is he that watches, and keeps his garments {His covering undefiled, which protect from the corrupt element of the world}, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame. 16 And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon {this mountain, the place of the planned rendezvous}.]
31 He [the LORD] spoke, and there came divers sorts of flies [‘arob – corrupting economies], and lice [ken – endless worthless opinions] in all their coasts.
32 He gave them hail for rain, and flaming fire in their land.
33 He smote their vines also and their fig trees; and brake the trees of their coasts.
34 He spoke, and the locusts came, and caterpillars, and that without number,
35 And did eat up all the herbs in their land, and devoured the fruit of their ground.
36 He smote also all the firstborn in their land, the chief of all their strength.
37 He brought them forth also with silver and gold: and there was not one feeble person among their tribes.
38 Egypt was glad when they departed: for the fear of them fell upon them.
39 He spread a cloud for a covering; and fire to give light in the night.
40 The people asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with the bread of heaven.
41 He opened the rock, and the waters [His word] gushed out; they ran in the dry places like a river.
42 For he remembered his holy promise, and Abraham his servant.
43 And he brought forth his people with joy [realizing His presence with us, in us], and his chosen with gladness:
44 And gave them the lands [‘erets] of the heathen [the earth that was before controlled by those who haven’t known the LORD with us, in us]: and they inherited the labor of the people;
45 That they might observe his statutes, and keep his laws. Praise you the LORD.

Psalms 109
1 Hold not your peace, O God of my praise;
2 For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.
3 They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.
4 For my love they are my adversaries [satan]: but I give myself unto prayer [conversing with the LORD who’s given me understanding of the matter].
5 And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
6 Set you a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand [as the spirit inspiriting them].
7 When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer [unto the gods, idols men created and put in my place, which they deceitfully call by My name] become sin.
8 Let his days be few; and let another take his office [pquddah – as the overseers, watchmen, of the earth].
9 Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow [the insane who speak and work their evil].
10 Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
11 Let the extortioner [who steals their inheritance from them] catch all that he has; and let the strangers spoil his labor.
12 Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favor his fatherless children.
13 Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out [cut off from the earth].
14 Let the iniquity of his fathers [whose knowledge is to do evil to his brothers] be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother [their teachers who teach them wisdom is to speak and work evil] be blotted out.
15 Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.
16 Because that he remembered not to show mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart [who their evil ways made desolate].
17 As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.
18 As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.
19 Let it be unto him as the garment which covers [‘atah] him, and for a girdle [preparation] wherewith he is girded continually.
20 Let this be the reward of my adversaries [satan – the reward to those who attack and accuse me] from the LORD, and of them that speak evil against my soul.
21 But do you for me, O God the LORD, for your name’s sake [in which you have sent me]: because your mercy [in our conversation at Your mercy seat] is good, deliver you me.
22 For I am poor and needy [without worldly power], and my heart is wounded within me.
23 I am gone like the shadow when it declines [as Your sun rises, showing Your glory]: I am tossed up and down as the locust [by the same winds destroying the destroyers].
24 My knees are weak through fasting [Your people remain weak through refusing Your word as Yours]; and my flesh [of Your dead body] fails of fatness [because they refuse to prosper by these treasures You’ve sent them].
25 I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shake their heads [refusing me].
26 Help me, O LORD my God [King of kings and LORD of LORDs]: O save me according to your mercy:
27 That they may know that this is your hand; that you, LORD, have done it.
28 Let them curse, but bless you: when they arise, let them be ashamed; but let your servant rejoice.
29 Let my adversaries [satan] be clothed with shame, and let them cover [‘atah] themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.
30 I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth; yea, I will praise him among the multitude.
31 For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul.

17 – 19 2025 May 2025

Therefore, thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand before me forever.

The LORD begins today, above in Jeremiah 35:19, a chapter wherein He commands Jeremiah to speak to the house of the Rechabites, to bring them before those in the chambers of the house of God. The Rechabites are the descendants of Jonadab, the son of Rechab, who lived centuries before.

These descendants, after many years since their forefathers’ deaths, now in the presence of the keepers of God’s house (their Father’s family), are (in this chapter) proven to be keeping the commandments of their fathers, in comparison to God’s people who aren’t keeping His.

The name Jonadab is said to mean Jehovah (Jo) is willing, from the word nadab, (in the context of “the LORD of hosts” as a man of war, the commander of the army of heaven) meaning “to impel; hence, to volunteer (as a soldier), to present spontaneously:–offer freely, be (give, make, offer self) willing(-ly).”

What they (the Rechabites, the descendants of Jonadab the son Rechab) willingly gave is shown as the LORD commands Jeremiah to set wine before them and tell them to drink. Their answer is in Jeremiah 35:6 & 7 saying, “But they said, We will drink no wine: for Jonadab the son of Rechab our father commanded us, saying, You shall drink no wine, neither you, nor your sons forever: Neither shall you build house, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyard, nor have any: but all your days you shall dwell in tents; that you may live many days in the land where you be strangers.”

These aspects speak of (the Rechabites) not having their minds corrupted, not building institutions, not bringing forth corrupt fruit, or becoming defiled by worldliness.

Earlier, in verses 3 & 4, the Rechabite and those (the house of the LORD) in whose presence they are, are in the meanings of their proper names described.

Jeremiah 35
1 The word which came unto Jeremiah [Jehovah rising and with Him raising His people] from the LORD in the days of Jehoiakim [who Jehovah raised up, who eventually burned the written words Baruch {blessed} wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah] the son of Josiah [whom Jehovah healed] king of Judah, saying,
2 Go unto the house of the Rechabites, and speak unto them, and bring them into the house of the LORD, into one of the chambers, and give them wine to drink.
3 Then I took Jaazaniah [who hears and obeys Jehovah] the son of Jeremiah [and become the children of the risen LORD], the son of Habaziniah [chob ‘atstsiyl – joined in the bosom of Jehovah], and his brethren, and all his sons, and the whole house of the Rechabites;
4 And I brought them into the house of the LORD, into the chamber of the sons of Hanan [to whom the LORD’s mercy is shown], the son of Igdaliah [whose minds were enlarged, sent this understanding, by Jehovah], a man of God, which was by the chamber of the princes, which was above the chamber of Maaseiah [over the work of Jehovah] the son of Shallum [from shalam, meaning “to be safe (in mind, body or estate); figuratively, to be (causatively, make) completed; by implication, to be friendly; by extension, to reciprocate (in various applications),” which is peace as it is given {left with us} by the LORD], the keeper of the door [the way out of death in hell into heaven and life]:
5 And I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites pots full of wine, and cups, and I said unto them, Drink you wine [yayin – ferment trouble and disorder].

The point the LORD makes multiple times in Jeremiah 35 is the incrimination of disobedience to His word, in contrast to the obedience of the Rechabites.

Jeremiah 35
12 Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying,
13 Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Go and tell the men of Judah [the leader of God’s house] and the inhabitants of Jerusalem [His people at large, into whom this teaching has flowed {yarah} His peace {shalam}], Will you not receive instruction to hearken to [shama’ – hear and obey] my words [only received when you believe, have faith, that it is My voice]? says the LORD.
14 The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, that he commanded his sons not to drink wine, are performed; for unto this day they drink none, but obey [shama’ – they hear] their father’s commandment [even though he is not physically present]: notwithstanding I have spoken unto you, rising early and speaking; but you hearkened [shama’] not unto me.
15 I have sent also unto you all my servants the prophets [in this written word], rising up early [in Jeremiah to raise you with My rising] and sending them, saying, Return you now every man from his evil way, and amend your doings, and go not after other gods to serve them, and you shall dwell in the land [‘adamah – this first generation of My new creation] which I have given to you and to your fathers: but you have not inclined your ear, nor hearkened [shama’] unto me.
16 Because the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have performed [quwm – risen by hearing and obeying] the commandment of their father, which he commanded them; but this people has not hearkened [shama’] unto me:
17 Therefore thus says the LORD God of hosts [I Am, a man of war], the God of Israel [those who have received Me and this expected end]; Behold, I will bring upon Judah and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evil that I have pronounced [dabar] against them: because I have spoken [dabar] unto them, but they have not heard; and I have called unto them, but they have not answered [‘anah – meaning “to eye or (generally) to heed, i.e. pay attention; by implication, to respond; by extens. to begin to speak; specifically to sing, shout, testify, announce.”]
18 And Jeremiah said unto the house of the Rechabites, Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Because you have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done according unto all that he has commanded you:
19 Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand before me [paniym – as My presence] forever.

The word nadad speaks of those whose mind and will are joined with the LORD. We see this when Jonadab (Jehonadab), the son of Rechab, is first mentioned in 2 Kings 10.

2 Kings 10
15 And when he [Jehu – he is Jehovah] was departed thence, he lighted on [matsa’ – meaning “to come forth to, i.e. appear or exist; transitively, to attain, i.e. find or acquire; figuratively, to occur, meet or be present.”] Jehonadab the son of Rechab coming to meet him: and he saluted him, and said to him, Is thine heart right [is your will and mind aligned with Jehovah’s], as my heart [‘im – like mind] is [willing] with your heart? And Jehonadab answered, It is. If it be, give me thine hand [join me in the LORD’s work]. And he gave him his hand; and he took him up to him into the chariot.
16 And he said, Come with me, and see my zeal for the LORD. So they made him ride in his chariot.
17 And when he came to Samaria [God’s people worshipping idols men {beginning with Jeroboam} created and put in God’s place and called by His name], he slew all that remained unto Ahab in Samaria, till he had destroyed him, according to the saying [dabar] of the LORD, which he spoke [dabar] to Elijah. [This refers to its first appearance in 1 Kings 21:21 and repeated in 2 Kings 9:8 – see below.]
18 And Jehu gathered all the people together, and said unto them, Ahab served Baal a little; but Jehu shall serve him much.
19 Now therefore call unto me all the prophets of Baal [strange worship put in God’s, the Truth’s, place, which the people call by the LORD’s name], all his servants, and all his priests; let none be wanting: for I have a great sacrifice to do to Baal; whosoever shall be wanting, he shall not live. But Jehu did it in subtilty, to the intent that he might destroy the worshippers of Baal.
20 And Jehu said, Proclaim a solemn assembly for Baal. And they proclaimed it.
21 And Jehu sent through all Israel: and all the worshippers of Baal came, so that there was not a man left that came not. And they came into the house of Baal; and the house of Baal was full from one end to another.
22 And he said unto him that was over the vestry, Bring forth vestments [lbuwsh] for all the worshippers of Baal. And he brought them forth vestments [malbuwsh – asking what garments, referring to Genesis 49:11].
23 And Jehu went, and Jehonadab the son of Rechab, into the house of Baal, and said unto the worshippers of Baal, Search, and look that there be here with you none of the servants of the LORD [Jehovah], but the worshippers of Baal only.
24 And when they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings, Jehu appointed fourscore men without, and said, If any of the men whom I have brought into your hands escape, he that lets him go, his life shall be for the life of him.
25 And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, that Jehu said to the guard and to the captains, Go in, and slay them; let none come forth. And they smote them with the edge of the sword; and the guard and the captains cast them out, and went to the city of the house of Baal.
26 And they brought forth the images [the things created by men] out of the house of Baal, and burned them.
27 And they broke down the image of Baal, and broke down the house of Baal, and made it a draught [mowtsa’ah – meaning “a family descent, also a sewer] house [where men piss against a wall into a trench] unto this day. [1 Kings 21:20 And Ahab said to Elijah, Have you found me, O my enemy? And he answered, I have found you: because you have sold yourself to work evil {as did Balaam} in the sight of the LORD. 21 Behold, I will bring evil upon you, and will take away your posterity {‘achar – the last generation of your kind}, and will cut off {karath} from Ahab him that pisses against the wall {meaning His descendants}, and him that is shut up and left {without understanding} in Israel,]
28 Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel.
29 Howbeit from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, Jehu departed not from after them, to wit, the golden calves that were in Bethel [the house of God], and that were in Dan [corrupting all judgment].
30 And the LORD said unto Jehu, Because you have done well in executing that which is right in my eyes, and have done unto the house of Ahab according to all that was in my heart, your children of the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel.
31 But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the LORD God of Israel with all his heart: for he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam, which made Israel to sin.
32 In those days the LORD began to cut Israel short [qatsah – to cut off, end as in qets; see qatseh below in Numbers 22:36 & 41]

The only other time the word mowtsa’ah (rendered above as “draught” house) appears is in Michah 5:2, giving us the ultimate point of these passages.

Micha 5
1 Now gather yourself in troops [gadad – Gad], O daughter of troops [gduwd – see Genesis 49:19]: he [the communists in church and state] has laid siege against us: they [the communists in power] shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek.
2 But you, Bethlehem Ephratah [the children blessed with this bread of life], though you be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of you shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth [mowtsa’ah] have been from of old, from everlasting.
3 Therefore will he give them up, until the time that she [the church] which travails has brought forth: then the [elect] remnant of his brethren shall return unto the children of Israel [and they shall be My ONE BODY].
4 And he shall stand and feed [ra’ah – as a shepherd, an overseer seeing as the LORD sees] in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty of the name [identity] of the LORD his God; and they shall abide: for now shall he be great unto the ends [‘ephec] of the earth [ending the old and beginning the new].
5 And this man shall be the peace, when the Assyrian [the communists] shall come into our land: and when he shall tread in our palaces [in power in church and state, as antichrists possessed by Satan’s evil spirit], then shall we raise against him seven [Godly] shepherds [ra’ah], and eight principal [the new generation I create; nciyk – through whom My peace is poured out] men.

Deuteronomy 32
34 Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures?
35 To me belongs vengeance and recompense; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.
36 For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself [nacham – be the Comforter] for his servants, when he sees [ra’ah] that their power is gone, and there is none shut up [ephec’], or left [with understanding].
37 And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock [their false teachers, false prophets, and false preachers] in whom they trusted,
38 Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offerings [‘ephec]? let them rise up and help you, and be your protection.
39 See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.
40 For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live forever.
41 If I whet my glittering sword, and my hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to my enemies, and will reward them that hate me.
42 I will make my arrows [chets] drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy.

Genesis 49
1 And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days [‘achariyth – in these last days of darkness].
2 Gather yourselves together, and hear [shama’ – and obey the voice of the LORD], you sons of Jacob; and hearken [shama’ – and obey] unto Israel your father.
3 Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power:
4 Unstable [pachaz – ebullition, effervescence, “recklessness, wantonness, unbridled license, frothiness”] as water [this tells of the advice of the serpent, as one of God’s children, with unbridled license, recklessly reinterpreting His word], you shall not excel [not remain among God’s risen people]; because you went up to your father’s bed [went into the women – God’s people who have His words]; then defiled [corrupted] you it: he went up to my couch [took God’s place among His sleeping people].

8 Judah [the leaders God chooses], you are he whom your brethren shall praise: your hand shall be in the neck [stopping corrupt words from reaching the mouths] of your enemies; your father’s children shall bow down before you.
9 Judah is a lion’s whelp: from the prey, my son, you are gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up [so he will roar]?
10 The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet [speaking of the Davidic king line], until Shiloh come [meaning peace and tranquility – the one {Joseph’s seed – the one separated} from who it will again flow – see Ezekiel 21:27, overturning it until he comes whose right it is]; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
11 Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass’s colt unto the choice vine [this speaking of the lowly {Zechariah 9:9}, God’s elect remnant, outside the established sects, bound until Shiloh comes, when they are loosed]; he washed his garments [lbuwsh] in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes:
12 His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.

As we know, the birthright to the throne is in the tribe of Joseph. (1 Chronicles 5:1 Now the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel, (for he was the firstborn; but forasmuch as he defiled his father’s bed, his birthright was given unto the sons of Joseph the son of Israel: and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright. 2 For Judah prevailed above his brethren, and of him came the chief ruler; but the birthright was Joseph’s:)

Genesis 49
17 Dan shall be a serpent by the way [as a serpent raised as a standard on a pole {nec}, as the son of man must be lifted], an adder in the path, that bites the horse heels [‘aqeb – this is the heel bruised in the judgment, meaning the serpents among the people, are rendered without effect when the corruption they picked up on their journey through time is washed away by these life-giving waters], so that his rider shall fall backward [so the body of Christ will return to the place from which she fell – see, in Isaiah 28:13, what causes them to fall backward, saying “But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.”].
18 (I have waited for [You to finish] your [full circuit of] salvation [yshuw’ah – Joshua, Jesus, Jehovah’s Salvation manifested in the flesh], O LORD [Jehovah].)
19 Gad [the LORD’s army, overcome until their return to Him], a troop [gduwd] shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last [‘aqeb – the heels, when the wicked are taken and snared by this testimony heard, precept upon precept and line upon line].
20 Out of Asher [happy] his bread shall be fat [happiness returns when the word of God prospers], and he shall yield royal dainties [ma’adan – speaking of the royal line again raised up – referring us to its use in Proverbs 29:17, telling us this is when rest returns, when we, by correction, give the Father “delight”].
21 Naphtali [by this wrestling – unknowingly with the LORD] is a hind let loose: he gives goodly words [our tongue {the word of God} is loosed and we teach it as received directly from Him].
22 Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well [a tree of life by these waters, the written word of God]; whose branches run over the wall [the wall of lies men have created and teach]:
23 The archers [chets ba’al – the arrows of the gods of this world whose teaching has blinded all from seeing the Father in the son, the seed of the woman who brings forth the man child – see Revelation 12:17, saying “And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.”] have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him:
24 But his bow [qesheth – the bow in the cloud] abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:)
25 Even by the God of your father, who shall help you; and by the Almighty, who shall bless you with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lies under [the deep meaning that lies below the surface], blessings of the breasts, and of the womb [seed, the son]:
26 The blessings of your father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors [all those who have come before us, and were only blessed with part of what is perfected in our return to the LORD] unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.

The opened mouths of the LORD’s elect remnant, the mouths of ass and its colt, are what open the eyes of the false prophets and they then speak only the words (the blessing) the LORD puts in their mouths.

Numbers 22
23 And the ass saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand: and the ass turned aside out of the way, and went into the field: and Balaam smote the ass, to turn her into the way.
24 But the angel of the LORD stood in a path of the vineyards, a wall being on this side, and a wall on that side.
25 And when the ass saw the angel of the LORD, she thrust herself unto the wall, and crushed Balaam’s foot against the wall: and he smote her again.
26 And the angel of the LORD went further, and stood in a narrow place, where was no way to turn either to the right hand or to the left.
27 And when the ass saw the angel of the LORD, she fell down under Balaam: and Balaam’s anger was kindled, and he smote the ass with a staff.
28 And the LORD opened the mouth of the ass, and she said unto Balaam, What have I done unto you, that you have smitten me these three times?
29 And Balaam said unto the ass, Because you have mocked me: I would there were a sword in my hand, for now would I kill you.
30 And the ass said unto Balaam, Am not I thine ass, upon which you have ridden ever since I was thine unto this day? was I ever wont to do so unto you? and he said, Nay.
31 Then the LORD opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand: and he bowed down his head, and fell flat on his face.
32 And the angel of the LORD said unto him, Wherefore have you smitten thine ass these three times? behold, I went out to withstand you, because your way is perverse before me:
33 And the ass saw me, and turned from me these three times: unless she had turned from me, surely now also I had slain you, and saved her alive.
34 And Balaam said unto the angel of the LORD, I have sinned; for I knew not that you stood in the way against me: now, therefore, if it displeases you, I will get me back again.
35 And the angel of the LORD said unto Balaam, Go with the men: but only the word that I shall speak unto you, that you shall speak. So Balaam went with the princes of Balak [devastator, or annihilator].
36 And when Balak heard that Balaam was come, he went out to meet him unto a city of Moab, which is in the border of Arnon [the brawling stream, words of strife], which is in the utmost [qatseh – this end] coast.
37 And Balak said unto Balaam, Did I not earnestly send unto you to call you? wherefore came you not unto me? am I not able indeed to promote you to honour?
38 And Balaam said unto Balak, Lo, I am come unto you: have I now any power at all to say anything? the words that God put in my mouth, that shall I speak.
39 And Balaam went with Balak, and they came unto Kirjathhuzoth [the place of many ways, many opinions].
40 And Balak offered oxen and sheep, and sent to Balaam, and to the princes that were with him.
41 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Balak took Balaam, and brought him up into the high places [bamah] of Baal [ba’al – the first time the name appears], that thence [then and there] he might see [ra’ah] the utmost [qatseh – this end] part of the people.

The word shathan, rendered “pisses,” meaning to make water, is meant to refer us to the twice-used word shatham, meaning “to unveil (figuratively):–be open.” It appears both times in Numbers 24 as Balaam speaks of himself as a man whose eyes are open.

Numbers 24
3 And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor has said, and the man whose eyes are open [shatham] has said:
4 He has said, which heard the words of God, which saw the vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open:
5 How goodly are your tents, O Jacob, and your tabernacles, O Israel!
6 As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river’s side, as the trees of lign aloes which the LORD has planted, and as cedar trees beside the waters.
7 He shall pour the water out of his buckets, and his seed shall be in many waters, and his king shall be higher than Agag [the king of the Amalekites: Gog, the enemies of God and His people throughout history], and his kingdom shall be exalted.
8 God brought him forth out of Egypt; he has as it were the strength of a unicorn [the Almighty and Omnipotent]: he shall eat up the nations his enemies, and shall break their bones, and pierce them through with his arrows [chets].
9 He couched, he lay down as a lion, and as a great lion: who shall stir him up? Blessed is he that blesses you, and cursed is he that curses you.
10 And Balak’s anger was kindled against Balaam, and he smote his hands together: and Balak said unto Balaam, I called you to curse my enemies, and, behold, you have altogether blessed them these three times.
11 Therefore now flee you to your place: I thought to promote you unto great honor [as it is this day, honor is only bestowed upon those who curse God’s faithful people]; but, lo, the LORD has kept you back from honor.
12 And Balaam said unto Balak, Spake I not also to your messengers which you sent unto me, saying,
13 If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the commandment of the LORD, to do either good or bad of my own mind; but what the LORD says, that will I speak?
14 And now, behold, I go unto my people: come therefore, and I will advertise you what this people shall do to your people in the latter days [‘achariyth].
15 And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor has said, and the man whose eyes are open [shatham] has said:
16 He has said, which heard the words of God, and knew the knowledge of the Most High, which saw the vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open:
17 I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not nigh: there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Scepter shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth.
18 And Edom [the enemies mixed among us] shall be a possession, Seir [the devils in power] also shall be a possession for his enemies; and Israel shall do valiantly.
19 Out of Jacob shall come he that shall have dominion, and shall destroy him that remain of the city.
20 And when he looked on Amalek [the heads of the enemies of God], he took up his parable, and said, Amalek was the first of the nations; but his latter end [‘achariyth] shall be that he perish forever.
21 And he looked on the Kenites [the children of Cain], and took up his parable, and said, Strong is your dwelling-place, and you put your nest in a rock.
22 Nevertheless, the Kenite shall be wasted, until Asshur [the communists] shall carry you away captive.
23 And he took up his parable, and said, Alas, who shall live when God does this!

This brings us back to Rechab, (rakab) meaning “to ride (on an animal or in a vehicle); causatively, to place upon (for riding or generally), to dispatch.” It’s the word used above in Genesis 49:17 to tell of the “rider” that falls backward, in Numbers 22:30 as the ass speaks of Balaam as the one who has “ridden” her, and in 2 Kings 10:16 telling of when Jonadab did “ride” with Jehu in his chariot. These aspects also allude to several other uses of the word telling of it as the LORD’s coming.

Zechariah 9
9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, your King comes unto you: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding [rakab] upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.
10 And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem, and the battle bow shall be cut off: and he shall speak peace unto the heathen: and his dominion shall be from sea even to sea, and from the river [these water flowing from the Rock that can be trusted] even to the ends of the earth [ending the old and beginning the new].
11 As for you also, by the blood of your covenant I have sent forth your prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water.
12 Turn you to the strong hold, you prisoners of hope: even today do I declare that I will render double [blessing] unto you;
13 When I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim [Joseph’s seed, doubly blessed; he long shot arrow], and raised up [in this resurrection in My new creation] your sons, O Zion, against your sons, O Greece [yavan – yayin: fermenting trouble and dioreder], and made you as the sword of a mighty man.
14 And the LORD shall be seen over them, and his arrow [chets – Ephraim] shall go forth as the lightning [with this understanding]: and the LORD God shall blow the trumpet, and shall go with whirlwinds [from where the LORD’s voice is heard] of the south.

Deuteronomy 33
26 There is none like unto the God of Jeshurun, who rides [rakab] upon the heaven [this full understanding] in your help, and in his excellency on the sky.
27 The eternal God is your refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from before you; and shall say, Destroy them.
28 Israel then shall dwell in safety alone: the fountain of Jacob shall be upon a land of corn and wine; also his heavens shall drop down dew.
29 Happy are you, O Israel: who is like unto you, O people saved by the LORD, the shield of your help, and who is the sword of your excellency! and thine enemies shall be found liars unto you; and you shall tread upon their high places [bamah].

2 Samuel 22
4 I will call on the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from my enemies.
5 When the waves of death compassed me, the [words as] floods of ungodly men made me afraid;
6 The sorrows of hell [sh’owl – sheol] compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me;
7 In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried to my God: and he did hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry did enter into his ears.
8 Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations of heaven moved and shook, because he was wroth.
9 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
10 He bowed the heavens also, and [bringing understanding from there, He] came down; and darkness was under his feet.
11 And he rode [rakab] upon a cherub [speaking his word, manifesting the LORD’s presence in the conversation, at the mercy seat], and did fly [in the heavens, as an Eagle, the final face of the unfolding presence of God]: and he was seen upon the wings [kanaph – the word completed] of the wind [ruwach – by the work of the LORD’s Spirit in the flesh].
12 And he made darkness [man ignorance of Him and His way] pavilions round about him, dark waters [wherein this deep understanding is reserved], and thick clouds of the skies [from where it is sent in this time of war].
13 Through the brightness before him were coals of fire kindled.
14 The LORD thundered from heaven, and the Most High uttered his voice [qowl].
15 And he sent out arrows [chets], and scattered them; lightning, and discomfited them.
16 And the channels of the sea [flowing His teaching into this generation that is the last and the first] appeared, the [good] foundations of the [new] world were discovered, at the rebuking of the LORD, at the blast of the breath [ruwach – His Almighty Spirit] of his nostrils [and His presence is perceived].
17 He sent from above, he took me; he drew [mashah – only used here, repeated in Paslms 18:16, and in Exodus 2:10 speaking of Moses] me [as He did Moses] out of many waters [caught up into heaven, away from the words, the many corrupt opinions, of ignorant men who can know nothing because they choose to remain dead in hell];
18 He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them that hated me: for they were too strong for me.

In the above, David speaks of (his experience as the pattern for all to follow) Psalms 38, which begins with the prologue, “A Psalm of David, to bring [all] to remembrance [zakar].”

Psalms 38
1 O LORD, rebuke me not in your wrath: neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.
2 For your arrows [chets – Your bolts of lightning] stick fast [nachath – come down from heaven into hell] in me, and your hand [you works] presses me sore [nachath – come down from heaven into hell].
3 There is no soundness in my [dead] flesh [body] because of your anger; neither is there any rest in my [scattered dead] bones because of my sin.
4 For my iniquities are gone over [‘abar – have carried into death] my head [mind]: as a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
5 My [unseen] wounds stink [are perceived] and are corrupt because of my foolishness.
6 I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
7 For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.
8 I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
9 LORD, all my desire is before you; and my groaning is not hid from you.
10 My heart panteth, my strength fails me: as for the light of my eyes, it also is gone from me.
11 My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off [rachowq – in this time when the world is ruled by the evil decrees of the wicked in power].
12 They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.
13 But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that opened not his mouth.
14 Thus I was as a man that heard not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.
15 For in you, O LORD, do I hope: you will hear, O LORD my God.
16 For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slips, they magnify themselves against me.
17 For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.
18 For I will declare my iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.
19 But my enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.
20 They also that render evil for good are my adversaries; because I follow the thing that good is.
21 Forsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me.
22 Make haste to help me, O LORD my salvation.
To the Chief Musician, even to Jeduthun [the one worthy of praise]

Proverbs 17
17 Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than a house full of sacrifices with strife.
2 A wise servant shall have rule over a son that causes shame, and shall have part of the inheritance among the brethren.
3 The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the LORD tries the hearts.
4 A wicked doer gives heed to false lips; and a liar gives ear to a naughty tongue.
5 Whoso mocks the poor reproaches his Maker: and he that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished.
6 Children’s children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.
7 Excellent speech becomes not a fool: much less do lying lips a prince.
8 A gift is as a precious stone in the eyes of him that has it: whithersoever it turns, it prospers.
9 He that covers a transgression seeks love; but he that repeats a matter separates very friends.
10 A reproof enters [natchath – sent from heaven into hell] more into a wise man than a hundred stripes into a fool.
11 An evil man seek only rebellion: therefore a cruel messenger shall be sent [into hell] against him.

Psalms 65
A Psalm and Song of David.
1 Praise waits for you, O God, in Zion: and unto you shall the vow be performed.
2 O you that hears prayer, unto you shall all flesh come.
3 Iniquities prevail against me: as for our transgressions, you shall purge them away.
4 Blessed is the man whom you choose, and cause to approach unto you, that he may dwell in your courts: we shall be satisfied with the goodness of your house, even of your holy temple.
5 By terrible things in righteousness will you answer us, O God of our salvation; who are the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off [rachowq – now] upon the sea [all humanity]:
6 Which by his strength sets fast the mountains [His government]; being girded with power:
7 Which still the noise of the seas, the noise of their waves, and the tumult of the people.
8 They also that dwell in the uttermost parts are afraid at your tokens: you makes the outgoings of the morning and evening to rejoice.
9 You visit [paqad] the earth [‘erets], and water it [with your word from heaven]: you greatly enrich it with the river of God, which is full of water: you prepare them corn, when you have so provided for it.
10 You water the ridges thereof abundantly: you settle [nachath – sending your word from heaven into hell] the furrows thereof: you make it soft with showers: you bless the springing [life] thereof.
11 You crown the year with your goodness; and your paths drop fatness.
12 They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness [the desolate earth]: and the little hills rejoice on every side.
13 The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing.
To the Chief Musician.

12 – 16 May 2025

And he healed many that were sick of divers diseases, and cast out many devils; and suffered not the devils to speak, because they knew him.

The devils are those possessed by Satan, here doing His work to resist the present LORD they now know is here to end their reign and release the captives they hold in death and hell.

Again, the great paradox of our time is that men look to the same people who led them into death and hell (separation from the LORD) to lead them out (the cause can never be the cure). These men have no idea that they are the devils spoken of above. They are “the angels [aggelos] which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, [who] he has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness [their own ignorance] unto the judgment of the great day.”

Before we look deeper into the title verse, I write the following to those who now know the LORD is present and knowing, realize they must leave behind all the (childish) corrupt teaching (the leaven of which the LORD warned) these devils put in God’s (Truth’s) place.

Philippians 1
6 Being confident of this very thing, that he which has begun a good work in you will perform it until [achri – we are apprehended by] the day of Jesus Christ:
7 Even as it is meet [fitting] for me to think this of you all; because I have you in my heart [mind]; inasmuch as both in my bonds [as the LORD’s servant] and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel, you all are partakers of my grace [this gift of these treasures given to me].
8 For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels [all that is in me, the love: knowledge, judgment, and mercy] of Jesus Christ.
9 And this I pray, that your love [agape – Godly charity] may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;
10 That you may approve things that are excellent; that you may be sincere and without offense till the day [the time when this understanding comes] of Christ.
11 Being filled with the fruits of righteousness [corrected understanding], which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.

15 Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will:
16 The one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds:
17 But the other of love [agape – Godly charity, freely giving the grace as received], knowing that I Am set for the defense of the gospel. [The word here rendered “I Am set,” is keimai, meaning “to lie outstretched;” as Elisha did to the child in 2 Kings 4:34, and as the figs upon the boil in 2 Kings 20:7; and is where the dead body of Christ was laid {keimai}. 1 John 5:19 And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lies {keimai} in wickedness. 20 And we know that the Son of God is come, and has given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.]
18 What then? notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretense [prophasis – cloaked in our flesh], or [Him realized] in truth, Christ is preached; and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice [that the LORD manifests His present in our flesh].
19 For I know that this shall turn to my salvation through your prayer [conversation with the LORD], and the supply [epichoregia – this gift given thereby] of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,
20 According to my earnest expectation [of this end reached] and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified [megaluno – become conspicuous] in my body, whether it be by life, or by death [from where He will raise me].

The word epichoregia only appears one other time, in Ephesians 4:16.

Ephesians 4
1 I, therefore, the prisoner of the LORD, beseech you that you walk worthy of the vocation [klesis – this work, our calling] wherewith you are called [kaleo],
2 With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love [agape – charitably giving this word as received];
3 Endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
4 There is ONE BODY, and one Spirit, even as you are called [kaleo] in one hope of your calling [klesis – this work];
5 One LORD, one faith, one baptism,
6 One God and Father of all, who is [risen] above all, and through all, and [alive] in you all.
7 But unto every one of us is given grace [these treasures] according to the measure [metron] of the gift of Christ.
8 Wherefore he says, When he [in resurrection] ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts [these treasures] unto men.
9 (Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth [here into hell]?
10 He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.)
11 And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;
12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of [building up by educating] the body of Christ:
13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect [teleios – completed] man, unto the measure [metron] of the stature of the fulness of Christ:
14 That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of [false] doctrine, by the sleight of men [without measure: teaching things that haven’t come from the LORD], and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;
15 But speaking the truth in love [agape – giving this word as received from Him], may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:
16 From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplies [epichoregia – this gift given], according to the effectual working [energeia – astheneoof His word in us] in the measure [metron – this word abundantly meted our] of every part, maketh increase [auxesis – growth, enlarging] of the [ONE] body unto the edifying [building up by teaching] of itself in love [agape – by this charity, giving as God gives His word from His mouth, by which man lives].
17 This I say therefore, and testify in the LORD, that you henceforth walk not as other Gentiles [who haven’t known the LORD alive with us, in us] walk, in the vanity [worthlessness] of their mind,
18 Having the understanding darkened, being alienated [separated and therefore sleeping in death] from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart [their corrupted foundational mind]:
19 Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness [without self-control, unable to control what comes out of them], to work all uncleanness with greediness.
20 But you have not so learned Christ;
21 If so be that you have heard him [speaking from our flesh], and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus:
22 That you put off concerning the former conversation [without understanding or faith] the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
23 And be renewed in the [ONE] spirit of your [like] mind;
24 And that you put on the new man, which after [the work of] God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
25 Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbor: for we are members one of another [of the same ONE BODY].

Philippians 2
3 Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
4 Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.
5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
9 Wherefore God also has highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:
10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;
11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is LORD, to the glory of God the Father.

19 But I trust in the LORD Jesus to send Timothy shortly unto you, that I also may be of good comfort, when I know your state.
20 For I have no man likeminded, who will naturally care for your state.
21 For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ’s.
22 But you know the proof of him, that, as a son with the father, he has served with me in the gospel.

Philippians 3
1 Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the LORD. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe [asphales – will not fail].
2 Beware of dogs [those barking ignorantly in the darkness], beware of evil workers, beware of the concision [those who ignorantly believe they are the true believers, whose glory is their shame].
3 For we are the circumcision [the true believers, knowing He is present with us, in us], which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice [realizing His presence is] in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh [men who reject His Spirit].

8 Yea doubtless, and I count all things [I thought I knew] but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my LORD: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,
9 And be found in him, not having my own righteousness, which is of the [corruptible] law, but that which is through the faith of Christ [the LORD’s Spirit alive in us], the righteousness which is of God by faith:
10 That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable [a servant of no reputation, obedient, and humble, even] unto his death;
11 If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.
12 Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect [teleioo – complete]: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those [corrupt] things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before [found in His presence],
14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling [klesis – our vocation, doing the work] of God in Christ Jesus.
15 Let us therefore, as many as be perfect [teleios – in His presence], be thus minded: and if in any thing you be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.
16 Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained [phthano – arrived], let us walk by the same rule [kanon], let us mind the same thing [not be otherwise minded, not walking a different way than He].
17 Brethren, be followers together of me and mark them which walk so as you have us [Paul and me] for an example.
18 (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:
19 Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)
20 For our conversation is [with the LORD] in heaven [from where He gives us full understanding]; from whence also we look for the Savior, the LORD Jesus Christ:
21 Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious [ONE] body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.

2 Corinthians 10
1 Now I Timothy myself [with Paul; by the One LORD alive in us] beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence [prosopon – my outward appearance] am base among you, but being absent [apeimi – when the LORD reveals Himself in me] am bold toward you:
2 But I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I am present [pareimi] with that confidence, wherewith I think to be bold against some, which think of us as if we walked according to the flesh.
3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:
4 (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of [the enemies’] strong holds [on those they possess];)
5 Casting down imaginations [the creations of men’s ignorant minds], and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ [His One mind];
6 And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.
7 Do you look on things after the outward appearance [prosopon]? if any man trust to himself that he is Christ’s, let him of himself think this again, that, as he [claims he] is Christ’s, even so are we [truly] Christ’s.
8 For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the LORD has given us for edification [building up by education], and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed [but will reach the expect and promised end, full understanding with the LORD with us, alive in us, His ONE BODY and One mind]:
9 That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.
10 For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence [parousia – in which comes the LORD] is weak, and his speech contemptible.
11 Let such a one think this, that, such as we are in word by letters when we are absent [apeimi], such will we be also in deed when we are present [pareimi].
12 For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they measuring [metron – make their own standard, set their own boundaries] themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise.
13 But we will not boast of things without our measure [ametros – beyond the boundary set by the LORD], but according to the measure [metron – meter, the boundaries, the set standard] of the rule [kanon – the standard] which God has distributed to us, a measure [metron – a meter by which we judge ourselves] to reach [ephikneomai – arrived making new] even unto [archi – the “until” point reached: comprehension and apprehension] you.
14 For we stretch not ourselves beyond [the measure, the set point] as though we reached [ephikneomai – arrived making new] not unto you: for we are come as far [achri – this terminus] as to you also in preaching the gospel of Christ:
15 Not boasting of things without our measure [ametros – the creation of men’s mind, who haven’t waited for the LORD who increases our understanding by measure], that is, of other men’s labors [upon which we build]; but having hope [in the LORD’s work, upon which we carefully build], when your faith [believing the LORD is with us, in us] is increased, that we shall be enlarged [megaluno – the LORD magnified with us, in us] by you according to our rule [kanon – the LORD’s standard] abundantly,
16 To preach the gospel in the regions beyond you, and not to boast [commending ourselves] in another man’s line of things made ready to our hand.
17 But he that glories, let him glory in the LORD [glorifying Him in His work done to and through us].
18 For not he that commends himself is approved, but whom the LORD commends [by revealing Himself present with us, in us].

2 Thessalonians 3
1 Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the [this] word of the LORD may have free course, and be glorified, even as it is with you [received as the word of God, as told before, in 1 Thessalonians 2:13]:
2 And that we may be delivered from unreasonable [atopos, who refuse to change their positions] and wicked men: for all men have not faith.
3 But the LORD is faithful, who shall establish you, and keep you from evil.
4 And we have confidence in the LORD touching you, that you both do and will do the things which we command you.
5 And the LORD direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ.
6 Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our LORD Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us.
7 For yourselves know how you ought to follow us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you;
8 Neither did we eat any man’s bread for naught; but wrought with labor and travail night and day [diligently seeking], that we might not be chargeable to any of you:
9 Not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an example unto you to follow us.
10 For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work [diligently seeking the LORD, building upon what He’s given us], neither should he eat [the LORD’s word – warned not read the word if you aren’t going to do the work needed to gain the understanding held in its deep: going below the surface, which is the necessary baptism].
11 For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies [with fallacious opinion trespassing into things they shouldn’t].
12 Now them that are such we command and exhort by our LORD Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work [diligently seek], and eat their own bread [rightly dividing, discerning, the will of God].
13 But you, brethren, be not weary in well doing.
14 And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed.
15 Yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

The word rendered “apprehend[ed],” in Philippians 3:12 & 13 above, is katalambano, which the Thayer’s Greek Lexicon says means “in a good sense, of Christ by his holy power and influence laying hold of the human mind and will, in order to prompt and govern it.”

John 1
5 And the light shined in darkness; and the darkness comprehended [katalambano] it not.

We see that, in order to be apprehended by the LORD, we must first comprehend Him (His word, which is light and life). This is the change. The word “change” in Philippians 3:21 above is the fives times used word metaschematizo, meaning “to transfigure or disguise; figuratively, to apply (by accommodation):–transfer, transform (self).” It speaks of assuming the identity of the one who has apprehended us, laid hold of our minds, and thereby possesses us.

The word is from meta, to which metron has an affinity as a part {measure, portion) of the whole process (meta, “denoting accompaniment; “amid” (local or causal); modified variously according to the case (genitive association, or accusative succession) with which it is joined; occupying an intermediate position between” what or where something was and where or what it will be), and schema, meaning “a figure (as a mode or circumstance), i.e. (by implication) external condition:–fashion.” (The Cambridge Dictionary definition of a schematic, is: showing the main form and features of something, usually in the form of a drawing, in a way that helps people to understand it: a schematic drawing/outline.)

In this fuller context, the word mataschematizo first appears in 1 Corinthians 4:6, and its other three uses come in 2 Corinthians 11:13, 14, & 15. These two places speak of the processes of changing men’s minds, respectively defining the schemes of good and evil to possess the minds of men.

1 Corinthians 3
1 And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.
2 I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto you were not able to bear it, neither yet now are you able.
3 For you are yet carnal [believing in word, but not in truth that the LORD is present, veiled in the flesh of those He chooses]: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are you not carnal, and walk as men?
4 For while one says, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are you not carnal?
5 Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom you believed [the LORD is present with us, in us], even as the LORD gave to every man [to believe]?
6 I have planted [laid the foundation], Apollos watered [built upon it]; but God gave the increase [enlarging His Own BODY].
7 So then neither is he that plants any thing, neither he that wateres; but God that gives the increase.
8 Now he that plants and he that waters are [Christ’s] one [BODY]: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labor [diligently seeking the LORD, which is the work He’s given every man].
9 For we are laborers together with God: you are God’s husbandry, you are God’s building [educated by Him in this process].
10 According to the grace [this gift] of God which is given unto me, as a wise master-builder, I have laid the foundation, and another builds thereon. But let every man take heed how he builds thereupon.
11 For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ [Jehovah’s Salvation manifested in the flesh of His ONE BODY].
12 Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;
13 Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day [this time of light] shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire [this word from the mouth of the LORD]; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is.
14 If any man’s work abide [remains] which he has built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.
15 If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.
16 Know you not that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells [is living] in you?
17 If any man [by adding corrupt] defiles the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy [without corruption], which temple you are.
18 Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seems to be wise in this [corrupted] world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
19 For the wisdom of this [corrupt] world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness [in their own creations, corruption they added].
20 And again, The LORD knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain [worthless].
21 Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are yours;
22 Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours;
23 And you are Christ’s [ONE BODY]; and Christ is God’s [temple].

1 Corinthians 4
1 Let a man so account of us [that we are possessed by God], as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.
2 Moreover, it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful [long-suffering “until” the process is complete].
3 But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man’s judgment [as if I am speaking my own words and not the LORD’s alive in me]: yea, I judge not my own self.
4 For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified [when he is realized alive in me speaking and working]: but he that judges me [worthy] is the LORD [commending me].
5 Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the LORD comes, who both will bring to light [giving understanding to] the hidden things of darkness [held in men’s ignornance], and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts [revealing wisdom is far from the wise of this world]: and then shall every man [comprehending this] have praise [epainos – be commended] of God.
6 And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred [metaschematizo – revealing this process, God’s scheme to save the world] to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that you might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up [thinking more highly of yourself than you should] for one against another [forgetting it is the LORD with us, in us speaking His word and doing His work].
7 For who makes you to differ from another [are we not all ONE BODY]? and what have you that you did not receive [from the LORD, not from man]? now if you did receive it [from Him], why do you glory [in men and act carnally], as if you hadst not received it [as a gift from the LORD]?
8 Now you are full, now you are rich, you have reigned as kings without us: and I would to God you did reign, that we also might reign with you.
9 For I think that God has set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.
10 We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ; we are weak, but you are strong; you are honorable, but we are despised.
11 Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling-place;
12 And labor, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we [long] suffer it:
13 Being defamed, we entreat: we are made as the filth of the [now totally corrupt] world, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day.
14 I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons [children the LORD has given me, as a father], I warn you.
15 For though you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have you not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.
16 Wherefore I beseech you, be you followers of me.
17 For this cause have I sent unto you Timothy, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the LORD, who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways which be in Christ, as I teach every where in every church.
18 Now some are puffed up [with pride in the things they think they know], as though I would not come to you.
19 But I will come to you shortly, if the LORD will, and will know, not the speech of them which are puffed up, but the power [of the LORD alive in me].
20 For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.
21 What will you? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?

2 Corinthians 11
1 Would to God you could bear with me a little in my folly [these things the corrupt world thinks are foolishness] and indeed bear with me.
2 For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste [corrected] virgin [not following worldly {flesh} men] to Christ.
3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ [the LORD with us, in us].
4 For if he that comes preach another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if you receive another spirit, which you have not received, or another gospel, which you have not accepted, you might well bear with him.
5 For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chief apostles.
6 But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been thoroughly made manifest among you in all things.
7 Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that you might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely?

12 But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion [to deceive and mislead]; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we [as men possessed by a spirit: us the LORD’s and them Satan’s].
13 For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming [metaschematizo]. themselves [as is Satan’s scheme] into the [falsely so-called] apostles of Christ.
14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed [metaschematizo] into an [falsely so-called] angel of light [teaching and preaching the way into death and hell].
15 Therefore, it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed [mataschematizo] as the [falsely so-called] ministers of righteousness, whose end shall be according to their works [the process apprehending and keeping them in death and hell forever].
16 I say again, let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little.
17 That which I speak, I speak it not after the LORD, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.
18 Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.
19 For you suffer fools gladly, seeing you yourselves are wise.
20 For you suffer [by following these false teachers and false preachers], if a man brings you into bondage, if a man devours you, if a man takes of you, if a man exalts himself, if a man smites you on the face.
21 I speak [these things] as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak [astheneo – feeble-minded: without strength: diseased understanding {without the peace the LORD gives us}]. Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also. [1 Corinthians 3:19 For the wisdom of this {corrupt} world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness {in their own creations, corruption they added}.]

This takes us back to the title verse, Mark 1:34, where the word “sick” is from echo (from scheo), meaning “to hold (used in very various applications, literally or figuratively, direct or remote; such as possession; ability, contiguity, relation, or condition).” (FYI: This word is mistakenly identified as echidna, meaning a venomous snake, by one of the sites I use, and therefore here numerous times. Please pardon our mistake.)

The word rendered “disease” is nosos (written in the original text as nosois), which is said to be of an unknown affinity. Its affinity is to the word gnosis, meaning “knowing (the act), i.e. (by implication) knowledge.”

In context, these words speak of the true condition as a product of what they learned from those who thereby possess their minds.

Plainly stated, the meanings of these conditions (the LORD cured and cures) were intentionally incorrectly defined by false teachers and false prophets, because their true meanings implicated them as the cause. They were at work from the beginning, holding God’s people down (katecho – let), and they will hold (echo – possess) them down (kata) UNTIL taken out of the way.

As we know, this last point is from 2 Thessalonians 2, where we’re additionally told this (freeing us from the enemy’s possession) is at the LORD’s coming, pouring out His love, which heals and saves any who receive Him.

2 Thessalonians 2
3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away [apostasia – apostasy, standing away from {against} the truth] first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition [apoleia – men in the pattern of Reuben, who put himself in his father’s place];
4 [Men] Who [here and now, as then] opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sits in the temple of God [the minds of men], showing himself that he is God.
5 Remember you not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
6 And now you know what withholds [katecho – possessing {holding} down] that he might be revealed [apokalupto – in this apocalypse] in his time [the end of darkness, when this truth comes as the light of a new day].
7 For the mystery of iniquity does already work [men then, since, and now]: only he who now lets [katecho – possesses] will let [possess], until he [all those possessed by Satan’s work: his scheme] be taken out of the way.
8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed [apokalupto – this uncovering], whom the LORD shall consume with the spirit of his mouth [this word, by which man lives], and shall destroy with the brightness [giving this understanding] of his coming [parousia]:
9 Even him [the present LORD with, in us], whose coming [parousia] is after the working [energeia – after the effectual working of the words] of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish [with him]; because they received not the love [agape – giving this word as received] of the truth, that they might be saved.
11 And for this cause God shall send them [those possessed by Satan’s scheme] strong delusion [energeia – the effect of Satan’s words working in those he possesses], that they should believe a lie:
12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

There are several other Greek words, other than noses and astheneo, used to describe conditions (of the mind), the LORD’s word, His truth, cures:

Strong’s #769: astheneia (pronounced as-then’-i-ah)
from 772; feebleness (of mind or body); by implication, malady; morally, frailty:–disease, infirmity, sickness, weakness.

Strong’s #3119: malakia (pronounced mal-ak-ee’-ah) from 3120; softness, i.e. enervation (debility):–disease.

Also, two words, kakos echo, together, meaning amiss possessed.

The word malakia is from (3120) malakos, meaning “of uncertain affinity; soft, i.e. fine (clothing); figuratively, a catamite.”

These latter two words are from the Hebrew word mal’ak, meaning “to despatch as a deputy; a messenger; specifically, of God, i.e. an angel (also a prophet, priest or teacher):–ambassador, angel, king, messenger.

The words malakia and malakos describe the effects of the messages of false prophets, false teachers, and false priests, the LORD’s ambassadors who left their first estate, which (estate) is giving His word as received, which they instead, possessed by Satan, oppose and resist.

2 Peter 1
11 For so an entrance [eisodos – into the kingdom of God] shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our LORD and Savior Jesus Christ.
12 Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though you know them, and be established in the present truth.
13 Yea, I think it meet [fitting], as long as I am in this tabernacle [in the flesh, and the truth is present in me], to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;
14 Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our LORD Jesus Christ has shown me.
15 Moreover I will endeavor that you may be able after my decease [exodos – after leaving the old body {come to remembrance and out of the old body, which shall not remain}] to have these things always in remembrance.
16 For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our LORD Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
17 For he received from God the Father honor and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased [HEAR Him].
18 And this voice which came from heaven [when we received full understanding from the LORD] we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount.
19 We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto you do well that you take heed [hear Him and obey], as unto a light that shines in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star [phosphoros] arise in your hearts [minds]:
20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation [such as have the many antichrists with their many opposing opinions, delusions they teach and preach as truth].
21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man [as they do now through the many false teachers and their false teaching now among us]: but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Ghost [the LORD alive in them, unknown to the world and working all things toward this moment of awakening by His ONE and ONLY righteous interpretation].

2 Peter 2
1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily [secretly, from their own imaginations, create lies] shall bring in damnable [apoleia – that cause them and those who follow their ways to perish] heresies, even denying the LORD that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction [apoleia – perdition].
2 And many shall follow their pernicious [aploeia – the ways that lead to their own destruction] ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of [as it is this day].
3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned [fraudulent] words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingers not, and their damnation [apoleia – perishing, perdition] slumbers not [because they are awakened “to shame and everlasting contempt”].

Psalms 98
1 O sing unto the LORD a new song; for he has done marvelous things: his right hand, and his holy arm, have gotten him the victory.
2 The LORD has made known his salvation: his righteousness has he openly shown in the sight of the heathen [those who haven’t known Him].
3 He has remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of Israel: all the ends [‘ephec – ending the old corrupt and the beginning] of the [new] earth have seen the salvation of our God.
4 Make a joyful noise [declaring His presence realized] unto the LORD, all the earth: make a loud noise, and rejoice [in His presence realized], and sing praise.
5 Sing [these words] unto the LORD with the harp; with the harp, and the voice [qowl] of a psalm [zimrah].
6 With trumpets and sound [qowl – voice] of cornet make a joyful noise before [paniym – declaring the realized presence of] the LORD, the King.
7 Let the sea roar [Let all humanity declare His word], and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
8 Let the floods clap their hands [Let these words and the words of man come together]: let the hills be joyful [let the governments He is creating declare His presence] together
9 Before [paniym – manifesting the presence of] the LORD; for he comes to judge the earth: with righteousness shall he judge the world, and the people with equity.

Jude 1
3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that you should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered [uncorrupted] unto the saints.
4 For there are certain men crept in [among us] unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace [this gift] of our God into lasciviousness [without self-control leaving their first estate], and denying [the presence of] the only LORD God, and our LORD Jesus Christ.
5 I will therefore put you in remembrance, though you once knew this, how that the LORD, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not [that He was present].
6 And the angels which kept not their first estate [which is to deliver the present LORD’s word as received], but left their own habitation, he has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness [their own ignorance] unto the judgment of the great day [when His light now covers the earth].

Psalms 27
1 The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
2 When the wicked, even My enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.
3 Though a host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident.
4 One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple.
5 For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.
6 And now shall my head be lifted up above My enemies round about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the LORD.
7 Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer me.
8 When you said, Seek you my face [paniym – presence]; my heart said unto you, Your face [paniym – presence], LORD, will I seek.
9 Hide not your face [paniym – Your presence] far from me; put not your servant away in anger: you have been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.
10 When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up [‘acaph – gather me into His family].
11 Teach me your way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path, because of my enemies.
12 Deliver me not over unto the will of my enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.
13 I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
14 Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.

6 – 10 May 2025

For I will defend this city to save it for my own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.

The above, Isaiah 37:35, is the LORD speaking of Himself defending and saving His people (New Heavenly Jerusalem) from the attacks (the existential threat) of the communists (the Assyrians: foreign enemies and their domestic allies mixed among us), who call good evil and evil good. Their goal is to create mass confusion (demoralization in Babylon), disorder, and chaos by any means necessary, in which they can force their rule, their control of hell: the mass misery they falsely call utopia, where (in their gaslighting) there is only suffering (torment) for those who reject (oppose) their lies and resist their dominion wherein (their means, their lies as policy) is the real agony.

The word above rendered “defend” is the eight times used Hebrew word ganan, meaning “to hedge about, i.e. (generally) protect.” The word twice rendered “sake,” is ma’an, meaning “heed, i.e. purpose; used only adverbially, on account of (as a motive or an aim), teleologically, in order that.”

This latter word (ma’an) speaks of the means (the LORD leading through His obedient servant) that makes the defense and salvation possible, for both David and those who follow him in like manner.

The title verse above and Isaiah 38:6 are repetitions of 2 Kings 19:34 and 20:6, with the word ganan appearing in all.

2 Kings 20
4 And it came to pass, afore Isaiah was gone out into the middle court, that the word of the LORD came to him, saying,
5 Turn again, and tell Hezekiah [Jehovah’s strength] the captain [nagiyd – commander] of my people, Thus says the LORD, the God of David your father, I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears: behold, I will heal you: on the third day [this resurrection in this time of light, when life is created, again shoots forth, from the earth] you shall go up [‘alah – ascend in the resurrection of strength] unto the house [family] of the LORD.
6 And I will add [yachap – Joseph] unto your days fifteen years [shaneh – changes, steps, degrees: referring the fifteen Psalms of Degree, the steps of our resurrection]; and I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria [communists]; and I will defend [ganan] this city [My People] for my own sake [ma’an – who have heeded: heard and obey, My leading], and for my servant David’s sake [ma’an – who heeded my voice].
7 And Isaiah said, Take a lump of figs [that have fallen from the tree]. And they took and laid [suwm – like Elisha laid on the child he brought to life, putting on him the LORD’s word, His sight, and His work; see 2 Kings 4:34] it on the boil [shchiyn – meaning to burn, referring us to the word shachiyc, which only appears in 2 Kings 19:29 and Isaiah 37:30, and the fire spoken of in Isaiah 19:18 and Isaiah 37:19, speaking of all the other nations the communists destroyed and burned all their false gods in the fire {‘esh}], and he recovered [on this third day, when new life shoots forth from the fig tree {God’s people}, and all the trees. Matthew 24:33 So likewise you, when you shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.]
8 And Hezekiah said unto Isaiah, What shall be the sign that the LORD will heal me, and that I shall go up into the house of the LORD the third day?
9 And Isaiah said, This sign shall you have of the LORD, that the LORD will do the thing that he has spoken: shall the shadow go forward ten degrees, or go back ten degrees?

The word rendered “degrees” is ma’alah, which translates into what ascension. Its given meaning is “elevation, i.e. the act (literally, a journey to a higher place, figuratively, a thought arising), or (concretely) the condition (literally, a step or grade-mark, figuratively, a superiority of station); specifically a climactic progression (in certain Psalms).”

The name Assyria means step. As we know from many previous discussions, the ten degrees is the progressive fall, the degeneration, of the LORD’s strength (the necessary understanding of just rulers) in the king line, speaking of it occurring in the ten kings since David, which ends with us under siege by the communists and their allies. The shadow (of death, Hezekiah’s condition) that returns ten degrees is the restoration of the LORD’s strength to the king line.

2 Kings 19
27 But I know your abode [the fallen house, the breach in the house of David], and your going out [of my strength], and your coming in [to strength again], and your rage against me. [the word ragaz, meaning trembling in fear, refers us to its use in Exodus 15:14, and the passage saying, 11 Who is like unto you, O LORD, among the {false} gods? who is like you, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders? 12 You stretched out your right hand, the earth swallowed them. 13 You in your mercy have led forth the people which you have redeemed: you have guided them in your strength unto your holy habitation. 14 The people shall hear, and be afraid [ragaz]: sorrow shall take hold on the inhabitants of Palestina {sojourners reaching this expected end, on this third day of the new creation {the third year below} when the fruit, new life shoots forth from the earth}.]
28 Because your rage [ragaz – fear of the enemies] against me and your tumult is come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook [chach] in your nose [you shall perceive that I have caught you in your words], and my bridle in your lips [putting My words in your mouths], and I will turn you back [to Me] by the way [the steps, the degrees] by which you came.
29 And this shall be a sign [of when My strength rises in the house of the LORD again] unto you [those who see as I see], You shall eat this year [the time] such things as grow of themselves [caphiyach – meaning falling off {fruit no longer connected to the vine or branch}, self-sown crop – meaning following the creations of men; other than here and in Isaiah 37:30, it only appears in Leviticus 25:5 & 11, where we’re told not to reap such things; and in Job 14:19 where we’re told these are things that have grown in the dust {‘aphar – ashes of the ruin} of the earth, which the LORD washes away], and in the second year [the times] that which springs of the same [shachiyc – in the flames created]; and in the third year [shaneh – this completion of the age] sow [zara’ – this good seed as received] you, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruits thereof [this right dividing of the time].
30 And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah [the leaders of God’s people, the elect remnant] shall yet again take root downward [restoring the good foundation], and bear fruit upward [to the LORD, who seeks the fruit thereof].
31 For out of [New Heavenly] Jerusalem shall go [shoot] forth a remnant [My elect I have chosen and send], and they that escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the LORD of hosts shall do this. [Exodus 15: 3 The LORD {Jehovah} is a man of war: the LORD {Jehovah} is his name.]
32 Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the king of Assyria [the final step into communists], He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a bank against it.
33 By the way that he came, by the same [steps, degrees] shall he return [referring to coming and going of verse 27], and shall not come into this city, says the LORD.
34 For I will defend [ganan] this city, to save it, for my own sake [ma’an], and for my servant David’s sake [ma’an].

2 Kings 20
10 And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow to go down ten degrees [ma’alah]: nay, but let the shadow return backward ten degrees [ma’alah].
11 And Isaiah the prophet cried unto the LORD: and he brought the shadow ten degrees [ma’alah] backward, by which it had gone down [yarad – decended] in the dial [ma’alah] of Ahaz [who covered the way of the Sabbath, and turned {cabab} from the house of the LORD because of {paniym – the house of Jehovah’s presence – and fearing man, put his trust in} the king of Assyria {2 Kings 16:17 & 18}; he {Ahaz} is the father of, and king before, Hezakiah].
12 At that time Berodachbaladan [worshippers of idols put in God’s place], the son of Baladan [calling Baal by the LORD’s name], king of Babylon [the confusion that now rules the world], sent letters and a present unto Hezekiah: for he had heard that Hezekiah had been sick.
13 And Hezekiah hearkened unto them, and showed them all the house of his precious things [this deep understanding, the source of his cure and strength], the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and all the house of his armor, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah showed them not.
14 Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and said unto him, What said these men? and from whence came they unto you? And Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country [rachowq – this time ruled by the evil decrees of the wicked in power], even from Babylon.
15 And he said, What have they seen in your house? And Hezekiah answered, All the things that are in my house have they seen: there is nothing among my treasures [this full understanding] that I have not shown them.
16 And Isaiah said unto Hezekiah, Hear the word of the LORD.
17 Behold, the days come, that all that is in your house [family – the king line], and that which your fathers have laid up in store unto this day, shall be carried into Babylon [into confusion’s rule in this time]: nothing shall be left, says the LORD.
18 And of your sons that shall issue from you, which you shall beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs [castrated: men without courage] in the palace of the king of Babylon.
19 Then said Hezekiah unto Isaiah, Good is the word of the LORD which you have spoken. And he said, Is it not good, if peace and truth be in my days [now when strength is resurrected with the LORD rising with us, in us]?

The defense spoken of above occurs when God’s people do as Elisha (meaning and describing how God saves) did to the child, who represents the dead body of Christ now rising.

Two of the remaining four times the word ganan (the defense) appears are in Isaiah 31:5 (the final two are in Zechariah 9:15 and 12:8).

Isaiah 31
1 Woe to them that go down [yarad – descended, as in 2 Kings 20:11 above {and Isaiah 38:8}] to Egypt [double strait, the oppression of church and state institutions] for help; and stay on horses [flesh, worldly strength], and trust in chariots, because they are many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the LORD!
2 Yet he [I Am, the Holy One] also is wise, and will bring [their own] evil [upon them], and will not call back his words: but will arise [quwm] against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of them that work iniquity.
3 Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses are flesh, and not spirit. When the LORD shall stretch out his hand, both he that helps shall fall, and he that is helped shall fall down, and they all shall fail together [will not reach the end they seek: which is to rule the dead and keep them ignorant in death].
4 For thus has the LORD spoken unto me, Like as the lion [the second face of the unfolding presence of the LORD] and the [the children He has given me, speaking the same words as] young lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of shepherds [false accusers, teachers and preachers of falsehood] is called forth against him, he will not be afraid of their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them [the many]: so shall the LORD of hosts [as a man of war, I Am] come down [yarad – descend from heaven] to fight for mount Zion, and for the hill [the LORD’s government] thereof.
5 As birds flying [by the strength of His understanding, descending upon the prey, as eagles with full understanding, the fourth and final face of the unfolding presence of the LORD] so will the LORD of hosts [a man of war] defend [ganan – New Heavenly] Jerusalem; defending [ganan] also he will deliver it [natsal – pulling, those who receive this word of the LORD, from the fires of hell: the event {“caught up,” the harpazo} the false prophets and false teachers twist into their false rapture doctrine]; and passing over [pacach – bringing those marked with the blood of the necessary sacrifice of the LORD with us, in us] he will preserve it [malat – they shall escape death’s hold].
6 Turn you unto him from whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted.
7 For in that day every man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made unto you for a sin.
8 Then shall the Assyrian [communists] fall with the sword [this word of God they refuse to hear and obey], not of a mighty man [but I Am a lowly man without any worldly power]; and the sword [the word of God], not of a mean man [because this is God’s love and mercy poured out], shall devour him [that refuses His love, His truth]: but he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall be discomfited.
9 And he shall pass over [‘abar – as we rise from death into life, those choosing to remain dead flee] to his strong hold for fear, and his princes shall be afraid of the ensign [nec – the pole upon which the son of man is lifted, as Moses lifted the fiery serpent in the wilderness, exalting the LORD’s voice above all other voices], says the LORD, whose fire is in Zion, and his [refiners] furnace in [New Heavenly] Jerusalem.

Zechariah 9
3 And Tyrus [the false rock] did build herself a strong hold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets [which clouded the waters, God’s word, and blinded her from seeing His way].
4 Behold, the LORD will cast her out, and he will smite her power in the sea; and she shall be devoured with fire.
5 Ashkelon [those tried in the fires] shall see it, and fear; Gaza [the powerful – the mighty men of the age] also shall see it, and be very sorrowful, and Ekron [like Saul, they shall be replaced]; for her expectation shall be ashamed; and the king shall perish from Gaza [as did Saul, they shall lose their power], and Ashkelon [the place of this trial – confusion] shall not be inhabited.
6 And the illegitimate children shall dwell in Ashdod [without power], and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines [those who by choice remain in their own mire they have stirred].
7 And I will take away his blood [the words that drain life] out of his mouth, and his abominations [idols – ideas created by men] from between his teeth [as when David fought the lion and the bear]: but he that remains [comes through this purification], even he, shall be for our God, and he shall be as a governor in Judah, and Ekron as a Jebusite [will be as those cast out of Jebus so God’s people could enter and it could become Jerusalem – taught and founded on God’s ways of peace].
8 And I will encamp about my house because of the army, because of him that passes by, and because of him that returns: and no oppressor shall pass through them any more: for now have I seen with my eyes.
9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, your King comes unto you: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon a donkey, and upon a colt the foal of a donkey [those released from those who have ruled over them with oppression – referring to Genesis 49:7 thru 12, and 22 thru 26]
10 And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem, and the battle bow shall be cut off: and he shall speak peace unto the heathen: and his dominion shall be from sea even to sea, and from the river even to the ends [the end of the old and the beginning of the new] of the earth.
11 As for you also, by the blood of your covenant I have sent forth your prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water.
12 Turn you to the strong hold, you prisoners of hope: even to day do I declare that I will render double unto you;
13 When I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim [referring to Genesis 49:24 and the bowman who shoots the longshot arrow, as a stone slung by David], and raised up your sons, O Zion, against your sons, O Greece [the mired and intoxicated], and made you as the sword of a mighty man.
14 And the LORD shall be seen over them, and his arrow [his people with His blessing] shall go forth as the lightning [this understanding]: and the LORD God shall blow the trumpet, and shall go with whirlwinds [from where the LORD’s voice is heard] of the south.
15 The LORD of hosts shall defend [ganan] them; and they shall devour, and subdue with sling stones [as David]; and they shall drink, and make a noise as through wine [changed minds]; and they shall be filled like bowls, and as the corners of the altar.
16 And the LORD their God shall save them in that day as the flock of his people: for they shall be as the stones [Jewels] of a crown, lifted up as an ensign [nacac] upon his land.
17 For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! [the feast He has provided] corn shall make the young men cheerful, and new wine the maids.

Zechariah 12
8 In that day shall the LORD defend [ganan] the inhabitants of [New Heavenly] Jerusalem [His people at large]; and he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as David; and the house of David shall be as God, as the angel [mal’ak – messengers delivering this message] of the LORD before [paniym – manifesting His presence through] them.
9 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations [who refuse to know the LORD, and make peace with Him] that come against Jerusalem.
10 And I will [as a fountain opened] pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of [New Heavenly] Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourn for his only son, and shall be in bitterness [marar] for him, as one that is in bitterness [marar] for his firstborn.
11 In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon. [The reference in the two previous verses are, first to Joash {the fire of Jehovah}, the one pierced when he was in the battle in disguise {the LORD unknown among us as the Holy Spirit}. The second is when God’s people mourn, realizing they have been following false prophets and idols they’ve raised into God’s place, thereby causing them to not recognize the LORD among them. Hadad-Rimmon are names of idols, meaning the fruit of the mighty. Megiddon is Armageddon, the battle, at this planned {scripted} time, when the LORD manifests His presence and power in us, by His Spirit speaking and working unknown, to vanquish the many enemies, shepherds, and false prophets, who’ve scattered His sheep, His family, the little ones He is now gathering to Himself.]

The following are the fifteen Psalms (120 – 134) said to be “A Song of Degrees.” They are the only times the word appears in the Psalms, and not after until it appears five times in Isaiah, all in Isaiah 38:8.

The first step (degree into heaven) is the necessary war, in which the LORD (with truth) battles the false teaching and preaching that possesses the corrupt institutions (of church and state). The final step, which we have reached (with the enemies’ defeat), is the unity of God’s people outside the institutions in His new creation of heaven and earth.

Psalms 120
A Song of Degrees [ma’alah – what rising in the flesh]
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 in Mesech [where the LORD has “drawn out” the deceivers and false tongues into His light], that I dwell in the tents of Kedar [the “darkness,” when all are ignorant of the LORD’s presence]!
6 My soul has long dwelt with him that hates peace.
7 I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war [so it is a time for war].

Psalms 121
A Song of Degrees
1 [This is the rising of the man of war:] I will lift up my eyes unto the hills, from whence comes my help.
2 My help comes from the LORD, which made heaven and earth.
3 He will not suffer your foot to be moved: he that keeps [shamar] you will not slumber.
4 Behold, he that keeps [shamar] Israel [His people whom, with Him, have reached this expected end] shall neither slumber nor sleep [but is always present with us, alive but unknown to those without understanding, without this light, without life].
5 The LORD is your keeper [shamar – even in death]: the LORD is your shade [protection from the destructive understanding of this darkened day] upon your [covering His] right hand [where we sit until our enemies are made His footstool].
6 The sun [the corrupt church, whose light is darkness] shall not smite you by day [when this true light comes], nor the moon [civil government] by night [when ignorance covers the earth and we wait for understanding to replace it].
7 The LORD shall preserve [shamar] you from all evil: he shall preserve [shamar] your soul.
8 The LORD shall preserve [shamar] your going out [of darkness] and your coming in [to the light] from this time forth, and even for evermore.

Psalms 122
A Song of Degrees [of this rising] of David
1 I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house [family] of the LORD.
2 Our feet shall stand within your gates, O [New Heavenly] Jerusalem.
3 Jerusalem is built as a city that is compact together:
4 Whither the tribes go up [‘alah – rising with their king rising], the tribes of the LORD, unto the testimony of Israel [who are His people by receiving this word, His correction, who will rule with Him on the earth] to give thanks unto the name [identity] of the LORD.
5 For there are set thrones of judgment, the thrones of the house of David.
6 Pray for the peace of [New Heavenly] Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love you.
7 Peace be within your walls, and prosperity within your palaces.
8 For my brethren and companions’ sakes, I will now say, Peace be within you.
9 Because of the house of the LORD our God I will seek your good.

Psalms 123
A Song of Degrees
1 Unto you lift I up my eyes, O you that dwellest in the heavens [this time and place of full understanding].
2 Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our [with my] eyes wait upon the LORD our God, until that he have mercy upon us [correcting us into seeing as He sees].
3 Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt [of the proud in power who’ve become incorrigible].
4 Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease [sha’anan – thinking they are secure in their position of power, in the totally corrupt institutions of church and state], and with the contempt of the proud.

Psalms 124
A Song of Degrees of David
1 If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, now may Israel [those who receive the LORD at His appearing and kingdom, and obeying His commands, will rule with Him on the earth, over the new heaven and earth, wherein dwells His righteousness] say;
2 If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when [wicked] men rose up against us:
3 Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us:
4 Then the waters [words against the truth] had overwhelmed us, the stream [their corrupt words, gaslighting: twisting reality] had gone over our soul:
5 Then the proud waters had gone over our soul.
6 Blessed be the LORD, who has not given us as a prey to their teeth [their mouths that divide and devour flesh].
7 Our soul is escaped as a bird [risen by this understanding] out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.
8 Our help is in the name [identity] of the LORD, who made [the old and new] heaven and earth.

Psalms 125
A Song of Degrees
1 They that trust in the LORD shall be as mount Zion [“and {are come} unto the city of the living God, the {New} heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels {His messengers}, 23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, 24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaks better things than that of Abel. 25 See that you refuse not him that speak. For if they escaped not who refused him that spoke on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaks from {this New} heaven: 26 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he has promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. 27 And this word, Yet once more, signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. 28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace {this gift of the LORD in us}, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: 29 For our God is a consuming fire.”], which cannot be removed, but abide [with the LORD] forever.
2 As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from henceforth even forever.
3 For the rod of the wicked [the corruption they taught the old earth they’ve destroyed, which has now ended] shall not rest upon the lot [those choosing the LORD] of the righteous; lest the righteous put forth their hands unto [working] iniquity [evil misleading].
4 Do good, O LORD, unto those that be good [have chosen good and refused evil], and to them that are upright in their hearts [having the good foundations of their minds reset].
5 As for such as turn aside [away from the LORD’s good teaching] unto their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity [into the consequences of their choice]: but peace shall be upon Israel [His people who choose good and receive this promised end].

Psalms 126
A Song of Degrees
1 When the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion [His people predestined to rule with Him here on the earth], we were like them that dream [while we slept, here in death waiting for Him to complete His work: changing and renewing: creating this understanding in our minds].
2 Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing [His words He puts in our mouths]: then said they among the heathen [who haven’t known Him], The LORD has done great things for them.
3 The LORD has done great things for us; whereof we are glad.
4 Turn again our captivity, O LORD, [make us] as the streams [of living waters] in the south [to those looking to this light rising].
5 They that sow in tears [the sorrow realizing how far away from the LORD the world has fallen] shall reap in joy [all realizing He is present with us to refresh it].
6 He that goes forth and weeps, bearing precious seed [this good word], shall doubtless come again with rejoicing [realizing the LORD’s presence with us, in us], bringing his sheaves [this promised harvest] with him.

Psalms 127
A Song of Degrees for Solomon
1 Except the LORD builds the house, they labor in vain that build it: except the LORD keeps the city, the watchman wakes but in vain.
2 It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he gives his beloved sleep [rest, even in death].
3 Lo, children are a heritage of the LORD [in whom we rise from death’s sleep with His rising]: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.
4 As arrows [chets – weapons of His warfare sent forth] are in the hand [His work] of a mighty man; so are children of the youth. [Psalms 77:17 The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a sound {qowl – Your voice}: your arrows {chets} also went abroad {halak – walk, His way is long-suffering the piercing words of the ignorant – referring to Genesis 49:23 & 24, saying “The archers {chets} have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him: But his bow {qasheth – the bow in the cloud} abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the Mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the Shepherd, the Stone of Israel:)”} 18 The voice {qowl} of your thunder {the sound of the light} was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook. 19 Your way is in the sea {walking among us}, and your path in the great waters, and your footsteps are not known.]
5 Happy is the man [geber – valiant warrior] that has his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak [in this war] with the enemies [here] in the gate [out of hell into heaven].

Psalms 128
A Song of Degrees
1 Blessed is every one that fears the LORD [which is the beginning of wisdom]; that walks in his ways.
2 For you shall eat the labor of your hands: happy shall you be, and it shall be well with you.
3 Your wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of your house: your children like olive plants round about your table.
4 Behold, that thus shall the man be blessed that fears the LORD.
5 The LORD shall bless you out of Zion: and you shall see the good of Jerusalem all the days of your life.
6 Yea, you shall see your children’s children, and peace upon Israel.

Psalms 129
A Song of Degrees
1 Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say:
2 Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me.
3 The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows.
4 The LORD is righteous: he has cut asunder the cords of the wicked.
5 Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion.
6 Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withers afore it grows up:
7 Wherewith the mower fills not his hand; nor he that binds sheaves his bosom.
8 Neither do they which go by [‘abar – who are, unknown to them, rising from death into life] say, The blessing of the LORD be [is] upon you: we [returning the blessing say] bless you in the name [identity] of the LORD [which must be said to see the LORD again veiled in flesh].

Psalms 130
A Song of Degrees
1 Out of the depths [ma’amaq – what deep; where this deep understanding was held in darkness until now when it’s again brought to the surface] have I cried unto you [as did Jonah from the belly of hell], O LORD. [Isaiah 51: Are you not it which has dried the sea, the waters of the great deep {thown}; that has made the depths {ma’amaq} of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over {‘abar – from death into life}?]
2 LORD, hear my voice: let your ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications.
3 If you, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O LORD, who shall stand?
4 But there is forgiveness with you, that you mayest be feared.
5 I wait for the LORD, my soul does wait, and in his word [This Word] do I hope.
6 My soul waits for the LORD more than they that watch for the morning: I say, more than they that watch for the morning.
7 Let Israel hope in the LORD [who is the mourning light]: for with the LORD there is mercy, and with him is plenteous redemption.
8 And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities. [Isaiah 51:11 Therefore the redeemed of the LORD shall return, and come with singing {repeating these words} unto Zion; and everlasting joy {the realization of His present with us, in us} shall be upon their head {in their minds}: they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning shall flee away. 12 I, even I, am he that comforts {nacham – that leads} you {into all truth}: who are you, that you shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made as grass; 13 And forget the LORD your maker, that has stretched forth the {old and new} heavens, and laid the foundations of the {of the old and new} earth; and have feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor?]

Psalms 131
A Song of Degrees of David
1 LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor my eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me.
2 Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child [putting away childish things I became a man: the Adam of His new creation].
3 Let Israel hope in the LORD from henceforth and forever.

Psalms 132
A Song of Degrees
1 LORD, remember [the seed of] David, and all his afflictions:
2 How he swore unto the LORD, and vowed unto the mighty God of Jacob;
3 Surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house [the same house Hezekiah looked for], nor go up into my bed;
4 I will not give sleep to my eyes, or slumber to my eyelids,
5 Until I find out a place for the LORD, a habitation for the mighty God of Jacob.
6 Lo, we heard of it at Ephratah: we found it in the fields of the wood. [This is what was heard: Micah 5:2 But you, Bethlehem Ephratah {the house of this bread and blessing}, though you be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of you shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting. 3 Therefore will he give them up, until the time that she which travails has brought forth {the seed of David}: then the remnant of his brethren shall return unto the children of Israel.]
7 We will go into his tabernacles: we will worship at his footstool.
8 Arise, O LORD, into your rest; you, and the ark [I Am] of your strength.
9 Let your priests be clothed with righteousness; and let your saints shout for joy [at the realization of His presence with us, in us].
10 For your servant David’s sake turn not away the face of [paniym – your presence with, in] your anointed.
11 The LORD has sworn in truth unto David; he will not turn from it; Of the fruit of your body will I set upon your throne.
12 If your children will keep my covenant and my testimony that I shall teach them, their children shall also sit upon your throne forevermore. [This is the moment we’re in!]
13 For the LORD has chosen Zion; he has desired it for his habitation.
14 This is my rest forever: here [with, in Me people] will I dwell; for I have desired it.
15 I will abundantly bless her provision: I will satisfy her poor with bread [lechem – Bethlehem Ephratah].
16 I will also clothe her priests with salvation: and her saints shall shout aloud for joy [this word declaring His presence with us, in us].
17 There will I make the horn of David [the power to rule] to bud: I have ordained a lamp [to show His way to those in the darkness] for my anointed.
18 His enemies will I clothe with shame: but upon himself shall his crown flourish.

Psalms 133
A Song of Degrees of David
1 Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity [in the ONE BODY of Christ, the house into which we all must enter]!
2 It is like the precious ointment [this anointing] upon the head [in the mind], that ran down upon the beard [and came from My mouth], even Aaron’s [the light bringers’] beard: that went down to the skirts of his [the LORD’s righteousness] garments;
3 As the dew [this word] of Hermon [that suddenly appeared on the earth], and as the dew that descended [from heaven] upon the mountains of Zion: for there the LORD commanded the blessing, even life for evermore. [Do you understand and believe this?]

Psalms 134
A Song of Degrees
1 Behold, bless you the LORD, all you servants of the LORD, which by night [out of the darkness risen by these degrees] stand in the house of the LORD.
2 Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and bless the LORD [saying, blessed is he that’s come in His name].
3 The LORD that made [this new] heaven and earth bless you out of Zion [with this word from His throne].

Ezekiel 11
1 Moreover the spirit lifted me up, and brought me unto the east gate of [my entry into] the LORD’s house, which looks eastward [sees this light rising]: and behold at the door of the gate five and twenty men; among whom I saw Jaazaniah [who Jehovah has heard] the son of Azur [who the people look to for help], and Pelatiah [who Jehovah delivered] the son of Benaiah [who built the house of Jehovah], princes [the ten kings before Hezekiah] of the people.
2 Then said he unto me, Son of man, these are the men that devise mischief, and give wicked counsel in this city:
3 Which say, It [the time of this expected end] is not near; let us build houses: this city is the caldron, and we be the flesh.
4 Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, O son of man.
5 And the Spirit of the LORD fell upon me, and said unto me, Speak; Thus says the LORD; Thus have you said, O house of Israel: for I know the things that come into [ma’alah – the degrees of their falling away] your mind, every one of them.
6 You have [by your wicked counsel] multiplied your slain in this city, and you have filled the streets thereof with the slain.
7 Therefore thus says the LORD God; Your slain whom you have laid in the midst of it, they are the flesh, and this city is the caldron: but I will bring you forth out of the midst of it.
8 You have feared the sword; and I will bring a sword [this word of the LORD you refuse to hear and obey] upon you, says the LORD God.
9 And I will bring you out of the midst thereof, and deliver you into the hands of strangers [who haven’t known me], and will execute judgments among you.

The above is the first time, after Isaiah 38, the word ma’alah appears. Its next occurrences come in Ezekiel 40, where we’re told in specific language of those in darkness (the north, from the outer court) looking toward the east (for the morning) and rising out of ignorance by seven steps (ma’alah). After this, we’re told they are looking toward the east gate (from the inner court) the going up to it by eight steps (ma’alah). The original text reveals it is the LORD with them unknown, speaking of Himself as the builder of those who now find Him in (revealed, after the fifteen steps into and out of the) darkened deep.

Ezekiel 40
20 And the gate of the outward court [before realizing the LORD’s presence] that looked toward the north [remained in said darkness], he measured [considered] the length [‘orek – how this word endures forever] thereof, and the breadth thereof. [Psalms 93:3 The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves. 4 The LORD on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea. 5 Your testimonies are very sure: holiness becomes your house, O LORD, forever {‘orek}.]
21 And the little chambers [ta’ah – only used in this chapter and 1 Kings 14:28 and 2 Chronicles 12:11; referring to the treasures held therein, which were taken away by the Egyptians and replaced by creations of king Rehoboam] thereof were three [the LORD’s work] on this side and three [the LORD’s work] on that side; and the posts [‘ayil – strength] thereof and the arches [‘eylam – eternity] thereof were after the measure of [considered] the first gate [sha’ar – referring us to Genesis 28:16 & 17, speaking of when Jacob awakens and realizes where he is]: the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits [now when His grace abounds]. [Genesis 28:16 And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the LORD is in this place; and I knew it not. 17 And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this place! this is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate {sha’ar} of heaven.]
22 And their windows [piercing through the wall of men’s false interpretation], and their arches [‘eylam – seeing His strength that endures throughout all eternity], and their palm trees [timmor – seeing I Am His ambassador sent], were after the measure of [considered and realized] the gate [sha’ar – that it is the gate of heaven and house of the God] that looks [paniym – when His presence is manifested in His word and work] toward the east [causing light to appear]; and they went up unto it [‘alah – lifting us into the heavens with Him] by seven steps [ma’alah]; and the arches [‘eylam – receiving His understanding that endure throughout all eternity] thereof were before them [paniym – manifesting His presence with us, in us].
23 And the gate of the inner court was over against the gate toward the north [the treasures remaining in the darkness], and toward the east [until the light comes]; and he measured [considering the time] from gate to gate a hundred cubits.

The word rendered “hundred” is me’yah, in context, meaning when we, after consideration, realize who Jehovah is.

Ezekiel 40
32 And he brought me into the inner court [into His known presence] toward the east [this light rising]: and he measured [considered] the gate according to [in the context of] these measures [considering this understanding].
33 And the little chambers thereof [where these treasure are now restored by His word and work], and the posts [‘ayil – and his strength returned] thereof, and the arches [‘eylam – by His word that endures throughout eternity] thereof, were according to these measures [considered in the context of this understanding]: and there were windows [piercing through the wall and allowing to see] therein and in the arches [‘eylam – these treasures as light piercing the wall, which strengthen us] thereof round about: it was fifty cubits long, and five and twenty cubits broad.
34 And the arches [‘eylam – this strength given] thereof were toward the outward court; and palm trees [timmor – I Am, His messenger sent] were upon the posts [‘ayil – this strength] thereof, on this side, and on that side [the going out and coming back into the house, by degrees]: and the going up to [ma’aleh – the rising back into] it had eight steps [ma’alah].

Jeremiah 48
4 Moab [whose mouths are the gates of hell] is destroyed; her little ones [who know they are being destroyed] have caused a cry to be heard.
5 For in the going up [ma’aleh – rising by degrees] of Luhith [receiving this written word of the LORD] continual weeping [realizing the condition of the dead body of Christ] shall go up [‘alah]; for in the going down of Horonaim [referring to Beth-horon, the house emptied of its treasures] the enemies have heard a cry of [their own] destruction.
6 Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath [stripped of all your corruption] in the wilderness.
7 For because you have trusted in your works and in your treasures [which you put in the place of the true treasures], you shall also be taken: and Chemosh [those who’ve subdued all and brought the world into death and hell] shall go forth into captivity with his priests and his princes [church and state misleaders] together.
8 And the spoiler [purging corruption] shall come upon every city, and no city shall escape: the valley also shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed, as the LORD has spoken.
9 Give wings [this understanding] unto Moab, that it may flee and get away: for the cities thereof shall be desolate, without any to dwell therein.
10 Cursed be he that does the work of the LORD deceitfully, and cursed be he that keeps back his sword [this word from the mouth of the LORD] from blood.

Jeremiah 46
10 For this is the day of the LORD God of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour, and it shall be satiate and made drunk with their blood: for the LORD God of hosts has a sacrifice in the north country [‘erets – the darkened earth] by the river Euphrates [this fruitful word of the LORD].
11 Go up [‘alah] into Gilead [rise into this mountain of testimony], and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt [of the oppressed]: in vain shall you use many medicines [the old and corrupt word and ways; creations of men]; for you shall not be cured.
12 The nations have heard of your shame, and your cry has filled the land [‘erets – the earth]: for the mighty man has [by ignorance] stumbled against the mighty, and they are fallen both together.

The only other time the word ma’alah is used in Ezekiel is in Ezekiel 43:17 where it is rendered “stairs,” which look toward the east and go up to the altar. The only time it appears after is in Amos 9:6, where it’s rendered “stories,” which the LORD builds in heaven.

Amos 9
1 I saw the LORD standing upon the altar [after going up the steps, standing in this time of His necessary sacrifice, in the flesh body He has prepared for Himself]: and he said, Smite the lintel [kaphtor – the capital, the heads of the pillars] of the door [caph – those posted at the gate, as bowls into which the blood of this sacrifice is poured], that the posts may shake [ra’ash – this is the shaking of heaven and earth spoken of in Haggai 2:6 & 7, which is quoted in Hebrews 12:26, telling us it is so the created things of men, which shall not remain, are shaken from them]: and cut them in the head [ending the creations of their minds, beginning the new heaven and earth, wherein dwell righteousness], all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the sword [from My mouth, speaking the Word of God]: he that flees of them shall not flee away, and he that escapes of them shall not be delivered.
2 Though they dig into hell, thence shall my hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down:
3 And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them:
4 And though they go into captivity before their enemies, thence will I command the sword, and it shall slay them: and I will set my eyes upon them for evil, and not for good.
5 And the LORD God of hosts is he that touches the land [‘erets – the earth], and it shall melt, and all that dwell therein shall mourn: and it shall rise up wholly like a flood; and shall be drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.
6 It is he that builds his stories [ma’alah] in heaven, and has founded his troop in the earth [‘erets]; he that calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out upon the face of [paniym – manifesting His presence to] the earth [‘erets]: The LORD is his name.

11 In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old:
12 That they may possess the remnant of Edom [the enemies mixed among us, who claim to be our brethren at peace with us, while trying to destroy us and Our better way], and of all the heathen [who haven’t known the LORD with us, in us], which are called by my name, says the LORD that does this.

Psalms 141
1 LORD, I cry unto you: make haste unto me; give ear unto my voice, when I cry unto you.
2 Let my prayer be set forth before you as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.
3 Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.
4 Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practice wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties.
5 Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities.
6 When their judges are overthrown in stony places, they shall hear my words; for they are sweet.
7 Our bones are scattered at the grave’s [sh’owl – sheol, hell’s] mouth, as when one cuts and cleaves wood upon the earth.
8 But my eyes are unto you, O God the LORD: in you is my trust; leave not my soul destitute [without Your treasures].
9 Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity.
10 Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I withal escape.

3 – 5 May 2025

Wherefore, as I live, says the LORD God; Surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things, and with all your abominations, therefore will I also diminish you; neither shall my eye spare, neither will I have any pity.

The LORD begins in the above, Ezekiel 5:11, speaking of what has already occurred, after [‘achar] which affects He sends His sword, His word against the abominations, the root cause (the corrupt elements: foundational idea with which men replaced the LORD and truth) of their self-destruction.

(Friends, if the LORD says all the institutions of church and state are completely corrupted and must either reform, which includes purging them of the corruption and the corrupt, or burn up in the fires they’ve created, will He relent or change His mind without accomplishing it? He is not going to allow them to continue as they are. This moment isn’t merely a temporary rest until they can resume their (progressive) evil. It ends here, and if those now leading don’t proceed with this in mind, they will be taken out of the way, and others who are more vigilant and courageous will replace them. Amen!)

Ezekiel 5
12 A third part of you shall die with the pestilence [deber, from dabar, meaning “to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense {as does deber}) to subdue,” the effects of straying away from the LORD, agreeing and joining with {becoming like-minded, infected by} those who have], and with famine [without this word of the LORD] shall they be consumed in the midst of you: and a third part shall fall by the sword round about you [opinions and deceptions, false interpretations of reality, with which they destroy truth]; and I will scatter a third part into all the winds [of false doctrines that have divided God’s people into factions, and conquered them], and I will draw out a sword [My righteousness, rightly dividing error from truth and delusion from reality, by this fire from My mouth as light consuming the darkness] after [‘achar] them [after their working wickedness, as in 2 Thessalonians 2:8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the LORD shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness {light} of his coming: 9 Whose coming is after {the effect of} the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, 10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love {agape – this word given as received} of the truth, that they might {by this word made flesh among us} be saved. 11 And for this cause {to destroy the works of Satan through those possessed by him} God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: 12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.].
13 Thus shall my anger be accomplished [kalah – have a full end in the destruction of wicked], and I will cause my fury to rest [nuwach – Noah: those who reach the expected end] upon them, and I will be comforted [nacham – their comforter, their Paraclete, leading them into all truth]: and they shall know that I the LORD have spoken it in my zeal [qin’ah – the fire of My jealousy] when I have accomplished [kalah] my fury in them. [Daniel 12:4 But you, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end {qets}: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased. 5 Then I Daniel looked, and, behold {I saw}, there stood other two, the one on this side of the bank of the river, and the other on that side of the bank of the river {during the time when the book is sealed and opened again}. 6 And one said to the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river {of time carrying this word of God forward}, How long shall it be to the end {qets} of these wonders? 7 And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and swore by him that lives forever that it shall be for a time {mow’ed – an appointed time when the book was closed}, times {mow’ed – now when it is opened again to the congregation}, and a half {chetsiy – when this word is split open again, as it was on the other side, and rightly divided}; and when he shall have accomplished {kalah} to scatter the power {by corrupting the true word of God, and it isn’t in them effectually working to bring them to life} of the holy people, all these things shall be finished {kalah}. 8 And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my LORD {‘adown – our King}, what shall be the end {‘achariyth – the last days} of these things?]
14 Moreover, I will make you waste, and a reproach among the nations {all who haven’t known the ever-present LORD] that are round about you, in the sight [‘ayin – the eyes, by this fountain, seeing as the LORD sees] of all that pass by [‘abar – who have passed from death into life].
15 So it shall be a reproach [cherpah – a rebuke of the wicked] and a taunt [gduwphah – only used here, meaning to revile {wickedness}], an instruction [muwcar – a warning and correction] and an astonishment [mshammah – the desolate wondering what they are hearing] unto the nations [those who haven’t known the ever-present LORD with us, in us] that are round about you, when I [with zeal] shall execute [My righteous] judgments in you in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes. I, the LORD, have spoken it [dabar – rightly ordered it by these words].
16 When I shall send upon them the evil arrows [strong delusion] of famine [to those rejecting this word, disregarding the warning, and refusing correction], which shall be for their destruction, and which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread [the now totally corrupt language they speak]:
17 So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts [those without My Spirit], and they shall bereave you [the wicked shall no longer reproduce their wickedness]: and pestilence [deber – their words that produce disorder] and blood [this necessary sacrifice, speaking the LORD’s word and declaring His presence with us, in us] shall pass through you [‘abar – bringing those who receive Him from death into life]; and I will bring the sword [this word rightly dividing errors from the truth and delusion from reality] upon you. I, the LORD, have spoken it [dabar – rightly ordered this understanding].

The word rendered “abominations,” in verse 11 above, is tow’ebah, said to be from ta’ab, meaning “to loathe, i.e. (morally) detest.” It is more logically from ta’ah, meaning “to vacillate, i.e. reel or stray (literally or figuratively) also causatively of both,” and ‘abah, meaning “to breathe after, i.e. (figuratively) to be acquiescent:– consent, rest content, will, be willing.”

Proverbs 1
1 The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;
2 To know wisdom and instruction [muwcar – warning to be heeded and correction to be received]; to perceive the words of understanding;
3 To receive the instruction [muwcar] of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;
4 To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.
5 A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
6 To understand a proverb [mashal], and the interpretation [mliytsah – an enigma, at which the simple-minded wonder]; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings [chiydah].
7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
8 My son, hear [shama’ – and obey] the instruction [muwcar – the warning and correction] of your father, and forsake not the law of your mother:
9 For they shall be an ornament [livyah – from the same origin as Levi and Leviathan: lavah, and Jehovah, meaning these things are borrowed from the LORD and aren’t ours to sell or pawn] of grace unto your head [his word given into our mind], and chains about your neck. [Habakkuk 2: 5 Yea also, because he transgresses by wine, he is a proud man, neither keeps at home {Jude 1: 6 And the angels which kept not their first estate {speaking God’s word as received}, but left their own habitation {and now speak their own words they put in His place}, he has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.}, who enlarges his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathers unto him all nations, and heaped unto him all people: 6 Shall not all these take up a parable {mashal} against him, and a taunting {mliytsah – wise interpretation} proverb {chiydah} against him, and say, Woe to him that increases that which is not his {selling what isn’t theirs to sell}! how long {referring to Habakkuk 2:3 below” the mow’ed, the appointed time of the congregation}? and to him that lades himself with thick clay {‘abtiyt – “something pledged {vowed}, i.e. (collectively) pawned goods,”}! 7 Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite you, and awake that shall vex you, and you shall be for booties unto them?]
10 My son, if sinners entice you, consent [‘abah] you not.
11 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily [in deceptions] for the innocent without cause:
12 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave [sh’owl – sheol, hell]; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
13 We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:
14 Cast in your lot among us; let us all [be communists and] have one purse:
15 My son, walk not you in the way with them; refrain your foot from their path:
16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed [shaphak – pour out] blood [in their word and way that drain the life from humanity at large].
17 Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
18 And they lay wait [and we see their net, therefore, it becomes an unknown trap laid] for their own blood; they lurk privily [unknown to them in their ignorance] for their own lives.
19 So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which [greedily] take away the life of the owners thereof [of the goods they steal].
20 Wisdom cries without; she utters her voice in the streets:
21 She cries in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she utters her words, saying,
22 How long, you simple [minded] ones, will you love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
23 Turn you at my reproof [towkechah – correction]: behold, I will pour out my spirit [ruwach – in My word] unto you, I will make known my words unto you. [Habakkuk 2: 1 I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved {towkechah – as in Proverbs 3:11 & 12, saying “My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction {towkechah}: For whom the LORD loves he corrects; even as a father the son in whom he delights.”}. 2 And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that reads it. 3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time {mow’ed – Daniel’s time and times appointed, of Abram’s deep sleep}, but at the end {qets – the end of days, the end of the sleep, when the book is opened, and Daniel, God’s judgment, stands again} it shall speak {the mouths of God’s people shall again speak His life, light, understanding, to the world}, and not lie: though it tarry {mahahh – though His people remain hesitant and reluctant}, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry {‘achar – referring us to its uses in Ecclesiastes 5:5, the passage saying, 4 When you vow a vow unto God {to obey His voice and keep His commands}, defer not to pay it; for he has no pleasure in fools: pay that which you have vowed. 5 Better is it that you shouldest not vow, than that you shouldest vow and not pay. 6 Suffer not your mouth {speaking your own words and refuse to speak His} to cause your flesh to sin; neither say you before the angel {His messenger, I Am the one He’s sent}, that it was an error: wherefore should God be angry at your voice, and destroy the work of your hands? 7 For in the multitude of dreams {the creations of your wandering minds} and many words there are also divers vanities {many worthless words}: but fear you God. 8 If you see the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel {tamahh – wonder not at what you are seeing, because He has plainly declared it through His messenger} not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regards {seeing it all and telling the world of it}; and there be higher than they. 9 Moreover the profit {this profiting from remaining with the Father and keeping His commands} of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field {the work into which He sends you}.}. 4 Behold, his {the wicked’s} soul which {in pride} is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his {their own} faith {that this is the LORD presence manifested with us, in us, as we speak in His name: as His identity}.]
24 Because I have called, and you refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
25 But you have set at naught all my counsel, and would [‘abah] none of my reproof [towkechah]:
26 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear comes;
27 When your fear comes as desolation, and your destruction comes as a whirlwind [from where My voice is heard]; when distress and anguish come upon you.
28 Then shall they call upon me [to their idols they call by My name], but I will not answer; they shall seek me early [in your creations], but they shall not find me:
29 For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
30 They would [‘abah] none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
31 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices [mow’etsah – their own purpose: counsel].
32 For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
33 But whoso hearkens [shama’ – hears and obeys] unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.

The Hebrew word muwcar, meaning “chastisement; figuratively, reproof, warning or instruction; also restraint,” is always used to speak of the LORD’s correction, which, when received, is life and, when rejected, death.

Job 5
1 Call now, if there be any that will answer you; and to which of the saints [qawdosh – the holy ones] will you turn?
2 For wrath kills the foolish [‘eviyl – who despise and mock truth] man, and envy [qin’ah – zeal without righteousness] slays the silly one [pathah – the easily deceived].
3 I have seen the foolish [‘eviyl] taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation [their corrupt institutions].
4 His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate [by the crowd trying to escape the hell’s fires they’ve created], neither is there any to deliver them.
5 Whose harvest the hungry eat up, and taketh it [their evil advice] even out of the thorns [from misleaders], and the robber swallows up their substance.
6 Although affliction comes not forth of the dust [the earth’s ruin didn’t cause the current troubles, the cause of the troubles are the same that produced the earth’s ruin], neither does trouble spring out of the ground [but it is rather the creation of evil men in power];
7 Yet man is born unto trouble [into the time ruled by the ignorant and confused], as the sparks fly upward [into the darkness becoming dark].
8 I [finding myself in such a time] would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:
9 Which does great things and unsearchable; marvelous [eye opening] things without number:
10 Who gives rain [this word from heaven] upon the earth, and sends waters upon the fields [to cause new life to spring forth, to nourish the needy]:
11 To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn [realizing their condition] may be exalted to safety.
12 He [the LORD] disappoints the devices of the crafty [using subtle deceptions, thinking they are unseen], so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
13 He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward [twisting and perverting truth] is carried headlong [mahar – into destruction by their own words and ways].
14 They meet with darkness [in ignorance] in the day time [this time when understanding has come, which they reject], and grope [are unable to grasp this understanding] in the noonday as in the night.
15 But he [the LORD] saves the poor [without worldly power] from the sword [the evil words of men], from their mouth, and from the hand [the evil works] of the mighty.
16 So the poor has hope, and iniquity stops her mouth.
17 Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects: therefore, despise not you the chastening [muwcar] of the Almighty:
18 For he maketh sore, and binds up: he wounds, and his hands make whole.
19 He shall deliver you in six troubles: yea, in seven [His completing, perfecting, us] there shall no evil touch you.
20 In famine [when we were without His world in the world] he shall redeem you from death: and in war from the power of the sword [the words of the wicked].
21 You shall be hid from the scourge of the tongue [of misleading men]: neither shall you be afraid of destruction when it comes.
22 At destruction and famine you shall laugh: neither shall you be afraid of the beasts [men without the LORD’s Spirit] of the earth.
23 For you shall be in league [joined in ONE BODY] with the stones of the field [from whom flows the word of God]: and the beasts [those without the LORD’s Spirit] of the field shall be at peace with you.
24 And you shall know that your tabernacle shall be in peace; and you shall visit [paqad – you shall be the chief overseers of the earth to] your habitation, and shall not sin.
25 You shall know also that your seed shall be great, and your offspring as the grass of the earth.
26 You shall come to your grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn comes in in his season [with many seeds from one].
27 Lo this, we have [diligently] searched it, so it is; hear it [shama’ – and obey His voice] and know you it for your good.

Job 12
2 No doubt but you [my accusers] are the people [of vanity], and wisdom shall die [has died] with you [with your death].
3 But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who [but the dead] knows not such things as these?
4 I Am as one [to whom wisdom has come again from the LORD] mocked of his neighbor, who calls upon God, and he answers him: the just upright [resurrected] man is laughed to scorn [by the dead].
5 He [without understanding] that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp [a guide in the darkness] despised [buwz – held in contempt and shamed] in the thought of him that is at ease [sha’anan – secured by the LORD].
6 The tabernacles of robbers [shadad – the dead] prosper, and they that provoke God are secure [battuchowth – putting their trust in worldly strength]; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly [this power by which they deceive themselves].
7 But ask now the beasts [bhemah – dumb flesh, those who were silent], and they shall teach you; and the fowls of the air [who’ve risen into heaven by the LORD’s strength], and they shall tell you:
8 Or speak to the earth [where these things are manifested into reality, ending the old and corrupt and beginning the new], and it shall teach you: and the fishes of the sea [My elect remnant living among humanity at large, below its surface in this deep] shall declare unto you [bringing your end suddenly, in an instant].
9 Who knows not in all these that the hand of the LORD has wrought this [by which He says, “Here I Am”]?
10 In whose hand [work] is the soul of every living thing, and the breath [life] of all mankind.
11 Does not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his meat?
12 With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.
13 With him is wisdom and strength, he has counsel and understanding.
14 Behold, he breaks down, and it cannot be built again: he shuts up a man [in death], and there can be no opening [pathach].
15 Behold, he withholds the waters [of heaven], and they dry up: also he send them out, and they [His words, these words] overturn the earth.
16 With him is strength [‘oz] and wisdom: the deceived and the deceiver are his.
17 He leads counselors away spoiled, and makes the judges fools.
18 He looses [pathach – opens, frees from death] the bond [muwcar – by His warning and correction] of kings, and gird [prepares] their loins with a girdle [these provisions, with which He crowns them].
19 He leads princes away spoiled, and overthrows the mighty.
20 He removes away the speech of the trusty [who’ve refused these waters], and taketh away the understanding of the aged.
21 He pours contempt upon princes, and weakens the strength of the mighty.
22 He discovers [these] deep things out of darkness [hidden in men’s ignorance], and bringeth out to light [understanding] the shadow of death [which is the ignorance of men in power].
23 He increases the nations [the population of those who haven’t known Him], and destroys them [by the hand of those they choose to follow]: he enlarges [scattering them abroad] the nations, and straitens them again [nachah – “to guide; by implication, to transport (into exile, or as colonists)”].
24 He taketh away the heart [the sound mind] of the chief of the people of the earth, and cause them to wander [by going their own ignorant way] in a wilderness where there is no way.
25 They grope in the dark [following their own ignorance] without light [understanding], and he makes them to stagger like a drunken man.

Job 20
1 Then answered Zophar [departing] the Naamathite [from na ’em, meaning agreeable: these names tell us his opinions are in agreement with those who strayed from God and full understanding], and said, [as we know, Satan is working through him and Job’s two other so-called friends, and they are the Leviathan {in Job 3:8, the mourning {leviathan}} raised up, which speaks of them as fallen teachers and preachers, drawn into the open as they condemn Job and in doing catch themselves in their own trap.]
2 Therefore, do my thoughts [ca’iph – his opinions] cause me to answer [shuwb – are returned upon him], and for this I make haste [chuwsh – from the previous post: Isaiah 28:15 Because you have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell {sheol – the habitation of the dead} are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves: 16 Therefore thus says the LORD God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone {from whom this teaching flows}, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation {for the new earth}: he that believes shall not make haste {chuwsh – when I hasten the end of the wicked}. {Isaiah 60:22 A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one {tsa’iyr} a strong nation: I the LORD will hasten {chuwsh} it in his time {when the LORD is revealed by His everlasting light manifested in the flesh}.]
3 I have heard [shama’ – the voice of Jehovah] the check [muwcar – warning and correction] of my reproach [klimmah – of his confusion], and the spirit [of the LORD] of my understanding [biynah – which only Jehovah has] cause me to answer [‘anah – meaning “to eye or (generally) to heed, i.e. pay attention; by implication, to respond; by extens. to begin to speak; specifically to sing, shout, testify, announce.”]
4 Knowest you not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,
5 [And he begins his condemnation of Job, and therein condemns himself] That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite [chaneph – those soiled by corruption] but for a moment?
6 Though his excellency mounts up to the heavens [with the LORD in full understanding], and his head [mind] reaches unto the clouds [where understanding is found];
7 Yet he [when corrupted] shall perish forever like his own dung [which comes from his body and is good for nothing]: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?
8 He shall fly away as a dream [when a man awakens and realizes his thoughts are creations of his own sleeping mind], and shall not be found [in the place where understanding should be found]: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
9 The eye also which saw [shazaph – burnt by the sun: corrupted by the teaching of the church] him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.
10 His children shall seek to please [ratsah – repay] the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods [‘own – substance, strength: understanding].
11 His bones are full of the sin of [squandering his substance] his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust [‘aphar – the resulting ruin of the earth].
12 Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;
13 Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:
14 Yet his meat [deep understanding that strengthens] in his bowels is [by corruption] turned, it is the gall of asps within him.
15 He has swallowed down riches [his inheritance], and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.
16 He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper’s tongue [his own words] shall slay him.
17 He shall not see the rivers [these words the LORD now flowing into this generation], the floods, the brooks of honey and butter [by which man learns to refuse evil, the poison from the mouths of serpents, and choose good].
18 That [the corruption] which he labored for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down: according to his substance shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice therein.
19 Because he has oppressed and has forsaken the poor; because he has violently taken away a house which he built not;
20 Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of [his corrupt understanding] that which he desired.
21 There shall none of his meat [his falsely so-called deep understanding] be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods.
22 In the fulness of his [self] sufficiency he shall be in straits [oppression]: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.
23 When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it [this word of God from heaven] upon him while he is eating.
24 He shall flee from the iron [this strongest of all] weapon, and the bow of steel [that sharpens steel] shall strike him through.
25 It is drawn, and comes out of the body [from which the LORD speaks]; yea, the glittering sword comes out of his gall [his own words condemning him]: terrors are upon him.
26 All darkness [his ignorance of which he is ignorant] shall be hid [taman – reserved in heaven in the cloud] in his secret places [tsaphan – in the LORD’s storehouse for this moment]: a fire not blown [not from the LORD’s mouth] shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left [remains] in his tabernacle [institutions where their corruption continues to be preached and taught].
27 The heaven [this full understanding come] shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up [from death into life] against him.
28 The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.
29 This is the portion [inheritance] of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God.

The only other time the word muwcar appears in Job is in Job 36:10, as Elihu (meaning he is God speaking in the flesh unknown) is talking to Job (before he sees it is God speaking from the whirlwind).

All the following is from the post of 24 November 2024:

Job 36
1 Elihu [He is God {speaking unknown}] also proceeded, and said,
2 Suffer me a little, and I will show you that I have yet to speak [millah] on God’s behalf [this last word isn’t in the original text, which actually says “I will show yet more God words”].
3 I will fetch [nasa’ – exalt] my knowledge [dea’] from afar [rachowq – in his time when the world is ruled by the evil decrees of wicker men in power, when full understanding has come], and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker [Who has made me in His image and likeness].
4 For truly my words [millah] shall not be false: he that is perfect in knowledge is with you [in me].
5 Behold, God is mighty, and despises not any: he is mighty in strength and wisdom.
6 He preserves not the life of the wicked: but gives right to the poor.
7 He withdraws not his eyes from the righteous: but with kings are they on the throne; yea, he does establish them forever, and they are exalted.
8 And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction;
9 Then he shows them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded.
10 He opens also their ear to discipline [[muwcar – warning and correction]], and commands that they return from iniquity.
11 If they [hear these words as His, and] obey [shama’] and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
12 But if they [refuse to hear these words as His, and] obey [shama’] not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.
13 But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry not when he binds them [by their own iniquity].
14 They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean.
15 He delivers the poor in his affliction, and opens their ears [to hear His word] in oppression.
16 Even so would he have removed you out of the strait [of oppression] into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and that [these treasures] which should be set on your table should be full of fatness [prosperity].
17 But you have fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: [their cruel] judgment and [reversed] justice take hold on you.
18 Because there is wrath, beware lest he take you away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver you.
19 Will he esteem your riches? no, not gold, nor all the forces of strength.
20 Desire not the night [this time when ignorance of God covers the earth], when people are cut off [from the LORD’s presence] in their place.
21 Take heed, regard [panah – return] not [to] iniquity: for this [remaining in iniquity] have you chosen rather than affliction.
22 Behold, God exalts by his power [in His revealed word that effectually works in our minds]: who teaches like him?
23 Who has enjoined him [paqad – seeing as He sees, joined Him as Chief Overseer, Chief Shepherd, of the earth, which is] his way? or who can say [blaspheming Him], You have wrought iniquity?
24 Remember that you [when His glory is revealed in you] magnify his work, which men behold.
25 Every man may see it [His presence with us, in us]; man may behold it afar off [rachowq – this time when the world is ruled by the evil decrees of the wicked in power, now when this full understanding has come].
26 Behold [see as He sees], God is great, and we [not realizing His presence in His word] know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.
27 For he makes small the drops of water [His word sent from the least among men – I Am]: they pour down rain [His word from the cloud of heaven] according to the vapor thereof [by assembling the same elements of understand that left the earth and were held in the cloud, with Him at His throne]:
28 Which the clouds do drop and distill upon man abundantly.
29 Also, can any understand the spreading of the clouds [this exposition in the firmament, which God calls heaven], or the noise of his tabernacle?
30 Behold, he spreads his light [His understanding] upon it, and covers the bottom [sheresh – uncovers this deep understanding] of the sea [which He flows into His people].
31 For by them judges he the people; he gives meat [that gives His strength] in abundance.
32 With clouds he covers the light; and commands it not to shine by the cloud that comes betwixt [paga’ – where it is held in abeyance until this time of war].
33 The noise thereof shows concerning it, the cattle [His flock] also concerning the vapor [[held in the cloud]].

The word “noise,” in verse 29 above, rendered from the four times used word tshu’ah, is used in Isaiah 22:2 & Zachariah 4:7 to definitively tell us that the LORD’s tabernacle (made without the hands of man) is His people in whom He dwells.

The word rendered “noise” in verse 33 is the three times used word rea’, which refers us to its use in Exodus 32:17 and Micah 4:9.

Take heed:
Acts 13
38 Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins:
39 And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.
40 Beware, therefore, lest that come upon you, which is spoken of in the prophets;
41 Behold, you despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which you shall in no wise believe, though a man [here and now] declares it unto you.

Acts 17
29 Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God [flesh of His flesh, bone of His bone], we ought not to think that the God head 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 everywhere to repent:
31 Because he has appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man [I Am] whom he has ordained; whereof he has given assurance unto all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.

Friends, there’s a great battle still ahead to recover God’s people from the institutions of church and state that hold them in darkness. There is no rest until the ONE BODY of Christ has risen with an understanding of this moment and the LORD’s presence.

Isaiah 22
1 The burden of the valley of vision [this word by which the lowly see as the LORD sees]. What ails you now, that you are wholly gone up to the housetops [to escape the necessary conflict at hand]?
2 You that are full of stirs [tshu’ah], a tumultuous city, joyous city: your slain men are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle [but as cowards running from the battle].
3 All your rulers are fled together, they are bound by the archers [the false accusations of the enemies]: all that are found in you are bound together [by their fear of the wicked in power], which have fled from far [rachowq – from the evil decrees that rule this time].
4 Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labor not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.
5 For it is a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of perplexity by the LORD God [the King of kings and LORD of LORDs] of hosts [a man of war] in the valley of vision, breaking down the walls [which hold back this word and keep My people from seeing My presence in My work], and of crying to the mountains [the LORD’s call to open your mouths against the wicked in power in every institution of government in church and state].
6 And Elam bare the quiver [all who’ve lived throughout all eternity] with chariots of men and horsemen, and Kir [the wall, the lies and falsehood, interpretations’ effect that keeps wicked men in power and the world in ignorance] uncovered the shield [magen – the LORD with us as the buckler of the earth].
7 And it shall come to pass, that your choicest valleys [the low places in which the LORD reveals Himself] shall be full of chariots, and the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate [out of hell into heaven, from darkness and death into light and life].
8 And he discovered [galah – revealed in this apocalypse] the covering [macak – removing the veil and showing My presence to My elect remnant] of Judah, and you did look in that day to the armor [nasheq – revealing these weapons of My warfare] of the house of the forest [to the upright who’ve become My family by receiving me].
9 You have seen also the breaches of the city of David [My people scattered from their king], that they are many: and you gathered together the waters of the lower pool [this word sent to the lowly].
10 And you have numbered the [understood the many] houses of [old and corrupt] Jerusalem, and the houses have you broken down to fortify the wall [keeping back this word and not giving it as commanded].
11 You made also a ditch between the two walls [lie and falsehood, agreement with death and hell, under which your leaders think they hide] for the water of the old pool [keeping My written word held in your channels of ignorance]: but you have not looked unto the maker thereof [who inspired it], neither had respect unto him that fashioned it long ago [rachowq – to be revealed in this time when the earth is ruled by evil decree].
12 And in that day did the LORD God of hosts [the King of kings and LORD of LORDs, who is a man of war] call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth [when these things are revealed]:
13 And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die [going willingly, without opposition, into your own destruction, which is obviously coming to the sluggards who sleep on, refusing to believe this is that day, in the light, of the LORD].
14 And it was revealed in my ears by the LORD of hosts, Surely this iniquity shall not be purged from you till you die, says the LORD God of hosts.
15 Thus says the LORD God of hosts, Go, get you unto this treasurer [cakan – those to whom this word was entrusted], even unto Shebna [who’ve prospered by their control], which is over the house, and say,
16 What have you here? and whom have you here, that you have hewed you out a sepulcher here [where you store the dead], as he that hewn him out a sepulcher on high, and that graven a habitation for himself in a rock [from where My word should flow, but instead it is held back and replaced with men’s creations]?
17 Behold, the LORD will carry you away with a mighty captivity, and will surely cover you [‘atah – with your own confusion; see Psalms 109:29, saying “Let my adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover {‘atah} themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.”].
18 He will surely violently turn and toss you like a ball into a large country [rachab ‘erets – a confused earth]: there shall you die, and there the chariots of your glory shall be the shame of your LORD’s house [the men you follow as gods you’ve exalted above Me].
19 And I will drive you from your station, and from your state shall he pull you down.
20 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim [God raised, to be established {from quwm}] the son of Hilkiah [whose inheritance is Jehovah]:
21 And I will clothe him with your robe, and strengthen him with your girdle [this cover and preparation, contrasted against the other time ‘atah appears in Psalms 109, in verse 19, speaking of the wicked, anointed {of Satan} devils, who are cut off from the earth, saying, “19 Let it be unto him as the garment which covers {‘atah} him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually. 20 Let this be the reward of my adversaries {satan} from the LORD, and of them that speak evil against my soul.”], and I will commit your government [memshalah – governments of church and state] into his [my] hand: and he [the LORD in me] shall be a Father to the inhabitants of [New Heavenly] Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah [the elect remnant that receive me in the name of the LORD]. [Matthew 23:39 For I say unto you, You shall not see me from here forward, until you shall say, Blessed is he that comes in the name of the LORD.]
22 And the key [that opens the door] of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; so he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.
23 And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a glorious throne to his father’s house.
24 And they shall hang [the understanding of all the law and the prophets] upon him all the glory of his father’s house, the offspring and the issue [all those born by coming into His light], all [the holy] vessels of small quantity, from the [holy] vessels of cups, even to all the [holy] vessels of flagons.
25 In that day, says the LORD of hosts, shall the nail [upon which hangs the corrupt understanding of all the law and prophets] that is fastened in the sure [in which all trust] place be removed, and be cut down, and fall; and the burden that was upon it shall be cut off: for the LORD has spoken it.

The matter, the controversy as we know it, is a lack of subordination to the power God has raised. It (rebellion, in which all worldly powers are now engaged, as dogs barking in the night, this time when ignorance covers the earth, against God’s good government in church and state) is the topic of Psalms 109 (& 110), and what the LORD speaks of in Matthew 23.

Matthew 23
31 Wherefore you be witnesses unto [against] yourselves, that you are the children of them which killed the prophets.
32 Fill you up then the measure of your fathers.
33 You serpents [whose poison, which rots the minds of men, is in your mouths], you generation of vipers, how can you escape the damnation of hell [the result of your own cursing come upon you]?
34 Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them you shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall you scourge in your synagogues [all your gathering places, where truth and justice should be administered], and persecute them from city to city:
35 That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel [speaking of all in who the spirit of Cain is manifested, who kill their brothers, “Because his {Cain’s} own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous.”] unto the blood of Zacharias [all these righteous men, who the LORD now brings to remembrance] son of Barachias [who are the blessed of Jehovah], whom you slew between the temple and the altar [offering them as your evil sacrifice]. [Isaiah 66:3 …Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delight in their abominations. 4 I also will choose their delusions {their insanity they can’t differentiate from reality}, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they did not hear: but they did evil before my eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not.]
36 Truly I say unto you, All these things shall [have now] come upon this generation.
37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you that kill the prophets, and stones them which are sent unto you, how often would I have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and you would not!
38 Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.
39 For I say unto you, You shall not see me henceforth, till you shall say, Blessed is he that comes in the name of the LORD.

Psalms 109
1 Hold not your peace, O God of my praise;
2 For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.
3 They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.
4 For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer [conversing with the LORD who’s given me understanding of the matter].
5 And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
6 Set you a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand [as the spirit inspiriting them].
7 When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer [unto the gods, idols men created and put in my place, which they deceitfully call by My name] become sin.
8 Let his days be few; and let another take his office [pquddah – as the overseers, watchmen, of the earth].
9 Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow [the insane who speak and work their evil].
10 Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
11 Let the extortioner [who steals their inheritance from them] catch all that he has; and let the strangers spoil his labor.
12 Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favor his fatherless children.
13 Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out [cut off from the earth].
14 Let the iniquity of his fathers [whose knowledge is to do evil to his brothers] be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother [their teachers who teach them wisdom is to speak and work evil] be blotted out.
15 Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.
16 Because that he remembered not to show mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart [who their evil ways made desolate].
17 As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.
18 As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.
19 Let it be unto him as the garment which covers [‘atah] him, and for a girdle [preparation] wherewith he is girded continually.
20 Let this be the reward of my adversaries [satan – the reward to those who attack and accuse me] from the LORD, and of them that speak evil against my soul.
21 But do you for me, O God the LORD, for your name’s sake [in which you have sent me]: because your mercy [in our conversation at Your mercy seat] is good, deliver you me.
22 For I am poor and needy [without worldly power], and my heart is wounded within me.
23 I am gone like the shadow when it declines [as Your sun rises, showing Your glory]: I am tossed up and down as the locust [by the same winds destroying the destroyers].
24 My knees are weak through fasting [Your people remain weak through refusing Your word as Yours]; and my flesh [of Your dead body] fails of fatness [because they refuse to prosper by these treasures You’ve sent them].
25 I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shake their heads [refusing me].
26 Help me, O LORD my God [King of kings and LORD of LORDs]: O save me according to your mercy:
27 That they may know that this is your hand; that you, LORD, have done it.
28 Let them curse, but bless you: when they arise, let them be ashamed; but let your servant rejoice.
29 Let my adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover [‘atah] themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.
30 I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth; yea, I will praise him among the multitude.
31 For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul.

Zachariah 4
6 Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel [who is the national leader born by coming out of confusion], saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, says the LORD of hosts [I Am, a man of war].
7 Who are you, O great mountain [corrupt governments of church and state]? before Zerubbabel you shall become a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings [tshu’ah], crying, Grace, grace unto it.
8 Moreover, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
9 The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also finish it; and you shall know that the LORD of hosts has sent me unto you.
10 For who has despised the day of small things? for they shall rejoice and shall see the plummet [this right assessment that precedes the victory] in the hand of Zerubbabel with those seven [the church]; they are the eyes of the LORD [seeing as He sees], which run to and fro [giving this knowledge of God] through the whole earth.

Exodus 32
17 And when Joshua heard the noise [qowl – the voices] of the people as they shouted [rea’], he said unto Moses, There is a noise [qowl – voices] of war in the camp.
18 And he said, It is not the voice of them that shout for mastery, neither is it the voice of them that cry for being overcome: but the noise of them that sing do I hear [repeating the words of men they made idols they put in God’s place].
19 And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses’ [my] anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount.
20 And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it in the fire, and ground it to powder, and strawed it upon the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it.
21 And Moses said unto Aaron [the light givers now making idols], What did this people unto you, that you have brought so great a sin upon them?
22 And Aaron said, Let not the anger of my LORD wax hot: you knowest the people, that they are set on mischief.
23 For they said unto me, Make us gods, which shall go before us: for as for this Moses [the LORD’s prophet, The LORD’s voice who alone was drawn from the waters below], the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we know not what is become of him.

Acts 17
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, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;
25 Neither is worshipped with men’s hands, as though he needed anything, 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;
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 [always present with 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 [flesh of His flesh, bone of His bone].

Deuteronomy 18
18 I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto you, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.
19 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken [shama’ – hear and obey] unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.
20 But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die.
21 And if you say in your heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD has not spoken?
22 When a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow [hayah] not [is not understood or realized, comes not into being], nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD has not spoken, but the prophet has spoken it presumptuously [zadown]: you shall not be afraid of him.

Micah 4
6 In that day, says the LORD, will I assemble her that halts [became lame and wandered off the right path], and I will gather her that is driven out, and her that I have afflicted;
7 And I will make her that halts [was lame] a remnant, and her that was cast far off a strong nation: and the LORD shall reign over them in mount Zion from henceforth, even forever.
8 And you, O tower of the flock [who see as the LORD sees], the stronghold of the daughter of Zion, unto you shall it come, even the first dominion; the kingdom shall come to the daughter of [New Heavenly] Jerusalem [into whom this teach has flowed].
9 Now why do you cry [rea’] out aloud? is there no king in you? is your counsellor perished? for pangs have taken you as a woman in travail [to bring forth the ONE BODY of Christ].
10 Be in pain, and labor to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail: for now shall you go forth out of the city [out of corrupt church and state institutions], and you shall dwell in the field, and you shall go even to [realizing this is] Babylon; there shall you be delivered; there the LORD shall redeem you from the hand of your enemies.
11 Now also many nations [who haven’t known the LORD] are gathered against you, that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye look upon Zion.
12 But they know not the thoughts of the LORD, neither understand they his counsel: for he shall gather them as the sheaves into the floor.
13 Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will make your horn iron, and I will make your hoofs brass: and you shall beat in pieces many people: and I will consecrate their gain unto the LORD, and their substance unto the LORD of the whole earth.

Psalms 136
3 O give thanks to the LORD of LORDs: for his mercy endures forever.
4 To him who alone does great wonders: for his mercy endures forever.
5 To him that by wisdom made the heavens: for his mercy endures forever.
6 To him that stretched out the earth above the waters: for his mercy endures forever.
7 To him that made great lights: for his mercy endures forever:
8 The sun [the enlightened church government] to rule by day [the enlightened]: for his mercy endures forever:
9 The moon [enlightened civil government] and stars [God’s enlightened people] to rule by night [the ignorant who reject the light]: for his mercy endures forever.

Psalms 110
A Psalm of David
1 The LORD [Jehovah] said unto my LORD [‘adown – the king He will establish], Sit you at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool.
2 The LORD [Jehovah] shall send the rod of your strength out of Zion: rule you in the midst of your enemies [as I do, as commanded by the Higher power].
3 Your people shall be willing in the day of your power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning [this day now come]: you have the dew of your youth.
4 The LORD [Jehovah] has sworn, and will not repent, You are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek [the king of righteousness, and king of peace].
5 The LORD [‘Adonay – the King of kings] at your right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath.
6 He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill the places with the dead bodies; he shall wound the heads [ro’sh – those whose evil ideas and ways rule] over many countries [‘erets – over the earth].
7 He shall drink of the brook in the way [this word sent into this time, to be revealed, by which]: therefore, shall he lift up [ruwm – raise and exalt] the head [ro’sh – His righteous ideas and way].

30 April – 2 May 2025

And when it was day, they knew not the land: but they discovered a certain creek with a shore, into which they were minded, if it were possible, to thrust in the ship.

The above, Acts 27:39, is the only place the Greek word kolpos isn’t rendered bosom. In the above, it’s the “creek,” which is the Father’s bosom, into which the church, the ship (ploion), is thrust.

We’re told in verse 41, “And falling into a place where two seas [generations, the old and the new, the last and the first] met, they ran the ship aground; and the forepart stuck fast, and remained unmoveable [the foundation, the Rock and truth upon which the Chruch was formed, is all that will remain unshaken], but the hinder part was broken with the violence of the waves [of the proud, the wicked and their abominations, which shall proceed no further].”

The below, ending with John 3, is the complete post of 20 December 2017, with some additions and further editing.

Who is God? The Begotten Son (Children) of the Father, who Only (ONE BODY) is able to reveal Him (I and my Father are One. All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knows the Son, but the Father; neither knows any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.)

Continuing: John first describes the above process in John 1, speaking of the Word and Light, being God in One, coming into the world. John tells us He is unknown to all, even when seen, even by His own, due to total darkness, wherein there is no comprehension of what Light is. We understand that what is unknown is the message He is preaching and teaching: grace and truth; but to as many as received it, He gave/gives power to become the sons of God.

For those who don’t know, the specific focus of the Gospel of John is to reveal the LORD, Jesus Christ, as God Himself in the Flesh and to show His nature as our Father. When revealed and understood, we recognize that we are His children, and as the Holy Spirit describes in Hebrews and Proverbs 3, if we are children, we receive His correction. (And to as many as receive Him gives He the power to become the children of God.)

John tells us this birth is by the will of God, with (in) the LORD (Jesus) as with (in) us, and we are filled (made full) with the Father’s grace and truth. The Greek word used, in John 1:11 below to describe those who refused to “receive” Him is paralambano, meaning “to receive near, i.e. associate with oneself (in any familiar or intimate act or relation); by analogy, to assume an office; figuratively, to learn;” speaking of them hearing the teaching of the Word made flesh, and rejecting it. The word used in verses 12 & 16 to describe our having “received” the fullness (of His grace and truth, and by doing so becoming God’s offspring) is lambano, meaning “to take (in very many applications, literally and figuratively (properly objective or active, to get hold of)).”

John 1
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2 The same was in the beginning with God.
3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
5 And the light shined in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.
7 The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe.
8 He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light.
9 That was the true Light, which lights every man that comes into the world.
10 He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.
11 He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld [[theaomai – with the eye of God] his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
15 John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spoke, He that comes after me is preferred before me: for he was before me.
16 And of his fullness have all we received, and grace for grace.
17 For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
18 No man has seen God at any time, the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he has declared [exegeomai – revealed] him.

This ignorance of the message being the Word and Light come near to all, to reveal God as our Father, is what Paul speaks of in Act 17, on Mars’ hill. The place itself tells us, in using the Greek name Areios Pagos, rendered as “Mars’ hill” in verse 22, and “Areopagaus,” in verse 19, by its literal definition (martial peak), it is defining the peak of human warfare, as it is intended and should be, and is demonstrated here in this experience: God’s word and light invading and overwhelming the darkness.

Act 17
18 Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks, encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say? other some, He seems to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection.
19 And they took him, and brought him unto Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new doctrine, whereof you speak is?
20 For you bring certain strange things to our ears: we would know, therefore, what these things mean.
21 (For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing [[worthless opinions]].)
22 Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars’ hill, and said, You men of Athens [[meaning they are “uncertain” about anything]], 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 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 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.

When John, in John 1:18, tells us of the begotten Son, who is in the “bosom” of the Father, being the one who declares the Father to us, he is speaking of our being enlightened to God’s nature in judgment. What is explained is that when we become His children, we are in the Father, He is in us, and we have received the fullness of His truth through His unwavering grace, we take on His nature, replace our ignorance with His mind, and then execute His (like-minded) judgment as His extensions.

The same word, [[kalpos]] rendered “bosom,” is used in Luke 6:38, a passage speaking of judging as God judges: with no condemnation in His judgment. It tells us not to judge with a corrupted, man-created standard (measure), because in doing we judge ourselves by the same unjust imbalance. This is why Luke goes on to report the LORD saying we should get the beam out of our own eye so we can see clearly and remove the speck in the eye of others. It is speaking of acquiring (by hearing God’s teaching) the clear sight of perfect judgment, which is executed as God intends it, to produce repentance from and correct errors.

Then, the focus of the Gospel of Luke is to reveal the LORD, Jesus Christ, as God Himself in the flesh and to reveal God by showing His nature as our Father, thereby demonstrating the perfect man.

2 Corinthians 5
18 And all things are of God, who has reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and has given to us the ministry of reconciliation;
19 To wit [[hos – in this manner]], that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and has committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
20 Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though [[hos – in this manner]] God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be you reconciled to God.

Luke 6
26 Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets.
27 But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you,
28 Bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you.
29 And unto him that smites you on the one cheek offer also the other; and him that taketh away your cloak forbid not to take your coat also.
30 Give to every man that askes of you; and of him that taketh away your goods ask them not again.
31 And as you would that men should do to you, do you also to them likewise.
32 For if you love them which love you, what thank have you? for sinners also love those that love them.
33 And if you do good to them which do good to you, what thank have you? for sinners also do even the same.
34 And if you lend to them of whom you hope to receive, what thank have you? for sinners also lend to sinners, to receive as much again.
35 But love you your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and you shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.
36 Be you therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.
37 Judge not, and you shall not be judged: condemn not, and you shall not be condemned: forgive, and you shall be forgiven:
38 Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom [[kolpos]]. For with the same measure that you mete withal it shall be measured to you again.
39 And he spoke a parable unto them, Can the blind lead the blind? shall they not both fall into the ditch?
40 The disciple is not above his master: but every one that is perfect shall be as his master.
41 And why behold you the mote that is in your brother’s eye, but perceive not the beam that is in your own eye?
42 Either how can you say to your brother, Brother, let me pull out the mote that is in your eye, when you yourself behold not the beam that is in your own eye? You hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of your own eye, and then shall you see clearly to pull out the mote that is in your brother’s eye.
43 For a good tree brings not forth corrupt fruit; neither does a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
44 For every tree is known by his own fruit. For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes.
45 A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.
46 And why call you me, LORD, LORD, and do not the things which I say?
47 Whosoever comes to me, and hears my sayings, and does them [as in lambano], I will show you to whom he is like:
48 He is like a man which built a house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not shake it: for it was founded upon a rock.
49 But he that hears, and does not [[as above, not coming near {paralambano}, never learning, never catching fire]], is like a man that without a foundation built a house upon the earth; against which the stream did beat vehemently, and immediately it fell; and the ruin of that house was great.

Friends, the Holy Spirit (the LORD unknown speaking and working through Luke) uses the same Greek word, kolpos, translated five times as bosom, one other time, rendered as “creek,” in Acts 27:39, to tell us the bosom of the LORD is the same place we can turn into, when we find ourselves in the midst of the storm, which men without God have ignorantly steered us into. The ship spoken of there is the corrupted and vermin-infested religious and political institutions discussed here many times, which will not make it through this storm, for the reason mentioned above in verse 49, and the ruin of these houses is great.

When Luke writes, in Acts 27:40, of the last act of the ship, knowing it will surely destroy it, is to loose the bands steering it (the tongues of men), and to raise the mainsail, which is what allows (the Holy Spirit) the wind to take it into (the creek) the bosom of the Father. The word here translates as “mainsail” is only used this one time, and is from the Greek word arti, meaning NOW, today, at this moment in time. The word “wind” is from pneo, which is the word translated as “blows” in John 3:8, speaking of the movement of the Holy Spirit in producing the new birth. It is also the wind that comes as the storm against the two houses, in Matthew 7:25 & 27.

The picture in Acts 27 is the same spoken of in John 3, as the Son of man (the perfected man, in whom the Father manifests His presence) is lifted up and draws all men to Him. It is the work of the Holy Spirit, the heavenly things, which those who are unable to accept the earthly things spoken are unable to receive because they lack the needed foundation.

Acts 27
20 And when neither sun nor stars [[understanding in the church institution or God’s people]] in many days appeared, and no small tempest lay on us, all hope that we should be saved was then taken away.
21 But after long abstinence Paul stood forth in the midst of them, and said, Sirs, you should have hearkened unto me, and not have loosed from Crete, and to have gained this harm and loss.
22 And now I exhort you to be of good cheer: for there shall be no loss of any man’s life [[psuche]] among you, but of the ship [[ploion – the church institution]].
23 For there stood by me this night [[inthis time of ignorance]] the angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve,
24 Saying, Fear not, Paul; you must be brought before Caesar: and, lo, God has given you all them that sail with you.
25 Wherefore, sirs, be of good cheer: for I believe God, that it shall be even as it was told me.
26 Howbeit we must be cast upon a certain island.
27 But when the fourteenth [[which is followed by the fourteenth day: the time of the passover from darkness into the light, from death into life]] night was come, as we were driven up and down in Adria, about midnight the shipmen deemed that they drew near to some country;
28 And sounded, and found it twenty fathoms: and when they had gone a little further, they sounded again, and found it fifteen fathoms.
29 Then fearing lest we should have fallen upon rocks, they cast four anchors out of the stern, and wished for the day [[ligth to come, understanding to come]].
30 And as the shipmen were about to flee out of the ship, when they had let down the boat into the sea, under colour as though they would have cast anchors out of the foreship,
31 Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, Except these abide in the ship, you cannot be saved.
32 Then the soldiers cut off the ropes of the boat, and let her fall off.
33 And while the day was coming on, Paul besought them all to take meat [[this deep understanding sent into the darkness]], saying, This day is the fourteenth day that you have tarried and continued fasting, having taken nothing [[of this word of God, by which men live]].
34 Wherefore I pray you to take some meat: for this is for your health: for there shall not a hair fall from the head of any of you.
35 And when he had thus spoken, he took bread, and gave thanks to God in presence of them all: and when he had broken it, he began to eat.
36 Then were they all of good cheer, and they also took some meat [receive this deep understanding]].
37 And we were in all in the ship two hundred threescore and sixteen souls [[psuche]].
38 And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, and cast out the wheat into the sea [[cast this good seed, this word of God as received, to this generation]].
39 And when it was day [[when this light, understanding, covers the earth]], they knew not the land: but they discovered a certain creek [[kolpos]] with a shore, into which they were minded, if it were possible, to thrust in the ship [[ploion]].
40 And when they had taken up the anchors, they committed themselves unto the sea, and loosed the rudder bands, and hoisted up the mainsail to the wind, and made toward shore.
41 And falling into a place where two seas met, they ran the ship aground; and the forepart stuck fast, and remained unmoveable, but the hinder part was broken with the violence of the waves.
42 And the soldiers’ counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape.
43 But the centurion, willing to save Paul, kept them from their purpose; and commanded that they which could swim should cast themselves first into the sea, and get to land:
44 And the rest, some on boards, and some on broken pieces of the ship. And so it came to pass, that they escaped all safe to land.

Luke uses the same word [[epairo – to raise, exalt]] in verse 40 to tell of the men in the ship hoisting (“hoisted”) the mainsail, and letting the Holy Spirit take all safely into the bosom of the Father, he uses in Acts 1:9 to tell of the LORD being “taken up” into heaven, to (the bosom of, joined with) the Father.

Acts 1
7 And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father has put in his own power.
8 But you shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and you shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.
9 And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up [[epairo]]; and a cloud received him out of their sight.
10 And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel;
11 Which also said, You men of Galilee, why stand you gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up [[analambano]] from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner [[the Word of God exalted above all other voices]] as you have seen [[theaomai – theo omma: God’s eye: when we see as God’s sees]] him go into heaven [[into this full understanding]].

The like manner spoken of is as described in John 3:14.

John 3
3 Jesus answered and said unto him, Truly, truly, I say unto you, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
4 Nicodemus [those who overcome the corrupted thinking of the crowd] said unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother’s womb, and be born?
5 Jesus answered, Truly, truly, I say unto you, Except a man be born [[by the baptism, going below the surface]] of water [[the written word of God]] and [[the baptism]] of the Spirit [[the LORD with us speaking and working unknown, to lead us into all truth held below the surface of His written word]], he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
7 Marvel not that I said unto you, You must be born again.
8 The wind [[pneuma – the Spirit]] blows [[pneo]] where it wills, and you hear the sound [[phone – the voice]] thereof, but can not tell where it comes, and where it goes: so is every one that is born [[again]] of the Spirit [[pneuma]].
9 Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be?
10 Jesus answered and said unto him, Are you a master [[teacher]] of Israel, and know not these things?
11 Truly, truly, I say unto you, We speak that [in “like manner” as] we do know, and testify that [in “like manner” as] we have seen; and you receive not our witness.
12 If I have told you earthly things, and you believe not, how shall you believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?
13 And no man has ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.
14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:
15 That whosoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
18 He that believes on him is not condemned: but he that believes not is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
20 For every one that does evil hates the light, neither comes to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
21 But he that does truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
22 After these things came Jesus and his disciples into the land of Judaea; and there he tarried with them, and baptized.
23 And John also was baptizing in Aenon near to Salim, because there was much water there: and they came, and were baptized.
24 For John was not yet cast into prison.
25 Then there arose a question between some of John’s disciples and the Jews about purifying.
26 And they came unto John, and said unto him, Rabbi, he that was with you beyond Jordan, to whom you barest witness, behold, the same baptizes, and all men come to him.
27 John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven.
28 You yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but that I am sent before him.
29 He that has the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, which stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled.
30 He must increase, but I must decrease.
31 He that comes from above is above all: he that is of the earth is earthly, and speaks of the earth: he that comes from heaven is above all.
32 And what he has seen and heard, that he testifies; and no man receives his testimony.
33 He that has received his testimony has set to his seal that God is true.
34 For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God: for God gives not the Spirit by measure unto him [see Luke 6:38 above].
35 The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand.
36 He that believes on the Son has everlasting life: and he that believes not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abides on him.

As we saw in the previous post, the word kolpos is from the words kollao and pos, literally translating into who or what we are joined to.

1 Corinthians 6
17 But he that is joined [kollao] unto the LORD is one spirit.

The word, in Acts 27:37 above, rendered “souls” speaking of those in the church (ship – ploion), is psuche, speaking of life in those sleeping (in an irrational and mortal state). It is from the once-used word psucho, meaning “to breathe (voluntarily but gently, thus differing on the one hand from 4154, which denotes properly a forcible respiration; and on the other from the base of 109, which refers properly to an inanimate breeze), i.e. (by implication, of reduction of temperature by evaporation) to chill (figuratively):–wax cold.”

It (psucho) appears in Matthew 24:12, as the LORD answers the question asked in verse 3: “Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of your coming [parousia – be near {doing the work of the Paraclete}], and of the end of the world [aion – the age]?

The word parousia is from the words para and the twice-used word ousia (meaning goods or substance). It (ousia) appears in Luke 15:12 & 13, speaking of the “goods” and “substance” the prodigal son squandered. The passage tells us advent is when the LORD comes near, to return what (substance: truth in His word) men (who squandered their inheritance) took away (iniquity by which men waxed cold).

Luke 15
10 Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repents.
11 And he said, A certain man had two sons:
12 And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods [ousia] that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living.
13 And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance [ousia] with riotous living.
14 And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine [without God’s word] in that land; and he began to be in want.
15 And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.
16 And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.
17 And when he came to himself [realizing what He lost], he said, How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!
18 I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before you,
19 And am no more worthy to be called your son: make me as one of your hired servants.
20 And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.
21 And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight, and am no more worthy to be called your son.
22 But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet:
23 And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry:
24 For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.
25 Now his elder son was in the field: and as he came and drew nigh to the house, he heard music and dancing.
26 And he called one of the servants, and asked what these things meant.
27 And he said unto him, Your brother is come; and your father has killed the fatted calf, because he has received him safe and sound.
28 And he was angry, and would not go in: therefore came his father out, and intreated him.
29 And he answering said to his father, Lo, these many years do I serve you, neither transgressed I at any time your commandment: and yet you never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends:
30 But as soon as this your son was come, which has devoured your living with harlots, you have killed for him the fatted calf.
31 And he said unto him, Son, you are ever with me, and all that I have is yours.
32 It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this your brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.

Seemingly coincidentally, the LORD describes these prodigals in a passage where the word psuche, appears but isn’t translated. This place is in John 10:24, where it and airo hemon are (dubiously) rendered “do you make us to doubt.”

John 10
24 Then came the Jews round about him, and said unto him, How long do you make us to doubt [how long before you awaken us from death’s sleep]? If you be the Christ, tell us plainly [parrhesia – boldly, publicly tell us when you will awaken us].
25 Jesus answered them, I told you, and you believed not: the works that I do in my Father’s name, they bear witness of me.

1 John 1
1 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon [theaomai – seen as God sees], and our hands have handled, of the Word of life;
2 (For the life was manifested [phaneroo – rendered apparent], and we have seen it, and bear witness, and show unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested [phaneroo – rendered apparent] unto us;)
3 That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that you also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.
4 And these things write we unto you, that your joy may be full.
5 This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light [understanding], and in him is no darkness at all.
6 If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness [the ignorance taught by false prophets and false teachers], we lie, and do not the truth:
7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanses us from all sin.

1 John 2
21 I have not written unto you because you know not the truth, but because you know it, and that no lie is of the truth.
22 Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist that denies the Father and the Son.
23 Whosoever denieth the Son, the same has not the Father: he that acknowledges the Son has the Father also.
24 Let that therefore abide in you, which you have heard from the beginning. If that which you have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, you also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father.
25 And this is the promise that he has promised us, even eternal life.
26 These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you.
27 But the anointing which you have received of him abides in you, and you need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teaches you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it has taught you, you shall abide in him.
28 And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear [phaneroo – is rendered apparent], we may have confidence [parrhesia – boldness to declare His word and presence], and not be ashamed before him at his coming [parousia – comes near with the substance that was squandered away].
29 If you know that he is righteous, you know that every one that does righteousness is born of him [His Spirit with us speaking anf working unknown until we, with the Father’s eye, see Him again].

1 John 3
1 Behold, what manner of love the Father has bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knows us not, because it knew him not.
2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear [phaneroo – not yet rendered apparent] what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear [phaneroo – shall be rendered apparent], we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
3 And every man that has this hope in him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

Matthew 5
8 Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.

1 John 4
12 No man has seen [theaomai] God at any time [see John 1:14 above, not realizing until now He is the Light in the Word made flesh]. If we love one another, God dwells in us, and his love [agape – His word given] is perfected [teleioo – completed] in us.
13 Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.
14 And we have seen [theaomai – with the eye of God, the Father in His children] and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the world.
15 Whosoever shall confess that Jesus [Jehovah’s Salvation manifested in our flesh] is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.
16 And we have known and believed the love [agape – the word He has given us] that God has to us. God is love [agape – in His word]; and he that dwells in love [agape – in His word] dwell in God, and God in him.
17 Herein is our love [agape – His word] made perfect [teleioo – is completed], that we may have boldness [parrhesia – speaking His word plainly and declaring it is Him present, alive in us] in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.

John 1
14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld [theaomai] his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

The idea of waxing cold (psucho), meaning falling into death’s sleep, is better understood from the perspective of those said to be “lukewarm, and neither cold [sleeping in death] nor hot [doing the LORD’s work, going as flaming fire; as in Psalms 104:4 below],” in Revelation 3:16. The word “lukewarm” is from the once-used word chliaros, meaning “from chlio (to warm); tepid.” It speaks of those who are alive (who have this understanding) but not on fire, who (hear Him but) still don’t see their condition or the present LORD and, therefore, aren’t doing the work He is commanding them to do.

Matthew 24
11 And many false prophets shall rise [with many worthless opinions they all say are true], and shall deceive many.
12 And because iniquity [anomia] shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold [psucho – sleeping in death]. [This iniquity is the same spoken of in Matthew 23:28 Even so you also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity {anomia}. And as a mystery in 2 Thessalonians 2:7 For the mystery of iniquity {anomia} does already work: only he who now lets {katecho – holds down God’s people} will let, until he be taken out of the way. 8 and then shall that Wicked {those sitting in God’s place teaching and preaching their own words} be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth {His word}, and shall destroy with the brightness {this understanding} of his coming:]
13 But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end [telos – the conclusion] come.

The LORD, in Revelation 3:18, tells them (the lukewarm) to (from Him) buy (agorazo – be redeemed by) these treasures (gold tried in the fire), and His righteousness (white {leukos – light} raiment). He goes on to tell them “anoint your eyes with eye-salve, that you may see.” The word “eye-salve” is the Greek word kollourion, speaking of joining with him.

The following, ending with Acts 3, is from the post of 7 September 2019:

For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ. Colossians 2:5

Colossians is Paul and Timothy [[me now]] speaking to those who have received Christ into their hearts [[minds]], not as a meaningless cliché, but rather in the spirit and truth of it occurring as defined in previous posts. As we have seen, the name Colosse is associated with the Greek word kollao, meaning glue, and by extension, to join, as in they (the Colossians) have joined themselves to the LORD. These people are warned not to be seduced away from the LORD “through philosophy and vain deceit, after the traditions of men, after the rudiments [stoicheion – elements, corrupt ideas as the foundation created by men, upon which they have built their houses] of the world, and not after Christ.” The word here rendered “after” is the Greek word kata, meaning, according to, or by agreement, they are brought down (seduced) by and with these men’s corrupt foundations.

Paul is telling them Christ coming to them, present in Him, to be joined with them, is the only foundation: the mystery unknown until it is, until He is, received (knit together). Verses 1 thru 3 say, “For I would that you knew what great conflict I have for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh [Christ in his flesh]; That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgment of [Christ is us, which is] the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ; In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.”

When the LORD, in Revelation 3, speaks to the church of the Laodiceans, in verse 18 He tells them to anoint their eye with eye-salve that they may see. The word eye-salve is translated from is the Greek word kollourion, a compounding of the words kollao, glue, and eurus, wide. It is referring again to the Colossians, who have joined with the LORD by seeing Him, His face in the face of Paul, and the eye-salve is the anointing, His giving them the true riches of knowledge and wisdom hidden in Him, which broadens their perception (widens their view and joins them with Him).

Colossians 2
1 For I would that you knew what great conflict I have for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face [[the LORD’s presence]] in the flesh;
2 That their hearts might be comforted [[parkaleo – Paraclete]], being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgment of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;
3 In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
4 And this I say, lest any man should beguile you with enticing words.
5 For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.
6 As you have therefore received Christ Jesus the LORD, so walk you in him:
7 Rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.
8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments [[stoicheion – the corrupt foundational idea of men, the “elements” Peter, in 2 Peter 3:10 & 12, says melt away]] of the world, and not after Christ.
9 For in him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.
10 And you are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:
11 In whom also you are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:
12 Buried with him in baptism, wherein also you are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who has raised him from the dead.
13 And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, has he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;
14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;
15 And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of a holyday, or of the new moon, or of the Sabbath days:
17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.
18 Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
19 And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increases with the increase of God.
20 Wherefore if you be dead with Christ from the rudiments [[stoicheion]] of the world, why, as though living in the world, are you subject to ordinances,
21 (Touch not; taste not; handle not;
22 Which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and [[false]] doctrines of men?
23 Which things have indeed a show of wisdom in will worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body: not in any honor to the satisfying of the flesh.

Revelation 3
14 And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans [the people upon which this day of God’s judgment has come] write; These things says the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;
15 I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot: I would you wert cold or hot.
16 So then because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew you out of my mouth.
17 Because you say, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and know not that you are wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
18 I counsel you to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that you may be rich; and white raiment, that you may be clothed, and that the shame of your nakedness do not appear; and anoint your eyes with eye-salve [kollourion], that you may see.
19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
20 Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
21 To him that overcomes will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.
22 He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says unto the churches.

The word face, in Colossians 2:1, is prosopon, which leads us to Acts 3:19 where it is rendered presence. There it’s the LORD’s presence, His glory manifested through Peter and John, which is said to be the refreshing, as they give the true riches of the LORD to the lame beggar (the pattern of the TV preachers – who are always asking for silver and gold), and heal him.

Acts 3
4 And Peter, fastening his eyes upon him with John, said, Look on us.
5 And he gave heed unto them, expecting to receive something of them.
6 Then Peter said, Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I you: In the name [[identity]] of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk.
7 And he took him by the right hand, and lifted him up: and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength [as if the dirt {the corruption of the journey} was washed from their feet. Or, the clay was removed from the iron, the feet that were clay mixed with iron, and only strength remained. Isaiah 40:31 But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles [[the final, fourth, face Ezekiel saw in the wheel within the wheel, understanding given by the unfolding presence of the LORD revealed by the voice of the man speaking, working, and exalted]]; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.]
8 And he leaping up stood, and walked, and entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God.
9 And all the people saw him walking and praising God:
10 And they knew that it was he which sat for alms at the Beautiful [see Isaiah 51:1 & 52:7] gate of the temple: and they were filled with wonder and amazement at that which had happened unto him.
11 And as the lame man which was healed held Peter and John, all the people ran together unto them in the porch that is called Solomon’s, greatly wondering.
12 And when Peter saw it, he answered unto the people, You men of Israel, why marvel you at this? or why look you so earnestly on us, as though by our own power or holiness we had made this man to walk?
13 The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his Son Jesus [the God of the living, showing His risen Son in them and through them]; whom you delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let him go.
14 But you denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you;
15 And killed the Prince of life, whom God has raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses.
16 And his name through faith in his name has made this man strong, whom you see and know: yea, the faith which is by him has given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.
17 And now, brethren, I wot [know] that through ignorance you did it, as did also your rulers.
18 But those things, which God before had sheown by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he has so fulfilled.
19 Repent you therefore, and be converted [revert, return to the true God], that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing [anapsuxis – recover breath, come to life by receiving the His Holy Spirit – referring us to Isaiah 28:12 ] shall come from the presence [prosopon] of the LORD.
20 And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you:
21 Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things [[squandered away]], which God has spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.
22 For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the LORD your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall you hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you.
23 And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people.
24 Yea, and all the prophets from Samuel and those that follow after, as many as have spoken, have likewise foretold of these days.
25 You are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in your seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.
26 Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities.

Isaiah 28
5 In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem [tsphiyrah – the morning come] of beauty, unto the residue of his people,
6 And for a spirit of judgment to him that sits in judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate.
7 But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
8 For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.
9 Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine [shmuw’ah – this voice of Jehovah heard]? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.
10 For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:
11 For with stammering lips and another tongue [this truth you don’t understand and have mocked] will he speak to this people.
12 To whom he said, This is the rest [mnuwchah – manoah: this rest] wherewith you may cause the weary to rest [nuwach – Noah: those who reach the expected end]; and this is the refreshing [marge’ah – only used here; ma raga’: what quieting of {rest from} the proud waves of the sea: who are agitating humanity]: yet they would not hear.
13 But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, you scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because you have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell [sheol – the habitation of the dead] are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus says the LORD God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation [for the new earth]: he that believes shall not make haste [chuwsh – when I hasten the end of the wicked]. [Isaiah 60:22 A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one {tsa’iyr} a strong nation: I the LORD will hasten {chuwsh} it in his time {when the LORD is revealed by His everlasting light manifested in the flesh}.]
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail [this word frozen in heaven until now] shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place [the lies of the wicked].
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell [sheol] shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge [of correction] shall pass through, then you shall be trodden down [as dung upon the dunghill] by it.
19 From the time that it goes forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation [because of the filthy conversation of the wicked] only to understand the report [shmuw’ah – to hear this word as the voice of Jehovah, His arm revealed, and obey].

Psalms 104
1 Bless the LORD, O my soul. O LORD my God, you are very great; you are clothed with honor and majesty.
2 Who covers yourself with light [understanding] as with a garment: who stretches out the heavens like a curtain:
3 Who lays the beams of his chambers in the waters [His word]: who makes the clouds [where understanding is kept when it is removed from the earth] his chariot: who walks upon the wings [kanaph] of the wind:
4 Who makes his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire:
5 Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed forever.
6 You covered it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains.
7 At your rebuke they fled; at the voice of your thunder [the sound of understanding] they hasted away.
8 They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which you have founded for them.
9 You have set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth.
10 He sends the springs into the valleys, which run among the hills.
11 They give drink to every beast of the field: the wild asses quench their thirst.
12 By them shall the fowls of the heaven have their habitation, which sing among the branches.
13 He waters the hills from his chambers: the earth is satisfied with the fruit of your works.
14 He causes the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;
15 And wine that [changes minds] makes glad the heart of man, and oil [that fuels the light] to make his face to shine [paniym – His presence giving us light, understanding], and bread [God’s word expanded upon] which strengthens man’s heart [rational mind].
16 The trees [upright] of the LORD are full of sap; the cedars of Lebanon [purity], which he has planted;
17 Where the birds make their nests: as for the stork, the fir trees are her house.
18 The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats; and the rocks for the conies.
19 He appointed the moon [civil governments] for seasons: the sun [the church] knows his going down.
20 You make darkness [ignorance], and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth.
21 The young lions [the second face of the unfolding presence of the LORD God] roar [His word] after their prey, and seek their meat [this deep understanding] from God.
22 The sun [the church] arises, they gather themselves together, and lay them down in their dens.
23 Man goes forth unto his work and [like an ox] to his labor until the evening.
24 O LORD, how manifold are your works! in wisdom have you made them all: the earth is full of your riches [the treasure from His storehouse].
25 So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts.
26 There go the ships [in the church institution]: there is that leviathan [the priesthood], whom you have made to play therein.
27 These wait all upon you; that you may give them their meat [this deep understanding] in due season.
28 That you give them they gather: you open your hand, they are filled with good.
29 You hide your face [paniym – His presence], they are troubled: you take away their breath, they die, and return to their dust [‘aphar – the ashes of the earth’s ruin without Him].
30 You send forth your spirit, they are created [again from the ashes]: and you renew the face of [paniym – by Your presence] the earth.
31 The glory of the LORD shall endure forever: the LORD shall rejoice in his works.
32 He looks on the earth, and it trembles [ra’ad]: he touches the hills, and they smoke.
33 I will sing unto the LORD as long as I live: I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.
34 My meditation of him shall be sweet: I will be glad in the LORD.
35 Let the sinners be consumed out of the earth, and let the wicked be no more. Bless you the LORD, O my soul. Praise you the LORD.