I am publishing a book of some of my blog posts. Its title is “Real Conversations with the LORD,” and it is subtitled “The Fall of Babylon.” The cover will feature the attached Painting by Pieter Bruegel.
Here is the prologue.
This compilation is drawn from a series of blog posts I’ve written over the years, the book spanning the period from 15 April 2025 to 23 June 2025. They represent a fraction of the countless conversations I’ve shared since my overwhelming spiritual awakening on 10 May 1994. Each post is part of an ongoing journey: an intimate dialogue with the LORD, who continues to daily transform me and those who hear Him as the enlightenment, giving an ever deeper understanding of His presence and manner.
That decisive day in May 1994 marked the beginning of a transformation I never anticipated. I was sitting in my yard, engrossed in a book (about the end times, written by an author I later came to understand was one of many false prophets who by consent trespassed into things forbidden), entirely unaware that a solar eclipse was occurring as I read. In a moment of intrepid ignorance, I issued a challenge to the LORD, saying, “If You are who You say You are, show me something. Prove it to me.” What followed was nothing short of astonishing.
The LORD, overlooking my petulance, very quickly responded to my challenge in ways I couldn’t have imagined. He revealed His presence not just in my thoughts but through a series of coincidences that aligned seamlessly (my thoughts) with external events and even the natural world around me. It was as if, in these experiences, the physical universe itself was metaphysically speaking, confirming His omnipotence and intimate involvement in every aspect of my life and creation. He, speaking to me in my own thoughts, posed a simple yet profound question to me: “Now that I’ve shown you, what will you do?” My answer, after a moment of consideration, was absolute and genuine: “I’m in. Please, show me more.”
From that moment onward, my life became an ongoing conversation with the LORD. Every thought, every event, every encounter seemed to carry His signature, guiding me and teaching me. These blogs are a testament to that journey, a collection of moments where the flesh veil between the Divine and the earthly is torn open, giving sight of His presence and purpose, through our conversation at His mercy seat.
Through these writings, my hope is to invite others into this conversation, to share in the experience of His presence as I have. I believe (know) that in doing so, others may come to recognize His hand in their own lives, just as I have in mine (which is, in fact, life from the dead, mortal man putting on immortality). This compilation is more than a personal record; it is an offering, a confession of faith, a bridge to connect hearts and souls with the ever-present, ever-loving Creator, our Father who continues to guide and reveal Himself to those who diligently seek Him.
As I close this introduction, I am reminded of the words of Jeremiah 29:13, the LORD therein saying, “You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart [mind].” And John 14: 20, “At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.” May these reflections of His light kindle the fire of His Spirit in you to seek Him, and putting off worldly corruption, with your whole mind, discover the unfathomable depths of His presence and guidance.
Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and fear is on every side.
Friends, for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. I tell you the Truth: we are in just as precarious a position as we were, if not greater, with Iran and her allies. Every enemy we have will use the cover of Iran to attack us and will escalate their support for Iran in its war against us. They will here at home support and foment division between those who saw this effect as inevitable and those who ignored it. Those protecting our leaders should be on a heightened watch: (obviously) President Trump and His inner circle specifically, from threats domestic (the deep state) and foreign.
This action, following apostate Israel’s (the zealots’ in the so-called evangelical movement) and Judah’s (the Jews) ignorant interpretations and manipulation, has set the course for the destruction of this nation. And they (unwittingly) walked US right into it. They (the known enemies of the cross of Christ) demonize any saying such things and will, thereby, together with known enemies, complete what they (the known enemies foreign and domestic) couldn’t do without them (the still flesh-minded Christians and Jews).
In the title verse, where the LORD began today, Jeremiah 6:25, the word rendered fear is magowr, meaning “or (Lamentation 2:22) maguwr {maw-goor’}; from 1481 in the sense of fearing; a fright (objective or subjective):–fear, terror.”
Thus says the LORD:
Jeremiah 6 26 O daughter of my people, gird you with sackcloth, and wallow yourself in ashes: make you mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly [pith’own] come upon us. 27 I have set you for a tower and a fortress among my people, that you may know and try their way [but they would not hear or obey]. 28 They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: they are brass and iron [strong and formed by the world]; they are all corrupters. 29 The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melts in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away [they are not purified of their slander or corruption]. 30 Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the LORD has rejected them.
The word, in verse 29, rendered “plucked away,” is the nathaq, speaking of wickedness not taken away in the fires these corrupters’ ways have caused, which is further defined in the words earlier used in Jeremiah 2:20 & 5:5.
Jeremiah 2 19 Your own wickedness shall correct you, and your backslidings [again into wickedness] shall reprove you: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that you have forsaken the LORD your God, and that my fear is not in you, says the LORD God of hosts. 20 For of old time I have broken your yoke [of the misleaders you were joined with in thought and deed], and burst your bands [nathaq – the wickedness possessing you]; and you said, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree you wandered, playing the harlot. 21 Yet I had planted you a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then are you [Christians and Jews] turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me? 22 For though you wash you with nitre, and take you much soap, yet your iniquity is marked [in your head and hand, your thoughts and works against me] before me [paniym – in My presence you refuse], says the LORD God.
Jeremiah 5 1 Run you to and fro [seeking] through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if you can find a man, if there be any that executes judgment, that seeks the Truth; and I will pardon it. 2 And though they say, The LORD lives; surely they swear falsely [taking My name in vain as they pray to their idols they put in My place]. 3 O LORD, are not your eyes upon the Truth? you have stricken them, but they have not grieved; you have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return. 4 Therefore I said, Surely these are poor [without worldly power, refusing My treasures, lacking understanding]; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the LORD, nor the judgment of their God. 5 I will get me unto the great men [who should know My ways], and will speak unto them; for they have known the way of the LORD, and the judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke, and burst the bonds [nathaq – forgotten that I freed them from the same wickedness that now again possessed them]. 6 Wherefore a lion [falsely saying they are speaking for the LORD] out of the forest [falsely so called upright men] shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings [enemies among them scattering them away from My flock] shall spoil them, a leopard [those who cannot change their ways] shall watch over their cities: every one that goes out [away from Me] thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased. 7 How shall I pardon you for this [rejecting correction]? your children have forsaken me, and sworn by them [men they follow, in whom they put their trust, and are, thereby, self-cursed] that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full [with My word, this feast], they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots’ houses [whose ways are the way into death and hell]. 8 They were as fed horses in the morning [fed when this light has come]: every one neighed after his neighbor’s wife [to entice others into their same old corruption]. 9 Shall I not visit [paqad – manifest My presence as Chief Shepherd and Overseer] for these things? says the LORD: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation [My people who refuse to know Me] as this? 10 Go you up upon her walls [as a standard, the nec upon which the son of man must be lifted, on the wall of Babylon], and destroy; but make not a full end [kalah]: take away her battlements; for they are not the LORD’s. 11 For the house of Israel [Christians] and the house of Judah [Jews] have dealt very treacherously against me, says the LORD. 12 They have belied [kachash – been untrue, denied, and refused to submit to] the LORD, and said, It is not He; neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine [both speaking of this word they reject]: 13 And the prophets shall become wind [false doctrines that carry them away], and the word [of the LORD] is not in them: thus shall it be done unto them. 14 Wherefore thus says the LORD God of hosts, Because you speak this word [of corruption against Me], behold [when you see], I will make my words in your mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them [corrupt men who choose to remain in their corruption, whose thoughts and works against the Truth are the evil that marks them].
Friends, the misleaders are those, knowing or not, who claim they are lights, but the understanding in them is deep darkness and the shadow (blocking the light) of death.
2 Corinthians 11 13 For such are false apostles [saying they are followers of Christ], deceitful workers, transforming [metaschematizo] themselves into the apostles of Christ. 14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed [metaschematizo] into an angel of light. 15 Therefore, it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed [metaschematizo] as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their [evil, misleading, slandering good] works.
Psalms 81 11 But my people would not hearken to [shama’ – obey] my voice; and Israel would none [lo’] of me. [Which is why He calls them Lo’ammiy {Loammi}: not My people.] 12 So I gave them up unto their own hearts’ lust: and they walked in their own counsels. 13 Oh that my people had hearkened [shama’ – obeyed] unto me, and Israel [Christians and Jews] had walked in my ways! 14 I should soon have subdued their enemies [far and near], and turned my hand against their adversaries. 15 The haters of the LORD would have submitted [kachash] themselves unto him: but their time would have endured forever. 16 He would have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey [strength – order found in subordination] out of the rock [I Am] should I have satisfied you.
1 John 2 14 I have written unto you, fathers [whom the LORD first awakened], because you have known him that is from the beginning [the word in us, made flesh]. I have written unto you, young men [here and now born again by receiving His mind], because you are strong [have understanding], and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the wicked one. 15 Love [agapao – give] not the [corrupt words of] world, neither the things [of confusion – Babylon] that are in the world. If any man love [agapao – gives the corrupt words of] the world [misleading by corruption and confusion], the love [agape – leading into all Truth, by this word He has given us to give as received] of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. 17 And the [old and corrupt] world passes away, and the lust thereof: but he that does the will of God abides forever. 18 Little children, it is the last time [eschatos hora – final hour]: and as you have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists [enemies of the cross of Christ]; whereby we know that it is the last time. 19 They went out from us, but they [false apostles] were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us. 20 But you have an unction [chrisma – an anointing] from the Holy One, and you know all things. 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 denies that Jesus [Jehovah’s Salvation manifested in the flesh of those He chooses] is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denies the Father and the Son [in whom the Father manifests His presence]. 23 Whosoever denies the Son, the same has not the Father: he that acknowledges [homologeo – which the same words confesses] the Son has the Father also. 24 Let that therefore abide in you, which you have heard from the beginning [by the word made flesh]. If that which you have heard [the light: this understanding] from the beginning shall remain [meno] in you, you also shall continue [meno – remain] 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 [grapho – written to be sent in this wheel within a wheel] unto you concerning them that seduce [planao – planets, false stars misleading those who follow them in the darkness] you. 27 But the anointing [chrisma – this gift of the Father’s mind poured into your heads] 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 – becomes apparent to you], we may have confidence [parrhesia – meaning to open our mouths with “all out-spokenness, i.e. frankness, bluntness, publicity; by implication, assurance”], and not be ashamed before him [in His presence] at his coming. 29 If you know that he is righteous, you know that every one that does righteousness is born of him.
So, the haters will hate, based on their own perverted and misleading creations in the LORD’s name, and will say that I Am saying these men (all now held in wickedness) must and have come to a full end (kalah). But, as above in Psalms 81:15, the LORD says if they subordinate their corrupt thinking to His mind, as prodigals returned, and, in Jeremiah 5:10 (by which I Am willingly bound), I will not (of them) make a full end (kalah).
Ezekiel 33 1 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, speak to the children of your people, and say unto them, When I bring the sword [this word all at first refuse] upon a land, if the people of the land take a man of their coasts, and set him for their watchman [tsaphah – an overseer and shepherd to, from Me, show them things hidden but that are coming]: 3 If when he sees the sword come upon the land [‘erets – the earth], he blows the trumpet [opens His mouth declaring, confessing, it is the LORD coming], and warns the people; 4 Then whosoever hears the sound of the trumpet, and taketh not warning; if the sword comes, and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head. 5 He heard the sound of the trumpet [this voice of His archangel], and took not warning; his blood shall be upon him. But he that takes warning shall deliver his soul. 6 But if the watchman [tsaphah – the revealer of things hidden] sees the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword comes, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in [by] his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman’s [tsaphah] hand. 7 So you, O son of man, I have set you a watchman [tsaphah] unto the house of Israel; therefore you shall hear the word at my mouth, and warn them from me. 8 When I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, you shall surely die; if you do not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at your hand. 9 Nevertheless, if you warn the wicked of his way to turn from it; if he does not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered your soul. 10 Therefore, O you son of man, speak unto the house of Israel; Thus you speak, saying, If our transgressions and our sins be upon us, and we pine away [maqaq – a key-word we have often here discussed] in them, how should we then live? 11 Say unto them, As I live, says the LORD God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn you, turn you from your evil ways; for why will you die, O house of Israel? 12 Therefore, you son of man, say unto the children of your people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression: as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turns from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be able to live for his righteousness in the day that he sins. 13 When I shall say to the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trusts to his own righteousness, and commit iniquity, all his righteousness shall not be remembered; but for his iniquity that he has committed, he shall die for it. 14 Again, when I say unto the wicked, You shall surely die; if he turns from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right; 15 If the wicked restore the pledge, give again that he had robbed, walk in the statutes of life, without committing iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die. 16 None of his sins that he has committed shall be mentioned unto him: he has done that which is lawful and right; he shall surely live. 17 Yet the children of your people say, The way of the LORD is not equal: but as for them, their way is not equal. [Remember Leviticus 24:16, saying “And he that blasphemes {naqab – pierces; vilifies} the name {defining character: work and word: manner} of the LORD, he shall surely be put to death {muwth}, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him {with this word that flows from you, doing Him good, which are as coals of fire upon his head}: as well the stranger, as he that is born in the land, when he blasphemes {naqab} the name {identity} of the LORD, shall be put to death {muwth}.” And Numbers 15:29, saying “You shall have one law for him that sins through ignorance, both for him that is born among the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourns among them.”] 18 When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, he shall even die thereby. 19 But if the wicked turn from his wickedness, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby. 20 Yet you say, The way of the LORD is not equal. O you house of Israel, I will judge you everyone after his ways. 21 And it came to pass in the twelfth year [representing governmental perfection] of our captivity, in the tenth month [ordinal perfection], in the fifth day [God’s grace] of the month, that one that had escaped out of Jerusalem came unto me, saying, The city is smitten. 22 Now the hand of the LORD was upon me in the evening [when ignorance was still the cover of the earth], afore [paniym – before the presence of the LORD was realized as the One speaking and working to save those who heard and heeded His warning] he that was escaped came; and had opened my mouth [warning the wicked and the self-righteous], until he came to me in the morning [when this light, this understanding, was come]; and my mouth was opened, and I was no more dumb. 23 Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 24 Son of man, they that inhabit those wastes of the land of Israel speak, saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited the land: but we are many; the land is given us for inheritance. 25 Wherefore say unto them, Thus says the LORD God; You eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood: and shall you possess the land? 26 You stand upon your sword, you work abomination, and you defile every one his neighbor’s wife: and shall you possess the land? 27 Say you thus unto them, Thus says the LORD God; As I live, surely they that are in the wastes shall fall by the sword [this warning they refuse], and him that is in the open field will I give to the beasts [those without My good counsel, without My Spirit in them] to be devoured, and they that be in the forts and in the caves shall die of the pestilence [the disease in what they prescribe]. 28 For I will lay the land most desolate, and the pomp of her strength shall cease; and the mountains [their corrupt leaders in church and state] of Israel shall be desolate, that none shall pass through. 29 Then shall they know that I am the LORD, when I have laid the land most desolate because of all their abominations which they have committed [and still they refuse]. 30 Also, you son of man, the children of your people still are talking against you by the walls and in the doors of the houses, and speak one to another, every one to his brother, saying, Come, I pray you, and hear what is the word that comes forth from the LORD. 31 And they come unto you as the people comes, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their covetousness [betsa’ – the “gain” that should be devoted to the LORD – see Micah 4:13]. 32 And, lo, you are unto them as a very lovely song of one that has a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument: for they hear your words, but they do them not. 33 And when this comes to pass, (lo, it will [has] come,) then shall they know that a prophet has been among them.
2 Samuel 22 1 And David spoke unto the LORD the words of this song in the day that the LORD had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul: 2 And he said, The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; 3 The God of my rock; in him will I trust: he is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my savior; you save me from violence [chamac]. 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 floods of ungodly men made me afraid; 6 The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented [were set before] 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 came down; and darkness was under his feet. 11 And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: and he was seen upon the wings [kanaph] of the wind [the voice of His Spirit moving]. 12 And he made darkness [ignorance of Him] pavilions round about him, dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies. 13 Through the brightness before him were coals of fire kindled. 14 The LORD thundered from heaven, and the Most High uttered his voice. 15 And he sent out arrows, and scattered them; lightning [His understanding], and discomfited them. 16 And the channels of the sea [His word flowing to His people] appeared, the foundations of the world were discovered, at the rebuking of the LORD, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils. 17 He sent from above, he took me; he drew me out of many waters [the confused language of this time when insanity rules]; 18 He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them that hated me: for they were too strong for me. 19 They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay. 20 He brought me forth also into a large place: he delivered me, because he delighted in me. 21 The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness: according to the cleanness of my hands has he recompensed me. 22 For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God. 23 For all his judgments were before me: and as for his statutes, I did not depart from them. 24 I was also upright before him, and have kept myself from my iniquity. 25 Therefore the LORD has recompensed me according to my righteousness; according to my cleanness in his eye sight. 26 With the merciful you will show yourself merciful, and with the upright man you will show yourself upright. 27 With the pure you will show yourself pure [barar]; and with the froward [those twisting and perverting truth] you will show yourself unsavory. 28 And the afflicted people you will save: but your eyes are upon the haughty, that you may bring them down. 29 For you are my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten [give understanding to] my darkness [of the things of which I am ignorant]. 30 For by you I have run through a troop: by my God have I leaped over a wall [of lies upon lies]. 31 As for God, his way is perfect; the word of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler to [magen – the shield covering] all them that trust in him. 32 For who is God, save the LORD? and who is a rock, save our God? 33 God is my strength and power [chayil]: and he makes my way perfect. 34 He makes my feet like hinds’ feet: and sets me upon my high places [bamah]. 35 He teaches my hands to war; so that a bow of steel is broken by my arms. 36 You have also given me the shield of your salvation: and your gentleness [‘anavah – humility] has made me great. 37 You have enlarged my steps under me; so that my feet did not slip. 38 I have pursued my enemies, and destroyed them; and turned not again until I had consumed them. 39 And I have consumed them, and wounded them, that they could not arise: yea, they are fallen under my feet. 40 For you have girded me with strength [chayil] to battle: them that rose up against me have you subdued under me. 41 You have also given me the necks of my enemies, that I might destroy them that hate me. 42 They looked, but there was none to save; even unto the LORD, but he answered them not. 43 Then did I beat them as small as the dust of the earth, I did stamp them as the mire of the street, and did spread them abroad. 44 You also have delivered me from the strivings of my people, you have kept me to be head of the heathen: a people which I knew not shall serve me. 45 Strangers shall submit [kachash – shall be found liars] themselves unto me [warned, realizing they’ve been deceived and are spreading deception that destroys others and will destroy them]: [they will believe] as soon as they hear, they shall be obedient unto me. 46 Strangers shall fade away [for all shall know the LORD], and they shall be afraid out of their close places. 47 The LORD lives; and blessed be my rock [from whom this living water flows]; and exalted be the God of the rock of my salvation [His voice above all others]. 48 It is God that avenges me, and that brings down the people under me. 49 And that brings me forth from my enemies: you also have lifted me up on high above them that rose up against me: you have delivered me from the violent man [chamac]. 50 Therefore I will give thanks unto you, O LORD, among the heathen, and I will sing praises unto your name. 51 He is the tower of salvation for his king: and shows mercy to his anointed, unto David, and to his seed forevermore.
Proverbs 27 11 My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may [through you] answer him that reproaches me. 12 A prudent man foresees the evil, and hides himself [before He is snared in it]; but the simple pass on, and are punished. 13 Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman. 14 He that blesses his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be counted a curse to him. 15 A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman [never satisfied] are alike. 16 Whosoever hides her hides the wind, and the ointment of his right hand, which betrays itself. 17 Iron [barzel] sharpens iron [barzel – others who will rightly separate corruption from the pure, making things clearly seen]; so a man sharpens the countenance of [paniym – the LORD’s presence manifested to and then in] his friend [in this way]. 18 Whoso keeps the fig tree [guards and protects God’s people from corruption] shall eat the fruit thereof: so he that waits on his master [the LORD God] shall be honored. 19 As in water face [paniym – in the word of God His presence is seen] answers to face [paniym – and in hearing His word from us His presence is seen identically], so the heart [mind] of [enlightened] man to [enlighten other enlightened] man. 20 Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied [never saying it is enough, now we see Him and will purge out corruption]. 21 As the fining pot for silver, and the furnace for gold; [to separate corruption from the pure] so is a man to his praise. 22 Though you shouldest bray [mix] a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not [without purging his corruption from the pure] his foolishness depart from him. 23 Be you diligent to know the state of your flocks [to see if there is corruption defiling what must be pure], and look [make] well to your herds [by purging corrupt as we must]. 24 For riches are not forever [all truly valuable understanding tends toward corruption over time]: and does the crown [just rule] endure to every generation?
2 Samuel 23 1 Now these are the last words of David. David the son of Jesse said, and the man who was raised up on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel, said, 2 The Spirit of the LORD spoke by me, and his word was in my tongue. 3 The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spoke to me, He that rules over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God. 4 And he shall be as the light of the morning [the understanding that brings this new day], when the sun rises [the LORD’s ONE BODY, The Church], even a morning [a new day] without clouds [when understanding is on the earth, as it is in heaven]; as the tender grass springing [new life from earth, as on the third day of creation] out of the earth by clear shining [air cleared of the smoke that came from the bottomless pit, by the understanding sent forth from the LORD] after rain [His living water sent from heaven]. 5 Although my house be not [yet] so with God; yet he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for this is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he make it not to grow [until now at this promised end, tribulation from which we are delivered]. 6 But the sons of Belial [who worship the idols that have corrupted heaven and earth] shall be all of them as thorns [misleaders] thrust away, because they cannot be taken with hands: 7 But the man that shall touch them must be fenced with iron [barzel] and the staff of a spear; and they shall be utterly burned with fire in the same place.
Lamentations 2 1 How has the LORD covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud [removing understanding from the earth] in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger! 2 The LORD has swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and has not pitied: he has thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of the daughter of Judah; he has brought them down to the ground: he has polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof. 3 He has cut off in his fierce anger all the horn of Israel: he has drawn back his right hand [His power and work] from before [paniym – of His presence against] the enemy, and he burned against Jacob like a flaming fire, which devours round about. 4 He has bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and slew all that were pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he poured out his fury like fire. 5 The LORD was as an enemy: he has swallowed up Israel, he has swallowed up all her palaces: he has destroyed his strong holds, and has increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation. 6 And he has violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: he has destroyed his places of the assembly: the LORD has caused the solemn feasts and Sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and has despised in the indignation [za’am] of his anger the king and the priest. 7 The LORD has cast off his altar, he has abhorred his sanctuary, he has given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have made a noise in the house of the LORD, as in the day of a solemn feast. 8 The LORD has purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he has stretched out a line, he has not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together. 9 Her gates are sunk into the ground; he has destroyed and broken her bars: her king and her princes are among the Gentiles: the law is no more; her prophets also find no vision from the LORD. 10 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground. 11 My eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city. 12 They say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine [where is the teaching that gives knowledge, wisdom, and understanding]? when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was poured out into their mothers’ bosom. 13 What thing shall I take to witness for you? what thing shall I liken to you, O daughter of Jerusalem? what shall I equal to you, that I may comfort you [lead you into truth], O virgin daughter of Zion? for your breach is great like the sea: who can heal you? 14 Your prophets have seen vain and foolish things for you: and they have not discovered your iniquity [as do God’s true and faithful prophets], to turn away your captivity; but have seen for you false burdens and causes of banishment. 15 All that pass by clap their hands at you; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth? 16 All your enemies have opened their mouth against you: they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed her up: certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it. 17 The LORD has done that which he had devised; he has fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old: he has thrown down, and has not pitied: and he has caused your enemy to rejoice over you, he has set up the horn [the power] of your adversaries. 18 Their heart cried unto the LORD, O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night: give yourself no rest; let not the apple of your eye [His pupils He’s taught to see as He sees] cease. 19 Arise, cry out in the night [now when darkness covers the earth]: in the beginning of the watches pour out your heart [His mind] like water before the face [paniym – manifesting the presence] of the LORD: lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young children, that faint for hunger [without His word heard] in the top of every street. 20 Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom you have done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the LORD? 21 The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword [this word they refuse]; you have slain them in the day of your anger; you have killed, and not pitied [Loruhamah – meaning not pitied; see Hosea 1:6, the daughter of Hosea and Gomer his harlot wife]. 22 You have called as in a solemn day my terrors [maguwn] round about, so that in the day of the LORD’s anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up has my enemy consumed.
Men will says, “Why has the LORD caused this and not prevented it?” These are the ignorant questions meant only to cause an endless agitation, the continued argument against those the LORD has sent as His answer. His prophets are the preventive measure and the intervention, both of which are ignored by men who sit in seats of power, the leading sources of the troubles, only wanting to keep and gain more power, feckless men who never solve anything.
2 Peter 2 17 These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved forever. 18 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error. 19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage. 20 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the LORD and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, [and like the swept house] the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. [Matthew 12:45 Then goes he, and takes with himself seven other spirits {the old and corrupt ways of the God’s people} more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation {as it is}.] 21 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. 22 But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.
Jeremiah 4 1 If you will return, O Israel, says the LORD, return unto me: and if you will put away your abominations out of my sight, then shall you not remove [nuwd – shall not wander in the wilderness any longer]. 2 And you shall swear, The LORD lives, in truth, in judgment, and in righteousness; and the nations [those who haven’t known Him] shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory. 3 For thus says the LORD to the men of Judah [the leaders of God’s people] and Jerusalem [His people at large], Break up your fallow ground [niyr – hardened without this word from heaven], and sow not among thorns [misleaders speaking their own words]. 4 Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart [the flesh covering your mind and keeping you from seeing the LORD present with us, in us], you men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings. 5 Declare you in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, Blow you the trumpet in the land [‘erets – the earth, declaring it is the time when the LORD’s presence is revealed in His word heard from us]: cry, gather together [with Him into His ONE BODY], and say, Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the defensed cities [in His presence]. 6 Set up the standard [nec – the pole upon which the son of man must be lifted, as Moses lifted the serpent in the wilderness] toward Zion [where the LORD reigns over the earth through His people in whom He dwells]: retire, stay not [in the old and corrupt world]: for I will bring evil from the north [revealing the ignorance of the old], and a great destruction [that the wicked in power have wrought]. 7 The lion [roaring as if they are gods] is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles [those who haven’t known the LORD] is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make your land [‘erets -the old earth] desolate; and your cities shall be laid waste [as they are], without an inhabitant [without any living man]. 8 For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us. 9 And it shall come to pass at that day, says the LORD, that the heart [sound mind] of the king [the communists now in power in church and state] shall perish, and the heart [minds] of the princes; and the priests shall be astonished [without any understanding of this moment of the LORD’s manifested presence], and the prophets shall wonder [what they experiencing]. 10 Then said I, Ah, LORD God! surely you have greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, [by their false prophets] saying, You shall have peace; whereas the sword [this word they refuse] reaches unto the soul. 11 At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A dry wind of the high places [the words of men power] in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse, 12 Even a full wind from those places shall come unto me [ending the old heaven and earth]: now also will I give sentence against them [that all but the very few elect remnant are dead and here in hell]. 13 Behold, he [I Am] shall come up as clouds [the full understanding that left the earth], and his chariots shall be as a whirlwind [the LORD’s Almighty Spirit, from where His voice is heard]: his horses are swifter than eagles [the final face of the LORD’s unfolding presence manifested in the wheel within a wheel]. Woe unto us! for we are spoiled [without any understanding]. 14 O Jerusalem, wash [with these waters from heaven] your heart [minds] from wickedness [that blinds you], that you mayest be saved. How long shall your vain [worthless] thoughts lodge within you? 15 For a voice [of the LORD from a man] declares from Dan [this judgment], and publishes [shama’ – is heard and obeyed] affliction from [in this time of tribulation] mount Ephraim [to the leader of God’s people in this last generation, which will become the first of the new]. 16 Make you mention to [zakar – remember the LORD] the nations [all who haven’t known Him]; behold, publish [shama’ – hear and obey His voice] against Jerusalem, that watchers [natsar – who as watchmen guard and protect God’s people] come from a far country [merchaq – as the LORD decreed], and give out their voice against the [ruined] cities of Judah. 17 As keepers of a field, are they against her round about; because she has been rebellious against me, says the LORD. 18 Your way and your doings have procured these things [the end, desolation, of the old heaven and earth] unto you; this is your wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reaches unto your heart [your corrupted and ignorant minds]. 19 My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart [mind]; my heart [mind] make a noise [of war] in me; I cannot hold my peace, because you have heard [shama’ – and obeyed], O my soul, the sound of the trumpet [calling all to gather to the present LORD], the alarm of war. 20 Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land [‘erets – earth] is spoiled: suddenly [pith’own] are my tents spoiled, and my curtains [that keep the winds of false doctrine out of the dwelling place] in a moment. 21 How long shall I see the standard [nec – the son of man lifted, that the LORD’s voice heard from him is exalted above all other voices], and hear [shama’ – and I Am obedient to] the sound of the trumpet [that called me to gather to Him in ONE BODY]? 22 For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish [foolishly rebellious] children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge. 23 I beheld [seeing as the LORD sees] the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void [tohuw bohuw; one of three times these words appears together; the same as Genesis 1:2, the condition the earth had become before the new creation and the return of light; and Isaiah 34:11 rendered “confusion” and “emptiness,” speaking of the earth’s foundation and what is built upon it]; and the heavens [where understanding should be found], and they had no light [no understanding]. 24 I beheld the mountains [the governments of church and state], and, lo, they trembled [ra’ash – this voice shaking them and bringing the dead bones of the body of Christ together and from death into life], and all the hills moved lightly [were realized to be of little value]. 25 I beheld, and, lo, there was no [living] man, and all the birds of the heavens [that were lifted there by the LORD’s understanding] were fled. 26 I beheld [I saw by the LORD’s eyes that which all men are blind to], and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the LORD, and by his fierce anger. 27 For thus has the LORD said, The whole land [‘erets – the whole earth] shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end [kalah]. 28 For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black [without understanding]; because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will not repent [not change My mind about it], neither will I turn back from it. 29 The whole city shall flee for the noise of [qowl – this voice of the LORD from] the horsemen and bowmen; they shall go into thickets [against the misleaders and deceivers], and climb up upon the rocks: every city shall be forsaken, and not a [living] man dwells therein [Babylon – the confusion that now rules over the darkened world]. 30 And when you are spoiled, what will you [harlot Christians and Jews] do? Though you clothe yourself with crimson, though you deck you with ornaments of gold, though you rent your face with painting, in vain shall you make yourself fair; your lovers will despise you, they will seek your life. 31 For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, and the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child [the ONE BODY of Christ into this new creation], the voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewails herself, that spreads her hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers [who have made all the world dead, needing to be born again into life].
Jeremiah 31 17 And there is hope in your end [‘achariyth – these last days of darkness], says the LORD, that your children shall come again to their own border [the beginning of this new earth]. 18 I have surely heard Ephraim [God’s people in this generation, meaning both heap of double ruin and heap of double blessing, “double” referring to the dead here raised to life, as the children of Joseph: the one separated from his brethren until he is revealed as the king of their salvation] bemoaning himself thus; You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn you me, and I shall be turned; for you are the LORD my God. 19 Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth. 20 Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I spoke against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore, my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, says the LORD. 21 Set you up waymarks, make you high heaps: set your heart toward the highway, even the way which you went: turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these your cities. 22 How long will you go about, O you backsliding daughter? for the LORD has created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass [cabab – be led by and gather around; referring us to its use in Deuteronomy 32:10] a man.
Deuteronomy 32 10 He [the LORD] found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about [cabab], he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye [His pupils He’s taught to see as He sees]. 11 As an eagle [the final face of the unfolding presence of the LORD] stirs up her nest, flutters over her young, spreads abroad her wings, takes them, bears them on her wings [the words that are the strength by which we rise into the heavens: full understanding of His presence to which we are joined]: 12 So the LORD alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.
Hosea 1 7 But I will have mercy upon the house of Judah [the elect remnant], and will save them by the LORD their God, and will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, by horses, nor by horsemen. 8 Now when she had weaned Loruhamah [people upon who none have shown mercy], she conceived, and bare a son. 9 Then said God, Call his name Loammi [not called God’s people]: for you are not my people, and I will not be your God. 10 Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, You are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, You are the sons of the living God. 11 Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be gathered together, and appoint themselves one head, and they shall come up out of the land: for great shall be the day of Jezreel [when I separate them from all the people of the earth, and sow them into the earth as My people].
Psalms 118 1 O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: because his mercy endures forever. 2 Let Israel now say, that his mercy endures forever. 3 Let the house of Aaron now say, that his mercy endures forever. 4 Let them now that fear the LORD say, that his mercy endures forever. 5 I called upon the LORD in distress: the LORD answered me, and set me in a large place. 6 The LORD is on my side; I will not fear: what can man do unto me? 7 The LORD taketh my part with them that help me: therefore shall I see my desire upon them that hate me. 8 It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man. 9 It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in princes. 10 All nations compassed me about: but in the name of the LORD will I destroy them. 11 They compassed me about; yea, they compassed me about: but in the name of the LORD I will destroy them. 12 They compassed me about like bees: they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of the LORD I will destroy them. 13 You have thrust sore at me that I might fall: but the LORD helped me. 14 The LORD is my strength and song, and is become my salvation. 15 The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tabernacles of the righteous: the right hand of the LORD does valiantly [chayil]. 16 The right hand of the LORD is exalted: the right hand of the LORD does valiantly [chayil]. 17 I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the LORD. 18 The LORD has chastened me sore: but he has not given me over unto death. 19 Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will go into them, and I will praise the LORD: 20 This gate of the LORD, into which the righteous shall enter. 21 I will praise you: for you have heard me, and are become my salvation. 22 The stone which the builders refused is become the headstone of the corner. 23 This is the LORD’s doing; it is marvelous in [opening] our eyes. 24 This is the day which the LORD has made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. 25 Save now [Hosanna], I beseech you, O LORD: O LORD, I beseech you, send now prosperity. 26 Blessed be he that comes in the name of the LORD: we have blessed you out of the house of the LORD. 27 God is the LORD, which has shown us light: bind the sacrifice with cords, even unto the horns of the altar. 28 You are my God, and I will praise you: you are my God, I will exalt you. 29 O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endures forever.
For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the LORD make upon the earth.
In the above, Romans 9:6, the LORD, in Paul, speaks of the “perfection” He’s prepared (reserved) for us: this first generation of His new creation of heaven and earth. His “work” is through His rising in the elect remnant He has “predestined” for this purpose, who first have hope and faith in His promise not yet seen completed, but heard from the mouth of the LORD they know.
Hebrews 11 1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of [by faith in] things not seen. 2 For by it the elders obtained a good report. 3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear [but by faith in God’s promise, things not yet seen]. 4 By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaks [to us of his faith]. 5 By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God [heard his voice, believed His promise, the covenant between them, by which faith he saw Him, as we know from Jude, “saying, Behold, the LORD comes with ten thousands of his saints, 15 To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him. 16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speak great swelling words {of pride in their errors}, having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage {believing falsehoods because these men have put themselves in the LORD’s place}. 17 But, beloved, remember you the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our LORD Jesus Christ; 18 How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts {to have their false opinions elevated above the LORD’s Truth}.] 6 But without faith [that He is speaking and working among us, in us] it is impossible to please him: for he that comes to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
Friends, I tell you the Truth, we are the elect remnant, God’s faithful people throughout time, who, along with Enoch, He has predestined, translated (here to rise from among the dead and put on our immortality) in this moment, to (in us) finish His work on the earth.
Hebrews 11 39 And these all [who’ve believed and did My work after hearing My voice], having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise: 40 God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect [teleioo – in this completion].
The word “translated,” used twice in Hebrews 11:5 above, is metatithemi, derived from the words meta and tithemi, which refer to the place where the dead body of Christ is laid, waiting for this moment of resurrection. This is why, as in the dead body of Christ not found in the tomb, we’re told, in Genesis 5:24, “And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.”
Friends, it’s essential for all to remember that I do not know these things of myself, the LORD, as I diligently seek, leads and reveals them to me. I know them only after He reveals them, and, therefore, I know I am nothing of myself; the only glory is His, and for me, it is joy, the realization He is with me, in me speaking and working, leading us into all Truth.
Therefore, “Thus says the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm [strength: understanding], and whose heart [mind] departs from the LORD.” And “Blessed is the man that trusts in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is.” Jeremiah 17:5 & 7
1 John 3 7 [My] Little children, let no man deceive you: he that does righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous. 8 He that commits sin [teaches, follows, and acts upon unright things] is of the devil [possessed by misleaders possessed by Satan]; for the devil sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the [misleading] works [deceivableness of unrighteousness] of the devil. 9 Whosoever is born of God does not commit sin; for his [good] seed [sown] remain in him [to again sprout to life after the LORD’s watering]: and he cannot [remain in] sin, because he is born [again] of God. 10 In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever does not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loves [agapao] not his brother [not giving this word of God as received: His good leading out of evil’s darkness into the light]. 11 For this is the message that you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. 12 Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous. 13 Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you. 14 We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loves not his brother abides in death. 15 Whosoever hates his brother is a murderer: and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.
The character of Cain, as a murderer of his brother, is the same spirit apparent in the world today: not obeying the LORD’s command to give His word (good) as received, and refusing, denying your brother the life contained therein.
Genesis 5 8 And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him. 9 And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel your brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother’s keeper? 10 And he said, What have you done? the voice of your brother’s blood cries unto me from the ground. 11 And now are you cursed from the earth, which has opened her mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand;
The name Abel is from the Hebrew word hebel, meaning “from 1891; emptiness or vanity; figuratively, something transitory and unsatisfactory.” It’s from the word (1891) habal, meaning “to be vain in act, word, or expectation; specifically to lead astray.” It speaks of the fallen nature of man, even destroying those preaching righteousness, which refers us to Psalms 44:22, saying “Yea, for your sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.”
This Psalm (in the context of Romans 8:36, where it’s quoted) speaks of the LORD seeking this out; the result (the death of all) of the fatal attacks (on righteousness) by the wicked one, Satan through those he possesses, speaking and working “with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.” 2 Thessalonians 2:10
2 Corinthians 5 14 For the love of Christ constrains us [joins us together, to follow the dead into death, that the LORD through us will here raise them to life with His rising with us, in us, rescuing all in all]; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: 15 And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again. 16 Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh [wherein the LORD is risen], yet now henceforth [in that form {morphe}] know we him no more. 17 Therefore, if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
The following, ending with Isaiah 25, is from the post of 17 May 2024:
Yea, for your sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
The LORD begins today in a mystery, a strategic secret, above in Psalms 44:22, revealed now in this time of war against the darkness that covers all understanding. It is in it we find the “victory,” when we, with His awakening in us, are quickened from death into life by our confession of His presence in His word we speak as His (identity in His) ONE living BODY.
Paul, the LORD alive in him speaking and working, quotes the above [[mentioned]] verse in Romans 8:36, speaking to those of us predestined for this moment of awakening, follows it in verse 37, saying, “Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.”
The word rendered “more than conquerors” is the once-used Greek word hupernikao, meaning “to vanquish beyond, i.e.gain a decisive victory.”
Paul’s beginning verse 37 with “nay” would appear, at first glance, to contradict Psalms 44:22, which he just cited and affirmed with a “Yea.” A deeper examination of the original text tells us otherwise.
In Psalms 44, the verse is followed with verse 23 saying, “Awake, why sleep you, O LORD? arise, cast us not off forever.”
As background, the Psalm is titled, For the Sons of Korah, Maschil. Korah is a son of Levi who rebelled against Moses and for it was, with his fellow rebels, eventually swallowed by the earth. The word maschil means instruction. These meanings tell us the Psalm is a written instruction to those now in rebellion, refusing to follow and obey the LORD’s instructions through His chosen. It (the Psalm) ends with the epilogue, “To the Chief Musician [natsach – Chief Overseer] upon Shoshannim,” meaning it’s sent to those [first to the first begotten] leading God’s people in repeating the Songs He’s given: and their ONE voice is the last trumpet sounding.
The awakening, spoken of in verse 23, is God’s people opening their mouths and coming to life, as Korah, who, instead of choosing destruction, is changed at this last trump, as the corrupt put on uncorrupted truth and they (put on) their immortality.
We know (among other things, by deeper examination) that Paul’s wording (in Romans 8:37) is a paraphrase of Psalms 44:23 and speaks of the same victory over death. Paul, knowing the word “forever” in the original text is netsach (meaning the goal), also knows it’s the word rendered “victory” in Isaiah 25:8.
When quoting this Isaiah passage in 1 Corinthians 15:54, he (Paul) uses the four-time-used word nikos, always rendered “victory,” and always speaks of the victory over death and the grave (hell, in the earth’s belly) and by whom it comes.
Going deeper, the word nikos appears three times in 1 Corinthians 15 (verses 54, 55 & 57) and once in Matthew 12:20, as the LORD quotes Isaiah 42:3, where the word (rendered “victory” in Matthew) is the Hebrew word ’emeth and is rendered “truth.”
The point: hear and obey the word of the LORD, put off corruption and put on immortality, or remain in the belly of the earth ending in ruin. Victory and truth are synonymous, both (the goal led to by the Chief Overseer), which, when they come, end death by the LORD’s long-suffering to raise us from it into life.
Romans 8 27 And he that searches the hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because he makes intercession for the saints [knowing they are also in need of this change] according to the will of God. 28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called [kletos] according to his purpose. 29 For whom he did foreknow [know before, the faithful throughout history], he also did predestinate [proorizo – to limit in advance, at this [[before determined]] horizon] to be conformed to the image [eikon] of his Son, that he might be [as the first light on the horizon] the firstborn among many brethren. 30 Moreover whom he did predestinate [proorizo], them he also called [kaleo]: and whom he called [kaleo], them he also justified [dikaioo – freed from corruption]: and whom he justified [freed from corruption], them he also glorified [manifesting His presence in them]. 31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? 32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? 33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect [eklektos – His chosen]? It is God that justifies [frees us from corruption and thereby death]. 34 Who is he that condemns? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen [egeiro] again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession [entugchano] for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of [agape – freely giving us all things through] Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written, [Psalms 44:22 saying, “Yea,” to verse 21 saying “Shall not God search this out? for he knows the secrets of the heart.”] For your sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. 37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors [hupernikao] through him that loved [agapao – freely gave His treasures to] us. 38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love [agape – this grace given by Divine charity] of God, which is in Christ Jesus our LORD.
1 Thessalonians 3 8 For now we live, if you stand fast [steko] in the LORD.
Psalms 43 1 Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man. 2 For you are the God of my strength: why do you cast me off [as in Psalms 44 below]? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? 3 O send out your light [understanding] and your truth [’emeth – which brings us to the victory]: let them [[Your Truth]] lead me; let them bring me unto your holy hill, and to your tabernacles. 4 Then will I go unto the altar of God [offering the sacrifice in which He delights], unto God [realized] my exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise you, O God my God. 5 Why are you cast down, O my soul? and why are you disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health [yshuw’ah – Jesus] of my countenance [paniym – Your presence manifested in the flesh], and my God. To the Chief Musician [Natsach – the Chief Overseer who, with these songs, leads into truth and victory]
Psalms 44 Words of Instruction, to be Sung to the Rebels and by them upon Returning 1 We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work you did in their days, in the times of old. 2 How you did drive out the heathen with your hand, and planted them; how you did afflict the people, and cast them out. 3 For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but your right hand, and your arm, and the light [understanding] of your countenance [paniym – Your presence], because you had a favor unto them. 4 You are my King, O God: command deliverances [yshuw’ah – Jesus, Jehovah’s Salvation manifested in the flesh] for Jacob. 5 Through you will we push down our enemies: through your name [Your Identity] will we tread them under that rise up against us. 6 For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me. 7 But you have saved us from our enemies, and have put them to shame that hated us. 8 In God we boast all the day long, and praise your name [Your identity] forever. Selah. 9 But [in our rebellion and rejection of Your leadership] you have cast off, and put us to shame; and go not forth with our armies. 10 You make us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves. 11 You have given us like sheep appointed for meat; and have scattered us among the heathen. 12 You sell your people for naught, and do not increase your wealth by their price. 13 You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us. 14 You make us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people. 15 My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face has covered me, 16 For the voice of him that reproaches and blasphemes; by reason of the enemy and avenger. 17 All this is come upon us; yet have we [in our confusion we thought we have] not forgotten you, neither have we dealt falsely in your covenant. 18 Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from your way; 19 Though you have sore broken us in the place of dragons [tanniyn – by men among us as serpents and whales, devoured us with their wide open mouths and swallowing us into this belly of hell], and covered us with [concealed from us] the shadow of [darkness – ignorance of our own condition, which is] death. 20 If we have forgotten the name of [the identity, His manner in which He reveals Himself as] our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god [which men created and put in His place]; 21 Shall not God search [chaqar – penetrate this darkness] this out [as He has]? for he knows the secrets of the heart [mind]. 22 Yea, for your sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter. 23 Awake, why sleep you, O LORD? Arise [in us], cast us not off forever [netsach – from Your victory and truth]. 24 Wherefore hide you your face [paniym – Your presence, which is only hidden in the ignorance caused by the dragons among you], and forget our affliction and our oppression [which He hasn’t forgotten, but they, the rebels, continually turn to their oppressors thinking these destroyers will save them from themselves]? 25 For our soul is bowed down to the dust [the ruin of the earth led by serpents and whales]: our belly [beten – the belly of hell, of Jonah 2:2] cleaves [dabaq – meaning “to impinge, i.e. cling or adhere; figuratively, to catch by pursuit”] unto [hell on] the earth. 26 Arise for our help, and redeem us for your mercies’ sake.
What part of this isn’t clear yet? What part hasn’t the LORD fully explained? When is it enough?
Ezekiel 33 17 Yet the children of your people say, The way of the LORD is not equal: but as for them, their way is not equal. 18 When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, he shall even die thereby. 19 But if the wicked turn from his wickedness, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby. 20 Yet you say, The way of the LORD is not equal. O you house of Israel, I will judge you every one after his ways. 21 And it came to pass in the twelfth year [the perfection, completion, of the LORD’s government in this new heaven and earth] of our captivity, in the tenth month [ordinal perfection, when all things have been put in their right order], in the fifth day [of His grace and mercy] of the month, that one that had escaped [paliyt, it is referring back to verse 5 of this chapter, where the word malat, meaning to escape, rendered “deliver,” speaks of those who received the warning and acting upon it, escaped what is warned of] out of [corrupt] Jerusalem came unto me, saying, The city [of those turned from righteousness, and the wicked who haven’t turned from their wickedness] is smitten [by its own ignorance and insanity]. 22 Now the hand of the LORD was upon me in the evening [as darkness was coming], afore he that was escaped [paliyt] came [with this warning]; and had opened my mouth [to speak the LORD’s word], until he came to me in the morning [when this understanding of this new day was come]; and my mouth was opened, and I was no more dumb. 23 Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 24 Son of man, they that inhabit those wastes of the land [‘adamah – the ruin of this last generation] of Israel speak, saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited the land [‘erets – the earth]: but we are many; the land [‘erets – the earth] is given us for inheritance. 25 Wherefore say unto them, Thus says the LORD God; You eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood: and shall you possess the land? 26 You stand upon your sword, you work abomination, and you defile every one his neighbor’s wife: and shall you possess the land [‘erets – the earth]? 27 Say you thus unto them, Thus says the LORD God; As I live, surely they that are in the wastes shall fall by the sword, and him that is in the open field will I give to the beasts to be devoured, and they that be in the forts and in the caves shall die of the pestilence. 28 For I will lay the land [‘erets – the earth] most desolate, and the pomp of her strength shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, that none shall pass through [‘abar – from death into life]. 29 Then shall they know that I am the LORD, when I have laid the land most desolate because of all their abominations which they have committed. 30 Also, you son of man, the children of your people still are talking against you by the walls [of things that aren’t true] and in the doors of the houses, and speak one to another, every one to his brother, saying, Come, I pray you, and hear what is the word that comes forth from the LORD. 31 And they come unto you as the people comes, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their covetousness [betsa’ – dishonesty]. 32 And, lo, you are unto them as a very lovely song of one that has a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument: for they hear your words, but they do them not. 33 And when this comes to pass, (lo, it will come [as it now has],) then shall they know that a prophet has been among them.
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 [corrupt] city a heap; of a defensed city a ruin: a palace of strangers [in power] to be no city; it shall never be built. 3 Therefore shall the strong people [strengthened with Your understanding] glorify you, the city of the terrible [‘ariyts] nations [who haven’t known the present LORD] shall fear you. 4 For you have been a strength to the poor [those without worldly power], a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast [ruwach – the evil spirit] of the terrible ones [‘ariyts] is as a storm against the wall [the houses in Matthew 7:24 thru 27]. 5 You shall bring down [kana’ – vanquish, cause to bend their knee] the noise of strangers [who I never knew, as in Matthew 7:22 & 23], as the heat in a dry place [as fire from My mouth against these places that are without My word]; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud [the same fire against the vail covering this understanding]: the branch [zamiyr – only appearing here, meaning pruned, as in their words are cut off] of the terrible ones [‘ariyts] shall be brought low [‘anah – meaning when My people see and obey My commands, 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 “]. 6 And in this mountain [the LORD’s perfected government] shall the LORD of hosts [I Am, a man of war] make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined [which are here and now freely given in word form]. 7 And he will destroy in this mountain [His perfected government] the face [revealing His presence] of the covering [lowt] cast over [luwt] all people, and the vail [covering His presence and his sword, this word from My mouth] that is spread over all nations [all those who haven’t know My presence]. 8 He will swallow up death in victory [netsach]; 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 [His here perfected government – which is nothing like all the wise men, all the false prophets and false teachers, all the loudest and most heard voice, said and told, tell, people to look for and forever wait, which will never come, because they are fabrication of deluded minds] shall the hand [this work] of the LORD rest, and Moab [the mouth of men which are the gates of hell] 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 [rightly dividing these waters on this day of My new creation, in the firmament, this exposition, which I call the new heaven]: 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 [their house they built on sand] shall he bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust.
As we’ve seen in previous posts, the seven times used word metatithemi speaks of the change away from trusting the LORD to misplacing it in man. All the other five uses describe the fall (change – allasso) away (from which all must now be changed back). The only thing that stands in the way are men who tell us at every step away that all is well, who have forever resisted His correction, who now, after the degeneration, hold down (katecho – let) His people in death and hell, and will hold them down until taken out of the way (mesos – taken from our midst, because they are enemies of the cross of Christ mixed among us).
Galatians 1 1 [Timothy] Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who [in me, in us] raised him from the dead;) 2 And all the brethren which are [risen] with me, unto the churches of Galatia [unto whom this wheel within a wheel has come, understanding to give understanding in this unfolding manifestation of the present LORD revealed]: 3 Grace [His gift, which is salvation to all that receive it] be to you and peace from God the Father, and from our LORD Jesus Christ, 4 Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father: 5 To whom [the Father] be glory forever and ever. Amen. 6 I marvel that you are so soon removed [metatithemi] from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel [unto which all have been changed]: 7 Which [being the creation of fallen man] is not another; but there be some that trouble [removing the peace found in the True] you [holding you down here in tribulation], and would pervert the gospel [this present Truth] of Christ. 8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed [Anathema]. 9 As we said before, so say I now again, if any man preach any other gospel unto you than that you have received, let him be accursed [Anathama]. 10 For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ. 11 But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man. 12 For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.
Hebrews 7 11 If therefore perfection [teleiosis – the process of completion] were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron? 12 For the priesthood being changed [metatithemi – away from the LORD, instead teaching their own creations], there is made of necessity a change [metathesis – a transfer into the hand of another] also of the law. 13 For he of whom these things are spoken pertains to another tribe, of which no man gave attendance at the altar. 14 For it is evident that our LORD sprang out of Judah [the pattern foretelling now the elect remnant]; of which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning priesthood. 15 And it is yet far more evident: for that after the similitude of Melchisedec there arises another priest [here speaking of Timothy foretelling the pattern {in the wheel} of now], 16 Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life. 17 For he testifies, You are a priest [of the Most High God] for ever after the order of Melchisedec [the High Priest who is the King of Righteousness and Peace].
The word rendered “evident,” in Hebrews 7:14 above, is the three times used Greek word prodelos, from the words pro and delos, respectively meaning, “fore”, i.e. in front of, prior (figuratively, superior) to; and clear. It (prodelos) speaks of things made clear (in God’s promises recorded in His word) before they are manifested into reality: by the “faith [that] is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of thing not [yet] seen.”
1 Timothy 5 20 Them that sin rebuke before all, that others also may fear [and be thereby pulled from the fire – Jude 1:23]. 21 I charge you before God, and the LORD Jesus Christ, and the elect angels [the elect remnant, the first awakened from death with me], that you observe these things without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partiality. 22 Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither be partaker of other men’s sins: keep yourself pure [in mind, by which only do we see God – Matthew 5:8]. 23 Drink no longer water, but use a little [word the LORD turned to] wine for your stomach’s [stomachos – only used here, from stoma, meaning mouth, saying it’s for the sake of those swallow into the belly of hell] sake and your often infirmities [their frequent lack of strength: lacking understanding]. 24 Some men’s sins are open beforehand [prodelos], going before to judgment; and some men they follow after [carried with them to be made clear, understood here and now in this judgment]. 25 Likewise also the good works of some are manifest beforehand [prodelos]; and they that are otherwise [carried here and] cannot be hid.
The last time the word metatithemi appears, in Jude 1:4, it clearly describes those whom Enoch saw the LORD and His Saints (hagios – His holy ones) come to condemn.
Jude 1 4 For there are certain men crept in [to our midst] unawares, who were before of old ordained [prographo – before written of] to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning [metatithemi] the grace [this gift] of our God into lasciviousness [their excrement uncontrollably spewing from their vile bodies], and denying the only LORD God, and our LORD Jesus Christ.
All following is from the post of 2 August 2023:
Daniel 9 24 Seventy weeks are determined upon your people and upon your holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end [chatham] of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up [chatham – make an end of] the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy. 25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times. 26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end [qets] thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end [qets] of the war desolations are determined. 27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation [kalah – the full end], and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
The words sheba’ (“seven,” appearing once) and shabuwa’ (“weeks,” appearing five times, and once as “week”) from sheba’, meaning “a primitive cardinal number; seven (as the sacred full one); also (adverbially) seven times; by implication, a week; by extension, an indefinite number,” are the keys to the passage.
The numbers, seventy times seven, only appear once together in the New Testament. It comes in Matthew 18:22 as the LORD is asked how many times we should forgive those who offend us. The offense is the asebeia, now reaching seventy times seven, and after that [[the completion]], “there remains no more sacrifice for sins.”
Hebrews 10 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 underfoot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and has done despite unto the Spirit of grace? 30 For we know him that has said, Vengeance 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.
As we know, what Daniel knew about the seventy sevens, he “understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.”
The word “years” is shaneh, from the shanah, meaning “to fold, i.e. duplicate (literally or figuratively); by implication, to transmute (transitive or intransitive).”
Jeremiah 2 26 As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets [who have now changed My words these seventy times seven times, and transformed {metatithemi} it from an eusebeia [[good news: godliness]] into an asebeia [[the wickedness of the ungodly, against which Enoch saw the LORD and His saints coming]]. [[Romans 1:18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven {this place of full understanding} against all ungodliness {asebeias} and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in {their} unrighteousness;]] 27 Saying to a stock [the dead idols you put in My place], You are my father; and to a [lifeless] stone, You have brought me forth: for they have turned their back unto me, and not their face: but in the time of their trouble [ra’ – evil] they will say, Arise, and save us. 28 But where are your gods that you have made you? let them arise, if they can save you in the time of your trouble [ra’ – evil]: for according to the number of your cities are your gods, O Judah. 29 Wherefore will you plead with me? you all have transgressed against me, says the LORD. 30 In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion [[saying you are speaking the LORD’s word, when I never said it]]. 31 O generation, see you the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness [ignorance]? wherefore say my people, We are lords; we will come no more unto you? 32 Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number. 33 Why trimmest you your way to seek love? therefore have you also taught the wicked ones your ways. 34 Also in your skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these. 35 Yet you say, Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with you, because you sayest, I have not sinned. 36 Why gad you [to go away from Me] about so much to change [shanah] your way? you also shall be ashamed of Egypt [this land of tyrants and oppression], as you were ashamed of Assyria [the communists, thieves and robbers, now infesting all institutions, making them incurably corrupt]. 37 Yea, you shall go forth from him, and your hands upon your head: for the LORD has rejected your confidences [all these things in which you trust], and you shall not prosper in them.
We’re told (in the passages below) of things that will not “change” (as does the temporal), which are the unseen and the eternal things (dabar – words and matters spoken from the mouth) of God.
Psalms 89 14 Justice and judgment are the habitation of your throne: mercy and truth shall go before your face [paniym – in Your presence] 15 Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound [the voice of the LORD]: they shall walk, O LORD, in the light [understanding] of your countenance [paniym – of Your presence]. 16 In your name [identity] shall they rejoice all the day: and in your righteousness shall they be exalted [as they exalt Your words above all others]. 17 For you are the glory [manifested presence] of their strength [which is their understanding]: and in your favor our horn [power and reign] shall be exalted [above all others]. 18 For the LORD is our defense; and the Holy One of Israel is our king. 19 Then you spoke in vision to your holy one, and said, I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people. 20 I have found David [I Am his promised seed] my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him [as in Daniel 9:24 above]: 21 With whom my hand [work] shall be established: my arm also shall strengthen him. 22 The enemy shall not exact upon him; nor the son of wickedness afflict him. 23 And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him. 24 But my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him: and in my name shall his horn [power and reign] be exalted. 25 I will set his hand also in the sea [his work among the people at large], and his right hand in the rivers [this work sending God’s word into the sea]. 26 He shall cry unto me, You are my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation. 27 Also I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth. 28 My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him. 29 His seed also will I make to endure forever, and his throne as the days of heaven [upon the earth]. 30 If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments; 31 If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments; 32 Then will I visit [paqad – as the Chief Overseer of the earth, to return them to the right course] their transgression with the rod [the unbreakable law on nature and nature’s God], and their iniquity with stripes [of men]. 33 Nevertheless, my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail. 34 My covenant will I not break, nor alter [shanah] the thing that is gone out of my lips. 35 Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David. 36 His seed shall endure forever, and his throne as the sun [the rising understanding of this new day] before me. 37 It shall be established forever as the moon [civil government wherein are justice and good judgment, as I intended], and as a faithful witness in heaven [with full understanding]. Selah.
Malachi 3 1 Behold, I will send my messenger [mal’ak- My angel, who is a man of war as well as a man of God], and he shall prepare the way before me [paniym – in Him My presence is manifested]: and the LORD [‘adown – the king], whom you seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger [mal’ak] of the covenant [of My promises], whom you delight in: behold, he shall come, says the LORD [Jehovah] of hosts [who is a man of war]. 2 But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appears? for he is like a refiner’s fire, and like fullers’ soap: 3 And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness. 4 Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the LORD, as in the days of old, and as in former years. 5 And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers [using their words to cast evil spells], and against the adulterers [those who’ve left Me to follow other men], and against false swearers [the now known liars and false accusers], and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages [through confiscatory taxation], the widow, and the fatherless [oppressing those without any man to protect and defend them], and that turn aside the stranger from his right [leading into evil those who don’t know Me or my ways], and fear not me [My inescapable law that inevitably brings their destruction by their own evil, of which I have often warned], says the LORD of hosts [who is a man of war, the Commander in Chief of the army of heaven]. 6 For I am the LORD, I change [shanah] not; therefore you sons of Jacob are not consumed. 7 Even from the days of your fathers you are gone away from my ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, says the LORD of hosts. But you said, Wherein shall we return? 8 Will a man rob God? Yet you have robbed me. But you say, Wherein have we robbed you? In tithes and offerings. 9 You are cursed with a curse: for you have robbed me, even this whole nation. 10 Bring you all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in my house, and prove me now herewith, says the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it. 11 And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, says the LORD of hosts. 12 And all nations shall call you blessed: for you shall be a delightsome land, says the LORD of hosts. 13 Your words have been stout against me, says the LORD. Yet you say, What have we spoken so much against you? 14 You have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts? 15 And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered. 16 Then they that feared the LORD spoke often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name [identity]. 17 And they shall be mine, says the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels [My people who are My crown and joy]; and I will spare them, as a man spares his own son that serves him. 18 Then shall you return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked [understanding to choose the good and refuse the evil], between him that serves God [speaking truth] and him [speaking their own evil ways and ideas, their asebeia] that serves him not.
Luke 1 64 And his [those who receive the promises Jehovah has remembered] mouth was opened immediately, and his tongue loosed, and he spoke, and praised God. 65 And fear came on all that dwelt round about them: and all these sayings were noised abroad throughout all the hill country of Judaea [[Judah]]. 66 And all they that heard them laid them up in their hearts, saying, What manner of child shall this be! And the hand of the LORD was with him. 67 And his father Zachariah was filled with the Holy Ghost [the LORD unknown in him working and speaking], and prophesied, saying, 68 Blessed be the LORD God of Israel; for he has visited and redeemed his people, 69 And has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David; 70 As he [the LORD God] spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have been since the world began: 71 That we should be saved from our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us; 72 To perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant; 73 The oath which he swore to our father Abraham, 74 That he would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve him without fear, 75 In holiness and righteousness before him [in His presence], all the days of our life. 76 And you, child, shall be called the prophet of the Highest: for you shall go before the face of the LORD to prepare his ways; 77 To give knowledge of salvation unto his people by the remission of their sins [the blinding ignorance taught by men who choose evil and refuse this good], 78 Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring [these living waters, the word of God that ends and begins the ages and nations] from on high has visited us [as the Chief Overseer of the earth], 79 To give light [understanding] to them that sit in darkness [ignorance] and in the shadow of death [blocking the light], to guide our feet into the way of peace. 80 And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, and was in the deserts till the day of his showing unto Israel.
The only time Jeremiah (or any of the “Prophets” other than Daniel) mentions the word shabuwa’ (the weeks) is in Jeremiah 5:24, and the only time any of the kings speak of it is in 2 Chronicles 8:13 as Solomon, the LORD speaking through Him, describes this moment.
2 Chronicles 8 11 And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh [those whose ways are oppression and tyranny] out of the city of David unto the house that he had built for her: for he said, My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, because the places are holy, whereunto the ark of the LORD has come. 12 Then Solomon offered burnt offerings unto the LORD on the altar of the LORD, which he had built before the porch, 13 Even after a certain rate every day, offering according to the commandment of Moses, on the sabbaths [the LORD visitation, intervention], and on the new moons [to institute a new civil government], and on the solemn feasts [nourishing us with His abundant blessing], three times in the year [shaneh], even in the feast of unleavened bread [removing the corruption from His word], and in the feast of weeks [shabuwa’], and in the feast of tabernacles [when He calls His people to leave their corrupt houses and meet with Him where He chooses – see Deuteronomy 16:16 where shabuwa’ also appears]. 14 And he appointed, according to the order of David his father, the courses of the priests to their service, and the Levites to their charges, to praise and minister before the priests, as the duty of every day required: the porters also by their courses at every gate: for so had David the man [as is Timothy, as I Am] of God commanded. 15 And they departed not from the commandment of the king unto the priests and Levites concerning any matter [dabar – the words they should speak], or concerning the treasures. 16 Now all the work of Solomon was prepared unto the day of the foundation of the house of the LORD, and until it was finished [kalah]. So the house [family] of the LORD was perfected [shalem – as New [[Heavenly]] Jerusalem].
Jeremiah 5 21 Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not [that I Am with you]; which have ears, and hear not [My voice speaking to you]: 22 Fear you not me? says the LORD: will you not tremble at my presence [paniym], which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea [humanity] by a perpetual decree [choq], that it cannot pass it [‘abar – cannot Passover from there in death into life without Me, without following My direction]: and though the waves [the pride of men] thereof toss themselves [agitating all humanity they’ve continually led into confusion and now after a long train of abuses {asebeia} into mass insanity], yet can they [the wicked in power] not prevail; though they roar [against Me], yet can they not pass over it [‘abar – from this death in hell into life]? 23 But this people has a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone. 24 Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, that gives rain [His word from heaven], both the former [written] and the latter [now spoken], in his season [at this time]: he reserves [shamar – guarded and protected from corruption] unto us the appointed [chaqqah – the same as choq, meaning the LORD’s decreed] weeks [shabuwa’] of the harvest [qatsiyr – this time when the LORD has come to reap the earth, and separate the wheat from the chaff, those who choose good from those who choose evil]. 25 Your iniquities have turned away [your ears and eyes from hearing and seeing] these things, and your sins [that corrupt My word and your understanding this time] have withheld good things from you [and hold you in the hand of evil]. 26 For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that sets snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
2 Corinthians 11 13 For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming [metaschematizo] themselves into the apostles of Christ. 14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed [metaschematizo] into an angel of light. 15 Therefore, it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed [metaschematizo] as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.
2 Corinthians 3 13 Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the [new] day [when understanding comes] shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is. 14 If any man’s work abides [remains after the fire] which he has built thereupon [the good foundational elements ruling in his mind], 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 in you? 17 If any man defiles the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple you are. 18 Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seems to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. 19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He takes the wise in their own craftiness. 20 And again, The LORD knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain [worthless].
Philippians 3 15 Let us therefore, as many as be perfect [having received this understanding, and knowing the time and season], 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, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing. 17 Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as you have us 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 in heaven [with full understanding]; from whence also we look for [the sight to see] the Savior, the LORD Jesus Christ: 21 Who shall change [metaschematizo] our vile body [by removing corruption by His correction], that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue [[hupotasso – bring into subordination]] all things unto himself.
Psalms 11 1 In the LORD put I my trust: how say you to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain? 2 For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart. 3 If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do? 4 The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD’s throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men. 5 The LORD tries the righteous: but the wicked and him that loves violence his soul hates. 6 Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and a horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup. 7 For the righteous LORD loves righteousness; his countenance [presence] does behold the upright.
For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Savior, the LORD Jesus Christ:
The word “conversation” is rendered from the once used Greek word politeuma, said to mean “from 4176 [politeuomai], a community, i.e. (abstractly) citizenship (figuratively).” It is derived from a series of words (meaning citizen and their gathering together: the body politic) that lead back to the word polimos, meaning “from pelomai (to bustle); warfare (literally or figuratively; a single encounter or a series):–battle, fight, war.”
The “eu” in the word politeuma, speaking of where we look for the Savior, means good and thereby tells of the “conversation” among a group of citizens gathered, refusing evil, choosing to fight this good fight. In its above use (Philippians 3:20), it is contrasted with the alien army among us.
Philippians 3 13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind [which weren’t likeminded with the LORD], and reaching forth unto those things which are before, 14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. 15 Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing you be otherwise minded, God shall reveal [apokalupto – uncover in this apocalypse, here at Armageddon, this set rendezvous] even this unto you. 16 Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk [together with His mind] by the same rule [kanon – the standard lifted], let us mind [phroneo – exercising our mind toward] the same thing [One opinion]. 17 Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as you have us for an example. 18 (For many walk [with many opinions], 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 [apoleia – perdition], whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.) 20 For our conversation [politeuma – this good fight] is in heaven [with His 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 body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue [hupotasso – bring into subordination to His mind] all things unto himself.
The phrase “good fight” only appears twice in the Bible, first in 1 Timothy 4:12 when Paul charges Timothy (me) to fight it and later as he describes it as his life’s work. In both of these passages, the topic is the LORD revealing Himself in those (like Paul and me) thereby crowned.
1 Timothy 6 11 But you, O man of God [I Am, Timothy, the title only appearing here in the New Testament], flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness. 12 Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto you are also called, and have professed [homologeo – saying the same things] a good profession [homologia] before many witnesses. 13 I give you charge in the sight of God, who quickens all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession [homologia – the same words, fighting the good fight]; 14 That you keep this commandment [entole – the charge I have vowed to keep] without spot [unstained by men’s corruption], unrebukable, until the appearing [epiphaneia – the epiphany, the moment of realization, of the presence] of our LORD Jesus Christ: 15 Which in his times he shall show, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and LORD of Lords; 16 Who only has immortality [athanasia], dwelling in the light [this understanding] which no man can approach unto; whom no man has seen, nor can see: to whom be honor and power everlasting. Amen. 17 Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not high-minded [thinking their wealth makes them superior], nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who gives us richly all things to enjoy; 18 That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate [this good word of God]; 19 Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay [as I have] hold on eternal life. 20 O Timothy, keep that which is committed to your trust [this dispensation the Father has given me], avoiding profane and vain babblings [which have become the language of this generation], and oppositions of science falsely so called [antithesis gnosis pseudonumos – the arguments falsely named knowledge {anti-truth used against this truth of God}]: 21 Which some professing [epaggellos – announce themselves as if they are authors and finishers] have erred concerning the faith. Grace [this gift of salvation, from which these men have erred] be with you. Amen.
As we understand from 2 Peter 3:16, those on the wrong side of this fight, who with many (now in most cases knowingly) false opinions, wrestle with this Truth and are the sons of perdition (apoleia).
2 Peter 3 3 Knowing this first, that there shall [have] come in the last days scoffers [not believing the LORD is present with us, in us], walking after their own lusts, 4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep [into death], all things continue as they were from the beginning of the [old] creation. 5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God [this same word of God] the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: 6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: 7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved [for this appointed time of the LORD’s just war against the darkness] unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition [apoleia] of ungodly men. 8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the LORD as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. 9 The LORD is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is [always with us, hidden only in men’s ignorance] longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. 10 But the day of the LORD will come as a thief in the night [unknown in this time of men’s ignorance of God]; in the which the heavens [the corrupt understanding of men] shall pass away with a great noise [this voice of the LORD], and the elements [stoicheion – the corrupt foundational ideas and ways of men] shall melt with fervent heat, the [old corrupt] earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. 11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in all holy conversation and godliness, 12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements [stoicheion] shall melt with fervent heat? 13 Nevertheless, we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwells [the LORD’s] righteousness. 14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that you look for such things, be diligent that you may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless. 15 And account that the longsuffering of our LORD is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given unto him, has written unto you; 16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrestle, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction [apoleia – perdition].
Hebrews 2 1 Therefore, we ought to give the more earnest heed to [obey] the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip. 2 For if the word spoken by angels [His messengers sent] was steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward; 3 How [if we refuse to obey] shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the LORD [the Father revealed in the son first, to bring all His children He has given me to the same glory], and was confirmed [repeating the same message the LORD gave them] unto us by them that heard him; 4 God also bearing them witness, both with [Isaiah 8:18, saying “I and the children the LORD has given me, are for”] signs and wonders [to His people at large], and with divers miracles [this alludes to the “divers” manner spoken of in Hebrews 1:1; of the many different ways and times, by which the Father previously spoke through men, until now when He, in the son He filled full of understanding, all these divers elements, congealed them in him, into this miraculous, eye-opening, gospel], and gifts [these treasures sent] of the Holy Ghost [as He works unknown leading us into all truth], according to his own will? 5 For unto the angels has he not put in subjection the world to come, whereof we speak.
The word (G4176) politeuomai, the first word in the origin of politeuma, meaning “to behave as a citizen,” as in being like-minded with the same good spirit, only appears twice, reinforcing this context in Acts 23:1 & Philippians 1:27.
In the current moment, when the invading army among us is showing itself not to be citizens but instead our antithesis, the communist agitators (Cultural Marxists: a truth the same conspirators, joined in the same evil spirit, now define as “conspiracy theory,” just as they always define truth as it emerges apparent) shift the world’s focus to world war, just as they shifted it from Ukraine to the invaders. They, the deep state and their (intentionally corrupt or useful idiot) media: enemies foreign and domestic, create one crisis after another, always keeping the focus away from their deeper undermining (remember, it’s all about interest rates and energy prices – manipulating economies, disrupting the “free” flow), all (the deep and the superficial) designed to achieve a single globalist goal, the collapse of the US, and with it the end of traditional western civilization.
Acts 23 1 And [Timothy, the son, brother, and father of John Paul], earnestly beholding the council [of men in positions of power over God’s people, in church and state], said, Men and brethren, I have lived [politeuomai – proved myself to be a good citizen] in all good conscience before [suneidesis – co-perspective with] God until this day. [suneidesis is the prolonged form of suneido, meaning “to see completely; used (like its primary) only in two past tenses, respectively meaning to understand or become aware, and to be conscious or (clandestinely) informed of.”] 2 And the high priest Ananias commanded them that stood by him to smite him on the mouth [for saying God is the One who informs me: with me, in me, unknown to the world]. [The word suneido only appears three times in Acts, and once in 1 Corinthians 4:4, Paul there saying “For I know {suneido} nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified {the LORD proving Himself alive in me, informing me}: but he that judges {anakrino – raises me in this trial} me is the LORD.”] 3 Then said [Timothy] unto him, God shall smite you, you whited wall [Matthew 23:27 Woe unto you, hypocrites! for you are like unto whited sepulchers, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness.]: for sit you [in God’s place] to judge me after the law, and command me to be smitten contrary to the law? [1 Corinthians 2:15 But he that is spiritual {with and in whom God’s Spirit proves Himself to be present} judges {anakrino} all things, yet he himself is judged {anakrino} of no man.] 4 And they that stood by said, Revile you God’s high priest [who is Paul, followed by his “son” Timothy]? 5 Then said Paul, I wist [know] not, brethren, that he was the high priest [for if he were I would have no need to speak against his hypocrisy]: for it is written, You shall not speak evil of the ruler of your people.
Philippians 2 2 Fulfill you my joy [realize the LORD is present in me with you speaking and working], that you be like-minded [by receiving Him as I have], having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind. 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 [morphe] of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: 7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form [morphe] 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.
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 [dokime – only used seven times, proved in the experience: the repeatable experiment that proves itself every time] of him, that, as a son with the father, he has served with me in the gospel.
The only other time the word morphe appears is in Mark 16:12, speaking of the LORD appearing after His resurrection, as He, in an unknown “form,” joined men in their walk.
Mark 16 11 And they, when they had heard that he was alive, and had been seen of her [Mary, rebelling against the corrupt status quo, called Magdalene, in the resurrection, the first saved, mustered, into His ONE BODY, here at Armageddon], believed not. 12 After that he appeared in another form [morphe] unto two of them, as they walked, and went into the country. 13 And they went and told it unto the residue: neither believed they them. 14 Afterward he appeared unto the eleven [His loyal but hard headed disciples {I know who you because we are of the same mind}] as they sat at meat [receiving this deep understanding, His strength], and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart [minds], because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen.
2 Corinthians 3 12 Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech: 13 And not as Moses, which put a veil over his face, that the children of Israel could not steadfastly look to the end of that which is abolished [the ignorance of the LORD among us in Moses’ flesh]: 14 But their minds were blinded: for until this day remains the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament [not knowing it was written by those in whom the LORD chose to dwell, working and speaking through them]; which vail is done away in Christ [who declares it is the LORD, Jehovah, the Father in him doing the work, as now, here speaking and working in my, our, flesh]. 15 But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail [of ignorance, thinking it’s the work of men] is upon their heart. 16 Nevertheless, when it shall turn [away from the corrupt teaching of men] to the LORD, the vail [of ignorance] shall be taken away. 17 Now the LORD is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the LORD is, there is liberty [freedom from corruption]. 18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the LORD [in us], are changed [metamorphoo – the transfiguration of Christ, as in Matthew 17:2 and Mark 9:2] into the same image [eikon] from glory [His presence revealed in one flesh in which He works and speaks] to glory [in those receiving Him, who are transformed into the same image], even as by the Spirit of the LORD.
The only other time metamorphoo appears is in Romans 12:2.
Romans 12 1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God [heard here at His mercy seat where His presence is manifested in this conversation], that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service [serving as I Am serving]. 2 And be not conformed to this world: but be you transformed [metamorphoo] by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. 3 For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God has dealt to every man the measure of faith. 4 For as we have many members in ONE BODY, and all members have not the same office: 5 So we, being many, are ONE BODY in Christ, and every one members one of another.
2 Corinthians 4 1 Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not; 2 But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God. 3 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: 4 In whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light [understanding] of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image [eikon] of God, should shine unto them. 5 For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the LORD; and ourselves your servants for Jesus’ sake. 6 For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, has shined in our hearts, to give the light [understanding] of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face [presence] of Jesus Christ. 7 But we have this treasure [the gift of this understanding He has given to us] in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may [be known to] be of God, and not of us. 8 We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; 9 Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; 10 Always bearing about in the body the dying of the LORD Jesus, that the life [which is His light] also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body. 11 For we which live are always delivered unto death for Jesus’ sake, that the life [light] also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh. 12 So then death works in us [as we sacrifice, long-suffer, in His service], but life [understanding] in you. 13 We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed [it is His presence in my flesh], and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore [should] speak [which reveals Him alive in us]; 14 Knowing that he which raised up the LORD Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus, and shall present us with you. 15 For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace [this gift] might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God. 16 For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. 17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; 18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
The points in Jeremiah 10:7 & 8 and in the last verses above speak of understanding what is experienced, as Paul says in Act 17:27 to those ignorantly worshipping God, “if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us.” It is to understand what is affecting us, changing us, and realize to whom it all appertains.
Jeremiah 10 6 Forasmuch as there is none like unto you, O LORD; you are great, and your name is great in might. 7 Who would not fear you, O King of nations? for to you does it appertain [ya’ah – only appearing this once; pertaining to I Am]: forasmuch as among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is none like unto you [none knowing the things only You know and teach us]. 8 But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is [their idols are] a doctrine of vanities [worthless words].
It is in this context (seeing the unseen by His effect on us) that verse 15 above is quoted in Revelation 15:3.
Luke 8 22 Now it came to pass on a certain day [today if you will hear His voice], that he went into a ship [one of the church institutions, the first to obey and pass over from death into life] with his disciples: and he said unto them, Let us go over unto the other side of the lake [the same course set before all, to go from ignorance to understanding upon these living waters]. And they launched forth. 23 But as they sailed he fell asleep [in death]: and there came down a storm of wind [of false doctrines against the truth] on the lake; and they were filled with water [not knowing the difference between truth and men’s creations], and were in jeopardy. 24 And they came to him, and awoke him, saying, Master, master, we [are unsure and] perish. Then he arose [as the first begotten of God from among the dead, in victory over death and hell], and rebuked the wind [the false doctrines, and the devils spewing them] and the raging [roaring waves] of the water [men’s words]: and they ceased, and there was a calm [as a sea of glass mixed with this fire: this word from the mouth of the LORD]. 25 And he said unto them, Where is your faith [in My saying I will never leave you or forsake you]? And they being afraid wondered [what they were experiencing], saying one to another, What manner of man is this! for he commands even the winds and water, and they obey him [and in obedience humanity is calmed].
Revelation 15 1 And I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvelous, seven angels having the seven last plagues [this full understanding now readied to be poured out]; for in them is filled up the wrath of God [this word which the wicked refuse to hear as the Father’s voice]. 2 And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire [this wrath that calms the agitated and consumes the wicked]: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast [those without the LORD’s Spirit, sitting in seats of power over church and state, resisting, opposing, and blaspheming His work and word], and over his image [all their lies they put in My place and call by My name, which is Truth], and over his mark [in their head and hand: the insanity in their minds, which is obvious in their works], and over the number of his name [identity found in the number of a man, Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary number 666, ‘apher, the ashes of the earth’s ruin, covering the faces, the presence, of the true and false prophets; only used twice, in 1 Kings 20:38 & 41], stand on the sea of glass [overcoming the lies of false prophets and false teachers, calmed], having the harps of God [receiving from Him the instruments that calm it]. 3 And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb [these written words meant to be repeated as received, precept upon precept, line upon line] saying, Great and marvelous [in opening our eyes to see good and evil, teaching us to choose what brings a good effect and refuse what can only result in evil] are your works, LORD God Almighty; just and true are your ways, you King of saints. 4 Who shall not fear you, O LORD, and glorify your name [Your identity manifested with us, in us]? for you only are holy: for all nations [all who haven’t known You] shall come and worship before you; for your judgments are made manifest [by Your presence]. 5 And after that I looked, and, behold, the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven [where full understanding is] was opened: 6 And the seven angels came out of the temple, having the seven plagues, clothed in pure and white linen [purity by which man sees God], and having their breasts girded with golden girdles [the preparation of these treasures]. 7 And one of the four beasts gave unto the seven angels seven golden vials full of the wrath of God [this word which men still refuse], who lives forever and ever. 8 And the temple [on earth] was filled with [a pillar of] smoke [by day, in this time light – anger, to smoke out the vermin infesting the temple] from the glory of God, and from his power [to effect good]; and no man was able to enter into the temple [on earth until it was purged], till the seven plagues of the seven angels [the LORD’s messengers with His message] were fulfilled [teleo – until it was filled with this understanding sent from heaven].
Isaiah 26 1 In that day shall this song be sung in the land [‘erets – in the earth] of Judah [by the elect remnant]; We have [are become] a strong city [New Heavenly Jerusalem]; salvation [yshuw’ah – Jehovah’s Salvation: Joshua: Jesus: the perpetual son of man, the ONE risen BODY of Christ] will God appoint for walls [for protection] and bulwarks [cheyl – our defense: His army]. 2 Open you the gates [out of death and hell], that the righteous nation which keep the truth may enter in [to heaven]. 3 You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on you: because he trusts in you. 4 Trust you in the LORD forever: for in the LORD [Yahh – to whom it is suited] Jehovah is everlasting strength [understanding]: 5 For he brings down them [the proud] that dwell on high; the lofty city, he lays it low; he lays it low, even to the ground; he bringeth it even to the dust [into the ruin of the earth under their rule]. 6 The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor [without worldly power], and the steps of the needy [the humble who acknowledge they are in need of this understanding]. 7 The way of the just is uprightness: you, Most Upright, do weigh the path of the just. 8 Yea, in the way of your judgments, O LORD, have we waited for you; the desire of our soul is to your name, and to the remembrance [zeker – realizing Your manner] of you [we understand we are those possessed by, joined with, Your Spirit and raised here with You]. 9 With my soul have I desired you in the night [when ignorance of Your presence covered the world]; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek you early: for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness. 10 Let favor be shown to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land [‘erets – earth] of uprightness [when this light has come into the darkness] will he deal unjustly [choosing darkness because their deeds are evil], and will not behold [ra’ah – they refuse to see] the majesty of the LORD. 11 LORD, when your hand is lifted up [when Your word and work are exalted], they will not see: but [when the effect of their evil come upon them] they shall see, and be ashamed for their envy at the people [experiencing Your good effect: the expected end we’ve waited for]; yea, the fire of your enemies shall devour them [they, with the old heaven and earth, melt away with their evil works]. 12 LORD, you will ordain peace for us: for you also have wrought all our [Your] works in us [producing the good effect]. 13 O LORD our God, other [evil] lords beside you have had dominion over us: but by you only will we make mention of your name [Your identity]. 14 They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore, have you visited [paqad – manifested Your presence as the Chief Shepherd and Overseer of the earth] and destroyed them, and made all their memory [zeker] to perish [all perception of their nature, not knowing they are evil souls, possessed by an evil spirit, who’ve resisted and opposed God and His plan throughout history]. 15 You have increased the nation [those who haven’t known You], O LORD, you have increased the nation [as it is this day, when only a very few know You]: you [in them] are glorified: you have removed it far [rachaq – brought us to this time when the world is ruled by the evil decrees of evil men in power] unto all the ends [here ending the old beginning the new] of the earth [‘erets]. 16 LORD, in trouble [tsar] have they visited you [paqad – have received You as the Chief Shepherd and Overseer of the earth], they poured out a prayer when your chastening [this good correction] was upon them. 17 Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and cries out in her pangs [anger against the birth pains]; so have we been in your sight, O LORD. 18 We have [ignorantly] been with child, we have been in pain [not understood], we have as it were brought forth wind [a foul spirit which we now perceive]; [rebelling against the new birth] we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; [because of the rebellion, the refusal declare the present LORD] neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen [into this birth canal, where these waters have already broken forth]. 19 Your dead men [by receiving My Spirit] shall live, together with my dead body [of Christ] shall they arise. Awake and sing [these words], you that dwell in dust [of the earth’s ruin]: for your dew [this word of the LORD that appears on the earth with the new day] is as the dew of herbs [in this third day of this new creation], and the [belly of the] earth shall cast out the dead. 20 Come, my people, enter you into your chambers [cheder – in death in the belly of the earth], and shut your doors about you: hide yourself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast [‘abar – and we rise from death into life]. 21 For, behold, the LORD comes out of his place to punish [paqad – as the Chief Shepherd and Overseer of the earth, against] the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood [revealing what drained the life from the earth], and shall no more cover her slain [hid here in the belly of the earth].
The word cheder, describing where the LORD hides His people until the indignation is overpast, refers us to its other uses below.
Proverbs 7 21 With her [the unfaithful harlot church, who the present LORD sees, though she doesn’t know He’s here as she speaks to the simple minded who should remain free from her {unaffected} and doing the LORD’s work] much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him [into her bed where they sleep in death, in the belly of the earth: hell]. 22 He goes after her straightway, as an ox [working in the earth, the third face of the LORD’s unfolding presence, here interrupted] goes to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks [no longer able to continue his work]; 23 Till a dart strikes through his liver [his innermost thoughts]; as a bird hastens to the snare [never rising into heaven], and knows not that it is for his life. 24 Hearken unto me now therefore, O you children, and attend to the words of my mouth. 25 Let not your heart [mind] decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths. 26 For she has cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her. 27 Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers [cheder] of death.
2 Corinthians 5 14 For the love of Christ constrains us [joins us together, to follow the dead into death, that the LORD through us will here raise them to life with His rising with us, in us, rescuing all in all]; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: 15 And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again. 16 Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh [wherein the LORD is risen], yet now henceforth know we him no more. 17 Therefore, if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
2 Corinthians 9 1 For as touching the ministering to the saints [in the original text this says – Touching {peri} truly for the ministering to the saints: hagios], it is superfluous [perissos – touching the living, because of this superabundance of this dispensation the LORD has committed into my hand] for me to write to you: 2 For I know the forwardness of your mind [prothumia – the readiness of your mind; you are those for whom it is intended, God having prepared a better end for us], for which I boast [kauchaomai] of [the LORD’s work in] you to them of Macedonia [the houses of dead flesh, those led there by false preachers and teachers], that Achaia was [those who realized they are in the tribulation, were] ready [paraskeuazo – fully furnished for good works] a year ago; and your zeal [zelos – heat, the fire kindled in you by the LORD’s work] has provoked [erethizo – stimulated, awakened to contend for the faith] very many. 3 Yet have I sent the brethren [to those still sleeping among us], lest our boasting [kauchema – of the LORD’s work] of you should be in vain in this behalf; that, as I said, you may be ready [paraskeuazo]: 4 Lest haply if they of Macedonia [of the houses of dead flesh, who remain asleep] come with me, and find you unprepared [aparasheuastos – unready for this work of God awakening them through you], we (that we say not, you [because I may be among the dead who will come to life by the obedience of those the LORD prepares and brings with Him]) should be ashamed [not reaching the end promised] in this same confident [hupostasis – faith in the inner person, the substance of things hoped for] boasting [kauchesis – rejoicing in the LORD]. 5 Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort [parakaleo – call along side, as the Comforter in me, the LORD yet unknown working and speaking to] the brethren, that they would go before [proerchomai – before through utterance] unto you, and make up beforehand [prokatartizo – only appearing here, meaning to be prepared in advance] your bounty [eulogia – by the LORD’s good words], whereof you had notice before [prokataggello – by which He is announced in advance], that the same might be ready, as a matter of bounty [eulogia – the LORD’s good words], and not as of covetousness [pleonexia – not of “feigned words {to} make merchandise of you.”]. 6 But this I say, He which sows [this word of God] sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully [eulogia] shall reap also bountifully [eulogia]. 7 Every man according as he purpose in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loves a cheerful giver [who joyfully gives His word as received]. 8 And God is able to make all grace [all the benefits of blessing others with His gift] abound toward you; that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work: 9 (As it is written, He has dispersed abroad; he has given to the poor: his righteousness remains forever. [Quoted from Psalms 112:9, which speaks of this as how the desire of the wicked shall perish. Psalms 112:10 The wicked shall see it, and be grieved; he shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away: the desire of the wicked shall perish.] 10 Now he that ministers seed to the sower both minister bread for your food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;) 11 Being enriched in every [good] thing to all bountifulness, which causes through us thanksgiving to God. 12 For the administration of this service not only supplies the want of the saints [hagios], but is abundant also by many thanksgivings unto God; 13 Whiles by the experiment [dokime – the proof in the experience] of this ministration they glorify God for your professed [homologia – His same good words] subjection [hupotage – your subjection, obedience] unto [delivering] the gospel of Christ, and for your liberal distribution [of the gift He has freely given us, to be given as received] unto them, and unto all men; 14 And by their prayer for you, which long after you for the exceeding grace [this gift] of God in you. 15 Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift.
The word “unspeakable,” is from the once-used word anekdiegetos (written in the original text as anekdiegeto), is (dubiously) said to mean “from 1 (as a negative particle) and a presumed derivative of 1555; not expounded in full, i.e. indescribable:–unspeakable.” It’s more accurately from the words an ek diegeiro, respectively meaning, who, through, “to wake fully; i.e. arouse (literally or figuratively):–arise, awake, raise, stir up.”
The verse speaks of thanking Him for His “gift” with which He awakened us to Himself.
The word “gift” is from the eleven times used word dorea.
John 4 10 Jesus answered and said unto her, If you knew the gift [dorea] of God, and who it is that says to you, Give me to drink; you would have asked of him, and he would have given you living [life-giving] water [words].
Acts 2 38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name [identity] of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and you shall receive the gift [dorea] of the Holy [hagios] Ghost.
Romans 5 15 But [the one to come is] not as the [one through whom the] offense [came], so also is [a man, Adam, through whom comes] the free gift [charisma – grace given]. For if through the offense of one many be dead, much more the grace [charis] of God, and the gift [dorea] by grace [charis], which is by one man, Jesus Christ, has abounded unto many. 16 And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift [dorema – only appearing elsewhere in James 1:17]: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift [charis] is of many offenses unto justification. 17 For if by one man’s offense death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace [charis] and of the gift [dorea] of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.
James 1 16 Do not err, my beloved brethren. 17 Every good gift [dosis] and every perfect gift [dorema] is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights [understanding], with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. 18 Of his own will begat he us [again] with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures. 19 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear [Him], slow to speak [your opinions contradicting His truth], slow to wrath: 20 For the wrath of man works not the righteousness of God.
Hebrews 6 1 Therefore leaving [having attained understanding of] the principles [arche] of the doctrine of [logos – the word spoken by] Christ, let us go on unto perfection [teleiotes – completion]; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God, 2 Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of the resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment. 3 And this [reaching completion: this expected end] will we do, if God permits. 4 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened [given this understanding], and have tasted of the heavenly gift [dorea], and were made partakers of the Holy [hagios] Ghost, 5 And have tasted the good word of God, and [in it] the powers of the world to come, 6 If they [those in power] shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.
Hebrews 1 1 God, who at sundry times [polumeros – only appearing here, meaning “in many portions, i.e. variously as to time and agency (piecemeal)”] and in divers manners [polutropos – also only here, meaning, “in many ways, i.e. variously as to method or form.”] spoke in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, 2 Has in these last days spoken [the LORD speaking here and now] unto us by his Son, whom he has appointed heir of all things [spoken by the many prophets, meant to be perfected as the better thing the Father has prepared for us], by whom also he made the worlds [the old, upon whose ruin He created the current age now ending in total corruption, and is in like manner making the New]; 3 Who being the brightness [the understanding of His glory: His manifested presence], and the express image [charakter – the exact copy, “character”] of his person [hupostasis – understanding], and upholding all things by the word [carrying the full load of the light] of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high [until now when He again stands with us, in us]: 4 Being made so much better than the angels, as he has by inheritance obtained a more excellent name [identity] than they.
Hebrews 3 14 For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence [hupostasis – person and substance] steadfast unto the end; 15 While it is said, Today if you will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation. 16 For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses. 17 But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness? 18 And to whom swore he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not? 19 So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief [a lack of faith in what they heard, thereby not allowing the word to touch and change them, and they, therefore, without understanding, remaining corrupted, wouldn’t obey].
Hebrews 1 8 But unto the Son he says, Your throne, O God, is forever and ever: a scepter of righteousness is the scepter of your kingdom. 9 You have loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows. 10 And, You, LORD, in the beginning have laid the foundation [themelioo] of the earth; and the heavens are the works of your hands: 11 They shall perish; but you remain; and they all shall wax old as does a garment; 12 And as a vesture shall you fold them up, and they shall be changed [allasso]: but you are the same, and your years shall not fail. 13 But to which of the angels said he at any time, Sit on my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool? 14 Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister [this same word] for them who shall be heirs of salvation?
Hebrews 11 39 And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise: 40 God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.
Hebrews 12 1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses [sent to minister this word], let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which does so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, 2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. 3 For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest you be wearied and faint in your minds. 4 You have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin. 5 And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks unto you as unto children, My son, despise not you the chastening of the LORD, nor faint when you are rebuked of him: 6 For whom the LORD loves he chastens [corrects out of corruption], and scourges every son whom he receives. 7 If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chastens not? 8 But if you be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are you bastards, and not sons. 9 Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?
22 But you [who are the Father’s children by His correction] are come unto mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the [New] Heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels [messengers He sends to minister His message to the heirs of His promised Salvation], 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 speaks. 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 heaven [the throne of God with His full understanding]: 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 [by men], that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. 28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably [as His ministers] with reverence and godly fear: 29 For our God is a consuming fire.
Philippians 1 25 And having this confidence, I know that I shall abide and continue with you all for your furtherance and joy of faith [believing, realizing in the experience that the LORD is with us, in us]; 26 That your rejoicing may be more abundant in Jesus Christ for me by my coming to you again. 27 Only let your conversation [politeuomai – the proof we are good citizens of New Heavenly Jerusalem] be as it becomes the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel; 28 And in nothing terrified by your adversaries: which is to them an evident token of perdition [their destruction], but to you of salvation, and that of God. 29 For unto you it is given in the behalf [huper – over, as Overseers of the ONE BODY] of Christ, not only to believe on him [that He is always with us, in us], but also [taking up His cross] to [long] suffer for his sake; 30 Having the same conflict which you saw in me, and now hear to be [Christ] in me.
Psalms 98 1 O sing unto the LORD a new [chadash] song; for he has done marvelous things: his right hand, and his holy arm, has gotten him the victory. 2 The LORD has made known his salvation: his righteousness has he openly shown in the sight of the heathen. 3 He has remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of Israel: all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God. 4 Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all the earth: make a loud noise, and rejoice, and sing praise. 5 Sing unto the LORD with the harp; with the harp, and the voice of a psalm. 6 With trumpets and sound of cornet make a joyful noise before the LORD, the King. 7 Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. 8 Let the floods clap their hands: let the hills be joyful together 9 Before [paniym – in the presence of] the LORD; for he comes to judge the earth: with righteousness shall he judge the world, and the people with equity.
He causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings for the rain; he brings the wind out of his treasuries.
As mentioned in the previous post, the word nasiy’, the “prince” mentioned in Ezekiel 44 & 48, is also (dubiously) said to mean “a rising mist.” It’s (dubiously) above, in Psalms 135:7, rendered “vapors,” in phrasing that similarly appears in Jeremiah 10:13 & 51:16. It is also once rendered “cloud,” in Proverbs 25:14.
These passages speak of the LORD’s rising, at the “ends” of the earth, from the word qetseh, meaning an extremity, speaking of the end of one age and the beginning of the next. He is the vapor, the living Spirit, the cloud that makes the lightning and rain, giving understanding (revelation) to His word, by which He “brings” (yatsa’) His Spirit alive (ruwach) in us, His “treasuries,” from ‘owtsor, meaning depository.
This prince is the cloud where understanding is held as vapor, where its elements are until they are congealed and returned to the earth.
Proverbs 25 2 It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honor of kings is to search out a matter. 3 The heaven for height, and the earth for depth, and the heart of kings is unsearchable. 4 Take away the dross from the silver, and there shall come forth a vessel for the finer. 5 Take away the wicked from before the king, and his throne shall be established in righteousness. 6 Put not forth yourself in the presence of the king, and stand not in the place of great men: 7 For better it is that it be said unto you, Come up hither; than that you should be put lower in the presence of the prince whom your eyes have seen. 8 Go not forth hastily to strive, lest you know not what to do in the end thereof, when your neighbor has put you to shame. 9 Debate your cause with your neighbor himself; and discover not a secret to another: 10 Lest he that hears it put you to shame, and your infamy turn not away. 11 A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver. 12 As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover upon an obedient ear. 13 As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, so is a faithful messenger to them that send him: for he refreshes the soul of his masters. 14 Whoso boasts himself of a false gift is like clouds [nasiy’] and wind without rain [a prince without the LORD’s Spirit refusing to receive and give His word]. 15 By long forbearing is a prince persuaded, and a soft tongue breaks the bone. 16 Have you found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for you, lest you be filled therewith, and vomit it. 17 Withdraw your foot from your neighbor’s house; lest he be weary of you, and so hate you. 18 A man that bears false witness against his neighbor is a maul [is a scatterer of sheep], and a sword, and a sharp arrow. 19 Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint. 20 As he that taketh away a garment in cold weather, and as vinegar upon niter, so is he that sings songs to a heavy heart. 21 If your enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink: 22 For you shall heap coals of fire upon his head, and the LORD shall reward you. 23 The north wind drives away rain: so does an angry countenance a backbiting tongue. 24 It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman and in a wide house. 25 As cold waters to a thirsty soul [see Matthew 10:42], so is good news from a far country [see Isaiah 33:13 & 17]. 26 A righteous man falling down before the wicked [bowing to their intentionally misleading words] is as a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring. 27 It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory. 28 He that has no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.
Matthew 10 32 Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven. 33 But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven. 34 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I [a man of war] came not to send peace, but a sword [this word all men, at first, refused to receive as the LORD’s]. 35 For I am come to set a man at variance [dichazo – to make apart, only appearing this once: with affinity to the twice used word distazo and thereby speaking of separating those who believe from those who “doubt”] against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law [speaking of the new generation that will rise up and condemn the previous generations for their corruption of all truth]. 36 And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household. 37 He that loves father or mother [those who brought them up in this time when all is corrupted] more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loves son or daughter [those brought up corrupt] more than me is not worthy of me. 38 And he that takes not his cross, and follows after me, is not worthy of me. 39 He that finds his life shall lose it: and he that loses his life [denying himself and taking on My identity] for my sake shall find it. 40 He that receives you receives me, and he that receives me receives him that sent me. 41 He that receives a prophet in the name [identity] of a prophet shall receive a prophet’s reward; and he that receives a righteous man in the name [identity] of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man’s reward. 42 And whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones a cup of cold water [see Proverbs 25:25 – this good news] only in the name [identity] of a disciple, truly I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward.
Isaiah 33 10 Now will I rise, says the LORD; now will I be exalted; now will I lift up myself. 11 You shall conceive chaff, you shall bring forth stubble: your breath, as fire, shall devour you. 12 And the people shall be as the burnings of lime: as thorns [the misleaders among you] cut up [by this sword] shall they be burned in the fire [this word from the LORD’s mouth]. 13 Hear, you that are far off [rachowq – this time when the world is ruled by the evil decrees of the wicked in power; see Proverbs 25:25], what I have done; and, you that are near, acknowledge my might. 14 The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness has surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings? 15 He that walked righteously, and speaks [this word] uprightly; he that despises the gain of oppressions, that shakes his hands from holding of bribes, that stops his ears from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from seeing evil; 16 He shall dwell on high: his place of defense shall be the munitions of rocks [from where this word of the LORD flows]: bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure. 17 Your eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the land that is very far off [see Proverbs 25:25 – the good news He is preaching]. 18 Your heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver [of the word of God]? where is he that counted the towers [rightly assessed what is now coming]? 19 You shall not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than you can perceive; of a stammering tongue, that you can not understand. 20 Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: your eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down; not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken. 21 But there the glorious LORD will be unto us a place of broad rivers and streams [his word flowing to His people who receive Him]; wherein shall go no galley [churches opposing the flow] with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby. 22 For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; he will save us. 23 Your tacklings [chebel – the sorrows of hell] are loosed [you are freed from the institutions that are oppressing you]; they could not well strengthen their mast, they could not spread the sail [nec – the churches without the LORD, without this word, couldn’t raise a defense against the serpents destroying them]: then is the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame take the prey. 24 And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity
Jeremiah 10 1 Hear [shama’ – and obey] you the word which the LORD speaks unto you, O house of Israel: 2 Thus says the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen [those who haven’t known Me in any generation], and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven [this full understanding seen here and now]; for the heathen [who don’t know I Am in every generation] are dismayed at them. 3 For the customs of the people are vain: for one cut a tree out of the forest [men they think are upright], the work of the hands of the workman [making them idols], with the axe. 4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not [from the corrupt positions they’ve created]. [These are the hypocrites, the hyper critical, congenital liars, witnesses against their own ignorance, exposing themselves, who are forever spewing their fallacious opinions, who will never stop, never come to the present light, because their deeds are evil. They have made their choice and therefore, by their endless disruption of peace, condemn themselves to separation from the law-abiding and peaceful.] 5 They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not [according to this word, because there is no light in them]: they must need be borne [carried], because they cannot go [move on their own, but must be moved out of the way by the Spirit of the LORD moving upon the darkened deep]. Be not afraid of them; for [if we refuse to be affected] they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good [they are unable to produce a positive effect]. 6 Forasmuch as there is none like unto you, O LORD; you are great, and your name is great in might. 7 Who would not fear you, O King of nations? for to you does it appertain [ya’ah – only appearing this once; pertaining to Yahh: I Am]: forasmuch as among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is none like unto you [none knowing the things only You know and teach us]. 8 But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is [their idols are] a doctrine of vanities [worthless words]. 9 Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder [tsaraph – the refining of earthly value and outer appearance]: blue and purple is their clothing [covering the deception within, by which they rule]: they are all the work of cunning men [chakam – the wise men of this world, who the LORD confounds with His truth]. 10 But the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth [‘erets] shall tremble [to shake the wicked from it], and the nations [those refusing to know I Am] shall not be able to abide his indignation [za’am – which ends in these men’s destruction, which they should fear]. 11 Thus shall you say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth [‘erets], even they shall perish from the [new] earth, and from under these [new] heavens. 12 He has made the earth by his power, he has established the world by his wisdom, and has stretched out the heavens [this understanding spread before you] by his discretion. 13 When he utters his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens [by which His word from there comes], and he causes the vapors [nasiy’ – the prince in whom the elements of understanding are found] to ascend [to rise from the earth into the cloud] from the ends of the earth [‘erets – being left without understanding, ending the old and corrupt]; [and beginning the new] he [congealing the elements] makes lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures [by His Spirit moving upon the darkness He gives these gifts]. 14 Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder [tsaraph] is confounded by the graven image [the idol they’ve created]: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath [life] in them. 15 They are vanity [worthless words], and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation [pquddah – this time when I Am come as the Chief Overseer of the earth] they shall perish. 16 The portion of Jacob is not like them: for he is the former of all things; and Israel [My family, the children of My correction] is the rod [shebet – the scepter to rule this new earth] of his inheritance: The LORD of hosts [a man of war] is his name [I Am, His identity]. 17 Gather up your wares [pack and move] out of the land [‘erets – the old earth], O inhabitant of the fortress [matsowr – the place of oppression, against which I Am laying siege]. 18 For thus says the LORD, Behold, I will sling [qala’ – a seven times used word referring us to its use in 1 Samuel 25:29] out the inhabitants of the land [‘erets] at this once, and will distress them, that they may find it so. 19 Woe is me for my [the carcass of My dead body] hurt! my wound is grievous; but I said, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it. 20 My tabernacle is spoiled, and all my cords are broken: my children are gone forth of me, and they are not [the same words Rachel cries out, in Jeremiah 31:15, speaking of Ephraim: God’s people at large in this last and first generation]: there is none to stretch forth my tent any more, and to set up my curtains. 21 For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered [as it is]. 22 Behold, the noise [qowl – the voice] of the bruit [shmuw’ah – the report heard from Jehovah, I Am in this generation of the dead who are raised to life] is come, and a great commotion [ra’ash – the voice “shaking” heaven and earth, which brings the dead bones together and causes men to discern and choose good over evil] out of the north country [revealed from the darkness of men’s ignorance], to make the cities of Judah [the current crop of corrupt leaders] desolate, and a den of dragons [tanniym – men as serpents and whales, with their wide open mouths devouring men and swallowing them into the belly of hell]. 23 O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself [but to You it appertains, to guide and direct him into a good way]: it is not in man that walks [astray into his own evil way] to direct his steps. 24 O LORD, correct me [back onto the right path], but with judgment; not in your anger, lest you bring me to nothing. 25 Pour out your fury upon the heathen that know you not, and upon the families that call not on your name [You manifested identity: I Am]: for they have eaten up Jacob [and swallowed him into the belly of hell], and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation [this old and totally corrupt earth] desolate.
Matthew 12 30 He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathers not with me scatters abroad. 31 Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men. 32 And whosoever speaks a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaks against the Holy Ghost [the LORD speaking and working unknown to those dead in their own ignorance, proven by them not knowing it’s Him even as He tells them – Acts 13:41 Behold {see Him}, you despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which you shall in no wise believe, though a man declares it {as I Am} unto you.], it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come. 33 Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit. 34 O generation of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart [the foundational mind] the mouth speaks. 35 A good man out of the good treasure of the heart brings forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things. 36 But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the [this] day of judgment. 37 For by your words you shall be justified, and by your words you shall be condemned. 38 Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from you. 39 But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonah [coming from the belly of hell and calling all to repent]: 40 For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly [and from there said, “I cried by reason of my affliction unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and you heard my voice.”]; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart [mind] of the earth [which is the habitation of the dead, in the grave in the earth, sheol]. 41 The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and, behold, a greater than Jonah is here. 42 The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.
The idea of the element of understanding being congealed in the cloud, as unseen vapor turned to water: the word of God in the mind of the prince He chooses and anoints with these gifts, treasures deposited to be given to all freely, is seen in the four times used word qapha’, meaning “to shrink, i.e. thicken (as unracked wine, curdled milk, clouded sky, frozen water).”
Exodus 15 1 Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the LORD, and spoke, saying, I will sing unto the LORD, for he has triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider has he thrown into the sea. 2 The LORD is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he is my God, and I will prepare him a habitation; my father’s God, and I will exalt him. 3 The LORD is a man of war: the LORD is his name. 4 Pharaoh’s chariots and his host has he cast into the sea: his chosen captains also are drowned in the Red sea. 5 The depths have covered them: they sank into the bottom as a stone. 6 Your right hand, O LORD, is become glorious in power: your right hand, O LORD, has dashed in pieces the enemy. 7 And in the greatness of your excellency you have overthrown them that rose up against you: you sent forth your wrath, which consumed them as stubble. 8 And with the blast of your nostrils the waters were gathered together, the floods stood upright as a heap, and the depths were congealed [qapha’] in the heart [the mind] of the sea [God’s people at large]. 9 The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them. 10 You did blow with your wind, the sea covered them: they sank as lead in the mighty waters. 11 Who is like unto you, O LORD, among the 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 [shama’ – and obey], and be afraid: sorrow shall take hold [‘achaz] on the inhabitants of Palestina [the Philistines, the army of invaders]. 15 Then the dukes of Edom [enemies mixed among us] shall be amazed; the mighty men [‘ayil – the ram] of Moab [those whose mouths are the gates holding the world in death and hell], trembling shall take hold [‘achaz] upon them; all the inhabitants of Canaan shall melt away. 16 Fear and dread shall fall upon them; by the greatness of your arm they shall be as still as a stone; till your people pass over [‘abar – from death into life], O LORD, till the people pass over [‘abar], which you have purchased. 17 You shall bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of your inheritance, in the place, O LORD, which you have made for you to dwell in, in the Sanctuary, O LORD, which your hands have established. 18 The LORD shall reign forever and ever. 19 For the horse of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and the LORD brought again the waters of the sea upon them; but the children of Israel went on dry land in the midst of the sea. 20 And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. 21 And Miriam answered them, Sing you to the LORD, for he has triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider has he thrown into the sea. 22 So Moses brought Israel from the Red sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur [the “wall” of lies]; and they went three days [waiting in the belly of hell for the resurrection] in the wilderness, and found no water [no word of God]. 23 And when they came to Marah [bitterness], they could not drink of the waters of Marah [the words of stife], for they were bitter [mar]: therefore the name of it was called Marah. 24 And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink? 25 And he cried unto the LORD; and the LORD showed him [yara’ – taught him of] a tree [of life], which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet [mathaq – a five times used word that speaks of counsel, here referring to the LORD’s counsel refused until this time when the tree of life is cast into the sea, to the people at large who, in bitterness, waiting for this moment]: there he made for them a statute [choq – a decree] and an ordinance, and there he proved them, 26 And said, If you will diligently hearken to [shama’ – obey] the voice of the LORD your God, and will do that which is right in his sight, and will give ear [‘azan – pay close attention] to his commandments, and keep all his statutes [choq], I will put none of these diseases upon you, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the LORD that heals [rapha’] you. 27 And they came to Elim [‘ayil – overcoming the ram, men whose mouths, their evil counsel opposing and resisting the LORD’s anointed, at the gate of hell that cannot stand against this word of God], where were twelve wells of water [governmental perfection], and threescore and ten palm trees [the resurrection that comes with ending the causes of the desolation, ending the abominations put in God’s place, the evil counsel that replaced His good]: and they encamped there by the waters.
With the 4th of July coming, and considering the events of the day, I must once again remind all of a very poignant article by Linda Kimball, published 23 February 2008 in the American Thinker, and quoted here often. It is titled The Materialist Faith of Communism, Socialism, and Liberalism. It describes what we are seeing unfold in the streets of Los Angeles and coming to Democrat (communist) controlled cities across the nation. The article concludes with a warning, quoting President Calvin Coolidge from a speech he gave on the 5th of July 1926, commemorating the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. He is championing the ideas contained therein as final, unable to be improved upon, which (improving the ideas) were the lies of the communists (progressives) of his day, seeking to replace them with what he (Coolidge) called “pagan materialism.”
Here following is the full article, as posted 30 January 2019:
Again, as many times in the past, here is the definition of materialist scientism (Scientific Materialism – which is, when gone political, Communism) from an often quoted 2008 article in The American Thinker, by Linda Kimball. Here, again, is the full article, because each day it becomes more relevant, its warned against evil now come, as if the devil, in great wrath, knowing his time is short.
The American Thinker February 23, 2008 The Materialist Faith of Communism, Socialism, and Liberalism By Linda Kimball
For over eighty-five years, America has been incrementally conquered by the same madness-inducing demon of hatred and violence that earlier took over Russia, China, Germany, and Italy. Rabbi Aryeh Spiro concurs,
“There is a madness in today’s liberal thinking. It insists on policies that tie our hands to defend ourselves while given free reign to the jihadists intent on killing us. It is dangerous because it is becoming the law, and thinking of the land in the western world. (Liberal Madness is Deadly (1/24/08)
This demon is embodied in “enlightened” Liberals and the West’s transnational “elite,” both of which are deeply infected by materialistic Communism (Cultural Marxism) and the delusion that the true enemy of America is always on the Right. Having rejected God and the religious heritage of our civilization, they embrace instead a new order of beliefs of which Communism and Socialism are logical expressions. A new world order is what they seek, but in order that it can emerge, the existing culture must be completely destroyed.
And what is Communism? Using the former Soviet Union as an example, Frank Meyers describes it as, “The state form taken by a materialist faith determined to rule the world.” Communism or scientific materialism is “the final synthesis of all heretical tendencies that have pervaded Western civilization for many centuries.” It is materialist scientism, of which,
“Communism is the culminating hubris of the Promethean man who reaches out for the world and means to remake creation. It is scientism gone political.” (The Conservative Intellectual Movement, pp. 251-252)
We are All Materialists Now
“An age of science is necessarily an age of materialism,” declared Hugh Elliot early last century, “Ours is a scientific age, and it may be said with truth that we are all materialists now.” (Darwin Day in America, John G. West, xiv)
Materialist faith, or scientific materialism, has virtually displaced America’s founding Judeo-Christian worldview with the result that materialism is now the operative assumption for much of our government, culture, politics, and law. Materialist operatives now control every public institution in the United States. According to the inner logic of materialist faith, “we the people” are nothing but socially-constructed atomized robots which can presumably be deconstructed and melted into an atomized mass. Toward both this goal and to raise up an army of street thugs who will destroy our culture, materialist change-agents use our education system to subvert and convert the minds of our youth. Should they succeed in thoroughly corrupting them and in turning their hearts to hate, this generation of children may become the next Khmer Rouge, who at Pol Pot’s order murdered nearly two-million people, including their own families.
What is Materialism?
As Robert Jastrow (b. 1925), recipient of NASA’s Medal for Exceptional Studies explains, there are only two possible explanations for the origin of life: evolution and creation.
“…science has no…answer to the question of the origin of life on earth. Perhaps (life) is a miracle. Scientists are reluctant to accept that view, but their choices are limited: either life was created…by the will of a being outside…scientific understanding, or it evolved…spontaneously through chemical reactions…in nonliving matter…The first theory…is a statement of faith in the power of a Supreme Being not subject to the laws of science. The second theory is also an act of faith (which assumes) that the scientific view…is correct, without having concrete evidence to support that belief.” (Until the Sun Dies, Jastrow, 1977, pp. 62-63)
America is founded on the Judeo-Christian creation model. Materialist faith rises or falls on the assumptions of metaphysical materialism and evolution.
Materialism belongs to the family of Naturalism, which refers to the view that nature (or matter) is the Ultimate Substance of which the universe and all life are made, thus “all is one.” C. S. Lewis describes naturalism as a box with its top sealed tightly closed in order to keep out God and the supernatural realm. The ancient Ionians, Babylonians, Egyptians, and Aztecs were, for example, naturalists. In this view there is but one realm (the material or natural) as opposed to Judeo-Christianity’s creation model with its two interacting realms: natural and supernatural.
There are two basic kinds of Naturalism: materialism (i.e., Communism) and pantheism (i.e., Nazism and New Age Spiritual Communism). The two kinds differ chiefly about whether the First Cause or Absolute Substance is nonliving, non-intelligence bearing matter or an unknowing, unknowable, amoral mind. However, both kinds are united by their rejection of the transcendent, personal God and the supernatural realm and by their acceptance of some form of evolution, which serves as an impersonal, mechanical process of development.
Birth of Scientific Materialism: A Brief Historical Overview
As will be shown by the following overview, scientific materialism is not founded on empirical science, as has been its deceptive claim, but rather on metaphysics.
In the main, modern materialism originated in the metaphysics of the ancient Ionians and Stoics during the sixth century BC. However, it was the Atomists (Leucippus/Democritus, 460-357 BC; Epicurus, 342-270 BC; and Lucretius, 96-55 BC) who methodically developed materialism.
Forged in a furnace of narcissism, envy, and contempt, Atomism was from its inception an antihuman abomination which in later years, would attract those who enjoy the control and domination of others. Atomism set all things in ceaseless, purposeless motion by reducing everything—including man, his soul, and even his thoughts—to mindless atoms perpetually colliding with each other in a void. Man was reduced to a soulless, mindless machine that could only ‘see’ a tree because the tree emitted atoms which entered machine-man’s eyes and implanted themselves onto his brain. This view has changed very little:
“We are descended from robots, and composed of robots…” –Daniel C. Dennett, Kinds of Minds
Plato and Aristotle were the most forceful and compelling critics of Atomism. In Book X of Laws, Plato indicts the Atomists for reversing the natural order, which they did by placing dead matter before Nous (mind/soul), and for the reductionism that sets everything in motion and reduces man to a machine. Plato foresees only misery, social disintegration and ultimately, “the ruin of both states and families” should Atomism become the accepted view.
Though Christianity reared a mighty barrier against Atomism, it would be resurrected— along with the hylozoism of the Ionians and Stoics—during the Renaissance by among others, pantheist Giordano Bruno and the heretic Paracelsus, an alchemist described by C.S. Lewis as a magician in his book, The Abolition of Man.
Hylozoism (Greek hyle=nature; zoe-life) is the doctrine according to which all of nature’s bodies (i.e., sun, earth, moon, trees, man) possess life, mind, soul, and even divinity. By infusing Atomism with Ionian hylozoism, what might be called materialzoism was invented by Bruno, Paracelsus, and others. In short, dead matter was not just brought to life but deified.
The Franco-Germanic Enlightenment
With “God dead” and the source of man’s humanity (mind/soul) expropriated by materialists and conferred upon “dead matter,” a rush to discover the key that unlocks the mystery to life and mind was ignited which in later years unleashed unspeakable evil. For in believing that without a doubt, they now possessed the gnosis (secret knowledge) to not only design a utopia but create a New Man with a reprogrammed mind and conscience, Nazi and Soviet scientists performed sadistic experiments on living human beings. It was of these later scientific materialists that C.S. Lewis wrote his book, “The Abolition of Man.” Even now, wrote Lewis, the process to “abolish Man goes on apace among Communists and Democrats (and) Fascists.” The methods, said Lewis, may at first differ in brutality. But “enlightened” materialists from scientists to philosophers to academe and to political leaders mean, in the long run, “Just the same as the Nazis…” The West and America are to be destroyed and “mankind to be cut out in some fresh shape at the will” of scientific materialists who Lewis calls the Conditioners and Innovators. These people, noted Lewis, are no longer men, for they have stepped out into the void.
Among the horde of Prometheans who set out to discover the animating-power of machine-man was Giovanni Aldini, who performed macabre experiments on decapitated oxes, horses, lambs, and — once he had overcome his repugnance, on humans. For his experiments, he procured the freshest specimens possible by placing himself “under the scaffold, near the axe of justice…” Believing that some type of electricity was the source of machine-mans animation, Aldini applied electricity to various parts of decapitated human heads. This produced “the most horrid grimaces (but the) action of the eyelids was exceedingly striking.” Aldini rationalized his repugnant experiments by saying that only the “unenlightened part of mankind (will be) apt to entertain a prejudice…” (Darwin Day in America, p. 15)
Yet more power-crazed Prometheans emerged. Julien de la Mettrie (1709-51), Paul Henri Thiery, and Baron D’Holbach (1723-89) all agreed that the mind is the property of dead matter and man nothing but a machine. La Mettrie speculated that machine-mans rational life is entirely determined by physical causes that run the gamut from raw meat, to climate, blood circulation, and gender. Genetic inheritance, posits la Mettrie, causes machine-man to commit crime. This view casts parents into the role of “first cause” and would later manifest itself in the belief that State’ experts,’ or Hillary’s “village” experts should have control of children. (ibid, pp. 16-18)
Pierre Simon Laplace (1749-1827) viewed scientific materialism as not only the pursuit of God-like omniscience but of the Holy Grail itself—power to create a New Man. If an intelligence could grasp “at a given instant…all the forces by which nature is animated” proclaimed Laplace, it could devise a mathematical formula that would predict everything that would ever happen, and “nothing would be uncertain, and the future, like the past, would be open to its eyes.” Scientists should reduce everything in the universe to mechanical laws that could be expressed in terms of mathematics, advised Laplace, for the promise of such knowledge was incredible power…even over life and mind itself. (ibid, p. 20)
Herbert Spencer, Fechner, Lotze, Wundt, and pantheist Ernst Haeckel, inventer of the scientism dictum—ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny—all agreed that life and mind are properties of dead matter. Haeckel moreover imagined ether to be the primitive life-making substance which, as was the case with the primitive fire of the Stoics, changed one part of itself into inert mass while the other part became the active principle, spirit. Today, many scientists routinely resort to Haeckel’s postulate without ever inquiring into its pantheist implications.
Haeckel would later write, “Pantheism teaches that God and the world are one…pantheism is…an advanced conception of nature (and) a polite form of atheism.” The truth of pantheism, confessed Haeckel, “lies in its destruction of the dualist antithesis of God…” The godless world system being constructed, said Haeckel, “substantially agrees with the monism or pantheism of the modern scientist.” (Monism, Ernst Haeckel, www.pantheist.net/)
During the century to follow, Charles Darwin (1809-82) would help spread materialism to the masses. As Stephen Jay Gould argues, “Darwin applied a consistent philosophy of materialism to his interpretation of nature, “and “the ground of all existence; mind, spirit, and God (are reduced to) neural complexity.” (ibid, p. 41)
According to Darwin, natural selection and the laws of heredity acting on matter produced mind, morality, and civilization. By describing how deified natural mechanisms caused the complexity of life to emerge from deified matter, Darwin helped transform materialism from a fantastically bizarre tale told by power-mad Prometheans on the fringe of society to a hallowed scientism principle enshrined and worshipped by modern scientism and ‘enlightened’ Westerners.
It was during this time that Social Darwinism, Progressivism, Socialism, Communism (Cultural Marxism, New Left), Nazism, and Secular Humanism were developed out of metaphysical materialism. Classical Liberalism on the other hand, was subverted and corrupted by the materialist faith into what is now known as modern Liberalism. Of these, Communism (Marx and Engel’s dialectical materialism), is considered to be the most highly developed philosophy of materialism. It rests on three fundamental metaphysical presuppositions:
1. Deified Matter: The Ultimate Substance which, though non-living, non-intelligent, and non-conscious, nevertheless somehow possesses the emergent properties of life, mind, consciousness, and soul. 2. Evolution: Since Marxist dialectic requires a theory with clashes (thesis and antithesis) and leaps (synthesis), Marxists have all but abandoned Darwinism and instead have embraced punctuated equilibrium. “Many people confound dialectic with the theory of evolution,” noted G. Plekhanov. “Dialectic is, in fact, a theory of evolution. But it differs profoundly from the vulgar (Darwinian) theory of evolution.” (Fundamental Problems of Marxism, 1929, p. 145) 3. Spontaneous Generation: An offshoot of specifically Darwinian thought accepted unreservedly by Marxists as their dialectic requires a strictly materialist explanation for the origin of life from dead matter. In the words of M.A. Leonov: “Marxist philosophical materialism remains beyond all doubt that at some time or other in the remote past, life must have arisen from non-living matter.” (Outline of Dialectical Materialism, 1948, p. 494)
In a modified version of the Stoic conception of the earth as a living organism possessed of its own soul, neo-pantheist dialectical materialism declares that earth is “one entire organism…its organs the various races and nations of men.” Not only is the earth alive and evolving upward on evolution’s magical escalator, but so too are history and society, for they also are living entities in a continuous state of motion. And man? In a modified conception of Atomism’s extremely dehumanizing view of man, dialectical materialism states that man is nothing but “a colonial aggregation of cells,” and to “consider him an individual would be an error.” Man—the aggregate of cells— is nothing but an extension of society, history, and earth. (Russian Textbook on Psychopolitics, Chapter II: The Constitution of Man as a Political Organism)
Death of America?
Modern materialist states began by rejecting God and denying objective standards of right and wrong. They threw out sanctity of life and demonically reduced man to matter in motion. The end case, in every instance, was to place absolute power over “atomized masses” into the hands of psychopaths and autocratic states to be wielded without restraint or mercy.
Of all religions, the materialist faith has been by far the bloodiest. In his book, Death by Government, R.J. Rummel comprehensively details the roughly 170 million people murdered by materialist governments during the 20th century. From 1917 to its collapse in 1991, the Soviet Union liquidated about 62 million. During Mao Tse-tung’s reign, 35,236,000 were murdered. Hitler’s Nazi’s killed 21 million. Even at its mildest, as is thus far the case here in America, there is a steady level of confiscation, corruption, fraud, and stifling of freedoms and free speech. For the first time ever, Americans are afraid of saying certain words. Parents fear disciplining their own children. More ominously, materialists in control of America (i.e., ACLU, activist judges) have rejected God and thrown out both sanctity of life and objective standards. “We the people” have been reduced to atomized beings. Totalitarianism and genocide loom just over our horizon.
As early as 1926, President Calvin Coolidge was aware of and deeply concerned by the insidious spread scientific materialism in America. As he knew, Americans are free only because of the Judeo-Christian foundation laid by the country’s founders. In a speech he delivered in Philadelphia, July 5, 1926 to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, Coolidge tried to call American’s back to their Judeo-Christian heritage. He told Americans that the Declaration’s principles of liberty arise from man’s God-given inalienable rights. And these are found, said Coolidge, “in the texts, the sermons, and the writings of the early colonial clergy…” The clergy preached equality “because they believed in the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man.” Sanctity of life, the right to self-defense, and all the rest of our individual liberties were justified “by the text that we are all created in the divine image, all partakers of the divine spirit.” God’s children therefore, have no “superiors;” there are no modern-day “divine rights kings” who possess “any right to rule…over them.” Americans are free to choose their own leaders.
The Declaration, continued Coolidge, is “a great spiritual document.” Its principles are not material but spiritual. “Equality, liberty, popular sovereignty, the rights of man—these are not elements we can see and touch. They are ideals (whose) source and roots (are) in religious convictions. They belong to the unseen world.”
President Coolidge cautioned Americans that, “unless the faith of the Americans in these religious convictions is to endure, the principles of our Declaration will perish. We can not continue to enjoy the result if we abandon the cause.”
Coolidge ended his speech with a stark warning, “We must not sink into a pagan materialism…” (Back Fired, William Federer, pp. 269-271)
Yet, believing they are “enlightened” and “scientific,” maddened Liberals and Transnational “elites” are leading America over the Gadarene Cliff.
Psalms 121 1 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 you will not slumber. 4 Behold, he that keeps Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. 5 The LORD is your keeper: the LORD is your shade upon your right hand. 6 The sun shall not smite you by day, nor the moon by night. 7 The LORD shall preserve you from all evil: he shall preserve your soul. 8 The LORD shall preserve your going out and your coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.
It shall be for the priests that are sanctified of the sons of Zadok; which have kept my charge, which went not astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray.
The “it” in the above verse (Ezekiel 48:11) is, mentioned in the previous verse, “the sanctuary of the LORD [that] shall be in the midst thereof.” It is “in the midst” of the “oblation,” which is the heave offering, the burden the LORD’s priests and princes carry to God’s people scattered to the four winds.
This process begins with the sons of Zadok, after the LORD has returned through the previously closed east gate, which is opened to Him: the light (the way, truth, and life) again seen rising over the horizon.
Zadok means just and righteous. He is described in the Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrews Lexicon as “the high priest, son of Ahitub [good brother] of the house of Eleazar the son of Aaron, and 11th in descent from Aaron; joined David after Saul’s death and supported him against [the rebellion of] Absalom and Adonijah; [and later] anointed Solomon king.”
The name Ahitub (Achiytuwb – [father of the] good brother) refers to one of his two sons, Ahiah (Achiyah – Jehovah’s brother). The other son is Ichabod, meaning “no glory.” Ahitub is a son of Phinehas, the son of Eli, whose daughter-in-law, Phinehas’ wife, named the child Ichabod, saying, “The glory is departed from Israel: because the ark of God [from where the LORD presence {glory} is manifested in the conversation with the High Priests] was taken, and because of her father in law [Eli, the High Priest, died] and her husband [Phinehas, next in the succession, died].” (This quote is from 1 Samuel 4:21.) These deaths made Ahitub, the son of Phinehas, the next in the line to be High Priest; after him his son Ahiah, and Zadok after him.
The sons of Zadok are the first of the pure (sanctified: made and declared holy) priests, in the line of Aaron (the light givers), through Eleazar, a name transliterated into English as Lazarus. In Luke 16, we’re told of Lazarus, after death, alive in a place where heaven and hell are apparent to those in both places. In verse 26, we’re told they’re separated by a great uncrossable “gulf,” which we know is from the once-used Greek word chasma, meaning “from a form of an obsolete primary chao (to “gape” or “yawn”); a “chasm” or vacancy (impassable interval).” This word (chasma) is the origin of the once-used word ketos, meaning “probably from the base of 5490 [chasma]; a huge fish (as gaping for prey).”
As we know, these two words speak of the open mouths of men as the gates of hell: the “whale’s” belly, the belly of the earth, where the LORD is until He reveals himself to those who are (by receiving Him risen from death among them) in heaven. Those in hell remain there because they reject the LORD’s word that opens the gate out.
As with all scripture, we know these words are the wheel within the wheel: understanding in written form sent to us through time, to be rightly interpreted here and now, to give us light, understanding, and life from among the dead by this unfolding (in the fours faces seen in the wheel) presence of God with us, in us (His perpetual children: Nineveh).
These priests who the LORD is now raising from the dead, in the priest line (Eleazar – the help of God), in the foretold order of Melchizedek (King of the Zadok), the first priest of God ever mentioned, in Genesis 14:18. As we’ve seen in previous discussions, he, after Abraham’s defeat of the kings, blessed him (the same Abraham seen with Lazarus in heaven) with an offering, which he receives while refusing the offering of the king of Sodom.
Genesis 14 14 And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained servants, born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them unto Dan [judgment]. 15 And he divided himself against them, he and his servants, by night, and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah [their “hiding place”], which is on the left hand of Damascus [where the people have been silenced in sorrow]. 16 And he brought back [shuwb – returned] all the goods [rkuwsh, from rakash, what was laid up, the ways and ideas that produced peace and prosperity], and also brought again [shuwb – returned] his brother Lot [their protective cover, by removing the cover {lowt} of lies cast over all the world], and his goods [rkuwsh], and the women also, and the people. 17 And the king of Sodom [those causing the “flames” in the furnace] went out [of the slime pits where they were hiding] to meet him [still covered in slime] after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer [from three words meaning the lies and deceptions exposed by chastisement: the scourge – he is also to king of Elam, meaning he rules by these means {lies and deceptions} throughout eternity; and is a Satan antitype], and of the kings that were with him [ruling by the same means], at the valley of Shaveh [where everything is seen in plain sight], which is the king’s dale [these king’s hell on the earth, when they are awakened to eternal damnation for their crimes against humanity]. 18 And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine [the word of God that changes minds by effectual working in those who receive it as His word]: and he was the priest of the Most High God [‘Elyown ‘El]. 19 And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram [Abraham] of the Most High God, possessor [qanah – see Exodus 15:16] of heaven and earth: 20 And blessed be the Most High God, which has delivered your enemies into your hand. And he gave him tithes of all. 21 And the king of Sodom [those still covered in slime] said unto Abram, Give me the persons [nephesh – the souls], and take the goods [rkuwsh] to yourself. 22 And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lifted up my hand unto the LORD, the Most High God, the possessor of heaven and earth, 23 That I will not take from a thread even to a shoe-latch, and that I will not take any thing that is yours, lest you shouldest say, I have made Abram rich: 24 Save only that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men which went with me, Aner [with affinity to ‘amar – the children who’ve by chastisement become men], Eshcol [as a cluster of fruit reattached to the vine], and Mamre [which is their strength]; let them take their portion [let them from you retake their inheritance].
The word “portion” is from the Hebrew word cheleq, meaning “smoothness (of the tongue); also an allotment: –flattery, inheritance, part, X partake, portion.” We’re told, twice in Ezekiel 48:21, it (this inheritance) is for the prince, the same prince mentioned twice earlier in Ezekiel 44:3.
The word rendered “prince” is nasiy’, meaning “an exalted one, i.e. a king or sheik; also a rising mist.”
Ezekiel 44 1 Then he brought me [the way, truth, and life] back the way of the gate of the outward sanctuary, which looks toward the east, and it [all understanding] was shut [because of the abomination men put in the LORD God’s place]. 2 Then said the LORD unto me; This gate [out of hell in heaven] shall be shut, it shall not be opened, and no man shall enter in by it; because the LORD, the God of Israel, has entered in by it, therefore it shall be shut. 3 It [the entryway] is for the prince [nasiy’]; the prince [nasiy’ – the one in whom the elements of understanding are congealed], he shall sit in it to eat bread [this rightly divided word of God] before [paniym – as the presence of] the LORD; he shall enter by the way of the porch [‘ulam, from ‘alam, meaning to be silent, with affinity to ‘alam, meaning hidden: thereby telling us He enters when His people’s silence is ended] of that gate, and shall go out by the way of the same. 4 Then brought he me the way of the north gate before the house: and I looked, and, behold, the glory [presence] of the LORD filled the house of the LORD: and I fell upon my face [paniym – in His presence]. 5 And the LORD said unto me, Son of man, mark well, and behold with your eyes, and hear with your ears all that I say unto you concerning all the ordinances of the house of the LORD, and all the laws thereof; and mark well the entering in of the house, with every going forth of the sanctuary. [Job 42:1 Then Job answered the LORD, and said, 2 “I know that you can do every thing, and that no thought can be withheld from you. 3 {You said unto me} ‘Who is he that hides {‘alam – veils from sight my} counsel without {My} knowledge?’ therefore have I {Job} uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not. 4 {You LORD said to me} ‘Hear {shama’ – and obey}, I beseech you, and I will speak: I will demand of you, and declare you unto me {what you now understand}.’ 5 {And I Job answered} I have heard {shama’} of you by the hearing of {shema’ – rumor and fame heard of with} the ear: but now my eye sees you. 6 Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”] 6 And you shall say to the rebellious, even to the house of Israel, Thus says the LORD God; O you house of Israel, let it suffice you of all your abominations, 7 In that you have brought into my sanctuary strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to pollute it, even my house, when you offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant because of all your abominations. 8 And you have not kept the charge of my holy things: but you have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves. 9 Thus says the LORD God; No stranger, uncircumcised in heart, nor uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any stranger that is among the children of Israel. 10 And the Levites that are gone away far from me, when Israel went astray, which went astray away from me after their idols; they shall even bear their iniquity.
The perpetual king and priest in whom the LORD’s presence is manifested is promised to Phinehas and to David in the order of Melchizedek.
The name Phinehas means “mouth of a serpent” and “mouth of brass,” as in the son of man that must be lifted as Moses (Numbers 21:9) lifted the serpent in the wilderness, saying “And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole {nec}, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.”
The promise, the LORD’s covenant with him (Phinehas), appears in Numbers 25:12 & 13, saying “Wherefore say, Behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace [like Melchizedek, the king of peace: Salem {Jerusalem}]: And he shall have it, and his seed after him, even the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was zealous for his God, and made an atonement for the children of Israel.
In the chapters between these two [Numbers 21 & 25] are those in which the king of Moab sends Baalam to curse God’s people, which the LORD turns into a blessing. As we know, with affinity to the word maoba’, meaning “an entrance,” Moab speaks of the mouths of men as the gates of hell, whose words bite as poisonous serpents among us. The king of Moab, in Numbers 22–24, is Balak, meaning “waster” or “devastator,” descriptions that show him to be one of many Satan antitypes.
Numbers 25 begins with telling us that God’s people “began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab. And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods. And Israel joined himself unto Baalpeor: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel.”
The name Baalpeor is from the word Baal (meaning men as “lords” who put themselves in God’s place) and a derivative of pa’ar, a four times used word, meaning “to yawn, i.e. open wide (literally or figuratively),” It (pa’ar) appears twice telling of the mouths of those possessed by (speaking for) Satan, and twice telling of our, with open mouths, receiving the LORD’s word.
Numbers 25 4 And the LORD said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the people [who joined them with Baalpeor], and hang them up before the LORD against the sun [separate them from the LORD and His people], that the fierce anger of the LORD may be turned away from Israel. 5 And Moses said unto the judges of Israel, Slay you every one [of] his men [make it known they are the dead who separated themselves from the LORD and His word by which man live], that were joined unto Baalpeor. 6 And, behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought unto his brethren a Midianitish woman [causing strife among God’s people] in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation [‘edah] of the children of Israel, who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle of the congregation [mow’ed – at the appointed time]. 7 And when Phinehas [as a serpent of brass], the son of Eleazar [God’s help], the son of Aaron [the light bringers] the priest, saw it, he rose up from among the congregation [‘edah], and took a javelin in his hand; 8 And he went after [‘achar – in this after-life, in these last days of darkness, the appointed time] the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her belly [of the hell her strife caused]. So the plague [the strife] was stayed from the children of Israel. 9 And those that died in the plague [mouths open, speaking falsehood, causing strife] were twenty and four thousand. 10 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying, 11 Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, while he was zealous for my sake among them, that I consumed not the children of Israel in my jealousy. 12 Wherefore say, Behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace: 13 And he shall have it, and his seed after [‘achar] him, even the covenant of an everlasting [‘owlam – eternal] priesthood; because he was zealous for his God, and made an atonement for the children of Israel. 14 Now the name of the Israelite that was slain, even that was slain with the Midianitish woman, was Zimri [pruned, separated because of the words they learned and repeated], the son of Salu [weighed in this judgment], a prince of a chief house among the Simeonites [from shema’ – who refused to repent after hearing the rumor and fame]. 15 And the name of the Midianitish woman that was slain was Cozbi [falsehood], the daughter of Zur [the false rock, from where falsehoods flow, in which men trust]; he was head over a people, and of a chief house in Midian [strife]. 16 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying, 17 Vex the Midianites [those causing strife among God’s people], and smite them: 18 For they vex you with their wiles, wherewith they have beguiled you in the matter of Peor [open mouths], and in the matter of Cozbi [falsehood], the daughter of a prince of Midian [strife], their sister, which was slain in the day of the plague for Peor’s [open mouths, speaking falsehood, causing strife] sake.
Isaiah 5 13 Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honorable men are famished [starving without this word of God they refuse], and their multitude dried up with thirst [without this life-giving water]. 14 Therefore hell has enlarged herself, and opened [pa’ar] her mouth without measure [choq – with unrighteous decrees]: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoices, shall descend into it [hell]. 15 And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled: 16 But the LORD of hosts [a man of war] shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness. 17 Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat. 18 Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope: 19 That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it! 20 Woe unto them that call [their] evil good, and [the LORD’s] good evil; that put darkness for light [saying their ignorance is understanding], and light for [and saying the LORD’s understanding is] darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! 21 Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight! 22 Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine [which stupefies their minds], and men of strength to mingle strong drink: 23 Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him! 24 Therefore as the fire devours the stubble, and the flame consumes the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel. 25 Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his people, and he has stretched forth his hand against them, and has smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcasses were torn in the midst of the streets. For all this, his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. 26 And he will lift up an ensign [nec, the pole upon which the son of man must be lifted] to the nations from far [rachowq – this time when the world is ruled by the evil decrees of wicked men in power], and will hiss [draw attention to Himself] unto them from the end of the earth [ending the old and beginning the new]: and, behold, they shall come with speed swiftly: 27 None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken: 28 Whose arrows [Ephraim] are sharp, and all their bows [Judah] bent, their horses’ hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels [this understand sent to give understanding] like a whirlwind [from where the LORD’s voice is heard]: 29 Their roaring [of this word of God] shall be like a lion [the second face of the unfolding presence of the LORD manifests, as seen in the wheel within a wheel], they shall roar like young lions: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry it away safe, and none shall deliver it. 30 And in that day [time of light] they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea [all humanity at large]: and if one look unto the land [‘erets – the earth], behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof [where understanding should be found and isn’t].
Psalms 119 126 It is time for you, LORD, to work: for they have made void your law. 127 Therefore I love your commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold. 128 Therefore, I esteem all your precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way. 129 Your testimonies are wonderful: therefore does my soul keep them. 130 The entrance of your words gives light; it gives understanding unto the simple. 131 I opened [pa’ar] my mouth, and panted [sha’aph – I swallow the words you put in my mouth]: for I longed for your commandments. 132 Look you upon me, and be merciful unto me, as you usest to do unto those that love your name. 133 Order my steps in your word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me. 134 Deliver me from the oppression of man: so will I keep your precepts. 135 Make your face [paniym – Your presence] to shine upon [give understanding to] your servant; and teach me your statutes. 136 Rivers of waters run down my eyes, because they keep not your law. 137 Righteous are you, O LORD, and upright are your judgments. 138 Your testimonies that you have commanded are righteous and very faithful. 139 My zeal has consumed me, because my enemies have forgotten your words. 140 Your word is very pure: therefore your servant loves it. 141 I am small and despised: yet do not I forget your precepts. 142 Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and your law is the truth. 143 Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet your commandments are my delights. 144 The righteousness of your testimonies is everlasting: give me understanding, and I shall live. 145 I cried with my whole heart; hear me, O LORD: I will keep your statutes. 146 I cried unto you; save me, and I shall keep your testimonies. 147 I prevented [qadam – I was awakened before] the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in your word. 148 My eyes prevent [qadam – were opened before] the night watches [saw anything], that I might meditate in your word. 149 Hear my voice according unto your lovingkindness: O LORD, quicken me according to your judgment. 150 They draw nigh that follow after mischief: they are far from your law. 151 You are near, O LORD; and all your commandments are truth. 152 Concerning your testimonies, I have known of old that you have founded them forever. 153 Consider my affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget your law. 154 Plead my cause, and deliver me: quicken me according to your word. 155 Salvation is far from the wicked: for they seek not your statutes. 156 Great are your tender mercies, O LORD: quicken me according to your judgments. 157 Many are my persecutors and my enemies; yet do I not decline from your testimonies. 158 I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved; because they kept not your word. 159 Consider how I love your precepts: quicken me, O LORD, according to your lovingkindness. 160 Your word is true from the beginning: and every one of your righteous judgments endures forever. 161 Princes have persecuted me without a cause: but my heart standeth in awe of your word. 162 I rejoice at your word, as one that finds great spoil. 163 I hate and abhor lying: but your law do I love. 164 Seven times a day do I praise you because of your righteous judgments. 165 Great peace have they which love your law: and nothing shall offend them. 166 LORD, I have hoped for your salvation, and done your commandments. 167 My soul has kept your testimonies; and I love them exceedingly. 168 I have kept your precepts and your testimonies: for all my ways are before you. 169 Let my cry come near before you [paniym – manifesting Your presence], O LORD: give [to and from] me understanding according to your word. 170 Let my supplication [manifesting Your grace] come before you [paniym – and Your presence]: deliver me [and all that hear] according to your word. 171 My lips shall utter praise, when you have taught me your statutes. 172 My tongue shall speak of your word: for all your commandments are righteousness. 173 Let your hand help me; for I have chosen your precepts. 174 I have longed for your salvation, O LORD; and your law is my delight. 175 Let my soul live, and it shall praise you; and let your judgments help me [and all that hear Your voice]. 176 [If] I [or any] have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek your servant; for I do not forget your commandments.
Friends, all of us who are awake are seeing that the systems (institutions and governments) of church and state are so corrupted, so perverted away from the principles of their founding, so intransigent that they are incapable of reform. They are (intentionally and irreversibly) infested with people who are antithetical to the laws of nature and nature’s God: truth, reality, and the general welfare.
The truth and reality we must face is there is no one in these institutions who is going to save us, and those who are there are happy presiding over the ongoing collapse.
Thus says the LORD:
Jeremiah 31 8 Behold, I will bring them from the north country [out of darkness], and gather them from the coasts [ends] of the earth, and with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her that travails with child together: a great company shall return thither. 9 They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn [of this new creation]. 10 Hear the word of the LORD, O you nations, and declare it in the isles afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd does his flock. 11 For the LORD has redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand of him that was stronger than he. 12 Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all. 13 Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together: for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort [nacham] them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow. 14 And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, says the LORD. 15 Thus says the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah [the city on the hill – from where the light will shine], lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rahel [Rachel – the teachers of God’s people, who are yet barren] weeping for her children refused to be comforted [nacham – they refuse this teaching of the LORD among them as the Paraclete unknown] for her children, because they were not [not yet born again]. 16 Thus says the LORD; Refrain your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears: for your work shall be rewarded, says the LORD; and they shall come again from the land of the enemy. 17 And there is hope in your end, says the LORD, that your children shall come again to their own border. 18 I have surely heard Ephraim [those who become that firstborn in this new creation] bemoaning himself thus; You have chastised [corrected] me [with this teaching], and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn you me, and I shall be turned; for you are the LORD my God. 19 Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed [by this teaching], I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth. 20 Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I spoke against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, says the LORD. 21 Set you up waymarks, make you high heaps: set your heart toward the highway, even the way which you went: turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these your cities. 22 How long will you go about, O you backsliding daughter? for the LORD has created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass [cabab – explained in verse 39 below] a man. 23 Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As yet they shall use this speech in the land of Judah and in the cities thereof, when I shall bring again their captivity; The LORD bless you, O habitation of justice, and mountain of holiness. 24 And there shall dwell in Judah itself, and in all the cities thereof together, husbandmen, and they that go forth with flocks. 25 For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul. 26 Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me. 27 Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man, and with the seed of beast. 28 And it shall come to pass, that like as I have watched over them, to pluck up, and to break down, and to throw down, and to destroy, and to afflict; so will I watch over them, to build, and to plant, says the LORD. 29 In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children’s teeth are set on edge [qahah]. 30 But everyone shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eats the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge. [This idiom speaks of one generation suffering the consequence of the actions of those before it.] 31 Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah [when I save My people from the consequences of the degenerative ignorance that consumed them and brought death upon all humanity]: 32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was a husband unto them, says the LORD: 33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, says the LORD, [by this instruction] I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. 34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, says the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more. 35 Thus says the LORD, which gives the sun [the church] for a light [to give this understanding] by day, and the ordinances of the moon [just civil government] and of the stars [My enlightened people] for a light by night, which divides the sea [revealing the heart, minds, of men] when the waves [of proud men] thereof roar; The LORD of hosts is his name: 36 If those ordinances depart from before me, says the LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me forever. 37 Thus says the LORD; If heaven [where only, at the LORD’s throne, does this understanding remain eternally uncorrupted] above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth [of the old and corrupt, restoring them again] searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, says the LORD. 38 Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that the city shall be built to the LORD from the tower of Hananeel [the favor of God] unto the gate of the corner [the entry, the return of God’s people to Him]. 39 And the measuring line shall yet go forth over against it upon the hill Gareb [this right assessment that heals their wounds], and shall compass about to Goath [when the shepherds hear this word from the flock].
Psalms 2 1 Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? 2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying, 3 Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. 4 He that sits in the heavens shall laugh: the LORD shall have them in derision. 5 Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure. 6 Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion. 7 I will declare the decree: the LORD has said unto me, You are my Son; this day have I begotten you. 8 Ask of me, and I shall give you the heathen for your inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for your possession. 9 You shall break them with a rod of iron; you shall dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel. 10 Be wise now therefore, O you kings: be instructed, you judges of the earth. 11 Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling. 12 Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.
Hebrews 4 1 Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it. 2 For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith [not believing it is the LORD speaking and working] in them that heard it. 3 For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world. 4 For he spoke in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works. 5 And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest. 6 Seeing therefore it remains that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief: 7 Again, he limits a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if you will hear his voice, harden not your hearts. 8 For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day. 9 There remains, therefore, a rest to the people of God. 10 For he that is entered into his rest, he also has ceased from his own works, as God did from his. 11 Let us labor therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief. 12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. 13 Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do. 14 Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession. 15 For we have not a high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. 16 Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
Hebrews 5 1 For every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins: 2 Who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the way [who have strayed from God]; for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity. 3 And by reason hereof he ought, as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins. 4 And no man taketh this honor unto himself, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron. 5 So also Christ glorified not himself to be made a high priest; but he that said unto him, You are my Son, to day have I begotten you. [Psalms 2:7] 6 As he says also in another place, You are a priest forever after the order [taxis] of Melchisedec. [Psalms 110:4] 7 Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared; 8 Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered; 9 And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him; 10 Called of God a high priest after the order [taxis] of Melchisedec. 11 Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing you are dull of hearing. 12 For when for the time you ought to be teachers, you have need that one teach you again which be the first principles [stoicheion – elements] of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat. 13 For every one that uses milk is unskillful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe. 14 But strong meat belongs to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.
Hebrews 6 1 Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God, 2 Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment. 3 And this will we do, if God permit. 4 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, 5 And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, 6 If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame. 7 For the earth which drinks in the rain that comes oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receives blessing from God: 8 But that which bears thorns [misleaders] and briers [deceivers] is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned. 9 But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak. 10 For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labor of love, which you have shown toward his name, in that you have ministered to the saints, and do minister. 11 And we desire that every one of you do show the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end: 12 That you be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises. 13 For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he swore by himself, 14 Saying, Surely blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply you. 15 And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. 16 For men truly swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife. 17 Wherein God, willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath: 18 That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us: 19 Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enters into that within the veil; 20 Whither the forerunner is for us entered [into the presence of God], even Jesus, made a high priest forever after the order [taxis] of Melchisedec.
Hebrews 7 1 For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him; 2 To whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all; first being by interpretation King of righteousness, and after that also King of Salem, which is, King of peace; 3 Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abides a priest continually. 4 Now consider how great this man was, unto whom even the patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils. 5 And truly they that are of the sons of Levi, who receive the office of the priesthood, have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is, of their brethren, though they come out of the loins of Abraham: 6 But he whose descent is not counted from them received tithes of Abraham, and blessed him that had the promises. 7 And without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better. 8 And here men that die receive tithes; but there he receives them, of whom it is witnessed that he lives. 9 And as I may so say, Levi also, who received tithes, paid tithes in Abraham. 10 For he was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchisedec met him. 11 If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order [taxis] of Melchisedec [as previously discussed, the book of Hebrews is to the Hebrews a letter of recommendation of Timothy, a priest outside the Levitical line, but still a priest of the Most High God: Genesis 14:18], and not be called after the order [taxi] of Aaron? 12 For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law. 13 For he of whom these things are spoken pertains to another tribe, of which no man gave attendance at the altar. 14 For it is evident that our LORD sprang out of Judah; of which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning priesthood. 15 And it is yet far more evident: for that after the similitude of Melchisedec there arises another priest, 16 Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life. 17 For he testifies, You are a priest forever after the order [taxis] of Melchisedec. 18 For there is truly a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and un-profitableness thereof. 19 For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God. 20 And inasmuch as not without an oath he was made priest: 21 (For those priests were made without an oath; but this with an oath by him that said unto him, The LORD swore and will not repent, You are a priest forever after the order [taxis] of Melchisedec:) 22 By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament. 23 And they truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death: 24 But this man, because he continues ever, has an unchangeable priesthood. 25 Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever lives to make intercession for them. 26 For such a high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens; 27 Who needs not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people’s: for this he did once, when he offered up himself. 28 For the law makes men high priests which have infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was since the law, makes the Son, who is consecrated for evermore.
Psalms 110 1 The LORD said unto my LORD, Sit you at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool. 2 The LORD shall send the rod of your strength out of Zion: rule you in the midst of your enemies. 3 Your people shall be willing in the day of your power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: you have the dew of your youth. 4 The LORD has sworn, and will not repent, You are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek. 5 The LORD 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 over many countries. 7 He shall drink of the brook [the word of God] in the way: therefore shall he lift up the head [raise up the king who is also chief priest].
Then said they unto him, What shall we do unto you, that the sea may be calm unto us? for the sea wrought, and was tempestuous.
The LORD, above in Jonah 1:11, begins today describing the only sign of the end.
The LORD tells us this (no sign except this given to this evil and adulterous generation) in Matthew 12:39, Mark 16:4, and Luke 11:30; Matthew in verse 41 and Luke in verse 32 add the further detail that it is a sign to Nineveh. In the New Testament, this place only appears in these two passages. They both say the men of Nineveh repent at this preaching (like Jonah’s), are resurrected in this judgment, and (opening their mouths as commanded) condemn this evil generation.
Matthew 12 36 But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. 37 For by your words you shall be justified, and by your words you shall be condemned. 38 Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees [the religious leader – the merchant men in the ship with Jonah] answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from you. 39 But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonah: 40 For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the whale’s [ketos, from chasma, the uncrossable “gulf” between heaven and hell; both words only used once] belly [Jonah, in Jonah 2:2, telling us it’s the “belly of hell,” both the whale and uncrossable gulf are the mouths of men, the words by which these men are judged and condemned because they are the tempest that agitates the sea]; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. 41 The men of Nineveh [this generation, the perpetual children of God, immortals who awaken and put on their immortality] shall rise [anistemi – resurrected on this third day] in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and, behold, a greater than Jonah is here. 42 The queen of the south [coming to see what she before only heard of, and seeing] shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold [and seeing], [saw] a greater than Solomon is here.
Jonah 1 1 Now the word of the LORD came unto Jonah [the dove, the sign of the end reached] the son of Amittai [the son of My truth], saying, 2 Arise, go to Nineveh [My sleeping children], that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up [‘alah] before me [paniym – and in you I must rise and manifest My presence against it]. 3 But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish [to the merchants who occupy the church] from the presence [paniym] of the LORD, and went down to Joppa [descended away from My brightness]; and he found a ship [church] going to Tarshish [descending into being mere merchants]: so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish from the presence [paniym] of the LORD. 4 But the LORD sent out a great wind [His Spirit to move upon the face of the waters, to stir up and draw out the source of the agitation, into the light] into the sea, and there was a mighty tempest [ca’ar] in the sea, so that the ship [the church] was like to be broken. 5 Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his god, and cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it of them. But Jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep. 6 So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What mean you, O sleeper? arise, call upon your God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not. 7 And they said every one to his fellow, Come, and let us cast lots, that we may know for whose cause this evil is upon us. So they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonah. 8 Then said they unto him, Tell us, we pray you, for whose cause this evil is upon us; What is your occupation? and whence come you? what is your country? and of what people art you? 9 And he said unto them, I am a Hebrew; and I fear the LORD, the God of heaven, which has made the sea and the dry land. 10 Then were the men exceedingly afraid, and said unto him. Why have you done this? For the men knew that he fled from the presence [paniym] of the LORD, because he had told them. 11 Then said they unto him, What shall we do unto you, that the sea may be calm [shathaq – with affinity to shathan and shatham, with further affinity to satan and sane’, referring to those making water against the wall, false prophets in the church, whose eyes will eventually be opened] unto us? for the sea wrought [halak – humanity went its own way], and was tempestuous [ca’ar]. 12 And he said unto them, Take me up, and cast me forth into the sea [out of the church and among the people at large]; so shall the sea be calm [shathaq] unto you: for I know that for my sake this great tempest [ca’ar] is upon you. 13 Nevertheless, the men rowed hard to bring it to the land; but they could not: for the sea wrought [halak – went its own way], and was tempestuous [ca’ar] against them. 14 Wherefore they cried unto the LORD, and said, We beseech you, O LORD, we beseech you, let us not perish for this man’s life, and lay not upon us innocent blood: for you, O LORD, have done as it pleased you. 15 So they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea: and the sea ceased from her raging [ra’aph]. 16 Then the men feared the LORD exceedingly, and offered a sacrifice unto the LORD, and made vows. 17 Now the LORD had prepared [manah] a great fish [dag] to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly [me’ah] of the fish [dag] three days and three nights.
The word shathaq, used twice above, only appears two other times. The first, in Psalms 107:30, speaks of what causes the storms to “cease,” and the other, in Proverbs 26:20, of the storm’s cause (the underly cause of the agitation).
As we know, in Matthew 8:24, the cause of the agitation is under the sea, when the word rendered “tempest” is seismo, a fourteen times used word rendered “earthquake” in all its other uses. This meaning is seen in the word dag, in Jonah rendered “fish,” which describes the proliferation of falsehoods (hidden beneath the surface of the words) and the resulting agitation.
Strong’s #1709: dag (pronounced dawg); or (fully) dag (Nehemiah 13:16) {dawg}; from 1711; a fish (as prolific); or perhaps rather from 1672 (as timid); but still better from 1672 (in the sense of squirming, i.e. moving by the vibratory action of the tail); a fish (often used collectively):–fish.
The LORD is, as was Jonah, as I Am, as is His ONE BODY, swallowed up by the falsehood of men, talebearers whose mouths are always wide open, like a great “gulf” that can only be crossed by the LORD, like Jonah, awakening (in His people) in the ship and then cast into the sea, like Moses cast the tree into the bitter waters of strife.
Exodus 15 1 Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the LORD, and spoke, saying, I will sing unto the LORD, for he has triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider has he thrown into the sea. 2 The LORD is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he is my God, and I will prepare him a habitation; my father’s God, and I will exalt him. 3 The LORD is a man of war: the LORD is his name. 4 Pharaoh’s chariots and his host has he cast into the sea: his chosen captains also are drowned in the Red sea. 5 The depths have covered them: they sank into the bottom as a stone. 6 Your right hand, O LORD, is become glorious in power: your right hand, O LORD, has dashed in pieces the enemy. 7 And in the greatness of your excellency you have overthrown them that rose up against you: you sent forth your wrath, which consumed them as stubble. 8 And with the blast of your nostrils the waters were gathered together, the floods stood upright as a heap, and the depths were congealed in the heart [the mind] of the sea. 9 The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them. 10 You did blow with your wind, the sea covered them: they sank as lead in the mighty waters. 11 Who is like unto you, O LORD, among the 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 [shama’ – and obey], and be afraid: sorrow shall take hold [‘achaz] on the inhabitants of Palestina [the Philistines, the army of invaders]. 15 Then the dukes of Edom [enemies mixed among us] shall be amazed; the mighty men [‘ayil – the ram] of Moab [those whose mouths are the gates holding the world in death and hell], trembling shall take hold [‘achaz] upon them; all the inhabitants of Canaan shall melt away. 16 Fear and dread shall fall upon them; by the greatness of your arm they shall be as still as a stone; till your people pass over [‘abar – from death into life], O LORD, till the people pass over [‘abar], which you have purchased. 17 You shall bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of your inheritance, in the place, O LORD, which you have made for you to dwell in, in the Sanctuary, O LORD, which your hands have established. 18 The LORD shall reign forever and ever. 19 For the horse of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and the LORD brought again the waters of the sea upon them; but the children of Israel went on dry land in the midst of the sea. 20 And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. 21 And Miriam answered them, Sing you to the LORD, for he has triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider has he thrown into the sea. 22 So Moses brought Israel from the Red sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur [the “wall” of lies]; and they went three days [waiting in the belly of hell for the resurrection] in the wilderness, and found no water [no word of God]. 23 And when they came to Marah [bitterness], they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter [mar]: therefore the name of it was called Marah. 24 And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink? 25 And he cried unto the LORD; and the LORD showed him [yara’ – taught him of] a tree [of life], which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet [mathaq – a five times used word that speaks of counsel, here referring to the LORD’s counsel refused until this time when the tree of life is cast into the sea, to the people at large who, in bitterness, wait for this moment]: there he made for them a statute [choq] and an ordinance, and there he proved them, 26 And said, If you will diligently hearken to [shama’ – obey] the voice of the LORD your God, and will do that which is right in his sight, and will give ear [‘azan – pay close attention] to his commandments, and keep all his statutes [choq], I will put none of these diseases upon you, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the LORD that heals [rapha’] you. 27 And they came to Elim [‘ayil – overcoming the ram, men whose mouths, their evil counsel opposing and resisting the LORD’s anointed, at the gate of hell that cannot stand against this word of God], where were twelve wells of water [governmental perfection], and threescore and ten palm trees [the resurrection that comes with ending the causes of the desolation, ending the abominations put in God’s place, the evil counsel that replaced His good]: and they encamped there by the waters.
The following, ending with Acts 13, is from the post of 5 March 2021:
That all flesh may know that I the LORD have drawn forth my sword out of his sheath: it shall not return any more.
The above is the LORD speaking of the culmination, the crescendo, the unfolding events that will complete the ruin and ultimately, from the dust and ashes, bring renewal. I say, let it come, even so, come LORD Jesus, LORD of the Army of heaven.
Wherefore they that speak in proverbs say, “Come into the stronghold, let the city of the tempest (seismos) and war be built and prepared: For there is a fire gone out of the stronghold, a flame from the city of the tempest (seismos) and war: it has consumed the city of the ever-open mouths that are the gates of hell, and the lords of the high places from where flowed their brawling words to the world, as rivers into the sea. Woe to you, gates of hell! you are undone, O people subdued: He has given his sons that escaped, and his daughters, into captivity unto tempest (seismos) and war to rule over those who’ve exalted their words and idea’s above God’s. We have shot at them; the stronghold has perished even unto ruin, and we have laid them waste as if by a mighty wind, which reaches unto waters that are calmed.” Thus God’s people will be rulers under Him as He rules the land once possessed by those who exalted their words and ideas over His.
The above is a translation of the names that appear in the passage below.
Numbers 21 27 Wherefore they that speak in proverbs say, “Come into Heshbon, let the city of Sihon be built and prepared: 28 For there is a fire gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon: it has consumed Ar of Moab, and the lords of the high places of Arnon. 29 Woe to you, Moab! you are undone, O people of Chemosh: he has given his sons that escaped, and his daughters, into captivity unto Sihon king of the Amorites. 30 We have shot at them; Heshbon is perished even unto Dibon, and we have laid them waste even unto Nophah, which reaches unto Medeba.” 31 Thus Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorites.
As we know, the word seismos is the word rendered one time as “tempest,” in Matthew 8:24, and thirteen times more as “earthquake.” There, in Matthew, we are told it is a great earthquake in the sea (like those now occurring in the South Pacific), and those who’ve followed the LORD, into a ship taking them to the other side (of death into life), waking Him saying Hosanna (Save now), as we saw in the previous post.
Matthew 8 22 But Jesus said unto him, Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead. 23 And when he was entered into a ship, his disciples followed him. 24 And, behold, there arose a great tempest [seismos – earthquake] in the sea, insomuch that the ship was covered with the waves: but he was asleep. 25 And his disciples came to him, and awoke him, saying, LORD, save us: we perish. 26 And he said unto them, Why are you fearful, O you of little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm. 27 But the men marveled [thaumazo], saying, What manner of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him!
The word rendered above as “awoke” and “arose” is egeiro, which is the word used to tell of the LORD rising from the dead. This rising is what those following Him were amazed at, meaning they still didn’t know He was the risen LORD hidden in a man. “Why are you fearful, O you of little faith?”
The meaning of thaumazo, is “to wonder; by implication, to admire.”
2 Thessalonians 1 6 Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you; 7 And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the LORD Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, 8 In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know [eido – see] not God, and that obey not the gospel of our LORD Jesus Christ: 9 Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the LORD, and from the glory of his power; 10 When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired [thaumazo] in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day. 11 Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfill all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power: 12 That the name of our LORD Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the LORD Jesus Christ.
Acts 13 40 Beware therefore, lest that come upon you, which is spoken of in the prophets; 41 Behold, you despisers, and wonder [thaumazo], and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which you shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto you.
Proverbs 26 1 As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honor is not seemly [nav’eh – suitable] for a fool. 2 As the bird [believing they have risen with understanding] by wandering [away from the LORD], as the swallow by flying, so the curse [the reward earned by fools who think they are the wise] causeless shall not come. 3 A whip for the horse [making him run the course of the rider], a bridle [controlling the mouth] for the ass, and a rod [of correction] for the fool’s back. 4 Answer not a fool according to his folly [you do if you accept his false premise], lest you also be [a fool] like unto him. 5 Answer a fool according to his folly [not accepting his false premise], lest he be wise in his own conceit. 6 He that sends a message by the hand of a fool cuts off the feet [and the message is undermined], and drinks [brings upon his cause] damage. 7 The legs of the lame are not equal [and he therefore strays from his course]: so is a parable in the mouth of fools [misinterpreted]. 8 As he that binds a stone in a sling, so is he that gives honor to a fool [hinders his own cause when pointing out his foolishness]. 9 As a thorn goes up into the hand of a drunkard [unknown], so is a parable [unknowable] in the mouths of fools. 10 The great God that formed all things both rewards the fool [with his own foolishness], and rewards transgressors [with his own transgression]. 11 As a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool returns to his folly [even after it is proven to be foolishness]. 12 See you a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him [who is incorrigibly blinded by his pride]. 13 The slothful man says [looking for any reason not to obey the LORD’s commands], There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets. 14 As the door turns upon his hinges [going nowhere], so does the slothful upon his bed [remaining in a deep sleep, from which he is called to awaken]. 15 The slothful hides his hand in his bosom [refusing to work]; it grieves him to bring it again to his mouth [to eat and speak as he is commanded]. 16 The sluggard [never diligently seeking, because they ignorantly believe they already know all] is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason [why he should look and see]. 17 He that passes by, and meddles with strife belonging not to him, is like one that taketh a dog by the ears. 18 As a mad man who castes firebrands, arrows, and death, 19 So is the man that deceives his neighbor, and says, Am not I in sport [saying they are only kidding – double entendre intended]? 20 Where no wood is, there the fire goes out: [the maxim is] so where there is no talebearer [nirgan], the strife [bitter waters] ceases [shathaq]. 21 As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife. 22 The words of a talebearer [nirgan] are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly [of hell]. 23 Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross. 24 He that hates [sane’] dissembles with his lips, and lays up deceit within him; 25 When he speaks fair, believe him not: for there are seven abominations [tow’ebah] in his heart. 26 Whose hatred is covered by deceit, his wickedness shall be shown before the whole congregation. 27 Whoso digs a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolls a stone, it will return upon him. 28 A lying tongue hates [sane’] those that are afflicted by it; and a flattering mouth works ruin.
We know who the real haters are. They are men we oppose, not to destroy but to, with Truth, correct, whose hate destroys those who follow their evil advice (corrupt opinions). Among them are the incorrigibles, those rejecting correction, whose end is eternal separation from God and His people (separated by their choice to remain dead and in the hell they created).
These hateful men are above called “talebearers,” from the word nirgan, from the words niyr and gan, meaning these men are like fallow ground in the garden, alluding to the serpent in Eden, there but not planted by the LORD.
Ezekiel 23 23 The Babylonians [those ruling the world by the confusion they created], and all the Chaldeans [those using lies and deception as policy: spells to manipulate and control], Pekod [who make themselves the evil overseers of the earth], and Shoa [the rich and powerful], and Koa [who cut off humanity from God and life], and all the Assyrians [all communists] with them: all of them desirable young men, captains and rulers, great lords and renowned, all of them riding upon horses. 24 And they shall come against you with chariots, wagons, and wheels, and with an assembly of people, which shall set against you buckler and shield and helmet round about: and I will set judgment before them, and they shall judge you according to their [corrupt and evil] judgments. 25 And I will set my jealousy against you, and they shall deal furiously with you: they shall take away your nose [your ability to perceive My presence or the time] and your ears [as now, when you are unable to hear My voice; because you made yourselves not My people] and your remnant shall fall by the sword [this word all initially reject]: they shall take your sons and your daughters; and your residue shall be devoured by the fire. 26 They shall also strip you out of your clothes [your protection against the corrupt element of the world], and take away your fair jewels [these treasures I left you]. 27 Thus will I make your lewdness to cease from you, and your whoredom [leaving Me to follow demagogues now turned tyrants] brought from the land of Egypt: so that [when You realize My presence, when you realize these things have happened just as I told you they would] you shall not lift up your eyes [not looking] unto them [to lead you out of the hell they led you into], nor remember [the ways of oppression] Egypt any more. 28 For thus says the LORD God; Behold, I will deliver you into the hand of them whom you hatest [sane’ – adversaries you should correct, giving them this word as received, declaring they are God present with us, in us], into the hand of them from whom your mind is alienated [from whom you must separate yourselves until they repent]: 29 And they shall deal with you hatefully [sin’ah – because they are the adversaries of Yah: Jehovah], and shall take away all your labor, and shall leave you naked and bare: and the nakedness of your whoredoms shall be discovered, both your lewdness and your whoredoms. 30 I will do these things unto you, because you have gone a whoring after the heathen, and because you are polluted with their idols. 31 You [the elect remnant, who are awakened first] have walked in the way of your sister [God’s people at large]; therefore will I give her cup into your hand. 32 Thus says the LORD God; You shall drink of your sister’s cup deep [this deep understanding] and large: you shall be laughed to scorn and had in derision [hearing these words and not understanding they are My voice declaring the time]; it contains much. 33 You shall be filled with drunkenness [realizing all the world has become covered in darkness: ignorant of the LORD’s presence and way] and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of your sister Samaria. 34 You shall even drink it and suck it out, and you shall break the sherds thereof, and pluck off your own breasts [the untrue things who were brought up believing and now teach]: for I have spoken it, says the LORD God. 35 Therefore thus says the LORD God; Because you have forgotten me, and cast me behind your back, therefore bear you also your lewdness and your whoredoms. 36 The LORD said moreover unto me; Son of man [I Am], will you judge Aholah [Samaria, whose corrupt houses are their own and not Mine] and Aholibah [Judah, the elect remnant, whose houses aren’t Mine]? yea, declare unto them their abominations [tow’ebah – that they created idols they call by My name and put them in My place in their corrupt houses]; 37 That they have committed adultery, and blood [draining life away] is in their hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery, and have also caused their sons, whom they bare unto me, to pass for them through the fire, to [hatefully doing the work of Satan] devour them.
Jeremiah 44 1 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews [Judah – the leaders of God’s people] which dwell in the land [‘erets] of Egypt [the earth in this double strait: oppressed by the corrupt institutions of church and state], which dwell at Migdol [this time then seen far off], and at Tahpanhes [the people the LORD pities and sends this word and work to], and at Noph [who’ve reached the coast, this promised and expected end], and in the country of Pathros [when this right interpretation comes], saying, 2 Thus says the LORD of hosts [a man of war, I Am], the God of Israel [those who receive this promised end]; You have seen all the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem [His people who receive Him and become New Heavenly Jerusalem], and upon all the cities of Judah [the elect remnant who first receive Him]; and, behold, this day [now when this light has come] they are a desolation, and no man dwelleth therein, 3 Because of their wickedness which they have committed to provoke me to anger, in that they went to burn incense, and to serve other gods, whom they knew not, neither they, you, nor your fathers. 4 Howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising early [before all others] and sending them, saying, Oh, do not this abominable [tow’ebah] thing that I hate. 5 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear to turn from their wickedness, to burn no incense unto other gods. 6 Wherefore my fury and my anger was poured forth, and was kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are wasted and desolate, as at this day. 7 Therefore now thus says the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel; Wherefore commit you this great evil against your souls, to cut off from you man and woman, child and suckling, out of Judah, to leave you none to remain [alive]; 8 In that you provoke me unto wrath with the works of your hands, burning incense unto other gods in the land of Egypt [the earth in this double strait], whither you be gone to dwell, that you might cut yourselves off [from Me], and that you might be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth? 9 Have you forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, and the wickedness of the kings of Judah, and the wickedness of their wives, and your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives, which they have committed in the land of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem? 10 They are not humbled even unto this day, neither have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set before you and before your fathers. 11 Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will set my face [paniym – My presence] against you for evil [letting you suffer in the consequences of your refusal], and to cut off all Judah [the current crop of corrupt leaders]. 12 And I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their faces [paniym – in whom My presence should be manifested] to go into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they shall all be consumed, and fall in the land of Egypt; they shall even be consumed by the sword [this word they refuse] and by the famine [without this word they refuse to receive and give as received]: they shall die [and all are dead without this word, by which man lives], from the least even unto the greatest, by the sword and by the famine: and they shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach. 13 For I will punish [paqad – Come as the Chief Overseer of the earth, as I have] them that dwell in the land of Egypt, as I have punished Jerusalem, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: 14 So that none of the remnant of Judah [the current crop of corrupt leaders, who choose to remain corrupt], which are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall escape or remain [or come to life], that they should return into the land of Judah, to the which they have a desire to return to dwell there: for none shall return but such as shall escape.
Jeremiah 47 6 O you sword of the LORD, how long will it be ere you be quiet? put up yourself into your scabbard, rest, and be still. 7 How can it be quiet, seeing the LORD has given it a charge against Ashkelon [the place of the trial, in the judgment fires], and against the sea shore [the end of man’s pride in his ideas, his creations]? there has he appointed it.
Jeremiah 48 25 The horn [the power] of Moab [of the gates of hell] is cut off, and his arm is broken, says the LORD. 26 Make you him drunken: for he magnified himself against the LORD: Moab [those who’ve created and maintain the gates of hell] also shall wallow in his vomit [‘qe], and he also shall be in derision. 27 For was not Israel a derision unto you? was he found among thieves? for since you spoke of him, you skipped for joy. 28 O you that dwell in Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock [from where these life-giving waters flow], and be like the dove [Jonah] that makes her nest in the sides of the hole’s mouth. 29 We have heard the pride of Moab [the gates of hell], (he is exceeding proud) his loftiness, and his arrogance, and his pride, and the haughtiness of his heart. 30 I know his wrath, says the LORD; but it shall not be so; his lies shall not so effect it.
John 8 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: 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 hears 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, and have a devil? 49 Jesus answered, I have not a devil; 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 saying, he shall never see death. 52 Then said the Jews unto him, Now we know that you have a devil. Abraham is dead, and the prophets; and you say, If a man keeps my saying, he shall never taste of death. 53 Are you greater than our father Abraham, which is dead? and the prophets are dead: whom make you yourself? 54 Jesus answered, If I honor myself, my honor is nothing: it is my Father that honors me; of whom you say, that he is your God: 55 Yet you have not known him; but I know him: and if I should say, I know him not, I shall be a liar like unto you: but I know him, and keep his saying.
John 14 20 For the Father loves the Son, and shows him all things that himself does: and he will show him greater works than these, that you may marvel. 21 For as the Father raises up the dead, and quickens them; even so the Son quickens whom he will. 22 For the Father judges no man, but has committed all judgment unto the Son: 23 That all men should honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He that honor not the Son honors not the Father which has sent him. 24 Truly, truly, I say unto you, He that hears my word, and believes on him that sent me, has everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. 25 Truly, truly, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live. 26 For as the Father has life in himself; so has he given to the Son to have life in himself; 27 And has given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man. 28 Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, 29 And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation. 30 I can of my own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not my own will, but the will of the Father which has sent me. 31 If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true. 32 There is another that bears witness of me; and I know that the witness which he witnesses of me is true. 33 You sent unto John, and he bare witness unto the truth. 34 But I receive not testimony from man: but these things I say, that you might be saved. 35 He was a burning and a shining light: and you were willing for a season to rejoice in his light. 36 But I have greater witness than that of John: for the works which the Father has given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father has sent me. 37 And the Father himself, which has sent me, has borne witness of me. You have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape. 38 And you have not his word abiding in you: for whom he has sent, him you believe not. 39 Search the scriptures; for in them you think you have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me. 40 And you will not come to me, that you might have life. 41 I receive not honor from men. 42 But I know you, that you have not the love of God in you. 43 I am come in my Father’s name, and you receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him you will receive. 44 How can you believe, which receive honor one of another, and seek not the honor that comes from God only? 45 Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one that accuses you, even Moses, in whom you trust. 46 For had you believed Moses, you would have believed me; for he wrote of me. 47 But if you believe not his writings, how shall you believe my words?
Deuteronomy 30 1 And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon you [as they now have], the blessing and the curse, which I have set before [paniym – manifesting My presence to] you, and you shall call [shuwb – return] them to [your] mind among all the nations [gowy – mixed among those who haven’t known Me or My way], whither the LORD your God has driven you [into this time when darkness covers the earth], 2 And shall return [shuwb] unto the LORD your God, and shall obey [shama’ – and hear] his voice according to all that I command you this day, you and your children, with all your heart, and with all your soul; 3 That then the LORD your God will turn [shuwb] your captivity, and have compassion upon you, and will return [shuwb] and gather you [into My ONE BODY] from all the nations, whither the LORD your God has scattered you. 4 If any of your be driven out unto [darkness: ignorance of the LORD] the outmost parts [this coast, this promised and expected end] of heaven [the places where understand should be and isn’t], from thence will the LORD your God gather you, and from thence will he fetch you: 5 And the LORD your God will bring you into the land [‘erets – the earth] which your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it; and he will do you good, and multiply you above your fathers. 6 And the LORD your God will circumcise your heart [remove the flesh from your mind, the veil that covers the LORD’s presence], and the heart of your seed, to love the LORD your God with all your heart [mind], and with all your soul, that you mayest live. 7 And the LORD your God will put all these curses upon your enemies, and on them that hate [sane’] you [seeking to destroy us], which persecuted you [radaph – like the Egyptians “pursued” Israel into the sea]. 8 And you shall return [shuwb] and obey [shama’] the voice [qowl] of the LORD, and do all his commandments [return to this understanding and hear this voice as His] which I command you this day. 9 And the LORD your God will make you plenteous in every work of your hand, in the fruit of your body, and in the fruit of your cattle, and in the fruit of your land, for good: for the LORD will again rejoice over you for good, as he rejoiced over your fathers: 10 If you shall hearken [shama’] unto the voice of the LORD your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law [His word here rightly interpreted by Him], and if you turn unto the LORD your God with all your heart [mind], and with all your soul. 11 For this commandment [to hear His voice and obey Him] which I command you this day, it is not hidden from you, neither is it far off [rachowq – it’s here and now, in this time when the world is ruled in darkness, ignorance of God and His way, created by the evil decrees of the wicked in power]. 12 It is not in heaven [where understanding should be found and isn’t], that you shouldest say, Who shall go up [‘alah – from there rise] for us to heaven [into this understanding], and bring it unto us, that we may hear [shama’] it, and do it? 13 Neither is it beyond [‘eber – the other side of death] the sea [among all humanity], that you shouldest say, Who shall go over [‘abar – who shall pass over from death into life] the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear [shama’] it, and do it? 14 But the word is very nigh unto you, in your mouth, and in your heart [mind], that you may do it [speaking this word as received, declaring it is His voice manifesting His presence]. 15 See, I have set before you this day [this time when this light has returned] life and good, and death and evil; 16 In that I command you this day to love the LORD your God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that you mayest live and multiply: and the LORD your God shall bless you in the land [‘erets – this earth] whither you go to possess it. 17 But if your heart turn away, so that you will not hear [shama’], but shall be drawn away, and worship other gods [men who put themselves in God’s place, and you obey them telling you not to hear and obey Him], and serve them [as your masters you hear and obey]; 18 I denounce [nagad – I stand boldly opposing these men] unto you this day, that you shall surely perish [by following their advice], and that you shall not prolong your days upon the land [‘adamah – this generation I Am creating], whither you pass over [‘abar – from death into life by this good advice] Jordan [the word of these men, their advice, that carried all humanity in the descent into darkness and death] to go to possess it. 19 I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both you and your seed may live: 20 That you may love the LORD your God, and that you may obey [shama’] his voice [qowl], and that you may cleave unto him: for he is your life, and the length of your days: that you may dwell in the land [‘adamah – this first generation of My new creation] which the LORD swore unto your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them [who heard My voice and obeyed].
Friends, I want the following to be perfectly clear and understood. This word is the LORD present with us until He is received and given, by which He manifests His presence in us. I am a nobody and choose to remain one. I seek no credit or anything in return. With sincerity, I say, “For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile: But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, which tries our hearts.”
Proverbs 16 19 Better it is to be of a humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud. 20 He that handles a matter wisely shall find good: and whoso trusts in the LORD, happy is he. 21 The wise in heart shall be called prudent: and the sweetness of the lips increase learning. 22 Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that has it: but the instruction of fools is folly. 23 The heart of the wise teaches his mouth, and adds learning to his lips. 24 Pleasant words are as a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones. 25 There is a way that seems right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death. 26 He that labors labors for himself; for his mouth craves it of him. 27 An ungodly man digs up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire. 28 A froward man [with twisted and perverted truth] sows strife: and a whisperer [niygan – talebearers, misleaders in the garden] separates chief friends. 29 A violent man entices his neighbor, and leads him into the way that is not good. 30 He shut his eyes to devise froward [twisted and perverted] things: moving his lips he bringeth evil to pass. 31 The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness. 32 He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that rules his spirit than he that taketh a city. 33 The lot is cast into the lap [decision points come]; but the whole disposing [mishpat – this judgment] thereof is of the LORD.
Jeremiah 4 1 If you will return [shuwb], O Israel, says the LORD, return [shuwb] unto me: and if you will put away your abominations [shiqquwts – that caused your desolation] out of my sight, then shall you not [be] remove[d from the new generation I Am creating]. 2 And you shall swear [shaba’ – meaning “to seven oneself, i.e. swear (as if by repeating a declaration seven times)”], The LORD lives, in truth, in judgment [mishpat], and in righteousness; and the nations [gowy] shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory. 3 For thus says the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, Break up [niyr] your fallow ground [niyr], and sow not among thorns [misleaders who have overgrown the garden]. 4 Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart [the veil of falsehoods that blind your minds], you men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings. 5 Declare you in Judah [to the current crop of corrupt leaders], and publish in Jerusalem [the corrupted people at large]; and say, Blow you the trumpet in the land [‘erets – the earth]: cry, gather together, and say, Assemble yourselves [into My ONE BODY], and let us go into the defenced cities. 6 Set up [nasa’ – lift] the standard [nec – the pole upon which the son of man must be lifted] toward Zion: retire, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north [the darkness], and a great destruction. 7 The lion [the second face of the unfolding presence of the LORD, His voice roaring] is come up from [‘alah – is raised against] his thicket [the place of thorns and briers: misleaders and deceivers], and the destroyer of the Gentiles [gowy] is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make your land [‘erets] desolate [the old and corrupt earth now in ruin]; and your cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant [living]. 8 For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us. 9 And it shall come to pass at that day [this time of light], says the LORD, that the heart [corrupt mind] of the king shall perish, and the heart [corrupt minds] of the princes; and the priests shall be astonished [stupefied, without any understanding of what they are experiencing], and the prophets [because of the false prophecies] shall wonder [at the event they never expected or saw]. 10 Then said I, Ah, LORD God! surely you have greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, You shall have peace; whereas the sword [this word of God they refuse] reaches unto the soul.
Hosea 10 2 Their heart is divided; now shall they be found faulty: he shall break down their altars, he shall spoil their images. 3 For now they shall say, We have no king, because we feared not the LORD; what then should a king do to us? 4 They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springs up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.
12 Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up [niyr] your fallow ground [niyr]: for it is time to seek the LORD, till he come and rain righteousness [this word] upon you. 13 You have plowed wickedness, you have reaped iniquity; you have eaten the fruit of lies: because you did trust in your way, in the multitude of your mighty men [gibbowr – tyrants in power].
Hosea 11 3 I taught Ephraim [the last generation of My people, who become the first generation of My new creation] also to go, taking them by their arms; but they knew not that I healed them. 4 I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love: and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat [this deep understanding] unto them.
9 I will not execute the fierceness of my anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not man; the Holy One in the midst of you: and I will not enter into the city. 10 They shall walk after the LORD: he shall roar like a lion: when he shall roar, then the children shall tremble from the west [those to whom this light has shined and lighted upon].
Psalms 107 1 O give thanks unto the LORD, for he is good: for his mercy endures forever. 2 Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom he has redeemed from the hand of the enemy; 3 And gathered them out of the lands, from the east, and from the west, from the north, and from the south. 4 They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in. 5 Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them. 6 Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses. 7 And he led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation. 8 Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men! 9 For he satisfies the longing soul, and fills the hungry soul with [His] goodness. 10 Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron; 11 Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the Most High: 12 Therefore, he brought down their heart [minds] with labor; they fell down, and there was none to help. 13 Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses. 14 He brought them out of darkness [ignorance] and the shadow of death, and brake their bands [mowcer] in sunder. [Job 39:5 Who has sent out the wild ass {His lowly people with and in whom He comes} free {by His truth}? or who has loosed the bands {mowcer} of the wild ass {His lowly people with and in whom He comes}?]. 15 Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men! 16 For he has broken the [hell’s] gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron in sunder. 17 Fools, because of their transgression and because of their iniquities, are afflicted. 18 Their soul abhors all manner of meat [of this deep understanding]; and they draw near unto [men whose mouths are] the gates of death. 19 Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses. 20 He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions. 21 Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men! 22 And let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare his works with rejoicing. 23 They that go down to the sea in ships [the institutions of church and state government], that do business in great waters [giving their evil advice and corrupting the world]; 24 These see the works of the LORD, and his wonders in the deep [this deep understanding]. 25 For he commands, and raises the stormy wind, which lifts up the waves thereof [the men whose pride in their opinions makes them intransigent]. 26 They mount up to the heaven [saying their opinions are truth], they go down again to the depths [where understanding is darkened]: their soul is melted because of trouble [in the fires of confusion their open mouths cause]. 27 They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit’s end. 28 Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses. 29 He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof [the twisted and perverted opinions of the proud] are still. 30 Then are they glad because they be quiet [shathaq – are silenced]; so he bringeth them unto their desired haven [machowz – only used here, meaning “meaning to enclose; a harbor (as shut in by the shore)”]. 31 Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men! 32 Let them exalt him also in the congregation of the people, and praise him in the assembly of the elders. 33 He turns rivers [of these men’s word] into a wilderness, and the water-springs [from where death flows] into dry ground; 34 A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein. 35 He turns the wilderness into a standing water [the LORD’s word exalted above all other voices], and dry ground into water-springs [flowing His life-giving word]. 36 And there he maketh the hungry [for truth and understanding] to dwell, that they may prepare a city for habitation [this new heaven and earth where He dwells with us, in us]; 37 And sow the fields, and plant vineyards, which may yield [good] fruits of increase. 38 He blesses them [Ephraim – now a double blessing] also, so that they are multiplied greatly; and suffers not their cattle to decrease. 39 Again, [if] they are minish and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow. 40 He pours contempt upon princes, and causes them to wander in the wilderness, where there is no way. 41 Yet sets he the poor [without worldly power] on high from affliction, and makes him families [His family, His ONE BODY] like a flock. 42 The righteous shall see it, and rejoice: and all iniquity shall stop her mouth. 43 Whoso is wise and will observe these things, even they shall understand the lovingkindness of the LORD.
