3 – 6 June 2025
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].
