26 – 30 June 2025
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, O virgin daughter of Zion? for your breach is great like the sea: who can heal you?
Continuing the conversation, the LORD begins today in the above, Lamentations 2:13, describing how His “comfort” comes as a witness, who, through similitudes, gives a right (righteous) assessment of His people’s condition and its cause. As we well know, the word “comfort” is from the Hebrew word nacham, the equivalent of the five times used Greek word parakletos (Comforter), which the LORD uses to describe Himself when He comes (as a man of war, coming to watch our back as we together go into battle), among us unknown as the Holy Ghost, (in this judgment) condemning the corrupt world and leading us out of it into all Truth (which is His and our comfort).
Before proceeding, the name Jeremiah is a combination of the words ruwm, meaning “to be high actively, to rise or raise,” and the name Jehovah. The word (ruwm) is used to describe men, forgetting the LORD is the only source of His understanding revealed, in pride in their falsely so-called understanding, exalting their words, even above His when He sends it, to the point of denying Him, by which they are antichrist and enemies of the cross (His sacrifice, to deliver His Truth, in the flesh He chooses) of Christ.
It (ruwm) is also used to tell of the futility of these men’s words and work against Him, their fecklessness in delivering any out of the troubles of which they are the cause, and His relentlessly rising as His voice and work are exalted above all worldly corruption.
This cause requiring comfort is described by the LORD, through Jeremiah (Jehovah rising, and with His rising, raising His people) in Lamentations preceding the title verse, and after it, speaking of these men in the only use of ruwm in Jeremiah or Lamentations.
Jeremiah 31
10 Hear the word of the LORD, O you nations, and declare it [nagad – “stand boldly in opposition] in the isles [the dry places in the end, when the word of the LORD isn’t heard] afar off [merchaq – the time the LORD decreed], and say, He that [foretold and allowed to be] scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd does his flock.
11 For the LORD has redeemed Jacob [His people wrestling with Him and His word unknown, who He allowed to prevail, giving them up to their own counsel], and ransomed him from the hand of him that was stronger than he.
12 Therefore they shall come and sing [repeating His word He put in the mouths] 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 [those who’ve kept themselves from being defiled by man] rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together: for I will turn their mourning into joy [when this light has come and they realize My presence with them, in them], and will comfort them [nacham – My Spirit with them unknown leading them into all Truth], and make them rejoice [entering into My presence] 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 [who] refused to be comforted [nacham – they refuse this teaching of the LORD among them as the Paraclete {parakletos} unknown] for her children, because they were not [yet born again].
16 Thus says the LORD; Refrain your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears: for your [long suffering] work shall be rewarded, says the LORD; and they shall come again from the land [‘erets – the earth] of the enemy [‘oyeb – controlled by their adversaries who hate them].
17 And there is hope in your end [‘achariyth – in these last days of darkness], says the LORD, that your children shall come again to their own border [gbuwl – this end of the line].
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 [the LORD’s light burden, joined with Him in His work]: turn you me, and I shall be turned; for you are the LORD my God.
19 Surely after that I was turned, I repented [nacham – comforted by receiving His truth, His correction]; and after that I was instructed [by this continued teaching], I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth [the childish things now put away].
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 [at My mercy seat, in this judgment] have mercy upon him, says the LORD.
21 Set you up waymarks [tsiyuwn – a three times use word telling of the “title,” “man of God” as marking his grave, the place from where he is {I Am} raised – see 2 Kings 23:17], make you high heaps [tamruwr – only used here, in the original text written as tamruwriym, from tam ruwm reym – meaning to complete the rising {exaltation} of the raised]: set your heart [minds] 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, saying “And the measuring line shall yet go forth over against it upon the hill Gareb {this right assessment, the comfort that heals their wounds}, and shall compass about {cabab} to Goath {when the shepherds hear this word from the flock}.] 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.
The assessment is that heard in Lamentations 1 & 2, chapter 1, using the word nacham five times, before its only other use in Lamentations, in chapter 2.
Lamentations 1
1 How does the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!
2 She weeps sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among all her lovers she has none to comfort [nacham] her: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies [‘oyeb].
3 Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwells among the heathen [who haven’t known the LORD], she finds no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits [the narrowing of the high-way under tyrants].
4 The ways of Zion do mourn [‘abel], because none come [here] to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.
5 Her adversaries [tsar – the straits, the obstacles that must avoided to enter the kingdom of heaven – these are the cause of the tribulation: tsarah] are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the LORD has afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the enemy [tsar].
6 And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed: her princes are become like harts that find no pasture, and they are gone without strength [understanding that only comes from the LORD] before the pursuer.
7 Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things [machmud] that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy [tsar], and none did help her: the adversaries [tsar] saw her, and did mock at her Sabbaths [when the LORD interrupted to correct them].
8 Jerusalem has grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that honored her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness [her lack of protection from the corrupt element {rudiments} of the world]: yea, she sighs, and turns backward.
9 Her filthiness is in her skirts; she remembers not her last end [‘achariyth – these last days of darkness]; therefore she came down [descended into hell unaware] wonderfully: she had no comforter [nacham – no man to lead her into all Truth]. O LORD, behold my affliction: for the enemy [‘oyeb] has magnified [by twisting and perverting Truth, exalted] himself.
10 The adversary [tsar] has spread out his hand [his works, with all deceivableness of unrighteousness] upon all her pleasant things: for she has seen that the heathen [who haven’t known the LORD] entered into her sanctuary, whom you [LORD] did command that they should not enter into your congregation.
11 All her people sigh, they seek bread [Your rightly divided word]; they [God’s people] have given [into the hand of enemy and adversary] their pleasant things [machmud] for meat to relieve [shuwb – which return] the soul [from death]: see [this], O LORD, and consider; for I am become vile [in the eyes of Your people].
12 Is it [this salvation] nothing to you, all you that pass by [‘abar – who should be passing from death into life]? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow [knowing you are choosing death], which is done unto me, wherewith the LORD has afflicted [with the loss of children] me in the day of his fierce anger.
13 From above has he sent fire into my bones [the dead body of Christ], and it [the enemy: death] prevails against them: he has spread a net for my feet, he has turned me back: he has made me desolate and faint all the day.
14 The yoke of my [body’s] transgressions is bound by his hand: they are wreathed, and come up upon my neck [The LORD’s words stopped there and kept from reaching the mouth]: he has made my [body’s – flesh of my flesh, bone of my bone] strength [understanding] to fall, the LORD has delivered me into their hands, from whom I am not able to rise up.
15 The LORD has trodden under foot all my mighty men in the midst of me: he has called an assembly against me to crush my young men: the LORD has trodden the virgin, the daughter of Judah, [all my body] as in a winepress.
16 For these things I weep; my eye, my eye run down with water, because the comforter [nacham – the LORD in me working and speaking unknown] that should relieve my [body’s] soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy [‘oyeb] prevailed.
17 Zion [the LORD’s body, coming to His throne] spreads forth her hands, and there is none to comfort [nacham] her: the LORD has commanded concerning Jacob, that his adversaries [tsar] should be round about him: Jerusalem is as a menstruous woman among them [unclean and separated].
18 The LORD is righteous; for I have [my dead body] rebelled against his commandment: hear [shama’ – obey], I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow: my virgins and my young men [without the LORD’s Spirit: the Comforter] are gone into captivity.
19 I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and my elders gave up the ghost [and without the LORD’s Spirit are dead] in the city, while they sought their meat [the machmud they gave way] to relieve their souls.
20 Behold, O LORD; for I am in distress: my bowels are troubled; my heart [mind] is turned [away] within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword [this word refused] bereaves, at home [in My house, My family] there is as death.
21 They have heard that I sigh: there is none to comfort [nacham] me: all my enemies [‘oyeb] have heard of my trouble; they are glad that you have done it: you will bring the day that you have called, and they shall be like unto me.
22 Let all their wickedness come before you; and do unto them, as you have done unto me for all my transgressions: for my sighs are many, and my heart [mind] is faint.
Lamentation 2 [[from the previous post, with additions in double brackets]]
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 [[as in Loruhamah]]: 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 [[shuwb ‘achowr – returned as in time of old, drawing back the line of His bow]] right hand [His power and work] from before [paniym – of His presence against] the enemy [[‘oyeb – the haters]], and he burned against Jacob [[those endlessly wrestling with Him and His word unknown]] like a flaming fire, which devours round about.
4 He has bent his bow like an enemy [[‘oyeb]]: he stood with his right hand as an adversary [[tsar]], and slew all that were pleasant to the eye [[whited sepulchers, wherein are held the unwitting dead]] in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he poured out his fury like fire.
5 The LORD was as an enemy [[‘oyeb]]: 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 [[mow’ed – at this appointed time]]: the LORD has caused the [[this]] solemn feasts and Sabbaths [[this time appointed, of My interrupting the words and works of men, for their correction]] to be forgotten in Zion, and has despised in the indignation [za’am [[-which ends in the destruction of the wicked]]] 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 [[‘oyeb]] 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 [[are those who don’t know the present LORD among them]]: 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 [[refusing to speak My words to My people]]: [[because they refuse this word]] 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 [[the things I see for them]] do fail with tears, my bowels [[wherein are My people I have swallowed]] are troubled, my liver [[My deepest thought]] is poured upon the earth, for [[because of]] the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings [[those brought up in corruption]] swoon in the streets of the city.
12 They say to their mothers [[their teachers]], 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 [[nephesh – their breath, life]] was poured out into their mothers’ bosom [[cheyq]].
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 [[nacham]] 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 [[‘abar – pass from this death into life]] clap their hands at you [[to get your attention]]; they hiss and wag their head [[they draw attention to you and are in disbelief that you choose to remain in this condition]] 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 [[their word that have torn you to pieces]]: they say, We have swallowed her up: certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it [[their end]].
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 [[as foretold in Loruhamah]]: and he has caused your enemy to rejoice over you, he has set up the horn [the power] of your adversaries.
18 Their heart [[minds, in their affliction]] cried unto the LORD, O wall of [[protection 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 [[the consequences of their teaching]], and children of a span long [[tippuch – grow in understanding if nursed by such corruption]]? shall the [[LORD’s]] priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the LORD?
21 The young and the old lie [[dead]] on the ground [[‘erets – in all the earth]] in the street [[by going their own ways]]: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword [this word they refuse]; you have slain [[shown]] them [[to be the dead]] in the day [[by this light coming]] of your anger [[‘aph – Your presence manifested]]; you have killed [[let all die, as warned at the fall]], 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.
The word cheyq, in verse 12 above, rendered mothers’ “bosom,” means “from an unused root, apparently meaning to inclose; the bosom (literally or figuratively):–bosom, bottom, lap, midst, within.” It, logically, has an affinity to the chek, meaning “probably from 2596 in the sense of tasting; properly, the palate or inside of the mouth; hence, the mouth itself (as the organ of speech, taste and kissing):–(roof of the) mouth, taste.” The word it (chek) is “probably” from, is the five times used word chanak (2596), meaning “to narrow (compare 2614); figuratively, to initiate or discipline:–dedicate, train up.” In these definitions we see cheyq is referring to a co-perspective, conscience, like mind with the LORD by His teaching: mercy found in His correction.
Proverbs 22
5 Thorns and snares [the piercing traps of misleaders] are in the way of the forward [who twist and pervert truth]: he that does keep his soul [shamar nephesh – who guards his life from the misleading of the froward] shall be far from them [their traps].
6 Train up [chanak] a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
This “dedication” is spoken of in Deuteronomy 20:5, and more deeply in Genesis 14:14, where the once used word chaniyk (from chanak) appears. Both the former and latter tell us it’s the preparation of a Godly life and the war that accompanies it when necessary.
Deuteronomy 20
4 For the LORD your God is he that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.
5 And the officers shall speak unto the people, saying, What man is there that has built a new house, and has not dedicated [chanak] it? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man dedicate [chanak] it.
Genesis 14
10 And the vale of Siddim [among the dead] was full of slime-pits [chemar]; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah [in flames and ruin] fled, and fell there [into death]; and they that remained fled to the mountain [to Abraham, the LORD’s protection].
11 And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their victuals [all their sources of strength: all their understanding], and went their [own] way.
12 And they took Lot [luwt – the covering, ignorance of the LORD’s presence, over all the world, all except the very few elect], Abram’s brother’s son [who are held in death’s sleep], who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.
13 And there came one that had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew; for he dwelt in the plain of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner: and these were confederate with Abram.
14 And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained [chaniyk] servants, born [again] in his own house [mortals who thereby putting off corruption, put on their immortality], three hundred and eighteen [numbers representing completion, ordinal perfection, which brings the victory over those bearing the mark, confusion, of the beast: Babylon], and pursued them unto Dan [this judgment day].
The word chemar, above in verse 10, rendered “slime-pits,” only appears two other times, in Genesis 11:3, telling of the “slime” that was used as mortar when building the tower of Babel (which is why, when softened by the sun rising, it easily and inevitably fell, as {above} did Sodom and Gomorrah); and in Exodus 2:3 where it’s the “slime” that kept the waters of Egypt’s river out of the ark in which Moses was placed to save him (from the death those waters brough upon all the other children of God’s people).
In these passages, we understand the “slime” is what keeps understanding, given in words of life or death, from entering the minds of man.
In Exodus 2:3, the difference is the chemar is mixed with “pitch,” understanding the rivers of Egypt (double strait, oppression, tyranny in church and state) were turned to death. The word here rendered “pitch” is the three times used word zepheth, meaning “unused root (meaning to liquify); asphalt (from its tendency to soften in the sun).”
The latter word (zepheth, with affinity to tsaphan: speaking of what is hidden therein, under the cover) refers us to its only other two uses, in Isaiah 34:9, speaking of when these rivers (of death) are understood (to be blood: darkness draining the life from those into whom they flow). As we know, this chapter, after the above, in verse 11, is one of the three times the words tohuw and bohuw appear together, and the only three times the latter word appears. The other two times, Genesis 1:2 and Jeremiah 4:23, they are rendered “without form, on void,” all three speaking of the condition the earth became (hayah), when (also) darkness covered the face (presence) of the deep understand, which only returns when this light comes: the LORD (the Holy Spirit) unknown among us moving upon the face of the waters: revealing the deep understanding held (reserved for His use in this time of war) below the surface.
Isaiah 34
1 Come near, you nations, to hear [shama’ – obey]; and hearken, you people: let the earth hear [shama’ – obey], and all that is therein; the world, and all things that come forth of it.
2 For the indignation of the LORD is upon all nations, and his fury upon all their armies [fighting against Him with their words of ignorance]: he has utterly destroyed them, he has delivered them to the slaughter [they are all dead flesh].
3 Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up out of their carcasses [dead flesh perceived], and the mountains [the institution of government, church and state, they have corrupted] shall be melted with their blood.
4 And all the host [this army] of heaven [the corrupt places where understanding be] shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together [galal] as a scroll [their ignorance shall be silenced, like a stone rolled to cover their wells]: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falls off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree [and men shall no longer be fed their confusion].
5 For my sword [this word from the mouth of the LORD] shall be bathed in heaven [places where understanding should be found and isn’t]: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea [Esau, the enemies mixed among us], and upon the people of my curse, to judgment.
6 The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah [among His flock], and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea.
7 And the unicorns [the one power, speaking of Babylon] shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.
8 For it is the day of the LORD’s vengeance, and the year of recompenses for the controversy of Zion.
9 And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch [zepheth], and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch [zepheth – burning fires of darkness].
10 It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up forever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it forever and ever.
11 But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl [who hunt in the darkness] also and the raven [those covered in darkness] shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion [tohuw – without form], and the stones of emptiness [bohuw – and void – as in Genesis 1:2 and Jeremiah 4:23].
12 They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all her princes shall be nothing.
13 And thorns [misleaders, overgrown the garden because of the neglect of those in whose charge it was lefts] shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles [deceivers] in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be a habitation of dragons [those who poison and devour with their ever-open mouths speaking men’s corruption], and a court for owls [those who hunt {souls} in the darkness].
The only time, other than in Lamentations 2:12 above, Jeremiah used the word cheyq, is in Jeremiah 32:18, a verse which begins with him quoting from Exodus 20:6, speaking of the LORD’s “mercy,” from the word checed, the word in Jeremiah 32:18, rendered “lovingkindness.”
Jeremiah 32
14 Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Take these evidences, this evidence of the purchase, both which is sealed, and this evidence which is open; and put them in an earthen vessel [my flesh], that they may continue [long-suffer to deliver them] many days.
15 For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Houses and fields and vineyards shall be possessed again in this land.
16 Now when I had delivered the evidence of the purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah, I prayed unto the LORD, saying,
17 Ah LORD God! behold, you have made the heaven and the earth by your great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for you:
18 You show lovingkindness [checed – the promised “sure mercies of David,” which is Fatherly correction and not the destruction of those who choose to love Him] unto thousands, and recompenses [mercy, to coprrect] the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom [cheyq – bringing them into a co-perspective with My mind] of their children after them: the Great, the Mighty God, the LORD of hosts [a man of war], is his name [is My identity],
19 Great in counsel, and mighty in work: for your eyes are open [paqach] upon all the ways of the sons of men: to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:
20 Which have set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt [those now held in this double strait], even unto this day, and in Israel, and among other men; and have made you a name, as at this day;
21 And have brought forth your people Israel [those who receive this promise, by faith that I Am present doing this] out of the land of Egypt with signs, and with wonders, and with a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with great terror;
22 And have given them this land [‘erets – this new earth I Am creating], which you did swear to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey [by which men learn to refuse evil and choose good];
23 And they came in, and possessed it; but they obeyed not your voice, neither walked in your law; they have done nothing of all that you commanded them to do: therefore you have caused all this evil [they’ve chosen] to come upon them:
24 Behold the mounts, they are come unto the city to take it; and the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans [using their evil advice, words as spells, causing men to do their evil work], that fight against it, because of the sword, and of the famine, and of the pestilence [all speaking of effects of refusing this word]: and what [the evil] you have spoken is come to pass; and, behold, you see it.
25 And you have said unto me, O LORD God, Buy you the field for money, and take witnesses; for the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.
26 Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying,
27 Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh: is there any thing too hard for me?
Exodus 20
4 You shall not make unto you any graven image, or any likeness [creations of your own minds] of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
5 You shall not bow down yourself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
6 And showing mercy [checed – lovingkindness] unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
Exodus 15
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 [is His identity].
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 [checed – lovingkindness] have led forth the people which you have redeemed: you have guided them in your strength unto your holy habitation.
John 14
10 Believe you not that I Am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwells in me, he does the works.
11 Believe me that I Am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works’ sake.
12 Truly, truly, I say unto you, He that believes on me [that the Father is in me], the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.
13 And whatsoever you shall ask in my name [manifesting the identity of Jesus, Jehovah’s Salvation manifested in our flesh when we keep His commands to love {agape – show His charity}, keeping his word from corruption and giving it as He has given it], that will I do, that the Father may be glorified [His word and work exalted above all other] in the Son.
14 If you shall ask anything in my name, I will do it.
15 If you love me, keep my commandments. [The word rendered “keep” is tereo, meaning “from teros (a watch; perhaps akin to 2334 [theoreo – meaning “to be a spectator of, i.e. discern, (literally or figuratively [experience] or intensively [acknowledge])”); to guard (from loss or injury, properly, by keeping the eye upon; and thus differing from 5442, which is properly to prevent escaping.” It speaks of the mystery of seeing or not seeing the present LORD: seeing Him manifested in His pure word understood, but losing sight of this deep meaning, not believing He is speaking from the flesh of His sons He chooses, He is unseen.]
16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter [parakletos – the son in whom the Father is unknown speaking and working], that he may abide with you forever;
17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it sees him not, neither knows him: but you know him; for he dwells with you [as the Paraclete called alongside to manifest this truth], and shall be in you [when you receive His message, this message as the LORD].
18 I will not leave you comfortless [orphanos – father-less, only appearing elsewhere in James 1:27, saying, “Pure religion and undefiled {without corruption} before {para – that comes beside, manifesting the presence of} God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless {orphanos} and widows {those without a man to protect them, keep them, from corruption} in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.”]: I will come to you.
19 Yet a little while, and the world sees me no more; but you see me: because I live, you shall live also.
20 At that day you shall know that I Am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.
21 He that has my commandments, and keeps them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.
22 Judas [Judah – the elect remnant] says unto him, not Iscariot [not the corrupt leaders who’ve betrayed Him, not keeping His word or His commandment, which brought blindness and the death upon His body: the church], LORD, how is it that you will manifest yourself unto us, and not unto the world?
23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love [agapao] me, he will keep [tereo] my words: and my Father will love [agapao – given His word to] him, and we [Father and son] will come unto him, and make our abode with him. [2 Corinthians 6, speaking of the abode, says, “for you are the temple of the living God; as God has said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people {referring to Leviticus 26:10 – 12}. 17 Wherefore come out from among them {the corrupt}, and be you separate, says the LORD, and touch not the unclean {corrupt} thing; and I will receive you {quoted from Isaiah 52:11}. 18 And will be a Father unto you, and you shall be my sons and daughters, says the LORD Almighty {referring to 2 Samuel 7:14 which speaks of the sure mercies of David: the LORD’s promise to correct and not leave us Fatherless}.”]
24 He that loves [agapao] me not keep [tereo] not my sayings: and the word which you hear is not mine, but the Father’s which sent me.
25 These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present [dwelling in your minds, and seen] with you.
26 But the Comforter [parakletos], which is the Holy Ghost [My presence speaking and working while unknown], whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
John 15
12 This is my commandment, That you love one another, as I have loved you [giving you this word as received].
13 Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
14 You are my friends, if you do whatsoever I command you.
15 Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knows not what his LORD does: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.
16 You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that you should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever you shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.
17 These things I command you, that you love one another.
18 If the world hate you, you know that it hated me before it hated you.
19 If you were of the world, the world would love his own: but because you are not of the [corrupt] world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
20 Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his LORD. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.
21 But all these things will they do unto you for my name’s sake [my identity manifested in you], because they know not him that sent me.
22 If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloak for their sin.
23 He that hates me hates my Father also.
24 If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
25 But this comes to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.
26 But when the Comforter [parakletos – the Paraclete] is come, whom I will send [as My Spirit unknown] unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceeds from the Father, he shall testify of me:
27 And you [when you realize My presence] also shall bear witness [of my identity present in you], because you have been with me from the beginning.
John 16
7 Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away [from sight]: for if I go not away [to where I Am not known], the Comforter [parakletos – the LORD unknown and unseen in the flesh speaking and working] will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.
8 And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:
9 Of sin, [remaining in them] because they believe not on me [that I Am present in the world speaking and working];
10 Of righteousness, because [of corruption] I go to my Father [who alone knows me], and you see me no more;
11 Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged. [1 Corinthians 2:6 Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes {rulers} of this world, that come to naught: 7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained {proorizo – before the horizon: predestined} before the world unto our glory: 8 Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the LORD of glory. 9 But as it is written, Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God has prepared {predestined} for them that love him.]
12 I have yet many things [that were hidden, reserved in the clouds, for this moment, this end of darkness, when this light has risen from the horizon] to say unto you, but you cannot bear them now.
13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear [from our Father], that shall he speak: and he will show you things to come [from their hiding place].
14 He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall show it unto you.
15 All things that the Father has are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall show it unto you.
16 A little while, and you shall not see me: and again, a little while, and you shall see me [when the things hidden are uncovered: this apocalypse], because I go to the Father.
Matthew 11
25 At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank you, O Father, LORD of heaven and earth, because you have hid these things from the wise and prudent, and have revealed them unto babes.
26 Even so, Father: for so it seemed good in your sight.
27 All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knows the Son, but the Father; neither knows any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal [apokalupto – apocalypse: take away the cover: remove the corruption hiding] him.
1 John 2
1 My little children, these things write I unto you, that you sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate [parakletos] with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
2 And he [the advocate] is the propitiation [from hilasmos, with affinity to hileos, with affinity to the Hebrews word calach, by way Hebrews 8:12 where hileos is rendered “merciful” when quoting Jeremiah 31:34, where it’s calach rendered “forgive”] for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. [Jeremiah 31:34 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 {calach} their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.]
3 And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep [tereo – in sight, guarding against blinding corruption] his commandments.
4 He that says, I know him, and keep [tereo] not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
5 But whoso keep [tereo] his word, in him truly is the love [agape] of God perfected [teleoo – completed by this understanding given as received]: hereby know we that we are in him.
6 He that says he abides in him ought himself also so to walk [the same way, giving this word as received], even as he walked.
7 Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which you have heard from the beginning.
8 Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now shines.
9 He that says he is in the light [has this understanding], and hate his brother [refusing to give this word as commanded], is in darkness [ignorance] even until now.
10 He that loves his brother abide in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him [as there is for those walking in darkness].
11 But he that hates his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knows not whither he goes, because that darkness has blinded his eyes.
12 I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name’s sake.
13 I write unto you, fathers, because you have known him that is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because you have overcome the wicked one [the spirit that possesses the princes of this corrupt world]. I write unto you, little children, because you have known the Father.
14 I have written unto you, fathers, because you have known him that is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because you are strong [by this understanding, this word received as the Father’s], and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the wicked one.
15 Love not the world, neither the [corrupt] things that are in the world. If any man loves the world, the love 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 world passes away, and the lust thereof: but he that does the will [keeps the commandments] of God abides forever.
18 Little children, it is the last time [eschatos – the ‘achariyth, the last days of darkness]: and as you have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time [eschatos].
19 They went out from us [leaving this truth and understanding], but they 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 – the same anointing] from the Holy One [Jehovah unknown speaking and working in the flesh of His sons], 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 is the Christ [in whose flesh Jehovah’s Salvation abides]? He is antichrist, that denies the Father [is Jehovah] and the Son [in whose flesh Jehovah is manifested].
23 Whosoever denies the Son, the same has not the Father: he that acknowledges the Son has the Father also.
24 Let that therefore [this understanding, which is light and life] abide in you, which you have heard from the beginning. If that which you have heard from the beginning shall remain [meno – abide] in you, you also shall continue [meno – abide] in the Son, and in the Father.
25 And this is the promise that he has promised us, even eternal life.
26 These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you [to doubt these things].
27 But the anointing [chrisma – the mind of Christ in you] which you have received of him abide [meno] in you, and you need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing [chrisma] teaches you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it has taught you, you shall abide [meno] in him.
28 And now, little children, abide [meno] in him; that, when he shall appear [phaneroo – become apparent], we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.
29 If you know that he is righteous, you know that every one that does righteousness is born of him.
Isaiah 40
1 Comfort [nachum] you, comfort [nachum] you my people, says your God.
2 Speak you comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she has received of the LORD’s hand double [this blessing] for all her sins.
3 The voice of him that cries in the wilderness, Prepare you the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
4 Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain:
5 And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the LORD has spoken it.
6 The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower [tsiyts – the sign showing what is in man’s mind] of the field:
7 The grass withers, the flower [tsiyts] fades: because the spirit of the LORD [working and speaking His word] blows [nashab – only used three times, referring us to its use in Psalms 147:18 below] upon it: surely the people is grass.
8 The grass withers, the flower [tsiyts] fades: but the word of our God [by which we live] shall stand forever.
9 O Zion, that bring good tidings [Jehovah’s Salvation heard], get you up into the high mountain [into the LORD’s new government, where He sits as King of kings]; O Jerusalem, that bring good tidings, lift up your voice [repeating His word as received] with strength [this understanding]; lift it up [exalt His word above all other voices], be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God!
10 Behold, the LORD God will come with strong hand, and his arm shall rule for him: behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him [paniym – manifests His presence, His holy arm revealed].
11 He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.
12 Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
13 Who has directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his counselor has taught him?
14 With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and showed to him the way of understanding?
Psalms 147
1 Praise you the LORD: for it is good to sing praises unto our God; for it is pleasant; and praise is comely.
2 The LORD does build up [His people, New Heavenly] Jerusalem: he gathers together the outcasts of Israel.
3 He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.
4 He tells the number of the stars; he calls them all by their names.
5 Great is our LORD, and of great power: his understanding is infinite.
6 The LORD lifts up the meek: he casts the wicked down to the ground.
7 Sing unto the LORD with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the harp unto our God:
8 Who covers the heaven with clouds [wherein He reserves understanding], who prepares rain [His word] for the earth, who maketh grass [new life] to grow upon the mountains [the governments of church and state].
9 He gives to the beast [without His Spirit] his food, and to the young ravens [covered in darkness: ignorance] which cry.
10 He delights not in the strength of the horse [the powerful of the earth]: he taketh not pleasure in the legs [the ways] of a man.
11 The LORD takes pleasure in them that fear him, in those that hope in his mercy.
12 Praise the LORD, O Jerusalem [all His people into whom His teaching flows]; praise your God, O Zion.
13 For he has strengthened [with this understanding] the bars of your gates [keeping the wicked in hell and protecting heaven from their invasion]; he has blessed [with this double blessing of Ephraim, the first generation of His new creation] your children within you.
14 He makes peace in your borders, and fills you with the finest of the wheat [good seed He separated from the chaff].
15 He sends forth his commandment upon earth: his word runs very swiftly.
16 He gives snow [this word reserved, frozen in heaven, sent against the current crop of corrupt leaders in this time of war] like wool [to protect against the evil element of the corrupt]: he scatters the hoarfrost [this same word] like ashes [exposing the ruin of the world].
17 He casts forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold?
18 He sends out his word, and melts them [and understanding is given]: he causes his wind to blow [nashab – by His Spirit He did drive away the wicked, and they fled], and the waters flow [into the sea, to all humanity].
19 He shows his word unto Jacob [His people wrestling with Him and His word unknown], his statutes and his judgments unto Israel [line upon line, precept upon precept, to those who receive this expected end].
20 He has not dealt so with any nation: and as for his judgments, they have not known them [or His presence manifested]. Praise you the LORD.
