For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies.
A deeper examination of the above verse, 2 Thessalonians 3:11, and its surrounding context, reveals a much more complex imparting of necessary understanding. The following verse says, “For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.”
The word “commanded” is paragello (para angel), meaning passing on this message as received from the LORD who possesses the speaker. The word rendered “disorderly” is the twice used word ataktos (814), from the once used ataktos (813, with a different “o”), said to mean “from 1 (as a negative particle) and a derivative of 5021 [tasso – orderly arranged]; unarranged, i.e. (by implication) insubordinate (religiously):–unruly.” The (LORD’s) intended affinity of these words is to the words ater, meaning “aloof, i.e. apart from (literally or figuratively),” and ktaomai, meaning “to get, i.e. acquire (by any means; own).”
In context, the word ataktos speaks of these individuals not being possessed by the LORD, and therefore (having not done the work) have not acquired the knowledge needed to discern good and evil (words), and who (without it) shouldn’t eat the teaching of others, nor should they be teachers spuing their own ignorant opinions from their disordered (sleeping and dead) minds.
1 Thessalonians 5 1 But of the times and the seasons, brethren, you have no need that I write unto you. 2 For yourselves know perfectly [akribos] that the day of the LORD [the expected end reached, when the light again shines] so comes as a thief [unknown] in the night [this time when the earth is covered by the darkness of man’s ignorance of Him]. 3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety [asphaleia – meaning certainty, speaking of when men are saying they are certain what they believe is true, and it isn’t]; then sudden [aiphnidios – literally meaning it’s when the light of the day is not shining] destruction comes upon them, as travail upon a woman with child [which is the pangs of the LORD’s coming from the belly of the earth, the hell in which it, thd earth, is held by the wicked misleaders in the government of church and state]; and they shall not escape. 4 But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. 5 You are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. 6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober. 7 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. 8 But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for a helmet [guarding the mind], the hope of salvation. 9 For God has not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our LORD Jesus Christ, 10 Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him. 11 Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also you do. 12 And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labor among you, and are over you in the LORD, and admonish you; 13 And to esteem them very highly in love for their work’s sake. And be at peace among yourselves. 14 Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men. 15 See that none render evil for evil unto any man; but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all men. 16 Rejoice evermore. 17 Pray without ceasing. 18 In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. 19 Quench not the Spirit. 20 Despise not prophesying. 21 Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. 22 Abstain from all appearance of evil. 23 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our LORD Jesus Christ. 24 Faithful is he that calls you, who also will do it. 25 Brethren, pray for us. 26 Greet all the brethren with a holy kiss. 27 I charge you by the LORD that this epistle be read unto all the holy brethren. 28 The grace of our LORD Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.
Friends, we have often discussed the great paradox for the sleepers: that they are willingly led by and put their trust in the very men who keep them from rising (awakening). As we know from 2 Thessalonians 2, only when these men are taken out of the way, will the sleeping rise. Paul goes on in chapter 3 to tell us to pray that we will be delivered from these wicked men (who aren’t listening to reason) so that this glorious gospel will (then) have free course. The course is though us. It is the glory of the LORD seen in us: we who have been baptized in the cloud, and have come out of the old air (into which these men’s words are sent), away from the power that now works in these children of disobedience. They are those preaching their own ways: their same old corrupt fables. The gospel is the truth that is the way to peace and life.
The claims of safety that precede the sudden destruction of these men are further explained by the other two instances in which the word asphaleia appears. Both are by Luke, first in Luke 1:4, speaking of the things he knows with “certainty,” and in Acts 5:23, telling of the presumed “safety” of the shut prison into which the apostles were cast (to silence them).
Luke 1 1 Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order [anatassomai] a declaration of those things which are most surely believed [plerophoreo – meaning “to carry out fully (in evidence), i.e. completely assure (or convince), entirely accomplish”] among us, 2 Even as they [those who’ve received them from the LORD] delivered them unto us [as received], which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word [of the LORD they received]; 3 It seemed good to me also, having had perfect [akribos] understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto you in order [kathexes – meaning afterward, after understanding, “to lay out in order”], most excellent [strengthened by receiving this understanding from the LORD] Theophilus [friends, loved, christened of God], 4 That you might know the certainty [asphaleia – the true security in knowing the truth] of those things, wherein you have been instructed [here, in this writing, taught by the present LORD].
The following, ending with Hebrews 6, is the post of 9 February 2018, with today’s additions in double brackets.
For when they Shall Say, “Peace and Safety;” then Sudden Destruction Comes upon them, as Travail Upon a Woman with Child; and they Shall Not Escape.
Continuing: the above quote is from 1 Thessalonians 5:3 and uses many specific words, which, when expanded, reveal the idea the message is meant to convey at this time. (As we know, the expansion [[the firmament]] of very little to nourish the masses is the LORD again taking a few fish [[the life below the surface]] and several loaves [[leavened with truth]] and with it feeding those who’ve come to hear Him.)
Paul’s focus in writing the above verse is to tell of the moment the LORD appears (is realized) and its resulting in the end of the control darkness and sleep have over those then born into the light. We see this fruit in Zechariah 3:10, as it tells us of when the priesthood is raised from corruption and cleansed, and every man is called (to sit and eat it) under the vine and the fig tree [[though which flows life, which produced good fruit]].
Zechariah 3 begins by defining those who are resisting the angel (messenger) of the LORD, and we know the word here translated “resist” is the Hebrew word satan, who is also then named. We know from what follows that the message resisted is one that plucks out those who were in the fire. The plucking out [harpazo [[rendered “caught up” in 1 Thessalonians 4:17 – the Greek equivelant of the Hebrew word natsal, which appears here]]] is what Paul has just spoken of in 1 Thessalonians 4:17, which we know these men, [[the resisters]] in Zechariah, are defined as Satan [[who possesses their minds]], have by this same filth defiled the meaning into one that denies the LORD at His appearing.
The fires are spoken of as Paul begins 2 Thessalonians 1:7 after he first tells of the LORD recompensing (rewarding) tribulation upon those who are troubling us. We know he goes on in the following chapter to define these men [[possessed by and the doing the work of Satan]] as the wicked one sitting in the seat of God, opposing [[resisting]] the truth as the LORD appears with it, in the same flaming fire [[against those resisting the cleansing]], taking vengeance on those who refuse to obey the gospel. Paul concludes in 2 Thessalonians 3 by urging all to pray for us, “that the word of the LORD may have free course, and be glorified, even as it is with you [[received as the word of God, as it is]]: 2 And that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men: for all men have not faith [[that the LORD is with us, in us]]. 3 But the LORD is faithful, who shall establish you, and keep you from evil.”
2 Thessalonians 1 4 So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that you endure: 5 Which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you also suffer: 6 Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you; 7 And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the LORD Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, 8 In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our LORD Jesus Christ: 9 Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the LORD, and from the glory of his power; 10 When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed [[to be the word of God with us, in us]]) in that day.
Zachariah 3 1 And he shewed me Joshua [[the priesthood]] the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him. 2 And the LORD said unto Satan, The LORD rebuke you, O Satan; even the LORD that has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you: is not this a brand plucked [[natsal – harpazo, “caught up”]] out of the fire? 3 Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments [[spotted by the flesh]], and stood before the angel. 4 And he answered and spoke unto those that stood before him, saying, Take away the filthy garments from him. And unto him he said, Behold, I have caused your iniquity to pass from you, and I will clothe you with change of raiment [[which is the LORD’s righteousness]]. 5 And I said, Let them set a fair mitre upon his head. So they set a fair mitre upon his head, and clothed him with garments [[of the cleansed priesthood]]. And the angel of the LORD stood by. 6 And the angel of the LORD protested [[reiterated]] unto Joshua, saying, 7 Thus says the LORD of hosts; If you will walk in my ways, and if you will keep my charge, then you shall also judge my house, and shall also keep my courts, and I will give you places to walk among these that stand by. 8 Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, you, and your fellows that sit before you: for they are men wondered at: for, behold, I will bring forth my servant the Branch [[through whom comes this fruit]]. 9 For behold the stone [[from where flows this word of God as life-giving waters from heaven]] that I have laid before Joshua; upon one stone shall be seven eyes [[the church seeing as the LORD sees]]: behold, I will engrave the graving thereof [[writing this word from the mouth of the LORD]], says the LORD of hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of that land [[‘erets – the earth]] in one day. 10 In that day [[this time when light has returned to the earth]], says the LORD of hosts [[who is a man of war – see Exodus 15:3]], shall you call every man his neighbor under the vine and under the fig tree [[from where life flows, which produces good fruit]].
The Greek word translated “travail” in the 1 Thessalonians 5:3, is odin, and is only used three other times. In Matthew 24:8 and Mark 13:8, it is the word translated “sorrow” as the LORD defines the early indications of His appearing. In Matthew, the first of these precursors that the LORD describes is those who will come in His name and will deceive many. He tells us they will say, I am Christ, and use this claim as the way to deceive. It is speaking of those coming in the name of Jesus, saying they are anointed (christos) to teach His word, which the LORD says will deceive many. The word used there, translated as “deceive” is planao.
Here again is the Strong’s Dictionary definition: Strong’s #4105: planao (pronounced plan-ah’-o) from 4106; to (properly, cause to) roam (from safety, truth, or virtue):– go astray, deceive, err, seduce, wander, be out of the way.
As discussed in prior posts, planao is from the word planos, meaning roving, and by implication, an imposter or misleader. This idea becomes apparent when we realize it’s the origin of the English word planet, which appear in the night sky as stars, and is known as a planet when it doesn’t keep a fixed position. The stars [[God’s people enlightened by Him]] are fixed and therefore can be used to navigate at night, but if one uses a planet to navigate in darkness, they go astray. This is the deception the LORD is speaking of as He warns against those in pulpits in church and state, who claim to know the way when in fact all they offer is an accepted means [[flawed opinions]] of deception [[even if doing it with good intentions]].
In the one other use of the word odin we are told of these being the “pains” of death, which crucified the LORD but were unable to hold Him there, of which we are now eyewitnesses.
Acts 2 17 And it shall come to pass in the last days, says God, I will pour out of my Spirit [[through the comforter: My presence unknown]] upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy [[speak this word of God as received]], and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams: 18 And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy: 19 And I will show wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke: 20 The sun [[church as an institution]] shall be turned into darkness [[ignoirant of the LORD]], and the moon into blood [[civil governemtn drainin g the loife of those they govern]], before the great and notable day of the LORD come: 21 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name [[identity]] of the LORD shall be saved. 22 You men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as you yourselves also know: 23 Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain: 24 Whom God has raised up, having loosed the pains [[odin]] of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it. 25 For David speaks concerning him, I foresaw the LORD always before my face [[knowing He is always with me, in me]], for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved: 26 Therefore did my heart rejoice, and my tongue was glad; moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope [[in knowing that when I die He will raise me up again to life]]: 27 Because you will not leave my soul in hell, neither will you suffer your Holy One to see corruption. 28 You have made known to me the ways of life; you shall make me full of joy with [[realizing]] your countenance [[Your presence with me, in me]]. 29 Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulcher is with us unto this day. 30 Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him [[to raise me from death and hell]], that of the fruit of his loins, [[his seed]] according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne; 31 He seeing this before spoke of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption. 32 This Jesus has God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses. 33 Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost [[His presence alive in me, unknown to the world]], he has shed forth this [[this word that witnesses to the LORD’s presence]], which you now see and hear. 34 For David is not ascended into the heavens: but he says himself, The LORD [[Jehovah]] said unto my LORD [[‘adown – Joseph, from whose seed came both David and Jesus]], Sit you on my right hand, [[1 Chronicles 5:1 Now the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel, (for he was the firstborn; but forasmuch as he defiled his father’s bed, his birthright was given unto the sons [seed] of Joseph the son of Israel: and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright. 2 For Judah prevailed [gabar – referring to its use in Genesis 49:26, speaking of Josephe prevailing, by the LORD’s blessing of this deep understanding {abiding in Bethlehem Ephratah: an Ephraimite abiding in Judah, through the seed of the woman who brings forth the man child, as foretold by John in Revelation 12}] above his brethren, and of him came the chief ruler; but the birthright was [is] Joseph’s:)]] 35 Until I make your foes your footstool. 36 Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God has made the same Jesus [[Jehovah’s Salvation manifested in the flesh]], whom you have crucified, both LORD and Christ.
[[Genesis 49 22 Joseph [David’s ‘adown, LORD] is a fruitful bough [the Branch, from whom comes the fruit and seed], even a fruitful bough by a well [a tree of life by these waters of God]; whose branches run over the wall [the wall of lies men have created and teach]: 23 The archers [ba’al – the gods of this world whose teaching has blinded all from seeing the Father, in the son, who is the seed of the women who brings forth the man child – see Revelation 12:5] have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him: 24 But his bow [qasheth – the rightly divided light, by which we prevail] abode in strength [understanding in the cloud], and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands [this work] of the mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is [come] the shepherd, the stone of Israel:) 25 Even by the God of your father, who shall help you; and by the Almighty, who shall bless you with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lies under [the deep meaning that lies below the surface], blessings of the breasts, and of the womb [seed, the son]: 26 The blessings of your father have prevailed [[gabar]] above the blessings of my progenitors [all those who have come before us, and were only blessed with part of what is perfected in our return to the LORD] unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they [these blessings] shall be on the head [in the minds] of Joseph [his seed], and on the crown of the head of him that was separate [nazar – as in Jesus of Nazareth mentioned in Acts 2:22 above] from his brethren.]]
When Paul tells of these men, the antichrists in church and state who have led all astray, saying, “Peace and safety,” the word he uses, rendered “safety,” is asphaleia, only used two other times. It means, will not fail. In the case of these men’s deception, it is their foundational ideas [[stoicheion – the elements in 2 Peter 3, which melt away in the fires they themselves have created]], spoken of in Acts 5:23, where the prison keepers found the cells shut with all “safety,” but there was no one inside. It is the false security of deception, which is nothing more than a locked cell with no one inside, and the angel of the LORD, these messages, have freed those it once held captive.
Acts 5 19 But the angel of the LORD by night opened the prison doors, and brought them forth, and said, 20 Go, stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life [[as received]]. 21 And when they heard that, they entered into the temple early in the morning [[the light of this new day come]], and taught. But the high priest came, and they that were with him, and called the council together, and all the senate of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought. 22 But when the officers came, and found them not in the prison, they returned and told, 23 Saying, The prison truly found we shut with all safety [[asphaleia]], and the keepers standing without before the doors: but when we had opened, we found no man within. 24 Now when the high priest and the captain of the temple and the chief priests heard these things, they doubted of them whereunto this would grow. 25 Then came one and told them, saying, Behold, the men whom you put in prison are standing in the temple, and teaching the people. [[Isaiah 53:8 He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.]]
Isaiah 61 1 The Spirit of the LORD God is upon me; because the LORD has anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; 2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn [[leading into all truth those recognizing the fallen condition of the institutions of church and state]]; 3 To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD [[in the earth]], that he might be glorified. 4 And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations. 5 And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers. 6 But you shall be named the Priests of the LORD: men shall call you the Ministers of our God: you shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall you boast yourselves. 7 For your shame you shall have double; and for confusion they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess the double: everlasting joy shall be unto them. 8 For I the LORD love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt offering; and I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them. 9 And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, and their offspring among the people: all that see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed which the LORD has blessed. 10 I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation, he has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels. 11 For as the earth brings forth her bud, and as the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the LORD God will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.
The only other time asphaleia is used is by Luke in Luke 1:4 as he describes the things he is teaching and passing on, so we will know with “certainty.”
Luke 1 1 Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us, 2 Even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word; 3 It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto you in order, most excellent Theophilus [loved of God], 4 That you might know the certainty [[asphaleia]] of those things, wherein you have been instructed.
Asphaleia is from the word asphales, a word only used five times, also meaning will not fail. It is used three times in Acts, all while telling of those not able to know for certain if the accusations made against those the LORD sent to speak in His name were true.
The other two times the word (asphales) is used, it is to tell us what we can be certain of.
The first is in Philippians 3:1 as Paul tells of writing the “same things” for our certainty. It is the word there translated “safe.” As we know from previous studies, in chapter 2, Paul speaks of Epaphroditus, a name translated into meaning he is one transformed from a deceiver into a now useful teacher. Infidelity [[not remaining faithful to the LORD]] is the near-death sickness once afflicting him, and of which he is now recovered and sent with Paul’s endorsement of health.
The commandment of the LORD and His will for all those who are deceived or teaching deception, is, “pulling [harpazo] them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.” Jude 1:23 (See Zechariah 3:2)
2 Peter 3 9 The LORD is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but [[He]] is [[always with us]] longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. 10 But the day of the LORD will come [[unknown among us]] as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens [[the corrupted places where understanding should be found but isn’t]] shall pass away with a great noise [[this voice of the LORD]], and the elements [[stoicheion – the corrupt foundational ideas of men]] shall melt with fervent heat [[this same voice as fire from His mouth, against the fires these men have caused]], the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
1 Corinthians 3:15 If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.
Philippians 2 1 If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies, 2 Fulfil you my joy, that you be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind. 3 Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than themselves. 4 Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others. 5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: 6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: 7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: 8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. 9 Wherefore God also has highly exalted him, and given him a name [[Timothy, I Am, who is Jesus, Jehovah’s Salvation first manifested in the flesh, which is His and my identity]] which is above every name: 10 That at the name [[manifested identity]] of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; 11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is [[the]] LORD [[alive in us]], to the glory of God the Father [[with us: Immanuel]]. 12 Wherefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. 13 For it is God which works in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. 14 Do all things without murmurings and disputing: 15 That you may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom you shine as lights [[life and understanding]] in the world; 16 Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither labored in vain. 17 Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice [[as the LORD is manifested present therein]] with you all. 18 For the same cause also do you joy, and rejoice with me. 19 But I trust in the LORD Jesus to send Timothy shortly unto you, that I also may be of good comfort, when I know your state. 20 For I have no man likeminded, who will naturally care for your state. 21 For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ’s. 22 But you know the proof of him, that, as a son with the father, he has served with me in the gospel. 23 Him therefore I hope to send presently, so soon as I shall see how it will go with me. 24 But I trust in the LORD that I also myself shall come shortly. 25 Yet I supposed it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus [[the cleansed priesthood]], my brother, and companion in labor, and fellow-soldier, but your messenger, and he that ministered to my wants. 26 For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because that you had heard that he had been sick. 27 For indeed he was sick nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow. 28 I sent him therefore the more carefully, that, when you see him again, you may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful. 29 Receive him therefore in the LORD with all gladness; and hold such in reputation: 30 Because for the work of Christ he was nigh unto death, not regarding his life, to supply your lack of service toward me.
Philippians 3 1 Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the LORD. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe [[aspahles – will not fail]]. 2 Beware of dogs [[those barking ignorance in the darkness]], beware of evil workers, beware of the concision [[those claiming they are the true believers, who have no idea the things they are sure of are untrue]]. 3 For we are the circumcision [[the true believers]], which worship God in the spirit [[who cannot fail]], and rejoice in [[the realization of]] Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the [[corruptible]] flesh.
The final use of asphales is in telling of the promises of the LORD, and of our hope in being “sure.” It appears in Hebrews 6:19, a chapter we know begins by telling of our going on into perfection. The Greek word there in verse 1, translated “let us go on unto,” is written as pherometha, literally and contextually meaning to be carried into the midst of perfection. We know it is the LORD carrying us by His Spirit, and warning against drawing back, failing to reach perfection.
The perfection and the hope are defined in Hebrews 7:19, when it says, “19 For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God.” Drawing near to God is what is spoken of in Hebrews 6:19 when it tells of our entering through the veil [[seeing what is veiled in flesh]], and says it is our hope, to go where [[into the Father’s presence]] the forerunner went.
What follows in Hebrews 7 tells us what our hope is in: the LORD, ever the priest who carries us to Himself. I am the one [[first]] risen from the dead, in the order of Melchisedec, the Spirit of the LORD risen in me, reconciling the world to Himself, bringing many sons to glory. It is our faith, hope, and, through the charity of the LORD, our perfection.
Hebrews 7 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 for ever after the order 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.
Hebrews 6 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 [[unchanging and unchangable]] things [[that cannot fail]], 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 [[asphales – will not fail]] and steadfast, and which entered into that within the veil; 20 Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made a high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
Speaking of the “sudden” destruction that comes upon those thinking there is safety in the things they believe to be true, which aren’t, the word aiphnidios appears one other time, in Luke 21:34.
Luke 21 22 For these be the days of vengeance [ekdikesis – meaning “vindication, retribution,” from ek, meaning from where, or through, comes dike, meaning “right (as self-evident), i.e. justice (the principle, a decision, or its execution)”], that all things which are written may be fulfilled. [Referring to Deuteronomy 32:35 & 41, verse 30 there speaking of the LORD, our Rock, selling {makar} us into this moment, from where we are redeemed in His vengeance, vindication as a blessing upon the desolate, by which the new heaven and earth are blessed {makarios}] 23 But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath [this word rejected when it comes as a sword from His mouth] upon this people. 24 And they shall fall [as the stars from heaven: found to be without understanding of the moment] by the edge [stoma – the LORD’s mouth] of the sword [machaira, with affinity to makarios, refer to the Hebrew words mah charar, meaning what is forged in the fires, like a sword, of the LORD’s anger], and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles [those who don’t know the LORD, at His coming], until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled [pleroo – complete, when none know Him, as it is this day]. 25 And there shall be signs [these are the signs, semeion, 2 Thessalonians 2:8, which are the deceptions and delusion that come by the work of Satan, which result in none knowing the LORD, and therefore refusing the love of His truth, this word from His mouth] in the sun [chruch found without understanding], and in the moon [civil government, draining life], and in the stars [God’s people who should have His light shining from them into the darkness]; and upon the earth distress of nations [of all who haven’t known Him with us, in us], with perplexity; the sea [humanity] and the waves [those risen over it, swelled with pride in what they think the know] roaring [speaking in the LORD’s name against Him]; 26 Men’s hearts [minds] failing them for fear [of opposing these proud waves], and for looking after those things which are [unexpected] coming on the earth: for the [corrupt] powers of heaven shall be shaken [by his voice now shaking heaven and earth, to shake the wicked from them]. [Hebrews 12:25 See that you refuse not him that speaks. For if they escaped not who refused him that spoke on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaks from heaven {this place of full understanding}: 26 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he has promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. 27 And this word, Yet once more, signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made {by men}, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. 28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: 29 For our God is a consuming fire.] 27 And then [when the things men have created and put in the LORD’s place are removed] shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud [the place where understanding is in separated elements, from where they are brought together and now sent] with power and great glory. 28 And when these things begin to come to pass [as you now see them], then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draws nigh. 29 And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree, and all the trees; 30 When they now shoot forth [as does His word here], you see and know of your own selves that summer [as in the quwts, the awakening] is now nigh at hand. 31 So likewise you, when you see these things come to pass [the LORD’s words here come and grown into a great tree], know you that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand. 32 Truly I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled [ginomai – “to cause to be (“gen”-erate), i.e. (reflexively) to become (come into being)”]. 33 [The old and corrupt] Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words [this word] shall not pass away [parerchomai – referring us to its use in 2 Peter 3:10 But the day of the LORD will come as a thief in the night {unknown in the darkness, ignorance that covers the world}; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise {the voice of the LORD heard from His mouth}, and the elements {stoicheion – the corrupt foundational ideas of man, only knowing a small part of the bigger picture} shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.]. 34 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts [minds] be overcharged with surfeiting [kraipale – only used here, meaning “a headache (as a seizure of pain) from drunkenness”], and drunkenness [methe – meaning an intoxicant, as in minds confused by what they have consumed], and cares of this life, and so that day [this time when light, understanding, has] come upon you unawares [asphnidios]. 35 For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth. 36 Watch you therefore, and pray always, that you may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
Deuteronomy 32 28 For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them. 29 O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end [‘achariyth – this after effect now come]! 30 How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them [makar – made them surrender], and the LORD had shut them up [cagar – let them surrender]? 31 For [they must see] their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies [as false rocks] themselves being judges. 32 For their vine is of the vine of Sodom [flames], and of the fields of Gomorrah [ruin]: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter: 33 Their wine is the poison [words] of dragons [tanniyn – men as serpents and whales, devouring their prey with wide open mouths], and the cruel venom [words] of asps. 34 Is not this laid up in store [kamac – stored away] with me, and sealed up [chatham – made apparent, uncovered] among my treasures? 35 To me belongs vengeance [in this word revealed] and recompence [a just reward to those who’ve refused it]; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste. 36 For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself [nacham – He has come as the comforter to lead us into all truth, to change our minds by His correction] for his servants, when he sees that their power [yad – to work their own way out] is gone, and there is none shut up [‘atsar – none who retain His knowledge], or left [with the understanding to refuse evil and choose good]. 37 And he shall say, Where are their [false] gods, their rock in whom they trusted, 38 Which [false teacher and false prophets] did eat the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offerings? let them rise up and help you, and be your protection. 39 See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no [false] god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand [yad – from this work]. 40 For I lift up my hand [yad – this work] to heaven, and say, I live forever. 41 If I whet my glittering sword, and my hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to my enemies, and will reward them that hate me. 42 I will make my arrows [My people I send with this word] drunk with blood, and my sword [this word from My mouth] shall devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy. 43 Rejoice, O you nations [all who haven’t known Me], with his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land [‘adamah – this first generation of My new creation], and to his people.
The “snare” spoken of by the LORD, in Luke 21:35 above, is from the five times used Greek word pagis, which speaks of this word of God, with which men who refuse the LORD’s teaching and are therefore unlearned and unstable, wrestle to their own destruction (forever learning things that aren’t true and never able to come to the knowledge of the Truth).
Psalms 104 1 Bless the LORD, O my soul. O LORD my God, you are very great; you are clothed with honor and majesty. 2 Who covers yourself with light [understanding] as with a garment: who stretches out the heavens like a curtain: 3 Who lays the beams of his chambers in the waters [His word]: who makes the clouds [where understanding is kept when it is removed from the earth] his chariot: who walks upon the wings [kanaph] of the wind: 4 Who makes his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire: 5 Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed forever. 6 You covered it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains. 7 At your rebuke they fled; at the voice of your thunder [the sound of understanding] they hastened away. 8 They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which you have founded for them. 9 You have set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth. 10 He sends the springs into the valleys, which run among the hills. 11 They give drink to every beast of the field: the wild asses quench their thirst. 12 By them shall the fowls of the heaven have their habitation, which sing among the branches. 13 He waters the hills from his chambers: the earth is satisfied with the fruit of your works. 14 He causes the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth; 15 And wine that [changes minds] makes glad the heart of man, and oil [that fuels the light] to make his face to shine [paniym – His presence giving us light, understanding], and bread [God’s word expanded upon] which strengthens man’s heart [rational mind]. 16 The trees [upright] of the LORD are full of sap; the cedars of Lebanon [purity], which he has planted; 17 Where the birds make their nests: as for the stork, the fir trees are her house. 18 The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats; and the rocks for the conies. 19 He appointed the moon [civil governments] for seasons: the sun [the church] knows his going down. 20 You make darkness [ignorance], and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth. 21 The young lions [the second face of the unfolding presence of the LORD God] roar [His word] after their prey, and seek their meat [this deep understanding] from God. 22 The sun [the church] arises, they gather themselves together, and lay them down in their dens. 23 Man goes forth unto his work and [like an ox, the third face in the wheel within a wheel] to his labor until the evening. 24 O LORD, how manifold are your works! in wisdom have you made them all: the earth is full of your riches [the treasure from His storehouse]. 25 So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts. 26 There go the ships [in the church institution]: there is that leviathan [the priesthood], whom you have made to play therein. 27 These wait all upon you; that you may give them their meat [this deep understanding] in due season. 28 That you give them they gather: you open your hand, they are filled with good. 29 You hide your face [paniym – His presence], they are troubled: you take away their breath, they die, and return to their dust [‘aphar – the ashes of the earth’s ruin without Him]. 30 You send forth your spirit, they are created [again from the ashes]: and you renew the face of [paniym – by Your presence] the earth. 31 The glory of the LORD shall endure forever: the LORD shall rejoice in his works. 32 He looks on the earth, and it trembles [ra’ad]: he touches the hills, and they smoke. 33 I will sing unto the LORD as long as I live: I will sing praise to my God while I have my being. 34 My meditation of him shall be sweet: I will be glad in the LORD. 35 Let the sinners be consumed out of the earth, and let the wicked be no more. Bless you the LORD, O my soul. Praise you the LORD.
I know that, whatsoever God does, it shall be forever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God does it, that men should fear before him.
The words above, in Ecclesiastes 3:14, rendered “forever” and “before” are ‘owlam and paniym, meaning eternity and His presence. By this understanding, we realized that the above says the things the LORD does are eternal, cannot be improved upon or diminished by man, so that he (man) should fear His presence manifested therein, through their revelation.
Peculiarly, the word ‘owlam is rendered “world,” earlier in the chapter, in verse 11, saying “He has made every thing beautiful in his time: also he has set [nathan – given] the world [‘owlam – eternity] in their heart [minds], so that no man can find out [matsa’ – make apparent] the work [ma’aseh – what work] that God makes [‘asah – worked] from the beginning [of ages] to the end.”
The word rendered “end” above is the five times used word cowph, meaning “a termination:–conclusion, end, hinder participle,” referring to the termination of an age, in eternity, which God made (‘asah), and only He knows. (So, man small, do you still think you know what He has made (ma’aseh), other than which He here reveals to the ignorant?)
The above verses come as Solomon, the most intelligent man to have ever live, understanding God and man, tells of everything having a time of ebbs and flows, and concluding, telling us that the work of God in the ages, begin with ignorance of them and end (cowph) in the revelation of their “beauty,” from the word yapheh, meaning “beautiful (literally or figuratively):–+ beautiful, beauty, comely, fair(-est, one), + goodly, pleasant, well.”
The word (yapheh) refers us to its final use in Amos 8:13, which in turn refers us to Joel 2:20, where the word cowph appears one of the five times it’s used.
Amos 8 1 Thus has the LORD God shown unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit [qayits]. 2 And he said, Amos [whose words men say are a burden, and, {these men} therefore, assign them little value], what see you? And I said, A basket of summer fruit [qayits – of the harvest: reaching the result of men’s work, their words by which we know them to be good or evil]. Then said the LORD unto me, The end [qets – of time, at the border, gate, between heaven and hell] is come upon my people of Israel [the people of His promised rescue from their enemies, when we “possess their gates;” See Genesis 22:17]; I will not again pass by them any more [‘abar – this is the final Passover, at the judgment seat, which is His mercy seat for those who receive Him, His correction by measure, His just balance]. 3 And the songs of the temple [the word they repeat, by which they are judged] shall be howling in that day, says the LORD God: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them [the known dead speaking the ways into death] forth with silence. [Matthew 12:33 Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit. 34 O generation of vipers {whose words are poison}, how can you, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart {mind} the mouth speaks. 35 A good man out of the good treasure of the heart brings forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth evil things. 36 But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. 37 For by your words you shall be justified, and by your words you shall be condemned.] 4 Hear this, O you that [with your evil words] swallow up the needy [you thereby made ignorant], even to make the poor [without power] of the land to fail, 5 Saying, When will the new moon [this darkness covering the earth] be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath [the LORD’s interruption of men’s work], that we may set forth wheat [returning to your same old corrupt and worthless ways, by which you turn men into merchandise], making the ephah [equal justice] small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances [justice] by deceit? 6 That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat? 7 The LORD has sworn by the excellency of Jacob [this refers us to Psalms 47:4, the complete Psalms saying: 1 O clap your hands, all you people; shout unto God with the voice of triumph. 2 For the LORD Most High is terrible; he is a great King over all the earth. 3 He shall subdue the people under us, and the nations under our feet. 4 He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah. 5 God is gone up {is exalted, risen into heaven} with a shout {of His archangel}, the LORD with the sound of a trumpet. 6 Sing praises to God, sing praises: sing praises unto our King, sing praises. 7 For God is the King of all the earth: sing you praises with understanding. 8 God reigns over the heathen: God sits upon the throne of his holiness. 9 The princes of the people are gathered together, even the people of the God of Abraham: for the shields of the earth belong unto God: he is greatly exalted.], Surely I will never forget any of their works. 8 Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein? and it shall rise up wholly as a flood; and it shall be cast out and drowned [shaqa’], as by the flood of Egypt. 9 And it shall come to pass in that day, says the LORD God, that I will cause the sun [the corrupt church] to go down [into Sheol: hell] at noon [when the LORD, His light risen, is exalted to the highest place over the earth], and I will darken the earth [reveal the ignorance and delusion that now rules it] in the clear day [when all is plainly seen and understood]: 10 And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day. 11 Behold, the days come, says the LORD God, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD [as it is this day]: 12 And they shall wander from sea to sea [generation to generation], and from the north even to the east [searching the places of darkness and where light should come from], they shall run to and fro [searching all the earth] to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it [because they look to the dead for the living, where I Am never found]. 13 In that day shall the fair [yapheh] virgins and young men [who are made {‘asah} beautiful in the LORD’s time] faint for thirst [My people without this word of the LORD they call a burden, in which they put no value]. 14 They that swear by the sin of Samaria [the places where they put idols in God’s place and call them by His name], and say, Your god, O Dan [where judgment should be found], lives; and, The manner of Beersheba [the seven wells, where God’s pure word is now totally corrupt] lives; even they [these golden calves] shall fall, and never rise up again.
Joel 2 1 Blow you the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain [the LORD’s government]: let all the inhabitants of the land [‘erets – the earth] tremble [ragaz] for the day of the LORD comes, for it is nigh at hand; 2 A day of darkness and of gloominess [‘aphelah – this is the darkness, the deeper delusion they are driven into, spoken of in Isaiah 8:22, when, in the tribulation, the LORD is speaking, and His people are instead listening to wizards peeping and muttering against Him, after they have cursed Him and their king], a day of clouds and of thick darkness [‘araphel – this refers to Isaiah 60:2, verses 1 and 2 saying, “Arise, shine; for your light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon you. For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness {‘araphel} the people: but the LORD shall arise upon you, and his glory shall be seen upon you.”], as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there has not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after [‘achar] it [because the darkness ends here and now], even to the years of many generations. 3 A fire devours [‘akal – eats them] before [paniym – now in the LORD’s presence] them; and behind [‘achar] them a flame burns [these last days of darkness now enlightened by the flames]: the land [‘erets – the earth] is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind [‘achar] them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them. 4 The appearance [mar’eh] of them is as the appearance [mar’eh] of [war] horses; and as horsemen, so shall they run. 5 Like the noise [qowl – their voices] of chariots on the tops of mountains [in power] shall they leap, like the noise [qowl – their voices] of a flame of fire that devours [‘akal – eating those listening to their advice] the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array. 6 Before their face [paniym – in the LORD’s presence] the people [by their ignorance] shall be much pained: all faces [paniym – in His presence] shall gather blackness [ignorance – driven into deeper delusion because they haven’t known the time, haven’t recognized His voice]. 7 They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall like men of war; and they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not break their ranks: 8 Neither shall one thrust another; they shall walk every one in his path: and when they fall upon the sword, they shall not be wounded. 9 They shall run to and fro [shaqaq – a six times used word referring us to Nahum {the comforter} 2:4] in the city; they shall run upon the wall, they shall climb up upon the houses; they shall enter in at the windows like a thief [they shall destroy and devour all by the ignorance they teach and broadcast]. [Nahum 2:4 The chariots {of war} shall rage in the streets, they shall justle one against another {shaqaq} in the broad ways: they shall seem like torches {with word like fire}, they shall run like the lightnings {giving opposing versions of understanding: recognizing and ignoring truth and reality}. 5 He shall recount {zakar – mark to be recognized: remember} his worthies: they shall {in following misleaders} stumble in their walk; they shall make haste to the wall thereof, and the defense {against the words of the wicked} shall be prepared. 6 The gates of the rivers {of these life-giving waters} shall be opened, and the palace {all seats where the wicked sit in power} shall be dissolved.] 10 The earth [‘erets] shall quake [ragaz] before [paniym – in the LORD’s presence speaking to] them; the heavens shall tremble [ra’ash – that brings the dead bones together]: the sun [the church, the totally corrupt institution] and the moon [civil government, the institutions] shall be dark [be ignorant], and the stars shall withdraw their shining [God’s people fallen from heaven, shall not have any understanding]: 11 And [then] the LORD shall utter his voice [qowl] before [paniym – manifesting His presence to] his army: for his camp is very great: for he is strong that executes [‘asah – does His work in] his word: for the day of the LORD is great and very terrible; and who can abide it? 12 Therefore also now, says the LORD, turn you even to me with all your heart [your changed minds], and with fasting [no longer listening to the advice of the wicked], and with weeping, and with mourning: 13 And rend your heart [your old and corrupt minds], and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repents [nacham – comforts, as in previous posts] him of [against] the evil [from which His truth rescues us]. 14 Who knows if [how] he will return [shuwb – turn us from the darkness to His light] and repent [nacham – by His Comforter, leading us into all truth], and leave a blessing behind [‘achar] him; even a meat offering [this deep meaning that strengthens us] and a drink offering [these life-giving waters, in which is light and life] unto the LORD your God? [We know from verse 2 above He will, and this evil shall never rise again to power.] 15 Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly: 16 Gather [‘acaph] the people [into My ONE BODY], sanctify [qadash] the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts: let the bridegroom [chathan – the separated and hidden one] go forth of his chamber [cheder], and the bride out of her closet. 17 Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare your people, O LORD, and give not your heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God? 18 Then will the LORD be jealous for his land [‘erets – His earth], and pity his people. 19 Yea, the LORD will answer and say unto his people, Behold, I will send you corn, and wine, and oil, and you shall be satisfied therewith: and I will no more make you a reproach among the heathen [who haven’t known me]: 20 But I will remove far off [rachaq – at this time when the earth is ruled by the evil decrees of wicked men in places of power] from you the northern army [of darkness], and will drive him into a land [‘erets – the old and totally corrupt earth] barren and desolate, with his face [paniym – by My presence manifested] toward the east sea [My people who are looking toward the light rising], and his hinder part [cowph – this is the end, the termination we’ve seen foretold in 2 Chronicles 20, saying “15 And he said, Hearken you, all Judah, and you inhabitants of Jerusalem, and you king Jehoshaphat, Thus says the LORD unto you, Be not afraid nor dismayed {chathath – confused} by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God’s. 16 Tomorrow go you down {descend into hell} against them: behold, they come up by the cliff of Ziz {‘alah ma’aleh tsiyts – their rising to power is as the rising of a flower}; and you shall find {matsa’ – attain} them at the end {cowph – this conclusion, termination point} of the brook {these waters: the word of the LORD heard}, before {paniym – manifesting His presence in} the wilderness of Jeruel {taught by God, as in Jerusalem, by this word which flow from Him, teaching His ways of peace}.] toward the utmost [‘archarown] sea [this last generation, like in Amos 8], and his stink shall come up [even if we don’t see or hear it, we perceive it is upon us], and his ill savor [the smell of the dead] shall come up, because he has done [‘asah – this work of God] great things. 21 Fear not, O land [‘adamah – first generation of My new creation]; be glad and rejoice [realizing I Am present]: for the LORD will do [‘asah – in this word] great things. 22 Be not afraid, you beasts of the field [without My Spirit]: for the pastures of the wilderness do spring [life that gives life], for the tree [of life] bears her fruit, the fig tree and the vine do yield their strength. 23 Be glad then, you children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he has given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain [malqowsh – mah laqash, what gathering of the AFTER crop? This gathering] in the first month [of this new creation]. [Hosea 6:2 After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight {paniym – in His presence}. 3 Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter {malqowsh} and former rain unto the earth.] 24 And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the vats shall overflow with wine and oil. 25 And I will restore to you the years that the locust has eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpillar, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you. 26 And you shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your God, that has dealt [‘asah] wondrously with you: and my people shall never be ashamed. 27 And you shall know that I Am in the midst of Israel, and that I Am the LORD your God, and none else: and my people shall never be ashamed. 28 And it shall come to pass afterward [‘achar], that I will pour out [shaphak] my spirit [ruwach – in My words, which are life, light, and understanding] upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy [speak these words as received], your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions: 29 And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour [shaphak] out my spirit [ruwach – in My words, which are life, light, and understanding]. 30 And I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke. 31 The sun shall be turned into darkness [the church realized to be ignorant and dead without My Spirit], and the moon [civil government] into blood [realized to be draining life from humanity at large], before [paniym – before His presence is realized at] the great and terrible day of [this light, manifesting] the LORD come. 32 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name [the identity] of the LORD [with us, in us] shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD has said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call.
Psalms 104 1 Bless the LORD, O my soul. O LORD my God, you are very great; you are clothed with honor and majesty. 2 Who covers yourself with light [understanding] as with a garment: who stretches out the heavens like a curtain: 3 Who lays the beams of his chambers in the waters [His word]: who makes the clouds [where understanding is kept when it is removed from the earth] his chariot: who walks upon the wings [kanaph] of the wind: 4 Who makes his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire: 5 Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed forever. 6 You covered it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains. 7 At your rebuke they fled; at the voice of your thunder [the sound of understanding] they hastened away. 8 They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which you have founded for them. 9 You have set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth. 10 He sends the springs into the valleys, which run among the hills. 11 They give drink to every beast of the field: the wild asses quench their thirst. 12 By them shall the fowls of the heaven have their habitation, which sing among the branches. 13 He waters the hills from his chambers: the earth is satisfied with the fruit of your works. 14 He causes the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth; 15 And wine that [changes minds] makes glad the heart of man, and oil [that fuels the light] to make his face to shine [paniym – His presence giving us light, understanding], and bread [God’s word expanded upon] which strengthens man’s heart [rational mind]. 16 The trees [upright] of the LORD are full of sap; the cedars of Lebanon [purity], which he has planted; 17 Where the birds make their nests: as for the stork, the fir trees are her house. 18 The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats; and the rocks for the conies. 19 He appointed the moon [civil governments] for seasons: the sun [the church] knows his going down. 20 You make darkness [ignorance], and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth. 21 The young lions [the second face of the unfolding presence of the LORD God] roar [His word] after their prey, and seek their meat [this deep understanding] from God. 22 The sun [the church] arises, they gather themselves together, and lay them down in their dens. 23 Man goes forth unto his work and [like an ox] to his labor until the evening. 24 O LORD, how manifold are your works! in wisdom have you made them all: the earth is full of your riches [the treasure from His storehouse]. 25 So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts. 26 There go the ships [in the church institution]: there is that leviathan [the priesthood], whom you have made to play therein. 27 These wait all upon you; that you may give them their meat [this deep understanding] in due season. 28 That you give them they gather: you open your hand, they are filled with good. 29 You hide your face [paniym – His presence], they are troubled: you take away their breath, they die, and return to their dust [‘aphar – the ashes of the earth’s ruin without Him]. 30 You send forth your spirit, they are created [again from the ashes]: and you renew the face of [paniym – by Your presence] the earth. 31 The glory of the LORD shall endure forever: the LORD shall rejoice in his works. 32 He looks on the earth, and it trembles [ra’ad]: he touches the hills, and they smoke. 33 I will sing unto the LORD as long as I live: I will sing praise to my God while I have my being. 34 My meditation of him shall be sweet: I will be glad in the LORD. 35 Let the sinners be consumed out of the earth, and let the wicked be no more. Bless you the LORD, O my soul. Praise you the LORD.
John 6 11 And Jesus took the loaves [this word of God, the unknown manna from the mouth of God, by which only does man live]; and when he had given thanks, he distributed [diadidomai – to rightly divide, “to give throughout a crowd, i.e. deal out; also to deliver over (as to a successor)”] to the disciples, and the disciples to them that were set down; and likewise of the fishes as much as they would [thelesis – as much as they chose]. 12 When they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost. 13 Therefore they gathered them together, and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves, which remained over and above unto them that had eaten. 14 Then those men, when they had seen the miracle that Jesus did, said, This is of a truth that prophet that should come into the world. 15 When Jesus therefore perceived that they would come and take him by force, to make him a king, he departed again into a mountain himself alone. 16 And when even was now come, his disciples went down unto the sea, 17 And entered into a ship, and went over the sea toward Capernaum [took His place among the people of the world, as the comforter He said would come, His presence unknown, leading those who receive Him, into all truth]. And it was now dark [ignorance covered the culture], and Jesus was not come to them. 18 And the sea arose by reason of a great wind [of false doctrine and false prophecies] that blew. 19 So when they had rowed about five and twenty or thirty furlongs, they see Jesus walking on the sea, and drawing nigh unto the ship [the church institution]: and they were afraid. 20 But he says unto them, It is I; be not afraid. 21 Then they willingly [thelema – chose to] received him into the ship: and immediately the ship was at the land whither they went [this expected end]. 22 The day [the time of ligh] following, when the people which stood on the other side of the sea saw that there was none other boat there, save that one where into his disciples were entered, and that Jesus went not with his disciples into the boat, but that his disciples were gone away alone; 23 (Howbeit there came other boats from Tiberias [on the rivers of God] nigh unto the place where they did eat bread, after that the LORD had given thanks:) 24 When the people therefore saw that Jesus was not there, neither his disciples, they also took shipping, and came to Capernaum [to the place of the Comforter, the Paraclete XP {Christ unknown as the Holy Spirit leading into all truth}], seeking for Jesus. 25 And when they had found him on the other side of the sea, they said unto him, Rabbi [Teacher], when came you hither? 26 Jesus answered them and said, Truly, truly, I say unto you, You seek me, not because you saw the miracles, but because you did eat of the loaves, and were filled. 27 Labor not for the meat which perishes, but for that meat which endures unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him has God the Father sealed [sphragizo – by this He has marked me as His]. 28 Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God? 29 Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that you believe on him whom he has sent. 30 They said therefore unto him, What sign show you then, that we may see, and believe you? what do you work? 31 Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat. 32 Then Jesus said unto them, Truly, truly, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven. 33 For the bread of God is he which comes down from heaven, and gives life unto the world. 34 Then said they unto him, LORD, evermore give us this bread. 35 And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that comes to me shall never hunger; and he that believes on me shall never thirst. 36 But I said unto you, That you also have seen me, and believe not. 37 All that the Father gives me shall come to me; and him that comes to me I will in no wise cast out. 38 For I came down from heaven, not to do my own will [thelema], but the will [thelema] of him that sent me. 39 And this is the Father’s will [thelema] which has sent me, that of all which he has given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day. 40 And this is the will [thelema] of him that sent me, that every one which sees the Son, and believes on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day. 41 The Jews then murmured at him, because he said, I am the bread which came down from heaven. 42 And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? how is it then that he says, I came down from heaven? 43 Jesus therefore answered and said unto them, Murmur not among yourselves. 44 No man can come to me, except the Father which has sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day. 45 It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that has heard, and has learned of the Father, comes unto me. 46 Not that any man has seen the Father, save he which is of God, he has seen the Father. 47 Truly, truly, I say unto you, He that believes on me has everlasting life. 48 I am that bread of life. 49 Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead. 50 This is the bread which comes down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die. 51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world. 52 The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat? 53 Then Jesus said unto them, Truly, truly, I say unto you, Except you eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, you have no life in you. 54 Whoso eats my flesh, and drinks my blood, has eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day. 55 For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. 56 He that eats my flesh, and drinks my blood, dwells in me, and I in him. 57 As the living Father has sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eats me, even he shall live by me. 58 This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna [the word unknown to be from the mouth of God through Moses], and are dead: he that eats of this bread [this word from my flesh and blood God has chosen and prepared to do His will] shall live forever. 59 These things said he in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum [at the place where He is still unknown, hidden behind the veil of flesh these men refused to enter through]. 60 Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is a hard saying; who can hear it? 61 When Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it, he said unto them, Does this offend you? 62 What and if you shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before [raised into heaven by the Father – see John 3:13]? 63 It is the spirit that quickens [brings dead flesh to life]; the flesh profits nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. 64 But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who should betray him. 65 And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father. 66 From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him. 67 Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will [thelesis – will you chose to] you also go away? 68 Then Simon Peter answered him, LORD, to whom shall we go? you have the words of eternal life. 69 And we believe and are sure that you are that Christ, the Son of the living God. 70 Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil [a misleader and betrayer mixed among us, doing their own will]? 71 He spoke of Judas Iscariot the son of Simon: for he it was that should betray him, being one of the twelve.
Ecclesiastes 3 says there is “a time to embrace [chabaq – to take hold – of wisdom and understanding], and a time to refrain from embracing [chabaq – refrain from folding your hands in idleness, and work this work of the LORD];” so we understand what is stated in verse 1, saying “To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:”
Ecclesiastes 3 2 A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; 3 A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; 4 A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; 5 A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; 6 A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; 7 A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; 8 A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace. 9 What profit has he that works in that wherein he labors? 10 I have seen the travail [the labor to bring forth wisdom and understanding], which God has given to the sons of men to be exercised [working out corruption] in it. [2 Timothy 2:5 Study to show yourself approved unto God, a workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.] 11 He [the LORD’s work] has made every thing beautiful in his time: also he has set the world [‘owlam] in their heart [minds], so that no man can find out [without His work revealing it to us] the work [ma’aseh] that God makes [‘asah] from the [age’s] beginning to the end [cowph – the end of the old corrupt world age]. 12 I know that there is no good in them [the corrupt], but for a man to rejoice [in the LORD’s work making all things beautiful again, in His time], and to do good in his life. 13 And also that every man should eat and drink [of the gift, this feast of charity], and enjoy the good of all his labor [exercising himself from corruption], it is the gift [grace] of God. 14 I know that, whatsoever God does, it shall be forever [‘owlam]: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God does it, that men should fear before him [paniym – in His presence revealed]. 15 That which has been is now; and that which is to be has already been; and God requires [baqash – be searched out] that which is past. 16 And moreover I saw under the sun the place [institution] of judgment [in church and state], that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there. 17 I said in my heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work. 18 I said in my heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts [without His Spirit with us, alive in us].
Ecclesiastes 7 1 A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one’s birth. 2 It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end [cowph – all here in death] of all men; and the living [who come to life from the dead] will lay it to his heart. [2 Corinthians 5: because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: 15 And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again. 16 Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more. 17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. 1 Corinthians 15: 45 And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit {bringing the dead to life}. 46 Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.] 3 Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better. 4 The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth. 5 It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools. 6 For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity. 7 Surely oppression makes a wise man [of the world] mad [delusional]; and a gift destroys the heart. 8 Better is the end [‘achariyth – these last days of darkness] of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit. 9 Be not hasty in your spirit to be angry: for anger rests in the bosom of fools. 10 Say not you, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for you do not enquire wisely concerning this. 11 Wisdom is good with an inheritance: and by it there is profit to them that see the sun [the new day]. 12 For wisdom is a defense [the greater strength], and money is a defense [the strength of the world]: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom gives life to them that have it. 13 Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he has made crooked? 14 In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also has set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him. 15 All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perishes in his righteousness [explained in verse 16], and there is a wicked man that prolongs his life in his wickedness [explained in verse 17]. 16 Be not righteous over much; neither make yourself over wise: why should you destroy yourself? 17 Be not over [tolerating and ignoring] much wicked, neither be you foolish: why should you die before your time? 18 It is good that you should take hold of this; yea, also from this withdraw not your hand: for he that fears God shall come forth of them all. 19 Wisdom strengthens [‘azaz] the wise more than ten mighty men which are in the city. 20 For there is not a just man upon earth, that does good, and sins not. 21 Also take no heed unto all words that are spoken; lest you hear your servant curse you: 22 For oftentimes also your own heart knows that you yourself likewise have cursed others. 23 All this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me. 24 That which is far off, and exceeding deep, who can find it out? 25 I applied my heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness: 26 And I find more bitter than death the woman [church – teacher], whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleases [is in agreement with] God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her. 27 Behold, this have I found, says the preacher, counting one by one [precept upon precept, line upon line], to find out the account: 28 Which yet my soul seeks, but I find not: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman [church – teacher] among all those have I not found. 29 Lo, this only have I found, that God has made man upright; but they have sought out [baqash] many inventions [their own creations].
Ecclesiastes 12 9 And moreover, because the preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge; yea, he gave good heed, and sought out, and set in order many proverbs. 10 The preacher sought to find out acceptable words: and that which was written was upright, even words of truth. 11 The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails fastened by the masters of assemblies [‘acuppah – only appearing here, meaning “a collection of (learned) men (only in the plural)”], which are given from one shepherd. 12 And further, by these, my son, be admonished [zahar – be enlightened, so you shine forth the same glory of the LORD in you]: of making many books there is no end [qets]; and much study is a weariness of the flesh. 13 Let us hear the conclusion [cowph] of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man [‘adam – the people the LORD brings to life]. 14 For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing [‘alam – things hidden in eternity], whether it be good, or whether it be evil.
Psalms 104 1 Bless the LORD, O my soul. O LORD my God, you are very great; you are clothed with honor and majesty. 2 Who covers yourself with light [understanding] as with a garment: who stretches out the heavens like a curtain: 3 Who lays the beams of his chambers in the waters [His word]: who makes the clouds [where understanding is kept when it is removed from the earth] his chariot: who walks upon the wings [kanaph] of the wind: 4 Who makes his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire: 5 Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed forever. 6 You covered it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains. 7 At your rebuke they fled; at the voice of your thunder [the sound of understanding] they hastened away. 8 They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which you have founded for them. 9 You have set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth. 10 He sends the springs into the valleys, which run among the hills. 11 They give drink to every beast of the field: the wild asses quench their thirst. 12 By them shall the fowls of the heaven have their habitation, which sing among the branches. 13 He waters the hills from his chambers: the earth is satisfied with the fruit of your works. 14 He causes the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth; 15 And wine that [changes minds] makes glad the heart of man, and oil [that fuels the light] to make his face to shine [paniym – His presence giving us light, understanding], and bread [God’s word expanded upon] which strengthens man’s heart [rational mind]. 16 The trees [upright] of the LORD are full of sap; the cedars of Lebanon [purity], which he has planted; 17 Where the birds make their nests: as for the stork, the fir trees are her house. 18 The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats; and the rocks for the conies. 19 He appointed the moon [civil governments] for seasons: the sun [the church] knows his going down. 20 You make darkness [ignorance], and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth. 21 The young lions [the second face of the unfolding presence of the LORD God] roar [His word] after their prey, and seek their meat [this deep understanding] from God. 22 The sun [the church] arises, they gather themselves together, and lay them down in their dens. 23 Man goes forth unto his work and [like an ox] to his labor until the evening. 24 O LORD, how manifold are your works! in wisdom have you made them all: the earth is full of your riches [the treasure from His storehouse]. 25 So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts. 26 There go the ships [in the church institution]: there is that leviathan [the priesthood], whom you have made to play therein. 27 These wait all upon you; that you may give them their meat [this deep understanding] in due season. 28 That you give them they gather: you open your hand, they are filled with good. 29 You hide your face [paniym – His presence], they are troubled: you take away their breath, they die, and return to their dust [‘aphar – the ashes of the earth’s ruin without Him]. 30 You send forth your spirit, they are created [again from the ashes]: and you renew the face of [paniym – by Your presence] the earth. 31 The glory of the LORD shall endure forever: the LORD shall rejoice in his works. 32 He looks on the earth, and it trembles [ra’ad]: he touches the hills, and they smoke. 33 I will sing unto the LORD as long as I live: I will sing praise to my God while I have my being. 34 My meditation of him shall be sweet: I will be glad in the LORD. 35 Let the sinners be consumed out of the earth, and let the wicked be no more. Bless you the LORD, O my soul. Praise you the LORD.
Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray you, unto your servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and speak not to us in the Jews’ language, in the ears of the people that are on the wall.
As we know, the deeper meaning of the above verse, Isaiah 36:11, lies in the meanings of the names.
The Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary gives the meaning of Eliakim as “God of raising,” while the Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon gives it as “God raises” or “God sets up.” Respectively, they give the others’ as: Shebna, “to grow; growth,” and “vigor;” Joah, “Jehovah-brothered” and “Jehovah is brother;” and Rabshakeh, “chief butler” and “chief cupbearer, chief of the officers.”
Additionally (in the same format), Rabshakeh is from the words (rab) meaning “abundant (in quantity, size, age, number, rank, quality)” and “much, many, great;” and (shaqah), “to quaff, i.e. (causatively) to irrigate or furnish a potion to” and “to give to drink, irrigate, drink, water, cause to drink water.”
In pattern, the first three men are those now raised by LORD, now with Him, as new growth brought to life, as His brethren, with His “understanding,” which, above, is the word shama’, meaning they hear and obey His voice. They are speaking to the door (gate) keepers (butlers, with deference to Joseph and the butler who forgot his vow to him), as those whose words (much drink they serve) are against the words heard from the LORD.
The words of the Jews, which the people on the wall know, are the corrupt language (destroyed truthful discourse) of this time, heard from Judah, the current crop of corrupt leaders, represented in Hezekiah’s (meaning Jehovah’s strength: which is understanding) sickness.
The following (12th) verse (dubiously translated), with reference to the cause and effect underlying the previously described conversation, then says: “But Rabshakeh said, Has my master [Satan who works through them] sent me to your master [Hezakiah – Jehovah’s strength] and to you [those with understanding] to speak these words? has he not sent me to [destroy] the [ignorant] men that sit upon the wall, that they may eat their own dung [their own polluted language], and drink [the drink Rabshakeh serves] their own piss [mayim – their own water, their defiled words, corrupted understanding] with [‘im – against, to resist {satan}] you [who have understanding]?”
The word rendered “dung” is the five times used word tsow’ah, meaning, “excrement; generally, dirt; figuratively, pollution.” It is rendered “dung” here and in the same story in 2 Kings 18:27. The other three times, descriptively, are in Proverbs 30:12 and Isaiah 4:4 & 28:8, rendered “filth” or “filthiness.”
Proverbs 30 [from the post of 4 October 2025, with today’s additions in double brackets. 1 The words of Agur [to those the LORD has gathered] the son of Jakeh [the obedient who He declares blameless], even the prophecy: the man spoke unto Ithiel [God is with me {Immanuel}], even unto Ithiel [God is with me {Immanuel}] and Ucal [and you shall eat {this feast of charity, milk and honey [[sweetness in the mouth, words heard as the strength of lions, with reference to Samson]] by which men learn to choose good and refuse evil}], 2 Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man. 3 I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the holy. 4 Who has ascended up into heaven [into full understanding], or descended [bringing it as light upon the earth]? who has gathered the wind [the spirit in man] in his fists? who has bound the waters in a [this word of God as a covering] garment? who has established all the ends [ending the old and beginning the new] of the earth? what is his name, and what is his son’s name, if you can tell? 5 Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him. 6 Add you not unto his words, lest he reprove you, and you be found a liar. 7 Two things have I required of you; deny me them not before I die: 8 Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me: 9 Lest I be full, and deny you, and say, Who is the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain. 10 Accuse not a servant unto his master, lest he curse you, and you be found guilty. 11 There is a generation that curses [the wisdom and knowledge] their father, and does not bless their mother [for her teaching, this nourishment, milk as the necessary foundation]. 12 There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness [[[tsow’ah]] what they know is corrupt, and they choose to remain ignorant, and ignorant of it]. 13 There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up. 14 There is a generation, whose teeth [words] are as swords, and their jaw teeth [words] as knives, [who use their positions of power] to devour the poor [those without power] from off the earth, and the needy [needing understanding] from among men. 15 The horse-leach [that attaches to the mouths of those who drink from their waters, draining life from them] has two daughters, crying, Give, give [calling themselves teachers, evangelists, and experts, and always asking for money, taking pledges from those they give their evil advice]. There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things say not, It is enough [are never satisfied – ever learning and never able to reach understanding the truth]: 16 The grave [sheol – hell]; and the barren womb [those in hell who never obey and never bring any to life]; the earth that is not filled with water [this word of God, which the dead who call themselves His people refuse to give as He commands]; and the fire that says not [even while they are being consumed by it], It is enough [they are never satisfied, ever learning, in the experience, but never able to come to the understating of this truth]. 17 The eye that mocks at his father, and despises to obey [yiqqahah] his mother, the ravens of the valley [those covered in darkness, the shadows of the mountains {those in high places misleading them} of the earth] shall pick it out [their eyes, blinding them, removing their sight by learned ignorance], and the young eagles [the fourth face of the unfolding presence of God] shall eat it [‘akal – as they fly in heaven, with the LORD and His full understanding, consuming the darkness with the fire from their mouths].
Before looking at Isaiah 4, we need to understand chapter 3, which says the LORD has taken away the good bread and clothing, along with taking away good leadership, for which the people are looking.
Isaiah 3 1 For, behold, the LORD, the LORD of hosts, does take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water. 2 The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient, 3 The captain of fifty, and the honorable man, and the counselor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator. 4 And I will give [those whose minds are quickly shaken – na’ar] children to be their princes, and babes [ta’aluwl – only used here and in Isaiah 66:4, where it is the “delusions” the LORD choose and sends upon the desolate, whose worship is defiled: filthy by the abominations {shiqquwt – meaning “disgusting, i.e. filthy; especially idolatrous or (concretely) an idol”} men created and put in the LORD’s place] shall [as Babylon: confusion that does now] rule over them. 5 And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbor: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient [things, of days], and the base against the honorable. 6 When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father, saying, You have clothing, be you our ruler, and let this ruin be under your hand: 7 In that day shall he swear, saying, I [their chosen leaders] will not be a healer; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing [this is why, in Isaiah 4:1, the church has their own, because the men they chose don’t have any understanding, and are without protection from the corrupt elements, rudiments, of the world, and therefore can’t give either]: make me not a ruler [none following their chosen leaders] of the people. 8 For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of his glory. 9 The show of their countenance does witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves. 10 Say you to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings. 11 Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him. 12 As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead you cause you to err, and destroy the way of your paths. 13 The LORD stands up to plead, and stands to judge the people. 14 The LORD will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof: for you have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses. 15 What mean you that you beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? says the LORD God of hosts. 16 Moreover the LORD says, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty [arrogant – thinking God owes them something], and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes [their conversation and vision are with covetousness], walking and mincing [taphaph – tripping] as they go, and making a tinkling [‘akac – as fetters] with their feet [both these words only appear here – speaking of covetousness, not content with what He has given, never saying it is enough, as the fetters that trip them up in the walk in the wrong “way of your paths”]: 17 Therefore the LORD will smite with a scab [caphach – will gather together] the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their secret parts [reveal these ancient things, uncovering their ignorance are errors]. 18 In that day the LORD will take away the bravery of [tiph’arah – the glorying in] their tinkling ornaments [‘ekec – the same as ‘akac, only appearing here and Proverbs 7:22 “as a fool to the correction of the stocks”] about their feet, [the following describes the coverings in which God’s people glory, which is their vain bravery and arrogance against Him] and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon, 19 The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers, 20 The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings, 21 The rings, and nose jewels, 22 The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples, and the crisping pins, 23 The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails. 24 And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty. 25 Your men shall fall by the sword [this word they refuse], and your mighty in the war [here and now]. 26 And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground.
Isaiah 4 1 And in that day seven women [the church] shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel [their own words and ways, who should see these things haven’t given them any strength or protection, but don’t]: only let us [remain with our abominations] be called by your name, to take away our reproach [this rebuke of the LORD]. 2 In that day shall the branch [from whom life, understanding, flows] of the LORD be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped [the old words and ways of the world now on fire] of Israel [who receive this promise, with the LORD]. 3 And it shall come to pass, that he that is left [sha’ar] in Zion, and he that remains [yathar] in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem: [Isaiah 24:5 The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant. 6 Therefore has the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left {sha’ar}]. 4 When the LORD shall have washed away the filth [tsow’ah] of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood [what has drained the life] of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning. 5 And the LORD will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke [from the fire from His mouth] by day [giving understanding], and the shining of a flaming fire by night [from His mouth against ignorance]: for upon all the glory shall be a defense. 6 And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the day time from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain.
Philippians 3 1 Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the LORD. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe. 2 Beware of dogs [those ignorantly and endlessly barking in the darkness], beware of evil workers, beware of the concision [those who claim they are the true believers]. 3 For we are the circumcision [are the true believers], which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus [the realization of Jehovah’s Salvation with us, in us], and have no confidence in the [works of the] flesh [men who refuse {deny} Him, His word, and His work].
John 14 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 dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. 18 I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you. 19 Yet a little while, and the world sees me no more; but [by the work of the Comforter, the Paraclete, My presence unknown, with you veiled in flesh] 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.
1 Peter 1 2 Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied. 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our LORD Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy has begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fades not away, reserved [tereo] in heaven for you, 5 Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time [the ‘achariyth – these last days of darkness, this after {life} come].
2 Peter 2 1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily [introduced surreptitiously, by devils crept in unaware] shall bring in damnable [apoleia – that cause them and those who follow their ways to perish] heresies, even denying [as they now do] the LORD that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction [apoleia – perdition]. 2 And many shall follow their pernicious [aploeia – the ways that lead to their own destruction] ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of [as it is this day]. 3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned [fraudulent] words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingers not, and their damnation [apoleia – perishing, perdition] slumbers not [because they are awakened “to shame and everlasting contempt”]. 4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved [tereo] unto judgment [krisis – this decision point, when they by their own evil conversation choose to remain in darkness]; 5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly; 6 And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an example unto those that after should live ungodly; 7 And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation [aselgeia] of the wicked: 8 (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;) 9 The LORD knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations [the doubts sown by corrupt trees, their filthy conversation that leads men to deny the LORD is present], and to reserve [tereo] the unjust unto the day of judgment [krisis] to be punished [kolazo]: 10 But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise [the LORD’s] government. Presumptuous are they, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil [blasphemeo] of dignities [doxa – the LORD’s manifested glory].
Not everyone that says unto me, LORD, LORD, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that does the will of my Father which is in heaven.
This warning is to the unrepentant, to whom He says, “Many will say to me in that day, LORD, LORD, have we not prophesied in your name? and in your name have cast out devils? and in your name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, you that work iniquity.”
He has fulfilled His word here and now! Amen.
These men are the false prophets and misleaders who aren’t doing the will of Father, but instead their own works, which they think earned them entry into His kingdom.
1 John 4 1 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. 2 Hereby know you the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: 3 And every spirit that confesses not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof you have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world. 4 You are of God, little children, and have overcome them [the many antichrists resisting the word and work of God in our flesh]: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world. 5 They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world hears them. 6 We are of God: he that knows God hears us; he that is not of God hears not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error. 7 Beloved, let us love [agapao] one another: for love [agape] is of God; and every one that loves [agapao] is born of God, and knows God. 8 He that loves [agapao] not knows not God; for God is love [agape]. 9 In this [giving this word as received, the LORD’s charity] was manifested the love [agape] of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might [by this word from His mouth] live through him.
Friends, these men, the incorrigibles, are manifested by not hearing and doing the will of God, which is to “love” as He loves. As we understand, His “love” is charity, freely giving His word, which is the light and life of the world.
The fact that they do not hear this word as the word of God, which it is, or hearing it, refuse to do His will on earth as it is in heaven, proves they are not His children. Hebrews 12:8 says these men are “bastards” and not sons, because, without faith (not believing His testimony), the correction of God does not affect them, and they remain strangers in corruption and death.
Hebrews 12 1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses [Hebrews 11:39 And these all, having obtained a good report {the Father testifying of them in His testimony, the shmuw’ah, that they believed Him, and did His will on earth} through faith, received not the promise: 40 God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.], let us lay aside every weight [the burdens of men’s words], and the sin [missing the mark {of righteousness through faith}] which does so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, 2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy [the crowning that comes when God is seen in him] that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. 3 For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest you be wearied and faint in your minds. 4 You have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin. 5 And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks unto you as unto children, My son, despise not you the chastening of the LORD, nor faint when you are rebuked of him: 6 For whom the LORD loves [agapao – shows charity] he chastens [corrects through the testimony He gives, through those He first gave His treasures], and scourges every son whom he receives. 7 If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chastens not? 8 But if you be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are you bastards, and not sons.
The word rendered “bastards” is the once used word “nothos” meaning “of uncertain affinity; a spurious or illegitimate son:–bastard.”
Above, we’re told of the scourge that comes upon all, and those who reject correction (chastising) will not enter the kingdom, of which the chapter later speaks. The writer (the LORD) likens this refusal to Esau (a symbol of enemies mixed among us, as illegitimate brothers), selling his birthright; the cause is also spoken of as not seeking peace with all men, without which no man will see God (enter His kingdom).
Hebrews 12 20 (For they could not endure that which was commanded [to do God’s will, seek peace with all men], And if so much as a beast touch the mountain [those without His correction, who attempt to come into His presence], it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart: 21 And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:) 22 But you are come unto mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, 23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, 24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaks better things than that of Abel. 25 See that you refuse not him that speaks. For if they escaped not who refused him that spoke on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaks from heaven [the kingdom of God, full understanding in His presence]: 26 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he has promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. [Job 38:12 Have you commanded the morning since your days; and caused the dayspring to know his place; 13 That it might take hold of the ends of the earth {ending the old and beginning the new}, that the wicked might be shaken out of it {making it new again}?] 27 And this word, Yet once more, signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made [the leaven, which by the unfaithful has been fully worked into the lump, corrupting it all], that these things which cannot be shaken may remain. 28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: 29 For our God is a consuming fire.
When the above speaks of things made, removed by the LORD’s voice shaking them, it is speaking of what is written in Isaiah 28:8, saying, “For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness [tsow’ah], so that there is no place clean.” These are the tables (shulchan) in the temple, upon which was the showbread (which, here in this verse, is made with the leaven of the unfaithful, whose words are as vomit and excrement, incontinently coming from them).
Psalms 69 21 They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink. 22 Let their table [shulchan] become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap. 23 Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake. 24 Pour out your indignation upon them, and let your wrathful anger take hold of them. 25 Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents. 26 For they persecute him whom you have smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom you have wounded. 27 Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into your righteousness. 28 Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.
Isaiah 28 1 Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat [shemem – which is the LORD’s anointing when they are brought down] valleys of them that are overcome with wine [and are thereby unaware of its coming]! 2 Behold, the LORD has a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing [see verse 21 below], shall cast down to the earth with the hand. 3 The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet: 4 And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat [shemem – when their mocking proclaims the King, when they are brought down by their own ignorance] valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer; which when he that looks upon it sees, while it is yet in his hand he eats it up. 5 In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem [tsphiyrah – a crown, as the morning of a new day] of beauty, unto the residue of his people, 6 And for a spirit of judgment to him that sits in judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate [driving out the enemies that were mixed among us]. 7 But they [the enemies mixed among us] also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment. 8 For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness [tsow’ah – spewed from their mouths], so that there is no place clean. 9 Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine [shmuw’ah – the report, teaching, the rumor of Ezekiel 7:26 below, the LORD’s voice heard as the morning]? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts [attiyq – who now draw from the Ancient of days]. 10 For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little: 11 For with stammering lips and another tongue [this word of God His people no longer understand, truth which is to them a foreign language] will he speak to this people. 12 To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith you may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear [because it contradicts the lie their false teachers and false preachers have fed them]. 13 But the [true] word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken. 14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, you scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem. 15 Because you have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge [this word all have refused] shall pass through [correcting all and bringing those who receive it from death into life], it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves: 16 Therefore thus says the LORD GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believes shall not make haste. 17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place. 18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then you shall be trodden down by it. 19 From the time that it goes forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report [shmuw’ah – the sound doctrine, teaching, the rumor of Ezekiel 7:26 below]. 20 For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it. 21 For the LORD shall rise up as in mount Perazim [2 Samuel 5:20 – as water from His throne, breaking forth upon His enemies], he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon [Joshua 10:10 & 11 – His word reserved {frozen} in heaven, sent as great hailstones upon the wicked: false teachers and false preachers], that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act [of which they have no knowledge]. 22 Now therefore be you not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the LORD GOD of hosts a consumption [kalah – a full end, as in Daniel 9:27], even determined upon the whole earth. 23 Give you ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech.
Ezekiel 7 1 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 2 Also, you son of man, thus says the LORD GOD unto the land of Israel [‘adamah – this generation that becomes the first of His new creation]; An end [qets – of the old], the end [qets] is come upon the four corners of the land [‘erets – the earth]. 3 Now is the end [qets] come upon you, and I will send my anger upon you, and will judge you according to your ways, and will recompense upon you all your abominations [men’s creations put in the place of the holy]. 4 And my eye [seeing all this evil] shall not spare you, neither will I have pity: but I will recompense your ways upon you, and your abominations [men’s creations] shall be in the midst of you: and you shall know that I am the LORD. 5 Thus says the LORD GOD; An evil, an only evil, behold, is come. 6 An end [qets] is come, the end [qets] is come: it watches [quwts – awakens] for you; behold, it is come. 7 The morning [tsphiyrah – the crown, the crowning of the LORD’s chosen, the man of God, as was David] is come unto you, O you that dwells in the land: the time is come, the day of trouble is near, and not the sounding again of the mountains. 8 Now will I shortly [in this word] pour out my fury upon you, and accomplish my anger upon you: and I will judge you according to your ways, and will recompense you for all your abominations. 9 And my eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will recompense you according to your ways and your abominations that are in the midst of you; and you shall know that I am the LORD that smites. 10 Behold the day, behold, it is come: the morning [tsphiyrah – the crowning] is gone forth; the rod has blossomed, pride has budded. 11 Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness: none of them shall remain, nor of their multitude, nor of any of theirs: neither shall there be wailing for them. 12 The time is come, the day draws [naga’ – when the LORD joins with His people, in ONE BODY] near: let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn: for wrath is upon all the multitude thereof. 13 For the seller shall not return to that which is sold, although they were yet alive: for the vision is touching the whole multitude thereof, which shall not return [to the old and corrupt churches that led them here, not to the same old preaching and teaching of men’s creation]; neither shall any strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life. 14 They have blown the trumpet [now calling all to gather to their dead churches], even to make all ready; but none goes to the battle [to which the LORD is calling us]: for my wrath is upon all the multitude thereof. 15 The sword is without [this word they reject, outside the dead churches], and the pestilence and the famine within [the dis-ease in these churches, that results without this word of God]: he that is in the field shall die with the sword; and he that is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him.
25 Destruction [qphadah – only used here, meaning the “shrinking,” from many into ONE, by cutting off the many evil opinions] comes; and they shall seek peace [in their same old corrupt words and ways], and there shall be none. 26 Mischief [hovah – only used three times, as in Jehovah, it speaks of His {Yahh – to whom it appertains} bringing these men’s words upon them, judging them by them] shall come upon mischief [hovah], and rumor [shmuw’ah – teaching sound doctrine, and reporting truth] shall be upon rumor [shmuw’ah – teaching and reporting that isn’t believed, and the man of God reporting it is still unknown – because of the lies and misleading of those who’ve blinded the world by drunkenness]; then shall they seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the ancients. [Isaiah 47:11 Therefore shall evil come upon you; you shall not know from whence it rises: and mischief {hovah} shall fall upon you; you shall not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon you suddenly {pith’own}, which you shall not know.] 27 The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled: I will do unto them after their way, and according to their deserts will I judge them; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
The word used four times in Hebrews 12, telling of the Father’s chastising, is the six times used Greek word paideia, meaning “to train up a child, i.e. educate, or (by implication), discipline (by punishment):–chasten(-ise), instruct, learn, teach.”
It is the word used in 2 Timothy 3:16 to tell us it is “instruction” in righteousness that comes through scripture. It says it (this instruction) is what makes the man of God perfect and furnished unto every good work. This perfection is that spoken of in Hebrews 11:39 & 40, that comes to all God’s people, when the promise is received, and we enter the kingdom of heaven in God’s presence.
2 Timothy 3 12 Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. [1 Timothy 3:16 And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh [{a man}, justified in the Spirit {while speaking unknown, roaring as a lion}, seen of angels {those who receive Him and become His messengers delivering His message as received}, preached unto the Gentiles {as an ox working in the earth, tilling the ground, carrying this word to all who haven’t know the LORD}, believed on in the world, received up into glory {rising as an eagle into heaven, His place of full understanding}.] 13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived. 14 But continue you in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing of whom you have learned them; 15 And that from a child you have known the holy scriptures, which are able to make you wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. 16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God [with us, in us], and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction [paideia] in righteousness: 17 That the man of God may be perfect [completed], thoroughly furnished [girded, prepared] unto all good works.
The name Jasher, from yashar, meaning “entire (literally, figuratively or morally),” most often appearing as some form of the word “right,” is only elsewhere once so rendered. In 2 Samuel 1:18, it is while David speaks of teaching, from the book of Jasher, “the use of the bow.” The word qesheth, rendered “bow,” meaning “of bending: a bow, for shooting (hence, figuratively, strength) or the iris,” is the same word first used in Genesis 9:13, 14, & 16, speaking of the “bow” in the cloud. The bow in the rightly divided (chetsiy) word of God, the light divided into the many colors of the rainbow, in the cloud, from where the former and latter rain come.
2 Samuel 1 18 (Also he bade them teach the children of Judah the use of the bow: behold, it is written in the book of Jasher.) 19 The beauty of Israel is slain upon your high places: how are the mighty fallen!
The bow spoken of above is Jonathan’s (meaning Jehovah given), David’s best friend, an expert bowman, who was slain by an Amalekite, the enemies who’ve warred against God and His people throughout history.
Genesis 9 12 And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual [‘owlam – into eternity] generations: 13 I do set my bow [qesheth] in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth. 14 And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth [when understanding is removed from the earth], that the bow [qesheth] shall be seen in the cloud: 15 And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters [the words of men mixed with and corrupting God’s truth] shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. 16 And the bow [qesheth] shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth. 17 And God said unto Noah, This [rightly divided word of God] is the token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.
Joel 3 11 Assemble yourselves, and come, all you heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause your mighty ones to come down [from the mountains into the valley], O LORD. 12 Let the heathen [those who haven’t known Me] be wakened, and come up [from their graves where they sleep in death] to the valley of Jehoshaphat [this judgment of Jehovah present]: for there will I sit to judge [shaphat] all the heathen [who haven’t known My presence] round about. 13 Put you in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe [in the New Testament we’re told the Mount of Olives is in Bethphage, meaning the house of unripe figs, it is also the place the LORD resides at night {waiting for the fruit to ripen}, after light left, light which was when He was in the temple]: come, get you down [from the mountain]; for the press is full, the fats [this oil] overflow; for their wickedness is great. 14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision [charuwts]: for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision [charuwts]. 15 The sun [church government] and the moon [civil governments] shall be darkened [ignorant without this light], and the stars [God’s people, the multitude in the valley] shall withdraw their shining [also not having or not giving this understanding as received]. 16 The LORD also shall roar [as a lion, the second face of His unfolding presence manifested] out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem [this place from where His teaching flows the highway to sustainable peace and security]; and the [totally corrupt] heavens and the earth shall shake [ra’ash – to shake the wicked from them]: but the LORD will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel [who receive this expected end]. 17 So shall you know that I am the LORD your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more. 18 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with [these living] waters, and a fountain shall come forth out of the house of the LORD, and shall water the valley of Shittim [where all are scourged by the thorns – corrected away from those misleading them]. 19 Egypt [those oppressing the world] shall be a desolation, and Edom [the enemies mixed among us at war with us while they call it peace] shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah [My elect remnant, the new crop of leaders I Am raising from the dead], because they [the enemies among us] have shed innocent blood in their land. 20 But Judah [the elect remnant] shall dwell forever, and Jerusalem [My people at large] from [the old and corrupt] generation to [become the new] generation [in this new creation]. 21 For I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed: for the LORD dwells in Zion.
Proverbs 12 22 Lying lips are abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly are his delight. 23 A prudent man conceals knowledge: but the heart of fools proclaims foolishness. 24 The hand of the diligent [charuwts] shall bear rule: but the slothful [rmiyah – deceitful, sluggard] shall be under tribute. 25 Heaviness [d’agah – from the same as dag {da’g} the fish that swallowed Jonah, the underlying cause of the agitation of humanity] in the heart [mind] of man makes it stoop [makes it bow to the wicked]: but a good word makes it glad. 26 The righteous is more excellent than his neighbor: but the way of the wicked seduces them. 27 The slothful [rmiyah – sluggard, deceitful] man roasts not that which he took in hunting: but the substance of a diligent [charuwts] man is precious. 28 In the way of righteousness is life: and in the pathway thereof there is no death.
2 Samuel 22 21 The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness: according to the cleanness of my hands has he recompensed me. 22 For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God. 23 For all his judgments were before me: and as for his statutes, I did not depart from them. 24 I was also upright [tamiym] before him, and have kept myself from my iniquity. 25 Therefore the LORD has recompensed me according to my righteousness; according to my cleanness in his eye sight. 26 With the merciful you will show yourself merciful, and with the upright [tamiym] man you will show yourself upright [tamam]. 27 With the pure you will show yourself pure [barar]; and with the froward [those twisting and perverting truth] you will show yourself unsavory. 28 And the afflicted people you will save: but your eyes are upon the haughty, that you may bring them down. 29 For you are my lamp [showing me the way in the darkness], O LORD: and the LORD will lighten [give understanding to] my darkness [things of which I am ignorant]. 30 For by you I have run through a troop: by my God have I leaped over a wall [of lies upon lies]. 31 As for God, his way is perfect [tamiym]; the word of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler to [magen – the shield covering] all them that trust in him. 32 For who is God, save the LORD? and who is a rock, save our God? 33 God is my strength and power [chayil]: and he makes my way perfect [tamiym].
2 Samuel 23 1 Now these be the last words of David. David the son of Jesse said, and the man who was raised up on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel, said, 2 The Spirit of the LORD spoke by me, and his word was in my tongue. 3 The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spoke to me, He that rules over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God. 4 And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun rises, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after [the latter] rain. 5 Although my house be not so with God; yet he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for this is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he make it not to grow. 6 But the sons of Belial shall be all of them as thorns thrust away, because they cannot be taken with hands: 7 But the man that shall touch them must be fenced with iron and the staff of a spear; and they shall be utterly burned with fire in the same place.
Psalms 45 1 My heart is inditing [overflowing with] a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer. 2 You are fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into your lips: therefore God has blessed you forever. 3 Gird your sword upon your thigh, O most mighty, with your glory and your majesty. 4 And in your majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness and righteousness; and your right hand shall teach you terrible things. 5 Your arrows are sharp in the heart of the king’s enemies; whereby the people fall under you. 6 Your throne, O God, is forever and ever: the scepter of your kingdom is a right scepter. 7 You love righteousness, and hate wickedness: therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows. 8 All your garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made you glad. 9 Kings’ daughters were among your honorable women: upon your right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir. 10 Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline your ear; forget also your own people, and your father’s house; 11 So shall the king greatly desire your beauty: for he is your LORD; and worship you him. 12 And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift; even the rich among the people shall intreat your favor. 13 The king’s daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of wrought gold. 14 She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework: the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto you. 15 With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought: they shall enter into the king’s palace. 16 Instead of your fathers shall be your children, whom you may make princes in all the earth. 17 I will make your name to be remembered in all generations: therefore shall the people praise you forever and ever.30 November – 1 December 2025
Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray you, unto your servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and speak not to us in the Jews’ language, in the ears of the people that are on the wall.
As we know, the deeper meaning of the above verse, Isaiah 36:11, lies in the meanings of the names.
The Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary gives the meaning of Eliakim as “God of raising,” while the Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon gives it as “God raises” or “God sets up.” Respectively, they give the others’ as: Shebna, “to grow; growth,” and “vigor;” Joah, “Jehovah-brothered” and “Jehovah is brother;” and Rabshakeh, “chief butler” and “chief cupbearer, chief of the officers.”
Additionally (in the same format), Rabshakeh is from the words (rab) meaning “abundant (in quantity, size, age, number, rank, quality)” and “much, many, great;” and (shaqah), “to quaff, i.e. (causatively) to irrigate or furnish a potion to” and “to give to drink, irrigate, drink, water, cause to drink water.”
In pattern, the first three men are those now raised by LORD, now with Him, as new growth brought to life, as His brethren, with His “understanding,” which, above, is the word shama’, meaning they hear and obey His voice. They are speaking to the door (gate) keepers (butlers, with deference to Joseph and the butler who forgot his vow to him), as those whose words (much drink they serve) are against the words heard from the LORD.
The words of the Jews, which the people on the wall know, are the corrupt language (destroyed truthful discourse) of this time, heard from Judah, the current crop of corrupt leaders, represented in Hezekiah’s (meaning Jehovah’s strength: which is understanding) sickness.
The following (12th) verse (dubiously translated), with reference to the cause and effect underlying the previously described conversation, then says: “But Rabshakeh said, Has my master [Satan who works through them] sent me to your master [Hezakiah – Jehovah’s strength] and to you [those with understanding] to speak these words? has he not sent me to [destroy] the [ignorant] men that sit upon the wall, that they may eat their own dung [their own polluted language], and drink [the drink Rabshakeh serves] their own piss [mayim – their own water, their defiled words, corrupted understanding] with [‘im – against, to resist {satan}] you [who have understanding]?”
The word rendered “dung” is the five times used word tsow’ah, meaning, “excrement; generally, dirt; figuratively, pollution.” It is rendered “dung” here and in the same story in 2 Kings 18:27. The other three times, descriptively, are in Proverbs 30:12 and Isaiah 4:4 & 28:8, rendered “filth” or “filthiness.”
Proverbs 30 [from the post of 4 October 2025, with today’s additions in double brackets. 1 The words of Agur [to those the LORD has gathered] the son of Jakeh [the obedient who He declares blameless], even the prophecy: the man spoke unto Ithiel [God is with me {Immanuel}], even unto Ithiel [God is with me {Immanuel}] and Ucal [and you shall eat {this feast of charity, milk and honey [[sweetness in the mouth, words heard as the strength of lions, with reference to Samson]] by which men learn to choose good and refuse evil}], 2 Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man. 3 I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the holy. 4 Who has ascended up into heaven [into full understanding], or descended [bringing it as light upon the earth]? who has gathered the wind [the spirit in man] in his fists? who has bound the waters in a [this word of God as a covering] garment? who has established all the ends [ending the old and beginning the new] of the earth? what is his name, and what is his son’s name, if you can tell? 5 Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him. 6 Add you not unto his words, lest he reprove you, and you be found a liar. 7 Two things have I required of you; deny me them not before I die: 8 Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me: 9 Lest I be full, and deny you, and say, Who is the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain. 10 Accuse not a servant unto his master, lest he curse you, and you be found guilty. 11 There is a generation that curses [the wisdom and knowledge] their father, and does not bless their mother [for her teaching, this nourishment, milk as the necessary foundation]. 12 There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness [[[tsow’ah]] what they know is corrupt, and they choose to remain ignorant, and ignorant of it]. 13 There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up. 14 There is a generation, whose teeth [words] are as swords, and their jaw teeth [words] as knives, [who use their positions of power] to devour the poor [those without power] from off the earth, and the needy [needing understanding] from among men. 15 The horse-leach [that attaches to the mouths of those who drink from their waters, draining life from them] has two daughters, crying, Give, give [calling themselves teachers, evangelists, and experts, and always asking for money, taking pledges from those they give their evil advice]. There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things say not, It is enough [are never satisfied – ever learning and never able to reach understanding the truth]: 16 The grave [sheol – hell]; and the barren womb [those in hell who never obey and never bring any to life]; the earth that is not filled with water [this word of God, which the dead who call themselves His people refuse to give as He commands]; and the fire that says not [even while they are being consumed by it], It is enough [they are never satisfied, ever learning, in the experience, but never able to come to the understating of this truth]. 17 The eye that mocks at his father, and despises to obey [yiqqahah] his mother, the ravens of the valley [those covered in darkness, the shadows of the mountains {those in high places misleading them} of the earth] shall pick it out [their eyes, blinding them, removing their sight by learned ignorance], and the young eagles [the fourth face of the unfolding presence of God] shall eat it [‘akal – as they fly in heaven, with the LORD and His full understanding, consuming the darkness with the fire from their mouths].
Before looking at Isaiah 4, we need to understand chapter 3, which says the LORD has taken away the good bread and clothing, along with taking away good leadership, for which the people are looking.
Isaiah 3 1 For, behold, the LORD, the LORD of hosts, does take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water. 2 The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient, 3 The captain of fifty, and the honorable man, and the counselor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator. 4 And I will give [those whose minds are quickly shaken – na’ar] children to be their princes, and babes [ta’aluwl – only used here and in Isaiah 66:4, where it is the “delusions” the LORD choose and sends upon the desolate, whose worship is defiled: filthy by the abominations {shiqquwt – meaning “disgusting, i.e. filthy; especially idolatrous or (concretely) an idol”} men created and put in the LORD’s place] shall [as Babylon: confusion that does now] rule over them. 5 And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbor: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient [things, of days], and the base against the honorable. 6 When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father, saying, You have clothing, be you our ruler, and let this ruin be under your hand: 7 In that day shall he swear, saying, I [their chosen leaders] will not be a healer; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing [this is why, in Isaiah 4:1, the church has their own, because the men they chose don’t have any understanding, and are without protection from the corrupt elements, rudiments, of the world, and therefore can’t give either]: make me not a ruler [none following their chosen leaders] of the people. 8 For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of his glory. 9 The show of their countenance does witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves. 10 Say you to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings. 11 Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him. 12 As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead you cause you to err, and destroy the way of your paths. 13 The LORD stands up to plead, and stands to judge the people. 14 The LORD will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof: for you have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses. 15 What mean you that you beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? says the LORD God of hosts. 16 Moreover the LORD says, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty [arrogant – thinking God owes them something], and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes [their conversation and vision are with covetousness], walking and mincing [taphaph – tripping] as they go, and making a tinkling [‘akac – as fetters] with their feet [both these words only appear here – speaking of covetousness, not content with what He has given, never saying it is enough, as the fetters that trip them up in the walk in the wrong “way of your paths”]: 17 Therefore the LORD will smite with a scab [caphach – will gather together] the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their secret parts [reveal these ancient things, uncovering their ignorance are errors]. 18 In that day the LORD will take away the bravery of [tiph’arah – the glorying in] their tinkling ornaments [‘ekec – the same as ‘akac, only appearing here and Proverbs 7:22 “as a fool to the correction of the stocks”] about their feet, [the following describes the coverings in which God’s people glory, which is their vain bravery and arrogance against Him] and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon, 19 The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers, 20 The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings, 21 The rings, and nose jewels, 22 The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples, and the crisping pins, 23 The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails. 24 And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty. 25 Your men shall fall by the sword [this word they refuse], and your mighty in the war [here and now]. 26 And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground.
Isaiah 4 1 And in that day seven women [the church] shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel [their own words and ways, who should see these things haven’t given them any strength or protection, but don’t]: only let us [remain with our abominations] be called by your name, to take away our reproach [this rebuke of the LORD]. 2 In that day shall the branch [from whom life, understanding, flows] of the LORD be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped [the old words and ways of the world now on fire] of Israel [who receive this promise, with the LORD]. 3 And it shall come to pass, that he that is left [sha’ar] in Zion, and he that remains [yathar] in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem: [Isaiah 24:5 The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant. 6 Therefore has the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left {sha’ar}]. 4 When the LORD shall have washed away the filth [tsow’ah] of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood [what has drained the life] of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning. 5 And the LORD will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke [from the fire from His mouth] by day [giving understanding], and the shining of a flaming fire by night [from His mouth against ignorance]: for upon all the glory shall be a defense. 6 And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the day time from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain.
Philippians 3 1 Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the LORD. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe. 2 Beware of dogs [those ignorantly and endlessly barking in the darkness], beware of evil workers, beware of the concision [those who claim they are the true believers]. 3 For we are the circumcision [are the true believers], which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus [the realization of Jehovah’s Salvation with us, in us], and have no confidence in the [works of the] flesh [men who refuse {deny} Him, His word, and His work].
John 14 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 dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. 18 I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you. 19 Yet a little while, and the world sees me no more; but [by the work of the Comforter, the Paraclete, My presence unknown, with you veiled in flesh] 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.
1 Peter 1 2 Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied. 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our LORD Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy has begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fades not away, reserved [tereo] in heaven for you, 5 Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time [the ‘achariyth – these last days of darkness, this after {life} come].
2 Peter 2 1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily [introduced surreptitiously, by devils crept in unaware] shall bring in damnable [apoleia – that cause them and those who follow their ways to perish] heresies, even denying [as they now do] the LORD that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction [apoleia – perdition]. 2 And many shall follow their pernicious [aploeia – the ways that lead to their own destruction] ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of [as it is this day]. 3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned [fraudulent] words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingers not, and their damnation [apoleia – perishing, perdition] slumbers not [because they are awakened “to shame and everlasting contempt”]. 4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved [tereo] unto judgment [krisis – this decision point, when they by their own evil conversation choose to remain in darkness]; 5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly; 6 And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an example unto those that after should live ungodly; 7 And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation [aselgeia] of the wicked: 8 (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;) 9 The LORD knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations [the doubts sown by corrupt trees, their filthy conversation that leads men to deny the LORD is present], and to reserve [tereo] the unjust unto the day of judgment [krisis] to be punished [kolazo]: 10 But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise [the LORD’s] government. Presumptuous are they, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil [blasphemeo] of dignities [doxa – the LORD’s manifested glory].
Not everyone that says unto me, LORD, LORD, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that does the will of my Father which is in heaven.
This warning is to the unrepentant, to whom He says, “Many will say to me in that day, LORD, LORD, have we not prophesied in your name? and in your name have cast out devils? and in your name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, you that work iniquity.”
He has fulfilled His word here and now! Amen.
These men are the false prophets and misleaders who aren’t doing the will of Father, but instead their own works, which they think earned them entry into His kingdom.
1 John 4 1 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. 2 Hereby know you the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: 3 And every spirit that confesses not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof you have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world. 4 You are of God, little children, and have overcome them [the many antichrists resisting the word and work of God in our flesh]: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world. 5 They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world hears them. 6 We are of God: he that knows God hears us; he that is not of God hears not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error. 7 Beloved, let us love [agapao] one another: for love [agape] is of God; and every one that loves [agapao] is born of God, and knows God. 8 He that loves [agapao] not knows not God; for God is love [agape]. 9 In this [giving this word as received, the LORD’s charity] was manifested the love [agape] of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might [by this word from His mouth] live through him.
Friends, these men, the incorrigibles, are manifested by not hearing and doing the will of God, which is to “love” as He loves. As we understand, His “love” is charity, freely giving His word, which is the light and life of the world.
The fact that they do not hear this word as the word of God, which it is, or hearing it, refuse to do His will on earth as it is in heaven, proves they are not His children. Hebrews 12:8 says these men are “bastards” and not sons, because, without faith (not believing His testimony), the correction of God does not affect them, and they remain strangers in corruption and death.
Hebrews 12 1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses [Hebrews 11:39 And these all, having obtained a good report {the Father testifying of them in His testimony, the shmuw’ah, that they believed Him, and did His will on earth} through faith, received not the promise: 40 God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.], let us lay aside every weight [the burdens of men’s words], and the sin [missing the mark {of righteousness through faith}] which does so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, 2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy [the crowning that comes when God is seen in him] that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. 3 For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest you be wearied and faint in your minds. 4 You have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin. 5 And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks unto you as unto children, My son, despise not you the chastening of the LORD, nor faint when you are rebuked of him: 6 For whom the LORD loves [agapao – shows charity] he chastens [corrects through the testimony He gives, through those He first gave His treasures], and scourges every son whom he receives. 7 If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chastens not? 8 But if you be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are you bastards, and not sons.
The word rendered “bastards” is the once used word “nothos” meaning “of uncertain affinity; a spurious or illegitimate son:–bastard.”
Above, we’re told of the scourge that comes upon all, and those who reject correction (chastising) will not enter the kingdom, of which the chapter later speaks. The writer (the LORD) likens this refusal to Esau (a symbol of enemies mixed among us, as illegitimate brothers), selling his birthright; the cause is also spoken of as not seeking peace with all men, without which no man will see God (enter His kingdom).
Hebrews 12 20 (For they could not endure that which was commanded [to do God’s will, seek peace with all men], And if so much as a beast touch the mountain [those without His correction, who attempt to come into His presence], it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart: 21 And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:) 22 But you are come unto mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, 23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, 24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaks better things than that of Abel. 25 See that you refuse not him that speaks. For if they escaped not who refused him that spoke on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaks from heaven [the kingdom of God, full understanding in His presence]: 26 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he has promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. [Job 38:12 Have you commanded the morning since your days; and caused the dayspring to know his place; 13 That it might take hold of the ends of the earth {ending the old and beginning the new}, that the wicked might be shaken out of it {making it new again}?] 27 And this word, Yet once more, signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made [the leaven, which by the unfaithful has been fully worked into the lump, corrupting it all], that these things which cannot be shaken may remain. 28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: 29 For our God is a consuming fire.
When the above speaks of things made, removed by the LORD’s voice shaking them, it is speaking of what is written in Isaiah 28:8, saying, “For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness [tsow’ah], so that there is no place clean.” These are the tables (shulchan) in the temple, upon which was the showbread (which, here in this verse, is made with the leaven of the unfaithful, whose words are as vomit and excrement, incontinently coming from them).
Psalms 69 21 They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink. 22 Let their table [shulchan] become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap. 23 Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake. 24 Pour out your indignation upon them, and let your wrathful anger take hold of them. 25 Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents. 26 For they persecute him whom you have smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom you have wounded. 27 Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into your righteousness. 28 Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.
Isaiah 28 1 Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat [shemem – which is the LORD’s anointing when they are brought down] valleys of them that are overcome with wine [and are thereby unaware of its coming]! 2 Behold, the LORD has a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing [see verse 21 below], shall cast down to the earth with the hand. 3 The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet: 4 And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat [shemem – when their mocking proclaims the King, when they are brought down by their own ignorance] valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer; which when he that looks upon it sees, while it is yet in his hand he eats it up. 5 In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem [tsphiyrah – a crown, as the morning of a new day] of beauty, unto the residue of his people, 6 And for a spirit of judgment to him that sits in judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate [driving out the enemies that were mixed among us]. 7 But they [the enemies mixed among us] also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment. 8 For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness [tsow’ah – spewed from their mouths], so that there is no place clean. 9 Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine [shmuw’ah – the report, teaching, the rumor of Ezekiel 7:26 below, the LORD’s voice heard as the morning]? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts [attiyq – who now draw from the Ancient of days]. 10 For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little: 11 For with stammering lips and another tongue [this word of God His people no longer understand, truth which is to them a foreign language] will he speak to this people. 12 To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith you may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear [because it contradicts the lie their false teachers and false preachers have fed them]. 13 But the [true] word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken. 14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, you scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem. 15 Because you have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge [this word all have refused] shall pass through [correcting all and bringing those who receive it from death into life], it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves: 16 Therefore thus says the LORD GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believes shall not make haste. 17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place. 18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then you shall be trodden down by it. 19 From the time that it goes forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report [shmuw’ah – the sound doctrine, teaching, the rumor of Ezekiel 7:26 below]. 20 For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it. 21 For the LORD shall rise up as in mount Perazim [2 Samuel 5:20 – as water from His throne, breaking forth upon His enemies], he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon [Joshua 10:10 & 11 – His word reserved {frozen} in heaven, sent as great hailstones upon the wicked: false teachers and false preachers], that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act [of which they have no knowledge]. 22 Now therefore be you not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the LORD GOD of hosts a consumption [kalah – a full end, as in Daniel 9:27], even determined upon the whole earth. 23 Give you ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech.
Ezekiel 7 1 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 2 Also, you son of man, thus says the LORD GOD unto the land of Israel [‘adamah – this generation that becomes the first of His new creation]; An end [qets – of the old], the end [qets] is come upon the four corners of the land [‘erets – the earth]. 3 Now is the end [qets] come upon you, and I will send my anger upon you, and will judge you according to your ways, and will recompense upon you all your abominations [men’s creations put in the place of the holy]. 4 And my eye [seeing all this evil] shall not spare you, neither will I have pity: but I will recompense your ways upon you, and your abominations [men’s creations] shall be in the midst of you: and you shall know that I am the LORD. 5 Thus says the LORD GOD; An evil, an only evil, behold, is come. 6 An end [qets] is come, the end [qets] is come: it watches [quwts – awakens] for you; behold, it is come. 7 The morning [tsphiyrah – the crown, the crowning of the LORD’s chosen, the man of God, as was David] is come unto you, O you that dwells in the land: the time is come, the day of trouble is near, and not the sounding again of the mountains. 8 Now will I shortly [in this word] pour out my fury upon you, and accomplish my anger upon you: and I will judge you according to your ways, and will recompense you for all your abominations. 9 And my eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will recompense you according to your ways and your abominations that are in the midst of you; and you shall know that I am the LORD that smites. 10 Behold the day, behold, it is come: the morning [tsphiyrah – the crowning] is gone forth; the rod has blossomed, pride has budded. 11 Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness: none of them shall remain, nor of their multitude, nor of any of theirs: neither shall there be wailing for them. 12 The time is come, the day draws [naga’ – when the LORD joins with His people, in ONE BODY] near: let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn: for wrath is upon all the multitude thereof. 13 For the seller shall not return to that which is sold, although they were yet alive: for the vision is touching the whole multitude thereof, which shall not return [to the old and corrupt churches that led them here, not to the same old preaching and teaching of men’s creation]; neither shall any strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life. 14 They have blown the trumpet [now calling all to gather to their dead churches], even to make all ready; but none goes to the battle [to which the LORD is calling us]: for my wrath is upon all the multitude thereof. 15 The sword is without [this word they reject, outside the dead churches], and the pestilence and the famine within [the dis-ease in these churches, that results without this word of God]: he that is in the field shall die with the sword; and he that is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him.
25 Destruction [qphadah – only used here, meaning the “shrinking,” from many into ONE, by cutting off the many evil opinions] comes; and they shall seek peace [in their same old corrupt words and ways], and there shall be none. 26 Mischief [hovah – only used three times, as in Jehovah, it speaks of His {Yahh – to whom it appertains} bringing these men’s words upon them, judging them by them] shall come upon mischief [hovah], and rumor [shmuw’ah – teaching sound doctrine, and reporting truth] shall be upon rumor [shmuw’ah – teaching and reporting that isn’t believed, and the man of God reporting it is still unknown – because of the lies and misleading of those who’ve blinded the world by drunkenness]; then shall they seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the ancients. [Isaiah 47:11 Therefore shall evil come upon you; you shall not know from whence it rises: and mischief {hovah} shall fall upon you; you shall not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon you suddenly {pith’own}, which you shall not know.] 27 The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled: I will do unto them after their way, and according to their deserts will I judge them; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
The word used four times in Hebrews 12, telling of the Father’s chastising, is the six times used Greek word paideia, meaning “to train up a child, i.e. educate, or (by implication), discipline (by punishment):–chasten(-ise), instruct, learn, teach.”
It is the word used in 2 Timothy 3:16 to tell us it is “instruction” in righteousness that comes through scripture. It says it (this instruction) is what makes the man of God perfect and furnished unto every good work. This perfection is that spoken of in Hebrews 11:39 & 40, that comes to all God’s people, when the promise is received, and we enter the kingdom of heaven in God’s presence.
2 Timothy 3 12 Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. [1 Timothy 3:16 And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh [{a man}, justified in the Spirit {while speaking unknown, roaring as a lion}, seen of angels {those who receive Him and become His messengers delivering His message as received}, preached unto the Gentiles {as an ox working in the earth, tilling the ground, carrying this word to all who haven’t know the LORD}, believed on in the world, received up into glory {rising as an eagle into heaven, His place of full understanding}.] 13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived. 14 But continue you in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing of whom you have learned them; 15 And that from a child you have known the holy scriptures, which are able to make you wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. 16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God [with us, in us], and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction [paideia] in righteousness: 17 That the man of God may be perfect [completed], thoroughly furnished [girded, prepared] unto all good works.
The name Jasher, from yashar, meaning “entire (literally, figuratively or morally),” most often appearing as some form of the word “right,” is only elsewhere once so rendered. In 2 Samuel 1:18, it is while David speaks of teaching, from the book of Jasher, “the use of the bow.” The word qesheth, rendered “bow,” meaning “of bending: a bow, for shooting (hence, figuratively, strength) or the iris,” is the same word first used in Genesis 9:13, 14, & 16, speaking of the “bow” in the cloud. The bow in the rightly divided (chetsiy) word of God, the light divided into the many colors of the rainbow, in the cloud, from where the former and latter rain come.
2 Samuel 1 18 (Also he bade them teach the children of Judah the use of the bow: behold, it is written in the book of Jasher.) 19 The beauty of Israel is slain upon your high places: how are the mighty fallen!
The bow spoken of above is Jonathan’s (meaning Jehovah given), David’s best friend, an expert bowman, who was slain by an Amalekite, the enemies who’ve warred against God and His people throughout history.
Genesis 9 12 And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual [‘owlam – into eternity] generations: 13 I do set my bow [qesheth] in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth. 14 And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth [when understanding is removed from the earth], that the bow [qesheth] shall be seen in the cloud: 15 And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters [the words of men mixed with and corrupting God’s truth] shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. 16 And the bow [qesheth] shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth. 17 And God said unto Noah, This [rightly divided word of God] is the token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.
Joel 3 11 Assemble yourselves, and come, all you heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause your mighty ones to come down [from the mountains into the valley], O LORD. 12 Let the heathen [those who haven’t known Me] be wakened, and come up [from their graves where they sleep in death] to the valley of Jehoshaphat [this judgment of Jehovah present]: for there will I sit to judge [shaphat] all the heathen [who haven’t known My presence] round about. 13 Put you in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe [in the New Testament we’re told the Mount of Olives is in Bethphage, meaning the house of unripe figs, it is also the place the LORD resides at night {waiting for the fruit to ripen}, after light left, light which was when He was in the temple]: come, get you down [from the mountain]; for the press is full, the fats [this oil] overflow; for their wickedness is great. 14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision [charuwts]: for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision [charuwts]. 15 The sun [church government] and the moon [civil governments] shall be darkened [ignorant without this light], and the stars [God’s people, the multitude in the valley] shall withdraw their shining [also not having or not giving this understanding as received]. 16 The LORD also shall roar [as a lion, the second face of His unfolding presence manifested] out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem [this place from where His teaching flows the highway to sustainable peace and security]; and the [totally corrupt] heavens and the earth shall shake [ra’ash – to shake the wicked from them]: but the LORD will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel [who receive this expected end]. 17 So shall you know that I am the LORD your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more. 18 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with [these living] waters, and a fountain shall come forth out of the house of the LORD, and shall water the valley of Shittim [where all are scourged by the thorns – corrected away from those misleading them]. 19 Egypt [those oppressing the world] shall be a desolation, and Edom [the enemies mixed among us at war with us while they call it peace] shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah [My elect remnant, the new crop of leaders I Am raising from the dead], because they [the enemies among us] have shed innocent blood in their land. 20 But Judah [the elect remnant] shall dwell forever, and Jerusalem [My people at large] from [the old and corrupt] generation to [become the new] generation [in this new creation]. 21 For I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed: for the LORD dwells in Zion.
Proverbs 12 22 Lying lips are abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly are his delight. 23 A prudent man conceals knowledge: but the heart of fools proclaims foolishness. 24 The hand of the diligent [charuwts] shall bear rule: but the slothful [rmiyah – deceitful, sluggard] shall be under tribute. 25 Heaviness [d’agah – from the same as dag {da’g} the fish that swallowed Jonah, the underlying cause of the agitation of humanity] in the heart [mind] of man makes it stoop [makes it bow to the wicked]: but a good word makes it glad. 26 The righteous is more excellent than his neighbor: but the way of the wicked seduces them. 27 The slothful [rmiyah – sluggard, deceitful] man roasts not that which he took in hunting: but the substance of a diligent [charuwts] man is precious. 28 In the way of righteousness is life: and in the pathway thereof there is no death.
2 Samuel 22 21 The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness: according to the cleanness of my hands has he recompensed me. 22 For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God. 23 For all his judgments were before me: and as for his statutes, I did not depart from them. 24 I was also upright [tamiym] before him, and have kept myself from my iniquity. 25 Therefore the LORD has recompensed me according to my righteousness; according to my cleanness in his eye sight. 26 With the merciful you will show yourself merciful, and with the upright [tamiym] man you will show yourself upright [tamam]. 27 With the pure you will show yourself pure [barar]; and with the froward [those twisting and perverting truth] you will show yourself unsavory. 28 And the afflicted people you will save: but your eyes are upon the haughty, that you may bring them down. 29 For you are my lamp [showing me the way in the darkness], O LORD: and the LORD will lighten [give understanding to] my darkness [things of which I am ignorant]. 30 For by you I have run through a troop: by my God have I leaped over a wall [of lies upon lies]. 31 As for God, his way is perfect [tamiym]; the word of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler to [magen – the shield covering] all them that trust in him. 32 For who is God, save the LORD? and who is a rock, save our God? 33 God is my strength and power [chayil]: and he makes my way perfect [tamiym].
2 Samuel 23 1 Now these be the last words of David. David the son of Jesse said, and the man who was raised up on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel, said, 2 The Spirit of the LORD spoke by me, and his word was in my tongue. 3 The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spoke to me, He that rules over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God. 4 And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun rises, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after [the latter] rain. 5 Although my house be not so with God; yet he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for this is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he make it not to grow. 6 But the sons of Belial shall be all of them as thorns thrust away, because they cannot be taken with hands: 7 But the man that shall touch them must be fenced with iron and the staff of a spear; and they shall be utterly burned with fire in the same place.
Psalms 45 1 My heart is inditing [overflowing with] a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer. 2 You are fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into your lips: therefore God has blessed you forever. 3 Gird your sword upon your thigh, O most mighty, with your glory and your majesty. 4 And in your majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness and righteousness; and your right hand shall teach you terrible things. 5 Your arrows are sharp in the heart of the king’s enemies; whereby the people fall under you. 6 Your throne, O God, is forever and ever: the scepter of your kingdom is a right scepter. 7 You love righteousness, and hate wickedness: therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows. 8 All your garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made you glad. 9 Kings’ daughters were among your honorable women: upon your right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir. 10 Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline your ear; forget also your own people, and your father’s house; 11 So shall the king greatly desire your beauty: for he is your LORD; and worship you him. 12 And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift; even the rich among the people shall intreat your favor. 13 The king’s daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of wrought gold. 14 She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework: the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto you. 15 With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought: they shall enter into the king’s palace. 16 Instead of your fathers shall be your children, whom you may make princes in all the earth. 17 I will make your name to be remembered in all generations: therefore shall the people praise you forever and ever.
