8 – 20 February 2026
Hearken unto me, you that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear you not the reproach of men, neither be you afraid of their revilings.
Friends, all who know the present LORD, today He calls us to take up arms. This is the commandment from the LORD, the Commander of the Army of heaven, who has armed us with His word, sending us into battle in His name (as His identity manifested), against the corrupt world, to recreate it as His new (uncorrupted) Heaven and earth.
The command is for us (the readied) to find a preacher, in any of the now (all) corrupted denomination, and with Godliness and patience, pose to them this question: “Why don’t they (representing their corrupt institution) know and preach the revelation of the mysteries we have seen revealed by the LORD with us, in us asking?”
1 Peter 3
8 Finally [teleos – let us complete this mission], be you all of one mind [of Christ now in your hearts: in your minds alive], having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:
9 Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing [with this understanding the LORD has given us to be given]; knowing that you are thereunto called, that you should inherit a blessing.
10 For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile [none of the misleading words that pervade, as leaven, the whole, now dead, body of Christ]:
11 Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it.
12 For the eyes of the LORD are over the righteous [doing His good work, as sent], and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face [presence] of the LORD [with us, in us] is against them that do evil.
13 And who is he that will harm you, if you be followers of that which is good?
14 But and if you suffer for [the LORD’s] righteousness’ sake, happy are you: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled [the tribulations produced by their darkness: spewing ignorance, doing evil willingly, even if unknowingly, standing in pride, defending their false doctrines: spuriously masked in the ashes of false love, teaching and preaching the creations of their degenerate institutions now in ruin];
15 But sanctify [hagiazo – Hallow, declare Him alone as pure and Holy] the LORD God in your hearts [who is the purity and holiness now in our minds conformed to His]: and be ready always [as you are now readied] to give an answer to every man that asks you a reason of the hope that is [the LORD: Christ] in you with meekness and fear [not destroying; while always remembering the LORD with us is a revenger of the righteous]:
16 Having a good conscience [suneidesis – co-perspective, seeing all things as the LORD sees them]; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation [this word where] in Christ [the LORD God Almighty is manifested, revealing and declaring Himself alive in our flesh].
17 For it is better, if the will of God be so, that you suffer for well doing [declaring Him present with us, in us, in this revelation, the apocalypse, His uncovering Himself], than for evil doing [as antichrists denying He is present in our flesh].
18 For Christ also has once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
19 By which also he went and preached [here and now among the dead here in hell] unto the spirits in prison [wherein men are held in the darkness caused by the open mouths of evil men in power, the spiritually wicked in high place, whose words are the gates of hell];
20 Which [those imprisoned in denial and death, as a pattern given to give understand the all the dead here and now] sometime were disobedient [refusing to obey the commandment that could have saved them from the flood], when once [as now] the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water [the word sent from heaven, in which all others, when taken below the surface, into the deep meaning there held, drowned].
21 The like figure [they are now, here in death and hell, given this second chance] whereunto even baptism [“immersion, submersion”] does also now save us (not the putting away of the filth [rhupos – only used here, meaning, “dirt, i.e. (morally) depravity”] of the flesh, but the [by removing the mire {mar} from the iron {barzel}] answer [eperotema – meaning “an inquiry,” as in the word sha’al, seen in the previous post, speaking the understanding that is only received {“borrowed”} from the LORD] of a good conscience [suneidesis – co-perspective, a like mind] toward God [showing He is present with us, in us alive],) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:
22 Who is gone into heaven [entered the presence of the Father, with Whom only is this understanding, which He lends, as His talent, to whom ever He wills], and is on the right hand [doing this work] of God; angels [all the messenger sent in His name] and authorities and powers being made subject [hupotasso – brought into subordination] unto him.
The reason these mysteries aren’t known isn’t that they aren’t knowable; instead, the cause lies in men’s abominations, created to replace them, which they call by the LORD’s name, saying of them, “The LORD says,” when He hasn’t said anything to these corrupters. The same men are the blind leading all into blindness, the deaf who are (all in common) unable to hear Him because all they listen for are the echoes of like-minded ignorance. Thereby, they have become the many antichrists (possessed by the spirit of Satan) opposing and resisting His presence manifested (by His Holy Spirit, who is the LORD Himself moving unknown, in His word’s effect) in those who do now know Him, who have seen Him after hearing His voice clearly, who declare Him in His revealed mysteries, present with us, who has quickened to life our (before His moving) dead flesh.
As we have seen (by the LORD’s Spirit revealing what was before a mystery), the words agape and agapao, have the hidden meaning in the words Greek ago and apo, literally together meaning to lead away, or to lead out of (darkness into the light, away from ignorance into understanding).
These words (agape and agapao) are most often rendered as some form of “love” and as Christian “charity” (in which Christ lives and is thereby revealed). These words always speak of freely giving the things (pertaining to life) the LORD has given us, in the pure form (without self-centered, evil-agenda-driven, corruption) in which He has given it.
The deeper, yet unspoken, meaning (in this mystery) is today realized in the word apago, which reverses the words used in agape, and most often suggests its opposite. Using Matthew as an example, the word (apago) appears five times therein.
The first two, rendered “leads,” in Matthew 7:13 & 14, where the LORD first speaks of the broad way, outside His kingdom, which “leads” many to destruction, and then of the strait and narrow way that “leads” into life, which the few find.
As we have seen (revealed), the word rendered “narrow” is thlibo, meaning “to crowd (literally or figuratively):–afflict, narrow, throng, suffer tribulation, trouble.” It is from the word tribos, speaking of the way worn over time, which many follow and are unable to get out of (even if it doesn’t lead to the desired destination), but those who are led out (apago) of it, find life. The Strong’s Greek Dictionary definition of tribos, is “a rut or worn track:–path.”
The word “strait” is stenos, used three times, all in giving the same warning, meaning “narrow (from obstacles standing close about):–strait.” It speaks of the men’s words (steno – alluding to its modern meaning, as written in shorthand needing learned translation to be understood) as obstacles that must be carefully navigated, to keep the ship (the church as an institution carrying men to a destination upon the waters, even to the new world) from crashing upon them.
In the verses following the above-mentioned passage, the LORD tells us what these obstacles are, upon which the church, not avoiding them and their twisted and false interpretation, has crashed.
Matthew 7
1 Judge not [if your judgment is corrupted], that you be not judged [with the same corrupted judgment].
2 For with what judgment you judge, you shall be judged: and with what measure you mete [give your judgment], it shall be measured [back] to you again.
3 And why behold [see] you the mote [an error] that is in your brother’s eye, but consider not the beam [the greater error] that is in your own eye [corrupting your judgment and blinding you]?
4 Or how will you say to your brother, Let me pull out [ekballo] the mote [the more minor error] out of your eye [so you see]; and, behold [and you see not], a beam [the greater error] is in your own eye [corrupting and blinding you]?
5 You hypocrite, first cast out [ekballo] the beam [the greater error of corruption] out of your own eye [that you are able thereby to rightly judge]; and then shall you see clearly [be able to judge] to cast out [ekballo] the mote out of your brother’s eye.
6 Give not that which is holy unto the dogs [those forever meaninglessly baring in the darkness], neither cast [ballo] you your pearls [these treasures by which we enter the LORD’s kingdom: His presence] before swine [unclean beasts, whose words shouldn’t be consumed], lest they trample them under their feet and turn again and rend you.
7 Ask [enquire, ask the Father for understanding only He possesses], and it shall be given you; [diligently] seek, and you shall find; knock, and it [the deep {life – fish} understanding below the surface of these waters] shall be opened unto you:
8 For every one that [in faith believing the LORD is always with us, in us] asks receives; and he that seeks finds; and to him that knocks it shall be opened [their mind to receive Him].
9 Or what man is there of you, whom if his son asks bread [words from the LORD’s mouth], will he give him a stone [logically, from where words cannot flow, unless that Rock is Christ]?
10 Or if he asks a fish [for the deeper understanding {life} held below the surface of the LORD’s words], will he give him a serpent [a misleader]?
11 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven [this place of full understanding] give good things [this understanding of the bread and the fish rightly divided] to them that ask him?
12 Therefore all things whatsoever you would that men should do to you [asking those who have this understanding to give it to you], do you even so to them [giving it to them once it is given to you]: for this is the law and the prophets.
13 Enter you in at the strait [stenos – only used three times, meaning “narrow (from obstacles standing close about)” that must be avoided, speaking of the false prophets and false teachers blocking the] gate: for wide [platus – only used here, from the plasso, meaning “to mold, i.e. to shape or fabricate” speaking of the work of the same false prophets and false teachers, fabrications with which they replaced truth] is the gate, and broad is the way, that leads [apago] to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
14 Because strait [stenos – hidden by misinterpretation] is the gate [out of death and hell], and narrow [thlibo – meaning “to crowd,” speaking of the tribulation, the affliction of the crowd, the endless ignorant voices forcing their opinions as truth and increasing the confusion into now total delusion] is the way, which leads [apago] unto life [I Am the way the Father sent], and few there be that find it.
15 Beware of [the obstacles that are the] false prophets [that must be navigated and avoided], which come to you in sheep’s clothing [disguising themselves as part of the LORD’s flock], but inwardly they are ravening [with their opinions, presumptuously falsely so-called truth, scattering into pieces] wolves.
16 You shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns [the fruit of misleaders], or figs of thistles [the fruit of deceivers]?
17 Even so, every good tree brings forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit [the misled].
18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
19 Every tree that brings not forth good fruit is hewn down [by the LORD who is the hewer], and cast [ballo] into the fire.
20 Wherefore by their fruits you shall know them. [“If they speak not according to this word it is because there is no light in them.” From Isaiah 8:20]
21 Not every one [not the false prophets and false teachers] that says unto me, LORD, LORD, shall enter [the gate they are blocking] into the kingdom of heaven; but he that does the will of my Father which is in heaven [from where He sends this understanding the builders refuse – Psalms 127:1 Except the LORD build the house, they labor in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman wakes but in vain.].
22 Many will say to me in that [this] day, LORD, LORD, have we not prophesied in your name? and in your name have cast out [ekballo] devils? and in your name done many wonderful works?
23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, you that work iniquity [speaking and preaching your own opinions rather than My truth].
24 Therefore whosoever hears these sayings of mine, and [obeying] does them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock [from where this word of God does flow]:
25 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew [pneo – the spirits moved unknown], and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock [petra – Christ, the LORD’s Spirit in the flesh from where His word flows].
26 And every one that hears THESE sayings of mine [here heard as My voice, which it is], and does them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house [the now totally corrupt institutions of church and state] upon the sand:
27 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew [pneo], and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it [only the forepart, the original intended purpose, of the ship will remain intact]. [Acts 27:41 And falling into a place where two seas met {the old and new generations}, they ran the ship aground; and the forepart stuck fast, and remained unmovable, but the hinder part was broken with the violence of the waves {the pride of unreasonable men}.]
28 And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended [sunteleo – brought all these elements of understanding together in the completion of God’s plan] these sayings [His voice here heard], the people were astonished at his doctrine:
29 For he taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes [who, without authorization, say they have understanding, while merely presuming their opinions are wisdom].
1 Corinthians 9
24 Know you not that they which run in a race run all, but one receives the prize [Do the false prophets and false teachers understand this warning?]? So run, that you may obtain.
25 And every man that strives for the mastery [agonizomai – leads in this good fight of faith] is temperate [egkrateuomai – exercises self-restraint] in all things. Now they [the losers and winners] do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.
26 I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beats the air [aer – one of the seven times the word appears, here speaking of not fighting against the clarity, the purity by which we see God]:
27 But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection [subordination of my will to the Father’s]: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway [adokimos – “unapproved, i.e. rejected; by implication, worthless (literally or morally):–castaway, rejected, reprobate.”].
1 John 2
14 I have written unto you, fathers [whom the LORD first awakened], because you have known him that is from the beginning [the word in us, made flesh]. I have written unto you, young men [here and now born again by receiving His mind], because you are strong [have understanding], and the word of God abides [as His life] in you, and you have overcome the wicked one [the unreasonable men who refuse to be corrected, who sit in God’s place among His people holding them in death and hell].
15 Love [agapao – give] not the [corrupt words of the] world, neither the things [of confusion – Babylon] that are in the world. If any man love [agapao – gives the corrupt words of] the world [misleading by corruption and confusion], the love [agape – leading into all Truth, by this word He has given us to give as received] of the Father is not in him.
16 For all that is in the [old] world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the [old and totally corrupt] world.
17 And the [old and corrupt] world passes away, and the lust thereof: but he that does the will of God abides [with Him, alive] forever.
18 Little children [who have received the LORD, heard His correction, and now see Him as He is], it is the last time [eschatos hora – final hour]: and as you have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists [enemies of the cross of Christ, denying the LORD presence in the flesh of His chosen children]; whereby we know that it is the last time.
19 They went out from us, but they [false apostles] were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.
20 But you have an unction [chrisma – an anointing, His mind] from the Holy One [Him working while unknown in our flesh], and you know all things [pertaining to life and good].
21 I have not written unto you because you know not the Truth, but because you know it, and that no lie is of the Truth.
22 Who is a liar but he that denies that Jesus [Jehovah’s Salvation manifested in the flesh of those He chooses] is the [ONE living BODY of] Christ? He is antichrist, that denies the Father and the Son [in whom the Father manifests His presence, and thereby declares him].
23 Whosoever denies the Son, the same has not the Father: he that acknowledges [homologeo – with the same words confesses] the Son has the Father also.
24 Let that therefore abide in you, which you have heard from the beginning [by the word made flesh]. If that which you have heard [the light: this understanding] from the beginning shall remain [meno] in you, you also shall continue [meno – remain] in the Son, and in the Father.
25 And this is the promise that he has promised us, even eternal life.
26 These things have I written [grapho – written to be sent in this wheel within a wheel] unto you concerning them that seduce you [planao – planets, false stars misleading those who follow them in the darkness].
27 But the anointing [chrisma – this gift of the Father’s mind poured into our minds] which you have received of him abides [as His life] in you, and you [who are now completed] need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teaches you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it has taught you, you shall abide [alive] in him.
28 And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear [phaneroo – becomes apparent to you], we may have confidence [parrhesia – meaning to open our mouths with “all out-spokenness, i.e. frankness, bluntness, publicity; by implication, assurance”], and not be ashamed before him [in His presence] at his coming.
29 If you know that he is righteous, you know that every one that does righteousness is born of him.
The following, ending with 1 Timothy 5, is from the post of 21 June 2022, with today’s additions in double brackets.
Friends, if you can’t believe the LORD is in me speaking and working, then you will not believe He has ever spoken through any man. If you deny He is alive in me, then He isn’t (yet) risen in you.
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 [Jehovah’s salvation is manifested] is come in the flesh [the mystery of godliness revealed] 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 [[totally corrupt]] world.
4 You are [[born again]] of God, little children [[by receiving His correction]], and have overcome them [the antichrist who deny the LORD is in us]: because greater is he that is in you, than he [the antichrists: deceivers [[possessed by the evil spirit of Satan]]] that is in the world.
5 They are of the world: therefore speak they [[the corrupt language]] of the world, and the [[totally corrupt]] world hears them.
6 We are of God: he that knows God heareth us [[speaking truth, which is His language]]; 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 one another: for love is of God; and every one that loves is born of God, and knows God. [The words here and after rendered “love” and “loves” are agape and agapao. These are compounded from the two words ago and apo, which together describe the leading of the LORD to take away our sins, the errors that separate us from Him, which is, below in verse 10, described as “propitiation,” meaning to atone for our sins: make right what is wrong by the sacrifice of himself – which is the love of God, His glory, manifested to us and then through us. If His love doesn’t come through us, giving as He gives, then He isn’t alive in us, and we are dead in our sins. So try {inquire – as in Isaiah 21:12 above [[“The watchman {shamar} said, The morning comes {this light of the new day}, and also the night {darkness in which people choose to continue}: if you will enquire {ba’ah – the way the hidden things of the enemies among us in sheep’s clothing are “sought out”}, enquire {ba’ah – ask the LORD to reveal things only He knows} you: return, come.”]] the spirits to see if they believe the LORD is alive in your flesh, speaking this word to them.]
8 He that loves not knows not God; for God is love.
9 In this was manifested [[in the flesh]] the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
12 No man has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwells [[alive]] in us, and his love is perfected [[teleioo – is completed]] in us.
13 Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit [[His presence with us unknown, giving us His word, which we received as His voice, that has effectually worked to quicken us from death into life]].
14 And we [[after receiving Him]] have seen [[Him as He is]] and do testify that the Father sent the Son [[in our flesh, His ONE living BODY]] to be the Savior of the [[new]] world [[wherein dwells His righteousness]].
John 3
14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up [[that the word of the LORD, His voice heard, is exalted above all other voices]]:
15 That whosoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
18 He that believes on him is not condemned: but he that believes not is condemned already [by this choice], because he has not believed in the name [[identity]] of the only begotten Son of God.
19 And this is the condemnation [[krisis – the decision point, the choice of whose voice is listened to]], that light [[this understanding]] is come into the world, and men loved darkness [[the ignorance spewed by evil men in power]] rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
20 For every one that does evil hates the light [this understanding], neither comes to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved [tried and proven to be of God or not].
21 But he that does truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
Coming to light is the trial of the spirits in men, which is this judgment of God. The word “reproved,” above in verse 20, is the Greek word elegcho, meaning “of uncertain affinity; to confute [prove wrong], admonish:–convict, convince, tell a fault, rebuke, reprove.”
There is (this is the) judgment, and only in coming to it, accepting the light, is the LORD’s grace and mercy found (realized).
Ephesians 5
8 For you were sometimes darkness, but now are you light in the LORD: walk as children of light:
9 (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)
10 Proving what is acceptable unto the LORD.
11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove [elegcho] them.
12 For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret [[the lies and falsehood, in covenant with death and agreement with hell, under which they think they are hidden from judgment]].
13 But all things that are reproved [elegcho] are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever does make manifest is light.
14 Wherefore he says, Awake you that sleep [[here in hell]], and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give you light [understanding [[and life]]].
15 See then that you walk circumspectly [akribos – accurately, not in error], not as fools, but as wise,
16 Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
17 Wherefore be you not unwise, but understanding what the will of the LORD is.
1 Timothy 5
20 Them that sin rebuke [elegcho] before all, that others [[choosing to remain in sin]] also may fear [[the LORD’s judgment]].
21 I charge you before God, and the LORD Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that you observe these things [[pertaining to life and good, as the LORD sees]] without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partiality.
The final three uses of the word apago, in Matthew, come in Matthew 26:57 and 27:2 & 31, rendered “led Him away,” all speaking of when the LORD was betrayed (as I have been, in His name: manifesting His identity with me, in me) and taken (led away, by misleaders’ misinterpretations) by the political and religious powers to be crucified. The word appears in the other three Gospels, all (only and identically) telling of the same treachery: when the LORD was “led away,” became unseen, and the present whereabouts of his dead body became unknown.
The above events are well known and need not be rehashed here and now; instead, let us look at a few lesser-known uses of the word (apago).
Pardon me while the LORD leads me to digress momentarily: in the context of speaking to preachers (to, through them, speak to the institutions they represent), as the LORD has commanded us all to do, as I do as an example here daily, the conversation must begin with asking why they (institutionally and individually) don’t know the mysteries here revealed daily by the LORD with us, in us speaking and working?
Aside from their initial denial (verbalized or withheld in strategic silence that dares not reveal their ignorance) of His presence, thereby disregarding the entire premise of the question, we must then ask if they are willing to long-suffer Him in us, for their good, Him not willing that any should perish (the trajectory they are on), but that all would become His children by their repentance and His correction.
They must next be asked, as a prerequisite, if they believe all scripture: the written word God Himself, is God breathed life from His mouth: which He has protected and sent forward to gives us understanding, as (described by Ezekiel) the life in the wheel with a wheel, which the Son of man first saw as such (Ezekiel meaning – who God has strengthened and first begotten).
If the answer is yes, the LORD has won the first battle by surrender. If no, we must then set ourselves for the siege, to retake the city, which is the LORD’s, which they hold captive by their denials.
These two ways (surrender or denial) are identically addressed by the LORD, His word illuminating, given freely, to effectually work in those hearing Him. It (this truth preached) is salvation to those who hear it as His voice, and to the deniers, remaining possessed by Satan, opposing and resisting Him, to whom the word remains hidden, it is a sword, until they turn to Him, and the veil is removed, revealing He is with them, in us doing His will.
Friends, if you have His mind, this understanding, and have subordinated your will to His, He will speak and work through you, by His word in your mouth, and the war, battle by battle, will be won.
The following, ending with Isaiah 54, is from the post of 7 August 2023, with today’s additions in double brackets.
Friends, God’s people are waiting (looking) for things they’ve learned from false teachers and false prophets: of boogeymen (used to frighten children) they’ve foretold, catastrophes (sudden disasters that never come) they’ve foreseen, by which they hide themselves, the real demons who are the existential threats (watchmen who see nothing). These same men sit still and silent while their fellow demoniacs infesting church and state, like locusts, mislead, devour, and destroy us, our nation, and the world itself. They are all, with one mind unified by corruption, confusion, and maniacal insanity, the wicked and unreasonable men Paul speaks of in 2 Thessalonians 3, who refuse to give this word of God free course, so it will be received as the word of God, as it is. He says we should pray that they be taken out of the way, that we may open our mouths boldly, preaching this word from the mouth of the LORD.
Isiah 54
1 Sing [open your mouths like a trumpet], O barren, you that did not bear; break forth into singing [[repeating these words, this understand, which the LORD has given us freely]], and cry aloud, you that did not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate [[institutions of church and state]] than the children of the married wife [[joined with the LORD as His ONE living BODY]], says the LORD.
7 For a small moment have I forsaken you [[from ‘azab – meaning “to loosen, i.e. relinquish, permit, etc.;” speaking of letting you go your own way, to experience where it leads, and learn from it]]; but with great mercies will I gather you [[here and now, into My ONE BODY]].
8 In a little wrath I hid my face [[paniym – My presence]] from you for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on you, says the LORD your Redeemer.
9 For this is as the waters of Noah unto me: for as I have sworn [[and given the sign in the cloud where this understanding, light, is divided in to many colors]] that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not [forever] be wroth with you, nor [always] rebuke you.
10 For the mountains [[the places that have risen and rule over the earth]] shall depart, and the hills be removed [the governments of the world shall end]; but my kindness shall not depart from you, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, says the LORD that has mercy on you.
11 O you afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay your stones [[‘eben – the Body of Christ]], with fair colors [[from where flows this light rightly divided]], and lay [[yacah – reset]] your foundations with sapphires.
12 And I will make your windows [[through which you see these good things coming]] of agates, and your gates [[out of hell into My kingdom come]] of carbuncles, and all your borders [[this end point reached]] of pleasant stones.
13 And all your children shall be taught of the LORD; and great shall be the peace of your children.
14 In righteousness shall you be established: you shall be far from oppression; for you shall not fear: and from terror; for it shall not come near you.
15 Behold, they [the wicked] shall surely gather together, but not by me: whosoever shall gather together against you shall fall for your sake.
16 Behold, I have created the smith that blows the coals in the fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy.
17 No weapon that is formed against you shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against you in judgment you shall condemn [when your mouths are opened]. This is the heritage of the servants [[doing the work]] of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, says the LORD.
The first of the four other uses, outside the Gospels, of apago comes in Acts 12:19, where Peter is the Rock (petra, the believing Body, the early Church) led away into confusion.
Acts 12
1 Now about that time Herod [with affinity to eremos and eidos, meaning when the silence {of God’s word} appeared: also a heroic son of Esau, an enemies of God’s people, among us at war with us while calling it peace {tranquility} and safety] the king stretched forth his hands to vex [kakoo – meaning “to injure; figuratively, to exasperate:” {see Acts 7:6 & 19, referring to} the same vexation foretold in Genesis 15:13 & 14, which ends {Genesis 15:22} in the blessing of all nation that come when God’s people possess the gates of these enemies] certain [men of understanding] of [apo – taken away from] the church.
2 And he killed [anaireo – take away {from ana and airo; speaking of removing into the clouds of the air; also suspending it therein, as lifted on Christ’s cross}] James [Jacob, the one whose birthright it is to supplant Esau, as ruler over God’s people: James’ death also ends the preaching of the necessity of works that come as a product of faith that it is the LORD with us, in us speaking and doing the works] the brother of John [the revelator, the dove, with whom {beneath the surface of His writing} remains the signs of the end, which is the call to all, to repentance from dead works] with the sword [with which, the words of men, they took away understanding of John’s revelation].
3 And because he saw it pleased the Jews [Judah: Judas, the corrupt leaders who sold the LORD, Jesus: Jehovah’s Salvation manifested in the flesh, into the hands of the enemies mixed among us], he proceeded further to take Peter [petra – the then living Body of Christ] also. (Then were the days of unleavened bread [when this understanding was removed and is no longer rightly divided to the LORD’s people at large when they gathered to hear Him].)
4 And when he had apprehended him [the Body of Christ], he put him in prison [held captive in the then possessed institutions of church and state], and delivered him to four [tessara – the number represent terrestrial {worldly} creation] quaternions [tetradion – written in the original text as tetradiois, with affinity to the words teras {“a prodigy or omen:– wonder;” in whom rests inherited exceptionalism} and dio {“through which thing”; speaking of consequential wondering {produced by the worldly creations}] of soldiers to keep him [in this state of wonder, now allowing the awaken from death’s sleep]; intending after Easter [pascha – Passover, after the crucifixion of the Body of Christ] to bring him forth [him as a dead body] to the people.
5 Peter [petra – as the dead body of Christ] therefore was kept [tereo – to keep eyes upon] guarded in prison: but prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for him [that life would come to the dead again].
6 And when Herod [the enemies in power] would have brought him forth [as a dead body], the same night [this time when ignorance covers all the earth] Peter was sleeping [in death] between two soldiers [stratiotes – the same soldiers who led Jesus away {apago}, who also mocked and pierced Him], bound with two chains [halusis – in their hallucinations, delusions, creations of their insane mind unable to distinguish between them and reality: from “a” and “lusis,” meaning not free, as in possessed by the thoughts of one’s mind]: and the keepers before the door [hura – the exit from hell into heaven, these men’s delusional words, which are the gate holding all in death and hell] kept [tereo – guarding that no man speak the truth and reveal the reality of the day now come] the prison [hell].
7 And, behold, the angel [the messenger, bearing His word as received, declaring His presence manifested therein] of the LORD came upon him, and a light [this understanding and life] shined in [en] the prison [oikema – only used here, meaning the “dwelling” place of the dead: hell]: and he smote Peter [petra – the dead body of Christ] on the side, and raised him up [out of death’s sleep], saying, Arise up [in this resurrection] quickly [en – here “in” hell]. And his chains [halusis – his hallucinations] fell [as a mark of Satan’s possession] off from his hands [no longer in his works, which before were dead works].
8 And the angel [the LORD’s messenger speaking His word as received] said unto him, Gird [with this preparation prepare] yourself, and bind on your sandals [be readied to walk the way the LORD has prepared before us]. And so he did. And he [the LORD’s archangel] says unto him, Cast your garment [our LORD’s righteousness] about you, and follow me [as I follow Him and He leads the way].
9 And he [the body of Christ, now risen with Him] went out [of hell], and followed him; and wist not [knew not on his own] that it was true which was done by the angel [leading us by the LORD’s with us, into heaven when He is revealed in us]; but thought he saw a vision [horama – thought what he was seeing was a spectacle, not knowing it is the LORD revealing Himself as He is, in the world as we are in the world, as natural creations housing an immortal soul and spirit].
10 When they were past the first and the second ward [realizing the effects that were holding us in death an hell], they came unto the iron [sidereos – from sizo, speaking of the “silence” in heaven, when the words of understanding aren’t heard] gate [their mouths, which when opened and speaking the LORD’s word as received] that leadeth unto the city [New Heavenly Jerusalem]; which opened to them of his own accord [automatos – automatically, when our mouths are opened]; and they went out [of hell], and passed on [from death into life] through one street [by following the LORD’s leading, which is the One and only way]; and forthwith [the LORD now alive in us, each and every one of us who’ve received Him, and hearing His voice from them] the angel departed from him. [John 3:29 He that has the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, which stands and heareth him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice: this my joy {your ealization of Christ alive in you} therefore is fulfilled. 30 He must increase, but I must decrease. 31 He that comes from above is above all: he that is of the earth is earthly, and speaks of the earth: he that comes from heaven {the place of full understanding} is above all.] [The word automatos only appears elsewhere in Mark 4:28, there revealing it as {the mystery of} the process by which new life returns to the earth. Luke 21:28 And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draws nigh. 29 And he spoke to them a parable; Behold the fig tree, and all the trees; 30 When they now shoot forth, you see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand.]
11 And when Peter was come to himself [from death into life, back into his right mind], he said, Now I know of a surety, that the LORD has sent his angel [His messenger, His I Am], and has delivered me out of the hand of Herod [the enemies among us opposing and resisting the will and plan of God for our life and our good], and from all the [false] expectation of the people of the Jews [Judah – the corrupt leaders, who have mired all truth and understanding].
12 And when he had considered the [suneido – the same] thing [together understand what they had and are experiencing], he came to the house of Mary [who rebelled against the thinking of the corrupt status quo] the mother of John [revealing the ends reaches and the revelation at hand], whose surname [epikaleomai – the calling upon us] was Mark [our defense]; where many were gathered together praying [joined together in the ONE risen BODY in this conversation with the LORD].
13 And as Peter [petra – the now risen Body of the LORD, into which all must enter, which is or defense] knocked at the door of the gate [of hell], a damsel [the still sleeping body of Christ at large] came to hearken [to hear this word from the mouth of the LORD], named Rhoda [rhode – the rose of Sharon {the body now in “plain” sight}]. [Song of Solomon 2:1 I am the rose of Sharon {seen in plain sight}, and the lily of the valleys. 2 As the lily among thorns {deceivers and misleaders}, so is my love among the daughters {God’s people at large}. 3 As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight {Him blocking the false understanding], and his fruit was sweet to my taste {as strength in our mouths}. 4 He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner {degel – His standard lifted showing us the way} over me was love {His charity in giving this feast}. Isaiah 33:9 The earth mourns and languishes: Lebanon {the places on high, where purity should be seen and isn’t} is ashamed and hewn down {by the LORD who is the hewer}: Sharon {seen in plain sight} is like a wilderness {the desolation at the hand of the deceivers and misleaders}; and {there in this wilderness} Bashan {the fruitful} and Carmel {in the land that is My garden} shake off their {old and corrupted} fruits. Isaiah 35:1 The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose. 2 It shall blossom {as a rose] abundantly, and rejoice even with joy {revealing the LORD’s presence with us, in us} and singing {repeating these same words with Him}: the glory of Lebanon {purity now again seen on high} shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel {the garden of the LORD’s planting} and Sharon {now plainly seen}, they shall see the glory of the LORD {with us, in us}, and the excellency of our God. 3 Strengthen {give this understanding as received} you the weak hands {by this good work of the LORD through us, in us}, and confirm {His purpose in strengthening} the feeble knees. 4 Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompence {upon the open mouths of the wicked in power}; he will come and save you. 5 Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. Isaiah 65: 10 And Sharon {My people at large now awakened and seen in plain sight} shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor {where they were in tribulation} a place for the herds to lie down in, for my people that have {diligently} sought {and, as promised, found} me. 11 But you are they that forsake {refuse to receive} the LORD, that forget my holy mountain {My Almighty presence and power over all powers}, that prepare a table for that troop {the army arrayed against Me and My people}, and that furnish the drink {corrupt words and ways} offering unto that number. 12 Therefore will I number you to the sword {destruction by this word you refuse}, and you shall all bow down to the slaughter: because when I called, you did not answer; when I spoke, you did not hear {it as My voice, and obey}; but did evil before my eyes, and did choose that {death and hell} wherein I delighted not.]
14 And when she [the sleeping Body at large] knew Peter’s [petra] voice [the Rock declaring the LORD’s presence, was the voice of the LORD, speaking and manifesting His presence, through them], she opened not the gate [of hell, silencing the mouth of the misleaders among them] for gladness, but ran in, and told how Peter stood before [was risen boldly against] the gate.
15 And they [the corrupt leadership, whose mouths are the gates holding all in death and hell] said unto her [the awakening], You are mad [no longer accepting falsehoods and now knowing the difference between delusions and reality]. But she constantly affirmed that it was even so [that the LORD was now awakened in them]. Then said they, It is his angel [His message in us manifesting His presence].
16 But Peter continued knocking: and when they had opened the door, and saw him, they were astonished [that he was in His right mind].
17 But he, beckoning unto them with the hand to hold their peace [to stop speaking falsehood in the LORD’s name], declared unto them how the LORD had brought him out of the prison [out of death and hell by awakening His sleeping mind]. And he said, Go show these things unto James [again Jacob; here the brother of Jesus, Jehovah’s Salvation, here raised preaching again the necessary word that comes as a product of believing the LORD is risen with us, in us speaking and doing the work] and to the brethren [awakening to the same]. And he departed [the old and corrupt places], and went into another place [New Heavenly Jerusalem].
18 Now as soon as it was day [when this understanding is seen upon all as a new day], there was no small stir among the soldiers, what was become of Peter.
19 And when Herod [the enemy in power over the corrupt institutions of church and state] had sought for him [the dead body of Christ], and found him not, he examined [anakrino – judging them, to be sure none wavered from speaking the orthodox corruption] the keepers, and commanded that they should be put to death [apago – be led away into deeper delusion]. And he went down from Judaea to Caesarea [the leaders choosing to remain in corruption, severing themselves from the living], and there abode [remained in the false doctrines of their corrupt institutions].
20 And Herod was highly displeased with them of Tyre and Sidon [the false rock and those who hunt souls as their prey – again speaking of the apostate church]: but they came with one accord [with minds in agreement with hell] to him, and, having made Blastus [things sprouting from the earth, the creations of the minds of men, meant to serve their agendas] the king’s chamberlain their friend, desired peace; because their country was nourished by [because the people in these places are now sustained by, dependent upon, the government of] the king’s country.
21 And upon a set day Herod [making himself the god over those choosing to remain in darkness and death], arrayed in royal apparel, sat upon his throne, and made an oration unto them.
22 And the people gave a shout [as if it announced the return of the LORD], saying, It is the voice of a god, and not of a man.
23 And immediately the angel of the LORD smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.
24 But the [true and authoritative] word of God grew and multiplied.
Mark 4
22 For there is nothing hid [kruptos – cryptic], which shall not be manifested [phaneroo – realized apparent as the LORD’s presence]; neither was any thing kept secret [apokruphos – nothing that shall not be illuminated from its hiding], but that it should come [erchomai] abroad [be uttered into the open].
23 If any man has ears to hear [this voice of the LORD], let him hear [and be enlightened].
24 And he said unto them, Take heed [beware] what you hear: with what measure you mete [by the thing your hear and repeat], it shall be measured to you [truth for truth and falsehood for falsehood]: and unto you that hear shall more be given [taking you into either greater light or greater darkness].
25 For he that has [this word from the LORD’s mouth], to him shall be given: and he that has not [this word of truth], from him shall be taken even that [small bits of remaining truth] which he has [shall be consumed by the greater delusions men now teach and preach].
26 And he said, So is the kingdom of God [an automatic process that begins], as if a man should cast [good] seed into the ground;
27 And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knows not how.
28 For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself [automatos]; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear.
29 But when the fruit is brought forth [repeated as received in this harvest now come], immediately he puts in the sickle, because the harvest is come.
30 And he said, Whereunto shall we liken the kingdom of God? or with what comparison shall we compare it? [It is like the mystery of how all life shoots from the earth, as a mystery revealed, producing fruit after its own kind]
31 It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds that be in the earth:
32 But when it is sown, it grows up, and becometh greater than all herbs [that spring forth as new life on this third day of the LORD’s new creation], and shoots out great branches [through whom this life flows]; so that the fowls of the air [those who are risen to fly in heaven by the LORD’s strength given in His understanding revealed] may lodge under the shadow of it [at rest and protected from the corrupt understanding of the world].
33 And with many such parables spoke he the word unto them, as they [awakened] were able to hear it.
34 But without a parable spoke he not unto them: and when they were alone, he expounded all things to his disciples [in this language, truth, they now understand].
35 And the same day [the time of this understanding that then was], when the even [the darkness that ended this understanding and sealed it in men’s ignorance] was come, he says unto them, Let us pass over [from death into life] unto the other side [of death, here in this resurrection].
36 And when they had sent away the multitude [from this teaching and preaching], they took him even as he was in the ship [the institutions that carried men and these darkened words forward]. And there were also with him other little ships.
37 And there arose a great storm of wind [the tribulation that now agitates all humanity], and the waves [of proud men who put themselves in the LORD’s place] beat into the ship, so that it was now full [totally leavened by their corruption].
38 And he was in the hinder part of the ship [in these institutions in these last days of darkness], asleep on a pillow [in those comfortably sleeping in death]: and they awake him [in themselves], and say unto him, Master, care you not that we perish?
39 And he arose [in His chosen people in these places where the dead have been housed waiting for the expected end, in this resurrection in His presence], and rebuked [Satan in] the wind [possessing men by his false teaching, which opposes and resists this plan of the LORD], and said unto the sea [all humanity at large], Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.
40 And he said unto them, Why are you so fearful? how is it that you have no faith [that I Am here present as always]?
41 And they feared exceedingly, and said one to another, What manner of man [of war] is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?
In the next (final three) uses of apago, while speaking of the misleading away from the narrow way, it appears in Acts 23:17 & 24:7, and 1 Corinthians 12:2. Whereas, Acts 12 speaks predominately to and of the awakening of (so-called) believers, these later uses speak of the same (awakening) of those described (by the self-called believers) as non-believers (gentiles: who, while, with equal zeal, religiously following their own blinding creations, don’t claim to be followers of Jesus: Jehovah’s Salvation manifested in the flesh of His perpetual living body).
Acts 23
8 For the Sadducees [from zadok {tsadowq}; meaning they’re seduced by self-righteousness, wrought without the LORD’s presence leading] say that there is no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit: but the Pharisees [perez {perets}, meaning breach, as in dividing God’s people into many sects] confess both.
9 And there arose a great cry [about the teaching that is freeing the lowly from the misleaders who led (apago) them into blindness and desolation, now under Herod’s and Rome’s rule]: and the scribes that were of the Pharisees’ part arose, and strove, saying, We find no evil in this man: but if a spirit or an angel has spoken to him, let us not fight against God.
10 And when there arose a great dissension, the chief captain, fearing lest Paul should have been pulled in pieces of them, commanded the soldiers to go down, and to take him by force from among them, and to bring him into the castle.
11 And the night following the LORD stood by him, and said, Be of good cheer, Paul: for as you have testified of me in Jerusalem [teaching the strait and narrow way to the people called by My name], so must you bear witness also at Rome [the powers, where “strength” is held captive in institutional ignorance of God’s word and way].
15 Now therefore you with the council signify to the chief captain that he bring him down unto you tomorrow, as though you would enquire something more perfectly concerning him: and we, or ever he come near, are ready to kill him.
16 And when Paul’s sister’s son heard of their lying in wait, he went and entered into the castle, and told Paul.
17 Then Paul called one of the centurions unto him, and said, Bring [agapo – avoiding, navigating around the misleader] this young man unto the chief captain: for he has a certain thing to tell him.
18 So he took him, and brought him to the chief captain, and said, Paul the prisoner called me unto him, and prayed me to bring this young man unto you, who has something to say unto you.
19 Then the chief captain took him by the hand, and went with him aside privately, and asked him, What is that you have to tell me?
20 And he said, The Jews have agreed to desire you that you would bring down Paul to morrow into the council, as though they would enquire somewhat of him more perfectly [the false premise of their examination, claiming they are seeking understanding, when they, in fact, seek opportunity to destroy].
21 But do not you yield unto them: for there lie in wait for him of them more than forty men, which have bound themselves with an oath [anathematize], that they will neither eat nor drink till they have killed him: and now are they ready, looking for a promise from you.
22 So the chief captain then let the young man depart, and charged him, See you tell no man that you have shown these things to me.
Acts 24
2 And when he was called forth, Tertullus [a twice used name, here and in verse 1, with affinity to the word teras and telos, meaning these accusers are those wondering what they are experiencing, not knowing it is the expected end, as foretold, reached] began to accuse him, saying, Seeing that by you [under the rule of {Rome} wicked men sitting in power] we enjoy great quietness, and that very worthy deeds are done unto this nation by your providence,
3 We accept it always, and in all places, most noble Felix [happy – with the status quo, wherein the people are subdued and silent], with all thankfulness.
4 Notwithstanding, that I be not further tedious unto you [not standing in the ways of your rule], I pray you that you would hear us of your clemency a few words [declaring our worthless words to be true, there by your position, validating our false accusations].
5 For we have found this man a pestilent fellow [as pest causing dis-ease, shaking the status quo] and a mover of sedition [rebellion against the corrupt powers, specifically their control over minds] among all the Jews [Judah – the current crop of corrupt leaders of God’s people] throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes [nazar – meaning they are set apart from the corrupt status quo, devoted to this labor of the resurrected LORD with us, in us speaking and working]:
6 Who also has gone about to profane the temple [the corrupt religious institutions that call themselves the LORD’s name]: whom we took, and would have judged according to our [corrupt interpretations of the] law [that we created to serve our personal agendas].
7 But the chief captain [chiliarchos – meaning, upon whom this sun has risen: lighted upon Israel: those who’ve received Him] Lysias [meaning he is a “releaser” of those who were before bound in darkness] came [uttering these necessary things for our good] upon us, and with great violence [bios – meaning “life, i.e. (literally) the present state of existence; by implication, the means of livelihood:–good, life, living”] took him away [apago – by navigating and avoiding their misleading and false accusations by which they rule] out of our hands [from the hold of their corrupt works],
8 Commanding his [false] accusers [possessed by Satan, doing his work opposing and resisting the word, work, and plan of the LORD] to come unto you: by examining of whom yourself mayest take knowledge of all these things, whereof we [falsely] accuse him.
9 And the Jews [the current crop of corrupt leaders of God’s people] also assented, saying that these things [their false accusations] were so.
10 Then Paul, after that the governor had beckoned unto him to speak, answered [by the voice of the LORD with him, in him, speaking for Himself], Forasmuch as I know that you have been of many years a judge unto this nation, I do the more cheerfully [euthumos – the LORD through me speaking, which is His wrath upon those possessed by Satan and arrayed against Him in this battle] answer for myself:
11 Because that you mayest understand [ginosko – know it is Him speaking], that there are yet but twelve [representing governmental perfection, the completion of God kingdom on earth, as it is in heaven] days [this light upon the earth, in which is life and understanding] since I went up [am risen in this resurrection of the dead] to Jerusalem [into whom this teaching has flowed, from the Rock that can be trusted] for to worship [proskuno – from pros and kuma, as this understanding crashing as wave of light against the shore, this impassable end for those without the LORD’s agape, His leading away from darkness].
12 And they neither found me in the temple [in their corrupt institutions] disputing with any man, neither raising up the people, neither in the synagogues [where they gather in all their divided sects], nor in the [the old and totally corrupt] city [old Jerusalem, where all is leavened by the corruption men created and tell all it the word of the LORD, when He hasn’t there spoken to them]:
13 Neither can they prove the things whereof they now accuse me.
14 But this I confess unto you, that after the [true] way which they call heresy, so worship I the [true] God of my fathers, believing [it is the voice of the LORD speaking in] all things which are written in the law and in the prophets:
15 And have hope toward God [who will therein manifest Himself present with us, in us], which they themselves also allow [to be spoken of, but not lived], that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.
16 And herein do I exercise – by elaboration, work corruption out of] myself [making myself a vessel for the master’s use], to have always a conscience [suneidesis – a co-perspective with the LORD God Almighty] void to offence toward God, and [receiving it from Him, giving the same] toward men.
1 Corinthians 4
1 Now concerning spiritual gifts [given by the LORD working unknown], brethren, I would not have you ignorant.
2 You know that you were Gentiles [not knowing the true LORD], carried away [apago] unto these dumb idols [false gods who cannot speak], even as you were led.
3 Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calls Jesus [the flesh in which the LORD reveals Himself] accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the LORD, but by the Holy Ghost [the same ONE God alive in them unknown to the ignorant world].
4 Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.
5 And there are differences of administrations, but the same LORD.
6 And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which works all in all.
7 But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal.
Psalms 43
1 Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.
2 For you are the God of my strength: why do you cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
3 O send out your light and your truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto your holy hill, and to your tabernacles.
4 Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise you, O God my God.
5 Why are you cast down, O my soul? and why are you disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance [paniym – your presence realized with us, in us], and my God.
