1 – 2 August 2023
And, behold, you shall be dumb, and not able to speak, until the day that these things shall be performed, because you believe not my words, which shall be fulfilled in their season.
We begin today with the LORD answering the question, “When will God’s people’s mouths open?”
The words not believed are those of Gabriel, a Hebrew name only appearing twice in the New Testament, in Luke 1:19 & 26, and twice in the Old, in Daniel 8:16 & 9:21. As we know, his name means “warrior of God” and “man of God,” both descriptions of only One person in the New Testament: Timothy, the man the LORD chose as His soldier and sent to accomplish what pleases Him.
We understand what pleases God when He, through Paul, describes it to Timothy in 2 Timothy 2:4. It is by these things He fights the good fight, fleeing the love of money, a blinding lust that’s snared all the other, falsely so-called, prophets of God who prophesy to please men (commending themselves among themselves, for their consensus: agreement, but not with God, truth, or reality).
2 Timothy 2
1 You, therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.
2 And the things that you have heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit you to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.
3 You, therefore, endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
4 No man that wars entangles himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who has chosen him to be a soldier.
5 And if a man also strives for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strives lawfully.
6 The husbandman [georgos – the worker in the earth] that labors [diligently searches for the treasure hidden below the surface of this written word] must be first partaker [metalambano – in succession: line upon line, precept upon precept, take hold] of the fruits [that come by this work, long-suffering, and patience].
7 Consider [noieo – “to exercise the mind (observe), i.e. (figuratively) to comprehend, heed”] what I say; and the LORD give you understanding [sunesis – “a mental putting together {line and precpet}, i.e. intelligence or (concretely) the intellect”] in all things.
8 Remember that Jesus Christ of the seed of David was raised from the dead according to [kata – through time waiting for the fruit of] my gospel [euaggelion – opening my mouth and speaking the good tidings of God and confessing He is alive in me]:
9 Wherein I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, even unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound.
10 Therefore I endure all things for the elect’s sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory [the LORD manifesting His presence, alive forever, resurrected to life, ours and His, in us as].
11 It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him:
12 If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us:
13 If we believe not [He is speaking to us through those in whom He has already risen], yet he abides faithful: [long-suffering until] he [is realized and comes to life in those who receive Him] cannot deny himself.
14 Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the LORD that they strive not about words [of men ignorant of these things] to no profit, but to the subverting [katastrophe – “an overturn (“catastrophe”), i.e. demolition; figuratively, apostasy”] of the hearers.
15 Study to show yourself approved unto God, a workman [in the earth] that needs not to be ashamed [when the end of our conversation, thesis, is realized to be truth, “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever”], rightly dividing the word of truth.
16 But shun profane and vain babblings [the confusion, delusions, and insanity that rules this evil time]: for they will increase unto more ungodliness [asebeia – wickedness: manifesting Satan in the flesh, lying and deceiving those who follow, hear and obey, them into perdition: the catastrophe].
The words “chosen him to be a soldier,” above in verse 4, are from stratologeo, only appearing here, meaning “from a compound of the base of 4756 and 3004 (in its original sense); to gather (or select) as a warrior, i.e. enlist in the army.”
In this word, the LORD describes who I Am. The Strong’s Greek Dictionary definitions of the words from which it is compounded are, with my additions in brackets: stratia (#4756); a derivative of stratos (an army; from the base of 4766, as encamped); camp-likeness, i.e. an army, i.e. (figuratively) the angels, the celestial luminaries; and lego (#3004); to “lay” forth [line upon line, precept upon precept], i.e. (figuratively) relate (in words (usually of systematic or set discourse; whereas 2036 and 5346 generally refer to an individual expression or speech respectively; while 4483 is properly to break silence merely, and 2980 means an extended or random harangue)); by implication, to mean [give meaning].
1 Timothy 6
6 But godliness [eusebeia – good worship, the mystery of “God manifested in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory”] with contentment is great gain.
7 For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.
8 And having food and raiment let us be therewith content.
9 But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in [their corrupt waters, words of] destruction and perdition.
10 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith [denying the LORD with us], and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. [Hebrews 13: 5 Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as you have: for he has said, I will never leave you, nor forsake you. 6 So that we may boldly say, The LORD is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me. 7 Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation. 8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever. 9 Be not carried about with {the winds of} divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace {this gift of understanding from God}; not with meats {the creations of the flesh}, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.]
11 But you, O man of God [the first of the only two times the title appears in the New Testament, both of the Timothy I Am], flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness [eusebeia], faith, love, patience, meekness.
12 Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal [aionios – ages without end] life, whereunto you are also called, and have professed a good profession [obeying and opening my mouth as commanded, for which I Am sent] before many witnesses.
13 I give you charge in the sight of God, who quickens [brings from death into life] all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession;
14 That you keep this commandment without spot, unrebukable, until the appearing [epiphaneia – the epiphany] of our LORD Jesus Christ [alive in my flesh body]:
15 Which in his times he shall show, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and LORD of lords;
16 Who only has immortality [athanasia – the reversal of death], dwelling in the light [understanding] which no man [only God] can approach unto; whom no man [in this time of mass ignorance and blindness] has seen, nor can see [without God revealing Him to them, whenever He wills]: to whom be honor and power everlasting. Amen.
17 Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not high-minded [exalting their minds above God’s], nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God [always with us], who gives us richly all things to enjoy;
18 That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate [willingly obedient to His commandment to propagate this word while confessing it is His and His presence manifested];
19 Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.
20 O Timothy, keep that which is committed to your trust [as an angel that kept his first estate], avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science [the fake science that rules this evil time, when men, for the love of money, with lying signs and wonders, known delusions and insanity they broadcast and teach, create what they call science and truth] falsely so called:
21 Which some professing [these falsehoods to be true] have erred concerning the faith [not believing God when He has come as the Chief Overseer of the earth, to reveal the truth and restore rational thinking]. Grace [this gift of God] be with you. Amen.
The words rendered “ungodliness” and “godliness,” from asebeia and eusebeia, are both dubiously presumed to be from the word sebomai, meaning “middle voice of an apparently primary verb; to revere, i.e. adore:–devout, religious, worship.” The prefix “a” transforms the word it’s compounded with into its reverse; and “eu” means good or well.
The LORD, through Paul, tactically uses sebeia to refer us to the two Hebrew words sheba’, meaning seven, and cheber, meaning spell, from chabar, meaning “to join (literally or figuratively); specifically (by means of spells) to fascinate.”
The mystery of godliness, spoken of in 1 Timothy 3:16, is the mystery of the gospel: the good spell: euaggelion: the good message: God’s message spoken through his messengers, which joins us with Him in His life and work. The asebeia is the opposition, the evil message that breaks the spell and separates us from God into darkness.
It (asebeia) only appears 5 other times, each, in context, explaining it as above.
Romans 1
16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel [euaggelion] of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believes [in it His presence is manifested]; to the Jew [so-called believers who seek a sign] first, and also to the Greek [the unbelievers, who look for some new knowledge].
17 For therein [from the message] is the righteousness of God revealed from faith [of the speaker] to faith [of the hearer]: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness [asebeia – messages opposing the LORD’s word through us] and unrighteousness of men [whose thinking is corrupted by sin: errors about what is good, right, and true], who hold the truth in unrighteousness [in their corruption];
19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God has shown it unto them.
20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen [by the understanding He has gifted to us], being understood by the things that are made [that now appear in these elements of understanding brought together], even his eternal power and Godhead [who assembles them]; so that they are without excuse:
21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful [for His gift]; but became vain in their imaginations [making up things from their own corrupt minds], and their foolish heart [their mind with corrupt foundations] was darkened [without understanding].
22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
23 And changed [allasso] the glory [manifested presence] of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things.
24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves:
25 Who changed [metallasso] the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature [the creations of their own minds] more than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
The “change,” spoken of above in verse 23, by men’s corruption, is what the LORD in me has come to change back, and in doing, bring back under His good spell any who willingly receive Him (this word as His presence manifested, as it is).
As the LORD tells of this “change” back, in 1 Corinthians 15, He uses the word athanasia, “immorality” the only other times it appears.
(FYI: if the word sounds familiar, it’s because of euthanasia, literally meaning “good death,” so named because it ends pain and suffering (saying these diminish the value of life; a mutable standard (liable to change) which could say any life is at some point valueless). The twisting of this word in our now totally corrupt culture is its reversal: the pain and suffering it ends is of those no longer wanting to be burdened by those (men or nations) they convince to kill themselves or kill without resistance. Spiritually, modern euthanasia, with its reversed meaning, kills the spirit of good in man for the (falsely so-called) “good” of the wicked burdened by it opposing them and refusing to call their evil good.)
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 us from death into life].
46 Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.
47 The first man is of the earth, earthy; the second man is the LORD from heaven.
48 As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.
49 And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.
50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither does corruption inherit incorruption.
51 Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed [allasso],
52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed [allasso].
53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal [thnetos – liable to death] must put on immortality [athanasia – the reversing of death].
54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal [thnetos – liable {legally answerable, under the law} to death] shall have put on immortality [athanasia], then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
55 O death, where is your sting? O grave, where is your victory?
56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law [it corrupts, not working toward the Spirit of the law]. [Galatians 5: 18 But if you be led of the Spirit, you are not under the law.]
57 But thanks be to God, which gives us the victory through our LORD Jesus Christ [when He rises in us, and we are led by His Spirit, removing corruption, and opening our mouths to speak His pure word].
58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be you steadfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the LORD, forasmuch as you know that your labor is not in vain in the LORD.
Romans 11
25 For I would not, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel [all God’s people], until the fulness of the Gentiles [those who haven’t known the LORD] be come in.
26 And so all Israel [God’s people who say they know Him, who are in unbelief that He is with them speaking and working to save them] shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Zion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness [asebeia – the anti-gospel of the enemies mixed among us] from Jacob:
27 For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins [the blinding corruption].
28 As concerning the gospel [euaggelion], they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved [agapetos – the recipients of His gift] for the father’s sakes.
29 For the gifts [grace] and calling of God are without repentance.
30 For as you [the awakened elect remnant] in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief:
31 Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy [at His mercy seat, receiving His word from you who’ve received it].
32 For God has concluded them all in unbelief [evident in their not knowing Him], that he might have mercy upon all.
33 O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!
34 For who has known the mind of the LORD? or who has been his counselor?
35 Or who has first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again?
36 For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory forever. Amen.
Jude 1
14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the LORD comes with ten thousands of his saints,
15 To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly [asebeia] among them of all their ungodly [asebeia] deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly [asebeo – only appearing here and in 2 Peter 2:6] sinners have spoken against him.
16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaks great swelling words, having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage [because of their position of power].
17 But, beloved, remember you the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our LORD Jesus Christ;
18 How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.
19 These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.
20 But you, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,
21 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our LORD Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
22 And of some have compassion, making a difference:
23 And others save with fear, pulling [harpazo – “caught up,” the same as natsal] them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh [the corruption of the wicked].
24 Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory [manifested into sight] with exceeding joy [when we see Him],
25 To the only wise God our Savior, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.
Galatians 3
21 Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, truly righteousness should have been by the law.
22 But the scripture has concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.
23 But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterward be revealed.
24 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
25 But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.
26 For you are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
27 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
29 And if you be Christ’s, then are you Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.
Galatians 4
1 Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child [remaining with childish things], differs nothing from a servant, though he be LORD of all;
2 But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father.
3 Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements [stoicheion – the corrupt foundational principles] of the world:
4 But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law [liable to death],
5 To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
6 And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
7 Wherefore you are no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
8 Howbeit then, when you knew not God, you did service unto them which by nature are no gods.
9 But now, after that you have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn you again to the weak and beggarly elements [stoicheion – the corrupt foundational principles that keep you as children under the law] whereunto you desire again to be in bondage?
2 Peter 1
16 For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our LORD Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
17 For he received from God the Father honor and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased [HEAR Him].
18 And this voice which came from heaven [when we received full understanding] we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount.
19 We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto you do well that you take heed, as unto a light that shines in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star [phosphoros] arise in your hearts:
20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Ghost [the LORD in them, unknown to the world and working all things toward this moment of awakening by His righteous interpretation].
4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned [leaving their first estate and speaking their own word instead of His], but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;
5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher [who opened His mouth as the LORD commanded] of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly [asebes];
6 And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes condemned [katakrino] them with an overthrow [katastrophe], making them an example unto those that after should live ungodly [asebeo – anti-gospel];
7 And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation [the anti-gospel] 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 [from doubting His presence], and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:
10 But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness [corruption], and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities [doxa – the LORD’s glory manifesting His presence in the flesh of those speaking His word as received].
2 Peter 2
1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily [secretly, from their own imaginations, create lies] shall bring in damnable [apoleia – that cause them and those who follow their ways to perish] heresies, even denying 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”].
2 Peter 3
3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God [this same word of God] the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition [apoleia] of ungodly men.
8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the LORD as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
9 The LORD is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
10 But the day of the LORD will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements [stoicheion – the corrupt foundational ideas and ways of men] shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in all holy conversation and godliness [eusebeia],
12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements [stoicheion] shall melt with fervent heat?
13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwells righteousness.
14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that you look for such things, be diligent that you may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.
15 And account that the longsuffering of our LORD is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him has written unto you;
16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrestle, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction [apoleia – perdition].
In the title verse, Luke 1:20, we’re told of the silence of Zechariah, meaning Jehovah remembers (His promise to His people). The LORD remembers His promise to open his mouth when “these things [when His word they haven’t believed are fillfilled] shall be performed.”
The word “performed” is the Greek word ginomai, meaning “to cause to be (“gen”-erate), i.e. (reflexively) to become (come into being).”
The words telling of them (these word) “fulfilled in their season” are pleroo, meaning “to make replete, i.e. (literally) to cram (a net), level up (a hollow), or (figuratively) to furnish (or imbue, diffuse, influence), satisfy, execute (an office), finish (a period or task), verify (or coincide with a prediction), etc.;” and kairos, meaning “an occasion, i.e. set or proper time”
This latter word is the same used in 1 Timothy 6:15; verses 14 thru 16 saying “14 That you keep this commandment [to confess this good confession before many witnesses] without spot [not corrupted by the flesh], unrebukable, until the appearing [epiphaneia – the epiphany] of our LORD Jesus Christ [alive in my flesh body]: 15 Which in his times [kairos] he shall show, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and LORD of lords; 16 Who only has immortality [athanasia – the reversal of death], dwelling in the light [understanding] which no man [only God] can approach unto; whom no man [in this time of mass ignorance and blindness] has seen, nor can see [without God revealing Him to them, whenever He wills]: to whom be honor and power everlasting. Amen.”
The words that are performed are the seventy weeks of which Gabriel tells Daniel happen in the final “seven” (sheba’) when all things are fulfilled.
Daniel 9
24 Seventy weeks are determined upon your people and upon your holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end [chatham] of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up [chatham – make an end of] the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.
26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end [qets] thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end [qets] of the war desolations are determined.
27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation [kalah – the full end], and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
The words sheba’ (“seven,” appearing once) and shabuwa’ (“weeks,” appearing five times, and once as “week”) from sheba’, meaning “a primitive cardinal number; seven (as the sacred full one); also (adverbially) seven times; by implication, a week; by extension, an indefinite number,” are the keys to the passage.
The numbers, seventy times seven, only appear once together in the New Testament. It comes in Matthew 18:22 as the LORD is asked how many times we should forgive those who offend us. The offense is the asebeia, now reaching seventy times seven, and after that, “there remains no more sacrifice for sins.”
Hebrews 10
26 For if we sin willfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more sacrifice for sins,
27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
28 He that despised Moses’ law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:
29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose you, shall he be thought worthy, who has trodden underfoot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and has done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
30 For we know him that has said, Vengeance belongs unto me, I will recompense, says the LORD. And again, The LORD shall judge his people.
31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
As we know, what Daniel knew about the seventy sevens, he “understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.”
The word “years” is shaneh, from the shanah, meaning “to fold, i.e. duplicate (literally or figuratively); by implication, to transmute (transitive or intransitive).”
Jeremiah 2
26 As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets [who have now changed My words these seventy times seven, and transformed {metatithemi} it from an eusebeia into an asebeia].
27 Saying to a stock [the dead idols you put in My place], You are my father; and to a [lifeless] stone, You have brought me forth: for they have turned their back unto me, and not their face: but in the time of their trouble [ra’ – evil] they will say, Arise, and save us.
28 But where are your gods that you have made you? let them arise, if they can save you in the time of your trouble [ra’ – evil]: for according to the number of your cities are your gods, O Judah.
29 Wherefore will you plead with me? you all have transgressed against me, says the LORD.
30 In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
31 O generation, see you the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness [ignorance]? wherefore say my people, We are lords; we will come no more unto you?
32 Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.
33 Why trimmest you your way to seek love? therefore have you also taught the wicked ones your ways.
34 Also in your skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these.
35 Yet you sayest, Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with you, because you sayest, I have not sinned.
36 Why gad you [to go away from Me] about so much to change [shanah] your way? you also shall be ashamed of Egypt [this land of tyrant and oppression], as you were ashamed of Assyria [the communists, thieves and robbers, now infesting all institutions making them incurably corrupt].
37 Yea, you shall go forth from him, and your hands upon your head: for the LORD has rejected your confidences [all these things in which you trust], and you shall not prosper in them.
We’re told (in the passages below) of things that will not “change” (as does the temporal), which are the unseen and the eternal things (dabar – words and matters spoken from the mouth) of God.
Psalms 89
14 Justice and judgment are the habitation of your throne: mercy and truth shall go before your face [paniym – in Your presence]
15 Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound [the voice of the LORD]: they shall walk, O LORD, in the light [understanding] of your countenance [paniym – of Your presence].
16 In your name [identity] shall they rejoice all the day: and in your righteousness shall they be exalted [as they exalt Your words above all others].
17 For you are the glory [manifested presence] of their strength [which is their understanding]: and in your favor our horn [power and reign] shall be exalted [above all others].
18 For the LORD is our defense; and the Holy One of Israel is our king.
19 Then you spoke in vision to your holy one, and said, I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people.
20 I have found David [I Am his promised seed] my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him [as in Daniel 9:24 above]:
21 With whom my hand [work] shall be established: my arm also shall strengthen him.
22 The enemy shall not exact upon him; nor the son of wickedness afflict him.
23 And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him.
24 But my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him: and in my name shall his horn [power and reign] be exalted.
25 I will set his hand also in the sea [his work among the people at large], and his right hand in the rivers [this work sending God’s word into the sea].
26 He shall cry unto me, You are my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation.
27 Also I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth.
28 My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him.
29 His seed also will I make to endure forever, and his throne as the days of heaven [upon the earth].
30 If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments;
31 If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments;
32 Then will I visit [paqad – as the Chief Overseer of the earth, to return them to the right course] their transgression with the rod [the unbreakable law on nature and nature’s God], and their iniquity with stripes [of men].
33 Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.
34 My covenant will I not break, nor alter [shanah] the thing that is gone out of my lips.
35 Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David.
36 His seed shall endure forever, and his throne as the sun [the rising understanding of this new day] before me.
37 It shall be established forever as the moon [civil government wherein are justice and good judgment, as I intended], and as a faithful witness in heaven [with full understanding]. Selah.
Malachi 3
1 Behold, I will send my messenger [mal’ak- My angel, who is a man of war as well as a man of God], and he shall prepare the way before me [paniym – in Him My presence is manifested]: and the LORD [‘adown – the king], whom you seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger [mal’ak] of the covenant [of My promises], whom you delight in: behold, he shall come, says the LORD [Jehovah] of hosts [who is a man of war].
2 But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appears? for he is like a refiner’s fire, and like fullers’ soap:
3 And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness.
4 Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the LORD, as in the days of old, and as in former years.
5 And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers [using their words to cast evil spells], and against the adulterers [those who’ve left Me to follow other men], and against false swearers [the now known liars and false accusers], and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages [through confiscatory taxation], the widow, and the fatherless [oppressing those without any man to protect and defend them], and that turn aside the stranger from his right [leading into evil those who don’t know Me or my ways], and fear not me [My inescapable law that inevitable brings their destruction by their own evil, of which I have often warned], says the LORD of hosts [who is a man of war, the Commander in Chief of the army of heaven].
6 For I am the LORD, I change [shanah] not; therefore you sons of Jacob are not consumed.
7 Even from the days of your fathers you are gone away from my ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, says the LORD of hosts. But you said, Wherein shall we return?
8 Will a man rob God? Yet you have robbed me. But you say, Wherein have we robbed you? In tithes and offerings.
9 You are cursed with a curse: for you have robbed me, even this whole nation.
10 Bring you all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in my house, and prove me now herewith, says the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
11 And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, says the LORD of hosts.
12 And all nations shall call you blessed: for you shall be a delightsome land, says the LORD of hosts.
13 Your words have been stout against me, says the LORD. Yet you say, What have we spoken so much against you?
14 You have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts?
15 And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.
16 Then they that feared the LORD spoke often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name [identity].
17 And they shall be mine, says the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels [My people who are My crown and joy]; and I will spare them, as a man spares his own son that serves him.
18 Then shall you return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked [understanding to choose the good and refuse the evil], between him that serves God [speaking truth] and him [speaking their own evil ways and ideas, their asebeia] that serves him not.
Luke 1
64 And his [those who receive the promises Jehovah has remembered] mouth was opened immediately, and his tongue loosed, and he spoke, and praised God.
65 And fear came on all that dwelt round about them: and all these sayings were noised abroad throughout all the hill country of Judaea.
66 And all they that heard them laid them up in their hearts, saying, What manner of child shall this be! And the hand of the LORD was with him.
67 And his father Zachariah was filled with the Holy Ghost [the LORD unknown in him working and speaking], and prophesied, saying,
68 Blessed be the LORD God of Israel; for he has visited and redeemed his people,
69 And has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David;
70 As he [the LORD God] spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have been since the world began:
71 That we should be saved from our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us;
72 To perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant;
73 The oath which he swore to our father Abraham,
74 That he would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve him without fear,
75 In holiness and righteousness before him [in His presence], all the days of our life.
76 And you, child, shall be called the prophet of the Highest: for you shall go before the face of the LORD to prepare his ways;
77 To give knowledge of salvation unto his people by the remission of their sins [the blinding ignorance taught by men who choose evil and refuse this good],
78 Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring [these living waters, the word of God that ends and begins the ages and nations] from on high has visited us [as the Chief Overseer of the earth],
79 To give light [understanding] to them that sit in darkness [ignorance] and in the shadow of death [blocking the light], to guide our feet into the way of peace.
80 And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, and was in the deserts till the day of his showing unto Israel.
The only time Jeremiah (or any of the “Prophets” other than Daniel) mentions the word shabuwa’ (the weeks) is in Jeremiah 5:24, and the only time any of the kings speak of it is in 2 Chronicles 8:13 as Solomon, the LORD speaking through Him, describes this moment.
2 Chronicles 8
11 And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh [those whose ways are oppression and tyranny] out of the city of David unto the house that he had built for her: for he said, My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, because the places are holy, whereunto the ark of the LORD has come.
12 Then Solomon offered burnt offerings unto the LORD on the altar of the LORD, which he had built before the porch,
13 Even after a certain rate every day, offering according to the commandment of Moses, on the sabbaths [the LORD visitation, intervention], and on the new moons [to institute a new civil government], and on the solemn feasts [nourishing us with His abundant blessing], three times in the year [shaneh], even in the feast of unleavened bread [removing the corruption from His word], and in the feast of weeks [shabuwa’], and in the feast of tabernacles [when He calls His people to leave their corrupt houses and meet with Him where He chooses – see Deuteronomy 16:16 where shabuwa’ also appears].
14 And he appointed, according to the order of David his father, the courses of the priests to their service, and the Levites to their charges, to praise and minister before the priests, as the duty of every day required: the porters also by their courses at every gate: for so had David the man [as is Timothy, as I Am] of God commanded.
15 And they departed not from the commandment of the king unto the priests and Levites concerning any matter [dabar – the words they should speak], or concerning the treasures.
16 Now all the work of Solomon was prepared unto the day of the foundation of the house of the LORD, and until it was finished [kalah]. So the house [family] of the LORD was perfected [shalem – as New Jerusalem].
Jeremiah 5
21 Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not [that I Am with you]; which have ears, and hear not [My voice speaking to you]:
22 Fear you not me? says the LORD: will you not tremble at my presence [paniym], which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea [humanity] by a perpetual decree [choq], that it cannot pass it [‘abar – cannot Passover from there in death into life without Me, without following My direction]: and though the waves [the pride of men] thereof toss themselves [agitating all humanity they’ve continually led into confusion and now after a long train of abuses {asebeia} into mass insanity], yet can they [the wicked in power] not prevail; though they roar [against Me], yet can they not pass over it [‘abar – from this death in hell into life]?
23 But this people has a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone.
24 Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, that gives rain [His word from heaven], both the former [written] and the latter [now spoken], in his season [at this time]: he reserves [shamar – guarded and protected from corruption] unto us the appointed [chaqqah – the same as choq, meaning the LORD’s decreed] weeks [shabuwa’] of the harvest [qatsiyr – this time when the LORD as come to reap the earth, and separate the wheat from the chaff, those who choose good from those who choose evil].
25 Your iniquities have turned away [your ears and eyes from hearing and seeing] these things, and your sins [that corrupt My word and your understanding this time] have withheld good things from you [and hold you in the hand of evil].
26 For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that sets snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
2 Corinthians 11
13 For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming [metaschematizo] themselves into the apostles of Christ.
14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed [metaschematizo] into an angel of light.
15 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed [metaschematizo] as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.
2 Corinthians 3
13 Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the [new] day [when understanding comes] shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is.
14 If any man’s work abides [remains after the fire] which he has built thereupon [the good foundational elements ruling in his mind], he shall receive a reward.
15 If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.
16 Know you not that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?
17 If any man defiles the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple you are.
18 Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seems to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He takes the wise in their own craftiness.
20 And again, The LORD knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain [worthless].
Philippians 3
15 Let us therefore, as many as be perfect [having received this understanding, and knowing the time and season], be thus minded: and if in any thing you be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.
16 Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.
17 Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as you have us for an example.
18 (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:
19 Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)
20 For our conversation is in heaven [with full understanding]; from whence also we look for [the sight to see] the Savior, the LORD Jesus Christ:
21 Who shall change [metaschematizo] our vile body [by removing corruption by His correction], that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.
Psalms 11
1 In the LORD put I my trust: how say you to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?
2 For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart.
3 If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?
4 The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD’s throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.
5 The LORD tries the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hates.
6 Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and a horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.
7 For the righteous LORD loves righteousness; his countenance [presence] does behold the upright.
