14 – 16 August 2024
Wherefore I will yet plead with you, says the LORD, and with your children’s children will I plead.
Friends, we are at an existential decision point: when all are, by circumstance, compelled to choose light or darkness, and when those choosing darkness, as Cain did his brother, seek to kill (destroy the lives and livelihoods of) those choosing light.
Those choosing darkness because their deeds are evil will not hesitate to use any and every evil in their power (abusing their positions) to continue their dominance. They are rotting dead flesh, decomposing and infecting the entire body. Like cancer, this occurs when the body fails to recognize and destroy infection at its earliest onset: when the first cells haven’t taken hold or been able to reproduce. Now, when it has, and the diagnosis is terminal, the only next step is to enter the unknown, when the immortal soul and spirit leave the dead flesh behind and rise into a new body.
I tell you as I have in the past: the current governments of church and state, their institutions, do not, cannot, make it through this time. The men who control them, despite the LORD’s pleading, choosing to remain with their evil deeds (deceiving and manipulating those who follow them into hell), are the rotting dead flesh we must leave behind.
Romans 7
22 For I delight [sunedomai – only used here, meaning knowing the LORD is joined with me] in the law of God after the inward [eso – referring us to its use in Ephesians 3:16] man [speaking of Spirit and soul as one]:
23 But I see another law in my members [melos – the dead flesh that carries the whole body into hell], warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members [melos]. [Matthew 5:29 And if your right eye {being darkened} offend you, pluck it out, and cast it from you: for it is profitable for you that one of your members {melos} should perish, and not that your whole body should be cast into hell.]
24 O wretched [talaiporos – only used here and in Revelation 3:17, where the LORD is speaking to the Laodiceans of their condition of which they are ignorant] man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our LORD. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
Revelation 3
13 He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says unto the churches.
14 And unto the angel [the leaders who should be speaking this message and aren’t] of the church of the Laodiceans [the last church state, the institution before it became the eighth, joined with Babylon – It’s from the Greek words, laos, meaning a people, as in a population, and dike, a four-times used word meaning “right (as self-evident), i.e. justice (the principle, a decision, or its execution):–judgment, punish, vengeance.” In Revelation 3 it speaks of this coming upon the population, which has yet to surrender to the LORD or Babylon. Against His urging, it chose Babylon, and is the now dead body of Christ] write; These things says the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;
15 I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot: I would you were cold or hot.
16 So then because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew you out of my mouth.
17 Because you sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and know not [because you are held in darkness and death] that you are wretched [talaiporos], and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
18 I counsel you to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that you may be rich; and white raiment [purified], that you mayest be clothed [with the LORD’s righteousness], and that the shame of your nakedness does not appear; and anoint your eyes with eye-salve, that you may see.
19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous, therefore, and repent.
20 Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hears [this voice] my voice, and opens the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
21 To him that overcomes [the wicked in power and the words of deceivers] will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.
22 He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says unto the churches.
Matthew 22
4 Again, he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them which are bidden, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come unto the marriage [and sup with Me].
5 But they made light of it [gave no value to His words from His messengers], and went their ways, one to his farm, another to his merchandise:
6 And the remnant took his servants, and entreated them spitefully, and slew them [as Cain did Abel, “And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous”].
7 But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth: and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.
8 Then says he to his servants, The wedding is ready, but they which were bidden were not worthy.
9 Go you therefore into the highways, and as many as you shall find, bid to the marriage.
10 So those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good: and the wedding was furnished with guests.
11 And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment [without the LORD’s righteousness]:
12 And he says unto him, Friend, how came you in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless.
13 Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness [among the ignorant who choose darkness, because their deeds are evil], there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
14 For many are called, but few are chosen.
Romans 8
1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has [by His truth received] made me free from the law of sin and death.
3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
5 For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
6 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject [hupotasso – obedient] to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
9 But you are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ [His Spirit joined with our soul by One mind], he is none of his.
10 And if Christ be in you, the body is [flesh] dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies [from death into life] by his Spirit that dwells in you [evident by a mind in agreement with His, manifested when He speaks and works through you, to give His message as received].
12 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
13 For if you live after the flesh, you shall die: but if you through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, you shall live.
14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
15 For you have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but you have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
16 The Spirit itself bears witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God [by His correction receiving His mind, doing His work]:
17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory [of the Father] which shall be revealed in us.
19 For the earnest expectation of the creature waits [obeying what is worthless] for the manifestation of the sons of God [who obediently open their mouth as He commands, manifesting His presence with us, in us].
20 For the creature [the flesh that was before without His Spirit] was made subject [hupotasso – obedient] to vanity [to what is worthless], not willingly, but by reason of him who has subjected the same [hupotasso – been obedient] in hope [having faith that obedience to the Father’s will brings perfection in this expected end], [the word “willingly” is hekon, only appearing elsewhere in 1 Corinthians 9:17, Paul there saying, 16 For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel {in which the Father’s glory is revealed}! 17 For if I do this thing willingly {hekon}, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto me. 18 What is my reward then? Truly that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel. 19 For though I be free from {the corruption of} all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more {increasing the ONE BODY}].
21 Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
22 For we know that the whole creation [now here in death and hell] groans and travails [to bring forth to life the ONE BODY of Christ] in pain together until now.
23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the first-fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, [silently] waiting [in disobedience] for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.
24 For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man sees, why does he yet hope for?
25 But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
26 Likewise the Spirit also helps our infirmities [lack of strength, lack of understanding]: for we know not what we should pray [proseuchomai: pros (forward to) eu (good) chraomai (“to furnish what is needed; (give an oracle, “graze” (touch slightly), light upon, etc.), i.e. (by implication) to employ or (by extension) to act towards one in a given manner.)”] for as we ought: but the Spirit itself makes intercession [intercedes to give us good words] for us with groanings [stenagmos, from stenos, the “strait” gate that lead to life – Matthew 7:13 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, fabrication with which they replaced truth} is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: 14 Because strait {stenos} is the gate, 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 leadeth unto life {I Am the way the Father sent}, and few there be that find it.] which cannot be uttered [alaletos – which are not being spoken].
Ephesians 3
1 For this cause I Timothy, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles [who haven’t known Him],
2 If you have heard of the dispensation of the grace [giving this gift as received] of God which is given me to you-ward:
3 How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words,
4 Whereby, when you read, you may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ)
5 Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit [the LORD with us, in us, speaking and working unknown];
6 That the Gentiles [all who haven’t known Him at His coming, even those who falsely claim they do know Him, who here rejecting Him prove they haven’t] should be fellow-heirs, and of the same [ONE] BODY [of Christ alive in them, making them Christians], and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel:
7 Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power [changing my mind, removing corruption, giving me this understanding, bringing me from the darkness into His light, and from death to life with His mind rising in me].
8 Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace [this gift] given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches [which are only given as a gift from God to His chosen] of Christ;
9 And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world has been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ:
10 To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God [His glory manifested in His revelation],
11 According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our LORD:
12 In whom we have boldness and access [to His wisdom] with confidence by the faith of him.
13 Wherefore I desire that you faint not at my tribulations for you, which is your glory.
14 For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our LORD Jesus Christ,
15 Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named,
16 That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner [eso] man;
17 That Christ may dwell in your hearts [our foundational mind, upon which all our decisions, words and actions, are based] by faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love [this word of God, by which men live, given as received, to be given as receive, which is the charity {agape} that never fails],
18 May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;
19 And to know the love [agape] of Christ, which passes [all worldly] knowledge, that you might be filled with all the fulness of God [as you have been here filled to completion, your perfection].
20 Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power [of His word, when it is received as His and Him] that worketh in us,
21 Unto him be glory in the church [the ONE BODY] by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.
1 Corinthians 1
19 For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.
20 Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
21 For after that in the wisdom of God the world by [its corrupt] wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of [this] preaching to save them that believe [it is God they haven’t known].
22 For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:
23 But we preach Christ crucified [rejected, despised, and betrayed while delivering this message, and killed, silenced, for declaring God alive in him], unto the Jews a stumbling-block, and unto the Greeks foolishness;
24 But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ [God the Father alive in the flesh, no longer unknown, declaring Himself alive in the ONE BODY of His son: His children] the power of God, and the wisdom of God.
25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
26 For you see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:
27 But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God has chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;
28 And base things of the world, and things which are despised, has God chosen, yea, and things which are not [seen], to bring to naught things that are:
29 That no flesh should glory in his presence [now manifested].
30 But of him are you in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:
31 That, according as it is written [in Jeremiah 9:24], He that glories, let him glory in the LORD.
Jeremiah 9
21 For death is come up into our windows [to those who should be watching over God’s people], and is entered into our palaces [where the dead sit in power], to cut off [karath – from life, to bring into the same death] the children from without [under their watch], and the young men from the streets [cutting off the ways into life].
22 Speak, Thus says the LORD, Even the carcasses [the animated dead flesh] of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman [this judgment, when My people have gathered into My ONE BODY], and none shall gather them [that choose to remain in death].
23 Thus says the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches:
24 But let him that glories glory in this, that he understands and knows me, that I Am the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, says the LORD.
The word “plead,” used twice in the title verse (Jeremiah 2:9), speaking of the case the LORD, our counselor, has here pleaded, is riyb, meaning “to toss, i.e. grapple; mostly figuratively, to wrangle, i.e. hold a controversy; (by implication) to defend.”
Jeremiah 2
5 Thus says the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity [worthlessness], and are become vain [worthless]?
6 Neither said they, Where is the LORD that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through [‘abar – where no man passed from death into life], and where no [living] man dwelt?
7 And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when you entered, you defiled my land, and made my heritage an abomination.
8 The priests said not, Where is the LORD? and they that handle the law knew me not: the pastors also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal [by the false gods men created, put in My place, and call by My name], and walked after things that do not profit.
9 Wherefore I will yet plead [riyb] with you, says the LORD, and with your children’s children will I plead [riyb].
10 For pass over [‘abar – from death into life] the isles of Chittim [from the dry places where this word wasn’t before heard], and see; and send unto Kedar [into the darkness, send this word to the ignorant], and consider diligently, and see if there be such a thing.
11 Has a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory [My manifested presence] for that which does not profit.
12 Be astonished, O you heavens [where understanding should be found but isn’t], at this, and be horribly afraid, be you very desolate, says the LORD.
13 For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
2 Timothy 2
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 – a workman working in the earth, warring for the sake of God’s people] that labors must be first partaker of the fruits [the first given understanding].
7 Consider what I say; and the LORD give you understanding in all things.
8 Remember that Jesus Christ of the seed of David was raised from the dead [in my dead flesh] according to my gospel:
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.
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, yet he abides faithful [with us]: he cannot deny himself [when He is risen in us].
14 Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the LORD that they strive not about [the worthless] words [of men] to no profit, but to the subverting [of this understanding] of the hearers.
15 Study to show yourself approved unto God, a workman that need not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
16 But shun profane and vain babblings [of ignorant men]: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.
17 And their word will eat as does a canker [gaggraina – gangrene, the localized death and decomposition of flesh, which, if untreated, infects and kills the body]: of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus [forbidding joining with the LORD while hiding behind the spurious mask of feigned love];
18 Who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already; and overthrow the faith of some [telling them it isn’t occurring here and now, when we join the LORD in His ONE risen BODY].
19 Nevertheless the foundation of God stands sure, having this seal, The LORD knows them that are his. And, let every one that names the name of Christ [calls themselves a Christian] depart from iniquity.
20 But in a great house [God’s family] there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honor, and some to dishonor.
21 If a man, therefore, purge himself from these [the dishonorable], he shall be a vessel unto honor, sanctified [made pure], and meet [of a mind in agreement with the LORD’s] for the master’s use, and prepared unto every good work.
22 Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the LORD out of a pure heart [foundational mind].
23 But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes [meant to create an endless argument, not seeking truth, having no intention of finding it, but rather seeking an endless state of confusion].
24 And the servant of the LORD must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient,
25 In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;
26 And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil [those possessed by Satan, doing his work of misleading], who are taken captive [possessed] by him at his will.
Isaiah 1
9 Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small [faithful elect] remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.
10 Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah.
11 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? says the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.
12 When you come to appear [ra’ah] before me [paniym – Into My presence], who has required this at your hand, to tread my courts?
13 Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths [the institutions of church and state you have corrupted], the calling of assemblies, I cannot [accept it] away with [it]; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hates: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them. [I tell you the truth, all religion has become a worthless charade and a demonstrable exhibition of ignorance of God.]
15 And when you spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you: yea, when you make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood [refusing to plead the cause of the innocent and rightly judge the wicked].
16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; cease to do evil;
17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead [riyb] for the widow.
18 Come now, and let us reason together, says the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
19 If you be willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land:
20 But if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD has spoken it.
21 How is the faithful city become a harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.
22 Your silver is become dross, your wine mixed with water:
23 Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and follows after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come unto them.
24 Therefore says the LORD, the LORD of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of my adversaries, and avenge me of my enemies:
25 And I will turn my hand upon you, and purely purge away your dross, and take away all your tin:
26 And I will restore your judges as at the first, and your counselors as at the beginning: afterward you shall be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city.
27 Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness.
28 And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together, and they that forsake the LORD shall be consumed.
The following, ending with Ezekiel 33, is from the post of 14 – 17 May 2024.
Yea, for your sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
The LORD begins today in a mystery, a strategic secret, above in Psalms 44:22, revealed now in this time of war against the darkness that covers all understanding. It is in it we find the “victory,” when we, with His awakening in us, are quickened from death into life by our confession of His presence in His word we speak as His (identity in His) ONE living BODY.
Paul, the LORD alive in him speaking and working, quotes the above verse in Romans 8:36, speaking to those of us predestined for this moment of awakening, follows it in verse 37, saying, “Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.”
The word rendered “more than conquerors” is the once-used Greek work hupernikao, meaning “to vanquish beyond, i.e. gain a decisive victory.”
Paul’s beginning verse 37 with “nay” would appear, at first glance, to contradict Psalms 44:22, which he just cited and affirmed with a “Yea.” A deeper examination of the original text tells us otherwise.
In Psalms 44, the verse is followed with verse 23 saying, “Awake, why sleep you, O LORD? arise, cast us not off forever.”
As background, the Psalm is titled, For the Sons of Korah, Maschil. Korah is a son of Levi who rebelled against Moses and for it was, with his fellow rebels, eventually swallowed by the earth. The word maschil means instruction. These meanings tell us the Psalm is a written instruction to those now in rebellion, refusing to follow and obey the LORD’s instructions through His chosen. It (the Psalm) ends with the epilogue, “To the Chief Musician [natsach – Chief Overseer] upon Shoshannim,” meaning it’s sent to those [first to the first begotten] leading God’s people in repeating the Songs He’s given: and their ONE voice is the last trumpet sounding.
The awakening, spoken of in verse 23, is God’s people opening their mouths and coming to life, as Korah, who, instead of choosing destruction, is changed at this last trump, as the corrupt put on uncorrupted truth and they (put on) their immortality.
We know (among other things, by deeper examination) that Paul’s wording (in Romans 8:37) is a paraphrase of Psalms 44:23 and speaks of the same victory over death. Paul, knowing the word “forever” in the original text is netsach (meaning the goal), also knows it’s the word rendered “victory” in Isaiah 25:8.
When quoting this Isaiah passage in 1 Corinthians 15:54, he (Paul) uses the four-time-used word nikos, always rendered “victory,” and always speaks of the victory over death and the grave (hell, in the earth’s belly) and by whom it comes.
Going deeper, the word nikos appears three times in 1 Corinthians 15 (verses 54, 55 & 57) and once in Matthew 12:20, as the LORD quotes Isaiah 42:3, where the word (rendered “victory” in Matthew) is the Hebrew word ‘emeth and is rendered “truth.”
The point: hear and obey the word of the LORD, put off corruption and put on immortality, or remain in the belly of the earth ending in ruin. Victory and truth are synonymous, both (the goal led to by the Chief Overseer), which, when they come, end death by the LORD long-suffering to raise us from it into life.
Romans 8
27 And he that searches the hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because he makes intercession for the saints [knowing they are also in need of this change] according to the will of God.
28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called [kletos] according to his purpose.
29 For whom he did foreknow [know before, the faithful throughout history], he also did predestinate [proorizo – to limit in advance, at this horizon] to be conformed to the image [eikon] of his Son, that he might be [as the first light on the horizon] the firstborn among many brethren.
30 Moreover whom he did predestinate [proorizo], them he also called [kaleo]: and whom he called [kaleo], them he also justified [dikaioo – freed from corruption]: and whom he justified [freed from corruption], them he also glorified [manifesting His presence in them].
31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect [eklektos – His chosen]? It is God that justifies [frees us from corruption and thereby death].
34 Who is he that condemns? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen [egeiro] again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession [entugchano] for us.
35 Who shall separate us from the love of [agape – freely giving us all things through] Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
36 As it is written, [Psalms 44:22 saying,”Yea,” to verse 21 saying “Shall not God search this out? for he knows the secrets of the heart.”] For your sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors [hupernikao] through him that loved [agapao – freely gave His treasures to] us.
38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love [agape – this grace given by the Divine charity] of God, which is in Christ Jesus our LORD.
1 Thessalonians 3
8 For now we live, if you stand fast [steko] in the LORD.
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 [as in Psalms 44 below]? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
3 O send out your light [understanding] and your truth [‘emeth – which bring us to the victory]: 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 [offering the sacrifice in which He delights], unto God [realized] 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 [yshuw’ah – Jesus] of my countenance [paniym – Your presence manifested in the flesh], and my God.
To the Chief Musician [Natsach – the Chief Overseer who, with these songs, leads into truth and victory]
Psalms 44
Words of Instruction, to be Sung to the Rebels and by them upon Returning
1 We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work you did in their days, in the times of old.
2 How you did drive out the heathen with your hand, and planted them; how you did afflict the people, and cast them out.
3 For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but your right hand, and your arm, and the light [understanding] of your countenance [paniym – Your presence], because you had a favor unto them.
4 You are my King, O God: command deliverances [yshuw’ah – Jesus, Jehovah’s Salvation manifested in the flesh] for Jacob.
5 Through you will we push down our enemies: through your name [Your Identity] will we tread them under that rise up against us.
6 For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.
7 But you have saved us from our enemies, and have put them to shame that hated us.
8 In God we boast all the day long, and praise your name [Your identity] forever. Selah.
9 But [in our rebellion and rejection of Your leadership] you have cast off, and put us to shame; and go not forth with our armies.
10 You make us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves.
11 You have given us like sheep appointed for meat; and have scattered us among the heathen.
12 You sell your people for naught, and do not increase your wealth by their price.
13 You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
14 You make us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.
15 My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face has covered me,
16 For the voice of him that reproaches and blasphemes; by reason of the enemy and avenger.
17 All this is come upon us; yet have we [in our confusion we thought we have] not forgotten you, neither have we dealt falsely in your covenant.
18 Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from your way;
19 Though you have sore broken us in the place of dragons [tanniyn – by men among us as serpents and whales, devoured us with their wide open mouths and swallowing us into this belly of hell], and covered us with [concealed from us] the shadow of [darkness – ignorance of our own condition, which is] death.
20 If we have forgotten the name of [the identity, His manner in which He reveals Himself as] our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god [which men created and put in His place];
21 Shall not God search [chaqar – penetrate this darkness] this out [as He has]? for he knows the secrets of the heart [mind].
22 Yea, for your sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
23 Awake, why sleep you, O LORD? Arise [in us], cast us not off forever [netsach – from Your victory and truth].
24 Wherefore hide you your face [paniym – Your presence, which is only hidden in the ignorance caused by the dragons among you], and forget our affliction and our oppression [which He hasn’t forgotten, but they, the rebels, continually turn to their oppressors thinking these destroyers will save them from themselves]?
25 For our soul is bowed down to the dust [the ruin of the earth led by serpents and whales]: our belly [beten – the belly of hell, of Jonah 2:2] cleaves [dabaq – meaning “to impinge, i.e. cling or adhere; figuratively, to catch by pursuit”] unto [hell on] the earth.
26 Arise for our help, and redeem us for your mercies’ sake.
What part of this isn’t clear yet? What part hasn’t the LORD fully explained? When is it enough?
Ezekiel 33
17 Yet the children of your people say, The way of the LORD is not equal: but as for them, their way is not equal.
18 When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, he shall even die thereby.
19 But if the wicked turn from his wickedness, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby.
20 Yet you say, The way of the LORD is not equal. O you house of Israel, I will judge you every one after his ways.
21 And it came to pass in the twelfth year [the perfection, completion, of the LORD’s government in this new heaven and earth] of our captivity, in the tenth month [ordinal perfection, when all things have been put in their right order], in the fifth day [of His grace and mercy] of the month, that one that had escaped [paliyt, it is referring back to verse 5 of this chapter, where the word malat, meaning to escape, rendered “deliver,” speaks of those who received the warning and acting upon it, escaped what is warned of] out of [corrupt] Jerusalem came unto me, saying, The city [of those turned from righteousness, and the wicked who haven’t turned from their wickedness] is smitten [by its own ignorance and insanity].
22 Now the hand of the LORD was upon me in the evening [as darkness was coming], afore he that was escaped [paliyt] came [with this warning]; and had opened my mouth [to speak the LORD’s word], until he came to me in the morning [when this understanding of this new day was come]; and my mouth was opened, and I was no more dumb.
23 Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
24 Son of man, they that inhabit those wastes of the land [‘adamah – the ruin of this last generation] of Israel speak, saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited the land [’erets – the earth]: but we are many; the land [‘erets – the earth] is given us for inheritance.
25 Wherefore say unto them, Thus says the LORD God; You eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood: and shall you possess the land?
26 You stand upon your sword, you work abomination, and you defile every one his neighbor’s wife: and shall you possess the land [’erets – the earth]?
27 Say you thus unto them, Thus says the LORD God; As I live, surely they that are in the wastes shall fall by the sword, and him that is in the open field will I give to the beasts to be devoured, and they that be in the forts and in the caves shall die of the pestilence.
28 For I will lay the land [‘erets – the earth] most desolate, and the pomp of her strength shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, that none shall pass through [‘abar – from death into life].
29 Then shall they know that I am the LORD, when I have laid the land most desolate because of all their abominations which they have committed.
30 Also, you son of man, the children of your people still are talking against you by the walls [of things that aren’t true] and in the doors of the houses, and speak one to another, every one to his brother, saying, Come, I pray you, and hear what is the word that comes forth from the LORD.
31 And they come unto you as the people comes, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their covetousness [betsa’ – dishonesty].
32 And, lo, you are unto them as a very lovely song of one that has a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument: for they hear your words, but they do them not.
33 And when this comes to pass, (lo, it will come [as it now has],) then shall they know that a prophet has been among them.
Jeremiah 50
31 Behold, I am against you, O you most proud, says the LORD God of hosts: for your day is come, the time that I will visit [paqad – as the Chief Overseer of the earth] you.
32 And the most proud shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up: and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all round about him.
33 Thus says the LORD of hosts; The children of Israel and the children of Judah were oppressed together: and all that took them captives held them fast; they refused to let them go.
34 Their Redeemer is strong; the LORD of hosts [a man of war] is his name [My identity]: he shall thoroughly plead [riyb] their cause [riyb], that he may give rest to the land [‘erets – to the earth], and disquiet [raqaz – pour His anger upon] the inhabitants of Babylon [the confusion that now rules the world].
35 A sword [of David] is upon the Chaldeans [those using deception to manipulate and control humanity, leading it into self-destruction], says the LORD, and upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise men.
36 A sword is upon the liars; and they shall dote: a sword is upon her mighty men; and they shall be dismayed.
37 A sword is upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the mingled people that are in the midst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword is upon her treasures [‘owtsar]; and they shall be robbed.
38 A drought is upon her waters [this word of God heard not heard in them]; and they shall be dried up: for it is the land of graven images, and they are mad [become insane] upon their idols.
39 Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild beasts of the islands shall dwell there, and the owls shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited forever; neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.
40 As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor cities thereof, says the LORD; so shall no man abide there, neither shall any son of man dwell therein.
41 Behold, a people shall come from the north [shall come out of ignorance], and a great [new] nation, and many kings shall be raised up from the coasts [the end of the old and corrupt, where their proud waves are stayed, beginning the new] of the earth.
42 They shall hold the bow and the lance: they are cruel, and will not show mercy: their voice shall roar like the sea, and they shall ride upon horses, everyone put in array, like a man to the battle, [as My awakened army] against you, O daughter of Babylon.
43 The king of Babylon has heard the report [shama’ shema’ – understood and obeyed – acted knowing the time is of his end] of them, and his hands waxed feeble: anguish [tsarah – tribulation he caused] took hold [chazaq] of him, and pangs as of a woman in travail [fearing what they have brought forth].
44 Behold, he [the LORD, I Am] shall come up like a lion from [roaring against] the swelling [proud waves] of Jordan [words that carried all in the descent into death] unto the habitation of the strong [in power]: but I will make them [the wicked] suddenly run away from her [My people they have oppressed]: and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint [paqad – who I will make Chief Overseer] over her? for who is like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who is that shepherd that will stand before me [paniym – as My presence manifested]? [All these are references to Michael, who is like God and stands for God’s people in this time of Jacob’s trouble {tsarah}, and Shiloh, who comes as the shepherd and stone of God’s people – the king of peace, and king of righteousness, in the order of Melchizedek]
45 Therefore hear you the counsel of the LORD, that he has taken against Babylon; and his purposes, that he has purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the least of the flock [{as in Ahasuerus} “I will be silent and poor {without earthly power}”] shall draw them out: surely he shall make their habitation desolate with them.
46 At the noise [qowl – the LORD’s voice] of the taking of Babylon the earth is moved, and the cry is heard among the nations.
Psalms 17
A Prayer [tphillah – intersession] of David
1 Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer [tphillah], that goes not out of feigned lips.
2 Let my sentence come forth from your presence [paniym]; let your eyes behold the things that are equal.
3 You have proved my heart; you have visited me in the night; you have tried me, and shall find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.
4 Concerning the works of men, by the word of your lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer.
5 Hold up my goings in your paths, that my footsteps slip not.
6 I have called upon you, for you will hear me, O God: incline your ear unto me, and hear my speech.
7 Show your marvelous [eye opening] lovingkindness, O you that saves by your right hand them which put their trust in you from those that rise up against them.
8 Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of your wings,
9 From [paniym – manifest Your presence against] the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who compass me about.
10 They are enclosed in their own fat [the success of their wickedness]: with their mouth they speak proudly.
11 They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth;
12 Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
13 Arise, O LORD, disappoint [paniym – manifest Your presence against] him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, which is your sword:
14 From men which are your hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly you fill with your hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.
15 As for me, I will behold your face [paniym – Your presence] in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with your likeness.
To the Chief Musician [The Chief Overseer of the Earth]
