13 – 14 January 2025
And the glory of the LORD came into the house by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east.
The LORD begins in the above, Ezekiel 43:5, a passage widely accepted as foretelling His return, which the (here and now) enlightened understand is our returning to Him, the Only true God, “at His appearing” to our sight again “and kingdom” realized with us, in us, here on the new earth He’s created.
2 Timothy 3
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come [as they have].
2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
4 Traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such [devils, deceived possessed by Satan, taking you captive, possessing all here in hell] turn away.
6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women [churches] laden with sins, led away with divers lusts [to have their ears scratched],
7 Ever learning [things not true], and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth [“if they speak not according to this word it is because there is no light in them”].
8 Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses [against him casting down rods which turned to serpents, which Aaron’s rod, turned into a serpent, devoured] so do these also resist [satan] the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith [false prophets with not a word of God in them, speaking their own words against the son of man God has sent to free His people from their possession: their oppression and suppression of this good truth they despise].
9 But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as theirs also was.
10 But you have fully known my [sound] doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, charity, patience,
11 Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the LORD delivered me.
12 Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.
13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
14 But continue you in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing [the LORD] of whom you have learned them;
15 And that from a child you have known the holy scriptures, which are able to make you wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus [Jehovah’s Salvation manifested in our flesh].
16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God [theopneustos – only used here, meaning He blows upon – His Spirit alive in those He chooses to speak to and through], and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
17 That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works [which is the good fight we fight].
The word theopneustos is from the words theos (God), pneo (“breathe hard, i.e. breeze:– blow.”), and stereos (stiff, i.e. solid, stable (literally or figuratively):– establish, receive strength, make strong.”). The word pneo only appears 7 times. It’s used first in Matthew 7:25 & 27 to tell of the wind (spirit) that “blew” upon two houses; one built upon a Rock (Christ) which remained, the other built upon sand (an unstable foundation), which fell. It’s used lastly in Revelation 7:1, speaking of the four winds that were held back and “blew” not, until after the one hundred and forty-four thousand (the elect remnant) were sealed in their head (given this full understanding which when heard from them are the seven trumpets sounding, which brings the God’s people at large out of the tribulation).
John 3
5 Jesus answered, Truly, truly, I say unto you, Except a man be born of water this word that washes away blinding corruption] and of the Spirit [of the LORD working and speaking among the ignorant who don’t comprehend Him, because He is veiled in flesh], he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
7 Marvel not that I said unto you, You must be born again.
8 The wind [the Spirit of the LORD] blows [pneo] where it lists [where He wills], and you hear the sound [voice] thereof, but can not tell whence [from where or for what] it comes, and whither [where] it goes [what it is producing; is leading to]: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.
9 Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be?
10 Jesus answered and said unto him, Are you a master [teacher] of Israel, and knowest not these things?
John 3 [from the previous post]
11 Truly, truly, I say unto you, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen [the Father]; and you receive not our witness [the words given by Him].
12 If I have told you earthly things, and you believe not, how shall you believe, if I tell you of heavenly things [of this full understanding]?
13 And no man has ascended [anabaino – is lifted] up to heaven [from where this understanding comes], but he that came down [katabaino] from heaven [from where He alone gives them to whom He wills], even the Son of man which is in heaven [has this full understanding that only comes from the Father].
14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness [upon the nec – the pole already raised], even so must the Son of man be lifted up [and this word given by the Father must be exalted above all other voices]:
15 That whosoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son [I Am the one He’s chosen, declared, and crowned], that whosoever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
18 He that believes on him is not condemned: but he that believes not is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name [identity] of the only begotten Son of God.
19 And this is the condemnation [krisis – {{The Judgment}} this decision point], that light [understand that only comes from the Father] is come into the world, and men loved darkness [ignorance wrought by generational corruption] rather than light, because their deeds were evil [misleading entrenched by pride].
20 For every one that does evil hates the light, neither comes to the light [this understanding that is life], lest his deeds should be reproved.
21 But he that does truth comes to the light [reaches this understanding, and is born again by the Spirit], that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
2 Timothy 4
1 I charge [diamarturomai – testify to confirm] you, therefore [because of the things said in chapter 3, speaking of the opposition to this word of God, and long-suffering to finish the good fight: manifesting good and evil], [Timothy] before [enopion – “in your eyes appearing”] God [when seeing as He sees], and the LORD Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick [those resurrected from death into life] and the dead [those resurrected to damnation] at his appearing [epiphaneia – epiphany: the sudden realization of Him] and his kingdom;
2 Preach the word [in which He exists]; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long-suffering and doctrine.
3 For the time will come when they [all] will not endure [not stand up for] sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears [desiring them to be touched by the hands {creations} of man];
4 And they [all] shall turn away [apostrepho – referring us to its use in Romans 11:26, as Paul quotes Isaiah 59:20 & 21, and Romans 27 quotes from Isaiah 27:9] their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables [muthos – myths, fictions].
5 But watch you in all things [because all things have been seasoned and leavened with corruption], endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof [plerophoreo – only used four other times] of your ministry.
6 For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.
7 I have fought a good fight [to make it known to be good], I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:
8 Henceforth there is laid up for [in this word of the LORD through him] me a crown of righteousness [spoken of later in this letter], which the LORD, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day [today proving His words are not fables but are in truth the words of the LORD]: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing [epiphaneia – who receive the sudden realization].
16 At my first answer, no man stood with me, but all men forsook me [because all was corrupted]: I pray God that it may not be laid to their charge.
17 Notwithstanding the LORD stood with me [for sound doctrine], and strengthened me [giving this understanding]; that by me the preaching might be fully known [plerophoreo] to be the LORD’s word], and that all the Gentiles [all who haven’t known Him] might hear [Him speaking]: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion [those roaring against me, like proud waves: men claiming they are speaking His word – angels claiming they are the second face Ezekiel saw in the wheel with the wheel, in the unfolding presence of the LORD, in the understanding sent forward to given understanding, light, and life to those who receive Him at His appearing and kingdom]].
18 And the LORD shall deliver me from every evil work [when it is known to be evil], and will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom [now when full understanding has come]: to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.
Romans 3
3 For what if some did not believe [the words we hear are God’s]? shall their unbelief make the faith of God [with us] without effect?
4 God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar [see Psalms 116:11]; as it is written, That you might be justified [dikaioo] in your sayings [logos – the words you speak], and might overcome when you are judged [by the same words].
5 But if our unrighteousness [errors through corruption] commend [suniemi – to set together, introduces, exhibits] the righteousness [the correct uncorrupted interpretation] of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance [if our corruption is necessary to introduce His pure word]? (I speak as a man)
6 God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?
7 For [speaking hypothetically, as a man] if the truth of God has more abounded through my lie unto his glory [His presence manifested]; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?
8 And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.
9 What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles [believers and unbeliever], that they are all under sin [in error];
10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
11 There is none that understands, there is none that seeks after God.
12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that does good, no, not one.
13 Their throat [speaking their own corrupt understanding] is an open sepulcher; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
15 Their feet are swift to shed blood:
16 Destruction and misery are in their ways:
17 And the way of peace have they not known:
18 There is no fear of God before their eyes.
19 Now we know that what things soever the law says, it says to them who are under the law [as all now are, refusing to receive this word as the word of God, and obey it as such, not one speaking it as commanded, none confessing the LORD is seen here alive]: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
20 Therefore by the deeds of the law [the written word that is now corrupted into worthlessness by men changing {metatethemi} it by their errors] there shall no flesh be justified [dikaioo] in his sight: for by the law [now corrupted] is [corrupted] the knowledge of sin.
21 But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested [in His presence correcting us by His spoken understanding removing corruption], being witnessed by the law and the prophets [in their purified form];
22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:
23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory [understanding the manifested presence] of God;
24 Being justified [dikaioo] freely by his grace [this gift of understanding] through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
25 Whom God has set forth to be a propitiation [hilasterion – the mercy seat, over which His presence is manifested in the conversation] through faith in his blood [the price of redemption paid], to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins [corrupt thinking] that are past, through the forbearance [anocha – self-restraint] of God;
26 To [open your mouths to] declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier [dikaioo] of him which believes in Jesus [Jehovah’s Salvation manifested in the flesh].
27 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.
28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified [dikaioo] by faith [that obeys and speaks] without the deeds of the law.
29 Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:
30 Seeing it is one God, which shall justify [dikaioo] the circumcision by faith [seen and heard in their words], and uncircumcision through [our] faith [speaking His word as received].
31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law [uncorrupted by men in church and state].
Romans 11
1 I say then, Has God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin [as Saul {a king} over God’s people, until Timothy comes in the end times].
2 God has not cast away his people which he foreknew [we are God’s people from throughout history]. Know you not what the scripture says of Elijah? how he makes intercession to God against Israel saying,
3 LORD, they have killed your prophets, and digged down your altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.
4 But what says the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal [the idols of the old and corrupt world].
5 Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
6 And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then it is no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.
7 What then? Israel has not obtained that which he seeks for; but the election has obtained it, and the rest were blinded.
8 (According as it is written, God has given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day.
9 And David says, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap [which it is, and because of which they are found guilty], and a stumbling-block, and a recompence unto them:
10 Let their eyes be darkened [ignorant of their own guilt], that they may not see, and bow down their back always [to their enemies who among them made them ignorant].
11 I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles [those who don’t know God and aren’t called His people], for to provoke them to jealousy.
12 Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?
13 For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify my office:
14 If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them.
15 For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life [the resurrection] from the dead?
16 For if the first-fruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.
17 And if some of the branches be broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and with them partake of the root and fatness of the olive tree;
18 Boast not against the branches. But if you boast, you bear not the root, but the root you.
19 You will say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.
20 Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by faith. Be not high-minded, but fear:
21 For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not you.
22 Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness: otherwise you also shall be cut off.
23 And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again.
24 For if you were cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?
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 [darkened eyes unable to see the Father in the son] in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
26 And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written [Isaiah 27:9 and 59:20 & 21], There shall come out of Zion the Deliverer [rhomai], and shall turn away [[apostrepho]] ungodliness from Jacob:
27 For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins [the errors that blind them].
28 As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the father’s sakes.
29 For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.
30 For as you [the elect remnant – the first fruit] 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.
32 For God has concluded them all [[except the very elect remnant]] in unbelief, 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.
Isaiah 58
1 Cry aloud, spare not, lift up your voice like a trumpet, and show my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.
2 Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways [[derek]], as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.
3 Wherefore have we fasted [tsuwm], say they, and you see not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and you take no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast [tsowm, from tsuwm, meaning to cover the mouth: refusing to eat or speak My words] you find pleasure, and exact [nagas – and suppress My words by] all your labors [and thereby oppress My people].
4 Behold, you fast [tsuwm] for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: you shall not fast as you do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high.
5 Is it such a fast [tsuwm – covering your mouth] that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? will you call this a fast [tsowm], and an acceptable day to the LORD? [These are the “transgressions and sins of the house of Jacob” revealed.]
6 Is not this the fast [tsown] that I have chosen [that you stop your own words, and uncover your mouths, eating and speaking My words]? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke?
7 Is it not to deal [parac – break, ending the rule of confusion: Babylon; as the LORD has miraculously given it, feeding so many] your bread [this word from the mouth of God, by which man lives] to the hungry, and that you bring the poor that are cast out [maruwd – what rule? Only appearing two other times, both in Jeremiah’s Lamentations – The mistreatment of your words, as wormwood and gall] to your house? when you see the naked, that you cover him [with My word, which protects from the corrupt elements of the world]; and that you hide not yourself from your own flesh?
8 Then shall your light [your understanding given as received] break forth as the morning [this new day], and your health shall spring forth speedily: and your righteousness shall go before you; the glory of the LORD [revealed in you] shall be your reward.
9 Then shall you call, and the LORD shall answer; you shall cry, and he shall say, Here I Am. If you take away from the midst of you the yoke, the putting forth of the finger [teaching], and speaking vanity [worthlessness];
10 And if you draw out your soul to the hungry [feed them with your flesh, speaking My words in which is My presence revealed], and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall your light [understand of this new day] rise in obscurity [choshek – darkness: rise to replace ignorance], and your darkness [‘aphelah – dusk, what was covered by ignorance] be as the noon day [shall become fully understood]:
11 And the LORD shall guide you continually, and satisfy your soul in drought, and make fat your bones: and you shall be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
12 And they that shall be of you shall build the old waste places: you shall raise up the foundations of many generations; and you shall be called, The repairer of the breach [perets – this is the breach spoken of in Amos 9:11, saying “In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old”], The restorer of paths to dwell in.
13 If you turn away your foot [from going your own ways] from the sabbath [when I interrupt, visit, making My presence known, for correction], from doing your pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honorable; and shall honor him, not doing your own ways [[derek]], nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking your own words:
14 Then shall you delight yourself in the LORD; and I will cause you to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed you with [My flesh I have chosen and prepared to reveal My presence, which is] the heritage of Jacob your father: for the mouth of the LORD has spoken it.
Isaiah 59
1 Behold, the LORD’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:
2 But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins [the errors that blind you] have hid his face [presence] from you, that he will not hear.
3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue has muttered perverseness.
4 None [open their mouth and] call for justice, nor any pleads for truth: they trust in vanity [their own worthless ways and ideas], and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
5 They hatch cockatrice’s eggs, and weave the spider’s web: he that eats of their eggs dies, and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper.
6 Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.
7 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths [quoted in and 3:15 & 16].
8 The way [[derek]] of peace they know not [quoted in Romans 3:17]; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goes therein shall not know peace.
9 Therefore is judgment far from us, neither does justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity [choshek – darkness: ignorance]; for brightness, but we walk in darkness [‘aphelah – the ignorance that remains covering the earth {{quoted in Romans 11:27}}].
10 We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noon day as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.
11 We roar all like bears [with our own words], and mourn sore like doves [those knowing it’s the last days]: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off [rachaq – it is an evil decree] from us.
12 For our transgressions are multiplied before you, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them;
13 In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt [refusing His leadership, thinking you are achieving something, while with every movement the serpent tightens his hold], conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
14 And judgment is turned away backward, and justice stands afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.
15 Yea, truth fails; and he that departs from evil makes himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.
16 And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him.
17 For he [the LORD in His man of war] put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloak.
18 According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompense to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompense.
19 So shall they fear [Hebrews 10:31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.] the name [identity] of the LORD [who is a man of war] from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun [this understanding of the new day]. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.
20 And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, says the LORD [[excerpts of these two verses are quoted in Romans 11:26 & 27]].
21 As for me, this is my covenant with them, says the LORD; My spirit that is upon you, and my words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your seed, nor out of the mouth of your seed’s seed, says the LORD, from henceforth and forever.
The following is, as are several chapters above, ending below with Isaiah 54, from the post of 7 August 2023, with today’s addition in double brackets.
6 – 7 August 2023
Cry aloud, spare not, lift up your voice like a trumpet, and show my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.
The above, Isaiah 58:1, speaks of the last trump, the mouths of God’s people opened and speaking as He prescribes. He, in verse 7, calls it a fast He has chosen, which He later, in verse 13, describes saying it’s “not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking your own words.”
Suffer my foolishness for a moment while I mention several (not) coincidences: the chapter number is my birth year, and it begins (Mene) and ends (Mene) with my birth month and day, which (month and day) are the same as the Passover (Tekel – considered and understood, they are His might at which the world wonders). In verse 7, the fourteen times used word parac appears (the first time after appearing in Leviticus 11 seven times, in Deuteronomy 14 four times, and once in Psalms 69:13, all telling of the “divided hooves” of the animals that are clean, whose flesh can be eaten). It (parac) is the equivalent and the origin of the three times used Chaldee word rendered “divided,” “Perez,” and “Upharsin,” in Daniel when it comes by the hand writing on the wall telling of the end of the kingdom of Babylon.
This chapter (Isaiah 58) is the origin of the LORD’s words in John 6, when He tells His students they must eat His flesh, and thereby reveals the parables of His feeding many with few loaves.
John 6
25 And when they had found him on the other side of the sea [here and now], they said unto him, Rabbi [Teacher], when came you hither [now you know the day, month, and year]?
26 Jesus answered them and said, Truly, truly, I say unto you, You seek me, not because you saw the miracles, but because you did eat of the loaves [this word rightly divided], and were filled [with understanding].
27 Labor not for the meat [the flesh of animals] which perishes, but for that meat [this deep understanding that strengthens you] which endures unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him has God the Father sealed [sphragizo – only appearing one other time in John, in John 3:33, the passage saying, “30 He {His identity in me} must increase, but I {my identity} must decrease. 31 He that comes from above is above all: he that is of the earth is earthly, and speaks of the earth: he that comes from heaven {with full understanding} is above all. 32 And what he has seen and heard, that he testifies; and no man receives his testimony {that this is His word manifesting His presence for the salvation of the world}. 33 He that has received his testimony has set to his seal {sphragizo} that God is true. 34 For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God: for God gives not the Spirit by measure unto him. 35 The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand. 36 He that believes on the Son has everlasting life: and he that believes not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abides on him.”].
28 Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God?
29 Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that you believe on him whom he has sent.
30 They said therefore unto him, What sign show you then, that we may see, and believe you? what do you work [I do the work He just spoke of: I believe on the One alive in me, whom the Father sent]?
31 Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat [and as we know, they were ignorant then, as now, as it is written in Deuteronomy 8, as He speaks it now, saying “1 All the commandments which I command you this day shall you observe to do, that you may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the LORD swore unto your fathers. 2 And you shall remember all the way which the LORD your God led you these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you, and to prove you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or not. 3 And he humbled you, and suffered you to hunger, and fed you with manna, which you knew not, neither did your fathers know; that he might make you know that man does not live by bread only, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of the LORD does man live.”].
32 Then Jesus said unto them, Truly, truly, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven [the word from His mouth – I Am].
33 For the bread of God is he which comes down from heaven, and gives life unto the world.
34 Then said they unto him, LORD, evermore give us this bread.
35 And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that comes to me shall never hunger; and he that believes on me shall never thirst.
36 But I said unto you, That you also have seen me, and believe not.
37 All that the Father gives me shall come to me; and him that comes to me I will in no wise cast out.
38 For I came down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him that sent me.
39 And this is the Father’s will which has sent me, that of all which he has given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day [now].
40 And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which sees the Son [now again], and believes on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.
41 The Jews then murmured at him, because he said, I am the bread which came down from heaven.
42 And they said, Is not this [Timothy] Jesus, the son of [John] Joseph, whose father and mother we know? how is it then that he says, I came down from heaven?
43 Jesus therefore answered and said unto them, Murmur not among yourselves.
44 No man can come to me, except the Father which has sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.
45 It is written in the prophets [Isaiah 54:13 & Jeremiah 31:34], “And they shall be all taught of God.” Every man therefore that has heard, and has learned of the Father, comes unto me.
46 Not that any man has seen the Father, save he which is of God, he has seen the Father [alive in me].
47 Truly, truly, I say unto you, He that believes on me has everlasting life.
48 I am that bread of life.
49 Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.
50 This is the bread [the word from the mouth of the LORD] which comes down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.
51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live forever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh [I Am], which I will give for the life of the world.
52 The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat?
53 Then Jesus said unto them, Truly, truly, I say unto you, Except you eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, you have no life in you.
54 Whoso eats my flesh, and drinks my blood, has eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.
55 For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.
56 He that eats my flesh, and drinks my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.
57 As the living Father has sent me [in the flesh], and I live by the Father [his light, understanding, in me]: so he that eats me, even he shall live by me. [The word eat in these passages is the word trogo, which was disused in the post of 20 July 2023, saying “The words the LORD uses in Matthew 13:18, quoting Psalms 4:8, describing the betrayers among the leaders of God’s people {Judah}, are as follows “He {my friend with whom I was at peace} that eats {trogo} bread {artos – this teaching} with me has lifted {epairo} up his heel {pterna – “paternal,” the things received from the fathers} against {epi} me.” The word trogo {used only six times} spiritually means to be led {ago – as in tragos: he-goat, as the flock following him to pasture} in worn tracks {tribos}. The idea in bread is it’s water mixed with wheat {the word mixed with God’s people}, and when leaven {explanation – exposition} is added, it rises. The word epairo, means to raise up, as {in pride} to exalt {self and words, here against the LORD, by the dirt, earthly corruption, added, keeping His people from rising}.”]
58 This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eats of this bread shall live forever.
59 These things said he in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum [the place of the Comforter, as the LORD here unknown is leading us into all truth]. [John 16: 8 And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: 9 Of sin, because they believe not on me; 10 Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and you see me no more; 11 Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged. 12 I have yet many things to say unto you, but you cannot bear them now. 13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will show you things to come. 14 He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall show it unto you.]
60 Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is a hard saying; who can hear it?
61 When Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it, he said unto them, Does this offend you?
62 What and if you shall see the Son of man [come lacking understanding, made a little lower than the Father, until I have] ascend up [resurrected from death into life again] where he was before [the Father crowning {{me}} with His full understanding again]?
63 It is the spirit that quickens [bring us from death into life] the flesh profits nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life [and these are the things I give you to eat, leading you in this good way].
64 But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who [here learning with us] should betray him.
65 And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father.
66 From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.
67 Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will you also go away?
68 Then Simon Peter answered him, LORD, to whom shall we go? you have the words of eternal life.
69 And we believe and are sure that you are that Christ, the Son of the living God.
Friends, God’s people are waiting (looking) for things they’ve learned from false teachers and false prophets: of boogeymen (used to frighten children) they’ve foretold, catastrophes (sudden disasters that never come) they’ve foreseen, by which they hide themselves, the real demons who are the existential threats (watchmen who see nothing). These same men sit still and silent while their fellow demoniacs infesting church and state, like locusts, mislead, devour, and destroy us, our nation, and the world itself. They are all, with one mind unified by corruption, confusion, and maniacal insanity, the wicked and unreasonable men Paul speaks of in 2 Thessalonians 3, who refuse to give this word of God free course, so it will be received as the word of God, as it is. He says we should pray that they be taken out of the way, that we may open our mouths boldly, preaching this word from the mouth of the LORD.
Isiah 54
1 Sing [open your mouths like a trumpet], O barren, you that did not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, you that did not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, says the LORD.
7 For a small moment have I forsaken you; but with great mercies will I gather you.
8 In a little wrath I hid my face [[paniym – My presence]] from you for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on you, says the LORD your Redeemer.
9 For this is as the waters of Noah unto me: for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not [forever] be wroth with you, nor [always] rebuke you.
10 For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed [the governments of the world shall end]; but my kindness shall not depart from you, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, says the LORD that has mercy on you.
11 O you afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay your stones with fair colors, and lay your foundations with sapphires.
12 And I will make your windows of agates, and your gates of carbuncles, and all your borders of pleasant stones.
13 And all your children shall be taught of the LORD; and great shall be the peace of your children.
14 In righteousness shall you be established: you shall be far from oppression; for you shall not fear: and from terror; for it shall not come near you.
15 Behold, they [the wicked] shall surely gather together, but not by me: whosoever shall gather together against you shall fall for your sake.
16 Behold, I have created the smith that blows the coals in the fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy.
17 No weapon that is formed against you shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against you in judgment you shall condemn [when your mouths are opened]. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, says the LORD.
All the following are excerpts from the post of 11 March 2019.
I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
The above is from Psalms 84:10, a Psalm that describes the anointed entering the presence of the LORD, and the blessing found there, in the mission of bringing others to the same doorway.
Psalms 84
1 How amiable are your tabernacles, O LORD of hosts!
2 My soul longs, yea, even faints for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
3 (Yea, the sparrow has found a house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young,) even your altars, O LORD of hosts, my King, and my God.
4 Blessed are they that dwell in your house: they will be still praising you. Selah.
5 Blessed is the man whose strength is in you; in whose heart are the ways of them.
6 Who passing through the valley of Baca [low places of weeping] make it a well [a place from where can be drawn these living waters]; the rain [word of God from heaven] also fills the pools.
7 They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appears before God.
8 O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah.
9 Behold, O God our shield [who protects us from the lies and accusation of the wicked], and look upon the face of [paniym – Your presence manifested in] your anointed.
10 For a day in your courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
11 For the LORD God is a sun and shield [who give us light, understanding, which protects us from the enemies]: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
12 O LORD of hosts, blessed is the man that trusts in you.
The “courts” spoken of in verses 2 & 10 above are the Hebrew word chatser, and speak of where the glory and grace of the LORD is revealed as He appears there for Judgment.
It is the court spoken of in Ezekiel 43:5, where the glory of the LORD appears at the east gate, as the sun rises and shines His unique, the only valid, understanding. His light is what carries us into His courts, as we understand the vision seen by the river Chebar, which we know speak of the events of the past revealing the events of our time, flowing from eternity, and seen as a wheel within a wheel. We know, because we have seen, it is speaking of our time and this very moment.
Ezekiel 43
1 Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looks toward the east:
2 And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east: and his voice was like a noise of many waters: and the earth shined with his glory.
3 And it was according to the appearance of the vision which I saw, even according to the vision that I saw when I came to destroy the city: and the visions were like the vision that I saw [the wheels, which were understood as events within events, times within a time, now rightly divided in our time] by the river Chebar [[far off {now} – in the vision of the unfolding presence of the LORD, as four faces with which He revealed Himself]]; and I fell upon my face [[paniym – I fell at His presence realized]].
4 And the glory of the LORD came into the house [[to His family]] by the way [[derek – this way]] of the gate whose prospect [[paniym – entering the LORD’s presence]] is toward [[derek – is the way]] the east [[toward where this light is first seen]].
5 So the spirit [as a doorkeeper] took me up, and brought me into the inner court [chatser]; and, behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house [[filled His family]].
6 And I heard him speaking unto me out of the house [[From His people, His family]]; and the man [[the first face of the LORD’s unfolding presence, seen in the wheel within a wheel]] stood by me. [[1 Timothy 3:16 And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was {is} manifest in the flesh {the first face}, justified in the Spirit {justified while unknown speaking and working: roaring as lion, the second face; working in the earth, as an ox, the third face}, seen of angels {realized present by those who become His messengers with this same message}, preached unto the Gentiles {declared into those who haven’t know Him}, believed on in the world, received up into glory {His voice exalted above all others, rising into heaven like an eagle, the fourth, final, face seen in the wheel within the wheel}]] .
7 And he said unto me, Son of man, the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel [[here on the earth]] forever, and my holy name [[identity]], shall the house of Israel no more defile, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoredom, nor by the carcasses of their kings in their high places.
8 In their setting of their threshold [[entry ways]] by [[against]] my thresholds [[My entry ways]], and their [[door]] post by [[against]] my [[door]] posts, and the wall [[of their corruption]] between me and them, they have even defiled my holy name [[identity]] by their abominations that they have committed [[and put in My place, and called by My name]]: wherefore I have consumed them in my anger.
9 Now let them put away their whoredom, and the carcasses [[dead flesh without My Spirit]] of their kings [[leading them]], far from me, and I will dwell in the midst of them forever.
10 You son of man, show the house to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities: and let them measure the pattern [[assess and understand this wheel within a wheel]].
11 And if they be ashamed of all that they have done, show them the form of the house [[from My people]], and the fashion thereof, and the goings out thereof, and the comings in [[the entryway]] thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the laws thereof: and write it in their sight [[[as I have]], that they may keep the whole form thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and do them.
12 This is the law of the house; Upon the top of the mountain [[My government]] the whole limit [[end]] thereof round about shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.
13 And these are the measures of the altar after the cubits: The cubit is a cubit and a hand breadth; even the bottom shall be a cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and the border thereof by the edge thereof round about shall be a span: and this shall be the higher place of the altar [[this necessary sacrifice, to deliver His message and declare His presence, we offer to the LORD]].
14 And from the bottom upon the ground even to the lower settle shall be two cubits, and the breadth one cubit; and from the lesser settle even to the greater settle shall be four cubits, and the breadth one cubit.
15 So the altar shall be four cubits; and from the altar and upward shall be four horns.
16 And the altar shall be twelve cubits long, twelve broad, square in the four squares thereof.
17 And the settle shall be fourteen cubits long and fourteen broad in the four squares thereof; and the border about it shall be half a cubit; and the bottom thereof shall be a cubit about; and his stairs shall look toward the east.
18 And he said unto me, Son of man, thus says the LORD God; These are the ordinances of the altar in the day when they shall make it, to offer burnt offerings thereon, and to sprinkle blood thereon.
26 Seven days shall they purge the altar and purify it; and they shall consecrate themselves.
27 And when these days are expired, it shall be, that upon the eighth day, and so forward, the priests shall make your burnt offerings upon the altar, and your peace offerings; and I will accept you, says the LORD God.
This purge into holiness and the cleansing of the priesthood are what Zechariah speaks of in Zachariah 3, which we have often discussed as representing the priesthood restored, patterned in Joshua, whose name is Jesus and therefore describes the body of Christ, here and now. We have seen that after the holy garments of the priest are put on, the LORD’s messenger again tells him, “If you will walk in my ways, and if you will keep my charge, then you shall also judge my house, and shall also keep my courts [chatser], and I will give you places to walk among these that stand by.”
The “place to walk” is from what is said to be a one-time used word mahlek, which is virtually the same as the four-times used word mahalak, which appears as the word “journey” twice in Jonah 3. We know this is after he comes to his senses, from the belly of hell, overcomes the troubles agitating the masses: the winds of false doctrine, and returns to His mission. It is telling of the three days Jonah preached, warning of the impending doom, which in our time is the self-destruction that is coming by following the ignorance of the communists into the false utopia we know is the mass misery of hell. (These preachers of communism should be seen side by side with Venezuela – the only reason they aren’t, is the fake news media is so intent on hating us, as we see and know, they are willing to even destroy the nation to destroy us.)
Jonah 3
1 And the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the second time, saying,
2 Arise, go unto Nineveh [the son who will come to life, and become the church, the mother of all living], that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid you.
3 So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days’ journey [mahalak].
4 And Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey [mahalak], and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.
5 So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
5 So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
6 For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
7 And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water:
8 But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.
9 Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?
10 And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.
Zechariah 3
1 And he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before [[paniym – in the presence of]] the angel [messenger with the message in which He is manifected]] of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist [satan – to attack and accuse] him.
2 And the LORD said unto Satan, The LORD rebuke you, O Satan; even the LORD that has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you: is not this a brand plucked [[natsal – the harpazo, which the false prophete twist into the Satanic doctrine of an off the earth rapture]] out of the fire?
3 Now Joshua was clothed with filthy [[corrupt]] garments, and stood before [[paniym]] the angel.
4 And he answered and spoke unto those that stood before [[paniym]] him, saying, Take away the filthy garments from him. And unto him he said, Behold, I have caused your iniquity to pass from you, and I will clothe you with change of raiment.
5 And I said, Let them set a fair mitre upon his head. So they set a fair mitre upon his head, and clothed him with garments [[of the purified priesthood]]. And the angel of the LORD stood by.
6 And the angel of the LORD protested [reiterated] unto Joshua, saying,
7 Thus says the LORD of hosts; If you will walk in my ways, and if you will keep my charge, then you shall also judge my house, and shall also keep my courts [chatser], and I will give you places to walk [mahlek] among these that stand by.
8 Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, you, and your fellows that sit [[in My presence]] before [[paniym]] you: for they are men wondered at: for, behold, I will bring forth my servant the Branch [[through whom this life flow life]].
9 For behold the stone that I have laid [[manifesting My presence]] before [[paniym]] Joshua; upon one stone shall be seven eyes [[seeing as the LORD sees]]: behold, I will engrave the craving [[write this writing]] thereof, says the LORD of hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of that land [‘erets – the earth]] in one day.
10 In that day, says the LORD of hosts, shall you call every man his neighbor under the vine and under the fig tree [[to receive this life flow from there]].
The “valley” of Baca mentioned in Psalms 84 is referring us to Joel, where in Joel 1:5 the word bakah, the origin of the one-time used name Baca, appears as the drunkards are called to awaken and to “weeping.” The passage is telling of the communists, who with the intention to destroy our nation and culture, infiltrated our every institution and corrupted them with their poisonous ideas and induced ignorance.
Joel 1
1 The word of the LORD that came to Joel [Jehovah is God] the son of Pethuel [the vision of God – seeing as He sees].
2 Hear this, you old men, and give ear, all you inhabitants of the land [[‘erets – the earth]]. Has this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers?
3 Tell you your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.
4 That which the palmerworm has left has the locust eaten; and that which the locust has left has the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm has left has the caterpiller eaten.
5 Awake, you drunkards, and weep [bakah]; and howl, all you drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth [the ideas that have made you blind, ignorant and confused have been destroyed by the light of God’s vision, understanding].
6 For a nation [communists – calling themselves liberals, progressives, and socialists] is come up upon my land [[‘erets – the earth]], strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the cheek teeth of a great lion [[with their mouths tearing in pieces and devouring all flesh]].
7 He has laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he has made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.
8 Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth [who thinks Christ is dead].
9 The meat offering and the drink offering [truth] is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD’s ministers, mourn.
10 The field is wasted, the land [[‘adamah – this generation]] mourns; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languishes.
11 Be you ashamed, O you husbandmen; howl, O you vinedressers, [you stewards in who the LORD gave charge, to watch over and keep His truth, as it was given you] for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished.
12 The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languishes; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy [[the realization of the LORD presence]] is withered away from the sons of men.
13 Gird yourselves, and lament, you priests: howl, you ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering [this word of God, His truth] is withheld [by your opposition and rebelion] from the house of your God.
14 Sanctify you a fast [[to abstain from corruption, men’s evil misleading]], call a solemn assembly [[into the LORD’s ONE BODY]] , gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land [[‘erets – the earth]] into the house of the LORD your God, and cry unto the LORD,
15 Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
16 Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?
17 The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.
18 How do the beasts [[all the dead flesh]] groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.
19 O LORD, to you will I cry: for the fire [[of hell]] has devoured the [[corrupt]] pastures of the wilderness, and the flame [[of hell’s fires]] has burned all the trees [[the falsely so-called upright men of this evil generation]] of the field.
20 The beasts of the field cry also unto you: for the rivers of [[corupt]] waters are dried up, and the fire [[of hell]] has devoured the [[corrupt]] pastures of the wilderness.
Psalms 44
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 [[‘erets – the earth]] in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but your right hand, and your arm, and the light of your countenance [[paniym – Your Presence]], because you had a favor unto them.
4 You are my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.
5 Through you will we push down our enemies: through your name 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 forever. Selah.
9 But you have cast off [[when we went into darkness: forgot your presence, and you separated, are hidden, from us]], 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 [[disappoiting those trying to find you]] has covered me,
16 For [[we followed]] the voice of him that reproaches and blasphemes; by reason of the enemy and avenger.
17 All this is come upon us; yet [[we still ignorantly say]] have we 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 [[men as serpents and whales devouring us with wide open mouths]], and covered us with the shadow of death.
20 If [[we are ignorant that]] we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;
21 Shall not God search this out? for he knows the secrets of the heart [[corrupted minds]].
22 Yea, for your sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
23 Awake [[in us]], why sleep you, O LORD? arise, cast us not off [[leave us not in darkness]] forever.
24 Wherefore hide you your face [[paniym – you presence]], and forget our affliction and our oppression?
25 For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaves unto the earth [[‘erets]].
26 Arise [[in us]] for our help, and redeem us for your mercies’ sake.
Psalms 120
1 In my distress I cried unto the LORD, and he heard me.
2 Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.
3 What shall be given unto you? or what shall be done unto you, you false tongue?
4 Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.
5 Woe is me, that I sojourn [stop in my journey] in Mesech [those the LORD has drawn into open sight], that I dwell in the tents of Kedar [darkness – ignorance and confusion]!
6 My soul has long dwelt with him that hates peace.
7 I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war.
