Then said the LORD unto me; This gate shall be shut, it shall not be opened, and no man shall enter in by it; because the LORD, the God of Israel, has entered in by it, therefore it shall be shut.

20 October 2025

Then said the LORD unto me; This gate shall be shut, it shall not be opened, and no man shall enter in by it; because the LORD, the God of Israel, has entered in by it, therefore it shall be shut.

The above, Ezekiel 44:2, is speaking of the east gate of the city of Jerusalem (the name meaning from where the LORD’s teaching flows to His people: His way into sustainable peace, like a river of life-giving water into the sea).

How it flows is then spoken of in the following verse, saying “It is for the prince; the prince, he shall sit in it to eat bread [lechem] before [paniym – in the presence of] the LORD; he shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate, and shall go out by the way of the same.”

The word rendered “by the way” is derek, meaning “a road (as trodden); figuratively, a course of life or mode of action.”

The word rendered “porch” is ‘uwlam, from the nine times used word ‘alam, meaning “to tie fast; hence (of the mouth) to be tongue-tied:–bind, be dumb, put to silence.”

The word rendered “gate” is sha’ar, from a once used identical word meaning “to split or open, i.e. (literally, but only as denominative from 8179) to act as gate-keeper (see 7778): (figuratively) to estimate:–think.”

The once used word sha’ar (8176) appears in Proverbs 23:7, the LORD there giving context to the two above-mentioned verses.

Proverbs 23
1 When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently [biyn – meaning “to separate mentally (or distinguish), i.e.(generally) understand] what is before you [paniym – consider in whose presence you are]:
2 And put a knife to your throat [to stop your own word from reaching your mouth], if you be a man given to appetite [nephesh – if you want to live].
3 Be not desirous of his [the dead’s] dainties [mat’am – meat, deep understanding]: for they are deceitful meat [lechem – bread].
4 Labor not to be rich [with worldly treasures]: cease from your own wisdom.
5 Will you set your eyes upon that which is not? for [worldly] riches certainly make themselves wings [when they are understood to be worthless]; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven [in the LORD presence manifested, here as the fourth and final face Ezekiel saw in the unfolding presence of the LORD in the wheel within a wheel].
6 Eat you not the bread [lachem] of him that has an evil [misleading] eye, neither desire you his dainty meats [mat’am – his falsely so-called deep understanding]:
7 For as he thinks [sha’ar] in his heart [his foundational mind], so is he [his foolish mind produces foolish words and works]: Eat and drink, says he to you; but his heart is not with you [he that is not with me is against me].
8 The morsel [of evil] which you have eaten shall you vomit up, and lose your sweet words.
9 Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of your words.
10 Remove not the old [‘owlam – eternal] landmark [gbuwl – the boundaries, into which the wicked trespass]; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless [stealing this harvest from those without a man to protect and defend them]:
11 For their [kinsman] Redeemer [of the fatherless] is mighty; he shall [here and now] plead their cause with you.
12 Apply your heart unto [this] instruction, and your ears to the words of knowledge.
13 Withhold not correction from the child: for if you beat him with the [LORD’s] rod [this correction], he shall not die.
14 You shall beat him with the rod, and shall deliver his soul from [death and] hell.

Daniel 10
7 And I Daniel alone [bad – the lone voice] saw the vision: for the men that were with me saw not the vision; but a great quaking fell upon them, so that they fled to hide themselves.
8 Therefore I was left [sha’ar – {7604, meaning they are the elect remnant}] alone [bad – the one voice in Daniel, the judgment of God, in His perpetual children, who rise and condemn this evil generation], and saw this great vision, and there remained [none of my own understanding] no strength in me: for my comeliness was turned in me into corruption, and I retained no strength [old and corrupt understanding].
9 Yet heard [shama’ – and obeyed] I the voice of his words: and when I heard the voice of [the LORD in] his words, then [I realized] was I in a [Abraham’s] deep sleep on my face [paniym – in the LORD’s presence], and my face [paniym – His presence] toward the ground [‘erets – was upon the earth].
10 And, behold, a hand [his work] touched me, which set me upon my knees and upon the palms of my hands.
11 And he said unto me, O Daniel [judgment of God], a man greatly beloved, understand the words that I speak unto you, and stand upright [rise from your deep sleep]: for unto you am I now sent. And when he had spoken this word unto me, I stood trembling.
12 Then said he unto me, Fear not, Daniel: for from the first day that you did set your heart to understand, and to chasten [correct] yourself before [paniym – in the presence of] your God, your words were heard, and I am come for [to change] your words [by awakening your sleeping mind].
13 But the prince of the kingdom of Persia [the corrupt powers, in places where purity should be found] withstood me one and twenty days: but, lo, Michael [who is made in the image of God], one of the chief princes, came to help me; and I remained [yathar – remained alive] there [among the dead] with the kings of Persia.
14 Now I am come to make you understand [biyn] what shall befall your people in the latter days [‘achariyth – in this after life now come]: for yet the vision is for many days.
15 And when he had spoken such words unto me, I set my face toward the ground [nathan paniym ‘erets – I gave up the LORD’s presence into the belly of the earth], and I became dumb [‘alam – no longer speaking the LORD’s words, while the book was sealed, and the deep was darkened].
16 And, behold, one like the similitude of the sons of men touched my lips: then I opened my mouth, and spoke [these word of the LORD], and said unto him that stood [was risen] before [by the LORD’s presence in] me, O my LORD, by the vision my sorrows are turned upon me, and I have retained no strength [no deep understanding].
17 For how can the servant of this my LORD talk with this my LORD? for as for me, straightway there remained no strength in me, neither is there breath [life] left in me.
18 Then there came again and touched me one like the appearance of a man [the first face of the unfolding presence of the LORD], and he [roaring as a lion, by His working in the earth as an ox: the second and third faces seen in the wheel] strengthened me,
19 And said, O man greatly beloved, fear not: peace be unto you, be strong, yea, be strong. And when he had spoken unto me, I was strengthened, and said, Let my LORD speak; for you have strengthened me.
20 Then said he, Knowest you wherefore I come unto you? and now will I return to fight with the prince of Persia: and when I am gone forth, lo, the prince of Grecia [those who will corrupt the word of God] shall come.
21 But I will show you that which is noted in the scripture of truth: and there is none that holds with me in these things, but Michael your prince.

The word Grecia (Yavan, from yayin – meaning wine, effervescing, fermenting, and intoxicating) has the same origin as the twice used word yaven, meaning “properly, dregs (as effervescing); hence, mud:–mire, miry.” It (yaven) speaks of the word of God corrupted and its ill effects on the minds of men.

Psalms 40
1 I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.
2 He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry [yaven] clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.
3 And he has put a new song [His word] in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD.
4 Blessed is that man that makes the LORD his trust, and respects not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.
5 Many, O LORD my God, are your wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto you: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.
6 Sacrifice and offering you did not desire; my ears have you opened: burnt offering and sin offering have you not required.
7 Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume [mgillah] of the book [cepher] it is written of me,
8 I delight to do your will, O my God: yea, your law is within my heart [is the foundation of my mind].
9 I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, you know.
10 I have not hid your righteousness within my heart [mind]; I have declared your faithfulness and your salvation: I have not concealed your lovingkindness and your truth from the great congregation.
11 Withhold not you your tender mercies from me, O LORD: let your lovingkindness and your truth continually preserve me.
12 For innumerable [generational degeneration] evils have compassed me about: my [the dead body of Christ’s] iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of my head: therefore my heart [mind] fails me.
13 Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help me.
14 Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.
15 Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha [that they have seen the fallen condition, without any power remaining, when all understanding has left the one body].
16 Let all those that [diligently] seek you rejoice and be glad in you: let such as love your salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified [with us, in us].
17 But I am poor and needy; yet the LORD thinks upon me: you are my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.

Psalms 69
1 Save me [Your dead body], O God; for the [corrupt] waters are come in unto my soul.
2 I sink in deep mire [yaven], where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods [of confused and delusional words] overflow me.
3 I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: my eyes fail while I wait for my God.
4 They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head: they that would destroy me, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.
5 O God, you know my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from you.
6 Let not them that wait on you, O LORD God of hosts, be ashamed for my sake: let not those that seek you be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel.
7 Because for your sake I have borne reproach; shame has covered my face.
8 I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother’s children.
9 For the zeal of your house has eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached you are fallen upon me.
10 When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.
11 I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.
12 They that sit in the gate [eating their corrupted bread] speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards [intoxicated by their corruption].
13 But as for me, my prayer is unto you, O LORD, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of your mercy hear me, in the truth of your salvation.
14 Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.
15 Let not the waterflood [of corruption] overflow me, neither let the [darkened] deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.
16 Hear me, O LORD; for your lovingkindness is good: turn unto me according to the multitude of your tender mercies.
17 And hide not your face [paniym – Your presence] from your servant; for I am in trouble [tsar – among enemies]: hear me speedily.
18 Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of my enemies.
19 You have known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonor: my adversaries [tsarar] are all before you.
20 Reproach has broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters [nacham – to lead us into all truth], but I found none.
21 They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
22 Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.
23 Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake.
24 Pour out your indignation upon them, and let your wrathful anger take hold of them.
25 Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents.
26 For they persecute him whom you have smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom you have wounded.
27 Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into your righteousness.
28 Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.
29 But I am poor and sorrowful: let your salvation, O God, set me up on high.
30 I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.
31 This also shall please the LORD better than an ox or bullock that has horns and hoofs.
32 The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart [mind] shall live that seek God.
33 For the LORD hears the poor [those without worldly power], and despises not his prisoners [bound here in the belly of the earth].
34 Let the [new] heaven and earth praise him, the seas [humanity], and every thing that moves therein.
35 For God will save Zion [His people in whom He lives and reigns], and will build the cities of Judah [a new crop of Godly leaders who will rule the earth with Him]: that they may dwell there, and have it [the earth] in possession.
36 The seed also of his servants shall inherit it [the earth]: and they that love his name [His manifested identity] shall dwell therein.

In the context of verse 26, the word ‘alam appears in Isaiah 53:7, rendered “dumb” speaking of the dead body of Christ, keeping Him unknown, not declaring the LORD’s presence in His word.

Isaiah 53
1 Who has believed our report [shmuw’ah – shama’ Jehovah; who has heard these words as the voice of the LORD, as it is]? and to whom [but those who’ve heard it as such] is the arm of the LORD revealed?
2 For he shall grow up before him [paniym – into His presence manifested before the eye of the world] as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground [‘erets – the earth without this word of God]: he has no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from [paniym – hiding His presence meant to be revealed in us, and will be when awakened by] him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not [remember the meaning of the name Timothy: the highest esteemed of God].
4 Surely he has borne [cabal] our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised [daka’] for our iniquities: the chastisement [correction] of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
6 All we like sheep have gone astray [into apostacy]; we have turned every one to his own way [forgetting the only way is the LORD’s]; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep [rachel – one of four times the word is used – her child whose birthright is the throne, traveling, journeying, through the generations] before her shearers is dumb [‘alam], so he opened not his mouth.
8 He was taken from prison and from judgment [as was Joseph, Rachel’s child]: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living [sent here into death and hell]: for the transgression of my people was he stricken [with them].
9 And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
10 Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise [daka’] him; he has put him to grief: when you [God’s people] shall make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
11 He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear [cabal] their iniquities.
12 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he has poured out his soul unto [as a willing servant sent here into] death: and he was numbered with the transgressors [as I now am]; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

The first time the word ‘alam appears is in Genesis 37:7 as Joseph tells of his dream wherein he sees himself raised above the entire house (family) of Israel. The passage was recently, in the post of 4 October 2025, discussed in detail, describing Joseph’s rise from prison, like in Isaiah 53:8 above.

The following, ending with the paragraph deconstructing the phrase “to preserve life,” is from that post, with today’s additions in double brackets.

Psalms 110
A Psalm of David
1 The LORD [Jehovah] said unto my LORD [‘adown – the king He will establish, Joseph, the separated one, whose birthright it is – see 1 Chronicles 5:1 & 2, telling of it passing from Reuben {the pattern of the son of perdition, who defiled his fathers bed} to him], Sit you at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool.
2 The LORD [Jehovah] shall send the rod of your strength out of Zion: rule you in the midst of your enemies [as I do, as commanded by the Highest power].
3 Your people shall be willing in the day of your power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning [this day now come]: you have the dew of your youth [this word of God by which we’re born as His new creations in the new earth].
4 The LORD [Jehovah] has sworn, and will not repent, You are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek [the king of righteousness, and king of peace].
5 The LORD [‘Adonay – the King of kings] at your right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath.
6 He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill the places with the dead bodies; he shall wound the heads [ro’sh – those whose evil ideas and ways rule] over many countries [‘erets – over the earth].
7 He shall drink of the brook in the way [this word sent into this time, to be revealed, by which]: therefore, shall he lift up [ruwm – raise and exalt] the head [ro’sh – His righteous ideas and way].

Genesis 44
18 Then Judah [the leaders of God’s people] came near unto him, and said, Oh my LORD [‘adown], let your servant, I pray you, speak a word in my LORD’s [‘adown] ears, and let not your anger burn against your servant: for you are even as Pharaoh.
19 My LORD [‘adown] asked his servants, saying, Have you a father, or a brother?
20 And we said unto my LORD, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother [Rachel – those “journeying” through time], and his father loveth him.
21 And you said unto your servants, Bring him down unto me, that I may set my eyes upon him.

Above, when Joseph’s brothers “fall before him to the ground,” and Judah calls himself and his brothers his servants, it is the fulfillment of his (Joseph’s) dream, the one for which his brothers betrayed him and sold him into bondage.

Genesis 37
5 And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it his brethren: and they hated him yet the more.
6 And he said unto them, Hear, I pray you, this dream which I have dreamed:
7 For, behold [seeing this harvest], we were binding [[‘alam]] sheaves [[‘alummah]] in the field, and, lo, my sheaf [[‘alummah]] arose [[quwm – referring to Genesis 49:9, saying, “Judah is a lion’s whelp {the second face of the unfolding presence of the LORD}: from the prey, my son, you are gone up {‘alah – risen from the dead}: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up {quwm – Joseph first breaking his silence will raise him first to break his silence}]]?, and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves [[‘alummah]] stood round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf [[‘alummah]].
8 And his brethren said to him, Shall you indeed reign over us? or shall you indeed have dominion over us? And they hated him yet the more for his dreams, and for his words.
9 And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and said, Behold [he saw this time of the harvest], I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun [the church] and the moon [civil government] and the eleven stars [all God’s people at large] made obeisance to me.
10 And he told it to his father, and to his brethren: and his father rebuked him, and said unto him, What is this dream that you have dreamed? Shall I and your mother and your brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to you to the earth?
11 And his brethren envied him; but his father observed [shamar – guarded and preserved, hedged about with thorns] the saying.

The above is also the origin of the LORD’s parable in Luke 19, telling of himself as a man taking a far journey (rachel).

Luke 19
1 And Jesus entered and passed through Jericho [moon, speaking of when the “wall of separation” falls as God’s people open their mouths].
2 And, behold, there was a man named Zacchaeus [meaning purity, by which we see the LORD, speaking of when God’s people remember Him and come away from those, with defiled words, possessing them {as in the words zakar, chao, and ktetor}], which was the chief among the publicans, and he was rich.
3 And he sought to see Jesus who he was; and could not for the press, because he was little of stature.
4 And he ran before, and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him: for he was to pass that way.
5 And when Jesus came to the place, he looked up, and saw him, and said unto him, Zacchaeus, make haste, and come down; for today I must abide at your house.
6 And he made haste, and came down, and received him joyfully [realizing His presence with us, in us].
7 And when they saw it, they all murmured, saying, That he was gone to be guest with a man that is a sinner.
8 And Zacchaeus stood, and said unto the LORD: Behold, LORD, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold.
9 And Jesus said unto him, This day is [that day of] salvation come to this house, for-so-much as he also is a son of Abraham [by faith, hearing and believing the LORD’s voice].
10 For the Son of man is [has] come to seek and to save that which was lost [in blindness, as in 2 Corinthians 4:3 below].
11 And as they [then] heard these things, he added and spoke a parable, because he was nigh to Jerusalem, and because they thought that the kingdom of God should immediately appear.
12 He said therefore, A certain nobleman [like Joseph] went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return.
13 And [before he left] he called his ten servants [ordinal perfection, this understanding of government], and delivered them ten pounds [these ideas], and said unto them, Occupy till I come.
14 But his citizens [like Joseph’s brothers] hated him, and sent a message after him, saying, We will not have this man to reign over us.
15 And it came to pass, that when he was [now] returned, having received the kingdom, then he commanded these servants to be called unto him, to whom he had given the money, that he might know how much every man had gained by trading [these word are from the once used Greek word diapragmateuomai, meaning “to thoroughly occupy oneself, i.e. (transitively and by implication) to earn in business:–gain by trading,” inferring it is through being pragmatic, dealing with these ideas as they are, sowing them as received].
16 Then came the first, saying, LORD, your pound has gained ten pounds.
17 And he said unto him, Well, you good servant: because you have been faithful in a very little, have you authority over ten cities.
18 And the second came, saying, LORD, your pound has gained five pounds.
19 And he said likewise to him, Be you also over five cities.
20 And another came, saying, LORD, behold, here is your pound, which I have kept laid up in a napkin:
21 For I feared you [and therefore sat silent and still, refusing to sow], because you are an austere man: you take up that you laid not down, and reap [in this harvest] that you did not sow.
22 And he says unto him, Out of your own mouth will I judge you, you wicked servant. You knew that I was an austere man, taking up that I laid not down, and reaping that I did not sow:
23 Wherefore then gave not you my money into the bank, that at my coming I might have required my own with usury?
24 And he said unto them that stood by, Take from him the pound, and give it to him that has ten pounds.
25 (And they said unto him, LORD, he has ten pounds.)
26 For I say unto you, That unto every one which has shall be given; and from him that has not, even that he has shall be taken away from him.
27 But those my enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and [with these words] slay [rightly divide: discern] them before me.
28 And when he had thus spoken, he went before, ascending up to [New Heavenly] Jerusalem [God’s people at large].
29 And it came to pass, when he was come nigh to Bethphage [the houses of the unripe] and Bethany [the houses in misery], at the mount [His new government] called the mount of Olives [where this oil, the anointing, fuels the light], he sent two of his disciples,
30 Saying, Go you into the village over against you; in the which at your entering you shall find a colt [the horse of Zachariah 9:9 & 10:3, first the lowly upon whom He rises and rides into Jerusalem, who then become His goodly horse in the battle to free those possessed by Satan, as in Revelation 19:11] tied [deo – the word only appears elsewhere in Luke, in Luke 13:16, saying, “And ought not this woman {the church, the ONE BODY of Christ}, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has bound {deo}, lo, these eighteen {6+6+6} years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day {this interruption of men’s defiled words and work, by this light now come}?], whereon yet never man sat: loose him, and bring him hither.
31 And if any man ask you, Why do you loose him? thus shall you say unto him, Because the LORD has need of him.
32 And they that were sent went their way, and found even as he had said unto them.
33 And as they were loosing the colt, the owners [kurios – who’ve put themselves in the LORD’s place and call themselves by His name] thereof said unto them, Why loose you the colt [who they possess: ktetor, with affinity to katecho, ketos: hold down, in the whale’s belly]?
34 And they said, The LORD has need of him.
35 And they brought him to Jesus: and they cast their garments [the protection against the defiled, corrupt, element of the world] upon the colt, and they set Jesus thereon.
36 And as he went, they spread their clothes in the way.
37 And when he was come nigh, even now at the descent of the mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works that they had seen;
38 Saying, Blessed be the King that comes in the name of the LORD: peace [eirene – flowing understanding] in heaven [oranos – from oros, meaning mountain, rising from the earth into the air, and nos, as in gnosis, the act of knowing, knowledge; this understanding], and glory in the highest.
39 And some of the Pharisees [the religious hypocrites who possess the minds of God’s people] from among the multitude said unto him, Master [didaskalos – teacher], rebuke your disciples [oblivious irony here: those refusing to be corrected, calling Him to correct those He’s already freed away from their false teaching].
40 And he answered and said unto them, I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones [those these men have cast down, that no one stone remains upon another in the LORD’s temple: His people’s minds] would immediately cry out.
41 And when he was come near, he beheld the city [His people at large, who remain possessed by the devils mixed among them], and wept over it,
42 Saying, If you hadst known, even you, at least in this your day, the things which belong unto [pros – that come before] your peace [eirene – these words of understanding that flow from heaven]! but now they are hid from your eyes. [As in 2 Corinthians 4, verse 2 saying we, the freed disciples, have renounced “the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully,” verse 3 & 4 then saying “if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: In whom the god of this world {satan through the devils he possesses} has blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine {understanding} unto them.]
43 For the days shall come upon you [which is now apparent], that your enemies shall cast a trench about you, and compass you round, and keep you in on every side [forbidding you to stray from their false teaching],
44 And shall lay you even with the ground, and your children within you; and they shall not leave in you one stone upon another [Isaiah 22:10 And you have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses have you broken down to fortify the wall {of your separation from the LORD}. These are the houses spoken of in Isaiah 56:7, speaking of those who take hold of My covenant, saying, “Even them will I bring to my holy mountain {My new government}, and make them joyful {by My work make them realize My presence} in my house of prayer {in this conversation above My mercy seat}: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon my altar; for my house shall be called an house of prayer for all people.]; because you knew not the time of your visitation [When I have manifested My presence as the Chief Overseer of the earth].
45 And he went into the temple [the corrupt church institutions], and began to cast out them that sold therein [doing their own business], and them that bought [their corruption];
46 Saying unto them, It is written [Isaiah 56:7], My house is the house of prayer: but you have made it a den of thieves. [The latter part of this statement comes from Jeremiah 7:11, the passage saying, 9 Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal {the idols you’ve created, put in My place, and call by My name}, and walk after other gods {of this world} whom you know not; 10 And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations {that have caused your desolation}? 11 Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen it, says the LORD. 12 But go you now unto my place which was in Shiloh, where I set my name {My identity} at the first, and see what I did to it {taking away the ark in which is My testimony} for the wickedness of my people Israel.]
47 And he taught daily in the temple [sending these words into the minds of those who receive them as the word of the LORD]. But the chief priests and the scribes and the chief of the people sought to destroy him,
48 And could not find what they might do: for all the people were very attentive to hear him.

The word above rendered “visitation,” speaking of those (not knowing the LORD’s presence) remaining possessed by devils and perishing thereby, is the four times used Greek word episkope, which literally translates to over see. As we’ve seen, it (episkope) is the equivalent of the Hebrew word pquaddah, meaning “feminine passive participle of 6485 [paqad – meaning “to visit (with friendly or hostile intent); by analogy, to oversee, muster, charge, care for, miss, deposit, etc.”]; visitation (in many senses, chiefly official).”

We know this (equivalence) by the use of episkope in Acts 1:20, quoting Psalms 109:8, where its pquddah, rendered “his office.” In Acts, it’s the office of an apostle, when speaking of the removal and replacement of Judas (Judah), who betrayed (sold) the LORD.

The word paqad is the word first used in Genesis 21:1, there telling of when the LORD “visited” Sarah and she conceived Isaac, with whom began Abraham’s (all God’s people’s) “deep sleep,” during which he (Isaac) is the first of such overseers (as a lamp) with and through whom the LORD (guiding us through the darkness) works His will and plan.

The next time the word (paqad) appears is in Genesis 39:4, as we’re told of when the captain of the Egyptian guard, who bought Joseph from the Ishmaelites to whom his brothers sold (betrayed) him, after seeing how the LORD prospered Joseph in everything he did, “made him overseer over his house.” As we know, the man’s wife later falsely accused Joseph of trying to force her to “lie with” him. For this, he was imprisoned, from which he was later raised and appointed (paqad) to the second-highest position over the land (‘erets – the earth) of Egypt (double strait, when the entrance to the LORD’s kingdom is greatly narrow by the obstacles of oppressive (feckless) government in church and state).

Genesis 44
1 Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him; and he cried, Cause every man to go out from me. And there stood no man with him, while Joseph [David’s ‘adown, to whom Jehovah said, “sit you at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool.”] made himself known unto his brethren.
2 And he wept aloud: and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh heard.
3 And Joseph said unto his brethren, I am Joseph; does my father yet live? And his brethren could not answer him; for they were troubled at his presence [paniym].
4 And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I Am Joseph your brother, whom you sold into Egypt.
5 Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you sold me hither: for God did send me before you [paniym – as His presence] to preserve life.

The above word, “to preserve life,” is from the eight times used Hebrew word michyah (mah chayah – what life), which is intended (strategically engineered) to refer us to its usages in Ezra 9:8 & 9, speaking of this moment of repentance and “reviving.”

The word ‘alummah, above in Genesis 37:7, four times rendered “sheaves,” is from the two words ‘alam and mah, meaning what silence, which is the silence of the silenced, the sheaves. The word only appears one other time, in Psalms 126:6, also rendered sheaves.

Psalms 126
A Song of Degrees [steps into heaven]
1 When the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion, we were [before He possessed us] like them that dream [our thoughts were from a sleeping mind and silenced lips].
2 Then [when He awakened us] was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen [those who haven’t known the LORD among us speaking and working], The LORD has done great things for them.
3 The LORD has done great things for us; whereof we are glad.
4 Turn again our captivity, O LORD, as the streams in the south [these life-giving waters giving us His understanding].
5 They that sow [these words] in tears [mourning the condition of the dead body] shall reap in joy [realizing the LORD’s presence with us, in us].
6 He that goes forth and weeps, bearing precious seed [this word of the LORD, which is of great value to those who receive it as His and Him], shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing [nasa’ – lifting up] his sheaves of [‘alummah – ending the silence of the silenced] with him.

Psalms 31
1 In you, O LORD, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in your righteousness.
2 Bow down your ear to me; deliver me speedily: be you my strong Rock, for a house of defense to save me.
3 For you are my Rock and my fortress; therefore for your name’s sake lead me, and guide me.
4 Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for you are my strength.
5 Into your hand I commit my spirit: you have redeemed me, O LORD God of truth.
6 I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the LORD.
7 I will be glad and rejoice in your mercy: for you have considered my trouble; you have known my soul in adversities [tsarah – this tribulation, Jacob’s troubles];
8 And have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: you have set my feet in a large room.
9 Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble [tsar – among enemies]: my eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.
10 For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones are consumed.
11 I was a reproach among all my enemies, but especially among my neighbors, and a fear to my acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me.
12 I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.
13 For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.
14 But I trusted in you, O LORD: I said, You are my God.
15 My times are in your hand: deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from them that persecute me.
16 Make your face [paniym – presence] to shine [Your understanding] upon your servant: save me for your mercies’ sake.
17 Let me not be ashamed, O LORD; for I have called upon you: let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave [sh’owl – sheol, hell].
18 Let the lying lips be put to silence [‘alam]; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
19 Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for them that fear you; which you have wrought for them that trust in you before the sons of men!
20 You shall hide them in the secret of your presence [paniym] from the pride of man: you shall keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.
21 Blessed be the LORD: for he has shown me his marvelous kindness in a strong city.
22 For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before your eyes: nevertheless you heard the voice of my supplications when I cried unto you.
23 O love the LORD, all you his saints: for the LORD preserves the faithful, and plentifully rewards the proud doer.
24 Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart [giving understanding to you mind], all you that hope in the LORD.

Psalms 39
1 I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.
2 I was dumb [‘alam] with silence [duwmiYAH – unable to speak the words of Jehovah], I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.
3 My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spoke I with my tongue,
4 LORD, make me to know my end [qets], and the measure of my days, what it is: that I may know how frail I am.
5 Behold, you have made my days as a handbreadth; and my age is as nothing before you: truly every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.
6 Surely every man walks [his own way, with his own opinion from his sleeping mind] in a vain show: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heaps up [worldly] riches, and knows not who shall gather them.
7 And now, LORD, what wait I for? my hope is in you.
8 Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.
9 I was dumb [‘alam], I opened not my mouth; because you did it.
10 Remove your stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of your hand.
11 When you with rebukes do correct man for iniquity, you make his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.
12 Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not your peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with you, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
13 O spare me, that I may recover strength [understanding], before I go hence, and be no more.

Ezekiel 3
1 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man [I Am], eat [diligently search for Me in My word] that you find; eat this roll [this written word sent to you as a wheel within a wheel, understanding sent forward to, in the full circuit of the age, give the same understanding to those to whom the LORD sends it], and go speak unto the house of Israel.
2 So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that roll.
3 And he said unto me, Son of man, cause your belly to eat, and fill your bowels with this roll that I give you. Then did I eat it; and it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness [that is stronger than the strength of lions, as in Samson’s riddle].
4 And he said unto me, Son of man, go, get you unto the house of Israel, and speak with my words [you found when, by your faith, I revealed them in your diligent search] unto them.
5 For you are not sent to a people of a strange speech and of a hard language, but to the house of Israel [now the dead body of Christ, as dead bones];
6 Not to many people of a strange speech and of a hard language, whose words you can not understand. Surely, had I sent you to them, they would have hearkened [shama’ – heard and obeyed] unto you.
7 But the house of Israel [the dead body of Christ] will not hearken [shama’ – hear and obey] unto you; for they will not hearken [shama’ – hear and obey] unto me: for all the house of Israel are impudent and hardhearted.
8 Behold, I have made your face [paniym – My presence manifested in you] strong against their faces, and your forehead strong against their foreheads [like the cherubim, face to face above the mercy seat, where My presence is manifested in the conversation].
9 As an adamant [shamiyr – like a thorn that will pierce their ear and enter their minds, as My word effectually works to change them] harder than flint [tsor] have I made your forehead: fear them not, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house.
10 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, all my words that I shall speak unto you receive in your heart, and hear with your ears.
11 And go, get you to them of the captivity [this refers to Ezekiel 12:39, in Babylon where the dead body of Christ is unaware it is the confusion into which they’ve come], unto the children of your people, and speak unto them, and tell them, Thus says the LORD God; whether they will hear [shama’ – and obey], or whether they will forbear [chadal – leaving undone what is commanded].
12 Then the spirit took me up [exalted His word above all others], and I heard [shama’ – and obeyed] behind me a voice [qowl] of a great rushing [ra’ash – in Jeremiah 12:18, the bread, the roll, eaten with ”quaking” that guards and protects against corruption, first, as an example to be followed, from the Son of man; and in Ezekiel 37:7 it’s the “shaking” that brings the dead bones together], saying, Blessed be the glory [the manifested presence] of the LORD from his place.
13 I heard also the noise [qowl – the voice of the LORD in this conversation above His mercy seat] of the wings of the living creatures that touched one another [bringing understanding, the life in the word, from the giver to the receive], and the noise [qowl – the voice] of the wheels [the understand sent, and when received, heard from the receiver] over against them, and a noise [qowl – the voices] of a great rushing [ra’ash – the quaking and shaking that guard and protect against corrupting the message, and brings the bones, the dead body of Christ, together, as many sticks gathered into one].
14 So the spirit lifted me up, and took me away, and I went in bitterness [as this understanding I documented was corrupted after Ezekiel’s, the Son of man’s, death], in the heat of my spirit [man’s corruption poisoning the spirit in these words]; but the hand of the LORD was strong [chazaq – His strength remained] upon me [reserved in this word sent forward, until He again brings it to light].
15 Then I came to them of the captivity at Telabib [a city in Babylon, meaning the mounding of the flood, as corrupt growth from the earth] that dwelt by the river of Chebar [the river carrying this word “far-off” into time, until it reached this moment], and I sat where they sat, and remained there astonished [shamem – stupefied, this word not understood] among them seven days.
16 And it came to pass at the end of seven days [on the eighth day, the first day of this new creation], that the word of the LORD came [again giving understanding] unto me [the Son of man, I Am], saying,
17 Son of man, I have made you a watchman [tsaphah – a seer, seeing what is coming] unto the house of Israel: therefore hear [shama’ – and obey] the word at my mouth, and give them warning [zahar – gleaming, this enlightenment; the word first appears in Exodus 18:20 where it rendered “teaching”] from me [speaking His word as commanded, as I Am, manifesting His presence, and declaring it is Him and His words].
18 When I say unto the wicked, You shall surely die; and you [refusing to hear and obey My voice] give him not warning [zahar – enlightenment], nor speak [My words as commanded] to warn [zahar – teach] the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at your hand.
19 Yet if you warn [zahar – teach, enlighten] the wicked, and he turns not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have [by following My commands, and heeding My warnings] delivered your soul.
20 Again, When a righteous man does turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumbling-block before him [as I Am], he shall die: because you have not given him warning: zahar – this teaching], he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at your hand.
21 Nevertheless if you warn [zahar – teach] the righteous man [as I do], that the righteous sin not, and he does not sin, he shall surely live, because he is warned [zahar – is enlightened]; also you have delivered your soul. [1 Timothy 4:16 Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.]
22 And the hand of the LORD was there upon me; and he said unto me, Arise [to life], go forth into the plain [into plain sight declaring My presence], and I will there talk with you.
23 Then I arose, and went forth into the plain: and, behold, the glory [the manifested presence] of the LORD [stood there in the conversation, bringing light to His written word sent to me], as the glory which I saw by the river of Chebar [in His word sent “far-off” as a wheel within a wheel]: and I fell on my face [paniym – understanding His presence I subordinated my will to His].
24 Then the spirit entered into me [My dead body, the dead body of Christ – as in Ezekiel 37:14], and set me upon my feet, and spoke with me, and said unto me, Go, shut yourself within your house.
25 But you, O son of man, behold, they shall [before they rise from the dead] put bands upon you, and shall bind you with them, and you shall not go out among them:
26 And I will make your tongue cleave [dabaq – remain one flesh with the LORD alone] to the roof of your mouth [chek – as sweetness in your mouth alone], that you shall be [to them] dumb [‘alam – thought to not be speaking of or in the name of the LORD], and shall not be [received] to them [as] a reprover: for they are a rebellious house.
27 But when I speak [dabar – speaking of the LORD’s voice realized as His mind is revealed] with you; I will open your mouth [first], and you shall say unto them, Thus says the LORD God [‘Adonay Jehovih – the King of kings and the LORD of lords]; He that hears [shama’ – hears this report, the shmuw’ah, as the voice of Jehovah], let him hear [shama’ – hear and obey]; and he that forbears [chadal – refusing to believe the report is the LORD’s voice of warning], let him forbear [chadal – refusing to hear Him, and not obey]: for they are a rebellious house.

Ezekiel 24
24 Thus Ezekiel [who God strengthens] is unto you a sign: according to all that he has done shall you do [giving this word and declaring it is the LORD speaking and working to correct His people]: and when this comes, you shall know that I am the LORD God.
25 Also, you son of man, shall it not be in the day when I take from them their strength [their understanding], the joy [their realization of My presence] of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that whereupon they set their minds, their sons and their daughters,
26 That he that escapes in that day shall come unto you, to cause you to hear it with your ears?
27 In that day shall your mouth be opened to him which is escaped, and you shall speak, and be no more dumb [‘alam]: and you shall be a sign unto them; and they shall know that I am the LORD.

Ezekiel 33
22 Now the hand of the LORD was upon me in the evening [during this time of darkness], afore he that was escaped came; and had opened my mouth, until he came to me in the morning [when this understanding has come]; and my mouth was opened, and I was no more dumb [‘alam].

Psalms 20
1 The LORD hear you in the day of trouble [tsarah]; the name [the manifested identity] of the God of Jacob defend you;
2 Send you help from the sanctuary, and strengthen [with His understanding] you out of Zion;
3 Remember all your offerings, and accept your burnt sacrifice; Selah.
4 Grant you according to your own heart, and fulfil all your counsel.
5 We will rejoice [realizing Your presence] in your salvation, and in the name [identity] of our God we will set up our banners: the LORD fulfil all your petitions.
6 Now know I that the LORD saves his anointed; he will hear him from his holy heaven with the saving strength of his right hand.
7 Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name [identity] of the LORD our God.
8 They are brought down and fallen: but we are risen, and stand upright.
9 Save, LORD: let the king hear us when we call.