Then was brought unto him one possessed with a devil, blind, and dumb: and he healed him, insomuch that the blind and dumb both spoke and saw.

5 – 8 November 2023

Then was brought unto him one possessed with a devil, blind, and dumb: and he healed him, insomuch that the blind and dumb both spoke and saw.

Friends, the point in all the LORD’s healings is not the body but the mind (freeing it from corruption and reconnecting it to the Father by agreement), and with it, the body is made whole. In the above, Matthew 12:22, the devils are the religious leaders who control the minds of those who follow their teaching, making them (their body) blind (to reality) and unable to hear or speak (the word of God).

As we know from many previous studies, the idea of devils in the pulpits originates in 2 Chronicles 11:15, when God’s people were divided into two kingdoms (Israel, the ten tribes in the north and Judah, with Benjamin, in the south) and Jeroboam (the new king of the north) didn’t want his people going to Jerusalem to worship (where God said he would meet them, above His mercy seat in the Holy of Holies). He (Jeroboam, after casting off the Levites from the priest’s office in his kingdom) ordained his own priests (of the lowest of the people – 1 Kings 12:31), and devils (sa’iyr – hairy, he-goats {as misleaders of the flock}, as describes Esau: Edom whose capital is Seir: devils in power, as was Herod, an enemy mixed among us, in power: in civil government). He (the king) also made calves he put in Bethel (misleading the house, family, of God) and Dan (corrupting their good judgment), which these priests, possessed by devils, told the people were their gods.

We know that later this same thing (bringing idols into the temple and worshipping them in God’s place) happened in Judah. These events (enemies stopping the wells) led to the end of both kingdoms and their king lines sitting enthroned.

In Matthew, the LORD, the unseated king of Judah, is speaking of the priests (Levites) of the Jews (Judah), both groups (governments in church and state) as the devils possessed by Satan, possessing those they made blind and dumb.

As we know, this is the smiting of the shepherds that scatter the sheep, after the LORD, the life in the body of his work, is betrayed into the hand of these same men in power, who only desire wealth and control by which they gain it.

Matthew 26
25 Then Judas [Judah], which betrayed him, answered and said, Master, is it I? He said unto him, You have said.
26 And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body [the word made flesh, His full exposition in the firmament].
27 And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink you all of it;
28 For this is my blood [the life poured out] of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.
29 But I say unto you, I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until that day [the ‘achariyth – these last days] when I drink it new with you in my Father’s kingdom.
30 And when they had sung a hymn, they went out into the mount of Olives.
31 Then said Jesus unto them, All you shall be offended [skandalizo – ashamed of me because of the ridicule and accusation of the powerful] because of me this night [when the light, understanding, has left the earth]: for it is written, I will smite [patasso] the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad [quoted from Zechariah 13:7].
32 But after I Am risen again, I will go before you into Galilee [this inner circle].
33 Peter [the Rock, those knowing the LORD is the Father in the Son, upon which the church is founded, against which the gates {mouths} of hell will not prevail] answered and said unto him, Though all men shall be offended [skandalizo] because of you, yet will I never be offended [skandalizo – ashamed {disappointed, not reaching the end you foretold in the darkness} and deny the Father is alive in me].
34 Jesus said unto him, Truly I say unto you, That this night, before the cock crow [and the light returns], you shall deny me thrice.

The Strong’s Greek Dictionary definition of skandalizo is: “to entrap, i.e. trip up (figuratively, stumble (transitively) or entice to sin, apostasy or displeasure):–(make to) offend.” The Thayer’s Greek Lexicon, among its meanings, adds “to cause a person to begin to distrust and desert one whom he ought to trust and obey.”

The LORD, as He quotes Zechariah 13:7 in verse 31 above, using the word patasso (“smite”), tells us, in His only other use of the word in Matthew, what is “smote.”

It (patasso) appears in Matthew 26:51, as the LORD is betrayed into the hands of those who will crucify Him, and one of those with him drew his sword and “smote” off the ear of the servant of the high priest (those who are supposed to enter the LORD’s presence and hear Him speak). This is speaking of ending these men’s (the priesthood’s) authority (ability) to enter the LORD’s presence or to hear Him when He speaks.

The good news for these men comes in Luke’s telling of this same smiting when he adds that the LORD touched this ear, and it was healed.

The word appears telling of this event (smiting the shepherds) in all of the Gospels except John’s, who further defines it in using it (patasso) twice in Revelation.

The first of these comes in Revelation 11:6, as we’re told this sword comes from the mouth of the two witnesses, an association that reveals John to be speaking of Joshua and Zerubbabel. As we know, in Zechariah, these names speak of the priesthood and the king (church and state government as the two great lights, witnessing from heaven) cleansed and raised out of confusion to life.

Revelation 11
1 And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.
2 But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles [those who don’t know the LORD]: and the holy city shall they tread under foot [pateo – a five times used word referring us to its appearing in Luke 21:24, speaking of the darkening that occurs during the] forty and two months.
3 And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days [continuing to shine their light during the forty-two months], clothed in sackcloth [mourning the degeneration, the fall in the bottomless pit, of God people].
4 These are the two olive trees [Joshua and Zerubbabel], and the two candlesticks [see Zechariah 4:3 & 11] standing before the God of the earth.
5 And if any man will hurt them, fire proceeds out of their mouth, and devours their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed.
6 These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite [patasso] the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.
7 And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast [Babylon – confusion] that ascended [risen] out of the bottomless pit [the endless fall away from the LORD, which is only stopped when He stops it in the resurrection of the dead] shall make war against them, and shall overcome them [the priesthood and just civil government as the LORD intended them to shine His light upon the earth], and kill them.
8 And their dead bodies [animated flesh without the LORD’s Spirit] shall lie in the street of the great city [Jerusalem – old and corrupt], which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our LORD was [betrayed and] crucified.
9 And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and a half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves [because they don’t know they are the dead, because they are dead with them and don’t know it].
10 And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them [because they have silenced their voices and they no longer speak the word of God and His good judgment], and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth.
11 And after three days and a half [the time in death, ending in the last days] spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them.
12 And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither [into heaven with me, into full understanding: light which is life]. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud [where understanding is held]; and their enemies beheld them.
13 And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand [the vermin in the church]: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven.
14 The second woe is past; and, behold, the third woe comes quickly.
15 And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven [giving this understanding, as thunder, the sound of the light in the cloud], saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our LORD, and of his Christ; and he shall reign forever and ever.
16 And the four and twenty elders [the children of Jacob and the apostles of Jesus Christ], which sat before God on their seats, fell upon their faces, and worshipped God,
17 Saying, We give you thanks, O LORD God Almighty, which are, and wast, and are to come; because you have taken to you your great power, and have reigned.
18 And the nations were angry, and your wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that you shouldest give reward unto your servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear your name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.
19 And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple [His people] the ark of his testament [their open mouths speaking this word as received]: and there were lightnings [understanding], and [heard in their] voices, and thundering [as the sound of understanding from the cloud], and an earthquake [that shakes the wicked from their position of power and control], and great hail [this word reserved in heaven for this time of war, sent upon the current crop of corrupt leaders destroying the earth].

The word rendered “dumb” in the title verse is kophos, said to mean “from 2875; blunted, i.e. (figuratively) of hearing (deaf) or speech (dumb):–deaf, dumb, speechless.” It only appears (fourteen times) in the Gospels of Mathew, Mark, and Luke, and all, except once, speak of it being cured by the LORD. The one exception, in Luke 1:22, speaks of Zechariah, John the Baptist’s father. The verse says, “And when he came out [Zechariah the priest, out of the temple], he could not speak unto them: and they perceived that he had seen a vision in the temple: for he beckoned unto them, and remained speechless [kophos].”

The relevance today is in what (treasure), hidden in the book bearing the same name, has been kept silent and how (as a sword from the LORD’s mouth) it is revealed. It is speaking of cleansing and curing the priesthood first, opening their ears and then their mouths, to bring forth the child that makes straight the (before crooked) highway to the LORD.

As we know, the name Zechariah is said to mean, Jah (Yahh – short for Jehovah) has remembered, from the word zakar, meaning “to mark (so as to be recognized), i.e. to remember; by implication, to mention; also (as denominative from 2145) to be male.” It’s more accurately speaking of this as the end, when we remember the LORD, put away childish things, and become the man (male) He is making as His image and likeness (manifested to those reproduced after His own kind).

It (zakar) only appears twice in the book of Zechariah, in 10:9 revealing what we remember, and in Zechariah 13:2 speaking what we will no longer remember.

Zechariah 10
1 Ask you of the LORD rain [My word from heaven] in the time of the latter rain; so the LORD shall [from the separated element] make bright clouds [where understanding is held when it left the earth], and give them showers of rain, to every one grass in the field [new life upon the earth].
2 For the idols [the men who put themselves in God’s place] have spoken vanity, and the diviners [who’ve told you they know how He comes] have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain: therefore they went their [own] way as a flock, they were troubled, because there was no [good] shepherd [ra’ah – no seer to lead them].
3 My anger was kindled against the [misleading] shepherds, and I punished [paqad – visit in judgment] the goats [misleading devils who put themselves in God’s place]: for the LORD of hosts has visited [paqad – as the Chief Over-seer {good shepherd} of the earth] his flock the house of Judah, and has made them as his goodly horse in the battle [the “ass” and its “colt” of Zechariah 9:9, God’s people now seen as the white horse He rides, in Revelation 19:11].
4 Out of him came forth the corner, out of him the nail, out of him the battle bow, out of him every governor together.
5 And they shall be as mighty men, which tread down their enemies in the mire of the streets in the battle: and they shall fight, because the LORD is with them, and the riders on horses shall be confounded [buwsh – ashamed when the end they said was coming isn’t the ends that have come].
6 And I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph, and I will bring them again to place them; for I have mercy upon them: and they shall be as though I had not cast them off: for I am the LORD their God, and will hear them [when they are no more dumb].
7 And they of Ephraim [the seed of Joseph: God’s people in this generation] shall be like a mighty man, and their heart shall rejoice as through wine: yea, their children shall see it, and be glad; their heart shall rejoice in the LORD.
8 I will hiss for them [draw their attention to Myself], and gather them; for I have redeemed them: and they shall increase as they have increased.
9 And I will sow them among the people: and they shall remember [zakar – recognize] me in far countries [merchaq – this time and place the LORD decreed]; and they shall live [chayah – come to life] with their children, and turn again [shuwb – return to the LORD].
10 I will bring them again also out of the land of Egypt [this land of oppression], and gather them out of Assyria [from the communists that now rule]; and I will bring them into the land of Gilead [this mountain of My testimony] and Lebanon [purity shall be seen in high places]; and place shall not be found for them [the communist that brought injustice, mass misery, and oppression upon them].
11 And he shall pass through the sea [this generation] with affliction, and shall smite [nakah] the waves in the sea [the pride of those who have risen up and trust in their power to do evil], and all the deeps [the understanding the proud say they have – which is darkness and ignorance] of the river shall dry up: and the pride of Assyria [the communists who trust in the positions of power] shall be brought down, and the scepter [shebet] of Egypt [the rule of oppressors] shall depart away.
12 And I will strengthen them [by this word] in the LORD; and they shall walk up and down in his name [manifesting His identity, as I Am], says the LORD.

Zechariah 13
1 In that day there shall be a fountain [of these living waters] opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness.
2 And it shall come to pass in that day, says the LORD of hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no more be remembered [zakar]: and also I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land.
3 And it shall come to pass, that when any shall yet prophesy, then his father and his mother that begat him shall say unto him, You shall not live; for you speak lies in the name of the LORD: and his father and his mother that begat him shall thrust him through when he prophesies.
4 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the prophets shall be ashamed every one of his vision, when he has prophesied; neither shall they wear a rough garment to deceive:
5 But he shall say, I am no prophet, I am a husbandman; for man taught me to keep cattle from my youth.
6 And one shall say unto him, What are these wounds [nakah] in your hands? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded [in this sacrifice] in the house of my friends.
7 Awake, O sword [this word from the mouth of the LORD], against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, says the LORD of hosts: smite [nakah] the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn my hand upon the little ones.
8 And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, says the LORD, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein [and come to life].
9 And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try [bachan] them as gold is tried [bachan]: they shall call on my name [manifesting My identity repeating the word from My mouth], and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.

The “little ones” the LORD speaks of above is from the three times used word tsa’ar, meaning “to be small, i.e. (figuratively) ignoble:–be brought low, little one, be small.” It refers to its appearance in Jeremiah 30:19, the chapter speaking of the tribulation into which the LORD comes, to save us from it, as a brand plucked from the fires.

Zechariah 3
1 And he showed me [ra’ah – shepherded me into understanding] Joshua the high priest [the priesthood] standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist [satan – the word only appear five other times, all in the Psalms – see below] 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] out of the fire?
3 Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments [spotted by dead flesh], and stood before the angel.
4 And he answered and spoke unto those that stood before him, saying, Take away the filthy garments [the corruption that makes them blind and dumb] from him. And unto him [the priesthood] 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 [the LORD’s righteousness – the garments of the cleansed priesthood]. And the angel of the LORD [I Am] 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, and I will give you places to walk among these that stand by.
8 Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, you, and your fellows that sit before you: for they are men wondered at: for, behold, I will bring forth my servant the Branch [from where comes this good fruit].
9 For behold the stone [from where this word flows] that I have laid before [paniym – as My presence in] Joshua; upon one stone shall be seven eyes [seers seeing as the LORD sees]: behold, I will engrave the graving thereof [writing this word into their minds], says the LORD of hosts [a man of war], and I will remove the iniquity of that land 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 become branches from where comes this good fruit].

Jeremiah 30
1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
2 Thus [in this manner] speaks the LORD God of Israel, saying, Write you all the words that I have spoken unto you in a book.
3 For, lo, the days come, says the LORD, that I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, says the LORD: and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.
4 And these are the words that the LORD spoke concerning Israel and concerning Judah.
5 For thus says the LORD; We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace.
6 Ask you now, and see whether a man does travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?
7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble [tsarah – tribulation], but he shall be saved out of it.
8 For it shall come to pass in that day, says the LORD of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off your neck, and will burst your bonds, and strangers shall no more serve themselves of him:
9 But they shall serve the LORD their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up unto them.
10 Therefore fear you not, O my servant Jacob, says the LORD; neither be dismayed, O Israel: for, lo, I will save you from afar, and your seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be in rest, and be quiet, and none shall make him afraid.
11 For I am with you, says the LORD, to save you: though I make a full end of all nations whither I have scattered you, yet I will not make a full end of you: but I will correct you in measure, and will not leave you altogether unpunished.
12 For thus says the LORD, Your bruise is incurable, and your wound is grievous.
13 There is none to plead your cause, that you mayest be bound up: you have no healing medicines.
14 All your lovers have forgotten you; they seek you not; for I have wounded you with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the multitude of your iniquity; because your sins were increased.
15 Why cry you for your affliction? your sorrow is incurable for the multitude of your iniquity: because your sins were increased, I have done these things unto you.
16 Therefore all they that devour you shall be devoured; and all your adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; and they that spoil you shall be a spoil, and all that prey upon you will I give for a prey.
17 For I will restore health unto you, and I will heal you of your wounds, says the LORD; because they called you an Outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no man seeks after.
18 Thus says the LORD; Behold, I will bring again the captivity of Jacob’s tents, and have mercy on his dwelling-places; and the city shall be built upon her own heap, and the palace shall remain after the manner thereof.
19 And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small [tsa’ar].
20 Their children also shall be as aforetime, and their congregation shall be established before me, and I will punish [paqad – as the Chief Overseer of the earth] all that oppress them.
21 And their nobles shall be of themselves, and their governor shall proceed from the midst of them; and I will cause him to draw near, and he shall approach unto me: for who is this that engaged his heart to approach unto me? says the LORD.
22 And you shall be my people, and I will be your God.
23 Behold, the whirlwind of the LORD goes forth with fury, a continuing whirlwind: it shall fall with pain upon the head of the wicked.
24 The fierce anger of the LORD shall not return, until he has done it, and until he has performed the intents of his heart: in the latter days [‘achariyth] you shall consider [biyn – understand] it.

The scepter (shebet) to rule, now in the hand of oppressors, in Zechariah 10:11 above, refers us to Ezekiel 21, where we’re told of its overturning until it’s given to the one whose right it is.

Ezekiel 21
9 Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the LORD; Say, A sword [this word from the mouth of the LORD], a sword is sharpened, and also furbished:
10 It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished that it may glitter: should we then make mirth? it contemn the rod of my son, as every tree.
11 And he has given it to be furbished, that it may be handled: this sword is sharpened, and it is furbished, to give it into the hand of the slayer.
12 Cry and howl, son of man: for it shall be upon my people, it shall be upon all the princes of Israel: terrors by reason of the sword shall be upon my people: smite therefore upon your thigh.
13 Because it is a trial [bachan], and what if the sword [this word of God, from His mouth] contemn even the rod [shebet – the scepter to rule]? it shall be no more, says the LORD God.
14 You therefore, son of man, prophesy, and smite [nakar] your hands together and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the slain: it is the sword of the great men that are slain, which enters into their privy chambers [the things hidden in their ignorance].
15 I have set the point of the sword against all their gates [against their mouths], that their heart [minds] may faint, and their ruins be multiplied: ah! it is made bright, it is wrapped up for the slaughter.
16 Go you one way or other, either on the right hand, or on the left, whithersoever your face is set.
17 I will also smite [nakah] hands together, and I will cause my fury to rest: I the LORD have said it.
18 The word of the LORD came unto me again, saying,
19 Also, you son of man, appoint you two ways, that the sword of the king of Babylon may come: both twain shall come forth out of one land: and choose you a place, choose it at the head of the way to the city.
20 Appoint a way, that the sword may come to Rabbath [the great men of the world] of the Ammonites [who separate God’s people and weaken them], and to Judah in Jerusalem the defensed.
21 For the king of Babylon [the confusion that rules the world, wrought by the words of wicked men in power] stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he made his arrows bright, he consulted with images, he looked in the liver [the deep, which cleanses the body].
22 At his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to appoint captains, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to appoint battering rams against the gates [of heaven], to cast a mount, and to build a fort.
23 And it shall be unto them as a false divination in their sight, to them that have sworn oaths: but he [the LORD] will call to remembrance [zakar] the iniquity, that they may be taken.
24 Therefore thus says the LORD God; Because you have made your iniquity to be remembered [zakar], in that your transgressions are discovered, so that in all your doings your sins do appear; because, I say, that you are come to remembrance [zakar], you shall be taken with the hand.
25 And you, profane wicked prince of Israel [who is like Reuben, sitting in God’s place], whose day is come, when iniquity shall have an end,
26 Thus says the LORD God; Remove the diadem, and take off the crown: this shall not be the same: exalt him that is low, and abase him that is high.
27 I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it: and it shall be no more, until he [Shiloh, the seed of Joseph] come whose right it is; and I will give it him.
28 And you, son of man, prophesy and say, Thus says the LORD God concerning the Ammonites [who have scattered My people], and concerning their reproach; even say you, The sword [this word from My mouth], the sword is drawn: for the slaughter it is furbished, to consume because of the glittering:
29 Whiles they see vanity unto you, whiles they divine a lie unto you, to bring you upon the necks of them that are slain, of the wicked, whose day is come, when their iniquity shall have an end.
30 Shall I cause it to return into his sheath? I will judge you in the place where you were created, in the land of your nativity.
31 And I will pour out my indignation [za’am] upon you, I will blow against you in the fire of my wrath, and deliver you into the hand of brutish men, and skillful to destroy.
32 You shall be for fuel to the fire; your blood shall be in the midst of the land; you shall be no more remembered [zakar]: for I the LORD have spoken it.

Haggai 2
4 Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel [born, brought to life, by coming out of confusion], says the LORD; and be strong, O Joshua [Jehovah’s Salvation personified], son of Josedech [born from the righteousness of Jehovah – the purified priesthood], the high priest; and be strong, all you people of the land, says the LORD, and work: for I am with you, says the LORD of hosts:
5 According to the word that I covenanted with you when you came out of Egypt, so my spirit remains among you: fear you not.
6 For thus says the LORD of hosts; Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake [ra’ash – the LORD’s voice will shake] the heavens, and the earth, and the sea [all humanity], and the dry land [the places that have been without My word];
7 And I will shake [ra’ash] all nations [all who haven’t known Me], and the desire of all nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory [fill My family with My manifested presence], says the LORD of hosts [a man of war].
8 The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, says the LORD of hosts.
9 The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, says the LORD of hosts: and in this place will I give peace, says the LORD of hosts.
10 In the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD by Haggai [the sacrifice, the one paying this price] the prophet, saying,
11 Thus says the LORD of hosts; Ask [sha’al] now the priests concerning the law, saying,
12 If one bear holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and with his skirt do touch bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any meat, shall it be holy? And the priests answered and said, No.
13 Then said Haggai, If one that is unclean by a dead body touch any of these, shall it be unclean? And the priests answered and said, It shall be unclean.
14 Then answered Haggai, and said, So is this people, and so is this nation before me, says the LORD; and so is every work of their hands; and that which they offer there is unclean [this wholly leavened nation and people, as a great mountain risen to rule over all the earth: Babylon where confusion and mass insanity now rules by many thousand voices, each leading for their own enlargement, to exalt their voice, even above this word from the mouth of God].
15 And now, I pray you, consider from this day and upward, from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the LORD:
16 Since those days were, when one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were but ten: when one came to the press-at for to draw out fifty vessels out of the press, there were but twenty [when you hoped to gather much but only found little].
17 I smote [nakah] you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the labors of your hands; yet you turned not to me, says the LORD.
18 Consider now from this day and upward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, even from the day that the foundation of the LORD’s temple was laid, consider it.
19 Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, as yet the vine, and the fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive tree, has not brought forth: from this day will I bless you.
20 And again the word of the LORD came unto Haggai in the four and twentieth day of the month, saying,
21 Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, I will shake [ra’ash] the heavens and the earth;
22 And I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms, and I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the heathen [those who haven’t known Me]; and I will overthrow the chariots, and those that ride in them; and the horses and their riders shall come down, everyone by the sword [words] of his brother.
23 In that day, says the LORD of hosts, will I take you, O Zerubbabel, my servant, the son of Shealtiel [from sha’al – through whom the LORD asks the questions He then answered], says the LORD, and will make you as a signet [chowtham – the seal pressed into the earth, the LORD’s signature, as in Job 38:14]: for I have chosen you, says the LORD of hosts.

Zechariah 4
1 And the angel that talked with me came again, and waked me, as a man that is wakened out of his sleep. [Are you awake yet sleepers?]
2 And said unto me, What see you? And I said, I have looked, and behold a candlestick all of gold, with a bowl upon the top of it, and his seven lamps thereon, and seven pipes to the seven lamps, which are upon the top thereof:
3 And two olive trees by it [who are My two witnesses, the sun and the moon], one upon the right side of the bowl, and the other upon the left side thereof.
4 So I answered and spoke to the angel that talked with me, saying, What are these, my LORD?
5 Then the angel that talked with me answered and said unto me, Know you not what these be? And I said, No, my LORD.
6 Then he answered and spoke unto me, saying, This is the word [as oil into these lamps] of the LORD [through Joshua – the cleansed priesthood] unto Zerubbabel [those awakened, come to life, by coming out of Babylon: out of confusion into the light], saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, says the LORD of hosts.
7 Who are you, O great mountain [Babylon]? before Zerubbabel you shall become a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shouting, crying, Grace, grace unto it.
8 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
9 The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also finish it; and you shall know that the LORD of hosts has sent me unto you.
10 For who has despised the day of small things? for they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet [seeing as the LORD sees, speaking His assessment] in the hand of Zerubbabel with those seven [sun and moon together witnessing, church and civil governments raised to life again]; they are the eyes of the LORD [judging as He judges], which run to and fro through the whole earth.
11 Then answered I, and said unto him, What are these two olive trees upon the right side of the candlestick and upon the left side thereof?
12 And I answered again, and said unto him, What be these two olive branches [from where comes this good fruit] which through the two golden pipes empty the golden oil out of themselves?
13 And he answered me and said, Know you not what these be? And I said, No, my LORD.
14 Then said he, These are the two anointed ones, that stand by the LORD of the whole earth.

Revelation 19
1 And after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Hallelujah; Salvation, and glory, and honor, and power, unto the LORD our God:
2 For true and righteous are his judgments: for he has judged the great whore [the unfaithful institutions of church and state, who are the rulers of Babylon; who have ruled the world into insanity], which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and has avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.
3 And again they said, Hallelujah, And her smoke rose up forever and ever.
4 And the four and twenty elders and the four beasts fell down and worshipped God that sat on the throne, saying, Amen; Hallelujah.
5 And a voice came out of the throne, saying, Praise our God [in us doing the work, sending understanding and strength], all you his servants, and you that fear him, both small and great.
6 And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude [God’s people at large, no longer dumb], and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thundering [the sound of the light, the voice of understanding heard from God’s people], saying, Hallelujah [praise Jehovah]: for the LORD God omnipotent [All-Ruling – pantokrator: “God (as absolute and universal sovereign)”] reigns.
7 Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honor to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife has made herself ready.
8 And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.
9 And he said unto me [as I say unto you], Write, Blessed are they which are called unto [this] the marriage supper of the Lamb [to eat this body of His sacrifice]. And he says unto me, “These are the true sayings of God.”
10 And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me [as I say unto you], See you do it not: I am your fellow-servant, and of your brethren that have the testimony of Jesus [testifying that this word is His: Jehovah’s Salvation manifested in the flesh, as is His manner {heurisko – where His salvation is “found”}]: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.
11 And I saw heaven opened, and behold [when our eye of understanding are opened, we see Him as He sees us, as] a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he does judge and make war.
12 His eyes were as a flame of fire [melting away ignorance], and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, [the Word of God] that no man [I Am] knew, but he [a man] himself.
13 And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.
14 And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.
15 And out of his mouth goes a sharp sword [the Word of God, I Am this word made flesh], that with it he should smite [patasso] the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treads the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
16 And he has on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, King Of Kings, And LORD Of Lords.
17 And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God;
18 That you may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.
19 And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army.
20 And the beast [Babylon] was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark [confusion, lies masking deception] of the beast, and them that worshipped his image [his creations – lies of liars, known to those whose eyes have been opened]. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
21 And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword [the Word of God] proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.

Psalms 38
A Psalms of David, to bring [God’s people] to remembrance [zakar].
1 O LORD, rebuke me not in your wrath: neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.
2 For your arrows [of correction] stick fast in me, and your hand [work] presses me sore.
3 There is no soundness in my flesh because of your anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.
4 For my iniquities are gone over my head: as a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
5 My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.
6 I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long [while Your understanding is upon us].
7 For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.
8 I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness [ahamah – the roaring, only elsewhere in Isaiah 5:30] of my heart [mind].
9 LORD, all my desire is before you; and my groaning is not hid from you.
10 My heart pants, my strength fails me: as for the light of my eyes [understanding what is seen], it also is gone from me.
11 My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen [our evil neighbors at war with us] stand afar off [rachowq – decreeing evil against us].
12 They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous [havvah – referring us to its use Micah 7:3] things, and imagine deceits all the day long [while your understanding is upon us and them].
13 But I, as a deaf man, heard [shama’ – obeyed] not; and I was as a dumb man that open not his mouth [as You commanded].
14 Thus I was as a man that hears [shame’ – obeyed] not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs [not speaking Your correction as You have spoken it].
15 For in you [in Your manifested presence], O LORD, do I hope: you will hear [‘anah – will be my eye], O LORD [‘Adonay – my King] my God.
16 For I said, Hear [pen – remove blindness from] me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slips, they magnify themselves against me.
17 For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.
18 For I will declare [nagad – I will stand boldly against] my iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.
19 But my enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.
20 They also that render evil for good are my adversaries [satan]; because I follow [radaph – pursued and found] the thing that good is.
21 Forsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from [rachaq – be not as the evil the wicked have decreed against] me.
22 Make haste to help me, O LORD my salvation [tshuw’ah – my rescue and victory].

Isaiah 5
22 Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine [to corrupt and confuse], and men of strength to mingle strong drink [causing the world to become ignorant and isane]:
23 Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!
24 Therefore as the fire devours the stubble, and the flame consumes the chaff, so their root [from where flows corruption] shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts [a man of war], and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
25 Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his people, and he has stretched forth his hand against them, and has smitten [nakah] them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcasses were torn [their dead body was scattered] in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
26 And he will lift up an ensign [nec – the son of man lifted and the voice of the LORD is exalted above all others] to the nations from far [rachowq – in this time when the world is ruled by evil decree], and will hiss [will draw attention] unto them from the end of the [old and corrupt] earth: and, behold, they shall come with speed swiftly:
27 None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle [this preparation] of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:
28 Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses’ hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind [the Almighty Spirit of the LORD, from where His voice is heard]:
29 Their [open mouths] roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry it away safe, and none shall deliver it.
30 And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring [ahamah] of the sea [all humanity]: and if one looks unto the land [‘erets – the earth], behold darkness [ignorance] and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens [where understanding should be found] thereof [on the earth].

Micah 7
1 Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grape gleanings of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat: my soul desired the first-ripe fruit.
2 The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.
3 That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asks, and the judge asks for a reward [shilluwm – a bribe]; and the great man, he utters his mischievous [havvah] desire: so they wrap it up [‘abath – they conspire together].
4 The best of them is as a brier [a deceiver]: the most upright is sharper than a thorn [misleading] hedge: the day of your watchmen [tsaphah – the seers of which the world is unaware] and your visitation [pquddah – the Chief Overseer of the earth] comes; now shall be their perplexity [mbuwkah – only used here and in Isaiah 22:5 For it is a day of trouble {mbuwkah}, and of treading down, and of perplexity by the LORD God of hosts in the valley of vision {when the seers are here, at the earth’s lowest point}, breaking down the walls {of the lies in which the wicked trust}, and of crying to the mountains. 6 And Elam {eternity} bare the quiver with chariots of men and horsemen {of God}, and Kir {the wall} uncovered the shield {the protection of the earth}].
5 Trust you not in a friend, put you not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of your mouth from her that lies in your bosom [be not one of the many voices, peeping and muttering, misleading the world, “if they speak not according to this word it is because there is no understanding in them”].
6 For the son dishonors the father, the daughter rises up against her mother, the daughter in law against her mother in law; a man’s enemies are the men of his own house.
7 Therefore I will look unto the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.
8 Rejoice not against me, O my enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light [understanding] unto me.
9 I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness.
10 Then she [the whore: Babylon, the unfaithful and confused] that is my enemy shall see it, and shame shall cover her which said unto me, Where is the LORD your God? eyes shall behold her: now shall she be trodden down as the mire of the streets.
11 In the day that your walls are to be built, in that day shall the [evil] decree [choq] be far removed [rachaq – shall be understood to be evil decrees ruling the world].
12 In that day also he shall come even to you from Assyria [the communists], and from the fortified cities, and from the fortress even to the river [the word that flows into the sea: to humanity], and from sea to sea [generation to generation], and from mountain to mountain [government to government].
13 Notwithstanding the land [‘erets – the earth] shall be desolate because of them that dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.
14 Feed your people with your rod [of correction], the flock of your heritage, which dwell solitarily in the wood, in the midst of Carmel [Your garden of Eden]: let them feed in Bashan [of the fruitfulness] and Gilead [of the full body of Your word and work], as in the days of old.
15 According to the days of your coming out of the land of Egypt will I show unto him marvelous things.
16 The nations [those who haven’t known the LORD] shall see and be confounded at all their might [this strength the LORD has given us]: they shall lay their hand upon their mouth, their ears shall be deaf [they shall become dumb].
17 They shall lick the dust [the ruin of the earth] like a serpent [realized to be in My garden misleading], they shall move out of their holes [awakened from their graves to everlasting contempt] like worms of the earth: they shall be afraid of the LORD our God, and shall fear because of you.
18 Who is a God like unto you, that pardons iniquity, and passes by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retains not his anger forever, because he delights in mercy.
19 He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and you will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.
20 You will perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham, which you have sworn unto our fathers from the days of old.

Psalms 72
1 In you, O LORD, do I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion.
2 Deliver [natsal – the equivalent of harpazo “caught up”, pull] me [as a brand plucked from the fires into heaven: cleansed from corruption into full understanding] in your righteousness, and cause me to escape: incline your ear unto me, and save me.
3 Be you my strong habitation, whereunto I may continually resort: you have given commandment to save me; for you are my rock and my fortress.
4 Deliver [natsal] me, O my God, [pluck me] out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.
5 For you are my hope, O LORD God: you are my trust from my youth.
6 By you have I been held up from the womb: you are he that took me out of my mother’s bowels: my praise shall be continually of you.
7 I am as a wonder unto many; but you are my strong refuge.
8 Let my mouth be filled with your praise and with your honor all the day [showing Your understanding].
9 Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength fails.
10 For my enemies speak against me; and they that lay wait for my soul take counsel together,
11 Saying, God has forsaken him: persecute and take him; for there is none to deliver him.
12 O God, be not far from [rachaq – rescue us from the evil the wicked have decreed against] me: O my God, make haste for my help.
13 Let them be confounded and consumed that are adversaries [satan] to my soul; let them be covered with reproach and dishonor that seek my hurt.
14 But I will hope continually, and will yet praise you more and more.
15 My mouth shall show forth your righteousness and your salvation all the day; for I know not the numbers thereof.
16 I will go in the strength of the LORD God: I will make mention of your righteousness, even of yours only [exalting Your voice above all others].
17 O God, you have taught me from my youth: and hitherto have I declared [nagad] your wondrous works.
18 Now also when I am old and grey-headed, O God, forsake me not; until I have shown your strength unto this generation, and your power to every one that is to come.
19 Your righteousness also, O God, is very high, who have done great things: O God, who is like unto you!
20 You, which have shown me great and sore troubles [tsarah – great tribulation], shall quicken [chayah – bring life to] me again, and shall bring me up again from the depths [thowm – the abyss, the darkened deep, the belly] of the earth.
21 You shall increase my greatness, and comfort me on every side.
22 I will also praise you with the psaltery, even your truth, O my God: unto you will I sing with the harp, O you Holy One of Israel.
23 My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing [repeat these words] unto you; and my soul, which you have redeemed.
24 My tongue also shall talk of your righteousness all the day long: for they [the wicked, as dogs barking in the darkness] are confounded, for they [those possessed by satan] are brought unto shame, that seek my hurt.

Psalms 109
1 Hold not your peace, O God of my praise;
2 For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.
3 They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.
4 For my love they are my adversaries [satan]: but I give myself unto prayer.
5 And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
6 Set you a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand.
7 When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin.
8 Let his days be few; and let another take his office [pquddah – his position as overseer of the earth].
9 Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
10 Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
11 Let the extortioner catch all that he has; and let the strangers spoil his labor.
12 Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favor his fatherless children.
13 Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.
14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
15 Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.
16 Because that he remembered not to show mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.
17 As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.
18 As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.
19 Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.
20 Let this be the reward of my adversaries [satan] from the LORD, and of them that speak evil against my soul.
21 But do you for me, O God the LORD, for your name’s sake: because your mercy is good, deliver you me.
22 For I am poor [without power] and needy [needing Your help], and my heart [the mind of My ONE BODY] is wounded within me.
23 I Am gone like the shadow when it declines [now when the sun if fully risen]: I Am tossed up and down as the locust [as if I was the one that devours the earth].
24 My knees are weak through fasting [My ONE BODY without Your word]; and my flesh fails of fatness [prosperity].
25 I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shake their heads [in disapproval].
26 Help me, O LORD my God: O save me according to your mercy:
27 That they may know that this [Your word and word] is your hand; that you, LORD, [In me] have done it.
28 Let them curse, but bless you: when they arise, let them be ashamed [not reaching the end they desire]; but let your servant rejoice.
29 Let my adversaries [satan] be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.
30 I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth [as You have commanded all Your children]; yea, I will praise him among the multitude.
31 For he [the LORD] shall stand at the right hand of the poor [giving power to those without it], to save him from those that condemn his [immortal] soul.

The Son of man indeed goes, as it is written of him: but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! good were it for that man if he had never been born.

31 October – 3 November 2023

The Son of man indeed goes, as it is written of him: but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! good were it for that man if he had never been born.

In the above, Mark 14:21, the LORD says the son of man “goes” (hupage) as it is written of him, which refers to the “betrayal” (paradidomi). In the following verses, speaking in this context, he tells His students the bread He gives them is His body (the entire work in His exposition: the complete dispensation), and the drink He gives them is His blood (His life poured out into them).

The betrayal is this body of work surrendered into the hands of those in power (Judas: Judah, representing the leaders, religious and civil governments, of God’s people), where the life in His body (of work) is ended. He then speaks of this life, as flowing through the vine into the good fruit, not occurring again until he drinks from it (as the first fruit, the husbandman who labors and is the first partaker of this understanding) here in the kingdom of God.

2 Timothy 2
3 You therefore [son of man] endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ [Jehovah’s Salvation in the flesh].
4 No man that wars entangles himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who has chosen him to be a soldier.
5 And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully.
6 The husbandman [he that works in the earth] that labors must be first partaker of the fruits.
7 Consider what I say; and the LORD give you [first] understanding in all things.
8 Remember that Jesus Christ of the seed of David was raised from the dead [the first- fruit, now, of the resurrection of the dead] according to my gospel:
9 Wherein I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, even unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound [nor can any man shut what the LORD has now opened].
10 Therefore I endure all things for the elect’s sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
11 It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him:
12 If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us:
13 If we believe not [He is resurrected in me], yet he abides faithful [in me]: he cannot deny himself. [I tell you the truth, I confess without fear, Jehovah’s Salvation, Jesus, is alive from the dead, Christ, in my flesh!]
14 Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the LORD that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers.
15 Study to show yourself approved unto God, a workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

Mark 14
17 And in the evening [the time when the darkness begins] he came with the twelve.
18 And as they sat and did eat, Jesus said, Truly I say unto you, One of you which eats with me shall betray me.
19 And they began to be sorrowful, and to say unto him one by one, Is it I? and another said, Is it I?
20 And he answered and said unto them, It is one of the twelve, that dips with me in the dish.
21 The Son of man indeed goes [hupage – lead under: speaking of the misleading that takes Him and all humanity into the belly of the earth: swallowed {by eating and drinking corruption} into the belly of hell], as it is written of him: but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed [paradidomi – to give away: surrender]! good were it for that man if he had never been born.
22 And as they did eat, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and brake it, and gave to them, and said, Take, eat: this is my body.
23 And he took the cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them: and they all drank of it.
24 And he said unto them, This is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many.
25 Truly I say unto you, I will drink no more of the fruit of the vine, until that day that I drink it new in the kingdom of God.
26 And when they had sung an hymn, they went out into the mount of Olives.
27 And Jesus says unto them, All you shall be offended because of me this night [during the time of darkness in which you shall all sleep]: for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered [as they are this day].
28 But after that I am risen, I will go before you into Galilee [as the first-fruit of the LORD’s inner circle].

The LORD, above in verse 21, tells us plainly the betrayer is he that dips with Him in the “dish.”

The Greek word rendered “dish,” only appearing here and in Matthew 26:23 in the same revelation, is trublion, meaning “neuter of a presumed derivative of uncertain affinity; a bowl.” It bears apparent affinity to the words tribos (meaning a warn rut, path) and tribolos, meaning “properly, a crow-foot (three-pronged obstruction in war), i.e. (by analogy) a thorny plant (caltrop):–brier, thistle.

The first of these (tribos) only appears three times, once in the gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke, all in quoting Isaiah 40:3, speaking of the “path” prepared and straitened before the LORD. In Isaiah the path is the “highway” of God made straight in the desert, using the Hebrew word mcillah, spiritually asking what highway (ma calal). In the question the LORD leads us to the answer in the (affinitive) word mgillah (ma galal – what heap of water), meaning “a roll:– roll, or volume,” as in the full body of this exposition, which is the way, truth, and life (made flesh).

The Thayer’s Greek Lexicon adds that trublion means “a deep dish.”

The word tribolos only appears twice, first, in Matthew 7:16 rendered “thistles” and then in Hebrews 6:8 as “briers,”

Matthew 7
6 Give not [to the Judases] that which is holy [the pure word delivered to us from the LORD] unto the dogs [who are forever barking in the darkness at what they can’t see], neither cast you your pearls before swine [the unclean beast who are without the LORD’s Spirit], lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend [scatter into pieces] you.
7 Ask, and it [understanding] shall be given you; seek [diligently], and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:
8 For every one that ask receives; and he that seeks finds; and to him that knocks it shall be opened.
9 Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread [this understanding from the mouth of God], will he give him a [dead] stone?
10 Or if he ask a fish [the life below the surface of these waters], will he give him a serpent [who will mislead him]?
11 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven [with full understanding] give good things to them that ask him?
12 Therefore all things whatsoever you would that men should do to you, do you even so to them [giving as you have received from you heavenly Father]: for this is the law and the prophets.
13 Enter you in at the strait gate [now understood to be narrowed by false prophets and false teachers who must be navigated and avoided]: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way [out of the kingdom of God], that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that [avoid the obstacles and] find it.
15 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves [scattering the flock].
16 You shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles [tribolos – misleaders now dipping their hand in the deep dish with the LORD]?
17 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.
18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
19 Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
20 Wherefore by their fruits you shall know them.
21 Not every one that says unto me, LORD, LORD, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that does the will of my Father which is in heaven. [John 6:40 And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which sees the Son, and believes on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.]
22 Many will say to me in that day, LORD, LORD, have we not prophesied in your name? and in your name have cast out devils? and in your name done many wonderful works?
23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you [because you have chosen your own words and ways]: depart from me, you that work iniquity [working your own will].
24 Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and does them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a Rock [Christ alive in me]:
25 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.
26 And every one that hears these sayings of mine, and does them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:
27 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.
28 And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended these sayings, the people were astonished at his doctrine:
29 For he taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes.

Hebrews 5
4 And no man taketh this honor unto himself, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron.
5 So also Christ glorified not himself to be made a high priest; but he that said unto him, You are my Son, to day have I begotten you.
6 As he says also in another place, You are a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
7 Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;
8 Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered;
9 And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;
10 Called of God an high priest after the order of Melchisedec.
11 Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing you are dull of hearing.
12 For when for the time you ought to be teachers, you have need that one teach you again which be the first principles [stoicheion] of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.
13 For every one that use milk is unskillful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.
14 But strong meat belongs to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised [working out corruption] to discern both good and evil.

Hebrews 6
1 Therefore [now discerning good and evil] leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,
2 Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.
3 And this will we do, if God permit.
4 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,
5 And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,
6 If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.
7 For the earth which drinks in the rain that comes oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receive blessing from God:
8 But that which bears thorns and briers [tribolos] is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.
9 But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.
10 For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labor of love, which you have shown toward his name, in that you have ministered to the saints, and do minister.
11 And we desire that every one of you do show the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end:
12 That you be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
13 For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he swore by himself,
14 Saying, Surely blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply you.
15 And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.
16 For men truly swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife [antilogia – arguments of opposition].
17 Wherein God, willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:
18 That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:
19 Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enters into that within the veil;
20 Whither the forerunner is for us entered [into the presence of God], even Jesus, made a high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.

When the above speaks of the “confirmation” (of the oath that ends the arguments of opposition), it’s the twice-used Greek word bebaiosis, meaning “stabiliment.”

In this statement, the LORD today refers us to Genesis 26:3 and the promise (oath) there reiterated, and Isaiah 33:6, which speaks of the stability of our time.

The (Genesis 26) story’s point is the end of contention and strife. It comes in a time when God’s people (patterned in Isaac and Rebekah – the ensnarer) are among their enemies (the Philistines). It tells of these enemies, while at peace, becoming envious of the prosperity of God’s people: the blessing that comes by obeying His voice: the wells (from where living waters are drawn), which the enemies kept stopping. We’re told these wells were called contention and strife, which speaks of the means of stopping them: the opposition of enemies in our midst. The solution Isaac (he laughs) finds is to continually move until he find new wells (for the same waters – not stopped by strife and contention), which, when found, is named Beersheba, meaning it is the (unstoppable) well of the oath.

Friends, I tell you the LORD’s intended end, the rescue (harpazo, natsal – as a brand plucked from the fire) of Israel, is a mass exodus here into Babylon, which we in New Heavenly Jerusalem now possess. Hear and obey the word of the LORD, diligently search, and He will open this truth.

Isaiah 26
19 Your dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, you that dwell in dust: for your dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
20 Come, my people, enter you into your chambers, and shut your doors about you: hide yourself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.
21 For, behold, the LORD comes out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.

Genesis 26
2 And the LORD appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell you of:
3 Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you; for unto you, and unto your seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I swore unto Abraham your father;
4 And I will make your seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto your seed all these countries; and in your seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;
5 Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
6 And Isaac dwelt in Gerar [near Gaza]:
7 And the men of the place asked him of his wife; and he said, She is my sister: for he feared to say, She is my wife; lest, said he, the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah [the ensnarer]; because she was fair to look upon.
8 And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was sporting with Rebekah his wife.
9 And Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold, of a surety she is your wife; and how said you, She is my sister? And Isaac said unto him, Because I said, Lest I die for her.
10 And Abimelech said, What is this you have done unto us? one of the people might lightly have laid with your wife, and you shouldest have brought guiltiness upon us.
11 And Abimelech charged all his people, saying, He that touches this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.
12 Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year a hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him.
13 And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great:
14 For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him.
15 For all the wells which his father’s servants had digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped them, and filled them with earth.
16 And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for you are much mightier than we.
17 And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.
18 And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham: and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them.
19 And Isaac’s servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.
20 And the herdsmen of Gerar did strive with Isaac’s herdsmen, saying, The water is ours: and he called the name of the well Esek [contention]; because they strove with him.
21 And they digged another well, and strove for that also: and he called the name of it Sitnah [strife].
22 And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that they strove not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth [from rachab – an enlarging]; and he said, For now the LORD has made room [rachab] for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.
23 And he went up from thence to Beersheba [“well of the sevenfold oath”].
24 And the LORD appeared unto him the same night, and said, I am the God of Abraham your father: fear not, for I am with you, and will bless you, and multiply your seed for my servant Abraham’s sake.
25 And he built an altar there, and called upon the name of the LORD, and pitched his tent there: and there Isaac’s servants digged a well.
26 Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath [the possessors of this land] one of his friends [My dead body], and Phichol [mouth of all] the chief captain of his army.
27 And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore come you to me, seeing you hate me, and have sent me away from you?
28 And they said, We saw certainly that the LORD was with you: and we said, Let there be now an oath betwixt us, even betwixt us and you, and let us make a covenant with you;
29 That you will do us no hurt, as we have not touched you, and as we have done unto you nothing but good, and have sent you away in peace: you are now the blessed of the LORD.
30 And he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink.
31 And they rose up betimes in the morning, and swore one to another: and Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.
32 And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac’s servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had digged, and said unto him, We have [diligently searched and] found water.
33 And he called it Shebah [the perfected oath]: therefore the name of the city is Beersheba unto this day.

Isaiah 33
2 O LORD, be gracious unto us; we have waited for you: be you their arm [might – strength] every morning, our salvation [yshuw’ah – Jesus, Jehovah’s Salvation in the flesh] also in the time of trouble [tsarah – this time of tribulation].
3 At the noise [qowl – the voice] of the tumult [hamown – Your multitude] the people fled; at the lifting up of yourself the nations [gowy – those who haven’t known You] were scattered.
4 And your spoil [you recovered from those who spoiled us] shall be gathered like the gathering of the caterpillar [until nothing remains in their hands]: as the running to and fro of locusts shall he [in His multitude] run upon them.
5 The LORD is exalted; for he dwelleth on high: he has filled Zion with judgment and righteousness.
6 And [His] wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability [’emuwn – meaning “literally firmness; figuratively security; morally fidelity”] of your times, and strength of salvation [yshuw’ah – Jesus, Jehovah’s Salvation in the flesh]: the fear of the LORD is his treasure.
7 Behold, their valiant ones shall cry without: the ambassadors [mal’ak – the messengers: leviathan {the priesthood} of Isaiah 27:1, from who should be heard the highways, who will make peace with Me] of peace shall weep bitterly.
8 The highways [the ancient wisdom and knowledge] lie waste, the wayfaring man ceases: he has broken the covenant, he has despised the cities, he regards no man.
9 The earth mourns [its own desolation] and languishes [‘amal – waxes feeble]: Lebanon [where purity should be seen om high] is ashamed and hewn down: Sharon [what is in plain sight] is like a wilderness; and Bashan and Carmel [what was a fruitful garden] shakes off their fruits.
10 Now will I rise, says the LORD; now will I be exalted; now will I lift up myself.
11 You shall conceive chaff, you shall bring forth stubble: your breath [the evil spirit in you that produces worthlessness], as fire, shall devour you.
12 And the people shall be as the burnings of lime: as thorns [misleaders] cut up shall they be burned in the fire.
13 Hear [shama’ – obey this good leading], you that are far off [rachowq. – you who find yourselves in this time when the world is ruled by evil decree, deadly prescriptions of perverse law meant to demoralize, confuse, and control those obeying them], what I have done; and, you that are near, acknowledge my might.
14 The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness has surprised [‘achaz] the hypocrites [chaneph – those whose minds are blinded by corruption]. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?
15 He that walketh righteously, and speaks uprightly; he that despises the gain of oppressions, that shakes his hands from holding of bribes, that stops his ears from hearing of blood [the words of evil men meant to drain the life of those following their evil prescription], and shuts his eyes from seeing evil [as the way];
16 He shall dwell on high: his place of defense shall be the munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure.
17 Your eyes [being purified of corruption] shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the land that is very far off [merchaq – this appointed time the LORD decreed].
18 Your heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?
19 You shall not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech [speaking this word of God] than you can perceive [because it is the word of God you reject]; of a stammering tongue [a foreign language, truth you don’t speak], that you can not understand.
20 Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: your eyes shall see [New Heavenly] Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down; not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken.
21 But there the glorious LORD will be unto us a place of broad rivers and streams [through which His teaching flows into the sea: the people at large]; wherein shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby [‘abar – none of the corrupt and corrupting institutions of church and state now in power over the sea shall Passover into life].
22 For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king [from whom these things flow]; he will save us.
23 Your tackling are loosed; they could not well strengthen their mast, they could not spread the sail [nec – could not bring forth the son of man, the voice now exalted, spreading the LORD’s Spirit upon all]: then is the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame take the prey.
24 And the inhabitants [abiding in Him] shall not say, I am sick: the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity.

Job 6
13 Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me? [God’s hated people should understand they have received this help.]
14 To him that is afflicted pity should be shown from his friend [friends]; but he [they] forsake the fear of the Almighty.
15 My brethren have dealt deceitfully [bagad – treacherously] as a brook [whose corrupt waters have flowed into the sea], and as the stream of brooks [dried up] they pass away;
16 Which are blackish [full of ignorance] by reason of the ice [the word of God frozen, reserved for this moment], and wherein the snow is hid [in the cloud where the elements of understanding were reserved after they left the earth]:
17 What time they wax warm [and the word reserved therein the snow and ice flow as waters from heaven], they [the words that flow from the wicked] vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed [dried up] out of their place.
18 The paths of their [corrupt] way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.
19 The troops of Tema [the wise] looked, the companies of Sheba [who’ve taken oaths to serve the LORD] waited for them.
20 They were confounded because they had hoped [in their own creations]; they came thither, and were ashamed [disappointed because the end they promised wasn’t the true end the LORD promised].
21 For now you are nothing; you see my casting down, and are afraid.
22 Did I say, Bring unto me? or, Give a reward for me of your substance?
23 Or, Deliver me from the enemy’s hand? or, Redeem me from the hand of the mighty?
24 Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
25 How forcible are right words! but what does your arguing reprove?
26 Do you imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?
27 Yea, you overwhelm the fatherless, and you dig a pit for your friend.
28 Now therefore be content, look upon me; for it is evident unto you if I lie.
29 Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it.
30 Is there iniquity in my tongue [speaking the word the LORD has given me]? cannot my taste discern [your] perverse things?

Ecclesiastes 4
1 So I returned [from death], and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter [no man teaching them into all truth, leading them from the dead to join me in life]; and on the side of their oppressors there was power [to deceive and hold men in death]; but they had no comforter.
2 Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living [who’ve already awakened to everlasting contempt, who know they are here to do the work of Satan and willingly do it] which are yet alive.
3 Yea, better is he than both they, which has not yet been [born again], who has not seen [realized] the evil work that is done under the sun.
4 Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbor. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
5 The fool [not knowing this time] folds his hands together [not working with me], and [in his ignorance and sloth] eats his own flesh.
6 Better is a handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.
7 Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun.
8 There is one [alive from the dead doing the LORD’s will] alone, and there is not a second; yea, he has neither child nor brother: yet is there no end [qets] of all his labor; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither says he, For whom do I labor, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.
9 Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labor.
10 For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falls; for he has not another to help him up.
11 Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone?
12 And if one prevails [taqaph] against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken [the LORD in me unknown, the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost as ONE].
13 Better is a poor [micken – only used here and three time in Ecclesiastes 9:15 & 16; meaning without worldly power, who in the end is realized to be the true king] and a wise child [yeled] than an old and foolish king [as is feeble Brandon], who will no more be admonished.
14 For out of prison [‘acar – with this yoke] he comes to reign; whereas also he that is born in his kingdom [joined, yoked, with him] becometh poor [ruwsh – destitute of understanding].
15 I considered all the living which walk under the sun, with the second child [yeled – the wise child who is sent to deliver out of the hand of the wicked] that shall stand up [‘amad – as Michael, who is the image and likeness of God] in his stead [against the wicked and feeble king].
16 There is no end [qets] of [the lives of] all the people, even of all that have been before them: they also that come after [Solomon – in these last days of darkness: ignorance] shall not rejoice [samach – be brightened] in him [in the wise child]. Surely this also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

Ecclesiastes 9
10 Whatsoever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave [sheol – in hell where all the dead are housed], whither you go [and now “find” yourselves].
11 I returned [to a right mind], and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance [pega’ – occurrence, in which humanity finds itself] happens to them all [here in hell, in the death warned of in Genesis 2:17].
12 For man [‘adam] also knows not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly [pith’own – this is the epiphany, the moment of realizing the reality we find ourselves in] upon them.
13 This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me:
14 There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it:
15 Now there was found in it a poor [micken] wise man [‘adam], and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered [zakar] that same poor [micken] man [‘iysh].
16 Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor [micken] man’s wisdom is despised [among the dead], and his words are not heard [because the language of the dead is lies: deception, confusion, and insanity wherefore the dead are unable to distinguish between their delusions and this reality].
17 The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that rule among fools.
18 Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner [whose voice is exalted] destroys much good.

Fiends, the few of you who will [[again]] read this far, the world doesn’t believe in God and, therefore, can’t comprehend this as reality. They will see these words as those of one using masterfully arranged creations to deceive and manipulate people, as they do with their lies and deceptions. They have no idea I Am not alone and that the Creator of all is truly alive in Me doing the work, present to save His people as promised. There is only one way this ends: with the creation of a new earth built upon the ruin of the old and corrupt.

John 8
25 Then said they unto him, Who are you? And Jesus says unto them, Even the same that I said unto you from the beginning.
26 I have many things to say and to judge of you: but he that sent me is true; and I speak to the world those things which I have heard of him.
27 They understood not that he spoke to them of the Father [alive in me].
28 Then said Jesus unto them, When you have lifted up the Son of man, then shall you know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father has taught me, I speak these things.
29 And he that sent me is with me: the Father has not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him.
30 As he spoke these words, many believed on him.
31 Then said Jesus to those [Christians and] Jews which believed on him, If you continue in my word, then are you my disciples indeed;
32 And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

John 14
10 Believe you not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he does the works.
11 Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works’ sake.
12 Truly, truly, I say unto you, He that believes on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.
13 And whatsoever you shall ask in my name [in my identity, manifesting My presence in you], that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
14 If you shall ask any thing in my name [in my identity], I will do it.
15 If you love me, keep my commandments.
16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter [the Paraclete, I Am in me], that he may abide with you forever;
17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it sees him not, neither knows him [because I Am a poor man: without worldly power]: but you know him; for he dwells with you, and shall be in you.
18 I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
19 Yet a little while, and the world sees me no more; but you see me [My identity now manifested in these words and works]: because I live, you shall live also.
20 At that day you shall know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.

Philippians 1
2 Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the LORD Jesus Christ.
3 I thank my God upon every remembrance of you,
4 Always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy,
5 For your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now;
6 Being confident of this very thing, that he which has begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:
7 Even as it is meet for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in the defense and confirmation [bebaiosis] of the gospel, you all are partakers of my grace [these treasures the LORD has to me entrusted].
8 For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ [the LORD alive in me].
9 And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;
10 That you may approve things that are excellent [discerning good and evil]; that you may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ [risen in you].
11 Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.
12 But I would you should understand, brethren, that the things which happened unto me have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of the gospel;
13 So that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the palace, and in all other places;
14 And many of the brethren in the LORD, waxing confident by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the [this] word without fear.

Micah 4
1 But in the last days [‘achariyth] it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains [His teaching exalted above all other voices], and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it.
2 And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion [the first dominion – “eternal life,” in full understanding: i.e., “heaven,” where man has rest in sustainable peace and civilization, as it was in Eden], and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
3 And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.
4 But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the LORD of hosts has spoken it.
5 For all people will walk everyone in the name of his god [the idols they worship, which cannot bring them to peace], and we will walk in the name of the LORD our God forever and ever.
6 In that day, says the LORD, will I assemble her that halts [is lame, and thereby strayed from the course to the prize], and I will gather her that is driven out, and her that I have afflicted;
7 And I will make her that halted [was lame and strayed] a remnant, and her that was cast far off a strong nation: and the LORD shall reign over them in mount Zion [the first dominion establishing the new age of heaven and earth] from henceforth, even forever.
8 And you, O tower of the flock [that see His Glory in His appearing and kingdom], the strong hold of the daughter of Zion, unto you shall it come, even the first [ri’shown] dominion [memshalah]; the kingdom shall come to the daughter of Jerusalem.
9 Now why do you cry out aloud? is there no king in you? is your counselor perished? for pangs have taken you as a woman in travail [the pain that is only to bring forth him that must be lifted up: whose voice must be exalted].
10 Be in pain, and labor to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail: for now shall you go forth out of the city, and you shall dwell in the field, and you shall go even to Babylon [shall be in the world controlled by the confusion that comes from many ignorant and deceiving voices until this voice is exalted]; there shall you be delivered [natsal – as a brand plucked from the fire]; there the LORD shall redeem you from the hand of your enemies.
11 Now also many nations are gathered against you, that say, Let her be defiled [let God’s people be corrupted, as we are, by following the gods, idols, of this world], and let our eye look upon [be the vision of] Zion.
12 But they know not the thoughts of the LORD, neither understand they his counsel: for he shall gather them as the sheaves into the floor.
13 Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will make your horn [power as strong as] iron, and I will make your hoofs [your way as] brass: and you shall beat in pieces many people: and I will consecrate their gain [charam betsa’ – devote what they have plundered] unto the LORD, and their substance [chayil – the forces that sustain them] unto the LORD of the whole earth [His dominion as at first].

Jude 1
17 But, beloved, remember you the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our LORD Jesus Christ;
18 How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time [this ‘achariyth], who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.
19 These be they who separate themselves [from Him here], sensual, having not the Spirit.
20 But you, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,
21 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our LORD Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
22 And of some have compassion, making a difference:
23 And others save with fear [telling them they should fear the destruction that comes upon those not receiving the LORD’s mercy], pulling [harpazo] them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
24 Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,
25 To the only wise God our Savior, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.

Isaiah 62
6 I have set watchmen upon your walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: you that make mention of the LORD, keep not silence,
7 And give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
8 The LORD has sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no more give your corn to be meat for your enemies; and the sons of the stranger shall not drink your wine, for the which you have labored:
9 But they that have gathered it shall eat it, and praise the LORD; and they that have brought it together shall drink it in the courts of my holiness.
10 Go through [‘abar], go through [‘abar] the gates [Passover from death into life, through the gates of hell into the kingdom of God]; prepare you the way of the people; cast up [calal], cast up [calal] the highway [mcillah]; gather out the [dead] stones; lift up a standard [nec – the voice of the LORD exalted above all others, as Moses lifted the serpent in the wilderness] for the people.
11 Behold, the LORD has proclaimed unto the end of the [totally corrupt] world, Say you to the daughter of Zion, Behold, your salvation comes; behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him [paniym – His work declaring His presence].
12 And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of the LORD: and you shall be called, Sought out, A city not forsaken.

Revelation 21
1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.
2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.
4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
5 And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.
6 And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.
7 He that overcomes [the confusion that blinded the world into insanity] shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.

Isaiah 65
15 And you [the old and corrupt] shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen: for the LORD God shall slay you, and call his servants by another name:
16 That he who blesses himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth; and he that swears in the earth shall swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hid from my eyes.
17 For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.
18 But be you glad and rejoice forever in that which I create: for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.
19 And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people: and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying.

Hebrews 12
22 But you [who’ve received Him and His correction] are come unto mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels [messengers receiving and delivering His message, publishing His good tidings],
23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect [come to life in His presence],
24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling [His sacrificing to deliver this message, as the sunrise upon all], that speak better things than that of Abel.
25 See that you refuse not him that speaks. For if they escaped not who refused him that spoke on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaks from heaven [the place of full understanding]:
26 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he has promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven [that the wicked and their corruption are shaken from them and they, heaven and earth, are born again].
27 And this word, Yet once more, signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.
28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom [of God, heaven on the earth] which cannot be moved, let us have [not refusing] grace [this free gift of His treasures], whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
29 For our God is a consuming fire.

Romans 10
1 Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is [all His chosen family at large, those who receive this promised end], that they might be saved.
2 For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.
3 For they being ignorant of [in darkness not knowing] God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness [trying to prove their corrupt ways are the right way], have not submitted themselves [hupotasso] unto the righteousness [the right way] of God.
4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believes.
5 For Moses describes the righteousness which is of the law [without understanding], That the man which does those things [with understanding] shall live by them.
6 But the righteousness which is of faith speak on this wise, Say not in your heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down from above [to give us understanding]:)
7 Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead [to give us again understanding].)
8 But what says it? The word is near you, even in your mouth, and in your heart [mind]: that is, the word of faith [that the word, understanding, received is the LORD’s], which we preach;
9 That if you shall confess with your mouth the LORD Jesus [Jehovah’s salvation manifested in the flesh He chooses], and shall believe in your heart that God has raised him [He has chosen to dwell in] from the dead, you shall be saved.
10 For with the heart man believes unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. [I confess Jesus Christ is One God alive in my flesh!]
11 For the scripture says [in Isaiah 28:16], Whosoever believes on him shall not be ashamed [shall reach this expected end, our hope realized].
12 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same LORD over all is rich unto all that call upon him.
13 For [Joel 2:32 says] whosoever shall call upon the name of the LORD shall be saved.
14 How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?
15 And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written [in Isaiah 52:7], How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!
16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah [53:1] says, LORD, who has believed our report [in Hebrew “report” is from the many times discussed word shmuw’ah {shama’ Yah}, meaning heard and obeyed what is reported as the word of Jehovah, as it is, His sound “doctrine” He is teaching, as in Isaiah 28:9, asking “Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine {shmuw’ah – His report}?”]?
17 So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by [receiving report, the preaching, as] the word of God.
18 But I say, Have they not heard? Yes truly, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends [ending the old and beginning the new] of the world.
19 But I say, Did not Israel know? First Moses says, I will provoke you to jealousy by them that are no people, and by a foolish nation I will anger you.
20 But Isaiah [in Isaiah 65:1 & 2] is very bold, and says, I was found of them that sought me not; I was made manifest unto them that asked not after me.
21 But to Israel he says, All day long I have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying [antilego – opposing His rightly ordered discourse] people [of who Isaiah 65:5 says they haven’t found Him because they, those choosing to remain among the dead, are saying they are holier than Him; of whom He says they are like smoke in His nose, meaning to be fanned away by His hand].

Psalms 67
1 God be merciful unto us, and bless us; and cause his face [paniym – presence] to shine [His understanding] upon us; Selah.
2 That your way may be known upon earth, your saving health among all nations.
3 Let the people praise you, O God; let all the people praise you.
4 O let the nations be glad and sing for joy: for you shall judge the people righteously, and govern the nations upon earth. Selah.
5 Let the people praise you, O God; let all the people praise you.
6 Then shall the earth yield her increase; and God, even our own God, shall bless us.
7 God shall bless us; and all the ends [the end of the old and beginning the new] of the earth shall fear him.

Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.

27 – 29 October 2023

Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.

Friends, the above, Hebrews 4:14, is the LORD responding to the “verse of the day,” Hebrews 4:12, that appears (27 October 2023) at Biblegateway.com. The words used telling us to “hold fast our profession” are krateo {used forty-three times) and homologia (appearing only six times). It speaks of my/our mission, the profession of our faith that the LORD is present, manifested in His word and work, with us, in us, and we declare we are in Him, in His ONE BODY.

Hebrews 3
12 Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
13 But exhort one another daily, while it is called Today [when the light has come]; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin [the errors of darkness, misleading that blinds the mind].
14 For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast unto the end [when the LORD is risen and revealed in our flesh];
15 While it is said, Today if you will hear his voice [this understanding that it’s Him speaking light and life], harden not your hearts, as in the provocation [doubting His presence even when no other conclusion can be logically drawn].
16 For some, when they had heard [Him speaking], did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.
17 But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned [remaining with the corrupt thinking that held them captive and enslaved under tyrants], whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?
18 And to whom swore he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?
19 So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

Hebrews 4
1 Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise [that in death we would find ourselves risen with him in heaven, by His mind in us, which is the end of our faith, when the foundations are restored and we find rest in the promised land: earth] being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.
2 For unto us was the gospel preached [we are evangelized, made messengers of the LORD], as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith [that it is the LORD speaking] in them that heard it.
3 For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world [the foundation of God with us, in us declaring Himself, setting the course to our now seeing Him that is unseen, Who before we only heard without comprehension].
4 For he spoke in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works.
5 And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest.
6 Seeing therefore it remains that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief:
7 Again, he limits a certain day [this time when understanding comes], saying in David, Today, after so long a time; as it is said, Today if you will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
8 For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.
9 There remains therefore a rest to the people of God.
10 For he that is entered into his rest, he also has ceased from his own works, as God did from his.
11 Let us labor [in this harvest] therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief. [Luke 10:1 After these things the LORD appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself would come. 2 Therefore said he unto them, The harvest truly is great, but the laborers are few: pray you therefore the LORD of the harvest, that he would send forth laborers into his harvest. 3 Go your ways: behold, I send you forth as lambs among wolves.]
12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
13 Neither is there any creature [ktisis – foundation, at the creation] that is not manifest in his sight: but all things [the foundations] are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
14 Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast [krateo] our profession [homologia – His same word, this logical conclusion].
15 For we have not a high priest [in the order of Melchisedec – the king of righteousness, who is also the king of peace in which we find rest] which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities [the weakness of ignorance and unbelief]; but was in all points tempted [to doubt God is in me] like as we are, yet without sin [by obedience, subordinating my will to the Father’s].
16 Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy [here at the LORD’s mercy seat where His presence in manifested to the faithful], and find grace [these treasure from heaven] to help [stirred to life] in time of [the world’s] need.

The word homologia is from the Greeks words, homo (meaning same), and logia, meaning “from 3004 [lego]; something said (including the thought); by implication, a topic (subject of discourse), also reasoning (the mental faculty) or motive; by extension, a computation; specially, (with the article in John) the Divine Expression (i.e. Christ).”

It (homologia) describes the LORD’s word from the mouths of those who have faith they have heard Him speaking from the flesh of those He has chosen and prepared. Logically, there must be a first cause, the first to hear Him, through whom He starts the chain reaction, producing after His own kind. The resurrection of Jesus Christ, the first cause, is what we are experiencing here and now: I and the many children the LORD has given me, who are for signs and wonders among His people.

Hebrews 2
6 But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that you are mindful of him? or the son of man that you visit him?
7 You made him a little lower than the angels; you crowned him with glory and honor, and did set him over the works of your hands:
8 You have put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing that is not put under him. But now we see not yet [not yet comprehending that] all things [are] put under him.
9 But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor; that he by the grace of God should taste death [here in hell] for every man.
10 For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.
11 For both he that sanctifies [makes and declares us pure: holy] and they who are sanctified [made and declared pure: holy] are all of one [BODY]: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,
12 Saying, I will declare your name unto my brethren, in the midst of the church will I sing praise unto you.
13 And again, I will put my trust in him. And again, Behold I and the children which God has given me.
14 Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;
15 And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
16 For truly he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham.
17 Wherefore in all things it behooved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.
18 For in that he himself has suffered being tempted, he is able to succor [rescue] them that are tempted [to doubt His presence].

1 Corinthians 15
20 But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the first fruits of them that slept.
21 For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.
22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
23 But every man in his own order: Christ the first fruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.
24 Then comes the [expected] end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom [this new nation] to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power.
25 For he must reign, till he has put all enemies under his feet.
26 The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
27 For he has put all things under his feet. But when he says all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him.

As is the topic, this last verse refers to the expected end when the Father is the only thing not put under the son. The quote is from Psalms 8:6, which speaks of the son as having dominion over all the works of the LORD.

As we know from previous conversations, in this context, we understand in the original text of Psalms 8:5 (quoted in Hebrew 2:7) the words telling of the son of man as “made a little lower than the angels” are chacer’ elohiym. They tell us the son is intentionally sent lacking the full knowledge of God. The Psalm then tells us this is planned so He can be crowned with this understanding: revelation only known to the Father. We are also told (in Heberew 2:9) that lacking understanding, the state of ignorance of what is present, is death, and receiving it (“crowned with glory and honor”) is resurrection from death.

Psalms 8
A Psalm of David
1 O LORD [Jehovah], our LORD [‘adown – our King], how excellent is your name in all the earth! who have set your glory [Your presence manifested in revelation] above the heavens.
2 Out of the mouth [when this word is heard] of babes and sucklings [the children the LORD has given me] have you ordained strength [understanding that brings forth man] because of your enemies, that you might still [shabath – sabbath: interrupt, stop the work of] the enemy and the avenger.
3 When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars [the new civil government and Your people they govern as the Father governs], which you have ordained;
4 What is man, that you are mindful of him? and the son of man, that you visit [paqad – come as Chief Overseer of the earth, rising in] him?
5 For you have made him a little lower than [chacer – to lack a little] the angels [‘elohiym – of God’s knowledge], and have crowned him with glory and honor [the Father’s revelation manifesting His presence in him].
6 You made him to have dominion over the works [finished] of your hands; you have put all things [You created at the foundation] under his feet:
7 All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;
8 The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea [all the beasts of the earth, including men, all without the LORD’s Spirit], and whatsoever passes through [‘abar – all that Passover into life in this resurrection from death] the paths [‘orach – as pilgrims traveling] of the seas [through the ages and generations].
9 O LORD [Jehovah] our LORD [‘adown – our King], how excellent is your name [identity – seeing Your presence] in all the earth!
To the chief Musician upon Muth-labben [upon the death, cutting off the head with this sword, of Goliath]

The other five uses of homologia follow: in which the LORD speaks to us of our necessary profession, speaking the word He has here given us, with which He has purified and declared us holy.

(Friends, man’s wisdom says I have no right or authority to command you to obey. They who believe such are correct that I have nothing of my own, which witnesses to their lack of faith: not believing it’s the Father in me speaking and commanding. By rejecting Him and observing lying vanities, they refuse their own salvation, which only comes by receiving and giving His gift of grace and mercy. It’s every person’s choice, light or darkness, at this krisis {decision} point reached.)

2 Corinthians 9
6 But this I say, He which soweth [this word] sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.
7 Every man according as he purposes in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loves a cheerful giver [quoted from Proverbs 22:9].
8 And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:
9 (As it is written [in Psalms 112:9], He has dispersed abroad; he has given to the poor: his righteousness remains forever.
10 Now he that ministers [this good] seed to the sower both minister bread [this word from the mouth of God, by which man lives] for your food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;)
11 Being enriched in everything to all bountifulness, which causes through us thanksgiving to God.
12 For the administration of this service [giving the riches God has here given us] not only supplies the want of the saints, but is abundant also by many thanksgivings unto God;
13 Whiles by the experiment of this ministration they glorify God for your professed [homologia] subjection [hupotage – subordination, obedience] unto the gospel of Christ, and for your liberal distribution unto them, and unto all men;
14 And by their prayer for you, which long after you for the exceeding grace of God in you.
15 Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift.

The word rendered “unspeakable,” only appearing here, is enekdiegetos, which speaks of God’s gift, into which He has led us, as the origin of what is intended to be fully declared (professed).

This is why Paul immediately declares the power in him is Christ warring through us to pull down all the strongholds that oppose His salvation.

2 Corinthians 10
1 Now I Paul [I Timothy] myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in [my flesh] presence am base among you, but being absent am bold toward you:
2 But I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence, wherewith I think to be bold against some, which think of us as if we walked according to the flesh.
3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:
4 (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)
5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
6 And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.
7 Do you look on things after the outward appearance? if any man trust to himself that he is Christ’s, let him of himself think this again, that, as he [thinks he] is Christ’s, even so are we [truly] Christ’s.
8 For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the LORD has given us for edification [to build you up by this education], and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed [when this goal is reached, even your understanding and obedience]:
9 That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.
10 For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.
11 Let such an one think this, that, such as we are in word by letters when we are absent, such will we be also in deed when we are present.
12 For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise.
13 But we will not boast of things without our measure [things not given to us by the LORD alive in us], but according to the measure of the rule which God has distributed to us, a measure [this dispensation] to reach even unto you.

Proverbs 22
3 A prudent man foresees the evil, and hides himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.
4 By humility and the fear of the LORD are riches, and honor, and life.
5 Thorns [misleading] and snares are in the way of the froward [those who twist and pervert truth]: he that does keep [guards] his soul shall be far from them.
6 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
7 The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender [this speaks of the powerless becoming the servants of those in power, joining them in their wickedness – it is contrasted with Psalms 112:5 below, and joining with a good man].
8 He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail.
9 He that has a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he gives of his bread to the poor [this verse is the origin of Paul’s quote in 2 Corinthians 9:7].
10 Cast out the scorner [those who compare themselves to themselves, who are only in agreement with those in error with them], and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease.
11 He that loveth pureness of heart [a mind free of corruption], for the grace of his lips [speaking this pure word] the king [I Am] shall be his friend.
12 The eyes of the LORD preserve knowledge, and he overthrows the words of the transgressor.
13 The slothful man [who refuses to obey] says, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets.
14 The mouth of strange women [the words heard in the unfaithful church] is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.
15 Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
16 He that oppresses the poor to increase his riches, and he that gives to the rich, shall surely come to want.
17 Bow down [subordinate] your ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply your heart unto my knowledge.
18 For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them [this word from the mouth of the LORD] within you; they shall withal be fitted in your lips [when they are appropriately spoken].
19 That your trust may be in the LORD, I have made known to you this day, even to you.

Psalms 112
1 Praise you the LORD. Blessed is the man that fears the LORD, that delights greatly in his commandments.
2 His seed shall be mighty upon earth: the generation of the upright shall be blessed.
3 Wealth and riches shall be in his house: and his righteousness endures forever.
4 Unto the upright there arises light in the darkness: he is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.
5 A good man shows favor, and lends [and other good men join him]: he will guide his affairs with discretion.
6 Surely he shall not be moved forever: the righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance.
7 He shall not be afraid of evil tidings: his heart is fixed, trusting in the LORD.
8 His heart is established, he shall not be afraid, until he see his desire upon his enemies.
9 He has dispersed, he has given to the poor; his righteousness endure forever; his horn shall be exalted with honor.
10 The wicked shall see it, and be grieved; he shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away: the desire of the wicked shall perish.

1 Timothy 6
1 Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed.
2 And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren; but rather do them service, because they are faithful and beloved, partakers of the benefit. These things teach and exhort.
3 If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our LORD Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness;
4 He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof comes envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,
5 Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw yourself.
6 But godliness with contentment is great gain.
7 For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.
8 And having food and raiment let us be therewith content.
9 But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.
10 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
11 But you, O man of God [I Am, Timothy, the title only appearing here in the New Testament], flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.
12 Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto you are also called, and have professed [homologeo] a good profession [homologia] before many witnesses.
13 I give you charge in the sight of God, who quickens all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession [homologia];
14 That you keep this commandment without spot, unrebukable, until the appearing of our LORD Jesus Christ:
15 Which in his times he shall show, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and LORD of lords;
16 Who only has immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man has seen, nor can see: to whom be honor and power everlasting. Amen.
17 Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not high-minded [thinking their wealth makes them superior], nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who gives us richly all things to enjoy;
18 That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate [this good word of God];
19 Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay [as I have] hold on eternal life.
20 O Timothy, keep that which is committed to your trust [this dispensation the Father has Given me], avoiding profane and vain babblings [which have become the language of this generation], and oppositions of science falsely so called [antithesis gnosis pseudonumos – the arguments falsely named knowledge {anti-truth used against this truth of God}]:
21 Which some professing [epaggellos – announce themselves as if they are authors and finishers] have erred concerning the faith. Grace [this gift of salvation, from which these men have erred] be with you. Amen.

The word, above in verse 21, rendered “erred” is astocheo, a negative (opposite) of stoicheo (as in stoicheion, rendered elements, rudiments, and principles, meaning “something orderly in arrangement, i.e. (by implication) a serial (basal, fundamental, initial) constituent (literally), proposition (figuratively).”

It (astocheo) only appears two other times, both in Paul’s letters to Timothy, further describing the error of the wicked he speaks of above. The LORD, in these passages, speaks to us (here and now) of the errors of the corrupt church (the institution as a whole, without light, one body united in Babylon, their confusion that resulted from following the corruptors into death and hell).

In the first of these, 1 Timothy 1:6, the LORD’s commandment is to charge men that they teach no other doctrine nor heed fables (the creations of men’s imaginations).

1 Timothy 1
5 Now the end of the commandment is charity [agape – giving as received, which is Christian love] out of a pure heart [giving this word as received, without again adding corruption], and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned [anupokritos – without dissimulation, as in Romans 12:9 Let love {agape} be without dissimulation {anupokritos}. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.]:
6 From which some having swerved [astocheo] have turned aside unto vain jangling;
7 Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm.
8 But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully;
9 Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
10 For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for men-stealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;
11 According to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which [dispensation] was committed to my trust.

2 Timothy 2
1 You therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.
2 And the things that you have heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit you to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.
3 You therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ [Jehovah’s Salvation in the flesh].
4 No man that wars entangles himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who has chosen him to be a soldier.
5 And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully.
6 The husbandman [he that works in the earth] that labors must be first partaker of the fruits.
7 Consider what I say; and the LORD give you [first] understanding in all things.
8 Remember that Jesus Christ of the seed of David was raised from the dead [the first- fruit, now, of the resurrection of the dead] according to my gospel:
9 Wherein I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, even unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound [nor can any man shut what the LORD has now opened].
10 Therefore I endure all things for the elect’s sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
11 It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him:
12 If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us:
13 If we believe not [He is resurrected in me], yet he abides faithful [in me]: he cannot deny himself. [I tell you the truth, I confess without fear, Jehovah’s Salvation, Jesus, is alive from the dead, Christ, in my flesh!]
14 Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the LORD that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers.
15 Study to show yourself approved unto God, a workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
16 But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.
17 And their word will eat as does a canker: of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus [those who forbid your Joining with the LORD, in His ONE BODY, one flesh, as His only son, and forbidding this they hide behind the spurious mask of caring for your soul];
18 Who concerning the truth have erred [astocheo], saying that the resurrection is past already [the resurrection comes when you are freed from the lies of the false prophets and false teachers whose words and ways have carried Humanity into death and hell]; and overthrow the faith of some.
19 Nevertheless the foundation [I Am] of God stands sure, having this seal, The LORD knows them that are his. And, let every one that names the name of Christ depart from [purge out, incise, exercise, work out of yourself] iniquity.
20 But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honor, and some to dishonor.
21 If a man therefore purge himself from these [the vessels of dishonor, in which remains the scum], he shall be a vessel unto honor, sanctified [made holy], and meet for the master’s use, and prepared unto every good work.
22 Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the LORD out of a pure heart.
23 But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strife [the way of the wicked, argument, continuously questioning with known lies and false accusation, intended to produce endless confusion].
24 And the servant of the LORD must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient,
25 In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;
26 And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil [endless questioning, using lies and false accusation, even when known to be such – with intention, leading captive silly women who are never able to come to the knowledge of the truth], who are taken captive by him at his will.

2 Timothy 3
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
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 taking you captive] turn away.
6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
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, ate] so do these also resist 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 this oppression].
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 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 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.
16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, 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].

2 Timothy 4
1 I charge you therefore before God, and the LORD Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;
2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine.
3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
5 But watch you in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of your ministry.

Hebrews 3
1 Wherefore [He is able to recuse, succor, us from our doubt], holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling [to declare Him present, and this word as His voice], consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession [homologia – giving us His word to declare], Christ Jesus;
2 Who was [is] faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house.
3 For this man was [is] counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who has built the house has more honor than the house.
4 For every house is built by some man; but he that built all things is God.
5 And Moses truly was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony [speaking the words God gave him] of those things which were to be spoken after;
6 But Christ as a son over his own house [has given us His word to be spoken after our obedience is fulfilled]; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence [that the words are His] and the rejoicing of the hope [of His presence] firm unto the end [when we again see Him after we’ve heard Him].
7 Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost says, Today if you will hear his voice,
8 Harden not your hearts [mind that remain blinded and in disobedience], as in the provocation, in the day of temptation [doubting His presence] in the wilderness [referring to Exodus 17:6 & 7, saying “Behold, I will stand before you there upon the rock in Horeb; and you shall smite the Rock {Christ}, and there shall come water {the word of God} out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel. And he called the name of the place Massah [temptation], and Meribah [strife and contention], because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the LORD, saying, “Is the LORD among us, or not?”]:
9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
10 Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do always err [planao – as in the planets, wandering stars, deceives in the darkness that, because of their wander, can’t be trusted to show the way] in their heart; and they have not known my ways.
11 So I swore in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)
12 Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart [misled mind] of unbelief, in departing from the living God.

Hebrews 10
1 For the law having a shadow [of ignorance] of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect [in full understanding, seeing the Father in the son, behind the veil of flesh, His presence from there leading us into salvation].
2 For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged [from blinding ignorance and corruption] should have had no more conscience of [mind in error committing] sins.
3 But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins [committed] every year.
4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away [aphaireo – to prefer by choice – literally taking away {apo} bad choices {haireomai}] sins.
5 Wherefore when he comes into the world, he says, Sacrifice and offering you would not, but a body have you prepared me [flesh in which He manifests His presence, unknown as the Paraclete {the Comforter}, the Holy Ghost, leading us away from darkness {ignorance} into His marvelous light {full understanding}, as in the name Nehemiah meaning Jehovah’s Comforter]:
6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you have had no pleasure.
7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do your will [that none would perish but that all would come to salvation], O God.
8 Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin you would not, neither had pleasure therein; which are offered by [as the prescription of] the law [foreshadowing the One coming];
9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do your will, O God. He takes away the first [the shadow of ignorance of the underlying deep meaning], that he may establish the second [full understanding in the Father’s presence].
10 By the which will we are sanctified [made holy, purified from pollution] through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ [Jehovah’s Salvation manifested in the flesh] once for all.
11 And every priest stands daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. [The word here rendered “take away” is the four times used word periaireo {peri haireomai} – referring us to its use in 2 Corinthians 3:16, when the veil of ignorance of the Old Testament is “taken away,” now when we have turned to {returned to seeing} the LORD, the Father manifested in the flesh, as in Moses, as in Christ the perpetual son of ONE God in him leading His people into salvation]:
12 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God [from where he now exhibits the Father’s power in us and through us];
13 From henceforth expecting [ekdechomai – waiting expectantly, tarrying, long-suffering until He is again seen] till his enemies [whose pervading ignorance] be made his footstool.
14 For by one offering he has perfected forever them that are sanctified [by it cleared of all corruption that blinded their minds].
15 Whereof the Holy Ghost [the Father, ONE God, unknown speaking and working] also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before [in Jeremiah 31:31 – 34],
16 “This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the LORD, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;
17 And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.”
18 Now where remission [aphesis – freedom, which comes from the LORD shedding His blood: His voice speaking better thing than Abel, which voice is now shaking heaven and earth, and the wicked shall be shaken from them: the voice we are warned not to ignore] of these is, there is no more offering for sin.
19 Having, therefore, brethren, boldness to enter [the presence of God above His mercy seat] into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,
20 By a new and living way [by the resurrection from death], which he has consecrated [egkainizo – inaugurated by His blood testament – the word only appearing one other time, Hebrews 9:18, where it is rendered, “testament was dedicated” {by “blood”}] for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;
21 And having a high priest over the house of God;
22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
23 Let us hold fast the profession [homologia – this same word repeated as received, which is the law of the LORD written into our minds, effectually working to change them, producing the good conscience] of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)
24 And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:
25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together [into His ONE BODY], as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as you see the day approaching.
26 For if we sin willfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more sacrifice for sins,
27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
28 He that despised Moses’ law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:
29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose you, shall he be thought worthy, who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and has done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
30 For we know him that has said [in Deuteronomy 32:35 & 36], Vengeance belongs unto me, I will recompense, says the LORD. And again, The LORD shall judge his people.
31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
32 But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after you were illuminated [given this understanding], you endured a great fight of afflictions [at the hand of those denying and mocking the LORD at His appearing and kingdom];
33 Partly, whilst you were made a gazing-stock [held up for public ridicule] both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst you became companions of them that were so used.
34 For you had compassion [had sympathy when I was publicly mocked] of me in my bonds [in this prison, the pit of mire stirred by the feet of evil doers: misleaders and false accusers: known liars telling known lies], and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods [the worthless ways and ideas the world says are valuable], knowing in yourselves that you have in heaven a better and an enduring substance [these treasures God has given us, and the eternal and abundant life they produce: as fruit].
35 Cast not away therefore your confidence, which [faith in the LORD and believing His promises] has great recompence of reward.
36 For you have need of patience, that, after you have done the will of God, you might receive the promise.
37 For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.
38 Now the just shall live by faith [in the Father]: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
39 But we are not of them who draw back [into corruption] unto perdition; but of them that believe [the Father] to the saving of the soul.

1 Corinthians 10
1 Moreover, brethren, I would not that you should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;
2 And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;
3 And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.
5 But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
6 Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
7 Neither be you idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.
8 Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
9 Neither let us tempt [doubt] Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.
10 Neither murmur you, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.
11 Now all these things happened unto them for examples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come [ending the old and corrupt and beginning the new].
12 Wherefore let him that thinketh he stands take heed lest he fall.
13 There has no temptation [doubt] taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that you are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that you may be able to bear it.
14 Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry [escape those who put themselves in God’s place, the men with which you are joined].
15 I speak as to wise men; judge you what I say.
16 The cup of blessing which we [here] bless, is it not the communion [koinonia – meaning “partnership, i.e. (literally) participation, or (social) intercourse, or (pecuniary) benefaction.”] of the blood of Christ? The bread which we [here] break, is it not the communion [koinonia] of the body of Christ?
17 For we being many are [here] one bread, and ONE BODY: for we are all partakers of that one bread [this word from the mouth of the present LORD, by which man lives].

Psalms 46
1 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble [tsarah – this tribulation].
2 Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains [the governments that have risen over the earth] be carried into the midst of the sea [the people at large];
3 Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.
4 There is a river, the streams [this word of God that flows into the sea] whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the Most High.
5 God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right early.
6 The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted.
7 The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
8 Come, behold the works of the LORD, what desolations he has made in the earth.
9 He makes wars to cease unto the end of the [old and corrupt] earth; he breaks the bow, and cuts the spear in sunder; he burns the chariot in the fire.
10 Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
11 The LORD of hosts is [a man of war, I Am] with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.

The LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom.

20 – 25 October 2023

The LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom.

The above is a portion of Ezra 1:1, which is preceded by telling us this (stirring) is to fulfill “the word of the LORD from the mouth of Jeremiah.” Some believe this refers to Jeremiah 29:10 – 14 and the end of the time in desolation, while it more surely (spiritually) speaks of the book’s (Jeremiah’s) prophesies’ culmination.

The word “stirred” is from ‘uwr, a word which (unstated) has an affinity to the origin of the appellative Ezra (meaning “help”), both describing the book’s underlying subject {stirring help). It (‘uwr) only appears here speaking of Cyrus (descriptively meaning the LORD, in the son of man, here with us in the furnace, of which he is the possessor) and in verse 5 where it speaks of those among God’s people stirred with him.

Ezra 1
5 Then rose up the chief of the fathers of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests, and the Levites, with all them whose spirit God had raised [‘uwr], to go up to build the house of the LORD which is in Jerusalem.

As we know, this same stirring is found in the meaning of the name Jeremiah, which we understand speaks of Jehovah rising and (with His rising) raising His people.

The Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary definition meaning of ‘uwr is “a primitive root (rather identical with 5783 through the idea of opening the eyes); to wake (literally or figuratively):–(a- )wake(-n, up), lift up (self), X master, raise (up), stir up (self).”

As we know, the origins of the name Jehovah speak of the LORD as self-manifesting, self-existing, and becoming who He will become (“I AM THAT I AM,” hayah ‘aher hayah – I will be who I will be, or I will become who I will become).

The word (‘uwr) is said to be from identical words meaning to “be bare” and “chaff (as the naked husk),” therein describing removing the covering (the worthless that is blinding) to reveal (stir awake) what resides inside.

Cyrus is the son of Esther (a Hebrew, her name meaning “star”) and Ahasuerus (meaning “I will be silent and poor”), names (appellatives) referring to God’s people, when they have become as many as the stars of heaven, with Him when He, then as now, has manifested Himself silent (His name not spoken in the book of Esther, only appearing cryptically in acrostics) and seemingly without power.

Cyrus was most certainly brought up by Mordecai (meaning small), as was Esther his (Mordecai’s) niece, and under him studied the law and the prophets. Esther assuredly named Cyrus from Isaiah’s (long before) foretelling his coming, and he (Cyrus) acted (not only obeying the LORD’s words in Isaiah) obediently to the LORD’s word in Jeremiah.

Friends, I tell you again without equivocation, all these spiritually speak of this moment: the LORD sending me, as a soldier on His mission, hidden in plain sight, with no power other than the Almighty living within me. It is at this expected end the corrupt powers of the world should tremble and His awakened people should rejoice. Hallelujah! Amen!

Isaiah 45
1 Thus says the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have held, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates [out of hell into heaven]; and the gates shall not be shut;
2 I will go before you, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron [holding all humanity in death and hell]:
3 And I will give you the treasures of darkness [hidden in men’s ignorance], and hidden riches of secret places [these deep meanings now revealed], that you mayest know that I, the LORD, which call you by your name, am the God of Israel [the name I’ve given the people of My promise, who receive Me and it at this arrival].
4 For Jacob my servant’s sake, and Israel my elect, I have even called you by your name: I have surnamed you, though you have not known me.
5 I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded you, though you have not known me [as none have]:
6 That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west [shinning understanding, with which comes this new day, upon all who come out of corruption into its light], that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else.
7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
8 Drop down, you heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I the LORD have created it.
9 Woe unto him that strives with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioned it, What makest you? or your work, He has no hands?
10 Woe unto him that says unto his father, What have you begotten? or to the woman, What have you brought forth?
11 Thus says the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, Ask me of things to come [‘athah – at My arrival] concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands command you me.
12 I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded.
13 I have raised him up [‘uwr] in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let go [from hell] my captives, not for price nor reward, says the LORD of hosts.
14 Thus says the LORD, The labor of Egypt [of the tyrants who oppress us], and merchandise of Ethiopia [those covered in their ignorance] and of the Sabeans [those drunken with their power], men of stature, shall come over unto you, and they shall be yours: they shall come after you; in chains they shall come over, and they shall fall down unto you, they shall make supplication unto you, saying, Surely God is [alive] in you; and there is none else, there is no God.
15 Truly you are a God that hides yourself, O God of Israel, the Savior.
16 They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they shall go to confusion together that are makers of idols [God’s they put in My place and call by my name].
17 But Israel [those who by faith receive this expected end] shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting salvation: you shall not be [as those who don’t know Me are, thinking the world ends] ashamed nor confounded world without end.
18 For thus says the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he has established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else.
19 I have not spoken in secret [but here in plain sight], in a dark place of the earth [where the falsely so-called wise men speak their ignorance thinking therein they can hide]: I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek you me in vain: I the LORD speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.
20 Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together [into My ONE BODY with Me], you that are escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot save.
21 Tell you, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together: who has declared this from ancient time? who has told it from that time? have not I the LORD? and there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Savior; there is none beside me.
22 Look unto me, and be you saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.
23 I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.
24 Surely, shall one say, [I AM] in the LORD have I righteousness and strength: even to him shall men come; and all that are incensed against him shall be ashamed [never reaching the end they seek].
25 In the LORD shall all the seed of Israel [as I promised] be justified, and shall glory.

Psalms 57
1 Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusts in you: yea, in the shadow of your wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities be overpast.
2 I will cry unto God most high; unto God that performs all things for me.
3 He shall send from heaven, and save me from the reproach of him that would [with their lies and false accusations] swallow me up [and hold me here in hell, the work of evil you let them create for themselves]. Selah. God shall send forth his mercy and his truth.
4 My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth [words with which they devour flesh] are spears and arrows, and their tongue [words] a sharp sword.
5 Be you [Your voice be] exalted, O God, above the heavens [men have corrupted]; let your glory be above all the [voices of the] earth.
6 They have prepared a net for my steps; my [immortal] soul is bowed [held] down: they have digged a pit [hell] before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen themselves. Selah.
7 My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing [the words You’ve given me] and give praise.
8 Awake up [‘uwr], my glory; awake [‘uwr], psaltery and harp: I myself will awake [‘uwr] early.
9 I will praise you, O LORD, among the people: I will sing unto you among the nations.
10 For your mercy is great unto the heavens, and your truth unto the clouds.
11 Be you exalted, O God, above the heavens: let your glory be above all the earth.

The condition of being “bowed down,” above in verse 6, is from the five times used Hebrew word kaphaph, with which the LORD refers us to its other uses below, speaking of it as from where He raises us.

Psalms 145
1 I will extol you, my God, O king; and I will bless your name forever and ever.
2 Every day will I bless you; and I will praise your name forever and ever.
3 Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised; and his greatness is unsearchable.
4 One generation shall praise your works to another, and shall declare your mighty acts.
5 I will speak of the glorious honor of your majesty, and of your wondrous works.
6 And men shall speak of the might of your terrible acts: and I will declare your greatness.
7 They shall abundantly utter the memory of your great goodness, and shall sing of your righteousness.
8 The LORD is gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy.
9 The LORD is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works.
10 All your works shall praise you, O LORD; and your saints shall bless you.
11 They shall speak of the glory of your kingdom, and talk of your power;
12 To make known to the sons of men his mighty acts, and the glorious majesty of his kingdom.
13 Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and your dominion endures throughout all generations.
14 The LORD upholds all that fall, and raises up all those that be bowed down [kaphaph].
15 The eyes of all wait upon you; and you give them their meat [this deep understanding that strengthens and raises them] in due season.
16 You open your hand, and satisfy the desire of every living thing.
17 The LORD is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works.
18 The LORD is near unto all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth.
19 He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him: he also will hear their cry, and will save them.
20 The LORD preserves all them that love him: but all the wicked will he destroy.
21 My mouth shall speak the praise of the LORD [Hallelujah]: and let all flesh bless his holy name forever and ever.

Psalms 146
1 Praise you the LORD [Hallelujah]. Praise the LORD [Hallelujah], O my soul.
2 While I live will I praise the LORD [Hallelujah]: I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being.
3 Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.
4 His breath [life] goes forth, he returns to his earth [here dead in hell]; in that very day his thoughts [‘eshtonah – only appearing here, meaning rational thinking, and thereby understanding] perish.
5 Happy is he that has the God of Jacob for his help [to here in death awaken the mind], whose hope is in the LORD his God:
6 Which made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that therein is: which keeps truth forever:
7 Which executes judgment for the oppressed: which gives food to the hungry. The LORD loose the prisoners [from death and hell]:
8 The LORD opens the eyes of the blind: the LORD raises them that are bowed down [kaphaph]: the LORD loves the righteous:
9 The LORD preserves the strangers; he relieves the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turns upside down.
10 The LORD shall reign forever, even your God, O Zion, unto all generations. Praise you the LORD [Hallelujah].

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, 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 [refused to take His words into our mouth], say they, and you see not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and you take no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, and exact all your labors.
4 Behold [you chose your own words and ways, and exalt them above the word of God], you fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness [to exalt yourselves]: you shall not fast [refusing my words] as you do this day, to make your voice to be heard [shama’ – obeyed] on high.
5 Is it [are your ways] such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul [to oppose his own eternal good]? is it to bow down [kaphaph] his head as a bulrush [broken in mind and body], and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? will you call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?
6 Is not this the fast [abstaining from your own words] that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness [the mouths of men holding you here in death and hell], to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke? [Matthew 11:27 All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knows the Son, but the Father; neither knows any man the Father, except the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him. 28 Come unto me, all you that labor and are heavy laden {with the burden of men’s words and ways}, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and you shall find rest unto your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light {double meaning intended}.]
7 Is it not to deal your bread [the word from the mouth of God] to the hungry, and that you bring the poor that are cast out to your house? when you see the naked [without any protection against the corrupt elements: the insane foundational ideas and ways of the world], that you cover him [with My righteousness]; and that you hide not yourself from your own flesh [those who by this will enter My ONE BODY]?
8 Then shall your light [this understanding from heaven] break forth as the morning [this new day of the LORD’s creation], and your health shall spring forth speedily: and your righteousness shall go before you; the glory of the LORD [His presence manifested 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, and speaking vanity;
10 And if you draw out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall your light rise in obscurity, and your darkness be as the noon day:
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, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
13 If you turn away your foot from the sabbath [stop your works and ways when I interrupt, for course correction, and call you to obey], from doing your pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath [My interruptions] a delight, the holy of the LORD, honorable; and shall honor him, not doing your own ways, 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 the [promised] heritage of Jacob your father: for the mouth of the LORD has spoken it.

Micah 6
1 Hear [shama’ – obey] you now what the LORD says; Arise, contend you before the mountains [the corrupt powers risen over the earth], and let the hills [all their governments] hear [shama’ – obey] your voice.
2 Hear [shama’ – obey] you, O mountains, the LORD’s controversy, and you strong [by corruption and misleading] foundations of the earth: for the LORD has a controversy with his people, and he will plead [as He does here and now] with Israel.
3 O my people [whose inheritance is as I promised], what have I done unto you? and wherein have I wearied you? testify against me.
4 For I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of servants; and I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.
5 O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab consulted, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim [when he decided {bowed} to speak only the words God put in his mouth] unto Gilgal [when the LORD turned the curse of the enemies into a blessing]; that you may know the righteousness of the LORD.
6 Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself [kaphaph] before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old? [Hosea 14:2 Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say unto him, Take {correct} away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we render the calves of our lips.]
7 Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
8 He has showed you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require [darash] of you, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
9 The LORD’s voice cries unto the city, and the man of wisdom shall see your name [the LORD’s identity alive in me/us]: hear [shama’ – obey] you the rod [of correction from His mouth], and who has appointed it.
10 Are there yet the treasures [ideas and words they falsely claim have value] of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable?
11 Shall I count them [their abomination they put in place of the holy] pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of [their] deceitful weights?
12 For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
13 Therefore also will I make you sick in smiting you, in making you desolate because of your sins.
14 You shall eat [choosing their words over this word from the mouth of God], but not be satisfied [never saying it’s enough – ever learning and never coming to the knowledge of God with us]; and your casting down shall be in the midst of you; and you [your false words of salvation] shall take hold, but shall not deliver [not save anyone that obeys them]; and that which you [say you will thereby] deliver will I give up to the sword [this word of God they refuse, when what I have warned against comes, by your choice].
15 You shall sow, but you shall not reap; you shall tread the olives, but you shall not anoint you with oil; and sweet wine, but shall not drink wine.
16 For the statutes of Omri are kept [1 Kings 16:25 But Omri wrought evil in the eyes of the LORD, and did worse than all that were before him], and all the works of the house of Ahab, and you walk in their counsels; that I should make you a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof a hissing [drawing attention to them and their chosen self-destruction]: therefore you shall bear the reproach [cherpah] of my people [that do choose Me].

The above “reproach” is the same (cherpah) spoken of below in Joel 2:17 & 19, and Daniel 12:2. It is the reproach of the wicked against God and His people, which, at this awakening, is turned upon them (the wicked, because their evil is uncovered, which is the apocalypse) and remains therein the light forever. This is the restoration of the right definitions, the righteous standard, of good and evil.

(Pardon me while I again digress: this time will never be forgotten into all eternity hereafter. The wicked of this time ignorantly believe future generations (when rational thinking returns) will abide (accept) the delusions of this brief moment. They (recipients of this correction) will define it as it is: a time when mass insanity ruled the world, and it subsequently went into literal hell. The current corrupt crop of misleaders will soon be plowed under as the rotting fruit they are, and their evil deeds will forever be remembered as the lowest point of human history. John 3:11 Truly, truly, I say unto you, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and you receive not our {mine and my Father’s} witness. 12 If I have told you earthly things, and you believe not, how shall you believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?)

Joel 2
10 The earth shall quake before them [the wicked now in power]; the heavens [the places where understanding, light, should be] shall tremble [so that the wicked sitting in God’s place are shaken from them]: the sun and the moon [church and state governments] shall be dark [realized to be void of all light, and governing by oppression rather than justly as God intended], and the stars [God’s people at large] shall withdraw their shining [no longer having or giving the understanding of the time and season, truth found only in this word of God]:
11 And the LORD shall utter his voice before his army [to now raise them from their long sleep in the darkness]: for his camp is very great: for he is strong that executes his word: for the day of the LORD is great and very terrible; and who can abide it?
12 Therefore also now, says the LORD, turn you even to me with all your heart [your whole awakened mind], and with fasting [abstaining from obeying men’s words], and with weeping, and with mourning [realizing they and you have rejected and denied the LORD at His coming, not as man said, but as He says]:
13 And rend your heart [tear away what corrupts your thinking], and not your garments, and turn [from these men] unto the LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repents him of the evil [He will save us from the consequence He said would come].
14 Who knows if he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him; even a meat offering and a drink offering [this blessing here and now seen with us] unto the LORD your God?
15 Blow the trumpet in Zion [gather My army into My ONE BODY], sanctify a fast [declare the LORD’s words and ways holy], call a solemn assembly:
16 Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts [of the Ancient of day, the ancient high ways, wisdom He has taught us]: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber [cheder], and the bride out of her closet [chuppah]. [As we know, these places are where the LORD has protected and hidden us, until His indignation {za’am} is overpast {‘abar – the Passover, when we are raised from death into life}, when it ends in His glory revealed in us destroying the wicked.]
17 Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar [where they have killed the obedient, prophets and wise men, I sent unto them, and now a second time seek to crucify MY Son], and let them say, Spare your people, O LORD, and give not your heritage to reproach [cherpah], that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God?
18 Then will the LORD be jealous for his land [‘erets – His earth], and pity his people [wherever they now find themselves].
19 Yea, the LORD will answer and say unto his people, Behold, I will send you corn, and wine, and oil, and you shall be satisfied therewith [speaking of this teaching, of which we say “It is more than enough”]: and I will no more make you a reproach [cherpah] among the heathen:
20 But I will remove far off [rachaq – the evil decreed by the wicked in power] from you [by] the northern army [of darkness], and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost [‘acharown] sea [My people throughout history, here in these last days awakened in this resurrection, which shall close upon the wicked binging their destruction], and his stink [the rottenness perceived] shall come up, and his ill savor [of the word in their mouths] shall come up, because he has done great things.
21 Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: for the LORD will do great things.
22 Be not afraid, you beasts of the field [those in the earth without My Spirit alive in them]: for the pastures of the wilderness do spring [with My life-giving waters], for the tree bears her fruit, the fig tree and the vine do yield their strength.
23 Be glad then, you children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he has given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month.
24 And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the vats shall overflow with wine and oil.
25 And I will restore to you the years that the locust has eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpillar, and the palmerworm, my great army [of darkness] which I sent among you.
26 And you shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your God, that has dealt wondrously with you [opening your eyes]: and my people shall never be ashamed [they shall reach their expected end, when I save them from the confusion {Babylon} that rules over them and all the world].
27 And you shall know that I Am in the midst of Israel, and that I Am the LORD your God, and none else: and my people shall never be ashamed [when they receive Me at My arrival].
28 And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh [that has not known Me]; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy [speaking My word to them], your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:
29 And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit [through them as I have to them].
30 And I will show wonders in the [new] heavens and in the [new] earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke [protecting them in this new day].
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness [the old corrupt church will be realized, by them as it is with you, to be without light], and the moon into blood [the civil government realized, to them as it is with you, to be draining the life from all they tyrannically rule], before [paniym – when the LORD’s presence is realized to be] the great and terrible day of the LORD come.
32 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name [the identity] of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD has said, and [His salvation] in the [elect] remnant whom the LORD shall call [has called].

Daniel 12
1 And at that time shall Michael [who is like God] stand up, the great prince which stands for the children of your people: and there shall be a time of trouble [tsarah – the tribulation; the time of Jacob’s trouble], such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time your people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found [matsa’] written in the book [that was shut by misleading into ignorance, and is now open].
2 And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt [cherpah – reproach].
3 And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament [giving understanding from the rightly divided word]; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars forever and ever.
4 But you, O Daniel [judgment of God], shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end [qets – the end of the time of ignorance]: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge [da’ath – “knowledge” found in the opened Word of God, who is like {minded with} God] shall be increased.

The end of time Daniel is told of is the LORD’s arrival, foretold using the Chaldee word ‘athah, earlier in Daniel 7:13 & 22.

Daniel 7
9 I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit [the wisdom of God returned to its place], whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels [galgal, speaking of His appearance, as waves of waters: the relentless word of God] as burning fire.
10 A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him [from His presence]: thousand thousands [of His awakened saints] ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him [in His presence]: the judgment was set, and the books [of His before sealed word] were opened.
11 I beheld then because of the voice of the great words which the horn [those in power] spoke: I beheld even till the beast [Babylon: the confusion that ruled the world into confusion and mass insanity] was slain, and his body destroyed, and given to the burning flame.
12 As concerning the rest of the beasts [the powers of the world], they had their dominion taken away: yet their lives were prolonged for a season and time.
13 I saw in the night visions [saw this was in the time when darkness covered the earth], and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the [understanding held in the] clouds of heaven, and came to [‘athat – arrived] the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him [they, the LORD’s awakened people, His ministers, approached Him to receive the same Ancient wisdom].
14 And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.
15 I Daniel was grieved in my spirit in the midst of my body [understanding the whole body would, before this end, become without light and life], and the visions of my head troubled me [as in verse 28 below].
16 I came near unto one of them that stood by [the son of man who first received the Ancient of days], and asked him the truth of all this. So he told me, and made me know the interpretation of the things.
17 These great beasts, which are four, are four kings [kingdoms ruling over all the earth], which shall arise out of the earth.
18 But the saints of the Most High shall take the kingdom, and possess the kingdom forever, even forever and ever.
19 Then I would know the truth of the fourth beast [Babylon: the confusion that has now ruled the world into mass delusion and insanity], which was diverse [as policy using lies as means to change times and laws, calling evil good and injustice justice] from all the others, exceeding dreadful, whose teeth were of iron [the strength in their mouth], and his nails of brass [tearing nations apart with their redefinition of good and evil, calling their delusions reality]; which devoured [with their mouths], brake in pieces [with their nails], and stamped the residue [the ruin of the whole earth] with his feet [the way of confusion, lies a policy];
20 And of the ten horns that were in his head [the culmination, the wicked accomplishing their control over all the world], and of the other [here in the USA] which came up, and before [Barak, in whose presence] whom three fell [destroying the power of our three branches of government]; even of that horn that had eyes [understanding dark sentences, the power of lies and flattery on the ignorance], and a mouth that spoke very great things [of deceptions], whose look was more stout [his dark understanding gave him more power] than his fellows.
21 I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them [as it was];
22 Until the Ancient of days came, and judgment [Daniel, the judgment of God, awakening to stand in his lot at this end] was [by His wisdom] given to the saints of the Most High; and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth [Babylon: confusion, led by the USA into insanity], which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings [ten, the number of ordinal perfection, here meaning the subsequent degenerative end reached] that shall arise: and another shall rise after them [the eleventh, the number of confusion, when thinking becomes necessarily abstract, and the opportunity for error is thereby most prevalent]; and he shall be diverse from the first [as policy, seizing the opportunity, using known lies, fabricating crises, hyping hoaxes, to intentionally deceive and mislead], and he shall subdue three kings [destroying the checks and balances in our government, to seize power not granted him].
25 And he shall speak great words against the Most High [Obama claiming he was the one we waited for, with his ancient wisdom of the ways into his darkened depths, in hell], and shall wear out [the power of] the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.
26 But the judgment [of the Ancient of days] shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion [the hold of confusion upon the world], to consume and to destroy it unto the end [of darkness].
27 And the kingdom and dominion [this Nation, the USA, I have created and chosen for Myself], and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.
28 Hitherto [obiedence] is the end of the matter. As for me Daniel, my cogitations much troubled me, and my countenance changed in me [the judgment of God, Daniel, Ancient understanding and wisdom, sleeping until this end of ignorance]: but I kept the matter in my heart [mind].

Daniel, the LORD in him, like Mordecai (little man), both appellatives speaking of the same anonymous scribe or scribes, in the once used Chaldee word plag, rendered “dividing” in verse 25 above, leads us into the deeper understanding of the end it defines. It (plag) is the same as the four times used, almost identical, Hebrew word (palag), which leads us to understand the LORD’s arrival, His forever presence revealed: openly manifested in the flesh of those He chooses.

The first two uses (of palag in Genesis 10:25 and 1 Chronicles 1:19, while delineating the genealogy of man) describe when man was separated from the breast of the Ancient of days, and entered the realm of the abstract (the journey of the necessary development of the inherent capability to see what is unseen).

This event comes at the creation of the Hebrew people, when the earth was “divided,” and the children of Eber (Hebrew, from ‘abar) were chosen as the people the LORD would shepherd to bring all humanity to the other side of death, the Passover into life by the full development of the Spirit, making (capable) minds able to fully see the unseen (taught to discern the abstract, by the experience, the ever repeating experiment, the trial of time, making man in His image and likeness, to understand good and evil always produce the same outcome: life or death).

1 Chronicles 1
18 And Arphaxad [when the breast fails: when man no longer draws wisdom from the Ancient of days] begat Shelah [from words meaning to send away and sprout; when man is sent to experience that we are with Him who is unseen, and confusion first sprouts], and Shelah begat Eber [those who would go beyond, journeying as pilgrims traveling to the Passover into life].
19 And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg; because in his days the earth was divided [palag]: and his brother’s name was Joktan [with intended affinity to Solomon calling himself the son of Jakeh].

As we know, all the above-mentioned patriarchs appear in Luke 3:34 & 35, in the genealogy of Jesus, except Joktan, said to mean he is small (of no reputation, “he will be made little”). The deep meaning in the two Hebrew (Eber) lines is when the famous (the kings and prophets) were separated from those never known. The LORD himself resides (silent and seemingly without power) in this other line, as the Holy Ghost, working and speaking throughout history unknown in the flesh, until Jesus, in who the LORD very plainly (uniting the two, in the order of Melchisedec) declared Himself present alive in His flesh, for which he was rewarded by man with death, as were many martyrs sent before and after Him. The difference is Jesus (uniting the two lines, as in Cyrus and Timothy, in the order of Melchisedec) is the first raised, to raise all the other faithful when they, as does He, declare the Father (Jehovah) alive and present with us, in us, and we in Him: His ONE BODY.

Before looking at the other two times palag appears (Job 38:25 & Psalms 55:9), the following, ending with Revelation 19, are excerpts from the post of 17 May 2020.

John 14
1 Let not your heart be troubled: you believe in God, believe also in me.
2 In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I Am, there you may be also [and here we all are].
4 And whither I go you know, and the way you know.
5 Thomas said unto him, LORD, we know not whither you go; and how can we know the way?
6 Jesus said unto him, I Am the way, the truth, and the life: no man comes unto the Father, but by me.
7 If you had known me, you should have known my Father also: and from henceforth you know him, and have seen him [herein we see the Holy Spirit: the LORD still unknown: Jehovah the Father in Son who does know it’s Him, declaring Him His son, Christ, Jehovah’s salvation personified, come to pay the price required due to the ignorance of man to His presence].
8 Philip says unto him, LORD, show us the Father, and it suffice us [as we know, suffice is from arkeo, meaning to be possessed of unfailing strength – it speaking of strength coming from seeing the Father in the Son, revealed after He has come unknown and we have been led into all truth by accepting His presence].
9 Jesus said unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet have you not known me, Philip? he that has seen me has seen the Father; and how say you then, Show us the Father?
10 Believe you not that I Am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwells in me, he does the works.
11 Believe me that I Am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works’ sake.
12 Truly, truly, I say unto you, He that believes on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.
13 And whatsoever you shall ask in my name [revealing My identity, My presence in you], that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
14 If you shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.
15 If you love me, keep my commandments.
16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter [the Paraclete, the LORD unknown, who comes first alongside, to lead us into all truth, in which he reveals His presence to those who love His word and wait for Him to appear {the epiphany}], that he may abide with you forever;
17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it sees him not, neither knows him: but you know him; for he dwells with you, and shall be in you.
18 I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
19 Yet a little while, and the world sees me no more; but you see me: because I live, you shall live also.
20 At that day you shall know that I Am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.
21 He that has my commandments, and keeps them, he it is that loves me: and he that loves me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.
22 Judas [Judah – the elect remnant] says unto him, not Iscariot [not those who haven’t seen him, and who’ve betrayed Him for money], LORD, how is it that you will manifest yourself unto us, and not unto the world?
23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
24 He that loves me not keeps not my sayings: and the word which you hear is not mine, but the Father’s which sent me.
25 These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you.
26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
27 Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world gives, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
28 You have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If you loved me, you would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I.
29 And now I have told you before it come to pass, that, when it is come to pass, you might believe.
30 Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world comes [the gods of this world who have led all into blindness], and has nothing in me.
31 But that the world may know that I love the Father; and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence [forward, to this moment – and here are we all].

When the LORD tells of when we will see him, he associates it with the Greek word arkeo, related to loving and keeping His word, His Spirit unknown leading us into all truth, and the renewing of His strength in us, He is referring us to the one-time arkeo appears in Matthew. It is in Matthew 25:9 where it is rendered “enough” in describing the oil in the five wise virgins’ lamps, which produces the light, the understanding, by which they see the LORD at his coming in the darkness, the ignorance of the world that has forgotten Him and therefore is unable to see Him. [“I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you. Yet a little while, and the world sees me no more; but you see me: because I live, you shall live also. At that day you shall know that I Am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.”]

Matthew 25 ends with the LORD telling of those who have and haven’t visited their talents upon those in need, freely giving these riches the LORD has freely given us, which is the good the world needs. Take heed, and I again warn those who think these are vain words, as are theirs.

Matthew 25
1 Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.
2 And five of them were wise, and five were foolish.
3 They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them:
4 But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.
5 While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.
6 And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom comes; go you out to meet him.
7 Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.
8 And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out.
9 But the wise answered, saying, Not so; lest there be not enough [arkeo – in possession of sufficient strength – to accomplish the mission, and would be weakened by not surrendering any part of what the LORD has commanded] for us and you: but go you rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves.
10 And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut.
11 Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, LORD, LORD, open to us.
12 But he answered and said, Truly I say unto you, I know you not.
13 Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man comes.
14 For the kingdom of heaven is as a man traveling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods.

31 When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:
32 And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats [the devils – misleaders among His people]:
33 And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.
34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, you blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
35 For I [[when I, in the people of MY ONE BODY, was small and without power]] was hungry [[without strength]], and you gave me [[this]] meat: I was thirsty, and you gave me [[this]] drink: I was a stranger, and you took me in:
36 Naked, and you clothed me: I was sick [[feeble without understanding]], and you visited me: I was in prison [[held by the bars of the world’s learned ignorance]], and you came unto me.
37 Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, LORD, when saw we you hungry, and fed you? or thirsty, and gave you drink?
38 When saw we you a stranger, and took you in? or naked, and clothed you?
39 Or when saw we you sick, or in prison, and came unto you?
40 And the King shall answer and say unto them, Truly I say unto you, Inasmuch as you have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, you have done it unto me.
41 Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, you cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:
42 For I was hungry, and you gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and you gave me no drink:
43 I was a stranger, and you took me not in: naked, and you clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and you visited me not.
44 Then shall they also answer him, saying, LORD, when saw we you hungry, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto you?
45 Then shall he answer them, saying, Truly I say unto you, Inasmuch as you did it not to one of the least of these, you did it not to me.
46 And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.

One of the other times (eight total) arkeo appears, it’s rendered “be content” in Hebrews 13:5 as we’re told that our conversation (tropos, manner of life) should be without covetousness. We know this is a warning against the manner of the TV Preachers and all who do it for money, who will now find they have separated themselves from the LORD, and are on the outside when the door is shut. It says we should be “content” with such things as are present (meaning the LORD’s presence and His riches), and then paraphrasing Psalms 16:10, rendering it, “for He has said, I will never leave you [not even in hell], nor forsake you.” Repent!

Hebrews 13
5 Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content [arkeo] with such things as you have: for he has said, I will never leave you, nor forsake you.
6 So that we may boldly say, The LORD is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.
7 Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation.
8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever.
9 Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines [[created by devils among you]].

Jeremiah 15 [[after he speaks of finding the word of God and eating it with joy]]
19 Therefore thus says the LORD, If you return, then will I bring you again, and you shall stand before me: and if you take forth the precious from the vile, you shall be as my mouth: let them return unto you; but return not you unto them.
20 And I will make you unto this people a fenced brazen wall: and they shall fight against you, but they shall not prevail against you: for I Am with you to save you and to deliver you, says the LORD.
21 And I will deliver you out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem you out of the hand of the terrible.

Revelation 19
1 And after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Hallelujah; Salvation, and glory, and honor, and power, unto the LORD our God:
2 For true and righteous are his judgments: for he has judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and has avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.
3 And again they said, Hallelujah, And her smoke rose up forever and ever.
4 And the four and twenty elders and the four beasts fell down and worshipped God that sat on the throne, saying, Amen; Hallelujah.
5 And a voice came out of the throne, saying, Praise our God, all you his servants, and you that fear him, both small and great.
6 And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thundering, saying, Hallelujah: for the LORD God omnipotent reigns.

Job 38
17 Have the gates of death been opened unto you? or have you seen the doors of the shadow of death?
18 Have you perceived the breadth of the earth? declare if you know it all.
19 Where is the way where light [God’s understanding] dwells? and as for darkness [man’s ignorance], where is the place thereof,
20 That you should take it to the bound thereof, and that you should know the paths to the house thereof?
21 Know you it, because you were then born? or because the number of your days is great?
22 Have you entered into the treasures of the snow [God’s word frozen in heaven, in pure white form, held there until now when it is sent in small soft flakes, as His still small voice]? or have you seen the treasures of the hail [the same frozen word sent to destroy the works of men who “refuse the waters of Shiloah that go softly”],
23 Which I have reserved against the time [this time] of trouble, against the day of battle and war [“Blessed be the LORD my strength which teaches my hands to war”]?
24 By what way is the light parted [into the rainbow, which by understanding men see He has come for the salvation of His people], which scatters the east wind upon the earth?
25 Who has divided [palag – do you understand how the word of God has flowed through many unknown throughout history] a watercourse for the overflowing of waters [this word of God], or a way for the lightning of thunder [His understanding and the voice thereof];
26 To cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is; on the wilderness, wherein there is no man;
27 To satisfy the desolate and waste ground [the earth that has become without form and void, by its own confusion and emptiness]; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth [new life on the new earth]?

Psalms 55
9 Destroy, O LORD, and divide [palag] their tongues [so death is seen in their words]: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
10 Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow are in the midst of it.
11 Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.
12 For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:
13 But it was you, a man my equal, my guide, and my acquaintance.
14 We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company.
15 Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.
16 As for me, I will call upon God; and the LORD shall save me.
17 Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice.
18 He has delivered my soul in peace from the battle that was against me: for there were many with me.
19 God shall hear, and afflict them, even he that abides of old. Selah. Because they have no changes, therefore they fear not God.
20 He has put forth his hands against such as be at peace with him: he has broken his covenant.
21 The words of his [the wicked’s] mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords.

John 5
18 Therefore the Jews [the leaders of God’s people] sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath [interrupted their interruptions, by which they spread their misleading], but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.
19 Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Truly, truly, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father do: for what things soever he does, these also does the Son likewise.
20 For the Father loveth the Son, and shows him all things that himself does: and he will show him greater works than these, that you may marvel.
21 For as the Father raises up the dead, and quickens them [from death into life]; even so the Son quickens [from death into life] whom he will.
22 For the Father judges no man, but has committed all judgment unto the Son:
23 That all men should honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He that honors not the Son honors not the Father which has sent him.
24 Truly, truly, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believes on him that sent me [as His mouth speaking them], has everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.
25 Truly, truly, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live. [It’s a simple plan.]
26 For as the Father has life in himself; so has he given to the Son to have life in himself;
27 And has given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man.
28 Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves [mnemeion – the tombs, the places where the dead are housed; where, after His death, his body isn’t found – speaking of all the churches and synagogues where they replaced the LORD with men’s creation, and he isn’t found there among all the dead who are there] shall hear his voice,
29 And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation [as foretold in Daniel 12:2].
30 I can of my own self do nothing: as I hear [from my Father alive in me], I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not my own will, but the will of the Father which has sent me.

Psalms 10
1 Why stands you afar off [rachowq – in this time when we are oppressed by the decrees of the wicked in power over the world], O LORD? [and] why hide [this is the veil only taken away when we turn to Him] you yourself in times of trouble [tsarah – his tribulation]?
2 The wicked in his pride does persecute the poor [those without worldly power]: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
3 For the wicked [who blind you to My presence] boast of his heart’s desire, and blesses the covetous, whom the LORD abhors.
4 The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts [mzimmah – the same word as “devices” in verse 2, their plotting].
5 His ways are always grievous; your judgments [LORD] are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he pufs [his spirit, in his evil plot] at them.
6 He has said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall never be in adversity.
7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity [worthlessness].
8 He sits in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places does he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor [all those without worldly power, who they call “useless eaters”].
9 He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he does catch the poor, when he draws him into his net [the trap in following their evil advice, which misleads into self-destruction].
10 He crouches, and humbles himself [Pope to President, hiding under false humility], that the poor may fall by his strong ones [they send to destroy them].
11 He has said in his heart, God has forgotten: he hides his face [paniym – His presence]; he will never see it. [The wicked ignorantly not knowing ignorance is a veil that only keeps the ignorant from seeing.]
12 Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up your hand: forget not the [truly] humble.
13 Wherefore does the wicked contemn God? he has said in his heart [darkened mind], You will not require it [darash – search it out, referring us to Micha 6:8 above, saying “He has showed you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require {darash} of you, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?”].
14 You have seen it; for you behold [have searched out into the light] mischief and spite, to requite [justly reward] it with your hand: the poor commits himself unto you; you are [hayah – You have become {in the one You prepared and sent – I AM THAT I AM}] the helper of the fatherless.
15 Break you the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out [darash – search out into Your light] his wickedness till you find none.
16 The LORD is King forever and ever: the heathen are perished out of his land.
17 LORD, you have heard the desire of the humble: you will prepare their heart, you will cause your ear to hear:
18 To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress. [It’s a simple plan.]

Psalms 11
1 In the LORD put I my trust: how say you to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain [to the corrupt governments of this dead world]?
2 For, lo, the wicked [in their high places] bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart [the sane whose sound minds remain in the LORD].
3 If the foundations [of the earth] be destroyed [as they are], what can the righteous do [but look to the LORD in heaven]?
4 The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD’s throne is in heaven [with full understanding, which He from there freely sends it upon all, as the sun rising and shining upon all from east to west]: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.
5 The LORD tries the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hates [sane’].
6 Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and a horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.
7 For the righteous LORD loveth righteousness; his countenance [paniym – His presence] does behold the upright.

The words of Agur the son of Jakeh, even the prophecy: the man spoke unto Ithiel, even unto Ithiel and Ucal,

16 – 19 October 2023

The words of Agur the son of Jakeh, even the prophecy: the man spoke unto Ithiel, even unto Ithiel and Ucal,

The title verse, Proverbs 30:1, is followed by verse 2, saying, “Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man.” The names of the one speaking verse 2, Agur the son of Jakeh, prophesying of this moment, speak of those here gathered and born by their obedience to what is heard. The names are edifimorphicly (understood through the “transformative education”) spoken by Solomon of himself, speaking of transformation, of those who were before ignorant, by receiving Divine instruction and wisdom directly from the LORD their God.

The name Agur, is from the three times used word ‘agar, meaning “to harvest:– gather,” and Jakeh is said to be from an unused root meaning to obey or be obedient. It is said to be the same as the twice-used word yiqqahah, meaning “obedience: -gathering, to obey.”

The harvest is the fruit that brings transformation, a change of mind, understanding given and received, producing the obedience that gathers all God’s people in the culmination of the process (of repetition).

Before looking at these words, which confirm the perspective, we must understand he is speaking (confessing his transgression while ignorant) to the One who gave (Solomon – meaning peaceful, like Shiloh) this understanding. The name Ithiel, means God has arrived, from the words ‘athah (“to arrive”) and ‘el (God). The name Ucal, from ‘akal, means to devour, as the LORD’s all-consuming fire from His mouth ends the darkness (consuming men’s ignorance).

Genesis 49
1 And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days [‘achariyth].
2 Gather yourselves together [at this harvest], and hear [shama’ – obey {the first things that befall them: they’re scattered and not obeying}], you sons of Jacob; and hearken [shama’] unto Israel your father.

8 Judah [the leaders God chooses], you are he whom your brethren shall praise: your hand shall be in the neck of your enemies; your father’s children shall bow down before you.
9 Judah is a lion’s whelp: from the prey, my son, you are gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?
10 The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet [speaking of the Davidic king line], until Shiloh come [meaning peace and tranquility – the one {Joseph’s seed – the one separated} from who it will again flow – see Ezekiel 21:27 below and the overturning]; and unto him shall the gathering [yiqqahah] of the people be.
11 Binding his foal unto the vine [to this life that flows from His teaching], and his ass’s colt unto the choice vine [this is speaking the lowly {Zechariah 9:9}, God’s elect remnant, outside the established sects, bound until Shiloh comes, when they are loosed]; he washed his garments [of corruption] in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes [this wrath against those who’ve rejected His word]:

Ezekiel 21
26 Thus says the LORD God; Remove the diadem, and take off the crown: this shall not be the same: exalt him that is low, and abase him that is high.
27 I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it: and it shall be no more, until he [Shiloh] come whose right it is [referring to 1 Chronicles 5:1 & 2, where we’re told the birthright is Joseph’s: his seed’s]; and I will give it him.
28 And you, son of man, prophesy and say, Thus says the LORD God concerning the Ammonites [those who’ve scattered you from the flock], and concerning their reproach; even say you, The sword, the sword is drawn: for the slaughter it is furbished, to consume because of the glittering:
29 Whiles they see vanity unto you, whiles they divine a lie unto you, to bring you upon the necks of them that are slain, of the wicked, whose day is come, when their iniquity shall have an end.
30 Shall I cause it to return into his sheath? I will judge you in the place where you were created, in the land of your nativity.
31 And I will pour out my indignation [za’am] upon you, I will blow against you in the fire of my wrath, and deliver you into the hand of brutish men, and skillful to destroy.
32 You shall be for fuel to the fire; your blood shall be in the midst of the land; you shall be no more remembered: for I the LORD have spoken it.

Ezekiel 37
15 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,
16 Moreover, you son of man, take you one stick, and write upon it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions: then take another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim and for all the house of Israel his companions:
17 And join them one to another into one stick; and they shall become one [ONE BODY under one head] in your hand.
18 And when the children of your people shall speak unto you, saying, Will you not show us what you mean by these?
19 Say unto them, Thus says the LORD God; Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes [shebet – the scepter to rule] of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, even with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in my hand.
20 And the sticks whereon you write shall be in your hand before their eyes.
21 And say unto them, Thus says the LORD God; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land [as promised]:
22 And I will make them ONE nation [fig tree] in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and ONE king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all.
23 Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwelling-places, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.
24 And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have ONE shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them.
25 And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their children’s children forever: and my servant David shall be their prince forever.
26 Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore.
27 My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God [the vine to which they are connected in My ONE BODY], and they shall be my people.
28 And the heathen shall know that I the LORD do sanctify [cleanse them of their corruption] Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore.

Genesis 49
18 (I have waited for your salvation, O LORD.)

22 Joseph is a fruitful bough [parah ben – fruitful son], even a fruitful bough [parah ben – fruitful son] by a well [a tree of life by these waters of God]; whose branches run over the wall [the wall of lies men have created and teach]:
23 The archers [ba’al – the gods of this world whose teaching has blinded all form seeing the Father, in the son, the seed of the women who brings forth the man child – see Revelation 12:17] have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him:
24 But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the Shepherd, the Stone of Israel:)
25 Even by the God of your father, who shall help you; and by the Almighty, who shall bless [barak] you with blessings [brakah] of heaven above, blessings [brakah] of the deep that lies under [the deep meaning that lies below the surface], blessings [brakah] of the breasts, and of the womb [seed, the son]:
26 The blessings [brakah] of your father have prevailed above the blessings [brakah] of my progenitors [all those who have come before us, and were only blessed with part of what is perfected in our return to the LORD] unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.
27 Benjamin [the last child born through the LORD’s blessing upon Shiloh, the seed of Joseph – the right hand of God’s power] shall ravin as a wolf [shall tear in pieces the wolf that has scattered the one flock]: in the morning he shall devour [‘akal – with his word of understanding the LORD with us has given him] the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil. [These last words refer us to Maher-shalal-hash-baz, the son spoken of in the beginning of Isaiah 8, his name meaning he hastes to the spoil and is quick to the prey. He is the son foretold as coming by the virgin, later called Immanuel, as the advice, teaching, of the LORD comes, when men have formed a confederacy listening to the dead gods of the world.]

The only other time the word yiqqahah appears is later in Proverbs 30, in verse 17, speaking of those who refuse to “obey” their mother (rejecting this wisdom flowing from their teacher).

Proverbs 30
1 The words of Agur the son of Jakeh, even the prophecy: the man spoke unto Ithiel, even unto Ithiel and Ucal,
2 Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not [had not when I was a child] the understanding of a man.
3 I neither learned wisdom [until I put away childish things], nor have [had] the knowledge of the holy [until I received it as Your voice and presence].
4 Who [except You] has ascended up into heaven, or descended? who has gathered the wind in his fists? who has bound the waters in a garment? who has established all the ends of the earth [ending the old corrupt age and beginning the new, ending darkness and bringing light]? what is his name, and what is his son’s name, if you can tell?
5 Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.
6 Add you not unto his words, lest he reprove you, and you be found a liar.
7 Two things have I required of you; deny me them not before I die:
8 Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:
9 Lest I be full, and deny you, and say, Who is the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
10 Accuse not a servant unto his master, lest he curse you, and you be found guilty.
11 There is a generation that curses their father [rejecting His knowledge and understanding], and does not bless their mother [their teacher who teaches them wisdom].
12 There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness [corruption that defiles their minds and scatters the ONE BODY].
13 There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.
14 There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth [with the words of their mouth], and the needy from among men.
15 The horse-leach [that attach themselves to the mouths of those who drink from their waters, draining their life from them and those who follow them] has two daughters, crying, Give, give [calling themselves teachers, evangelists, and experts, and always asking for money from those they give their evil advice]. There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things say not, It is enough [are never satisfied – ever learning and never able to reach understanding the truth]:
16 The grave [sheol – hell]; and the barren womb [those in hell who never obey and never bring any to life]; the earth that is not filled with water [this word of God, which the dead who call themselves His people refuse to give as He commands]; and the fire that says not [even while they are being consumed by it], It is enough [they are never satisfied, ever learning, in the experience, but never able to come to the understating of this truth].
17 The eye that mocks at his father, and despises to obey [yiqqahah] his mother, the ravens of the valley [those covered in darkness, the shadows of the mountains {those in high places misleading them}, of the earth] shall pick it out [their eyes, blinding them with learned ignorance], and the young eagles shall eat it [‘akal – as they fly in heaven, with the LORD and His full understanding, consuming the darkness with the fire from their mouths].
18 There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not:
19 The way of an eagle in the air [The strong here in heaven with the LORD, relentlessly doing His work as He commanded]; the way of a serpent upon a rock [the deceivers in the false church, in whom God’s dead people put their trust]; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea [the institutions of church and state government, ruling over the people who under them are held in its darkened deep]; and the way of a man [geber – the LORD who is {alive in} a mighty man of war] with a maid [‘almah – the seven times used word, which last appears in Isaiah 7:14, saying “Therefore the LORD himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin {‘almah} shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.”].
20 Such is the way of an adulterous woman [the unfaithful church that has left the LORD and now follows men who put themselves in His place]; she eats [corruption], and wipe her mouth, and says, I have done no wickedness.
21 For three things the earth is disquieted, and for four which it cannot bear:
22 For a servant when he reigns [without the LORD’s anointing]; and a fool when he is filled with meat [thinking he is wise and has understanding, because of his success using his dark decrees by which he misleads];
23 For an odious woman when she is married [the corrupt church joined with the devils, those confederate with the communists now in power]; and a handmaid [the ONE BODY of Christ, now in hard bondage under the corrupt and false] that is heir to her mistress [the corrupt church she will replace when she receives and obeys Her LORD].
24 There be four things which are little [in value] upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise:
25 The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat [lechem – bread] in the summer [so they have plenty when the time of need comes];
26 The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks [a good foundation upon which they stand];
27 The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands [all-consuming in their season];
28 The spider takes hold with her hands, and is in kings’ palaces [yet my people refuse to take hold of these ideas and enter Mine].
29 There be three things which go well, yea, four are comely in going:
30 A lion which is strongest among beasts, and turns not away for any [relentlessly going forward];
31 A greyhound [zarziyr – this is a cheetah, quickest to the prey]; a he goat also [who knows His place is at the head of the flock, to lead it into good pasture]; and a king [in which the LORD lives and reigns], against whom there is no rising up.
32 If you have done foolishly in lifting up yourself [against Him], or if you have thought evil [and led against Him], lay your hand upon your mouth.
33 Surely the churning of milk bringeth forth butter [working in these foundational ideas causes their elements to congeal into understanding], and the wringing of the nose [wrestling against the LORD’s presence you should by now perceive] bringeth forth blood: so the forcing of wrath bringeth forth strife.

Proverbs 29
7 The righteous considers the cause of the poor [those without power]: but the wicked regards not to know it.
8 Scornful men bring a city into a snare: but wise men turn away wrath.
9 If a wise man contends with a foolish man, whether he rage or laugh, there is no rest [because the fool never says enough, never comes to understanding or truth].
10 The bloodthirsty [fools] hate the upright: but the just seek [to save] his soul.
11 A fool utters all his mind: but a wise man keeps it in till afterwards [until the foolish have opened their mouths and proved themselves ignorant].
12 If a ruler hearkens to lies [as do Barak and His idiot son Brandon], all his servants are wicked [as they are].
13 The poor [without worldly power] and the deceitful man [in power] meet together: the LORD lightens both their eyes [giving this understanding].
14 The king that faithfully judges the poor, his throne shall be established forever.
15 The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself brings his mother [who taught him] to shame [never making him a man].
16 When the wicked are multiplied [as they are], transgression increases [as it has]: but the righteous shall see their fall.
17 Correct your son, and he shall give you rest; yea, he shall give delight unto your soul.
18 Where there is no vision [as now among those in power], the people perish [as they do]: but he that keeps the law [of the LORD], happy is he.
19 A servant will not be corrected by words: for though he understand he will not [in due season] answer [ma’aneh – a seven times used word referring us to its appearance in Proverbs 15:23 – see below].
20 See you a man that is hasty in his words [and answers without study]? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
21 He that delicately brings up his servant from a child shall have him become his son at the length.

Proverbs 15
23 A man has joy by the answer [ma’aneh] of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is it!
24 The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath.
25 The LORD will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow [those who haven’t had a man to defend and protect them].
26 The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the LORD: but the words of the pure are pleasant words [showing they understand the season].
27 He that is greedy of gain troubles his own house; but he that hates gifts [the bribes the wicked in power take] shall live.
28 The heart of the righteous studies to answer: but the mouth of the wicked pour out evil things.
29 The LORD is far from the wicked: but he heareth the prayer of the righteous.
30 The light [understanding] of the eyes rejoices the heart: and a good report makes the bones fat.
31 The ear that hears the reproof of life abides among the wise.
32 He that refuses instruction despises his own soul [keeping himself held in death]: but he that hears reproof gets understanding.
33 The fear of the LORD is the instruction of wisdom; and before honor is humility.

The word ‘athah, which in Ithiel speaks of God’s arrival (the epiphany), is said to be from ‘uwth, meaning “to come, i.e. (implied) to assent:–consent.” In these definitions, we understand it speaks of minds in agreement, in context, telling of when we see as the LORD does, thereby realizing what before was unseen.

The word (‘athah) first appears in Deuteronomy 33:2, speaking of the LORD’s arrival, and next in verse 21 speaking of Gad, the LORD’s raised army. The chapter begins as Moses, before his death, speaks a blessing to God’s people. In both occurrences of the word, he tells us the LORD appears against the evil misleaders in power, oppressing God’s people and keeping them from His blessing.

Deuteronomy 33
2 And he said, The LORD came from Sinai [among the thorns: against misleaders on high who are as pricks in our eyes], and rose up from Seir [against devils mixed among us in power, as our countrymen, who say they are at peace with us while they war against us] unto them; he shined forth [sends His understand to repel the attack of the wicked] from mount Paran [from pa’ar – meaning “to explain (i.e. make clear) oneself”], and he came with ten thousands of saints [Gad later spoken of, and as Enoch foretold]: from his right hand [the strength of this understanding that comes through His work] went a fiery law for them.
3 Yea, he loved the people; all his saints are in your hand: and they sat down at your feet [to learn]; every one shall receive [understanding] of your words.

The above references to the pricks that blind our eyes and the LORD coming against them with His saints, are to Numbers 33:55 and Jude 1:14 & 15.

Numbers 33
50 And the LORD spoke unto Moses in the plains [plainly seeing and understand] of Moab [that the gates of hell are the open mouths of men] by Jordan [their words that carried all in the descent into death] near Jericho [the civil government ruling, oppressing and repressing, by lies, as policy, and blinded them from seeing as the LORD sees], saying,
51 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When you are passed over [‘abar – Passed over death into life] Jordan into [the words holding you in death] the land [‘erets – the earth] of Canaan [meaning humiliated, speaking to those openly {ignorantly} speaking and acting out things of which they should be ashamed];
52 Then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land [‘erets – the earth] from before you [paniym – from the presence of the LORD with you], and destroy all their pictures [their fictitious depictions of their delusion as reality], and destroy all their molten images [their everchanging standard of good and evil], and quite pluck down all their high places [from where they teach and govern by these insanities]:
53 And you shall dispossess [retake and restore order to the good earth I have given you] the inhabitants of the land, and dwell therein: for I have given you the land to possess it.
54 And you shall divide the land by lot [the earth where you now find yourselves] for an inheritance among your families: and to the more you shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer you shall give the less inheritance: every man’s inheritance shall be in the place where his lot falls [where you now find yourselves]; according to the tribes [branches of the tree whose root you are unaware] of your fathers you shall inherit.
55 But if you will not drive out the inhabitants of the land [‘erets – the earth] from before you [paniym – from the LORD’s presence with you]; then it shall come to pass, that those which you let remain of them shall be pricks in your eyes [blinding you to His presence], and thorns in your sides [misleaders among you deceiving you], and shall vex you in the land wherein you dwell.
56 Moreover it shall come to pass, that I shall do unto you, as I thought to do unto them [My faithful will drive you out with those rejecting reality and refusing life, and you shall remain in your chosen hell forever].

The words, above in verse 55, rendered “pricks” and “thorns,” are the once used (while profoundly deep) words sek and tsaniyn.

The first is said to be form cakak (sakak), meaning “properly, to entwine as a screen; by implication, to fence in, cover over, (figuratively) protect.” It’s the word used to describe the wings of the cherubim “covering” the mercy seat. It also tells of the devil’s, as the original “covering” cherubim, a misleading prick [thorn growing] in the garden. As we know from the LORD’s teaching, these cherubim, precisely described by Ezekiel (3:8 & 9), are the LORD’s messengers, face to face, receiving and sending His message, producing after their own kind.

The once-used word tsaniyn is said to be from an unused root meaning prickly. Its deeper affinity is to tanniyn, which we know speaks of serpents and whales, for their wide open mouth with which they devour their prey (often rendered “dragon”).

Jude 1
3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that you should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints [so you will become the saints who come with the LORD, contending against the ungodly speaking against Him].
4 For there are certain men crept in unawares [now mixed among you as devils], who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only LORD God, and our LORD Jesus Christ.
5 I will therefore put you in remembrance, though you once knew this, how that the LORD, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.
6 And the angels which kept not their first estate [which is to receive and deliver the word of God without alteration], but left their own habitation [and give their own words instead], he has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness [their own ignorance] unto the judgment of the great day.
7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
8 Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.
9 Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The LORD rebuke you.
10 But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.
11 Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.
12 These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withers, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.
14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the LORD comes with ten thousands of his saints [whose lot is cast into this evil time, at the LORD’s will],
15 To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth [devouring as serpents and whales] speaking great swelling words, having men’s persons in admiration [condemning or forgiving] because of advantage [their positions of power over God’s people].
17 But, beloved, remember you the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our LORD Jesus Christ;
18 How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.
19 These be they who separate themselves [from the LORD, saying they are holier than He], sensual, having not the Spirit.
20 But you, beloved, building up [edifying] yourselves [accepting the change, putting] on your most holy faith [which was once delivered, the first dominion, to His saints appearing with Him], praying in the Holy Ghost,
21 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our LORD Jesus Christ [manifested in His unrelenting conversation here above His mercy seat] unto eternal life.
22 And of some have compassion, making a difference:
23 And others save with fear, pulling [harpazo – the word rendered “caught up” in 1 Thessalonians 4:17] them out of the fire; hating even the garment [the dead flesh] spotted [sained] by the flesh [of those spoken of in verse 12 above].
24 Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,
25 To the only wise God our Savior, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.

Deuteronomy 33
20 And of Gad [the LORD’s saints as His risen army] he said, Blessed be he that enlargeth Gad: he dwelleth as a lion, and teareth the arm with the crown of the head [the strength of the those in power].
21 And he provided the first part for himself, because there, in a portion of the lawgiver, was he seated; and he came [‘athah – the LORD arrived] with the heads of the people, he [in His army] executed the justice of the Lord, and his judgments with Israel.

The final use of the word ‘athah, speaking of the arrival of God, His appearing in His kingdom on the earth, comes in Micah 4:8.

Micah 4
1 But in the last days [‘achariyth] it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains [His government above all others], and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow [as the waters of the sea] unto it.
2 And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach [yarah, as in Jerusalem, yara’ shalam: flow His ways of sustainable peace and security into us, as living waters into the sea] us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion [My throne here on the earth], and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
3 And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
4 But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the LORD of hosts [who is a man of righteous war] has spoken it.
5 For all people [if they choose] will walk everyone in the name of his god [men putting themselves in the place of the true God], and we [demonstrating His better ways and ideas] will walk in the name of the LORD our God forever and ever.
6 In that day, says the LORD, will I assemble her that halted [went lame and strayed from My high {better} way], and I will gather her that is driven out, and her that I have afflicted [letting them experience the consequences of following men who put themselves in My place];
7 And I will make her that halted [those who strayed] a remnant [My elect remnant in these last days, those remaining alive with me], and her that was cast far off a strong nation: and the LORD shall reign over them in mount Zion [My kingdom on the earth, where I will dwell] from henceforth, even forever.
8 And you, O tower [you that see these things and understand what has come and is coming] of the flock, the strong hold of the daughter of Zion, unto you shall it come [‘athah – to the LORD’s arrival], even the first dominion; the kingdom shall come to the daughter of Jerusalem [His saints into whom these living waters have flowed His life].
9 Now why do you cry out aloud? is there no king in you? is your counsellor perished? for pangs have taken you as a woman in travail [to bring forth the king in your midst – I Am].
10 Be in pain, and labor to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail: for now shall you go forth out of the city, and you shall dwell in the field, and you shall go even to Babylon [realizing and confessing the confusion in the corrupt city where you dwell apart from the LORD]; there shall you be delivered; there the LORD shall redeem you from the hand of your enemies.
11 Now also many nations [those who don’t know the LORD and therefore can’t see His presence] are gathered against you [against those that do see Him, as they are this day], that say, Let her be defiled [by their evil words and false accusations], and let our eye look upon Zion [proclaiming what their evil eye sees here in the LORD’s kingdom among them].
12 But they know not the thoughts of the LORD, neither understand they his counsel: for he shall gather them as the sheaves into the floor [to be separated from His people as chaff separated from wheat].
13 Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will make your horn [power] iron, and I will make your hoofs brass: and you shall beat in pieces many people: and I will consecrate their gain unto the LORD, and their substance unto the LORD of the whole earth.

Job 37
1 At this also my heart trembles [minds are shaken], and is moved out of his place [changed from ignorance to understanding].
2 Hear attentively [shama’ – obey] the noise of his voice, and the sound that goes out of his mouth.
3 He directs it under the whole heaven, and his lightning unto the ends of the earth.
4 After it a voice roars [as a lion among lions]: he thunders [the sound of the light, understanding, from the cloud] with the voice of his excellency; and he will not stay them [understanding] when his voice is heard [as His, as it is].
5 God thunders marvelously with his voice; great things does he, which we cannot comprehend [until he explains them in His revelation].
6 For he says to the snow [His word frozen, reserved, in heaven in the cloud], Be you on the earth; likewise to the small rain, and to the great rain of his strength [that gives understanding].
7 He seals up the hand of every man; that all men may know his work.
8 Then the beasts [without His Spirit] go into dens, and remain in their places [no longer trespassing into things they shouldn’t].
9 Out of the south comes the whirlwind [from His right hand of power]: and cold out of the north.
10 By the breath [life in His Spirit from His mouth] of God frost is given: and the breadth of the waters is straitened [by His Spirit moving upon the darkened deep the waters are again right ordered, and light, understanding, comes into being].
11 Also by watering he wearies the thick cloud [emptying onto the earth the understanding held there in separated elements]: he scatters his bright cloud [behind which, in the shadow, these treasures of full light have been hidden]:
12 And it is turned round about by his counsels: that they may [obey Him and] do whatsoever he commands them upon the face of [paniym – when His presence is by these things revealed to] the world [this generation in this age] in the earth [‘erets].
13 He causes it to come, whether for correction, or for his land [‘erets – His earth], or for mercy.
14 Hearken unto this, O Job [you people of God’s who are hated in the last generation that darkens this age]: stand still, and consider the wondrous works [at which you wonder what you’re experiencing] of God [which you haven’t yet fully understood, evident in your refusal to obey His commands].
15 Do you know when God disposed them [ended the wondering], and caused the light [understanding] of his cloud to shine [upon the earth as it now does]?
16 Do you know the balancings of [maphlas – only appearing here, meaning what is poised therein: reserved to be sent at this appointed time from] the clouds, the wondrous works of him which is perfect in knowledge?
17 How your garments are warm [How your flesh cover is brought back to life], when he quiets the earth by the south wind [as His Spirit move upon the earth, as a whirlwind from where His Almighty voice is heard cleansing the earth]?
18 Have you with him spread out the sky, which is strong, and as a molten looking glass [from where He sees everything that comes or will come]?
19 Teach us what we shall say unto him; for we cannot order our speech by reason of darkness [your own ignorance, by remaining with the corrupt who only know corruption].
20 Shall it be told him that I speak? if a man speaks [opposing Him], surely he shall be swallowed up [by his own words, thinking they will stand against the whirlwind of the Almighty].
21 And now men see not the bright light which is in the clouds: but the wind passes [His Spirit moves], and cleanses them [of the corruption that pollutes the earth].
22 Fair weather comes [‘athah – at the LORD’s arrival] out of the north [when corruption is cleansed from the ignorant]: with God is terrible majesty.
23 Touching the Almighty [whose voice is heard from the whirlwind], we cannot find him out: he is excellent in power, and in judgment, and in plenty of justice: he will not afflict.
24 Men do therefore fear him: he respects not any that are wise of heart [proud and unchangeable away from their corrupt thinking].

Job 38
1 Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
2 Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge?
3 Gird up now your loins like a man; for I will demand of you, and answer you me.
4 Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if you have understanding.
5 Who has laid the measures thereof, if you know? or who has stretched the line upon it [have you assessed it and brought it to light]?
6 Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner [pinnah – the head, master, the builders refused] stone thereof;
7 When the morning stars [sprang to light and] sang together [opened their mouths as the LORD commanded], and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
8 Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?
9 When I made the cloud [the place where understanding was kept] the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddling-band for it [and ignorance its protective wrapping],
10 And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,
11 And said, Hitherto shall you come, but no further: and here shall your proud waves [the pride of man] be stayed?
12 Have you commanded the morning since your days; and caused the dayspring to know his place;
13 That it might take hold of the ends [of the old and beginning the new] of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it?
14 It is turned as clay to the seal [chowtham – My signature pressed into the earth]; and they stand as a garment [as on the mountain, seen as the shining garments of light].
15 And from the wicked their light [understanding] is withheld, and the high arm [the evil works of those in power, devils now misleading the world in hell] shall be broken.
16 Have you entered into the springs of the sea? or have you walked in the search of the depth [the deep things only the Father knows]?
17 Have the gates of death [hell] been opened unto you? or have you seen the doors of the shadow of death?
18 Have you perceived the breadth of the earth? declare if you know it all.
19 Where is the way where light dwell? and as for darkness, where is the place thereof,
20 That you should take it to the bound thereof, and that you should know the paths to the house thereof?
21 Know you it, because you were then born? or because the number of your days is great?
22 Have you entered into the treasures of the snow? or have you seen the treasures of the hail, [these speaks of God’s word frozen {reserved} in heaven, for this moment]
23 Which I have reserved against the time of trouble [tsar – of the enemies pressing evil upon us], against the day of battle and war?

Ezekiel 3
4 And he said unto me, Son of man, go, get you unto the house of Israel, and speak with my words 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;
6 Not to many people of a strange speech and of a hard language, whose words you can not understand [shama’]. Surely, had I sent you to them, they would have hearkened [shama’ – obeyed] unto you.
7 But the house of Israel will not hearken [shama’] unto you; for they will not hearken [shama’ will not obery, as it is this day] unto me: for all the house of Israel are impudent and hardhearted.
8 Behold, I have made your face strong against their faces [as the cherubim above My mercy seat], and your forehead strong against their foreheads.
9 As an adamant harder than flint 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 [shama’] with your ears.
11 And go, get you to them of the captivity, unto the children of your people, and speak unto them, and tell them, Thus says the LORD God; whether they will hear [shama’ – obey], or whether they will forbear.
12 Then the spirit took me up, and I heard [shama’ – obeyed] behind [‘achar – in these last days] me a voice of a great rushing [as water pouring from heaven upon the earth], saying, Blessed be the glory of the LORD from his place.

Isaiah 21
1 The burden of the desert [midbar] of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass [sweeping away the old ideas and ways]; so it comes from the desert, from a terrible land [yare’ – the land causing fear, see verse 4 and Isaiah 8:12 & 13, “Say you not, A confederacy, to all them to whom this people shall say, A confederacy; neither fear you their fear, nor be afraid. Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.”]
2 A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer deals treacherously, and the spoiler spoils. Go up, O Elam [this is speaking of eternity, as in the ancient things {God’s word} stored of old, to be released now in this war – also see Jeremiah 49 telling of the LORD’s throne being established here]: besiege, O Media [people in the middle – as in lukewarm, Revelation 3:14 thru 22]; all the sighing [‘anachah – referring us to Isaiah 35:10 & 51:11 when the LORD silences the enemies and puts His words in our mouths] thereof have I made to cease.
3 Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travails [she is bringing forth a man child]: I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it.
4 My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure has he turned into fear unto me.
5 Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, you princes, and anoint [the one who is] the shield.
6 For thus has the LORD said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he sees.
7 And he saw a chariot with a couple of horsemen, a chariot of asses, and a chariot of camels; and he hearkened diligently with much heed:
8 And he cried, A lion [‘ariy – the body of Christ rising by/with His strength]: My LORD, I stand continually upon the watchtower in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole nights:
9 And, behold, here comes a chariot of men, with a couple of horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon [confusion’s rule] is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he has broken unto the ground.
10 O my threshing [opening the word, referring us to Isaiah 28, and destroying the gates of hell], and the corn [ben – sons] of my [threshing] floor: that which I have heard of the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared unto you.
11 The burden of Dumah [short for Edom {Esau} and meaning the silencing of the enemies in our midst – as in verse 2 above]. He called to me out of Seir [from among the devils in the high places of Esau], Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night [the time of ignorance, which is caused by their {Edom’s} words]?
12 The watchman said, The morning [understand coming as the light of the sunrise] comes [‘athah – at the LORD’s arrival], and also the night [and these men will reject this word and choose to remain in ignorance]: if you will enquire [ba’ah], enquire – [ba’ah – only used three other times – here referring us to Obadiah, verse 6, where it is rendered “sought up,” which tells us this is how the secret things of Esau are revealed {by enquiring}]: return [shuwb – turn us], come [‘athah – at the LORD’s arrival].
13 The burden upon Arabia [the desert spoken of in verse 1, without water, without God’s word]. In the forest in Arabia shall you lodge, O you travelling companies of Dedanim [these people are defined in Jeremiah 49:8 – they are those spoken of in the prior verse, who return, and in doing escape the calamity that comes upon Esau].
14 The inhabitants of the land of Tema [same as Teman – the place of the Theophany – where the LORD appears with His ten-thousands, as Enoch said, “Behold, the LORD comes with ten thousands of his saints, To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”] brought [‘athah – at the LORD’s arrival] water to him that was thirsty, they prevented [went before] with their bread him that fled.
15 For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.
16 For thus has the LORD said unto me, Within a year, according to the years of a hireling, and all the glory of Kedar [darkness] shall fail:
17 And the residue of the number of archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar [darkness], shall be diminished: for the LORD God of Israel has spoken it.

Isaiah 41
1 Keep silence before me, O islands [you without my word among My people]; and let the people renew their strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near together to judgment.
2 Who raised up the righteous man from the east [as the rising of the sun, giving understanding upon the earth], called him to his foot [resurrecting me to life], gave the nations before him, and made him rule over kings? he gave them as the dust to his sword, and as driven stubble to his bow.
3 He pursued them, and passed safely; even by the way that he had not gone with his feet.
4 Who has wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning [to this same life]? I the LORD, the first, and with the last; I Am he.
5 The isles saw it, and feared; the ends of the earth were afraid, drew near, and came [‘athah – at the LORD’s arrival].
6 They [ignorant of his arrival, turned the idol they created] helped every one his neighbor; and every one said to his brother, Be of good courage [trust in the idols we call by the LORD’s name].
7 So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and he that smooths with the hammer him that smote the anvil, saying, It is ready for the soldering: and he fastened it with nails, that it should not be moved.
8 But you, Israel, are my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend.
9 You whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called you from the chief men thereof, and said unto you, You are my servant; I have chosen you, and not cast you away.
10 Fear you not; for I am with you: be not dismayed; for I am your God: I will strengthen you; yea, I will help you; yea, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.
11 Behold, all they that were incensed against you shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they that strive with you shall perish.
12 You shall seek them, and shall not find them, even them that contended with you: they that war against you shall be as nothing, and as a thing of naught.
13 For I the LORD your God will hold your right hand, saying unto you, Fear not; I will help you.
14 Fear not, you worm Jacob, and you men of Israel; I will help you, says the LORD, and your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.
15 Behold, I will make you a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: you shall thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shall make the hills as chaff.
16 You shall fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and you shall rejoice in the LORD, and shall glory in the Holy One of Israel.
17 When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue fails for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.
18 I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
19 I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together:
20 That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of the LORD has done this, and the Holy One of Israel has created it.
21 Produce your cause, says the LORD; bring forth your strong reasons, says the King of Jacob.
22 Let them bring them forth, and show us what shall happen: let them show the former things, what they be, that we may consider them, and know the latter end [‘achariyht – the last days] of them; or declare us [shama’ – that we may obey] things for to come.
23 Show the things that are to come [‘athah – at the LORD’s arrival] hereafter [‘achowr – at this end], that we may know that you are gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold it together.
24 Behold, you are of nothing, and your work of naught: an abomination is he that chooses you.
25 I have raised up one from the north [among the ignorant], and he shall come [‘athah – at the LORD’s arriving]: from the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name: and he shall come upon princes as upon morter, and as the potter treads clay.
26 Who has declared from the beginning, that we may know? and beforetime, that we may say, He is righteous? yea, there is none that shows, yea, there is none that declares [shama’ – obeys], yea, there is none that hears [shama’ – obeys] your words.
27 The first shall say to Zion, Behold, behold them: and I will give to Jerusalem one that brings good tidings.
28 For I beheld, and there was no man; even among them, and there was no counsellor, that, when I asked of them, could answer a word.
29 Behold, they are all vanity [worthless]; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.

Psalms 68
28 Your God has commanded your strength [understanding]: strengthen, O God, that which you have wrought for us.
29 Because of your temple at Jerusalem shall kings bring presents unto you.
30 Rebuke the company of spearmen, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the people, till every one submit himself with pieces of silver: scatter you the people that delight in war.
31 Princes shall come out [‘athah – at the LORD’s arrival against the oppressors] of Egypt; Ethiopia [those covered in the darkness of their own ignorance] shall soon stretch out her hands unto God.
32 Sing unto God, you kingdoms of the earth; O sing praises unto the LORD; Selah [think]:
33 To him that rides upon the heavens of heavens, which were of old; lo, he does send out his voice, and that a mighty voice.
34 Ascribe you strength unto God: his excellency is over Israel, and his strength [understanding] is in the clouds.
35 O God, you are terrible out of your holy places: the God of Israel is he that gives strength and power unto his people. Blessed be God.

Isaiah 44
6 Thus says the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God.
7 And who, as I, shall call, and shall declare it, and set it in order for me, since I appointed the ancient people? and the things that are coming [‘athah – declaring My own arrival], and shall come, let them show unto them.
8 Fear you not, neither be afraid: have not I told you from that time, and have declared it? you are even my witnesses. Is there a God beside me? yea, there is no God; I know not any.
9 They that make a graven image are all of them vanity [worthless]; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses [their shame witnesses against them]; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.
10 Who has formed a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing?
11 Behold, all his fellows shall be ashamed: and the workmen, they are of men: let them all be gathered together, let them stand up; yet they shall fear, and they shall be ashamed together.

Isaiah 45
10 Woe unto him that says unto his father, What begettest you? or to the woman, What have you brought forth?
11 Thus says the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, Ask me of things to come [‘athah – the LORD’s arrival] concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands command you me.
12 I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded.
13 I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let go my captives, not for price nor reward, says the LORD of hosts.

Psalms 91
1 He that dwelleth in the secret place [among these treasures] of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
2 I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.
3 Surely he shall deliver you from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence [of men’s deceptive words].
4 He shall cover [cakak] you with his feathers, and under his wings shall you trust: his truth shall be your shield and buckler.
5 You shall not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flies by day;
6 Nor for the pestilence [the deceptions] that walketh in darkness [that come upon the ignorant]; nor for the destruction that wastes at noonday [against this light].
7 A thousand shall fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand; but it shall not come nigh you.
8 Only with your eyes shall you behold and see the reward of the wicked.
9 Because you have made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the Most High, your habitation;
10 There shall no evil befall you, neither shall any plague come nigh your dwelling.
11 For he shall give his angels charge over you, to keep you in all your ways.
12 They shall bear you up in their hands, lest you dash your foot against a stone.
13 You shall tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon [tanniyn – the words that are as thorns, misleaders among you] shall you [by going the right way] trample under feet.
14 Because he has set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he has known my name [My identity with him].
15 He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble [tsarah – this tribulation]; I will deliver him, and honor him.
16 With long life will I satisfy him, and show him my salvation.

Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be you like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether.

11 – 14 October 2023

Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be you like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether.

The LORD begins above, in the Song of Solomon 2:17, as Solomon is repeating (exactly as received) cryptic utterances he hears from the mouth of the LORD. The verse speaks of how long (“until the day break”) until the dove (God’s people, like Jonah, coming from the belly of hell on the earth, manifest His glory in declaring His word) is strengthened and awakened from Abrams (Abraham’s) deep sleep.

As we know, the “day break” is when understanding returns in these last days of darkness, when ignorance (confusion and mass delusion) covers and rules the world. The shadows flee away when the sun (the ONE BODY of Christ), the “beloved” Solomon seeks, is fully risen.

The word (in the title verse) rendered “turn” is cabab, meaning “to revolve, surround, or border,” in the sense of completion. It is definitively used in Deuteronomy 32:10, speaking of the LORD finding and leading His people through the wilderness, changing their minds (giving them understanding and sanity), and preparing them to enter the promise (here and now, speaking of this nation and life).

Deuteronomy 32
1 Give ear, O you heavens, and I will speak; and hear [shama’ – obey], O earth, the words of my mouth.
2 My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:
3 Because I will publish the name [identity] of the LORD: ascribe you greatness unto our God.
4 He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
5 They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation.
6 Do you thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is not he your father that has bought you? has he not made you, and established you?
7 Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask your father, and he will show you; your elders, and they will tell you.
8 When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.
9 For the LORD’s portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.
10 He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about [cabab], he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
11 As an eagle stirs up her nest, flutters over her young, spreads abroad her wings, takes them, bears them on her wings:
12 So the LORD alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.
13 He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;
14 Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and you did drink the pure blood of the grape.
15 But Jeshurun waxed fat [in prosperity resulting from obeying the LORD’s good advice], and kicked: you are waxen fat, you are grown thick, you are covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock [the LORD always with them in the flesh, as Christ unknown, from where His word flows as living waters] of his salvation.
16 They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.
17 They sacrificed unto devils [misleaders among them, whose evil prescriptions they obey], not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.
18 Of the Rock that begat you you are unmindful, and have forgotten God that formed you.
19 And when the LORD saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.
20 And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end [‘achariyth – in these last days] shall be: for they are a very froward generation [who have twisted and perverted all truth], children in whom is no faith.
21 They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
22 For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.
23 I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.
24 They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison [words] of serpents of the dust [the ruin of the earth].
25 The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.
26 I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:
27 Were it not that I feared [for them] the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the LORD has not done all this.
28 For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them.
29 O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end [‘achariyth – this time of which all are ignorant, even as it consumes them]!
30 How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them [letting the consequences of your choices return upon you, the trial in and from which man is again created], and the LORD had shut them up?
31 For their rock [the false Christs men are following into destruction] is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.
32 For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter:
33 Their wine is the poison of dragons [tanniym – as serpents and whales with open mouths devouring men and swallowing them into the belly of hell], and the cruel venom of asps [their words are the poisonous fruit that destroy the minds of those who consume them].
34 Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures [this understanding reserved for this moment, this time of war, because there is no peace when the wicked are in power]?
35 To me belongs vengeance and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.
36 For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he sees that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left [alive with understanding].
37 And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock [the false Christs] in whom they trusted,
38 Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offerings [putting themselves in God’s place]? let them rise up and help you, and be your protection.
39 See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.
40 For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live forever [dwelling in whomever I choose].
41 If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me.
42 I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy.
43 Rejoice, O you nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, and to his people.

David uses the word cabab in 2 Samuel 22:6, rendered “compassed me about,” speaking of death and hell, the place from where he is rescued. Friends, like it or not, believe it or not, I am the rescue the LORD sent, “For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.”

1 Corinthians 1
20 Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
21 For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching [the sacrifice, taking up the LORD’s cross and following Him] to save them that believe.
22 For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:
23 But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling-block, and unto the Greeks foolishness;
24 But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.
25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
26 For you see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:
27 But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God has chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;
28 And base things of the world, and things which are despised, has God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to naught things that are:
29 That no flesh should glory in his presence.
30 But of him are you in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:
31 That, according as it is written, He that glories, let him glory in the LORD.

The quote, 1 Corinthians 1:19, in the preceding paragraph, is from Isaiah 29:14, and verse 31 quotes from Jeremiah 9:23. These original passages add greater context to the above, and together they do the same to David’s words, speaking of this moment, in 2 Samuel 22 which follow their posting below.

Isaiah 29
9 Stay yourselves, and wonder [not knowing what you are experiencing]; cry you out, and cry [as did David, 2 Samuel 22:7 saying “In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried to my God: and he did hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry did enter into his ears”]: they are drunken, but not with wine [but with their pride in their corrupt wisdom]; they stagger, but not with strong drink [going uncontrollably into stumbling upon the Rock who offends them].
10 For the LORD has poured out upon you the spirit of [Abraham’s] deep sleep, and has closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers has he covered [in the darkness of their own ignorance].
11 And the vision of all [yes all] is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed [to the drunken], which men deliver to one that is learned [in corruption], saying, Read this, I pray you: and he says, I cannot; for it is sealed:
12 And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray you: and he says, I am not learned [not knowing it is also sealed to the falsely so-called wise {learned} of the world].
13 Wherefore the LORD said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth [as they do], and with their lips do honor me, but have removed their heart [their foundational mind] far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the [self-created] precept of men:
14 Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvelous [eye opening] work among this people, even a marvelous work and a wonder [at which they now wonder what they are seeing and hearing, because it’s a foreign language, truth spoken to those who only know corruption and lies]: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid [by their minds sleeping in darkness].
15 Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who sees us? and who knows us?
16 Surely your turning of things [all understanding] upside down shall be esteemed as the potter’s clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?
17 Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon [the high places where purity, uncorrupted truth, should be seen] shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest [the place of the upright, resurrected by understanding]?
18 And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness.
19 The meek [who will inherit the earth] also shall increase their joy in the [presence of the] LORD, and the poor [those without worldly power, who He has strengthened] among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
20 For the terrible one is brought to naught, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off:
21 That make a man an offender for a word [who are offended by this truth they don’t understand], and lay a snare [of corrupt ignorance] for him that reproves in the gate [calling God’s people, the children the LORD has given me, out of death and hell where they are held by the open mouths of those they follow], and turn aside the just for a thing of naught [the worthless words of the false teachers Peter, in 2 Peter 2:1, warned would be, and are now, mixed among us].
22 Therefore thus says the LORD, who redeemed Abraham [awaking him from this deep sleep], concerning the house of Jacob, Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his face now wax pale [he will not faint again after this awakening].
23 But when he sees his children, the work of mine hands, in the midst of him, they shall sanctify my name, and sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel.
24 They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmured [against the LORD’s word and way] shall learn doctrine [when they hear this voice as His, as it is].

2 Peter 2
1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily [secretly, from their own imaginations, create lies] shall bring in damnable [apoleia – that cause them and those who follow their ways to perish] heresies, even denying the LORD that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction [apoleia – perdition].
2 And many shall follow their pernicious [aploeia – the ways that lead to their own destruction] ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of [as it is this day].
3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned [fraudulent] words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingers not, and their damnation [apoleia – perishing, perdition] slumbers not [because they are awakened “to shame and everlasting contempt”].

2 Peter 3
3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God [this same word of God] the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition [apoleia] of ungodly men.
8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the LORD as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
9 The LORD is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
10 But the day of the LORD will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements [stoicheion – the corrupt foundational ideas and ways of men] shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements [stoicheion] shall melt with fervent heat?
13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwells righteousness.
14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that you look for such things, be diligent that you may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.
15 And account that the longsuffering of our LORD is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him has written unto you;
16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrestle, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction [apoleia – perdition].

Jeremiah 9
20 Yet hear [shama’ – obey] the word of the LORD, O you women [teachers], and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbor lamentation.
21 For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets.
22 Speak, Thus say the LORD, Even the carcasses of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman, and none shall gather them.
23 Thus says the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches:
24 But let him that glories glory in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the LORD which exercises lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, says the LORD.

2 Samuel 22
1 And David spoke unto the LORD the words of this song in the day that the LORD had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul:
2 And he said, The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer;
3 The God of my rock; in him will I trust: he is my shield [magen], and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my savior; you save me from violence.
4 I will call on the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.
5 When the [proud] waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid;
6 The sorrows of hell compassed me about [cabab]; the snares of death prevented [preceded] me;
7 In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried to my God: and he did hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry did enter into his ears.
8 Then the earth shook and trembled; the [corrupt] foundations of heaven moved and shook, because he was wroth.
9 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
10 He bowed [benevolently condescended from the] heavens also, and came down; and darkness [ignorance of His presence] was under his feet.
11 And he rode upon a cherub [His messenger with His message], and did fly: and he was seen upon the wings of the wind [ruwach – by His Spirit moving manifesting His presence: His glory].
12 And he made darkness pavilions round about him, dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies.
13 Through the brightness [sending His understanding to end the ignorance in which He is hidden] before him were coals of fire kindled.
14 The LORD thundered [the voice of the light in the cloud] from heaven, and the Most High uttered his voice.
15 And he sent out arrows, and scattered them; lightning, and discomfited them.
16 And the channels of [life-giving water flowing into] the sea [the people at large] appeared, the [corrupt] foundations of the world were discovered, at the rebuking of the LORD, at the blast of the breath [ruwach – His Spirit] of his nostrils [He is perceived].
17 He sent from above, he took me; he drew me out of many waters [the corruption and mass ignorance covers the earth];
18 He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them that hated me: for they were too strong for me.
19 They prevented me [prepared the way before we knew Him] in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay [in Whom I trust].
20 He brought me forth also into a large place: he delivered me, because he delighted in me.
21 The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness: according to the cleanness of my hands has he recompensed me.
22 For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
23 For all his judgments were before me: and as for his statutes, I did not depart from them.
24 I was also upright before him, and have kept myself from mine iniquity.
25 Therefore the LORD has recompensed me according to my righteousness; according to my cleanness in his eyesight.
26 With the merciful you will show yourself merciful, and with the upright man you will show yourself upright.
27 With the pure you will show yourself pure; and with the froward you will show yourself unsavory.
28 And the afflicted people you will save: but your eyes are upon the haughty, that you mays bring them down.
29 For you are my lamp [lighting Your good way], O LORD: and the LORD will lighten my darkness.
30 For by you I have run through a troop: by my God have I leaped over a wall [of men’s lies].
31 As for God, his way is perfect; the word of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler [magen] to all them that trust in him.
32 For who is God, save the LORD? and who is a rock [from where these trusted waters flow], save our God?
33 God is my strength and power: and he makes my way perfect.
34 He makes my feet like hinds’ feet: and sets me [firmly] upon my high places.
35 He teaches my hands to war; so that a bow of steel [worldly power] is broken by mine arms.
36 You have also given me the shield [magen] of your salvation: and your gentleness [using your power to save those destroying themselves by following the ignorant] has made me great.
37 You have enlarged my steps under me; so that my feet did not slip.
38 I have pursued mine enemies, and destroyed them; and turned not again until I had consumed them.
39 And I have consumed them, and wounded them, that they could not arise: yea, they are fallen under my feet.
40 For you have girded me with strength to battle: them that rose up against me have you subdued under me.
41 You have also given me the necks of mine enemies, that I might destroy them that hate me.
42 They looked, but there was none to save; even unto the LORD, but he answered them not.
43 Then did I beat them as small as the dust of the earth, I did stamp them as the mire of the street, and did spread them abroad.
44 You also have delivered me from the strivings of my people, you have kept me to be head of the heathen: a people which I knew not shall serve me.
45 Strangers shall submit themselves unto me: as soon as they hear, they shall be obedient unto me.
46 Strangers shall fade away, and they shall be afraid out of their close places.
47 The LORD lives; and blessed be my rock; and exalted be the God of the rock of my salvation.
48 It is God that avenges me, and that brings down the people under me.
49 And that brings me forth from mine enemies: you also have lifted me up on high above them that rose up against me: you have delivered me from the violent man.
50 Therefore I will give thanks unto you, O LORD, among the heathen, and I will sing praises unto your name.
51 He is the tower of salvation for his king: and shows mercy to his anointed, unto David, and to his seed for evermore.

Song of Solomon 2
1 I Am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys.
2 As the lily among thorns [misleaders], so is my love among the daughters.
3 As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.
4 He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love.
5 Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love.
6 His left hand is under my head, and his right hand does embrace me.
7 I charge you, O you daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that you stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please.
8 The voice of my beloved! behold, he comes leaping upon the mountains [against the high places that risen over and oppress the world], skipping upon the hills.
9 My beloved is like a roe or a young hart [see these definitions below]: behold, he stands behind our wall, he looks forth at the windows, showing himself through the lattice.
10 My beloved spoke, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.
11 For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;
12 The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle [dove – those knowing this is the end reached] is heard [shama’ – obeyed] in our land;
13 The fig tree puts forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
14 O my dove, that are in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the stairs, let me see your countenance, let me hear [shama’ – your obedience in] your voice; for sweet is your voice, and your countenance is comely.
15 Take [away from] us the foxes, the little foxes [the cunning hunters of souls], that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes.
16 My beloved is mine, and I Am his: he feeds [here] among the lilies.
17 Until the daybreak, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be you like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether.

The chapter is synopsized in the last verses as the LORD speaks of His people as His glory and strength manifested as they journeyed through time to this moment. This culmination, described ending Hebrews 11 and beginning chapter 12, speaks of all the faithful who sought a city they realized when the LORD revealed it to be far off (in these last days).

Hebrews 11
6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that comes to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
7 By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.
8 By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.
9 By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:
10 For he looked for a city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

25 Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;
26 Esteeming the reproach of Christ [the LORD with and in Moses afflicted in His work] greater riches than the treasures in Egypt [the tyrants oppressing God’s people]: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward [the promised end that would eventually be reached].

39 And these all [the faithful throughout history], having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise:
40 God having provided some better thing for us [here and now], that they without us should not be made perfect.

Chapter 12 speaks of this perfection, now when all the faithful are resurrected into life by Christ, the LORD with us, in us, as Jehovah’s Salvation (Jesus) manifested before the eyes of all the world in need of His rescue. It is the race set before us, in which we find ourselves written in the volume of the book and submit to His calling and will, by which faith salvation comes.

Hebrews 12
1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses [God’s people in whom this understanding is now held, and from where it is sent to world in need], let us lay aside every weight, and the sin [the errors, corrupt thinking, that dominates the time into which we have been born again] which does so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith [by which we see what was before unseen]; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross [the necessary sacrifice that accompanies the message and the messenger], despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God [His glory here on open display].
3 For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself [those ignorantly opposing Him in His name], lest you be wearied and faint in your minds.
4 You have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.
5 And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks unto you as unto children, My son, despise not you the chastening of the LORD, nor faint when you are rebuked of him:
6 For whom the LORD loveth he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives.
7 If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chastens not?
8 But if you be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are you bastards, and not sons.
9 Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection [hupotasso] unto the Father of spirits, and live?

1 Corinthians 15
20 But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.
21 For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.
22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.
24 Then comes the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power.
25 For he must reign, till he has put all enemies under his feet.
26 The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
27 For he has put all things under his feet. But when he says all things are put under [hupotasso – are subject to] him, it is manifest [what was unseen appears] that he is excepted [ektos – the Father is realized to be inside him, by those “outside”], which did put all things under [hupotasso] him.
28 And when all things shall be subdued [hupotasso] unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject [hupotasso] unto him that put all things under [hupotasso] him, that God may be all in all.

33 Be not deceived [planao – be not led astray]: evil communications [homilia, – only here, meaning acquiescing to evil consensus] corrupt good manners [evil words are the corruption of better ethos].
34 Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame [not knowing the LORD because of the corrupt of evil communication].
35 But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come?

38 But God gives it [man] a body as it has pleased him, and to every seed his own [new human flesh] body.

42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption [dead flesh animated in the earth]; it is raised in incorruption [by His Spirit raising us with His rising in us]:
43 It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power:
44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.
45 And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit [bringing the dead to life].
46 Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.
47 The first man is of the earth, earthy; the second man is the LORD from heaven.
48 As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.
49 And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.
50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither does corruption inherit incorruption.
51 Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we [the saved] shall all be changed [allasso – the change all must undergo, but most, rejecting the idea they are corrupt, and in their pride in their ignorance, thinking they are holier than He, they separate themselves from the LORD here to give them sight] ,
52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye [the spark of light in the eye, that opens it], at the last trump: for the trumpet [this voice of His archangel] shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed [alloasso].
53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
55 O death, where is your sting? O grave, where is your victory?

The word rendered “roe” in the title verse (Song of Solomon 2:17) is tsbiy, meaning “from 6638 in the sense of prominence; splendor (as conspicuous); also a gazelle (as beautiful).” It speaks of external appearance, from the word tsabah (6638), meaning “to amass, i.e. grow turgid; specifically, to array an army against:–fight, swell.” In the two uses of this latter word, it results from bitter waters inside and “swelling” the unfaithful.

Hebrews 12
14 Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the LORD:
15 Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;
16 Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.

22 But you are come unto mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels [messengers sent with God’s message],
23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaks better things than that of Abel.
25 See that you refuse not him that [here and now] speaks. For if they escaped not who refused him that spoke on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaks from heaven [this time and place of full understanding]:
26 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he has promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven [that the wicked be shaken from them].
27 And this word, Yet once more, signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.
28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:

The word tsbiy is used to tell of the “glory” of Babylon and its end when the LORD’s “glory” appears. Below, we first look at Jeremiah’s one use of the word, in Jeremiah 3:19, rendered “goodly,” speaking of the land (Babylon) we, God’s faithful people He rescues, inherit.

Jeremiah 3
17 At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the LORD; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the LORD, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after the imagination of their evil heart.
18 In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north [their place in darkness: in ignorance] to the land that I have given for an inheritance unto your fathers.
19 But I said, How shall I put you among the children, and give you a pleasant land, a goodly [tsiby] heritage of the hosts [tsaba’] of nations [the army of those who haven’t known Me]? and I said, You shall call me, My father; and shall not turn away [shuwb – shall not return to disobedience] from me.
20 Surely as a wife treacherously departs from her husband [refusing to subordinate to the head of the house], so have you dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, says the LORD.
21 A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping and supplications of the children of Israel: for they have perverted their way, and they have forgotten the LORD their God.
22 Return, you backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto you; for you are the LORD our God.
23 Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, and from the multitude of mountains [the corrupt and insane governments of the world]: truly in the LORD our God is the salvation of Israel [the people of His promise, those who receive Him].

Isaiah 13
11 And I will punish [paqad – as the Chief Overseer] the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
12 I will make a man [My presence manifested in the flesh] more precious than fine gold; even a man [in whom are My treasures from heaven] than the golden wedge of Ophir.
13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts [who is a man of war, and commander in chief of the army of heaven], and in the day of his fierce anger.
14 And it shall be as the chased [corrected away from their misleaders] roe [‘tsbiy – My glory in My army, the risen ONE BODY of Christ], and as a sheep that no man taketh up: they shall every man turn to his own people, and flee every one into his own land.
15 Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is joined unto them [these misleaders at the head of the corrupt body, the army of Babylon] shall fall by the sword [this word of God they reject].
16 Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.
17 Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.
18 Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eyes shall not spare children.
19 And Babylon [the confusion that now rules the world], the glory [tsbiy] of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees’ excellency [their deceptions, the delusions they teach so none who follow them know truth or reality], shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.

Isaiah 23
8 Who has taken this counsel against Tyre [the false rock, the false Christs, in whom people put their trust], the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honorable of the earth?
9 The LORD of hosts has purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory [tsbiy], and to bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth.

Isaiah 24
14 They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the majesty of the LORD, they shall cry aloud from the sea.
15 Wherefore glorify you the LORD in the fires, even the name of the LORD God of Israel in the isles of the sea.
16 From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, even glory [tsbiy] to the righteous. But I said, My leanness, my leanness, woe unto me! the treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously.
17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon you, O inhabitants of the earth

Isaiah 4
1 And in that day seven women [the ONE BODY of Christ] shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel [still wanting to keep their own words and ways, their own righteousness]: only let us be called by your name, to take away our reproach.
2 In that day shall the branch of the LORD be [hayah – become] beautiful [tsbiy] and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel.
3 And it shall come to pass, that he that is left [not taken away by the flood of men’s lies] in Zion, and he that remains in [new heavenly] Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem:
4 When the LORD shall have washed away the filth [corruption] of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.
5 And the LORD will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory shall be a defense.

The final three times Isaiah uses the word tsbiy are in Isaiah 28, as the LORD in Isaiah speaks to the “drunkards of Ephraim,” which we know refers to those leading Joseph’s seed, all God’s people of the promise, in this generation. They are the same He, in Jeremiah, speaks of in Jeremiah 31, as those corrected and returned to their right mind, by the New Covenant, when He, here and now, writes this law into the minds of His people, and all know Him.

Isaiah 28
1 Woe to the crown of pride [the incorrigible in power], to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious [tsbiy] beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!
2 Behold, the LORD has a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand.
3 The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet:
4 And the glorious [tsbiy] beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer; which when he that looks upon it sees, while it is yet in his hand he eats it up.
5 In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory [tsbiy], and for a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people,
6 And for a spirit of judgment to him that sits in judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate [opening the gates of hell].
7 But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they [the hasty] are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
8 For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.
9 Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine [shmuw’ah]? them that are weaned from the milk [receiving the foundational element of truth, have advanced in understanding, into perfection], and drawn [now draw] from the breasts [of the Ancient of Days – as we know, the word here rendered “drawn” is ‘attiyq, only appearing elsewhere in 1 Chronicles 4:22, where it speaks of the “ancient” things, the work of those that dwelt with the king].
10 For [as here] precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:
11 For with stammering lips and another tongue [the truth: a foreign language to those who only know corruption] will he speak to this people.
12 To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith you may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they [refused and] would not hear.
13 But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, you scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because you have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus says the LORD God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believes shall not make haste [shall not be taken away with the flood of men’s lying words, the shame that comes upon those who refuse this rest and refreshing].
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and [the] righteousness [of God] to the plummet [against which your righteousness shall be judged]: and the hail [the word frozen in heaven, reserved there for this moment] shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters [His word from heaven] shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell [sheol] shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge [showt] shall pass through, then you shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goes forth it shall take you [in its snare]: for morning by morning shall it pass over [‘abar – bringing the Passover from death into life for those who receive it as His word], by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report [shmuw’ah – only to understand it is the voice of Jehovah manifesting His presence to those who receive Him].

Jeremiah 31
17 And there is hope in your end [‘achariyth – these last days of darkness], says the LORD, that your children shall come again to their own border.
18 I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn you me, and I shall be turned; for you are the LORD my God.
19 Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.
20 Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I spoke against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, says the LORD.
21 Set you up waymarks, make you high heaps: set your heart toward the highway, even the way which you went: turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these your cities.
22 How long will you go about, O you backsliding daughter? for the LORD has created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass [full circle, from a child to] a man.
23 Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As yet they shall use this speech in the land of Judah and in the cities thereof, when I shall bring again their captivity; The LORD bless you, O habitation of justice, and mountain of holiness.

31 Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they break, although I was a husband unto them, says the LORD:
33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, says the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, says the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.

The name Bether only appears once, in the title verse, and is from the three times used word bether, which tells us it is the time of Abram’s (Abraham’s) deep sleep. It describes the “pieces,” beginning to end, of the LORD’s people sacrificing throughout history, His faithful in and through whom He spoke and worked to bring humanity to this time of its resurrection (rescue) from death’s hold.

Genesis 15
5 And he brought him forth abroad [chuwts – meaning to sever, speaking of the two sides, pieces, of the sacrifice], and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if you be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall your seed be [as it is this day on the other side].
6 And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.
7 And he said unto him, I am the LORD that brought you out of Ur [the fire] of the Chaldees [those who use their words to manipulate and control people into doing their evil they call good], to give you this land to inherit it.
8 And he said, LORD God, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?
9 And he said unto him, Take me a heifer of three years old, and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon.
10 And he took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each piece [bether] one against another: but the birds divided he not.
11 And when the fowls came down upon the carcasses, Abram drove them away.
12 And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, a horror of great darkness fell upon him.
13 And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that your seed shall be a stranger in a land [‘erets – in the earth] that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years [the time of the LORD restoring order to the earth];
14 And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.
15 And you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age.
16 But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites [those who exalt their words above God’s] is not yet full.
17 And it came to pass, that, when the sun [understanding] went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp [the LORD always with us, guiding us to this time] that passed between those pieces.
18 In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto your seed have I given this land [‘erets – the earth], from the river of Egypt [the words of tyrants that oppress the world into now total darkness] unto the great river, the river Euphrates [the fruitful words of the LORD that now flow to all as the sunrise]:

John 6
25 And when they had found him on the other side of the sea [the sleep of God’s people], they said unto him, Rabbi [Teacher], when came you here?
26 Jesus answered them and said, Truly, truly, I say unto you, You seek me, not because you saw [understood] the miracles, but because you did eat of the loaves [the complete exposition], and were filled.
27 Labor not for the meat [deep understanding] which perishes [in the hands of men], but for that meat which endures unto [this revelation into] everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for [in] him has God the Father sealed [it].
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?
31 Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat.
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 [this word of God] from heaven.
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 mine 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 [this ‘achariyth].
40 And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which sees the Son, 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 Jesus, the son of 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, And they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that has heard, and has learned of the Father, comes unto me.

Isaiah 54
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 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. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, says the LORD.

Psalms 81
1 Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.
2 Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.
3 Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed [kece’ – this is the LORD’s return to His house; only used one other time], on our solemn feast day.
4 For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.
5 This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I understood not.
6 I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots.
7 You called in trouble [tsarah – this tribulation], and I delivered you; I answered you in the secret place of thunder [My voice from heaven, giving understanding]: I proved you at the waters of Meribah [strife]. Selah.
8 Hear [shama’ -obey], O my people, and I will testify unto you: O Israel, if you will hearken [shama’] unto me;
9 There shall no strange god be in you; neither shall you worship any strange god.
10 I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt: open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.
11 But my people would not hearken [shama’] to my voice; and Israel would none of me.
12 So I gave them up unto their own hearts’ lust: and they walked in their own counsels.
13 Oh that my people had hearkened [shama’] unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways!
14 I would soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.
15 The haters of the LORD would have submitted themselves unto him: but their time should have endured forever.
16 He would have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied you.

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 their iniquities.

7 – 10 October 2023

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 their iniquities.

The word, above in Isaiah 53:11, rendered “travail” is ‘amal, meaning “toil, i.e. wearing effort; hence, worry, whether of body or mind.” In Isaiah’s other two uses of it, in context, we understand it is speaking of the work, giving knowledge, that is resisted and opposed by the ignorance and prejudice that are the status quo. It speaks of our time, this generation in a time ruled by unrighteous decree: intentional demoralization that perverts law to punishes the innocent (law abiding) while absolving the lawless (the knowledge of the day that calls good evil and evil good).

Isaiah 10
1 Woe unto them that decree [chaqaq] unrighteous decrees [chaqaq], and that write [kathab] grievousness [‘amal] which they have prescribed [kathab];
2 To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless! [When there is no man {able} to protect and defend against these corrupt powers.]
3 And what will you do in the day of visitation [pquddah – when the LORD makes His presence known as the Chief Overseer of the earth, to rescue those without power], and in the desolation which shall come from far [merchaq – in this appointed time the LORD decreed]? to whom will you flee for help? and where will you leave your glory [which is your shame]?
4 Without me they [those that refuse this good prescription] shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
5 O Assyrian [communists in power], the rod [injustice] of my anger, and the staff [misleading] in their hand is my indignation [za’am].
6 I will send him [as the consequence of their neglect and vacating My good] against a hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

The word rendered “hypocritical,” speaking of this nation and time, is chaneph, also only appearing twice elsewhere in Isaiah, meaning “soiled (i.e. with sin), impious.” It is understood in the sense of previous discussions of the dirt picked up in the journey, which (corruption) needs to be washed from the feet of the travelers.

Isaiah 9
13 For the people turn not unto him that smite them [with the rod and staff of the communists], neither do they seek the LORD of hosts [who is a man of war].
14 Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day.
15 The ancient and honorable, he is the head; and the prophet that teaches lies, he is the tail.
16 For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them [without My knowledge] are destroyed.
17 Therefore the LORD shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for everyone is an hypocrite [chaneph – soiled by the corruption they have been misled into] and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
18 For wickedness burns as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns [deceivers and misleaders that have overgrown My garden I left in the hand of those charged with protecting and defending it against corruption], and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest [where these misleader congregate], and they shall mount [be remove from their positions of trust] up like the lifting up of smoke.
19 Through the wrath [the warned consequence of rejecting this word] of the LORD of hosts [who is a man of war, the champion of the good fight] is the land [‘erets – the earth is] darkened [become totally ignorant], and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no man shall spare his brother.

Isaiah 33
2 O LORD, be gracious unto us; we have waited for you: be you their arm [might – strength] every morning, our salvation [yshuw’ah – Jesus, Jehovah’s Salvation in the flesh] also in the time of trouble [tsarah – this time of tribulation].
3 At the noise [qowl – the voice] of the tumult [hamown – Your multitude] the people fled; at the lifting up of yourself the nations [gowy – those who haven’t known You] were scattered.
4 And your spoil [you recovered from those who spoiled us] shall be gathered like the gathering of the caterpillar [until nothing remains in their hands]: as the running to and fro of locusts shall he [in His multitude] run upon them.
5 The LORD is exalted; for he dwelleth on high: he has filled Zion with judgment and righteousness.
6 And [His] wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability [‘emuwn – meaning “literally firmness; figuratively security; morally fidelity”] of your times, and strength of salvation [yshuw’ah – Jesus, Jehovah’s Salvation in the flesh]: the fear of the LORD is his treasure.
7 Behold, their valiant ones shall cry without: the ambassadors [mal’ak – the messengers: leviathan {the priesthood} of Isaiah 27:1, from who should be heard the highways, who will make peace with Me] of peace shall weep bitterly.
8 The highways [the ancient wisdom and knowledge] lie waste, the wayfaring man ceases: he has broken the covenant, he has despised the cities, he regards no man.
9 The earth mourns [its own desolation] and languishes [‘amal – waxes feeble]: Lebanon [where purity should be seen om high] is ashamed and hewn down: Sharon [what is in plain sight] is like a wilderness; and Bashan and Carmel [what was a fruitful garden] shakes off their fruits.
10 Now will I rise, says the LORD; now will I be exalted; now will I lift up myself.
11 You shall conceive chaff, you shall bring forth stubble: your breath [the evil spirit in you that produces worthlessness], as fire, shall devour you.
12 And the people shall be as the burnings of lime: as thorns [misleaders] cut up shall they be burned in the fire.
13 Hear [shama’ – obey this good leading], you that are far off [rachowq. – you who find yourselves in this time when the world is ruled by evil decree, deadly prescriptions of perverse law meant to demoralize, confuse, and control those obeying them], what I have done; and, you that are near, acknowledge my might.
14 The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness has surprised [‘achaz] the hypocrites [chaneph – those whose minds are blinded by corruption]. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?
15 He that walketh righteously, and speaks uprightly; he that despises the gain of oppressions, that shakes his hands from holding of bribes, that stops his ears from hearing of blood [the words of evil men meant to drain the life of those following their evil prescription], and shuts his eyes from seeing evil [as the way];
16 He shall dwell on high: his place of defense shall be the munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure.
17 Your eyes [being purified of corruption] shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the land that is very far off [merchaq – this appointed time the LORD decreed].

The word ‘achaz, above in verse 14, rendered “surprise,” means “to seize (often with the accessory idea of holding in possession).” It is the word first used in Genesis 22:13 to tell of the ram “caught” in the thicket by its horns. When the passage says Abraham beheld the ram “behind” him, the word is ‘achar, the origin of the ‘achariyth, both words used speaking these “last days:” the “after” life.

The word rendered ram is ‘ayil, meaning “strength; hence, anything strong; specifically a chief (politically); also a ram (from his strength); a pilaster (as a strong support); an oak or other strong tree.”

Genesis 22
13 And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind [‘achar – in these last days] him a ram [‘ayil – the might men of Moab, the Medes and Persians] caught [‘achaz – surprised] in a thicket [cbak] by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son.
14 And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovahjireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the LORD it shall be seen.

The following, ending with Colossians 3, is from the post of 24 May 2023, with today’s additions in double brackets.

Genesis 32
22 And he [Jacob] rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two women servants, and his eleven sons, and passed over [‘abar] the ford [ma’abar – this Passover] Jabbok [the emptiness].
23 And he took them, and sent them over the brook, and sent over that he had.
24 And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a Man [the LORD – unknown as His people wrestle with His word and work] with him until the breaking of the day [until the light appears: until they understood].
25 And when he saw that he prevailed [this is referring to when Rachel and Leah wrestled with each other and Rachel prevailed in the birth of Naphtali through her maid Bilhah {trouble}, the same women Reuben (Leah’s son) went up to and took His father’s place, for which Rachel’s child {Joseph} was given his birthright] not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob’s thigh [these words speak of his power to procreate] was out of joint [yaqa’ – hanged on a tree: dislocated in the crucifixion of Christ], as he wrestled with him.
26 And he said, Let me go, for the day breaks [and understanding is coming]. And he said, I will not let you go, except you bless me [this is the blessing Jacob spoke of Joseph that would be upon Ephraim {Genesis 48:13 thru 20}, of which Jacob defined further {in Genesis 49:22 thru 26} as he told his children what shall befall them in these last days {‘achariyth} – the last child there spoken of is Benjamin {the son that is at God’s right hand, born in due time after the Passover}, saying he “shall raven [tear in pieces] as a wolf: in the morning {when understanding has come and He is born again} he shall devour the prey, and at night {in this time when darkness covers the earth} he shall divide the spoil.”] .
27 And he said unto him, What is your name? And he said, Jacob.
28 And he said, Your name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince have you power with God and with men, and have prevailed [to Passover Jabbok].
29 And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray you, your name [this man with a name that no man knows, the son only the Father knows and those to whom He will reveal him, is the same John speaks of in Revelation 19, whose name is written on his vesture and thigh]. And he said, Wherefore is it that you do ask after my name? And he blessed him there [saying He will bless the seed of Joseph with this deep understanding when he is thereby crowned with The LORD’s glory] .
30 And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel [the face, paniym, presence of ‘el: God]: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.
31 And as he passed over Penuel [by the presence of God with us] the sun [understanding of this new day] rose upon him, and he halted [tsala’ – only used three other times describing whom it speaks of, meaning they wander off course] upon his thigh [when their power was lost through the internal bickering that separated the family].
32 Therefore the children of Israel eat not of the sinew which shrank [these words refer to Gad {giyd – sinew} that forgot {the LORD} – neshah {shrank} from nashah, describing the troop that is {in forgetfulness} overcome but shall overcome at the last {‘aqeb}, after Dan has bitten at the horse heels {aqeb}, and the rider has fallen backward {‘achowr}], which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day: because he touched the hollow of Jacob’s thigh in the sinew that shrank.

Genesis 33
1 And Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau came, and with him four hundred men. And he divided the children unto Leah, and unto Rachel, and unto the two handmaids.
2 And he put the handmaids [the bondwomen] and their children foremost [ri’shown – the former house], and Leah and her children after [‘acharown – in these last days, the sleeping dead], and Rachel and Joseph hindermost [‘acharown – the living].
3 And he passed over before [paniym – God’s presence with] them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.
4 And Esau [brethren who before were our enemies, are now by the same grace of God changed] ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him: and they wept.
5 And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, Who are those with you? And he said, The children which God has graciously given your servant [I and the children the LORD has given, are for signs of the end reached].
6 Then the handmaidens came near, they and their children, and they bowed themselves.
7 And Leah also with her children came near, and bowed themselves: and after [‘achar] came Joseph near and Rachel [journeying to Raeford, where she has ford the brook], and they bowed themselves.

This pattern sent for our realization: the change in Esau, is like the change in Saul, when it is said he will become a different man (called Benjamin), those born again after our passing over Jabbok.

In 1 Samuel 9 & 10, this pattern is seen when Samuel (hearing God – Shmuw’el) speaks what He heard, to Saul, who, when he hears (it is God’s voice) and speaks, is with Samuel called a Prophet.

1 Samuel 9
9 (Beforetime in Israel, when a man went to enquire of God, thus he spake, Come, and let us go to the seer [ra’ah]: for he that is now called a Prophet was beforetime called a Seer [ra’ah].)

Saul goes to Samuel because he is said to be looking for his father’s asses that were lost. It is his father (Kish – from the once-used, in Isaiah 29:21, word qowsh, meaning to set a trap) who, for this purpose (setting the trap, to find the asses, in a time when all sight is gone, and in the darkness people can’t even find their own asses) sent him on this search.

Isaiah 29
1 Woe to Ariel [the Lion of God – the strength {understanding} of God, here taken and controlled by the wicked], to Ariel, the city where David [the lion of Judah] dwelt! add you year to year; let them kill sacrifices.
2 Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel [it will again be My strength].
3 And I [as a man of war] will camp against you round about, and will lay siege against you with a mount, and I will raise forts against you.
4 And you shall be brought down, and shall speak out of the ground, and your speech shall be low out of the dust [as the voice of the serpent from the ruin of the earth], and your voice shall be, as of one that has a familiar spirit [of the known dead speaking words of death], out of the ground, and your speech shall whisper out of the dust.
5 Moreover the multitude of your strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passes away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly.
6 You shall be visited [paqad – as the Chief Overseer of the Earth] of the LORD of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire.
7 And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her munition [matsowd – her munitions are the net with which they catch those who are without the root, foundation, of righteousness], and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision.
8 It shall even be as when a hungry man dreams, and, behold, he eats; but he awakes, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreams, and, behold, he drinks; but he awakens, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul has appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against mount Zion [when they awaken and realize their own mind’s delusions deceived them and they have been emptied of all understanding].
9 Stay yourselves, and wonder [not knowing what you are experiencing]; cry you out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.
10 For the LORD has poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep [with no signs of life], and has closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers [ra’ah – those who see as God sees] has he covered [kacah].
11 And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book [cepher] that is sealed [chatham], which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray you: and he says, I cannot; for it is sealed [chatham]:
12 And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray you: and he says, I am not learned.
13 Wherefore the LORD said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honor me, but have removed their heart [the foundations of their mind – their stiocheion is corrupt] far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:
14 Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvelous [eye opening] work among this people, even a marvelous work and a wonder [pele’ – at which all have wondered]: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.
15 Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their [wicked] counsel [‘etsah] from the LORD, and their works are in the dark [their own ignorance of reality and truth they can’t understand because it is as a foreign language], and they say, Who sees us? and who knows us?
16 Surely your turning of things upside down [the overthrow] shall be esteemed as the potter’s [yatsar] clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed [yatser] say of him that framed [yatsar] it, He had no understanding?
17 Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon [purity seen in high places] shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest?
18 And in that day shall the deaf hear the words [this word] of the book [cepher], and the eyes of the blind shall see [again] out of obscurity, and out of darkness [by coming out of ignorance].
19 The meek also shall increase their joy in the LORD, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
20 For the terrible one is brought to naught, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off:
21 That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproves in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of naught.
22 Therefore thus says the LORD, who redeemed [padah] Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob, Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his face now wax pale [but they will reach the end promised].
23 But when he sees his children [who have been born again out of death and hell], the work of my hands, in the midst of him, they shall sanctify my name [declare My identity Holy], and sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel.
24 They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine.

Hosea 13
14 I will ransom [padah] them from the power of the grave [sh’owl, Sheol]; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be your plagues; O grave [Sheol – hell], I will be your destruction: repentance shall be hid from my eyes [nocham cathar ‘ayin – this comfort, restoring things and matter concealed shall come as this fountain of living waters].

In Genesis 22:4 we are told of Abraham, on the third (resurrection) day, seeing (ra’ah) the place “far off,” using the word rachowq, meaning “remote, literally or figuratively, of place or time; specifically, precious.” The statement comes while describing the LORD as Jehovah-jireh (Jehovah sees – everything) to Abraham, after he sees as the LORD does and obeys His voice.

Genesis 22
15 And the angel of the LORD called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time,
16 And said, By myself have I sworn, says the LORD, for because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son:
17 That in blessing I will bless you, and in multiplying I will multiply your seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and your seed shall possess the gate [of hell] of his enemies;
18 And in your seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because you have obeyed my voice.
19 So Abraham returned unto his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beersheba; and Abraham dwelt at Beersheba [the well of seven oaths – the promises flowing from the Father].

The word rendered “possess” in verse 17 above is yarash, meaning “to occupy (by driving out previous tenants, and possessing in their place); by implication, to seize, to rob, to inherit; also to expel, to impoverish, to ruin.” It’s used to describe the seducers who possess and control the goodman’s house and of our (I and the children God has given me) inheriting it with the land (America) and earth.

Hebrews 11
8 By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, OBEYED; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.
9 By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:
10 For he looked for a city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
11 Through faith also Sarah herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.
12 Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.
13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

39 And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise:
40 God having provided some better thing for us, that [by our obedience] they without us should not be made perfect [all of us together, resurrected in ONE BODY in the Father’s presence].

1 Samuel 9
26 And they arose early: and it came to pass about the spring of the day, that Samuel called Saul [the one desired] to the top of the house [away from the trouble within], saying, Up, that I may send you away. And Saul arose, and they went out both of them, he and Samuel, abroad [chuwts – outside the corrupt houses].
27 And as they were going down [into the depths of hell] to the end [of the earth] of the city [named Sheol], Samuel said to Saul, Bid the servant [your children] pass on [‘abar – Passover] before [into the presence of God with] us, (and he passed on [‘abar – passed over Jabbok first]), but [there] stand you still a while [yowm – in this appointed day], that I may show you [shama’ – to obey] the word of God.

1 Samuel 10
1 Then Samuel took a vial of oil, and poured it upon his head, and kissed him, and said, Is it not because the LORD has anointed you to be captain [nagiyd – commander of His army] over his inheritance?
2 When you are departed from me to [that] day, then you shall find two men [Judah and Ephraim] by Rachel’s [journeyer’s – the pilgrims spoken of in Hebrews 11:13, who are seeking this city where we’ve arrived] sepulcher [place of burial] in the border of [the limit, where is born again] Benjamin at Zelzah [tseltsach – when the darkness is clearly understood]; and they will say unto you, The asses which you went to seek are found [when you, the lost, are again able to find your own asses in the darkness]: and, lo, your father has left the care of the asses [[Israel and Judah]], and sorrows for you, saying, What shall I do for my son [make him {the prodigal} a feast]?
3 Then shall you go on forward from thence, and you shall come to the plain of Tabor [you shall clearly see the mountain of God], and there shall meet you three men going up [rising] to God to Bethel [into the house, Family, of God], [for the feast celebrating the men found] one carrying three kids, and another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a bottle of wine:
4 And they will salute you, and give you two loaves of bread [giving this word of God they have received]; which you shall receive of their hands.
5 After that you shall come to the hill of God, where is the garrison of the Philistines [the stronghold of the invading army]: and it shall come to pass, when you are come thither to the city [whose builder and maker is God], that you shall meet a company of prophets coming down from the high place [the mountain (hill) of God] with a psaltery, and a tabret, and a pipe, and a harp, before [paniym – playing the songs the LORD has given] them; and they shall prophesy [repeating His word as received]:
6 And the Spirit of the LORD will come upon you, and you shall prophesy with them [all repeating this word as received], and shall be turned into another [‘acher] man [becoming a new creation, ONE BODY in the LORD’s presence].
7 And let it be, when these signs are come unto you, that you do [‘asha – make, manifest God with you] as occasion serve you; for God is with you.

Acts 13
6 And when they had gone through the isle unto Paphos [now when the waters are boiling hot], they found a certain sorcerer [a self-described so-called wise man], a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Barjesus [son of Jesus]:
7 Which was with the deputy of the country, Sergius [wondering] Paulus [about this little man Paul], a prudent man; who called for Barnabas [son of rest] and Saul [desired], and desired to hear the word of God.
8 But Elymas [wizard – a self-proclaimed “expert”] the sorcerer (for so is his name by interpretation) withstood them, seeking to turn away the deputy from the faith.
9 Then Saul [from whom he desired to hear the word of God], (who also [after his change] is called Paul [a little man, in obscurity, by whose wisdom the city is delivered]) filled with the Holy Ghost [the LORD unknown in him speaking and working], set his eyes on him.
10 And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, you child of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to pervert the right ways of the LORD?
11 And now, behold, the hand of the LORD is upon you, and you [false prophets and antichrists] shall be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately there fell on him a mist and [his word appeared as] a darkness; and he went about seeking some to lead him by the hand.
12 Then the deputy, when he saw what was done, believed, being astonished at the doctrine of the LORD.

38 Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins:
39 And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.
40 Beware therefore, lest that come upon you, which is spoken of in the prophets;
41 Behold, you despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which you shall in no wise believe, though a man declares it unto you.

Acts 17
23 For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, To The Unknown God. Whom therefore you ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.
24 God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is LORD of heaven and earth, dwells not in temples made with hands;
25 Neither is worshipped with men’s hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he gives to all life, and breath, and all things;
26 And has made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;
27 That they should seek the LORD, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:
28 For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
29 Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man’s device.
30 And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commands all men every where to repent:
31 Because he has appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he has ordained; whereof he has given assurance unto all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.
32 And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, We will hear you again of this matter.

Psalms 40
A Psalm of David
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 clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.
3 And he has put a new song 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 of the book it is written of me,
8 I delight to do your will, O my God: yea, your law is within my heart.
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; 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 evils have compassed me about: my 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 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.
16 Let all those that seek you rejoice and be glad in you: let such as love your salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified.
17 But I am poor and needy; yet the LORD thinketh upon me: you are my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.

Friends, men will and do mock us for confessing the LORD’s presence with us and through us working and speaking. But, as we know, the shame shall be theirs when He appears.

Colossians 3
1 If you then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sits on the right hand of God.
2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
3 For you are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall you also appear with him in glory.

The three words, ‘achaz, ‘achar, and ‘ayil, appear in Exodus 15 where they speak of the mighty upon which the surprise comes, when they find themselves as the rams caught in the thicket.

Exodus 15
1 Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the LORD, and spoke, saying, I will sing unto the LORD, for he has triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider has he thrown into the sea.
2 The LORD is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he is my God, and I will prepare him a habitation; my father’s God, and I will exalt him.
3 The LORD is a man of war: the LORD is his name.
4 Pharaoh’s chariots and his host has he cast into the sea: his chosen captains also are drowned in the Red sea.
5 The depths have covered them: they sank into the bottom as a stone.
6 Your right hand, O LORD, is become glorious in power: your right hand, O LORD, has dashed in pieces the enemy.
7 And in the greatness of your excellency you have overthrown them that rose up against you: you sent forth your wrath, which consumed them as stubble.
8 And with the blast of your nostrils the waters were gathered together, the floods stood upright as a heap, and the depths were congealed in the heart [the mind] of the sea.
9 The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.
10 You did blow with your wind, the sea covered them: they sank as lead in the mighty waters.
11 Who is like unto you, O LORD, among the gods? who is like you, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?
12 You stretched out your right hand, the earth swallowed them.
13 You in your mercy have led forth the people which you have redeemed: you have guided them in your strength unto your holy habitation.
14 The people shall hear [shama’], and be afraid: sorrow shall take hold [‘achaz] on the inhabitants of Palestina [the Palestine, the Philistines, the army of invaders].
15 Then the dukes of Edom shall be amazed; the mighty men [‘ayil – the ram] of Moab [those whose mouths are the gates holding the world in death and hell], trembling shall take hold [‘achaz] upon them; all the inhabitants of Canaan shall melt away.
16 Fear and dread shall fall upon them; by the greatness of your arm they shall be as still as a stone; till your people pass over, O LORD, till the people pass over, which you have purchased.
17 You shall bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of your inheritance, in the place, O LORD, which you have made for you to dwell in, in the Sanctuary, O LORD, which your hands have established.
18 The LORD shall reign for ever and ever.
19 For the horse of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and the LORD brought again the waters of the sea upon them; but the children of Israel went on dry land in the midst of the sea.
20 And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.
21 And Miriam answered them, Sing you to the LORD, for he has triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider has he thrown into the sea.
22 So Moses brought Israel from the Red sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur [the “wall” of lies]; and they went three days [waiting for the resurrection] in the wilderness, and found no water [no word of God].
23 And when they came to Marah [bitterness], they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter [mar]: therefore the name of it was called Marah.
24 And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink?
25 And he cried unto the LORD; and the LORD showed him [yara’ – taught him of] a tree [of life], which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet [mathaq – a five times used word that speaks of counsel, here referring to the LORD’s refused until this time when the tree of life is cast into the sea, to the people at large who, in bitterness, wait for this moment]: there he made for them a statute [choq] and an ordinance, and there he proved them,
26 And said, If you will diligently hearken [shama’ – obey] to the voice of the LORD your God, and will do that which is right in his sight, and will give ear [‘azan – pay close attention] to his commandments, and keep all his statutes [choq], I will put none of these diseases upon you, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the LORD that heals [rapha’] you.
27 And they came to Elim [‘ayil – the place of the ram, overcoming those whose mouth, their evil counsel opposing and resisting the LORD’s anointed, are the gate of hell that must be Exodused], where were twelve wells of water [governmental perfection], and threescore and ten palm trees [the resurrection that comes with ending the causes of the desolation, ending the abominations put in God’s place, the evil counsel that replaces His good]: and they encamped there by the waters.

In the title verse, Isaiah 53:11, the “travail” with which the LORD is satisfied (says it’s enough), the “grievousness” prescribed by the wicked, the ‘amal, is the “sorrow” of Psalms 55:10.

Proverbs 5
1 My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow [subordinate] your ear [what you have before heard] to my understanding:
2 That you mayest regard discretion, and that your lips may keep knowledge.
3 For the lips of a strange woman [the words heard from the unfaithful] drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
4 But her end [‘achariyth – in these last days] is bitter [mar] as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.
5 Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
6 Lest you shouldest ponder the path of life, her [the unfaithful who’ve left the LORD and gone into darkness] ways are moveable, that you can not know them.
7 Hear [shama’ – obey] me now therefore, O you children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.

Psalms 55
1 Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not yourself from my supplication.
2 Attend unto me, and hear me: I mourn in my complaint, and make a noise;
3 Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me.
4 My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.
5 Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror has overwhelmed me.
6 And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove [and knew the signs of the end]! for then would I fly away [in full understanding: in heaven], and be at rest.
7 Lo, then would I [did blindly] wander far off [rachaq – into this time when the earth is ruled by evil decree], and remain in the wilderness [desolation]. Selah.
8 I would hasten my escape [exodus] from the windy storm and tempest.
9 Destroy, O LORD, and divide their tongues [which are the gates of hell]: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
10 Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof [the lies in which the trust]: mischief also and sorrow [‘amal] are in the midst of it.
11 Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.
12 For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:
13 But it was you, a man my equal, my guide, and my acquaintance.
14 We took sweet [mathaq] counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company.
15 Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.
16 As for me, I will call upon God; and the LORD shall save me.
17 Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice.
18 He has delivered my soul in peace from the battle that was against me: for there were many with me.
19 God shall hear, and afflict them, even he that abides of old. Selah. Because they have no changes [chaliyphah], therefore they fear not God.
20 He has put forth his hands against such as be at peace with him: he has broken his covenant.
21 The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords.
22 Cast your burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain you: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.
23 But you, O God, shall bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in you.

Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? will you be altogether unto me as a liar, and as waters that fail?

3 – 6 October 2023

Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? will you be altogether unto me as a liar, and as waters that fail?

The above, Jeremiah 15:18, is Jeremiah speaking to the LORD. The verse comes just after Jeremiah mentions finding the LORD’s word, which he joyfully ate. The verse is filled with cryptic allusions to its meaning, which we find, by the LORD’s leading, when we explore the distinct words therein appearing.

The “pain” that is said to be perpetual is from the six times us word k’eb. The word saying it’s “incurable” is ‘anash, a word discussed in the previous post (describing the mind of man as “desperately wicked” and later speaking of the “woeful” day, from Jeremiah 17:9 & 16, respectively).

Jeremiah 17
5 Thus says the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from the LORD.
6 For he shall be like the heath [a tree stripped of protection against the elements] in the desert, and shall not see when good comes; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land [where nothing grows from the earth] and not inhabited.
7 Blessed is the man that trusts in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is.
8 For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreads out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat comes, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked [‘anash – the “woeful” day spoken of in verse 16 below]: who can know it?
10 I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
11 As the partridge sits on eggs, and hatches them not; so he that gets riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.
12 A glorious high throne from the beginning is the place of our sanctuary.
13 O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake you shall be ashamed, and they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters.
14 Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for you are my praise.
15 Behold, they say unto me, Where is the word of the LORD? let it come now.
16 As for me, I have not hastened from being a pastor [impatiently, presumptuously, going before you led me] to follow you: neither have I desired the woeful [‘anash – desperately wicked] day; you know: that which came out of my lips was right before you [nokach – only here in Jeremiah, meaning not against].
17 Be not a terror unto me: you are my hope in the day of evil.
18 Let them be confounded that persecute me, but let not me be confounded: let them be dismayed, but let not me be dismayed: bring upon them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.

Jeremiah’s words, in verse 16 above, saying he hasn’t spoken against the LORD, seem contradicted in the title verse when he asks the LORD if He is a liar whose words fail. The meaning is clarified when we, in the context it’s a pain that “refuses to be healed [rapha’],” examine the twice used word rendered “liar,” ‘akzab, meaning “from 3576 [kazab]; falsehood; by implication treachery:–liar, lie.”

The only other time ‘akzab appears is in Micah 1:14, where, in the translated names, we understand it is speaking of what held (holds) all the kings (of God’s People) in blind darkness. In this context, we realize Jeremiah is asking if he is held incurably in the same blind darkness, by refusing the cure (the living waters, the word he found): which (cure) is the LORD’s command to speak the word (he found).

Jeremiah is sent (with the word found) to the people he is to raise to life, by the LORD rising in him, then in them, by His word. They (the leaders drunken with power) refuse the cure sent, which is them failing the grace of God, as spoken of in Hebrew 12:15, which tells us it is them rejecting its correction and thereby (choosing to remain in darkness) remain illegitimate children.

Friends, I tell very boldly and plainly, salvation comes only to those who confess the LORD is present, and then speaking this, His word from their mouth, He manifests Himself to the world in need.

It’s a simple message, good tidings, here published. It is this command, the right way, the righteousness of God manifested by faith, to which God’s people, those who become His children, submit. This (subordinating your will to His in this manner) is what Paul, the LORD alive in him working and speaking, is saying in Romans 10:3. The word there rendered “submitted” is said to be hupotasso, from the two words, hupo (meaning under or to place beneath) and tasso (meaning to arrange in an orderly manner).

Per the previous post, in the original text (of Romans 10:3), the word appears as hupetagesan, which is the Greek word age (to be led and to lead) inserted into (joined in the midst of) the word tasso. The word (hupetagesan) speaks of the LORD’s Spirit working unknown among those led by Him into all truth, and, in context, they (going about to prove themselves right) fail to receive the cure and don’t return from death and hell.

Hebrews 12
8 But if you be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are you bastards [nothos – only appearing here, meaning “a spurious or illegitimate son”], and not sons.
9 Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection [hupotasso] unto the Father of spirits, and live?
10 For they truly for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he [the Father of spirits who brought us to life from the dead] for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness [the purity by which only do we see Him who is unseen].
11 Now no chastening for the present seems to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness [His right way] unto them which are exercised [from whom corruption is worked out] thereby.
12 Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;
13 And make straight paths for your feet [on the course the LORD has set before us], lest that which is lame [prone to stray] be turned out of the [right] way; but let it rather be healed [cured by the One able to cure the incurable].
14 Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the LORD:
15 Looking diligently lest any man fail of [by refusing to hear and obey] the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;
16 Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright [this promised new life].
17 For you know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.
18 For you are not [as those who refuse this word of God have] come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest [the storm caused by remaining in ignorance of God’s righteousness],
19 And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard intreated [paraiteomai – refused] that the word [of God giving understanding] should not be spoken to them any more:
20 (For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast [refusing and therefore with the LORD’s Spirit] touch the mountain [of God], it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart:
21 And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:)
22 But you [who’ve received Him and His correction] are come unto mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels [messengers receiving and delivering His message, publishing His good tidings],
23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect [come to life in His presence],
24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling [His sacrificing to deliver this message, as the sunrise upon all], that speak better things than that of Abel.
25 See that you refuse not him that speaks. For if they escaped not who refused him that spoke on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaks from heaven [the place of full understanding]:
26 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he has promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven [that the wicked and their corruption are shaken from them and they, heaven and earth, are born again].
27 And this word, Yet once more, signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.
28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom [of God, heaven on the earth] which cannot be moved, let us have [not refusing] grace [this free gift of His treasures], whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
29 For our God is a consuming fire.

Romans 10
1 Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is [all His chosen family at large, those who receive this promised end], that they might be saved.
2 For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.
3 For they being ignorant of [in darkness not knowing] God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness [trying to prove their corrupt ways are the right way], have not submitted themselves [hupotasso] unto the righteousness [the right way] of God.
4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believes.
5 For Moses describes the righteousness which is of the law [without understanding], That the man which does those things [with understanding] shall live by them.
6 But the righteousness which is of faith speak on this wise, Say not in your heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down from above [to give us understanding]:)
7 Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead [to give us again understanding].)
8 But what says it? The word is near you, even in your mouth, and in your heart [mind]: that is, the word of faith [that word, understanding, received is the LORD’s], which we preach;
9 That if you shall confess with your mouth the LORD Jesus [Jehovah’s salvation manifested in the flesh He chooses], and shall believe in your heart that God has raised him [He has chosen to dwell in] from the dead, you shall be saved.
10 For with the heart man believes unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. [I confess Jesus Christ is One God alive in my flesh!]
11 For the scripture says [in Isaiah 28:16], Whosoever believes on him shall not be ashamed [shall reach this expected end, our hope realized].
12 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same LORD over all is rich unto all that call upon him.
13 For [Joel 2:32 says] whosoever shall call upon the name of the LORD shall be saved.
14 How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?
15 And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written [in Isaiah 52:7], How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!
16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah [53:1] says, LORD, who has believed our report [in Hebrew “report” is from the many times discussed word shmuw’ah {shama’ Yah}, meaning heard and obeyed what is reported as the word of Jehovah, as it is, His sound “doctrine” He is teaching, as in Isaiah 28:9, asking “Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine {shmuw’ah – His report}?”]?
17 So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by [receiving report, the preaching, as] the word of God.
18 But I say, Have they not heard? Yes truly, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends [ending the old and beginning the new] of the world.
19 But I say, Did not Israel know? First Moses says, I will provoke you to jealousy by them that are no people, and by a foolish nation I will anger you.
20 But Isaiah [in Isaiah 65:1 & 2] is very bold, and says, I was found of them that sought me not; I was made manifest unto them that asked not after me.
21 But to Israel he says, All day long I have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying [antilego – opposing His rightly ordered discourse] people [of who Isaiah 65:5 says they haven’t found Him because they, those choosing to remain among the dead, are saying they are holier than Him; of whom He says they are like smoke in His nose, meaning to be fanned away by His hand].

Isaiah 28
9 Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine [shmuw’ah]? them that are weaned from the milk [receiving the foundational element of truth, have advanced in understanding, into perfection], and drawn [now draw] from the breasts [of the Ancient of Days – as we know, the word here rendered “drawn” is ‘attiyq, only appearing elsewhere in 1 Chronicles 4:22, where it speaks of the “ancient” things, the work of those that dwelt with the king].
10 For [as here] precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:
11 For with stammering lips and another tongue [the truth: a foreign language to those who only know corruption] will he speak to this people.
12 To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith you may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they [refused and] would not hear.
13 But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, you scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because you have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus says the LORD God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believes shall not make haste [shall not be taken away with the flood of men’s lying words, the shame that comes upon those who refuse this rest and refreshing].
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and [the] righteousness [of God] to the plummet [against which your righteousness shall be judged]: and the hail [the word frozen in heaven, reserved there for this moment] shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters [His word from heaven] shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell [sheol] shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge [showt] shall pass through, then you shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goes forth it shall take you [in its snare]: for morning by morning shall it pass over [‘abar – the bringing the Passover from death into life for those who receive it as His word], by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report [shmuw’ah – only to understand it is the voice of Jehovah manifesting His presence to those who receive Him].
20 For the bed is shorter than that a man [sleeping in death] can stretch himself on it: and the covering [of lies and falsehood] narrower than that he can wrap [hide] himself in it.
21 For the LORD [Jehovah] shall rise up as in mount Perazim [2 Samuel 5:20 – as water from His throne, breaking forth upon His and David’s enemies], he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon [Joshua 10:10 & 11 – His word reserved {frozen} in heaven, sent as great hailstones upon the wicked: the current corrupt crop sitting in power], that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange [known to no one except Him] act.
22 Now therefore be you not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the LORD GOD [‘Adonay Jehovih – KING of kings and LORD of lords], of hosts [a man of war and Commander, Chief, of the armies of heaven] a consumption [kalah – a full end, as in Daniel 9:27], even determined [charats – decreed, as in Joshua 10:21 saying “And all the people returned to the camp to Joshua {Jesus} at Makkedah {as one flock under one shepherd} in peace: none moved {charats} his tongue against any of the children of Israel.” And 2 Samiel 5:24, the LORD saying to David, “And let it be, when you hear {shama’ – obey} the sound {qowl – the voice} of a going in the tops of the mulberry trees {baka’, from which come bkowr – telling us this is the voice of the “firstborn”}, that then you shall bestir yourself: for then shall the LORD go out before {paniym – His presence will be manifested with, in} you, to smite the host of the Philistines {the enemy army now mixed among you}.”] upon the whole earth.
23 Give you ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech.

Joel 2
15 Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly [call the ONE BODY, His army, to muster to Him]:
16 Gather the people, sanctify [declare holy and pure] the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts [of the Ancient of Days]: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet [chuppah – the veil that protects her; only appearing elsewhere in Psalms 19:5, where it the chamber out of which also comes the bridegroom; and Isaiah 4:5 where it is His glory as our defense].
17 Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar [where they killed the prophets and wise men the LORD sent to rebuke them for their straying from His path], and let them say, Spare your people, O LORD, and give not your heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God?
18 Then will the LORD be jealous [qana’ – zealous] for his land [‘ertes – His earth], and pity his people.
19 Yea, the LORD will answer and say unto his people, Behold, I will send you corn, and wine, and oil, and you shall be satisfied therewith [this feast, from which you will receive My strength and rise]: and I will no more make you a reproach among the heathen:
20 But I will remove far off [rachaq – the evil men have decreed against you] from you the northern army [by the army of darkness], and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea [force them into the light of the sunrising upon His people at large], and his hinder part toward the utmost sea [his end shall come in this generation in these last days], and his stink shall come up [their rottenness shall be perceived by all], and his ill savor [the corruption of the words in their mouth] shall come up, because he has done great things [gadal – been successful in destroying all by their policy of deception].
21 Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: for the LORD will do great things [gadal – shall have the final success in restoring what they destroyed].
22 Be not afraid, you beasts of the field: for the pastures of the wilderness do spring [with new life], for the tree [of life] bears her fruit, the fig tree and the vine [My people connected to MY root] do yield their strength [understanding, which is light and life].
23 Be glad then, you children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he has given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month [of His new creation].
24 And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the vats shall overflow with wine and oil.
25 And I will restore to you the years that the locust [men who’ve destroy the earth] has eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpillar, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you [to awaken you to the consequences of your neglect].
26 And you shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your God, that has dealt wondrously with you: and my people shall never be ashamed [because they will realized this is the promised, and therefore expected, end].
27 And you shall know that I am in the midst of Israel [the people of the promise, who are corrected and become My sons and daughters], and that I am the LORD your God, and none else: and my people shall never be ashamed.
28 And it shall come to pass afterward [after the remnant is awakened, through them], that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:
29 And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit.
30 And I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the LORD come.
32 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD has said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call.

Isaiah 4
1 And in that day seven women [the ONE BODY of Christ, the church universal] shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by your name, to take away our reproach.
2 In that day shall the branch of the LORD be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel.
3 And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that remains in Jerusalem [those that aren’t taken away by the flood of men’s lies], shall be called holy, even every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem:
4 When the LORD shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.
5 And the LORD will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory [upon those in who the LORD manifests His presence] shall be a defense [chappah].
6 And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the day time from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain.

Micah 1
2 Hear, all you people; hearken, O earth, and all that therein is: and let the LORD God be witness against you, the LORD from his holy temple.
3 For, behold, the LORD comes forth out of his place [His chamber], and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth.
4 And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a steep place.
5 For the transgression of Jacob is all this, and for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? is it not Samaria [Democrats, confederate with foreign communists]? and what are the high places of Judah? are they not Jerusalem [Republicans, the remnant of the republic]?
6 Therefore I will make Samaria as a heap of the field, and as plantings of a vineyard: and I will pour down the stones thereof into the valley, and I will discover the foundations thereof.
7 And all the graven images [the idols they created, put in My place, and call by My name] thereof shall be beaten to pieces, and all the hires thereof shall be burned with the fire, and all the idols thereof will I lay desolate: for she gathered it of the hire [by the crumbs your masters feed you after they stole them, taxed it away, from your neighbors] of a harlot, and they shall return to the hire of a harlot.
8 Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked [My arm is uncovered before the eyes of the world]: I will make a wailing like the dragons [tannah – like serpents and whales, devouring with {the words from} their wide open mouths], and mourning as the owls [those who hunt their prey {souls} in the darkness].
9 For her wound is incurable [‘anash – because they refuse the cure, hearing this word as the word from the mouth of the LORD, and, therefore, will not speak it as commanded]; for it is come unto Judah; he is come unto the gate [between heaven and hell] of my people, even to Jerusalem [the remnant of My people].
10 Declare you it not at Gath [among My army], weep you not at all [show you no remorse for refusing to declare it]: in the house of Aphrah [wallowing in the ashes of the earth’s ruin] roll yourself in the dust [‘aphar – thinking you can therein hide].
11 Pass you away [‘abar – Passover from death into life by declaring My word], you inhabitant of Saphir [only appearing here, from the word shaphar, only appearing in Psalms 16:6, rendered “goodly,” saying “The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.”], having your shame naked [not reaching death you sought]: the inhabitant of Zaanan [my wandering flock] came not forth in the mourning of Bethezel [the remorse, now, in the house of tsel, your shadow, your soul unaware here in death’s sleep]; he [the risen LORD] shall receive [laqash – take, receive, you] of you his standing [’emdah – said to mean domicile: a dwelling place, only appearing here, from the word ‘amad, meaning to stand, and Yah, Jehovah; it is speaking the LORD, our heritage, rising in us to here raise us to stand in life] .
12 For the inhabitant of Maroth [only appearing here, meaning they are held in the bitterness of their own words] waited carefully for good: but evil came down from [their own bitterness came against] the LORD unto the gate of Jerusalem [between heaven and hell].
13 O you inhabitant of Lachish [who, in your pride think yourself invincible], bind the chariot to the swift beast [the falsehood and lies that carry those without My Spirit]: she is the beginning of the sin to the daughter of Zion: for the transgressions of Israel were found in you [in the word of the LORD found].
14 Therefore shall you give presents [shilluwach – the crumbs you’ve stolen] to Moreshethgath [the bitter army you thereby possess {yaresh}]: the houses of Achzib [the same as ‘akzab] shall be a lie [‘akzab] to the kings of Israel [causing them to be held in darkness].
15 Yet will I bring an heir [yaresh – who will seize these possessions from you} unto you, O inhabitant of Mareshah [who now have dominion]: he [the LORD in me} shall come unto Adullam [as justice for God’s people] the glory of Israel [the LORD presence revealed in the family of His promise].

Psalms 16
1 Preserve me, O God: for in you do I put my trust.
2 O my soul [the immortal person in my flesh], you have said unto the LORD [Jehovah], “You are my LORD [said to be ‘Adonay {King of king}, out of ignorance changed from Jehovah in the most ancient texts]: my goodness [you are the goodness in me] extends not to you [is not something you need];
3 But to the saints [in need] that are in the earth, and to the excellent [‘addiyr – those in whom Your might appears], in whom is all my delight [my joy when they realized You are present in us].”
4 Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another god: their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names [their evil words that identify them] into my lips.
5 The LORD [alive in me] is the portion of my inheritance and of my cup [the life I drink]: you maintain my lot [this destiny you decreed for those who have faith in You].
6 The lines [from past to this present moment] are fallen unto me in pleasant [na’iym – the same word used in verse 11, appearing thirteen times total, and referring us to its appearance in Job 36:11, see below] places; yea, I have a goodly [shaphar] heritage.
7 I will bless the LORD, who has given me counsel: my reins also instruct me in the night season [this time when ignorance covers the earth in darkness].
8 I have set the LORD always before me: because he is [present] at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
9 Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoices: my flesh also shall rest in hope [knowing the inner man is immortal].
10 For you will not leave my [immortal] soul in hell [sheol]; neither will you suffer your Holy One to see corruption [that darkens the minds of the ignorant who choose death, and never awaken into life because their deeds are evil].
11 You will show me the path of life: in your presence [paniym] is fulness of joy [the realization of this reality]; at your right hand [from where comes you might] there are pleasures [na’iym] for evermore.

Job 36
5 Behold, God is mighty, and despises not any: he is mighty in strength and wisdom.
6 He preserves not the life of the wicked: but gives right to the poor [the needy without power to withstand the wicked].
7 He withdraws not his eyes from the righteous: but with kings are they [the righteous] on the throne; yea, he does establish them forever, and they are exalted.
8 And if they be bound in fetters, and be held in cords of affliction;
9 Then he shows them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded [going beyond the bounds of good].
10 He open also their ear to discipline, and commands that they return from iniquity.
11 If they obey [shama’] and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures [na’iym].
12 But if they obey [shama’] not, they shall perish [‘ abar – passover into death] by the sword [this word they reject], and they shall die without knowledge.
13 But the hypocrites in heart [the corrupot in mind] heap up wrath: they cry not when he binds them [by their own iniquity].
14 They die in youth [never putting away childish things], and their life is among the unclean [those ignorant by their corruption].
15 He delivers the poor [those needing strength] in his affliction, and open their ears [to hear His instructions] in oppression.
16 Even so would he have removed you out of the strait into a broad place, where there is no straitness [no oppression under tyrants]; and that [good way] which should be set on your table should be full of fatness [bring prosperity].
17 But you [who refuse to obey] have fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on you.
18 Because there is wrath [not understanding the LORD is long-suffering in His correction, not willing that any should perish, but that all would come to repentance], beware lest he take you away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver you.
19 Will he esteem your riches? no, not gold, nor all the forces of strength.
20 Desire not the night [this time when ignorance has prevailed and there is no understanding], when people are cut off [from life] in their place.
21 Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this [regarding iniquity] have you chosen rather than affliction [that comes with relentless opposition].
22 Behold, God exalts by his power: who teaches like him?
23 Who has enjoined him his way [teaching as He here teaches]? or who can say, You have [with these words] wrought iniquity?
24 Remember that you magnify his work, which men behold.
25 Every man may see it [is the LORD manifesting His presence in us]; man may behold it afar off [rachowq – now in this time when the world is ruled by evil decree].
26 Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.
27 For he makes small the drops of water [His word from heaven]: they pour down rain according to the vapor thereof [the separated elements of understanding that left the earth, reserved there until now when He returns them in distilled form]:
28 Which the clouds do drop and distil upon man abundantly.
29 Also can any understand the spreading [miphrase, meaning expansion, as in the firmament when the word of God is separated from the corruption of man, the distillation, purification process in the exposition – only appearing here and Ezekiel 27:7] of the clouds, or the noise of his tabernacle [His voice as thunder, the sound of the light]?
30 Behold, he spreads his light [understanding] upon it, and covers the bottom of the sea [the deep meaning hidden in the darkened depths].
31 For by [revealing] them judges he the people; he gives meat in abundance.
32 With clouds he covers the light; and commands it not to shine by the cloud that comes betwixt.
33 The noise [His voice heard in the thunder] thereof shows concerning it [the meat of His judgment], the cattle [His flock upon whom it is sent] also concerning the vapor [its leaving into and returning from the cloud where this understanding was held and protected].

As we know, the ending verses of Psalms 16 are quoted by the LORD speaking through Peter and Paul, respectively, in context, as He now also speaks, in Acts 2:25 – 28 & 13:35.

Acts 2
22 You men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as you yourselves also know:
23 Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:
24 Whom God has raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.
25 For David speaks [in Psalms 16] concerning him, I foresaw the LORD [alive, present with me] always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved:
26 Therefore did my heart [my understanding mind] rejoice, and my tongue was glad [this refers to what David says in 2 Samuel 23, saying: 2 The Spirit of the LORD spoke by me, and his word was in my tongue. 3 The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spoke to me, He that rules over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God. 4 And he shall be as the light of the morning {the understand that brings the new day}, when the sun rises, even a morning without clouds {as new beginning when full understand has from there returned to cover the earth}; as the tender grass springing} new life where before there was none} out of the earth by clear shining after rain.]; moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope [that with Him I live forever]:
27 Because you will not leave my soul in hell [but from there in death will you resurrect me], neither will you suffer your Holy One to see corruption.
28 You have made known to me the ways of life; you shall make me full of joy with your countenance [presence].
29 Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulcher is with us unto this day.
30 Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne;
31 He seeing this before spoke of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption.
32 This Jesus has God raised up, whereof we all are [this day] witnesses.
33 Therefore being by the right hand [the power that effectually works to bring dead flesh to life] of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he has shed forth this, which you now see and hear [in the flesh of those He raises to life with His rising in them].
34 For David is not ascended into the heavens: but he says himself, The LORD [Jehovah] said unto my LORD [‘adown – David’s king, which we know refers to Joseph, through whose seed Shiloh comes in this ‘achariyth, the last days of which Jacob told His children – Genesis 49], Sit you on my right hand,
35 Until I make your foes your footstool.
36 Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God has made the same Jesus, whom you have crucified, both LORD and Christ.
37 Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart [these thing pierced their ears and entered into their minds], and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do?
38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name [the identity of the One working and speaking among you] of Jesus Christ [Jehovah’s Salvation manifested in the flesh] for the remission of sins, and you shall receive the gift [these treasures of His understanding which will raise you to life as they effectually work in your mind] of the Holy Ghost.
39 For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off [in these last days when the world is ruled by evil decree, as it now is], even as many as the LORD our God shall call.
40 And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation.

The word “untoward” is the four times used Greek word skilios, meaning “warped, i.e. winding; figuratively, perverse.” It speaks of winding like a river’s bends, in the sense of not seeing what is around the next, referring to the effect on the minds (of the froward) twisting and perverting the truth. It (the LORD in it) speaks of this moment, this evil generation, while referring us to the word’s other uses: Luke 3:5, Philippians 2:15, and 1 Peter 2:18.

Before examining these passages, suffer me for a moment while I must digress: yesterday, I heard someone publicly, a caller on the most prominent daily broadcast, call for God’s people to pray for God’s wrath and the death of the wicked. The paradox is the ignorance of the self-righteous (the misleading of the misled), thinking they will escape it if it were to come. The end of the wicked is by their own hand, their own works returned upon them; not by the hand of God, Whose work is to save the wicked from themselves and free them from the devil, his working through misleaders who’ve taken and hold men captive in the darkness of their own minds.

Ezekiel 33
11 Say unto them, As I live, says the LORD God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn you, turn you from your evil ways; for why will you die, O house of Israel?
12 Therefore, you son of man, say unto the children of your people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression: as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turns from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be able to live for his righteousness in the day that he sins.
13 When I shall say to the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust to his own righteousness, and commit iniquity, all his righteousness shall not be remembered; but for his iniquity that he has committed, he shall die for it.
14 Again, when I say unto the wicked, You shall surely die; if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right;
15 If the wicked restore the pledge, give again that he had robbed, walk in the statutes of life, without committing iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die.
16 None of his sins that he has committed shall be mentioned unto him: he has done that which is lawful and right; he shall surely live.
17 Yet the children of your people say, The way of the LORD is not equal: but as for them, their way is not equal.
18 When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, he shall even die thereby.
19 But if the wicked turn from his wickedness, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby.
20 Yet you say, The way of the LORD is not equal. O you house of Israel, I will judge you every one after his ways.
21 And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth month, in the fifth day of the month, that one that had escaped out of Jerusalem came unto me, saying, The city is smitten.
22 Now the hand of the LORD was upon me in the evening, afore he that was escaped came; and had opened my mouth, until he came to me in the morning [this morning – today is the day to open your mouths as He commands]; and my mouth was opened, and I was no more dumb.
23 Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
24 Son of man, they that inhabit those wastes of the land of Israel speak, saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited the land: but we are many; the land is given us for inheritance.
25 Wherefore say unto them, Thus says the LORD God; You eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood: and shall you possess the land?

John 3
11 Truly, truly, I say unto you, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen [have understood by the light, and become the light – Matthew 5:14 You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid]; and you receive not our witness.
12 If I have told you earthly things, and you believe not, how shall you believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?
13 And no man has ascended up to heaven [into full understanding], but he that came down [received it] from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven [here with full understand I received].
14 And as Moses lifted up [exalted the voice of] the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up [as the city on the hills, His understanding in us]:
15 That whosoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
18 He that believes on him is not condemned: but he that believes not is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
19 And this is the condemnation [krisis, the choice that causes men to perish], that light [understanding] is come into the world, and men loved darkness [ignorance] rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
20 For every one that does evil hates the light, neither comes to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
21 But he that does truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.

Luke 3
4 As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah [40:3 – 5] the prophet, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare you the way of the LORD, make his paths straight.
5 Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked [skilios] shall be made straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth;
6 And all flesh shall see the salvation of God.
7 Then said he to the multitude that came forth to be baptized of him, O generation of vipers, who has warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
8 Bring forth therefore fruits [of your open mouths] worthy of repentance, and begin not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, That God is able of these stones [who cry out while you remain silent] to raise up children unto Abraham.
9 And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the [corrupt] trees: every tree therefore which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.

Philippians 3
5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
9 Wherefore God also has highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:
10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;
11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is LORD, to the glory of God the Father.
12 Wherefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
14 Do all things without murmurings and disputing:
15 That you may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked [skilios] and perverse nation, among whom you shine as lights [as the LORD’s understanding] in the world;
16 Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.
17 Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.
18 For the same cause also do you joy, and rejoice with me.
19 But I trust in the LORD Jesus to send Timothy [D’Annunzio – the one sent to announce the LORD’s presence] shortly unto you, that I also may be of good comfort, when I know your state [when your obedience is perfected].
20 For I have no man likeminded, who will naturally care for your state.
21 For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ’s.
22 But you know the proof of him, that, as a son with the father, he has served with me in the gospel.

1 Peter 2
15 For so is the will of God, that with well doing you may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:
16 As free, and not using your liberty for a cloak of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.
17 Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.
18 Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward [skilios].
19 For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.
20 For what glory is it, if, when you be buffeted for your faults, you shall take it patiently? but if, when you do well, and suffer for it, you take it patiently [for Christ’s sake], this is acceptable with God.
21 For even hereunto were you called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that you should follow his steps:
22 Who did no sin, neither was guile [deception] found in his mouth:
23 Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judges righteously:
24 Who his own self bares our sins in his own body on the [corrupt] tree [dead wood, now cut down], that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes you were healed.
25 For you were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop [episkopos – Timothy, the one sent as the Chief Overseer] of your souls.

Acts 13
32 And we declare unto you glad tidings, how that the promise which was made unto the fathers,
33 God has fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he has raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in the second psalm, You are my Son, this day have I begotten you.
34 And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he said on this wise, I will give you the sure mercies of [correction not destruction promised to the seed of] David.
35 Wherefore he says also in another psalm, You shall not suffer your Holy One to see corruption.
36 For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption:
37 But he, whom God raised again [by correction from death into life], saw no corruption.
38 Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins:
39 And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.
40 Beware therefore, lest that come upon you, which is spoken of in the prophets;
41 Behold, you despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which you shall in no wise believe, though a man declares it unto you.

Jeremiah 18
15 O LORD, you know: remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in your longsuffering: know that for your sake I have suffered rebuke.
16 Your words were found, and I did eat them; and your word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of my heart: for I am called by your name [I Am Your manifested identity], O LORD God of hosts.
17 I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of your hand: for you have filled me with [your] indignation [za’am].
18 Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable [‘anash], which refuses [your people reject the cure] to be healed [rapha’]? will you be altogether unto me as a liar [‘ akzab – the blindness the befell the kings before me], and as waters [of Your grace] that fail?
19 Therefore thus says the LORD, If you return [to Me], then will I bring you again, and you shall stand before me: and if you take forth [rightly divide] the precious from the vile, you shall be as my mouth [as David]: let them [the people] return [from blindness] unto you; but return not you unto them [to their corruption].
20 And I will make you unto this people a fenced brazen wall [as a serpent in whom My voice is exalted]: and they shall fight against you, but they shall not prevail against you: for I Am with you [‘Im manuwn’ el – declaring you My son] to save you and to deliver you, says the LORD.
21 And I will deliver you out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem you out of the hand of the terrible.

Psalms 2
1 Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed [I Am], saying,
3 Let us break their bands [the law of nature] asunder, and cast away their cords [the law of God] from us.
4 He that sits in the heavens [the place of His strength: full understanding: Omnipotence] shall laugh [sachaq – at the foolishness they decree and call wisdom]: the LORD shall have them in derision [la’ag – mock them because of their ignorance of which they are willfully ignorant].
5 Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.
6 Yet have I set my king [I Am] upon my holy hill of Zion.
7 I will declare [announce] the decree [choq]: “The LORD has said unto me, ‘You are my Son; this day have I begotten you.'”
8 Ask of me, and I shall give you the heathen for your inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the Earth for your possession.
9 You shall break them with a rod of iron [the law of nature and nature’s God]; you shall dash them [the old and fully corrupt] in pieces like a potter’s vessel.
10 Be wise now therefore, O you kings: be instructed, you judges of the earth.
11 Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
12 Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.

Psalms 19
1 The heavens [giving full understanding] declare the glory of God; and the firmament [the exposition, dividing the water {words} below from the waters {word of God} above] shows his handywork [the work of His hand].
2 Day unto day [the beginning of one age and the beginning of the next] utters speech, and night unto night [into the ignorance sending light] shows knowledge.
3 There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.
4 Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end [qatseh] of the world. In them has he set a tabernacle for the sun [when the light of the new comes],
5 Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber [chuppah], and rejoiceth as a strong man [see Luke 11:21 above] to run a race.
6 His going forth is from the end [qatseh – beginning of understanding] of the heaven, and his circuit [here tquwphah – a full revolution of the sun, the earth going from light into darkness and again into light] unto the ends [qatsah – the cutting off the old {darkness}, beginning the new day] of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.
7 The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.
8 The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening [giving understanding to] the eyes.
9 The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring forever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether.
10 More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.
11 Moreover by them is your servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward.
12 Who can understand his [own] errors? cleanse you me from secret faults.
13 Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression.
14 Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in your sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.

Then touched he their eyes, saying, “According to your faith be it unto you.” And their eyes were opened; and Jesus straitly charged them, saying, See that no man know it.

30 September – 2 October 2023

Then touched he their eyes, saying, “According to your faith be it unto you.” And their eyes were opened; and Jesus straitly charged them, saying, See that no man know it.

The Greek word above rendered “straightly charged” is said to be the five times used word embrimaomai, (dubiously) meaning “from 1722 and brimaomai (to snort with anger); to have indignation on, i.e. (transitively) to blame, (intransitively) to sigh with chagrin, (specially) to sternly enjoin:–straitly charge, groan, murmur against.”

When the LORD leads us into spiritually discerning its meaning, He begins with the word’s five uses in the original text. As we know from studying these texts, there is no set spelling used, meaning words appear in various forms, and scholars did their best to determine the actual words and their meanings. In the hands of these same “experts,” was clouded much of the original meaning.

In this case the words appear as follows: Matthew 9:30, enebrimesato; Mark 1:43 & 14:4, embrimesamenon & enebrimonto; and John 11:33 & 38, enebrimesato & embrimomenon.

The word (combining Greek and Hebrew) is speaking of the “passage” from death to life occurring (en ‘ebar mesos) as He comes alive in those whose eyes are opened by their faith in Him, and they see Him (again). This is what they are told to tell no man, and why they immediately declare Him, which manifests His presence to those who must have faith, and will thereby, as they have, see the One present unseen.

Matthew 9
27 And when Jesus departed thence, two blind men followed him, crying, and saying, You son of David, have mercy on us [and speak with us above your mercy seat].
28 And when he was come into the house, the blind men came to him: and Jesus says unto them, Believe you that I am able to do this? They said unto him, Yea, LORD.
29 Then touched he their eyes, saying, According to your faith be it unto you.
30 And their eyes were opened; and Jesus straitly charged them [the LORD now alive in them bringing them to life by opening their eyes], saying, See that no man know it [the LORD now unknown in them as the Holy Ghost working and speaking unknown to reveal Himself].
31 But they, when they were departed, spread abroad his fame in all that country.
32 As they went out, behold, they brought to him a dumb man possessed with a devil [unable to speak this word of God, because it is foreign to those possessed by the ignorance of those misleading them].
33 And when the devil [the misleaders they follow] was cast out, the dumb spoke: and the multitudes marveled, saying, It was never so seen in Israel.
34 But the Pharisees said, He casts out devils through the prince of the devils.
35 And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people.
36 But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd.
37 Then said he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few;
38 Pray you therefore the LORD of the harvest, that he will send forth laborers into his harvest.

Jeremiah 5
20 Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying,
21 Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not:
22 Fear you not me? says the LORD: will you not tremble at my presence [paniym], which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea [the limit of humanity] by a perpetual [‘owlam] decree [choq], that it cannot pass it [‘abar – Passover from death to life]: and though the waves thereof toss themselves [the pride of men who have risen up to agitate all the world], yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it [‘abar – from death to life without fearing My presence and obeying My good leading]?
23 But this people has a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone.
24 Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, that gives rain, both the former and the latter [His word and understanding held in heaven], in his season: he reserves [shamar – guarded and protected it there] unto us the appointed [chuqqah] weeks [shabuwa’] of the harvest. [shabuwa’ is used nineteen time, the number of judgment; only once in the prophets, here in Jeremiah, and eight times in Daniel: six in Daniel 9:24 thru 27, and twice, in Daniel 10:2 & 3]
25 Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withheld good things from you.
26 For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait [with their deceptions], as he that set snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
27 As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore, they are become great, and waxen rich.
28 They are waxen fat, they shine [as if their deceptions are understanding]: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.
29 Shall I not visit [paqad – come as I have, as the Chief Overseer of the earth] for these things? says the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
30 A wonderful [shammah – consternation, and inability to understand the unexpected happening] and horrible thing is committed [hayah – has become] in the land [‘erets – the earth];
31 The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means [of deception, the cause of the consternation]; and my people love to have it so: and what will you do in the end thereof [‘achariyth – in these last days that have thereby unexpectedly come]?

The word rendered “horrible,” in verse 30 above, is the four times used word sha’aruwrah, meaning “feminine from 8176 [sha’ar, “to split or open, i.e. (literally, but only as denominative from 8179 {sha’ar, “an opening; i.e. a door or gate}) to act as gate-keeper (see 7778): (figuratively) to estimate:–think”] in the sense of 8175 [sa’er, “to storm, by implication, to shiver; i.e. to fear”]; something fearful:–horrible thing.”

It (sha’aruwrah) appears elsewhere in Jeremiah 18:13 & 24:14, and in Hosea 6:10, all as above speaking of the gate between heaven and hell. It is the minds of men, which, into hell, is only entered by following the deception of misleaders, and can only be exited, entering heaven, by following the LORD’s good leading.

As above, the LORD very sternly warned many times to beware of these false prophets who’ve come and misled all except the very elect.

Matthew 24
21 For then shall be great tribulation [as it is this day], such [mass delusion and insanity] as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.
23 Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.
24 For there shall arise false Christs [calling you to follow them and saying they will save you; when many have and they haven’t saved them], and false prophets [telling you they know the time isn’t now, and then deceive all into continuing in death and hell where they’ve held them], and shall show great signs and wonders [they say are reasons you should keep following them]; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
25 Behold, I have told you before.
26 Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.
27 For as the lightning [understanding] comes out of the east [as the sunrise of this new day], and shineth even unto the west [from heaven upon all]; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
28 For wheresoever the carcass [of the dead body of Christ] is, there will the eagles be gathered together [those who fly in this heaven with the LORD, lifted there by the strength of His understanding].
29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened [the church now understood to have no light in it, but are ignorant of the LORD’s presence], and the moon [civil government] shall not give her light [because they rule the ignorant by continued ignorance], and the stars shall fall from heaven [God’s people fallen into hell, where they sleep in the darkness], and the [corrupt] powers of the heavens shall be shaken [so the wicked are from there shaken]:
30 And then shall appear the sign [this light] of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds [where understanding was reserved when it left the earth] of heaven with power and great glory [revealing the presence of God with us].
31 And he shall send his angels [messenger unto whom He first revealed Himself] with a great sound of a trumpet [calling all to come to the light: the message in their mouths], and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
32 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and puts forth leaves, you know that summer is nigh:
33 So likewise you, when you shall see all these things [the new life springing from the earth], know that it is near, even at the doors [the exit out of hell into heaven, full understanding, with Him].
34 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.
35 [The old and corrupt] Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
36 But of that day and hour knows no man [as it is this day, none know He is here now, and has been with us long-suffering until Christ is formed in us], no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
37 But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken [away by the flood of the wicked], and the other left.
41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken [by the flood from the mouths of the wicked, the gate holding them in death and hell], and the other left.
42 Watch therefore: for you know not what hour your LORD does come.
43 But know this, that if the goodman of the house [those left in charge of protecting and guarding against corruption this understanding] had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.
44 Therefore be you also ready: for in such an hour as you [because of the consternation] think not the Son of man comes.
45 Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his LORD has made ruler over his household, to give them [this] meat in due season?
46 Blessed is that servant, whom his LORD when he comes shall find so doing.
47 Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.
48 But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My LORD delays his coming;
49 And shall begin to smite his fellow-servants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;
50 The LORD of that servant shall come in a day when he looks not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,
51 And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Jeremiah 18
1 The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
2 Arise, and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will cause you to hear my words.
3 Then I went down to the potter’s house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels.
4 And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.
5 Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
6 O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? says the LORD. Behold, as the clay is in the potter’s hand, so are you in mine hand, O house of Israel.
7 At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it;
8 If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought [chashab] to do unto them.
9 And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it;
10 If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.
11 Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah [the leaders of My people], and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem [My People at large], saying, Thus says the LORD; Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise [chashab] a device [machashabah – what chashab?] against you: return you now every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good.
12 And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after [‘achar – to the end of] our own devices [machashabah], and we will every one do the imagination [shriyruwth – the marred vessels in the hand of the potters of the earth] of his evil heart.
13 Therefore thus says the LORD; Ask you now among the heathen, who has heard such things: the virgin of Israel has done a very horrible thing [sha’aruwrah].
14 Will a man leave the snow of Lebanon [the LORD’s purity now seen on high] which comes from the rock of the field [Christ manifested on the Earth, as the living waters, that were frozen, now freely flow from me]? or shall the cold flowing waters that come from another place [zuwr – as a strange language to those who only know corruption] be forsaken?
15 Because my people have forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity [their worthless creations], and they have caused them to stumble [against the Rock that offends them] in their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not cast up [calah – not exalted by the LORD];
16 To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing [drawing attention to their own ignorance]; every one that passes [‘abar – thinks they will by this corruption rise from death] thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head [wondering why they remain ignorant, ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth].
17 I will scatter them as with an east wind [My Spirit moving upon these water, of which they are ignorant] before the enemy; I will show them the back [not know I have come until I have passed by], and not the face [paniym – not knowing My presence], in the day of their calamity.
18 Then said they, Come and let us devise devices [chashab machashabah] against Jeremiah [the LORD rising to raise His people]; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue [word of deception, to hold the people down in death and hell], and let us not give heed [qashab – to pierce the ear and enter the mind] to any of his words.
19 Give heed to me, O LORD, and hearken to the voice of them that contend with me.
20 Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before you to speak good for them, and to turn away your wrath from them.
21 Therefore deliver up their children to the famine [the result of not accepting this word as the word from the mouth of God], and pour out their blood by the force of the sword [the word they refuse]; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle.
22 Let a cry be heard from their houses, when you shall bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.
23 Yet, LORD, you know all their counsel against me to slay me: forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from your sight, but let them be overthrown before you; deal thus with them in the time of your anger.

Jeremiah 23
1 Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! says the LORD.
2 Therefore thus says the LORD God of Israel against the pastors that feed my people; You have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited [paqad – manifested My presence, been the Chief Overseer for the good of] them: behold, I will visit [paqad – manifest Myself as the Chief Overseer of the earth] upon you the evil of your doings, says the LORD.
3 And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all countries whither I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase.
4 And I will set up shepherds over them which shall feed them: and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall they be lacking, says the LORD.
5 Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth.
6 In his days Judah [the elect remnant first] shall be saved, and Israel [God’s people at large] shall dwell safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, The LORD Our Righteousness.
7 Therefore, behold, the days come, says the LORD, that they shall no more say, The LORD lives, which brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;
8 But, The LORD lives, which brought up and which led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country [the darkness that covers the earth], and from all countries whither I had driven them; and they shall dwell in their own land [‘adamah – the land that I have given to the people I have created again].
9 Mine heart [the minds of My people] within me is broken because of the prophets; all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine has overcome, because of the LORD, and because of the words of his holiness.
10 For the land [‘erets – the earth] is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourns; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their force is not right.
11 For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, says the LORD.
12 Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery ways in the darkness [their ignorance by which they suddenly fall]: they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation [pquddah – now when I Am risen into sight as the Chief Overseer of the earth], says the LORD.
13 And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria [who put idols in My place and call them by My name]; they prophesied in Baal [the idols of the confused world], and caused my people Israel to err.
14 I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem a horrible thing [sha’aruwrah]: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none does return from his wickedness; they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.
15 Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets; Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall: for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the land [‘erets – the earth].
16 Thus says the LORD of hosts, Hearken [shama’ – obey] not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain [habal – to stray into worthlessness]: they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the LORD.
17 They say still unto them that despise me, The LORD has said, You shall have peace; and they say unto every one that walks after the imagination of his own heart, No evil shall come upon you.
18 For who has stood in the counsel of the LORD, and has perceived and heard his word? who has marked [qashab] his word, and heard [shama’ – obeyed] it?
19 Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD is gone forth in fury, even a grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked.
20 The anger of the LORD shall not return, until he has executed, and till he has performed the thoughts of his heart: in the latter days [‘achariyth] you shall consider [biyn – understand] it perfectly.
21 I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.
22 But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear [shama’ – obey] my words, then they should have turned [shuwb – returned] them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.
23 Am I a God at hand, says the LORD, and not a God afar off [rachowq – now when the world has ended by evil decrees]?
24 Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? says the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? says the LORD.
25 I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed [created evil decrees while sleeping in darkness].
26 How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies? yea, they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart;
27 Which think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbor, as their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal.
28 The prophet that has a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that has my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff [the lies of evil dreamers] to the wheat [the good seed speaking this word of God]? says the LORD.
29 Is not my word like as a fire? says the LORD; and like a hammer that break the rock [the false Christs] in pieces?
30 Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, says the LORD, that steal my words every one from his neighbor.
31 Behold, I am against the prophets, says the LORD, that use their tongues, and say, He says.
32 Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams, says the LORD, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their lightness [giving no value to this word]; yet I sent them not, nor commanded them: therefore they shall not profit this people at all, says the LORD.
33 And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask you, saying, What is the burden of the LORD [massa’ – the song He says we should sing]? you shall then say unto them, What burden [mah massa’]? I will even forsake you, says the LORD.
34 And as for the prophet, and the priest, and the people, that shall say, The burden [massa’] of the LORD [speaking their own words that are the burden while saying My word is a burden], I will even punish [paqad – come as the Chief Overseer against] that man and his house.
35 Thus shall you say every one to his neighbor, and every one to his brother, What has the LORD answered? and, What has the LORD spoken?
36 And the burden [massa’] of the LORD shall you mention no more: for every man’s [own] word shall be his burden [massa’]; for you have perverted the words of the living God, of the LORD of hosts our God.
37 Thus shall you say to the prophet, What has the LORD answered you? and, What has the LORD spoken?
38 But since you say, The burden [massa’] of the LORD [saying this word is a burden]; therefore thus says the LORD; Because you say this word, The burden [massa’] of the LORD [and speak your own word], and I have sent unto you, saying, You shall not say, The burden [massa’] of the LORD [never again speaking in My name];
39 Therefore, behold, I, even I, will utterly forget you, and I will forsake you, and the city that I gave you and your fathers, and cast you out of my presence [paniym]:
40 And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.

The only other place the word massa’ appears in Jeremiah is four times in Jeremiah 17. The word’s meaning is “from 5375 [nasa’ – to lift]; a burden; specifically, tribute, or (abstractly) porterage; figuratively, an utterance, chiefly a doom, especially singing; mental, desire:–burden, carry away, prophecy, X they set, song, tribute.”

Matthew 11
23 And you, Capernaum [the place where these words of the Comforter have come], which are exalted unto heaven [lifting your words above the LORD’s, saying you have understanding and He doesn’t], shall be brought down to hell: for if the mighty works, which have been done in you, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.
24 But I say unto you, That it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment, than for you.
25 At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank you, O Father, LORD of heaven and earth, because you have hid these things from the wise and prudent, and have revealed them unto babes.
26 Even so, Father: for so it seemed good in your sight.
27 All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knows the Son, but the Father; neither knows any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.
28 Come unto me, all you that labor and are heavy laden [with the evil words of men in positions of power], and I will give you rest.
29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I Am meek and lowly in heart: and you shall find rest unto your souls.
30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light [double meaning intended].

Jeremiah 17
1 The sin of Judah [the leaders of My people] is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars;
2 While their children remember their [creations] altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills [places of power].
3 O my mountain in the field [My high places in the earth], I will give your substance and all your treasures [your creations you think have value] to the spoil, and your high places [from where you mislead] for sin, throughout all your borders.
4 And you, even yourself, shall discontinue from your heritage that I gave you; and I will cause you to serve your enemies in the land which you know not [because you’re blinded by your own ignorance]: for you have kindled a fire in mine anger, which [as hell] shall burn forever.
5 Thus says the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from the LORD.
6 For he shall be like the heath [a tree stripped of protection against the elements] in the desert, and shall not see when good comes; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land [where nothing grows from the earth] and not inhabited.
7 Blessed is the man that trusts in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is.
8 For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreads out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat comes, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked [‘anash – the “woeful” day spoken of in verse 16 below]: who can know it?
10 I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
11 As the partridge sits on eggs, and hatches them not; so he that gets riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.
12 A glorious high throne from the beginning is the place of our sanctuary.
13 O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake you shall be ashamed, and they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters.
14 Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for you are my praise.
15 Behold, they say unto me, Where is the word of the LORD? let it come now.
16 As for me, I have not hastened from being a pastor [impatiently, presumptuously, going before you led me] to follow you: neither have I desired the woeful [‘anash – desperately wicked] day; you know: that which came out of my lips was right before you [nokach – only here in Jeremiah, meaning not against].
17 Be not a terror unto me: you are my hope in the day of evil.
18 Let them be confounded that persecute me, but let not me be confounded: let them be dismayed, but let not me be dismayed: bring upon them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.
19 Thus said the LORD unto me; Go and stand in the gate [into and out of hell and heaven] of the children of the people, whereby the kings of Judah come in, and by the which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem;
20 And say unto them, Hear [shama’] you the word of the LORD, you kings of Judah [who rule My people], and all Judah [those following these men], and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem [all God’s people at large], that enter in [to hell and heaven] by these gates:
21 Thus says the LORD; Take heed [shamar – guard and protect] to yourselves, and bear no burden [massa’ – you own words] on the sabbath day [when I interrupt you with My presence, stopping your words, for correction back onto the good course], nor bring it in [into heaven] by the gates of Jerusalem;
22 Neither carry forth a burden [masasa] out of your houses on the sabbath day, neither do you any work, but hallow you the sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers.
23 But they obeyed [shama’] not, neither inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, nor receive instruction [correction].
24 And it shall come to pass, if you diligently hearken [shama’ – obey] unto me, says the LORD, to bring in no burden [massa’] through the gates of this city on the sabbath day, but hallow the sabbath day, to do no work therein;
25 Then shall there enter into the gates of this city kings and princes sitting upon the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, they, and their princes, the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: and this city shall remain forever.
26 And they shall come from the cities of Judah, and from the places about Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin [as My right hand], and from the plain [seeing all these things], and from the mountains, and from the south, bringing burnt offerings, and sacrifices, and meat offerings, and incense, and bringing sacrifices of praise, unto the house of the LORD.
27 But if you will not hearken [shama’] unto me to hallow the sabbath day [when I interrupt you for correction], and not to bear a burden [massa’ – your words], even entering in at the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.

The word ‘anash, above, in verses 9 & 16, rendered “desperately wicked” and “woeful,” only appears seven other times, and means “to be frail, feeble, or (figuratively) melancholy:–desperate(-ly wicked), incurable, sick, woeful.” In its other seven uses, it is five times rendered “incurable,” once as “very sick,” and once as “desperate.”

Isaiah 17
7 At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel.
8 And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall respect that which his fingers have made, either the groves, or the images.
9 In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel: and there shall be desolation.
10 Because you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not been mindful of the rock of your strength, therefore shall you plant pleasant plants, and shall set it with strange slips [engraft strangers with foreign ways]:
11 In the day shall you make your plant to grow, and in the morning shall you make your seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate [‘anash] sorrow.
12 Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise [voices] of the seas; and to the rushing of nations [of those who don’t know the LORD is present], that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters [against the LORD]!
13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off [merchaq – from this decreed appointed time of the LORD], and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains [the worthlessness in high places] before [paniym] the wind [the presence of the LORD’s Spirit working and speaking unknown], and like a rolling thing before [paniym – in the presence of] the whirlwind.
14 And behold at evening-tide [when the flood of darkness comes] trouble; and before the morning [when the light comes] he [the darkness] is not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.

Proverbs 23
6 Eat you not the bread of him that has an evil eye, neither desire you his dainty meats:
7 For as he thinks [sha’ar {8176}, only used here] in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to you; but his heart is not with you.
8 The morsel which you have eaten shall you vomit up, and lose you your sweet words.
9 Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of your words.

Hosea 6
1 Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he has torn, and he will heal [rapha’] us; he has smitten, and he will bind us up.
2 After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up [in this resurrection], and we shall live in [by] his sight.
3 Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning [this coming of His light upon the earth]; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain [His word and understanding from heaven where He reserved it] unto the earth.
4 O Ephraim [My people in this generation], what shall I do unto you? O Judah [you leaders of My people], what shall I do unto you? for your goodness is as a morning cloud [that disappears when the light comes], and as the early dew it goes away [when the light comes].
5 Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and your judgments are as the light [My understanding] that go forth.
6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
7 But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.
8 Gilead [the high places where this testimony is sent] is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.
9 And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.
10 I have seen a horrible thing [sha’aruwrah] in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim [all God’s people in this generation], Israel is defiled.
11 Also, O Judah [the now awakened elect remnant], he has set a harvest for you, when I returned the captivity [captivating the minds] of my people.

Jeremiah 31
17 And there is hope in your end [‘achariyth – these last days], says the LORD, that your children shall come again to their own border.
18 I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; You have chastised [corrected] me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn you me, and I shall be turned; for you are the LORD my God.
19 Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth [acting as a child, until childish things were put away].
20 Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I spoke against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, says the LORD.
21 Set you up waymarks, make you high heaps: set your heart toward the highway, even the way which you went: turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these your cities.
22 How long will you go about, O you backsliding daughter? for the LORD has created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man.
23 Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As yet they shall use this speech in the land of Judah and in the cities thereof, when I shall bring again their captivity; The LORD bless you, O habitation of justice, and mountain of holiness.
24 And there shall dwell in Judah itself, and in all the cities thereof together, husbandmen, and they that go forth with flocks.
25 For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul.
26 Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me.

Psalms 63
1 O God, you are my God; early will I seek you: my soul thirsts for you, my flesh longs for you in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;
2 To see your power and your glory, so as I have seen you in the sanctuary.
3 Because your lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise you.
4 Thus will I bless you while I live: I will lift up my hands in your name.
5 My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise you with joyful lips:
6 When I remember you upon my bed, and meditate on you in the night watches.
7 Because you have been my help, therefore in the shadow of your wings will I rejoice.
8 My soul follows hard after you: your right hand upholds me.
9 But those that seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the lower parts of the earth.
10 They shall fall by the sword: they shall be a portion for foxes.
11 But the king shall rejoice in God; every one that swears by him shall glory: but the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped.

Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him flee before him.

27 – 28 September 2023

Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him flee before him.

The above is Psalms 68:1, which is followed by a description of the LORD manifesting His presence as He confirms His word, freely sending it upon all, like rain from the clouds of heaven. It tells of when men realize this event and exalt His word by singing it as received, as a free gift, continuing the process. The process is through the flesh of those who receive it as His words, answer His call, and, chosen by Him, are glorified, further revealing in them His presence.

Friends, the people who oppose this are those in power who will never see Him because of the corruption that clouds their minds and those of any remaining under their evil spell. Proverbially, these are the spells that chain men in hell, the bars and gates that hold them there. These men are in all the pulpits, telling their stories after giving you crumbs from the word of God, and for it, they ask all to subsidize their continued misleading.

Thus says the LORD:
Proverbs 7
24 Hearken unto me now therefore, O you children, and attend to the words of my mouth.
25 Let not your heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.
26 For she has cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.
27 Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.

Proverbs 19
1 Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.
2 Also, that the [sleeping] soul be without knowledge, it is not good; and he that hastens [away from the LORD’s long-suffering correction] with his feet sins.
3 The foolishness of man perverts his way: and his heart [his corrupt foundational mind] frets [za’aph – is enraged] against the LORD.
4 Wealth [worldly prospering] makes many friends; but the poor [without any worldly power] is separated from his neighbor.
5 A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaks lies shall not escape.
6 Many will intreat [chalah – many ask for relief of their problems] the favor [paniym – in the presence] of the prince: and every man [who asks] is a friend to him that gives [worldly] gifts [why then is it not so with God people who the LORD gives these heavenly treasures that are the cure for their deep ailments].
7 All the brethren of the poor do hate him [because he has no worldly gift to give them]: how much more do his friends go far from him? he pursues them with words [these treasures], yet they are wanting to him [unsatisfied with this free offering of God].
8 He that [receiving him] gets wisdom loves his own soul [which this gift awakens into life]: he that keeps [shamar – that guards and protects from corruption] understanding shall find good.
9 A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaks lies shall perish.
10 Delight is not seemly [suitable] for a fool; much less for a servant [‘ebed – who is as Cannan, who should be a servant but instead have now become tyrants – see its use in Genesis 9:25 thru 27] to have rule over princes.
11 The discretion of a man defers his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.
12 The king’s wrath is as the roaring of a lion; but his favor is as dew upon the grass [as the word of God appearing on earth beginning this new day].
13 A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping [when words never end the argument].
14 House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the LORD.
15 Slothfulness [not working, not diligently seeking the LORD and His will] casts into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger [without His word from heaven].
16 He that keeps [shamar] the commandment keeps [shamar] his own soul; but he that despises his [the LORD’s good] ways shall die.
17 He that has pity upon the poor lends [himself] unto the LORD [joining with Him in His giving]; and that which he has given will he [the LORD] pay him again.
18 Chasten your son while there is hope, and let not your soul spare [him from correction] for his crying.
19 A man of great wrath shall suffer punishment: for if you deliver him, yet you must do it again.
20 Hear [shama’ – obey] counsel [‘etsah], and receive instruction, that you mayest be wise in your latter end [‘achariyth – in these last days].
21 There are many devices [machashabah – contrivances, the machines of Satan’s siege against good counsel] in a man’s heart [men’s minds possessed by him]; nevertheless the counsel of the LORD, that shall stand.
22 The desire of a man is his kindness [the LORD’s mercy to those who don’t forsake it for worthless lies]: and a poor man is better than a liar.
23 The fear of the LORD tends to life: and he that has it shall abide satisfied [with these treasures of heaven]; he shall not be visited [paqad] with evil [when the LORD comes as the Chief Overseer of the earth against the wicked].
24 A slothful man hides his hand in his bosom, and will not so much as bring it to his mouth again [to eat this bread of life and freely give it as received].
25 Smite a scorner, and the simple will beware: and reprove one that has understanding, and he will understand knowledge.
26 He that wastes his father [who instructs and corrects him into a good way], and chase away his mother [who teaches him good wisdom and the knowledge of God], is a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach.
27 Cease, my son, to hear [shama’ – obey] the instruction that causes to err from the words of knowledge.
28 An ungodly witness [not telling what is truly seen] scorns [the LORD’s] judgment: and the mouth of the wicked devours [only eats and speaks words of] iniquity.
29 Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.

Psalms 68
1 Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him flee before him [paniym – at His presence].
2 As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: as wax melts before [paniym – in the presence of] the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence [paniym] of God.
3 But let the righteous be glad; let them rejoice before [paniym – in the presence of] God: yea, let them exceedingly rejoice.
4 Sing unto God, sing praises to his name: extol him that rides upon the heavens by his name Jah [Yahh – spiritually from the once used word ya’ah, rendered “appertain” in Jeremiah 10:7, speaking of there being none like Him among all the wise men of the earth], and rejoice before him [paniym – in His presence].
5 A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
6 God set the solitary in families: he bringeth out [of death and hell] those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.
7 O God, when you went forth before [paniym – present among] your people, when you did march through the wilderness [among the desolate]; Selah:
8 The earth shook, the heavens also dropped at the presence [paniym] of God: even Sinai [the sleep that came from altering the word of God, a time when thorns, misleaders, over grew the world left in the care of men who were supposed to guard and protect it against corrupt] itself was moved at the presence [paniym] of God, the God of Israel.
9 You, O God, did send a plentiful [ndabah – in one who is a willing offering] rain [Your word from heaven], whereby you did confirm [kuwn – to resurrect] your inheritance, when it was weary [la’ah, a nineteen time used word referring us to it uses in Isaiah 47:13, Jeremiah 9:5, and Ezekiel 24:12 – all below speaking of the things that wearied God’s people and caused their desolation].
10 Your congregation has dwelt therein [the rain You sent]: you, O God, have prepared [kuwn – resurrected] of your goodness for the poor [who are without worldly power].
11 The LORD gave the [this] word: great was the company of those that published it [basar – announcing these good tidings, this goodness He has given to the poor].
12 Kings of armies did flee apace: and she that tarried at home [waited on the LORD] divided the spoil.
13 Though you have lien among the pots, yet shall you be as the wings of a dove [flying in heaven with His strength of His understanding, which is a sign of the end reached] covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold [the treasures that lifted you into heaven].
14 When the Almighty scattered kings in it, it was white as snow in Salmon.
15 The hill of God is as the hill of Bashan; an high hill as the hill of Bashan [fruitfulness].
16 Why leap you, you high hills? this is the hill which God desires to dwell in; yea, the LORD will dwell in it forever.
17 The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of angels: the LORD is among them, as in Sinai [as fire against the misleaders who altered My word and caused your sleep in death], in the holy place [above My mercy seat].
18 You have ascended on high, you have led captivity captive: you have received gifts for men; yea, for the rebellious also, that the LORD God might dwell among them.
19 Blessed be the LORD, who daily loads us with benefits, even the God of our salvation. Selah.
20 He that is our God is the God of salvation; and unto God the LORD belong the issues from death.
21 But God shall wound the head of his enemies, and the hairy scalp of such an one as goes on still in his trespasses.
22 The LORD said, I will bring again from Bashan [fruitfulness], I will bring my people again from the depths [mtsowlah] of the sea [these are the deep Jonah also called the belly of hell]:
23 That your foot may be dipped in the blood of your enemies, and the tongue of your dogs in the same.
24 They have seen your goings, O God; even the goings of my God, my King, in the sanctuary [qodesh – this is the most holy place, in the LORD’s manifested presence].
25 The singers went before, the players on instruments followed after; among them were the damsels playing with timbrels.
26 Bless you God in the congregations, even the LORD, from the fountain of Israel.
27 There is little Benjamin with their ruler, the princes of Judah and their council, the princes of Zebulun, and the princes of Naphtali.
28 Your God has commanded your strength: strengthen, O God, that which you have wrought for us.
29 Because of your temple at Jerusalem shall kings bring presents unto you.
30 Rebuke the company of spearmen, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the people, till every one submit himself with pieces of silver: scatter you the people that delight in war.
31 Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God.
32 Sing unto God, you kingdoms of the earth; O sing praises unto the LORD; Selah:
33 To him that rides upon the heavens of heavens, which were of old; lo, he does send out his voice, and that a mighty voice.
34 Ascribe you strength unto God: his excellency is over Israel, and his strength is in the clouds.
35 O God, you are terrible out of your holy places: the God of Israel is he that gives strength and power unto his people. Blessed be God.

Isaiah 47
1 Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon [of confusion], sit on the ground: there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans [who use your words to manipulate and control My people into following your evil]: for you shall no more be called tender and delicate.
2 Take the millstones, and grind meal [qemach]: uncover your locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over [‘abar] the rivers [uncover your word of falsehood and lies, and in doing Passover from death into life].
3 Your nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, your shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and I will not meet you as a man.
4 As for our redeemer, the LORD of hosts [a man of war] is his name [identity], the Holy One of Israel.
5 Sit you silent [Shunammite], and get you into darkness [ignorance], O daughter of the Chaldeans [enchanters and sorcerers, using your words to manipulate and control the ignorant]: for you shall no more be called, The lady of kingdoms.
6 I was wroth with my people, I have polluted my inheritance, and given them into your hand: you did show them no mercy; upon the ancient have you very heavily laid your yoke.
7 And you said, I shall be a lady forever: so that you did not lay these things to your heart, neither did remember the latter end [‘achariyth – these last days of your darkness] of it.
8 Therefore hear now this, you that are given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in your heart, I am, and none else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children:
9 But these two things shall come to you in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come upon you in their perfection for the multitude of your sorceries, and for the great abundance of your enchantments.
10 For you have trusted in your wickedness: you have said, None see me. Your wisdom and your knowledge, it has perverted you; and you have said in your heart, I am, and none else beside me.
11 Therefore shall evil come upon you; you shall not know from whence it rises: and mischief shall fall upon you; you shall not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon you suddenly, which you shall not know.
12 Stand now with your enchantments, and with the multitude of your sorceries, wherein you have labored from your youth; if so be you shall be able to profit, if so be you mayest prevail.
13 You are wearied [la’ah] in the multitude of your counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, [all the falsely so-called wise men and experts of this corrupt and insane world] stand up, and save you from these things that shall come upon you.
14 Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: there shall not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before it.
15 Thus shall they be unto you with whom you have labored, even your merchants, from your youth: they shall wander [deceive] every one to his quarter; none shall save you.

Jeremiah 9
1 Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
2 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
3 And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, says the LORD.
4 Take you heed every one of his neighbor, and trust you not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will walk with slanders.
5 And they will deceive every one his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary [la’ag] themselves to commit iniquity.
6 Your habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, says the LORD.
7 Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people?
8 Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaks deceit: one speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in heart he lays his wait [to make him his prey].
9 Shall I not visit [paqad – manifest my presence as the Chief Overseer of the earth, against] them for these things? says the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

Ezekiel 24 begins with the LORD telling Ezekiel (the son of man) to name the day, even of this same day. The day is “the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth day.” The number nine speaks of final judgment, and the number ten describes ordinal perfection (completion), here spiritually denoting the judgment and completion of church and state governments (sun and moon).

Israel, reduced by idol worship, ended under Hosea in the ninth year of his reign, 2 Kings 17:6 telling us, “In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria: took Samaria [the capitol], and carried Israel away into Assyria.” This event, in our time (again spiritually), speaks of the Democrat Party, their leaders with the people at large, falling to the communists and now tyrannically ruling by evil force (they, beginning demagogues, ending tyrants, overturned the liberty of our republic {Federalist #1}).

In Ezekiel 24, the day to be named is the same day mentioned in 2 Kings 25:1 (also spoken of in Jeremiah 39:1), which begins the end of Judah (now spiritually the Republicans, the corrupt crop leading the remnant of the republic). Ezekiel describes these events after the final two verses of chapter 23 say, “48 Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness. 49 And they shall recompense your lewdness upon you, and you shall bear the sins of your idols: and you shall know that I am the LORD God.”

The following, ending with 1 Corinthians 10, is the initial portion of the post of 9 July 2021, with today’s additions in double brackets:

Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; and let Him be your fear, and let Him be your dread.

The above is the LORD describing the process of sanctification, which ends with our exalting Him, as He describes Himself above, as a man of war, the Commander and Chief (“of hosts”) of the army of heaven, which He musters, sanctifies, and commands.

This process is precisely described in Isaiah, in successive uses of the Hebrew word qadash, rendered above “sanctify,” meaning “to be (causatively, make, pronounce or observe as) clean (ceremonially or morally).”

We understand, from 2 Timothy 2:21, this is a process of purging us of the “scum” spoken of in Ezekiel 24:13, by the LORD’s good judgment, so we become “meet” for the Master’s (The LORD of Hosts’) use, prepared for every good work.

2 Timothy 2
3 You therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ [Jehovah’s Salvation in the flesh].
4 No man that wars entangles himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who has chosen him to be a soldier.
5 And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully.
6 The husbandman [he that works in the earth] that labors must be first partaker of the fruits.
7 Consider what I say; and the LORD give you [first] understanding in all things.
8 Remember that Jesus Christ of the seed of David was raised from the dead [the first- fruit, now, of the resurrection of the dead] according to my gospel:
9 Wherein I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, even unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound [nor can any man shut what the LORD has now opened].
10 Therefore I endure all things for the elect’s sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
11 It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him:
12 If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us:
13 If we believe not [He is resurrected in me], yet he abides faithful [in me]: he cannot deny himself. [I tell you the truth, I confess without fear, Jehovah’s Salvation, Jesus, is alive from the dead, Christ, in my flesh!]
14 Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the LORD that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers.
15 Study to show yourself approved unto God, a workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
16 But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.
17 And their word will eat as does a canker: of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus [those who forbid you from Joining with the LORD, in one body, one flesh, as His only son, and forbidding this they hid behind the spurious mask of caring for your soul];
18 Who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already [the resurrection comes when you are freed from the lies of the false prophets and false teachers whose words and ways have carried Humanity into death and hell]; and overthrow the faith of some.
19 Nevertheless the foundation [I Am] of God stands sure, having this seal, The LORD knows them that are his. And, let every one that names the name of Christ depart from [purge out, incise, exercise, work out of yourself] iniquity.
20 But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honor, and some to dishonor.
21 If a man therefore purge himself from these [the vessels of dishonor, in which remains the scum], he shall be a vessel unto honor, sanctified [made holy], and meet for the master’s use, and prepared unto every good work.
22 Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the LORD out of a pure heart.
23 But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strife [the way of the wicked, argument, continuously questioning with known lies and false accusation, intended to produce endless confusion].
24 And the servant of the LORD must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient,
25 In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;
26 And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil [endless questioning, using lies and false accusation, even when known to be such – with intention, leading captive silly women who are never able to come to the knowledge of the truth], who are taken captive by him at his will.

2 Timothy 3
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
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 taking you captive] turn away.
6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
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, ate] so do these also resist 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 this oppression].
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 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 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.
16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, 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].

2 Timothy 4
1 I charge you therefore before God, and the LORD Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;
2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine.
3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
5 But watch you in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of your ministry.

Ezekiel 24
9 Therefore thus says the LORD God; Woe to the bloody city! I will even make the pile for fire great.
10 Heap on wood, kindle the fire, consume the flesh, and spice it well, and let the bones be burned.
11 Then set it empty upon the coals thereof, that the brass of it may be hot, and may burn, and that the filthiness of it may be molten in it, that the scum of it may be consumed.
12 She has wearied [[la’ah]] herself with lies, and her great scum went not forth out of her: her scum shall be in the fire.
13 In your filthiness is lewdness: because I have purged you, and you were not purged, you shall not be purged from your filthiness any more, till I have caused my fury to rest [nuwach] upon you.
14 I the LORD have spoken it: it shall come to pass, and I will do it; I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will I repent; according to your ways, and according to your doings, shall they judge you, says the LORD God.
15 Also the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
16 Son of man, behold, I take away from you the desire of your eyes with a stroke: yet neither shall you mourn nor weep, neither shall your tears run down.
17 Forbear to cry, make no mourning for the dead, bind the tire of your head upon you, and put on your shoes upon your feet [prepare to go out of their, the dead’s, house], and cover not your lips [‘atah sapham], and eat not the bread of [dead] men.
18 So I spoke unto the people in the morning: and at even my wife died; and I did in the morning as I was commanded.
19 And the people said unto me, Will you not tell us what these things are to us, that you do so?
20 Then I answered them, The word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
21 Speak unto the house of Israel, Thus says the LORD God; Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the excellency of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pities; and your sons and your daughters whom you have left shall fall by the sword [this word of God to the rebels].
22 And you shall do as I have done: you shall not cover your lips [‘atah sapham – you shall not keep my word from being heard, my mouth will be uncovered], nor eat the bread of men [the misleading words of men shall not be taken into your minds].
23 And your tires shall be upon your heads, and your shoes upon your feet [you shall leave the houses of the dead]: you shall not mourn nor weep; but you shall pine away [maqaq – as in Zechariah 14:12 speaking of the plague, “Their [works of the] flesh shall consume away [maqaq] while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes [the thing they say they understand] shall consume away [maqaq] in their holes [chowr], and their tongue [their defiled words with which they deceive and mislead the world] shall consume away [maqaq] in their mouth.] for your iniquities, and mourn one toward another.
24 Thus Ezekiel is unto you a sign: according to all that he has done shall you do: 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, the joy 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 [this word of understanding], and be no more dumb: and you shall be a sign unto them; and they shall know that I am the LORD.

In demonstrating the process, the LORD, in the first of eight uses of qadash in Isaiah, begins in Isaiah 5:16, speaking of the captivity of His people, as mentioned above in 2 Timothy.

Isaiah 5
… they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands.
13 Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honorable men are famished [without the word from the mouth of God], and their multitude dried up with thirst [for the waters, the word of God, from heaven].
14 Therefore hell has enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoices, shall descend into it [hell].
15 And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled:
16 But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted [as the son of man must be lifted up, as Moses lifted the serpent in the wilderness] in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified [qadash – declared Holy, in His Holy One through who He manifests His presence] in righteousness.
17 Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.
18 Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity [of worthlessness], and sin as it were with a cart rope:
19 That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, that we may know it!
20 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness [ignorance] for light [understanding], and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
21 Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
22 Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle [mix their lies and false accusation into] strong drink:
23 Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!
24 Therefore [in this judgment] as the fire devours the stubble, and the flame consumes the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

In the above, the LORD tells of how He is exalted, when His judgment and righteousness come as consuming fire against those who’ve despised the word of the one He’s called Holy. In the following use, in Isaiah 8:13, the title verse, He calls His people to declare Him Holy (righteous, and His word pure). He describes the wicked misleaders as wizards that peep and mutter, speaking the familiar words of the known dead, seeking to ill-advise and mislead His people into deeper darkness and anguish.

These men and those who follow them are the confederacy of the ignorant, the legions of Satan arrayed against the Holy One described as the foundation stone. This stone, as seen in the previous post, is as in Joshua 24:26 & 27, which says, “26 And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God, and took a great stone, and set it up there under an oak, that was by the sanctuary of the LORD. 27 And Joshua said unto all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness unto us; for it has heard all the words of the LORD which he spoke unto us: it shall be therefore a witness unto you, lest you deny your God.”

The tree and the stone are referring us to Genesis 49, as Jacob tells his sons what shall befall them in these last days [[‘avhariyth]], and speaks of Joseph as a bough (branch) of a tree by the well, that goes over the wall. From the LORD’s blessing him, with the blessings of the deep and of heaven, the strength (understanding) of Almighty God, comes the Shepherd and Stone (all the same word, ‘eben), the king who prevails and is crowned.

Genesis 49
22 Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well [a tree of life by these waters of God]; whose branches run over the wall [the wall of lies men have created and teach]:
23 The archers [ba’al – the gods of this world whose teaching has blinded all form seeing the Father, in the son, the seed of the women who brings forth the man child – see Revelation 12:5] have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him:
24 But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the Shepherd, the Stone of Israel:)
25 Even by the God of your father, who shall help [‘azar] you; and by the Almighty, who shall bless [barak] you with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lies under [the deep meaning that lies below the surface], blessings of the breasts, and of the womb [seed, the son]:
26 The blessings of your father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors [harah – all those who have come before us, and were only blessed with part of what is perfected in our return to the LORD] unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head [see Zechariah 9:16 above] of him that was separate from his brethren.

1 Corinthians 10
1 Moreover, brethren, I would not that you should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;
2 And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;
3 And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ [Jehovah’s Salvation manifested in the flesh (Immanuel), Commanding His people with good leadership].
5 But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
6 Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
7 Neither be you idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.
8 Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
9 Neither let us tempt Christ [let us not doubt or deny Jehovah’s presence manifested in the flesh], as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.
10 Neither murmur you, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.
11 Now all these things happened unto them for examples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.
12 Wherefore let him that thinks he stands take heed lest he fall.
13 There has no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that you are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that you may be able to bear it.
14 Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry [and in doing escape those denying and doubting Christ, and misleading into darkness].
15 I speak as to wise men; judge you what I say.
16 The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?
17 For we being many are one bread, and ONE BODY: for we are all partakers of that one bread.

Jeremiah 10
1 Hear you the word which the LORD speaks unto you, O house of Israel:
2 Thus says the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen [gowy – those who don’t know me], and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven [this full understanding]; for the heathen are dismayed at them.
3 For the customs of the people are vain: for [to make idols they put in my place and call by my name] one cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.
5 They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne [carried], because they cannot go [walk]. Be not afraid of them [because they are nothing]; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.
6 Forasmuch as there is none like unto you, O LORD; you are great, and your name is great in Might.
7 Who would not fear you, O King of nations? for to you does it appertain [ya’ah – to reveal Your presence by removing the scum]: forasmuch as among all the wise men of the nations [gowy – who don’t know You, because they are corrupted and ignorant], and in all their kingdoms, there is none like unto you [with full understanding].
8 But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities [worthlessness].
9 Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder: blue and purple is their clothing: they are all the work of cunning men [makers of idols they call by My name].
10 But the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation.
11 Thus shall you say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens.
12 He has made the earth by his power, he has established the world by his wisdom, and has stretched out the heavens by his discretion.
13 When he uttereth his voice [as the seven thunders revealing what was reserved from this purpose], there is a multitude of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.
14 Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
15 They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation [pquddah – now when the LORD has come as the Chief Overseer of the earth] they shall perish.
16 The portion of Jacob is not like them: for he is the former of all things; and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: The LORD of hosts is his name.
17 Gather up your wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the fortress.
18 For thus says the LORD, Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this once, and will distress them, that they may find it so.
19 Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous; but I said, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it.
20 My tabernacle is spoiled, and all my cords are broken: my children are gone forth of me, and they are not [there are none left with understanding]: there is none to stretch forth my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.
21 For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered.
22 Behold, the noise [qowl – the voice] of the bruit [shmuw’ah – those who have heard the voice of Jehovah] is come, and a great commotion out of the north country [among the ignorant], to make the cities of Judah [the misleaders, who by the abominations they put in my, caused it to become] desolate, and a den of dragons [of those who devour with their ever open mouths].
23 O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself [they are ignorant of their own ignorance]: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps [in a good way].
24 O LORD, correct me, but with judgment; not in your anger, lest you bring me to nothing.
25 Pour out your fury upon the heathen that know you not, and upon the families that call not on your name: for they have [like dragons, with their mouths] eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation [which they filled with abominations] desolate.

Revelation [Apokalupsis – the disclosure of the LORD’s presence] 15
1 And I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvelous, seven angels having the seven last plagues; for in them is filled up the wrath of God.
2 And I saw as it were a sea of glass [God’s people at large, calmed by the LORD’s presence realized] mingled with fire [this word from His mouth]: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast [Babylon: the confusion and insanity that rules the world], and over his image [the creations of men], and over his mark [confused minds], and over the number of his name [the mask behind which they hide], stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God.
3 And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, [repeating the words they’ve been given, full understanding from heaven as the former and latter rain] saying, Great and marvelous are your works, LORD God Almighty; just and true are your ways, you King of saints.
4 Who shall not fear you, O LORD, and glorify your name [quoted above in Jeremiah 10:6 & 7]? for you only are holy: for all nations shall come and worship before you; for your judgments are made manifest.
5 And after that I looked, and, behold, the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony [this word of God] in heaven was opened:
6 And the seven angels came out of the temple, having the seven plagues, clothed in pure and white linen, and having their breasts girded with golden girdles.
7 And one of the four beasts gave unto the seven angels seven golden vials full of the wrath of God, who lives forever and ever.
8 And the temple was filled with smoke [to rid it of the vermin infesting it] from the glory of God [His presence revealed by His word], and from his power; and no man was able to enter into the temple, till the seven plagues of the seven angels were fulfilled.

Psalms 113
1 Praise you the LORD. Praise, O you servants of the LORD, praise the name of the LORD.
2 Blessed be the name of the LORD from this time forth and for evermore.
3 From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same the LORD’s name is to be praised.
4 The LORD is high above all nations, and his glory above the heavens.
5 Who is like unto the LORD our God, who dwells on high,
6 Who humbles himself to behold the things that are in heaven, and in the earth!
7 He raises up the poor out of the dust, and lifts the needy out of the dunghill;
8 That he may set him with princes, even with the princes of his people.
9 He makes the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise you the LORD.

Psalms 114
1 When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language;
2 Judah was his sanctuary, and Israel his dominion.
3 The sea [the remainder of humanity at large] saw it, and fled: Jordan [the words of wicked men, which carried all in the descent into death] was driven back.
4 The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs.
5 What ailed you, O you sea, that you fled? you Jordan, that you were driven back?
6 You mountains, that you skipped like rams; and you little hills, like lambs?
7 Tremble, you earth, at the presence [paniym] of the LORD [whose presence did these things], at the presence [paniym] of the God of Jacob;
8 Which turned the rock [the LORD alive in Me] into a standing water, the flint [His words from my mouth, which kindle the fire of His Spirit alive in man] into a fountain of [living] waters.

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