3 – 5 August 2023
This is the word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, says the LORD of hosts.
Isaiah 10
12 Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the LORD has performed [batsa’ – all things necessary to open the mouths of His people] his whole work upon mount Zion [His people now realizing their identity in Him] and on [New] Jerusalem [this new nation He has created in His own image and likeness], I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria [the communists in power, the dead now infesting every institution of the old totally corrupt nation], and the glory [their pride that is their shame] of his high looks.
13 For he [Brandon and the evil puppet masters pulling his strings] says, “By the strength [deception] of my hand [by implementing the Obama Doctrine and obeying no law] I have done it, and by my wisdom [understanding dark sentences: the Alinsky Rules for Radicals]; for I am prudent: and I have removed the bounds of [the standards of good and evil that once restrained] the people, and have robbed their treasures, and I have put down the inhabitants like a valiant man:
14 And my hand has found as a nest [unattended] the riches of the people: and as one gathers eggs that are left, [like a serpent] have I gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped [none gave the warning that the serpent was here to devour, because they were not yet born.”
15 Shall the axe boast itself against him that hews therewith [not knowing they are sent as the instrument to awaken those not yet reborn]? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that shakes it [to cut off the current crop of corrupt leaders who left the nest unattended, as a branch in which is the now empty nest is cut off and fallen to the ground, as Brandon often does]? as if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were not [dead] wood [already cut off].
16 Therefore shall the LORD, the LORD of hosts [a man of war], send among his fat ones [leaders of His people who prospered while neglecting and abandoning them] leanness; and under his glory [pride which is their shame] he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire.
17 And the light [the understanding] of Israel [God’s people who will reign with Him as He intended] shall be for a fire [burning dead wood], and his Holy One for a flame [that starts the many fires]: and it shall burn and devour his thorns [misleaders] and his briers [deceivers] in one day;
18 And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standard-bearer [directing the way of an evil army] faints.
19 And the rest of the trees of his forest [left standing] shall be few, that a child may write them.
20 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the [elect] remnant [as Gideon’s three hundred] of Israel, and such as are escaped [the corruption] of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay [put their trust] upon him [the thorns and briers] that smote them; but shall stay [put their trust] upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
21 The [elect] remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob [who come out of the trouble, the tribulation, caused by confusion], unto the mighty God.
22 For though your people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return: the consumption [killayown – as we’ve seen, this word only appeared one other time, in Deuteronomy 28:65, there telling us it is the “failing” of the eyes, not seeing, understanding, the time and season] decreed [charats] shall overflow [shataph – shall be scourged {cleansed and cured} away] with righteousness.
23 For the LORD God of hosts shall make a consumption [kalah – a full end], even determined [charats], in the midst of all the land [‘erets – the earth].
24 Therefore thus says the LORD God of hosts, O my people that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian [the communists in power]: he shall smite you with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against you, after the manner of Egypt [the oppression of tyrants].
25 For yet a very little while, and the indignation [za’am] shall cease [kalah], and my anger [‘aph] in their destruction [tabliyth].
26 And the LORD of hosts shall stir up a scourge for him according to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb: and as his rod was upon the sea [dividing the people at large, as Jacob divided his family before they ford Jabbok], so shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt [bringing them together again against the common enemy pursuing and hoping to annihilate us].
27 And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden [of deception and misleading of these enemies] shall be taken away from off your shoulder, and his yoke [joining you with them in their evil work] from off your neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing [shemem – His army prospering by speaking His word declaring His presence as the sword of the LORD and the sword of Gideon].
Judges 7
9 And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said unto him [Gideon – the warrior who is the feller of the mighty], Arise, get you down unto the host [the army of Midian]; for I have delivered it into your hand.
10 But if you fear to go down, go you with Phurah [only appearing here, meaning foliage, from pa’ar – meaning “to gleam, i.e. (causatively) embellish; figuratively, to boast; also to explain (i.e. make clear) oneself; denominative from 6288, to shake a tree,” those in whom God is glorified] your servant down to the host:
11 And you shall hear what they say; and afterward shall your hands be strengthened to go down unto the host. Then went he down with Phurah [foliage – those who’ve sprouted to life: the elect remnant, whose mouths are opened to make all things clearly seen as they boast of the LORD with us] his servant unto the outside of the armed men that were in the host [as locust coming against the foliage]. [Isaiah 44:23 Sing {repeat His words}, O you heavens; for the LORD has done it: shout, you lower parts of the earth: break forth into singing, you mountains, O forest, and every tree therein: for the LORD has redeemed Jacob, and glorified himself {pa’ar} in Israel.]
12 And the Midianites [those causing endless strife among God’s people] and the Amalekites [the enemies of God’s people, who’ve warred against them in every generation] and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like grasshoppers [as a swarm of locust] for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand by the sea side [showing this is the time and season of the end] for multitude.
13 And when Gideon was come, behold, there was a man that told a dream unto his fellow, and said, Behold, I dreamed a dream, and, lo, a cake of barley bread [this word of God] tumbled [came down from heaven] into the host of Midian, and came unto a tent [what covers them in this time of desolation wandering in the wilderness], and smote it that it fell, and overturned it, that the tent lay along [the corrupt nation as a tree fallen].
14 And his fellow answered and said, This is nothing else save the sword of Gideon [the feller of the mighty] the son of Joash [the flame of Jehovah], a man of Israel: for into his hand has God delivered Midian, and all the host.
15 And it was so, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream, and the interpretation thereof, that he worshipped, and returned into the host of Israel [the elect remnant], and said, Arise; for the LORD has delivered into your hand the host of Midian.
16 And he divided [as Jacob divided his family] the three hundred men into three companies, and he put a trumpet in every man’s hand, with empty pitchers [where there is no water as a flood], and lamps within the pitchers [My word as fire, replacing the flood, to end the old and corrupt world].
17 And he said unto them, Look on me, and do likewise: and, behold, when I come to the outside of the camp, it shall be that, as I do, so shall you do.
18 When I blow with a trumpet [lift up My voice], I and all that are with me, then blow you the trumpets [lift up the voice] also on every side of all the camp, and say, The sword [this word as fire from our mouths, against the fires of the wicked] of the LORD, and of Gideon.
19 So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came unto the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch; and they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers [showing they are worthless, no longer carrying the word of God] that were in their hands.
20 And the three companies blew the trumpets, and broke the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal: and they cried, The sword of the LORD, and of Gideon.
21 And they stood every man in his place round about the camp; and all the host ran, and cried, and fled. [Jeremiah 50: 44 Behold, he {the LORD, I Am} shall come up like a lion from {roaring as a trumpet sounding against them} the swelling of Jordan {words that carried all in the descent into death} unto the habitation of the strong {in power}: but I will make them {the wicked} suddenly run away from her {My people they have oppressed}: and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over her? for who is like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who is that shepherd that will stand before me? {All these are references to Michael, who is like God and stands for God’s people in this time of Jacob’s trouble, and Shiloh, who comes as the shepherd and stone of God’s people – the king of peace, and king of righteousness, in the order of Melchizedek.}]
22 And the three hundred blew the trumpets, and the LORD set every man’s sword against his fellow, even throughout all the host: and the host fled to Bethshittah [house of trees – powers that are causing strife, who Gideon has cut down] in Zererath [the oppressors], and to the border of Abelmeholah [the field of rejoicing], unto Tabbath [celebration].
23 And the men of Israel gathered themselves together out of Naphtali [those who were before wrestling with God and His word, now knowing it is Him], and out of Asher [now rejoicing and celebrating, knowing Him], and out of all Manasseh [now that they remember the God they had forgotten], and pursued after the Midianites [those who, through their lies intentionally cause strife].
24 And Gideon sent messengers throughout all mount Ephraim [all God’s people in these last days], saying, come down against the Midianites, and take before them the waters unto Bethbarah [the people who ford, cross over into life in the promised end] and Jordan [the rivers, words of the wicked, that carry all into death]. Then all the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, and took the waters unto Bethbarah and Jordan.
25 And they took two princes of the Midianites, Oreb [those covered in darkness, whose words are lies meant to produce ignorance] and Zeeb [the wolves who’ve come among and scattered the sheep]; and they slew Oreb upon the rock Oreb, and Zeeb they slew at the winepress of Zeeb, and pursued Midian, and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon on the other side Jordan.
As we see, the above is what Daniel is told of by Gabriel (the “warrior of God” and “man of God”), referring to the pattern of God’s plan found herein.
Daniel 9
24 Seventy weeks are determined upon your people and upon your holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end [chatham] of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up [chatham – make an end of] the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.
26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end [qets] thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end [qets] of the war desolations are determined [charats].
27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation [kalah – the full end], and that determined [charats] shall be poured upon the desolate.
As we understand, the charats, what the LORD decreed and determined is the killayown, the “failing” of vision, cleansed away, when we see what is before our eyes, understanding (who is) good and evil. It is when the LORD’s indignation ends: when we choose the good and refuse the evil, and doing (not just hearing), rise from death into life.
Deuteronomy 28
8 If you will not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you mayest fear this glorious and fearful name [the identity of], The LORD Your God [Jehovah’ elohiym – God’s presence manifested in the present tense: in His word, I Am, as in me];
59 Then the LORD will make your plagues wonderful [you, as now, will wonder why they came, not understanding, not seeing, the evil is a produce of the neglect and abandonment of those leading you in church and state], and the plagues of your seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance [degenerating into the now mass insanity that rules the world].
60 Moreover he will bring [these last four words are rendered from shuwb, meaning return – to the place from where he previously rescued us] upon you all the diseases of Egypt [oppression under tyrants], which you were afraid of; and they shall cleave [snare and be yoked] unto you.
61 Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will the LORD bring [‘alah – let rise] upon [against] you, until you be destroyed.
62 And you shall be left few in number [as we are this day], whereas you were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because you would not obey [shama’] the voice [qowl] of the LORD your God [Jehovah’ elohiym].
63 And it shall come to pass, that as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you; so the LORD will rejoice over you to destroy you [this corrupt nation, all her totally corrupt and vermin-infested institutions], and to bring you to naught; and you shall be plucked [nacach – only used three other times, here referring us to Proverbs 15:25] from off the land [here untranslated from the original text is the word matsalah, following the word ‘adamah, meaning the depths of God’s people, the family of Adam, in the belly of hell] whither you go to possess it. [Proverbs 15:23 A man has joy {manifesting the presence of God by giving His good counsel} by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season {knowing the time}, how good is it! 24 The way of life is above {comes from heaven} to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath. 25 The LORD will destroy {nacach} the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow {the new nation of those who were without a defender and protector}. 26 The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the LORD: but the words of the pure are pleasant words {pleasing to the LORD, and those speaking them will see Him}. 27 He that is greedy of gain trouble {afflicts} his own house {as the current evil administration has this nation}; but he that hates gifts {bribes, for which they have sold their souls and betrayed their nation} shall live. 28 The heart of the righteous studies to answer {opening their mouth in due season to speak the LORD’s good tidings}: but the mouth of the wicked pours out evil things.]
64 And the LORD shall scatter you among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there you shall serve other gods, which neither you nor your fathers have known, even [dead] wood and stone.
65 And among these nations shall you find no ease, neither shall the sole of your foot have rest: but the LORD shall give you there a trembling heart, and failing [killayown] of eyes, and sorrow of mind:
66 And your life shall hang in doubt before you; and you shall fear day and night, and shall have none assurance of your life:
67 In the morning [when this understanding comes] you shall say, Would God it were even [choosing to remain in ignorance and death]! and at even [when you realized your ignorance] you shall say, Would God it were morning [still not hearing His voice or seeing His presence]! for the fear of your heart wherewith you shall fear, and for the sight of your eyes which you shall see. [This last phrase refers back to verse 34, speaking of after God’s people have been oppressed and in all ways crushed {ratsats}, saying “So that you shall be mad {shaga’ – insane} for the sight of your eyes which you shall see.”]
68 And the LORD shall bring you into Egypt [into oppression under tyrants] again with ships [by the wicked infesting all the national institutions of church and state], by the way whereof I spoke unto you, You shall see it no more again [not understanding it, because you reject the good counsel of the LORD and instead choose evil]: and there you shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy [redeem] you.
Hosea 9
1 Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for you have gone a whoring from your God, you have loved a reward [‘ethnan – “a gift (as the price of harlotry or idolatry)”] upon every cornfloor [for the harvest that belongs to others].
2 The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her.
3 They shall not dwell in the LORD’s land; but Ephraim [all God’s people in this generation] shall return [have returned] to Egypt [into oppression un tyrants], and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria [the deceptions of the communists now in power].
4 They shall not offer wine offerings to the LORD [but instead to the men they worship, who give them gifts they’ve stolen from the rightful owners], neither shall they be pleasing unto him: their sacrifices shall be unto them as the bread of mourners; all that eat thereof shall be polluted: for their bread for [which they’ve sold] their soul shall not come into the house of the LORD.
5 What will you do in the solemn day, and in the day [this day] of the feast of the LORD?
6 For, lo, they are gone [away from the LORD] because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them: the pleasant places for their silver, nettles [deceivers] shall possess them: thorns [misleaders] shall be in their tabernacles.
7 The days of visitation [pquddah – now when the LORD has come as the Chief Overseer of the earth] are come, the days of recompense are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad [shaga’ – insane: not able to distinguish between their delusion and the reality before their eyes], for the multitude of your iniquity, and the great hatred [withholding this word].
8 The watchman [tsaphah – the LORD’s man with us, who does see reality and warn away from evil – I Am] of Ephraim was with my God: but the prophet is a snare of a fowler in all his ways [closing the ears and eyes of all who follow their delusions], and hatred [withholding this word] in the house of his God.
9 They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.
The above mention of Gibeah refers us to Judge 19:15 & 18, speaking of when a certain unnamed man is traveling toward the house of the LORD, and as he passes through there, none have (yet) taken him into their house.
Judges 19
15 And they turned aside thither, to go in and to lodge in Gibeah: and when he went in, he sat him down in a street of the city: for there was no man that took them into his house to lodging.
16 And, behold, there came an old man from his work out of the field at even, which was also of mount Ephraim; and he sojourned in Gibeah: but the men of the place were Benjamites.
17 And when he had lifted up his eyes, he saw a wayfaring man in the street of the city: and the old man said, Whither go you? and whence come you?
18 And he said unto him, We are passing [‘abar – Passing over from death into life] from Bethlehem-Judah toward the side of mount Ephraim; from thence am I: and I went to Bethlehem-Judah, but I am now going to the house of the LORD [which is in Shiloh]; and there is no man that [here in Gibeah] receives [‘acaph – gathered with] me to house.
This passage and the chapters before and after tell of God’s people at war among themselves, stressing that it (their disunity) is when they are without a king (after Joshua’s death), and the priesthood, of which the unnamed man a part (a Levite), is aimlessly wandering toward Shiloh. Shiloh is where the Ark of the Testament was, and where Phinehas (mouth of a serpent), the son of Eleazar (God has helped), the son of Aaron (light bringer) was the High Priest. We know this, then, was where the LORD manifested Presence at the mercy seat, which is the lid of the Ark, from where, in the conversation above it, flowed the ways of peace (law, judgment, and mercy) from the mouth of the LORD to the High Priest who entered it (the LORD’s presence).
As we know from Genesis 49:10, when Jacob is speaking to his children of what shall befall them in these last days (‘achariyth), “The scepter [to rule] shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering [yiqqahah – “obedience”] of the people be.
The word yiqqahah only appears one other time, in Proverbs 30:17, saying, “The eye that mocks at his father {who gives him wisdom and knowledge, as honey that brings strength}, and despises to obey {yippahah} his mother {who teaches him the foundation, milk with the Father’s honey, by which he choose the good and refuse the evil}, the ravens {those covered in darkness: ignorance} of the valley shall pick it {his failed eyesight} out, and the young eagles {who fly in the heaven by the strength of their good understanding and wisdom} shall eat it {his erroneous ways and ideas}.”
It (yiqqahah) is from the once used word yaqeh, meaning to obey, which is rendered as the proper name Jakeh, in Proverbs 30:1, speaking of Solomon.
Proverbs 30
1 The words of Agur [to those the LORD has gathered] the son of Jakeh [the obedient who He declares blameless], even the prophecy: the man spoke unto Ithiel [God is with me {Immanuel}], even unto Ithiel [God is with me {Immanuel}] and Ucal [and you shall eat {this feast of charity, milk and honey}],
2 Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man.
3 I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the holy.
4 Who has ascended up into heaven [into full understanding], or descended [bringing it as light upon the earth]? who has gathered the wind [the spirit in man] in his fists? who has bound the waters in a [this word of God as a covering] garment? who has established all the ends [ending the old and beginning the new] of the earth? 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 [the wisdom and knowledge] their father, and does not bless their mother [for her teaching, this nourishment, milk as the necessary foundation].
12 There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness [what they know is corrupt, and they choose to remain ignorant, and ignorant of it].
13 There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.
14 There is a generation, whose teeth [words] are as swords, and their jaw teeth [words] as knives, [who use their positions of power] to devour the poor [those without power] from off the earth, and the needy [needing understanding] from among men.
15 The horse-leach has two daughters [the leaches that attach to the mouth of the horses when they drink from their waters, to drain their blood, life, from them], crying, Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things say not, It is enough [they will keep going until they, like locust, devour everything, draining all life from the earth]:
16 The grave [sheol – the habitation of the dead]; and the barren womb [that no longer brings life on the earth]; the earth that is not filled with [life giving] water [the word of God which is life]; and the fire [of hell] that says not, It is enough.
17 The eye that mocks at his father [father’s wisdom and understanding], and despises to obey [yiqqahah] his mother [mother’s teaching the foundations], the ravens [the covering of darkness, ignorance] of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles [understanding] shall eat it [devour ignorance].
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 understanding that lifts him there]; the way of a serpent upon a rock [the venomous words of those who say they are in Christ]; the way of a ship [the corrupt church] in the midst of the sea [the people at large]; and the way of a man [of God] with a maid [those not defiled by the unfaithful church].
20 Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eats, and wipes 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 [of Satan] when he reigns; and a fool [the same servant] when he is filled with meat [devouring flesh: humanity];
23 For an odious woman [church] when she is married [joined in evil with this same servant of Satan]; and a handmaid [those undefiled who’ve come out of the corrupt church and her confusion] that is heir to her mistress [the corrupt and unfaithful church].
24 There be four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise:
25 The ants are a people not strong [without power], yet they prepare their meat in the summer [storing up what strengthens them against this time are darkness];
26 The conies are but a feeble folk [with just a little knowledge], yet make they their houses in the rocks [so should you who have more understanding join with Christ who is our Rock, making your habitation His ONE BODY];
27 The locusts [those devouring the earth] have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands [joined by one mind];
28 The spider takes hold with her hands, and is in kings’ palaces [and you should let this understanding take hold of this understanding and enter the kingdom of heaven].
29 There be three things which go well, yea, four are comely in going:
30 A lion [as is the Lion of Judah, who is David’s seed with you – I Am] which is strongest among beasts, and turns not away for any;
31 A greyhound [zarziyr – a cheetah, the fastest runner, forerunner, finishing the course before all others]; he goat also [who all the flock obediently follows]; and a king, against whom there is no rising up.
32 If you have done foolishly in lifting up yourself [against Him, the LORD in me], or if you have thought evil, lay your hand upon your mouth [stop your words of opposition against the LORD’s word and work].
33 Surely the churning of milk brings forth butter, and the wringing of the nose brings forth blood: so the forcing of wrath brings forth strife. [Through long-suffering, persistence, understanding will eventually congeal into richness, and then will they know to refuse the evil advice and choose the good.]
This takes us back to Zachariah, and Zerubbabel, who is mentioned in the king line of Judah through which came the LORD Jesus; and Joshua (Jesus), speaking of the ONE BODY of Christ as the cleansed priesthood. As we know, the name Zerubbabel means he is born in Babylon and Spiritually born again by coming out of it: confusion. Joshua, the High Priest, the son of Josedech (Jehovah’s righteousness), is the LORD’s salvation manifested in the perpetual son, the pattern of Joshua the son of Nun (in perpetuity), who was the last king God chose (before David), who was from the tribe of Joseph (Ephraim – see Numbers 13:8 & 16).
As we know, the birthright to the throne is in the tribe of Joseph. (1 Chronicles 5:1 Now the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel, (for he was the firstborn; but forasmuch as he defiled his father’s bed, his birthright was given unto the sons of Joseph the son of Israel: and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright. 2 For Judah prevailed above his brethren, and of him came the chief ruler; but the birthright was Joseph’s:)
Haggai 1
7 Thus says the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.
8 Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, says the LORD.
9 You looked for much, and, lo it came to little; and when you brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? says the LORD of hosts. Because of my house that is waste, and you run every man unto his own house.
10 Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew [this word of God that appears on the earth], and the earth is stayed from her fruit.
11 And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labor of the hands.
12 Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of the LORD their God, and the words of Haggai the prophet, as the LORD their God had sent him, and the people did fear before the LORD.
13 Then spake Haggai the LORD’s messenger in the LORD’s message unto the people, saying, I am with you, says the LORD.
14 And the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and did work in the house of the LORD of hosts, their God,
Haggai 2
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 the heavens and the earth;
22 And I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms [of the wicked], and I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the heathen; and I will overthrow the chariots, and those that ride in them; and the horses and their riders shall come down, every one by the sword of his brother.
23 In that day, says the LORD of hosts, will I take you, O Zerubbabel, my servant, the son of Shealtiel, says the LORD, and will make you as a signet [chowtham – My signature, My identity, pressed into the earth]: for I have chosen you, says the LORD of hosts.
Amos 8
11 Behold, the days come, says the LORD God, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD:
12 And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it.
Amos 9
8 Behold, the eyes of the LORD God are upon the sinful kingdom [this corrupt nation under the control of the wicked], and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; saving that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, says the LORD.
9 For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.
10 All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.
11 In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins [building a new nation upon them], and I will build it as in the days of old:
12 That they may possess the remnant of Edom [the enemies mixed among us at war with us], and of all the heathen [those who don’t know me or My presence], which are called by my name [who say they are Christians while hating their brother], says the LORD that does this.
13 Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that the plowman [plowing under the old corrupt crop] shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes [in the winepress of the LORD’s wrath] him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills [the old corrupt government] shall melt.
14 And I will bring again the captivity [self-governing] of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them.
15 And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, says the LORD your God.
Ezra 5
1 Then the prophets, Haggai the prophet, and Zechariah the son of Iddo, prophesied unto the Jews that were in Judah and Jerusalem in the name of the God of Israel, even unto them.
2 Then rose up Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua [Joshua] the son of Jozadak [Josedech], and began to build the house of God which is at Jerusalem: and with them were the prophets of God helping them.
3 At the same time came to them Tatnai, governor on this side the river, and Shetharboznai and their companions, and said thus unto them, Who has commanded you to build this house, and to make up this wall?
4 Then said we unto them after this manner, What are the names of the men that make this building?
5 But the eye of their God was upon the elders of the Jews, that they could not cause them to cease, till the matter came to Darius: and then they returned answer by letter concerning this matter.
6 The copy of the letter that Tatnai, governor on this side the river, and Shetharboznai and his companions the Apharsachites, which were on this side the river, sent unto Darius the king: [These names tell of the “gift,” who is “the star of splendor” “will divide the deceivers” work from the work of “the LORD.”]
7 They sent a letter unto him, wherein was written thus; Unto Darius the king, all peace.
8 Be it known unto the king, that we went into the province of Judea, to the house of the great God, which is built with great stones, and timber is laid in the walls, and this work goes fast on, and prospers in their hands.
9 Then asked we those elders, and said unto them thus, Who commanded you to build this house, and to make up these walls?
10 We asked their names also, to certify you, that we might write the names of the men that were the chief of them.
11 And thus they returned us answer, saying, We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and build the house that was built these many years ago, which a great king of Israel built and set up.
12 But after that our fathers had provoked the God of heaven unto wrath, he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, the Chaldean [names meaning – the lies of the false prophets that cause desolation and the confusion that now rules over the world controlled by those using deception to manipulate God’s people into destroying themselves], who destroyed this house, and carried the people away [glah] into Babylon [confusion].
13 But in the first year of Cyrus [the LORD of the furnace] the king of Babylon the same king Cyrus made a decree to build this house of God.
14 And the vessels also of gold and silver of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple that was in Jerusalem, and brought them into the temple of Babylon, those did Cyrus [the LORD of the furnace {of refining}] the king take out of the temple of Babylon [out of confusion], and they were delivered unto one, whose name was Sheshbazzar [this is Zerubbabel, a “worshiper in the fire”], whom he had made governor;
15 And said unto him, Take these vessels, go, carry them into the temple that is in Jerusalem, and let the house of God be built in his place.
16 Then came the same Sheshbazzar [Zerubbabel, while worshiping in the fire of the furnace], and laid the foundation of the house of God which is in Jerusalem: and since that time even until now has it been in building, and yet it is not finished.
17 Now therefore, if it seems good to the king, let there be search made in the king’s treasure house [the cloud where these treasure of heaven are held, unseen until revealed by the LORD to those He chooses], which is there at Babylon [here among the confusion], whether it be so, that a decree was made of Cyrus [The LORD of the furnace] the king to build this house of God at Jerusalem, and let the king send his pleasure to us concerning this matter.
Zechariah 4
6 Then he answered and spoke unto me, saying, This is the word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, says the LORD of hosts.
7 Who are you, O great mountain [this now totally corrupt nation: church and state]? 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 [on the other side of the river, NOW] 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 [the powerless and foolish things of this corrupt world]? for they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet [assessing the true condition] in the hand of Zerubbabel with those seven [the Church united with the king, in ONE BODY]; they are the eyes of the LORD, which run to and fro [increasing knowledge and understanding] through the whole earth.
Zechariah 3
1 And he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist [satan] 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 – ‘”caught up”] out of the fire?
3 Now Joshua [the dead body of Christ] was clothed with filthy garments, and stood before the angel.
4 And he answered and spoke unto those that stood before him, saying, Take away the filthy garments from him. And unto him he said, Behold, I have caused your iniquity to pass from you [‘bar – the Passover from death into life], 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 [these are the garments put on by the purified priest]. And the angel of the LORD stood by.
6 And the angel of the LORD protested [reiterated] unto Joshua [The priesthood, the ONE BODY of Christ], 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.
9 For behold the stone that I have laid before Joshua; upon one stone shall be seven eyes: behold, I will engrave the graving [write the writing] thereof, says the LORD of hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.
10 In that day [when I open your mouths], says the LORD of hosts, shall you call every man his neighbor under the vine and under the fig tree [into this BODY made ONE in my hand].
Ezekiel 37
19 Say unto them, Thus saith the LORD God; Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes 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 [the son of man’s] hand before their eyes.
21 And say unto them, Thus saith the LORD God; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen [those who don’t know Me], whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land:
22 And I will make them one [new] nation 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 [or many scattered tribes], 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.
1 Peter 2
1 Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speaking,
2 As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that you may grow thereby:
3 If so be you have tasted that the LORD is gracious.
4 To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious,
5 You also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
6 Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Zion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believes on him shall not be confounded.
7 Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner,
8 And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.
9 But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood [sent to minister His word to the heirs of His salvation], a [new] holy nation, a peculiar people; that you should show forth the praises of him who has called you out of darkness [ignorance] into his marvelous [eye opening] light [understanding, by which we see Him];
10 Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
11 Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims [who looked for a city, this new holy nation, heavenly New Jerusalem, where you have now arrived: new heaven and earth, wherein dwells righteousness], abstain from fleshly lusts [spotting your garments], which war against the soul [you rising again into immortality];
12 Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles [who don’t know the LORD now manifested among us, in us]: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers [call your good evil], they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation [episkope – when He is here, manifested as the Chief Overseer of the earth].
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.
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 favour 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 covers 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 and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
23 I am gone like the shadow when it declines: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
24 My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh fails of fatness.
25 I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shook their heads.
26 Help me, O LORD my God: O save me according to your mercy:
27 That they may know that this is your hand; that you, LORD, have done it.
28 Let them curse, but bless you: when they arise, let them be ashamed; 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; yea, I will praise him among the multitude.
31 For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul.
