Author: wordofgod

Continuing from the previous post where we were discussing the bad advice of those who have led us, and the world, astray into decline and its now low point of total stagnation. We saw the recent events of the world’s experts, those responsible for the misleading, being openly shown to be those using intentional deception and covering the truth to keep it from being seen; all with the intention of restraining us from our inevitable rise.

Today let’s first look at this in the context of it being part of the apocalypse: uncovering truth that produces the victory over the deceivers; then a more in depth look at the pattern of those fighting against us and therein more clearly see their spiritual identity as the dead; and those ignorant of it, or unwilling to see, as the sleeping.

Colossians 2:15 tells of the LORD making an open show of His victory over the principalities and power who were assemble against us (the seeing remnant). In the verses prior we are told of our circumcision, that is performed without man’s hand. It is telling of cutting away the flesh mind so our spiritual mind is abled to see, as necessary for our perfecting. In verse 14 we read of this spoken of as blotting out the handwriting of those things that are against us, and this as if nailing them to the cross: meaning in Christ’s sacrifice our natural understanding is transformed into spiritual understanding by now seeing its meaning in/by resurrection.

The Greek word translated in Colossians 2:14 as “blotted out” is the five times used word exaleipho. Understanding the word as it is intended will change the way many things in God’s word have previously been seen, and in this demonstration will be exemplified the action it attests to. Exaleipho is from ex, meaning to take away, and aleipho, meaning to anoint. In this we see the word understood as – taken away by the anointing.

Colossians also tells us this anointing is as if handwriting nailed to the cross. This leads us by Divine curiosity to ask what handwriting was nailed to the cross; being in like manner the actions of those crucifying the LORD, unwittingly by their action and the (unintended) following result (resurrection), themselves openly showing His victory over them?

The word translated as “handwriting” is the Greek word cheirographon, only used this one time. The word usually used for writing is grapho, as it is when telling of the words written (grapho) on the cross over (epigrapho) the head of the LORD: “THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.” In this we see the natural and yet unseen truth that was to be latter revealed, as is next defined in Colossians 2:15, “And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.” The contrast alluded to is the writing of this natural hand unwittingly affirming what is latter attested to by the circumcision that would be without hand (allowing the deeper spiritual truth to be seen). The spiritually minded see it, but the flesh man sees nothing because he is only able to accept things he see with his natural mind and eyes.

The fullest meaning is seen when the writing (law) is taken away, the error (sin) is corrected, the veil is removed from covering the truth as we turn to the LORD and the spiritual meaning is seen. This King of the Jews is seen as the KING of Kings and the LORD of Lord, and is One King and LORD over all humanity.

Colossians 2
1 For I would that you knew what great conflict I have for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;
2 That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;
3 In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
4 And this I say, lest any man should beguile you with enticing words.
5 For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.
6 As you have therefore received Christ Jesus the LORD, so walk you in him:
7 Rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.
8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
9 For in him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.
10 And you are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:
11 In whom also you are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins [errors] of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:
12 Buried with him in baptism, wherein also you are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who has raised him from the dead.
13 And you, being dead in your sins [errors] and the un-circumcision of your flesh, has he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;
14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;
15 And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the Sabbath days:
17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.
18 Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
19 And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increases with the increase of God.
20 Wherefore if you be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are you subject to ordinances,
21 (Touch not; taste not; handle not;
22 Which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and doctrines of men?
23 Which things have indeed a show of wisdom in will worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body: not in any honor to the satisfying of the flesh.

As we have seen in our recent studies the name Colossians is from the Greek word kollao, mean to join to, as in sticking together, as is the theme of the above chapter. It speaks of the Head that joins the body together, after casting away all the creations of men that bind us by/to only a natural superficial understanding.

The chapter opens by also mentioning the Laodiceans, whom we know as the final fallen away church written to in Revelation 3. We know them as having become materially wealthy; in doing become complacent, thinking themselves self-sufficient grown blind to spiritual truth, and therefore unable to see the true riches. In the past we have also looked at the word kollao appearing as the “eye-salve” the LORD advises they anoint their eyes with so they are abled see.

Revelation 3
13 He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says unto the churches.
14 And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things says the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;
15 I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot: I would you wert cold or hot.
16 So then because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew you out of my mouth.
17 Because you say, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and know not that you are wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
18 I counsel you to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that you may be rich; and white raiment, that you may be clothed, and that the shame of your nakedness do not appear; and anoint your eyes with eye-salve, that you may see.
19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
20 Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
21 To him that overcomes will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.
22 He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says unto the churches.

Two of the other times the word exaleipho is used are in Revelation 7:17 and 21:4. As we saw in the previous post the way the LORD answer those chiding and murmuring against the one He has chosen to speak on His behalf asking (Exodus 17:7), “Is the Lord among us, or not,” is by His living water flowing from a Rock [and that Rock that followed them is Christ]. This is what we are told of in Revelation 7:17 where we read of the living water that feeds us, and of this being His taking away our tears by this anointing. “For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away [exaleipho] all tears from their eyes.”

The next use in Revelation 21:4 tells of this anointing, which replaces our tears with sight, also being what brings us to life in victory over death. “And God shall wipe away [exaleipho] 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.”

The quote containing this word is from Isaiah 25, where is also found the resurrection quote that appears in 1 Corinthians 15:54 telling of our victory over death.

1 Corinthians 15
45 And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
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 doth corruption inherit incorruption.
51 Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
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?
56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.
57 But thanks be to God, which gives us the victory through our LORD Jesus Christ.
58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be you steadfast, immoveable, always abounding in the work of the LORD, forasmuch as you know that your labor is not in vain in the LORD.

It is time to see things in their transcendent and metaphysical context; this mortal must put on an immortal perspective. Transcendent meaning beyond human (natural) comprehensions, and metaphysical is the understanding of those things beyond natural comprehension.

Here are the full definitions of transcendent and metaphysical from the Merriam-Webster Dictionary.

Transcendent:
1a : exceeding usual limits : surpassing b : extending or lying beyond the limits of ordinary experience c in Kantian philosophy : being beyond the limits of all possible experience and knowledge
2 : being beyond comprehension
3 : transcending the universe or material existence — compare immanent 2
4 : universally applicable or significant <the antislavery movement…recognized the transcendent importance of liberty — L. H. Tribe>

Metaphysical
1 : of or relating to metaphysics
2a : of or relating to the transcendent or to a reality beyond what is perceptible to the senses b : supernatural
3 : highly abstract or abstruse; also : theoretical
4 often capitalized : of or relating to poetry especially of the early 17th century that is highly intellectual and philosophical and marked by unconventional imagery

Isaiah 25 (both quotes mentioned appear in verse 8)
1 O LORD, you are my God; I will exalt you, I will praise your name; for you have done wonderful things; your counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.
2 For you have made of a city an heap; of a defensed city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.
3 Therefore shall the strong people glorify you, the city of the terrible nations shall fear you.
4 For you have been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.
5 You shall bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low.
6 And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.
7 And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the veil that is spread over all nations [This verse tells of the apocalypse – apocalypse meaning to remove the covering].
8 He will swallow up death in victory; and the LORD God will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD has spoken it.
9 And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.
10 For in this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest, and Moab shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down for the dunghill.
11 And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that swims spreads forth his hands to swim: and he shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their hands.
12 And the fortress of the high fort of your walls shall he bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust [this is the open show in victory over the principalities and powers].

Continuing: In the previous post we discussed the cultural rot as intentionally deadening the human capacity to be mentally aware, and of this as an intentional trap set in his way by those in power, to manipulate him into submission to their will. We saw this as the pop culture, as if a foul smell in the air, specifically aimed at inciting our young to manipulate them into complying with carrying out the agenda of these cultural icons and political elites.

Today, persisting in this discussion into the deepest metaphysical (unseen) realms and thereby seeing the Spiritual reality overruling the superficial. This is the reality of our time: man being shown the deeper Spiritual plan (God’s will) and it once again taking its superior standing and in full control of all outcomes (on longer allowing man to destroy the earth and God’s people). Men in power and those controlling the information will continue on as they have, thinking they can alter outcomes by their lying words of deception and manipulation, and as their attempt has just been proven, it will prove over and over again, to be vain: worthless and without effect. The only effect they will have is to destroy themselves, those following them their advice, and those believing their false reports.

I will begin by advising and warning all against believing anything you hear come from the news media, from the pop culture icons and elites, or from the corrupted political and church establishments. How will you know if they are corrupted? If they speak against the words you are hearing here. If you disagree with me saying this or are offended by it, take it up with my Father, because the words I am speaking are His words, and He has sent me to speak them in His name. (We are so far beyond me caring what you have to say about it or how you mischaracterize it.)

Luke 9 tells of the LORD taking the young to himself, and of casting out the foul smelling spirit that has taken control over so many of them. He then tells of the event when his people would push Him aside and go unknowingly without Him into self-led destruction. We read of the disciples seeing this rejection and asking the LORD if they should call down fire as Elijah did [on the false prophets of Baal] and destroy them. The LORD’s answer is no, and He explains that isn’t the type of spirit they are, and they are as He is sent to save humanity from totally destroying themselves [by their pushing Him aside: rejecting His words of the way of life found in the truth of God His Father].

In Luke 9:44 Luke uses the Greek word paradidomi to tell of what is there translated as the LORD being “delivered” into the hand of men. The same word is used one time before this in Luke 4:6 to tell of the power over all the kingdoms of the world being in the hand of the devil, and of him saying he would “deliver” it to the LORD if He would worship him. This is where the LORD responds by quoting Deuteronomy 6:13. The verse with its surrounding unseen context tells of worshiping the LORD our God only; and knowing in doing all of His kingdom will be given to us, and this is greater and more to be desired than all the kingdoms of the world. It also warns against forgetting the LORD our God and in pushing Him aside [paradidomi] bringing upon us self-destruction. In Deuteronomy 6:16 we are told of this as, tempting the LORD our God as was done in Massah. The offense is when God’s people chided and murmured against Moses, question his speaking for the LORD, and questioning if the LORD was truly present in this way. The tempting was answered as/by waters of life flowed form a Rock (Exodus 17:2 – 7). All this is the pattern alluded to in Luke 9.

Deuteronomy 6
4 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:
5 And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might.
6 And these words, which I command you this day, shall be in your heart:
7 And you shall teach them diligently unto your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.
8 And you shall bind them for a sign upon your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.
9 And you shall write them upon the posts of your house, and on your gates.
10 And it shall be, when the LORD your God shall have brought you into the land which he swore unto your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you great and goodly cities, which you built not,
11 And houses full of all good things, which you filled not, and wells dug, which you dug not, vineyards and olive trees, which you planted not; when you shall have eaten and be full [all these things from the work of those who came before you and were joined to the LORD and His ways];
12 Then beware lest you forget the LORD, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
13 You shall fear the LORD your God, and serve him, and shall swear by his name.
14 You shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people which are round about you;
15 (For the LORD your God is a jealous God among you) lest the anger of the LORD your God be kindled against you, and destroy you from off the face of the earth.
16 You shall not tempt the LORD your God, as you tempted him in Massah.

Exodus 17
2 Wherefore the people did chide with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why chide you with me? wherefore do you tempt the LORD?
3 And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore is this that you have brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?
4 And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, What shall I do unto this people? they be almost ready to stone me.
5 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go on before the people, and take with you of the elders of Israel; and your rod, wherewith you smote the river, take in your hand, and go.
6 Behold, I will stand before you there upon the rock in Horeb; and you shall smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.
7 And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the LORD, saying, Is the LORD among us, or not?

The word translated “delivered” in Luke 9:44 is actually written in the original text as paradidostai, and therefor more literally tells of the hand of man rejecting what had been given as a pattern (dido) by saying stand (stai – stasis) aside (para). In this word is a strong referring to Isaiah 65:5 where we are first told of those who choose to remain among the dead (see Luke 9:59 & 60) with their self-created abominations. It is speaking to God’s people who are seeking Him but unable to find Him because they are also saying, “Stand by yourself, come not near to me; for I am holier than you.”

Isaiah 65
1 I am sought of them that asked not for me; I am found of them that sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation that was not called by my name.
2 I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which walk in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts;
3 A people that provoke me to anger continually to my face; that sacrifice in gardens, and burn incense upon altars of brick;
4 Which remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments, which eat swine’s flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;
5 Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than you. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burn all the day.
6 Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, even recompense into their bosom,
7 Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, says the LORD, which have burned incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills: therefore will I measure their former work into their bosom.
8 Thus says the LORD, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one says, Destroy it not; for a blessing is in it: so will I do for my servants’ sakes, that I may not destroy them all.
9 And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains: and mine elect shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there.
10 And Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a place for the herds to lie down in, for my people that have sought me.
11 But you are they that forsake the LORD, that forget my holy mountain, that prepare a table for that troop, and that furnish the drink offering unto that number.
12 Therefore will I number you to the sword, and you shall all bow down to the slaughter: because when I called, you did not answer; when I spoke, you did not hear; but did evil before mine eyes, and did choose that wherein I delighted not.
13 Therefore thus says the LORD God, Behold, my servants shall eat, but you shall be hungry: behold, my servants shall drink, but you shall be thirsty: behold, my servants shall rejoice, but you shall be ashamed:
14 Behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but you shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation of spirit.
15 And you 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 mine 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 for ever 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.
20 There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that has not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed.
21 And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.
22 They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.
23 They shall not labor in vain, nor bring forth for trouble; for they are the seed of the blessed of the LORD, and their offspring with them.
24 And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.
25 The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent’s meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, says the LORD.

Luke 9
1 Then he called his twelve disciples together, and gave them power and authority over all devils, and to cure diseases.
2 And he sent them to preach the kingdom of God, and to heal the sick.
3 And he said unto them, Take nothing for your journey, neither staves, nor scrip, neither bread, neither money; neither have two coats apiece.
4 And whatsoever house you enter into, there abide, and thence depart.
5 And whosoever will not receive you, when you go out of that city, shake off the very dust from your feet for a testimony against them.
6 And they departed, and went through the towns, preaching the gospel, and healing every where.
7 Now Herod the tetrarch heard of all that was done by him: and he was perplexed, because that it was said of some, that John was risen from the dead;
8 And of some, that Elias had appeared; and of others, that one of the old prophets was risen again.
9 And Herod said, John have I beheaded: but who is this, of whom I hear such things? And he desired to see him.
10 And the apostles, when they were returned, told him all that they had done. And he took them, and went aside privately into a desert place belonging to the city called Bethsaida.
11 And the people, when they knew it, followed him: and he received them, and spoke unto them of the kingdom of God, and healed them that had need of healing.
12 And when the day began to wear away, then came the twelve, and said unto him, Send the multitude away, that they may go into the towns and country round about, and lodge, and get victuals: for we are here in a desert place.
13 But he said unto them, Give you them to eat. And they said, We have no more but five loaves and two fishes; except we should go and buy meat for all this people.
14 For they were about five thousand men. And he said to his disciples, Make them sit down by fifties in a company.
15 And they did so, and made them all sit down.
16 Then he took the five loaves and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed them, and brake, and gave to the disciples to set before the multitude.
17 And they did eat, and were all filled: and there was taken up of fragments that remained to them twelve baskets.
18 And it came to pass, as he was alone praying, his disciples were with him: and he asked them, saying, Whom say the people that I am?
19 They answering said, John the Baptist; but some say, Elias; and others say, that one of the old prophets is risen again.
20 He said unto them, But whom say you that I am? Peter answering said, The Christ of God.
21 And he strictly charged them, and commanded them to tell no man that thing;
22 Saying, The Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be slain, and be raised the third day.
23 And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.
24 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it.
25 For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away?
26 For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he shall come in his own glory, and in his Father’s, and of the holy angels.
27 But I tell you of a truth, there be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the kingdom of God.
28 And it came to pass about an eight days after these sayings, he took Peter and John and James, and went up into a mountain to pray.
29 And as he prayed, the fashion of his countenance was altered, and his raiment was white and glistering.
30 And, behold, there talked with him two men, which were Moses and Elias:
31 Who appeared in glory, and spoke of his decease which he should accomplish at Jerusalem.
32 But Peter and they that were with him were heavy with sleep: and when they were awake, they saw his glory, and the two men that stood with him.
33 And it came to pass, as they departed from him, Peter said unto Jesus, Master, it is good for us to be here: and let us make three tabernacles; one for you, and one for Moses, and one for Elias: not knowing what he said.
34 While he thus spoke, there came a cloud, and overshadowed them: and they feared as they entered into the cloud.
35 And there came a voice out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son: hear him.
36 And when the voice was past, Jesus was found alone. And they kept it close, and told no man in those days any of those things which they had seen.
37 And it came to pass, that on the next day, when they were come down from the hill, much people met him.
38 And, behold, a man of the company cried out, saying, Master, I beseech you, look upon my son: for he is mine only child.
39 And, lo, a spirit takes him, and he suddenly cries out; and it tears him that he foamed again, and bruising him hardly departed from him.
40 And I besought your disciples to cast him out; and they could not.
41 And Jesus answering said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you, and suffer you? Bring your son hither.
42 And as he was yet a coming, the devil threw him down, and tare him. And Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, and healed the child, and delivered him again to his father.
43 And they were all amazed at the mighty power of God. But while they wondered every one at all things which Jesus did, he said unto his disciples,
44 Let these sayings sink down into your ears: for the Son of man shall be delivered into the hands of men.
45 But they understood not this saying, and it was hid from them, that they perceived it not: and they feared to ask him of that saying.
46 Then there arose a reasoning among them, which of them should be greatest.
47 And Jesus, perceiving the thought of their heart, took a child, and set him by him,
48 And said unto them, Whosoever shall receive this child in my name receives me: and whosoever shall receive me receives him that sent me: for he that is least among you all, the same shall be great.
49 And John answered and said, Master, we saw one casting out devils in your name; and we forbad him, because he follows not with us.
50 And Jesus said unto him, Forbid him not: for he that is not against us is for us.
51 And it came to pass, when the time was come that he should be received up, he steadfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem,
52 And sent messengers before his face: and they went, and entered into a village of the Samaritans, to make ready for him.
53 And they did not receive him, because his face was as though he would go to Jerusalem.
54 And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, LORD, will you that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elias did?
55 But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, You know not what manner of spirit you are of.
56 For the Son of man is not come to destroy men’s lives, but to save them. And they went to another village.
57 And it came to pass, that, as they went in the way, a certain man said unto him, LORD, I will follow you whithersoever you go.
58 And Jesus said unto him, Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man has not where to lay his head.
59 And he said unto another, Follow me. But he said, LORD, suffer me first to go and bury my father.
60 Jesus said unto him, Let the dead bury their dead: but go you and preach the kingdom of God.
61 And another also said, LORD, I will follow you; but let me first go bid them farewell, which are at home at my house.
62 And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.

Continuing: One of the characteristics of totalitarian regimes is a stringent demand for adherence to its doctrines. They are oppressive in nature specifically toward those refusing to strictly conform to its rules in all areas both public and private. In the past this oppression manifested itself through violence or some other form of forced submission, or the threat of it through government enforcement. It is usually accompanied by public discrediting as a spectacle to discourage any and all others from daring to deviate. In our time we live in what has become a de facto modern state of totalitarianism, the rules set in the stone of media driven pop-culture demonstrations of proper faithfulness to all things politically correct. Those controlling the information, media, academia, church, and government are then lobbied and public policy codify to insure adherence and to punish deviance from these new societal principles. More recently we’ve seen used the same tactics and means to outlaw a return to past thoughts of normalcy. They by proclamation deem their new creations undeniable truths and any who dare see reality and reject them are called deniers, even worthy of imprisonment (issues such as global warming, Islamic terrorism, trans gender, and infanticide).

In order to achieve this Judeo-Christian cultural norms and reality-based discourse was necessarily defamed, then destroyed, first through ridicule and next by demonization by a fully complicit mass media. Now anyone who refuses to blindly accept and comply with the new dogma is called any of a multiplicity of names ending in “phobic,” and in a way consistent with, and reminiscent of, the former Soviet Union. These ways are as a silencing tactic wherein the offender is said to be mentally ill or deficient, either way in need of psychiatric help or reeducation.

This is the culture war we are engaged in, and our failure to vigorously engage those waging it appears more evident in the destructive effects seen in each successive generation. These, our young, may be the most difficult to awaken due to their total emersion in the cloud of corrupted reason, and submission to it as a necessity to live peacefully with pop-culture acceptance and affirmation. It is as if in the very air they breathe, as a spirit permeating every aspect of their daily lives.

One of the most important realities to be seen in the recent Wikileaks’ email dumps is found in one email from a man named Bill Ivey to John Podesta, Clinton’s campaign manager. Bill Ivey operates a company called Global Cultural Strategies, supposedly an arts advocacy think tank. In fact it is globalist minded in the sense of finding ways to degrade and destroy the superior standing of the Judeo-Christian America centric culture (elevate lesser cultures by bringing ours down to their more ancient standard).

In the email Bill Ivey tells of the method they (liberal progressives in government) rely upon to achieving blind compliance to anything they tell those now blindly and without curiosity following their every cultural dictate. It speaks of the insiders relying totally on polls, meaning they are testing messages that get them the response they desire. It goes on to admit to the intention and tactic of inducing ignorance as Ivey laments that it is working less and less by saying, “The unawareness remains strong but compliance is obviously fading rapidly.”

I am going to paste the entire email, but we must briefly examine why the compliance is rapidly faded. To understanding it we must look at the admission of another totalitarian regime when it comes to the tactic of mass deception.

Joseph Goebbels was the Minister of Propaganda for Hitler’s National Socialist (Nazi) Party. Here is what he said about deception acheived by telling the “big” lies, and how long they could be kept unknown as lies.

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”

I ask all the young people reading this post: When reading in the above paragraph my parenthetically questioning things you have come to blindly accept as truths, Did you immediately think of me as someone you would describe with a word ending in “phobic?” If you did you are one of the “unaware” and “compliant” people Bill Ivey and John Podesta were discussing. They and their ilk conspire to keep you in this state and under their control, to be used at their will as pawns to achieve their political ends.

I, and others of like mind, are those who think deeply about the ideas that have made our culture better than all others, and they are the principles of equality, mutual respect and liberty. Therefore we will not and have not forced our ideas upon anyone. And yes I know that everything you have heard and been taught say the opposite.

For those who would like to read on I am going to post passages below from God’s word describing those who have taken people captive by their lies, and also of the freedom, peace and liberty God desire for all humanity. That is what both, “the law of nature and nature’s God,” seek to achieve: a state of civility (civilization) where all are protected equally. It is a state of mutual/reciprocal respect for life, liberty and property, in which we can live in peace with our neighbors. I give you as evidence the opposite state (chaos) existing in our modern world without these principles.

2 Peter 2 speaks of the false teachers who would in our time, in all times, lead people astray. It is consistent human nature and thereby transcendently valid. President Calvin Coolidge once explained the ideas our nation was founded upon as being final and unable to be improved upon. He also said that any attempts to do so wouldn’t be progress, but rather they are reactionary and a return to more ancient ideas. He said this in a speech he gave commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. The ideas he speaks of are those we once saw in truth as self-evident and so by the evidence seen in what they produce when implemented. The “new” ideas of our time are not new at all but instead merely a repackaging of the same bad ideas that have failed throughout history; failed because they aren’t based in equality and mutual security, and therefore, as we see today, unable to produce civilization.

From President Calvin Coolidge’s speech 5 July 1926:

“About the Declaration there is a finality that is exceedingly restful. It is often asserted that the world has made a great deal of progress since 1776, that we have had new thoughts and new experiences which have given us a great advance over the people of that day, and that we may therefore very well discard their conclusions for something more modern. But that reasoning can not be applied to this great charter. If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction can not lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary fathers.

In the development of its institutions America can fairly claim that it has remained true to the principles which were declared 150 years ago. In all the essentials we have achieved an equality which was never possessed by any other people. Even in the less important matter of material possessions we have secured a wider and wider distribution of wealth. The rights of the individual are held sacred and protected by constitutional guaranties which even the Government itself is bound not to violate. If there is any one thing among us that is established beyond question, it is self-government – the right of the people to rule. If there is any failure in respect to any of these principles, it is because there is a failure on the part of individuals to observe them. We hold that the duly authorized expression of the will of the people has a divine sanction. But even in that we come back to the theory of John Wise that ‘Democracy is Christ’s government * * *.’ The ultimate sanction of law rests on the righteous authority of the Almighty.”

2 Peter 2
1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who from their own imaginations shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the LORD that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
2 And many shall follow their malicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
3 And through a deep lust for power and wealth shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingers not, and their damnation slumbers not.
4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down into the netherworld, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;
5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of equality in judgment, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
6 And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes of their chosen self-destruction condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live without God’s intended form of governing;
7 And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked [the corrupted pop culture of his day]:
8 (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)
9 The LORD knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:
10 But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.
11 Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the LORD.
12 But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;
13 And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;
14 Having eyes full of straying from God’s ways, and that cannot cease from their own errors; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:
15 Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;
16 But was rebuked for his iniquity: by a voiceless donkey speaking with man’s voice forbidding the madness of the false prophet.
17 These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.
18 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
20 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the LORD and Savior Jesus Christ [the ways of God’s perfect government and its liberty], they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
21 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of equality and justice, than, after they have known it, to turn from this holy commandment delivered unto them.
22 But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again [vomiting back and consuming again the same type of lies they just had to eat because they were proven to be deceptions]; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire [sporting themselves in agitation and strife].

The full text of the email: From Bill Ivey

From:[email protected]
To: [email protected]
Date: 2016-03-13 17:06
Subject: From Bill Ivey

Dear John:

Well, we all thought the big problem for our US democracy was Citizens United/Koch Brothers big money in politics. Silly us; turns out that money isn’t all that important if you can conflate entertainment with the electoral process. Trump masters TV, TV so-called news picks up and repeats and repeats to death this opinionated blowhard and his hairbrained ideas,
free-floating discontent attaches to a seeming strongman and we’re off and running. JFK, Jr would be delighted by all this as his “George” magazine saw celebrity politics coming. The magazine struggled as it was ahead of its time but now looks prescient. George, of course, played the development pretty lightly, basically for charm and gossip, like People, but what we are dealing with now is dead serious. How does this get handled in the general?
Secretary Clinton is not an entertainer, and not a celebrity in the Trump, Kardashian mold; what can she do to offset this? I’m certain the poll-directed insiders are sure things will default to policy as soon as the conventions are over, but I think not. And as I’ve mentioned, we’ve all been quite content to demean government, drop civics and in general conspire to produce an unaware and compliant citizenry. The unawareness remains strong but compliance is obviously fading rapidly. This problem demands
some serious, serious thinking – and not just poll driven,
demographically-inspired messaging.

Rubio’s press conference yesterday AM was good and should be repeated in its entirety, not just in nibbles. I will attend the Clinton fundraiser here next week but as I can only afford the low level of participation may just get to wave without a “hello.”

I fear we are all now trying to navigate a set of forces that cannot be
simply explained or fully understood, so it is and will reamin interesting!

Sent with a handshake,

Bill

Continuing: Today again a reminder of what we have just witnessed in the events over the previous many months. If you study along you’ve heard it spoken of many times as the LORD drawing the false prophets, both news media experts and church eschatologists, out into the open and into self-destruction. You have heard the warnings of the LORD all along the way urging them to give up their self-created inaccuracies, and at every cautioning they continued headlong guided by their unaltered errors. Their end came as in the days of the Exodus, and the vote of the people as the waters held back until God’s people had passed over. As scriptures says: our sorrow was turned into joy, the glory of God seen, and His power revealed. All the world saw it, but as we foreknew only the remnant God has chosen comprehend it, and so because all others are blinded to the unseen deeper reality that God has intervened in the affairs of man.

John 16
19 Now Jesus knew that they were desirous to ask him, and said unto them, Do you enquire among yourselves of that I said, A little while, and you shall not see me: and again, a little while, and you shall see me?
20 Truly, truly, I say unto you, That you shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and you shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy.
21 A woman when she is in travail has sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remember no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.
22 And you now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man takes from you.
23 And in that day you shall ask me nothing. Truly, truly, I say unto you, Whatsoever you shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you.
24 Hitherto have you asked nothing in my name: ask, and you shall receive, that your joy may be full.
25 These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs: but the time cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall show you plainly of the Father.
26 At that day you shall ask in my name: and I say not unto you, that I will pray the Father for you:
27 For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God.
28 I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.
29 His disciples said unto him, Lo, now speak you plainly, and speak no proverb.
30 Now are we sure that you know all things, and need not that any man should ask you: by this we believe that you came forth from God.
31 Jesus answered them, Do you now believe?
32 Behold, the hour comes, yea, is now come, that you shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me alone: and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.
33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me you might have peace. In the world you shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

This takes us to consider the days we live in, having seen the worldly overcome, and seeing those still blinded to it. They are blinded because they remain chained to the inaccuracies of the same false prophets that have just been put to an open shame by their own errors. The vast majority of God’s people are still waiting for what has already occurred because those responsible for it refused to admit to their disqualification as leaders and guides by their own pride driven incompetence. They would rather keep God’s people from their inheritance than admit their own guilt. They choose the darkness because their deeds are evil.

These men will write their books and tell of the things to come and of how they saw the things of the past, while in fact they are worshiping the same idols that initially led the people astray into darkness.

Acts 19 begins by telling of those who had only heard and been baptized into the foundational understanding and having not yet received the Holy Spirit. This is the pattern we are discussing, having a superficial knowledge but missing and unable to perceive the work of the Holy Spirit because they are bound to dead works and worldly gain. Acts 19 goes on to describe those making their living selling idols and them causing a great uproar and attacking this teaching. They did it because the truth appearing put their livelihood under threat, and they blamed the messengers of truth for causing disorder for which their falsehoods were responsible.

Here is how Hebrews 6 tells of these syndromes of missing the Holy Spirit’s work and not understanding it comes through Christ in the Sons of man. In not receiving the messenger they crucify Christ again, putting him an open shame they themselves are worthy of.

Hebrews 6
1 Therefore 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 cometh oft upon it, and brings forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receives blessing from God:
8 But that which bears thorns and briers 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 showed 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.
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 entered into that within the veil;
20 Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.

This therefore has led us, His remnant, into this time/place and the presence of God, and seeing His glory we shall boldly go forward into the inheritance and perfection He has called us to.

The moment we are in is what is described in Revelation 7. It begins with describing the elect remnant who are sealed, and we are told of the wind kept from blowing until they have been fully sealed [by the Holy Spirit and the Word of God]. The Greek word translated here twice as “wind” is anemos, from the base of aer, meaning air, as if blown, and is the life breathed from the Holy Spirit into man making him alive. In the form of anemos it is the storm the LORD tell us blows upon the house, the one on shifting sand falling and the one founded on the Rock standing. It is also the “wind” causing the ship [of church and national governments] to be broken up. (see Acts 27)

What we see following in Revelation 7 is the many freed and come out of the great tribulation, as the chaff separated from the wheat, the houses falling and standing, these corrupted institutions broken up and reconstituted upon the firmest of foundations.

Friends, it’s time to call them out, as against the Midianites at the rock of Oreb, and into what Revelation 7 says in closing.

Revelation 7
1 And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree.
2 And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea,
3 Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.
4 And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.
5 Of the tribe of Juda were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Reuben were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Gad were sealed twelve thousand.
6 Of the tribe of Aser were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Nephthalim were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Manasses were sealed twelve thousand.
7 Of the tribe of Simeon were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Levi were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Issachar were sealed twelve thousand.
8 Of the tribe of Zabulon were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Joseph were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Benjamin were sealed twelve thousand.
9 After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and tribes, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;
10 And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sit upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.
11 And all the angels stood round about the throne, and about the elders and the four beasts, and fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God,
12 Saying, Amen: Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honor, and power, and might, be unto our God for ever and ever. Amen.
13 And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they?
14 And I said unto him, Sir, you know. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
15 Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sits on the throne shall dwell among them.
16 They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat.
17 For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.

The “wind” that is held back so that the elect remnant can be sealed is the same wind we are told of in Ephesians 4:14 where we are first told of the what the gifts of the spirit are meant to produce. In Revelation 7 telling of this wind of shifting doctrine being held back, we are told of what allows the elect to be perfected into One, by the Holy Spirit, by sound doctrine of the Word of God through Christ in us.

Ephesians 4
1 I therefore, the prisoner of the LORD, beseech you that you walk worthy of the vocation wherewith you are called,
2 With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;
3 Endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
4 There is one body, and one Spirit, even as you are called in one hope of your calling;
5 One LORD, one faith, one baptism,
6 One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.
7 But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.
8 Wherefore he says, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.
9 (Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?
10 He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.)
11 And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;
12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:
13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ:
14 That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;
15 But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:
16 From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplies, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, makes increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.
17 This I say therefore, and testify in the LORD, that you henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
18 Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:
19 Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
20 But you have not so learned Christ;
21 If so be that you have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus:
22 That you put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
23 And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;
24 And that you put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
25 Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbor: for we are members one of another.
26 Be you angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:
27 Neither give place to the devil.
28 Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needs.
29 Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
30 And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby you are sealed unto the day of redemption.
31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
32 And be you kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake has forgiven you.

Revelation 7 ends with quoting from Isaiah 49:10, where we also read in verse 9 of the prisoners held in darkness. The passage tells of the many being called out of the resulting great tribulation that is spoken of in Revelation 7. The rivers of living water that flows from the throne of God are what lead them out. This is what we read of in Revelation 22 where we are told of the river of pure water that flown from the throne, to feed the tree of life, and of the leaves that shoot forth being for healing of the nations. This is what leads the prisoners out of darkness.

Revelation 22
1 And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.
2 In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
3 And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him:
4 And they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads.
5 And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the LORD God gives them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever.

Isaiah 49
1 Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, you people, from far; The LORD has called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother has he made mention of my name.
2 And he has made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand has he hid me, and made me a polished shaft; in his quiver has he hid me;
3 And said unto me, You are my servant, O Israel, in whom I will be glorified.
4 Then I said, I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for naught, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the LORD, and my work with my God.
5 And now, says the LORD that formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, Though Israel be not gathered, yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the LORD, and my God shall be my strength.
6 And he said, It is a light thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give you for a light to the Gentiles, that you may be my salvation unto the end of the earth.
7 Thus says the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers, Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of the LORD that is faithful, and the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose you.
8 Thus says the LORD, In an acceptable time have I heard you, and in a day of salvation have I helped you: and I will preserve you, and give you for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages;
9 That you may say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, Show yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall be in all high places.
10 They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them: for he that has mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them.
11 And I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall be exalted.
12 Behold, these shall come from far: and, lo, these from the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim.
13 Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into singing, O mountains: for the LORD has comforted his people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted.
14 But Zion said, The LORD has forsaken me, and my LORD has forgotten me.
15 Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget you.
16 Behold, I have graven you upon the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me.
17 Your children shall make haste; your destroyers and they that made you waste shall go forth of you.
18 Lift up your eyes round about, and behold: all these gather themselves together, and come to you. As I live, says the LORD, you shall surely clothe you with them all, as with an ornament, and bind them on you, as a bride does.
19 For your waste and your desolate places, and the land of your destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that swallowed you up shall be far away.
20 The children which you shall have, after you have lost the other, shall say again in your ears, The place is too strait for me: give place to me that I may dwell.
21 Then shall you say in your heart, Who has begotten me these, seeing I have lost my children, and am desolate, a captive, and removing to and fro? and who has brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where had they been?
22 Thus says the LORD God, Behold, I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people: and they shall bring your sons in their arms, and your daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders.
23 And kings shall be your nursing fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers: they shall bow down to you with their face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of your feet; and you shall know that I am the LORD: for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me.
24 Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive delivered?
25 But thus says the LORD, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will contend with him that contends with you, and I will save your children.
26 And I will feed them that oppress you with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I the LORD am your Savior and your Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.

Continuing: The enemy, the Godless elites and their lying beasts in the news media, the false church and the phony Constitutionalists, are now and will continue to sow deceit and discord. Their tools are, as always, deception, mischaracterization, and false accusation; their goal to sow discord and bring about murmuring and division. It MUST be remember they are not our friend and have no desire to bring about what has just been voted for; rather they feign friendship to remain involved as their way to subvert the process.

I want to bring up a few points we must all remember. First and foremost we must remember there is no truth in anything reported by the news media. We know their tactic is to take a few words of truth, gained from behind their spurious mask of “wanting to help” get the word out, then add their context to the few words turning them into a lie. Their intent again isn’t to get the truth out, it is to sow their seed of deceit and to produce discord and confusion. They are a political arm of the socialists/progressives, the destroyers of our culture and normality, and their end is mass misery under the control of globalist elites.

Secondly we must remember the first step in solving a problem is to properly identify it. This is where and why the enemies will seek to be involved, so with their same corrupted counsel they can steer the identification process to focus it on something that isn’t actually the cause of the problem. Their solution is always another failed program that brings more people into dependence on Government. It is also illogical to think the same people that have consistently created these problems through their poor identification of problem and the solutions they’ve implemented, will now either be willing to dismantle their creations, or adopt solutions that go opposite their goal of enslaving people by bad policy.

Even if these enemies of our Judeo-Christian culture and the Constitution fail at the first phases: problems are properly identified and sound solutions implemented, they will seek to remain involved and thereby able to effect and alter the recuperation. They will become the first to declare victory in a job half done, the first to now worry about the cost, and the first to champions of the need to reallocate resources. It is all part of their con: the false face that hides malicious intent.

The point to all this is to remind everyone these people are not going to suddenly stop their attacks and join us to undo all the destruction they have with intention wrought.

Understanding the constraints of the two-party system we must include the destroyers in the process of government. We must also separate ourselves from their direction and guard against their subversion. Remember, these people aren’t friends of sound policy other than as part of the con they run to achieve or maintain the failed ways of the past. This is who they are and have always been. It is all a con, and all about getting us to surrender to their will. They will deploy their hoards into the streets, and have their public temper tantrums. Their news media will report it all in the way that portrays the riotous as the just and the orderly as the provocateurs. We must remember and understand this is part of the problem, not in any way the solution.

I am reposting something written 10 July 2016, titled, “The Cultural Cultivation of Racism and Violence Offers More of the Same as Cure.” It deals with the topic of knowing the enemies’ tactics. It dovetails with the previous post, and is presented in the context of the first step in problem solving: proper identification.

The Cultural Cultivation of Racism and Violence Offers More of the Same as Cure
10 July 2016

The recent mass murders by a cultivated racist programmed to hate traditional culture and authority, as embodied in whites and the police, is Cultural Marxism’s effects working as planned. Cultural Marxism is also known as multiculturalism and has at its core the goal of destroying all traditional society and replacing it with scientific materialism, which is the idea that all matter is the same and there is no moral or ethical standard other than those men create to keep themselves in power and positions of control over the masses. Scientific Materialism is the basis of reasoning and Cultural Marxism is the means to impose it upon the world, and western Judeo-Christian (American) culture in particular.

I have many times referenced an article by Linda Kimball from February 23, 2008 titled, “The Materialist Faith of Communism, Socialism and Liberalism.” In the article she defines the origin and course of Scientific Materialism as it has sought to replace God and all cultural standards opposed to the belief that man is nothing more than a machine to be programed and used as one would any other matter or machine. In its form as political systems it is meant to allow the intellectually superior to both tend and control the masses of humanity the same as any other domesticated herd of beasts. The idea is that the herd is mollified and pacified with provisions and distractions provided by these tenders until such a time needed to be manipulated and deployed against their cultural enemies.

In the article Kimball explains this as, “Modern materialist states began by rejecting God and denying objective standards of right and wrong. They threw out sanctity of life and demonically reduced man to matter in motion. The end case, in every instance, was to place absolute power over ‘atomized masses’ into the hands of psychopaths and autocratic states to be wielded without restraint or mercy.”

Kimball wrote another article that appeared in the American Thinker the year prior, February 15, 2007 titled, “Cultural Marxism.”
This article tells of the reorganization of the Cultural Marxists into many separate but common focused special interest groups. Their tactic of manipulation, as is well known to most critical thinkers, is as the article says, “A corresponding and diabolically crafted idea is political correctness. The strong suggestion here is that in order for one not to be thought of as racist or fascist, then one must not only be nonjudgmental but must also embrace the ‘new’ moral absolutes: diversity, choice, sensitivity, sexual orientation, and tolerance. Political correctness is a Machiavellian psychological ‘command and control’ device. Its purpose is the imposition of uniformity in thought, speech, and behavior.”

The article goes on to define the main objective of the tactic is to bully people into silence. It explains the principal necessary aspect of critical thinking is criticism. Therefore, if the better ideas of liberty, freedom of thought and expression, and the right to private property were to be defeated it could only come from suppressing the ideas from being presented. This is why all institution out of necessity had to be, and now have been, infiltrated and foundationally transformed to both proliferate these opposing ideas and to suppress decent through political correctness among those “learning” the new “better” ways.

These tactics were designed to target specific traditional aspects of our culture. Kimball explains the opposing ideas and means for suppressing critical thinking as, “… premised on the notion that Christianity, capitalism, and the traditional family create a character prone to racism and fascism. Thus, anyone who upholds America’s traditional moral values and institutions is both racist and fascist. Children raised by traditional values parents, we are told to believe, will almost certainly become racists and fascists. By extension, if fascism and racism are endemic to America’s traditional culture, then everyone raised in the traditions of God, family, patriotism, gun ownership, or free markets is in need of psychological help.”

We hear the champions of multiculturalism now offering as solution to what are the effects of their ideology that we should go deeper into the abyss. The only logical reason they would suggest more of the cause as cure is if their desired outcome was an ever increasing degrade of traditional truthful standards and with it the inevitable chaos and confusion.

If there is to be an honest discussion of the cause of the breakdown of civilization and the cultural decay it must start with truthful evaluation of the ideas that have created it.

Linda Kimball ends her article about these Materialist based ideologies by quoting from Calvin Coolidge’s speech commemorating the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. In it Coolidge was defending the better ideas of our Founding against the false utopian ideas of these same domestic enemies. He speaks of our founding as based on unique thoughts that couldn’t be improved upon and any attempt to do so was movement into a less civilized and more primitive time.

What made this country the greatest in human history is that it was based on the Judeo-Christian concept of all men being equally entitled to live under the laws of nature and nature’s God, and the only JUST reason for instituting a government (and therefor what makes a government just) is to secure the people’s God given right to live in a state of mutual and reciprocal security of life, liberty and property.

What we see in our country today are the result of these contradictory principles supplanting the original. This new transformed system has its foundation upon cultivating hostility and then using this aggression as justification and means to produce ever-increasing levels of the same.

This is the idea of the swept house – the house we are being called to return to is civility, but rejecting the truth, and therefor minus the ideas needed, they call us to take in demons even greater than the one they will replace, and in doing the final state will be much worse than the first.

Luke 11:24-26
24 When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walks through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he says, I will return unto my house whence I came out.
25 And when he comes, he finds it swept and furnished.
26 Then goes he, and takes to him seven other spirits more wicked than himself; and they enter in, and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2007/02/cultural_marxism.html

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2008/02/the_materialist_faith_of_commu.html

And from a post of 16 November 2014:

15 Yea, truth fails; and he that departs from evil makes himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased Him that there was no judgment. 16 And He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore His arm brought salvation unto Him; and His righteousness, it sustained Him.

This is a quote from Isaiah 59 where in the chapter we see presented all the similitudes of yesterday’s post.

These similitudes (damah) are patterns of things to come. The end of Isaiah 59 tells of the object the LORD’s presentation of all these. It is in the form of the final covenant state:

17 For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloak.
18 According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompense to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompense.
19 So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.
20 And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, says the LORD.
21 As for me, this is my covenant with them, says the LORD; My spirit that is upon you, and my words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your seed, nor out of the mouth of your seed’s seed, says the LORD, from henceforth and for ever.

The Hebrew word damah is translated one time as “similitudes.” It is in Hosea 12:10 “I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets.” The word has the meaning of using patterns to provoke thought of how there are similarities. Think!

Strong’s #1819: damah (pronounced daw-maw’) a primitive root; to compare; by implication, to resemble, liken, consider:–compare, devise, (be) like(-n), mean, think, use similitudes.

The one time the word is translated as “think” is in Esther 4:13 where Esther is warned by Mordecai to speak up of the plot to destroy all of God’s people.

Esther 4
13 Then Mordecai commanded to answer Esther, “Think not with thyself that you shall escape in the king’s house, more than all the Jews.
14 For if you altogether holds your peace at this time, then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place; but you and your father’s house shall be destroyed: and who knows whether you are come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”

“For such a time as this,” is the pattern.

So take a few minutes and read Isaiah 59 & 60, Hosea 12, 13 & 14, and Esther 4, and THINK!

Psalms 50 (see verse 21)
1 The mighty God, even the LORD, has spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.
2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God has shined.
3 Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.
4 He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people.
5 Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.
6 And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself. Selah.
7 Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against you: I am God, even your God.
8 I will not reprove you for your sacrifices or your burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.
9 I will take no bullock out of your house, nor he goats out of your folds.
10 For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.
11 I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine.
12 If I were hungry, I would not tell you: for the world is mine, and the fullness thereof.
13 Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
14 Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay your vows unto the most High:
15 And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me.
16 But unto the wicked God says, What have you to do to declare my statutes, or that you should take my covenant in your mouth?
17 Seeing you hate instruction, and cast my words behind you.
18 When you saw a thief, then you consented with him, and have been partaker with adulterers.
19 You give your mouth to evil, and your tongue frames deceit.
20 You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mother’s son.
21 These things have you done, and I kept silence; you thought that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove you, and set them in order before your eyes.
22 Now consider this, you that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.
23 Whoso offers praise glorifies me: and to him that orders his conversation aright will I show the salvation of God.

Continuing: The black on white racial violence and all the racial hate against whites, being agitated and sponsored by those doing so for their own political motives, why doesn’t it ever stop? It doesn’t stop because it has nothing to do with any of what it’s claimed to be, and in fact is itself what it claims to be incited by and fighting against.

First we must all agree there is something not only agitating but then also organizing the protests and inciting violence.

Have you seen any of the attacks by blacks on white people, some just because they voted for Trump? Have you ever seen any of the attacks by blacks or hispanics against whites reported or even mentioned by the news media? No we haven’t nor will we. This leaves us to use our reasoning ability to discern the motivation. In the case of the attacks we know they are motivated by hate against whites, and we know because it is almost always captured by the audio on the same videos we all see.

So why doesn’t the media confront the problem of black and hispanic hate for the white race? It is because the news media itself is part of the culture war, the war to destroy the Judeo-Christian culture that prevails in this nation, and more importantly the ideas it is founded upon. You see – they know these ideas are the foundation that has elevated us to become the greatest nation in the history of the world. The objective of multiculturalism is, instead of assimilating other cultures into these better ideas and thereby elevate the individuals, instead of equipping them with these as the central tools necessary to achieve happiness in their pursuit of it, rather they seek to incorporate us is into the more primitive ideas that have destroyed all the cultures they seek refuge from.

This is the greater national battle we are engaged in. The news media only reports on and magnifies what they can use to this end. They are the frontline in what is actually a culture war. Our awakening to this, and their blindness to it, is the same thing that has just astonished all the news media and multiculturalist. The election of Trump epitomizes our awakening, and was abled by their inability to see him as a mere symbol of our refusal to surrender. Their blindness will also lead them to continue with the only tactic they know, deception and demonization of the innocent, while they exalt the criminals and true racism they’ve incited. In their same inability to see they will again be astonished by the victory over this their mass lies, and overcoming it by never surrendering to it.

My call to the deceived black and hispanic population is – wake to become part of US (E Pluribus Unum – from many one – or as the news media will then call you, E dePluribus Unum). There is no difference in our ranks, and all are equal. There is about to be the greatest elevation of the human experience in the history of the world, be part of it (don’t submit to their calls to destroy it and in doing destroy yourselves as they have). The elevation will come to all that will choose to take part in it, and as an unleashing of each of our God given potential by removing what has restrained it. I invite you to learn the truth of God’s ways of peace and mutual security (His ideas in our form of Government).

I am reposting something written on 15 July 2016, titled, “The War Against the Culture of Death, Overcoming the Fearful and Complicit.” It defines the attack of the multiculturalists, and their using the poor as their weapon against the remnant ideas that stand in their way of our national destruction.

The War Against the Culture of Death, Overcoming the Fearful and Complicit
15 July 2016

Let’s look at the “swept house” in the context our national experience. In our previous examinations we’ve seen the objective of Cultural Marxism is to degrade Judeo-Christian moral standards because they are the last obstacle in the way of its “long march” to world domination under socialism/communism. In order to understand our time we must first admit they have to great degree succeeded against the standards and the condition of the world is thereby a mix of intentional direct effects and unforeseen but inevitable consequences.

The intended effects are the disintegration of traditional western (Judeo-Christian) cultural through the demonization and slander of all things associated with it. As we now see it and must admit is the common perception amongst this new popular culture, all Christians are considered bigots, racists, homophobes, misogynists, xenophobic, and so on, and therefore insane. The mere fact that among religions only Christianity is attacked with such vigor, and none seen with this same disdain and hatred, proves its former effectiveness in combating these other more primitive ideas. Should I repeat that? Christian moral standards are the only effective means to combat those (ideas) now freely and unopposed attacking us.

The above is spoken in the context of the battleground of ideas here in our nation (and also the answer for the world). This is our priority in the fight against what are the unforeseen consequences of multiculturalism as the method (lie – deception) used the get to Marxism. Those in control of all our Institution now infested with this lie that all cultures are equal and therefor should be preserved intact and untouched by Christianity, leave us helpless and confounded when having to contradict these beliefs and combat Islam. The condition is so total that even those that say they don’t believe the lie are incapable of publicly admitting the culture itself is primitive, barbaric, contrary and incompatible with our Constitution, and therefor deserving of no equal status or protection.

In our studies we have looked into the basic common principle that is at the apex of all the converging events and times. It is the shared idea of our national foundation and true Christianity. It is the idea appearing in the statement and remedy found in the opening paragraph of our Declaration of Independence when it states why we had come to a point of separating ourselves. It gives as cause our being entitled to live under the laws of nature and nature’s God.

The further definition, of this state we are “entitled” to live in, is found in the words the Document’s second paragraph when it states as Fact: “We hold these truths to be self-evident: That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men…”

This is the same principle first found in Christianity’s two Great Commandments: ” Keep First God (His character and wisdom) above all others, and secondly, treat your neighbor with mutual respect of life, liberty and property, and insure all those who live among you live under these ideas.”

These ideas are the foundation that made this nation great. They’re what the Marxists determined necessarily must be destroyed for them to use government force to control people as means to material based equality (restricting liberty to seize and redistribute property). The idea of equal liberty is what Islam (submission) is opposing.

When we ask the question why the left and the Marxists in this country refuse to condemn Islam, even when it targets them and they admit it does, the answer is it would demand a condemnation of a culture and therefor prove the basic premise of multiculturalism invalid. (It is basic science – if the experiment (experience) contradicts the theory the theory is not true).

When we ask ourselves why conservatives refuse to take the steps to combat Islam, the answer is because the leftists and Marxists, through their news media will continue to cover up and slander the truth, and in doing demonize them for rightfully condemning a culture. The attacks again are mostly out of need to cover up evidence of multiculturalism as a failed theory, and this truth hinders the socialist/Marxist long march.

The conservative’s refusal to fight is mostly out of fear of retribution by the news media and the pop culture.

The basis of the problem is that all cultures aren’t equal. Our Judeo-Christian and Constitutional system is much better than all others. The problem isn’t in our system; it’s in our first surrendering to fear of espousing them, and the resulting silence.

The restoration begins with not listening to those opposing and slandering truth, and not letting them silence us. Those attempting to do so are cowards or complicit. All these are the demons seven times worse that rushed into the void created by multiculturalism. The war we must engage in is first and foremost here in our own nation, our own house, to chase out the vermin. It is to raise again our better ideas and to separate us from those refusing to live by them. All the other battles become winnable and minor once we’ve achieved victory here, and then with this same fiery zeal take the battle to the world – again raising the Shining City on the hill as their example.

1 Peter 4
1 Forasmuch then as Christ has suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin;
2 That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.
3 For the time past of our life it seemed acceptable to us to act in like manner as those of other nations, when our way was to want material things, lusts, drunkenness, partying, consorting, and abominable idolatries:
4 Wherein they think it strange that we run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of us:
5 Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead.
6 For for this cause was the gospel (this good news) preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.
7 But the end of all things is at hand: be you therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
8 And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.
9 Use hospitality one to another without grudging.
10 As every man has received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.
11 If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God gives: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
12 Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:
13 But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ’s sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.
14 If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God rests upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.
15 But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men’s matters.
16 Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf.
17 For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begins at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel (this good news) of God?
18 And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
19 Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.

Psalms 72
1 Give the king Your judgments, O God, and Your righteousness unto the king’s son.
2 He shall judge Your people with righteousness, and Your poor with judgment.
3 The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the little hills, by righteousness.
4 He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor.
5 They shall fear you as long as the sun and moon endure, throughout all generations.
6 He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth.
7 In his days shall the righteous flourish; and abundance of peace so long as the moon endures.
8 He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth.
9 They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him; and his enemies shall lick the dust.
10 The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents: the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.
11 Yea, all kings shall fall down before him: all nations shall serve him.
12 For he shall deliver the needy when he cries; the poor also, and him that has no helper.
13 He shall spare the poor and needy, and shall save the souls of the needy.
14 He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and precious shall their blood be in his sight.
15 And he shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of Sheba: prayer also shall be made for him continually; and daily shall he be praised.
16 There shall be an handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains; the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon: and they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.
17 His name shall endure for ever: his name shall be continued as long as the sun: and men shall be blessed in him: all nations shall call him blessed.
18 Blessed be the LORD God, the God of Israel, who only doeth wondrous things.
19 And blessed be his glorious name for ever: and let the whole earth be filled with his glory; Amen, and Amen.
20 The prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended.

Thank You LORD! Continuing: what is the secret to knowing what this world’s experts can’t find no matter how hard or long they look? The short and most precise answer is truth, and of course we will look deeper into the Word of God for His elaborating on the subject. I will begin by recommending that anyone who hasn’t reads all the previous posts does so, all having dealt with the subject in detail. For those that have read and studied along, you shouldn’t be astonished by the events of recent days, even if rightly and extremely satisfied in seeing God’s glory in His wisdom and knowledge manifested before our eyes – and the world seeing sees nothing, hearing they hear nothing.

The same astonished world will continue on neither seeing nor hearing anything. They reject the evidence, as they have consistently, and in doing are shocked when the experiment refuses to conform to their desired outcome. These even when being told of the end result before it comes, remain willingly ignorant of the truth, ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge gained by accepting the truth. They reject it because it doesn’t conform to their opinions and theories. They claim to be Spirit led or scientifically minded while their actions in response betray their true nature as they attempt to alter reality into agreement with their continuing delusions.

The above isn’t something new. It is a repeat of the same pattern over and over again throughout history. Either through pride or ignorance, they regularly choose to stay in the darkness, knowingly altering the truth they’ve witnessed, and in doing further prove the unfailing way of those unchangeably chained to their own errors. These are the truly insane, or at best the incapably ignorant, that choose their own end, even when the light is seen. They show themselves as the chaff separated from the wheat.

Hebrews 1
1 Therefore 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 cometh oft upon it, and brings forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receives blessing from God:
8 But that which bears thorns and briers 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.

Psalms 1
1 Blessed is the man that walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful.
2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that brings forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
4 The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind drives away.
5 Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
6 For the LORD knows the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.

John 3
1 There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews:
2 The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that you do, except God be with him.
3 Jesus answered and said unto him, Truly, truly, I say unto you, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
4 Nicodemus said unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother’s womb, and be born?
5 Jesus answered, Truly, truly, I say unto you, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
7 Marvel not that I said unto you, You must be born again.
8 The [wind blows] Spirit breaths life where He wills, and you hear the sound thereof, but can not tell from where He comes, and where He goes: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.
9 Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be?
10 Jesus answered and said unto him, Are you a master [teacher] of Israel, and knows not these things?
11 Truly, truly, I say unto you, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; 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, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.
14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:
15 That whosoever believeth 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 believeth 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 believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth 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, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
20 For every one that doeth evil hates the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
22 After these things came Jesus and his disciples into the land of Judaea; and there he tarried with them, and baptized.
23 And John also was baptizing in Aenon near to Salim, because there was much water there: and they came, and were baptized.
24 For John was not yet cast into prison.
25 Then there arose a question between some of John’s disciples and the Jews about purifying.
26 And they came unto John, and said unto him, Rabbi, he that was with you beyond Jordan, to whom you barest witness, behold, the same baptizes, and all men come to him.
27 John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven.
28 You yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but that I am sent before him.
29 He that has the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, which stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled.
30 He must increase, but I must decrease.
31 He that cometh from above is above all: he that is of the earth is earthly, and speaks of the earth: he that cometh from heaven is above all.
32 And what he has seen and heard, that he testifies; and no man receives his testimony.
33 He that has received his testimony has set to his seal that God is true.
34 For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God: for God gives not the Spirit by measure unto him.
35 The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand.
36 He that believeth on the Son has everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abides on him.

1 Corinthians 1
1 Paul called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother,
2 Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our LORD, both theirs and ours:
3 Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the LORD Jesus Christ.
4 I thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God which is given you by Jesus Christ;
5 That in every thing you are enriched by him, in all utterance, and in all knowledge;
6 Even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you:
7 So that you come behind in no gift; waiting for the coming of our LORD Jesus Christ:
8 Who shall also confirm you unto the end, that you may be blameless in the day of our LORD Jesus Christ.
9 God is faithful, by whom you were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our LORD.
10 Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our LORD Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that you be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
11 For it has been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them which are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.
12 Now this I say, that every one of you says, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ.
13 Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were you baptized in the name of Paul?
14 I thank God that I baptized none of you, but Crispus and Gaius;
15 Lest any should say that I had baptized in mine own name.
16 And I baptized also the household of Stephanas: besides, I know not whether I baptized any other.
17 For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect.
18 For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.
19 For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.
20 Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
21 For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
22 For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:
23 But we preach Christ crucified [suffering rejection and even death to bring the light], 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.

1 Corinthians 2
1 And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God.
2 For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
3 And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.
4 And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:
5 That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
6 Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to naught:
7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:
8 Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the LORD of glory.
9 But as it is written, Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God has prepared for them that love him.
10 But God has revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searches all things, yea, the deep things of God.
11 For what man knows the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knows no man, but the Spirit of God.
12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Ghost teaches; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
14 But the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
15 But he that is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.
16 For who has known the mind of the LORD, that he may instruct him? but we have the mind of Christ.

John 1
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2 The same was in the beginning with God.
3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
5 And the light shines in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.
7 The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe.
8 He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light.
9 That was the true Light, which lights every man that cometh into the world.
10 He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.
11 He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

This morning is a great time to point out the greatest accomplishment of this election cycle: the corrupt political institutions, the corrupted churches, the corrupted news media, corrupted crony corporate capitalist, the corrupted entertainment industry, and the corrupted financial system, have all been exposed as either ignorantly or with intent willing to uses any unethical or illegal means to keep what feeds their venality. They have been seen in true sociopathic flower: in full disregard for consequence they cannibalize their nation and civilized society to feed an insatiable lust.

If we’ve seen any one thing in this cycle it is we have seen the enemy we face. I am not talking about the majority that believes in what they are doing and lives by the rules. I am talking about the vast minority (of all political parties) who only vote for those who champion the normalization of something that traditional and natural morality defines as deviance. Their common themes are voting themselves other people’s money or control over their property, or they vote to force acceptance of sexual deviance, promiscuity, or exploitation, while eliminating personal responsibility, all covered by spurious claims of “good” intentions and promises of liberty.

We have come to a point of seeing their liberty as chaos, their good intention never come to fruition and instead becomes means to shift the responsibility for the consequences onto those they choose as their next victims. In this never ending cycle we see it is never ending because their lust is insatiable. Their end is destruction of all that is natural and normal, and their utopia is to bring upon this nation the mass misery that was once only evident in places having rejected civilization, and/or refusing the ideas of man’s duty under the laws of nature and nature’s God.

This is the greatest blessing of our time – to see and hear reality through the delusion and deception that has deadened the minds of so many for so long. No matter what the outcome today, we can never be put back to sleep.

The decision we make today will define the way we move forward. Both will be hard fought. One would be against an ever-increasing degeneration and a government increasingly hostile to us and our God given rights; the other way will be against the same enemy in retreat as they become less and less institutionally hostile, and their claimed “good intention” overtaken by a population awakened to the destructive consequences of their polices, and wise to their unethical and immoral tactics.

Either way this is the great awakening. Nothing ends today. This is the beginning.

We have many time discussed God’s word telling us of the condition before His new creation and His making all things new. We have seen it from its true intended context of the earth becoming without form, and void; the result of man’s lowest nature taking control and being elevated to the highest seats of power. In doing man puts his fellow man under great threat to life, liberty and property. When this reaches a point where God’s people, those who are in agreement with His intention (to live in a state of peace by mutual security, and accepting the responsibility to live under the laws of nature and His two great commandments) God sends this, His, light into the world. Without this the whole earth has become darkened. God’s response has always been to send His word into the world as His Spirit moving to disseminate His peace and order restoring counsel. The new creation happens when His wisdom is heard and understood, as was the truth our fore fathers saw as self-evident, and they become evidenced in the contrast found in the darkness, disorder and disease come consistently as result of straying from them.

In many previous discussion we have seen the Hebrew words from Genesis 1:2 used to tell of the earth becoming “without form, and void,” and describing the darkness that was upon the face of the deep (describing becoming out of agreement with God’s wisdom). The words are tohuw bohuw, and as we know they are only used two other times together as this phrase. In both these other instances it describes the decline away from God’s transcendent wisdom and into the depravity of man ruling by the corrupted reasoning presented in the earlier paragraphs of this post.

The words are used in Jeremiah 4:23 translated exactly as they are in Genesis 1:2. They are translated as “confusion” and “emptiness” in Isaiah 34:11. In these we see it is confusion that causes the earth to become without form, and the void created is emptiness in a ruin undistinguishable due to this self-inflicted confusion.

Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary #8414: tohuw (pronounced to’-hoo) from an unused root meaning to lie waste; a desolation (of surface), i.e. desert; figuratively, a worthless thing; adverbially, in vain:–confusion, empty place, without form, nothing, (thing of) nought, vain, vanity, waste, wilderness.

Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary #922: bohuw (pronounced bo’-hoo) from an unused root (meaning to be empty); a vacuity, i.e. (superficially) an undistinguishable ruin:–emptiness, void.

This isn’t the first time God has done this, but it is a culmination of the previous many. (See Job 33 pasted after Jeremiah 4 and Isaiah 34.)

Jeremiah 4
1 If you will return, O Israel, says the LORD, return unto me: and if you will put away your abominations out of my sight, then shall you not remove.
2 And you shall swear, The LORD lives, in truth, in judgment, and in righteousness; and the nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory.
3 For thus says the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.
4 Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart, you men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
5 Declare you in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, Blow you the trumpet in the land: cry, gather together, and say, Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the defensed cities.
6 Set up the standard toward Zion: retire, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.
7 The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make your land desolate; and your cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.
8 For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us.
9 And it shall come to pass at that day, says the LORD, that the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the princes; and the priests shall be astonished, and the prophets shall wonder.
10 Then said I, Ah, LORD God! surely you have greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, you shall have peace; whereas the sword reaches unto the soul.
11 At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A dry wind of the high places in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse,
12 Even a full wind from those places shall come unto me: now also will I give sentence against them.
13 Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots shall be as a whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us! for we are spoiled.
14 O Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your vain thoughts lodge within you?
15 For a voice declares from Dan, and publishes affliction from mount Ephraim.
16 Make you mention to the nations; behold, publish against Jerusalem, that watchers come from a far country, and give out their voice against the cities of Judah.
17 As keepers of a field, are they against her round about; because she has been rebellious against me, says the LORD.
18 Your way and your doings have procured these things unto you; this is your wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reaches unto your heart.
19 My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart makes a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.
20 Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, and my curtains in a moment.
21 How long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet?
22 For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
23 I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.
24 I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly.
25 I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled.
26 I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the LORD, and by his fierce anger.
27 For thus has the LORD said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end.
28 For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black; because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will not repent, neither will I turn back from it.
29 The whole city shall flee for the noise of the horsemen and bowmen; they shall go into thickets, and climb up upon the rocks: every city shall be forsaken, and not a man dwell therein.
30 And when you are spoiled, what will you do? Though you cloth yourself with crimson, though you deck yourself with ornaments of gold, though you rent your face with painting, in vain shall you make thyself fair; your lovers will despise you, they will seek your life.
31 For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, and the anguish as of her that brings forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewails herself, that spreads her hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers.

Isaiah 34
1 Come near, you nations, to hear; and hearken, you people: let the earth hear, and all that is therein; the world, and all things that come forth of it.
2 For the indignation of the LORD is upon all nations, and his fury upon all their armies: he has utterly destroyed them, he has delivered them to the slaughter.
3 Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up out of their carcasses, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.
4 And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falls off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree.
5 For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea [Esau as those who sold their birthright], and upon the people of my curse, to judgment.
6 The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea.
7 And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.
8 For it is the day of the LORD’s vengeance, and the year of recompenses for the controversy of Zion.
9 And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.
10 It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.
11 But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.
12 They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all her princes shall be nothing.
13 And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls.
14 The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest.
15 There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow: there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate.
16 Seek you out of the book of the LORD, and read: no one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my mouth it has commanded, and his spirit it has gathered them.
17 And he has cast the lot for them, and his hand has divided it unto them by line: they shall possess it for ever, from generation to generation shall they dwell therein.

Job 33 (This in my Job – my mission)
1 Wherefore, Job, I pray you, hear my speeches, and hearken to all my words.
2 Behold, now I have opened my mouth, my tongue has spoken in my mouth.
3 My words shall be of the uprightness of my heart: and my lips shall utter knowledge clearly.
4 The spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty has given me life.
5 If you canst answer me, set your words in order before me, stand up.
6 Behold, I am according to your wish in God’s stead: I also am formed out of the clay.
7 Behold, my terror shall not make you afraid, neither shall my hand be heavy upon you.
8 Surely you have spoken in mine hearing, and I have heard the voice of your words, saying,
9 I am clean without transgression, I am innocent; neither is there iniquity in me.
10 Behold, he finds occasions against me, he counts me for his enemy,
11 He puts my feet in the stocks, he marks all my paths.
12 Behold, in this you are not just: I will answer you, that God is greater than man.
13 Why do you strive against him? for he gives not account of any of his matters.
14 For God speaks once, yea twice, yet man perceives it not.
15 In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls upon men, in slumbering upon the bed;
16 Then he opens the ears of men, and seals their instruction,
17 That he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.
18 He keeps back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.
19 He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain:
20 So that his life abhors bread, and his soul dainty meat.
21 His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones that were not seen stick out.
22 Yea, his soul draws near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers.
23 If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to show unto man his uprightness:
24 Then he is gracious unto him, and says, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.
25 His flesh shall be fresher than a child’s: he shall return to the days of his youth:
26 He shall pray unto God, and he will be favorable unto him: and he shall see his face with joy: for he will render unto man his righteousness.
27 He looks upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;
28 He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.
29 Lo, all these things works God oftentimes with man,
30 To bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living.
31 Mark well, O Job, hearken unto me: hold your peace, and I will speak.
32 If you have anything to say, answer me: speak, for I desire to justify you.
33 If not, hearken unto me: hold your peace, and I shall teach you wisdom.

Psalms 127
1 Except the LORD build the house, they labor in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman wakes but in vain.
2 It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he gives his beloved sleep.
3 Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.
4 As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth.
5 Happy is the man that has his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.

Continuing: today a more in depth look at the underlying idea found in the Hebrew word translated “sign.” We explore this to find understand of what men in government, all leaders, are intended to be in character and duty. The Hebrew word is ‘owth; and the Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary gives its definition as: a signal (literally or figuratively), as a flag, beacon, monument, omen, prodigy, or evidence.

The deeper meaning begins with the root word ‘uwth, from where ‘owth is derived. Its meaning is, to come; by implication, to assent; and it is translated consent. In this we see that “signs” that come from God are His means of showing we are in agreement with His person or His will for the issue at hand.

The first time ‘owth is used is in Genesis 1:14 in telling of the, “…lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for ‘signs,’ and for seasons, and for days, and years: (15) And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.”

In the verse prior we are told of the firmament as what divide the waters, and it is what is called heaven. Here we are told of the lights being in the firmament to give their light upon the earth. We know the waters are the devices carrying what is known: the waters below are the counsel of godless human ignorance and arrogance, and the waters above are the counsel of God.

The word translated “lights” in verse 14 & 15 is the Hebrew word ma’owr, while all the previous translations of the first “light” is from the ‘owr. The word ‘owr means illumination, the prefix ma (Strong’s 4100) turns the word into a question, literally meaning why (?) illumination. In this we are told of these lights, the sun and the moon, being meant for signs, meant to agree with the LORD. Those who study here know the sun and the moon as symbolizing God’s intended form of church and national governments, shining and reflecting His light (rule in truth and equity) on the earth. When these are in agreement with Him it is day, when they have, as now, stopped shining and reflecting His light on the earth it is night, and all the world is in darkness as it is this day. God created these to be in agreement with Him, and we know from the sign of the darkness, they are not.

The next time the word ‘owth is used is in Genesis 4:15 telling of the same sign (darkness) being on Cain as a “mark.” The sign, “mark,” is on those who kill their brother because his deeds are more righteous than theirs (more acceptable by agreement) and this enflames them into the ways of evil (they become the foils against who the righteous shine as light in the darkness).

The next use tells of the perpetual “token” the LORD placed in the cloud, and tells us that when all seems dark, and the light can’t be seen, we will see the bow in the cloud and remember his promise. Now here is the point, a rainbow isn’t a product of the moon (national government); it’s a product of the sun (the church). This is the garment the LORD wears, as Joseph’s coat of scattered (pac, shortened from pacac) colors, its understanding only appearing momentarily as the clouds dissipate. It is the light appearing to show the many facets of the single light, and them again joined together into the One as the sky (firmament – the dividing of truth) becomes clear. Without the light of the church there is no light shined on the moon, and the earth is in complete darkness. Without a united (under His headship) church there can be no just national government.

Genesis 9
13 I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
14 And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:
15 And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.

Friends, this is something the LORD has done for His people many times, this time being the finality of it and our comprehending its meaning never to be forgotten again.

The ‘owth is the oath we read of in Hebrews where we are told of the LORD’s oath being that there would be a perpetual priest He would send, in the form of His Spirit in man as He was/is in Christ Jesus our LORD. This is the Spirit, the same exact Spirit that is Christ in me and in you, as it was/is in our LORD when He walked/walks on this earth. There is only One God and His Spirit is One and the same is in us and with us. We preach Jesus Christ (Jehovah’s Salvation in and through us as His anointed children) the same yesterday, today and forever.

Hebrews 6
1 Therefore 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 cometh oft upon it, and brings forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receives blessing from God:
8 But that which bears thorns and briers 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 showed 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 verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife.
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, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.

Hebrews 7
1 For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him;
2 To whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all; first being by interpretation King of righteousness, and after that also King of Salem, which is, King of peace;
3 Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abides a priest continually.
4 Now consider how great this man was, unto whom even the patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils.
5 And verily they that are of the sons of Levi, who receive the office of the priesthood, have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is, of their brethren, though they come out of the loins of Abraham:
6 But he whose descent is not counted from them received tithes of Abraham, and blessed him that had the promises.
7 And without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better.
8 And here men that die receive tithes; but there he receives them, of whom it is witnessed that he lives.
9 And as I may so say, Levi also, who receives tithes, paid tithes in Abraham.
10 For he was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchisedec met him.
11 If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron?
12 For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law.
13 For he of whom these things are spoken pertains to another tribe, of which no man gave attendance at the altar.
14 For it is evident that our LORD sprang out of Judah; of which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning priesthood.
15 And it is yet far more evident: for that after the similitude of Melchisedec there arises another priest,
16 Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life.
17 For he testifies, You are a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
18 For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and un-profitableness thereof.
19 For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God.
20 And inasmuch as not without an oath he was made priest:
21 (For those priests were made without an oath; but this with an oath by him that said unto him, The LORD swore and will not repent, You are a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec:)
22 By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.
23 And they truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death:
24 But this man, because he continues ever, has an unchangeable priesthood.
25 Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever lives to make intercession for them.
26 For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;
27 Who needs not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people’s: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.
28 For the law makes men high priests which have infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was since the law, makes the Son, who is consecrated for evermore.

Job 33
1 Wherefore, Job, I pray you, hear my speeches, and hearken to all my words.
2 Behold, now I have opened my mouth, my tongue has spoken in my mouth.
3 My words shall be of the uprightness of my heart: and my lips shall utter knowledge clearly.
4 The spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty has given me life.
5 If you canst answer me, set your words in order before me, stand up.
6 Behold, I am according to your wish in God’s stead: I also am formed out of the clay.
7 Behold, my terror shall not make you afraid, neither shall my hand be heavy upon you.
8 Surely you have spoken in mine hearing, and I have heard the voice of your words, saying,
9 I am clean without transgression, I am innocent; neither is there iniquity in me.
10 Behold, he finds occasions against me, he counts me for his enemy,
11 He puts my feet in the stocks, he marks all my paths.
12 Behold, in this you are not just: I will answer you, that God is greater than man.
13 Why dost you strive against him? for he gives not account of any of his matters.
14 For God speaks once, yea twice, yet man perceives it not.
15 In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls upon men, in slumbering upon the bed;
16 Then he opens the ears of men, and seals their instruction,
17 That he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.
18 He keeps back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.
19 He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain:
20 So that his life abhors bread, and his soul dainty meat.
21 His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones that were not seen stick out.
22 Yea, his soul draws near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers.
23 If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to show unto man his uprightness:
24 Then he is gracious unto him, and says, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.
25 His flesh shall be fresher than a child’s: he shall return to the days of his youth:
26 He shall pray unto God, and he will be favorable unto him: and he shall see his face with joy: for he will render unto man his righteousness.
27 He looks upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;
28 He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.
29 Lo, all these things works God oftentimes with man,
30 To bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living.
31 Mark well, O Job, hearken unto me: hold your peace, and I will speak.
32 If you have anything to say, answer me: speak, for I desire to justify you.
33 If not, hearken unto me: hold your peace, and I shall teach you wisdom.

Job 37
1 At this also my heart trembles, and is moved out of his place.
2 Hear attentively 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: he thunders with the voice of his excellency; and he will not stay them when his voice is heard.
5 God thunders marvelously with his voice; great things does he, which we cannot comprehend.
6 For he says to the snow, Be you on the earth; likewise to the small rain, and to the great rain of his strength.
7 He seals up the hand of every man; that all men may know his work.
8 Then the beasts go into dens, and remain in their places.
9 Out of the south cometh the whirlwind: and cold out of the north.
10 By the breath of God frost is given: and the breadth of the waters is straitened.
11 Also by watering he wearies the thick cloud: he scatters his bright cloud:
12 And it is turned round about by his counsels: that they may do whatsoever he commands them upon the face of the world in the earth.
13 He causes it to come, whether for correction, or for his land, or for mercy.
14 Hearken unto this, O Job: stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God.
15 Dost you know when God disposed them, and caused the light of his cloud to shine?
16 Dost you know the balancing of the clouds, the wondrous works of him which is perfect in knowledge?
17 How your garments are warm, when he quiets the earth by the south wind?
18 Have you with him spread out the sky, which is strong, and as a molten looking glass?
19 Teach us what we shall say unto him; for we cannot order our speech by reason of darkness.
20 Shall it be told him that I speak? if a man speak, surely he shall be swallowed up.
21 And now men see not the bright light which is in the clouds: but the wind passes, and cleanses them.
22 Fair weather cometh out of the north: with God is terrible majesty.
23 Touching the Almighty, 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.

Psalms 110
1 The LORD said unto my LORD, Sit you at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool.
2 The LORD shall send the rod of your strength out of Zion: rule you in the midst of your enemies.
3 Your people shall be willing in the day of your power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: you have the dew of your youth.
4 The LORD has sworn, and will not repent, You are a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.
5 The LORD at your right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath.
6 He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill the places with the dead bodies; he shall wound the heads over many countries.
7 He shall drink of the brook in the way: therefore shall he lift up the head.

Isaiah 8
16 Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.
17 And I will wait upon the LORD, that hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.
18 Behold, I and the children whom the LORD has given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, which dwells in mount Zion.
19 And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter [to this world’s experts]: should not a people seek unto their God? ([should they look] for the living [by enquiring] to the dead?)
20 To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to [in agreement with] this word, it is because there is no light in them.
21 And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead [hard pressed] and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.
22 And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.

This is the sign. The condition of the world agrees with what God says. This is why we read in the following chapter of the light shining on us. “The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them has the light shined.”

Continuing from our previous discussion of the straying from God that comes from taking the advice of those who stand between us and the truth of God, and in doing keeps us from the healing found in His tree of life. We saw the people restraining us, keeping us from rising up, doing so in the pattern Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses (2 Timothy 3:8), and this mention referring to Exodus 7:8 – 13. There we saw the opposition as a battle of reason embodied as rods turned to serpents, and we are told of these techniques as enchantments.

We know the idea of enchantments is in the use of word crafted to produce a response desired by the speaker. The word usually used in the Hebrew Scriptures and translated “enchantments” is a word meaning to whisper, as in speaking something softly in the ear to prompt a response altering the act of the moment. The word used in Exodus 7:11 is another word, lahat, from an almost identical word meaning to lick, and therefor used to imply flames as reaching out and seemingly tasting what they are about to devour. Lahat is only used two times, once here as “enchantments,” and once in Genesis 3:24 as “flaming” to describe the flaming sword of the Cherubim that guard the east gate of Eden and the Tree of Life.

In the previous post we saw these enchantments are the same heresies we are told of in 1 Corinthians 11:19, where we are told, “For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you.” The Greek word translated “heresies” is hairesis; from haireomai, meaning to take to oneself (privily); from the word airo, to lift, as in to take away. It also means to keep the mind suspended, as an anchor lifted so a ship can sail away.

The title of the previous post is, “As the Reprobates Appear, Flee Their Advice and Their Corrupt Institutions.” In the post we saw the meaning of reprobate is the opposite of approved. Therefore if one flees the heresies of the reprobates it would be to return to the place caused to be sailed away from. The place we have left is first the LORD’s sound advice and His leading, and then as consequence the unlimited peace and prosperity found under this sound reasoning. The source of the misleading advice is personified in Satan, that old serpent, and the place we’ve strayed away from in result is Eden and the Tree of Life.

Cherubim translates to the product of fatness (lack of vigilance as a product of the condition of peace and prosperity), as in Deuteronomy 32:15 But Jeshurun [God’s people in peace and prosperity] waxed fat, 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 of his salvation.

The Cherubim with these flaming swords, words of enchantment, guarding the east gate, are there only as foils to show whom it is that bears the LORD’s testament and His counsel in the highest regard (esteem no other gods above Him), in prosperity and/or in need, and thereby are approved to reenter. Withstanding and overcoming the corrupted advice and the misleading into death is our entering the kingdom of God come once again to earth.

1 Corinthians 15
51 Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
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?
56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.
57 But thanks be to God, which gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be you [always and forever] steadfast, [always and forever] immoveable, always [and forever] abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

2 Timothy 2
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 worthless babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.

Those that study here will easily understand Joel 2 and 3 in this context. You are the firstborn of the remnant it describes.

Joel 2
1 Blow you the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand;
2 A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there has not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations.
3 A fire devours before them; and behind them a flame burns: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
4 The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses; and as horsemen, so shall they run.
5 Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devours the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.
6 Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness.
7 They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall like men of war; and they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not break their ranks:
8 Neither shall one thrust another; they shall walk every one in his path: and when they fall upon the sword, they shall not be wounded.
9 They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the wall, they shall climb up upon the houses; they shall enter in at the windows like a thief.
10 The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining:
11 And the LORD shall utter his voice before his army: 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, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:
13 And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repents him of the evil.
14 Who knows if he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him; even a meat offering and a drink offering unto the LORD your God?
15 Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly:
16 Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet.
17 Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, 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 for his land, 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: and I will no more make you a reproach among the heathen:
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army, and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savor 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: for the pastures of the wilderness do spring, 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 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: and my people shall never be ashamed.
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.
28 And it shall come to pass afterward, 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.

Joel 3
1 For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.
3 And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.
4 Yea, and what have you to do with me, O Tyre [the false rock], and Zidon [the false firstborn], and all the coasts of Palestine? will you render me a recompense? and if you recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your recompense upon your own head;
5 Because you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things:
6 The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have you sold unto the Grecians, that you might remove them far from their border.
7 Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither you have sold them, and will return your recompense upon your own head:
8 And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people far off: for the LORD has spoken it.
9 Proclaim you this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up:
10 Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning-hooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.
11 Assemble yourselves, and come, all you heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause your mighty ones to come down, O LORD.
12 Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about.
13 Put you in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great.
14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.
15 The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining.
16 The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the LORD will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.
17 So shall you know that I am the LORD your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more.
18 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain shall come forth out of the house of the LORD, and shall water the valley of Shittim.
19 Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
20 But Judah shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.
21 For I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed: for the LORD dwelleth in Zion.

2 Peter 2
1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily [from their own imaginations] shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the LORD that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
2 And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingers not, and their damnation slumbers not.
4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;
5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
6 And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an example unto those that after should live ungodly;
7 And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:
8 (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)
9 The LORD knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:
10 But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.
11 Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the LORD.
12 But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;
13 And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own misleading while they feast with you;
14 Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:
15 Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;
16 But was rebuked for his iniquity: by the dumb donkey speaking with man’s voice forbidding the madness of the false prophet.
17 These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.
18 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
20 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the LORD and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
21 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
22 But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.

2 Peter 3
1 This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:
2 That you may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the LORD and Savior:
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 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 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 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 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 wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
17 You therefore, beloved, seeing you know these things before, beware lest you also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own steadfastness.
18 But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our LORD and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.