Author: wordofgod

We have many times discussed the fires that burn in the world to end the age, and these fires what melt way the “elements.” We’ve seen “elements” are the principles (stoicheion) the world relies upon in all it ways. We know the fires are kindled by these principles themselves being employed and inevitably failing. In this we see the self-inflicted torment the world brings upon itself in ever increasing degrees as those in control refuse to alter course. We have seen the failed principles as self-centric and self-consuming, perpetrated and perpetuated on the world by elites, by academia, by experts, and projected to the body politic by mass media.

Today let’s take a deeper look at the fires and their cause. To being I will tell you the conclusion: the fires are kindled by the opinions of these same people mentioned above and projected in the same ways to the masses. Their opinions are presented as fact, while the actual fact is they mold their opinions for the moment as needed to move the masses. Their purpose began with demoralization, and having removed all standards of right and wrong, true and false, replacing them with opinions to be argued also destroyed rational thought. They replace thinking with feeling, which are nothing more than opinions, and reduced all human discourse to endless argument.

The human mind is meant to be a combination of thinking and feeling/opinion. Opinion is the lower form of mental activity where theories are formed. The higher activity is thinking which formulates and orders the theory into forms where it can be proven or disproven. This is called rational thought. The data we see either abstractly by mental modeling, or by external experiment/experience, is then rationally and systematically examined. The opinion is proven true if the evidence of the experience matches it, if not the theory acknowledged as untrue. This is how arguments start as opinions and end by means of rational thought and facts.

The world we live in is ruled by feelings/opinions and in doing has become void, confused, without form and without value. The experts become trapped in the echo chamber of their theoretical world, never experiencing, therefore void of any evidence and self-shielded from truth. The result is blindness and endless argument as eternal self-inflicted torment burning unquenchable. Holy fire is one that purifies and comes to a conclusion by removing the dross (impurities as untruth). The world’s fires burn only to destroy.

This God given intellect created in all men is what the world seeks to deaden and keep dead in the endless argument of feeling against feeling. What they deaden is man’s ability know (discern) between opinion and fact/truth. They ridicule, defame and slander truth, truth tellers, and findings of fact. While doing this they hide and alter their reporting of the consequences of policy and actions based on the world’s failed principles, these failed opinion based elements and the fires they kindle. They do it to mask the fruit proving the tree undeniably corrupt – and the world burns.

Proverbs 30 tells of the horse-leech having two daughters crying, “Give, give.” It goes on with examples of things never satisfied, nor ended by saying “enough.” The passage is speaking of two wanting and never being satisfied as a never ending fire. The horse-leech is named so because it would attach itself to the mouth and tongue of horses as they drank from the waters. The meaning is both of sucking the life (blood) from the one to whom it has attached, and by associating it with the tongue and mouth telling of corrupted words produced through these and their effect.

Proverbs 30
12 There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.
13 There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.
14 There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.
15 The horse-leech Has two daughters, crying, Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things say not, It is enough:
16 The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not filled with water; and the fire that says not, It is enough.

Proverbs 26 tells of these fires as intentional strife and contention. Verse 19 speaks of deception that is said to be just a game that is played. The following two verses tell of these fires of “strife” being kindled by slanderers and the contentious. The Hebrew word translated as “strife” is madown, meaning a quarrel. This is the pattern we see in our time, taught by the experts and the elites, projected by the mass media, and deadening the minds of the culture. These are the rivers of water flowing from corrupt sources sucking the life from humanity. I say, ENOUGH!

Proverbs 26
7 He that passes by, and meddles with strife belonging not to him, is like one that takes a dog by the ears.
18 As a mad man who casts firebrands, arrows, and death,
19 So is the man that deceives his neighbor, and says, Am not I in sport? [says it was just a game he was playing]
20 Where no wood is, there the fire goes out: so where there is no talebearer [slanderer], the strife ceases.
21 As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife.
22 The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.
23 Burning lips and a wicked heart [principles] are like a potsherd covered with silver dross [as a piece of broken pot covered in the what has been refined out of the valuable – both worthless and unable to hold anything].
24 He that hates dissembles [creates deception] with his lips, and lays up deceit within him;
25 When he speaks fair, believe him not: for there are seven abominations in his heart [as his reason].
26 Whose hatred is covered by deceit, his wickedness shall be showed before the whole congregation.
27 Whoso digs a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolls a stone, it will return upon him.
28 A lying tongue hates those that are afflicted by it; and a flattering mouth works ruin.

Here again we must look at James 3 and it telling of the tongue being what causes the fire of gehenna. Ge-henna is Hinnom the valley outside the city of Jerusalem where trash was dumped and burned. There the fires burned continually.

James 3
1 My brethren, be not many masters [teacher/expert to the masses], knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.
2 For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.
3 Behold, we put bits in the horses’ mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body.
4 Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor wills.
5 Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasts great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindles!
6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of gehenna.
7 For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and Has been tamed of mankind:
8 But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
9 Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.
10 Out of the same mouth proceeds blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.
11 Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?
12 Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.
13 Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him show out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.
14 But if you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
15 This wisdom descends not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.
16 For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
18 And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.

Let us continue with further understanding God’s creating us in His image and likeness. As we saw yesterday it is accomplished when we understand and accept it by calling out to God as our Father, and this leading us to entry into His kingdom in which resides righteousness. The idea of calling God Father is we accept Him as our guide into righteousness as we accept His correction. We understand His correction comes as our faithful Creator imparting His knowledge and wisdom with the intention of producing in us a perspective and inclination toward doing justice.

Man teaches justice is in what you do to someone for wrongs either done by them or against them. True justice is found in what you don’t do (because it implies it be measured against an objective standard and rights).

The end God seeks in us is to have a heart and mind in accord with His. As we have seen in many past studies the heart is the foundation of our reasoning, upon which all our decisions are based. We have often spoken of the mind of Christ, which is the mind of God formed in a human being. We have seen this many times as the objective of our understand God’s knowledge and wisdom – His mind being formed in us. We have seen it in God’s word also defined as well-formed conscience, and the Greek word translated as conscience meaning a co-perspective (with God).

The mind of Christ is our being aligned with God, meaning having received His understanding and wisdom (character) we act in accord with His will. The understanding and wisdom are the heart, and the mind is when our will is subordinated to God’s will.

The Greek word translated “mind” is nous, meaning intellect. It is the same word translated as understanding. Nous is from the base of the word ginosko, meaning to know, and in context it means to be aware, as in to perceive.

This brings us to the point some have already seen, which is all the above described in Romans 8. We read in verse 15 of the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. In the verse prior we are told of our becoming the sons of God by being led by the Spirit of God. In verse 16 we read that in crying out is the Spirit itself bearing witness with our spirit that we are the children of God.

Romans 8
14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
15 For you have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but you have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, “Abba, Father.”
16 The Spirit itself bears witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.

As we saw yesterday this is what Jeremiah 3:19 speaks of when it tells of how the LORD will make us His children and place us in His pleasant land, when we call out to Him saying, “My Father,” and not turn away from following Him. “…How shall I put you among the children, and give you a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? and I said, ‘You shall call Me, My Father; and shall not turn away from Me.'”

This passage in Jeremiah add to our understanding of being led by the Spirit as it is written in Romans 8:14 when it says, “For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.” Romans 8:15 then goes on to tell of our crying out with, what is translated as, “Abba, Father.”

The word “Abba” is used three times and always transliterated rather than translated. The original text reads, Abba, o Pater. Abba is said to be from the Hebrew (Chaldean) word ab, meaning father. It appears better translated in context as from the Hebrews word abah, meaning to breathe -after, as in to be acquiescent. It is translated as consent (would), rest content, will, and be willing. It is telling of being in agreement with, and therefore going along with God, as in being “led by the Spirit,” or “not turn(ing) away from” following God. The phrase translated “Abba, Father,” could be more correctly translated as “I am in agreement with My Father,” as in, I and my Father are of one mind.

One of the other appearances of “Abba, Father” is in Mark 14:36 where it is used by the LORD telling of His understanding this agreement and demonstrating the acquiescence by saying “not my will, but Your will be done.” We see following this the reason the cup couldn’t and wouldn’t pass from the LORD’s hand. All those that should have been awake had fallen asleep. The final of three times this happens we see the LORD, instead of as the first two times awakening them, telling them to sleep on. This is telling of His knowing the cup was only meant for Him and only He could fulfill it. This sleep, in the now long night without light, is alluded to prior as the three times Peter would deny Him before the day would dawn. The darkness is mentioned in type when telling of the temptation that would come if they weren’t watchful. This is the same temptation we saw yesterday as the devil came to the LORD advising Him to abuse His authority and to act upon misrepresentations (ignorance) of the Word of God.

Mark 14
30 And Jesus said unto him, Truly I say unto you, That this day, even in this night, before the cock crow twice, you shall deny me thrice.
31 But he spoke the more vehemently, If I should die with you, I will not deny you in any wise. Likewise also said they all.
32 And they came to a place which was named Gethsemane: and he said to his disciples, Sit you here, while I shall pray.
33 And he took with him Peter and James and John, and began to be sore amazed, and to be very heavy;
34 And said unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful unto death: tarry you here, and watch.
35 And he went forward a little, and fell on the ground, and prayed that, if it were possible, the hour might pass from him.
36 And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible unto you; take away this cup from me: nevertheless not what I will, but what you will.
37 And he came, and found them sleeping, and said unto Peter, Simon, sleep you? could not you watch one hour?
38 Watch you and pray, lest you enter into temptation. The spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is weak.
39 And again he went away, and prayed, and spoke the same words.
40 And when he returned, he found them asleep again, (for their eyes were heavy,) neither knew they what to answer him.
41 And he came the third time, and said unto them, Sleep on now, and take your rest: it is enough, the hour is come; behold, the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners (those asleep in error).
42 Rise up, let us go; lo, he that betrays me is at hand.

The only other use of “Abba, Father” is in Galatians 4:6 in telling of the LORD coming to redeem those in bondage under the elements of the world, so that we might receive the adoptions as the sons of God. The word “elements” here is the same word stoicheion translated “elements” in 2 Peter 3 telling of them melting away in the world purifying fires at the end of the age. We know these as the principles the world has as its foundation and upon which it relies on for the basis of all its reasoning. Here in Galatians 4 it is Paul telling of our being freed from these as we receive the adoption as sons of God, and asking why if we are freed do we want to return to these same ways of the world.

Paul then mentions how these Galatians where able to overcome the contradiction the earthly mind saw in him being a flesh man, and in overcoming this accepting him as an angel of God and as Christ Jesus. The meaning he is imparting is that he was giving God’s word as it had been given to him directly, just as it had been with Christ Jesus, and thereby being one with Christ Jesus. Paul uses this to lead up to his telling them this is God’s and his objective with them, that Christ would be formed in them.

The words Paul uses in Galatians 4:19 are “My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you…” This brings to mind (of Christ) the words of Isaiah 8:18 when it says, “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.”

We know that Isaiah 8 is telling of falling (turning) away from the LORD and of the means for returning being through accepting correction. We looked at the chapter in yesterday’s post, and as it is also written in Deuteronomy 8:5 in the context of man living by through/by the Word of God (manna as angel’s food). “3 And he humbled you, and suffered you to hunger, and fed you with manna, which you knew not, neither did your fathers know; that he might make you know that man does not live by bread only, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of the LORD [in the same form as it came from the source] does man live. 4 Your raiment waxed not old upon you, neither did your foot swell, these forty years. 5 You shall also consider in your heart, that, as a man chastens [corrects] his son, so the LORD your God chastens [corrects] you. 6 Therefore you shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.”

Galatians 4
1 Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differs nothing from a servant, though he be LORD of all;
2 But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father.
3 Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:
4 But when the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
5 To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
6 And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
7 Wherefore you are no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
8 Howbeit then, when you knew not God, you did service unto them which by nature are no gods.
9 But now, after that you have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn you again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto you desire again to be in bondage?
10 You observe days, and months, and times, and years.
11 I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labor in vain.
12 Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as you are: you have not injured me at all.
13 You know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.
14 And my temptation which was in my flesh you despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.
15 Where is then the blessedness you spoke of? for I bear you record, that, if it had been possible, you would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me.
16 Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?
17 They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that you might affect them.
18 But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.
19 My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,
20 I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you.
21 Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, do you not hear the law?
22 For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.
23 But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.
24 Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which produces to bondage, which is Agar.
25 For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answers to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.
26 But [New] Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
27 For it is written, Rejoice, you barren that bears not; break forth and cry, you that travails not: for the desolate has many more children than she which has an husband.
28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.
29 But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.
30 Nevertheless what says the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.
31 So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.

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.

Proverbs 7
1 My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with you.
2 Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of your eye.
3 Bind them upon your fingers, write them upon the table of your heart.
4 Say unto wisdom, You are my sister; and call understanding your kinswoman:
5 That they may keep you from the strange woman, from the stranger which flatters with her words.
6 For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,
7 And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,
8 Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,
9 In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:
10 And, behold, there met him a woman [the tempter] with the attire of an harlot, and subtle of heart.
11 (She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:
12 Now is she without, now in the streets, and lies in wait at every corner.)
13 So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him,
14 I have peace offerings with me; this day have I paid my vows.
15 Therefore came I forth to meet you, diligently to seek your face, and I have found you.
16 I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.
17 I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
18 Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.
19 For the good-man is not at home, he is gone a long journey:
20 He has taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed.
21 With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.
22 He goes after her straightway, as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;
23 Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hastes to the snare, and knows not that it is for his life.
24 Hearken unto me now therefore, O you children, and attend to the words of my mouth.
25 Let not our heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.
26 For she has cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.
27 Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.

Today continuing with a deeper look at the Genesis 6 & 7 description of the days of Noah and what it tells us about today. 2 Peter 3 speaks of these days as the example of the ending the old earth age and beginning the next by very plainly telling us it happens by means of the Word of God. As we saw yesterday the LORD tell us His word would not pass away, as He describes the day the age ends as being when the old heaven and earth pass away. In the same Matthew 24 description we hear the LORD tell of a generation that wouldn’t pass until all things were fulfilled.

Genesis 7 begins with telling of the House of Noah being saved by entering into the ark because the LORD saw them as righteous. “1 And the LORD said unto Noah, Come you and all your house into the ark; for you have I seen righteous before me in this generation.”

2 Peter 3:13 tells us the LORD has promised us that when the old corrupted heaven and earth are replaced by the age changing it is through/to righteousness as the characteristic of the new. “13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwells righteousness.”

We know from Genesis 6 the age had become totally corrupted wherein all humanity’s thoughts were upon evil. The cause we are told was the sons of God (the angels), those sent to deliver God message, had intermixed with the ways of the world, and from this corruption of the message men rose in the earth to great power (giants). We know Noah and his house where the only people listening to God and heeding His warnings.

2 Peter 3 tells that in the last days of this age [of this one as in every] there shall be scoffers. They will in like manner as in the days of Noah reject the warnings, though the LORD is long suffering hoping for their repentance.

2 Peter 3
3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
4 And saying, “Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.”
5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God 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.

The word Hebrew word translated “ark” in Genesis is tebah. It is said to mean, box, and to be from an uncertain origin. The word is used thirty-one times, twenty-nine in the Genesis 6 thru 9 Noah account. The other two times appear in Exodus 2 to tell of the vessel that carried Moses in the waters. In both instances we see the ark carrying and delivering for the purpose of preserving the House, and in both causes we see it being carried in the waters. We know that in these waters there is both life and death, and the life was through what was in the ark.

The origin of the word tebah is most likely from the word tebel. The word means the moist parts of the earth (opposite of deserts), and used for the inhabited parts of the earth. It derives from the word yabal meaning to flow, as in to bring forth. The deeper meaning here in the context of our discussion is in words depicting life being transport from a corrupted place of death, safely and saved in the ark, to a place in the earth where life could begin again to thrive as the next age begins. This is and has always been the plan and means for accomplishing making/creating man in Our/God’s image and likeness.

At the same time these above means of transport the message of life where ending with Moses being drawn from the water we’re told the next iteration of the ark. The word next used to described it is ‘arown, also said to mean, a box. The first appearance of the word is in Genesis 50:26 in describing Joseph’s “coffin,” and this is the only time the word is rendered in this form. The Spiritual meaning is the deliverer, the one separated from His brothers for God’s purpose of deliverance, was now placed in a different vessel, and this symbolizing changing of the age and of Moses coming in the pattern of a new Joseph. Remember, it is after Joseph died that the decline occurred under those who didn’t know him.

With the coming of Moses’ deliverance of God’s people by the hand of God we see the ark constructed according to the LORD’s instructions. Remember, the ark wasn’t only called the Ark of the Covenant, but rather it was first called the Ark of the Testimony. The Hebrew word used for covenant is briyth, meaning a compact; and testimony is `eduwth, meaning testimony as a witness or for a record. In these two words we see the transformation as it begins as the initial agreement and then becomes the continued record and witness to the implementation. The first use of the word briyth is in Genesis 6:18 as God tells Noah of the death of all living, and that He will establish His “covenant” with him as he comes into the ark. In these we see that the Covenant precedes this time. The covenant as we have already discussed is that God will create man in His image and likeness. This is the original “compact” even though man had yet to comprehend it, and compact meaning being drawn together (to the eventual same mind and humanity’s civilization).

The original use of the word ‘eduwth is in Exodus 16:34 where Moses commanded Aaron to gather manna to keep for a record, so the people would know with what bread the LORD fed them in the wilderness. The Hebrew word here translated “manna” is man, and literally means, a what-ness, as in the question the people asked about it saying, “what is it.” Again the implication is they still had no idea it was the Word of God that kept them alive. This was the testimony to be kept and passed on. This is what we are told of in Deuteronomy 8:3 and what the LORD quotes several times in telling of the written record in the Word of God. Psalms 78:26 tells of manna and describes it as “angel’s food.”

We know angels are those God’s word is given, to be delivered to others on God’s behalf in the same form it was received. This is the testimony that is kept to be delivered to future generations. We also know that altering the message or using it in a self-centered way are the traits of the fallen angels, and listening to these corrupted forms what causes the fall of humanity. When the LORD speaks to the devil quoting from Deuteronomy 8:3 it is exposing this being as a fallen messenger who is using advising/tempting Him to misusing His authority as a show. Instead the LORD uses the Word for correction, as the devil then goes on to misquote the Word of God by altering the context, and the LORD corrects again.

Psalms 78
22 Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in His salvation:
23 Though He had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven,
24 And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn [bread] of heaven.
25 Man did eat angels’ food: He sent them meat to the full.

Deuteronomy 8
1 All the commandments which I command you this day shall you observe to do, that you may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the LORD swore unto your fathers.
2 And you shalt remember all the way which the LORD your God led you these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you, and to prove you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or not.
3 And he humbled you, and suffered you to hunger, and fed you with manna, which you knew not, neither did your fathers know; that he might make you know that man does not live by bread only, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of the LORD [in the same form as it came from the source] does man live.
4 Your raiment waxed not old upon you, neither did your foot swell, these forty years.
5 You shalt also consider in your heart, that, as a man chastens [corrects] his son, so the LORD your God chastens [corrects] you.
6 Therefore you shalt keep the commandments of the LORD your God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.

In John 6:31 the LORD quotes from Psalms 78:24 beginning a passage telling of His being the bread of heaven.

John 6
26 Jesus answered them and said, Truly, truly, I say unto you, You seek me, not because you saw the miracles, but because you did eat of the loaves, and were filled.
27 Labor not for the meat which perishes, but for that meat which endures unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him has God the Father sealed.
28 Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God?
29 Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that you believe on him whom he has sent.
30 They said therefore unto him, What sign show you then, that we may see, and believe you? what dost you work?
31 Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, “He gave them bread from heaven to eat.”
32 Then Jesus said unto them, Truly, truly, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven.
33 For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and gives life unto the world.
34 Then said they unto him, LORD, evermore give us this bread.
35 And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.
36 But I said unto you, That you also have seen me, and believe not.
37 All that the Father gives me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.
38 For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.
39 And this is the Father’s will which has sent me, that of all which he has given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.
40 And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which sees the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.

The word “sealed” in verse 27 above is from the Greek word sphragizo. It is a word literally meaning a mark of authentication and sealed to preserve – from the works of the corrupter. Here we see it is the still unknown mark of being the Word of God, sent by God to confirm and continue the work of creating man. The fact that they don’t understand is seen as they ask for a sign just after he has told them of what marks him as the one (teaching the Word of God preserved in Him as the new ark – and the world comprehended it not). The word sphragizo is only used one other time in John. It is the word translated “has set to his seal” in John 3:33.

John 3
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.

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.

This takes us back to the last reference to the ‘arown (Ark) of the Covenant, which appears in Jeremiah 3:16. It is used speaking of the end of the testimony being carried outside men as an external testimony, as it alludes to what we then read of the new covenant in Jeremiah 31:31. There it is actually speaking of the word becoming flesh as in it being written in our mind now by understanding. Christ is the forerunner showing us the way, as the word BECAME flesh, so it is the way we who believe will travel to this same becoming – the finished product made in the image and Likeness of God. It is our becoming the ark that carries and delivers the life of God’s message.

Jeremiah 3
14 Turn, O backsliding children, says the LORD; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:
15 And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.
16 And it shall come to pass, when you be multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, says the LORD, they shall say no more, The Ark of the Covenant of the LORD: neither shall it come to mind: neither shall they remember it; neither shall they visit it; neither shall that be done any more.
17 At that time they shall call [New] Jerusalem the throne of the LORD; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the LORD, to [New] Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after the imagination of their evil heart.
18 In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land that I have given for an inheritance unto your fathers.
19 But I said, How shall I put you among the children, and give you a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? and I said, You shalt call Me, My Father; and shalt not turn away from Me.
20 Surely as a wife treacherously departs from her husband, so have you dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, says the LORD.
21 A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping and supplications of the children of Israel: for they have perverted their way, and they have forgotten the LORD their God.
22 Return, you backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto you; for you are the LORD our God.
23 Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, and from the multitude of mountains [the high places rising from and looming over the earth]: truly in the LORD our God is the salvation of Israel.
24 For shame has devoured the labor of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.
25 We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covers us: for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.

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

The covenant was first a spoken compact and carried forward by Noah in an Ark, then a written Covenant carried with the Testimony in an Ark, and The Testimony became Flesh and walked with man, and man never having seen the light, in his darkened world, comprehended it not. This is the same testimony now preached here, and men still wonder about the origin never having been taught in this manna – with the Word of God as delivered directly from Him.

Jeremiah 3:19 asks the question how can this happen, and the LORD answers, “You shalt call Me, My Father; and shalt not turn away from Me.” This takes us back to Isaiah 8 and the part that I have often left off. The beginning verses tells of the child named Mahershalalhashbaz being conceived and born, and before the child knows to cry My Father and my mother shall all the land and God’s people be plundered and ruined. The name translates into four words: haste, spoil, speed, prey. This chapter in this part tells of making a covenant with what corrupts the people, bringing in the way foreign to God’s ways and opposing his plan for creating man. This straying off course results in the ruin and the chapter goes on to call us back to God’s counsel. This is the sign that is told of in verse 18, which occurs after the people know to call God their Father, “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.”

The chapter tells of comprehension restored in the children by the uncorrupted Word of God. Now read the chapter in the context of today’s conversation and understand this return of comprehension is our entering the ark as the world still sees nothing but a darkening sky.

Isaiah 8
1 Moreover the LORD said unto me, Take you a great roll, and write in it with a man’s pen concerning Mahershalalhashbaz.
2 And I took unto me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.
3 And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and bare a son. Then said the LORD to me, Call his name Mahershalalhashbaz.
4 For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and my mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria.
5 The LORD spoke also unto me again, saying,
6 Forasmuch as this people refuse the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah’s son;
7 Now therefore, behold, the LORD brings up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks:
8 And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of your land, O Immanuel.
9 Associate yourselves, O you people, and you shall be broken in pieces; and give ear, all you of far countries: gird yourselves, and you shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and you shall be broken in pieces.
10 Take counsel together, and it shall come to naught; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.
11 For the LORD spoke thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying,
12 Say you not, A confederacy, to all them to whom this people shall say, A confederacy; neither fear you their fear, nor be afraid.
13 Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.
14 And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
15 And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.
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: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?
20 To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
21 And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead 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.

Having read yesterday’s post, and with understanding the great falling away that has occurred during man’s decay by additions to and subtractions from the truth delivered from the original source, let us continue on. In the previous post we saw our time of great trouble caused by minds now inescapably locked in self-created confusion, and the LORD’s intervening with correction reestablishing truth and order. We saw this intervention as the dividing of time, after the times of divine silence, which followed the time truth was delivered from the source. We saw the time of falling away being during the time of silence and the entering of LORD being as He silences these men destroying the earth by induced ignorance, as they being blind having led the blind into the proverbial ditch.

Having seen the logic and necessity for this correction to be establishing through one single source, and the means being by revealing truth strategically placed in God’s written word, and this revelation witnessed to by the LORD both validates the source and reestablishes order.

We have also seen there are and will be those who will continue to reject this truth and do so because they want to keep all the works they have amassed telling all they think and know about the way things should be. Those doing so are, as Esau, selling their birthright for morsels. They reject both the witness on earth and from heaven. They choose the darkness because their deeds are evil and they refuse to be corrected and thereby reject the offer to become sons of God by His cleansing power.

Matthew 24:36 tells us there is no man or angel that knows the day or the hour, only the Father in heaven. This is plainly telling of the Father being the one who reveals this final dividing of time, and it follows the LORD telling us heaven and earth will pass away but His words will not pass away. In the verses prior we told that those watching for the precursors of the rebirth would see and know it is near, even at the door/gate. The point isn’t that we won’t know, but it is rather very clearly telling us only the Father knows the details. This what these men of our time have done, adding all the detail and removing understanding, of the time being of God’s revealing these details. All of this is likened to days of Noah, and the final dividing point being as the flood coming that washes away the unbelieving. And as in the days of Noah these men in our time go about doing the same things they have always done thinking these posts aren’t the flood, and as in the days of Noah are being washed away, or more accurately we are being washed from the filthy corruption they have created and maintain, which blinds God’s people away from the truth.

This washing way is the first heaven and earth being removed and the New replacing it. The same Greek word is used three times in this description translated “pass” or “pass away.” The first is telling of the generation that sees these things and doesn’t “pass” until they are fulfilled. The next tells of heaven and earth, which “pass away.” The third speaks of the delivered word, which will not “pass away.”

Here is the Greek word from the Strong’s Greek Dictionary:

Strong’s #3928: parerchomai (pronounced par-er’-khom-ahee) from 3844 and 2064; to come near or aside, i.e. to approach (arrive), go by (or away), (figuratively) perish or neglect, (causative) avert:–come (forth), go, pass (away, by, over), past, transgress.

The word is used thirty-one times and all but five are in the Gospels or Acts. In looking at the five we see the full meaning.

It is translated “passed away” in 2 Corinthians 5:17 to tell of the new birth and of the old creation being replace by the new, as we come to life being reconciled to God by His Spirit in us.

2 Corinthians 5
14 For the love of Christ constrains us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:
15 And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.
16 Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more.
17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
18 And all things are of God, who has reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and has given to us the ministry of reconciliation;
19 To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and has committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
20 Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be you reconciled to God.
21 For he has made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

It is then translated “he shall pass away” in James 1:10 as it exhorts the poor to rejoice it that he is elevated and rich in being brought down, because “he shall pass away” as does the flower of the grass as soon as the sun rises (new day).

James 1
5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that gives to all men liberally, and upbraids not; and it shall be given him.
6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavers is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
7 For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the LORD.
8 A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
9 Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:
10 But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
11 For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withers the grass, and the flower thereof falls, and the grace of the fashion of it perishes: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
12 Blessed is the man that endures temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the LORD has promised to them that love him.
13 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempts he any man:
14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
15 Then when lust has conceived, it brings forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, brings forth death.
16 Do not err, my beloved brethren.
17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
18 Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first-fruits of his creatures.
19 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
20 For the wrath of man works not the righteousness of God.

1 Peter 1:24 uses the same analogy as it speaks to those who have reached the end of our faith and see the Glory of the LORD. The difference here is the rising of the sun, that cause the rich man to fade away in his ways, is interchanged with the Word of the LORD enduring forever.

1 Peter 1
2 Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our LORD Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy has begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
4 To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,
5 Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
6 Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, you are in heaviness through manifold temptations:
7 That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:
8 Whom having not seen, you love; in whom, though now you see him not, yet believing, you rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:
9 Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.
10 Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you:
11 Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.
12 Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into.
13 Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;
14 As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
15 But as he which has called you is holy, so be you holy in all manner of conversation;
16 Because it is written, Be you holy; for I am holy.
17 And if you call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man’s work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear:
18 Forasmuch as you know that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;
19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:
20 Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,
21 Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.
22 Seeing you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that you love one another with a pure heart fervently:
23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which lives and abides forever.
24 For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower thereof falls away:
25 But the word of the LORD endures forever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.

The word is next used in 1 Peter 4:3 in speaking of our life/time “past” in which we did the will of the world. The chapter tells of our now sober mind and new life doing the will of God (His kingdom come, His will being done on earth, as it is in heaven). As it tells of this we are told that if any man speaks he should speak only what has been delivered to him, not after his own lust speaking. In this context the chapter end with telling of the LORD as the Creator – by His delivering and delivered word (as 2 Peter 3:5 tells us and then ends with verse 15 – 17 telling of and warning against following the example of those who wrestle with God’s word to their own destruction, and in doing “fall” [when the sun rises]).

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 may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked wanting material things, lusting for them, drunken in this, rejoicing together in it, and consorting with those doing so, these being abominable idolatry:
4 Wherein they think it strange that you run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:
5 Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead.
6 Therefore for this cause was the gospel 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 you are partakers of Christ’s sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, you may be glad also with exceeding joy.
14 If you be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are you; 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 begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel 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.

The next use of parerchomai is as “pass away” in 2 Peter 3:10 speaking of the heavens “passing away” as the LORD comes as a thief in the night. The verse also speaks of the “elements” melting way as the earth and the work thereof are burned up. Remember, the word “element” is stoicheion, meaning the foundational principles upon which the world relies in all its thinking and the resulting works that have led to its failed condition. These are what are replaced with the truth and the new birth of the new heaven and new earth, and New Jerusalem wherein dwells righteousness (truth, equity and security – New Jerusalem – Taught and Founded upon the ways of peace and security).

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.

The final time parerchomai appears is Revelation 21:1 in bluntly telling us of seeing the New Heaven and New Earth and the reason is that the old had “passed away.” It goes on to tell of New Jerusalem with its foundation being of the most valuable stones, and the gates (the way into life) being through those who deliver the word as it was delivered to them.

Revelation 21
1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.
2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.
4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
5 And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.
6 And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.
7 He that overcomes shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.
8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
9 And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will show you the bride, the Lamb’s wife.
10 And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God,
11 Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal;
12 And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel:
13 On the east three gates; on the north three gates; on the south three gates; and on the west three gates.
14 And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
15 And he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof.
16 And the city lies foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.
17 And he measured the wall thereof, an hundred and forty and four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the angel.
18 And the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass.
19 And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald;
20 The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolyte; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst.
21 And the twelve gates were twelve pearls: every several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass.
22 And I saw no temple therein: for the LORD God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it.
23 And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.
24 And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honor into it.
25 And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there.
26 And they shall bring the glory and honor of the nations into it.
27 And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defiles, neither whatsoever works abomination, or makes a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb’s book of life.

Let’s continue Our defense (apologia) of the Gospel, and battle the darkness of ignorant and the superficial (the antilogia). These are both the intention and content of these posts. In their most recent era (aer) we have gone beyond the basic doctrines of the faith, which are the necessary building blocks upon which the defense must be founded, and have entered into the mysteries which Hebrews defines as the Holy of Holies. The writer uses this terminology to explain this is where we are able to meet face to face with God, and where he will at His discretion manifest His presence to those He chooses, and then reveal His will in His time.

This revelation isn’t of things that are known, nor can they be known, therefore neither are they contained in books written or words spoken by the will of men. God’s written word and His revelation are what alters time and changes man’s direction, creates kingdoms and pulls down the strong holds of others.

In time and times of great strife (antilogia – opposing discourse), usually caused by God’s people straying into confusion by men creating their own doctrines and placing them in the stead of God’s truth and intention, God uses the means of revelation to uncover mysteries, to establish and confirm the origin from whom His truth is being spoken. Logically and by necessity this must be a single voice/source, and the necessity and logic are if it weren’t from a single confirmed source it would be just another voice in the midst of mass confusion.

This is the entire point of the book of Hebrews. I have in the past called the book a Letter of Introduction of Timothy.

The book begins telling of God speaking in these last days by His son, “these last days” meaning the most resent era in which it had occurred. These “eras” are the time and times that are frequently spoken of in God’s written word, and the intervention we have been speaking of is the finality of what has been translated as the “half time.” This “half time” is actually written as the halving of time, as in dividing the time. It is telling of rightly discerning the final time of these times, and then rightly dividing the word and God speaking into existence His New Creation.

It is also a reference to the time of silence, lacking any Divine Clarification, between the First and the Second Advent. This time between is when the angels (messengers) are sent throughout the world as ministering spirits to bring the word as it was delivered to them. In this we see where and how the “falling away (apostasy)” from the delivers truth occurs, as we also see the idea of the fallen angels in those refusing to return from their rebellion, first against the truth and then in rejecting the correction opposing God Himself.

Hebrews uses many quotes from previous scriptures to bring understanding by way of establishing the continuity of God’s unchanging (while often misunderstood by neglect) plan for reestablish His will through the afore mentioned means, and bringing all things back onto His course of creating man in His image and likeness. One such quote is from Psalms 2 and it appearing as the foundation of Chapter 1.

Hebrews 1
1 God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spoke in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,
2 Has in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he has appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;
3 Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high:
4 Being made so much better than the angels, as he has by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.
5 For unto which of the angels said he at any time, You are my Son, this day have I begotten you? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?
6 And again, when he brings in the first-begotten into the world, he says, And let all the angels of God worship him.
7 And of the angels he says, Who makes his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire.
8 But unto the Son he says, Your throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a scepter of righteousness is the scepter of your kingdom.
9 You have loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.
10 And, You, LORD, in the beginning have laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of you hands:
11 They shall perish; but you remain; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment;
12 And as a garment shall you fold them up, and they shall be changed: but you are the same, and your years shall not fail.
13 But to which of the angels said he at any time, Sit on my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool?
14 Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?

Psalms 2
1 Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,
3 Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.
4 He that sits in the heavens shall laugh: the LORD shall have them in derision.
5 Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.
6 Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.
7 I will declare the decree: the LORD has said unto me, You are my Son; this day have I begotten you.
8 Ask of me, and I shall give you the heathen for Your inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for your possession.
9 You shall break them with a rod of iron; you shall dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.
10 Be wise now therefore, O you kings: be instructed, you judges of the earth.
11 Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
12 Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.

The entirety of the book of Hebrews is telling of this reoccurrence as it also often warns not to reject this very word when it is spoken to you. The warnings begin chapter 2 and end chapter 12, while what is between tells us what is occurring using the similarity in form and fashion of the priesthood and the temple. The reoccurring nature is told of using Melchisedec as the example of a never-ending life without earthly origins and a priest of reformation arising outside the existing order.

Hebrews 2
1 Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.
2 For if the word spoken by angels was steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward;
3 How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the LORD, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him;
4 God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will?
5 For unto the angels has he not put in subjection the world to come, whereof we speak.
6 But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that you are mindful of him? or the son of man that you visit him?
7 You made him a little lower than the angels; you crowned him with glory and honor, and didst set him over the works of your hands:
8 You have put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing that is not put under him. But now we see not yet all things put under him.
9 But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.
10 For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.
11 For both he that sanctifies and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,
12 Saying, I will declare your name unto my brethren, in the midst of the church will I sing praise unto you.
13 And again, I will put my trust in him. And again, Behold I and the children which God has given me.
14 Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;
15 And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
16 For verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham.
17 Wherefore in all things it behooved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.
18 For in that he himself has suffered being tempted, he is able to assist and support them that are tempted.

The book ends telling of Timothy being set at liberty. The message is telling those reading to know Timothy has been set free. The word translated as “liberty” is apoluo, literally meaning away or off (apo) and loosed (luo). It is the word used many times to describe the LORD’s being release by the officials after He had been taken to trial. As we know He could have been released but wasn’t because of the popular opinion of the people stirred by the religious leaders. In the context of this trial the writer uses this word to describe Timothy.

For those who know of Timothy, his father was a Greek and his mother was a Jew. He became the Bishop or Ephesus, and with His mixed heritage I am sure his contemporaries, most likely all Hebrews, were questioning his qualifications for being elevated to the position of what could be considered very similar to a High Priest. This is most likely the reason for this Letter of Recommendation. The Spirit of God had a bigger plan by use of divine intellect. He wrote it as if pen in His own hand to us for this time.

Revelation and divine intellect are what is alluded to in Habakkuk 3:4 when it tells of God power being in His hand and as the rays of the sun (horn) coming from His hand. The chapter begins by telling of Habakkuk hearing the speech of the LORD, and understanding it was the LORD riving his work in the midst of the years, and making known in the midst of his years. “The midst of the years” is the same dividing of time we looked at above. The same word translated “midst” is used in Habakkuk 2:19 to tell of this time of silence having declined into idolatry and there being no “breath” in the “midst” of it. Breath is life and Spirit, and this is telling of there being neither left in this “midst.” It is into this era the LORD intervenes. (Era is aer (breath), as it is the “air” of 1 Thessalonians 4:17 where we meet with the LORD,)

These are the mysteries the LORD keep for use by whom ever He chooses and anoints.

Habakkuk 2
18 What profits the graven image that the maker thereof has graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusts therein, to make dumb idols?
19 Woe unto him that says to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it is laid over with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it.
20 But the LORD is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.

Habakkuk 3
1 A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet concerning those in error.
2 O LORD, I have heard your speech, and was afraid: O LORD, revive your work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy.
3 God came from Teman, and the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise.
4 And his brightness was as the light; he had horns [as ray of the sun rise] coming out of his hand: and there was the hiding of his power.
5 Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet.
6 He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his ways are everlasting.
7 I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction: and the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble.
8 Was the LORD displeased against the rivers? was your anger against the rivers? was your wrath against the sea, that you didst ride upon your horses and your chariots of salvation?
9 Your bow was made quite naked, according to the oaths of the tribes, even your word. Selah. You didst cleave the earth with rivers.
10 The mountains saw you, and they trembled: the overflowing of the water passed by: the deep uttered his voice, and lifted up his hands on high.
11 The sun and moon stood still in their habitation: at the light of your arrows they went, and at the shining of your glittering spear.
12 You didst march through the land in indignation, you didst thresh the heathen in anger.
13 You went forth for the salvation of your people, even for salvation with your anointed; you wounded the head out of the house of the wicked, by discovering the foundation unto the neck. Selah.
14 You didst strike through with his staves the head of his villages: they came out as a whirlwind to scatter me: their rejoicing was as to devour the poor secretly.
15 You didst walk through the sea with your horses, through the heap of great waters.
16 When I heard, my belly trembled; my lips quivered at the voice: rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in myself, that I might rest in the day of trouble: when he cometh up unto the people, he will invade them with his troops.
17 Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labor of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls:
18 Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation.
19 The LORD God is my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds’ feet, and he will make me to walk upon mine high places. To the chief singer on my stringed instruments.

The picture painted using of the words Teman and Paran and the surrounding context beginning the above chapter are of one facing the sun as it rises, and is seen in strength as if a mountain with the gleam of the sun’s rays shining around him. The rays of the sun are as if the fingers of a hand from heaven.

Psalms 19
1 The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament shows his handiwork.
2 Day unto day utters speech, and night unto night shows knowledge.
3 There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.
4 Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them has he set a tabernacle for the sun,
5 Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoices as a strong man to run a race.
6 His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.
7 The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.
8 The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes.
9 The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether.
10 More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.
11 Moreover by them is your servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward.
12 Who can understand his [own] errors? cleanse you me from secret faults.
13 Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression.
14 Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in your sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.

Continuing our discussing today with a deeper investigation of God’s intervention into the affairs of humanity. We have looked at it in previous posts from the perspective of God’s doing so by a single mediator or ambassador He sends with His authority. The method is He sends His counsel with His confirmation by means only He is capable of.

Here is the way this is written in Hebrews 6:

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 entered into that within the veil;
20 Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made a high priest forever after the order of Melchisedec.

The key verse above is verse 17. In understanding the original language we see it telling of the intervention of God when it is needed to insure what He has promised would be accomplished. The words translated “confirmed it with an oath” literally tells of limiting it by His intervention. Prior we are told of it being to establish and show the unchangeable nature of His counsel.

The Greek word translated as “confirmed” is the one time used word mesiteuo, meaning to intervene. It is the verb form of the 6 times used noun mesites, meaning the one annunciating the message he has been sent with. In context we see the message being the immutable (unchangeable) counsel (boule – advice and will) of God.

Here are the definitions from the Strong’s Greek Dictionary:

Strong’s #3315: mesiteuo (pronounced mes-it-yoo’-o) from 3316; to interpose (as arbiter), i.e (by implication) to ratify (as surety):–confirm.

Strong’s #3316: mesites (pronounced mes-ee’-tace) from 3319; a go-between, i.e. (simply) an internunciator, or (by implication) a reconciler (intercessor):–mediator.

The word translated “oath” is horkos, meaning a limit. It is telling of the intervention as the boundary.

Strong’s #3727: horkos (pronounced hor’-kos) from herkos (a fence; perhaps akin to 3725); a limit, i.e. (sacred) restraint (specially, an oath):–oath.

What is being alluded to when Abraham is spoken of in this context is first to tell of the promise believed to him, “Surely blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply you.” It then, by referencing the intervention and the limit, is telling of Abraham’s faith in the promise and of his knowing God’s character, that He will not lie, acted on this as he took Isaac up the mountain. He knew/believed God would provide a way, even to the point of knowing God would raise up the seed of His promise (Isaac) from the dead to fulfill his word, if needed. Of course we know that God provided by intervening and restrained Abraham.

The deeper meaning is then seen in the mention of Melchizedek, and Jesus (Jehovah our Salvation) having the promise, “You are a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec,” entered where neither Abraham nor Isaac had, in that he both died and is risen again. This is why the passage refers to His having entered the Holy of Holies as our forerunner, showing the way to life that conquers even death, as promised and now confirmed.

In these we see the everlasting ministry of confirming the promise by the intervention and limiting the day. This is what Hebrews 4 is speaking of when it tells us of believing what we hear, today. “7 Again, He limits [horizo – horizon] a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if you will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.”

Hebrews 4
1 Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.
2 For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.
3 For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
4 For he spoke in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works.
5 And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest.
6 Seeing therefore it remains that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief:
7 Again, he limits a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if you will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
8 For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.
9 There remains therefore a rest to the people of God.
10 For he that is entered into his rest, he also has ceased from his own works, as God did from his.
11 Let us labor therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.
12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
13 Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
14 Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.
15 For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.
16 Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

This, again, is the context in which we are told in Hebrews 12:24 of our reaching our destination and of the “mediator” being there, and we are warned to listening to the instruction (counsel) we are hearing.

Hebrews 12
22 But you are come unto mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaks better things than that of Abel.
25 See that you refuse not him that speaks. For if they escaped not who refused him that spoke on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaks from heaven:
26 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he has promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.
27 And this word, Yet once more, signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.
28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
29 For our God is a consuming fire.

Friends, it as difficult for me as it is for you to accept the full scope, responsibility and obligation of believing. Many years ago I accepted what I know to be true and I know because God promised and confirmed it. This is reality and it doesn’t really matter if others remain in disbelief. It is our obligation as believers to set ourselves for the defense of the Gospel, knowing the LORD has confirmed it by His intervention, and will confirm it in us and for us forever.

Philippians 1:7 tells of this, and then goes on into chapter 2 where it tells us with what mind we are to set ourselves. The word “confirmation,” from bebaiosis, meaning stabilize (what is shaking or panicking), is used in Hebrews 6:16 to tell of it being what ends strife [antilogia – opposing discourse], giving us the understanding of its only other use here in Philippians 1:7. It is explaining (the confirmation) we are stabilized as we see and understanding God has intervened, as if the stars fixed in their position in heaven with (in accord) the LORD. Actually the confirmation is preceded by the defense (apologia – counter discourse) and this being our presentation of the Gospel (the good news of the promise and the oath), the intervention is the confirmation of the unchanging truth, which brings the matter to a close.

Philippians 1
6 Being confident of this very thing, that he which has begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:
7 Even as it is meet for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel, you all are partakers of my grace.
8 For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.
9 And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;
10 That you may approve things that are excellent; that you may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ.
11 Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.
12 But I would you should understand, brethren, that the things which happened unto me have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of the gospel;
13 So that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the halls of judgment, and in all other places;
14 And many of the brethren in the LORD, waxing confident by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.
15 Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will:
16 The one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds:
17 But the other of love, knowing that I am set for the defense of the gospel.
18 What then? not withstanding, every way, whether in pretense, or in truth, Christ is preached; and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.
19 For I know that this shall turn to my salvation through your prayer, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,
20 According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death.
21 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
22 But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labor: yet what I shall choose I know not.
23 For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:
24 Nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you.
25 And having this confidence, I know that I shall abide and continue with you all for your furtherance and joy of faith;
26 That your rejoicing may be more abundant in Jesus Christ for me by my coming to you again.
27 Only let your conversation be as it becomes the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;
28 And in nothing terrified by your adversaries: which is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that of God.
29 For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake;
30 Having the same conflict which you saw in me, and now hear to be in me.

Philippians 2
1 If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,
2 Fulfil you my joy, that you be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.
3 Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
4 Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.
5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
9 Wherefore God also has highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:
10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;
11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is LORD, to the glory of God the Father.
12 Wherefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
14 Do all things without murmurings and disputings:
15 That you may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom you shine as lights in the world;
16 Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.
17 Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.
18 For the same cause also do you joy, and rejoice with me.
19 But I trust in the LORD Jesus to send Timotheus shortly unto you, that I also may be of good comfort, when I know your state.
20 For I have no man likeminded, who will naturally care for your state.
21 For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ’s.
22 But you know the proof of him, that, as a son with the father, he has served with me in the gospel.
23 Him therefore I hope to send presently, so soon as I shall see how it will go with me.
24 But I trust in the LORD that I also myself shall come shortly.
25 Yet I supposed it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, and companion in labor, and fellow-soldier, but your messenger, and he that ministered to my wants.
26 For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because that you had heard that he had been sick.
27 For indeed he was sick nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.
28 I sent him therefore the more carefully, that, when you see him again, you may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful.
29 Receive him therefore in the LORD with all gladness; and hold such in reputation:
30 Because for the work of Christ he was nigh unto death, not regarding his life, to supply your lack of service toward me.

When verse 25 speaks of Epaphroditus and later of his recovering it is telling of his regaining his stability. Here are two paragraphs from June 28, 2016 and the post titled, “Fear God, and Give Glory to Him; for The Hour of His Judgment is Come.”

“The name Epaphroditus actually describes one who was a deceiver but now has recovered from his disease. The name is actually derived from epi, meaning distribution (in this case, of wisdom), and Aphrodite, which is another name for Venus the Roman goddess of beauty and love. The planets themself were symbols of deception (false gods), the name planet even coming from the Greek word planos, meaning rover. It is also the root word of planetes, meaning erratic teaching; and of plane, meaning fraudulent; also planao, meaning cause to stray from safety, truth or virtue.

The idea of planets being associated with deception is the fact that they appear in the night sky as if stars. The way you can tell the difference is they move all over the sky, as opposed to the stars that don’t go astray, nor do they lead astray those using them to keep their way as they journey. These false teachers lie in wait to deceive (see Ephesians 4:14), as a roaring lion, walking about, seeking whom he may devour (see 1 Peter 5:8).”

2 Peter 2
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 deceptions 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:

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 [a great agitation], and the elements [foundational principles] 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 [eagerly awaiting] the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire [puroo – refiners fire] shall be dissolved, and the elements [stoicheion – the foundational principles the world relies on] 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.

Today a few words of warning to the experts, and to those following these self-proclaimed experts: The people that reject this interpretations of God’s word presented here over these last days do so because it doesn’t at all match anything coming from any of the famous wise men of this time, nor any before them. The thing they forget is it is God’s word to do with as He wills for His purposes, and my interpretation isn’t mine, but written in truth as He shows me. I am not seeking the approval of the professionals and the educated men of this world. So, what if some are in disbelief?

Romans 3
3 For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?
4 God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That you might be justified in your sayings, and might overcome when you are judged.
5 But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who takes vengeance? (I speak as a man)
6 God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?
7 For if the truth of God has more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?
8 And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.
9 What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;
10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
11 There is none that understands, there is none that seeks after God.
12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
13 Their throat is an open sepulcher; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
15 Their feet are swift to shed blood:
16 Destruction and misery are in their ways:
17 And the way of peace have they not known:
18 There is no fear of God before their eyes.
19 Now we know that what things so-ever the law says, it says to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
21 But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;
22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:
23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
25 Whom God has set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
26 To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
27 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.
28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.
29 Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:
30 Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and un-circumcision through faith.
31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.

These are very profound words of wisdom and warning, which must be understood in the context of our time and these discussions.

Verse 4 above states, “…let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, ‘That you might be justified in your sayings, and might overcome when you are judged.'”

The quote is “written” in Psalms 51:4 as part of a passage we see as addressing those who have trespassed into error. We are told in verse 6 it is truth that has been erred from, this is followed by the point of it being to correct the hidden things, and in them God will make know His wisdom. In hearing we hear the LORD’s plan for purging from His people the corruption they have inherited and invented.

The original context of the Psalms is when David saw Bath-sheba and lusted after her. The Psalm is David crying out in understanding his idolatry, straying from the LORD’s way. The name Bath-Sheba means daughter of the fullness, the word sheba is the Hebrew word meaning seven – complete. It is telling of ending one age in the life of David and beginning the new as he comes out of corruption by God’s correction come through Nathan. Nathan is God’s prophet, his name also telling us the way of a prophet isn’t giving your own advice or correction, but rather to give what is “given” to you from God.

Psalm 51
1 Have mercy upon me, O God, according to your loving-kindness: according unto the multitude of your tender mercies blot out my transgressions.
2 Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
3 For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.
4 Against you, you only, have I sinned, and done this evil in your sight: that you might be justified when you speak, and be clear when you judge.
5 Behold, I was shape in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
6 Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part you shall make me to know wisdom.
7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
8 Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which you have broken may rejoice.
9 Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.
10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
11 Cast me not away from your presence; and take not your holy spirit from me.
12 Restore unto me the joy of your salvation; and uphold me with your free spirit.
13 Then will I teach transgressors your ways; and sinners shall be converted unto you.
14 Deliver me from blood-guiltiness, O God, you God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of your righteousness.
15 O LORD, open you my lips; and my mouth shall show forth your praise.
16 For you desire not sacrifice; else would I give it: you delight not in burnt offering.
17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
18 Do good in your good pleasure unto Zion: build you the walls of Jerusalem.
19 Then shall you be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon your altar.

All of this is what tells of the trespass of all the self-proclaimed prophets and experts of our time. It also gives the remedy.

Now, I have heard the arguments against the need for purity and correction, some using Romans 3:19 saying this specifically says it is only to those under the Law, and we are under grace. Using this argument they must reject all else said in the chapter. We are told it’s grace through faith in the blood, and the blood meaning His life given to bring us the way, the truth and the life. It is telling of all being under the law because there are none that believe. “23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; 24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: 25 Whom God has set forth to be a propitiation [willing reconciler] through faith in his blood [life giving waters (counsel) that wash away the error], to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; 26 To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.”

It is about believing and if not believing you are under the law. In this world in total darkness, caused by the errors of these men’s teaching and leadership, there remains none that know what light is when they see it. All are unable to re-cognize until they are separated from the darkness (corruption) – by correction (to incorruption). And for those believing, “To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.”

Romans 3:10 – 18 is made up of quotes from several other places in God’s word, and all conveying the same point that all have gone astray, fallen away from God’s truth and losing the original intent. The original intent is civilization (peace and security, by a well ordered agreement – covenant and constitution), and when it is in jeopardy He comes when we call and reestablishes the way, the truth and life.

The first quote appearing in Romans 3:10 is from Ecclesiastes 7:20. The context intended to be extended into Romans 3 begins at verse 16 and tells of seeing things clearly, which is one of the main point and a necessary part of judging. “16 Be not righteous over much; neither make thyself over wise: why should you destroy thyself? 17 Be not over much wicked, neither be you foolish: why should you die before your time? 18 It is good that you should take hold of this; yea, also from this withdraw not your hand: for he that fears God shall come forth of them all. 19 Wisdom strengthens the wise more than ten mighty men which are in the city. 20 For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sins not.”

Psalms 14 also tells of the same idea as verses 1 thru 3 are mirrored in Romans 3:10 thru 12.

Psalms 14
1 The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
2 The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.
3 They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
4 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.
5 There were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the righteous.
6 You have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is his refuge.
7 Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! when the LORD brings back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.

Romans 3:13 quotes from both Psalms 5:9 in telling of rebels who fall by their own counsel, while the righteous are defended and shielded by the LORD; and from Psalms 140:3 in telling of the error (counsel) of the wicked men being as a snare hid to in their way, and again the LORD being our defender in this battle.

Psalms 5
6 You shall destroy them that speak falsehood: the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.
7 But as for me, I will come into your house in the multitude of your mercy: and in your fear will I worship toward your holy temple.
8 Lead me, O LORD, in your righteousness because of mine enemies; make your way straight before my face.
9 For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulcher; they flatter with their tongue.
10 Destroy you them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against you.
11 But let all those that put their trust in you rejoice: let them ever shout for joy, because you defend them: let them also that love your name be joyful in you.
12 For you, LORD, wilt bless the righteous; with favor will you compass him as with a shield.

Psalms 140
1 Deliver me, O LORD, from the evil man: preserve me from the violent man;
2 Which imagine mischiefs in their heart; continually are they gathered together for war.
3 They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders’ poison is under their lips. Selah.
4 Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from the violent man; who have purposed to overthrow my goings.
5 The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.
6 I said unto the LORD, You are my God: hear the voice of my supplications, O LORD.
7 O God the LORD, the strength of my salvation, you have covered my head in the day of battle.
8 Grant not, O LORD, the desires of the wicked: further not his wicked device; lest they exalt themselves. Selah.
9 As for the head of those that compass me about, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.
10 Let burning coals fall upon them: let them be cast into the fire; into deep pits, that they rise not up again.
11 Let not an evil speaker be established in the earth: evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
12 I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the poor.
13 Surely the righteous shall give thanks unto your name: the upright shall dwell in your presence.

Romans 3:14 is quoted from Psalms 10:7 and speaks of the rebels being incorrigible and refusing to repent, and the LORD hearing the cry of those oppressed by these wicked men. The Psalm ends telling of the LORD having come so the man of the earth will not oppress any longer.

Psalms 10
4 The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.
5 His ways are always grievous; your judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffs at them.
6 He has said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall never be in adversity.
7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
8 He sits in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.
9 He lies in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lies in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draws him into his net.
10 He crouches, and humbles himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.
11 He has said in his heart, God has forgotten: he hides his face; he will never see it.
12 Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up your hand: forget not the humble.
13 Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he has said in his heart, You wilt not require it.
14 You have seen it; for you behold mischief and spite, to requite it with your hand: the poor commits himself unto you; you are the helper of the fatherless.
15 Break you the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till you find none.
16 The LORD is King for ever and ever: the heathen are perished out of his land.
17 LORD, you have heard the desire of the humble: you wilt prepare their heart, you will cause your ear to hear:
18 To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.

Romans 3:15 & 16 are quoting Isaiah 59:7 & 8, the chapter beginning with the LORD’s saying His hand isn’t unable to reach us to save us. It then tells what keeps this from happening, again speaking both of the incorrigibles’ refusals to be corrected and this also as what separated heaven from the earth. The latter point referring to what we looked at in yesterday’s post and it telling of the intention of the LORD being – His kingdom come, as His will is done on earth as it is in heaven.

Isaiah 59
1 Behold, the LORD’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:
2 But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.
3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue has muttered perverseness.
4 None calls for justice, nor any pleads for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
5 They hatch cockatrice’ eggs, and weave the spider’s web: he that eats of their eggs dies, and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper.
6 Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.
7 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.
8 The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goes therein shall not know peace.
9 Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.
10 We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noon day as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.
11 We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.
12 For our transgressions are multiplied before you, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them;
13 In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
14 And judgment is turned away backward, and justice stands afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.
15 Yea, truth fails; and he that departs from evil makes himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.
16 And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him.
17 For he 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, a justified repayment to his enemies; to the islands [those whose merchandise is transported by the waters] he will repay what is due according to the product delivered.
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 [each bringing forth after its own kind].

The final quote appearing in Romans 3:18 is from Psalms 36:1.

Psalms 36
1 The transgression [rebellion] of the wicked [the lawless ones] says [declares] within my heart [in my well reasoning mind], that there is no fear of God before his eyes.
2 For he flatters himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity is found to be hateful.
3 The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he has left off to be wise, and to do good.
4 He devises mischief upon his bed; he sets himself in a way that is not good; he abhors not evil [the injury he causes].
5 Your mercy, O LORD, is in the heavens; and your faithfulness reaches unto the clouds.
6 Your righteousness is like the great mountains; your judgments are a great deep: O LORD, you preserves man and beast.
7 How excellent is your loving-kindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of your wings.
8 They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of your house; and you shall make them drink of the river of your pleasures.
9 For with you is the fountain of life: in your light shall we see light.
10 O continue your loving-kindness unto them that know you; and your righteousness to the upright in heart.
11 Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand of the wicked remove me.
12 There are the workers of iniquity fallen: they are cast down, and shall not be able to rise.

In the previous post we looked at the inevitable and very evident first six vials of Revelation 16 being poured out, and saw them as describing the confused and worthless state caused by listening to advice of the “experts” of this world. We saw it as another description of the earth’s condition ending the age as the next begins. We have seen the first step in beginning the new creation is light appears, it is then comprehended by hearing God’s word, and the light entering (bow’) destroys darkness.

Today let’s continuing on in Revelation 16 and a deeper examination of the seventh vial. It will greatly help your understanding if you have read the last several posts.

It is written in Revelation 16:17 that the seventh vial is poured out into the air. The Greek word rendered “air” is aer, meaning the lower atmosphere. The deeper meaning is what separated heaven from the earth, as in what stands between (the firmament of Genesis 1). The word is only used seven times, one of those being in telling of this being where the power of the prince of this world resides, and it is the spirit that works in the children of apathy. We have seen in past studies the same people in control of the information and teaching are those using the confusion created to produce this lack of concern (stupor) about the atmosphere of chaos (from believing in nothing and therefore hopeless).

Ephesians 2
1 And you has he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
2 Wherein in time past you walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now works in the children of disobedience [Strong’s #543: apeitheia (pronounced ap-i’-thi-ah) from 545; disbelief (obstinate and rebellious):–disobedience, unbelief.]:
3 Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
4 But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
5 Even when we were dead in sins, has quickened us together with Christ, (by grace you are saved;)
6 And has raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:
7 That in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
8 For by grace are you saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.
10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God has before ordained that we should walk in them.
11 Wherefore remember, that you being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Un-circumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;
12 That at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel [those who will reign with God, as God intended it], and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
13 But now in Christ Jesus you who sometimes were far off are made near by the blood [His life giving counsel flowing His life into us] of Christ.
14 For he is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of partition between us;
15 Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of two one new man, so making peace;
16 And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity [what came between – the opposition separating us from heaven on earth] thereby:
17 And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were near.
18 For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.
19 Now therefore you are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God;
20 And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;
21 In whom all the building fitly framed together grows unto a holy temple in the LORD:
22 In whom you also are built together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.

Two other uses of apeitheia, which is also a seven times used word, are in Hebrews 4:6 & 11 in telling of the “unbelief” that kept Israel from entering the Promised Land. If you know the story, they saw the people as Giants and didn’t think they could do what God was telling them would be done. This is the same way the seventh vial begins, with the words “It is done.”

Hebrews 4
1 Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.
2 For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.
3 For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
4 For he spoke in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works.
5 And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest.
6 Seeing therefore it remains that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief [apeitheia]:
7 Again, he limited a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if you will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
8 For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.
9 There remains therefore a rest to the people of God.
10 For he that is entered into his rest, he also has ceased from his own works, as God did from his.
11 Let us labor therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief [apeitheia].
12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
13 Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
14 Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.
15 For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.
16 Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

Another of the seven places aer is used is in 1 Thessalonians 4:17 also as “air.” It is telling of the LORD coming and breaking through what separates heaven and earth. The context of the chapter is it telling of those caught in this sleep like state of apathy, and of their having to be awakened. What wakes them is the LORD’s commanding voice as it comes through the archangel. This is the same description we saw in the first of yesterday’s posts when we read Daniel 12 and it beginning describing Michael (meaning – he who is the likeness of God) standing up. The shout is, “IT IS DONE.”

The word translated “done” in Revelation 16:17 is the same word “done” in the LORD’s prayer in Matthew 6:10 when it states what the focus of our prayers should be, “Your kingdom come, Your will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.” This is what is “done.”

1 Thessalonians 4
9 But as touching brotherly love [philadelphia – the intended state of the church] you need not that I write unto you: for you yourselves are taught of God to love one another.
10 And indeed you do it toward all the brethren which are in all Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that you increase more and more;
11 And that you study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;
12 That you may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that you may have lack of nothing.
13 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that you sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
15 For this we say unto you by the word of the LORD, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the LORD shall not prevent them which are asleep.
16 For the LORD himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the LORD in the air: and so shall we ever be with the LORD.
18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

Revelation 16 uses a seven times used phrase “great earthquake” to describe this event by the effect it has of shaking the world. It is describing what is explained in Hebrews 12 when it says, “22 But you are come unto mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, 23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, 24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaks better things than that of Abel. 25 See that you refuse not him that speaks. For if they escaped not who refused him that spoke on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaks from heaven: 26 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he has promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. 27 And this word, Yet once more, signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. 28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: 29 For our God is a consuming fire.”

The Greek words translated “great earthquake” are megas seismos, and of the seven times the phrase is used it is only once rendered differently. In Matthew 8:24 it is a “great tempest” telling of a great agitation of the sea, the waves of it overwhelming the ship and those in it. This is telling of our time of great trouble and the LORD seeing it knowing He must rise up and decisively intervene, to calm those panicking.

Here is the definition of the word seismos from the Strong’s Greek Dictionary: Strong’s #4578: seismos (pronounced sice-mos’) from 4579 [seio, meaning agitate]; a commotion, i.e. (of the air) a gale, (of the ground) an earthquake:–earthquake, tempest.

The phrase “great earthquake” also appear in Acts 16:26 as what shakes the foundation of the prison, and not only freeing those held therein but also waking the prison keepers. Acts 16:26 And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one’s bands were loosed. 27 And the keeper of the prison awaking out of his sleep, and seeing the prison doors open, he drew out his sword, and would have killed himself, supposing that the prisoners had been fled. 28 But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, Do thyself no harm: for we are all here. 29 Then he called for a light, and sprang in, and came trembling, and fell down before Paul and Silas, 30 And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? 31 And they said, Believe on the LORD Jesus Christ, and you shall be saved, and your house. 32 And they spoke unto him the word of the LORD, and to all that were in his house.

What we see in Revelation 16 as the seventh vial is poured out are heaven and earth being joined. It begins with the shout of “it is done,” and what is spoken is seen in its culmination in Revelation 21. All between is the victory over the confusion (Babylon – babble), and worthlessness of the advice of those opposing God and His truth. In restoring truth to discourse the effect of bad advice is reversed (comprehensions replaces delusion) and the victory is realized over corruption’s resulting death of humanity.

Revelation 16
16 And He gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.
17 And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, “It is done.”
18 And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great.

Revelation 21
1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.
2 And I John saw the holy city, New Jerusalem [taught and founded upon the ways of peace and security – civilization], coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.
4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
5 And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.
6 And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.
7 He that overcomes shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.
8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
9 And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will show you the bride, the Lamb’s wife.
10 And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God…

Verse 4 above include a quote from Isaiah 25:8 giving us the full contextual meaning of this being victory over death, and “He shall wipe away all tears from our eyes.” Remember this chapter is also quoted in 1 Corinthians 15:54 when it says, “death is swallowed up in victory.” Here is the context as it tells of our putting off these corrupted ways and returning to the purity found in truth: “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.”

Isaiah 25
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 a 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 [the atmosphere of deceit and reality altered with bad intentions], and the veil that is spread over all nations.
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.

I would like to bring everyone’s attention to focus on the plan as we have recently seen it. It is what we looked at and is written in Revelation 16. There we saw the waters are dried up so we could see the death in the counsel of the world’s experts and establishment leaders. So, now they ramble on as they do, telling what this or that means and how we should think this or that. We have also in recent days looked at these same people as the greatest liars of our time and know that when they speak they are trying to cause people to act upon the deception they are spinning. They are liars and deceiver and why do people expect them to do anything different?

So, as we saw in Revelation 16 the next phase, after the waters are dried so we see their methods of deception, is in them doing the same things now plainly seen they are being gathered into the final battle of Armageddon. We saw the translated name as telling of the battle looming (swelling to culmination) and gathering the combatants to it. We are told in Revelation 16:13 of this gathering itself as causing us to better see what is coming out the mouth of these people. In the chapter we see all the effects of these men’s counsel, beginning with the first vial, as marked men it is seen as their worthless toil (noisome and grievous) as an ulcer (sore) rising (looming) in their mind.

The second and third vial being poured out compounds upon the first condition and the waters are turned to blood. As we haves studied this is telling of the words of advice that flow from these men and it draining the life from the world hearing it and taking their advice. All living in the sea die from its waters, and their rivers flowing corrupt information and teaching becomes as blood and produce the same life draining effect.

The next vial is the sun scorching men, and is telling of the church no longer shinning God’s light on the earth but now actually consuming men as fuel for its fire. The fifth seal is upon the kingdom (civil government) and they are all turned to darkness.

All these in essence are telling of the Genesis 1 account and the earth becoming without form, and void (confused and worthless – tohuw bohuw). The sixth seal is the Spirit of God moving upon the face of the water – here drying up the waters flowing from the men who are deceiving and destroying the whole earth.

We see what is coming out of their mouths as unclean spirits, as if frog once dwelling unseen in the waters unable to be concealed any longer.

I ask you do you see them? The news media, the so-called intellectual elites, the pop culture icons, the corrupted political establishments in both parties, the religious thieves and the race hustlers, all the merchants of hate and deception, the prognosticator and wizards of our time, do you see them clearly? They aren’t able to hide it any longer. If you can’t see it, I am sorry to inform you, you are one of the dead.

These world’s great men are being gathered for this reason and for the grandest of all events in all human history.

And no, they don’t see it. Their hearts have been hardened just a Pharaoh’s was, and they are in like manner blinded by pride and conceit. They have no idea they aren’t in control. They have no idea it is done.

Revelation 16
1 And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth.
2 And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image.
3 And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea.
4 And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood.
5 And I heard the angel of the waters say, You are righteous, O LORD, which are, and was, and shall be, because you have judged thus.
6 For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and you have given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.
7 And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, LORD God Almighty, true and righteous are your judgments.
8 And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.
9 And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which has power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.
10 And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain,
11 And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds.
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.
13 And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.
14 For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.
15 Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watches, and keeps his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.
16 And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.
17 And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done.
18 And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great.
19 And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.
20 And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found.
21 And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great.

Continuing our discussion of the LORD standing up in judgment with the experts and rulers of our corrupted time, and this being His proving in/from Whom His voice/counsel is heard. We will begin today with the specific statement regarding this point found in Isaiah 3, “13 The LORD stands up to plead, and stands to judge the people. 14 The LORD will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof: for you have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses.”

The original Hebrew text paints a much more detailed picture of this event. The first part of the statement actually says the LORD takes His position to contend in a controversy. The words translated “stand up” and “to plead” are natsab, meaning to station; and riyb or ruwb, literally meaning to toss, as in grapple. It is mostly used figuratively, as in to wrangle, as to hold a controversy, (by implication) to defend. What we see is the LORD stationing Himself in a fixed position, and setting Himself there to defend it. The position is in upholding His standard and counsel in establishing us by/in Covenant and Constitution.

The passage goes on to declare this “stand” is to “judge” the “people.” Here the word “stand” if from the word ‘amad, meaning to stand, in the sense of having stationed Himself therein continuing. The word “judge” is from diyn, or duwn, meaning to rule, as in to judge the law, to issue a ruling in the afore mentioned controversy. The word “people” is from the word ‘am, meaning a congregated group, and here specifically the house of the promise (The Houses of God, church and state).

Next we read, “The LORD will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof: for you have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses.”

In this case “enter into judgment” means the LORD will enter (with) His verdict against the accused. The word “enter” is from the Hebrew bow’, meaning to come, as the judge returning to the courtroom to give His verdict. The word “judgment” here is from mishpat, literally meaning a verdict pronounced judicially. In this we therefore see the verdict is pronounced against the “ancients” and “princes” who rule over these “houses.”

The entire picture is seen from a different but similar view when the same Hebrew word zaqen, translated “ancients,” is used in Psalms 105:22. There it is used to describe Joseph’s trial and his being proven by the word of the LORD. Those knowing the story know Joseph is the one who had been separated from His brothers after they sold him into slavery. We know it was because he had a dream wherein he saw the sun, moon and the star all bowing to him. We know this dream as telling of the sun and moon as the governments of church and state, and the stars as those having their positions in fixed positions in heaven with the LORD.

We know Joseph was cast into prison after being falsely accused and there he was, by the talent and Spirit guidance the LORD had given him, able to discern the meanings of things others were unable to understand.

The Psalm describes it as his being “tried” by the word of the LORD. It chronologically says the imprisonment was until the word came, the word here “came” is the same word bow’ above translated as “enter.” The word translated “word” is dabar, literally meaning a matter as spoken of. It is telling of the LORD again issuing his verdict in the matter/case at hand, and doing so though His word in/by a man. This is how the LORD proves it to be the truth.

Here is the verse (19) in the context of it describing the age as beginning by the LORD speaking through Joseph, and it ending as the next begins with the LORD speaking through Moses .

Psalms 105
16 Moreover he called for a famine upon the land: he brake the whole staff of bread.
17 He sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was sold for a servant:
18 Whose feet they hurt with fetters: he was laid in iron:
19 Until the time that his word came: the word of the LORD tried him.
20 The king sent and loosed him; even the ruler of the people, and let him go free.
21 He made him LORD of his house, and ruler of all his substance:
22 To bind his princes at his pleasure; and teach his senators wisdom.
23 Israel also came into Egypt; and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.
24 And he increased his people greatly; and made them stronger than their enemies.
25 He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal subtilly with his servants.
26 He sent Moses his servant; and Aaron whom he had chosen.

The word translated “word” the second time in verse 19 above is ‘imrah, meaning to say. It is literally telling of the LORD’s spoken word coming through this person. The word “tried” is tsaraph, meaning to fuse, as in metal taking the shape of something under it. The principle is the person becomes the LORD’s representative or ambassador, vested with all His authority and Character (in His name I Am). It is figuratively used in the sense of refining. It is the word “tried” used in Daniel 12:10 to tell of this time. Daniel begins by telling of the end being when one comes in this same manner. We are told of it using a name that defines the manner and that he will as in Isaiah 3:13 “stand up.” This is the same word ‘amad translated “stands” in telling of the LORD as the one presiding over the matter/case through this person he sends with His authority.

Daniel 12
1 And at that time shall Michael (he who is the likeness of God) stand up, the great prince which stand for the children of your people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time your people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
2 And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
3 And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.
4 But you, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
5 Then I Daniel looked, and, behold, there stood other two, the one on this side of the bank of the river, and the other on that side of the bank of the river.
6 And one said to the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, How long shall it be to the end of these wonders?
7 And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and swore by him that lives for ever that it shall be for a time, times, and an half; and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished.
8 And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my LORD, what shall be the end of these things?
9 And he said, Go your way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.
10 Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried [tsaraph]; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.
11 And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that makes desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days.
12 Blessed is he that waits, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days.
13 But go you your way till the end be: for you shalt rest, and stand in your lot at the end of the days.

This brings us back to the sentence, and the word translated as “ancients” in Isaiah 3:13. It is the same word rendered “senators” in Psalms 105:22. It is telling of the verdict being to bind those in these seats of power and control. It is to bind them because they have robbed and plundered by abusing those of their own house, and doing so by using their power in a way that it was never intended.

Friend, this is the common trait among these people now occupying these seats in church and state. They all refuse to reform because they refuse to give up their power and all their conceptions of what they are supposed to be doing. They want to rule as lords over God’s heritage as they direct and divide every aspect of life, liberty and property. They control to keep the wealthy and powerful wealthy and powerful, and do it at the cost of poor and their lesser classes. There is no upward mobility because it would mean putting the wealthy and powerful at risk. That is the goal of the system as it stands, eliminate risk and guarantee increase to those with power and influence as all else stagnates or declines. The system as it stands is self-consuming and will collapse.

1 Peter 5
1 The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:
2 Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;
3 Neither as being lords over God’s heritage, but being examples to the flock.
4 And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, you shall receive a crown of glory that fades not away.
5 Likewise, you younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resists the proud, and gives grace to the humble.
6 Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:
7 Casting all your care upon him; for he cares for you.
8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walks about, seeking whom he may devour:
9 Whom resist steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.
10 But the God of all grace, who has called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that you have suffered a while, make you perfect, establish, strengthen, settle you.
11 To him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
12 By Silvanus, a faithful brother unto you, as I suppose, I have written briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God wherein you stand.
13 The church that is at Babylon, elected together with you, salutes you; and so doth Marcus my son.
14 Greet you one another with a kiss of charity. Peace be with you all that are in Christ Jesus. Amen.

Psalms 118
1 O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: because his mercy endures for ever.
2 Let Israel now say, that his mercy endures for ever.
3 Let the house of Aaron now say, that his mercy endures for ever.
4 Let them now that fear the LORD say, that his mercy endures for ever.
5 I called upon the LORD in distress: the LORD answered me, and set me in a large place.
6 The LORD is on my side; I will not fear: what can man do unto me?
7 The LORD takes my part with them that help me: therefore shall I see my desire upon them that hate me.
8 It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man.
9 It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in princes.
10 All nations compassed me about: but in the name of the LORD will I destroy them.
11 They compassed me about; yea, they compassed me about: but in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.
12 They compassed me about like bees: they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.
13 You have thrust sore at me that I might fall: but the LORD helped me.
14 The LORD is my strength and song, and is become my salvation.
15 The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tabernacles of the righteous: the right hand of the LORD doeth valiantly.
16 The right hand of the LORD is exalted: the right hand of the LORD doeth valiantly.
17 I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the LORD.
18 The LORD has chastened me sore: but he has not given me over unto death.
19 Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will go into them, and I will praise the LORD:
20 This gate of the LORD, into which the righteous shall enter.
21 I will praise you: for you have heard me, and are become my salvation.
22 The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner.
23 This is the LORD’s doing; it is marvelous in our eyes.
24 This is the day which the LORD has made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.
25 Save now, I beseech you, O LORD: O LORD, I beseech you, send now prosperity.
26 Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the LORD: we have blessed you out of the house of the LORD.
27 God is the LORD, which has showed us light: bind the sacrifice with cords, even unto the horns of the altar.
28 You are my God, and I will praise you: you are my God, I will exalt you.
29 O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endures for ever.

This is the sentence from the LORD:

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 driven 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.

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.
6 And he said unto me, These sayings are faithful and true: and the LORD God of the holy prophets sent his angel to show unto his servants the things which must shortly be done.
7 Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he that keeps the sayings of the prophecy of this book.
8 And I John saw these things, and heard them. And when I had heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel which showed me these things.
9 Then said he unto me, See you do it not: for I am your fellow-servant, and of your brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book: worship God.
10 And he said unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand.
11 He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.
12 And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.
13 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.
14 Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
15 For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loves and makes a lie.
16 I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.
17 And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that hears say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.
18 For I testify unto every man that hears the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:
19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.
20 He which testifies these things says, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, LORD Jesus.
21 The grace of our LORD Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.