Author: wordofgod

Today more detail on yesterday’s mention of God’s choosing whom every He will to lead His people. I will begin by telling of how much it distresses me to hear people who should be allies poised to win a great battle instead filled with bitterness and at each other’s throats as they are agitated by the accusation of those knowing nothing but how to open wounds and then aggravate them. In the end what we will wind up with is the open wound and nothing else.

Let’s begin with remembering our destination, heavenly Jerusalem. This is OUR destination not that of the worldly enemies of God. Hebrews 12 tells of this destination by first describing the way into it. We are instructed to follow peace and to do so to avoid the bitterness that ensues and defiles many. The chapter goes on to tell of the two destinations; the one burning with fire and the other mount Zion, which we are told is heavenly Jerusalem. This is the way to the city we seek.

We are further told of this bitterness being between bothers as it is symbolized in telling of Esau selling his birthright and of his self-produced rejection.

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

This passages and context are further defining what is written in Psalms 122 of praying for the peace of Jerusalem. There we see it described by telling of the thrones of justice, the testimony and the peace. These are describing the same instruction and correction we see early in Hebrews 12. The “testimony” is the Ark of the Lord’s Testimony (the Covenant found), and is being used to fully explain the context of the full literal meaning of Jerusalem. As we have examined in the past it is a compound word comprised of the Hebrew words Yarah and shalam. Following are the Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary definitions of the words:

Strong’s #3384: yarah (pronounced yaw-raw’) or (2 Chr. 26:15) yara; {yaw-raw’}; a primitive root; properly, to flow as water (i.e. to rain); transitively, to lay or throw (especially an arrow, i.e. to shoot); figuratively, to point out (as if by aiming the finger), to teach:–(+) archer, cast, direct, inform, instruct, lay, shew, shoot, teach(-er,-ing), through.

Strong’s #7999: shalam (pronounced shaw-lam’) a primitive root; to be safe (in mind, body or estate); figuratively, to be (causatively, make) completed; by implication, to be friendly; by extension, to reciprocate (in various applications):–make amends, (make an) end, finish, full, give again, make good, (re-)pay (again), (make) (to) (be at) peace(-able), that is perfect, perform, (make) prosper(-ous), recompense, render, requite, make restitution, restore, reward, X surely.

This is the way of peace as it is taught and intended by God. It is the way of civilization. The opposite is what the world teaches; war against even those of your own house. The way of peace is reciprocal security and the self-governing it yields. These are the founding principles of our nation, all men equal and afforded the same security in life, liberty and estate no matter their temporal station. This is what we teach and what we strive to achieve for any who will live under this same rule. This is the kingdom of God. Don’t let the ways of the world steal our victory away.

(So, my wife and son are for Trump and I am for Cruz. If I follow the example of our current society I should destroy these relationships by calling them every type of vile name and they should return the same to me. When it’s over what have we gained?)

Following are the two chapters and another Psalm that tells of the reaction I expect but do not desire. It is also worth noting that Hebrews 13:1 begins by telling us to let Philadelphia continue. The word is translated as “brotherly love.” I will also paste this chapter.

Hebrews 12
1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
3 For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
4 Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.
5 And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaks unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:
6 For whom the Lord loves he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives.
7 If ye endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chastens not?
8 But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye illegitimate, and not sons.
9 Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?
10 For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.
11 Now no chastening for the present seems to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.
12 Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;
13 And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.
14 Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
15 Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;
16 Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.
17 For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.
18 For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
19 And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard demanded that the word should not be spoken to them any more:
20 (For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart:
21 And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:)
22 But ye are come unto mount Sion, 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 ye 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 speaketh from heaven:
26 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath 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.

Psalms 122
1 I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the Lord.
2 Our feet shall stand within thy gates, O Jerusalem.
3 Jerusalem is builded as a city that is compact together:
4 Whither the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord, unto the testimony of Israel, to give thanks unto the name of the Lord.
5 For there are set thrones of judgment, the thrones of the house of David.
6 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee.
7 Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces.
8 For my brethren and companions’ sakes, I will now say, “Peace be within thee.”
9 Because of the house of the Lord our God I will seek thy good.

Psalm 120
1 In my distress I cried unto the Lord, and he heard me.
2 Deliver my soul, O Lord, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.
3 What shall be given unto thee? or what shall be done unto thee, thou false tongue?
4 Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.
5 Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar!
6 My soul hath long dwelt with him that hates peace.
7 I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war.

Hebrews 13
1 Let brotherly love continue.
2 Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
3 Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.
4 Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
5 Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
6 So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.
7 Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation.
8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
9 Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.
10 We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle.
11 For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp.
12 Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.
13 Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.
14 For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.
15 By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.
16 But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
17 Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.
18 Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live honestly.
19 But I beseech you the rather to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner.
20 Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,
21 Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
22 And I beseech you, brethren, suffer the word of exhortation: for I have written a letter unto you in few words.
23 Know ye that our brother Timothy is set at liberty; with whom, if he come shortly, I will see you.
24 Salute all them that have the rule over you, and all the saints. They of Italy salute you.
25 Grace be with you all. Amen.

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Today a sensible conversation about the economy, sound economic principles absent in our time and lacking these the predictable inevitable stagnation, decline and collapse we are experiencing. This will be a discussion of reality denied, the ensuing systematic self-destruction of our national economic underpinnings, and of the remaining vitality mischaracterized as signifying economic health by those implementing the destructive policy.

We often hear conservative politicians speak of reducing regulation as one the key aspects of reinvigorating the national economy. While it is true that overregulation’s restriction and expense stifle growth as they drain off resources, in our time their most detrimental effects are the uncertainty they produce. The regulatory environment has become a never-ending series of deflections away from the ideas of profit and efficiency. (I have a friend who defines these types of self-serving self-gratifying systems as “self-licking ice cream cones.” They are regulation for the sake of regulation, and in the name of the “greater good” they do greater harm in unintended and ill-considered consequences. Their effect by intention or ignorance is to draw away the resources typically applies to growth and efficient production.)

Here is what Alexander Hamilton and James Madison said in Federalist 62 of this ever-changing regulatory environment: “Every new regulation concerning commerce or revenue, or in any way affecting the value of the different species of property, presents a new harvest to those who watch the change, and can trace its consequences; a harvest, reared not by themselves, but by the toils and cares of the great body of their fellow-citizens. This is a state of things in which it may be said with some truth that laws are made for the FEW, not for the MANY.”

Those seeking to put their fortune and futures at risk (the entrepreneur) in creating new businesses or expanding an existing one, understanding these basic truths of human nature, will be hesitant to the same proportion as is the uncertainty. None in their right mind will put their fortunes at risk when in the future, when they would expect to see a return on their investment, they are uncertain what rules and regulation will be in effect and therefore placing them in jeopardy. Again, here are Hamilton and Madison (Federalist 62) on this very matter: “In another point of view, great injury results from an unstable government. The want of confidence in the public councils damps every useful undertaking, the success and profit of which may depend on a continuance of existing arrangements. What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not but that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed? What farmer or manufacturer will lay himself out for the encouragement given to any particular cultivation or establishment, when he can have no assurance that his preparatory labors and advances will not render him a victim to an inconstant government? In a word, no great improvement or laudable enterprise can go forward which requires the auspices of a steady system of national policy. ”

The paper ends in telling of government such as ours becoming without respect and not deserving of it. This is the result of the “change” we have been forced through by the lawless leadership we have and continue to endure. It destroys public confidence and disappoints “hope.” The closing paragraph where the effects of mutable (ever changing) policy are defined: “But the most deplorable effect of all is that diminution of attachment and reverence which steals into the hearts of the people, towards a political system which betrays so many marks of infirmity, and disappoints so many of their flattering hopes. No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected without being truly respectable; nor be truly respectable, without possessing a certain portion of order and stability.”

This takes us to the next aspect most often heard espoused by conservatives as necessary to increase and revive our economy – reducing taxes.

Our recent and current economic policy relies on economic principles called “Keynesian Economics.” This defines theories, developed by a man name Keynes, which say economic output is influenced (and now regulate) by the amount of cash available in the system. Our national policy has been to control (regulate) the amount of available cash in the US economy by controlling interest rates. (More money available by lower interest rates said to equal more growth – higher rates less money and less growth.) This is the reason why as interest reached and remain at zero the only means remaining to influence the amount of cash in the economy is to print more money to spur growth. (Realistically its result was to keep the dead appearing to have life. (Weekend at Bernie’s))

Rather than explaining this and its contribution to the longevity of the recession let’s rather look at the underlying premise of cash availability as it relates to growth. The contradiction is manifested when the “statists” reject it’s having the same effect when the cash is placed (left) in the hands of its rightful owner – those who produced it. The quickest way to stimulate an economy to is reduce the amount of cash the government takes from it. This is why tax cuts for those paying taxes are the purest form of economic stimulation.

The rejection of tax cuts is based on who has the cash. In the modern era the government decides who gets the increased cash and its motive is the power and control it gains by being the distributor (better defined as the gatherer by taxation and the redistributor). In the form of tax cuts the cash is left in the hand of those who will create and expand economic growth [on Main Street]. In the hand of government it’s given into the hands of its cronies (the largest financial institutions and Mega Corporation). We see the effect as capital pouring into the “Wall Street” bubble as cash creating nothing except more cash (closed system). The creation lacks foundation and when the storm comes it can only be washed away – as with all “bubbles.”

These are the basics at work in our economy. Reversing them are the beginnings of economic recovery. They are the difference between free markets untainted by central engineering, and Socialism (communism) masked in crony capitalism.

There are other great external forces at play against our economy and therefore against “We the people.” In our time the difference is they are a coinciding of interests against us from central governments foreign and domestic. Please suffer with me for a few more sentences as I briefly outline several of them.

(Before continuing I must say while Ted Cruz is my choice for president Donald Trump has a much greater understanding of the economic war that is being waged against us. And I mean “war.” I have no problem with either one becoming president. I think they should be the ticket.)

The first and most import aspect is the trade inequality between the US and the world. Trump seems to be the only one who sees the imbalance with China as predatory on the part of the Chinese. It involves currency manipulation with the intention of keeping their products just under our minimum wage level. In other words they make sure the cost to import their products remain below the level those same produces can be produced domestically due to our minimum wage.

Here we see the manipulation of wages by central governments (ours higher and theirs lower) having a common negative effect on our economy. Our government uses the fact that the products can only be cost effectively produced abroad as justification for allowing their (deregulated) imports, while in fact the reason is our own policy creating the elevated level of cost.

The next and most recent negative influence is the Saudi increased oil output designed to bankrupt US oil production. There is no response by our government because the Saudi and US Administrations have the common interest of destroying our domestic energy production. This also coincides with the Administration’s announcement in recent days that it was (by executive order) halting all new coal leases on federal lands. One can only wonder why at this time of economic decline we would be lessening and endangering our domestic energy capability and the economic activity it produces. We can speculate that the decrease in coal will drive up the need for oil while oil is in an artificially inexpensive abundance due to the Saudi increased output. This could simultaneously increase our dependence on oil while killing of domestic production (coal, gas and oil), and leave as its result an even greater dependence on foreign oil imports once these occur.

I will stop here and leave you with this one undeniable conclusion; we have a government that now acts in the interest of its friends, foreign and domestic, at the cost of who our Constitution demands it represent, We the people. “This is a state of things in which it may be said with some truth that laws are made for the FEW, not for the MANY.”

Paid for by TimD2016 – Tim D’Annunzio for Congress – www.timvote.com

Today a sensible conversation about the economy, sound economic principles absent in our time and lacking these the predictable inevitable stagnation, decline and collapse we are experiencing. This will be a discussion of reality denied, the ensuing systematic self-destruction of our national economic underpinnings, and of the remaining vitality mischaracterized as signifying economic health by those implementing the destructive policy.

We often hear conservative politicians speak of reducing regulation as one the key aspects of reinvigorating the national economy. While it is true that overregulation’s restriction and expense stifle growth as they drain off resources, in our time their most detrimental effects are the uncertainty they produce. The regulatory environment has become a never-ending series of deflections away from the ideas of prophet and efficiency. (I have a friend who defines these types of self-serving self-gratifying systems as “self-licking ice cream cones.” They are regulation for the sake of regulation, and in the name of the “greater good” they do greater harm in unintended and ill-considered consequences. Their effect by intention or ignorance is to draw away the resources typically applies to growth and efficient production.)

Here is what Alexander Hamilton and James Madison said in Federalist 62 of this ever-changing regulatory environment: “Every new regulation concerning commerce or revenue, or in any way affecting the value of the different species of property, presents a new harvest to those who watch the change, and can trace its consequences; a harvest, reared not by themselves, but by the toils and cares of the great body of their fellow-citizens. This is a state of things in which it may be said with some truth that laws are made for the FEW, not for the MANY.”

Those seeking to put their fortune and futures at risk (the entrepreneur) in creating new businesses or expanding an existing one, understanding these basic truths of human nature, will be hesitant to the same proportion as is the uncertainty. None in their right mind will put their fortunes at risk when in the future, when they would expect to see a return on their investment, they are uncertain what rules and regulation will be in effect and therefore placing them in jeopardy. Again, here are Hamilton and Madison (Federalist 62) on this very matter: “In another point of view, great injury results from an unstable government. The want of confidence in the public councils damps every useful undertaking, the success and profit of which may depend on a continuance of existing arrangements. What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not but that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed? What farmer or manufacturer will lay himself out for the encouragement given to any particular cultivation or establishment, when he can have no assurance that his preparatory labors and advances will not render him a victim to an inconstant government? In a word, no great improvement or laudable enterprise can go forward which requires the auspices of a steady system of national policy. ”

The paper ends in telling of government such as ours becoming without respect and not deserving of it. This is the result of the “change” we have been forced through by the lawless leadership we have and continue to endure. It destroys public confidence and disappoints “hope.” The closing paragraph where the effects of mutable (ever changing) policy are defined: “But the most deplorable effect of all is that diminution of attachment and reverence which steals into the hearts of the people, towards a political system which betrays so many marks of infirmity, and disappoints so many of their flattering hopes. No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected without being truly respectable; nor be truly respectable, without possessing a certain portion of order and stability.”

This takes us to the next aspect most often heard espoused by conservatives as necessary to increase and revive our economy – reducing taxes.

Our recent and current economic policy relies on economic principles called “Keynesian Economics.” This defines theories, developed by a man name Keynes, which say economic output is influenced (and now regulate) by the amount of cash available in the system. Our national policy has been to control (regulate) the amount of available cash in the US economy by controlling interest rates. (More money available by lower interest rates said to equal more growth – higher rates less money and less growth.) This is the reason why as interest reached and remain at zero the only means remaining to influence the amount of cash in the economy is to print more money to spur growth. (Realistically its result was to keep the dead appearing to have life. (Weekend at Bernie’s))

Rather than explaining this and its contribution to the longevity of the recession let’s rather look at the underlying premise of cash availability as it relates to growth. The contradiction is manifested when the “statists” reject it’s having the same effect when the cash is placed (left) in the hands of its rightful owner – those who produced it. The quickest way to stimulate an economy to is reduce the amount of cash the government takes from it. This is why tax cuts for those paying taxes are the purest form of economic stimulation.

The rejection of tax cuts is based on who has the cash. In the modern era the government decides who gets the increased cash and its motive is the power and control it gains by being the distributor (better defined as the gatherer by taxation and the redistributor).  In the form of tax cuts the cash is left in the hand of those who will create and expand economic growth [on Main Street]. In the hand of government it’s given into the hands of its cronies (the largest financial institutions and Mega Corporation). We see the effect as capital pouring into the “Wall Street” bubble as cash creating nothing except more cash (closed system). The creation lacks foundation and when the storm comes it can only be washed away – as with all “bubbles.”

These are the basics at work in our economy. Reversing them are the beginnings of economic recovery. They are the difference between free markets untainted by central engineering, and Socialism (communism) masked in crony capitalism.

There are other great external forces at play against our economy and therefore against “We the people.” In our time the difference is they are a coinciding of interests against us from central governments foreign and domestic. Please suffer with me for a few more sentences as I briefly outline several of them.

(Before continuing I must say while Ted Cruz is my choice for president Donald Trump has a much greater understanding of the economic war that is being waged against us. And I mean “war.” I have no problem with either one becoming president. I think they should be the ticket.)

The first and most import aspect is the trade inequality between the US and the world. Trump seems to be the only one who sees the imbalance with China as predatory on the part of the Chinese. It involves currency manipulation with the intention of keeping their products just under our minimum wage level. In other words they make sure the cost to import their products remain below the level those same produces can be produced domestically due to our minimum wage.

Here we see the manipulation of wages by central governments (ours higher and theirs lower) having a common negative effect on our economy.   Our government uses the fact that the products can only be cost effectively produced abroad as justification for allowing their (deregulated) imports, while in fact the reason is our own policy creating the elevated level of cost.

The next and most resent negative influence is the Saudi increased oil output designed to bankrupt US oil production. There is no response by our government because the Saudi and US Administrations have the common interest of destroying our domestic energy production. This also coincides with the Administration’s announcement in recent days that it was (by executive order) halting all new coal leases on federal lands. One can only wonder why at this time of economic decline we would be lessening and endangering our domestic energy capability and the economic activity it produces. We can speculate that the decrease in coal will drive up the need for oil while oil is in an artificially inexpensive abundance due to the Saudi increased output. This could simultaneously increase our dependence on oil while killing of domestic production (coal, gas and oil), and leave as its result an even greater dependence on foreign oil imports once these occur.

I will stop here and leave you with this one undeniable conclusion; we have a government that now acts in the interest of its friends, foreign and domestic, at the cost of who our Constitution demands it represent, We the people. “This is a state of things in which it may be said with some truth that laws are made for the FEW, not for the MANY.”

Paid for by TimD2016 – Tim D’Annunzio for Congress – www.timvote.com

 

 

 

The word that came from the LORD (Jehovah) saying, Hear the words of this covenant, and speak unto the men who rule in this land, and to the inhabitants of New Jerusalem that I founded in My teaching; And say unto them, Thus says the LORD God of This Nation that will rule as God, because I am among them; Cursed be the man that obeys not the words of this covenant, Which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the lands from the four corners of the earth, from the iron furnace, saying, Obey My voice, and do them, according to all which I command you: so shall ye be My people, and I will be your God: That I may perform the oath which I have sworn unto your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is this day.

Then answered I, and said, So be it, O LORD.

Then the LORD said unto me, Proclaim all these words in the capitol cities of the land, and in the streets of New Jerusalem, saying, Hear the words of this covenant, and do them. For I earnestly protested unto your fathers in the day that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even unto this day, rising early and protesting, saying, Obey My voice. Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked every one in the imagination of their evil heart: therefore I brought upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do: but they did them not.

And the Lord said unto me, A conspiracy is found among the rules and leader of My land, and among the inhabitants of New Jerusalem. They are turned back to the iniquities of those stiff necked forefathers, which refused to hear my words; and they went after other gods to serve them: the whole house of those that I intended to shine my light into the world in My name and the whole house of those that rule over my people have broken My covenant which I made with their fathers.

Therefore thus says the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon THEM, which THEY shall not be able to escape; and though THEY shall cry unto me, I will not hearken unto THEM. Then shall the capitol cities and inhabitants (the ruling class in church and state) go, and cry unto the gods unto whom they offer incense: but they shall not save them at all in the time of their trouble. For according to the number of their cities were their gods, O rulers; and according to the number of the streets of New Jerusalem have ye set up altars to that shameful thing, even altars to burn incense unto the gods of this evil world. Therefore pray not thou for this people (the ruling class – the corrupted leaders), neither lift up a cry or prayer for THEM: for I will not hear THEM in the time that THEY cry unto me for THEIR trouble.

What hath my beloved (My church – My people) to do in My house, seeing she has wrought lewdness with many, and the holy flesh is passed from thee? when you defile yourself with evil, then you rejoice.

The LORD called you by name, A green olive tree, fair, and of good fruit: with the noise of a great tumult He hath kindled fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken. For the LORD of hosts (His heavenly armies), that planted you, hath pronounced evil against you, for the evil of corrupted church, and of the corrupted state, which they have done against themselves to provoke Me to anger in offering incense unto their false gods of this world.
And the LORD has given me knowledge of it, and I know it: then He showed me their doings. But I was like a Lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered. But, O LORD of the Armies of Heaven, that judges righteously, that tries the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I revealed my cause.

Therefore thus says the LORD of the men who should heed His words, that seek to take my life, saying, Prophesy not in the name of the LORD, that you die not by our hand: Therefore says the LORD of the Armies of Heaven, Behold, I will punish Them: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine: And there shall be no remnant of THEM: for I will release evil upon the men who should heed My words, even the year of their visitation.

Hebrews 12
1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
3 For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
4 Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.
5 And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaks unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:
6 For whom the Lord loves he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives.
7 If ye endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chastens not?
8 But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye illegitimate, and not sons.
9 Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?
10 For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.
11 Now no chastening for the present seems to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.
12 Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;
13 And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.
14 Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
15 Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;
16 Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.
17 For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.
18 For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
19 And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard demanded that the word should not be spoken to them any more:
20 (For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart:
21 And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:)
22 But ye 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 ye 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 hath 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.

Revelation 14
1 And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Zion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father’s name written in their foreheads.
2 And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps:
3 And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth.
4 These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goes. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb.
5 And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God.
6 And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people,
7 Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.
8 And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.
9 And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand,
10 The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:
11 And the smoke of their torment ascends up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receives the mark of his name (the mark of the slave doing their masters’ work).
12 Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.
13 And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, says the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them.
14 And I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle.
15 And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, Thrust in thy sickle, and reap: for the time is come for thee to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe.
16 And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped.
17 And another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven, he also having a sharp sickle.
18 And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.
19 And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.
20 And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.

Continuing with the fulfillment and today beginning with a question each of us must ask ourselves. When we truthfully answer we will judge ourselves as to whether or not we have reached the point of fulfillment discussed in the previous post. The question follows the traits (beatitudes) in Matthew 5 defining what we are filled with. As we examined in the later verses (17 & 18) the Greek word used to define this fulfilling is pleroo, having the meaning of cramming full, and is what we realized is the LORD coming to resupply us with what we need to continue our journey. We see this context in the question He asked about the salt losing its saltiness and we are told that when this happens it as if the world loses its light.

Therefore, on to the question; have you been “persecuted for righteousness’ sake?” Have you experienced a point when men revile you, and persecute you, and say all manner of evil against you falsely, for the Lord’s sake?

Matthew 5
10 Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
11 Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
13 Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.
14 Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.
15 Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it gives light unto all that are in the house.
16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill.
18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
19 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
20 For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.

These are the test mechanisms (judgments) that tell us if we have been so crammed full with the salty taste that it flows out of us as an uncontainable light. We aren’t talking about preaching to the choir (those singing the same song you are – but rather we are speaking of singing the new song). We must remind ourselves again, this is in the context of the beatitudes.

We must take a short moment here to understand the idea of what makes something “beautiful.” The Greek word used in this context is found in recording the Lord’s words in

Matthew 23:27 when telling of outward and inward beauty. There we see His addressing the religious leaders about their working on the outward and forgetting the law, judgment, mercy and faith, the inward beautifiers. The definition is of salt without any taste left in it, and their world [as ours] without light.

The Greek word translated “beautiful” is horaios. It is derived form of the word hora, meaning hour, and in this we see beauty intended to mean something that is belonging to the right hour.

Here is the Strong’s Greek Dictionary definition: Strong’s #5611: horaios (pronounced ho-rah’-yos) from 5610 (hora; hour); belonging to the right hour or season (timely), i.e. (by implication) flourishing (beauteous (figuratively)):–beautiful.

Matthew 23
23 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
24 Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.
25 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.
26 Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.
27 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness.
28 Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
29 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,
30 And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.
31 Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.
32 Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
33 Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
34 Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city:
35 That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.
36 Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.
37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that kills the prophets, and stones them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!
38 Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.
39 For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.

The word horaios is only used four times and the final use in Romans 10:15 telling of all the above context when speaking of it being preaching the Gospel. There we also see it as first and indictment of God’s people (us) falling away from His knowledge. The chapter goes on to tell of our finding the resupply as we are first filled with the traits and then as His light flows from our mouths. Read the chapter in this context.

Romans 10
1 Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved.
2 For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.
3 For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.
4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.
5 For Moses described the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them.
6 But the righteousness which is of faith speaks on this wise, Say not in your heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down from above:)
7 Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.)
8 But what does it say? The word is near you, even in your mouth, and in your heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach;
9 That if thou will confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in your heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
11 For the scripture says, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.
12 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.
13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
14 How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?
15 And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written (Isaiah 52:7), How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!
16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah (53:1) says, Lord, who hath believed our report?
17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
18 But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world.
19 But I say, Did not Israel know? First Moses said, I will provoke you to jealousy by them that are no people, and by a foolish nation I will anger you.
20 But Isaiah (65:1) is very bold, and says, I was found of them that sought me not; I was made manifest unto them that asked not after me.
21 But to Israel he says, All day long I have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people.

After we have evaluated ourselves and found that we have been filled and prepared to continue our mission we should also realized this is our final push to the destination of our time. Hebrews 12 first tells of the destination reached, and then in chapter 13 we are called to go out of our comfort to meet the Lord as we bear His reproach. The context and the quotes are telling us of this being cross referenced with Psalms 118. I am going to paste these scriptures following.

In closing I exhort you, as Moses lifted the serpent, lift the LORD even higher, bearing His reproach as His Great Light shines through us in this darkened world. I am assured (by His provisions) that we will pass when tested. This is our hour and all things have become beautiful in our time.

Hebrews 12
22 But ye 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 ye 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 hath 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.

Hebrews 13
1 Let brotherly love continue.
2 Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
3 Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.
4 Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
5 Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
6 So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.
7 Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation.
8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
9 Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.
10 We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle.
11 For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp.
12 Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.
13 Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.
14 For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.
15 By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.
16 But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
17 Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.
18 Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live honestly.
19 But I beseech you the rather to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner.
20 Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,
21 Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well-pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
22 And I beseech you, brethren, suffer the word of exhortation: for I have written a letter unto you in few words.
23 Know ye that our brother Timothy is set at liberty; with whom, if he come shortly, I will see you.
24 Salute all them that have the rule over you, and all the saints. They of Italy salute you.
25 Grace be with you all. Amen.

Psalm 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 Thou hast 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 hath chastened me sore: but he hath 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 thee: for thou hast heard me, and art 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 marvellous in our eyes.
24 This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.
25 Save now, I beseech thee, O Lord: O Lord, I beseech thee, 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 hath showed us light: bind the sacrifice with cords, even unto the horns of the altar.
28 Thou art my God, and I will praise thee: thou art my God, I will exalt thee.
29 O give thanks unto the Lord; for he is good: for his mercy endures for ever.

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Today a few words about the Fulfillment defined in Matthew 5:17 & 18 immediately following the Lord’s explaining how it is achieved. The chapter begins with the Lord having ascended the mountain and setting Himself to worship, opened His mouth and taught. What follows are His defining the traits (beatitudes) of those who would find the kingdom of heaven, be comforted, inherit the earth, be filled with righteousness, find mercy, see God and be called (by Him) the Children of God.

Following He tells of the world’s response, as those standing in the way of His teaching and in fact teaching opposition, attacking those listening and understanding its validity. Seeing the coming kingdom, and the comfort as God’s children prepare to inherit the earth is what the world opposes. As we are also told in John 3 of the coming light, here seen in the righteousness it reproduces as the mercy of God shown and we are saved from condemnation found in the world’s teachings. Therein we see God as He is, and this is what and why it is opposed by the world.

The world’s ridicule and demonization of this teaching are as the serpent’s bites we are also told of in John 3. The remedy therein prescribed is to lift the Lord’s teaching even higher, as if on a mountain where all may see it, as Moses lifted the Serpent in the camp. All who looked on this Serpent (seeing God as He is) were unaffected by these other serpent’s bites, as if their false teaching was annulled and having no effect.

John 3
5 Jesus answered, Truly, truly, I say unto you, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
7 Marvel not that I said unto you, You must be born again.
8 The wind blows where it wills, and you hear the sound thereof, but cannot tell from where it comes, and where it goes: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.
9 Nicodemus answered and said unto him, “How can these things be?”
10 Jesus answered and said unto him, Are you a teacher of Israel, and know not these things?
11 Truly, Truly, I say unto you, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and you receive not our witness.
12 If I have told you earthly things, and you believe not, how shall you believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?
13 And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.
14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:
15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.

This is what we are told of in Matthew 5:17 & 18 where the Lord says He hasn’t come to “destroy” the Law and the Prophets but to “fulfill” them. The Greek word katalou, translated destroy, means to let down. It has a figurative meaning of removing the burden of a beast, or loosing the garments tied up away from the feet of the traveler, in both cases as signifying the end or a pause in the journey. It is the girding we will discuss shortly in further detail. The Greek word translated “fulfill” is pleroo, meaning to cram full. The deeper meaning is the Lord telling He isn’t come to loose us from the provision of our journey but to resupply us with everything we need and much more to carry us forward.

Matthew 5
17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.

The Greek words used in verse 18 tell of none of the law being removed, nor the journey continued (pass – parerchomai), until this repacking (cramming full again) comes into being (fulfilled – ginomai, meaning comes into being).

I am going to post the full chapter of Matthew 5, but before I do a little more on this “girding” as in the resupply that will carry us forward. And a bit more on this being what is for filling our minds with what we need right now to combat the bites of the world.

The gird is spoken of in John 21:18 when the Lord first speaks to Peter about feeding His sheep. The food spoken of is this spiritual food the Lord now sends to us to again fix the gird. This gird is a leather belt used in the same way of holding up the garments so they don’t foul the feet as we travel. It is also folded in a way that money or valuables can be carried in it. Here we are also told of another who would gird us.

John 21
17 He said unto him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, love thou me? Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Love thou me? And he said unto him, Lord, you know all things; you knows that I love you. Jesus said unto him, Feed my sheep.
18 Truly, Truly, I say unto you, When you were young, thou girded thyself, and walked whither you would: but when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou would not.

This passage is in likeness defining the “wind” from John 3 above, and when the Lord says He will send “another” Comforter (Paraclete) in John 14:16.

John 14
15 If you love me, keep my commandments.
16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;
17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it sees him not, neither knows him: but ye know him; for he dwells with you, and shall be in you.

This again takes us back to what follows in John 21 in telling of the disciple who would tarry until the Lord comes.

John 21
22 Jesus saith unto him, If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee? follow thou me.
23 Then went this saying abroad among the brethren, that that disciple should not die: yet Jesus said not unto him, He shall not die; but, If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee?
24 This is the disciple which testifies of these things, and wrote these things: and we know that his testimony is true.
25 And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen.

Next the fulfilling (pleroo – cramming us full again) as it is defined in 2 Thessalonians 1:11.

2 Thessalonians 1 (Read chapter 2 for more on the falling away and those opposing the Lord’s Teaching.)
1 Paul, and Silvanus, and Timothy, unto the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:
2 Grace unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
3 We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith grows exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other abounds;
4 So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure:
5 Which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer:
6 Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you;
7 And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,
8 In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
9 Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;
10 When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.
11 Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfill all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power:
12 That the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Matthew 5
1 And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him:
2 And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying,
3 Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
4 Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.
5 Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.
6 Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
7 Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.
8 Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
9 Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.
10 Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
11 Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
13 Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.
14 Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.
15 Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it gives light unto all that are in the house.
16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill.
18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
19 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
20 For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.
21 Ye have heard that it was said of them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment:
22 But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.
23 Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there remember that thy brother hath ought against thee;
24 Leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.
25 Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison.
26 Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing.
27 Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery:
28 But I say unto you, That whosoever looks on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
29 And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
30 And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
31 It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement:
32 But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causes her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced commits adultery.
33 Again, ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time, Thou shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths:
34 But I say unto you, Swear not at all; neither by heaven; for it is God’s throne:
35 Nor by the earth; for it is his footstool: neither by Jerusalem; for it is the city of the great King.
36 Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black.
37 But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.
38 Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth:
39 But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.
40 And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloak also.
41 And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain.
42 Give to him that asks thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.
43 Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.
44 But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
45 That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he makes his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
46 For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?
47 And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so?
48 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

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

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

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Continuing: Jeremiah 12:5 is the LORD responding to Jeremiah’s complaint about the work of the wicked that has taken hold in the land. The LORD is telling Jeremiah to buck-up. He is asked if this part of the battle has wearied him how is he going to respond when things get rough. “If you have run with the footmen, and they have wearied you, then how can you contend with horses? and if in the land of peace, wherein you trusted, they wearied you, then how will you do in the swelling of Jordan?”

The “swelling of the Jordan” is spoken of again in Jeremiah 49:19 where in context we are told it is when the same wicked in high places are brought down and put to flight. In this chapter those defined in Jeremiah 12:6 as “brethren” who have dealt treacherously (betrayed) are defined as Edom (Esau, Jacob’s brother). It is defining those who are of the same family as Israel but don’t have any part in the promise to inherit the land.

Jeremiah 49
14 I have heard a rumour from the Lord, and an ambassador is sent unto the heathen, saying, Gather ye together, and come against her, and rise up to the battle.
15 For, lo, I will make thee small among the heathen, and despised among men.
16 Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, and the pride of thine heart, O thou that dwells in the clefts of the rock, that holds the height of the hill: though thou should make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, says the Lord.
17 Also Edom shall be a desolation: every one that goes by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof.
18 As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof, says the Lord, no man shall abide there, neither shall a son of man dwell in it.
19 Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan against the habitation of the strong: but I will suddenly make him run away from her: and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over her? for who is like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who is that shepherd that will stand before me?
20 Therefore hear the counsel of the Lord, that he hath taken against Edom; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out: surely he shall make their habitations desolate with them.

The Hebrew word translated “swelling” is ga’own. The meaning is to rise up as in pride, arrogance, or in majesty. Here it is used for those who have grown up together with the LORD’s people, as tares among the wheat. In the above verses those risen up in pride are brought down by “the least of the flock.” And there isn’t a thing they can do about it.

Matthew 13
23 But he that received seed into the good ground is he that hears the word, and understands it; which also bears fruit, and brings forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.
24 Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field:
25 But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.
26 But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also.
27 So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares?
28 He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up?
29 But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them.
30 Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.
31 Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field:
32 Which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.
33 Another parable spoke he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.
34 All these things spoke Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spoke he not unto them:
35 That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world.
36 Then Jesus sent the multitude away, and went into the house: and his disciples came unto him, saying, Declare unto us the parable of the tares of the field.
37 He answered and said unto them, He that sows the good seed is the Son of man;
38 The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one;
39 The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.
40 As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world.
41 The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity;
42 And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
43 Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.
44 Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hides, and for joy thereof goes and sells all that he hath, and buys that field.
45 Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls:
46 Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it.
47 Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind:
48 Which, when it was full, they drew to shore, and sat down, and gathered the good into vessels, but cast the bad away.
49 So shall it be at the end of the world: the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just,
50 And shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
51 Jesus said unto them, Have ye understood all these things? They say unto him, Yea, Lord.
52 Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which brings forth out of his treasure things new and old.
53 And it came to pass, that when Jesus had finished these parables, he departed thence.
54 And when he was come into his own country, he taught them in their synagogue, insomuch that they were astonished, and said, Whence hath this man this wisdom, and these mighty works?
55 Is not this the carpenter’s son? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas?
56 And his sisters, are they not all with us? Whence then hath this man all these things?
57 And they were offended in him. But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house.
58 And he did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief.

Jeremiah 12
1 Righteous art thou, O Lord, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?
2 Thou hast planted them, yea, they have taken root: they grow, yea, they bring forth fruit: thou art near in their mouth, and far from their reins.
3 But thou, O Lord, knows me: thou hast seen me, and tried mine heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.
4 How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of every field wither, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? the beasts are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our last end.
5 If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and if in the land of peace, wherein thou trusted, they wearied thee, then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan?
6 For even thy brethren, and the house of thy father, even they have dealt treacherously with thee; yea, they have called a multitude after thee: believe them not, though they speak fair words unto thee.
7 I have forsaken mine house, I have left mine heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.
8 Mine heritage is unto me as a lion in the forest; it cries out against me: therefore have I hated it.
9 Mine heritage is unto me as a speckled bird, the birds round about are against her; come ye, assemble all the beasts of the field, come to devour.
10 Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.
11 They have made it desolate, and being desolate it mourns unto me; the whole land is made desolate, because no man lays it to heart.
12 The spoilers are come upon all high places through the wilderness: for the sword of the Lord shall devour from the one end of the land even to the other end of the land: no flesh shall have peace.
13 They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns: they have put themselves to pain, but shall not profit: and they shall be ashamed of your revenues because of the fierce anger of the Lord.
14 Thus says the Lord against all mine evil neighbours, that touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit; Behold, I will pluck them out of their land, and pluck out the house of Judah from among them.
15 And it shall come to pass, after that I have plucked them out I will return, and have compassion on them, and will bring them again, every man to his heritage, and every man to his land.
16 And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, The Lord lives; as they taught my people to swear by Baal; then shall they be built in the midst of my people.
17 But if they will not obey, I will utterly pluck up and destroy that nation, says the Lord.

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

I don’t know if you have heard but Franklin Graham has left the Republican Party and become an independent. He announced it is in response to their continued pattern of betraying the foundational beliefs they claim to be the defenders and protectors of. I am assuming he meant things such as Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. The article I read quoted him saying his final reason after many is the latest budget’s continued funding of Planned Parenthood.

If you don’t know Planned Parenthood they are [in true liberal fashion] the opposite of what their name would lead you to believe. They are in the business of un-parenting people by ridding them of their unwanted children. They are the people caught on tape haggling over the price of body parts of the children they would eventually kill. Much of the taped haggling centered on exactly how they would alter the killing procedure to not damage the organs during harvest. One such conversation was about how to keep the head intact so the brain wouldn’t be damaged.

Planned Parenthood defenders later claimed (once caught doing the unthinkable) these were acts of compassion by their soothing the mothers’ conscience by using the child’s body parts for research. They and their coconspirators in the news media then fabricated a story claiming they were “donating” the parts with the consent of those they un-parented. As always they totally reject and alter evidence proving the opposite and reported a version that transforms the brutal premeditated killing, dissection and sale of infant children into some morally superior act of compassion. Of course in this contrived version those protesting the sanctioned barbarism became the evil ones, and their true acts of compassion in the name of the innocent and voiceless children became defined as the morally reprehensible. This is the upside down and backward world we now live in.

The Republican response is to surrender to these reverse definitions and to run away from the principled position. They run to escape the public ridicule and demonization that accompanies doing the right thing. They have talked a “good” game to get elected and vehemently deny they have abandoned us in favor of the comfort and acceptance of the corrupted culture. They say they are for life, for fiscal responsibility and policy correction, for liberty, for the Constitution, for a normal standard of right and wrong, for our national defense both foreign and domestic, all the while doing nothing to enact it. In these last days they have not only abandon the defense of these ideas but now openly change sides and vote with those who oppose each and every one. Those doing so have betrayed the trust placed in them by our votes and therefore they must be removed and replaced.

Nowhere in the nation is this condition more blatantly obvious than in the 2nd District of North Carolina and Renee Ellmers. She claims to be pro life while consistently voting against it and for funding Planned Parenthood. She epitomizes the problem in the Republican Party and in our republic. The response should be to vote these types out in the primary and put people in who are willing to stand in the battle in this most consequential time.

Friends, it’s time for a Revolution – and I am ready for the fight.

Tim D’Annunzio

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Continuing today with an even deeper examination of the Ark of the Testimony and its meaning when it is used in describing the Ark of the Covenant. As we have seen this is a representation of the things the LORD stores away, as if closed in the Ark, to be used when needed to restore life to His people, and NOW to the world. It is the LORD by His Holy Spirit [again] breathing His word, His sealed away counsel, into His sons. This is what has and does overcome the world. It is His Holy Spirit creating the mind of Christ in us, sealed by this as His children, taking his Salvation Testimony into the world. It is our placing our life in His hand with full reliance on His strength and His providence in placing all things under His feet.

Revelation 12
10 And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.
11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.
12 Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knows that he hath but a short time.
13 And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child.
14 And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.
15 And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.
16 And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.
17 And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.

The Testimony that overcomes the world spoken of above is of Jesus Christ (The Testimony of Jehovah’s Salvation in His Anointed).

John speaks of our response when he writes of his humbling himself and being commanded to worshiping God and only Him. We see one sent to deliver the message and him being the same one sent to unseal the Testimony in its time. We read this in Revelation 22, which begins with telling of it as a pure river of water coming directly from the throne of God, it nourishing the tree of life, and the new life shooting from its branches being for the healing of the nations. Again we see the description of counsel come directly from God to those offering their life, as the Lord said and is recorded in Matthew, “whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.” This is life poured out and flowing down to us as rivers of living water. “He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.” This guidance and warning (admonition) is the life of the world and for the healing of the nations.

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 thou do it not: for I am thy fellow-servant, and of thy 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.

This takes us back to Ariel and the LORD’s word to her. It is used of Jerusalem to define her when the wisdom and understanding of the LORD has become as if sealed away. It is when she has covered herself with a covering but not the covering of the LORD. This covering is defined as the counsel coming from those who the LORD has poured a deep sleep upon. It is defining the state of our church and civil leadership at this point in time. They know what they are doing isn’t working but they are going to stay with it because they all agree it is the “wise” thing to do. They disassociate themself from the consequence resulting from the ways they promulgate. The LORD says because of this He will destroy the wisdom of the wise in the world. This is the apocalypse (the uncovering) in our time. And I don’t really care about what they say or how they think it should be done. I speak because I have seen and do know the One in Whom I believe.

Ariel appears in Isaiah 29. The meaning is, Lion of God. The Hebrew word is almost identical to the word for altar. In this context we see the Lion and Lamb of God in telling us of their being inseparable. There is no strength [as the lion] without laying down your life [as the lamb]. This is the wisdom of the LORD God Almighty.

In Isaiah 29 we see what Revelation 5 tell us of the same opening (removing the covering of the ignorant counsel of men, thinking themselves wise, excluding God, becoming proud, and thereby making the themselves the most respected fools to ever walk the earth). In Revelation 5 we see the Lion and the Lamb as the One opening (unsealing the book).

Revelation 5
1 And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals.
2 And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof?
3 And no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the book, neither to look thereon.
4 And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon.
5 And one of the elders said unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof.
6 And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.
7 And he came and took the book out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throne.
8 And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints.
9 And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou was slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;
10 And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.
11 And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands;
12 Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing.
13 And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him that sits upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever.
14 And the four beasts said, Amen. And the four and twenty elders fell down and worshipped him that lives for ever and ever.
Isaiah 29
1 Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt! add ye year to year; let them kill sacrifices.
2 Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel.
3 And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts against thee.
4 And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy voice shall be, as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust.
5 Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passes away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly.
6 Thou shalt be visited of the Lord of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire.
7 And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her munitions, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision.
8 It shall even be as when an hungry man dreams, and, behold, he eats; but he awakes, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreams, and, behold, he drinks; but he awakes, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul hath appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against mount Zion.
9 Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.
10 For the Lord hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered.
11 And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he said, I cannot; for it is sealed:
12 And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he said, I am not learned.
13 Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:
14 Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvelous work among this people, even a marvelous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.
15 Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the Lord, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who sees us? and who knows us?
16 Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter’s clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?
17 Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest?
18 And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness.
19 The meek also shall increase their joy in the Lord, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
20 For the terrible one is brought to naught, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off:
21 That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproves in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of naught.
22 Therefore thus says the Lord, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob, Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his face now wax pale.
23 But when he sees his children, the work of mine hands, in the midst of him, they shall sanctify my name, and sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel.
24 They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine.

Friends, this is the Revolution of time, the end of the age of ignorant exclusion of God’s wisdom. It is the return of His counsel written in the minds of His children. We are the children of God and Heavenly Jerusalem on earth our inheritance.

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