Author: wordofgod

But let him that glories glory in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the LORD which exercises lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, says the LORD.

In the verse (23) before the above (Jeremiah 9:24) the LORD concludes an indictment of His people, calling all to mourn, verse 21 saying, “For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces.” For those without understanding, the quote speaks of not seeing what’s coming (through the window, meaning a lack of foresight necessary for good leadership), and, therefore, those (the dead-minded) leading lead to death.

The title verse is quoted in 1 Corinthians 1:31, amid Paul’s abrading the wise of this deluded and insane world, whose falsely so-called wisdom is intentional ignorance, foolishness they use to manipulate and control those following them. In Jeremiah 9 (which Paul is referencing) we are called to consider these things, that the world has become confounded. The LORD says those leading should call His people to repentance and mourning; instead, they are rejoicing in their self-righteousness, as is their way.

Jeremiah 9
12 Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of the LORD has spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perishes and is burned up like a wilderness, that none passeth through?
13 And the LORD says, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein;
14 But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:
15 Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.
16 I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them.
17 Thus says the LORD of hosts, Consider you, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning women, that they may come:
18 And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.
19 For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out [“into the midst of deceit” – see verse 6 below].
20 Yet hear the word of the LORD, O you women, and let your ear receive the word of his [the LORD’s] mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and everyone her neighbor lamentation.
21 For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets.
22 Speak, Thus says the LORD, Even the carcasses of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman, and none shall gather them.
23 Thus says the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches:
24 But let him that glories glory in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the LORD which exercises lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, says the LORD.

The confounding and forsaking of the land (the earth) is spoken of earlier, verses 3 thru 9 describing the condition caused by not knowing the LORD, and therefore rejecting His “lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth.” He says it is for this He has visited to avenge His soul on a nation such as this.

Jeremiah 9
3 And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, says the LORD.
4 Take you heed every one of his neighbor, and trust you not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will walk with slanders.
5 And they will deceive every one his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.
6 Your habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, says the LORD.
7 Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people?
8 Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaks deceit: one speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in heart he lays his wait.
9 Shall I not visit them for these things? says the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

The word above rendered “avenged” is naqam (5358), a word used in Deuteronomy 32:43 as the LORD says “he will avenge [naqam 5358] the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance [naqam 5359] to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, and to his people.

The word rendered “forsaken,” above in verse 19, is the Hebrew word ‘azab, referring us to Deuteronomy 32:36, there saying it’s when the LORD sees it, that none are “left,” when His people’s power is gone, He will come to judge the earth.

Deuteronomy 32
28 For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them.
29 O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
30 How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight [that there is none left], except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up?
31 For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.
32 For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter:
33 Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.
34 Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures?
35 To me belongs vengeance [naqam 5359] and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.
36 For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he sees that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left [‘azab].
37 And he shall say, Where are their gods [who are men who’ve put themselves in God’s place], their rock in whom they trusted,
38 Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offerings? let them rise up and help you, and be your protection.
39 See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.
40 For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live forever.
41 If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance [naqam 5359] to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me.
42 I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy.
43 Rejoice, O you nations, with his people: for he will avenge [naqam 5358] the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance [naqam 5359] to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, and to his people.

The powers of the earth have no power but that given (allowed) by God for His purpose. They can do nothing against Him because all they know is deception: lies: darkness that can do nothing against the truth except spew more darkness.

2 Peter 2
12 But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;
13 And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the daytime. 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: a heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:
15 Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;
16 But was rebuked for his iniquity: [by] the dumb ass speaking with man’s voice [who] forbad the madness [insanity] of the [the false] prophet.
17 These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness [ignorance] is reserved forever.
18 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
20 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the LORD and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
21 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
22 But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again [spewing out the darkness in them]; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.

2 Peter 3
1 This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:
2 That you may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the LORD and Savior:
3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition [apoleia] of ungodly men.
8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the LORD as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
9 The LORD is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
10 But the day of the LORD will come as a thief in the night [unknown to the ignorant]; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise [the voice of God as thunders], and the elements [stoicheion – the corrupt foundational ideas of wicked men] shall melt with fervent heat [from the word of God released from heaven, unto fire], the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements [stoicheion] shall melt with fervent heat?
13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that you look for such things, be diligent that you may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.
15 And account that the longsuffering of our LORD is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him has written unto you;
16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrestle, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction [apoleia].
17 You therefore, beloved, seeing you know these things before, beware lest you also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall [away into fables created from men’s imaginations] from your own steadfastness.
18 But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our LORD and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and forever. Amen.

The word “steadfastness” is from the once used Greek word sterigmos, from the thirteen times used word sterizo, meaning “to set fast, i.e. (literally) to turn resolutely in a certain direction, or (figuratively) to confirm:–fix, (e-)stablish, steadfastly set, strengthen.” Peter uses the word (sterizo) once in 1 Peter and once in 2 Peter, both describing the LORD establishing us, in which He says we should stand fast.

1 Peter 5
6 Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:
7 Casting all your care upon him; for he cares for you.
8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
9 Whom resist steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.
10 But the God of all grace, who has called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that you have suffered a while, make you perfect, establish [sterizo], strengthen, settle you.
11 To him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
12 By Silvanus [branch of heaven], a faithful brother unto you, as I suppose, I have written briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God wherein you stand.

In 2 Peter 1, it (the word sterizo) is used as Peter is telling of the promises, the knowledge of God and our LORD Jesus Christ, through which is multiplied His grace and peace. The word “multiplied” is the twelve times used Greek word plethuno, meaning to increase, and referring us to the LORD using it in its first appearance, in Matthew 24:12, there speaking of the many false prophets and their teaching that now “abounds.” He says, because of this (false teaching) the love (agape – giving this word as received: the love of the truth) of many waxed cold. It (sterizo) is the antithesis of this chilling (psucho – waxing cold) Peter describes: the reversal by teaching what he, in 2 Peter 1:11, tells us is the entrance (eisodos) “into the everlasting kingdom of our LORD and Savior Jesus Christ.”

Matthew 24
10 And then [in these things the sorrows shall begin] shall many be offended [skandalizo, meaning “to entrap {in false doctrines}, i.e. trip up (figuratively, stumble (transitively) or entice to sin, apostasy or displeasure)]”, and shall betray [paradidomi, meaning “to surrender, i.e yield up, intrust, transmit,” speaks of surrendering the entrusted holy place, and there placing the false doctrines men call their gods] one another, and shall hate [reversing the love of the truth] one another.
11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.
12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
13 But he that shall endure [not surrendering what is holy] unto the end, the same shall be saved.
14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached [as it has here and now] in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.
15 When you, therefore, shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso reads, let him understand:)
16 Then let them which be in Judaea flee [the exodos, the leaving the misleaders] into the mountains [from the low to the high place, to the transfiguration where the LORD is revealed outside the corrupt church]:
17 Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take anything [leave all their false doctrine behind] out of his house:
18 Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes [the filthy rags spotted by dead flesh, the false doctrines of false prophets and false teachers].

As we know, when Daniel speaks of the “abomination,” the cause of the desolation when put in the place of the holy, the Hebrew word is shiqquwts, meaning “disgusting, i.e. filthy; especially idolatrous or (concretely) an idol:– abominable filth (idol, -ation), detestable (thing).”

Daniel is speaking of what he learned by reading Jeremiah (a process we know is the wheel within the wheel, understanding sent forward in the written word, to give the understanding by which we overcome the wicked). He is specifically referring to the use of the word (shiqquwts) in Jeremiah 7:30.

Jeremiah 7
30 For the children of Judah [Judaea – the place of the current crop of corrupt leaders, who are misleaders and wholly corrupt by the leaven of their false doctrines] have done evil in my sight, says the LORD: they have set their abominations [shiqquwts] in the house which is called by my name, to pollute [corrupt] it.
31 And they have built the high places of Tophet [in the fires of hell], which is in the valley [the low place] of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart.
32 Therefore, behold, the days come, says the LORD, that it shall no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom [who offer their children in the fires they’ve created], but the valley of slaughter [therefore flee to the mountains, and take nothing from these corrupt houses when you leave]: for they shall bury in Tophet [in the hell fires], till there be no place.
33 And the carcasses [the dead in the flesh] of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall fray them away.
34 Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: for the land shall be desolate [by the abominations these false teachers and false prophets have put in My place].

The LORD tells Jeremiah, earlier in verse 2, to “Stand [fast] in the gate of the LORD’s house [the entrance into His kingdom], and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of the LORD, all you of Judah, that enter in at these gates to worship the LORD.”

To the misleaders in this evil generation, “who oppose and exalt themselves above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that they as God sit in the temple of God, showing themselves as if they are God,” hear this word:

Jeremiah 7
3 Thus says the LORD of hosts [who is a man of war], the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.
4 Trust you not in lying words, saying, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, are these.
5 For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if you thoroughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbor;
6 If you oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:
7 Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, forever and ever.
8 Behold, you trust in lying words, that cannot profit.
9 Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom you know not;
10 And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations?
11 Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen it, says the LORD.
12 But go you now unto my place which was in Shiloh, where I set my name at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.
13 And now, because you have done all these works, says the LORD, and I spoke unto you, rising up early and speaking, but you heard not; and I called you, but you answered not;
14 Therefore will I do unto this house, which is called by my name, wherein you trust, and unto the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.

When the LORD says “go now” to Shiloh, and of His rising up early speaking, it’s a reference to removing the house of Eli and replacing it with Samuel (shmuw’el – hearing God). Samuel heard the voice of God, first thinking it was Eli, and then realized it was the word of God’s mouth telling Him of the end of the house of Eli.

The deep meaning in the above leads us back to the one named Shelah, the son of Judah he promised to Tamar and never fulfilled. The name is from the fourteen times used word sh’elah (shelah), meaning “a petition; by implication, a loan:–loan, petition, request.” It is the petition for a son deferred, and again given, established (again) in Shiloh, to those who hear the voice of God’s mouth.

The name Eli (the high priest in Shiloh when the ark {the presence, glory, of God – openly manifested} was there), is from the word ‘alah, meaning to ascend, refers us to Amos 1:2 and 9:3, when those who’ve climbed to the top of Carmel wither.

The word “wither,” in Amos 1:2, is the Hebrew word yabesh, meaning “to be ashamed, confused or disappointed; also (as failing) to dry up (as water) or wither (as herbage).” In the first six appearances of this word (yabesh) it is the waters “dried up,” first (Genesis 8:7 & 14) of the flood, of the Red sea (Joshua 2:10 & 4:23), and of the Jordan (Joshua 4:23 & 5:1).

As we understand, these waters are the words of men (the ideas and ways of the ignorant that carry to and hold in death) as a flood that covered and destroyed the old world, an event also represented in the tower of Babel, when humanity advanced and though it could reach heaven by wickedness.

Genesis 6
5 And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

Genesis 7
18 And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark [wherein the seed of life is preserved] went upon the face of the waters.

Genesis 8
14 And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried [yabesh – the words that destroy men and nation withered away in the experience].
15 And God spoke unto Noah [rest], saying,
16 Go forth of the ark [wherein you were protected from the waters of death below, and now enter rest], you, and your wife, and your sons, and your sons’ wives with you.
17 Bring forth with you every living thing that is with you, of all flesh,

The oppression that then rises is through Ham (Noah’s son) from the word chamam, meaning to become hot. This word’s (name’s) meaning is found when the word first appears in Exodus 16:21 telling of when the sun “waxed hot,” the manna melted (macac).

As we know, the word manna is from Hebrew word man, meaning “a whatness (so to speak), i.e. manna (so called from the question about it [not knowing it is the bread of life, the word from the mouth of God, the loaves the LORD Jesus rightly divided and fed many, showing in the fishes it was the life unknown below the surface of the waters].” Its fuller description is found in Deuteronomy 8:1 thru 3, saying “1 All the commandments which I command you this day shall you observe to do, that you may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the LORD swore unto your fathers. 2 And you shall remember all the way which the LORD your God led you these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you, and to prove you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or not. 3 And he humbled you, and suffered you to hunger, and fed you with manna [man – the word from His mouth], which you knew not, neither did your fathers know; that he might make you know that man does not live by bread [lechem] only, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of the LORD does man live.”

Ham (the manna withered in him) then brought forth a son, Cush (darkness), who had a son, Nimrod (rebellion), who was a hunter (of souls). The beginning of His kingdom was Babel (confusion – see Genesis 10:10), and out of that land went forth Asshur (communism – See Genesis 10:11).

Matthew 24
33 So likewise you, when you shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.
34 Truly I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.
35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
36 But of that day and hour knows no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only. [Does any other know this is the time and the season, ending the old and creating the new heaven and earth?]
37 But as the days of Noah were [when He entered the ark, and those with him rested in peace, in Shiloh], so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

The name Shiloh is from the Hebrew word shalah, meaning (from the Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon) “to be at rest, prosper, be quiet, be at ease.” It is referring us to the petition for a man child (that was deferred in Shelah) fulfilled in Shiloh, entering the rest therein when the ark (the man child who hears God speaking) returns with the bread of heaven.

Friends, Ecclesiastes 3
10 I have seen the travail [to bring forth a man child], which God has given to the sons of men to be exercised [‘anah – humbled] in it. [Ecclesiastes 1:13 And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail has God given to the sons of man to be exercised {humbled} therewith {to understand there are many things only God knows, when they’ve withered from the mind of men, which only He can and does set in order again, by the man He ordains}. 14 I have seen all the works that are done under the sun {when the word from the mouth of God withers from the minds of men}; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit. 15 That which is {made} crooked {by men} cannot be made straight {by man}: and that which is wanting {needing correction} cannot be numbered.]
11 He has made everything beautiful in his time: also he has set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God makes from the beginning to the end.
12 I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life.
13 And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labor, it is the gift of God.
14 I know that, whatsoever God does, it shall be forever: nothing can be put to it, nor anything taken from it: and God does it, that men should fear before him.
15 That which has been is now; and that which is to be has already been; and God requires that which is past [the foundations of the world to be restored, into rest and order].
16 And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.
17 I said in mine heart [because these places are corrupt], God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.

The first petition (shelah – for a man child) is cited in 1 Samuel 1:17, and fulfilled, in verse 27, with the birth of Samuel, who hears God speaking. As mentioned above, this comes in Shiloh, and is the preparation for the end of the house of Eli. The reason for its end is Eli let the light (the lamp of God – 1 Samuel 3:3) go out in the temple, meaning by this the word of God, understanding, withered from the minds of men. This is reflected in his (Eli’s) sons, Hophni and Phinehas [constant strife and mouths as serpents misleading].

1 Samuel 3
12 In that day I will perform against Eli all things which I have spoken concerning his house: when I begin, I will also make an end.
13 For I have told him that I will judge his house forever for the iniquity which he knows; because his sons made themselves vile, and he restrained them not.

1 Samuel 4
11 And the ark of God was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were slain.

15 Now Eli was ninety and eight years old; and his eyes were dim, that he could not see.
16 And the man said unto Eli, I am he that came out of the army, and I fled to day out of the army. And he said, What is there done, my son?
17 And the messenger answered and said, Israel is fled before the Philistines, and there has been also a great slaughter among the people, and your two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God is taken.

22 And she said, The glory is departed from Israel: for the ark of God is taken [from Shiloh].

Amos 9
1 I saw the LORD standing upon the altar: and he said, Smite the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake: and cut them in the head, all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: he that flees of them shall not flee away, and he that escapes of them shall not be delivered.
2 Though they dig into hell, thence shall mine hand take them; though they climb up [‘alah] to heaven, thence will I bring them down:
3 And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them:
4 And though they go into captivity before their enemies, thence will I command the sword, and it shall slay them: and I will set mine eyes upon them for evil, and not for good.
5 And the LORD God of hosts is he that touches the land, and it shall melt [muwg – see verse 13 below], and all that dwell therein shall mourn: and it shall rise up [‘alah] wholly like a flood; and shall be drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.
6 It is he that builds his stories in the heaven, and has founded his troop in the earth; he that calleth for the waters of the sea, and pours them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name.
7 Are you not as children of the Ethiopians [Cush – darkness] unto me, O children of Israel? says the LORD. Have not I brought up [‘alah] Israel out of the land of Egypt [out from the oppressors]? and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?
8 Behold, the eyes of the LORD God are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; saving that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, says the LORD.
9 For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.
10 All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.
11 In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old:
12 That they may possess the remnant of Edom [the enemies mixed among us, destroying us, our nation, and our culture, all while saying it’s peace and for our safety], and of all the heathen, which are called by my name, says the LORD that does this.
13 Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt [muwg].
14 And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them.
15 And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land [of America] which I have given them, says the LORD your God.

Psalms 76
1 In Judah is God known: his name is great in Israel.
2 In Salem also is his tabernacle, and his dwelling place in Zion.
3 There brake he the arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the battle. Selah.
4 You are more glorious and excellent than the mountains of prey.
5 The stouthearted are spoiled, they have slept their sleep: and none of the men of might have found their hands.
6 At your rebuke, O God of Jacob, both the chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep.
7 You, even you, are to be feared: and who may stand in your sight when once you are angry?
8 You did cause judgment to be heard from heaven; the earth feared, and was still,
9 When God arose to judgment, to save all the meek of the earth. Selah.
10 Surely the wrath of man shall praise you: the remainder of wrath shall you restrain.
11 Vow, and pay unto the LORD your God: let all that be round about him bring presents unto him that ought to be feared.
12 He shall cut off the spirit of princes: he is terrible to the kings of the earth.

Unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings.

The word above (from Malachi 4:2) rendered “arise” is zarach, which we saw in the previous post as the origin of the name Zarah, one of the twin sons of Judah and Tamar. As we understand, this refers to the king line again established in the one who rises in this described way. (See the previous post.)

Malachi 3
1 Behold, I will send my messenger [mal’ak – angel], and he shall prepare the way before me: and the LORD, whom you seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger [mal’ak – angel] of the covenant, whom you delight in: behold, he shall come, says the LORD of hosts [who is a man of war].
2 But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appears? for he is like a refiner’s fire, and like fullers’ soap:
3 And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness.
4 Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the LORD, as in the days of old, and as in former years.
5 And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers [using their words to control people], and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress [through excessive taxation] the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, says the LORD of hosts.
6 For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore you sons of Jacob are not consumed.

16 Then they that feared the LORD spoke often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book [this word] of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name.
17 And they shall be mine, says the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spares his own son that serves him.
18 Then shall you return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serves God and him that serves him not.

Malachi 4
1 For, behold, the day comes, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that comes shall burn them up, says the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
2 But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arises with healing in his wings; and you shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.
3 And you shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, says the LORD of hosts.

The “wings” (kanaph) are those we’ve seen in Ezekiel 3:13, which are the sound of the voice of the “living creature:” describing the cherubim and the wheel within a wheel, which is the written word of God sent forward, understanding therein sent to be understood. Life is in understanding that comes as light, from the one (cherubim) God first gives it, given to the other cherubim (the one needing understanding and life).

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

The word rendered “healing” (in Malachi 4:2) is the Hebrew word marpe’, meaning “a medicine, or (abstractly) a cure; figuratively (concretely) deliverance, or (abstractly) placidity.”

Of the sixteen times the word is used, it appears eight times in Proverbs, there describing wisdom: the proper application of knowledge and understanding, delivered in/by well-ordered works and words.

It (marpe’) is the word that appears in Jeremiah 33:6, after, in verses 2 & 3, the LORD says, “Thus says the LORD the maker thereof, the LORD that formed it, to establish it; the LORD is his name; Call unto me, and I [the maker and former thereof] will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you know not.” After this, He speaks of those who don’t know, the wicked who haven’t called on or listened to Him, who are fighting against the Chaldeans with their own ways and are destroyed. The LORD says to all, in verse 6, “Behold [open your eyes and see], I will bring it [His rebellious nation] health and cure [marpe’], and I will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth.”

As we saw in the previous post, the result of this cure, listening to His revelation, is later in this chapter described.

Jeremiah 33
12 Thus says the LORD of hosts; Again in this place, which is desolate without man and without beast, and in all the cities thereof, shall be a habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down.
13 In the cities of the mountains, in the cities of the vale, and in the cities of the south, and in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, shall the flocks pass [‘abar – cross over {death into life, from hell into heaven}] again under the hands of him that tells [manah – enumerates, portions out, prepares, constitutes, by telling of the great and mighty things of the LORD] them, says the LORD.
14 Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will perform that good thing which I have promised unto the house of Israel and to the house of Judah.
15 In those days, and at that time, will I cause the Branch of righteousness to grow up unto David; and he shall execute judgment and righteousness in the land.
16 In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely: and this is the name wherewith she shall be called, The LORD our righteousness.
17 For thus says the LORD; David shall never want a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel;
18 Neither shall the priests the Levites want a man before me to offer burnt offerings, and to kindle meat offerings, and to do sacrifice continually.

Proverbs 4
7 Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all your getting get understanding.
8 Exalt her, and she shall promote you: she shall bring you to honor, when you do embrace her.
9 She shall give to your head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to you.
10 Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of your life shall be many.
11 I have taught you in the way of wisdom; I have led you in right paths.
12 When you go, your steps shall not be straitened; and when you run, you shall not stumble.
13 Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is your life.
14 Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men.
15 Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.
16 For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
17 For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
18 But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
19 The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
20 My son, attend to my words; incline your ear unto my sayings.
21 Let them not depart from your eyes; keep them in the midst of your heart.
22 For they [My words] are life unto those that find them, and health [marpe’] to all their flesh.
23 Keep your heart [guard this foundation] with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
24 Put away from you a froward mouth [twisting truth], and perverse lips put far from you.
25 Let your eyes look right on, and let your eyelids look straight before you.
26 Ponder the path of your feet, and let all your ways be established.
27 Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove your foot from evil. [Ecclesiastes 7:16 Be not righteous over much; neither make yourself over wise: why shouldest you destroy yourself ? 17 Be not over much wicked, neither be you foolish: why shouldest you die before your time?]

Proverbs 12
13 The wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips: but the just shall come out of trouble [tsarah – tribulation].
14 A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth: and the recompense of a man’s hands shall be rendered unto him.
15 The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkens unto counsel is wise.
16 A fool’s wrath is presently known: but a prudent man covers shame.
17 He that speaks truth shows forth righteousness: but a false witness deceit.
18 There is that speaks like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health [marpe’].
19 The lip of truth shall be established forever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment.

The word rendered “moment” is the Hebrew word raga’, meaning “to toss violently and suddenly (the sea with waves, the skin with boils); figuratively (in a favorable manner) to settle, i.e. quiet; specifically, to wink (from the motion of the eye-lids).” It is the word rendered “suddenly” in the (almost) identical verses of Jeremiah 49:19 & 50:44.

Jeremiah 49
19 Behold, he [the LORD] shall come up like a lion from the swelling [ga’own – pride] of Jordan [roaring against the proud words of the dead that have carried all the world into death and hell] against the habitation of the strong: but [kiy – so that] I will suddenly [raga’] make him run away from her [My people]: 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 has taken against Edom [the enemies mixed among us]; and his purposes, that he has purposed against the inhabitants of Teman [the wise men of this world]: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out: surely he shall make their [of the strong – the wicked in power] habitations desolate with them.
21 The earth is moved at the noise [qowl – this voice] of their fall, at the cry the noise [qowl – the voices of the Egyptians as they drowned] thereof was heard in the Red sea.

The word “strong,” in Jeremiah 49:19 & 50:44, in the following verses of each respectively, describes Edom (the enemies mixed among us: our countrymen and brothers at war with us, while claiming peace, destroying us, our nation, and our better culture) and Babylon (the confusion ruling the world, now turned insane delusion) is ‘eythan, meaning “permanence; hence (concrete) permanent; specifically a chieftain [the habitation of the strong: the deep state – as engrained, in church and state, systemic evil at war with us].”

The word (‘eythan, used thirteen times) only appears one other time in Jeremiah, in Jeremiah 5:15.

Jeremiah 5
1 Run you to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if you can find a man, if there be any that executes judgment, that seeks the truth; and I will pardon it.
2 And though they say, The LORD lives; surely they swear falsely.
3 O LORD, are not your eyes upon the truth? you have stricken them, but they have not grieved; you have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.
4 Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the LORD, nor the judgment of their God.
5 I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they have known the way of the LORD, and the judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke [with Me], and burst the bonds.
6 Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goes out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased.
7 How shall I pardon you for this? your children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots’ houses [they call by My name].
8 They were as fed horses in the morning: everyone neighed after his neighbor’s wife.
9 Shall I not visit for these things? says the LORD: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
10 Go you up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for they are not the LORD’s.
11 For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, says the LORD.
12 They have belied the LORD, and said, IT IS NOT HIM; neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine:
13 And the prophets shall become wind [of false doctrines], and the word [My word] is not in them: thus shall it be done unto them.
14 Wherefore thus says the LORD God of hosts, Because you speak this word [your own word], behold, I will make my words in your mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.
15 Lo, I will bring a nation [as the Chaldeans – using their words, HOAXs, to manipulate and control you] upon you from far, O house of Israel, says the LORD: it is a mighty [‘eythan – an engrained enemy] nation, it is an ancient nation [as Edom, enemies mixed among us], a nation [Babylon – babel] whose language you know not, neither understands what they say [not understanding everything they say, through the mouth of their fake news and social media, are deceptions meant to destroy your will, and thereby take your life, liberty, and property].
16 Their quiver is as an open sepulcher [men holding arrows of death: words shot at you], they are all mighty men.
17 And they shall eat up your harvest [men as the locust now destroying all prosperity in the name of saving you], and your bread, which your sons and your daughters should eat: they shall eat up your flocks and your herds: they shall eat up your vines and your fig trees: they shall impoverish your fenced cities, wherein you trusted, with the sword [with their words].
18 Nevertheless in those days, says the LORD, I will not make a full end with you.
19 And it shall come to pass, when you shall say, Wherefore does the LORD our God all these things unto us? then shall you answer them, Like as you have forsaken me, and served strange gods in your land, so shall you serve strangers in a land that is not yours.
20 Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying,
21 Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not:
22 Fear you not me? says the LORD: will you not tremble at my presence, which has placed the sand [the shore] for the boundary of the sea [this generation] by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves [the pride of the wicked] thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?
23 But this people have a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone.
24 Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, that gives rain [this word from heaven], both the former and the latter, in his season [at this appointed time]: he reserves unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest.
25 Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you.
26 For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that sets snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
27 As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.
28 They are waxen fat, they shine [as if they have understanding – replacing truth with their opinions]: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.
29 Shall I not visit for these things? says the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
30 A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land;
31 The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means [of their own words]; and my people love to have it so: and what will you do in the end thereof?

The word ‘eythan describes the wicked in power for a moment, a time of ignorance at which God the Father winks. As we’ve previously seen, it (this moment) is the appointed time, the inflection point that changes the course of human history, as Paul describes in Acts 17 when telling of this day of God’s judgment, by the man He’s ordained.

Acts 17
22 Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars’ hill [Areios Pagus – the peak of war {between God and man, good and evil}], and said, You men of Athens [the wise of the world, who are without God and thereby ignorant], I perceive that in all things you are too superstitious [by ignorant beliefs, failing to see the rational course of events: the governing of the law of nature – ignorantly thinking God is merely metaphysical, and thereby failing to see He intervenes in the affairs of man].
23 For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, To The Unknown God. Whom, therefore, you ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.
24 God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is LORD of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands [but rather in the flesh];
25 Neither is worshipped with men’s hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he gives to all life, and breath, and all things;
26 And has made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;
27 That they should seek the LORD, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us [dwelling in those who receive Him]:
28 For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, “For we are also his offspring.”
29 Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven [created] by art and man’s device.
30 And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commands all men everywhere to repent:
31 Because he has appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he has ordained; whereof he has given assurance unto all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.
32 And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, We will hear you again of this matter.

Job 12
9 Who knows not in all these that the hand of the LORD has wrought this [the prosperity of the wicked, who think they are untouchable in their positions of power]?
10 [The LORD] In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath [life] of all mankind.
11 Does not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his meat?
12 With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.
13 With him is wisdom and strength, he has counsel and understanding.
14 Behold, he breaks down, and it cannot be built again: he shuts up a man, and there can be no opening.
15 Behold, he withholds the waters [His words], and they dry up: also he sends them out, and they [His words] overturn the earth.
16 With him is strength and wisdom: the deceived and the deceiver are his.
17 He leadeth counselors away spoiled, and makes the judges fools.
18 He loosens the bond of kings, and girds [prepares] their loins with a girdle [preparing them for their destruction].
19 He leadeth princes away spoiled and overthrows the mighty [‘eythan].
20 He removes away the speech of the trusty [in which they trust], and taketh away the understanding of the aged.
21 He pours contempt upon princes, and weakens the strength of the mighty.
22 He discovers deep things out of darkness [of which they are ignorant], and bringeth out to light [into understanding] the shadow of death.
23 He increases the nations, and destroys them: he enlarges the nations, and straitens them again.
24 He takes away the heart of the chief of the people of the earth, and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.
25 They grope in the dark without light, and he makes them to stagger like a drunken man.

The word ‘eythan appears one other time in Job, in Job 33:19, when Elihu (He is God speaking) says the pain of man is the “strong.”

Job 33
13 Why do you strive against him [the LORD speaking correction through His messenger]? for he gives not account of any of his matters.
14 For God speaks once, yea twice, yet man perceives it not.
15 In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep [of ignorance] falls upon men, in slumbering upon the bed [as a dead man];
16 Then he opens the ears of men, and seals their instruction,
17 That he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.
18 He keeps back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword [the words of the wicked in power].
19 He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong [‘eythan] pain [of the strong, enemies and deceivers among us spewing confusion and insanity, the pain they tell the ignorant to follow as gods]:
20 So that his life abhors bread [so life flees at words of the wicked], and his soul [is taken by their] dainty meat.
21 His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones that were not seen stick out.
22 Yea, his soul draws near unto the grave [the pit mentioned below], and his life to the destroyers.
23 If there be a messenger [mal’ak – an angel of God] with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to show unto man his [God’s] uprightness:
24 Then he [God] is gracious unto him, and say, Deliver him from going down to the pit [the grave]: I have found a ransom.
25 His flesh shall be fresher than a child’s: he shall return to the days of his youth:
26 He shall pray unto God, and he will be favorable unto him: and he [man] shall see his face [His presence in the moment of the ransom] with joy: for he [God through His messenger] will render unto man his righteousness.
27 He looks upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;
28 He will deliver his soul from going into the pit [grave], and his life shall see the light [understanding].
29 Lo, all these things works God oftentimes with man,
30 To bring back his soul from the pit [grave], to be enlightened [given understanding] with the light [understanding] of the living.

As we’ve many times seen, the word, in Acts 17:26, rendered “determined,” and in verse 31, “ordained,” is the eight times used Greek word horizo, meaning “to mark out or bound (“horizon”), i.e. (figuratively) to appoint, decree, specify.” It is speaking of the appointed time and the one raised from the dead to judge the world (end the old and create the new).

Friends, the rejection and betrayal to this point (moment) are determined and ordained by God, for the purpose of showing His mercy and goodness to the world. And just as assuredly, He is now judging the quick and the dead, as determined.

Luke 22:22
And truly the Son of man goes, as it was determined [horizo]: but woe unto that man by whom he is betrayed!

Acts 2
17 And it shall come to pass in the last days, says God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh [as I have]: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy [speak My words], and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:
18 And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy:
19 And I will show wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke:
20 The sun shall be turned into darkness [the church institution without understanding], and the moon into blood [civil government draining the life from the world], before the great and notable [epiphanes – only here, meaning conspicuous {to those who aren’t too superstitious}] day of the LORD come:
21 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be saved.
22 You men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as you yourselves also know:
23 Him, being delivered by the determinate [horizo] counsel and foreknowledge [prognosis] of God, you have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:
24 Whom God has raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.
25 For David speaks concerning him, I foresaw the LORD always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved:
26 Therefore did my heart rejoice, and my tongue was glad; moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope:
27 Because you will not leave my soul in hell, neither will you suffer your Holy One to see corruption.
28 You have made known to me the ways of life; you shall make me full of joy with your countenance.
29 Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulcher is with us unto this day.
30 Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne;
31 He seeing this before spoke of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption.
32 This Jesus has God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses.
33 Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost [the LORD unknow in the flesh preaching and teaching, leading His people into all truth: full understanding, with Him here in heaven], he has shed forth this, which you now see and hear.
34 For David is not ascended into the heavens: but he says himself, The LORD said unto my LORD, Sit you on my right hand,
35 Until I make your foes your footstool.
36 Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly [asphalos – inescapably], that God has made the same Jesus [Jehovah’s Salvation manifested in the flesh], whom you have crucified, both LORD and Christ [His presence in the flesh].

Acts 10
34 Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth, I perceive that God is no respecter of persons:
35 But in every nation he that fears him, and works righteousness, is accepted with him.
36 The word which God sent unto the children of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ: (he is LORD of all:)
37 That word, I say, you know, which was published throughout all Judaea [to His elect remnant], and began from Galilee [this inner circle], after the baptism which John preached [calling all to repentance];
38 How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil [misleaders among them]; for God was with him.
39 And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they slew and hanged on a tree:
40 Him God raised up the third day, and showed him openly;
41 Not to all the people, but unto witnesses chosen before God, even to us, who did eat and drink with him after he rose from the dead.
42 And he commanded us to preach unto the people, and to testify that it is he which was ordained [horizo] of God to be the Judge of quick and dead.
43 To him give all the prophets witness, that through his name [accepting His identity] whosoever believes in him shall receive remission of sins.
44 While Peter yet spoke these words, the Holy Ghost [the LORD unknown, speaking and working] fell on all them which heard the word [as the word of God, and received Him at His coming].

Hebrews 4
1 Let us, therefore, fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.
2 For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it. [Romans 1: 2 (Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures,) 3 Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our LORD, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh; 4 And declared {horizo – the inflection point} to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead: 5 By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among all nations, for his name {as His identity}: 6 Among whom you are also the called of Jesus Christ:]
3 For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works [of the six days – sending light into the darkness, giving understanding that separates the His word from the words of men, bringing life to the earth, and creating man from its ashes] were finished from the foundation of the world.
4 For he spoke in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works.
5 And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest.
6 Seeing therefore it remains that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief: [Isaiah 28: 12 To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith you may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear. 13 But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken. 14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, you scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem. 15 Because you have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves: 16 Therefore thus says the LORD God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believes shall not make haste. 17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place. 18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then you shall be trodden down by it. 19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.]
7 Again, he limited [horizo] a certain day, saying in David, Today, after so long a time; as it is said, Today if you will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
8 For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.
9 There remains therefore a rest to the people of God.
10 For he that is entered into his rest, he also has ceased from his own works, as God did from his.
11 Let us labor, therefore, to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.
12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
13 Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
14 Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.
15 For we have not a high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.
16 Let us, therefore, come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

The Greek word rendered “to help in time of need” are eis eukairos boetheia, meaning “to or into (indicating the point reached or entered);” “well-timed, i.e. opportune;” (boetheia from boetheo) “995 [boe “call”] and theo (to run); a succorer [rescuer – the ransom]”

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 does so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher [teleiotes, only used here, meaning “a completer, i.e. consummater”] 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 you be wearied and faint in your minds.
4 You have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.
5 And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks unto you as unto children, My son, despise not you the chastening of the LORD, nor faint when you are rebuked of him:
6 For whom the LORD loves he chastens, and scourgeth every son whom he receives.
7 If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chastens not?
8 But if you be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are you bastards, and not sons.
9 Furthermore, we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?

Psalms 95
1 O come, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation.
2 Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms.
3 For the LORD is a great God, and a great King above all gods.
4 In his hand are the deep places of the earth: the strength of the hills is his also.
5 The sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land.
6 O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker.
7 For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. Today if you will hear his voice,
8 Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.
10 Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:
11 Unto whom I swore in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.

Psalms 96
1 O sing unto the LORD a new song: sing unto the LORD, all the earth.
2 Sing unto the LORD, bless his name; show forth his salvation from day to day.
3 Declare his glory among the heathen, his wonders among all people.
4 For the LORD is great, and greatly to be praised: he is to be feared above all gods.
5 For all the gods of the nations are idols: but the LORD made the heavens.
6 Honor and majesty are before him: strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.
7 Give unto the LORD, O you kindreds of the people, give unto the LORD glory and strength.
8 Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name: bring an offering, and come into his courts.
9 O worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness: fear before him, all the earth.
10 Say among the heathen that the LORD reigns: the world also shall be established that it shall not be moved: he shall judge the people righteously.
11 Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad; let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof.
12 Let the field be joyful, and all that is therein: then shall all the trees of the wood rejoice
13 Before the LORD: for he comes, for he comes to judge the earth: he shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with his truth.

Psalms 97
1 The LORD reigns; let the earth rejoice; let the multitude of isles be glad thereof.
2 Clouds and darkness are round about him: righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne.
3 A fire goes before him, and burns up his enemies round about.
4 His lightning enlightened the world: the earth saw, and trembled.
5 The hills melted like wax at the presence of the LORD, at the presence of the LORD of the whole earth.
6 The heavens declare his righteousness, and all the people see his glory.
7 Confounded be all they that serve graven images, that boast themselves of idols: worship him, all you gods.
8 Zion heard, and was glad; and the daughters of Judah rejoiced because of your judgments, O LORD.
9 For you, LORD, yourself high above all the earth: you yourself exalted far above all gods.
10 You that love the LORD, hate evil: he preservs the souls of his saints; he delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.
11 Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.
12 Rejoice in the LORD, you righteous; and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness.

Psalms 98
1 O sing unto the LORD a new song; for he has done marvelous things: his right hand, and his holy arm, has gotten him the victory.
2 The LORD has made known his salvation: his righteousness has he openly shown in the sight of the heathen.
3 He has remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of Israel: all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
4 Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all the earth: make a loud noise, and rejoice, and sing praise.
5 Sing unto the LORD with the harp; with the harp, and the voice of a psalm.
6 With trumpets and sound of cornet make a joyful noise before the LORD, the King.
7 Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
8 Let the floods clap their hands: let the hills be joyful together
9 Before the LORD; for he comes to judge the earth: with righteousness shall he judge the world, and the people with equity.

Psalms 99
1 The LORD reigns; let the people tremble: he sits between the cherubims; let the earth be moved.
2 The LORD is great in Zion; and he is high above all the people.
3 Let them praise your great and terrible name; for it is holy.
4 The king’s strength also loveth judgment; you do establish equity, you execute judgment and righteousness in Jacob.
5 Exalt you the LORD our God, and worship at his footstool; for he is holy.
6 Moses and Aaron among his priests, and Samuel among them that call upon his name; they called upon the LORD, and he answered them.
7 He spoke unto them in the cloudy pillar: they kept his testimonies, and the ordinance that he gave them.
8 You answered them, O LORD our God: you are a God that forgave them, though you took vengeance of their inventions.
9 Exalt the LORD our God, and worship at his holy hill; for the LORD our God is holy.

David said moreover, “The LORD that delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine.”

In the above, from 1 Samuel 17:37, David speaks of the LORD’s preparation (understanding) proven by experiencing His presence, giving him the confidence to defeat Goliath. The name (Goliath) is from the Hebrew word galah, meaning “to denude (especially in a disgraceful sense); by implication, to exile (captives being usually stripped); figuratively, to reveal.”

As is well known, David eventually slings a stone that sunk deep into Goliath’s head, and David then cut his head off with his own sword (kind of like the way the fake news media is cutting off their own head – attacking Brandon as they’ve attacked us. The even more hilarious part is naked Goliath is also very much the (Brandon and the fake mainstream news industry) king whose always been naked, it’s just now everyone’s saying it. But I digress.)

In verse 36 we’re told, by David, that Goliath “has defied the armies of the living God.”

The word “defies” is charaph, meaning “to pull off, i.e. (by implication) to expose (as by stripping); specifically, to betroth (as if a surrender); figuratively, to carp at, i.e. defame; denominative (from 2779) to spend the winter.” It’s speaking, in a pattern, of the way the modern giants use their words as swords against God’s people who fear going against them to battle.

1 Samuel 17
20 And David rose up early in the morning, and left the sheep with a keeper, and took, and went, as Jesse had commanded him; and he came to the trench, as the host was going forth to the fight, and shouted for the battle.
21 For Israel and the Philistines had put the battle in array, army against army.
22 And David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage, and ran into the army, and came and saluted his brethren.
23 And as he talked with them, behold, there came up the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, out of the armies of the Philistines, and spoke according to the same words: and David heard them.
24 And all the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him, and were sore afraid.
25 And the men of Israel said, Have you seen this man that is come up? surely to defy [charaph] Israel is he come up: and it shall be, that the man who kills him, the king will enrich him with great riches, and will give him his daughter, and make his father’s house free in Israel.
26 And David spake to the men that stood by him, saying, What shall be done to the man that killeth this Philistine, and taketh away the reproach from Israel? for who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy [charaph] the armies of the living God?
27 And the people answered him after this manner, saying, So shall it be done to the man that kills him.
28 And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spoke unto the men; and Eliab’s anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why came you down hither? and with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride, and the naughtiness of your heart; for you are come down that you might see the battle.
29 And David said, What have I now done? Is there not a cause?
30 And he turned from him toward another, and spoke after the same manner: and the people answered him again after the former manner.
31 And when the words were heard which David spake, they rehearsed them before Saul: and he sent for him.
32 And David said to Saul, Let no man’s heart fail because of him; your servant will go and fight with this Philistine.
33 And Saul said to David, You are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him: for you are but a youth, and he a man of war from his youth.
34 And David said unto Saul, Your servant kept his father’s sheep, and there came a lion, and a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock:
35 And I went out after him, and smote him, and delivered it out of his mouth: and when he arose against me, I caught him by his beard, and smote him, and slew him.
36 Your servant slew both the lion and the bear: and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he has defied [charaph] the armies of the living God.
37 David said moreover, The LORD that delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine. And Saul said unto David, Go, and the LORD be with you.
38 And Saul armed David with his armor, and he put a helmet of brass upon his head; also he armed him with a coat of mail.
39 And David girded his sword upon his armor, and he assayed to go; for he had not proved it. And David said unto Saul, I cannot go with these; for I have not proved them. And David put them off him.
40 And he took his staff in his hand, and chose him five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in a shepherd’s bag which he had, even in a scrip; and his sling was in his hand: and he drew near to the Philistine.
41 And the Philistine came on and drew near unto David; and the man that bare the shield went before him.
42 And when the Philistine looked about, and saw David, he disdained him: for he was but a youth, and ruddy, and of a fair countenance.
43 And the Philistine said unto David, Am I a dog, that you come to me with staves? And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.
44 And the Philistine said to David, Come to me, and I will give your flesh unto the fowls of the air, and to the beasts of the field.
45 Then said David to the Philistine, You come to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to you in the name of the LORD of hosts [who is a man of war], the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied [charaph].
46 This day will the LORD deliver you into mine hand; and I will smite you, and take your head from you; and I will give the carcasses of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel.
47 And all this assembly shall know that the LORD saves not with sword and spear: for the battle is the LORD’s, and he will give you into our hands.
48 And it came to pass, when the Philistine arose, and came, and drew nigh to meet David, that David hastened, and ran toward the army to meet the Philistine.
49 And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sunk into his forehead; and he fell upon his face to the earth.
50 So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and smote the Philistine, and slew him; but there was no sword in the hand of David.
51 Therefore David ran, and stood upon the Philistine, and took his sword, and drew it out of the sheath thereof, and slew him, and cut off his head therewith. And when the Philistines saw their champion was dead, they fled.
52 And the men of Israel and of Judah arose, and shouted, and pursued the Philistines, until you come to the valley, and to the gates of Ekron [eradication – plucked up by the roots]. And the wounded of the Philistines fell down by the way to Shaaraim [the double gate – the one through which man goes into hell or comes out of it into the kingdom of heaven], even unto Gath [the winepress of God’s wrath], and unto Ekron [the eradication of the wicked].
53 And the children of Israel returned from chasing after the Philistines, and they spoiled their tents.
54 And David took the head of the Philistine, and brought it to Jerusalem; but he put his armor in his tent.
55 And when Saul saw David go forth against the Philistine, he said unto Abner, the captain of the host, Abner, whose son is this youth? And Abner said, As your soul liveth, O king, I cannot tell.
56 And the king said, Enquire you whose son the stripling is.
57 And as David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, Abner took him, and brought him before Saul with the head of the Philistine in his hand.
58 And Saul said to him, Whose son are you, you young man? And David answered, I am the son of your servant Jesse the Bethlehemite.

This brings us again to the question, “whose son” is the Christ (Messiah, the anointed – returning king). As we know, the LORD puts the peeping wizards to silence when He asks this question, which was never answered until it was here. As we’ve seen, when the LORD asks the question, the so-called experts answer, “the son of David.” The LORD says that can’t be right, because, quoting Psalms 110:1 (A Psalm of David), David (there) calls Him his LORD, saying, “The LORD [Jehovah] said unto my LORD [‘adown], Sit you at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool.”

The name (‘adown) means, “from an unused root (meaning to rule); sovereign, i.e. controller (human or divine):– LORD, master, owner.” We know, from Psalms 105:21, this is the name David also calls Joseph, the son of Jacob. The LORD, when asking the question, in Matthew 22, knowing the answer, is referring to what is written of Him in Matthew 1:16, saying “And Jacob begat Joseph (the husband of Mary,) of whom was born Jesus [Joshua, who was of the house, family, of Joseph, the son of Jacob], who is called Christ.”

Matthew 22
35 Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him [doubting Him], and saying,
36 Master [doubting he is the Master teacher, knowing what only the Father knows], which is the great commandment in the law?
37 Jesus said unto him, You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your MIND.
38 This is the first and great commandment.
39 And the second is like unto it, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
41 While the Pharisees were gathered together [as we saw in the previous post, from the Hebrews word guwr used in Isaiah 54:15], Jesus asked them,
42 Saying, What think you of Christ? whose son is he? They say unto him, The son of David.
43 He says unto them, How then does David in spirit call him LORD, saying,
44 The LORD said unto my LORD, Sit you on my right hand, till I make your enemies your footstool?
45 If David then calls him LORD, how is he his son?
46 And no man was able to answer him a word, neither durst any man from that day forth ask him any more questions.

As David says, in 1 Samuel 17:46 & 47, the battle is the LORD’s, I Am merely the flesh He has PREPARED for Himself – His man of war. He has made the enemies my footstool, and they are trodden down as mire in the streets.

2 Samuel 22
40 For you have girded [prepared] me with strength to battle: them that rose up against me have you subdued under me.
41 You have also given me the necks of mine enemies, that I might destroy them that hate me.
42 They [the wicked] looked, but there was none to save; even unto the LORD, but he answered them not.
43 Then did I beat them as small as the dust of the earth, I did stamp them as the mire of the street, and did spread them abroad.
44 You also have delivered me from the strivings of my people, you have kept me to be head of the heathen: a people which I knew not shall serve me.
45 Strangers shall submit themselves unto me: as soon as they hear, they shall be obedient unto me.
46 Strangers shall fade away, and they shall be afraid out of their close places.
47 The LORD lives; and blessed be my rock; and exalted be the God of the rock of my salvation.

The word rendered “sling,” in 1 Samuel 17:40 & 50 above, the word qela’, is only used one other time in the books of Samuel, in 1 Samuel 25:29, there speaking of slinging out the enemies of David. There David is called ‘adown (whose ‘adown is Joseph), and the enemy, named Nabal (meaning fool), is a foolish ‘adown (foolish “master”), who becomes as the stone cast out by the LORD, by David the sling in His hand.

1 Samuel 25
23 And when Abigail [the children of joy] saw David, she hasted, and lighted off the ass, and [because of the sins of her husband the fool, asking for mercy] fell before David on her face, and bowed herself to the ground,
24 And fell at his feet, and said, Upon me, my LORD [‘adown – the king], upon me let this iniquity be: and let your handmaid, I pray you, speak in your audience, and hear the words of your handmaid.
25 Let not my LORD [‘adown – the king], I pray you, regard this man of Belial [the fools who worship non-existent, non-living, idols], even Nabal: for as his name is, so is he; Nabal is his name, and folly is with him: but I your handmaid saw not the young men of my LORD [‘adown – the king], whom you did send.
26 Now, therefore, my LORD [‘adown – the king], as the LORD [Jehovah] lives, and as your soul lives, seeing the LORD [Jehovah] has withholden you [saying sit on My right hand until I make your enemies your footstool] from coming to shed blood, and from avenging yourself with your own hand, now let your enemies, and they that seek evil to my LORD [‘adown – the king], be as Nabal [found to be fools].
27 And now this blessing which your handmaid has brought unto my LORD [‘adown – the king], let it even be given unto the young men that follow my LORD [‘adown – the king].
28 I pray you, forgive the trespass of your handmaid: for the LORD [Jehovah – who is alive in you] will certainly make my LORD [‘adown – the king] a sure house; because my LORD [‘adown – the king] fights the battles of the LORD [Jehovah], and evil has not been found in you all your days.
29 Yet a man is risen to pursue you, and to seek your soul: but the soul of my LORD [‘adown – the king] shall be bound in the bundle [tsrowr – a package] of life with the LORD [Jehovah] your God; and the souls of your enemies, them shall he sling [qala’] out, as out of the middle of a sling [qela’].
30 And it shall come to pass, when the LORD shall have done to my LORD [‘adown – the king] according to all the good that he has spoken concerning you, and shall have appointed you ruler [nagiyd – commander and chief] over Israel;
31 That this shall be no grief unto you, nor offense of heart unto my LORD [‘adown – the king], either that you have shed blood causeless, or that my LORD [‘adown – the king] has avenged himself: but when the LORD [Jehovah] shall have dealt well with my LORD [‘adown – the king], then remember your handmaid.
32 And David said to Abigail, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, which sent you this day to meet me:
33 And blessed be your advice, and blessed be you, which have kept me this day from coming to shed blood, and from avenging myself with mine own hand.
34 For in very deed, as the LORD God of Israel lives, which has kept me back from hurting you, except you had hasted and come to meet me, surely there had not been left unto Nabal by the morning light any that urinates against the wall [this speaks of the fools, who make water, create from within themselves, their perverse minds, their own words and advice, and make it a wall in which men trust for safety].
35 So David received of her hand that which she had brought him, and said unto her, Go up in peace to your house; see, I have hearkened to your voice, and have accepted your person.
36 And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken [his mind was confusion]: wherefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light [when full understanding came with the new day].
37 But it came to pass in the morning, when the wine [his foolish word and ideas exposed by the light] was gone out of Nabal [the fools], and his wife [those in jeopardy by being joined with him] had told him these things, that his heart died [His mind was found to be dead without the LORD’s Spirit] within him, and he became as a stone [cast out by David, as from a sling].

The word qela’ is from qala’, the first meaning “a sling; also a (door) screen (as if slung across), or the valve (of the door) itself,” and the other “to sling: also to carve (as if a circular motion, or into light forms).” The dictionary definition of light, as a noun, is “the natural agent that stimulates sight and makes things visible:”

Both words, used together in 1 Kings 6, tell of the sling in the hand of the LORD (‘adown) who’s the door He speaks of in John 10.

1 Kings 6
27 And he [Solomon, by his God-given wisdom] set the cherubims [depicting the messenger God sends with His word speaking face to face with those he’s sent to] within the inner house: and they stretched forth the wings [by which they rise into the heavens with full understanding] of the cherubims, so that the wing of the one touched the one wall, and the wing of the other cherub touched the other wall; and their wings touched one another in the midst of the house [in the family of God].
28 And he overlaid the cherubims with gold [the most valued treasure of heaven].
29 And he carved [qala’] all the walls of the house round about with carved figures of cherubims and palm trees [timmor] and open flowers [tsiyts], within and without.
30 And the floors of the house he overlaid with gold, within and without.
31 And for the entering of the oracle he made doors of olive tree: the lintel and side posts were a fifth part of the wall.
32 The two doors also were of olive tree; and he carved [qala’] upon them carvings of cherubims and palm trees [timmor] and open flowers [tsiyts], and overlaid them with gold, and spread gold upon the cherubims, and upon the palm trees [timmor].
33 So also made he for the door of the temple posts of olive tree, a fourth part of the wall.
34 And the two doors were of fir tree: the two leaves [tsela’] of the one door were folding, and the two leaves [qela’] of the other door were folding.

The tsela’, the two (first and last) leaves of the first door (Adam, the last a quickening Spirit sent as God’s messenger) spoken of in verse 34, tells of Adam’s “rib” (tsela’ in Genesis 2:21 & 22), from which the women (the church) is created. The two leaves of the other door, from qela’, tells of the foolishness slug out as with a sling, by the “folding” (turning, changing) of the door. The word rendered “folding” is galiyl, the same word rendered Galilee, the LORD’s inner circle, of which He said, “Be not afraid: go tell my brethren that they go into Galilee, and there shall they see me.” Matthew 28:10

The cherubims, in Ezekiel 3:8 thru 13, are those between whom the LORD’s presence is manifest in His speaking understanding to those held captive in foolishness.

Ezekiel 3
8 Behold, I have made your face strong against their faces, and your forehead strong against their foreheads.
9 As an adamant harder than flint have I made your forehead: fear them not, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house.
10 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, all my words that I shall speak unto you receive in your heart, and hear with your ears.
11 And go, get you to them of the captivity, unto the children of your people, and speak unto them, and tell them, Thus says the LORD God; whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear.
12 Then the spirit took me up, and I heard behind me a voice [qowl] of a great rushing, saying, Blessed be the glory of the LORD from his place.
13 I heard also the noise [qowl – voice] of the wings of the living creatures that touched one another, and the noise [qowl – voice] of the wheels [His word sent forward, from which comes understanding to overcome] over against them, and a noise [qowl – voice] of a great rushing.

These cherubims and the conversation are then depicted on the doors as carvings (qala’) of palm trees (timmor – the messenger sent), which cause the hearer to open (understand) as a flower (tsiyts) blooming.

The word rendered “open,” only used here (four times), is patuwr, meaning “opened, i.e. (as noun) a bud:–open.” It’s said to be from the five times used word patar, meaning “to cleave or burst through, i.e. (causatively) to emit, whether literal or figurative (gape):–dismiss, free, let (shoot) out, slip away.” It’s speaking of freeing from the captivity of foolishness.

The word (tsiyts) rendered “flower” means “glistening, i.e. a burnished plate; also a flower (as bright-colored); a wing (as gleaming in the air).” It speaks of the effect of receiving understanding (light) from the messenger God sends, which is God’s glory seen upon us. The messenger is the “palm tree,” from timmor, meaning, “from the same root as 8558; (arch.) a palm-like pilaster (i.e. umbellate):–palm tree.” In this definition, it’s a pillar (pilaster), as a central point from which many stalks (branches) of approximately the same lengths grow (umbellate); like the many ‘adown, who are packages together with Jehovah, known only as His voice emanating from the darkness (the umbra of the flesh).

The deeper part of the name Tim, as we’ve discussed before, is in understanding it is the portion given to Joshua, the son of Nun (Jesus the perpetual son). It is Timnathserah (Timnath-Cherec – portion of the sun), meaning it’s in him light will again be seen (as in Matthew 28:10 above) by the flowers after only hearing His voice in the darkness. This name, only used in this form three times, is also the place, in mount Ephraim, where Joshua, the last king in Joseph, is buried (in the belly of the earth, until Shiloh comes).

The name Timnath-Cherec translates to Tim (the branch of the tree of life) Nathan (gives) the sun. The name Cherec, meaning shining, is from the word cherec, meaning to scrape, and thereby telling of the sun seemingly scraping away the darkness as it rises. It (cherec) is the origin of the charcuwth, the name of the “east” gate of Jerusalem (where the sun was always first seen rising: scraping away the darkness).

The name Timnath (Timnah), meaning “a portion assigned,” is from the word manah, the word we saw in a previous post meaning an enumeration, to constitute officially. It’s the word rendered “tells,” in Jeremiah 33:13, referring back to verse 3, saying, “Call unto me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you know not.”

Jeremiah 33
12 Thus says the LORD of hosts; Again in this place, which is desolate without man and without beast, and in all the cities thereof, shall be a habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down.
13 In the cities of the mountains, in the cities of the vale, and in the cities of the south, and in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, shall the flocks pass [‘abar – cross over {death into life, from hell into heaven}] again under the hands of him that tells [manah – enumerates, portions out, prepares, constitutes, by telling of the great and mighty things of the LORD] them, says the LORD.
14 Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will perform that good thing which I have promised unto the house of Israel and to the house of Judah.
15 In those days, and at that time, will I cause the Branch of righteousness to grow up unto David; and he shall execute judgment and righteousness in the land.
16 In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely: and this is the name wherewith she shall be called, The LORD our righteousness.
17 For thus says the LORD; David shall never want a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel;
18 Neither shall the priests the Levites want a man before me to offer burnt offerings, and to kindle meat offerings, and to do sacrifice continually.

Timnath is first spoken of in Genesis 38, a chapter where we are also first told of Tamar (palms tree, tamar, the origin of timmor {masculine}). She (Tamar) is the daughter-in-law of Judah, who, after her evil husband Er (woke) dies, and he (Judah) fails in keeping his promise to provide her a husband, she conceals her identity, and they together conceive twins. The children’s names are Pharez, meaning a breach or separation, through whom the bloodline continued to Jesus, and Zarah, meaning rising.

Genesis 38
24 And it came to pass about three months after, that it was told Judah, saying, Tamar your daughter in law has played the harlot; and also, behold, she is with child by whoredom. And Judah said, Bring her forth, and let her be burnt.
25 When she was brought forth, she sent to her father-in-law, saying, By the man, whose these are, am I with child: and she said, Discern, I pray you, whose are these, the signet, and bracelets, and staff.
26 And Judah acknowledged them, and said, She has been more righteous than I; because that I gave her not to Shelah my son. And he knew her again no more.
27 And it came to pass in the time of her travail, that, behold, twins were in her womb.
28 And it came to pass, when she travailed, that the one put out his hand: and the midwife took and bound upon his hand a scarlet thread, saying, This came out first.
29 And it came to pass, as he drew back his hand, that, behold, his brother came out: and she said, How have you broken forth? this breach be upon you: therefore his name was called Pharez.
30 And afterward came out his brother, that had the scarlet thread upon his hand: and his name was called Zarah.

The “scarlet thread” is from the word shaniy, which is said to be from an uncertain origin. It’s from sheniy, meaning “from 8138; properly, double, i.e. second; also adverbially, again,” from the word shanah, meaning “to fold, i.e. duplicate (literally or figuratively); by implication, to transmute (transitive or intransitive).”

The name Zarah is from the word zerach, from zarach. The name and these words tell of the one who will be raised outside the king’s bloodline, which died when Jesus Christ the king was crucified without having a wife or children.

Here following is the post from 9 March 2020. All reading should consider the consequence since then from following those in power. I don’t care much about their opinions on the matter – as I tell you again, this is the end of the age, the end of the world they’ve made without form and void. “For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? Whosoever, therefore, shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.”

My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declares unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms has caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.

Today the LORD began in Hosea 4:12, the title, and the passage led to Deuteronomy 32:29 where the LORD opines that his people aren’t wise and have no understanding. He says if they did, they would consider their latter end, meaning the consequences of what is there defined, as it is above from Hosea. After the title verse, the LORD says He will not punish His people for leaving Him and following others. He then speaks of the self-inflicted consequence of following the worthless counsel of their misleaders, verse 14 saying, “therefore the people who do not understand shall fall.” This is the same understanding He speaks of in Deuteronomy 32:29 where it is His calling us to “consider,” both from the Hebrew word biyn, meaning a mental separation (of truth from untruth, reality from the irrational).

The LORD, in this passage, led me to David’s speaking of His own understanding coming as the LORD led him into writing His words. There, in 1 Chronicles 28:19, he speaks of these as patterns (tabniyth) to be followed, which refers us back to Joshua saying the same thing in Joshua 22:28. These speak of the patterns the LORD shows men, to be followed in creating the instrument, the things, of God’s service. As we know, all other creations of men, made according to their own ideas and ways, are abominations that bring desolation.

In this understanding the LORD leads us (led me back) to Ai and Bethlehem, which we saw in the previous post, meaning the heap of ruin of the house of bread (the house of God’s life-giving word), in Joshua 7. There we are told of the first time God’s people tried to take these cities and were defeated. The defeat is due to them not following the LORD instructions and instead taking the accursed things from Jericho (meaning moon, and representing corrupt civil government). We are told, in verse 21, the accursed things are “a goodly Babylonish garment [a covering of confusion],” silver and gold, which was coveted.

This offense comes by Achan, meaning troubler, the great-grandson of Zarah, meaning rising. As we’ve seen in previous studies, Zarah is one of the twin sons born to Tamar, the wife of Judah’s dead wicked son. When Judah doesn’t keep his promise (according to the law) to have his youngest son, when old enough, go to her to raise up a son to continue his brother’s seed, she dresses up as a whore, who lures in Judah. The twins, Pharez (breach) and Zarah, are the children of Judah (the leaders of God’s people) and Tamar (meaning {palm tree} the upright).

At birth, Zerah’s hand comes out first and he is marked as the firstborn, even though Pharez is the first of the twins to be fully born. In Matthew 1:3, Tamar, Pharez, and Zarah, are all mentioned when the bloodline of Christ is there written, which is also the bloodline of David and the kings (of Judah). Tamar, is the pattern of the daughters of God’s people, whose whoredoms are spoken of in Hosea.

When we’re told of this birth, in Genesis 38:29, the Hebrew words used to tell of Pharez’s coming out first, are parats, rendered “broke forth,” and parets, rendered “breach,” the latter the origin of the name. Parats is used twice in Hosea, both in chapter 4, both telling of the breaking forth of whoredom, which brought forth wickedness and the breach in the house of God, the house of David, the house of Jesus, the house of Christ. In Hosea 4:10 parats is rendered “increase” in telling of this wicked leadership never coming again, ending when God’s people were led into crucifying the LORD, their king. This breach is the latter end, of which God’s people have no understanding.

All the above is there to read by those who wish to – I am not going to post the chapters and passages. The point is the king, the messiah, has come and never left. He is alive in me, which I know without a doubt. It makes no difference, to the end, if you believe or not; I AM going to finish this, and you are either with us or against us, with God or against God. AMEN!

“And the house which I build is great: for great is our GOD above all gods.”

Hosea 14
1 O Israel, return unto the LORD your God; for you have fallen by your iniquity.
2 Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we render the calves of our lips.
3 Asshur [Assyria – the communists and the other degenerates] shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, You are our gods: for in you [LORD] the fatherless finds mercy.
4 I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.
5 I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon [purity].
6 His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon.
7 They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine: the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon.
8 Ephraim [those who receive this second blessing, God’s gift of understanding] shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I have heard him, and observed him: I am like a green fir tree. From me is your fruit found.
9 Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors [who have no understanding] shall fall therein.

Isaiah 53
1 Who has believed our report [shmaw’ah – this rumor of the LORD’s appearing, His teaching, plainly expanding upon His word, that has, by ignorance, become as an unknown tongue]? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? [His arm is revealed to those who’ve believed this report, the rumor, the sound doctrine]
2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he has no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
4 Surely he has borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth.
8 He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
9 And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
10 Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he has put him to grief: when you shall make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
11 He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
12 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he has poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

Isaiah 54
1 Sing, O barren, you that did not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, you that did not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, says the LORD.
2 Enlarge the place of your tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of your habitations: spare not, lengthen your cords, and strengthen your stakes;
3 For you shall break forth [parats] on the right hand and on the left; and your seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.
4 Fear not; for you shall not be ashamed: neither be you confounded; for you shall not be put to shame: for you shall forget the shame of your youth, and shall not remember the reproach of your widowhood any more.
5 For your Maker is your husband; the LORD of hosts is his name; and your Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called.
6 For the LORD has called you as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when you were refused, says your God.
7 For a small moment have I forsaken you; but with great mercies will I gather you.
8 In a little wrath I hid my face from you for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on you, says the LORD your Redeemer.
9 For this is as the waters of Noah unto me: for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with you, nor rebuke you.
10 For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from you, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, says the LORD that has mercy on you.
11 O you afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay your stones with fair colors, and lay your foundations with sapphires.
12 And I will make your windows of agates, and your gates of carbuncles, and all your borders of pleasant stones.
13 And all your children shall be taught of the LORD; and great shall be the peace of your children.
14 In righteousness shall you be established: you shall be far from oppression; for you shall not fear: and from terror; for it shall not come near you.
15 Behold, they shall surely gather together, but not by me: whosoever shall gather together against you shall fall for your sake.
16 Behold, I have created the smith that blows the coals in the fire, and that brings forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy.
17 No weapon that is formed against you shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against you in judgment you shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, says the LORD.

The enemies of the LORD are wicked men in seats of power, who present themselves as gods and put themselves in His place.

Amos 9
8 Behold, the eyes of the LORD God are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; saving that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, says the LORD.
9 For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.
10 All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.
11 In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old:
12 That they may possess the remnant of Edom [the enemies among us], and of all the heathen, which are called by my name, says the LORD that does this.
13 Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that sows seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt.
14 And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them.
15 And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, says the LORD your God.

Isaiah 60
1 Arise, shine; for your light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen [zarach] upon you.
2 For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise [zarach] upon you, and his glory shall be seen upon you.
3 And the Gentiles shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising [zerach].
4 Lift up your eyes round about, and see: all they gather themselves together, they come to you: your sons shall come from far, and your daughters shall be nursed at your side.
5 Then you shall see, and flow together, and your heart shall fear, and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea shall be converted unto you, the forces of the Gentiles shall come unto you.
6 The multitude of camels shall cover you, the dromedaries of Midian [strife] and Ephah [gloom]; all they from Sheba [those perfected as promised] shall come: they shall bring gold and incense; and they shall show forth the praises of the LORD.
7 All the flocks of Kedar [darkness – who have been ignorant of the LORD] shall be gathered together unto you, the rams of Nebaioth [the high places of power] shall minister unto you: they shall come up with acceptance on mine altar, and I will glorify the house of my glory.
8 Who are these that fly as a cloud [with understanding], and as the doves [as an expected end] to their windows [they come to see]?
9 Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish [those who have fled from their vow] first, to bring your sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto the name of the LORD your God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he has glorified you.
10 And the sons of strangers shall build up your walls, and their kings shall minister unto you: for in my wrath I smote you, but in my favor have I had mercy on you.
11 Therefore your gates shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night; that men may bring unto you the forces of the Gentiles, and that their kings may be brought.
12 For the nation and kingdom that will not serve you shall perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted.
13 The glory of Lebanon [purity] shall come unto you, the fir tree, the pine tree, and the box [all the upright] together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary; and I will make the place of my feet glorious.
14 The sons also of them that afflicted you shall come bending unto you; and all they that despised you shall bow themselves down at the soles of your feet; and they shall call you; The city of the LORD, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
15 Whereas you have been forsaken and hated, so that no man went through you, I will make you an eternal excellency, a joy of many generations.
16 You shall also suck the milk of the Gentiles, and shall suck the breast of kings: and you shall know that I the LORD am your Savior and your Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.
17 For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron: I will also make your officers peace, and your exactors righteousness.
18 Violence shall no more be heard in your land, wasting nor destruction within your borders; but you shall call your walls Salvation, and your gates Praise.
19 The sun shall be no more your light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto you: but the LORD shall be unto you an everlasting light, and your God your glory.
20 Your sun shall no more go down; neither shall your moon withdraw itself: for the LORD shall be your everlasting light [giver of understanding], and the days of your mourning shall be ended.
21 Your people also shall be all righteous: they shall inherit the land forever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified.
22 A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I the LORD will hasten it in his time.

Psalms 25
1 Unto you, O LORD, do I lift up my soul.
2 O my God, I trust in you: let me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me.
3 Yea, let none that wait on you be ashamed: let them be ashamed which transgress without cause.
4 Show me your ways, O LORD; teach me your paths.
5 Lead me in your truth, and teach me: for you are the God of my salvation; on you do I wait all the day.
6 Remember, O LORD, your tender mercies and your loving-kindnesses; for they have been ever of old.
7 Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to your mercy remember you me for your goodness’ sake, O LORD.
8 Good and upright is the LORD: therefore will he teach sinners in the way.
9 The meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he teach his way.
10 All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
11 For your name’s sake, O LORD, pardon mine iniquity; for it is great.
12 What man is he that fears the LORD? him shall he teach in the way that he shall choose.
13 His soul shall dwell at ease; and his seed shall inherit the earth.
14 The secret of the LORD is with them that fear him; and he will show them his covenant.
15 Mine eyes are ever toward the LORD; for he shall pluck my feet out of the net.
16 Turn you unto me, and have mercy upon me; for I am desolate and afflicted.
17 The troubles [[tsarah – tribulation]] of my heart are enlarged: O bring you me out of my distresses.
18 Look upon mine affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins.
19 Consider mine enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred.
20 O keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed; for I put my trust in you.
21 Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on you.
22 Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles [[tsarah – tribulation]].

And they answered and said unto Jesus, “We cannot tell.” And Jesus answering says unto them, “Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things.”

This verse, Mark 12:33, is the end of the LORD’s conversation with the religious leaders (the seducers) in control of His house. They have just asked Him, in verse 28, “By what authority do you these things? And who gave you this authority to do them?” He answers with a question, asking them from where came “the baptism of John [the call to prerequisite repentance], was it from heaven, or of men?.”

As we’ve been led to understand, the “authority,” from the Greek word exousia, is the word of God from heaven (full understanding, the habitation of God and those who’ve received Him and become His children, His family and house). The LORD is here speaking of these men not receiving His word as the authentic word of God from heaven, and, thereby, they reject His authority and continue in their own ways.

John 1
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2 The same was in the beginning [only] with God.
3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
4 In him was life; and the life was the light [understanding] of men.
5 And the light shined in darkness [the world in total ignorance]; and the darkness [the ignorant] comprehended it not.
6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.
7 The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light [the understanding that would come to every person who repented of their erroneous thoughts], that all men through him might believe [that word of God is Him speaking to us Salvation through understanding].
8 He was not that Light [he was not the one sent with full understanding], but was sent to bear witness of that Light [that would come to all the repentant].
9 That was the true Light, which lights every man that comes [out of corruption] into the [new] world.
10 He was in the [new] world, and the world was made by him, and the world [that remained in darkness] knew him not.
11 He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power [EXOUSIA] to become the sons of God [I and the children the LORD has given me are for signs and wonders to His people], even to them that believe on his name [His identity – Jehovah’s Salvation in the flesh] :
13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. [The authority the word from heaven and not from man.]
14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten [the only one, the first born from the dead, to whom the Father sent His word directly – all others would be begotten the by Him and His begotten children: Christ in them] of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
15 John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spoke, He that comes after me is preferred before me: for he was before me.
16 And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.
17 For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
18 No man has seen God at any time, the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he has declared him.
19 And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who are you?
20 And he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ [Christ is only in those who receive the LORD after he comes un-comprehended giving understanding, leading into all truth, into His kingdom in heaven, which is Christ in you ONLY, when His rises in you, our hope and glory].
21 And they asked him, What then? Are you Elijah? And he says, I am not. Are you that prophet? And he answered, No.
22 Then said they unto him, Who are you? that we may give an answer to them that sent us. What sayest you of yourself?
23 He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the LORD [“and the glory of the LORD {in you} shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together”], as said the prophet Isaiah.
24 And they which were sent were of the Pharisees.
25 And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptize you then, if you be not that Christ, nor Elijah, neither that prophet?
26 John answered them, saying, I baptize with water [to make straight what was crooked]: but there stands One among you, whom you know not [the LORD in the flesh working un-comprehended];
27 He it is, who coming after me [the baptism of repentance] is preferred before me, whose shoe’s latchet I am not worthy to unloose.
28 These things were done in Bethabara [the place of crossing over] beyond Jordan [the waters below, that carried all the world in its descent, away from the tree of life, into darkness and death], where John was baptizing.
29 The next day John saw Jesus coming unto him, and says, Behold the Lamb of God, which takes away the sin of the world.
30 This is he of whom I said, After me comes a man which is preferred before me: for he was before me.
31 And I knew him not: but that he should be made manifest to Israel, therefore am I come baptizing with water.
32 And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove [the sign of the end reached], and it abode upon him.
33 And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom you shall see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizes with the Holy Ghost [the LORD in Him working and speaking, unknown until He has led us into all truth; we receive Him as the word of God and become His children risen with Him, Christ formed in us].
34 And I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of God.

Galatians 4
1 Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differs nothing from a servant, though he is LORD of all;
2 But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father.
3 Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements [stoicheion – the corrupt foundations of the thinking] of the world:
4 But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
5 To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive [Him and] the adoption of sons.
6 And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
7 Wherefore you are no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ [risen in you].
8 Howbeit then, when you knew not God, you did service unto them which by nature are no gods.
9 But now, after that you have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn you again to the weak and beggarly elements [the stoicheion – the corrupt foundation of the old world], whereunto you desire again to be in bondage [to those who’ve led you into corruption and hold you there with their words, which are the gates of hell]?
10 You observe days, and months, and times, and years [as the false teachers have taught you].
11 I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labor in vain.
12 Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as you are: you have not injured me at all.
13 You know how through infirmity [astheneia – without strength] of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.
14 And my temptation which was in my flesh you despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an angel [messenger] of God, even as Christ Jesus [whose Glory became manifested in me, after I long-suffered to give this gift from God the Father].
15 Where is then the blessedness you spoke of? for I bear you record, that, if it had been possible, you would have plucked out your own eyes [thinking I couldn’t see, because I didn’t see as you’ve been taught], and have given them to me.
16 Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?
17 They [the false teachers among you] zealously affect you, but not well [not with good leading]; yea, they would exclude you [who now believe and have been liberated from their sins of ignorance], that you might [by the truth now in you] affect them [away from the errors in which they trust].
18 But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.
19 My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,
20 I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you.
21 Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, do you not hear the law?
22 For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.
23 But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.
24 Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai [among thorns – among misleaders], which genders [brings you] to bondage, which is Agar [hagiyg – murmurers and complainers, who are never satisfied or happy].
25 For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.
26 But [heavenly new] Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
27 For it is written [in Isaiah 54:1], Rejoice, you barren that bear not; break forth and cry, you that travail not: for the desolate has many more children than she which has a husband.
28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.
29 But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.
30 Nevertheless what says the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.
31 So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.

In context, in above quoting Isaiah 54, Paul tells of those not naturally born but born after the Spirit: Christ formed in them by the LORD’s long-suffering work through those He sends.

Isaiah 53
1 Who has believed our report [shmuw’ah – who’s heard this doctrine as the voice of the LORD, leading us into all truth]? and to whom [by receiving Him] is the arm of the LORD revealed?
2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he has no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
4 Surely he has borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth.
8 He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
9 And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
10 Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he has put him to grief: when you shall make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed [the children in whom Christ is formed], he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
11 He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
12 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he has poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

Isaiah 54
1 Sing, O barren, you that did not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, you that did not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, says the LORD.
2 Enlarge the place of your tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of your habitations: spare not, lengthen your cords, and strengthen your stakes;
3 For you shall break forth on the right hand and on the left; and your seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.
4 Fear not; for you shall not be ashamed: neither be you confounded; for you shall not be put to shame: for you shall forget the shame of your youth, and shall not remember the reproach of your widowhood anymore.
5 For your Maker is your husband; the LORD of hosts is his name; and your Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called.
6 For the LORD has called you as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when you were refused, says your God.
7 For a small moment have I forsaken you; but with great mercies will I gather you.
8 In a little wrath I hid my face from you for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on you, says the LORD your Redeemer.
9 For this is as the waters of Noah unto me: for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with you, nor rebuke you.
10 For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from you, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, says the LORD that has mercy on you.
11 O you afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay your stones with fair colors, and lay your foundations with sapphires.
12 And I will make your windows of agates, and your gates of carbuncles, and all your borders of pleasant stones.
13 And all your children shall be taught of the LORD; and great shall be the peace of your children.
14 In righteousness shall you be established: you shall be far from oppression; for you shall not fear: and from terror; for it shall not come near you.
15 Behold, they shall surely gather together, but not by me: whosoever shall gather together against you shall fall for your sake.
16 Behold, I have created the smith that blows the coals in the fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy.
17 No weapon that is formed against you shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against you in judgment [mishpat – at the sentencing of the wicked] you shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, says the LORD.

The words “gather together,” used twice in verse 15 above, are from the Hebrew word guwr, speaking of those who are confederate against the LORD and the children “taught” by Him. This latter word (“taught” in verse 13 above) is from the six times used word limmuwd, meaning “or limmud; from 3925 [lamad – to goad, or teach]; instructed,” which refers specifically to the inbreathed understanding (of secret things) only given by God, and of those (posers – false teachers) who say they (the world’s experts who know everything – “wizards that peep and mutter”) have attained (falsely so-called) understanding by their own efforts.

The “gathered” wicked, whose words are venom that rots the minds of men, are those condemned at the sentencing (not the entire world, as promised after the flood, only these evil and violent men).

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

Isaiah 8
…O Immanuel [God’s presence with us].
9 Associate yourselves, O you people, and you shall be broken in pieces; and give ear, all you of far countries: gird yourselves, and you shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and you shall be broken in pieces.
10 Take counsel together, and it shall come to naught; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.
11 For the LORD spoke thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying,
12 Say you not, A confederacy, to all them to whom this people shall say, A confederacy; neither fear you their fear, nor be afraid.
13 Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.
14 And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offense to both the houses of Israel, for a gin [mowqesh] and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
15 And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.
16 Bind up the testimony [this word of Shiloh], seal the law among my disciples [limmuwd].
17 And I will wait upon the LORD, that hides his face [paniym – presence] from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.
18 Behold, I [the son of David, the son of Joseph] and the children [upon who these sure mercies of David have come] whom the LORD has given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts [who is a man of war], which dwells in mount Zion.
19 And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits [the known dead – the misleading word of the communists that are known to be the death of men and nations], and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? [Why are they still looking] for the living to the dead?
20 [Shouldn’t they be looking] To the law and to the testimony [this word of Shiloh]: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
21 And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry [without this word of God], they shall fret themselves, and curse their king [the son of David, the son of Joseph] and their God, and look upward.
22 And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble [tsarah – tribulation] and darkness [ignorance], dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness [into the insanity now obvious].

Isaiah 50
1 Thus says the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother’s [your teachers] divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have you sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother [your teachers] put away.
2 Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem [from those to whom you’ve sold yourselves]? or have I no power to deliver [from your false teachers]? behold, at my rebuke I dry up [the waters of] the sea, I make the rivers [they’ve polluted] a wilderness: their fish [the living things in their waters] stink, because there is no water [from above], and dies for thirst [for this word of God from heaven].
3 I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
4 The LORD God has given me the tongue of the learned [limmuwd], that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakens morning by morning, he wakens mine ear to hear as the learned [limmuwd].
5 The LORD God has opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back.
6 I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair [the ideas from my head where He put them]: I hid not my face [paniym – the LORD’s presence manifested in me] from shame and spitting.
7 For the LORD God will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face [His presence in me] like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.
8 He is near that justifies me; who will contend with me? let us stand together: who is mine adversary? let him come near to me [let us do battle in this war for the world].
9 Behold, the LORD God will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up.
10 Who is among you that fears the LORD, that obey the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness [and are without understanding], and has no light [this word of God]? let him trust in the name [the identity] of the LORD [in me revealed], and stay [stand strong] upon his God [with me in this battle].
11 Behold, all you that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves about with sparks: walk in the light [of your own understanding] of your fire, and in the sparks that you have kindled. This shall you have of mine hand; [without receiving me] you shall lie down in sorrow.

Jeremiah 2
22 For though you [false teachers] wash yourselves with niter, and take you much soap, yet your iniquity is marked before me, says the LORD God.
23 How can you say, I am not polluted, I have not gone after Baalim [the idols of the world]? see your way in the valley, know what you have done: you are a swift dromedary traversing her ways [carrying my people away];
24 A wild ass used [limmuwd – with your teaching, carrying away] to the wilderness, that snuffs up the wind [filled with your misleading spirit] at her pleasure; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her [to be a false teacher].
25 Withhold your foot from being unshod, and your throat from thirst [I said receive my word and understand the way]: but you said, There is no hope: no; for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go.
26 As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets.
27 Saying to a stock [the dead idols they follow], You are my father; and to a stone, You have brought me forth: for they have turned their back unto me, and not their face: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.
28 But where are your gods that you have made you? let them arise, if they can save you in the time of your trouble: for according to the number of your cities are your gods, O Judah [the current crop of corrupt leaders].
29 Wherefore will you plead with me? you all have transgressed against me, says the LORD.
30 In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
31 O generation, see you the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We are lords; we will come no more unto you?
32 Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.
33 Why trim you your way to seek love? therefore have you also taught [lamad] the wicked ones your ways.

Jeremiah 13
15 Hear you, and give ear; be not proud: for the LORD has spoken.
16 Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while you look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.
17 But if you will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the LORD’s flock is carried away captive.
18 Say unto the king and to the queen, Humble yourselves, sit down: for your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory.
19 The cities of the south shall be shut up, and none shall open them: Judah shall be carried away captive all of it, it shall be wholly carried away captive.
20 Lift up your eyes, and behold [see] them that come from the north [from the darkness]: where is the flock that was given you, your beautiful flock [My ONE BODY]?
21 What will you say when he shall punish you? for you have taught them to be captains, and as chief over you: shall not sorrows take you, as a woman in travail?
22 And if you say in your heart, Wherefore come these things upon me? For the greatness of your iniquity are your skirts discovered, and your heels made bare.
23 Can the Ethiopian [those covered in darkness] change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may you also do good, that are accustomed [limmuwd – that teach] to do evil.
24 Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passes away by the wind of the wilderness.
25 This is your lot, the portion of your measures from me, says the LORD; because you have forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.
26 Therefore will I discover your skirts upon your face, that your shame may appear.
27 I have seen your adulteries, and your neighing, the lewdness of your whoredom, and your abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe unto you, O Jerusalem! will you not be made clean? when shall it once be?

The LORD never asks a question he doesn’t Himself answer. The word rendered “clean,” as the LORD asks when Jerusalem will be made such, is the word taher, meaning “to be bright; i.e. (by implication) to be pure (physical sound, clear, unadulterated; Levitically, uncontaminated; morally, innocent or holy).” Jeremiah uses the word one other time as the LORD rising in him gives the answer as He raises His people with Him into full understanding.

Jeremiah 33
2 Thus says the LORD the maker thereof [all things, and the master teacher of them], the LORD that formed it, to establish [kuwn] it; the LORD is his name;
3 Call unto me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you know not.
4 For thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are thrown down by the mounts, and by the sword;
5 They come to fight with the Chaldeans, but it is to fill them with the dead bodies of men, whom I have slain in mine anger and in my fury, and for all whose wickedness I have hid my face [presence] from this city.
6 Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth.
7 And I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return, and will build them, as at the first.
8 And I will cleanse [tahar] them from all their iniquity, whereby they have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, whereby they have sinned, and whereby they have transgressed against me.
9 And it shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and a honor before all the nations of the earth, which shall hear all the good that I do unto them: and they shall fear and tremble for all the goodness and for all the prosperity that I procure unto it.
10 Thus says the LORD; Again there shall be heard in this place, which you say shall be desolate without man and without beast, even in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are desolate, without man, and without inhabitant, and without beast,
11 The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that shall say, Praise the LORD of hosts: for the LORD is good; for his mercy endures forever: and of them that shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the LORD. For I will cause to return the captivity of the land, as at the first, says the LORD.
12 Thus says the LORD of hosts; Again in this place, which is desolate without man and without beast, and in all the cities thereof, shall be a habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down.
13 In the cities of the mountains, in the cities of the vale, and in the cities of the south, and in the land of Benjamin [that are the children of my right hand], and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, shall the flocks pass again under the hands of him that tells [manah – reveals in His answer, as in verse 3 above, showing “you great and mighty things, which you know not”] them, says the LORD.
14 Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will perform that good thing which I have promised unto the house of Israel and to the house of Judah.
15 In those days, and at that time, will I cause the Branch of righteousness to grow up unto David; and he shall execute judgment and righteousness in the land.
16 In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely: and this is the name wherewith she shall be called, The LORD our righteousness.
17 For thus says the LORD; David shall never want a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel;
18 Neither shall the priests the Levites want a man before me to offer burnt offerings, and to kindle meat offerings, and to do sacrifice continually.
19 And the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah, saying,
20 Thus says the LORD; If you can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season;
21 Then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers.
22 As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites that minister unto me.
23 Moreover the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying,
24 Consider you not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which the LORD has chosen, he has even cast them off? thus they have despised my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.
25 Thus says the LORD; If my covenant be not with day and night, and if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;
26 Then will I cast away the seed of Jacob and David my servant, so that I will not take any of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and have mercy on them.

John 17
1 These words spoke Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify your Son, that your Son also may glorify you:
2 As you have given him power [exousia – authority] over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as you have given him.
3 And this is life eternal, that they might know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.
4 I have glorified you on the earth: I have finished the work which you gavest me to do.
5 And now, O Father, glorify you me with your own self with the glory which I had with the before the world was.
6 I have manifested your name [identity] unto the men which you gave me out of the world: yours they were, and you gave them me; and they have kept your word.
7 Now they have known that all things whatsoever you have given me are of you.
8 For I have given unto them the words which you gave me; and they have received them [as your words], and have known surely that I came out from you, and they have believed that you did send me.
9 I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which you have given me; for they are yours.
10 And all mine are yours, and yours are mine; and I am glorified in them.

The Hebrew word manah means “to weigh out; by implication, to allot or constitute officially; also to enumerate or enroll:–appoint, count, number, prepare, set, tell.”

It (the word manah) is referring us to the three times it’s used in the Psalms, there telling us it’s His word established (kuwn), raising up David again, which are His judgments that we haven’t known (because only He knows them and reveals them at these ends of the earth: ending the old and beginning the new).

Psalms 61
A Psalms of David.
1 Hear my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer.
2 From the end of the earth will I cry unto you, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
3 For you have been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy.
4 I will abide in your tabernacle forever: I will trust in the covert of your wings. Selah.
5 For you, O God, have heard my vows: you have given me the heritage of those that fear your name.
6 You will prolong the king’s life: and his years as many generations.
7 He shall abide before God forever: O prepare [manah] mercy and truth, which may preserve him.
8 So will I sing praise unto your name forever, that I may daily perform my vows.

Psalms 90
1 LORD, you have been our dwelling place in all generations.
2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.
3 You turn man to destruction; and sayest, Return, you children of men.
4 For a thousand years in your sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
5 You carry them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which grows up.
6 In the morning it flourishes, and grows up; in the evening it is cut down, and withers.
7 For we are consumed by your anger, and by your wrath are we troubled.
8 You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your countenance [understanding Your presence].
9 For all our days are passed away in your wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.
10 The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
11 Who knows the power of your anger? even according to your fear, so is your wrath.
12 So teach us to number [manah] our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
13 Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent you concerning your servants.
14 O satisfy us early with your mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
15 Make us glad according to the days wherein you have afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.
16 Let your work [which we know not] appear unto your servants, and your glory unto their children.
17 And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish [kuwn] you the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish [kuwn] you it.

Psalms 147
1 Praise you the LORD: for it is good to sing praises unto our God; for it is pleasant; and praise is comely.
2 The LORD does build up Jerusalem: he gathers together the outcasts of Israel.
3 He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.
4 He tells [manah] the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names.
5 Great is our LORD, and of great power: his understanding is infinite.
6 The LORD lifts up the meek: he casts the wicked down to the ground.
7 Sing unto the LORD with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the harp unto our God:
8 Who covers the heaven with clouds, who prepares [kuwn] rain [His word from heaven] for the earth, who makes grass to grow upon the mountains.
9 He gives to the beast [those without His spirit] his food, and to the young ravens [those covered in darkness: the ignorant] which cry.
10 He delights not in the strength of the horse: he takes not pleasure in the legs of a man.
11 The LORD takes pleasure in them that fear him, in those that hope in his mercy.
12 Praise the LORD, O Jerusalem; praise your God, O Zion.
13 For he has strengthened the bars of your gates; he has blessed your children within you.
14 He makes peace in your borders, and fills you with the finest of the wheat.
15 He sends forth his commandment upon earth: his word runs very swiftly.
16 He gives snow [His word reserved, frozen, in heaven, for this time of war] like wool: he scatters the hoarfrost like ashes.
17 He casts forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold [when His word is hidden, frozen, as in a stone of crystal]?
18 He sends out his word, and melts them: he causes his wind to blow, and the waters flow.
19 He shows his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel.
20 He has not dealt so with any nation: and as for his judgments, they have not known them. Praise you the LORD.

Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.

The word above rendered “judgment” is mishpat, which speaks more of the sentence, the determination of the future based on the findings in the pleading.

The Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary definition is: “a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (participant’s) divine law, individual or collective), including the act, the place, the suit, the crime, and the penalty; abstractly, justice, including a participant’s right or privilege (statutory or customary), or even a style.”

The title, Ecclesiastes 12:13 & 14, is Solomon’s warning that there is a day when the LORD pronounces a sentence. The chapter warns of the day that has come, when “man goes to his long home,” after the evil day has comes, when man says, “I have no pleasure in them [the good word of God].”

The words rendered “long home,” in Ecclesiastes 12:5, are ‘owlam bayith, meaning eternal habitation (in a family, a house good or evil, heaven or hell).

The word rendered “pleasure,” in Ecclesiastes 12:1, is chephets, meaning delight; the same word Solomon uses later in verse 10, saying “The preacher sought to find out acceptable [chephets] words: and that which was written was upright, even words of truth.”

In this understanding we see the meaning of the LORD’s words, in Matthew 12:36 & 37, saying “But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. For by your words you shall be justified, and by your words you shall be condemned.”

The first time chephets appears is in 1 Samuel 15:22 as Samuel is speaking to Saul, after he (Saul) disobeyed the LORD’s command to utterly destroy all the sinners, Agag (Gog) and all the Amalekites (Magog), and fight against them until they are consumed. As we know, it is for this sin he was unseated and replaced by David.

1 Samuel 15
16 Then Samuel said unto Saul, Stay, and I will tell you what the LORD has said to me this night. And he said unto him, Say on.
17 And Samuel said, When you were little in your own sight, were you not made the head of the tribes of Israel, and the LORD anointed you king over Israel?
18 And the LORD sent you on a journey, and said, Go and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they be consumed.
19 Wherefore then did you not obey the voice of the LORD, but did fly upon the spoil, and did evil in the sight of the LORD?
20 And Saul said unto Samuel, Yea, I have obeyed the voice of the LORD, and have gone the way which the LORD sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.
21 But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of the things which should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice unto the LORD your God in Gilgal.
22 And Samuel said, Has the LORD as great delight [chephets] in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.
23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, he has also rejected you from being king.
24 And Saul said unto Samuel, I have sinned: for I have transgressed the commandment of the LORD, and your words: because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice.
25 Now, therefore, I pray you, pardon my sin, and turn again with me, that I may worship the LORD.
26 And Samuel said unto Saul, I will not return with you: for you have rejected the word of the LORD, and the LORD has rejected you from being king over Israel.
27 And as Samuel turned about to go away, he laid hold upon the skirt of his mantle, and it rent.
28 And Samuel said unto him, The LORD has rent the kingdom of Israel from you this day, and has given it to a neighbor of yours, that is better than you.
29 And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent: for he is not a man, that he should repent.
30 Then he said, I have sinned: yet honor me now, I pray you, before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and turn again with me, that I may worship the LORD your God.
31 So Samuel turned again after Saul; and Saul worshipped the LORD.
32 Then said Samuel, Bring you hither to me Agag the king of the Amalekites. And Agag came unto him delicately. And Agag said, Surely the bitterness of death is past.
33 And Samuel said, As your sword has made women childless, so shall your mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the LORD in Gilgal.
34 Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house to Gibeah of Saul.
35 And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death: nevertheless, Samuel mourned for Saul: and the LORD repented that he had made Saul king over Israel.

1 Samuel 16
1 And the LORD said unto Samuel, How long will you mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill your horn with oil, and go, I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons.
2 And Samuel said, How can I go? if Saul hear it, he will kill me. And the LORD said, Take a heifer with you, and say, I am come to sacrifice to the LORD.
3 And call Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you shall do: and you shall anoint unto me him whom I name unto you.
4 And Samuel did that which the LORD spoke, and came to Bethlehem. And the elders of the town trembled at his coming, and said, Come you peaceably?
5 And he said, Peaceably: I am come to sacrifice unto the LORD: sanctify yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice. And he sanctified Jesse and his sons, and called them to the sacrifice.
6 And it came to pass, when they were come, that he looked on Eliab, and said, Surely the LORD’s anointed is before him.
7 But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the LORD sees not as man sees; for man looks on the outward appearance, but the LORD looks on the heart.
8 Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass before Samuel. And he said, Neither has the LORD chosen this.
9 Then Jesse made Shammah to pass by. And he said, Neither has the LORD chosen this.
10 Again, Jesse made seven of his sons to pass before Samuel. And Samuel said unto Jesse, The LORD has not chosen these.
11 And Samuel said unto Jesse, Are here all your children? And he said, There remains yet the youngest, and, behold, he keeps the sheep [as the LORD commanded me]. And Samuel said unto Jesse, Send and fetch him: for we will not sit down till he comes hither.
12 And he sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, and withal of a beautiful countenance, and goodly to look to. And the LORD said, Arise, anoint him: for this is he.
13 Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brethren: and the Spirit of the LORD came upon David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah.
14 But the Spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the LORD troubled him.

Friends, the good news is what the LORD promised David and His children, which we know as the “sure mercies of David.”

2 Samuel 7
8 Now therefore so shall you say unto my servant David, Thus says the LORD of hosts, I took you from the sheepcote, from following the sheep [as I commanded you], to be ruler over my people, over Israel:
9 And I was with you where ever you went, and have cut off all your enemies out of your sight, and have made you a great name, like unto the name of the great men that are in the earth.
10 Moreover I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their own, and move no more; neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them anymore, as beforetime,
11 And as since the time that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel, and have caused you to rest from all your enemies. Also, the LORD tells you that he will make you a house.
12 And when your days be fulfilled, and you shall sleep with your fathers, I will set up your seed after you, which shall proceed out of your bowels, and I will establish his kingdom.
13 He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.
14 I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men:
15 But my mercy shall not depart away from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before you.
16 And your house and your kingdom shall be established forever before you: your throne shall be established forever.

The not-so-good news, almost all (all except the very elect remnant) God’s people remain in rebellion, following peeping wizards who keep them associated (confederate) with the communists among them destroying them. These men, misleaders of the dead and communists in power, are those who come as “the rod of men, and with stripes of the children of men.” The LORD, in Isaiah 8, after telling of His people rejecting these “waters of Shiloah that go softly,” prescribes the solution, which is to seek the LORD who is with us. The twice-used name Shiloah, meaning sent, is referring to the word of God that secretly (‘at – “softly,” see Job 15:11 where it rendered “secret”) flows from the LORD’s messenger, who brings revelation (secrets) manifesting His presence with us: Immanuel.”

Isaiah 8
7 Now, therefore, behold, the LORD brings [brought] up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria [the communist attack, with word of death, leading our nation and people into self-destruction], and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks:
8 And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of your land, O Immanuel.
9 Associate yourselves, O you people, and you shall be broken in pieces; and give ear, all you of far countries: gird yourselves, and you shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and you shall be broken in pieces.
10 Take counsel together, and it shall come to naught; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.
11 For the LORD spoke thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying,
12 Say you not, A confederacy, to all them to whom this people shall say, A confederacy; neither fear you their fear, nor be afraid.
13 Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.
14 And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offense to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
15 And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.
16 Bind up the testimony [this word of Shiloh], seal the law among my disciples.
17 And I will wait upon the LORD, that hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.
18 Behold, I [the son of David, the son of Joseph] and the children [upon who these sure mercies of David have come] whom the LORD has given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion.
19 And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits [the known dead – the misleading word of the communists that are known to be the death of men and nations], and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? [Why are they still looking] for the living to the dead?
20 To the law and to the testimony [this word of Shiloh]: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
21 And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry [without this word of God], they shall fret themselves, and curse their king [the son of David, the son of Joseph] and their God, and look upward.
22 And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble [tsarah – tribulation] and darkness [ignorance], dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness [into the insanity now obvious].

The reference to “Shiloh” above (as those who study here well know) is to the words of Jacob, in Genesis 49, to Judah as he (Jacob) tells His children what shall befall them in these last days (of the old world). It speaks of the king line, which originated in Joseph (whose birthright it is), resided in Judah, residing there with David after being removed from Benjamin (Saul), returning to Joseph at the coming of the king called Shiloh (peace – as in the order of Melchizedek).

1 Chronicles 5
1 Now the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel, (for he was the firstborn; but forasmuch as he defiled his father’s bed, his birthright was given unto the sons of Joseph the son of Israel: and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright.
2 For Judah prevailed above his brethren, and of him came the chief ruler [David]; but the birthright was Joseph’s:)

Genesis 49
8 Judah [the leaders God choses], you are he whom your brethren shall praise: your hand shall be in the neck of your enemies; your father’s children shall bow down before you.
9 Judah is a lion’s whelp: from the prey, my son, you are gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?
10 The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet [speaking of the Davidic king line], until Shiloh come [meaning peace and tranquility – the one {Joseph’s seed – the one separated} from who it will again flow – see Ezekiel 21:27 and the overturning]; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
11 Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass’s colt unto the choice vine [this speaking the lowly {Zechariah 9:9}, God’s elect remnant, outside the established sects, bound until Shiloh comes, when they are loosed]; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes:
12 His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.

22 Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well [a tree of life by these waters of God]; whose branches run over the wall [the wall of lies men have created and teach]:
23 The archers [ba’al – the gods of this world whose teaching has blinded all from seeing the Father, in the son, the seed of the women who brings forth the man child – see Revelation 12:5] have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him:
24 But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the Mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the [good] Shepherd, the [foundation] Stone of Israel:)
25 Even by the God of your father, who shall help [‘azar] you; and by the Almighty, who shall bless [barak] you with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep [thowm] that lies under [the deep meaning that lies below the surface], blessings of the breasts [of the Ancient of Days – see Isaiah 28:9], and of the womb [seed, the son]:
26 The blessings of your father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors [harah – all those who have come before us, and were only blessed with part of what is perfected in our return to the LORD] unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head [see Zechariah 9:16] of him that was separate from his brethren.

The word rendered “prevailed,” in 1 Chronicles 5:2 and Genesis 49:26, telling of David first, and of Joseph in the end, above all who’ve come before Him, by the blessings of God, is the twenty-five times used wore gabar. It first appears in the only other (four) times it’s used in Genesis (7:18, 19, 20, & 24), there telling of the days of Noah when the flood “prevailed” over all the earth.

As we’ve seen, this event tells of the words of men (the waters below) mixed with the waters above (God’s word) corrupting all discourse (as in Babel) and destroying all the life in humanity (except for the few with Naoh, meaning rest, not agitated as was all the world by ignorance ruling: “prevailing”).

The event ends with the LORD putting a bow (rainbow – showing His mercies’ come) in the cloud (where the elements of understanding are held when they leave the earth) in the firmament (the expanse). As we understand, this expanse is where, in the old and now new creation, the waters below are separated from the waters above are represented in light (understanding) rightly divided into the rainbow, which is the coat of many colors given to Joseph (Shiloh) by the Father.

As discussed in many previous posts, this is the depiction John speaks of in Revelation 10, when he sees a “mighty” angel come from heaven (full understanding), clothed with a cloud, and a rainbow upon his head (the rightly divided light in his mind). There John hears seven thunders, the voice of the seven colors, and (because the word is sealed, reserved unto fire and the perdition of the ungodly) he is told not to write what he hears.

The Hebrew word gabar means “to be strong; by implication, to prevail.” The Greek word above rendered “mighty” is ischuros, meaning “forcible (literally or figuratively):–boisterous, mighty(-ier), powerful, strong(-er, man), valiant.”

John only uses the word (ischuros) once outside of Revelation, in 1 John 2:14, saying the origin of this strength to prevail (overcome the wicked) is the word of God in us.

1 John 2
14 I have written unto you, fathers, because you have known him that is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because you are strong [ischuros], and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the wicked one.
15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
17 And the world passes away, and the lust thereof: but he that does the will of God abides forever.
18 Little children, it is the last time: and as you have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.
19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.
20 But you have an unction from the Holy One, and you know all things.
21 I have not written unto you because you know not the truth, but because you know it, and that no lie is of the truth.
22 Who is a liar but he that denies that Jesus is the Christ [the Father’s, Jehovah’s Salvation manifested in the flesh of His son, the first begotten from the dead]? He is antichrist, that denies the Father and the Son.
23 Whosoever denies the Son, the same has not the Father: he that acknowledges the Son has the Father also.
24 Let that therefore abide in you, which you have heard from the beginning. If that which you have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, you also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father.
25 And this is the promise that he has promised us, even eternal life.
26 These things have I written unto you concerning them [the wicked in church and state] that seduce you.
27 But the anointing which you have received of him abides in you, and you need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teaches you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it has taught you, you shall abide in him.
28 And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.
29 If you know that he is righteous, you know that every one that does righteousness is born of him.

The antichrists are those rejecting the returning son, who by their own fault are unable to hear this word of God and receive His peace. These are those sitting in power, the spiritually wicked in high places, in whom the LORD has no pleasure (chephets).

Jeremiah, in Jeremiah 22, speaks of the king line ending in the hand of false prophets and other misleaders, meaning they degenerate into using lies to manipulate and control (oppress) those they rule. The following chapter begins plainly speaking of it, followed by telling of it [the king line] resurrected.

Ecclesiastes 12 begins describing this end and concludes telling of this day of judgment, when the goodman of the house returns to His [long] home from his long journey.

Jeremiah 22
24 As I live, says the LORD, though Coniah [establish – the Jechonias of Matthew 1:11, who was carried away into Babylon, the king line fallen into confusion] the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet [My presence pressed into the earth] upon my right hand, yet would I pluck you thence;
25 And I will give you into the hand of them that seek your life, and into the hand of them whose face you fear, even into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon the lies of the false prophets that cause the desolation of God’s people, and give confusion power to rule over all the earth], and into the hand of the Chaldeans [those who use their deceptions, lies and false accusations, to manipulate and control the world].
26 And I will cast you out, and your mother that bare you, into another country, where you were not born; and there shall you [the reign of righteousness] die.
27 But to the land whereunto they desire to return [Jerusalem – peace and security under just rule], thither shall they not return.
28 Is this man Coniah a despised broken idol? is he a vessel wherein is no pleasure [chephets]? wherefore are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into a land which they know not?
29 O EARTH, EARTH, EARTH, HEAR THE WORD OF THE LORD.
30 Thus says the LORD, Write you this man childless, a man that shall not prosper in his days: for no man of his seed [of the king line] shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling any more in Judah.

Jeremiah 23
1 Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! says the LORD.
2 Therefore thus says the LORD God of Israel against the pastors that feed my people; You have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them: behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, says the LORD.
3 And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all countries where I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase.
4 And I will set up shepherds over them which shall feed them: and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall they be lacking, says the LORD.
5 Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth.
6 In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.

Jeremiah uses the word chephets one other time, in Jeremiah 48:37 when describing the destruction of Moab, a name we know speaks of the open mouths of men as the gates holding God’s people and the world in hell.

Jeremiah 48
35 Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab, says the LORD, him that offers in the high places [of power], and him that burns incense to his [false] gods.
36 Therefore mine heart shall sound for Moab like pipes, and mine heart shall sound like pipes for the men of Kirheres [the wall of lies they’ve crafted]: because the riches [the things they say are of value] that he has gotten are perished.
37 For every head shall be bald [the ideas growing out of their head are taken away], and every beard clipped [and coming from their face]: upon all the hands shall be cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.
38 There shall be lamentation generally upon all the housetops of Moab, and in the streets thereof: for I have broken Moab like a vessel wherein is no pleasure [chephets – no pleasure in their words], says the LORD.
39 They shall howl, saying, How is it broken down! how has Moab turned the back with shame [from not reaching the end they sought and foretold]! so shall Moab be a derision and a dismaying [confusion, delusion, and insanity] to all them about him.
40 For thus says the LORD; Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread his wings over Moab.
41 Kerioth [all they have built upon their lies and delusions] is taken, and the strong holds are surprised, and the mighty men’s hearts in Moab at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.
42 And Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he has magnified himself against the LORD.
43 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, shall be upon you, O inhabitant of Moab, says the LORD.
44 He that flees from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that gets up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for I will bring upon it, even upon Moab, the year of their visitation (paquddah), says the LORD.

Jeremiah, in verse 40 above, is referring to the sentence, the mishpat (judgment), in the year of the LORD’s visitation (pquddah).

Jeremiah 4
9 And it shall come to pass at that day, says the LORD, that the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the princes; and the priests shall be astonished, and the prophets shall wonder.
10 Then said I, Ah, LORD God! surely you have greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, You shall have peace; whereas the sword reaches unto the soul.
11 At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A dry wind of the high places in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse,
12 Even a full wind from those places shall come unto me: now also will I give sentence [mishpat] against them.
13 Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots shall be as a whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us! for we are spoiled.
14 O Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you mayest be saved. How long shall your vain [worthless] thoughts lodge within you?
15 For a voice declares from Dan [judgment], and publishes affliction from mount Ephraim [against the leaders of God’s people in this generation].
16 Make you mention to the nations; behold, publish against Jerusalem, that watchers [natsar] come from a far [merchaq] country, and give out their voice against the cities of Judah.
17 As keepers of a field, are they against her round about; because she has been rebellious against me, says the LORD.
18 Your way and your doings have procured these things unto you; this is your wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reaches unto your heart [the foundation of thought].
19 My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart makes a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.

The trumpet and war refer to this time, now when the LORD writes His new covenant in our minds, when Ephraim repents and is corrected, and all the earth will know the LORD.

Jeremiah 31
1 At the same time, says the LORD, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.
2 Thus says the LORD, The people which were left of the sword found grace in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest.
3 The LORD has appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved you with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn you.
4 Again I will build you, and you shall be built, O virgin of Israel: you shall again be adorned with your tabrets, and shall go forth in the dances of them that make merry.
5 You shall yet plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria: the planters shall plant, and shall eat them as common things.
6 For there shall be a day, that the watchmen [natsar] upon the mount Ephraim shall cry, Arise you, and let us go up to Zion unto the LORD our God.
7 For thus says the LORD; Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout among the chief of the nations: publish you, praise you, and say, O LORD, save your people, the remnant of Israel.
8 Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the coasts of the earth, and with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her that travails with child together: a great company shall return thither.
9 They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
10 Hear the word of the LORD, O you nations, and declare it in the isles [dry places that have been without this word of God] afar [merchaq] off, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd does his flock.
11 For the LORD has redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand of him that was stronger than he.
12 Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all.
13 Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together: for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.
14 And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, says the LORD.
15 Thus says the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rachel [the mother of Joseph and grandmother of Ephraim] weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not [because they were not yet awakened – born into the new earth].
16 Thus says the LORD; Refrain your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears: for your work [teaching your children] shall be rewarded, says the LORD; and they shall come again from the land of the enemy [out of confusion – Babylon].
17 And there is hope in your end, says the LORD, that your children shall come again to their own border [the new earth the LORD has prepared for them].
18 I have surely heard [now] Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; “You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn you me, and I shall be turned; for you are the LORD my God.
19 Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.”
20 Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I spoke against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, says the LORD.
21 Set you up waymarks, make you high heaps: set your heart toward the highway, even the way which you went: turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these your cities.
22 How long will you go about, O you backsliding daughter? for the LORD has created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man [the LORD of hosts, who is a man of war].

26 Upon this I awoke, and beheld [and saw]; and my sleep was sweet unto me [in sleep strength was given by the word of God].

31 Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, says the LORD:
33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, says the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, says the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
35 Thus says the LORD, which gives the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divides the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts is his name:
36 If those ordinances depart from before me, says the LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me forever.

Ecclesiastes 12
1 Remember now your Creator in the days of your youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years [of tribulation] draw near, when you shall say, I have no pleasure [chephets] in them [the good word of God];
2 While the sun [the church], or the light [understanding], or the moon [civil government], or the stars [God’s people], be not darkened [become ignorant], nor the clouds return after the rain [when the elements of understanding leave the earth after God gave them from heaven]:
3 In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble [don’t honor the LORD when he enters the house], and the strong men shall bow themselves [to idols], and the grinders [the workers of the LORD] cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows [the watchmen] be darkened [are ignorant],
4 And the doors shall be shut in the streets [when none open this word, which is the LORD’s way], when the sound of the grinding [workmen] is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird [when men rise against those speaking the word of God, as if they caught a bird in a snare], and all the daughters of music [who repeat the word of God as received] shall be brought low;
5 Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high [the wicked in power], and fears shall be in the way [when the way of the wicked is intimidation and false claims, HOAX, of what should be feared], and the almond tree shall flourish [and the LORD send His first-begotten with the LOVE of His TRUTH], and the grasshopper shall be a burden [devouring this word when it comes as first life], and desire [to live] shall fail: because man goes to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets:
6 Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern [all speaking of this written word and the strength to deliver it as received, without which death comes].
7 Then [when, as now, all these things have come and all except the very elect remnant are dead] shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
8 Vanity of vanities, says the preacher; all is vanity [worthless].
9 And moreover, because the preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge; yea, he gave good heed, and sought out, and set in order many proverbs.
10 The preacher sought to find out acceptable [chaphets] words: and that which was written was upright, even words of truth.
11 The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails fastened by the masters of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd.
12 And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
13 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
14 For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.

The word rendered “tremble” in verse 3 is the three times used word zuwa’, meaning “properly, to shake off, i.e. (figuratively) to agitate (as with fear).” It more precisely means – showing no respect for one who should be respected, as Solomon does in his conclusion, and the keepers of the corrupt house don’t (in verse 3).

The “long home” is in possession of the ignorant, the habitation of death and hell (and the answer is, No, the dead don’t know they are dead; they only know they are miserable, in fear, don’t know why, and no matter where they go, there they are afraid and unhappy).

Isaiah 57
10 You are wearied in the greatness of your [wicked] way; yet said you not, There is no hope [for there is no peace in your ways]: you have found the life of your hand [and think you are alive]; therefore you were not grieved.
11 And of whom have you been afraid or feared, that you have lied, and have not remembered me, nor laid it to your heart? have not I held my peace [in my hand] even of old [‘owlam – have not I sent My way of peace throughout all eternity], and you fear me not?
12 I will declare your righteousness, and your works; for they shall not profit you.
13 When you cry let your companies deliver you; but the wind shall carry them all away; vanity [the worthlessness of their way] shall take them: but he that puts his trust in me [in My good leading by My way of peace] shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain;
14 And shall say, Cast you up, cast you up, prepare the way, take up the stumbling-block out of the way of my people.
15 For thus says the high and lofty One that inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart [the sure foundations of the earth in the mind] of the contrite ones.
16 For I will not contend forever [‘owlam – through all eternity – I will end this war in victory over the world], neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made.
17 For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly [twisting and perverting truth] in the way of his heart [the corrupt foundation of his mind].
18 I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him [the contrite and humble] also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners.
19 I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, says the LORD; and I will heal him.
20 But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
21 There is no peace, says my God, to the wicked.

As explained in Proverbs 7:19, the LORD, the goodman of the house (family), is on a long journey, during which the wicked tempt and seduce the simple-minded to come into the house they control in His absence.

Earlier, beginning in verse 6, we are told of a seemingly unconnected event: when the father (the head of the family and the house – unknown to the seducer), looking through the window into the house, sees what’s occurred: that the simple have succumbed to the seduction. In other words, the goodman of the house has returned from His long journey and caught the unfaithful in the act of unfaithfulness.

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

The word in verse 19 above rendered “long” is rachowq, meaning “remote, literally or figuratively, of place or time; specifically, precious.”

It’s the place Abraham, on the third day (the day of the resurrection), saw “far off.” This statement comes in Genesis 22:4, a chapter describing when the LORD (Jehovah-jireh: Jehovah sees – everything] comes to Abraham a second time after he obeyed His voice.

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

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

Psalms 83
12 Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession [yarash – the wicked who possess it, unaware the goodman has returned].
13 O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.
14 As the fire burns a wood, and as the flame sets the mountains on fire;
15 So persecute them with your tempest, and make them afraid with your storm.
16 Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek your name, O LORD.
17 Let them be confounded and troubled forever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish:
18 That men may know that you, whose name alone is Jehovah, are the Most High over all the earth.

Ezekiel 37
24 And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them.
25 And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their children’s children forever: and my servant David shall be their prince forever.
26 Moreover I will make [karath] a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore.
27 My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
28 And the heathen shall know that I the LORD do sanctify Israel [do purify and separate them to rule the world as God rules, in righteousness: with judgment and mercy], when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore.

Psalms 37
1 Fret not yourself because of evildoers, neither be you envious against the workers of iniquity.
2 For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.
3 Trust in the LORD, and do good; so shall you dwell in the land, and truly you shall be fed.
4 Delight yourself also in the LORD: and he shall give you the desires of your heart.
5 Commit your way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.
6 And he shall bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your judgment as the noonday.
7 Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not yourself because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.
8 Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not yourself in any wise to do evil.
9 For evildoers shall be cut off [karath]: but those that wait upon the LORD, they shall inherit [yarash – possess] the earth.
10 For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, you shall diligently consider his place, and it shall not be.
11 But the meek shall inherit [yarash – possess] the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.
12 The wicked plot against the just, and gnash upon him with his teeth [to devour and swallow him up].
13 The LORD shall laugh at him: for he sees that his day is coming.
14 The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of upright conversation.
15 Their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bows shall be broken.
16 A little that a righteous man has is better than the riches of many wicked.
17 For the arms of the wicked shall be broken: but the LORD upholds the righteous.
18 The LORD knows the days of the upright: and their inheritance shall be forever.
19 They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.
20 But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the LORD shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away.
21 The wicked borrows, and pays not again: but the righteous shows mercy, and gives.
22 For such as be blessed of him shall inherit [yarash – possess] the earth; and they that be cursed of him shall be cut off [karath].
23 The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he delights in his way.
24 Though he falls, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the LORD upholds him with his hand.
25 I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.
26 He is ever merciful, and lends; and his seed is blessed.
27 Depart from evil, and do good; and dwell for evermore.
28 For the LORD loves judgment, and forsakes not his saints; they are preserved forever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off [karath].
29 The righteous shall inherit [yarash – possess] the land, and dwell therein forever.
30 The mouth of the righteous speaks wisdom, and his tongue talks of judgment.
31 The law of his God is in his heart; none of his steps shall slide.
32 The wicked watch the righteous, and seeks to slay him.
33 The LORD will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged.
34 Wait on the LORD, and keep his way, and he shall exalt you to inherit [yarash – possess] the land: when the wicked are cut off [karath], you shall see it.
35 I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.
36 Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
37 Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace.
38 But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of the wicked shall be cut off [karath].
39 But the salvation of the righteous is of the LORD: he is their strength in the time of trouble.
40 And the LORD shall help them, and deliver them: he shall deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in him.

Whereas Edom says, “We are impoverished, but we will return and build [back better] the desolate places;” thus says the LORD of hosts, “They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them, The border of wickedness, and, The people against whom the LORD has indignation forever.”

Whereas Edom says, “We are impoverished, but we will return and build [back better] the desolate places;” thus says the LORD of hosts, “They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them, The border of wickedness, and, The people against whom the LORD has indignation forever.”

The above is Malachi 1:4, wherein the LORD speaks of when the enemies mixed among us returned to [vote frauded their way into] power, and are saying they will “Build Back Better.” As we understand, these enemies [as Esau the LORD hates] are our countrymen and brothers, who claim they are at peace with us while attacking and destroying us, our nation, and our better culture.

What these wicked men are building is human devolution, a retrograde (as the sun moving backward ten degrees), which the LORD is using to reset the foundations of the earth. As we’ve seen in previous posts, when the sun moved backward ten degrees, it’s speaking of resetting the degenerate leadership (of the kings of God’s people), which began with Rehoboam.

We know this erosion began when the people of Israel (the ten northern tribes) asked the new king to relieve some of the burden accumulated under Solomon’s rule. Rehoboam then, rejecting the advice of those who advised his father (Solomon), consulted the young men he grew up with. They (the young and ignorant self-centered elites) advised him to not only refuse to reduce the burden, but to increase it, saying “My father made your yoke heavy, and I will add to your yoke: my father also chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.”

As we know, This event (increasing the burden) caused the separation (unyoking) of Judah and Israel. (Deviating only in that the advice is now from old and corrupt opportunists) it is the pattern of what occurred in and since the last presidential election, and the ignorant who advised it can’t understand why the nation is more divided.

The retrograde is (now) to the time (before the ten kings of the degeneration and desolation) of Solomon-like leadership and the repair of the breach in the house (family – one king over one nation under God) of David.

Job 32
7 I said, Days should speak, and a multitude of years should teach wisdom.
8 But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty gives them understanding.
9 Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand judgment.

The wicked in power build with lies and delusion, misleading false teaching from false prophets who see nothing, who are shocked and astounded when insanity, systemic destruction, and death, the fruits they’ve sown, are the fruits they reap.

Jeremiah 23
16 Thus says the LORD of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain: they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the LORD.
17 They say still unto them that despise me, The LORD has said, You shall have peace; and they say unto everyone that walks after the imagination of his own heart, No evil shall come upon you.
18 For who has stood in the counsel of the LORD, and has perceived and heard his word? who has marked his word, and heard it?
19 Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD is gone forth in fury, even a grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked.
20 The anger of the LORD shall not return until he has executed, and till he has performed the thoughts of his heart: in the latter days you shall consider it perfectly.
21 I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.
22 But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear my words, then they should have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.
23 Am I a God at hand, says the LORD, and not a God afar off [coming in this latter time to set right the foundations of the world]?
24 Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? says the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? says the LORD.

Matthew 11
15 He that has ears to hear, let him hear.
16 But whereunto shall I liken this generation? It is like unto children sitting in the markets, and calling unto their fellows,
17 And saying, We have piped unto you, and you have not danced; we have mourned unto you, and you have not lamented.
18 For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He has a devil.
19 The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children.
20 Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done, because they repented not:

24 But I say unto you, That it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom [where the fired ended] in the day of judgment, than for you [because the fires of hell, where you remain, will never be quenched].
25 At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank you, O Father, LORD of heaven and earth, because you have hid these things from the wise and prudent, and have revealed them unto babes.
26 Even so, Father: for so it seemed good in your sight.
27 All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knows the Son, but the Father; neither knows any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.
28 Come unto me, all you that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and you shall find rest unto your souls.
30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

The Companion Bible separates the book of Malachi into two parts, Malachi 1:1 thru 5, describing “National Election,” and Malachi 1:6 thru 4:6, “National Rejection.” The first tells of choosing (electing to follow) leaders the LORD hates, who, as Esau, rule His people in their desolation and hold them (in church and state) there in misery and ignorance. (As did the many named Herod, children, descents of Esau; appointed by Rome as kings over Judaea.)

Malachi 1:4 speaks of the “border of wickedness” the LORD has “thrown down,” and says in verse 5, “And your eyes [at the end of wickedness] shall see, and you shall say, The LORD will be magnified from the border [reestablishment] of Israel.”

The word rendered “throw down” is the Hebrew word harac, meaning “a primitive root; to pull down or in pieces, break, destroy.”

The word rendered “border” in verses 4 & 5 is gbuwl, meaning “a cord (as twisted), i.e. (by implication) a boundary; by extension, the territory inclosed.”

The word used to tell of the LORD “magnified” when He throws down the wicked and reestablishes His nation is gadal, meaning “to twist (compare 1434), i.e. to be (causatively make) large (in various senses, as in body, mind, estate or honor, also in pride).”

These words tell of a release (harac) from the heavy burdens of the wicked to who we are yokes (gbuwl), and becoming instead yoked (gadal) to the LORD in His ONE BODY.

Malachi 1
6 A son honors his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honor? and if I be a master, where is my fear? says the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And you say, Wherein have we despised your name?
7 You offer polluted bread [the whole body of My word you’ve corrupted] upon mine altar; and you say, Wherein have we polluted you? In that you say, The table of the LORD is contemptible.
8 And if you offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? and if you offer the lame and sick, is it not evil? offer it now unto your governor; will he be pleased with you, or accept your person? says the LORD of hosts.
9 And now, I pray you, beseech God that he will be gracious unto us: this has been by your means: will he regard your persons [who offer the blind, those off course, and in constant agitation]? says the LORD of hosts.
10 Who is there even among you that would shut the doors for naught [when the LORD is entering]? neither do you kindle fire on mine altar for naught [when what you offer is unacceptable]. I have no pleasure in you, says the LORD of hosts, neither will I accept an offering at your hand.
11 For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my name shall be great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name shall be great among the heathen, says the LORD of hosts.
12 But you have profaned it, in that you say, The table of the LORD is polluted; and the fruit thereof, even his meat, is contemptible.
13 You said also, Behold, what a weariness is it! and you have snuffed at it, says the LORD of hosts; and you brought that which was torn, and the lame, and the sick; thus you brought an offering: should I accept this of your hand? says the LORD.
14 But cursed be the deceiver, which has in his flock a male, and vows, and sacrifices unto the LORD a corrupt thing: for I am a great King, says the LORD of hosts [who is a man of war], and my name is dreadful among the heathen.

Malachi 2
1 And now, O you priests, this commandment is for you.
2 If you will not hear, and if you will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, says the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, because you do not lay it to heart.
3 Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your solemn feasts; and one shall take you away with it.
4 And you shall know that I have sent this commandment unto you, that my covenant might be with Levi, says the LORD of hosts.
5 My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him for the fear wherewith he feared me, and was afraid before my name.
6 The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips: he walked with me in peace and equity, and did turn many away from iniquity.
7 For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts.
8 But you are departed out of the way; you have caused many to stumble at the law; you have corrupted the covenant of Levi, says the LORD of hosts.
9 Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as you have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the law.
10 Have we not all one father? has not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers?
11 Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the holiness of the LORD which he loved, and has married the daughter of a strange god.
12 The LORD will cut off the man that does this, the master and the scholar, out of the tabernacles of Jacob, and him that offers an offering unto the LORD of hosts.
13 And this have you done again, covering the altar of the LORD with tears, with weeping, and with crying out, insomuch that he regards not the offering any more, or receives it with good will at your hand.
14 Yet you say, Wherefore? Because the LORD has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously: yet is she your companion, and the wife of your covenant.
15 And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
16 For the LORD, the God of Israel, says that he hates putting away: for one covers violence with his garment, says the LORD of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that you deal not treacherously.
17 You have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet you say, Wherein have we wearied him? When you say, Everyone that does evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and he delights in them; or, Where is the God of judgment?

Malachi 3
1 Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the LORD, whom you seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom you delight in: behold, he shall come, says the LORD of hosts [who is a man of war].
2 But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appears? for he is like a refiner’s fire, and like fullers’ soap:
3 And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness.
4 Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the LORD, as in the days of old, and as in former years.
5 And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, says the LORD of hosts.
6 For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore you sons of Jacob are not consumed.
7 Even from the days of your fathers you are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, says the LORD of hosts. But you said, Wherein shall we return?
8 Will a man rob God? Yet you have robbed me. But you say, Wherein have we robbed you? In tithes and offerings.
9 You are cursed with a curse: for you have robbed me, even this whole nation.
10 Bring you all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, says the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
11 And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, says the LORD of hosts.
12 And all nations shall call you blessed: for you shall be a delightsome land, says the LORD of hosts.
13 Your words have been stout against me, says the LORD. Yet you say, What have we spoken so much against you?
14 You have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts?
15 And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.
16 Then they that feared the LORD spoke often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book [this word] of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name.
17 And they shall be mine, says the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spares his own son that serves him.
18 Then shall you return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serves God and him that serves him not.

Malachi 4
1 For, behold, the day comes, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that comes shall burn them up, says the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
2 But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arises with healing in his wings; and you shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.
3 And you shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, says the LORD of hosts.
4 Remember you the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments.
5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:
6 And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers [see chapter 1, verse 6 above], lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.

The LORD began today (wrote the portion above yesterday) in Ecclesiastes 3. His message is we need to understand the time (season) and not lose our joy in His glory (through us) manifested.

Ecclesiastes 3
1 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
2 A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
3 A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
4 A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
5 A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
6 A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
7 A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
8 A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
9 What profit has he that works in that wherein he labors? [The profit is joy! Finding the happiness we pursue – for ourselves and others.]
10 I have seen the travail [‘inyan – the work that humbles us by understanding only He reveals the hidden deep meaning, at His will], which God has given to the sons of men to be exercised [‘anah {the origin of ‘inyah} so we can appropriately respond {knowing the time} as necessary] in it.
11 He has made every thing beautiful [yapheh, from yaphah, to be bright {God given understanding}] in his time: also he has set [nathan – given {the foundations of}] the world in their heart [in their minds], so that no man can find out [matsa’ ‘eth – attain by self – without God’s revealing it] the work that God makes from the beginning to the end.
12 I know that there is no good in them [in the works of men without God’s revelation], but for a man to rejoice [find joy and happiness in His work through us], and to do good [which only comes from God] in his life.
13 And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labor, it is the gift of God.
14 I know that, whatsoever God does, it shall be forever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God does it, that men should fear before him.
15 That which has been is now; and that which is to be has already been [the foundation that was laid is the foundation now again laid]; and God requires [baqash – to search out, strive after] that which is past.
16 And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.
17 I said in mine heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.
18 I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts [without His Spirit in them, evidenced by ignorance of Him and His way].
19 For that which befalls the sons of men [without His Spirit] befalls beasts; even one thing befalls them: as the one dies, so dies the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man has no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity [all the ways of man without God’s Spirit are worthless and lead to death].
20 All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again [the ruin of the world they sent to hell].
21 Who knows the spirit of man [who is led by The Spirit of God in Him] that goes upward, and the spirit of the beast [evil without God] that goes downward to the earth [into the belly of hell they create]?
22 Wherefore I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice [have joy and happiness] in his own works; for that is his portion [the inheritance he lays up for His children]: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him [returning to {born into} the world they’ve created – heaven or hell]?

This (return) is the “estate of the sons of men,” that God manifests (see verse 18 above) for us to understand. The word “estate” is the five times used Hebrew word dibrah, said to mean “a reason, suit or style:–cause, end, estate, order, regard.”

It’s the word used in Psalms 110:4 to describe the perpetual son of God, who is a priest forever, after the “order” of Melchizedek (the king of righteousness and peace).

It (dibrah) is from the Hebrew word dabar, meaning “from 1696; a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause.” It’s from an almost identical word babar, meaning “to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue.”

These speak of the words of men, rightly ordered bringing life, even after death, and of the wicked (deluded, confused, misleading, and insane) bringing death and everlasting hell.

Matthew 12
31 Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men.
32 And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost [the LORD speaking and working unknown], it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come.
33 Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit.
34 O generation of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
35 A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.
36 But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
37 For by your words you shall be justified, and by your words you shall be condemned.

Ecclesiastes 7
11 Wisdom is good with an inheritance: and by it there is profit to them that see the sun [Resurrection into a time of understanding].
12 For wisdom is a defense, and money is a defense: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom gives life to them that have it.
13 Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he has made crooked [the wicked the LORD has bound in their own ignorance]?
14 In the day of prosperity be joyful [when God’s glory is manifested in His people], but in the day of adversity consider: God also has set the one over against the other, to the end [dibrah] that [crooked] man should find nothing after him.

Job 5
7 Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward [ben resheph ‘uwph gabahh – as the children enflamed rise and are exalted].
8 I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause [dibrah – the order into which I will rise]:
9 Which does great things and unsearchable; marvelous [opening our eyes to these] things without number:
10 Who gives rain [this word of God] upon the earth, and sends waters upon the fields [that life grows]:
11 To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.
12 He disappoints the devices [the things they’ve contrived and planned] of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
13 He takes the wise in their own craftiness [quoted in 1 Corinthians 3:19 below] : and the counsel of the froward [those who twist and pervert truth] is carried headlong.
14 They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope in the noonday as in the night.
15 But he saves the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.
16 So the poor has hope, and iniquity stops her mouth.
17 Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects: therefore despise not you the chastening of the Almighty:
18 For he makes sore, and binds up: he wounds, and his hands make whole.

1 Corinthians 3
13 Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the [new] day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is.
14 If any man’s work abide which he has built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.
15 If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.
16 Know you not that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?
17 If any man defiles the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple you are.
18 Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seems to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
20 And again, The LORD knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain [worthless].

Ecclesiastes 8
1 Who is as the wise man? and who knows the interpretation of a thing? a man’s wisdom makes his face to shine [the LORD presence manifested in him giving understanding], and the boldness [‘oz – first used in Exodus 15:2] of his face shall be changed.
2 I counsel you to keep the king’s commandment, and that in regard of the oath of God.
3 Be not hasty to go out of his sight: stand not in an evil [misleading] thing; for he does whatsoever pleaseth him.
4 Where the word of a king is, there is power: and who may say unto him, What do you?
5 Whoso keeps the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man’s heart discerneth both time and judgment.
6 Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man is great upon him.
7 For he knows not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?
8 There is no man that has power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither has he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.

Exodus 15
2 The LORD is my strength [‘oz – my boldness] and song, and he is become my salvation: he is my God, and I will prepare him a habitation; my father’s God, and I will exalt him.
3 The LORD is a man of war: the LORD is his name.

7 And in the greatness of your excellency you have overthrown them that rose up against you: you sent forth your wrath, which consumed them as stubble.
8 And with the blast of your nostrils the waters were gathered together, the floods stood upright as a heap, and the depths were congealed in the heart of the sea.
9 The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.
10 You did blow with your wind, the sea covered them: they sank as lead in the mighty waters.
11 Who is like unto you, O LORD, among the gods? who is like you, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?
12 You stretched out your right hand, the earth swallowed them.
13 You in your mercy have led forth the people which you have redeemed: you have guided them in your strength [‘oz – by boldly speaking] unto your holy habitation.

Ephesians 6
10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the LORD, and in the power of his might.
11 Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt [the preparation] about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness [equal justice for all, without respect of person];
15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace [the way of sustainable civilization: not putting your neighbor under threat: reciprocal security in/of life, liberty, and property];
16 Above all, taking the shield of faith [believing God is with us and in us], wherewith you shall be able to quench all the fiery darts [lies and false accusations] of the wicked.
17 And take the helmet of salvation [as the priority protecting and hardening your mind], and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:
18 Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints [who with you are equipped to stand against the wicked];
19 And for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel,
20 For which I am an ambassador in bonds: that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak [this understanding of the word of God, as fire from my mouth].

Hebrews 6
17 Wherein God, willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:
18 That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:
19 Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enters into that within the veil [understanding the presence of God in his flesh];
20 Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made a high priest forever after the order of Melchisedec.

Hebrews 7
1 For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him;
2 To whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all; first being by interpretation King of righteousness, and after that also King of Salem, which is, King of peace;
3 Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abides a priest continually.

Hebrews 10
7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do your will, O God.
8 Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin you would not, neither had pleasure therein; which are offered by the law;
9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do your will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.
10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
11 And every priest stands daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:
12 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God;
13 From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.
14 For by one offering he has perfected forever them that are sanctified.
15 Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before,
16 This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the LORD, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;
17 And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
18 Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.
19 Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,
20 By a new and living way, which he has consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;
21 And having a high priest over the house of God;
22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with [these] pure water.
23 Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)
24 And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:
25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as you see the day approaching.
26 For if we sin willfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more sacrifice for sins,
27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.

Jeremiah 31
31 Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was a husband unto them, says the LORD:
33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, says the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, says the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
35 Thus says the LORD, which gives the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night [that are for signs and seasons], which divides the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts is his name:
36 If those ordinances depart from before me, says the LORD, then the seed of Israel [in America] also shall cease from being a nation before me forever.

Psalms 110
1 The LORD [Jehovah] said unto my LORD [Joseph – see Psalms 105:21], Sit you at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool.
2 The LORD shall send the rod of your strength out of Zion: rule you in the midst of your enemies [who are like Esau, and Egyptians who don’t know Joseph].
3 Your people shall be willing in the day of your power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: you have the dew of your youth.
4 The LORD has sworn [an oath], and will not repent, You are a priest forever after the order [dibrah] of Melchizedek.
5 The LORD at your right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath.
6 He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill the places with the dead bodies; he shall wound the heads over many countries.
7 He shall drink of the brook [this word of God] in the way: therefore shall he lift up the head.

Let us alone; what have we to do with you, you Jesus of Nazareth? are you come to destroy us? I know you who you are, the Holy One of God.

The above, from Mark 1:24, is the unclean spirit, the devil (misleading spirit) among God’s people, who is the first to recognize the LORD’s authority. In verse 27, we’re told of the people seeing this, thinking it is some new doctrine, demonstrating the doctrines they’ve learned are the creations of (these same) men, also recognize the same authority.

The word “authority” is the Greek word exousia, meaning “privilege, i.e. (subjectively) force, capacity, competency, freedom, or (objectively) mastery (concretely, magistrate, superhuman, potentate, token of control), delegated influence:–authority, jurisdiction, liberty, power, right, strength.”

When we’re told, in Mark 1:22, the people were “astonished” because “he taught them as one that had authority [exousia], and not as the scribes,” the word (rendered “astonished”) is ekplesso, meaning “from 1537 [ek – origin] and 4141 [plesso – to shape, through pounding]; to strike with astonishment:–amaze, astonish.” It is speaking of destroying the current corrupt thinking, the doctrines of those teaching their own ways and ideas.

The origin of the authority is spoken of earlier in verses 10 & 11, saying “And straightway coming up out of the water, He saw the heavens opened, and the Spirit like a dove descending upon him: And there came a voice from heaven, saying, ‘You are my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.'”

The “water” here spoken of is the Jordan (descent – the words of men that have carried all the world into confusion and death), and coming out of these waters below, the heavens were opened, meaning He was (by the baptism of repentance) prepared to receive full understanding.

The Spirit descending upon m like a “dove,” is telling of His understanding this baptism, like Jonah’s (meaning dove), is the sign of the end, receiving understanding of the time and season Only known to the Father.

We know from Luke 2:24 quoting Leviticus 12:6, the Hebrew equivalent (to the Greek word peristera – dove) is towr (Strong’s 8449), meaning “or tor {tore}; probably the same as 8447; a ring-dove, often (figuratively) as a term of endearment:–(turtle) dove.”

As we saw in the previous post, the word towr (8447) means “or tor {tore}; from 8446; a succession, i.e. a string or (abstractly) order:–border, row, turn.”

These words (towr & towrah) speak of the manner of the resurrection, the succession of man throughout time, of which the world is ignorant until now in this time of enlightenment by revelation.

Revelation 10
5 And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven,
6 And swore by him that lives forever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer:
7 But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he has declared to his servants the prophets.
8 And the voice which I heard from heaven spoke unto me again, and said, Go and take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel which stands upon the sea and upon the earth.
9 And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little book. And he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make your belly bitter, but it shall be in your mouth sweet as honey.
10 And I took the little book out of the angel’s hand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter [and I had to speak {vomit} out what I had consumed – giving what was given].
11 And he said unto me, You must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings.

Revelation 11
15 And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our LORD, and of his Christ; and he shall reign forever and ever.
16 And the four and twenty elders, which sat before God on their seats, fell upon their faces, and worshipped God,
17 Saying, We give you thanks, O LORD God Almighty, which are, and were and are to come; because you have taken to you your great power, and have reigned.
18 And the nations were angry, and your wrath has come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that you shouldest give reward unto your servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear your name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.
19 And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament: and there were lightnings, and voices, and thundering, and an earthquake, and great hail [all speaking of this word of God that has been reserved in heaven for this moment, sent to bring down the current crop of corrupt leaders who’ve misled God’s people and the world into confusion and hell].

The words towr are from tuwr (8446), meaning “to meander (causatively, guide) about, especially for trade or reconnoitering:–chap(-man), sent to descry, be excellent, merchant(-man), search (out), seek, (e-)spy (out).”

Of the twenty-three times the word tuwr appears, it is most often telling of the “spies” sent to reconnoiter the Promised Land.

Judges 1
22 And the house of Joseph [through which comes the king line, here through the house of Joshua – Jesus], they also went up against Bethel [the house of God]: and the LORD was with them.
23 And the house of Joseph sent to descry [tuwr – spy out] Bethel. (Now the name of the city before was Luz [luwz – departed and perverted – speaking of the fallen condition of the LORD’s house become a den of thieves].)
24 And the spies saw a man come forth out of the city, and they said unto him, Show us, we pray you, the entrance into the city, and we will show you mercy.
25 And when he showed them the entrance into the city, they smote the city with the edge of the sword [this word of God sent to overthrow the wicked]; but they let go the man and all his family.

Do you know the day the spy came, the one sent with authority to judge the world, to end the corrupt and speak the new into creation?

Ezekiel 20 [The final time the word tuwr appears.]
1 And it came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifth month, the tenth day of the month, that certain of the elders of Israel came to enquire of the LORD, and sat before me.
2 Then [on the tenth day of the fifth month in the year 1994, during a Solar Eclipse – when the church had become fully dark] came the word of the LORD unto me, saying,
3 Son of man, speak unto the elders of Israel, and say unto them, Thus says the LORD God; Are you come to enquire of me? As I live, says the LORD God, I will not be enquired of by you.
4 Will you judge them, son of man, will you judge them? cause them to know the abominations of their fathers [and I did as He commanded]:
5 And say unto them, Thus says the LORD God; In the day when I chose Israel, and lifted up mine hand unto the seed of the house of Jacob, and made myself known unto them in the land of Egypt, when I lifted up mine hand unto them, saying, I am the LORD your God;
6 In the day that I lifted up mine hand unto them, to bring them forth of the land of Egypt into a land that I had espied [tuwr] for them, [this land, America] flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands:
7 Then said I unto them, Cast you away every man the abominations of his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt [of oppression]: I am the LORD your God.
8 But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken unto me: they did not every man cast away the abominations of their eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt: then I said, I will pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.
9 But I wrought for my name’s sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, among whom they were, in whose sight I made myself known unto them, in bringing them forth out of the land of Egypt.
10 Wherefore I caused them to go forth out of the land of Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness [to unteach them the ways of oppression and teach My way of peace].
11 And I gave them my statutes, and showed them my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them.
12 Moreover also I gave [nathan] them my sabbaths [when I interrupt to correct the course], to be a sign [‘owth] between me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD that sanctifies [separates your from the wicked] them.
13 But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly polluted: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.
14 But I wrought for my name’s sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out.
15 Yet also I lifted up my hand unto them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands;
16 Because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, but polluted my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.
17 Nevertheless mine eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness.
18 But I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk you not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols:
19 I am the LORD your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them;
20 And hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that you may know that I am the LORD your God.
21 Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me: they walked not in my statutes, neither kept my judgments to do them, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; they polluted my sabbaths: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.
22 Nevertheless I withdrew mine hand, and wrought for my name’s sake, that it should not be polluted in the sight of the heathen, in whose sight I brought them forth.
23 I lifted up mine hand unto them also in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them through the countries;
24 Because they had not executed my judgments, but had despised my statutes, and had polluted my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers’ idols.
25 Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live;
26 And I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass through the fire all that opens the womb, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I am the LORD.
27 Therefore, son of man, speak unto the house of Israel, and say unto them, Thus says the LORD God; Yet in this your fathers have blasphemed me, in that they have committed a trespass against me.
28 For when I had brought them into the land, for the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill, and all the thick trees, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering: there also they made their sweet savor, and poured out there their drink offerings.
29 Then I said unto them, What is the high place whereunto you go? And the name whereof is called Bamah unto this day.
30 Wherefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus says the LORD God; Are you polluted after the manner of your fathers? and commit you whoredom after their abominations?
31 For when you offer your gifts, when you make your sons to pass through the fire, you pollute yourselves with all your idols, even unto this day: and shall I be enquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live, says the LORD God, I will not be enquired of by you.
32 And that which comes into your mind shall not be at all, that you say, We will be as the heathen, as the families of the countries, to serve wood and stone.
33 As I live, says the LORD God, surely with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out, will I rule over you:
34 And I will bring you out from the people, and will gather you out of the countries wherein you are scattered, with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out.
35 And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people, and there will I plead with you face to face.
36 Like as I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I plead with you, says the LORD God.
37 And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant:
38 And I will purge out from among you the rebels, and them that transgress against me: I will bring them forth out of the country where they sojourn, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel: and you shall know that I am the LORD.
39 As for you, O house of Israel, thus says the LORD God; Go you, serve you every one his idols, and hereafter also, if you will not hearken unto me: but pollute you my holy name no more with your gifts, and with your idols.
40 For in mine holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel, says the LORD God, there shall all the house of Israel, all of them in the land, serve me: there will I accept them, and there will I require your offerings, and the firstfruits of your oblations, with all your holy things.
41 I will accept you with your sweet savor, when I bring you out from the people, and gather you out of the countries wherein you have been scattered; and I will be sanctified in you before the heathen.
42 And you shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall bring you into the land of Israel, into the country for the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to your fathers.
43 And there shall you remember your ways, and all your doings, wherein you have been defiled; and you shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that you have committed.
44 And you shall know that I am the LORD when I have wrought with you for my name’s sake, not according to your wicked ways, nor according to your corrupt doings, O you house of Israel, says the LORD God.
45 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
46 Son of man, set your face toward the south, and drop your word toward the south, and prophesy against the forest of the south field;
47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus says the LORD God; Behold, I will kindle a fire in you, and it shall devour every green tree in you, and every dry tree [all those you follow thinking they are the upright]: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.
48 And all flesh shall see that I the LORD have kindled it: it shall not be quenched.
49 Then said I, Ah LORD God! they say of me, Does he not speak parables?

Song of Solomon 1
7 Tell me, O you whom my soul loves, where you feed, where you make your flock to rest at noon [when the son fully rises]: for why should I be as one that turns aside [why do you think I am as those who lead your stray] by the flocks of your companions [the misleaders you are joined with]?
8 If you know not, O you fairest among women, go your way forth by the footsteps of the flock [to hear my voice], and feed your kids beside the [good] shepherds’ tents.
9 I have compared you, O my love, to a company of horses in Pharaoh’s chariots [as those empowering the oppressors].
10 Your cheeks are comely with rows [towr] of jewels, your neck with chains of gold.
11 We will make you borders [towr] of gold with studs of silver.
12 While the king sits at his table, my spikenard sends forth the smell thereof [making you aware of His presence].

Song of Solomon 2
10 My beloved spoke, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.
11 For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;
12 The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle [towr – the king returned] is heard in our land;
13 The fig tree puts forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell [making you aware of His presence]. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
14 O my dove [yownah – Jonah, who know this is the time], that are in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the stairs [to the throne and east gate into the kingdom: New Jerusalam], let me see your countenance, let me hear your voice; for sweet [with strength] is your voice, and your countenance is comely.

Matthew 24
32 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and puts forth leaves, you know that summer is nigh:
33 So likewise you, when you shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors [thura – the entrance into the kingdom].
34 Truly I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.
35 [The old and corrupt] Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
36 But of that day and hour knows no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only [which He reveals to the son, to reveal him].
37 But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken [away by the flood], and the other left.
41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken [away by the flood], and the other left.
42 Watch therefore: for you know not what hour your LORD does come.

James 5
7 Be patient, therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the LORD. Behold, the husbandman waits for the precious fruit of the earth, and has long patience for it, until he receives the early and latter rain.
8 Be you also patient; establish your hearts: for the coming of the LORD draws nigh. [Romans 13: 11 And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. 12 The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us, therefore, cast off the works of darkness {ignorance}, and let us put on the armor of light {understanding}.]
9 Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest you be condemned: behold, the judge stands before the door [thura – the entrance into the kingdom].
10 Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the LORD, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.
11 Behold, we count them happy which endure. You have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the LORD; that the LORD is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
12 But above all things, my brethren, swear not [on the thing you think you know], neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; lest you fall into condemnation. [1 Corinthians 3: 18 Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seems to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. 19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness. 20 And again, The LORD knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.]
13 Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.
14 Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the LORD:
15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the LORD shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.
16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that you may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.
17 Elijah was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.
18 And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit [as it now does].
19 Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him;
20 Let him know, that he which converts the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.

Jeremiah 8 [The final time the word towr (8449) appears.]
1 At that time, says the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah [the dead in power], and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves:
2 And they shall spread them before the sun [the dead church they control], and the moon [the dead civil government], and all the host of heaven [those who say they have understanding and are wise], whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.
3 And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places whither I have driven them, says the LORD of hosts.
4 Moreover you shall say unto them, Thus says the LORD; Shall they fall, and not arise? shall he turn away, and not return?
5 Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return [to this truth].
6 I hearkened and heard, but they spoke not aright: no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? Every one turned to his course, as the horse rush into the battle [pulling Pharaoh’s chariots].
7 Yea, the stork in the heaven knows her appointed times [mow’ed]; and the turtle [towr – dove] and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.
8 How do you say [swear], We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain [worthless and without authority].
9 The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them?
10 Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to them that shall inherit them: for every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness, from the prophet even unto the priest every one deals falsely.
11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
12 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation [pquddah – of which they are ignorant] they shall be cast down, says the LORD.
13 I will surely consume them, says the LORD: there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and the things that I have given them shall pass away from them.
14 Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter [through the door] into the defensed cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God has put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.
15 We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble!
16 The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan: the whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for they are come, and have devoured the land, and all that is in it; the city, and those that dwell therein.
17 For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, says the LORD.
18 When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me.
19 Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a far country: Is not the LORD in Zion? is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with strange vanities?
20 The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.
21 For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black [my body is without understanding]; astonishment has taken hold on me.
22 Is there no balm in Gilead [in this mountain of the LORD’s testimony]; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered [because they choose to follow the dead and remain in death]?

Friends, in this last chapter, the LORD tells of the sad truth, His people are still following and empowering those who are in all-out rebellion and war against Him. I Am come, sent by my Father, to war against them (the unreasonable, unrepentant, and incorrigible) until they are defeated and banished to hell forever.

Jeremiah 46
7 Who is this that comes up as a flood, whose waters are moved as the rivers?
8 Egypt riseth up like a flood, and his waters are moved like the rivers; and he says, I will go up, and will cover the earth; I will destroy the city and the inhabitants thereof.
9 Come up, you horses; and rage, you chariots; and let the mighty men come forth; the Ethiopians and the Libyans, that handle the shield; and the Lydians, that handle and bend the bow.
10 For this is the day of the LORD God of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour, and it shall be satiate and made drunk with their blood: for the LORD God of hosts has a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.
11 Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt: in vain shall you use many medicines; for you shall not be cured.
12 The nations have heard of your shame, and your cry has filled the land: for the mighty man has stumbled against the mighty, and they are fallen both together.
13 The word that the LORD spoke to Jeremiah the prophet, how Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon should come and smite the land of Egypt.
14 Declare you in Egypt, and publish in Migdol, and publish in Noph and in Tahpanhes: say you, Stand fast, and prepare you; for the sword shall devour round about you.
15 Why are your valiant men swept away? they stood not, because the LORD did drive them.
16 He made many to fall, yea, one fell upon another: and they said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people, and to the land of our nativity, from the oppressing sword.
17 They did cry there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he has passed the time appointed [mow’ed].
18 As I live, says the King [I Am], whose name is the LORD of hosts [who is a man of war], Surely as Tabor is among the mountains, and as Carmel by the sea, so shall he come.
19 O you daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish yourself to go into captivity: for Noph shall be waste and desolate without an inhabitant.
20 Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction comes; it comes out of the north [from their own ignorance].
21 Also her hired men are in the midst of her like fatted bullocks; for they also are turned back, and are fled away together: they did not stand, because the day of their calamity has come upon them, and the time of their visitation.
22 The voice thereof shall go like a serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood.
23 They shall cut down her forest, says the LORD, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and are innumerable.
24 The daughter of Egypt shall be confounded; she shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the north.
25 The LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, says; Behold, I will punish the multitude of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with their gods, and their kings; even Pharaoh, and all them that trust in him:
26 And I will deliver them into the hand of those that seek their lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of his servants: and afterward it shall be inhabited, as in the days of old, says the LORD.
27 But fear not you, O my servant Jacob, and be not dismayed, O Israel: for, behold, I will save you from afar off, and your seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and be in rest and at ease, and none shall make him afraid.
28 Fear you not, O Jacob my servant, says the LORD: for I am with you; for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven you: but I will not make a full end of you, but correct you in measure; yet will I not leave you wholly unpunished.

Revelation 19
11 And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he does judge and make war.
12 His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself.
13 And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.
14 And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.
15 And out of his mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treads the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
16 And he has on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, King Of Kings, And LORD Of Lords.
17 And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God;
18 That you may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.
19 And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army.
20 And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
21 And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.

Psalms 102
1 Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come unto you.
2 Hide not your face from me in the day when I am in trouble; incline your ear unto me: in the day when I call answer me speedily.
3 For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as a hearth.
4 My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.
5 By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin.
6 I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.
7 I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.
8 Mine enemies reproach me all the day; and they that are mad against me are sworn against me.
9 For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping.
10 Because of your indignation and your wrath: for you have lifted me up, and cast me down.
11 My days are like a shadow that declines; and I am withered like grass.
12 But you, O LORD, shall endure forever; and your remembrance unto all generations.
13 You shall arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favor her, yea, the set time [mow’ed], is come.
14 For your servants take pleasure in her stones, and favor the dust thereof.
15 So the heathen shall fear the name of the LORD, and all the kings of the earth your glory.
16 When the LORD shall build up [the stones of] Zion, he shall appear in his glory.
17 He will regard the prayer [tphillah] of the destitute, and not despise their prayer [tphillah – sudden judgment heard in their words].
18 This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be created shall praise the LORD.
19 For he has looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from heaven did the LORD behold the earth;
20 To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death;
21 To declare the name of the LORD in Zion, and his praise in Jerusalem;
22 When the people are gathered together [into My ONE BODY, with One Voice of judgment], and the kingdoms, to serve the LORD.
23 He weakened my strength in the way; he shortened my days.
24 I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days: your years are throughout all generations.
25 Of old have you laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of your hands.
26 They shall perish, but you shall endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shall you change them, and they shall be changed:
27 But you are the same, and your years shall have no end.
28 The children of your servants shall continue, and their seed shall be established before you.

Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Drink you, and be drunken, and spew, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.

The word “sword” is from the Hebrew word chereb: the written word God puts in hand to become understanding, strength as sweet as honey in the mouth of those He sends to overthrow the wicked, so they rise no more into power. It is One voice of God, beginning in One cherub He sends as His archangel, with the sword in His hand, to raise up many children, His great army against evil.

Jeremiah 25
27 Therefore you shall say unto them, Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Drink you, and be drunken, and spew, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.
28 And it shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at your hand to drink, then shall you say unto them, Thus says the LORD of hosts; You shall certainly drink.
29 For, lo, I begin to bring evil on the city which is called by my name, and should you be utterly unpunished? You shall not be unpunished: for I will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, says the LORD of hosts.
30 Therefore prophesy you against them all these words, and say unto them, The LORD shall roar from on high, and utter his voice from his holy habitation; he shall mightily roar upon his habitation; he shall give a shout, as they that tread the grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth.
31 A noise shall come even to the ends of the earth; for the LORD has a controversy with the nations, he will plead with all flesh; he will give them that are wicked to the sword, says the LORD.
32 Thus says the LORD of hosts, Behold, evil shall go forth from nation to nation, and a great whirlwind shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth.
33 And the slain of the LORD shall be at that day from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung upon the ground.
34 Howl, you shepherds, and cry; and wallow yourselves in the ashes, you principal of the flock: for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are accomplished; and you shall fall like a pleasant vessel.
35 And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the principal of the flock to escape.
36 A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and a howling of the principal of the flock, shall be heard: for the LORD has spoiled their pasture.
37 And the peaceable habitations are cut down because of the fierce anger of the LORD.
38 He has forsaken his covert [His sanctuaries now in the possession of thorns and briers], as the lion: for their land is desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of his fierce anger.

We know from Ephesians 6:17 that the sword is the word of God.

Ephesians 6
10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the LORD, and in the power of his might.
11 Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt [the preparation] about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness [equal justice for all, without respect of person];
15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace [the way of sustainable civilization: not putting your neighbor under threat: reciprocal security in/of life, liberty, and property];
16 Above all, taking the shield of faith [believing God is with us and in us], wherewith you shall be able to quench all the fiery darts [lies and false accusations] of the wicked.
17 And take the helmet of salvation [as the priority protecting and hardening your mind], and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:
18 Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints [who with you are equipped to stand against the wicked];
19 And for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel,
20 For which I am an ambassador in bonds: that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak [this understanding of the word of God, as fire from my mouth].

If the LORD says, “love your neighbor as yourself,” and “greater love has no man than to lay down his life for his friend,” do you and would you? In these illuminations, the LORD tells us the “neighbor” is the one who shows mercy to those who’ve fallen among thieves who’ve wounded them almost to death. He isn’t the priest and Levite that passed by him. He is a Samaritan, an idol worshipper who on him had compassion.

The word the LORD uses, rendered “compassion,” is slagchnizomai, meaning “to have the bowels yearn, i.e. (figuratively) feel sympathy, to pity.” It is the opposite we see from the wicked using every vile way, lies and false accusation against those they’ve already done wrong, while the religious and the so-called pious pass by in silence.

The LORD goes even further in His description of this word and who he speaking of, as Luke uses it two other times. The first time, in Luke 7:13, it’s as He is at the gate of the city and sees a widow whose only son is dead and held in death by Soros. Having “compassion,” He tells her to “Weep not,” and touching the bier (soros) He says to the dead, “Arise.”

The other time is in Luke 15:20, as the father of the prodigal son, seeing him far off coming home, had “compassion” and received him.

Luke 10
17 And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, LORD, even the devils are subject unto us through your name.
18 And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.
19 Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.
20 Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.
21 In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, I thank you, O Father, LORD of heaven and earth, that you have hid these things from the wise and prudent, and have revealed them unto babes: even so, Father; for so it seemed good in your sight.
22 All things are delivered to me of my Father: and no man knows who the Son is, but the Father; and who the Father is, but the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal him.
23 And he turned him unto his disciples, and said privately, Blessed are the eyes which see the things that you see:
24 For I tell you, that many prophets and kings have desired to see those things which you see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which you hear, and have not heard them.
25 And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?
26 He said unto him, What is written in the law? how read you?
27 And he answering said, You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.
28 And he said unto him, You have answered right: this do, and you shall live.
29 But he, willing to justify himself, said unto Jesus, And who is my neighbor?
30 And Jesus answering said, A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead.
31 And by chance there came down a certain priest that way: and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side.
32 And likewise a Levite, when he was at the place, came and looked on him, and passed by on the other side.
33 But a certain Samaritan [who is the dead son of the widow and the prodigal, whose older brother {as Judah: leaders as priests and Levites} remained in the churches], as he journeyed, came where he was: and when he saw him, he had compassion [spalchnizomai] on him,
34 And went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him.
35 And on the morrow when he departed, he took out two pence, and gave them to the host, and said unto him, Take care of him; and whatsoever you spend more, when I come again, I will repay you.
36 Which now of these three, think you, was neighbor unto him that fell among the thieves?
37 And he said, He that showed mercy on him. Then said Jesus unto him, Go, and do you likewise.
38 Now it came to pass, as they went, that he entered into a certain village: and a certain woman named Martha [who is now in rebellion against the corrupt status quo] received him into her house.
39 And she had a sister called Mary [who is also in rebellion against the status quo, corrupt leaders in church and state], which also sat at Jesus’ feet, and heard his word.
40 But Martha was cumbered about much serving, and came to him, and said, LORD, do you not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? bid her therefore that she help me.
41 And Jesus answered and said unto her, Martha, Martha, you are careful and troubled about many things:
42 But one thing is needful: and Mary has chosen that good part [which is to hear this word as the word of God, and understand], which shall not be taken away from her.

The “thieves” among which the man fell are precisely defined in the other uses of the word leistes (brigands: a gang of robbers). Luke uses the word two other times; first in Luke 19:46 (quoting Isaiah 56:7 and Jeremiah 7:11) in telling of the degenerate state of LORD’s house, and later, in Luke 22:52, when the LORD says they came against Him, as against a “thief” in the night, after He was betrayed.

The gospels of Matthew and Mark use it (leistes) in the same two ways, while they both additionally describe those crucified with the LORD as “thieves.” John’s gospel differs from the others, first (in John 10) using it telling of the thieves (kleptes) and “robbers,” all who’ve come before Him, whom the people didn’t hear (as the voice of God). He (John) later uses it to describe Barabbas (meaning son and father), whom the people chose when given the opportunity to release Jesus or him. (Can’t help but recognize the similarity, now when the deluded {insane} pop culture and their masters give Brandon and son a pass and [by farce and theater] crucify Trump. Just saying, we all see it! Just saying – the elements are there: betrayal, false accusation, the hunt for associates, and so on. The evil knows we see it, just as we saw them steal the election, and they know we saw them. Now as then, they say, “we know you know, but what are you going to do about it?” And the answer comes back with a spineless whimper, “Nothing.”)

Luke 10
10 After these things the LORD appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself would come.
2 Therefore said he unto them, The harvest truly is great, but the laborers are few: pray you therefore the LORD of the harvest, that he would send forth laborers into his harvest.
3 Go your ways: behold, I send you forth as lambs among wolves.
4 Carry neither purse, nor scrip, nor shoes: and salute no man by the way.
5 And into whatsoever house you enter, first say, Peace be to this house.
6 And if the son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon it: if not, it shall turn to you again.
7 And in the same house remain, eating and drinking such things as they give: for the laborer is worthy of his hire. Go not from house to house.
8 And into whatsoever city you enter, and they receive you, eat such things as are set before you:
9 And heal the sick that are therein, and say unto them, The kingdom of God is come nigh unto you.
10 But into whatsoever city you enter, and they receive you not, go your ways out into the streets of the same, and say,
11 Even the very dust of your city, which cleaves on us, we do wipe off against you: notwithstanding be you sure of this, that the kingdom of God [the way of peace, not putting your neighbor under threat, mutual security in/of life, liberty, and property: the only way to sustainable civilization] is come nigh unto you.
12 But I say unto you, that it shall be more tolerable in that day for Sodom [the city in flame, whose fire eventually went out], than for that city [because rejecting this peace brings hell where the fires never go out].
13 Woe unto you, Chorazin [those in the furnace of smoke, which keeps your eyes from seeing]! woe unto you, Bethsaida [the house of fish – not seeing the life below the surface of these waters of life, which is the way of peace sent to you]! for if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon, which have been done in you, they had a great while ago repented, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.
14 But it shall be more tolerable for Tyre [the false church, the false rock in which people put their trust] and Sidon [who hunt for souls, to make them disciples] at the judgment, than for you.
15 And you, Capernaum [this place in lukewarm and unsustainable comfort, which have received the only lasting comfort, understanding that comes from the LORD’s work and word here unknown, and are rejecting it], which are exalted to heaven, shall be thrust down to hell.
16 He that hears you hears me; and he that despises you despises me; and he that despises me despises him that sent me.

Luke 19
37 And when he was come nigh, even now at the descent of the mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works that they had seen;
38 Saying, Blessed be the King that comes in the name of the LORD: peace in heaven, and glory in the highest.
39 And some of the Pharisees from among the multitude said unto him, Master, rebuke your disciples.
40 And he answered and said unto them, I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out.
41 And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it,
42 Saying, If you had known, even you, at least in this your day, the things which belong unto your peace! but now they are hid from your eyes.
43 For the days shall come upon you, that your enemies [mixed among you] shall cast a trench about you, and compass you round, and keep you in on every side,
44 And shall lay you even with the ground, and your children within you; and they shall not leave in you one stone upon another; because you knew not the time of your visitation.
45 And he went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold therein, and them that bought;
46 Saying unto them, It is written, My house is the house of prayer: but you have made it a den of thieves.
47 And he taught daily in the temple. But the chief priests and the scribes and the chief of the people sought to destroy him,
48 And could not find what they might do: for all the people were very attentive to hear him.

The stones spoken of above in verses 40 & 44, both from the word lithos, are God’s people, in silence, as a house not built. “Holding their peace,” keeping inside the way of peace they’ve received, silenced by those oppressing them on every side, is from the word siopao, meaning forced silence, but not deaf (hearing but not permitted to speak what is heard).

When the LORD speaks from the whirlwind, in Job 38:30, He says “the water are hid as with a stone, the face of the deep is frozen.” The “stone” is the ‘eben He speaks of in verses 6 & 7, which opens the mouth of the sons of God, the morning stars who sing (identically repeat) the words He’s put in their mouths.

Job 38
6 Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone [‘eben] thereof;
7 When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

The later verses tell of this occurring when the bands oppressing the stars are released, and those released say, “here we are.”

Job 38
30 The waters [these words from the mouth of God] are hid as with a stone [‘eben – us], and the face of the deep [paniym – this present word, the meaning therein] is frozen [reserved for this purpose].
31 Can you bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion [the sons of God, as many as the stars of heaven]?
32 Can you bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or can you guide Arcturus with his sons?
33 Know you the ordinances of heaven [that this full understanding is reserved for the LORD, to reveal His son at His will]? can you set the dominion [can you set your rule at your will] thereof in the earth?
34 Can you lift up your voice to the clouds [where understanding is held when it leaves the earth], that abundance of waters [the word of God] may cover you?
35 Can you send lightnings [understanding], that they may go and say unto you, “Here we are?” [Do you hear Him speaking?]
36 Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? or who has given understanding to the heart [to lay the foundation of the earth in our minds]?

1 Peter 2
1 Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speaking,
2 As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that you may grow thereby:
3 If so be you have tasted that the LORD is gracious.
4 To who coming, as unto a living stone [lithos], disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious,
5 You also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
6 Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone [lithos], elect, precious: and he that believes on him shall not be confounded.
7 Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone [lithos] which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner,
8 And a stone [lithos] of stumbling, and a rock of offense, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.
9 But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people; that you should show forth the praises of him who has called you out of darkness [ignorance] into his marvelous light [opening our eyes by understanding];
10 Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
11 Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
12 Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.
13 Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the LORD’s sake: whether it be to the king [I Am], as supreme;
14 Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.
15 For so is the will of God, that with well doing you may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:
16 As free, and not using your liberty for a cloak of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.
17 Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.
18 Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.
19 For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.
20 For what glory is it, if, when you be buffeted for your faults, you shall take it patiently? but if, when you do well, and suffer for it, you take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.
21 For even hereunto were you called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that you should follow his steps:
22 Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:
23 Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judges righteously:
24 Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes you were healed.
25 For you were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.

The stones are a sign spoken of in Joshua 3 & 6, who, as in Ephesians 6 above, stand to stop the waters (of Jordan – the descent) that carry all into death and hell, so God’s people can cross over them into the promise (this Promised Land).

Joshua 3
17 And the priests that bare the ark of the covenant [I Am] of the LORD stood firm on dry ground in the midst of Jordan, and all the Israelites passed over on dry ground, until all the people were passed clean over Jordan.

Joshua 4
1 And it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed over Jordan, that the LORD spoke unto Joshua, saying,
2 Take you twelve men out of the people, out of every tribe a man,
3 And command you them, saying, Take you hence out of the midst of Jordan, out of the place where the priests’ feet stood firm, twelve stones, and you shall carry them over with you, and leave them in the lodging place, where you shall lodge this night.
4 Then Joshua called the twelve men, whom he had prepared of the children of Israel, out of every tribe a man:
5 And Joshua said unto them, Pass over before the ark of the LORD your God into the midst of Jordan, and take you up every man of you a stone upon his shoulder, according unto the number of the tribes of the children of Israel:
6 That this may be a sign [‘owth] among you, that when your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean you by these stones?
7 Then you shall answer them, That the waters of Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD; when it passed over Jordan, the waters of Jordan were cut off: and these stones shall be for a memorial unto the children of Israel forever.
8 And the children of Israel did so as Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones out of the midst of Jordan, as the LORD spoke unto Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel, and carried them over with them unto the place where they lodged, and laid them down there.
9 And Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests which bare the ark of the covenant stood: and they are there unto this day.
10 For the priests which bare the ark stood in the midst of Jordan, until everything was finished that the LORD commanded Joshua to speak unto the people, according to all that Moses commanded Joshua: and the people hasted and passed over.
11 And it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed over, that the ark of the LORD passed over, and the priests, in the presence of the people.
12 And the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh, passed over armed before the children of Israel, as Moses spoke unto them:
13 About forty thousand prepared for war passed over before the LORD unto battle, to the plains of Jericho.
14 On that day the LORD magnified Joshua [Jehovah’s Salvation in the flesh, the son of Joseph, the first king who is Christ, the first of the last] in the sight of all Israel; and they feared him, as they feared Moses, all the days of his life.

We know from multiple written assertions the sword of God comes from the mouth of those he sends: as stone from who flows His waters. This method is how the LORD pleads the cause of His people, which is the controversy (Jeremiah 25:31 above) He has with the powers now misinforming the world into self-destruction.

Isaiah 49
1 Listen, O Isles [dry places – without this word of God], unto me; and hearken, you people, from far; The LORD has called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother has he made mention of my name [I Am Israel, In whom God prevails and rules the world, settling the controversy as the incompetent and incapable are dethroned].
2 And he has made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand has he hid me, and made me a polished shaft; in his quiver [among His children] has he hid me;
3 And said unto me, You are my servant, O Israel, in whom I will be glorified.
4 Then I said, I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for naught, and in vain [because God’s people refuse to be gathered]: yet surely my judgment is with the LORD, and my work with my God.
5 And now, says the LORD that formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, Though Israel be not gathered, yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the LORD, and my God shall be my strength.
6 And he said, It is a light thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give you for a light to the Gentiles [to give understanding to those who don’t God, even those who think they do as they worship idols men put in His place], that you may be my salvation unto the end of the earth [and beginning the new].
7 Thus says the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhor, to a servant of rulers, Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of the LORD that is faithful, and the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose you.
8 Thus says the LORD, In an acceptable time have I heard you, and in a day of salvation have I helped you: and I will preserve you, and give you for a covenant of the people, to establish the [new] earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages;
9 That you may say to the prisoners, Go forth [from Babylon and Sheol: confusion and hell]; to them that are in darkness [who, because of their own ignorance, stay hidden], Show yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall be in all high places.

Isaiah 56
7 Even them [the strangers who don’t know God but come and join Him in His ONE BODY] will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be called a house of prayer for all people.
8 The LORD God, which gathers the outcasts of Israel says, Yet will I gather others to him, beside those that are gathered unto him.
9 All you beasts of the field, come to devour, yea, all you beasts in the forest.
10 His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.
11 Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.
12 Come you, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant.

The “house of prayer” is the house of Joseph, and refers us to the promise God made to his son David. The word “prayer,” used twice above in verse 7, is the Hebrew word tphillah, which is said to be from the word palal. It is fully from compounding the words taphas and palal, which tell of the manner of the man of the house, who comes as sudden judgment to overturn the wicked who take it by force (as in Luke 19 above).

From the Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary:

Strong’s 8610 taphas: a primitive root; to manipulate, i.e. seize; chiefly to capture, wield, specifically, to overlay; figuratively, to use unwarrantably:–catch, handle, (lay, take) hold (on, over), stop, X surely, surprise, take.

Strong’s 6419 palal: a primitive root; to judge (officially or mentally); by extension, to intercede, pray:–intreat, judge(-ment), (make) pray(-er, -ing), make supplication.

It (tphillas) is first used in 2 Samuel 7:27 as David prays the LORD, after He, through Nathan, reveals the manner in which He will build His house (family) through raising it and him up at a time then far off (now).

2 Samuel 7
13 He [the seed far off] shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.
14 I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men:
15 But my mercy shall not depart away from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before you.
16 And your house and your kingdom shall be established forever before you: your throne shall be established forever.
17 According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak unto David.
18 Then went king David in, and sat before the LORD, and he said, Who am I, O LORD God? and what is my house, that you have brought me hitherto?
19 And this was yet a small thing in your sight, O LORD God; but you have spoken also of your servant’s house for a great while to come. And is this the manner of man, O LORD God?
20 And what can David say more unto you? for you, LORD God, know your servant.
21 For your word’s sake, and according to your own heart, have you done all these great things, to make your servant know them.
22 Wherefore you are great, O LORD God: for there is none like you, neither is there any God beside you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
23 And what one nation in the earth is like your people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem for a people to himself, and to make him a name, and to do for you great things and terrible, for your land, before your people, which you redeemed to you from Egypt, from the nations and their gods?
24 For you have confirmed to yourself your people Israel to be a people unto you forever: and you, LORD, are become their God.
25 And now, O LORD God, the word that you have spoken concerning your servant, and concerning his house, establish it forever, and do as you have said.
26 And let your name be magnified forever, saying, The LORD of hosts is the God over Israel: and let the house of your servant David be established before you.
27 For you, O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, have revealed to your servant, saying, I will build you a house: therefore has your servant found in his heart to pray this prayer unto you.
28 And now, O LORD God, you are that God, and your words be true, and you have promised this goodness unto your servant:
29 Therefore now let it please you to bless the house of your servant, that it may continue forever before you: for you, O LORD God, have spoken it: and with your blessing let the house of your servant be blessed forever.

Daniel 4
34 And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar [the false prophets whose false teaching caused the desolation of God’s people] lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the Most High, and I praised and honored him that lives forever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation:
35 And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What do You?
36 At the same time my reason returned unto me; and for the glory of my kingdom, mine honor and brightness [understanding taught] returned unto me; and my counselors and my lords sought unto me; and I was established in my kingdom, and excellent majesty was added unto me.
37 Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.

The passage (2 Samuel 7) above is David invoking (in prayer: conversing with God) the LORD’s promise, knowing it speaks of the king line reestablished now forever, to rule the world in truth, justice, and the American (New Jerusalem) way (manner).

The word “manner,” in 2 Samuel 7:19, is the once used Hebrew word towrah, meaning “probably feminine of 8448 [from 8447 towr: a succession, i.e. a string, or (abstractly) order]; a custom:–manner.”

The word towr (8448) is used once, in 1 Chronicles 17:17, as the same conversation with God is recorded.

1 Chronicles 17
17 And yet this was a small thing in your eyes, O God; for you have also spoken of your servant’s house for a great while to come, and have regarded me according to the estate [towr] of a man [of ‘adam] of high degree [the resurrection of man, the second Adam who is a quickening Spirit], O LORD God.
18 What can David speak more to you for the honor of your servant? for you know your servant.
19 O LORD, for your servant’s sake, and according to your own heart, have you done all this greatness, in making known [by understanding – Your shining light] all these great things.
20 O LORD, there is none like you, neither is there any God beside you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
21 And what one nation in the earth is like your people Israel, whom God went to redeem to be his own people, to make you a name of greatness and terribleness, by driving out nations from before your people whom you have redeemed out of Egypt?
22 For your people Israel did you make your own people forever; and you, LORD, became their God.

The word (in verse 17 above) rendered “high degree” is ma’alah, meaning “elevation, i.e. the act (literally, a journey to a higher place, figuratively, a thought arising), or (concretely) the condition (literally, a step or grade-mark, figuratively, a superiority of station); specifically a climactic progression (in certain Psalms).”

It (ma’alah) is the ten “degrees” the sun when backward in the days of king Hezekiah, which we know speaks of when kingship returned to its state ten kings before, who is Solomon, the seed of David. It’s the six “steps” to the throne, and in Ezekiel, it is the seven “steps” to the gate, whereon is the palm trees (Timmor), which look eastward (to the sunrise of this new day). In Amos 9:6, it’s the “stories” the LORD builds in the heaven (full understanding),

Amos 9
6 It is he that builds his stories [ma’alah – steps, degrees] in the heaven [by His full understanding], and has founded his troop in the earth [His army who receives Him]; he that calls for the waters [bringing into the light the words of wicked men] of the sea, and pours them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name.
7 Are you not as children of the Ethiopians [covered in darkness] unto me, O children of Israel? says the LORD. Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt [haven’t I freed them from the words, the misleading of the oppressors]? and the Philistines [the invading enemy army among us] from Caphtor [whose king {the most confused} sits crowned and ruling over you], and the Syrians [those who exalt themselves and their words above God] from Kir [whose lies upon lies are the wall they and you trust in, separating you from God]?
8 Behold, the eyes of the LORD God are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; saving that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, says the LORD.
9 For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.
10 All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.
11 In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof [reestablishing the king line and gathering all God’s people again into ONE BODY under one king of God’s choosing]; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old:
12 That they may possess the remnant of Edom [the enemies mixed among us, claiming they are our brothers and countrymen at peace with us, as they are at war destroying our nation and better culture], and of all the heathen [who don’t really know me], which are called by my name, says the LORD that does this.
13 Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper [plowing under the current corrupt crop of leaders], and the treader of grapes [of wrath] him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt.
14 And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them.
15 And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, says the LORD your God.

Psalms 99
1 The LORD reigns; let the people tremble: he sits between the cherubims [where He manifests His presence]; let the earth be moved.
2 The LORD is great in Zion; and he is high above all the people.
3 Let them praise your great and terrible name; for it is holy.
4 The king’s strength also loveth judgment; you do establish equity, you execute judgment and righteousness in Jacob.
5 Exalt you the LORD our God, and worship at his footstool; for he is holy.
6 Moses [those pulled from the waters below] and Aaron [those who bring this light] among his priests, and Samuel [those who hear this voice as the voice of God, as it is] among them that call upon his name; they called upon the LORD, and he answered them.
7 He spoke unto them in the cloudy pillar [from where His understanding is held]: they kept his testimonies, and the ordinance that he gave them.
8 You answered them, O LORD our God: you are a God that forgave them, though you took vengeance of their inventions.
9 Exalt the LORD our God, and worship at his holy hill; for the LORD our God is holy.

This is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before your face, which shall prepare your way before you.

The above, Luke 7:27, is the LORD speaking of John as His “messenger,” from the Greek word aggelos, meaning “(to bring tidings); a messenger; especially an “angel”; by implication, a pastor.” Of the 188 times the word is used, it is rendered seven times as “messenger” and all others as “angel.”

It (aggelos), when translated “messenger,” is used three times (in Matthew 11:10, Mark 1:2, and Luke 7:27) speaking of John, as above, quoting Malachi 3:1. It (this rendering) appears once, in Luke 7:24, describing the “messengers” John sent to the LORD asking, “Are you he that should come? or look we for another?”

It’s then used the fifth (the number of grace) time, in Luke 9:52, as the LORD sends His “messengers” into Samaria (those fully corrupted by putting idols in God’s place, which they called gods and are thereby totally ignorant of His coming) where they were rejected.

Luke 9
43 And they were all amazed at the mighty power of God. But while they wondered every one at all things which Jesus did, he said unto his disciples,
44 Let these sayings sink down into your ears: for the Son of man shall be delivered into the hands of men [who will refuse to receive him – see Psalms 118:22 and Isaiah 30 below].
45 But they understood not this saying, and it was hid from them, that they perceived it not: and they feared to ask him of that saying.
46 Then there arose a reasoning among them, which of them should be greatest.
47 And Jesus, perceiving the thought of their heart, took a child, and set him by him,
48 And said unto them, Whosoever shall receive this child in my name receives me: and whosoever shall receive me receives him that sent me: for he that is least among you all, the same shall be great.
49 And John answered and said, Master, we saw one casting out devils in your name; and we forbad him, because he follows not with us.
50 And Jesus said unto him, Forbid him not: for he that is not against us is for us.
51 And it came to pass, when the time was come that he should be received up [analepsis – only used here, from ana {up} and lepis {only used once, telling of the “scales” that fell from Paul’s eye and he received again His sight} of which it here speaks], he steadfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem,
52 And sent messengers [aggelos] before his face: and they went, and entered into a village of the Samaritans [those, now all god people at large, except for the very elect who’ve received Him at this coming], to make ready for him.
53 And they did not receive him, because his face was as though he would go to Jerusalem.
54 And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, LORD, will you that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elijah did?
55 But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, You know not what manner of spirit you are of.
56 For the Son of man is not come to destroy men’s lives, but to save them.

Psalms 118
1 O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: because his mercy endures forever.
2 Let Israel now say, that his mercy endures forever.
3 Let the house of Aaron now say, that his mercy endures forever.
4 Let them now that fear the LORD say, that his mercy endures forever.
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 taketh my part with them that help me: therefore shall I see my desire upon them that hate me.
8 It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man.
9 It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in princes.
10 All nations compassed me about: but in the name of the LORD will I destroy them.
11 They compassed me about; yea, they compassed me about: but in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.
12 They compassed me about like bees: they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.
13 You have thrust sore at me that I might fall: but the LORD helped me.
14 The LORD is my strength and song, and is become my salvation.
15 The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tabernacles of the righteous: the right hand of the LORD does valiantly.
16 The right hand of the LORD is exalted: the right hand of the LORD does valiantly.
17 I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the LORD.
18 The LORD has chastened me sore: but he has not given me over unto death.
19 Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will go into them, and I will praise the LORD:
20 This gate of the LORD, into which the righteous shall enter.
21 I will praise you: for you have heard me, and are become my salvation.
22 The stone which the builders refused [ma’ac – referring us to Isaiah 30:12 where it is this word of God they refuse] is become the head stone of the corner [returning to the LORD].
23 This is the LORD’s doing; it is marvelous in [opening] our eyes [as from them the scales fall away].
24 This is the day which the LORD has made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.
25 Save now, I beseech you, O LORD: O LORD, I beseech you, send now prosperity.
26 Blessed be he that comes in the name of the LORD: we have blessed you out of the house of the LORD.
27 God is the LORD, which has shown us light [understanding]: bind the sacrifice with cords, even unto the horns of the altar [the power to rule paid for by His sacrifice].
28 You are my God, and I will praise you: you are my God, I will exalt you.
29 O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endures forever [for this is the manner of spirit He is, “For the Son of man is not come to destroy men’s lives, but to save them”].

Isaiah 30
1 Woe to the rebellious children, says the LORD, that take counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin:
2 That walk to go down into Egypt [willingly misled into oppression], and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh [in vain they trust in those in the seats of power], and to trust in the shadow of Egypt [which blocks the sun of God, the light of His understanding]!
3 Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.
4 For his princes were at Zoan [the place of departure – away from the LORD’s strength], and his ambassadors came to Hanes [and fled from God’s grace – the free gift of understanding].
5 They were all ashamed of [disappointed when they couldn’t deliver what they promised to] a people that could not profit them, nor be a help [‘ezer] nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.
6 The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit them.
7 For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit still [at ease and not doing the LORD’s work].
8 Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come forever and ever:
9 That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD:
10 Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:
11 Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.
12 Wherefore thus says the Holy One of Israel, Because you despise [ma’ac – refuse] this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:
13 Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly at an instant.
14 And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters’ vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit.
15 For thus says the LORD God, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall you be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and you would not [but refused and despised My words].
16 But you said, No; for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall you flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift.
17 One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five shall you flee: till you be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an ensign [nec – the pole upon which the son of man must be lifted – so his voice is heard above all others] on a hill.
18 And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him.
19 For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: you [who receive this word as the word of God, as it is, and by it man lives] shall weep no more: he will be very gracious unto you at the voice of your cry [hearing you speak this word]; when he shall hear it, he will answer you.
20 And though the LORD give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not your teachers be removed into a corner any more, but your eyes shall see your teachers:
21 And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, This is the way, walk you in it, when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left.
22 You shall defile also the covering [of falsehood] of your graven images of silver, and the ornament of your molten images of gold: you shall cast them away as a menstruous cloth; you shall say unto it, Get you hence [you are of no value].
23 Then shall he give the rain [His word from heaven that bring life again on the earth] of your seed, that you shall sow the ground withal; and bread of the increase of the earth, and it shall be fat and plenteous: in that day shall your cattle feed in large pastures.
24 The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground shall eat clean provender, which has been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.
25 And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every high hill, rivers and streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.
26 Moreover the light of the moon [understanding of civil Government] shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun [the understanding of the church] shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD binds up [chabash] the breach of his people, and heals the stroke of their wound.
27 Behold, the name of the LORD comes from far, burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:
28 And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity: and there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing them to err.
29 You shall have a song [this word to be repeated as given], as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept [qadash – when you declare His Holy One]; and gladness of heart, as when one goes with a pipe to come into the mountain of the LORD, to the mighty One of Israel.
30 And the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall show the lighting [understanding] down of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, with scattering, and tempest, and hailstones.
31 For through the voice of the LORD shall the Assyrian [communists in church and state] be beaten down, which smote with a rod.
32 And in every place where the grounded staff shall pass, which the LORD shall lay upon him, it shall be with tabrets and harps: and in battles of shaking will he fight with it.
33 For Tophet [the place of fires] is ordained of old; yea, for the king it is prepared; he has made it deep and large: the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of brimstone, does kindle it.

The sixth time (the number of man) aggelos is rendered “messenger,” in 2 Corinthians 12:7, is when Paul tells of the thorn in his flesh, the “infirmity” that buffeted him, of which he asked the LORD that it depart from him. To this, the LORD answered, “My grace is sufficient for you: for My strength is made perfect (teleioo – is complete) in weakness.”

(Before going on, please suffer me for a moment while I digress. In this chapter (2 Corinthians 12), Paul tells of when he was caught up (harpazo – as in 1 Thessalonians 4:17), whether in the body or out he didn’t know. I understand what he is talking about because I experienced it many (28) years ago, very shortly after the LORD (The Father) awakened me to this mission.

The event is the origin of a story widely told about me that was supposed to support the claim that I was insane (unable to distinguish between my {falsely so-called} delusions that Christ was alive, risen, in me, and {falsely here so-called} reality).

At the time, the LORD told me to travel west to some ancient sites in the Four Corners area, and there I would find the Ark of the Testament. I didn’t hide the fact that this was what I was doing. I shared (with some then family) the evidence I found to support it was there, and they encouraged me as I followed this (the LORD’s) leading.

On my last trip there, alone, (after turning out all the lights) asleep in a hotel room, I was awakened (whether in the body or out of the body, I know not – meaning, to this day, it remains so real I have no idea if it was in my mind or actually occurred) by two men in my room, which they filled with light. Their bodily appearances were identical to mine (as if looking in two mirrors). As the three of us stood together, they talked as I listened to their conversation, which focused on my not being ready: not yet prepared for what I was sent to accomplish.

When I awakened the following day all the lights in my room were on, and as I began to contemplate what had happened, I (as I do to this day each morning) opened my Bible. The LORD reminds me, the passage I opened to is Isaiah 32:2, “And a man shall be as a hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.”

I realized I was (I Am) the Ark He sent me to find there. I realized He was with me, in me, to prepare me as needed, and His Testament would flow from me as rivers of water in a dry place.

Upon returning, when asked about my trip and if I was going back, I said no. When asked why, I responded that I found what I was looking for, and when further (condescendingly and sarcastically) queried if I found the Ark, I merely (without explanation) said yes. The conversation ended there.)

Isaiah 32
1 Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment.
2 And a man shall be as a hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
3 And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them that hear shall hearken.
4 The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers [with tongues without understanding] shall be ready to speak plainly.

2 Corinthians 12
1 It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the LORD.
2 I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knows;) such a one caught up to the third heaven.
3 And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knows;)
4 How that he was caught up [harpazo] into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter [because they are reserved for here and now, to be spoken through me].
5 Of such a one will I glory: yet of myself I will not glory, but in mine infirmities [astheneia].
6 For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I will say the truth: but now I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he sees me to be, or that he hears of me.
7 And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger [aggelos] of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.
8 For this thing I besought the LORD thrice, that it might depart from me.
9 And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for you: for my strength [dumamis] is made perfect [teleioo – completed] in weakness [astheneia]. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities [astheneia], that the power [dunamis] of Christ may rest upon me.
10 Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities [astheneia], in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake: for when I am weak [astheneo], then am I strong [dunatos].
11 I am become a fool in glorying; you have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chief apostles, though I be nothing [am weak and without any power, and therefore the power seen in me is evidently the LORD’s, His glory seen in me, manifesting His known presence, which is the teleioo].
12 Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds.
13 For what is it wherein you were inferior to other churches, except it be that I myself was not burdensome to you? forgive me this wrong.
14 Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.
15 And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.
16 But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile [caught you in the trap of your own ignorance: eyes and ears defile by darkness, unable to see LORD or hear His voice from me].

19 Again, think you that we excuse ourselves [make excuses for our bodily weakness] unto you? we speak before [katenopion – the presence of] God in Christ: but we do all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying [to build you up into understanding you are the dwelling place of God].
20 For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would [fully understanding these things], and that I shall be found unto you such as you would not [a weak man through who the LORD manifests His power and presence]: lest there be debates, envying, wraths, strife, backbiting, whisperings, swellings, tumults:
21 And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented…

The word astheneia, meaning without strength, is the reverse of the once used word sthenoo, meaning “to strengthen, i.e. (figuratively) confirm (in spiritual knowledge and power).”

1 Peter 5
6 Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:
7 Casting all your care upon him; for he cares for you.
8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
9 Whom resist steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.
10 But the God of all grace, who has called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that you have suffered a while, make you perfect, establish, strengthen [sthenoo], settle you.
11 To him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.

The word aggelos is from the word ago (71), and gelos (1071, from gelao), which translate to lead into laughter (in joy and gratification). This is the first estate of the messengers of God, which the messengers of Satan left to buffet those remaining faithful to God.

Jude 1
3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that you should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only LORD God, and our LORD Jesus Christ.
5 I will therefore put you in remembrance, though you once knew this, how that the LORD, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.
6 And the angels [aggelos] which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness [ignorance] unto the judgment of the great day.
7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
8 Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.

The seventh (the number of perfection) time aggelos is rendered “messenger” is in James, as He describes the dead: without the Spirit, without works showing their faith.

James 2
20 But will you know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?
21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?
22 See you how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect?
23 And the scripture was fulfilled which says, Abraham believed God [that it was Him speaking to Him], and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God.
24 You see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.
25 Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers [aggelos – entertaining angels unaware], and had sent them out another way?
26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

The word James uses above, rendered “vain” in verse 20, is kenos, “apparently a primary word; empty (literally or figuratively):–empty, (in) vain.” It is from the same root as ketos (“whale’s” belly – the emptiness entered after being swallowed by the gaping open mouths of men spewing corruption), chasma, the great impassable “gulf” between heaven and hell (life and death).

He is speaking of what Paul in like terms describes in 1 Corinthians 15, Philippians 2:16, Colossians 2:8, and 1 Timothy 4:16.

1 Corinthians 15
1 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also you have received, and wherein you stand;
2 By which also you are saved, if you keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless you have believed in vain [eike – idly, without reason to work].
3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
5 And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve:
6 After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep.
7 After that, he was seen of James; then of all the apostles.
8 And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time.
9 For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
10 But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain [kenos – without power]; but I labored more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was [the power] with me.
11 Therefore whether it were I or they, so we preach, and so you believed.
12 Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?
13 But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen:
14 And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain [kenos – empty, without power], and your faith is also vain.
15 Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not.
16 For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised:
17 And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain [mataios – a profitless idol]; you are yet in your sins.

1 Peter 1
17 And if you call on the Father, who without respect of person judges according to every man’s work [are you with or without works of faith, all else is vain], pass the time of your sojourning here in fear:
18 Forasmuch as you know that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain [mataios] conversation received by tradition from your fathers;
19 But with the precious blood of [the work of] Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:
20 Who truly was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,
21 Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.

Acts 14
Sirs, why do you these things [saying “The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men,” when He dwells in all men who receive Him]? We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you that you should turn from these vanities [mataios – idols] unto the living God, which made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein:
16 Who in times past [long] suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.
17 Nevertheless he left not himself without witness [messengers through who He speaks], in that he did good, and gave us rain [His word] from heaven, and fruitful seasons [when His understanding is with us], filling our hearts with food and gladness.
18 And with these sayings scarce restrained they the people, that they had not done sacrifice unto them.

I say unto you, “See you do it not: for I am your fellow-servant, and of your brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book: worship God.” (Revelation 22:9)

Revelation 19
10 And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me [as I say unto you], See you do it not: I am your fellow-servant, and of your brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.
11 And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse, and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness, he does judge and makes war.

The following occurred while Paul waited alone in uncertainty (Athens) for Timothy (the one He called the man of God and soldier) to come.

Acts 17
…You men of Athens [uncertainty], I perceive that in all things you are too superstitious.
23 For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, To The Unknown God. Whom, therefore, you ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.
24 God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is LORD of heaven and earth, dwell not in temples made with hands;
25 Neither is worshipped with men’s hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he gives to all life, and breath, and all things;
26 And has made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined [horizo – horizon, when the sun, the light, would bring this new day] the times before appointed [protasso – “to pre-arrange, i.e. prescribe”], and the bounds [ending and beginning earth’s ages, as seasons] of their habitation;
27 That they should seek the LORD, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us [because He dwells with us, in us]:
28 For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
29 Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man’s device.
30 And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commands all men everywhere to repent:
31 Because he has appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man [Timothy – I Am] whom he has ordained [horizo – who is the light rising over the horizon]; whereof he has given assurance unto all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.

Acts 10
40 Him God raised up the third day, and showed him openly;
41 Not to all the people, but unto witnesses chosen before God, even to us, who did eat and drink with him after he rose from the dead.
42 And he commanded us to preach unto the people, and to testify that it is he which was ordained [horizo] of God to be the Judge of quick and dead.
43 To him give all the prophets witness, that through his name whosoever believes in him shall receive remission of sins.

Romans 1
1 Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God,
2 (Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures,)
3 Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our LORD, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh;
4 And declared [horizo] to be the Son of God with power [dunamis], according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:
5 By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among all nations, for his name:
6 Among whom are you also the called of Jesus Christ:
7 To all that be in Rome [who he has strengthened], beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the LORD Jesus Christ.

1 Corinthians 15
42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:
43 It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness [astheneia – without strength]; it is raised in power [dunamis]:
44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.
45 And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam [the first man born from the dead] was made a quickening spirit [bringing the dead to life with Him].
46 Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.
47 The first man is of the earth, earthy; the second man is the LORD from heaven.
48 As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.
49 And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.
50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither does corruption inherit incorruption.
51 Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
55 O death, where is your sting? O grave, where is your victory?
56 The sting of [that brings] death is sin; and the strength [dunamis] of sin is the law [see Romans 8 below].
57 But thanks be to God, which gives us the victory through our LORD Jesus Christ.
58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be you steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the LORD, forasmuch as you know that your labor is not in vain [kenos – without power] in the LORD.

Romans 8
1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.
3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
5 For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
6 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

Hosea 13
12 The iniquity of Ephraim [the seed of Joseph, God’s people in this generation] is bound up; his sin is hid [tsaphan – is unknown to her].
13 The sorrows of a travailing woman shall come upon him: he is an unwise son; for he should not stay long in the place of the breaking forth [mishber – birth] of children.
14 I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be your plagues; O grave, I will be your destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.

The word mishber only appears two other times, both in telling of the same event.

Speaking of this day, 2 Kings 19:3 says, “This day is a day of trouble [tsarah – tribulation], and of rebuke, and blasphemy; for the children are come to the birth [mishber], and there is not strength [koach] to bring forth.”

Isaiah 40
25 To whom then will you liken me, or shall I be equal? says the Holy One.
26 Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who has created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power [koach]; not one fails.
27 Why sayest you, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, My way is hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God?
28 Have you not known? have you not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, faints not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.
29 He gives power [koach] to the faint; and to them that have no might he increases strength.
30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:
31 But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength [koach]; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

Isaiah 63
1 Who is this that comes from Edom [the enemies mixed among us], with dyed garments from Bozrah [the flock, wherein are the enemies]? this that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength [koach]? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save.
2 Wherefore are you red in your apparel, and your garments like him that treads in the wine-fat?
3 I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment.
4 For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come.

Philippians 2
16 Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain [kenos – without the LORD’s strength], neither labored in vain [kenos – without the power of God].
17 Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.
18 For the same cause also do you joy, and rejoice with me.
19 But I trust in the LORD Jesus to send Timothy shortly unto you, that I also may be of good comfort, when I know your state.
20 For I have no man likeminded, who will naturally care for your state.
21 For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ’s.
22 But you know the proof of him, that, as a son with the father, he has served with me in the gospel.

Hebrews 4
7 Again, he limits [horizo] a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, Today if you will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
8 For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.
9 There remains therefore a rest to the people of God.
10 For he that is entered into his rest, he also has ceased from his own works, as God did from his.
11 Let us labor, therefore, to enter into that rest, lest any man falls after the same example of unbelief.

Colossians 2
6 As you have therefore received Christ Jesus the LORD [hearing His voice], so walk you in him:
7 Rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.
8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain [kenos] deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments [stoicheion – elements] of the world, and not after Christ.
9 For in him dwells all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
10 And you are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:
11 In whom also you are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:
12 Buried with him in baptism, wherein also you are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who has raised him from the dead.

1 Timothy 4
10 For therefore we both labor and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, specially of those that believe.
11 These things command and teach.
12 Let no man despise your youth; but be you an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
13 Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.
14 Neglect not the gift that is in you, which was given you by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.
15 Meditate upon these things; give yourself wholly to them; that your profiting may appear to all.
16 Take heed unto yourself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this you shall both save yourself, and them that hear you.

Psalms 95
1 O come, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation.
2 Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms.
3 For the LORD is a great God, and a great King above all gods.
4 In his hand are the deep places of the earth: the strength of the hills is his also.
5 The sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land.
6 O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker.
7 For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. Today if you will hear his voice,
8 Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.
10 Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:
11 Unto whom I swore in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.

Malachi 3
1 Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom you seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom you delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts.
2 But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appears? for he is like a refiner’s fire, and like fullers’ soap:
3 And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness.
4 Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the LORD, as in the days of old, and as in former years.
5 And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.
6 For I Am the LORD, I change not; therefore you sons of Jacob are not consumed.

Psalms 9
1 I will praise you, O LORD, with my whole heart; I will show forth all your marvelous works.
2 I will be glad and rejoice in you: I will sing praise to your name, O you Most High.
3 When mine enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at your presence.
4 For you have maintained my right and my cause; you sat in the throne judging right.
5 You have rebuked the heathen, you have destroyed the wicked, you have put out their name forever and ever.
6 O you enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and you have destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with them.
7 But the LORD shall endure forever: he has prepared his throne for judgment.
8 And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness.
9 The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.
10 And they that know your name will put their trust in you: for you, LORD, have not forsaken them that seek you.
11 Sing praises to the LORD, which dwelleth in Zion: declare among the people his doings.
12 When he makes inquisition for blood, he remembers them: he forgets not the cry of the humble.
13 Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, you that lifts me up from the gates of death:
14 That I may show forth all your praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion: I will rejoice in your salvation.
15 The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.
16 The LORD is known by the judgment which he executes: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.
17 The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.
18 For the needy shall not always be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish forever.
19 Arise, O LORD; let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged in your sight.
20 Put them in fear, O LORD: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah.

And the LORD said unto me, “Amos, what see you?” And I said, “A plumbline.” Then said the LORD, “Behold, I will set a plumbline in the midst of my people Israel: I will not again pass by them any more:

The word above, in Amos 7:8, rendered “plumbline,” is ‘anak (594), only used here in verses 7 & 8, and given the dubious meaning “probably from an unused root meaning to be narrow; according to most a plumb-line, and to others a hook:–plumb-line.”

It is (the LORD says) from the word ‘anaq (6059 & 6060), both meaning a chain, the first (6059), adding it is a liberal furnishing. Each of these words is only used three times, and in them, we understand they are ideas (foundational principles: knowledge, understanding, and wisdom in application: the heart of a man, which produces his fruit that marks his identity, good or evil).

The chain is pride. It is the wicked as we now see them, marked by depravity, corrupt thinking, and violence with which they defend them (evil they call good to justify attacks against those they define as evil). They are chained to these identities by their open “pride” in what is their shame.

The verse before the title says, “Thus he showed me: and, behold, the LORD stood upon a wall made by a plumbline [‘anak – made by pride], with a plumbline [‘anak – with a chain of their own pride] in his hand.”

This chain is now very apparent upon those (including Pope and President) who shamelessly celebrate “pride,” while at the same time they (and their fake news and social media) remain silent as the wicked (is there anything more wicked than killing the most innocent: defenseless children) violently riot and attack the innocent. They censor the truth and report (redefine) their evil as good to justify and defend their violence, because they’re undeniable evidence that they are altogether evil.

They do these things because they bear the mark (the chain) of Cain, “who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous. Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hates you. We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abides in death. Whosoever hates his brother is a murderer: and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.”

Proverbs 1
1 The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;
2 To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;
3 To receive [the love of God poured out, giving] the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;
4 To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.
5 A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
6 To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
8 My son, hear the instruction of your father [giving you the knowledge of God, and His understanding], and forsake not the law of your mother [wisdom: discretion is the application of what your Father taught you]:
9 For they shall be an ornament of grace unto your head, and chains [‘anaq – 6060] about your neck.
10 My son, if sinners entice you, consent you not.
11 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
12 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
13 We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:
14 Cast in your lot among us; let us all have one purse:
15 My son, walk not you in the way with them; refrain your foot from their path:
16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.

Psalms 73
6 Therefore pride compasses them about as a chain [‘anaq – 6059]; violence covers them as a garment.
7 Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.
8 They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily.
9 They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.
10 Therefore his people return hither: and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them.
11 And they say, How does God know? and is there knowledge in the Most High?
12 Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches.
13 Truly I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency.
14 For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.
15 If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of your children.
16 When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me;
17 Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end.
18 Surely you did set them in slippery places: you cast them down into destruction.
19 How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.
20 As a dream when one awakes; so, O LORD, when you awake [when Your presence is plainly manifested], you shall despise their image.
21 Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins.
22 So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before you.
23 Nevertheless I am continually with you: you have holden me by my right hand.
24 You shall guide me with your counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.
25 Whom have I in heaven but you? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside you.
26 My flesh and my heart fails: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion forever.
27 For, lo, they that are far from you shall perish [only those who are joined with the LORD in His ONE MIND and BODY are saved]: you have destroyed all them that go a whoring from you.
28 But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the LORD God, that I may declare all your works.

Amos 7 begins with the LORD showing (giving him understanding) of the great army, who as locusts have devoured all economic growth, a similar pattern (we saw in the previous post) He revealed to Joel (in Joel 1:4). In Amos, it’s telling of the final destruction after the king’s (Brandon’s) mowing (gez).

Amos asks the LORD to forgive us (for our lukewarm lack of vigilance allowing the degeneration away from His strength) for by who will Jacob rise (speaking of God’s people still in a state of wrestling with Him and His word, unaware it’s Him) because he (Jacob) is small (diminished). To which the LORD answers, “This also shall not be.”

We know from chapter 6, (verse 6 saying) this is the affliction of Joseph (the coming king, who will lead God’s people together into prosperity, still separated from them) by those anointing themselves who are not by it (the separation) grieved. These self-anointed (mis)leaders are the “excellency of Jacob” the LORD says He abhors, and whose palaces He hates.

The LORD (beginning chapter 6) says, “Woe to those who are at ease [sha’anan – haughty {lukewarm amid the tumult, of which they are willingly ignorant: because if they weren’t, they’d have to do something uncomfortable}] in Zion, and that trust in the mountains of Samaria, which are named the chief of the nations [the strange and self-destructive ideas, which destroy people and nations, set up as gods in God’s place], to whom the house of Israel came!”

The lukewarm men are those now saying the LORD has already done everything needed to be done; therefore, let us eat, drink, and be at ease, for tomorrow we die.” Friends, the truth is the LORD has prepared us with the only preparation needed, and now it’s time for you to do your part, which is to have faith in His provision, and whether we live or die, we are forever with Him.

Joel 2
27 And you shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am the LORD your God, and none else: and my people shall never be ashamed.
28 And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:
29 And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit.
30 And I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the LORD come.
32 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD has said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call.

Romans 8
29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
33 Who shall lay anything to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifies.
34 Who is he that condemns? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.
35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
36 As it is written, For your sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us [and by His love prepared us].
38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our LORD.

The word “conquerors,” in verse 37 above, is the once used Greek word hupernikao, meaning “from 5228 [huper – over] and 3528 [nikao – victory]; to vanquish beyond, i.e. gain a decisive victory:–more than conquer [victory over – death].” It is speaking of victory over those who’ve gotten the victory over us and made dead God’s people (the “virgin of Israel” to whom the man child is given: Emanuel, the LORD’s presence and Salvation manifested in the flesh). It is victory over death Paul speaks of in 1 Corinthians 15: brought out of corruption into life and immortality.

Amos 5
1 Hear you this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel.
2 The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her land; there is none to raise her up.
3 For thus says the LORD God; The city that went out by a thousand shall leave a hundred, and that which went forth by a hundred shall leave ten, to the house of Israel.
4 For thus says the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek you me, and you shall live:
5 But seek not Bethel [the corrupt houses of God, where the calves are put in God’s place], nor enter into Gilgal [where the waters are always agitated], and pass not to Beersheba [the corruption of the seven wells, the word of God incorrectly interpreted and turned to old wives’ tales]: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to naught.
6 Seek the LORD, and you shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour it, and there be none to quench it in Bethel.
7 You who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,
8 Seek him that makes the seven stars and Orion [the redeemer breaking forth as light: understanding, wrath against the star of the idols], and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and pours them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name:
9 That strengthens the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress.
10 They hate him that rebukes in the gate, and they abhor him that speaks uprightly.
11 Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and you take from him burdens of wheat: you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink wine of them.
12 For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.
13 Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time [when all are speaking their own evil misleading – “If they speak not according to this word it is because there is no light {understanding} in them.”].
14 Seek good, and not evil, that you may live: and so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as you have spoken.
15 Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.
16 Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the LORD, says thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.
17 And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will pass through you, says the LORD.
18 Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness [ignorance], and not light [when understanding is rejected – and therefore men flee known evil to an evil of which they are ignorant].
19 As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.
20 Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it? [And the LORD has come into this time of ignorance, unknown as a thief in the night, uncomprehended as He shines His light upon any and all who come out of the corrupt houses into His light]
21 I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.
22 Though you offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts.
23 Take you away from me the noise of your songs; for I will not hear the melody of your viols.
24 But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
25 Have you offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
26 But you have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch [your king {Brandon} who says you must sacrifice your children – whose mandatory offering is abortion] and Chiun [the pillar of their religion] your images, the star of your god, which you made to yourselves.
27 Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus [beyond your confusion {Babylon}, when the word and work of God are silenced and replaced with delusions and insanity], says the LORD, whose name is The God of hosts.

Amos 6
1 Woe to them that are at ease [sha’anan – lukewarm] in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria, which are named chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel came!

Acts 7
41 And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.
42 Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O you house of Israel, have you offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness?
43 Yea, you took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which you made to worship them: and I will carry you away beyond Babylon [quoting Amos 5:27, replacing Damascus with Babylon, showing us the meaning is in the translated names, not the places].
44 Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness, as he had appointed, speaking unto Moses, that he should make it according to the fashion that he had seen.
45 Which also our fathers that came after brought in with Jesus [Joshua] into the possession of the Gentiles, whom God drove out before the face of our fathers, unto the days of David;
46 Who found favor before God, and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.
47 But Solomon built him a house.
48 Howbeit the Most High dwells not in temples made with hands [but He dwells in flesh, from where He is manifested to those He calls to His service]; as says the prophet,
49 Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool: what house will you build me? says the LORD: or what is the place of my rest?
50 Has not my hand made all these things?
51 You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you do always resist the Holy Ghost [the LORD unknown to you, speaking and working]: as your fathers did, so do you.
52 Which of the prophets [in who the LORD spoke and worked unknown] have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which showed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom you have been now the betrayers and murderers:
53 Who have received the law by the disposition of angels [these messengers of God, of who you are ignorant], and have not kept it.

Hebrews 12
25 See that you refuse not him that speaks. For if they escaped not who refused him that spoke on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaks from heaven [the place of full understanding, the manifestation of the presence of God]:
26 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he has promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.
27 And this word, Yet once more, signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.
28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
29 For our God is a consuming fire.

Revelation 13
1 Let brotherly love [Philadelphia – the church of – His ONE BODY] continue.
2 Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels [God’s messengers] unawares.

Revelation 3
7 And to the angel [the messenger – I Am] of the church in Philadelphia write; These things says he that is holy, he that is true, he that has the key of David, he that opens [as it now is], and no man shuts; and shuts [as it was], and no man opens;
8 I know your works: behold, I have set before you an open door, and no man can shut it: for you have a little strength, and have kept my word, and have not denied my name [my identity manifested in this word and work].
9 Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan [who follow the spirit of evil: misleading messengers doing the work of evil], which say they are Jews [claiming they know God, when they don’t, and we know they don’t because they can’t hear Him here speaking], and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before your feet, and to know that I have loved [agapao – given My word of Salvation to] you.
10 Because you have kept the word of my patience [long-suffered with Me until you received understanding], I also will keep you from the hour of temptation [the world doubting My presence manifested in this word], which shall come upon all the world, to try [whether their works and words are good or evil] them that dwell upon the earth.
11 Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which you have, that no man take your crown.
12 Him that overcomes [those who have gotten a victory over God’s people and brought them into death] will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is New Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven [with full understanding] from my God: and I will write upon him my new name [which is Ishi, “the man” in whom God chooses to manifest His presence].
13 He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says unto the churches.
14 And unto the angel [messenger] of the church of the Laodiceans [the people justified {as in Romans 8:33 above} – made right: shown the right way] write; These things says the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the [old and new] creation of God;
15 I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot: I would you were cold or hot.
16 So then because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew you out of my mouth.
17 Because you say, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and know not that you are wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
18 I counsel you to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that you mayest be rich; and white raiment, that you mayest be clothed, and that the shame of your nakedness do not appear; and anoint your eyes with eye-salve [from kolla – things that will remain, stick, through the shaking], that you may see.
19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
20 Behold, I stand at the door and knock: if any man hears my voice [the voice of God, as this is], and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
21 To him that overcomes [the wicked] will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.
22 He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says unto the churches.

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

Isaiah 32
9 Rise up, you women that are at ease [sha’anan – lukewarm]; hear my voice, you careless daughters; give ear unto my speech.
10 Many days and years shall you be troubled, you careless women: for the vintage shall fail, the gathering [into My ONE BODY] shall not come.
11 Tremble, you women that are at ease [sha’anan]; be troubled, you careless ones: strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins.
12 They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.
13 Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers [evil misleaders and deceivers]; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:
14 Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens forever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;
15 Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high [heaven, understanding the word of God, sent as the latter rain], and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest.
16 Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field.
17 And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance forever.
18 And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places;
19 When it shall hail [this word frozen in heaven, reserved unto fire and the perdition of ungodly men], coming down on the forest; and the city shall be low in a low place.
20 Blessed are you that [do the work of God and] sow beside all waters, that send forth thither the feet of the ox and the ass [to their work, tilling under the fallowed ground and carrying this word].

Jeremiah 4
1 If you will return, O Israel, says the LORD, return unto me: and if you will put away your abominations out of my sight, then shall you not remove.
2 And you shall swear, The LORD lives, in truth, in judgment, and in righteousness; and the nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory.
3 For thus says the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.
4 Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart, you men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
5 Declare you in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, Blow you the trumpet in the land: cry, gather together, and say, Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the defensed cities.
6 Set up the standard [nec – the son of man lifted up] toward Zion: retire, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north [from their ignorance], and a great destruction.
7 The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles [perdition of the ungodly] is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make your land [of the ignorant] desolate; and your cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.
8 For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us.
9 And it shall come to pass at that day, says the LORD, that the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the princes; and the priests shall be astonished, and the prophets shall wonder.
10 Then said I, Ah, LORD God! surely you have greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, You shall have peace; whereas the sword reaches unto the soul.
11 At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A dry wind of the high places in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse,
12 Even a full wind from those places shall come unto me: now also will I give sentence against them.
13 Behold, he shall come up as clouds [full of understanding], and his chariots shall be as a whirlwind [from where the LORD speaks]: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us! for we are spoiled.
14 O Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you mayest be saved. How long shall your vain thoughts lodge within you?

Amos 6
3 You that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near;
4 That lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall;
5 That chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves instruments of music, like David;
6 That drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief ointments: but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.
7 Therefore now shall they go captive with the first that go captive, and the banquet of them that stretched themselves shall be removed.
8 The LORD God has sworn by himself, says the LORD the God of hosts, I abhor the excellency of Jacob, and hate his palaces: therefore will I deliver up the city with all that is therein.
9 And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in one house, that they shall die.
10 And a man’s uncle shall take him up, and he that burns him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say unto him that is by the sides of the house, Is there yet any with you? and he shall say, No. Then shall he say, Hold your tongue: for we may not make mention of the name of the LORD.
11 For, behold, the LORD commands, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts.
12 Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plow there with oxen? for you have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock:
13 You which rejoice in a thing of naught, which say, Have we not taken to us horns [power to rule] by our own strength?
14 But, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, says the LORD the God of hosts; and they shall afflict you from the entering in of Hemath unto the river of the wilderness.

Amos 7
1 Thus has the LORD God showed unto me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king’s mowings [gez].
2 And it came to pass, that when they had made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, O LORD God, forgive, I beseech you: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.
3 The LORD repented for this: It shall not be, says the LORD.
4 Thus has the LORD God showed unto me: and, behold, the LORD God called to contend by fire, and it devoured the great deep [the understanding of corrupt men], and did eat up a part.
5 Then said I, O LORD God, cease, I beseech you: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.
6 The LORD repented for this: This also shall not be, says the LORD God.
7 Thus he showed me: and, behold, the LORD stood [as a serpent lifted up] upon a wall made by a plumbline [‘anak – made by the pride of men, a chain they think protects them], with a plumbline [‘anak] in his hand.
8 And the LORD said unto me, Amos, what see you? And I said, A plumbline [‘anak]. Then said the LORD, Behold, I will set a plumbline [‘anak – darkness to which they are chained, shame they take pride in] in the midst of my people Israel: I will not again pass by them any more:
9 And the high places of Isaac [Jacob and Esau – God’s people and the enemies mixed among us at war to destroy our nation and better, sane, normal culture] shall be desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam [who’ve made calves they put in God’s place, and brought in devils to tell the people these are their gods – 2 Chronicles 11:15] with the sword.

1 Corinthians 15
51 Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed [when understanding is received, and this word is heard as the LORD’s word],
52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible [into full understanding], and we shall be changed.
53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
55 O death, where is your sting? O grave, where is your victory?

Hosea 13
14 I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be your plagues; O grave, I will be your destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.
15 Though he be fruitful among his brethren, an east wind shall come, the wind of the LORD shall come up from the wilderness, and his spring shall become dry, and his fountain shall be dried up: he shall spoil the treasure of all pleasant vessels.
16 Samaria shall become desolate; for she has rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.

Hosea 14
1 O Israel, return unto the LORD your God; for you have fallen by your iniquity.
2 Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we render the calves of our lips.
3 Asshur [the communist Pope and President] shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, You are our gods: for in you [LORD] the fatherless find mercy.
4 I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.

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

Psalms 15
1 LORD, who shall abide in your tabernacle? who shall dwell in your holy hill?
2 He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaks the truth in his heart.
3 He that backbites not with his tongue, nor does evil to his neighbor, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbor.
4 In whose eyes a vile person is contemned, but he honors them that fear the LORD. He [reproves those] that swears to his own hurt, and changes not.
5 He that puts not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent. He that does these things shall never be moved.