23 – 25 September 2024
O Israel, return unto the LORD your God; for you have fallen by your iniquity. 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.
The LORD begins today, above in Hosea 14:1 & 2, speaking to His people awakening to life from death, who were before dumb (unable to speak His word because there was no prophet to lead them out of the darkness) due to their iniquity. It is this leading, now, that takes away the cause and results in opening our mouths, which is the offering He desires: speaking His words, the knowledge of God with us, in us.
The name Hosea is the same as Hoshea, the name to which Moses added Jehovah, calling him Joshua (Jesus). The original name means deliverer (savior); in the latter, he is Joshua, the son of Nun (the son in perpetuity, Jehovah’s Salvation manifested in the flesh: Christ, the Father’s anointed one).
The above portion of the Book of Hosea is written after the northern nation of Israel had ended, and Hoshea, the final king of Israel, and many of the people of Israel with him, were held captive in Assyria (Asshur; from where they were eventually dispersed beyond Damascus, beyond Babylon, speaking of beyond the Caucus Mountains).
Ephraim and Samaria are descriptive of God’s people in this last generation, fallen and held in the degenerate ignorance brought about by the endless fall away from God (in the bottomless pit) of the prior generations.
The names above speak of when the work of God’s people is ended, and they sit silent and in tears (Damascus), and there (by the substitution of Babylon for Damascus) we understand they are held by confusion (ignorant of God and their own identity), which became delusion, and now turned to mass insanity. In this state of mental death, they are Ephraim, God’s people in double ruin, and Samaria, where God is replaced by devils teaching foreign ideas (idols, falsely called by God’s name, to which is offered strange fire).
Hosea is speaking of the time when Hosea and Israel go into captivity and are held there, to be awakened by again adding Jehovah to Hosea, in these words given understanding, life, by Him.
Hosea 12
1 Ephraim [God’s people in double ruin in this generation] feeds on wind [of false doctrines], and follows after the east wind: he daily increases lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the Assyrians [the communists here in power], and oil [that feeds the light, gives understanding, through His anointed] is carried into Egypt [here held under tyrants in oppression].
2 The LORD has also a controversy with Judah [the leaders of His people who have likewise fallen into apostacy], and will punish Jacob [Israel and Judah] according to his ways; according to his doings will he recompense him.
3 He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength he had power with God:
4 Yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him in Bethel, and there he spoke with us;
5 Even the LORD God of hosts [a man of Just war]; the LORD is his memorial [zeker – Jehovah is his memento: how He is remembered, re-cognized, at the moment He is].
6 Therefore turn you to your God: keep mercy and judgment and wait on [qavah – expect] your God continually.
7 He [Esau: Edom, Seir: devils: the enemies among us, in power misleading us into self-destruction] is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loves to oppress.
8 And Ephraim [this generation of God’s people in its {Laodicean} state of double ruin] said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance: in all my labors they shall find none iniquity in me that were sin. [Revelation 3:17 Because you sayest, 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 {these treasure of My grace} tried in the fire, that you may be rich; and white raiment {this purity by which you see Me present}, that you may be clothed, and that the shame of your nakedness do not appear; and anoint {with this oil} your eyes with eye-salve, that you may see. 19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous, therefore, and repent.]
9 And I that am the LORD your God from the land of Egypt will yet make you to dwell in tabernacles [‘ohel – in transient flesh], as in the days of the solemn feast.
10 I [here and now present] have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets.
11 Is there iniquity in Gilead [among those entrusted with these oracles, with this written word from the mouth of God]? surely they are vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal [where the waters are always agitated by confusion, the endless argument about what My words mean]; yea, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the fields.
12 And Jacob fled into the country of Syria [into the arms of communists], and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.
13 And by a prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt [the oppression of tyrants then and there], and by a prophet [Moses, who was drawn from the waters, the wicked words and ways, which held their minds captive therein] was he preserved.
14 Ephraim [God’s people in these last days] provoked him [the LORD present, manifested in His prophet, I Am, like Moses, He raised up among His people for the same purpose] to anger most bitterly [as they chided with Moses]: therefore shall he leave his blood upon him, and his reproach shall his LORD return unto him.
Hosea 13
1 When Ephraim spoke trembling, he exalted himself in Israel; but when he offended in Baal [the idols men created and put in God’s place, who the devils call by His name], he died.
2 And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, and idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen: they [the devils] say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves.
3 Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud and as the early dew that passes away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.
4 Yet I am the LORD your God from the land of Egypt, and you shall know no god but me: for there is no savior beside me.
5 I did know you in the wilderness [where I untaught you the ways of oppression and tyranny], in the land of great drought [when you were without My word].
6 According to their pasture [when they prospered by this understanding, under God], so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted; therefore have they forgotten me.
7 Therefore I will be unto them as a lion [roaring this word against their ignorance; the second face, seen in the wheel within the wheel, of the LORD’s unfolding presence manifesting His identity with us, in us]: as a leopard [crouching unknown] by the way will I observe them [as My prey};
8 I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart [the ignorance in their minds], and there will I devour them like a lion: the wild beast [men without My Spirit, who they choose to follow into self-destruction] shall tear them.
9 O Israel, you have destroyed yourself; but in me is your help.
10 I will be your king: where is any other that may save you in all your cities? and your judges of whom you said, Give me a king and princes?
11 I gave you a king in my anger, and took him away in my wrath. [This speaks not only of Saul but also of the kings Israel chose to follow, which, after a succession of kings who murdered the kings before them, ended in Hosea who is now captive in Syria.]
12 The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is hid [in his own ignorance].
13 The sorrows of a travailing woman shall come upon him [needing to bring forth the king of God’s choosing, the man child, I Am, and His many children, begotten of God alone]: he is an unwise son; for he should not stay long in the place of the breaking forth of children.
14 I will ransom them from the power of the grave [sh’owl – sheol, hell]; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be your plagues; O grave [sh’owl – sheol, hell], I will be your destruction: repentance shall be hid from my eyes. [I will never change My mind about the destruction of death and hell!]
15 Though he be fruitful among his brethren, an east wind shall come, the wind [the Spirit] of the LORD shall come up from the wilderness, and his spring [the corrupt understanding and words of men] shall become dry, and his fountain shall be dried up: he shall spoil the treasure [the corrupt understanding] of all pleasant vessels.
16 Samaria [the places where My people put idols in My place and call them by My name] shall become desolate; for she has rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword [this word they refuse, because their minds are corrupted by the false teaching of the many false prophets mixed among them]: [because they are ignorant beasts] their infants shall be dashed in pieces [as there are by those aborting them by the many millions], and their women with child shall be ripped up.
1 Corinthians 15
35 But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come?
36 You fool, that which you sowest is not quickened, except it die:
37 And that which you sowest, you sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain:
38 But God gives it a [human] body as it has pleased him, and to every seed his own body.
42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption [here in death and hell]; it is raised in incorruption:
43 It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power:
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 was made a quickening spirit [bringing many children from death into life].
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 [dead and buried therein as seed, as in Jezreel, the child of Hosea, who the LORD has sown into the earth]; 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 [New] heavenly [Jerusalem}.
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 [only the soul and mind do, risen by joining with the LORD in His ONE BODY]; neither does corruption inherit incorruption.
51 Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed [by this understanding received, putting off all the past corrupt teaching by which this truth was hidden],
52 In a moment [when understanding comes], in the twinkling of an eye [this light flashing on, when this epiphany comes, when we see, understand, and reach this expected end of darkness], at the last trump [this voice of the LORD’s archangel]: 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 [hell], where is your victory?
56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law [without understanding the Spirit therein].
57 But thanks be to God, which gives us the victory [over ignorance: death and hell] through our LORD Jesus Christ [Jehovah Salvation manifested in the flesh of His chosen, His many children shining this same light upon all].
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 [speaking this same understanding, as received].
3 Asshur [the communists] 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 alone] the fatherless find mercy.
4 I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely [as I have these many years, long-suffering unknown, not willing that any should perish, but that all would come to repentance and be saved]: for my anger is turned away from him.
5 I will be as the dew unto Israel [My word appearing on the earth at this beginning of this new day]: he [My children] shall grow as the lily [and their one voice shall be heard as the last trumpet announcing the end of darkness], and cast forth his roots as Lebanon [the seed taking root and growing into purity again seen in our high places].
6 His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree [from where this oil comes that feeds the light], and his [sweet] smell as Lebanon [purity by which we perceive, see, the LORD in our high places].
7 They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine: the scent [the perception of His presence, with us, in us] thereof shall be as the wine [changing our minds] of Lebanon.
8 Ephraim [God’s people, the first generation of His new creation, upon whom this double blessing has come and borne fruit] shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I have heard him [this voice as Jehovah speaking the salvation of the world], and observed him: I am like a green fir tree [filled with His everlasting life]. 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 shall fall therein.
Isaiah 14
1 For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.
2 And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the LORD for servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.
3 And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall give you rest from your sorrow, and from your fear, and from the hard bondage wherein you were made to serve,
4 That you shall take up this proverb against the king of Babylon [Obama, who reigns through intentional deception and confusion, possessed by the spirit of Lucifer, who through the same “Rules for Radicals” won his own kingdom, hell, as Barak has], and say, How has the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!
5 The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked, and the scepter of the rulers.
6 He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hinders.
7 The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing.
8 Yea, the fir trees rejoice at you, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since you are laid down, no feller is come up against us.
9 Hell from beneath is moved for you to meet you at your coming: it stirs up the dead for you, even all the chief ones of the earth; it has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
10 All they shall speak and say unto you, Are you also become weak as we? are you become like unto us?
11 Your pomp is brought down to the grave [sh’owl – sheol, hell], and the noise of your viols: the worm is spread under you, and the worms cover you.
12 How are you fallen from heaven, O Lucifer [giver of false light], son of the morning [born here in the flesh, seen on this new day I have created]! how are you cut down to the ground, which did weaken the nations!
13 For you have said in your heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars [children] of God: I will sit also upon the mount [in power] of the congregation [mow’ed – in this appointed time of My gathering My people into My ONE BODY], in the sides of the north [now when darkness, ignorance, cover the earth]:
14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds [taking the throne intended for God’s anointed]; I will be like the Most High.
15 Yet you shall be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
16 They that see you shall narrowly look upon you, and consider you, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;
17 That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners [held by his deceptions, the lies he and his children tell]?
18 All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house.
19 But you are cast out of your grave [dead in the flesh] like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcass trodden under feet.
20 You shall not be joined with them in burial, because you have destroyed your land, and slain your people: the seed of evildoers shall never be renowned.
21 Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.
22 For I will rise up against them, says the LORD of hosts, and cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant, and son, and nephew, says the LORD.
23 I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, says the LORD of hosts.
24 The LORD of hosts [a man of war] has sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:
25 That I will break the Assyrian [the communists] in my land, and upon my mountains [My governments of church and state] tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders.
26 This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth: and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations.
27 For the LORD of hosts [a man of war] has purposed, and who shall disannul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?
28 In the year that king Ahaz [the one possessed by Satan] died was this burden.
29 Rejoice not you, whole Palestina [the invading army mixed among us], because the rod of him that smote you is broken: for out of the serpent’s [Satan’s] root shall come forth a cockatrice [Lucifer], and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent [the LORD, His voice exalted against the serpents among us with poisonous words that bought all here into death and hell].
30 And the firstborn of the poor [God’s children without worldly power] shall feed, and the needy [who receive these things needed] shall lie down in safety: and I will kill your root with famine [without this word of God they refuse], and he shall slay your remnant.
31 Howl, O gate [the mouths of men holding the world in death and hell]; cry, O city; you, whole Palestina [the invading army, as serpents, mixed among us], are dissolved: for there shall come from the north a smoke, and none shall be alone in his appointed times [mow’ed – this time of the LORD gathering His children into His ONE BODY].
32 What shall one then answer the messengers [mal’ak – the LORD’s angels] of the nations [with this message sent to those who haven’t known Him]? That the LORD has founded Zion, and the poor of his people [who are without worldly power] shall trust in it.
The word “dissolved,” in verse 31 above, is from the Hebrew word muwg, meaning “to melt, i.e. literally (to soften, flow down, disappear), or figuratively (to fear, faint).” The first time it appears is in Exodus 15:15, and its last use is in Nahum 2:6.
Exodus 15
2 The LORD is my strength [understanding] and song [His given words we repeat as received], 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.
13 You in your mercy have led forth the people which you have redeemed: you have guided them in your strength unto your holy habitation.
14 The people shall hear, and be afraid: sorrow shall take hold on the inhabitants of Palestina [the invading army mixed among us].
15 Then the dukes of Edom [the leaders of these enemies] shall be amazed [as Joseph’s brothers were “troubled” at him announcing himself – Genesis 45:3]; the mighty men of Moab [whose mouths are the gates of death and hell], trembling shall take hold upon them; all the inhabitants of Canaan [the heathen now possessing the land God has given us] shall melt away [muwg].
16 Fear and dread shall fall upon them; by the greatness of your arm they shall be as still as a stone; till your people pass over [‘abar – from death into life], O LORD, till the people pass over [‘abar – from death into life], which you have purchased.
17 You shall bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of your inheritance [where Your people in whom You live will rule with You in church and state], in the place, O LORD, which you have made [this nation under God] for you to dwell in, in the Sanctuary [Your presence], O LORD, which your hands have established.
18 The LORD shall reign forever and ever.
Nahum 2
3 The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are in scarlet: the chariots shall be with flaming torches in the day of his preparation, and the fir trees shall be terribly shaken.
4 The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall justle one against another in the broad ways: they shall seem like torches, they shall run like the lightnings [this sound, voices, of understand from the cloud].
5 He shall recount his worthies: they shall stumble in their walk; they shall make haste to the wall thereof [the protection found in His Sanctuary], and the defense shall be prepared.
6 The gates of the rivers [giving this word of God as commanded] shall be opened, and the palace shall be dissolved [muwg].
1 Thessalonians 1
6 Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you;
7 And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the LORD Jesus shall be revealed from heaven [the firmament: this exposition, this conversation with the Father seated there] with his mighty angels [His messengers He sends with His message],
8 In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our LORD Jesus Christ:
9 Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the LORD, and from the glory of his power;
10 When he shall come to be glorified in his saints [who do obey Him and open their mouths as commanded], and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.
11 Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfill all the good pleasure of [giving] his goodness, and the work of faith with power:
12 That the name [identity] of our LORD Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace [this gift, according to the scriptures] of our God and the LORD Jesus Christ.
Isaiah 4
1 And in that day seven women [the totally corrupt church institution] shall take hold of one man, saying, We [refuse to obey your commands] will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by your name, to take away our reproach.
2 In that day shall the branch of the LORD be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped [from the corrupt leaders in church and state] of Israel [whom this light has lighted into flaming fire in the darkness].
3 And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that remains in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem:
4 When the LORD shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.
5 And the LORD will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory shall be a defense.
6 And there shall be a tabernacle [in LORD’s presence, in His Sanctuary] for a shadow in the day time from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain.
The day (time of light: when understanding has returned and the institutions, those possessed by them, are refusing the present king) spoken of in verse 1 above, is that described in the prior chapter below. It begins with telling of God’s people relying (“stay”) on their own words and ways. The word “stay” is from the five times used Hebrew word mish’en, speaking of misplaced faith, meaning “a support (concretely), i.e. (figuratively) a protector or sustenance.”
Isaiah 3
1 For, behold, the LORD, the LORD of hosts [a man of war], does take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay [mish’en] and the staff, the whole stay [mish’en] of bread [their corrupt understanding in which they trust], and the whole stay [mish’en] of water [their own words in which they trust].
2 The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient,
3 The captain of fifty, and the honorable man, and the counselor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator [are all taken away].
4 And I will give children [with childish understanding] to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.
5 And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbor: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honorable.
6 When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father, saying, You have clothing, be you our ruler, and let this ruin be under your hand:
7 In that day shall he swear, saying, I will not be a healer [of these corrupt institutions]; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing: make me not a ruler of the people.
8 For Jerusalem [God’s people] is ruined, and Judah [their leaders] is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of his glory.
9 The show of their countenance [paniym – against His manifested presence] does witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.
10 Say you to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.
11 Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.
12 As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead you cause you to err, and destroy the [right] way of your paths.
13 The LORD stands up to plead, and stands to judge the people.
14 The LORD will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof: for you have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses.
The other two times the word mish’en appears are in David’s words, first recorded in 2 Samuel 22:18, and then repeated (as received) in Psalms 18:19, both saying the LORD is his “stay” in this time of calamity when his enemies were stronger than he. Again, it is important to understand, from David’s words in 2 Samuel 23, that he is speaking words the LORD put in his mouth.
2 Samuel 23
1 Now these [the word of the previous chapter] be the last [‘acharown – for these last days] words of David. David the son of Jesse said, and the man who was raised up on high, the anointed [mashiyach – Messiah] of the God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist [writer of many songs, meant to be repeated as received] of Israel, said,
2 The Spirit of the LORD spoke by me, and his word was in my tongue.
3 The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spoke to me, He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God.
4 And he shall be as the light of the morning [understanding that brings this new day], when the sun rises, even a morning without clouds [when all understanding reserved there has been sent again to the earth]; as the tender grass [new life] springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.
5 Although my house [the kings] be not so with God; yet he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure [shamar – unchangeably protected]: for this is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he makes it not to grow [not yet sprout].
6 But the sons of Belial [those worshipping the idols men put in the LORD’s place] shall be all of them as thorns [misleaders who’ve overgrown the LORD’s garden] thrust away, because they cannot be taken with hands:
7 But the man that shall touch them [piercing himself by following their misleading] must be fenced with iron and the staff of a spear; and they shall be utterly burned with fire in the same place.
2 Samuel 22
1 And David spoke unto the LORD the words of this song in the day that the LORD had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul:
2 And he said, The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer;
3 The God of my rock; in him will I trust: he is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my savior; you save me from violence.
4 I will call on the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from my enemies.
5 When the waves [proud words] of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid;
6 The sorrows of hell compassed me about [cabab – were all around me]; the snares of death prevented [qadam – preceded] me;
7 In my distress [as did Jonah] I called upon the LORD, and cried to my God: and he did hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry did enter into his ears.
8 Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations of heaven moved and shook, because he was wroth.
9 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
10 He bowed the heavens also, and came down [giving me an understanding of His presence with me, in me]; and darkness [the ignorance of the dead in hell] was [subdued] under his feet.
11 And he rode upon a cherub [giving His grace in the conversation above His mercy seat], and did fly [rising by the strength of His knowledge]: and he was seen upon the wings of the wind [His voice exalted as He moves upon the darkened deep].
12 And he made darkness pavilions round about him, dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies.
13 Through the brightness [His understanding sent into the darkness] before him were coals of fire kindled.
14 The LORD thundered [the voice of the light from the cloud] from heaven, and the Most High uttered his voice.
15 And he sent out arrows, and scattered them; lightning, and discomfited them.
16 And the channels [the corrupt word] of the sea [flowing into humanity] appeared, the [corrupted] foundations of the world were discovered, at the rebuking of the LORD, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.
17 He sent from above, he took me; he drew me [like Moses] out of many waters [the many opinions, delusions, lies of men, which they claim are facts];
18 He delivered me from my strong enemy [the wicked in power], and from them that hated me: for they were too strong for me.
19 They prevented me [qadam – preceded me with many antichrists and false prophets] in the day of my calamity [‘eyd]: but the LORD was my stay [mish’en].
20 He brought me forth also into a large place: he delivered me, because he delighted in me.
21 The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness: according to the cleanness of my hands has he recompensed me.
22 For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
23 For all his judgments were before me: and as for his statutes, I did not depart from them.
24 I was also upright before him, and have kept myself from my iniquity.
25 Therefore the LORD has recompensed me according to my righteousness; according to my cleanness in his eye sight [not seeing a man sees through eyes of flesh].
26 With the merciful you will show yourself merciful, and with the upright man you will show yourself upright.
27 With the pure you will show yourself pure; and with the froward [those who twist and pervert truth] you will show yourself unsavory.
28 And the afflicted people you will save: but your eyes are upon the haughty, that you mayest bring them down.
29 For you are my lamp [with Your understanding guiding me through this time when ignorance of You covers the earth], O LORD: and the LORD will lighten my darkness.
30 For by you I have run through a troop [of enemies mixed among us]: by my God have I leaped over a wall [of men’s lies, with which they try to keep out the LORD].
31 As for God, his way is perfect; the word of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler to all them that trust in him.
32 For who is God, save the LORD? and who is a rock [from where His word flows], save our God?
33 God is my strength and power: and he makes my way perfect.
34 He makes my feet like hinds’ feet: and sets me upon my high places.
35 He teaches my hands to war; so that a bow of steel is broken by my arms.
36 You have also given me the shield of your salvation: and your gentleness has made me great.
37 You have enlarged my steps under me; so that my feet did not slip.
38 I have pursued my enemies, and destroyed them; and turned not again until I had consumed them.
39 And I have consumed them, and wounded them, that they could not arise: yea, they are fallen under my feet.
40 For you have girded 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 my enemies, that I might destroy them that hate me.
42 They looked, but there was none to save; even unto the LORD [their idols they call by His Holy name], but he answered them not.
43 Then did I beat them [their idols] 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 [the endless arguments] of my people, you have kept me to be head of the heathen [those who haven’t known You]: a people which I knew not shall serve me.
45 Strangers shall submit themselves unto me: as soon as they hear [this voice as Yours, alive with me, in me], 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 [from Whom this word flows]; and exalted be the God of the rock of my salvation.
48 It is God that avenges me, and that brings down the people under me.
49 And that brings me forth from my enemies: you also have lifted me up on high above them that rose up against me: you have delivered me from the violent man.
50 Therefore I will give thanks unto you, O LORD, among the heathen, and I will sing [these words] praises unto your name.
51 He is the tower of salvation [yshuw’ah – Jesus] for his king: and shows mercy to his anointed [mashiyach – Messiah], unto David, and to his seed for evermore.
Isaiah 63
1 Who is this that comes from Edom [from His just war against the enemies mixed among us], with dyed garments from Bozrah [the enemies’ stronghold, in those they possess]? this that is glorious in his apparel, traveling in the greatness of his strength? 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 my 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 my heart, and the year of my redeemed is come.
5 And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: therefore my own arm brought salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me.
6 And I will tread down the people in my anger, and make them drunk in my fury, and I will bring down their strength to the earth.
7 I will mention the loving-kindnesses of the LORD, and the praises of the LORD, according to all [the scriptures, this word as His grace] that the LORD has bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he has bestowed on them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his loving-kindnesses.
8 For he said, Surely they are my people, children that will not lie: so he was their Savior.
9 In all their affliction he was afflicted [as I Am], and [I Am] the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.
10 But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit [His presence unknown among us speaking and working]: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.
11 Then he remembered the days of old, Moses, and his people, saying, Where is he that brought them up out of the sea with the shepherd of his flock? where is he that put his Holy Spirit within him?
12 That led them by the right hand of Moses with his glorious arm, dividing the water before them, to make himself an everlasting name?
13 That led them through the deep, as a horse in the wilderness, that they should not stumble?
14 As a beast goes down into the valley, the Spirit of the LORD caused him to rest: so did you lead your people, to make yourself a glorious name.
15 Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of your holiness and of your glory: where is your zeal and your strength, the sounding of your bowels [the voice from Your presence within us] and of your mercies toward me? are they restrained?
16 Doubtless you are our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: you, O LORD, are our father, our redeemer; your name [id-entity] is from everlasting.
17 O LORD, why have you made us to err from your ways, and hardened our heart from your fear? Return for your servants’ sake, the tribes of your inheritance.
18 The people of your holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down your sanctuary [the understanding of Your presence always with us, in us].
19 We are yours: you never barest rule over them [the wicked in power who’ve vilified, demonized, and destroyed all truthful discourse]; they were not called by your name.
Psalms 104
1 Bless the LORD, O my soul. O LORD my God, you are very great; you are clothed with honor and majesty.
2 Who covers yourself with light [understanding] as with a garment: who stretches out [expounds in the firmament] the heavens like a curtain:
3 Who lays the beams of his chambers in the waters [this word from heaven]: who maketh the clouds [where understanding is held] his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind [this voice that moves upon the darkened deep]:
4 Who maketh his angels [mal’ak – His messengers] spirits; his ministers a flaming fire:
5 Who laid the foundations of the [new] earth, that it should not be removed forever.
6 You covered it with the deep [understanding revealed] as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains [the corrupt governments of church and state].
7 At your rebuke they fled; at the voice of your thunder [the voice of understanding from the cloud] they hasted away.
8 They [the elements of understanding] go up [into the cloud] by the mountains [by the corruption added by those in power]; they go down by the valleys unto [to the lowly who aren’t in power] the place which you have founded for them.
9 You have set a bound [gbuwl – this limit, where the proud waves of wicked men are stopped] that they may not pass over [‘abar – not be quickened from death into life with us]; that they turn [shuwb – return] not again to cover the earth.
10 He sends the springs into the valleys [this living word, life-giving water to the lowly], which run among the hills [the new governments of church and state God is raising].
11 They give drink [this word as received] to every beast [those without the LORD’s Spirit] of the field: the wild asses [alone in the wilderness] quench their thirst [who will carry this word of the LORD to His people].
12 By them shall the fowls [who rise when they receive this word as His] of the heaven have their habitation, which sing [repeating this word as given] among the branches.
13 He waters the hills from his chambers [of his new governments]: the earth is satisfied with the fruit of your works [through your obedient people].
14 He causes the grass to grow [new life from the earth] for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;
15 And wine [changing minds] that maketh glad the heart [minds] of man, and oil [that feeds the light] to make his face [paniym – the LORD’s presence] to shine [as the One giving this understanding], and bread [this word from the mouth of God, by which man lives] which strengthens man’s heart [minds].
16 The trees of the LORD are full of sap [life from the root]; the cedars of Lebanon [purity seen on high], which he has planted;
17 Where the birds make their nests: as for the stork [who knows the appointed time – see Jeremiah 8:7], the fir trees are her house.
18 The high hills [God’s new governments] are a refuge for the wild goats [the scattered flock]; and the rocks [from where this water flows] for the conies [those in government who aren’t with the wicked].
19 He appointed the moon [civil government] for seasons [knowing times of light and darkness]: the sun [the church] knows his going down [when understanding has left its institutions].
20 You make darkness [ignorance], and it is night: wherein all the beasts [without the LORD’s Spirit, who hunt souls in this time darkness] of the forest do creep forth.
21 The young lions roar [speaking His word during these times of darkness] after their prey, and seek their meat [that strengthens] from God [who manifests His unfolding presence as man roaring His word, as a lion, the second face in the wheel within a wheel].
22 The sun ariseth [understanding comes], they gather themselves together [joining Him in His ONE BODY], and lay them down in their dens.
23 Man goes forth unto his work [as an Ox, the third face of God’s unfolding presence] and to his labor until the evening.
24 O LORD, how manifold are your works! in wisdom have you made them all: the earth is full of your riches.
25 So is this great and wide sea [all humanity into whom this word flows], wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts.
26 There go the ships [the institutions they create]: there is that leviathan [the river through which flows information into the sea], whom you have made to play therein.
27 These wait all upon you; that you mayest give them their meat [this strength when their power is gone and they are dominated by oppressive governments with wicked men in power] in [this] due season [of the sun and moon].
28 That you give them [this manna, which men don’t know is this word from the mouth of God, by which men live] they gather: you open your hand, they are filled with good.
29 You hide your face [paniym – Your presence], they are troubled: you take away their breath [Your Spirit], they die, and return to their dust [of the earth they ruined without You].
30 You send forth your Spirit, they are created [again]: and you renew the face of [paniym – by Your presence] the earth [‘adamah – this new generation].
31 The glory of the LORD shall endure forever: the LORD shall rejoice [be realized] in his works.
32 He looks on the earth [‘erets], and it trembles: he touches the hills, and they smoke.
33 I will sing [repeat this word as received] unto the LORD as long as I live: I will sing [repeat this word as received] praise to my God while I have my being.
34 My meditation of him shall be sweet [in my mouth]: I will be glad in the LORD.
35 Let the sinners be consumed out of the earth [‘erets], and let the wicked be no more. Bless you the LORD, O my soul. Praise you the LORD.
