14 – 19 March 2026
Feed your people with your rod, the flock of your heritage, which dwell solitarily in the wood, in the midst of Carmel: let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.
The LORD begins today in Micah 7:4, a name (similar to Michael) meaning “who is like God.” He, in this moment, adds additional context by pointing out an intentional affinity to the four times used with macah, meaning “to dissolve:–make to consume away, (make to) melt, water [in the sense of temporary].” The word (macah) speaks of the book (Micah) describing the LORD dissolving the wicked works and words of evil men in power.
Friends, pardon me while I once again necessarily digress: These evil men are the prominent, the experts in everything, with the loudest voices, all saying they know-it-all, forever telling people what they should be doing and where they should look (usually to them, and those who commend them for their agreement with them) for salvation (which is to everywhere other than what the LORD is saying here, which makes them just as much antichrist as the open Satanists). They know nothing except how to keep the confused arguing between themselves, about whose erroneous opinion is more correct, none of them knowing anything other than vain and empty words. The one thing they can never do is shut up. But when the LORD becomes apparent, as He has and will, as His word is exalted above all voices, these men, by their refusal to subordinate, will melt away.
2 Timothy 3
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come [as they have].
2 For men [bearing evil fruit] shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent [unable to control what comes out of them], fierce, despisers of those that are [bearing] good [fruit],
4 Traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
5 Having a form of godliness [claiming they are followers of Him while not knowing Him], but denying the power thereof [in His word to effectually work in those who receive it as His and Him]: from such [devils: misleaders and deceivers possessed by Satan, taking people captive, possessing all here in hell] turn away.
6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women [churches] laden with sins, led away with divers lusts [to have their ears scratched],
7 Ever learning [things not true], and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth [“if they speak not according to this word it is because there is no light in them”].
8 Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses [against him casting down rods which turned to serpents, which Aaron’s rod {the shebet, as in the title verses}, turned into a serpent, devoured] so do these also resist [satan] the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith [false prophets with not a word of God in them, speaking their own words against the son of man God has sent to free His people from their possession: their oppression and suppression of this good fruit, truth they despise].
9 But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as theirs also was.
Matthew 7
15 Beware of [the obstacles that are the] false prophets [that must be navigated and avoided], which come to you in sheep’s clothing [disguising themselves as part of the LORD’s flock], but inwardly they are ravening wolves [with their opinions, presumptuously falsely so-called truth, scattering into pieces].
16 You shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns [the fruit of misleaders], or figs of thistles [the fruit of deceivers]?
17 Even so, every good tree brings forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit [the misled].
18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
19 Every tree that brings not forth good fruit is hewn down [by the LORD who is the hewer], and cast [ballo] into the fire.
20 Wherefore by their fruits you shall know them. [“If they speak not according to this word it is because there is no light in them.” From Isaiah 8:20]
21 Not every one [not the false prophets and false teachers] that says unto me, LORD, LORD, shall enter [the gate they are blocking] into the kingdom of heaven; but he that does the will of my Father which is in heaven [from where He sends this understanding the builders refuse – Psalms 127:1 Except the LORD build the house, they labor in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman wakes but in vain.].
22 Many will say to me in that [this] day, LORD, LORD, have we not prophesied in your name? and in your name have cast out [ekballo] devils? and in your name done many wonderful works?
23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, you that work iniquity [speaking and preaching your own opinions rather than My truth].
24 Therefore whosoever hears these sayings of mine, and [obeying] does them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock [from where this word of God does flow]:
25 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew [pneo – the spirits moved unknown], and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock [petra – Christ, the LORD’s Spirit in the flesh from where His word flows].
26 And every one that hears THESE sayings of mine [here heard as My voice, which it is], and does them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house [the now totally corrupt institutions of church and state] upon the sand:
27 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew [pneo], and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it [only the forepart, the original intended purpose, of the ship will remain intact]. [Acts 27:41 And falling into a place where two seas met {the old and new generations}, they ran the ship aground; and the forepart stuck fast, and remained unmovable, but the hinder part was broken with the violence of the waves {the pride of unreasonable men}.]
28 And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended [sunteleo – brought all these elements of understanding together in the completion of God’s plan] these sayings [His voice here heard], the people were astonished at his doctrine:
29 For he taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes [who, without authorization, say they have understanding, while merely presuming their opinions are wisdom].
The following, ending with 1 Corinthians 4, is from the post of 5 January 2025, with today’s additions in double brackets.
Friends, the LORD sent me to war here to exalt His now ONE voice above all other voices (which hold His people apart from Him, here in death and hell). The morbidly religious and powerful refuse to acknowledge Him because they are offended by the flesh He’s chosen (I Am). Their rejection does not affect me or those who do receive Him and the son(s) He’s chosen.
Matthew 11
23 And you, Capernaum [to whom the Comforter has come, speaking and working unknown in their ignorance], which [to men whose words] are exalted unto heaven [saying you have your own understanding, your covenant with death, your agreement with hell], shall be brought down to hell: for if the mighty works, which have been done in you, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.
24 But I say unto you, That it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment, than for you.
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 [corrupted by the world], and have revealed them unto babes [who willingly receive these treasures].
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 [by the words of evil men], 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 [double meaning intended].
1 Corinthians 9
23 And this I do for the gospel’s sake, that I might be partaker thereof with you [in the same ONE BODY, the LORD’s family].
24 Know you not that they which run in a race run all, but one receive the prize? So run, that you may obtain.
25 And every man that strives for the mastery [agonizomai – wars against corruption, to exalt this word of God above all other voices] is temperate [self-restrained] in all things. Now, they [the corrupt] do it to obtain a corruptible crown, but we do it for an incorruptible one [which is understanding the Father alone gives His children].
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 against church and state, 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 [against the leaders of God’s people]; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck [they with their words prevailed and stopped the word of God from ever reaching the mouth of any]; and the stretching out of his wings [their voice exalted above all voices] shall fill the breadth of your land, [against whom the LORD comes, manifesting His presence with us] O Immanuel [‘Immanuw ‘el].
9 Associate [corrupt] yourselves, O you people, and you shall be broken in pieces; and give ear, all you of far countries [merchaq ‘erets – the earth in this time appointed and decreed by the LORD]: gird yourselves, and you shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and you shall be broken in pieces.
10 Take counsel together [speaking worthless ignorance against the present LORD], and it shall come to naught; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God [‘el] is with us [‘immanuw].
11 For the LORD spoke thus to me [I Am, His man of war] with a strong hand, and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, [He] saying [to me],
12 “Say you not, ‘A confederacy [joined with the ignorant and corrupt],’ to all them to whom this people shall say, ‘A confederacy [of the corrupt];’ neither fear you their fear, nor be afraid.
13 Sanctify the LORD [declare the present LORD Holy, exalt His one voice from His holy one] of hosts [a man of war] himself; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.
14 And he [in His presence] shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offense to both the houses of Israel [his people who reject Him], for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem [who refuse to receive the peace that flows from His chosen one].
15 And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken [lakad], and be snared, and be taken.
16 Bind up the testimony [this word of Shiloh, of peace flowing from the LORD’s chosen flesh], seal the law among my disciples [My students, who see as I see].”
17 And I will wait upon the LORD, that hides [cathar – hides in men’s chosen ignorance] his face [paniym – His presence] from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him [qavah – expect to see Him by His understanding learned].
18 Behold, I [the son of David, the son of Joseph] and the children [upon whom 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 dwells in mount Zion [His throne here on the earth].
19 And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits [the known dead, the misleading words 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 [When they should be looking] To the law and to the testimony [this word of Shiloh, peace that flows from the LORD’s teaching]: if they speak not according to this word [exalting His voice above all other voices], it is because there is no light [understanding] in them.
21 And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry [refusing the word of God]: 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 [I Am the promised son of David, the son of Joseph] and their God, and [ignorantly] look [panah – turn their heads] upward [not believing He is manifesting His presence in His word spoken through His chosen].
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 now obvious insanity].
As we know, the LORD’s words above are paraphrased and thereby referenced in 1 Peter 3:14 and 15. The passage speaks of those fearing doing this work of the LORD: speaking His truth and declaring His presence therein. It speaks of the dead body of Christ, held in prison (death and hell), where He rises and speaks life into it. The passage, as does all scripture, describes this moment, this resurrection in which we now find (understanding) ourselves.
1 Peter 3
8 Finally, be you all of one mind [this same understanding], having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:
9 Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing [giving this same blessing, this understanding received from the LORD directly]; knowing that you are thereunto called, that you should inherit a blessing [as Ephraim, the LORD’s people in this last generation that become the first of the new generation, raised to life in this resurrection].
10 For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil [misleading words of generational corruption], and his lips that they speak no guile [words now known to be evil but continually spoken, to avoid the necessary long-suffering that comes with speaking these in the LORD’s name declaring they are His presence manifested with us, in us]:
11 Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace [that flows to all in His words], and ensue it.
12 For the eyes of the LORD are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face [presence] of the LORD is against them that do evil.
13 And who is he that will harm you, if you be followers [mimetes – only used seven times, all speaking of following the LORD by following those following Christ alive in them] of that which is good?
14 But and if you suffer for righteousness’ sake, happy are you: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled;
15 But sanctify [declaring holy] the LORD God in your hearts [minds]: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asks you a reason of the hope [expect the LORD to manifest His presence in this expected end] that is in you with meekness [not as destroyers but rather as builders] and fear [knowing the LORD is always present]:
16 Having a good conscience [co-perspective; seeing as the LORD sees]; that, whereas they [those ignorant of Him] speak evil of [their corrupt understanding against] you, as of evildoers, they may [at the LORD appearing] be ashamed [not reaching the end they seek, which is the destruction of our good conversation] that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ [the LORD alive in us speaking and working unknown to those ignorant by choice].
17 For it is better, if the will of God be so, that you suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.
18 For Christ also has once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened [dead flesh brought to life] by the Spirit:
19 By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison [here in death and hell];
20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
21 The like figure whereunto even baptism [calling all to repentance, and to enter into His kingdom of heaven: this full understanding that comes to those who continue in His word] does also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience [speaking with the LORD’s co-perspective, seeing as he sees] toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ [here and now]:
22 Who is gone into heaven [this full understanding], and is on the right hand of God [doing His work]; angels [messengers] and authorities and powers being made subject [hupotasso – made to subordinate] unto him.
1 Corinthians 4
9 For I think that God has set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle [of ridicule] unto the world, and to angels, and to men.
10 We are fools for Christ’s sake, but [in this corrupt world] you are [the] wise in Christ; we are [called] weak, but [to the corrupt] you are strong; you are honorable, but [because we tell the truth] we are despised.
11 Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling-place;
12 And labor, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:
13 Being defamed, we entreat: we are made as the filth of the [corrupt] world, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day [received by only a very few].
14 I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you [not to be confederate with the corrupt world].
15 For though you have ten thousand [corrupt] instructors in Christ, yet have you not many fathers [I Am]: for in Christ Jesus [the LORD alive in my flesh] I have begotten you [as my children] through the gospel [this good news of Christ alive in us, and by Him, His word heard from our mouths, we live].
16 Wherefore I beseech you, be you followers [mimetes] of me.
17 For this cause have I [the living God, alive in My word] sent unto you Timothy, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the LORD, who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways which be in Christ, as I teach every where in every church.
18 Now some are puffed up [with pride in the corrupt things, their falsely so-called knowledge], as though I [the LORD alive in My flesh] would not come to you.
19 But I will come to you shortly, if the LORD will, and [you] will know [Me], not [by] the speech of them which are puffed up [with corruption], but the power [of My word that effectually works in you, to change your minds, and you will see as I see].
20 For the kingdom of God is not in [man’s] word, but in power [that destroys death, and brings the dead to life, as only My exalted word can].
21 What will you? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness [building you into the LORD’s habitation]?
When the LORD speaks of Himself as a jealous God, is He expressing human-like insecurity, or speaking of faithfulness, following Him alone for good advice, in other words: not putting any other gods before Him (as in the prerequisite First and Greatest Commandment)? Of course, the question is rhetorical, and the word rendered “before,” in Exodus 20:3, is paniym, speaking of His presence when He manifests Himself, in His Gospel at His will, apparent against the misleading evil of the false gods of this world, who have blinded all to Him.
Friends, if I said anything other than this, not declaring this word is His, as it is, or not warning that any claiming they are His must subordinate to Him alive therein, I would be a liar denying He has come in the flesh, I would be possessed by Satan, and an antichrist. To anyone saying anything different, by what authority do you speak and teach? Who possesses you?
The first time the word macah appears is in Joshua 14:8, in a place where Caleb (meaning he sits at the LORD’s feet, like a dog, waiting for his master’s commands) speaks of the other spies (other than Joshua) who were sent to recon the land the LORD promised he would give to His people. When those spies saw the prominent people (like giants) who then possessed the land, not seeing as the LORD sees, cowered (shrunk), and saw themselves as man sees, without faith, doubting the LORD was able to do as He promised. As we know, this lack of faith (not believing the LORD is with us, in us), the resulting report, caused all God’s people to wander in the wilderness for 40 years, until that evil generation, who had forgotten the LORD, only knowing the ways of man, was replaced with a new generation raised upon the words and ways of God.
In the wilderness, they were taught by Moses, the Law as their schoolmaster, to bring them to Christ, in the pattern of Joshua (Jesus) who would lead the new generation into the promised end (in a new world, wherein the LORD dwells in us, as our righteousness).
Joshua 14
1 And these are the countries which [the word “countries” doesn’t appear in the original text] the children of Israel inherited in the land [‘erets – the earth] of Canaan [meaning to humiliate; from the word kana’, meaning to bend the knee; hence, to humiliate, vanquish; with affinity to kara’, speaking of Judah in Genesis 49:9, and referring us to Isiaha 45:23 {quoted in Romans 14:11 & 12, saying “For it is written, As I live, says the LORD, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God. So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.”], which Eleazar [Lazarus – the priesthood the LORD calls from death into life] the priest, and Joshua [Jesus, Jehovah’s Salvation manifested in the flesh] the son of Nun [the seed of His perpetual children], and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel, distributed for inheritance to them. [Isaiah 45:20 Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, you that are escaped of the nations {who haven’t known Me}: they have no knowledge that set up the {dead} wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot save. 21 Tell you, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together: who has declared this from ancient time? who has told it from that time? have not I the LORD? and there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Savior; there is none beside me. 22 Look unto me {alone}, and be you saved, all the ends of the earth {old and new}: for I am God, and there is none else. 23 I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every knee shall bow {kara’}, every tongue shall swear. 24 Surely, shall one say, in the LORD have I righteousness and strength: even to him shall men come; and all that are incensed against him shall be ashamed {humiliated, not reaching the end they foretold}. 25 In the LORD shall all the seed of Israel {who have been predestined to receive this promised end, with Me} be justified, and shall glory {in the LORD with us, in us}.]
2 By lot [as the LORD has predestined] was their inheritance, as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses, for {Israel} the nine tribes [all except Judah, Bejamin, and the half tribe Manasseh, the son of Joseph] and for the half tribe [of Ephraim, the son of Joseph].
3 For Moses had given the inheritance [to Judah first] of two tribes [Judah and Benjamin] and a half tribe [of Manasseh] on the other side Jordan [before any were awakened from death into life, when the waters that carried all into the dead sea were still uncrossed]: but unto the Levites he gave none inheritance among them.
4 For the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim: therefore they gave no part unto the Levites in the land, save cities to dwell in, with their suburbs for their cattle and for their substance.
5 As the LORD commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did, and they divided the land.
6 Then the children of Judah came unto Joshua in Gilgal [meaning wheel or rolling; speaking of the written word sent forward to give understanding, which are always troubled]: and Caleb the son of Jephunneh [said to mean “he will be prepared;” with affinity to paniym, speaking of the LORD’s presence manifested to him, in Him by a like mind, seeing and He sees] the Kenezite [with affinity to the word qana’, meaning “jealousy,” the LORD’s through him manifested] said unto him, You knowest the thing that the LORD said unto Moses the man of God concerning me and you in Kadeshbarnea [when the LORD enlightened me into seeing as He sees, and thereby declared me holy among those wandering in the wilderness].
7 Forty years old [after my own wandering ended] was I when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadeshbarnea to espy out the land [‘erets – the old earth, which He promise to give to us for an inheritance]; and I brought him word [seeing as the LORD sees] again as it was [a good report] in my heart [mind].
8 Nevertheless my brethren that went up with me [giving an evil report, not seeing as the LORD sees] made the heart [minds] of the people melt [kara’]: but I wholly followed the LORD my God [only, not raising the words of these false gods above His].
9 And Moses swore on that day, saying, Surely the land [‘erets – this earth] whereon your feet have trodden shall be your inheritance, and your children’s forever, because you have wholly [male’ – fulfilled by] followed the LORD my God [alone].
10 And now, behold, the LORD has kept me alive, as he said, these forty and five years, even since the LORD spoke this word unto Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness: and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old [after my own wandering, I wander with the people of God, until the LORD’s grace is fulfilled, and we enter the promised end].
11 As yet I am as strong this day as I was in the day that Moses sent me: as my strength [understanding: enlightenment] was then, even so is my strength now, for [this just] war [for the sake of the LORD and His people who now receive Him], both to go out, and to come in [doing His work and will].
12 Now therefore give me this mountain [charge over this government of the LORD’s house], whereof the LORD spoke in that day; for you heard in that day how the Anakims [prominent men risen over God’s people, who blinded them] were there, and that the cities were great and fenced: if so be the LORD will be with me [as I know He is], then I shall be able to drive them out, as the LORD said [and so it will be].
13 And Joshua [Jesus] blessed him, and gave unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh Hebron [cheber – those joined with Him, held under the same spell, possessed by the LORD] for an inheritance.
14 Hebron therefore became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite unto this day, because that he wholly [male’ – fulfilled it by] followed the LORD God [alone] of Israel [those who’ve received Him and this promised end].
15 And the name of Hebron before was Kirjatharba [city of beasts, men without the LORD’s Spirit]; which Arba [four footed beasts, men not joined with or knowing the LORD, and therefore were without His Spirit], was a great man among the Anakims [prominent men called giants]. And the land [‘erets – the new earth, into which God’s people alone enter] had rest from war.
The word “rest,” that comes to God’s people with the war’s end, is from the Hebrew word shaqat, which is death, from where we are raised to life. The LORD, today, begins His elucidation of this word with its appearance in (the 7 verse chapter of) Isaiah 18, where, in verse 4, He speaks of Himself here with us, therein dwelling to see (spy, recon) the state of our affairs.
Isaiah 18
1 Woe to the land [‘erets – the earth] shadowing with wings [tslatsal – ignorant of the meaning of sounds, words, it is hearing], which is beyond [the other side of, the result of] the rivers of Ethiopia [words sent into the sea, humanity, that have covered it in darkness, ignorance]:
2 That sends ambassadors [tsiyr – with this shmuw’ah, the rumor, the report, the voice of Jehovah heard as birth pains, not believed] by the sea [to all humanity], even in [earthly, flesh] vessels of bulrushes [gome’ – papyrus, this written word of God, from His mouth, moving] upon the waters, saying, Go, you swift messengers [mal’ak – angels of the LORD, with this message], to a nation [God’s people who haven’t known Him with them] scattered [away from the LORD and His family apart] and peeled [mowrat – become obstinate: unreasonable and unchanging], to a people terrible [fearing prominent men and without fear of God] from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden [mbuwcah – see Isaiah 22:5 below] down, whose land [‘erets – earth] the rivers [the word of these prominent men] have spoiled!
3 All you inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see you, when he [the LORD God Almighty] lifts up an ensign [nec – the pole upon which the fiery serpent was lifted, as the son of man must be lifted, so that the word of the LORD from me can have free course and be exalted above all other voices] on the mountains [Zion, the LORD’s new government rising over His new earth]; and when he [the LORD Himself] blows a [this last] trumpet [His voice, the shout of His archangel, calling all to gather to Him, into His ONE living BODY], hear [shama’ – obey] you.
4 For so the LORD said unto me [I Am], I will take my rest [shaqat – here in death and hell with My people], and I will consider [nabat – scan, to recon] in my dwelling place [among them] like a clear [tsach – glowing like the sun, making Myself evident] heat [chom – even to those unable to see or hear Me] upon herbs [the new life now springing from the earth on this third day], and like a cloud of dew [where this understanding was held in separated elements, until now when it suddenly appears in the morning light] in the heat of [chom – making Myself apparent in the] harvest [the evidence of the light now come, in this judgment come upon those who haven’t known Me, who were unable to see or hear Me until this new day had come].
5 For afore [paniym] the harvest [before this judgment is realized to be the LORD’s presence], when the bud is perfect [when the evidence of it is apparent], and the sour grape [the sins of the forefathers] is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off [karath – to transplant them from the old corrupt earth into the new] the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away [cuwr – turn off what was flowing into them from the old] and cut down [the things that disgust Me] the branches [ntiyshah – battlements, a three times used word referring us to Jeremiah 5:10 below].
6 They shall be left together [‘azab – without any understanding, when their power is completely gone, the sign of when the LORD comes to our rescue – as in Deuteronomy 32:36] unto the fowls of the mountains [those in the seats of corrupt power, in all the institutions of church and state], and to the beasts [without the LORD’s Spirit] of the [old and corrupt] earth: and the fowls [those saying they have understanding and light] shall summer upon them, and all the beasts [those spreading darkness of men’s evil creations] of the earth shall winter upon them.
7 In that time shall the present be brought unto the LORD of hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden [mbuwcah – when the LORD appears as the Chief Overseer of the earth – see Micah 7:7 below] under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name [identity revealed] of the LORD of hosts [who is a man of war], the mount Zion [of His throne here on the earth].
Luke 12
32 Truly I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled [ginomai – “to cause to be (“gen”-erate), i.e. (reflexively) to become (come into being)”].
33 [The old and corrupt] Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words [this word] shall not pass away [parerchomai – referring us to its use in 2 Peter 3:10 But the day of the LORD will come as a thief in the night {unknown in the darkness, ignorance that covers the world}; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise {the voice of the LORD heard from His mouth}, and the elements {stoicheion – the corrupt foundational ideas of man, only knowing a small part of the bigger picture} shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.].
34 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts [minds] be overcharged with surfeiting [kraipale – only used here, meaning “a headache (as a seizure of pain) from drunkenness”], and drunkenness [methe – meaning an intoxicant, as in minds confused by what they have consumed], and cares of this life, and so that day [this time when light, understanding, has] come upon you unawares [asphnidios].
35 For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.
36 Watch you therefore, and pray always, that you may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
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 [‘achariyth – this after effect now come]!
30 How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them [makar – made them surrender], and the LORD had shut them up [cagar – let them surrender]?
31 For [they must see] their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies [as false rocks] themselves being judges.
32 For their vine is of the vine of Sodom [flames], and of the fields of Gomorrah [ruin]: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter:
33 Their wine is the poison [words] of dragons [tanniyn – men as serpents and whales, devouring their prey with wide open mouths], and the cruel venom [words] of asps.
34 Is not this laid up in store [kamac – stored away] with me, and sealed up [chatham – made apparent, uncovered] among my treasures?
35 To me belongs vengeance [in this word revealed] and recompence [a just reward to those who’ve refused it]; 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 [nacham – He has come as the comforter to lead us into all truth, to change our minds by His correction] for his servants, when he sees that their power [yad – to work their own way out] is gone, and there is none shut up [‘atsar – none who retain His knowledge], or left [‘azab – with the understanding to refuse evil and choose good].
37 And he shall say, Where are their [false] gods, their rock in whom they trusted,
38 Which [false teacher and false prophets] 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 [false] 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 [yad – from this work].
40 For I lift up my hand [yad – this work] to heaven, and say, I live forever.
41 If I whet my glittering sword, and my hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to my enemies, and will reward them that hate me.
42 I will make my arrows [My people I send with this word] drunk with blood, and my sword [this word from My mouth] 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 [all who haven’t known Me], with his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land [‘adamah – this first generation of My new creation], and to his people.
The “snare” spoken of by the LORD, in Luke 21:35 above, is from the five times used Greek word pagis, which speaks of this word of God, with which men who refuse the LORD’s teaching and are therefore unlearned and unstable, wrestle to their own destruction (forever learning things that aren’t true and never able to come to the knowledge of the Truth: Aletheia).
Jeremiah 5
1 Run you to and fro [seeking] 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 [calach] it.
2 And though they say, The LORD lives; surely they swear falsely [taking My name in vain as they pray to their idols they put in My place].
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 [without worldly power, refusing My treasures, lacking understanding]; 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 [who should know My ways], 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, and burst the bonds [nathaq – forgotten that I freed them from the same wickedness that now again possessed them].
6 Wherefore a lion [falsely saying they are speaking for the LORD] out of the forest [falsely so called upright men] shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings [enemies among them scattering them away from My flock] shall spoil them, a leopard [those who cannot change their ways] shall watch over their cities: every one that goes out [away from Me] thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased.
7 How shall I pardon [calach] you for this [rejecting correction]? your children have forsaken me, and sworn by them [men they follow, in whom they put their trust, and are, thereby, self-cursed] that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full [with My word, this feast], they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots’ houses [whose ways are the way into death and hell].
8 They were as fed horses in the morning [fed when this light has come]: every one neighed after his neighbor’s wife [to entice others into their same old corruption].
9 Shall I not visit [paqad – manifest My presence as Chief Shepherd and Overseer] for these things? says the LORD: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation [My people who refuse to know Me] as this?
10 Go you up upon her walls [as a standard, the nec upon which the son of man must be lifted, on the wall of Babylon], and destroy; but make not a full end [kalah]: take away her battlements [ntiyshah – as in Isaiah 18:5 above]; for they are not the LORD’s.
11 For the house of Israel [Christians] and the house of Judah [Jews] have dealt very treacherously against me, says the LORD.
12 They have belied [kachash – been untrue, denied, and refused to submit to] the LORD, and said, It is not He; neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine [both speaking of this word they reject]:
13 And the prophets shall become wind [false doctrines that carry them away], and the word [of the LORD] 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 [of corruption against Me], behold [when you see], I will make my words in your mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them [corrupt men who choose to remain in their corruption, whose thoughts and works against the Truth are the evil that marks them].
Friends, the misleaders are those, knowing or not, who claim they are lights, but whose understanding is deep darkness and the shadow (blocking the light) of death.
2 Corinthians 11
13 For such are false apostles [saying they are followers of Christ], deceitful workers, transforming [metaschematizo] themselves into the apostles of Christ.
14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed [metaschematizo] into an angel of light.
15 Therefore, it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed [metaschematizo] as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their [evil, misleading, slandering good] works.
Micah 7
1 Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grape-gleanings of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat: my soul desired the first-ripe fruit.
2 The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they [with their poisonous words] hunt every man his brother with a net.
3 That they may do evil [misleading] with both hands earnestly, the prince asks, and the judge asks for a reward; and the great [prominent] man, he utters his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.
4 The best of them is as a brier [a deceiver]: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge [misleaders]: the day of your watchmen [tsaphah – seeing the LORD’s secrets] and your visitation [pquddah – the LORD appearing, seen again, as the Chief Overseer of the earth] comes; now shall be their perplexity [mbuwkah – only appearing here and in Isaiah 22:5, saying “For it is a day of trouble, and of treading down {mbuwcah – only appearing here and Isaiah 18:2 & 7 above}, and of perplexity {mbuwkah} by the LORD GOD of hosts {a man of war} in the valley of vision {chizzayown – revelation}, breaking down the walls, and of crying {showa’ – shouting these treasures} to the {against} mountains {corrupt governments of church and state}.”].
5 Trust you not in a friend, put you not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of your mouth from her that lieth in your bosom.
6 For the son dishonors the father, the daughter rises up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; a man’s enemies are the men of his own house [the family of God at war with itself, corrupt opinion against corrupt opinion, when confusion {Babylon} reigns].
7 Therefore I will look unto the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.
8 Rejoice not against me, O my enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness [ignorance], the LORD shall be a light [understanding] unto me.
9 I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light [understanding], and I shall behold [see as He sees] his righteousness.
10 Then she that is my enemy shall see it, and shame shall cover her which said unto me, Where is the LORD your God? my eyes [seeing as the LORD sees] shall behold her: now shall she be trodden down as the mire of the streets.
11 In the day that your walls [of the LORD’s protection, line upon line, precept upon precept] are to be built, in that day shall the decree [choq – at this time when light has come] be far removed [rachoq – against and ending the evil decrees of wicked men in power, by which they rule].
12 In that day also he shall come even to you [away] from Assyria [the communists in power], and [away] from the [evil] fortified cities, and from the fortress even to the river [away from their misleading and manipulative words], and from sea to sea [from the last generation of the old world into the first of the new], and from mountain to mountain [from their old corrupt governments of church and state, into the new wherein dwells the LORD’s righteousness].
13 Notwithstanding the land [‘erets – the earth] shall be desolate because of them that dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.
14 Feed your people with your rod [of Your righteous correction], the [ONE] flock of your heritage [who inherit this earth], which dwell solitarily [separated from the old and corrupt heaven and earth] in the wood, in the midst of Carmel [this land that is as the garden of Eden]: let them feed in Bashan [in fruitfulness, as the first of My first-fruits] and Gilead [by this Testimony of the LORD], as in the days of old [as in all eternity].
15 According to the days of your coming out of the land of Egypt, will I show [ra’ah] unto him marvelous [pala’ – eye-opening] things [and you will see Me, by seeing as I see].
16 The nations shall see and be confounded at all their might [in the LORD]: they [the prominent men] shall lay their hand upon their mouth [and stop their evil words against Him], their ears shall be deaf [none shall listen to their evil words].
17 They shall lick the dust [in the ruin of the earth they destroyed] like a serpent [as deceivers], they shall move out of their holes like worms of [their animated dead flesh on] the earth: they shall be afraid of the LORD our God, and shall fear because of you.
18 Who is a God like unto you, that pardons iniquity, and passes by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retains not his anger forever, because he delights in mercy.
19 He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and you will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.
20 You will perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham, which you have sworn unto our fathers from the days of old.
The word tsach, rendered “clear” in Isaiah 18:4 above, meaning “dazzling, i.e. sunny, bright, (figuratively) evident,” appears three additional times, all describing the LORD, in the form of the son (sun) of man, appearing with healing in his wings (the words) that exalt him into the heavens (places where understanding should be found).
Song of Solomon 5
5 I am come into my garden, my sister [church], my spouse [that must join with me in the LORD’s ONE risen BODY]: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice [these words now perceived to be the LORD’s]; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk [by which we learn to choose good and refuse evil]: eat, O friends [you who here and now receive this Gospel as the LORD’s presence manifested]; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved [dowd – house, family, of David].
2 I sleep [slept here in death and hell with you], but my heart [mind] wakes: [to life], it is the voice of my beloved [dowd] that knocks, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove [knowing this is the sign of the end reached], my undefiled [cleansed from corruption by the LORD’s voice heard as His]: for my head is filled with dew [this word that has appeared on the earth at the beginning of this new day], and my locks [this understanding that has into and from our minds] with the drops of [raciyc – breaking in pieces] the night [the ignorance of the LORD that covered the earth in darkness and the shadow of death]. [The word raciyc only appears one other time, speaking of when men are told not to mention the identity {name} of the LORD {Amos 6:10}, in Amos 6:11, saying “For, behold, the LORD commands, and he will smite the great house with breaches {raciyc – all God’s people at large, apart}, and the little house {the city of David} with clefts (bqiya’}.” The word bqiya only appears one other time, in Isaiah 22:9, saying “You have seen also the breaches {bqiya’} of the city {Hebron – those here and now joined with me} of David, that they are many: and you gathered together the waters of the lower pool {word of men, separated from the water above, in this firmament the LORD calls heaven}.]
3 I have put off my coat [the old and corrupt ideas that should protect from the defiled elements of men’s understanding]; how shall I put it on [I will not]? I have washed my feet [cleaning away the mire, corruption, picked up by God’s people in their journey through time]; how shall I defile them [I will not]?
4 My beloved [dowd] put in his hand by the hole [chowr – referring to Ezekiel 8:7] of the door, and my bowels were moved for him [because of the abominations, men’s creations put in the LORD’s place and called by His name, realized to be the cause of the desolation of God’s people].
5 I rose up [quwm – resurrected] to open to my beloved [dowd]; and my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with sweet smelling [‘abar] myrrh [by these works, giving these words as received, passed from death into life]; upon the handles of the lock [readied to open to the One knocking].
6 I opened [pathach – referring us to Daniel 10:16, saying “And, behold, one like the similitude of the sons of men touched my lips: then I opened {pathach} my mouth, and spoke, and said unto him that stood before me, O my LORD, by the vision {mar’eh – the contenance, presence, of the One knocking} my sorrows {tsiyr – the shmuw’ah of Isaiah 18:2 above} are turned {haphak – overturned} upon me, and I have retained no strength to {and understanding left}.] my beloved [dowd]; but my beloved [dowd – David’s seed, now the dead body of Christ, without understanding] had withdrawn himself, and was gone: my soul failed when he spoke: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.
7 The watchmen [shamar – those charged with protecting and defending the pure word against corruption] that went about the city found me, they smote me, they wounded me; the keepers [shamar] of the walls took away my veil from me.
8 I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my beloved [do not as the watchmen who smote, wounded, and took away my veil], [but instead] that you tell him, that I am sick [for the sake] of love [those refusing to receive this word and the give it again].
9 What is your beloved more than another beloved, O you fairest among women? what is your beloved more than another beloved, that you do so charge us [as in verse 8]?
10 My beloved is white [tsach – is clearly seen in these things] and ruddy [is the red heifer of Numbers 19:2], the chiefest among ten thousand.
The word rendered “chiefest,” describing the One to whom it appertains (ya’ah, Yahh), with and in the son of man, is the three times used word dagal, meaning “to flaunt, i.e. raise a flag; figuratively, to be conspicuous.” It’s the word rendered “banner” in Psalms 20:2 and Song of Solomon 6:10.
Psalms 20
A Psalm of David
1 The LORD hear you in the day of trouble [tsarah – this tribulation in which we find ourselves and the LORD’s Salvation]; the name [identity] of the God of Jacob defend [exalt Himself to] you; [Jeremiah 30:7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble {tsarah}, but he {His ONE BODY} shall be saved out of it.]
2 Send you help from the sanctuary, and strengthen you out of Zion;
3 Remember all your offerings, and accept your burnt sacrifice [this offering here in hell]; Selah.
4 Grant you according to your own heart [mind made like His], and fulfil all your counsel [in this expected end now come].
5 We will rejoice in your salvation [yshuw’ah – Jesus, Jehovah’s Salvation manifested in the flesh], and in the name [identity] of our God we will set up our banners [dagal – in whom the LORD’s presence is manifested and His word exalted]: the LORD fulfil all your petitions [mish’alah – masso’ ‘alah: exalt those who exalt Him, lifting up those who lift Him].
6 Now know I that the LORD saves his anointed [mashiyach – Messiah, with the same affinity to masso, and here more specifically to the words mah, meaning what, and shachar, meaning. “dawn;” and thereby we see the anointed one in the true morning {as opposed to Lucifer, the false light now in His place}]; he will hear him from his holy heaven with the saving strength of his right hand [by His work giving this understanding].
7 Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name [identity] of the LORD our God.
8 They [that trust in worldly strength and power] are brought down and fallen: but we are risen [quwm – in this resurrection of the dead, as the morning light now come], and stand upright.
9 Save, LORD: let the king [I Am] hear us when we call [speaking Your word as received].
Song of Solomon 6
9 My dove [those who realized this is the expected end and they are the sign of its arrival], my undefiled [cleansed of corruption] is but one [BODY]; she is the only one of her mother [wisdom], she is the choice one of her [wisdom] that bare her. The daughters saw her, and blessed her; yea, the queens and the concubines, and they praised her.
10 Who is she that looks forth [seeing as the LORD sees] as the morning [shachar – who sees this is the new day now come], fair as the moon [His new civil government, led by His anointed one], clear as the sun [the church], and terrible as an army with banners [dagal – in whom the LORD’s presence is manifested and His word exalted]?
11 I went down into the garden of nuts to see the fruits of the valley, and to see whether the vine flourished and the pomegranates budded.
12 Or ever I was aware [that the light and new life has now come, by the LORD with us, in us], my soul made me like the chariots of Amminadib [meaning when My people are willing, and liberally giving this word as received].
13 Return, return [to the LORD with us], O Shulamite [perfected, completed and in peace]; return, return [to the LORD], that we may look upon you. What will you see in the Shulamite? As it were the company of two armies [church and state, outside all the now corrupt institutions, as the LORD’s ONE BODY].
The word shachar (7837) is from an identical word (7836), meaning “to dawn, i.e. (figuratively) be (up) early at any task (with the implication of earnestness); by extension, to search for (with painstaking).” The word mashiyach asks the question (giving the identity of) “Who is the One doing this,” and the only vexation is to understand whose voice is heard here.
Isaiah 8
19 And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits [the known dead, the misleading words 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 [LORD] to the dead?
20 [When they should be looking] To the law and to the testimony [this word of Shiloh, peace that flows from the LORD’s teaching]: if they speak not according to this word [exalting His voice above all other voices], it is because there is no light [shachar – understanding that comes as a new day] in them.
Isaiah 47
10 For you have trusted in your wickedness: [and being ignorant of the LORD] you have said, None sees me. Your wisdom and your knowledge, it has perverted you; and you have said in your heart [mind], I am [the LORD’s called and chosen], and none else beside me [‘ephec – you have said there is nothing further to be known, other than the perverted things you know].
11 Therefore shall evil come upon [be revealed in] you; you shall not know from whence it rises [shachar – that it is this morning light in the flesh]: and mischief shall fall upon you; you shall not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon you suddenly, which you shall not know [because you don’t know that all you do know is ignorance: darkness].
12 Stand now with your enchantments, and with the multitude of your sorceries, wherein you have labored from your youth; if so be you shall be able to profit, if so be you mayest prevail.
Isaiah 58
4 Behold, you fast for strife and debate [you refuse this definitive word and instead endlessly argue over your own worthless opinions], and to smite with the fist of wickedness: you shall not fast as you do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high [to exalt your voice above all others].
5 Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul [to become like you]? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush [to make others humble themselves before you], and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him [to make them sorrow over their error and admit you are right]? will you call this a fast [stopping the words of all others], and an acceptable day to the LORD?
6 Is not this the fast that I have chosen [to make men do the same before the LORD alone]? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed [by your many false opinions] go free, and that you break every yoke?
7 Is it not to deal your bread [this word and understanding given from the mouth of the LORD] to the hungry, and that you bring the poor [those without worldly power] that are [because they have opinions differing from yours] cast out to your house? when you see the naked [without this word and therefore lacking protection from the corrupt elements of the world], that you cover him [with the only protection, which is the LORD’s presence with us, in us]; and that you hide not yourself [the LORD alive in you] from your own flesh [those who in the same way become part of the same family, the same ONE BODY]?
8 Then shall your light [this understanding and life] break forth as the morning [shachar – the LORD’s presence realized in His anointed], and your health shall spring forth speedily: and your righteousness shall go before [paniym – revealing the LORD’s presence in] you; the glory of the LORD shall be your reward.
9 Then shall you call, and the LORD shall answer; you shall cry, and he shall say, Here I Am. If you take away from the midst of you the yoke [of your worthless opinions], the putting forth of the finger [pointing out the error of others while you are blinded by your own], and speaking vanity [worthless things];
10 And if you draw out your soul to the hungry [having no opinion of your own, only that of the LORD], and [with His mind] satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall your light rise in obscurity [as He exalts those who exalt Him], and your darkness be as the noon day [you shall have a perfect understanding of how ignorance you were before Him]:
11 And the LORD shall guide you continually, and satisfy your soul in drought [when all other voices are silenced], and make fat your bones: and you shall be like a watered garden, and like a spring of [life-giving] water, whose waters fail not [because they are the LORD speaking His words through you].
12 And they that shall be of you shall build the old waste places: you shall raise up the foundations of many generations; and you shall be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
Job 38
12 Have you commanded the morning [this sun to rise upon all] since your days; and caused the day-spring [shachar – the anointed one] to know his place;
13 That it [the light] might take hold of the ends [ending the old age and beginning the new] of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it?
14 It is turned [haphak – Him overturning ignorance] as clay to the seal [chowtham – this shaking is My signature pressed into the earth]; and they stand as a garment [My righteousness covering My ONE flesh BODY].
15 And from the wicked their light [understanding] is withheld, and the high arm [the wicked in power] shall be broken.
16 Have you entered into the springs of the sea? or have you walked in search of the depth [this deep understanding held below the surface]?
17 Have the gates of death [and hell] been opened unto you? or have you seen the doors [the way into and out] of the shadow of death?
18 Have you perceived the breadth [start to finish] of the earth? declare if you know it all.
19 Where is the way where light dwells [it is with God alone]? and as for darkness, where is the place thereof [which is in the earth that’s rejected Him],
20 That you shouldest take it to the bound thereof [now, when every eye sees the result of following the wicked into debilitating and dysfunctional insanity], and that you should know the paths [followed] to the house thereof?
21 Know you it, because you were then born? or because the number of your days is great?
Psalms 63
A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness [among the corrupt leaders] of Judah
1 O God, you are my God; early will I seek you [shachar – Your presence in me alone]: my soul thirsts for you, my flesh longs for you in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is [where this word isn’t heard];
2 To see your power and your glory, so as I have seen you in the sanctuary.
3 Because your lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise you.
4 Thus will I bless you while I live: I will lift up my hands in your name.
5 My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise you with joyful lips:
6 When I remember you upon my bed, and meditate on you in the night watches [awake in this time when ignorance covers the earth].
7 Because you have been my help, therefore in the shadow of your wings [Your voice] will I rejoice.
8 My soul follows hard after you [alone]: your right hand [Your work in me] upholds me.
9 But those that seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the lower parts of the earth [the belly of hell they’ve created].
10 They shall fall by the sword [this word they refuse]: they shall be a portion for foxes [those hunting their prey in the darkness].
11 But the king [the LORD’s anointed] shall rejoice in God; every one that swears by him [the living God] shall glory: but the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped.
