And Jesus came and spoke unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
The above, Matthew 28:18, comes after the eleven disciples see the LORD again after His resurrection. We’re told this meeting came (comes) in the mountain He appointed (Armageddon – the mountain of the appointed rendezvous), and seeing Him, some still doubted.
As we know, the name Armageddon is from the Hebrew words har, meaning mountain, and Megiddon, meaning rendezvous. Megiddon (Mgiddow) is from ma, asking what, and gadad, meaning to crowd or to gather in troops.
The name Migdowl (the origin of the name Magdalene), with affinity to Mgiddow, is from the words ma, meaning what, and gadal, meaning “to twist (compare 1434), i.e. to be (causatively make) large (in various senses, as in body, mind, estate or honor, also in pride).”
The name Magdalene only appears in telling of her at the cross and the resurrection.
Matthew 28 1 In the end of the sabbath [the interruption when the LORD changes the course of history], as it began to dawn [when this understanding returns] toward the first day of the week [the first day of this new creation], came Mary Magdalene [to this rendezvous with those rebelling against the corrupt status quo in church and state; out of whom the LORD cast seven devils and enlarged their understanding] and the other Mary [the mother of Jesus, from whom is born the ONE BODY of Christ] to see the sepulcher [the place where the dead body of Christ was laid]. 2 And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the LORD descended from heaven [with this full understanding of God], and came and rolled back [apokulio – ended the wallowing {kulioo} in the mire of] the stone [concealing the identity of the LORD in His message] from the door [revealing the way to enter life from among the dead], and sat upon it [enthroned]. 3 His countenance [presence] was like lightning [understanding sent from the cloud], and his raiment [the LORD’s righteousness that protects us from the corrupt elements of the world] white as snow [the pure word reserved, frozen, in the cloud, now sent upon the earth]: 4 And for fear of him the keepers [those among God’s people to whom the word of God was left to be defended and protected for corruption and wasn’t] did shake, and became as dead men. 5 And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not you: for I know that you seek Jesus, which was crucified. 6 He is not here: for he is risen [from among the dead], as he said. Come, see the place where [before the dead body of Christ] the LORD lay. 7 And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead; and, behold, he goes before you into Galilee [among His inner circle to whom this wheel within a wheel has come giving us this understanding – from the Hebrew word galiyl, meaning “a valve of a folding door (as turning [as a stone rolling away]); also a ring (as round),” speaking of those from whom the mire is first removed – galiyl is from galal, meaning “to roll”]; there shall you [be given sight to] see him: lo, I have told you. 8 And they departed quickly from the sepulcher [mnemeion] with fear [of the LORD] and great joy [realizing His presence]; and did run to bring his disciples word [as received]. 9 And as they went to tell his disciples [to give them the word now in them, as received from His angel, His messenger], behold [they saw, understood], Jesus met [anti apo, removed all that opposed them realizing His presence in] them, saying, All hail [chairo – rejoice in knowing Him]. And they came and held him by the feet, and worshipped him. 10 Then said Jesus unto them, Be not afraid [be not scared away from revealing me]: go tell [give this same message to] my brethren that they go into Galilee [and receive this understanding], and there shall they see me. 11 Now when they were going, behold, some of the watch [who should have been protecting and defending this word from corruption but now watch to keep the dead body of Christ from rising] came into the city, and showed unto the chief priests all the things that were done. 12 And when they were assembled with the elders, and had taken counsel, they gave large money unto the soldiers, 13 Saying, Say you, His disciples came by night, and stole him away while we slept. 14 And if this come to the governor’s ears, we will persuade him, and secure you. 15 So they took the money, and did as they were taught: and this saying is commonly reported among the Jews until this day. 16 Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, into a mountain [Armageddon] where Jesus had appointed them [this randezvous]. 17 And when they saw him, they worshipped him: but some doubted. 18 And Jesus came and spoke unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. 19 Go you therefore, and teach all nations [all who don’t know Me], baptizing them [taking them below the surface of His word] in the name [revealing therein the identity] of the Father, and of the Son [the Father revealed in the flesh, by him], and of the Holy Ghost [the Father working unknown, with us, and in us]: 20 Teaching them to observe [tereo] all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I Am with you always, even unto the end of the world [aion – the age, beginning the new, without end]. Amen.
Hebrews 13 5 Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content [arkeo – complete] with such things as you have: for he has said, I will never leave you, nor forsake you. 6 So that we may boldly say, The LORD is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me. 7 Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the [this] word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation [in which the LORD is manifested present]. 8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever. 9 Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace [this gift of God]; not with meats [not with the understanding that is given from dead flesh], which have not profited them that have been occupied therein. 10 We have an altar [upon which dead flesh is burned], whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle [the churches where the dead are housed]. 11 For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp. 12 Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate [in hell]. 13 Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach. [phero – Hebrews 11:25 Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; 26 Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompense of the reward.] 14 For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come. 15 By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name. 16 But to do good and to communicate [this word of God] forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased. 17 Obey them [I Am] that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you. 18 Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live honestly. 19 But I beseech you the rather to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner. 20 Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our LORD Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, 21 Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well-pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen. 22 And I beseech [parakaleo] you, brethren, suffer the word of exhortation [paraklesis]: for I have written a letter unto you in few words. 23 Know you that our brother Timothy is set at liberty [loosed from death and sent on this mission, as the LORD’s messenger giving His message as received]; with whom, if he come shortly, I will see you. 24 Salute all them that have the rule over you, and all the saints. They of Italy salute you. 25 Grace be with you all. Amen.
John 14 10 Believe you not that I am in the Father [at His right hand], and the Father [is dwelling] in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwells in me, he does the works. 11 Believe me that I Am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works’ sake [realizing He is the power in me doing His work]. 12 Truly, truly, I say unto you, He that believes on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father. 13 And whatsoever you shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 If you shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it. 15 If you love me, keep [tereo] my commandments. 16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you [in the line of many] another Comforter [parakletos – Paraclete, the one who comes, the LORD unknown in him, as the LORD of hosts, a man of war, a soldier who is a King, sent to rescue His ONE BODY], that he may abide with you forever [in the order of Melchisedec: King of Righteousness]; 17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it sees him not, neither knows him: but [now] you know him; for he dwells with you, and [when you see and receive Him, He] shall be in you. 18 I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you. 19 Yet a little while, and the world sees me no more; but you [shall] see me [again]: because I live, you shall live also [when you see and receive Him, and He rises in us raising our dead bodies to life]. 20 At that day you shall know that I am in my Father [His ONE BODY], and you in me [My ONE DODY], and I in you. 21 He that has my commandments [to join Him], and keeps [tereo] them, he it is that loves [agapao – gives this word you have received from] me: and he that loveth [agapao] me shall be loved [agapao] of my Father, and I will love [agapao] him, and will manifest [emphanizo] myself to him. 22 Judas [Judah: the elect remnant] says unto him, not Iscariot [not the betrayers], LORD, how is it that you will manifest [emphanizo – only appears eight other times] yourself unto us, and not unto the world? 23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man loves [agapao – as I have commanded: gives this word they have received from] me, he will keep [tereo – guard and protect] my words [from the corruption and pollution of ignorant men]: and my Father [in me] will love [agapao – will give abundantly to] him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode [dwelling] with him. 24 He that loves [agapao – gives this gift as received from] me not keeps [tereo – guards and protects] not my sayings: and the word which you hear is not mine, but the Father’s which sent me. 25 These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you. 26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost [parakletos – I Am unknown], whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you. 27 Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world gives, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. 28 You have heard how I said unto you, I go away [leave your sight, when understanding was killed off by the wicked powers in church and state], and come again unto you [when you remember, and by understanding hear Me speaking and see My presence]. If you loved [agapao] me [understanding Me before], you would rejoice [because you will remember Me when I appear], because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I. 29 And now I have told you before it comes to pass, that, when it comes to pass, you might believe [have faith in Me when I speak].
The dwelling place [abode] of the Father and the son, in us His children, is what the LORD begins John 14 speaking of as the mansion He goes to prepare (here and now). “At that day you shall know that I am in my Father [His ONE BODY], and you in me [the ONE BODY of Christ], and I in you.”
John 14 1 Let not your heart be troubled: you believe in God, believe also in me. 2 In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I Am, there you may be also. 4 And whither I go you know, and the way you know. 5 Thomas [one of the doubters] says unto him, LORD, we know not whither you go; and how can we know the way? 6 Jesus says unto him, I Am the way, the truth, and the life: no man comes unto the Father, but by me. 7 If you had known me, you should have known my Father also: and from henceforth [arti – now] you know him, and have seen him. 8 Philip says unto him, LORD, show us the Father, and it suffices [arkeo – completes] us [seeing the Father revealed in the flesh, in the conversation]. 9 Jesus says unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet have you not known me, Philip? he that has seen me has seen the Father; and how sayest you then, Show us the Father? 10 Believe you not that I Am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwells in me, he does the works.
John 15 15 Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knows not what his LORD does: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you. 16 You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that you should go [giving this word as received] and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain [after all the corrupt words of men have perished]: that whatsoever you shall ask of the Father in my name [in the identity of Jehovah’s Salvation in the flesh], he may give it you. 17 These things I command you, that you love [agapao – give the word as received] one another. 18 If the world hates you [because My word is in you], you know that it hated me before it hated you. 19 If you were of the world, the world would love his own [as it does]: but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you [as Job was hated by Satan falsely accusing him through his falsely so-called friends]. 20 Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his LORD. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept [tereo] my saying, they will keep [tereo] yours also. 21 But all these things will they do unto you for my name’s sake [because My identity is manifested by My word in you], because they know not him [the Father] that sent me. 22 If I had not come and spoken unto them [the Father’s words], they had not had sin: but now they have no cloak for their sin [despising His word, this word, and trying to keep it silent]. 23 He that hates me hates my Father also. 24 If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father. 25 But this comes to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law [in Psalms 35:19 & 69:4], They hated me without a cause. 26 But when the Comforter [parakletos] is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceeds from the Father, he shall testify of me: 27 And you also shall bear witness [speaking the same words of truth that proceed from the Father], because you have been with me from the beginning [arche].
John 1 1 In the beginning [arche] was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 The same was in the beginning [arche] with God. 3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. 4 In him was life; and the life was the light [understanding] of men. 5 And the light shines in darkness [this time of ignorance of God]; and the darkness comprehended it not. 6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John [the dove, the sign of the end reached, like Jonah, calling all to repentance, taking them below the surface of the waters]. 7 The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe. 8 He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light. 9 That was the true Light, which lights every man that comes into the world [kosmos – this orderly arrangement of His word remaining herein]. 10 He was in the world [kosmos – He was in this orderly arrangement of His word], and the world [kosmos] was made by him, and the world [kosmos – here not comprehended by the ignorant, who] knew him not. 11 He came unto his own [Christians and Jews], and his own received him not. 12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name [realized His identity in His word]: 13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. 14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace [this gift of God] and truth. 15 John [the dove, as the sign of the end reached: seeing the Father in the son: His children in whose flesh is His word: this word] bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spoke, He that comes after me is preferred before me: for he was [the word] before me [in the beginning]. 16 And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace. 17 For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ [Jehovah’s Salvation manifested in the flesh, from where His word is heard and declared to be Him present]. 18 No man has seen God at any time, the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of [dwelling in the Father and] the Father [in me], he has [obeyed and] declared him [alive in me].
John 5 21 For as the Father raises up the dead, and quickens them; even so the Son quickens [from death into life] whom he will. 22 For the Father judges no man, but has committed all judgment unto the Son: 23 That all men should honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He that honors not the Son honors not the Father which has sent him. 24 Truly, truly, I say unto you, He that hears my word [as the Father’s voice], and believes on him that sent me, has everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. 25 Truly, truly, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and Now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live. 26 For as the Father has life in himself; so has he given to the Son to have life [understanding: light] in himself; 27 And has given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man. 28 Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves [mnemeion – the sepulcher where the dead body of Christ lay] shall hear his voice, 29 And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation. 30 I can of my own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not my own will, but the will of the Father which has sent me.
1 John 2 18 Little children, it is the last time: and as you have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time. 19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us [in the truth we heard from the beginning]: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us. 20 But you have an unction [chrisma – an anointing] from the Holy One, and you know all things. 21 I have not written unto you because you know not the truth, but because you know it, and that no lie is of the truth. 22 Who is a liar but he that denies that Jesus is the Christ [Jehovah’s Salvation manifested in the flesh of those speaking His word]? He is antichrist, that denies the Father and the Son. 23 Whosoever denies the Son, the same has not the Father: he that acknowledges the Son has the Father also. 24 Let that [this word] therefore [as the Father’s presence] abide in you, which you have heard from the beginning [arche]. If that which you have heard from the beginning [‘arche] shall remain in you, you also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father. 25 And this is the promise [end] that he has promised us, even eternal life. 26 These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you [to doubt the LORD’s presence]. 27 But the anointing [chrisma] which you have received of him [His word, His presence] abides in you, and you need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing [chrisma] teaches you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it has taught you, you shall abide in him [in the Father]. 28 And now, little children [of God], abide in him; that, when he shall appear [phaneroo – becomes apparent: His presence realized], we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him [in His presence] at his coming. 29 If you know that he is righteous, you know that every one that does righteousness is born of him.
1 John 3 1 Behold, what manner of love the Father has bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world [kosmos] knows us not, because it [in darkness] knew him not. 2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it does not yet appear [phaneroo – is not yet apparent] what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear [phaneroo – when He becomes apparent], we shall be like him [as His ONE BODY]; for we shall see him as he is. 3 And every man that has this hope in him purifies himself, even as he is pure. [Matthew 5: 8 Blessed are the pure in heart {mind}: for they shall see God.] 4 Whosoever commits sin transgresses also the law [going into places forbidden]: for sin is the transgression of the law. 5 And you know that he was manifested [phaneroo – appeared, His presence made apparent] to take away our sins; and in him is no sin. 6 Whosoever abides in him sins not: whosoever sins has not seen him, neither known him. 7 Little children, let no man deceive you: he that does righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous. 8 He that commits sin is of the devil [led away by those possessed by Satan]; for the devil sins from the beginning [arche]. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested [phaneroo – His presence is made apparent], that he might destroy the works of the devil [those possessed by, and doing the work of, Satan misleading the world from the beginning]. 9 Whosoever is born of God does not commit sin; for his seed remains in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. 10 In this the children of God are manifest [phaneros – made apparent], and the children of the devil: whosoever does not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loves not his brother. 11 For this is the message that you heard from the beginning [arche], that we should love [agapao – should give this good the world needs] one another. 12 Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous. 13 Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hates you [because the LORD’s word and His presence abide in you]. 14 We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love [agapao – give this word as commanded to] the brethren. He that loves not his brother abides in death. 15 Whosoever hates [not giving this word in which is life to] his brother is a murderer: and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him. 16 Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. 17 But whoso has this world’s good [this word], and sees his brother have need, and shuts up his bowels of compassion [keeping the word inside himself] from him, how dwells the love [agape – this word as received to be given] of God in him? 18 My little children, let us not love in word [kept silent in us], neither in tongue [claiming we love]; but in deed [demonstrated in our giving it] and in truth.
James 2 12 So speak you, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty. 13 For he shall have judgment without mercy, that has shown no mercy; and mercy rejoices against judgment. 14 What does it profit, my brethren, though a man say he has faith, and have not works? can faith save him? 15 If a brother or sister be naked [without protection from the corrupt elements of the world], and destitute of daily food [lacking this word from the mouth of God, by which man lives], 16 And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be you warmed [by this protection you have received] and filled [with this word]; notwithstanding you give them not those things [keeping them inside, not declaring the LORD is alive in you doing the work] which are needful to [bring them into] the [ONE] body [of Christ]; what does it profit? 17 Even so faith, if it has not works, is dead, being alone. 18 Yea, a man may say, You have faith, and I have works: show me your faith without your works, and I will show you my faith by my works [giving the things the world needs to hear]. 19 You believe that there is one God; you do well: the devils [the misleaders possessed by Satan, speaking his words] also believe, and tremble. 20 But will you know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead [under Satan’s rule]?
James 3 1 My brethren, be not many masters [didaskalos – instructors, teachers], knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation. 2 For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body. 3 Behold, we put bits in the horses’ mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body. 4 Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor wills. 5 Even so the tongue [of false teachers] is a little member, and boasts great things [proud or the fables they call knowledge]. Behold, how great a matter [of life and death] a little fire kindles! 6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it [corruption, as leaven] defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature [genesis – ending the old age and beginning the new]; and it is set on fire of hell.
John 16 7 Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient [sumphero – to bring you together in bearing the reproach of Christ – see Hebrews 13:13 above, and Hebrews 12:10 where it is the LORD correcting us, for “our profit”] for you that I go away [into death, here in hell where the Father only is with me]: for if I go not away, the Comforter [parakletos] will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you. 8 And when he is come, he will reprove [elegcho] the world [kosmos – where this word is rightly arranged and again given order] of sin [rejecting it], and of [lacking] righteousness, and of [lacking good] judgment: [The word elegcho is used in Hebrews 12, verses 5 – 8 saying, “And you have forgotten the exhortation {paraklesis} which speak unto you {in Proverbs 3:11 & 12} as unto {His} children, My son, dispise not you the chastening of the LORD, nor faint when you are rebuked {elegcho} of him: For whom the LORD loves {apagao – when he manifests His presence in His word given from those He’s sent} he chastens, and scourges {to purify} every son whom he receives. If you endure chastening {His correction}, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chastens not? But if you be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are you bastards, and not sons.] 9 Of sin, because they believe not on me [not believing this is His voice manifesting His presence]; 10 Of righteousness [His righteousness, His purity of doctrine, by which man sees God, is taken away by the sons of perdition sitting is His place], because I go to my Father, and you see me no more [as none now see Him here and now]; 11 Of judgment, because the prince [the sons of perdition, who put themselves in the Father’s place] of this world [kosmos – by this rightly ordered word they refuse] is judged. 12 I have yet many things to say unto you, but you cannot bear them now [because they are meant to be understood here and now, in this experience, this rendezvous with the LORD, in His war, Christ’s war for humanity’s sake, to uncover, apocalypse, Himself and remove the darkness in which He has been hidden from the sight of all]. 13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth [Amen!]: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear [from My Father], that shall he speak: and he will show you things to come. 14 He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine [these treasures: His grace and mercy], and shall show it unto you. 15 All things that the Father has are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall show it unto you. 16 A little while, and you shall not see me [as none have]: and again, a little while [mikron], and you shall see me, because I go to the Father [who is now, once again, revealed in His children]. 17 Then said some of his disciples among themselves, What is this that he says unto us, A little while [mikron], and you shall not see me: and again, a little while [mikron], and you shall see me: and, Because I go to the Father? 18 They said therefore, What is this that he says, A little while [mikron]? we cannot tell what he says. 19 Now Jesus knew that they were desirous to ask him, and said unto them, Do you enquire among yourselves of that I said, A little while [mikron], and you shall not see me [as none see Him here always with us, in us]: and again, a little while [mikron], and you shall see me? [and know is I Am in the Father, in you, and you in me: in the ONE BODY of Christ.] 20 Truly, truly, I say unto you, That you shall weep and lament [not seeing me], but the world shall rejoice [when you don’t realize My presence with you, in you]: and you shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow [now seeing me] shall be turned into joy [when you realize I Am with you always]. 21 A woman when she is in travail has sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembers no more the anguish [thlipsis – the tribulation], for joy [realizing the LORD’s presence manifested in His word] that a man is born [again, the Father’s first begotten of many children] into the world [kosmos – this time when all the foundations of the world are again rightly ordered]. 22 And you now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man takes from you. 23 And in that day you shall ask me nothing. Truly, truly, I say unto you, Whatsoever you shall ask the Father in my name [as My identity in you realized], he will give it you. 24 Hitherto have you asked nothing in my name [in My ONE BODY, as truly Christians]: ask, and you shall receive, that your joy may be full [this realization complete in this expected end, seeing the Father in His children]. 25 These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs: but the time comes, when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall show you plainly of the Father [realized in me, to bring many sons to glory]. 26 At that day you shall ask in my name [as the ONE BODY of Christ resurrected from death]: and I say not unto you, that I will pray the Father for you: 27 For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God. 28 I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world [kosmos – to rightly order this word]: again, I leave the world [kosmos – and this right order, My righteousness, leaves with Me], and go to the Father [who is always with me, in me]. 29 His disciples said unto him, Lo, now speak you plainly, and speak no proverb. 30 Now are we sure that you know all things, and need not that any man should ask you: by this we believe that you came forth from God. 31 Jesus answered them, Do you now believe? 32 Behold, the hour comes, yea, is now come, that you shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me alone: and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me. 33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me you might have peace [knowing I Am always with you, even when unseen]. In the world [kosmos – the world without My Father’s righteousness] you shall have tribulation [thlipsis]: but be of good cheer; I have [by the Father in me] overcome [nikao] the world [kosmos].
1 John 4 1 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world [kosmos – and destroyed this rightly arranged word for their own glory]. 2 Hereby know you the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that [here and now again] Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: 3 And every spirit that confesses not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof you have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world [kosmos – resisting and opposing this rightly ordered word of God, in which His presence is manifested in the flesh of those speaking it: Jehovah’s Salvation, Jesus in His ONE BODY united by His One Mind]. 4 You are of God, little children [of His correction], and have overcome [nikao] them: because greater is he that is [alive] in you [in your flesh], than he that is in the world [kosmos – minds wherein there is no order, and all is confusion and tribulation]. 5 They are of the world: therefore speak they [the confusion] of the world, and the world heareth them [obeys them and is thereby in tribulation]. 6 We are of God: he that knows God hears [and obeys] us; he that is not of God hears not us [obeys not, because they refuse the word made flesh and dwelling among us, in us]. Hereby know we the spirit of truth [order], and the spirit of error [tribulation].
1 John 5 1 Whosoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loves him that begat loves him also that is begotten of him. 2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep [tereo] his commandments. 3 For this is the love of God, that we keep [tereo] his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous. 4 For whatsoever is born of God overcomes [nikao] the world: and this is the victory [nike] that overcomes [nikao] the world, even our faith [that the Father is with us manifested in the flesh of His children speaking His word]. 5 Who is he that overcomes [nikao] the world, but he that believes that Jesus is the Son of God? 6 This is he that came by water [the word of God sent from heaven] and blood [the sacrifice necessary to deliver it while declaring it is Him in our flesh speaking and working His plan of Salvation], even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit [His word unknown among those who haven’t known Him] that bear witness, because the Spirit [the parakletos] is truth. 7 For there are three that bear record in heaven [with full understanding], the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost [the Father unknown in His word]: and these three are one. 8 And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit [the Father working unknown in the flesh of those he chooses], and the water [this word], and the blood [manifesting and declaring His presence]: and these three agree in one. 9 If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he has testified of his Son [in whom He openly manifests and declares Himself]. 10 He that believes on the Son of God has the witness in himself [speaking the same word manifesting the same presence]: he that believes not God has made him a liar; because he believes not the record that God gave of his Son.
Psalms 35 1 Plead my cause, O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me. 2 Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for my help. 3 Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against them that persecute me: say unto my soul, I Am your salvation. 4 Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt. 5 Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the LORD chase them. 6 Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the LORD persecute them. 7 For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul. 8 Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he has hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall. 9 And my soul shall [knowing His presence] be joyful in the LORD: it shall rejoice in his salvation [manifested with us, in us]. 10 All my bones shall say, LORD, who is like unto you, which delivers the poor [without worldly power] from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoils him? 11 False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not. 12 They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul. 13 But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into my own bosom. 14 I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourns for his mother. 15 But in my adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not: 16 With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth. 17 LORD, how long will you look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions. 18 I will give you thanks in the great congregation: I will praise you among much people. 19 Let not them that are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause. 20 For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land [‘erets – the earth]. 21 Yea, they opened their mouth wide [as dragons: serpents and whales] against me, and said, [as false accusers] Aha, aha, our eye has seen it. 22 This you have seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O LORD, be not far from me [rachaq – be not to me as those who rule the earth with evil decrees: deception and unfulfilled promises]. 23 Stir up yourself, and awake to my judgment, even unto my cause, my God and my LORD. 24 Judge me, O LORD my God, according to your righteousness; and let them not rejoice over me. 25 Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have [with our wide open mouths] swallowed him up. 26 Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at my hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonor that magnify themselves against me. 27 Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favor my righteous cause: yea, let them say continually, Let the LORD be magnified, which has pleasure in the prosperity of his servant. 28 And my tongue shall speak of your righteousness and of your praise all the day long.
Psalms 69 1 Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul. 2 I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me. 3 I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: my eyes fail while I wait for my God. 4 They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head: they that would destroy me, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away. 5 O God, you know my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from you. 6 Let not them that wait on you, O LORD God of hosts, be ashamed for my sake: let not those that seek you be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel. 7 Because for your sake I have borne reproach; shame has covered my face. 8 I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother’s children. 9 For the zeal of your house has eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached you are fallen upon me. 10 When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach. 11 I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them. 12 They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards. 13 But as for me, my prayer is unto you, O LORD, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of your mercy hear me, in the truth of your salvation. 14 Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters. 15 Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me. 16 Hear me, O LORD; for your lovingkindness is good: turn unto me according to the multitude of your tender mercies. 17 And hide not your face [paniym – Your presence] from your servant; for I am in trouble [tsar – among enemies]: hear me speedily. 18 Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of my enemies. 19 You have known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonor: my adversaries [tsarar] are all before you. 20 Reproach has broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters [nacham], but I found none. 21 They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink. 22 Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap. 23 Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake. 24 Pour out your indignation upon them, and let your wrathful anger take hold of them. 25 Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents. 26 For they persecute him whom you have smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom you have wounded. 27 Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into your righteousness. 28 Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous. 29 But I am poor and sorrowful: let your salvation, O God, set me up on high. 30 I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving. 31 This also shall please the LORD better than an ox or bullock that has horns and hoofs. 32 The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God. 33 For the LORD hears the poor [those without worldly power], and despises not his prisoners [bound here in the belly of the earth]. 34 Let the [new] heaven and earth praise him, the seas [humanity], and every thing that moves therein. 35 For God will save Zion [His people in whom he lives and reigns], and will build the cities of Judah [a new crop of Godly leaders who will rule the earth with Him]: that they may dwell there, and have it [the earth] in possession. 36 The seed also of his servants shall inherit it [the earth]: and they that love his name [His manifested identity] shall dwell therein.
Revelation 21 1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea [no longer is all humanity, good and evil, mixed in one body]. 2 And I John saw the holy city, New [Heavenly] Jerusalem [the LORD’s ONE BODY], coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. 4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and [in His victory] there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. 5 And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful. 6 And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end [of ages]. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely. 7 He that overcomes [nikao] shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. 8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part [separated from God’s people] in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
Revelation 22 1 And he showed me a pure river of [of this] water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. 2 In the midst of the street of it [the way it came], and on either side [this word sent and received] of the river, was there the tree of life [sent to give life], which bare twelve manner of fruits [the perfection of God’s government on the earth as it is in heaven], and yielded her fruit every month [the time of the new moon: new civil government as God intended it, to secure our God-given rights]: and the leaves of the tree [of life] were for the healing [to return understanding] of the nations [who haven’t known the LORD God]. 3 And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him: 4 And they shall see his face [His presence]; and his name [identity] shall be in their foreheads [in the forefront of their minds]. 5 And there shall be no night [ignorance of God] there; and they need no candle [no man to guide them], neither light of the sun [neither understanding from the church insitutions]; for the LORD God gives them light [understanding]: and they [joined with Him in His ONE BODY] shall reign forever and ever. 6 And he said unto me, These sayings are faithful and true: and the LORD God of the holy prophets sent his angel [His messenger – I Am] to show unto his servants the things which must shortly be done. 7 Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he that keep [tereo] the sayings of the prophecy of this book. 8 And I John [the dove, the sign of the end reached] saw these things, and heard them. And when I had heard [as the voice of the LORD] and seen [it is the LORD’s presence manifested in His word made flesh], I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel [His messenger – I Am] which showed me these things. 9 Then says he unto me [as I Am saying to you], See you do it not: for I Am your fellow-servant, and of your brethren the prophets, and of them which keep [tereo] the sayings of this book: worship God. 10 And he says unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand [to speak these words of God as received, declaring He is alive in you speaking and working]. 11 He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still. 12 And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be. 13 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end [of ages], the first and the last. 14 Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city [New Heavenly Jerusalem]. 15 For [separated] without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loves and makes a lie. 16 I Jesus have sent my angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I Am the root [of the tree of life] and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star [this understanding, as the sun rises, shined upon all from east to west]. 17 And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that hears [His voice] say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely. 18 For I testify unto every man that hears the words of the prophecy of this book [as the word of God from His mouth, by which man lives], If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: 19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book [this writing] of this prophecy [meant to be given as received], God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book. 20 He which testifies these things says, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, LORD Jesus. 21 The grace of our LORD Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.
Psalms 12 A Psalm of David 1 Help, LORD; for the godly man ceases; for the faithful fail from among the children of men. 2 They speak vanity every one with his neighbor: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak. 3 The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaks proud things: 4 Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is LORD over us? 5 For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, says the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffs [worthless word] at him. 6 The words of the LORD are pure words [by which man sees Him]: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. 7 You shall keep them, O LORD, you shall preserve them from this generation forever. 8 The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted [as in this evil generation].
Psalms 13 A Psalm of David 1 How long will you forget me, O LORD? forever? how long will you hide your face [paniym – Your known presence] from me? 2 How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall my enemy be exalted over me? 3 Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten [give understanding to] my eyes [so You are seen], lest I sleep the sleep of death; 4 Lest my enemy say, I have prevailed against him; and those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved. 5 But I have trusted in your mercy; my heart shall rejoice [realizing Your presence] in your salvation. 6 I will sing [repeating these words as commanded] unto the LORD, because he has dealt bountifully with me [giving these treasure to be given as received, as the word of God].
Psalms 14 A Psalm of David 1 The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that does good. 2 The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God. 3 They are ALL gone aside, they are all together become filthy [Isaiah 28:8 For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.]: there is none that does good, no, not one. 4 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD. 5 There were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the righteous. 6 You have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is his refuge. 7 Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! when the LORD brings back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.
Psalms 15 A Psalm of David 1 LORD, who shall abide in your tabernacle? who shall dwell in your holy hill? 2 He that walketh uprightly, and works righteousness, and speaks the truth in his heart [from His pure mind]. 3 He that backbites not with his tongue, nor does evil to his neighbor, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbor. 4 In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honors them that fear the LORD. He [a vile person is one] that swears to his own hurt [to things not true], and changes not [when the LORD corrects Him]. 5 He that puts not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against [for the love of money afflicts] the innocent. He that does these things shall never be moved.
Psalms 16 A Miktam of David [This is the indelible Mark identifying David: trusting the LORD] 1 Preserve me, O God: for in you do I put my trust. 2 O my soul, you have said unto the LORD, You are my LORD: my goodness extends not to you; 3 But to the saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent, in whom is all my delight. 4 Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another god: their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names into my lips. 5 The LORD is the portion of my inheritance and of my cup: you maintain my lot. 6 The lines are [my lineage is] fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage [seed in whom I have risen]. 7 I will bless the LORD, who has given me counsel: my reins [the inner man I Am] also instruct me in the night seasons [this time of ignorance when darkness covers the world]. 8 I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved [as in Psalms 15:5 above]. 9 Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoices [knowing He is present with me, in me]: my flesh also shall rest in hope [that in it He shall raise me to life again]. 10 For you will not leave my soul [my immortal self] in hell; neither will you suffer your Holy One to see corruption. 11 You will [here in hell] show me the path of [the way into] life: in your presence [paniym] is fulness of joy [fulfilled in the realization of Your presence always with me, in me]; at your right hand [Your power by which I Am risen] there are pleasures for evermore.
Envy you not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways. For the froward is an abomination to the LORD: but his secret is with the righteous.
The above, Proverbs 3:31 & 32, speak of oppressors whose ways mark their departure from the LORD, and He reveals them to those He’s, with His treasure, hidden here with Him.
The word above rendered “froward” is the six times used Hebrew word luwz, meaning to depart, or turn aside (away from truth). It appears five times in Proverbs (2:15, 3:21, 4:21, 14:2) and once in Isaiah 30:12.
Proverbs 3 18 She [wisdom] is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon [‘ashar] her: and happy is every one that retains her. 19 The LORD by wisdom has founded the [new] earth; by understanding has he established the [new] heavens. 20 By his knowledge the [deep understanding He secreted in the] depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew [His word that now appears on the earth]. 21 My son, let not them depart [luwz] from your eyes: keep [natsar – guard from corruption] sound wisdom and discretion: 22 So shall they be life unto your soul, and grace to your neck [this gift, these words as treasure kept there waiting to be spoken]. 23 Then shall you walk in your way safely [not mislead by the violent deceptions of oppressors], and your foot shall not stumble.
The words in the title rendered “oppressor” are ‘iysh chamac, meaning violent (unjust, doing wrong) man, which describes his “ways.” His departure (luwz) that marks him is then described as an “abomination,” from the word tow‘ebah, from tav ‘abah, meaning marked and acquiescence, which speaks of them (the departed) joined together in (agreement, confederate with the oppressors, submitting to, permitting) the violence mentioned above.
The word chamac is first used in Genesis 6:11 & 13, speaking of “violence” that covered the earth before the flood, for which (violence) God brought it (the flood) upon the earth.
Genesis 11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence [chamac]. 12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. 13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence [chamac] through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth. 14 Make you an ark of gopher wood; rooms shall you make in the ark, and shall pitch it within and without with pitch.
The word rendered “gopher,” only appearing this once, is a transliteration of the original Hebrew, said to probably mean “to house in.” It is (unstated) from the four times used word gaph, which describes what is built (the body set free from the bondage of death and hell).
Proverbs 9 1 Wisdom has built her house, she has hewn out her seven pillars [of Spiritual perfection]: 2 She [wisdom] has killed her beasts [those without the LORD’s Spirit]; she has mingled her wine [changing the minds of her guests]; she has also furnished her table [with these treasures of understanding]. 3 She has sent forth her maidens: she cries upon the highest places [gaph] of the city, 4 Whoso is simple [foolish, without understanding], let him turn in hither: as for him that wants understanding, she says to him, 5 Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mingled. 6 Forsake the foolish, and live; and go [‘ashar] in the way of understanding. 7 He that reproves a scorner gets to himself shame [not reaching the end he seeks: the correction of the scorner]: and he that rebukes a wicked man gets himself a blot [m’uwm – achieves nothing]. 8 Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate you: rebuke a wise man, and he will love you. 9 Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning. 10 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding. 11 For by me your days shall be multiplied, and the years of your life shall be increased. 12 If you be wise, you shall be wise for yourself: but if you scorn, you alone shall bear it. 13 A foolish woman [churches led away by false prophets and false teachers, teaching that feelings provoked by fables should outweigh a sound mind able to critically think] is clamorous: she is simple, and knows nothing. 14 For she sits at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places [marowm] of the city, 15 To call passengers [‘abar – those journeying through death toward the light: understanding and life] who go right on their ways: 16 Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: and as for him that wants understanding, she says to him, 17 Stolen [ganah – deceiving] waters are sweet [mathaq], and bread eaten in secret [not knowing it is corrupted by deception] is pleasant [na’em – is easy to agree with {because of its sweetness}]. 18 But he knows not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the [darkened] depths of hell.
Isaiah 30 1 Woe to the rebellious children, says the LORD, that take counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin: 2 That walk to go down into Egypt [to their oppressors], and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh [the house of the wicked who now rule the world], and to trust in the shadow of Egypt! 3 Therefore shall the strength of [sitting idle, obeying] Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion. 4 For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes. 5 They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them, nor be a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach. 6 The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit them. 7 For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength [rahab] is to sit still. 8 Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come [‘acharown – for these latter days] forever and ever: 9 That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD: 10 Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits: 11 Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before [paniym – to cease manifesting the LORD’s presence to] us. 12 Wherefore thus says the Holy One of Israel, Because you despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness [luwz], and stay thereon: 13 Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly at an instant. 14 And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters’ vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit. 15 For thus says the LORD [‘Adonay – the King of kings] God, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall you be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and you would not. 16 But you said, No; for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall you flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift. 17 One thousand shall flee at [paniym – at the presence of the LORD manifested in His voice heard] the rebuke of one; at [paniym – His presence manifested in this same word repeated] the rebuke of five shall you flee: till you be left [yathar – remain] as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an ensign [nec – the pole upon which the son of man must be lifted – so His voice is heard above all others] on a hill. 18 And therefore will the LORD wait [be patient until the silence is ended], that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him [manifested in His voice heard, obeyed, and given as received]. 19 For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: you shall weep no more: he will be very gracious unto you at the voice of your cry; when he shall hear it, he will answer you. 20 And though the LORD give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not your teachers be removed into a corner any more, but your eyes shall see your teachers: 21 And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, This is the way, walk you in it, when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left. 22 You shall defile also the covering of your graven images of silver, and the ornament of your molten images of gold: you shall cast them away as a menstruous cloth; you shall say unto it, Get you hence. 23 Then shall he give the rain of your seed, that you shall sow the ground withal; and bread of the increase of the earth, and it shall be fat and plenteous: in that day shall your cattle feed in large pastures. 24 The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground shall eat clean provender, which has been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan. 25 And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every high hill, rivers and streams of [these living] waters in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall. 26 Moreover the light of the moon [understanding of civil Government] shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun [the understanding of the church] shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD binds up [chabash] the breach of his people, and heals the stroke of their wound. 27 Behold, the name of the LORD comes from far, burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire: 28 And his breath [the life from His mouth], as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck [releasing the words held there], to sift the nations [those who don’t know Him] with the sieve of vanity [bringing the harvests of their own worthless ways upon them]: and there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing them to err. 29 You shall have a song, as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept [qadash – when you declare His Holy One, repeating the LORD’s words as received]; and gladness of heart, as when one goes with a pipe to come into the mountain of the LORD, to the mighty One of Israel. 30 And the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to be heard [from His people], and shall show the lighting [understanding] down of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, with scattering, and tempest, and hailstones. 31 For through the voice of the LORD shall the Assyrian [communists in church and state] be beaten down, which smote with a rod. 32 And in every place where the grounded staff shall pass [ma’abar – what Passover, this Passover], which the LORD shall lay upon him, it shall be with tabrets and harps [playing these songs with Him, repeating it as received]: and in battles of shaking [so the wicked will be shaken out of the new heaven and earth I Am creating] will he fight with it. 33 For Tophet [the place of fires] is ordained of old; yea, for the king it is prepared; he has made it deep and large: the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the breath [the life from the mouth] of the LORD, like a stream of brimstone, does kindle it.
Friends, again the LORD asks, “How long will your silence persist?” As He states above, His voice is the source of the Passover from death into life, which comes suddenly, at an instant. It is when the wall of iniquity falls, which (iniquity) is defined as despising this word of God and trying to cause this voice, His voice, to cease.
The word used above describing this wall as “swelling out” is the five times used word ba’ah, which we’ve seen in several previous posts, is the iniquity of Esau, the enemies among us at war with the LORD’s presence manifested in (I Am) the son (children) of man He’s sent for this: His purpose. The purpose is stated in Obadiah 1:6 as how this same iniquity is “sought up,”
The following, ending with Psalms 131, is the complete post of 22 August 2019.
Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods He has broken unto the ground.
The above, from Isaiah 21:9, a chapter like most, describes events past in a manner to be understood now, to educate us to the signs of the time (what we are seeing but without comprehension). The title tells of what the watchman saw, and came to understand, after he saw the LORD, as a Lion.
Isaiah 21 1 The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass [sweeping away the old ideas and ways]; so it comes from the desert, from a terrible land [yare’ – the land causing fear, see verse 4 and Isaiah 8:12 & 13, “Say you not, A confederacy, to all them to whom this people shall say, A confederacy; neither fear you their fear, nor be afraid. Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.”] 2 A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer deals treacherously, and the spoiler spoils. Go up, O Elam [this is speaking of eternity, as in the ancient things {God’s word} stored of old, to be released now in this war – also see Jeremiah 49 below telling of the LORD’s throne being established here]: besiege, O Media [people in the middle – as in lukewarm, Revelation 3:14 thru 22]; all the sighing [‘anachah – referring us to Isaiah 35:10 & 51:11 when the LORD silences the enemies and puts His words in our mouths] thereof have I made to cease. 3 Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travails [she is bringing forth a man child]: I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it. 4 My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure has he turned into fear unto me. 5 Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, you princes, and anoint the shield [[magen]]. 6 For thus has the LORD said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he sees. 7 And he saw a chariot with a couple of horsemen, a chariot of asses, and a chariot of camels; and he hearkened diligently with much heed: 8 And he cried, A Lion: My LORD, I stand continually upon the watchtower in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole nights: 9 And, behold, here comes a chariot of men, with a couple of horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon [confusion’s rule] is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he has broken unto the ground. 10 O my threshing [opening the word, referring us to Isaiah 28, and destroying the gates of hell], and the corn [ben – sons] of my [threshing] floor: that which I have heard of the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared unto you. 11 The burden of Dumah [short for Edom {Esau} and meaning the silencing of the enemies in our midst – as in verse 2 above]. He called to me out of Seir [the high places of Esau [[the devils in power]]], Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night [the time of ignorance, which is caused by their {Edom’s} words]? 12 The watchman said, The morning [understand coming as the light of the sunrise] comes, and also the night [and these men will reject this word and choose to remain in ignorance]: if you will enquire [ba’ah], enquire – [ba’ah – only used three other times – here referring us to Obadiah, verse 6, where it is rendered “sought up,” which tells us this is how the secret things of Esau are revealed {by enquiring}]: return [shuwb – turn us], come. 13 The burden upon Arabia [the desert spoken of in verse 1, without water, without God’s word]. In the forest in Arabia shall you lodge, O you travelling companies of Dedanim [these people are defined in Jeremiah 49:8 – they are those spoken of in the prior verse, who return, and in doing escape the calamity that comes upon Esau]. 14 The inhabitants of the land of Tema [same as Teman – the place of the Theophany – where the LORD appears with His ten-thousands, as Enoch said, “Behold, the LORD comes with ten thousands of his saints, To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”] brought water to him that was thirsty, they prevented [went before] with their bread him that fled. 15 For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war. 16 For thus has the LORD said unto me, Within a year, according to the years of a hireling, and all the glory of Kedar [darkness] shall fail: 17 And the residue of the number of archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar [darkness], shall be diminished: for the LORD God of Israel has spoken it.
Isaiah 22 1 The burden of the valley of vision. What ails you now, that you are wholly gone up to the housetops? 2 You that are full of stirs, a tumultuous city, joyous city: your slain men are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle. 3 All your rulers are fled together, they are bound by the archers: all that are found in you are bound together, which have fled from far. 4 Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labor not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people. 5 For it is a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of perplexity by the LORD God of hosts in the valley of vision, breaking down the walls, and of crying to the mountains. 6 And Elam bare the quiver [The LORD’s arrows are held in His word] with chariots of men and horsemen, and Kir [darkness] uncovered the shield [[magen]]. 7 And it shall come to pass, that your choicest valleys shall be full of chariots, and the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate. 8 And he discovered the covering [which held the elect {and all God’s people} down in darkness] of Judah, and you did look in that day to the armor of the house of the forest. 9 You have seen also the breaches of the city of David, that they are many: and you gathered together the waters of the lower pool [the word of God without comprehending its meaning]. 10 And you have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses have you broken down to fortify the wall [see verse 5 above and Isaiah 30:13 and 64:2, the other two times ba’ah appears, first telling of the wall ready to fall and then of the waters brought to a boil]. 11 You made also a ditch between the two walls for the water of the old pool: but you have not looked unto the maker thereof, neither had respect unto him that fashioned it long ago [the LORD, who put the waters, His word, here long ago, in ancient times – stored here to be released {as in Perazim and Gibeon} upon His enemies, who are sitting in His place and judging unjustly, by their abominations which have caused the darkness and desolation]. 12 And in that day did the LORD God of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth: 13 And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die. 14 And it was revealed in my ears by the LORD of hosts, Surely this iniquity shall not be purged from you till you die [which is speaking of the idol worship that has replaced the LORD – in all the church denominations and sects], says the LORD God of hosts. 15 Thus says the LORD God of hosts, Go, get you unto this treasurer, even unto Shebna [even to those who have a zeal for the LORD, but not according to knowledge], which is over the house, and say, 16 What have you here? and whom have you here, that you have hewed you out a sepulcher here [places where the dead are housed], as he that hews him out a sepulcher on high, and that graves a habitation for himself in a rock [the false rock, in which all God’s people {except the very elect remnant who have fled from the abominations} put their trust]? 17 Behold, the LORD will carry you away with a mighty captivity, and will surely cover you. 18 He will surely violently turn and toss you like a ball into a large country: there shall you die, and there the chariots of your glory shall be the shame of your lord’s house. 19 And I will drive you from your station, and from your state shall he pull you down. 20 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim [who God has raised – from among the dead] the son of Hilkiah [whose inheritance is Jehovah – he is the priest who, about a hundred years later in the time of Jeremiah, found the book, wherein, as now, the desolation of God’s peoples is foretold, and by this ancient word understood, we understand the planned restoration of truth]: 21 And I will clothe him with your robe, and strengthen him with your girdle, and I will commit your government into his hand: and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah. 22 And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; so he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open. 23 And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a glorious throne to his father’s house. 24 And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father’s house, the offspring and the issue, all vessels of small quantity, from the vessels of cups, even to all the vessels of flagons. 25 In that day, says the LORD of hosts, shall the nail that is fastened in the sure place be removed, and be cut down, and fall; and the burden [the burdens spoken of in the previous chapter, the burdens of ignorance come from a loss of vision] that was upon it [what caused the offenses – skandalon] shall be cut off: for the LORD has spoken it.
Friends, this is the story, the plan that has now unfolded before our eyes and the eyes of the world. It is the good news that the Father has sent the Son (His children). The only sorrow is that men choose darkness, choose the evil and refuse the good, because their deeds are evil. The good news even for them, until they perish (apoleia) there is still time to cast away their corrupt thinking, close their mouths, become as little children willing to listen, and learn. This last point is the only way to cross from hell into heaven, from death into life, and it begins with ending the ignorance about life and death. Life is awareness, knowing it is more than the moment. Death is ignorance, even of death itself.
2 Corinthians 5 10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he has done, whether it be good or bad. 11 Knowing therefore the terror [phobos – the fear] of the LORD, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences [suneidesis – co-perception, referring to their mind joined {reconciled} with God’s mind]. 12 For we commend not ourselves again unto you, but give you occasion to glory on our behalf [perceiving Christ is in us doing the work], that you may have somewhat to answer them which glory in appearance [the body], and not in heart [the mind of Christ they perceive in us]. 13 For whether we be beside ourselves [existemi – stand away, {insane} in a state of ignorance of reality {away from God and his understanding}], it is to God: or whether we be sober [sophroneo – sound mind {sane}, able to understand reality], it is for your cause. 14 For the love of Christ constrains us [sunecho – hold us together, binds us to Christ, reconciles us to God]; because we thus judge [rightly understanding and declair], that if one died for all, then were all dead [all were ignorant of God and the fuller reality only realized when our minds are reconciled with His – Ephesians 2:1 thru 9: And you has he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; Wherein in time past you walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now works in the children of disobedience: Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, Even when we were dead in sins, has quickened us together with Christ, (by grace you are saved;) And has raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: That in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. For by grace are you saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.]: 15 And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again [which has now again become apparent to our mind reconciled to God and quickened to life]. 16 Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more. 17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. 18 And all things are of God, who has reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and has given to us the ministry of reconciliation; 19 To wit [hos – in this manner], that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and has committed unto us the word of reconciliation. 20 Now then we are ambassadors for [huper – for the very sake of His acting in us and through us] Christ, as though [hos – in this manner] God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead [huper – yielding ourselves for Christ’s sake, so He can act through us, from in us], be you reconciled to God. 21 For he has made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
Here following are some of the Scriptures referenced above.
Revelation 3 14 And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans [the people at the judgment seat of Christ] write; These things says the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God [the new creation spoken of above in 2 Corinthians 5:17]; 15 I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot: I would you wert cold or hot. 16 So then because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew you out of my mouth. 17 Because you say, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and know not that you are wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: 18 I counsel you to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that you may be rich; and white raiment, that you may be clothed, and that the shame of your nakedness do not appear; and anoint your eyes with eye-salve, that you may see. 19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. 20 Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. 21 To him that overcomes will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne. 22 He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says unto the churches.
Jeremiah 49 4 Wherefore glory you in the valleys, your flowing valley, O backsliding daughter? that trusted in her treasures, saying, Who shall come unto me? 5 Behold, I will bring a fear upon you, says the LORD God of hosts, from all those that be about you; and you shall be driven out every man right forth; and none shall gather up him that wanders. 6 And afterward I will bring again the captivity of the children of Ammon, says the LORD. 7 Concerning Edom, thus says the LORD of hosts; Is wisdom no more in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom vanished? 8 Flee you, turn back, dwell deep, O inhabitants of Dedan; for I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, the time that I will visit him. 9 If grape-gatherers come to you, would they not leave some gleaning grapes? if thieves by night, they will destroy till they have enough. 10 But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places [see Obadiah verse 6 below], and he shall not be able to hide himself: his seed is spoiled, and his brethren, and his neighbors, and he is not. 11 Leave your fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let your widows trust in me. 12 For thus says the LORD; Behold, they whose judgment was not to drink of the cup have assuredly drunken; and are you he that shall altogether go unpunished? you shall not go unpunished, but you shall surely drink of it. 13 For I have sworn by myself, says the LORD, that Bozrah [the one flock] shall become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes. 14 I have heard a rumor from the LORD, and an ambassador is sent unto the heathen, saying, Gather you together, and come against her, and rise up to the battle. 15 For, lo, I will make you small among the heathen, and despised among men. 16 Your terribleness has deceived you, and the pride of your heart, O you that dwell in the clefts of the rock, that holds the height of the hill: though you should make your nest as high as the eagle, I will bring you down from thence, says the LORD. 17 Also Edom shall be a desolation: every one that goes by it shall be astonished [surprised by their own ignorance], and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof. 18 As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor cities thereof, says the LORD, no man shall abide there, neither shall a son of man dwell in it. 19 Behold, he shall come up like a lion [of Judah] from the swelling of Jordan [the pride of the dead] against the habitation of the strong: but I will suddenly make him run away from her: and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over her? for who is like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who is that shepherd that will stand before me? 20 Therefore hear the counsel of the LORD, that he has taken against Edom; and his purposes, that he has purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out [I am]: surely he shall make their habitations desolate with them. 21 The earth is moved at the noise of their fall, at the cry the noise thereof was heard in the Red sea. 22 Behold, he shall come up and fly as the eagle, and spread his wings over Bozrah [the entire flock]: and at that day shall the heart of the mighty men of Edom be as the heart of a woman in her pangs. 23 Concerning Damascus [the place where God’s work has been silenced]. Hamath [their walled fortress in which they trust] is confounded [shown to be ignorant], and Arpad [they shall be spread upon my threshing floor]: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet [from the voices causing its agitation]. 24 Damascus is waxed feeble, and turns herself to flee, and fear has seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail. 25 How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy! 26 Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, says the LORD of hosts. 27 And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Benhadad [the children of the false god they have created]. 28 Concerning Kedar [darkness], and concerning the kingdoms of Hazor [their palaces], which Nebuchadrezzar [the lies of the false prophets, which are the abominations that have caused the total desolation of God’s people – of which they are ignorant] king of Babylon [the confusion that rules over all the world – of which they are also ignorant] shall smite, thus says the LORD; Arise you, go up to Kedar [the darkness], and spoil the men of the east. 29 Their tents and their flocks shall they take away: they shall take to themselves their curtains, and all their vessels, and their camels; and they shall cry unto them, Fear is on every side. 30 Flee, get you far off, dwell deep, O you inhabitants of Hazor [their seats of wicked power], says the LORD; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon has taken counsel against you, and has conceived a purpose against you. 31 Arise, get you up unto the wealthy nation, that dwells without care, says the LORD, which have neither gates nor bars, which dwell alone. 32 And their camels shall be a booty, and the multitude of their cattle a spoil: and I will scatter into all winds them that are in the utmost corners; and I will bring their calamity from all sides thereof, says the LORD. 33 And Hazor [their high places of spiritual wickedness] shall be a dwelling for dragons [crocodile, serpent, or whale, all with large mouths to consume their prey – death in their words], and a desolation forever: there shall no man abide there, nor any son of man dwell in it. 34 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against Elam [those who have removed the ancient landmarks – and hold God’s word in their corruption] in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah [the righteousness of Jehovah] king of Judah, saying, 35 Thus says the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, the chief of their might. 36 And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven, and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come. 37 For I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies, and before them that seek their life: and I will bring evil upon them, even my fierce anger, says the LORD; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed [kalah] them: 38 And I will set my throne in Elam, and will destroy from thence the king and the princes, says the LORD. 39 But it shall come to pass in the latter days, that I will bring again the captivity of Elam, says the LORD.
Isaiah 30 8 Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever: 9 That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD: 10 Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits: 11 Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us. 12 Wherefore thus says the Holy One of Israel, Because you despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness [[luwz]], and stay thereon: 13 Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out [ba’ah] in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly at an instant. 14 And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters’ vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit. 15 For thus says the LORD God, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall you be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and you would not. 16 But you said, No; for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall you flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift. 17 One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five shall you flee: till you be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on a hill. 18 And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him.
Isaiah 35 1 The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose. 2 It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon, they shall see the glory of the LORD, and the excellency of our God. 3 Strengthen you the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees. 4 Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompence; he will come and save you. 5 Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. 6 Then shall the lame man leap as a hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out [as in Perazim], and streams in the desert. 7 And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes. 8 And a highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein. 9 No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon, it shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk there: 10 And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing [‘anachah] shall flee away.
Isaiah 51 9 Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Are you not it that has cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon? 10 Are you not it which has dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; that has made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over? 11 Therefore the redeemed of the LORD shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning [‘anachah] shall flee away. 12 I, even I, am he that comfort you: who are you, that you should be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made as grass; 13 And forget the LORD your maker, that has stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and have feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor? 14 The captive exile hastens that he may be loosed, and that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail. 15 But I am the LORD your God, that divided the sea, whose waves roared: The LORD of hosts is his name. 16 And I have put my words in your mouth, and I have covered you in the shadow of my hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, You are my people. 17 Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which have drunk at the hand of the LORD the cup of his fury; you have drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling, and wrung them out. 18 There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she has brought forth; neither is there any that takes her by the hand of all the sons that she has brought up. 19 These two things are come unto you; who shall be sorry for you? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort you? 20 Your sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the LORD, the rebuke of your God. 21 Therefore hear now this, you afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine: 22 Thus says your LORD the LORD, and your God that pleads the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of your hand the cup of trembling, even the dregs of the cup of my fury; you shall no more drink it again: 23 But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict you; which have said to your soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and you have laid your body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over.
Isaiah 64 1 Oh that you would rend the heavens, that you would come down, that the mountains might flow down at your presence, 2 As when the melting fire burns, the fire causes the waters to boil [ba’ah], to make your name known to your adversaries, that the nations may tremble at your presence! 3 When you did terrible things which we looked not for [because we have become ignorant of your ways], you came down, the mountains flowed down at your presence. 4 For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither has the eye seen, O God, beside you, what he has prepared for him that waits for him. 5 You meet him that rejoices and works righteousness, those that remember you in your ways: behold, you are wroth; for we have sinned: in those is continuance [knowing your ways], and we shall be saved. 6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. 7 And there is none that calls upon your name, that stirs up himself to take hold of you: for you have hid your face from us, and have consumed us, because of our iniquities. 8 But now, O LORD, you are our father; we are the clay, and you our potter; and we all are the work of your hand.
Obadiah 6 How are the things of Esau searched out! how are his hidden things sought up [ba’ah]! 7 All the men of your confederacy have brought you even to the border: the men that were at peace with you have deceived you, and prevailed against you; they that eat your bread have laid a wound under you: there is none understanding in him. 8 Shall I not in that day, says the LORD, even destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of the mount of Esau? 9 And your mighty men, O Teman, shall be dismayed [be ignorant], to the end that every one of the mount of Esau may be cut off by slaughter.
21 And saviors shall come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau; and the kingdom shall be the LORD’s.
Psalms 131 1 LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor my eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me. 2 Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child. 3 Let Israel hope in the LORD from henceforth and forever.
Proverbs 2 1 My son, if you will receive my words, and hide my commandments with you; 2 So that you incline your ear unto wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding; 3 Yea, if you cry after knowledge, and lift up your voice for understanding; 4 If you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hid treasures; 5 Then shall you understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God. 6 For the LORD gives wisdom: out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding. 7 He lays up [tsaphan – hides, reserves in secrets only He knows] sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler [magen – a shield] to them that walk uprightly. 8 He keeps the paths of judgment, and preserves [shamar – guards and protects] the way of his saints. 9 Then shall you understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path. 10 When wisdom enters into your heart [mind], and knowledge is pleasant [na’em] unto your soul; 11 Discretion shall preserve [shamar] you, understanding shall keep [natsar] you: 12 To deliver you from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaks froward [tahpukah – perverted truth, fraudulent] things; 13 Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness [chosen ignorance, ignoring present truth]; 14 Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness [tahpukah – fraud and deceptions] of the wicked; 15 Whose ways are crooked, and they froward [luwz – departing from God and truth] in their paths: 16 To deliver you from the strange woman [the church institutions estranged from God], even from the stranger which flatters with her [corrupt] words; 17 Which forsakes the guide of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God. 18 For her house inclines unto death, and her paths unto the dead. 19 None that go unto her return again [to the One from whom they departed], neither take they hold of the paths of life. 20 That you mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous. 21 For the upright shall dwell in the land [‘erets – the new earth I Am creating], and the perfect [tamiym] shall remain [yathar] in it. 22 But the wicked shall be cut off [karath] from the earth [‘erets], and the transgressors shall be rooted out [nacach] of it.
The word nacach only appears three other times, all telling of when the LORD destroys the son of perdition, who, like Reuben, will not remain (yathar).
Proverbs 15 20 A wise son makes a glad father: but a foolish man despises his mother [His teachers who teach righteousness]. 21 Folly is joy to him that is destitute of wisdom: but a man of understanding walks uprightly. 22 Without [the LORD’s] counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counselors [speaking His word] they are established. 23 A man has joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is it! 24 The way of life is above [exalted] to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath. 25 The LORD will destroy [nacach] the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of [gbuwl – this promised end] the widow [the church whose leaders are the dead].
Job 36 1 Elihu [He is God speaking and working unknown] also proceeded, and said, 2 Suffer me a little, and I will show you that I have yet to speak on God’s behalf [‘illuw – as the voice of God]. 3 I will fetch my knowledge from afar [rachowq – this time when the earth is ruled by the evil decrees of wicked men, referring to verses 22 – 26, saying “Behold, God exalts by his power: who teaches like him? Who has enjoined him his way? or who can say, You have wrought iniquity? Remember that you magnify his work, which men behold. Every man may see it; man may behold it afar off {rachowq}. Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.”], and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker. 4 For truly my words shall not be false: he that is perfect [tamiym] in knowledge is with you. 5 Behold, God is mighty, and despise not any: he is mighty in strength and wisdom. 6 He preserves not the life of the wicked: but gives right to the poor. 7 He withdraws not his eyes from the righteous: but with kings are they on the throne; yea, he does establish them forever, and they are exalted [by His word spoken as received]. 8 And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction; 9 Then he shows them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded. 10 He opens also their ear to discipline, and commands that they return from iniquity. 11 If they obey [shama’] and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures. 12 But if they obey [shama’] not, they shall perish by the sword [this word they refuse], and they shall die without knowledge.
Job 37 10 By the breath of God frost [His reserved word from His mouth] is given: and the breadth of the waters is straitened [become focused: the element of understanding are brought together]. 11 Also by watering he wearies the thick cloud [where understanding is hidden when it left the earth]: he scatters his bright cloud [wherein is this light]: 12 And it is turned round about [send understand upon the earth again] by his counsels: that they may do whatsoever he commands them upon the face [paniym – from His voice as he manifests His presence therein] of the world [tebel – to the inhabitants] in the earth [‘erets – here in the belly of hell]. 13 He causes it to come, whether for correction [shebet – to establish His rule], or for his land [‘erets – over the earth], or for mercy [in this conversation at His mercy seat, not willing that any should perish, but that all would come to repentance]. 14 Hearken unto this, O Job [God’s people hated here among this evil generation]: stand still, and consider [biyn – understand] the wondrous [eye opening] works of God. 15 Do you know when God disposed them [suwm – put them here], and caused the light of [this understanding sent] his cloud to shine? 16 Do you know the balancings of [miphlas – only appearing here, meaning the things “poised” to be sent from] the clouds, the wondrous [eye opening] works of him which is perfect [tamiym] in knowledge?
Psalms 99 1 The LORD reigns; let the people tremble: he sits between the cherubims [above the mercy seat, manifesting His presence in this conversation]; let the earth be moved [nuwt – quake]. 2 The LORD is great in Zion; and he is high [ruwn – risen by His own power] above all the people. 3 Let them praise your great and terrible name; for it is holy. 4 The king’s strength also loves judgment; you do establish equity, you execute judgment and righteousness in Jacob [upon Your people still wrestling with Your presence, Your word and work, unknown]. 5 Exalt you the LORD our God, and worship at his footstool; for he is holy. 6 Moses and Aaron [those drawn from the corrupt waters below and giving this light as received] among his priests, and Samuel [those hearing this word as the voice of the LORD] among them that call upon his name [His manifested identity]; they called upon the LORD, and he answered them. 7 He spoke unto them in the cloudy pillar: they kept his testimonies, and the ordinance that he gave them. 8 You answered them, O LORD our God: you are a God that forgave them, though you took vengeance of their inventions [the idols men created, put in My place, and call by My name]. 9 Exalt the LORD our God, and worship at his holy hill; for the LORD our God is holy.
Son of man, speak unto the elders of Israel, and say unto them, Thus says the LORD God; Are you come to enquire of me? As I live, says the LORD God, I will not be enquired of by you.
As discussed in previous posts, the Hebrew word rendered “enquire” is darash, meaning “to tread or frequent; usually to follow (for pursuit or search); by implication, to seek or ask; specifically to worship.”
In this word’s uses, we understand it describes the inquisition by which errors are exercised. In the title verse, Ezekiel 20:3, and its surrounding passages, the LORD, without error, refuses to be questioned by those whose foundational minds are corrupted by their idols: abominations men created, put in His place, and called by His name.
Ezekiel uses the word (darash) four times in Ezekiel 14, six times in Chapter 20, once in Chapter 33, four times in Chapter 34, and once in Chapter 36.
Ezekiel 14 1 Then came certain of the elders of Israel unto me, and sat before me. 2 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 3 Son of man, these men have set up [darash – enquired of] their idols in their heart [their corrupt foundational minds, by which they are deceived and misled], and put the stumbling-block of their iniquity [‘avon – the iniquity of the father’s visited upon their children] before their face: should I be enquired [darash] of at all by them? 4 Therefore speak unto them, and say unto them, Thus says the LORD God; Every man of the house of Israel that sets up his idols in his heart [corrupting his foundational mind], and puts the stumbling-block of [falling away from Me and My truth by] his iniquity before his face [nokach paniym – blocking him from seeing My presence manifested in My words], and comes to the prophet [speaking My words]; I the LORD will answer him that comes according to the multitude of his idols [with truth, destroy his corrupt understanding]; 5 That I may take the house of Israel in their own heart [their stoicheion, their corrupt “elements” of understanding, which melt away in heat of the fires they cause], because they are all estranged from me through their idols. 6 Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus says the LORD God; Repent [shuwb], and turn [shuwb] yourselves from your idols; and turn away [shuwn] your faces [paniym – return to My presence] from all your abominations. 7 For every one of the house of Israel, or of the stranger that sojourns [guwr – who strays from the right ways] in Israel, which separates himself from me, and sets up his idols in his heart, and puts the stumbling-block of his iniquity before his face, and comes to a prophet to enquire [darash] of him concerning me; I the LORD will answer him by myself: 8 And I will set my face [paniym – My presence manifested in My word from My prophet: My angel: My messenger] against that man, and will make him a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from the midst of my people; and you shall know that I am the LORD. 9 And if the [false] prophet be deceived when he has spoken a thing [in My name, which they call their abominations], I the LORD have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand upon him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel. 10 And they shall bear the punishment of their iniquity [‘avon]: the punishment [‘avon] of the prophet shall be even as the punishment [‘avon] of him that seeks [darash – the one the LORD sends to draw out into the light the sins of the fathers, visiting them upon their children] unto him; 11 That [in truth’s victory over the words of death] the house of Israel may go no more astray from me, neither be polluted any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be my people, and I may be their God, says the LORD God. 12 The word of the LORD came again to me, saying, 13 Son of man, when the land [‘erets – the earth] sins against me by trespassing [ma’al] grievously [ma’al – this is sin, errors, committed in ignorance], then will I stretch out my hand [spread this work before it] upon it, and will break the staff of the bread thereof [destroying the body of corrupt work, the corrupt foundational elements upon which they put their trust], and will send famine upon it [and it will no longer be heard], and will cut off [karath] man and beast from it: 14 Though these three men, Noah [those promised this resting place], Daniel [that comes by this judgment of God], and Job [who are now hated among this last evil generation], were in it [those predestined to be the first generation resurrected in this time, in this way], they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, says the LORD God. 15 If I cause noisome [ra’ – evil] beasts [without My Spirit] to pass through [‘abar – to be resurrected into this judgment] the land [‘erets – this earth], and they spoil it, so that it be desolate, that no man may pass through [‘abar – from death into life] because of the beasts: 16 Though these three men were in it, as I live, says the LORD God, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters; they only shall be delivered, but the land [‘erets – the old and corrupt earth] shall be desolate. 17 Or if I bring a sword [this word from the mouths of His corrected and obedient children] upon that land [’erets – the earth], and say, Sword, go through the land [‘erets – the earth]; so that I cut off [karath] man and beast from it: 18 Though these three men were in it, as I live, says the LORD God, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they only shall be delivered themselves. 19 Or if I send a pestilence [deber, from dabar, meaning this matter, this orderly arrangement, resetting the sure foundations of the earth, building them upon the ruin of the world under evil men] into that land [‘erets – the earth], and pour out my fury [chemah – heat from My consuming fire] upon it in blood [pouring life into those who receive this correction], to cut off [karath] from it [the old and corrupt earth] man and beast: 20 Though Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as I live, says the LORD God, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter; they shall but deliver their own souls by their righteousness [The LORD’s righteousness, this uncorrupted truth, the garment put on, that protects man from the element of the corrupt world]. 21 For thus says the LORD God; How much more when I send my four sore judgments upon [old and corrupt] Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the noisome beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast? 22 Yet, behold, therein shall be left a remnant that shall be brought forth, both sons and daughters: behold, they shall come forth unto you, and you shall see their way and their doings: and you shall be comforted [nacham – led to understanding] concerning the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem [the ruin upon which I Am building New Heavenly Jerusalem], even concerning all [sword, evil beasts, the pestilence, the famine] that I have brought upon it [visiting the sins of the fathers upon their children]. 23 And they shall comfort you [nacham – shall lead you into all truth], when you see [ra’ah – have been shepherded into] their ways and their doings: and you shall know that I have not done without cause all that I have done in it, says the LORD God.
Colossians 2 1 For I would that you knew what great conflict I have for you, and for them [the lukewarm, ignorant of their need to be saved from death] at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh [have not yet seen the LORD is present in my flesh]; 2 That their hearts might be comforted [that their minds would thereby be, by Him, led into all truth], being knit together in love [joined with God by His word heard as Him speaking directly], and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God [alive in His children who receive Him], the Father, and of Christ; 3 In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. 4 And this I say, lest any man should beguile you with enticing words. 5 For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ. 6 As you have therefore received Christ Jesus the LORD [at His coming to you in His word], so walk you in him: 7 Rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith [knowing He is with us, in us], as you have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving. 8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain [worthless] deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments [stoicheion – the “elements,” the corrupt foundations] of the world [which Peter tells us melt away in the same fires they’ve caused, which end the now old heaven and earth], and not after Christ. 9 For in him dwells all the fulness [pleroma – full filling] of the Godhead [theotes] bodily [somatikos – only appearing here, meaning “physically;” the Thayer’s Greek Lexicon giving the additional meaning “of the exalted spiritual body, visible only to the inhabitants of heaven”]. 10 And you are complete [pleroo – filled full] in him, which is the head of all principality [arche – this new beginning, of God’s just government] and power [exousia – the LORD’s authority vested herein]: 11 In whom also you are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision [removing the flesh that covers the head] of Christ: 12 Buried with him in baptism, wherein also you are risen with him through the faith of the operation of [removing the flesh veil, by] God, who has raised him from the dead. 13 And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, has he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses; 14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; [I Corinthians 15:55 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. 57 But thanks be to God, which gives us the victory through our LORD Jesus Christ. 58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be you steadfast, Immovable, always abounding in the work of the LORD {giving this word as received, manifesting His presence in the corrupt world}, forasmuch as you know that your labor is not in vain in the LORD.] 15 And having spoiled principalities [arche – corrupting God’s just government] and powers [exousia – rejecting the LORD’s authority in church and state, where the spiritually wicked sit thinking their policy of deception can hide them], he made a show of them openly [that they are the dead leading the world into death], triumphing over them in it. 16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of a holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: 17 Which are a shadow of things to come [their spiritual meaning here and now revealed by the living God alive in us]; but the [ONE] body is of Christ. 18 Let no man beguile you [out] of your reward (in a voluntary humility and) [These parentheses are added by me because it’s a dubious translation of the word they are rendered from, thelesis, the same word rendered “would” in verse 1 of this chapter and verse 27 of the previous. The context here is a warning against following fallen angels, speaking their own words as false Christs, beguiling silly women, as the devil did Eve. It is here saying these men “would” have you worship them in God’s place] worshipping of angels [the messengers, who, if God were truly speaking through them, would be speaking according to this word, and wouldn’t allow men to worship them, which is reserved for the Father alone. These men are fallen angels who left their first estate, speaking their own words and not the LORD’s, putting themselves in the Father’s place] intruding into those things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up [with pride] by his fleshly mind [which they refuse to circumcise], 19 And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increase with the increase [filling them to the full] of God. 20 Wherefore if you be dead with Christ from the rudiments [stoicheion – the corrupt element] of the world, why, as though living in the world, are you subject to [the corrupt] ordinances, 21 (Touch not; taste not; handle not; 22 Which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and doctrines of men? 23 Which things have indeed a show of [worldly] wisdom in will worship [ethelothreskeia – only used here, meaning “voluntary (arbitrary and unwarranted) piety, i.e. sanctimony”], and [feigned] humility, and [needlessly] neglecting of the body: not in [that there is] any honor to the satisfying [plesmone – filling up] of the flesh.
The Greek word genesis only appears three times: first, in Matthew 1:1, before giving the LORD Jesus’ genealogy, saying it’s “The book of the generation of Jesus Christ;” then twice in James: in James 1:23, speaking of a man’s “natural” face, and in James 3:6, speaking of the course of “nature.”
James 1 16 Do not err, my beloved brethren. 17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights [understanding], with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. 18 Of his own will begat he us [again] with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures [ltisma – His creations in this new heaven on earth]. 19 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: 20 For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God. 21 Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls. 22 But be you doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. 23 For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural [genesis] face in a glass [seeing himself regenerated, brought to life again in the flesh]: 24 For he beholds himself [the LORD’s new creation raise to life to no longer be just a hearer of the word but a doer, giving it as received], and goes his way, and straightway forgets what manner [hopoios – what kind and for what] of man he was [raised]. 25 But whoso looks into the perfect [teleios – “complete (in various applications of labor, growth, mental and moral character, etc.); neuter (as noun, with 3588) completeness:–of full age, man, perfect.”] law of liberty [filling men with this truth that set them free from death and hell], and continues therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. 26 If any man among you seems to be religious, and bridles not his tongue [refusing to obey the LORD and speak His word, not their own private interpretations, opinions, delusions, that lead men into destruction], but deceives his own heart [mind, become insane, no longer able to distinguish between His delusion and the truth, this reality He is experiencing], this man’s religion is vain [worthless]. 27 Pure [uncorrupted] religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit [manifesting the LORD’s presence as the protector and defender of] the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the [corrupt men in power over the] world.
James 3 1 My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation. 2 For in many things [if we err from the truth] we offend [ptaio – to trip, by error cause men to fail {not reach} salvation] all. If any man offend [ptaio] not in word [doesn’t teach errors, misleading, that causes men not to reach salvation], the same is a perfect [teleios – complete] man [having put away childish things, become a new man in the LORD’s new creation], and able also to bridle [the tongue of the] the whole [ONE] body [of Christ]. 3 Behold, we put bits in the horses’ mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body. 4 Behold also the ships [the institution of the world, that rule over the sea: all humanity], which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds [of men’s false doctrines], yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor [justly or unjustly controlling them] lists [wills]. 5 Even so the tongue is a little member [like the helm], and boasts great things [showing the spirit driving them]. Behold [see now], how great a matter [of life and death] a little fire kindles! 6 And the [unjust and misleading] tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity [here in hell]: so is the tongue among our members [among the now dead body of Christ], that it defiles the whole body [as leaven does the whole], and set on fire the course [trochos – only appearing here, meaning a wheel {a circuit of physical effects}, the full course beginning to end and turning again] of nature [genesis – ending the old that became without form and void, bringing the new, into which the LORD came with His light saving the just, pulling {harpazo – “caught up”} us from hell’s fires]; and it is set on fire of hell [wherein the unjust choose to remain]. 7 For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and has been tamed of mankind: 8 But the tongue [of the incorrigible] can no man tame; it is an unruly [unrestrained] evil, full of deadly poison. 9 Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we [kataraomai– doom {to destruction}] men, which are made after the similitude of God, 10 Out of the same mouth proceeds blessing and cursing [saying you’re helping while hurting, leavening with mockery that corrupts the whole]. My brethren, these things ought not so to be. 11 Does a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter? 12 Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh. 13 Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him show out of a good conversation his works with meekness [not to destroy but to build] of wisdom. 14 But if you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. 15 This wisdom descends not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. 16 For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. 17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. 18 And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace
Ezekiel 20 1 And it came to pass in the seventh year [of Spiritual perfection], in the fifth month [when God’s grace is upon His people], the tenth day of the month [of ordinal perfection, when all is in proper order], that certain of the elders of Israel came to enquire of [darash – to question] the LORD, and sat before me [attempting to prove He is not alive in me working and speaking]. 2 Then came the word of the LORD unto me, saying, 3 Son of man, speak unto the elders of Israel, and say unto them, Thus says the LORD God; Are you come to enquire [darash] of me? As I live, says the LORD God, I will not be enquired of [darash] by you. 4 Will you judge [shaphat] them, son of man, will you judge [shaphat] them? cause them to know the abominations of their fathers [which are now visited upon their children]: 5 And say unto them, Thus says the LORD God; In the day [the time of light] when I chose Israel, and lifted up my hand [My work] unto the seed of the house of Jacob, and made myself known unto them in the land of Egypt, when I lifted up my hand unto them, saying, I am the LORD your God; 6 In the day that I lifted up my hand unto them, to bring them forth of the land of Egypt into a land that I had espied for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands: 7 Then said I unto them, Cast you away every man the abominations of his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt: I am the LORD your God. 8 But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken unto me: they did not every man cast away the abominations of their eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt: then I said, I will pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt. 9 But I wrought for my name’s sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, among whom they were, in whose sight I made myself known unto them, in bringing them forth out of the land of Egypt. 10 Wherefore I caused them to go forth out of the land of Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness. 11 And I gave them my statutes, and showed them my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them. 12 Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths [when I interrupt, stop their works to correct them back onto the course to this promised end], to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD that sanctifies them [cleans them of corruption by washing them in these living waters]. 13 But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly polluted: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them. 14 But I wrought for my name’s sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out [of corruption: pollution]. 15 Yet also I lifted up my hand unto them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands; 16 Because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, but polluted my sabbaths: for their heart [minds] went after their idols. 17 Nevertheless my eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness. 18 But I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk you not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols: 19 I Am the LORD your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them; 20 And hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that you may know that I am the LORD your God. 21 Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me: they walked not in my statutes, neither kept my judgments to do them, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; they polluted my sabbaths: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness. 22 Nevertheless I withdrew my hand, and wrought for my name’s sake, that it should not be polluted in the sight of the heathen, in whose sight I brought them forth. 23 I lifted up my hand unto them also in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them through the countries; 24 Because they had not executed my judgments, but had despised my statutes, and had polluted my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers’ idols. 25 Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live; 26 And I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass through the fire all that opened the womb, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I am the LORD. 27 Therefore, son of man, speak unto the house of Israel, and say unto them, Thus says the LORD God; Yet in this your fathers have blasphemed me, in that they have committed a trespass against me. 28 For when I had brought them into the land, for the which I lifted up my hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill, and all the thick trees, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering: there also they made their sweet savor, and poured out there their drink offerings. 29 Then I said unto them, What is the high place [bamah – the ancient high place now possessed by devils] whereunto you go? And the name whereof is called Bamah unto this day. [Deuteronomy 33:29 Happy are you, O Israel: who is like unto you, O people saved by the LORD, the shield of your help, and who is the sword of your excellency! and your enemies shall be found liars unto you; and you shall tread upon their high places {bamah}.] 30 Wherefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus says the LORD God; Are you polluted after the manner of your fathers? and commit you whoredom after their abominations? 31 For when you offer your gifts, when you make your sons to pass through the fire, you pollute yourselves with all your idols, even unto this day [and none enquire about these]: and shall I be enquired [darash] of by you, O house of Israel? As I live, says the LORD God, I will not be enquired [darash] of by you. 32 And that which comes into your mind shall not be at all, that you say, We will be as the heathen [as a people who don’t know the LORD], as the families of the countries, to serve wood and stone. 33 As I live, says the LORD God, surely with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out, will I rule over you: 34 And I will bring you out from the people, and will gather you out of the countries wherein you are scattered, with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out. 35 And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people, and there will I plead [shaphat – judge, by manifesting My presence in the son of man, as in verse 4 above] with you face [paniym] to face [paniym – manifesting My presence to your presence, like the cherubims above the mercy seat, the ancient high place where My voice is exalted above all others]. 36 Like as I pleaded with [shaphat – judged] your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I plead with [shaphat – judge] you, says the LORD God. 37 And I will cause you to pass [‘abar – from death into life] under the rod [shebet – the Scepter of My rule], and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant: 38 And I will purge out from among you the rebels, and them that transgress against me: I will bring them forth out of the country where they sojourn, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel: and you shall know that I am the LORD. 39 As for you, O house of Israel, thus says the LORD God; Go you, serve you every one his idols, and hereafter also, if you will not hearken [shama’ – hear and obey My voice] unto me: but pollute you my holy name no more with your gifts, and with your idols. 40 For in my holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel, says the LORD God, there shall all the house of Israel, all of them in the land, serve me: there will I accept them, and there will I require [darah] your offerings, and the firstfruits of your oblations, with all your holy things. 41 I will accept you with your sweet savor, when I bring you out from the people, and gather you [into My ONE BODY] out of the countries wherein you have been scattered; and I will be sanctified [declared to be the Holy One] in you before the heathen. 42 And you shall know that I Am the LORD, when I shall bring you into the land of Israel, into the country for the which I lifted up my hand [this work] to give it to your fathers. 43 And there shall you remember your ways, and all your doings, wherein you have been defiled; and you shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that you have committed. 44 And you shall know that I am the LORD when I have wrought with you for my name’s sake, not according to your wicked ways, nor according to your corrupt doings, O you house of Israel, says the LORD God. 45 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 46 Son of man, set your face [My presence manifested in you] toward the south [to those watching for this sun rising], and drop [as the latter rain] your word toward the south, and prophesy [speak the word I have put in your mind and mouth] against the forest [the upright, the shepherds, the seers of My poeple] of the south field; 47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus says the LORD God; Behold, I will kindle a fire in you, and it shall devour every green tree in you, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south [those looking for this sun rising] to the north [and those ignorant of it] shall be burned therein. 48 And all flesh shall see that I the LORD have kindled it: it shall not be quenched. 49 Then said I, Ah LORD God! they say of me, Does he not speak parables?
The following, ending in 1 John 1, is from the post of 17 – 18 July 2024.
What will you say when he shall punish you? for you have taught them to be captains, and as chief over you: shall not sorrows take you, as a woman in travail?
The word “punish,” above in Jeremiah 13:21, is paqad, meaning “to visit (with friendly or hostile intent); by analogy, to oversee, muster, charge, care for, miss, deposit, etc..” As often discussed, it speaks of the LORD openly manifesting His presence, in His word and work, as the Chief Overseer of the earth, declaring righteous decrees that combat the evil decrees (now) ruling the earth.
One such decree concerns current government institutions (of church and state), degenerated into the control of those antithetical to their Constitution. No longer are they controlled by (the consent of) the constituents who elect representatives to carry out their will, within the framework of the powers vested in their institutions by its Law. This will, as established in our Declaration, is that we are entitled to live under “the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God (the Creator),” who has endowed us with unalienable Rights, among them Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, and to secure these unalienable Rights governments are instituted.
As we know, the “Bill of Rights,” the first ten amendments to the Constitution, state additional rights essential to “securing” ourselves against despots abusing government power. They specifically protect against demagogues that might rise and end as tyrants threatening our Lives and Liberty. They additionally state our Right to Pursue Happiness includes our right to acquire and keep secure our private property.
The current governments, riddled by millions of unelected self-servants, now led by devils (possessed by the spirit of Satan), abandoned, not only the Laws of Nature and Nature’s God, but also, the Spirit in these Laws (securing our God-Given Rights, our neighbors’ and our own: reciprocal security, the way to peace and sustainable civilization), and now control, by evil decree and corrupt judgment, virtually every aspect of our existence.
The LORD has righteously decreed they will not continue.
2 Peter 3 9 The LORD is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness [ignorant of the fact He is always here with us]; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. 10 But the day of the LORD will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements [stoicheion – the rudiments of the world, the corruption and insanity now possessing humanity] shall melt with fervent heat [the fires of hell these elements themselves create], the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. 11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in all holy [this pure, uncorrupted, word] conversation [wherein the LORD’s presence is manifested] and godliness [eusebeia – literally meaning to revere good; the same word as in 1 Timothy 3:16, saying, “And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness {eusebeia}: God was {is} manifest in the flesh {of those speaking His word}, justified in the Spirit {while unknown speaking and working}, seen of angels {those made pure who become His messengers speaking His word}, preached unto the Gentiles {to those who don’t know Him}, believed on in the world {He is now creating}, received up into glory {in those exalting His voice above all other voices}.], 12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the [old and corrupted] heavens [where this understanding should be found] being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements [stoicheion – the corrupt foundational ideas of the wicked in power] shall melt [be dissolved] with fervent heat? 13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwells righteousness. 14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that you look for such things, be diligent that you may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless. 15 And account that the longsuffering of our LORD is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him has written unto you; 16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrestle, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction [apoleia – perdition]. 17 You therefore, beloved, seeing you know these things before, beware lest you also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own steadfastness. 18 But grow in grace [this gift], and in the knowledge of our LORD and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and forever. Amen.
The word above, in 1 Timothy 3:16, dubiously rendered “without controversy,” only appearing here, is homologoumenos, from the words homou (same) logos (words) and menuo, meaning “probably from the same base as 3145 [masso – to handle, as in 1 John 1 below] and 3415 [mnaomai – to mentally grasp] (i.e. mao, to strive); to disclose (through the idea of mental effort and thus calling to mind), i.e. report, declare, intimate:–show, tell.”
In this verse (1 Timothy 3:16) Paul says homologoumenos (this same word declared) megas (the greatness found therein) eusebeia (is revering good) musterion Theos phaneroo en sarx (is the mystery of God manifested in the flesh).
This statement comes after (in verse 15) he (Paul) just spoke to Timothy so he would know how to behave (anastrepho – return: in the conversation) to “the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.”
Acts 15 15 And to this agree the words of the prophets; as it is written, 16 After this I will return [anastrepho], and will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up: 17 That the residue of men might seek after the LORD, and all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, says the LORD, who does all these things. 18 Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.
2 Corinthians 1 9 But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raises the dead: 10 Who delivered us from so great a death, and does deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us; 11 You also helping together [under the same sentence, doing the same work] by prayer for us, that for the gift [this understanding from the LORD] bestowed upon us by the means [of answering the prayers] of many persons thanks may be given by many on our behalf [thanking the LORD for our deliverance and theirs]. 12 For our rejoicing [the LORD’s presence realized in this word] is this, the testimony of our conscience [suneidesis – our co-perspective with the LORD], that in simplicity [haplotes – meaning “singleness, i.e. (subjectively) sincerity (without dissimulation or self-seeking), or (objectively) generosity (copious bestowal)] and godly [Theos – from God] sincerity [without leaven: uncorrupted], not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace [this gift] of God, we have had our conversation [anastrepho – in which the LORD is] in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward. 13 For we write none other things unto you, that what you read or acknowledge [epiginosko – this dispensation of knowledge by the LORD through His gift to us, in this conversation]; and I trust you shall acknowledge [epiginosko – receive the dispensation of knowledge] even to the end [when we receive this full understanding, the light and life of the LORD]; 14 As also you have acknowledged [epiginosko – received the dispensation from] us in part, that we are your rejoicing [realizing it is the LORD manifesting His presence in the conversation], even as you also are ours [rejoicing] in the day [when the light and life] of the LORD Jesus [is manifested from you].
1 John 1 1 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life; 2 (For the life [light and understanding] was manifested, and we have seen it [in the flesh], and bear witness, and show unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us [in His son, and the children given to him];) 3 That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that you also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ. 4 And these things write we unto you, that your joy [realizing His presence in this manner] may be full. 5 This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light [understanding and life], and in him is no darkness [ignorance] at all.
Ezekiel 33 1 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, speak to the children of your people, and say unto them, When I bring the sword upon a land [‘erets – the earth], if the people of the land take a man of their coasts, and set him for their watchman: 3 If when he sees [ra’ah] the sword come upon the land [‘erets – the earth], he blows the trumpet, and warns the people; 4 Then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet [this voice], and taketh not warning; if the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head. 5 He heard the sound of the trumpet, and took not warning; his blood shall be upon him. But he that takes warning shall deliver his soul. 6 But if the watchman sees [ra’ah] the sword come, and blows not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword comes, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require [darash] at the watchman’s hand. 7 So you, O son of man, I have set you a watchman unto the house of Israel; therefore you shall hear [shama’ – and obey] the word at my mouth, and warn them from me.
In Ezekiel 34, when the LORD speaks to the “shepherds” and of “feeding” the word is ra’ah, which we know has an affinity to the word (also transliterating to ra’ah) meaning to “see.”
Ezekiel 34 1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 2 Son of man [I Am], prophesy against the shepherds [ra’ah – the seers] of Israel, prophesy, and say unto them, Thus says the LORD God unto the shepherds [ra’ah – the seers]; Woe be to the shepherds [ra’ah – the seers] of Israel that do feed [ra’ah – see for] themselves! should not the shepherds [ra’ah – the seers] feed [ra’ah – see for] the flocks? 3 You eat the fat, and you clothe you with the wool, you kill them that are fed [ra’ah – by the things you see for yourselves]: but you feed [ra’ah – see] not [for] the flock. 4 The diseased have you not strengthened [with My word I give you], neither have you healed [with My word I give you] that which was sick, neither have you bound up [with My word] that which was broken, neither have you brought again [into My presence] that which was [by you] driven away, neither have you sought that which was lost; but with force and with cruelty [of your deceptions and misleading] have you ruled them [into ruin]. 5 And they were scattered, because there is no shepherd [ra’ah – no seer]: and they became meat to all the beasts of the field, when they were scattered. 6 My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every high hill: yea, my flock was scattered upon all the face of [paniym – from My presence on] the earth, and none did search [darash] or seek after them. 7 Therefore, you shepherds [ra’ah – seers], hear the word of the LORD; 8 As I live, says the LORD God, surely because my flock became a prey, and my flock became meat to every beast of the field [all those on the earth without My Spirit], because there was no shepherd [ra’ah – no seers], neither did my shepherds [ra’ah -seers] search [darash] for my flock, but the shepherds [ra’ah – the seers] fed [ra’ah – saw for] themselves, and fed not [ra’ah – and see not for] my flock; 9 Therefore, O you shepherds [ra’ah – blind seers], hear the word of the LORD; 10 Thus says the LORD God; Behold, I Am against the shepherds [ra’ah – these blind seers]; and I will require [darash] my flock at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding [ra’ah – from seeing for] the flock; neither shall the shepherds [ra’ah – these blind seers] feed [ra’ah – see for] themselves any more; for I will deliver my flock from their mouth [their words by which the devours and swallow into the belly of hell], that they may not be meat for them. 11 For thus says the LORD God; Behold, I, even I, will both search [darash] my sheep, and seek them out. 12 As a shepherd [ra’ah – as a good seer] seeks out his flock in the day that he is [as I Am] among his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy [when understanding has been removed from the earth and is held there with Me alone] and dark day [when the earth is cover in mass ignorance of Me and My way]. 13 And I will bring them out from the people, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them to their own land [‘adamah – this new generation of man I create], and feed them upon the mountains of Israel by the rivers [of these life-giving waters], and in all the inhabited places of the country [‘erets – this new earth I create]. 14 I will feed [ra’ah – see for] them in a good pasture, and upon the high mountains [My new government I’ve created] of Israel shall their fold be: there shall they lie in a good fold, and in a fat pasture shall they feed [ra’ah – see for them] upon the mountains [leading My new government that rules over the new earth] of Israel [in whom I reign and rule]. 15 I will feed my flock, and I will cause them to lie down, says the LORD God. 16 I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but I will destroy the fat and the strong; I will feed [ra’ah – see for] them with [good] judgment. 17 And as for you, O my flock, thus says the LORD God; Behold, I judge between cattle and cattle, between the rams and the he goats. [see Matthew 25 below] 18 Seem it a small thing unto you to have eaten up the good pasture, but you must tread down [ramac] with your feet the residue of your pastures [you’ve defiled]? and to have drunk of the deep waters, but you must foul the residue with your feet [of your deep understanding that is corrupted, by your feet which must be washed]? 19 And as for my flock, they eat that which you have trodden with your feet; and they drink that which you have fouled with your feet. 20 Therefore thus says the LORD God unto them; Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat cattle and between the lean cattle [between those who refuse to wash their feet of the corruption and those who’ve purified themselves: are thereby able to see My presence and see for the flock]. 21 Because you have thrust with side and with shoulder, and pushed all the diseased with your horns, till you have scattered them abroad; 22 Therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no more be a prey; and I will judge between cattle and cattle. 23 And I will set up one shepherd [ra’ah – One seer] over them [My Chief Overseer of the earth, Who I have chosen, not as man sees, but by the heart only I see and know], and he shall feed [ra’ah – see for] them, even my servant David [I Am]; he shall feed [ra’ah – see for] them, and he shall be their shepherd [ra’ah – their seer]. 24 And I the LORD will be their God, and my servant David a prince among them; I the LORD have spoken it. 25 And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause the evil beasts [the dead ruling the world without My Spirit] to cease out of the land [‘erets – the new earth I’ve created]: and they shall dwell safely in the wilderness [among the desolation, upon which we shall build], and sleep in the woods [not fearing the evil beast]. 26 And I will make them and the places round about my hill [My new government] a blessing; and I will cause the shower [my word from heaven] to come down in his season; there shall be showers of blessing. 27 And the tree [of life] of the field shall yield her fruit, and the earth shall yield her increase, and they shall be safe in their land [‘adamah – this new generation of man], and shall know that I am the LORD, when I have broken the bands of their yoke, and delivered them out of the hand of those that served themselves of them. 28 And they shall no more be a prey to the heathen [who haven’t known Me], neither shall the beast [the dead without My Spirit] of the land [‘erets – of the old earth] devour them; but they shall dwell safely, and none shall make them afraid. 29 And I will raise up for them a plant of renown, and they shall be no more consumed with hunger [by not hearing the word of God] in the land [‘erets – in the new earth], neither bear the shame of the heathen [the consequences of following those without the LORD’s Spirit, who make promises they are unable, and never intended, to bring into reality] any more. 30 Thus shall they know that I the LORD their God am with them, and that they, even the house of Israel, are my people, says the LORD God. 31 And you my flock, the flock of my pasture, are men, and I Am your God, says the LORD God.
Matthew 25 29 For unto every one that has [My word] shall be given, and he shall have abundance [to give as received]: but from him that has not [this word] shall be taken away even that which he has. 30 And cast you the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. 31 When the Son of man shall come in his glory [the Father revealing Himself in the flesh], and all the holy angels [messengers] with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: 32 And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats: 33 And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the [he] goats [devils misleading the flock] on the left. 34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, you blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: 35 For I was hungry [for this word], and you gave me meat [this deep understanding that strengthens]: I was thirsty [for this living waters], and you gave me drink: I was a stranger [not knowing God], and you took me in [giving protection from the elements of this corrupt world]: 36 Naked, and ye clothed me [with the righteousness of God]: I was sick [weak without understanding], and ye visited me [as a good shepherd, a good overseer]: I was in prison [held captive in the darkness that covers the earth], and you came unto me [the LORD in you unknown working, come as thief in the night].
Ezekiel 36 32 Not for your sakes do I this, says the LORD God, be it known unto you: be ashamed and confounded for your own ways, O house of Israel. 33 Thus says the LORD God; In the day that I shall have cleansed you from all your iniquities I will also cause you to dwell in the cities, and the wastes shall be built. 34 And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by. 35 And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are become fenced, and are inhabited. 36 Then the heathen that are left round about you shall know that I the LORD build the ruined places, and plant that that was desolate: I the LORD have spoken it, and I will do it. 37 Thus says the LORD God; I will yet for this be enquired [darash] of by the house of Israel, to do it for them; I will increase them with men like a flock. 38 As the holy flock, as the flock of [New Heavenly] Jerusalem in her solemn feasts; so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men: and they shall know that I Am the LORD.
Psalms 42 1 As the deer pants after the water brooks, so pants my soul after you, O God. 2 My soul thirsts for [the word of] God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear [ra’ah – see] before [paniym – the presence of] God? 3 My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is your God? 4 When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday. 5 Why are you cast down [into hell], O my soul? and why are you disquieted in me? hope you in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance [paniym – His presence]. 6 O my God, my soul is cast down [into hell] within me: therefore will I remember you from the land [‘erets] of Jordan [the earth descended into hell by the waters of death], and of the Hermonites [sanctuary in the LORD’s government], from the hill Mizar [among Your elect remnant]. 7 Deep calls unto deep [understanding is given] at the noise of [qowl – Your voice as a trumpet sounding this warning] your waterspouts: all your waves and your billows are gone over me. 8 Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the day time [when this light has come as the sunrise of this new day], and in the night [when ignorance of Your presence covers the earth] his song [these words that must be repeated as received] shall be with me, and my prayer unto [this conversation with] the God of my life. 9 I will say unto God my rock [from where these waters flow, in which men can trust], Why have you forgotten [shakach] me [Why have we forgotten You]? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? [Psalms 44:20 If we have forgotten {shakach} the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god; 21 Shall not God search this out? for he knows the secrets of the heart.] 10 As with a sword in my bones, my enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is your God? 11 Why are you cast down [into hell], O my soul? and why are you disquieted within me? hope you in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health [yshuw’ah – Jesus] of my countenance [paniym – Jehovah’s Salvation present in my flesh], and my God.
Wherefore I will yet plead with you, says the LORD, and with your children’s children will I plead.
Friends, we are at an existential decision point: when all are, by circumstance, compelled to choose light or darkness, and when those choosing darkness, as Cain did his brother, seek to kill (destroy the lives and livelihoods of) those choosing light.
Those choosing darkness because their deeds are evil will not hesitate to use any and every evil in their power (abusing their positions) to continue their dominance. They are rotting dead flesh, decomposing and infecting the entire body. Like cancer, this occurs when the body fails to recognize and destroy infection at its earliest onset: when the first cells haven’t taken hold or been able to reproduce. Now, when it has, and the diagnosis is terminal, the only next step is to enter the unknown, when the immortal soul and spirit leave the dead flesh behind and rise into a new body.
I tell you as I have in the past: the current governments of church and state, their institutions, do not, cannot, make it through this time. The men who control them, despite the LORD’s pleading, choosing to remain with their evil deeds (deceiving and manipulating those who follow them into hell), are the rotting dead flesh we must leave behind.
Romans 7 22 For I delight [sunedomai – only used here, meaning knowing the LORD is joined with me] in the law of God after the inward [eso – referring us to its use in Ephesians 3:16] man [speaking of Spirit and soul as one]: 23 But I see another law in my members [melos – the dead flesh that carries the whole body into hell], warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members [melos]. [Matthew 5:29 And if your right eye {being darkened} offend you, pluck it out, and cast it from you: for it is profitable for you that one of your members {melos} should perish, and not that your whole body should be cast into hell.] 24 O wretched [talaiporos – only used here and in Revelation 3:17, where the LORD is speaking to the Laodiceans of their condition of which they are ignorant] man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? 25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our LORD. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
Revelation 3 13 He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says unto the churches. 14 And unto the angel [the leaders who should be speaking this message and aren’t] of the church of the Laodiceans [the last church state, the institution before it became the eighth, joined with Babylon – It’s from the Greek words, laos, meaning a people, as in a population, and dike, a four-times used word meaning “right (as self-evident), i.e. justice (the principle, a decision, or its execution):–judgment, punish, vengeance.” In Revelation 3 it speaks of this coming upon the population, which has yet to surrender to the LORD or Babylon. Against His urging, it chose Babylon, and is the now dead body of Christ] write; These things says the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God; 15 I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot: I would you were cold or hot. 16 So then because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew you out of my mouth. 17 Because you sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and know not [because you are held in darkness and death] that you are wretched [talaiporos], and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: 18 I counsel you to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that you may be rich; and white raiment [purified], that you mayest be clothed [with the LORD’s righteousness], and that the shame of your nakedness does not appear; and anoint your eyes with eye-salve, that you may see. 19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous, therefore, and repent. 20 Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hears [this voice] my voice, and opens the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. 21 To him that overcomes [the wicked in power and the words of deceivers] will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne. 22 He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says unto the churches.
Matthew 22 4 Again, he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them which are bidden, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come unto the marriage [and sup with Me]. 5 But they made light of it [gave no value to His words from His messengers], and went their ways, one to his farm, another to his merchandise: 6 And the remnant took his servants, and entreated them spitefully, and slew them [as Cain did Abel, “And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous”]. 7 But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth: and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city. 8 Then says he to his servants, The wedding is ready, but they which were bidden were not worthy. 9 Go you therefore into the highways, and as many as you shall find, bid to the marriage. 10 So those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good: and the wedding was furnished with guests. 11 And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment [without the LORD’s righteousness]: 12 And he says unto him, Friend, how came you in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless. 13 Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness [among the ignorant who choose darkness, because their deeds are evil], there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. 14 For many are called, but few are chosen.
Romans 8 1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has [by His truth received] made me free from the law of sin and death. 3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: 4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. 5 For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. 6 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. 7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject [hupotasso – obedient] to the law of God, neither indeed can be. 8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. 9 But you are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ [His Spirit joined with our soul by One mind], he is none of his. 10 And if Christ be in you, the body is [flesh] dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. 11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies [from death into life] by his Spirit that dwells in you [evident by a mind in agreement with His, manifested when He speaks and works through you, to give His message as received]. 12 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. 13 For if you live after the flesh, you shall die: but if you through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, you shall live. 14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. 15 For you have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but you have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. 16 The Spirit itself bears witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God [by His correction receiving His mind, doing His work]: 17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. 18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory [of the Father] which shall be revealed in us. 19 For the earnest expectation of the creature waits [obeying what is worthless] for the manifestation of the sons of God [who obediently open their mouth as He commands, manifesting His presence with us, in us]. 20 For the creature [the flesh that was before without His Spirit] was made subject [hupotasso – obedient] to vanity [to what is worthless], not willingly, but by reason of him who has subjected the same [hupotasso – been obedient] in hope [having faith that obedience to the Father’s will brings perfection in this expected end], [the word “willingly” is hekon, only appearing elsewhere in 1 Corinthians 9:17, Paul there saying, 16 For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel {in which the Father’s glory is revealed}! 17 For if I do this thing willingly {hekon}, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto me. 18 What is my reward then? Truly that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel. 19 For though I be free from {the corruption of} all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more {increasing the ONE BODY}]. 21 Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. 22 For we know that the whole creation [now here in death and hell] groans and travails [to bring forth to life the ONE BODY of Christ] in pain together until now. 23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the first-fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, [silently] waiting [in disobedience] for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. 24 For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man sees, why does he yet hope for? 25 But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it. 26 Likewise the Spirit also helps our infirmities [lack of strength, lack of understanding]: for we know not what we should pray [proseuchomai: pros (forward to) eu (good) chraomai (“to furnish what is needed; (give an oracle, “graze” (touch slightly), light upon, etc.), i.e. (by implication) to employ or (by extension) to act towards one in a given manner.)”] for as we ought: but the Spirit itself makes intercession [intercedes to give us good words] for us with groanings [stenagmos, from stenos, the “strait” gate that lead to life – Matthew 7:13 Enter you in at the strait {stenos – only used three times, meaning “narrow (from obstacles standing close about)” that must be avoided, speaking of the false prophets and false teachers blocking the} gate: for wide {platus – only used here, from the plasso, meaning “to mold, i.e. to shape or fabricate” speaking of the work of the same false prophets and false teachers, fabrication with which they replaced truth} is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: 14 Because strait {stenos} is the gate, and narrow {thlibo – meaning “to crowd,” speaking of the tribulation, the affliction of the crowd, the endless ignorant voices forcing their opinions as truth and increasing the confusion into now total delusion} is the way, which leadeth unto life {I Am the way the Father sent}, and few there be that find it.] which cannot be uttered [alaletos – which are not being spoken].
Ephesians 3 1 For this cause I Timothy, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles [who haven’t known Him], 2 If you have heard of the dispensation of the grace [giving this gift as received] of God which is given me to you-ward: 3 How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words, 4 Whereby, when you read, you may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ) 5 Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit [the LORD with us, in us, speaking and working unknown]; 6 That the Gentiles [all who haven’t known Him at His coming, even those who falsely claim they do know Him, who here rejecting Him prove they haven’t] should be fellow-heirs, and of the same [ONE] BODY [of Christ alive in them, making them Christians], and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel: 7 Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power [changing my mind, removing corruption, giving me this understanding, bringing me from the darkness into His light, and from death to life with His mind rising in me]. 8 Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace [this gift] given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches [which are only given as a gift from God to His chosen] of Christ; 9 And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world has been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ: 10 To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God [His glory manifested in His revelation], 11 According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our LORD: 12 In whom we have boldness and access [to His wisdom] with confidence by the faith of him. 13 Wherefore I desire that you faint not at my tribulations for you, which is your glory. 14 For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our LORD Jesus Christ, 15 Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, 16 That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner [eso] man; 17 That Christ may dwell in your hearts [our foundational mind, upon which all our decisions, words and actions, are based] by faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love [this word of God, by which men live, given as received, to be given as receive, which is the charity {agape} that never fails], 18 May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; 19 And to know the love [agape] of Christ, which passes [all worldly] knowledge, that you might be filled with all the fulness of God [as you have been here filled to completion, your perfection]. 20 Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power [of His word, when it is received as His and Him] that worketh in us, 21 Unto him be glory in the church [the ONE BODY] by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.
1 Corinthians 1 19 For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. 20 Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? 21 For after that in the wisdom of God the world by [its corrupt] wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of [this] preaching to save them that believe [it is God they haven’t known]. 22 For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: 23 But we preach Christ crucified [rejected, despised, and betrayed while delivering this message, and killed, silenced, for declaring God alive in him], unto the Jews a stumbling-block, and unto the Greeks foolishness; 24 But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ [God the Father alive in the flesh, no longer unknown, declaring Himself alive in the ONE BODY of His son: His children] the power of God, and the wisdom of God. 25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men. 26 For you see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: 27 But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God has chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; 28 And base things of the world, and things which are despised, has God chosen, yea, and things which are not [seen], to bring to naught things that are: 29 That no flesh should glory in his presence [now manifested]. 30 But of him are you in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption: 31 That, according as it is written [in Jeremiah 9:24], He that glories, let him glory in the LORD.
Jeremiah 9 21 For death is come up into our windows [to those who should be watching over God’s people], and is entered into our palaces [where the dead sit in power], to cut off [karath – from life, to bring into the same death] the children from without [under their watch], and the young men from the streets [cutting off the ways into life]. 22 Speak, Thus says the LORD, Even the carcasses [the animated dead flesh] of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman [this judgment, when My people have gathered into My ONE BODY], and none shall gather them [that choose to remain in death]. 23 Thus says the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches: 24 But let him that glories glory in this, that he understands and knows me, that I Am the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, says the LORD.
The word “plead,” used twice in the title verse (Jeremiah 2:9), speaking of the case the LORD, our counselor, has here pleaded, is riyb, meaning “to toss, i.e. grapple; mostly figuratively, to wrangle, i.e. hold a controversy; (by implication) to defend.”
Jeremiah 2 5 Thus says the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity [worthlessness], and are become vain [worthless]? 6 Neither said they, Where is the LORD that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through [‘abar – where no man passed from death into life], and where no [living] man dwelt? 7 And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when you entered, you defiled my land, and made my heritage an abomination. 8 The priests said not, Where is the LORD? and they that handle the law knew me not: the pastors also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal [by the false gods men created, put in My place, and call by My name], and walked after things that do not profit. 9 Wherefore I will yet plead [riyb] with you, says the LORD, and with your children’s children will I plead [riyb]. 10 For pass over [‘abar – from death into life] the isles of Chittim [from the dry places where this word wasn’t before heard], and see; and send unto Kedar [into the darkness, send this word to the ignorant], and consider diligently, and see if there be such a thing. 11 Has a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory [My manifested presence] for that which does not profit. 12 Be astonished, O you heavens [where understanding should be found but isn’t], at this, and be horribly afraid, be you very desolate, says the LORD. 13 For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
2 Timothy 2 3 You therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. 4 No man that wars entangles himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who has chosen him to be a soldier. 5 And if a man also strives for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strives lawfully. 6 The husbandman [georgos – a workman working in the earth, warring for the sake of God’s people] that labors must be first partaker of the fruits [the first given understanding]. 7 Consider what I say; and the LORD give you understanding in all things. 8 Remember that Jesus Christ of the seed of David was raised from the dead [in my dead flesh] according to my gospel: 9 Wherein I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, even unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound. 10 Therefore I endure all things for the elect’s sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory. 11 It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him: 12 If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us: 13 If we believe not, yet he abides faithful [with us]: he cannot deny himself [when He is risen in us]. 14 Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the LORD that they strive not about [the worthless] words [of men] to no profit, but to the subverting [of this understanding] of the hearers. 15 Study to show yourself approved unto God, a workman that need not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. 16 But shun profane and vain babblings [of ignorant men]: for they will increase unto more ungodliness. 17 And their word will eat as does a canker [gaggraina – gangrene, the localized death and decomposition of flesh, which, if untreated, infects and kills the body]: of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus [forbidding joining with the LORD while hiding behind the spurious mask of feigned love]; 18 Who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already; and overthrow the faith of some [telling them it isn’t occurring here and now, when we join the LORD in His ONE risen BODY]. 19 Nevertheless the foundation of God stands sure, having this seal, The LORD knows them that are his. And, let every one that names the name of Christ [calls themselves a Christian] depart from iniquity. 20 But in a great house [God’s family] there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honor, and some to dishonor. 21 If a man, therefore, purge himself from these [the dishonorable], he shall be a vessel unto honor, sanctified [made pure], and meet [of a mind in agreement with the LORD’s] for the master’s use, and prepared unto every good work. 22 Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the LORD out of a pure heart [foundational mind]. 23 But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes [meant to create an endless argument, not seeking truth, having no intention of finding it, but rather seeking an endless state of confusion]. 24 And the servant of the LORD must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, 25 In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth; 26 And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil [those possessed by Satan, doing his work of misleading], who are taken captive [possessed] by him at his will.
Isaiah 1 9 Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small [faithful elect] remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah. 10 Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah. 11 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? says the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats. 12 When you come to appear [ra’ah] before me [paniym – Into My presence], who has required this at your hand, to tread my courts? 13 Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths [the institutions of church and state you have corrupted], the calling of assemblies, I cannot [accept it] away with [it]; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting. 14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hates: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them. [I tell you the truth, all religion has become a worthless charade and a demonstrable exhibition of ignorance of God.] 15 And when you spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you: yea, when you make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood [refusing to plead the cause of the innocent and rightly judge the wicked]. 16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; cease to do evil; 17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead [riyb] for the widow. 18 Come now, and let us reason together, says the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. 19 If you be willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land: 20 But if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD has spoken it. 21 How is the faithful city become a harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers. 22 Your silver is become dross, your wine mixed with water: 23 Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and follows after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come unto them. 24 Therefore says the LORD, the LORD of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of my adversaries, and avenge me of my enemies: 25 And I will turn my hand upon you, and purely purge away your dross, and take away all your tin: 26 And I will restore your judges as at the first, and your counselors as at the beginning: afterward you shall be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city. 27 Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness. 28 And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together, and they that forsake the LORD shall be consumed.
The following, ending with Ezekiel 33, is from the post of 14 – 17 May 2024.
Yea, for your sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
The LORD begins today in a mystery, a strategic secret, above in Psalms 44:22, revealed now in this time of war against the darkness that covers all understanding. It is in it we find the “victory,” when we, with His awakening in us, are quickened from death into life by our confession of His presence in His word we speak as His (identity in His) ONE living BODY.
Paul, the LORD alive in him speaking and working, quotes the above verse in Romans 8:36, speaking to those of us predestined for this moment of awakening, follows it in verse 37, saying, “Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.”
The word rendered “more than conquerors” is the once-used Greek work hupernikao, meaning “to vanquish beyond, i.e. gain a decisive victory.”
Paul’s beginning verse 37 with “nay” would appear, at first glance, to contradict Psalms 44:22, which he just cited and affirmed with a “Yea.” A deeper examination of the original text tells us otherwise.
In Psalms 44, the verse is followed with verse 23 saying, “Awake, why sleep you, O LORD? arise, cast us not off forever.”
As background, the Psalm is titled, For the Sons of Korah, Maschil. Korah is a son of Levi who rebelled against Moses and for it was, with his fellow rebels, eventually swallowed by the earth. The word maschil means instruction. These meanings tell us the Psalm is a written instruction to those now in rebellion, refusing to follow and obey the LORD’s instructions through His chosen. It (the Psalm) ends with the epilogue, “To the Chief Musician [natsach – Chief Overseer] upon Shoshannim,” meaning it’s sent to those [first to the first begotten] leading God’s people in repeating the Songs He’s given: and their ONE voice is the last trumpet sounding.
The awakening, spoken of in verse 23, is God’s people opening their mouths and coming to life, as Korah, who, instead of choosing destruction, is changed at this last trump, as the corrupt put on uncorrupted truth and they (put on) their immortality.
We know (among other things, by deeper examination) that Paul’s wording (in Romans 8:37) is a paraphrase of Psalms 44:23 and speaks of the same victory over death. Paul, knowing the word “forever” in the original text is netsach (meaning the goal), also knows it’s the word rendered “victory” in Isaiah 25:8.
When quoting this Isaiah passage in 1 Corinthians 15:54, he (Paul) uses the four-time-used word nikos, always rendered “victory,” and always speaks of the victory over death and the grave (hell, in the earth’s belly) and by whom it comes.
Going deeper, the word nikos appears three times in 1 Corinthians 15 (verses 54, 55 & 57) and once in Matthew 12:20, as the LORD quotes Isaiah 42:3, where the word (rendered “victory” in Matthew) is the Hebrew word ‘emeth and is rendered “truth.”
The point: hear and obey the word of the LORD, put off corruption and put on immortality, or remain in the belly of the earth ending in ruin. Victory and truth are synonymous, both (the goal led to by the Chief Overseer), which, when they come, end death by the LORD long-suffering to raise us from it into life.
Romans 8 27 And he that searches the hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because he makes intercession for the saints [knowing they are also in need of this change] according to the will of God. 28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called [kletos] according to his purpose. 29 For whom he did foreknow [know before, the faithful throughout history], he also did predestinate [proorizo – to limit in advance, at this horizon] to be conformed to the image [eikon] of his Son, that he might be [as the first light on the horizon] the firstborn among many brethren. 30 Moreover whom he did predestinate [proorizo], them he also called [kaleo]: and whom he called [kaleo], them he also justified [dikaioo – freed from corruption]: and whom he justified [freed from corruption], them he also glorified [manifesting His presence in them]. 31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? 32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? 33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect [eklektos – His chosen]? It is God that justifies [frees us from corruption and thereby death]. 34 Who is he that condemns? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen [egeiro] again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession [entugchano] for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of [agape – freely giving us all things through] Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written, [Psalms 44:22 saying,”Yea,” to verse 21 saying “Shall not God search this out? for he knows the secrets of the heart.”] For your sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. 37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors [hupernikao] through him that loved [agapao – freely gave His treasures to] us. 38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love [agape – this grace given by the Divine charity] of God, which is in Christ Jesus our LORD.
1 Thessalonians 3 8 For now we live, if you stand fast [steko] in the LORD.
Psalms 43 1 Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man. 2 For you are the God of my strength: why do you cast me off [as in Psalms 44 below]? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? 3 O send out your light [understanding] and your truth [‘emeth – which bring us to the victory]: let them lead me; let them bring me unto your holy hill, and to your tabernacles. 4 Then will I go unto the altar of God [offering the sacrifice in which He delights], unto God [realized] my exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise you, O God my God. 5 Why are you cast down, O my soul? and why are you disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health [yshuw’ah – Jesus] of my countenance [paniym – Your presence manifested in the flesh], and my God. To the Chief Musician [Natsach – the Chief Overseer who, with these songs, leads into truth and victory]
Psalms 44 Words of Instruction, to be Sung to the Rebels and by them upon Returning 1 We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work you did in their days, in the times of old. 2 How you did drive out the heathen with your hand, and planted them; how you did afflict the people, and cast them out. 3 For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but your right hand, and your arm, and the light [understanding] of your countenance [paniym – Your presence], because you had a favor unto them. 4 You are my King, O God: command deliverances [yshuw’ah – Jesus, Jehovah’s Salvation manifested in the flesh] for Jacob. 5 Through you will we push down our enemies: through your name [Your Identity] will we tread them under that rise up against us. 6 For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me. 7 But you have saved us from our enemies, and have put them to shame that hated us. 8 In God we boast all the day long, and praise your name [Your identity] forever. Selah. 9 But [in our rebellion and rejection of Your leadership] you have cast off, and put us to shame; and go not forth with our armies. 10 You make us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves. 11 You have given us like sheep appointed for meat; and have scattered us among the heathen. 12 You sell your people for naught, and do not increase your wealth by their price. 13 You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us. 14 You make us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people. 15 My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face has covered me, 16 For the voice of him that reproaches and blasphemes; by reason of the enemy and avenger. 17 All this is come upon us; yet have we [in our confusion we thought we have] not forgotten you, neither have we dealt falsely in your covenant. 18 Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from your way; 19 Though you have sore broken us in the place of dragons [tanniyn – by men among us as serpents and whales, devoured us with their wide open mouths and swallowing us into this belly of hell], and covered us with [concealed from us] the shadow of [darkness – ignorance of our own condition, which is] death. 20 If we have forgotten the name of [the identity, His manner in which He reveals Himself as] our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god [which men created and put in His place]; 21 Shall not God search [chaqar – penetrate this darkness] this out [as He has]? for he knows the secrets of the heart [mind]. 22 Yea, for your sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter. 23 Awake, why sleep you, O LORD? Arise [in us], cast us not off forever [netsach – from Your victory and truth]. 24 Wherefore hide you your face [paniym – Your presence, which is only hidden in the ignorance caused by the dragons among you], and forget our affliction and our oppression [which He hasn’t forgotten, but they, the rebels, continually turn to their oppressors thinking these destroyers will save them from themselves]? 25 For our soul is bowed down to the dust [the ruin of the earth led by serpents and whales]: our belly [beten – the belly of hell, of Jonah 2:2] cleaves [dabaq – meaning “to impinge, i.e. cling or adhere; figuratively, to catch by pursuit”] unto [hell on] the earth. 26 Arise for our help, and redeem us for your mercies’ sake.
What part of this isn’t clear yet? What part hasn’t the LORD fully explained? When is it enough?
Ezekiel 33 17 Yet the children of your people say, The way of the LORD is not equal: but as for them, their way is not equal. 18 When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, he shall even die thereby. 19 But if the wicked turn from his wickedness, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby. 20 Yet you say, The way of the LORD is not equal. O you house of Israel, I will judge you every one after his ways. 21 And it came to pass in the twelfth year [the perfection, completion, of the LORD’s government in this new heaven and earth] of our captivity, in the tenth month [ordinal perfection, when all things have been put in their right order], in the fifth day [of His grace and mercy] of the month, that one that had escaped [paliyt, it is referring back to verse 5 of this chapter, where the word malat, meaning to escape, rendered “deliver,” speaks of those who received the warning and acting upon it, escaped what is warned of] out of [corrupt] Jerusalem came unto me, saying, The city [of those turned from righteousness, and the wicked who haven’t turned from their wickedness] is smitten [by its own ignorance and insanity]. 22 Now the hand of the LORD was upon me in the evening [as darkness was coming], afore he that was escaped [paliyt] came [with this warning]; and had opened my mouth [to speak the LORD’s word], until he came to me in the morning [when this understanding of this new day was come]; and my mouth was opened, and I was no more dumb. 23 Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 24 Son of man, they that inhabit those wastes of the land [‘adamah – the ruin of this last generation] of Israel speak, saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited the land [’erets – the earth]: but we are many; the land [‘erets – the earth] is given us for inheritance. 25 Wherefore say unto them, Thus says the LORD God; You eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood: and shall you possess the land? 26 You stand upon your sword, you work abomination, and you defile every one his neighbor’s wife: and shall you possess the land [’erets – the earth]? 27 Say you thus unto them, Thus says the LORD God; As I live, surely they that are in the wastes shall fall by the sword, and him that is in the open field will I give to the beasts to be devoured, and they that be in the forts and in the caves shall die of the pestilence. 28 For I will lay the land [‘erets – the earth] most desolate, and the pomp of her strength shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, that none shall pass through [‘abar – from death into life]. 29 Then shall they know that I am the LORD, when I have laid the land most desolate because of all their abominations which they have committed. 30 Also, you son of man, the children of your people still are talking against you by the walls [of things that aren’t true] and in the doors of the houses, and speak one to another, every one to his brother, saying, Come, I pray you, and hear what is the word that comes forth from the LORD. 31 And they come unto you as the people comes, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their covetousness [betsa’ – dishonesty]. 32 And, lo, you are unto them as a very lovely song of one that has a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument: for they hear your words, but they do them not. 33 And when this comes to pass, (lo, it will come [as it now has],) then shall they know that a prophet has been among them.
Jeremiah 50 31 Behold, I am against you, O you most proud, says the LORD God of hosts: for your day is come, the time that I will visit [paqad – as the Chief Overseer of the earth] you. 32 And the most proud shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up: and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all round about him. 33 Thus says the LORD of hosts; The children of Israel and the children of Judah were oppressed together: and all that took them captives held them fast; they refused to let them go. 34 Their Redeemer is strong; the LORD of hosts [a man of war] is his name [My identity]: he shall thoroughly plead [riyb] their cause [riyb], that he may give rest to the land [‘erets – to the earth], and disquiet [raqaz – pour His anger upon] the inhabitants of Babylon [the confusion that now rules the world]. 35 A sword [of David] is upon the Chaldeans [those using deception to manipulate and control humanity, leading it into self-destruction], says the LORD, and upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise men. 36 A sword is upon the liars; and they shall dote: a sword is upon her mighty men; and they shall be dismayed. 37 A sword is upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the mingled people that are in the midst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword is upon her treasures [‘owtsar]; and they shall be robbed. 38 A drought is upon her waters [this word of God heard not heard in them]; and they shall be dried up: for it is the land of graven images, and they are mad [become insane] upon their idols. 39 Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild beasts of the islands shall dwell there, and the owls shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited forever; neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation. 40 As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor cities thereof, says the LORD; so shall no man abide there, neither shall any son of man dwell therein. 41 Behold, a people shall come from the north [shall come out of ignorance], and a great [new] nation, and many kings shall be raised up from the coasts [the end of the old and corrupt, where their proud waves are stayed, beginning the new] of the earth. 42 They shall hold the bow and the lance: they are cruel, and will not show mercy: their voice shall roar like the sea, and they shall ride upon horses, everyone put in array, like a man to the battle, [as My awakened army] against you, O daughter of Babylon. 43 The king of Babylon has heard the report [shama’ shema’ – understood and obeyed – acted knowing the time is of his end] of them, and his hands waxed feeble: anguish [tsarah – tribulation he caused] took hold [chazaq] of him, and pangs as of a woman in travail [fearing what they have brought forth]. 44 Behold, he [the LORD, I Am] shall come up like a lion from [roaring against] the swelling [proud waves] of Jordan [words that carried all in the descent into death] unto the habitation of the strong [in power]: but I will make them [the wicked] suddenly run away from her [My people they have oppressed]: and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint [paqad – who I will make Chief Overseer] over her? for who is like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who is that shepherd that will stand before me [paniym – as My presence manifested]? [All these are references to Michael, who is like God and stands for God’s people in this time of Jacob’s trouble {tsarah}, and Shiloh, who comes as the shepherd and stone of God’s people – the king of peace, and king of righteousness, in the order of Melchizedek] 45 Therefore hear you the counsel of the LORD, that he has taken against Babylon; and his purposes, that he has purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the least of the flock [{as in Ahasuerus} “I will be silent and poor {without earthly power}”] shall draw them out: surely he shall make their habitation desolate with them. 46 At the noise [qowl – the LORD’s voice] of the taking of Babylon the earth is moved, and the cry is heard among the nations.
Psalms 17 A Prayer [tphillah – intersession] of David 1 Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer [tphillah], that goes not out of feigned lips. 2 Let my sentence come forth from your presence [paniym]; let your eyes behold the things that are equal. 3 You have proved my heart; you have visited me in the night; you have tried me, and shall find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress. 4 Concerning the works of men, by the word of your lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer. 5 Hold up my goings in your paths, that my footsteps slip not. 6 I have called upon you, for you will hear me, O God: incline your ear unto me, and hear my speech. 7 Show your marvelous [eye opening] lovingkindness, O you that saves by your right hand them which put their trust in you from those that rise up against them. 8 Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of your wings, 9 From [paniym – manifest Your presence against] the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who compass me about. 10 They are enclosed in their own fat [the success of their wickedness]: with their mouth they speak proudly. 11 They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth; 12 Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places. 13 Arise, O LORD, disappoint [paniym – manifest Your presence against] him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, which is your sword: 14 From men which are your hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly you fill with your hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes. 15 As for me, I will behold your face [paniym – Your presence] in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with your likeness. To the Chief Musician [The Chief Overseer of the Earth]
I indeed have baptized you with water: but he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost.
As we know, baptism is the act of taking us below the surface of the waters, into the deep held therein. The latter half of the title verse, Mark 1:8, speaks of Jesus (He) taking us below the surface of His flesh, revealing the Father (Jehovah) therein unknown (the Holy Spirit) speaking and working His salvation plan. In it (this latter statement) is contained the mystery of the Trinity: the Father in the Son, unknown (veiled in the flesh) among us as the Holy Spirit speaking and working to reveal Himself as One LORD, One God, bringing many sons to the same glory, in His ONE BODY.
The word rendered “Ghost” and “Spirit” when speaking of the LORD’s unknown presence, also used when speaking of our unknown identity, the inner immortal (“spirit”) present in our flesh, is pneuma, meaning “from 4154 [pneo – “to breathe hard, i.e. breeze”]; a current of air, i.e. breath (blast) or a breeze; by analogy or figuratively, a spirit, i.e. (human) the rational soul, (by implication) vital principle, mental disposition, etc., or (superhuman) an angel, demon, or (divine) God, Christ’s spirit, the Holy Spirit.”
The deeper meaning is in the seven times used word pneo, speaking of the spirits at work on the earth and of the Holy Spirit (the Father and the Son unknown, not seen) unrealized during the time the word of God is sealed (not heard from His people until this end reached).
Matthew 7 13 Enter you in at the strait [stenos – only used three times, meaning “narrow (from obstacles standing close about)” that must be avoided, speaking of the false prophets and false teachers blocking the] gate: for wide [platus – only used here, from the plasso, meaning “to mold, i.e. to shape or fabricate” speaking of the work of the same false prophets and false teachers, fabrication with which they replaced truth] is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: 14 Because strait [stenos] is the gate, and narrow [thlibo – meaning “to crowd,” speaking of the tribulation, the affliction of the crowd, the endless ignorant voices forcing their opinions as truth and increasing the confusion into now total delusion] is the way, which leadeth unto life [I Am the way the Father sent], and few there be that find it.
1 Thessalonians 3 1 Wherefore when we could no longer forbear, we thought it good to be left at Athens [among the ignorant and uncertain] alone; 2 And sent Timothy [the Comforter, the Paraclete], our brother, and minister of God, and our fellow laborer in the gospel of Christ, to establish you [give you certainty], and to comfort [parakaleo] you [leading you into all truth] concerning your faith: 3 That no man should be moved by these afflictions [thlipsis – the tribulation]: for yourselves know that we are appointed [keimai – this is the word used to tell of where the dead body of Christ was “laid,” from where He was, and we are, raised] thereunto. 4 For truly, when we were with you, we told you before that we should suffer tribulation [thlibo]; even as it came to pass, and you [now] know [is upon us]. 5 For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter [the false prophets and false teachers who are deceiving spirits possessed by Satan] have tempted you [to deny the LORD’s presence with us, in us], and our labor be in vain.
Matthew 7 15 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves [with their mouths tearing in pieces the ONE BODY]. 16 You shall know them by their fruits [their ever-open mouths spewing poison, the word of God leavened with their corruption]. Do men gather grapes of thorns [misleaders], or figs of thistles [deceivers]? 17 Even so every good tree brings forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree brings forth evil fruit. 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, and cast 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.”] 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 day, LORD, LORD, have we not prophesied in your name? and in your name have cast out 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 [your own works, while denying the LORD’s presence, proving you don’t know Him]. 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: 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 [Christ, the LORD’s Spirit in the flesh from where His word flows]. 26 And every one that hears THESE sayings of mine, and does them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house 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. 28 And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended these sayings, the people were astonished at his doctrine: 29 For he taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes.
1 Corinthians 9 24 Know you not that they which run in a race run all, but one receives the prize [Do the false prophets and false teachers understand this warning?]? So run, that you may obtain. 25 And every man that strives for the mastery [agonizomai – leads in this good fight of faith] is temperate [egkrateuomai – exercises self-restraint] in all things. Now they [the losers and winners] do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. 26 I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beats the air [aer – one of the seven times the word appears, here speaking of not fighting against the clarity, the purity by which we see God]: 27 But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection [subordination of my will to the Father’s]: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway [adokimos – “unapproved, i.e. rejected; by implication, worthless (literally or morally):–castaway, rejected, reprobate.”].
1 Corinthians 10 1 Moreover, brethren, I would not that you should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud [where understanding is held and is sent], and all passed through [dierchomai] the sea [Matthew 12:43 When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walks {dierchomai} through dry places, seeking rest, and finds none.]; 2 And were all baptized [into this same deep understand below the surface] unto Moses [revealing the LORD in the flesh speaking and working] in the cloud [given understanding from heaven] and in the sea [received by that generation, and written for all humanity to receive]; 3 And did all eat [received the same bread of heaven, from the mouth of the LORD, by which men live] the same spiritual meat [that strengthens]; 4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink [that changes the mind and loosens the lips]: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ [the LORD openly manifesting Himself in the flesh He’s chosen]. 5 But with many of them [who refused Him and His place as the head of His people] God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness. 6 Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things [of misleader among them, creations of their own darkened minds], as they also lusted. 7 Neither be you idolaters [following these things put in God’s place], as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play. [Quoted from Exodus 32:6, speaking of when the LORD sends one from His presence to correct His people back into line, verses 7 & 8 saying, “And the LORD said unto Moses, Go, get you down; for your people, which you brought out of the land of Egypt {out of the oppression of the crowd}, have corrupted themselves: They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These be your gods, O Israel, which have brought you up out of the land of Egypt.”] 8 Neither let us commit fornication [intercourse, having the minds pierced by interaction with these idols they are joined with], as some of them committed, and fell [into the bottomless pit from which there is no rising for those who refuse the LORD’s correction] in one day three and twenty thousand. 9 Neither let us tempt Christ [doubting the LORD’s presence sent in this way], as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents [by following the men among them whose words are poisonous and delivered oh so subtly]. 10 Neither murmur you, as some of them also murmured [against the one He sends], and were destroyed of the destroyer. 11 Now all these things happened unto them for examples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come. 12 Wherefore let him that thinks he stands [in the truth for the LORD, of whom all have been ignorant] take heed [be warned here and now], lest he fall [into the same bottomless pit from where there is no rising for those who reject him]. 13 There has no temptation [doubting the LORD’s presence] taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that you are able [to eventually comprehend]; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that you may be able to bear it. 14 Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry [the idols men put in His place and call by His name]. 15 I speak as to wise men; judge you what I say. 16 The cup [here and now] of blessing which we bless [thank the LORD for], is it not the communion [our common union] of the blood of Christ [His sacrifice in the flesh to deliver it as received from the Father, in His name, His true identity manifesting His presence therein]? The bread which we break [this complete work, rightly divided from His mouth, by which man lives], is it not the communion [common union] of the [ONE] BODY of Christ? 17 For we being many are one bread [completed by his work], and ONE BODY: for we are all partakers of that one bread [His completing, perfecting, work]. 18 Behold Israel after the flesh: are not they which eat of the sacrifices partakers of the altar? 19 What say I then? that the idol [things which men put in His place and called by His name] is any thing, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing? 20 But I say, that the things which the Gentiles [those who don’t know the LORD, even those calling their idols by His name] sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils [the miseaders they follow into perdition], and not to God: and I would not that you should have fellowship with devils. 21 You cannot drink the cup of the LORD, and the cup of devils [misleaders possessed by Satan]: you cannot be partakers of the LORD’s table, and of the table of devils.
Friends, I tell you the truth: the word of God was sealed for many generations before this last evil generation into which the LORD sent me. “For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.”
Isaiah 28 1 Woe to the crown of pride [proud of the things they know and teach, which just aren’t true], to the drunkards of Ephraim [the misleaders and the misled of God’s people who are a double ruin in this evil generation, who’ve eaten and drank what is delivered from idols they put in God’s place and call by His name], whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine! 2 Behold, the LORD has a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand [this work for which He’s sent me]. 3 The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet [of those who receive this understand, His manifested presence speaking and working, and willingly submit to the will of God: do the work that pleases the Father]: 4 And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer; which when he that looketh upon it sees, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up [as the glory of the drunkard is eaten up by the LORD’s manifested presence]. 5 In that day [this time when light has returned] shall the LORD of hosts [a man of war, and the Head of the ONE BODY, the Commander of the army of heaven] be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem [tsphiyrah – only appearing two other places, both in Ezekiel 7, a chapter speaking this end come; there rendered “morning” when this crowning occurs, when His word, this word, is exalted above all other voices] of beauty, unto the residue of his people, [Ezekiel 7:7 The morning [tsphiyrah – of this crowning] is come unto you, O you that dwell in the land {‘erets – this earth moment}: the time is come, the day of trouble is near {qarowb – upon us}, and not the sounding again of the mountains {no longer hearing and obeying the words of the misleaders in power in church and state}.] 6 And for a spirit of judgment to him that sits in judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate [trampling down the gates of hell, the mouth of men who are ignorant of God, and proud of what they think they know, even calling them by His name, saying “He said,” when they never knew Him]. 7 But they [those who sit in His judgment seat, His mercy seat from where His voice should be heard] also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up [into the belly of hell] of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision [saying they see when they see nothing but darkness], they stumble in judgment. 8 For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean. 9 Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine [shmuw’ah – shama’ Jehovah, this report, to understand it is the voice of the LORD heard and obeyed]? them that are weaned from the milk [don’t remain in a childish state, only seeing superficially], and drawn [attiyq – only used elsewhere in 1 Chronicles 4:22] from the breasts. [1 Chronicles 4:22, speaking of those who “dwelt with the king for his work,” saying “And Jokim {who Jehovah raises up}, and the men of Chozeba {against falsehood}, and Joash {given, sent, by Jehovah} and Saraph {to burn up all falsehood in the trial in hell’s fires}, who had the dominion in Moab {power over the gates of hell, the mouths of wicked men}, and Jashubilehem {by the return of this bead, this word from the mouth of the LORD, by which man lives}. And these are ancient {attiyq} things.”] 10 For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little: 11 For with stammering lips and another tongue [this truth which is thought to be vain repetition and a foreign language to those who only know lies] will he speak to this people. [In this verse the mystery {the sealed truth} of Pentecost is reveals to be when men who’ve received this word of God, by the work of the LORD unknown {as the Holy Ghost}, repeat it as receives, which the ignorant can’t understand, but the wise do understand. Daniel 12:9 And he said, Go your way, Daniel {judgment of God}: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end. 10 Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.] 12 To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith you may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear [shama’ – refusing to hear it as His voice, and obey]. 13 But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken. 14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, you scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem. 15 Because you have said, “We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:” 16 Therefore thus says the LORD GOD [‘Adonay Jehovih – KING of kings and LORD of lords], Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believes shall not make haste [not flee from Him in shame]. [Psalms 118:22 The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner {turning our heads again to the Father in heaven}. 23 This is the LORD’s doing; it is marvellous in {opening} our eyes {to His presence}. 24 This is the day {time of His light rising} which the LORD has made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.] 17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place. 18 And your covenant with death [maveth] shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell [sheol] shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then you shall be trodden down by it. 19 From the time that it goes forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report [shmuw’ah – the sound doctrine, teaching, and the “rumor” of Ezekiel 7:26, which is the voice of Jehovah heard]. 20 For the bed is shorter than that a [sleeping] man can stretch himself on it: and the covering [the lies and falsehoods under which they hide is] narrower than that he can wrap himself in it. 21 For the LORD [Jehovah] shall rise up as in mount Perazim [2 Samuel 5:20 – as water from His throne, breaking forth upon His and David’s enemies], he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon [Joshua 10:10 & 11 – His word reserved {frozen} in heaven, sent as great hailstones upon the wicked: the current corrupt crop sitting in power], that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange [known to no one except Him] act. 22 Now therefore be you not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the LORD GOD [‘Adonay Jehovih – KING of kings and LORD of lords], of hosts [a man of war and Commander, Chief, of the army of heaven] a consumption [kalah – a full end, as in Daniel 9:27], even determined [charats – decreed, as in Joshua 10:21 saying “And all the people returned to the camp to Joshua {Jesus} at Makkedah {as one flock under one shepherd} in peace: none moved {charats} his tongue against any of the children of Israel.” And 2 Samiel 5:24, the LORD saying to David, “And let it be, when you hear {shama’ – obey} the sound {qowl – the voice} of a going in the tops of the mulberry trees {baka’, from which come bkowr – telling us this is the voice of the “firstborn”}, that then you shall bestir yourself: for then shall the LORD go out before {paniym – His presence will be manifested with, in} you, to smite the host of the Philistines {the enemy army now mixed among you}.”] upon the whole earth [‘erets]. 23 Give you ear, and hear [shama’ – and obey] my voice [qowl]; hearken, and hear [shama’ – and obey] my speech.
Ezekiel 7 8 Now will I shortly [qarowb] pour out my fury upon you, and accomplish [kalah – as used twice in Daniel 12:7; to finish] my anger upon you: and I will judge you according to your ways, and will recompense you for all your abominations [tow’ebah]. 9 And my eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will recompense you according to your ways and your abominations [tow’ebah] that are in the midst of you; and you shall know that I am the LORD that smites. 10 Behold the day, behold, it is come: the morning [tsphiyray – the crowning] is gone forth; the rod has blossomed, pride has budded. 11 Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness: none of them shall remain, nor of their multitude, nor of any of theirs: neither shall there be wailing for them. 12 The time is come, the day draws near: let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn: for wrath is upon all the multitude thereof. 13 For the seller shall not return to that which is sold, although they were yet alive: for the vision is touching the whole multitude thereof, which shall not return; neither shall any strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life. 14 They [the faithful of the LORD] have blown the trumpet [giving ample warning], even to make all ready; but none goes to the battle: for my wrath is upon all the multitude thereof. 15 The sword [this word they refuse] is without [the camp], and the pestilence [the disease that comes upon the wicked at My presence manifested] and the famine [God’s people refusing His word] within: he that is in the field shall die with the sword; and he that is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him. 16 But they that escape [palat] of them shall escape [paliyt], and shall be on the mountains [going into God’s new government] like doves of the valleys [as signs to the lowly of the end reached], all of them mourning [the end of the old and corrupt heaven and earth], every one for his iniquity. 17 All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water. 18 They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads. 19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold [all the things the old and corrupt world thought were of value] shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it [the things in which they trust] is the stumbling-block [mikshowl – the likeness of hell, following things desired] of their iniquity. 20 As for the beauty of his ornament [the words with which the LORD has clothed, adorned, us], he set it in majesty [ga’own – He exalted it above all worldly value]: but they made the images of their abominations [tow’ebah] and of their detestable things therein: therefore have I set it [My majesty] far from them. 21 And I will give it [images you’ve created] into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall pollute it. 22 My face [paniym – My presence] will I turn also from them, and they shall pollute my secret [tsaphan] place [so none see any value in these treasures]: for the robbers shall enter into it, and defile it. 23 Make a chain [rattowq – only used elsewhere in 1 Kings 6:21, where it’s a “chain” overlayed {tsaphah} with gold, desired worldly value, that hides the true treasure within {the ‘abar – the way to pass over from death into life} in the oracle {the holy of holies, in the LORD’s presence manifested in the conversation}]: for the land is full of bloody crimes [against truth tellers], and the city is full of violence [against this word of God]. 24 Wherefore I will bring the worst of the heathen, and they shall possess their houses [as they now do]: I will also make the pomp of the strong to cease; and their holy places shall be defiled [as they are: Isaiah 28:8 For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.]. 25 Destruction comes; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none. 26 Mischief [hovah, from havah] shall come upon mischief [hovah], and rumor [shmuw’ah – this voice of Jehovah heard] shall be upon rumor [shmuw’ah – His voice teaching, precept upon precept, line upon line, not yet believed to be the voice of Jehovah] then shall they seek a vision of the [false] prophet[s]; but the law shall perish from the priest[s], and counsel from the ancients [all the robbers who’ve put themselves in My place]. [The word hovah, referring to the effects of the strong delusion the LORD has sent upon the insane, only appears one other time, in Isaiah 47:11, saying “Therefore shall evil come upon you; you shall not know from whence it rises: and mischief {hovah} 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’ve been chained in your own ignorance}.”] 27 The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land [‘erets – the earth] shall be troubled: I will do unto them after their way, and according to their deserts [mishpat – according to their corrupt judgment, by the precedent of their evil shall the evil judge them, and thereby] will I judge them; and they shall know that I am the LORD
The following, ending in Revelation 22, is the complete post from 18 February 2018 (with today’s additions in double brackets).
He, that being Often Reproved Hardens His Neck, shall Suddenly be Destroyed, and that Without Remedy (and the wheels comes quickly)
Continuing: the title is Proverbs 29:1, a chapter that goes on to detail self-chosen destruction as the choice of fools, usually in power and misleading many. The title speaks of the stiff-necked, those who are unwilling to turn their heads, to look in a direction different than where they are focused. The direction they are rejecting is correction, and their destruction comes “because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.” This is what shows them to be foolish, and those who the LORD corrects many times, as were those in the time of Noah, as was Pharaoh, yet they continue in their foolishness.
Proverbs 29 1 He, that being often reproved hardens his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy. 2 When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked bears rule, the people mourn. 3 Whoso loves wisdom rejoices his father: but he that [is unfaithful to wisdom] keeps company with harlots spends his substance. 4 The king by judgment establishes the land: but he that receives gifts overthrows [as have those who’ve made themselves rich by doing their duty]. 5 A man that flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet. 6 In the transgression of an evil man there is a snare: but the righteous does sing and rejoice. 7 The righteous considers the cause of the poor: but the wicked regards not to know it [as have all those who have ignored the abominations and the desolation done in the name of Christ]. 8 Scornful men bring a city into a snare: but wise men turn away wrath. 9 If a wise man contends with a foolish man, whether he rage or laugh, there is no rest [so, I speak to the wise, so they understand why destruction comes to the stiff necked, after much longsuffering]. 10 The bloodthirsty hate the upright: but the just seek [[to save]] his soul. 11 A fool utters all his mind: but a wise man keeps it in till afterwards. 12 If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked. 13 The poor and the deceitful man meet together: the LORD lightens both their eyes. 14 The king that faithfully judges the poor, his throne shall be established for ever. 15 The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself brings his mother to shame. 16 When the wicked are multiplied, transgression increases: but the righteous shall see their fall. 17 Correct your son, and he shall give you rest; yea, he shall give delight unto your soul. 18 Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keeps the law, happy is he. 19 A servant will not be corrected by words: for though he understand he will not answer. 20 See you a man that is hasty in his words? there is more hope of a fool than of him. 21 He that delicately brings up his servant from a child shall have him become his son at the length [refer to verse 19 – a son corrected will correct]. 22 An angry man stirs up strife, and a furious man abounds in transgression. 23 A man’s pride shall bring him low: but honor shall uphold the humble in spirit. 24 Whoso is partner with a thief hates his own soul: he hears cursing, and rebukes it not. 25 The fear of man brings a snare: but whoso puts his trust in the LORD shall be safe. 26 Many seek the ruler’s favor; but every man’s judgment comes from the LORD. 27 An unjust man is an abomination to the just: and he that is upright in the way is abomination to the wicked.
Here, in the final verse is the mystery solved: what is the abomination that has caused the desolation of God’s people, and what triggers the sudden end that destroys the wicked?
The word used here, rendered “abomination,” is tow`ebah, meaning something that is considered morally disgusting. We know the ways of the just are faithfulness, wisdom, truth, and morality based on the natural state and, therefore, normal. The course of fools is to reject wisdom, rely on deception, to pervert the natural/normal, and to achieve this, they must reject and redefine both the apparent reality and the right connecting of cause and effect.
The LORD tells us we will know this time when we see [understand] the abomination that causes desolation; Matthew saying it will be in the holy place, and Mark says it will be where it ought not.
The Greek word the LORD uses is bdelugma, meaning detestable, as in idolatry. It is from the words bdeo, meaning to stink, and logismos, meaning computation; reasoning, as conscience or conceit. To understand this stink [[perceiving something not seen or heard]], see the recent post titled, “The LORD Knows Those that are His – by Their Smell.”
The word logismos is only used two times: once in Romans 2:15 as “thoughts” and the other in 2 Corinthians 10:5 as “imaginations.”
In Romans 2 it tells of the Gospel, the good news of the LORD’s appearing to justify those whose thoughts are in agreement with His, and who are not only teachers of the law but also doers. It is defining the “just” we’re told of in Proverbs 29:27, and in Romans 2, the “just” God who will judge all without respect of person.
Romans 2 1 Therefore you are inexcusable, O man, whosoever you are that judges: for wherein you judges another, you condemns yourself; for you that judges does the same things. 2 But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things. 3 And think you this, O man, that judges them which do such things, and does the same, that you shall escape the judgment of God? 4 Or despises you the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance? 5 But after your hardness and impenitent heart treasures up unto yourself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God; 6 Who will render to every man according to his deeds: 7 To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, eternal life: 8 But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, 9 Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that does evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile; 10 But glory, honor, and peace, to every man that works good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile: 11 For there is no respect of persons with God. 12 For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law; 13 (For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified. 14 For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves: 15 Which show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts [logismos] the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;) 16 In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel. 17 Behold, you are called a Jew, and rests in the law, and makes your boast of God, 18 And know his will, and approves the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law; 19 And are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness, 20 An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which have the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law. 21 You therefore which teaches another, teaches you not yourself? you that preaches a man should not steal, do you steal? 22 You that says a man should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? you that abhors idols, do you commit sacrilege? 23 You that make your boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonor you God? 24 For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written. 25 For circumcision truly profits, if you keep the law: but if you be a breaker of the law, your circumcision is made uncircumcision. 26 Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision? 27 And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge you, who by the letter and circumcision do transgress the law? 28 For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: 29 But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.
In 2 Corinthians 10:5 logismos is telling of the imaginations, and everything that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, which, therefore, must be cast down. Paul defines this as our warfare, pulling down these strongholds. This chapter, as does Romans 2, is describing the antichrists, the fakes sitting in God’s seats of justice, and their abominations, the stinking, rotten fruit they’ve produced: the fables they have created from their conceit and imaginations. These are what have caused the desolation of the church in total, the one body now as sheep scattered to the four winds, and these men in making merchandise of those scattered have become rich, and/or have ascended to power. The gospel written in Romans 2, the good news that the Father sent the son into the world, not to condemn men, but to pull them from the fires in this world now become hell, is the gospel the LORD tells of in Matthew 24. He says so just before speaking of this moment when all “see the abomination” standing in the holy place where it ought not. It is defining the time to run from these places, as discussed in recent posts, that we are not partakers in their plagues (disease).
Matthew 24 11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many [as it is now]. 12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. 13 But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved. 14 And THIS gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come. 15 When you therefore shall see the abomination [[bdelugma]] of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso reads, let him understand:) 16 Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains: 17 Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house: 18 Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes. 19 And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days! 20 But pray you that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the Sabbath day: 21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. 22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened. 23 Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not. 24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. 25 Behold, I have told you before. 26 Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not. 27 For as the lightning comes out of the east, and shines even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be [the true Christ comes as the sun, shining on every man, and to every man. It is the door of your own mind every person must open to Him. This is the hope we hope for, Christ in us]. 28 For where-so-ever the carcasses [of the church] is, there will the eagles be gathered together [the vultures to devour, and the LORD to stir His own nest so His young [[eagles]] will fly].
2 Corinthians 10 1 Now I Timothy myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence am base among you, but being absent am bold toward you: 2 But I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence, wherewith I think to be bold against some, which think of us as if we walked according to the flesh. 3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: 4 (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) 5 Casting down imaginations [logismos], and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; 6 And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled. 7 Do you look on things after the outward appearance? if any man trust to himself that he is Christ’s, let him of himself think this again, that, as he is Christ’s, even so are we Christ’s. 8 For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the LORD has given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed: 9 That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters. 10 For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible. 11 Let such an one think this, that, such as we are in word by letters when we are absent, such will we be also in deed when we are present. 12 For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise. 13 But we will not boast of things without our measure, but according to the measure of the rule which God has distributed to us, a measure to reach even unto you. 14 For we stretch not ourselves beyond our measure, as though we reached not unto you: for we are come as far as to you also in preaching the gospel of Christ: 15 Not boasting of things without our measure, that is, of other men’s labors; but having hope, when your faith is increased, that we shall be enlarged by you according to our rule abundantly, 16 To preach the gospel in the regions beyond you, and not to boast in another man’s line of things made ready to our hand. 17 But he that glories, let him glory in the LORD. 18 For not he that commends himself is approved, but whom the LORD commends.
Bdelugma is only used six times, twice as already mentioned, and three times in Revelation, describing the abominations of the mystery women of Babylon. The final time is in Luke 16:15, as the LORD explains what is an abomination in the sight of God: seeing it as God sees it. The abomination is unfaithfulness: through conceit and imagination (damnable heresies) leaving God and His ways, and in the case of those who now control His church and His nation, it is following the idols who have destroyed so many people and nations before them. This is the harlotry described in Revelation 17:4 & 5, and the abominations spoke of in Revelation 21:27 that (and those who work them) will not enter New [[Heavenly]] Jerusalem.
Luke 16 11 If therefore you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches? 12 And if you have not been faithful in that which is another man’s, who shall give you that which is your own? 13 No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. 14 And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him. 15 And he said unto them, You are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knows your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination [[bdelugma]] in the sight of God. 16 The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presses [[biazo – “to force, i.e. (reflexively) to crowd oneself (into), or (passively) to be seized”]] into it. 17 And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law [[the written word]] to fail.
Revelation 17 1 And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will show unto you the judgment of the great whore that sits upon many waters: 2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication. 3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman [God’s people] sit upon a scarlet colored beast [blood – advice of the mass media], full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns [the church and her creations – false doctrines which give her power]. 4 And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet color, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations [[bdelugma]] and filthiness of her fornication: 5 And upon her forehead was a name written, Mystery, Babylon [confusion – tohuw] The Great, The Mother Of Harlots And Abominations [[bdelugma]] Of The Earth. 6 And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration. 7 And the angel said unto me, Wherefore did you marvel? I will tell you the mystery of the woman [the unfaithful people of God], and of the beast [mass media] that carries her, which has the seven heads and ten horns [the church and the creations that give her power]. 8 The beast that you saw was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit [the projection of bad advice, and the never-ending fall away from God it produces], and go into perdition [perishing]: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is. 9 And here is the mind which has wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains [seats of God where the fallen church sit as if it is God], on which the woman sits. 10 And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he comes, he must continue a short space. 11 And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth [[the final totally corrupt church that is part of Babylon: ruled by the common delusions that rule all the corrupt institutions of this evil generation]], and is of the seven, and goes into perdition [perish in the total desolation come from their abominations]. 12 And the ten horns which you saw are ten kings [[the powers, all civil governments]], which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast [these are the creation of those sitting in Gods seats, which they project and use to keep Gods people under confusion’s rule]. 13 These have one mind. [[common confusion turned insanity]], and shall give their power and strength unto the beast [[without the LORD’s Spirit]]. 14 These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is LORD of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful. 15 And he said unto me, The waters which you saw, where the whore sits, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues. 16 And the ten horns [false doctrines [[spawning corruption in civil government]]] which you saw upon the beast [[[insanity without the LORD’s Spirit]] projected through mass media], these shall hate the whore [the people of God], and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with [[hell’s]] fire. 17 For God has put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast [the mass media and the culture it has created], until the words of God shall be fulfilled. 18 And the woman which you saw is that great city [[Babylon]], which reigns over the kings of the earth.
Revelation 18 [the end of Confusion – Babylon] 1 And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened [[given understanding]] with his glory. 2 And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird [[that flies in heaven, the places where understanding should be found and is no longer]]. 3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies. 4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that you be not partakers of her sins, and that you receive not of her plagues. 5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities. 6 Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she has filled fill to her double. 7 How much she has glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she says in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow. 8 Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the LORD God who judges her. 9 And the kings [[the ten horns]] of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning, 10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is your judgment come. 11 And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buys their merchandise any more: 12 The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble, 13 And cinnamon, and odors, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men. 14 And the fruits that your soul lusted after are departed from you, and all things which were dainty and goodly are departed from you, and you shall find them no more at all. 15 The merchants of these things, which were made rich by her, shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping and wailing, 16 And saying, Alas, alas that great city, that was clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls! 17 For in one hour so great riches is come to naught. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off, 18 And cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like unto this great city! 19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate. 20 Rejoice over her, you heaven, and you holy apostles and prophets; for God has avenged you on her. 21 And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all. 22 And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in you; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more in you; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in you; 23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in you; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in you: for your merchants were the great men of the earth; for by your sorceries were all nations deceived. 24 And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.
Revelation 21 22 And I saw no temple therein: for the LORD God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. 23 And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof. 24 And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honor into it. 25 And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there. 26 And they shall bring the glory and honor of the nations into it. 27 And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defiles, neither whatsoever works abomination [[bdelugma]], or makes a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb’s book of life.
Revelation 22 1 And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. 2 In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. 3 And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him: 4 And they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads. 5 And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the LORD God gives them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever. 6 And he said unto me, These sayings are faithful and true: and the LORD God of the holy prophets sent his angel to show unto his servants the things which must shortly be done. 7 Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he that keeps the sayings of the prophecy of this book.
From the post of 19 March 2021:
John 3 5 Jesus answered, Truly, truly, I say unto you, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. 6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. 7 Marvel not that I said unto you, You must be born again. 8 The wind blows [[pneo]] where it lists [the Spirit move as He wills], and you hear the sound [the voice] thereof, but can not tell from where it comes, and where it goes: so is every one that is born of the Spirit. 9 Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be? 10 Jesus answered and said unto him, Are you a master [teachers] of Israel, and know not these things? 11 Truly, truly, I say unto you, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and you receive not our witness. 12 If I have told you earthly things, and you believe not, how shall you believe, if I tell you of heavenly things? 13 And no man has ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven. 14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness [upon the nec – the pole already raised], even so must the Son of man be lifted up: 15 That whosoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believes on him is not condemned: but he that believes not is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation [krisis – the decision point], that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that does evil hates the light, neither comes to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that does truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
From 13 April 2018:
2 Samuel 22 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; and darkness was under his feet. 11 And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly [[like an eagle]]: and he was seen upon the wings of the wind. 12 And he made darkness [[men’s ignorance]] pavilions round about him, dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies. 13 Through the brightness [[understanding]] before him were coals of fire kindled. 14 The LORD thundered [[the voice of the light, as a lion roaring]] from heaven, and the most High uttered his voice.
2 Thessalonians 1 7 And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the LORD Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, 8 In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our LORD Jesus Christ: 9 Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the LORD, and from the glory of his power; 10 When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.
Psalms 118 1 O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: because his mercy endures forever. 2 Let Israel now say, that his mercy endures forever. 3 Let the house of Aaron now say, that his mercy endures forever. 4 Let them now that fear the LORD say, that his mercy endures forever. 5 I called upon the LORD in distress: the LORD answered me, and set me in a large place. 6 The LORD is on my side; I will not fear: what can man do unto me? 7 The LORD takes my part with them that help me: therefore shall I see my desire upon them that hate me. 8 It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man. 9 It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in princes. 10 All nations compassed me about: but in the name [[manifesting the presence alive in me]] of the LORD will I destroy them. 11 They compassed me about [[spewing their ignorance against me]]; yea, they compassed me about: but in the name of the LORD I will destroy them. 12 They compassed me about like bees: they are quenched as the fire of thorns [[misleaders]]: for in the name [[identity]] of the LORD I will destroy them. 13 You have thrust sore at me that I might fall: but the LORD helped me. 14 The LORD is my strength and song [[the words in my mouth that I repeat as received]], and is become my salvation. 15 The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tabernacles of the righteous: the right hand of the LORD does valiantly. 16 The right hand of the LORD is exalted: the right hand of the LORD does valiantly. 17 I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the LORD. 18 The LORD has chastened me sore: but he has not given me over unto death. 19 Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will go into them, and I will praise the LORD: 20 This gate of the LORD, into which the righteous shall enter. 21 I will praise you: for you have heard me, and are become my salvation. 22 The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner [[turning our head back to the LORD]]. 23 This is the LORD’s doing; it is marvelous in [[opening]] our eyes. 24 This is the day which the LORD has made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. 25 Save now [[Hosanna]], I beseech you, O LORD: O LORD, I beseech you, send now prosperity. 26 Blessed be he that comes in the name [[declared the presence with us, in us]] of the LORD [[these are words that will be heard from those that now see the LORD again – Matthew 23:39 For I say unto you, You shall not see me henceforth, till you shall say, Blessed is he that comes in the name of the LORD.]]: we have blessed you out of the house of the LORD. 27 God is the LORD, which has shown us light: bind the sacrifice with cords, even unto the horns of the altar [[the power in repeating these words as received, in the name, declaring the identity, of the LORD alive with us, in us]]. 28 You are my God, and I will praise you: you are my God, I will exalt you [[Your voice above all other voices]]. 29 O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endures forever.
Thus says the LORD of hosts; Turn you unto me, says the LORD of hosts, and I will turn unto you, says the LORD of hosts.
The above is the LORD, through (in) Zechariah, speaking to His people about His displeasure with those before them who led them into self-destruction. It comes after (like here and now) the nation was destroyed from within (by worshipping idols, men’s creations, put in the LORD’s place), and they were held captive under the control of their enemies for seventy years.
The LORD (like now) addresses His people (who’ve turned from Him), identifying Himself as the LORD of hosts, speaking of His position as the Chief of the army of heaven, and Himself as a man of war. The idea of war relates to Him (once He’s begun), not stopping until He’s achieved His objectives and His enemies are vanquished.
As we know, Zechariah (those who remember, zakar, Jehovah), in chapters 3 & 4, tells of Him (the LORD) reestablishing His government on the earth, first cleansing the priesthood (described as Joshua, Jesus: Jehovah’s Salvation manifested in living, cleansed, flesh) and then civil government (Zerubbabel, those born again by coming out of confusion).
In chapter 3, the enemy is identified as Satan standing at the right hand of the priesthood to “resist” (from the word satan) the LORD’s work. Against him, the LORD says, “The LORD rebuke you, O Satan; even the LORD that has chosen [New Heavenly] Jerusalem rebukes you: is not this a brand plucked out of the fire?”
The word “chosen” is from the Hebrew word bachar, meaning “properly, to try, i.e. (by implication) select.” The word reveals the LORD assessing His people in the fire (the trial) to determine who He will use and who He will (those opposing Him) rebuke. As we know, those “plucked” (natsal) are the same Paul speaks of (in 1 Thessalonians 4:17) as “caught up” (harpazo) into heaven.
This (harpazo) is the LORD choosing, in the preparation, who He will use, “seizing” them to Himself and away from the possession of Satan (who rules hell on earth). This event is (as now) when He is working here on the earth, seizing minds, mustering His army, out of (cleansing from) confusion into full understanding (into heaven with Him on the earth). (And among those the LORD rebukes are those resisting Him: still taking His name in vain and preaching an off-the-planet “rapture.”)
Jude 1 8 Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities. 9 Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, does not bring against him a railing accusation, but says, “The LORD rebukes you.” 10 But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves. 11 Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain (who killed his brother, and why did he kill him? because his {Abel’s} words and works were more righteous than his and were accepted by God) and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward (who hired himself out to curse God’s people, which {curse} God turned into a blessing), and perished in the gainsaying of Core (Korah, who opposed the declared will of God, spoken from the flesh of His choosing, and for it was swallowed by the earth). 12 These are spots in your feasts of charity [agape – giving this word of God as received], when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds [where understanding should be found] they are without water [without the true word of God in them], carried about of winds [of false doctrine]; trees whose fruit withers, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; 13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars [planets, without fixed positions, deceiving those trying to navigate in the darkness], to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness [their own ignorance] forever. 14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the LORD comes with ten thousands of his saints [whose lot is cast into this evil time, at the LORD’s will], 15 To execute judgment [krisis – forcing men to decide between good and evil] upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly [who are as proud waves raging against the truth] among them of all their ungodly deeds [the work of evil we now see and know] which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches [skleros] which ungodly sinners have spoken against him. [In this verse the LORD gives us the key to victory, the choice is between them and us, the repulsive reality they themselves uncover, the truly weird, abnormal, evil in them, in this apocalypse.] 16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth [devouring as serpents and whales] speaking great swelling words, having men’s [perverse] persons in admiration [condemning or forgiving] because of advantage [their positions of worldly power over God’s people]. 17 But, beloved, remember you the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our LORD Jesus Christ; 18 How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time [these last days we know are upon us], who should walk after their own ungodly lusts. 19 These be they who separate themselves [from the LORD, saying they are holier than He], sensual, having not the Spirit. 20 But you, beloved, building up [edifying] yourselves [accepting the change, putting] on your most holy faith [which was once delivered, the first dominion, to His saints appearing with Him], praying in the Holy Ghost [revealing the LORD, unknown to the ungodly, in and through you speaking and working]. 21 Keep [protect] yourselves in the love [agape – by giving this word] of God [with us, in us], looking for the mercy [correction and not destruction] of our LORD Jesus Christ [manifested in His unrelenting conversation here above His mercy seat] unto eternal life. 22 And of some have compassion, making a difference: 23 And others save with fear [making them aware they are perishing by following the perverse ways of the wicked powers of darkness], pulling [harpazo – the word rendered “caught up” {meaning to seize} in 1 Thessalonians 4:17] them out of the [hell] fire; hating even the garment [the dead flesh] spotted [stained] by the flesh [of those spoken of in verse 12 above]. 24 Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, 25 To the only wise God our Savior, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.
Deuteronomy 33 20 And of Gad [the LORD’s saints as His risen army] he said, Blessed be he that enlargeth Gad: he dwells as a lion [from whom this word is heard roaring], and tears the arm with the crown of the head [the strength of the those in power]. 21 And he provided the first part for himself, because there, in a portion of the lawgiver, was he seated; and he came [‘athah – the LORD arrived] with the heads of the people, he [in His army] executed the justice of the LORD, and his judgments with Israel.
The final use of the word ‘athah, speaking of the arrival of God, His appearing in His kingdom on the earth, comes in Micah 4:8.
Micah 4 1 But in the last days [‘achariyth] it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains [His government above all others], and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow [as the waters of the sea] unto it. 2 And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach [yarah, as in Jerusalem, yara’ shalam: flow His ways of sustainable peace and security into us, as living waters into the sea] us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion [My throne here on the earth], and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. 3 And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off [rachowq – this time when the earth is ruled by the evil decrees of wicked men]; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. 4 But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the LORD of hosts [who is a man of righteous war] has spoken it. 5 For all people [if they choose] will walk everyone in the name of his god [men putting themselves in the place of the true God], and we [demonstrating His better ways and ideas] will walk in the name of the LORD our God forever and ever. 6 In that day, says the LORD, will I assemble her that halted [went lame and strayed from My high {better} way], and I will gather her that is driven out, and her that I have afflicted [letting them experience the consequences of following men who put themselves in My place]; 7 And I will make her that halted [those who strayed] a remnant [My elect remnant in these last days, those remaining alive with me], and her that was cast far off [from Me] a strong nation: and the LORD shall reign over them in mount Zion [My kingdom on the earth, where I will dwell] from henceforth, even forever. 8 And you, O tower [you that see these things and understand what has come and is coming] of the flock, the strong hold of the daughter of Zion, unto you shall it come [‘athah – to the LORD’s arrival], even the first dominion; the kingdom shall come to the daughter of Jerusalem [His saints into whom these living waters have flowed His life]. 9 Now why do you cry out aloud? is there no king in you? is your counselor perished? for pangs have taken you as a woman in travail [to bring forth the king in your midst – I Am]. 10 Be in pain, and labor to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail: for now shall you go forth out of the city, and you shall dwell in the field, and you shall go even to Babylon [realizing and confessing the confusion in the corrupt city where you dwell apart from the LORD]; there shall you be delivered; there the LORD shall redeem you from the hand of your enemies. 11 Now also many nations [those who don’t know the LORD and therefore can’t see His presence] are gathered against you [against those that do see Him, as they are this day], that say, Let her be defiled [by their evil words and false accusations], and let our eye look upon Zion [proclaiming what their evil eye sees here in the LORD’s kingdom among them]. 12 But they know not the thoughts of the LORD, neither understand they his counsel: for he shall gather them as the sheaves into the floor [to be separated from His people as chaff separated from wheat]. 13 Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion [the government of God on the earth, ruling in His people]: for I will make your horn [power] iron, and I will make your hoofs brass: and you shall beat in pieces many people: and I will consecrate their gain unto the LORD, and their substance unto the LORD of the whole earth.
Zechariah (in chapters 1 & 2), after speaking of the workmen, those the LORD first separates from the voices misleading them, ends chapter 2 telling of His next objective.
Zechariah 2 5 For I, says the LORD, will be unto her a wall of [protective] fire round about [cabiyb – the full circuit of the LORD’s work, as Ezekiel saw as His presence in the wheels], and will be the glory in the midst of her [in His people]. 6 Ho, ho, come forth, and flee from the land [‘erets] of the north [the earth covered in darkness: complete ignorance of His presence], says the LORD: for I have spread you abroad [paras – as Ezekiel 2:10; this written word sent as the LORD presence, in this exposition] as the four winds of the heaven [giving full understanding of the time, fallen condition, and mission], says the LORD. [Ezekiel 2:9 And when I looked, behold, a hand was sent unto me; and, lo, a roll of a book was therein; 10: And he spread {paras} it {paniym – as His presence} before me; and it was written within {paniym – of His presence} and without {achowr – in these last days of darkness}: and there was written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe.] 7 Deliver yourself, O Zion [My new government], that dwell with the daughter of Babylon [come out of confusion and be born again]. 8 For thus says the LORD of hosts; After the glory [to bring it into His people at large] has he sent me unto the nations [those who haven’t known Me] which spoiled you: for he that touches you touches the apple of his eye [those the LORD has taught to see as He sees]. 9 For, behold, I will shake my hand upon them [those who’ve spoiled and touched you], and they shall be a spoil to their servants: and you shall know that the LORD of hosts has sent me. 10 Sing [repeat these words with me] and rejoice [showing you realized His presence with us, in us], O daughter of Zion [the LORD’s people under His rule]: for, lo, I come, and I will dwell in the midst of you [with you, in you], says the LORD. 11 And many nations [who haven’t known Him] shall be joined to the LORD in that day [this time when light, understanding, and life have returned], and shall be my people: and I will dwell in the midst of you, and you shall know that the LORD of hosts has sent me unto you. [John 14:19 Yet a little while, and the world sees me no more; but you see me: because I live, you shall live also. 20 At that day you shall know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. 21 He that has my commandments, and keeps them, he it is that loves me {agapao – receives this word as His, and obeying His commandments, gives it as received]: and he that loves {agapao} me shall be loved {agapao} of my Father, and I will love {agapao} him, and will {in this process of giving and receive Me} manifest myself {My presence} to him. 1 John 3:2 Beloved, now are we {by correction} the sons of God, and it does not yet appear {phaneroo – is not yet rendered apparent} what we shall be {when we open our mouths and His glory is revealed in us}: but we know that, when he shall appear {phaneroo – is rendered apparent}, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 3 And every man that has this hope in him purifies himself {of blinding corruption}, even as he is pure. 4 Whosoever commits sin {misses the mark of purity} transgresses also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law {not obeying the commands of God}. 5 And you know that he was manifested {present among us} to take away our sins; and in him is no sin. Matthew 5:7 Blessed are the merciful: for they shall {as His mercy seat, in this conversation} obtain mercy. 8 Blessed are the pure in heart {foundational mind}: for they shall {now again} see God.] 12 And the LORD shall inherit Judah [the leaders of My elect remnant first] his portion in the holy land [‘adamah – this last generation I Am raising as the first of My new creation], and shall choose [New Heavenly] Jerusalem [the people into whom His word has flowed, through this teaching, that is their peace and security] again. 13 Be silent, O all flesh, before [paniym – in the presence of] the LORD [His objective]: for he is raised up [‘uwr – by His own power awakened Himself in us] out of his holy habitation [ma’own – what ‘ownah – what cohabitation, the marriage, God and man joining as ONE flesh Body].
Nachum 2 1 He that dashes in pieces is come up before your face [paniym – as the presence of the LORD]: keep the munition, watch [tsaphan – look at these treasures] the [LORD’s] way, make your loins strong [receive His understanding], fortify your power [koach – the strength of the LORD] mightily. 2 For the LORD has turned away the excellency [ga’own – their glory is turned into pride] of Jacob, as the excellency [ga’own – pride] of Israel: for the emptiers have emptied them out [of all the LORD’s glory], and marred their vine branches [into whom once flowed this teaching, from which came forth good fruit]. 3 The shield of his mighty men [who’ve received His understanding] 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 [all those the world thinks are upright] shall be terribly shaken. [Isaiah 9: 5 For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire. 6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. 7 Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even forever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.] 4 [In this war] 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 [understanding coming from the cloud]. 5 He shall recount [zakar – remember] his worthies [those who exalt His word]: they shall [because of the remaining corruption] stumble in their walk; they shall make haste to the wall [protection] thereof, and the defense shall be prepared. 6 The gates [of hell, the mouths of men, holding back this word from being heard and obeyed] of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace [the current corrupt governments] shall be dissolved. 7 And Huzzab [natsab – those standing in this resurrection] shall be led away captive [galah – shall be revealed], she shall be brought up [‘alah – raised from dead flesh], and her maids shall lead her as with the voice of doves [like Jonah, whose word are signs of the end reached], tabering [drumming, beating] upon their breasts [lebab – the heart, quickening minds into life]. 8 But Nineveh [all the perpetual sons] is of old like a pool of water [are held still and the word in them is silent]: yet they shall flee away [from those holding them]. Stand, stand [silent], shall they cry; but none shall look back [at the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah]. 9 Take you the spoil [plunder] of silver, take the spoil [plunder] of gold [these treasures held in silence]: for there is none end [qetseh] of the store [tkuwnah – this word prepared and rightly ordered to raise us {kuwn}, shall have no end] and glory [and the LORD revealed therein] out of all [out of our opened mouths] the pleasant [chemdah – in which He delights] furniture [kliy – as these weapons of His warfare are deployed, meaning “something prepared, i.e. any apparatus (as an implement, utensil, dress, vessel or weapon).” 10 She [the whole earth] is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melt [the corrupt foundation of the collective mind upon which all humanity bases its decisions dissolve in the fires they’ve caused], and [and in fear of this judgment day arrived, all] the knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of [paniym – the presence of the LORD revealed] them all [to all humanity] gather blackness [here in the time when ignorance of Him covers the entire earth and men openly worship Satan who rules here in hell {think logically}]. 11 Where is the dwelling [ma’own] of the lions [bold messengers who’ve joined themselves with the LORD and speak His word], and the feeding place [given this grace as received] of the young lions, where the lion, even the old lion, walked, and the lion’s whelp, and none made them afraid? 12 The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes [the void the earth has become] with prey, and his dens with ravin [tearing in pieces the lies of their wicked possessors]. 13 Behold, I Am [as a lion, an ox, and an eagle] against you [the darkness], says the LORD of hosts [I Am a man of war], and I will burn her chariots in the smoke [that has darkened the earth], and the sword [this word they refuse] shall devour your young lions [those ignorant of their own ignorance, roaring against Me]: and I will cut off [karath] your prey [tereph] from the earth, and the voice of your [evil] messengers [mal’ak – the devils, angels, delivering the words of Satan] shall no more be heard.
Friends, as foretold in Revelation 10 (and elsewhere), the word of God was sealed, meaning, by men’s additions and fabrications, the meaning is withheld, in darkness, ignorance of God and His way of revealing Himself in its revelation (the apocalypse – uncovering the meaning held therein). His way is to choose a person through whom He first reveals Himself in this way, to start the chain reaction of bringing many sons to the same glory.
This is the truth: He chose me. This happened 30 years ago when He made Himself apparent, present, interacting with my mind, and controlling the physical world around me in miraculous, supernatural, ways. Since that time, I realized He is truly alive, not only with me but in me, speaking and working, unfolding Himself, His character, through His word. So, when people have (sincerely looking for the truth) questioned me about who I think I Am, I, without equivocation, answer that I Am a man in whom, through whom, Jesus (Jehovah’s Salvation in my flesh) lives and works. You see, I know Him, and therefore know it’s Him, and the doubting of no man will dissuade me from this truth.
1 Corinthians 11 1 Be you followers of me, even as I also Am of Christ. 2 Now I praise [commend] you, brethren, [because] that you remember me in all things, and keep [katecho – are held by, possessed by] the ordinances [paradosis – these things I’ve transmitted, delivered as received], as I delivered them to you. 3 But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God. 4 Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered [not uncovering, bringing the apocalypse, it the LORD in Him speaking and working], dishonors his head [Christ, the LORD alive in His flesh]. 5 But every woman [church] that prays or prophesies with her head uncovered [speaking words not delivered by a man confessing the LORD is alive in Him speaking and working] dishonors her head: for that is even all one [corrupting the whole body] as if she were shaven [all knowledge that should be apparent is removed]. [Romans 10:9 That if you shall confess with your mouth the LORD Jesus, and shall believe in your heart {believe that He is alive in your mind} that God has raised him from the dead, you shall be saved. 10 For with the heart {mind} man believes unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. 11 For the scripture says, Whosoever believes on him shall not be ashamed {dishonored}.] 6 For if the woman [church] be not covered [by receiving this understanding delivered as received], let her also be shorn [let that church’s ignorance be understood]: but if it be a shame for a woman [church] to be shorn or shaven [without this understanding], let her be covered [by receiving this word of the LORD]. 7 For a man [having put away childish things] indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God [whom he confesses]: but the woman [church] is the glory of the man [from who the word of God is given]. 8 For the man is not of the woman: but the woman of the man. 9 Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man. 10 For this cause ought the woman [church] to have power [this delivered word of God] on her head because of the angels [the messengers of Satan, who are without this word of God and preaching falsehood]. 11 Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman [but is given this word to give the same power to the church], neither the woman without the man [of God], in the LORD [until they are joined in the ONE BODY]. 12 For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman; but all things of God. 13 Judge in yourselves [do you have a man of God speaking this word of God]: is it comely that a woman pray unto [converse with] God uncovered [without this understanding]? [If they speak not according to, in agreement with, this word it’s because there is no understanding {light or life} in them.] 14 Does not even nature [phusis – the things that have grown from the earth] itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair [komao – obtains, creates, his own understanding, and doesn’t receive it from God], it is a shame unto him? 15 But if a woman have long hair [komao – receives this understanding through this teaching], it is a glory to her: for her hair [kome – what the church has learned] is given her for a covering. 16 But if any man seem to be contentious [disputing and doubting this word of God], we have no such custom, neither the churches of God. 17 Now in this that I declare unto you I praise you not, that you come together not for the better, but for the worse [to dispute and contend with this truth]. 18 For first of all, when you come together in the church, I hear that there be divisions [schisma – scattering you into many sects by many differing opinions] among you; and I partly believe it. 19 For there must be also heresies among you [as there are], that they which are approved [dokimos – “acceptable (current after assayal), i.e. approved:–approved, tried”] may be made manifest [phaneros – become apparent] among you. 20 When you [with your opinions] come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the LORD’s supper [not giving this word He provides, but your opinions of which no man is certain]. 21 For in eating every one takes before other his own supper [unreasonable men, incapable of correction, proud, steadfastly choosing their own opinions, delusions, over any other view]: and one is hungry [without this word of God], and another is drunken [ignorant and unreasonable]. 22 What? have you not houses to eat and to drink in [rather than spreading your opinions as leaven corrupting the whole body of the LORD’s word and work]? or despise you the church of God, and shame them that have not [are uncertain and without understanding]? what shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise you not. 23 For I have received of the LORD that which also I delivered unto you, that the LORD Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed [as you betray Him here and now] took bread [the whole of the Father’s word and work in, through, Him, delivering it as received]: 24 And when he had given thanks [to the Father for delivering it to Him], he brake [rightly divided] it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body [the completed word of God made flesh], which is broken for you: this [giving, delivering it as received] do in remembrance of me [of this same manner]. 25 After the same manner [hosautos] also he took the cup, when he had supped [prepared this evening meal], saying, this cup is the new testament in my blood [delivered in this sacrifice necessary to deliver it]: this do you, as oft as you drink it, in remembrance of me [of this same manner]. 26 For as often as you eat this bread, and drink this cup [this same word in which is the power to change men’s minds], you do show the LORD’s death till he come [is manifested apparent, present, in His word received as His word]. [2 Corinthians 4:10 Always bearing about in the body the dying of the LORD Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.] 27 Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the LORD, unworthily [anaxios], shall be guilty of [betraying] the body and blood of the LORD. [The word anaxios only appears here and in verse 29, where it speaks of discernment that only comes from this work of the LORD’s word effectually working in our minds. It refers us to the once used, almost identical, word, as it appears in 1 Corinthians 6:2, the passage, verses 2 – 4, saying “Do you not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are you unworthy {anaxios – without the LORD’s discernment} to judge the smallest matters? Know you not that we shall judge angels {the messengers, discerning if they are of God, speaking this word, or of Satan, speaking their own words}? how much more {shall we judge, spoken} things that pertain to this life? If then you have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church {despised because they rebuke Satan there sitting in the place of the Father}. I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren?”] 28 But let a man examine [dokimazo – test] himself, and so let him eat of that bread [as received from the LORD, manifesting His presence in the clarity revealed in the fire], and drink of that cup [as received]. 29 For he that eats and drinks unworthily [anaxios], eats and drinks damnation [krima – the decisions to speaking falsely, taking the LORD name in vain, saying “He says,” when the words are your opinions: delusions] to himself, not discerning [diakrino – not rightly separating, breaking and delivering, the bread] the LORD’s body. 30 For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep. 31 For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged. 32 But when we are judged, we are chastened [corrected] of the LORD, that we should not be condemned [krima] with the world. 33 Wherefore, my brethren, when you come together to eat, tarry [ekdechomai] one for another [waiting for, long-suffering, those uncertain, until they receive, from the LORD, this understand]. 34 And if any man hunger [desiring this bread], let him eat at home [apart from those teaching corruption in the church]; that you come not together unto condemnation [krima]. And the rest will I set in order when I come.
Galatians 6 1 Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, you which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering yourself, lest you also be tempted. 2 Bear you one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ. 3 For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself. 4 But let every man prove [dokimazo] his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing [realizing the LORD’s presence] in himself alone, and not in another. 5 For every man shall bear his own burden. 6 Let him that is taught [katecheo] in the word communicate unto him that teaches [katecheo] in all good things. 7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man sows, that shall he also reap. 8 For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. 9 And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. 10 As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith [believing the LORD is present with us, in us].
The word ekdechomai, rendered “tarry,” above in 1 Corinthians 11:33, appears in Acts 17:16, speaking of when Paul “waited” in Athens (meaning among the “uncertain”) for Silas and Timothy to come to Him.
Acts 17 16 Now while Paul waited [ekdechomai] for them at Athens [among the uncertain], his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry. 17 Therefore disputed he in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the devout persons, and in the market daily with them that met with him. 18 Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans [epikoureios – upon whom rests the spirit of Korah] and of the Stoicks [stoikos – stoicheo, marching in the ranks of Korah, with the same ignorant foundational principles: elements: stoicheion], encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say [speaking the word of God they couldn’t understand because they are blinded by their own ignorance]? other some [say], He seems to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection [which they are unable to understand because they refuse the enlightenment of this correction]. 19 And they took him, and brought him unto Areopagus [Mars’ hill – at the peak of the battle in which we are engaged], saying, May we know what this new doctrine, whereof you speak, is? 20 For you bring certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean. 21 (For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing [men’s opinions, delusions, they present as truth].) 22 Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars’ hill [Aireos Pagos – at the “peak of martial,” at the peak of this battle], and said, You men of Athens [now when man is certain of nothing, and all knowledge is corrupted by an inability to separate truth from opinions: delusions], I perceive that in all things you are too superstitious [deisidaimonesteros – literally meaning they are afraid, fearing the gods of this world, to receive the treasures that will strengthen them: giving certainty to the uncertain]. 23 For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, To The Unknown God [the Holy Spirit]. Whom therefore you ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you. 24 God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is LORD of heaven and earth, dwells not in temples made with hands [but in the flesh of those through whom He speaks and works]; 25 Neither is worshipped with men’s hands [works], as though he needed any thing, seeing he gives to all life [understanding], and breath [breathed from His mouth: words], and all things [needed]; 26 And has made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined [horizo – from where the sun rises] the times before appointed [protasso – prearranged, prescribed: before written, pre ordained], and the bounds [horothesia – laying out the limit: the termination point] of their habitation; 27 That they should seek the LORD [first], if haply they might feel after him [after He has effectually worked in us], and find him, though he be not far from every one of us [always willing to reveal His presence to those who receive Him manifested in His word]: 28 For in him [only do] we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are [by receiving this understanding] also his offspring [in whom He will live, if we become His prepared habitation, as many before this time did]. 29 Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead [theios] is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man’s device [enthumesis – only appearing four times, all others rendered “thoughts;” here in context discerned to be men’s fictitious writing]. 30 And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commands all men every where to repent [and purge out the blinding corruption]: 31 Because he has appointed a day [a sun rising, after the darkness: this ignorance], in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he has ordained [horizo – who is the place from where the sun rises, beginning this new day: age]; whereof he has given assurance unto all men, in that he has raised him from the dead [out of confusion, out of hell, into life in heaven: the place wherein full understanding is found]. 32 And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, We will hear you again of this matter.
Genesis 49 1 And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days [‘achariyth – in these last days of darkness]. 2 Gather yourselves together, and hear [shama’ – and obey the voice of the LORD], you sons of Jacob; and hearken [shama’ – and obey] unto Israel your father. 3 Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power: 4 Unstable [pachaz – ebullition, effervescence, “recklessness, wantonness, unbridled license, frothiness”] as water [this tells of the advice of the serpent, as one of God’s children, with unbridled license, recklessly reinterpreting His word], you shall not excel [not remain among God’s risen people]; because you went up to your father’s bed [went into the women – God’s people who have His words]; then defiled [corrupted] you it: he went up to my couch [took God’s place among His sleeping people]. 5 Simeon and Levi are brethren [names meaning those hearing and joining this teaching that replaced God’s]; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations. 6 O my soul, come not you into their secret [their hidden counsel, words of darkness]; unto their assembly, my honor, be not you united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their self-will they digged down a wall [by this they brought death on all man, and removed the protection found in the garden]. 7 Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel [speaking of the continual scattering of God’s people into many sects]. 8 Judah [the leaders God chooses], you are he whom your brethren shall praise: your hand shall be in the neck [stopping corrupt words from reaching the mouths] of your enemies; your father’s children shall bow down before you. 9 Judah is a lion’s whelp: from the prey, my son, you are gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up [so he will roar]? 10 The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet [speaking of the Davidic king line], until Shiloh come [meaning peace and tranquility – the one {Joseph’s seed – the one separated} from who it will again flow – see Ezekiel 21:27, overturning it until he comes whose right it is]; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be. 11 Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass’s colt unto the choice vine [this speaking the lowly {Zechariah 9:9}, God’s elect remnant, outside the established sects, bound until Shiloh comes, when they are loosed]; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes: 12 His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.
As we know, the birthright to the throne is in the tribe of Joseph. (1 Chronicles 5:1 Now the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel, (for he was the firstborn; but forasmuch as he defiled his father’s bed, his birthright was given unto the sons of Joseph the son of Israel: and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright. 2 For Judah prevailed above his brethren, and of him came the chief ruler; but the birthright was Joseph’s:)
Genesis 49 13 Zebulun [the lowly raised up at the LORD’s coming] shall dwell at the haven of the sea [safe from this evil generation]; and he shall be for a haven of ships [and saving any who come to the LORD through them]; and his border shall be unto Zidon [they will be the end of those, the corrupt institutions of church and state, who’ve hunted souls]. 14 Issachar [through him will come the reward – the fruitful bough] is a strong ass [the LORD’s people, now become His goodly horse in the battle – Zechariah 10:3] couching down between two burdens: 15 And he saw that rest was good, and the land that it was pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto tribute. 16 Dan [the judge – speaking of strength returned and the righteous judgment of the world begins] shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel. 17 Dan shall be a serpent by the way [as a serpent raised as a standard on a pole {nec}, as the son of man must be lifted], an adder in the path, that bites the horse heels [‘aqeb – this is the heel bruised in the judgment, meaning the serpents among the people, are rendered without effect when the corruption they picked up on their journey through time is washed away by these life-giving waters], so that his rider shall fall backward [so the body of Christ will return to the place from which she fell – see, in Isaiah 28:13, what causes them to fall backward, saying “But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.”]. 18 (I have waited for [You to finish] your [full circuit of] salvation [yshuw’ah – Joshua, Jesus, Jehovah’s Salvation manifested in the flesh], O LORD [Jehovah].) 19 Gad [the LORD’s army, overcome until their return to Him], a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last [‘aqeb – the heels, when the wicked are taken and snared by this testimony heard, precept upon precept and line upon line]. 20 Out of Asher [happy] his bread shall be fat [happiness returns when the word of God prospers], and he shall yield royal dainties [ma’adan – speaking of the royal line again raised up – referring us to its use in Proverbs 29:17, telling us this is when rest returns, when we, by correction, give the Father “delight”]. 21 Naphtali [by this wrestling – unknowingly with the LORD] is a hind let loose: he gives goodly words [our tongue {the word of God} is loosed and we teach it as received directly from Him]. 22 Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well [a tree of life by these waters, the written word of God]; whose branches run over the wall [the wall of lies men have created and teach]: 23 The archers [chest ba’al – the arrows of the gods of this world whose teaching has blinded all from seeing the Father in the son, the seed of the woman who brings forth the man child – see Revelation 12:17, saying “And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.”] have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him: 24 But his bow [qesheth – the bow in the cloud] abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:) 25 Even by the God of your father, who shall help you; and by the Almighty, who shall bless you with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lies under [the deep meaning that lies below the surface], blessings of the breasts, and of the womb [seed, the son]: 26 The blessings of your father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors [all those who have come before us, and were only blessed with part of what is perfected in our return to the LORD] unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren. 27 Benjamin [the right hand of God’s power, this last generation that becomes the first born of the woman: Rachel] shall ravin as a wolf [shall tear in pieces the wolf that has scattered the one flock]: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil. [These last words refer us to Maher-shalal-hash-baz, the son spoken of in beginning Isaiah 8, his name meaning he hastes to the spoil and is quick to the prey. He is the son foretold as coming by the virgin, later he is called Immanuel, as the advice, teaching, of the LORD comes, when men have formed a confederacy listening to the dead gods of the world.]
Hebrews 10 12 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God; 13 From henceforth expecting [ekdechomai – He is waited for] till his enemies be made his footstool. 14 For by one offering he has perfected for ever them that are sanctified [purified of corruption]. 15 Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before, 16 This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the LORD, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them; 17 And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. 18 Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin. 19 Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, 20 By a new and living way, which he has consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; 21 And having a high priest over the house of God; 22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. 23 Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;) 24 And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: 25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together [into the LORD’s ONE BODY], as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as you see the day approaching. 26 For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, 27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries. 28 He that despised Moses’ law died without mercy under two or three witnesses: 29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose you, shall he be thought worthy, who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and has done despite unto the Spirit of grace? 30 For we know him that has said, Vengeance belongs unto me, I will recompense, says the LORD. And again, The LORD shall judge his people. 31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
Psalms 120 A Song of Degrees [ma’alah – what rising in the flesh] 1 In my distress I cried unto the LORD, and he heard me. 2 Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue. 3 What shall be given unto you? or what shall be done unto you, you false tongue? 4 Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper. 5 Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech [where the LORD has “drawn out” the deceivers and false tongues into His light], that I dwell in the tents of Kedar [the “darkness,” when all are ignorant of the LORD’s presence]! 6 My soul has long dwelt with him that hate peace. 7 I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war.
Psalms 121 A Song of Degrees 1 [This is the rising:] I will lift up my eyes unto the hills, from whence comes my help. 2 My help comes from the LORD, which made heaven and earth. 3 He will not suffer your foot to be moved: he that keeps [shamar] you will not slumber. 4 Behold, he that keeps [shamar] Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep [but is always present with us, alive but unknown to those without understanding, without this light, without life]. 5 The LORD is your keeper [shamar – even in death]: the LORD is your shade [protection from the destructive understanding of this day] upon your [covering His] right hand [where we sit until our enemies are made His footstool]. 6 The sun [the corrupt church, whose light is darkness] shall not smite you by day [when this true light comes], nor the moon [civil government] by night [when ignorance covers the earth and we wait for understanding to replace it]. 7 The LORD shall preserve [shamar] you from all evil: he shall preserve [shamar] your soul. 8 The LORD shall preserve [shamar] your going out [of darkness] and your coming in [to the light] from this time forth, and even for evermore.
Psalms 122 A Song of Degrees [of this rising] of David 1 I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the LORD. 2 Our feet shall stand within your gates, O [New Heavenly] Jerusalem. 3 Jerusalem is built as a city that is compact together: 4 Whither the tribes go up [‘alah – rising with their king rising], the tribes of the LORD, unto the testimony of Israel [who are His people by receiving this word, His correction, who will rule with Him on the earth] to give thanks unto the name [identity] of the LORD. 5 For there are set thrones of judgment, the thrones of the house of David. 6 Pray for the peace of [New Heavenly] Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love you. 7 Peace be within your walls, and prosperity within your palaces. 8 For my brethren and companions’ sakes, I will now say, Peace be within you. 9 Because of the house of the LORD our God I will seek your good.
Psalms 123 A Song of Degrees 1 Unto you lift I up my eyes, O you that dwellest in the heavens [this time and place of full understanding]. 2 Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our eyes wait upon the LORD our God, until that he have mercy upon us [correcting us into seeing as He sees]. 3 Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt [of the proud in power who’ve become incorrigible]. 4 Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease [sha’anan – thinking they secure in their position of power, in the totally corrupt institutions of church and state], and with the contempt of the proud.
Psalms 124 A Song of Degrees of David 1 If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, now may Israel [those who receive the LORD at His appearing and kingdom, and obeying His commands, will rule with Him on the earth, over the new heaven and earth, wherein dwells His righteousness] say; 2 If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when [wicked] men rose up against us: 3 Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us: 4 Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream [their corrupt words] had gone over our soul: 5 Then the proud waters had gone over our soul. 6 Blessed be the LORD, who has not given us as a prey to their teeth [their mouths that divide and devour flesh]. 7 Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped. 8 Our help is in the name [identity] of the LORD, who made [the old and new] heaven and earth.
Psalms 125 A Song of Degrees 1 They that trust in the LORD shall be as mount Zion [“and {are come} unto the city of the living God, the {New} heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels {His messengers}, 23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, 24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaks better things than that of Abel. 25 See that you refuse not him that speak. For if they escaped not who refused him that spoke on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speak from {this New} heaven: 26 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he has promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. 27 And this word, Yet once more, signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. 28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace {this gift of the LORD in us}, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: 29 For our God is a consuming fire.”], which cannot be removed, but abide [with the LORD] forever. 2 As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from henceforth even forever. 3 For the rod of the wicked [the corruption they taught the old earth they’ve destroyed, which has now ended] shall not rest upon the lot [those choosing the LORD] of the righteous; lest the righteous put forth their hands unto [working] iniquity [evil misheadling]. 4 Do good, O LORD, unto those that be good, and to them that are upright in their hearts [having the good foundations of their minds reset]. 5 As for such as turn aside [away from the LORD’s good teaching] unto their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: but peace shall be upon Israel [His people who receive this promised end].
Psalms 126 A Song of Degrees 1 When the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion [His people predestined to rule with Him here on the earth], we were like them that dream [while we slept, here in death waiting for Him to finish His work: changing and renewing: creating this understanding in our minds]. 2 Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing [His words He puts in our mouths]: then said they among the heathen [who haven’t known Him], The LORD has done great things for them. 3 The LORD has done great things for us; whereof we are glad. 4 Turn again our captivity, O LORD, [make us] as the streams [of living waters] in the south [to those looking to this light rising]. 5 They that sow in tears [the sorrow realizing how far away from the LORD the world has fallen] shall reap in joy [all realizing He is present with us to restore it]. 6 He that goes forth and weeps, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves [this promised harvest] with him.
Psalms 127 A Song of Degrees for Solomon 1 Except the LORD builds the house, they labor in vain that build it: except the LORD keeps the city, the watchman wakes but in vain. 2 It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he gives his beloved sleep [rest, even in death]. 3 Lo, children are a heritage of the LORD [in whom we rise from death’s sleep with His rising]: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. 4 As arrows [chest – weapons of His warfare sent forth] are in the hand [His work] of a mighty man; so are children of the youth. [Psalms 77:17 The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a sound [qowl – Your voice]: your arrows [chets] also went abroad [halak – walk, His way is long-suffering the piercing words of the ignorant – referring to Genesis 49:23 & 24, saying “The archers {chets} have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him: But his bow {qasheth – the bow in the cloud} abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the Mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the Shepherd, the Stone of Israel:)”]. 18 The voice [qowl] of your thunder [the sound of the light] was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook. 19 Your way is in the sea [walking among us], and your path in the great waters, and your footsteps are not known.] 5 Happy is the man [geber – valiant warrior] that has his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak [in this war] with the enemies [here] in the gate [out of hell into heaven].
And I will set my throne in Elam, and will destroy from thence the king and the princes, says the LORD.
The LORD begins today in Jeremiah 49 (above is verse 38), a chapter describing what Ezekiel later sees as the unfolding presence of the LORD.
As we understand, he (Ezekiel), seeing as the LORD sees, depicts himself as one of the cherubims (in Ezekiel 10:14} above the mercy seat, face to face with (in Ezekiel 3:8 & 9 as he is sent to) those to whom, through him, the LORD sends His conversation, to give, in pure form, the understanding he’s received. This (process, full circuit) is the wheel within a wheel he describes, understanding sent, in the written word, to give the same understanding to the recipient. The end, when full understanding comes: when the LORD is realized therein present speaking and working, is the light returned, which recreates, awakens, those sleeping in death.
Ezekiel (in Ezekiel 1:10 as he receives his understanding and speaks of how it came to him) describes this full circuit (wheel) as having four “faces,” using the word paniym, meaning it is the LORD thereby manifesting His presence. The first face is of a man, Ezekiel (like the many writers before him), when he understands His mission, as did Jeremiah, whose name means Jehovah rising, in his flesh speaking and working, to raise His people. The next two faces (paniym) are of a lion, speaking with the LORD’s voice, heard roaring, and of an ox, the LORD working through him in the earth. The fourth face (paniym) is of an eagle, the LORD’s present with full understanding, exalted above all other voices, flying in the heavens, realized by the receivers who receive Him.
Later, he (Ezekiel in chapter 10, speaking of how he is sent) sees the four faces differently: the first as a cherub, the second a man, the third a lion, and the fourth an eagle.
In chapter 3, when He is first commanded to go, the LORD tells him He has made his forehead, against the foreheads of His rebellious people, as an “adamant” harder than flint.
Ezekiel 3 7 But the house of Israel will not hearken [shama’ – hear and obey] unto you; for they will not hearken [shama’ – hear and obey] unto me: for all the house of Israel are impudent and hardhearted. 8 Behold, I have made your face [paniym – My presence in you] strong against their faces [paniym – the presence possessing them], and your forehead strong against their foreheads. 9 As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead: fear them not, neither be dismayed [chatham] at their looks, though they be a rebellious house.
The Hebrew word shamiyr, rendered adamant, is only used 11 times; all except three are in Isaiah, where it’s always rendered “brier.”
In these eight uses in Isaiah, we understand why God’s people refuse to hear the LORD’s voice: because (of deceivers and misleaders) they have the misperception he (Ezekiel) is a deceiver.
John 7 12 And there was much murmuring among the people concerning him: for some said, He is a good man: others said, Nay; but he deceives the people.
The word shamiyr is from shamar, meaning “to hedge about (as with thorns), i.e. guard; generally, to protect, attend to, etc..”
Isaiah 5 5 And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall [protection] thereof, and it shall be trodden down: 6 And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers [shamiyr – deceivers] and thorns [misleaders]: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it [no understanding will be sent from heaven to the earth].
Isaiah 10 17 And the light [understanding] of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns [misleaders] and his briers [shamiyr – deceivers] in one day [when light returns];
The other two uses of shamiyr (other than in Isaiah and Ezekiel) describe (as spoken of above) the process by which understanding leaves and finally, how light returns.
Jeremiah 17 1 The sin of Judah [those leading God’s people] is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond [shamiyr – by deceivers]: it is graven upon the table of their heart [corrupting their minds], and upon the horns of your altars [their creations, the power by which they deceive]; 2 While their children remember their altars [their creation] and their groves by the green trees [the men they made their idols] upon the high hills.
5 Thus says the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from the Lord.
Zechariah 7 11 But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear [shama’ – and obey]. 12 Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone [shamiyr – minds of deceivers], lest they should hear [shama’ – and obey] the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts has sent [as a wheel within a wheel] in his spirit by the former prophets [as described and demonstrated here by Him]: therefore came a great wrath [this word they refuse] from the LORD of hosts. 13 Therefore it is come to pass, that as he cried, and they would not hear [shama’]; so they cried, and I would not hear [shama’], says the LORD of hosts: 14 But I scattered them with a whirlwind [by My Almighty Spirit, from where His voice IS heard and IS obeyed] among all the nations [who haven’t known Him] whom they knew not. Thus the land [‘erets – the earth] was desolate after them, that no man passed through [‘abar – none passed from death into life] nor returned [shuwn – turned to the present LORD, the living God]: for they laid the pleasant land [‘erets – earth] desolate.
In the passages below, as in almost all the LORD’s written word, proper names are strategic, describing identities related to this moment.
Jeremiah 49 1 Concerning the [ben – the sons of] Ammonites [those who’ve scattered the LORD one body], thus says the LORD [Jehovah – ya’ah havah: the breathing one to whom all things appertain, the Living God]; Has Israel [those who receive this promised end, who will now with Him reign on the earth] no sons [ben]? has he [Israel] no heir [to inherit the earth]? why then does their [the Ammonites’] king inherit Gad [the LORD’s army], and his people dwell in his cities? 2 Therefore, behold, the days [have] come, says the LORD, that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard in Rabbah of [rabab – the multitude of God people possessed by] the Ammonites; and it shall be a desolate heap [as they are in the hand of these wicked men], and her daughters shall be burned with fire [caused by following the words and ways of the wicked]: then shall Israel be heir unto [possessing] them that were his heirs [his possessors], says the LORD. 3 Howl, O Heshbon [strongholds, by which they hold My people], for Ai [the heap of ruin, Ephraim {God’s people at large, in this generation}] is spoiled [devastated in your hand]: cry, you daughters of Rabbah [possessed by the wicked], gird you with sackcloth; lament [for this condition of which you are apparently ignorant], and run to and fro [seeking this understanding] by the hedges [the wall of the LORD’s protection]; for their king [the powers leading the totally corrupt civil government, infesting all its institution] shall go into captivity, and his priests [powers leading, infesting, all the corrupt churches] and his princes [these evil powers] together. 4 Wherefore glory you in the valleys [in these darkened deeps], your flowing valley [flowing darkness they call deep understanding], O backsliding daughter [in your endless fall away from the LORD and all truth]? that trusted in her treasures [the darkness, ignorance they teach and preach as the valued things of the dead earth], saying, Who shall come unto me [not know that for this thing the LORD promised he would visit, manifesting His presence as the Chief Overseer]? 5 Behold, I will bring a fear [cabiyb – as in verse 29 below] upon you, says the LORD God of hosts, from all those [the wicked] that be about you; and you shall be driven out [nadach – become outcast in the world, and I will call you Zion] every man right forth [paniym – by My unfolding presence]; and none shall gather up him that wanders. 6 And afterward [after this full circuit] I will bring again the captivity of the children of [possessed by] Ammon, says the LORD. 7 Concerning Edom [the enemies mixed among us, claiming they are our brethren at peace with us, while they openly war against God, us, and His better culture], thus says the LORD of hosts [a man of war, Chief of the army of heaven]; Is wisdom no more in Teman [the places where this understanding should be found]? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom vanished? [The answer is, seeing as the LORD sees, it absolutely has, from these places, perished and vanished.] 8 Flee you [from the ignorant misleading you], turn back [to the LORD], dwell deep [in this place of the LORD’s light], O inhabitants of Dedan [upon whom this double judgment, against the institutions of church and state, has come]; for I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him [Edom, removing the birthright as with Esau, because of His bitterness against His brother], the time that I will visit him [paqad – as a man, the Chief Overseer of the earth manifested, the first face of the wheel]. 9 If grape gatherers come to you [My people], would they not leave some gleaning grapes? if thieves by night [as I have into your ignorance, as a man], they will destroy till they have enough. 10 But I have made Esau bare [removing their cover {in this apocalypse}, all the lies and falsehood under which they think they hide], I have uncovered [galah – revealed, in the Apocalypse {Revelation}] his secret places [referring to Obadiah 1:6, saying “How are the things of Esau searched out! how are his hidden things sought up!”], and he shall not be able to hide himself: his seed is spoiled, and his brethren, and his neighbors, and he [all the enemies mixed among us at war with us] is not. 11 Leave your fatherless children, I will [by this understanding and light] preserve them alive; and let your widows trust in me. 12 For thus says the LORD; Behold, they whose judgment was not to drink of the cup [which I have here given] have assuredly drunken; and are you he that shall altogether go unpunished [naqah – will I not make you clean, remove corruption from your understanding and judgment]? you shall not go unpunished [naqah – uncleaned], but you shall surely drink of it [and thereby this word will effectually work in your mind to bring this change: when the corrupt put on incorruption]. 13 For I have sworn by myself, says the LORD, that Bozrah [the stronghold of corruption] shall become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes. 14 I have heard a rumor [shmuw’ah – the voice of Jehovah heard, but not yet verified] from the LORD, and an ambassador [tsiyr – a man whose voice is the birth pains preceding the One to come] is sent unto the heathen [those not knowing the LORD, and therefore not knowing His voice], saying, Gather you together [again into MY ONE BODY], and come against her [the wicked], and rise up [with Me] to the battle. 15 For, lo, I will make you [the fatherless children of the righteous and the wicked] small among the heathen [who haven’t known me], and despised among men. 16 Your terribleness [tipheltseth – the corruption you put on] has deceived you, and the pride of your heart [the proud waves, pride of your minds, trusting in the corrupt words that carried all into death and hell], O you that dwellest in the clefts of the rock [from where corruption flows, men as idols in which you put your trust], that holdest the height of the hill: though you shouldest make your nest as high as the eagle [as if you have risen there by full understanding], I will bring you down from thence, says the LORD. 17 Also Edom [the unrepentant enemies among us at war with us] shall be a desolation: every one that goes by it [‘abar – from it rises out of death into life] shall be astonished [by the power of the LORD to raise them from there], and shall hiss at [draw attention to] all the plagues thereof. 18 As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor cities thereof, says the LORD, no man shall abide there, neither shall a son of man dwell in it. 19 Behold, he shall come up [‘alah – rise in the flesh of a man] like [the second face of the wheel] a lion from [roaring against] the swelling [pride] of Jordan [the words that carry all in the descent into death and hell] [the LORD roaring] against the habitation of the strong [the wicked in power]: but I will suddenly make him [the wicked] run away from her [God’s people He releases from their possession]: and who is a chosen man [from whom I roar as a lion], that I may appoint [paqad – as the Chief Overseer] over her? for who is like me [created in My image]? and who will appoint me the time? and who is that shepherd [ra’ah – seer seeing as I see] that will stand [‘amad] before me [paniym – in My presence manifesting my presence]? 20 Therefore hear [shama’ – obey] the counsel of the LORD, that he has taken against Edom; and his purposes [machashabah], that he has purposed [chashab – as in verse 30 below] against the inhabitants of Teman [the places where the wise and prudent are in darkness: in ignorance]: Surely the least of the flock [I Am as an ox {the third face of the wheel} doing His work – of the least value in man’s eyes] shall draw them out [the wicked into this light]: surely he shall make [by His quick work upon the earth] their habitations desolate with them. 21 The earth is moved [ra’ash – the shaking that brings the dead bones together, as in Ezekiel 37:7 where it’s an identical word] at the noise of [qowl – by the LORD’s voice, effectually working to bring] their fall, at the cry the noise [qowl – the LORD’s voice roaring] thereof was heard in the Red [reed, referring to the papyrus upon which the written word comes to humanity] sea [the termination point of the proud waves]. 22 Behold [when we see this is the word of the LORD manifesting His presence], he shall come up [‘alah – rise in the flesh of a man in whom His word is exalted, lifted above all] and fly [in the strength of His full understanding given and received] as the eagle [the fourth face of the wheel], and spread his wings [this voice moving His people] over Bozrah [against the stronghold of the wicked]: and at that day [this time of light] shall the heart [minds] of the mighty men of Edom [leading the enemies] be as the heart [mind] of a woman in her pangs [having to idea they are bringing forth the LORD’s ONE united BODY]. 23 Concerning Damascus [God’s people who’ve been silent and in sorrow], Hamath [the stronghold, the powers holding them therein] is confounded [buwsh – ashamed and disappointed by not reaching the end they seek: not able to destroy all humanity], and Arpad [spread out: this exposition in the firmament is laid before them]: for they have heard [shama’ – obeyed, and decreed] evil [ra’] tidings [shmuw’ah – against this voice of the LORD, the report by which His arm, work, is revealed]: they are fainthearted [muwg – their evil decrees and their wicked institutions are dissolved]; there is sorrow [d’agah – this is the agitation, the storm, caused by the whale, the open mouths of the wicked, that swallows men into death and hell] on the sea [against all humanity]; it [the evil voices] cannot be quiet [refuse to be silenced]. 24 Damascus [the LORD’s silent people] is waxed feeble, and turns herself [from Him] to flee [as did Jonah], and fear [of the storm] has seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her [swallowing her into the belly of death and hell], as a woman in travail [needing the bring forth her child, the ONE BODY from the belly of the tanniyn: men, as whales and serpents, dragons who with open mouths devoured them]. 25 How is the city of praise not left [‘azab – not loosed from death and hell], the city of my joy [that should by now realized My presence with them, even here in hell]! 26 Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, says the LORD of hosts. 27 And I will kindle a fire in the wall [of lies and falsehood] of Damascus [holding them in silence and sorrow], and it shall consume [‘akal – eat, swallow, devour] the palaces of Benhadad [the sons of the mighty in power]. 28 Concerning Kedar [the darkness that still covers the earth], and concerning the kingdoms of Hazor [the tower, from where ignorance reigns], which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon [the lies of the false prophet, which have ruled the earth in to confusion now turned insanity] shall smite, thus says the LORD; Arise you [quwm], go up to [‘alah – be lifted from] Kedar [the darkness: ignorance], and spoil the men [ben – sons] of the east [qedem – the ancient, the wicked who’ve been brought here for judgment]. 29 Their tents and their flocks shall they take away: they shall take to themselves their curtains, and all their vessels, and their camels; and they shall cry unto them, Fear [cabiyb] is on every side [as in verse 5 above, when the LORD has visited as the Chief Overseer of the earth]. 30 Flee, get you far off, dwell deep, O you inhabitants of Hazor [the tower, from where ignorance reigns], says the LORD; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon [the lies of your false prophets that have brought the world to desolation] has taken counsel against you, and has conceived [chashab – as in verse 20 above, when all the wise are found to be ignorant] a purpose [machashabah – ma-chashab-ah: what purpose of Jehovah] against you [to send all humanity to this time of His righteous judgment]. 31 Arise [quwm], get you up [‘alah – rise with me in the flesh] unto the wealthy [shelve – in worldly prosperity quieted] nation [gowy – who no longer know Me] that dwell without care [thinking you are secure], says the LORD, which have neither gates nor bars [to keep out the devourers], which dwell alone [separated from Me and My ONE BODY, mocking my flesh because they say they are holier than I Am]. 32 And their camels shall be a booty [baz – plunder, carried away], and the multitude of their cattle [miqneh – your property] a spoil [shalal – also the plunder of war against you]: and I will scatter [as you are now scattered from Me] into all winds [seducing spirits, the false doctrine and evil decrees by which the communists in power in church and state, now rule] them that are in the utmost [qatsats – cut off from me by] corners [pe’ah – mouth, the word of the wicked, as Moab, men who now possess and hold you in hell]; and I will bring their calamity [‘eyd – see its other uses below] from all sides thereof, says the LORD. 33 And Hazor [the tower, from where ignorance reigns] shall be a dwelling for dragons [tanniyn – men as whales and serpents devouring with their wide open mouths], and a desolation forever: there shall no man abide there, nor any son of man dwell in it. 34 The word of the LORD that came [hayah – exists] to [with] Jeremiah [Jehovah rising to raise His people] the prophet [speaking My words] against Elam [all souls throughout eternity, predestined to this moment, in the flesh here and now] in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah [Jehovah’s righteousness] king of Judah [here and now with and in His elect remnant], saying, 35 Thus says the LORD of hosts [a man of war, commanding His army]; Behold [see], I will break [shabar – separate into pieces, the elements of understanding] the bow [qasheth – the sign in the cloud] of Elam [and bring them with Me throughout eternity], the chief of [ra’shiyth – the first principles, beginning] their might [gbuwrah – strength returning with Me]. 36 And upon Elam will I bring the four winds [the fours faces of my presence manifested] from the four quarters [qatsah – the termination, the full circuit] of heaven [returning full understanding], and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation [no people who haven’t known me] whither the outcasts [nadach – God’s people in this generation, whom He calls Zion; referring to its use in Jeremiah 30:17 and verse 5 above] of Elam shall not come [with this understanding they shine upon all]. 37 For I will cause Elam to be dismayed [chathath – confused and in fear, by his separated elements: ignorance] before their enemies, and before them that seek their life: and I will bring evil upon them, even my fierce anger [in this word], says the LORD; and I will send the sword after them [this word against those who reject it], till I have consumed [kalah – this decreed and determined end, as in Daniel 12:7 and Isaiah 10:18 & 25] them: 38 And I will set my throne in Elam [here on and over the earth among all My immortals], and will destroy from thence the king and the princes [the evil misleaders, tyrants oppressing humanity, as thorns in their sides and pricks in their eyes], says the LORD. 39 But it shall come to pass [hayah – come into existence] in the latter days [‘achariyth – this end of darkness], that I will bring again the captivity [shbuwth – a state of prosperity and security under God] of Elam [all those who receive Me], says the LORD.
Daniel 12 1 And at that time shall Michael [who is like God] stand up [‘amad], the great prince which stands [‘amad] for the children of your people: and there shall be a time of trouble [tsarah – this time of tribulation], such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time your people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book [when it is again opened]. 2 And many of them that sleep in the dust [the ashes of the ruin] of the earth shall awake [be resurrected from death into life], some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. 3 And they that be wise shall shine [zahar – shall teach and enlighten] as the brightness of the firmament [this exposition]; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars forever and ever. 4 But you, O Daniel [judgment of God], shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end [qets]: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge [da’ath – the knowledge of the LORD that now fills the earth – as in Habakkuk 2:14, saying “For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge {da’ath} of the glory of the LORD, as the waters {His word} cover {in peace and safety} the sea.”] shall be increased. 5 Then I Daniel looked, and, behold, there stood other two, the one on this side of the bank of the river [sending this word], and the other on that side of the bank of the river [receiving this word]. 6 And one said to the man [I Am] clothed in linen, which was upon [Chief Overseer over] the waters of the river, How long shall it be to the end of these wonders? 7 And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and swore by him that lives forever that it shall be for a time [mow’ed – this appointed time], times [mow’ed – of this congregation, gathering into ONE BODY], and an half [this rightly dividing, knowing, this time]; and when he shall have accomplished [kalah] to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished [kalah]. 8 And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my LORD, what shall be the end [‘achariyth – these last days of darkness: ignorance] of these things? 9 And he said, Go your way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed [and there shall be no understanding, and confusion shall reign] till the time of the end [qets]. 10 Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand [this time].
Isaiah 2 2 And it shall come to pass in the last days [‘achariyth], that the mountain [government] of the LORD’s house shall be established in the top of the mountains [over and above all governments], and shall be exalted above the hills [the high places of the earth]; and all nations [who haven’t known Him] shall flow unto it. 3 And many people shall go and say, Come you, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion [His government] shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from [New Heavenly] Jerusalem [His people at large]. 4 And he shall judge among the nations [those who haven’t known Him], and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. 5 O house of Jacob [still wrestling with Him unknown], come you, and let us walk in the light [understanding] of the LORD.
Isaiah 10 16 Therefore shall the LORD, the LORD of hosts [a man of war – see Exodus 15:3], send among his fat [prospering] ones leanness [and their corrupt understanding shall be cleansed], and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire [in which they are refined]. 17 And the light [understanding, strength, now returned] of Israel [those who receive this promised end and will rule with Me over and above the earth] shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns [misleader] and his briers [shamiyr – deceivers] in one day; 18 And shall consume [kalah] the glory of his forest [the falsely so-called upright men], and of his fruitful field [the wickedness in which they’ve prospered], both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standard-bearer [of wickedness and evil] faints. 19 And the rest of the trees [the upright] of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them. 20 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the [elect] remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay [rely] upon him [the wicked powers of the earth] that smote them; but shall stay [rely] upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth. 21 The [elect] remnant shall return [to their right minds], even the [elect] remnant of Jacob [who were before, in ignorance, wrestling with the LORD unknown], unto the mighty God [they shall return]. 22 For though your people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed [charats] shall overflow with righteousness. 23 For the LORD God of hosts shall make a consumption [kalah], even determined [charats], in the midst of all the land [‘erets – the earth]. 24 Therefore thus says the LORD God of hosts, O my people that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian [the communist now in power]: he shall smite you with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against you, after the manner of Egypt [tyrannically oppressing]. 25 For yet a very little while, and the indignation [za’am] shall cease [kalah], and my anger in their destruction.
Jeremiah 30 16 Therefore all they that devour you shall be devoured; and all your adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; and they that spoil you shall be a spoil, and all that prey upon you will I give for a prey. 17 For I will restore health unto you, and I will heal you of your wounds, says the LORD; because they called you an Outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no man seeks after. 18 Thus says the LORD; Behold, I will bring again the captivity of Jacob’s tents, and have mercy on his dwelling-places; and the city shall be built upon her own heap, and the palace shall remain after the manner thereof. 19 And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small. 20 Their children also shall be as aforetime, and their congregation shall be established before me, and I will punish [paqad – visit as the Chief Overseer of the earth] all that oppress them. 21 And their nobles shall be of themselves, and their governor shall proceed from the midst of them; and I will cause him to draw near, and he shall approach unto me: for who is this that engaged his heart [mind] to approach unto me? says the LORD. 22 And you shall be my people, and I will be your God. 23 Behold, the whirlwind [from where this voice] of the LORD goes forth with fury, a continuing whirlwind: it shall fall with pain upon the head of the wicked. 24 The fierce anger of the LORD shall not return, until he has done it, and until he has performed the intents of his heart [mind]: in the latter [‘achariyth] days you shall consider [biyn – understand] it.
Jeremiah 48 35 Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab [whose mouth are the gates holding all the world in death and hell], says the LORD, him that offers [evil, misleading, words] in the high places, and him that burn incense to his gods [worshipping men as idols put in God’s place]. 36 Therefore my heart [mind] shall sound for [hamah – roar and war against] Moab like pipes [chaliyl – to dissolve their words and break their strong hold], and my heart [mind] shall sound [hamah – roar and war] like pipes [chaliyl – to dissolve their words and break their strong hold] for the men of Kirheres [wall of potsherds; earthly understanding, elements broken in pieces and become worthless lies]: because the riches [the understanding they were given] that he has gotten have perished [in their hands]. 37 For every head shall be bald [all the understanding, knowledge, that was formed in his head has perished], and everybeard clipped [all the same knowledge that once came from their mouths has also perished]: upon all the hands [their works of ignorance] shall be cuttings [gduwdah – pressing out any remaining knowledge], and upon the loins sackcloth [sorrow come from this condition, not holding any water: without understanding from the word of God]. 38 There shall be lamentation generally upon all the housetops of Moab, and in the streets thereof: for I have broken Moab like a vessel [into potsherd] wherein is no pleasure [because it holds no water], says the LORD. 39 They shall howl, saying, How is it broken down [chathath – into separated elements]! how has Moab turned the back with shame [unable to reach the end they promised]! so shall Moab [these men as the gates of hell] be a derision and a dismaying to all them about him [cabiyb – all those who’ve followed them into the conclusion, completion, of their circuit, ending held in hell]. 40 For thus says the LORD; Behold, he [the LORD sending me to the rescue] shall fly as an eagle [the culmination in perfection, strength returned], and shall spread his wings [this voice of the LORD, heard and exalted] over Moab [over the mouths of that are the gates of hell]. 41 Kerioth [qarah – upon whom this time of My threshing has come unknown] is taken [lakad – are caught in this trap laid], and the strong holds are surprised, and the mighty men’s hearts [minds] in Moab at that day shall be as the heart [mind] of a woman in her pangs [not knowing they have brought forth a man child, the LORD to the rescue of His people, raising His ONE BODY into life]. 42 And Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he has magnified himself [exalting their lies] against the LORD. 43 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, shall be upon you, O inhabitant of Moab, says the LORD. 44 He that flees from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that getteth up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for I will bring upon it, even upon Moab, the year of their visitation [pquddah – this time of the LORD, Chief Overseer, Commander, of the earth], says the LORD. 45 They that fled [from this visitation] stood under the shadow of [ignorantly thinking they could block out and hide from the light] Heshbon [in their stronghold of lies] because of the force [koach – the strength of the Almighty]: but a fire shall come forth out of Heshbon [the lies in which they trust], and a flame from the midst of Sihon [those warring against the LORD], and shall devour the corner [pe’ah – the mouths] of Moab [the gates of hell], and [the fire and flame shall remove] the crown of the head of the tumultuous [sha’own – uproar, roaring wave against the roaring Lion] ones [warring against the LORD]. 46 Woe be unto you, O Moab! the people of Chemosh [the subduers of God’s people] perishes: for your sons are taken captives, and your daughters captives. 47 Yet will I bring again the captivity of Moab in the latter [‘achariyth] days, says the LORD. Thus far is the judgment of Moab.
Jeremiah 25 30 Therefore prophesy you against them all these words, and say unto them, The LORD shall roar from on high, and utter his voice from his holy habitation; he shall mightily roar upon his habitation; he shall give a shout [the voice of His archangel, His messenger in the flesh, which is the last trumpet sounding], as they that tread the grapes [in this harvest, this judgment], against all the inhabitants of the earth. 31 A noise [sha’own] shall come even to the ends [ending the old and beginning the new] of the earth; for the LORD has a controversy [asking who is more suited to rule the earth, its Creator or those destroying it] with the nations [who haven’t known Him], he will plead with all flesh; he will give them that are wicked to the sword [this word they refuse], says the LORD. 32 Thus says the LORD of hosts, Behold, evil shall go forth from nation to nation, and a great whirlwind [from where this voice is heard] shall be raised up [against the evil] from the coasts of [limit, where the proud ways of the wicked are stopped upon] the earth. 33 And the slain of the LORD shall be at that day from one end [of the old] of the earth even unto the other end of [beginning] the [new] earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung [animated dead flesh] upon the ground. 34 Howl, you shepherds, and cry; and wallow yourselves in the ashes, you principal of the flock: for the days [this time of light returned] of your slaughter and of your dispersions are accomplished; and you shall fall like a pleasant vessel [become worthless because it holds no water]. 35 And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the principal of the flock to escape. 36 A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and a howling of the principal of the flock, shall be heard: for the LORD has spoiled their pasture. 37 And the peaceable [completed in death] habitations are cut down [damam – in silence, “to be dumb; by implication, to be astonished, to stop; also to perish”] because of the fierce anger of the LORD. 38 He has forsaken his covert [the place where they hid His presence, in the false churches of those who haven’t known Him], as the lion [roaring]: for their land is desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of his fierce. anger.
Jeremiah 18 15 Because my people has forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity [worshipped worthless idols they put in My place and call by My name], and they have caused them to stumble in their [corrupt] ways from the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not cast up [not exalting the word of the LORD, which is His high way]; 16 To make their land [‘erets – the earth] desolate, and a perpetual hissing [their voices drawing attention to their desolation]; every one that passes [‘abar – from them into life] thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head [in disbelief they are continuing in self-destruction]. 17 I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will show them the back [My work after it is complete], and not the face [paniym – not My presence while I Am working among them unknown], in the day of their calamity [‘eyd]. 18 Then said they, “Come and let us devise devices against Jeremiah [Jehovah rising {in the flesh} to raise His people]; for the law shall not perish from the [corrupt] priest, nor counsel from the [corrupt] wise, nor the word from the [corrupt] prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue [kill him with our words as we, the corrupt, have killed all others], and let us not give heed to any of his words.” 19 Give heed to me, O LORD, and hearken to the voice of them that contend with me. 20 Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood [‘amad – I Am risen] before you [paniym – in Your presence manifested] to speak good for them, and to turn away your wrath from them [that hear and obey Your voice]. 21 Therefore deliver up their children to the famine [so they no longer are fed their corruption], and pour out [your teaching] their blood [against their teaching that is draining life from them] by the force [hand – Your work] of the sword [this word they refuse]; and let their wives [teaching corruption] be bereaved of their children, and be widows [without the providers of corruption]; and let their men [the providers] be put to death [understood to be the dead]; let their young men be slain by the sword [this word of the LORD] in battle [warring against Him]. 22 Let a cry be heard from their houses, when you shall bring a troop [your risen army] suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to take me [into which they have fallen], and hid snares for my feet [into which they are fallen and snared]. 23 Yet, LORD, you know all their counsel against me to slay me [with their words]: forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from your sight, but let them be overthrown before you [paniym – by Your presence manifested with us, in us]; deal thus with them in the time of your anger.
Proverbs 6 15 Therefore shall his calamity [‘eyd] come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy. 16 These six things does the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: 17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, 18 An heart that devises wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, 19 A false witness that speaks lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren. 20 My son, keep your father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of your mother: 21 Bind them continually upon your heart [in your mind], and tie them about your neck [where they are readied to be spoken]. 22 When you go, it shall lead you; when you sleep, it shall keep you; and when you awake, it shall talk with you. 23 For the commandment is a lamp [showing you the way]; and [in] the law is light [understanding]; and reproofs [correction] of instruction are the way of life: 24 To keep you from the evil woman [the seducers in church and state], from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman [strayed from the LORD].
Obadiah 1 1 The vision of Obadiah [the servant of Jehovah]. Thus says the LORD God concerning Edom [the enemies mixed among us at war with us]; We have heard a rumor [shmuw’ah – heard the voice] from the LORD, and an ambassador [tsiyr – the voice of Jehovah] is sent among the heathen [those who don’t know the LORD], Arise you, and let us rise up against her in battle. 2 Behold [see], I have made you [Jacob – God’s people still wrestling with Him and His voice from His messenger] small [qatan] among the heathen [those who don’t know me]: you are greatly despised. 3 The pride of your heart has deceived you, you that dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high [all the place of teachers and leaders]; that says in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground? 4 Though you exalt yourself as the eagle, and though you set your nest among the stars, thence will I bring you down, says the LORD. 5 If thieves came to you, if robbers by night, (how are you cut off!) would they not have stolen till they had enough? if the grape-gatherers came to you, would they not leave some grapes? 6 How are the things of Esau [the enemies among us in power] searched out! how are his hidden things sought up [ba’ah – a five times used word referring us to its other four uses, all in Isaiah below]! 7 All the men of your confederacy [joining with communists and God haters] have brought you even to the border [this limit, your end]: the men that were at peace with you have deceived you, and prevailed against you; they that eat your bread have laid a wound under you: there is none understanding in him. 8 Shall I not in that day, says the LORD, even destroy the wise men out of Edom [the enemies in power], and understanding out of the mount of Esau? 9 And your mighty men, O Teman [the places where understanding should be found], shall be dismayed, to the end that every one of the mount of Esau may be cut off by slaughter. 10 For your violence against your brother Jacob shame shall cover you, and you shall be cut off forever. 11 In the day that you stood on the other side, in the day that the strangers carried away captive his forces, and foreigners entered into his gates [crossed our borders], and cast lots upon Jerusalem, even you were as one of them. 12 But you shouldest not have looked on the day of your brother in the day that he became a stranger; neither shouldest you have rejoiced over the children of Judah [the leaders of My people] in the day of their destruction; neither shouldest you have spoken proudly in the day of distress. 13 You shouldest not have entered into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity [‘eyd]; yea, you shouldest not have looked on their affliction in the day of their calamity [‘eyd], nor have laid hands on their substance in the day of their calamity [‘eyd]; 14 Neither shouldest you have stood in the crossway, to cut off those of his that did escape; neither shouldest you have delivered up those of his that did remain in the day of distress. 15 For the day of the LORD is near upon all the heathen: as you have done, it shall be done unto you: your reward shall return upon your own head. 16 For as you have drunk upon my holy mountain, so shall all the heathen drink continually, yea, they shall drink, and they shall swallow down, and they shall be as though they had not been. 17 But upon mount Zion shall be deliverance, and there shall be holiness; and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions. 18 And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph [Ephraim] a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, and they shall kindle in them, and devour them; and there shall not be any remaining of the house of Esau; for the LORD has spoken it. 19 And they of the south [in whom My power is revealed] shall possess the mount of Esau; and they of the plain the Philistines [Palestinians – the enemy army now among us plainly seen]: and they [the men of the south] shall possess the fields of Ephraim, and the fields of Samaria: and Benjamin shall possess Gilead [those who become My right hand shall possess this mountain of My testimony]. 20 And the captivity of this host of the children of Israel [the LORD’s people, His army, returned to their right mind] shall possess that of the Canaanites [those zealously evil, fighting against God and His people], even unto Zarephath [when this is realized to be the refining fire]; and the captivity of [in which minds return to the LORD, in New Heavenly] Jerusalem, which is in Sepharad [among those who were before separated from Him], [and they] shall possess the cities of the south [where His power appears to those looking to His light]. 21 And saviors [the ONE BODY of Christ] shall come up on mount Zion [the LORD’s government] to judge the mount of [the rulers, government possessed by] Esau; and the kingdom shall be the LORD’s.
Isaiah 21 5 Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, you princes, and anoint the shield. 6 For thus has the LORD said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he sees. 7 And he saw a chariot with a couple of horsemen, a chariot of asses, and a chariot of camels; and he hearkened diligently with much heed: 8 And he cried, A lion [‘ariy – the body of Christ rising by/with His strength]: My LORD, I stand continually upon the watchtower in the daytime, and I Am set in my ward whole nights: 9 And, behold, here comes a chariot of men, with a couple of horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon [confusion’s rule] is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he has broken unto the ground. 10 O my threshing [opening the word, referring us to Isaiah 28, and destroying the gates of hell], and the corn [ben – sons] of my [threshing] floor: that which I have heard of the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared unto you. 11 The burden of Dumah [short for Edom {Esau} and meaning the silencing of the enemies in our midst – as in verse 2]. He called to me out of [away from] Seir [the high places of Esau, devils misleading the flock], Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night [the time of ignorance, which is caused by their {Edom’s} words]? 12 The watchman said, The morning [understanding coming as the light of the sunrise] comes, and also the night [and these men will reject this word and choose to remain in ignorance]: if you will enquire [ba’ah], enquire you [ba’ah – only used three other times – here referring us back to Obadiah, verse 6, where it is rendered “sought up,” which tells us this is how the secret things of Esau are revealed {by enquiring}]: return [shuwb – turn us], come.
Isaiah 30 8 Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come forever and ever: 9 That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear [shama’ – and obey] the law of the LORD: 10 Which say to the seers [ra’ah], See [ra’ah] not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits [as do the false prophets]: 11 Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One [the son of man in whom the LORD is unknown speaking and working] of Israel to cease from before us [paniym – cease from manifesting the LORD’s presence with us]. 12 Wherefore thus says the Holy One [the son of man, the LORD unknown in the flesh of His chosen] of Israel, Because you despise this word [wherein the Father’s presence is manifested], and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon: 13 Therefore, this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out [ba’ah – inquiring, seeking out the inequity] in a high wall [the lie of those power], whose breaking comes suddenly at an instant. 14 And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters’ [earthen] vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit [wherein they are fallen and snared]. 15 For thus says the LORD God, the Holy One of Israel; In returning [shuwbah – only used here, meaning in returning to Jehovah] and rest [nachath – in his light] shall you be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and you would not. 16 But you said, No; for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall you flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift. 17 One thousand shall flee at [paniym – the presence of the LORD manifested in] the rebuke of one; at [paniym – at the presence of the LORD manifested in] the rebuke of five shall you flee: till you [as the LORD’s saviors] be left as a beacon [of light] upon the top of a mountain [the LORD’s government], and as an ensign [nec – the pole upon which the son of man must be lifted, so the LORD’s word is exalted above all others, as Moses lifted the fiery serpent in the wilderness] on a hill. 18 And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious [finish His work, perfecting us with His gift of full understanding] unto you, and therefore will he be exalted [as an eagle], that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him [to finish His work]. 29 You shall have a song [this word in your mouth, repeated as received], as in the night [this time of darkness: ignorance] when a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goes with a pipe [chaliyl – to dissolve the words of the wicked, the gates of hell, and break their strong hold] to come into the mountain [the government] of the LORD, to the mighty One of Israel. 30 And the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to be heard [shama’ – and obeyed], and shall show the lighting [understanding] down [nachath] of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, with scattering, and tempest, and hailstones [this word reserved in heaven for the time of war]. 31 For through the voice of the LORD shall the Assyrian [communist] be beaten down [chathath – become confused and in fear, by their chosen ignorance], which smote with a rod.
Isaiah 64 1 Oh that you would rend the heavens, that you would come down [as a man], that the mountains might flow down [melt] at your presence [paniym], 2 As when [as a lion roaring] the melting fire burns, the fire causes the waters to boil [ba’ah – inquiring, that inequity is searched out], to make your name [identity] known to your adversaries, that the nations [who haven’t known You] may tremble at your presence [paniym]! 3 When [as an ox working] you did terrible [yare’ – fearful] things which we looked not for, you came down, the mountains flowed down at your presence [paniym]. 4 For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither has the eye seen, O God, beside you, what he has prepared for him that wait for him [to complete His work, strengthening us, and raising us on His wings as an eagle]. 5 You meet him that rejoices [realized this is Your presence manifested] and [made in Your likeness] works righteousness, those that remember you in your ways: behold, you are wroth; for we have sinned: in those [recognizing You and Your way] is continuance, and we shall be saved. 6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses [all the thing we think we know are right] are as filthy rags [‘ed]; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away [from continuing with You]. 7 And there is none that calls upon your name, that stirs up himself to take hold of you: for you have hid your face [paniym – presence] from us, and have consumed us, because of our iniquities. 8 But now, O LORD, you are our father; we are the clay, and you our potter; and we all are the work of your hand. 9 Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity forever: behold, see, we beseech you, we are all your people. 10 Your holy cities are a wilderness, Zion [Your government] is a wilderness, Jerusalem [Your people] a desolation. 11 Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised you, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste. 12 Will you refrain yourself [not reproduce us in Your image] for these things, O LORD? will you hold your peace [not cause Your word to be heard from us], and afflict us very sore [not cause us to rise with Your rising]?
Proverbs 1 10 My son, if sinners entice you, consent you not. 11 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause: 12 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave [sheol – hell]; and whole, as those that go down into the pit: 13 We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil: 14 Cast [your vote] in your lot among us; [as communists saying] let us [through the force of government] all have one purse: 15 My son, walk not you in the way with them; refrain your foot from their path: 16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood. 17 Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird [the trap of their evil ways is worthless to catch those who understand it]. 18 And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives. 19 So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof. 20 Wisdom cries without; she utters her voice in the streets: 21 She cries in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she utter her words, saying, 22 How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge? 23 Turn you at my reproof: behold [see], I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you. 24 Because I have called, and you refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; 25 But you have set at naught all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: 26 I also will laugh at your calamity [‘eyd]; I will mock when your fear [pachad] comes; 27 When your fear [pachad] comes as desolation, and your destruction [‘eyd] comes as a whirlwind [My Almighty Spirit working and speaking]; when distress and anguish comes upon you. 28 Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me: 29 For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD [the decision by which men condemn themselves]: 30 They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof. 31 Therefore [by choice] shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices. 32 For the turning away of the simple [from the present LORD] shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them. 33 But whoso hearkens [shama’ – hears and obeys] unto me shall dwell safely [betach], and shall be quiet [sha’an – be at peace] from fear [pachad] of evil.
Proverbs 3 12 For whom the LORD loves he corrects; even as a father the son in whom he delight. 13 Happy is the man that finds [this] wisdom, and the man that gets [this] understanding. 14 For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. 15 She is more precious than rubies: and all the things you can desire are not to be compared unto her. 16 Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honor. 17 Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. 18 She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retains her. 19 The LORD by wisdom has founded the earth; by understanding has he established the heavens. 20 By his knowledge the depths [of understanding] are broken up, and the clouds [where understanding, when it leaves the earth, is held in separated elements, there reserved for this time of war] drop down the dew [the elements reassembled into His word and are from heaven sent to the earth again]. 21 My son, let not them depart from your eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion: 22 So shall they be life unto your soul, and grace to your neck [this gift in us waiting to be spoken]. 23 Then shall you walk in your way safely [betach], and your foot shall not stumble. 24 When you lay down, you shall not be afraid [pachad]: yea, you shall lie down, and your sleep shall be sweet. 25 Be not afraid [yare’] of sudden fear [pachad], neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it comes. 26 For the LORD shall be your confidence, and shall keep your foot from being taken. 27 Withhold not good [this word of God] from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.
Isaiah 40 26 Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who has created these things, that brings out their host by number: he calls them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one fails. 27 Why sayest you, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, My way is hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over [‘abar – the way by which He brings us from death into life, is hid] from my God? 28 Have you not known? have you not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth [ending the old and beginning the new], faints not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding. 29 He gives power [koach] to the faint; and to them that have no might he increases strength. 30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: 31 But they that wait upon the LORD [to finish His work] shall renew their strength [koach]; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
Hebrews 12 1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which does so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, 2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. 3 For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest you be wearied and faint in your minds. 4 You have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin. 5 And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks unto you as unto children, My son, despise not you the chastening of the LORD, nor faint when you are rebuked of him: 6 For whom the LORD loves he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives.
Isaiah 28 13 But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken. 14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, you scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem. 15 Because you have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves: 16 Therefore thus says the LORD God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone [of My new government], a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believes shall not make haste [to flee away in shame]. 17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail [this word reserved in heaven, sent in this time of war, against the current corrupt crop of leaders] shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place. 18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then you shall be trodden down by it. 19 From the time that it goes forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report [shmuw’ah – shama’ Jehovah, the vexation is to understand this is His voice, and hearing Him, obey His commands].
And to those who do hear Him, “you are come unto mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the [New] Heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels [His messengers speaking His message],”
Hebrews 12 23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, 24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaks better things than that of Abel. 25 See that you refuse not him that speaks. For if they escaped not who refused him that spoke on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaks [here] from heaven: 26 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he has promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. 27 And this word, Yet once more, signifies the removing of those things [the blinding corruption] that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. 28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: 29 For our God is a consuming fire.
25 – 27 July 2024
And I will set my throne in Elam, and will destroy from thence the king and the princes, says the LORD.
The LORD begins today in Jeremiah 49 (above is verse 38), a chapter describing what Ezekiel later sees as the unfolding presence of the LORD.
As we understand, he (Ezekiel), seeing as the LORD sees, depicts himself as one of the cherubims (in Ezekiel 10:14} above the mercy seat, face to face with (in Ezekiel 3:8 & 9 as he is sent to) those to whom, through him, the LORD sends His conversation, to give, in pure form, the understanding he’s received. This (process, full circuit) is the wheel within a wheel he describes, understanding sent, in the written word, to give the same understanding to the recipient. The end, when full understanding comes: when the LORD is realized therein present speaking and working, is the light returned, which recreates, awakens, those sleeping in death.
Ezekiel (in Ezekiel 1:10 as he receives his understanding and speaks of how it came to him) describes this full circuit (wheel) as having four “faces,” using the word paniym, meaning it is the LORD thereby manifesting His presence. The first face is of a man, Ezekiel (like the many writers before him), when he understands His mission, as did Jeremiah, whose name means Jehovah rising, in his flesh speaking and working, to raise His people. The next two faces (paniym) are of a lion, speaking with the LORD’s voice, heard roaring, and of an ox, the LORD working through him in the earth. The fourth face (paniym) is of an eagle, the LORD’s present with full understanding, exalted above all other voices, flying in the heavens, realized by the receivers who receive Him.
Later, he (Ezekiel in chapter 10, speaking of how he is sent) sees the four faces differently: the first as a cherub, the second a man, the third a lion, and the fourth an eagle.
In chapter 3, when He is first commanded to go, the LORD tells him He has made his forehead, against the foreheads of His rebellious people, as an “adamant” harder than flint.
Ezekiel 3 7 But the house of Israel will not hearken [shama’ – hear and obey] unto you; for they will not hearken [shama’ – hear and obey] unto me: for all the house of Israel are impudent and hardhearted. 8 Behold, I have made your face [paniym – My presence in you] strong against their faces [paniym – the presence possessing them], and your forehead strong against their foreheads. 9 As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead: fear them not, neither be dismayed [chatham] at their looks, though they be a rebellious house.
The Hebrew word shamiyr, rendered adamant, is only used 11 times; all except three are in Isaiah, where it’s always rendered “brier.”
In these eight uses in Isaiah, we understand why God’s people refuse to hear the LORD’s voice: because (of deceivers and misleaders) they have the misperception he (Ezekiel) is a deceiver.
John 7 12 And there was much murmuring among the people concerning him: for some said, He is a good man: others said, Nay; but he deceives the people.
The word shamiyr is from shamar, meaning “to hedge about (as with thorns), i.e. guard; generally, to protect, attend to, etc..”
Isaiah 5 5 And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall [protection] thereof, and it shall be trodden down: 6 And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers [shamiyr – deceivers] and thorns [misleaders]: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it [no understanding will be sent from heaven to the earth].
Isaiah 10 17 And the light [understanding] of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns [misleaders] and his briers [shamiyr – deceivers] in one day [when light returns];
The other two uses of shamiyr (other than in Isaiah and Ezekiel) describe (as spoken of above) the process by which understanding leaves and finally, how light returns.
Jeremiah 17 1 The sin of Judah [those leading God’s people] is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond [shamiyr – by deceivers]: it is graven upon the table of their heart [corrupting their minds], and upon the horns of your altars [their creations, the power by which they deceive]; 2 While their children remember their altars [their creation] and their groves by the green trees [the men they made their idols] upon the high hills.
5 Thus says the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from the Lord.
Zechariah 7 11 But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear [shama’ – and obey]. 12 Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone [shamiyr – minds of deceivers], lest they should hear [shama’ – and obey] the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts has sent [as a wheel within a wheel] in his spirit by the former prophets [as described and demonstrated here by Him]: therefore came a great wrath [this word they refuse] from the LORD of hosts. 13 Therefore it is come to pass, that as he cried, and they would not hear [shama’]; so they cried, and I would not hear [shama’], says the LORD of hosts: 14 But I scattered them with a whirlwind [by My Almighty Spirit, from where His voice IS heard and IS obeyed] among all the nations [who haven’t known Him] whom they knew not. Thus the land [‘erets – the earth] was desolate after them, that no man passed through [‘abar – none passed from death into life] nor returned [shuwn – turned to the present LORD, the living God]: for they laid the pleasant land [‘erets – earth] desolate.
In the passages below, as in almost all the LORD’s written word, proper names are strategic, describing identities related to this moment.
Jeremiah 49 1 Concerning the [ben – the sons of] Ammonites [those who’ve scattered the LORD one body], thus says the LORD [Jehovah – ya’ah havah: the breathing one to whom all things appertain, the Living God]; Has Israel [those who receive this promised end, who will now with Him reign on the earth] no sons [ben]? has he [Israel] no heir [to inherit the earth]? why then does their [the Ammonites’] king inherit Gad [the LORD’s army], and his people dwell in his cities? 2 Therefore, behold, the days [have] come, says the LORD, that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard in Rabbah of [rabab – the multitude of God people possessed by] the Ammonites; and it shall be a desolate heap [as they are in the hand of these wicked men], and her daughters shall be burned with fire [caused by following the words and ways of the wicked]: then shall Israel be heir unto [possessing] them that were his heirs [his possessors], says the LORD. 3 Howl, O Heshbon [strongholds, by which they hold My people], for Ai [the heap of ruin, Ephraim {God’s people at large, in this generation}] is spoiled [devastated in your hand]: cry, you daughters of Rabbah [possessed by the wicked], gird you with sackcloth; lament [for this condition of which you are apparently ignorant], and run to and fro [seeking this understanding] by the hedges [the wall of the LORD’s protection]; for their king [the powers leading the totally corrupt civil government, infesting all its institution] shall go into captivity, and his priests [powers leading, infesting, all the corrupt churches] and his princes [these evil powers] together. 4 Wherefore glory you in the valleys [in these darkened deeps], your flowing valley [flowing darkness they call deep understanding], O backsliding daughter [in your endless fall away from the LORD and all truth]? that trusted in her treasures [the darkness, ignorance they teach and preach as the valued things of the dead earth], saying, Who shall come unto me [not know that for this thing the LORD promised he would visit, manifesting His presence as the Chief Overseer]? 5 Behold, I will bring a fear [cabiyb – as in verse 29 below] upon you, says the LORD God of hosts, from all those [the wicked] that be about you; and you shall be driven out [nadach – become outcast in the world, and I will call you Zion] every man right forth [paniym – by My unfolding presence]; and none shall gather up him that wanders. 6 And afterward [after this full circuit] I will bring again the captivity of the children of [possessed by] Ammon, says the LORD. 7 Concerning Edom [the enemies mixed among us, claiming they are our brethren at peace with us, while they openly war against God, us, and His better culture], thus says the LORD of hosts [a man of war, Chief of the army of heaven]; Is wisdom no more in Teman [the places where this understanding should be found]? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom vanished? [The answer is, seeing as the LORD sees, it absolutely has, from these places, perished and vanished.] 8 Flee you [from the ignorant misleading you], turn back [to the LORD], dwell deep [in this place of the LORD’s light], O inhabitants of Dedan [upon whom this double judgment, against the institutions of church and state, has come]; for I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him [Edom, removing the birthright as with Esau, because of His bitterness against His brother], the time that I will visit him [paqad – as a man, the Chief Overseer of the earth manifested, the first face of the wheel]. 9 If grape gatherers come to you [My people], would they not leave some gleaning grapes? if thieves by night [as I have into your ignorance, as a man], they will destroy till they have enough. 10 But I have made Esau bare [removing their cover {in this apocalypse}, all the lies and falsehood under which they think they hide], I have uncovered [galah – revealed, in the Apocalypse {Revelation}] his secret places [referring to Obadiah 1:6, saying “How are the things of Esau searched out! how are his hidden things sought up!”], and he shall not be able to hide himself: his seed is spoiled, and his brethren, and his neighbors, and he [all the enemies mixed among us at war with us] is not. 11 Leave your fatherless children, I will [by this understanding and light] preserve them alive; and let your widows trust in me. 12 For thus says the LORD; Behold, they whose judgment was not to drink of the cup [which I have here given] have assuredly drunken; and are you he that shall altogether go unpunished [naqah – will I not make you clean, remove corruption from your understanding and judgment]? you shall not go unpunished [naqah – uncleaned], but you shall surely drink of it [and thereby this word will effectually work in your mind to bring this change: when the corrupt put on incorruption]. 13 For I have sworn by myself, says the LORD, that Bozrah [the stronghold of corruption] shall become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes. 14 I have heard a rumor [shmuw’ah – the voice of Jehovah heard, but not yet verified] from the LORD, and an ambassador [tsiyr – a man whose voice is the birth pains preceding the One to come] is sent unto the heathen [those not knowing the LORD, and therefore not knowing His voice], saying, Gather you together [again into MY ONE BODY], and come against her [the wicked], and rise up [with Me] to the battle. 15 For, lo, I will make you [the fatherless children of the righteous and the wicked] small among the heathen [who haven’t known me], and despised among men. 16 Your terribleness [tipheltseth – the corruption you put on] has deceived you, and the pride of your heart [the proud waves, pride of your minds, trusting in the corrupt words that carried all into death and hell], O you that dwellest in the clefts of the rock [from where corruption flows, men as idols in which you put your trust], that holdest the height of the hill: though you shouldest make your nest as high as the eagle [as if you have risen there by full understanding], I will bring you down from thence, says the LORD. 17 Also Edom [the unrepentant enemies among us at war with us] shall be a desolation: every one that goes by it [‘abar – from it rises out of death into life] shall be astonished [by the power of the LORD to raise them from there], and shall hiss at [draw attention to] all the plagues thereof. 18 As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor cities thereof, says the LORD, no man shall abide there, neither shall a son of man dwell in it. 19 Behold, he shall come up [‘alah – rise in the flesh of a man] like [the second face of the wheel] a lion from [roaring against] the swelling [pride] of Jordan [the words that carry all in the descent into death and hell] [the LORD roaring] against the habitation of the strong [the wicked in power]: but I will suddenly make him [the wicked] run away from her [God’s people He releases from their possession]: and who is a chosen man [from whom I roar as a lion], that I may appoint [paqad – as the Chief Overseer] over her? for who is like me [created in My image]? and who will appoint me the time? and who is that shepherd [ra’ah – seer seeing as I see] that will stand [‘amad] before me [paniym – in My presence manifesting my presence]? 20 Therefore hear [shama’ – obey] the counsel of the LORD, that he has taken against Edom; and his purposes [machashabah], that he has purposed [chashab – as in verse 30 below] against the inhabitants of Teman [the places where the wise and prudent are in darkness: in ignorance]: Surely the least of the flock [I Am as an ox {the third face of the wheel} doing His work – of the least value in man’s eyes] shall draw them out [the wicked into this light]: surely he shall make [by His quick work upon the earth] their habitations desolate with them. 21 The earth is moved [ra’ash – the shaking that brings the dead bones together, as in Ezekiel 37:7 where it’s an identical word] at the noise of [qowl – by the LORD’s voice, effectually working to bring] their fall, at the cry the noise [qowl – the LORD’s voice roaring] thereof was heard in the Red [reed, referring to the papyrus upon which the written word comes to humanity] sea [the termination point of the proud waves]. 22 Behold [when we see this is the word of the LORD manifesting His presence], he shall come up [‘alah – rise in the flesh of a man in whom His word is exalted, lifted above all] and fly [in the strength of His full understanding given and received] as the eagle [the fourth face of the wheel], and spread his wings [this voice moving His people] over Bozrah [against the stronghold of the wicked]: and at that day [this time of light] shall the heart [minds] of the mighty men of Edom [leading the enemies] be as the heart [mind] of a woman in her pangs [having to idea they are bringing forth the LORD’s ONE united BODY]. 23 Concerning Damascus [God’s people who’ve been silent and in sorrow], Hamath [the stronghold, the powers holding them therein] is confounded [buwsh – ashamed and disappointed by not reaching the end they seek: not able to destroy all humanity], and Arpad [spread out: this exposition in the firmament is laid before them]: for they have heard [shama’ – obeyed, and decreed] evil [ra’] tidings [shmuw’ah – against this voice of the LORD, the report by which His arm, work, is revealed]: they are fainthearted [muwg – their evil decrees and their wicked institutions are dissolved]; there is sorrow [d’agah – this is the agitation, the storm, caused by the whale, the open mouths of the wicked, that swallows men into death and hell] on the sea [against all humanity]; it [the evil voices] cannot be quiet [refuse to be silenced]. 24 Damascus [the LORD’s silent people] is waxed feeble, and turns herself [from Him] to flee [as did Jonah], and fear [of the storm] has seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her [swallowing her into the belly of death and hell], as a woman in travail [needing the bring forth her child, the ONE BODY from the belly of the tanniyn: men, as whales and serpents, dragons who with open mouths devoured them]. 25 How is the city of praise not left [‘azab – not loosed from death and hell], the city of my joy [that should by now realized My presence with them, even here in hell]! 26 Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, says the LORD of hosts. 27 And I will kindle a fire in the wall [of lies and falsehood] of Damascus [holding them in silence and sorrow], and it shall consume [‘akal – eat, swallow, devour] the palaces of Benhadad [the sons of the mighty in power]. 28 Concerning Kedar [the darkness that still covers the earth], and concerning the kingdoms of Hazor [the tower, from where ignorance reigns], which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon [the lies of the false prophet, which have ruled the earth in to confusion now turned insanity] shall smite, thus says the LORD; Arise you [quwm], go up to [‘alah – be lifted from] Kedar [the darkness: ignorance], and spoil the men [ben – sons] of the east [qedem – the ancient, the wicked who’ve been brought here for judgment]. 29 Their tents and their flocks shall they take away: they shall take to themselves their curtains, and all their vessels, and their camels; and they shall cry unto them, Fear [cabiyb] is on every side [as in verse 5 above, when the LORD has visited as the Chief Overseer of the earth]. 30 Flee, get you far off, dwell deep, O you inhabitants of Hazor [the tower, from where ignorance reigns], says the LORD; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon [the lies of your false prophets that have brought the world to desolation] has taken counsel against you, and has conceived [chashab – as in verse 20 above, when all the wise are found to be ignorant] a purpose [machashabah – ma-chashab-ah: what purpose of Jehovah] against you [to send all humanity to this time of His righteous judgment]. 31 Arise [quwm], get you up [‘alah – rise with me in the flesh] unto the wealthy [shelve – in worldly prosperity quieted] nation [gowy – who no longer know Me] that dwell without care [thinking you are secure], says the LORD, which have neither gates nor bars [to keep out the devourers], which dwell alone [separated from Me and My ONE BODY, mocking my flesh because they say they are holier than I Am]. 32 And their camels shall be a booty [baz – plunder, carried away], and the multitude of their cattle [miqneh – your property] a spoil [shalal – also the plunder of war against you]: and I will scatter [as you are now scattered from Me] into all winds [seducing spirits, the false doctrine and evil decrees by which the communists in power in church and state, now rule] them that are in the utmost [qatsats – cut off from me by] corners [pe’ah – mouth, the word of the wicked, as Moab, men who now possess and hold you in hell]; and I will bring their calamity [‘eyd – see its other uses below] from all sides thereof, says the LORD. 33 And Hazor [the tower, from where ignorance reigns] shall be a dwelling for dragons [tanniyn – men as whales and serpents devouring with their wide open mouths], and a desolation forever: there shall no man abide there, nor any son of man dwell in it. 34 The word of the LORD that came [hayah – exists] to [with] Jeremiah [Jehovah rising to raise His people] the prophet [speaking My words] against Elam [all souls throughout eternity, predestined to this moment, in the flesh here and now] in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah [Jehovah’s righteousness] king of Judah [here and now with and in His elect remnant], saying, 35 Thus says the LORD of hosts [a man of war, commanding His army]; Behold [see], I will break [shabar – separate into pieces, the elements of understanding] the bow [qasheth – the sign in the cloud] of Elam [and bring them with Me throughout eternity], the chief of [ra’shiyth – the first principles, beginning] their might [gbuwrah – strength returning with Me]. 36 And upon Elam will I bring the four winds [the fours faces of my presence manifested] from the four quarters [qatsah – the termination, the full circuit] of heaven [returning full understanding], and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation [no people who haven’t known me] whither the outcasts [nadach – God’s people in this generation, whom He calls Zion; referring to its use in Jeremiah 30:17 and verse 5 above] of Elam shall not come [with this understanding they shine upon all]. 37 For I will cause Elam to be dismayed [chathath – confused and in fear, by his separated elements: ignorance] before their enemies, and before them that seek their life: and I will bring evil upon them, even my fierce anger [in this word], says the LORD; and I will send the sword after them [this word against those who reject it], till I have consumed [kalah – this decreed and determined end, as in Daniel 12:7 and Isaiah 10:18 & 25] them: 38 And I will set my throne in Elam [here on and over the earth among all My immortals], and will destroy from thence the king and the princes [the evil misleaders, tyrants oppressing humanity, as thorns in their sides and pricks in their eyes], says the LORD. 39 But it shall come to pass [hayah – come into existence] in the latter days [‘achariyth – this end of darkness], that I will bring again the captivity [shbuwth – a state of prosperity and security under God] of Elam [all those who receive Me], says the LORD.
Daniel 12 1 And at that time shall Michael [who is like God] stand up [‘amad], the great prince which stands [‘amad] for the children of your people: and there shall be a time of trouble [tsarah – this time of tribulation], such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time your people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book [when it is again opened]. 2 And many of them that sleep in the dust [the ashes of the ruin] of the earth shall awake [be resurrected from death into life], some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. 3 And they that be wise shall shine [zahar – shall teach and enlighten] as the brightness of the firmament [this exposition]; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars forever and ever. 4 But you, O Daniel [judgment of God], shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end [qets]: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge [da’ath – the knowledge of the LORD that now fills the earth – as in Habakkuk 2:14, saying “For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge {da’ath} of the glory of the LORD, as the waters {His word} cover {in peace and safety} the sea.”] shall be increased. 5 Then I Daniel looked, and, behold, there stood other two, the one on this side of the bank of the river [sending this word], and the other on that side of the bank of the river [receiving this word]. 6 And one said to the man [I Am] clothed in linen, which was upon [Chief Overseer over] the waters of the river, How long shall it be to the end of these wonders? 7 And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and swore by him that lives forever that it shall be for a time [mow’ed – this appointed time], times [mow’ed – of this congregation, gathering into ONE BODY], and an half [this rightly dividing, knowing, this time]; and when he shall have accomplished [kalah] to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished [kalah]. 8 And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my LORD, what shall be the end [‘achariyth – these last days of darkness: ignorance] of these things? 9 And he said, Go your way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed [and there shall be no understanding, and confusion shall reign] till the time of the end [qets]. 10 Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand [this time].
Isaiah 2 2 And it shall come to pass in the last days [‘achariyth], that the mountain [government] of the LORD’s house shall be established in the top of the mountains [over and above all governments], and shall be exalted above the hills [the high places of the earth]; and all nations [who haven’t known Him] shall flow unto it. 3 And many people shall go and say, Come you, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion [His government] shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from [New Heavenly] Jerusalem [His people at large]. 4 And he shall judge among the nations [those who haven’t known Him], and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. 5 O house of Jacob [still wrestling with Him unknown], come you, and let us walk in the light [understanding] of the LORD.
Isaiah 10 16 Therefore shall the LORD, the LORD of hosts [a man of war – see Exodus 15:3], send among his fat [prospering] ones leanness [and their corrupt understanding shall be cleansed], and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire [in which they are refined]. 17 And the light [understanding, strength, now returned] of Israel [those who receive this promised end and will rule with Me over and above the earth] shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns [misleader] and his briers [shamiyr – deceivers] in one day; 18 And shall consume [kalah] the glory of his forest [the falsely so-called upright men], and of his fruitful field [the wickedness in which they’ve prospered], both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standard-bearer [of wickedness and evil] faints. 19 And the rest of the trees [the upright] of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them. 20 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the [elect] remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay [rely] upon him [the wicked powers of the earth] that smote them; but shall stay [rely] upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth. 21 The [elect] remnant shall return [to their right minds], even the [elect] remnant of Jacob [who were before, in ignorance, wrestling with the LORD unknown], unto the mighty God [they shall return]. 22 For though your people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed [charats] shall overflow with righteousness. 23 For the LORD God of hosts shall make a consumption [kalah], even determined [charats], in the midst of all the land [‘erets – the earth]. 24 Therefore thus says the LORD God of hosts, O my people that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian [the communist now in power]: he shall smite you with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against you, after the manner of Egypt [tyrannically oppressing]. 25 For yet a very little while, and the indignation [za’am] shall cease [kalah], and my anger in their destruction.
Jeremiah 30 16 Therefore all they that devour you shall be devoured; and all your adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; and they that spoil you shall be a spoil, and all that prey upon you will I give for a prey. 17 For I will restore health unto you, and I will heal you of your wounds, says the LORD; because they called you an Outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no man seeks after. 18 Thus says the LORD; Behold, I will bring again the captivity of Jacob’s tents, and have mercy on his dwelling-places; and the city shall be built upon her own heap, and the palace shall remain after the manner thereof. 19 And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small. 20 Their children also shall be as aforetime, and their congregation shall be established before me, and I will punish [paqad – visit as the Chief Overseer of the earth] all that oppress them. 21 And their nobles shall be of themselves, and their governor shall proceed from the midst of them; and I will cause him to draw near, and he shall approach unto me: for who is this that engaged his heart [mind] to approach unto me? says the LORD. 22 And you shall be my people, and I will be your God. 23 Behold, the whirlwind [from where this voice] of the LORD goes forth with fury, a continuing whirlwind: it shall fall with pain upon the head of the wicked. 24 The fierce anger of the LORD shall not return, until he has done it, and until he has performed the intents of his heart [mind]: in the latter [‘achariyth] days you shall consider [biyn – understand] it.
Jeremiah 48 35 Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab [whose mouth are the gates holding all the world in death and hell], says the LORD, him that offers [evil, misleading, words] in the high places, and him that burn incense to his gods [worshipping men as idols put in God’s place]. 36 Therefore my heart [mind] shall sound for [hamah – roar and war against] Moab like pipes [chaliyl – to dissolve their words and break their strong hold], and my heart [mind] shall sound [hamah – roar and war] like pipes [chaliyl – to dissolve their words and break their strong hold] for the men of Kirheres [wall of potsherds; earthly understanding, elements broken in pieces and become worthless lies]: because the riches [the understanding they were given] that he has gotten have perished [in their hands]. 37 For every head shall be bald [all the understanding, knowledge, that was formed in his head has perished], and everybeard clipped [all the same knowledge that once came from their mouths has also perished]: upon all the hands [their works of ignorance] shall be cuttings [gduwdah – pressing out any remaining knowledge], and upon the loins sackcloth [sorrow come from this condition, not holding any water: without understanding from the word of God]. 38 There shall be lamentation generally upon all the housetops of Moab, and in the streets thereof: for I have broken Moab like a vessel [into potsherd] wherein is no pleasure [because it holds no water], says the LORD. 39 They shall howl, saying, How is it broken down [chathath – into separated elements]! how has Moab turned the back with shame [unable to reach the end they promised]! so shall Moab [these men as the gates of hell] be a derision and a dismaying to all them about him [cabiyb – all those who’ve followed them into the conclusion, completion, of their circuit, ending held in hell]. 40 For thus says the LORD; Behold, he [the LORD sending me to the rescue] shall fly as an eagle [the culmination in perfection, strength returned], and shall spread his wings [this voice of the LORD, heard and exalted] over Moab [over the mouths of that are the gates of hell]. 41 Kerioth [qarah – upon whom this time of My threshing has come unknown] is taken [lakad – are caught in this trap laid], and the strong holds are surprised, and the mighty men’s hearts [minds] in Moab at that day shall be as the heart [mind] of a woman in her pangs [not knowing they have brought forth a man child, the LORD to the rescue of His people, raising His ONE BODY into life]. 42 And Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he has magnified himself [exalting their lies] against the LORD. 43 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, shall be upon you, O inhabitant of Moab, says the LORD. 44 He that flees from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that getteth up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for I will bring upon it, even upon Moab, the year of their visitation [pquddah – this time of the LORD, Chief Overseer, Commander, of the earth], says the LORD. 45 They that fled [from this visitation] stood under the shadow of [ignorantly thinking they could block out and hide from the light] Heshbon [in their stronghold of lies] because of the force [koach – the strength of the Almighty]: but a fire shall come forth out of Heshbon [the lies in which they trust], and a flame from the midst of Sihon [those warring against the LORD], and shall devour the corner [pe’ah – the mouths] of Moab [the gates of hell], and [the fire and flame shall remove] the crown of the head of the tumultuous [sha’own – uproar, roaring wave against the roaring Lion] ones [warring against the LORD]. 46 Woe be unto you, O Moab! the people of Chemosh [the subduers of God’s people] perishes: for your sons are taken captives, and your daughters captives. 47 Yet will I bring again the captivity of Moab in the latter [‘achariyth] days, says the LORD. Thus far is the judgment of Moab.
Jeremiah 25 30 Therefore prophesy you against them all these words, and say unto them, The LORD shall roar from on high, and utter his voice from his holy habitation; he shall mightily roar upon his habitation; he shall give a shout [the voice of His archangel, His messenger in the flesh, which is the last trumpet sounding], as they that tread the grapes [in this harvest, this judgment], against all the inhabitants of the earth. 31 A noise [sha’own] shall come even to the ends [ending the old and beginning the new] of the earth; for the LORD has a controversy [asking who is more suited to rule the earth, its Creator or those destroying it] with the nations [who haven’t known Him], he will plead with all flesh; he will give them that are wicked to the sword [this word they refuse], says the LORD. 32 Thus says the LORD of hosts, Behold, evil shall go forth from nation to nation, and a great whirlwind [from where this voice is heard] shall be raised up [against the evil] from the coasts of [limit, where the proud ways of the wicked are stopped upon] the earth. 33 And the slain of the LORD shall be at that day from one end [of the old] of the earth even unto the other end of [beginning] the [new] earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung [animated dead flesh] upon the ground. 34 Howl, you shepherds, and cry; and wallow yourselves in the ashes, you principal of the flock: for the days [this time of light returned] of your slaughter and of your dispersions are accomplished; and you shall fall like a pleasant vessel [become worthless because it holds no water]. 35 And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the principal of the flock to escape. 36 A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and a howling of the principal of the flock, shall be heard: for the LORD has spoiled their pasture. 37 And the peaceable [completed in death] habitations are cut down [damam – in silence, “to be dumb; by implication, to be astonished, to stop; also to perish”] because of the fierce anger of the LORD. 38 He has forsaken his covert [the place where they hid His presence, in the false churches of those who haven’t known Him], as the lion [roaring]: for their land is desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of his fierce. anger.
Jeremiah 18 15 Because my people has forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity [worshipped worthless idols they put in My place and call by My name], and they have caused them to stumble in their [corrupt] ways from the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not cast up [not exalting the word of the LORD, which is His high way]; 16 To make their land [‘erets – the earth] desolate, and a perpetual hissing [their voices drawing attention to their desolation]; every one that passes [‘abar – from them into life] thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head [in disbelief they are continuing in self-destruction]. 17 I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will show them the back [My work after it is complete], and not the face [paniym – not My presence while I Am working among them unknown], in the day of their calamity [‘eyd]. 18 Then said they, “Come and let us devise devices against Jeremiah [Jehovah rising {in the flesh} to raise His people]; for the law shall not perish from the [corrupt] priest, nor counsel from the [corrupt] wise, nor the word from the [corrupt] prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue [kill him with our words as we, the corrupt, have killed all others], and let us not give heed to any of his words.” 19 Give heed to me, O LORD, and hearken to the voice of them that contend with me. 20 Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood [‘amad – I Am risen] before you [paniym – in Your presence manifested] to speak good for them, and to turn away your wrath from them [that hear and obey Your voice]. 21 Therefore deliver up their children to the famine [so they no longer are fed their corruption], and pour out [your teaching] their blood [against their teaching that is draining life from them] by the force [hand – Your work] of the sword [this word they refuse]; and let their wives [teaching corruption] be bereaved of their children, and be widows [without the providers of corruption]; and let their men [the providers] be put to death [understood to be the dead]; let their young men be slain by the sword [this word of the LORD] in battle [warring against Him]. 22 Let a cry be heard from their houses, when you shall bring a troop [your risen army] suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to take me [into which they have fallen], and hid snares for my feet [into which they are fallen and snared]. 23 Yet, LORD, you know all their counsel against me to slay me [with their words]: forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from your sight, but let them be overthrown before you [paniym – by Your presence manifested with us, in us]; deal thus with them in the time of your anger.
Proverbs 6 15 Therefore shall his calamity [‘eyd] come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy. 16 These six things does the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: 17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, 18 An heart that devises wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, 19 A false witness that speaks lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren. 20 My son, keep your father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of your mother: 21 Bind them continually upon your heart [in your mind], and tie them about your neck [where they are readied to be spoken]. 22 When you go, it shall lead you; when you sleep, it shall keep you; and when you awake, it shall talk with you. 23 For the commandment is a lamp [showing you the way]; and [in] the law is light [understanding]; and reproofs [correction] of instruction are the way of life: 24 To keep you from the evil woman [the seducers in church and state], from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman [strayed from the LORD].
Obadiah 1 1 The vision of Obadiah [the servant of Jehovah]. Thus says the LORD God concerning Edom [the enemies mixed among us at war with us]; We have heard a rumor [shmuw’ah – heard the voice] from the LORD, and an ambassador [tsiyr – the voice of Jehovah] is sent among the heathen [those who don’t know the LORD], Arise you, and let us rise up against her in battle. 2 Behold [see], I have made you [Jacob – God’s people still wrestling with Him and His voice from His messenger] small [qatan] among the heathen [those who don’t know me]: you are greatly despised. 3 The pride of your heart has deceived you, you that dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high [all the place of teachers and leaders]; that says in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground? 4 Though you exalt yourself as the eagle, and though you set your nest among the stars, thence will I bring you down, says the LORD. 5 If thieves came to you, if robbers by night, (how are you cut off!) would they not have stolen till they had enough? if the grape-gatherers came to you, would they not leave some grapes? 6 How are the things of Esau [the enemies among us in power] searched out! how are his hidden things sought up [ba’ah – a five times used word referring us to its other four uses, all in Isaiah below]! 7 All the men of your confederacy [joining with communists and God haters] have brought you even to the border [this limit, your end]: the men that were at peace with you have deceived you, and prevailed against you; they that eat your bread have laid a wound under you: there is none understanding in him. 8 Shall I not in that day, says the LORD, even destroy the wise men out of Edom [the enemies in power], and understanding out of the mount of Esau? 9 And your mighty men, O Teman [the places where understanding should be found], shall be dismayed, to the end that every one of the mount of Esau may be cut off by slaughter. 10 For your violence against your brother Jacob shame shall cover you, and you shall be cut off forever. 11 In the day that you stood on the other side, in the day that the strangers carried away captive his forces, and foreigners entered into his gates [crossed our borders], and cast lots upon Jerusalem, even you were as one of them. 12 But you shouldest not have looked on the day of your brother in the day that he became a stranger; neither shouldest you have rejoiced over the children of Judah [the leaders of My people] in the day of their destruction; neither shouldest you have spoken proudly in the day of distress. 13 You shouldest not have entered into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity [‘eyd]; yea, you shouldest not have looked on their affliction in the day of their calamity [‘eyd], nor have laid hands on their substance in the day of their calamity [‘eyd]; 14 Neither shouldest you have stood in the crossway, to cut off those of his that did escape; neither shouldest you have delivered up those of his that did remain in the day of distress. 15 For the day of the LORD is near upon all the heathen: as you have done, it shall be done unto you: your reward shall return upon your own head. 16 For as you have drunk upon my holy mountain, so shall all the heathen drink continually, yea, they shall drink, and they shall swallow down, and they shall be as though they had not been. 17 But upon mount Zion shall be deliverance, and there shall be holiness; and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions. 18 And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph [Ephraim] a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, and they shall kindle in them, and devour them; and there shall not be any remaining of the house of Esau; for the LORD has spoken it. 19 And they of the south [in whom My power is revealed] shall possess the mount of Esau; and they of the plain the Philistines [Palestinians – the enemy army now among us plainly seen]: and they [the men of the south] shall possess the fields of Ephraim, and the fields of Samaria: and Benjamin shall possess Gilead [those who become My right hand shall possess this mountain of My testimony]. 20 And the captivity of this host of the children of Israel [the LORD’s people, His army, returned to their right mind] shall possess that of the Canaanites [those zealously evil, fighting against God and His people], even unto Zarephath [when this is realized to be the refining fire]; and the captivity of [in which minds return to the LORD, in New Heavenly] Jerusalem, which is in Sepharad [among those who were before separated from Him], [and they] shall possess the cities of the south [where His power appears to those looking to His light]. 21 And saviors [the ONE BODY of Christ] shall come up on mount Zion [the LORD’s government] to judge the mount of [the rulers, government possessed by] Esau; and the kingdom shall be the LORD’s.
Isaiah 21 5 Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, you princes, and anoint the shield. 6 For thus has the LORD said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he sees. 7 And he saw a chariot with a couple of horsemen, a chariot of asses, and a chariot of camels; and he hearkened diligently with much heed: 8 And he cried, A lion [‘ariy – the body of Christ rising by/with His strength]: My LORD, I stand continually upon the watchtower in the daytime, and I Am set in my ward whole nights: 9 And, behold, here comes a chariot of men, with a couple of horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon [confusion’s rule] is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he has broken unto the ground. 10 O my threshing [opening the word, referring us to Isaiah 28, and destroying the gates of hell], and the corn [ben – sons] of my [threshing] floor: that which I have heard of the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared unto you. 11 The burden of Dumah [short for Edom {Esau} and meaning the silencing of the enemies in our midst – as in verse 2]. He called to me out of [away from] Seir [the high places of Esau, devils misleading the flock], Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night [the time of ignorance, which is caused by their {Edom’s} words]? 12 The watchman said, The morning [understanding coming as the light of the sunrise] comes, and also the night [and these men will reject this word and choose to remain in ignorance]: if you will enquire [ba’ah], enquire you [ba’ah – only used three other times – here referring us back to Obadiah, verse 6, where it is rendered “sought up,” which tells us this is how the secret things of Esau are revealed {by enquiring}]: return [shuwb – turn us], come.
Isaiah 30 8 Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come forever and ever: 9 That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear [shama’ – and obey] the law of the LORD: 10 Which say to the seers [ra’ah], See [ra’ah] not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits [as do the false prophets]: 11 Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One [the son of man in whom the LORD is unknown speaking and working] of Israel to cease from before us [paniym – cease from manifesting the LORD’s presence with us]. 12 Wherefore thus says the Holy One [the son of man, the LORD unknown in the flesh of His chosen] of Israel, Because you despise this word [wherein the Father’s presence is manifested], and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon: 13 Therefore, this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out [ba’ah – inquiring, seeking out the inequity] in a high wall [the lie of those power], whose breaking comes suddenly at an instant. 14 And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters’ [earthen] vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit [wherein they are fallen and snared]. 15 For thus says the LORD God, the Holy One of Israel; In returning [shuwbah – only used here, meaning in returning to Jehovah] and rest [nachath – in his light] shall you be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and you would not. 16 But you said, No; for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall you flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift. 17 One thousand shall flee at [paniym – the presence of the LORD manifested in] the rebuke of one; at [paniym – at the presence of the LORD manifested in] the rebuke of five shall you flee: till you [as the LORD’s saviors] be left as a beacon [of light] upon the top of a mountain [the LORD’s government], and as an ensign [nec – the pole upon which the son of man must be lifted, so the LORD’s word is exalted above all others, as Moses lifted the fiery serpent in the wilderness] on a hill. 18 And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious [finish His work, perfecting us with His gift of full understanding] unto you, and therefore will he be exalted [as an eagle], that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him [to finish His work]. 29 You shall have a song [this word in your mouth, repeated as received], as in the night [this time of darkness: ignorance] when a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goes with a pipe [chaliyl – to dissolve the words of the wicked, the gates of hell, and break their strong hold] to come into the mountain [the government] of the LORD, to the mighty One of Israel. 30 And the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to be heard [shama’ – and obeyed], and shall show the lighting [understanding] down [nachath] of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, with scattering, and tempest, and hailstones [this word reserved in heaven for the time of war]. 31 For through the voice of the LORD shall the Assyrian [communist] be beaten down [chathath – become confused and in fear, by their chosen ignorance], which smote with a rod.
Isaiah 64 1 Oh that you would rend the heavens, that you would come down [as a man], that the mountains might flow down [melt] at your presence [paniym], 2 As when [as a lion roaring] the melting fire burns, the fire causes the waters to boil [ba’ah – inquiring, that inequity is searched out], to make your name [identity] known to your adversaries, that the nations [who haven’t known You] may tremble at your presence [paniym]! 3 When [as an ox working] you did terrible [yare’ – fearful] things which we looked not for, you came down, the mountains flowed down at your presence [paniym]. 4 For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither has the eye seen, O God, beside you, what he has prepared for him that wait for him [to complete His work, strengthening us, and raising us on His wings as an eagle]. 5 You meet him that rejoices [realized this is Your presence manifested] and [made in Your likeness] works righteousness, those that remember you in your ways: behold, you are wroth; for we have sinned: in those [recognizing You and Your way] is continuance, and we shall be saved. 6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses [all the thing we think we know are right] are as filthy rags [‘ed]; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away [from continuing with You]. 7 And there is none that calls upon your name, that stirs up himself to take hold of you: for you have hid your face [paniym – presence] from us, and have consumed us, because of our iniquities. 8 But now, O LORD, you are our father; we are the clay, and you our potter; and we all are the work of your hand. 9 Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity forever: behold, see, we beseech you, we are all your people. 10 Your holy cities are a wilderness, Zion [Your government] is a wilderness, Jerusalem [Your people] a desolation. 11 Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised you, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste. 12 Will you refrain yourself [not reproduce us in Your image] for these things, O LORD? will you hold your peace [not cause Your word to be heard from us], and afflict us very sore [not cause us to rise with Your rising]?
Proverbs 1 10 My son, if sinners entice you, consent you not. 11 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause: 12 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave [sheol – hell]; and whole, as those that go down into the pit: 13 We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil: 14 Cast [your vote] in your lot among us; [as communists saying] let us [through the force of government] all have one purse: 15 My son, walk not you in the way with them; refrain your foot from their path: 16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood. 17 Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird [the trap of their evil ways is worthless to catch those who understand it]. 18 And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives. 19 So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof. 20 Wisdom cries without; she utters her voice in the streets: 21 She cries in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she utter her words, saying, 22 How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge? 23 Turn you at my reproof: behold [see], I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you. 24 Because I have called, and you refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; 25 But you have set at naught all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: 26 I also will laugh at your calamity [‘eyd]; I will mock when your fear [pachad] comes; 27 When your fear [pachad] comes as desolation, and your destruction [‘eyd] comes as a whirlwind [My Almighty Spirit working and speaking]; when distress and anguish comes upon you. 28 Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me: 29 For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD [the decision by which men condemn themselves]: 30 They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof. 31 Therefore [by choice] shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices. 32 For the turning away of the simple [from the present LORD] shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them. 33 But whoso hearkens [shama’ – hears and obeys] unto me shall dwell safely [betach], and shall be quiet [sha’an – be at peace] from fear [pachad] of evil.
Proverbs 3 12 For whom the LORD loves he corrects; even as a father the son in whom he delight. 13 Happy is the man that finds [this] wisdom, and the man that gets [this] understanding. 14 For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. 15 She is more precious than rubies: and all the things you can desire are not to be compared unto her. 16 Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honor. 17 Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. 18 She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retains her. 19 The LORD by wisdom has founded the earth; by understanding has he established the heavens. 20 By his knowledge the depths [of understanding] are broken up, and the clouds [where understanding, when it leaves the earth, is held in separated elements, there reserved for this time of war] drop down the dew [the elements reassembled into His word and are from heaven sent to the earth again]. 21 My son, let not them depart from your eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion: 22 So shall they be life unto your soul, and grace to your neck [this gift in us waiting to be spoken]. 23 Then shall you walk in your way safely [betach], and your foot shall not stumble. 24 When you lay down, you shall not be afraid [pachad]: yea, you shall lie down, and your sleep shall be sweet. 25 Be not afraid [yare’] of sudden fear [pachad], neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it comes. 26 For the LORD shall be your confidence, and shall keep your foot from being taken. 27 Withhold not good [this word of God] from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.
Isaiah 40 26 Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who has created these things, that brings out their host by number: he calls them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one fails. 27 Why sayest you, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, My way is hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over [‘abar – the way by which He brings us from death into life, is hid] from my God? 28 Have you not known? have you not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth [ending the old and beginning the new], faints not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding. 29 He gives power [koach] to the faint; and to them that have no might he increases strength. 30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: 31 But they that wait upon the LORD [to finish His work] shall renew their strength [koach]; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
Hebrews 12 1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which does so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, 2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. 3 For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest you be wearied and faint in your minds. 4 You have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin. 5 And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks unto you as unto children, My son, despise not you the chastening of the LORD, nor faint when you are rebuked of him: 6 For whom the LORD loves he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives.
Isaiah 28 13 But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken. 14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, you scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem. 15 Because you have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves: 16 Therefore thus says the LORD God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone [of My new government], a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believes shall not make haste [to flee away in shame]. 17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail [this word reserved in heaven, sent in this time of war, against the current corrupt crop of leaders] shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place. 18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then you shall be trodden down by it. 19 From the time that it goes forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report [shmuw’ah – shama’ Jehovah, the vexation is to understand this is His voice, and hearing Him, obey His commands].
And to those who do hear Him, “you are come unto mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the [New] Heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels [His messengers speaking His message],”
Hebrews 12 23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, 24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaks better things than that of Abel. 25 See that you refuse not him that speaks. For if they escaped not who refused him that spoke on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaks [here] from heaven: 26 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he has promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. 27 And this word, Yet once more, signifies the removing of those things [the blinding corruption] that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. 28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: 29 For our God is a consuming fire.
Psalms 77 1 I cried unto God with my voice, even unto God with my voice; and he gave ear unto me. 2 In the day of my trouble [tsarah – tribulation] I sought the LORD: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted [nacham]. 3 I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah [think!]. 4 You hold my eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak. 5 I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times. 6 I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with my own heart [mind]: and my spirit made diligent search. 7 Will the LORD cast off forever? and will he be favorable no more? 8 Is his mercy clean gone forever? does his promise fail forevermore? 9 Has God forgotten to be gracious? has he in anger shut up his tender mercies [His promise to correct and not destroy us]? Selah [think!]. 10 And I said, This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the Most High. 11 I will remember the works of the LORD: surely I will remember your wonders of old. 12 I will meditate also of all your work, and talk of your doings. 13 Your way, O God, is in the sanctuary: who is so great a God as our God? 14 You are the God that does wonders: you have declared your strength among the people. 15 You have with your arm redeemed your people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah [think!]. 16 The waters saw you, O God, the waters saw you; they were afraid: the depths also were troubled. 17 The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a sound [qowl – Your voice]: your arrows [chets] also went abroad [halak – walk, His way is long-suffering the piercing words of the ignorant – referring to Genesis 49:23 & 24, saying “The archers {chets} have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him: But his bow {qasheth – the bow in the cloud} abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the Mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the Shepherd, the Stone of Israel:)”]. 18 The voice [qowl] of your thunder [the sound of the light] was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook. 19 Your way is in the sea [walking among us], and your path in the great waters, and your footsteps are not known. 20 You led your people like a flock by the hand of Moses [those drawn out from the corrupt waters] and Aaron [those bearing the light as received].
Psalms 77 1 I cried unto God with my voice, even unto God with my voice; and he gave ear unto me. 2 In the day of my trouble [tsarah – tribulation] I sought the LORD: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted [nacham]. 3 I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah [think!]. 4 You hold my eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak. 5 I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times. 6 I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with my own heart [mind]: and my spirit made diligent search. 7 Will the LORD cast off forever? and will he be favorable no more? 8 Is his mercy clean gone forever? does his promise fail forevermore? 9 Has God forgotten to be gracious? has he in anger shut up his tender mercies [His promise to correct and not destroy us]? Selah [think!]. 10 And I said, This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the Most High. 11 I will remember the works of the LORD: surely I will remember your wonders of old. 12 I will meditate also of all your work, and talk of your doings. 13 Your way, O God, is in the sanctuary: who is so great a God as our God? 14 You are the God that does wonders: you have declared your strength among the people. 15 You have with your arm redeemed your people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah [think!]. 16 The waters saw you, O God, the waters saw you; they were afraid: the depths also were troubled. 17 The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a sound [qowl – Your voice]: your arrows [chets] also went abroad [halak – walk, His way is long-suffering the piercing words of the ignorant – referring to Genesis 49:23 & 24, saying “The archers {chets} have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him: But his bow {qasheth – the bow in the cloud} abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the Mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the Shepherd, the Stone of Israel:)”]. 18 The voice [qowl] of your thunder [the sound of the light] was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook. 19 Your way is in the sea [walking among us], and your path in the great waters, and your footsteps are not known. 20 You led your people like a flock by the hand of Moses [those drawn out from the corrupt waters] and Aaron [those bearing the light as received].
And they were astonished at his doctrine: for he taught them as one that had authority, and not as the scribes.
The above, Mark 1:22, occurs in Capernaum, a Hebrew name from the words kaphar and nachum.
Their Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary definitions are:
Strong’s #3723: kaphar: from 3722 [kaphar – in context meaning to cover, to remove, to placate or cancel; most often translated “to make an atonement”]; a village (as protected by walls):– village.
Strong’s #5162: nacham: a primitive root; properly, to sigh, i.e. breathe strongly; by implication, to be sorry, i.e. (in a favorable sense) to pity, console or (reflexively) rue; or (unfavorably) to avenge (oneself):– comfort (self), ease (one’s self), repent(-er,-ing, self).
The word kaphar (3723) only appears twice, both times rendered “in the villages,” speaking of the place of “atonement.” It first appears in 1 Chronicles 27:25 and after in Song of Solomon 7:11.
1 Chronicles 27 25 And over the king’s treasures [‘owtsar, the armory, holding this hidden understanding] was Azmaveth [the strength to overcome death] the son of Adiel [adorning, putting on, these treasures of God]: and over the storehouses [‘owtsar – sent from their hiding place in this time of spiritual warfare] in the fields [sadeh – spread, in this exposition, before all God’s people], in the cities [‘iyr – guarded against corruption by those seeing the LORD and walking, as disciples, with Him in His work], and in the villages [kaphar – to make an atonement], and in the castles [migdal – the towers, those raised by seeing His coming], was Jehonathan [by this gift given by Jehovah] the son of Uzziah [which, understanding, is the strength of Jehovah]:
Song of Solomon 7 1 How beautiful are your feet [ways of the LORD’s people] with shoes [ na’al – from na’al, “a spring shut up, a fountain sealed,” as in Song of Solomon 4:12], O prince’s daughter! the joints of your thighs are like jewels [chaliy – as the obedient joined with a wise reprover; the understanding you’ve received, as the treasure, are joined into a concise and precise awareness], the work of the hands of a cunning workman. 2 Your navel [covering, source from where life flows] is like a round goblet [as a cup filled by the LORD], which wants not liquor [lacking not this water turned to wine]: your belly [this hell, holding you before our birth] is like a heap of wheat [chittah, with affinity to Chittim, speaking of this message sent to the good seed] set about with lilies [as the LORD’s trumpet calling all to gather to His salvation; showshannah, hosanna: God’s protected people now saved, saying “blessed is he that comes in the name of the LORD”]. 3 Your two breasts [the power of the Almighty flowing into the righteous and the wicked] are like two young roes [tsbiyah – are as armies arrayed] that are twins [ta’own – other than here and above, only used twice, in Genesis 25:25 & 38:27, the first speaking of Jacob and Esau, the other of Tamar’s children Pharez (breach) and Zarah (rising) whose hand came out of the womb {beten – belly, like hell, were the living unborn wait to be born again: raised} and a scarlet thread was tied around his hand {work} before he pulled it back and his brother was born first. As we know, Tamar {palm tree} and her two children are mentioned in Matthew’s recording of Jesus’ bloodline {generation}, which he records {Matthew 1:3} continuing through Pharez. The LORD’s bloodline continues in Zarah, in His resurrection, referred to in the only use of the word zerach {meaning “a rising of light”}, from where the name comes. Isaiah 60:1 Arise, shine; for your light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen {zarach – from zerach} upon you. 2 For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise {zarach} upon you, and his glory shall be seen upon you. 3 And the Gentiles shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising {zerach}.]. 4 Your neck is as a tower of ivory [words waiting to be spoken were seen coming and are in your mouth as teeth with which you devour dead flesh]; your eyes like the fish-pools in Heshbon [the things you’ve seen, life below these written words’ surface, are your stronghold], by the gate of Bathrabbim [the way out of hell into heaven for the multitude of scattered churches]: your nose is as the tower of Lebanon [perceiving these things as purity from the Highest] which looks toward Damascus [is sight for those who remain drunken with pride and therefore silent in sorrow]. 5 Your head [leadership] upon you is like Carmel [is a nation of gardens], and the hair of your head [this understanding that has enlarged your mind] like purple [of a virtuous woman: church]; the king is held in the galleries [the king is there joined with you in this watering]. 6 How fair and how pleasant are you, O love, for delights! 7 This your stature [gowmah – highness] is like to a palm tree [tamar], and your breasts [your nourishing your children] to clusters of grapes. 8 I said, I will go up to the palm tree [tamar], I will take hold of the boughs thereof: now also your breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of your nose [your deep perception] like apples [tappuwach, the fruit of a good tree]; 9 And the roof of your mouth [speaking this word] like the best wine [saved for last] for my beloved, that goes down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak. [What part of this is hard to understand?]. 10 I am my beloved’s, and his desire is toward me [I and the children the LORD has given me]. 11 Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field [the earth wherein the LORD has planted us]; let us lodge in the villages [kaphar – in this atonement]. 12 Let us get up early [awake from our sleep in death] to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth [as in Luke 21:29, when we see the fig tree and all the trees, bring forth new life, you know the kingdom of God is at hand]: there will I give you my loves. 13 The mandrakes [duwday – the baskets of fruit] give a smell [by which we perceive its presence], and at our gates [this word of God] are all manner of pleasant [meged] fruits, new and old, which I have laid up [tsaphan – as treasure reserved for this moment] for you, O my beloved [dowd – David, I Am].
Jeremiah 24 1 The LORD showed me, and, behold, two baskets [duwday] of figs were set before the temple of the LORD, after that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon [the lies of false prophets and false teachers that carried all into the desolation and confusion that now rules the world] had carried away captive Jeconiah [who Jehovah will establish] the son of Jehoiakim [who Jehovah raises up] king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the carpenters and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon [to this world ruled by confusion and delusion]. 2 One basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are [now] first ripe: and the other basket had very naughty [ra’ – evil] figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad [roa’]. 3 Then said the LORD unto me, What see you, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the evil [ra’], very evil [ra’], that cannot be eaten, they are so evil [roa’]. 4 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 5 Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel; Like these good figs, so will I acknowledge them that are carried away captive of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans [among those using their words to oppress and manipulate into evil] for their good. 6 For I will set my eyes upon them for good, and I will bring them again to this land [‘erets – the new earth]: and I will build them, and not pull them down; and I will plant them, and not pluck them up. 7 And I will give them a heart [a mind] to know me, that I Am the LORD: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall return unto me with their whole heart [mind].
John 2 1 And the third day [this resurrection day] there was a marriage [all joining the LORD in His ONE BODY] in Cana [reeds – reaching the limit of humanity, where the proud waves are stayed] of Galilee [circuit – this end of the age, and beginning the new heaven and earth, in His inner circle who’ve received the understanding He’s given: the wheel with the wheel: this understand sent to give understanding]; and the mother [those who must rebel against the corrupt status quo, and be filled with His Spriit] of Jesus was there: 2 And both Jesus was called, and his disciples [students], to the marriage. 3 And when they wanted wine [this word that, aging, fills them with the Spirit, and changes men’s minds], the mother of Jesus says unto him, They have no wine. 4 Jesus says unto her, Woman [church], what have I to do with you? my hour is not yet come. 5 His mother said [as the church should be saying] unto the servants, Whatsoever he says unto you, [obey and] do it. 6 And there were set there six [the number of man] waterpots [hudria – vessels for holding rainwater] of stone [men from whom this understanding will flow], after the manner of the purifying [for washing away corruption] of the Jews [Judah – those now leading God’s people who call themselves believers], containing two or three firkins apiece. 7 Jesus says unto them, Fill the waterpots with water [the written word sent from heaven, in which is hidden all understanding, reserved there for this time of Christs’ War]. And they filled them up to the brim [ano – an eight times used word, speaking of this filling as what lifts us above the corrupt world into life]. 8 And he says unto them, Draw out now [antieo – as living waters flowing from your bellies; referring to John 7:38 below], and bear unto the governor [architriklinos – those awakened by the power of the Father on this third day] of the feast. And they [obeying as commanded] bare it. 9 When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, and knew not whence it was [from the LORD of whom they are ignorant]: (but the servants which drew the water knew;) the governor of the feast called the bridegroom, 10 And say unto him, Every man at the beginning does set forth good wine; and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse [leaving men in a worse condition than when they first heard]: but you have kept the good wine until now. 11 This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and manifested forth his glory; and his disciples [students] believed on him. 12 After this he went down to Capernaum [the place of the Comforter, the Paraclete, I Am, who the Father has sent to lead His people into all truth, in this new heaven and earth, wherein dwells righteousness], he, and his mother, and his brethren, and his disciples [all doing the Father’s will]: and they continued there not many days [“for he should not stay long in the place of the breaking forth of children”]. 13 And the Jews’ [the leaders of God’s people] passover [from death into life] was at hand, and Jesus [Jehovah’s Salvation manifested in the flesh] went up [is risen] to Jerusalem [among God’s people at large, into whom His word, teaching, will flow]. 14 And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting: 15 And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers’ money, and overthrew the tables; 16 And said unto them that sold doves [fictitious tales of the end time], Take these things hence; make not my Father’s house [where this word should be freely given] a house of merchandise. 17 And his disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of your house has eaten me up. [This is quoted from Psalms 69:9, after verse 8 says, “I am become [as a Holy Ghost] a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother’s children.”] 18 Then answered the Jews [the current crop of corrupt leaders] and said unto him, What sign show you unto us, seeing that you do these things? 19 Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple [My ONE BODY, as they have], and in three days I will raise it up.
Hosea 13 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. 12 The iniquity of Ephraim [all God’s people in these last days, who are a “double ash-heap: I shall be doubly fruitful”] is bound up; his sin is hid. 13 The sorrows of a travailing woman shall come upon him: he is an unwise son; for he should not stay long in the place of the breaking forth of children. 14 I will [by removing corruption and awakening to put on immortality] ransom them from the power of the grave [sheol – hell, this habitation of the dead, in the earth]; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be your plagues; O grave [sheol – hell], I will be your destruction: repentance [nocham – only used here, meaning, I will never desist, and nothing] shall be hid from my eyes. 15 Though he be fruitful among his brethren, an east wind shall come, the wind of the LORD shall come up from the wilderness, and his [corrupt] spring shall become dry, and his [corrupt] fountain shall be dried up: he shall spoil the [corrupt] treasure of all pleasant vessels [removing them from the people to which they brought death]. 16 Samaria [those worshipping idols men created, put in My place, and call by My name] shall become desolate; for she has rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword [this word of God upon those who refuse it]: their infants [those being nourish by the corrupt flowing from them] shall be dashed in pieces, and their women [their corrupt churches] with child shall be ripped up [baqa’ – freeing those cleaving to their corruption].
John 7 24 Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment. 25 Then said some of them of Jerusalem [all God people at large], Is not this he, whom they seek to kill [with their words make dead like all the others they made dead]? 26 But, lo, he speaks boldly [this life-giving water], and they say nothing unto him. Do the [corrupt] rulers know indeed that this is the very Christ? 27 Howbeit we know this man whence he is: but when Christ comes, no man knows whence [where or when] he is [as it is this day]. 28 Then cried Jesus in the temple as he taught, saying, “You both know me, and you know whence [where and when] I Am: and I Am not come of myself, but he that sent me is true, whom you know not. 29 But I know him: for I am from him, and he has sent me.” 30 Then they sought to take him: but no man laid hands on him, because his hour was not yet come. 31 And many of the people believed on him, and said, “When Christ comes, will he do more miracles than these which this man has done?” 32 The Pharisees [the religious leaders who’ve scattered the flock] heard that the people murmured such things concerning him; and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers to take him. 33 Then said Jesus unto them, Yet a little while am I with you, and then I go unto him that sent me. 34 You shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, thither ye cannot come. 35 Then said the Jews among themselves, Whither will he go, that we shall not find him? will he go unto the dispersed among the Gentiles, and teach the Gentiles? 36 What manner of saying is this that he said, You shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, thither you cannot come? 37 In the last day [this ‘achariyth], that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. 38 He that believes on me, as the scripture has said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. 39 (But this spoke he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost [the LORD in them working and speaking, unknown to the ignorant not knowing Him] was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.) 40 Many of the people therefore, when they heard this saying, said, Of a truth this is the Prophet.
John 8 20 These words spoke Jesus in the treasury, as he taught in the temple [He is now raising]: and no man laid hands on him; for his hour [to be lifted above all others] was not yet come. 21 Then said Jesus again unto them, I go my way, and you shall seek me, and shall die in your sins: whither I go, you cannot come. 22 Then said the Jews, Will he kill himself? because he say, Where I go [where I Am lifted above], you cannot come. 23 And he said unto them, You are from beneath; I am from above [ano]: you are of this [corrupt] world; I Am not of this [corrupt] world. 24 I said therefore unto you, that you shall die in your sins [as all have]: for if you believe not that I Am he, you shall die in your sins [as all have by their unbelief, refusing to obey these life-giving waters]. 25 Then said they unto him, Who are you? And Jesus says unto them, Even the same that I said unto you from the beginning. 26 I have many things to say and to judge of you: but he that sent me is true; and I speak to the [corrupt and dead] world those things which I have heard of him. 27 They understood not that he spoke to them of the Father. 28 Then said Jesus unto them, When you have lifted up the Son of man [exalting, above all other voices, this word of my Father flowing from me], then shall you know that I Am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father has taught me, I speak these things. 29 And he that sent me is with me: the Father has not left me alone [He is alive with me, in me]; for I do always those things that please him. 30 As he spoke these words, many believed on him. 31 Then said Jesus to those Jews [the new crop of godly leaders] which believed on him, If you continue in my word, then are you my disciples [students, I have disciplined] indeed; 32 And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
John 11 37 And some of them said, Could not this man, which opened the eyes of the blind, have caused that even this man [Lazarus – the priesthood] should not have died? 38 Jesus therefore again groaning in himself comes to the grave [this earth where the dead are housed]. It was a cave [in the earth], and a stone lay [mouths of corruption held them therein] upon it. 39 Jesus said, Take you away the stone [of corruption, the words of men that are the gates of hell]. Martha [rebelling against the status quo], the sister of him that was dead, say unto him, LORD, by this time he stinks [by which we perceive he is dead]: for he has been dead four days. 40 Jesus says unto her, Said I not unto you, that, if you would believe, you shouldest see the glory of God [manifested in raising the dead]? 41 Then they took away the stone [of corruption] from the place where the dead was laid. And Jesus lifted up [ano – filled him with these words of life] his eyes [these two words, “his eyes,” don’t appear in the original text], and said, Father, I thank you that you have heard me. 42 And I knew that you hear me always: but because of the people which stand by I [out loud] said it, that they may believe that you have sent me. 43 And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice [the voice of the arch-messenger, as a trumpet], Lazarus [the dead priesthood, now cleansed, as a brand plucked from the fire, as in Zachariah 3:2], come forth [come forth to the Father who is above the world, as in 1 Thessalonians 4:16 & 17]. 44 And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus says unto them, Loose him, and let him go [from the garments corrupted by death, so he can put on the garments of the cleansed priesthood, as in Zachariah 3:5]. 45 Then many of the Jews which came to Mary [the church that rebelled against the status quo, and has seen all these things], and had seen the things which Jesus did, believed on him. 46 But some of them went their ways to the Pharisees [the old corrupt priesthood, who scattered the dead bones of God’s people], and told them what things Jesus had done. 47 Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council, and said, What do we? for this man does many miracles. 48 If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him: and the Romans [Babylon, the confusion that now rules the insane world] shall come and take away both our place and nation. 49 And one of them, named Caiaphas [the prominent voices among the corrupt], being the high priest that same year, said unto them, You know nothing at all, 50 Nor consider that it is expedient for us, that one man should die [be destroyed by their words] for the people, and that the whole nation perish not. 51 And this spoke he not of himself: but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die [this voice exalted so the corrupt mass media can destroy me] for that nation; 52 And not for that nation only, but that also he should gather together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad. 53 Then from that day forth they took counsel together for to [with their words] put him to death. 54 Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews [the corrupt]; but went thence unto a country near to the wilderness, into a city called Ephraim [where He is, I Am, with this generation, in those who receive this word as His word], and there continued with his disciples [students who receive this course correction]. 55 And the Jews’ passover [raising new leaders from death into life] was nigh at hand: and many went out of the country up to Jerusalem before the passover, to purify themselves [of the corruption, the leaven of the dead institutions]. 56 Then sought they for Jesus, and spoke among themselves, as they stood in the temple, What think you, that he will not come to the feast? 57 Now both the chief priests and the Pharisees [the old and corrupt religious institution] had given a commandment, that, if any man knew where he were, he should show it, that they might take him [to destroy Him with their word].
Acts 2 12 And they were all amazed, and were in doubt, saying one to another, What means this? 13 Others mocking said, These men are full of new wine. 14 But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said unto them, You men of Judaea [Judah], and all you that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words: 15 For these are not drunken, as you suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day. 16 But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel; [in Joel 2:28 – 32, after saying it is when He, in this feast, restores all that was devoured by the destroyers, verse 27 says, “And you shall know that I Am in the midst of Israel, and that I Am the LORD your God, and none else: and my people shall never be ashamed.”] 17 And it shall come to pass in the last days [the ‘achar{iyth}] say God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy [speaking these words, this message, I’ve put in their mouths, speaking with this full understanding to all], and your young men shall see visions [see as the LORD see], and your old men shall dream dreams [these new things I am creating in their minds, making all things new again]: 18 And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days [this time of light] of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy: 19 And I will show wonders in heaven above [ano – from there filling them and lift them there with Me], and signs in the [old and corrupt] earth beneath; blood [draining life from humanity], and fire [of hell, caused the corruption and insanity men follow], and vapor [the elements of understanding separated and removed] of smoke [from the bottomless pit, the endless fall away from God and truth, by which all its institutions are darkened]: 20 The sun [the church] shall be turned into darkness [without this understanding], and the moon [civil governments] into blood [draining the life from humanity], before the great and notable day [this time of light, this understanding and life] of the LORD come: 21 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be saved. 22 You men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God [alive in him] did by him in the midst of you, as you yourselves also know: 23 Him, being delivered by [ekdotes – only used here, meaning made the giver of] the determinate [horizo – the place from where His light rises] counsel [boula – at His will] and foreknowledge [prognosis] of God, you have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain: [the word dotes only appears once, in 2 Corinthians 9:7, verses 6 & 7 saying “But this I say, He which sows {this word} sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which sows {this word} bountifully shall reap also bountifully. Every man according as he purposes in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loves {agapao – gives these treasure, gifts of His grace, to} a cheerful giver {dotes}.] 24 Whom God has raised up [from among the dead], having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be held of it. 25 For David speaks [in Psalms 16::8 – 11] concerning him, “I foresaw the LORD always before my face [present with me, in me], for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved: 26 Therefore did my heart rejoice, and my tongue was glad; moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope: 27 Because you will not leave my soul in hell, neither will you suffer your Holy One to see corruption. 28 You have made known to me the ways of life; you shall make me full of joy with your countenance [realizing Your presence].” 29 Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulcher is with us unto this day. 30 Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God [by His prognosis] had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ [in the flesh] to sit on his throne; 31 He seeing this before [by the foreknowledge of God given to him] spoke of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption. 32 This Jesus has God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses. 33 Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted [His voice in him above all other voices], and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost [Himself speaking and working unknown, to reveal Himself], he has shed forth this, which you now see and hear. 34 For David is not ascended into the heavens: but he says himself, The LORD said unto my LORD, Sit you on my right hand, 35 Until I make your foes your footstool. 36 Therefore let all the house of Israel [all God’s people who receive Him and His promise] know assuredly, that God has made the same Jesus, whom you have crucified, both LORD and Christ.
Nahum 1 1 The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum [nacham – the comforter, leading us into all truth] the Elkoshite [who is also God the ensnarer, speaking and working among us unknown, to reveal Himself]. 2 God is jealous, and the LORD revenges; the LORD revenges, and is furious; the LORD will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserves wrath for his enemies. 3 The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the LORD has his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet. 4 He rebukes the sea, and makes it dry, and dries up all the rivers: Bashan languishes, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languishes. 5 The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein. 6 Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him. 7 The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knows them that trust in him. 8 But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end [kalah] of the place thereof, and darkness [their own ignorance] shall pursue his enemies. 9 What do you imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter end [kalah]: affliction shall not rise up the second time. 10 For while they be folded together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry. 11 There is one come out of you, that imagines evil [ra’] against the LORD, a wicked counselor [ya’ats]. 12 Thus says the LORD; Though they be quiet [shalam – though they think their power is secure], and likewise many, yet thus shall they be cut down [gazaz], when he shall pass through [‘abar – passing over to bring us from death into life]. Though I have afflicted you, I will afflict you no more. 13 For now will I break his yoke [of the wicked joined among you] from off you, and will burst your bonds in sunder. 14 And the LORD has given a commandment concerning you, that no more of your name be sown: out of the house of your gods will I cut off [karath] the graven image and the molten image: I will make your grave; for you are vile. 15 Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that brings good tidings, that publishes peace! O Judah, keep your solemn feasts, perform your vows [neder]: for the wicked shall no more pass through you [‘abar – no longer bring the living into death]; he is utterly cut off [karath].
1 Corinthians 15 51 Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed [allasso], 52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye [seeing this light], 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 [allasso]. 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 [sheol – hell], where is your victory?
Mark 1 22 And they were astonished at his doctrine: for he taught them as one that had authority, and not as the scribes [who falsely claim they know the written word]. 23 And there was in their synagogue a man [represent these scribes] with an unclean spirit [of corruption that defiled the pure word]; and he cried out, 24 Saying, ”Let us alone; what have we to do with you, you Jesus of Nazareth [the guarded one; who the Father protects and defends from men’s corruption]? are you come to destroy us? I [now] know you who you are, the Holy One of God.” 25 And Jesus rebuked him, saying, “Hold your peace [silence the gates holding men in hell], and come [with your corruption] out of him.” 26 And when the unclean spirit had torn him [sparasso – drawn him into open sight, into the light], and cried with a loud [megas – speaking the LORD’s] voice, he came out of him. 27 And they were all amazed, insomuch that they questioned among themselves, saying, What thing is this? what new doctrine is this? for with authority commands he even the unclean spirits [as frogs before hidden below the surface of their word in God’s name], and they do obey [hupakouo – meaning “to hear under (as a subordinate), i.e. to listen attentively; by implication, to heed or conform to a command or authority”] him. 28 And immediately his fame spread abroad throughout all the region round about Galilee [those understanding the wheel, and by it coming to the light].
Galatians 4 19 My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you, 20 I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you [not hearing the signs of life, wondering if the LORD is risen in you yet]. 21 Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, do you not hear the [uncorrupted] law? 22 For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman. 23 But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise [this end, by faith in the LORD’s presence speaking to and working in you, now reached]. 24 Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai [among thorns, misleaders who only partially know the law and therefore add their ignorance corrupting it], which genders to bondage, which is Agar [said to mean flight; from hegeh; a three times used word, as in Psalms 90:9, speaking of God’s people, when they are without Him and His understanding, verses 8 & 9 saying “You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your countenance {presence}. For all our days are passed away in your wrath: we spend our years as a tale {hegeh} that is told.”]. 25 For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answers to [old and corrupt] Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage [held in corruption] with her children. 26 But [New Heavenly] Jerusalem [into whom this understanding, the LORD’s teaching, flows] which is above [ano – filled and lifted into life] is free, which is the mother [bringing us up into manhood] of us all. 27 For it is written [in Isaiah 54:1], Rejoice, you barren that bears not; break forth and cry, you that travail not: for the desolate [brough up by thorns] has many more children than she which has [the LORD as] a husband. 28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of [this] promise[d end]. 29 But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now. 30 Nevertheless what say the scripture [in Genesis 21:10]? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir [of this world] with the son of the free woman. 31 So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.
Galatians 5 1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ has [by this truth] made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage [joined with the ignorant who refuse this truth and thereby condemn themselves to perdition].
Philippians 3 8 Yea doubtless, and I count all things [to which I was in bondage and separated from the LORD’s truth] but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my LORD: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, 9 And be found in him, not having my own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ [the LORD alive in our flesh, through His word effectually working to bring us to this promised end], the righteousness which is of God by faith [in His presence with us, in us]: 10 That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death [for speaking this word of the LORD, in His name, His identity]; 11 If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead. 12 Not as though I had already attained [not that He is already known, resurrected, alive, in me], either were already perfect[ed in His revelation of Himself]: but I follow after [His leading], if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. 13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, 14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high [ano – filled and lifted by] calling of God in Christ Jesus [Jehovah’s Salvation realized, manifested, in the flesh of those perfected]. 15 Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing you be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you. 16 Nevertheless, whereto [this understanding] we have already attained [where we now stand], let us walk [stiecheo – meaning “to march in (military) rank (keep step), i.e. (figuratively) to conform to virtue and piety:–walk (orderly),” and not according to the corrupt element, rudiments, stoicheion, of the world, which melt away in the fire they cause] by the same rule [kanon – canon], let us mind [phroneo – exercise our mind, working out corrupt, to reach] the same thing [the mind of Christ, our perfection in the LORD, and He in us]. 17 Brethren, be followers together of me, and [understanding this good fruit] mark them which walk so as you have us for an ensample. 18 (For many walk [in the way of the corrupt elements of the world, misleading the many who follow them], of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ [in us, long suffering to speak this truth in the Father’s name]: 19 Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly [the hell into which they swallow and hold all their followers], and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.) 20 For our conversation [in the LORD’s presence] is in heaven; from whence [in this conversation at His mercy seat] also we look for the Savior, the LORD Jesus Christ: 21 Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the [effectual] working [of His word in us] whereby he is able even to subdue [hupotasso – meaning “to subordinate; reflexively, to obey”] all things unto himself.
Colossians 3 1 If you then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above [ano – those things with which He has filled and lifted us], where Christ sit on the right hand of God. 2 Set your affection [phroneo – your exercised mind] on things above [ano – that fill and lift others], not on [the corrupt] things on the earth. 3 For you are dead [until He is risen in you], and your life is hid [krupto – this is the cover removed in the apocalypse: meaning taking away the cover] with Christ in God. 4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear [phaneroo], then shall you also appear [phaneroo] with him in glory. 5 Mortify [nekroo – deaden] therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, [all of] which is idolatry [worshipping corruption]: 6 For which things’ sake the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience [who refuse to obey His truth, His good leading]: 7 In the which [refusing to obey] you also walked some time, when you lived in them. 8 But now you also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth [all of which is worshipping corruption]. 9 Lie not one to another, seeing that you have put off the old [corrupt] man with his deeds; 10 And have put on the new man [wherein dwells the LORD’s righteousness, His mind, by which His Glory is revealed: Him alive in us, with us], which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him: 11 Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all. 12 Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, long-suffering; 13 Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do you. 14 And above all these things put on charity [agape – giving the same word as received], which is the bond of perfectness [what joins us together in this resurrection of the dead]. 15 And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also you are called in ONE BODY; and be you thankful. 16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts [this gift in your minds] to the LORD. 17 And whatsoever you do in word or deed, do all in the name [identity] of the LORD Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.
All following is from the post of 6 March 2024.
Psalms 34 1 I will bless the LORD at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth. 2 My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear [shama’ – hear it as His voice and obey] thereof, and be glad. 3 O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name [identity] together. 4 I sought the LORD, and he heard [‘anah – responded, with His voice, to] me, and delivered me from all my fears. 5 They looked unto him, and were lightened [given understanding, wherein is our way forward into new life]: and their faces were not ashamed [not disappointed, realizing He is our promised end]. 6 This poor man [without worldly power] cried, and the LORD heard [shama’] him [heard his obedience, the product of their understanding], and saved him out of all his troubles [tsarah – tribulation]. [Romans 10: 8 But what says it {Deuteronomy 30:14, speaking of how the LORD comes from heaven and is raised from death out of hell}? The word is near you, even in your mouth, and in your heart {from your mind revealed in your spoken thought}: that is, the word of faith {by which you are saved, and raised with Him}, which we preach; 9 That if you shall confess with your mouth the LORD Jesus, and shall believe in your heart {mind} that God has raised him from the dead, you shall be saved. 10 For with the heart {mind} man believes unto righteousness {correct, right, thinking}; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. 11 For the scripture says, Whosoever believes on him shall not be ashamed {not disappointed}.] 7 The angel [mal’ak – messenger, the cherubim manifesting His presence at the mercy seat] of the LORD encamps round about them that fear him, and delivers them. 8 O taste [these words] and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusts in him. 9 O fear the LORD, you his saints [qadowsh – His holy place, wherein He dwells and from where He is manifested present]: for there is no want to them that fear him. 10 The young lions do lack, and [without His word] suffer hunger: but they that [diligently, in faith] seek the LORD shall not want any good thing. [Hebrews 11: 6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that comes to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.] 11 Come, you children [born again by our Father’s correction], hearken unto [shama’ – and hearing His voice, obey] me: I will teach you the fear of the LORD. 12 What man is he that desires life, and loves many days, that he may see good? 13 Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking guile [deception, fraud]. 14 Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace [that only flows from the Father’s teaching], and pursue it. 15 The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous [those not speaking evil or guile, but according to this good word from the mouth of the LORD], and his ears are open unto their cry. 16 The face [paniym – presence] of the LORD is against them that do evil [misleading the sheep], to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth. 17 The righteous cry, and the LORD hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles [tsarah – the current tribulation, hell on earth, which the dead, the ignorant, deny and think is normal]. 18 The LORD is near unto them that are of a broken heart [minds realizing they strayed into death]; and saves such as be of a contrite [dakka’ – meaning powder, as in, realizing they are a product of the afflictions that ruined, crushed, the earth’s] spirit. 19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivers him out of them all. 20 He keeps all his bones [from being crushed into powder]: not one of them is broken. 21 Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate. 22 The LORD redeems the soul of his servants: and none of them that trust in him shall be desolate.
The word dakka’ appears only two other times: in Psalms 90:3, it is rendered “destruction,” and in Isaiah 57:15, it speaks of those who “are of a contrite” and humble spirit (able and willing to be corrected).
Psalms 90 1 LORD, you have been our dwelling place [ma’own, literally asking, what ‘own, meaning “(in the sense of effort, but successful); ability, power, (figuratively) wealth:–force, goods, might, strength, substance” {in us}] in all generations. [1 John 4:12 No man has seen God at any time. If we love {agapao – giving His word as received, as His, to} one another, God dwells in us, and his love {agape – his word received as His} is perfected {teleioo – “to complete, i.e. (literally) accomplish, or (figuratively) consummate (in character):–consecrate, finish, fulfil, make) perfect.”} in us. 13 Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit {His presence with us unknown, leading us into all truth, and, in the process, revealing Himself as the ONE, the Father in His children doing the work and speaking}. 14 And we have seen and do testify {unto salvation} that the Father sent the Son {His children, His ONE flesh BODY in which He dwells} to be the Savior of the world.] 2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God. 3 You turn man to destruction [dakka’ – bringing his ways to ruin, to humble him, the contrite, into knowing his need for correction]; and say, Return [to Me], you children of men. 4 For a thousand years in your sight are but as yesterday when it is past [any given time past is perceived as a percentage of the total time of consciousness], and as a watch in the night [awake while man sleeps in ignorance waiting for this day to come]. 5 You carry them away [into darkness] as with a flood [of their own ignorance]; they are as a sleep [in death]: in the morning [when understanding comes as the light of a new day] they are like grass which grows up [new life rising out of the earth, out of the belly of hell]. 6 In the morning [when light has come] it flourish, and grows up [chalaph – as a change of garment, their flesh cover]; in the evening [when darkness, ignorance, returns] it is cut down [muwl – circumcised, their worthless flesh is removed], and withers [as it now has]. 7 For we are consumed by your anger, and by your wrath [this word sent to the dead who reject it] are we troubled. 8 You have set our iniquities before you [making them known and correcting them away], our secret “sins in the light” [ma’owr – the power, in us effectually working Your revelation, and working out iniquity] of your countenance [paniym – by Your presence]. 9 For all our days [man’s false understanding] are passed away [panah – appear] in your wrath [this word the ignorant reject]: we spend our years [shaneh – changes] as a tale [hegeh – man’s thoughts, the muttering of fools] that is told. 10 The days [man’s false understanding] of our years [shaneh – of his evolution] are threescore years and ten [when Divine order returns]; and if by reason of strength [men in power] they be fourscore years [only understood after His perfecting in the New Creation], yet is their strength [men in power] labor and sorrow; for it [the wicked in power] is soon cut off [guwz], and we fly away [these last words refer to the only other time guwz is used, in Numbers 11:31, saying, of the wicked powers that, as quals, are taken away by the LORD’s Almighty Spirit, and fall around us, “And there went forth a wind {His Almighty Spirit} from the LORD, and brought {quwz – cut off} quails from the sea {people at large, who they, by their evil, misled}, and let them fall {natash – be beaten down} by the camp, as it were a day’s journey {derek – a conversation giving understanding} on this side {then}, and as it were a day’s journey {a conversation giving light, as a wheel within a wheel, received} on the other side {now}, round about the camp, and as it were two cubits {‘ammah – mother, a teacher who raises us} high upon the face of {paniym – in the LORD’s presence on} the earth.”]. 11 Who knows the power of your anger [Your word, the scourging that effectually works in those who receive it as Your word working out of them corruption]? even according to your fear, so is your wrath [giving this word, even to those who reject it, warning them they are, by refusing to receive it as My word, destroying themselves]. 12 So teach us to number [assess] our days [the things you think you know], that we may apply our hearts [minds] unto [Your] wisdom. 13 Return [to the sight of Your people], O LORD, how long? and let it repent you concerning your servants. [Galatians 4:18 But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you. 19 My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you, 20 I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you {while I wait patiently for your conversion, when your mouths are opened as is necessary for the world’s good}.] 14 O satisfy us early with your mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days [when full understanding comes and is, to the world, apparent in your opened mouths]. 15 Make us glad according [as promised during the time of correction] to the days wherein [while all were still in ignorance of the LORD’s presence] you have afflicted us, and the years [shaneh] wherein we have seen evil [which produced our change, evolution]. 16 Let your work [changing us] appear unto your servants, and your glory [Your apparent presence in us] unto their children. 17 And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish you the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands [in us] establish you it [to the world through us].
Isaiah 57 11 And of whom have you been afraid or feared, that you have lied, and have not remembered me, nor laid it to your heart? have not I held my peace [not speaking] even of old, and you fear me not [now that I have spoken against you]? 12 I will declare your [self-presumed, falsely so-called] righteousness, and your works; for they shall not profit you. 13 When you cry [to Me], let your companies deliver you; but the wind [My Almighty Spirit] shall carry them all away; vanity shall take them: but he that puts his trust in me shall possess the land [‘erets – the earth], and shall inherit my holy mountain; 14 And shall say, Cast you up, cast you up, prepare the way, take up the stumbling-block [of men’s corruption] out of the way of my people. 15 For thus says the high and lofty One that inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite [dakka’] and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive [chayah – quicken from death into life] the heart [minds] of the contrite [daka’] ones. 16 For I will not contend forever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made. 17 For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me [in the darkness of their ignorance], and was wroth, and he went on frowardly [twisting and perverting truth] in the way of his heart [mind]. 18 I have seen his [blind and lame] ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also [into all truth], and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners. 19 I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him that is far off [rachowq – those here in the time when the world is ruled by the unrighteous decrees of evil men in power], and to him that is near [destruction], says the LORD; and I will heal him. 20 But the wicked are like the troubled sea [constantly agitated and agitating], when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt [destroying all truthful discourse]. 21 There is no peace, says my God, to the wicked.
As we’ve seen, in the post of 27 February 2017, per (as it pertains to) Psalms 119 in the previous post, the word chayah, a product of the dakka’ (daka’), is the LORD’s effectual work in us bringing the contrite from death into life: by bringing us from ignorance (taught by corrupt men) into His light (taught by our incorruptible God).
Now I ask the proud again, are you better (holier than) the one the Father calls the Holy One, who you call your LORD as you worship idols you created and put in His place, while you (witnessing against yourselves) prove yourselves ignorant of Him and His way?
As we’ve seen, the LORD suffered this scourging (daka’), which Paul speaks of many times, which Isaiah foretold, as Psalms 119 does of the affliction of God’s children, which (tribulation – evil men pressing upon us: oppressing us) turn us again to Him, purging us of (His word effectually working out of us) corruption into life.
Hebrews 2 (after describing the messengers the LORD sends, led by the son He filled full, through whom He speaks in these last days, as flames of fire sent to minister this word to those who inherit Salvation), in context, says:
1 Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to [obey] the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip. 2 For if the word spoken by angels [His messengers sent] was steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward; 3 How [if we refuse to obey] shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the LORD [the Father revealed in the son first, to bring all His children He has given me, to the same glory], and was confirmed [repeating the same message the LORD gave them] unto us by them that heard him; 4 God also bearing them witness, both with [Isaiah 8:18, saying “I and the children the LORD has given me, are for”] signs and wonders [to His people at large], and with divers miracles [this alludes to the “divers” manner spoken of in Hebrews 1:1; of the many different ways and times, by which the Father previously spoke through men, until now when He, in the son He filled full of understanding all these divers elements, congealed them in him, into this miraculous, eye-opening, gospel], and gifts [these treasures sent] of the Holy Ghost [as He works unknown leading us into all truth], according to his own will? 5 For unto the angels has he not put in subjection the world to come, whereof we speak. 6 But one in a certain place [Psalms 8] testified [of the son], saying, “What is man, that you are mindful of him? or the son of man that you visit [paqad – manifest Your presence as the Chief Overseer of the earth, in] him? 7 You madest him a little lower than the angels [as we’ve seen, the words here are chacer ‘elohiym, telling us the son is intentionally sent lacking the full knowledge of God; the Psalm then saying this is planned so the son {I Am: His presence in this moment manifested in the flesh He’s chosen} can be crowned by the Father with His understanding: revelation only known to the Father]; you crowned him with glory and honor, and did set him over the works of your hands: 8 You have put all things in subjection under his feet.” For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing that is not put under him. But now we [in our blindness] see not yet [that] all things [are] put under him [not hearing and obeying this word as the Father’s voice, as it is]. 9 But we [again] see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death [sent without understanding], [now, when we see Him again] crowned with glory and honor [raised to life by the light of the Father in him]; that he by the grace of God should taste death [and be raise from it] for every man. 10 For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain [archegos – only used three other times; in Acts 3:15, speaking of the son as the “Prince” of life, who the religious and civil power denied, conspired against, and killed; Acts 5:31 as the risen “Prince” who is seated at the Father’s right hand {from where Habakkuk 3:4 says, in this writing, comes His hidden power as rays of light}; and Hebrews 12:2 saying He is “the Author and Finisher of our Faith”] of their salvation perfect [teleioo – made complete, filled full] through sufferings [the same affliction, tribulation, doubting the LORD is present, the daka’, that, through proof of him {I Am}, makes us ready, willing, to be quickened from corruption into life]. 11 For both he that sanctifies [purges us from corruption, making us holy] and they who are sanctified [purged and made holy] are all of one [Body of Christ]: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren, 12 Saying, I will declare your name [identity] unto my brethren, in the midst of the church will I sing [repeating the words You’ve given me] praise unto you. 13 And again, I will put my trust in him. And again, Behold I and the children which God has given me [when our mouths are opened with His words, are for signs and wonders to God’s people at large]. 14 Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he [the Father] also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death [coming lacking understanding] he might [self-manifesting His light, life, in the flesh, to] destroy him that had the power of [to deceive men into ignorance of God and to instead follow them into] death, that is, the devil [the misleaders who put themselves in His place]; 15 And deliver them [the misled] who through fear of death [not understanding it is a state of mind], were all their lifetime subject to bondage [but you shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free from death]. 16 For truly he took not on him the nature of angels [a mere messenger given a message]; but he took on him the seed of Abraham [to which the LORD promised a son, an heir who would become as many as the sand of the shore and the stars of heaven]. 17 Wherefore in all things it behooved him to be made like unto his brethren [born into dead flesh here in hell], that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people. 18 For in that he himself has suffered being tempted [to doubt the Father’s presence with him here in hell, to from it raise us], he is able to succor [rescue] them that are tempted [to doubt Him].
Psalms 8 A Psalm of David 1 O LORD [Jehovah], our LORD [‘adown – our king], how excellent is your name [identity] in all the earth! who have set [nathan – given] your glory [Your manifested presence] above the heavens [the places where understanding should be found]. 2 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings [declaring Your word as You commanded, saying “Hosanna {save now}, Blessed is he who comes in the name {identity} of the LORD] have you ordained strength because of your enemies, that you might still [shabath – sabbath: interrupting their work, putting them to silence so Your correction is heard above all other voices of] the enemy and the avenger. 3 When I consider your heavens [this understanding You’ve given to us], the work of your fingers, the moon [just civil government; ruling as You rule, with truth and equal justice] and the stars [Your people in this new heaven, filled with Your light here on earth, wherein dwells righteousness], which you have ordained [kuwn – prepared, raised, and established]; 4 What is man, that you are mindful of him? and the son of man, that you visit [paqad] him? 5 For you have made him a little lower than [chacer – lacking the understanding] the angels [‘elohiym – of God], and have crowned him with [Your] glory and [Your] honor [His understanding given to and through me]. 6 You made him to have dominion [mashal – rule] over the works of your hands [referring to this light given from there]; you have put all things under his feet: 7 All sheep and oxen [Your flock], yea, and the beasts of the field [the dead in the earth, those without Your Spirit]; 8 The fowl of the air [those who, by Your strength, rise into the place where understanding should be found], and the fish of the sea [the life unseen and found below the surface of the waters of the earth], and whatsoever passes through the paths of the seas [man on his unknowing journey through generations]. 9 O LORD our LORD, how excellent is your name [identity] in all the earth!
What will you say when he shall punish you? for you have taught them to be captains, and as chief over you: shall not sorrows take you, as a woman in travail?
The word “punish,” above in Jeremiah 13:21, is paqad, meaning “to visit (with friendly or hostile intent); by analogy, to oversee, muster, charge, care for, miss, deposit, etc..” As often discussed, it speaks of the LORD openly manifesting His presence, in His word and work, as the Chief Overseer of the earth, declaring righteous decrees that combat the evil decrees (now) ruling the earth.
One such decree concerns current government institutions (of church and state), degenerated into the control of those antithetical to their Constitution. No longer are they controlled by (the consent of) the constituents who elect representatives to carry out their will, within the framework of the powers vested in their institutions by its Law. This will, as established in our Declaration, is that we are entitled to live under “the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God (the Creator),” who has endowed us with unalienable Rights, among them Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, and to secure these unalienable Rights governments are instituted.
As we know, the “Bill of Rights,” the first ten amendments to the Constitution, state additional rights essential to “securing” ourselves against despots abusing government power. They specifically protect against demagogues that might rise and end as tyrants threatening our Lives and Liberty. They additionally state our Right to Pursue Happiness includes our right to acquire and keep secure our private property.
The current governments, riddled by millions of unelected self-servants, now led by devils (possessed by the spirit of Satan), abandoned, not only the Laws of Nature and Nature’s God, but also, the Spirit in these Laws (securing our God-Given Rights, our neighbors’ and our own: reciprocal security, the way to peace and sustainable civilization), and now control, by evil decree and corrupt judgment, virtually every aspect of our existence.
The LORD has righteously decreed they will not continue.
2 Peter 3 9 The LORD is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness [ignorant of the fact He is always here with us]; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. 10 But the day of the LORD will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements [stoicheion – the rudiments of the world, the corruption and insanity now possessing humanity] shall melt with fervent heat [the fires of hell these elements themselves create], the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. 11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in all holy [this pure, uncorrupted, word] conversation [wherein the LORD’s presence is manifested] and godliness [eusebeia – literally meaning to revere good; the same word as in 1 Timothy 3:16, saying, “And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness {eusebeia}: God was {is} manifest in the flesh {of those speaking His word}, justified in the Spirit {while unknown speaking and working}, seen of angels {those made pure who become His messengers speaking His word}, preached unto the Gentiles {to those who don’t know Him}, believed on in the world {He is now creating}, received up into glory {in those exalting His voice above all other voices}.], 12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the [old and corrupted] heavens [where this understanding should be found] being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements [stoicheion – the corrupt foundational ideas of the wicked in power] shall melt [be dissolved] with fervent heat? 13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwells righteousness. 14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that you look for such things, be diligent that you may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless. 15 And account that the longsuffering of our LORD is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him has written unto you; 16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrestle, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction [apoleia – perdition]. 17 You therefore, beloved, seeing you know these things before, beware lest you also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own steadfastness. 18 But grow in grace [this gift], and in the knowledge of our LORD and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and forever. Amen.
The word above, in 1 Timothy 3:16, dubiously rendered “without controversy,” only appearing here, is homologoumenos, from the word homou (same) logos (words) and menuo, meaning “probably from the same base as 3145 [masso – to handle, as in 1 John 1 below] and 3415 [mnaomai – to mentally grasp] (i.e. mao, to strive); to disclose (through the idea of mental effort and thus calling to mind), i.e. report, declare, intimate:–show, tell.”
In this verse (1 Timothy 3:16) Paul says homologoumenos (this same word declared) megas (the greatness found therein) eusebeia (is revering good) musterion Theos phaneroo en sarx (is the mystery of God manifested in the flesh).
This statement comes after (in verse 15) he (Paul) just spoke to Timothy so he would know how to behave (anastrepho – return: in the conversation) to “the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.”
Acts 15 15 And to this agree the words of the prophets; as it is written, 16 After this I will return [anastrepho], and will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up: 17 That the residue of men might seek after the LORD, and all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, says the LORD, who does all these things. 18 Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.
2 Corinthians 1 9 But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raises the dead: 10 Who delivered us from so great a death, and does deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us; 11 You also helping together [under the same sentence, doing the same work] by prayer for us, that for the gift [this understanding from the LORD] bestowed upon us by the means [of answering the prayers] of many persons thanks may be given by many on our behalf [thanking the LORD for our deliverance and theirs]. 12 For our rejoicing [the LORD’s presence realized in this word] is this, the testimony of our conscience [suneidesis – our co-perspective with the LORD], that in simplicity [haplotes – meaning “singleness, i.e. (subjectively) sincerity (without dissimulation or self-seeking), or (objectively) generosity (copious bestowal)] and godly [Theos – from God] sincerity [without leaven: uncorrupted], not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace [this gift] of God, we have had our conversation [anastrepho – in which the LORD is] in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward. 13 For we write none other things unto you, that what you read or acknowledge [epiginosko – this dispensation of knowledge by the LORD through His gift to us, in this conversation]; and I trust you shall acknowledge [epiginosko – receive the dispensation of knowledge] even to the end [when we receive this full understanding, the light and life of the LORD]; 14 As also you have acknowledged [epiginosko – received the dispensation from] us in part, that we are your rejoicing [realizing it is the LORD manifesting His presence in the conversation], even as you also are ours [rejoicing] in the day [when the light and life] of the LORD Jesus [is manifested from you].
1 John 1 1 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life; 2 (For the life [light and understanding] was manifested, and we have seen it [in the flesh], and bear witness, and show unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us [in His son, and the children given to him];) 3 That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that you also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ. 4 And these things write we unto you, that your joy [realizing His presence in this manner] may be full. 5 This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light [understanding and life], and in him is no darkness [ignorance] at all.
Ephesians 2 1 And you has he quickened [from the dead into life], who were dead in trespasses and sins; 2 Wherein in time past you walked according to the course [aion – this age of ignorance] of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air [aer – one of the seven times this word appears, here referring to it and the church darkened by the smoke that comes from the bottomless pit {Revelation 9:2}, meaning all understanding is gone, in the endless fall away from God], the spirit [of ignorance] that now works in the children of disobedience: 3 Among whom also we all had our conversation [anastrepho] in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. 4 But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, 5 Even when we were dead in sins, has [clearing the air, as in Revelation 16:17] quickened us [from death into life] together with Christ, (by grace [this gift of understanding, light, life] you are saved;) 6 And has raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places [with full understanding] in Christ Jesus: 7 That in the ages to [aion – the new age now] come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us [giving this understanding] through Christ Jesus [Jehovah’s Salvation manifested in the conversation from the flesh He chooses]. 8 For by grace [this word] are you saved through faith [it is His manifesting His presence with us, in us]; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift [given] of God: 9 Not of works, lest any man should boast. 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works [to give His word as received], which God has before ordained that we should walk in them. 11 Wherefore remember, that you being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands; 12 That at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and [by ignorance] without God in the world: 13 But now in Christ Jesus you who sometimes were far off are made near by the blood [this necessary sacrifice] of Christ [the flesh through which the Father speaks manifesting His presence]. 14 For he is our peace, who has made both [God and man] one, and has broken down the middle wall [the veil of flesh] of partition between us; 15 Having abolished in his flesh the enmity [the ignorance by which we oppose His word and work], even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man [understanding the letter and Spirit of life in the Law], so making peace; 16 And that he might reconcile [apokatallasso – change {allasso} us by not only putting down {kata}, but taking away {apo} the sin of ignorance] both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity [the reason for opposition] thereby: 17 And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were near. 18 For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father. 19 Now therefore you are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household [family] of God; 20 And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; 21 In whom all the building fitly framed together grows unto a holy temple in the LORD: 22 In whom you also are built together for a habitation of God through the Spirit [into His ONE BODY].
The passages above, in verses 13 & 17, describes the reconciling of those “far off” and “near,” talking about those experiencing it, at first in total ignorance (far off), and those now receiving His word (the “access” – prosagoge, literally meaning led forth [by His] leading), drawing nearer (to completion of His work) than the day they first believed.
Romans 13 11 And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we [first] believed [the LORD is with us, in us]. 12 The night [the ignorance that covers the earth] is far spent, the day [this light, life, and understanding] is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness [ignorance], and let us put on the armor [the protection] of light [found in His life and understanding]. 13 Let us walk honestly [not handling the word of God deceitfully], as in the day [with this understanding He is freely giving us]; not in rioting [not without self-control] and drunkenness [having our minds, and words, clear of what corrupts them], not in chambering and wantonness [not desiring to be what we are not], not in strife and envying [opposing those who have seen and do know]. 14 But put you on the LORD Jesus Christ [this same mind: understanding and life found therein], and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
Friends, Paul, the LORD in him speaking, at Mars’ Hill (meaning at the peak of this war between reality and delusion) speaks of this moment when all men have become too superstitious, thinking all is either metaphysical or fictional, and thereby missing the physical reality they are experiencing.
Acts 17 22 Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars’ hill [Aireos Pagos – at the “peak of martial,” of God’s people to this battle], and said, You men of Athens [now when man is certain of nothing, and all knowledge is corrupted by an inability to separate truth from opinions: delusions], I perceive that in all things you are too superstitious [deisidaimonesteros – literally meaning they are afraid, fearing the gods of this world, to receive the treasures that will strengthen them: giving certainty to the uncertain]. 23 For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, To The Unknown God [the Holy Spirit]. Whom therefore you ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you. 24 God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is LORD of heaven and earth, dwells not in temples made with hands [but in the flesh of those through whom He speaks and works]; 25 Neither is worshipped with men’s hands [works], as though he needed any thing, seeing he gives to all life [understanding], and breath [breathed from His mouth: words], and all things [needed]; 26 And has made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined [horizo – from where the sun rises] the times before appointed [protasso – prearranged, prescribed: before written, pre ordained], and the bounds [horothesia – laying out the limit: the termination point] of their habitation; 27 That they should seek the LORD [first], if haply they might feel after him [after He has effectually worked in us], and find him, though he be not far from every one of us [always willing to reveal His presence to those who receive Him manifested in His word]: 28 For in him [only do] we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are [by receiving this understanding] also his offspring [in whom He will live, if we become His prepared habitation]. 29 Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead [theios] is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man’s device [enthumesis – only appearing four times, all others rendered “thoughts;” here in context discerned to be men’s fictitious writing]. 30 And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commands all men every where to repent [and purge out the blinding corruption]: 31 Because he has appointed a day [a sun rising, after the darkness: this ignorance], in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he has ordained [horizo – who is the place from where the sun rises, beginning this new day: age]; whereof he has given assurance unto all men, in that he has raised him from the dead [out of confusion, out of hell, into life in heaven: the place wherein full understanding is found]. 32 And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, We will hear you again of this matter.
2 Thessalonians 2 1 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming [parousia] of our LORD Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together [episunagoge – only used here and in Hebrews 10:25 where we’re told not to forsake this {egkateleipo – meaning let this survive when all else doesn’t, as in Hebrews 13:5, when the LORD says He is the one who will remain when all others don’t} as do others; it means a complete collection] unto him, 2 That you be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. 3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away [apostasia – apostasy, defection from truth, standing away from God {because the fallen say they are holier than Him, as in Isaiah 65:5}, as in the bottomless pit John see in Revelation 9:2] first, and that man of sin be revealed [those putting themselves in the Father’s place, in the pattern of Rueben], the son of perdition [apoleia – as in 2 Peter 2:1, 2 & 3 & 3:7 & 16, as used in Revelation twice {in Revelation 17:8 & 11, which happen to the eighth church, who becomes part of Babylon {the mass confusion that rules the world} and ascended from the bottomless pit into perdition, which we’re told in 2 Peter 3:16 is the destruction that comes to the ignorant who wrestle with this word of God to their own “destruction”]; 4 Who oppose and exalt himself [Satan in them working and speaking] above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sits in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God [as do the many antichrists among us, preaching and teaching their own ways and ideas in LORD’s name]. 5 Remember you not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? 6 And now you know what withholds [katecho – holds you, keeping God’s people from joining Him in His ONE BODY] that he might be revealed in his time. 7 For the mystery of iniquity does already work [these wicked men we’re already working, as Paul earlier describes in 1 Thessalonians 2, Satan working in them to keep this true word of God from being heard, as he also speaks of in 2 Thessalonians 3] only he who now lets [katecho – who were then holding God’s people down, oppressing them so the word of God wouldn’t have free course and be receives as His, as it is] will let [will hold you down], until he be taken out of the way [mesos – these men and their teaching taken out of our midst]. 8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the LORD shall consume [as in Hebrews 12, by His correction] with the spirit of [fire from] His mouth [shaking heaven and earth, so the wicked are shaken from them], and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming [parousia]: 9 Even him [the LORD], whose coming [parousia] is after the working of Satan [in wicked men] with all power [in church and state] and signs and lying wonders [which caused the apostasy and fool men into following them and not the LORD among us, who said “I will never leave you or forsake you”], 10 And [these wicked men] with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. [And I must again here digress; I hear many people speaking of those they think are prophets because they saw this or that event occurring. These men are not prophets of God, and we know because they lack one thing, the knowledge of God. These are those bumbling about seeking what they will never find, never saying “Thus says the LORD” and, not knowing the time of their visitation, never speaking the words He here alone reveals. Thus says the LORD, “If they speak not according to this word there is no light in them.” They are those, too superstitious, Paul {the LORD in him} speaks to and of on Mars’ Hill.] 11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie [believing their own opinions are truth, as they do: “I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spoke, they did not hear: but they did evil before my eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not.” Isaiah 66:4]: 12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. 13 But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethren beloved of the LORD, because God has from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth: 14 Whereunto he called [kaleo] you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our LORD Jesus Christ. 15 Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions [paradosis – transmitted, given as received, as in I Corinthians 11:2] which you have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle. 16 Now our LORD Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which has loved [agapao – given His word to] us, and has given us everlasting consolation [paraklesis – from the Paraclete, the LORD working among us unknown] and good hope through grace [this gift], 17 Comfort [parakaleo] your hearts [continue His calling from your sound mind], and establish you in every good word and work.
1 Peter 2 1 Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speaking, 2 As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that you may grow thereby: 3 If so be you have tasted that the LORD is gracious. 4 To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen [eklektos] of God, and precious, 5 You also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. 6 Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Zion a chief corner stone, elect [eklektos], precious: and he that believes on him shall not be confounded. 7 Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner, 8 And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed. 9 But you are a chosen [eklektos] generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people; that you should show forth the praises of him who has called you out of darkness into his marvelous light; 10 Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy. 11 Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; 12 Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles [those who don’t know the LORD]: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation [episkope – the days of the Chief Overseer].
As previously discussed, Jeremiah 13 begins with the LORD telling Jeremiah to take a girdle (a preparation, for a journey) and hide it in a hole in a rock near Euphrates.
Jeremiah 13 5 So I went, and hid it by Euphrates [this river of fruitfulness, wherein it should be found], as the LORD commanded me. 6 And it came to pass after many days [in these last days], that the LORD said unto me, Arise [rise to life from death’s sleep], go to Euphrates [this fruitful river in which is the preparation], and take the girdle [preparation] from thence, which I commanded you to hide there. 7 Then I went to Euphrates, and digged, and took the girdle from the place where I had hid it: and, behold, the girdle was marred [shachath – decayed and ruined in the earth], it was profitable for nothing.
As we know, from Revelation 16, this river is now dried up (by the sixth angel poring out the LORD’s wrath upon it: this word they reject) and what is (now was) hidden below its surface is revealed.
[From the post of 17 January 2024] In Revelation 16, between the sixth and seventh angel sounding, the LORD tells of manifesting His presence (name and identity) through (with and in) the seventh messenger (the only voice speaking for Him, with His authority),
after men began worshipping confusion (taking the mark [[of possession]] in their hand and head: in their works and words: their ways and ideas),
and all the waters became blood, words draining life from the world, and all living became dead,
and all the rivers of blood continued to flow the blood of dead men, keeping all dead in hell,
5 And I heard the angel of the [[pure]] waters say, You are righteous, O LORD, which are, and was, and shall be, because you have judged thus. 6 For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets [[destroying the understanding, life, they were given]], and you have given them blood to drink; for they are worthy. 7 And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, LORD God Almighty, true and righteous are your judgments.
and the church caused men to pass through the fires their darkness caused, and they vilified God’s word and work sent to correct them and refused His calls for them to repent,
10 And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat [of power] of the beast [the confusion that rules the world]; and his kingdom was full of darkness [ignorance]; and they gnawed their tongues for pain [[devouring themselves with their own corrupt words]], 11 And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds. 12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great [[megas]] river Euphrates [from where the word of God once flowed producing the fruitfulness of the earth]; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might [[those deceiving and manipulating the world]] be prepared. 13 And I saw three unclean [defiled] spirits like frogs [which were before hidden below the surface of the waters: evil in their words] come out of the mouth of the dragon [those who, as serpents and whales, swallow men into the belly of hell], and out of the mouth of the beast [the insanity, Babylon that rules the world], and out of the mouth of the false prophet [the known liars and false accusers in church and state media]. 14 For they are the spirits of devils [misleaders who put themselves in God’s place], working miracles [saying they are opening eyes to knowledge not before known], which go forth unto the kings [ruling powers] of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great [[megas]] day [[time of this light returning]] of God Almighty [at the time He decreed, which no man knows].
The LORD then speaks of this moment, when He has come and done His work, of which none are aware;
15 Behold, I [have] come as a thief. Blessed is he that watches, and keeps his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame [disappointment when what {I Am} they didn’t expect comes]. 16 And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon [this mountain of the rendezvous at this decreed time]. 17 And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air [clearing the smoke [[that came from the fall in the bottomless pit – Revelation 9:2]] so everything is clearly seen as it is]; and there came a [one] great [[megas]] voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne [of God], saying, “It is done.” 18 And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great [[megas]] earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake [to shake the wicked from heaven and earth], and so great. [Are you ready?] 19 And the great [[megas]] city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath. 20 And every island fled away [and this word of God will be heard in all the places that have been without it], and the mountains [the high places, seats of power of the wicked] were not found. 21 And there fell upon men a great [[megas]] hail out of heaven [this word reserved there for this moment, sent [[in this time of war]] to destroy the current crop of corrupt leaders], every stone about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great.
Jeremiah 13 9 Thus says the LORD, After this manner will I mar [shachath – cause to decay into ruin] the pride of Judah [the preparation the leaders of God’s people corrupted, and in their pride refuse to hear My correction back to purity], and the great pride of Jerusalem [God’s people into which these unfaithful leaders worked their leaven, until the whole is corrupted and worthless]. [Matthew 16:12 “Then understood they how that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of” their leaders who’ve corrupted God’s word as delivered and thereby led the world into darkness and death]. 10 This evil people, which refuse to hear [shama’ – or obey] my words, which walk in the imagination of their heart [the creation of their own minds: abomination {opinions: delusions} they created, put in My place, and call by My name], and walk after other gods, to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle [‘ezowr – the preparation left them], which is [now corrupt and] good for nothing. 11 For as the girdle [‘ezowr] cleaves [dabaq] to the loins of a man, so have I caused to cleave [dabaq] unto me [alone] the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah, says the LORD; that they might be unto me for a people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for a glory: but they would not hear [shama’ – or obey My good leading].
The word dabaq, meaning “to impinge, i.e. cling or adhere; figuratively, to catch by pursuit,” speaks of the snare upon all the earth, in which man is “caught up” (Hebrew, natsal or Greek, harpazo – seized) by God. Above, it speaks, as now, of men refusing this rescue.
The Greek equivalent of the word dabaq, is kollao (the origin of the name Colossians), meaning “from kolla (“glue”); to glue, i.e. (passively or reflexively) to stick (figuratively):–cleave, join (self), keep company.”
1 Corinthians 6 14 And God has both raised up the LORD, and will also raise up us by his own power [His word that effectually works in us, changing our mind to be like His]. 15 Know you not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of a harlot [the unfaithful who’ve left the LORD and follow men who put themselves in His place]? God forbid. 16 What? know you not that he which is joined [kallao] to a harlot [the unfaithful who sleep in death with these wicked men] is one body? for two, says he, shall be one flesh. 17 But he that is joined [kallao – cleaves] unto the LORD is one spirit. 18 Flee fornication [interaction with these men who’ve become idols who’ve put themselves in the LORD’s place]. Every sin that a man does is without the body; but he that commits fornication [whose interaction is the wicked and not the LORD] sins against his own body [choosing this darkness chooses condemnation]. 19 What? know you not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost [the LORD whom you apparently don’t know] which is in you, which you have of God, and you are not your own? 20 For you are bought with a price [time – Tim]: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.
Colossians 1 1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timotheus [meaning time {price} of God] our brother [I Am], 2 To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ which are at Colosse [who now cleave to the LORD, joined with Him as ONE BODY]: Grace [this gift] be unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the LORD Jesus Christ. 3 We give thanks to God and the Father of our LORD Jesus Christ, praying always for you, 4 Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love [agape – giving this word as received] which you have [received as His word] to all the saints, 5 For the hope which is laid up [prepared] for you in heaven, whereof you heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel; 6 Which is come unto you, as it is in all the world; and brings forth fruit, as it does also in you, since the day you heard of it, and knew [it is] the grace of God in truth: 7 As you also learned of Epaphras [from whom this fruitfulness flows] our dear fellow-servant, who is for you a faithful minister of Christ; 8 Who also declared unto us your love [agape – your charity, freely give this word] in the Spirit [the LORD, unknown to the world, working through you, in you]. 9 For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that you might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; 10 That you might walk worthy of the LORD unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God; 11 Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power [of His word effectually working], unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness [realizing it is the LORD’s presence manifested in you, through you]; 12 Giving thanks unto the Father, which has made us meet [hikanoo – meaning “to enable, i.e. qualify:–make able (meet)] to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light [this understanding, this life]: 13 Who has delivered us from the power of darkness [ignorance], and has translated us [methe – carried us away from ignorance and corruption] into the kingdom of his dear Son: 14 In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins: 15 Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature [ktisis – this new creation]: 16 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: 17 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist. 18 And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence. 19 For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness [of His understanding] dwell; 20 And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile [apokatallasso] all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven. 21 And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now has he reconciled [apokatallasso] 22 In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight: 23 If you continue in the faith [that the Father is always with us, in us] grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which you have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Am made a minister; 24 Who now rejoice [realizing the LORD’s presence is manifested] in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the church [His ONE BODY]: 25 Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil [accomplish and complete] the word of God; 26 Even the mystery which has been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints: 27 To whom God would make known what is the riches [this full understanding] of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles [who don’t know Him and are therefore blinded to His presence]; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: 28 Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus: 29 Whereunto I also labor, striving according to his working, which works in me mightily.
Jeremiah 13 15 Hear [shama’ – and obey] you, and give ear; be not proud: for the LORD has spoken. 16 Give glory to the LORD your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it gross darkness. 17 But if you will not hear [shama’ – and obey] it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride; and my eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the LORD’s flock is carried away captive. 18 Say unto the king and to the queen, Humble yourselves, sit down: for your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory. 19 The cities of the south shall be shut up, and none shall open them: Judah shall be carried away captive all of it, it shall be wholly carried away captive. 20 Lift up your eyes, and behold them that come from the north [out of darkness]: where is the flock that was given you, your beautiful flock? 21 What will you say when he shall punish [paqad – comes as the Chief Overseer of the earth, to] you? for you have taught them [the rulers of the darkness] to be captains, and as chief over you: shall not sorrows take you, as a woman in travail [readied to bring forth the seed of David, the seed of Joseph his ‘adown]? 22 And if you say in your heart, Wherefore come these things upon me? For the greatness of your iniquity are your skirts discovered, and your heels made bare. 23 Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may you also do good, that are accustomed to do evil [whose flesh mind is stained by darkness and misled you into desolation and tribulation]. 24 Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passes away by the wind of [their false doctrines: corruption they learned, which brought them into] the wilderness. 25 This is your lot [of those who refuse to hear His voice and obey His commands], the portion of your measures from me, says the LORD; because you have forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.
Amos 9 8 Behold, the eyes of the LORD God are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; saving that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, says the LORD. 9 For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel [the people who receive Me and My promise] among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth. 10 All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us. 11 In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old: 12 That they may possess the remnant of Edom [the enemies mixed among us at war with us while calling it peace], and of all the heathen [who refuse to know Me], which are called by my name, says the LORD that does this.
Psalms 27 A Psalm of David 1 The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength [understanding] of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? 2 When the wicked, even my enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell. 3 Though a host [an army] should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident. 4 One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple. 5 For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock. 6 And now shall my head be lifted up above my enemies round about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the LORD. 7 Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer me. 8 When you said, Seek you my face [paniym – presence]; my heart said unto you, Your face [paniym – presence], LORD, will I seek. 9 Hide not your face [paniym – presence] far from me; put not your servant away in anger: you have been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation. 10 When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up. 11 Teach me your way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path, because of my enemies. 12 Deliver me not over unto the will of my enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty. 13 I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living. 14 Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart [give understanding into the minds of those who]: wait, I say, on the LORD.
You did run well; who did hinder you that you should not obey the truth?
The above, Galatians 5:7, comes as Paul, the LORD alive in him speaking, discusses obeying the Law or Christ, the written letter, or diligently seeking to fulfill its underlying Spirit. Paul speaks of preaching the Law and circumcision of the mind, by which understanding comes, “For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
He (Paul), describing his suffering for preaching this underlying rudimentary principle, says, “And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? then is [if I did not necessarily suffer this tribulation for your sakes] the offense of the cross ceased.”
As previously discussed, the word rendered “offense” is the skandalon (scandal), meaning “a trap-stick (bent sapling), i.e. snare (figuratively, cause of displeasure or sin).” It speaks of the “snare” that has now come upon all the world, and specifically God’s “holier than thou” people who are offended at the Father’s appearance in (what they define as) my scandalous flesh.
The word is said to be derived from the kampto, meaning “to bend.” It (kampto) is used four times, all telling of who men “bow” their knee to, men as idols who put themselves in His place or the LORD to whom all will “bow.”
Galatians 5 12 I would they [those who make themselves gods, idols, the hyper-religious, who, claiming they know the “Law,” put themselves in the Father’s place] were even cut off which trouble you. 13 For, brethren, you have been called unto liberty [away from the rudiments of this world, the corrupt elements, partials understanding without the Spirit]; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love [agape – leading the world out of darkness into the light: giving this understanding as received by the Spirit of truth, the Paraclete, the LORD working among us unknown, whose led us into it] serve one another. 14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word [logos – “Divine Expression”], even in this; You shall love [agapao] your neighbor as yourself. 15 But if you bite and devour one another [as serpents and whales mixed among God’s people], take heed [be warned] that you be not consumed one of another. 16 This I say then, Walk in the [high way of the] Spirit [the truth into which He’s led us], and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.
The word rendered “consume” is the three times used word analisko, meaning “to use up, i.e. destroy:–consume.” The first of these other uses comes in Luke 9:54, as James and John, seeing rejected the messengers the LORD sent to prepare the way before Him, ask the LORD, “will you that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume [analisko] them, even as Elijah did?”
Luke 9 55 But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, You know not what manner of spirit you are of. 56 For the Son of man is not come to destroy men’s lives, but to save them. And they went to another village.
Before looking at the other use of analisko, we must remember the LORD’s words from John 3, first saying the Son of man has come to save the world, but there is a decision (krisis) by which men condemn themselves when this truth (understanding, light, life) has come, and men choose to remain the darkness (ignoring the light) because their deeds are evil.
2 Thessalonians 2 8 And then shall that Wicked [who are offended by this word, who trouble you and seek to keep you held down in their darkness] be revealed, whom the LORD shall consume [analisko] with the spirit of [this word from] his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness [shining this understanding as the light] of his coming: 9 Even him [I Am], whose coming is after [the falling away from truth and light, which is among you] the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, 10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of [agape – leading us out darkness, by] the truth [light and life], that they might be saved. 11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion [the insanity that now permeates all the institutions of church and state that are possessed by Satan], that they should believe a lie: 12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness [as they do, with pride].
Romans 11 2 God has not cast away his people [those held in the places possessed by Satan, here in hell] which he foreknew. Wot you not what the scripture says of Elijah? how he made intercession to God against Israel saying, 3 LORD, they have killed your prophets, and digged down your altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life. 4 But what says the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed [kampto] the knee to the image of Baal [the gods of this evil world]. 5 Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace [given this gift from the LORD, His testimony by which he saves us]. 6 And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace [the gift] is no more grace [is not a gift]. But if it be of [men’s] works, then it is no more grace [a gift from God]: otherwise work [to which he has called us] is no more work [for which we are prepared, to deliver the gift freely, as received]. 7 What then? Israel has not obtained that which he seeks for; but the election has obtained it, and the rest were blinded.
2 Corinthians 4 1 Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not; 2 But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully [as is the work of Satan]; but by manifestation of [phanerosis – making apparent] the truth commending ourselves [suniemi – introducing, establishing] to every man’s conscience [suneidesis – to produce a co-perspective, agreement with Him, seeing as He sees] in the sight [realizing the presence] of God. 3 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: 4 In whom the god [men as idols] of this world has blinded the minds of them which believe not [the LORD is present with us, in us], lest the light [understanding] of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them. 5 For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the LORD; and ourselves your servants [working] for Jesus’ sake. 6 For God, who commanded the light [this understanding] to shine out of darkness [among the ignorant], has shined in our hearts [minds], to give the light [understanding] of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face [presence] of Jesus Christ [Jehovah’s Salvation manifested in this high way, in scandalous flesh].
Romans 11 8 (According as it is written, God has given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day.
Isaiah 29 9 Stay yourselves, and wonder [not knowing what you are experiencing]; cry you out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink. 10 For the LORD has poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep [with no signs of life], and has closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers [ra’ah – those who see as God sees] has he covered [kacah]. 11 And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book [cepher] that is sealed [chatham], which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray you: and he says, I cannot; for it is sealed [chatham]: 12 And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray you: and he says, I am not learned. 13 Wherefore the LORD said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honor me, but have removed their heart [the foundations of their mind – their stiocheion, the elements of their understanding, are corrupt and disordered] far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men: 14 Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvelous [eye opening] work among this people, even a marvelous work and a wonder [pele’ – at which all have wondered]: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid. 15 Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their [wicked] counsel [‘etsah] from the LORD, and their works are in the dark [their own ignorance of reality and truth they can’t understand because it is as a foreign language], and they say, Who sees us? and who knows us? 16 Surely your turning of things upside down [the overthrow] shall be esteemed as the potter’s [yatsar] clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed [yatser] say of him that framed [yatsar] it, He had no understanding? 17 Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon [where purity should be seen in high places] shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest [of upright men]? 18 And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness. 19 The meek [who shall inherit the earth] also shall increase their joy in [realizing the presence of] the LORD, and the poor [those without worldly power] among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel. 20 For the terrible one is brought to naught, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off: 21 That make a man an offender [scandalous] for a word [they say violates the falsely so-called “moral” code on this evil time: the rudiments, stoicheion, of this evil world], and lay a snare for him that reproves in the gate [out of hell into the kingdom of God], and turn aside the just [from entering] for a thing of naught [an offense that isn’t one]. 22 Therefore thus says the LORD, who redeemed [padah] Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob, Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his face now wax pale [but they will reach the end promised]. 23 But when he sees his children [who have been born again out of death and hell], the work of my hands, in the midst of him, they shall sanctify my name [declare My identity Holy], and sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel. 24 They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmured [against me] shall learn doctrine.
Romans 11 9 And David says, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumbling-block [skandalon], and a recompence unto them: 10 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back always.
Psalms 69 13 But as for me, my prayer is unto you, O LORD, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of your mercy hear me, in the truth of your salvation. 14 Deliver me out of the mire [of men’s corruption, that has clouded these waters, and hidden understanding from their eyes], and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters [the wicked in power have darkened]. 15 Let not the waterflood [of the wicked] overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me. 16 Hear me, O LORD; for your lovingkindness is good: turn unto me according to the multitude of your tender mercies. 17 And hide not your face [paniym – Your presence] from your servant; for I am in trouble [tsar – under enemy attack]: hear me speedily. 18 Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of my enemies [‘oyeb – who hate me]. 19 You have known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonor: my adversaries [who heap these things upon me] are all before you. 20 Reproach has broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none. 21 [At my cross] They gave me also gall [their poisonous words] for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink. 22 Let their table become a snare before [paniym – by Your presence unknown to] them: and that [this word they reject] which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap. 23 Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake. 24 Pour out your indignation [za’am – that ends in their destruction] upon them, and let your wrathful anger take hold of them. 25 Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents. 26 For they persecute him whom you have smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom you have wounded.
Romans 11 11 I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles [unbelievers, who haven’t known the LORD], for to provoke them to jealousy [parazeloo – bring heat to those who call themselves believers, who are ignorant of their fallen condition]. 12 Now if the fall of them be the riches of [this gift, grace to] the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness [when they likewise receive this gift]? 13 For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify my office: 14 If by any means I may provoke to emulation [parazeloo – bring heat to] them which are my flesh, and might save some of them. 15 For if the casting away of them be the reconciling [katallage – the course adjustment] of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead? 16 For if the first-fruit [the elect remnant] be holy, the lump [the risen BODY they’ve provoked to emulation] is also holy: and if the root [from where this gift flows] be holy, so are the branches.
The “fall,” into death’s sleep, Paul speaks of twice above, is the Greek word paraptoma, said to mean “a side-slip (lapse or deviation), i.e. (unintentional) error or (wilful) transgression.” Its deeper meaning is in the words para (from beside or near) and potamos, meaning “a current, brook or freshet (as drinkable), i.e. running water.” This latter word (patomos) speaks of water that flows as a flood against humanity and those combating them as “rivers” of pure living water whose origin is the Father in heaven.
Romans 9 27 Isaiah also cries [in Isaiah 1:9] concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved: 28 For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the LORD make upon the earth. 29 And as Isaiah said before, Except the LORD of Sabaoth [commander of the army of heaven] had left us a seed, we had been as Sodom, and been made like unto Gomorrah. [Isaiah 1:9 Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah. 10 Hear {shama’ – and obey} the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah.] 30 What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed [obeyed] not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith. 31 But Israel, which followed [obeyed] after the law of righteousness, has not attained to the law of righteousness. 32 Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumbling-stone; 33 As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumbling-stone and rock of offence [skandalon – the scandal of the LORD’s word flowing from the flesh of a man disapproved by the self-righteous who say it should be otherwise, according to their words]: and whosoever believes on [the Father’s words from] him shall not be ashamed.
Remember, this last verse is quoted from Isaiah 28:16, which speaks to and of the same people as above at this moment. It speaks of those who’ve made a covenant with death, and are in agreement with hell, to whom comes this rest and refreshing, which they refuse.
Isaiah 28 5 In that day [today is the day, this time of light] shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem [tsphiyrah – only appearing two other times, in Ezekiel 7:7 and 7:10, when it is the “morning” that has now come, saying “The morning {tsphiyrah} is come unto you, O you that dwellest in the land: the time is come, the day of trouble is near, and not the sounding again of the mountains.” and “Behold the day, behold, it is come: the morning {tsphiyrah} is gone forth; the rod has blossomed, pride has budded.”] of beauty, unto the residue of his people, 6 And for a spirit of judgment to him that sits in judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate. [Ezekiel 7:8 & 9 say, “Now will I shortly {a short work will the LORD make upon the earth, because the bed upon which humanity sleeps is shorter than humanity itself, who will remain} pour out my fury upon you, and accomplish my anger upon you: and I will judge you according to your ways, and will recompense you for all your abominations. And my eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will recompense you according to your ways and your abominations that are in the midst of you; and you shall know that I am the LORD that smites.”] 7 But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment. 8 For all tables [that have become a snare upon them] are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean. 9 Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine [shmuw’ah – {shama’ Yahh} heard and obeyed this voice of Jehovah teaching]? them that are weaned from the milk [receiving the foundational element of truth, have advanced in understanding, into perfection], and drawn [now draw] from the breasts [of the Ancient of Days – as we know, the word here rendered “drawn” is ‘attiyq, only appearing elsewhere in 1 Chronicles 4:22, where it speaks of the “ancient” things, the work of those that dwelt with the king]. 10 For [as here] precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little: 11 For with stammering lips and another tongue [the truth: a foreign language to those who only know corruption] will he speak to this people. 12 To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith you may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they [refused and] would not hear [shama’ – and obey]. 13 But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken. 14 Wherefore hear [shama’ – and obey] the word of the LORD, you scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem. 15 Because you have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the [this] overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves: 16 Therefore thus says the LORD God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believes shall not make haste [shall not be taken away with the flood of men’s lying words, the shame that comes upon those who refuse this rest and refreshing]. 17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and [the] righteousness [of God] to the plummet [against which your righteousness shall be judged]: and the hail [the word frozen in heaven, reserved there for this moment] shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters [His word from heaven] shall overflow the hiding place. 18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell [sheol] shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge [showt] shall pass through, then you shall be trodden down by it. 19 From the time that it goes forth it shall take you [in its snare]: for morning by morning shall it pass over [‘abar – the bringing the Passover from death into life for those who receive it as His word], by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report [shmuw’ah – only to understand it is the voice of Jehovah manifesting His presence to those who receive Him]. 20 For the bed is shorter than that a man [sleeping in death] can stretch himself on it: and the covering [of lies and falsehood] narrower than that he can wrap [hide] himself in it. 21 For the LORD [Jehovah] shall rise up as in mount Perazim [2 Samuel 5:20 – as water from His throne, breaking forth upon His and David’s enemies], he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon [Joshua 10:10 & 11 – His word reserved {frozen} in heaven, sent as great hailstones upon the wicked: the current corrupt crop sitting in power], that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange [known to no one except Him] act. 22 Now therefore be you not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the LORD GOD [‘Adonay Jehovih – KING of kings and LORD of lords] of hosts [a man of war and Commander, Chief, of the army of heaven] a consumption [kalah – a full end, as in Daniel 9:27], even determined [charats – decreed, as in Joshua 10:21 saying “And all the people returned to the camp to Joshua {Jesus} at Makkedah {as one flock under one shepherd} in peace: none moved {charats} his tongue against any of the children of Israel.” And 2 Samiel 5:24, the LORD saying to David, “And let it be, when you hear {shama’ – obey} the sound {qowl – the voice} of a going in the tops of the mulberry trees {baka’, from which come bkowr – telling us this is the voice of the “firstborn”}, that then you shall bestir yourself: for then shall the LORD go out before {paniym – His presence will be manifested with, in} you, to smite the host of the Philistines {the enemy army now mixed among you}.”] upon the whole earth. 23 Give you ear, and hear [shama’ – and obey] my voice; hearken, and hear [shama’ – and obey] my speech.
1 Peter 2 1 Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speaking, 2 As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that you may grow thereby: 3 If so be you have tasted that the LORD is gracious [freely giving this gift to all]. 4 To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious, 5 You also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. 6 Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Zion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believes on him shall not be confounded. 7 Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them [those who claim they are builders but are in truth the destroyers of the world] which be disobedient [incorrigibles who refuse to obey], the stone [I Am] which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner [turning men’s heads back to the LORD], 8 And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense [skandalon], even to them which stumble at the word [this word from the mouth of the LORD, with which they ignorantly wrestle into perdition], being disobedient [refusing to obey the voice of the Father]: whereunto also they were appointed. 9 But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people; that you should show forth the praises of him who has called you out of darkness [the ignorance and insanity that covers the now dead world] into his marvelous [eye opening] light [understanding and life]; 10 Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
Jonah 2 1 Then Jonah [the dove, whose voices are the sign of the end reached] prayed unto the LORD his God out of the fish’s [dagah] belly [the source of the agitation of humanity, the evil intention, below the surface of men’s words, to gain and keep power], 2 And said, I cried by reason of my affliction [tsarah – this tribulation] unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell [sheol] cried I, and you heard my voice. 3 For you had cast me into the deep [this full circuit into understanding], in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all your billows and your waves passed over me [‘abar – to bring me from death into life again]. 4 Then I said, I am cast out of your sight [no longer seeing as you see]; yet I will look again toward your holy temple. 5 The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head. 6 I went down to the bottoms of the mountains [to the lowest degeneration of the earth ruled by tyrants in power over church and state]; the earth with her bars was about me forever: yet have you brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God. 7 When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came in unto you, into your holy temple. 8 They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy. 9 But I will sacrifice unto you with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that [to open my mouth when You call] that I have vowed [the mission on which we are sent]. Salvation [yshuw’ah – Jesus] is of the LORD [Jehovah manifesting His salvation in our flesh]. 10 And the LORD spoke unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land [where this word of LORD isn’t yet heard].
Romans 4 13 For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith [acting, hearing the LORD’s voice and obeying His commands, in the moment]. 14 For if they which are of the law [the written word, the spirit of which is always corrupt in the hands of those it is left to be protected in pure form] be heirs, faith [hearing the LORD’s voice that comes to interrupt the strays and correct them back on His course] is made void, and the promise [of this salvation, His promised rescue] made of none effect: 15 Because the law [in man’s hands] works wrath: for where no law is [when a state of nature exists, without any pure law], there is no transgression [only consequence]. [Romans 3:31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law {restoring it to its holy place in pure form}.] 16 Therefore it [receiving the LORD at His interruption and correction] is of faith, that it might be by grace [the free gift given – to those who receive or refuse it]; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed [who do receive it]; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of [hearing the LORD’s voice and following His commands, as did] Abraham; who is the father of us all [who receive this promise [now at His appearing and kingdom], 17 (As it is written, I have made you a father of many nations,) before him [in the LORD’s presence] whom he believed [and acted], even God, who quickens the dead [to life], and calls [brings to light] those things which be not [yet seen] as though they were [always there, prepared, waiting for His revelation]. 18 Who against hope [stated in His promise] believed in hope [of receiving it when it comes], that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall your seed be. [Genesis 22:17 That in blessing I will bless you {with this gift}, and in multiplying I will multiply your seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore {when humanity reaches this appointed time, this limit, where the proud waves of the wicked are stopped}; and your seed shall possess the gate of his enemies {holding humanity in death and hell}; 18 And in your seed {who receive the promise by faith} shall all the nations of the earth be blessed {by this same gift of light: synonymously life and understanding} because you have obeyed {shama’} my voice.] 19 And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about a hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah’s womb: 20 He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God [who manifests Himself in things the unfaithful thinks are impossible]; 21 And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform. 22 And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness. 23 Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him; 24 But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our LORD from the dead; 25 Who was delivered for [because of] our offences [paraptoma – the degeneration of understanding the Spirit in the law], and was raised again for our justification [to restore this understanding through judgment].
Here Him, not me.
Romans 5 1 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our LORD Jesus Christ: 2 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace [this gift of light] wherein we stand [and live], and rejoice in hope of the glory of God [revealed to us, and in us]. 3 And not only so, but we glory [know He is presence with us] in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation works patience; 4 And patience [waiting for Him to finish His short work upon the earth], experience; and experience[ing Him in His word and work], hope: 5 And hope [knowing He will finish it] make not ashamed [we will not be disappoint because we will reach the end He promises]; because the love of God is shed abroad [ekphuo – through springing forth from good ground] in our hearts [minds] by the Holy Ghost [the LORD with us, working and speaking unknown to reveal Himself to us, in us] which is given unto us. [One of the three times the word phuo appears is in Luke 8:8, saying, “And other fell on good ground, and sprang up {phuo}, and bare fruit an hundredfold. And when he had said these things, he cried, He that has ears to hear, let him hear.”] 6 For when we were yet without strength [understanding by which we rise to life], in due time Christ died [to give us this understanding] for the ungodly. 7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. 8 But God commends his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died [and came here to hell where all are held in death] for us. 9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood [the sacrifice necessary to bring this message, manifesting therein the Father’s identity], we shall be saved from wrath through him [which comes upon those who refuse correction and continue into the consequence of going their own way]. 10 For if, when we were enemies [opposing Him here in hell], we were reconciled [katallasso – the change away from corruption] to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled [katallasso – changed away from corruption], we shall be saved by his life [risen here in hell to free us by His truth]. [1 Corinthians 15:51 Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed {allasso}, 52 In a moment, in the twinkling {of stars to light} of an eye {by seeing as the LORD sees}, at the last trump {this voice of His archangel}: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed {allasso}. 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.] 11 And not only so, but we also joy in God [realizing His presence with us] through our LORD Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement [katallage – this needed adjustment]. 12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned [hamartano – strayed from the course to this goal and were on a trajectory that would miss the target]: 13 (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law [only consequence, missing the promised end]. 14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam’s transgression, who is the figure [the first man of this new heaven and earth] of him that was to come [I Am]. 15 But not as the offence [paraptoma], so also is the free gift [shed upon all]. For if through the offence [paraptoma] of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ [Jehovah’s Salvation manifested in my flesh], has abounded unto many [to be manifested in their flesh; I and the children the LORD has given me: His ONE BODY]. 16 And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift [not by one who is missing the mark]: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences [paraptoma] unto justification. 17 For if by one man’s offence [paraptoma] death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.) 18 Therefore as by the offence [paraptoma] of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life [understanding and light]. 19 For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience [to the commands of the LORD] of one [I have been sent for this purpose, this is my mission] shall many be made righteous. 20 Moreover the law entered, that the offence [paraptoma] might [not receiving correction] abound. But where sin abounded, grace [this gift, the full circuit, the LORD’s long suffering, that brings victory over death and hell] did much more abound [bringing the correction]: 21 That as sin has reigned unto death, even so might grace reign [the gift now exalted above all the words of corruption] through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our LORD.
The word katallage, meaning “exchange (figuratively, adjustment), i.e. restoration to (the divine) favor,” appears two other times, in 2 Corinthians 5. In the same chapter the word katallasso also appears three times (of six total uses).
2 Corinthians 5 1 For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle [our flesh] were dissolved, we have a building of God, a [spirit] house [the OND BODY] not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. [1 Corinthians 15:45 And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. 46 Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual. 47 The first man is of the earth, earthy; the second man is the LORD from heaven. 48 As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. 49 And as we have borne the {mortal} image of the earthy, we shall also bear the {immortal} image of the heavenly. 50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot {without a living spirit, quickened in our dead flesh} inherit the kingdom of God; neither does corruption {of the flesh} inherit incorruption {of the Spirit}. 51 Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all {in the flesh} be changed {allasso}, 52 In a moment, in the twinkling {of stars to light} of an eye {by seeing as the LORD sees}, at the last trump {this voice of His archangel}: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised {their dead flesh brought to life} incorruptible, and we shall be changed {allasso}. 53 For this corruptible {flesh} must put on {be clothed upon with} incorruption, and this mortal {flesh} must put on {be clothed upon with} immortality. 54 So when this corruptible {flesh} shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal {flesh} shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.] 2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house [in the LORD ONE incorruptible BODY] which is from heaven: 3 If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked. 4 For we that are in this [flesh] tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life. 5 Now he that has wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also has given unto us the earnest of [the deposit, of Himself risen from the dead, alive in] the Spirit. 6 Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home [endemeo – bound to this evil generation] in the body [soma – in the corrupt body], we are absent [ekdemos – by being joined being joined with that body] from [apo – away from] the LORD: 7 (For we walk by faith [believing the LORD is alive in us], not by sight [the temporal, outward appearance]:) 8 We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent [ekdemeo – by being joined with the LORD] from the body [soma – not part of the corrupt body], and to be present [endemeo – at home] with the LORD [dwelling in Him, and He in us]. 9 Wherefore we labor, that, whether present [endemeo] or absent [ekdemeo], we may be accepted of [euarestos – we may be made well by agreement with] him. 10 For we must all appear before the judgment [mercy] seat of Christ [Jonah 2:8 They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.]; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he has done, whether it be good or bad. 11 Knowing therefore the terror of the LORD, we persuade men [to agree with Him, that they be not consumed by the own corrupt understanding]; but we are made manifest unto [phaneroo – rendering apparent] God [in us]; and I trust also are made manifest [phaneroo – we render His presence in us] in your consciences [suneidesis – your co-perspective, your agreement with Him, seeing as He sees]. 12 For we commend [suniemi – introduce, establish] not ourselves again unto you, but give you occasion to glory on our behalf [realizing He is manifesting His presence in us, through us], that you may have somewhat to answer them which glory in [their outward, temporal] appearance, and not in heart [His mind given to us, by which He lives in us and we in Him]. 13 For whether we be beside ourselves [existemi – astounded at this revelation, still not understanding the difference between reality and man’s delusions: insanity], it is to God [to bring you to His understanding, at His will]: or whether we be sober [sophroneo – sane], it is for your cause [that thought us He may work His will]. 14 For the love of Christ constrains us [sunecho – holds us together]; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead [needing to hear His word, by which man lives]: 15 And that he died for all [to bring this life to us], that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but [denying themselves, live] unto him which died for them, and rose again. 16 Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh [the outward appearance]: yea, though we have known Christ after [He was manifested in] the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more [by His flesh]. 17 Therefore if any man be in Christ [and Christ in him], he is a new creature: old [dead] things are passed away; behold, all things [by His Spirit working and speaking unknown in the flesh] are become new. 18 And all things are of God, who has reconciled [katallasso – changed us by putting down the power of corruption] us to himself by Jesus Christ [Jehovah manifesting Himself in the flesh, to rescue us from ourselves], and has given to us the ministry [diakonia] of reconciliation [katallage]; 19 To wit [hos – In this manner], that God was [is] in Christ, reconciling [katallasso] the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and has committed unto us the word of reconciliation [katallage]. 20 Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though [hos – in this manner] God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be you reconciled [katallasso] to God. 21 For he has made him to be sin [here in scandalous flesh] for us, who [before his corrupted flesh] knew no sin; that we might be made [as I have] the righteousness of God in him.
The word diakonia, rendered “ministry” in verse 18 above, is said to mean “attendance (as a servant, etc.); figuratively (eleemosynary) aid, (official) service (especially of the Christian teacher, or technically of the diaconate).” The word konia means to whiten, and dia means the channel through which it comes, above telling us the course adjustment(katallage) comes through whitening, purity by which we see God, not as man sees, but with His eyes seeing the unseen and eternal.
1 John 1 1 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life; 2 (For the life [light and understanding] was manifested, and we have seen it [in the flesh], and bear witness, and show unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us [in His son, and the children given to him];) 3 That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that you also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ. 4 And these things write we unto you, that your joy [realizing His presence in this manner] may be full. 5 This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light [understanding and life], and in him is no darkness [ignorance] at all. 6 If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness [in ignorance of His presence with us, in us], we lie, and do not the truth: 7 But if we walk in the light [His understanding given], as [hos – in the same manner] he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanses us from all sin. 8 If we say that we have no sin [no corruption that needs to be washed away, whitened, by His word], we deceive [planao] ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
1 John 2 1 My little children, these things write I unto you, that you sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: 2 And he is the propitiation [hilasmos, with affinity to hileos, equivalent of the Hebrew word calach, referring us to Exodus 34:9 saying, “And he {Moses} said, If now I have found grace in your sight, O LORD, let my LORD, I pray you, go among us; for it is a stiff-necked people; and pardon {calach} our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance.” And speaking of when all will, by His teaching, know the LORD, saying in Jeremiah 31:34, “And they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, says the LORD: for I will forgive {calach – hileos in Hebrews 8:12} their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”] for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. 3 And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. 4 He that says, I know him, and keeps not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. 5 But whoso keeps [tereo – guards from corruption] his word, in him truly is the love [agape – leading men out of darkness, by giving the uncorrupted word as received] of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him. 6 He that says he abides in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked [in the same manner]. 7 Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which you have heard from the beginning. 8 Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now shines. 9 He that says he is in the light [has this understanding], and hates [refuses to give it to] his brother, is in darkness even until now. 10 He that loves his brother abides in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling [skandalon] in him [not thinking the LORD speaking from the flesh is scandalous]. 11 But he that hate his brother is in darkness, and walketh [his own way is] in darkness, and knows not whither he goes, because that darkness has blinded his eyes. 12 I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name’s sake [to make His identity known]. 13 I write unto you, fathers, because you have known him that is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because you have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, because you have known the Father [manifested in His voice]. 14 I have written unto you, fathers, because you have known him that is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the wicked one [the devils among us opposing and resisting the LORD’s work through us, in us]. 15 Love not the [current corrupt] world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. 17 And the world passes away, and the lust thereof: but he that does the will of God abides forever. 18 Little children, it is the last time [‘achariyth in Hebrew]: and as you have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time. 19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us. 20 But you have an unction [chrisma – an anointing] from the Holy One, and you know all things. 21 I have not written unto you because you know not the truth, but because you know it, and that no lie is of the truth. 22 Who is a liar but he that denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denies the Father and the Son. 23 Whosoever denies the Son, the same has not the Father: he that acknowledges the Son has the Father also. 24 Let that therefore abide in you, which you have heard from the beginning. If that which you have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, you also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father. 25 And this is the promise that he has promised us, even eternal life. 26 These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce [planao – deceive] you. 27 But the anointing [this word and calling] which you have received of him abides in you, and you need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teaches you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it has taught you, you shall abide in him. 28 And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear [phaneroo – is rendered apparent], we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming. 29 If you know that he is righteous, you know that every one that does righteousness is born of him.
Psalms 139 1 O LORD, you have searched me, and known me. 2 You know my down-sitting and my uprising, you understand my thought afar off [rachowq – this time when the world is ruled by the evil decrees of wicked men in power]. 3 You compasses my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways. 4 For there is not a word in my tongue [that is good, except for Your words], but, lo, O LORD, you know it altogether. 5 You have beset me behind and before, and laid your hand upon me. 6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it. 7 Whither shall I go from your spirit? or whither shall I flee from your presence? 8 If I ascend up into heaven, you are there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, you are there. 9 If I take the wings of the morning [rising by this light you have given me], and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; 10 Even there shall your hand lead me, and your right hand shall hold me. 11 If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night [revealing this time when ignorance covers the earth] shall be light [shall be understood] about me. 12 Yea, the darkness [men’s ignorance] hides not from you; but the night shineth [is by You given understanding] as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to you. 13 For you have possessed my reins: you have covered me in my mother’s womb. 14 I will praise you; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvelous are your works; and that my soul knows right well. 15 My substance was not hid from you, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. 16 Your eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in your book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them. 17 How precious also are your thoughts unto me, O God! how significant is the sum of them! 18 If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with you. 19 Surely you will slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, you bloody men. 20 For they speak against you wickedly, and your enemies take your name in vain. 21 Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate you? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against you? 22 I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them my enemies. 23 Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: 24 And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
