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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.

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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 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.

August 19, 2024

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.

18 August 2024

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.

August 17, 2024

Wherefore I will yet plead with you, says the LORD, and with your children’s children will I plead.

14 – 16 August 2024

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]

August 7, 2024

I indeed have baptized you with water: but he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost.

5 – 6 August 2024

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.

August 1, 2024

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.

29 – 31 July 2024

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].

July 28, 2024

And I will set my throne in Elam, and will destroy from thence the king and the princes, says the LORD.

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.