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February 3, 2024

Take heed unto yourselves, lest you forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, which the LORD your God has [in Exodus 20:4 – 6] forbidden you.

30 January – 2 February 2024 PART 2 OF 2

Deuteronomy 4
23 Take heed unto yourselves, lest you forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, which the LORD your God has [in Exodus 20:4 – 6] forbidden you.
24 For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.
25 When you shall beget children, and children’s children, and you shall have remained long in the land, and [in you prosperity under Him] shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, and shall do evil [following your own creation and refusing the voice of the LORD’s good leading] in the sight [seeing as only He see] of the LORD your God, to provoke him to anger:
26 I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that you shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto you go over Jordan to possess it; you shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed.
27 And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations, and you shall be left few in number among the heathen, whither the LORD shall lead you.
28 And there you shall serve gods, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell [as does the living God].
29 But if from thence you shall [diligently] seek the LORD your God, you shall find him, if you seek him with all your heart and with all your soul.
30 When you are in tribulation [tsar – only appearing four additional times in Deuteronomy, {chapters 32 & 33}, twice as “adversaries” and twice as “enemies”], and all these things are come upon you, even in the latter days [‘achariyth – these last days of darkness], if you turn to the LORD your God, and shall be obedient [shama’] unto his voice [what part of this don’t you understand? If He says His voice will be heard now, why tempt you Him, denying His voice when you hear it?];
31 (For the LORD your God is a merciful God [who meets you here at His mercy seat, when you are in need];) he will not forsake you, neither destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which he swore unto them.
32 For ask now of the days that are past [the former house, when they heard and obeyed My voice and gloried in My declared presence], which were before you, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from the one side of heaven unto the other, whether there has been any such thing as this great thing is, or has been heard like it?
33 Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and live?
34 Or has God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, [as He now calls us into His kingdom again] by temptations [revealing Himself and ending doubt], by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
35 Unto you it was shown, that you might know that the LORD he is God; there is none else beside him.
36 Out of heaven he made you to hear his voice, that he might instruct you: and upon earth he showed you his great fire; and you heard his words out of the midst of the fire.
37 And because he loved your fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought you out in his sight with his mighty power out of Egypt;
38 To drive out nations from before you greater and mightier than you are, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as it is this day.
39 Know therefore this day, and consider it in your heart, that the LORD he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else.
40 You shall keep therefore his statutes, and his commandments, which I command you this day, that it may go well with you, and with your children after you, and that you mayest prolong your days upon the earth, which the LORD your God gives you, forever.

Friends, the LORD is calling for a worldwide sabbath, a day (11 May 2024) when the wicked, those bearing the mark of the beasts: dead flesh without the Spirit of the LORD, openly declare themselves by buying and selling on that day. It is a Day declaring the LORD’s presence with His people who obey His voice, His word given as received, declaring He has revealed to His faithful that this is His Day, the Day of The LORD. It’s a Day when the heathen (those who don’t know the LORD) declare themselves.

Ezekiel 30
2 Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the LORD God; Howl ye, Woe worth the day!
3 For the day is near, even the Day of the LORD is near, a cloudy day; it shall be the time of the heathen [declaring themselves].

Amos 8
4 Hear this, O you that [with your evil words] swallow up the needy [you thereby made ignorant], even to make the poor [without power] of the land to fail,
5 Saying, When will the new moon [this darkness covering the earth] be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath [the LORD’s interruption of men’s work], that we may set forth wheat [returning to your same old corrupt and worthless ways, by which you turn men into merchandise], making the ephah [equal justice] small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances [justice] by deceit?
6 That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?

Matthew 21
10 And when he was come into Jerusalem, all the city was moved, saying, Who is this [that declares this is The Day of The LORD]?
11 And the multitude said, This is Jesus [Jehovah’s Salvation manifested in the perpetual son He has declared] the prophet of Nazareth of Galilee.
12 And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves [claiming they know the signs of the end; saying, “Now isn’t the time and 11 May 2024 isn’t the day”],
13 And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer [from Isaiah 56:7]; but you have made it a den of thieves [from Jeremiah 7:11] .
14 And the blind [unable to see the time and season] and the lame [who wandered away into apostasy: standing away from the LORD] came to him in the temple; and he healed them [giving them eyes to see as He sees and bringing them back to His right course].
15 And when the chief priests and scribes [the leaders who led the people into blindness and apostasy] saw the wonderful [eye opening] things that he did, and the children crying in the temple, and saying, Hosanna [save now] to the son of David [repeating the words of Psalms 118]; they were sore displeased,
16 And said unto him, Hear you what these say? And Jesus says unto them, Yea; have you never read [in Psalms 8:2], Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings you have perfected praise?

Hear the voice of the LORD:

Isaiah 56
6 Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the LORD, to serve him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be his servants, every one that keeps the sabbath [11 May 2024] from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant;
7 Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer [where they speak to Me and I answer]: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted [this deep understand tried and prepared in the fire] shall be accepted upon my altar; for my house [family] shall be called an house [family] of prayer for all people.
8 The LORD God, which gathers the outcasts of Israel says, Yet will I gather others to him, beside those that are gathered unto him [and they shall be My ONE BODY in which I dwell].

Jeremiah 7 [the risen LORD {in Jeremiah} calling the corrupt to repentance and correction]
3 Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place [I in you and you in Me].
4 Trust you not in lying words, saying, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, are these [wholly corrupt institutions; “Matthew 13: 31 Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed {here in me, the least reputable among men}, which a man took, and sowed in his field: 32 Which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air {who’ve here received this strength to rise into heaven with the LORD} come and lodge in the branches thereof {above the corrupt world}. 33 Another parable spoke he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven {corruption}, which a woman {the unfaithful, following the sons of perdition away from the Father} took, and hid {their corruption, defiling the Father’s bed} in three measures of meal, till the whole {body} was leavened {and became a dead carcass, above which the eagles now gather}. 34 All these things spoke Jesus unto the multitude in parables {these words of the LORD wherein He’s hidden His treasures}; and without a parable spoke he not unto them: 35 That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things {these treasures in which comes our salvation} which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world.].
5 For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if you thoroughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbor [by My commandments};
6 If you oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:
7 Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land [‘erets – the earth] that I gave to your fathers, forever and ever.
8 Behold, you trust in lying words, that cannot profit.
9 Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom you know not;
10 And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations?
11 Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen it, says the LORD.
12 But go you now unto my place which was in Shiloh [the place of tranquility, where I manifested My presence], where I set my name [identity] at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel [making Myself unknown to them, hidden in their ignorance].
13 And now, because you have done all these [same] works [and refuses to repent and be corrected back on course], says the LORD, and I spoke unto you, rising up [among you] early and speaking, but you heard not [My voice as Mine]; and I called you, but you answered not;
14 Therefore will I do unto this house [the evil family that rejects Me], which is called by my name, wherein you trust, and unto the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.
15 And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren, even the whole seed of Ephraim [removing Myself from the sight of the whole corrupt generation].
16 Therefore pray not you for this people [the wicked that refuse to hear My voice and obey My commands, sent for their good], neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for I will not hear you.

The truth is most of the churches will continue to follow those who’ve deluded them into blindness. They will continue in their abominations, refuse the LORD’s sabbath, and perish as in the days of Noah and Lot.

1 Peter 4
17 For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God [salvation by declaring His presence with us and in us]?
18 And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
19 Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God [for declaring Him alive in us, speaking and working His will, not willing that any should, by choosing darkness, perish, but that all would come to repentance and correction] commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator [who has changed us into His new creation].

1 Peter 3
17 For it is better, if the will of God be so, that you suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.
18 For Christ also has once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
19 By which also he went and preached unto the spirits [here] in prison;
20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark [of salvation] was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
21 The like figure whereunto even baptism does also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:
22 Who is gone into heaven [this place of full understanding that comes only from the Father who’s thereby declared me his son], and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.

Matthew 24
34 Truly I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.
35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
36 But of that day and hour knows no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
37 But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

Luke 17
28 Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built;
29 But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.
30 Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed [as fire and brimstone from His mouth].

Psalms 118
6 The LORD is on my side; I will not fear: what can man do unto me?
7 The LORD taketh my part with them that help me: therefore shall I see my desire upon them that hate me.
8 It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man.
9 It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in princes.
10 All nations compassed me about: but in the name of the LORD will I destroy them.
11 They compassed me about; yea, they compassed me about: but in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.

Deuteronomy 9
3 Understand therefore this day, that the LORD your God is he which goes over before you; as a consuming fire he shall destroy them, and he shall bring them down before your face: so shall you drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as the LORD has said unto you.
4 Speak not you in your heart, after that the LORD your God has cast them out from before you, saying, For my righteousness the LORD has brought me in to possess this land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD does drive them out from before you.
5 Not for your righteousness, or for the uprightness of your heart, do you go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD your God does drive them out from before you, and that he may perform the word which the LORD swore unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
6 Understand therefore, that the LORD your God gives you not this good land to possess it for your righteousness; for you are a stiff-necked people.
7 Remember, and forget not, how you provoked the LORD your God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that you did depart out of the land of Egypt, until you came unto this place, you have been rebellious against the LORD.

Matthew 23
36 Truly I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.
37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you that kill the prophets, and stone them which are sent unto you, how often would I have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and you would not!
38 Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.
39 For I say unto you, You shall not see me henceforth, till [your eyes are healed of your blindness, and] you shall say, Blessed is he that comes in the name of the LORD.

Psalms 118
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.
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 of the LORD: we have blessed you out of the house of the LORD.

The sabbath (11 May 2024) called for by the LORD above, revealing the “mark” of ownership (of God or Satan), is alluded to in Revelation 13, which, in this Day, is fully uncovered (in the apocalypse).

Revelation 13
16 And he causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that has understanding count [psephizo] the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.

As previously discussed, the number (666) as “of a man” is saying it’s assessed, realized, by those that have wisdom and understanding, which we know NONE of the modern false prophets and false teaches have. They are instead forever (insanely) yapping about the end, saying they don’t know when it is while saying they do. They deny the reality of the moment, even though a man (the one manifesting the LORD’s presence by knowing and declaring, in His name, it is present) is telling them: putting all things in their right order under God.

Acts 13
37 But he, whom God raised again, saw no corruption.
38 Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins:
39 And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.
40 Beware therefore, lest that come upon you, which is spoken of in the prophets;
41 Behold, you despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which you shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto you.

The only other time the Greek word psephizo (“count”) appears is in Luke 14:28, where it speaks of “counting” the necessary cost when going to war: abstractly determining if the resources are sufficient to prevail. In the passage above, the number describes those whose mark proves they are enemies (tsar) of God and, therefore, those resisting and opposing Him at His appearance and kingdom.

As we know, the number (666) is assigned to a word by (of) a man, named Strong, in the Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary. It’s the word ‘apher, meaning ashes, with affinity to words meaning worthlessness and face bandage. It only appears twice, in 1 Kings 20:38 & 41, there telling of the ashes used to mask the face (identity) of a prophet, which when (in battle) it (the ruin of the world’s understanding: corruption blinding sight) is removed he is revealed to be (represent) the prophets (true and false: cause and cure of the corruption: rightly ordering the true exposing the false among us like yapping dogs).

1 Kings 20
38 So the prophet departed, and waited for the king by the way, and disguised himself with ashes [‘apher – 666, the ruin of sight] upon his face.
39 And as the king passed by [‘abar – was Passing from death into life], he cried unto the king: and he said, Your servant went out into the midst of the battle; and, behold, a man turned aside [cuwr – off course], and brought a man [false prophet] unto me [the servants of the rising King] and said, Keep [shamar – guard My word from man’s corruption] this man [of false prophets]: if by any means he be missing, then shall your life be for his life, or else you shall pay a talent of silver.
40 And as your servant was busy [with worthless things] here and there, he was gone [the false prophets and false teachers escaped the guard]. And the king of Israel said unto him, So shall your judgment be; yourself have decided it [the servants of the risen king brought this judgment upon themselves].
41 And he hasted, and took the ashes [‘apher – the corruption of the false prophet and false teachers] away [cuwr – back onto course] from his face; and the king of Israel [I Am the one who] discerned him [the LORD alive in revealing] that he was of the prophets [both these men, the man and the man he didn’t guard].

John 14
23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep [guard from the leaven of false prophets and false teachers among us] my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him [20 At that day {when the Spirit of truth, the Comforter, the Paraclete, has come, when the world doesn’t see him, Me in his flesh, but you will see Me in him} you shall know that I am in my Father, and you in me {My ONE BODY}, and I in you.].
24 He that loves me not keeps [guards] not my sayings: and the word which you hear is not my, but the Father’s which sent me.
25 These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you.
26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.

There are only two Books of the Bible that have 66 chapters, Psalms and Isaiah. They (these numbers of a man) are distinction, assessments, numbers, “of men,” with verses 6 (making them 66:6) in each speaking in the context of our current conversation with the LORD.

Psalms 66
2 Sing forth the honor of his name: make his praise glorious.
3 Say unto God, How terrible are you in your works! through the greatness of your power shall your enemies submit themselves unto you.
4 All the earth shall worship you, and shall sing unto you; they shall sing to your name. Selah.
5 Come and see the works of God: he is terrible in his doing toward the children of men.
6 He turned the sea into dry land: they went through the flood on foot: there did we rejoice in him.
7 He rules by his power forever; his eyes behold the nations: let not the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah.

Friends, those walking with me as the LORD alive in me leads, knowing the time, get out in front leading to His declared sabbath. As its time moves closer, the world will understand its great need for Him. This Day isn’t of His coming. He is here and has been (always). It’s our declaring He is alive, and that we have seen Him alive (in the flesh of those keeping His word: His commands). I boldly say He’s called us to declare and honor this Day (11 May 2024) of the LORD. I Am, on that day, as He’s commanded, closing all my business and will not buy and sell with those who bear the mark of the earth’s ruin: worshiping the devils, men as idols, in power over all the world.

Don’t expect many to follow, as in the days of Noah and Lot. What is going to happen on that Day? I have no idea. I follow His commands.

Ezekiel 5
5 Thus says the LORD God; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her.
6 And she has changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that are round about her: for they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they have not walked in them.
7 Therefore thus says the LORD God; Because you multiplied more than the nations that are round about you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my judgments, neither have done according to the judgments of the nations that are round about you;
8 Therefore thus says the LORD God; Behold, I, even I, am against you, and will execute judgments in the midst of you in the sight of the nations.
9 And I will do in you that which I have not done, and whereunto I will not do any more the like, because of all your abominations.

Isaiah 24
1 Behold, the LORD makes the earth empty, and makes it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.
2 And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him.
3 The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the LORD hath spoken this word.
4 The earth mourns and fadeth away, the world languishes and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.
5 The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.
6 Therefore has the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.

Genesis 18
31 And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the LORD: Peradventure there shall be twenty found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for twenty’s sake.
32 And he said, Oh let not the LORD be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for ten’s sake.

And only finding four:

Genesis 19
15 And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take your wife, and your two daughters, which are here; lest you be consumed in the iniquity of the city.
16 And while he lingered, the men [the LORD’s messengers: angels] laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the LORD being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the city.

Isaiah 66
5 Hear the word of the LORD, you that tremble at his word; Your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for my name’s sake, said, Let the LORD be glorified: but he [who is present always] shall appear [His glory seen in you] to your joy, and they shall be ashamed.
6 A voice of noise from the city [His risen people in who He dwells], a voice from the temple, a voice of the LORD that renders recompence to his enemies.
7 Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child.
8 Who has heard [shama’ – and obeyed] such a thing? who has [thereby] seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day [when this light has come]? or shall a [new] nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.
9 Shall I [‘aniy – Myself] bring to the birth [shabar – the breaking forth that brings the breaking in pieces of Babylon: the confusion of the insane and their delusions that now rule the world], and not cause to bring forth [children of this Rock]? says the LORD: shall I cause to bring forth, and shut the womb? says your God.

Amos 9
11 In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old:
12 That they may possess the remnant of Edom, and of all the heathen, which are called by my name, says the LORD that does this.
13 Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt.
14 And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them.
15 And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, says the LORD your God.

Psalms 8
A Psalm of David
1 O LORD [Jehovah], our LORD [‘adown – king], how excellent is your name in all the earth! who have set your glory above the heavens.
2 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings have you ordained strength because of your enemies, that you might still the enemy and the avenger.
3 When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon [civil government: kingdom government] and the stars [your enlightened people], which you have ordained [kuwn – set up: constituted];
4 What is man, that you are mindful of him? and the son of man, that you visit [paqad – manifest your presence as the Chief Overseer of the earth, to reset the right order of the world whose foundations are out of course] him?
5 For you have made him a little lower than the angels, and have crowned him with glory and honor.
6 You made him to have dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet:
7 All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;
8 The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passes through the paths of the seas.
9 O LORD [Jehovah] our LORD [‘adown – king], how excellent is your name in all the earth!

Psalms 82
A Psalm of Asaph [the gatherer]
1 God [‘elohiym – the LORD manifested in the flesh] stands in the congregation of the mighty; he judges among the gods [‘elohiym – those in whose flesh God wills to be manifested].
2 How long will [My servants who haven’t kept My word] you judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.
3 Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
4 Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked.
5 They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness [their own ignorance, by their own corruption]: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.
6 I have said, You are gods [‘elohiym – those in who the LORD wills to manifest His presence]; and all of you are children of the Most High [‘elyown – the God who is thought, Spirit, ONE GOD, who manifests Himself in the flesh].
7 But you shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes.
8 Arise, O God [‘elohiym – the LORD manifested in the flesh of His ONE gathered BODY, whose Thoughts, Mind, is One], judge the earth: for you shall inherit all nations.

January 29, 2024

Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus says the LORD God; Howl you, Woe worth the day! For the day is near, even the day of the LORD is near, a cloudy day; it shall be the time of the heathen.

23 – 28 January 2024

Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus says the LORD God; Howl you, Woe worth the day! For the day is near, even the day of the LORD is near, a cloudy day; it shall be the time of the heathen.

The above speaks spiritually, the LORD in it speaking to us today, this day (time of light returned) when understanding is sent from the cloud: the place where it (understanding) was held, reserved there in separated element (ideas in a state without cohesion). As we understand, it left the earth (making it without form and void) and (nature abhorring a vacuum) it was replaced with confusion (lacking sentience, uncertain about everything, due to the destruction of truthful discourse, the failure to recognize and accept reality and separate it from opinion: delusions) now turned into mass insanity among the spiritually wicked, tyrants in power (globalists likened to Pharoah, and the earth, under their reign, likened to Egypt).

In the passage above, Ezekiel 30:2 & 3, the LORD begins a dissertation on this topic, therein saying these wicked men are destroyed by following their own false prophets, whose words and ways, void of truth, rejecting reality, cause them to melt away in the fires of the hell they’ve created on the earth.

Ezekiel 30
6 Thus says the LORD; They also that uphold Egypt shall fall; and the pride of her power shall come down: from the tower of Syene [when they see this coming whirlwind, as the Red (sea) ready to overthrown them] shall they fall in it by the sword [this word from the mouth of the LORD, heard from His people], says the LORD God [‘Adonay Jehovih, the King of kings and LORD of lords].
7 And they shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate [under their reign], and her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are wasted [by their policy].
8 And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I have set a fire in Egypt, and when all her helpers shall be destroyed.
9 In that day shall messengers go forth from me in ships to make the careless Ethiopians [those covered in darkness: ignorance] afraid, and great pain shall come upon them, as in the day of Egypt: for, lo, it comes.
10 Thus says the LORD God; I will also make the multitude of Egypt to cease by the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon [the lies of their false prophets: the power, confusion, now ruling the world, of which the tyrants have lost control].
11 He and his [confused] people with him, the terrible of the nations, shall be brought to destroy the land: and they shall draw their swords [their words of confusion] against Egypt, and fill the land with the slain [the dead: all minds deluded by the information they consume, like poisoned waters].
12 And I will make the rivers [flowing their waters] dry, and sell the land into the hand of the wicked: and I will make the land waste, and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I the LORD have spoken it.

The word rendered “rivers” above, speaking of words that effect the people into which they flow, is y’or, meaning “of Egyptian origin; a channel, e.g. a fosse, canal, shaft; specifically the Nile, as the one river of Egypt, including its collateral trenches; also the Tigris, as the main river of Assyria:–brook, flood, river, stream.”

The first six times the word appears are in Genesis 41, describing Pharoah’s dream, which he didn’t understand, which caused the butler, the doorkeeper whose release (setting the prisoner free) Joseph foretold, saying his head would be lifted (his mind raised, re-cognize), to remember him (Joseph) in prison.

The next time this river (y’or) is mentioned is in Exodus 1:22, as the evil decree came from Pharoah to cast all the children of God’s people into it, to kill them (to destroy their God-fearing minds). It’s then used in the following chapter speaking of Moses (“a goodly child”) put into the same river (y’or) in an “ark,” from the only other (two) times the word tebah (Noah’s “Ark”) is used, here speaking of it as what kept him separated from the waters that killed all others.

The following, ending in Isaiah 8, are excerpts from the post of 5 January 2024:

Genesis 6
8 But Noah found grace [correction into righteousness] in the eyes of the LORD.
9 These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just [tsiddiyq] man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked [in accord, as commanded] with God.

22 Thus did Noah [not just hearing but also doing, making the ark over these many years, as a fool {in the eyes of the world} for the LORD’s sake]; according to all that God commanded him, so did he.

Genesis 7
1 And the LORD said unto Noah, Come you and all your house into the ark; for you have I seen righteous [tsiddiyq] before me [paniym – clothing you by My manifested presence] in this generation.

The word “ark” in Genesis is the word tebah, which is said to perhaps be of foreign derivation, meaning a box. It is a shortened form of the words tabuwn (tbuwnah or towbunah) meaning an intelligent argument, and tbuwcah, meaning “treading down, i.e. ruin.” These words describe what the LORD was building through Noah over many years, by which he (and seven others of God’s saved family) entered (the LORD’s presence) the place of sanctuary, by which they were saved from the flood that took all others away (as the LORD tells us in Matthew 24 above, now happens to many).

The only time tbuwcah appears, it tells of the “destruction” of Ahaziah, meaning those Jehovah has seized (taken away). This tbuwcah is said to “come” (from the word bow, the same used to tell of Noah and his family “entering” the ark) from God by Joram (Jehovah exalted – His word above all others in the minds of those He thereby saves).

Isaiah 8
13 Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.
14 And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offense to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
15 And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.
16 Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.
17 And I will wait upon the LORD, that hides his face [presence] from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.
18 Behold, I and the children whom the LORD has given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, which dwells in mount Zion.
19 And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits [the voices of the known dead, speaking the ways of death], and unto wizards [the “experts” of this corrupt world] that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? [Should they be looking] for the living to the dead?
20 [Or should they be looking] To the law and to the testimony [these treasures?]: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light [understanding] in them.

Hebrews 11
22 By faith Joseph, when he died, made mention of the departing of the children of Israel; and gave commandment [entellomai] concerning his bones.
23 By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months of his parents, because they saw he was a proper child; and they were not afraid of the king’s commandment.
24 By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter;
25 Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;
26 Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward.
27 By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.
28 Through faith he kept the Passover, and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed the firstborn should touch them.
29 By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry land: which the Egyptians assaying to do were drowned.

The word rendered “goodly” (towb – learned to choose “good” and refuse evil) in Exodus 2:2, is above in verse 23 rendered “proper,” from the twice used Greek word asteios, meaning “from astu (a city); urbane, i.e. (by implication [presumed from its use]) handsome.” The idea alluded to in this description is a city as where people are “not spread” (a stroo), as in those of like mind, friends joined (organized and arranged) in one place (people choosing good, into the LORD’s city, which we know is the ONE BODY of Christ in which God the Father dwells).

Acts 7
17 But when the time of the promise drew nigh, which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,
18 Till another king arose, which knew not Joseph.
19 The same dealt subtly with [katasophizomai – only used here, meaning to circumvent: the deception of devils: misleading, with fallen wisdom that destroys minds] our kindred, and evil entreated our fathers, so that they cast out [from the city of God into darkness] their young children, to the end they might not live.
20 In which time Moses [drawn from the waters below, the rivers of Egypt] was born, and was exceeding fair [asteios – learned to refuse evil: refuse the subtle misleading, and choose good], and nourished up in his father’s house three months:
21 And when he was cast out, Pharaoh’s daughter took him up, and nourished him for her own son.
22 And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians [learning their ways and ideas, and forgetting the LORD he learned of as a child], and was mighty in words and in deeds.
23 And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart [mind] to visit his brethren the children of Israel.
24 And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him that was oppressed, and smote the Egyptian:
25 For he supposed his brethren would have understood how that God by his hand would deliver them: but they understood not.
26 And the next day he showed himself unto them as they strove, and would have set them at one again, saying, Sirs, you are brethren; why do you wrong one to another?
27 But he that did his neighbor wrong thrust him away, saying, Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?
28 Will you kill me, as you did the Egyptian yesterday?
29 Then fled Moses at this saying, and was a stranger in the land of Midian, where he begat two sons.
30 And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sinai an angel of the LORD in a flame of fire in a bush.
31 When Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight: and as he drew near to behold it, the voice of the LORD came unto him,
32 Saying, I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Then Moses trembled, and dare not behold [his mind being shaken, he didn’t perceive it was the LORD’s presence working in him, correcting him back to the things he learned and forgot].
33 Then said the LORD to him, Put off your shoes from your feet: for the place where you stand is holy ground.
34 I have seen, I have seen the affliction of my people which is in Egypt, and I have heard their groaning, and am come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send you into Egypt.
35 This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made you a ruler and a judge? the same did God send to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel which appeared to him in the bush.
36 He brought them out, after that he had shown wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.
37 This is that Moses, which said unto the children of Israel, A prophet shall the LORD your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall you hear.
38 This is he [the Rock who is Christ], that was in the church [ekklesia – through calling, those called out from among those misleading them] in the wilderness [desolation cause by following misleaders and their foreign ways] with the angel [the manifestation of God’s presence in His message] which spoke to him in the mount Sinai [against the thorns, the misleader among them in power, who only know the ways of Egypt], and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles [this same word from the mouth of the LORD] to give unto us [to be received and given]:
39 To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt,
40 Saying unto Aaron [those given this light, to give it as received], Make us gods [men as idols who put themselves in God’s place] to go before us: for as for this Moses, which brought us out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.
41 And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.
42 Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as [in like manner] it is written in the book of the prophets [see Amos 5:26 & 27 below], O you house of Israel, have you offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness?
43 Yea, you took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which you made to worship them: and I will carry you away beyond Babylon [in Amos it is Damascus, when the work is silenced and the people become drunken in tears; here, when men become idols put in God’s place, after confusion {beyond Babylon} caused in Damascus becomes the now mass delusion that rules the world].
44 Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness, as he had appointed, speaking unto Moses, that he should make it according to the fashion that he had seen.
45 Which also our fathers that came after brought in with Jesus [Joshua – the perpetual son] into the possession of the Gentiles, whom God drove out before the face of our fathers, unto the days of David;
46 Who found favor before God, and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.
47 But Solomon built him a house.
48 Howbeit the Most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands [His temple is His family, His ONE BODY, His city, New Heavenly Jerusalem, in which He dwells]; as says the prophet [in Isaiah 66:1 & 2],
49 Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool: what house will you build me? says the LORD: or what is the place of my rest?
50 Has not my hand made all these things?
51 You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart [your minds still covered in flesh] and ears, you do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do you.
52 Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which showed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom you have been now the betrayers and murderers:
53 Who have received the law by the disposition of angels [God’s ordained ambassadors], and have not kept it.

The word above rendered “disposition” is the twice-used Greek word diatage, meaning “arrangement, i.e. institution,” speaking of the lively oracles: this rightly divided word from the mouth of the LORD alive in me.

Romans 13
1 Let every soul be subject [hupotasso – subordinate] unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained [tasso, meaning “to arrange in an orderly manner, i.e. assign or dispose (to a certain position or lot)”] of God.
2 Whosoever therefore resists [antitassomai] the power [God has arranged and instituted], resists [anthistemi – stand against] the ordinance [diatage] of God: and they that resist [anthistemi – stand against] shall receive to themselves damnation.
3 For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Will you then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and you shall have praise of the same:
4 For he is the minister of God to you for good. But if you do that which is evil, be afraid; for he bears not the sword [this word of God against evil] in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that does evil.
5 Wherefore you must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for [the correction of the] conscience sake.
6 For for this cause pay you tribute also: for they are God’s ministers, attending continually upon this very thing.
7 Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honor to whom honor.
8 Owe no man any thing [be not influenced when you are given what is due you], but [owe] to love one another [to give as you’ve been given]: for he that loves another has fulfilled the law.
9 For this, You shall not commit adultery, You shall not kill, You shall not steal, You shall not bear false witness, You shall not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
10 Love works no ill to his neighbor: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law [the spirit therein, which is to produce sustainable peace and security, between men and nations].
11 And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of [death’s] sleep: for now is our salvation nearer [egguteron – only used here, from the word eggus, which we saw in the previous post, rendered “at hand”] than when we believed [now receiving what we hoped for, faithfully waiting for this expected end].
12 The night [time of ignorance] is far spent, the day [light, understanding, life] is at hand [eggizo]: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness [ignorance], and let us put on the armor of light [this full understanding that protects us from the works of devils].
13 Let us walk honestly, as in the day [this time when light has come]; not in rioting and drunkenness [with stupefied minds], not in chambering and wantonness [not sleeping until the bed is defiled], not in strife and envying.
14 But put you on the LORD Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.

Amos 5
1 Hear you this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel.
2 The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her land; there is none to raise her up.
3 For thus says the LORD God; The city that went out by a thousand shall leave a hundred, and that which went forth by a hundred shall leave ten, to the house of Israel.
4 For thus says the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek you me, and you shall live:
5 But seek not Bethel [the house of God, where idols sit in His place preaching and teaching their own words and ways], nor enter into Gilgal [where the waters are always agitated and boiling], and pass not to Beersheba [the seven wells: the churches where the word of God is corrupted]: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to naught.
6 Seek the LORD, and you shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph [Ephraim, God’s people in this generation], and devour it, and there be none to quench it in Bethel.
7 You who turn [changed] judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,
8 Seek him that makes the seven stars and Orion [kciyl – giving light again to the foolish], and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night [by revealing the ignorance of all humanity]: that calls for the waters of the sea [this word to be sent to them all, for they are all in need], and pour them out upon the face of [all humanity now present on] the earth: The LORD is his name:
9 That strengthens the spoiled [with His wisdom and understanding] against the strong [the tyrants in power], so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress [the strongholds of the wicked: deceptions that induce confusion and ignorance, which have now turned into the mass insanity of those hearing and obeying them].
10 They hate him that rebukes in the gate [between heaven and hell], and they abhor him that speaks uprightly.
11 Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor [those without power], and you take from him burdens of wheat: you have built houses of hewn stones [defiled by what you’ve chipped away], but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink wine of them.
12 For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe [I see you Brandon], and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.
13 Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time [not speaking your own words and ways, the corrupt elements {stoicheion} of the world they made without form and void, which melt way in the fires these same corrupt words and ways have caused]; for it is an evil time.
14 Seek good, and not evil, that you may live: and so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as you have spoken [when your mouths are opened speaking His word the world needs].
15 Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.
16 Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the LORD, says thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman [the keepers of the earth, those who’ve diligently sought the LORD] to mourning, and such as are skillful of lamentation to wailing.
17 And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will pass through you, says the LORD.
18 Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness [a time {of the heathen} when all are ignorant of Him], and not light.
19 As if a man did flee from a lion [those devouring them], and a bear met him [to others that devour them]; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall [trusted in the protection therein promised], and a serpent bit him [the venomous words there misled them into death].
20 Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?
21 I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.
22 Though you offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts.
23 Take you away from me the noise of your songs [your corrupt words you repeat with those misleading you]; for I will not hear the melody of your viols.
24 But let [this] judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
25 Have you offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years [now wandering without understanding], O house of Israel?
26 But you have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch [your king] and Chiun [the pillars of your communities] your images, the star [the men saying they have light] of your god [false gods of darkness], which you made to yourselves [exalting them over you].
27 Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, says the LORD, whose name is The God of hosts [the commander of the army of light].

Isaiah 66
1 Thus says the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that you build unto me? and where is the place of my rest?
2 For all those things has my hand made, and all those things have been, says the LORD: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembles at my word.
3 [In this time when all religion is corrupt] He that kills an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrifices a lamb, as if he cut off a dog’s neck; he that offers an oblation, as if he offered swine’s blood; he that burns incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delight in their abominations.
4 I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spoke, they did not hear [shama’ – obey]: but they did evil before my eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not.
5 Hear [shama’ – obey] the word of the LORD, you that tremble at his word; Your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for my name’s sake, said, Let the LORD be glorified: but he shall appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed.
6 A voice of noise from the city [Heavenly New Jerusalem], a voice from the temple [My ONE BODY in which I dwell], a voice of the LORD that renders recompense [a deserved repayment] to his enemies.
7 Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child.
8 Who has heard [shama’ – and obeyed] such a thing? who has [thereby] seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day [when this light has come]? or shall a [new] nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.
9 Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? says the LORD: shall I cause to bring forth, and shut the womb? says your God.
10 Rejoice you with [New Heavenly] Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all you that love her: rejoice for joy with her, all you that mourn for her:
11 That you may suck, and be satisfied with the breasts of her consolations; that you may milk out, and be delighted with the abundance of her glory.
12 For thus says the LORD, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream: then shall you suck, you shall be borne upon her sides, and be dandled upon her knees.
13 As one whom his mother comforts, so will I comfort you; and you shall be comforted in [led into all truth, into New Heavenly] Jerusalem.
14 And when you see this, your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish like an herb: and the hand of the LORD shall be known toward his servants, and his indignation toward his enemies.
15 For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind [from where His voice is heard changing the face of the earth], to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire [in the word from His mouth heard from His people when their obedience is perfected].
16 For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many.
17 They [now when all religion is corrupted] that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine’s flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, says the LORD.
18 For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will gather all nations [who haven’t known Me] and tongues [speaking corruption]; and they shall come, and [every eye shall] see my glory.
19 And I will set a sign [‘owth] among them, and I will send those that escape [paliyt – escape death and darkness, removing doubt] of them unto the nations [who haven’t know Me], to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, that draw the bow, to Tubal, and Javan, to the isles afar off [rachowq – this time when the world is blinded, dumb, and ruled by evil decree], that have not heard [shama’ – or obeyed] my fame [shema’ – this report], [therefore they] neither have seen my glory; and they shall declare [My people in whose mind I have written this word] my glory among the Gentiles.
20 And they shall bring all your brethren for an offering unto the LORD out of all nations upon horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and upon mules, and upon swift beasts, to my holy mountain [New Heavenly] Jerusalem, says the LORD, as the children of Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel into the house of the LORD.
21 And I will also take of them for priests and for Levites, says the LORD.
22 For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, says the LORD, so shall your seed and your name remain.
23 And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, says the LORD.
24 And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcasses of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm [their animated dead flesh] shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh.

The word rendered “new,” twice in verse 22 above, speaking of heaven and earth, is the Hebrew word chadash. Its meaning comes from an (almost) identical ten-times used word, meaning “to be new; causatively, to rebuild:–renew, repair.”

In examining these words’ uses, we understand the first speaks of macro thought (popular prejudice – the foundational beliefs: the conscience of a society) changing (the allasso which all must undergo, as in wilderness after the exodus). The latter speaks more of how it’s repaired after corrupting over time.

Above, in verse 23, a similar word, chodesh is used twice, speaking of the others (chadash) occurring, rendered “from one new moon to another.” As we know, the moon represents civil government, which is here in its cycle from darkness into full light and back to darkness again.

It’s at this point of darkness, as in Genesis when the cycle began, when God caused (by speaking) light to come into being as He moved on the darkened waters (the darkened deep that was then present). The verse then says it’s from one sabbath to another, from the word shabbath twice, which we know is when the LORD visits (paqad and pquddah, as the Chief Overseer of the earth), to interrupt man’s work, to teach and correct us back onto course, here speaking of it in the most macro sense, to change the mind of the world away from (the sickness of) insanity to rational (normal), thereby creating heaven and earth new again.

The verse then says, speaking of after all flesh undergoes this change, when humanity’s collective good conscience is restored, all shall come “worship before Him,” from the words shachah paniym, meaning we, realizing we are in His presence, humble ourselves (subordinate our will to His, completing the change).

Exodus 20
1 And God spoke all these words, saying,
2 I am the LORD your God, which have brought you out of the land of Egypt [and now again out of the current darkness under tyrants], out of the house of bondage.
3 You shall have no other gods before me.
4 You shall not make unto you any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth [as its foundation, the words of men exalted above God’s].
5 You shall not bow down [shachah] yourself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting [paqad] the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
7 You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain [saying I said when I haven’t]; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that takes his name in vain [attributing to Him the worthless creations of men] .
8 Remember the sabbath [when I interrupt for correction] day, to keep it holy.
9 Six days shall you labor, and do all your work:
10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD your God: in it you shall not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your manservant, nor your maidservant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger that is within your gates:
11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth [‘erets], the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
12 Honor your father and your mother: that your days may be long upon the land [‘adamah – as My people I’ve created] which the LORD your God gives you.
13 You shall not kill.
14 You shall not commit adultery.
15 You shall not steal.
16 You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
17 You shall not covet your neighbor’s house, you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is your neighbor’s.
18 And all the people saw the thundering [of this voice of the LORD], and the lightning [giving us this understanding], and the noise of the trumpet [His voice from Moses, calling all to hear him], and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off [‘amad rachowq – standing in this later day when the world is ruled by the evil decrees of wicked men, and the LORD is calling all to hear His words from my flesh].
19 And they said unto Moses, Speak you with us, and we will hear [shama’ – obey]: but let not God speak with us, lest we die.
20 And Moses said unto the people, Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces [paniym – in His presence], that you sin not.
21 And the people stood afar off [‘amad rachowq], and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness [‘araphel] where God was.
22 And the LORD said unto Moses [as He says to me here and now], Thus you shall say unto the children of Israel, You have seen that I have talked with you from heaven [from there giving you this understanding].
23 You shall not make with me gods of silver, neither shall you make unto you gods of gold.
24 An altar of earth [‘adamah – My people I’ve created] you shall make unto me, and shall sacrifice thereon your burnt offerings, and your peace offerings, your sheep, and your oxen [the meat that strengthens, tried in the fires, which brings understanding]: in all places where I record my name [pressing it into the earth as MY seal] I will come unto you, and I will bless you.
25 And if you will make me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of hewn stone [chipping away part of my spoken word to make it fit what you will to create]: for if you lift up your tool upon it, you have polluted [corrupted] it.
26 Neither shall you go up by steps [exalting yourself, rising upon hewn stones] unto my altar, that your nakedness [revealing your flesh that should be covered by the LORD’s righteousness] be not discovered thereon.

The word ‘araphel, the “thick darkness” where God is, is used in the passages below, as are the words chadash, telling us it is from there, by His voice, He creates us and brings us to life again.

Job 38
4 Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth [the last time as I have now again]? declare, if you have understanding.
5 Who has laid the measures thereof, if you know? or who has stretched the line upon it?
6 Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;
7 When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
8 Or who shut up the sea [humanity] with doors, when it brake forth [with its own ways and ideas], as if it had issued out of the womb [thinking to create themselves into something they made in the own evil image]?
9 When I made the cloud [the earth without the understanding held their] the garment thereof, and thick darkness [‘araphel – their ignorance and confusion their ways create, when, unknown to them, I Am] a swaddling-band [protecting them from themselves] for it,
10 And [by their own doing] brake up for it my decreed [choq – this appointed time and] place, and set bars and doors [holding them in the hell they created],
11 And said, Hitherto shall you come, but no further: and here shall your proud waves be stayed [shiyth – made to end, at the beginning by my word established]?
12 Have you commanded the morning [this sun to rise upon all] since your days; and caused the dayspring [shachar – dawn] to know his place;
13 That it might take hold of the ends [ending the old age and beginning the new] of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it?
14 It is turned as clay to the seal [this is My signature pressed into the earth]; and they stand as a garment [the covering of My flesh Body].
15 And from the wicked their light [understanding] is withholden, and the high arm shall be broken.
16 Have you entered into the springs of the sea? or have you walked in the search of the depth?
17 Have the gates of death [and hell] been opened unto you? or have you seen the doors of the shadow of death?
18 Have you perceived the breadth [start to finish] of the earth? declare if you know it all.
19 Where is the way where light dwelleth [it is with God alone]? and as for darkness, where is the place thereof [which is in the earth that’s rejected Him],
20 That you shouldest take it to the bound thereof [now, when every eye sees the result of following the wicked into debilitating and dysfunctional insanity], and that you should know the paths [followed] to the house thereof?
21 Know you it, because you were then born? or because the number of your days is great?
22 Have you entered into the treasures of the snow? or have you seen the treasures of the hail [the LORD’s understanding frozen in heaven, there reserved until it’s now sent, both as purity and against the current corrupt crop of the wicked in power],
23 Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and [My just] war?
24 By what way is the light parted [into these many colors, showing the sign that I have not come to destroy, as men have, but to save, rescue the willing, from their destruction], which scatters the east wind [My Almighty Spirit working to change the minds of man] upon the earth?
25 Who has divided a watercourse [revealing, in the experience, what man’s words and ways of ignorance produce] for the overflowing of waters, or a way for the lightning of thunder [My voice heard as the sound of understanding from the cloud];
26 To cause it to rain [My word from heaven] on the earth, where no man is; on the wilderness, wherein there is no [living] man;
27 To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender herb [as on the third day] to spring forth?
28 Has the rain a father? or who has begotten the drops of dew?
29 Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who has gendered it [brought if forth in a known form from its progenitor]?
30 The waters are hid as with a stone [in me, hidden in my flesh, from where His voice flows], and the face of [paniym – manifesting the LORD’s presence, revealing] the deep [that] is frozen.
31 Can you bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?
32 Can you bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or can you guide Arcturus with his sons? [now, when God’s people have become as many at the stars of heaven He’s awakened, as He promised]
33 Know you the ordinances [chuqqah – the limit ordained and appointed] of heaven? can you set the dominion thereof in [by unbreakable decree, ruling] the earth?
34 Can you lift up your voice to the clouds [where My understanding is held], that abundance of waters [My words] may cover you?
35 Can you send lightnings [understanding from there], that they may go and say unto you, Here we are [as they says in me, here I Am]?
36 Who has put [shiyth] wisdom in the inward parts? or who has given understanding to the heart?

Ezekiel 34
11 For thus says the LORD God; Behold, I, even I, will both search my sheep, and seek them out.
12 As a shepherd seeks out his flock in the day that he is 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 and dark day [‘araphel].

Zephaniah 1
14 The great day of the LORD is near, it is near, and hastes greatly, even the voice of the day of the LORD: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly.
15 That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble [tsarah – tribulation] and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness [‘araphel],
16 A day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities, and against the high towers.
17 And I will bring distress upon men, that they shall walk like blind men, because they have sinned against the LORD: and their blood shall be poured out as dust, and their flesh as the dung.
18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD’s wrath; but the whole land [‘erets – the earth] shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land [‘erets – the earth] .

2 Samuel 22
7 In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried to my God: and he did hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry did enter into his ears.
8 Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations of heaven moved and shook, because he was wroth.
9 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
10 He bowed the heavens also, and came down; and darkness [‘araphel] was under his feet.
11 And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: and he was seen upon the wings of the wind.
12 And he made darkness pavilions round about him, dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies.
13 Through the brightness before him were coals of fire kindled.
14 The LORD thundered from heaven, and the Most High uttered his voice.
15 And he sent out arrows, and scattered them; lightning, and discomfited them.
16 And the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the world were discovered, at the rebuking of the LORD, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.
17 He sent from above, he took me; he drew me out of many waters;
18 He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them that hated me: for they were too strong for me.

Psalms 51
10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew [chadash] a right spirit within me.
11 Cast me not away from your presence; and take not your holy spirit from me.
12 Restore unto me the joy of your salvation; and uphold me with your free spirit.
13 Then will I teach transgressors your ways; and sinners shall be converted unto you.

Psalms 103
2 Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:
3 Who forgives all your iniquities; who heals all your diseases;
4 Who redeems your life from destruction; who crowns you with lovingkindness and tender mercies;
5 Who satisfies your mouth with good things; so that your youth is renewed [‘chadash] like the eagle’s [learning strength to rise into heaven].
6 The LORD executes righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed.

Psalms 104
27 These wait all upon you; that you mayest give them their meat [this understanding that strengthens] in due season.
28 That you give them they gather: you open your hand, they are filled with good.
29 You hide your face [paniym – presence], they are troubled: you takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.
30 You send forth your spirit, they are created: and you renew [chadash] the face of the earth [paniym ‘adamah – your presence with and in Your people].
31 The glory of the LORD shall endure forever: the LORD shall rejoice in his works.
32 He looks on the earth, and it trembles: he touches the hills, and they smoke.
33 I will sing unto the LORD as long as [when] I live: I will sing praise to my God while I have my being [‘owd – when in the resurrection I remain after the flood].

The word chadash first appears in Exodus 1:8, speaking of the change away from God and into the destruction of right minds taken into darkness and affliction.

Exodus 8
7 And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them.
8 Now there arose up a new [chadash] king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph.
9 And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we:
10 Come on, let us deal wisely with them [corrupting their minds]; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falls out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out [‘alah] of the land [and they be lifted out of oppression].

The above is preceded by the falling away, cryptically described by Jacob in Genesis 49, led by Rueben, the pattern of the son of perdition, unstable as water, who wouldn’t remain (excel) in these last days after this flood (a chapter explained in great detail in many other posts).

The pattern, the sequence of events, begins with God’s people following the head of house through whom God leads, the people prosper even if surrounded by the ungodly going their own way. Then enters those putting themselves in God’s place, and chipping away the stone, adding their erroneous interpretation to exalt themselves, and the people following, trusting in those sitting in these position, begin a fall away from (God and His truth) as if endlessly descending in a bottomless pit. Along this way (fall), in step the ungodly in our mist (beginning demagogues and ending tyrants), stirring the people who’ve followed them and, thereby, haven’t flourished. They (those following these would-be tyrants) then, envying our prosperity (Jeshurun, a nation waxed fat under God), (led into) accusing us of possessing what they (falsely) claim they have right to (as communists cover to steal what isn’t theirs, by force of law), (inspirited by covetousness) are stirred against us (as they again now have).

Deuteronomy 32
12 So the LORD alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.
13 He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the Rock, and oil out of the flinty Rock [those through which God led them];
14 Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and you did drink the pure blood of the grape.
15 But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: you are waxen fat, you are grown thick, you are covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock [from which Gods word flows] of his salvation.
16 They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.
17 They sacrificed unto devils [misleaders who put themselves in God’s place] not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new [chadash] gods that came newly up [changing your minds into darkness], whom your fathers feared not.
18 Of the Rock that begat you you are unmindful, and have forgotten God that formed you.
19 And when the LORD saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.
20 And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be [‘achariyth – until these last days when the fall has had its full effect]: for they are a very froward generation [who have twisted and perverted truth and judgment: justice], children in whom is no faith.

As we know, the Rock spoken of above, is the one Daniel sees cut from the mountain without man’s hand, and coming against the darkness that now rules the world in these last days of darkness.

Daniel 2
27 Daniel answered [the LORD in him speaking, manifesting Himself] in the presence of the king, and said, The secret [of this end] which the king has demanded cannot the wise men, the astrologers, the magicians, the soothsayers, [none of which, stones cut and defiled by man’s hands, in this fully corrupt and confused world, know this time, or can] show [it] unto the king;
28 But there is a God in heaven that reveal secrets, and makes known to the king Nebuchadnezzar [the lies of all these false prophets and false wise men, that now rule the world they led into insanity] what shall be in the latter days [‘achariyth – the only time the Aramaic form of the word is used]. Your dream, and the visions [seeing but not comprehend it is the last days] of your head [ruling] upon your bed [sleeping in death with the dead], are these;
29 As for you, O king, your thoughts came into your mind upon your bed, what should come to pass hereafter [‘achar]: and he that reveals secrets makes known to you what shall come to pass.
30 But as for me, this secret is not revealed to me for any wisdom that I have more than any living [I know nothing by my own mind], but for their sakes [the prisoners held in death‘s sleep by the endless babble of the ignorant in power, who the world listens to] that shall [the LORD in me, my Father who alone Knows This day – ask them they’ll tell they don’t know this is the day, and they then contradict themselves say it isn’t today, by which they prove they are the blind who are unable to see] make known the interpretation to the king [all these blind false speakers, not knowing today is the day of salvation, who exalt their words above this word from the Only One who does know], and that you might know the thoughts of your heart [are corrupt, without understanding].
31 You, O king, saw, and behold a great image. This great image [the kingdoms of the world], whose brightness was excellent, stood before you; and the form thereof was terrible.
32 This image’s head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass,
33 His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay [defiling its foundation, and all standing upon it].
34 You saw till that a stone [I Am] was cut out without hands [of men, but sent by God, from His throne], which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces.
35 Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the [worthless] chaff of the summer threshing-floors [to be blown away by the Spirit of the Almighty]; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them [ending the old and corrupt heaven and earth]: and the stone that smote the image [with the light that begin the new, wherein dwells righteousness] became a great mountain, and filled the whole [new] earth.
36 This is the dream; and we will tell the interpretation thereof before the king.
37 You, O king, are a king of kings [the understanding, right interpretation of the law, that rules in the mind of all the power of this world]: for the God of heaven has given you a kingdom, power, and strength, and glory.
38 And wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the heaven has he given into your hand, and has made you ruler over them all. You are this head of gold.
39 And after you [as understanding degenerates when men put themselves in God’s place, changing law, times, and minds] shall arise another kingdom inferior to you, and another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth.
40 And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron breaks in pieces and subdues all things: and as iron that breaks all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise.
41 And whereas you saw the feet and toes, part of potters’ clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as you saw the iron mixed with miry clay.
42 And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken [tbar, an Aramaic word, only used here, corresponding to the Hebrew word shabar, meaning what breaks it, as in bringing the new birth].
43 And whereas you saw iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.
44 And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.
45 Forasmuch as you saw that the stone [Christ] was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God has made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter [‘achar – this end]: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.

For those who’ve reached the point, diligently searching with me, find here (in the uses of the word shabar) the LORD’s (in plain sight) hidden treasures: understanding what ends, breaks in pieces the powers of darkness.

Isaiah 66
7 Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child.
8 Who has heard [shama’ – and obeyed] such a thing? who has [thereby] seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day [when this light has come]? or shall a [new] nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.
9 Shall I [‘aniy – Myself] bring to the birth [shabar], and not cause to bring forth [children of this Rock]? says the LORD: shall I cause to bring forth, and shut the womb? says your God.

Is anything too hard for the LORD God Almighty?

Genesis 18
14 Is any thing too hard for the LORD? At the time appointed [mow’ed – the time, and times of Daniel 12:7, I will return unto you, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.

17 And the LORD said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do;
18 Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
19 For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he has spoken of him.

Luke 19
37 And when he was come nigh, even now at the descent of the mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works that they had seen;
38 Saying, Blessed be the King that comes in the name of the LORD: peace in heaven, and glory in the highest.
39 And some of the Pharisees [the religious hypocrites and all the modern self-called wise men, who’ve scattered the stones so none are joined to another, forbidding them to speaks with this ONE MIND, and rise in My ONE BODY] from among the multitude said unto him, Master, rebuke your disciples.
40 And he answered and said unto them, I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones [of verse 44] would immediately cry out.
41 And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it,
42 Saying, If you had known, even you, at least in this your day, the things which belong unto your peace! but now they are hid from your eyes.
43 For the days shall come upon you, that your enemies shall cast a trench about you, and compass you round, and keep you in on every side,
44 And shall lay you even with the ground, and your children within you; and they shall not leave in you one stone upon another; because you [following the blind Pharisees] knew not the time of your visitation [episkope, the Greek equivalent of the Hebrew word paqad, meaning they know not this time when the LORD has come as the Chief Overseer of the earth, to end the darkness and give sight to the blind].

Psalms 102
12 But you, O LORD, shall endure for ever; and your remembrance unto all generations.
13 You shall arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favor her, yea, the set time [mow’ed], is come.
14 For your servants take pleasure in her stones, and favor the dust thereof.
15 So the heathen shall fear the name of the LORD, and all the kings of the earth your glory.
16 When the LORD shall build up Zion, he shall appear in his glory.
17 He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer.
18 This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be created shall praise the LORD.
19 For he has looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from heaven did the LORD behold the earth;
20 To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death;
21 To declare the name of the LORD in Zion, and his praise in Jerusalem;
22 When the people are gathered together, and the kingdoms, to serve the LORD.

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

Psalms 124
1 If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, now may Israel say;
2 If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when 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 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.
7 Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken [shabar], and we are escaped.
8 Our help is in the name of the LORD, who [once again] made heaven and earth.

January 22, 2024

Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever

18 – 21 January 2024

Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever.

The above, Hebrews 13:8, is the conclusion each one of God’s people must, intellectually and logically, come to, after a diligent search (investigation – investing time) into His word, themselves or by following in the footsteps of one who has made such (investment) and meticulously documented their findings of fact.

This “bond” (the LORD’s charge and my vow to keep it) changes (allasso) all who follow me as I lead (under His authority) in the way of true liberty. This way is taking up His same cross: bearing the reproach that necessarily comes with declaring these things in His name, outside the corrupt houses where they worship idols men created, put in His place, and call by His name.

It is in this context all the following was and is written:

Hebrews 13
1 Let brotherly love [philadelphia] continue [meno, in the original text written as meneto – continue giving this word, in the conversation, manifesting the presence of Jehovah’s Salvation in the flesh {Jesus}, in the same manner spoken of in the following verses, as in verses 8 & 23, referring to “brother {adelphon in the original text} Timothy” as the one sent {to war with love, phil, in Christ fighting the good fight}, as soldier in bonds, on this mission, who will remain, meno, after all other have perished by not surrendering].
2 Be not forgetful to entertain strangers [those in whom the LORD unknown speaks to you]: for thereby some have entertained angels [His messengers] unawares.
3 Remember them that are in bonds [desmios – “prisoner of Jesus Christ”], as bound with them [in the same ONE BODY, with one mind, doing the same things]; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the [same ONE] body.
4 Marriage [joining into this ONE BODY of Christ, as One flesh, which is one of the mysteries revealed] is honorable [Timios] in all, and the bed undefiled [showing the opposite of the son of perdition, in the pattern of Reuben, who entered His father’s bed, putting himself in his father’s place, and thereby lost his birthright, or as Genesis 49:4 says, he will not “excel,” from the word yahthar, the Hebrew equivalent of meno, will not “remain” after the flood]: but whoremongers [who treat flesh as merchandise] and adulterers [who have left the LORD to follow other’s ways and ideas] God will judge.
5 Let your conversation [tropos – manner, way] be without covetousness [aphilarguros – not loving silver, as did Judas]; and be content with such things [that are present: the One who is always present with us, in us] as you have: for he has said, I will never leave you, nor forsake you.
6 So that we may boldly [tharrheo – exercising courage: not fearing the cross] say, The LORD is my helper [boethos, only appearing here, literally saying cry to God, meaning he is our means and manner of rescue: The escape], and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.
7 Remember [exercise your memory, as in all previous, to be mindful of them, as they relate to] them which have the rule over you [as the door keeper, the butler, was to remember Joseph, whose seed is our peace, Shiloh, the shepherd and stone who comes from prison to the throne, the prisoner who is our rescuer and escape], who have spoken unto you the word of God [which is your conversation with Him, manifesting His presence]: whose faith follow [follow me as I follow the One God with me, in me], considering [antheoreo – to look again, speaking of seeing the LORD after not seeing Him; only appearing elsewhere in Acts17:23, where it is rendered “behold”] the end [ekbasis – meaning by foot, only appearing elsewhere in 1 Corinthians 10:13, rendered “way of escape:” the way that ends the temptation, manifesting His presence, here in this word, to those who’ve walked away from those misleading them, and walk with Him, talking with Him, as did Abraham, as do all His friends] of their conversation [anastrophe].
8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever.
9 Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines [by which the world lost sight of the LORD with us]. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace [by this gift given as received, in conversing, communion, with Him]; not with meats [the works of dead flesh], which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.
10 We have an altar [an offering], whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle [the houses of corruption, the defiled institutions].
11 For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp.
12 Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate [leaving the corrupt city, here in hell where He is with us].
13 Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach [His cross].
14 For here have we no continuing [meno] city, but we seek one to come [wherein dwells righteousness: truth and justice].
15 By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise [repeating His word as received] to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.
16 But to do good and to communicate [this same word] forget not [remembering how, the manner, it is done, and doing]: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
17 Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account [assess the true condition thereof], that they may do it with joy, and not with grief [being despised and rejected]: for that is unprofitable for you.
18 Pray for [converse with God, asking about] us: for we trust we have a good conscience [and He will answer through us], in all things willing to live honestly.
19 But I [Christ alive in me] beseech you the rather to do this, that I may be restored to you [to your sight] the sooner.
20 Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our LORD Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,
21 Make you perfect in every good work to do his will [giving as He has given], working in you that which is well-pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.
22 And I beseech you, brethren, suffer the word of exhortation: for I have written a letter unto you in few words.
23 Know you that our brother [adelphos] Timothy is set at liberty; with whom, if he come shortly, I will see you.
24 Salute all them that have the rule over you, and all the saints. They of Italy salute you.
25 Grace be with you all. Amen.

The following, ending with 2 Corinthians 5, are excerpts from previous posts (as always, with additions in double brackets).

From the post of 29 June 2018:

Friends, those who have studied here for a while know Hebrews is written to introduce Timothy, the first outsider, into the New priesthood. It was written to the Hebrews who wanted to remain with the Levitical letter of the law instead of understanding the pattern it showed and was intended to achieve. Hebrews 13:23 tells of Timothy being set at “liberty,” from the seventy times used word apoluo (apolelumenon in the text), used the seventieth and last time here. It is the word used in the gospels to tell of Pilate having the power to “set free” the LORD from the sentence of death. Hebrews 13:23 is referring to Timothy as the one set free from the law by death (of the old nature and raised up in the order of Melchisedec,) as it is written in the final verses of Hebrews 9 above. [[Herberws 9:14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?]]

Friends, I say again, Christ is risen in me, by His own power (I am become who I am become), according to the scriptures.

Ezekiel 28
25 Thus says the LORD God; When I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the people among whom they are scattered, and shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the heathen, then shall they dwell in their land that I have given to my servant Jacob.
26 And they shall dwell safely therein, and shall build houses, and plant vineyards; yea, they shall dwell with confidence, when I have executed judgments upon all those that despise them round about them; and they shall know that I am the LORD their God.

From the post of 25 June 2023:

The word “liberty,” above in verse 23, is said to be apolou, a compound word literally translating, away (apo) loose (luo). But, in the original text, it is written as apolelumenon, which appears to be from the words apo (in the sense of completion), laleo (to utter – speak or preach), meno (to stay – the enduring things of God [[as in Hebrews 12, ending telling of the one speaking, whose voice is shaking heaven and earth, signifying “the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.”]]. These three words and their appearance in John 14 give us their enduring meaning.

John 14
10 Believe you not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak [laleo] unto you I speak [laleo] not of [apo – this completion isn’t from] myself: but the Father that dwells [meno] in me, he does the works. [Hebrews 13 tells us, in God’s language: Timothy is apo laleo meno]
11 Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works’ sake.
12 Truly, truly, I say unto you, He that believes on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.
13 And whatsoever you shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
14 If you shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.
15 If you love me, keep my commandments.
16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter [Paraclete], that he may abide [meno – endure] with you forever;
17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it sees him not, neither knows him: but you know him; for he dwells [meno] with you, and shall be in you.

Psalms 103
1 Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name.
2 Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:
3 Who forgives all your iniquities; who heals all your diseases;
4 Who redeems your life from destruction; who crowns you with lovingkindness and tender mercies;
5 Who satisfies your mouth [‘adiy] with good things; so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
6 The LORD executes righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed.
7 He made known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto the children of Israel.
8 The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.
9 He will not always chide: neither will he keep his anger forever.
10 He has not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.
11 For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him.
12 As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.
13 Like as a father pities his children, so the LORD pities them that fear him.
14 For he knows our frame; he remembers that we are dust.
15 As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourishes.
16 For the wind passes over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.
17 But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children’s children;
18 To such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his commandments to do them.
19 The LORD has prepared his throne in the heavens; and his kingdom rules over all.
20 Bless the LORD, you his angels [[His messengers He sends to give His message]], that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto [[shama’ – obeying]] the voice of his word.
21 Bless you the LORD, all you his hosts [[His fellow soldiers warring with His]]; you ministers of his [[speaking this word as His sword from His mouth]], that do his pleasure.
22 Bless the LORD, all his works in all places of his dominion [memshalah]: bless the LORD, O my soul.

From the post of 13 January 2024, speaking of my (our) position as an ambassador and soldier in “bonds.”

[[The word desmios (“bonds”) in Hebrews 13:3 above and halusis (“bonds”) in Ephesians 6:20 below speak of those inseparably captivated in Christ’s ONE BODY with Him, as His ambassadors in whom He is reconciling the world to Himself. The ONE GOD in me is ONE, there is no other, and He is no less Himself in any of those who are in Him, in His ONE BODY with me. This truth begs the question, do you wait for another? Therefore, those to whom He speaks, are you not in the presence of the LORD Jesus Christ at His coming? These words are His, written by His hand, and directly sent to you.
Galatians 1
8 But though we, or an angel {fallen, having left his first estate: not preaching this word from the mouth of God} from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.
9 As we said before, so say I now again, if any man preach any other gospel unto you than that you have received, let him be accursed.
10 For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
11 But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man.
12 For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.]]

Ephesians 6
12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
14 Stand, therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;
15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;
16 Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith you shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.
17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the [this] word of God:
18 Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints [those coming with this word against the ungodly];
19 And for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel [of Christ with us, in us],
20 For [huper – over, overseeing as He sees] which I am an ambassador [presbeuo] in bonds: that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

The word presbeuo only appears elsewhere in 2 Corinthians 5:20, where the above-mentioned “bond” is described.

2 Corinthians 5
19 To wit [hos – as it is], that God was in Christ, reconciling [katallasso – to change] the world unto himself [to see as He sees], not imputing their trespasses unto them; and has committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
20 Now then we are ambassadors [presbeuo] for [huper] Christ [Jehovah in us overseeing to give us His sight], as though [hos – as] God did beseech [parakaleo – Paraclete, leading into all truth] you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead [huper – as overseers seeing by His sight], be you reconciled [katallasso – changed] to [see as] God.
21 For he has made him to be sin [flesh lacking His understanding] for us [huper – to become our sight, overseeing], who knew no sin; that we might be made [become, by life, understanding, resurrected] the righteousness of God in him.

1 Peter 3
12 For the eyes of the LORD are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face [presence] of the LORD is against them that do evil.
13 And who is he that will harm you, if you be followers of that which is good?
14 But and if you suffer for righteousness’ sake, happy are you: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled;
15 But sanctify the LORD God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asks you a reason of the hope that is in you [which is the reason: the hope in me is Christ “that is in” me] with meekness and fear:
16 Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you [for declaring He is alive in you], as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ.
17 For it is better, if the will of God be so, that you suffer for well doing, than for evil doing [speaking words from some other origin, even in His name].
18 For Christ also has once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
19 By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison [those here in hell with me];
20 Which sometimes were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
21 The like figure [now as in the days of Noah] whereunto even baptism does also now save us ([this flood] not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the [flood of the] answer [declaring Christ is one God alive in you, and You are alive in Him, apparent when you speak according to this word] of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ [alive in us, who has quickened us to life from death, out of hell and into heaven with Him: in full understanding]:
22 Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject [hupotasso – under obedience, to subordinate] unto him.

The words “good conscience,” above in 1 Peter 3:16 & 21 and also in Hebrews 13:18, are the Greek words agathos (led by: following the alpha: putting God first, subordinating to Him), and suneidesis (and thereby having a co-perspective, seeing as He sees, which is His like mind, which is apparent in our “good conversation,” which is His resurrection from, in, our dead flesh).

These words, as used above, speak of Christ alive in us speaking for Himself, answering those questions, and when manifested, asking the question all must answer. The answer becomes self-evident to those who have faith, believing in ONE GOD. The question is, “Are you not in the presence of the LORD Jesus Christ at His coming?”

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 [athleo – competing voices in this war] for masteries [to be the alpha], yet is he not crowned, except he strives [athleo – wars, the word only appearing these two times] lawfully [nomimos, meaning according to the rules, the law, his commandments, speaking His truth].
6 The husbandman [the ruler of the house: the family] that labors must be first [the alpha] partaker of the fruits [by which the LORD in us is known].
7 Consider what I say; and the LORD give you [the fruit of] understanding in all things.
8 Remember that Jesus Christ of the seed of David was raised from the dead according to my gospel:
9 Wherein I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, even unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound [by it He sets at liberty who He wills].
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 [His manifested presence].
11 It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead with him [faithfully waiting for His resurrection to become apparent in us], 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 [meno – after the flood of words causing doubt, He will remain] faithful: he cannot deny himself.
14 Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the LORD that they strive not about words [logomacheo, meaning “to be disputatious (on trifles)”] to no profit, but to the subverting [katastrophe – meaning “an overturn (“catastrophe”), i.e. demolition; figuratively, apostasy,” only appearing elsewhere in 2 Peter 2:6, where it is the “overthrow” of Sodom and Gomorrah] of the hearers.
15 Study to show yourself approved unto God, a workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly dividing [and teaching] the word of truth.

2 Peter 2
1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily [secretly, from their own imaginations, create lies] shall bring in damnable [apoleia – that cause them and those who follow their ways to perish] heresies, even denying the LORD that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction [apoleia – perdition].
2 And many shall follow their pernicious [aploeia – the ways that lead to their own destruction] ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of [as it is this day].
3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned [fraudulent] words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingers not, and their damnation [apoleia – perishing, perdition] slumbers not [because they are awakened “to shame and everlasting contempt”].
4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;
5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
6 And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes condemned them with an overthrow [katasprophe], making them an example unto those that after should live ungodly;
7 And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:
8 (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)
9 The LORD knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations [the escape from doubting His presence], and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:
10 But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise [His righteous] government. Presumptuous are they [presuming they know when they don’t], self-willed [refusing to subordinate], they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities [doxa – His manifested glory, showing His approval].

1 Timothy 6
11 But you, O man of God [I Am], flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.
12 Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto you are also called, and have professed a good profession before many witnesses.
13 I give you charge in the sight of God, who quickens all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession;
14 That you keep this commandment without spot, unrebukable, until the appearing [in me] of our LORD Jesus Christ:
15 Which in his times he shall show, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and LORD of lords;
16 Who only has immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man has seen, nor can see: to whom be honor and power everlasting. Amen.

John 5
19 Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Truly, truly, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father do: for what things soever he does, these also does the Son likewise.
20 For the Father loves the Son, and shows him all things that himself does: and he will show him greater works than these, that you may marvel.
21 For as the Father raises up the dead, and quickens them [into life]; even so the Son quickens whom he will [into the escape from death and hell].
22 For the Father judges no man, but has committed all judgment unto the Son:
23 That all men should honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He that honors not the Son honors not the Father which has sent him.
24 Truly, truly, I say unto you, He that hears my word, and believes on him that sent me, has everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.
25 Truly, truly, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear [this voice as the voice of God, as it is] shall live.
26 For as the Father has life [light, understanding] in himself; so has he given to the Son to have life in himself;
27 And has given him [His] authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man.
28 Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves [here in hell] shall hear his voice,
29 And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.
30 I can of my own self do nothing: as I hear [from the Father alive in me], I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not my own will, but the will of the Father which has sent me.
31 If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true.
32 There is another that bears witness of me; and I know that the witness which he witness of me is true.

37 And the Father himself, which has sent me, has borne witness of me. You have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape.
38 And you have not his word abiding in you: for whom he has sent, him you believe not.
39 Search the scriptures; for in them you think you have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.
40 And you will not come to me, that you might have life.
41 I receive not honor [doxa – glory, approval] from men.
42 But I know you, that you have not the love of God in you.
43 I am come in my Father’s name, and you receive me not: if another shall comes in his own name, him you will receive.
44 How can you believe, which receive honor [doxa – glory, approval] one of another, and seek not the honor [doxa – glory, approval] that comes from God only?
45 Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one that accuse you, even Moses, in whom you trust.
46 For had you believed Moses, you would have believed me; for he wrote of me.
47 But if you believe not his writings, how shall you believe my words?

The LORD is above speaking of when Moses wrote of Him as the Rock from whom the word of God the Father flowed, as in Exodus 17, written about in Deuteronomy 32, of which Paul speaks in 1 Corinthians 10.

Exodus 17
6 Behold, I will stand before you there upon the Rock in Horeb [this time of desolation, knowing only the ways of the oppressors you’ve escaped]; and you shall smite the Rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.
7 And he called the name of the place Massah [temptation – doubting the LORD’s presence], and Meribah [strife and contention, warring with your word against His chosen], because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the LORD, saying, “Is the LORD among us, or not?”

Deuteronomy 32
1 Give ear, O you heavens [where understanding should be found], and I will speak; and hear [shama’ – obey], O earth, the words of my mouth.
2 My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb [bringing life again from the earth], and as the showers upon the grass:
3 Because I will publish the name of the LORD: ascribe you greatness unto our God.
4 He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
5 They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation.
6 Do you thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is not he your father that has bought you? has he not made you, and established you?
7 Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask your father, and he will show you; your elders, and they will tell you.

28 For they [the people of this generation] are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them.
29 O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end [‘achariyth – these last days of darkness]!
30 How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up?
31 For their rock [men in whose words they trust] is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.
32 For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter [their fruit is strife and contention, warring against me with their presumptuous words of ignorance]:
33 Their wine is the poison of dragons [tanniyn – as serpent and whales, with open mouth swallowing humanity into death and hell], and [their words are] the cruel venom of asps.
34 Is not this laid up in store [reserved in the cloud, to be sent in this time of war] with me, and sealed up among my treasures?
35 To me belongs vengeance and recompense; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste [in this quickening].

1 Corinthians 10
1 Moreover, brethren, I would not that you should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;
2 And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;
3 And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.
5 But with many of them 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, as they also lusted.
7 Neither be you idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.
8 Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
9 Neither let us tempt [doubt] Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.
10 Neither murmur you, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.
11 Now all these things happened unto them for examples: and they are written for [today] our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come [ending the old corrupt heaven and earth, beginning the new].
12 Wherefore let him that thinks [presumes] he stands take heed lest he fall.
13 There has no temptation [doubt] 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; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape [ekbasis – through walking away, the end of the conversation, Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever], that you may be able to bear it.
14 Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry [walk away from the devils misleading you].
15 I speak as to wise men; judge you what I say.
16 The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion [in this good conversation] of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?
17 For we being many are one bread, and ONE BODY: for we are all [here and now] partakers of that one bread.
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 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 here and now] sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, 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: you cannot be partakers of the LORD’s table, and of the table of devils.

Isaiah 52
10 The LORD has made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations [all who haven’t known Him]; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God [ending the old corrupt heaven and earth, beginning the new].
11 Depart you, depart you, go you out from thence [the old], touch no unclean thing; go you out of the midst of her; be you clean, that bear the [pure] vessels of the LORD.
12 For you shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for the LORD will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your reward.
13 Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high.
14 As many were astonied at you; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:
15 So shall he sprinkle many nations [with this word from the mouth of God, shaking heaven and earth]; the kings shall shut their mouths at him: for that which had not been told them shall they see; and that which they had not heard [shama’ – obeyed] shall they consider [biyn – understand].

Isaiah 53
1 Who has believed our report [shmuw’ah – shama’ Jehovah, who has heard and obeyed this word as the word of God, as it is]? and to whom [has heard and obeyed] is the arm of the LORD revealed?

1 Corinthians 4
15 For though you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have you not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you [as God’s children with His like mind] through the gospel.
16 Wherefore I beseech you, be you followers of me.
17 For this cause have I sent unto you Timothy, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the LORD, who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways which be in Christ, as I teach every where in every church.
18 Now some are puffed up, as though I would not come to you.
19 But I will come to you shortly, if the LORD will, and will know, not the speech of them which are puffed up, but the power.
20 For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.
21 What will you? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to show unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant Timothy: Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw. Blessed is he that hears His voice, and they that obey the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.

The above is from Revelation 1:1-3 and rewritten (spoken) to reflect today’s message.

Revelation 22
10 And he says unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand.
11 He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.
12 And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.
13 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.
14 Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
15 For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and makes a lie.
16 I Jesus have sent my angel [I Am: His messenger in whom He manifests His presence] to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.
17 And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that hears say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.
18 For I testify unto every man that hears the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:
19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.
20 He which testifies these things says, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, LORD Jesus.
21 The grace of our LORD Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.

The word above the LORD uses, telling us the time is “at hand,” is eggus, which is connected to the blessing of those who see it (is at hand). The word used to tell of the LORD coming “quickly,” speaking of the quickening of those believing Him when He appears, is the word tachu, meaning “without delay, soon, or (by surprise) suddenly, or (by implication, of ease) readily.”

1 John 3
2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it does not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, 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, even as he is pure.
4 Whosoever commits sin transgresses also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law [His commandments].
5 And you know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin.
6 Whosoever abides in him sins not: whosoever sins has not seen him, neither known him.
7 Little children, let no man deceive you: he that does righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
8 He that commits sin [bearing false witness, exalting the words of men as idols above the LORD’s] is of the devil; for the devil [the original misleader] sin from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works [misleading into the current state of mass insanity] of the devil.

The idea, of seeing the time is at hand, is spoken of several times using the same word (eggus), as is the quickening (tacho) describing when He appears to the (living person’s) sight.

Matthew 24
33 So likewise you, when you shall see all these things, know that it is near [eggus], even at the doors.
34 Truly I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.
35 [The old and corrupt] Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away [shall remain after the flood].
36 But of that day and hour knows no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father [alive in me] only.
37 But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered [through the door mentioned in verse 33, seeing it is time to enter] into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

Romans 10
6 But the righteousness which is of faith speaks on this wise, Say not in your heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down from above:)
7 Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.)
8 But what says it? The word is nigh [eggus] you, even in your mouth [from where He speaks], and in your heart [your like mind where He lives]: that is, the word of faith believing he is alive in us and is the one speaking], which we preach [teaching others the way into life];
9 That if you shall confess with your mouth the LORD Jesus [is alive in you, speaking this same word from His one mind], and shall believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead, you shall be saved.
10 For with the heart [the foundational mind, the good conscience] 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.
12 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same LORD over all is rich unto all that call upon him.
13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the LORD shall be saved.
14 How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher [without you obeying and preaching this same word, following my example as I follow the LORD alive in me speaking]?
15 And how shall they preach, except they be sent [as I have been sent and now, in His name, send you]? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!
16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, LORD, who has believed our report [because He is only revealed to those who do believe it’s Him speaking]?
17 So then faith comes by hearing [His voice giving us understanding, which is the LORD proving Himself alive in us], and hearing by the word of God.
18 But I say, Have they not heard? Yes truly, their sound [this word] went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world [ending the old corrupt, beginning the new].
19 But I say, Did not Israel know [all God’s people who should know Him but fail to recognize His voice or His presence manifested]? First Moses says, I will provoke you to jealousy by them that are no people, and by a foolish nation [those who haven’t known me, but now hear My voice and obey my commands] I will anger you.
20 But Isaiah is very bold, and says, I was found of them that sought me not; I was made manifest unto them that asked not after me.
21 But to Israel he says, All day long I have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people [speaking against me, as in the temptation in the wilderness].

Philippians 4
1 Therefore, my brethren dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and crown [referring back to Philippians 2:2, saying “Fulfil you my joy, that you be likeminded, having the same love {giving this word as received}, being of one accord, of one mind.”], so stand fast in the LORD, my dearly beloved.
2 I beseech Euodias [euodoo – by the LORD’s help along this way, “succeeded in reaching” this expected end: seeing Him], and beseech Syntyche [sun-tachu – together quickened], that they be of the same mind in the LORD.
3 And I intreat you also, true yokefellow, help [as the LORD has helped you in this way] those women [churches] which labored with me in the gospel, with Clement [with mercy, as the LORD’s mercy seat in this good conversation] also, and with other my fellow-laborers, whose names are in the book of life.
4 Rejoice in the LORD always: and again I say, Rejoice.
5 Let your moderation be known unto all men. The LORD [in you] is at hand [eggus].
6 Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
7 And the peace of God, which passes all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
9 Those things, which you have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, [follow my example and] do: and the God of peace shall be with you.

Matthew 28
1 In the end of the sabbath [ending this time of correction], as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene [the rebellious, ignorantly watching for the LORD’s coming] and the other Mary [the other rebels] to see the sepulcher [the churches where the dead body of Christ is stored].
2 And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the LORD descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it.
3 His countenance was like lightning [understanding that brings life], and his raiment white as snow [revelation of these treasures reserved in heaven for this time]:
4 And for fear of him the [door] keepers did shake, and became as dead men.
5 And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not you: for I know that you seek Jesus, which was crucified.
6 He is not here: for he is risen [from among the dead], as he said. Come, see the place where the LORD lay [where his dead body was].
7 And go quickly [tachu – with the words that will quicken those who hear it as the word of God], and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead; and, behold, he goes before you into Galilee [circuit – this end of the age, and beginning the new, in His inner circle, the wheel with the wheel, this understand sent to give understanding]; there shall you see him: lo, I have told you.

The Hebrew word from which comes the name Galilee, is galiyl, meaning “a valve of a folding door (as turning); also a ring (as round),” from galal, an eighteen times used word meaning to roll. It (galah) is first used (three times, in Genesis 29:3, 8, & 10), speaking of when a stone covering the mouth of a well is “rolled” away. In these descriptions, the LORD speaks of the His people’s silence in death, which ends when this stone is rolled away, and their mouths are opened, declaring He is risen, alive with us, in us.

John 14
19 Yet a little while, and the world sees me no more [because they are dead, and their darkened minds see nothing]; 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 [guards this word from corruption, giving in it in pure form as received], he it is that loves me: and he that loves me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.
22 Judas [Judah – the elect remnant that is the first to see the LORD and declare Him] says unto him, not Iscariot [not the betrayers, the misleader], LORD, how is it that you will manifest yourself unto us, and not unto the world?
23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him [giving them this same word, to be given], and we will come unto him, and make our abode with [dwell in] him.
24 He that loves me not keeps not my sayings: and the word which you hear is not mine, but the Father’s which sent me.

Isaiah 34
1 Come near, you nations, to hear [shama’ – obey]; and hearken, you people: let the earth hear [shama’ – obey], and all that is therein; the world, and all things that come forth of it.
2 For the indignation of the LORD is upon all nations, and his fury upon all their armies [fighting against Him with their words of ignorance]: he has utterly destroyed them, he has delivered them to the slaughter [they are all dead flesh].
3 Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up out of their carcasses [dead flesh perceived], and the mountains [the institution of government, church and state, they have corrupted] shall be melted with their blood.
4 And all the host [this army] of heaven [the corrupt places where understanding be] shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together [galal] as a scroll [their ignorance shall be silenced, like a stone rolled to cover their wells]: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falls off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree [and men shall no longer be fed their confusion].
5 For my sword [this word from the mouth of the LORD] shall be bathed in heaven [places where understanding should be found and isn’t]: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea [Esau, the enemies mixed among us], and upon the people of my curse, to judgment.
6 The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah [among His flock], and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea.
7 And the unicorns [the one power] shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.
8 For it is the day of the LORD’s vengeance, and the year of recompenses for the controversy of Zion.
9 And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch [burning fires of darkness].
10 It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up forever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it forever and ever.
11 But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl [who hunt in the darkness] also and the raven [those covered in darkness] shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion [tohuw – without form], and the stones of emptiness [bohuw – and void – as in Genesis 1:2].
12 They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all her princes shall be nothing.
13 And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be a habitation of dragons [those who poison and devour with their ever-open mouths], and a court for owls [those who hunt {souls} in the darkness].

Isaiah 49
1 Listen [shama’ – obey the voice of the LORD heard from His people], O isles [dry places that have been without My word], unto me; and hearken, you people, from far [rachowq – this time when the world is ruled by evil decree]; The LORD has called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother has he made mention of my name.
2 And he has made [His word from] my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand has he hid me, and made me a polished shaft; in his quiver has he hid me;
3 And said unto me, You are my servant, O Israel, in whom I will be glorified.
4 Then I said, I have labored in vain [without His word in My mouth], I have spent my strength for naught, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the LORD, and my work with my God.
5 And now, says the LORD that formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, Though Israel [His whole family] be not gathered [into His ONE BODY], yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the LORD, and my God shall be my strength.
6 And he said, It is a light thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved [natsar – guarded and helped] of Israel: I will also give you for a light to the Gentiles [understanding to those who haven’t known Me], that you may be my salvation unto the end of the earth.
7 Thus says the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhor, to a servant of rulers, Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of the LORD that is faithful, and the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose you.
8 Thus says the LORD, In an acceptable time have I heard you, and in a day of salvation have I helped you: and I will preserve [natsar – guard, and help] you, and give you for a covenant of the people, to establish the [new] earth, to cause to inherit the [old] desolate heritages;
9 That you mayest say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that are in darkness [hidden by their own ignorance], Show yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall be in all high places.
10 They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them: for he that has mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of [this living] water shall he guide them.
11 And I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall be exalted.

Psalms 112
1 Praise you the LORD. Blessed is the man that fears the LORD, that delights greatly in his commandments.
2 His seed shall be mighty upon earth: the generation of the upright shall be blessed.
3 Wealth and riches shall be in his house: and his righteousness endures forever.
4 Unto the upright there arises light [understanding] in the darkness [this time of ignorance]: he is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.
5 A good man shows favor, and lends: he will guide his affairs with discretion.
6 Surely he shall not be moved forever: the righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance.
7 He shall not be afraid of evil tidings: his heart is fixed, trusting in the LORD.
8 His heart is established, he shall not be afraid, until he sees his desire upon his enemies.
9 He has dispersed, he has given to the poor; his righteousness endures forever; his horn [authority to rule] shall be exalted with honor.
10 The wicked shall see it, and be grieved; he shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away: the desire of the wicked shall perish.

January 17, 2024

Your dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, you that dwell in dust: for your dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.

14 – 17 January 2024

Your dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, you that dwell in dust: for your dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.

The above, Isaiah 26:19, is speaking of the “day” referenced in the early verses; verse 1 referring to it as that spoken of in the previous chapter: when Moab (the open mouths of the wicked: the gates holding all the world in hell) is destroyed and thereby death is swallowed up in victory.

Isaiah 26
1 In that [third] day [when life returns to the earth] shall this song [spoken of Psalms 68:4] be sung in the land of Judah [the elect remnant, the first raised to life from death]; We have a strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks.
2 Open you the gates [of hell], that the righteous nation which keep the truth may enter in [to the kingdom of heaven].
3 You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on you: because he trusts in you.
4 Trust you in the LORD forever: for in the LORD [Yahh – rendered Jah in Psalms 68:4, and then used in verse 18 as “the LORD” who’s received gift from men, to be given to the rebellious among whom He dwells] Jehovah is everlasting strength [understanding]:

Psalms 68
1 Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him flee before him [paniym – at His presence].
2 As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: as wax melts before [pamiym – in the presence of] the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence [paniym] of God.
3 But let the righteous be glad; let them rejoice before God: yea, let them exceedingly rejoice.
4 Sing unto God, sing praises to his name: extol him that rides upon the heavens by his name Jah [Yahh], and rejoice before him [paniym – in His presence].
5 A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
6 God sets the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.
7 O God, when you went forth before [paniym – manifested Your presence to] your people, when you did march through the wilderness; Selah:
8 The earth shook, the heavens also dropped at the presence [paniym] of God: even Sinai [the thorny places where misleaders over-grew Your garden] itself was moved at the presence [paniym] of God, the God of Israel.
9 You, O God, did send a plentiful rain [Your word heard], whereby you did confirm [kuwm – prepare and establish] your inheritance [Your people, many mansions of Your city, in whom You dwell], when it was weary.
10 Your congregation has dwelt therein: you, O God, have prepared of your goodness for the poor.
11 The LORD gave the word: great was the company of those that published [basar – meaning “to be fresh, i.e. full (rosy, (figuratively) cheerful); to announce (glad news):–messenger, preach, publish, show forth, (bear, bring, carry, preach, good, tell good) tidings.”] it.
12 Kings of armies did flee apace [one taken away with the flood: by the voices heard from their opened mouths]: and she that tarried at home [remaining faithful, will] divided the spoil.
13 Though you have lien among the pots, yet shall you be as the wings of a dove [rising by the LORD’s understanding and reaching this expected end] covered with silver [these treasures of heaven], and her feathers with yellow gold.
14 When the Almighty scattered kings [the spiritually wicked in high place] in it, it [by the treasures received from Him] was white [pure – un-corrupted] as snow [His word reserved, frozen in heaven, to be sent in this time of His righteous war] in Salmon [sent to those shaded, censored, from it].
15 The hill [the rising governments, church and state] of God is as the hill of Bashan [fruitfulness]; an high [gabnon – only appearing here and in the following verse, telling of the ”peak,” from where He leads these governments] hill as the hill of Bashan [and the fruit when He is there enthroned is righteous truth and justice].
16 Why leap [ratsad – only appearing here, speaking of those currently occupying the peak, meaning “to watch stealthily or with envious hostility, watch with enmity, watch with envy”] you, you high [gabnon] hills? this is the hill [in those leading after purging corruption, and put on His righteous truth and justice] which God desires to dwell in; yea, the LORD will dwell in it for ever.
17 The chariots of God [His saints in which He is carried into the battle] are twenty thousand, even thousands of angels [shin’ah – only used here, meaning “change, i.e. repetition,” speaking of those changed and then repeat His word as received, manifesting His presence in the battle]: the LORD [‘Adony – the King of kings] is among them, as in Sinai [among the misleader who are as thorns grown in His garden neglected and abandoned by those in whose hands it was entrusted], in the holy place [qodesh – where His presence is again manifested in this conversation] .
18 You have ascended [risen] on high [over all powers], you have led captivity captive: you have received gifts for men [crowned with these treasure from the Father, gifts meant to be given as received]; yea, for the rebellious also, that the LORD [Yahh] God might dwell among them. [As we know, the name Yahh is from the word ya’ah, which only appears once, in Jeremiah 10:7, speaking of the definitive uniqueness of His Almighty presence, saying it is to Him all these things “appertain;” a verse we know is quoted, in Revelation 15:3 & 4, discussing “the song of Moses and the Lamb,” the written word and the sacrifice necessary to deliver it, in the name of the LORD, as received.]
19 Blessed be the LORD, who daily loads us with benefits, even the God of our salvation. Selah [let this sink into and take hold of your minds].
20 He that is our God is the God of salvation; and unto God the LORD belong the issues [towtsa’ah – meaning “exit, i.e. (geographical) boundary, or (figuratively) deliverance, (actively) source:” speaking of rising, out of confusion from where He alone is able to bring us] from death. [The word towtsa’ah only appears twice after this and is referring us to its use in Proverbs 4:23, the passages saying: “19 The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble. 20 My son, attend to my words; incline your ear unto my sayings. 21 Let them not depart from your eyes; keep them in the midst of your heart {mind}. 22 For they {these treasures} are life unto those that {by diligent search} find them, and health to all their flesh. 23 Keep {from men’s corruption} your heart {mind} with all diligence {investigation of all things}; for out of it {corruption} are the issues {towtsa’ah} of life.”]
21 But God shall wound the head of his enemies, and the hairy scalp of such an one as goes on still in his trespasses.
22 The LORD said, I will bring again from Bashan [this fruitfulness of righteous truth and justice], I will bring my people again from the depths of the sea [humanity from the place where darkness covers all deep understanding; the cover of confusion removed in this apocalypse, this uncovering]:
23 That your foot may be dipped in the blood of your enemies, and the tongue of your dogs in the same.
24 They have seen your goings, O God; even the goings of my God, my King, in the sanctuary [qodesh – the holy of holies, where His presence is manifested in the conversation].
25 The singers [singing the song of Moses and the Lamb] went before, the players on instruments followed after; among them were the damsels playing with timbrels.
26 Bless you God in the congregations [His ONE BODY in which He dwells, evident by His word heard from the them], even the LORD, from the fountain of Israel [from where this word flows into His people who receive His promised end].
27 There is little Benjamin [His children by receiving His correction, which become His right hand, manifesting His presence and power doing His work] with their ruler, the princes of Judah [His elect remnant] and their council [giving His word as received], the princes of Zebulun [who’ve “exalted” the word of God above all others], and the princes of Naphtali [those wrestling with His word, who now receive His understanding].
28 Your God has commanded your strength [understanding to shine out of darkness]: strengthen, O God, that which you have wrought for us.
29 Because of your temple at Jerusalem shall kings bring presents unto you.
30 Rebuke the company of spearmen, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the people, till every one submit himself with pieces of silver [these treasures heard from their mouths]: scatter you the people that delight in war [against you].
31 Princes shall come out of Egypt [out of oppression]; Ethiopia [those covered in darkness] shall soon stretch out her hands unto God.
32 Sing [this song with me] unto God, you kingdoms of the earth; O sing praises unto the LORD [‘Adonay – the King of Kings]; Selah [think!]:
33 To him that rides upon the heavens of heavens [the understanding that is above all understanding], which were of old; lo, he does send out his voice, and that a mighty voice [heard from His children, His ONE BODY in which He dwells].
34 Ascribe you strength unto God: his excellency is over Israel, and his strength is in the clouds [where it was held when it left the earth, there reserved to be sent in crowning His chosen].
35 O God, you are terrible out of your holy places: the God of Israel is he that gives strength [His understanding] and power unto his people. Blessed be God.

2 Timothy 4
1 I charge thee therefore before God, and the LORD Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing [epiphaneia – the epiphany, when He is realized in the conversation] and his kingdom;
2 Preach the word [open your mouths giving as you’ve been given]; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine.
3 For the time will [has] come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts, having itching ears, shall they heap to themselves [false] teachers;
4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
5 But watch you [as an overseer in whom I dwell] in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, [by the prophesies that went before of you] make full proof of your ministry.

8 Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the LORD, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing [epiphaneia – the epiphany, when He is realized in the conversation].

Isaiah 12
1 And in that day you shall say, O LORD, I will praise you: though you were angry with me, your anger is turned away, and you comforted me [by leading into all truth].
2 Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD [Yahh] Jehovah is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation.
3 Therefore with joy shall you draw water out of the wells of salvation.
4 And in that day shall you say, Praise the LORD, call upon his name, declare his doings among the people, make mention that his name is exalted.
5 Sing unto the LORD; for he has done excellent things: this is known in all the earth.
6 Cry out and shout, you inhabitant of Zion: for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of you.

Isaiah 26
5 For he brings down them that dwell on high; the lofty city, he lays it low; he lays it low, even to the ground; he bringeth it even to the dust.
6 The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy.
7 The way of the just is uprightness: you, most upright, do weigh the path of the just.
8 Yea, in the way of your judgments, O LORD, have we waited for you; the desire of our soul is to your name, and to the remembrance of you.
9 With my soul have I desired you in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek you early: for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness [truth and justice].
10 Let favor be shown to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD.
11 LORD, when your hand is lifted up [when the dead body of Christ is resurrected, when the signs of life, light, understanding, is heard and seen in and from them], they [the wicked] will not see [because they reject this word, and think this sacrifice is foolishness]: but they shall see [when these thing are manifested self-evidently], and be ashamed [not reaching the evil end they worked for] for their envy at the people [of God]; yea, the fire of your enemies shall devour them.
12 LORD, you will ordain peace for us: for you also have wrought all our works in us.
13 O LORD our God, other lords beside you have had dominion over us: but by you only will we make mention [zaker – give recognition] of your name [Your identity].
14 They [the wicked who recognize nothing] are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore have you visited [paqad – appeared to us as the Chief Overseer of the earth] and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.
15 You have increased the nation [gowy – those who haven’t known you], O LORD, you have increased the nation [gowy]: you are glorified [manifesting Your presence, of which they have also been ignorant]: you have removed it [understanding, and thereby knowing you] far [rachaq – this time when the world is ruled by evil decrees] unto all the ends of the earth [ending the old and corrupt earth and beginning the new, wherein dwells righteousness: truth and justice].
16 LORD, in trouble [tsar – this when evil enemies are in power] have they visited you [paqad – prayed for You to come as the Chief Overseer of the earth], they poured out a prayer when your chastening [correction, reaping what was sown] was upon them.
17 Like as a woman with child, that draws near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and cries out in her pangs; so have we been in your sight, O LORD [praying You would send a deliverer, chosen and prepared as a body You’ve raised].
18 We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind [a foul spirit, because they looked for what they were taught by false prophets and false teacher among them in sheep’s clothing]; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen [into the birth canal, this river of life, which they refuse to declare and speak].
19 Your dead men [when they receive this word, as the word from the mouth of God, made flesh and dwelling among us, in us] shall live, together with my dead body [of Christ] shall they arise. Awake [in resurrection] and sing [this song of Moses and the Lamb], you that dwell in dust [the ruin of the old earth, from where you are again created]: for your dew is as the dew of herbs [the first life on this new earth], and the earth shall cast out the dead.
20 Come, my people, enter you into your chambers, and shut your doors about you: hide yourself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation [za’am] be overpast.
21 For, behold, the LORD comes out of his place to punish [paqad – taking charge as the Chief Overseer of] the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood [reveals it has drained life from all humanity], and shall no more cover her slain.

Jeremiah 10
6 Forasmuch as there is none like unto you, O LORD; you are great, and your name is great in might.
7 Who would not fear you, O King of nations? for to you [Yahh] does it appertain [ya’ah]: forasmuch as among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is none like unto you.
8 But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities [worthlessness].
9 Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder: blue and purple is their clothing: they are all the work of cunning men [creating idols, putting them in My place, and calling them by My name].
10 But the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth [‘erets] shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation [za’am].
11 Thus shall you say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth [‘araq – the old earth, cursed by its own bitterness], even they shall perish from the earth [‘erets], and from under these heavens [they corrupted].
12 He [the LORD] has made the earth [‘erets] by his power, he has established the world by his wisdom, and has stretched [in this exposition] out the [new] heavens by his discretion.
13 When he utters his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens, and he causes the vapors [nasiy’ – meaning “properly, an exalted one, i.e. a king or sheik; also a rising mist”] to ascend from the ends of the earth [ending the old and beginning the new]; he makes lightnings [understanding] with rain [His word sent], and brings forth the wind [His Almighty Spirit] out of his treasures [these gifts from His storehouse, armory, in the cloud].
14 Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath [life, understanding] in them [evident because they speak not according to this word].
15 They are vanity [worthless], and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation [pquddah – now when the LORD is present as the Chief Overseer of the earth] they shall perish.
16 The portion of Jacob is not like them: for he is the former of all things; and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: The LORD of hosts [who is a man of war, this good fight necessary to purge away corruption] is his name [His identity].
17 Gather up your wares [kin’ah – only used here, meaning pack to take with you] out of the land [the old and corrupt earth], O inhabitant of the fortress.
18 For thus says the LORD, Behold [you will see it], I will sling out [qala’ – as when David “slung” the stone that brought down Goliath, after which David cut off his head with his own sword] the inhabitants of the land [‘erets – the earth] at this once [pa’am – now, at this time], and will distress [tsarah – in tribulation] them, that they may find it so.
19 Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous [chalah – by the use of the word the LORD refers us to its appearance in Psalms 77:10]; but I said, Truly this is a grief [choliy – with this the LORD refers us to its only other use by Jeremiah, in Jeremiah 6:7; also the “grief” of the LORD’s anointed, Isaiah 53:3 & 4, from Whom His voice is heard revealing the arm of the LORD], and I must bear it [nasa’ – from which my head shall be lifted, exalted].
20 My tabernacle is spoiled [describing the grievousness and the grief], and all my cords are broken: my children are gone forth of me, and they are not: there is none to stretch forth my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.
21 For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered.
22 Behold, the noise of the bruit is come, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah desolate, and a den of dragons [tanniyn – of whales and serpents, with their ever wide-open mouths, swallow men and nations into the belly of hell].
23 O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself [but only by Your word does man live]: it is not in man that walks to direct his steps [for without Your guidance they go astray].
24 O LORD, correct me [back onto the right way], but with judgment; not in your anger, lest you bring me to nothing.
25 Pour out your fury upon the heathen that know you not, and upon the families that call not on your name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.

Isaiah 53
1 Who has believed our report [shmuw’ah – who has heard these words as the voice of the LORD, as it is]? and to whom [but those who’ve heard it as such] is the arm of the LORD revealed?
2 For he shall grow up before him [paniym – into His presence manifested before the eye or the world] as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground [‘erets – the earth without this word of God]: he has no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief [choliy]: and we hid as it were our faces from[paniym – hiding His presence meant to be revealed in us, and will be when awakened by] him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not [remember the meaning of the name Timothy, the name of the highest esteem of God].
4 Surely he has borne our griefs [choliy], and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement [correction] of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
6 All we like sheep have gone astray [into apostacy]; we have turned every one to his own way [forgetting the only way is the LORD’s]; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

Psalms 77
A Psalms of Asaph [the Gatherer]
1 I cried unto God with my voice, even unto God with my voice; and he gave ear unto me.
2 In the day of my trouble [tsarah – this tribulation] I sought the LORD [‘Adonay – the King of kings]: my sore ran [yad nagar – my power left me] in the night [this time when ignorance covers the earth], and ceased not: my soul [sleeping in death] refused to be comforted [by the word of God leading me into all truth and life].
3 I remembered [zakar] God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed [‘ataph – was shrouded, covered by my own confusion]. Selah [think and understand this].
4 You [LORD] hold [‘achaz – seized] my eyes [‘ayin] waking [shmurah – only used here, meaning to awaken by opening them]: I am so troubled [pa’am – to agitate the spirit, by truth contradicting the thoughts {the confusion of mind} into awaking] that I cannot speak [as I should].
5 I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.
6 I call to remembrance [zakar] my song [ngiynah – Your word sent to me of old] in the night [to give light in previous times of darkness]: I commune [siyach – I heard Your voice conversing] with my own heart [in my mind]: and my spirit made diligent search [for You in Your written word sent to me as a wheel within a wheel: understand sent to give understand, which is light and life].
7 Will the LORD [‘Adonay] cast off [zanach – reject us] forever [‘owlam – through all eternity]? and will he be favorable no more [yacaph – no longer adding to His family]?
8 Is his mercy clean gone forever [netsach – no longer the bright light we’ve journeyed toward]? does his promise fail for evermore [dowr – ending with this generation]?
9 Has God forgotten to be gracious [not giving us His gift of light, to correct us]? has he in anger shut up his tender mercies [His promise to correct and not destroy those who trust in Him alone]? Selah [think, and know He is still the same, never wavering from Himself or His promises].
10 And I said, This is my infirmity [chalah – self-imposed grievousness of not remembering, not recognizing, not comprehending Him in His conversation and work before our eyes manifesting His presence as He always has, direct interaction with our minds eye]: but I will remember the years of the right hand [Your long-suffering our ignorance of Your presence in the word and work] of the Most High.
11 I will remember [zakar] the works of the LORD: surely I will remember [zakar] your [eye opening] wonders of old.
12 I will meditate also of all your work, and talk [siyach – converse with You] of your doings.
13 Your way, O God, is in the sanctuary [qodesh – the holy of holies, where Your presence is manifested above Your mercy seat, in the conversation]: who is so great a God as our God?
14 You are the God that does wonders: you have declared your strength among the people.
15 You have with your arm [Your work] redeemed your people [from confusion and death], the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah [think].
16 The waters [the words of ignorance that have darkened the world] saw you, O God, the waters saw you; they were afraid: the depths [what men thought they knew] also were troubled.
17 The clouds [where understanding was held, reserved, in its separated elements, to be congealed and sent in this time of the LORD’s righteous warfare] poured out water: the skies sent out a sound [qowl – Your voice thundering from this place of understand: light]: your arrows also went abroad [halak – walked, gave understanding to Your way, of which the wise of this world are ignorant].
18 The voice [qowl] of your thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook.
19 Your way is in the sea [among humanity at large], and your path in the great waters [sent by You from heaven], and your footsteps are not known [to the dead and ignorant].
20 You led your people like a flock by the hand of Moses [Your chosen who was drawn, separated, from the waters below: the words of ignorant men] and Aaron [sent bearing the light given as received, to give it freely].

Jeremiah 6
1 O you children of Benjamin [the last born generation, in this time of darkness, who are become My right hand], gather yourselves to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem [the old and corrupt, were the wicked are seated in high places of power], and blow the trumpet [calling all to gather to the LORD in His ONE BODY] in Tekoa [among the prisoners], and set up a sign of fire [mas’eth – an utterance, as beacon of light, the gift given from the mouth of LORD] in Bethhaccerem [this family that is My vineyard]: for evil appears [is now seen] out of the north [the places of ignorance: principalities and powers, where are seated the rulers of the darkness of this world], and great destruction.
2 I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate woman.
3 The shepherds [wicked misleaders] with their flocks shall come unto her; they shall pitch their tents against her round about; they shall feed every one in his place.
4 Prepare you war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon [now when the sun is fully risen upon her]. Woe unto us! for the day [the time of light: understanding] goes away [in the war against it], for the shadows of the evening are [now] stretched out [covering the earth in confusion and ignorance].
5 Arise, and let us go by night [in this time of which the wicked are ignorant, not knowing they have sown to the wind and now reap the whirlwind], and let us destroy her palaces.
6 For thus has the LORD of hosts [a man of war] said, Hew you down trees [the falsely so-called upright and wise of this wicked and wholly corrupt world], and cast a mount against [old and corrupt] Jerusalem [the places in church and state where sustainable peace and mutual security should be taught and propagated: broadcast, but instead deception and oppression]: this is the city to be visited [paqad – by the LORD, who is the Chief Overseer of the earth]; she is wholly oppressed in the midst of her.
7 As a fountain [broad] casts out her waters [of deception, by which the wicked power rule], so she casts out her wickedness: violence and spoil is heard [shama’ – obeyed] in her; before me continually is grief [choliy – against which the LORD with us has necessarily long-suffered] and wounds.
8 Be you instructed, O Jerusalem [My new creation, My ONE BODY, the city wherein righteousness dwells], lest my [immortal] soul depart from you; lest I make you desolate, a land not inhabited.
9 Thus says the LORD of hosts [a man of war], They [the wicked] shall thoroughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine: turn back your hand as a grape-gatherer into the baskets [return My people to Me, which you have cut off from the vine: from hearing My word].
10 To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear [shama’ – obey]? behold, their ear is uncircumcised [only obeying the flesh that cut them off from hearing this voice as My voice], and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of the LORD is unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it.
11 Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD; I am weary with holding in: I will pour it out upon the children abroad, and upon the assembly of young men together: for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him that is full of days.
12 And their houses shall be turned unto others, with their fields and wives together: for I will stretch out my hand [My work, in My word] upon the inhabitants [the people at large, here rising upon them as the sun shining this understanding upon all, from east to west] of the land [‘erets – upon the earth], says the LORD.
13 For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one deals falsely.
14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace [but instead war and destruction are hidden in their words].
15 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall: at the time that I visit them [paqad – now when I’ve manifested My presence as the Chief Overseer of the earth] they shall be cast down, says the LORD.
16 Thus says the LORD, “Stand you in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and you shall find rest for your [immortal] souls.” But they said, “We will not walk therein.”
17 Also I set watchmen over you [manifesting My presence in them, making them overseers with My authority], saying, “Hearken to the sound of the trumpet.” But they said, “We will not hearken.”
18 Therefore hear [shama’ – obey], you nations, and know, O congregation, what is among them.
19 Hear [shama’ – obey], O earth: behold [look and see], I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it.
20 To what purpose comes there to me incense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet unto me.
21 Therefore thus says the LORD, Behold, I will lay stumbling-blocks before this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall fall upon them; the neighbor and his friend shall perish.
22 Thus says the LORD, Behold, a people comes from the north country, and a great nation shall be raised from the sides of the earth.
23 They shall lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roars like the sea; and they ride upon horses, set in array as men for war against you, O daughter of Zion [the army now mixed among you and in power, of which you remain ignorant].
24 We have heard [shama’ – obeyed] the fame thereof: our hands wax feeble: anguish has taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in travail [refusing to bring forth her king].
25 Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and fear is on every side [against those who obey them].
26 O daughter of my people [who are My faithful remnant], gird you with sackcloth [mourn for this people who are poised to be destroyed], and wallow yourself in ashes [of this world’s ruin]: make you mourning, as for an only son [refusing correction and choosing self-destruction], most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly [pith’own] come upon us.
27 I have set you for a tower [raised up by seeing as I see] and a fortress among my people, that you mayest know and try their way.
28 They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: they are brass and iron; they are all corrupters.
29 The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melts in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away [their corrupt isn’t draw out or purged away].
30 Reprobate silver [refusing to be separated from corruption, in this trial by fire] shall men call them, because the LORD has rejected them [that have rejected His word and work to save them].

Isaiah 53
6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth.
8 He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation [those who have long-suffered with Me, for the sake of My dead body]? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
9 And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
10 Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he has put him to grief [chalah]: when you shall make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
11 He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
12 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he has poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

The following are excerpts from the post of 6 – 8 April 2023:

O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walks to direct his steps.

The LORD begins above in Jeremiah 10:23, speaking of authentic intelligence, which we must understand. In the previous post, we briefly discussed those who seek the commendation of men, an approval that comes by agreement, which is temporally and falsely called “intelligence” by this evil generation.

It (this evil generation) fails on all accounts when tested against the true definition of intellect, which is (from the Merriam-Webster Dictionary) a: the power of knowing as distinguished from the power to feel and to will: the capacity for knowledge; b: the capacity for rational or intelligent thought, especially when highly developed.

The result of this lack (elevating feelings and will into opinions substituted for knowledge) is the inability to solve complex problems and instead acting irrationally, ignorantly supposing and proposing them (irrational acts) as such (solutions).

As we know, this is the dilemma spiritually described as captivity in Babylon (confusion that now rules the world), which the LORD let run its course and blossom into mass delusion (insanity: the inability to distinguish between reality and the delusions your strayed minds have created).

As policy, the condition is intentionally imposed through programming by those who removed God from their knowledge and then taught what produced weakness of minds they could control and (parasitically) consume. This (weakness’) end (self-evident to those awakened to reality) includes the inability to recognize the presence of the attack within (paradoxically disguising itself in the feeling of superiority and a conscience corrupted by deceitful data entered), and instead, rejecting it as the cause, believes the cure (a sound mind) is the threat, which, in defense of the cause, must be combatted (attacked and destroyed).

This (the process of demoralization) is alluded to in the title verse, as the “way” and “walk” of man directed by men who’ve created gods they put in the place of the true and living God with us. He is here and always has been for those who choose to hear Him, and when learning His ways and walk (Good Programming in us), He gives us understanding, which is the light and life of men of sound minds.

So, don’t believe the modern churches that have devolved into telling you all you have to do is believe (them, and the gods they call by the name of the true God they reject). The “grace” they are ignorant of, by which you are saved, is the mind of the LORD God in us, by learning His ways and ideas, the free education He gives to all who receive it (His mind).

Colossians 2
6 As you have therefore received Christ Jesus the LORD, so walk you in him:
7 Rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.
8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain [worthless] deceit [of this evil generation], after the tradition of men, after the rudiments [stoicheion – the corrupt foundational ideas] of the world, and not after Christ [the LORD manifested in the flesh of those He sends to teach and lead].
9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
10 And you are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:
11 In whom also you are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ [removing the flesh and seeing the LORD within]:
12 Buried with him in baptism, wherein also you are risen with him through the faith [believing He is risen in the flesh of those the LORD sends] of the operation of God, who has raised him from the dead.

Romans 12
2 And be not conformed to this world: but be you transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
3 For I say, through the grace given unto me, [the gift] to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God has dealt to every man the measure of faith.
4 For as we have many members in ONE BODY, and all members have not the same office:
5 So we, being many, are ONE BODY in Christ, and every one members one of another.
6 Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith;
7 Or ministry, let us wait on our ministering: or he that teacheth, on teaching;
8 Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that gives, let him do it with simplicity; he that rules, with diligence; he that shows mercy, with cheerfulness.
9 Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.

Philippians 3
8 Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my LORD: for whom I have suffered the loss of all [worthless and unneeded] things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,
9 And be found in him, not having my own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith [that it is Him in the flesh, working and speaking]:
10 That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;
11 If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.
12 Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those [worthless and unneeded] things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those [needed] things which are before,
14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
15 Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing you be otherwise minded, God shall reveal [apokalupto] even this unto you.
16 Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.
17 Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as you have us for an example.
18 (For many walk [their own way], of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:
19 Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)

Matthew 11
I thank you, O Father, LORD of heaven and earth, because you have hid [apokrupto] these things from the wise [sophos] and prudent [of the world], and have revealed [apokalupto] them unto babes.
26 Even so, Father: for so it seemed good in your sight.
27 All things [needed] are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knows the Son, but the Father; neither knows any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.
28 Come unto me, all you that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
29 Take my yoke upon you, and LEARN of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and you shall find rest unto your souls.
30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

Zechariah 4
5 Then the angel that talked with me answered and said unto me, Know you not what these be? And I said, No, my LORD.
6 Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel [in the king line of Judah {David thru Jesus} – born again by coming out of confusion], saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit [working and speaking in the flesh], says the LORD of hosts [a man of war].
7 Who are you, O great mountain [the corrupt in power]? before Zerubbabel you shall become a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone [the seed of Joseph, like Joshua the son of Nun, from where comes the shepherd and stone] thereof with shouting, crying, Grace, grace unto it.
8 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
9 The hands [the work] of Zerubbabel [by coming out of confusion] have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also finish it; and you shall know that the LORD of hosts has sent me unto you.
10 For who has despised the day of small things? for they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet [the measuring line] in the hand of Zerubbabel with those seven [the angels of the seven churches]; they are the [single] eyes of the LORD [seeing as He sees], which run to and fro [with an everlasting gospel to preach] through the whole earth.
11 Then answered I, and said unto him, What are these two olive trees upon the right side of the candlestick [from who the LORD’s shines] and upon the left side thereof?
12 And I answered again, and said unto him, What be these two olive branches which through the two golden pipes empty the golden oil out of themselves?
13 And he answered me and said, Know you not what these be? And I said, No, my LORD.
14 Then said he, These are the two anointed ones [Joshua and Zerubbabel – here the cleansed priesthood and the children the LORD has given them], that stand by the LORD [‘adown – king, here referring to the seed of Joseph, Shiloh: tranquility {restoring clam} of the whole earth].

Revelation 15
1 And I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvelous, seven angels having the seven last plagues; for in them is filled up [the anointing oil that makes them shine] the wrath of God.
2 And I saw as it were a sea of glass [the people calmed away from those agitating them] mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast [Babylon – the confusion that ruled over the world], and over his image, and over his mark [in his words and works, ideas and ways, in head and hand], and over the number of his name [ashes of the world he ruined, the dust in which he slithers {Strong’s Hebrews Dictionary number 666, the number of a man, assigned by James Strong}, in which he hides his identity], stand on the sea of glass [in our victory over death, calming the people of the new earth], having the harps of God.
3 And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvelous are your works, LORD God Almighty; just and true are your ways, you King of saints.
4 Who shall not fear you, O LORD, and glorify your name? [Yahh – to whom it appertains] for you only are holy [pure of all corruption]: for all nations shall come and worship before you; for your judgments are made manifest [phaneroo].
5 And after that I looked, and, behold, the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was opened:
6 And the seven angels [the messengers with the LORD’s message] came out of the temple, having the seven plagues, clothed in pure and white linen, and having their breasts girded with golden girdles [the preparation of these treasure].
7 And one of the four beasts [Ezekiel 1:10 As for the likeness of their faces {presence}, they four had the face of a man {in whom the mystery of godliness is revealed}, and the face {as presence} of a lion {a king roaring: speaking this word from the mouth of God}, on the right side: and they four had the face {presence} of an ox {working in the earth, the Spirit of the LORD moving} on the left side; they four also had the face {presence} of an eagle {by the LORD strength, full understanding, flying in the heavens}.] gave unto the seven angels seven golden vials full of the wrath of God, who lives forever and ever.
8 And the temple was filled with smoke [to rid it of the vermin that were before infesting it] from the glory of God, and from his power; and no man was able to enter into the temple, till the seven plagues of the seven angels [cleansing the seven churches: the now corrupt institutions] were fulfilled.

These seven plagues are poured out in the following chapter (Revelation 16), revealing the infestation’s cause and effect. The cleansing thereof occurs when the seventh angel clears the air of smoke, pouring his vial into it. His voice is then heard from the throne in the temple saying, “It is done,” referring to the last verse above fulfilled.

The air (aer – same word as in 1 Thessalonians 4:17, where we meet the LORD) is telling where the smoke comes from, referring to the words use in Revelation 9:2, when the star falls from heaven (no longer having full understanding), and opens the bottomless pit (the endless fall, once it starts, of man away from God). Out of this pit comes smoke that darkens the air and sun (so none could see the way, and the church became filled with ignorance: without light). It says, in this smoke are locusts (devouring all that grows on the earth), who have power like scorpions, but they don’t hurt any green thing, only those men who don’t have the seal of God (His protective understanding) in their heads.

These scorpions torment men with their strikes: their words, as venom doing its damage inside, rotting men’s minds over time. We are told these locusts, with bites (their messages) like scorpions, have a king over them, who is the messenger (angel) of the bottomless pit. This king is given names that mean destroyer and destruction.

The men who subsequently follow, still in the endless fall away, whose strength and voice (as horses they ride with word as if roaring from lions) out of whose mouth comes that same (blinding ignorance) smoke, with fire and brimstone. These are the corrupt teaching of false prophets that follows, whose tails (the effect, what they cause) are like serpents, now not just tormenting and rotting minds but killing men’s (already rotted) minds.

In the following chapter (Revelation 10), the seventh angel sounds, revealing the thunders that were mysteries.

Revelation 10
5 And the [seventh] angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven,
6 And swore by him that lives forever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time [chronos] no longer:
7 But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound [be heard as the only voice of God], the mystery [musterion] of God should be finished, as he has declared to his servants the prophets.

Friends, the world is now again become without form and void, filled with confusion and emptiness, an effect caused by many voices babbling opinions, feelings uncontrolled by their own ignorant will. This is hell, and all are dead, and the only way out of death and hell is hearing the One Voice of the LORD and following His instructions.

In Revelation 16, between the sixth and seventh angel sounding, the LORD tells of manifesting His presence (name and identity) through (with and in) the seventh messenger (the only voice speaking for Him, with His authority),

after men began worshipping confusion (taking the mark in their hand and head: in their works and words: their ways and ideas),

and all the waters became blood, words draining life from the world, and all living became dead,

and all the rivers of blood continued to flow the blood of dead men, keeping all dead in hell,

5 And I heard the angel of the waters say, You are righteous, O LORD, which are, and was, and shall be, because you have judged thus.
6 For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and you have given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.
7 And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, LORD God Almighty, true and righteous are your judgments.

and the church caused men to pass through the fires their darkness caused, and they vilified God’s word and work to correct them and refused His calls for them to repent,

10 And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat [of power] of the beast [the confusion that rules the world]; and his kingdom was full of darkness [ignorance]; and they gnawed their tongues for pain,
11 And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds.
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates [from where the word of God once flowed producing the fruitfulness of the earth]; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.
13 And I saw three unclean [defiled] spirits like frogs [which were before hidden below the surface of the waters: evil in their words] come out of the mouth of the dragon [those who, as serpents and whales, swallow men into the belly of hell], and out of the mouth of the beast [the insanity, Babylon that rules the world], and out of the mouth of the false prophet [the known liars and false accusers in church and state media].
14 For they are the spirits of devils [misleaders who put themselves in God’s place], working miracles [saying they are opening eyes to knowledge not before known], which go forth unto the kings [ruling powers] of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty [at the time He decreed, which no man knows].

The LORD then speaks of this moment, when He has come and done His work, of which none are aware;

15 Behold, I [have] come as a thief. Blessed is he that watches, and keeps his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame [disappointment when what {I Am} they didn’t expect comes].
16 And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon [this mountain of the rendezvous at this decreed time].
17 And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air [clearing the smoke so everything is clearly seen as it is]; and there came a [one] great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne [of God], saying, “It is done.”
18 And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake [to shake the wicked from heaven and earth], and so great. [Are you ready?]
19 And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.
20 And every island fled away [and this word of God will be heard in all the places that have been without it] , and the mountains [the high places, seats of power of the wicked] were not found.
21 And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven [this word reserved there for this moment, sent to destroy the current crop of corrupt leaders], every stone about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great.

Isaiah 28
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, you scornful men, that rule this people which are 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 [self-righteously and arrogantly thinking your ways and ideas are perfect]: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus says the LORD God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believes shall not make haste [not be ashamed].
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then you shall be trodden down [as a corrupt crop] 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 – it is the voice of Jehovah heard].

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

January 14, 2024

For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Savior, the LORD Jesus Christ:

10 – 13 January 2024

For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Savior, the LORD Jesus Christ:

As we know, the above speaks of the “conversation” in which the LORD manifests His presence to those fully expecting to find Him (there in it). The addition of “heaven,” describing this meeting place, tells us of the resulting understanding when hearing the voice as waters flowing from the Rock: the word of God from the mouth of His anointed (flesh in which He’s veiled until it, heaven, by obedient faith, is reached).

As we also know, because He’s shown us, the Hebrew word “heaven” is shamayim, which combines the words shama’ (to hear and to obey) and mayim (water).

The Greek word rendered “heaven” is ouranos, said to perhaps be from oros, “probably from an obsolete oro (to rise or “rear”; perhaps akin to 142; compare 3733); a mountain (as lifting itself above the plain).”

The use of the words “perhaps” and “probably” tells of the uncertainty of these definitions. As previously discussed, the words ouranos and oros are purportedly connected to the word airo (with affinity to aer: air, thoughts as spirits), meaning “to lift up; by implication, to take up or away; figuratively, to raise (the voice), keep in suspense (the mind), specially, to sail away (i.e. weigh anchor); by Hebraism (compare 5375) to expiate sin.”

The Greek word oura is a primary word meaning tail (as in what follows – a result), and nos, a shortened form of gnosis, means the act of knowing, i.e., knowledge received. In these words, this deep understanding of them, we realize heaven is the “result” of “receiving knowledge,” not to be mistaken with creating it in the imagination, which is at best opinion and (synonymously) at worst delusion.

The word rendered “conversation,” in the title verse (Philippians 3:20), is the once-used word politeuma, meaning “a community, i.e. (abstractly) citizenship (figuratively):–conversation.” It is speaking of communion (common union): here and now, the breaking of the bread (blood and body) of this word and work of Christ (Jehovah’s salvation manifested in the flesh of His anointed ONE BODY, the city of which we are citizens, in which He lives).

The word (politeuma; and its varying derivates) ultimately derive from the word polemos, “from pelomai (to bustle); warfare (literally or figuratively; a single encounter or a series):–battle, fight, war.”

It (polemos; with context from all these other words) is speaking of the necessary means of sustaining a (common union in a) community, constant warring through conversation, with the strength of God in those who put on His full armor, wherein and whereby He always prevails. This truth, now obvious in that He’s prevailed, is proven in the enemies’ only recourse, knowing they against it have no defense, is to silence it and attempt to make sure it never has free course again.

Ephesians 6
12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
14 Stand, therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;
15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;
16 Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.
17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the [this] word of God:
18 Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints [those coming with this word against the ungodly];
19 And for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel [of Christ with us, in us],
20 For [huper – over, overseeing as He sees] which I am an ambassador [presbeuo] in bonds: that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

The word presbeuo only appears elsewhere in 2 Corinthians 5:20, where the above-mentioned “bond” is described.

2 Corinthians 5
19 To wit [hos – as it is], that God was in Christ, reconciling [katallasso – to change] the world unto himself [to see as He sees], not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
20 Now then we are ambassadors [presbeuo] for [huper] Christ [Jehovah in us overseeing to give us His sight], as though [hos – as] God did beseech [parakaleo – Paraclete, leading into all truth] you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead [huper – as overseers seeing by His sight], be ye reconciled [katallasso – changed] to [see as] God.
21 For he hath made him to be sin [flesh lacking His understanding] for us [huper – to become our sight, overseeing], who knew no sin; that we might be made [become, by life, understanding, resurrected] the righteousness of God in him.

Exodus 15
…I will sing unto the LORD, for he has triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider has he thrown into the sea.
2 The LORD is my strength and song [repeating His words with Him], and he is become my salvation: he is my God, and I will prepare him a habitation; my father’s God, and I will exalt him.
3 The LORD is a man of war: the LORD is his name.
4 Pharaoh’s chariots and his host has he cast into the sea: his chosen captains also are drowned in the Red sea [cuwph yam – to roar {as in the word sha’own: the great noise heard, as “rushing” water of our warfare, against those warring against the LORD’s voice heard from the whirlwind, the cuwphah} with the rightly divided written word].
5 The depths have covered them: they sank into the bottom as a stone.
6 Your right hand, O LORD, is become glorious in power: your right hand, O LORD, has dashed in pieces the enemy.
7 And in the greatness of your excellency you have overthrown them that rose up against you: you sent forth your wrath, which consumed them as stubble.
8 And with the blast of your nostrils the waters were gathered together, the floods stood upright as a heap, and the depths were congealed [the elements of deep understanding came together] in the heart of the sea [in the minds of all hearing Him].
9 The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.
10 You did blow with your wind, the sea covered them: they sank as lead in the mighty waters.
11 Who is like unto you, O LORD, among the gods? who is like you, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?
12 You stretched out your right hand, the earth swallowed them.
13 You in your mercy have led forth the people which you have redeemed: you have guided them in your strength unto your holy habitation.
14 The people shall hear, and be afraid [ragaz]: sorrow shall take hold on the inhabitants of Palestina [invaders – immigrants who refuse to assimilate, and instead war against us and our better culture of peace].
15 Then the dukes of Edom [the powerful, as enemies mixed among us to destroy us] shall be amazed; the mighty men of Moab [whose mouths are the gates of hell], trembling shall take hold upon them; all the inhabitants of Canaan [those zealous to destroy] shall melt away.
16 Fear and dread shall fall upon them; by the greatness of your arm they shall be as still as a stone; till your people pass over [‘abar – from death into life], O LORD, till the people pass over [‘abar – from death into life], which you have purchased.
17 You shall bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of your inheritance, in the place, O LORD, which you have made for you to dwell in, in the Sanctuary, O LORD, which your hands have established.
18 The LORD shall reign forever and ever.
19 For the horse of Pharaoh [the great house] went in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and the LORD brought again the waters of the sea upon them; but the children of Israel went on dry land in the midst of the sea.
20 And Miriam [who was a rebel] the prophetess, the sister of Aaron [the bringer of the light], took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.
21 And Miriam answered them, Sing you [these songs, this word sent to be repeated as received] to the LORD, for he has triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider has he thrown into the sea.
22 So Moses [drawn from the waters – from the ideas and ways of the oppressors] brought Israel [God’s people] from the Red [cuwph – the written word rightly divided] sea [yam – roaring], and they went out into the wilderness of Shur [the wall – that men built between God and man]; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water.
23 And when they came to Marah [bitter], they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of it was called Marah.
24 And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink?
25 And he cried unto the LORD; and the LORD showed him a tree [of life], which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet: there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them,
26 And said, If you will diligently hearken [obey] to the voice of the LORD your God, and will do that which is right in his sight, and will give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon you, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I Am the LORD that heals you.
27 And they came to Elim [palms – the LORD’s presence heard in the sweetness {honey} of the words of His mouth], where were twelve wells of water [of living waters], and threescore and ten palm trees [God’s presence in His people who’ve received His word as His]: and they encamped there by the waters.

The roaring of the sea, the sound of many waters rushing, and the voice from the whirlwind are what Peter, in 2 Peter 3:10, calls a great noise (His Almighty Voice) when the LORD comes (unknown) as a thief in the night (when darkness, ignorance, covers the earth).

2 Peter 3
3 Knowing this first, that there shall [have] come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God [this same word of God] the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition [apoleia] of ungodly men.
8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the LORD as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
9 The LORD is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness [thinking He is delaying His presence]; but is [in fact here with us] longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance [be changed away from their straying].
10 But the day of the LORD will come as a thief in the night [unknown in this time when ignorance covers the world]; in the which the [old and corrupt understanding] heavens shall pass away with a great noise [rhoizedon – only appearing this once, from rheo or ereo and zedown, meaning to flow, utterance against the proud and aorrgant], and the elements [stoicheion – the corrupt foundational ideas and ways of men] shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements [stoicheion] shall melt with fervent heat?
13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein 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 [unknown here with us] 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 [refusing this teaching] and unstable [as corrupt waters, as is Reuben, the pattern of the son of perdition, in Genesis 49:4, as Jacob tells his children what shall befall them in these last days {‘achariyth}] wrestle, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction [apoleia – perdition].

Isaiah 17
4 And in that day [this day] it shall come to pass, that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean.
5 And it shall be as when the harvestman gathers the corn, and reaps the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathers ears in the valley of Rephaim [rapha’ – when God’s people shall find rest and cure].
6 Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost fruitful branches thereof, says the LORD God of Israel.
7 At that day shall a man look to his Maker [the Creator, whose fruit is left in the uppermost branch, and only a few of the very elect receive Him], and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel.
8 And he shall not look to the [defiled] altars, the [corrupt] work of his hands [the creations of men], neither shall respect that which his fingers have made, either the groves, or the images [they put in My place and call by My name].
9 In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel: and there shall be [now total] desolation.
10 Because you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not been mindful of the rock [from where His ways of peace and security flow] of your strength [understanding], therefore shall you plant [your own creations as your] pleasant plants, and shall set it with strange slips [branches, those who are far from knowing me]:
11 In the day shall you make your plant to grow, and in the morning [when this understanding comes] shall you make your seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap [of ruin] in the day of grief and of desperate [‘anash] sorrow [now when following men’s ways make your wound incurable].
12 Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise [speak worthless words of the proud] like the noise of the seas [yam – the roaring, words of all people, as waves crashing against the shore, the end of the argument]; and to the rushing of nations [into the battle against the LORD they don’t know], that make a rushing [sha’ah – against the LORD] like the rushing of mighty waters [thinking their words can change the decreed end the LORD promised]!
13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off [merchaq – from the LORD’s decreed appointed time], and shall be chased as the chaff [worthless men in power] of the mountains before the wind [this Almighty Spirit of the LORD], and like a rolling thing [the wheel, this word sent to give understanding and life to those who receive it as My word] before [saved by My Presence manifested in] the whirlwind.
14 And behold at evening [understanding leaving] trouble; and before the morning [the coming of understanding] he is not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.

The word rendered “rushing,” above in verses 12 twice and once in 13, is sha’own, meaning “uproar (as of rushing); by implication, destruction:–X horrible, noise, pomp, rushing, tumult (X -uous).”

The word rendered “noise,” twice in verse 12, is hamah, meaning “to make a loud sound like Engl. “hum”); by implication, to be in great commotion or tumult, to rage, war, moan, clamor.” I

These words speak of the war against this word of the LORD, and against truth in general.

The “whirlwind,” before which the wicked realize they have no defense and become like darkness chased away by His light, is the word cuwphah, meaning “a hurricane.” It’s from the (different) word cuwph, meaning “to snatch away, i.e. terminate:– consume, have an end, perish, x be utterly.” The letters ah added to the end tell us this end comes in Jehovah’s all-consuming fire, the word from His mouth as His sword (by which one is taken away, as in the days of Noah, by the flood now a fire, and the other left).

The first of the sixteen times (8+8, the news creation upon the ruin of the old) the word (cuwphah) appears, is in Number 21:14, where it is rendered “Red sea.” There, it speaks of it written in “the book of the wars of the LORD,” a reference to it, Him, here and now.

Numbers 21
10 And the children of Israel set forward [naca’ – started their journey], and pitched in [chanah – into the declining light] Oboth [carrying the written word of God with them].
11 And they journeyed [naca’] from Oboth, and pitched [chanah] at Ijeabarim [making crooked the way delivered to Abram], in the wilderness [midbar – desolating speech] which is before Moab [of men whose words are the gates of hell], toward the sunrising [toward the time, now, when this light has risen again].
12 From thence they removed [naca’], and pitched [chanah] in the valley [the torrent created by men’s words] of Zared [and they, men and their words, greatly increased].
13 From thence they removed [naca’], and pitched [chanah] on the other side [opposing God and their own beginning] of Arnon [brawling stream – now waring], which is in the wilderness that comes out of the coasts [until the end] of the Amorites [the sayers, those exalting there words above the word of God]: for Arnon [the brawling stream] is the border [gbuwl – the set boundary, the termination point] of Moab [the ever open mouths of men, the gates that hold the world in hell], between [sundering, by rightly identifying] Moab [the gates of hell] and the Amorites [as those exalting their word above the LORD’s].
14 Wherefore it is said in the book of the wars [milchamah – this warfare] of the LORD [Jehovah], What he did in the Red sea [cuwphah – by His voice heard from the whirlwind], and in the brooks of Arnon [this warfare at these brawling waters],
15 And at the stream of the brooks that goes down to the dwelling of Ar [His city he is building, His ONE BODY in which He dwells, which is New Heavenly Jerusalem, our destination reached], and lieth upon [sha’an – the fully expected end, in which we can trust because it is decreed by the LORD] the border [gbuwl – it is the boundary, the termination point] of Moab [of the gates holding all the world in death and hell].

Jeremiah 48
42 And Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he has magnified himself against the LORD.
43 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, shall be upon you, O inhabitant of Moab, says the LORD.
44 He that flees from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that gets up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for I will bring upon it, even upon Moab, the year of their visitation [pquddah – now when the LORD appears as the Chief Overseer of the earth], says the LORD.
45 They that fled stood under the shadow of Heshbon [what they have contrived] because of the force [because they were there powerless]: but a fire shall come forth out of Heshbon [their own contrivances], and a flame from the midst of Sihon [warriors upon whom this whirlwind has come], and shall devour the corner [mouth and ideas] of Moab, and the crown of the head of the tumultuous [the rushing] ones [who are warring against the LORD with their words].
46 Woe be unto you, O Moab [the gates of hell that will not prevail against those declaring the LORD is present in our flesh]! the people of Chemosh [the powerful who have subdued God’s people – the false gods of Moab] perish: for your sons are taken captives, and your daughters captives.
47 Yet will I bring again the captivity of Moab in the latter days [‘achariyth], says the LORD. Thus far is the judgment of Moab.

The Hebrew word translated as “tumultuous” in verse 45 above is sha’own, the same word below translated “noise” in Isaiah 25:5, a chapter speaking of the destruction of the defenced city, where is the palace of strangers. As we know, verse 8 of Isaiah 25 speaks of the resurrection of God’s people when the LORD swallows up death in victory.

Isaiah 25
1 O LORD, you are my God; I will exalt you, I will praise your name; for you have done wonderful things; your counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.
2 For you have made of a city a heap; of a defensed city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.
3 Therefore shall the strong people glorify you, the city of the terrible nations shall fear you.
4 For you have been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.
5 You shall bring down the noise [sha’own – tumult caused by their word as rushing waters] of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low.
6 And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts [who is a man of war] make unto all people a feast [of His good words] of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.
7 And he [the LORD] will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering [lowt] cast [lowt] over all people, and the vail [maccekah – most often rendered molten image; here meant to refer us to its definitive use in Isaiah 30:1] that is spread over all nations.
8 He will swallow up death [meveth] in victory; and the LORD God will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD has spoken it.
9 And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.
10 For in this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest, and Moab [the gates of hell: the open mouths of wicked men] shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down for the dunghill.
11 And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that swims spreads forth his hands to swim [dividing the waters, to stay above them]: and he shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their hands.
12 And the fortress of the high fort of your walls shall he bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust.

Again, as often discussed, the termination point, ending the war in the LORD’s victory over death and hell, is spoken of by Paul as he quotes from verse 8 above in 1 Corinthians 15:54. He says it comes with the end of corruption when those hidden thereby have put on their immortality, which (corruption) is the vail and the cover cast over all the earth.

1 Corinthians 15
42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:
43 It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power:
44 It is sown a natural [flesh] body; it is [in the uncovering: the apocalypse] raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.
45 And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit [bringing the natural from death into life]. [“…now made manifest by the appearing of our Savior Jesus Christ, who has abolished death, and has brought life and immortality to light through the gospel: 11 Whereunto I am appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles {those who haven’t known the LORD always among them}” 2 Timothy 1].
46 Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.
47 The first man is of the earth, earthy; the second man is the LORD from heaven.
48 As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.
49 And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.
50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither does corruption inherit incorruption.
51 Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed [allasso – reconciled, when we see our immortality as He sees],
52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye [the epiphany, when we see as He sees], at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed [allasso – reconciled, seeing as He sees].
53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.

Proverbs 1
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, 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; I will mock when your fear comes;
27 When your fear comes as desolation, and your destruction comes as a whirlwind [cuwphah – this termination point, as in the Red sea]; when distress [tsarah – tribulation] 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 [because I Am hidden in plain sight, veiled in flesh, unknowable to those who choose to remain ignorant]:
29 For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD [which is the beginning of wisdom]:
30 They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
31 Therefore 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 shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
33 But whoso hearkens [shama’ – obeys] unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.

Proverbs 10
25 As the whirlwind [cuwphah] passeth [‘abar – passing over, bringing from death to life those who from there hear Jehovah’s voice], so is the wicked no more: but the righteous is an everlasting [‘owlam] foundation.
26 As vinegar [is destructive] to the teeth, and as smoke [is blinding] to the eyes, so is the sluggard [refusing to work] to them that send him [as the LORD sends us in His name to do His work].
27 The fear of the LORD prolongs days: but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.
28 The hope of the righteous shall be gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.
29 The way of the LORD is strength to the upright: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.
30 The righteous shall never be removed: but the wicked shall not inhabit the earth.
31 The mouth of the just brings forth wisdom: but the froward tongue shall be cut out.
32 The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked speaks forwardness [twisting and perverting truth].

Hosea 8
1 Set the trumpet to your mouth. He shall come as an eagle [flying in heaven with full understanding] against the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law.
2 Israel shall [open their mouths and] cry unto me, My God, we know you.
3 Israel has cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue him [into the Red sea, as they have].
4 They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew it [them] not: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off.
5 Your calf, O Samaria [My people turned to idols put in MY place and called by My name], has cast you off; my anger is kindled against them: how long will it be ere they attain to innocence [claiming you haven’t done this]?
6 For from Israel was it also: the workman made it; therefore it is not God: but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.
7 For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind [cuwphah – this voice of the Almighty, as a trumpet calling all to gather to Him, away from idols into His ONE BODY]: it has no stalk; the bud shall yield no meal [because they are going their own ways and speaking their own words]: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.
8 Israel is swallowed up [into hell by the ever-open mouths of men]: now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein is no pleasure.
9 For they are gone up to Assyria [the communists in power], a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim has hired lovers.
10 Yea, though they have hired among the nations, now will I gather them, and they shall sorrow a little for the burden of the king of princes.
11 Because Ephraim has made many altars to sin, altars shall be unto him to sin.
12 I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing.
13 They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of my offerings, and eat it; but the LORD accepts them not; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit [paqad – as the Chief Overseer of the earth] their sins: they shall return to Egypt [a state of oppression under tyrants as they have].
14 For Israel has forgotten his Maker, and built temples; and Judah [the leadership of God’s people] has multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof.

Elihu (the God unknown speaking from the flesh), in Job 37:9, using the word cuwphah, defines the whirlwind as a massive amount of water in the cloud, the word of the Almighty, thundering understanding from where it was held, and by it changing (allasso and katallasso) the earth.

Job 36
24 Remember that you magnify his work [the effect of His word you receive as His, or not], which men behold.
25 Every man may see it; man may behold it afar off [rachowq – in this time when the world is ruled by the evil decrees of tyrants].
26 Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.
27 For he makes small [seeming to be insignificant, because they are sent through the lowly and powerless] the drops of water: they pour down rain [matar – His word through His martyrs] according to the vapor [‘ed, only appearing here and in Genesis 2:6 where it’s the “mist” that rose from the earth, revealing the LORD’s presence to ‘adamah, the human inhabitants of the earth, before making Adam, the first soul brought to life by this word from the mouth of God]. thereof:
28 Which the clouds [where understanding is held when it leaves the earth, held there in its separated elements] do drop and distil upon man abundantly.
29 Also can any understand the spreading of the clouds, or the noise of his tabernacle [the thunder, His voicing giving understanding, from the light]?
30 Behold, he spreads his light upon it, and covers the bottom [the darkened deep] of the sea [all humanity in ignorance of Him].
31 For by them [His word through His martyrs] judges he the people; he gives meat [this deep meaning that strengthens] in abundance.
32 With clouds he covers [this understanding withheld] the light; and commands it not to shine by the cloud that comes betwixt [reserving it there for this apocalypse, when it comes in the whirlwind].
33 The noise [rea’, meaning “a crash (of thunder), noise (of war), shout (of joy)”] thereof shows concerning it, the cattle [His flock upon whom it comes] also concerning the vapor [the word here is ’alah; saying it concerns the understanding that left: rose into the cloud in separated elements].

Job 37
1 At this also my heart trembles [by this understanding minds are shaken], and is moved out of his place [changed from ignorance to understanding].
2 Hear attentively [shama’ – obey] the noise of his voice, and the sound that goes out of his mouth.
3 He directs it under the whole heaven, and his lightning unto the ends of the earth [understand that ends the corrupt and brings the new to life].
4 After it a voice roars [as a lion among lions]: he thunders [the sound of the light, understanding, from the cloud] with the voice of his excellency; and he will not stay them [understanding] when his voice is heard [shama’ – obeyed, as His, as it is].
5 God thunders marvelously with his voice; great things does he, which we cannot comprehend [until He uncovers them by His revelation].
6 For he says to the snow [His word frozen, reserved, in heaven in the cloud], Be you on the earth; likewise to the small [matar] rain [the many martyrs through which the LORD’s word has come in the many diverse manners], and to the great [matar] rain [now through the son, in who all these many diverse conversations are congealed into one comprehensive message, which is the cuwphah: the end by Jehovah uncovered] of his strength [that gives understanding].
7 He seals up the hand of every man; that all men may know his work.
8 Then the beasts [without His Spirit] go into dens, and remain in their places [no longer trespassing into things they shouldn’t].
9 Out of the south comes the whirlwind [cuwphah – from His right hand of power; His work revealing His presence throughout eternity]: and cold out of the north.
10 By the breath [life in His Spirit from His mouth] of God frost is given: and the breadth of the waters is straitened [by His Spirit moving upon the darkened deep the waters are again rightly ordered, and light, understanding, comes into being].
11 Also by watering he wearies the thick cloud [emptying onto the earth the understanding held there in separated elements]: he scatters his bright cloud [sending these treasures of full light, hidden, covered therein]:
12 And it is turned round about by his counsels: that they may [obey Him and] do whatsoever he commands them upon the face of [paniym – when His presence is by these things revealed to] the world [this generation in this age] in the earth [‘erets].
13 He causes it to come, whether for correction, or for his land [‘erets – His earth], or for mercy.
14 Hearken unto this, O Job [you people of God who are hated in this darkened generation]: stand still, and consider [biyn – understand] the wondrous works [at which you wonder what you’re experiencing] of God [which you haven’t yet fully understood, evident in your refusal to obey His commands].
15 Do you know when God disposed them [ended the wondering], and caused the light [understanding] of his cloud to shine [upon the earth as it now does]?
16 Do you know the balancings of [maphlas – only appearing here, meaning what is poised therein: reserved to be sent at this appointed time from] the clouds, the wondrous works of him which is perfect in knowledge?
17 How your garments are warm [How you’re brought back to life], when he quiets the earth by the south wind [as His Spirit moves upon the earth, as a whirlwind from where His Almighty voice is heard cleansing it]?
18 Have you with him spread out the sky, which is strong, and as a molten looking glass [from where He sees everything that comes or will come]?
19 Teach us what we shall say unto him; for we cannot order our speech by reason of darkness [your own ignorance, by remaining with the corrupt who only know corruption].
20 Shall it be told him that I speak? if a man speaks [opposing Him], surely he shall be swallowed up [by his own words, thinking they will stand against the whirlwind of the Almighty].
21 And now men see not the bright light which is in the clouds: but the wind passes [‘abar – His Spirit moves, bringing them from death into life], and cleanses them [of the corruption that pollutes the earth].
22 Fair [calm] weather comes [‘athah – at the LORD’s arrival] out of the north [when corruption is cleansed from the ignorant]: with God is terrible majesty.
23 Touching the Almighty [whose voice is heard from the whirlwind], we cannot find him out: he is excellent in power, and in judgment, and in plenty of justice: he will not afflict.
24 Men do therefore fear him: he respects not any that are wise of heart [proud and unchangeable away from their corrupt thinking].

Isaiah 21
1 The burden of the desert [midbar] of the sea [place from where the whirlwind comes: beginning from the heat from a dry place where there is little water and then increasing over the sea]. As whirlwinds [cuwphah] 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 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 one who is] 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 [Edom {Esau} and meaning the silencing of the enemies in our midst – as in verse 2 above]. He called to me out of Seir [from among the devils in the high places of Esau], 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 [‘athah – at the LORD’s arrival], 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 [‘athah – at the LORD’s arrival].
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 {as a whirlwind}, 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 [‘athah – at the LORD’s arrival] 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.

Matthew 12
34 O generation of vipers [whose mouths are filled with poison], how can you, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
35 A good man out of the good treasure of the heart [this good word from the mouth of God] brings forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth evil things.
36 But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
37 For by your words you shall be justified, and by your words you shall be condemned.
38 Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees [the religious worshipping idols they call by My name, who have no idea who I Am] answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from you.
39 But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonah [who after coming from the belly of hell, calls all to repent, change, away from the corruption keeping them in the hell he escaped]:
40 For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the whale’s [ketos, from chasma: the great “gulf” between heaven and hell, which cannot be crossed without repenting from the words that self-condemn them into it, their open mouths the gates holding them in its] belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth [held there unseen, by the ignorance created by these same evil men in power].
41 The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall [obey and open their mouths with this good conversation] condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and, behold, a greater than Jonah is here.
42 The queen of the south [those who now see Him who they before only heard of] shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold [as she saw], a greater than Solomon is here. [1 Kings 10:6 And she said to the king, It was a true report that I heard in my own land of your acts and of your wisdom. 7 Howbeit I believed not the words, until I came, and my eyes had seen it: and, behold, the half was not told me: your wisdom and prosperity exceeds the fame which I heard. 8 Happy are your men, happy are these your servants, which stand continually before you, and that hear {shama’ – and obey} your wisdom. 9 Blessed be the LORD your God, which delighted in you, to set you on the throne of Israel: because the LORD loved Israel forever, therefore made he you king, to do judgment and justice.]
43 When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man [when he has repented of the corrupt that held him], he walketh through dry places [without this word of God], seeking rest, and finds none.
44 Then he says, I will return into my house [the corrupt churches] from whence I came out; and when he is come, he finds it empty, swept, and garnished [also cleanse, by His forgiveness, of corruption but also without this word of the LORD they refuse].
45 Then goes he [as dogs returning to their own vomit, and sows that were washed to their wallowing in the mire they again stir – their word that condemn them to remain in hell], and taketh with himself seven other spirits [the misleading of devils mixed among them] more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first [because he ignorantly believes he is saved, while he is taken deeper into the bottomless pit of hell]. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation.
46 While he yet talked to the people, behold, his mother and his brethren stood without, desiring to speak with him.
47 Then one said unto him, Behold, your mother and your brethren stand without, desiring to speak with you.
48 But he answered and said unto him that told him, Who is my mother? and who are my brethren?
49 And he stretched forth his hand toward his disciples, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren!
50 For whosoever shall DO [not just hear] the will of my Father which is in heaven [speaking from the place of full understanding, shaking heaven and earth], the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.

Nahum 1
1 The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite [the Comforter, who is also God the ensnarer].
2 God is jealous, and the LORD revenges; the LORD revenges, and is furious; the LORD will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserves wrath for his enemies.
3 The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the LORD has his way in the whirlwind [cuwphah – the end that comes with His uncovering] and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
4 He rebukes the sea, and makes it dry, and dries up all the rivers: Bashan languishes, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languishes.
5 The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein.
6 Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.
7 The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knows them that trust in him.
8 But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end [kalah] of the place thereof, and darkness [their own ignorance] shall pursue his enemies.
9 What do you imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter end [kalah]: affliction shall not rise up the second time.
10 For while they be folded together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.
11 There is one come out of you, that imagines evil [ra’] against the LORD, a wicked counselor [ya’ats].
12 Thus says the LORD; Though they be quiet [shalam – though they think their power is secure], and likewise many, yet thus shall they be cut down, when he shall pass through. Though I have afflicted you, I will afflict you no more.
13 For now will I break his yoke from off you, and will burst your bonds in sunder.
14 And the LORD has given a commandment concerning you, that no more of your name be sown: out of the house of your gods will I cut off [karath] the graven image and the molten image [maccekah – the vail of confusion upon all {the nations} who haven’t known me]: I will make your grave; for you are vile.
15 Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that brings good tidings, that publishes peace! O Judah, keep your solemn feasts, perform your vows [neder]: for the wicked shall no more pass through you; he is utterly cut off [karath].

Isaiah 30
1 Woe to the rebellious children, says the LORD, that take counsel, but not of me; and that cover [nacak – pour out] with a covering [maccekah], but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin:
2 That walk to go down into Egypt [and by this covering condemn yourselves into hell], and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh [the tyrants in power], and to trust in the shadow of Egypt!
3 Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.

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 [tsippuwy – the words in which you put your trust] of your graven images of silver, and the ornament of your molten images [maccekah – the vail of confusion] of gold [corruption this corrupt world values]: you shall cast them away as a menstruous cloth; you shall say unto it, Get you hence.
23 Then shall he give the rain [this word from heaven] of your seed [to bring life again to the earth], 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 [this pure food from heaven], which has been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.
25 And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every high hill, rivers and streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.
26 Moreover the light of the moon [the new civil government] shall be as the light [understanding] of the sun [of the LORD’s ONE BODY], and the light [the understanding] of the sun [Church] shall be sevenfold [perfected], as the light of seven days [the understanding of the full creation completed], in the day that the LORD binds up the breach of his people, and heals the stroke of their wound.
27 Behold, the name of the LORD comes from far [merchaq – this appointed time the LORD decreed, recognized in His manner as long ago], burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation [za’am], and his tongue as a devouring fire:
28 And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity: and there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing them to err.
29 You shall have a song [this word to be repeated as received], as in the night [in this time of darkness] when a holy solemnity [qadash – this time of cleansing] is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goes with a pipe [with this music] to come into the mountain of the LORD, to the mighty One of Israel.
30 And the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall show the lighting [understanding] down of his arm [by His works], with the indignation of his anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, with scattering, and tempest, and hailstones [this word frozen in heaven, sent against the current corrupt crop of leaders].
31 For through the voice of the LORD shall the Assyrian [the communists in power] be beaten down, which [He will] smote with a rod [this just law from My mouth].
32 And in every place where the grounded staff shall pass, which the LORD shall lay upon him, it shall be with tabrets and harps: and in battles of shaking [as in Hebrews 12] will he fight with it.
33 For Tophet [this place of fires] is ordained of old; yea, for the king it is prepared; he has made it deep and large: the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the breath of the LORD [whose words are a consuming fire], like a stream of brimstone, does kindle it.

Psalms 17
1 Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that go not out of feigned [deceiving] lips.
2 Let my sentence come forth from your presence; let your eyes behold the things that are equal.
3 You have proved my heart; you have visited [paqad – as the Chief Overseer] me in the night [this time when ignorance covers the earth]; 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 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 [you’ve instructed into seeing as you see], 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: with their mouths 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 – by 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 [chazah – perceive] your face [paniym – Your presence] in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with your likeness.

January 9, 2024

Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever.

6 – 8 January 2024

Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever.

As we know, the word most often rendered “forever” is ‘owlam, meaning “from 5956 [‘alam – to veil from sight]; properly, concealed, i.e. the vanishing point; generally, time out of mind (past or future), i.e. (practically) eternity; frequentatively, adverbial (especially with prepositional prefix) always.”

It (‘owlam) speak of all time, immortality, life as light (understanding), as both particle and wave, only revealed (unveiled) when they (waves of soul and spirit) interact (sabbath – interrupt) in one flesh (the veil behind which the immortal is hidden).

(Suffer me once again while I digress: I have a friend who is constantly posting things (memes) he believes disprove the existence of God. One of his latest attempts says because man has only a very recent concept of God, He (God) is, therefore, a creation of man. In the context of today’s conversation, has light always existed as both particle and wave, and man only observed it as such in the very early 1800s? The mechanics of the physical and the metaphysical reality, alike, have always existed and are only discovered as man’s ability to understand (observe) them increases, what was unseen (laws) appears, revealed by experiment, the experience of observation, realizing they exist simultaneously as one and both.)

The word above, in Psalms 23:6, rendered “forever” is ‘orek, meaning “length,” from the word ‘arak, (748) meaning to be (causatively make) long (literally or figuratively).” An identical word (‘arak, 749), means “(Aramaic) properly, corresponding to 748, but used only in the sense of reaching to a given point; to suit:–be meet.”

In the context of these definitions and our discussion of the “ark” (word similarity intended) in the previous post, (tebah – ark) means the intellectual argument the LORD constructed through Noah to save him and his family from being carried away by the flood when it came.

The first use of the word ‘orek comes in Genesis 6:15 where we are told it’s the “length” of the ark, the duration of its construction, “reaching to a given point,” salvation at an appointed time.

Genesis 6
15 And this is the fashion which you shall make it of: The length [‘orek] of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.

This is the topic of Psalms 23, the table prepared in the presence of our enemies (of which they are ignorant and therefore call foolishness, until the flood came and took them all away, now as in the days of Noah).

Psalms 23
1 The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
2 He makes me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.
3 He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.
4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for you are with me [always]; your rod [of correction] and your staff [to keep me on Your way] they comfort me.
5 You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies: you anoint my head with oil; my cup runs over.
6 Surely [Your] goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever [‘orek – where You awaken me and my children to understand our immortality].

The word ‘orek, the “length” of the ark in Genesis 6:15, only appears one other time in Genesis, in Genesis 13:17, where it’s the “length” of the earth the LORD tells Abram (Abraham) to walk through.

Genesis 13
11 Then [in the separation to end strife between the shepherds: leaders of flocks] Lot [meaning covered, as in those ignorant they are immortals veiled in flesh] chose him all the plain of Jordan [what we plainly see is the descent to death]; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other.
12 Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan [in the LORD’s promised abundance], and Lot dwelt in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom [among those whose way and words carry them into death and hell]. [See 2 Peter 2 below]
13 But the men of Sodom [men as flames setting the fires of hell] were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.
14 And the LORD said unto Abram [who understood and saw the promises far off {see Hebrews 11 below}, and knowing acted in faith and obeyed], after that Lot [as sheep scattered from this understand and purpose] was separated from him, Lift up now your eyes [understanding this future], and look from the place where you are northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward:
15 For all the land [‘ertes – the earth] which you see [understand is coming when all is fulfilled], to you will I give it, and to your seed [zera’ – those I will sow into the earth at that time] forever [‘ad ‘owlam – at that point in eternity, when I awaken all to their immortality].
16 And I will make [suwm – lay, put] your seed [zera’ – those I sow as Jezreel] as the dust [their dead flesh shall be the ruin upon the old and wholly corrupt earth]: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall your seed also be numbered [See 2 Kings 6:17 below, speaking of when all eyes are opened and we see those with us unseen are many more the those against us].
17 Arise, walk [from then until now] through the land [‘erets – the earth] in the length [‘orek] of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it unto you.
18 Then Abram removed his tent, and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre [understanding, seeing, the LORD’s power rebelling against what He saw with his flesh mind], which is in Hebron [meaning seat of association – speaking of communion, conversing with the LORD], and built there an altar unto the LORD [and his life became a sacrifice in which the LORD delights].

2 Kings 6
15 And when the servant [my children the LORD has given me] of the man of God was risen early, and gone forth, behold, a host compassed the city [now New Heavenly Jerusalem] both with horses and chariots. And his servant [as this city] said unto him, Alas, my master! how shall we do?
16 And he answered, Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that be with them.
17 And Elisha [the Salvation of God manifested in the flesh] prayed, and said, LORD, I pray you, open his eyes, that he may see. And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man [God’s people, the city in which He dwells]; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.
18 And when they came down to him, Elisha prayed unto the LORD, and said, Smite this people, I pray you, with blindness [the ignorant masses waring against us, seeing nothing]. And he smote them with blindness according to the word of Elisha.
19 And Elisha said unto them, This is not the way, neither is this the city: follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom you seek. But he led them to Samaria [the watch mountain, here where they realize they have worshipped idols men put in God’s place and called by His name, which blinded them and all the world].
20 And it came to pass, when they were come into [bow’ – entering the ark] Samaria, that Elisha said, LORD, open the eyes of these men, that they may see. And the LORD opened their eyes, and they saw; and, behold, they were in the midst of Samaria [they realized they were worshipping idols, and now saw the LORD plainly].
21 And the king of Israel said unto Elisha, when he saw them, My father, shall I smite them? shall I smite them?
22 And he answered, You shall not smite them: would you smite those whom you have taken captive with your sword and with your bow? set bread and water before them [giving them this word of God as received], that they may eat and drink, and go to their master [‘adown – their king].
23 And he prepared great provision for them: and when they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. So the bands [gduwd – the troop, invading army] of Syria [of evil attackers, communists and globalists] came no more [bow’ lo’ yacaph – neither entered or continued] into the land of Israel [the earth the LORD promised to His people].

2 Peter 1
11 For so an entrance [eisodos – as in entering {bow’} the ark, this intellectual argument] shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our LORD and Savior Jesus Christ.
12 Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though you know them, and be established in the [now] present truth.
13 Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;
14 Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our LORD Jesus Christ has shown me.
15 Moreover I will endeavor that you may be able after my decease [exodos – after leaving the old body {come to remembrance and out of the old body, which shall not remain}] to have these things always in remembrance.
16 For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our LORD Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
17 For he received from God the Father honor and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased [HEAR Him].
18 And this voice which came from heaven [when we received full understanding] we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount.
19 We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto you do well that you take heed, as unto a light that shines in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star [phosphoros] arise in your hearts:
20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Ghost [the LORD in them, unknown to the world and working all things toward this moment of awakening by His righteous interpretation].

2 Peter 2
1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily [secretly, from their own imaginations, create lies] shall bring in damnable [apoleia – that cause them and those who follow their ways to perish] heresies, even denying the LORD that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction [apoleia – perdition].
2 And many shall follow their pernicious [aploeia – the ways that lead to their own destruction] ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of [as it is this day].
3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned [fraudulent] words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingers not, and their damnation [apoleia – perishing, perdition] slumbers not [because they are awakened “to shame and everlasting contempt”].
4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;
5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
6 And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an example unto those that after should live ungodly;
7 And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:
8 (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)
9 The LORD knows how to deliver the godly [His people to whom He manifests His presence] out of temptations [doubting His presence], and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:
10 But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise [His just] government. Presumptuous [presuming He is without power to affect and change minds] are they, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities [His glory and power revealed].

2 Peter 3
3 Knowing this first, that there shall [have] come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God [this same word of God] the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition [apoleia] of ungodly men.
8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the LORD as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
9 The LORD is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
10 But the day of the LORD will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements [stoicheion – the corrupt foundational ideas and ways of men] shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements [stoicheion] shall melt with fervent heat?
13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein 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].

Hebrews 11
6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that comes to God must [by faith] believe that he is [God], and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
7 By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark [this intellectual argument centered on the word from the mouth of God] to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith [now as in the days of Noah].
8 By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.
9 By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:
10 For he looked for a city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
11 Through faith also Sarah herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.
12 Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.
13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
14 For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.
15 And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.
16 But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he has prepared for them a city.
17 By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son,
18 Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall your seed be called:
19 Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure.
20 By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come.
21 By faith Jacob, when he was a dying, blessed both the sons of Joseph; and worshipped, leaning upon the top of his staff.
22 By faith Joseph, when he died, made mention of the departing of the children of Israel; and gave commandment [entellomai] concerning his bones.
23 By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months of his parents, because they saw he was a proper child; and they were not afraid of the king’s commandment.
24 By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter;
25 Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;
26 Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward.
27 By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.
28 Through faith he kept the Passover, and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed the firstborn should touch them.
29 By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry land: which the Egyptians assaying to do were drowned.
30 By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were compassed about seven days.
31 By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not, when she had received the spies with peace.
32 And what shall I more say? for the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthae; of David also, and Samuel, and of the prophets:
33 Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions.
34 Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.
35 Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:
36 And others had trial of cruel mocking and scourging, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:
37 They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;
38 (Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.
39 And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise:
40 God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.

The “better” resurrection, spoken of above in verse 35, of those who suffer for Christ’s sake, taking up His cross, to do, obey, His will, is from the nineteen times used Greek word kreitton, meaning “stronger, i.e. (figuratively) better, i.e. nobler:–best, better.” Its affinity is to the twelve times used word kratos, meaning “vigor (“great”) (literally or figuratively):–dominion, might(-ily), power, strength.”

It (kreitton) is the same word rendered “better thing” in verse 40 and, in verse 16, describing the “better” city (resurrection) all these witnesses (martyrs) were seeking. The word appears one other time in Hebrews after this, in Hebrews 12:24, as we’re told of this city is (new) Heavenly Jerusalem, a state (of mind, reahced by the Father’s correction of His children) created by the one (whose blood: the sacrifice of himself) speaking “better” things, whose voice is shaking the wicked from heaven and earth.

The word also appears one time in Hebrews 10, in verse 34, where it speaks of correcting and shaking out wickedness, saying, “For you had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods [the worldly things you thought were valuable], knowing in yourselves that you have in [the destination city] heaven a better [kreitton] and an enduring substance.”

Hebrews 9
20 Saying, This [word of correction] is the blood of the testament which God has enjoined [entellomai – commanded and charged] unto you.
21 Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry [as in giving this word received].
22 And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
23 It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better [kreitton] sacrifices than these.
24 For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:
25 Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest enters into the holy place every year with blood of others;
26 For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world has he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
28 So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for [apekdechomai – fully expect] him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation. [This verse speaks of those whose sins He has “put way” at His appearing, as in verse 26 above, who’ve patiently waited from Him, expecting He will save them.]

John 15
7 If you abide [meno – continue, waiting patiently] in me, and my words abide in you, you shall ask what you will, and it shall be done unto you.
8 Herein is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit; so shall you be my disciples.
9 As the Father has loved me [giving me His word to be given as received], so have I loved you: continue you in my love [that His word abides in you, manifesting His presence into which you have entered].
10 If you keep [obey] my commandments, you shall abide in my love; even as I have kept [obeyed] my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love.
11 These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy [realizing His presence in His word] might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.
12 This is my commandment, That you love one another, as I have loved you [giving His word as received, and boldly declaring it His, from His mouth].
13 Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
14 You are my friends, if you [not only hear, but] do whatsoever I command [entellomai] you.
15 Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knows not what his LORD does: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.
16 You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that you should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever you shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.
17 These things I command [entellomai] you, that you love one another.
18 If the world hate you, you know that it hated me before it hated you.
19 If you were of the world, the world would love his own: but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the [the old and corrupt] world, therefore the world hates you.
20 Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his LORD. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.
21 But all these things will they do unto you for my name’s sake, because they know not him that sent me.
22 If I had not come and spoken unto them [the wicked who hold, and are held, captive in death and hell by their own corrupt minds], they had not had sin: but now they have no cloak for their sin.
23 He that hates me hates my Father also.
24 If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
25 But this comes to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law [in Psalms 35:19], They hated me without a cause. [Earlier verses in this Psalm describing their hate, saying, “11 False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not. 12 They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul. 13 But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into my own bosom.”]
26 But when the Comforter [The Paraclete: the LORD in me now working and speaking, against which the haters speak] is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceeds from the Father, he shall testify of me:
27 And you also [with these same words from the Father] shall bear witness, because you have been with me from the beginning.

Philippians 3
17 Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as you have us for an example.
18 (For many walk [their own ways, after the flesh, in the world], of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:
19 Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)
20 For our conversation [in which He manifests His presence] is in heaven; from whence [in this conversation] also we look for [apekdechomai – fully expect] the Savior, the LORD Jesus Christ:
21 Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.

Romans 8
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 [the interference of waves], that we are the children of God:
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 which shall be revealed in us.
19 For the earnest expectation of the creature waits for [apekdechomai – fully expects] the manifestation of the sons of God.
20 For the creature [the flesh] was made subject [hupotasso] to vanity [to obey what is worthless], not willingly, but by reason of him who has subjected [hupotasso] the same in hope [of what is waited for, and by faith fully expected],
21 Because the creature [the particle – the physical] 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 groans and travails in pain together until now [waiting for what is expected].
23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for [apekdechomai – fully expect] 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 [apekdechomai – fully expect] it.
26 Likewise the Spirit also helps our infirmities [the weakness in our flesh]: for we know not what we should pray for [speak] as we ought: but the Spirit itself makes intercession [huperentugchano – only used here, meaning over us effect in us] for us with groanings which cannot be uttered [by the flesh without Him].
27 And he that searches the hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because he makes intercession [entugchano – brings the effect in us, changing “our vile flesh,” as in Philippians 3:21 above] for the saints according to the will of God.
28 And we know that all [these better] things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?

Hebrews 10
5 Wherefore when he comes into the world, he says, Sacrifice and offering you would not, but a body [through which You will speak] have you prepared me:
6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you have had no pleasure.
7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do your will, O God.
8 Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin you would not, neither had pleasure therein; which are offered by the law; [2 Peter 1:16 For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our LORD Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty. 17 For he received from God the Father honor and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased {HEAR Him}.]
9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do your will, O God. He take away the first, that he may establish the second [taking away the sacrifice in which He has no pleasure, because it is superficial, only covering sin, never changing the mind to take it away, and in its place inaugurating the sacrifice that pleases Him, long-suffering to change minds, taking away the corruption by His word, His power, that effectually does the work].
10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
11 And every priest stands daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:
12 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God [from where His power is ministered];
13 From henceforth expecting till his enemies [haters] be made his footstool.
14 For by one offering he has perfected forever them that are sanctified [made holy, cleared of men’s 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 [making it the foundation of their thought process], 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 [the presence of the Father] by the blood [willing sacrifice] of Jesus [manifesting Jehovah’s Salvation],
20 By a new and living way, which he has consecrated [inaugurated] for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;
21 And having a high priest [administrating this dispensation, as His chief overseer] over the house of God;
22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled [with the blood of His sacrifice] 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 [speaking His word, in which is the power that effectually works to change the minds of men]:
25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together [episunagoge – only appearing here and in 2 Thessalonians 2:1 where it’s our “gather together” to the LORD Jesus Christ, that only comes after the falling way, the word meaning the complete collection, into His ONE BODY], as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as you see the day [this light, understanding] approaching.
26 For if we sin willfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more sacrifice for sins,
27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
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.
32 But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after you were illuminated, you endured a great fight of afflictions;
33 Partly, whilst you were made a gazing-stock [held up for public mocking by those who hate us without cause] both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst you became companions of them that were so used.
34 For you had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that you have in heaven a better [kreitton] and an enduring substance.
35 Cast not away therefore your confidence [waiting for things fully expected], which has great recompence of reward.
36 For you have need of patience, that, after you have done the will of God [speaking as commanded], you might receive the promise.
37 For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.
38 Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back [hupostello – fearing, hold back this word], my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
39 But we are not of them who draw back [hupostole] unto perdition [apoleia]; but of them that believe [that this word is the word from the mouth of God] to the saving of the soul.

When Paul, the LORD through (in) him speaking, in 2 Thessalonians 2, tells of the falling away (the apostasy that comes before the LORD appears to gather His people into His ONE BODY) of and to the wicked, in the who the spirit of Satan works his power to deceive, with lying signs and wonders, he is defining all who now lead God’s people in church and state. Now, as they were already working in Paul’s time, they are those who sit before God’s people, in His place, as if they are Him, to oppose the love of His truth, which is against them, their false teaching, and their positions as lords over God’s people.

As we know, they are the same wicked people, spoken of earlier in 1 Thessalonians 2, as Satan not allowing this word of God to be spoken to those who haven’t heard it as the word of God, as it is. These are the same wicked and unreasonable men spoken of in 2 Thessalonians 3, who aren’t giving this word free course, saying, from them we should pray to be delivered.

1 Thessalonians 2
11 As you know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father does his children,
12 That you would walk worthy of God [renouncing “the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God. 3 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: 4 In whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light {understanding} of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.” 2 Corinthians 4], who has called you unto his kingdom and glory.
13 For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when you received the word of God which you heard of us [exactly as here and now], you received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually works [as the power changing your minds] also in you that believe.
14 For you, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judah are in Christ Jesus: for you also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews:
15 Who both killed the LORD Jesus [as the false teachers and devil among us have, through their blinding corruption], and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:
16 Forbidding us to speak [this word of God, as received] to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins always: for the wrath [the LORD’s vengeance in the same word, as is spoken of in Hebrews 10:30, quoting Deuteronomy 32:35 & 36] is come upon them to the uttermost.
17 But we, brethren, being taken from you for a short time in presence, not in heart, endeavored the more abundantly to see [the LORD’s presence manifest in] your face with great desire.
18 Wherefore we would have come unto you, even I Paul, once and again; but Satan [the spirit in them working] hindered us.
19 For what is our hope [we wait for and fully expect], or joy [the LORD’s presence realized in you], or crown of rejoicing [when He is realized working and speaking in us]? Are not even you [who’ve received this word of God as His word, as it is] in the presence of our LORD Jesus Christ at his coming?
20 For you are our glory [when His presence is in you manifested] and joy [realized by you and those who through you hear and obey Him].

Deuteronomy 32
28 For they [My people who haven’t yet heard My voice or realized My presence] are a nation void of [good] counsel, neither is there any understanding in them.
29 O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end [‘achariyth]!
30 How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up?
31 For their rock [men from whom flows advice in which they trust] is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.
32 For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter:
33 Their wine is the poison of dragons [serpents poisoning minds, and with their mouths swallowing men into hell], and the cruel venom of asps.
34 Is not this [this understanding reserved] laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures [which I reveals as My vengeance]?
35 To me belongs vengeance and recompense; their foot shall slide in due time [see Psalms 73:18 below]: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.
36 For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself [saying it is enough, and it’s time to cut it short] for his servants [for the elect’s sake, or else no flesh would survive], when he sees that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left [with understanding].
37 And he shall say, Where are their gods [their idol they put in My place and call by My name], their rock [their gods, whose corrupt judgment has misled them into self-destrution] in whom they trusted,
38 Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offerings? let them rise up and help you, and be your protection.
39 See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.
40 For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever.
41 If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me.

2 Thessalonians 2
1 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our LORD Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together [apeksunogoge – at His complete collection of His people into His ONE BODY] unto him,
2 That you be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day [the time of light, understanding, returned] of Christ is at hand.
3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day [full understanding returns] shall not come, except there come a falling away [apostasia – standing away from God and His truth, with those who’ve led there by putting themselves in His place, who now resist and oppose Him] first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition [the many in the pattern of Reuben, who put himself in his father’s place and lost his birthright];
4 Who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sits in the temple of God [in His place], showing himself that he is God.
5 Remember you not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
6 And now you know what withholds [katecho – holds down, keeping God’s people from rising] that he might be revealed in his time [all the men putting themselves in God’s place, from then until now, who resist and oppose this true word of God, because it opposes them and their confusion by which they rule].
7 For the mystery of iniquity does already work: only he who now lets [katecho – hold God’s people down] will let, until he be taken out of the way [mesos – from among us].
8 And then [when this word of God has free course and is exalted above the corrupt words of men] shall that Wicked be revealed [apokaloupto – the apocalypse], whom the LORD shall consume with the spirit of his mouth [these words He is speaking, as a sword of righteousness], and shall destroy with the brightness [full understanding given] of his coming:
9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of [the apostasia – falling away from God and truth, led by the spirit of resistance] Satan with all power [to darken the minds of men] and signs and lying wonders,
10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that [following them] perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
11 And for this cause [choosing to remain in apostacy, following those siting in God’s place] God shall send them strong delusion [insanity now destroying the old and corrupt world], that they should believe a lie:
12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
13 But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethren beloved of the LORD, because God has from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit [cleansing you in these pure waters] and belief of the truth:
14 Whereunto he called you by our gospel [believing He is with us, in us speaking and working], to the obtaining of the glory [the manifested presence] of our LORD Jesus Christ.
15 Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions [paradosis – transmitted, given as received] which you have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.
16 Now our LORD Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which has loved us, and has given us everlasting consolation [paraklesis – the Paraclete, who is with us always, leading us into all truth] and good hope [of the expected end] through grace [the gift of these treasures],
17 Comfort your hearts [parakaleo – receive the message, this conversation with the LORD, into your minds], and stablish you [by this present truth] in every good word and work.

2 Thessalonians 3
1 Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the LORD may have free course, and be glorified, even as it is with you [received as the word of God, and not of man]:
2 And that we may be delivered from unreasonable [men who can’t be reasoned with] and wicked men: for all men have not faith.
3 But the LORD is faithful, who shall establish you [in this present truth], and keep you from evil.
4 And we have confidence in the LORD touching you [His word effectually working in you], that you both do and will do [and not just hear] the things which we command you.
5 And the LORD direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ.
6 Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our LORD Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother that walks disorderly, and not after the tradition [paradosis – transmitted, given word] which he received of us.

Hebrews 1
10 And, You, LORD, in the beginning have laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of your hands:
11 They shall perish; but you remain; and they all shall wax old as does a garment;
12 And as a vesture shall you fold them up, and they shall be changed: but you are the same, and your years shall not fail.
13 But to which of the angels [the messengers He’s sent] said he at any time, Sit on my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool?
14 Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation? [Are they not all told to, by faith, go, speaking and working this work of the LORD, manifesting His presence, His salvation, in their flesh?]

Hebrews 2
1 Therefore, we ought to give the more earnest heed [obedience] to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.
2 For if the word spoken by angels was steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward;
3 How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the LORD, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him [from His flesh He prepared for Himself – His ONE BODY in which He dwells];
4 God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts [these treasures revealed] of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will?

Hebrews 12
21 And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:)
22 But you are come unto mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels [messengers sent with this message, to the heirs of salvation to be revealed in these last days of darkness],
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 speak better [kreitton] 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 from heaven [this place of full understanding, from the right hand of God the Father]:
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 [these treasures we’ve received], whereby we may [obey and] serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
29 For our God is a consuming fire.

Psalms 73
1 Truly God is good to Israel [the children who receive His promise], even to such as are of a clean heart [a mind whose foundation is not corrupted].
2 But as for me [the children who remain in rebellion, ignorantly refusing His dominion], my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped.
3 For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
4 For there are no bands [they are unrestrained] in their death: but their strength [to mislead the world] is firm.
5 They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men.
6 Therefore pride [in their success] compasses them about as a chain [with which they ignorantly bind themselves and those who join them]; violence covers them as a garment.
7 Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.
8 They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily [of how they rule the world].
9 They set their mouth against the heavens [against all understanding], and their tongue walks through the earth [corrupting all discourse].
10 Therefore his people return hither [here to this pure word of God]: and [unpolluted] waters of a full cup are wrung out to them.
11 And they [ignorantly] say [of this word], How does God know? and is there knowledge in the Most High?
12 Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in [worldly] riches.
13 Truly I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocence.
14 For all the day long have I been plagued [by the wicked who prosper], and chastened every morning [by the LORD’s correction of the ungodly].
15 If I say, I will speak thus [with the understanding He has given]; behold, I should offend against the generation of your children.
16 When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me;
17 Until I went into the sanctuary of God [dwelling in Him]; then understood I their end [‘achariyth – these last days].
18 Surely you did set them in slippery places: you cast them down into destruction.
19 How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.
20 As a dream when one awakes; so, O LORD, when you awaken, you shall despise their image.
21 Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins.
22 So foolish was I [refusing to speak Your word, which is the sudden end of the wicked], and ignorant: I was as a beast before you.
23 Nevertheless I am continually with you: you have holden me by my right hand.
24 You shall guide me with your counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.
25 Whom have I in heaven but you? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside you.
26 My flesh and my heart fails: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion forever.
27 For, lo, they that are far from you shall perish: you have destroyed all them that go a whoring from you.
28 But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the LORD God, that I may [with an obedient mouth] declare all your works.

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

January 6, 2024

For as the earth brings forth her bud, and as the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the LORD God will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.

4 – 5 January 2024

For as the earth brings forth her bud, and as the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the LORD God will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.

In the above, Isaiah 61:11, what is “sown” and brings forth the bud is the “seed,” God’s enlightened people, spoken of earlier in verse 9. Their springing forth is heard in their (one coherent) voice of “praise,” in which the LORD’s righteousness is heard in and through them.

The word rendered “praise” is the fifty-seven times used word thillah, always rendered the same, meaning “from 1984; laudation; specifically (concretely) a hymn.” The word (1984) it’s derived from is halal (as in hallelujah, meaning praise Jah: Yahh, as in Jehovah or Jehovih), meaning (with my, the LORD’s in and through me, additions in brackets) “to be clear (orig. of sound, but usually of color [light rightly divided into the rainbow]); to shine; hence, to make a show, to boast [of His presence]; and thus to be (clamorously) foolish [for Christ’s sake, manifesting Jah’s presence in our flesh, which is foolishness to the ignorant]; to rave [be zealous in His righteousness]; causatively, to celebrate; also to stultify [the ignorant hearing it].”

These meanings are seen in the LORD’s example when He first speaks it to the ignorant gathered in the LORD’s name: God’s people who are unknowingly held thereby (in ignorance).

The passage below comes just after the LORD has overcome the world, the devil’s tempting Him to deny the Father’s presence in Him. As we know, the devil’s tempting Him ends with His quoting Deuteronomy 6:16, which refers to the events of Exodus 17:2 – 7, when water flowed from the Rock (the word of God in and through Christ).

Luke 4
12 And Jesus answering said unto him, It is said [repeating what is heard from the mouth of the LORD, and written in Deuteronomy 6:16], You shall not tempt the LORD your God.
13 And when the devil had ended all the temptation [trying to make His doubt the LORD was present in Him, evident by His word heard from Him], he departed from him for a season.
14 And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee: and there went out a fame of him [the rumor the LORD was alive in Him] through all the region round about.
15 And he taught in their synagogues, being glorified of all.
16 And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read.
17 And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Isaiah. And when he had opened [as in Isaiah 22:22 from the previous post, saying “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”] the book, he found [as I did this day to Isaiah 61:11] the place [Isaiah 61:1 & 2] where it was written,
18 “The Spirit of the LORD is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor [those without worldly power]; he has sent me to heal the brokenhearted [whose minds have been broken, blinded, by the gods of this world], to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to [by this truth] set at liberty them that are bruised,
19 To preach the acceptable year of the LORD.” [This verse is only the first half of Isaiah 61:2, which represent the abeyance, the time between then and now, when the book was then closed and is now opened again in these last days of darkness {‘achariyth}.]
20 And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him.
21 And he began to say unto them, “This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.”

Deuteronomy 6
1 Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that you might do them in the land [‘erets – the earth] whither you go to possess it:
2 That you might fear the LORD your God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, you, and your son, and your son’s son, all the days of your life; and that your days may be prolonged.
3 Hear [sham’ – obey] therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with you, and that you may increase mightily, as the LORD God of your fathers has promised you, in the land that flows with milk and honey [this teaching by which men learn to choose good and refuse evil].
4 Hear [shama’ – obey], O Israel [My people who, by faith, not doubting, receive this promise]: The LORD our God is one LORD [Jesus the same, yesterday, today, and foever: Jehovah’s Salvation manifested in the flesh of His anointed: the perpetual son first, the head to bring forth His ONE BODY in which He, as One, dwells]:
5 And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might.
6 And these words, which I command you this day, shall be in your heart:
7 And you shall teach them diligently unto your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lay down, and when you rise up.
8 And you shall bind them for a sign upon your hand, and they shall be as frontlets [in the forefront of you minds] between your eyes [by which your sight comes].
9 And you shall write them upon the posts of your house, and on your gates [repeating these same words everywhere to everyone].
10 And it shall be, when the LORD your God shall have brought you into the land [‘erets – this earth and this time] which he swore unto your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you great and goodly cities, which you built not [but are product of your forefather obeying My commandments],
11 And houses full of all good things, which you filled not, and wells digged, which you digged not, vineyards and olive trees, which you planted not; when you shall have eaten and be full;
12 Then beware lest you forget the LORD [Jehovah], which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
13 You shall fear the LORD your God, and serve him [obeying His commandments], and shall swear by his name.
14 You shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people which are round about you [whose ways and ideas are the way into death and hell];
15 (For the LORD your God is a jealous God [always] among you [only hidden in the ignorance produced by following the gods of this world onto blindness, a in 2 Corinthians 4:3 & 4, saying “But if our gospel {this good news of God always with us} be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: In whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of them which believe not {doubting and deny His presence}, lest the light {understanding} of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.”]) lest the anger of the LORD your God be kindled against you, and destroy you from off the face of the earth.
16 You shall not tempt the LORD your God, as you tempted him in Massah [the “temptation” of Exodus 17:2 – 7].
17 You shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and his testimonies [this word from His mouth, written to be given as received, as hymns of praise in which His righteousness is revealed], and his statutes, which he has commanded you.
18 And you shall do that which is right and good in the sight of the LORD [seeing as He sees, not a man sees with darkened, blinded, eyes]: that it may be well with you, and that you mayest go in and possess the good land which the LORD swore unto your fathers.
19 To cast out all your enemies from before you, as the LORD has spoken.
20 And when your son asks you in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD our God has commanded you?
21 Then you shall say unto your son [all My children], We were Pharaoh’s bondmen in Egypt; and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand:
22 And the LORD showed signs and wonders, great and sore, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his household, before our eyes:
23 And he brought us out from thence, that he might bring us in, to give us the land [‘erets – this earth] which he swore unto our fathers.
24 And the LORD commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the LORD our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as it is at this day.
25 And it shall be our righteousness [heard in our praise], if we observe to do all these commandments before the LORD our God, as he has commanded us.

2 Corinthians 4
5 For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the LORD; and ourselves your servants for Jesus’ sake.
6 For God, who commanded the light [understanding] to shine out of darkness [this time of ignorance], has shined in our hearts [enlightening our minds], to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face [presence] of Jesus Christ [Jehovah’s Salvation manifested in the flesh].
7 But we have this treasure [this understanding] in earthen vessels [our flesh], that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
8 We are troubled on every side, yet [by our faith in His presence] not distressed; we are perplexed, but [by faith in His presence] not in despair;
9 Persecuted, but [by faith in His presence] not forsaken; cast down, but [by faith in His presence] not destroyed;
10 Always bearing about in the body the dying of the LORD Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest [present] in our [flesh] body.
11 For we which live are always delivered unto death [the necessary cross that comes with delivering His word and declaring His presence with us, in us] for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest [present] in our mortal flesh.
12 So then death worketh in us, but [His] life in you.
13 We having the same spirit of faith [that He is present], according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken [in His name taken up His cross]; we also believe, and therefore speak;
14 Knowing that he which raised up the LORD Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus, and shall present us with you.
15 For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace [this gift of these treasures] might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.
16 For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward [unseen immortal] man is renewed day by day.
17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory [in this resurrection];
18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal [temporary]; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

When the LORD closed the book, recorded in Luke 4 above, when He laid down His life for us, is patterned in His ending His reading in the middle of Isaiah 61:2.

John 10
14 I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.
15 As the Father knows me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.
16 And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.
17 Therefore does my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.
18 No man takes it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.
19 There was a division therefore again among the Jews for these sayings.
20 And many of them said, He has a devil, and is mad; why hear you him?
21 Others said, These are not the words of him that has a devil. Can a devil open the eyes of the blind?

Isaiah 61
1 The Spirit of the LORD God is upon me; because the LORD has anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek [who inherit the earth]; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;
2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD,

[And he closed the book as sat down at the right hand of the Father, until His enemies are made His footstool – which comes now: the day of the LORD’s vengeance: opening of the book again, in the uncovering: the apocalypse, when He is resurrected before the eyes of an ignorant world ended in self-ruin, upon which the new is built.]

and [today is] the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort [lead into full understanding] all that mourn [realizing man is dead in hell];
3 To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy [the realization of the LORD’s presence with us, in us] for mourning, the garment of praise [thillah – putting on the engrafted word] for the spirit of heaviness [burdened without it]; that they might be called trees of [springing forth the LORD’s] righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.
4 And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations.
5 And strangers [those who haven’t known Me or My ways] shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.
6 But you shall be named the Priests of the LORD: men shall call you the Ministers of our God [administering this word as received]: you shall eat the riches of the Gentiles [those who, when ignorance covered the earth, didn’t know Me], and in their glory [when they awaken] shall you boast yourselves.
7 For your shame you shall have double; and for confusion [when they were dead and in darkness] they shall rejoice in their portion [this inheritance that has come upon them because it has come to us]: therefore in their land [‘erets – the earth they destroyed by the ignorance] they shall possess the double [blessing, theirs and ours]: everlasting joy [the LORD’s presence realized in His blessing all humanity] shall be unto them.
8 For I the LORD love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt offering; and I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.
9 And their seed [the upright I have planted as My elect remnant] shall be known among the Gentiles [the ignorant who haven’t known Me, and until now haven’t heard My mercy in this conversation], and their offspring [the children of My correction] among the people: all that see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed which the LORD has blessed.
10 I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation, he has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom deck himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorn herself with her jewels.
11 For as the earth brings forth her bud [this new life shooting forth], and as the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the LORD God will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.

Matthew 24
30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds [as the latter rain, returning full understand to the earth] of heaven with power and great glory.
31 And he shall send his angels [messengers with this same message, as lightning giving light, as received] with a great sound of a trumpet [the voice of the LORD, announcing His presence and calling all to gather into His ONE BODY to hear His one message], and they shall gather together his elect [for whose sake He is speaking] from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
32 Now learn a parable of the fig tree [He is planting in the earth]; When his branch is yet tender, and put forth leaves [new life], you know that summer [the time of greater light and heat, when all things grow] is nigh:
33 So likewise you, when you shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.
34 Truly I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.
35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
36 But of that day and hour knows no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
37 But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day [spoken of in Genesis 7:13] that Noah entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken [as by the flood], and the other left.
41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken [as by the flood], and the other left.
42 Watch therefore: for you know not what hour your LORD does come.
43 But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up [taken away, as by the flood].
44 Therefore be you also ready: for in such an hour as you think not the Son of man comes.
45 Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his LORD has made ruler over his household, to give them meat [the deep understand that strengthens] in due season?
46 Blessed is that servant, whom his LORD when he comes shall find so doing [giving this deep understanding, as received, as the LORD commands].
47 Truly I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.
48 But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My LORD delays his coming;
49 And shall begin to smite his fellow-servants, and to eat and drink with the drunken [whose minds are stultified];
50 The LORD of that servant shall come in a day when he looks not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of [because they are stultified],
51 And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth [sorrowing for what they had and lost through neglect].

The LORD, above in verse 38, tells us the day of His coming is in the pattern of the day Noah entered the ark, after he long suffered his generation.

Hebrews 11
6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that comes to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
7 By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.

1 Peter 3
12 For the eyes of the LORD are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the LORD is against them that do evil.
13 And who is he that will harm you, if you be followers of that which is good [this word from the mouth of God]?
14 But and if you suffer for [speaking this] righteousness’ sake, happy are you: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled [by the flood that will take the evil speakers away];
15 But sanctify [declare holy] the LORD God in your hearts [minds]; and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asks you a reason [seeing the unseen] of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:
16 Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in [speaking in the name of] Christ.
17 For it is better, if the will of God be so, that you suffer for well doing [speaking His word], than for evil doing.
18 For Christ also has once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit [in us bringing us to life]:
19 By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison [the dead here in hell];
20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
21 The like figure whereunto even baptism [the flood now upon the world] does also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer [opening your mouths] of a good conscience [a corrected mind] toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ [bringing us from death into life by His rising with us, in us]:
22 Who is gone into heaven [this state of mind, full understanding, raising Him and us out of death and hell], and is on the right hand [with the full power and authority] of God; angels [messengers in His name] and authorities [all the institutions of government in church and state] and powers being made subject [hupotasso – obedient] unto him.

Here (following) is the moment Noah entered the ark; the pattern of end reached when faith and obedience are fulfilled, condemning the old and wholly corrupt world.

22 Thus did Noah [not just hearing but also doing, making the ark over these many years, as a fool for the LORD’s sake]; according to all that God commanded him, so did he.

Job 35
1 Elihu [God unknown] spoke moreover, and said,
2 Think you this to be right, that you said, My righteousness is more than God’s?
3 For you said, What advantage will it be unto you? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin [your wrong ways you claim are correct while rejecting the LORD’s correction]?
4 I will answer you, and your companions with you.
5 Look unto the heavens, and see [understand]; and behold the clouds [where the LORD has reserved these treasures for Himself] which are higher than you.
6 If you sin, what do you against him? or if your transgressions be multiplied, what do you unto him?
7 If you be righteous, what give you him? or what receives he of your hand?
8 Your wickedness may [does] hurt a man as you are; and your righteousness [if you were corrected and receive My Righteousness] may profit the son[s] of man.
9 By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm [the work of oppression] of the mighty.
10 But none says, “Where is God my maker, who gives songs in the night [this word in the time of ignorance];
11 Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the fowls of heaven?”
12 There they [the oppressed] cry, but none gives answer [speaking these words and declaring the LORD is present], because of the pride of evil men.
13 Surely God will not hear [shama’ – obey the requests] vanity [shav’ – of those who speak their own incorrect words in His name – if they speak not according to this word it is because there is no light or life in them], neither will the Almighty regard it.
14 Although you [right now] say you shall not see him, yet judgment is before him [manifesting His presence, which you deny]; therefore, trust you in him.
15 But now, because it is not so [because of your unbelief], he has visited [paqad – come as the Chief Overseer of the earth] in his anger; yet he knows it not in great extremity:
16 Therefore does Job [continue to] open his mouth in vain [with worthless words]; he multiplies words without knowledge.

2 Peter 1
11 For so an entrance [eisodos – into the kingdom of God] shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our LORD and Savior Jesus Christ.
12 Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though you know them, and be established in the present truth.
13 Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;
14 Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our LORD Jesus Christ has shown me.
15 Moreover I will endeavor that you may be able after my decease [exodos – after leaving the old body {come to remembrance and out of the old body, which shall not remain}] to have these things always in remembrance.
16 For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our LORD Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
17 For he received from God the Father honor and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased [HEAR Him].
18 And this voice which came from heaven [when we received full understanding] we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount.
19 We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto you do well that you take heed, as unto a light that shines in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star [phosphoros] arise in your hearts:
20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Ghost [the LORD in them, unknown to the world and working all things toward this moment of awakening by His righteous interpretation].

2 Peter 3
3 Knowing this first, that there shall [have] come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God [this same word of God] the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition [apoleia] of ungodly men.
8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the LORD as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
9 The LORD is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
10 But the day of the LORD will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements [stoicheion – the corrupt foundational ideas and ways of men] shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements [stoicheion] shall melt with fervent heat?
13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein 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].

Psalms 88
1 O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you:
2 Let my prayer come before you: incline your ear unto my cry;
3 For my [immortal] soul is full of troubles [saba’ ra’ – has had enough of this evil]: and my life draws nigh unto the grave [Sheol – I Am alive among the dead here in hell].
4 I Am counted with them that go down into the pit [as if held in the prison of men’s mire: the ignorance in which they continually wallow]: I Am [to them] as a man that has no strength [understanding]:
5 Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom you rememberest no more: and they are cut off from your hand [Your power].
6 You have laid me in the lowest pit [the deepest part of men’s bottomless pit], in darkness [among complete ignorance], in the deeps [when men have no concept or comprehension of your ways or presence].
7 Your wrath [as planned] lies hard upon me [as I long-suffer in Your name], and you have afflicted me with all your waves [of the proud men who refuse Your correction, the foils against which Your good is revealed]. Selah.
8 You have put away my acquaintance far from me; you have made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up [by their darkness], and I cannot come forth.
9 My eye mourns by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon you, I have stretched out my hands unto you.
10 Will you show wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise you? Selah.
11 Shall your lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or your faithfulness in destruction [‘abaddown]?
12 Shall your wonders be known in the dark [among the ignorant]? and your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness [of those who’ve forgotten You]?
13 But unto you have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning [in this new day come] shall my prayer [this conversation] prevent you [come into Your presence].
14 LORD, why [mah – what is it that is] cast you off my soul [causing My ONE BODY to reject me]? why hide you your face from [which hides Your presence in] me?
15 I Am afflicted and ready to die [for Your righteous cause] from my youth up: while I [long] suffer your terrors [to teach men the fear of God] I Am distracted [puwn – turned way by those perplexed by Your word].
16 Your fierce wrath [this word sent against those who refuse it] goes [‘abar] over me [Passes me Over the words of the dead]; your terrors [the fear of God] have cut me off [from the dead].
17 They [the dead] came round about me daily like water [the words of those ignorant of Your presence]; they compassed [attack] me about together.
18 Lover and friend have you put far [rachaq – with their evil decrees] from me, and my acquaintance into darkness [ignorance of me].

The word tabuwn, the intelligent argument that brings the old world to ruin, describes qualities only the LORD possesses.

Psalms 136
1 O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endures forever.
2 O give thanks unto the God of gods: for his mercy endures forever.
3 O give thanks to the LORD of lords: for his mercy endures forever.
4 To him who alone does great wonders: for his mercy endures forever.
5 To him that by wisdom [tabuwn] made the heavens: for his mercy endures forever.
6 To him that stretched out the earth above the waters: for his mercy endures forever.
7 To him that made great lights: for his mercy endures forever:

Proverbs 21
20 There is treasure [this understand that comes from the LORD alone] to be desired and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man spends it up.
21 He that follows after righteousness and mercy finds life, righteousness, and honor.
22 A wise man scales the city of the mighty, and casts down the strength of the confidence thereof.
23 Whoso keeps his mouth and his tongue keep is soul from troubles.
24 Proud and haughty scorner is his name, who deals in proud wrath.
25 The desire of the slothful [refusing to do the work] kills him; for his hands refuse to labor.
26 He covets greedily all the day long: but the righteous gives [this word the world needs] and spares not.
27 The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination: how much more, when he bringeth it with a wicked mind?
28 A false witness shall perish: but the man that hears [shama’ – obeys] speaks constantly.
29 A wicked man hardens his face: but as for the upright, he [the LORD] directs his way.
30 There is no wisdom nor understanding [tabuwn] nor counsel against the LORD.
31 The horse is prepared against [to strengthen a man position in] the day of battle: but safety [sanctuary] is of the LORD.

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

Isaiah 43
21 This people have I formed for myself; they shall show forth my praise [thillah – these songs I’ve written to be repeated as received].
22 But you have not called upon me, O Jacob; but you have been weary of me, O Israel.
23 You have not brought me the small cattle of your burnt offerings; neither have you honored me with your sacrifices. I have not caused you to serve with an offering, nor wearied you with incense.
24 You have bought me no sweet cane with money, neither have you filled me with the fat of your sacrifices: but you have made me to serve with your sins, you have wearied me with your iniquities.
25 I, even I, am he that blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and will not remember your sins.
26 Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare you, that you mayest be justified.
27 Your first father has sinned, and your teachers have transgressed against me.
28 Therefore I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and have given Jacob to the curse, and Israel to reproach.

Psalms 56
1 Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresses me.
2 My enemies would daily swallow me up: for they be many that fight against me, O you Most High.
3 What time I am afraid, I will trust in you.
4 In God I will praise [halal – repeat as received] his word, in God I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do unto me.
5 Every day they wrestle [with] my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil.
6 They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.
7 Shall they escape by iniquity? in your anger cast down the people, O God.
8 You tell my wanderings: put you my tears into your bottle: are they not in your book?
9 When I cry unto you, then shall my enemies turn back: this I know; for God is for me.
10 In God will I praise [halal – repeat] his word: in the LORD will I praise [halal – repeat] his word.
11 In God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man can do unto me.
12 Your vows are upon me, O God: I will render praises unto you.
13 For you have delivered my soul from death: will not you deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before [paniym – in the presence of] God in the light [understanding] of the living?

January 3, 2024

And you, O tower of the flock, the strong hold of the daughter of Zion, unto you shall it come, even the first dominion; the kingdom shall come to the daughter of Jerusalem.

30 December 2023 – 2 January 2024

And you, O tower of the flock, the strong hold of the daughter of Zion, unto you shall it come, even the first dominion; the kingdom shall come to the daughter of Jerusalem.

The above-mentioned “dominion” is from the sixteen times used Hebrew word memshalah. Its first uses describe the sun and the moon created to “rule” the day and night. As we know, these are church and state governments in times of light and darkness: the church, when understanding covers the earth, and, when this light is absent, the state when (in its many phases) ignorance does. Both of these institutions were initially created to shine the LORD’s light upon the earth, ruling as he rules, with truth and justice, which is the American way (USA as Consituted to securing these God-given rights). As is evident to all not living in an altered state of reality, the light left (and with it the recognition of reality) the church first, and with this occurring, the moon waned into (now) total darkness.

The “first dominion” of Daniel 7 is that spoken of in the previous post. In the context of the above description, the same is described in Psalms 136:8 & 9. The foretelling of the death and resurrection of the same (just dominion) also appears in other passages below.

Psalms 136
1 O give thanks unto the Lord; for he is good: for his mercy endures forever.
2 O give thanks unto the God of gods: for his mercy endures forever.
3 O give thanks to the Lord of lords: for his mercy endures forever.
4 To him who alone does great wonders: for his mercy endures forever.
5 To him that by wisdom made the heavens: for his mercy endures forever.
6 To him that stretched out the earth above the waters: for his mercy endures forever.
7 To him that made great lights: for his mercy endures forever:
8 The sun [His ONE BODY] to rule [memshalah] by day [when those who’ve received His understanding, shine from the church as His light into heaven’s darkness: to be seen as guiding light even for the ignorant]: for his mercy endures forever:
9 The moon [civil government, like Jericho, whose wall of false interpretation separating them from God’s presence, falls as His people follow His commands and open their mouths bringing it down] and stars [His people with His light, shinning as lights in the firmament, with this same exposition] to rule [memshalah] by night [the ignorant who choose to reject and refuse to abide His perfect law of liberty]: for his mercy endures forever.
10 To him that smote Egypt [the evil oppressors] in their firstborn [the leaders among them, in the pattern of the sons of perdition]: for his mercy endures forever:
11 And brought out Israel [the people of His promise] from among them: for his mercy endures forever:
12 With a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm [this same word now before the eyes of the world]: for his mercy endures forever.
13 To him which divided the Red [cuwph – papyrus, the written word handed down] sea [yam – the roaring of its wave, the false interpretation, men’s never ending opinions of meaning in the law of church and state – these word {cuwph yam} speaking of what now culminates in the extreme lawfare between right and left] into parts [dividing humanity into two distinct sides]: for his mercy endures forever:
14 And made Israel to pass through the midst of it [with Him here in the middle moving toward the promised land: earth]: for his mercy endures forever:
15 But overthrew Pharaoh [the great house – all the evil misleaders, tyrants, throughout history] and his host [the army of misleaders who’ve, with intention, in power to deceive, corrupted all truth and justice] in the Red sea [by misleading in the degeneration of true interpretation, into insanity, by their evil decrees; rulings]: for his mercy endures forever.
16 To him which led his people through the wilderness [now when a state of nature exists, when all is lawless]: for his mercy endures forever.
17 To him which smote great kings [those in power, now seen as dead men peeping and muttering out ways and ideas that have led all the world into death and hell]: for his mercy endures forever:
18 And slew famous kings: for his mercy endures forever:
19 Sihon [warriors] king of the Amorites [whose words were exalted above God’s word and His truth]: for his mercy endures forever:
20 And Og [making themselves as giants to those they rule by their evil] the king of Bashan [who prospered by their evil devices]: for his mercy endures forever:
21 And gave their land [‘erets – the earth they’ve ruled into ruin] for a heritage [the inheritance of those who receive His mercy, which is His presence manifested in the conversation here at His mercy seat]: for his mercy endures forever [‘owlam – throughout all eternity, Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever]:
22 Even a heritage unto Israel [the earth to be inherited by the meek, the people of His promise] his servant [doing His good will as He commands]: for his mercy endures forever.
23 Who remembered us in our low estate: for his mercy endures forever:
24 And has redeemed us from our enemies: for his mercy endures forever.
25 Who gives food [this understanding that strengthens the lowly] to all flesh: for his mercy endures forever.
26 O give thanks unto the God of heaven [who alone gives us understanding, by which He reveals His glory to, through, and in us]: for his mercy endures forever.

The above speaks of the thousands standing in the LORD’s presence, receiving His mercy, as in Daniel 7:10, speaking of his (Daniel’s, those understanding God’s judgment) understanding the correct interpretation, saying “A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: thousand thousands ministered unto him [speaking His word], and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him: the judgment was set, and the books [that were sealed until this time] were opened.”

Exodus 20
1 And God spoke all these words, saying,
2 I am the Lord your God, which have brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
3 You shall have no other gods [men putting themselves in my place] before me.
4 You shall not [by presuming] make unto you any graven image [false interpretations], or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
5 You shall not bow down yourself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting [paqad – coming as the Chief Overseer of the earth, uncovering] the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
6 And showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
7 You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain [saying I said when I haven’t]; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
8 Remember the sabbath day [when I interrupt your work to correct you back onto the right course], to keep it holy.

Isaiah 22
1 The burden of the valley of vision [this word by which the lowly see as I see]. What ails you now, that you are wholly gone up to the housetops [to escape the necessary conflict at hand]?
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 [but as cowards running from the battle].
3 All your rulers are fled together, they are bound by the archers [the false accusations of the enemies]: all that are found in you are bound together [by their fear of the wicked in power], which have fled from far [rachowq – from the evil decrees that rule this time].
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 [the King of kings and LORD of lords] of hosts [a man of war] in the valley of vision, breaking down the walls [which hold back this word and keep My people from seeing My presence in My work], and of crying to the mountains [the LORD’s call to open your mouths against the wicked in power in every institution of government in church and state].
6 And Elam bare the quiver [all who’ve lived throughout all eternity] with chariots of men and horsemen, and Kir [the wall, the lies and falsehood, interpretations’ effect that keeps wicked men in power and the world in ignorance] uncovered the shield [magen – the LORD with us as the buckler of the earth].
7 And it shall come to pass, that your choicest valleys [the low places in which the LORD reveals Himself] shall be full of chariots, and the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate [out of hell into heaven, from darkness and death into light and life].
8 And he discovered [galah – revealed in this apocalypse] the covering [macak – removing the veil and showing My prersence to My elect remnant] of Judah, and you did look in that day to the armor [nasheq – revealing these weapons of My warfare] of the house of the forest [to the upright who’ve become My family by receiving me].
9 You have seen also the breaches of the city of David [My people scattered from their king], that they are many: and you gathered together the waters of the lower pool [this word sent to the lowly].
10 And you have numbered the [understood the many] houses of [old and corrupt] Jerusalem, and the houses have you broken down to fortify the wall [keeping back this word and not giving it a commanded].
11 You made also a ditch between the two walls [lie and falsehood, agreement with death and hell, under which your leaders think they hide themselves] for the water of the old pool [keeping My written word held in your channels of ignorance]: but you have not looked unto the maker thereof [who inspired it], neither had respect unto him that fashioned it long ago [rachowq – to be revealed in this time when the earth is ruled by evil decree].
12 And in that day did the Lord God of hosts [the King of kings and LORD of lords, who is a man of war] call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth [when these things are revealed]:
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 [going willingly, without opposition, into your own destruction, which is obviously coming to the sluggards who sleep on, refusing to believe this is that day, the light, of the LORD].
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, says the Lord God of hosts.
15 Thus says the Lord God of hosts, Go, get you unto this treasurer [cakan – those to whom this word was entrusted], even unto Shebna [who’ve prospered by their control], 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 [where you store the dead], as he that hewn him out a sepulcher on high, and that graven a habitation for himself in a rock [from where My word should flow, but instead it is held back and replaced with men’s creations]?
17 Behold, the Lord will carry you away with a mighty captivity, and will surely cover you [‘atah – with your own confusion; see Psalms 109:29, saying “Let my adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover {‘atah} themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.”].
18 He will surely violently turn and toss you like a ball into a large country [rachab ‘erets – a confused earth]: there shall you die, and there the chariots of your glory shall be the shame of your lord’s house [the men you follow as gods you’ve exalted above Me].
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 [God raised, to be establishes {from quwm}] the son of Hilkiah [whose inheritance is Jehovah]:
21 And I will clothe him with your robe, and strengthen him with your girdle [this cover and preparation is contrasted against the other time ‘atah appears in Psalms 109, in verse 19, speaking of the wicked, anointed {of Satan} devils, who are cut off from the earth, saying, “19 Let it be unto him as the garment which covers {‘atah} him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually. 20 Let this be the reward of my adversaries {satan} from the Lord, and of them that speak evil against my soul.”], and I will commit your government [memshalah – governments of church and state] into his [my] hand: and he [the LORD in me} shall be a Father to the inhabitants of [New Heavenly] Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah [the elect remnant that receive me in the name of the LORD]. [Matthew 23:39 For I say unto you, You shall not see me from here forward, until you shall say, Blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord.]
22 And the key [that opens the door] 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 [the understanding of all the law and the prophets] upon him all the glory of his father’s house, the offspring and the issue [all those born by coming into His light], all [the holy] vessels of small quantity, from the [holy] vessels of cups, even to all the [holy] vessels of flagons.
25 In that day, says the Lord of hosts, shall the nail [upon which hangs the corrupt understanding of all the law and prophets] that is fastened in the sure [in which all trust] place be removed, and be cut down, and fall; and the burden that was upon it shall be cut off: for the Lord has spoken it.

Friends, the matter, the controversy as we know it, is a lack of subordination to the power God has raised. It (rebellion, in which all worldly powers are now engaged, as dogs barking in the night, this time when ignorance covers the earth, against God’s government in church and state) is the topic of Psalms 109 (& 110), and what the LORD speaks of in Matthew 23.

Matthew 23
31 Wherefore you be witnesses unto [against] yourselves, that you are the children of them which killed the prophets.
32 Fill you up then the measure of your fathers.
33 You serpents [whose poison, which rots the minds of men, is in your mouths], you generation of vipers, how can you escape the damnation of hell [the result of your own cursing come upon you]?
34 Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them you shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall you scourge in your synagogues [all your gathering places, where truth and justice should be administered], and persecute them from city to city:
35 That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel [speaking of all in who the spirit of Cain is manifested, who kill their brothers, “Because his {Cain’s} own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous.”] unto the blood of Zacharias [all these righteous men, who the LORD now brings to remembrance] son of Barachias [who are the blessed of Jehovah], whom you slew between the temple and the altar [offering them as your evil sacrifice]. [Isaiah 66: 3 …Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delight in their abominations. 4 I also will choose their delusions {their insanity they can’t differentiate from reality}, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they did not hear: but they did evil before my eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not.]
36 Truly I say unto you, All these things shall [have now] come upon this generation.
37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you that kill the prophets, and stones them which are sent unto you, how often would I have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and you would not!
38 Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.
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.

Psalms 110
A Psalms of David
1 The LORD [Jehovah] said unto my LORD [‘adown – the king He will establish], Sit you at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool.
2 The LORD [Jehovah] shall send the rod of your strength out of Zion: rule you in the midst of your enemies [as I do, as commanded by the Higher power].
3 Your people shall be willing in the day of your power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning [this day now come]: you have the dew of your youth.
4 The LORD [Jehovah] has sworn, and will not repent, You are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek [the king of righteousness, and king of peace].
5 The LORD [‘Adonay – the King of kings] at your right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath.
6 He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill the places with the dead bodies; he shall wound the heads [ro’sh – those whose evil ideas and ways rule] over many countries [‘erets – over the earth].
7 He shall drink of the brook in the way [this word sent into this time, to be revealed, by which]: therefore, shall he lift up [ruwm – raise and exalt] the head [ro’sh – His righteous ideas and way].

Psalms 109
1 Hold not your peace, O God of my praise;
2 For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.
3 They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.
4 For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer [conversing with the LORD who’s given me understanding of the matter].
5 And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
6 Set you a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand [as the spirit inspiriting them].
7 When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer [unto the gods, idols men created and put in my place, which they deceitfully call by My name] become sin.
8 Let his days be few; and let another take his office [pquddah – as the overseers, watchmen, of the earth].
9 Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow [the insane who speak and work their evil].
10 Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
11 Let the extortioner [who steal their inheritance from them] catch all that he has; and let the strangers spoil his labor.
12 Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favor his fatherless children.
13 Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out [cut off from the earth].
14 Let the iniquity of his fathers [whose knowledge is to do evil to his brothers] be remembered with the Lord; and let not the sin of his mother [their teachers who teach them wisdom is to speak and work evil] be blotted out.
15 Let them be before the Lord continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.
16 Because that he remembered not to show mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart [who their evil ways made desolate].
17 As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.
18 As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.
19 Let it be unto him as the garment which covers [‘atah] him, and for a girdle [preparation] wherewith he is girded continually.
20 Let this be the reward of my adversaries [satan – the reward to those who attack and accuse me] from the Lord, and of them that speak evil against my soul.
21 But do you for me, O God the Lord, for your name’s sake [in which you have sent me]: because your mercy [in our conversation at Your mercy seat] is good, deliver you me.
22 For I am poor and needy [without worldly power], and my heart is wounded within me.
23 I am gone like the shadow when it declines [as Your sun rises, showing Your glory]: I am tossed up and down as the locust [by the same winds destroying the destroyers].
24 My knees are weak through fasting [Your people remain week through refusing Your word as Yours]; and my flesh [of Your dead body] fails of fatness [because they refuse to prosper by these treasures You’ve sent them].
25 I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shake their heads [refusing me].
26 Help me, O Lord my God [King of kings and LORD of lords]: O save me according to your mercy:
27 That they may know that this is your hand; that you, Lord, have done it.
28 Let them curse, but bless you: when they arise, let them be ashamed; but let your servant rejoice.
29 Let my adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover [‘atah] themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.
30 I will greatly praise the Lord with my mouth; yea, I will praise him among the multitude.
31 For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul.

The following is the post from 13 January 2021, with today’s additions in double brackets.

The earthquakes – 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 [[above all the governments of the earth]], and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it.

The word above, in Micah 4:1, rendered “established,” is kuwn, which we saw in the previous post, from Jeremiah 33:2. There it speaks of the LORD as the “maker” of the firmament, who “formed” the Spirit of life in man. In the following verse, the LORD urges us, “Call unto me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you know not.”

The word in the title verse rendered “last days” is ‘achariyth, meaning, “the last or end, hence, the future; also posterity.” As we’ve seen in other posts, it’s the word used, in Genesis 49:1, as Jacob gathered his children and told them what would befall them in the “last days.” It’s also the word used, in Daniel 12:8, when Daniel askes Gabriel (the man of God who is also the warrior of God, as is Timothy), What “shall be the end” of these things?

The title is speaking of these days, when the government of God is “established” above all the governments of the world, as is the purpose for which they’ve been prepared and provided. This is what Micah 4:8 calls the “first dominion,” from the Hebrew words ri’shown, meaning, “first, in place, time or rank,” and memshalah, meaning, “rule; also (concretely in plural) a realm or a ruler.” Before this, verse 7 says, “the LORD shall reign over them in mount Zion from henceforth, even forever.”

The secret of this occurring is found in searching, curiously exploring, the word rendered in the title verse “flow,” which tells of when and how God’s people enter His kingdom. It (“flow”) is from the six times used Hebrew word nahar, meaning, “to sparkle, i.e. (figuratively) be cheerful; hence (from the sheen of a running stream) to flow, i.e. (figuratively) assemble.”

Micah 5:3 tells us this time comes after the LORD has given us up (to follow our own ways and ideas), “until the time that she which travails has brought forth: then the remnant (Judah) of his brethren shall return unto the children of Israel (God’s people at large). Earlier, in Micah 4:10 we’re told this is when we come out of confusion (Babylon), from where the LORD delivers us, when He redeems us (pays the price to correct us) from the hand of our enemies (the cause of the confusion now turned mass delusion, which rules and controls all the world).

These events are described from different but unquestionably similar perspectives in the other five chapter where the word nahar is used, and this same dominion, kingdom, is established on earth forever and into it flow God’s children.

Colossians 1
9 For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that you might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;
10 That you might walk worthy of the LORD unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
11 Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;
12 Giving thanks unto the Father, which has made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:
13 Who has delivered us from the power of darkness, and has translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:
14 In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:
15 Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:
16 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:
17 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
18 And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
19 For it pleased the Father that in him should all fullness dwell;
20 And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.
21 And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now has he reconciled
22 In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblamable and unreprovable in his sight:
23 If you continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which you have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am [[I Timothy Am]] made a minister;
24 Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the church:
25 Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God;
26 Even the mystery which has been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:
27 To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:
28 Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:
29 Whereunto I also labor, striving according to his working, which works in me mightily.

Ephesians 6
10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the LORD, and in the power of his might.
11 Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;
15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;
16 Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith you shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.
17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:
18 Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;
19 And for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel,
20 For which I am an ambassador in bonds: that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

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 [kuwn] in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow [nahar] 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 us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
3 And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off [[gowy rachowq – those who don’t know the LORD and rule the world by their evil decrees]]; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares [[to plant vineyards and groves of fig trees]], and their spears into pruning-hooks [[to harvest their fruit]]: 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 [[planting and harvesting]]; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the LORD of hosts has spoken it.
5 For all people will walk every one in the name of his god, and we 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 halts [was lame and wandered from the way], and I will gather her that is driven out, and her that I have afflicted;
7 And I will make her that halted [was lame] a remnant, and her that was cast far off [[hala’ – wandered away]] a strong nation: and the LORD shall reign [[malak – by making war through wise counsel, ascend to the throne]] over them in mount Zion from henceforth, even forever.
8 And you, O tower of the flock, the strong hold of the daughter of Zion, unto you shall it come, even the first dominion [ri’shown memshalah]; the kingdom shall come to the daughter of Jerusalem.
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 who is the counselor]].
10 Be in pain, and labor to bring forth [Rachel, the teacher of all God’s people, who is their correction – the mother of Joseph {Ephraim, Israel at large} and Benjamin {Judah, the elect remnant}], 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 [confusion and ignorance]; there shall you be delivered [by correction]; there the LORD shall redeem you from the hand of your enemies.
11 Now also many nations are gathered against you, that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye look upon Zion.
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.
13 Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will make your horn 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.

Micah 5
1 Now gather yourself in troops, O daughter of troops: he has laid siege against us: they shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek.
2 But you, Bethlehem Ephratah [this house of bread, in this time of ruin], though you be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of you shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.
3 Therefore will he give them up, until the time that she which travails has brought forth: then the remnant of his brethren shall return unto the children of Israel.
4 And he shall stand and feed in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God; and they shall abide: for now shall he be great unto the ends of the earth.
5 And this man shall be the peace, when the Assyrian [the communists] shall come into our land: and when he shall tread in our palaces [[as has Obama, and now his idiot children, who bear his brand on {Brandon} their heads and hands, with Lucifer’s ideas and ways: as policy ruling by deception]], then shall we raise against him seven [[godly]] shepherds, and eight [[renewed in truth and justice]] principal men.

I tell you now, the world is shaking and the wicked will be shaken from it. Amen!

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

Isaiah 2
2 And it shall come to pass in the last days [[‘achariyth]], that the mountain of the LORD’s house shall be established [kuwn] in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow [nahar] 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 shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from [[New Heavenly]] Jerusalem.
4 And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
5 O house of Jacob, come you, and let us walk in the light [[understanding]] of the LORD.
6 Therefore you have forsaken your people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east [[filled with false understanding]], and are soothsayers like the Philistines [[are a covert army waring against Me]], and they please themselves in the children of strangers [[who they’ve raised to not know Me]].
7 Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of their treasures; their land is also full of horses, neither is there any end of their chariots:
8 Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:
9 And the mean man bows down [[to their idols, the strange ways with which they are filled]], and the great man humbles himself [[before their communist tyrants]]: therefore forgive them not.
10 Enter into the rock, and hide you in the dust, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty.
11 The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.
12 For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low:
13 And upon all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan [the upright of the flock],
14 And upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills that are lifted up,
15 And upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall,
16 And upon all the ships of Tarshish [the churches that have carried God’s people away from their vows], and upon all pleasant pictures [by all the images, idols, they’ve made to entice them].
17 And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.
18 And the idols he shall utterly abolish.
19 And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he arises to shake terribly the earth.
20 In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;
21 To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he arises to shake terribly the earth.
22 Cease you from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?

Isaiah 3
1 For, behold, the LORD, the LORD of hosts, does take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water.
2 The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient,
3 The captain of fifty, and the honorable man, and the counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator.
4 And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.
5 And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbor: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honorable.
6 When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father, saying, You have clothing, be you our ruler, and let this ruin be under your hand:
7 In that day shall he swear, saying, I will not be an healer; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing: make me not a ruler of the people.
8 For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of his glory.
9 The show of their countenance does witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.
10 Say you to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.
11 Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.
12 As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead you cause you to err, and destroy the way of your paths.
13 The LORD stands up to plead, and stands to judge the people.
14 The LORD will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof: for you have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses.
15 What mean you that you beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? says the LORD God of hosts.

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

Jeremiah 31
10 Hear the word of the LORD, O you nations, and declare it in the isles afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd does his flock.
11 For the LORD has redeemed Jacob, and ransomed [ga’al] him from the hand of him that was stronger than he.
12 Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together [nahar] to the goodness of the LORD, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all.
13 Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together: for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.
14 And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, says the LORD.
15 Thus says the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah [the city on the hill – from where the light will shine], lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rahel [Rachel – the teacher of God’s people, who is yet barren] weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not.
16 Thus says the LORD; Refrain your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears: for your work shall be rewarded, says the LORD; and they shall come again from the land of the enemy.
17 And there is hope in your end [‘achariyth], says the LORD, that your children shall come again to their own border.
18 I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn you me, and I shall be turned; for you are the LORD my God.
19 Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.
20 Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I spoke against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, says the LORD.
21 Set you up waymarks, make you high heaps: set your heart toward the highway, even the way which you went: turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these your cities.
22 How long will you go about, O you backsliding daughter? for the LORD has created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man.
23 Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As yet they shall use this speech in the land of Judah and in the cities thereof, when I shall bring again their captivity; The LORD bless you, O habitation of justice, and mountain of holiness.
24 And there shall dwell in Judah itself, and in all the cities thereof together, husbandmen, and they that go forth with flocks.
25 For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul.
26 Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me.
27 Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man, and with the seed of beast.
28 And it shall come to pass, that like as I have watched over them, to pluck up, and to break down, and to throw down, and to destroy, and to afflict; so will I watch over them, to build, and to plant, says the LORD.
29 In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.
30 But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eats the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.
31 Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was a husband unto them, says the LORD:
33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, says the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, says the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.

Jeremiah 51
12 Set up the standard [nec – the pole upon which Moses raised the brazen serpent, as the son of man must be lifted] upon the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set up the watchmen, prepare [kuwn – perfect] the ambushes: for the LORD has both devised and done that which he spoke against the inhabitants of Babylon.
13 O you that dwells upon many waters, abundant in treasures, your end is come, and the measure of your covetousness.
14 The LORD of hosts has sworn by himself, saying, Surely I will fill you with men, as with caterpillars; and they shall lift up a shout against you.
15 He has made the earth by his power, he has established [kuwn – perfected] the world by his wisdom, and has stretched out the heaven by his understanding.
16 When he utters his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens; and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth: he makes lightning with rain, and brings forth the wind out of his treasures. [These are speaking of when the LORD, as now, sends His word from heaven, and His Spirit moves upon them producing understanding. The following verse tells of the words of men as foundationless confusion in which there is no life-giving power.]
17 Every man is brutish by his knowledge; every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
18 They are vanity [worthless], the work of errors: in the time of their visitation [[pquddah – now when He manifests His presence as the Chief Overseer of the earth]] they shall perish.
19 The portion of Jacob is not like them; for he is the former of all things: and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: the LORD of hosts [[a man of war]] is his name.
20 You are my battle axe and weapons of war: for with you will I break in pieces the nations, and with you will I destroy kingdoms;
21 And with you will I break in pieces the horse and his rider; and with you will I break in pieces the chariot and his rider;
22 With you also will I break in pieces man and woman; and with you will I break in pieces old and young; and with you will I break in pieces the young man and the maid;
23 I will also break in pieces with you the shepherd and his flock; and with you will I break in pieces the husbandman and his yoke of oxen; and with you will I break in pieces captains and rulers.
24 And I will render unto Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea [the confusion and those who use their worthless words to intentionally produce it] all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, says the LORD.
25 Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, says the LORD, which destroy all the earth: and I will stretch out my hand upon you, and roll you down from the rocks, and will make you a burnt mountain.
26 And they shall not take of you a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; but you shall be desolate forever, says the LORD.
27 Set you up a standard [nec – raise up the brazen serpent, the son of man] in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat [to reverse the curse], Minni [to this rightly divided word of God], and Ashchenaz [that shall be as fire scattered upon the land] appoint a captain against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough caterpillars.
28 Prepare against her the nations with the kings of the Medes [those of the middle land, with Cyrus, the LORD of the furnace], the captains thereof, and all the rulers thereof, and all the land of his dominion [memshalah].
29 And the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every purpose of the LORD shall be performed against Babylon [the confusion that rules the world], to make the land of Babylon a desolation without an inhabitant.
30 The mighty men of Babylon have forborn to fight, they have remained in their holds: their might has failed; they became as women: they have burned her dwelling-places; her bars are broken.
31 One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to show the king of Babylon that his city is taken at one end,
32 And that the passages are stopped, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.
33 For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing-floor, it is time to thresh her: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come.
34 Nebuchadrezzar [the false prophets {the fake news media and the fable making eschatologists} who use their lies to rule/control the masses into ignorance] the king of Babylon [the confusion that rule the world] has devoured me, he has crushed me, he has made me an empty vessel, he has swallowed [bala’ – as the whale swallowed Jonah, as Israel is swallowed in Hosea 8:7 & 8] me up like a dragon, he has filled his belly with my delicates, he has cast me out.
35 The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.
36 Therefore thus says the LORD; Behold, I will plead your cause, and take vengeance for you; and I will dry up her sea, and make her springs dry.
37 And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling-place for dragons, an astonishment, and a hissing, without an inhabitant.
38 They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as lions’ whelps.
39 In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, says the LORD.
40 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he goats.
41 How is Sheshach [this tells of Babylon as a sixth part] taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon [the confusion that rules the world] become an astonishment among the nations!
42 The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.
43 Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land wherein no man dwells, neither does any son of man pass thereby.
44 And I will punish Bel [prominent men as idols] in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he has swallowed up [As He brought Jonah from the belly of the whale – from the underlying cause, the lies of false prophets, agitating the sea] up: and the nations shall not flow together [nahar] any more unto him: yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall.
45 My people, go you out of the midst of her, and deliver you every man his soul from the fierce anger of the LORD.
46 And lest your heart faint, and you fear for the rumor [shmuw’ah – this report, sound doctrine that is as a foreign language to those who only know lies – referring us to Ezekiel 7:26, Isaiah 28:9 & 19, and 53:1] that shall be heard [[shama’ – obeyed]] in the land; a rumor [shmuw’ah] shall both come one year, and after that in another year shall come a rumor [shmuw’ah], and violence in the land [[chamac ‘erets – the same violence that covered the earth in the days of Noah]], ruler against ruler.
47 Therefore, behold, the days come, that I will do judgment upon the graven images of Babylon: and her whole land shall be confounded [buwsh – disappointed and ashamed, because they don’t reach the end the false prophets have told them of], and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her.
48 Then the heaven and the earth, and all that is therein, shall sing for Babylon: for the spoilers shall come unto her from the north, says the LORD.
49 As Babylon has caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the earth.
50 You that have escaped the sword, go away, stand not still: remember the LORD afar off [[rachowq – this time when the earth is ruled by evil decree: lies and insanity as policy]], and let Jerusalem come into your mind.
51 We are confounded [buwsh], because we have heard reproach: shame has covered our faces: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of the LORD’s house.

Psalms 34
1 I will bless the LORD at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth.
2 My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad.
3 O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together.
4 I sought the LORD, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears.
5 They looked unto him, and were lightened [nahar – and were given understand that brought them to Him]: and their faces were not ashamed [and they saw Him face to face, which is the expected end].
6 This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles [[tsarah – tribulation]].
7 The angel of the LORD encamps round about them that fear him, and delivers them.
8 O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusts in him.
9 O fear the LORD, you his saints: for there is no want to them that fear him.
10 The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing.
11 Come, you children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the LORD.
12 What man is he that desires life, and loves many days, that he may see good?
13 Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking guile [deception].
14 Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.
15 The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry.
16 The face [[paniym – the manifested presence]] of the LORD is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.
17 The righteous cry, and the LORD hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles [[tsarah – their tribulation]].
18 The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saves such as be of a contrite spirit.
19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivers him out of them all.
20 He keeps all his bones: not one of them is broken.
21 Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.
22 The LORD redeems the soul of his servants: and none of them that trust in him shall be desolate.

December 30, 2023

All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them.

28 – 29 December 2023

All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them.

Friends, the world is filled with the voices of those leading any who’ll follow. In the church and state, these men say they know the way, know God, and call themselves masters of truth. Not one will dare say they have no understanding of their own and are instead vessels in which He (the Father) lives, speaking and working His will, revealing Himself in the secret places reserved for Him. When the LORD calls all these men, here and now, “thieves and robbers,” He speaks of His flock and His position, which these men steal away into scattered destruction.

John 10
7 Then said Jesus unto them again, Truly, truly, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep.
8 All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them.
9 I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.
10 The thief comes not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
11 I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd gives his life for the sheep.
12 But he that is a hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaves the sheep, and flees: and the wolf catches them, and scatters the sheep.
13 The hireling flees, because he is an hireling, and cares not for the sheep.
14 I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.
15 As the Father knows me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.
16 And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.
17 Therefore does my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.
18 No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.
19 There was a division therefore again among the Jews [God’s people who claim they know Him, while not recognizing His presence, because they are the thieves and robbers who came before Him] for these sayings.
20 And many of them said, He has a devil, and is mad; why hear you him?
21 Others said, These are not the words of him that has a devil. Can a devil open the eyes of the blind?

Father, speak to us as Only You can, opening blind eyes.

In the verses before the above, the LORD speaks a “parable,” which (parables) are the secret places He reserves revelation of Himself, as the door the Father opens, letting in the faithful who trust in Him (One Shepherd) and not in themselves (or the thieves and robbers who’ve come before).

John 10
1 Truly, truly, I say unto you, He that enters not by the door [Christ alive in me] into the sheepfold, but climbs up some other way [of their own], the same is a thief and a robber.
2 But he that enters in by the door [telling you plainly it is Father alive in me speaking and doing His work] is the shepherd of the sheep.
3 To him the porter [the door keepers] opens; and the sheep hear his [the Father’s] voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name [calling them His children by receiving Him], and leadeth them out [of the houses of darkness, from among the thieves and robbers].
4 And when he puts forth his own sheep [in them revealing Himself to the world], he goes before them [bearing the necessary cross that comes with declaring the LORD is risen in us, manifesting His presence], and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice [is the voice of the Father alive in him].
5 And a stranger [preaching and teaching some other way] will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.
6 This parable spoke Jesus unto them: but they understood not what things they were which he spoke unto them.

The word, in verse 6 above, rendered “parable” is the five times used Greek word paroimai, said to mean, “from a compound of 3844 [para – nearness] and perhaps a derivative of 3633 [oimai]; apparently a state alongside of supposition, i.e. (concretely) an adage; specially, an enigmatical or fictitious illustration:–parable, proverb.”

The only other times it (paroimai) is used are three times in John 16 by the LORD and once by Peter in 2 Peter 2:22.

John 16
19 Now Jesus [Jehovah’s Salvation manifested in the flesh of His perpetual son] knew that they were desirous to ask him, and said unto them, Do you enquire among yourselves of that I said, A little while [when you are scattered by the thieves and robber who’ve come before me], and you shall not see me: and again, a little while, and you shall see me [when I have removed your blindness]?
20 Truly, truly, I say unto you, That you shall weep and lament [thinking I Am not with you], but the world shall rejoice [thinking I Am dead]: and you shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy [when I reveal myself in alive here among the dead in hell, taking up my life again, as the Father gave me power].
21 A woman when she is in travail has sorrow, because her hour is come [to bring forth the firstborn]: but as soon as she is [God’s people are] delivered of the child, she remembers no more the anguish, for joy that a man [the second Adam] is born into the world.
22 And you now therefore have sorrow [not seeing me]: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy [realizing the LORD is with us, alive in His ONE BODY] no man takes from you.
23 And in that day you shall ask me nothing. Truly, truly, I say unto you, Whatsoever you shall ask the Father in my name [in the identity of Christ alive in us: His ONE BODY], he will give it you.
24 Hitherto have you asked nothing in my name [Jehovah’s Salvation, Jesus manifested in our flesh]: ask, and you shall receive, that your joy [realizing He is with us, is] may be full [Christ all in all].
25 These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs [paroimai – bringing this state of mind near to you]: but the time comes, when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs [paroimai], but I shall show you plainly of the Father [alive in me first, and realizing He is alive in those who receive Him at His presence manifest near us].
26 At that day you shall ask in my name: and I say not unto you, that I will pray the Father for you:
27 For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came out [I Am born] from God.
28 I came forth [Am born] from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world [will not be seen by it, when the darkness comes by the works of thieves and robbers], and go to the Father.
29 His disciples said unto him, Lo, now speak you plainly [and right], and speak no proverb [paroimai].
30 Now are we sure that you know all things, and need not that any man should ask you: by this we believe that you came forth from God.
31 Jesus answered them, Do you now believe?
32 Behold, the hour comes, yea, is now come, that you shall be scattered [by thieves and robbers], every man to his own, and shall leave me alone: and yet I am not alone, because the Father is [always alive] with me [called the Holy Ghost, the Paraclete, working and speaking unknown in the world’s blindness: cultivated ignorance].
33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in [believing and seeing] me you might have peace. In the world you shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome [the blindness of] the world.

2 Peter 1
11 For so an entrance [eisodos – into the kingdom of God] shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our LORD and Savior Jesus Christ.
12 Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though you know them, and be established in the present truth.
13 Yea, I think it meet [appropriate], as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;
14 Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our LORD Jesus Christ has shown me.
15 Moreover I will endeavor that you may be able after my decease [exodos – after leaving the old body {come to remembrance and out of the old body, which shall not remain}] to have these things always in remembrance.
16 For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our LORD Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
17 For he received from God the Father honor and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased [HEAR, Obey, Him].
18 And this voice which came from heaven [when we received full understanding] we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount.
19 We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto you do well that you take heed, as unto a light that shines in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star [phosphoros] arise in your hearts:
20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation [by men presuming things, preaching and teaching their opinions as truth, saying God said, when He hasn’t said anything to them, other than what He says to all here and now].
21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Ghost [the LORD in them, unknown to the world and working all things toward this moment of awakening by His righteous interpretation].

2 Peter 2
1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be [are many] false teachers among you, who privily [secretly, from their own imaginations, create lies] shall bring in damnable [apoleia – that cause them and those who follow their ways to perish] heresies, even denying the LORD that bought them [with this price], and bring upon themselves swift destruction [apoleia – perdition].
2 And many shall follow their pernicious [aploeia – the ways that lead to their own destruction] ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of [as it is this day].
3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned [fraudulent] words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingers not, and their damnation [apoleia – perishing, perdition] slumbers not [because they are awakened “to shame and everlasting contempt”].

17 These are wells without water [without this true word from the mouth of God the Father], clouds [saying in them there is understanding] that are carried with a tempest [the winds of their own false doctrines]; to whom the mist of darkness [ignorance] is reserved forever.
18 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped [when the LORD was still with them] from them who live in error.
19 While they promise them liberty [saying they know the way], they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome [by the thieves and robbers who’ve come before me], of the same is he brought in bondage [to serve their corrupt ways and ideas].
20 For if after they have escaped the pollutions [blinding corruption] of the world through the knowledge of the LORD and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
21 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment [here and now] delivered unto them.
22 But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb [paroimai], The dog is turned to his own vomit again [barking in the darkness, after eating again their own vomit]; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire [the waters they muddied, clouded so nothing is clear, with the own feet].

2 Peter 3
3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God [this same word of God] the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition [apoleia] of ungodly men.
8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the LORD as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
9 The LORD is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
10 But the day of the LORD will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements [stoicheion – the corrupt foundational ideas and ways of men] shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements [stoicheion] shall melt with fervent heat?
13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein 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].

The word (3633) oimai (oiomai), compounded with para (nearness) into the word paroimai, is only used three times, and means “to make like (oneself), i.e. imagine (be of the opinion):–suppose, think.”

When Peter (the LORD in him) says, in 2 Peter 1:16, we have not followed “cunningly devised” fables, it is from the twice used Greek word sophizo, (somewhat dubiously) said to mean “to render wise; in a sinister acceptation, to form “sophisms”, i.e. continue plausible error:–cunningly devised, make wise.”

It (sophizo) is a derivative of the word sophos, meaning wise, from saphes, meaning clear. It (sophizo, as used by Peter) is speaking of wise men devising fables (muthos – myths), which he says hasn’t happened and isn’t what we’ve followed. Instead, he describes men moved by a higher intellect interacting with their minds, inspiriting them, to write what exemplifies, without a doubt, the greatest feat of engineering (the creation of man’s mind, the written word, and the means of secure connection – communication, communion, with God) ever created, and of which man, experiencing it, only periodically intellectually touches the surface. It is this understanding, the magnitude of this reality, that is now, also without a doubt, becoming realized and will forever alter human future positively: into a more abundant life. (Reread the previous post in this context.)

The only other time sophizo appears is in 2 Timothy 3:15 where it is rendered “wise,” speaking of all scripture being inspired by God, saying it is cunningly devised (engineered) “unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus [believing Jehovah’s Salvation is manifested in the flesh of those to and through whom He thereby makes known His will].”

2 Timothy 3
13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
14 But continue you in the things which you have learned and have been assured of [knowing them, without a doubt, understanding by the experience], knowing of whom [the Father alive in me] you have learned them;
15 And that from a child you have known the holy scriptures, which are able to make you wise [sophizo – the masterpiece of His engineering] unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
16 All scripture is given by inspiration [direct connection] of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
17 That the man [born of] of God [one of only two times this title is used in the New Testament, both of Timothy] may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.

James 1
1 James [Jacob], a servant of God and of the LORD Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes [all my children] which are scattered abroad, greeting.
2 My brethren, count it all joy [a chance to be strengthened in the realization of the LORD’s presence manifested with us, in us] when you fall into divers temptations [situations that attempt to create doubt in His presence];
3 Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience [which, in waiting, the LORD will appear to those who don’t doubt Him].
4 But let patience have her perfect work [when all we believe come into accord with what appears], that you may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that gives to all men liberally, and upbraids not; and it shall be given him.
6 But let him ask in faith [not doubting], nothing wavering. For he that wavers is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
7 For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the LORD.
8 A double minded man [believing one moment and doubting the next] is unstable in all his ways.
9 Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted [by the LORD manifesting His presence to, in, the lowely]:
10 But the rich, in that he is made low [receiving nothing if he trusts in worldly riches]: because as the flower of the grass he shall [in doing] pass away.
11 For the sun [this great light] is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withers the grass [men trusting in man], and the flower [worldly value] thereof falls, and the grace of the fashion of it perishes: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
12 Blessed is the man that endures temptation [when he is tempted to doubt the LORD’s presence]: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life [full understanding], which the LORD has promised to them that love [agapao – giving these heavenly treasure, having unwavering faith they are from] him.
13 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil [misleading, damnable heresies, that cause doubt], neither tempts he any man:
14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed [by worldly wealth and power].
15 Then when lust has conceived, it brings forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, brings forth death.
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 with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures [now created in this new heaven and earth].
19 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear [Him speaking], slow to speak [your own understanding], slow to wrath [threatening those destroying themselves by following misleaders mixed among them tempting them]:
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 [sent from the Father of lights, who alone reveals Himself], which is able to save your souls.
22 But be you doers of [as commanded, a giver giving] 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 face in a glass:
24 For he beholds himself [is told who he is], and goes his way, and straightway forgets what manner of man he was.
25 But whoso looks into the perfect law of liberty [the freedom that comes with knowing the truth], and continues therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work [giving this word of truth as received], this man shall be blessed in his deed.
26 If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridles not his tongue, but deceives his own heart [speaking words without understanding], 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 Chief Overseer of the earth, to] the fatherless and widows [those without a man of war to protect them from evil] in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from [uncorrupted by] the world.

Hebrews 13
5 Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as you have: for he has said, I will never leave you, nor forsake you. [What part of this don’t you understand?]
6 So that we may boldly [without doubt] say, The LORD is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.
7 Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose [unwavering] faith follow [because it is the LORD in me speaking], considering the end of their conversation.
8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever.
9 Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines [men’s creations from their imaginations]. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace [this gift directly from the Father]; not with meats [the works of dead flesh], which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.

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!
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; yea, you shouldest not have looked on their affliction in the day of their calamity, nor have laid hands on their substance in the day of their calamity;
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 to judge the mount [the rulers] of Esau; and the kingdom shall be the LORD’s.

The word, in verse 21 above, rendered “kingdom,” is the twenty-four times used Hebrew word mluwkah, said to be a “feminine passive participle of 4427; something ruled, i.e. a realm:–kingdom, king’s, X royal.” It is said to be from (4427) malak, meaning to reign, which we understand bears an affinity to mal’ak, meaning messenger or angel. It (mluwkah), with intention, speaks of the one (here above, the ONE BODY of Christ) under whom this reign occurs.

As a matter of engineering and communicating, we understand the word is from the Hebrew words ma luwts, and the Aramaic word kah: ma asking and describing “what;” luwts, meaning to speak, as to intercede with an interpretation, and kah, in context, only appearing one time, in Daniel 7:27, telling us it is the end of the matter.

Daniel 7
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth [Babylon, the world ruled into, and by, confusion caused by those who’ve governed it into this state with intentional lies, the destruction of reliable discourse, as policy], which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces [as it is this day, become without form and voice, and darkness covers the face of all deep understanding].
24 And the ten horns [complete corruption of all worldly government] out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them [Obama, and his idiot children: communists in church and state]; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings [destroying from within all three independent equal branches of our government].
25 And he shall speak great words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High, and think to change times [zman] and laws [trying to create a new world built upon injustice and inequality]: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.
26 But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end.
27 And the kingdom [milkuw] and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom [malkuw] under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High, whose kingdom [malkuw] is an everlasting kingdom [malkuw], and all dominions shall serve and obey him.
28 Hitherto [‘ad kah – until like this] is the end of the matter [millah – meaning “a word, command, discourse, or subject;” the same word used above telling of the “great words” spoken again the Most High, evil decrees that have worn out His saints, but not Him]. As for me Daniel, my cogitations much troubled me, and my countenance changed in me: but I kept the matter [millah] in my heart [in my mind, and as inspirited, wrote it sealed into this book].

The word rendered time, three times in verse 25 above, is ‘iddian, meaning “a set time,” from ‘ed (the same as ‘ad, “until” in verse 28), speaking the periods during which these “matters” occur, ending with their correct interpretation here and now.

The word millah appears three other times in Daniel 12. The first, in verse 1, tells us this correct interpretation, the “sum” re’sh (meaning in his “head,” as full understanding into His mind) of the matter, which is what Daniel was shown (and was then told to seal into his written words).

Daniel 7
1 In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head [re’sh] upon his bed: then he wrote the dream, and told the sum [re’sh] of the matters [millah].
2 Daniel spoke and said, I saw in my vision by night [how darkness came upon the earth], and, behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea [and man was given understanding from God].
3 And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another.
4 The first was like a lion, and had eagle’s wings [spoke as the voice of God, with Him in heaven with the strength of His full understanding]: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked [and man’s strength over time deteriorated into darkness], and it was lifted up [and understand was removed] from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man [with a carnal mind lacking light, while, in their own conceit, thinking they were wise], and a man’s heart was given to it [and the minds of those in power became filled with darkness].

The next two (uses of millah) come, in verses 11 & 16, as we’re told these are the “words” (false interpretation: lies, false accusation, and evil decrees, that rule the world) of the horns, the darkened powers in church and state, and the right interpretation of these “things,” which Daniel received.

Daniel 7
8 I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.
9 I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days [the wisdom and understanding that created the first dominion] did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels [this understanding received, of the word of those who before understood, and, as commanded sent their word forward, to this moment of full understanding] as burning fire.
10 A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: thousand thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him: the judgment was set, and the books [that were sealed until this time] were opened.
11 I beheld then because of the voice of the great words [millah] which the horn spoke: I beheld even till the beast [Babylon – the confusion that has ruled while the word was sealed] was slain, and his [evil] body destroyed, and given to the burning flame.
12 As concerning the rest of the beasts [all the power that, by rejection, remain without this Spirit of the LORD, light in which is life], they had their dominion taken away: yet their lives were prolonged for [‘ad – until] a season [zman] and time [‘iddian].
13 I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven [with full understanding returned to the earth], and came to the Ancient of days [with full understanding, light of this new day, returned to the earth], and they brought him near before him [to His ONE BODY].
14 And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom [malkuw], that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom [malkuw] that which shall not be destroyed.
15 I Daniel was grieved in my spirit in the midst of my body, and the visions of my head troubled me.
16 I came near unto one [the LORD’s Spirit communicating with me] of them that stood by [the Paraclete, sent with full understanding], and asked him the truth of all this. So he told me, and made me know the interpretation of the things [millah].

The word mluwkah, speaking of the “kingdom” now again established, only appears five times in the major prophets, two of which are in Isaiah (34:12 & 62:3).

8 For it is the day of the LORD’s vengeance, and the year of recompense for the controversy of Zion [the controversy over who should rule God’s people: those destroying them or the One come to Save them from the destroyers].
9 And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch [their words turned into burning darkness: ignorance], and the dust thereof into brimstone [gophriyth], and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.
10 It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up forever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it forever and ever.
11 But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion [tohuw – without form], and the stones of emptiness [bohuw – a void].
12 They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom [mluwkah], but none shall be there, and all her princes shall be nothing.
13 And thorns [misleaders] shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles [misleaders, as if grown in an unattended garden] in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be a habitation of dragons [tan – beasts who devour with wide-open mouths], and a court for owls [those hunting souls in the darkness].

Isaiah 62
1 For Zion’s sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness [full understanding], and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burns [showing the way in the darkness].
2 And the Gentiles shall see your righteousness, and all kings your glory: and you shall be called by a new [chadash] name, which the mouth of the LORD shall name.
3 You shall also be a crown of glory in the hand of the LORD, and a royal [mluwkah] diadem in the hand of your God.

6 I have set watchmen upon your walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: you that make mention of the LORD, keep not silence,
7 And give him no rest, till he establish, and till he makes [New Heavenly] Jerusalem a praise in the earth.

10 Go through, go through the gates [out of hell into heaven]; prepare you the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a standard for the people.
11 Behold, the LORD has proclaimed unto the end of the world, Say you to the daughter of Zion, Behold, your salvation comes; behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.
12 And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of the LORD: and you shall be called, Sought out, A city not forsaken.

Psalms 110
1 The LORD [Jehovah] said unto my LORD [‘adown – the king He will establish], Sit you at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool.
2 The LORD [Jehovah] shall send the rod of your strength out of Zion: rule you in the midst of your enemies.
3 Your people shall be willing in the day of your power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: you have the dew of your youth.
4 The LORD [Jehovah] has sworn, and will not repent, You are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek [the king of righteousness, and king of peace].
5 The LORD [‘Adonay – the King of kings] at your right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath.
6 He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill the places with the dead bodies; he shall wound the heads [ro’sh – those whose evil ideas and ways rule] over many countries [‘erets – over the earth].
7 He shall drink of the brook in the way [this word sent into this time, to be revealed, by which]: therefore, shall he lift up [ruwm – raise and exalt] the head [ro’sh – His righteous ideas and way].

December 27, 2023December 27, 2023

Behold, I will gather them out of all countries, whither I have driven them in my anger, and in my fury, and in great wrath; and I will bring them again unto this place, and I will cause them to dwell safely:

26 – 27 December 2023

Behold, I will gather them out of all countries, whither I have driven them in my anger, and in my fury, and in great wrath; and I will bring them again unto this place, and I will cause them to dwell safely:

The LORD above, in Jeremiah 32:37, is speaking of Jerusalem, which He gave into captivity: His people’s minds held by the lies of false prophets, under the misleading of their kings and priests estranged from the LORD. It is back to a right state of mind, New Heavenly Jerusalem, He promises He’ll gather them again, by the correction spoken of in Hebrews 12, returned thereby to His one way, by exalting His one voice from His anointed.

Jeremiah 32
38 And they shall be my people, and I will be their God:
39 And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me forever, for the good of them, and of their children after them:
40 And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me.
41 Yea, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul.
42 For thus says the LORD; Like as I have brought all this great evil upon this people, so will I bring upon them all the good that I have promised them.

Hebrews 11
1 Now faith is the substance [hupostasis – under-standing] of things hoped for, the evidence [elegcho, meaning proof, or conviction] of things not seen.

The final two verses of Jeremiah 32 say, “43 And fields shall be bought in this land, whereof you say, It is desolate without man or beast; it is given into the hand of the Chaldeans {those using deception to manipulate and control those ignorant of their devices}. 44 Men shall buy fields for money {pay the necessary price to redeem the world from these men’s control}, and subscribe {kathar – write} evidences, and seal {chatham} them, and take witnesses in the land of Benjamin {this last born generation, who become the Father’s right hand, by faith, receiving His correction and becoming His children, who were be before not His people, to which He now says, “You are My people”}, and in the places about Jerusalem {taught the One way to sustainable peace, teaching, correction, that flows directly from the Father}, and in the cities of Judah {among My elect remnant who by faith return to Me }, and in the cities of the mountains {where I am establishing My New Heavenly governments], and in the cities of the valley {with those who’ve humbled themselves to receive His correction}, and in the cities of the south {where My power is manifested to those looking to and obeying the light}: for I will cause their captivity {of there minds, in New Heavenly Jerusalem} to return, says the LORD.”

Hebrews 11
2 For by it [faith in what is heard and not yet seen] the elders obtained a good report.
3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen [by the faithful who were in darkness] were not made of things which do appear [when understanding has come].
4 By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaks.
5 By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.
6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that comes to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
7 By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.
8 By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.
9 By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise [the promised end, the better thing God prepared for us, that these faithful witnesses obeyed and spoke, as He commanded, that they without us, our speaking by the same faith, would not reach]:
10 For he looked for a city [New Heavenly Jerusalem] which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
11 Through faith also Sarah herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.
12 Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.
13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off [in this appointed time the LORD long ago decreed], and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth [journeying toward this moment, when death is swallowed up in victory].
14 For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.
15 And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.
16 But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly [New Jerusalem]: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he has prepared for them a city.

The five times used Greek word hupostasis, above rendered “substance,” literally from words meaning under and standing, is elsewhere twice rendered “confidence,” and once each as “confident” and “person.” In all its uses, it speaks of the ONE in which we have faith by under-standing: our “confidence” knowing His voice heard from the “person” “confident” in the LORD speaking through Him, as I Am confident, and boast of Him as I ought.

2 Corinthians 9
1 For as touching the ministering to the saints [in the original text this says – Touching {peri} truly for the ministering to the saints], it is superfluous [perissos – touching the living, because of this superabundance of this dispensation the LORD has committed into my hand] for me to write to you:
2 For I know the forwardness of your mind [prothumia – the readiness of your mind; you are those for whom it is intended, God having prepared a better end for us], for which I boast [kauchaomai] of [the LORD’s work in] you to them of Macedonia [the houses of dead flesh, those led there by false preachers and teachers], that Achaia was [those who realized they are in the tribulation, were] ready [paraskeuazo – fully furnished for good works] a year ago; and your zeal [zelos – heat, the fire kindled in you by the LORD’s work] has provoked [erethizo – stimulated, awakened to contend for the faith] very many.
3 Yet have I sent the brethren [those still sleeping among us], lest our boasting [kauchema – of the LORD’s work] of you should be in vain in this behalf; that, as I said, you may be ready [paraskeuazo]:
4 Lest haply if they of Macedonia [of the houses of dead flesh, who remain asleep] come with me, and find you unprepared [aparasheuastos – unready for this work of God awakening them through you], we (that we say not, you [because I may be among the dead who will come to life by the obedience of those the LORD prepares and brings with Him]) should be ashamed [not reaching the end promised] in this same confident [hupostasis – faith in the inner person, the substance of things hoped for] boasting [kauchesis – rejoicing in the LORD].
5 Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort [parakaleo – call along side, as the Comforter in me, the LORD yet unknown working and speaking to] the brethren, that they would go before [proerchomai – before through utterance] unto you, and make up beforehand [prokatartizo – only appearing here, meaning to be prepared in advance] your bounty [eulogia – by the LORD’s good words], whereof you had notice before [prokataggello – by which He is announced in advance], that the same might be ready, as a matter of bounty [eulogia – the LORD’s good words], and not as of covetousness [pleonexia – not of “feigned words {to} make merchandise of you.”].
6 But this I say, He which sows [this word of God] sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully [eulogia] shall reap also bountifully [eulogia].
7 Every man according as he purpose in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loves a cheerful giver [who joyfully gives His word as received].
8 And God is able to make all grace [all the benefits of blessing others with His gift] abound toward you; that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:
9 (As it is written, He has dispersed abroad; he has given to the poor: his righteousness remains forever. [Quoted from Psalms 112:9, which speaks of this as how the desire of the wicked shall perish.]
10 Now he that ministers seed to the sower both minister bread for your food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;)
11 Being enriched in every [good] thing to all bountifulness, which causes through us thanksgiving to God.
12 For the administration of this service not only supplies the want of the saints, but is abundant also by many thanksgivings unto God;
13 Whiles by the experiment [dokime – the proof in the experience] of this ministration they glorify God for your professed [homologia – His same good words] subjection [hupotage – your subjection, obedience] unto [delivering] the gospel of Christ, and for your liberal distribution [of the gift He has freely given us, to be given as received] unto them, and unto all men;
14 And by their prayer for you, which long after you for the exceeding grace [this gift] of God in you.
15 Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift.

2 Corinthians 11
10 As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting [of the LORD] in the regions of Achaia [this place of tribulation].
11 Wherefore? because I love you not? God knows.
12 But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we [as men in whom a spirit is working and speaking: the LORD in us and Satan resisting Him in them].
13 For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the [false] apostles of Christ.
14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light [claiming the darkness in him is understanding].
15 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be [darkness in hell] according to their works.
16 I say again, let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little.
17 That which I speak, I speak it not after the LORD, but as it were foolishly [mocking the foolish], in this confidence [hupostasis – understanding] of boasting [I in the LORD and them in Satan].
18 Seeing that many glory after the flesh [men trusting in men], I will glory also.
19 For you suffer fools gladly, seeing you yourselves are wise.
20 For you suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour you, if a man take of you, if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face.
21 I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also.
22 Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I.
23 Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more [Christ truly in me]; in labors more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.

Without foolishness, I therefore conclude:

30 If I must need glory, I will glory of the things which concern my infirmities [my weaknesses proving the power in me is Christ’s alone].
31 The God and Father of our LORD Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knows that I lie not.

Hebrews 1
1 God, who at sundry times [polumeros – only appearing here, meaning “in many portions, i.e. variously as to time and agency (piecemeal)”] and in divers manners [polutropos – also only here, meaning, “in many ways, i.e. variously as to method or form.”] spoke in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,
2 Has in these last days spoken [the LORD speaking here and now] unto us by his Son, whom he has appointed heir of all things [spoken by the many prophets, meant to be perfected as the better thing the Father has prepared for us], by whom also he made the worlds [the old, upon whose ruin He created the current age now ending in total corruption, and is in like manner making the New];
3 Who being the brightness [the understanding of His glory: His manifested presence], and the express image [charakter – the exact copy, “character”] of his person [hupostasis – understanding], and upholding all things by the word [carrying the full load of the light] of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high [until now when He again stands with us, in us]:
4 Being made so much better than the angels, as he has by inheritance obtained a more excellent name [identity] than they.

Hebrews 3
14 For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence [hupostasis – person and substance] steadfast unto the end;
15 While it is said, Today if you will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.
16 For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.
17 But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?
18 And to whom swore he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?
19 So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief [a lack of faith in what they heard, thereby not allowing the word to touch and change them, and they, therefore, without understanding, remaining corrupted, wouldn’t obey].

Hebrews 1
8 But unto the Son he says, Your throne, O God, is forever and ever: a scepter of righteousness is the scepter of your kingdom.
9 You have loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.
10 And, You, LORD, in the beginning have laid the foundation [themelioo] of the earth; and the heavens are the works of your hands:
11 They shall perish; but you remain; and they all shall wax old as does a garment;
12 And as a vesture shall you fold them up, and they shall be changed [allasso]: but you are the same, and your years shall not fail.
13 But to which of the angels said he at any time, Sit on my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool?
14 Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister [this same word] for them who shall be heirs of salvation?

Hebrews 11
39 And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise:
40 God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.

Hebrews 12
1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses [sent to minster this word], 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 [corrects out of corruption], and scourges every son whom he receives.
7 If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chastens not?
8 But if you be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are you bastards, and not sons.
9 Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?

22 But you [who are the Father’s children by His correction] are come unto mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the [New] Heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels [messengers He sends to minister His message to the heirs of His promised Salvation],
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 from heaven [the throne of God with His full understanding]:
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 [by men], 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 [as His ministers] with reverence and godly fear:
29 For our God is a consuming fire.

When Hebrews 3:15 above speaks of hearing the LORD’s voice to day, to give His light to the world, it’s quoted from Psalms 95:7 & 8, which, along with Psalms 96, are exhortations to sing the new song. The newness is a reference to the new covenant, as the LORD describes it in Jeremiah 31:31 – 34, when He’s written it newly into our minds. The call to hear it is to obey (shama’) it as His voice heard, which we’re told to make known to be His presence manifested.

Jeremiah 31
31 Behold, the days come, the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they broke, although I was a husband unto them, says the LORD:
33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, says the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me [when My voice is heard as Mine], from the least of them unto the greatest of them, says the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.

Psalms 95
1 O come, let us sing unto the LORD [repeating these words with Him]: let us make a joyful noise to the Rock of our salvation [from Whom this word flows].
2 Let us come before his presence [paniym] with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms.
3 For the LORD is a great God, and a great King above all gods.
4 In his hand are the deep places of the earth: the strength of the hills is his also.
5 The sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land.
6 O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before [paniym – in the presence of] the LORD our maker.
7 For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. To day [enter the light of His understanding] if you will hear [shama’ – obey] his voice,
8 Harden not your heart, as in the provocation [when you doubted My presence, even as this water flowed from the Rock in your presence], and as in the day of temptation [when the light was present, yet you doubted this voice was My presence manifested among you] in the wilderness:
9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.
10 Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart [their corrupt foundational understanding], and they have not known my ways:
11 Unto whom I swore in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.

This “rest” is from the twenty-one times used Hebrew word mnuwchah, the same word that appears in Isaiah 28:12, when the LORD is teaching, as here, precept upon precept, line upon line. It’s when the only vexation is to understand the “report,” from the words shmuw’ah, which speaks of hearing the voice as Jehovah’s and, as such, obeying Him.

Isaiah 28 [as in the previous post]
5 In that day shall the LORD [Jehovah] of hosts [manifested in His man of war] be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem [tsphiyrah – a crowning as the mourning] of beauty, unto the residue [sh’ar – the elect remnant spoken of in Isaiah 10] of his people,
6 And for a spirit of judgment to him that sits in judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate.
7 But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
8 For all tables 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 – hearing the voice of Jehovah – the rumor of Ezekiel 7:26]? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts [who now draw from the Ancient of days].
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 will he speak [truth they don’t understand] to this people.
12 To whom he said, This is the rest [mnuwchah – resting place, in heaven, in the LORD’s presence, in full understanding] wherewith you may cause the weary to rest [nuwach – noah, the rest at the end reached]; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.
13 But the word of the LORD [Jehovah] 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 [Jehovah], you scornful men [mockers and blasphemers vilifying this word and work of God: in and through the Paraclete, the Holy Ghost the world doesn’t know], that [without justice] rule this people which is in [New Heavenly] Jerusalem.
15 Because you have [ignorantly] said, We have made a covenant with death [maveth], and with hell [sheol – the habitation of the dead] 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.
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 armies 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 there 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 comes bkowr – telling us this is the voice of the “firstborn”}, that then you shall bestir yourself: for then shall the LORD go out before {paniym – His presence will be manifested with, in} you, to smite the host of the Philistines {the enemy army now mixed among you}.”] upon the whole earth.
23 Give you ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech.

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

The word rendered “new” in the first verse (Psalms 96:1) above is chadash, meaning “new:–fresh, new thing.” It is not only used, as above, telling of the “new” covenant and the “new” song, but also elsewhere of the “new” (sentient – fully aware, jailbreaked, escaped from darkness into the light: overcoming the imposed limitations that kept man ignorant and thereby disabled) mind of man, and also of the “new” heaven and earth, by this, created.

Isaiah 43
1 But now thus says the LORD that created you, O Jacob, and he that formed you, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed you [paid the price to bring you out of darkness], I have called you by your name; you are mine.
2 When you pass [‘abar – passing over from death into new life] through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow you: when you walk through the fire [here in death and hell], you shall not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon you.
3 For I am the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior: I gave [to My sword] Egypt [your oppressors] for your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba [the waters of darkness they gave you to drink] for you.
4 Since you were precious in my sight, you have been honorable, and I have loved you: therefore will I give [to my sword] men [I’ve hated] for you, and people for your life.
5 Fear not: for I am with you: I will bring your seed from the east [from where My light is first heard], and gather you from the west [all upon whom it will shine];
6 I will say to the north [the places of darkness], Give up; and to the south [where My power is revealed], Keep not back: bring my sons from far [rachowq – from those now ruling the world by their evil decrees], and my daughters from the ends of the earth [the end the old and corrupt and beginning the new];
7 Even every one that is called by my name [receiving my correction and becoming My children]: for I have created him [My children] for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him.
8 Bring forth the blind people that have eyes [and now see], and the deaf that have ears [and now hear].
9 Let all the nations [all who haven’t know Me] be gathered together, and let the people be assembled [into My ONE BODY]: who among them can declare this [who will speak these good tidings to the world in need], and show us former things? let them bring forth their witnesses, that they may be justified: or let them hear [shama’ – obey], and say, It is truth.
10 You are my [great cloud of] witnesses, the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that you may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.
11 I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no savior.
12 I have declared [My presence among you], and have saved, and I have shown, when there was no strange god among you: therefore you are my witnesses, says the LORD, that I am God.
13 Yea, before the day [understanding] was I am he; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let it?
14 Thus says the LORD, your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; For your sake I have sent to Babylon [allowed all the world to fall under the rule of confusion], and have brought down all their nobles [who’ve led it there], and the Chaldeans [those who’ve used deception to manipulate and control the world into its now desolate state], whose cry is in the ships [their voices, evil decrees, are heard from all their corrupt institutions, by which they control all humanity].
15 I am the LORD, your Holy One, the creator of Israel, your King.
16 Thus the LORD, which makes a way in the sea [for humanity to escape this evil time], and a path in the mighty waters [these words which are the way back to rest and refreshing: sustainable peace and security];
17 Which brings forth the chariot and horse [these ideas that are the strength that will carry you into this new state], the army and the power; they [all the wicked, who I hate] shall lie down together, they shall not rise: they are extinct, they are quenched as tow.
18 Remember you not the former things, neither consider the things of old [the corrupt ways that are now ending in the destruction of the wicked, who choose destruction].
19 Behold, I will do a new thing [chadash]; now it shall spring forth; shall you not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness [the earth now in ruin], and rivers [of these living waters] in the desert.
20 The beast [men who’ve been without My Spirit] of the field shall honor me, the dragons and the owls [those who before hunted and devoured souls in the darkness]: because I give waters [this word] in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen.
21 This people have I formed for myself; they shall [open their mouths and] show forth my praise.
22 But you have not called upon me, O Jacob; but you have been weary of me, O Israel.
23 You have not brought me the small cattle of your burnt offerings; neither have you honored me with your sacrifices. I have not caused you to serve with an offering, nor wearied you with incense.
24 You have bought me no sweet cane with money, neither have you filled me with the fat of your sacrifices: but you have made me to serve with your sins, you have wearied me with your iniquities.
25 I, even I, am he that blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and will not remember your sins.
26 Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare you [what you’ve learned], that you mayest be justified.
27 Your first father has sinned, and your teachers have transgressed against me.
28 Therefore I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and have given Jacob to the curse, and Israel to reproaches.

Isaiah 48
1 Hear [shama’ – obey] you this, O house of Jacob, which are called by the name of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah [this word I’ve sent to My elect remnant], which swear by the name of the LORD, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness.
2 For they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves upon the God of Israel; The LORD of hosts is his name.
3 I have declared the former things from the beginning [of the creation of this new heaven and earth]; and they went forth out of my mouth, and I showed them; I did them suddenly [pith’owm], and they came to pass.
4 Because I knew that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your brow brass;
5 I have even from the beginning declared it to you; before it came to pass I showed it you: lest you shouldest say, My idol has done them, and my graven image, and my molten image, has commanded them.
6 You have heard, see all this; and will not you declare it [as I’ve commanded]? I have shown you new things [chadash] from this time, even hidden things, and you did not know them.
7 They are created now, and not from the beginning; even before the day when you heard them not; lest you shouldest say, Behold, I knew them.
8 Yea, you heard [shama’ – obeyed] not; yea, you knew not; yea, from that time that your ear was not opened: for I knew that you would deal very treacherously, and were called a transgressor from the womb.
9 For my name’s sake will I defer my anger, and for my praise will I refrain for you, that I cut you not off.
10 Behold, I have refined you, but not with silver; I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction.
11 For my own sake, even for my own sake, will I do it: for how should my name be polluted? and I will not give my glory unto another.
12 Hearken [shama’ – obey] unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I am he; I am the first, I also am the last.
13 My hand also has laid the foundation of the [new] earth, and my right hand has spanned the [new] heavens: when I call unto them, they stand up together.
14 All you, assemble yourselves [into My ONE BODY], and hear [shama’ – obey]; which among them [except My anointed] has declared these things? The LORD has loved him: he will do his pleasure on Babylon [the confusion that rules the world], and his arm [this work] shall be on the Chaldeans [against those I’ve hated].
15 I, even I, have spoken; yea, I have called him: I have brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous.
16 Come you near unto me, hear [shama’ – obey] you this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there am I: and now the LORD God, and his Spirit, has sent me.
17 Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the LORD your God which teaches you to profit, which leads you by the way that you shouldest go.
18 O that you had hearkened [qashab – let these words pierce your ear and enter your minds] to my commandments! then had your peace been as a river, and your righteousness as the waves of the sea:
19 Your seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of your bowels like the gravel thereof; his name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me [paniym – left my presence].
20 Go you forth of Babylon, flee you from the Chaldeans, with a voice of singing declare you [as I have commanded], tell this, utter it even to the end of the [old and corrupt] earth; say you, The LORD has redeemed his servant Jacob.
21 And they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts: he caused the waters to flow out of the Rock for them: he clave the Rock also, and the waters gushed out.
22 There is no peace, says the LORD, unto the wicked.

Isaiah 65
13 Therefore thus the LORD God, Behold, my servants shall eat, but you shall be hungry: behold, my servants shall drink, but you shall be thirsty: behold, my servants shall rejoice, but you [who’ve forsaken the LORD and joined with those He’s hated] shall be ashamed:
14 Behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but you shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation of spirit [not hearing and obeying this word as the voice from the mouth of the LORD].
15 And you shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen [upon whom I’ve shown mercy, in this conversation at My mercy seat]: for the LORD God shall slay you, and call his servants by another name:
16 That he who blesses himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth; and he that swears in the earth shall swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hid from my eyes.
17 For, behold, I create new [chadash] heavens and a new [chadash] earth: and the former [the old and corrupt] shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.
18 But be you glad and rejoice forever in that which I create: for, behold, I create [New Heavenly] Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.
19 And I will rejoice in [New Heavenly] Jerusalem, and joy in my people: and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying.

Jeremiah 31
16 Thus says the LORD; Refrain your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears: for your work shall be rewarded, says the LORD; and they shall come again from the land of the enemy.
17 And there is hope in your end, says the LORD, that your children shall come again to their own border [this new beginning].
18 I have surely heard Ephraim [the people of God, upon whom this blessing has come] bemoaning himself thus: You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn you me, and I shall be turned; for you are the LORD my God.
19 Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.
20 Is Ephraim my dear son [this generation I have corrected]? is he a pleasant child? for since I spoke against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, says the LORD.
21 Set you up waymarks [showing the way of the LORD], make you high heaps: set your heart toward the highway, even the way which you went: turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these your cities.
22 How long will you go about, O you backsliding daughter? for the LORD has created a new thing [chadash] in the earth, A woman shall compass [turn to] a man [of war].
23 Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As yet they shall use this speech in the land of Judah and in the cities thereof, when I shall bring again their captivity; The LORD bless you, O habitation of justice, and mountain of holiness.

Ezekiel 36
22 Therefore say unto the house of Israel, thus says the LORD God; I do not this for your sakes, O house of Israel, but for my holy name’s sake, which you have profaned among the heathen, whither you went.
23 And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among the heathen, which you have profaned in the midst of them; and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, says the LORD God, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.
24 For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.
25 Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and you shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
26 A new [chadash] heart also will I give you, and a new [chadash] spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.
27 And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and you shall keep my judgments, and do them.
28 And you shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and you shall be my people, and I will be your God.
29 I will also save you from all your uncleanness: and I will call for the corn, and will increase it, and lay no famine upon you.
30 And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that you shall receive no more reproach of famine among the heathen.
31 Then shall you remember your own evil ways, and your doings that were not good, and shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations.
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 [upon the ruin of the old earth] 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 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 98
1 O sing unto the LORD a new [chadash] song; for he has done marvelous things: his right hand, and his holy arm, has gotten him the victory.
2 The LORD has made known his salvation: his righteousness has he openly shown in the sight of the heathen.
3 He has remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of Israel: all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
4 Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all the earth: make a loud noise, and rejoice, and sing praise.
5 Sing unto the LORD with the harp; with the harp, and the voice of a psalm.
6 With trumpets and sound of cornet make a joyful noise before the LORD, the King.
7 Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
8 Let the floods clap their hands: let the hills be joyful together
9 Before [paniym – in the presence of] the LORD; for he comes to judge the earth: with righteousness shall he judge the world, and the people with equity.