Word XP – Page 125 – The Truth of the Word of God

February 3, 2017

A Man’s Understanding Is as Light come into Earth’s Darkness

Continuing: beginning today with the light that comes after the Holy Spirit of God has moved on the waters of the deep. As we’ve discussed this is the Genesis 1 creation description come after the earth becomes without form and void. It is the description retold by Peter as he describes the appearing of the light in 2 Peter 1, follows it by an in-depth explanation of how the darkness has come, and closes telling of the waters that wash away the corruption in the news creation.

Peter begins by describing the entrance of light into darkness as the entrance into kingdom preached to us and our AGAIN being established in its Truth.

2 Peter 1
11 For so an entrance 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.

He then goes on to tell of the voice coming from heaven, the place we know from Genesis 1 where the waters are rightly divided, and here Peter tells us specifically it is the word. This description also coincides with John’s telling us of the witness in heaven and in the earth. As we’ve discussed in detail, the word comes from the Father delivered by His Holy Spirit, it flows by the Holy Spirit to man on earth as water, as light into darkness, then producing after its own kind joining us with the Lamb (the second Adam) in the blood of this necessary sacrifice delivering it as received (as did the LORD showing us the way.) 1 John 5: 6 This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that bears witness, because the Spirit is truth. 7 For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. 8 And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one. 9 If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he has testified of his Son. 10 He that believes on the Son of God has the witness in himself: he that believes not God has made him a liar; because he believes not the record that God gave of his Son.

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.
18 And this voice which came from heaven 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 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.

As we see in these verses Peter is with intention tracking the spirit of Genesis 1. He tells of the light coming into darkness, the waters divided by the word coming from heaven, and the Holy spirit moving on the waters as this process is culminated in the true prophets.

Peter then goes on to describe how the earth will again become without form and void, and in doing refines and defines Genesis 1. We know from our studies the Genesis 1 Hebrew phrase “without form, and void,” is only used two other times, both relating man-caused confusion and its resulting emptiness, and both as always coming from those leading there.

Peter tells us specifically of the cause being false prophets among us, who will absolutely bring in damnable heresies, and the result of their confusion causes them to deny the LORD. This description is mirrored by John in John 1 as he speaks of it from the perspective of the word coming into the world as light, and the world being so confused by the darkness of false and deceptive doctrine, that the world knows it not. But to as many as do believe the report and receive the word, the light of correction, to them gives He power to become the sons of God. This last part being the entrance Peter speaks of as into the kingdom (as described in Hebrews 12 & also as sons of God.)

John 1
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2 The same was in the beginning with God.
3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
5 And the light shines in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.
7 The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe.
8 He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light.
9 That was the true Light, which lights every man that comes into the world.
10 He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.
11 He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
15 John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spoke, He that comes after me is preferred before me: for he was before me.
16 And of his fullness have all we received, and grace for grace.
17 For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
18 No man has seen God at any time, the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he has declared him.

2 Peter explains being led away from this truth and the LORD coming with His marvelous light to reclaim us, or as many of us as will receive him. It is speaking of our (God’s people) having previously many times been delivered in this way, by the LORD sending his word and presence, and of their always being many choosing to remain in the mire and vomit they’ve returned to. We read of their deception as they promise others liberty while they themselves are unwittingly in bondage to their errors.

2 Peter 2
1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily [by their own imaginations] shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the LORD that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
2 And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingers not, and their damnation slumbers not.
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 ensample 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, 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 government. Presumptuous are they, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.
11 Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the LORD.
12 But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;
13 And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deception while they feast with you;
14 Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:
15 Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;
16 But was rebuked for his iniquity: by the dumb donkey speaking with man’s voice forbidding the madness of the [false] prophet.
17 These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.
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 from them who live in error.
19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
20 For if after they have escaped the pollutions 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 delivered unto them.
22 But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.

Peter then in chapter 3 tells us of the LORD’s longsuffering due to His not wanting any to perish, and sending His word into the world as waters to recreate it again in righteousness (justice and truth.) Here again Peter plainly tells of the deliverance coming through the word of God, which is kept in store for times just as this, and when released (by Him) washes away of all of the past error.

As we have discussed at great length Peter tells of this from the coinciding perspective of the elements, the corrupted foundational principles upon which the world bases all its reasoning, melting away from the fires that burn in the earth caused by these same corrupted ideas.

As we now see these fires are incited by men who agitate others as both part and parcel of keeping their power and to maintain control over what they have gained or lust to further gain. They fight against the LORD’s countering all-consuming fires of truth, coming from the mouth of the LORD, and those who have joined with Him in this battle of good against the world’s evil as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous.
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The chapter ends by telling of the men who are unable to understand these plain words of truth. They know not the ways of peace because their motives are based on corrupted and self-centered ideas void of any value. They have chosen by these to self-inflict their own end, and will melt away with their practices. They claim to be tolerant, peaceful, accepting of all, while in fact rejecting all these think themselves enlightened above all the barbarians come before them. They have removed all self-restraint, moral standard, and civility’s necessary mutual respect from the hordes they now incite and release upon those they’ve defined as intolerable, worthy of violence against, and to be rejected and dehumanized by all those seeking acceptability into their cult of evil enlightenment (actually a darkening.) I call on them to repent before they irreversibly set in motion what they will not survive, and from which none will be immune. Choose here and now if you are anarchists, or civilized humans created in the image and likeness of God.

Here is the word directly from the Father, which I deliver to you as life giving waters. It tells of the wisdom received being what makes a man’s face shine. It speaks of the glory of God in those who receive His correction and wisdom its reward. It speaks of not leaving this place, and warns against those doing so and making the fatal mistake of taking a stand against the LORD and His wisdom. Later in the chapter, Ecclesiastes 8:11, we read of the longsuffering of the LORD, and because of the sentence not being carried out, the LORD not desiring that any should perish, men think it isn’t coming. He is long suffering but judgment must come, “And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.”

Ecclesiastes 8
1 Who is as the wise man? and who knows the interpretation of a thing? a man’s wisdom makes his face to shine, and the boldness of his face shall be changed.
2 I counsel you to keep the king’s commandment, and that in regard of the oath of God.
3 Be not hasty to go out of his sight: stand not in an evil thing; for he does whatsoever pleases him.
4 Where the word of a king is, there is power: and who may say unto him, What doest you?
5 Whoso keeps the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man’s heart discerns both time and judgment.
6 Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man is great upon him.
7 For he knows not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?
8 There is no man that has power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither has he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.
9 All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: there is a time wherein one man rules over another to his own hurt.
10 And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this is also vanity.
11 Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
12 Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which fear before him:
13 But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he fears not before God.
14 There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be just men, unto whom it happens according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked men, to whom it happens according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also is vanity.
15 Then I commended mirth, because a man has no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labor the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun.
16 When I applied mine heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth: (for also there is that neither day nor night see sleep with his eyes:)
17 Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labor to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea farther; though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.

The conclusion Solomon comes to after examining the natural world, the conclusion the founders came to, the conclusion all right functioning intellectuals come to, is that the only way to understand the natural is to see what is unseen and only useable with natural eyes. It is to see the things that are truth even in the void, in the yet unknown regions of time. 2 Peter 1: 9 But he that lacks these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and has forgotten that he was purged from his old sins [errors.] 10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if you do these things, you shall never fall: 11 For so an entrance 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 shewed me. 15 Moreover I will endeavor that you may be able after my decease 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.

1 Corinthians 2
1 And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of [man’s] wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God.
2 For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified [willingly self-sacrificing to bring us the word of truth.]
3 And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.
4 And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:
5 That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
6 Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to naught:
7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:
8 Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the LORD of glory.
9 But as it is written, Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God has prepared for them that love him.
10 But God has revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searches all things, yea, the deep things of God.
11 For what man knows the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knows no man, but the Spirit of God.
12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Ghost teaches; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
14 But the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
15 But he that is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.
16 For who has known the mind of the LORD, that he may instruct him? but we have the mind of Christ.

February 2, 2017

Earth’s Great Merchants and False Prophets Melting Away (Ignorant of the Effects of the Fires)

Continuing: Today a deeper examination of the premise discussed in the prior post, that the fires burning in the earth melt away the corrupted ideas upon which the degenerate world bases all its decisions and policy. As we’ve read in recent days, this is what is referred to in 2 Peter 3 when Peter speaks of these fires melting the “element.” As we’ve discussed these “elements” are described using the Greek word stoichieon, meaning an orderly arrangement, and is also translated as principles and rudiments. It is used to describe the first principles of the oracles of God, and rudiments when defining the ideas of the world, corrupting it and keeping God’s people in bondage.

We saw these fires also described from John’s perspective in Revelation 18 & 19 as what destroys those deceiving the earth, and these being the great merchants of the earth and the false prophet[s]. We also saw the fire is what proceeds from the mouth of the LORD as He wields the Word of God as His sword [rightly dividing the Word.] We saw this analogy traced back to Isaiah 49 where it is used in beginning the chapter, a chapter we saw is also quoted in Revelation 7:16 & 17 to tell of the many who come out of the great tribulation. We saw both chapter calling us to come out from among these people and not be unequally yoked with their unbelief. In Isaiah 49 we are told this is the LORD having heard us in an acceptable time and of this being His come to our rescue. This is the report being given from the mouth of the one speaking in the name of the LORD and not believed by men destroying the earth via their corrupted understanding, the same men further described by John in Revelation 18 & 19.

We saw our being told of the LORD hearing us and come to succor us, appearing in Isaiah 49, also being quoted by Paul in 2 Corinthians 6 as he gives us the further definition of this being coming out from being unequally yoked, the righteous from the unrighteous, light from darkness and believers from unbelief. Paul then quotes from Isaiah 52 where is the origin of this call to come out of this unbelief, and the chapter ending by telling of those who will see what they had not seen, and what they had not heard they shall consider.

It is for this point Isaiah 53 begins by asking the question, “Who has believed our report, unto whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?”

We know this first as a question that answers itself. The arm of the LORD is revealed to those who have believed the report. Then we know what follows is a description of what has been seen and not understood, and considering what had not been expected because of listening to the corrupted ideas of those we had been among. It is from there in the midst of this man-caused darkness we are called to come out.

This is the perspective from where Peter writes 2 Peter. Chapter one ends with his telling of our not having followed cunningly devised fables, followed by his describing the intricacies of prophesy, and how it is the Spirit of God who released understanding to men God chooses. His description tells of it in terms referring to Genesis 1 when the Spirit of God “moved” on the waters of the deep. We know there the Hebrew word translated “moved” is a word meaning to brood over, as in a bird sitting on eggs until they hatch. Peter tells of the Holy Spirit carrying (moving) the understanding until God is ready for it to brought forth. This is the same meaning we are being told of in these earlier descriptions of the acceptable time when the LORD comes to free us.

Chapter 2 then begins with telling us of the false prophets that will (absolutely) be among us, and will bring in damnable heresies, even denying the LORD that bought them. This is the point, as it was the point 2000 years ago. Men cause darkness and confusion by adding their fictions, then in pride reject correction, cumulatively resulting in all being unable to see, hear and believe the report. This is the gross darkness we are called out of into the light. This command to come out is the call we first hear in the cloud of darkness, once in the light we see what we couldn’t, and there understanding it is the arm of the LORD revealed.

Before again pasting all three chapters of 2 Peter we need to understand what it means when Peter tells of these corrupted ideas melting away. We know melting tells of the outer layer first liquefying and flowing away, and each successive layer doing the same until all is gone, and this happening in one seamless process. Line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little there a little, so they may be astonished, be snared and taken away. Just because you’re not on fire doesn’t mean the heat isn’t having its effect.

Isaiah 28
9 Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.
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 to this people.
12 To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith you may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.
13 But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, you scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because you have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus says the LORD God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, 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 shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then you shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goes forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.

When Peter speaks of these false prophets denying the LORD that “bought” them and later mentions their melting away he is referring to Exodus 15, where in verse 15 & 16 both are mentioned. There we also read of the arm of the LORD revealed as the waters (the word) the LORD had divided crash back upon these enemies refusing to allow us our freedom.

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, and he is become my salvation: he is my God, and I will prepare him an 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.
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 thine 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 an heap, and the depths were congealed in the heart of the sea.
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: sorrow shall take hold on the inhabitants of Palestina.
15 Then the dukes of Edom shall be amazed; the mighty men of Moab, trembling shall take hold upon them; all the inhabitants of Canaan shall melt away.
16 Fear and dread shall fall upon them; by the greatness of thine arm they shall be as still as a stone; till your people pass over, O LORD, till the people pass over, which you have purchased.
17 You shall bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of thine 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 for ever and ever.
19 For the horse of Pharaoh 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.

2 Peter 1
1 Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Savior Jesus Christ:
2 Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our LORD,
3 According as his divine power has given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that has called us to glory and virtue:
4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these you might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
5 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
6 And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;
7 And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
8 For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that you shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our LORD Jesus Christ.
9 But he that lacks these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and has forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.
10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if you do these things, you shall never fall:
11 For so an entrance 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 shewed me.
15 Moreover I will endeavor that you may be able after my decease 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.
18 And this voice which came from heaven 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 shine in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star 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.

2 Peter 2
1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily [from their own imaginations] shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the LORD that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
2 And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingers not, and their damnation slumbers not.
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 ensample 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, 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 government. Presumptuous are they, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.
11 Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the LORD.
12 But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;
13 And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceptions while they feast with you;
14 Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:
15 Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;
16 But was rebuked for his iniquity: [By] the voiceless donkey speaking with man’s voice forbidding the madness of the [false] prophet.
17 These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.
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 from them who live in error.
19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
20 For if after they have escaped the pollutions 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 delivered unto them.
22 But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.

Psalms 58
1 Do you indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do you judge uprightly, O you sons of men?
2 Yea, in heart [your own corrupted reasoning] you work wickedness; you weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
3 The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
4 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stops her ear [rejecting correction;]
5 Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
6 Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.
7 Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bends his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.
8 As a snail which melts, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.
9 Before your pots can feel the [the boil of the] thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.
10 The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
11 So that a man shall say, Truly there is a reward for the righteous: truly He is a God that judges in the earth.

February 1, 2017

Be Not Unequally Yoked – Come out From Among them

Continuing our discussion of the leftist tantrum underway and it stemming from corrupted ideas and their resulting mass confusion (Babylon and Babel, from the Hebrew word babel, meaning confusion). We know these corrupted ideas are the foundational principles upon which the corrupted world bases all its decisions and policy, and these are what has caused the fires (agitation and tribulation) now burning in the world. We know the people holding the ideas as their foundation are those having ascended into the highest seats of power. We know their corrupted principles are the “elements” spoken of by Peter in 2 Peter 3 (as the stoicheion,) and are those that melt away in the fire these people and their ideas themselves have created.

We now see many of these people having taken a stand on the side of the anti-American tantrum and with the corrupted principles, and many others like myself have decided to no longer do business with them and their ilk. No matter what you believe, you have to see Revelation 18 playing out before our eyes, and this great city of confusion is in flames. Seems the only ones not seeing it are those melting away.

We see this chapter describing these men, the great merchants of the earth, whose sorceries have deceived the nations. We know the sorceries are the words they have used to persuade others to do their will, in this case buying their product (marketing,) while no man knew who they really were in principle. They have now exposed themselves in choosing to take this stand. Again, no matter what you or they believe, this is what we are undeniable in the mist of.

Revelation 18
1 And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory.
2 And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that you be not partakers of her sins, and that you receive not of her plagues.
5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.
6 Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she has filled fill to her double.
7 How much she has glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.
8 Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the LORD God who judges her.
9 And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning,
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is your judgment come.
11 And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buys their merchandise any more:
12 The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all your wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble,
13 And cinnamon, and odors, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men.
14 And the fruits that your soul lusted after are departed from you, and all things which were dainty and goodly are departed from you, and you shall find them no more at all.
15 The merchants of these things, which were made rich by her, shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping and wailing,
16 And saying, Alas, alas that great city, that was clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls!
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to naught. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
18 And cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like unto this great city!
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
20 Rejoice over her, you heaven, and you holy apostles and prophets; for God has avenged you on her.
21 And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.
22 And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in you; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more in you; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in you;
23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in you; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in you: for your merchants were the great men of the earth; for by your sorceries were all nations deceived.
24 And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.

This destruction of the confusion is contrasted in Revelation 19 with the marriage feast as what ushers all into the presence of the Lamb, and God’s Glory risen upon and seen in His people.

Revelation 19
1 And after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honor, and power, unto the LORD our God:
2 For true and righteous are his judgments: for he has judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and has avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.
3 And again they said, Alleluia And her smoke rose up for ever and ever.
4 And the four and twenty elders and the four beasts fell down and worshipped God that sat on the throne, saying, Amen; Alleluia.
5 And a voice came out of the throne, saying, Praise our God, all you his servants, and you that fear him, both small and great.
6 And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thundering, saying, Alleluia: for the LORD God omnipotent reigns.
7 Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honor to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife has made herself ready.
8 And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.
9 And he said unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he said unto me, These are the true sayings of God.
10 And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See you do it not: I am your fellow-servant, and of your brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.
11 And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.
12 His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself.
13 And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.
14 And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.
15 And out of his mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treads the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
16 And he has on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, King Of Kings, And LORD Of Lords.
17 And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God;
18 That you may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.
19 And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army.
20 And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
21 And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.

In the above chapter we again see the sharp sword proceeding from the LORD’s mouth, the same One also called by the name “Word of God,” name meaning his identity know by this calling.

We also know (from these discussion) the sword coming from the LORD’s mouth is John’s (the writer) way of referring to the origin of the statement in Isaiah 49:2. There in the original verse we also read of this being the hiding place of the same One with the sword of the Word of God coming from His mouth. In versed 3 we read it is us, the elect remnant in who the Glory of God in manifested before the world, and then to all those who awaken from the stupor, joining with us and casting away all their former empty works.

Isaiah 49
1 Listen, O isles [dry places standing out of these living waters,] unto me; and hearken, you people, from far; 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 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, 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 [the rebels among His people] again to him, though Israel be not gathered, 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 [re-salt] of Israel: I will also give you for a light to the Gentiles, 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 you, and give you for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages;
9 That you may say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, Shew 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 water shall he guide them.
11 And I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall be exalted.
12 Behold, these shall come from far: and, lo, these from the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim.
13 Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into singing, O mountains: for the LORD has comforted his people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted.
14 But Zion said, The LORD has forsaken me, and my LORD has forgotten me.
15 Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget you.
16 Behold, I have graven you upon the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me.
17 Your children shall make haste; your destroyers and they that made you waste shall go forth of you.
18 Lift up your eyes round about, and behold: all these gather themselves together, and come to you. As I live, says the LORD, you shall surely clothe you with them all, as with an ornament, and bind them on you, as a bride does.
19 For your waste and your desolate places, and the land of your destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that swallowed you up shall be far away.
20 The children which you shall have, after you have lost the other, shall say again in your ears, The place is too strait for me: give place to me that I may dwell.
21 Then shall you say in your heart, Who has begotten me these, seeing I have lost my children, and am desolate, a captive, and removing to and fro? and who has brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where had they been?
22 Thus says the LORD God, Behold, I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people: and they shall bring your sons in their arms, and your daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders.
23 And kings shall be your nursing fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers: they shall bow down to you with their face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of your feet; and you shall know that I am the LORD: for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me.
24 Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive delivered?
25 But thus says the LORD, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will contend with him that contends with you, and I will save your children.
26 And I will feed them that oppress you with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I the LORD am your Savior and your Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.

If you remember this above chapter is the one we’ve discussed as the origin (verse 8 – 10) of the quote appearing in Revelation 7:16 & 17. It speaks of the uncountable number of people who come out of the great tribulation, and of the LORD wiping away all tears from their eyes.

Revelation 7
9 After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindred, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;
10 And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sits upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.
11 And all the angels stood round about the throne, and about the elders and the four beasts, and fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God,
12 Saying, Amen: Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honor, and power, and might, be unto our God for ever and ever. Amen.
13 And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they?
14 And I said unto him, Sir, you know. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
15 Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sits on the throne shall dwell among them.
16 They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat.
17 For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.

Isaiah 49:8 is also quoted in 2 Corinthians 6:2 telling of the LORD hearing us in an acceptable time (this time,) and coming to our rescue (succor.) The context of the chapter is not being unequally yoked, and is exactly what we read of in Revelation 18, and are now called to. It tells of those seeking righteousness having no part with unrighteousness, and light having no part with darkness (the gross darkness of these corrupted ideas keeping the people of the world in their stupor (death’s sleep.)

Just prior to our reading this in verse 14 verse 13 tells of it being our being “enlarged.” This is the same as we read of in the prior post and the LORD being magnified in us (Luke 1:46) as the Word of the LORD is heard and believed. It is the glory of the LORD rising upon us and in us, as we have read in Isaiah 60.

“Wherefore come out from among them, and be you separate, says the LORD, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you.” This conclusion is quoted in 2 Corinthians 6:17 from Isaiah 52:11 (the chapters are pasted below.)

Luke 1
45 And blessed is she that believed: for there shall be a performance of those things which were told her from the LORD.
46 And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the LORD,
47 And my spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior.
48 For he has regarded the low estate of his handmaiden: for, behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.
49 For he that is mighty has done to me great things; and holy is his name.
50 And his mercy is on them that fear him from generation to generation.
51 He has shewed strength with his arm; he has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
52 He has put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted them of low degree.
53 He has filled the hungry with good things; and the rich he has sent empty away.

2 Corinthians 6
1 We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that you receive not the grace of God in vain.
2 (For he says, I have heard you in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succored you: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)
3 Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed:
4 But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,
5 In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in watching, in fasting;
6 By pureness, by knowledge, by long suffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,
7 By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,
8 By honor and dishonor, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true;
9 As unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed;
10 As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
11 O you Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged.
12 You are not straitened in us, but you are straitened in your own bowels.
13 Now for a recompense in the same, (I speak as unto my children,) be you also enlarged.
14 Be you not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship has righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion has light with darkness?
15 And what concord has Christ with Belial? or what part has he that believes with the unbelieving and unfaithful?
16 And what agreement has the temple of God with idols [these false gods of the earth?] for you are the temple of the living God; as God has said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be you separate, says the LORD, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you.
18 And will be a Father unto you, and you shall be my sons and daughters, says the LORD Almighty.

Isaiah 52
1 Awake, awake; put on your strength, O Zion; put on your beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into you the uncircumcised and the unclean.
2 Shake yourself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem: loose yourself from the bands of your neck, O captive daughter of Zion.
3 For thus says the LORD, You have sold yourselves for naught; and you shall be redeemed without money.
4 For thus says the LORD God, My people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.
5 Now therefore, what have I here, says the LORD, that my people is taken away for naught? they that rule over them make them to howl, says the LORD; and my name continually every day is blasphemed.
6 Therefore my people shall know my name: therefore they shall know in that day that I am he that doth speak: behold, it is I.
7 How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that brings good tidings, that publishes peace; that brings good tidings of good, that publishes salvation; that says unto Zion, Your God reigns!
8 Your watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall they sing: for they shall see eye to eye [face to face,] when the LORD shall bring again Zion.
9 Break forth into joy, sing together, you waste places of Jerusalem: for the LORD has comforted his people, he has redeemed Jerusalem.
10 The LORD has made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.
11 Depart you, depart you, go you out from thence, touch no unclean thing; go you out of the midst of her; be you clean, that bear the 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 astonished 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; 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 shall they consider.

January 31, 2017

Securing the Blessings of Liberty by Providing (taking precautions) for the Common Defense

Today a discussion of the deeper, knowable meaning of a few of the words used in several of our foundational statements. Let begin with the Greek word “blessing” appearing many times in Matthew 5 to tell us of the blessings that are the way into the kingdom (the mind where God reigns as LORD.) Then seeing it we are able to likewise understanding its use in our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution.

It is translated from the Greek word makarios, definition given in the Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary is; supremely blest, fortunate or well off (having fared well.) The fuller understanding is found in its meaning well off, in the sense of it being something one transforms into by process (Acts.) A derivative of the word is makarizo, meaning to beatify, and to be pronounced fortunate, and in context validating a process by its end. Makarios is not only translated as blesses, but is also rendered happy. Makerizo is only used twice, once rendered blessed and once happy.

The one time makarizo appears as “blessed” it is telling of a process, and the one going through it knowing it would lead to all declaring her fortunate. It is the virgin speaking of the process of birthing the Christ into the world – after conceiving by the Holy Spirit and being unmarried (see 2 Corinthians 11:2 & 1 Corinthians 7:34 – 40.) It is written by Luke in Luke 1:48, where just prior in verse 40 makarios appears to tell of believing the report and in doing being blessed. It is telling of believing, and to those who will receive Him bringing forth the birth of the Son of man – in themselves and into the world.

Luke 1
45 And blessed is she that believed: for there shall be a performance of those things which were told her from the Lord.
46 And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord,
47 And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Savior.
48 For he hath regarded the low estate of his handmaiden: for, behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.
49 For he that is mighty hath done to me great things; and holy is his name.
50 And his mercy is on them that fear him from generation to generation.
51 He hath shewed strength with his arm; he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
52 He hath put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted them of low degree.
53 He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich he hath sent empty away.
54 He hath helped his servant Israel, in remembrance of his mercy;
55 As he spoke to our fathers, to Abraham, and to his seed for ever.

My examination leads to both words having an origin in the word mekos (meaning a length and to lengthen;) from the word megas, meaning increasingly great. Megas is the origin of the word megaluno, which is the word translated above in verse 46 as “magnify.”

It’s speaking of the same as we’ve been discussing in detail over recent days. It is telling of the Glory of the LORD being upon us, and of our rising with it as He rises upon us.

The above is of course further interpreted to better see it from the perspective of Revelation 22.

At this point let’s look at a few sentences in our founding documents, first from the Declaration of Independence, and then from our Constitution. I will premise this portion with this statement of fact: the Constitution is constructed on the foundation of the Declaration’s ideas and its stated self-evident truth. As supportive evidence of this I give you Article VII, in which the signers give the date of its signing along with the Year of our LORD, both as the anchor points defining the time.

“Done in Convention by the Unanimous Consent of the States present the Seventeenth Day of September in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty seven and of the Independence of the United States of America the Twelfth In witness whereof We have hereunto subscribed our Name…”

(It can only the counted as in the twelfth year if the time begins at the signing of the Declaration, just as with the Year of our LORD, both here as defining statement not merely giving time, but also the foundational basis of the period. The LORD they defines as “our” LORD in this their statement of “Unanimous Consent,” is irrefutably none other than Jesus Christ.)

The phrase of our focus in the Declaration tells of our God given rights, and among them, Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. Here again we see the founder’s understanding of happiness not being something given (endowed by God), but is rather something only found when diligently sought (pursued.)

Hebrew 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.

Knowing the founder knew the scriptures very well, and held them as the foundation of their wisdom, and our knowing as they did the meaning of the word “happy” in speaking of what is only gained by lawful pursued, we look at the next statement in the Constitution’s preamble.

“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”

In order to better understand the “blessings” mentioned here, we must first understand the word welfare as the founders understood it. Their understanding aside most modern definition seem to all center on things provided by government. The truth is welfare is a compound word made up of well + fare. The word fare we know as the price paid for travel, this coming from its archaic (no longer used) meaning of the journey itself. We must understanding welfare as mentioned here is as the Constitution promoting (not giving) the general conditions for good in our pursuits – fare well (on their way, as in sea-faring or wayfarer – not provide, but rather to promote conditions as fertile ground for achieving success in the pursuit of all the people.)

The “Blessing of Liberty” is telling of all the things stated before as the fertile ground that is secured by what is specifically established, insured, provided and promoted. These secures the blessings (that which is achieved) as the fruit of our liberty, and our pursuit of happiness.

The only thing we are told the Constitution is intended to “provide” for is a common defense, meaning defending the whole.

Here is the definition of provide from Merriam-Webster.com: 1: to take precautionary measures <provide for the common defense — U.S. Constitution>

Here is the oath the President takes, as appears in Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution: “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”

The President takes an oath to protect and defend the Constitution, And the Constitution says it’s established to secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity. Among the means to achieve this security it mandates the common defense be provided, therefore is the President as Chief enforcement (executive) officer of these United States mandated to take precautionary measures to provide for common national defense? Absolutely!

Before going on we need to spend a moment discussing liberty. The same state of liberty that allows one to pursue happiness/blessing by moral and ethical means may by nature allow another to pursue it immorally and unethically. In this we understand there is no morality attached to liberty other than that of the person exercising it. For one it is freedom to do good and for the other license to use liberty as a cloak of maliciousness. On this liberty’s battle ground between good and evil we now stand.

Where does Constitutional legality stand on this same field? As we read in the preamble there are other condition it mandates as part of the security it intends: “establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility.” Therefore, if the liberty exercised by one is against justice, and domestic tranquility, then it would be against the Law of the Land, in spirit even if not in letter.

Here all must, again as we have, look at the national tantrum now ongoing, and specifically what is at its essence. It is in fact part of long march of the communists and Marxists of the world who seek to destroy the Constitution by any means, and those means being every form of immoral and unethical advantage to first destroy the Judeo-Christian American culture, and then its blessings found in free and fair markets.

The means includes pitting one group of people against the other by false accusation, falsely claiming the achievers (the blessing in their fare) have victimized the victims. This is the way of the demagogue, stir and agitate the crowd with claims of injustice and the remedy is always to then victimize the accused. This becomes as now a never satisfied condition void of tranquility and filled with ever worsening severity and injustice. In the chaos the agitator is raised from demagogue to tyrants (Soros and His fellow cultural Marxists,) and they rule as the world burns in their fires.

The Word of God speaks in 2 Peter 3 of our final destination as a new heaven and new earth, wherein dwells righteousness (justice.) This is the same place Hebrews 12 speaks of as heavenly Jerusalem. In 2 Peter 3 it comes after the corrupted ways (elements) of the old earth melts away in the same fires they themselves have caused. In Hebrews 12 it comes after all these corrupted ways have been shaken out of the earth, and the eternal and lasting ideas are what remains.

Friends, we must understand this is a fight for not just our liberty, but also for the blessings and happiness only found in the truthful pursuit of tranquility (peace) and Justice. This is why it is called New Jerusalem, as we know the name tell of a place taught and founded on these ways of mutual security (peace – Salem,) where all are equally secure in their life, liberty and property. And we separate ourselves from any who refuse to live under these Laws of nature and Nature’s God.

Our being corrected in this way is what Hebrew 12 specifically speaks of, as does 2 Peter 3.

2 Peter 3
1 This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:
2 That you may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the LORD and Savior:
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 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 [this word,] 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 [perishing] 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 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 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 wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
17 You therefore, beloved, seeing you know these things before, beware lest you also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own steadfastness.
18 But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our LORD and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen
Hebrews 12
1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth 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 disciplining of the LORD, nor faint when you are rebuked of him:
6 For whom the LORD loves he corrects, and disciplines (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 corrects not?
8 But if you be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are you illegitimate, 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?
10 For they truly for a few days correct us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.
11 Now no discipline for the present seems to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yields the peace-able fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.
12 Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;
13 And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.
14 Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the LORD:
15 Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;
16 Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.
17 For you know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.
18 For you are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
19 And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard demanded that the word should not be spoken to them any more:
20 (For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart:
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,
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 speak 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.

January 30, 2017January 30, 2017

The False Compassion Masking Gross Darkness – the tantrum of the end

Continuing: Friends, we live in an evil time and among an evil generation; and to those offended by my saying this, you are most likely part of this problematic coalition. I call on you to repent, turn from your wicked understanding and corrupted reasoning and become willing to learn the ways of peace and righteousness. Now, to be clear about who the evil generation are, they are the generation placing their trust in lies and deception, and desperately relying on these to sustain them. It speaks of both religious and secular foundational principles that are the creation of men, and produce confusion that agitates and incites chaos. As we have discussed in detail in prior posts this is the darkness upon all the world and the gross darkness that covers the people. It is also the cloud in which the LORD has come (as a thief in the night) unknown to all, save a very elect remnant.

The mention of the term “gross darkness” refers specifically to Isaiah 60:2 where we have read of our being called to awaken from the sleep of this death like stupor. We read there of the light that has come and of it being the Glory of the LORD rising upon us: we who have believed this report and receive the glorious light.

The exact Hebrew term is used again in Jeremiah 13:16, and in Ezekiel 34:12 where it tells of the cloudy and “dark day” created by the unfaithful shepherds, those feeding themselves instead of feeding the flock. This is also spoken of as the time, known by this condition, the LORD comes to rescue His flock out of this man-caused cloud of confusion’s darkness.

Jeremiah 13
15 Hear you, and give ear; be not proud: for the LORD has spoken.
16 Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while you look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.
17 But if you will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the LORD’s flock is carried away captive.
18 Say unto the king and to the queen, Humble yourselves, sit down: for your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory.

Ezekiel 34
7 Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the LORD;
8 As I live, says the LORD God, surely because my flock became a prey, and my flock became meat to every beast of the field, because there was no shepherd, neither did my shepherds search for my flock, but the shepherds fed themselves, and fed not my flock;
9 Therefore, O you shepherds, hear the word of the LORD;
10 Thus says the LORD God; Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require my flock at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the flock; neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; for I will deliver my flock from their mouth, that they may not be meat for them.
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.

This same cloud of man-caused gross darkness, the one the LORD rides upon as both light and lightning, is the same “thick darkness (‘araphel)” mentioned in Joel 2:2 where we are told of the day of the LORD being at hand. (As with all these references I hope you recognize the common pattern spoken of in other scripture and are there further illuminated.)

Paul is specifically referring to this passage in Joel when he tells us in 2 Thessalonians 2 we should not be shaken in mind, thinking the day of Christ is at hand, and that we should know that first there will come a great falling away. He thereafter speaks of those who have led away, these self-feeding shepherds, who as we read in Joel 2, before them the earth is like the garden of Eden, and after them total desolation, they as locust having consumed all.

“Falling away” is from the Greek word apostasia (apostasy), literally meaning standing away; standing coming from the word stasis.

Here is the Strong’s Greek dictionary definition of stasis, which is followed by it translated forms. It tells of a rebellion against God, and it accomplished as the salt lost its savor and refused stand and preserve (cure) the meat (the deeper word.)

Strong’s #4714: stasis (pronounced stas’-is) from the base of 2476; a standing (properly, the act), i.e. (by analogy) position (existence); by implication, a popular uprising; figuratively, controversy:–dissension, insurrection, X standing, uproar.

Joel 2
1 Blow you the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD comes, for it is nigh at hand;
2 A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there has not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations.
3 A fire devours before them; and behind them a flame burns: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
4 The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses; and as horsemen, so shall they run.
5 Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devours the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.
6 Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness.
7 They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall like men of war; and they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not break their ranks:
8 Neither shall one thrust another; they shall walk every one in his path: and when they fall upon the sword, they shall not be wounded.
9 They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the wall, they shall climb up upon the houses; they shall enter in at the windows like a thief.
10 The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining:
11 And the LORD shall utter his voice before his army: for his camp is very great: for he is strong that executes his word: for the day of the LORD is great and very terrible; and who can abide it?
12 Therefore also now, says the LORD, turn you even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:
13 And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repent him of the evil.
14 Who knows if he will return and change his mind, and leave a blessing behind him; even a meat offering and a drink offering unto the LORD your God?
15 Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly:
16 Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet.
17 Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare your people, O LORD, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God?
18 Then will the LORD be jealous for his land, and pity his people.
19 Yea, the LORD will answer and say unto his people, Behold, I will send you corn, and wine, and oil, and you shall be satisfied therewith: and I will no more make you a reproach among the heathen:
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army, and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savor shall come up, because he has done great things.
21 Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: for the LORD will do great things.
22 Be not afraid, you beasts of the field: for the pastures of the wilderness do spring, for the tree bears her fruit, the fig tree and the vine do yield their strength.
23 Be glad then, you children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he has given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month.
24 And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the vats shall overflow with wine and oil.
25 And I will restore to you the years that the locust has eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpillar, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.
26 And you shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your God, that has dealt wondrously with you: and my people shall never be ashamed.
27 And you shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am the LORD your God, and none else: and my people shall never be ashamed.
28 And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:
29 And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit.
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the LORD come.
32 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD has said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call.

This is what the LORD is speaking of when He tells of the blessing that comes to those who are persecuted and reviled in standing against this rebellion. He then goes on to speak there in Matthew 5 of our (He and us) being the light of the world and what salts the earth. But if we fail to keep our charge, refuse to stand against the rebellion and preserve the earth (the people inhabiting it), then what are we here for – if we reject our calling to shine?

Matthew 5
10 Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
11 Blessed are you, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
13 You are the salt of the earth: but if the salt has lost his savor, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.
14 You are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.
15 Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.
16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.

When Joel 2:10 above speaks of the sun, moon and stars being darkened, those who follow these discussions understand it is telling of church and national government, and of God’s people, all losing their light as salt losing its savor and of the earth being darkened because of it. Government as God intended it was meant to shine His righteousness (equity and truth) on the earth as they administer justice as He intended. We know the responsibility and authority to insure this lies in/with us, His people, as the stars in heaven in their fixed position (stasis – stand against those who oppose God’s will and plan) and seeing our light all men are able to navigate in the darkness. (But we must be sure the light in us is light and not darkness.)

Luke 11
29 And when the people were gathered thick (gross – coalition) together, he began to say, This is an evil generation: they seek a sign; and there shall no sign be given it, but the sign of Jonah the prophet [the call to repent.]
30 For as Jonah was a sign unto the Ninevites, so shall also the Son of man be to this generation.
31 The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation, and condemn them: for she came from the utmost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.
32 The men of Nineveh shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and, behold, a greater than Jonah is here.
33 No man, when he has lighted a candle, puts it in a secret place, neither under a bushel, but on a candlestick, that they which come in may see the light.
34 The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, your whole body also is full of light; but when thine eye is evil, your body also is full of darkness.
35 Take heed therefore that the light which is in you be not darkness.
36 If your whole body therefore be full of light, having no part dark, the whole shall be full of light, as when the bright shining of a candle doth give you light.

Now we should all clearly see what he LORD is telling us in Matthew 24 when He speaks of the coming of the Son of man.

Matthew 24
21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s [the remnant’s] sake those days shall be shortened.
23 Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.
24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. [this is speaking of the same deception Peter speaks of in 2 Peter 2:1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily (from their own imaginations) shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the LORD that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. 2 And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.]
25 Behold, I have told you before.
26 Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.
27 For as the lightning comes out of the east, and shines even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
28 For where-so-ever the carcass is [the dead body – the dead church having lost its savor,] there will the eagles be gathered together.
29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from [their fixed positions] heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
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 of heaven with power and great glory.
31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
32 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and puts forth leaves, you know that summer 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.

The Hebrew word `araphel is used in Psalms 18:9 to tell of the LORD coming with this cloud of thick darkness under his feet. In the verse prior we read of the word coming from His mouth as a fire and by it coals are kindled. These are again the fire we discussed in the prior post, our God as a consuming fire, and as we saw in the post prior to it, as the fiery sword that comes from the mouth of the LORD, as describe by John four times in Revelation.

I could go on to tell of this thick darkness being the same as the ears grown fat in Isaiah 6:9 & 10, of it being quoted by Paul in Acts 28:26 & 27 telling of ears of the people waxing gross, of both speaking of this man-caused darkness wherein the people are unable to hear, and thereby unable to be healed by understanding the report. I could tell of Job 37:21 speaking of the light that is in the cloud and men being unable to see it until the wind comes, and this being the same wind we are told of in Matthew 24:31 from where the elect are gathers. Instead we will end with Psalms 18, and seeing all the same essence (wind – Spirit) there.

Psalms 18
1 I will love you, O LORD, my strength.
2 The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.
3 I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.
4 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.
5 The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.
6 In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.
7 Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.
8 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
9 He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.
10 And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.
11 He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
12 At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.
13 The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire.
14 Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightning, and discomfited them.
15 Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at your rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of your nostrils.
16 He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.
17 He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me: for they were too strong for me.
18 They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay.
19 He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me.
20 The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands has he recompensed me.
21 For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
22 For all his judgments were before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me.
23 I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity.
24 Therefore has the LORD recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.
25 With the merciful you will shew thyself merciful; with an upright man you will shew thyself upright;
26 With the pure you will shew thyself pure; and with the forward [corrupted] you will shew thyself forward [send them into even greater delusion.]
27 For you will save the afflicted people; but will bring down high looks.
28 For you will light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.
29 For by you I have run through a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a wall.
30 As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler to all those that trust in him.
31 For who is God save the LORD? or who is a rock save our God?
32 It is God that girds me with strength, and makes my way perfect.
33 He makes my feet like hinds’ feet, and sets me upon my high places.
34 He teaches my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.
35 You have also given me the shield of your salvation: and your right hand has held me up, and your gentleness has made me great.
36 You have enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip.
37 I have pursued mine enemies, and overtaken them: neither did I turn again till they were consumed.
38 I have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they are fallen under my feet.
39 For you have girded me with strength unto the battle: you have subdued under me those that rose up against me.
40 You have also given me the necks of mine enemies; that I might destroy them that hate me.
41 They cried, but there was none to save them: even unto the LORD, but he answered them not.
42 Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets.
43 You have delivered me from the strivings of the people; and you have made me the head of the heathen: a people whom I have not known shall serve me.
44 As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the strangers shall submit themselves unto me.
45 The strangers shall fade away, and be afraid out of their close places.
46 The LORD lives; and blessed be my rock; and let the God of my salvation be exalted.
47 It is God that avenges me, and subdues the people under me.
48 He delivers me from mine enemies: yea, you lifts me up above those that rise up against me: you have delivered me from the violent man.
49 Therefore will I give thanks unto you, O LORD, among the heathen, and sing praises unto your name.
50 Great deliverance giveth he to his king; and shows mercy to his anointed, to David, and to his seed for evermore.

January 29, 2017

Trump and The Irrational Tantrum Trying to Collapse All into the Fires of Their Chaos (knowing the enemy)

Today let’s look with a rational mind deeper into the temper tantrum of the irrational and the deluded, of which we and the world are in the initial stages of its coming full flower. As a different course, I am going to begin with a few comments that were made in response to this tantrum as it occurred on my Facebook page. The irrational rage started when I posted a story about Trump asking a fake news reporter (ABC) why they didn’t cover the pro-life march that was as big as the vile march (the vagina hat temper tantrum) that had occurred a few days earlier and was reported bigly. Of course, those who support the fake news media and vile marches were as always just as vile and irrational in their comments, (we can call them what they are: Trump haters, haters of American culture, or as a general description “the opposition party,” or maybe the coalition of the deluded and irrational.)

Here are the above referenced responses to the vile and irrational:

“I make it a rule not to argue with the irrational. The rule is, it is impossible and illogical to think a logical and rational argument can have or will have any effect on someone who rejects the truth of a rational and logical argument. The basis of liberalism is deception and it rejects all truth and rationale that disturbs its delusion upon which it bases all its arguments, as this post points out exquisitely [ABC ignoring the march for life.]

“The short version of the rule, never try to be rational with someone that is being irrational (like the liberals and the -fake- news media, and their temper tantrum.) Just let them go on and they will continue to melt down and eventually melt away. That is what they can’t see, even as it is happening. All we should keep doing is encourage them to melt down – and make sure the fire keeps burning so they do.

“Holy fire that is.”

These points need to be discussed from several perspectives, all premised on knowing this is only the beginning of the troubles. To begin we should once again be sure we understand what they are doing (know your enemy,) and of course we are able to know from their bible, Rules for Radicals, by Saul Alinsky. We have in prior posts discussed in detail his book, and how all progressives (anarchists, communists and cultural Marxists), including Obama and Hillary, are disciples of Alinsky and live and act out his word.

First, no matter what you believe it is important to know what Alinsky believed, and we are able to glimpse it perfectly from the dedication in his book.

Here it is in his own words:

“Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology, and history (and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins — or which is which), the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom — Lucifer.”

Those engaging in and supporting these methods attempt to rationalize and justify the book and its tactics, while in fact they further indict it and open a window into our seeing their necessarily abandoning truth and reality. They claim it isn’t as much an endorsement of Lucifer as it is stipulating the need to abandon all ethical and moral standards in reaching their goal (any and all means are justified by reaching their end.)

They proudly declare these tactics are their way to overthrowing the establishment, and our current state of degeneration proves it succeeded many years ago. It now having become the establishment and at this point has absolute power over information and government. In such a case, they have become as have all others of their ilk before them, the administrators of injustice, in a constant and continuing state of degeneration, and as necessity are the mortal enemies of the truth.

They become what they now accuse others of being (and so goes their reversed reality – were evil is good, good is evil, the lie is truth and truth is a lie.)

They become the fascists they claim they hate as they wield their power without any ethical or moral self-restraint. Here again is a quote from another such regime, which was able in this same deluded state able to rationalize any wrong by justifying it as a necessary means for the greater good/end.

Joseph Goebbels: “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”

Here again are the Alinsky rules. In reading them we see and understand the tactics now being played out before our eyes and being employed against those of us who now see what even Gobbles knew was the end come when the deception was uncovered – never to be covered again. They are employing the same tactics, their foundational principles, and their new normal of irrational thinking, now chained to it and their own destruction, they with action further expose what we have realized. Know their deception and understand they aren’t in any way morally or ethically bound to truth, and have no problem labeling it as evil and their lies a good – as they set the world ablaze.

The rules as found at Wikipedia:

1. “Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have.” Power is derived from 2 main sources – money and people. “Have-Nots” must build power from flesh and blood.
2. “Never go outside the expertise of your people.” It results in confusion, fear and retreat. Feeling secure adds to the backbone of anyone.
3. “Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy.” Look for ways to increase insecurity, anxiety and uncertainty.
4. “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.” If the rule is that every letter gets a reply, send 30,000 letters. You can kill them with this because no one can possibly obey all of their own rules.
5. “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.” There is no defense. It’s irrational. It’s infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions.
6. “A good tactic is one your people enjoy.” They’ll keep doing it without urging and come back to do more. They’re doing their thing, and will even suggest better ones.
7. “A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.” Don’t become old news.
8. “Keep the pressure on. Never let up.” Keep trying new things to keep the opposition off balance. As the opposition masters one approach, hit them from the flank with something new.
9. “The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.” Imagination and ego can dream up many more consequences than any activist.
10. “The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition.” It is this unceasing pressure that results in the reactions from the opposition that are essential for the success of the campaign.
11. “If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become a positive.” Violence from the other side can win the public to your side because the public sympathizes with the underdog.
12. “The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.” Never let the enemy score points because you’re caught without a solution to the problem.
13. “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions.

This takes us to their melt-down, now set in motion toward full tantrum, and their eventually self-inflicting their own melting away. This takes us to the original book of tactics, the one opposite everything unethical and immortal. It is the standard against which Lucifer and these his followers have revolted. (Doing so even knowing they can’t overcome the laws of nature and nature’ God. As Alinsky said, they would rather rule in hell, than be contented with heaven [and in doing take as many with them as they are able.] They don’t understand hell is a solitary cell where you are alone with yourself, trapped in your own evil mind, never able to escape its fires.)

The Word of God speaks of this time in 2 Peter 3 and tells of the fires that burn in the earth, caused by these and other corrupted principles humanity uses as the basis for making it choices and its policy. These are wielded by those in power as they set the hordes in motion against all opposition. Now as with all such corrupted powers they will choose mutual destruction rather than relinquishing what they have gained control over [all the world.]

2 Peter 3 tells of the “elements” melting as the fires burn on the earth, and in its seasts of power [heaven as the high places of power.] It tells of our seeking a new heaven and a new earth, wherein dwells righteousness (equity and truth.) We have many times discussed the Greek word Peter uses and is translated “elements.” It is stoicheion, meaning an orderly arrangement, and is also translated principles and rudiments. When it is rendered as principle it is telling of the first principles of the oracles of God, and when as rudiment it is telling of the rudiments of the world that have keep man in bondage [under the darkness these flawed and corrupted principles have produced and always will produce.]

The fire that melt these corrupted elements (stoicheion) are the fire they themselves have caused in the earth. This, as we now clearly see, has come from the words and incitement of those now welding their power to agitate the mind-dead masses they control with their spells (words of deception meant to manipulate others into doing the will of the one speaking.)

The word of God tells us clearly in Hebrew 12 of God sending his word to correct this corrupted thinking. This contrast of His light against the darkness, as the serpent/rod of Moses eating the serpents of the Egyptian magicians, is as a back fire that confront their fires of corruption. This is why after it speaks of the correction, it tells of the words heard that shakes the corruption out of the world, and ends saying, “Our God is a consuming fire.”

This is the end we have come to. The question is, for the people of this nation and the world, will you come out of these fires of tribulation or be consumed by them?

Hebrews 12
1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth 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 disciplining of the LORD, nor faint when you are rebuked of him:
6 For whom the LORD loves he corrects, and disciplines (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 corrects not?
8 But if you be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are you illegitimate, 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?
10 For they truly for a few days correct us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.
11 Now no discipline for the present seems to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yields the peace-able fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.
12 Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;
13 And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.
14 Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the LORD:
15 Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;
16 Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.
17 For you know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.
18 For you are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
19 And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard demanded that the word should not be spoken to them any more:
20 (For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart:
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,
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 speak 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.

January 28, 2017

River of Living Waters – Flowing from the Throne of God, and of the Lamb

Today’s daily verse at biblegateway.com is John 4:24 “God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.” It is a spiritual response coinciding with our ongoing discussion and leads us to a very appropriate entry into today’s continuation.

This quote comes in the midst of a conversation between the LORD and the Samaritan women at Jacob’s well. The conversation centers on contrasting between the waters of Jacob’s well and living waters being spoken by the LORD. The deeper meaning can be seen as these representing worshiping at the mountain, or in Jerusalem, and their foreshadowing the Spirit and Truth the Father was bringing us to; away from the natural while we are still in rebellion, into repentance and reproduction.

We know from previous discussions the living waters tell of the word come in pure form directly from the Father, delivered by His Holy Spirit, received and believed, and this culminating in those perfected (having now become sons of God) by joining in (marked by) the blood of the LORD’s sacrifice by delivering it in the same pure uncorrupted form, as His Spirit works in us and through us. We have seen this as the explanation of what is written in 1 John 5 when it says: “6 This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that bears witness, because the Spirit is truth. 7 For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. 8 And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one. 9 If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he has testified of his Son. 10 He that believes on the Son of God has the witness in himself: he that believes not God has made him a liar; because he believes not the record that God gave of his Son.”

John 4 tells of this as those receiving this word of life becoming themselves as fountain of living water with this same mission and message to deliver as these waters flow as rivers from them. The meaning being conveyed is of leaving the old wells, and coming to the new and living way.

The LORD follows this discussion telling His disciples (those readied by discipline and corrected) of the fields now being ready, having become white, and of their receiving wages for working/reaping to bring this fruit into life.

This is what John later writes of when he tells of the exodus from the tribulation and those having put on white robes. In this and the case above it is speaking of those receiving the word and come out of the man caused confusion and the void the earth has become (darkening upon the face earth.) It is speaking of mass repentance.

The progression come from the first begotten receiving the word in a pure form, through his willingness the Father’s will and plan are worked as He and the Holy Spirit (God internally and externally) witness to it. This is initially in bringing the same discipline to an elect remnant, and being sealed/marked by this same character they go forth and produce after their own kind. And I saw the number of those that came out of the tribulation (to repentance) and it was a number so great that no man could number it.

Revelation 7 end with the final two verses alluding to and quoting from Isaiah 25 & 49, Jeremiah 31 and Ezekiel 47. These associations speak exactly of this understanding. I am of course going to paste all of these but before doing I say to you: Today is the day, and now is the time. Say not you, There are yet four months, and then comes harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest. And he that reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit unto life eternal: that both he that sows and he that reaps may rejoice together. Now are these waters made wine to those who have received the report.

John 4
1 When therefore the LORD knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John,
2 (Though Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples,)
3 He left Judaea, and departed again into Galilee.
4 And he must needs go through Samaria.
5 Then comes he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
6 Now Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour.
7 There comes a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus said unto her, Give me to drink.
8 (For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.)
9 Then said the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that you, being a Jew, asks drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.
10 Jesus answered and said unto her, If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that said to you, Give me to drink; you would have asked of him, and he would have given you living water.
11 The woman said unto him, Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then have you that living water?
12 Are you greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?
13 Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinks of this water shall thirst again:
14 But whosoever drinks of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
15 The woman said unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw.
16 Jesus said unto her, Go, call your husband, and come hither.
17 The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto her, You have well said, I have no husband:
18 For you have had five husbands; and he whom you now have is not your husband: in that said you truly.
19 The woman said unto him, Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.
20 Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and you say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.
21 Jesus said unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour comes, when you shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father.
22 You worship you know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews.
23 But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeks such to worship him.
24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
25 The woman said unto him, I know that Messiah comes, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things.
26 Jesus said unto her, I that speak unto you am he.
27 And upon this came his disciples, and marveled that he talked with the woman: yet no man said, What seek you? or, Why talk you with her?
28 The woman then left her water-pot, and went her way into the city, and said to the men,
29 Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?
30 Then they went out of the city, and came unto him.
31 In the mean while his disciples prayed him, saying, Master, eat.
32 But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that you know not of.
33 Therefore said the disciples one to another, Has any man brought him ought to eat?
34 Jesus said unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.
35 Say not you, There are yet four months, and then comes harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.
36 And he that reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit unto life eternal: that both he that sows and he that reaps may rejoice together.
37 And herein is that saying true, One sows, and another reaps.
38 I sent you to reap that whereon you bestowed no labor: other men labored, and you are entered into their labors.
39 And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying of the woman, which testified, He told me all that ever I did.
40 So when the Samaritans were come unto him, they besought him that he would tarry with them: and he abode there two days.
41 And many more believed because of his own word;
42 And said unto the woman, Now we believe, not because of your saying: for we have heard him ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world.
43 Now after two days he departed thence, and went into Galilee.
44 For Jesus himself testified, that a prophet has no honor in his own country.
45 Then when he was come into Galilee, the Galilaeans received him, having seen all the things that he did at Jerusalem at the feast: for they also went unto the feast.
46 So Jesus came again into Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman, whose son was sick at Capernaum.
47 When he heard that Jesus was come out of Judaea into Galilee, he went unto him, and besought him that he would come down, and heal his son: for he was at the point of death.
48 Then said Jesus unto him, Except you see signs and wonders, you will not believe.
49 The nobleman said unto him, Sir, come down ere my child die.
50 Jesus said unto him, Go your way; your son lives. And the man believed the word that Jesus had spoken unto him, and he went his way.
51 And as he was now going down, his servants met him, and told him, saying, Your son lives.
52 Then enquired he of them the hour when he began to amend. And they said unto him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.
53 So the father knew that it was at the same hour, in the which Jesus said unto him, Your son lives: and himself believed, and his whole house [see the “whole house” of God’s first-fruits mentioned below in Revelation 7.]
54 This is again the second miracle that Jesus did, when he was come out of Judaea into Galilee.

Revelation 7
1 And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree.
2 And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea,
3 Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.
4 And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.
5 Of the tribe of Juda were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Reuben were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Gad were sealed twelve thousand.
6 Of the tribe of Asher were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Naphtali were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Manasseh were sealed twelve thousand.
7 Of the tribe of Simeon were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Levi were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Issachar were sealed twelve thousand.
8 Of the tribe of Zebulun were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Joseph were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Benjamin were sealed twelve thousand.
9 After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindred, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;
10 And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sits upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.
11 And all the angels stood round about the throne, and about the elders and the four beasts, and fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God,
12 Saying, Amen: Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honor, and power, and might, be unto our God for ever and ever. Amen.
13 And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they?
14 And I said unto him, Sir, you know. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
15 Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sits on the throne shall dwell among them.
16 They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat.
17 For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.

When verse 16 and 17 quote from Isaiah 49 it is in a passage wherein the LORD tells of raising up His Servant to bring Jacob back to Him, and they together are sent to the nations as they become the LORD’s salvation (Jesus = Jehovah’s salvation) to the ends of the earth. The chapter goes on to tell of this being in the acceptable time, when the LORD has been heard (report received and believed,) and in this day of salvation when the LORD has helped us in this way. It then tells of this being the release of the prisoners held in darkness [the tribulation,] and verse 10 speaks of the living waters we have been led to.

Here is the full chapter, and it should be noted it begins with the author telling of the LORD having made his mouth as a sharp sword. We know this is an analogy used by John in Revelation (1:16, 2:16, & 19:15 & 21) to describe the means the LORD uses to vanquish those choosing to fight the unwinnable battle against Him.

Isaiah 49
1 Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, you people, from far; 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 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, 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 be not gathered, 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 of Israel: I will also give you for a light to the Gentiles, 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 abhors, 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 you, and give you for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages;
9 That you may say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, Shew 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 water shall he guide them.
11 And I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall be exalted.
12 Behold, these shall come from far: and, lo, these from the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim.
13 Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into singing, O mountains: for the LORD has comforted his people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted.
14 But Zion said, The LORD has forsaken me, and my LORD has forgotten me.
15 Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget you.
16 Behold, I have graven you upon the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me.
17 Your children shall make haste; your destroyers and they that made you waste shall go forth of you.
18 Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold: all these gather themselves together, and come to you. As I live, says the LORD, you shall surely clothe you with them all, as with an ornament, and bind them on you, as a bride does.
19 For your waste and your desolate places, and the land of your destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that swallowed you up shall be far away.
20 The children which you shall have, after you have lost the other, shall say again in thine ears, The place is too strait for me: give place to me that I may dwell.
21 Then shall you say in thine heart, Who has begotten me these, seeing I have lost my children, and am desolate, a captive, and removing to and fro? and who has brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where had they been?
22 Thus says the LORD God, Behold, I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people: and they shall bring your sons in their arms, and your daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders.
23 And kings shall be your nursing fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers: they shall bow down to you with their face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of your feet; and you shall know that I am the LORD: for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me.
24 Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive delivered?
25 But thus says the LORD, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will contend with him that contends with you, and I will save your children.
26 And I will feed them that oppress you with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I the LORD am your Savior and your Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.

Revelation 7 ends with verses 17 quoting from Isaiah 25:8, a verse we know begins with a quote that appears in 1 Corinthians 15:54 telling of our victory over death, when what has been corrupted is restored to the incorruptible, and in doing this mortal puts on immortality. This is God wiping away all tears, as all this is accomplished in the same feast [also as a wedding feast, with wine – John 2 and mentioned in John 4] spoken of in Isaiah 49:9 above as our being fed in the ways, and our pastures being in all high places. It is when we are freed from the gross darkness that covers the earth, brought on by the “expert” advice of the incompetent and the degenerate.

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 an 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 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 make unto all people a feast 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 will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the vail that is spread over all nations.
8 He will swallow up death 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 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: 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.

Revelation 7:16 & 17 are also a reference to Jeremiah 31:9 & 10, a passage speaking of Ephraim as this first-born remnant, and as we know it is telling of all God’s people in these latter days (Israel of the Spirit.) Here in Jeremiah we read of the LORD saying He has led us here beside these rivers of [life giving] waters as we wept (to where He wipes away these same tears.) As the passage goes on we read of this process as being the LORD leading His people to repentance.

Jeremiah 31
8 Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the coasts of the earth, and with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her that travails with child together: a great company shall return thither.
9 They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
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 doth his flock.
11 For the LORD has redeemed Jacob, and ransomed 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 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, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rahel 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 thine 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 thine end, 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 thine heart toward the highway, even the way which you went: turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these your cities.

Jeremiah 31
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.

Ezekiel 47 also speaks of the rivers of life giving waters. This is the origin of the description John wrote in Revelation 22 as he tells there of the waters that flow from the throne of God, and of the Lamb; of these waters nourishing the tree[s] of life, and being for the healing of the nations.

Ezekiel 47 begins with Ezekiel telling of His being in the house at the door facing east (the description of his view is from the doorway of the holy of holies – In the presence of God.) He is able to see waters running from under the house, waters that increasing until they are deep enough for a man to swim in, and that no man could cross over. In later verses we are told of these being for the healing of any who will receive them. Verse 11 very tellingly describes the stagnant place where the waters have pooled as those not being healed. It is describing the corruption that has overgrown the places where the waters aren’t flowing.

Ezekiel 47
1 Afterward he brought me again unto the door of the house; and, behold, waters issued out from under the threshold of the house eastward: for the forefront of the house stood toward the east, and the waters came down from under from the right side of the house, at the south side of the altar.
2 Then brought he me out of the way of the gate northward, and led me about the way without unto the utter gate by the way that looks eastward; and, behold, there ran out waters on the right side.
3 And when the man that had the line in his hand went forth eastward, he measured a thousand cubits, and he brought me through the waters; the waters were to the ankles.
4 Again he measured a thousand, and brought me through the waters; the waters were to the knees. Again he measured a thousand, and brought me through; the waters were to the loins.
5 Afterward he measured a thousand; and it was a river that I could not pass over: for the waters were risen, waters to swim in, a river that could not be passed over.
6 And he said unto me, Son of man, have you seen this? Then he brought me, and caused me to return to the brink of the river.
7 Now when I had returned, behold, at the bank of the river were very many trees on the one side and on the other.
8 Then said he unto me, These waters issue out toward the east country, and go down into the desert, and go into the sea: which being brought forth into the sea, the waters shall be healed.
9 And it shall come to pass, that every thing that lives, which moves, whithersoever the rivers shall come, shall live: and there shall be a very great multitude of fish, because these waters shall come thither: for they shall be healed; and every thing shall live whither the river comes.
10 And it shall come to pass, that the fishers shall stand upon it from Engedi even unto Eneglaim; they shall be a place to spread forth nets; their fish shall be according to their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceeding many.
11 But the miry places thereof and the marshes thereof shall not be healed; they shall be given to salt.
12 And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not fade, neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed: it shall bring forth new fruit according to his months, because their waters they issued out of the sanctuary: and the fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine.

This is the end, and what will you do in the day of your visitation?

January 27, 2017

Gross Darkness Covering the Earth, Brought on By Following the “Expert” Advice of the Incompetent and the Degenerate

Continuing: In prior posts we’ve discussed the elect remnant, the first-fruits of the first resurrection, the word of God initially awakening only them to life, and their mission to preach this same life giving gospel to all the world. Today, after many readings and studies of this Revelation, I am going to post the common presentation of it found in Isaiah 60 thru 65.

These chapter begin with a call to awaken, the glory of the LORD risen upon us as light, and it telling of this rising being from darkness that covers the world. It tells us of the gross darkness that covers the people, and out of it the LORD’s glory is seen upon this elect remnant (as the first rays of the sun’s rise.)

The chapters go on to tell of the Redeemer, this One the book of Revelation calls the Lamb, and of He and this elect remnant following Him all as One having the Spirit of the LORD risen upon them. Their mission is to awaken as many as will receive the good news that they can become children of God, and they can also rise up from under corruption’s darkness brought on the earth by following the “expert” advice of the incompetent and degenerate.

We read of those who have led us into the darkness, and those still remaining in it, not knowing us and not knowing the LORD. Even so we are told that eye has not seen nor ear heard what God has prepared for those who have waited for him. This is followed by the LORD speaking of being found by those who rejoice in righteousness, and remember the LORD in His ways (For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore you children in rebellion are not consumed.)

Friends, I encourage you to pay no mind to the words the wicked speak against this message, and against the renewal that is underway. He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathers not with me scatters abroad. They like so many before them have opposed the work of the Holy Spirit. They are bound and chained by their own words and acts, ignorantly thinking they can undo what they have self-inflicted with more of the same cause. Wherefore I say unto you, all manner of errors and defamatory vilification shall be forgiven unto men: but this blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men. They condemn themselves by rejecting God’s grace and glory, His enlightening working His will and plan in those believing the report and receive it. (Not the deceivers’ fake reports that covers the earth as darkness, but the true report. The fake report makes one a child of Satan speaking their native language of deception. Receiving the truth, believing this report, makes those who receive it the children of God. Each of these are producing after their own kind.)

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 thine 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, and thine 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 shew forth the praises of the LORD.
7 All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together unto you, the rams of Nebaioth shall minister unto you: they shall come up with acceptance on mine altar, and I will glorify the house of my glory.
8 Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows?
9 Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish 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 has 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 thine 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, 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: but the LORD shall be unto you an everlasting light, and your God your glory.
20 Your sun shall no more go down; neither shall your moon withdraw itself: for the LORD shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of your mourning shall be ended.
21 Your people also shall be all righteous: they shall inherit the land for ever, 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.

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; 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 the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;
3 To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of 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 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: you shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall you boast yourselves.
7 For your shame you shall have double; and for confusion they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess the double: everlasting joy 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 shall be known among the Gentiles, and their offspring 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 decks himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
11 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.

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, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burns.
2 And the Gentiles shall see your righteousness, and all kings your glory: and you shall be called by a new 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 diadem in the hand of your God.
4 You shall no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall your land any more be termed Desolate: but you shall be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah: for the LORD delights in you, and your land shall be married.
5 For as a young man marries a virgin, so shall your sons marry you: and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall your God rejoice over you.
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 make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
8 The LORD has sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no more give your corn to be meat for thine enemies; and the sons of the stranger shall not drink your wine, for the which you have labored:
9 But they that have gathered it shall eat it, and praise the LORD; and they that have brought it together shall drink it in the courts of my holiness.
10 Go through, go through the gates; 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.

Isaiah 63
1 Who is this that comes from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save.
2 Wherefore are you red in thine apparel, and your garments like him that treads in the wine-fat?
3 I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment.
4 For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come.
5 And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me.
6 And I will tread down the people in mine anger, and make them drunk in my fury, and I will bring down their strength to the earth.
7 I will mention the loving-kindnesses of the LORD, and the praises of the LORD, according to all that the LORD has bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he has bestowed on them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his loving-kindnesses.
8 For he said, Surely they are my people, children that will not lie: so he was their Savior.
9 In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.
10 But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.
11 Then he remembered the days of old, Moses, and his people, saying, Where is he that brought them up out of the sea with the shepherd of his flock? where is he that put his holy Spirit within him?
12 That led them by the right hand of Moses with his glorious arm, dividing the water before them, to make himself an everlasting name?
13 That led them through the deep, as an horse in the wilderness, that they should not stumble?
14 As a beast goes down into the valley, the Spirit of the LORD caused him to rest: so didst you lead your people, to make thyself a glorious name.
15 Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of your holiness and of your glory: where is your zeal and your strength, the sounding of your bowels and of your mercies toward me? are they restrained?
16 Doubtless you are our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: you, O LORD, are our father, our redeemer; your name is from everlasting.
17 O LORD, why have you made us to err from your ways, and hardened our heart from your fear? Return for your servants’ sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.
18 The people of your holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down your sanctuary.
19 We are thine: you never barest rule over them; they were not called by your name.

Isaiah 64
1 Oh that you would rend the heavens, that you would come down, that the mountains might flow down at your presence,
2 As when the melting fire burns, the fire causes the waters to boil, to make your name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at your presence!
3 When you didst terrible things which we looked not for, you came down, the mountains flowed down at your presence.
4 For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither has the eye seen, O God, beside you, what he has prepared for him that waits for him.
5 You meet him that rejoices and works righteousness, those that remember you in your ways: behold, you are wroth; for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be saved.
6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousness are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
7 And there is none that calls upon your name, that stirs up himself to take hold of you: for you have hid your face from us, and have consumed us, because of our iniquities.
8 But now, O LORD, you are our father; we are the clay, and you our potter; and we all are the work of your hand.
9 Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech you, we are all your people.
10 Your holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
11 Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised you, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste.
12 Shall you refrain thyself for these things, O LORD? shall you hold your peace, and afflict us very sore?

Isaiah 65
1 I am sought of them that asked not for me; I am found of them that sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation that was not called by my name.
2 I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which walk in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts;
3 A people that provokes me to anger continually to my face; that sacrifice in gardens, and burn incense upon altars of brick;
4 Which remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments, which eat swine’s flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;
5 Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than you. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burns all the day.
6 Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, even recompense into their bosom,
7 Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, says the LORD, which have burned incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills: therefore will I measure their former work into their bosom.
8 Thus says the LORD, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one says, Destroy it not; for a blessing is in it: so will I do for my servants’ sakes, that I may not destroy them all.
9 And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains: and mine elect shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there.
10 And Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a place for the herds to lie down in, for my people that have sought me.
11 But you are they that forsake the LORD, that forget my holy mountain, that prepare a table for that troop, and that furnish the drink offering unto that number.
12 Therefore will I number you to the sword, and you shall all bow down to the slaughter: because when I called, you did not answer; when I spoke, you did not hear; but did evil before mine eyes, and did choose that wherein I delighted not.
13 Therefore thus says 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 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.
15 And you shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen: 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 mine eyes.
17 For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.
18 But be you glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create: for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.
19 And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people: and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying.
20 There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that has not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed.
21 And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.
22 They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.
23 They shall not labor in vain, nor bring forth for trouble; for they are the seed of the blessed of the LORD, and their offspring with them.
24 And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.
25 The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent’s meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, says the LORD.

January 26, 2017January 26, 2017

The First Resurrection and None Flew Away – and God Never Said We Would

Continuing: Thus says the LORD, This is “the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of God’s people.”

The quote is from Revelation 7:4 speaking of the elect remnant being the first sealed into life from among the dead. We know these truths from the understand given us in what is said in prior verses, and seeing their meaning written in chapters before and after.

This is the first resurrection when only this small group, the elect remnant, is raised to life as the first-fruits. These are those who follow the Lamb in His sacrificial work, they as One giving themselves to bring the words of life to the inhabitants of the world.

Revelation 7
1 And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should [would] not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree.
2 And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea,
3 Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.
4 And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.

In the prior verses we are told these are sealed before the “hurt” is released upon the earth. The “hurt” is explained in Revelation 2:11 where we are told, “He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says unto the churches; He that overcomes shall not be ‘hurt’ of the second death.”

We also know from Revelation 20:4 thru 6 these are those who have given their lives to witnessing of the LORD, and the Word of God. There we are also told these are those who haven’t worshiped the beast, neither have they bowed to his image. This is telling of the degrade of the God’s people as they fell way from his truth, led there by the ever-increasing corruption of those leading and teaching them, and of the faithful while outside the gates of the HOLY city.

Revelation 20
4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
5 But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.
6 Blessed and holy is he that has part in the first resurrection: on such the second death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.

When this “hurt” is told of in Revelation 2 it comes just prior to the LORD beginning His address to the church at Pergamos. Therein we are also told it is where Satan’s seat is. In this and the first address to the church in Smyrna we read of the Nicolaitanes, who we are first told of the LORD hating, and then of His hating their doctrine. In the latter address we see the Nicolaitanes’ doctrine in the church, where the seat of Satan is, and there we read it is a doctrine the LORD hates.

Revelation 2
12 And to the angel of the church in Pergamos [per-gomos; meaning thoroughly filled (with the hidden manna later mentioned)] write; These things says he which has the sharp sword with two edges [used for rightly dividing the word;]
13 I know your works, and where you dwell, even where Satan’s seat is: and you hold fast my name, and have not denied my faith, even in those days wherein Antipas was my faithful martyr, who was slain among you, where Satan dwells.
14 But I have a few things against you, because you have there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumbling-block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication [led astray after false gods.]
15 So have you also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitanes, which thing I hate.
16 Repent; or else I will come unto you quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.
17 He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says unto the churches; To him that overcomes will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knows saving he that receives it.

The Greek word per is a shortened verse of the word peran, meaning to pierce through (as in piercing the darkness). Of the twenty-three times it is used it is almost always used in telling of a crossing over to the other side (here meaning crossing over to the other side of death, into life.)

Our understanding the doctrine of the Nicolaitanes, a people said to be unknown, comes from a deeper exploration of the Hebrew name Necho, and seeing his words and the name’s meaning. Necho is an Egyptian king first mentioned in 2 Chronicles 35:20 as coming to battle at Meggido (Armageddon). Necho said he had received orders to come from the mouth of God. Necho is from the Hebrew word nekeh, literally meaning to smite, and figuratively meaning a traducer. The definition of traducer is: to speak maliciously or falsely of; to slander or defame someone’s character.

The doctrine of the Nicolaitanes is to say “God says” when he hasn’t said anything to them. It is how the God hating Satan types work their way into conquering God’s people. This is what is further alluded to in the Greek rendering of the name; nikos, meaning conquest, and laos, meaning the people, as a generalized term, here for all the people of the world. It is telling of a doctrine that assigned their own meaning to God’s authorship, falsely claiming He said it, motivated by hate, and as with Necho to enrich themselves by plunder.

2 Chronicles 35
20 After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Necho king of Egypt came up to fight against Charchemish by Euphrates: and Josiah went out against him.
21 But he sent ambassadors to him, saying, What have I to do with you, you king of Judah? I come not against you this day, but against the house wherewith I have war: for God commanded me to make haste: forbear you from meddling with God, who is with me, that he destroy you not.
22 Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself, that he might fight with him, and hearkened not unto the words of Necho from the mouth of God, and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo.

This hate for God, and its defamatory product are what we read of in the prior post as we saw it told of in Psalms 81:15. Here is how Young’s Literal Translation renders it, “Those hating Jehovah feign obedience to Him, But their time is — to the age.” It is speaking of those falsely claiming obedience, while in fact it is found to be hate. The latter part of the sentence actually tells of this ending with the age.

Psalm 81
1 Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.
2 Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.
3 Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.
4 For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.
5 This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I understood not.
6 I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots.
7 You called in trouble, and I delivered you; I answered you in the secret place of thunder: I proved you at the waters of Meribah [where the waters/God’s Word flowed from the Rock/Christ. There the people questioned/tempted the LORD saying, “Is the LORD truly among us, or not?”] Selah.
8 [And the ROCK said unto them:] Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto you: O Israel, if you will hearken unto me;
9 There shall no strange god be in you; neither shall you worship any strange god.
10 I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt: open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.
11 But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me.
12 So I gave them up unto their own hearts’ lust: and they walked in their own counsels.
13 Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways!
14 I should [would] soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.
15 The haters of the LORD should [would] have submitted themselves unto him: but their time should [would] have endured for ever.
16 He should [would] have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the ROCK should [would] I have satisfied you [speaking of the counsel of the LORD and His eternal wisdom.]

This brings us back to the elect remnant and their being further described in Revelation 14 as those who haven’t been defile by this false doctrine, and are following the Lamb/the Truth.

Revelation 14
1 And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father’s name written in their foreheads.
2 And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters [the pure word of God flowing down as water,] and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps:
3 And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth [by receiving the word/report deliver.]
4 These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goes. These were redeemed from among men, being the first-fruits unto God and to the Lamb.
5 And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God.
6 And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people,
7 Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters [the gospel as it has been preached here and heard in the prior post.]
8 And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city [of confusion,] because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.
9 And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand,
10 The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:
11 And the smoke of their torment ascended up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receives the mark of his name.
12 Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.
13 And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the LORD from henceforth: Yea, says the Spirit, that they may rest [in peace] from their labors; and their works do follow them.
14 And I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle.
15 And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, Thrust in your sickle, and reap: for the time is come for you to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe.
16 And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped.
17 And another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven, he also having a sharp sickle.
18 And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in your sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.
19 And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.
20 And the winepress was trodden without the city [outside of the gate,] and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.

2 Corinthians 11
1 Would to God you could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me.
2 For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtlety, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
4 For if he that comes preaches another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if you receive another spirit, which you have not received, or another gospel, which you have not accepted, you might well bear with him.
5 For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.
6 But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been thoroughly made manifest among you in all things.
7 Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that you might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely?
8 I robbed other churches, taking wages of them, to do you service.
9 And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was lacking to me the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied: and in all things I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and so will I keep myself.
10 As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia.
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.
13 For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
15 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.

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 things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,
9 And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
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 things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high 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 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 ensample.
18 (For many walk, 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 is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, 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.

Our mission is to now bring the way out to those in the tribulation (commotion), which is caused by these false lights saying God says when he hasn’t said anything to them. We are sent to preach to them saying: “1 The Spirit of the LORD God is upon me; because the LORD has anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; 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 the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn; 3 To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of 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.”

January 25, 2017January 26, 2017

Looking to the MAKER Making America Great AGAIN – By the Same Better Ideas

Today a discussion of how these ideas we know as self-evident truth, natural laws that coincide with those God’s declares are the only way to peace, are relevant today, in every generation and every world age.

Let’s begin with the misconception, come via erroneous definition, that what this nation is undergoing is “nationalism” and is therefore in the eyes of the pompous religious and globalists something that should be demonized, reviled and rejected. Most of these enemies of truth have chosen Hitler as the model, as they oppose those of us rejecting their status quo of degeneration away from where we have set a course to return, as they attempt to force us as a proverbial round peg into this their self-created fictional square hole. In these actions and attacks they again prove their priority is to maintain control and power over the minds of people being set free, and would rather continue in the fires their ideas have created than lose their grip on the barren scepter in their hand and fruitless crown on their heads.

What they incorrectly define as “nationalism” is in fact well defined in the truth found in the statement “Make America Great Again.” It tells of returning to what made her great and raised her up above all the nations of the world. It speaks of better ideas that created a better culture: the freest, most prosperous, most secure and most peaceful nation in the history of the world. These superior states of being were never nor can they ever be an accident, evidenced by our form of government securing these rights having lasted these many years, and contrasted against accidents of history’s governments that are/were uninformed, momentary and fleeting, all due to lacking our better ideas. It is our ideas, uniquely American Ideas, which are what made us great and will again – as they will anywhere they are put into effect.

The degeneration has come through globalist and communist inspired multiculturalism with their intention being to destroy the ideas and traits of our unique culture that when exercised made us strong enough in mind and body to secure and propagate our ideas. We did and should do it again not just for ourselves but as Christian charity (philos – friendship) to the nations. (Silver and Gold have I none, but what I do have, ideas of the greatest value, I freely give. Arise and walk.)

This is where the teaching must be overlaps by the teaching come from God’s word, and is likewise acknowledged in our founding document as we declared this state we are entitled to live in: under the laws of nature and nature’s God. We also defined and established these as the natural state man was self-evidently entitled to live in, not granted to us by some ruler or government, but endowed us, in all men that will receiving these ideas and being founded upon them becoming son of God also entitle to this inheritance. This was our reasoning for separating, to establish these ideas apart from men that chose to endanger and degrade them.

It is in pattern exactly what is now again taking place before the eyes of those having been awaked to this truth and accepting its necessary action; regardless of the demands of those trying to force us to remain in their corruption and its resulting confusion and chaos.

The Pope has been one of the most outspoken against our right to reestablish these foundational truths, and his preacher minion warn against nationalism, claiming falsely it threaten their church, and all other races. They confuse their church with God, and race with culture, neither having anything to do with the other. ALL men are created equal, not all cultures, and so because of the ideas that define them and are evidenced in their condition/state.

The churches of our time have nothing to do with God and neither do other cultures have any equivalency with ours in major differentiating ways. First and foremost, we believe these self-evident truths should be elevated as unalienable, that truth connects stated intentions with results, and results are directly connected with ideas they are a product of. If intentions and outcome are opposite the intention must logically and intellectually be seen as invalidated by either ignorance, incompetence or intentional deception, and all removing the premise that masks corrupted ideas.

We as a nation under these ideas founded in the laws of nature and nature’s God will accept any allowing these ideas to reign over them as one with us. We will as our mission freely teach them and assist in building this same national foundation to any desiring to be born again in this way.

This is who we are, and I say “we” in speaking of those already possessing this understanding and having these same objectives and priorities. And we the living will receive any as one with us who wish to rise from their sleep in corruption and be joined with us in these common ideas and goals. We offer you our pledge that we will not put your life, liberty, or property at risk, and will fight to protect it at your side against both man and governments, foreign and domestic. The only thing we ask is your pledge to do the same. No matter where you live geographically we are able through this bond to become one nation under God.

Don’t add anything to what I have just said, as is the way of the false accusers. And for the meat eaters, those weaned from the milk:

Matthew 11
25 At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank you, O Father, LORD of heaven and earth, because you have hid these things from the wise and prudent, and have revealed them unto babes.
26 Even so, Father: for so it seemed good in your sight.
27 All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knows the Son, but the Father; neither knows any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.
28 Come unto me, all you that labor and are heavy laden, 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.

Revelation 22
1 And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.
2 In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
3 And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him:
4 And they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads.
5 And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the LORD God giveth them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever.
6 And he said unto me, These sayings are faithful and true: and the LORD God of the holy prophets sent his angel to shew unto his servants the things which must shortly be done.
7 Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he that keeps the sayings of the prophecy of this book.
8 And I John saw these things, and heard them. And when I had heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel which shewed me these things.
9 Then said he unto me, See you do it not: for I am your fellow-servant, and of your brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book: worship God.
10 And he said 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 loves and makes a lie.
16 I Jesus have sent mine angel 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.

Psalm 81
1 Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.
2 Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.
3 Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.
4 For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.
5 This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I understood not.
6 I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots.
7 You called in trouble, and I delivered you; I answered you in the secret place of thunder: I proved you at the waters of Meribah [where the waters/God’s Word flowed from the Rock/Christ. There the people questioned/tempted the LORD saying, “Is the LORD truly among us, or not?”] Selah.
8 [And the ROCK said unto them:] Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto you: O Israel, if you will hearken unto me;
9 There shall no strange god be in you; neither shall you worship any strange god.
10 I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt: open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.
11 But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me.
12 So I gave them up unto their own hearts’ lust: and they walked in their own counsels.
13 Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways!
14 I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.
15 The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto him: but their time should have endured for ever.
16 He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the ROCK should I have satisfied you [speaking of the counsel of the LORD and His eternal wisdom.]

Isaiah 22
1 The burden of the valley of vision [chizzayown – revelation.] What ails you now, that you are wholly gone up to the housetops?
2 You that are full of stirs, a tumultuous city, joyous city: your slain men are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle [what has caused their death is also the cause of the commotion.]
3 All your rulers are fled together, they are bound by the archers: all that are found in you are bound together, which have fled from far [the crowd bound by the same fiery darts of corrupted accusation they are firing.]
4 Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labor not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.
5 For it is a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of perplexity by the LORD God of hosts in the valley of vision [being revealed,] breaking down the walls, and of crying to the mountains [speaking of earthly protection and its high places, looking to them for help when there is none, and they are in fact where the cause of the cries emanates.]
6 And Elam [hidden (now being revealed)] bare the quiver with chariots of men and horsemen, and Kir [the wall] uncovered the shield.
7 And it shall come to pass, that your choicest valleys shall be full of chariots, and the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate [entry way into cities.]
8 And he discovered [dismantled] the covering of Judah [the leaders of God’s people,] and you did look in that day to the armor of the house of the forest [look to the protection of being grown thick together (in the crowd where there is none.)]
9 You have seen also the breaches of the city of David, that they are many: and you gathered together the waters of the lower pool.
10 And you have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses have you broken down to fortify the wall.
11 You made also a ditch between the two walls for the water of the old pool: BUT YOU HAVE NOT LOOKED UNTO THE MAKER THEREOF, NEITHER HAD RESPECT UNTO HIM THAT FASHIONED IT LONG AGO.
12 And in that day did the LORD God of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:
13 And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die.
14 And it was revealed in mine 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, even unto Shebna [the gorwth,] 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 [tomb] here, as he that hewed him out a sepulcher [tomb] on high, and that graven [by the work of man’s hand] an habitation for himself in a rock [the LORD’s Rock in the high place from where His word flows down as waters from heaven?]
17 Behold, the LORD will carry you away with a mighty captivity, and will surely cover you.
18 He will surely violently turn and toss you like a ball into a large country: there shall you die, and there the chariots of your glory shall be the shame of your LORD’s house.
19 And I will drive you from your station, and from your state shall he pull you down.
20 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim [God raising] the son of Hilkiah [separated to the work of Jah (The LORD:)]
21 And I will clothe him with your robe, and strengthen him with your girdle, and I will commit your government into his hand: and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.
22 And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; so he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.
23 And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a glorious throne to his father’s house.
24 And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father’s house, the offspring and the issue, all vessels of small quantity, from the vessels of cups, even to all the vessels of flagons.
25 In that day, says the LORD of hosts, shall the nail that is fastened in the sure place be removed, and be cut down, and fall; and the burden that was upon it shall be cut off: for the LORD has spoken it.