12 – 14 September 2023
Your dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, you that dwell in dust: for your dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
Above, in Isaiah 26:19, three different Hebrew words are rendered “dead,” the last of these, the eight times used word rapha’, meaning “properly, lax, i.e. (figuratively) a ghost (as dead; in plural only).” The word used saying the earth will “cast out” these dead is naphal, which appears in the verse prior speaking of the world not yet “falling” into the birth canal.
The word rapha’, from an identical word meaning health and cure, is deeply misunderstood until looked at in the context of its (seven) other uses, while considering its affinity to its origin. One of these uses comes earlier in verse 14, one of the other two times it appears in Isaiah.
Again, as in previous posts, the LORD is speaking of the open mouths (singing – repeating this testimony) of those raised (by understanding effectually working to awaken them) from their deep sleep in this (rapha’) death, as in Daniel 12. As often discussed, it’s when Michael (who is like God) stands in the tribulation, the time of Jacob’s trouble (tsarah – the tribulation), and “many of them that sleep in the dust [ruin] of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.”
The other time rapha’ appears in Isaiah is in Isaiah 14:9, as the LORD is speaking to Lucifer (the commander-in-chief misleader).
Isaiah 14
5 The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked, and the scepter of the rulers.
6 He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hinders.
7 The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing [speaking this word of the LORD, restoring sanity into its place of power].
8 Yea, the fir trees [the upright] rejoice at you, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since you [the wicked who were in power] are laid down, no feller is come up against us.
9 Hell from beneath is moved for you to meet you at your coming: it stirs up the dead [rapha’] for you, even all the chief ones of the earth; it has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
10 All they shall speak and say unto you, Are you also become weak as we? are you become like unto us?
11 Your pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of your viols: the worm is spread under you, and the worms cover you.
12 How are you fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how are you cut down to the ground, which did weaken the nations!
13 For you have said in your heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the Most High.
15 Yet you shall be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
16 They that see you shall narrowly look upon you, and consider you, saying, Is this the man [Obama] that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;
17 That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?
18 All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house.
19 But you are cast out of your grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcass trodden under feet.
20 You shall not be joined with them in burial, because you have destroyed your land, and slain your people: the seed of evildoers [as all history shall remember you] shall never be renowned.
21 Prepare slaughter for his children [his ilk in control of our government] for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.
22 For I will rise up against them, says the LORD of hosts, and cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant, and son, and nephew, says the LORD.
23 I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, says the LORD of hosts.
24 The LORD of hosts has sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:
25 That I will break the Assyrian [the communists] in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders.
26 This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth: and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations.
27 For the LORD of hosts has purposed, and who shall disannul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?
Isaiah 26
1 In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks.
2 Open you the gates, that the righteous nation which keeps the truth may enter in.
3 You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on you: because he trusts in you.
4 Trust you in the LORD forever: for in the LORD Jehovah is everlasting strength:
5 For he bringeth down them that dwell on high; the lofty city, he lays it low; he lays it low, even to the ground; he bringeth it even to the dust.
6 The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy.
7 The way of the just is uprightness: you, most upright, do weigh the path of the just.
8 Yea, in the way of your judgments, O LORD, have we waited for you; the desire of our soul is to your name [identity], and to the remembrance of you.
9 With my soul have I desired you in the night [this time of ignorance]; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek you early: for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
10 Let favor be shown to the wicked [the free gift sown among the fool and wise, as the sunrise upon all, yet the fool will not depart from his foolishness], yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD.
11 LORD, when your hand is lifted up [Your power seen as greater than all the powers of man], they will not see: but they shall see, and be ashamed for their envy at the people; yea, the fire of your enemies shall devour them.
12 LORD, you will ordain peace for us: for you also have wrought all our works in us.
13 O LORD our God, other gods beside you have had dominion over us: but by you only will we make mention of your name [the character that identifies you, showing You distinct].
14 They [the false gods of this world] are dead [muwth], they shall not live; they are deceased [rapha’], they shall not rise: therefore have you visited [paqad – as the Chief Overseer of the earth] and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.
15 You have increased [yacaph – joined yourself to] the nation [making yourself known to those who haven’t known you], O LORD, you have increased the nation: you are glorified: you have removed it far [rachaq – into this then far off time, now when the world is ruled by evil decree] unto all the ends [qetsev – the limit, ending the old heaven and earth and beginning the new] of the earth.
16 LORD, in trouble have they visited [paqad] you [asked you to take charge over the earth], they poured out a prayer when your chastening [correction] was upon them.
17 Like as a woman with child, that draw near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and cries out in her pangs; so have we been in your sight [paniym – in Your presence], O LORD.
18 We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind [a foul spirit, not seen but known to be present, speaking of the stink of Lucifer]; we have not wrought any deliverance [yshuw’ah – Jesus] in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen [naphal – into the birth canal].
19 Your dead [muwth] men shall live, together with my dead body [nbelah – the carcass of the body of Christ] shall they arise. Awake and sing [repeat these words as received], you that dwell in dust [the ruin of the earth]: for your dew is as the dew of herbs [bringing life on this third day of the new creation], and the earth shall cast out [naphal] the dead [rapha’].
20 Come, my people, enter you into your chambers, and shut your doors about you: hide yourself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation [za’am] be overpast.
21 For, behold, the LORD comes out of his place to punish [paqad – as the Chief Overseer] the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain [harag – those they’ve stuck down into death].
The naphal is the rebirth from death (rapha’), above spoken of the earth and its inhabitants. It (naphal) is the “fall” into deep sleep and the rising from it (awakening).
It (naphal) is first used in Genesis 2:21, speaking of when deep sleep that “fell” upon Adam, during which the LORD, from his body, created woman. It next (in Genesis 4:5 & 6) speaks of the “fallen” countenance of Cain, and later (in Genesis 14:10) of the slime pits into which the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah “fell” and remained.
It then appears (Genesis 15:12), saying, “And when the sun was going down [when light, understanding, departed], a deep sleep fell [naphal] upon Abram [Abraham]; and, lo, an horror of great darkness [ignorance] fell [naphal] upon him.” As we understand, this is the sleep [rapha’] from which the LORD here and now has awakened us, as foretold in Daniel 12.
The first use of rapha’ comes in Job 26:5, as the LORD today reveals it to us, as in Genesis 1, His Spirit alive in me moving upon the face of the waters to reveal the darkened deep, and from it bring light: understanding reserved there for this moment and His purpose: revealing His presence.
Genesis 1
2 And the earth was without form [tohuw], and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved [diligently searched out and refined] upon the face of the waters [the word present].
3 And God said, Let there be light [understanding]: and there was light.
4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness [the ignorance that came through corruption].
5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening [the darkness coming] and the morning [and the light returning] were the first day.
Job 26
2 How have you [as the LORD has here] helped him that is without power? how save you the arm that has no strength?
3 How have you counseled him that has no wisdom? and how have you plentifully declared the thing as it is?
4 To whom have you uttered words? and whose spirit came from you?
5 Dead [rapha’] things [the matters of death and life] are formed from under the waters [in the darkened deep], and the inhabitants thereof.
6 Hell is naked before him, and destruction has no covering.
7 He stretches out the north [darkness – ignorance, the cover spread over the deep] over the empty place [tohuw – “without form”], and hangs [talah – suspends] the earth upon nothing [bliymah – only used here; nothingness: “the void”].
8 He binds up the waters in his thick clouds [the elements of understanding therein suspended]; and the cloud is not rent under them [they remain reserved there until the LORD, in His time, sends them].
9 He holds back [achaz’ – covers] the face [paniym – the presence] of his throne, and spreads [parshez – only appears here, meaning His throne is the place where He holds the separated elements] his cloud upon it.
10 He has compassed [choq chuwg – decrees the full circle: where the end meets the beginning again] the waters with bounds [in His word], until the day [light] and night [dakness] come to an end [tiklah – the completion: in perfection].
11 The pillars of heaven tremble [so corruption is from there removed] and are astonished [tamahh – wonder marvelously] at his reproof [correction].
12 He divides the sea with his power, and by his understanding he smites through the proud.
13 By his spirit he has garnished the heavens [filling it again with His light]; his hand has formed the crooked serpent.
14 Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him [men still refusing to declare His presence manifested in His way, which they, seeing them, still wonder and are dumbfounded]? but the thunder [the voice of the light] of his power who can understand?
The word rendered “crooked,” bariyach, only appears two other times, in Isaiah 21:7 and 43:14. In the first of these uses, we understand it is leviathan, which we know is also used in describing Satan’s work through Job’s three so-called friends. It (leviathan) has the same origin as the name Levites, speaking of the priesthood, from whom the word from the mouth of God is supposed to be spoken. It is also there His word was and is corrupted (“piercing [bariyach]” the LORD’s hands and feet), and from where such corruption now flows in its place. It (bariyach), in Isaiah’s second use of it, tells us these corruptors are the “nobles [bariyach]” of Babylon, speaking of those whose power to rule is the corruption they speak and its resulting confusion, now turned mass insanity (the mass inability to distinguish between their delusions and reality).
Isaiah 27
1 In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish [paqad – visit as the Chief Overseer of the earth] leviathan [those to which the people are joined] the piercing [bariyach] serpent [as misleaders among them], even leviathan [Levi – the priesthood] that crooked serpent [as thorns and briers]; and he [the LORD with us] shall slay the dragon [tanniyn – the whale, the open mouths of men that carried all humanity into the belly of hell and holds it therein – or the crocodile, death lurking below the surface of these men’s words] that is in the sea [that flows to the people].
2 In that day sing [repeat these words] you unto her, A vineyard of red wine [to change their minds].
3 I the LORD do keep it [the earth]; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day.
4 Fury is not in me: who would set the briers [deceivers] and thorns [misleaders] against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together.
5 Or let him take hold of my strength [this understanding], that he may make peace with me; and he shall make peace with me.
6 He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.
Isaiah 43
7 Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him.
8 Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf that have ears.
9 Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the people be assembled: who among them can declare this, and show us former things? let them bring forth their witnesses, that they may be justified: or let them hear, and say, It is truth.
10 You are my witnesses, says the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that you may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.
11 I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no savior.
12 I have declared, and have saved, and I have shown, when there was no strange god among you: therefore you are my witnesses, says the LORD, that I am God.
13 Yea, before the day was I am he; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let it?
14 Thus says the LORD, your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and have brought down all their nobles [bariyach], and the Chaldeans, whose cry is in the ships [all the corrupt institutions of church and state].
15 I am the LORD, your Holy One, the creator of Israel, your King.
16 Thus says the LORD, which makes a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters;
17 Which bringeth forth the chariot and horse, the army and the power; they shall lie down together, they shall not rise: they are extinct, they are quenched as tow.
18 Remember you not the former things, neither consider the things of old.
19 Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall you not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.
Acts 13
38 Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins:
39 And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.
40 Beware therefore, lest that come upon you, which is spoken of in the prophets [Habakkuk 1:5];
41 Behold, you despisers, and wonder [wonder marvelously – tamahh tamahh], and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which you shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto you.
Job 28
1 Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they fine it.
2 Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the stone [there are treasures hidden in the earth, supernaturally engineered into this word of God, that must be dug up, diligently searched for, and when found refined to remove impurities: the corruption from being present in the earth where they were hidden].
3 He sets an end to darkness, and [diligently] searches out all perfection: the stones of darkness [ignorance wherein these treasures are held], and the shadow of death.
4 The flood breaks out from the inhabitant [of darkness]; [corrupting] even the waters [the present word of God] forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they [with understanding] are gone away from men.
5 As for the earth, out of it comes bread [the ways and ideas made by men]: and under it is turned up as it were fire.
6 The stones of it are the place of sapphires [treasures hidden in these stones]: and it has dust of [‘aphar – in the ashes of the earth’s ruin is hidden] gold.
7 There is a path which no fowl know, and which the vulture’s eye has not seen:
8 The lion’s whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.
9 He [the LORD who only knows this path] puts forth his hand upon the rock [making these treasures flow]; he overturns the mountains [the corrupt high place of the earth] by the roots.
10 He cuts out rivers among the rocks [from where these waters flow]; and his eye see every precious thing [the treasures therein hidden].
11 He binds the floods [of men corrupt words and ways] from overflowing; and the thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light [understanding].
12 But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding?
13 Man knows not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living.
14 The depth says, It is not in me: and the sea says, It is not with me.
15 It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.
16 It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.
17 The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of it shall not be for jewels of fine gold.
18 No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom is above rubies.
19 The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued with pure gold.
20 Whence then comes wisdom? and where is the place of understanding?
21 Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept closed from the fowls of the air.
22 Destruction and death [where the LORD sends wisdom and understanding] say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.
23 [Only] God understands the way thereof, and he knows the place thereof.
24 For he looks to the ends of the earth [the full circle, when the end meets the beginning again], and sees under the whole heaven [full understanding];
25 To make the weight for the winds; and he weighs the waters by measure.
26 When he made a decree [choq – as in Job 26:10 above] for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder [understanding and its voice]:
27 Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out.
28 And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the LORD, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.
Three of the uses of rapha’ come in Proverbs (2:18, 9:18, & 21:16) telling us this death is the lack of understanding.
Proverbs 2
1 My son, if you will receive my words, and hide my commandments with you;
2 So that you incline your ear unto wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;
3 Yea, if you cry after knowledge, and lift up your voice for understanding;
4 If you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hid treasures;
5 Then shall you understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.
6 For the LORD gives wisdom: out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.
7 He lays up [tsaphan – hidden and reserved] sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.
8 He keeps [natsar – guards and protects] the paths of judgment, and preserve [shamar – warn away from corruption] the way of his saints.
9 Then shall you understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path.
10 When wisdom enters into your heart [mind], and knowledge is pleasant unto your soul;
11 Discretion shall preserve [shamar] you, understanding shall keep [natsar] you:
12 To deliver you [natsal – same as harpazo, “caught up,” meaning pulling us from the fires] from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaks froward things [twisted and perverted truth];
13 Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness [ignorance];
14 Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness [the twisted and perverted truth] of the wicked;
15 Whose ways are crooked, and they froward [they twist and pervert truth] in their paths:
16 [The treasures the LORD gives us are] To deliver you from the strange woman [corrupt teaching], even from the stranger which flatters with her words [when you’ve learned her ignorance];
17 Which forsake the guide [the good wisdom and understanding of the LORD] of her youth, and forget the covenant of her God.
18 For her house inclines unto death [maveth – state and place, in hell], and her paths unto the dead [rapha’ – the fall into deep sleep, complete demoralization and willing insanity, when the mind can’t distinguish between its own delusions and reality].
19 None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.
20 That you mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.
21 For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.
22 But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.
Proverbs 9
1 Wisdom has built her house, she has hewn out her seven pillars [the completion of God’s work]:
2 She has killed her beasts; she has mingled her wine; she has also furnished her table [and those who eat here find the good path to life].
3 She has sent forth her maidens: she cries upon the highest places of the city,
4 Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: as for him that wants understanding, she says to him,
5 Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mingled.
6 Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.
7 He that reproves a scorner gets to himself shame: and he that rebukes a wicked man gets himself a blot. [Because these the incorrigibles, who refuse correction, remain lawless, disturbing the peace, agitating the general welfare, whose end is separation from God and His children forever, which is their choice]
8 Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate you: rebuke a wise man, and he will love you.
9 Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.
10 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.
11 For by me your days shall be multiplied, and the years of your life shall be increased.
12 If you be wise, you shall be wise for yourself: but if you scorn, you alone shall bear it.
13 A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knows nothing.
14 For she sits at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,
15 To call passengers who go right on their ways:
16 Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: and as for him that wants [lacks] understanding, she says to him,
17 Stolen [ganab – deceiving] waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret [cather – conversation covering evil intentions] is pleasant.
18 But he knows not that the dead [rapha’] are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell [sheol].
Proverbs 21
1 The king’s heart [mind] is in the hand [work] of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turns it whithersoever he will.
2 Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the LORD ponders the hearts [minds of men].
3 To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.
4 A high look, and a proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked, is sin.
5 The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but of every one that is hasty only to want.
6 The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.
7 The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; because they refuse to do judgment.
8 The way of man is froward [twisting and perverting truth] and strange: but as for the pure, his work is right.
9 It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.
10 The soul of the wicked desires evil: his neighbor finds no favor in his eyes.
11 When the scorner is punished, the simple is made wise: and when the wise is instructed, he receives knowledge.
12 The righteous man wisely considers the house of the wicked: but God overthrows the wicked for their wickedness.
13 Whoso stops his ears at the cry of the poor [those without power – like the many Jan. 6 martyrs now imprisoned by the evil tyrant in power], he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard.
14 A gift in secret pacifies anger: and a reward in the bosom strong wrath.
15 It is joy to the just to do judgment: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.
16 The man that wanders out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead [rapha’].
17 He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.
18 The wicked shall be a ransom for the righteous, and the transgressor for the upright.
19 It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and angry woman.
20 There is treasure to be desired and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man spends it up.
21 He that follows after righteousness and mercy finds life, righteousness, and honor.
22 A wise man scales the city of the mighty [in power], and casts down the strength of the confidence thereof.
23 Whoso keeps his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles.
24 Proud and haughty scorner is his name, who deals in proud wrath.
25 The desire of the slothful kills him; for his hands refuse to labor.
26 He covets greedily all the day long: but the righteous gives [as the LORD commands] and spare not.
27 The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination: how much more, when he brings it with a wicked mind?
28 A false witness shall perish: but the man that hears [shama’ – obeys] speaks constantly [as the LORD has commanded].
29 A wicked man hardens his face: but as for the upright, he directs his way.
30 There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the LORD.
31 The horse is prepared against the day of battle: but safety is of the LORD.
The word in the title verse rendered “herbs” is the four times used word ‘owrah, meaning “luminousness,” from ‘owr, meaning “illumination or (concrete) luminary (in every sense, including lightning, happiness, etc.):–bright, clear, + day, light (-ning), morning, sun.” It’s speaking of the dew, the word of God that appears (distills – is separated from impurities) as the light of a new day, which brings the rebirth (naphal) from death (rapha’).
The first time ‘owrah appears, in 2 Kings 4:39, also rendered “herbs,” it comes just after Elisha (God is salvation: God will save us) has raised the son of the Shunammite from death. We aren’t told, in this chapter, her name; only that she is a great woman of Shunem (meaning quiet).
There is another Shunammite spoken of earlier in 1 Kings 1 & 2, who comforted David in his old age. Her name is Abishag, meaning father (ab) of error, from the word shagah, meaning “to stray (causatively, mislead), usually (figuratively) to mistake, especially (morally) to transgress; by extension (through the idea of intoxication) to reel, (figuratively) be enraptured.”
Spiritually, the passage is speaking of this child as the modern sons of the prophets who’ve wandered into error, the Spirit of God no longer speaking through them, and they died.
The word shagah is only used three times by Isaiah, all in Isaiah 28:7, saying of those who made a covenant with death and are in agreement with hell, “But they also have erred [shagah] through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred [shagah] through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err [shagah] in vision, they stumble in judgment.”
Isaiah 28
8 For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.
9 Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine [shmuw’ah – this report that must be heard as the word from the mouth of Jehovah]? them that are weaned from the milk, and [now] drawn from the breasts [of the Ancient of Days: the wisdom and understanding of God].
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 [the truth they don’t understand because it’s a foreign language to them] 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 [shmuw’ah – this voice of the LORD].
2 Kings 2
15 And he [Elisha] said, Call her [Abishag]. And when he [Gahazi – into the valley of vision] had called her, she stood in the door.
16 And he said, About this season [mow’ed – this appointed time], according to the time of life, you shall embrace a son. And she said, Nay, my LORD [‘adown], you man of God, do not lie unto your handmaid.
17 And the woman conceived, and bare a son at that season [mow’ed] that Elisha had said unto her, according to the time of life [when he is raise again from death to life].
18 And when the child was grown, it fell on a day, that he went out to his father to the reapers.
19 And he said unto his father, My head, my head. And he said to a lad, Carry him to his mother.
20 And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees till noon [when the sun was fully risen: now when full understanding is given by the LORD], and then died.
32 And when Elisha [God will save] was come into the house, behold, the child was dead, and laid upon his bed.
33 He went in therefore, and shut the door upon them twain, and prayed unto the LORD.
34 And he went up [rose up among the dead prophets], and lay upon the child, and put his mouth upon his mouth [breath this life into Him, giving them this understanding as received], and his eyes upon his eyes [and they saw the unseen, as God sees], and his hands upon his hands [and understood it is the LORD’s work that is their work]: and stretched [the LORD condescended] himself upon the child; and the [dead] flesh of the child waxed warm [the LORD’s Spirit came to life in them, raising them by His rising].
35 Then he returned [shuwb – to their right minds], and walked in the house to and fro [diligently seeking the LORD]; and went up [were risen to life], and stretched [and the LORD’ through them condescended] himself upon him: and the child sneezed [gave these waters of life from His mouth] seven times [doing the LORD’s work upon the earth], and the child opened his eyes [and saw as God sees, with full understanding].
36 And he called Gehazi [into the valley of this vision], and said, Call this Shunammite [those whose mouths are not yet opened]. So he called her. And when she was come in unto him, he said, Take up [rise up with] your son.
37 Then she went in, and fell [naphal – came from death to life] at his feet, and bowed herself to the ground, and took up her son, and went out.
38 And Elisha [continuing the work of God’s Salvation] came again to Gilgal [where the waters are always boiling]: and there was a dearth [famine for hearing this word of God] in the land [the earth]; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him: and he said unto his servant, Set on the great pot, and seethe pottage for the sons of the prophets.
39 And one went out into the field [sadeh] to gather herbs [‘orwah – light, understanding of God], and found a wild [sadeh] vine, and gathered thereof wild [sadeh] gourds his lap full [these word tell of splitting wide open what was covered, referring to the shagah], and came and shred [palach – broke open] them into the pot of pottage: for they knew them not.
40 So they poured out for the men to eat. And it came to pass, as they were eating of the pottage, that they cried out, and said, O you man of God, there is death [maveth] in the pot. And they could not eat thereof.
41 But he said, Then bring meal [the work done at the millstone]. And he cast it into the pot; and he said, Pour out for the people, that they may eat. And there was no harm [ra’ dabar – no evil words] in the pot.
The word “meal” is qemach, and refers us to its use in Isaiah 47:2, speaking of it as the work uncovering the cause of the fall away from understanding into deep sleep.
Isaiah 47
1 Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon [of confusion], sit on the ground: there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans [who use your words to manipulate and control My people into following your evil]: for you shall no more be called tender and delicate.
2 Take the millstones, and grind meal [qemach]: uncover your locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over [‘abar] the rivers [uncover your word of falsehood and lies, and in doing Passover from death into life].
3 Your nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, your shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and I will not meet you as a man.
4 As for our redeemer, the LORD of hosts [a man of war] is his name [identity], the Holy One of Israel.
5 Sit you silent [Shunammite], and get you into darkness [ignorance], O daughter of the Chaldeans [enchanters and sorcerers, using your words to manipulate and control the ignorant]: for you shall no more be called, The lady of kingdoms.
6 I was wroth with my people, I have polluted my inheritance, and given them into your hand: you did show them no mercy; upon the ancient have you very heavily laid your yoke.
7 And you said, I shall be a lady forever: so that you did not lay these things to your heart, neither did remember the latter end [‘achariyth – these last days of your darkness] of it.
8 Therefore hear now this, you that are given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in your heart, I am, and none else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children:
9 But these two things shall come to you in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come upon you in their perfection for the multitude of your sorceries, and for the great abundance of your enchantments.
10 For you have trusted in your wickedness: you have said, None see me. Your wisdom and your knowledge, it has perverted you; and you have said in your heart, I am, and none else beside me.
11 Therefore shall evil come upon you; you shall not know from whence it rises: and mischief shall fall upon you; you shall not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon you suddenly, which you shall not know.
12 Stand now with your enchantments, and with the multitude of your sorceries, wherein you have labored from your youth; if so be you shall be able to profit, if so be you mayest prevail.
13 You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, [all the falsely so-called wise men and experts of this corrupt and insane world] stand up, and save you from these things that shall come upon you.
14 Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: there shall not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before it.
15 Thus shall they be unto you with whom you have labored, even your merchants, from your youth: they shall wander [deceive] every one to his quarter; none shall save you.
Revelation 18
1 And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened [given understanding] with his glory.
2 And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that you be not partakers of her sins, and that you receive not of her plagues.
5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.
6 Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she has filled fill to her double.
7 How much she has glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she says in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.
8 Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the LORD God who judges her.
9 And the kings 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.
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.
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 forever 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 says unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he says 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 fellows-servant, and of your brethren that have the testimony of Jesus [Jehovah’s Salvation manifested as His glory seen in us]: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy [speaking the Truth as God has given it to us].
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 does 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.
The word sadeh, in 2 Kings 4:39 above, is referring us to its use in Psalms 132:6, there speaking of what was heard (speaking of it) in Ephratah (in Ephrath, in Genesis 35, of Rachel’s birthing a son). The Psalm is also quoted in Acts 2:30, as we are told of it now occurring.
Acts 2
17 And it shall come to pass in the last days [the ‘achariyth], says God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh [as He has]: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy [Speaking this word of Gad as they have received it], and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:
18 And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy [so open your mouths and speak]:
19 And I will show wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke:
20 The sun shall be turned into darkness [the church now seen as without this understanding], and the moon into blood [civil government, lacking the same, now draining the life from those they tyrannically rule], before the great and notable day of the LORD come [when your mouths are opened]:
21 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name [His identity] of the LORD shall be saved.
22 You men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as you yourselves also know:
23 Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:
24 Whom God has raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.
[Hebrews 6:4 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, 5 And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, 6 If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame. 7 For the earth which drinks in the rain that comes oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs {‘owrah – understanding as light} meet for them by whom it is dressed, receives blessing from God: 8 But that which bears thorns and briers {piercing misleaders} is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned. 9 But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.]
25 For David speaks concerning him [concerning His presence manifested and declared], I foresaw the LORD always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved:
26 Therefore did my heart rejoice, and my tongue [when I spoke as commanded] was glad; moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope:
27 Because you will not leave my soul [here] in hell, neither will you suffer your Holy One to see corruption.
28 You have made known to me the ways of life; you shall make me full of joy with your countenance [Your presence revealed].
29 Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulcher is with us unto this day.
30 Therefore being a prophet [speaking through Psalms 132], and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne;
31 He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption.
32 This Jesus has God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses. [speaking of what was heard in Ephrath, Genesis 35:17 saying, “Fear not; you shall have this son also.”]
33 Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he has shed forth this, which you now see and hear.
34 For David is not ascended into the heavens: but he says himself, The LORD [Jehovah] said unto my LORD [‘adown], Sit you on my right hand,
35 Until I make your foes your footstool.
36 Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God has made the same Jesus, whom you have crucified, both LORD [‘adown] and Christ.
Genesis 35
15 And Jacob called the name of the place where God spake with him, Bethel [the house, family, of God].
16 And they journeyed from Bethel; and there was but a little way to come to Ephrath [the ruin upon which come the second blessing]: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labor.
17 And it came to pass, when she was in hard labor, that the midwife said unto her, “Fear not; you shall have this son also.”
Psalms 132
1 LORD, remember David, and all his afflictions:
2 How he swore unto the LORD, and vowed unto the mighty God of Jacob;
3 Surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house, nor go up into my bed;
4 I will not give sleep to my eyes, or slumber to my eyelids,
5 Until I find out a place for the LORD, a habitation for the mighty God of Jacob.
6 Lo, we heard of it at Ephratah: we found it in the fields of the wood.
7 We will go into his tabernacles: we will worship at his footstool.
8 Arise, O LORD, into your rest; you, and the ark of your strength.
9 Let your priests be clothed with righteousness; and let your saints shout for joy.
10 For your servant David’s sake turn not away the face of your anointed.
11 The LORD has sworn in truth unto David; he will not turn from it; Of the fruit of your body will I set upon your throne.
12 If your children will keep my covenant and my testimony that I shall teach them, their children shall also sit upon your throne for evermore.
13 For the LORD has chosen Zion; he has desired it for his habitation.
14 This is my rest for ever: here will I dwell; for I have desired it.
15 I will abundantly bless her provision: I will satisfy her poor with bread.
16 I will also clothe her priests with salvation: and her saints shall shout aloud for joy.
17 There will I make the horn of David to bud: I have ordained a lamp [this understanding that shows the LORD’s way to us] for my anointed.
18 His enemies will I clothe with shame: but upon himself shall his crown flourish.
The son is again born into this time “far off,” and is clothed with the LORD’s righteousness as light, ascending to the promised throne. These are all now past tense.
Psalms 139
1 O LORD, you have searched me, and known me.
2 You know my down-sitting and my uprising, you understand my thought afar off [rachowq – ra’ choq, this time when the world is ruled by evil decree].
3 You compass my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways.
4 For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, you know it altogether.
5 You have beset me behind and before, and laid your hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.
7 Whither shall I go from your spirit? or whither shall I flee from your presence [paniym]?
8 If I ascend up into heaven, you are there: if I make my bed [and sleep] in hell, behold, you are there.
9 If I take the wings of the morning [if I rise into heaven with the coming of Your light and this new day], and dwell in the uttermost parts [‘achariyth] of the sea [this generation in these last days of darkness];
10 Even there shall your hand lead me, and your right hand shall hold me.
11 If I say, Surely the darkness [ignorance of your presence] shall cover me [and all the earth]; even the night shall be light [‘owr] about me [giving me understanding of the condition and the path to escape it].
12 Yea, the darkness hides not from you; but the night shines [‘owr] as the day: the darkness and the light [‘owrah] are both alike to you.
13 For you have possessed my reins: you have covered me in my mother’s womb [hidden me there until this birth].
14 I will praise you; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvelous are your works; and that my soul knows right well.
15 My substance was not hid from you, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth [here in hell].
16 Your eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in your book all my members were written, which in continuance [as Your word effectually worked to bring my dead body back to life] were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.
17 How precious also are your thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!
18 If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake [to life], I Am still with you.
19 Surely you will slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, you bloody men.
20 For they speak against you wickedly, and your enemies take your name in vain.
21 Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate you? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against you?
22 I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them my enemies.
23 Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
24 And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
