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And when this comes to pass, (lo, it will come,) then shall they know that a prophet has been among them.

18 August 2023

And when this comes to pass, (lo, it will come,) then shall they know that a prophet has been among them.

The above is the final verse (33) of Ezekiel 33. It is the LORD speaking to Ezekiel, who He calls the son of man, about the now apparent impasse: God’s people hearing but refusing to act.

Ezekiel 33
29 Then shall they know that I am the LORD, when I have laid the land most desolate because of all their abominations [the idols, men’s creations, God’s people put in His place and call by His name] which they have committed.
30 Also, you son of man, the children of your people still are talking against you by the walls and in the doors of the houses, and speak one to another, every one to his brother, saying, Come, I pray you, and hear what is the word that comes forth from the LORD.
31 And they come unto you as the people comes, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their covetousness.
32 And, lo, you are unto them as a very lovely song of one that has a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument: for they hear your words, but they do them not.
33 And when this comes to pass, (lo, it will come,) then shall they know that a prophet has been among them.

What God’s people haven’t done is give the warning given earlier in the chapter. In our time it’s to warn them that their own governments (evil elites in church and state), colluding with false prophets (liars, deceivers, and false accusers) in mass media (social and news), are using every crises (forced decision points) to manipulate them into making the wrong choice: following their evil advice, and in doing so, incrementally destroying themselves.

Jeremiah 23
11 For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, says the LORD.
12 Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery ways in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation [pqudddah – this judgment], says the LORD [who is present as the Chief Overseer of the earth, with good advice].
13 And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria [God’s people at large, who follow idols they put in God’s place and call by His name]; they prophesied in Baal [their own creations, the ways and ideas of a fallen, degenerate, world], and caused my people Israel to err.
14 I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem a horrible thing: they commit adultery [apostacy], and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none does return from his wickedness; they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.
15 Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets; Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall: for from the prophets of Jerusalem [who should be speaking My ways of peace and security, but are instead at war against Me and My people] is profaneness [misleading people into their own destruction] gone forth into all the land.
16 Thus says the LORD of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain: they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the LORD.
17 They say still unto them that despise me, The LORD has said, You shall have peace; and they say unto every one that walketh after the imagination of his own heart, No evil shall come upon you.
18 For who has stood in the counsel of the LORD, and has perceived [His presence] and heard his word? who has marked his word, and heard it?
19 Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD is gone forth in fury, even a grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked.
20 The anger of the LORD shall not return, until he have executed, and till he have performed the thoughts of his heart: in the latter days you shall consider [biyn – understand] it perfectly.
21 I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.
22 But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear my words, then they should have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.
23 Am I a God at hand, says the LORD, and not a God afar off [rachowq – in this time when the evil decrees of men rule here in hell]?
24 Can any hide himself in secret places [here in hell] that I shall not see him? says the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? says the LORD.
25 I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.
26 How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies? yea, they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart [creation of their own evil minds];
27 Which think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbor, as their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal.
28 The prophet that has a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that has my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? says the LORD.
29 Is not my word like as a fire? says the LORD; and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?
30 Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, says the LORD, that steal my words every one from his neighbor.
31 Behold, I am against the prophets, says the LORD, that use their tongues, and say, He says.
32 Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams, says the LORD, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their lightness [giving no value to this word from the mouth of God]; yet I sent them not, nor commanded them: therefore they shall not profit this people at all, says the LORD.
33 And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask you, saying, What is the burden of the LORD [all thinking this word is a burden]? you shall then say unto them, What burden? I will even forsake you, says the LORD.
34 And as for the prophet, and the priest, and the people, that shall say, The burden of the LORD, I will even punish [paqad – visit their own ways upon] that man and his house.
35 Thus shall you say every one to his neighbor, and every one to his brother, What has the LORD answered? and, What has the LORD spoken?
36 And the burden of the LORD shall you mention no more: for every man’s word shall be his burden [by which he shall be judged]; for you have perverted the words of the living God, of the LORD of hosts our God.
37 Thus shall you say to the prophet, What has the LORD answered you? and, What has the LORD spoken?
38 But since you say, The burden of the LORD; therefore thus says the LORD; Because you say this word, The burden of the LORD, and I have sent unto you, saying, You shall not say, The burden of the LORD;
39 Therefore, behold, I, even I, will utterly forget you, and I will forsake you, and the city that I gave you and your fathers, and cast you out of my presence:
40 And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.

Ezekiel 33
7 So you, O son of man, I have set you a watchman unto the house of Israel; therefore you shall hear the word at my mouth, and warn them from me.
8 When I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, you shall surely die; if you do not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at your hand.
9 Nevertheless, if you warn the wicked of his way to turn from it; if he do not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered your soul.
10 Therefore, O you son of man, speak unto the house of Israel; Thus you speak, saying, If our transgressions and our sins be upon us, and we pine away in them, how should we then live?
11 Say unto them, As I live, says the LORD God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn you, turn you from your evil ways; for why will you die, O house of Israel?
12 Therefore, you son of man, say unto the children of your people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression: as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turns from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be able to live for his righteousness in the day that he sins.
13 When I shall say to the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust to his own righteousness, and commit iniquity, all his righteousness shall not be remembered; but for his iniquity that he has committed, he shall die for it.
14 Again, when I say unto the wicked, You shall surely die; if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right;
15 If the wicked restore the pledge, give again that he had robbed, walk in the statutes of life, without committing iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die.
16 None of his sins that he has committed shall be mentioned unto him: he has done that which is lawful and right; he shall surely live.
17 Yet the children of your people say, The way of the LORD is not equal: but as for them, their way is not equal.
18 When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, he shall even die thereby.
19 But if the wicked turn from his wickedness, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby.
20 Yet you say, The way of the LORD is not equal. O you house of Israel, I will judge you every one after his ways.
21 And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth month, in the fifth day of the month, that one that had escaped out of Jerusalem came unto me, saying, The city is smitten [nakah – scourged with correction].
22 Now the hand of the LORD was upon me in the evening, afore he that was escaped came; and had opened my mouth, until he came to me in the morning; and my mouth was opened, and I was no more dumb.

When the LORD talks about calling those His people who were not His people, He is speaking of the dilemma now at hand, the silence of the church while the alarm is sounding from those now considered the outcast of the world. The so-called “secular” sources, the voices of the obedient, are warning of the wickedness, revealing their crimes against humanity, the war evil is waging against all that is good and normal.

Matthew 9
6 But that you may know that the Son of man has power on earth to forgive sins, (then says he to the sick of the palsy [the word here rendered “sick of the palsy,” is paralutikto – meaning he is the one the LORD comes beside, as the comforter, to loose him from sin and so he becomes the fruit He produces, as a son brought forth],) Arise [ageiro – awaken], take up [airo – and rise from] your bed, and go unto your house.
7 And he arose [ageiro – he awakened], and departed to his house.
8 But when the multitudes saw it, they marveled, and glorified God, which had given such power unto men.
9 And as Jesus passed forth from thence, he saw a man, named Matthew [a gift of Jehovah], sitting at the receipt of custom [gathering taxes – telonion, speaking of the final redemption]: and he says unto him, Follow me. And he arose, and followed him.
10 And it came to pass, as Jesus sat at meat in the house, behold, many publicans [telones] and sinners came and sat down with him and his disciples.
11 And when the Pharisees [the religious dividers who scattered the flock] saw it, they said unto his disciples, Why eats your Master with publicans [telones] and sinners?
12 But when Jesus heard that, he said unto them, They that be whole [ischuo – who hold men in by their power] need not a physician [iatros – one to cure], but they that are sick [echidna – but they that are held].
13 But go you and learn what that means, “I will have mercy, and not sacrifice:” for I am not come to call the [self] righteous, but sinners [those who admit they are in error] to repentance.

This quote above comes in Hosea 6:6, which speaks of the meaning we “learn” by reading it as the voice of God heard.

Hosea 6
1 Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he has torn [scattered us in pieces], and he [is the physician who] will heal [rapha’ – cure] us; he has smitten [nakah – scourged us with His correction], and he will bind us up [chabash – govern us again into His ONE BODY].
2 After two days will he revive us [chayah – bring us to life]: in the third day he will raise us up [quwm], and we shall live [chayah] in his sight [paniym – in His presence].
3 Then shall we know, if we follow [as Matthew followed] on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning [the light of the new day, when the sun rises with healing in His wings]; and he shall come unto us as the rain [the word of God from heaven], as the latter [this exposition in the firmament] and former rain [the written word of God now understood – the meaning learned] unto the earth.
4 O Ephraim [God’s people at large in this generation] what shall I do unto you? O Judah [the leader of God people], what shall I do unto you? for your goodness is as a morning cloud [when understanding is removed from the earth and the sunrise isn’t seen], and as the early dew [this understanding that has appeared on the earth] it goes away [halak – you walk away from].
5 Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and your judgments [from Me] are as the light [as understanding] that goes forth.
6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
7 But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.
8 Gilead is a [these waters of testimony are sent to a] city of them that work iniquity, and is [by them] polluted with blood.
9 And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent [shekem – calling this word of warning a burden]: for they commit lewdness.
10 I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom [unfaithfulness] of Ephraim, Israel is defiled [corrupted].
11 Also, O Judah [the new crop of leaders that must rise], he has set a harvest for you, when I returned the captivity [captivated, held by this word I write into the minds] of my people.

Malachi 4
1 For, behold, the day comes, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that comes shall burn them up, says the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
2 But unto you that fear my name [identity] shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing [marpe’] in his wings; and you shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall [the captive flock, the ONE BODY].
3 And you shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, says the LORD of hosts.
4 Remember you the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments.
5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:
6 And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite [nakah – scourge] the earth with a curse.

Matthew 11
14 And if you will receive it, this is Elijah, which was for to come.
15 He that has ears to hear, let him hear.
16 But whereunto shall I liken this generation? It is like unto children sitting in the markets, and calling unto their fellows,
17 And saying, We have piped unto you, and you have not danced; we have mourned unto you, and you have not lamented [all saying I should be doing what they say I should].
18 For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He has a devil.
19 The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans [telones] and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children.
20 Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done, because they repented not:
21 Woe unto you, Chorazin [in the smoking furnace]! woe unto you, Bethsaida [the house of the fish – the houses that are the whale’s belly]! for if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
22 But I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day of judgment, than for you.
23 And you, Capernaum [to who the Comforter has come], which [whose words] are exalted unto heaven [saying you have your own understanding], shall be brought down to hell: for if the mighty works, which have been done in you, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.
24 But I say unto you, That it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment, than for you.
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 [by the words of evil men], 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.

Romans 9
18 Therefore has he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardens.
19 You will say then unto me, Why does he yet find fault? For who has resisted his will?
20 Nay but, O man, who are you that reply against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why have you made me thus? [quoted in Isaiah 45:9]
21 Has not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honor, and another unto dishonor?
22 What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
23 And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,
24 Even us, whom he has called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
25 As he says also in Hosea, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved. [This is preceded in Hosea 2:23, saying “And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy”]
26 And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, You are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God. [The passage in Hosea 1 continues, saying, “11 Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be gathered together, and appoint themselves one head, and they shall come up {‘alah – rise} out of the land {‘erets – the earth}: for great shall be the day of Jezreel {God sows – when He plants in the earth His new nation}.”]
27 Isaiah [10:22 & 23] also cries concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:
28 For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the LORD make upon the earth. [followed by, “24 Therefore thus says the LORD God of hosts, O my people that dwell in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian {the communists in power}: he shall smite you with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against you, after the manner of Egypt {the oppression of tyrants}. 25 For yet a very little while, and the indignation {za’am} shall cease, and my anger in their destruction.]
29 And as Isaiah [1:9] said before, Except the LORD of Sabaoth [hosts – a man of war] had left us a seed, we had been [in flame] as Sodom, and been made [a ruin] like unto Gomorrah. [verse 10 saying, “Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah.”]
30 What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith.
31 But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, has not attained to the law of righteousness.
32 Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumbling-stone;
33 As it is written [Isaiah 28:16], Behold, I lay in Sion a stumbling-stone and rock of offence: and whosoever believes on him shall not be ashamed.

1 Peter 4
1 Forasmuch then as Christ has suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin;
2 That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.
3 For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles [those who haven’t known the LORD], when we walked [with the misleading blind gods of this world] in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, reveling, banqueting, and abominable idolatries:
4 Wherein they think it strange that you run not with them to the same excess [ignorance] of riot, speaking evil of you:
5 Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick [zao] and the dead [nekros].
6 For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead [nekros], that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live [zao] according to God in the spirit.
7 But the end of all things is at hand: be you, therefore, sober [of a sound mind], and watch [understanding the experience] unto prayer [conversing with the LORD above His mercy seat].
8 And above all things have fervent charity [agape – freely giving this word as He has given it] among yourselves: for charity [agape] shall cover the multitude of sins.
9 Use hospitality one to another without grudging.
10 As every man has received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace [this gift] of God.
11 If any man speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God gives: that God in all things may be glorified [as the giver of the word] through Jesus Christ [through Jehovah’s Salvation manifested in our flesh], to whom be praise and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
12 Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial [from the world who doesn’t know the LORD and can’t hear Him speaking] which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:
13 But rejoice, inasmuch as you are partakers of Christ’s [long] sufferings [not willing that any should perish, but that all would come to repentance]; that, when his glory [His presence in you] shall be revealed, you may be glad also with exceeding joy [that those recognizing Him have been made perfect by His word, power, effectually working in them, changing them, opening their eyes and ears to His gospel].
14 If you be reproached for the name [His identity in you] of Christ, happy are you; for the spirit of glory and of God rests upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.
15 But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men’s matters.
16 Yet if any man suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf.
17 For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begins at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?
18 And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear [in the hell they’ve created and chosen]?
19 Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator [raising us from death and hell into life in His new heaven and earth].

2 Corinthians 4
1 Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have [at His mercy seat] received mercy, we faint not;
2 But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.
3 But if our gospel is hid, it is hidden to them that are lost:
4 In whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light [understanding] of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
5 For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the LORD; and ourselves your servants for Jesus’ sake.
6 For God, who commanded the light [understanding] to shine out of darkness [ignorance], has shined in our hearts, to give the light [understanding] of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face [presence] of Jesus Christ.
7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
8 We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;
9 Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;
10 Always bearing about in the body the dying of the LORD Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.
11 For we which live are always delivered unto death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.
12 So then death worketh in us, but life in you.
13 We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak;
14 Knowing that he which raised up the LORD Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus, and shall present us with you.

Psalms 127
1 Except the LORD build the house, they labor in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman wakes but in vain.
2 It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he gives his beloved sleep.
3 Lo, children are a heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.
4 As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth.
5 Happy is the man that has his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.

Psalms 68
1 Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him flee before him.
2 As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: as wax melts before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.
3 But let the righteous be glad; let them rejoice before God: yea, let them exceedingly rejoice.
4 Sing unto God, sing praises to his name: extol him that rides upon the heavens by his name Jah, and rejoice before him.
5 A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
6 God sets the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.
7 O God, when you went forth before your people, when you did march through the wilderness; Selah:
8 The earth shook, the heavens also dropped at the presence of God: even Sinai itself was moved at the presence of God, the God of Israel.
9 You, O God, did send a plentiful rain, whereby you did confirm your inheritance, when it was weary.
10 Your congregation has dwelt therein: you, O God, have prepared of your goodness for the poor.
11 The LORD gave the word: great was the company of those that published it.
12 Kings of armies did flee apace: and she that tarried at home divided the spoil.
13 Though you have lien among the pots, yet shall you be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.
14 When the Almighty scattered kings in it, it was white as snow in Salmon.
15 The hill of God is as the hill of Bashan; an high hill as the hill of Bashan.
16 Why leap you, you high hills? this is the hill which God desire to dwell in; yea, the LORD will dwell in it for ever.
17 The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of angels: the LORD is among them, as in Sinai, in the holy place.
18 You have ascended on high, you have led captivity captive: you have received gifts for men; yea, for the rebellious also, that the LORD God might dwell among them.
19 Blessed be the LORD, who daily loads us with benefits, even the God of our salvation. Selah.
20 He that is our God is the God of salvation; and unto God the LORD belong the issues from death.
21 But God shall wound the head of his enemies, and the hairy scalp of such an one as goes on still in his trespasses.
22 The LORD said, I will bring again from Bashan, I will bring my people again from the depths of the sea:
23 That your foot may be dipped in the blood of your enemies, and the tongue of your dogs in the same.
24 They have seen your goings, O God; even the goings of my God, my King, in the sanctuary.
25 The singers went before, the players on instruments followed after; among them were the damsels playing with timbrels.
26 Bless you God in the congregations, even the LORD, from the fountain of Israel.
27 There is little Benjamin with their ruler, the princes of Judah and their council, the princes of Zebulun, and the princes of Naphtali.
28 Your God has commanded your strength: strengthen, O God, that which you have wrought for us.
29 Because of your temple at Jerusalem shall kings bring presents unto you.
30 Rebuke the company of spearmen, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the people, till every one submit himself with pieces of silver: scatter you the people that delight in war.
31 Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God.
32 Sing unto God, you kingdoms of the earth; O sing praises unto the LORD; Selah:
33 To him that rides upon the heavens of heavens, which were of old; lo, he does send out his voice, and that a mighty voice.
34 Ascribe you strength unto God: his excellency is over Israel, and his strength is in the clouds.
35 O God, you are terrible out of your holy places: the God of Israel is he that gives strength and power unto his people. Blessed be God.

August 17, 2023

For I would not, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.

15 – 16 August 2023

For I would not, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.

The above, Romans 11:25, is Paul, the LORD in him, speaking of Israel as all God’s people (Christian and Jew: Ephraim and Judah) who call themselves His, and the Gentiles as those who don’t and never have considered themselves His people. The verse speaks of the “fullness” of the Gentiles, which is when they realize He is present to save them as well as those calling themselves by His name. These two aspects coincide with God’s people opening their mouths declaring Him present, manifested in His word, by which the LORD receives both groups, us by our obedient faith declaring Him and them through our faith realizing Him.

Romans 3
21 But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;
22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:
23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
24 Being justified freely by his grace [this gift] through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus [the LORD’s presence in the flesh as Jehovah’s Salvation: Jesus]:
25 Whom God has set forth to be a propitiation [the mercy seat, above which His presence is manifest in the conversation] through faith in his blood [the necessary sacrifice to deliver the message and declare His presence in it], to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins [to correct the errors: misleading teaching: corruption of His word: that blinds the world to Him] that are past, through the forbearance of God [His long-suffering with us, not willing that any should perish but that all would come to repentance];
26 To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believes in Jesus [Jehovah’s Salvation manifested in the flesh of His chosen – “I and the children the LORD has given me”].
27 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.
28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.
29 Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:
30 Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision [believers] by [their] faith, and uncircumcision [unbelievers] through [our] faith.
31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.

This last portion refers us back to verse 19, speaking to His people who should know Him, blinded by the wicked’s words, closing their mouths to hear Him, His words, which is the only way to salvation.

Romans 3
10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
11 There is none that understand [the closed mouths of those calling themselves believers witness to this truth], there is none that seek after God [instead they seek salvation in speaking their same old corrupt ways and ideas].
12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that does good, no, not one.
13 Their throat is an open sepulcher [as place where death resides]; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
15 Their feet are swift to shed blood:
16 Destruction and misery are in their ways:
17 And the way of peace have they not known:
18 There is no fear of God before their eyes.
19 Now we know that what things soever the law says, it says to them who are under the law [all who are yet without faith, speaking of it but their works prove the opposite]: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

Romans 11
2 God has not cast away his people [who are called by His name] which he foreknew. Know you not what the scripture says of Elijah? how he made intercession to God against Israel saying,
3 LORD, they [God’s own people] have killed your prophets, and digged down your altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.
4 But what says the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal [the gods of the world, men and their creations they put in God’s place and call by His name, which have blinded the world to the good news, this Gospel, the word from His mouth by which only does man live].
5 Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant [one hundred and forty four thousand] according to the election of grace [those He chose and gave this gift].
6 And if by grace [if it is a gift from Him], then is it no more of works [what he has given is the finished work, and you need to do nothing more than repeat it – giving His gift as received isn’t a burden, and God loves, gives to, a cheerful giver]: otherwise grace [this gift if you have to work to receive it] is no more grace [a gift]. But if it be of works, then it is no more grace [but payment for something you’ve done]: otherwise [the LORD’s] work is no more [His] work [but yours, which can never save you or others]. [1 Timothy 4:10 For therefore we both labor and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, specially of those that believe. 11 These things command and teach. 12 Let no man despise your youth {before you put away childish things and became a man}; but be you an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity. 13 Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine. 14 Neglect not the gift that is in you, which was given you by prophecy {the word from the mouth of God through those He before me chose and indwelled}, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery {the elders before us through who the LORD worked}. 15 Meditate upon these things; give yourself wholly to them; that your profiting may appear {phaneros – shine} to all {from east to west, and they will know it is the coming of the foretold son of man}. 16 Take heed unto {epecho – let these things take hold: become obedient to} yourself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this you shall both save yourself, and them that hear you {the word you obediently speaks as the LORD commands}.]
7 What then? Israel [all believers] has not obtained that which he [blindly] seeks for; but the election [by receiving the gift without adding their same old corrupt works] has obtained it, and the rest were blinded.
8 (According as it is written [in Isaiah 29:10], God has given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day.
9 And David says [in Psalms 69:23], Let their [corrupt] table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumbling-block, and a recompence unto them:
10 Let their eyes be darkened [blinded by ignorance], that they may not see, and bow down their back always [before tyrants].
11 I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation [when they open their mouth] is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.
12 Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?
13 For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify my office:
14 If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them.
15 For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?
16 For if the first-fruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.
17 And if some of the branches be broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, wert grafted in among them, and with them partake of the root and fatness of the olive tree;
18 Boast not against the branches. But if you boast, you bear not the root, but the root you.
19 You will say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.
20 Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by faith. Be not high-minded [with your own ways and ideas], but fear:
21 For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not you.
22 Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness: otherwise you also shall be cut off.
23 And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again.
24 For if you were cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?
25 For I would not, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. [Proverbs 3: 5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart; and lean not unto your own understanding. 6 In all your ways acknowledge [declare] him, and he shall direct your paths. 7 Be not wise in your own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil.]
26 And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written [in Isaiah 59:20 & 21] , There shall come out of Zion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:
27 For this is my covenant unto them [verse 21 continuing, saying “My spirit that is upon you, and my words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your seed, nor out of the mouth of your seed’s seed, says the LORD, from henceforth and forever.”], when I shall take away their sins. [said in Isaiah 27:9, as “By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he makes all the stones of the altar {all their creations} as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images {they’ve made} shall not stand up.]
28 As concerning [kata] the Gospel, they [those opposing it] are enemies for your sakes: but as touching [kata – concerning] the election, they [the elect remnant] are beloved for the father’s sakes.
29 For the gifts and calling of God [to the elect remnant] are without repentance.
30 For as you in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief:
31 Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy [manifested in your conversation, your open mouths declaring the LORD present with us] they also may obtain mercy.
32 For God has concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.
33 O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!
34 For who has known the mind of the LORD? or who has been his counsellor?
35 Or who has first [by their own works] given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again?
36 For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory forever. Amen.

Friends, in the referenced passage above from 1 Timothy 4, there is a mystery revealed in the words the LORD, through Paul, uses. It comes in the word prokope, rendered in 1 Timothy 4:15 as “profiting,” speaking of what shines forth and the origin from where it comes. It is compounded from pro, meaning “in front of, prior (figuratively superior),” and kope, (dubiously) meaning “cutting, i.e. carnage:–slaughter.” It (kope) is given this meaning because of the context in which it is used the one time it appears, in Hebrews 7:1, telling of the “slaughter” of the kings by Abram (Abraham), for which he received a blessing from “the MOST HIGH GOD, possessor of heaven and earth,” through Melchisedec.

The mystery is the blessing that comes in the same manner, smiting the kings who’ve taken and hold our brethren. This “taking hold,” the rescuing, the retaking of the mind of men through this Gospel, is spoken of in 1 Timothy 4:16, saying it is of sound “doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this you shall both save yourself, and them that hear you.”

The key word rendered “slaughter,” in Genesis 14:17, is nakah, meaning “to strike (lightly or severely, literally or figuratively).”

These words (said to speak of slaughter), in proper context, are the scourge we’ve previously discussed, words as goads driving humanity forward into salvation.

Hebrews 7
1 For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God [in Hebrew, ‘Elyown ‘El, first used in Genesis 14:18, here speaking of His presence manifested in Melchisedec, the first appearance, archetype, of Christ], who met Abraham returning from the slaughter [kope – nakah in Hebrew] of the kings, and blessed him;
2 To whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all; first being by interpretation King of righteousness, and after that [righteousness] also King of Salem, which is, King of peace;
3 Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abides [with us] a priest continually [the son in perpetuity: Joshua {Jesus} the son of Nun: Jehovah’s Salvation manifested in the flesh of the perpetual son of ‘Elyown ‘El].
4 Now consider how great this man was, unto whom even the patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils.

Genesis 14
14 And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained servants, born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them unto Dan [judgment].
15 And he divided himself against them, he and his servants, by night, and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah [in their “hiding place”], which is on the left hand of Damascus [where the people have been silenced in sorrow].
16 And he brought back [shuwb – returned] all the goods [rkuwsh, from rakash, what was laid up, the ways and ideas that produced peace and prosperity], and also brought again [shuwb – returned] his brother Lot [their protective cover, by removing the cover {lowt} of lies cast over all the world], and his goods [rkuwsh], and the women also, and the people.
17 And the king of Sodom [those causing the “flames” in the furnace] went out [of the slime pits where they were hiding] to meet him [still covered in slime] after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer [from three words meaning the lies and deceptions exposed by chastisement: the scourge – he is also to king of Elam, meaning he rules by the these means {lies and deceptions} throughout eternity; and is the Satan antitype], and of the kings that were with him [ruling by the same means], at the valley of Shaveh [where everything is seen in plain sight], which is the king’s dale [these king’s hell in the earth, when they are awakened to eternal damnation for their crimes against humanity].
18 And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine [the word of God that changes minds by effectual working in those who receive it as His word]: and he was the priest of the Most High God [‘Elyown ‘El].
19 And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the Most High God, possessor [qanah – see Exodus 15:16 below] of heaven and earth:
20 And blessed be the Most High God, which has delivered your enemies into your hand. And he gave him tithes of all.
21 And the king of Sodom [those still covered in slime] said unto Abram, Give me the persons, and take the goods to yourself.
22 And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up my hand unto the LORD, the Most High God, the possessor of heaven and earth,
23 That I will not take from a thread even to a shoe-latch, and that I will not take any thing that is your, lest you shouldest say, I have made Abram rich:
24 Save only that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men which went with me, Aner [the children who’ve now become men], Eshcol [as a cluster of fruit reattached to the vine], and Mamre [which is their strength]; let them take their portion [let them from you retake their inheritance].

The word prokope only appears two other times, in Philippians 1:12 & 25, there telling of the “furtherance” of the Gospel and our joy (by uncovering what has blinded the world to the word of God and His presence thereby manifested.

2 Corinthians 3
14 But their minds were blinded: for until this day remains the same vail [cover] untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ.
15 But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.
16 Nevertheless when it shall turn to the LORD, the vail shall be taken away.
17 Now the LORD is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the LORD is, there is liberty [into which he rescues us].
18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the LORD, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the LORD.

2 Corinthians 4
1 Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;
2 But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.
3 But if our Gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:
4 In whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
5 For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the LORD; and ourselves your servants for Jesus’ sake.
6 For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, has shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face [presence] of Jesus Christ.
7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels [this gift of God in our flesh, which is our joy when He from there reveals Himself when He wills], that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
8 We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;
9 Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;
10 Always bearing about in the body the dying of the LORD Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.
11 For we which live are always delivered unto death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.
12 So then death worketh in us, but life in you.
13 We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak;
14 Knowing that he which raised up the LORD Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus, and shall present us with you.
15 For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.
16 For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, works for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;
18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

Philippians 1
2 Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the LORD Jesus Christ.
3 I thank my God upon every remembrance of you,
4 Always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy,
5 For your fellowship in the Gospel from the first day until now;
6 Being confident of this very thing, that he which has begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:
7 Even as it is meet for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in the defense and confirmation of the Gospel, you all are partakers of my grace.
8 For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.
9 And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;
10 That you may approve things that are excellent; that you may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ.
11 Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.
12 But I would you should understand, brethren, that the things which happened unto me have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of [prokope – scourging, goading, leading humanity into salvation by] the Gospel;
13 So that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the palace, and in all other places;
14 And many of the brethren in the LORD, waxing confident by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.
15 Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will:
16 The one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds:
17 But the other of love, knowing that I am set for the defense of the Gospel.
18 What then? notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretense, or in truth, Christ is preached; and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.
19 For I know that this shall turn to my salvation through your prayer, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,
20 According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death.
21 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
22 But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labor: yet what I shall choose I wot not.
23 For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:
24 Nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you.
25 And having this confidence, I know that I shall abide and continue with you all for your furtherance [prokope] and joy of faith;
26 That your rejoicing may be more abundant in Jesus Christ for me by my coming to you again.
27 Only let your conversation [in which the LORD is manifested above His mercy seat] be as it becometh the Gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the Gospel;
28 And in nothing terrified by your adversaries: which is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that of God.
29 For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake;
30 Having the same conflict which you saw in me, and now hear to be in me.

Isaiah 11
1 And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots [sheresh – Matthew 24:32 & 33 and Job 14:7 thru 9]:
2 And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel [‘etsah] and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD;
3 And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears:
4 But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek [‘anav] of the earth: and he shall smite [nakah – scourge with correction] the earth: with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.
5 And righteousness shall be the girdle [preparation] of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle [preparation] of his reins.

9 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea [His word covering all His people at large].
10 And in that day there shall be a root [sheresh] of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of [nec – the pole upon which the son of man must be lifted, as Moses lifted the brazen fiery serpent in the wilderness, so all can hear this word of God and be saved from the venomous words of the serpents attacking] the people; to it shall the Gentiles [the gowy – all who don’t know the LORD, because they are blinded to Him be the lies of the gods of this world] seek: and his rest shall be glorious.
11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria [the communists], and from Egypt [their captivity among tyrants], and from Pathros [from the place where they are pitied], and from Cush [from the darkness: ignorance], and from Elam [all eternity], and from Shinar [from where all the vessels of the house of God were carried and there the people sleep], and from Hamath [where they are, by the lies of men, walled from seeing the LORD], and from the islands [the dry place without this word of God] of the sea.
12 And he shall set up an ensign [nec – the son of man lifted up] for the nations [gowy – all who don’t know the LORD], and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together [into His ONE BODY] the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
13 The envy also of Ephraim [God’s people, as Joseph’s seed, in this generation] shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah [the adversaries of the new crop of Godly leaders He raises] shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah [there leaders], and Judah shall not vex Ephraim [the leaders shall not vex those they lead].
14 But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines [the immigrants in our midst] toward the west; they shall spoil them of the east [who saw the light of the LORD’s coming and rejected it] together: they shall lay their hand upon Edom [the enemies mixed among us destroying God’s people, His nation, and our better culture] and Moab [the gates, the mouths of evil men, holding the world in hell]; and the children of Ammon [those who have divided and scattered God’s people] shall obey them [the new crop of Godly leaders].
15 And the LORD shall utterly destroy the [evil] tongue of the Egyptian sea [the words of tyrants and oppressors flowing to the people]; and with his mighty wind [His almighty Spirit] shall he shake his hand over the river [the waters flowing to the sea], and shall smite [nakah – scourge with correction] it in the seven streams [the teaching coming from the corrupt church institution], and make men go over dryshod.
16 And there shall be a highway for the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria [the communists]; like as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.

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 serpent [as a misleader among them], even leviathan [Levi – the priesthood] that crooked [bariyach] serpent; and he [the LORD with us] shall slay the dragon [tanniyn – the whale, the open mouths of men that carried all humanity into 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.
7 Has he smitten [nakah – scourged] him, as he smote those that smote [nakah – scourged] him? or is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him?
8 In measure, when it shoots forth, you will debate with it: he stays his rough wind in the day of the east wind.
9 By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he makes all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up. [see Romans 11:27 above]
10 Yet the defensed city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf [men as idols put in God’s place] feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.
11 When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will show them no favor.
12 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall beat off [the fruit] from the channel of the river [leviathan] unto the stream of Egypt [the waters of the tyrant now controlling the world], and you shall be gathered one by one, O you children of Israel.
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria [the communists among us, in power], and the outcasts in the land of Egypt [under the hand of oppression – under a Pharaoh who doesn’t know Joseph], and shall worship the LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem.

Exodus 15
3 The LORD is a man of war: the LORD is his name.
4 Pharaoh’s [the great house of evil kings] 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 your excellency you have overthrown them that rose up against you: you sent forth your wrath, which consumed them as stubble.
8 And with the blast of your nostrils the waters were gathered together, the floods stood upright as a heap, and the depths were congealed [came together as understanding in our minds] in the heart of the sea [in the minds of the people at large].
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 [by Your Almighty Spirit], 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 [the invading army now in control of all the seats of power in the institutions they’ve corrupted].
15 Then the dukes of Edom [the elites of the enemies mixed among us] shall be amazed [bahal – tremble inside: fear and panic because they know what is coming]; the mighty men of Moab [whose mouths are the gates holding the world in hell], trembling shall take hold upon them; all the inhabitants of Canaan [the wicked now possessing the land by possessing the minds of the sleeping dead] shall melt away [from the heat of the fires they’ve caused].
16 Fear [‘eymah] and dread shall fall upon them; by the greatness of your arm they shall be as still [damam – dumb, paralyzed by fear] as a stone; till your people pass over [‘abar – Passover from death into life], O LORD, till the people pass over [‘abar – Passover], which you have purchased [qanah – resurrected, Your possessions you’ve redeemed].
17 You shall bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of your inheritance, in the place, O LORD, which you have made for you to dwell in, in the Sanctuary, O LORD, which your hands have established.
18 The LORD shall reign forever and ever.

We understand, from 1 Timothy 4:15 this prokope (the scourge that shoots forth correction), that “appears” is the shining (phaneros) of the LORD’s presence as light that now covers the world that was before in darkness. This is what men see, after hearing the Gospel (the scourge that corrects God’s children).

Hebrews 12
1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses [Hebrews 11: 39 And these all, having obtained a good report through faith {the substance of things not seen until perfection}, received not the promise: 40 God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.], let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which does so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
2 Looking unto Jesus the author [here writing through me] and finisher [perfector] of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
3 For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest you be wearied and faint in your minds.
4 You have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.
5 And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks unto you as unto children, My son, despise not you the chastening of the LORD, nor faint when you are rebuked of him:
6 For whom the LORD loves he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives.
7 If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chastens not?
8 But if you be without chastisement [if you are not corrected], whereof all are partakers, then are you bastards, and not sons.
9 Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live [be made perfect]?

The word phaneros (meaning “shining, i.e., apparent”) is first used in Matthew 6:4, 6, & 18, all speaking of the “open” reward of the LORD to those who seek him in “secret,” from the word kruptos, meaning “concealed, i.e. private:–hid(-den), inward(-ly), secret.” The three places where this “secret” searching comes, are first in alms (charitable giving), likened to not letting “the right hand know what the left hand does [not seeking power over those you’ve given to],” next in the closet, from the word tameion, meaning in the store house alone (where only the Father sees, and seeing your pure heart reveals), and lastly to those who, when they fast, don’t appear (phaino) to make a show of doing so.

This understanding take us to the next two times phaneros appears, saying the same thing in Matthew 12:16 and Mark 3:12, as the LORD speaks of not making him “known.” Its next two uses come in Mark 4:22 & 6:14, saying the same things, translated “abroad.”

Mark 4
22 For there is nothing hid [kruptos], which shall not be manifested [phaneroo]; neither was any thing kept secret [apokruphos – treasures kept covered], but that it should come abroad [phaneros – shine upon all].
23 If any man has ears to hear, let him hear.
24 And he said unto them, Take heed what you hear: with what measure you mete [give what is heard], it shall be measured [given] to you: and unto you that hear shall more be given.
25 For he that has [received this gift], to him shall be given [greater treasure]: and he that has not, from him shall be taken even that [little understanding] which he has.
26 And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed [must give this gift he has been given] into the ground [and it was hidden in the earth – ge];
27 And should sleep [in ignorance], and rise night and day [from ignorance into understanding], and the seed should spring and grow up, he know not how [knowing not it is by the LORD working unknown, His Spirit moving in secret as He wills, with water and light].
28 For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear.
29 But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he put in the sickle, because the harvest is [now] come.
30 And he said, Whereunto shall we liken the kingdom of God? or with what comparison shall we compare it?
31 It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds that be in the earth:
32 But when it is sown, it grows up, and becometh greater than all herbs, and shoots out great branches; so that the fowls of the air may lodge under the shadow of it.
33 And with many such parables spoke he the word unto them, as they were able to hear it.
34 But without a parable spoke he not unto them: and when they were alone [in the secret places], he expounded [in this exposition] all things to his disciples [His students that receive Him].
35 And the same day, when the even was come, he says unto them, Let us pass over [death] unto the other side [into life].

The phaneros tells of the “sign of the son of man coming,” which is described in the gospels as “lightning” that “shines” upon all (openly, known, abroad) after He come in secret, working unknown, as a thief in the night of man’s ignorance.

Matthew 24
3 And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of your coming, and of the end of the world?
4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.
5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ [a Christian]; and shall deceive many [several of the greatest examples of this in our time are the Pope, Obama, and Mike Pence].

22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.

27 For as the lightning [astrape] comes out of the east, and shines [phaino] even unto the west [abroad upon all]; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
28 For wheresoever the carcass [of the dead body of Christ] is, there will the eagles [risen into heaven by the strength of the LORD’s understanding shined upon them] be gathered together.
29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened [realized to be without understanding], and the moon [civil government] shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven [God people fallen away from understanding], and the powers of the heavens [the understanding that is therein] shall be shaken [so the corruption of the wicked is shaken from it]:
30 And then [answering the question asked in verse 3] shall appear [phaino – shine] 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 [the voice of His archangel], 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 [now] 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 [The old corrupt] Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
36 But of that day and hour knows no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only [the Father in me is the only one who knows now is the time].
37 But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came [see Psalms 93:3
below], and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

1 Corinthians 3
13 Every man’s work shall be made manifest [phaneros – known openly]: for the day [the time of understanding] shall declare it, because it shall be revealed [apokalupto – in the apocalypse, removing the cover] by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is.
14 If any man’s work abide which he has built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.
15 If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.
16 Know you not that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?
17 If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple you are.
18 Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seems to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
20 And again, The LORD knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.

1 Corinthians 11
19 For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved [by God] may be made manifest [phaneros – shine] among you.

1 Corinthians 14
24 But if all prophesy [speaking this same word from the mouth of God], and there come in one that believes not [that God is with us in you], or one unlearned, he is convinced of all, he is judged of all:
25 And thus are the secrets [kruptos] of his heart made manifest [phaneros]; and so falling down on his face he will worship God, and report that God is in you of a truth.

Philippians 1
12 But I would you should understand, brethren, that the things which happened unto me have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of [prokope – scourging, goading, leading humanity into salvation by] the Gospel;
13 So that my bonds in Christ are manifest [phaneros – shined] in all the palace, and in all other places;
14 And many of the brethren in the LORD, waxing confident by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.

1 John 3
1 Behold, what manner of love the Father has bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knows us not, because it knew him not.
2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it does not yet appear [phaneroo – shine as] what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear [phaneroo – shine forth through us], we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
3 And every man that has this hope in him purifies himself [by which we can see Him], even as he is pure.
4 Whosoever commits sin transgresses also the law [anomia – is lawless]: for sin is the transgression of the law [anomia – is lawless].
5 And you know that he was manifested [phaneroo] to take away our sins; and in him is no sin.
6 Whosoever abides in him sin not: whosoever sins [is defiled by corruption] has not seen him, neither known him.
7 Little children, let no man deceive you: he that does righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
8 He [the lawless] that commits sin is of the devil; for the devil sins from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested [phaneroo], that he might destroy the [misleading] works of the devil.
9 Whosoever is born of God does not commit sin; for his seed remains in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.
10 In this the children of God are manifest [phaneros – shine forth], and the children of the devil [who’ve deceived the world]: whosoever does not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loves [agapao – gives] not [is without godly charity toward] his brother.

Psalms 93
1 The LORD reigns, he is clothed with majesty; the LORD is clothed with strength, wherewith he has girded [prepared] himself: the world also is established, that it cannot be moved.
2 Your throne is established of old: you are from everlasting.
3 The floods have lifted up [nasa’], O LORD, the floods have lifted up [nasa’] their voice [qowl]; the floods lift up [nasa’] their waves [of pride].
4 The LORD on high is mightier than the noise [qowl – voices] of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea [the wicked sitting in the seats of power, who in their arrogance, have exalted their words against the word of God and His anointed].
5 Your testimonies are very sure: holiness becomes [the three-times used word also rendered “beautiful” in Isaiah 52:7, describing the feet of the one lifted up on the mountain, publishing peace and bringing these good tidings to] your house, O LORD, forever.

Psalms 27
1 The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
2 When the wicked, even my enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.
3 Though a host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident.
4 One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple.
5 For in the time of trouble he shall hide [tsaphan] me in his pavilion [in the ignorance of men]: in the secret [cether – under the cover] of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock [who is God with me].
6 And now shall my head be lifted up [exalted] above my enemies round about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy [by which He is manifested in my flesh]; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the LORD.
7 Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer me.
8 When you said, Seek you my face [paniym – presence]; my heart said unto you, Your face [paniym – Your presence], LORD, will I seek.
9 Hide not your face [paniym – Your presence] far from me; put not your servant away in anger: you have been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.
10 When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.
11 Teach me your way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path, because of my enemies.
12 Deliver me not over unto the will of my enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.
13 I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
14 Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.

August 15, 2023

Thus says the LORD; If you can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season

13 – 14 August 2023

Thus says the LORD; If you can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season;

In the above, Jeremiah 33:20, the LORD speaks of what is written in Genesis 1, the time of light and darkness covering His people. In the latter, He tells of the great lights in heaven: the sun and moon representing church and state governments (places where understanding, light, should be and from there propagated). He is speaking of the times when it (light) is and isn’t there, as seasons that have inseparably continued throughout history. When (light is) therein, they’ve (obtaining the consent of the governed) produced great empires, which in prosperity (forgetting and abandoning the light) vile men lusting for wealth (perverse gratification) rose to power, beginning demagogues and ending tyrants (as in the present darkness).

In this circuit of the time, beginning and ending ages, there is always another season to follow, as the LORD promised. This generation finds ourselves in the darkest of the time, amid another night, covering the world in its shadow of death. The promise (the unbreakable covenant) the LORD made with His people, those who trust (have faith) in Him, is He will rise as light in the darkness, and from the event shall come a new day (“world without end, Amen”).

Speaking of this moment, the ‘achariyth, these last days of darkness, the rescue that comes in this time of Jacob’s trouble, is foretold (from the mouth of the LORD) in the passage surrounding the title.

Jeremiah 33
14 Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will perform that good thing which I have promised unto the house of Israel and to the house of Judah.
15 In those days, and at that time, will I cause the Branch of righteousness to grow up unto David; and he shall execute judgment and righteousness in the land [‘erets].
16 In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely: and this is the name wherewith she shall be called, The LORD our righteousness.
17 For thus says the LORD; David shall never want a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel;
18 Neither shall the priests the Levites want a man before me to offer burnt offerings, and to kindle meat offerings, and to do sacrifice continually.
19 And the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah, saying,
20 Thus says the LORD; If you can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season;
21 Then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers.
22 As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites that minister unto me.
23 Moreover the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying,
24 Consider you not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which the LORD has chosen, he has even cast them off? thus they have despised my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.
25 Thus says the LORD; If my covenant be not with day and night, and if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth [‘erets];
26 Then will I cast away the seed of Jacob and David my servant, so that I will not take any of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity [by My good spell: this gospel that will captivate those of sound mind] to return, and have mercy on them.

The chapter, Jeremiah 33, begins with the LORD, as the Creator, telling us to call upon Him (having faith) and He will answer, showing “you great and mighty things, which you know not.”

Jeremiah 33
1 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah the second time, while he was yet shut up in the court of the prison [as I Am also a prisoner for the LORD’s sake, concerning His people], saying,
2 Thus says the LORD the maker thereof [the earth and all therein], the LORD that formed it, to establish it; the LORD is his name;
3 Call unto me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you know not.
4 For thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are thrown down by the mounts [by the siege engines of the enemy], and by the sword;
5 They [the leaders of God’s people] come to fight with the Chaldeans [those using their words as weapons of war against us], but it is to fill them with the dead bodies of men [those who are among God’s people exalting there words and ways above His, to keep their power over them], whom I have slain in my anger and in my fury, and for all whose [blinding] wickedness I have hid my face from this city.
6 Behold, I will bring it health and cure [in the form of a son of man {I Am this man the chose and sent; I Am the king of His choosing – I know it’s hard to believe He would, “27 But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God has chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; 28 And base things of the world, and things which are despised, has God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to naught things that are: 29 That no flesh should glory in his presence.” 1 Corinthians 1], and I will cure them, and will [as they have asked] reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth.
7 And I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return, and will build them, as at the first.
8 And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, whereby they have sinned, and whereby they have transgressed against me.
9 And it shall be to me a name [My identity revealed] of joy, a praise and an honor before all the nations of the earth [‘erets], which shall hear all the good that I do unto them: and they shall fear and tremble for all the goodness and for all the prosperity that I procure unto it.
10 Thus says the LORD; Again there shall be heard in this place, which you say shall be desolate without man and without beast, even in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are desolate, without man, and without inhabitant, and without beast,
11 The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that shall say, Praise the LORD of hosts [a man of war I Am]: for the LORD is good; for his mercy endures forever: and of them that shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the LORD. For I will cause to return the captivity of the land [‘erets – the earth], as at the first [when I created it and it was good], says the LORD.
12 Thus says the LORD of hosts; Again in this place, which is desolate without man and without beast, and in all the cities thereof, shall be an habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down.
13 In the cities of the mountains, in the cities of the vale, and in the cities of the south, and in the land of Benjamin [this nation that is My right hand], and in the places about [Heavenly New] Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah [the new crop of Godly leaders], shall the flocks pass [‘abar – shall Passover from death into life] again under the hands of him that tells them, says the LORD.

As we’ve often discussed, the word rendered “tells” is the twenty-eight times used Hebrew word manah, meaning “to weigh out; by implication, to allot or constitute officially; also to enumerate or enroll:–appoint, count, number, prepare, set, tell.” It (manah) here speaks of my authority, vested in me by The Almighty, to officially constitute this new heaven, earth, and His new nation: His kingdom on earth. The only people who will have a problem with His doing so are those who have always resisted Him (they choose darkness because their deeds are evil).

(And for those asking what I want or have asked for, the answer is nothing. I Am what and where I Am supposed to be, already seated with all I need. Thank You, LORD. Amen!)

The quote above, “world without end,” appears twice in the written word of God, first in Isaiah 45:17 and then in Ephesians 3:21.

Isaiah 45
1 Thus says the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus [an appellative speaking the king who is the LORD in the furnace with us], whose right hand I have held, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates [out of hell into his kingdom]; and the gates shall not be shut;
2 I will go before you, and make the crooked places straight [the polluted pure]: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:
3 And I will give you the treasures of darkness [hidden in men’s ignorance], and hidden riches of secret place [these treasures from the LORD’s treasure houses in the clouds], that you mayest know that I, the LORD, which call you by your name [your real identity], am the God of Israel [which I named and called you by].
4 For Jacob my servant’s sake, and Israel my elect, I have even called you by your name: I have surnamed you, though you have not known me.
5 I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded you, though you have not known me [as it has been until these last days]:
6 That they may know from the rising of the sun [the light of this new day], and from the west [its shining into the darkness that was covering the earth], that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else.
7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil [the misleaders against whom My righteousness is contrasted]: I the LORD do all these things.
8 Drop down, you heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open [her mouth], and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I the LORD have created it.
9 Woe unto him that strives with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds [worthless vessels created of the earth]. Shall the clay say to him that fashioned it, What make you? or your work, He has no hands?
10 Woe unto him that says unto his father, What begot you? or to the woman, What have you brought forth?
11 Thus says the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands command you me.
12 I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out [this exposition, the firmament of] the heavens, and all their host have I commanded.
13 I have raised him [I Am] up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let go my captives, not for price nor reward, says the LORD of hosts [I Am who is a man of war].
14 Thus says the LORD, The labor of Egypt [mitsrayim – two {double} straits, oppression, which the LORD said {in Matthew 7:13 &14} must be avoided as we navigate the way into His kingdom], and merchandise of Ethiopia [men covered in darkness] and of the Sabeans [drunken with power and thereby become without right reasoning], men of stature, shall come over unto you, and they shall be yours: they shall come after you; in chains [restrained by My law] they shall come over, and they shall fall down unto you, they shall make supplication unto you, saying, Surely God is in you; and there is none else, there is no [other] God.
15 Truly you are a God that hides yourself [as You walk among the ignorant], O God of Israel, the Savior.
16 They shall be ashamed, and also confounded [kalam], all of them: they shall go to confusion [klimmah] together that are makers of idols.
17 But Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting salvation: you shall not be ashamed nor confounded [kalam] world without end.
18 For thus says the LORD that created the heavens [the place where full understand resides]; God himself that formed the [old that became without form, and void – now made new] earth [wherein dwells righteousness] and made it; he has established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else.
19 I have not spoken in secret [but right here in the open sight of those only blinded by their own corrupted minds], in a dark place [to those so ignorant and proud that they will never see] of the earth: I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek you me in vain: I the LORD speak righteousness, I declare things that are right [by which the good seed comes to life].
20 Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together [into the LORD’s ONE BODY], you that are escaped of the nations [all those who haven’t known the LORD]: they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image [the idols they’ve created, even calling them by My name], and pray unto a god that cannot save.
21 Tell you, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together: who has declared this from ancient time [qedem – see Isaiah 51:9]? who has told it from that time [the word here is miyn {with affinity to min} which speak of the beginning of the species: king]? have not I the LORD? and there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Savior; there is none beside me.
22 Look unto me [as the fiery serpent was lifted by Moses in the wilderness], and be you saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.
23 I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.
24 Surely, shall one say, in the LORD have I righteousness and strength: even to him shall men come; and all that are incensed [zealous for their ignorance] against him shall be ashamed [when this end comes and they find themselves to have wrestled with the word of God into their own perishing].
25 In the LORD shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory.

Romans 9
6 Not as though the word of God has taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:
7 Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall your seed be called.
8 That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.
9 For this is the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sarah shall have a son.
10 And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac;
11 (For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;)
12 It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.
13 As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
14 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.
15 For he says to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
16 So then it is not of him that wills, nor of him that runs, but of God that shows mercy.
17 For the scripture says unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised you up, that I might show my power in you, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.
18 Therefore has he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardens.
19 You will say then unto me, Why does he yet find fault? For who has resisted his will?
20 Nay but, O man, who are you that reply against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why have you made me thus? [Quoted in Isaiah 45:9 above]
21 Has not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honor, and another unto dishonor?
22 What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
23 And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,
24 Even us, whom he has called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
25 As he says also in Hosea, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved. [This is preceded in Hosea 2:23, saying “And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy”]
26 And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, You are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God. [The passage in Hosea 1 continues, saying, “11 Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be gathered together, and appoint themselves one head, and they shall come up {‘alah – rise} out of the land {‘erets – the earth}: for great shall be the day of Jezreel {God sows – when He plants in the earth His new nation}.”]
27 Isaiah [10:22 & 23] also cries concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:
28 For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the LORD make upon the earth. [followed by, “24 Therefore thus says the LORD God of hosts, O my people that dwell in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian {the communists in power}: he shall smite you with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against you, after the manner of Egypt {the oppression of tyrants}. 25 For yet a very little while, and the indignation {za’am} shall cease, and my anger in their destruction.]
29 And as Isaiah [1:9] said before, Except the LORD of Sabaoth [hosts – a man of war] had left us a seed, we had been [in flame] as Sodom, and been made [a ruin] like unto Gomorrah. [verse 10 saying, “Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah.”]
30 What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith.
31 But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, has not attained to the law of righteousness.
32 Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumbling-stone;
33 As it is written [Isaiah 28:16], Behold, I lay in Sion a stumbling-stone and rock of offence: and whosoever believes on him shall not be ashamed.

Isaiah 28
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD [this voice as His voice], 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 [‘abar – when this word comes, line and precept, as the Passover from death into life], 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 [‘abar – as the Passover from death to life], by day [in the time of light] and by night [and in the time of darkness]: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.

As we know, the “report” is from the Hebrew word shmuw’ah, meaning to hear Jehovah’s voice from the one through whom He is speaking, which is the arm of the LORD revealed. Joel tells of the day of the LORD (when His light comes) as a time of darkness, not light (a time of ignorance when there isn’t any understanding – as now).

Joel 2
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 [the written word], and the latter rain [this exposition] 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 [the understanding] 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 [speaking this word as received], your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions [see this revelation]:
29 And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit.
30 And I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.
31 The sun [church] shall be turned into darkness [ignorance], and the moon into blood [civil government draining the life from those they govern], before the great and terrible day [time of light] 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 [out of darkness].

The following, ending with Joshua 24:27, is from the post of 8 July 2021:

Put you in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great.

Friends, in the above, Joel 3:13, the LORD is declaring the final judgment, when all the world sees and knows Him, when all are faced with the decision that’ll determine their eternal dwelling place. It’s a time of which almost all have either thought is fiction, or of in fictitious terms. It’s when humanity awakens out of its long sleep in confusion, from its now delusion into reality, when what’s been turned upside down is righted.

Joel 3
9 Proclaim you this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up:
10 Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning-hooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.
11 Assemble yourselves, and come, all you heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause your mighty ones to come down, O LORD.
12 Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat [of Jehovah’s judgment]: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about.
13 Put you in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great.
14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.
15 The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining [God’s people and their governments of church and state, without light, without understanding, until the LORD roars out of Zion against the world’s misleaders, and establishing His just rule].
16 The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the LORD will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.
17 So shall you know that I am the LORD your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more.
18 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain shall come forth out of the house of the LORD, and shall water the valley of Shittim.
19 Egypt [the oppressor] shall be a desolation, and Edom [the enemies mixed among God’s people] shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah [the elect remnant], because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
20 But Judah [the elect remnant] shall dwell forever, and Jerusalem [God’s people at large – to and through who will flow the word of God, His teaching the ways of peace and sustainable civilization] from generation to generation.
21 For I will cleanse their blood [the ways of man that have drained the life from humanity] that I have not cleansed: for the LORD dwells in Zion.

The name Shittim refers us to the decision, when the LORD has enlightened us and to this place (of decision) brought us. It’s from the once used word shotet, meaning “(properly, to pierce; but only as a denominative from 7752 [showt]) to flog; a goad:–scourge.” The word showt is the word used twice in Isaiah 28, verses 15 & 18, rendered “scourge,” speaking of the LORD’s correction that comes as He teaches doctrine, precept upon precept, line upon line.

The only appearance of shotet is in Joshua 23:13, rendered “scourges,” but there telling of it coming from the misleaders mixed among us. He says, if after we have prospered (waxed fat) by living under His ways and ideas, we allow the enemies ways and ideas back in, “they shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges [shotet] in your sides, and thorns [misleaders] in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land which the LORD your God has given you.”

This comes as Joshua (Jesus – Jehovah’s Salvation personified) is about to die and gathers all the people together, first reminding them of their tendency to degenerate (backslide away from the LORD) and then presenting them with a decision.

The word “decision,” twice used above in Joel 3:14, is the Hebrew word charuwts, meaning “incised or (active) incisive; hence (as noun masculine or feminine) a trench (as dug), gold (as mined), a threshing-sledge (having sharp teeth); (figuratively) determination; also eager.” It’s referring to the harvest mentioned in the title verse [[Joel 3:13]], and the separating effect of the threshing instrument, which brings the choice between light and darkness.

It (charuwts) refers us to Isaiah 41, as the LORD commands the dry places (without His word) to be silent and let His people renew their strength (understanding). He calls His people who have received understanding to come near (into His presence, as in 1 Thessalonians 2:12, 13, 19, & 20), to speak (HIS WORD), and come together with Him in judgment. This (JUDGMENT) is what He, later in verse 15, says is them as His new “sharp” threshing instrument, with which He beats the mountains and hills (the seats of power) small as chaff.

Joshua 24
14 Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve you the LORD.
15 And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites [those who exalt their words and ways above God’s], in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
16 And the people answered and said, God forbid that we should forsake the LORD, to serve other gods;
17 For the LORD our God, he it is that brought us up and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and which did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way wherein we went, and among all the people through whom we passed:
18 And the LORD drove out from before us all the people, even the Amorites which dwelt in the land: therefore will we also serve the LORD; for he is our God.
19 And Joshua said unto the people, You cannot serve the LORD: for he is a holy God; he is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins.
20 If you forsake the LORD, and serve strange gods, then he will turn and do you hurt, and consume you, after that he has done you good.
21 And the people said unto Joshua, Nay; but we will serve the LORD.
22 And Joshua said unto the people, You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen you the LORD, to serve him. And they said, We are witnesses.
23 Now therefore put away, said he, the strange gods which are among you, and incline your heart unto the LORD God of Israel.
24 And the people said unto Joshua, The LORD our God will we serve, and his voice will we obey.
25 So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.
26 And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God, and took a great stone, and set it up there under an oak, that was by the sanctuary of the LORD.
27 And Joshua said unto all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness unto us; for it has heard all the words of the LORD which he spoke unto us: it shall be therefore a witness unto you, lest you deny your God.

The eleven times used word showt, above seen to speak of this foretold “scourge,” from where comes the word shotet, first appears, four times, rendered “whips.” These come in Rehoboam’s response when Israel (the ten northern tribes), after he became king, asked him to lighten the burden His father Solomon put upon them. His responses, and its recommendation by the young men that grew up with him (all remaining with childish minds), come in 1 Kings 12:11 & 14, and 2 Chronicles 10:11 & 14, all saying “My father made your yoke heavy, and I will add to your yoke: my father also chastised you with whips [showt], but I will chastise you with scorpions.”

As we well know, this event is the cause of the breach in the house of Jacob, which was before united under David and remained under Solomon.

The deep meaning inferred in this passage, is the whip of Solomon, which Rehoboam, his generation, and Israel, saw as a burden, are his (Solomon’s) words, teaching God wisdom from His mouth, by which the people remained united (at peace and secure, among themselves and with their enemies). These speak of the tendency toward degeneration due to prosperity, seeing the LORD’s word as a burden, instead of a light yoke (as it is) not understood by those who haven’t experienced life absent it or wholeheartedly received it. What results is the condition Joshua warns of above, the lack of peace and security that come as witnesses against those who abandoned and forgot this understanding, and in their place were exalted words of men, which are as strikes of scorpions (rotting the mind from the inside).

The next time the word showt appears comes in Job 5:21 speaking of the degeneration as it now is, in its end when none understand and therefore none know the LORD or recognize His work, which is now evident in them as witnesses against themselves. Thus, Paul elsewhere says all are dead and must all be changed.

Job 5
1 Call now, if there be any that will answer you; and to which of the saints will you turn? [None open their mouth, because they are without understanding and therefore dead.]
2 For wrath [this word of God rejected] kills the foolish man, and envy slays the silly one [ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth].
3 I have seen [in the beginning of the degeneration] the foolish taking root: but suddenly [pith’own – in this time of their sudden destruction] I cursed his habitation [the hell their apostacy created].
4 His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate [unable to leave hell or enter heaven], neither is there any to deliver them.
5 Whose harvest [of what took root and grew into full fruit] the hungry [without this word of God] eat up, and take it even out of the thorns [taught to them by misleaders who grew when this understanding was neglected and abandoned], and the robber swallows up their substance [their peace and prosperity into the belly of hell].
6 Although affliction come not forth of the dust [‘aphar – the ruin of the earth {people and nations} comes from the ways of affliction], neither does trouble spring out of the ground [but rather comes from the minds of men without understanding];
7 Yet man is born unto trouble [as a snare], as the sparks fly upward [into the darkness where their light and life is extinguished].
8 I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:
9 Which does great things and unsearchable; marvelous things without number:
10 Who gives rain upon the earth [His word from heaven to those in need of it], and sends waters upon the fields [to bring forth the good fruit man needs to survive]:
11 To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.
12 He disappoints the devices [machashabah – the contrivances as weapons of war] of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise [tuwshiyah – the falsely so-called wisdom of the foolish children of the world].
13 He takes the wise in their own craftiness [quoted in 1 Corinthians 3:19]: and the counsel of the froward [degenerates that intentionally twist and pervert truth] is carried headlong [into their destruction by their own creations].
14 They meet with darkness [in blinding ignorance] in the day time [not realizing this light has come], and [fecklessly] grope in the noonday [when all see them] as in the night [as they pretend no one does].
15 But he saves the poor [those without power] from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.
16 So the poor has hope, and iniquity stops her [poisonous] mouth.
17 Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects: therefore despise not you the chastening of the Almighty: [This is reiterated in Psalms 94:12, Proverbs 3:11 & 12, stated in Hebrews 12:5 as something we have forgotten, and contributes to James 1:12.]
18 For he makes sore, and binds up: he wounds, and his hands make whole.
19 He shall deliver you in six troubles: yea, in seven [when perfection comes] there shall no evil touch you.
20 In famine he shall redeem you from death: and in war from the power of the sword.
21 You shall be hid from [and by] the scourge [showt] of the tongue: neither shall you be afraid of destruction when it comes.
22 At destruction and famine you shall laugh: neither shall you be afraid of the beasts [those without the LORD’s Spirit] of the earth.
23 For you shall be in league with the stones of the field [at which others stumble]: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with you.
24 And you shall know that your tabernacle shall be in peace; and you shall visit your habitation, and shall not sin.
25 You shall know also that your seed shall be great, and your offspring as the grass of the earth.
26 You shall come to your grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn comes in in his season.
27 Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know you it for your good.

1 Corinthians 3
9 For we are laborers together with God: you are God’s husbandry, you are God’s building.
10 According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise master-builder, I have laid the foundation, and another builds thereon. But let every man take heed how he builds thereupon.
11 For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ [the LORD alive in our flesh].
12 Now if any man builds upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;
13 Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day [this light now come] shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is.
14 If any man’s work abide which he has built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.
15 If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.
16 Know you not that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?
17 If any man defile [teaching degeneration to] the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple you are.
18 Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seems to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written [in Job 5:13 above], He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
20 And again, The LORD knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.

Proverbs 3
11 My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction [because the end of His correction is perfection as His children]:
12 For whom the LORD loves he corrects; even as a father the son in whom he delights.
13 Happy is the man that [by diligent search] finds wisdom, and the man that gets understanding.
14 For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.
15 She is more precious than rubies: and all the things you can desire are not to be compared unto her.
16 Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honor.
17 Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.
18 She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retains [doesn’t degenerate away from] her.
19 The LORD by wisdom has founded the earth; by understanding has he established the heavens.
20 By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew.
21 My son, let not them depart from your eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion:
22 So shall they be life unto your soul, and grace to your neck.
23 Then shall you walk in your way safely, and your foot shall not stumble.
24 When you lie down, you shall not be afraid: yea, you shall lie down, and your sleep shall be sweet.
25 Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it comes.
26 For the LORD shall be your confidence, and shall keep your foot from being taken.
27 Withhold not good [this word men need] from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.
28 Say not unto your neighbor, Go, and come again, and tomorrow I will give; when you [as now] have it by you.
29 Devise not evil against your neighbor, seeing he dwelleth securely by you.
30 Strive not with a man without cause, if he has done you no harm.
31 Envy you not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.
32 For the froward [who intentionally twist and pervert truth] is abomination to the LORD: but his secret is with the righteous.
33 The curse of the LORD is in the house of the wicked: but he blesses the habitation of the just.

1 Corinthians 16
22 If any man love not the LORD Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha.

Hebrews 12
1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which does so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
3 For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest you be wearied and faint in your minds.
4 You have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.
5 And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks unto you as unto children, My son, despise not you the chastening of the LORD, nor faint when you are rebuked of him:
6 For whom the LORD loves he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives.
7 If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chastens not?
8 But if you be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are you bastards, and not sons.

Ecclesiastes 12
9 And moreover, because the preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge; yea, he gave good heed, and sought out, and set in order many proverbs.
10 The preacher sought to find out acceptable words: and that which was written was upright, even words of truth.
11 The words of the wise are as goads [not showt, but dorbown, from dor, meanin a revolution of time, an age or generation; and bow, meaning to come] and as nails fastened [to hold the building together] by the masters [master builder] of assemblies [who bring God’s people together into His ONE BODY again, as in the days of old], which are given from one shepherd [who as Moses, Joshua, David, Solomon, and finally in Christ through who the LORD makes His presence openly known].
12 And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
13 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
14 For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.

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

James 1
12 Blessed is the man that endures temptation [to doubt the LORD’s presence]: for when he is tried [and is proven faithful, by works in agreement with his words], he shall receive the crown of life, which the LORD has promised to them that love [agapao – give this gift as received from] him.
13 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempts he any man:
14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
15 Then when lust has conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
16 Do not err, my beloved brethren.
17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
18 Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
19 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak [his own words], slow to wrath:
20 For the wrath of man works not the righteousness of God.

1 Thessalonians 2
12 That you would walk worthy of God, who has called you unto his kingdom and glory.
13 For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when you received the word of God which you heard of us, you received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.
14 For you, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus: for you also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews:
15 Who both killed the LORD Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:
16 Forbidding us to speak [this word of God] to the Gentiles [those who don’t truly know Him] that they might be saved [by receiving His correction and becoming His children], to fill up their [those forbidding us] sins always [remaining corrupt]: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.
17 But we, brethren, being taken from you for a short time in presence, not in heart, endeavored the more abundantly to see your face with great desire.
18 Wherefore we would have come unto you, even I Paul [Timothy], once and again; but Satan [working through and in these wicked men] hindered us.
19 For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even you in the presence of our LORD Jesus Christ at his coming?
20 For you are our glory and joy.

Ephesians 3
1 For this cause I Paul [Timothy], the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles,
2 If you have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward:
3 How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words,
4 Whereby, when you read, you may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ)
5 Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit [His working unknown to reveal Himself in us through us];
6 That the Gentiles [those who don’t truly know Him, even the sleeping dead that think they do] should be fellow heirs, and of the same [ONE] body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel:
7 Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power.
8 Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;
9 And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world has been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ:
10 To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God,
11 According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our LORD:
12 In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him.
13 Wherefore I desire that you faint not at my tribulations for you, which is your glory.
14 For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our LORD Jesus Christ,
15 Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named,
16 That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;
17 That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love,
18 May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;
19 And to know the love of Christ, which passes knowledge, that you might be filled with all the fulness of God.
20 Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,
21 Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.

Psalms 94
1 O LORD God, to whom vengeance belongs; O God, to whom vengeance belongs, show yourself.
2 Lift up yourself, you judge of the earth: render a reward to the proud.
3 LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph?
4 How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?
5 They break in pieces your people, O LORD, and afflict your heritage.
6 They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.
7 Yet they say, The LORD shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob regard it.
8 Understand, you brutish among the people: and you fools, when will you be wise?
9 He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?
10 He that chastises the heathen, shall not he correct? he that teaches man knowledge, shall not he know?
11 The LORD knows the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.
12 Blessed is the man whom you chasten, O LORD, and teaches him out of your law;
13 That you mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked.
14 For the LORD will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.
15 But judgment shall return unto righteousness: and all the upright in heart shall follow it.
16 Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? or who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?
17 Unless the LORD had been my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence.
18 When I said, My foot slips; your mercy, O LORD, held me up.
19 In the multitude of my thoughts within me your comforts [the truth into which you have led me] delight my soul.
20 Shall the throne of iniquity [the wicked now in power] have fellowship with you [LORD], which frame mischief by a law [you pervert]?
21 They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.
22 But the LORD is my defence; and my God is the rock of my refuge.
23 And he shall bring upon them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own wickedness; yea, the LORD our God shall cut them off.

August 12, 2023

10 – 12 August 2023

Therefore, the LORD himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

10 – 12 August 2023

Therefore, the LORD himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

Isaiah 7:15
Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.

The name Immanuel, in the title verse, Isaiah 7:14, is said to only appear elsewhere in Isaiah 8:8. In the Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary, it’s said to be from ‘Immanuw’el, purportedly a compounding of the words (#5973) ‘im, meaning “with (i.e., in conjunction with);” and (#410) ‘el, meaning “strength; as adjective, mighty; especially the Almighty (but used also of any deity):–God.”

When we examine the original text we find a gross misrepresentation in the translation. We find the word ‘Immanuw’el isn’t there, neither is it found anywhere in the original text. What we do find are two words, the first ‘immanuw, in both appearances, said to be the full name (#6005) ‘Immanuw’el; the second word is ‘el, God.

The word ‘immanuw, when appearing here and in other places other than here, isn’t assigned a number (and, therefore, neither is it given a definition) by Strong. In these different places, when used speaking of God or the LORD God, it is rendered “with us.”

We know from Matthew 1:23, where Isaiah is quoted, the transition is correct, “being interpreted ‘God with us.'” When this interpretation appears (as “God is with us”) in Isaiah 8:10 it’s from the exact words (‘immanuw ‘el) earlier rendered Immanuel.

The untranslated part, manuw, is from two words, ma, meaning “what,” and nuw, from nuwn meaning, “to resprout, i.e., propagate by shoots; figuratively, to be perpetual:– be continued.” The Hebrew word manuwn only appears one time, in Proverbs 29:21, when describing how (what?) the “resprouting,” the manifestation in the flesh, occurs.

Before looking at this concept (in Proverbs 29), in the context of Isaiah 7:15, we must remember the word nuwn is the name Nun, which describes Joshua (Jesus) as the son in perpetuity (of Nun). Proverbs 29 begins with a contrast against verse 21, verses 1 & 2 saying, “He, that being often reproved hardens his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy. When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked bear rule, the people mourn.”

Proverbs, the word, literally describes things to be considered and understood “before action.” The word “authority,” above in Proverbs 29:2, speaking of the consent of the governed, the consensus of the majority, is “rabah,” meaning “to increase (in whatever respect).”

The LORD uses it here to refer us to Genesis 1:28, where He gave us dominion over the earth and all that is therein, in the day He created us.

Genesis 1
26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.
27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply [rabah], and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.
29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creeps upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

When the LORD speaks of making us in His “likeness,” it’s the twenty-five times used word dmuwth, meaning “resemblance; concretely, model, shape; adverbially, like:–fashion, like (-ness, as), manner, similitude.” This is the objective the LORD Himself long-suffer to complete, as He has throughout history, perpetually (manuwn) manifesting His presence, in His chosen flesh He first prepares (with “butter and honey”), to bring many children to this same glory.

The last appearance of dmuwth is in Daniel 10:16, when Daniel sees the sons God has made to Himself, to open the mouths of His people in this time of (Daniel rising) the judgment of God.

Daniel 10
14 Now I am come to make you understand what shall befall your people in the latter days [‘achariyth]: for yet the vision is for many days.
15 And when he had spoken such words unto me, I set my face toward the ground, and I became dumb.
16 And, behold, one like the similitude [dmuwth – made in the likeness of God] of the sons of men touched my lips: then I opened my mouth, and spoke, and said unto him that stood before me, O my LORD, by the vision my sorrows are turned upon me, and I have retained no strength.
17 For how can the servant of this my LORD talk with this my LORD? for as for me, straightway there remained no strength [understanding of my own] in me, neither is there breath [life] left in me.
18 Then there came again and touched me one like the appearance of a man, and he strengthened me,
19 And said, O man greatly beloved, fear not: peace be unto you, be strong, yea, be strong [receive this understand]. And when he had spoken [this word from the mouth of God, which is light and life] unto me, I was strengthened, and said, Let my LORD speak; for you have strengthened me.
20 Then said he, Know you wherefore I come unto you? and now will I return to fight with the prince of Persia [parac – the same as the word used in the hand writing on the wall, to tell of “dividing” and ending of the kingdom of Babylon: confusion]: and when I am gone forth, lo, the prince of Grecia [yayin – from who shall effervesce wickedness and flood the world with ignorance now turned insanity] shall come.
21 But I will show you that which is noted in the scripture of truth: and there is none that holds with me in these things, but Michael [who is like God, made in His image and likeness] your prince.

Proverbs 29:21 says, “He that delicately brings up his servant from a child shall have him become his son [manuwn] at the length [‘achariyth – in these last days].”

1 Corinthians 13
8 Charity [freely giving this word of God as received from Him] never fails: but whether there be prophecies [men’s interpretations], they shall fail; whether there be tongues [ignorantly speaking the written word of God], they shall cease; whether there be knowledge [men’s understanding], it shall vanish away.
9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
10 But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
12 For now we see through a glass, darkly [ignorantly]; but then face to face [realizing the LORD’s presence in His children speaking His children into life]: now I know in part; but then shall I know [I Am His child] even as also I am known [by Him to be His child].
13 And now abides faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity [freely giving this understanding].

Daniel 12
1 And at that time shall Michael [who is made in God’s likeness] stand up [‘amad – resurrected in these last days], the great prince which stand for the children of your people: and there shall be a time of trouble [tsarah – the tribulation], such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time your people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the [now opened] book.
2 And many of them that sleep [this is Abram deep sleep – Genesis 15:12] in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
3 And they that be wise shall shine [give understanding] as the brightness of the firmament [the exposition that divides the words of men from the words of God]; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars forever and ever.
4 But you, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end [qets]: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.

8 And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my LORD [‘adown], what shall be the end [‘achariyth – the last days] of these things?

As often discusses, this chapter gives the formula (time and times – both from mow’ed, meaning the appointed time) and numbers of days that add up to the time of Abram’s deep sleep, beginning then and ending now: when the LORD Himself reveals them as He opens the book and we find ourselves written therein.

Daniel 12
9 And he said, Go your way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.
10 Many shall be purified [of the corruption that hold them in death’s sleep], and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.
11 And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination [men’s word’s and ways, as idols put in God’s place] that makes desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days [the time, and one of the times].
12 Blessed is he that waits, and comes to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days [the other of the times – adding the time 1290 + (to the times 1290 + 1335) = the number of years since Abram’s {Abraham’s} deep sleep began].
13 But go you your way till the end [qets – the full end, now when we are awakened] be: for you shall rest, and stand [‘amad – from the sleep in death resurrected] in your lot at the end [qets – the full end] of the days [here spoken of].

Hebrews 2
1 Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.
2 For if the word spoken by angels [as in Daniel 12] was steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward;
3 How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the LORD [here alive in Me first], and was confirmed [alive] unto us by them that heard him;
4 God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost [these treasures given by Him as He spoke and worked unknown, to lead into all truth], according to his own will?
5 For unto the angels [His messengers] has he not put in subjection the world to come, whereof we speak.
6 But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that you are mindful of him? or the son of man that you visit him [as the Chief Overseer of the earth]?
7 You made him a little lower than the angels [as we know, these words in the original Hebrew text say he is, we are, sent, made, lacking the understanding of God, which is sleep and death]; you [LORD] crowned him [us] with [Your] glory and honor [giving us Your understanding which is Your presence manifested in us], and did set him over the works of your hands [dominion over all creation]:
8 You have put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing that is not put under him. But now we see not yet [not understanding that ] all things [are already] put under him.
9 But we see Jesus [Jehovah’s Salvation in the flesh], who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, [from where He has now risen and is] crowned with glory and honor; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.
10 For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain [commander] of their salvation perfect through sufferings.
11 For both he that sanctifies [make us holy] and they who are sanctified [made holy] are all of one [BODY]: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren [children of God],
12 Saying, I will declare your name [identity] unto my brethren, in the midst of the church will I sing praise unto you.
13 And again, I will put my trust in him. And again, Behold I and the children which God has given me [are for signs and wonders to His people].
14 Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil [through those he possesses, who misled into ignorance, sleep, and death];
15 And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
16 For truly he took not on him the nature of angels [as simply a messenger]; but he took on him the seed of Abraham [the seed of promise, from where the king comes].
17 Wherefore in all things it behooved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.
18 For in that he himself has suffered being tempted [to doubt God is with us, alive in those who rise as His children by correction away from corrupt thinking], he is able to succor [rescue] them that are tempted.

The first time the word ‘immanuw appears speaking of God manifesting Himself into human flesh, as the Overseer of God’s plan to make man in His likeness, is in Genesis 31:50. In this passage, we’re told there’s no man to witness to what God’s sleeping people would soon, in their deep sleep, forget.

The words in verse 50 saying this are translated as “no man is with us; see, God is witness,” from the Hebrew words, ‘aiyn ‘ish ‘immanu ra’ah ‘elohiym ‘ed beyn, meaning “there is no man with us perpetually seeing as God and judging between us by rightly dividing (light from darkness).” The passage is the source of the LORD’s words, in Luke 19:40, saying, “I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out.”

The word beyn, meaning “a distinction; but used only as a prep, between (repeated before each noun, often with other particles); also as a conjunction, either…or,” first appears nine times in Genesis 1. It first tells of the light (understanding) divided from the darkness (ignorance), next of the water below (the words of men) divided from the waters above (the words of God), in the firmament (this exposition), which God then named Heaven. The final four times come in verses 14 and 18.

Genesis 1
14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide [beyn] the day from [beyn] the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
16 And God made two great lights [sun and moon, church and state governments as God intended them to have His understanding]; the greater light to rule the day [those who understand self-givenance], and the lesser light to rule the night [the ignorant who reject His understanding]: he made the stars also [His people shining in the darkness].
17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light [understanding] upon the earth,
18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide [‘beyn] the light from [beyn] the darkness: and God saw that it was good.

Genesis 31
44 Now therefore come you, let us make a covenant, I and you; and let it be for a witness [‘ed] between [beyn] me and you.
45 And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.
46 And Jacob said unto his brethren, Gather stones; and they took stones, and made an heap [gal]: and they did eat there upon the heap [gal].
47 And Laban [said to mean white, as in Lebanon, where purity should be seen on high, and instead his judgment is corrupted into injustice in his governance] called it Jegarsahadutha [exhausting to record]: but Jacob called it Galeed [gal ‘ed].
48 And Laban said, This heap [gal] is a witness [‘ed] between [beyn] me and you this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed [gal ‘ed – the heap is water from these stones, now in this appointed time: mow’ed];
49 And Mizpah [the watchtower, where things far off are seen]; for he said, The LORD watch [tsaphah – meaning “to peer into the distance; by implication, to observe, await”] between [beyn] me and you, when we are absent [cathar – to hide (by covering)] one from another [rea’ – from our neighbors].
50 If you shall afflict my daughters, or if you shall take other wives beside my daughters, no man is with us [‘immanuw]; see [ra’ah – seeing as], God is witness [‘ed] betwixt [beyn] me and you.
51 And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap [gal], and behold this pillar, which I have cast [yarah – meaning water flows from it, as teaching from the mouth of God, as in the name Jerusalem; yarah shalam, teaching His ways of sustainable peace and security between neighbors] between [beyn] me and you:
52 This heap [gal] be witness [‘ed], and this pillar be witness, that I will not pass over this heap to you, and that you shall not pass over [‘abar – now when we Passover from death into life] this heap [gal – from where these waters flow] and this pillar unto me [Laban – those still sleeping], for harm.
53 The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor [meaning he is asleep – Abraham’s brother, from whom Laban in descended], the God of their father, judge betwixt [beyn] us. And Jacob swore by the fear of his father Isaac.
54 Then Jacob offered sacrifice upon the mount, and called his brethren to eat bread [and be awakened]: and they did eat bread, and tarried all night [luwn – they stayed permanently] in the mount [har – speaking of har-meggiddon, Armageddon, this appointed time, the rendezvous with the LORD who is here risen again {‘immanuw}, now to defeat death and hell].

1 Thessalonians 4
9 But as touching brotherly love you need not that I write unto you: for you yourselves are taught of God to love one another.
10 And indeed you do it toward all the brethren which are in all Macedonia [the houses of dead flesh, where men sleep]: but we beseech you, brethren, that you increase more and more;
11 And that you study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;
12 That you may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that you may have lack of nothing.
13 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that you sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
15 For this we say unto you by the word of the LORD, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the LORD shall not prevent [not rise as His ONE BODY without] them which are asleep.
16 For the LORD himself shall descend from heaven with a shout [His voice as a trumpet calling all to gather to Him], with the voice of the archangel [the one who isn’t simply a messenger, but in him is the LORD’s presence manifested as God with us], and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up harpazo, natsal, as a brand plucked from the fires of hell] together [in ONE BODY] with them in the clouds [full understanding], to meet the LORD in the air [He’s cleared of the smoke that came from the bottomless pit]: and so shall we ever be with the LORD.
18 Wherefore comfort [lead into all truth] one another with these words.

1 Thessalonians 5
1 But of the times and the seasons, brethren, you have no need that I write unto you.
2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the LORD so comes as a thief in the night [unknown to those sleeping].
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety [which is now the false premised of all tyrany]; then sudden destruction comes upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
4 But you, brethren, are not in darkness [not ignorant of this time or the presence of tyrants and anitchrists], that that day should overtake you as a thief.
5 You are all the children of light [understanding], and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
7 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
8 But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.
9 For God has not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our LORD Jesus Christ,
10 Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
11 Wherefore comfort [lead into truth] yourselves together, and edify [building into the habitation of God with us] one another, even as also you do.
12 And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labor among you, and are over you in the LORD, and admonish you;
13 And to esteem them very highly in love for their work’s sake. And be at peace among yourselves.
14 Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men.
15 See that none render evil for evil unto any man; but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all men.

Proverbs 29
1 He, that being often reproved hardens his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.
2 When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked bear rule, the people mourn.
3 Whoso loveth wisdom rejoices his father: but he that keeps company with harlots [the unfaithful] spends his substance.
4 The king by judgment establishes the land [‘erets]: but he that receives gifts [bribes] overthrows it [the earth].
5 A man that flatters his neighbor spreads [paras – disperses from his mouth] a net for his feet.
6 In the transgression of an evil man there is a snare: but the righteous does sing and rejoice.
7 The righteous consider the cause of the poor [those without power]: but the wicked regard not to know it.
8 Scornful men bring a city into a snare: but wise men turn away wrath.
9 If a wise man contends with a foolish man, whether he rage or laugh, there is no rest.
10 The bloodthirsty hate the upright: but the just seek his soul.
11 A fool utters all his mind: but a wise man keeps it in till afterwards [until after the fool suffers from his own foolishness and is ready to hear].
12 If a ruler hearkens to lies [as it is this day], all his servants are wicked.
13 The poor [the powerless] and the deceitful man meet together: the LORD lighten both their eyes.
14 The king that faithfully judges the poor, his throne shall be established forever.
15 The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.
16 When the wicked are multiplied [as they now are and thereby sit in power], transgression increases: but the righteous shall see their fall.
17 Correct your son, and he shall give you rest; yea, he shall give delight unto your soul.
18 Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keeps the law, happy is he.
19 A servant will not be corrected by words: for though he understands he will not answer [he will not open his mouth with the understanding he has received].
20 See you a man that is hasty in his words [without proverbs, not thinking good before he acts]? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
21 He that delicately brings up his servant from a child shall have him become his son [manuwn] at the length [‘achariyth].
22 An angry man stirs up strife, and a furious man abounds in transgression.
23 A man’s pride shall bring him low: but honor shall uphold the humble in spirit.
24 Whoso is partner [joins] with a thief [those now in power] hates his own soul: he hear cursing, and berates it not.
25 The fear of man brings a snare: but whoso puts his trust in the LORD shall be safe.
26 Many seek the ruler’s favor; but every man’s judgment comes from the LORD.
27 An unjust man is an abomination to the just: and he that is upright in the way is abomination to the wicked.

The LORD, in Isaiah 8, after telling of His people rejecting these “waters of Shiloah that go softly,” prescribes the solution, which is to seek the LORD who is God with us. The twice-used name Shiloah, meaning sent, refers to the word of God that secretly (‘at – “softly,” see Job 15:11 where it’s rendered “secret”) flows from the LORD’s messenger, who brings revelation (secrets) manifesting His presence with us: Immanuel.

Isaiah 8
7 Now, therefore, behold, the LORD brings [brought] up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria [the communist attack, with word of death, leading our nation and people into self-destruction], and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks:
8 And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of your land, O Immanuel [‘Immanuw ‘el].
9 Associate yourselves, O you people, and you shall be broken in pieces; and give ear, all you of far countries: gird yourselves, and you shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and you shall be broken in pieces.
10 Take counsel together, and it shall come to naught; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God [‘el] is with us [‘immanuw].
11 For the LORD spoke thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying,
12 Say you not, A confederacy, to all them to whom this people shall say, A confederacy; neither fear you their fear, nor be afraid.
13 Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.
14 And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offense to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
15 And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.
16 Bind up the testimony [this word of Shiloh], seal the law among my disciples.
17 And I will wait upon the LORD, that hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.
18 Behold, I [the son of David, the son of Joseph] and the children [upon who these sure mercies of David have come] whom the LORD has given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion.
19 And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits [the known dead – the misleading word of the communists that are known to be the death of men and nations], and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? [Why are they still looking] for the living to the dead?
20 To the law and to the testimony [this word of Shiloh]: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
21 And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry [refusing the word of God]: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry [without this word of God], they shall fret themselves, and curse their king [the son of David, the son of Joseph] and their God, and look upward.
22 And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble [tsarah – tribulation] and darkness [ignorance], dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness [into the insanity now obvious].

Malachi 3
1 Behold [see], I will send my messenger [mal’ak – My angel], and he shall prepare the way before me [panah derek paniym – I have been sent to “prepare the way of the LORD’s presence manifested to the world”]: and the LORD [‘adown – the king, who is in the line of Joseph and David], whom you seek, shall suddenly [pith’own] come to his temple, even the messenger [mal’ak – My archangel, who comes as the Chief Overseer of the earth] of the covenant, whom you delight in: behold, he shall come, says the LORD of hosts.
2 But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand [‘amid – in resurrection] when he appears [as My presence]? for he is like a refiner’s fire, and like fullers’ soap:
3 And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness.
4 Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the LORD, as in the days of old, and as in former years.
5 And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be [I have been] a swift witness against the sorcerers [using their evil spells to manipulate and control people], and against the adulterers [who’ve left the LORD to follow men they put in His place], and against false swearers [the known liars and false accusers of our time], and against those that oppress [as policy] the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless [who don’t have a real man to protect and defend them against the attacks of the known liars and deceivers], and that turn aside the stranger from his right [from returning to the good advice they need], and fear not me, says the LORD of hosts.
6 For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore you sons of Jacob are not consumed.

Psalms 46
1 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
2 Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;
3 Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.
4 There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the Most High.
5 God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right early.
6 The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted.
7 The LORD of hosts [a man of war] is with us [‘immanuw]; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
8 Come, behold the works of the LORD, what desolations he has made in the earth.
9 He makes wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaks the bow, and cuts the spear in sunder; he burns the chariot in the fire.
10 Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
11 The LORD of hosts [a man of war] is with us [‘immanuw]; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.

Matthew 24
27 For as the lightning comes [as the day dawns] out of the east [anatole – the dayspring from on high], and shines [as when the sun rises] even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be [shining understanding upon all who come out of the corrupt houses, to receive the light that gives life to the world].
28 For wheresoever the carcass is [the dead body of Christ – found to be the Church], there will the eagles be gathered together [who have been strengthened and have risen into heaven: the place of full understanding, with Him].
29 Immediately after the tribulation [when understanding has come] of those days shall the sun be darkened [the churches seen to be without light: without this understanding], and the moon shall not give her light [now when civil governments reflect no understanding], and the stars shall [as the dead in the churches realized they have been and are without understanding] fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
30 And then shall appear the sign [as the Father, the one star, in who only is this understanding and light] 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 [from where understanding has been reserved for this time and purpose] of heaven with power and great glory [the Father manifesting His presence in me].
31 And he shall send his angels [as ministers to the heirs of salvation] 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 [this nation of God]; When his branch is yet tender, and put forth [shoots forth – as in nuwn] leaves [which are for the healing of the nations], 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.
36 But of that day and hour knows no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only. [No one other than Him here and now is declaring Himself present.]

Psalms 72
1 Give the king your judgments, O God, and your righteousness unto the king’s son.
2 He shall judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with judgment.
3 The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the little hills, by righteousness.
4 He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor.
5 They shall fear you as long as the sun and moon endure, throughout all generations.
6 He [the LORD’s perpetual son] shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth.
7 In his days shall the righteous flourish; and abundance of peace so long as the moon [civil government as the LORD intended] endures.
8 He shall have dominion also from sea to sea [from generation to generation], and from the river [these water that flow from God with us] unto the ends [ending the old and beginning the new] of the earth.
9 They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him; and his enemies shall lick the dust.
10 The kings of Tarshish [who fled from their vows, and now return] and of the isles [the place that were without His word] shall bring presents: the kings of Sheba [seven – the oath, vows they’ve vowed to God] and Seba [those who drink these waters] shall offer gifts.
11 Yea, all kings shall fall down before him: all nations shall serve him.
12 For he shall deliver the needy when he cries; the poor also, and him that has no helper.
13 He shall spare the poor and needy, and shall save the souls of the needy.
14 He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and precious shall their blood be in his sight.
15 And he shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of Sheba [these treasures to those who keep their vows to God]: prayer also shall be made for him continually; and daily shall he be praised.
16 There shall be a handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains; the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon: and they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.
17 His name shall endure [nuwn – the only time the word appears] forever: his name shall be continued as long as the sun: and men shall be blessed in him: all nations shall call him blessed.
18 Blessed be the LORD God, the God of Israel, who only does wondrous things.
19 And blessed be his glorious name [identity] forever: and let the whole earth be filled with his glory; Amen, and Amen.
20 The prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended.

August 10, 2023

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:

8 – 9 August 2023

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:

The words “I have set watchmen” are from the Hebrew words paqad shamar. In the original text, the sentence reads: On your wall (‘al chowmah – As your protection), O Jerusalem (My people), I have set watchmen (shamar paqad – are those who’ve kept My word, manifesting My presence as the Chief Overseer of the earth) all the day and all the night (kol yowm kol layil – as full understand, light into the darkness, against the total ignorance now covering the earth) which shall never (tamiyd – who will perpetually) not keep silence (‘al chashah), you that make mention of (hamah-zakar – they shall war loudly who remember) the LORD (Jehovah).

The verse, Isaiah 62:6, refers back to verse 1, where we’re told it’s the LORD speaking through those who’ve inseparably joined themselves to Him.

Isaiah 62
1 For Zion’s sake will I not hold my peace [chashah], and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness [understanding they send in their words to all], and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burns [showing the way in the darkness].
2 And the Gentiles [those who don’t know the LORD] shall see your righteousness, and all kings your glory: and you shall be [a new nation] called by a new name, which the mouth of the LORD shall name [Heavenly New Jerusalem].
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 [‘erets – earth] any more be termed Desolate: but you shall be called Hephzibah [chephets – “My delight is in her”], and your land [‘erets – earth] Beulah [ba’al]: for the LORD delights [chephets] in you, and your land [‘erets – earth] shall be married [ba’al – joined with the LORD in His kingdom on the earth].
5 For as a young man marries [ba’al] a virgin, so shall your sons marry [ba’al] you: and as the bridegroom rejoice over the bride, so shall your God rejoice [suws] over you.
6 I have set [paqad] watchmen [shamar] upon your walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace [chashah] day nor night: you that make mention of [remember] the LORD, keep not silence,
7 And give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make [Heavenly New] Jerusalem a praise in the earth [‘erets].
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 [will not give what you’ve worked for, to] your 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 [leaving hell behind]; prepare you the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones [upon which the people have stumbled and fallen]; lift up a standard [nec – the son of man lifted up as Moses lifted the serpent in the wilderness, so the LORD’s voice is exalted above all others, and He will save all who look to Him for deliverance] for the people.
11 Behold, the LORD has proclaimed [shama’ – called for obedience to His voice] unto the end of the world [‘erets], Say you to the daughter of Zion, Behold, your salvation comes; behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him [paniym – to those who see His presence manifested in his work].
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.

One of the keys in the above chapter is in the word suwm and several of its strategic appearances.

Deuteronomy 28
58 If you will not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you mayest fear this glorious and fearful name [the identity of], The LORD Your God [Jehovah ‘elohiym – God’s presence manifested in the present tense: in His word, I Am, as in me];
59 Then the LORD will make your plagues wonderful [you, as now, will wonder why they came, not understanding, not seeing, the evil is a product of the neglect and abandonment of those leading you in church and state], and the plagues of your seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance [degenerating into the now mass insanity that rules the world].
60 Moreover he will bring [these last four words are rendered from shuwb, meaning return – to the place from where he previously rescued us] upon you all the diseases of Egypt [oppression under tyrants], which you were afraid of; and they shall cleave [snare and be yoked] unto you.
61 Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will the LORD bring [‘alah – let rise] upon [against] you, until you be destroyed.
62 And you shall be left few in number [as we are this day], whereas you were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because you would not obey [shama’] the voice [qowl] of the LORD your God [Jehovah ‘elohiym].
63 And it shall come to pass, that as the LORD rejoiced [suwm] over you to do you good, and to multiply you; so the LORD will rejoice [suwm] over you to destroy you [this corrupt nation, all her totally corrupt and vermin-infested institutions], and to bring you to naught; and you shall be plucked [nacach – only used three other times, here referring us to Proverbs 15:25] from off the land [here untranslated from the original text is the word matsalah, following the word ‘adamah, meaning the depths of God’s people, the family of Adam, in the belly of hell] whither you go to possess it. [Proverbs 15:23 A man has joy {manifesting the presence of God by giving His good counsel} by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season {knowing the time}, how good is it! 24 The way of life is above {comes from heaven} to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath. 25 The LORD will destroy {nacach} the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow {the new nation of those who were without a defender and protector}. 26 The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the LORD: but the words of the pure are pleasant words {pleasing to the LORD, and those speaking them will see Him}. 27 He that is greedy of gain troubles {afflicts} his own house {as the current evil administration has this nation}; but he that hates gifts {bribes, for which they have sold their souls and betrayed their nation} shall live. 28 The heart of the righteous studies to answer {opening their mouth in due season to speak the LORD’s good tidings}: but the mouth of the wicked pours out evil things.]
64 And the LORD shall scatter you among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there you shall serve other gods, which neither you nor your fathers have known, even [dead] wood and stone.
65 And among these nations shall you find no ease, neither shall the sole of your foot have rest: but the LORD shall give you there a trembling heart, and failing [killayown – the “consumption” decreed] of eyes [not knowing the time or season], and sorrow of mind:
66 And your life shall hang in doubt before you; and you shall fear day and night, and shall have none assurance of your life:
67 In the morning [when this understanding comes] you shall say, Would God it were even [choosing to remain in ignorance and death]! and at even [when you realized your ignorance] you shall say, Would God it were morning [still not hearing His voice or seeing His presence]! for the fear of your heart wherewith you shall fear, and for the sight of your eyes which you shall see. [This last phrase refers back to verse 34, speaking of after God’s people have been oppressed and in all ways crushed {ratsats}, saying “So that you shall be mad {shaga’ – insane} for the sight of your eyes which you shall see.”]
68 And the LORD shall bring you into Egypt [into oppression under tyrants] again with ships [by the wicked infesting all the national institutions of church and state], by the way whereof I spoke unto you, You shall see it no more again [not understanding it, because you reject the good counsel of the LORD and instead choose evil]: and there you shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy [redeem] you.

Zephaniah 3 [Jehovah’s treasures revealed]
1 Woe to her that is filthy and polluted [remaining defiled by their corrupt words and ways], to the oppressing city!
2 She obeyed [shama’] not the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in the LORD; she drew not near to her God.
3 Her princes [those thinking the crown will be theirs] within her are roaring lions [speaking their own words]; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.
4 Her prophets are light [of no value] and treacherous persons: her priests have polluted [with their own words and ways] the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.
5 The just LORD is in the midst thereof; he will not do iniquity: every morning does he bring his judgment to light [giving understanding], he fails not; but the unjust knows no shame.
6 I have cut off the nations: their towers are desolate; I made their streets waste, that none passes by [‘abar – from this death into life]: their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, that there is none inhabitant.
7 I said, Surely you will fear me, you will receive instruction; so their dwelling should not be cut off, howsoever I punished [paqad – come as the Chief Overseer of the earth, to] them: but they rose early, and corrupted all their doings.
8 Therefore wait you upon me, says the LORD, until the day that I rise up to the prey: for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them my indignation [za’am], even all my fierce anger: for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.
9 For then will I turn to the people a pure language [the words from My mouth, by which man lives], that they may all call upon the name [identity] of the LORD, to serve him with one consent.
10 From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia [leaving the words of darkness: ignorant men] my suppliants [‘athar – who have called to Me], even the daughter of my dispersed, shall bring my offering.
11 In that day shall you not be ashamed for all your doings, wherein you have transgressed against me: for then I will take away out of the midst of you them that rejoice in your pride [in the snare of evil they taught you], and you shall no more be haughty because of my holy mountain [My voice exalted above all others].
12 I will also leave in the midst of you an afflicted and poor [powerless] people [the meek of the earth], and they shall trust in the name of the LORD.
13 The remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity, nor speak lies; neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth: for they shall feed [on My flesh] and lie down [to rest in My peace], and none shall make them afraid.
14 Sing, O daughter of Zion; shout, O Israel; be glad and rejoice with all the heart, O daughter of [Heavenly New] Jerusalem.
15 The LORD has taken away your judgments, he has cast out your enemy: the king of Israel, even the LORD, is in the midst of you: you shall not see evil anymore.
16 In that day it shall be said to Jerusalem, Fear you not: and to Zion, Let not your hands be slack [do the work to which the LORD has called you].
17 The LORD your God in the midst of you is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice [suws] over you with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over you with singing [repeating these words the LORD has given us].
18 I will gather them that are sorrowful [that show remorse for not eating here earlier] for the solemn assembly, who are of you, to whom the reproach of it was a burden [keeping you from coming and eating].
19 Behold, at that time I will undo all that afflict you: and I will save her that halted [was lame and strayed from My good way], and gather her that was driven out; and I will get them praise and fame in every land where they have been put to shame.
20 At that time will I bring you again, even in the time that I gather you [into My ONE BODY]: for I will make you a name and a praise among all people of the earth, when I turn back your captivity before your eyes, says the LORD.

The word ‘athar, above in verse 10 rendered “suppliants” (humbly imploring: entreating), only appears one other time, in Ezekiel 8:11, a chapter in which the LORD is showing Ezekiel, the son of man, the abominations that are the prelude to evil (the antichrists’) taking full control of the earth (as they have). It’s from this evil destination the LORD, as in verse 20 above, turns us back.

Ezekiel 8
1 And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the fifth day of the month [the prelude to 666], as I sat in my house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, that the hand of the LORD God fell there upon me [and enflamed my mind against their corruption which they refuse to abandon].
2 Then I beheld, and lo a likeness as the appearance of fire: from the appearance of his loins even downward, fire; and from his loins even upward, as the appearance of brightness, as the color of amber.
3 And he put forth the form of a hand [as if writing into my mind], and took me by a lock [tsiytsith – only appears tree other times, in Numbers 15, all speaking of the “fringe” of the garment the LORD commanded to be made, of which verses 39 & 40 lastly say, “39 And it shall be unto you for a fringe {tsiytsith}, that you may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do them ; and that you seek not after your own heart {mind} and your own eyes {understanding}, after which you use to go a whoring: 40 That you may remember, and do all my commandments, and be holy unto your God.”] of my head [mind]; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions [seeing as He sees: understanding as He understand] of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that look toward the north [into the darkness, ignorance, that causes these abominations]; where was the seat of the image [men who create thing that lead people’s minds away from God] of jealousy, which provokes [the LORD] to jealousy.
4 And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to the vision that I saw in the plain [sight, seeing it as He sees].
5 Then said he unto me, Son of man, lift up your eyes now the way toward the north [that leads men into darkness]. So I lifted up my eyes the way toward the north, and behold northward at the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry.
6 He said furthermore unto me, Son of man, see you [as I see] what they do? even the great abominations that the house of Israel commits here, that I should go far off [rachaq – their evil decrees] from [matsa’ – come forth from] my sanctuary? but turn you yet again, and you shall see greater abominations.
7 And he brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold a hole in the wall [of lies they built blocking the entry way].
8 Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall [diligent work to penetrate their lies and enter]: and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door [I found the way in].
9 And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here.
10 So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping things [vermin], and abominable beasts [unclean and uneatable], and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed [chaqah – delineated and entrenched] upon the wall [in their lies upon lies, corruption upon corruption] round about.
11 And there stood before them seventy men of the ancients [those leading and teaching all God’s people] of the house of Israel, and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah [those whose words Jehovah has heard] the son of Shaphan [who think He doesn’t see or hear them], with every man his censer [miqtereth – only appearing elsewhere in 2 Chronicles 26:19, where it’s Uzziah’s illegal offering that caused leprosy to come up in his head, which caused him to leave the throne] in his hand; and a thick cloud of incense went up [their prayers to God, ignorantly asking for deliverance, when it is from them the LORD must deliver all who call on Him out of pure, uncorrupted, mind].
12 Then said he unto me, Son of man, have you seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark [out of ignorance of Me], every man in the chambers of his imagery [their own creations]? for they say [denying His presence], the LORD sees us not; the LORD has forsaken the earth.
13 He said also unto me, Turn you yet again, and you shall see greater abominations that they do.
14 Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the LORD’s house which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz [only appearing here – in the original text it is written as – ‘eth Yah tammuz {from tamahh, meaning “to be in consternation:–be amazed, be astonished, marvel(-lously), wonder.”}; and ‘eth meaning “nearness (used only as a preposition or an adverb), near; hence, generally, with, by, at, among, etc.” The context is in relation to those denying His presence, ignorantly weeping thinking He is absent. It’s the ideas spoken of in 2 Peter 3:9, of some thinking the LORD is slack concerning His promises, meaning they wonder why he hasn’t come, not knowing He is among them, in obscurity, making Himself of no reputation, “longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.”].
15 Then said he unto me, Have you seen this, O son of man? turn you yet again, and you shall see greater abominations than these.
16 And he brought me into the inner court of the LORD’s house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east [looking for the sunrise, not knowing He is behind them in His temple {in His people}]; and they worshipped the sun [the false church] toward the east [where they are looking for Him].
17 Then he said unto me, Have you seen this, O son of man? Is it a light thing [of little value, they think it means nothing that they have done this] to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the land [‘erets – the earth] with violence, and have returned to provoke me to anger: and, lo, they put the branch to their nose.
18 Therefore will I also deal in fury: my eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: and though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.

The phrase in verse 17 above, which is the cause of the last verse, saying, “they put the branch to their nose,” is not original. The original text was changed by the Sopherim, who ignorantly thought it was derogatory toward God because it said, “they put the branch to His nose.”

The meaning of the saying, as Ezekiel meant it, the LORD in Him tactically reserving it to be revealed in His time, is found in what they put in the LORD’s nose (meaning what isn’t seen or heard (realized or stated), but is otherwise sensed present). The word here rendered “branch” is the five-times used Hebrew word zmowrah (zemorah), the meaning of which is found in its other uses more than in its definition.

Numbers 13
23 And they [those sent to spy out the Promised Land] came unto the brook of Eshcol [the cluster, the fruit by these waters, cut off from the vine, and therefore no longer seeing as He see], and cut down [karath – thereby cutting themselves off from the LORD promises] from thence a branch [zmowrah] with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it between two upon a staff; and they brought of the pomegranates, and of the figs.
24 The place was called the brook Eshcol, because of the cluster of grapes which the children of Israel cut down from thence.
25 And they returned from searching of the land after forty days.
26 And they went and came to Moses [who is drawn from the corrupt water below], and to Aaron [the light giver], and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the wilderness of Paran [where everything is plainly seen by explanation], to Kadesh [which is our sanctuary]; and brought back word unto them, and unto all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land.
27 And they told him, and said, We came unto the land whither you sent us, and surely it flows with milk and honey [by which man will there learn to choose the good and refuse the evil]; and this is the fruit of it [that grew when it was attached to the vine].
28 Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled, and very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak [giants] there.
29 The Amalekites [who’ve warred against God’s people in every generation] dwell in the land of the south: and the Hittites [terrorists who use fear to control those who dwell with them], and the Jebusites [who trample the harvest under their feet], and the Amorites [who exalt their words above the word of God], dwell in the mountains [controlling all the seats of power]: and the Canaanites [who are zealots who control commerce] dwell by the sea [mixed among the people at large], and by the coast [yad, hand doing the work] of Jordan [whose words carry all into death].
30 And Caleb [dog, like Gideon’s three hundred, valiant men who refused bow to their enemies, seeing as the LORD sees] stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.
31 But the men that went up with him said, We be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we [the fearful who should just get out of the way and let the men be men].
32 And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eats up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature.
33 And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak [giants – the prominent and powerful], which come of the giants: and we were [seen] in our own sight as grasshoppers [doing no work, fighting no fight, only devouring until nothing is left], and so we were in their sight.

Isaiah 17
4 And in that day it shall come to pass, that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean [as he consumes himself].
5 And it shall be as when the harvestman gathers the corn, and reaps the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathers ears in the valley of Rephaim [into the place where all are at rest and not working].
6 Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost fruitful branches thereof, says the LORD God of Israel.
7 At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel.
8 And he shall not look to the altars [men have created], the work of his hands, neither shall respect that which his fingers have made, either the groves, or the images.
9 In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel: and there shall be desolation.
10 Because you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not been mindful of the rock of your strength, therefore shall you plant pleasant plants [that speak corrupt words you agree with], and shall set it with strange slips [zmowrah]:
11 In the day shall you make your plant to grow, and in the morning shall you make your seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
12 Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise [incoherent words] like the noise of the seas [as waves crashing against the shore, the boundary the LORD set and said they shall continue not further]; and to the rushing of nations [lom – people], that make a rushing [desolation] like the rushing [to destroy] of mighty waters [the words of the powerful]!
13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff [mixed among the wheat] of the mountains [the worthless in power] before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind [His Almighty Spirit].
14 And behold at eveningtide [the time of] trouble; and before the morning [before the new day is realized] he is not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.

The word above used to tell of these men cut off from the vine, as “strange” zmowrah (slips), is zuwr, a seventy-seven times used word meaning, “to turn aside (especially for lodging); hence to be a foreigner, strange, profane; specifically (active participle) to commit adultery.”

Leviticus 10
1 And Nadab [liberally giving his own words] and Abihu [acting as if he is the father of God: putting himself in His place], the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange [zuwr] fire before the LORD, which he commanded them not.
2 And there went out fire from the LORD, and devoured them, and they died before [paniym – the manifested presence of] the LORD.
3 Then Moses said unto Aaron, This is it that the LORD spoke, saying, I will be sanctified in them that come nigh me, and before all the people I will be glorified. And Aaron held his peace [damam – was astonished].

It is these strange men’s offerings, unseen and unheard, that are unknown to the ignorant, but their presence is known by the smell in the LORD’s nose. They are those who think they are holier than the LORD and tell Him to stay away from them.

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 [see] me, behold [see] 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 [who are called by My name, Christian and Israel], which walk [went astray into apostacy] in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts;
3 A people that provoke me to anger continually to my face [paniym – My presence]; that sacrifices in gardens [they planted with strange slips], and burns incense upon altars of brick [the works of their hands, creations of men you made idols and gods you put in My place];
4 Which remain among the graves [with the dead], and lodge in the monuments [tombs you’ve made to house the dead], which eat swine’s flesh [unclean things you shouldn’t have consumed], and broth of abominable things [creations with which you replaced the holy] is in their vessels;
5 Which say [to Me, when I said “Behold Me”], “Stand by yourself, come not near to me; for I am holier than you.” These [self-righteous hypocrites] are a smoke in my nose [to be fanned away by My hand], a [strange] fire [from strange slips] that burns all the day.
6 Behold [see], it is written before me [this writing is My presence manifested]: I will not keep silence [chashah], but will recompense, even recompense into their bosom,
7 Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, says the LORD, which have [with strange fire] burned incense upon the mountains [worshipping this current corrupt administration, for mere morsels selling your souls into hell], and [you joined these devils and] blasphemed me upon the hills: therefore will I measure their former work [their deceptions and wickedness] into their bosom.
8 Thus says the LORD, As the new wine is found in the cluster [as are my elect remnant who have become fruitful by these waters], 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 [My new government]: and my elect [remnant] shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there.
10 And Sharon [those who plainly see Me] shall be a fold of flocks [My ONE BODY, My New Nation], and the valley of Achor [where they were in constant strife and war] a place for the herds to lie down in [rest in peace], for my people that have [diligently] sought me. [Hebrews 11: 6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that comes to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.]
11 But you [that worship this current corrupt administration, and join them in blaspheming Me: calling good evil as you vilify and demonize Me and those who speak My good words of truth] are they that forsake the LORD, that forget my holy mountain, that prepare a table for that troop [that are at war against us], 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 spake, you did not hear; but did evil before my 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 [who obey Me] shall drink, but you shall be thirsty: behold, my servants [who obey Me] 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 [tsarah – tribulations] are forgotten, and because they are hid from my eyes [removed by My understanding and peace].
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 forever in that which I create: for, behold, I create [Heavenly New] Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.

From here, the LORD leads us to Number 21, which first speaks of when the LORD commanded Moses to lift up the fiery serpent in the wilderness, and then proceeds to cryptically speak a parable regarding Heshbon. This name (Cheshbown) is from a three-times used word of the same spelling, with affinity to chashah (to keep quiet), (cheshbown) meaning “from 2803; properly, contrivance; by implication, intelligence:–account, device, reason.”

Ecclesiastes 7
23 All this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise [of myself]; but it was far [rachowq – an evil decree] from me.
24 That which is far off [rachowq – an evil decree], and exceeding deep, who can find it out?
25 I applied my heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason [cheshbown – to have intelligence {advanced knowledge} of the contrivance] of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness:
26 And I find more bitter than death the woman [unfaith church], whose heart [corrupt foundational mind] is snares and nets, and her hands as bands [that trap and hold men in hell]: whoso pleases God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.
27 Behold, this have I found, says the preacher, counting one by one, to find out the account [cheshbown – advance knowledge of the contrivances of an unfaithful church]:
28 Which yet my soul seeks, but I find not: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman [faithful church] among all those have I not found.
29 Lo, this only have I found, that God has made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions [chishshabown – mental contrivances: “engines” of war, only here and 2 Chronicles 26:15].

2 Chronicles 26
8 And the Ammonites [who exalt their words above the LORD’s] gave gifts to Uzziah [whose only strength comes from Jehovah]: and his name spread abroad even to the entering in of Egypt; for he strengthened himself exceedingly.
9 Moreover Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the corner gate, and at the valley gate, and at the turning of the wall, and fortified them.
10 Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many wells: for he had much cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains: husbandmen also, and vine dressers in the mountains, and in Carmel: for he loved husbandry.
11 Moreover Uzziah had a host of fighting men, that went out to war by bands, according to the number of their account by the hand of Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the ruler, under the hand of Hananiah, one of the king’s captains.
12 The whole number of the chief of the fathers of the mighty men of valour were two thousand and six hundred.
13 And under their hand was an army, three hundred thousand and seven thousand and five hundred, that made war with mighty power, to help the king against the enemy.
14 And Uzziah prepared for them throughout all the host shields, and spears, and helmets, and habergeons, and bows, and slings to cast stones.
15 And he made in Jerusalem engines [chishshabown], invented [machashabah] by cunning men [chashab – #2803, meaning to plot or fabricate; and the origin of cheshbown], to be [as weapons of war] on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal. And his name spread far abroad; for he was marvelously helped, till he was strong.
16 But when he was strong, his heart [his mind] was lifted up [exalting his thoughts above the LORD’s] to his destruction: for he transgressed against the LORD his God, and went into the temple of the LORD to burn incense upon the altar of incense.
17 And Azariah [who Jehovah has helped] the priest went in after him, and with him fourscore priests of the LORD, that were valiant men:
18 And they withstood Uzziah the king, and said unto him, It appertains not unto you, Uzziah, to burn incense unto the LORD, but to the priests the sons of Aaron, that are consecrated to burn incense: go out of the sanctuary; for you have trespassed; neither shall it be for your honor from the LORD God.
19 Then Uzziah was wroth, and had a censer [miqtereth – as in Ezekiel 8:11 above] in his hand to burn incense [offering strange fire]: and while he was wroth with the priests, the leprosy even rose up in his forehead [thoughts that rot and destroy the body] before the priests in the house of the LORD, from beside the incense altar.

Ecclesiastes 9
10 Whatsoever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor device [cheshbown – advanced knowledge of contrivances], nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave [sheol – the habitation of the dead], whither you go.
11 I returned, and saw under the sun [when I understood], that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance [what they think is coincidence] happens to them all.
12 For man also knows not his time [of the LORD’s judgment]: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly [pith’owm] upon them.
13 This wisdom have I seen also under the sun [when I understood], and it seemed great unto me:
14 There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it [lies and deceptions as engines of war]:
15 Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered [zakar] that same poor man [who had no worldly power].
16 Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man’s wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard [shama’ – obeyed].
17 The words of wise men are heard [shama’] in quiet [among those who are still silent] more than the cry of him that rules among fools.
18 Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner [who leads the foolish astray] destroys much good.

Psalms 76
1 In Judah [among His elect remnant] is God known: his name is great in Israel.
2 In Salem [peace] also is his tabernacle, and his dwelling place in Zion.
3 There brakes he the arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the battle. Selah.
4 You are more glorious and excellent than the mountains of prey.
5 The stouthearted are spoiled, they have slept their sleep: and none of the men of might have found their hands.
6 At your rebuke, O God of Jacob, both the chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep.
7 You, even you, are to be feared: and who may stand in your sight when once you are angry?
8 You did cause judgment to be heard from heaven; the earth feared, and was still,
9 When God arose to judgment, to save all the meek of the earth. Selah.
10 Surely the wrath of man shall praise you: the remainder of wrath shall you restrain.
11 Vow, and pay unto the LORD your God: let all that be round about him bring presents unto him that ought to be feared.
12 He shall cut off the spirit of princes: he is terrible to the kings of the earth.

August 8, 2023August 8, 2023

Cry aloud, spare not, lift up your voice like a trumpet, and show my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.

6 – 7 August 2023

Cry aloud, spare not, lift up your voice like a trumpet, and show my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.

The above, Isaiah 58:1, speaks of the last trump, the mouths of God’s people opened and speaking as He prescribes. He, in verse 7, calls it a fast He has chosen, which He later, in verse 13, describes saying it’s “not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking your own words.”

Suffer my foolishness for a moment while I mention several (not) coincidences: the chapter number is my birth year, and it begins (Mene) and ends (Mene) with my birth month and day, which (month and day) are the same as the Passover (Tekel – considered and understood, they are His might at which the world wonders). In verse 7, the fourteen times used word parac appears (the first time after appearing in Leviticus 11 seven times, in Deuteronomy 14 four times, and once in Psalms 69:13, all telling of the “divided hooves” of the animals that are clean, whose flesh can be eaten). It (parac) is the equivalent and origin of the three times used Chaldee word rendered “divided,” “Perez,” and “Upharsin,” in Daniel when it comes by the hand writing on the wall telling of the end of the kingdom of Babylon.

This chapter (Isaiah 58) is the origin of the LORD’s words in John 6, when He tells His students they must eat His flesh, and thereby reveals the parables of His feeding many with few loaves.

John 6
25 And when they had found him on the other side of the sea [here and now], they said unto him, Rabbi [Teacher], when came you hither [now you know the day, month, and year]?
26 Jesus answered them and said, Truly, truly, I say unto you, You seek me, not because you saw the miracles, but because you did eat of the loaves [this word rightly divided], and were filled [with understanding].
27 Labor not for the meat [the flesh of animals] which perishes, but for that meat [this deep understanding that strengthens you] which endures unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him has God the Father sealed [sphragizo – only appearing one other time in John, in John 3:33, the passage saying, “30 He {His identity in me} must increase, but I {my identity} must decrease. 31 He that comes from above is above all: he that is of the earth is earthly, and speaks of the earth: he that comes from heaven {with full understanding} is above all. 32 And what he has seen and heard, that he testifies; and no man receives his testimony {that this is His word manifesting His presence for the salvation of the world}. 33 He that has received his testimony has set to his seal {sphragizo} that God is true. 34 For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God: for God gives not the Spirit by measure unto him. 35 The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand. 36 He that believes on the Son has everlasting life: and he that believes not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abides on him.”].
28 Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God?
29 Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that you believe on him whom he has sent.
30 They said therefore unto him, What sign show you then, that we may see, and believe you? what do you work [I do the work He just spoke of: I believe on the One alive in me, whom the Father sent]?
31 Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat [and as we know, they were ignorant then, as now, as it is written in Deuteronomy 8, as He speaks it now, saying “1 All the commandments which I command you this day shall you observe to do, that you may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the LORD swore unto your fathers. 2 And you shall remember all the way which the LORD your God led you these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you, and to prove you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or not. 3 And he humbled you, and suffered you to hunger, and fed you with manna, which you knew not, neither did your fathers know; that he might make you know that man does not live by bread only, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of the LORD does man live.”].
32 Then Jesus said unto them, Truly, truly, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven [the word from His mouth – I Am].
33 For the bread of God is he which comes down from heaven, and gives life unto the world.
34 Then said they unto him, LORD, evermore give us this bread.
35 And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that comes to me shall never hunger; and he that believes on me shall never thirst.
36 But I said unto you, That you also have seen me, and believe not.
37 All that the Father gives me shall come to me; and him that comes to me I will in no wise cast out.
38 For I came down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him that sent me.
39 And this is the Father’s will which has sent me, that of all which he has given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day [now].
40 And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which sees the Son [now again], and believes on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.
41 The Jews then murmured at him, because he said, I am the bread which came down from heaven.
42 And they said, Is not this [Timothy] Jesus, the son of [John] Joseph, whose father and mother we know? how is it then that he says, I came down from heaven?
43 Jesus therefore answered and said unto them, Murmur not among yourselves.
44 No man can come to me, except the Father which has sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.
45 It is written in the prophets [Isaiah 54:13 & Jeremiah 31:34], “And they shall be all taught of God.” Every man therefore that has heard, and has learned of the Father, comes unto me.
46 Not that any man has seen the Father, save he which is of God, he has seen the Father [alive in me].
47 Truly, truly, I say unto you, He that believes on me has everlasting life.
48 I am that bread of life.
49 Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.
50 This is the bread [the word from the mouth of the LORD] which comes down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.
51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live forever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh [I Am], which I will give for the life of the world.
52 The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat?
53 Then Jesus said unto them, Truly, truly, I say unto you, Except you eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, you have no life in you.
54 Whoso eats my flesh, and drinks my blood, has eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.
55 For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.
56 He that eats my flesh, and drinks my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.
57 As the living Father has sent me [in the flesh], and I live by the Father [his light, understanding, in me]: so he that eats me, even he shall live by me. [The word eat in these passages is the word trogo, which was disused in the post of 20 July 2023, saying “The words the LORD uses in Matthew 13:18, quoting Psalms 4:8, describing the betrayers among the leaders of God’s people (Judah), are as follows “He [my friend with whom I was at peace] that eats [trogo] bread [artos – this teaching] with me has lifted [epairo] up his heel [pterna – “paternal,” the things received from the fathers] against [epi] me.” The word trogo (used only six times) spiritually means to be led (ago – as in tragos: he-goat {as the flock following him to pasture}) in worn tracks (tribos). The idea in bread is it’s water mixed with wheat (the word mixed with God’s people), and when leaven (explanation – exposition) is added, it rises. The word epairo, means to raise up, as (in pride) to exalt (self and words, here against the LORD, by the dirt, earthly corruption, added, keeping His people from rising).”]
58 This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eats of this bread shall live forever.
59 These things said he in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum [the place of the Comforter, as the LORD here unknown is leading us into all truth]. [John 16: 8 And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: 9 Of sin, because they believe not on me; 10 Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and you see me no more; 11 Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged. 12 I have yet many things to say unto you, but you cannot bear them now. 13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will show you things to come. 14 He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall show it unto you.]
60 Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it?
61 When Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it, he said unto them, Does this offend you?
62 What and if you shall see the Son of man [come lacking understanding, made a little lower than the Father, until I have] ascend up [resurrected from death into life again] where he was before [the Father crowning with His full understanding again]?
63 It is the spirit that quickens [bring us from death into life] the flesh profits nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life [and these are the things I give you to eat, leading you in this good way].
64 But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who [here learning with us] should betray him.
65 And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father.
66 From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.
67 Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will you also go away?
68 Then Simon Peter answered him, LORD, to whom shall we go? you have the words of eternal life.
69 And we believe and are sure that you are that Christ, the Son of the living God.

Friends, God’s people are waiting (looking) for things they’ve learned from false teachers and false prophets: of boogeymen (used to frighten children) they’ve foretold, catastrophes (sudden disasters that never come) they’ve foreseen, by which they hide themselves, the real demons who are the existential threats (watchmen who see nothing). These same men sit still and silent while their fellow demoniacs infesting church and state, like locusts, mislead, devour, and destroy us, our nation, and the world itself. They are all, with one mind unified by corruption, confusion, and maniacal insanity, the wicked and unreasonable men Paul speaks of in 2 Thessalonians 3, who refuse to give this word of God free course, so it will be received as the word of God, as it is. He says we should pray that they be taken out of the way, that we may open our mouths boldly, preaching this word from the mouth of the LORD.

Isiah 54
1 Sing [open your mouths like a trumpet], O barren, you that did not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, you that did not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, says the LORD.

7 For a small moment have I forsaken you; but with great mercies will I gather you.
8 In a little wrath I hid my face from you for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on you, says the LORD your Redeemer.
9 For this is as the waters of Noah unto me: for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not [forever] be wroth with you, nor [always] rebuke you.
10 For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed [the governments of the world shall end]; but my kindness shall not depart from you, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, says the LORD that has mercy on you.
11 O you afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay your stones with fair colors, and lay your foundations with sapphires.
12 And I will make your windows of agates, and your gates of carbuncles, and all your borders of pleasant stones.
13 And all your children shall be taught of the LORD; and great shall be the peace of your children.
14 In righteousness shall you be established: you shall be far from oppression; for you shall not fear: and from terror; for it shall not come near you.
15 Behold, they [the wicked] shall surely gather together, but not by me: whosoever shall gather together against you shall fall for your sake.
16 Behold, I have created the smith that blows the coals in the fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy.
17 No weapon that is formed against you shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against you in judgment you shall condemn [when your mouths are opened]. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, says the LORD.

Jeremiah 31
1 At the same time [in these last days], says the LORD, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.
2 Thus says the LORD, The people which were left of the sword found grace [these treasure of the LORD’s understanding revealed] in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest.
3 The LORD has appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved you with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn you.
4 Again I will build you, and you shall be built, O virgin of Israel: you shall again be adorned with your tabrets, and shall go forth in the dances of them that make merry.

10 Hear the word of the LORD, O you nations, and declare it in the isles afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd does his flock.
11 For the LORD has redeemed Jacob, and ransomed 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; Rachel [the woman who brings the child to a man] weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not [because they refuse to be corrected: put away childish things and be born again].
16 Thus says the LORD; Refrain your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears: for your work shall be rewarded, says the LORD; and they shall come again from the land of the enemy.
17 And there is hope in your end, says the LORD, that your children shall come again to their own border.
18 I have surely heard Ephraim [God’s people in the generation: the child who must become a man] bemoaning himself thus; You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn you me, and I shall be turned; for you are the LORD my God.
19 Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.
20 Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I spoke against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, says the LORD.
21 Set you up waymarks, make you high heaps: set your heart [minds] toward the highway, even the way which you went: turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these your cities.
22 How long will you go about, O you backsliding daughter? for the LORD has created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass [full circle, from a child to] a man.

29 In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.
30 But everyone shall die for his own iniquity: every [child, when he has learned and become a] man that eats the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge [they, as adults, shall be accountable for their own words and actions].
31 Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was a husband unto them, says the LORD:
33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, says the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, says the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.

Jeremiah 30
19 And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also [reveal My] glorify [in] them, and they shall not be small.
20 Their children also shall be as aforetime [learning My mind, My better way and good ideas], and their congregation [ONE BODY] shall be established [kuwn – prepared and rise] before me [paniym – in My presence], and I will punish [paqad – visit as the Chief Overseer of the earth] all that oppress them.
21 And their nobles shall be of themselves [those who’ve learned from Me], and their governor shall proceed from the midst of [with the same mind] them; and I will cause him to draw near, and he shall approach unto me: for who is this that engaged his heart [mind] to approach unto me? says the LORD.
22 And you shall be my people, and I will be your God.
23 Behold, the whirlwind [the Almighty Spirit] of the LORD goes forth with fury, a continuing whirlwind [from where the LORD speaks]: it shall fall with pain upon the head of the wicked.
24 The fierce anger of the LORD shall not return, until he has done it, and until he has performed the intents of his heart: in the latter days [‘achariyth yowm – these last days] you shall consider [biyn – understand] it.

Isaiah 58
1 Cry aloud, spare not, lift up your voice like a trumpet, and show my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.
2 Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.
3 Wherefore have we fasted [tsuwm], say they, and you see not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and you take no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast [tsowm, from tsuwm, meaning to cover the mouth: refusing to eat or speak My words] you find pleasure, and exact [nagas – and suppress My words by] all your labors [and thereby oppress My people].
4 Behold, you fast [tsuwm] for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: you shall not fast as you do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high.
5 Is it such a fast [tsuwm – covering your mouth] that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? will you call this a fast [tsowm], and an acceptable day to the LORD? [These are the “transgressions and sins of the house of Jacob” revealed.]
6 Is not this the fast [tsown] that I have chosen [that you stop your own words, and uncover your mouths, eating and speaking My words]? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke?
7 Is it not to deal [parac – break, ending the rule of confusion: Babylon; as the LORD has miraculously given it, feeding so many] your bread [this word from the mouth of God, by which man lives] to the hungry, and that you bring the poor that are cast out [maruwd – what rule? Only appearing two other times, both in Jeremiah’s Lamentations – The mistreatment of your words, as wormwood and gall] to your house? when you see the naked, that you cover him [with My word, which protects from the corrupt elements of the world]; and that you hide not yourself from your own flesh?
8 Then shall your light [your understanding given as received] break forth as the morning [this new day], and your health shall spring forth speedily: and your righteousness shall go before you; the glory of the LORD [revealed in you] shall be your reward.
9 Then shall you call, and the LORD shall answer; you shall cry, and he shall say, Here I Am. If you take away from the midst of you the yoke, the putting forth of the finger [teaching], and speaking vanity [worthlessness];
10 And if you draw out your soul to the hungry [feed them with your flesh, speaking My words in which is My presence revealed], and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall your light [understand of this new day] rise in obscurity [choshek – darkness: rise to replace ignorance], and your darkness [‘aphelah – dusk, what was covered by ignorance] be as the noon day [shall become fully understood]:
11 And the LORD shall guide you continually, and satisfy your soul in drought, and make fat your bones: and you shall be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
12 And they that shall be of you shall build the old waste places: you shall raise up the foundations of many generations; and you shall be called, The repairer of the breach [perets – this is the breach spoken of in Amos 9:11, saying “In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old”], The restorer of paths to dwell in.
13 If you turn away your foot [from going your own ways] from the sabbath [when I interrupt, visit, making My presence known, for correction], from doing your pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honorable; and shall honor him, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking your own words:
14 Then shall you delight yourself in the LORD; and I will cause you to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed you with [My flesh I have chosen and prepared to reveal My presence, which is] the heritage of Jacob your father: for the mouth of the LORD has spoken it.

Isaiah 59
1 Behold, the LORD’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:
2 But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins [the errors that blind you] have hid his face [presence] from you, that he will not hear.
3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue has muttered perverseness.
4 None [open their mouth and] call for justice, nor any pleads for truth: they trust in vanity [their own worthless ways and ideas], and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
5 They hatch cockatrice’s eggs, and weave the spider’s web: he that eats of their eggs dies, and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper.
6 Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.
7 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths [quoted in Romans 3:15 & 16].
8 The way of peace they know not [quoted in Romans 3:17]; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goes therein shall not know peace.
9 Therefore is judgment far from us, neither does justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity [choshek – darkness: ignorance]; for brightness, but we walk in darkness [‘aphelah – the ignorance that remains covering the earth].
10 We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noon day as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.
11 We roar all like bears [with our own words], and mourn sore like doves [those knowing it’s the last days]: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off [rachaq – it is an evil decree] from us.
12 For our transgressions are multiplied before you, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them;
13 In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt [refusing His leadership, thinking you are achieving something, while with every movement the serpent tightens his hold], conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
14 And judgment is turned away backward, and justice stands afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.
15 Yea, truth fails; and he that departs from evil makes himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.
16 And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him.
17 For he [the LORD in His man of war] put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloak.
18 According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompense to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompense.
19 So shall they fear [Hebrews 10:31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.] the name [identity] of the LORD [who is a man of war] from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun [this understanding of the new day]. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.
20 And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, says the LORD [quoted in Romans 11:26 & 27].
21 As for me, this is my covenant with them, says the LORD; My spirit that is upon you, and my words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your seed, nor out of the mouth of your seed’s seed, says the LORD, from henceforth and forever.

Lamentations 1
4 The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts [here and now]: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.
5 Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the LORD has afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the enemy.
6 And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed: her princes are become like harts that find no pasture [because they refuse to come to this feast], and they are gone without strength [without understanding] before the pursuer.
7 Jerusalem remembered, in the days of her affliction and of her miseries [maruwd – the mistreatment of their own words], all her pleasant things [when they had the LORD’s good words and ways] that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries saw her, and did mock at her sabbaths [the visitations of the LORD].
8 Jerusalem has grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that honored her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yea, she sighs, and turns backward.
9 Her filthiness is in her skirts; she remembers not her last end [‘achariyth – these last days]; therefore she came down wonderfully [wondering what and how it happened]: she had no comforter [to give her understanding]. O LORD, behold my affliction: for the enemy has magnified himself [raised their words above Yours].
10 The adversary has spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she has seen that the heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom you did command that they should not enter into your congregation.
11 All her people sigh, they seek bread [this word from the mouth of the LORD]; they have given their pleasant things [the understanding they had] for meat [the temporal morsels for which they lusted] to relieve the soul [for which they should now understand they sold their souls to devils among them]: see, O LORD, and consider; for I Am [My now dead body is] become vile.
12 Is it nothing to you, all you that pass by [‘abar – is my calling you from this death into life nothing to you]? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow [that you refuse so great a salvation], which is done unto me, wherewith the LORD has afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger. [Isaiah 53: 6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all. 7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he opens not his mouth. 8 He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken. 9 And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth. 10 Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he has put him to grief: when you shall make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.]
13 From above has he sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them: he has spread a net for my feet, he has turned me back: he has made me desolate and faint all the day.
14 The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are wreathed, and come up upon my neck: he has made my strength [understanding] to fall, the LORD has delivered me into their hands, from whom I am not able to rise up.
15 The LORD has trodden under foot all my mighty men in the midst of me: he has called an assembly against me to crush my young men: the LORD has trodden the virgin, the daughter of Judah, as in a winepress.
16 For these things I weep; my eye, my eye runs down with water, because the comforter [those who should be giving this word of the LORD’s correction] that should relieve my soul is far from [rachaq – are speaking their own word that are evil decreed to] me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.
17 Zion spreadeth forth her hands, and there is none to comfort her: the LORD has commanded concerning Jacob, that his adversaries should be round about him: Jerusalem is as a menstruous [unclean] woman among them.
18 The LORD is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: hear [shama’ – obey], I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow: my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.
19 I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and my elders gave up the ghost in the city, while they sought their meat [their own words] to relieve their souls.
20 Behold, O LORD; for I am in distress [tsar – from the evil of the enemies]: my bowels are troubled; my heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaves, at home there is as death.
21 They have heard that I sigh: there is none to comfort me: all my enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that you have done it: you will bring the day that you have called, and they shall be like unto me.
22 Let all their wickedness come before you; and do unto them, as you have done unto me for all my transgressions: for my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.

Lamentations 3
15 He has filled me with bitterness, he has made me drunken with wormwood [your own words].
16 He has [with your words you thought were sweetness] also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he has covered me with ashes.
17 And you have removed my soul far off [zanach] from peace: I forgot prosperity.
18 And I said, My [false] strength and my [false] hope is perished from the LORD:
19 Remembering my affliction and my misery [maruwd], the wormwood and the gall.
20 My soul has them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
21 This I recall to my mind [leb], therefore have I hope.
22 It is of the LORD’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
23 They are new every morning: great is your faithfulness.
24 The LORD is my portion, says my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
25 The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that [diligently] seeks him.
26 It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.
27 It is good for a [grown] man that he bears the yoke [of corrupt teaching] in his youth [that he realizes his childish understanding].
28 He sits alone and keeps silence [and hears the LORD teaching], because he [the LORD] has borne it [put His yoke] upon him.
29 He put his mouth in the dust [so he understands these childish things are the ruin of the earth]; if so be there may be hope [in the LORD’s correction].
30 He gives his cheek to him [those who at first refuse His word and words] that smites him: he is filled full with [their] reproach.
31 For the LORD will not cast off [zanach] forever [keeping us far from peace]:
32 But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.
33 For he does not afflict willingly [leb – He does not afflict the mind] nor grieve the children of men.[,]
34 To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth.[,]
35 To turn aside the right [mishpat -judgment] of a man before the face [paniym – by the presence] of the Most High,
36 To subvert a man in his cause, the LORD [‘Adonay] approves not.

Romans 3
3 For what if some did not believe [the words we hear are God’s]? shall their unbelief make the faith of God [with us] without effect?
4 God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar [see Psalms 116:11]; as it is written, That you might be justified [dikaioo] in your sayings [logos – the words you speak], and might overcome when you are judged [by the same words].
5 But if our unrighteousness [errors through corruption] commend [suniemi – to set together, introduces, exhibits] the righteousness [the correct uncorrupted interpretation] of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance [if our corruption is necessary to introduce His pure word]? (I speak as a man)
6 God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?
7 For [speaking hypothetically, as a man] if the truth of God has more abounded through my lie unto his glory [His presence manifested]; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?
8 And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.
9 What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles [believers and unbeliever], that they are all under sin [in error];
10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
11 There is none that understands, there is none that seeks after God.
12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that does good, no, not one.
13 Their throat [speaking their own corrupt understanding] is an open sepulcher; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
15 Their feet are swift to shed blood:
16 Destruction and misery are in their ways:
17 And the way of peace have they not known:
18 There is no fear of God before their eyes.
19 Now we know that what things soever the law says, it says to them who are under the law [as all now are, refusing to receive this word as the word of God, and obey it as such, not one speaking it as commanded, none confessing the LORD is seen here alive]: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
20 Therefore by the deeds of the law [the written word that is now corrupted into worthlessness by men changing {metatethemi} it by their errors] there shall no flesh be justified [dikaioo] in his sight: for by the law [now corrupted] is [corrupted] the knowledge of sin.
21 But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested [in His presence correcting us by His spoken understanding removing corruption], being witnessed by the law and the prophets [in their purified form];
22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:
23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory [understanding the manifested presence] of God;
24 Being justified [dikaioo] freely by his grace [this gift of understanding] through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
25 Whom God has set forth to be a propitiation [hilasterion – the mercy seat, over which His presence is manifested in the conversation] through faith in his blood [the price of redemption paid], to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins [corrupt thinking] that are past, through the forbearance [anocha – self-restraint] of God;
26 To [open your mouths to] declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier [dikaioo] of him which believes in Jesus [Jehovah’s Salvation manifested in the flesh].
27 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.
28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified [dikaioo] by faith [that obeys and speaks] without the deeds of the law.
29 Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:
30 Seeing it is one God, which shall justify [dikaioo] the circumcision by faith [seen and heard in their words], and uncircumcision through [our] faith [speaking His word as received].
31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law [uncorrupted by men in church and state].

Romans 11
1 I say then, Has God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin [as Saul {a king} over God’s people, until Timothy comes in the end times].
2 God has not cast away his people which he foreknew [we are God’s people from throughout history]. Know you not what the scripture says of Elijah? how he makes intercession to God against Israel saying,
3 LORD, they have killed your prophets, and digged down your altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.
4 But what says the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal [the idols of the old and corrupt world].
5 Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
6 And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then it is no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.
7 What then? Israel has not obtained that which he seeks for; but the election has obtained it, and the rest were blinded.
8 (According as it is written, God has given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day.
9 And David says, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap [which it is, and because of which they are found guilty], and a stumbling-block, and a recompence unto them:
10 Let their eyes be darkened [ignorant of their own guilt], that they may not see, and bow down their back always [to their enemies who among them made them ignorant].
11 I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles [those who don’t know God and aren’t called His people], for to provoke them to jealousy.
12 Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?
13 For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify my office:
14 If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them.
15 For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life [the resurrection] from the dead?
16 For if the first-fruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.
17 And if some of the branches be broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and with them partake of the root and fatness of the olive tree;
18 Boast not against the branches. But if you boast, you bear not the root, but the root you.
19 You will say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.
20 Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by faith. Be not high-minded, but fear:
21 For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not you.
22 Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness: otherwise you also shall be cut off.
23 And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again.
24 For if you were cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?
25 For I would not, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness [darkened eyes unable to see the Father in the son] in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
26 And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written [Isaiah 27:9 and 59:20 & 21], There shall come out of Zion the Deliverer [rhomai], and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:
27 For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins [the errors that blind them].
28 As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the father’s sakes.
29 For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.
30 For as you [the elect remnant – the first fruit] in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief:
31 Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy.
32 For God has concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon ALL.
33 O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!
34 For who has known the mind of the LORD? or who has been his counselor?
35 Or who has first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again?
36 For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory forever. Amen.

Psalms 31
1 In you, O LORD, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in your righteousness.
2 Bow down your ear to me; deliver [natsal] me speedily: be you my strong rock, for a house of defense to save me.
3 For you are my rock and my fortress; therefore for your name’s sake lead me, and guide me.
4 Pull me out of the net that they have laid secretly for me: for you are my strength.
5 Into your hand I commit my spirit: you have redeemed me, O LORD God of truth.
6 I have hated them that regard lying vanities [who forsake their own mercy]: but I trust in the LORD.
7 I will be glad and rejoice in your mercy: for you have considered my trouble; you have known my soul in adversities;
8 And have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: you have set my feet in a large room.
9 Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: my eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.
10 For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones are consumed.
11 I was a reproach among all my enemies, but especially among my neighbors, and a fear to my acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me.
12 I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.
13 For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.
14 But I trusted in you, O LORD: I said, You are my God.
15 My times are in your hand: deliver [natsal – “caught up”] me from the hand of my enemies, and from them that persecute me.
16 Make your face [paniym – presence] to shine upon your servant: save me for your mercies’ sake.
17 Let me not be ashamed, O LORD; for I have called upon you: let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave.
18 Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
19 Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for them that fear you; which you have wrought for them that trust in you before the sons of men!
20 You shall hide them in the secret of your presence [paniym] from the pride of man: you shall keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.
21 Blessed be the LORD: for he has shown me his marvelous kindness in a strong city.
22 For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before your eyes: nevertheless you heard the voice of my supplications when I cried unto you.
23 O love the LORD, all you [ten thousands of] his saints: for the LORD preserves the faithful, and plentifully rewards the proud doer.
24 Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all you that hope in the LORD.

August 5, 2023

This is the word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, says the LORD of hosts.

3 – 5 August 2023

This is the word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, says the LORD of hosts.

Isaiah 10
12 Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the LORD has performed [batsa’ – all things necessary to open the mouths of His people] his whole work upon mount Zion [His people now realizing their identity in Him] and on [New] Jerusalem [this new nation He has created in His own image and likeness], I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria [the communists in power, the dead now infesting every institution of the old totally corrupt nation], and the glory [their pride that is their shame] of his high looks.
13 For he [Brandon and the evil puppet masters pulling his strings] says, “By the strength [deception] of my hand [by implementing the Obama Doctrine and obeying no law] I have done it, and by my wisdom [understanding dark sentences: the Alinsky Rules for Radicals]; for I am prudent: and I have removed the bounds of [the standards of good and evil that once restrained] the people, and have robbed their treasures, and I have put down the inhabitants like a valiant man:
14 And my hand has found as a nest [unattended] the riches of the people: and as one gathers eggs that are left, [like a serpent] have I gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped [none gave the warning that the serpent was here to devour, because they were not yet born.”
15 Shall the axe boast itself against him that hews therewith [not knowing they are sent as the instrument to awaken those not yet reborn]? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that shakes it [to cut off the current crop of corrupt leaders who left the nest unattended, as a branch in which is the now empty nest is cut off and fallen to the ground, as Brandon often does]? as if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were not [dead] wood [already cut off].
16 Therefore shall the LORD, the LORD of hosts [a man of war], send among his fat ones [leaders of His people who prospered while neglecting and abandoning them] leanness; and under his glory [pride which is their shame] he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire.
17 And the light [the understanding] of Israel [God’s people who will reign with Him as He intended] shall be for a fire [burning dead wood], and his Holy One for a flame [that starts the many fires]: and it shall burn and devour his thorns [misleaders] and his briers [deceivers] in one day;
18 And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standard-bearer [directing the way of an evil army] faints.
19 And the rest of the trees of his forest [left standing] shall be few, that a child may write them.
20 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the [elect] remnant [as Gideon’s three hundred] of Israel, and such as are escaped [the corruption] of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay [put their trust] upon him [the thorns and briers] that smote them; but shall stay [put their trust] upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
21 The [elect] remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob [who come out of the trouble, the tribulation, caused by confusion], unto the mighty God.
22 For though your people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return: the consumption [killayown – as we’ve seen, this word only appeared one other time, in Deuteronomy 28:65, there telling us it is the “failing” of the eyes, not seeing, understanding, the time and season] decreed [charats] shall overflow [shataph – shall be scourged {cleansed and cured} away] with righteousness.
23 For the LORD God of hosts shall make a consumption [kalah – a full end], even determined [charats], in the midst of all the land [‘erets – the earth].
24 Therefore thus says the LORD God of hosts, O my people that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian [the communists in power]: he shall smite you with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against you, after the manner of Egypt [the oppression of tyrants].
25 For yet a very little while, and the indignation [za’am] shall cease [kalah], and my anger [‘aph] in their destruction [tabliyth].
26 And the LORD of hosts shall stir up a scourge for him according to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb: and as his rod was upon the sea [dividing the people at large, as Jacob divided his family before they ford Jabbok], so shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt [bringing them together again against the common enemy pursuing and hoping to annihilate us].
27 And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden [of deception and misleading of these enemies] shall be taken away from off your shoulder, and his yoke [joining you with them in their evil work] from off your neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing [shemem – His army prospering by speaking His word declaring His presence as the sword of the LORD and the sword of Gideon].

Judges 7
9 And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said unto him [Gideon – the warrior who is the feller of the mighty], Arise, get you down unto the host [the army of Midian]; for I have delivered it into your hand.
10 But if you fear to go down, go you with Phurah [only appearing here, meaning foliage, from pa’ar – meaning “to gleam, i.e. (causatively) embellish; figuratively, to boast; also to explain (i.e. make clear) oneself; denominative from 6288, to shake a tree,” those in whom God is glorified] your servant down to the host:
11 And you shall hear what they say; and afterward shall your hands be strengthened to go down unto the host. Then went he down with Phurah [foliage – those who’ve sprouted to life: the elect remnant, whose mouths are opened to make all things clearly seen as they boast of the LORD with us] his servant unto the outside of the armed men that were in the host [as locust coming against the foliage]. [Isaiah 44:23 Sing {repeat His words}, O you heavens; for the LORD has done it: shout, you lower parts of the earth: break forth into singing, you mountains, O forest, and every tree therein: for the LORD has redeemed Jacob, and glorified himself {pa’ar} in Israel.]
12 And the Midianites [those causing endless strife among God’s people] and the Amalekites [the enemies of God’s people, who’ve warred against them in every generation] and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like grasshoppers [as a swarm of locust] for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand by the sea side [showing this is the time and season of the end] for multitude.
13 And when Gideon was come, behold, there was a man that told a dream unto his fellow, and said, Behold, I dreamed a dream, and, lo, a cake of barley bread [this word of God] tumbled [came down from heaven] into the host of Midian, and came unto a tent [what covers them in this time of desolation wandering in the wilderness], and smote it that it fell, and overturned it, that the tent lay along [the corrupt nation as a tree fallen].
14 And his fellow answered and said, This is nothing else save the sword of Gideon [the feller of the mighty] the son of Joash [the flame of Jehovah], a man of Israel: for into his hand has God delivered Midian, and all the host.
15 And it was so, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream, and the interpretation thereof, that he worshipped, and returned into the host of Israel [the elect remnant], and said, Arise; for the LORD has delivered into your hand the host of Midian.
16 And he divided [as Jacob divided his family] the three hundred men into three companies, and he put a trumpet in every man’s hand, with empty pitchers [where there is no water as a flood], and lamps within the pitchers [My word as fire, replacing the flood, to end the old and corrupt world].
17 And he said unto them, Look on me, and do likewise: and, behold, when I come to the outside of the camp, it shall be that, as I do, so shall you do.
18 When I blow with a trumpet [lift up My voice], I and all that are with me, then blow you the trumpets [lift up the voice] also on every side of all the camp, and say, The sword [this word as fire from our mouths, against the fires of the wicked] of the LORD, and of Gideon.
19 So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came unto the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch; and they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers [showing they are worthless, no longer carrying the word of God] that were in their hands.
20 And the three companies blew the trumpets, and broke the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal: and they cried, The sword of the LORD, and of Gideon.
21 And they stood every man in his place round about the camp; and all the host ran, and cried, and fled. [Jeremiah 50: 44 Behold, he {the LORD, I Am} shall come up like a lion from {roaring as a trumpet sounding against them} the swelling of Jordan {words that carried all in the descent into death} unto the habitation of the strong {in power}: but I will make them {the wicked} suddenly run away from her {My people they have oppressed}: and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over her? for who is like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who is that shepherd that will stand before me? {All these are references to Michael, who is like God and stands for God’s people in this time of Jacob’s trouble, and Shiloh, who comes as the shepherd and stone of God’s people – the king of peace, and king of righteousness, in the order of Melchizedek.}]
22 And the three hundred blew the trumpets, and the LORD set every man’s sword against his fellow, even throughout all the host: and the host fled to Bethshittah [house of trees – powers that are causing strife, who Gideon has cut down] in Zererath [the oppressors], and to the border of Abelmeholah [the field of rejoicing], unto Tabbath [celebration].
23 And the men of Israel gathered themselves together out of Naphtali [those who were before wrestling with God and His word, now knowing it is Him], and out of Asher [now rejoicing and celebrating, knowing Him], and out of all Manasseh [now that they remember the God they had forgotten], and pursued after the Midianites [those who, through their lies intentionally cause strife].
24 And Gideon sent messengers throughout all mount Ephraim [all God’s people in these last days], saying, come down against the Midianites, and take before them the waters unto Bethbarah [the people who ford, cross over into life in the promised end] and Jordan [the rivers, words of the wicked, that carry all into death]. Then all the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, and took the waters unto Bethbarah and Jordan.
25 And they took two princes of the Midianites, Oreb [those covered in darkness, whose words are lies meant to produce ignorance] and Zeeb [the wolves who’ve come among and scattered the sheep]; and they slew Oreb upon the rock Oreb, and Zeeb they slew at the winepress of Zeeb, and pursued Midian, and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon on the other side Jordan.

As we see, the above is what Daniel is told of by Gabriel (the “warrior of God” and “man of God”), referring to the pattern of God’s plan found herein.

Daniel 9
24 Seventy weeks are determined upon your people and upon your holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end [chatham] of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up [chatham – make an end of] the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.
26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end [qets] thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end [qets] of the war desolations are determined [charats].
27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation [kalah – the full end], and that determined [charats] shall be poured upon the desolate.

As we understand, the charats, what the LORD decreed and determined is the killayown, the “failing” of vision, cleansed away, when we see what is before our eyes, understanding (who is) good and evil. It is when the LORD’s indignation ends: when we choose the good and refuse the evil, and doing (not just hearing), rise from death into life.

Deuteronomy 28
8 If you will not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you mayest fear this glorious and fearful name [the identity of], The LORD Your God [Jehovah’ elohiym – God’s presence manifested in the present tense: in His word, I Am, as in me];
59 Then the LORD will make your plagues wonderful [you, as now, will wonder why they came, not understanding, not seeing, the evil is a produce of the neglect and abandonment of those leading you in church and state], and the plagues of your seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance [degenerating into the now mass insanity that rules the world].
60 Moreover he will bring [these last four words are rendered from shuwb, meaning return – to the place from where he previously rescued us] upon you all the diseases of Egypt [oppression under tyrants], which you were afraid of; and they shall cleave [snare and be yoked] unto you.
61 Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will the LORD bring [‘alah – let rise] upon [against] you, until you be destroyed.
62 And you shall be left few in number [as we are this day], whereas you were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because you would not obey [shama’] the voice [qowl] of the LORD your God [Jehovah’ elohiym].
63 And it shall come to pass, that as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you; so the LORD will rejoice over you to destroy you [this corrupt nation, all her totally corrupt and vermin-infested institutions], and to bring you to naught; and you shall be plucked [nacach – only used three other times, here referring us to Proverbs 15:25] from off the land [here untranslated from the original text is the word matsalah, following the word ‘adamah, meaning the depths of God’s people, the family of Adam, in the belly of hell] whither you go to possess it. [Proverbs 15:23 A man has joy {manifesting the presence of God by giving His good counsel} by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season {knowing the time}, how good is it! 24 The way of life is above {comes from heaven} to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath. 25 The LORD will destroy {nacach} the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow {the new nation of those who were without a defender and protector}. 26 The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the LORD: but the words of the pure are pleasant words {pleasing to the LORD, and those speaking them will see Him}. 27 He that is greedy of gain trouble {afflicts} his own house {as the current evil administration has this nation}; but he that hates gifts {bribes, for which they have sold their souls and betrayed their nation} shall live. 28 The heart of the righteous studies to answer {opening their mouth in due season to speak the LORD’s good tidings}: but the mouth of the wicked pours out evil things.]
64 And the LORD shall scatter you among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there you shall serve other gods, which neither you nor your fathers have known, even [dead] wood and stone.
65 And among these nations shall you find no ease, neither shall the sole of your foot have rest: but the LORD shall give you there a trembling heart, and failing [killayown] of eyes, and sorrow of mind:
66 And your life shall hang in doubt before you; and you shall fear day and night, and shall have none assurance of your life:
67 In the morning [when this understanding comes] you shall say, Would God it were even [choosing to remain in ignorance and death]! and at even [when you realized your ignorance] you shall say, Would God it were morning [still not hearing His voice or seeing His presence]! for the fear of your heart wherewith you shall fear, and for the sight of your eyes which you shall see. [This last phrase refers back to verse 34, speaking of after God’s people have been oppressed and in all ways crushed {ratsats}, saying “So that you shall be mad {shaga’ – insane} for the sight of your eyes which you shall see.”]
68 And the LORD shall bring you into Egypt [into oppression under tyrants] again with ships [by the wicked infesting all the national institutions of church and state], by the way whereof I spoke unto you, You shall see it no more again [not understanding it, because you reject the good counsel of the LORD and instead choose evil]: and there you shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy [redeem] you.

Hosea 9
1 Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for you have gone a whoring from your God, you have loved a reward [‘ethnan – “a gift (as the price of harlotry or idolatry)”] upon every cornfloor [for the harvest that belongs to others].
2 The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her.
3 They shall not dwell in the LORD’s land; but Ephraim [all God’s people in this generation] shall return [have returned] to Egypt [into oppression un tyrants], and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria [the deceptions of the communists now in power].
4 They shall not offer wine offerings to the LORD [but instead to the men they worship, who give them gifts they’ve stolen from the rightful owners], neither shall they be pleasing unto him: their sacrifices shall be unto them as the bread of mourners; all that eat thereof shall be polluted: for their bread for [which they’ve sold] their soul shall not come into the house of the LORD.
5 What will you do in the solemn day, and in the day [this day] of the feast of the LORD?
6 For, lo, they are gone [away from the LORD] because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them: the pleasant places for their silver, nettles [deceivers] shall possess them: thorns [misleaders] shall be in their tabernacles.
7 The days of visitation [pquddah – now when the LORD has come as the Chief Overseer of the earth] are come, the days of recompense are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad [shaga’ – insane: not able to distinguish between their delusion and the reality before their eyes], for the multitude of your iniquity, and the great hatred [withholding this word].
8 The watchman [tsaphah – the LORD’s man with us, who does see reality and warn away from evil – I Am] of Ephraim was with my God: but the prophet is a snare of a fowler in all his ways [closing the ears and eyes of all who follow their delusions], and hatred [withholding this word] in the house of his God.
9 They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.

The above mention of Gibeah refers us to Judge 19:15 & 18, speaking of when a certain unnamed man is traveling toward the house of the LORD, and as he passes through there, none have (yet) taken him into their house.

Judges 19
15 And they turned aside thither, to go in and to lodge in Gibeah: and when he went in, he sat him down in a street of the city: for there was no man that took them into his house to lodging.
16 And, behold, there came an old man from his work out of the field at even, which was also of mount Ephraim; and he sojourned in Gibeah: but the men of the place were Benjamites.
17 And when he had lifted up his eyes, he saw a wayfaring man in the street of the city: and the old man said, Whither go you? and whence come you?
18 And he said unto him, We are passing [‘abar – Passing over from death into life] from Bethlehem-Judah toward the side of mount Ephraim; from thence am I: and I went to Bethlehem-Judah, but I am now going to the house of the LORD [which is in Shiloh]; and there is no man that [here in Gibeah] receives [‘acaph – gathered with] me to house.

This passage and the chapters before and after tell of God’s people at war among themselves, stressing that it (their disunity) is when they are without a king (after Joshua’s death), and the priesthood, of which the unnamed man a part (a Levite), is aimlessly wandering toward Shiloh. Shiloh is where the Ark of the Testament was, and where Phinehas (mouth of a serpent), the son of Eleazar (God has helped), the son of Aaron (light bringer) was the High Priest. We know this, then, was where the LORD manifested Presence at the mercy seat, which is the lid of the Ark, from where, in the conversation above it, flowed the ways of peace (law, judgment, and mercy) from the mouth of the LORD to the High Priest who entered it (the LORD’s presence).

As we know from Genesis 49:10, when Jacob is speaking to his children of what shall befall them in these last days (‘achariyth), “The scepter [to rule] shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering [yiqqahah – “obedience”] of the people be.

The word yiqqahah only appears one other time, in Proverbs 30:17, saying, “The eye that mocks at his father {who gives him wisdom and knowledge, as honey that brings strength}, and despises to obey {yippahah} his mother {who teaches him the foundation, milk with the Father’s honey, by which he choose the good and refuse the evil}, the ravens {those covered in darkness: ignorance} of the valley shall pick it {his failed eyesight} out, and the young eagles {who fly in the heaven by the strength of their good understanding and wisdom} shall eat it {his erroneous ways and ideas}.”

It (yiqqahah) is from the once used word yaqeh, meaning to obey, which is rendered as the proper name Jakeh, in Proverbs 30:1, speaking of Solomon.

Proverbs 30
1 The words of Agur [to those the LORD has gathered] the son of Jakeh [the obedient who He declares blameless], even the prophecy: the man spoke unto Ithiel [God is with me {Immanuel}], even unto Ithiel [God is with me {Immanuel}] and Ucal [and you shall eat {this feast of charity, milk and honey}],
2 Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man.
3 I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the holy.
4 Who has ascended up into heaven [into full understanding], or descended [bringing it as light upon the earth]? who has gathered the wind [the spirit in man] in his fists? who has bound the waters in a [this word of God as a covering] garment? who has established all the ends [ending the old and beginning the new] of the earth? what is his name, and what is his son’s name, if you can tell?
5 Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.
6 Add you not unto his words, lest he reprove you, and you be found a liar.
7 Two things have I required of you; deny me them not before I die:
8 Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:
9 Lest I be full, and deny you, and say, Who is the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
10 Accuse not a servant unto his master, lest he curse you, and you be found guilty.
11 There is a generation that curses [the wisdom and knowledge] their father, and does not bless their mother [for her teaching, this nourishment, milk as the necessary foundation].
12 There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness [what they know is corrupt, and they choose to remain ignorant, and ignorant of it].
13 There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.
14 There is a generation, whose teeth [words] are as swords, and their jaw teeth [words] as knives, [who use their positions of power] to devour the poor [those without power] from off the earth, and the needy [needing understanding] from among men.
15 The horse-leach has two daughters [the leaches that attach to the mouth of the horses when they drink from their waters, to drain their blood, life, from them], crying, Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things say not, It is enough [they will keep going until they, like locust, devour everything, draining all life from the earth]:
16 The grave [sheol – the habitation of the dead]; and the barren womb [that no longer brings life on the earth]; the earth that is not filled with [life giving] water [the word of God which is life]; and the fire [of hell] that says not, It is enough.
17 The eye that mocks at his father [father’s wisdom and understanding], and despises to obey [yiqqahah] his mother [mother’s teaching the foundations], the ravens [the covering of darkness, ignorance] of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles [understanding] shall eat it [devour ignorance].
18 There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not:
19 The way of an eagle in the air [the understanding that lifts him there]; the way of a serpent upon a rock [the venomous words of those who say they are in Christ]; the way of a ship [the corrupt church] in the midst of the sea [the people at large]; and the way of a man [of God] with a maid [those not defiled by the unfaithful church].
20 Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eats, and wipes her mouth, and says, I have done no wickedness.
21 For three things the earth is disquieted, and for four which it cannot bear:
22 For a servant [of Satan] when he reigns; and a fool [the same servant] when he is filled with meat [devouring flesh: humanity];
23 For an odious woman [church] when she is married [joined in evil with this same servant of Satan]; and a handmaid [those undefiled who’ve come out of the corrupt church and her confusion] that is heir to her mistress [the corrupt and unfaithful church].
24 There be four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise:
25 The ants are a people not strong [without power], yet they prepare their meat in the summer [storing up what strengthens them against this time are darkness];
26 The conies are but a feeble folk [with just a little knowledge], yet make they their houses in the rocks [so should you who have more understanding join with Christ who is our Rock, making your habitation His ONE BODY];
27 The locusts [those devouring the earth] have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands [joined by one mind];
28 The spider takes hold with her hands, and is in kings’ palaces [and you should let this understanding take hold of this understanding and enter the kingdom of heaven].
29 There be three things which go well, yea, four are comely in going:
30 A lion [as is the Lion of Judah, who is David’s seed with you – I Am] which is strongest among beasts, and turns not away for any;
31 A greyhound [zarziyr – a cheetah, the fastest runner, forerunner, finishing the course before all others]; he goat also [who all the flock obediently follows]; and a king, against whom there is no rising up.
32 If you have done foolishly in lifting up yourself [against Him, the LORD in me], or if you have thought evil, lay your hand upon your mouth [stop your words of opposition against the LORD’s word and work].
33 Surely the churning of milk brings forth butter, and the wringing of the nose brings forth blood: so the forcing of wrath brings forth strife. [Through long-suffering, persistence, understanding will eventually congeal into richness, and then will they know to refuse the evil advice and choose the good.]

This takes us back to Zachariah, and Zerubbabel, who is mentioned in the king line of Judah through which came the LORD Jesus; and Joshua (Jesus), speaking of the ONE BODY of Christ as the cleansed priesthood. As we know, the name Zerubbabel means he is born in Babylon and Spiritually born again by coming out of it: confusion. Joshua, the High Priest, the son of Josedech (Jehovah’s righteousness), is the LORD’s salvation manifested in the perpetual son, the pattern of Joshua the son of Nun (in perpetuity), who was the last king God chose (before David), who was from the tribe of Joseph (Ephraim – see Numbers 13:8 & 16).

As we know, the birthright to the throne is in the tribe of Joseph. (1 Chronicles 5:1 Now the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel, (for he was the firstborn; but forasmuch as he defiled his father’s bed, his birthright was given unto the sons of Joseph the son of Israel: and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright. 2 For Judah prevailed above his brethren, and of him came the chief ruler; but the birthright was Joseph’s:)

Haggai 1
7 Thus says the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.
8 Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, says the LORD.
9 You looked for much, and, lo it came to little; and when you brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? says the LORD of hosts. Because of my house that is waste, and you run every man unto his own house.
10 Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew [this word of God that appears on the earth], and the earth is stayed from her fruit.
11 And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labor of the hands.
12 Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of the LORD their God, and the words of Haggai the prophet, as the LORD their God had sent him, and the people did fear before the LORD.
13 Then spake Haggai the LORD’s messenger in the LORD’s message unto the people, saying, I am with you, says the LORD.
14 And the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and did work in the house of the LORD of hosts, their God,

Haggai 2
20 And again the word of the LORD came unto Haggai in the four and twentieth day of the month, saying,
21 Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, I will shake the heavens and the earth;
22 And I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms [of the wicked], and I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the heathen; and I will overthrow the chariots, and those that ride in them; and the horses and their riders shall come down, every one by the sword of his brother.
23 In that day, says the LORD of hosts, will I take you, O Zerubbabel, my servant, the son of Shealtiel, says the LORD, and will make you as a signet [chowtham – My signature, My identity, pressed into the earth]: for I have chosen you, says the LORD of hosts.

Amos 8
11 Behold, the days come, says the LORD God, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD:
12 And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it.

Amos 9
8 Behold, the eyes of the LORD God are upon the sinful kingdom [this corrupt nation under the control of the wicked], and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; saving that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, says the LORD.
9 For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.
10 All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.
11 In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins [building a new nation upon them], and I will build it as in the days of old:
12 That they may possess the remnant of Edom [the enemies mixed among us at war with us], and of all the heathen [those who don’t know me or My presence], which are called by my name [who say they are Christians while hating their brother], says the LORD that does this.
13 Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that the plowman [plowing under the old corrupt crop] shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes [in the winepress of the LORD’s wrath] him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills [the old corrupt government] shall melt.
14 And I will bring again the captivity [self-governing] of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them.
15 And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, says the LORD your God.

Ezra 5
1 Then the prophets, Haggai the prophet, and Zechariah the son of Iddo, prophesied unto the Jews that were in Judah and Jerusalem in the name of the God of Israel, even unto them.
2 Then rose up Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua [Joshua] the son of Jozadak [Josedech], and began to build the house of God which is at Jerusalem: and with them were the prophets of God helping them.
3 At the same time came to them Tatnai, governor on this side the river, and Shetharboznai and their companions, and said thus unto them, Who has commanded you to build this house, and to make up this wall?
4 Then said we unto them after this manner, What are the names of the men that make this building?
5 But the eye of their God was upon the elders of the Jews, that they could not cause them to cease, till the matter came to Darius: and then they returned answer by letter concerning this matter.
6 The copy of the letter that Tatnai, governor on this side the river, and Shetharboznai and his companions the Apharsachites, which were on this side the river, sent unto Darius the king: [These names tell of the “gift,” who is “the star of splendor” “will divide the deceivers” work from the work of “the LORD.”]
7 They sent a letter unto him, wherein was written thus; Unto Darius the king, all peace.
8 Be it known unto the king, that we went into the province of Judea, to the house of the great God, which is built with great stones, and timber is laid in the walls, and this work goes fast on, and prospers in their hands.
9 Then asked we those elders, and said unto them thus, Who commanded you to build this house, and to make up these walls?
10 We asked their names also, to certify you, that we might write the names of the men that were the chief of them.
11 And thus they returned us answer, saying, We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and build the house that was built these many years ago, which a great king of Israel built and set up.
12 But after that our fathers had provoked the God of heaven unto wrath, he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, the Chaldean [names meaning – the lies of the false prophets that cause desolation and the confusion that now rules over the world controlled by those using deception to manipulate God’s people into destroying themselves], who destroyed this house, and carried the people away [glah] into Babylon [confusion].
13 But in the first year of Cyrus [the LORD of the furnace] the king of Babylon the same king Cyrus made a decree to build this house of God.
14 And the vessels also of gold and silver of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple that was in Jerusalem, and brought them into the temple of Babylon, those did Cyrus [the LORD of the furnace {of refining}] the king take out of the temple of Babylon [out of confusion], and they were delivered unto one, whose name was Sheshbazzar [this is Zerubbabel, a “worshiper in the fire”], whom he had made governor;
15 And said unto him, Take these vessels, go, carry them into the temple that is in Jerusalem, and let the house of God be built in his place.
16 Then came the same Sheshbazzar [Zerubbabel, while worshiping in the fire of the furnace], and laid the foundation of the house of God which is in Jerusalem: and since that time even until now has it been in building, and yet it is not finished.
17 Now therefore, if it seems good to the king, let there be search made in the king’s treasure house [the cloud where these treasure of heaven are held, unseen until revealed by the LORD to those He chooses], which is there at Babylon [here among the confusion], whether it be so, that a decree was made of Cyrus [The LORD of the furnace] the king to build this house of God at Jerusalem, and let the king send his pleasure to us concerning this matter.

Zechariah 4
6 Then he answered and spoke unto me, saying, This is the word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, says the LORD of hosts.
7 Who are you, O great mountain [this now totally corrupt nation: church and state]? before Zerubbabel you shall become a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shouting, crying, Grace, grace unto it.
8 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
9 The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also [on the other side of the river, NOW] finish it; and you shall know that the LORD of hosts has sent me unto you.
10 For who has despised the day of small things [the powerless and foolish things of this corrupt world]? for they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet [assessing the true condition] in the hand of Zerubbabel with those seven [the Church united with the king, in ONE BODY]; they are the eyes of the LORD, which run to and fro [increasing knowledge and understanding] through the whole earth.

Zechariah 3
1 And he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist [satan] him.
2 And the LORD said unto Satan, The LORD rebuke you, O Satan; even the LORD that has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you: is not this a brand plucked [natsal – ‘”caught up”] out of the fire?
3 Now Joshua [the dead body of Christ] was clothed with filthy garments, and stood before the angel.
4 And he answered and spoke unto those that stood before him, saying, Take away the filthy garments from him. And unto him he said, Behold, I have caused your iniquity to pass from you [‘bar – the Passover from death into life], and I will clothe you with change of raiment.
5 And I said, Let them set a fair mitre upon his head. So they set a fair mitre upon his head, and clothed him with garments [these are the garments put on by the purified priest]. And the angel of the LORD stood by.
6 And the angel of the LORD protested [reiterated] unto Joshua [The priesthood, the ONE BODY of Christ], saying,
7 Thus says the LORD of hosts; If you will walk in my ways, and if you will keep my charge, then you shall also judge my house, and shall also keep my courts, and I will give you places to walk among these that stand by.
8 Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, you, and your fellows that sit before you: for they are men wondered at: for, behold, I will bring forth my servant the Branch.
9 For behold the stone that I have laid before Joshua; upon one stone shall be seven eyes: behold, I will engrave the graving [write the writing] thereof, says the LORD of hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.
10 In that day [when I open your mouths], says the LORD of hosts, shall you call every man his neighbor under the vine and under the fig tree [into this BODY made ONE in my hand].

Ezekiel 37
19 Say unto them, Thus saith the LORD God; Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, even with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in my hand.
20 And the sticks whereon you write shall be in your [the son of man’s] hand before their eyes.
21 And say unto them, Thus saith the LORD God; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen [those who don’t know Me], whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land:
22 And I will make them one [new] nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations [or many scattered tribes], neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all.
23 Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwelling-places, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.
24 And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them.

1 Peter 2
1 Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speaking,
2 As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that you may grow thereby:
3 If so be you have tasted that the LORD is gracious.
4 To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious,
5 You also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
6 Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Zion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believes on him shall not be confounded.
7 Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner,
8 And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.
9 But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood [sent to minister His word to the heirs of His salvation], a [new] holy nation, a peculiar people; that you should show forth the praises of him who has called you out of darkness [ignorance] into his marvelous [eye opening] light [understanding, by which we see Him];
10 Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
11 Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims [who looked for a city, this new holy nation, heavenly New Jerusalem, where you have now arrived: new heaven and earth, wherein dwells righteousness], abstain from fleshly lusts [spotting your garments], which war against the soul [you rising again into immortality];
12 Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles [who don’t know the LORD now manifested among us, in us]: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers [call your good evil], they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation [episkope – when He is here, manifested as the Chief Overseer of the earth].

Psalms 109
1 Hold not your peace, O God of my praise;
2 For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.
3 They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.
4 For my love they are my adversaries [satan]: but I give myself unto prayer.
5 And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
6 Set you a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand.
7 When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin.
8 Let his days be few; and let another take his office.
9 Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
10 Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
11 Let the extortioner catch all that he has; and let the strangers spoil his labor.
12 Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.
13 Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.
14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
15 Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.
16 Because that he remembered not to show mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.
17 As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.
18 As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.
19 Let it be unto him as the garment which covers him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.
20 Let this be the reward of my adversaries [satan] from the LORD, and of them that speak evil against my soul.
21 But do you for me, O God the LORD, for your name’s sake: because your mercy is good, deliver you me.
22 For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
23 I am gone like the shadow when it declines: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
24 My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh fails of fatness.
25 I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shook their heads.
26 Help me, O LORD my God: O save me according to your mercy:
27 That they may know that this is your hand; that you, LORD, have done it.
28 Let them curse, but bless you: when they arise, let them be ashamed; but let your servant rejoice.
29 Let my adversaries [satan] be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.
30 I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth; yea, I will praise him among the multitude.
31 For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul.

August 2, 2023

And, behold, you shall be dumb, and not able to speak, until the day that these things shall be performed, because you believe not my words, which shall be fulfilled in their season.

1 – 2 August 2023

And, behold, you shall be dumb, and not able to speak, until the day that these things shall be performed, because you believe not my words, which shall be fulfilled in their season.

We begin today with the LORD answering the question, “When will God’s people’s mouths open?”

The words not believed are those of Gabriel, a Hebrew name only appearing twice in the New Testament, in Luke 1:19 & 26, and twice in the Old, in Daniel 8:16 & 9:21. As we know, his name means “warrior of God” and “man of God,” both descriptions of only One person in the New Testament: Timothy, the man the LORD chose as His soldier and sent to accomplish what pleases Him.

We understand what pleases God when He, through Paul, describes it to Timothy in 2 Timothy 2:4. It is by these things He fights the good fight, fleeing the love of money, a blinding lust that’s snared all the other, falsely so-called, prophets of God who prophesy to please men (commending themselves among themselves, for their consensus: agreement, but not with God, truth, or reality).

2 Timothy 2
1 You, therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.
2 And the things that you have heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit you to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.
3 You, therefore, endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
4 No man that wars entangles himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who has chosen him to be a soldier.
5 And if a man also strives for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strives lawfully.
6 The husbandman [georgos – the worker in the earth] that labors [diligently searches for the treasure hidden below the surface of this written word] must be first partaker [metalambano – in succession: line upon line, precept upon precept, take hold] of the fruits [that come by this work, long-suffering, and patience].
7 Consider [noieo – “to exercise the mind (observe), i.e. (figuratively) to comprehend, heed”] what I say; and the LORD give you understanding [sunesis – “a mental putting together {line and precpet}, i.e. intelligence or (concretely) the intellect”] in all things.
8 Remember that Jesus Christ of the seed of David was raised from the dead according to [kata – through time waiting for the fruit of] my gospel [euaggelion – opening my mouth and speaking the good tidings of God and confessing He is alive in me]:
9 Wherein I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, even unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound.
10 Therefore I endure all things for the elect’s sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory [the LORD manifesting His presence, alive forever, resurrected to life, ours and His, in us as].
11 It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him:
12 If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us:
13 If we believe not [He is speaking to us through those in whom He has already risen], yet he abides faithful: [long-suffering until] he [is realized and comes to life in those who receive Him] cannot deny himself.
14 Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the LORD that they strive not about words [of men ignorant of these things] to no profit, but to the subverting [katastrophe – “an overturn (“catastrophe”), i.e. demolition; figuratively, apostasy”] of the hearers.
15 Study to show yourself approved unto God, a workman [in the earth] that needs not to be ashamed [when the end of our conversation, thesis, is realized to be truth, “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever”], rightly dividing the word of truth.
16 But shun profane and vain babblings [the confusion, delusions, and insanity that rules this evil time]: for they will increase unto more ungodliness [asebeia – wickedness: manifesting Satan in the flesh, lying and deceiving those who follow, hear and obey, them into perdition: the catastrophe].

The words “chosen him to be a soldier,” above in verse 4, are from stratologeo, only appearing here, meaning “from a compound of the base of 4756 and 3004 (in its original sense); to gather (or select) as a warrior, i.e. enlist in the army.”

In this word, the LORD describes who I Am. The Strong’s Greek Dictionary definitions of the words from which it is compounded are, with my additions in brackets: stratia (#4756); a derivative of stratos (an army; from the base of 4766, as encamped); camp-likeness, i.e. an army, i.e. (figuratively) the angels, the celestial luminaries; and lego (#3004); to “lay” forth [line upon line, precept upon precept], i.e. (figuratively) relate (in words (usually of systematic or set discourse; whereas 2036 and 5346 generally refer to an individual expression or speech respectively; while 4483 is properly to break silence merely, and 2980 means an extended or random harangue)); by implication, to mean [give meaning].

1 Timothy 6
6 But godliness [eusebeia – good worship, the mystery of “God manifested in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory”] with contentment is great gain.
7 For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.
8 And having food and raiment let us be therewith content.
9 But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in [their corrupt waters, words of] destruction and perdition.
10 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith [denying the LORD with us], and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. [Hebrews 13: 5 Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as you have: for he has said, I will never leave you, nor forsake you. 6 So that we may boldly say, The LORD is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me. 7 Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation. 8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever. 9 Be not carried about with {the winds of} divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace {this gift of understanding from God}; not with meats {the creations of the flesh}, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.]
11 But you, O man of God [the first of the only two times the title appears in the New Testament, both of the Timothy I Am], flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness [eusebeia], faith, love, patience, meekness.
12 Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal [aionios – ages without end] life, whereunto you are also called, and have professed a good profession [obeying and opening my mouth as commanded, for which I Am sent] before many witnesses.
13 I give you charge in the sight of God, who quickens [brings from death into life] all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession;
14 That you keep this commandment without spot, unrebukable, until the appearing [epiphaneia – the epiphany] of our LORD Jesus Christ [alive in my flesh body]:
15 Which in his times he shall show, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and LORD of lords;
16 Who only has immortality [athanasia – the reversal of death], dwelling in the light [understanding] which no man [only God] can approach unto; whom no man [in this time of mass ignorance and blindness] has seen, nor can see [without God revealing Him to them, whenever He wills]: to whom be honor and power everlasting. Amen.
17 Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not high-minded [exalting their minds above God’s], nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God [always with us], who gives us richly all things to enjoy;
18 That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate [willingly obedient to His commandment to propagate this word while confessing it is His and His presence manifested];
19 Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.
20 O Timothy, keep that which is committed to your trust [as an angel that kept his first estate], avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science [the fake science that rules this evil time, when men, for the love of money, with lying signs and wonders, known delusions and insanity they broadcast and teach, create what they call science and truth] falsely so called:
21 Which some professing [these falsehoods to be true] have erred concerning the faith [not believing God when He has come as the Chief Overseer of the earth, to reveal the truth and restore rational thinking]. Grace [this gift of God] be with you. Amen.

The words rendered “ungodliness” and “godliness,” from asebeia and eusebeia, are both dubiously presumed to be from the word sebomai, meaning “middle voice of an apparently primary verb; to revere, i.e. adore:–devout, religious, worship.” The prefix “a” transforms the word it’s compounded with into its reverse; and “eu” means good or well.

The LORD, through Paul, tactically uses sebeia to refer us to the two Hebrew words sheba’, meaning seven, and cheber, meaning spell, from chabar, meaning “to join (literally or figuratively); specifically (by means of spells) to fascinate.”

The mystery of godliness, spoken of in 1 Timothy 3:16, is the mystery of the gospel: the good spell: euaggelion: the good message: God’s message spoken through his messengers, which joins us with Him in His life and work. The asebeia is the opposition, the evil message that breaks the spell and separates us from God into darkness.

It (asebeia) only appears 5 other times, each, in context, explaining it as above.

Romans 1
16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel [euaggelion] of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believes [in it His presence is manifested]; to the Jew [so-called believers who seek a sign] first, and also to the Greek [the unbelievers, who look for some new knowledge].
17 For therein [from the message] is the righteousness of God revealed from faith [of the speaker] to faith [of the hearer]: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness [asebeia – messages opposing the LORD’s word through us] and unrighteousness of men [whose thinking is corrupted by sin: errors about what is good, right, and true], who hold the truth in unrighteousness [in their corruption];
19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God has shown it unto them.
20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen [by the understanding He has gifted to us], being understood by the things that are made [that now appear in these elements of understanding brought together], even his eternal power and Godhead [who assembles them]; so that they are without excuse:
21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful [for His gift]; but became vain in their imaginations [making up things from their own corrupt minds], and their foolish heart [their mind with corrupt foundations] was darkened [without understanding].
22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
23 And changed [allasso] the glory [manifested presence] of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things.
24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves:
25 Who changed [metallasso] the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature [the creations of their own minds] more than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

The “change,” spoken of above in verse 23, by men’s corruption, is what the LORD in me has come to change back, and in doing, bring back under His good spell any who willingly receive Him (this word as His presence manifested, as it is).

As the LORD tells of this “change” back, in 1 Corinthians 15, He uses the word athanasia, “immorality” the only other times it appears.

(FYI: if the word sounds familiar, it’s because of euthanasia, literally meaning “good death,” so named because it ends pain and suffering (saying these diminish the value of life; a mutable standard (liable to change) which could say any life is at some point valueless). The twisting of this word in our now totally corrupt culture is its reversal: the pain and suffering it ends is of those no longer wanting to be burdened by those (men or nations) they convince to kill themselves or kill without resistance. Spiritually, modern euthanasia, with its reversed meaning, kills the spirit of good in man for the (falsely so-called) “good” of the wicked burdened by it opposing them and refusing to call their evil good.)

1 Corinthians 15
45 And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit [bringing us from death into life].
46 Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.
47 The first man is of the earth, earthy; the second man is the LORD from heaven.
48 As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.
49 And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.
50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither does corruption inherit incorruption.
51 Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed [allasso],
52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed [allasso].
53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal [thnetos – liable to death] must put on immortality [athanasia – the reversing of death].
54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal [thnetos – liable {legally answerable, under the law} to death] shall have put on immortality [athanasia], then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
55 O death, where is your sting? O grave, where is your victory?
56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law [it corrupts, not working toward the Spirit of the law]. [Galatians 5: 18 But if you be led of the Spirit, you are not under the law.]
57 But thanks be to God, which gives us the victory through our LORD Jesus Christ [when He rises in us, and we are led by His Spirit, removing corruption, and opening our mouths to speak His pure word].
58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be you steadfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the LORD, forasmuch as you know that your labor is not in vain in the LORD.

Romans 11
25 For I would not, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel [all God’s people], until the fulness of the Gentiles [those who haven’t known the LORD] be come in.
26 And so all Israel [God’s people who say they know Him, who are in unbelief that He is with them speaking and working to save them] shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Zion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness [asebeia – the anti-gospel of the enemies mixed among us] from Jacob:
27 For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins [the blinding corruption].
28 As concerning the gospel [euaggelion], they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved [agapetos – the recipients of His gift] for the father’s sakes.
29 For the gifts [grace] and calling of God are without repentance.
30 For as you [the awakened elect remnant] in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief:
31 Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy [at His mercy seat, receiving His word from you who’ve received it].
32 For God has concluded them all in unbelief [evident in their not knowing Him], that he might have mercy upon all.
33 O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!
34 For who has known the mind of the LORD? or who has been his counselor?
35 Or who has first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again?
36 For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory forever. Amen.

Jude 1
14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the LORD comes with ten thousands of his saints,
15 To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly [asebeia] among them of all their ungodly [asebeia] deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly [asebeo – only appearing here and in 2 Peter 2:6] sinners have spoken against him.
16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaks great swelling words, having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage [because of their position of power].
17 But, beloved, remember you the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our LORD Jesus Christ;
18 How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.
19 These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.
20 But you, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,
21 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our LORD Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
22 And of some have compassion, making a difference:
23 And others save with fear, pulling [harpazo – “caught up,” the same as natsal] them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh [the corruption of the wicked].
24 Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory [manifested into sight] with exceeding joy [when we see Him],
25 To the only wise God our Savior, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.

Galatians 3
21 Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, truly righteousness should have been by the law.
22 But the scripture has concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.
23 But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterward be revealed.
24 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
25 But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.
26 For you are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
27 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
29 And if you be Christ’s, then are you Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.

Galatians 4
1 Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child [remaining with childish things], differs nothing from a servant, though he be LORD of all;
2 But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father.
3 Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements [stoicheion – the corrupt foundational principles] of the world:
4 But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law [liable to death],
5 To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
6 And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
7 Wherefore you are no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
8 Howbeit then, when you knew not God, you did service unto them which by nature are no gods.
9 But now, after that you have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn you again to the weak and beggarly elements [stoicheion – the corrupt foundational principles that keep you as children under the law] whereunto you desire again to be in bondage?

2 Peter 1
16 For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our LORD Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
17 For he received from God the Father honor and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased [HEAR Him].
18 And this voice which came from heaven [when we received full understanding] we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount.
19 We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto you do well that you take heed, as unto a light that shines in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star [phosphoros] arise in your hearts:
20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Ghost [the LORD in them, unknown to the world and working all things toward this moment of awakening by His righteous interpretation].
4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned [leaving their first estate and speaking their own word instead of His], 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 [who opened His mouth as the LORD commanded] of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly [asebes];
6 And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes condemned [katakrino] them with an overthrow [katastrophe], making them an example unto those that after should live ungodly [asebeo – anti-gospel];
7 And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation [the anti-gospel] 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 [from doubting His presence], and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:
10 But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness [corruption], and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities [doxa – the LORD’s glory manifesting His presence in the flesh of those speaking His word as received].

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

2 Peter 3
3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God [this same word of God] the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition [apoleia] of ungodly men.
8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the LORD as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
9 The LORD is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
10 But the day of the LORD will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements [stoicheion – the corrupt foundational ideas and ways of men] shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in all holy conversation and godliness [eusebeia],
12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements [stoicheion] shall melt with fervent heat?
13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwells righteousness.
14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that you look for such things, be diligent that you may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.
15 And account that the longsuffering of our LORD is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him has written unto you;
16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrestle, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction [apoleia – perdition].

In the title verse, Luke 1:20, we’re told of the silence of Zechariah, meaning Jehovah remembers (His promise to His people). The LORD remembers His promise to open his mouth when “these things [when His word they haven’t believed are fillfilled] shall be performed.”

The word “performed” is the Greek word ginomai, meaning “to cause to be (“gen”-erate), i.e. (reflexively) to become (come into being).”

The words telling of them (these word) “fulfilled in their season” are pleroo, meaning “to make replete, i.e. (literally) to cram (a net), level up (a hollow), or (figuratively) to furnish (or imbue, diffuse, influence), satisfy, execute (an office), finish (a period or task), verify (or coincide with a prediction), etc.;” and kairos, meaning “an occasion, i.e. set or proper time”

This latter word is the same used in 1 Timothy 6:15; verses 14 thru 16 saying “14 That you keep this commandment [to confess this good confession before many witnesses] without spot [not corrupted by the flesh], unrebukable, until the appearing [epiphaneia – the epiphany] of our LORD Jesus Christ [alive in my flesh body]: 15 Which in his times [kairos] he shall show, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and LORD of lords; 16 Who only has immortality [athanasia – the reversal of death], dwelling in the light [understanding] which no man [only God] can approach unto; whom no man [in this time of mass ignorance and blindness] has seen, nor can see [without God revealing Him to them, whenever He wills]: to whom be honor and power everlasting. Amen.”

The words that are performed are the seventy weeks of which Gabriel tells Daniel happen in the final “seven” (sheba’) when all things are fulfilled.

Daniel 9
24 Seventy weeks are determined upon your people and upon your holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end [chatham] of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up [chatham – make an end of] the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.
26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end [qets] thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end [qets] of the war desolations are determined.
27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation [kalah – the full end], and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

The words sheba’ (“seven,” appearing once) and shabuwa’ (“weeks,” appearing five times, and once as “week”) from sheba’, meaning “a primitive cardinal number; seven (as the sacred full one); also (adverbially) seven times; by implication, a week; by extension, an indefinite number,” are the keys to the passage.

The numbers, seventy times seven, only appear once together in the New Testament. It comes in Matthew 18:22 as the LORD is asked how many times we should forgive those who offend us. The offense is the asebeia, now reaching seventy times seven, and after that, “there remains no more sacrifice for sins.”

Hebrews 10
26 For if we sin willfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more sacrifice for sins,
27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
28 He that despised Moses’ law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:
29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose you, shall he be thought worthy, who has trodden underfoot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and has done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
30 For we know him that has said, Vengeance belongs unto me, I will recompense, says the LORD. And again, The LORD shall judge his people.
31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

As we know, what Daniel knew about the seventy sevens, he “understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.”

The word “years” is shaneh, from the shanah, meaning “to fold, i.e. duplicate (literally or figuratively); by implication, to transmute (transitive or intransitive).”

Jeremiah 2
26 As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets [who have now changed My words these seventy times seven, and transformed {metatithemi} it from an eusebeia into an asebeia].
27 Saying to a stock [the dead idols you put in My place], You are my father; and to a [lifeless] stone, You have brought me forth: for they have turned their back unto me, and not their face: but in the time of their trouble [ra’ – evil] they will say, Arise, and save us.
28 But where are your gods that you have made you? let them arise, if they can save you in the time of your trouble [ra’ – evil]: for according to the number of your cities are your gods, O Judah.
29 Wherefore will you plead with me? you all have transgressed against me, says the LORD.
30 In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
31 O generation, see you the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness [ignorance]? wherefore say my people, We are lords; we will come no more unto you?
32 Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.
33 Why trimmest you your way to seek love? therefore have you also taught the wicked ones your ways.
34 Also in your skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these.
35 Yet you sayest, Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with you, because you sayest, I have not sinned.
36 Why gad you [to go away from Me] about so much to change [shanah] your way? you also shall be ashamed of Egypt [this land of tyrant and oppression], as you were ashamed of Assyria [the communists, thieves and robbers, now infesting all institutions making them incurably corrupt].
37 Yea, you shall go forth from him, and your hands upon your head: for the LORD has rejected your confidences [all these things in which you trust], and you shall not prosper in them.

We’re told (in the passages below) of things that will not “change” (as does the temporal), which are the unseen and the eternal things (dabar – words and matters spoken from the mouth) of God.

Psalms 89
14 Justice and judgment are the habitation of your throne: mercy and truth shall go before your face [paniym – in Your presence]
15 Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound [the voice of the LORD]: they shall walk, O LORD, in the light [understanding] of your countenance [paniym – of Your presence].
16 In your name [identity] shall they rejoice all the day: and in your righteousness shall they be exalted [as they exalt Your words above all others].
17 For you are the glory [manifested presence] of their strength [which is their understanding]: and in your favor our horn [power and reign] shall be exalted [above all others].
18 For the LORD is our defense; and the Holy One of Israel is our king.
19 Then you spoke in vision to your holy one, and said, I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people.
20 I have found David [I Am his promised seed] my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him [as in Daniel 9:24 above]:
21 With whom my hand [work] shall be established: my arm also shall strengthen him.
22 The enemy shall not exact upon him; nor the son of wickedness afflict him.
23 And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him.
24 But my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him: and in my name shall his horn [power and reign] be exalted.
25 I will set his hand also in the sea [his work among the people at large], and his right hand in the rivers [this work sending God’s word into the sea].
26 He shall cry unto me, You are my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation.
27 Also I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth.
28 My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him.
29 His seed also will I make to endure forever, and his throne as the days of heaven [upon the earth].
30 If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments;
31 If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments;
32 Then will I visit [paqad – as the Chief Overseer of the earth, to return them to the right course] their transgression with the rod [the unbreakable law on nature and nature’s God], and their iniquity with stripes [of men].
33 Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.
34 My covenant will I not break, nor alter [shanah] the thing that is gone out of my lips.
35 Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David.
36 His seed shall endure forever, and his throne as the sun [the rising understanding of this new day] before me.
37 It shall be established forever as the moon [civil government wherein are justice and good judgment, as I intended], and as a faithful witness in heaven [with full understanding]. Selah.

Malachi 3
1 Behold, I will send my messenger [mal’ak- My angel, who is a man of war as well as a man of God], and he shall prepare the way before me [paniym – in Him My presence is manifested]: and the LORD [‘adown – the king], whom you seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger [mal’ak] of the covenant [of My promises], whom you delight in: behold, he shall come, says the LORD [Jehovah] of hosts [who is a man of war].
2 But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appears? for he is like a refiner’s fire, and like fullers’ soap:
3 And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness.
4 Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the LORD, as in the days of old, and as in former years.
5 And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers [using their words to cast evil spells], and against the adulterers [those who’ve left Me to follow other men], and against false swearers [the now known liars and false accusers], and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages [through confiscatory taxation], the widow, and the fatherless [oppressing those without any man to protect and defend them], and that turn aside the stranger from his right [leading into evil those who don’t know Me or my ways], and fear not me [My inescapable law that inevitable brings their destruction by their own evil, of which I have often warned], says the LORD of hosts [who is a man of war, the Commander in Chief of the army of heaven].
6 For I am the LORD, I change [shanah] not; therefore you sons of Jacob are not consumed.
7 Even from the days of your fathers you are gone away from my ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, says the LORD of hosts. But you said, Wherein shall we return?
8 Will a man rob God? Yet you have robbed me. But you say, Wherein have we robbed you? In tithes and offerings.
9 You are cursed with a curse: for you have robbed me, even this whole nation.
10 Bring you all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in my house, and prove me now herewith, says the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
11 And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, says the LORD of hosts.
12 And all nations shall call you blessed: for you shall be a delightsome land, says the LORD of hosts.
13 Your words have been stout against me, says the LORD. Yet you say, What have we spoken so much against you?
14 You have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts?
15 And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.
16 Then they that feared the LORD spoke often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name [identity].
17 And they shall be mine, says the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels [My people who are My crown and joy]; and I will spare them, as a man spares his own son that serves him.
18 Then shall you return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked [understanding to choose the good and refuse the evil], between him that serves God [speaking truth] and him [speaking their own evil ways and ideas, their asebeia] that serves him not.

Luke 1
64 And his [those who receive the promises Jehovah has remembered] mouth was opened immediately, and his tongue loosed, and he spoke, and praised God.
65 And fear came on all that dwelt round about them: and all these sayings were noised abroad throughout all the hill country of Judaea.
66 And all they that heard them laid them up in their hearts, saying, What manner of child shall this be! And the hand of the LORD was with him.
67 And his father Zachariah was filled with the Holy Ghost [the LORD unknown in him working and speaking], and prophesied, saying,
68 Blessed be the LORD God of Israel; for he has visited and redeemed his people,
69 And has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David;
70 As he [the LORD God] spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have been since the world began:
71 That we should be saved from our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us;
72 To perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant;
73 The oath which he swore to our father Abraham,
74 That he would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve him without fear,
75 In holiness and righteousness before him [in His presence], all the days of our life.
76 And you, child, shall be called the prophet of the Highest: for you shall go before the face of the LORD to prepare his ways;
77 To give knowledge of salvation unto his people by the remission of their sins [the blinding ignorance taught by men who choose evil and refuse this good],
78 Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring [these living waters, the word of God that ends and begins the ages and nations] from on high has visited us [as the Chief Overseer of the earth],
79 To give light [understanding] to them that sit in darkness [ignorance] and in the shadow of death [blocking the light], to guide our feet into the way of peace.
80 And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, and was in the deserts till the day of his showing unto Israel.

The only time Jeremiah (or any of the “Prophets” other than Daniel) mentions the word shabuwa’ (the weeks) is in Jeremiah 5:24, and the only time any of the kings speak of it is in 2 Chronicles 8:13 as Solomon, the LORD speaking through Him, describes this moment.

2 Chronicles 8
11 And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh [those whose ways are oppression and tyranny] out of the city of David unto the house that he had built for her: for he said, My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, because the places are holy, whereunto the ark of the LORD has come.
12 Then Solomon offered burnt offerings unto the LORD on the altar of the LORD, which he had built before the porch,
13 Even after a certain rate every day, offering according to the commandment of Moses, on the sabbaths [the LORD visitation, intervention], and on the new moons [to institute a new civil government], and on the solemn feasts [nourishing us with His abundant blessing], three times in the year [shaneh], even in the feast of unleavened bread [removing the corruption from His word], and in the feast of weeks [shabuwa’], and in the feast of tabernacles [when He calls His people to leave their corrupt houses and meet with Him where He chooses – see Deuteronomy 16:16 where shabuwa’ also appears].
14 And he appointed, according to the order of David his father, the courses of the priests to their service, and the Levites to their charges, to praise and minister before the priests, as the duty of every day required: the porters also by their courses at every gate: for so had David the man [as is Timothy, as I Am] of God commanded.
15 And they departed not from the commandment of the king unto the priests and Levites concerning any matter [dabar – the words they should speak], or concerning the treasures.
16 Now all the work of Solomon was prepared unto the day of the foundation of the house of the LORD, and until it was finished [kalah]. So the house [family] of the LORD was perfected [shalem – as New Jerusalem].

Jeremiah 5
21 Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not [that I Am with you]; which have ears, and hear not [My voice speaking to you]:
22 Fear you not me? says the LORD: will you not tremble at my presence [paniym], which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea [humanity] by a perpetual decree [choq], that it cannot pass it [‘abar – cannot Passover from there in death into life without Me, without following My direction]: and though the waves [the pride of men] thereof toss themselves [agitating all humanity they’ve continually led into confusion and now after a long train of abuses {asebeia} into mass insanity], yet can they [the wicked in power] not prevail; though they roar [against Me], yet can they not pass over it [‘abar – from this death in hell into life]?
23 But this people has a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone.
24 Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, that gives rain [His word from heaven], both the former [written] and the latter [now spoken], in his season [at this time]: he reserves [shamar – guarded and protected from corruption] unto us the appointed [chaqqah – the same as choq, meaning the LORD’s decreed] weeks [shabuwa’] of the harvest [qatsiyr – this time when the LORD as come to reap the earth, and separate the wheat from the chaff, those who choose good from those who choose evil].
25 Your iniquities have turned away [your ears and eyes from hearing and seeing] these things, and your sins [that corrupt My word and your understanding this time] have withheld good things from you [and hold you in the hand of evil].
26 For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that sets snares; they set a trap, they catch men.

2 Corinthians 11
13 For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming [metaschematizo] themselves into the apostles of Christ.
14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed [metaschematizo] into an angel of light.
15 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed [metaschematizo] as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.

2 Corinthians 3
13 Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the [new] day [when understanding comes] shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is.
14 If any man’s work abides [remains after the fire] which he has built thereupon [the good foundational elements ruling in his mind], he shall receive a reward.
15 If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.
16 Know you not that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?
17 If any man defiles the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple you are.
18 Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seems to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He takes the wise in their own craftiness.
20 And again, The LORD knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain [worthless].

Philippians 3
15 Let us therefore, as many as be perfect [having received this understanding, and knowing the time and season], 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 example.
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 [with full understanding]; from whence also we look for [the sight to see] the Savior, the LORD Jesus Christ:
21 Who shall change [metaschematizo] our vile body [by removing corruption by His correction], 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.

Psalms 11
1 In the LORD put I my trust: how say you to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?
2 For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart.
3 If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?
4 The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD’s throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.
5 The LORD tries the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hates.
6 Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and a horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.
7 For the righteous LORD loves righteousness; his countenance [presence] does behold the upright.

July 31, 2023

Behold, the days come, says the LORD God, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD:

29 – 31 July 2023

Behold, the days come, says the LORD God, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD:

The Hebrew names above rendered “LORD God,” are ‘Adonay Jehovih: describing the King of kings who is the LORD of lords (past tense); and later LORD, is Jehovah, the LORD who is self-manifesting in the flesh, present tense (I Am), speaking unknown, until, when He wills, He reveals Himself to whomever He chooses.

The word rendered “hearing” is shama’, meaning not merely hearing noise (all the meaningless voices of the world), but, realizing who (Jehovah) is speaking, subordinating our will, and exalting His voice above all others (no other gods before Him).

Romans 2
8 But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, [per the previous post]
9 Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that does evil, of the Jew [those who say they are believers] first [judgment beginning in the House of God], and also of the Gentile [those who haven’t known Him]; [From the previous post, Jeremiah 8: 7 Yea, the stork in the heaven knows her appointed times [mow’ed]; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD. 8 How do you say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes [who have misinterpreted My written word} is in vain.]
10 But glory, honor, and peace, to every man that works good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile [who works good]:
11 For there is no respect of persons with God. [As written in the previous post, “It (za’am) is when God is furious about the effects of wickedness, the evil action of men in power against the powerless.”]
12 For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law [adding or taking away context to make it say what God hasn’t said] shall be judged by the law;
13 (For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law [obeying the word from His mouth, by faith, believe it is Him before He fully reveals Himself, by which He is revealed {seen}] shall be justified [dakaioo, the same word in 1 Timothy 3, after we are told of the mystery of Godliness, that God is manifested in the flesh, justified {dakaioo} in the Spirit while unknown, {after dikaioo} seen {present – at this transfiguration} by those who become His messengers {angels}, preached to the Gentiles {who haven’t known Him}, believed on {by the confession of the messengers, the opened mouths of His witnesses who’ve seen Him} in the world, and received into glory {realizing it is Him, God with us}.].
14 For when the Gentiles [those who don’t know the LORD, and therefore don’t realize Him when He is present], which have not the law [don’t know the words are from His mouth], do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:
15 Which show the work of the law written in their hearts [with which we can live in peace], their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)
16 In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.

Romans 10
1 Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel [all those who will, by obedience, become part of His family and rule with Him, One Nation Under God, on the earth] is, that they might be saved.
2 For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to [the] knowledge [of God].
3 For they being ignorant [in darkness] of God’s righteousness [His uncorrupted knowledge, without error], and going about to establish their own righteousness [knowledge corrupted by error], have not submitted themselves [become obedient] unto the righteousness of God.
4 For Christ [the LORD in the flesh He has prepared for Himself] is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believes [He is present making it known].
5 For Moses describes the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which does those things shall live by them.
6 But the righteousness which is of faith speaks on this wise, Say not in your heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down from above:)
7 Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.)
8 But what says it? The word is near you, even in your mouth, and in your heart [mind]: that is, the word of faith, which we preach [which manifests His presence in our flesh];
9 That if you shall confess with your mouth the LORD Jesus, and shall believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead, you shall be saved.
10 For with the heart [mind] man believes unto [receiving God’s] righteousnes; and with the mouth [opened by the effectual working of His presence] confession is made unto salvation.
11 For the scripture says, Whosoever believes on him shall not be ashamed. [Quoted from Isaiah 28:16, the fuller context saying, “4 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 {this word from the mouth of the LORD} 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 {run away in shame – as in Jeremiah 50:44 in the previous post, saying, ‘Behold, he {the LORD, I Am} shall come up like a lion from {roaring against} the swelling {proud waves} of Jordan {words that carried all in the descent into death} unto the habitation of the strong {in power}: but I will make them {the wicked} suddenly run away from her {My people they have oppressed}: and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over her? for who is like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who is that shepherd that will stand before me? {All these are references to Michael, who is like God and stands for God’s people in this time of Jacob’s trouble, and Shiloh, who comes as the shepherd and stone of God’s people – the king of peace, and king of righteousness, in the order of Melchizedek}’ 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 {carrying you from death into life}, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.”]
12 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek [believers and unbelievers]: for the same LORD over all is rich unto all that call upon him.
13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the LORD shall be saved.
14 How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?
15 And how shall they preach, except they be sent [as I have sent you]? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things! [Quoted from Isaiah 52:7, the fuller context, speaking of when God’s people obey and open their mouths, says, “6 Therefore my people shall know my name {identity}: therefore they shall know in that day that I am he that does 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 {opening their mouth as I have commanded My army}; with the voice together shall they sing {repeat these words the LORD has given us}: for they shall see eye to eye {be of one mind}, when the LORD shall bring again Zion. 9 Break forth into joy, sing together, you waste places of Jerusalem: for the LORD has comforted {led into all truth} his people, he has redeemed Jerusalem. 10 The LORD has made bare his holy arm {His presence revealed in His work in the flesh} in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God. 11 Depart you {out of Babylon}, depart you {out of confusion}, go you out from thence, touch no unclean thing; go you out of the midst of her; be you clean, that bear the {uncorrupted} vessels of the LORD. 12 For you shall not go out with haste {you will not run away in shame}, nor go by flight: for the LORD will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your reward. 13 Behold, my servant {I Am} shall deal prudently, he {My voice in Him} shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high. 14 As many were astonished at you {wondering what they are experiencing}; 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 {understand}.”]
16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says {in Isaiah 28:19 above], LORD, who has believed our report?
17 So then faith [into obedience] comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God [heard as His word, as it is].
18 But I say, Have they not heard? Yes truly, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world [See Psalms 19:4 below].
19 But I say, Did not Israel know? First Moses says, I will provoke you to jealousy by them that are no people, and by a foolish nation I will anger you. [Quoted from Deuteronomy 32:21, the surrounding passage saying, “16 They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations {they put in My place} provoked they him to anger {ka’ac}. 17 They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not. 18 Of the Rock that begat you you are unmindful, and have forgotten God that formed you. 19 And when the LORD saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters. 20 And he said, I will hide my face {paniym – presence} from them, I will see what their end {‘achariyth} shall be {in these last days}: for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith. 21 They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation. {1 Corinthians 1:25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men. 26 For you see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: 27 But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God has chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; 28 And base things of the world, and things which are despised, has God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to naught things that are: 29 That no flesh should glory in his presence.} 22 For a fire is kindled in my anger {‘aph}, and shall burn unto the lowest hell {Sheol}, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains {the governments of the world}.”]
20 But Isaiah is very bold, and says [in Isaiah 65:1 & 2], I was found of them that sought me not; I was made manifest unto them that asked not after me.
21 But to Israel he says, All day long I have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people.

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 [see] me, behold [see] 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 [who are called by My name, Christian and Israel], which walk [went astray into apostacy] in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts;
3 A people that provoke me to anger continually to my face [paniym – My presence]; that sacrifices in gardens [they planted], and burns incense upon altars of brick [the works of their hands, creations of men you made idols and gods you put in My place];
4 Which remain among the graves [with the dead], and lodge in the monuments [tombs you’ve made to house the dead], which eat swine’s flesh [unclean things you shouldn’t have consumed], and broth of abominable things [creations with which you replaced the holy] is in their vessels;
5 Which say [to Me, when I said “Behold Me”], “Stand by yourself, come not near to me; for I am holier than you.” These [self-righteous hypocrites] are a smoke in my nose [to be fanned away by My hand], a fire that burns all the day.
6 Behold [see], it is written before me [this writing is My presence manifested]: 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 [worshipping this current corrupt administration, for mere morsels selling your souls into hell], and [you joined these devils and] blasphemed me upon the hills: therefore will I measure their former work [their deceptions and wickedness] into their bosom.
8 Thus says the LORD, As the new wine is found in the cluster [as are my elect remnant], 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 [My new government]: and my elect [remnant] shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there.
10 And Sharon [those who plainly see Me] shall be a fold of flocks [My ONE BODY, My New Nation], and the valley of Achor [where they were in constant strife and war] a place for the herds to lie down in [rest in peace], for my people that have [diligently] sought me. [Hebrews 11: 6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that comes to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.]
11 But you [that worship this current corrupt administration, and join them in blaspheming Me: calling good evil as you vilify and demonize Me and those who speak My good words of truth] are they that forsake the LORD, that forget my holy mountain, that prepare a table for that troop [that are at war against us], 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 spake, you did not hear; but did evil before my 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 [who obey Me] shall drink, but you shall be thirsty: behold, my servants [who obey Me] 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 [tsarah – tribulations] are forgotten, and because they are hid from my eyes [removed by My understanding and peace].
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 forever in that which I create: for, behold, I create [New Heavenly] Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.

Psalms 19
1 The heavens [this full understanding] declare the glory [presence] of God; and the firmament [this exposition] shows his handy work [the work is of His hand].
2 Day unto day [line upon line, precept upon precept] utter speech [the voice of the LORD in His work], and night unto night [in a time of ignorance, to the ignorant, He] shows knowledge.
3 There is no speech nor language, where their [these words’] voice is not heard [shama’ – obeyed].
4 Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them has he set a tabernacle for the sun [the rising understanding of this new day, new age, new nation],
5 Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoices as a strong man to run a race.
6 His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it [ending the corrupt understanding of the old and beginning the new]: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.
7 The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.
8 The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes.
9 The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring forever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether.
10 More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.
11 Moreover by them is your servant warned: and in keeping [shamar – guarding and protecting from corruption] them there is great reward.
12 Who can understand his [own] errors? cleanse you me from secret faults.
13 Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression.
14 Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in your sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.

The day described in the title verse (Amos 8:11) is the same spoken of in Amos 4, where the LORD describes the famine (refusing His word, not hearing it as His) and His visitation (when the religious have told Him to stay away because they are holier, more righteous, than He): coming as a thief in the night (unaware to the ignorant).

Amos 4
1 Hear this word, you kine of Bashan [upon who this word has come as a latter rain], that are in the mountain of Samaria [the capital where they worship devils put in My place], which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink [the lies you speaks as policy {The Obama Doctrine}: poison in every word, to intentionally rot the minds of all who follow your commands].
2 The LORD God has sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks [by the words in your mouth, catching you], and your posterity [‘achariyth – in these last days] with fishhooks [misled into this caldron].
3 And you shall go out [be taken away] at the breaches [at the breaking forth of these living waters, against your words], every cow [every person joined with you] at that which is before her; and you shall cast them into the palace [out of power], says the LORD.
4 Come to Bethel [the house of God where idols sit in His place], and transgress; at Gilgal [where the waters are forever agitated] multiply transgression; and bring your sacrifices every morning, and your tithes after three years:
5 And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, and proclaim and publish the free offerings: for this like you [to do for your idols who’ve led you into hell], O you children of Israel, says the LORD God.
6 And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places [famine: not hearing the word of God]: yet have you not returned unto me, says the LORD.
7 And also I have withheld the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city [saying here I Am – Job 38:34 Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover you? 35 Can you send lightning {understanding the waters}, that they may go and say unto you, Here we are?], and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered. [Job 38: 15 And from the wicked their light is withheld, and the high arm shall be broken.]
8 So two or three cities wandered [aimlessly] unto one city, to drink water [seeking understanding]; but they were not satisfied: yet have you not returned unto me, says the LORD.
9 I have smitten you with blasting [scorching heat] and mildew [and you withered way]: [as] when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees [your prosperity] increased, the palmerworm [the wicked in power, like locust] devoured them [prosperity, stolen away by the policy of thieves and robbers {doctrines of devils} in church and state]: yet have you not returned unto me, says the LORD.
10 I have sent among you the pestilence [the disease caused by oppression] after the manner of Egypt [under tyrants]: your young men have I slain with the sword [this word from My mouth], and have taken away your horses [your strength]; and I have made the stink [your awareness that something is rotten among you] of your camps to come up unto your nostrils: yet have you not returned unto me, says the LORD.
11 I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you [the elect remnanat] were as a firebrand plucked [natsal – “caught up”] out of the burning: yet have you not returned unto me, says the LORD.
12 Therefore thus [plucking you from the fire] will I do unto you, O Israel: and because I will do this unto you, prepare to meet your God, O Israel. [Zechariah 3:1 And he showed me Joshua {the priesthood} the high priest {the elect remnant, when cleansed, who will lead God’s people at large, by their open mouths, into His presence} standing before the angel {mal’ak – the messenger: I Am} of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist {satan} him {to oppose His cleansing them of his evil influence}. 2 And the LORD said unto Satan, The LORD rebuke you, O Satan; even the LORD that has chosen Jerusalem {this New Nation} rebuke’s you: is not this {people and new nation] a brand plucked {natsal – “caught up”} out of the fire?]
13 For, lo, he that forms the mountains [His governments of church and state, to rule in righteousness], and creates the wind [My good Spirit in them, doing no harm], and declares [with His open mouth] unto man what is his thought, that makes the morning darkness [at this new day’s rising, makes man understand his ignorance], and treads upon the high places of the [corrupt] earth [making His enemies His footstool], The LORD, The God of hosts [a man of war], is his name [identity].

The words of the wicked are the hook in their mouth, which they, hoping to devour, have eagerly bitten. They are caught and don’t even know it because they are blinded by hubris (excessive pride, arrogance, and confidence in their evil ways and ideas).

Matthew 12
30 He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathers not with me [into MY ONE BODY] scatters abroad.
31 Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost [the LORD unknown working, with words, to gather His people] shall not be forgiven unto men.
32 And whosoever speaks a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaks against the Holy Ghost [against His good work, calling it evil], it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the [new] world to come.
33 Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit.
34 O generation of vipers [whose venom is in your mouths, in your words of insanity and evil delusion, so speak on so we may know you], how can you, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart [the mind either filled with good or evil] the mouth speaks.
35 A good man out of the good treasure of the heart brings forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.
36 But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment [that has now come upon all the world as a snare].
37 For by your words you shall be justified [dikaioo], and by your words you shall be condemned [katadikazo – “to adjudge {adjudicate} against, i.e. pronounce guilty].
38 Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees [the religious dividers who’ve scattered God’s people] answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from you.
39 But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonah [who was in the belly of hell, swallowed by the mouths of evil men, who the LORD brought out, and sent to {with opened mouth} call all to repentance]:
40 For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the whale’s [ketos, from chasma, the great uncrossable “gulf” between heaven and hell, the open mouths of men who’ve swallowed all into its] belly; so shall [by the same mouths] the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth [here in hell with the dead, unseen due to the ignorance that quickly came as darkness covering all understanding].
41 The men of Nineveh [from the Hebrew words niyr and nuwn, meaning they are those who now resprout, sons, from a dry root, born again out of death into life, continued in this new world without end] shall rise [in resurrection] in [this] judgment with this generation [which doesn’t know its right hand from its left, children not yet knowing to choose the good and refuse the evil], and shall [with opened mouths] condemn it [katakrino – “to judge against, i.e. sentence”]: because they repented [which is the point of the condemnation of the culture, so coming out of it, of its insanity, all who receive the love of His truth, will rise with us in His ONE BODY into the new heaven and earth He is creating upon the ruin of the old] at the preaching of Jonah; and, behold, a greater than Jonah is here.
42 The queen of the south [those who see what they before only heard rumor of] shall rise up [in resurrection] in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn [katakrino] it: for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold [see with the eyes of your understanding], a greater than Solomon is here [to build the habitation of God, His people prepared to receive Him].

Hebrews 11
5 By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he [with His word, his thesis showing his perfection, completion] pleased God.
6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that comes to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
7 By faith Noah, being warned of God [as we have been warned] of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned [katakrino] the world, and became heir of the [LORD’s] righteousness which is by faith [it is Him speaking, working to save us from the destruction coming upon the corrupt].
8 By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.
9 By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:
10 For he looked for a city which has [good] foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

As previously discussed, the Greek word twice rendered “translated,” in verse 5 above, is six times used word metatithemi, from meta, meaning in the midst of, association, or succession; and tithemi, meaning to place.

The name Enoch means to dedicate, or initiate. What is initiated in him is the Doctrine of Justification by Words that please God.

The word, also above in verse 5, rendered “translation,” is the three times used word metathesis, said to be from metatithemi. It is actually from meta and the word thelesis, meaning “determination (properly the act), i.e. option:– will.” It (metsthesis) speaks of the succession of God’s will and its completion.

The Merriam-Webster Dictionary’s definition of thesis, with my additions in brackets, is: “a dissertation [exposition, as in the firmament] embodying results of original research [diligent search] and especially substantiating [proving truth] a specific view [what was before only an opinion, transforming, translating, it into truth].” It speaks of the metaphysical that becomes physical (what was unseen becoming seen).

Here are some of the words of understanding Enoch saw by seeing the one who is unseen, as did Jude:

Jude 1
14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the LORD comes with ten thousands of his saints,
15 To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaks great swelling words, having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage [because of their position of power].
17 But, beloved, remember you the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our LORD Jesus Christ;
18 How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.
19 These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.
20 But you, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,
21 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our LORD Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
22 And of some have compassion, making a difference:
23 And others save with fear, pulling [harpazo – “caught up,” the same as natsal] them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh [the corruption of the wicked].
24 Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory [manifested into sight] with exceeding joy [when we see Him],
25 To the only wise God our Savior, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.

The word metatitemi is used several times speaking of what was removed, and with it went understanding and sight.

Jude 1
3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that you should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered [paradidomi – in-trust, transmitted] unto the saints.
4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained [prographo – before written of, as by Enoch] to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning [metatithemi] the grace [this gift once entrusted to the saint] of our God into lasciviousness [aselgeia – unable to control what comes out of them, who will trap themselves by their own words], and denying the only LORD God, and our LORD Jesus Christ.
5 I will therefore put you in remembrance, though you once knew this, how that the LORD, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.
6 And the angels [messengers] which kept [tereo – guarded and protected] not their first estate [the word entrusted to them, to be delivered as received], but left their own habitation [and change the gift, unable to control themselves from going beyond and corrupt the words they delivered, transforming themselves into messengers of Satan], he has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness [their own cultivated ignorance] unto the judgment of the great day.
7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
8 Likewise also these filthy dreamers [creating things from their own minds] defile [corrupted] the flesh, despise dominion [the LORD’s position as king of righteousness, coming in the order of Melchizedek] and speak evil of dignities [doxa – His glory manifested in those He chooses and sends for correction, calling all to repentance].

This departure (truth translated into darkness) is written of in Galatians 1:6, as Paul describes it quickly happening, which he also speaks Acts 20:29.

Galatians 1
1 Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead;)
2 And all the brethren which are with me, unto the churches of Galatia [milk drinkers, again acting childish]:
3 Grace be to you and peace from God the Father, and from our LORD Jesus Christ,
4 Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father:
5 To whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.
6 I marvel that you are so soon removed [matatithemi] from him that called you into the grace [this gift] of Christ [alive in our flesh] unto another gospel:
7 Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert [metastrepho – only used three times, in Acts 2:20 it is the sun {church} turned {metastrepho} into darkness {ignorance}; changing it with their own ideas and ways, to please the itching ears of men] the gospel of Christ.
8 But though we, or an angel [messenger fallen] from heaven [from the place of full understanding], preach any other gospel [except that which confesses Christ is alive in us manifesting His presence as the living God] unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed [anathema].
9 As we said before, so say I now again, if any man preach any other gospel unto you than that you have received, let him be accursed [anathema].
10 For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
11 But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man.
12 For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ [who is alive in me].

1 Thessalonians 2
13 For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when you received the word of God which you heard of us, you received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God [who lives in us], which effectually works also in you that believe [He is alive in us speaking].
14 For you, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus: for you also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews:
15 Who both killed the LORD Jesus [because He obeyed and confessed the Father was alive in him], and their own prophets [in who the LORD was alive], and have persecuted us [for the same confession]; and they please not God [and are not justified by their words], and are contrary [opposing us and the LORD’s word] to all men:
16 Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles [those who don’t know the LORD] that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.
17 But we, brethren, being taken from you for a short time in presence, not in heart, endeavored the more abundantly to see your face [His glory, manifesting His presence alive in you] with great desire.
18 Wherefore we would have come unto you, even I Paul, once and again; but Satan [his lying words of opposition working in and through the wicked] hindered us.
19 For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even you in the presence of our LORD Jesus Christ at his coming?
20 For you are our glory and joy [realizing He is alive in us and now you].

Telling of The Doctrine of Justification by Words, Hebrews 7:12 used both words, metatithemi and metathesis.

Hebrews 7
11 If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law [the written word of God],) what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron?
12 For the priesthood being changed [metatithemi], there is made of necessity a change [metathesis] also of the law [from not just hearing but also speaking, after comprehension comes by the LORD’s writing His words of understanding into our minds].
13 For he of whom these things are spoken pertains to another tribe, of which no man gave attendance at the altar.
14 For it is evident that our LORD sprang out of Juda [Judah]; of which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning priesthood.
15 And it is yet far more evident: for that after the similitude of Melchizedek [king of righteousness and peace] there arises another priest,
16 Who is made, not after the [written] law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of [justification by speaking, witness to] an endless life.
17 For he [The Father] testifies [speaking of the son], You are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.
18 For there is truly a disannulling [athetesis – a displacing] of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof [the law lacking the ability, power, to take away errors, because it could not speak for itself until one is sent to elaborate and correct].
19 For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope [this expected end in the LORD’s presence] did; by the which we draw near unto God.
20 And inasmuch as not without an oath he was made priest:
21 (For those priests were made without an oath; but this with an oath by him that said unto him, The LORD swore and will not repent, You are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek:)
22 By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.

The word athetesis, rendered “disannulling,” better rendered “displacing,” alludes to the One sent to replace what was before removed by the wicked who put themselves in God’s place. It (athetesis) only appears one other time, in context, in Hebrews 9:26.

Hebrews 9
18 Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood.
19 For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people,
20 Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God has enjoined unto you.
21 Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry. [We know from Hebrew 12:24, this sprinkling is the pattern of this word from the one now speaking from heaven, which word we are there warned not to refuse.]
22 And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
23 It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these [the necessary price to deliver this word from the mouth of God, and confess it is from Him alive in us manifesting His presence].
24 For Christ is not entered into the holy places [the holy of holies – displacing the thing men put in God’s place] made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear [emphanizo – “to exhibit (in person) or disclose (by words)”] in [“in” isn’t in the original text, if anything must be added it is “as”] the presence of God for us:
25 Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest enters into the holy place every year with blood of others;
26 For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of [sunteleia – the completion: bring together all things to finish] the world has he appeared [phaneroo – rendered apparent, returned to sight] to put away [athetesis – displace] sin by the sacrifice of himself.
27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this [rising from the dead among the dead, to raise them in] the judgment:
28 So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for [apekdechomai – whose sins are taken away {apo} through {ek} receiving {dechomai}] him shall he appear [hopou – “to gaze (i.e. with wide-open eyes, as at something remarkable…”] the second time without sin unto salvation.

In this last verse, the words of the translation are out of order. The word apekdechomai, in the original text, appears just before the word “salvation.” In context, it (the verse) speaks of Him appearing into sight again, a second time, to those whose sins are removed by receiving Him as their salvation.

1 Corinthians 2
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 [His presence unknown working and speaking]: 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 [of grace] 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 [the LORD in us unknown] teaches [until He isn’t unknown, by]; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
14 But the natural man receives [dechomai] 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.

Hebrews 12
22 But you are come unto mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly [New] Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels [messengers sent to speak His word],
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 [Jehovah’s Salvation manifested in our flesh] the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speak better things than that of Abel.
25 See that you refuse not him that speaks. For if they escaped not who refused him that spoke on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaks from heaven [with full understanding through the LORD alive in me, in us]:
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 [the understanding that became corrupt, which corruption must be removed].
27 And this word, Yet once more, signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made [by men], that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.
28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
29 For our God is a consuming fire.

Romans 3
3 For what if some did not believe [the words we hear are God’s]? shall their unbelief make the faith of God [with us] without effect?
4 God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar [see Psalms 116:11 below]; as it is written, That you might be justified [dikaioo] in your sayings [logos – the words you speak], and might overcome when you are judged [by the same words].
5 But if our unrighteousness [errors through corruption] commend [suniemi – to set together, introduces, exhibits] the righteousness [the correct uncorrupted interpretation] of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance [if our corruption is necessary to introduce His pure word]? (I speak as a man)
6 God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?
7 For [speaking hypothetically, as a man] if the truth of God has more abounded through my lie unto his glory [His presence manifested]; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?
8 And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.
9 What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles [believers and unbeliever], that they are all under sin [in error];
10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
11 There is none that understands, there is none that seeks after God.
12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that does good, no, not one.
13 Their throat [speaking their own corrupt understanding] is an open sepulcher; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
15 Their feet are swift to shed blood:
16 Destruction and misery are in their ways:
17 And the way of peace have they not known:
18 There is no fear of God before their eyes.
19 Now we know that what things soever the law says, it says to them who are under the law [as all now are, refusing to receive this word as the word of God, and obey it as such, not one speaking it as commanded, none confessing the LORD is seen here alive]: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
20 Therefore by the deeds of the law [the written word that is now corrupted into worthlessness by men changing {metatethemi} it by their errors] there shall no flesh be justified [dikaioo] in his sight: for by the law [now corrupted] is [corrupted] the knowledge of sin.
21 But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested [in His presence correcting us by His spoken understanding removing corruption], being witnessed by the law and the prophets [in their purified form];
22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:
23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory [understanding the manifested presence] of God;
24 Being justified [dikaioo] freely by his grace [this gift of understanding] through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
25 Whom God has set forth to be a propitiation [hilasterion – the mercy seat, over which His presence is manifested in the conversation] through faith in his blood [the price of redemption paid], to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins [corrupt thinking] that are past, through the forbearance [anocha – self-restraint] of God;
26 To [open your mouths to] declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier [dikaioo] of him which believes in Jesus [Jehovah’s Salvation manifested in the flesh].
27 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.
28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified [dikaioo] by faith [that obeys and speaks] without the deeds of the law.
29 Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:
30 Seeing it is one God, which shall justify [dikaioo] the circumcision by faith [seen and heard in their words], and uncircumcision through [our] faith [speaking His word as received].
31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law [uncorrupted by men in church and state].

2 Corinthians 4
4 Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy [at His mercy seat], we faint not;
2 But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.
3 But if our gospel be hidden, it is hidden to them that are lost:
4 In whom the god [men as idols] of this world has blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light [understanding] of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
5 For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the LORD; and ourselves your servants for Jesus’ sake.
6 For God, who commanded the light [understanding] to shine out of darkness [among the ignorant], has shined in our hearts, to give the light [understanding] of the knowledge of the glory [the manifestation] of God in the face [presence] of Jesus Christ.
7 But we have this treasure [His gift of grace] in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power [His word effectually working in us] may be of God, and not of us.
8 We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;
9 Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;
10 Always bearing about in the body the dying of the LORD Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.
11 For we which live are always delivered unto death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.
12 So then death worketh in us, but life in you.
13 We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak [receiving grace we speak, justified doing His work, manifesting His presence in us];
14 Knowing that he which raised up the LORD Jesus [to speak His Salvation] shall raise up us also by Jesus, and shall present us with you.
15 For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace [this gift given as received] might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God [manifested to all the world].
16 For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;
18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

Psalms 116
1 I love the LORD, because he has heard my voice and my supplications.
2 Because he has inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon him as long as I live.
3 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble [tsarah – tribulation] and sorrow.
4 Then called I upon the name of the LORD; O LORD, I beseech you, deliver my soul.
5 Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; yea, our God is merciful.
6 The LORD preserves the simple: I was brought low, and he helped me.
7 Return unto your rest, O my soul; for the LORD has dealt bountifully with you.
8 For you have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.
9 I will walk before [paniym – in the presence of] the LORD in the land of the living.
10 I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted:
11 I said in my haste [away from corruption], All men are liars.
12 What shall I render unto the LORD for all his benefits toward me?
13 I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name [identity] of the LORD.
14 I will pay my vows unto the LORD [taking salvation, and calling upon His identity manifested] now in the presence of all his people.
15 Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints.
16 O LORD, truly I am your servant; I am your servant, and the son of your handmaid: you have loosed my bonds.
17 I will offer to you the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call upon the name [identity] of the LORD.
18 I will pay my vows unto the LORD [who is] now in the presence of all his people.
19 In the courts of the LORD’s house, in the midst of you, O Jerusalem. Praise you the LORD.

July 29, 2023

For yet a very little while, and the indignation shall cease, and my anger in their destruction.

27 – 28 July 2023

For yet a very little while, and the indignation shall cease, and my anger in their destruction.

As often discussed, the word “indignation” is from the twenty-two times used Hebrew word za’am, meaning “from 2194 [za’am – meaning the same]; strictly froth at the mouth, i.e. (figuratively) fury (especially of God’s displeasure with sin):–angry, indignation, rage.”

It (za’am) is when God is furious about the effects of wickedness, the evil action of men in power against the powerless. For those who don’t believe God is real, or doubt His presence, because He hasn’t used His power as the wicked use theirs, you are about to see His power as He turns their evil against the wicked.

Thus says the LORD, “It may be that the house of Judah [the corrupt crop of leaders of God’s people] will hear all the evil which I purpose to do unto them; that they may return every man from his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.”

Friends, do you think the wicked will repent when they see God’s word manifested into reality before their eyes? They won’t (because of their reflexive enmity). They deny the present reality: the result of returning to the primitive animal ignorance from where He raised us into prosperity above all the nations.

This lesson is for believers, to tell their children and for them to tell theirs. The LORD allowed the wicked to make their own hell, proving it is a choice, and there, in Sheol, shall they be housed forever in darkness.

When the LORD above, from Jeremiah 36:3, speaking of the coming evil, speaks on of Jeremiah (as Paul speaks of himself as a prisoner of the LORD) telling Baruch (blessing) the son of Neriah (the light of Jehovah) to take the word (in which is the blessing: which is understanding) he (Baruch) wrote from the mouth of the LORD (spoken by Jeremiah), to warn those against whom this evil is coming.

In this pattern, we see the LORD’s love (agape – charity: freely giving what must be freely given as received) and mercy in warning, first of the evil, and then of the destruction that from it comes.

Jeremiah 36
4 Then Jeremiah called Baruch [the carrier of the blessing] the son of Neriah [come with the light of Jehovah]: and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah [Jehovah rising in him to raise his people who hear Him speaking in His word and obey] all the words of the LORD, which he had spoken unto him, upon a roll [mgillah] of a book [cepher] [This the same “volume” of the “book” in which the LORD, as do we, find ourselves written, and become the ONE BODY He has prepared for Himself: to, as sons, do the Father’s will on earth as it is done in heaven – written in Psalms 40:7 and Hebrews 10:7].
5 And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I am shut up; I cannot go into the house of the LORD:
6 Therefore go you, and read in the roll, which you have written from my mouth, the words of the LORD in the ears of the people in the LORD’s house upon the fasting day: and also you shall read them in the ears of all Judah that come out of their cities [to Jerusalem to meet the LORD and hear His ways of peace that flow from His teaching].
7 It may be they will present their supplication before the LORD, and will return every one from his evil way: for great is the anger [‘aph] and the fury [chemah – heat] that the LORD has pronounced against this people.
8 And Baruch the son of Neriah [obeyed and] did according to all that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, reading in the book the words of the LORD in the LORD’s house.
9 And it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, in the ninth month, that they [not the king] proclaimed a fast before the LORD to all the people in Jerusalem, and to all the people that came from the cities of Judah unto Jerusalem.
10 Then read Baruch in the book the words of Jeremiah in the house of the LORD, in the chamber of Gemariah [those Jehovah has perfected] the son of Shaphan [who hid in the chamber, as in Isaiah 26:20 & 21, until the LORD’s anger is past, in rock which is Christ from whom this word flowed] the scribe, in the higher court, at the entry of the new gate of the LORD’s house, in the ears of all the people.

The chapter then speaks of those hearing this word of God, all fearing what they heard, obeying, passing on the warning, as received, to others in a long chain.

16 Now it came to pass, when they had heard all the words, they were afraid both one and other, and said unto Baruch, We will surely tell the king of all these words.
17 And they asked Baruch, saying, Tell us now, How did you write all these words at his mouth?
18 Then Baruch answered them, He pronounced all these words unto me with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink in the book.
19 Then said the princes unto Baruch, Go, hide you, you and Jeremiah; and let no man know where you be.
20 And they went in to the king into the court, but they laid up the roll [mgillah] in the chamber of Elishama [hearing God and obeying] the scribe, and told all the words in the ears of the king.
21 So the king sent Jehudi [one of the misleaders of God’s people, who is confederate with the king] to fetch the roll: and he took it out of Elishama the scribe’s chamber. And Jehudi read it in the ears of the king, and in the ears of all the princes which stood beside the king.
22 Now the king sat in the winter house [where the fires always burned] in the ninth month: and there was a fire on the hearth burning before him.
23 And it came to pass, that when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, he cut it with the penknife [cutting it up, to report it in a way that misrepresents, so to attack and demonize the origin, the LORD Himself], and cast it into the fire [caused by all their other misreporting, more know lies from known liars, more false accusations from known false accuser, all so they can call good evil and their evil good] that was on the hearth, until all the roll [mgillah] was consumed in the fire that was on the hearth.
24 Yet they were not afraid, nor rent their garments, neither the king, nor any of his servants that heard all these words.

27 Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, after that the king had burned the roll, and the words which Baruch wrote at the mouth of Jeremiah, saying,
28 Take you again another roll, and write in it all the former words that were in the first roll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah has burned.
29 And you shall say to Jehoiakim king of Judah [the pattern of the corrupt administration now in power, who will never repent or heed any warning], Thus says the LORD; You have burned this roll, saying, Why have you written therein, saying, The king of Babylon [your own confusion, now turned mas delusion, insanity now controlling the world] shall certainly come and destroy this land, and shall cause to cease from thence man and beast?
30 Therefore thus says the LORD of Jehoiakim king of Judah; He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David: and his dead body [his administration and their followers in whom the LORD’s Spirit is NOT] shall be cast out in the day [now when understanding has come] to the heat [of the LORD’s anger], and in the night to the frost [when, by choosing darkness, it, understanding, shall be kept from them].
31 And I will punish [paqad – now when I have come as the Chief Overseer of the earth, against] him and his seed and his servants for their iniquity; and I will bring upon them, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and upon the men of Judah, all the evil that I have pronounced against them; but they hearkened [shama’ – obeyed and heeded My warning] not.
32 Then took Jeremiah another roll, and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah; who wrote therein from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire: and there were added besides unto them many like words.

The LORD from here takes us to Jeremiah 8, giving the cause again, starting in the previous chapter, of His indignation, which He states, in Jeremiah 8:3, saying death is chosen. He asks one thing: obey His voice because His words ONLY are the way of salvation and life.

Jeremiah 7
3 Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.
4 Trust you not in lying words, saying, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, are these [houses you have corrupted by your ways and false interpretation].
5 For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if you thoroughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbor [without which there can be no peace];
6 If you oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow [all without power, representation, or just recourse], and shed not innocent blood [as those in power now do] in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt [putting these strange ways above God’s way – see Revelation 7: 2 & 3, and 22:11 below]:
7 Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, forever and ever.
8 Behold, you trust in lying words, that cannot profit.
9 Will you steal [by taxation and perverted economic policy], murder [many millions of My children], and commit adultery [following devils you put in My holy place], and swear falsely [as policy in every newscast and public statement {The Obama Doctrine}], and burn incense unto Baal [the idol this evil world you’ve put in My place], and walk after other gods whom you know not;
10 And come and stand before me [thinking you will forever hide behind claims of ignorance] in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations?
11 Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen it, says the LORD. [And I alone make it known to you, warning you its end is perdition, and choosing it you choose death.]
12 But go you now unto my place which was in Shiloh, where I set my name at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel. [This is when the priesthood became fully corrupt and the childish priests became thieves and robbers, stealing the offering and not honoring God, for which the LORD, in 1 Samuel 2, says, “32 And you shall see an enemy in My habitation, in {control of} all the wealth which God shall give Israel: and there shall not be an old man {any with wisdom} in your house forever. 33 And the man of your {choosing}, whom I shall not cut off from my altar, shall be to consume your eyes {and all they teach will produce ignorance}, and to {without understanding} grieve your heart {blind your minds}: and all the increase of your house shall die in the flower of their age. 34 And this shall be a sign unto you, that shall come upon your two sons, on Hophni {“closed hands,” hiding what they’ve stolen} and Phinehas {“mouth of the serpent,” devils misleading}; in one day they shall die both of them. 35 And I will raise me up a faithful priest {in the order of Melchizedek}, that shall do according to that which is in my heart and in my mind: and I will build him a sure house; and he shall walk before my anointed forever.]
13 And now, because you have done all these works, says the LORD, and I spake unto you, rising up early and speaking, but you heard not; and I called you, but you answered not;
14 Therefore will I do unto this house, which is called by my name, wherein you trust, and unto the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.
15 And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren, even the whole seed of Ephraim.
16 Therefore pray not you for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for I will not hear you.
17 See you not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?
18 The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven [the house they call by My name, in which they’ve put devils], and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger [ka’ac].
19 Do they provoke me to anger [ka’ac]? says the LORD: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces [paniym – not knowing the LORD’s identity or their own]?
20 Therefore thus says the LORD God; Behold, my anger [‘aph] and my fury [chemal] shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn [as Tophet], and shall not be quenched.
21 Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh [My offering you have dishonored].
22 For I spoke not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:
23 But this [one] thing commanded I them, saying, Obey [shama’] my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people: and walk you in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.
24 But they hearkened [shama’ – obeyed] not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward [devolving into a more primitive state of mind], and not forward.
25 Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day I have even sent unto you all my servants the prophets [My word they have written for your good], daily rising up early and sending them:
26 Yet they hearkened [shama’ – obeyed] not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they [in an endless state of childishness] did worse than their fathers.
27 Therefore you shall speak all these words unto them; but they will not hearken [shama’ – obey] to you: you shall also call unto them; but they will not answer you.
28 But you shall say unto them, This is a nation that obeys [shama’] not the voice of the LORD their God, nor received correction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.
29 Cut off your hair [all the ideas grown from your evil imaginations], O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.
30 For the children of Judah [your leaders acting childishly] have done evil in my sight, says the LORD: they have set their abominations in the house [in the minds of all My people] which is called by my name, to pollute it.
31 And they have built the high places of Tophet [where the fires burn], which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom [the sons of perdition, ignorantly lamenting they are in hell by their own choices], to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart.
32 Therefore, behold, the days come, says the LORD, that it shall no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter: for they shall bury in Tophet, till there be no place.
33 And the carcasses of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven [those who say they have understanding], and for the beasts [without My Spirit] of the earth; and none shall fray them away.
34 Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: for the land shall be desolate [as is this nation this day, the hell you’ve made it].

Jeremiah 8
1 At that time, says the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves:
2 And they shall spread [shatach – “to expand” as the exposition in the firmament, so that all the ignorant will understand they are the flesh of these bones] them before [in the presence of] the sun [the ignorant church], and the moon [ignorant civil government], and all the host of heaven [and all God’s ignorant people], whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they [My scatter flock] shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they [their flesh without My Spirit] shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.
3 And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places whither I have driven them, says the LORD of hosts.
4 Moreover you shall say unto them, Thus says the LORD; Shall they fall, and not arise [it is this rising of the dead bones, when they are again given flesh, and after, given life by this breath, the life from the mouth of God, heard from His first begotten from the dead, and then from the first fruits who rise with his rising]? shall he turn away, and not return [to the LORD his maker and receive life]?
5 Why then is this people of Jerusalem slid back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return [to My truth, the Father’s which He has given Me].
6 I hearkened and heard [shama’ – obeyed], but they [God’s people at large] spoke not aright: no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to his course, as the horse rushes into the battle [against Me].
7 Yea, the stork in the heaven knows her appointed times [mow’ed]; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.
8 How do you say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes [which have misinterpreted My written word] is in vain.
9 The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them?
10 Therefore will I give their wives [their churches] unto others, and their fields to them that shall inherit them: for every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness [lust for what isn’t theirs], from the prophet even unto the priest every one deals falsely.
11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace [and the enemies mixed among us are at war with us, and none of God’s priests or prophets tell His people this is the LORD’s judgment].
12 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination [put their own words in My place]? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation [pquddah – now when the LORD is here as the Chief Overseer of the earth, and the judgment of God] they shall be cast down, says the LORD.
13 I will surely consume them [with the fire from My mouth], says the LORD: there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and the things that I have given them shall pass away from them [and this now totally corrupt nation shall end, and upon its ruins, a new nation shall rise in righteousness].
14 Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves [into the ONE BODY with Me], and let us enter into the defensed cities [heavenly New Jerusalem], and let us be silent there [not speaking our own words and ways]: for the LORD our God has put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.
15 We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble!
16 The snorting of his [the enemies’] horses was heard from Dan [judgment]: the whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for they are [have] come, and have devoured the land, and all that is in it; the city, and those that dwell therein.
17 For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you [with the words from their mouths they destroy your minds], says the LORD.
18 When I would comfort myself [My BODY with understanding] against sorrow, my heart [their mind] is faint in me [because My people are still choosing death].
19 Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a far [merchaq – this appointed time the LORD decreed] country [‘erets – for the earth]: Is not the LORD in Zion? is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger [ka’ac] with their graven images [the creations of men], and with strange vanities [ways that aren’t Mine]?
20 The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.
21 For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black [My ONE BODY is still without understanding]; astonishment has taken hold on me.
22 Is there no balm in Gilead [in this testimony]; is there no physician there? [Yes there is.] why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered [because none obey and therefore there is no one to deliver the cure]?

Isaiah 63
3 I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in my 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 my 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 my own arm brought salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me.
6 And I will tread down the people in my 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 [mal’ak – messenger] of his presence [paniym] 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 a 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 did you lead your people, to make yourself a glorious name. [Amen!]

Ezekiel 37
1 The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones,
2 And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry.
3 And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O LORD God, you know.
4 Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O you dry bones, hear [shama’ – obey] the word of the LORD.
5 Thus says the LORD God unto these bones; Behold [see and understand], I will cause breath [this word from My mouth] to enter into you, and you shall live:
6 And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live; and you shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So I [obeyed and] prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise [qowl – the voice of the LORD], and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone.
8 And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them above: but there was no breath in them.
9 Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus says the LORD God; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live. [These are the four winds {the LORD’s Spirit} that come after {in the words of} the elect remnant are sealed, which releases {makes known} the second death of wicked and raises God’s people at large to life – see Revelation 7 below]
10 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.
11 Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts [who still remain in the tribulation].
12 Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus says the LORD God; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.
13 And you shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves,
14 And shall put my spirit in you, and you shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall you know that I the LORD have spoken it, and performed it, says the LORD.
15 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,
16 Moreover, you son of man, take you one stick, and write upon it, For Judah [the elect remnant], and for the children of Israel his companions: then take another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph [those God will add, when they come out of the tribulation], the stick of Ephraim [God’s people at large in this generation] and for all the house of Israel his companions:
17 And join them one to another into one stick; and they shall become one in your hand.
18 And when the children of your people shall speak unto you, saying, Will you not show us what you meanest by these?
19 Say unto them, Thus says the LORD God; Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, even with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one [BODY] in my hand.
20 And the sticks whereon you write shall be in your hand before their eyes.
21 And say unto them, Thus says the LORD God; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen [the dead who don’t know me], whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land [this new nation]:
22 And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all.
23 Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwelling places, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them [of their corruoption]: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.
24 And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them.
25 And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their children’s children forever: and my servant David shall be their prince forever.
26 Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them [when I write My word into their minds, and we will all have one mind]: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore.
27 My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
28 And the heathen shall know that I the LORD do sanctify [make holy] Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore.

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 [as the light of this new day, to give understanding into the head of the elect remnant], having the seal of [as a slave, prisoner, obeying] the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt [adikeo] the earth and the sea,
3 Saying, Hurt [adikeo – in Revelation 2:11, the “hurt” of the second death, and in Revelation 22:11 it’s twice the “unjust” who remain unjust] not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed [made slave, prisoners, obeying as] the servants of our God in their foreheads [His word always at the forefront of their minds, with dominion over their thinking].
4 And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed a hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel [those who will reign on the earth as God reigns, with righteousness].

9 After this [when the elect remnant are sealed into obedience and open their mouths] I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, 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 sit 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 forever 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 [of corruption], and made them white [pure] 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 anymore; neither shall the sun light [the church shall no long teach their own word and ways] on them, nor any heat.
17 For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them [with understanding], and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes [quoted from Isaiah 25:8, which also speaks of when death is swallowed up in victory].

1 Corinthians 15
51 Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep [in death], but we shall all be changed,
52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
55 O death, where is your sting? O grave, where is your victory?

Revelation 22
4 And they shall see his face [presence]; and his name [identity] shall be in their foreheads.
5 And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the LORD God gives them light: and they shall reign forever and ever.
6 And he said unto me, These sayings are faithful and true: and the LORD God of the holy prophets sent his angel [I Am] to show unto his servants the things which must shortly be done.
7 Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he that keeps the sayings of the prophecy of this book.
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 [the messenger – I Am] which showed me these things.
9 Then said he unto me [as I say unto you], See you do it not: for I am your fellow-servant, and of your brethren the prophets, and of them which keep [guard and protect from corruption] the sayings of this book: worship God.
10 And he says unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand.
11 He that is unjust [adikeo], let him be unjust [adikeo – which is choosing the second death: the dead choosing to stay dead rather than rising with us into life] 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 [just mentioned] shall be.
13 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end [of ages], the first and the last.
14 Blessed are they that [obey and] 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 make a lie.
16 I Jesus have sent my 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 [to force it to say what God hasn’t said], 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 [to force it to say what God hasn’t said], 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.

Isaiah 25
1 O LORD, you are my God; I will exalt you, I will praise your name; for you have done wonderful things; your counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.
2 For you have made of a city a heap; of a defenced 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 [understanding] to the poor [those without power], 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 [the gates of hell: the open mouths of wicked men] shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down for the dunghill.
11 And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that swims spreads forth his hands to swim [dividing the waters, to stay above them]: and he shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their hands.
12 And the fortress of the high fort of your walls shall he bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust.

As we know from previous discussions, the “cover” (from the once used word lowt) “cast over” (from the three times used word luwt) all people, which the LORD will removes, refer us to the other two times luwt appears.

In the first, 1 Samuel 22:9, it’s the “wrapping” David removes from the sword he took from Goliath, with which he cut off his head. The sword is then, in the following verses, revealed to be deception, which causes David’s enemies to disregard him.

1 Samuel 21
9 And the priest said, The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you slew in the valley of Elah, behold, it is here wrapped [luwt] in a cloth behind the ephod: if you will take that, take it: for there is no other save that here. And David said, There is none like that; give it me.
10 And David arose and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish the king of Gath.
11 And the servants of Achish said unto him, Is not this David the king of the land? did they not sing one to another of him in dances, saying, Saul has slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands?
12 And David laid up these words in his heart, and was sore afraid of Achish [“I will blacken” hide myself in there ignorance, so they think I AM “only a man”] the king of Gath [“winepress,” as I come as judgment].
13 And he changed his behavior before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down upon his beard.
14 Then said Achish unto his servants, Lo, you see the man is mad: wherefore then have you brought him to me?
15 Have I need of mad men, that you have brought this fellow to play the mad man in my presence? shall this fellow come into my house?

The other use (of luwt) comes in 1 Kings 19:13, when Elijah (Jehovah is God) “wrapped” his face (paniym – presence) in his mantle (covering God’s glory in him), which (mantle) he later cast upon Elisha (God is Salvation).

Jeremiah 50
24 I have laid a snare for you, and you are also taken, O Babylon, and you were not aware: you are found, and also caught, because you have strived against the LORD.
25 The LORD has opened his armory, and has brought forth the weapons of his indignation [za’am]: for this is the work of the LORD God of hosts in the land of the Chaldeans [against those who’ve used their words to manipulate humanity into hell].
26 Come against her from the utmost border [qets – this full end], open her storehouses: cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly: let nothing of her be left.
27 Slay all her bullocks [those doing this work of misleading into hell]; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation [pquddah – now, when I Am here as the Chief Overseer of the earth].
28 The voice of them that flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to [open their mouth and] declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, the vengeance of his temple.
29 Call together the archers against Babylon: all you that bend the bow, camp against it round about; let none thereof escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she has done, do unto her: for she has been proud against the LORD, against the Holy One of Israel.
30 Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all her men of war shall be cut off in that day, says the LORD.
31 Behold, I am against you, O you most proud, says the LORD God of hosts: for your day is come, the time that I will visit you.
32 And the most proud shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up: and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all round about him.
33 Thus says the LORD of hosts; The children of Israel and the children of Judah were oppressed together: and all that took them captives held them fast; they refused to let them go.
34 Their Redeemer is strong; the LORD of hosts [a man of war] is his name [My identity]: he shall thoroughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the land, and disquiet [raqaz – pour His anger upon] the inhabitants of Babylon.
35 A sword [of David] is upon the Chaldeans, says the LORD, and upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise men.
36 A sword is upon the liars; and they shall dote: a sword is upon her mighty men; and they shall be dismayed.
37 A sword is upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the mingled people that are in the midst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword is upon her treasures; and they shall be robbed.
38 A drought is upon her waters; and they shall be dried up: for it is the land of graven images, and they are mad [become insane] upon their idols.
39 Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild beasts of the islands shall dwell there, and the owls shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited forever; neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.
40 As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor cities thereof, says the LORD; so shall no man abide there, neither shall any son of man dwell therein.
41 Behold, a people shall come from the north [shall come out of ignorance], and a great [new] nation, and many kings shall be raised up from the coasts [the end of the old and corrupt, where their proud waves are stayed, beginning the new] of the earth.
42 They shall hold the bow and the lance: they are cruel, and will not show mercy: their voice shall roar like the sea, and they shall ride upon horses, everyone put in array, like a man to the battle, [as My awakened army] against you, O daughter of Babylon.
43 The king of Babylon has heard the report of them, and his hands waxed feeble: anguish took hold of him, and pangs as of a woman in travail [fearing what they have brought forth].
44 Behold, he [the LORD, I Am] shall come up like a lion from [roaring against] the swelling [proud waves] of Jordan [words that carried all in the descent into death] unto the habitation of the strong [in power]: but I will make them [the wicked] suddenly run away from her [My people they have oppressed]: and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over her? for who is like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who is that shepherd that will stand before me? [All these are references to Michael, who is like God and stands for God’s people in this time of Jacob’s trouble, and Shiloh, who comes as the shepherd and stone of God’s people – the king of peace, and king of righteousness, in the order of Melchizedek]
45 Therefore hear you the counsel of the LORD, that he has taken against Babylon; and his purposes, that he has purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the least of the flock [“I will be silent and poor {without earthly power}”] shall draw them out: surely he shall make their habitation desolate with them.
46 At the noise [qowl – the LORD’s voice] of the taking of Babylon the earth is moved, and the cry is heard among the nations.

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.

Hebrews 10
12 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God;
13 From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.
14 For by one offering he has perfected forever them that are sanctified.
15 Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before,
16 This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the LORD, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;
17 And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
18 Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.
19 Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,
20 By a new and living way, which he has consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;
21 And having a high priest over the house of God;
22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
23 Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)
24 And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:
25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as you see the day approaching.
26 For if we sin willfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more sacrifice for sins,
27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
28 He that despised Moses’ law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:
29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose you, shall he be thought worthy, who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and has done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
30 For we know him that has said, Vengeance belongs unto me, I will recompense, says the LORD. And again, The LORD shall judge his people.
31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

Psalms 40
1 I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.
2 He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.
3 And he has put a new song [His word] in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD.
4 Blessed is that man that makes the LORD his trust, and respects not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.
5 Many, O LORD my God, are your wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto you: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.
6 Sacrifice and offering you did not desire; my ears have you opened: burnt offering and sin offering have you not required.
7 Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume [mgillah] of the book [cepher] it is written of me,
8 I delight to do your will, O my God: yea, your law is within my heart.
9 I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, you know.
10 I have not hid your righteousness within my heart; I have declared your faithfulness and your salvation: I have not concealed your lovingkindness and your truth from the great congregation.
11 Withhold not you your tender mercies from me, O LORD: let your lovingkindness and your truth continually preserve me.
12 For innumerable evils have compassed me about: my iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of my head: therefore my heart [mind] fails me.
13 Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help me.
14 Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.
15 Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha.
16 Let all those that seek you rejoice and be glad in you: let such as love your salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified.
17 But I am poor and needy; yet the LORD thinketh upon me: you are my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.