For her wound is incurable; for it is come unto Judah; he is come unto the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.

14 – 16 July 2023

For her wound is incurable; for it is come unto Judah; he is come unto the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.

As we understand from previous conversations, the above (Micah 1:9) spiritually speaks of this nation: her corrupt leaders (Judah) and the people (Jerusalem) whose minds they’ve corrupted. The “He” it speaks of isn’t an enemy, but the LORD (Jesus – Jehovah’s Salvation appearing at the east gate in judgment). The passage (spiritually) refers to the pattern written in 2 Kings 22 & 23, and elsewhere when she (this nation) is declared to have an incurable (‘anash) wound.

Micah 1
2 Hear [shama’ – obey], all you people; hearken [qashab – let these words pierce your ear and enter into your mind], O earth, and all that therein is: and let the LORD God be witness against you, the LORD from his holy temple.
3 For, behold, the LORD comes forth out of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of [church and state in] the earth.
4 And the mountains [governments] shall be molten [melt away] under him, and the valleys shall be cleft [baqa’ – referring us to 2 Kings 25:4, when “the city was broken up {baqa’}, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between two walls {of lies, yours and theirs}], as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a steep place.
5 For the transgression of Jacob is all this, and for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? is it not Samaria [the capital where they’ve put idols in God’s place and the priests, devils, tell the people they are the LORD]? and what are the high places of Judah [their leaders as idol the people worship]? are they not Jerusalem [the whole nation incurably corrupt]?
6 Therefore I will make Samaria as a heap of the field, and as plantings of a vineyard: and I will pour down the stones thereof into the valley, and I will discover the foundations thereof.
7 And all the graven images thereof shall be beaten to pieces, and all the hires thereof shall be burned with the fire, and all the idols thereof will I lay desolate: for she gathered it of the hire of a harlot [the unfaithful], and they shall return to the hire of a harlot [going back to the same men with whom they’ve been unfaithful].
8 Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked [making My presence known to all, and not hiding any of these things from anyone]: I will make a wailing like the dragons [send My word to devour the devourers], and mourning as the owls [hunting the souls held in darkness].
9 For her wound is incurable [‘anash]; for it is come unto Judah; he is come [the LORD Jesus] unto the gate of my people [with good judgment], even to Jerusalem.
10 Declare you it not at Gath [the winepress – will you not open your mouths and declare His judgment], weep you not at all [for the unrepentant sins of His people?]: in the house of Aphrah [‘aphar – the ashes of the earth’s desolation] roll yourself in the dust [‘aphar – thinking you can hide, mask, yourselves from His presence].
11 Pass you away [‘abar – Passover this death into life], you inhabitant of Saphir [saphar – who’ve accepted the LORD at His appearing and kingdom], having your shame naked: the inhabitant of Zaanan [tsa’anan; tsown ‘anan – who’ve come into the cloud with me: into understanding] came not forth [as I advised] in the mourning [micped – lamenting] of Bethezel [the houses now oppressed by following their same old corrupt ways, which is their shame]; he [the LORD’s people] shall receive [laqach – be accepted] of you his standing [’emdah, only appearing here – as His station, His domicile {His nation in which He lives}].
12 For the inhabitant of Maroth [bitter springs] waited carefully for [their evil they call] good: but [the good they call] evil came down from the LORD unto the gate of Jerusalem [where His presence is manifested in the conversation: the ways of peace that flow from His teaching].

Thus says the LORD, leading us into Jeremiah 28, where the false prophets prophesy (from their bitter springs) of peace (when war is raging against us) when the LORD has warned that national destruction is at hand. Here the false prophet is Hananiah, said to mean Jehovah has favored, while, in context, implying he is the encampment (chanah) of those in whom the LORD’s light has declined: the source of the rebellion against God and the ruin of the earth. The deeper meaning is found in the word ‘anan, meaning “to cover; used only as a denominative from 6051, to cloud over; figuratively, to act covertly, i.e. practise magic,” and Hananiah doing so in the name of the LORD.

He (Hananiah) is said to be the son of Azur, meaning he is a helper, ignorantly thinking he is assisting (God).

Jeremiah 28
1 And it came to pass the same year, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, and in the fifth month, that Hananiah the son of Azur the prophet, which was of Gibeon, spoke unto me in the house of the LORD, in the presence of the priests and of all the people, saying,
2 Thus speaks the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon [confusion].
3 Within two full years will I bring again into this place all the vessels of the LORD’s house, that Nebuchadnezzar king [the lies of the false prophets, that rule the minds of men, which caused the desolation of God’s people] of Babylon [confusion] took away from this place, and carried them to Babylon:
4 And I will bring again to this place Jeconiah [whom Jehovah has established] the son of Jehoiakim [whom Jehovah raised] king of Judah, with all the captives of Judah [the leaders of God’s people], that went into Babylon, says the LORD: for I will break the yoke [joining you with these lies and confusion] of the king of Babylon.
5 Then the prophet Jeremiah [Jehovah risen to raise His people] said unto the prophet Hananiah in the presence of the priests, and in the presence of all the people that stood in the house of the LORD,
6 Even the prophet Jeremiah said, Amen: the LORD do so: the LORD perform your words which you have prophesied, to bring again the vessels of the LORD’s house, and all that is carried away captive, from Babylon into this place.
7 Nevertheless hear you now this word that I speak in your ears, and in the ears of all the people;
8 The prophets that have been before me and before you of old prophesied both against many countries, and against great kingdoms, of war, and of evil, and of pestilence.
9 The prophet which prophesies of peace, when the word of the prophet shall come to pass, then shall the prophet be known, that the LORD has truly sent him.
10 Then Hananiah the prophet [thinking Jeremiah was confirming his prophecy] took the yoke from off the prophet Jeremiah’s neck, and brake it.
11 And Hananiah spoke in the presence of all the people, saying, Thus says the LORD; Even so will I break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon from the neck of all nations within the space of two full years. And the prophet Jeremiah went his way.
12 Then the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah the prophet, after that Hananiah the prophet had broken the yoke from off the neck of the prophet Jeremiah, saying,
13 Go and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus says the LORD; You have broken the yokes of wood; but you shall make for them yokes of iron [writing the law of nature and nature’s God in the mind].
14 For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; I have put a yoke of iron [the law that is almighty and cannot be broken] upon the neck of all these nations, that they may serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon [which is the self-immolation, as a ram caught in the thicket, that brings their end]; and they shall serve him: and I have given him the beasts of the field also.
15 Then said the prophet Jeremiah unto Hananiah the prophet, Hear [shama’ – obey, and shut your mouths with which you speak falsely in the LORD’s name, taking it in vain] now, Hananiah; The LORD has not sent you; but you make this people to trust in a lie [contradicting LORD who says the wound is incurable: the nation will end and upon its ruin, He will build a new Nation in which He will dwell].
16 Therefore thus says the LORD; Behold, I will cast you from off the face of the earth: this year you shall die, because you have taught rebellion against the LORD.
17 So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh month.

The word ‘anan, appearing eleven times (the number of confusion: when the abstract isn’t comprehended) in the Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary, (again meaning: “to cover; used only as a denominative from 6051 [‘anan – a cloud], to cloud over; figuratively, to act covertly, i.e. practise magic.”)

It (‘anan) tells of those who use dark sentences (deception and manipulation) to confuse those listening. The first time it’s used, in Genesis 9:14, it abstractly speaks of our time when understanding is removed from the earth, and is seen returning in the rainbow (light rightly divided). This occurrence is spoken of from a different perspective in Exodus 19:9 when God’s people are called to gather (into ONE BODY) to hear (shama’ – obey) His voice.

Genesis 9
12 And God said, This is the token [‘owth – the sign of the end of the age reached] of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual [‘owlam – through eternity] generations [dowr – every age]:
13 I do set my bow [qesheth] in the cloud [‘anan – #6051], and it shall be for a token [‘owth] of a covenant between me and the earth [‘erets].
14 And it shall come to pass, when I bring [‘anan – #6049] a cloud [‘anan – #6051] over the earth, that the bow [qesheth] shall be seen in the cloud [‘anan – #6051]:
15 And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters [the words of men corrupting all understanding] shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
16 And the bow [qesheth] shall be in the cloud [‘anan – # 6051]; and I will look upon it [ra’ah – understand, and as a Shepherd send it, the light rightly divided, to feed My sheep], that I may remember [zakar – that they, My people, My ONE BODY, remembers] the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.

Exodus 19
5 Now therefore, if you will obey my voice indeed [shama’], and keep my covenant, then you shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:
6 And you shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and a [new] holy nation. These are the words which you shall speak unto the children of Israel.
7 And Moses [separated from the corrupted waters of the earth, to be the mouth of the LORD] came and called for the elders of the people, and laid before their faces all these words which the LORD commanded him.
8 And all the people answered together, and said, All that the LORD has spoken we will do. And Moses returned the words of the people unto the LORD.
9 And the LORD said unto Moses, Lo, I come unto you in a thick [‘ab] cloud [‘anan – #6051], that the people may hear [shama’ – obey] when I speak with you, and believe you forever. And Moses told the words of the people unto the LORD.
10 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and sanctify [qadash – cleanse them of all the corruption] them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their clothes [their minds spotted by the flesh],
11 And be ready against the third day: for the third day [when life comes again on the earth after the light and waters were rightly divided] the LORD will come down in the sight of [‘ayin – realized, manifested in the conversation: the fountain of living waters that from Him flow to] all the people upon mount Sinai [against the spiritually wicked in, thorns that have overgrown, all the high place of the earth].

1 Corinthians 15
1 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also you have received [as the word from the mouth of God], and wherein you stand [against the wiles of the devil];
2 By which also you are saved, if you keep in memory [remember these things you once knew] what I preached unto you, unless you have believed in vain [not responding to the LORD’s call as you should].
3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received [from the LORD], how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
5 And that he was seen of Cephas [Peter, the first to come out of confusion, to rise from the belly of hell], then of the twelve:
6 After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep.

51 Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, 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?
56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.
57 But thanks be to God, which gives us the victory through our LORD Jesus Christ.
58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be you steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the LORD, forasmuch as you know that your labor [responding as you should] is not in vain in the LORD.

1 Peter 2
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 Sion 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].

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

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

The word ‘anan (#6049)(above telling what “brings” the cloud upon the earth), is five times rendered as “observe or observer of times,” twice rendered “soothsayers,” and once each as “enchanters,” “sorceress,” and the proper name “Meonenim.”

Deuteronomy 18
10 There shall not be found among you any one that makes his son or his daughter to pass through the fire [of hell, offering them to their idols, as this evil generation does with impunity], or that uses divination [qecem – false visions of the future, to goad into going the wrong way], or an observer of times [‘anan – relativism, saying the definitions of good and evil change over time], or an enchanter [secretly, whispering rumors], or a witch [using words as spells, to manipulate and control people toward doing evil].
11 Or a charmer [those using flattery and smiles to hide their wicked intentions], or a consulter with familiar spirits [advising to follow the ways and ideas that are known to bring death], or a wizard [experts saying they know something to be true when it isn’t], or a necromancer [consulting with these dead men].
12 For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD your God does drive them out from before you.
13 You shall be perfect [understanding He’s with us, to advise and lead us in His good way] with the LORD your God.
14 For these nations [who have no knowledge of God], which you shall possess, hearkened [shama’ – obeyed] unto observers of times [‘anan], and unto diviners: but as for you, the LORD your God has not suffered you so to do.
15 The LORD your God will raise up unto you a Prophet from the midst of you, of your brethren, [a Chief Overseer] like unto me; unto him you shall hearken [shama’ – obey];
16 According to all [kol – the completion, the expected end] that you desired of the LORD your God in Horeb [in you desolation among thorns: misleaders] in the day of the assembly [when all gather in one body to hear My voice], saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not.
17 And the LORD said unto me, They have well spoken that which they have spoken [therefore].
18 I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto you, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.
19 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken [shama’ – obey] unto my words which he shall speak in my name [manifesting My identity], I will require it of him.
20 But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word [dabar] in my name [taking My name in vain], which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die.
21 And if you say in your heart, How shall we know the word [dabar] which the LORD has not spoken?
22 When a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD, if the thing [dabar – understanding the word] follow [hayah – becomes] not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD has not spoken, but the prophet has spoken it presumptuously [in his pride taking My name in vain]: you shall not be afraid of him.

The last four times ‘anan (#6049) appears are in the prophets: Isaiah 2:6 & 57:3, Jeremiah 27:9, and Micah 5:12.

Isaiah 2
2 And it shall come to pass in the last days [‘achariyth], that the mountain of the LORD’s house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.
3 And many people shall go and say, Come you, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
4 And he shall judge among the nations [who don’t know Him], and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
5 O house of Jacob, come you, and let us walk in the light [understanding] of the LORD.
6 Therefore you have forsaken your people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished [male’ – filled to completion] from the east [by the light of LORD rising and shining upon all], and are soothsayers [‘anan – and yet they speak darkness, as clouds without understanding] like the Philistines [the army of invaders among us], and they please themselves in the children of strangers.
7 Their land also is full [male’] of silver and gold, neither is there any end of their treasures; their land is also full [male’] of horses [carried by the strength of beast who are without the LORD’s Spirit], neither is there any end of their chariots:
8 Their land also is full [male’] of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:
9 And the mean man [refuse to] bow down, and the great man [will not] humble himself: therefore forgive them not.
10 Enter into the rock [the ONE BODY of Christ], and hide you in the dust [the ruin of the earth, from where you are brought to life], for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty.
11 The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness [arrogance] of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.
12 For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low:

The only people who can deny this has happened are the proud and arrogant who’ve perpetrated it and against whom the LORD has come.

Isaiah 57
1 The righteous perish [‘abad – wander away from the corrupt churches], and no man lays it to heart: and merciful men are taken away [‘acaph – is gathered into the LORD’s ONE BODY], none considering that the righteous is taken away [‘acaph] from the evil to come [the self-destruction of those remaining there away from the LORD].
2 He shall enter into peace [in heavenly New Jerusalem]: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness.
3 But draw near hither, you sons of the sorceress [‘anan – who cause ignorance to cover the earth in darkness], the seed of the adulterer and the whore [who left the LORD and follow idols you put in His place.].
4 Against whom do you sport yourselves? against whom make you a wide mouth, and draw out the tongue? are you not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood.
5 Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?
6 Among the smooth stones of the stream is your portion; they, they are your lot: even to them have you poured a drink offering, you have offered a meat offering. Should I receive comfort in these?
7 Upon a lofty and high mountain have you set your bed: even thither went you up to offer sacrifice.
8 Behind the doors also and the posts have you set up your remembrance: for you have discovered yourself to another than me, and are gone up; you have enlarged your bed, and made you a covenant with them; you loved their bed where you saw it.
9 And you went to the king [Brandon and his corrupt government] with ointment, and did increase your perfumes, and did send your messengers far off, and did debase yourself even unto hell [sheol – the habitation of the dead].
10 You are wearied in the greatness of your way; yet said you not, There is no hope [in following the corruption that led you into desolation and hell]: you [think you] have found the life of your hand [in your dead works]; therefore you were not grieved.
11 And of whom have you been afraid or feared, that you have lied, and have not remembered me, nor laid it to your heart? have not I held my peace even of old, and you fear me not?
12 I will declare your righteousness, and your works; for they shall not profit you.
13 When you cry, let your companies deliver you; but the wind shall carry them all away; vanity shall take them: but he that puts his trust in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain;
14 And shall say, Cast you up, cast you up, prepare the way, take up the stumbling block out of the way of my people.
15 For thus says the high and lofty One that inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
16 For I will not contend forever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made.
17 For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly [twisting and perverting truth] in the way of his heart.
18 I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners.
19 I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him that is far off [rachowq – who’ve made an evil covenant with death], and to him that is near, says the LORD; and I will heal [rapha’] him [making them a new nation, and raising them from death into life].
20 But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
21 There is no peace, says my God, to the [unrepentant] wicked.

Jude 1
12 These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water [darkening the earth], carried about of winds [of false doctrine]; trees whose fruit wither, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
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 mouths speak great swelling words, having men’s persons in admiration because [of their postions] of advantage.
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” in 1 Thessalonians 4:17] them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
24 Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,
25 To the only wise God our Savior, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.

When Jeremiah uses the word ‘anan (#6049), it is as the LORD, through Jeremiah, says that the people who have gone into Babylon are those who are saved, from the sword, famine, and pestilence (the word of truth against the false prophets, who are without this word of God, which cause weakness and delusion). If you refuse to admit you are here, spiritually have gone there, then you logically cannot be saved from there where the LORD sends the prophet like Moses, whom God’s people will hear as Him and obey.

Jeremiah 27
9 Therefore hearken not you to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreamers, nor to your enchanters [‘anan – who’ve led you into ignorance], nor to your sorcerers, which speak unto you [their evil ways misleading you], saying, You shall not serve the king of Babylon [where we are and have been since your desolation at the hand of your false prophets]:
10 For they prophesy a lie unto you, to remove you far from your land; and that I should drive you out, and you should perish.
11 But the nations that bring their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him, those will I let remain still in their own land, says the LORD; and they shall till it, and dwell therein.
12 I spake also to Zedekiah king of Judah according to all these words, saying, Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live.
13 Why will you die, you and your people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as the LORD has spoken against the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?
14 Therefore hearken not unto the words of the prophets that speak unto you, saying, You shall not serve the king of Babylon: for they prophesy a lie unto you.
15 For I have not sent them, says the LORD, yet they prophesy a lie in my name; that I might drive you out, and that you might perish, you, and the prophets that prophesy unto you.
16 Also I spake to the priests and to all this people, saying, Thus says the LORD; Hearken not to the words of your prophets that prophesy unto you, saying, Behold, the vessels of [understanding that was therein] the LORD’s house shall now shortly be brought again from Babylon: for they prophesy a lie unto you.
17 Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: wherefore should this city be laid waste?
18 But if they be prophets, and if the word of the LORD be with them, let them now make intercession to the LORD of hosts, that the vessels which are left in the house of the LORD, and in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, go not to Babylon.
19 For thus says the LORD of hosts concerning the pillars, and concerning the sea, and concerning the bases, and concerning the residue of the vessels that remain in this city.
20 Which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took not, when he carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah from Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem;
21 Yea, thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning the vessels that remain in the house of the LORD, and in the house of the king of Judah and of Jerusalem;
22 They shall be carried to Babylon, and there shall they be until the day that I visit [paqad – until I come as the Chief Overseer of the earth, there to] them, says the LORD; then will I bring them up [‘alah – raise them into understanding], and restore [shuwb – return] them to this place [understanding in heavenly New Jerusalem].

Hebrews 12
22 But you are come unto mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that 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:
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.

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 [manifesting the presence of the LORD above His mercy seat].
8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever.
9 Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.

Genesis 49
1 And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days [‘achariyth].

18 (I have waited for your salvation, O LORD.)
19 Gad [the LORD’s army, overcome until their return to Him], a troop [gduwd] shall overcome [guwd] him: but he shall overcome [guwd] at the last.
20 Out of Asher [happy] his bread shall be fat [happiness returns when the word of God prospers], and he shall yield royal dainties [ma’adan – speaking of the royal line again raised up – referring us to its use in Proverbs 29:17, telling us this is when rest returns, when we, by correction, give the Father “delight”].
21 Naphtali [by this wrestling – unknowingly with the LORD] is a hind let loose: he gives goodly words [our tongue {the word of God} is loosed and we teach it as received directly from Him].
22 Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well [a tree of life by these waters of God]; whose branches run over the wall [the wall of lies men created and teach]:
23 The archers [ba’al – the gods of this world whose teaching has blinded all from seeing the Father, in the son, the seed of the women who brings forth the man, who was before a child – see Revelation 12:17] have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him:
24 But his bow [qesheth – His garment, coat, of many colors] abode in strength [understanding from the LORD], and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the shepherd [ra’ah – the sight], the stone of Israel:)
25 Even by the God of your father, who shall help you; and by the Almighty, who shall bless [barak] you with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lies under [the deep meaning that lies below the surface], blessings of the breasts, and of the womb [seed, the son]:
26 The blessings of your father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors [all those who have come before us, and were only blessed with part of what is perfected in our return to the LORD] unto the utmost bound of the everlasting [‘owlam] hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.

Micah 5
1 Now gather yourself in troops [gadad], O daughter of troops [guwd – Gad, who will now overcome those who before overcame them]: He [the LORD] has [with judgment] laid siege against us: they [the wicked] shall smite the judge [the LORD unknown as He has comes to judge the Earth] of Israel with a rod [shebet – with their power, deceptions and lies, by which they rule] upon the cheek [the jawbone of the ass, with which He, as did Samson {like the Sun}, is smiting the invaders among us].
2 But you, Bethlehem Ephratah [this house of bread, receiving the whole {loaf} of God’s word here rightly divided; which is the second blessing {Ephraim} upon God’s people – the place where RAchEl {Joseph’s mother} is buried after giving birth to Benjamin – Ephratah also the origin of Joseph’s naming Ephraim {same place and people in Hebrew}, who spiritually is the name of God’s people in this first generation in the new creation], though you be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of [these last three words are from the word mamcak {from macak -therein the LORD referring us to malkuw and malkuwth: both from malak: melek}, here {mamcak is} untranslated, speaking of the everlasting King and His kingdom and “yet out of” what it ascends] you shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth [mowtsa’ah – Family descent] have been from of old [yowm – days], from everlasting [‘owlam – days everlasting – this can be none other than the perpetual son of God, the son of man {Jehovah’s Salvation manifested in the flesh} who comes in the order of Melchisedec].
3 Therefore will he give them up, until the time that she which travails has brought forth [her son of man in this generation]: then the [elect] remnant of his brethren shall return unto the children of Israel.
4 And he shall stand [as ONE BODY] and feed [in this good pasture] in the strength [understanding] of the LORD, in the majesty of the name [the manifested identity] of the LORD his God; and they shall abide: for now shall he be great [gadal – the LORD goodness enlarged] unto the ends [ending the old and corrupt and beginning the new] of the Earth.
5 And this [son of] man shall be the peace, when the Assyrian [communists] shall come into our land [as they have]: and when he shall tread in our palaces [as they do], then shall we raise against him seven [good] shepherds, and eight principal men [of the new creation].
6 And they shall waste the land of Assyria [the communists] with the sword [this word from the mouth of the LORD], and the land of Nimrod [rebellion] in the entrances thereof [into His everlasting kingdom]: thus shall he deliver us from the Assyrian [the communist now in power], when he comes into our land, and when he treads within our borders [as they now do: Obama, his husband Michael, their idiot son Brandon, and their evil ilk].
7 And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many people as a {morning – the light that has come as] dew [His word now appearing on the Earth] from the LORD, as the showers upon the grass, that tarries not for man [those not expecting it], nor waits for the sons of men [to obey and deliver it as received; He, therefore, alone here sends it as dew appearing].
8 And the [elect] remnant of Jacob shall be [become] among the Gentiles [those not knowing Him when He appears] in the midst of many people as a lion among the beasts of the forest [those said to be the “upright” among this ignorant generation, who are without the LORD’s Spirit], as a young lion among the [scattered] flocks of sheep: who, if he go through [‘abar – in this Passover], both treads down and tears in pieces [the wicked who reject His correction and its salvation], and none can deliver.
9 Your hand shall be lifted up [Your work shall rise] upon your adversaries [tsar – the enemies causing the tribulation {tsarah}], and all your enemies shall be cut off [karath].
10 And it shall come to pass in that day, says the LORD, that I will cut off your horses out of the midst of you, and I will destroy your chariots:
11 And I will cut off the cities of your land, and throw down all your strong holds:
12 And I will cut off witchcrafts out of your hand; and you shall have no more soothsayers [‘anan – leading the world into and by ignorance]:
13 Your graven images also will I cut off, and your standing images out of the midst of you; and you shall no more worship the work of your hands.
14 And I will pluck up your groves out of the midst of you: so will I destroy your cities.
15 And I will execute vengeance in anger and fury upon the heathen [the nation that hasn’t know Me], such as they have not heard.

Psalms 44
1 We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work you did in their days, in the times of old.
2 How you did drive out the heathen with your hand, and planted them; how you did afflict the people, and cast them out.
3 For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but your right hand, and your arm, and the light [understanding] of your countenance [manifesting your presence], because you had a favor unto them.
4 You are my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.
5 Through you will we push down our enemies: through your name will we tread them under that rise up against us.
6 For I will not trust in my bow [qesheth – your own dividing, interpretations, of the word of God], neither shall my sword [your use of them against our enemies] save me.
7 But you have saved us from our enemies, and have put them to shame that hated us.
8 In God we boast all the day long, and praise your name forever. Selah.
9 But you have cast off, and put us to shame; and go not forth with our armies.
10 You makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves.
11 You have given us like sheep appointed for meat; and have scattered us among the heathen.
12 You sell your people for naught, and do not increase your wealth by their price.
13 You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
14 You make us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.
15 My confusion [in Babylon] is continually before me, and the shame of my face has covered me,
16 For the voice of him that reproaches and blasphemes; by reason of the enemy and avenger.
17 All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten you, neither have we dealt falsely in your covenant.
18 Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from your way;
19 Though you have sore broken us in the place of dragons [the wide open mouths of men, who poisoned our mind with their ignorance, and swallowed us into the belly of hell], and covered us with the shadow of death.
20 If we have forgotten the name [identity] of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;
21 Shall not God search this out? for he knows the secrets of the heart.
22 Yea, for your sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
23 Awake, why sleep you, O LORD [‘Adonay – King of kings]? arise, cast us not off forever.
24 Wherefore hide you your face [paniym – Your presence], and forget our affliction and our oppression?
25 For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.
26 Arise for our help, and redeem us for your mercies’ sake.

Malachi 3
1 Behold, I will send my messenger [mal’ak – His angel], and he shall prepare the way before me [paniym – the way for My presence to be seen]: and the LORD [‘adown – the king], whom you seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger [mal’ak – the angel] 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 when he appears [comes into your sight]? 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, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, 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 91
1 He that dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
2 I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.
3 Surely he shall deliver you from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.
4 He shall cover you with his feathers, and under his wings shall you trust: his truth shall be your shield and buckler.
5 You shall not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flies by day;
6 Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wastes at noonday.
7 A thousand shall fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand; but it shall not come nigh you.
8 Only with your eyes shall you behold and see the reward of the wicked.
9 Because you have made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the Most High, your habitation;
10 There shall no evil befall you, neither shall any plague come nigh your dwelling.
11 For he shall give his angels [mal’ak – His messengers whose message manifests the LORD’s presence] charge over you, to keep you in all your ways.
12 They [His messengers through whom He] shall bear you up in their hands, lest you dash your foot against a stone.
13 You shall tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shall you trample under feet.
14 Because he has set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he has known my name [identity].
15 He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble [tsarah – tribulation]; I will deliver him, and honor him.
16 With long life will I satisfy him, and show [ra’ah] him my salvation [yshuw’ah – Joshua, Jesus: Jehovah’s Salvation manifested in the flesh].

For all those things has my hand made, and all those things have been, says the LORD: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembles at my word.

11 – 13 July 2023

For all those things has my hand made, and all those things have been, says the LORD: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembles at my word.

The LORD, above in Isaiah 66:2, is speaking of heaven and earth made by His work. He speaks to those who’ve built Him a house as a place where they say He rests. In verse 3, he tells of these houses (now) ignorantly offering what they’ve defiled and worshiping idols they put in His place, all abominations in which they delight. 

The title verse speaks of the man the LORD looked to, now when all the houses called by His name are filled with abominations, to be His habitation where He rests.

Isaiah 66
1 Thus says the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that you build unto me? and where is the place of my rest?
2 For all those things has my hand made, and all those things have been, says the LORD: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembles at my word.
3 He that kills an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrifices a lamb, as if he cut off a dog’s neck; he that offers an oblation, as if he offered swine’s blood; he that burns incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations.

The LORD then says, because they’ve chosen their own way, abominations in which their souls delight, “I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spoke, they did not hear [shama’ – obey]: but they did evil before my eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not.”

As often discussed, the word rendered “delusion” is the twice used Hebrew word ta’aluwl, meaning “from 5953; caprice (as a fit coming on), i.e. vexation; concretely a tyrant.” It is from the Hebrew words ‘alal (5953), meaning “to effect thoroughly,” and ta’a’, meaning “to cheat; by analysis to maltreat:– deceive, misuse.”

The word speaks of the tyrants now in power, who gained it by deception (the COVID HOAX, the hype they used to create irrational fear and panic over a common cold virus) to cheat in the Presidential election. They are those, domestic enemies conspiring with foreign powers, who now tyrannically rule by deception as policy: cultivated mass delusion: systemic gaslighting: to demoralize and destroy us, our nation, our culture.

The one other use, in Isaiah 3:4, definitively tells us precisely who they are. The chapter begins with the LORD telling His people and their leaders that He will take their “stay,” meaning everything they rely on for protection, from the five times used word mish’en.

Isaiah 3
1 For, behold, the LORD, the LORD of hosts, does take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay [mish’en] and the staff upon [which you lean on as you choose your own way], the whole stay [mish’en] of bread [understanding from those in who you put your trust], and the whole stay [mish’en] of water [your own words in which you trust].
2 The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient,
3 The captain of fifty, and the honorable man, and the counselor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator [are all taken away].
4 And I will give children to be their princes, and babes [ta’aluwl – tyrants and the insane] shall rule over them.
5 And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another [the enemies mixed among us, the army of the insane that are attacking us, against which the ways you’ve chosen have no defense], and every one by his neighbor: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honorable.
6 When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father, saying, You have clothing [you will cover us, to protect us from the elements, the corruption of those in power], be you our ruler, and let this ruin [of our people and the earth] be under your hand:
7 In that day shall he swear, saying, I will not be a healer; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing [but instead abominations in which my people delight]: make me not a ruler of the people.
8 For Jerusalem [God’s people] is ruined, and Judah [their leaders] is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes [seeing this ruin, and manifesting His presence against it as this fountain of living waters] of his glory.
9 The show of their countenance [hakkarah paniym – their disrespect of His presence] does witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.
10 Say you to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.
11 Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.
12 As for my people, children [the ignorant] are their oppressors, and women [the unfaithful] rule over them. O my people, they which lead you cause you to err, and destroy the [good] way of your [ancient] paths.
13 The LORD stands up to plead, and stands to judge the people.
14 The LORD will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof: for you have eaten up the vineyard [humanity which He by understanding planted in the earth]; the spoil [you’ve stolen] of the poor [the powerless] is in your houses.
15 What mean you that you beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? says the LORD [‘Adonay – the King of kings] God [Jehovah] of hosts [a man of war].
16 Moreover the LORD says, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty [proud of their abominations], and walk with stretched forth necks [looking for what they lust for] and wanton eyes, walking and mincing [taphaph – only here, meaning they trip over their own ways: the shuffle of those in shackles] as they go, and making a tinkling [‘akac – only here, meaning their ways become shackles, the sound of the shuffle] with their feet:
17 Therefore the LORD will smite with a scab [caphach – those attached to; only appearing in Isaiah here and 14:1] the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their secret parts.

Isaiah 14
1 For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they [the strangers in power, who are far from God] shall cleave [caphach – be yoked] to the house of Jacob.
2 And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the LORD for servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.
3 And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall give you rest from your sorrow, and from your fear, and from the hard bondage wherein you were made to serve,
4 That you shall take up this proverb against the king of Babylon [confusion], and say, How has the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!
5 The LORD has broken the staff [deception upon which they rely] of the wicked, and the scepter of the rulers.
6 He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hinders.
7 The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing.

Suffer me again as I must digress and speak of the “hard bondage” when yoked to wickedness in power: men who care nothing about the people they oppress and rob. I run several businesses, all of which we own. These companies together carry the burden of millions in debt. Over the past two years, under the current corrupt administration, the interest rate on most of our debt has (roughly) doubled (from about 5% to now 9.75% and climbing quarterly). 

Each percentage point rise equals (about) $120,000 a year, increasing our yearly payment by about $600,000 higher than two years ago. This money would typically go back into growing our companies; instead, it now goes to the banks, or the Fed, which raises the rates and uses the banks (it has, in effect, nationalized) to rob and intentionally force out of business companies like ours. 

This (rising interest rates and the necessary inflation it produces) is the “hard bondage” of the day that is callously pressing upon and enslaving (to the tyrants in government) every person in the country. The only thing growing or benefiting is the government (and its cronies) and the spiritually wicked sitting in seats of power. There is (without an intervention) an economic (and national) collapse coming, as we know is their plan. And don’t be ignorant; they aren’t going to change or give up power ever again (until forcibly removed – they are absolutely corrupt: delusionally claiming their evil is good and good is evil, and very willing to use their evil power when needed).

Ephesians 5
6 Let no man deceive you with vain [worthless] words: for because of these things comes the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
7 Be not you, therefore, partakers with them.
8 For you were sometimes darkness, but now are you light [have understanding] in the LORD: walk as children of light:
9 (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)
10 Proving what is acceptable unto the LORD.
11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.
12 For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.
13 But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever does make manifest is light.
14 Wherefore he says, Awake you that sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give you light [understanding].
15 See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,
16 Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
17 Wherefore be you not unwise, but understanding what the will of the LORD is.
18 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
19 Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs [repeating this understanding as received], singing and making melody in your heart to the LORD;
20 Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name [identity] of our LORD Jesus Christ [as the children of God in His ONE BODY raised];
21 Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
22 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the LORD.
23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the savior of the [ONE] body.
24 Therefore, as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.

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

The word “finally,” in verse 10 above, is from the 14 times used word loipon, meaning what remains (to complete). This thing (that remains to be done) is to stand against the “wiles” of the devils among us in power. The stand is in the LORD’s strength, in the power of His “might.”

The word rendered “wiles” is the twice used word methodeia, from meta, meaning accompaniment, amid, association, or succession; and hodeuo, from hodos, meaning “a road; by implication, a progress (the route, act or distance); figuratively, a mode or means:–journey, (high-)way.” It is speaking of the devil in our midst, journeying with us, to prevent us from reaching the promised end. The one other time it (methodeia) appears is in (Ephesians 4:14) telling how it is combatted. 

Ephesians 4
1 I, therefore, the prisoner of the LORD, beseech you that you walk worthy of the vocation [the work of the LORD] wherewith you are called,
2 With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;
3 Endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
4 There is ONE BODY, and one Spirit, even as you are called in one hope of your calling;
5 One LORD, one faith, one baptism,
6 One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.
7 But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.
8 Wherefore he says [in Psalms 68:18], When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.
9 (Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the [hell on] earth?
10 He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.)
11 And he gave [these same gifts I received] some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;
12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying [building] of the [ONE] body of Christ: 
13 Till we all come in the unity [of the same Spirit] of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man [referring to Psalms 37:37, when the wicked can’t be found among us, and the perfect man, whose end is peace, is realized], unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:
14 That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of [false] doctrines, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive [methodeia];
15 But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him [the perfected man] in all things, which is the head, even Christ:
16 From whom the whole body fitly joined together [into ONE BODY] and compacted by that which every joint supplies, according to the effectual working [the power of His word in us] in the measure of every part, makes increase of the body unto the edifying [building] of itself in love [charity, giving this word from the mouth of God as received].
17 This I say, therefore, and testify in the LORD [speaking through me], that you henceforth walk not as other Gentiles [not knowing God] walk [not believing He is walking with us], in the vanity [worthlessness] of their [ignorant] mind,
18 Having the understanding darkened, being alienated [apallotrioo – “to estrange away”] from the life of God [alive in us] through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart [their corrupted foundational minds that cannot recognize reality]:
19 Who being past feeling [referring us to Acts 17:27, unable to comprehend the effects evidenced among the living] have given themselves over unto lasciviousness [without self-control, speaking deception], to work all uncleanness with greediness [coveting what isn’t theirs].
20 But you have not so learned Christ;
21 If so be that you [by a sound mind] have heard him, and have been taught [into understanding] by him, as the truth is in Jesus [Jehovah’s Salvation manifested in the flesh speaking His word]:
22 That you put off [corruption] concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts [to get what you covet]; [contrasting this with the conversation of the perfected man, saying in Hebrews 13:5 Let your conversation {in which the presence of the LORD is manifested} 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 {with the winds of} divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace {these gifts of God}; not with meats {the works of dead flesh}, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.]
23 And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;
24 And that you put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
25 Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbor: for we are members one of another.
26 Be you angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon [don’t let the light in you be darkened by] wrath:
27 Neither give place [among you] to [the misleading ways of] the devil.
28 Let him that [led by the devils: misleaders among you] stole steal no more: but rather let him labor [diligently seeking the LORD], working with his hands the thing which is good [this word of God], that he may have to give to him that needs.
29 Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying [building the ONE BODY], that it may minister grace [these gifts] unto the hearers.
30 And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby [His working unknown] you are sealed unto the day of redemption.
31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice [wrath intended to harm]:
32 And be you kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake has forgiven you.

Psalms 37
27 Depart from evil, and do good; and dwell for evermore.
28 For the LORD loves judgment, and forsakes not his saints; they are preserved forever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off [karath].
29 The righteous shall inherit the land [‘erets – the earth], and dwell therein forever.
30 The mouth of the righteous speaks wisdom, and his tongue talks of judgment.
31 The law of his God is in his heart; none of his steps shall slide.
32 The wicked watch the righteous, and seeks to slay him.
33 The LORD will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged.
34 Wait on the LORD, and keep his way, and he shall exalt you to inherit the land [‘erets – the earth]: when the wicked are cut off [karath], you shall see it.
35 I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.
36 Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
37 Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end [‘achariyth] of that man is peace.
38 But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end [‘achariyth] of the wicked shall be cut off [karath].
39 But the salvation of the righteous is of the LORD: he is their strength in the time of trouble [tsarah – tribulation].
40 And the LORD shall help them, and deliver them: he shall deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in him.

Psalms 68
9 You, O God, did send a plentiful rain [this word from heaven], whereby you did confirm [your promise to] your inheritance when it was weary.
10 Your congregation has dwelt therein: you, O God, have prepared of your goodness for the poor [who are without power].
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 [waited from the LORD] at home divided the spoil.
13 Though you have lien among the pots, yet shall you be as the wings of a dove [knowing this is the expected end] covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.
14 When the Almighty scattered kings in it, it was white as snow in Salmon [His pure word frozen in heaven, reserved for this time of war, and now sent into the darkness].
15 The hill of God is as the hill of Bashan [fruitfulness that flows from His throne]; a high hill [exalted] as the hill of Bashan [fruitful above all others].
16 Why leap you, you high hills? this is the hill which God desires to dwell in; yea, the LORD will dwell in it forever.
17 The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of angels [His messengers]: the LORD is among them, as in Sinai [against the misleaders: thorns overgrown], in the holy place.
18 You have ascended on high [Your Voice is heard above all others], you have led captivity captive: you have received gifts for men [and I have given them as received, as the LORD commanded when He sent me]; 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 [yshuw’ah – Joshua: Jesus: Jehovah’s Salvation manifested in the flesh]. Selah.
20 He that is our God is the God of salvation; and unto God [Jehovih – the LORD of lords] the LORD [‘Adonay – the King of kings] belong the issues [towtsa’ah – the going out, escaping] from death.
21 But God shall wound the head of his enemies, and the hairy scalp of such a one as goes on still in his trespasses.
22 The LORD said, I will bring again from Bashan [fruitfulness of this work], I will bring my people again from the depths [the deep understanding hidden] of the sea [from all people]:
23 That your foot may be dipped in the blood of your enemies, and the tongue of your dogs [those barking ignorantly in the darkness] 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 [repeating your word], 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 [His living waters: light that lighted upon] Israel.

Isaiah 9
2 The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them has the light shined [understanding is sent].
3 You have multiplied the nation [the people who don’t know You, who walk in darkness], and not increased the joy: they joy before you according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.
4 For you have broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian.
5 For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire.
6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
7 Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even forever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.
8 The LORD sent a word into Jacob, and it has lighted upon Israel.
9 And all the people shall know, even Ephraim [God’s people in this generation] and the inhabitant of Samaria [who are worshiping idols they put in His place and call by His name], that say in the pride and stoutness of heart,
10 The bricks are fallen down, but we [the same destroyers] will build with hewn stones: the sycamores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.

14 Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day.
15 The ancient and honorable, he is the head; and the prophet that teaches lies, he is the tail.
16 For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed.

Proverbs 4
1 Hear, you children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.
2 For I give you good doctrine, forsake you not my law.
3 For I was my father’s son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.
4 He taught me also, and said unto me, Let your heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.
5 Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.
6 Forsake her not, and she shall preserve you: love her, and she shall keep you.
7 Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all your getting get understanding.
8 Exalt her, and she shall promote you: she shall bring you to honor, when you do embrace her.
9 She shall give to your head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to you.
10 Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of your life shall be many.
11 I have taught you in the way of wisdom; I have led you in right paths.
12 When you go, your steps shall not be straitened; and when you run, you shall not stumble.
13 Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is your life.
14 Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men.
15 Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.
16 For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
17 For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
18 But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
19 The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
20 My son, attend to my words; incline your ear unto my sayings.
21 Let them not depart from your eyes; keep them in the midst of your heart.
22 For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
23 Keep your heart [your sound mind] with all diligence; for out of it [out of a sound mind, into insanity] are the issues [towtsa’ah – is going out] of life.
24 Put away from you a froward mouth [twisting truth], and perverse lips put far from you.
25 Let your eyes look right on, and let your eyelids look straight before you.
26 Ponder the path of your feet, and let all your ways be established.
27 Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove your foot from evil.

The LORD’s “might,” by which we stand against the wiles of the devil, is from the eleven times used word ischus, meaning “forcefulness (literally or figuratively):–ability, might(-ily), power, strength.”

Ephesians 1
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our LORD Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:
4 According as he has chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
5 Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
6 To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he has made us accepted in the beloved.
7 In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;
8 Wherein he has abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence;
9 Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he has purposed in himself:
10 That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:
11 In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who works all things after the counsel of his own will:
12 That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.
13 In whom you also trusted, after that you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that you believed, you were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,
14 Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.
15 Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the LORD Jesus, and love unto all the saints,
16 Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers;
17 That the God of our LORD Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:
18 The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance [alive] in the saints,
19 And what is the exceeding greatness of his power [by His light raising us to life from the dead] to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power [ischus],
20 Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,
21 Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:
22 And has put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,
23 Which is his [ONE] body, the fulness of him that fills all in all.

1 Peter 4
6 For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.
7 But the end of all things is at hand: be you therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
8 And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity 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 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 [ischus] which [is the might] God gives [us to stand against the wiles of the devil]: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
12 Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:
13 But rejoice, inasmuch as you are partakers of Christ’s sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, you may be glad also with exceeding joy.
14 If you be reproached for the name 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?
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.

John, in Revelation 5:12, tells us exactly how we receive the LORD’s ischus, when it is there rendered “strength” that comes to one sent to prevail and open the sealed book. The one said to be sitting on the throne is the LORD, who first opened it to a Lamb among lambs, who sacrifices self as is necessary to preach the word of God as His word from His mouth.  

The word rendered “lamb” is arnion, from aren, from arrhen (arsen), meaning a male (as strong for lifting); from the word hairetizo, meaning to make a choice; from the word haireomai, meaning to take to oneself; i.e. to prefer, as in the word airo, meaning to lift, as in to take away.  

Together, these embedded meanings speak of the choice of good over evil, to sacrifice oneself to lift others by taking away the conscience that wills to sin: not yet learned to choose the good and refuse the evil. This is accomplished when the word of God is understood: effectually working in us to change our minds through His gospel, revealing His presence as the One with us on the throne.

Revelation 5
7 And he came and took the book out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throne.
8 And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odors, which are the prayers of saints.
9 And they sung a new song, saying, You are worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for you wast slain, and have redeemed us to God by your blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;
10 And have made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.
11 And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands;
12 Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength [ischus], and honor, and glory, and blessing.
13 And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honor, and glory, and power, be unto him that sits upon the throne, and unto the Lamb forever and ever.
14 And the four beasts said, Amen. And the four and twenty elders fell down and worshipped him that lives forever and ever.

The word arnion is used thirty times, all by John; twenty-nine in Revelation and once in John 21:15.

John 21
14 This is now the third time that Jesus showed himself to his disciples, after that he was risen from the dead.
15 So when they had dined, Jesus says to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonah [the first to come out of confusion, from the belly of hell to preach the words the LORD has given him], love you me more than these? He says unto him, Yea, LORD; you know that I love you. He says unto him, Feed [these words I have given you, revealing the life below the surface] my lambs [arnion].
16 He says to him again the second time, Simon, son of Jonah, love you me? He says unto him, Yea, LORD; you know that I love you. He says unto him, Feed my sheep.
17 He says unto him the third time, Simon, son of Jonah, love you me? Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Love you me? And he said unto him, LORD, you know all things; you know that I love you. Jesus says unto him, Feed my sheep. [I have asked you three times, before the morning has come, and you have denied me three times – speaking of now, this moment when the LORD has asked you to give this word as receive, and you would not.]
18 Truly, truly, I say unto you, When you were young, you girded yourself [you prepared yourself as you willed, as a child doing childish things], and walked whither you would [denying me]: but when you shall be old [putting away childish things and acting as a man {arsen}], you shall stretch forth your hands, and another shall gird [prepare you as I have] you, and carry you whither you would not [when you have refused me these three times].
19 This spoke he, signifying by what death he should glorify God [sacrificing self, subordinating your will, doing the Father’s will, as a lamb sent to lambs, on earth as it is in heaven where He is on the throne]. And when he had spoken this, he says unto him, Follow me [into glory].

Church, do you hear His calling?

Revelation 12
5 And she brought forth a man [arrhen] child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child [becoming a man] was caught up [harpazo – lifted out of sin] unto God, and to his throne.
6 And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared of God, that they should feed her [as lambs fed by Peter] there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.
7 And there was war in heaven: Michael [who is like God] and his angels [messengers speaking the same message, making war with good advice] fought against the dragon [the great serpent in whose mouth is venom, by which he poisons the mind and devours the body into the belly of hell]; and the dragon fought and his angels [evil messengers, the known liars telling known lies, false accusers falsely accusing good as evil while calling their evil good],
8 And prevailed not [against the might of God]; neither was their place found any more in heaven [they were realized to be without any understanding, and therefore no one living listens to their confusion and insanity any longer].
9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceived the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
10 And I heard a loud voice saying in [the new] heaven [where understanding again sits on the throne], Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.
11 And they overcame him by the blood [the sacrifice] of the Lamb [delivering the word of God, confessing it is from His mouth], and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.
12 Therefore rejoice, you heavens [you that have received this understanding], and you that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and of the sea [who have not yet learned to choose good and refuse evil]! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knows that he has but a short time.
13 And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man [arrhen, who was before as a child doing childish things].

1 Corinthians 13
8 Charity [giving this word from the mouth of God, as received] never fails [always prevails]: but whether there be prophecies [men’s presumptions while the book was sealed], they shall fail; whether there be tongues [speaking God’s word not understanding their deep meaning], they shall cease; whether there be knowledge [falsely so called by those who’ve corrupted it and compliment themselves for it], it shall vanish away.
9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
10 But when that which is perfect is come [again, referring to Psalms 37:37, the end of this conversation, when peace {Shiloh} comes], 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 [ignorant of what is on the other side]; but then face to face [the presence of God with and in us]: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity [because it is the might of the LORD that brings victory over death and hell].

Isaiah 28
3 The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet:
4 And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer; which when he that looks upon it sees, while it is yet in his hand he eats it up.
5 In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem [tsphiyrah – the crowning that is the morning] of beauty, unto the residue [the elect remanent who’ve received this understanding] of his people,
6 And for a spirit of judgment to him that sits in judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate [opening the gates of hell].

Matthew 16
15 He says unto them, But whom say you that I Am?
16 And Simon Peter answered and said, You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.
17 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed are you, Simon Barjona [son of Jonah: the dove, the sign of the end reached, the confession of the LORD’s presence]: for flesh and blood has not revealed it unto you, but my Father which is in heaven.
18 And I say also unto you, That you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
19 And I will give unto you the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever you shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever you shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
20 Then charged he his disciples that they should tell no man that he was Jesus the Christ.

Psalms 24
1 The earth is the LORD’s, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
2 For he has founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.
3 Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place?
4 He that has clean hands, and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
5 He shall receive the blessing from the LORD, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.
6 This is the generation of them that seek him, that seek your face [presence], O Jacob. Selah.
7 Lift up your heads, O you gates [whose mouths must be opened]; and be you lift up, you everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
8 Who is this King of glory? The LORD strong and mighty, the LORD mighty in battle.
9 Lift up your heads, O you gates; even lift them up, you everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
10 Who is this King of glory? The LORD of hosts, he is the King of glory. Selah.

Let not your heart envy sinners: but be you in the fear of the LORD all the day long. For surely there is an end; and your expectation shall not be cut off.

7 – 10 July 2023

Let not your heart envy sinners: but be you in the fear of the LORD all the day long. For surely there is an end; and your expectation shall not be cut off.

The word rendered “end,” above in Proverbs 23:17 & 18, is the word ‘achariyth, which we know, from Jacob’s using it in Genesis 49:1, speaks of these “last days.” There, in this, its only use in Genesis, he (Israel) is speaking to his children of what then “shall befall” (qara’) them. 

The only other times the word qara’ appear in Genesis (42:4 & 38), it speaks of the mischief of death Jacob feared would come upon Benjamin if he is sent into Egypt (to meet their savior, unknown to be Joseph), and Israel thinking if this (death) occurred he would, in his old age, descend into hell. The spiritual meaning is what has occurred, the youngest child of God’s people has died (the “end” result of the fall, as the LORD said would come), and all God’s people now reside in hell ruled by tyrants.

Deuteronomy 31
24 And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end [kalah – the full end] of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished [tamam – complete, fulfilled], 
25 That Moses commanded the Levites [leviathan – the. corrupted priesthood now raised again to life, by this word from the mouth of God], which bare the ark [in which is this testimony and above which the presence of the LORD is manifested in the conversation with Him] of the covenant of the LORD, saying,
26 Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there for a witness against you.
27 For I know your rebellion, and your stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, you have been rebellious against the LORD; and how much more after my death?
28 Gather unto me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call [the now corrupt condition of] heaven and earth to record against them.
29 For I know that after my death you will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall [qara’] you in the latter days [‘achariyth]; because you will do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.
30 And Moses spoke in the ears of all the congregation of Israel the words of this song [repeating this word the LORD gave], until they were ended [tamam].

When the title verses say “your expectation shall not be cut off,” the Hebrew words are tiqvah lo’ karath, meaning the end you hope for (tiqvah), shall not (lo’) be according to the covenant you made (karath). This idea of man making a covenant of his own, which the LORD overrides by correction, bringing instead His as promised, is spoken of earlier in this Proverb and in Numbers 23 & 24 when Balaam makes a covenant with Balak to curse God’s people.

Isaiah 28
5 In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem [tsphiyrah – this mourning of the new day of His crowning] of beauty, unto the residue of his people,
6 And for a spirit of judgment to him that sits in judgment, and for strength [understanding] to them that turn the battle to the gate.
7 But they also have erred through wine [see Proverbs 23 following the title verses], and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
8 For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.
9 Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine [shmuw’ah – this teaching from the mouth of the LORD unknown]? them that are weaned from the milk [from the basic foundation principles], and [have now advanced to] drawn from the breasts [of the Ancient of Days: Wisdom as your mother].
10 For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:
11 For with stammering lips [a language you don’t understand because it isn’t spoken among the ignorant] and another tongue [truth] will he speak to this people.
12 To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith you may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing [righting again the foundation and order of the earth, which men ruined]: yet they would not hear.
13 But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

Proverbs 23
1 When you sit to eat with a ruler [the tyrants who now gaslight and demoralize the world], consider diligently what is before you [understand it is deception meant to impoverish and enslave you]:
2 And put a knife to your throat [stopping you from swallowing their ways of death], if you be a man given to appetite.
3 Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.
4 Labor not to be rich: cease from your own wisdom [seek the treasures of heaven, and the wisdom that is Ancient of Day – the law of nature and nature’s God].
5 Will you set your eyes upon that which is not [good]? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
6 Eat you not the bread of him that has an evil eye [conspiring wicked things], neither desire you his dainty meats [of deception]:
7 For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, says he to you; but his heart is not with you [in his mind he seeks to trap and enslave you in hell].
8 The morsel which you have eaten shall you vomit up [consuming wickedness you shall repeat it], and lose your sweet words [replacing truth with their deceptions]. [These verses, speak of the “crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim” in power, who are spoken of in the beginning verses of Isaiah 28]
9 Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of your words.
10 Remove not the old landmark [the standard marking the boundary between good and evil]; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless [because there is no man to protect them from the thieves and robbers]:
11 For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with you.
12 Apply your heart unto instruction, and your ears to the words of knowledge.
13 Withhold not correction from the child: for if you beat him with the rod, he shall not die.
14 You shall beat him with the rod [this law from the mouth of God], and shall deliver his soul from hell.
15 My son, if your heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.
16 Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when your lips speak right things.
17 Let not your heart envy sinners [who speak words meant to deceive]: but be you in the fear of the LORD [obeying His warning to not listen to the wicked] all the day long.
18 For surely there is an end [‘achariyth – these last days of the wicked who will not continue]; and your expectation [what you have hoped for] shall not be cut off [karath – shall not be as the covenant with death the wicked have made].
19 Hear you, my son, and be wise, and guide your heart [learn to choose] in the [good] way.
20 Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:
21 For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness [the sleep of ignorance] shall clothe a man with rags.
22 Hearken [shama’ – obey] unto your father [the truth, knowledge, and understanding of God] that begat you, and despise not your mother when she is old [wisdom that is Ancient of days – the law of nature and nature’s God].
23 Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
24 The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begets a wise child shall have joy of [when He see His mind manifested in] him.
25 Your father and your mother shall be glad, and she that bare you shall rejoice.
26 My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways.
27 For a whore [the unfaithful who follow the drunken crown] is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
28 She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increases the transgressors among men.
29 Who has woe? who has sorrow? who has contentions? who has babbling? who has wounds without cause? who has redness of eyes?
30 They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.
31 Look not you upon the wine when it is red, when it gives his color in the cup, when it moves itself aright.
32 At the last it bites like a serpent, and stings like an adder.
33 Your eyes shall behold strange [unfaithful]women, and your heart shall [by a mind corrupt by her] utter perverse things.
34 Yea, you shall be as he that lies down [to sleep] in the midst of the sea [with all humanity], or as he that lies [sleeps] upon the top of a mast [a precarious place from where the sleeping most certainly fall to their death].
35 They [these self-made afflictions] have stricken me, shall you say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake [and realize you were asleep]? I will seek it yet again [not understanding what you have experienced, being plainly shown but returning to listen to the same known liars who stupefied your mind].

Proverbs 24
5 A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge increases strength [understanding as good {tasting} in the mouth].
6 For by wise counsel you shall make your war: and in a multitude of counselors [speaking the same words of the LORD, confirming their good taste] there is safety.
7 Wisdom is too high for a fool [who is unwilling to use the higher functions of his mind]: he opens not his mouth in the gate [against the wicked].
8 He that devises [uses his mind] to do evil shall be called a mischievous person.
9 The thought of foolishness is sin: and the scorner is an abomination to men.
10 If you faint in the day of adversity, your strength is small.
11 If you forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto [the mischief of] death, and those that are ready to be slain [by the wicked now in power over the earth];
12 If you sayest, Behold, we knew it not; does not he that ponders the heart [understanding “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?”] consider it? [“I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.”] and he that keeps [guards] your soul, does not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works?
13 My son, eat you honey [this wisdom, knowledge, and understanding that continues – dbash: is sticky], because it is good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to your taste:
14 So shall the knowledge of wisdom be unto your soul: when you have found it, then there shall be a reward [‘achariyth – in these last days of the wicked in power], and your expectation [tiqvah] shall not [lo’] be cut off [karath – it shall not be according to the covenant with death the wicked have made, but you shall reach the expected end of the wicked in power, as promised by the LORD when he made it to Abram {before Abraham was, I Am}].
15 Lay not wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous; spoil not his resting place:
16 For a just man falls seven times, and rises up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief.
17 Rejoice not when your enemy [becomes feeble and] falls [away from God the Father of us all], and let not your heart be glad when he stumbles [over his own ways again and again]:
18 Lest the LORD see it, and it displeases him, and he turns away his wrath from him.
19 Fret not yourself because of evil men, neither be you envious at the wicked:
20 For there shall be no reward to the evil man; the candle [the falsely so-called wisdom] of the wicked [“experts” who advise the corrupt] shall be put out.
21 My son, fear you the LORD and the king: and meddle not with them that are given to change [the old landmarks: standards, the understanding of good and evil]:
22 For their calamity shall rise suddenly; and who knows the ruin of them both [evil and wickedness]?
23 These things also belong to the wise. It is not good to have respect of persons in judgment [the evil of the wicked in power: calling evil good and good evil].
24 He that says unto the wicked, You are righteous; him shall the people curse, nations shall abhor him:
25 But to them that rebuke him shall be delight, and a good blessing shall come upon them.

Matthew 12
34 O generation of vipers [whose poison is words from your mouths], how can you, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart [what the mind has been taught] 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 brings forth evil things.
36 But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
37 For by your words [choosing good and refusing evil] you shall be justified, and by your words [calling good evil] you shall be condemned.
38 Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees [the religious dividers of the ONE BODY] answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from you.
39 But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous [unfaithful] generation seeks after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonah [the dove, as was John the Baptist, the sign of the expected {tiqvah} end reached, calling all to repent, and working out {exercising} corruption preparing to receive the LORD at His then appearing {out of the darkness} into sight again, to establish His kingdom on earth, as it is in heaven: full understanding given in the exposition, the conversation above His mercy seat wherein His presence is manifested]:
40 For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the whale’s [chasma, from ketos, the great “gulf” between heaven and hell {full understanding and endless ignorance}: the wide open mouths of ignorant and wicked men in the sea, which no man can Passover without following the LORD, doing the will of the Father who sent me] belly [this hell where all are now held dead]; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart [the fully leavened, corrupted, mind] of the earth.
41 The men of Nineveh [the resprouting of the perpetual, our hope {tiqvah}] shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it [as in Proverbs 24:25 above]: because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and, behold, a greater than Jonah is here.
42 The queen of the south [when she sees for herself what she before only heard rumor {Jehovah speaking unknown} of] shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it [as in Proverbs 24:25 above]: for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.
43 When the unclean [corrupt] spirit is gone out of a man [when he awakens], he walketh through dry places [without this word of God], seeking rest [and refreshing], and finds none.
44 Then he says, I will return into my house [the church] from whence I came out; and when he is come, he finds it empty, swept [without form, and void], and garnished.
45 Then goes he [looking for substance, solution], and taketh with himself seven other spirits [of the old and corrupt churches, without light] more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and [now thinking he is safe, remaining without understanding] the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be [it now is] also unto this wicked generation.
46 While he yet talked to the people, behold, his mother and his brethren stood without, desiring to speak with him.
47 Then one said unto him, Behold, your mother and your brethren stand without, desiring to speak with you.
48 But he answered and said unto him that told him, Who is my mother? and who are my brethren?
49 And he stretched forth his hand toward his disciples [students who’ve here received the LORD’s understanding, receiving Him manifested in the conversation], and said, Behold my mother and my brethren!
50 For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.

Matthew 17
5 While he yet spoke, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear you him.

Jeremiah 17
7 Blessed is the man that trusts in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is.
8 For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spread out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat comes, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought [when others are without this word of God], neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
10 I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
11 As the partridge sits on eggs, and hatches them not; so he that gets riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.
12 A glorious high throne from the beginning [of this new creation] is the place of our sanctuary.
13 O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake you shall be ashamed, and they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters.

Job 14 speaks of our hope (tiqvah), we who continue, shoot forth perpetually, as the green leaves of a good tree, awakened again, born by the work of the LORD (our hope) in Whom we trust.

Job 14
1 Man that is born of a woman [flesh covering as changeable garment] is of few days and full of trouble.
2 He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down: he flees also as a shadow, and continues not.
3 And do you open your eyes upon [awaken to now see] such a one [that is only flesh], and bring me [here and now] into judgment with you?
4 Who can bring a clean thing [that isn’t corrupt] out of an unclean [continued corruption]? not one.
5 Seeing his [the corrupt] days are determined [charats – the days of desolation, consummation, and the end of the indignation], the number of his [the one sent to accomplish and end the] months are with you, you have appointed [‘asah – created] his bounds [choq – the decreed end] that he cannot [lo’] pass [‘abar – the wicked will not Passover into life: they will not “excel” or “continue”];
6 Turn from [sha’ah – consider, and understand his confusion] him, that he may rest [chadal – desist, no longer deceive], till he shall accomplish [ratsah – repent and become acceptable – as in Job 33:26 & 34:9], as a hireling [sakiyr – as in Job 7:1 & 2, receiving his payment: coming to understanding and receiving the LORD’s mercy and forgiveness], his day.
7 For there is hope [tiqvah – the pattern of the expected end the LORD brings to man] of a tree, if it be cut down [karath – end the covenant he made with death], that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.
8 Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground;
9 Yet through the scent of water [humanity receiving this word of God, His still small voice] it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
10 But man dies [as he has, as warned is the end of the fall away from God], and wastes away: yea, man gives up the ghost [the LORD’s Spirit in man, which is life], and where is he?
11 As the waters [the word of God] fail from the sea [not heard by humanity], and the flood [of men’s words] decays [charab – bring desolation as they have] and dry up [now when there is no word of God remaining uncorrupted, except now here with the elect remnant, the scent, not heard of seen with the human eye, but sensed and known to be present]:
12 So man [humanity without the LORD] lieth down, and rises not: till the heavens [the old and corrupt understanding] be no more, [until then] they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.
13 O that you would hide me in the grave [here in sheol, the habitation of the dead where I Am hidden in the ignorance: the darkness of corrupt understanding], that you would keep me secret [cover in darkness as swaddling bands], until your wrath [this word uncovering wickedness] be past, that you would appoint me a [place all here at this] set time [choq – at this decreed end of wickedness], and remember me [zakar – and awaken us to remember You and our own identities]!
14 If a man die [to corruption], shall he live again [it is the choice of each person]? all the days of my appointed time [tsaba’ – when you muster Your army, the ONE BODY of Christ] will I wait, till my change [chaliyphah – of raiment, new body and an awakened mind that has “put on” incorruption and immortality] come. [This is the mystery and change Paul precisely describes in 1 Corinthians 15, when death is swallowed up in victory; when the mortal has put off corruption, and “put on” incorruption and immortality. See below – realize the moment, remember, and awaken]
15 You shall call [do you Here the Father calling you to assemble], and I will answer you: you will have a desire to the work of your hands [gathering us into His ONE BODY, to do His work].
16 For now you number my steps [declare all your ways]: do you not watch over [warn of the consequences of] my sin?
17 My transgression is sealed up in a bag [making me as a seed unsprouted], and you sew up [cause to stick] mine iniquity.
18 And surely the mountains falling [the high places you look to, in which you trust] comes to naught, and the rock [from where you receive the corrupt words to which you listen and obey] is removed out of his place.
19 The waters [this word of God] wear the stones [in which you trust]: you wash away the things which grow [corruption grown] out of the dust [the desolation and ruin] of the earth; and you destroy the hope [tiqvah] of man [the covenant the crown of pride, the ignorant leading you, made with death].
20 You prevail [in victory over death and opened the gates out of hell into life] forever against him, and he passes [halak – walks out of hell]: you change his countenance [paniym – understanding, he puts on incorruption and immortality], and send him away [into immortality].
21 His sons come to honor, and he knows it not [again forgetting their identity]; and they are [by their ignorance] brought low, but he perceives [biyn – understands] it not of them [when he is among them unaware].
22 But his flesh upon him shall have pain [until he again awakens], and his soul within him shall mourn [until he realizes this moment].

1 Corinthians 15
20 But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the first-fruits of them that slept.
21 For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.
22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
23 But every man in his own order: Christ the first fruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.
24 Then comes the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power.
25 For he must reign, till he has put all enemies under his feet.
26 The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
27 For he has put all things under his feet. But when he says all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him.
28 And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject [obedient] unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.
29 Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? why are they then baptized for the dead? [Romans 6:3 Know you not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?”]
30 And why stand we in jeopardy every hour?
31 I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our LORD, I die daily [to the old man that is corrupt, not looking back, not drawing, turning, back into perishing: perdition].
32 If after the manner of men [was corrupted] I have fought with beasts [the animated flesh of men without the LORD’s Spirit] at Ephesus, what advantages it me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we die.
33 Be not deceived: evil communications [teaching words that have corrupted the world and destroyed the minds of all in it] corrupt good manners [“Now that which decayed and waxed old is ready to vanish away.”].
34 Awake [from this corruption] to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God [not understanding the mystery of godliness, which is the manifestation of His presence and power in the flesh to raise men from the dead]: I speak this to your shame.
35 But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come?
36 You fool, that which you sow is not quickened, except it dies [to corruption]:
37 And that which you sow, you sow not that body that shall be, but bare grain [from which comes new life], it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain:
38 But God gives it a body as it has pleased him, and to every seed his own body.
39 All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men [in which comes the seed from where we are resurrected to life], another flesh of beasts [animated but without an immortal soul], another of fishes [animated but without an immortal soul], and another of birds[animated but without an immortal soul].
40 There are also celestial [epouranios – heaven: above from where flows knowledge: understanding: light that is life {epi oun ereo gnosis}] bodies, and bodies terrestrial [epigeios]: but the glory of the celestial [epouranios] one, and the glory of the terrestrial [epigeios] is another. [John 3:10 Jesus answered and said unto him, Are you a master of Israel, and know not these things {because what you know comes from the earth, and is earthly}? 11 Truly, truly, I say unto you, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and you receive not our witness. 12 If I have told you earthly {epigeios} things, and you believe not, how shall you believe, if I tell you of heavenly things {epouranios}? 13 And no man has ascended up to heaven {ouranos – into full understanding: which is life}, but he that came down from heaven {ouranos – received the understand that from there comes}, even the Son of man which is in heaven {ouranos – which is sent from there with full understanding: light that is life}. 14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness {exalting this voice above all others, so all who look to him will live: not be killed by the bites of the wicked mixed among them}, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: 15 That whosoever believes in him should not perish {apollumi – be destroyed by the army of destroyers among us rotting the minds of any that listen and follow their evil advice}, but have eternal life. 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believes on him is not condemned: but he that believes not is condemned already {by choosing to continue following those destroying them}, because he has not believed in the name {the identity} of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that light {understanding through the son} is come into the world, and men loved darkness {the ignorance leading them into destruction} rather than light {rather than choosing good: understanding, learning to choose the good and refuse the evil}, because their deeds were evil {misleading men into self-destruction}. 20 For everyone that does evil hates the light, neither comes to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved {Isaiah 28:12 To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith you may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.}. 21 But he that does truth comes to the light {this understanding that is life sent from heaven}, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.]
41 There is one glory of the sun [manifesting the LORD’s presence in the church], and another glory of the moon [manifesting His presence in civil government], and another glory of the stars [manifesting His presence in His people]: for one star differs [in how the LORD manifests His presence] from another star in glory.
42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is [seed] sown in corruption [the earth]; it is raised [into understanding] in incorruption:
43 It is sown in dishonor [given no value among the corrupt to whom it is sent]; it is raised in glory [when they realize it is the LORD’s presence manifested to save all those who receive Him]: it is sown in weakness [without earthly power]; it is raised in power [when His word has done its work in those that are saved]:
44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body [the ONE BODY of Christ].
45 And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit [bringing the natural to life from the sleep of death].
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 [ge – this planet], earthy [choikos – the ashes of its ruin; planted in corruption]; the second man is the LORD from heaven [ouranos – revealed when we receive His understanding].
48 As is the earthy [choikos – those planted in corruption], such are they also that are earthy [choikos – that remain buried in death: in corruption]: and as is the heavenly [epouranios – into who flows the word of God from heaven, receiving water and then light], such are they also that are heavenly [epouranios – who are raised to manifest the LORD’s presence, His glory in this good manner].
49 And as we have borne the image of the earthy [sleeping in corruption], we shall also bear the image of the heavenly [epouranios].
50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood [animated but without life] 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,
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?
56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law [the written word as a shadow that now disappears in the light of matters manifested by the LORD’s presence revealed].
57 But thanks be to God, which gives us the victory through our LORD Jesus Christ.
58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be you steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the LORD, forasmuch as you know that your labor is not in vain in the LORD.

Isaiah 28
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, you scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem [into whom has flowed this understand: light and life].
15 Because you have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell [sheol] are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus says the LORD God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believes shall not make haste [flee away in disappointment].
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line [making sure the foundation is trustworthy], and righteousness to the plummet [making undisputable the wall built upon it]: and the hail [this word that was reserved in heaven for this moment: this time of My righteous war] shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place [of falsehood].
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 goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report [shmuw’ah – to understand this is the voice of Jehovah teaching us to choose the good and refuse the evil].
20 For the bed [in which the world sleeps] is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering [under which humanity thinks it hides from God, is] narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.

Hebrews 12
20 (For they could not endure that which was commanded [good leading they should obey], And if so much as a beast [men as animated flesh without the LORD’s Spirit] touch the mountain [trying to rise to reach Him in some other way], it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart:
21 And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:)
22 But you are come unto mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly [epouranios] Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels [godly messengers],
23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven [ouranos], and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling [the sacrifice that witnesses to life], that speaks better things than that [the blood] of Abel [that witnessed to his death].
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 [ouranos]:
26 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he has promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the [corrupted] earth only, but also [corrupted] heaven.
27 And this word, Yet once more, signifies the removing of those [corrupt] things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those [uncorrupt] things which cannot be shaken may remain.
28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace [receive His free gift of understanding and life], whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
29 For our God is a consuming fire.

Isaiah 2
2 And it shall come to pass in the last days [‘achariyth], that the mountain of the LORD’s house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.
3 And many people shall go and say, Come you, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from [heavenly] Jerusalem.
4 And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
5 O house of Jacob, come you, and let us walk in the light [understanding] of the LORD.

Isaiah 46
3 Hearken [shama’ – be obedient] unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are borne by me from the belly [of the earth: its ruin: the hell men have created], which are carried from the womb [of this morning: that new day that has come]:
4 And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you.
5 To whom will you liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be like?
6 They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, and hire a goldsmith; and he makes it a god [they put in My place and call by My name]: they fall down, yea, they worship.
7 They bear him upon the shoulder, [because they are dead idols] they carry him, and set him in his place, and he stands; from his place shall he not remove: yea, one shall cry unto him, yet can he not answer, nor save him out of his trouble [tsarah – tribulation].
8 Remember this, and show yourselves men [having understanding, and not as the beast without it]: bring it again to mind, O you transgressors.
9 Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me,
10 Declaring the end [‘achariyth] from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:
11 Calling a ravenous bird from the east [the place of the rising sun], the man [I Am] that executes my counsel from a far country [merchaq ‘erets – the time I have decreed, when the wicked shall perish and the new earth shall begin]: yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it.
12 Hearken unto me, you stouthearted, that are far from righteousness:
13 I bring near my righteousness; it shall not be far off [rachaq – shall not be as the evil decrees that never come], and my salvation shall not tarry [‘achar – shall not be for a later time]: and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel my glory.

Zechariah 9
11 As for you also, by the blood of your covenant I have sent forth your prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water.
12 Turn you to the strong hold, you prisoners of hope [tiqvah]: even to day do I declare that I will render double unto you;
13 When I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim, and raised up your sons, O Zion, against your sons, O Greece [against you who remain wallowing in the mire, the ruin of the earth you’ve destroyed], and made you as the sword of a mighty man.
14 And the LORD shall be seen over them, and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning [sending His understanding]: and the LORD God shall blow the trumpet [calling His army to assemble], and shall go with whirlwinds of the south.
15 The LORD of hosts shall defend them; and they shall devor, and subdue with sling stones; and they shall drink, and make a noise as through wine; and they shall be filled like bowls, and as the corners of the altar.
16 And the LORD their God shall save them in that day as the flock of his people: for they shall be as the stones of a crown, lifted up as an ensign upon his land.

Jeremiah 29
8 For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Let not your prophets and your diviners, that be in the midst of you, deceive you, neither hearken to [shama’ – obey] your dreams [the creations of your own minds] which you cause to be dreamed.
9 For they prophesy falsely unto you in my name: I have not sent them, says the LORD.
10 For thus says the LORD, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon [ruled by confusion] I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place [heavenly Jerusalem]. [Hebrews 11:14 For they that say such things {confessing we are strangers in the corrupt earth and pilgrims journeying to this time and place} declare plainly that they seek a country. 15 And truly, if they {the faithful before us} had been mindful {an understanding} of that {heavenly} country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned. 16 But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly {epouranios}: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he has prepared for them a city {we have now reached}. 40 God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.]
11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected [tiqvah] end [‘ achariyth].
12 Then shall you call upon me, and you shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken [shama’ – hear that you understand, have faith, and will do as you ask] unto you. [Romans 10:9 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 man believes unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. 11 For the scripture says [in Isaiah 28:16 above], Whosoever believes on him shall not be ashamed.]
13 And you shall [diligently] seek me, and find me, when you shall search for me with all your heart. [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.]
14 And I will be found of you, says the LORD: and I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you [into My ONE BODY] from all the nations [from all the unbelievers who don’t know Me], and from all the places whither I have driven you, says the LORD; and I will bring you again into [understanding] the place whence I caused you to be carried away captive [beyond Damascus and Babylon, silence and confusion, into this time of mass insanity].
15 Because you have said, The LORD has raised us up prophets in Babylon;

Deuteronomy 18
18 I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto you, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.
19 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken [shama’ – obey] unto my words which he shall speak in my name [manifesting My identity], I will require it of him.
20 But the prophet, which shall presume [zuwd] to speak a word [dabar] in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die.
21 And if you say in your heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD has not spoken?
22 When a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD, if the thing [dabar – understanding the word or matter] follows not, nor come to pass, that is the thing [dabar] which the LORD has not spoken [dabar], but the prophet has spoken [dabar] it presumptuously [zadown]: you shall not be afraid of him.

Jeremiah 50
28 The voice of them that flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to 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 [zuwd – presumed thing] 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 [zadown], says the LORD God of hosts: for your day is come, the time that I will visit you [paqad – come as the Chief Overseer of the earth].
32 And the most proud [zadown] 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 [by confusion]; they refused to let them go.
34 Their Redeemer is strong; the LORD of hosts [a man of war] is his name [identity]: he shall thoroughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the land, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.

Psalms 101
1 I will sing of mercy and judgment: unto you, O LORD, will I sing.
2 I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. O when will you come unto me? I will walk within my house with a perfect heart.
3 I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside [to follow idols men have created and put in the LORD’s place]; it shall not cleave to [dabaq – stick; remain with] me.
4 A froward heart [a mind that twists and perverts truth] shall depart from me: I will not know a wicked person [known liars telling known lies, false accusers falsely accusing – as policy by which they mislead]
5 Whoso privily slanders his neighbor, him will I cut off [tsamath – consume with the truth, fire, from My mouth]: him that has a high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.
6 Mine eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land [‘erets – of the earth], that they may dwell with me: he that walketh in a perfect way, he shall serve me.
7 He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that tells lies shall not tarry in my sight.
8 I will early destroy all the wicked of the land [‘erets – of the earth]; that I may cut off [karath – end the covenant with death made by] all wicked doers from the city [New Heavenly Jerusalem] of the LORD.

Jeremiah 33
2 Thus says the LORD the maker thereof [all things, and the master teacher of them], the LORD that formed it, to establish [kuwn] 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.

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 a 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 [that are the children of my right hand], and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, shall the flocks pass again under the hands of him that tells [manah – reveals in His answer, as in verse 3 above, showing “you great and mighty things, which you know not”] them, says the LORD.
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 – in the earth].

Numbers 23
5 And the LORD put a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus thou shalt speak.
6 And he returned unto him, and, lo, he stood by his burnt sacrifice, he, and all the princes of Moab.
7 And he [Balaam – with affinity to Bilhah] took up his parable [mishal – in which is hidden deep meaning only the LORD reveals], and said, Balak [devastator of God’s people] the king of Moab [whose mouths are the gates of hell] has brought me from Aram [who exalt their words above God’s], out of the mountains of the east [this place of the sun rising of this new day], saying, Come, curse me Jacob, and come, defy Israel.
8 How shall I curse, whom God has not cursed? or how shall I defy, whom the LORD has not defied?
9 For from the top [as the head] of the rocks [the ONE BODY of Christ] I see him, and from the hills [over God’s people] I behold him: lo, the people shall dwell alone [badab – separated from confusion], and shall not be reckoned [chashab – mixed] among the nations [gowy – those who don’t know the LORD].
10 Who can count [manah – tell us] the dust [‘apher – the ashes of the ruin of the earth, in which the false prophets mask themselves] of Jacob, and the number [micpar – tell the time] of the fourth part [this is referring to the generation, the one after Jacob, upon which “befall” these things, as He tells His children in Genesis 49:1 is in these last days: ‘achariyth] of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous [who will be resurrected in this time – as in Jeremiah 33:15 above], and let my last end [‘achariyth] be like his [the righteous now resurrected from death into life]!

Jeremiah 32
23 And they came in, and possessed it; but they obeyed [shama’] not your voice, neither walked in your law; they have done nothing of all that you commanded them to do: therefore you have caused all this evil to come upon them [qara’ – the sleep in death that has befallen them]:

Numbers 24
14 And now, behold [see], I go unto my people: come therefore, and I will advertise [ya’ats – give the LORD’s good advice] thee what this people [of God] shall do to thy people [whose mouths are the gate holding them in death and hell] in the latter [‘achariyth] days [when understanding and their awakening have come].
15 And he took up his parable [mashal – deep meaning only the LORD reveals], and said, Balaam [who were not my people] the son of Beor [became a lamp lighting the way for My people] has said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said:
16 He has said, which heard the words of God [as Him speaking], and knew the knowledge [was from] of the Most High, [by] which [he then] saw the vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance [subordinating my words to His], but having his eyes open:
17 I shall see him [again in my flesh], but not now [‘attah – not at this time]: I shall behold him, but not nigh [not in near in time]: there shall come a Star [the anointed one – I Am] out of Jacob [as a tender plant, from a root in a dry ground], and a Scepter [the right to rule] shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab [the mouths that are the gates of hell], and destroy all the children of Sheth [all the sons of Adam that refuse His dominion].
18 And Edom [the enemies mixed among us warring against us] shall be a possession, Seir [the devils in power misleading] also shall be a possession for his enemies; and Israel shall do valiantly [and win the victory over death and hell].
19 Out of Jacob shall come he that shall have dominion, and shall destroy him that remains of the [evil] city [and they shall proceed no further].
20 And when he looked on Amalek [the kings who have warred against God’s people in every generation], he took up his parable [mashal – speaking what only the LORD reveals], and said, Amalek was the first of the nations [beginning of the wars against God’s people]; but his latter end [‘achariyth] shall be that he perish forever.

Psalms 37
1 Fret not yourself because of evildoers, neither be you envious against the workers of iniquity.
2 For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.
3 Trust in the LORD, and do good; so shall you dwell in the land, and truly you shall be fed.
4 Delight yourself also in the LORD: and he shall give you the desires [mish’alah] of your heart.
5 Commit your way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.
6 And he shall bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your judgment as the noonday.
7 Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not yourself because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who brings wicked devices to pass.
8 Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not yourself in any wise to do evil.
9 For evildoers shall be cut off [karath]: but those that wait upon the LORD, they shall inherit the earth.
10 For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, you shall diligently consider his place, and it shall not be.
11 But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.
12 The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes upon him with his teeth.
13 The LORD shall laugh at him: for he sees that his day is coming.
14 The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of upright conversation.
15 Their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bows shall be broken.
16 A little that a righteous man has is better than the riches of many wicked.
17 For the arms of the wicked shall be broken: but the LORD upholds the righteous.
18 The LORD knows the days of the upright: and their inheritance shall be forever.
19 They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.
20 But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the LORD shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away.
21 The wicked borrows, and pays not again: but the righteous shows mercy, and gives.
22 For such as be blessed of him shall inherit the earth; and they that be cursed of him shall be cut off [karath].
23 The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he delights in his way.
24 Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the LORD upholds him with his hand.
25 I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.
26 He is ever merciful, and lends; and his seed is blessed.
27 Depart from evil, and do good; and dwell for evermore.
28 For the LORD loves judgment, and forsakes not his saints; they are preserved forever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off [karath].
29 The righteous shall inherit the land [‘erets – the earth], and dwell therein forever.
30 The mouth of the righteous speaks wisdom, and his tongue talks of judgment.
31 The law of his God is in his heart; none of his steps shall slide.
32 The wicked watch the righteous, and seeks to slay him.
33 The LORD will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged.
34 Wait on the LORD, and keep his way, and he shall exalt you to inherit the land [‘erets – the earth]: when the wicked are cut off [karath], you shall see it.
35 I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.
36 Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
37 Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end [‘achariyth] of that man is peace.
38 But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end [‘achariyth] of the wicked shall be cut off [karath].
39 But the salvation of the righteous is of the LORD: he is their strength in the time of trouble [tsarah – tribulation].
40 And the LORD shall help them, and deliver them: he shall deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in him.

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?

4 – 5 July 2023

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?

The above (Jeremiah 8:9) describes the “experts” of our time who reject reality (observed truth) and instead create an alternative to substantiate a planned conclusion. Their shame is the disappointment when their purported objective isn’t achieved, and they are proven liars.

In our time, these (falsely so-called) wise men are those who’ve intentionally created biblical Babylon, confusion as policy, by which they empower tyrants to win and hold power over the world’s population. As we all well know, this is demoralization done through a (gaslighting) conspiracy between mass (social and news) media, crony corporate giants, the vermin-riddled institutions of church and state government, and other (foreign and domestic) enemies of an authentic Christian culture.

Here is the Merriam-Webster Dictionary definition of gaslighting:
1: to psychologically manipulate (a person) usually over an extended period of time so that the victim questions the validity of their own thoughts, perception of reality, or memories and experiences confusion, loss of confidence and self-esteem, and doubts concerning their own emotional or mental stability: to subject (someone) to gaslighting
2: to grossly mislead or deceive (someone), especially for one’s own advantage

And the definition of demoralization:
1: to cause to turn aside or away from what is good or true or morally right: to corrupt the morals of
2 a: to weaken the morale of: discourage, dispirit
b: to upset or destroy the normal functioning of
c: to throw into disorder

Jeremiah 8
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? shall he turn away, and not return?
5 Why then is this people of Jerusalem slid back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return [to reality and words of truth].
6 I hearkened and heard, but they 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 [carrying those riding them].
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 [at His coming].
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 is in vain.
9 The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed [chathath – broken by their own confusion and fear] and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them?
10 Therefore will I give their wives [those who follow them] 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, 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 are using psychological warfare against us all, trying to gaslight us all into demoralization].
12 Were they ashamed [even when exposed they keep telling the same lies] when they had committed abomination [putting corruption in the place of the true]? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore, [choosing death] shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation [pquddah – now when the LORD has come as the Chief Overseer of the earth, a man of war, making war with His good advice: showing the love of His truth and reality] they shall be cast down, says the LORD.
13 I will surely consume them, 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.
14 Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defensed cities, and let us be silent there: 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!

Friends, in the previous post, we discussed our God-given rights as mentioned in the Declaration of Independence. There it specifically names three, saying they are among others not mentioned, one of which is the right to truth (also found in two of God’s Commandments).

Exodus 20
7 You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
16 You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

The word twice rendered “vain,” above in Exodus 20:7, is shav’, meaning “from the same as 7722 in the sense of desolating; evil (as destructive), literally (ruin) or morally (especially guile); figuratively idolatry (as false, subjective), uselessness (as deceptive, objective; also adverbially, in vain):–false(-ly), lie, lying, vain, vanity.”

Man is entitled to the truth because without it, when that which is not the truth, the lie, is substituted, the data put into the mental equation is corrupted and the solution (the decision forward) is also.

The “health” mentioned is Jeremiah 8:15 above, which man looks for, is from the sixteen times used word marpe’, meaning “properly, curative, i.e. literally (concretely) a medicine, or (abstractly) a cure; figuratively (concretely) deliverance, or (abstractly) placidity:–((in-))cure(-able), healing(-lth), remedy, sound, wholesome, yielding.”

Truth is the cure.

Proverbs 15
2 The tongue of the wise uses knowledge aright: but the mouth of fools pours out foolishness.
3 The eyes of the LORD are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.
4 A wholesome [marpe’] tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.
5 A fool despises his father’s instruction: but he that regards reproof is prudent.
6 In the house of the righteous is much treasure: but in the revenues of the wicked is trouble.
7 The lips of the wise disperse knowledge: but the heart of the foolish does not so.
8 The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
9 The way of the wicked is an abomination unto the LORD: but he loves him that follows after righteousness.
10 Correction is grievous unto him that forsakes the [good] way [into life]: and he that hates reproof shall die.
11 Hell [Sheol – the place where the dead are housed] and destruction are before the LORD [who knows their ways]: how much more then [does He know] the hearts [foundational mind] of the children of men?
12 A scorner loveth not one that reproves him: neither will he go unto the wise.

The word “destruction,” in verse 11, is the five times used Hebrew word ‘abaddown, which is the name of the king of the bottomless pit: the endless fall away from God that, once it begins, never stops until the destruction of the one falling. This destruction is like a scorpion’s strike, rotting the flesh from the inside, destroying truth and thereby right-reasoning. All these aspects are in Revelation 9, where Abaddon and the army of scorpions he, as their king, commands are mentioned.

Job 26
1 How have you helped him [the poor] that is without power? how saved you the arm that has no strength?
3 How have you counseled him that has no wisdom? and how have you plentifully declared the thing [reality] as it is?
4 To whom have you uttered words? and whose spirit came from you?
5 Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof [the ways of death are created below the surface of men’s word, and make their habitation there].
6 Hell [Sheol – the habitation of the dead] is naked before him [the LORD], and destruction [‘abaddown – the ways they rot men’s minds] has no covering.
7 He stretches out the north [darkness and ignorance] over the empty place [that is without truth], and hangs [suspends] the earth [that has become without form and void] upon nothing.
8 He binds up the waters [the separated elements of understanding] in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent [torn open] under them.
9 He holds back the face [paniym – the presence] of his throne, and spread [this exposition from] his cloud upon it.
10 He has compassed the waters with bounds [choq – this decreed end, declaring when He will send it], until the day and night [the time when understanding has become ignorance] come to an end.
11 The pillars of heaven tremble [that from it corrupted understanding will be shaken] and are astonished [the ignorant who should have understanding, wonder] at his reproof.
12 He divides the sea [separates humanity from those misleading them] with his power, and by his understanding he smites through the proud.
13 By his spirit he has garnished the heavens; his hand has formed the crooked [bariyach – only elsewhere in Isaiah 27:1 & 43:14] serpent [leviathan, who will become my instrument].
14 Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder [the voice of the light from the cloud] of his power who can understand?

Isaiah 27
1 In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish [paqad – visit as the Chief Overseer, with correction] leviathan the piercing [bariyach] serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon [those who as serpents and whales have devoured and swallowed into hell] that is in the sea [all humanity].
2 In that day sing [repeat these words] you unto her [to all humanity], A vineyard of red wine.
3 I the LORD do keep it; I will water [with these living waters] 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 [My understanding I freely give], that he may make peace with me; and he [leviathan – the priesthood] shall make peace with me.
6 He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.

Isaiah 43
5 Fear not: for I am with you: I will bring your seed from the east, and gather you from the west;
6 I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends [the end of the old and the beginning of the new] of the earth;
7 Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him.
8 Bring forth the blind people that [now] have eyes, and the deaf that [now] have ears.
9 Let all the nations [all who haven’t known Me] be gathered together [into My ONE BODY], and let the people be assembled: who among them can declare this, and show us former things? let them bring forth their witnesses, that they may be justified: or let them hear, and say, It is truth.
10 You are my witnesses, says the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that you may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.
11 I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no savior.
12 I have declared, and have saved, and I have shown, when there was no strange god among you: therefore you are my witnesses, says the LORD, that I am God.
13 Yea, before the day was I am he; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let [stop] it?
14 Thus says the LORD, your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; For your sake I have sent to Babylon [the confusion that rules the world], and have brought down all their nobles, and the Chaldeans [who use their words to manipulate and control people], whose cry is in the ships [infesting all the institutions].
15 I am the LORD, your Holy One, the creator of Israel, your King.
16 Thus says the LORD, which makes a way in the sea [for humanity to Passover death], and a path in the [His] mighty waters;
17 Which bringeth forth the chariot and horse, the army and the power; they shall lie down together, they shall not rise: they are extinct, they are quenched as tow.
18 Remember you not the former things, neither consider the things of old.
19 Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall you not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.
20 The beast of the field shall honor me, the dragons and the owls: because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen.
21 This people have I formed for myself; they shall show forth my praise.
22 But you have not called upon me, O Jacob; but you have been weary of me, O Israel.

Job 28
20 Whence then comes wisdom? and where is the place of understanding?
21 Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air.
22 Destruction [‘abaddown] and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.
23 God understands the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof.
24 For he looks to the ends [old and new] of the earth, and see under the whole heaven;
25 To make the weight for the winds; and he weighs the waters by measure.
26 When he made a decree [choq – a decreed time appointed] for the rain [His word from heaven], and a way for the lightning [understanding from the cloud] of the thunder [the voice of the light]:
27 Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it [for Himself], yea, and [He alone] searched it out.
28 And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the LORD, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.

John 17 
1 These words spoke Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify your Son, that your Son also may glorify you:
2 As you have given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as you have given him.
3 And this is life eternal, that they might know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.
4 I have glorified you on the earth: I have finished the work which you gave me to do.
5 And now, O Father, glorify you me with your own self with the glory which I had with you before the world was.
6 I have manifested your name unto the men which you gave me out of the world: yours they were, and you gave them me; and they have kept your word.
7 Now they have known that all things whatsoever you have given me are of you.
8 For I have given unto them the words which you gave me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from you, and they have believed that you did send me.
9 I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which you have given me; for they are yours.
10 And all mine are yours, and yours are mine; and I am glorified in them.
11 And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to you. Holy Father, keep through your own name those whom you have given me, that they may be one, as we are.
12 While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name [your identity revealed]: those that you gave me I have kept, and none of them is lost [apollumi – meaning destroyed; and the Greek name, Apollyon, given to the king of the bottomless pit], but the son of perdition [Rueben, meaning the son seen, whom we’re told in Genesis 49:4, will not “excel,” from the word yathar, meaning he will not continue {yacaph} or remain, because he put himself in his father’s place]; that the scripture might be fulfilled.
13 And now come I to you; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy [knowing Your presence in them] fulfilled in themselves.
14 I have given them your word; and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
15 I pray not that you would take them out of the world, but that you would keep them from the evil.
16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
17 Sanctify [purify] them through your truth: YOUR WORD IS TRUTH.
18 As you have sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.
19 And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.
20 Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;
21 That they all may be one; as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one [BODY] in us: that the world may believe that you have sent me.
22 And the glory which you gave me I have given them; that they may be one [BODY], even as we are one:
23 I in them, and you in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that you have sent me, and have loved them, as you have loved me.
24 Father, I will that they also, whom you have given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which you have given me: for you loved me before the foundation of the world.
25 O righteous Father, the world has not known you: but I have known you, and these have known that you have sent me.
26 And I have declared unto them your name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith you have loved me may be in them, and I in them.

Isaiah tells us those who remain (yathar) are the elect remnant and those that eat this word (butter and honey). They all, by receiving this word, learn to choose the good and refuse the evil.

Isaiah 1
7 Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
8 And the daughter of Zion is left [yathar] as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.
9 Except the LORD of hosts had left [yathar] unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.
10 Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah.

Isaiah 4
1 And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by your name, to take away our reproach.
2 In that day shall the branch of the LORD be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel.
3 And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that remains [yathar] in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem:
4 When the LORD shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.
5 And the LORD will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory shall be a defense.
6 And there shall be a tabernacle [in the LORD] for a shadow in the day time [when understanding comes] from the heat [and they shall not melt away], and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain.

Isaiah 7
13 And he said, Hear you now, O house of David; Is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will you weary my God also?
14 Therefore the LORD himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel [God with us].
15 Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.
16 For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that you abhor shall be forsaken [neglected and abandoned] of both her kings.

21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a [one] man shall nourish [chayah – shall be given life by] a young cow, and two sheep [the LORD’s word, through His flock, sent forth by the living creatures sacrificing, then and now, to do His work – Ezekiel’s wheel within a wheel seen from Isaiah’s view];
22 And it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk [foundational principles] that they shall give he shall eat butter: for butter and honey [so they know to refuse evil and choose good] shall every one eat that is left [yathar] in the land [‘erets – the earth].
23 And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings [abundance], it shall even be [overgrown due to the forsaking of the kings] for briers [deceivers] and thorns [misleaders].
24 With arrows [Ephraim – the LORD’s quiver filled with His corrected children] and with bows [Judah – God’s elect remnant] shall men come thither [against them]; because all the land [‘erets – the earth] shall become [rule by] briers [deceivers] and thorns [misleader].

Here is the full Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary definition of yathar: “to jut over or exceed; by implication, to excel; (intransitively) to remain or be left; causatively, to leave, cause to abound, preserve:–excel, leave (a remnant), left behind, too much, make plenteous, preserve, (be, let) remain(-der, -ing, – nant), reserve, residue, rest.”

Again, it is referring to Joseph (Ephraim), as described by Jacob when he, in Genesis 49, tells his children what shall befall them in these last days (‘achariyth). The passage speaks of Joseph (continuing and remaining) in the context of his name, as a fruitful bough, whose branches run over (jut over) the wall of lies built by the deceivers and misleaders now in power over the world.

Galatians 4
16 Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?
17 They [the deceivers and misleaders] zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would [now] exclude you, that you might affect them [with the understanding and life you’ve now received].
18 But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.
19 My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,
20 I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you.

27 For it is written, Rejoice, you barren that bears not; break forth and cry, you that travail not: for the desolate has many more children than she which has a husband.
28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.
29 But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.
30 Nevertheless what says the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.
31 So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.

Micah 5
1 Now gather yourself in troops [gadad], O daughter of troops [gduwd]: he has laid siege against us: they shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek.
2 But you, Bethlehem Ephratah, though you be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of you shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.
3 Therefore will he give them up, until the time that she which travails has brought forth [the man child]: then the remnant of his brethren shall return unto the children of Israel.
4 And he shall stand and feed in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God; and they shall abide: for now shall he be great unto the ends [the end of the old and the beginning of the new] of the earth.
5 And this man [Shiloh] shall be the peace, when the Assyrian [the communists] shall come into our land: and when he shall tread in our palaces [as they now do], then shall we raise against him seven shepherds, and eight principal men.

Genesis 49
10 The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet [speaking of the Davidic king line], until Shiloh come [meaning peace and tranquility – the one {Joseph’s seed – the one separated} from who it will again flow – see Ezekiel 21:27 and the overturning]; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
11 Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass’s colt unto the choice vine [this speaking of the lowly {Zechariah 9:9}, God’s elect remnant, outside the established sects, bound until Shiloh comes, when they are loosed]; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes:
12 His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.

22 Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well [a tree of life by these waters of God]; whose branches run over the wall [the wall of lies men have created and teach]:
23 The archers [ba’al – the gods of this world whose teaching has blinded all from seeing the Father, in the son, the seed of the women who brings forth the man child – see Revelation 12:17] have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him:
24 But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands [this work] of the mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:)
25 Even by the God of your father, who shall help you; and by the Almighty, who shall bless you with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lies under [the deep meaning that lies below the surface], blessings of the breasts, and of the womb [seed, the son]:
26 The blessings of your father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors [all those who have come before us, and were only blessed with part of what is perfected in our return to the LORD] unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.

The “ruler” mentioned above in Micah 5:2, the “governor” of Matthew 2:6 where the verse is quoted, is the Hebrew word mashal, meaning “to rule:–(have, make to have) dominion, governor, X indeed, reign, (bear, cause to, have) rule(-ing, -r), have power.” It (mashal) appears once in Zechariah, in Zechariah 6:13, rendered “rule” in telling of when Joshua (Jehovah’s Salvation in the flesh) the son of Josedech (Jehovah’s righteousness) is crowned.

Zechariah 6
8 Then cried he upon me, and spoke unto me, saying, Behold, these that go toward the north country have quieted my spirit in the north country.
9 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
10 Take of them of the captivity, even of Heldai [worldly], of Tobijah [to whom Jehovah is good {not a misleader}], and of Jedaiah [who Jehovah has known], which are come from Babylon [out of confusion], and come you the same day, and go into the house of Josiah [who Jehovah heals] the son of Zephaniah [by Jehovah’s hidden treasures {this word}];
11 Then take silver and gold, and make crowns, and set them upon the head of Joshua [Jehovah’s Salvation personified] the son of Josedech [who is Jehovah’s righteousness], the high priest;
12 And speak unto him, saying, Thus speaks the LORD of hosts, saying, Behold the man whose name is The Branch; and he shall grow up out of his place, and he shall build the temple of the LORD:
13 Even he shall build the temple of the LORD; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule [mashal] upon his throne; and he shall be a priest upon his throne: and the counsel of peace shall be between them both [the one who is both king and priest].
14 And the crowns shall be to Helem [strength], and to Tobijah [to whom Jehovah is good {not a misleader}], and to Jedaiah [who Jehovah has known], and to Hen [favor and grace] the son of Zephaniah [by Jehovah’s hidden treasures {this word that was carried away into Shinar}], for a memorial [zikrown, meaning “a memento (or memorable thing, day or writing)” – the things of the storehouse remembered and “restored”] in the temple of the LORD.
15 And they that are far off [rachowq – in this time of the evil decree] shall come [to their right mind] and build in the temple of the LORD, and you shall know that the LORD of hosts has sent me unto you. And this shall come to pass, if you will diligently obey the voice of the LORD your God.

The word zikrown refers us to what is written in Malachi 3:16, where it is rendered “remembrance.”

Malachi 3
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 [these treasure into the churches called by My name, unto those sleeping in ignorance caused by my spirit there quieted, after the treasure, these words were carried away into Shinar, the place of the sleep], 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 [‘asah] 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 [zikrown – reminding of the things forgotten] was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name.
17 And they shall be mine, says the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up [‘asah – do My work upon] my jewels [My people who are My crown – as opposed to the piercing, the crown of thorns placed there by the misleaders – Zechariah 9:16 And the LORD their God shall save them in that day as the flock of his people: for they shall be as the stones of a crown, lifted up as an ensign {a sign in heaven, upon the one they pierced} upon his land.]; 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, between him that serves God and him that serves him not.

In Revelation 12:15, as above, the LORD speaks of my coming, as the man child born and caught up to the throne where I now sit. You are those then spoken of as the woman nourished (with butter and honey) in the wilderness, which brought the understanding you’ve received, and by it learned to refuse evil and choose good: the strength to bring forth the same child: the mind of Christ now formed in you. This is the rising of the ONE BODY of Christ. 

The LORD has given us revelation, revealing these mysteries in His great treasures. Christ-like charity (agape – love) freely gives as He has given, as tithes into His sleeping churches. Giving just one-tenth of what He has given opens (has opened) the windows in heaven. 

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

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

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

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

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

2 Samuel 23
1 Now these be the last [‘acharown – for these last days] words of David. David the son of Jesse said, and the man who was raised up on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel, said,
2 The Spirit of the LORD spoke by me, and his word was in my tongue.
3 The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel [Christ in me] spoke to me, He that rules over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God.
4 And he shall be as the light of the morning [understanding of this new day], when the sun rises, even a morning without clouds [when all understanding has returned to the earth]; as the tender grass springing out of the earth [on this third day of God’s new creation] by clear shining [giving understanding] after rain [after His word comes from heaven].
5 Although my house be not so with God; yet he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for this is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he make it not to grow.
6 But the sons of Belial [who worship idols they put in God’s place] shall be all of them as thorns [misleaders] thrust away, because they cannot be taken with hands [without piercing God’s work and draining life]:
7 But the man that shall touch them [working piercing works in God’s name] must be fenced with iron [the strength of this understanding] and the staff of a spear; and they shall be utterly burned with fire [and melt away] in the same place.

Psalms 18
A Psalms of David the servant of the LORD, who spoke unto the LORD the words of this song in the day the LORD delivered him from all his enemies [repeating these same words, as a song, from 2 Samuel 22].
1 I will love you, O LORD, my strength.
2 The LORD is my rock [Christ in me], and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn [power] of my salvation, and my high tower.
3 I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from my enemies.
4 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.
5 The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.
6 In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried unto my God: he heard [shama’ – He gave me the understanding for which I asked] my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him [paniym – in the conversation where His presence is manifested], even into his ears [‘ozen – where He listened attentively to see if I understood what He taught].
7 Then the earth shook and trembled; the [corrupt] foundations also of the hills [that had risen from the world] moved and were shaken [so they would be removed], because he was wroth.
8 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
9 He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.
10 And he rode upon a cherub [delivering His message], and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind [the LORD’s Spirit in heaven].
11 He made darkness [the ignorance of men] his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters [words not understood] and thick clouds of the skies [understanding removed from the earth].
12 At the brightness [His understand given] that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones [the word frozen, reserved, in heaven was sent] and coals of fire [came upon the heads of men, melting away the corrupt foundational elements that blinded the world].
13 The LORD also thundered [gave His voice of understanding] in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire.
14 Yea, he sent out his arrows [Ephraim – His people in these last days], and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings [His understanding], and discomfited them.
15 Then the channels of waters [carrying His word into the sea: humanity at large] were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at your rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath [His Spirit giving life] of your nostrils.
16 He sent from above, he took me, he drew [separated] me out of many waters [the voices of ignorance spewing mire].
17 He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me: for they were too strong for me.
18 They prevented me in the day of my calamity [this day when darkness is in power]: but the LORD was my stay [Whom I trust].
19 He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me.
20 The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands has he recompensed me.
21 For I have kept [shamar – obeyed] the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
22 For all his judgments were before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me.
23 I was also upright before him, and I [shamar – obeyed Him and] kept myself from my iniquity.
24 Therefore has the LORD recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.
25 With the merciful you will show yourself merciful; with an upright man you will show yourself upright;
26 With the pure you will show yourself pure; and with the froward you will show yourself froward.
27 For you will save the afflicted people; but will bring down high looks.
28 For you will light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.
29 For by you I have run through a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a wall [of their lies].
30 As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler to all those that trust in him.
31 For who is God save the LORD? or who is a rock [Christ] save our [living] God [manifested in the flesh]?
32 It is God that girds [prepares] me with strength [His understanding], and makes my way perfect.
33 He makes my feet like hinds’ feet, and sets me upon my high places.
34 He teaches my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by my arms.
35 You have also given me the shield of your salvation: and your right hand has held me up, and your gentleness [not using Your power for destruction] has made me great.
36 You have enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip.
37 I have pursued my enemies, and overtaken them: neither did I turn again till they were consumed.
38 I have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they are [enemies] fallen under my feet [and become my footstool, as the LORD promised].
39 For you have girded [prepared] me with strength [understanding and Your good advice] unto the battle: you have subdued under me those that rose up against me.
40 You have also given me the necks of my enemies; that I might destroy them that hate me.
41 They cried, but there was none to save them: even unto the LORD [to their idols they call by His name], but he answered them not [because they take His name in vain].
42 Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets.
43 You have delivered me from the strivings of the people; and you have made me the head of the heathen: a people whom I have not known shall serve me.
44 As soon as they hear [shema’ – from the obedient] of me, they shall obey [shama’] me: the strangers shall submit themselves unto me.
45 The strangers shall fade away, and be afraid out of their close places.
46 The LORD lives; and blessed be my rock [the LORD in me]; and let the God of my salvation be exalted.
47 It is God that avenges me, and subdues the people under me.
48 He delivers me from my enemies: yea, you lift [Your voice in] me up above those that rise up against me: you have delivered me from the violent man.
49 Therefore will I give thanks unto you, O LORD, among the heathen, and sing praises unto your name.
50 Great deliverance [yshuw’ah – Jesus: Joshua, son of Nun, the son in perpetuity, son of yacaph, who continues and remains] gives he to his king; and shows mercy to his anointed, to David, and to his seed for evermore.

Elihu also proceeded, and said, Suffer me a little, and I will show you that I have yet to speak on God’s behalf.

30 June – 3 July 2023

Elihu also proceeded, and said, Suffer me a little, and I will show you that I have yet to speak on God’s behalf.

The above is the LORD speaking, revealing Himself in the flesh as Elihu (He is God), as the word of God that shall not fail nor have an end. The above statement, Job 36:1 & 2, in which the LORD begins, on the surface, seems benign, while in fact, it’s an absolute declaration of His Majesty. 

To begin, the word rendered “proceeded” is yacaph, the origin of the name Joseph, meaning to add or augment. In this word, the LORD refers us to its other use in Job, defining what continues and what doesn’t.

The first of these comes in Job 17:9, as Job is (as God’s hated people) speaking to his accusers.

Job 17
1 My breath [the spirit in me] is corrupt, my days are extinct [the light in me is extinguished – from the once used word za’ak], the graves are ready for me.
2 Are there not mockers [hathol – only used here, meaning the deceived] with me? and does not my eye [‘ayin – the words that flow, teach, what I see: understand] continue in their provocation [marah – the bittern waters of rebellion]?
3 Lay down now [in the grave with], put me in a surety [join] with you; who is he that will strike hands with me?
4 For you [the LORD] have hid their heart from understanding [sekel – intelligence, and success]: therefore shall you [LORD] not exalt them [their words].
5 He that speaks flattery [word intended to make the ignorant feel good about themselves] to his friends, even the eyes [‘ayin] of his children shall fail [kalah – have an end].
6 He has made me also a byword [mshowl: only used here, from mashal: a parable with deep meaning that isn’t understood] of the people; and aforetime [paniym – when before it manifested the LORD’s presence] I was [hayah – I became] as a tabret [topheth – your word as water and fire from my mouth].
7 My eye [‘ayin – the ability to comprehend what is read] also is dim by reason of sorrow [ka’ac – the provocation of putting abomination in the place of the holy], and all my members [yatsur – only here, meaning body part, meaning the scatter OND BODY] are as a shadow [in darkness; when the light, understanding, is, by the provocation, blocked].
8 Upright men shall be astonied [shamem – stunned, devastated when they realize their stupefaction] at this, and the innocent [naqiy – quieted, returned from corruption] shall stir up [‘uwr – awaken] himself against the hypocrite [chaneph – the godless].
9 The righteous also shall hold [‘achaz – seize] on his [the LORD’s] way, and he that has clean hands [no longer working corruption] shall be stronger and stronger [yacaph – shall continue, adding strength to strength, understanding to understanding].
10 But as for you all, do you return [to a right mind], and come now [to understanding]: for I cannot find one wise man among you [that hears and obeys the voice of the LORD].
11 My days are past [‘abar – are as the Passover], my purposes [zimmah – wrong ways] are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart [the foundation of my thinking].
12 They change the night into day [when I wrongly thought I understood]: the light is short because of darkness.
13 If I wait [for the end I expected], the grave [Sheol – hell] is my house: I have made my bed in the darkness [where I am in the deep sleep of ignorance and death].
14 I have said to corruption, You are my father: to the worm [the animated lifeless flesh among the fires of the earth’s ruin], You are my mother, and my sister.
15 And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
16 They shall go down to the bars of the pit [those who think there is hope in the wrong ways are by them held in hell], when our rest together is in the dust [all waiting there, insanely doing the same things, as they sleep in the ruin of the earth].

Job 20
4 Know you not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,
5 That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?
6 Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;
7 Yet he shall perish forever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?
8 He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
9 The eye also which saw him shall see him no more [yacaph]; neither shall his place any more behold him.

Suffer me again for a few moments while I digress regarding the “state of nature” that now philosophically and spiritually exists in our nation, as it did previously in much of the (third) world.  

We, the USA, until recently, were uniquely a nation of laws (that restrained the power of men in government as we continually strived upward toward the goal of justice for all) and not men’s whims. We now (in our nation’s seats of power) twist logic, impulsively changing laws to punish those not responsible but blamed by false accusations of demagogues who’ve, by this means, risen into power and become tyrants.

Those who’ve been with me for a time well know the above process is spoken of by Alexander Hamilton in his first letter in defense of the Constitution and urging its ratification (see Federalist #1). He therein wrote of what he and other enlightened men learned from history: that wicked men, claiming one group was victimizing another, were those who had most often overturned the liberties of republics (causing nations to commit national suicide, which is most often the way they die). 

You have also heard me speak of John Adams, warning of the danger in the vast freedoms secured by the Constitution if dishonorable and ungodly men were to take power. He said they would go through it (the restraints of the Constitution) “like a whale through a net.” He is speaking of keeping (protecting and defending) the ideas that readied the nation for “self-government.” He said the Constitution is meant to be administrated by Christian people (restraining themselves), and any others there in power are the whale of which he speaks. 

Christianity is (de-centralized) self-government, a principle the founders knew well from the teaching of Reverend John Wise, who wrote extensively on the subject: the principles of self-government in church and state, a Christian people governing themselves and thereby removing the need for the bloated bureaucracies which from afar now despotically rule every aspect of our lives.

So, the wicked, with evil intentions, infiltrated the church, removed good judgment, and surrendered to the calls to “keep our religion to ourselves.” They (the church) fell for the lie that told us there is such a thing as a nation without a moral standard. So, nature abhorring a vacuum, the wicked and power-hungry (barbarians) rushed into the void left by her surrender and established their kingdom of lawless men teaching against self-government.

But nature’s laws can’t be denied or avoided. Her laws were learned in the experience, in a state of nature, without any civilization or government recourse, when men by themselves understood there are certain self-restraints necessary to live in peace with others. These mostly centered on not threatening your neighbor’s life, liberty, or property; and them reciprocating and doing the same. These principles are also codified in God’s Commandments and are preceded by those telling us not to make any gods we put above God: exalting, teaching, and obeying His voice above all others.

Our Declaration of Independence is the only founding document that speaks of anything to which a people are “entitled.” Its first paragraph tells us it is to live “under the laws of nature and nature’s God.” It speaks of the necessary political separation from those denying us (putting under threat) this entitlement and our God-given rights, which the new government would be constituted to secure.

Friends, the LORD calls us again to this moment and the same separation from the lawless now sitting in power in every (centralized) institution of church and state.

“WHEN in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

“We hold these truths to be self-evident: That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.”

Job’s next two uses of the word (yacaph) come in the first verses of Job 27 & 29, rendered “moreover,” as we’re told of Job continuing His “parable.” As we know, the word rendered “parable” is the Hebrew word mashal, meaning “apparently from 4910 in some original sense of superiority in mental action; properly, a pithy maxim, usually of metaphorical nature; hence, a simile (as an adage, poem, discourse):–byword, like, parable, proverb.”

The word it (mashal) is said to be apparently from (#4910) is an almost identical word (mashal), meaning “a primitive root; to rule:–(have, make to have) dominion, governor, X indeed, reign, (bear, cause to, have) rule(-ing, -r), have power.”

These words speak of “nature” as the (natural) means of the LORD’s rule, uncovering the deep meaning in the experience, awakening our intellect, hearing, and then seeing, in the epiphany, the realization of the present reality of which we were before ignorant.  

It is this aspect (the part present but missed) that is spoken of by Elihu (He is God speaking unknown) in the next uses of yacaph in Job.

Job 34
10 Therefore hearken unto me you men of understanding: far be it from God, that he should do wickedness; and from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.
11 For the work of a man shall he render unto him, and cause every man to find according to his [own] ways.
12 Yea, surely God will not do wickedly, neither will the Almighty pervert judgment.
13 Who has given him a charge over [paqad – made Him Chief Overseer of] the earth? or who has disposed [suwm – put Him in charge of] the whole world?
14 If he set his heart upon man, if he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath;
15 All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust [the ruin from which he was created].
16 If now you have understanding, hear this: hearken to the voice of my words [understand Who is speaking].
17 Shall even he that hates right govern? and will you condemn him that is most just?
18 Is it fit to say to a king, You are wicked? and to princes, You are ungodly?
19 How much less to him that accepts not the persons of princes, nor regards the rich more than the poor? for they all are the work of his hands.
20 In a moment shall they die, and the people shall be troubled at midnight, and pass away: and the mighty shall be taken away without [man’s] hand.
21 For his eyes are upon the ways of man, and he sees all his goings.
22 There is no darkness [ignorance], nor shadow of death [cast by man, making men so], where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
23 For he will not lay upon man more than right; that he should enter into judgment with God.
24 He shall break in pieces mighty men without number, and set others in their stead.
25 Therefore he knows their works, and he overturns them in the night [when ignorance of God covers the earth], so that they are destroyed.
26 He strikes them as wicked men in the open sight of others;
27 Because they turned back from him, and would not consider any of his ways:
28 So that they cause the cry of the poor [who are without worldly power] to come unto him, and he hears the cry of the afflicted [oppressed by those in power].
29 When he gives quietness, who then can make trouble? and when he hides his face [presence], who then can behold [see – realize] him? whether it be done against a nation, or against a man only:
30 That the hypocrite reign not, lest the people be ensnared [trapped in the hell they’ve created].
31 Surely it is meet [appropriate] to be said unto God, I have borne chastisement [your correction], I will not offend any more:
32 That which I see not teach you me: if I have done iniquity, I will do [yacaph] no more.
33 Should it be according to your mind? he will recompense it, whether you refuse, or whether you choose; and not I: therefore speak what you know [and by your own words you shall be judged].
34 Let men of understanding tell me, and let a wise man hearken [shama’ – obey] unto me [the One Who is speaking].
35 Job [God’s people rebelling against His commands] has spoken without knowledge, and his words were without wisdom.
36 My desire is that Job may be tried [continue in the affliction until He is corrected and obeys this voice] unto the end because of his answers for wicked men [going about to prove his ways are right, instead of submitting to the LORD’s righteousness].
37 For he adds [yacaph] rebellion [against God he hasn’t yet seen, realized] unto his sin, he claps his hands among us [drawing attention to himself instead of directing it toward God: Yahh to whom it appertains], and [ignorantly] multiplies his words against God.

Job 34
2 Hear my words, O you wise men; and give ear unto me, you that have knowledge.
3 For the ear tries [judges] words, as the mouth tastes meat.
4 Let us choose to us judgment: let us know among ourselves what is good.
5 For Job has said, I am righteous: and God has taken away my judgment.
6 Should I lie against my right [lie about my righteousness]? my wound is incurable without transgression.
7 What man is like Job, who drinks up scorning like water?
8 Which goes in company with the workers of iniquity, and walks with wicked men.
9 For he has said, It profits a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.

The key in the above comes in verse 6 as Job speaks of his wound as “incurable,” from the nine times used Hebrew word ‘anash, meaning “a primitive root; to be frail, feeble, or (figuratively) melancholy:–desperate(-ly wicked), incurable, sick, woeful.”

The first of these uses comes in 2 Samuel 12:15, speaking spiritually of this nation as the child born to David (as those leading this), who is now dead.

2 Samuel 12
9 Wherefore have you [the leaders of God’s people] despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his sight? you have killed Uriah [the light of Jehovah, understanding His presence and way] the Hittite [the fear of God] with the sword, and have taken his wife to be your wife, and have slain him with the sword [words from the mouths] of the children of Ammon [which divided My people into factions].
10 Now, therefore, the sword shall never depart from your house; because you have despised me, and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite [the light, understanding of Jehovah, which taught men the fear of God] to be your wife [Bathsheba – the daughter of the oath, the promise of God].
11 Thus says the LORD, Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house, and I will take your wives before your eyes, and give them unto your neighbor, and he shall lie with your wives in the sight of this sun [the understanding of this new day rising].
12 For you did it secretly: but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun [when this understanding is present].
13 And David said unto Nathan [the giver of this word of God], I have sinned against the LORD. And Nathan said unto David, The LORD also has put away your sin; you shall not die.
14 Howbeit, because by this deed you have given great occasion to the enemies of the LORD to blaspheme [vilify Him], the child also that is born unto you shall surely die.
15 And Nathan departed unto his house. And the LORD struck the child [this nation] that Uriah’s wife bare unto David, and it was very sick [‘anash – the nation now incurably ill].
16 David, therefore, besought God for the child [this nation]; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night [during this time of darkness] upon the earth.
17 And the elders of his house arose, and went to him, to raise him up from the earth: but he would not, neither did he eat bread with them.
18 And it came to pass on the seventh day [this day of the LORD], that the child [this nation] died. And the servants of David feared to tell him that the child was dead: for they said, Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spake unto him, and he would not hearken unto our voice: how will he then vex himself, if we tell him that the child [the nation] is dead?
19 But when David saw that his servants whispered, David perceived [biyn – understood] that the child [this nation] was dead: therefore David said unto his servants, Is the child [this nation] dead? And they said, He [this nation] is dead.
20 Then David arose from the earth, and washed, and anointed himself, and changed his apparel, and came into the house of the LORD, and worshipped: then he came to his own house; and when he required, they set bread before him, and he did eat.
21 Then said his servants unto him, What thing is this that you have done? you did fast and weep for the child, while it was alive; but when the child was dead, you did rise and eat bread.
22 And he said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who can tell whether God will be gracious to me, that the child [this nation] may live?
23 But now he [this nation] is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.
24 And David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in unto her, and lay with her: and she bare a son [a new nation], and he called his name Solomon: and the LORD loved him.

The name Solomon, meaning peace, is from the Hebrew word shalom (shalowm), meaning “from 7999; safe, i.e. (figuratively) well, happy, friendly; also (abstractly) welfare, i.e. health, prosperity, peace.”

The word it (shalom) is from (#7999) is shalam (salem), meaning “to be safe (in mind, body or estate [life, liberty, and property]); figuratively, to be (causatively, make) completed; by implication, to be friendly; by extension, to reciprocate (in various applications)

The next use of ‘anash, speaking of the incurable wound of the nation, comes in Isaiah 17:11, speaking of this time of “desperate” sorrow.

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

Jeremiah 17
9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately [‘anash – incurably] wicked: who can know it?
10 I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
11 As the partridge sits on eggs, and hatches them not; so he that gets riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.
12 A glorious high throne from the beginning is the place of our sanctuary.
13 O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake you shall be ashamed, and they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters.
14 Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for you are my praise.
15 Behold, they say unto me, Where is the word of the LORD? let it come now.
16 As for me, I have not hastened from being a pastor to turn away from you: neither have I desired the woeful [‘anash] day [when our national condition is incurable]; you know: that which came out of my lips was right before you.
17 Be not a terror unto me: you are my hope in the [this] day of evil.
18 Let them be confounded that persecute me, but let not me be confounded: let them be dismayed, but let not me be dismayed: bring upon them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.

Jeremiah 30
7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble, but he shall be saved out of it.
8 For it shall come to pass in that day, says the LORD of hosts, that I will break his yoke [of the wicked] from off your neck, and will burst your bonds, and strangers shall no more serve themselves of him:
9 But they shall serve the LORD their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up unto them.
10 Therefore fear you not, O my servant Jacob, says the LORD; neither be dismayed, O Israel: for, lo, I will save you from afar, and your seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be in rest, and be quiet, and none shall make him afraid.
11 For I am with you, says the LORD, to save you: though I make a full end of all nations whither I have scattered you, yet I will not make a full end [kalah] of you: but I will correct you in measure, and will not leave you altogether unpunished.
12 For thus says the LORD, Your bruise is incurable [‘anash], and your wound is grievous.
13 There is none to plead your cause, that you mayest be bound up: you have no healing medicines [that can cure your national condition].
14 All your lovers have forgotten you; they seek you not; for I have wounded you with the wound of an enemy [while they claim it is peace], with the chastisement [the instruction] of a cruel one, for the multitude of your iniquity; because your sins were increased.
15 Why cry you for your affliction? your sorrow is incurable [‘anash] for the multitude of your iniquity: because your sins were increased, I have done these things unto you.
16 Therefore all they that devour you shall be devoured; and all your adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; and they that spoil you shall be a spoil, and all that prey upon you will I give for a prey.
17 For I will restore health [the new nation built upon the ruin of the old] unto you, and I will heal you of your wounds, says the LORD; because they called you an Outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no man seeks after.

Micha 1
2 Hear, all you people; hearken, O earth, and all that therein is: and let the LORD God be witness against you, the LORD from his holy temple.
3 For, behold, the LORD comes forth out of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth.
4 And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a steep place.
5 For the transgression of Jacob is all this, and for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? is it not Samaria [who put idols in My place and call them by My name]? and what are the high places of Judah [the corrupt crop of leaders]? are they not Jerusalem [the place from where My ways of peace and security should flow]?
6 Therefore I will make Samaria as a heap of the field, and as plantings of a vineyard: and I will pour down the stones thereof into the valley, and I will discover the foundations thereof.
7 And all the graven images thereof shall be beaten to pieces, and all the hires thereof shall be burned with the fire, and all the idols thereof will I lay desolate: for she gathered it of the hire of a harlot, and they shall return to the hire of a harlot.
8 Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons [the words of serpents and whales devouring and swallowing the wicked into hell], and mourning as the owls [when the light, understanding, comes against those hunting the souls of the ignorant in the darkness].
9 For her wound is incurable [‘anash]; for it is come unto Judah; he is come unto the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.

Job 38
1 Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
2 Who is this that darkens counsel [gives ignorant advice] by words without knowledge?
3 Gird up now your loins like a man; for I will demand of you, and answer you me.
4 Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if you have understanding.
5 Who has laid the measures thereof, if you know? or who has stretched the line upon it [have you assessed it and brought it to light]?
6 Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;
7 When the morning stars [sprang to light and] sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
8 Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?
9 When I made the cloud [the place where understanding was kept] the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddling-band for it [and ignorance its protective wrapping],
10 And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,
11 And said, Hitherto shall you come, but no further [yacaph]: and here shall your proud waves [the pride of man] be stayed?
12 Have you commanded the morning since your days; and caused the dayspring to know his place;
13 That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it?
14 It is turned as clay to the seal; and they stand as a garment [seen as the shining garments of Moses and Elijah].
15 And from the wicked their light [understanding] is withheld, and the high arm [the evil works of those in power, devils now misleading the world in hell] shall be broken.
16 Have you entered into the springs of the sea? or have you walked in the search of the depth [the deep thing only the Father knows]?
17 Have the gates of death [hell] been opened unto you? or have you seen the doors of the shadow of death?
18 Have you perceived the breadth of the earth? declare if you know it all.
19 Where is the way where light dwell? and as for darkness, where is the place thereof,
20 That you should take it to the bound thereof, and that you should know the paths to the house thereof?
21 Know you it, because you were then born? or because the number of your days is great?
22 Have you entered into the treasures of the snow? or have you seen the treasures of the hail, [these speak of God’s word frozen {reserved} in heaven, for this moment]
23 Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?
24 By what way is the light parted [into the rainbow], which scatter the east wind upon the earth?
25 Who has divided a watercourse for the overflowing of waters, or a way for the lightning of thunder [understand and its voice – these are speaking of what is written in Revelation 10:1 thru 4, of understanding reserved for this moment];
26 To cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is; on the wilderness, wherein there is no man [referring us to Jeremiah 4:25, after verse 23 says, “I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.”];
27 To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?
28 Has the rain a father? or who has begotten the drops of dew?
29 Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who has gendered it?
30 The waters are hid as with a stone [who is Christ – see 1 Corinthians 10:1 thru 4], and the face of the deep is frozen.
31 Can you bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?
32 Can you bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or can you guide Arcturus with his sons?
33 Know you the ordinances of heaven? can you set the dominion thereof in the earth [Can you bring to light the order in heaven showing it rules over the earth]?
34 Can you lift up your voice to the clouds [where understanding is held], that abundance of waters may cover you?
35 Can you send lightning, that they may go and say unto you, Here we are?
36 Who [except God] has put wisdom in the inward parts? or who has given understanding to the heart?
37 Who can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay [reserve until now] the bottles of heaven,
38 When [without the waters of heaven] the dust grows into hardness, and the clods cleave fast together?
39 Shall you hunt the prey for the lion [will you seek these things out to return strength]? or fill the appetite of the young lions,
40 When they couch in their dens, and abide in the covert to lie in wait [for their LORD, the lion of Judah]?
41 Who provides for the raven [those covered in darkness] his food? when his young ones cry unto God, they wander for lack of meat [this word of God, meant for man, to return their strength].

Job 40
1 Moreover the LORD answered Job, and said,
2 Shall he that contends with the Almighty instruct him? he that reproves God, let him answer it.
3 Then Job answered the LORD, and said,
4 Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer you? I will lay my hand upon my mouth.
5 Once have I spoken; but I will not answer: yea, twice; but I will proceed no further [yacaph].
6 Then answered the LORD unto Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
7 Gird up your loins now like a man: I will demand of you, and declare you unto me.
8 Will you also disannul my judgment? will you condemn me, that you may be righteous?
9 Have you an arm [working in the flesh] like God? or can you thunder [the sound of the light: understanding] with a voice like him?
10 Deck yourself now with majesty and excellency; and array yourself with glory and beauty [as He has].
11 Cast abroad the rage of your wrath: and behold every one that is proud, and abase him.
12 Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place.
13 Hide them in the dust together; and bind their faces in secret.
14 Then will I also confess unto you that your own right hand [works] can save you.

In Job 41, the LORD then speaks of leviathan, the words from Job’s accusers, which we know from when the word leviathan is renders “mourning,” in Job 3:8, when speaking of them about to be raised up, to do the work of Satan (resisting God, as a foil against which His word, truth, is revealed from their darkness).  

He (the LORD) is speaks of drawing them out into the light, corrects them into righteousness, making them His instrument in the destruction of the unrepentant foreign enemies mixed among His people.

Job 41 
1 Can you draw out leviathan [into the light] with a hook? or his tongue with a cord which you let down [from heaven]?
2 Can you put a hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn [showing them to be misleaders]?
3 Will he make many supplications unto you? will he speak soft words unto you?
4 Will he make a covenant with you? will you take him for a servant forever?
5 Will you play with him as with a bird? or will you bind him for your maidens?
6 Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants?
7 Can you fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears?
8 Lay your hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more [yacaph].
9 Behold, the hope of him [doing his own works] is in vain: shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him?
10 None is so fierce that dare stir him up [‘uwr – wakening him – see Job 17:8 above]: who then is able to stand before me [paniym – when My presence is manifested in him]?
11 Who has prevented [show the way to] me, that I should repay him? whatsoever is under the whole heaven [full understanding given] is mine.
12 I will not conceal his parts, nor his power, nor his comely proportion.
13 Who can discover the face of [paniym – My presence] his garment [the flesh in which I Am]? or who can come to him with his double bridle [as I have]?
14 Who can open the doors of his face [paniyn – his mouth revealing My entry]? his teeth [devouring the wicked] are terrible round about.
15 His scales [the word of God that flows through him] are his pride [his excellency], shut up [at his surrender] together [tsar – in his tribulation] as with a close seal [are my signature pressed into the earth].
16 One is so near to another [joined in My ONE BODY], that no air [that no other spirit] can come between [separate] them.
17 They are joined one to another, they stick together, that they cannot be sundered.
18 By his neesings [moving upon these waters] a light [understanding] does shine, and his eyes [seeing as I see] are like the eyelids [seeing] of the morning [this light of the new day].
19 Out of his mouth go burning lamps [showing My way to the world], and sparks of fire leap out.
20 Out of his nostrils goes smoke [chasing the vermin from MY house], as out of a seething pot or caldron [boiling away corruption].
21 His breath kindles coals, and a flame goes out of his mouth.
22 In his neck remains strength [understanding], and sorrow is turned into joy [the realization of God’s presence in His people] before him [paniym – at His presence revealed].
23 The flakes of his flesh are joined together [with the LORD in his ONE BODY]: they are firm in themselves; they cannot be moved.
24 His heart [foundational mind] is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether millstone.
25 When he raises up himself, the mighty are afraid: by reason of breaking [of the yoke of the wicked] they purify themselves.
26 The sword of him that lays at him cannot hold: the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon.
27 He esteems iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.
28 The arrow cannot make him flee: sling stones are turned with him into stubble.
29 Darts are counted as stubble: he laughs at the shaking of a spear.
30 Sharp stones are under him: he spreads sharp pointed things upon the mire.
31 He makes the deep to boil like a pot: he makes the sea like a pot of ointment.
32 He makes a path to shine [understanding that comes] after him; one would think [the plan hidden in] the deep to be hoary [from the days of old].
33 Upon earth there is not his like, who is made without fear.
34 He beholds all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride.

Ecclesiastes 3
10 I have seen the travail, which God has given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.
11 He has made every thing beautiful in his time: also he has set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God makes from the beginning to the end.
12 I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life.
13 And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labor, it is the gift of God.
14 I know that, whatsoever God does, it shall be forever: nothing can be put to it [yacaph], nor any thing taken from it: and God does it, that men should fear before him.
15 That which has been is now; and that which is to be has already been; and God requires that which is past [and you all have experienced and seen].
16 And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.
17 I said in my heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.
18 I said in my heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts [without My Spirit].

Psalms 67
1 God be merciful unto us, and bless us; and cause his face [presence] to shine upon us; Selah.
2 That your way may be known upon earth, your saving health among all nations.
3 Let the people praise you, O God; let all the people praise you.
4 O let the nations be glad and sing for joy: for you shall judge the people righteously, and govern the nations upon earth. Selah.
5 Let the people praise you, O God; let all the people praise you.
6 Then shall the earth yield her increase; and God, even our own God, shall bless us.
7 God shall bless us; and all the ends [the end of the old and the beginning of the new] of the earth shall fear him.

State of Nature

2 July 2023

Suffer me again for a few moments while I digress regarding the “state of nature” that now philosophically and spiritually exists in our nation, as it did previously in much of the (third) world.  

We, the USA, until recently, were uniquely a nation of laws (that restrained the power of men in government as we continually strived upward toward the goal of justice for all) and not men’s whims. We now (in our nation’s seats of power) twist logic, impulsively changing laws to punish those not responsible but blamed by false accusations of demagogues who’ve, by this means, risen into power and become tyrants.

Those who’ve been with me for a time well know the above process is spoken of by Alexander Hamilton in his first letter in defense of the Constitution and urging its ratification (see Federalist #1). He therein wrote of what he and other enlightened men learned from history: that wicked men, claiming one group was victimizing another, were those who had most often overturned the liberties of republics (causing nations to commit national suicide, which is most often the way they die). 

You have also heard me speak of John Adams, warning of the danger in the vast freedoms secured by the Constitution if dishonorable and ungodly men were to take power. He said they would go through it (the restraints of the Constitution) “like a whale through a net.” He is speaking of keeping (protecting and defending) the ideas that readied the nation for “self-government.” He said the Constitution is meant to be administrated by Christian people (restraining themselves), and any others there in power are the whale of which he speaks. 

Christianity is (de-centralized) self-government, a principle the founders knew well from the teaching of reverend John Wise, who wrote extensively on the subject: the principles of self-government in church and state, a Christian people governing themselves and thereby removing the need for the bloated bureaucracies which from afar now despotically rule every aspect of our lives.

So, the wicked, with evil intentions, infiltrated the church, removed good judgment, and surrendered to the calls to “keep our religion to ourselves.” They (the church) fell for the lie that told us there is such a thing as a nation without a moral standard. So, nature abhorring a vacuum, the wicked and power-hungry (barbarians) rushed into the void left by her surrender and established their kingdom of lawless men teaching against self-government.

But nature’s laws can’t be denied or avoided. Her laws were learned in the experience, in a state of nature, without any civilization or government recourse, when men by themselves understood there are certain self-restraints necessary to live in peace with others. These mostly centered on not threatening your neighbor’s life, liberty, or property; and them reciprocating and doing the same. These are also codified in God’s Commandments and are preceded by those telling us not to make any gods we put above God: exalting, teaching, and obeying His voice above all others.

Our Declaration of Independence is the only founding document that speaks of anything to which a people are “entitled.” Its first paragraph tells us it is to live “under the laws of nature and nature’s God.” It speaks of the necessary political separation from those denying us (putting under threat) this entitlement and our God-given rights, which the new government would be constituted to secure.

Friends, the LORD calls us again to this moment and the same separation from the lawless now sitting in power in every (centralized) institution of church and state.

“WHEN in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

“We hold these truths to be self-evident: That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.”

Many will say to me in that day, LORD, LORD, have we not prophesied in your name? and in your name have cast out devils? and in your name done many wonderful works?

26 – 28 June 2023

Many will say to me in that day, LORD, LORD, have we not prophesied in your name? and in your name have cast out devils? and in your name done many wonderful works?

The day the LORD speaks of above is when He comes as Chief Overseer of the earth to judge the trees and the fruit they bring forth by teaching and leading in His name. The men He says are doing these things (speaking in His name, casting out misleaders, and doing wonders), are good trees if they are doing the Father’s will: rendering the good fruit to Him at His coming. If they are corrupt trees, bringing forth evil fruit, they are doing their own will and rejecting His commands, not obeying the one thing He calls them to do: obey His voice and commands. 

As we know, these are the self-willed often spoken of, having a form of godliness but denying the power thereof (in His word, the gospel that effectually works to produce the good fruit in which He delights).

2 Peter 2
9 The LORD knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:
10 But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise [the LORD’s] government. Presumptuous are they, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities [doxa – the LORD’s “glory” manifests it in those He raises to power].

2 Timothy 3
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents [even to God the Father], unthankful, unholy,
3 Without natural affection [never so evidently true, as it is now], trucebreakers, false accusers [also now self-evidently true], incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
4 Traitors, heady, high-minded [proud and arrogant], lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
5 Having a form of godliness [claiming they are manifesting His presence in their flesh], but denying the power thereof [denying free course of this word to effectually work, when preached by His angels: messengers, as He commands and which is the mystery of true godliness revealed]: from such turn away.
6 For of this sort are they which creep [enduno – only used here, meaning they are disguised in their own power to deceive] into houses, and lead captive silly [easily fooled, small-minded] women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
7 [and being taught by these false preachers, they are] Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
8 Now as Jannes and Jambres [preachers doing the work of the tyrants holding God’s people] withstood Moses, so do these also resist [in Hebrew the word “resist” is satan] the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate [without proof] concerning the faith [nothing they do shows they believe the LORD is present].
9 But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as theirs also was.

The word “presumptuous,” in 2 Peter 2:10 above, is from the once-used Greek word tolmetes, meaning they dare to presume things, made up in their own mind, to oppose the LORD, and please their own desires. It is from the word tolmao, by which the LORD refers us to its use in Romans 15:18.

Romans 15
1 We then that are strong [by this understanding we’ve received] ought to bear the infirmities [the lack of strength] of the weak, and not to please ourselves [but rather pleasing God, doing His will as we ought].
2 Let every one of us please his neighbor for his good to edification [building them into the LORD holy habitation by this gospel education].
3 For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached you fell on me [when I preached the word of God from His mouth and gave the Father all the glory].
4 For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.
5 Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus:
6 That you may with one mind and one mouth glorify God, even the Father of our LORD Jesus Christ.
7 Wherefore receive you one another, as Christ also received us to the glory of God.
8 Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision [cutting off the useless flesh so what it hides is seen] for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers:
9 And that the Gentiles [those who don’t know and have never seen the LORD] might glorify God for his mercy; as it is written [in Psalms 69:9, where it is David’s brethren and his own mother’s children that don’t know him, and sit in the gate speaking against him, singing songs of drunkards], For this cause I will confess to you [Your presence] among the Gentiles [those that don’t know you], and sing unto your name [repeat the words you have given, in which conversation Your identity is manifested].
10 And again he says, Rejoice, you Gentiles [who haven’t known the LORD], with his people [who have known Him, but are now fallen asleep and don’t remember His identity]. [The full verse, Deuteronomy 32:43, with context, says, “40 For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live forever. 41 If I whet my glittering sword {this word from My mouth shining understanding upon all}, and my hand takes hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to my enemies, and will reward them that hate me. 42 I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword {this word from My mouth} shall devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenge upon the enemy. 43 Rejoice, O you nations {gowy, gentiles, those who don’t know Me}, with his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land {‘adamah – all the people of Adam: all humanity equally}, and to his people.]
11 And again, Praise the LORD, all you Gentiles; and laud him, all you people [for the mercy He shows as His glory revealed]. [From Psalms 117:1, the full Psalm saying, “1 O praise the LORD, all you nations {gowy}: praise him, all you people {‘ummah – the full collection of His people – His ONE BODY}. 2 For his merciful kindness is great toward us: and the truth of the LORD endures forever. Praise you the LORD {halal Yahh – Hallelujah!}.]
12 And again, Isaiah says [in Isaiah 11:10, verse 9 saying, “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 {His word from heaven} cover the sea {all humanity into which it flows}.], There shall be a root of Jesse, and he that shall rise to reign over the Gentiles [those who haven’t know Him]; in him shall the Gentiles trust.
13 Now the God of hope fill you with all joy [the realization the LORD is alive in those who receive Him] and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost [the LORD’s unknown work through His word].
14 And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brethren, that you also are full of [His] goodness, filled with all knowledge [of Him], able also to admonish [warn and correct] one another.
15 Nevertheless, brethren, I have written the more boldly unto you in some sort, as putting you in [this same] mind, because of the grace [these treasures He has given me to give as received] that is given to me of God,
16 That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles [all who don’t know Him], ministering the gospel [euaggelion] of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified [made holy and separated from corruption] by the Holy Ghost [the LORD working in me, through me unknown].
17 I have therefore whereof I may [shine His] glory through Jesus Christ in those things which pertain to God [in Hebrew: ya’ah Yahh – to whom it appertains].
18 For I will not dare [tolmao – I will not be presumptuous, presuming things created in my own mind] to speak of any of those things which Christ has not wrought by me, to make the Gentiles obedient [hupakoe – not by fraud forcing the submission of those who don’t know Him], [but] by word and deed,
19 Through mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God [seeking their willing obedience by giving them sight and understanding, by His word working in them]; so that from Jerusalem [from where the ways of sustainable civilization: peace and security, flows in teaching directly from the mouth of the LORD, by which man lives], and round about unto Illyricum [“the lyric band” – until they all sign these same songs as One voice of the LORD from His ONE BODY], I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.
20 Yea, so have I strived to preach the gospel [euaggelizo], not where Christ was named [not where they say His identity is manifested], lest I should build upon another [of] man’s corrupt] foundation:
21 But as it is written [in Isaiah 52:15 – see below, followed immediately, in Isaiah 53:1, saying “Who has believed our report {shmuw’ah – heard this word as the voice of Jehovah}, and to whom has the arm {His work in the flesh} of the LORD been {thereby} revealed?”], To whom he was not spoken of, they shall see [Him]: and they that have not heard shall [by hearing Him] understand. 
22 For which cause also I have been much hindered [Satan standing at the right hand of the church leaders, to resist {satan} the LORD’s work, unknown to them revealing His presence among them, manifested in His work and word] from coming to you.

Isaiah 52
1 Awake, awake; put on your strength [understanding], O Zion; put on your beautiful garments [His righteousness], O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into you the uncircumcised and the unclean.
2 Shake yourself from the dust [from the ruin of the earth]; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem: loose yourself from the bands of your neck [the corruption to which you are yoked], O captive daughter of Zion.
3 For thus says the LORD, You have sold yourselves for naught; and you shall be redeemed without money.
4 For thus says the LORD God, My people went down aforetime into Egypt [among oppressors and tyrants who took them captive] to sojourn there; and the Assyrian [now the communists] oppressed them without cause.
5 Now therefore, what have I here, says the LORD, that my people is taken away for naught? they that rule over them make them to howl, says the LORD; and my name continually every day is blasphemed.
6 Therefore my people shall know my name: therefore they shall know in that day that I am he that does speak: behold, it is I.
7 How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that brings good tidings [basar – this gospel], that publishes [shama’ – is obedient to the ways of] peace; that brings good tidings [basar] of good [towb], that publishes [shama’ – is obedient to] salvation [yshuw’ah – to Jesus, manifesting Jehovah’s Salvation in my flesh]; that says unto Zion, Your God reigns [malak – is the king ascended to the throne]!
8 Your watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall they sing [giving His word as received]: for they shall see eye [‘ayin] to eye [‘ayin – become a fountain of living water received from THE Fountain of these living waters], when the LORD shall bring again Zion.
9 Break forth into joy [let the LORD’s glory be revealed in you], sing together, you waste places of Jerusalem: for the LORD has comforted [been the Paraclete, and led into all truth] his people, he has redeemed Jerusalem [without money, but as it could only come: by giving up self-identity and manifesting Him in our flesh].
10 The LORD has made bare his holy arm [His work in my flesh] in the eyes of all the nations [before the eyes of all who haven’t know Him]; and all the ends of the earth [ending the old and beginning the new] shall see the salvation [yshuw’ah – Jesus, His Salvation manifested in the flesh ONE BODY] of our God.
11 Depart you, depart you [from the old and fully corrupt], go you out from thence, touch no unclean thing; go you out of the midst of her; be you clean [uncorrupted], that bear the vessels [who are filed with these living waters] of the LORD.
12 For you shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for the LORD will go before you [paniym – manifesting His presence before the eyes of all the world]; and the God of Israel will be your reward.
13 Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high.
14 As many were astonished at you; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:
15 So shall he sprinkle many nations [those who don’t know Him, making them partakers in His sacrifice]; 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.

Matthew 7
1 Judge not [with the corrupt judgment you’ve been taught], that you be not judged [with the same corrupt judgment that now rules].
2 For with what judgment you judge, you shall be judged: and with what measure you mete, it shall be measured to you again.
3 And why behold you the mote that is in your brother’s eye, but consider not the beam that is in your own eye?
4 Or how will you say to your brother, Let me pull out the mote [karphos – only used in this parable, said to mean chaff or straw – its spiritual meaning is in the words kar {heart} and phos {shining or manifesting light}, thereby saying it is a corrupt foundational understanding] out of your eye; and, behold, a beam [dokos – with affinity to the word doko, what you think or suppose is true; said to be from dechomai, meaning “to receive;” as in being taught, accepted, as in {the beam} holding up what is built upon it; also implying the balance beam of the scale of justice: judgment] in your own eye?
5 You hypocrite, first cast out the beam [dokos] out of your own eye; and then shall you see clearly to cast out the mote [karphos] out of your brother’s eye.
6 Give not that which is holy [pure] unto the dogs [those who ignorantly bark at sounds in the darkness, at what they don’t understand, but judge anyway, and never stop their mouths barking], neither cast you your pearls [these treasures found, which are the entryways into the kingdom of God] before swine [men as unclean animals without the LORD’s spirit, speaking what shouldn’t be consumed because it defiles the mind], lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you [with endless arguments of ignorance, only wanting to mire the waters in which they endlessly wallow].
7 Ask [the LORD], and it shall be given you; [diligently] seek [Him], and you shall find; knock [at the gate of His kingdom], and it shall be opened unto you:
8 For every one that [with pure intentions] asks receives; and he that seeks [with a pure heart] finds; and to him that knocks [asking Him to give understanding] it shall be opened. [see Matthew 5 below]
9 Or what man is there of you, whom if his son asks bread [full understand from heaven, broken, rightly divided, and meted out in right measure], will he give him a stone [that cannot be broken, nor can it nourish mind or body]?
10 Or if he ask a fish [the life hidden below the surface of the water: in the word of God], will he give him a serpent [to deceive and mislead him]?
11 If you then, being evil [with corrupt judgment misleading], know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven [dwelling in full understanding] give good things to them that ask him?
12 Therefore all things whatsoever you would that men should do to you, do you even so to them [knowing that all men are created equal, endowed by their creator God with inalienable rights, among them the right to life, liberty, and property, and to defend and secure these rights, governments, in church and state, are instituted, constituted by the consent of the governed]: for this is the law and the prophets.
13 Enter you in at the strait gate [navigating to avoid the misleaders who stand in the way]: for [with none standing against the evil way] wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
15 Beware of false prophets [who stand to block the way into life], which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves [seeking to devour and swallow men into the belly of hell where they rule].
16 You shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns [the fruit of misleaders], or figs of thistles [of deceivers]?
17 Even so every good tree brings forth good fruit [which the LORD seeks to gather]; but a corrupt tree brings forth evil fruit [which can’t be gathered into the LORD’s kingdom, because they are blinded to His leading].
18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
19 Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire [of the hell they’ve created].
20 Wherefore by their fruits you shall know them.
21 Not every one that says unto me, LORD, LORD, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that does the will of my Father which is in heaven.
22 Many will say to me in that day, LORD, LORD, have we not prophesied in your name? and in your name have cast out devils? and in your name done many wonderful works?
23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, you that work iniquity [going your own way, not doing the LORD’s will, you did these things].
24 Therefore whosoever hears these sayings of mine, and does them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock [Christ, from where these waters flow]:
25 And the rain descended [this word from heaven], and the floods came [of men’s words against Him speaking and working], and the winds blew [of false doctrines], and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock [the good leading that flows as the word of God from His mouth].
26 And every one that hears these sayings of mine, and does them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:
27 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.
28 And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended these sayings, the people were astonished at his doctrine:
29 For he taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes.

Matthew 5
1 And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set [on His throne], his disciples came unto him:
2 And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying,
3 Blessed are the poor in [without another] spirit: for theirs [without this resistance] is the kingdom of heaven.
4 Blessed are they that mourn [the fallen condition in which we’ve become captives]: for they shall be comforted [led into all truth by the LORD’s Spirit as He works and speaks unknown: unseen, unrealized, by the world].
5 Blessed are the meek [who wait for the LORD, not avenging themselves]: for they shall inherit the earth.
6 Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled [receive the LORD’s righteousness].
7 Blessed are the merciful [forgiving the repentant as the LORD forgives them]: for they shall obtain mercy.
8 Blessed are the pure in heart [the mind not corrupted, blinded, by false teaching]: for they shall see God.
9 Blessed are the peacemakers [teaching the way into New Heavenly Jerusalem]: for they shall be called the children of God [created in His image and likeness by His correction: the ways of peace and security that flow from His teaching, giving His word as received].
10 Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake [the necessary sacrifice for guarding and protecting right thinking that opposes the confusion and insanity that corrupts the world]: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
11 Blessed are you, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake [The Way, Truth, and the Light, understanding, that is life].
12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets [those speaking the word the LORD put in their mouths] which were before you [manifesting His presence].
13 You are the salt of the earth [that put this taste, transfer this understanding, into everything in the mouths of men]: but if the salt has lost his savor [taste], wherewith [by whom] shall it be salted [transferred if not by you]? it is [works not transferring this taste are] then sent forward good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men [of the swine wallowing in the mire, confusion, their words stir].
14 You are the light [phos – the understanding and life] of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid [dumamai kruptos – there is no power that can cover what the LORD has uncovered].
15 Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it gives light [understanding] unto all that are in the house [become His children by the correction that comes in this way].
16 Let your light [the understanding the LORD has given us] so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven [giving us this understanding as He reveals His presence with us, His glory in us].
17 Think not that I Am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I Am not come to destroy, but to fulfill.
18 For truly I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
19 Whosoever, therefore, shall break [luo – loose these bands: refuses to obey] one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so [to not obey], he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do [obey] and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
20 For I say unto you, That except your righteousness [your correct teaching] shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees [the religious misleaders, who’ve, by abandoning good judgment, scattered the ONE BODY], you shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.

Psalms 2
1 Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain [worthless] thing?
2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,
3 Let us break their bands [of obedience] asunder, and cast away their cords [The LORD’s commandments] from us.
4 He that sits [enthroned] in the heavens shall laugh: the LORD shall have them in derision [as they are this day, trapped in their own evil].
5 Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath [as He does here and now], and vex them in his sore displeasure [in their misleading].
6 Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.
7 I will declare the decree: the LORD has said unto me [me Timothy D’Annunzio], You are my Son; this day have I begotten you.
8 Ask of me, and I shall give you the heathen [the world ignorant of My presence] for your inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for your possession.
9 You shall break them with a rod of iron [the law of nature and nature’s God, under which government men are entitled to live]; you shall dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel [destroying the old fully corrupt institutions men have defiled and starting it over again New, removing all the corruption].
10 Be wise now, therefore, O you kings: be instructed, you judges of the earth.
11 Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
12 Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.

Friends, I understand the difficulty of believing something of this magnitude is occurring. I tell you the truth, it is – and there is no power that will stop Him. When faith that it’s happening comes, and the faithful witness to its coming, the nation and world will suddenly, in an instant, be changed.

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.
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,
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?

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 {the Father testifying of them in His testimony, the shmuw’ah, that they believed Him, and did His will on earth} through faith, 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 [the burdens of men’s words], and the sin [missing the mark {of righteousness through faith}] 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 [the crowning that comes when God is seen in him] 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 [agapao – shows charity] he chastens [corrects through the testimony He gives, through those He first gave His treasures], 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.

Above, we’re told of the scourge that comes upon all and of those who reject correction (chastising), who will not enter the kingdom. The writer (the LORD) likens this refusal to Esau (a pattern of enemies mixed among us as illegitimate children) selling his birthright; the cause, also spoken of, is not seeking peace with all men, without which no man will see God (enter His kingdom).

Hebrews 12
20 (For they could not endure that which was commanded [to do God’s will, obey His commands, and seek peace with all men], And if so much as a beast [refusing His Spirit] touch the mountain [those without His correction, who attempt to come into His presence], it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart:
21 And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:)
22 But you are come unto mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaks better things than that of Abel.
25 See that you refuse not him that speaks. For if they escaped not who refused him that spoke on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaks from heaven [the kingdom of God, full understanding in His presence]:
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 [the leaven, which, by the unfaithful, has been fully worked into the lump, corrupting it all], that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.
28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
29 For our God is a consuming fire.

Isaiah 29
3 And I will camp against you round about, and will lay siege against you with a mount [to leap over your wall of lies], and I will raise forts [My strongholds: truth revealed] against you.
4 And you shall be brought down, and shall speak out of the ground, and your speech shall be low out of the dust [the ruin of the earth], and your voice shall be, as of one that has a familiar spirit [word of the dead, known to bring death], [heard from their graves in hell] out of the ground, and your speech shall whisper out of the dust.
5 Moreover the multitude of your strangers [who are far from Me] shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passes away [when I come as a whirlwind from where I speak]: yea, it shall be at an instant [petha’] suddenly [pith’own].
6 You shall be visited [paqad – by the Chief Overseer] of the LORD of hosts [a man of war] with thunder [the voice of the light, understanding from the cloud], and with earthquake [shaken by these words from the mouth of God], and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire.
7 And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel [My strength, understanding, that the wicked have taken and hold captive in their deceptions], even all that fight against her and her munition, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision [the creations in the minds of those in a deep sleep].
8 It shall even be as when a hungry man dreams, and, behold, he eats; but he awakes, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreams, and, behold, he drinks; but he awakes, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul has appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations [who don’t know Me] be, that fight against mount Zion.
9 Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry you out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.
10 For the LORD has poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers has he covered.
11 And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray you: and he says, I cannot; for it is sealed:
12 And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray you: and he says, I am not learned.
13 Wherefore the LORD said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honor me, but have removed their heart [the foundations of their minds] far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the [false] precepts of men:
14 Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvelous [awakening and eye opening] work among this people, even a marvelous work and a wonder [that they will not understand until they suddenly, at an instant, do realize it is My presence]: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.
15 Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who sees us? and who knows us?

Isaiah 30
8 Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come forever and ever:
9 That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD:
10 Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:
11 Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.
12 Wherefore thus says the Holy One of Israel, Because you despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:
13 Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly [pith’own] at an instant [petha’].
14 And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters’ vessel [the old earth] that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit.
15 For thus says the LORD God, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall you be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and you would not.

2 Samuel 22
26 With the merciful you will show yourself merciful, and with the upright man you will show yourself upright.
27 With the pure you will show yourself pure; and with the froward [who twist and pervert truth] you will show yourself unsavory.
28 And the afflicted people you will save: but your eyes are upon the haughty [the arrogant], that you may bring them down.
29 For you are my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten my darkness [give understanding to things not known].
30 For by you I have run through a troop: by my God have I leaped over a wall [of men’s lies built upon lies].
31 As for God, his way is perfect; the word of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler to all them that trust in him.
32 For who is God, save the LORD [Jehovah]? and who is a rock [Christ from where His word flows], save our God?
33 God is my strength [my understanding] and power [in me]: and he makes my way perfect.
34 He makes my feet like hinds’ feet [firm standing]: and sets me upon my high places.
35 He teaches my hands to war; so that a bow of steel is broken by my arms.
36 You have also given me the shield of your salvation: and your gentleness has made me great.
37 You have enlarged my steps under me; so that my feet did not slip.
38 I have pursued my enemies, and destroyed them; and turned not again until I had consumed them.
39 And I have consumed them, and wounded them, that they could not arise: yea, they are fallen under my feet [and become my footstool].
40 For you have girded me with strength to battle: them that rose up against me have you subdued under me.
41 You have also given me the necks of my enemies, that I might destroy them that hate me [without a cause].
42 They looked, but there was none to save; even unto the LORD [Jehovah], but he answered them not.
43 Then did I beat them as small as the dust of the earth, I did stamp them as the mire of the street, and did spread them abroad.
44 You also have delivered me from the strivings of my people, you have kept me to be head of the heathen [those who don’t know you]: a people which I knew not [Your presence in me] shall serve me.
45 Strangers shall submit themselves unto me: as soon as they hear, they shall be obedient unto me.
46 Strangers [whose ways and ideas are far from the LORD] shall fade away, and they shall be afraid out of their close places [where they conspire in secret].
47 The LORD lives [in me]; and blessed be my rock [Christ in me]; and exalted be the God of the rock of my salvation.
48 It is God that avenges me, and that bringeth down the people under me.
49 And that bringeth me forth from my enemies: you also have lifted me up on high above them that rose up against me: you have delivered me from the violent man.
50 Therefore I will give thanks unto you, O LORD, among the heathen, and I will sing praises unto your name.
51 He is the tower of salvation [yshuw’ah – Jesus] for his king: and shows mercy to his anointed, unto David, and to his seed for evermore.

Psalms 64 
A Psalm of David
1 Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from fear of the enemy.
2 Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity:
3 Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:
4 That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly [pith’own] do they shoot at him, and fear not.
5 They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily [to enslave all God’s people]; they say, Who shall see [ra’ah] them?
6 They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward thought of every one of them, and the heart, is deep.
7 But God shall shoot at them with an arrow; suddenly [pith’own] shall they be wounded [when those who were slaves realize the LORD brought them here to do them good, to free them, now freeing their minds, save them, the nation, and the world from the wicked powers who mistreated us and our ancestors, who’ve now in the name of “the general welfare” deceived them as their way to keep power, to impoverish and enslave God’s people, to destroy our culture, this nation, and the world.]
8 So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see [ra’ah – understand] them shall flee away.
9 And all men shall fear, and shall declare the work of God; for they shall wisely consider of his doing.
10 The righteous shall be glad in the LORD, and shall trust in him; and all the upright in heart shall glory.
To the Chief Musician

The word “deep,” above in verse 6, speaking of the secret conspiracies of the wicked in power, is the seventeen times used Hebrew word ‘amoq, a mystery, meaning it can and will only be revealed by the LORD.

Job 11
5 But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against you;
6 And that he would show you the secrets of wisdom, that they are double to that which is! Know therefore that God exacts of you less than your iniquity deserves.
7 Can you by searching find out God? can you find out the Almighty unto perfection?
8 It [the secrets of wisdom and perfection] is as high as heaven [held in the clouds until now]; what can you do? deeper [‘amoq] than hell; what can you know?
9 The measure thereof [the secrets of wisdom and perfection] is longer than the earth [only revealed after wickedness has ended the earth], and broader than the sea [beyond human understanding].
10 If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together [taking understanding into heaven], then who can hinder him?
11 For he knows [the worthless ways of] vain men: he sees [ra’ah – understands] wickedness also; will he not then consider [biyn – give understanding of] it [the ways of wickedness]?
12 For vain men would be wise [think they have wisdom], though man be born like a wild ass’s colt [freed into the wilderness].
13 If you prepare your heart, and stretch out your hands toward him;
14 If iniquity be in your hand [work], put it far away [rachaq – realize it is evil decreed], and let not wickedness dwell in your tabernacles.
15 For then shall you lift up your face [rise with the LORD’s presence realized] without spot [without the stain of corruption]; yea, you shall be steadfast, and shall not fear:
16 Because you shall forget your misery [the tribulation of the time], and remember it as waters that pass away [‘abar – word of death you have Passedover]:
17 And your age [cheled – world age] shall be clearer than [quwm – shall rise as] the noonday [when full understanding has come]: you shall shine forth [giving the understanding you’ve received], you shall be as the morning [of the new day, this new world age].
18 And you shall be secure [having learned from the LORD his ways of peace], because there is hope [what was hoped for is received]; yea, you shall dig about you, and you shall take your rest in safety.
19 Also you shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid; yea, many shall make suit unto you [attempting, with flatteries, to seduce you again into captivity].
20 But the eyes [the false prophecies and false accusations] of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope [the wicked end they hoped for] shall be as the giving up of the ghost.

Job 12
15 Behold [see], he [the LORD] withholds the waters [reserving His word: wisdom and understanding, in heaven], and they dry up [on the earth]: also he sends them out, and they overturn the earth [as they now have].
16 With him is strength [understanding] and wisdom: the deceived and the deceiver [without His word] are his [to be revealed in this time].
17 He leads counselors away spoiled, and makes the judges [of the earth] fools.
18 He looses the bond of kings, and girds their loins with a girdle [preparing them for destruction by their wicked counselors and judges, as He pleases].
19 He leadeth princes away spoiled, and overthrows the mighty.
20 He removes away the speech of the trusty [the voices the deceived people trust and follow], and taketh away the understanding of the aged.
21 He pours contempt upon princes, and weakens the strength of the mighty.
22 He discovers deep [‘amoq – the secrets of the wicked, the way of hell] things out of darkness [of which all men are ignorant], and bringeth out to light [into understanding] the shadow of death [cast by the ignorance of these men’s words and ways].
23 He increases the nations, and destroys them: he enlarges the nations, and straitens them again.
24 He takes away the heart [the foundational mind] of the chief of the people of the earth [making Brandon feeble], and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.
25 They grope in the dark [their own ignorance] without light [understanding], and he makes them to stagger like a drunken man [watch your step, Brandon, you know you’re prone to tripping over your own feet and ways].

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

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 was steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward;
3 How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the LORD, and was confirmed [repeated and established] unto us by them that heard him [believing it is His voice];
4 God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will?
5 For unto the angels has he not put in subjection the [new] 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 [coming as You now have, as the Chief Overseer of the earth]?

Psalms 33
1 Rejoice in the LORD, O you righteous: for praise is comely for the upright.
2 Praise the LORD with harp: sing unto him with the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings.
3 Sing unto him a new song; play skillfully with a loud noise.
4 For the word of the LORD is right, and all his works are done in truth.
5 He loves righteousness and judgment: the earth is full of the goodness of the LORD.
6 By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.
7 He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap: he lays up the depth [these hidden treasures] in storehouses.
8 Let all the earth fear the LORD: let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him.
9 For he spoke, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast.
10 The LORD bringeth the counsel of the heathen to naught: he makes the devices [the conspiracies of the wicked] of the people of none effect.
11 The counsel of the LORD stands forever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.
12 Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance.
13 The LORD looks from heaven; he beholds all the sons of men.
14 From the place of his habitation he looks upon all the inhabitants of the earth.
15 He fashions their hearts alike; he considers all their works.
16 There is no king saved by the multitude of a host: a mighty man is not delivered by much strength.
17 A horse is a vain thing for safety: neither shall he deliver any by his great strength.
18 Behold, the eye of the LORD is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy;
19 To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine.
20 Our soul waits for the LORD: he is our help and our shield.
21 For our heart shall rejoice in him, because we have trusted in his holy name.
22 Let your mercy, O LORD, be upon us, according as we hope in you.

This is a nation that obeyed not the voice of the LORD their God, nor received correction: truth is perished and is cut off from their mouth.

24 – 25 June 2023

This is a nation that obeyed not the voice of the LORD their God, nor received correction: truth is perished and is cut off from their mouth.

The LORD begins today with the above statement of fact from Jeremiah 7:28, speaking of this moment in time. He tells of truth perished, and, therefore, none knowing His voice speaking it, nor can any be corrected because of those they’ve followed into desolation, who put themselves and their abomination in the Father’s place (replacing the holy with the corrupt and calling it by His name).

Jeremiah 7 
29 Cut off your hair and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places [that have puffed themselves up with pride and now put themselves in God’s place – the sons of perdition “Who {as did Rueben to His father} oppose and exalt themselves above all that is called {legomeno – put forth by the present} God, or that is worshipped; so that they as God sit in the churches of God, showing themselves that they are God.”]; for the LORD has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.
30 For the children of Judah [the current crop of corrupt leaders, all in rebellion, all refusing to hear and obey the LORD’s commands: fallen angels, apostate messengers, who’ve left their first estate and now preach and teach their own words and ways, whose end is perdition] have done evil in my sight, says the LORD: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to pollute it.
31 And they have built the high places of Tophet [that worship the fires their abandoning truth have caused in the earth], which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom [who in the fires of hell ignorantly lament their cause], [and continue] 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 [the place of fires], nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter: for they shall bury in Tophet [in hell], till there be no place.
33 And the carcasses of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall fray them away [as it is this day: there is no man to stand for the truth, all still speaking their own words and prescribing the own cures: the causes that led all the world into death and hell – tens of thousands of voices of barbarians all leading in their own circles of confusion and dismay].
34 Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah [these places where these barbarians lead those they’ve corrupted into following them], 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.

The above condemnation of all those leading without following this One voice of the LORD, not exalting my Father’s words above all others, is as He has commanded.

Isaiah 54
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 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. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, says the LORD.

Jeremiah, the LORD in him speaking, after the above, describes this day, speaking of all the leaders in church and state, the whole lump leaven with the corruption of the unfaithful (puffed up with arrogance: pride in their success against the LORD: keeping people away from the One He’s sent, of whom they remain ignorant and therefore are unaccepted by their ongoing rejection).

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 [qeber – the tombs where their dead bodies are kept]:
2 And they shall spread them before the sun [the church they’ve corrupted], and the moon [civil government also totally darkened and draining the life of those they tyrannically rule], and all the host of heaven [all God’s people at large], [their Father’s wife] 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 shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they 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 [way to these misleaders], and not arise? shall he turn away [from their LORD], and not return?
5 Why then is this people of Jerusalem slid back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return [to this truth by My correction].
6 I hearkened and heard, but they spoke not aright: no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? everyone turned to his course, as the horse rushes into the battle [under the men taking them there].
7 Yea, the stork in the heaven knows her appointed times [mow’ed]; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe [shamar – obey] 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 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 [those who followed them] unto others, and their fields to them [that do obey the LORD’s commands] that shall inherit them: for every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness [they judge their success by their worldly wealth, knowing not that they are without heavenly treasure], from the prophet even unto the priest every one [is puffed up, swelled with pride, and] deals falsely.
11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace [they sit still while they enemies are among them warring against their bodies and minds: life, liberty, and property].
12 Were they ashamed when they [these misleaders] had committed abomination? 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 has come as the Chief Overseer of the earth] they shall be cast down, says the LORD.
13 I will surely consume them [with this word 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 [as it is occurring before their eyes, they see it and know it, but those they follow lead them into sitting still].
14 Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defensed cities [the places that hear and obey the voice of the LORD, who have joined His ONE BODY, and subordinate their will to His good leadership], and let us be silent there: 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 horses [under misleaders running into the battle against us] was heard from Dan [which is the judgment of God, as He warned and all have forgotten]: the whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones [the communists joined with the wicked in power]; for they are 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 [whose venom is in their mouths speaking nothing except lies, yet their army follows them, and their known lies, because of the enmity], which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, says the LORD.
18 When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me.
19 Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a far country [merchaq – this appointed time the LORD decreed]: Is not the LORD in Zion? is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with strange vanities [worthless ways far from God]?
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 people chose death and remain blind to the LORD’s presence, while claiming they are wise and see everything]; astonishment has taken hold on me [the dead body of Christ].
22 Is there no balm in Gilead [in this testimony]; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?

Friends, none of the prominent voices in the world are opening their mouths to declare the LORD present with us, in us. By this, they disqualify themselves from the prominence they covet: the notoriety they value and for which they sell their souls.

Romans 1
16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel [euaggelizo] of Christ [the LORD alive in our flesh]: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believes [He is alive in us]; to the Jew [believers who call themselves by His name] first, and also to the Greek [unbelievers who don’t know Him].
17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from [our] faith to faith [in those who come to believe He is present in us]: as it is written, The just shall live by faith [believing this word preached, this God spell, is the LORD in us saving the world].
18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness [not manifesting the LORD speaking His word] and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;
19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them [making Himself known to them, and they reject His truth, choosing instead to remain with their evil deeds]; for God has shown it unto them.
20 For the invisible things [this now revealed understanding, the deep meaning, created into this word] of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made [that were present but only now appear], even his eternal power and Godhead [theiotes; only used here – the nature of God as manifested in man]; so that they are without excuse:
21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain [worthless] in their imaginations [things they create in their minds without God], and their foolish heart was darkened.
22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
23 And changed the glory of the incorruptible 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 the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creation more than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

As we know, the truth perishing echoes back to the offense of the son of perdition, Rueben, whom we know (Genesis 35:22) defiled his father Jacob’s bed (in the pattern of the wicked who put themselves in place of God defiling what should remain pure) and for it, his birthright was taken and given to Joseph (1 Chronicles 5:1). 

Paul, in 1 Corinthians 5, speaks of this same offense occurring in Corinth, after he has just elaborated on the worthlessness of the world’s wisdom, of the misguided glorifying the names of those baptizing them, and then of stewardship that must be faithful to God.

He says, in 1 Corinthians 1:17, “For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel {euaggelizo}: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect.”

Paul is speaking of his assignment, the necessary sacrifice of self, to speak as the Father, in His name, giving Him all the glory due Him. 

1 Corinthians 1
19 For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.
20 Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world [showing it openly to be based on forced delusions meant to mask the criminal conspiracies of the wicked in power from those they’ve led into insanity – We see you Brandon, and We see your daddy Barak]?
21 For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe [it is Him].
22 For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:
23 But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling-block [skandalon – because He doesn’t use force as do the worldly powers], and unto the Greeks foolishness [because He rejects their insanity, their rejection of reality, which they call wisdom];
24 But unto them which are called [out of darkness into His understanding and truth], both Jews and Greeks, Christ [is] the power of God, and the wisdom of God.
25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
26 For you see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble [who are puffed up with pride and have trespassed into places only God the Father goes], are called:
27 But God has chosen the foolish things [I Am] of the world to confound the wise; and God has chosen the weak things [I Am] 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 [misleading the world into death and hell]:
29 That no flesh should glory in his presence.
30 But of him are you in Christ Jesus [Jehovah’s Salvation manifested in the one the Father anoints with His presence], who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:
31 That, according as it is written [in Jeremiah 9:24], He that glories, let him glory in the LORD.

Jeremiah 9
12 Who is the wise man, that may understand [biyn] this? and who is he to whom the mouth of the LORD has spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perished and is burned up like a wilderness, that none passes through [‘abar – none Passover from there into life]?
13 And the LORD says, Because they have forsaken my law which I [here] set before them [paniym – by manifesting My presence to them], and have not obeyed [shama’] my voice, neither walked therein;
14 But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim [idols they created and put in My place], which their fathers taught them:
15 Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood [their own venomous words], and give them water of gall [their own bitter understanding] to drink.
16 I will scatter them also among the heathen [as they are, among those who have no idea who I Am], whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword [this word from My mouth] after them, till I have consumed them.
17 Thus says the LORD of hosts, Consider [biyn – understand] you, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning women, that they may come:
18 And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.
19 For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land [‘erets], because our dwellings [all the inhabited earth] have cast us [God’s faithful people] out.
20 Yet hear the word of the LORD, O you women, and let your ear receive [‘ozen – pay close attention to] the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbor lamentation.
21 For death is come up into our windows [and we see it has come upon all humanity, except the very elect remnant], and is entered into our palaces [as we now see the dead in power here in hell], to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets.
22 Speak, Thus says the LORD, Even the carcasses of men [the dead in animated flesh, as beasts without the Spirit of the LORD in them giving them life] shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful [only the elect remnant remain here alive] after the harvestman, and none shall gather them [the dead].
23 Thus says the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches:
24 But let him that glories glory in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the LORD which exercises lovingkindness [offering forgiveness and life to those who hear and obey this word], judgment [My correction at this mercy seat as I manifest My presence in this conversation], and righteousness [My word is the way, truth, and light in which is life], in the earth: for in these things I delight, says the LORD.

In 1 Corinthians 4:4, he (Paul) then (after speaking of those glorying in man) says, “For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judges me is the LORD.” 

1 Corinthians 4
1 Let a man so account of us [that we are, I Am, in Christ as the LORD is alive in me], as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God [that have become hidden in the deep sleep of man’s ignorance of God, having no knowledge of Him and His way].
2 Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.
3 But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged [by man’s wisdom] of you, or of man’s judgment: yea, I judge not my own self.
4 For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judges me is the LORD [who has made me the minister of this understanding He gives].
5 Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the LORD come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness [hidden in man’s ignorance], and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man [that receives the knowledge of Him] have praise of God.
6 And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred [metaschematizo – meaning to transfigure or associate, and disguise, from words meaning succession and figure {of Christ}] to myself and to Apollos [the sun, as a burning light – spiritually meaning the one sent away to complete the light, from apollumi: apo holos leukos] for your sakes; that you might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up [with pride, glorying in self and not in the knowledge we’ve all received from the LORD] for one against another.
7 For who makes you to differ from another? and what have you that you did not receive [from God, because if it’s a creation from the mind of man it’s worthless]? now if you did receive it, why do you glory [as if it came from you], as if you had not received it [from God the Father]?
8 Now you are full, now you are rich, you have reigned as kings without us: and I would to God you did reign, that we also might reign with you.
9 For I think that God has set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.
10 We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ; we are weak, but you are strong; you are honorable, but we are despised.
11 Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling-place;
12 And labor, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:
13 Being defamed, we entreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day.
14 I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you.
15 For though you have [the words of] ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have you not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus [as Jehovah’s Salvation manifested in the flesh] I have begotten you through the gospel [euaggelion].
16 Wherefore I beseech you, be you followers of me.
17 For this cause have I sent [Paul here, in the Spirit, is speaking as God the Father] unto you Timothy, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the LORD, who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways which be in Christ, as I teach every where in every church.
18 Now some are puffed up [against me, Timothy, with pride in their corrupt creations not received from God], as though I would not come to you.
19 But I will come to you shortly, if the LORD will, and will know, not the speech of them which are puffed up, but the power [of the living God, the LORD alive in me].
20 For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.
21 What will you? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love [agape – charity, giving these treasures as received from the LORD], and in the spirit of meekness?

These men, the many who are puffed up with their ideas and ways, who’ve thereby put themselves in the Father’s place, are the sons of perdition Paul then calls out in the next chapter.

1 Corinthians 5
1 It is reported commonly that there is fornication [interaction with the unfaithful who don’t believe this is the word from the mouth of God] among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles [zealous unbelievers don’t associate with believers like us], that one [of these unbelievers] should have his Father’s wife [putting himself in God’s place as the head of His people, opposing exalting himself and his words above God’s, so he as God sits in His church showing himself as if he is God].
2 And you are puffed up [with pride in his creations], and have not rather mourned, that he that has done this deed might be taken away from among you [because such men hold you down {katecho} and will hold you, keeping your from rising to join the LORD, until they are taken out of the way].
3 For I truly, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that has so done this deed, [2 Corinthians 11: 2 But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we {as men in whom a spirit works, Christ in us and Satan in them}. 13 For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming {metaschematizo – disguising} themselves into the apostles of Christ. 14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed {metaschematizo – disguised} into an angel of light {a messenger of darkening sentences – rules for radicals, the children of Lucifer: the false light}. 15 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed [metaschematizo – disguised] as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works {of deception uncovered}.]
4 In the name of our LORD Jesus Christ, when you are gathered together [led together: into this ONE BODY by the same mind], and my spirit, with the power of our LORD Jesus Christ,
5 To deliver such a one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the LORD Jesus.
6 Your glorying [in such men] is not good. Know you not that a little leaven [corruption] leavens [corrupts] the whole lump?
7 Purge out, therefore, the old leaven [corruption], that you may be a new lump [ONE BODY], as you are unleavened [uncorrupted]. For even Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us [to lead us out of corruption into life]: [1 Corinthians 15: 51 Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, 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?]
8 Therefore let us keep the feast [this Passover], not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
9 I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators [who interact with the unfaithful unbelievers who’ve put themselves in the LORD’s place]:
10 Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must you needs go out of the world [as the false teachers teach].
11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolator, or a railer [against those who believe this truth received], or a drunkard [whose mind are stupefied by consuming the words of unbelievers], or an extortioner [by fraud or force taking money]; with such a one refuse to eat.
12 For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not you judge them that are within?
13 But them that are without God judges. Therefore, put away from among yourselves that wicked person.

The word metaschematizo, which Paul uses to describe “transferring” (the image of Christ) to himself and the one (I Am) he sends (in the name of the Father), only appears one other time, definitively in Philippians 3:21.

Philippians 3
8 Yea doubtless, and I count all things [all the ideas that were not received from the LORD] but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my LORD: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,
9 And be found in him, not having my own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ [the LORD alive in our flesh], the righteousness which is of God by faith:
10 That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death [taking up His cross and following Him];
11 If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.
12 Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before [in His presence],
14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
15 Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing you be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.
16 Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.
17 Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as you have us for an example.
18 (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of [puffed up with pride against] 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 [with LORD at His mercy seat, manifesting His presence] is in heaven [with full understanding received from Him]; from whence [in the conversation at His mercy seat] also we look for the Savior, the LORD Jesus Christ:
21 Who shall change [metaschematizo] our vile [corrupted] body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious [uncorrupted] body, according to the working [of His word transferred to us] whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.

When Paul speaks of Apollos, the one he sent away to complete the light, who is (likeminded) with him changed (metaschematizo) into the image and likeness of Christ, it is the nature of God in the flesh he describes in Philippians 2. He is speaking of marking and following the example of those who walk in this way, who are likeminded, and thereby joined in the LORD’s ONE BODY, by His One mind.

Philippians 2
2 Fulfil you my joy [when Christ is evidently formed you], that you be likeminded, having the same love [agape – charity, giving this word as received], being of one accord, of one mind.
3 Let nothing be done through strife or vain-glory [worthless glory of man without the evident glory of the LORD’s Spirit]; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
4 Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others [see verse 21 below, saying of Timothy’s like mind, “For all {others} seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ’s.”].
5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal [in nature] with God:
7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
9 Wherefore God also has highly exalted him, and given him a name [at His appearing in me, Timothy, who comes in the name of the LORD Jesus the Christ, who anointed me with His presence and sent me on this mission] which is above every name:
10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;
11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is LORD, to the glory of God the Father.
12 Wherefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
13 For it is God which works in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
14 Do all things without murmurings and disputing:
15 That you may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom you shine as lights in the world;
16 Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.
17 Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.
18 For the same cause also do you joy, and rejoice with me.
19 But I trust in the LORD Jesus to send Timothy shortly unto you, that I also may be of good comfort, when I know your state.
20 For I have no man likeminded, who will naturally [by the nature of God in him] care for your state.
21 For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ’s.
22 But you know the proof of him [which you have experience and which has thereby become self-evident truth], that, as a son with the father, he has served with me in the gospel [euaggelion].
23 Him therefore I hope to send presently…

All the following is from the post of 14 January 2021:

Bearing the reproach of Christ, outside the camp, is where Hebrews 13 calls us to go, by faith, to meet the LORD, where Timothy is set at liberty.

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.

Hebrews 13
1 Let brotherly love [philadelphia] continue [meno].
2 Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels [the messengers of God] unawares.
3 Remember them that are in bonds [joined with the LORD], as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.
4 Marriage [joining with the LORD as one living flesh body] is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled [is not as Jacob’s bed, which Reuben defile, as the son of perdition]: but whoremongers [those who buy and sell the flesh of men – make merchandise of those who join with them] and adulterers [those who have left God to follow {join with} others] God will judge.
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 divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.
10 We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle.
11 For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp.
12 Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.
13 Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.
14 For here have we no continuing [meno] city, but we seek one to come.
15 By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.
16 But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
17 Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.
18 Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live honestly.
19 But I beseech you the rather to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner.
20 Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our LORD Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,
21 Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well-pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.
22 And I beseech you, brethren, suffer the word of exhortation: for I have written a letter unto you in few words.
23 Know you that our brother Timothy is set at liberty; with whom, if he come shortly, I will see you.
24 Salute all them that have the rule over you, and all the saints. They of Italy salute you.
25 Grace be with you all. Amen.

The word “liberty,” above in verse 23, is said to be apolou, a compound word literally translating, away (apo) loose (luo). But, in the original text, it is written as apolelumenon, which appears to be from the words apo (in the sense of completion), laleo (to utter – speak or preach), meno (to stay – the enduring things of God). These three words and their appearing in John 14 give us their enduring meaning.

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

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

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.

20 – 22 June 2023

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.

The above (verse 36) ends chapter 3 of John’s Gospel, as John is bearing witness to the Son he saw: Jesus (Jehovah’s Salvation manifested in the flesh of the first begotten of the Father). 

John’s version (Gospel – God’s “good spell”) of the LORD in Him coming to life, after the baptism of repentance (that comes by water, this word of God heard), speaks of His mind washed from blinding corruption. It is the Son, the one who uniquely comes to life by the direct work of the Father (revealing Himself alive in Him first), who then baptizes disciples (teaches students) as the Father baptized (taught) Him, revealing Himself (the Father) alive in those first baptized by water, and thereby (after His long-suffering) seeing the Father in the son(s), find themselves in the presence of the LORD Jesus, the Christ (the Father manifested in human flesh) at His coming.

The Greek words rendered “gospel,” (only used by John in Revelation) are (from the Strong’s Greek Dictionary): Strong’s #2097: euaggelizo: from 2095 [eu – good or well] and 32 [angelos – angel or messenger]; to announce good news (“evangelize”) especially the gospel:–declare, bring (declare, show) glad (good) tidings, preach (the gospel). And, Strong’s #2098: euaggelion: from the same as 2097; a good message, i.e. the gospel:–gospel.

In Hebrew, the equivalent words, often rendered “good tidings” and “report,” give us a clearer understanding. They respectively are (from the Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary): Strong’s #1319: basar: a primitive root; properly, to be fresh, i.e. full (rosy, (figuratively) cheerful); to announce (glad news):–messenger, preach, publish, show forth, (bear, bring, carry, preach, good, tell good) tidings. And, Strong’s #8052: shmuw’ah, feminine passive participle [dubiously] of 8074; something heard, i.e. an announcement:–bruit, doctrine, fame, mentioned, news, report, rumor, tidings.

As we understand, shmuw’ah (in like context with shmuw’el meaning to hear God, and rendered Samuel) means to hear Jehovah’s voice in the words spoken. 

Isaiah 53
1 Who has believed our report [shmuw’ah – heard and obeyed the voice preaching these good tidings as the voice of Jehovah, as it is]? and to whom [thereby] is the arm [the work in the flesh] of the LORD revealed?
2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry [tsiyah – this way marker] ground [‘erets – in the earth]: he has no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.

As we also know, because the LORD has here shown us, this aspect of hearing the word preached, the tidings of His good, and believing it is Him speaking, as He is, is the manifestation of His presence to us, and then in us as we, in like manner after He has reproduced us in His image and likeness, preach the same “good spell.”

1 Thessalonians 2 
1 For yourselves, brethren, know our entrance in unto you, that it was not in vain:
2 But even after that we had suffered before, and were shamefully entreated, as you know, at Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak unto you the gospel [euaggelion] of God with much contention [with the wicked, mentioned below as doing the work of Satan, as they are latter in 2 Thessalonians 2 & 3, with all signs and lying wonders, who receive not this love of the truth, that they might be saved, and hinder this word of God, not allowing it to be heard as His word, as it is].
3 For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile:
4 But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel [euaggelion], even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, which tries our hearts.
5 For neither at any time used we flattering words, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness; God is witness:
6 Nor of men sought we glory, neither of you, nor yet of others, when we might have been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ.
7 But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherishes her children:
8 So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you, not the gospel [euaggelion] of God only, but also our own souls, because you were dear unto us.
9 For you remember, brethren, our labor and travail: for laboring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel [euaggelion] of God.
10 You are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe [the Gospel is the word of God, as it is]:
11 As you know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father [who is alive in Christ] does [to bring] his children [to life with him],
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 [is the power in you changing your mind, the “good spell” that] effectually works also in you that believe [it is Him speaking and working to bring you thereby to life].
14 For you, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judaea are [becoming new Judah, the elect remnant – who were the first to come to life] in Christ Jesus: for you also have suffered like things of your own countrymen [wicked men in church and state, hindering the word of God and not giving it free course], even as they have of the Jews [the old and wholly corrupt Judah]:
15 Who [church {religious} and state government together] both killed the LORD Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us [falsely accusing our work trying to silence us and maintain their control over the minds of men]; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:
16 Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles [all who don’t truly know the LORD] that they might be saved, to fill up their sins [against God] always: for the wrath [this word of God against those who reject the love of His truth] 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, once and again; but Satan [resisting the LORD’s word that manifests His presence] hindered us.
19 For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing [that you receive His word as it is, His presence with you, and now in you]? Are not even you in the presence of our LORD Jesus Christ at his coming?
20 For you are our glory [acknowledging it is the LORD’s in us and not our own] and joy [when you are in this way born again into His family of the living].

2 Timothy 1
6 Wherefore I put you in remembrance that you stir up the gift of God, which is in you by the putting on of my hands [the LORD working His salvation through me to you].
7 For God has not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
8 Be not you therefore ashamed of the testimony of our LORD [alive in us], nor of me his prisoner: but be you partaker of the afflictions of [preaching] the gospel [euaggelion] according to the power of God [that will effectually work in those who hear Him];
9 Who has saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,
10 But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Savior Jesus Christ [by faith: believing it is Him present], who has abolished death, and has brought life and immortality to light through the gospel [euagelion]:
11 Whereunto I am appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles [who don’t know Him, and are blinded to His presence by ignorance: their darkened minds].
12 For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day [this day of the resurrection at the revelation of the LORD Jesus Christ].
13 Hold fast the form of sound words, which you have heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
14 That good thing which was committed unto you keep by the Holy Ghost which dwells in us [the LORD in you unknown to those who don’t know Him, working, long-suffering until they realize they are in the presence of the LORD Jesus Christ, Jehovah manifested in the flesh working our salvation, at His coming].

In this context, understand what John is saying in chapter 3, when he, in verse 30, speaking of when preaching repentance has effectually worked, clearing the blinded mind, and the LORD is realized to be the One present working in His word, says “He [the LORD now known] must increase, but I [the Son who is the dove, the sign of the end] must decrease.”

Galatians 1
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 from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel [euaggelizo]:
7 Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel [euaggelizo] of Christ.
8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel [euagelizo] unto you than that which we have preached [euaggelizo] unto you, let him be accursed.
9 As we said before, so say I now again, if any man preach any other gospel [euaggelizo] unto you than that you have received, let him be accursed.
10 For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
11 But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel [euaggelion] which was preached [euaggelizo] 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 [Jehovah alive in me manifesting His presence for the salvation of the world].

Galatians 4
20 Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one.
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 [that only comes by Him, the Word of God, alive in you], 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 [One God alive in our flesh] might be given to them that believe.
23 But before faith [believing He is present] came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterward be revealed.
24 Wherefore the law [the written word from the mouth of God, when read] 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 [that Jehovah {the Father} is alive in us {His children}, saving us and as many as receive Him at His coming].
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.

As we understand, the “promise” was to Abraham, after he heard the LORD and obeyed, by faith believing the LORD’s earlier promise (Genesis 15, and thereby knowing Isaac couldn’t, wouldn’t die in the sacrifice the LORD led him into). This is a pattern of the new and living way spoken of in Hebrews 10:20, the sacrifice He leads us into as the ONE BODY He has prepared for Himself (to reveal His presence), and when we have the faith to trust and believe Him, seeing as He sees, we reach the promised blessing.

The early promise:
Genesis 15
12 And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness [now when all God people are ignorant of His presence] fell upon him.
13 And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that your seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;
14 And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.

Abraham’s statement of faith after leading Isaac to the sacrifice:
Genesis 22
8 And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.

And the LORD providing:
Genesis 22
13 And Abraham lifted up his eyes [to see as the LORD sees], and looked [ra’ah – and saw], and behold behind [‘achar – in these last days, at the end of the deep sleep] him a ram [‘ayil – strength; the mighty in our time] caught in a thicket by his horns [by their own power to deceive]: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son.
14 And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovahjireh [Jehovah sees]: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the LORD it shall be seen.
15 And the angel of the LORD called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time,
16 And said, By myself have I sworn, says the LORD, for because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son:
17 That in blessing I will bless you, and in multiplying I will multiply your seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and your seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;
18 And in your seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because you have obeyed my voice.

The “thicket” in which the mighty are caught is the four times used Hebrew word cbak, by which, the LORD refers us to two of its appearances in Isaiah.

Isaiah 9
14 Therefore, the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day.
15 The ancient and honorable, he is the head; and the prophet that teaches lies, he is the tail.
16 For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed.
17 Therefore the LORD shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every one is a hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
18 For wickedness burns as the fire: it shall devour the briers [deceivers] and thorns [misleaders], and shall kindle in the thickets [cbak] of the forest [all those who say they are upright, while doing evil, warring, against God and His people], and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke [and shall be carried away by the winds of their own evil lies and deceptions].
19 Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts is the land [‘erets – earth] darkened [all are ignorant of the LORD among us working and speaking], and [therefore] the people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no man shall spare his brother.

Isaiah 10
1 Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed [forcing more of the cause claiming its a cure – more evil can only bring more evil; it’s an unbreakable law of nature and nature’s God, now self-evident];
2 To turn aside the needy from [God’s good] judgment, and to take away the right [justice] from the poor [the powerless] of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless [none having a man to protect and defend them from the attacks of the wicked in power]!
3 And what will you do in the day of visitation [pquddah – now when the LORD has come as the Chief Overseer of the earth, to avenge the powerless and cut down the wicked], and in the desolation which shall come from far [merchaq – this appointed time the LORD decreed]? to whom will you flee for help? and where will you leave your glory?
4 For you have broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian [when Gideon, the warrior of God, hewed down the mighty who were causing the constant agitation of God’s people, calling all His people to the final slaughter of them and their kings].
5 For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire.
6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
7 Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even forever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.
8 The LORD sent a word into Jacob, and it has lighted upon Israel [like a dove – as a sign of this end reached].

This, the Word of God descending as dove, is what John speaks of in John 1:32, after he speaks of the LORD in the flesh as the Word of God made flesh and coming to His people who didn’t comprehend Him, His word, speaking into their darkness.

John 1
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2 The same was in the beginning with God.
3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
4 In him was life; and the life was the light [understanding who is speaking] of men.
5 And the light shined in darkness; and the darkness [the ignorant] comprehended it not.

10 He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.
11 He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

32 And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove [the sign of the end reached], and it abode upon him.
33 And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water [cleansing away the corruption that blinds the world], the same said unto me, Upon whom you shall see the Spirit [the LORD unknown in the darkness] descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizes with the Holy Ghost [raising them to life: coming to life in His children as they receive His mind].
34 And I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of God.

51 And he says unto him, Truly, truly, I say unto you, Hereafter you shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man.

Isaiah 10
16 Therefore shall the LORD, the LORD of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire.
17 And the light [understanding] of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns [misleaders] and his briers [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 [nacac – those to whom they look to show them the way] faints.
19 And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them.
20 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay upon him [to whom they looked to show the way] that smote them; but shall stay upon [look to] the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
21 The remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, 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 – failing eyes] decreed [charats] shall overflow with righteousness.
23 For the LORD God of hosts shall make a consumption [kalah – the full end], even determined [charats], in the midst of all the land [‘erets – all the earth].
24 Therefore thus says the LORD God of hosts, O my people that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian [communists in power]: he shall smite you with a rod [the law they have corrupted by their delusion], and shall lift up his staff against you, after the manner of Egypt [as tyrants oppressing].
25 For yet a very little while, and the indignation [za’am] shall cease [kalah – be ended when this is accomplished], and my anger in their destruction.
26 And the LORD of hosts shall stir up a scourge for him according to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb [from where flows the waters of darkness]: and as his rod [the law of nature and nature’s God] was upon the sea [all people at large], so shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt [against the oppressors and tyrants of our time].
27 And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden [of the wicked] shall be taken away from off your shoulder, and his yoke from off your neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing [this understanding poured out upon all the earth as the sun rising on this new day].

33 Behold, the LORD, the LORD of hosts, shall lop the bough with terror: and the high ones of stature shall be hewn down, and the haughty [arrogant] shall be humbled.
34 And he shall cut down the thickets [cbak] of the forest with iron, and Lebanon [the corrupt evil standard in the place where purity should be seen] shall fall by a mighty one.

John 3
1 There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus [victorious over the culture – by coming to the LORD, through the “strait” gate narrowed by the obstacles of the culture and false prophets, to Him who is the king and the kingdom], a ruler of the Jews [Judah – the leaders of God’s people]:
2 The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi [Teacher], we know that you are a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that you do, except God be with him.
3 Jesus answered and said unto him, Truly, truly, I say unto you, Except a man be born again [bring out of His dead flesh, a spiritual man with the understanding mind of Christ, in accord with God and choosing to do His will], he cannot see the kingdom of God.
4 Nicodemus says unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother’s womb, and be born?
5 Jesus answered, Truly, truly, I say unto you, Except a man be born of water [this word of God] and of the Spirit [by His word reproducing the His Holy Spirit in us – our sanctification into salvation], he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. [2 Thessalonians 2:13 But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethren beloved of the LORD, because God has from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth: 14 Whereunto he called you by our gospel {euaggelion}, to the obtaining of the glory of our LORD Jesus Christ.]
6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
7 Marvel not that I said unto you, You must be born again.
8 The wind blows [the Spirit moves] where it lists [thelesis – where God wills, doing His will], and you hear the sound thereof [His voice], but can not tell from where it comes, or to where it goes: so is every one that is born of the Spirit [moved into God’s will].
9 Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be?
10 Jesus answered and said unto him, Are you a master of Israel, and know not these things?
11 Truly, truly, I say unto you, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen [we do understand]; and you receive not our witness.
12 If I have told you earthly things, and you believe not, how shall you believe, if I tell you of heavenly things [the way into His kingdom]?
13 And no man has ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.
14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness [so that all who look upon Him can be saved from the darkness and death that comes from the bites, the poisonous words, of the enemies, false prophets and misleader mixed among us], even so must the Son of man [I Am] be lifted up:
15 That whosoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
18 He that believes on him is not condemned: but he that believes not is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
19 And this is the condemnation [krisis – the choice, to reject the light, which is choosing death], that light [understanding] is come into the world, and men loved darkness [the cultivated ignorance of the culture] rather than light [understanding], because their deeds were evil [misleading].
20 For every one that does evil [misleads into darkness] hates the light [understanding truth], neither comes to the light [understanding], lest his deeds should be reproved.
21 But he that does truth comes to the light [understanding], that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God [they are the work and will of God].
22 After these things came Jesus and his disciples into the land of Judaea; and there he tarried with them, and baptized.
23 And John also was baptizing in Aenon [‘ayin – the eye as the fountain from where comes life-giving waters] near to Salim [that bring us near, prepare us for, peace], because there was much water there: and they came, and were baptized.
24 For John was not yet cast into prison.
25 Then there arose a question between some of John’s disciples and the Jews about purifying.
26 And they came unto John, and said unto him, Rabbi, he that was with you beyond Jordan, to whom you barest witness, behold, the same baptizes, and all men come to him.
27 John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven.
28 You yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but that I am sent before him.
29 He that has the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, which stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled.
30 He must increase, but I 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 is above all.
32 And what he has seen and heard, that he testifies; and no man receives his testimony.
33 He that has received his testimony has set to his seal [sphragizo – the seal upon the Archangel who then seals the elect remnant, in Revelation 7] that God is true. [John 6:27 Labor not for the meat which perishes, but for that meat which endures unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him has God the Father sealed [sphragizo]. 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.]
34 For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God: for God gives not the Spirit by measure unto him. [1 Thessalonians 2:19 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.]
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.

Isaiah 40
5 And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the LORD has spoken it.
6 The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:
7 The grass withers, the flower fades: because the spirit of the LORD blows upon it: surely the people is grass.
8 The grass withers, the flower fades: but the word of our God shall stand forever.
9 O Zion, that brings good tidings [basar – this gospel to my people, giving it as you have been given], get you up into the high mountain; O Jerusalem, that brings good tidings [basar], lift up your voice with strength [understanding]; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God!
10 Behold, the LORD God will come with strong hand, and his arm [the flesh in which he is revealed to those who believe this report {shmuw’ah – believing this is the voice of Jehovah, as it is in truth}] shall rule for him: behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.
11 He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.
12 Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted [gave them by measure] out heaven [with full understanding] with the span [in the exposition in the firmament], and comprehended [what the wise of the world haven’t] the dust [the ruin] of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance [judging the powers that have risen over the earth and caused it to become without form and void]?
13 Who has directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his counselor has taught him?
14 With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and showed to him the way of understanding?
15 Behold, the nations [those who don’t know Him] are as a drop of a bucket [so are their words and understanding when compared to His], and are counted as the small dust of the balance [their words are the cause of the ruin of the earth by their corrupt evil judgment]: behold, he taketh up the isles [these men, without His word, in power among the people] as a very little thing.

Isaiah 41
15 Behold, I will make you a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: you shall thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shall make the hills as chaff.
16 You shall fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and you shall rejoice in the LORD, and shall glory in the Holy One of Israel.
17 When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue fails for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.
18 I will open rivers [flowing My words into the sea] in high places, and fountains [of these life-giving words] in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of [living] water, and the dry land springs of water [this word].

25 I have raised up one from the north [the Word of God among you, whom you have not comprehended], and he shall come: from the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name: and he shall come upon princes as upon mortar [to grind it into that which will bind together the stones of His habitation], and as the potter treads clay [to reform it as the LORD commands].
26 Who has declared from the beginning, that we may know? and beforetime, that we may say, He is righteous? yea, there is none that shows, yea, there is none that declares, yea, there is none that heareth your words.
27 The first shall say to Zion, Behold, behold them: and I will give to Jerusalem one that bringeth good tidings [basar].
28 For I beheld, and there was no man; even among them, and there was no counselor, that, when I asked of them, could answer a word.
29 Behold, they are all vanity [worthless]; their works are nothing: their molten images [their everchanging standards] are wind [of false doctrine] and confusion.

Isaiah 46
5 To whom will you liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be like?
6 They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, and hire a goldsmith; and he makes it a god: they fall down, yea, they worship.
7 They bear him upon the shoulder, they carry him, and set him in his place, and he stands; from his place shall he not remove: yea, one shall cry unto him, yet can he not answer, nor save him out of his trouble [because it is a lifeless idol they put in My place and call by Me name].
8 Remember this, and show yourselves men: bring it again to mind, O you transgressors.
9 Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me,
10 Declaring the end [‘achariyth – these last days] from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:
11 Calling a ravenous bird [the eagle to the carcass of the dead body of Christ] from the east [the sun rising of this new day], the man that executes my counsel from a far country [merchaq – this appointed time the LORD decreed]: yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it.
12 Hearken unto me, you stouthearted [you men in power], that are far from righteousness:
13 I bring near my righteousness; it shall not be far off [rachaq – not be as evil men have decreed], and my salvation shall not tarry: and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel my glory.

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

O LORD, for your servant’s sake, and according to your own heart, have you done all this greatness, in making known all these great things.

19 June 2023

O LORD, for your servant’s sake, and according to your own heart, have you done all this greatness, in making known all these great things.

The above is David, in 1 Chronicle 17:19 (numbers speaking this time of the ordinal perfection of God’s people by His judgment), thanking the LORD for the things He’s revealed to give Him complete understanding of the future kingdom.

1 Chronicles 17
20 O LORD, there is none like you, neither is there any God beside you, according to all that we have heard with our ears [shama’ ‘ozen – when we paid close attention and obeyed].
21 And what one nation in the earth is like your people Israel, whom God went to redeem [paqad – visited as the Chief Overseer of the earth] to be his own people, to make you a name of greatness and terribleness, by driving out nations [who don’t know you and now possess the earth You gave us] from before [paniym – by Your presence manifested with] your people whom you have redeemed out of Egypt [from the oppression of the tyrants holding them]?
22 For your people Israel did you make your own people forever; and you, LORD, became their God.
23 Therefore now, LORD, let the thing that you have spoken concerning your servant and concerning his house be established [kuwn – raised to stand] forever [‘owlam], and do as you have said.
24 Let it even be established, that your name may be magnified forever, saying, The LORD of hosts [a man of war] is the God of Israel, even a God to Israel: and let the house of David your servant be established before you [paniym – by Your presence].
25 For you, O my God, have told your servant that you will build him a house: therefore your servant has found in his heart to pray before you [paniym – to Your manifested presence with us].
26 And now, LORD, you are God, and have promised this goodness unto your servant:
27 Now, therefore, let it please you to bless the house of your servant, that it may be before you [paniym – manifesting Your presence therein] forever [‘owlam]: for you bless, O LORD, and it shall be blessed forever [‘owlam].

Earlier in the chapter, Spiritually speaking of the perfection, the completion, through Nathan (the giver {of God’s word as received}] manifesting His presence, the LORD tells David:

1 Chronicles 17 
1 And it shall come to pass, when your days be expired that you must go to be with your fathers, that I will raise up your seed after you, which shall be of your sons; and I will establish his kingdom.
12 He shall build me a house, and I will establish [kuwn] his throne forever [‘owlam].
13 I will be his father, and he shall be my son: and I will not take my mercy away from him, as I took it from him that was before you [paniym – Saul {desired: chosen by the people} in whom My presence was manifested]:
14 But I will settle him in my house and in my kingdom forever [‘owlam]: and his throne shall be established [kuwn – raised to stand] for evermore [‘owlam].

So, many ignorant voices oppose this message of the LORD, saying the above was fulfilled in Solomon naturally, and the LORD Jesus Spiritually. The LORD Himself tells us these were not fulfillments, not the completion, not the final perfection when the throne is established (raised to stand forever). The reason is the time of ignorance, darkness covering the deep, wasn’t ended, and the generation that immediately followed these two moments of great light quickly backslid into the same corruption (putting their abominations, the creations of men, in the place of the holy).  

This pattern of corruption occurring quickly after the work of constituting a perfect understanding is evident in our time in the degeneration since our Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Bill of Rights, until now when the whole lump (the principles of inalienable God-given rights, self-evident truths, and the government instituted under the law of nature and natures God to protect and defend them) is leavened by men’s corruption (as were the Law, the King-line/kingdom, and the Testament of the LORD Jesus).

Luke 19 [the judgment of the Chief Overseer]
37 And when he was come nigh, even now at the descent of the mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works that they had seen;
38 Saying, Blessed be the King that comes in the name [manifesting the identity] of the LORD: peace in heaven, and glory in the highest.
39 And some of the Pharisees [who’ve scattered the flock] from among the multitude said unto him, Master, rebuke your disciples [Your students].
40 And he answered and said unto them, I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out.
41 And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it,
42 Saying, If you had known, even you, at least in this your day, the things which belong unto your peace! but now they are [by the ignorance learned from those who’ve darkened your minds and scatter the ONE BODY] hid from your eyes.
43 For the days shall come upon you, that your enemies shall cast a trench about you, and compass you round, and keep you in on every side,
44 And shall lay you even with the ground, and your children within you; and they shall not leave in you one stone upon another [that shall not be scattered]; because you knew not the time of your visitation [episkope – time of the Chief Overseer coming to reset the foundations of the earth].
45 And he went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold [salvation] therein, and them that [think it can be] bought;
46 Saying unto them, It is written, My house is the house of prayer [the conversation with the LORD, above His mercy seat where His presence is manifested]: but you have made it a den of thieves [selling salvation and robbing the treasury to consume it into your own belly].
47 And he taught daily in the temple. But the chief priests and the scribes and the chief of the people sought to destroy him,
48 And could not find what they might do: for all the people were very attentive to hear him.

As previously discussed, and thereby we know and understand, the four times used Greek word episkope means “inspection (for relief); by implication, superintendence; specially, the Christian “episcopate”:–the office of a “bishop”, bishoprick, visitation.” It is the equivalent of the Hebrew word pqaddah (from paqad), which we know from Acts 1:20, when Luke records Peter quoting from Psalms 109:8.  

Acts 1
20 For it is written in the book of Psalms, “Let his habitation be desolate, and let no man dwell therein” [from Psalms 69:25]: and his bishopric [episkope] let another take [from Psalms 109:8].

Peter (here in Acts 1:20) speaks of Judas’ (Judah’s) replacement at the time of “visitation” he speaks of, in 1 Peter 2:12, in which he also describes the difference: when the LORD comes to “punish” (paqad) all those who refuse to obey this gospel, and is admired in all those who do believe it is Him.

1 Peter 2
3 If so be you have tasted [in this word of God] 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 offene, 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, a holy nation, a peculiar people; that you should show forth the praises of him who has called you out of darkness into his marvelous light;
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, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
12 Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation [episkope – the day the LORD comes as the Chief Overseer of the earth].

2 Thessalonians 1
2 Grace unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the LORD Jesus Christ.
3 We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet [appropriate], because that your faith [in the LORD with us] grows exceedingly, and the charity [agape – receiving and giving this Word of God from His mouth, by which man lives] of every one of you all toward each other abounds;
4 So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that you endure:
5 Which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you also suffer:
6 Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you;
7 And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the LORD Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,
8 In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our LORD Jesus Christ:
9 Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the LORD, and from the glory of his power;
10 When he shall come to be glorified in his saints [in this day of the visitation], and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed [to be the Word of God to you, as it is]) in that day.

Psalms 69
6 Let not them that wait on you, O LORD God of hosts, be ashamed for my sake: let not those that seek you be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel.
7 Because for your sake I have borne reproach; shame has covered my face.
8 I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother’s children.
9 For the zeal of your house has eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached you are fallen upon me.
10 When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.
11 I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb [a mystery] to them.
12 They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.
13 But as for me, my prayer is unto you, O LORD, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of your mercy hear me, in the truth of your salvation.
14 Deliver me out of the mire [the understanding men have clouded by their ways], and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters [wherein the wicked are drowned].
15 Let not the waterflood [of corrupt men’s words] overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up [into the belly of their hell], and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me [as their words hold others in their graves].
16 Hear me, O LORD; for your lovingkindness is good: turn unto me according to the multitude of your tender mercies.
17 And hide not your face [Your presence] from your servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily.
18 Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of my enemies.
19 You have known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonor: my adversaries are all before you.
20 Reproach has broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.
21 They gave me also gall [their venom] for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar [their bitterness] to drink.
22 Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.
23 Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake.
24 Pour out your indignation upon them, and let your wrathful anger take hold of them.
25 Let their habitation [of the current crop of corrupt leaders] be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents.
26 For they persecute him whom you have [sent to be] smitten [by them]; and they talk to the grief of those whom you have [sent to be] wounded [by them].
27 Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into your righteousness.
28 Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.
29 But I am poor and sorrowful: let your salvation, O God, set me up on high.
30 I will praise the name of God with a song [repeating the words He’s put in my mouth, as He commands], and will magnify him with thanksgiving.

Psalms 109 
1 Hold not your peace, O God of my praise;
2 For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.
3 They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.
4 For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer.
5 And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
6 Set you a wicked man over him [as it is]: and let Satan stand at his right hand [as he does].
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 [pquddah].
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 favor 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.

When Peter and Paul speak of the day of the LORD’s vengeance as the time of the visitation, they are referring to the LORD’s decreed appointed time (mare’ choq – merchaq) to end the corrupt earth and begin the new, wherein dwells righteousness.

Isaiah 10
1 Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed;
2 To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!
3 And what will you do in the day of visitation [pquddah], and in the desolation which shall come from far [merchaq – in this appointed time I have decreed]? to whom will you flee for help? and where will you leave your glory?
4 Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
5 O Assyrian [communists – Obama, his she-man, and their useful idiot son Brandon now, in power, confederate with China, and other enemies foreign and domestic], the rod of my anger, and the staff in their hand is my indignation.
6 I will send him against a hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
7 Howbeit he means not so, neither does his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few.
8 For he says, Are not my princes [the corrupt infesting all institutions] altogether kings?

Jeremiah 8
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? shall he turn away, and not return?
5 Why then is this people of Jerusalem slid back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
6 I hearkened and heard, but they spoke not aright: no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to his course, as the horse rusheth into the battle.
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 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 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, 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.
12 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? 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] they shall be cast down, says the LORD.
13 I will surely consume them, 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.
14 Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defensed cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God has put us to silence, and given us water of gall [the venomous word of our enemies] 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 horses was heard from Dan [the sound of war and the judgment of God]: the whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for they are 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 [with venom in their mouths], which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, says the LORD.
18 When I would comfort myself [My ONE BODY] against sorrow, my heart is faint in me [My ONE BODY].
19 Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a far country [merchaq – this decreed time of the end]: Is not the LORD in Zion? is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images [the corruption they’ve created and put in My place], and with strange vanities [worthless ways that are far from 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 ignorant and dead]; astonishment has taken hold on me [all My scattered and lost people].
22 Is there no balm in Gilead [is there no cure in this life-giving word, the testimony from the LORD’s mouth, by which man lives]; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered? [It’s because they reject this word and don’t know this time of the visitation.]

Jeremiah 31
10 Hear the word of the LORD, O you nations, and declare it in the isles [the dry places among the people without this word of God] afar off [merchaq – this appointed time the LORD decreed], 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 [repeat this word as received. – when will this sink in? how long will you rebel?] in the height of Zion, and shall flow together [into His ONE BODY] 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 [who are not defiled by the old corruption of wicked men] 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 weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not [yet born again, because they are ignorant of this appointed time].
16 Thus says the LORD; Refrain your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears: for your work [giving this word of the LORD as received] shall be rewarded, says the LORD; and they shall come again from the land of the enemy.
17 And there is hope in your end [‘achariyth – these last days], says the LORD, that your children shall come again to their own border.
18 I have surely heard Ephraim [God’s people, Rachel’s children, in this generation] bemoaning himself thus; You have chastised [corrected] me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke [refusing to be joined with the LORD in this work]: 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 [ignorant] 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 [tsiyuwn – the burial place of the man of God], make you high heaps: set your heart toward the highway, even the way which you went: turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these your cities.
22 How long will you go about, O you backsliding daughter? for the LORD has created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass [gather around] a man.

Isaiah 46
1 Bel bows down [the idols men have created and put in My place], Nebo [the false prophets] stoops, their idols were upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: your carriages were heavy loaden; they are a burden to the weary beast [unbearable to men without My Spirit].
2 They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity [in confusion, beyond Babylon].
3 Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are borne by me from the belly [of hell], which are carried from the womb [born again by coming out of confusion]:
4 And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you.
5 To whom will you liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be like?
6 They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, and hire a goldsmith; and he makes it a god: they fall down, yea, they worship.
7 They bear him upon the shoulder, they carry him, and set him in his place, and he stands; from his place shall he not remove: yea, one shall cry unto him, yet can he not answer, nor save him out of his trouble [tsarah – tribulation].
8 Remember this, and show yourselves men: bring it again to mind, O you transgressors.
9 Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me,
10 Declaring the end [‘achariyth – the last days] from the beginning [the new day], and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand [My purpose shall rise], and I will do all my pleasure:
11 Calling a ravenous bird [the eagle to the carcass of the dead body of Christ] from the east [from the sunrise of this new day], the man [who will be compassed by the woman] that executes my counsel from a far country [merchaq – the appointed time, which the LORD has decreed]: yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it.
12 Hearken unto me, you stouthearted [in power], that are far from righteousness:
13 I bring near my righteousness; it shall not be far off [rachaq – not be an unrighteous decree], and my salvation shall not tarry [‘achar – not put off to a latter day]: and I will place [nathan – give] salvation in Zion for Israel my glory.

Isaiah 9
5 For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire.
6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
7 Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even forever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.
8 The LORD sent a word into Jacob, and it has lighted upon Israel.

The word tsiyuwn (from tsiyah), rendered “waymarks” in Jeremiah 31:21 above, only appears two other times. It’s a tombstone, so those seeing it understand who is buried therein. It is meant to refer us to the life that springs from this ground, upon whose shoulders the church and state governments shall rest.

Isaiah 53
1 Who has believed our report [shmuw’ah – heard and obeyed the voice preaching these good tidings as the voice of Jehovah, as it is]? and to whom [thereby] is the arm of the LORD revealed?
2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry [tsiyah – this way marker] ground [‘erets – in the earth]: he has no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
4 Surely he has borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
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 [hiding His presence from those who see Him in the flesh].
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.
11 He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
12 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he has poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

Jeremiah 50
20 In those [last] days, and in that [appointed and decreed] time, says the LORD, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found: for I will pardon them whom I reserve [sha’ar – left alive: remain awake].
21 Go up against the land of Merathaim [the second rebellion of the fallen angels: messengers], even against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod [paqad – of the place of the visitation by the Chief Overseer]: waste and utterly destroy after them, says the LORD, and do according to all that I have commanded you.
22 A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.
23 How is the hammer [that beat the people] of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
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: for this is the work of the LORD God of hosts in the land of the Chaldeans [those who’ve used their deception to manipulate and control people into destroying themselves].
26 Come against her from the utmost border, open her storehouses: cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly: let nothing of her be left.
27 Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation [pquddah – the punishment by the Chief Overseer of the earth].
28 The voice of them that flee and escape out of the land of Babylon [the confusion that has ruled the world into insanity], to declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, the vengeance of his temple.

The final time the word episkope appears is in 1 Timothy 3:1 as Paul speaks to Timothy about the office of a “Bishop,” which he also describes using the word episkopos. Timothy, sometime after this, becomes the Bishop (episkopos) of Ephesus. It is to him and others Paul speaks, in Acts 20, as in the letters to Timothy (a chosen soldier of God), warning of the apostasy, the falling away, that would very quickly come after his (Paul’s) good fight of faith ends in his death.

Acts 20
26 Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men [because I have given the warning of the coming vengeance as the LORD commanded me].
27 For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.
28 Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost has made you overseers [episkopos], to feed the church of God, which he has purchased with his own blood [the necessary sacrifice to give the message from God as received].
29 For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock [scattering the sheep, not leaving one stone upon another].
30 Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.
31 Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.
32 And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up [as the living stones of His habitation], and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified [by Him made and declared holy].
33 I have coveted no man’s silver, or gold, or apparel [as have the den of robbers and thieves].
34 Yea, you yourselves know, that these hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me.
35 I have shown you all things, how that so laboring you ought to support the weak [in need of this strength: understanding that shields us from the words of the wicked], and to remember the words of the LORD Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give [this word as received from God] than to receive.

1 Peter 2
13 Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the LORD’s sake: whether it be to the king [I Am – the LORD has now sent to oversee the governments of church and state], as supreme;
14 Or unto governors [leaders under the king], as unto them that are sent by him [the LORD] for the punishment of [ekdikesis – vengeance upon] evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.
15 For so is the will of God, [His vengeance is] that with well doing you may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:
16 As free, and not using your liberty for a cloak of maliciousness [to do evil, as is the way of the current corrupt government], but as the servants of God.
17 Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king [I Am].
18 Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.
19 For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.
20 For what glory is it, if, when you be buffeted for your faults, you shall take it patiently? but if, when you do well, and suffer for it, you take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.
21 For even hereunto were you called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that you should follow his steps:
22 Who did no sin, neither was guile [fraud] found in his mouth:
23 Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judges righteously:
24 Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes you were healed.
25 For you were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop [episkopos] of your souls.

The idea of the episkopos is understood in the once-used word skopos, meaning, “from skeptomai (to peer about (“skeptic”); perhaps akin to 4626 [skapto – to dig] through the idea of concealment; compare 4629); a watch (sentry or scout), i.e. (by implication) a goal:–mark.” It (skopos) means, to skeptically, not satisfied with what is seen superficially, dig for what is concealed; and compounded with epi, meaning superimposition, it tells of what is Found in the word’s (skopos’) one use.

Philippians 3
8 Yea doubtless, and I count all things [that were concealed in my own ignorance] but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my LORD: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them [my own ideas and ways] but dung, that I may win Christ,
9 And be FOUND in him, not having my own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ [the LORD in the flesh revealing all things real], the righteousness which is of God by faith:
10 That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death [dying to the flesh mind so all things Spiritual can be revealed];
11 If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.
12 Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect [because perfection is reserved for our time, understanding those before us would not be made perfect without us]: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
14 I press toward the mark [skopos – seeing as the LORD sees] for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
15 Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in anything you be otherwise minded, God shall reveal [apokalupto – in the apocalypse] even this unto you [when He comes as the Chief Overseer of the earth].
16 Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.
17 Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as you have us for an example.
18 (For many walk [their own way], of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:
19 Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)
20 For our conversation is in heaven [in full understanding at His mercy seat, in the conversation in which He manifests His presence]; from whence also we look for the Savior, the LORD Jesus Christ:
21 Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious [ONE] body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.

Psalms 67
1 God be merciful unto us, and bless us; and cause his face [presence] to shine upon us; Selah.
2 That your way may be known upon earth, your saving health among all nations.
3 Let the people praise you, O God; let all the people praise you.
4 O let the nations be glad and sing for joy: for you shall judge the people righteously, and govern the nations upon earth. Selah.
5 Let the people praise you, O God; let all the people praise you.
6 Then shall the earth yield her increase; and God, even our own God, shall bless us.
7 God shall bless us; and all the ends of the earth shall fear him.

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