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And the LORD shall guide you continually, and satisfy your soul in drought, and make fat your bones: and you shall be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.

The LORD, above in Isaiah 58:11, speaks of Himself as the “guide” of those He before says (when, as a prerequisite they) “draw out” their soul to the hungry and satisfy the afflicted soul. He further says, in verse 10, “then shall your light rise in obscurity, and your darkness be as the noonday.”

The word “guide” is from the Hebrew word nachah, meaning “to guide; by implication, to transport (into exile, or as colonists).” It is speaking of translating us from the authority of darkness into His (authority of) light: the destination where we’re the many lights through whom He works His work. It’s referring us to its appearance in Deuteronomy 32:12, where the LORD says it’s He alone who led Jacob, when He found him in the earth that was “without form” (tohuw – a “waste,” ruled by confusion), and delivered (transported) him into light (understanding) by instructing him.

Deuteronomy 32
1 Give ear, O you heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.
2 My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distill [purify – rightly divide the waters, word, on the earth] as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:
3 Because I will publish the name of the LORD: ascribe you greatness unto our God.
4 He is the Rock, his work [in me] is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
5 They [those who’ve brought ignorance upon the world] have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation.
6 Do you thus requite [repay] the LORD [with corruption for the good He’s done for you], O foolish people and unwise? is not he your father that has bought you? has he not made you, and established you [with good leading]?
7 Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask your father, and he will show you; your elders, and they will tell you.
8 When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.
9 For the LORD’s portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.
10 He found him in a desert land, and in the waste [tohuw – “without form,” in “confusion”] howling [ylel – only appearing here, and speaking the words of devouring beats who are without God’s Spirit leading them] wilderness; he led [nachah – guided] him about [out of darkness], he instructed [biyn, meaning “to separate mentally” – gave understanding, light, to] him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
11 As an eagle stirs up her nest, flutters over her young, spreads abroad her wings, takes them, bears them on her wings [taking them into heaven, into full understanding, until they are strengthened to fly there with Him]:
12 So the LORD alone did lead [nachah] him, and there was no strange god with him.
13 He made him ride on the high places of the earth.

The words rendered above “kept him as the apple of His eye” are natsar ‘iyshown ‘ayin. Here following are their definitions from the Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary:

Strong’s #5341: natsar; a primitive root; to guard, in a good sense (to protect, maintain, obey, etc.) or a bad one (to conceal, etc.).

Strong’s #380: ‘iyshown; diminutive from 376; the little man of the eye; the pupil or ball; hence, the middle (of night).

Strong’s #5869: `ayin; probably a primitive word; an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape).

The word ‘ayin is affinitive of the word mayim, meaning water, and speaks of the eye and fountain as the places from where pure waters (tears) come.

The word ‘iyshown is a compounding of the words (376) ‘iysh, meaning man, and hown (from huwn, meaning “to be naught [unseen], i.e. (figuratively) to be (causatively act) light”), meaning “wealth; by implication, enough.” Both words are said to be from ‘own, meaning (successful effort) ability, power, figuratively wealth, and most often rendered “strength.”

Isaiah uses the word ‘own twice, both in Isaiah 40 rendered “might.”

Isaiah 40
21 Have you not known? have you not heard? has it not been told you from the beginning? have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?
22 It is he that sits upon the circle [the circuit, from beginning to end] of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretches out the heavens [His understanding] as a curtain, and spreads them out as a tent to dwell in:
23 That bringeth the princes to nothing; he makes the judges of the earth as vanity [tohuw – “without form,” in “confusion”].
24 Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow [nashaph – only appearing here and in Exodus 15:10, when the sea covered the pursuing enemies who ignorantly entered the LORD’s trap] upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind [His Almighty Spirit] shall take them away as stubble.
25 To whom then will you liken me, or shall I be equal? says the Holy One.
26 Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who has created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might [‘own], for that he is strong in power; not one fails.
27 Why say you, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, My way is hidden from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God?
28 Have you not known? have you not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends [the circle, beginning and end] of the earth, faints not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.
29 He gives power to the faint; and to them that have no might [‘own] he increases strength.
30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:
31 But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles [and fly in full understanding, in heaven, with the LORD]; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

Exodus 15
6 Your right hand, O LORD, is become glorious in power: your right hand, O LORD, has dashed in pieces the enemy.
7 And in the greatness of your excellency you have overthrown them that rose up against you: you sent forth your wrath, which consumed them as stubble.
8 And with the blast of your nostrils the waters were gathered together, the floods stood upright as a heap, and the depths were congealed [the elements of deep understanding came together, like rain in the cloud of heaven] in the heart of the sea [in the minds of God’s people {Ephraim} in this generation].
9 The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.
10 You did blow [nashaph] with your wind, the sea covered them: they sank as lead in the mighty waters.
11 Who is like unto you, O LORD, among the gods? who is like you, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?
12 You stretched out your right hand, the earth swallowed them.
13 You in your mercy have led forth [nachah] the people which you have redeemed: you have guided them in your strength unto your holy habitation.

The final two (of the twelve) times the word ‘own appears are in Hosea, both in chapter 12, the first in verse 3, rendered “strength,” and the other in verse 8, rendered “substance.”

Hosea 12
1 Ephraim [God’s people in this generation] feeds on wind, and follows after the east wind: he daily increases lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the Assyrians [the communists], and oil is carried into Egypt [the oppressors holding them down].
2 The LORD has also a controversy [riyb – the same spoken of in Isaiah 34:8, about who will rule the new world] with Judah [the current crop of corrupt leaders], and will punish [paqad – visit] Jacob according to his ways; according to his doings will he recompense [shuwb – convert] him.
3 He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength [‘own] he had power with God:
4 Yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him in Bethel, and there he spoke with us;
5 Even the LORD God of hosts [who is a man of war]; the LORD is his memorial [he will remember Him].
6 Therefore turn you to your God: keep mercy and judgment and wait on your God continually.
7 He [Ephraim] is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loves to oppress.
8 And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance [‘own – strength]: in all my [self-righteous] labors they shall find none iniquity in me that were sin.
9 And I that am the LORD your God from the land of Egypt will yet make you to dwell in tabernacles, as in the days of the solemn feast [this appointed time, when you come out of the houses of corruption].
10 I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets.
11 Is there iniquity in Gilead [this mountain of testimony]? surely they are vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal [the places where their waters are full of confusion and strife]; yea, their altars are as heaps [waves of pride] in the furrows of the fields [referring to Hosea 10:2 thru 4].
12 And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.
13 And by a prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he preserved.
14 Ephraim provoked him to anger most bitterly: therefore shall he leave his blood upon him, and his reproach shall his LORD return unto him.

Hosea 10
2 Their heart is divided; now shall they be found faulty: he shall break down their altars, he shall spoil their images.
3 For now they shall say, We have no king, because we feared not the LORD; what then should a king do to us?
4 They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springs up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.

10 It is in my desire that I should chastise [correct] them; and the people shall be gathered against them, when they shall bind themselves in their two furrows [as two armies, two walls of the waters of the Red sea].
11 And Ephraim is as a heifer that is taught [referring us to Jeremiah 31:18 & 19], and loveth to tread out the corn; but I passed over upon her fair neck: I will make Ephraim to ride; Judah shall plow, and Jacob shall break his clods.
12 Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.
13 You have plowed wickedness, you have reaped iniquity; you have eaten the fruit of lies: because you did trust in your way, in the multitude of your mighty men.
14 Therefore shall a tumult arise among your people, and all your fortresses shall be spoiled, as Shalman [they worshipped strange fire] spoiled Betharbel [the house of God’s ambush] in the day of battle: the mother was dashed in pieces upon her children.
15 So shall Bethel [the house of God] do unto you because of your great wickedness: in a morning [shachar – the dawning of this new day] shall the [corrupt] king of Israel utterly be cut off.

Jeremiah 31
18 I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself saying; You have chastised [corrected] me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn [shuwb] you me, and I shall be turned [shuwb]; for you are the LORD my God.
19 Surely after that I was turned [shuwb], I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.
20 Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I spoke against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, says the LORD.
21 Set you up waymarks, make you high heaps: set your heart toward the highway [the way of heaven], even the way which you went: turn again [shuwb], O virgin of Israel, turn again [shuwb] to these your cities.
22 How long will you go about, O you backsliding daughter? for the LORD has created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man.
23 Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As yet they shall use this speech in the land of Judah and in the cities thereof, when I shall bring again [shuwb] their captivity; The LORD bless you, O habitation of justice, and mountain of holiness.
24 And there shall dwell in Judah itself, and in all the cities thereof together, husbandmen, and they that go forth with flocks.
25 For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul.
26 Upon this I awaked [quwts], and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me.
27 Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man, and with the seed of beast.
28 And it shall come to pass, that like as I have watched over them, to pluck up, and to break down, and to throw down, and to destroy, and to afflict; so will I watch over them, to build, and to plant, says the LORD.
29 In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.
30 But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eats the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge [every man shall be responsible for His own sins {words and works} not for those that have come before them].
31 Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was a husband unto them, says the LORD:
33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, says the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, says the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
35 Thus says the LORD, which gives the sun for a light [the church, His ONE BODY to Give His understanding] by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light [His people in His just civil government] by night [to give His light to the ignorant], which divides the sea [into two walls] when the waves [pride] thereof roar [open their mouths with words of ignorance]; The LORD of hosts [who is a man of war] is his name:
36 If those ordinances depart from before me, says the LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me forever.
37 Thus says the LORD; If heaven [the LORD’s endless understanding] above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath [by man], I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, says the LORD.

Job 38
1 Then the LORD answered Job [His people who are hated by the corrupt world] out of the whirlwind, and said,
2 Who is this that darkens counsel 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 [pinnah – the head, master, the builders refused] 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: 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 [shachar] to know his place;
13 That it might take hold of the ends [the end and the new beginning] of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it?
14 It is turned as clay to the seal [chowtham – God’s signature {identity – name} pressed into the earth]; and they stand as a garment [as on the mountain, seen as the shining garments of light, as 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 [understanding 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, when there was no man, after verse 23 says, “I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form {tohuw}, and void {bohuw}; and the heavens, and they had no light.”];
27 To satisfy [saba’] 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 [nachah] 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 to the strong]? 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 men, to return their strength].

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

Isaiah 58
6 Is not this the fast that I have chosen [to cease from speaking the word of corrupt men]? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke?
7 Is it not to deal your bread [this full understanding from the mouth of God] to the hungry, and that you bring the poor that are cast out to your house? when you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you hide not yourself from your own flesh?
8 Then shall your light [understanding] break forth as the morning [of this new day], and your health shall spring forth speedily: and your righteousness shall go before you; the glory of the LORD [upon you] shall be your reward.
9 Then shall you call, and the LORD shall answer; you shall cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If you take away from the midst of you the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity [the worthless words of men];
10 And if you draw out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall your light [understanding] rise in obscurity, and your darkness be as the noon day [your ignorance turned to full understanding]:
11 And the LORD shall guide [nachah] you continually, and satisfy your soul in drought, and make fat your bones: and you shall be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
12 And they that shall be of you shall build the old waste places: you shall raise up the foundations of many generations; and you shall be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
13 If you turn away your foot from the sabbath, from doing your pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honorable; and shall honor him, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking your own words:
14 Then shall you delight yourself in the LORD; and I will cause you to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father: for the mouth of the LORD has spoken it.

Deuteronomy 32
36 For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he sees that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left [‘azab].
37 And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted,
38 Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offerings? let them rise up and help you, and be your protection.
39 See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.
40 For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live forever.
41 If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me.
42 I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword 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, 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, and to his people.

Proverbs 20
18 Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war.
19 He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.
20 Whoso curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure [‘iyshown – and the strength of that man shall become] darkness.
21 An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.
22 Say not you, I will recompense evil; but wait on the LORD, and he shall save you [from evil].
23 Divers weights [unequal justice] are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance is not good.
24 Man’s goings are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way [without His Spirit guiding him]?
25 It is a snare to the man who devours that which is holy, and after vows to make enquiry [into the damage he has done – as now with regard to all prosperity and achievement under attack, intentional destruction, by those who shift the blame to those that aren’t the cause].
26 A wise king scatters the wicked, and brings the wheel over them.
27 The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly.
28 Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne is upheld by mercy.
29 The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the grey head.
30 The blueness of a wound cleanses away evil: so do stripes the inward parts of the belly.

Psalms 17
1 Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips.
2 Let my sentence come forth from your presence; let your eyes behold the things that are equal.
3 You have proved mine heart; you have visited me in the night; you have tried me, and shall find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.
4 Concerning the works of men, by the word of your lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer.
5 Hold up my goings in your paths, that my footsteps slip not.
6 I have called upon you, for you will hear me, O God: incline your ear unto me, and hear my speech.
7 Show your marvelous [eye opening] lovingkindness, O you that saves by your right hand [the power in your work] them which put their trust in you from those that rise up against them.
8 Keep me as the apple of the eye [‘iyshown – by strengthening my eye], hide me under the shadow of your wings [as you fly in the heavens, by the strength of your full understanding],
9 From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who compass me about.
10 They are enclosed in their own fat: with their mouths they speak proudly.
11 They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth;
12 Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
13 Arise, O LORD, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, which is your sword:
14 From men which are your hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly you fill with your hid treasure [saba’]: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.
15 As for me, I will behold your face [paniym – presence] in righteousness: I shall be satisfied [saba’], when I awake [quwts – the word rendered “watches” in Ezekiel 7:6, telling of the end (qets) come, awakening to the morning {tsphiyrah} of the crowning}], with your likeness.

The LORD’s “likeness” (tmuwnah – from miyn, meaning species) is what men awaken to, out of ignorance created by images of God created by misleaders among them (which God commanded, in the second commandment, they not do – Exodus 20:4 thru 6 – because He will visit when they do), abominations they put in God’s place, as spoken of in Ezekiel 7:9. The morning (from the three times used word tsphiyrah), the sun rise of the new day, which crowns the LORD, is described in Isaiah 28. There the crown is removed from the drunkards of Ephraim and the LORD himself is the crown (tsphiyrah – diadem) upon His people (in their minds).

The word tmuwnah deconstructs into – tm-uwn-ah: Tim-the light: strength-of Yahh, and in context, explains the final verse of Psalms 17 above.

Exodus 20
4 You shall not make unto you any graven image, or any likeness [tmuwnah] of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
5 You shall not bow down yourself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting [paqad] the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
6 And showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.

Isaiah 28
1 Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat [shemem – which is the LORD’s anointing when they are brought down] valleys of them that are overcome with wine [and are thereby unaware of it coming]!
2 Behold, the LORD has a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing [see verse 21 below, which brings the rest], shall cast down [nuwach – bring rest] to the earth with the hand.
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 [shemem – when their mocking {blasphemy} proclaims the King, when they are brought down by their own ignorance] 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 – a crown] of beauty, unto the residue 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 [see Psalms 118:19 & 20 below].
7 But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
8 For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.
9 Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine [shmuw’ah – the report, teaching, and the rumor of Ezekiel 7:26 below]? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts [who now draw from the Ancient of days: wisdom].
10 For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:
11 For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak [truth they don’t understand] to this people.
12 To whom he said, This is the rest [mnuwchah – resting place, in heaven, in the LORD’s presence, in full understanding] wherewith you may cause the weary to rest [nuwach]; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.
13 But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, you scornful men [mockers and blasphemers vilifying this word and work of God: the Paraclete, the Holy Ghost who the world doesn’t know – YET], that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because you have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus says the LORD GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believes shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then you shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goes forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report [shmuw’ah – the sound doctrine, teaching, and the rumor of Ezekiel 7:26 below].

The above speaking of word of God coming, to bring rest and refreshing, His teaching line upon line, precept upon precept, is describing manna, the word from God’s mouth, by which, when filled (saba’) by it, man’s eyes are opened (he is awakened) and he comes from death to life.

Proverbs 30
15 The horse-leach hath two daughters [sucking the life from those drinking their waters and never saying it is enough until all life is drained], crying, Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied [saba’], yea, four things say not, It is enough [hown]:
16 The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not filled [saba’] with water; and the fire that saith not, It is enough [hown].

Psalms 118
14 The LORD is my strength and song, and is become my salvation.
15 The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tabernacles of the righteous: the right hand of the LORD does valiantly.
16 The right hand of the LORD is exalted: the right hand of the LORD does valiantly.
17 I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the LORD.
18 The LORD has chastened me sore: but he has not given me over unto death.
19 Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will go into them, and I will praise the LORD:
20 This gate of the LORD, into which the righteous shall enter.
21 I will praise you: for you have heard me, and art become my salvation.
22 The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner.
23 This is the LORD’s doing; it is marvelous in [opening] our eyes.
24 This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.
25 Save now [Hosanna], I beseech thee, O LORD: O LORD, I beseech thee, send now prosperity.
26 Blessed be he that comes in the name of the LORD: we have blessed you out of the house of the LORD.

Deuteronomy 8
2 and you shall remember all the way which the LORD your God led you these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you, and to prove you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or not.
3 And he humbled you, and suffered you to hunger, and fed you with manna, which you knew not, neither did your fathers know; that he might make you know that man does not live by bread only, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of the LORD does man live.

5 You shall also consider in your heart, that, as a man chastens [corrects] his son, so the LORD your God chastens you.
6 Therefore you shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.

10 When you have eaten and are full [saba’], then you shall bless the LORD your God for the good land which he has given you.
11 Beware that you forget not the LORD your God, in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command you this day:
12 Lest when you have eaten and are full [saba’], and have built goodly houses, and dwelt therein;

14 Then your heart be lifted up, and you forget the LORD your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt [from the oppressors], from the house of bondage;
15 Who led you through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; who brought you forth water out of the Rock of flint;
16 Who fed you in the wilderness with manna [the word from the mouth of God], which your fathers knew not, that he might humble you, and that he might prove you, to do you good at your latter end;
17 And you say in your heart, My power and the might of mine hand has gotten me this wealth.
18 But you shall remember the LORD your God: for it is he that gives you power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he swore unto your fathers, as it is this day.
19 And it shall be, if you do at all forget the LORD your God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that you shall surely perish.
20 As the nations which the LORD destroyed before your face, so shall you perish; because you would not be obedient unto the voice of the LORD your God [correcting His children].

Ezekiel 7
1 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Also, you son of man, thus says the LORD GOD unto the land of Israel; An end, the end is come upon the four corners of the land.
3 Now is the end come upon you, and I will send mine anger upon you, and will judge you according to your ways, and will recompense upon you all your abominations.
4 And mine eye shall not spare you, neither will I have pity: but I will recompense your ways upon you, and your abominations shall be in the midst of you: and you shall know that I am the LORD.
5 Thus says the LORD GOD; An evil, an only evil [none like it, as in Daniel 12:1], behold, is come. [Jeremiah 30:7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble {tsarah – tribulation}, 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 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.]
6 An end [qets] is come, the end [qets] is come: it watches [quwts – awakens] for you; behold, it is come.
7 The morning [tsphiyrah – the crown, the crowning of the LORD’s chosen, the man of God, as was David] is come unto you, O you that dwells in the land: the time is come, the day of trouble is near, and not the sounding again of the mountains.
8 Now will I shortly pour out my fury upon you, and accomplish mine anger upon you: and I will judge you according to your ways, and will recompense you for all your abominations.
9 And mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will recompense you according to your ways and your abominations that are in the midst of you; and you shall know that I am the LORD that smites.
10 Behold the day, behold, it is come: the morning [tsphiyrah – the crowning] is gone forth; the rod has blossomed, pride has budded.
11 Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness: none of them shall remain, nor of their multitude, nor of any of theirs: neither shall there be wailing for them.

25 Destruction comes; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none.
26 Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumor [shmuw’ah – teaching sound doctrine and reporting truth] shall be upon rumor [shmuw’ah – teaching and reporting, precept and line, that isn’t believed, and the man of God reporting it is still unknown – because of the lies and misleading of those who’ve blinded the world by drunkenness]; then shall they seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the ancients.
27 The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled: I will do unto them after their way, and according to their deserts will I judge them; and they shall know that I am the LORD.

Psalms 9
1 I will praise you, O LORD, with my whole heart; I will show forth all your marvelous [eye opening] works.
2 I will be glad and rejoice in you: I will sing praise to your name, O you most High.
3 When mine enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at your presence.
4 For you have maintained my right and my cause; you sat in the throne judging right.
5 You have rebuked the heathen, you have destroyed the wicked, you have put out their name forever and ever.
6 O you enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and you have destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with them.
7 But the LORD shall endure forever: he has prepared his throne for judgment.
8 And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness.
9 The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.
10 And they that know your name will put their trust in you: for you, LORD, have not forsaken them that seek you.
11 Sing praises to the LORD, which dwelleth in Zion: declare among the people his doings.
12 When he makes inquisition for blood, he remembers them: he forgets not the cry of the humble.
13 Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, you that lift me up from the gates of death:
14 That I may show forth all your praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion: I will rejoice in your salvation.
15 The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.
16 The LORD is known by the judgment which he executes: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.
17 The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.
18 For the needy shall not always be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish forever.
19 Arise, O LORD; let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged in your sight.
20 Put them in fear, O LORD: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah.

I Am “a man set under authority, having under me soldiers, and I say unto one, Go, and he goes; and to another, Come, and he comes; and to my servant, Do this, and he does it.”

The word here rendered “set” is the eight times used Greek word tasso, meaning “to arrange in an orderly manner, i.e. assign or dispose (to a certain position or lot):–addict, appoint, determine, ordain, set.”

It’s first used as Matthew documents the LORD’s words, after His resurrection, to those who doubted.

Matthew 28
16 Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, into a mountain where Jesus had appointed [tasso] them.
17 And when they saw him, they worshipped him: but some doubted.
18 And Jesus came and spoke unto them, saying, All power [exousia – authority] is given unto me in heaven and in earth [ge].
19 Go you therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost [the mystery of godliness – Jehovah manifested in the flesh of His son(s), who works unknown, teaching into all truth, to reveal the Father in him]:
20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world [aion – the age]. Amen.

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 [when full understanding comes].
8 Jesus Christ [Jehovah manifested in the flesh for our salvation] the same yesterday, and today, and forever.
9 Be not carried about with [the winds of] divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace [this gift of God]; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.

The word rendered, “them which have the rule over,” in verse 7 above, is the Greek word hegeomai, meaning “to lead, i.e. command (with official authority); figuratively, to deem, i.e. consider.”

It (hegeomai) is the word Peter uses twice, in 2 Peter 3:9 & 15, when describing the longsuffering work of the LORD, not wanting any to perish, but always holding on to the hope that all would come to repentance.

2 Peter 3
9 The LORD is not slack [braduno – has not tarried] concerning his promise [spoken in Matthew 28:20 and Hebrews 13:5], as some men count [hegeomai] slackness [brandutes – appearing only here speaking of the way men think the LORD is tarrying, not understanding he has not, but is with us unknown working and speaking – until we realize]; 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 foundational elements of corrupt thinking – which blind the world to the ever-present LORD] 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 – blinding corruption] shall melt with fervent heat?
13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth 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 [hegeomai] 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 [not seeing the deep before us below the surface], as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction [apoleia].

Friends, I tell you the truth – just as these ideas are here in plain sight yet unseen, so has the LORD come “unto his own, and his own received him not.
12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power [exousia – authority] to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
15 John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spoke, He that comes after me is preferred before me: for he was before me.
16 And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.”

Revelation 18
1 And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power [exousia – the Highest Authority]; and the earth was lightened [given understanding] with his glory.
2 And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon [the confusion that now rules the world] the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, “Come out of her, my people, that you be not partakers of her sins, and that you receive not of her plagues.”
5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.
6 Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she has filled fill to her double.
7 How much she has glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she says in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.
8 Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the LORD God who judges her.

Revelation 19
11 And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he does judge and make war.
12 His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name [identity – given authority] written, that no man knew [understood], but he himself.
13 And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.
14 And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.
15 And out of his mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treads the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
16 And he has on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, King Of Kings, And LORD Of Lords [I come in the name of the ONE with the Authority to give me His Authority].
17 And I saw an angel standing in the sun [I stand in the light of this new day]; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God;
18 That you may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.
19 And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army.
20 And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
21 And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.

The word braduno, which Peter uses in 2 Peter 3:9, meaning “to delay:–be slack, tarry,” only appears one other time, as Paul speaks to Timothy about the mystery of godliness. He is describing the manner of God’s house and the “office of deacon,” from the word daikoneo, meaning a waiter, as one who disperses food to many (feeding the LORD’s sheep). He is speaking of the LORD working through (in) us (tarrying) unknown, longsuffering to bring all to repentance, even now in this end time when all have turned from the truth and to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils (misleaders – the unfaithful “she” spoken of in Revelation above).

1 Timothy 3
13 For they that have used the office of a deacon [diakoneo – waiter of tables, delivering the word from God’s mouth, by which men live] well purchase [peripoieomai – only appearing here and in Acts 20:28 where it is the LORD’s blood that purchases us out of sin] to themselves a good degree [bathmos, only here, for bathos meaning profundity, as mysteries; rendered deep or depth], and great boldness [the authority to speak the mysteries of God, the great depth below the surface] in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.
14 These things write I unto you, hoping to come unto you shortly:
15 But if I tarry [braduno] long [the LORD longsuffering unknown], that you mayest know how you ought to behave yourself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
16 And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit [while unknown], seen of angels [understood by those who become His messengers], preached unto the Gentiles [those who don’t know the mystery of God’s manner], believed on in the world, received up into glory.

1 Timothy 4
1 Now the Spirit speaks expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; [Here Paul is referring to His word of warning, which Luke records in Acts 20:28 and the surrounding verses.]
2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
3 Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats [those “forbidding” are those Paul speaks of in 2 Timothy 2:17, Hymenaeus and Philetus, who are saying the resurrection {joining with the LORD in ONE BODY} is past, whose names say they are hidding behind the mask of spurious love, and forbid those who follow them from joining with the LORD, leaving {coming out from among them – as in Revelation 18:4 above} their corrupt houses and coming into His ONE BODY], which God has created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
4 For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:
5 For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.
6 If you put the brethren in remembrance of these things, you shall be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, whereunto you have attained.
7 But refuse profane and old wives’ fables, and exercise yourself rather unto godliness [as defined in 1 Timothy 3:16 above].
8 For bodily exercise profits little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
9 This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation.
10 For therefore we both labor and [long] suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those that believe.
11 These things command and teach.
12 Let no man despise your youth; but be you an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
13 Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.
14 Neglect not the gift [grace] that is in you, which was given you by prophecy [1 Timothy 1:18, says they went before on him – of me], with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.
15 Meditate upon these things; give yourself wholly to them; that your profiting may appear to all.
16 Take heed unto yourself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this you shall both save yourself, and them that hear you [for which I have been sent].

Acts 20
19 Serving the LORD with all humility of mind, and with many tears, and temptations, which befell me by the lying in wait of the Jews [Judah – the leaders who say they know the LORD, taking His name in vain]:
20 And how I kept back nothing that was profitable unto you, but have shown you, and have taught you publicly, and from house to house,
21 Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our LORD Jesus Christ.
22 And now, behold, I go bound in the spirit unto Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall befall me there:
23 Save that the Holy Ghost witnesses in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me.
24 But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the LORD Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.
25 And now, behold, I know that you all, among whom I have gone preaching the kingdom of God, shall see my face no more.
26 Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men.
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, to feed the church of God, which he has purchased [pereipoieomai] with his own blood.
29 For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.
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 [His gift], which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified.
33 I have coveted no man’s silver, or gold, or apparel.
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, and to remember the words of the LORD Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

Romans 11
25 For I would not, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
26 And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Zion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:
27 For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.
28 As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the father’s sakes.
29 For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.
30 For as you in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief:
31 Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy.
32 For God has concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.
33 O the depth [bathos – mysteries] of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are [they cannot be found by men, only God reveals them] his judgments, and his ways [the manner in which He reveals His presence] past finding out!
34 For who has known the mind of the LORD? or who has been his counselor?
35 Or who has first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again?
36 For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory forever. Amen.

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

In verse 9 above, speaking of things the princes (powers – those exercising authority) of the world don’t know, the deep of which they are ignorant, and therefore crucified the flesh veiling the LORD of glory, Paul quotes from Isaiah 64:4.

The (many times discussed) word esousia, is the same word that appears in the title (from Luke 7:8) rendered “authority.” In Luke, the verse begins with “For I also am,” as “a certain centurion” is, in recognition of the LORD’s authority, comparing it (exousia) to his. Of this faith in Him, the LORD then says, “I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel.”

Luke only uses the word centurion one other time, in Luke 23:47, as he (the LORD in him) describes the crucifixion.

Luke 23
44 And it was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour.
45 And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst.
46 And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into your hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost.
47 Now when the centurion saw what was done, he glorified God, saying, Certainly this was a righteous man.

When Luke speaks of “giving up the ghost,” he uses the three times used word ekpneo; ek meaning through this manner, and pneo, a seven times used word meaning, “to breathe hard, i.e. breeze:–blow.”

It (pneo) is the word, rendered “blows” in John 3:8, used to tell of the Spirit moving where He will, and men hearing the voice (of God) but not knowing where it comes from or where it is going.

John 3
5 Jesus answered, Truly, truly, I say unto you, Except a man be born of water [the word of God] and of the [understanding that only come by His] Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
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 [pneo] where it wills, and you hear the sound thereof, but can not tell from where it comes, and where it goes: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.
9 Nicodemus [those who overcome the crowd – the stench of ignorance that pervades this evil generation] answered and said unto him, How can these things be?
10 Jesus answered and said unto him, Are you a master [teacher] 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 [been given sight by the marvelous work of the LORD Himself]; 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 [of the full understanding God has given as a gift]?
13 And no man has ascended up to heaven [into full understanding], but he that [whose understanding] came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven [who has full understanding].
14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man 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 [by their own ignorance and that of those they follow into perdition], 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 [identity] of the only begotten Son of God.
19 And this is the condemnation [krisis – the decision point when men decide their own fate], that light [understanding] is come into the world, and men loved darkness [ignorance] rather than light, because their deeds were evil [the choice that keeps the dead in darkness and death].
20 For every one that does evil hates the light, neither comes to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
21 But he that does truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
22 After these things came Jesus and his disciples into the land of Judaea; and there he tarried [long-suffered] with them, and baptized [taking them below the surface of the waters, into the deep therein].

Isaiah 64 begins with Isaiah (those that Jehovah saves) asking for what he is seeing and not comprehending. Chapter 65 begins with the LORD telling of being found by a nation not called by His name, meaning not knowing His identity. In this context, He then tells of the dead who remain among the dead, saying to Him, “Stand by yourself, come not near to me, for I am holier than you.”

They don’t recognize Him because they don’t understand only the son reveals the Father, and only the Father the son; by the word of God coming through His work (first) unknown (as the Holy Ghost).

Matthew 11
25 At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank you, O Father, LORD of heaven and earth, because you have hid these things [in a mystery] from the wise and prudent, and have revealed them unto babes.
26 Even so, Father: for so it seemed good in your sight.
27 All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knows the Son, but the Father; neither knows any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.
28 Come unto me, all you that labor [for that which never gets you to the Father or the son] and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and you shall find rest unto your souls.
30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light [double meaning intended].

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

Isaiah 65
1 I am sought of them that asked not for me; I am found of them that sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation that was not called by my name.
2 I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which walketh in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts;
3 A people that provoke me to anger continually to my face; that sacrifice in gardens, and burns incense upon altars of brick [made by the hands of man];
4 Which remain among the graves [among the dead], and lodge in the monuments [the tombs that house the dead], which eat swine’s flesh [unclean things], and broth of abominable things is in their vessels [which the put in God’s place];
5 Which say, “Stand by yourself, come not near to me; for I am holier than you” [showing their self-righteousness]. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burns all the day.
6 Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, even recompense into their bosom,
7 Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, says the LORD, which have burned incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills: therefore will I measure their former work into their bosom.
8 Thus says the LORD, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one says, Destroy it not; for a blessing is in it: so will I do [send this blessing] for my servants’ sakes, that I may not destroy them all.
9 And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains: and mine elect shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there.
10 And Sharon [these things brought into plain sight] shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor [where they were in tribulation] a place for the herds to lie down in, for my people that have sought me.
11 But you are they that forsake the LORD, that forget my holy mountain, that prepare a table for that troop [the enemy army mixed among us, at war to destroy God’s people, our nation, and our better culture, while they claim it’s for our peace and safety], and that furnish the drink offering unto that number.
12 Therefore will I number you to the sword, and you shall all bow down to the slaughter: because when I called, you did not answer; when I spoke, you did not hear; but did evil before mine eyes, and did choose that wherein I delighted not.
13 Therefore thus says the LORD God, Behold, my servants shall eat, but you shall be hungry: behold, my servants shall drink, but you shall be thirsty: behold, my servants shall rejoice, but you shall be ashamed:
14 Behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but you shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation of spirit.
15 And you shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen: for the LORD God shall slay you, and call his servants by another name:
16 That he who blesses himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth; and he that swears in the earth shall swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles [tribulation] are forgotten, and because they are hid from mine eyes.
17 For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.
18 But be you glad and rejoice forever in that which I create: for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.
19 And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people: and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying.

Revelation 21
1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.
2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.
4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
5 And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.
6 And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.
7 He that overcomes shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.

Hebrews 12
You have 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:
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.

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; it shall not cleave to me.
4 A froward heart shall depart from me: I will not know a wicked person.
5 Whoso privily slanders his neighbor, him will I cut off: 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, 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 [known liars telling known lies] that tells lies shall not tarry in my sight.
8 I will early destroy all the wicked of the land; that I may cut off all wicked doers from the city of the LORD.

Now will I rise, says the LORD; now will I be exalted; now will I lift up myself.

The above, Isaiah 33:10, is the LORD speaking of now, when none are “left,” when all are confounded, and the land (‘erets – the earth, all truth in it) is “forsaken.” The following, which we’ve discussed in recent posts, are the verses saying this and telling of it as when the LORD comes (has come) to judge the earth.

Jeremiah 9
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, because our dwellings have cast us out [“into the midst of deceit” – see verse 6 below].

6 Your habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, says the LORD.
7 Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people?
8 Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaks deceit: one speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in heart he lays his wait.
9 Shall I not visit them for these things? says the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

The word rendered “forsaken,” above in verse 19, is the Hebrew word ‘azab, referring us to Deuteronomy 32:36, there saying it’s when the LORD sees it, that none are “left,” when His people’s power is gone, He will come to judge the earth.

Deuteronomy 32
28 For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them.
29 O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
30 How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight [that there is none left], except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up?
31 For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.
32 For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter:
33 Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.
34 Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures?
35 To me belongs vengeance [naqam 5359] and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.
36 For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he sees that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left [‘azab].
37 And he shall say, Where are their gods [who are men who’ve put themselves in God’s place], their rock in whom they trusted,
38 Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offerings? let them rise up and help you, and be your protection.
39 See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.
40 For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live forever.
41 If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance [naqam 5359] to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me.
42 I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy.
43 Rejoice, O you nations, with his people: for he will avenge [naqam 5358] the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance [naqam 5359] to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, and to his people.

As we’ve seen, this condition, above described as “confounded,” is later, in Isaiah 34:11, described by (the LORD through) Isaiah, as laid out by a line of confusion, upon which are built stone of emptiness. We’re told in verse 8, “it is the day of the LORD’s vengeance [naqam 5359], and the year of recompenses for the controversy [who will rule the earth] of Zion.”

The word here rendered “recompenses” is the three times used Hebrew word shilluwm, meaning “from 7999; a requital, i.e. (secure) retribution, (venal) a fee:–recompense, reward.” The word its from (7999) is shalam (the Salem in Jerusalem: peace that flows through God’s teaching), meaning “to be safe (in mind, body or estate); figuratively, to be (causatively, make) completed; by implication, to be friendly; by extension, to reciprocate (in various applications).”

In context, the other two uses of the shilluwm, Hosea 9:7 and Micah 7:3, define the time and the LORD’s visitation, His judgment: the punishment of those destroying His people, and the reward of the meek who inherit the earth.

Hosea 9
7 The days of visitation have come, the days of recompense [shilluwm] have come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad [cannot distinguish between reality and his delusions], for the multitude of your iniquity, and the great hatred [deception they put in place of the love of God’s truth].
8 The watchman [tsaphah – the overseer – who see what is coming] of Ephraim [of God’s people in this generation] was with my God: but the prophet is [the many false prophets are] a snare of a fowler in all his ways, and hatred [lies, abominations they put] in the house of his God.
9 They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.
10 I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the first-ripe in the fig tree at her first time: but they went to Baal-peor, and separated themselves unto that shame; and their abominations were according as they loved.
11 As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.
12 Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there shall not be a man left: yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!

The word “left” above (in verse 12) doesn’t appear in the original text, while, in context, it refers to the Hebrew word ‘azab, it more specifically points us to Jeremiah 4:25. There we are told of the condition of the earth, when the LORD looked, and there was “no man.”

Jeremiah 4
…now also will I give sentence against them.
13 Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots shall be as a whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us! for we are spoiled.
14 O Jerusalem, wash your heart [with these pure waters] from wickedness, that you mayest be saved. How long shall your vain thoughts lodge within you?
15 For a voice declares from Dan [this judgment], and publishes affliction from mount Ephraim [to God’s people in this generation].
16 Make you mention to the nations; behold, publish against Jerusalem, that watchers [the false prophets watching for their chance to destroying you with their misleading] come from a far country, and give out their voice against the cities of Judah.
17 As keepers of a field, are they against her round about; because she has been rebellious against me [against My good leading], says the LORD.
18 Your way and your doings have procured these things unto you; this is your wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reaches unto your heart [it corrupts your thinking].
19 My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart makes a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet [the voice of the archangel – the good watchman], the alarm of war [of the wicked against us – which God’s people refuse to acknowledge].
20 Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, and my curtains in a moment.
21 How long shall I see the standard [nec – the son of man lifted up, as Moses lifted the serpent in the wilderness], and hear the sound [qowl – voice] of the trumpet [of the archangel and not join him sounding the alarm of war]?
22 For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish [cakal – foolish] children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
23 I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.
24 I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly.
25 I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens [the place of understanding] were fled.
26 I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the LORD, and by his fierce anger.
27 For thus has the LORD said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end.
28 For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black [in the place where there should be understanding there is instead ignorance]; because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will not repent, neither will I turn back from it.

Jeremiah 5
21 Hear now this, O foolish [cakal] people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not:
22 Fear you not me? says the LORD: will you not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea [this generation as the end of the corrupt world] by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves [the pride of the dead in power] thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it [this end]?
23 But this people has a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone.
24 Neither say they in their heart [not seeing the reality of this moment], Let us now fear the LORD our God, that gives rain [His word from heaven], both the former and the latter, in his season [this appointed time]: he reserves unto us [this generation] the appointed weeks of the harvest.
25 Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you.
26 For among my people are found wicked men [in power]: they lay wait, as he that sets snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
27 As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich [the Aristocracy, that is now attempting to destroy humanity while claiming they are its saviors].

As we understand, the words “confusion” and “emptiness,” in Isaiah 34:11, and “without form, and void,” in Jeremiah 4:23, are both respectively the Hebrew words tohuw and bohuw. These words only appear one other time together, the only other time bohuw is used, in Genesis 1:2, identically translated as “without form, and void,” when darkness (ignorance) covered the face of the deep (understanding). We are told of the rescue beginning when the Spirit of God (the LORD unknown in the darkness) moved upon the surface of the water (revealing what is below in the deep). What is produced is light, understanding (in one, the Only-begotten of God – Christ the first-fruit, and then all those who are His at His coming) un-comprehended in the ignorance (as a thief in the night).

Isaiah 34 tells us how ignorance comes, saying: 12 They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all her princes shall be nothing. 13 And thorns {misleader – as overgrowing in a time of neglect} shall come up in her palaces {the places of power}, nettles and brambles {deceivers} in the fortresses {in the strongholds where we should be in safety} thereof: and it shall be a habitation of dragons {who devour with their wide open mouths}, and a court for owls {who hunt souls in the darkness}.

The word rendered “nobles” is chor, meaning “white or pure (from the cleansing or shining power of fire.)” This descriptively says they (princes) have this quality and the power to bring those they lead into this state. When it says, they are instead “nothing,” it is the Hebrew word ‘ephec, meaning “cessation, i.e. an end (especially of the earth),” which refers us to its use in Isaiah 41:12, saying “You shall seek them, and shall not find them, even them that contended with you: they that war against you shall be as nothing, and as a thing of naught [‘ephec].”

Isaiah 41
8 But you, Israel, are my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend.
9 You whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called you from the chief men thereof, and said unto you, You are my servant; I have chosen you, and not cast you away.
10 Fear you not; for I am with you: be not dismayed; for I am your God: I will strengthen you; yea, I will help you; yea, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.
11 Behold, all they that were incensed against you shall be ashamed [buwsh – disappointed by not reaching the end they seek] and confounded [and confused when they don’t]: they shall be as nothing; and they that strive with you shall perish.
12 You shall seek them, and shall not find them, even them that contended with you: they that war against you shall be as nothing, and as a thing of naught [‘ephec].
13 For I the LORD your God will hold your right hand, saying unto you, Fear not; I will help you.
14 Fear not, you worm Jacob, and you men of Israel; I will help you, says the LORD, and your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.
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 [for this word of God], I the LORD will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.
18 I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of [living] water.

Micah 7
1 Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grape-gleanings of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat: my soul desired the first-ripe fruit.
2 The good man [the fruit] is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.
3 That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asks, and the judge asks for a reward [shilluwm]; and the great man, he utters his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.
4 The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of your watchmen and your visitation comes; now shall be their perplexity.
5 Trust you not in a friend, put you not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of your mouth from her that lies in your bosom.
6 For the son dishonor the father, the daughter rises up against her mother, the daughter in law against her mother-in-law; a man’s enemies are the men of his own house.
7 Therefore I will look unto the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.
8 Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness [in ignorance], the LORD shall be a light [understanding] unto me.
9 I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because I have sinned against him [looking to those of His, and not looking to the maker thereof], until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light [by His understanding], and I shall behold his righteousness.
10 Then she that is mine enemy shall see it, and shame shall cover her which said unto me, Where is the LORD your God? mine eyes shall behold her: now shall she be trodden down as the mire of the streets.
11 In the day that your walls are to be built, in that day shall the decree be far removed.
12 In that day also he shall come even to you from Assyria [from the communists], and from the fortified cities, and from the fortress even to the river [of these living waters], and from sea to sea, and from mountain to mountain.
13 Notwithstanding the land shall be desolate because of them that dwell therein, for the fruit [the misleaders she raised to power] of their doings.
14 Feed your people with your rod, the flock of your heritage, which dwell solitarily in the wood, in the midst of Carmel [this garden – the land that is like Eden]: let them feed in Bashan [among His flock] and Gilead [from this mountain of testimony], as in the days of old.
15 According to the days of your coming out of the land of Egypt [out from under oppressors] will I show unto him marvelous things [by opening your eyes of understanding].
16 The nations shall see [these marvels] and be confounded [buwsh – disappointed when their words of confusion don’t get them what they seek] at all their might: they shall lay their hand upon their mouth, their ears shall be deaf.
17 They shall lick the dust like a serpent, they shall move out of their holes like worms of the earth: they shall be afraid of the LORD our God, and shall fear because of you.
18 Who is a God like unto you, that pardons iniquity, and passes by the transgression of the [elect] remnant of his heritage? he retains not his anger forever, because he delights in mercy.
19 He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and you will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.
20 You will perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham, which you have sworn unto our fathers from the days of old.

The LORD, in verse 3 above, speaking of the shilluwm (the just recompense, not the “reward” they desire) of the wicked, says it is by their own “mischievous” (havvah) desire they are “confounded.” The word havvah is from the six times used word hava’, meaning to breathe (speak), into existence.

In this context, and seeing the contrast, here are several of the appearances of hava’.

Job 37
2 Hear attentively the noise [rogez – relentlessness] of his voice, and the sound that goes out of his mouth.
3 He directs it under the whole heaven, and his lightning [understanding from heaven] unto the ends of the [ending the old and creating the new] earth.
4 After it a voice roars [as a Lion against the pride of Jordan]: he thunder [the voice of the light heard from heaven, the place of full understanding] with the voice of his excellency; and he will not stay them [He will not hold back understanding] when his voice is heard.
5 God thunders marvelously [opening blind eyes] with his voice; great things does he, which we cannot comprehend [until our ignorance is removed].
6 For he says to the snow [His word frozen, reserved unto fire, in heaven], Be [hava’ – come into existence] on the earth; likewise to the small rain, and to the great rain of his strength [this word of God from heaven, which when understood {rain and light} brings life on earth].
7 He seals up the hand [the work] of every man; that all men may know [understand] his work.
8 Then the beasts [without His Spirit] go into dens, and remain in their places.
9 Out of the south comes the whirlwind [His Almighty Spirit against the ignorance of the wicked]: and cold out of the north [the darkness, ignorance, by which His word is frozen – present but not understood].
10 By the breath of God frost is given: and the breadth of the waters is straitened [ordered into understanding].
11 Also by watering he wearies [tarach – overburdens] the thick cloud [that it can no longer hold back the rain in it]: he scatters [puwts – disperses {His understanding} from] his bright cloud [where the elements {of understanding} are held when they were removed from the earth]:
12 And it is turned round about [they return, as the wheel within a wheel, written understand sent to give understanding] by his counsels: that they may do [accomplish] whatsoever he commands them upon the face of the world [the present generation to whom it is sent] in the earth.
13 He causes it to come, whether for correction, or for his land, or for mercy.
14 Hearken unto this, O Job [my people who are hated by this evil generation]: stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God.
15 Do you know when God disposed them, and caused the light [understanding] of his cloud [held in heaven] to shine [to come upon all who come out of corruption into the shining light of His new day]?
16 Do you know the balancings [when they reach this tipping point and empty their burden] of the clouds, the wondrous works of him which is perfect in knowledge?
17 How your garments are warm [this covering He send to clothe with His righteousness], when he quiets the earth by the south wind [the right hand of His power, the one looking at, watching, the sun rise]?
18 Have you with him spread out the sky, which is strong [from where strength comes], and as a molten looking glass [through which He gives us sight]?
19 Teach us what we shall say unto him [all should say Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah!]; for we cannot order our speech by reason of darkness [ignorance].
20 Shall it be told him that I speak? if a man speak [his own word and opposes God], surely he shall be swallowed up.
21 And now [ignorant] men see not the bright light [this understand in] which is in the clouds: but the wind passes, and cleanses them [of their own ideas, the creations of men, that blind them].
22 Fair weather comes out of the north [clam then comes by coming out of the places of ignorance]: with God is terrible majesty.
23 Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out: he is excellent in power, and in judgment, and in plenty of justice: he will not afflict.
24 Men do therefore fear him: he respects not any that are wise of heart [the pride that comes before their fall].

Ecclesiastes 2
19 And who knows whether he [those who come after] shall be a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labor [whereby I am given understanding which I pass forward in the wheel] wherein I have labored, and wherein I have shown myself wise under the sun [when God’s light was upon me]. This is also vanity.
20 Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair [ya’ash – when I understood all this understanding would in time cease] of all the labor which I took under the sun.
21 For there is a man whose labor is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that has not labored therein shall he leave it for his portion [this inheritance passed to future generations]. This also is vanity and a great evil [by which it is lost].
22 For what has [hava’ – brought into existence] man of all his labor, and of the vexation [to understand] of his heart his own mind], wherein he has labored under the sun [when God’s light is shining upon him]?
23 For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night [in his time of ignorance]. This is also vanity [worthless worry].
24 There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw [I understood], that it was from the hand [work] of God [when He wills and only then is understanding again given].
25 For who can eat, or who else can hasten hereunto, more than I?
26 For God gives to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner [those led away by their own lusts] he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before [waiting for the presence of] God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

In this context: Solomon comprehending the LORD gave him his understanding, and knowing when passed on, it would be lost in the hands of evil (misleading) men; a process he then, in Ecclesiastes 11:1, calls casting his bread (full understanding) upon the waters, to be found in many days.

Ecclesiastes 11
1 Cast your bread upon the waters: for you shall find it after many days [when God wills].
2 Give a portion [this inheritance] to seven [the congregation of God’s people], and also to eight [for the new creation]; for you know not what evil [misleading] shall be upon the earth [when the darkness will again cover the deep].
3 If the clouds be full of rain [when understanding is removed from the earth], they empty themselves upon the earth [when God wills it to return]: and if the tree [the upright who are God’s right hand] fall toward the south, or toward the north [into darkness], in the place where the tree falls, there it shall be [hava’ – there shall it come into existence by the words men speak].
4 He that observes [shamar, meaning “to hedge about (as with thorns [misleaders])”] the wind [the Spirt of God] shall not sow; and he that regards [ra’ah – advise himself] the clouds [when understand has left the earth] shall not reap.
5 As you know not what is the way of the Spirit [of God working unknown], nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her [the ONE BODY] that is with [a man] child: even so you know not the works of God who makes all.
6 In the morning [when the light of the new day comes] sow your seed, and in the evening [when darkness is approaching] withhold not your hand: for you know not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.
7 Truly the light [understanding] is sweet [strength from the mouth of those God gives it], and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes [of understanding] to behold the sun [the light of this new day come]:
8 But if a man lives many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness [ignorance and how has come]; for they shall be many. All that comes is vanity [worthless].
9 Rejoice, O young man, in your youth; and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes: but know you, that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.
10 Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, and put away evil [misleading] from your flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity [are worthless without God’s understanding].

When Solomon above warns the young men, he is speaking to those who will very shortly advise his son Rehoboam to abandon his wisdom, even what is written, and bring the beach to the house of David.

1 Kings 12
6 And king Rehoboam consulted with the old men, that stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, and said, How do you advise that I may answer this people?
7 And they spoke unto him, saying, If you will be a servant unto this people this day, and will serve them, and answer them, and speak good words to them, then they will be your servants forever.
8 But he forsook the counsel of the old men, which they had given him, and consulted with the young men that were grown up with him, and which stood before him:
9 And he said unto them, What counsel give you that we may answer this people, who have spoken to me, saying, Make the yoke which your father did put upon us lighter?
10 And the young men that were grown up with him spoke unto him, saying, Thus shall you speak unto this people that spoke unto you, saying, Your father made our yoke heavy, but make you it lighter unto us; thus shall you say unto them, My little finger shall be thicker than my father’s loins.
11 And now whereas my father did lade you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke: my father has chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
12 So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king had appointed, saying, Come to me again the third day.
13 And the king answered the people roughly, and forsook the old men’s counsel that they gave him;
14 And spoke to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, and I will add to your yoke: my father also chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.

This is the condition of the day.

Isaiah 16
1 Send you the lamb [I AM] to the ruler of the land from Sela [the false rock of the enemies mixed among us] to the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.
2 For it shall be, that, as a wandering bird cast out of the nest, so the daughters of Moab [those who mouth are the gates holding the world in hell] shall be at the fords [crossing over] of Arnon [brawling words].
3 Take counsel, execute judgment; make your shadow as the night [understand your own ignorance] in the midst of the noonday [now when the sun is fully risen – with healing, the cure, in His wings]; hide the outcasts [those who will then come out of hell into life]; bewray not him that wanders [don’t put to shame all the apostates].
4 Let mine outcasts dwell with you, Moab; be [hava’ – come to life, into existence by making your words] a covert to them from the face of the spoiler: for the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceases, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.
5 And in mercy shall the throne be established: and he shall sit upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging, and seeking judgment, and hasting righteousness.
6 We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is very proud: even of his haughtiness, and his pride [by which he refuses to surrender to the Highest power], and his wrath: but his lies shall not be so.
7 Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab, everyone shall howl: for the foundations of Kirhareseth [the wall of that is broken down] shall you mourn; surely they are stricken.

1 Corinthians 13
8 Charity [agape – the LORD’s mercy revealed in His relentless giving, long-suffering until we receive full understanding] never fails: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away [with the old heaven and earth].
9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
10 But when that which is perfect [teleios – complete understanding] is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
12 For now we see through a glass, darkly [through ignorance]; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
13 And now abides faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

The word Hallelujah, never appearing in the KJV, is the two Hebrew words halal and Yahh.

From the Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary:

Strong’s #1984: halal (pronounced haw-lal’) a primitive root; to be clear (orig. of sound, but usually of color); to shine; hence, to make a show, to boast; and thus to be (clamorously) foolish; to rave; causatively, to celebrate; also to stultify:–(make) boast (self), celebrate, commend, (deal, make), fool(- ish, -ly), glory, give (light), be (make, feign self) mad (against), give in marriage, (sing, be worthy of) praise, rage, renowned, shine.

Strong’s #3050: Yahh (pronounced yaw) contraction for 3068, and meaning the same; Jah, the sacred name:–Jah, the LORD, most vehement.

Strong’s #3068: Yhovah (pronounced yeh-ho-vaw’) from 1961 hayah – “to exist, i.e. be or become, come to pass (always emphatic; self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God:–Jehovah, the LORD.

These words tell of the LORD manifesting His presence at His will, in the flesh He chooses, through His word only He completely knows.

1 Timothy 3
14 These things write I unto you, hoping to come unto you shortly:
15 But if I tarry long, that you mayest know how you ought to behave yourself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
16 And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.

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

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

Who [but the LORD Himself] has delivered us from the power of darkness, and has translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:

The word “power,” above in Colossians 1:13, is the Greek word exousia, which we’ve previously discussed in detail. Its meaning is “from 1832 (in the sense of ability); privilege, i.e. (subjectively) force, capacity, competency, freedom, or (objectively) mastery (concretely, magistrate, superhuman, potentate, token of control), delegated influence.”

It is from the word (1832) exesti, meaning a right, to act in public (on behalf, and because of existence – see the post of 22 May 2022), most often rendered “lawful.” Paul gives it context when, in 2 Corinthians 12:4, speaking of his being caught up (harpazo) into the “third heaven,” meaning now when the unspoken things (not public knowledge – secrets) of God are fully known, “and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful [exesti] for a man to utter.”

In this, he also gives us the full understanding of being “caught up,” when the same word (harpazo) appears, rendered the same (“caught up”), in 1 Thessalonians 4:17. Luke above, speaking of our full understanding, says we are delivered from the authority (exousia) of darkness: the ignorance (of the knowledge of God) pervading this generation.

Speaking of deliverance (rhoumai) from darkness, when Paul says we are “translated” from it, he uses the (five times used) Greek word methistemi, meaning, “from 3326 [meta] and 2476 [histemi]; to transfer, i.e. carry away, depose or (figuratively) exchange, seduce:–put out, remove, translate, turn away.” The word’s origins tell us it’s speaking of a succession of associations, from the established power of darkness (ignorance) to the authority of light.

Hebrews 10
5 Wherefore when he comes into the world, he says, Sacrifice and offering you would not, but a body have you prepared me:
6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you have had no pleasure.
7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do your will, O God.
8 Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin you would not, neither had pleasure therein; which are offered by the law;
9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do your will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish [histemi] the second.
10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
11 And every priest stands [histemi] daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:
12 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God;
13 From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.
14 For by one offering he has perfected forever them that are sanctified [separated – reestablished].
15 Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before,
16 This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the LORD, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;
17 And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
18 Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.
19 Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest [into the LORD’s presence at mercy seat] by the blood of Jesus,
20 By a new and living way, which he has consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh [seeing the Father in the son speaking];
21 And having a high priest over the house of God;
22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
23 Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)
24 And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:
25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together [episunagoge, “a complete collection; especially a Christian meeting (for worship)”], as the manner of some [who are established, stand, outside of His ONE BODY] is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as you see the day approaching.
26 For if we sin willfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth [which takes away our sins], there remains no more sacrifice for sins,
27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
28 He that despised Moses’ law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:
29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose you, shall he be thought worthy, who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and has done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
30 For we know him that has said, Vengeance belongs unto me, I will recompense, says the LORD. And again, The LORD shall judge his people.
31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

The word methistemi (rendered translation) is used to tell of the LORD removing Saul (who the people chose) and raising up (establishing) David (God’s chosen) to the throne.

Acts 13
22 And when he had removed [methistemi] him, he raised up unto them David to be their king; to whom also he gave their testimony, and said, I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after mine own heart, which shall fulfil all my will.
23 Of this man’s seed has God according to his promise raised unto Israel a Savior, Jesus:
24 When John had first preached before his coming the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.
25 And as John fulfilled his course, he said, Whom think you that I am? I am not he. But, behold, there comes one after me, whose shoes of his feet I am not worthy to loose.
26 Men and brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and whosoever among you fears God, to you is the word of this salvation sent.
27 For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him.
28 And though they found no cause of death in him, yet desired they Pilate that he should be slain.
29 And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a sepulcher.
30 But God raised him from the dead:
31 And he was seen many days of them which came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses unto the people.
32 And we declare unto you glad tidings, how that the promise which was made unto the fathers,
33 God has fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he has raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in the second psalm, You are my Son, this day have I begotten you.
34 And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he said on this wise, I will give you the sure mercies of David.
35 Wherefore he says also in another psalm, You shall not suffer your Holy One to see corruption.
36 For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption:
37 But he, whom God raised again, saw no corruption.
38 Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins:
39 And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.
40 Beware therefore, lest that come upon you, which is spoken of in the prophets;
41 Behold, you despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which you shall in no wise believe, though a man declares it unto you.

The word episunagoge only appears one other time, in 2 Thessalonians 2:1, there telling us it is our “gathering together” to the LORD Jesus Christ at His coming.

2 Thessalonians 2
1 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our LORD Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together [episunagoge] unto him,
2 That you be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.
3 Let no man deceive [for many false prophets have come and deceived all except the very elect] you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there comes a falling away [apostasia – standing away from God, “defection from truth (properly, the state) (“apostasy”):–falling away, forsake” when none are “left,” see Deuteronomy 32:36 in the previous post telling us this is when the LORD comes – to judge the earth] first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition [apoleia – who, as Reuben, put themselves in God’s place];
4 Who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sits in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.
5 Remember you not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
6 And now you know what withholds [katecho – holds you down] that he [they] might be revealed in his time.
7 For the mystery of iniquity does already work [these phrases tell us it is more than one – they are the legions of demons sitting as the heads of the scattered body, opposing God with their false teaching and misleading]: only he who now lets [katecho – holds you down] will let [will hold you down], until he be taken out of the way [mesos – removed {as was Saul} from among you].
8 And then shall that Wicked [the men in who the spirit of Satan works] be revealed, whom the LORD shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming [giving understanding]:
9 Even him [I Am], whose coming is after [the apostacy] the working of Satan [the resister] with all power and signs and lying wonders,
10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion [the insanity that now rules the world and is destroying humanity], that they should believe a lie [from known liars telling known lies – now seeking to finish off the destruction of humanity with the lie of a “climate crisis” {even when they (CNN) were caught admitting the conspiracy}]
12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness [who know they are lying and continue with the lie].
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 [separation from the wicked, and establishing you in the truth] of the Spirit and belief of the truth:
14 Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our LORD Jesus Christ.
15 Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which you have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.
16 Now our LORD Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which has loved us, and has given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace,
17 Comfort your hearts, and establish [sterizo] you in every good word and work.

[See at climate.new “True to form: CNN starts climate change hysteria push after director revealed ‘propaganda’ drive to Project Veritas”]

When the LORD says he comes “in the volume of the book” to do the will of the Father, he is speaking of coming and His presence manifested, as it is in me, by His word. That is the authority He’s given, as in me, to judge the guilty world.

Romans 3
10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
11 There is none that understands, there is none that seeks after God.
12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that does good, no, not one.
13 Their throat is an open sepulcher [their words hold them and those who follow them, in death]; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
15 Their feet are swift to shed blood:
16 Destruction and misery are in their ways:
17 And the way of peace have they not known:
18 There is no fear of God before their eyes.
19 Now we know that what things soever the law says, it says to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
21 But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;
22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:
23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
25 Whom God has set forth to be a propitiation [hilasterion – only here and in Hebrews 9:5 where it is rendered “mercy seat” – meaning the LORD is the ark of the covenant come to the do the will of the Father, manifest His presence in the sacrifice to deliver His word without wavering] through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance [mercy] of God;
26 To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believes in Jesus.
27 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith [that it is the Father manifested in the flesh of the son, first unknown and now in glory revealed].
28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.
29 Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:
30 Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by [their] faith, and uncircumcision through [our] faith.
31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law [and restore its order].

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

2 Corinthians 1
1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother [who is a man of war], unto the church of God which is at Corinth [meaning satiated – given full understanding], with all the saints which are in all Achaia [meaning trouble – tribulation]:
2 Grace be to you and peace from God our Father, and from the LORD Jesus Christ.
3 Blessed be God, even the Father of our LORD Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort [paraklesis – calling near, into all truth, to rescue us];
4 Who comforts [parakleo – calls us near, into all truth, to rescue] us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort [parakleo – call near, into all truth, to rescue by us] them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted [paraklesis – calling near, into all truth, to rescue us] of God.
5 For as the [long] sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation [paraklesis – calling near, into all truth, to rescue] also abounds by Christ.
6 And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation [paraklesis – calling near, into all truth, to rescue] and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted [parakleo – called near, into all truth, and rescued], it is for your consolation [parakleo – calling you near, into all truth, to be rescued] and salvation.
7 And our hope of you is steadfast, knowing, that as you are partakers of the sufferings, so shall you be also of the consolation [paraklesis – calling others near, into all truth, to be rescued].
8 For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life:
9 But we had the sentence of death in ourselves [because of the guilty sentence], that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raises the dead:
10 Who delivered [rhoumai] us from so great a death, and does deliver [rhoumai]: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver [rhoumai] us;
11 You also helping together by prayer for us, that for the gift bestowed upon us by the means of many persons thanks may be given by many on our behalf.
12 For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.
13 For we write none other things unto you, that what you read or acknowledge; and I trust you shall acknowledge even to the end;
14 As also you have acknowledged us in part, that we are your rejoicing, even as you also are ours in the day of the LORD Jesus.

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

Isaiah 27
8 In measure, when it shooteth forth, you will debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind.
9 By this, therefore, shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he makes all the stones of the altar as chalkstones [as the cretaceous {chalk} period – nothing remaining but dead bones] that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up [quwm – shall not be established].

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

Psalms 69
1 Save me, O God; for the waters [below, in which is death] are come in unto my soul.
2 I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
3 I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
4 They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.
5 O God, you know my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from you.
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 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, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.
15 Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.
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 from your servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily.
18 Draw near [to comfort, to lead us into all truth] unto my soul, and redeem [ga’al – rhomai] it: deliver me because of mine enemies.
19 You have known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonor: mine 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 for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar 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 be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents.
26 For they persecute him whom you have smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom you have wounded.
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 [on Your throne].
30 I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.
31 This also shall please the LORD better than an ox or bullock that has horns and hoofs.
32 The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God.
33 For the LORD hears the poor, and despises not his prisoners.
34 Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moves therein.
35 For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that they may dwell there, and have it in possession.
36 The seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that love his name shall dwell therein.

Psalms 21
1 The king shall joy in your strength, O LORD; and in your salvation how greatly shall he rejoice!
2 You have given him his heart’s desire, and have not withholden the request of his lips. Selah.
3 For you prevented [went before] him with the blessings of goodness: you set a crown of pure gold on his head.
4 He asked life of you, and you gave it him, even length of days forever and ever.
5 His glory is great in your salvation: honor and majesty have you laid upon him.
6 For you have made him most blessed forever: you have made him exceeding glad with your countenance.
7 For the king trusts in the LORD, and through the mercy of the Most High he shall not be moved.
8 Your hand shall find out all your enemies: your right hand shall find out those that hate you.
9 You shall make them as a fiery oven in the time of your anger: the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them.
10 Their fruit shall you destroy from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men.
11 For they intended evil against you: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.
12 Therefore shall you make them turn their back, when you shall make ready your arrows upon your strings against the face of them.
13 Be you exalted, LORD, in your own strength: so will we sing and praise your power.

But let him that glories glory in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the LORD which exercises lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, says the LORD.

In the verse (23) before the above (Jeremiah 9:24) the LORD concludes an indictment of His people, calling all to mourn, verse 21 saying, “For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces.” For those without understanding, the quote speaks of not seeing what’s coming (through the window, meaning a lack of foresight necessary for good leadership), and, therefore, those (the dead-minded) leading lead to death.

The title verse is quoted in 1 Corinthians 1:31, amid Paul’s abrading the wise of this deluded and insane world, whose falsely so-called wisdom is intentional ignorance, foolishness they use to manipulate and control those following them. In Jeremiah 9 (which Paul is referencing) we are called to consider these things, that the world has become confounded. The LORD says those leading should call His people to repentance and mourning; instead, they are rejoicing in their self-righteousness, as is their way.

Jeremiah 9
12 Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of the LORD has spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perishes and is burned up like a wilderness, that none passeth through?
13 And the LORD says, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein;
14 But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, 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, and give them water of gall to drink.
16 I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them.
17 Thus says the LORD of hosts, Consider 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, because our dwellings have cast us out [“into the midst of deceit” – see verse 6 below].
20 Yet hear the word of the LORD, O you women, and let your ear receive the word of his [the LORD’s] mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and everyone her neighbor lamentation.
21 For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, 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 shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman, and none shall gather them.
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, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, says the LORD.

The confounding and forsaking of the land (the earth) is spoken of earlier, verses 3 thru 9 describing the condition caused by not knowing the LORD, and therefore rejecting His “lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth.” He says it is for this He has visited to avenge His soul on a nation such as this.

Jeremiah 9
3 And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, says the LORD.
4 Take you heed every one of his neighbor, and trust you not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will walk with slanders.
5 And they will deceive every one his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.
6 Your habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, says the LORD.
7 Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people?
8 Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaks deceit: one speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in heart he lays his wait.
9 Shall I not visit them for these things? says the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

The word above rendered “avenged” is naqam (5358), a word used in Deuteronomy 32:43 as the LORD says “he will avenge [naqam 5358] the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance [naqam 5359] to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, and to his people.

The word rendered “forsaken,” above in verse 19, is the Hebrew word ‘azab, referring us to Deuteronomy 32:36, there saying it’s when the LORD sees it, that none are “left,” when His people’s power is gone, He will come to judge the earth.

Deuteronomy 32
28 For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them.
29 O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
30 How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight [that there is none left], except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up?
31 For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.
32 For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter:
33 Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.
34 Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures?
35 To me belongs vengeance [naqam 5359] and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.
36 For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he sees that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left [‘azab].
37 And he shall say, Where are their gods [who are men who’ve put themselves in God’s place], their rock in whom they trusted,
38 Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offerings? let them rise up and help you, and be your protection.
39 See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.
40 For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live forever.
41 If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance [naqam 5359] to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me.
42 I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy.
43 Rejoice, O you nations, with his people: for he will avenge [naqam 5358] the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance [naqam 5359] to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, and to his people.

The powers of the earth have no power but that given (allowed) by God for His purpose. They can do nothing against Him because all they know is deception: lies: darkness that can do nothing against the truth except spew more darkness.

2 Peter 2
12 But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;
13 And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the daytime. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;
14 Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: a heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:
15 Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;
16 But was rebuked for his iniquity: [by] the dumb ass speaking with man’s voice [who] forbad the madness [insanity] of the [the false] prophet.
17 These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness [ignorance] is reserved forever.
18 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
20 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the LORD and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
21 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
22 But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again [spewing out the darkness in them]; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.

2 Peter 3
1 This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:
2 That you may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the LORD and Savior:
3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, 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 [unknown to the ignorant]; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise [the voice of God as thunders], and the elements [stoicheion – the corrupt foundational ideas of wicked men] shall melt with fervent heat [from the word of God released from heaven, unto fire], 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 dwelleth 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].
17 You therefore, beloved, seeing you know these things before, beware lest you also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall [away into fables created from men’s imaginations] from your own steadfastness.
18 But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our LORD and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and forever. Amen.

The word “steadfastness” is from the once used Greek word sterigmos, from the thirteen times used word sterizo, meaning “to set fast, i.e. (literally) to turn resolutely in a certain direction, or (figuratively) to confirm:–fix, (e-)stablish, steadfastly set, strengthen.” Peter uses the word (sterizo) once in 1 Peter and once in 2 Peter, both describing the LORD establishing us, in which He says we should stand fast.

1 Peter 5
6 Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:
7 Casting all your care upon him; for he cares for you.
8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
9 Whom resist steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.
10 But the God of all grace, who has called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that you have suffered a while, make you perfect, establish [sterizo], strengthen, settle you.
11 To him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
12 By Silvanus [branch of heaven], a faithful brother unto you, as I suppose, I have written briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God wherein you stand.

In 2 Peter 1, it (the word sterizo) is used as Peter is telling of the promises, the knowledge of God and our LORD Jesus Christ, through which is multiplied His grace and peace. The word “multiplied” is the twelve times used Greek word plethuno, meaning to increase, and referring us to the LORD using it in its first appearance, in Matthew 24:12, there speaking of the many false prophets and their teaching that now “abounds.” He says, because of this (false teaching) the love (agape – giving this word as received: the love of the truth) of many waxed cold. It (sterizo) is the antithesis of this chilling (psucho – waxing cold) Peter describes: the reversal by teaching what he, in 2 Peter 1:11, tells us is the entrance (eisodos) “into the everlasting kingdom of our LORD and Savior Jesus Christ.”

Matthew 24
10 And then [in these things the sorrows shall begin] shall many be offended [skandalizo, meaning “to entrap {in false doctrines}, i.e. trip up (figuratively, stumble (transitively) or entice to sin, apostasy or displeasure)]”, and shall betray [paradidomi, meaning “to surrender, i.e yield up, intrust, transmit,” speaks of surrendering the entrusted holy place, and there placing the false doctrines men call their gods] one another, and shall hate [reversing the love of the truth] one another.
11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.
12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
13 But he that shall endure [not surrendering what is holy] unto the end, the same shall be saved.
14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached [as it has here and now] in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.
15 When you, therefore, shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso reads, let him understand:)
16 Then let them which be in Judaea flee [the exodos, the leaving the misleaders] into the mountains [from the low to the high place, to the transfiguration where the LORD is revealed outside the corrupt church]:
17 Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take anything [leave all their false doctrine behind] out of his house:
18 Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes [the filthy rags spotted by dead flesh, the false doctrines of false prophets and false teachers].

As we know, when Daniel speaks of the “abomination,” the cause of the desolation when put in the place of the holy, the Hebrew word is shiqquwts, meaning “disgusting, i.e. filthy; especially idolatrous or (concretely) an idol:– abominable filth (idol, -ation), detestable (thing).”

Daniel is speaking of what he learned by reading Jeremiah (a process we know is the wheel within the wheel, understanding sent forward in the written word, to give the understanding by which we overcome the wicked). He is specifically referring to the use of the word (shiqquwts) in Jeremiah 7:30.

Jeremiah 7
30 For the children of Judah [Judaea – the place of the current crop of corrupt leaders, who are misleaders and wholly corrupt by the leaven of their false doctrines] have done evil in my sight, says the LORD: they have set their abominations [shiqquwts] in the house which is called by my name, to pollute [corrupt] it.
31 And they have built the high places of Tophet [in the fires of hell], which is in the valley [the low place] of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart.
32 Therefore, behold, the days come, says the LORD, that it shall no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom [who offer their children in the fires they’ve created], but the valley of slaughter [therefore flee to the mountains, and take nothing from these corrupt houses when you leave]: for they shall bury in Tophet [in the hell fires], till there be no place.
33 And the carcasses [the dead in the flesh] 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.
34 Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: for the land shall be desolate [by the abominations these false teachers and false prophets have put in My place].

The LORD tells Jeremiah, earlier in verse 2, to “Stand [fast] in the gate of the LORD’s house [the entrance into His kingdom], and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of the LORD, all you of Judah, that enter in at these gates to worship the LORD.”

To the misleaders in this evil generation, “who oppose and exalt themselves above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that they as God sit in the temple of God, showing themselves as if they are God,” hear this word:

Jeremiah 7
3 Thus says the LORD of hosts [who is a man of war], the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.
4 Trust you not in lying words, saying, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, are these.
5 For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if you thoroughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbor;
6 If you oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:
7 Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, forever and ever.
8 Behold, you trust in lying words, that cannot profit.
9 Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom you know not;
10 And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations?
11 Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen it, says the LORD.
12 But go you now unto my place which was in Shiloh, where I set my name at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.
13 And now, because you have done all these works, says the LORD, and I spoke unto you, rising up early and speaking, but you heard not; and I called you, but you answered not;
14 Therefore will I do unto this house, which is called by my name, wherein you trust, and unto the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.

When the LORD says “go now” to Shiloh, and of His rising up early speaking, it’s a reference to removing the house of Eli and replacing it with Samuel (shmuw’el – hearing God). Samuel heard the voice of God, first thinking it was Eli, and then realized it was the word of God’s mouth telling Him of the end of the house of Eli.

The deep meaning in the above leads us back to the one named Shelah, the son of Judah he promised to Tamar and never fulfilled. The name is from the fourteen times used word sh’elah (shelah), meaning “a petition; by implication, a loan:–loan, petition, request.” It is the petition for a son deferred, and again given, established (again) in Shiloh, to those who hear the voice of God’s mouth.

The name Eli (the high priest in Shiloh when the ark {the presence, glory, of God – openly manifested} was there), is from the word ‘alah, meaning to ascend, refers us to Amos 1:2 and 9:3, when those who’ve climbed to the top of Carmel wither.

The word “wither,” in Amos 1:2, is the Hebrew word yabesh, meaning “to be ashamed, confused or disappointed; also (as failing) to dry up (as water) or wither (as herbage).” In the first six appearances of this word (yabesh) it is the waters “dried up,” first (Genesis 8:7 & 14) of the flood, of the Red sea (Joshua 2:10 & 4:23), and of the Jordan (Joshua 4:23 & 5:1).

As we understand, these waters are the words of men (the ideas and ways of the ignorant that carry to and hold in death) as a flood that covered and destroyed the old world, an event also represented in the tower of Babel, when humanity advanced and though it could reach heaven by wickedness.

Genesis 6
5 And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

Genesis 7
18 And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark [wherein the seed of life is preserved] went upon the face of the waters.

Genesis 8
14 And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried [yabesh – the words that destroy men and nation withered away in the experience].
15 And God spoke unto Noah [rest], saying,
16 Go forth of the ark [wherein you were protected from the waters of death below, and now enter rest], you, and your wife, and your sons, and your sons’ wives with you.
17 Bring forth with you every living thing that is with you, of all flesh,

The oppression that then rises is through Ham (Noah’s son) from the word chamam, meaning to become hot. This word’s (name’s) meaning is found when the word first appears in Exodus 16:21 telling of when the sun “waxed hot,” the manna melted (macac).

As we know, the word manna is from Hebrew word man, meaning “a whatness (so to speak), i.e. manna (so called from the question about it [not knowing it is the bread of life, the word from the mouth of God, the loaves the LORD Jesus rightly divided and fed many, showing in the fishes it was the life unknown below the surface of the waters].” Its fuller description is found in Deuteronomy 8:1 thru 3, saying “1 All the commandments which I command you this day shall you observe to do, that you may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the LORD swore unto your fathers. 2 And you shall remember all the way which the LORD your God led you these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you, and to prove you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or not. 3 And he humbled you, and suffered you to hunger, and fed you with manna [man – the word from His mouth], which you knew not, neither did your fathers know; that he might make you know that man does not live by bread [lechem] only, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of the LORD does man live.”

Ham (the manna withered in him) then brought forth a son, Cush (darkness), who had a son, Nimrod (rebellion), who was a hunter (of souls). The beginning of His kingdom was Babel (confusion – see Genesis 10:10), and out of that land went forth Asshur (communism – See Genesis 10:11).

Matthew 24
33 So likewise you, when you shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.
34 Truly I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.
35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
36 But of that day and hour knows no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only. [Does any other know this is the time and the season, ending the old and creating the new heaven and earth?]
37 But as the days of Noah were [when He entered the ark, and those with him rested in peace, in Shiloh], so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

The name Shiloh is from the Hebrew word shalah, meaning (from the Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon) “to be at rest, prosper, be quiet, be at ease.” It is referring us to the petition for a man child (that was deferred in Shelah) fulfilled in Shiloh, entering the rest therein when the ark (the man child who hears God speaking) returns with the bread of heaven.

Friends, Ecclesiastes 3
10 I have seen the travail [to bring forth a man child], which God has given to the sons of men to be exercised [‘anah – humbled] in it. [Ecclesiastes 1:13 And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail has God given to the sons of man to be exercised {humbled} therewith {to understand there are many things only God knows, when they’ve withered from the mind of men, which only He can and does set in order again, by the man He ordains}. 14 I have seen all the works that are done under the sun {when the word from the mouth of God withers from the minds of men}; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit. 15 That which is {made} crooked {by men} cannot be made straight {by man}: and that which is wanting {needing correction} cannot be numbered.]
11 He has made everything 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, nor anything 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 [the foundations of the world to be restored, into rest and order].
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 mine heart [because these places are corrupt], God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.

The first petition (shelah – for a man child) is cited in 1 Samuel 1:17, and fulfilled, in verse 27, with the birth of Samuel, who hears God speaking. As mentioned above, this comes in Shiloh, and is the preparation for the end of the house of Eli. The reason for its end is Eli let the light (the lamp of God – 1 Samuel 3:3) go out in the temple, meaning by this the word of God, understanding, withered from the minds of men. This is reflected in his (Eli’s) sons, Hophni and Phinehas [constant strife and mouths as serpents misleading].

1 Samuel 3
12 In that day I will perform against Eli all things which I have spoken concerning his house: when I begin, I will also make an end.
13 For I have told him that I will judge his house forever for the iniquity which he knows; because his sons made themselves vile, and he restrained them not.

1 Samuel 4
11 And the ark of God was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were slain.

15 Now Eli was ninety and eight years old; and his eyes were dim, that he could not see.
16 And the man said unto Eli, I am he that came out of the army, and I fled to day out of the army. And he said, What is there done, my son?
17 And the messenger answered and said, Israel is fled before the Philistines, and there has been also a great slaughter among the people, and your two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God is taken.

22 And she said, The glory is departed from Israel: for the ark of God is taken [from Shiloh].

Amos 9
1 I saw the LORD standing upon the altar: and he said, Smite the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake: and cut them in the head, all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: he that flees of them shall not flee away, and he that escapes of them shall not be delivered.
2 Though they dig into hell, thence shall mine hand take them; though they climb up [‘alah] to heaven, thence will I bring them down:
3 And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them:
4 And though they go into captivity before their enemies, thence will I command the sword, and it shall slay them: and I will set mine eyes upon them for evil, and not for good.
5 And the LORD God of hosts is he that touches the land, and it shall melt [muwg – see verse 13 below], and all that dwell therein shall mourn: and it shall rise up [‘alah] wholly like a flood; and shall be drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.
6 It is he that builds his stories in the heaven, and has founded his troop in the earth; he that calleth for the waters of the sea, and pours them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name.
7 Are you not as children of the Ethiopians [Cush – darkness] unto me, O children of Israel? says the LORD. Have not I brought up [‘alah] Israel out of the land of Egypt [out from the oppressors]? and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?
8 Behold, the eyes of the LORD God are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; saving that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, says the LORD.
9 For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.
10 All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.
11 In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old:
12 That they may possess the remnant of Edom [the enemies mixed among us, destroying us, our nation, and our culture, all while saying it’s peace and for our safety], and of all the heathen, which are called by my name, says the LORD that does this.
13 Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt [muwg].
14 And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them.
15 And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land [of America] which I have given them, says the LORD your God.

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

Unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings.

The word above (from Malachi 4:2) rendered “arise” is zarach, which we saw in the previous post as the origin of the name Zarah, one of the twin sons of Judah and Tamar. As we understand, this refers to the king line again established in the one who rises in this described way. (See the previous post.)

Malachi 3
1 Behold, I will send my messenger [mal’ak – angel], and he shall prepare the way before me: and the LORD, whom you seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger [mal’ak – angel] of the covenant, whom you delight in: behold, he shall come, says the LORD of hosts [who is a man of war].
2 But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appears? for he is like a refiner’s fire, and like fullers’ soap:
3 And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness.
4 Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the LORD, as in the days of old, and as in former years.
5 And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers [using their words to control people], and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress [through excessive taxation] 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.

16 Then they that feared the LORD spoke often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book [this word] of remembrance 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 my jewels; 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.

Malachi 4
1 For, behold, the day comes, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that comes shall burn them up, says the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
2 But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arises with healing in his wings; and you shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.
3 And you shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, says the LORD of hosts.

The “wings” (kanaph) are those we’ve seen in Ezekiel 3:13, which are the sound of the voice of the “living creature:” describing the cherubim and the wheel within a wheel, which is the written word of God sent forward, understanding therein sent to be understood. Life is in understanding that comes as light, from the one (cherubim) God first gives it, given to the other cherubim (the one needing understanding and life).

1 Corinthians 15
20 But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits 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 firstfruits; 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 unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.

The word rendered “healing” (in Malachi 4:2) is the Hebrew word marpe’, meaning “a medicine, or (abstractly) a cure; figuratively (concretely) deliverance, or (abstractly) placidity.”

Of the sixteen times the word is used, it appears eight times in Proverbs, there describing wisdom: the proper application of knowledge and understanding, delivered in/by well-ordered works and words.

It (marpe’) is the word that appears in Jeremiah 33:6, after, in verses 2 & 3, the LORD says, “Thus says the LORD the maker thereof, the LORD that formed it, to establish it; the LORD is his name; Call unto me, and I [the maker and former thereof] will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you know not.” After this, He speaks of those who don’t know, the wicked who haven’t called on or listened to Him, who are fighting against the Chaldeans with their own ways and are destroyed. The LORD says to all, in verse 6, “Behold [open your eyes and see], I will bring it [His rebellious nation] health and cure [marpe’], and I will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth.”

As we saw in the previous post, the result of this cure, listening to His revelation, is later in this chapter described.

Jeremiah 33
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, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, shall the flocks pass [‘abar – cross over {death into life, from hell into heaven}] again under the hands of him that tells [manah – enumerates, portions out, prepares, constitutes, by telling of the great and mighty things of the LORD] 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.
16 In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely: and this is the name wherewith she shall be called, The LORD our righteousness.
17 For thus says the LORD; David shall never want a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel;
18 Neither shall the priests the Levites want a man before me to offer burnt offerings, and to kindle meat offerings, and to do sacrifice continually.

Proverbs 4
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 [My words] are life unto those that find them, and health [marpe’] to all their flesh.
23 Keep your heart [guard this foundation] with all diligence; for out of it are the issues 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. [Ecclesiastes 7:16 Be not righteous over much; neither make yourself over wise: why shouldest you destroy yourself ? 17 Be not over much wicked, neither be you foolish: why shouldest you die before your time?]

Proverbs 12
13 The wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips: but the just shall come out of trouble [tsarah – tribulation].
14 A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth: and the recompense of a man’s hands shall be rendered unto him.
15 The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkens unto counsel is wise.
16 A fool’s wrath is presently known: but a prudent man covers shame.
17 He that speaks truth shows forth righteousness: but a false witness deceit.
18 There is that speaks like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health [marpe’].
19 The lip of truth shall be established forever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment.

The word rendered “moment” is the Hebrew word raga’, meaning “to toss violently and suddenly (the sea with waves, the skin with boils); figuratively (in a favorable manner) to settle, i.e. quiet; specifically, to wink (from the motion of the eye-lids).” It is the word rendered “suddenly” in the (almost) identical verses of Jeremiah 49:19 & 50:44.

Jeremiah 49
19 Behold, he [the LORD] shall come up like a lion from the swelling [ga’own – pride] of Jordan [roaring against the proud words of the dead that have carried all the world into death and hell] against the habitation of the strong: but [kiy – so that] I will suddenly [raga’] make him run away from her [My people]: and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over her? for who is like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who is that shepherd that will stand before me?
20 Therefore hear the counsel of the LORD, that he has taken against Edom [the enemies mixed among us]; and his purposes, that he has purposed against the inhabitants of Teman [the wise men of this world]: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out: surely he shall make their [of the strong – the wicked in power] habitations desolate with them.
21 The earth is moved at the noise [qowl – this voice] of their fall, at the cry the noise [qowl – the voices of the Egyptians as they drowned] thereof was heard in the Red sea.

The word “strong,” in Jeremiah 49:19 & 50:44, in the following verses of each respectively, describes Edom (the enemies mixed among us: our countrymen and brothers at war with us, while claiming peace, destroying us, our nation, and our better culture) and Babylon (the confusion ruling the world, now turned insane delusion) is ‘eythan, meaning “permanence; hence (concrete) permanent; specifically a chieftain [the habitation of the strong: the deep state – as engrained, in church and state, systemic evil at war with us].”

The word (‘eythan, used thirteen times) only appears one other time in Jeremiah, in Jeremiah 5:15.

Jeremiah 5
1 Run you to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if you can find a man, if there be any that executes judgment, that seeks the truth; and I will pardon it.
2 And though they say, The LORD lives; surely they swear falsely.
3 O LORD, are not your eyes upon the truth? you have stricken them, but they have not grieved; you have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.
4 Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the LORD, nor the judgment of their God.
5 I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they have known the way of the LORD, and the judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke [with Me], and burst the bonds.
6 Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goes out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased.
7 How shall I pardon you for this? your children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots’ houses [they call by My name].
8 They were as fed horses in the morning: everyone neighed after his neighbor’s wife.
9 Shall I not visit for these things? says the LORD: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
10 Go you up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for they are not the LORD’s.
11 For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, says the LORD.
12 They have belied the LORD, and said, IT IS NOT HIM; neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine:
13 And the prophets shall become wind [of false doctrines], and the word [My word] is not in them: thus shall it be done unto them.
14 Wherefore thus says the LORD God of hosts, Because you speak this word [your own word], behold, I will make my words in your mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.
15 Lo, I will bring a nation [as the Chaldeans – using their words, HOAXs, to manipulate and control you] upon you from far, O house of Israel, says the LORD: it is a mighty [‘eythan – an engrained enemy] nation, it is an ancient nation [as Edom, enemies mixed among us], a nation [Babylon – babel] whose language you know not, neither understands what they say [not understanding everything they say, through the mouth of their fake news and social media, are deceptions meant to destroy your will, and thereby take your life, liberty, and property].
16 Their quiver is as an open sepulcher [men holding arrows of death: words shot at you], they are all mighty men.
17 And they shall eat up your harvest [men as the locust now destroying all prosperity in the name of saving you], and your bread, which your sons and your daughters should eat: they shall eat up your flocks and your herds: they shall eat up your vines and your fig trees: they shall impoverish your fenced cities, wherein you trusted, with the sword [with their words].
18 Nevertheless in those days, says the LORD, I will not make a full end with you.
19 And it shall come to pass, when you shall say, Wherefore does the LORD our God all these things unto us? then shall you answer them, Like as you have forsaken me, and served strange gods in your land, so shall you serve strangers in a land that is not yours.
20 Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying,
21 Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not:
22 Fear you not me? says the LORD: will you not tremble at my presence, which has placed the sand [the shore] for the boundary of the sea [this generation] by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves [the pride of the wicked] thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?
23 But this people have a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone.
24 Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, that gives rain [this word from heaven], both the former and the latter, in his season [at this appointed time]: he reserves unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest.
25 Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you.
26 For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that sets snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
27 As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.
28 They are waxen fat, they shine [as if they have understanding – replacing truth with their opinions]: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.
29 Shall I not visit for these things? says the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
30 A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land;
31 The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means [of their own words]; and my people love to have it so: and what will you do in the end thereof?

The word ‘eythan describes the wicked in power for a moment, a time of ignorance at which God the Father winks. As we’ve previously seen, it (this moment) is the appointed time, the inflection point that changes the course of human history, as Paul describes in Acts 17 when telling of this day of God’s judgment, by the man He’s ordained.

Acts 17
22 Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars’ hill [Areios Pagus – the peak of war {between God and man, good and evil}], and said, You men of Athens [the wise of the world, who are without God and thereby ignorant], I perceive that in all things you are too superstitious [by ignorant beliefs, failing to see the rational course of events: the governing of the law of nature – ignorantly thinking God is merely metaphysical, and thereby failing to see He intervenes in the affairs of man].
23 For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, To The Unknown God. Whom, therefore, you ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.
24 God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is LORD of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands [but rather in the flesh];
25 Neither is worshipped with men’s hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he gives to all life, and breath, and all things;
26 And has made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;
27 That they should seek the LORD, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us [dwelling in those who receive Him]:
28 For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, “For we are also his offspring.”
29 Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven [created] by art and man’s device.
30 And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commands all men everywhere to repent:
31 Because he has appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he has ordained; whereof he has given assurance unto all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.
32 And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, We will hear you again of this matter.

Job 12
9 Who knows not in all these that the hand of the LORD has wrought this [the prosperity of the wicked, who think they are untouchable in their positions of power]?
10 [The LORD] In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath [life] of all mankind.
11 Does not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his meat?
12 With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.
13 With him is wisdom and strength, he has counsel and understanding.
14 Behold, he breaks down, and it cannot be built again: he shuts up a man, and there can be no opening.
15 Behold, he withholds the waters [His words], and they dry up: also he sends them out, and they [His words] overturn the earth.
16 With him is strength and wisdom: the deceived and the deceiver are his.
17 He leadeth counselors away spoiled, and makes the judges fools.
18 He loosens the bond of kings, and girds [prepares] their loins with a girdle [preparing them for their destruction].
19 He leadeth princes away spoiled and overthrows the mighty [‘eythan].
20 He removes away the speech of the trusty [in which they trust], 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 things out of darkness [of which they are ignorant], and bringeth out to light [into understanding] the shadow of death.
23 He increases the nations, and destroys them: he enlarges the nations, and straitens them again.
24 He takes away the heart of the chief of the people of the earth, and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.
25 They grope in the dark without light, and he makes them to stagger like a drunken man.

The word ‘eythan appears one other time in Job, in Job 33:19, when Elihu (He is God speaking) says the pain of man is the “strong.”

Job 33
13 Why do you strive against him [the LORD speaking correction through His messenger]? for he gives not account of any of his matters.
14 For God speaks once, yea twice, yet man perceives it not.
15 In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep [of ignorance] falls upon men, in slumbering upon the bed [as a dead man];
16 Then he opens the ears of men, and seals their instruction,
17 That he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.
18 He keeps back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword [the words of the wicked in power].
19 He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong [‘eythan] pain [of the strong, enemies and deceivers among us spewing confusion and insanity, the pain they tell the ignorant to follow as gods]:
20 So that his life abhors bread [so life flees at words of the wicked], and his soul [is taken by their] dainty meat.
21 His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones that were not seen stick out.
22 Yea, his soul draws near unto the grave [the pit mentioned below], and his life to the destroyers.
23 If there be a messenger [mal’ak – an angel of God] with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to show unto man his [God’s] uprightness:
24 Then he [God] is gracious unto him, and say, Deliver him from going down to the pit [the grave]: I have found a ransom.
25 His flesh shall be fresher than a child’s: he shall return to the days of his youth:
26 He shall pray unto God, and he will be favorable unto him: and he [man] shall see his face [His presence in the moment of the ransom] with joy: for he [God through His messenger] will render unto man his righteousness.
27 He looks upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;
28 He will deliver his soul from going into the pit [grave], and his life shall see the light [understanding].
29 Lo, all these things works God oftentimes with man,
30 To bring back his soul from the pit [grave], to be enlightened [given understanding] with the light [understanding] of the living.

As we’ve many times seen, the word, in Acts 17:26, rendered “determined,” and in verse 31, “ordained,” is the eight times used Greek word horizo, meaning “to mark out or bound (“horizon”), i.e. (figuratively) to appoint, decree, specify.” It is speaking of the appointed time and the one raised from the dead to judge the world (end the old and create the new).

Friends, the rejection and betrayal to this point (moment) are determined and ordained by God, for the purpose of showing His mercy and goodness to the world. And just as assuredly, He is now judging the quick and the dead, as determined.

Luke 22:22
And truly the Son of man goes, as it was determined [horizo]: but woe unto that man by whom he is betrayed!

Acts 2
17 And it shall come to pass in the last days, says God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh [as I have]: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy [speak My words], and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:
18 And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy:
19 And I will show wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke:
20 The sun shall be turned into darkness [the church institution without understanding], and the moon into blood [civil government draining the life from the world], before the great and notable [epiphanes – only here, meaning conspicuous {to those who aren’t too superstitious}] day of the LORD come:
21 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be saved.
22 You men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as you yourselves also know:
23 Him, being delivered by the determinate [horizo] counsel and foreknowledge [prognosis] of God, you have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:
24 Whom God has raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.
25 For David speaks concerning him, I foresaw the LORD always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved:
26 Therefore did my heart rejoice, and my tongue was glad; moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope:
27 Because you will not leave my soul in hell, neither will you suffer your Holy One to see corruption.
28 You have made known to me the ways of life; you shall make me full of joy with your countenance.
29 Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulcher is with us unto this day.
30 Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne;
31 He seeing this before spoke of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption.
32 This Jesus has God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses.
33 Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost [the LORD unknow in the flesh preaching and teaching, leading His people into all truth: full understanding, with Him here in heaven], he has shed forth this, which you now see and hear.
34 For David is not ascended into the heavens: but he says himself, The LORD said unto my LORD, Sit you on my right hand,
35 Until I make your foes your footstool.
36 Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly [asphalos – inescapably], that God has made the same Jesus [Jehovah’s Salvation manifested in the flesh], whom you have crucified, both LORD and Christ [His presence in the flesh].

Acts 10
34 Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth, I perceive that God is no respecter of persons:
35 But in every nation he that fears him, and works righteousness, is accepted with him.
36 The word which God sent unto the children of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ: (he is LORD of all:)
37 That word, I say, you know, which was published throughout all Judaea [to His elect remnant], and began from Galilee [this inner circle], after the baptism which John preached [calling all to repentance];
38 How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil [misleaders among them]; for God was with him.
39 And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they slew and hanged on a tree:
40 Him God raised up the third day, and showed him openly;
41 Not to all the people, but unto witnesses chosen before God, even to us, who did eat and drink with him after he rose from the dead.
42 And he commanded us to preach unto the people, and to testify that it is he which was ordained [horizo] of God to be the Judge of quick and dead.
43 To him give all the prophets witness, that through his name [accepting His identity] whosoever believes in him shall receive remission of sins.
44 While Peter yet spoke these words, the Holy Ghost [the LORD unknown, speaking and working] fell on all them which heard the word [as the word of God, and received Him at His coming].

Hebrews 4
1 Let us, therefore, fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.
2 For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it. [Romans 1: 2 (Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures,) 3 Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our LORD, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh; 4 And declared {horizo – the inflection point} to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead: 5 By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among all nations, for his name {as His identity}: 6 Among whom you are also the called of Jesus Christ:]
3 For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works [of the six days – sending light into the darkness, giving understanding that separates the His word from the words of men, bringing life to the earth, and creating man from its ashes] were finished from the foundation of the world.
4 For he spoke in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works.
5 And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest.
6 Seeing therefore it remains that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief: [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. 13 But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken. 14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, you scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem. 15 Because you have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves: 16 Therefore thus says the LORD God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believes shall not make haste. 17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place. 18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then you shall be trodden down by it. 19 From the time that it 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.]
7 Again, he limited [horizo] a certain day, saying in David, Today, after so long a time; as it is said, Today if you will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
8 For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.
9 There remains therefore a rest to the people of God.
10 For he that is entered into his rest, he also has ceased from his own works, as God did from his.
11 Let us labor, therefore, to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.
12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
13 Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
14 Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.
15 For we have not a high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.
16 Let us, therefore, come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

The Greek word rendered “to help in time of need” are eis eukairos boetheia, meaning “to or into (indicating the point reached or entered);” “well-timed, i.e. opportune;” (boetheia from boetheo) “995 [boe “call”] and theo (to run); a succorer [rescuer – the ransom]”

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

Psalms 95
1 O come, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation.
2 Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms.
3 For the LORD is a great God, and a great King above all gods.
4 In his hand are the deep places of the earth: the strength of the hills is his also.
5 The sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land.
6 O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker.
7 For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. Today if you will hear his voice,
8 Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.
10 Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:
11 Unto whom I swore in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.

Psalms 96
1 O sing 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 the LORD: for he comes, for he comes to judge the earth: he shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with his truth.

Psalms 97
1 The LORD reigns; let the earth rejoice; let the multitude of isles be glad thereof.
2 Clouds and darkness are round about him: righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne.
3 A fire goes before him, and burns up his enemies round about.
4 His lightning enlightened the world: the earth saw, and trembled.
5 The hills melted like wax at the presence of the LORD, at the presence of the LORD of the whole earth.
6 The heavens declare his righteousness, and all the people see his glory.
7 Confounded be all they that serve graven images, that boast themselves of idols: worship him, all you gods.
8 Zion heard, and was glad; and the daughters of Judah rejoiced because of your judgments, O LORD.
9 For you, LORD, yourself high above all the earth: you yourself exalted far above all gods.
10 You that love the LORD, hate evil: he preservs the souls of his saints; he delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.
11 Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.
12 Rejoice in the LORD, you righteous; and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness.

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

Psalms 99
1 The LORD reigns; let the people tremble: he sits between the cherubims; let the earth be moved.
2 The LORD is great in Zion; and he is high above all the people.
3 Let them praise your great and terrible name; for it is holy.
4 The king’s strength also loveth judgment; you do establish equity, you execute judgment and righteousness in Jacob.
5 Exalt you the LORD our God, and worship at his footstool; for he is holy.
6 Moses and Aaron among his priests, and Samuel among them that call upon his name; they called upon the LORD, and he answered them.
7 He spoke unto them in the cloudy pillar: they kept his testimonies, and the ordinance that he gave them.
8 You answered them, O LORD our God: you are a God that forgave them, though you took vengeance of their inventions.
9 Exalt the LORD our God, and worship at his holy hill; for the LORD our God is holy.

David said moreover, “The LORD that delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine.”

In the above, from 1 Samuel 17:37, David speaks of the LORD’s preparation (understanding) proven by experiencing His presence, giving him the confidence to defeat Goliath. The name (Goliath) is from the Hebrew word galah, meaning “to denude (especially in a disgraceful sense); by implication, to exile (captives being usually stripped); figuratively, to reveal.”

As is well known, David eventually slings a stone that sunk deep into Goliath’s head, and David then cut his head off with his own sword (kind of like the way the fake news media is cutting off their own head – attacking Brandon as they’ve attacked us. The even more hilarious part is naked Goliath is also very much the (Brandon and the fake mainstream news industry) king whose always been naked, it’s just now everyone’s saying it. But I digress.)

In verse 36 we’re told, by David, that Goliath “has defied the armies of the living God.”

The word “defies” is charaph, meaning “to pull off, i.e. (by implication) to expose (as by stripping); specifically, to betroth (as if a surrender); figuratively, to carp at, i.e. defame; denominative (from 2779) to spend the winter.” It’s speaking, in a pattern, of the way the modern giants use their words as swords against God’s people who fear going against them to battle.

1 Samuel 17
20 And David rose up early in the morning, and left the sheep with a keeper, and took, and went, as Jesse had commanded him; and he came to the trench, as the host was going forth to the fight, and shouted for the battle.
21 For Israel and the Philistines had put the battle in array, army against army.
22 And David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage, and ran into the army, and came and saluted his brethren.
23 And as he talked with them, behold, there came up the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, out of the armies of the Philistines, and spoke according to the same words: and David heard them.
24 And all the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him, and were sore afraid.
25 And the men of Israel said, Have you seen this man that is come up? surely to defy [charaph] Israel is he come up: and it shall be, that the man who kills him, the king will enrich him with great riches, and will give him his daughter, and make his father’s house free in Israel.
26 And David spake to the men that stood by him, saying, What shall be done to the man that killeth this Philistine, and taketh away the reproach from Israel? for who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy [charaph] the armies of the living God?
27 And the people answered him after this manner, saying, So shall it be done to the man that kills him.
28 And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spoke unto the men; and Eliab’s anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why came you down hither? and with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride, and the naughtiness of your heart; for you are come down that you might see the battle.
29 And David said, What have I now done? Is there not a cause?
30 And he turned from him toward another, and spoke after the same manner: and the people answered him again after the former manner.
31 And when the words were heard which David spake, they rehearsed them before Saul: and he sent for him.
32 And David said to Saul, Let no man’s heart fail because of him; your servant will go and fight with this Philistine.
33 And Saul said to David, You are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him: for you are but a youth, and he a man of war from his youth.
34 And David said unto Saul, Your servant kept his father’s sheep, and there came a lion, and a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock:
35 And I went out after him, and smote him, and delivered it out of his mouth: and when he arose against me, I caught him by his beard, and smote him, and slew him.
36 Your servant slew both the lion and the bear: and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he has defied [charaph] the armies of the living God.
37 David said moreover, The LORD that delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine. And Saul said unto David, Go, and the LORD be with you.
38 And Saul armed David with his armor, and he put a helmet of brass upon his head; also he armed him with a coat of mail.
39 And David girded his sword upon his armor, and he assayed to go; for he had not proved it. And David said unto Saul, I cannot go with these; for I have not proved them. And David put them off him.
40 And he took his staff in his hand, and chose him five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in a shepherd’s bag which he had, even in a scrip; and his sling was in his hand: and he drew near to the Philistine.
41 And the Philistine came on and drew near unto David; and the man that bare the shield went before him.
42 And when the Philistine looked about, and saw David, he disdained him: for he was but a youth, and ruddy, and of a fair countenance.
43 And the Philistine said unto David, Am I a dog, that you come to me with staves? And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.
44 And the Philistine said to David, Come to me, and I will give your flesh unto the fowls of the air, and to the beasts of the field.
45 Then said David to the Philistine, You come to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to you in the name of the LORD of hosts [who is a man of war], the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied [charaph].
46 This day will the LORD deliver you into mine hand; and I will smite you, and take your head from you; and I will give the carcasses of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel.
47 And all this assembly shall know that the LORD saves not with sword and spear: for the battle is the LORD’s, and he will give you into our hands.
48 And it came to pass, when the Philistine arose, and came, and drew nigh to meet David, that David hastened, and ran toward the army to meet the Philistine.
49 And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sunk into his forehead; and he fell upon his face to the earth.
50 So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and smote the Philistine, and slew him; but there was no sword in the hand of David.
51 Therefore David ran, and stood upon the Philistine, and took his sword, and drew it out of the sheath thereof, and slew him, and cut off his head therewith. And when the Philistines saw their champion was dead, they fled.
52 And the men of Israel and of Judah arose, and shouted, and pursued the Philistines, until you come to the valley, and to the gates of Ekron [eradication – plucked up by the roots]. And the wounded of the Philistines fell down by the way to Shaaraim [the double gate – the one through which man goes into hell or comes out of it into the kingdom of heaven], even unto Gath [the winepress of God’s wrath], and unto Ekron [the eradication of the wicked].
53 And the children of Israel returned from chasing after the Philistines, and they spoiled their tents.
54 And David took the head of the Philistine, and brought it to Jerusalem; but he put his armor in his tent.
55 And when Saul saw David go forth against the Philistine, he said unto Abner, the captain of the host, Abner, whose son is this youth? And Abner said, As your soul liveth, O king, I cannot tell.
56 And the king said, Enquire you whose son the stripling is.
57 And as David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, Abner took him, and brought him before Saul with the head of the Philistine in his hand.
58 And Saul said to him, Whose son are you, you young man? And David answered, I am the son of your servant Jesse the Bethlehemite.

This brings us again to the question, “whose son” is the Christ (Messiah, the anointed – returning king). As we know, the LORD puts the peeping wizards to silence when He asks this question, which was never answered until it was here. As we’ve seen, when the LORD asks the question, the so-called experts answer, “the son of David.” The LORD says that can’t be right, because, quoting Psalms 110:1 (A Psalm of David), David (there) calls Him his LORD, saying, “The LORD [Jehovah] said unto my LORD [‘adown], Sit you at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool.”

The name (‘adown) means, “from an unused root (meaning to rule); sovereign, i.e. controller (human or divine):– LORD, master, owner.” We know, from Psalms 105:21, this is the name David also calls Joseph, the son of Jacob. The LORD, when asking the question, in Matthew 22, knowing the answer, is referring to what is written of Him in Matthew 1:16, saying “And Jacob begat Joseph (the husband of Mary,) of whom was born Jesus [Joshua, who was of the house, family, of Joseph, the son of Jacob], who is called Christ.”

Matthew 22
35 Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him [doubting Him], and saying,
36 Master [doubting he is the Master teacher, knowing what only the Father knows], which is the great commandment in the law?
37 Jesus said unto him, You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your MIND.
38 This is the first and great commandment.
39 And the second is like unto it, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
41 While the Pharisees were gathered together [as we saw in the previous post, from the Hebrews word guwr used in Isaiah 54:15], Jesus asked them,
42 Saying, What think you of Christ? whose son is he? They say unto him, The son of David.
43 He says unto them, How then does David in spirit call him LORD, saying,
44 The LORD said unto my LORD, Sit you on my right hand, till I make your enemies your footstool?
45 If David then calls him LORD, how is he his son?
46 And no man was able to answer him a word, neither durst any man from that day forth ask him any more questions.

As David says, in 1 Samuel 17:46 & 47, the battle is the LORD’s, I Am merely the flesh He has PREPARED for Himself – His man of war. He has made the enemies my footstool, and they are trodden down as mire in the streets.

2 Samuel 22
40 For you have girded [prepared] 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 mine enemies, that I might destroy them that hate me.
42 They [the wicked] looked, but there was none to save; even unto the LORD, 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: a people which I knew not shall serve me.
45 Strangers shall submit themselves unto me: as soon as they hear, they shall be obedient unto me.
46 Strangers shall fade away, and they shall be afraid out of their close places.
47 The LORD lives; and blessed be my rock; and exalted be the God of the rock of my salvation.

The word rendered “sling,” in 1 Samuel 17:40 & 50 above, the word qela’, is only used one other time in the books of Samuel, in 1 Samuel 25:29, there speaking of slinging out the enemies of David. There David is called ‘adown (whose ‘adown is Joseph), and the enemy, named Nabal (meaning fool), is a foolish ‘adown (foolish “master”), who becomes as the stone cast out by the LORD, by David the sling in His hand.

1 Samuel 25
23 And when Abigail [the children of joy] saw David, she hasted, and lighted off the ass, and [because of the sins of her husband the fool, asking for mercy] fell before David on her face, and bowed herself to the ground,
24 And fell at his feet, and said, Upon me, my LORD [‘adown – the king], upon me let this iniquity be: and let your handmaid, I pray you, speak in your audience, and hear the words of your handmaid.
25 Let not my LORD [‘adown – the king], I pray you, regard this man of Belial [the fools who worship non-existent, non-living, idols], even Nabal: for as his name is, so is he; Nabal is his name, and folly is with him: but I your handmaid saw not the young men of my LORD [‘adown – the king], whom you did send.
26 Now, therefore, my LORD [‘adown – the king], as the LORD [Jehovah] lives, and as your soul lives, seeing the LORD [Jehovah] has withholden you [saying sit on My right hand until I make your enemies your footstool] from coming to shed blood, and from avenging yourself with your own hand, now let your enemies, and they that seek evil to my LORD [‘adown – the king], be as Nabal [found to be fools].
27 And now this blessing which your handmaid has brought unto my LORD [‘adown – the king], let it even be given unto the young men that follow my LORD [‘adown – the king].
28 I pray you, forgive the trespass of your handmaid: for the LORD [Jehovah – who is alive in you] will certainly make my LORD [‘adown – the king] a sure house; because my LORD [‘adown – the king] fights the battles of the LORD [Jehovah], and evil has not been found in you all your days.
29 Yet a man is risen to pursue you, and to seek your soul: but the soul of my LORD [‘adown – the king] shall be bound in the bundle [tsrowr – a package] of life with the LORD [Jehovah] your God; and the souls of your enemies, them shall he sling [qala’] out, as out of the middle of a sling [qela’].
30 And it shall come to pass, when the LORD shall have done to my LORD [‘adown – the king] according to all the good that he has spoken concerning you, and shall have appointed you ruler [nagiyd – commander and chief] over Israel;
31 That this shall be no grief unto you, nor offense of heart unto my LORD [‘adown – the king], either that you have shed blood causeless, or that my LORD [‘adown – the king] has avenged himself: but when the LORD [Jehovah] shall have dealt well with my LORD [‘adown – the king], then remember your handmaid.
32 And David said to Abigail, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, which sent you this day to meet me:
33 And blessed be your advice, and blessed be you, which have kept me this day from coming to shed blood, and from avenging myself with mine own hand.
34 For in very deed, as the LORD God of Israel lives, which has kept me back from hurting you, except you had hasted and come to meet me, surely there had not been left unto Nabal by the morning light any that urinates against the wall [this speaks of the fools, who make water, create from within themselves, their perverse minds, their own words and advice, and make it a wall in which men trust for safety].
35 So David received of her hand that which she had brought him, and said unto her, Go up in peace to your house; see, I have hearkened to your voice, and have accepted your person.
36 And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken [his mind was confusion]: wherefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light [when full understanding came with the new day].
37 But it came to pass in the morning, when the wine [his foolish word and ideas exposed by the light] was gone out of Nabal [the fools], and his wife [those in jeopardy by being joined with him] had told him these things, that his heart died [His mind was found to be dead without the LORD’s Spirit] within him, and he became as a stone [cast out by David, as from a sling].

The word qela’ is from qala’, the first meaning “a sling; also a (door) screen (as if slung across), or the valve (of the door) itself,” and the other “to sling: also to carve (as if a circular motion, or into light forms).” The dictionary definition of light, as a noun, is “the natural agent that stimulates sight and makes things visible:”

Both words, used together in 1 Kings 6, tell of the sling in the hand of the LORD (‘adown) who’s the door He speaks of in John 10.

1 Kings 6
27 And he [Solomon, by his God-given wisdom] set the cherubims [depicting the messenger God sends with His word speaking face to face with those he’s sent to] within the inner house: and they stretched forth the wings [by which they rise into the heavens with full understanding] of the cherubims, so that the wing of the one touched the one wall, and the wing of the other cherub touched the other wall; and their wings touched one another in the midst of the house [in the family of God].
28 And he overlaid the cherubims with gold [the most valued treasure of heaven].
29 And he carved [qala’] all the walls of the house round about with carved figures of cherubims and palm trees [timmor] and open flowers [tsiyts], within and without.
30 And the floors of the house he overlaid with gold, within and without.
31 And for the entering of the oracle he made doors of olive tree: the lintel and side posts were a fifth part of the wall.
32 The two doors also were of olive tree; and he carved [qala’] upon them carvings of cherubims and palm trees [timmor] and open flowers [tsiyts], and overlaid them with gold, and spread gold upon the cherubims, and upon the palm trees [timmor].
33 So also made he for the door of the temple posts of olive tree, a fourth part of the wall.
34 And the two doors were of fir tree: the two leaves [tsela’] of the one door were folding, and the two leaves [qela’] of the other door were folding.

The tsela’, the two (first and last) leaves of the first door (Adam, the last a quickening Spirit sent as God’s messenger) spoken of in verse 34, tells of Adam’s “rib” (tsela’ in Genesis 2:21 & 22), from which the women (the church) is created. The two leaves of the other door, from qela’, tells of the foolishness slug out as with a sling, by the “folding” (turning, changing) of the door. The word rendered “folding” is galiyl, the same word rendered Galilee, the LORD’s inner circle, of which He said, “Be not afraid: go tell my brethren that they go into Galilee, and there shall they see me.” Matthew 28:10

The cherubims, in Ezekiel 3:8 thru 13, are those between whom the LORD’s presence is manifest in His speaking understanding to those held captive in foolishness.

Ezekiel 3
8 Behold, I have made your face strong against their faces, and your forehead strong against their foreheads.
9 As an adamant harder than flint have I made your forehead: fear them not, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house.
10 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, all my words that I shall speak unto you receive in your heart, and hear with your ears.
11 And go, get you to them of the captivity, unto the children of your people, and speak unto them, and tell them, Thus says the LORD God; whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear.
12 Then the spirit took me up, and I heard behind me a voice [qowl] of a great rushing, saying, Blessed be the glory of the LORD from his place.
13 I heard also the noise [qowl – voice] of the wings of the living creatures that touched one another, and the noise [qowl – voice] of the wheels [His word sent forward, from which comes understanding to overcome] over against them, and a noise [qowl – voice] of a great rushing.

These cherubims and the conversation are then depicted on the doors as carvings (qala’) of palm trees (timmor – the messenger sent), which cause the hearer to open (understand) as a flower (tsiyts) blooming.

The word rendered “open,” only used here (four times), is patuwr, meaning “opened, i.e. (as noun) a bud:–open.” It’s said to be from the five times used word patar, meaning “to cleave or burst through, i.e. (causatively) to emit, whether literal or figurative (gape):–dismiss, free, let (shoot) out, slip away.” It’s speaking of freeing from the captivity of foolishness.

The word (tsiyts) rendered “flower” means “glistening, i.e. a burnished plate; also a flower (as bright-colored); a wing (as gleaming in the air).” It speaks of the effect of receiving understanding (light) from the messenger God sends, which is God’s glory seen upon us. The messenger is the “palm tree,” from timmor, meaning, “from the same root as 8558; (arch.) a palm-like pilaster (i.e. umbellate):–palm tree.” In this definition, it’s a pillar (pilaster), as a central point from which many stalks (branches) of approximately the same lengths grow (umbellate); like the many ‘adown, who are packages together with Jehovah, known only as His voice emanating from the darkness (the umbra of the flesh).

The deeper part of the name Tim, as we’ve discussed before, is in understanding it is the portion given to Joshua, the son of Nun (Jesus the perpetual son). It is Timnathserah (Timnath-Cherec – portion of the sun), meaning it’s in him light will again be seen (as in Matthew 28:10 above) by the flowers after only hearing His voice in the darkness. This name, only used in this form three times, is also the place, in mount Ephraim, where Joshua, the last king in Joseph, is buried (in the belly of the earth, until Shiloh comes).

The name Timnath-Cherec translates to Tim (the branch of the tree of life) Nathan (gives) the sun. The name Cherec, meaning shining, is from the word cherec, meaning to scrape, and thereby telling of the sun seemingly scraping away the darkness as it rises. It (cherec) is the origin of the charcuwth, the name of the “east” gate of Jerusalem (where the sun was always first seen rising: scraping away the darkness).

The name Timnath (Timnah), meaning “a portion assigned,” is from the word manah, the word we saw in a previous post meaning an enumeration, to constitute officially. It’s the word rendered “tells,” in Jeremiah 33:13, referring back to verse 3, saying, “Call unto me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you know not.”

Jeremiah 33
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, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, shall the flocks pass [‘abar – cross over {death into life, from hell into heaven}] again under the hands of him that tells [manah – enumerates, portions out, prepares, constitutes, by telling of the great and mighty things of the LORD] 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.
16 In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely: and this is the name wherewith she shall be called, The LORD our righteousness.
17 For thus says the LORD; David shall never want a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel;
18 Neither shall the priests the Levites want a man before me to offer burnt offerings, and to kindle meat offerings, and to do sacrifice continually.

Timnath is first spoken of in Genesis 38, a chapter where we are also first told of Tamar (palms tree, tamar, the origin of timmor {masculine}). She (Tamar) is the daughter-in-law of Judah, who, after her evil husband Er (woke) dies, and he (Judah) fails in keeping his promise to provide her a husband, she conceals her identity, and they together conceive twins. The children’s names are Pharez, meaning a breach or separation, through whom the bloodline continued to Jesus, and Zarah, meaning rising.

Genesis 38
24 And it came to pass about three months after, that it was told Judah, saying, Tamar your daughter in law has played the harlot; and also, behold, she is with child by whoredom. And Judah said, Bring her forth, and let her be burnt.
25 When she was brought forth, she sent to her father-in-law, saying, By the man, whose these are, am I with child: and she said, Discern, I pray you, whose are these, the signet, and bracelets, and staff.
26 And Judah acknowledged them, and said, She has been more righteous than I; because that I gave her not to Shelah my son. And he knew her again no more.
27 And it came to pass in the time of her travail, that, behold, twins were in her womb.
28 And it came to pass, when she travailed, that the one put out his hand: and the midwife took and bound upon his hand a scarlet thread, saying, This came out first.
29 And it came to pass, as he drew back his hand, that, behold, his brother came out: and she said, How have you broken forth? this breach be upon you: therefore his name was called Pharez.
30 And afterward came out his brother, that had the scarlet thread upon his hand: and his name was called Zarah.

The “scarlet thread” is from the word shaniy, which is said to be from an uncertain origin. It’s from sheniy, meaning “from 8138; properly, double, i.e. second; also adverbially, again,” from the word shanah, meaning “to fold, i.e. duplicate (literally or figuratively); by implication, to transmute (transitive or intransitive).”

The name Zarah is from the word zerach, from zarach. The name and these words tell of the one who will be raised outside the king’s bloodline, which died when Jesus Christ the king was crucified without having a wife or children.

Here following is the post from 9 March 2020. All reading should consider the consequence since then from following those in power. I don’t care much about their opinions on the matter – as I tell you again, this is the end of the age, the end of the world they’ve made without form and void. “For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? Whosoever, therefore, shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.”

My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declares unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms has caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.

Today the LORD began in Hosea 4:12, the title, and the passage led to Deuteronomy 32:29 where the LORD opines that his people aren’t wise and have no understanding. He says if they did, they would consider their latter end, meaning the consequences of what is there defined, as it is above from Hosea. After the title verse, the LORD says He will not punish His people for leaving Him and following others. He then speaks of the self-inflicted consequence of following the worthless counsel of their misleaders, verse 14 saying, “therefore the people who do not understand shall fall.” This is the same understanding He speaks of in Deuteronomy 32:29 where it is His calling us to “consider,” both from the Hebrew word biyn, meaning a mental separation (of truth from untruth, reality from the irrational).

The LORD, in this passage, led me to David’s speaking of His own understanding coming as the LORD led him into writing His words. There, in 1 Chronicles 28:19, he speaks of these as patterns (tabniyth) to be followed, which refers us back to Joshua saying the same thing in Joshua 22:28. These speak of the patterns the LORD shows men, to be followed in creating the instrument, the things, of God’s service. As we know, all other creations of men, made according to their own ideas and ways, are abominations that bring desolation.

In this understanding the LORD leads us (led me back) to Ai and Bethlehem, which we saw in the previous post, meaning the heap of ruin of the house of bread (the house of God’s life-giving word), in Joshua 7. There we are told of the first time God’s people tried to take these cities and were defeated. The defeat is due to them not following the LORD instructions and instead taking the accursed things from Jericho (meaning moon, and representing corrupt civil government). We are told, in verse 21, the accursed things are “a goodly Babylonish garment [a covering of confusion],” silver and gold, which was coveted.

This offense comes by Achan, meaning troubler, the great-grandson of Zarah, meaning rising. As we’ve seen in previous studies, Zarah is one of the twin sons born to Tamar, the wife of Judah’s dead wicked son. When Judah doesn’t keep his promise (according to the law) to have his youngest son, when old enough, go to her to raise up a son to continue his brother’s seed, she dresses up as a whore, who lures in Judah. The twins, Pharez (breach) and Zarah, are the children of Judah (the leaders of God’s people) and Tamar (meaning {palm tree} the upright).

At birth, Zerah’s hand comes out first and he is marked as the firstborn, even though Pharez is the first of the twins to be fully born. In Matthew 1:3, Tamar, Pharez, and Zarah, are all mentioned when the bloodline of Christ is there written, which is also the bloodline of David and the kings (of Judah). Tamar, is the pattern of the daughters of God’s people, whose whoredoms are spoken of in Hosea.

When we’re told of this birth, in Genesis 38:29, the Hebrew words used to tell of Pharez’s coming out first, are parats, rendered “broke forth,” and parets, rendered “breach,” the latter the origin of the name. Parats is used twice in Hosea, both in chapter 4, both telling of the breaking forth of whoredom, which brought forth wickedness and the breach in the house of God, the house of David, the house of Jesus, the house of Christ. In Hosea 4:10 parats is rendered “increase” in telling of this wicked leadership never coming again, ending when God’s people were led into crucifying the LORD, their king. This breach is the latter end, of which God’s people have no understanding.

All the above is there to read by those who wish to – I am not going to post the chapters and passages. The point is the king, the messiah, has come and never left. He is alive in me, which I know without a doubt. It makes no difference, to the end, if you believe or not; I AM going to finish this, and you are either with us or against us, with God or against God. AMEN!

“And the house which I build is great: for great is our GOD above all gods.”

Hosea 14
1 O Israel, return unto the LORD your God; for you have fallen by your iniquity.
2 Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we render the calves of our lips.
3 Asshur [Assyria – the communists and the other degenerates] shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, You are our gods: for in you [LORD] the fatherless finds mercy.
4 I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.
5 I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon [purity].
6 His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon.
7 They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine: the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon.
8 Ephraim [those who receive this second blessing, God’s gift of understanding] shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I have heard him, and observed him: I am like a green fir tree. From me is your fruit found.
9 Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors [who have no understanding] shall fall therein.

Isaiah 53
1 Who has believed our report [shmaw’ah – this rumor of the LORD’s appearing, His teaching, plainly expanding upon His word, that has, by ignorance, become as an unknown tongue]? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? [His arm is revealed to those who’ve believed this report, the rumor, the sound doctrine]
2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: 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 opened not his mouth.
8 He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
9 And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
10 Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he has put him to grief: when you shall make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
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.

Isaiah 54
1 Sing, O barren, you that did not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, you that did not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, says the LORD.
2 Enlarge the place of your tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of your habitations: spare not, lengthen your cords, and strengthen your stakes;
3 For you shall break forth [parats] on the right hand and on the left; and your seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.
4 Fear not; for you shall not be ashamed: neither be you confounded; for you shall not be put to shame: for you shall forget the shame of your youth, and shall not remember the reproach of your widowhood any more.
5 For your Maker is your husband; the LORD of hosts is his name; and your Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called.
6 For the LORD has called you as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when you were refused, says your God.
7 For a small moment have I forsaken you; but with great mercies will I gather you.
8 In a little wrath I hid my face from you for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on you, says the LORD your Redeemer.
9 For this is as the waters of Noah unto me: for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with you, nor rebuke you.
10 For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from you, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, says the LORD that has mercy on you.
11 O you afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay your stones with fair colors, and lay your foundations with sapphires.
12 And I will make your windows of agates, and your gates of carbuncles, and all your borders of pleasant stones.
13 And all your children shall be taught of the LORD; and great shall be the peace of your children.
14 In righteousness shall you be established: you shall be far from oppression; for you shall not fear: and from terror; for it shall not come near you.
15 Behold, they 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 brings 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.

The enemies of the LORD are wicked men in seats of power, who present themselves as gods and put themselves in His place.

Amos 9
8 Behold, the eyes of the LORD God are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; saving that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, says the LORD.
9 For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.
10 All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.
11 In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old:
12 That they may possess the remnant of Edom [the enemies among us], and of all the heathen, which are called by my name, says the LORD that does this.
13 Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that sows seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt.
14 And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them.
15 And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, says the LORD your God.

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

Psalms 25
1 Unto you, O LORD, do I lift up my soul.
2 O my God, I trust in you: let me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me.
3 Yea, let none that wait on you be ashamed: let them be ashamed which transgress without cause.
4 Show me your ways, O LORD; teach me your paths.
5 Lead me in your truth, and teach me: for you are the God of my salvation; on you do I wait all the day.
6 Remember, O LORD, your tender mercies and your loving-kindnesses; for they have been ever of old.
7 Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to your mercy remember you me for your goodness’ sake, O LORD.
8 Good and upright is the LORD: therefore will he teach sinners in the way.
9 The meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he teach his way.
10 All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
11 For your name’s sake, O LORD, pardon mine iniquity; for it is great.
12 What man is he that fears the LORD? him shall he teach in the way that he shall choose.
13 His soul shall dwell at ease; and his seed shall inherit the earth.
14 The secret of the LORD is with them that fear him; and he will show them his covenant.
15 Mine eyes are ever toward the LORD; for he shall pluck my feet out of the net.
16 Turn you unto me, and have mercy upon me; for I am desolate and afflicted.
17 The troubles [[tsarah – tribulation]] of my heart are enlarged: O bring you me out of my distresses.
18 Look upon mine affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins.
19 Consider mine enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred.
20 O keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed; for I put my trust in you.
21 Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on you.
22 Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles [[tsarah – tribulation]].

And they answered and said unto Jesus, “We cannot tell.” And Jesus answering says unto them, “Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things.”

This verse, Mark 12:33, is the end of the LORD’s conversation with the religious leaders (the seducers) in control of His house. They have just asked Him, in verse 28, “By what authority do you these things? And who gave you this authority to do them?” He answers with a question, asking them from where came “the baptism of John [the call to prerequisite repentance], was it from heaven, or of men?.”

As we’ve been led to understand, the “authority,” from the Greek word exousia, is the word of God from heaven (full understanding, the habitation of God and those who’ve received Him and become His children, His family and house). The LORD is here speaking of these men not receiving His word as the authentic word of God from heaven, and, thereby, they reject His authority and continue in their own ways.

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 [only] 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] of men.
5 And the light shined in darkness [the world in total ignorance]; and the darkness [the ignorant] comprehended it not.
6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.
7 The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light [the understanding that would come to every person who repented of their erroneous thoughts], that all men through him might believe [that word of God is Him speaking to us Salvation through understanding].
8 He was not that Light [he was not the one sent with full understanding], but was sent to bear witness of that Light [that would come to all the repentant].
9 That was the true Light, which lights every man that comes [out of corruption] into the [new] world.
10 He was in the [new] world, and the world was made by him, and the world [that remained in darkness] 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 [EXOUSIA] to become the sons of God [I and the children the LORD has given me are for signs and wonders to His people], even to them that believe on his name [His identity – Jehovah’s Salvation in the flesh] :
13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. [The authority the word from heaven and not from man.]
14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten [the only one, the first born from the dead, to whom the Father sent His word directly – all others would be begotten the by Him and His begotten children: Christ in them] of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
15 John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spoke, He that comes after me is preferred before me: for he was before me.
16 And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.
17 For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
18 No man has seen God at any time, the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he has declared him.
19 And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who are you?
20 And he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ [Christ is only in those who receive the LORD after he comes un-comprehended giving understanding, leading into all truth, into His kingdom in heaven, which is Christ in you ONLY, when His rises in you, our hope and glory].
21 And they asked him, What then? Are you Elijah? And he says, I am not. Are you that prophet? And he answered, No.
22 Then said they unto him, Who are you? that we may give an answer to them that sent us. What sayest you of yourself?
23 He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the LORD [“and the glory of the LORD {in you} shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together”], as said the prophet Isaiah.
24 And they which were sent were of the Pharisees.
25 And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptize you then, if you be not that Christ, nor Elijah, neither that prophet?
26 John answered them, saying, I baptize with water [to make straight what was crooked]: but there stands One among you, whom you know not [the LORD in the flesh working un-comprehended];
27 He it is, who coming after me [the baptism of repentance] is preferred before me, whose shoe’s latchet I am not worthy to unloose.
28 These things were done in Bethabara [the place of crossing over] beyond Jordan [the waters below, that carried all the world in its descent, away from the tree of life, into darkness and death], where John was baptizing.
29 The next day John saw Jesus coming unto him, and says, Behold the Lamb of God, which takes away the sin of the world.
30 This is he of whom I said, After me comes a man which is preferred before me: for he was before me.
31 And I knew him not: but that he should be made manifest to Israel, therefore am I come baptizing with water.
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, the same said unto me, Upon whom you shall see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizes with the Holy Ghost [the LORD in Him working and speaking, unknown until He has led us into all truth; we receive Him as the word of God and become His children risen with Him, Christ formed in us].
34 And I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of God.

Galatians 4
1 Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differs nothing from a servant, though he is LORD of all;
2 But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father.
3 Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements [stoicheion – the corrupt foundations of the thinking] of the world:
4 But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
5 To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive [Him and] the adoption of sons.
6 And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
7 Wherefore you are no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ [risen in you].
8 Howbeit then, when you knew not God, you did service unto them which by nature are no gods.
9 But now, after that you have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn you again to the weak and beggarly elements [the stoicheion – the corrupt foundation of the old world], whereunto you desire again to be in bondage [to those who’ve led you into corruption and hold you there with their words, which are the gates of hell]?
10 You observe days, and months, and times, and years [as the false teachers have taught you].
11 I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labor in vain.
12 Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as you are: you have not injured me at all.
13 You know how through infirmity [astheneia – without strength] of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.
14 And my temptation which was in my flesh you despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an angel [messenger] of God, even as Christ Jesus [whose Glory became manifested in me, after I long-suffered to give this gift from God the Father].
15 Where is then the blessedness you spoke of? for I bear you record, that, if it had been possible, you would have plucked out your own eyes [thinking I couldn’t see, because I didn’t see as you’ve been taught], and have given them to me.
16 Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?
17 They [the false teachers among you] zealously affect you, but not well [not with good leading]; yea, they would exclude you [who now believe and have been liberated from their sins of ignorance], that you might [by the truth now in you] affect them [away from the errors in which they trust].
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.
21 Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, do you not hear the law?
22 For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.
23 But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.
24 Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai [among thorns – among misleaders], which genders [brings you] to bondage, which is Agar [hagiyg – murmurers and complainers, who are never satisfied or happy].
25 For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.
26 But [heavenly new] Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
27 For it is written [in Isaiah 54:1], Rejoice, you barren that bear 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.

In context, in above quoting Isaiah 54, Paul tells of those not naturally born but born after the Spirit: Christ formed in them by the LORD’s long-suffering work through those He sends.

Isaiah 53
1 Who has believed our report [shmuw’ah – who’s heard this doctrine as the voice of the LORD, leading us into all truth]? and to whom [by receiving Him] 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 ground: 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 opened not his mouth.
8 He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
9 And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
10 Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he has put him to grief: when you shall make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed [the children in whom Christ is formed], 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.

Isaiah 54
1 Sing, O barren, you that did not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, you that did not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, says the LORD.
2 Enlarge the place of your tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of your habitations: spare not, lengthen your cords, and strengthen your stakes;
3 For you shall break forth on the right hand and on the left; and your seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.
4 Fear not; for you shall not be ashamed: neither be you confounded; for you shall not be put to shame: for you shall forget the shame of your youth, and shall not remember the reproach of your widowhood anymore.
5 For your Maker is your husband; the LORD of hosts is his name; and your Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called.
6 For the LORD has called you as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when you were refused, says your God.
7 For a small moment have I forsaken you; but with great mercies will I gather you.
8 In a little wrath I hid my face from you for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on you, says the LORD your Redeemer.
9 For this is as the waters of Noah unto me: for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with you, nor rebuke you.
10 For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from you, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, says the LORD that has mercy on you.
11 O you afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay your stones with fair colors, and lay your foundations with sapphires.
12 And I will make your windows of agates, and your gates of carbuncles, and all your borders of pleasant stones.
13 And all your children shall be taught of the LORD; and great shall be the peace of your children.
14 In righteousness shall you be established: you shall be far from oppression; for you shall not fear: and from terror; for it shall not come near you.
15 Behold, they 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 [mishpat – at the sentencing of the wicked] you shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, says the LORD.

The words “gather together,” used twice in verse 15 above, are from the Hebrew word guwr, speaking of those who are confederate against the LORD and the children “taught” by Him. This latter word (“taught” in verse 13 above) is from the six times used word limmuwd, meaning “or limmud; from 3925 [lamad – to goad, or teach]; instructed,” which refers specifically to the inbreathed understanding (of secret things) only given by God, and of those (posers – false teachers) who say they (the world’s experts who know everything – “wizards that peep and mutter”) have attained (falsely so-called) understanding by their own efforts.

The “gathered” wicked, whose words are venom that rots the minds of men, are those condemned at the sentencing (not the entire world, as promised after the flood, only these evil and violent men).

Psalms 140
1 Deliver me, O LORD, from the evil man: preserve me from the violent man;
2 Which imagine mischiefs in their heart; continually are they gathered together [guwr] for war.
3 They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders’ poison is under their lips. Selah.
4 Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from the violent man; who have purposed to overthrow my goings.
5 The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins [mowqesh – a snare] for me. Selah.
6 I said unto the LORD, You are my God: hear the voice of my supplications, O LORD.
7 O God the LORD, the strength of my salvation, you have covered my head in the day of battle.
8 Grant not, O LORD, the desires of the wicked: further not his wicked device; lest they exalt themselves. Selah.
9 As for the head of those that compass me about, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.
10 Let burning coals fall upon them: let them be cast into the fire; into deep pits, that they rise not up again.
11 Let not an evil speaker be established in the earth: evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
12 I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the poor.
13 Surely the righteous shall give thanks unto your name: the upright shall dwell in your presence.

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

Isaiah 50
1 Thus says the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother’s [your teachers] divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have you sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother [your teachers] put away.
2 Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem [from those to whom you’ve sold yourselves]? or have I no power to deliver [from your false teachers]? behold, at my rebuke I dry up [the waters of] the sea, I make the rivers [they’ve polluted] a wilderness: their fish [the living things in their waters] stink, because there is no water [from above], and dies for thirst [for this word of God from heaven].
3 I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
4 The LORD God has given me the tongue of the learned [limmuwd], that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakens morning by morning, he wakens mine ear to hear as the learned [limmuwd].
5 The LORD God has opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back.
6 I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair [the ideas from my head where He put them]: I hid not my face [paniym – the LORD’s presence manifested in me] from shame and spitting.
7 For the LORD God will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face [His presence in me] like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.
8 He is near that justifies me; who will contend with me? let us stand together: who is mine adversary? let him come near to me [let us do battle in this war for the world].
9 Behold, the LORD God will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up.
10 Who is among you that fears the LORD, that obey the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness [and are without understanding], and has no light [this word of God]? let him trust in the name [the identity] of the LORD [in me revealed], and stay [stand strong] upon his God [with me in this battle].
11 Behold, all you that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves about with sparks: walk in the light [of your own understanding] of your fire, and in the sparks that you have kindled. This shall you have of mine hand; [without receiving me] you shall lie down in sorrow.

Jeremiah 2
22 For though you [false teachers] wash yourselves with niter, and take you much soap, yet your iniquity is marked before me, says the LORD God.
23 How can you say, I am not polluted, I have not gone after Baalim [the idols of the world]? see your way in the valley, know what you have done: you are a swift dromedary traversing her ways [carrying my people away];
24 A wild ass used [limmuwd – with your teaching, carrying away] to the wilderness, that snuffs up the wind [filled with your misleading spirit] at her pleasure; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her [to be a false teacher].
25 Withhold your foot from being unshod, and your throat from thirst [I said receive my word and understand the way]: but you said, There is no hope: no; for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go.
26 As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets.
27 Saying to a stock [the dead idols they follow], You are my father; and to a stone, You have brought me forth: for they have turned their back unto me, and not their face: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.
28 But where are your gods that you have made you? let them arise, if they can save you in the time of your trouble: for according to the number of your cities are your gods, O Judah [the current crop of corrupt leaders].
29 Wherefore will you plead with me? you all have transgressed against me, says the LORD.
30 In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
31 O generation, see you the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We are lords; we will come no more unto you?
32 Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.
33 Why trim you your way to seek love? therefore have you also taught [lamad] the wicked ones your ways.

Jeremiah 13
15 Hear you, and give ear; be not proud: for the LORD has spoken.
16 Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while you look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.
17 But if you will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the LORD’s flock is carried away captive.
18 Say unto the king and to the queen, Humble yourselves, sit down: for your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory.
19 The cities of the south shall be shut up, and none shall open them: Judah shall be carried away captive all of it, it shall be wholly carried away captive.
20 Lift up your eyes, and behold [see] them that come from the north [from the darkness]: where is the flock that was given you, your beautiful flock [My ONE BODY]?
21 What will you say when he shall punish you? for you have taught them to be captains, and as chief over you: shall not sorrows take you, as a woman in travail?
22 And if you say in your heart, Wherefore come these things upon me? For the greatness of your iniquity are your skirts discovered, and your heels made bare.
23 Can the Ethiopian [those covered in darkness] change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may you also do good, that are accustomed [limmuwd – that teach] to do evil.
24 Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passes away by the wind of the wilderness.
25 This is your lot, the portion of your measures from me, says the LORD; because you have forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.
26 Therefore will I discover your skirts upon your face, that your shame may appear.
27 I have seen your adulteries, and your neighing, the lewdness of your whoredom, and your abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe unto you, O Jerusalem! will you not be made clean? when shall it once be?

The LORD never asks a question he doesn’t Himself answer. The word rendered “clean,” as the LORD asks when Jerusalem will be made such, is the word taher, meaning “to be bright; i.e. (by implication) to be pure (physical sound, clear, unadulterated; Levitically, uncontaminated; morally, innocent or holy).” Jeremiah uses the word one other time as the LORD rising in him gives the answer as He raises His people with Him into full understanding.

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.
4 For thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are thrown down by the mounts, and by the sword;
5 They come to fight with the Chaldeans, but it is to fill them with the dead bodies of men, whom I have slain in mine anger and in my fury, and for all whose wickedness I have hid my face [presence] from this city.
6 Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth.
7 And I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return, and will build them, as at the first.
8 And I will cleanse [tahar] them from all their iniquity, whereby they have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, whereby they have sinned, and whereby they have transgressed against me.
9 And it shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and a honor before all the nations of the earth, which shall hear all the good that I do unto them: and they shall fear and tremble for all the goodness and for all the prosperity that I procure unto it.
10 Thus says the LORD; Again there shall be heard in this place, which you say shall be desolate without man and without beast, even in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are desolate, without man, and without inhabitant, and without beast,
11 The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that shall say, Praise the LORD of hosts: for the LORD is good; for his mercy endures forever: and of them that shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the LORD. For I will cause to return the captivity of the land, as at the first, says the LORD.
12 Thus says the LORD of hosts; Again in this place, which is desolate without man and without beast, and in all the cities thereof, shall be 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.
16 In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely: and this is the name wherewith she shall be called, The LORD our righteousness.
17 For thus says the LORD; David shall never want a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel;
18 Neither shall the priests the Levites want a man before me to offer burnt offerings, and to kindle meat offerings, and to do sacrifice continually.
19 And the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah, saying,
20 Thus says the LORD; If you can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season;
21 Then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers.
22 As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites that minister unto me.
23 Moreover the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying,
24 Consider you not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which the LORD has chosen, he has even cast them off? thus they have despised my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.
25 Thus says the LORD; If my covenant be not with day and night, and if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;
26 Then will I cast away the seed of Jacob and David my servant, so that I will not take any of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and have mercy on them.

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 [exousia – authority] 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 gavest me to do.
5 And now, O Father, glorify you me with your own self with the glory which I had with the before the world was.
6 I have manifested your name [identity] 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 [as your words], 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.

The Hebrew word manah means “to weigh out; by implication, to allot or constitute officially; also to enumerate or enroll:–appoint, count, number, prepare, set, tell.”

It (the word manah) is referring us to the three times it’s used in the Psalms, there telling us it’s His word established (kuwn), raising up David again, which are His judgments that we haven’t known (because only He knows them and reveals them at these ends of the earth: ending the old and beginning the new).

Psalms 61
A Psalms of David.
1 Hear my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer.
2 From the end of the earth will I cry unto you, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
3 For you have been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy.
4 I will abide in your tabernacle forever: I will trust in the covert of your wings. Selah.
5 For you, O God, have heard my vows: you have given me the heritage of those that fear your name.
6 You will prolong the king’s life: and his years as many generations.
7 He shall abide before God forever: O prepare [manah] mercy and truth, which may preserve him.
8 So will I sing praise unto your name forever, that I may daily perform my vows.

Psalms 90
1 LORD, you have been our dwelling place in all generations.
2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.
3 You turn man to destruction; and sayest, Return, you children of men.
4 For a thousand years in your sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
5 You carry them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which grows up.
6 In the morning it flourishes, and grows up; in the evening it is cut down, and withers.
7 For we are consumed by your anger, and by your wrath are we troubled.
8 You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your countenance [understanding Your presence].
9 For all our days are passed away in your wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.
10 The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
11 Who knows the power of your anger? even according to your fear, so is your wrath.
12 So teach us to number [manah] our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
13 Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent you concerning your servants.
14 O satisfy us early with your mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
15 Make us glad according to the days wherein you have afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.
16 Let your work [which we know not] appear unto your servants, and your glory unto their children.
17 And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish [kuwn] you the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish [kuwn] you it.

Psalms 147
1 Praise you the LORD: for it is good to sing praises unto our God; for it is pleasant; and praise is comely.
2 The LORD does build up Jerusalem: he gathers together the outcasts of Israel.
3 He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.
4 He tells [manah] the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names.
5 Great is our LORD, and of great power: his understanding is infinite.
6 The LORD lifts up the meek: he casts the wicked down to the ground.
7 Sing unto the LORD with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the harp unto our God:
8 Who covers the heaven with clouds, who prepares [kuwn] rain [His word from heaven] for the earth, who makes grass to grow upon the mountains.
9 He gives to the beast [those without His spirit] his food, and to the young ravens [those covered in darkness: the ignorant] which cry.
10 He delights not in the strength of the horse: he takes not pleasure in the legs of a man.
11 The LORD takes pleasure in them that fear him, in those that hope in his mercy.
12 Praise the LORD, O Jerusalem; praise your God, O Zion.
13 For he has strengthened the bars of your gates; he has blessed your children within you.
14 He makes peace in your borders, and fills you with the finest of the wheat.
15 He sends forth his commandment upon earth: his word runs very swiftly.
16 He gives snow [His word reserved, frozen, in heaven, for this time of war] like wool: he scatters the hoarfrost like ashes.
17 He casts forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold [when His word is hidden, frozen, as in a stone of crystal]?
18 He sends out his word, and melts them: he causes his wind to blow, and the waters flow.
19 He shows his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel.
20 He has not dealt so with any nation: and as for his judgments, they have not known them. Praise you the LORD.

Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.

The word above rendered “judgment” is mishpat, which speaks more of the sentence, the determination of the future based on the findings in the pleading.

The Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary definition is: “a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (participant’s) divine law, individual or collective), including the act, the place, the suit, the crime, and the penalty; abstractly, justice, including a participant’s right or privilege (statutory or customary), or even a style.”

The title, Ecclesiastes 12:13 & 14, is Solomon’s warning that there is a day when the LORD pronounces a sentence. The chapter warns of the day that has come, when “man goes to his long home,” after the evil day has comes, when man says, “I have no pleasure in them [the good word of God].”

The words rendered “long home,” in Ecclesiastes 12:5, are ‘owlam bayith, meaning eternal habitation (in a family, a house good or evil, heaven or hell).

The word rendered “pleasure,” in Ecclesiastes 12:1, is chephets, meaning delight; the same word Solomon uses later in verse 10, saying “The preacher sought to find out acceptable [chephets] words: and that which was written was upright, even words of truth.”

In this understanding we see the meaning of the LORD’s words, in Matthew 12:36 & 37, saying “But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. For by your words you shall be justified, and by your words you shall be condemned.”

The first time chephets appears is in 1 Samuel 15:22 as Samuel is speaking to Saul, after he (Saul) disobeyed the LORD’s command to utterly destroy all the sinners, Agag (Gog) and all the Amalekites (Magog), and fight against them until they are consumed. As we know, it is for this sin he was unseated and replaced by David.

1 Samuel 15
16 Then Samuel said unto Saul, Stay, and I will tell you what the LORD has said to me this night. And he said unto him, Say on.
17 And Samuel said, When you were little in your own sight, were you not made the head of the tribes of Israel, and the LORD anointed you king over Israel?
18 And the LORD sent you on a journey, and said, Go and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they be consumed.
19 Wherefore then did you not obey the voice of the LORD, but did fly upon the spoil, and did evil in the sight of the LORD?
20 And Saul said unto Samuel, Yea, I have obeyed the voice of the LORD, and have gone the way which the LORD sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.
21 But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of the things which should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice unto the LORD your God in Gilgal.
22 And Samuel said, Has the LORD as great delight [chephets] in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.
23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, he has also rejected you from being king.
24 And Saul said unto Samuel, I have sinned: for I have transgressed the commandment of the LORD, and your words: because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice.
25 Now, therefore, I pray you, pardon my sin, and turn again with me, that I may worship the LORD.
26 And Samuel said unto Saul, I will not return with you: for you have rejected the word of the LORD, and the LORD has rejected you from being king over Israel.
27 And as Samuel turned about to go away, he laid hold upon the skirt of his mantle, and it rent.
28 And Samuel said unto him, The LORD has rent the kingdom of Israel from you this day, and has given it to a neighbor of yours, that is better than you.
29 And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent: for he is not a man, that he should repent.
30 Then he said, I have sinned: yet honor me now, I pray you, before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and turn again with me, that I may worship the LORD your God.
31 So Samuel turned again after Saul; and Saul worshipped the LORD.
32 Then said Samuel, Bring you hither to me Agag the king of the Amalekites. And Agag came unto him delicately. And Agag said, Surely the bitterness of death is past.
33 And Samuel said, As your sword has made women childless, so shall your mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the LORD in Gilgal.
34 Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house to Gibeah of Saul.
35 And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death: nevertheless, Samuel mourned for Saul: and the LORD repented that he had made Saul king over Israel.

1 Samuel 16
1 And the LORD said unto Samuel, How long will you mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill your horn with oil, and go, I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons.
2 And Samuel said, How can I go? if Saul hear it, he will kill me. And the LORD said, Take a heifer with you, and say, I am come to sacrifice to the LORD.
3 And call Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you shall do: and you shall anoint unto me him whom I name unto you.
4 And Samuel did that which the LORD spoke, and came to Bethlehem. And the elders of the town trembled at his coming, and said, Come you peaceably?
5 And he said, Peaceably: I am come to sacrifice unto the LORD: sanctify yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice. And he sanctified Jesse and his sons, and called them to the sacrifice.
6 And it came to pass, when they were come, that he looked on Eliab, and said, Surely the LORD’s anointed is before him.
7 But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the LORD sees not as man sees; for man looks on the outward appearance, but the LORD looks on the heart.
8 Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass before Samuel. And he said, Neither has the LORD chosen this.
9 Then Jesse made Shammah to pass by. And he said, Neither has the LORD chosen this.
10 Again, Jesse made seven of his sons to pass before Samuel. And Samuel said unto Jesse, The LORD has not chosen these.
11 And Samuel said unto Jesse, Are here all your children? And he said, There remains yet the youngest, and, behold, he keeps the sheep [as the LORD commanded me]. And Samuel said unto Jesse, Send and fetch him: for we will not sit down till he comes hither.
12 And he sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, and withal of a beautiful countenance, and goodly to look to. And the LORD said, Arise, anoint him: for this is he.
13 Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brethren: and the Spirit of the LORD came upon David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah.
14 But the Spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the LORD troubled him.

Friends, the good news is what the LORD promised David and His children, which we know as the “sure mercies of David.”

2 Samuel 7
8 Now therefore so shall you say unto my servant David, Thus says the LORD of hosts, I took you from the sheepcote, from following the sheep [as I commanded you], to be ruler over my people, over Israel:
9 And I was with you where ever you went, and have cut off all your enemies out of your sight, and have made you a great name, like unto the name of the great men that are in the earth.
10 Moreover I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their own, and move no more; neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them anymore, as beforetime,
11 And as since the time that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel, and have caused you to rest from all your enemies. Also, the LORD tells you that he will make you a house.
12 And when your days be fulfilled, and you shall sleep with your fathers, I will set up your seed after you, which shall proceed out of your bowels, and I will establish his kingdom.
13 He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.
14 I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men:
15 But my mercy shall not depart away from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before you.
16 And your house and your kingdom shall be established forever before you: your throne shall be established forever.

The not-so-good news, almost all (all except the very elect remnant) God’s people remain in rebellion, following peeping wizards who keep them associated (confederate) with the communists among them destroying them. These men, misleaders of the dead and communists in power, are those who come as “the rod of men, and with stripes of the children of men.” The LORD, in Isaiah 8, after telling of His people rejecting these “waters of Shiloah that go softly,” prescribes the solution, which is to seek the LORD who is with us. The twice-used name Shiloah, meaning sent, is referring to the word of God that secretly (‘at – “softly,” see Job 15:11 where it rendered “secret”) flows from the LORD’s messenger, who brings revelation (secrets) manifesting His presence with us: Immanuel.”

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

The reference to “Shiloh” above (as those who study here well know) is to the words of Jacob, in Genesis 49, to Judah as he (Jacob) tells His children what shall befall them in these last days (of the old world). It speaks of the king line, which originated in Joseph (whose birthright it is), resided in Judah, residing there with David after being removed from Benjamin (Saul), returning to Joseph at the coming of the king called Shiloh (peace – as in the order of Melchizedek).

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

Genesis 49
8 Judah [the leaders God choses], you are he whom your brethren shall praise: your hand shall be in the neck of your enemies; your father’s children shall bow down before you.
9 Judah is a lion’s whelp: from the prey, my son, you are gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?
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 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 12:5] 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 of the Mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the [good] Shepherd, the [foundation] Stone of Israel:)
25 Even by the God of your father, who shall help [‘azar] you; and by the Almighty, who shall bless [barak] you with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep [thowm] that lies under [the deep meaning that lies below the surface], blessings of the breasts [of the Ancient of Days – see Isaiah 28:9], and of the womb [seed, the son]:
26 The blessings of your father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors [harah – 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 [see Zechariah 9:16] of him that was separate from his brethren.

The word rendered “prevailed,” in 1 Chronicles 5:2 and Genesis 49:26, telling of David first, and of Joseph in the end, above all who’ve come before Him, by the blessings of God, is the twenty-five times used wore gabar. It first appears in the only other (four) times it’s used in Genesis (7:18, 19, 20, & 24), there telling of the days of Noah when the flood “prevailed” over all the earth.

As we’ve seen, this event tells of the words of men (the waters below) mixed with the waters above (God’s word) corrupting all discourse (as in Babel) and destroying all the life in humanity (except for the few with Naoh, meaning rest, not agitated as was all the world by ignorance ruling: “prevailing”).

The event ends with the LORD putting a bow (rainbow – showing His mercies’ come) in the cloud (where the elements of understanding are held when they leave the earth) in the firmament (the expanse). As we understand, this expanse is where, in the old and now new creation, the waters below are separated from the waters above are represented in light (understanding) rightly divided into the rainbow, which is the coat of many colors given to Joseph (Shiloh) by the Father.

As discussed in many previous posts, this is the depiction John speaks of in Revelation 10, when he sees a “mighty” angel come from heaven (full understanding), clothed with a cloud, and a rainbow upon his head (the rightly divided light in his mind). There John hears seven thunders, the voice of the seven colors, and (because the word is sealed, reserved unto fire and the perdition of the ungodly) he is told not to write what he hears.

The Hebrew word gabar means “to be strong; by implication, to prevail.” The Greek word above rendered “mighty” is ischuros, meaning “forcible (literally or figuratively):–boisterous, mighty(-ier), powerful, strong(-er, man), valiant.”

John only uses the word (ischuros) once outside of Revelation, in 1 John 2:14, saying the origin of this strength to prevail (overcome the wicked) is the word of God in us.

1 John 2
14 I have written unto you, fathers, because you have known him that is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because you are strong [ischuros], and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the wicked one.
15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
17 And the world passes away, and the lust thereof: but he that does the will of God abides forever.
18 Little children, it is the last time: and as you have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.
19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.
20 But you have an unction from the Holy One, and you know all things.
21 I have not written unto you because you know not the truth, but because you know it, and that no lie is of the truth.
22 Who is a liar but he that denies that Jesus is the Christ [the Father’s, Jehovah’s Salvation manifested in the flesh of His son, the first begotten from the dead]? He is antichrist, that denies the Father and the Son.
23 Whosoever denies the Son, the same has not the Father: he that acknowledges the Son has the Father also.
24 Let that therefore abide in you, which you have heard from the beginning. If that which you have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, you also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father.
25 And this is the promise that he has promised us, even eternal life.
26 These things have I written unto you concerning them [the wicked in church and state] that seduce you.
27 But the anointing which you have received of him abides in you, and you need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teaches you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it has taught you, you shall abide in him.
28 And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.
29 If you know that he is righteous, you know that every one that does righteousness is born of him.

The antichrists are those rejecting the returning son, who by their own fault are unable to hear this word of God and receive His peace. These are those sitting in power, the spiritually wicked in high places, in whom the LORD has no pleasure (chephets).

Jeremiah, in Jeremiah 22, speaks of the king line ending in the hand of false prophets and other misleaders, meaning they degenerate into using lies to manipulate and control (oppress) those they rule. The following chapter begins plainly speaking of it, followed by telling of it [the king line] resurrected.

Ecclesiastes 12 begins describing this end and concludes telling of this day of judgment, when the goodman of the house returns to His [long] home from his long journey.

Jeremiah 22
24 As I live, says the LORD, though Coniah [establish – the Jechonias of Matthew 1:11, who was carried away into Babylon, the king line fallen into confusion] the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet [My presence pressed into the earth] upon my right hand, yet would I pluck you thence;
25 And I will give you into the hand of them that seek your life, and into the hand of them whose face you fear, even into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon the lies of the false prophets that cause the desolation of God’s people, and give confusion power to rule over all the earth], and into the hand of the Chaldeans [those who use their deceptions, lies and false accusations, to manipulate and control the world].
26 And I will cast you out, and your mother that bare you, into another country, where you were not born; and there shall you [the reign of righteousness] die.
27 But to the land whereunto they desire to return [Jerusalem – peace and security under just rule], thither shall they not return.
28 Is this man Coniah a despised broken idol? is he a vessel wherein is no pleasure [chephets]? wherefore are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into a land which they know not?
29 O EARTH, EARTH, EARTH, HEAR THE WORD OF THE LORD.
30 Thus says the LORD, Write you this man childless, a man that shall not prosper in his days: for no man of his seed [of the king line] shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling any more in Judah.

Jeremiah 23
1 Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! says the LORD.
2 Therefore thus says the LORD God of Israel against the pastors that feed my people; You have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them: behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, says the LORD.
3 And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all countries where I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase.
4 And I will set up shepherds over them which shall feed them: and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall they be lacking, says the LORD.
5 Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth.
6 In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.

Jeremiah uses the word chephets one other time, in Jeremiah 48:37 when describing the destruction of Moab, a name we know speaks of the open mouths of men as the gates holding God’s people and the world in hell.

Jeremiah 48
35 Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab, says the LORD, him that offers in the high places [of power], and him that burns incense to his [false] gods.
36 Therefore mine heart shall sound for Moab like pipes, and mine heart shall sound like pipes for the men of Kirheres [the wall of lies they’ve crafted]: because the riches [the things they say are of value] that he has gotten are perished.
37 For every head shall be bald [the ideas growing out of their head are taken away], and every beard clipped [and coming from their face]: upon all the hands shall be cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.
38 There shall be lamentation generally upon all the housetops of Moab, and in the streets thereof: for I have broken Moab like a vessel wherein is no pleasure [chephets – no pleasure in their words], says the LORD.
39 They shall howl, saying, How is it broken down! how has Moab turned the back with shame [from not reaching the end they sought and foretold]! so shall Moab be a derision and a dismaying [confusion, delusion, and insanity] to all them about him.
40 For thus says the LORD; Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread his wings over Moab.
41 Kerioth [all they have built upon their lies and delusions] is taken, and the strong holds are surprised, and the mighty men’s hearts in Moab at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.
42 And Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he has magnified himself against the LORD.
43 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, shall be upon you, O inhabitant of Moab, says the LORD.
44 He that flees from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that gets up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for I will bring upon it, even upon Moab, the year of their visitation (paquddah), says the LORD.

Jeremiah, in verse 40 above, is referring to the sentence, the mishpat (judgment), in the year of the LORD’s visitation (pquddah).

Jeremiah 4
9 And it shall come to pass at that day, says the LORD, that the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the princes; and the priests shall be astonished, and the prophets shall wonder.
10 Then said I, Ah, LORD God! surely you have greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, You shall have peace; whereas the sword reaches unto the soul.
11 At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A dry wind of the high places in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse,
12 Even a full wind from those places shall come unto me: now also will I give sentence [mishpat] against them.
13 Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots shall be as a whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us! for we are spoiled.
14 O Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you mayest be saved. How long shall your vain [worthless] thoughts lodge within you?
15 For a voice declares from Dan [judgment], and publishes affliction from mount Ephraim [against the leaders of God’s people in this generation].
16 Make you mention to the nations; behold, publish against Jerusalem, that watchers [natsar] come from a far [merchaq] country, and give out their voice against the cities of Judah.
17 As keepers of a field, are they against her round about; because she has been rebellious against me, says the LORD.
18 Your way and your doings have procured these things unto you; this is your wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reaches unto your heart [the foundation of thought].
19 My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart makes a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.

The trumpet and war refer to this time, now when the LORD writes His new covenant in our minds, when Ephraim repents and is corrected, and all the earth will know the LORD.

Jeremiah 31
1 At the same time, says the LORD, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.
2 Thus says the LORD, The people which were left of the sword found grace in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest.
3 The LORD has appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved you with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn you.
4 Again I will build you, and you shall be built, O virgin of Israel: you shall again be adorned with your tabrets, and shall go forth in the dances of them that make merry.
5 You shall yet plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria: the planters shall plant, and shall eat them as common things.
6 For there shall be a day, that the watchmen [natsar] upon the mount Ephraim shall cry, Arise you, and let us go up to Zion unto the LORD our God.
7 For thus says the LORD; Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout among the chief of the nations: publish you, praise you, and say, O LORD, save your people, the remnant of Israel.
8 Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the coasts of the earth, and with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her that travails with child together: a great company shall return thither.
9 They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
10 Hear the word of the LORD, O you nations, and declare it in the isles [dry places that have been without this word of God] afar [merchaq] off, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd does his flock.
11 For the LORD has redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand of him that was stronger than he.
12 Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all.
13 Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together: for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.
14 And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, says the LORD.
15 Thus says the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rachel [the mother of Joseph and grandmother of Ephraim] weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not [because they were not yet awakened – born into the new earth].
16 Thus says the LORD; Refrain your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears: for your work [teaching your children] shall be rewarded, says the LORD; and they shall come again from the land of the enemy [out of confusion – Babylon].
17 And there is hope in your end, says the LORD, that your children shall come again to their own border [the new earth the LORD has prepared for them].
18 I have surely heard [now] Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; “You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn you me, and I shall be turned; for you are the LORD my God.
19 Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.”
20 Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I spoke against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, says the LORD.
21 Set you up waymarks, make you high heaps: set your heart toward the highway, even the way which you went: turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these your cities.
22 How long will you go about, O you backsliding daughter? for the LORD has created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man [the LORD of hosts, who is a man of war].

26 Upon this I awoke, and beheld [and saw]; and my sleep was sweet unto me [in sleep strength was given by the word of God].

31 Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, says the LORD:
33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, says the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, says the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
35 Thus says the LORD, which gives the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divides the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts is his name:
36 If those ordinances depart from before me, says the LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me forever.

Ecclesiastes 12
1 Remember now your Creator in the days of your youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years [of tribulation] draw near, when you shall say, I have no pleasure [chephets] in them [the good word of God];
2 While the sun [the church], or the light [understanding], or the moon [civil government], or the stars [God’s people], be not darkened [become ignorant], nor the clouds return after the rain [when the elements of understanding leave the earth after God gave them from heaven]:
3 In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble [don’t honor the LORD when he enters the house], and the strong men shall bow themselves [to idols], and the grinders [the workers of the LORD] cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows [the watchmen] be darkened [are ignorant],
4 And the doors shall be shut in the streets [when none open this word, which is the LORD’s way], when the sound of the grinding [workmen] is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird [when men rise against those speaking the word of God, as if they caught a bird in a snare], and all the daughters of music [who repeat the word of God as received] shall be brought low;
5 Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high [the wicked in power], and fears shall be in the way [when the way of the wicked is intimidation and false claims, HOAX, of what should be feared], and the almond tree shall flourish [and the LORD send His first-begotten with the LOVE of His TRUTH], and the grasshopper shall be a burden [devouring this word when it comes as first life], and desire [to live] shall fail: because man goes to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets:
6 Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern [all speaking of this written word and the strength to deliver it as received, without which death comes].
7 Then [when, as now, all these things have come and all except the very elect remnant are dead] shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
8 Vanity of vanities, says the preacher; all is vanity [worthless].
9 And moreover, because the preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge; yea, he gave good heed, and sought out, and set in order many proverbs.
10 The preacher sought to find out acceptable [chaphets] words: and that which was written was upright, even words of truth.
11 The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails fastened by the masters of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd.
12 And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
13 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
14 For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.

The word rendered “tremble” in verse 3 is the three times used word zuwa’, meaning “properly, to shake off, i.e. (figuratively) to agitate (as with fear).” It more precisely means – showing no respect for one who should be respected, as Solomon does in his conclusion, and the keepers of the corrupt house don’t (in verse 3).

The “long home” is in possession of the ignorant, the habitation of death and hell (and the answer is, No, the dead don’t know they are dead; they only know they are miserable, in fear, don’t know why, and no matter where they go, there they are afraid and unhappy).

Isaiah 57
10 You are wearied in the greatness of your [wicked] way; yet said you not, There is no hope [for there is no peace in your ways]: you have found the life of your hand [and think you are alive]; 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 [in my hand] even of old [‘owlam – have not I sent My way of peace throughout all eternity], 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 [the worthlessness of their way] shall take them: but he that puts his trust in me [in My good leading by My way of peace] 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 [the sure foundations of the earth in the mind] of the contrite ones.
16 For I will not contend forever [‘owlam – through all eternity – I will end this war in victory over the world], 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 [the corrupt foundation of his mind].
18 I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him [the contrite and humble] 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, and to him that is near, says the LORD; and I will heal him.
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 wicked.

As explained in Proverbs 7:19, the LORD, the goodman of the house (family), is on a long journey, during which the wicked tempt and seduce the simple-minded to come into the house they control in His absence.

Earlier, beginning in verse 6, we are told of a seemingly unconnected event: when the father (the head of the family and the house – unknown to the seducer), looking through the window into the house, sees what’s occurred: that the simple have succumbed to the seduction. In other words, the goodman of the house has returned from His long journey and caught the unfaithful in the act of unfaithfulness.

Proverbs 7
1 My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with you.
2 Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of your eye.
3 Bind them upon your fingers, write them upon the table of your heart.
4 Say unto wisdom, You are my sister; and call understanding your kinswoman:
5 That they may keep you from the strange woman, from the stranger which flatters with her words.
6 For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,
7 And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,
8 Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,
9 In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:
10 And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.
11 (She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:
12 Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)
13 So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him,
14 I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows.
15 Therefore came I forth to meet you, diligently to seek your face, and I have found you.
16 I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.
17 I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
18 Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.
19 For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long [‘owlam] journey:
20 He has taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed.
21 With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.
22 He goes after her straightway, as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;
23 Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hastes to the snare, and knows not that it is for his life.
24 Hearken unto me now therefore, O you children, and attend to the words of my mouth.
25 Let not your heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.
26 For she has cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.
27 Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.

The word in verse 19 above rendered “long” is rachowq, meaning “remote, literally or figuratively, of place or time; specifically, precious.”

It’s the place Abraham, on the third day (the day of the resurrection), saw “far off.” This statement comes in Genesis 22:4, a chapter describing when the LORD (Jehovah-jireh: Jehovah sees – everything] comes to Abraham a second time after he obeyed His voice.

Genesis 22
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 [Moab] of his enemies;
18 And in your seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because you have obeyed my voice.
19 So Abraham returned unto his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beersheba; and Abraham dwelt at Beersheba [the well of seven oaths – the promises flowing from the Father].

The word rendered “possess” in verse 17 above is yarash, meaning “to occupy (by driving out previous tenants, and possessing in their place); by implication, to seize, to rob, to inherit; also to expel, to impoverish, to ruin.” It’s used to describe the seducers who possess and control the goodman’s house and of our (I and the children God has given me) inheriting it with the land (America) and earth.

Psalms 83
12 Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession [yarash – the wicked who possess it, unaware the goodman has returned].
13 O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.
14 As the fire burns a wood, and as the flame sets the mountains on fire;
15 So persecute them with your tempest, and make them afraid with your storm.
16 Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek your name, O LORD.
17 Let them be confounded and troubled forever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish:
18 That men may know that you, whose name alone is Jehovah, are the Most High over all the earth.

Ezekiel 37
24 And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them.
25 And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their children’s children forever: and my servant David shall be their prince forever.
26 Moreover I will make [karath] a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore.
27 My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
28 And the heathen shall know that I the LORD do sanctify Israel [do purify and separate them to rule the world as God rules, in righteousness: with judgment and mercy], when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore.

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 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 bringeth 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 [yarash – possess] 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 [yarash – possess] the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.
12 The wicked plot against the just, and gnash upon him with his teeth [to devour and swallow him up].
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 [yarash – possess] 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 falls, 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 [yarash – possess] the land, 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 [yarash – possess] the land: 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 of that man is peace.
38 But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end 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.
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.