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June 13, 2022

The Consummation Decreed: Jesus Christ the same, yesterday, today, and forever! Part I

The Consummation Decreed: Jesus Christ the same, yesterday, today, and forever! Part I

Your prophets have seen vain and foolish things for you: and they have not discovered your iniquity, to turn away your captivity; but have seen for you false burdens and causes of banishment.

The above, Lamentation 2:14, speaks of what prophets do (turn way captivity by discovering iniquity), as opposed to what the false prophets have done (seen, worthless and foolish, false burdens).

Jeremiah, using the one-time used word madduwach, leads us to a deeper understanding of the “cause of banishment.” The LORD refers to the once he (Jeremiah) uses the four-times used Hebrew word duwach, in Jeremiah 51:34, rendered “he has cast me out.”

There it (duwach) is speaking of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, names we know describe the lies of the false prophets that led to the desolation of God’s people, which brought the confusion that now rules over all the world.

Jeremiah 51
33 For thus says the LORD of hosts [who is a man of war], the God of Israel; The daughter of Babylon [confusion] is like a threshing-floor, it is time to thresh her: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest [God’s wrath] shall come.
34 Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me, he has crushed me, he has made me an empty vessel, he has swallowed me up like a dragon [tanniyn – the serpents joined together as leviathan, as whales whose open mouths devour and hold God’s people captive in the belly of hell, as Jonah was there held – Jonah 2:2] he has filled his belly with my delicates, he has cast me out [duwach].
35 The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea [those who use their words to deceive, manipulate, and control God’s people], shall Jerusalem say.
36 Therefore thus says the LORD; Behold, I will plead your cause, and take vengeance for you; and I will dry up her sea [end the words they send to the people at large], and make her springs dry.

45 My people, go you out of the midst of her, and deliver you every man his soul from the fierce anger of the LORD.
46 And lest your heart faint, and you fear for the rumor [shmuw’ah – this report, which is sound doctrine, which is heard but not believed – but to those who receive it the arm of the LORD is revealed, and they are in the presence of our LORD Jesus Christ at His coming] that shall be heard in the land; a rumor [shmuw’ah] shall both come one year, and after that in another year shall come a rumor [shmuw’ah], and violence in the land, ruler against ruler.

55 Because the LORD has spoiled Babylon, and destroyed out of her the great voice; when her waves do roar like great waters, a noise of their voice is uttered:
56 Because the spoiler is come upon her, even upon Babylon [upon their confusion], and her mighty men are taken, every one of their bows is broken [chathath – dismayed]: for the LORD God of recompenses shall surely requite.
57 And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, says the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.

The shmuw’ah [hearing from Jehovah Himself], is spoken of three other times by Jeremiah. The first, in Jeremiah 10:22, is in the context of God’s people going “out of the midst of her [Babylon].” This (exodos) is as in Revelation 18:4 when the voice is heard from heaven, the LORD calling His people out of Babylon, as in Jeremiah 50:4 thru 10, when God’s people, leave confusion (Babylon) and seek the LORD their God.

Jeremiah 10
1 Hear you the word [the report] which the LORD speaks unto you, O house of Israel:
2 Thus says the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed [chathath] at the signs [‘owth] of heaven; for the heathen [who don’t know God] are dismayed [chathath] at them.

17 Gather up your wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the fortress.
18 For thus says the LORD, Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this once, and will distress them, that they may find it so.
19 Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous; but I said, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it.
20 My tabernacle is spoiled, and all my cords are broken: my children are gone forth of me, and they are not: there is none to stretch forth my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.
21 For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered.
22 Behold, the noise of the bruit [shmuw’ah – the word heard from the mouth of Jehovah] is come, and a great commotion out of the north country [among the ignorant], to make the cities of Judah desolate, and a den of dragons [tanniyn – mouths filled with venomous words that devours men].
23 O LORD, I know [yada’] that the way [derek] of man is not in himself [if left to himself]: it is not in man that walks [halak] to direct [kuwn – rightly establish] his steps.
24 O LORD, correct me, but with judgment; not in your anger, lest you bring me to nothing.
25 Pour out your fury upon the heathen that know you not, and upon the families that call not on your name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.

Jeremiah 50
1 The word that the LORD spoke against Babylon and against the land of the Chaldeans [again the confusion that rules the world and those that spew it from the lying mouths] by Jeremiah the prophet.
2 Declare you among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard [nec – raise the son of man as Moses raised the serpent in the wilderness]; publish, and conceal not: say, Babylon [confusion] is taken, Bel [the men as idols you follow] is confounded, Merodach [your rebellion] is broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her images are broken in pieces.
3 For out of the north [from your ignorance] there comes up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast.
4 In those days, and in that time, says the LORD, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together, going and weeping: they shall go, and seek the LORD their God.
5 They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, saying, Come, and let us join ourselves to the LORD in a perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten.
6 My people has been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their resting-place.
7 All that found them have devoured them: and their adversaries said, We offend not, because they have sinned against the LORD, the habitation of justice, even the LORD, the hope of their fathers.
8 Remove out of the midst of Babylon [the midst of confusion], and go forth out of the land of the Chaldeans [from those who use their lies and false accusation to manipulate and control the world into doing their evil], and be as the he goats before the flocks.
9 For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the north country [raised out of their ignorance]: and they shall set themselves in array against her; from thence she shall be taken: their arrows shall be as of a mighty expert man [the LORD, who is a man of war]; none shall return [to Me] in vain.
10 And Chaldea [the liars in power] shall be a spoil: all that spoil her shall be satisfied, says the LORD.
11 Because you were glad, because you rejoiced, O you destroyers of mine heritage, because you are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls;
12 Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed: behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.
13 Because of the wrath of the LORD it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be wholly desolate: every one that goeth by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.
14 Put yourselves in array against Babylon round about: all you that bend the bow, shoot at her, spare no arrows: for she has sinned against the LORD.
15 Shout against her round about: she has given her hand: her foundations are fallen, her walls are thrown down: for it is the vengeance of the LORD: take vengeance upon her; as she has done, do unto her.
16 Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him that handles the sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn every one to his people, and they shall flee every one to his own land.
17 Israel is a scattered sheep; the lions have driven him away: first the king of Assyria [communists] has devoured him; and last this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon [the lies of the false prophets, which cause the desolation and the confusion that now rules the world] has broken his bones.
18 Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will punish [paqad – visit] the king of Babylon and his land, as I have punished [paqad – visited] the king of Assyria.
19 And I will bring Israel again to his habitation, and he shall feed on Carmel [the land that is again become as Eden] and Bashan [and they shall be fruitful], and his soul shall be satisfied upon mount Ephraim [My people in this generation] and Gilead [this mountain of My testimony].
20 In those days, and in that time, says the LORD, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found: for I will pardon them whom I reserve.

The word above, in verses 2 & 9, telling of when the LORD, with His army, has “taken” Babylon, is lakad, meaning “to catch (in a net, trap or pit); generally, to capture or occupy; also to choose (by lot); figuratively, to cohere.”

It is speaking of when the lukewarm (the Medes) have awakened, come out of confusion’s tribulation, and become the LORD’s great army.

Jeremiah 51
28 Prepare against her [Babylon – confusion] the nations with the kings of the Medes, the captains thereof, and all the rulers thereof, and all the land of his dominion.
29 And the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every purpose of the LORD shall be performed against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a desolation without an inhabitant.
30 The mighty men of Babylon [because of the confusion they are bound in] have forborne to fight, they have remained in their holds: their might has failed; they became as women [weak and in fear]: they have burned her dwelling-places; her bars [that held God’s people in darkness] are broken.
31 One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to show the king of Babylon that his city is taken [lakad – in the LORD’s net] at one end [the end of the old corrupt world under their control],
32 And that the passages [into hell by their open mouths] are stopped, and the reeds [what have grown in the mire of their confusion] they have burned with fire, and the men of war are [as women] affrighted.

Revelation 18
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 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 [this Word of God], 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.

The “rod of iron” spoken of above, ultimately refers us to 2 Kings 6:6 as it is associated with Exodus 15:25. The latter tells of the “tree” (‘ets) the LORD showed Moses and told him to cast it into the bitter waters. In 2 Kings 6, it’s the “stick” (‘ets) the “man of God” said to cast into the Jordan, which caused the iron to swim. The word there rendered swim is tsuwph, meaning “to overflow:–(make to over-)flow, swim.” It (tsuwph – only used two other times, rendered “overflow” and “flow”) is telling of the iron covering the “branch,” and making it the “rod of iron” (rising above the waters, words, carrying all into death) in the hand of the hewer.

In Exodus 15, we are told of the tree cast into the bitter waters making them sweet, after Moses sang (wrote as given) the song unto the LORD, which begins with telling of throwing the oppressors into the sea, wherein the LORD has triumphed over them. He is the tree cast into the waters, and by His strength (His words as the sweetness of honey, the word of God from His mouth, as a man of war), He makes the waters drinkable for His people again.

The words of the enemies, devil’s (the misleader’s mixed among us saying they are of us) lies and false accusations against the Word of God and the truth that is self-evident in (the experience of) our time, are the waters of the sea separated. They are those now awakening God’s people, the lukewarm who chose the waters above, as the earth itself (the experience of the moment – now most evident in the televised fictitious spectacle, the delusions of the Satanists) swallows up the flood of their evil words.

(FYI: they, the wicked in the deep state, the true insurrectionists who were in the process of overthrowing the sitting and reelected president, conspired and colluded to orchestrate, put on a show, act one of a delusion they produced to reverse define it as reality. They are known liars telling known lies, false accusers falsely accusing the innocent of doing what they’ve done. The only people they are fooling are themselves and the ignorant who blindly follow them and “the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.”)

Revelation 12
12 Therefore rejoice, you heavens, and you that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and of the sea! for the devil [the misleaders doing Satan’s work] is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knows that he has but a short time. [See Romans 9:28 below]
13 And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child.
14 And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle [given strength by the words of those already strengthened], that she might fly [by this same strength, out of confusion] into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times [until the deep sleep is ended], and half a time [and the time and season are rightly divided: understood], from the face of the serpent.
15 And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood [poisonous words of deception] after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away [into death and hell] of the flood.
16 And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up [by understanding the experience of the moment] the flood which the dragon [the serpent in the sea, devouring any who follow his leading] cast out of his mouth.
17 And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.

Romans 9
13 As it is written, Jacob [God’s people, he predestined to be the heirs of salvation, who now awaken to it our their lukewarm sleep] have I loved [agapao – given my word to save him], but Esau [the devils among my people, claiming to be their countrymen and brothers, while at war with them to destroy the nation and culture] have I hated [those called the Nikolaitanes in Revelation 2:5 & 15, the name meaning they are the destroyers of God’s people].
14 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.
15 For he says to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
16 So then it is not of him that wills, nor of him that runs, but of God that shows mercy.
17 For the scripture says unto Pharaoh [the house of the opressors], Even for this same purpose have I raised you up, that I might show my power in you, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.
18 Therefore has he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardens.
19 You will say then unto me, Why does he yet find fault? For who has resisted [Satan] his will?
20 Nay but, O man, who are you that replies [murmurs and chides] against God? Shall the thing form say to him that formed it, Why have you made me thus?
21 Has not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honor, and another unto dishonor [from who we must be purged – 2 Timothy 2:21]?
22 What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
23 And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared [predestined to inherit salvation] unto glory,
24 Even us, whom he has called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
25 As he says also in Hosea [2:23 – when God’s people hear Jezreel, those He’s sown in the earth, the seed below in verse 29, the first fruits, the elect remnant who call the sleeping body to awakes and come out of tribulation], I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.
26 And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, You are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God.
27 Isaiah [in Isaiah 10:22 & 23] also cries concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved [first – see Isaiah 10 below]:
28 For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the LORD make upon the earth.
29 And as Isaiah said before, Except the LORD of Sabaoth [who is a man of war] had left us a seed [the elect remnant – who He raised to sow His word to those He’s predestined to be the heirs of Salvation], we had been as Sodom, and been made like unto Gomorrah.

Revelation 7
13 And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they?
14 And I said unto him, Sir, you know. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation [thlipsis], and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb [which purged them away from the misleaders among them].
15 Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sits on the throne shall dwell among them.
16 They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat.
17 For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.

Isaiah 10
1 Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed [these are the decrees of the wicked now in power, claiming they are for our good while in experience they are destroying lives, livelihoods, our nation, and better culture];
2 To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows [those whose men are the dead among us] may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless [without a fearless man to protect them]!
3 And what will you do in the day of visitation [pquddah], and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will you flee for help? and where will you leave your glory?

These wicked decrees are opposed to the right decrees then spoken of in Isaiah 10:22 & 23, which give us the meaning of Daniel 9:26 & 27, and what (the LORD pouring His strength upon us, anointing us with His understanding overflowing the wickedness of these deceivers) ends the war desolations.

Isaiah 10
20 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the [elect] remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of [the sleep of] the house of Jacob [the people at large, still sleeping], shall no more again stay upon him that smote them [with lies and confusion]; but shall stay upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
21 The [elect] remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God.
22 For though your people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return: the consumption [killayown – only appearing here and in Deuteronomy 28:65, there saying it’s the “falling” of eyes, the sorrow of mind, and the fearfulness, the LORD says will come from following false gods mixed among His people] decreed [charats] shall overflow [shataph] with righteousness.
23 For the LORD God of hosts [who is a man of war] shall make a consumption [kalah], even determined [charats], in the midst of all the land [all the earth].
24 Therefore thus says the LORD God of hosts, O my people that dwell in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian [the communists]: he shall smite you with a rod [shebet – the scepter in his hand, the wicked in power ruling us into destruction], and shall lift up his staff against you, after the manner of Egypt.
25 For yet a very little while, and the indignation shall cease, and mine anger in their destruction.

We are told, in Isaiah 28, what is determined (charats): the decree “overflowing” us with the LORD’s righteousness, His strength covering us as the “rod of iron” the scepter in His hand.

Isaiah 28
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 [shataph], shall cast down to the earth with the hand.

15 Because you have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing [shataph] 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 [run away in shame].
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 [shataph] the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing [shataph] scourge shall pass through, then you shall be trodden down by it [as straw into the dunghill].
19 From the time that it goes forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report [shmuw’ah – this sound doctrine heard from the mouth of God].
20 For the bed is shorter than that a [sleeping] man can stretch himself on it [making the sleep uncomfortable for the lukewarm]: and the covering [of lies] narrower than that he can wrap [hide] himself in it.
21 For the LORD shall rise up as in mount Perazim [as waters breaking forth upon David’s enemies], he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon [when His hail, His word frozen in heaven, is sent to destroy the enemies, the current crop of corrupt leaders], that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act [righteousness: judgment and mercy – which to a wicked world are strange].
22 Now, therefore, be you not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the LORD God of hosts a consumption [kalah – a full end: completion], even determined [charats] upon the whole earth.
23 Give you ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech [believe this report, hear it as it is, the Word of God from His mouth].

Daniel 9
26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince [of darkness] that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war [you must accept this truth, it is these enemies mixed among warring against God’s people, to eradicate, make a fell end, of US] desolations are determined [charats – decreed in Deuteronomy 28:65].
27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation [kalah], and that determined [charats – the decree] shall be poured upon the desolate.

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 end of the corrupt and beginning the new] 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.
24 Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the [new] earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind [from where the word of the LORD God Almighty is heard] 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, for that he is strong in power; not one fails.
27 Why sayest you, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, My way is hid 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 of the [the end of the old and beginning the new] 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 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; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

The three times used word rendered “swim” (tsuwph) is rendered “overflow” in Deuteronomy 11:4, and “flow” in Lamentations 3:54. The first tells of the waters of the Red sea overflowing the enemy army pursuing us; the second describes the ways of this wicked army, the mouths of dragons from which the LORD delivers us.

Deuteronomy 11
1 Therefore you shall love the LORD your God, and keep his charge [“according to the prophecies which went before on you, that you by them might war a good warfare” 1 Timothy 1:18], and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, always.
2 And know you this day: for I speak not with your children which have not known, and which have not seen the chastisement [this correction] of the LORD your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, and his stretched out arm,
3 And his miracles, and his acts, which he did in the midst of Egypt unto Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and unto all his land [as He has done to those oppressing us here and now];
4 And what he did unto the army of Egypt, unto their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red sea to overflow [tsuwph] them as they pursued after you, and how the LORD has destroyed them unto this day;
5 And what he did unto you in the wilderness, until you came into this place;
6 And what he did unto Dathan and Abiram [the fountains from who flowed the bitter waters, murmuring against God’s chosen, exalting their words above His], the sons of Eliab [who act as if their father, who put himself in his father’s place, should rule and be followed as a god], the son of Reuben [the prince who is the pattern of the son of perdition, from whom the scepter is taken]: how the earth opened her mouth [the events, the experience of these days on the earth], and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and all the substance that was in their possession, in the midst of all Israel:
7 But your eyes have seen all the great acts of the LORD which he did.
8 Therefore shall you keep all the commandments which I command you this day, that you may be strong, and go in and possess the land, whither you go to possess it;
9 And that you may prolong your days in the land, which the LORD swore unto your fathers to give unto them and to their seed [He has sown into the earth], a land that flows with milk and honey [the word of God nourishing and giving strength].

Continued: see The Consummation Decreed: Jesus Christ the same, yesterday, today, and forever! Part II

June 13, 2022

The Consummation Decreed: Jesus Christ the same, yesterday, today, and forever! Part II

The Consummation Decreed: Jesus Christ the same, yesterday, today, and forever! Part II

Lamentations 3
46 All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.
47 [As You decreed] Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.
48 Mine eye run down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
49 Mine eye trickles down, and ceases not, without any intermission.
50 Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven.
51 Mine [people’s failing] eye affects mine heart [foundational ideas] because of all the daughters of my city.
52 Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.
53 They have cut off my life in the dungeon [here in the belly of hell], and cast a stone upon me.
54 Waters flowed [tsuwph] over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.
55 I called upon your name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon [as did Jonah].
56 You have heard my voice: hide not your ear at my breathing, at my cry.
57 You drew near in the day that I called upon you: you said, “Fear not.”
58 O LORD, you have pleaded the causes of my soul; you have redeemed my life.
59 O LORD, you have seen my wrong: judge you my cause.
60 You have seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me.
61 You have heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me;
62 The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.
63 Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their music.
64 Render unto them a recompense, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.
65 Give them sorrow of heart, your curse unto them.
66 Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.

The relationship between the iron and honey, the sweetness and strength of God’s word overflowing (tsuwph) us with understanding, are seen in an identical twice used word tsuwph, meaning “from 6687 [tsuwph]; comb of honey (from dripping):–honeycomb.”

Proverbs 16
15 In the light [understanding] of the king’s countenance [presence] is life; and his favor is as a cloud [realizing in Him is the understanding that has left the earth] of the latter rain [sent as the Word of God from heaven].
16 How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver!
17 The highway of the upright is to depart [be corrected] from evil: he that keeps his way preserves his soul.
18 Pride goes before [brings the incorrigible to] destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
19 Better it is to be of a humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.
20 He that handles a matter wisely shall find good: and whoso trusts in the LORD, happy is he.
21 The wise in heart shall be called prudent: and the sweetness of the lips increases learning.
22 Understanding [light] is a wellspring of life unto him that has it: but the instruction of fools is folly.
23 The heart of the wise teaches his mouth, and adds learning to his lips.
24 Pleasant words are as a honeycomb [tsuwph], sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
25 There is a way that seems right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.

Psalms 19
1 The heavens [His understanding] declare the glory of God; and the firmament [where the waters are rightly divided] shows his handiwork [reveals the arm of the LORD].
2 Day unto day [in the light, to those who understand, it] utters speech, and night unto night shows [to the ignorant it is sent, again and again, to give] knowledge.
3 There is no speech nor language, where their voice [from the mouth of God] is not heard.
4 Their line [their right assessment of the earth’s condition, seeing all the foundations are out of course] is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the [old and corrupt] world. In them has he set a tabernacle for the sun [light rising of the new day, heaven and earth],
5 Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoices as a strong man [mighty in the strength of God’s understanding] to run a race [the course set before us].
6 His going forth is from the end of [the old corrupt] heaven, and his circuit [the course] unto the ends [ending of the old and beginning the new] of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.
7 The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.
8 The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes.
9 The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring forever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether.
10 More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb [tsuwph – when they, He, overflows us with His strength].
11 Moreover by them is your servant warned [of the end of the wicked, so we aren’t consumed with them]: 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 [of pride]; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression [of vilifying and demonizing the work and word of the LORD].
14 Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in your sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.

The word of God contains a plethora of evidence that the bitter waters are the corrupt words of false prophets and false teachers, and that this bitterness deadens the mind of those who believe and follow them. These are the water below, of the earth, the creations of deceivers and the ignorant, which corrupt heaven (the places of understanding). The new heaven is when God sends the light in the firmament (the sweet and strong exposition of His word), separating the waters above from the waters below.

John, in Revelation 8:10 & 11, says the waters are made bitter when a great star, who is (the spirit of) Satan, falls from heaven (causing men to fall away from God and His truth). He says this star is as it were a burning lamp, which we know is a description of Christ in the furnace (Genesis 15:17) of the earth with us; here, thereby, describing the many false Christs the LORD speaks of in Matthew 24:24.

Revelation 8
10 And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers [words follow to the people at large: into the sea], and upon the fountains of waters;
11 And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.

The word “wormwood” (a poison) refers to the Hebrew word la’anah, and what the LORD says to us, of it, in His word.

Proverbs 5
1 My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow your ear to [exalt] my understanding:
2 That you mayest regard discretion, and that your lips may keep knowledge.
3 For the lips of a strange woman drop as a honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
4 But her end is bitter as wormwood [la’anah], sharp as a two-edged sword [saying she has understanding, saying she is rightly dividing when she is creating ignorance and fiction].
5 Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
6 Lest you shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable [confused], that you can not know them.
7 Hear me now, therefore, O you children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.

Jeremiah 23
14 I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem [now, among My people] a horrible thing: they commit adultery [with strange women], and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none does return from his wickedness; they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.
15 Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets; Behold, I will feed them with wormwood [la’anah], and make them drink the water of gall: for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness [as the vomit out the bitter poison they’ve swallowed] gone forth into all the land.
16 Thus says the LORD of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain: they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the LORD.
17 They say still unto them that despise me, The LORD has said, You shall have peace [when there is war against us destroying us]; and they say unto every one that walketh after the imagination of his own heart, No evil shall come upon you.
18 For who has stood in the counsel of the LORD, and has perceived and heard his word? who has marked his word, and heard it?
19 Behold, a whirlwind [from where His voice is heard] of the LORD is gone forth in fury, even a grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked.

Amos 5
4 For thus says the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek you me, and you shall live:
5 But seek [not these places where they’ve put idols in My place, which they call by My name] not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to naught.
6 Seek the LORD, and you shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour it, and there be none to quench it in Bethel.
7 You who turn judgment to wormwood [la’anah], and leave off righteousness in the earth,
8 Seek him that made the seven stars and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and pours them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name:
9 That strengthens [with His honey] the spoiled against the strong [in power], so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress [the lies by with they hold the world captive in hell].
10 They hate him [the seventh angel sounding] that rebukes in the gate [calling God’s people to leave hell and enter His kingdom], and they abhor him that speaks uprightly.

John, in Revelation 10, describes the seventh angel, whose voice is the seventh (last) trumpet sounding, who receives the word of God from heaven, which is in His mouth as sweet as honey. He says it is in his belly bitter, meaning he must repeat it (vomit it from himself) as received. This aspect is then described in the following verse (11), saying he must repeat it (must prophesy again).

As we understand, Revelation 10 is John speaking of what he learned from reading Ezekiel, as he described the life in the word of God passed forward to give understanding to those to whom it was sent (the cycle of receiving, understanding, sending, and repeating: which he describes as a wheel within a wheel, in which is life from the mouth of God).

Ezekiel 3
1 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, eat that you find; eat this roll [mgillah – the volume of the book], and go speak unto the house of Israel.
2 So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that roll [mgillah].
3 And he said unto me, Son of man, cause your belly to eat, and fill your bowels with this roll [mgillah] that I give you. Then did I eat it; and it was in my mouth as honey [dbash] for sweetness.
4 And he said unto me, Son of man, go, get you unto the house of Israel, and speak with my words unto them.
5 For you are not sent to a people of a strange speech and of a hard language, but to the house of Israel;
6 Not to many people of a strange speech and of a hard language, whose words you can not understand. Surely, had I sent you to them, they would have hearkened unto you.
7 But the house of Israel will not hearken unto you; for they will not hearken unto me: for all the house of Israel are impudent and hardhearted.
8 Behold, I have made your face strong against their faces [as one cherubim faces the other at the mercy seat, and between them, in the conversation, I will manifest my presence in mercy and judgment], 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 [chathath – when you see this sign] at their looks [as they are dismayed at what they are seeing], though they be a rebellious house.
10 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, all my words [the roll] that I shall speak unto you receive [eat] 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 [repeat] 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 of a great rushing [of waters – as an earthquake shaking their world], saying, Blessed be the glory [presence] of the LORD from his place.
13 I heard also the noise [qowl – the voice] of the wings [of the cherubim] of the living creatures that touched one another [giving and receiving life by the word of God], and the noise [qowl – the voices] of the wheels over against them, and a noise [qowl – the voice, His word spoken by me] of a great rushing [skaking the world].
14 So the spirit lifted me up, and took me away, and I went in bitterness [vomiting what I had eaten], in the heat of my spirit; but the hand of the LORD was strong upon me.
15 Then I came to them of the captivity at Telabib [this mountain of the flood], that dwelt by the river of Chebar [by which I saw far off], and I sat where they sat, and remained there astonished among them seven days.
16 And it came to pass at the end of seven days, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
17 Son of man, I have made you a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.
18 When I say unto the wicked, You shall surely die; and you give him not warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at your hand.
19 Yet if you warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered your soul.
20 Again, When a righteous man does turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumbling-block before him, he shall die: because you have not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at your hand.
21 Nevertheless if you warn the righteous man, that the righteous sin not, and he does not sin, he shall surely live, because he is warned; also you have delivered your soul.
22 And the hand of the LORD was there upon me; and he said unto me, Arise, go forth into the plain, and I will there talk with you [in the plain sight to those I send you].
23 Then I arose, and went forth into the plain: and, behold, the glory of the LORD stood there, as the glory which I saw by the river of Chebar [which I, by His word, saw far off – now when the word is repeated, opened to those in need of its life]: and I fell on my face.
24 Then the spirit entered into me, and set me upon my feet, and spoke with me, and said unto me, Go, shut yourself within your house [shut what you understanding and utter it not, because it is the voice of the seventh angel, the seven thunders unspoken until now].
25 But you, O son of man, behold, they shall put bands [of their confusion] upon you, and shall bind you with them [their false prophecies and false teaching], and you shall not go out among them:
26 And I will make your tongue cleave to the roof of your mouth [the voice of understanding shall not be heard], that you shall be dumb, and shall not be to them a reprover: for they are a rebellious house.
27 But when I speak with you [again], I will open your mouth, and you shall say unto them, “Thus says the LORD God; He that heareth, let him hear; and he that forbeareth, let him forbear:” for they are a rebellious house.

Revelation 10
1 And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud [with the understanding held in heaven]: and a rainbow [the light rightly divided as its {coat of many} colors are seen] was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun [the light of the new day], and his feet as pillars of fire [one like the son of man, walking in the fires with us]:
2 And he had in his hand a little book open [this word of God]: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth,
3 And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roars: and when he had cried, seven [the sound of understanding, of the seven colors of the (coat) rainbow] thunders uttered their voices.
4 And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not [because they are reserved for the one whose right it is to rule {I Am}].
5 And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven,
6 And swore by him that lives forever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer:
7 But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he has declared [decreed] to his servants the prophets.

Jeremiah 10
12 He has made the earth by his power, he has established the world by his wisdom, and has stretched out the heavens by his discretion.
13 When he utters his voice [His seven thunders], there is a multitude of waters in the heavens [word of understanding], and he causes the vapors to ascend [the water above are separated from the waters below] from the ends [ending the old and beginning the new] of the earth; he makes lightnings with rain [understanding by sending His purified, distilled, word from heaven], and brings forth the wind [the work of His Spirit, of which man is ignorant] out of his treasures [giving these words that are more valuable than any other thing].

Revelation 10
8 And the voice which I heard from heaven spoke unto me again, and said, Go and take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel which stands upon the sea and upon the earth.
9 And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little book. And he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make your belly bitter, but it shall be in your mouth sweet as honey.
10 And I took the little book out of the angel’s hand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter [and I knew I had to repeat what I had eaten].
11 And he said unto me, “You must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings.”

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 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 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 [now when] his enemies be made his footstool.
14 For by one offering he has perfected forever them that are sanctified [declared, decreed, holy].
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 [the known presence of the LORD] by the blood of Jesus [Jehovah’s Salvation manifested in the flesh],
20 By a new and living way, which he has consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;
21 And having a high priest [Timothy in who the LORD has risen] 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 [into ONE BODY], as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as you see the day approaching.
26 For if we sin willfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more sacrifice for sins,
27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
28 He that despised Moses’ law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:
29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose you, shall he be thought worthy, who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and has done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
30 For we know him that has said, Vengeance belongs unto me, I will recompense, says the LORD. And again, The LORD shall judge his people.
31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
32 But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after you were illuminated, you endured a great fight of afflictions;
33 Partly, whilst you were made a gazing-stock [were held up for public mocking] both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst you became companions of them that were so used.
34 For you had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that you have in heaven a better and an enduring substance.
35 Cast not away therefore your confidence, which has great recompence of reward.
36 For you have need of patience, that, after you have done the will of God, you might receive the promise.
37 For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.
38 Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
39 But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition [apoleia]; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.

2 Peter 1
10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if you do these things, you shall never fall:
11 For so an entrance [into His kingdom] shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our LORD and Savior Jesus Christ.

16 For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our LORD Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
17 For he received from God the Father honor and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. [Hear you him.]”
18 And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount.
19 We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto you do well that you take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation [not from anyone’s imagination].
21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Ghost [the LORD unknown in them speaking and working].

2 Peter 3
1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily [from their own imaginations] shall bring in damnable [apoleia] heresies, even denying the LORD that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction [apoleia].
2 And many shall follow their pernicious [apoleia] ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingers not, and their damnation [apoleia] slumbers not.

Daniel 12
… and there shall be a time of trouble [tsarah – this tribulation], such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time your people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
2 And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
3 And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars forever and ever.

2 Peter 3
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.

Psalms 81
1 Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.
2 Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.
3 Blow up the trumpet in the new moon [the new government come into the darkness], in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.
4 For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.
5 This he ordained in Joseph [that his seed, Shiloh, would be sown in the earth to sit on his throne] for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt [oppression]: where I heard a language [of lies] that I understood not.
6 I removed his shoulder from the burden [of unbelieves]: his hands were delivered from the pots.
7 You called in trouble [tsarah – this tribulation], and I delivered you; I answered you in the secret place of thunder: I proved you at the waters of Meribah [strife – where they rebelled against the word of God]. Selah.
8 Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto you: O Israel, if you will hearken unto me;
9 There shall no strange god be in you; neither shall you worship any strange god.
10 I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt [out of oppression]: open your mouth wide, and I will fill it [with My words].
11 But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me.
12 So I gave them up unto their own hearts’ lust: and they walked in their own counsels.
13 Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways!
14 I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.
15 The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto him: but their time should have endured forever.
16 He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey [dbash – the word of God eaten and repeated] out of the rock [the flesh in who the LORD manifest His presence: by His word flowing from them] should I have satisfied you.

1 Corinthians 10
1 Moreover, brethren, I would not that you should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;
2 And were all baptized unto Moses [drawn from the waters below] in the cloud [into the waters above, in heaven where understanding is separated] and in the sea [where the people were separated by what they believed, the misleaders they followed until the LORD gathered them again in the destruction of the oppressing and pursuing army];
3 And did all eat the same spiritual meat [this strengthening word of God];
4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.
5 But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
6 Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
7 Neither be you idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.
8 Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
9 Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.
10 Neither murmur you, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.
11 Now all these things happened unto them for examples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends [old and new] of the world are come.
12 Wherefore let him that thinketh he stands take heed lest he fall.
13 There has no temptation [doubting God is with us] taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted [doubt] above that you are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that you may be able to bear it.
14 Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.
15 I speak as to wise men; judge you what I say.
16 The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?
17 For we being many are one bread, and ONE BODY: for we are all partakers of that one bread.

The word “escape,” in verse 13 above, is the Greek word ekbasis, “(meaning to go out); an exit (literally or figuratively):–end, way to escape.” Its other use, in Hebrew 13:7, tells us the escape is the “end” we reach, which it there describes.

Hebrews 13
7 Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follows, considering the end [ekbasis – the escape] of their conversation.
8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever.
9 Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace [life given as a gift from God, reestablishing right foundations]; not with meats [dead flesh of men without His Spirit], which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.

The End!

June 8, 2022

My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me. Are there not mockers with me? and does not mine eye continue in their provocation?

My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me. Are there not mockers with me? and does not mine eye continue in their provocation?

The word above rendered “corrupt” is the Hebrew word chabal, meaning “to wind tightly (as a rope), i.e. to bind; specifically, by a pledge; figuratively, to pervert, destroy; also to writhe in pain (especially of parturition [giving birth]).”

It (chabal) is here, in a pattern, describing the LORD’s word’s bound, held back, by His people, who refuse to give them as received, and therefore, the world languishes in the subsequent desolation (lacking the good this world needs).

As we know, Paul, in 2 Thessalonians 3, tells us we should pray for deliverance from unreasonable and wicked men who are not giving God’s word free course. We know he is speaking of what he wrote to them in 1 Thessalonians 2, first (in verse 12) of God calling them into His kingdom, and then of their recognizing (in verse 13) it came by His word received as the word of God (Him calling – as it is) as His word.

This is followed (in verse 14 thru 18) by Paul describing Satan’s working (his false doctrines, deceptions in those receiving his words), “with all power and signs and lying wonders, And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.” (2 Thessalonians 2:9 & 10)

In 1 Thessalonians 2, he (Paul speaking of the mystery of iniquity already at work – katecho, withhold) says it’s their own countrymen “Forbidding us to speak to the gentiles [those who don’t know the true God] that they might be saved.” He then speaks of His desire to be unified with them, hindered by the resistance of Satan (rebellion against God and His work).

He, in 1 Thessalonians 2:19 & 20, speaking of them receiving the word of God as His presence and kingdom with them, says, “For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even you in the presence of our LORD Jesus Christ at his coming? For you are our glory and joy.”

His (Paul’s) “glory and joy” is them receiving the word the LORD spoken through him, (as through me), as God’s glory seen in him, as it is the glory in those who receive Him and shine forth the same glory. They, being born again by receiving the LORD, are his joy. This is the same “joy” I seek, to hear the children God has given me, His great and innumerable army, His ONE BODY, speak the same things they’ve heard of the LORD in me (working and speaking the salvation of the world).

Now, these men, sitting in the seats of God, resist and oppose Him. They refuse the very simplest of commands to subordinate their words to His. These are those joined with Satan in His work (the work of the world’s communists in church and state): a confederacy bent on misleading (with promises of utopia) the world headlong into destruction (together in hell’s mass misery).

Those leading God’s people, in the face of this, as He tells us in Isaiah 8:6, “refuse the waters of Shiloah that go softly,” and instead chose to listen to those who brought darkness and distress as a cover over all the world. (As we know, the waters of Shiloah are the words of peace flowing from God, as the river that runs under Jerusalem, yarah shalam, flowing, teaching, pointing out the way of peace: reciprocal security of life, liberty, and property: for which security of these rights, just governments are instituted. The communists are the godless who don’t believe in rights and now tyrannically seek to disarm and eradicate all who resist them.)

Isaiah 8
7 Now, therefore, behold, the LORD bringeth up upon them the waters of the river [the words wherein dwells the death of men and nations], strong and many, even the king of Assyria [the communists], 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, [a state into which God manifests His presence, to combat the attacks of evil] 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 [with the wicked misleaders], 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 offence 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 THIS testimony, seal the law among my disciples.
17 And I will wait upon the LORD [who is the prince come to take the throne and rule the world in righteousness], that hides his face [His presence in him] from the house of Jacob, and I will look for [diligently seek] him.
18 Behold, I and the children whom the LORD has given me are for signs [‘owth] and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, which dwells in mount Zion.
19 And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits [of the dead who now rule the world], and unto wizards that peep [casting their evil spell over the ignorant], and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? [Should they be looking] for the living to [among] the dead?
20 [Shouldn’t they be looking] To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to THIS word, it is because there is no light [understanding] in them.
21 And they [those confederate with ignorance] shall pass through it [without understand that has come], hardly bestead and hungry [without THIS word of God]: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king [I Am] and their God, and look upward [for the false god they’ve created and put in God’s place].
22 And they shall look unto the [desolate] earth; and behold trouble [tsarah – tribulation] and darkness [ignorance], dimness of anguish [the earth covered in mass misery]; and they shall be driven to darkness [greater delusions, with which the wicked in power control the ignorant masses].

Jeremiah, the LORD rising in Him to raise His ONE BODY, says, in Jeremiah 23:22, speaking of the desolation of the ruling class among His people, church, and nation, because they refused His word and instead listened to the destroyers, says if they would have given His word as He commanded, this destruction could have been avoided. He says the men who are forbidding His word from flowing to the world are saying it, THIS word, is a burden. The LORD says, the unbearable burden is these men’s words, the corrupt advice that is never meant to bring what they promise, and when it doesn’t they continue with greater deception, which can and does only bring increased destruction of life, liberty, and property, which is their true goal.

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 [paqad] them: behold, I will visit [paqad] upon you the evil of your doings, says the LORD.
3 And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all countries whither 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 [chathath – at these signs in heaven: knowing it is where I reside and knowing the place of the wicked], neither shall they be lacking [paqad – they shall visit Me in my place, to receive My understanding], says the LORD.
5 Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will raise unto David [I Am] a righteous Branch [in the house of Joseph], 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 [united under one King]: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, The LORD Our Righteousness.
7 Therefore, behold, the days come, says the LORD, that they shall no more say, The LORD lives, which brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;
8 But, The LORD lives, which brought up and which led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country [the earth covered darkness], and from all countries whither I had driven them; and they shall dwell in their own land [in My house with Me].
9 Mine heart within me is broken because of the prophets; all my bones shake [of My dead body]; I am like a drunken man [whose mind has become irrational], and like a man whom wine has overcome, because of the LORD, and because of the words of his holiness.
10 For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourns; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their force is not right.
11 For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, says the LORD.
12 Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery ways in the darkness [ignorance]: they shall be driven on [into greater delusion], and fall therein: for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation [pquddah], says the LORD.
13 And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria [who worship idols they call by God’s name in vain]; they prophesied in Baal [the idol of the world], and caused my people Israel to err.
14 I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem a horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none does return from his wickedness; they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.
15 Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets; Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall: for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the land.
16 Thus says the LORD of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain: they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the LORD.
17 They say still unto them that despise me, The LORD has said, You shall have peace; and they say unto everyone that walketh after the imagination of his own heart, No evil shall come upon you.
18 For who has stood in the counsel of the LORD, and has perceived and heard his word? who has marked his word, and heard it?
19 Behold, a whirlwind [from where the LORD God Almighty speak] of the LORD is gone forth in fury, even a grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked.
20 The anger of the LORD shall not return, until he has executed, and till he has performed the thoughts of his heart: in the latter days you shall consider it perfectly [biyn biynah – understanding it with full understanding].
21 I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.
22 But if they had stood [‘amad – if they had taken their stand] in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear my words, then they should have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.
23 Am I a God at hand [qarowb – near in your mouths only], says the LORD, and not a God afar off [rachowq – far from your reins]? [“you {LORD} are near {qarowb} in their mouth, and far {rachowq} from their reins {their inner thoughts}.” Jeremiah 12:2]
24 Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? says the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? says the LORD.
25 I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.
26 How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies? yea, they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart;
27 Which think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbor, as their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal [the idols they’ve created].
28 The prophet that has a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that has my word, let him speak my word [THIS word] faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? says the LORD.
29 Is not my word like as a fire? says the LORD; and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?
30 Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, says the LORD, that steal [take away what isn’t theirs] my words every one from his neighbor.
31 Behold, I am against the prophets, says the LORD, that use their tongues, and say, He says.
32 Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams, says the LORD, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their lightness [their recklessness]; yet I sent them not, nor commanded them: therefore they shall not profit this people at all, says the LORD.
33 And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask you, saying, What is the burden of the LORD? you shall then say unto them, What burden? I will even forsake you, says the LORD.
34 And as for the prophet, and the priest, and the people, that shall say, The burden of the LORD, I will even punish that man and his house.
35 Thus shall you say every one to his neighbor, and every one to his brother, What has the LORD answered? and, What has the LORD spoken?
36 And the burden of the LORD shall you mention no more: for every man’s word shall be his burden; for you have perverted [chaphak – changed and overturned] the words of the living God, of the LORD of hosts [who is a man of war] our God.
37 Thus shall you say to the prophet, What has the LORD answered you? and, What has the LORD spoken?
38 But since you say, The burden of the LORD; therefore thus says the LORD; Because you say this word, The burden of the LORD, and I have sent unto you, saying, You shall not say, The burden of the LORD;
39 Therefore, behold, I, even I, will utterly forget you, and I will forsake you, and the city that I gave you and your fathers, and cast you out of my presence:
40 And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.

The “visiting” mentioned above is the LORD in us manifesting His presence, in “pure religion” visiting those who don’t have a real man, (a man) without weakness or self-interest, to lead them.

The Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary gives the meaning of paqad as, “to visit (with friendly or hostile intent); by analogy, to oversee, muster, charge, care for, miss, deposit.”

We know from (paqad appearing therein) Psalms 8:4 being quoted in Hebrews 2:6 that the Greek equivalent is episkeptomai, meaning “to inspect, i.e. (by implication) to select; by extension, to go to see, relieve.”

These words speak of the LORD mustering and sending His army to the world with the good it needs, which is not just hearing the word but doing as He commands. This is the strength and glory of God, revealed through us, in us as we speak the word He has ordained.

Isaiah 13
1 The burden of Babylon [the burden is the word of confusion, Babylon, that now rules the world], which Isaiah [those whom Jehovah has saved] Jehovah the son of Amoz [born by His strength] did see [understand].
2 Lift you up a banner [nec – the pole upon which the son of man must be lifted, so those who look to him, see him and receive His understanding, will not be affected by the serpents among them destroying with their venomous words] upon the high mountain, exalt the voice [of the LORD] unto them, shake the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.
3 I have commanded my sanctified ones [who I have separated and declared, for my work of pure religion], I have also called my mighty ones for mine anger, even them that rejoice in my highness.
4 The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together: the LORD of hosts [who is a man of war] musters [paqad] the host [army] of the battle.
5 They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, even the LORD, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy [chabal – the effect of holding back this word of God] the whole land [which has corrupted the whole earth].
6 Howl you; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man’s heart shall melt:
8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travails [bringing forth the ONE BODY]: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames [as His angels, His messengers, mistering spirits sent forth to minister to those who are the heirs of salvation].
9 Behold, the day of the LORD comes, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light [because the understanding in them is darkness]: the sun [the church institutions] shall be darkened [shall be seen tobe without understanding] in his going forth, and the moon [civil governments] shall not cause her light to shine [the corrupt understanding in them shall be realized to be corruption].
11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
12 I will make a man [I Am] more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
13 Therefore I will shake the heavens [the old corrupt understanding], and the earth shall remove out of her place [so the new heaven and earth come], in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.
14 And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man taketh up: they shall every man turn to his own people, and flee every one into his own land.
15 Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is joined unto them [the wicked and their work] shall fall by the sword [this word of God from His mouth].
16 Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.
17 Behold, I will stir up [into flame] the Medes [the people who were before neither cold nor hot] against them, which shall not regard [chashab – the thought will not be controlled by] silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.
18 Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eyes shall not spare children.
19 And Babylon [the confusion that rules the world], the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees’ excellency [the lies told by these known liars, their false accusations with which they manipulate and control the ignorant, deluded, and insane], shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
20 It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian [neither shall they mix among them] pitch tents there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there [in confusion].
21 But wild beasts [without the good Spirit of the LORD] of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls [who hunt these souls in the darkness] shall dwell there, and satyrs [devils – misleading he-goats] shall dance there.
22 And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons [leviathan, serpents joined together, whose venom poisons minds of those their mouths then devour] in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.

The word “prolonged” above is the Hebrew word mashak, meaning “to draw, used in a great variety of applications (including to sow, to sound, to prolong, to develop, to march, to remove, to delay, to be tall, etc.).” It tells of those the LORD draws into open sight, into the light that destroys them.

Job 24
1 Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days [when His light is shining upon the earth]?

22 He draws [mashak – draws out into His light] also the mighty [the wicked] with his power: he rises up, and no man is sure of life.
23 Though it be given him [the wicked] to be in safety, whereon he rests; yet his [the LORD’s] eyes are upon their ways.
24 They [the wicked] are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all other, and cut off.

The words “cut off” are from the four times used word namal, referring to Psalms 37, where it is rendered “cut down.”

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 [namal] 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 [understanding], and your judgment as the noonday [when understanding has fully risen].
7 Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not yourself because of him who prospereth 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: but those that wait upon the LORD, they shall inherit the earth.
10 For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, you shall diligently consider his place, and it shall not be.
11 But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.
12 The wicked plot against the just, and gnashed upon him with his teeth.
13 The LORD shall laugh at him: for he sees that his day is coming.
14 The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of upright conversation.
15 Their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bows shall be broken.

The good the LORD says to do, speaking His word which is this world’s good, is the work for which He sends us, His messengers. It, His word, this word, is what draws the wicked into the light, exposing the darkness they think protects them.

Isaiah 18
1 Woe to the land [the earth] shadowing with wings [of the wicked], which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia [in which we see the result of the words and work of darkness]:
2 That sends ambassadors by the sea [sends its confusing messages to the people of the world], even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, you swift messengers, to a nation scattered [mashak – draw out] and peeled [mowrat – obstinate, stubbornly refusing to change], to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers [of confusion and ignorance] have spoiled!
3 All you inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see you [understand what you are seeing], when he lifts up an ensign [nec – when He has lifted me as Moses lifted the serpent in the wilderness] on the mountains; and when he blows a trumpet [this voice of the LORD, calling all His people to gather, muster, to Him, In ONE BODY], hear you.
4 For so the LORD said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear [air – in plain sight] heat upon herbs [as they, the wicked, wither], and like a cloud [understanding] of dew in the heat of harvest [in His wrath].
5 For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the branches.
6 They shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.
7 In that time shall the present be brought unto the LORD of hosts [who is a man of war] of a people scattered and peeled [from the people drawn out, who had refused to be changed], and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion.

The “present” brought to the LORD, by the masses who come out of the tribulation after they see His glory and strength in you, hearing this word from you, is from the three time used Hebrew word shay, meaning “a gift,” (brought by wise men who see the star).

Psalms 68
28 Your God has commanded your strength: strengthen, O God, that which you have wrought for us.
29 Because of your temple at Jerusalem shall kings bring presents [shay] unto you.
30 Rebuke the company of spearmen [word the wicked], the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the people, till every one submit himself with pieces of silver: scatter you the people that delight in war.
31 Princes shall come out of Egypt [out of oppression]; Ethiopia [those covered in darkness – the ignorant] shall soon stretch out her hands unto God.
32 Sing unto God, you kingdoms of the earth; O sing praises unto the LORD; Selah [stop and THINK]:
33 To him that rides upon the heavens of heavens [speaks from the place of full understanding], which were of old; lo, he does send out his voice, and that a mighty voice.
34 Ascribe you strength unto God: his excellency is over Israel [all those who by faith become His children], and his strength is in the clouds [where understand was held when it left the earth].
35 O God, you are terrible out of your holy places: the God of Israel is he that gives strength and power unto his people. Blessed be God.

Psalms 76
1 In Judah [among His elect remnant – His first fruits] is God known: his name is great in Israel [among all those who by faith become His children corrected and changed].
2 In Salem [peace] also is his tabernacle, and his dwelling place in Zion.
3 There brake he the [wicked’s] arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the battle. Selah [Think].
4 You are more glorious and excellent than the mountains of prey.
5 The stouthearted [proud] 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 [from your understanding]; the earth feared, and was still,
9 When God arose to judgment, to save all the meek of the earth. Selah [THINK].
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 [shay] unto him that ought to be feared.
12 He shall cut off the [evil] spirit of princes: he is terrible to the [wicked] kings of the earth.

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

Hebrews 1
10 And, You, LORD, in the beginning have laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of your hands:
11 They shall perish; but you remainest; and they all shall wax old as does a garment;
12 And as a vesture shall you fold them up, and they shall be changed: but you are the same, and your years shall not fail.
13 But to which of the angels said he at any time, Sit on my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool?
14 Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?

Hebrews 2
1 Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.
2 For if the word spoken by angels was steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward;
3 How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the LORD, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him;
4 God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will?
5 For unto the angels has he not put in subjection the world to come, whereof we speak.
6 But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that you are mindful of him? or the son of man that you visit [episkoptomai] him?
7 You made him a little lower than the angels; you crowned him with glory and honor, and did set him over the works of your hands:
8 You have put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing that is not put under him. But now we see not yet all things put under him.
9 But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.
10 For it became him, for who are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.
11 For both he that sanctifies and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,
12 Saying, I will declare your name unto my brethren, in the midst of the church will I sing praise unto you.
13 And again, I will put my trust in him. And again, Behold I and the children which God has given me.

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

Isaiah 25
7 And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering [the lies of men] cast over all people, and the vail [of confusion] that is spread over all nations.
8 He will swallow up death in victory; and the LORD God will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD has spoken it.
9 And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.
10 For in this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest, and Moab [the gates of hell – the mouths of wicked men] shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down for the dunghill.

James 1
16 Do not err, my beloved brethren.
17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
18 Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
19 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
20 For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
21 Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
22 But be you doers [poietes – performers] of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving [paralogizomai – deluding] your own selves.
23 For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer [poietes – poets, resighting the word received, not just hearing], he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:
24 For he beholds himself, and goes his way, and straightway forgets what manner of man he was.
25 But whoso looks into the perfect law of liberty, and continues therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
26 If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridles not his tongue, but deceives his own heart, this man’s religion is vain.
27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit [episkoptomai] the fatherless and widows [those without a real man to lead them and care for them] in their affliction [thlipsis – tribulation], and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

The word paralogizomai, meaning “to misreckon, i.e. delude:–beguile, deceive,” only appears one other time, in Colossians 2:4.

Colossians 2
1 For I would that you knew what great conflict I have for you, and for them at Laodicea [meaning they are the church in this generation, who must awaken from its lukewarm state into flaming fire, bringing “justice to the people”], and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;
2 That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together [in ONE BODY] in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;
3 In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
4 And this I say, lest any man should beguile [paralogizmai – delude] you with enticing words.
5 For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.
6 As you have therefore received Christ Jesus the LORD, so walk you in him:
7 Rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.
8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments [stoicheion – the corrupt elements, foundational principles] of the world, and not after Christ.
9 For in him dwells all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
10 And you are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:
11 In whom also you are circumcised [removing the flesh from your minds, so you see and understand the Spirit within] with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:
12 Buried with him in baptism, wherein also you are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who has raised him from the dead.

The word “operation” is the Greek word energeia, which refers us to its use in Ephesians 1:19 & 3:17, which there, as here, speak of the power (preaching His word) of God that raised us from the dead.

Ephesians 1
17 That the God of our LORD Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:
18 The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
19 And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working [energeia] of his mighty power,
20 Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,
21 Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:
22 And has put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,
23 Which is his body, the fulness of him that fills all in all.

Ephesians 3
3 How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words,
4 Whereby, when you read, you may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ)
5 Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit;
6 That the Gentiles [those who don’t know God] should be fellow-heirs [of His salvation], and of the same [ONE] body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel:
7 Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working [energeia] of his power.
8 Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;
9 And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world has been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ:
10 To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God,
11 According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our LORD:
12 In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him.
13 Wherefore I desire that you faint not at my tribulations [thlipsis] for you, which is your glory.

The mystery of the effectual working of God’s word in us, as we know from 1 Thessalonians 2:13, comes when the word of God we preach is, by faith, received as His word, as it is. This is the realization, the epiphany, that the receiver is in the presence of the LORD Jesus Christ at His coming.

1 Thessalonians 2
11 As you know how we exhorted and comforted [the LORD in me unknown, leading you into all truth] and charged every one of you, as a father does his children,
12 That you would walk worthy of God, who has called you unto his kingdom and glory.
13 For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when you received the word of God which you heard of us, you received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually works [energeo] also in you that believe [that it is Him speaking].

19 For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even you in the presence of our LORD Jesus Christ at his coming?
20 For you are our glory and joy.

Ephesians 4
13 Till we all come in the unity [ONE BODY, by ONE MIND of Christ] of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:
14 That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of [false] doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive [the “wiles” of the devil, methodeia, his methods – only used here and Ephesians 6:11];
15 But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:
16 From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplies, according to the effectual working [energeia] in the measure of every part, makes increase of the body unto the edifying [building up – by educating] of itself in love [agape – pure religion, giving these treasures, as God has given them to us].
17 This I say, therefore, and testify in the LORD, that you henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
18 Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:
19 Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
20 But you have not so learned Christ;
21 If so be that you have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus:
22 That you put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
23 And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;
24 And that you put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
25 Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man [God’s] truth with his neighbor: for we are members one of another.
26 Be you angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:
27 Neither give place to the devil.

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

Psalms 8
1 O LORD, our LORD, how excellent is your name in all the earth! who have set your glory above the heavens.
2 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings have you ordained strength because of your enemies, that you might still the enemy and the avenger.
3 When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have ordained;
4 What is man, that you are mindful of him? and the son of man, that you visit [paqad] him?
5 For you have made him a little lower than the angels, and have crowned him with glory and honor.
6 You made him to have dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet:
7 All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;
8 The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passes through the paths of the seas.
9 O LORD our LORD, how excellent is your name in all the earth!

June 5, 2022

Therefore, they say unto God, “Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of your ways. What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?”

Therefore, they say unto God, “Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of your ways. What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?”

The above is Job, in Job 21:14 & 15, speaking of the wicked, in power and prosperity, saying they have no need for God. Toward the end of the chapter, Job says he knows the devices these men (his so-called friends who are ignorant of the fact they are the wicked through whom Satan is working, speaking with darkened counsel), which they wrongfully imagine against him.

Job 21
27 Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which you wrongfully imagine against me.
28 For you say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?
29 Have you not asked them that go by the way? and do you not know their tokens,
30 That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.
31 Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he has done?
32 Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.

The questions asked above refer us to the LORD’s answering them in Job 38 when He speaks from the whirlwind. He above asks, don’t you know these, knowing the places of the prince and the wicked, are their “tokens,” from the Hebrew word ‘owth, meaning “a signal (literally or figuratively), as a flag, beacon, monument, omen, prodigy, evidence, etc.:–mark, miracle, (en)sign, token.”

It (‘owth) is the word the LORD used to tell us, in Jeremiah 10:2, these are “signs” in the heavens, at which we should not be “dismayed,” from the word chathath, meaning “to prostrate; hence, to break down, either (literally) by violence, or (figuratively) by confusion and fear.”

The word is telling of the difference seen in the result of following the advice of the prince (the king in waiting) and that of the wicked. The latter is following the wicked anit-saviors (antichrist) now ruling our nation and the world using hate-filled lies (claiming they are salvation) to deceive people into continuing with them into self-destruction: the perdition of those who receive not the love of the truth. The truth, the love (agape) of God giving His good advice, comes from those these same antichrists dehumanize (divest of human rights), vilify, and now seek to disarm and eradicate. These are the tokens, signs in the heavens (known to the enlightened) now seen plainly.

God’s people, your pastors and prophets will tell you to sit still and stay quiet (make no mention of the LORD here speaking truth to corrupt powers). They refuse to acknowledge the evil now destroying our nation and culture. Their ignorance is well known to the destroyers, and joining them, they continue to deny the reality we see and (these weaklings of the faith) are thereby cowardly complicit in the plot. These men are the leaders of the feminized (fearful, soft, and comfortable therein) church with its twisted ideas of peace and love: perverting their true meanings, they hold down (katecho) the (lukewarm) BODY, and there hold it until taken out of the way.

The church needs a man to lead it, a king who isn’t afraid, “Who shall declare his [the wicked’s] way to his face and who shall repay him [with truth brought to light, exposing] him what [wickedness] he has done.”

Revelation 3
13 He that has an ear let him hear what the Spirit says unto the churches.
14 And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans [meaning they are the church in this generation, who must awaken and bring “justice to the people”] write; These things says the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the [new] creation of God;
15 I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot: I would you were cold or hot.
16 So then, because you are lukewarm and neither cold nor hot, I will spew you out of my mouth.
17 Because you say, “I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing;” and know not that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked:
18 I counsel you to buy of me gold tried in the fire [these treasures of heaven, God’s understanding revealed], that you may be rich; and white raiment [of purity], that you may be clothed [with My righteousness], and that the shame [of not reaching what your false prophets and false teachers said they saw and understood] of your nakedness do not appear; and anoint your eyes with eye-salve [this eye-opening truth], that you may see.
19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten [correct]: be zealous therefore, and repent [come back to the path from which you’ve strayed].
20 Behold, I stand at the door and knock: if any man hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will sup with him, and he with me.
21 To him that overcomes will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.

Jeremiah 10
1 Hear you the word which the LORD [here and now] speaks unto you, O house of Israel:
2 Thus says the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed [chathath] at the signs [‘owth] of heaven; for the heathen [those who don’t know Me, and haven’t received My understanding] are dismayed [chathath – are confused and in fear, because they have no idea, are ignorant of, what they are signs of] at them.
3 For the customs of the people are vain [worthless – because they are idols, fabrications of men, they follow and blindly worship]: for one cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.
5 They are upright as the palm tree [I Am], but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.
6 Forasmuch as there is none like unto you, O LORD; you are great, and your name is great in might.
7 Who would not fear you, O king of nations? for to you does it appertain [the once used word ya’ah – the origin of the name Jehovah – Yah-hovah, self-existent, self-manifesting into the ruin, to from its dust and ashes create what is good]: forasmuch as among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is none like unto you.
8 But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities [wothlessness – it is self-evident the ways of men who reject God {oblivious of Him while lying about knowing Him}, in ignorance, are destroying lives and livelihoods, men and nations].
9 [These men create idols of] Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder: blue and purple is their clothing: they are all the work of cunning men.
10 But the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation.
11 Thus shall you say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the [new] earth, and from under these [new] heavens.
12 He has made the earth by his power, he has established the world by his wisdom, and has stretched out the heavens by his discretion.
13 When he utters his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens [these words of understanding], and he causes the vapors [the elements of understanding] to ascend from the ends [the end of the old and beginning] of the [new] earth; he makes lightnings [understanding coming] with rain [His purified word from heaven], and bringeth forth the wind [the whirlwind, His Almighty Spirit, from where He speak] out of his treasures.
14 Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath [life] in them.
15 They are vanity [worthless], and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation [pquddah] they shall perish [lose themselves – selling their souls into death and hell].
16 The portion of Jacob is not like them: for he is the former of all things; and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: The LORD of hosts [who is a man of war] is his name.
17 Gather up your wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the fortress.
18 For thus says the LORD, Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this once, and will distress them, that they may find it so [that they will realize their condition and their wound can be healed].
19 Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous; but I said, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it.
20 My tabernacle is spoiled, and all my cords are broken: my children are gone forth of me, and they are not: there is none to stretch forth my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.
21 For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered.
22 Behold, the noise of the bruit is come, and a great commotion out of the north country [darkness that is upon the earth], to make the cities of Judah desolate, and a den of dragons [tanniyn – jackals, whales, serpents, men is whose mouths is venom – mouths they open wide and swallow down their prey].
23 O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.
24 O LORD, correct me, but with judgment; not in your anger, lest you bring me to nothing.
25 Pour out your fury upon the heathen that know you not, and upon the families that call not on your name: for they have eaten [swallowed] up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.

The word rendered “perish,” in verse 11 above, when telling of the end of the idol: men as beasts (leviathan, serpents, whales, and dragons {crocodiles}), is the seven times used word ‘abad (Strong’s #7). It (#7 ‘abad) is the Aramaic (Chaldee) version of the Hebrew word ‘abad (Strong’s #6), which appears later, in verse 15 above, also telling of when these men and their works of error “perish” when the LORD we’ve waited for (with His truth) visits.

When ‘abad (#7) appears above, it is the only time outside of its six uses in Daniel 2 & 7, which refer to the coming of the LORD, Jehovah’s Salvation manifested in the flesh (Jesus), therein described.

Daniel 2 speaks of the vision Nebuchadnezzar (the blinding lies of false prophets that caused the desolation of God’s people) saw but didn’t understand until the judgment of God (Daniel) came and showed the meaning to him (them). It speaks of the final kingdom when God’s people are mixed with their enemies: here and now when our strength (understanding) is mired (confused) by mixing it with clay. It is here the LORD’s mercy appears toward the false prophets and so-called wise men of Babylon, whose own ways and ideas (their misleadings) have them at the point of self-destruction.

Daniel 2
1 And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams, wherewith his spirit was troubled, and his sleep brake from him.
2 Then the king commanded to call the magicians, and the astrologers, and the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, for to show the king his dreams. So they came and stood before the king.
3 And the king said unto them, I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit was troubled to know the dream.
4 Then spake the Chaldeans to the king in Syriack, O king, live forever: tell your servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation.
5 The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The thing is gone from me: if you will not make known unto me the dream, with the interpretation thereof, you shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall be made a dunghill.
6 But if you show the dream, and the interpretation thereof, you shall receive of me gifts and rewards and great honor: therefore show me the dream, and the interpretation thereof.
7 They answered again and said, Let the king tell his servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation of it.
8 The king answered and said, I know of certainty that you would gain the time [say it was something that will happen “some time” in the distant future – and thereby buy time for yourselves], because you see the thing is gone from me.
9 But if you will not make known unto me the dream, there is but one decree for you: for you have prepared lying and corrupt words to speak before me, till the time be changed: therefore tell me the dream, and I shall know that you can show me the interpretation thereof.
10 The Chaldeans answered before the king, and said, There is not a man upon the earth that can show the king’s matter: therefore there is no king, lord, nor ruler, that asked such things at any magician, or astrologer, or Chaldean.
11 And it is a rare thing that the king requires, and there is none other that can show it before the king, except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh.
12 For this cause the king was angry and very furious, and commanded to destroy [‘abad] all the wise men of Babylon.
13 And the decree went forth that the wise men should be slain; and they sought Daniel and his fellows to be slain.
14 Then Daniel answered with counsel and wisdom to Arioch the captain of the king’s guard, which was gone forth to slay the wise men of Babylon:
15 He answered and said to Arioch the king’s captain, Why is the decree so hasty from the king? Then Arioch made the thing known to Daniel.
16 Then Daniel went in, and desired of the king that he would give him time, and that he would show the king the interpretation.
17 Then Daniel went to his house, and made the thing known to Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, his companions:
18 That they would desire mercies of the God of heaven concerning this secret; that Daniel and his fellows should not perish [‘abad] with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.
19 Then was the secret revealed unto Daniel in a night vision. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven [Who from there gives understanding].
20 Daniel answered and said, Blessed be the name of God forever and ever: for wisdom and might are his:
21 And he changes the times and the seasons [by giving understanding and revealing things held in secret]: he removes kings, and sets up kings: he gives wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding:
22 He reveals the deep and secret things: he knows what is in the darkness [hidden in men’s ignorance], and the light [understanding] dwells with him [which is the ‘owth, the sign of His house, His family].
23 I thank you, and praise you, O you God of my fathers, who have given me wisdom and might [strength of iron], and have made known unto me now what we desired of you: for you have now made known unto us the king’s matter.
24 Therefore Daniel went in unto Arioch [a lion-like man], whom the king had ordained to destroy [‘abad] the wise men of Babylon: he went and said thus unto him; Destroy [‘abad] not the wise men of Babylon: bring me in before the king, and I will show unto the king the interpretation.
25 Then Arioch brought in Daniel before the king in haste, and said thus unto him, I have found a man of the captives of Judah, that will make known unto the king the interpretation.
26 The king answered and said to Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar [“LORD of the straitened’s treasure” – who reveals them], Are you able to make known unto me the dream which I have seen, and the interpretation thereof?
27 Daniel answered in the presence of the king, and said, The secret which the king has demanded cannot the wise men, the astrologers, the magicians, the soothsayers, show unto the king;
28 But there is a God in heaven that [from there] reveals secrets, and makes known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days [now]. Your dream, and the visions of your head upon your bed [while you slept in death], are these;
29 As for you, O king, your thoughts came into your mind upon your bed, what should come to pass hereafter: and he that reveals secrets makes known to you what shall come to pass.
30 But as for me, this secret is not revealed to me for any wisdom that I have more than any living, but for their sakes that shall make known the interpretation to the king, and that you might know the thoughts of your heart [your own mind, of which you have become ignorant].
31 You, O king, saw, and behold a great image. This great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before you; and the form thereof was terrible.
32 This image’s head was of fine gold [its beginning was of the greatest value, through its full understanding, but as it progressed it descended, finally into ignorance where it became of lesser and lesser value], his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass,
33 His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay.
34 You saw till that a stone [who the build rejected] was cut out without hands [the only begotten of God without any man’s help], which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces.
35 Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them [and the old world is now ended]: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain [Zion, God’s rule on the earth], and filled the whole earth.
36 This is the dream; and we will tell the interpretation thereof before the king.
37 You, O king, are a king of kings: for the God of heaven has given you a kingdom, power, and strength, and glory.
38 And wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the heaven has he given into your hand, and has made you ruler over them all. You are this head of gold [God’s kingdom created in perfection, descended into sleep and death].
39 And after you shall arise another kingdom inferior to you, and another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth.
40 And the fourth kingdom [the US] shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron breaks in pieces and subdues all things: and as iron that breaks all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise. [see Isaiah 24 below]
41 And whereas you saw the feet and toes, part of potters’ clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as you saw the iron mixed with miry clay.
42 And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken.
43 And whereas you saw iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men [enemies they will mix among them who will weaken them to destroy them]: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.
44 And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever.
45 Forasmuch as you saw that the stone [I Am] was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God has made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.
46 Then the king Nebuchadnezzar fell upon his face, and worshipped Daniel, and commanded that they should offer an oblation and sweet odors unto him.
47 The king answered unto Daniel, and said, Of a truth it is, that your God is a God of gods, and a LORD of kings, and a revealer of secrets, seeing you could reveal this secret.
48 Then the king made Daniel a great man, and gave him many great gifts, and made him ruler over the whole province of Babylon, and chief of the governors over all the wise men of Babylon.
49 Then Daniel requested of the king, and he set Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, over the affairs of the province of Babylon: but Daniel sat in the gate of the king.

The Chaldee word used twice above, in verse 24, to tell of the final mired (confused) kingdom “breaking” and “bruising” all the earth, is r’a’, which only appears here. It refers us to its Hebrew equivalent, ra’a’, appearing in Isaiah 24:19, where it tells of the earth’s current condition.

Isaiah 24
24 Behold, the LORD makes the earth empty, and makes it waste, and turns it upside down, and scatters abroad the inhabitants thereof.
2 And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him.
3 The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the LORD has spoken this word.
4 The earth mourns and fades away, the world languishes and fades away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.
5 The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, and broken the everlasting covenant.
6 Therefore has the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.
7 The new wine mourns, the vine languishes, all the merry-hearted do sigh.
8 The mirth of tabrets ceased, the noise of them that rejoice ended, the joy of the harp ceased.
9 They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.
10 The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in.
11 There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened [by ignorance], the mirth of the land is gone.
12 In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.
13 When thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the people, there shall be as the shaking of an olive tree, and as the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done.
14 [From the ruin of the earth] They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the majesty of the LORD, they shall cry aloud from the sea.
15 Wherefore glorify you the LORD in the fires, even the name of the LORD God of Israel in the isles of the sea.
16 From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, even glory to the righteous. But I said, My leanness, my leanness, woe unto me! the treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously.
17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon you, O inhabitant of the earth.
18 And it shall come to pass, that he who flees from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that comes up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.
19 The earth is utterly broken [ra’a’] down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
20 The [old] earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.
22 And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited [paqad].
23 Then the moon [the corrupt civil governments] shall be confounded, and the sun [the corrupt church] ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.

Isaiah 25
1 O LORD, you are my God; I will exalt you, I will praise your name; for you have done wonderful things; your counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.
2 For you have made of a city a heap; of a defenced [the fortress of lies in which they trust] city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.
3 Therefore shall the strong people glorify you, the city of the terrible nations shall fear you.
4 For you have been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.
5 You shall bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low.
6 And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.
7 And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the vail that is spread over all nations [the lies and falsehood under which they think they hide, ignorance with which they think they can keep secret the LORD among us – this uncovering is the apocalypse; meaning taking away the cover, by His revelation].
8 He will swallow up death in victory; and the LORD God will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD has spoken it.
9 And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.
10 For in this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest, and Moab [the gate of hell – the mouths of men] shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down for the dunghill.
11 And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that swims spreads forth his hands to swim [rightly dividing the waters]: and he shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their hands.
12 And the fortress [in which they trust] of the high fort of your walls [of lies] shall he bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust [the ruin of the earth from where man is created in the new heaven and earth].

The other two times Daniel uses the Chaldee word ‘abad, in Daniel 7, they further define the fourth kingdom and the stone sent against it. He (the stone) is the one described, in Hebrews 12:2, as Author and Finisher of our faith, who with us comes in a cloud of witnesses, enduring the contradiction of sinner (who need His correction) opposing Him.

Jude 1
12 These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness [ignorance] forever.
14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the LORD comes with ten thousands of his saints,
15 To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouths speak great swelling [pride filled] words, having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage [their positions].
17 But, beloved, remember you the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our LORD Jesus Christ;
18 How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.
19 These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.
20 But you, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,
21 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our LORD Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
22 And of some have compassion, making a difference:
23 And others save with fear, pulling [harpazo] them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.

Hebrews 12
1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which does so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
3 For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest you be wearied and faint in your minds.
4 You have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.
5 And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks unto you as unto children, My son, despise not you the chastening of the LORD, nor faint when you are rebuked of him:
6 For whom the LORD loveth 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?

Daniel 7
9 I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days [God’s wisdom] did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels [the understand He brought with Him] as burning fire.
10 A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: thousand thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him: the judgment was set, and the [sealed] books were opened.
11 I beheld then because of the voice of the great words which the horn spoke [against God]: I beheld even till the beast was slain, and his body destroyed [‘abad], and given to the burning flame.
12 As concerning the rest of the beasts, they had their dominion taken away: yet their lives were prolonged for a season and time.
13 I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven [with understanding], and came to the Ancient of days [with the wisdom of God], and they brought him near before him.
14 And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.
15 I Daniel was grieved in my spirit in the midst of my body, and the visions of my head troubled me [because I realized the enemies of God were those of His own people].
16 I came near unto one of them that stood by, and asked him the truth of all this. So he told me, and made me know the interpretation of the things.
17 These great beasts [the jackals, serpents, whales, and dragons, devouring with their mouths], which are four, are four kings, which shall arise out of the earth.
18 But the saints of the Most High shall take the kingdom, and possess the kingdom forever, even forever and ever.
19 Then I would know the truth of the fourth beast, which was diverse from all the others, exceeding dreadful, whose teeth were of iron, and his nails of brass; which devoured, brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with his feet;
20 And of the ten horns that were in his head, and of the other which came up, and before whom three fell; even of that horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spoke very great things, whose look was more stout than his fellows.
21 I beheld, and the same horn [the power now ruling the world in confusion] made war with the saints, and prevailed against them;
22 Until the Ancient of days [God’s wisdom] came, and judgment was given to the saints of the Most High; and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first [he is the king of Babylon – the confusion that now rules in all civil governments of the world], and he shall subdue three kings.
25 And he shall speak great words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times [the times of Abraham’s deep sleep in the furnace] and the [rightly] dividing of [understanding of this] time.
26 But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy [‘abad] it unto the end.
27 And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.

When Job, above in Job 21, tells of the sign (‘owth), in knowing the house of the prince and the dwelling of the wicked, He is speaking of this word from heaven revealing them.

Job 38
17 Have the gates of death been opened unto you [so you can enter heaven]? or have you seen the doors [the gates of hell] of the shadow of death?
18 Have you perceived the breadth [the time of its end and this new beginning] of the earth? declare if you know it all.
19 Where is the way where light dwelleth [in the house of the prince]? and as for darkness, where is the place thereof [the dwelling place of the wicked],
20 That you shouldest take it to the bound thereof, and that you shouldest 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 [as is the Ancient of Days, the wisdom of God]?
22 Have you entered into the treasures of the snow? or have you seen the treasures of the hail, [this word of God frozen in heaven]
23 Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?

34 Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters [God’s word from heaven] may cover you?
35 Can you send lightnings [understanding of it], that they may go and say unto you [you doubters and murmurers], “Here we are [Here I Am]?”
36 Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? or who has given understanding to the heart?

Psalms 74
1 O God, why have you cast us off forever? why does your anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture?
2 Remember your congregation, which you have purchased of old; the rod of your inheritance, which you have redeemed; this mount Zion, wherein you have dwelt.
3 Lift up your feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy has done wickedly in the sanctuary.
4 Your enemies roar in the midst of your congregations; they set up their ensigns [‘owth] for signs [‘owth].
5 A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.
6 But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers.
7 They have cast fire into your sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of your name to the ground.
8 They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.
9 We see not our signs [‘owth]: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knows how long.
10 O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme your name forever?
11 Why withdraw you your hand, even your right hand? pluck it out of your bosom.
12 For God is my king of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.
13 You did divide the sea by your strength: you brake the heads of the dragons in the waters.
14 You break the heads of leviathan [men who’ve joined together against the LORD and His people] in pieces, and gave him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
15 You did cleave the fountain and the flood: you dried up mighty rivers [of their words corrupting all the world].
16 The day is yours, the night also is yours: you have prepared the light and the sun [understanding to unite your people in ONE BODY of Christ].
17 You have set all the borders [end and beginning] of the earth: you have made summer and winter [times and seasons].
18 Remember this, that the enemy has reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed your name.
19 O deliver not the soul of your turtledove [I and the children God has given me, who are the signs in heaven – see Isaiah 8:18] unto the multitude of the wicked: forget not the congregation of your poor forever.
20 Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places [the dwelling of the wicked and ignorant] of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.
21 O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise your name.
22 Arise, O God, plead your own cause: remember how the foolish man reproaches you daily.
23 Forget not the voice of your enemies: the tumult of those that rise up against you increase continually.

The “turtledove” above, from the word towr, meaning dove, is speaking of those who know the time and season we’re in, alive among the sleeping dead at this end of the old world and beginning the new.

Jeremiah 8
1 At that time, says the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, [all the dead misleading My People] out of their graves:
2 And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon [before the church and civil governments they’ve corrupted], and all the host of heaven [all their army that says it has understanding, who use their falsely so-called wisdom to fight against the LORD with us, in us], whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung [the dead in living flesh] upon the face of the earth.
3 And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places whither I have driven them, says the LORD of hosts.”
4 Moreover you shall say unto them, “Thus says the LORD; ‘Shall they fall, and not arise? shall he turn away, and not return?
5 Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
6 I hearkened and heard, but they spoke not aright: no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to his course, as the horse rushes into the battle [against the LORD they don’t know].
7 Yea, the stork in the heaven knows her appointed times; and the turtle [towr – the dove] and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not [this time of] the judgment of the LORD.
8 How do you say, ‘We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain.’
9 The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them?
10 Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to them that shall inherit them: for every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness, from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.
11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, ‘Peace, peace;’ when there is no peace.
12 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, says the LORD.
13 I will surely consume them, says the LORD: there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and the things that I have given them shall pass away from them.'”
14 Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God has put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.
15 We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble!
16 The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan: the whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for they are come, and have devoured the land, and all that is in it; the city, and those that dwell therein.
17 For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, says the LORD.
18 (When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me.)
19 Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a far country [far from the house of the prince among them]: Is not the LORD in Zion? is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with strange vanities?
20 The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.
21 For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment has taken hold on me [My dead body].
22 Is there no balm in Gilead [in this mountain of testimony]; is there no physician there [to bring them the cure]? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered? [the answer is, because they reject the prescribed course of treatment, and instead insist they are not ill, even without it unto choosing death!]

Job 30
8 They [the wicked] were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.
9 And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
10 They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.
11 Because he has loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.
12 Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.
13 They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.
14 They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the [their] desolation they rolled themselves upon me.
15 Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passes away as a cloud [understanding they’ve refused].
16 And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
17 My bones are pierced in me in the night season [the time of ignorance]: and my sinews take no rest.
18 By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it binds me about as the collar of my coat.
19 He has cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes [of the earth in ruin – where He’s sent me, to raise those who receive Him].
20 I cry unto you, and you do not hear me: I stand up, and you regard me not.
21 You are become cruel to me: with your strong hand you oppose yourself against me. [2 Timothy 2: 25 In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them REPENTANCE TO THE ACKNOWLEDGING OF THE TRUTH; 26 And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil {the misleaders they are joined with}, who are taken captive by him at his will.]
22 You lift me up to the wind; you cause me to ride upon it, and dissolve my substance.
23 For I know that you will bring me to death [the dwelling place of the wicked], and to the house appointed for all living [the house of the prince].
24 Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave [as He has, to pull {harpazo} the dead from the fires of hell into life], though they cry in his destruction.
25 Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?
26 When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light [for understanding to take hold of the sleeping dead], there came darkness [there came continuing ignorance and rejection].
27 My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.
28 I went mourning without the sun [without the church]: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.
29 I am a brother to dragons [tanniyn], and a companion to owls [who hunt souls in the darkness].
30 My skin is black upon me [My body, the church, is covered by ignorance], and my bones are burned with heat.
31 My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.

John 6
16 And when even was now come, his disciples went down unto the sea,
17 And entered into a ship, and went over the sea toward Capernaum [the place of the Comforter, who leads into all truth]. And it was now dark [ignorance cover the world], and Jesus was not come to them.
18 And the sea [all the world’s people] arose by reason of a great wind that blew.
19 So when they had rowed about five and twenty or thirty furlongs, they see Jesus walking on the sea [walking among the agitated people], and drawing nigh unto the ship [the church]: and they were afraid.
20 But he says unto them, It is I; be not afraid.
21 Then they willingly received him into the ship: and immediately the ship [the church] was at the land whither they went.
22 The day following, when the people which stood on the other side of the sea saw that there was none other boat there [there was no other church other than His ONE BODY], save that one whereinto his disciples were entered, and that Jesus went not with his disciples into the boat, but that his disciples were gone away alone;
23 (Howbeit there came other boats from Tiberias nigh unto the place where they did eat bread, after that the LORD had given thanks:)
24 When the people therefore saw that Jesus was not there, neither his disciples, they also took shipping, and came to Capernaum [the place where the Comforter, the LORD unknown, is leading all who come to him into all truth], seeking for Jesus.
25 And when they had found him on the other side of the sea, they said unto him, Rabbi, when came you here?
26 Jesus answered them and said, Truly, truly, I say unto you, You seek me, not because you saw the miracles, but because you did eat of the loaves, and were filled.
27 Labor not for the meat which perishes, but for that meat which endures unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him has God the Father sealed.
28 Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God?
29 Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that you believe on him whom he has sent.
30 They said therefore unto him, What sign show you then, that we may see, and believe you? what do you work?
31 Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat [which is this testimony, from the house of the prince waited for, the son of the king, the son of Joseph the King].
32 Then Jesus said unto them, Truly, truly, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven [this word from the mouth of God, by which man lives].
33 For the bread of God is he which comes down from heaven [the full understanding of God the Father], and gives life unto the world.
34 Then said they unto him, LORD, evermore give us this bread.
35 And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that comes to me shall never hunger; and he that believes on me shall never thirst.
36 But I said unto you, That you also have seen me [the Father in me], and believe not.
37 All that the Father gives me shall come to me; and him that comes to me I will in no wise cast out.
38 For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.
39 And this is the Father’s will which has sent me, that of all which he has given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.
40 And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which sees the Son, and believes on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.
41 The Jews then murmured at him, because he said, I Am the bread which came down from heaven.
42 And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? how is it then that he says, I came down from heaven?
43 Jesus therefore answered and said unto them, Murmur not among yourselves.
44 No man can come to me, except the Father which has sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.
45 It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that has heard, and has learned of the Father, comes unto me.
46 Not that any man has seen the Father, save he which is of God, he has seen the Father [in the son].
47 Truly, truly, I say unto you, He that believes on me has everlasting life.
48 I Am that bread of life.
49 Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.
50 This is the bread which comes down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.
51 I Am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live forever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.

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

June 2, 2022June 2, 2022

I Daniel [the Judgment of God] understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.

I Daniel [the Judgment of God] understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.

The above, from Daniel 9:2, is Daniel speaking of when the “man Gabriel” was sent to give him understanding, after he first understood the cause of the desolation, of which he confessed and openly repented.

As we know, the name Gabriel is said to mean “man of God” and “warrior of God,” descriptions only used of Timothy in the New Testament. In Daniel, “man” is from the word ‘iysh, which is meant to refer us to its use, in Hosea 2:16, describing the pattern of the LORD’s visiting to end the desolation of His people (Jerusalem).

Hosea 2
13 And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim [the idols they put in My place, which brought their desolation], wherein she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgot me, says the LORD.
14 Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her [leading her into understanding all truth].
15 And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor [trouble – tribulation] for a door of hope [out of the belly of hell and into heaven, full understanding, with Me]: and she shall sing there [the words I have put in her mouth], as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt [recorded in Exodus 15, a chapter ending with telling of the Tree as cast into the bitter waters of strife, as Jonah was cast in the stormy sea, into the belly of hell and death, from where he repented and was raise to Keep His vow and do the work God set before Him].
16 And it shall be at that day, says the LORD, that you shall call me Ishi [man]; and shall call me no more Baali [you shall no longer call your idols by My name – taking My Name in vain].
17 For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their name.
18 And in that day will I make a covenant for them [referring to Jeremiah 31:31 thru 34] with the beasts of the field and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safely [when I have put my words in their minds, and they’ve learned the way of true peace, when every man knows Me].
19 And I will betroth you unto me forever; yea, I will betroth you unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies.
20 I will even betroth you unto me in faithfulness: and you shall know the LORD.
21 And it shall come to pass in that day, I will hear, says the LORD, I will hear the heavens [a man of God receiving His understanding], and they shall hear the earth;
22 And the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil; and they shall hear Jezreel [from zara’ – they shall hear the word “God sows” in the earth].
23 And I will sow [zara’] her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them which were not my people, “You are my people [heard from heaven];” and they shall say, “You are my God [heard from the earth].”

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 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 [dark] country, and gather them from the coasts of the earth, and with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her that travails with child together: a great company shall return thither.
9 They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
10 Hear the word of the LORD, O you nations, and declare it in the isles afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd 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; Rahel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not. [They have not yet cast the Tree into the sea, to make their bitterness sweet.]
16 Thus says the LORD; Refrain your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears: for your work shall be rewarded, says the LORD; and they shall come again from the land of the enemy.
17 And there is hope in your end, says the LORD, that your children shall come again to their own border.
18 I have surely heard Ephraim 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 spake 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 wentest: 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.
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 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, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me.
27 Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will sow [zara’] 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 eateth the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge. [men shall not be held responsible for the sin of their ancestors, or their own in the old world, but rather, for their own actions and words in the new world, after full understanding has come].
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 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.
37 Thus says the LORD; If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, says the LORD.
38 Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that the city shall be built to the LORD from the tower of Hananeel [the LORD’s appearing to those God has favored] unto the gate of the corner [the gate of turning: repentance: coming out of the belly of hell into heaven].
39 And the measuring line [properly assessing the condition of God’s people in desolation] shall yet go forth over against it upon the hill Gareb [their wound shall be seen, and healing shall begin], and shall compass about to Goath [and they shall humble themselves, as in the valley of Achor: in the tribulation].
40 And the whole valley of the dead bodies [the condition of all, except the very elect remnant who’ve already received Him], and of the ashes [the ruin of the earth, in the fires of hell], and all the fields unto the brook of Kidron [they shall understand death and hell are produced by the waters of darkness], unto the corner [and understanding, they shall return] of the horse [strength] gate [out of hell into heaven] toward the east [from where come the light: understanding, of the new day, the new heaven and earth, where dwells righteousness], shall be holy unto the LORD; it shall not be plucked up, nor thrown down any more forever.

Daniel 9
3 And I set my face unto the LORD God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:
4 And I prayed unto the LORD my God, and made my confession, and said, O LORD, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments;
5 We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from your precepts and from your judgments:
6 Neither have we hearkened unto your servants the prophets, which spoke in your name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.
7 O LORD, righteousness belongs unto you, but unto us confusion of faces, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, through all the countries whither you have driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against you.
8 O LORD, to us belongs confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against you.
9 To the LORD our God belong mercies and forgivenesses, though we have rebelled against him;
10 Neither have we obeyed the voice of the LORD our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets.
11 Yea, all Israel has transgressed your law, even by departing, that they might not obey your voice; therefore the curse is poured upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against him.
12 And he has confirmed his words, which he spake against us, and against our judges that judged us, by bringing upon us a great evil: for under the whole heaven has not been done as has been done upon Jerusalem.
13 As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come upon us: yet made we not our prayer before the LORD our God, that we might turn from our iniquities, and understand your truth.
14 Therefore has the LORD watched upon the evil, and brought it upon us: for the LORD our God is righteous in all his works which he does: for we obeyed not his voice.
15 And now, O LORD our God, that have brought your people forth out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and have gotten you renown, as at this day; we have sinned, we have done wickedly.
16 O LORD, according to all your righteousness, I beseech you, let your anger and your fury be turned away from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain: because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people are become a reproach to all that are about us.
17 Now therefore, O our God, hear the prayer of your servant, and his supplications, and cause your face to shine upon your sanctuary that is desolate, for the LORD’s sake.
18 O my God, incline your ear, and hear; open your eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by your name: for we do not present our supplications before you for our righteousnesses, but for your great mercies.
19 O LORD, hear; O LORD, forgive; O LORD, hearken and do; defer not, for your own sake, O my God: for your city and your people are called by your name.
20 And whiles I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the LORD my God for the holy mountain of my God;
21 Yea, whiles I was speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation.
22 And he informed me, and talked with me, and said, O Daniel, I am now come forth to give you skill and understanding.
23 At the beginning of your supplications the commandment came forth, and I am come to show you; for you are greatly beloved: therefore understand the matter, and consider the vision.
24 Seventy weeks are determined upon your people and upon your holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy [after that which is determined has been poured out, as it has, revealing the LORD’s presence in the son of man, who is His chosen king].
25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street [the way] shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous [tsarah -in the tribulation] times.
26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined [charats – decreed].
27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation [kalah – #3617], and that determined [charats – decreed] shall be poured upon the desolate [as it has].

These are the days decreed, which only the Father (in me) knows.

Job 14
4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one [except the LORD, at the appointed time of the change].
5 Seeing his days are determined [charats – decreed], the number of his months are with you, you have appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
6 Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day.
7 For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.
8 Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground;
9 Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
10 But man dies, and wastes away: yea, man gives up the ghost, and where is he?
11 As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decays and dries up:
12 So man lieth down, and rise not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.
13 O that you would hide me in the grave, that you would keep me secret, until your wrath be past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!
14 If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
15 You shall call, and I will answer you: you will have a desire [and keep your vow] to the work of your hands.

Hosea 2
23 And I will sow [zara’] her [dead bodies] unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy [and I will raise them to life that is in the light]; and I will say to them which were not my people, “You are my people [heard from heaven];” and they shall say, “You are my God [heard from the earth].”

Daniel, in the title verse refers us to Jeremiah 25, which he is referencing in total. The chapter, in a now repeated pattern, tells, as does Daniel above, how all the world came to be desolate (chorbah – meaning “drought, i.e. (by implication) a desolation;” without the waters: the word of God, from above).

Jeremiah 25
…the word of the LORD has come unto me, and I have spoken unto you, rising early [the first begotten from the dead, by the hand of the Almighty – see Genesis 49:22 thru 26] and speaking; but you have not hearkened.
4 And the LORD has sent unto you all his servants the prophets, rising early and sending them; but you have not hearkened, nor inclined your ear to hear.
5 They said, Turn you again now every one from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that the LORD has given unto you and to your fathers forever and ever:
6 And go not after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, and provoke me not to anger with the works of your hands; and I will do you no hurt.
7 Yet you have not hearkened unto me, says the LORD; that you might provoke me to anger with the works of your hands to your own hurt.
8 Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts; Because you have not heard my words,
9 Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north [the ignorant nations of the earth], says the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon [the lies of false prophets and false teachers mixed among you, bringing desolation, who will rule over the corrupt world with their confusion and delusions], my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing [draw attention to them], and perpetual desolations [chorbah].
10 Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones [those doing the work of God, the daily sacrifice of giving His word of judgment, mercy, and the knowledge of His presence], and the light of the candle [and there shall be no understand to see the way in the darkness: their ignorance].
11 And this whole land shall be a desolation [chorbah], and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon [the rule of confusion] seventy years [until this appointed time].
12 And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, says the LORD, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans [those who use their lies to manipulate and control the world into desolation], and will make it [the incorrigible liars mixed among us] perpetual desolations.
13 And I will bring upon that land all my words which I have pronounced against it, even all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah has prophesied against all the nations.
14 For many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of them also: and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the works of their own hands.
15 For thus says the LORD God of Israel unto me; Take the wine cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send you, to drink it.
16 And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.
17 Then took I the cup at the LORD’s hand, and made all the nations to drink, unto whom the LORD had sent me:
18 To wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation [chorbah], an astonishment, a hissing, and a curse; as it is this day;
19 Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and all his people;
20 And all the mingled people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Azzah, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod,
21 Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon,
22 And all the kings of Tyrus, and all the kings of Zidon, and the kings of the isles which are beyond the sea,
23 Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all that are in the utmost corners,
24 And all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mingled people that dwell in the desert,
25 And all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes,
26 And all the kings of the north [darkness], far and near, one with another, and all the kingdoms of the world, which are upon the face of the earth: and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them.
27 Therefore you shall say unto them, Thus says the LORD of hosts [who is a man of war], the God of Israel; Drink you, and be drunken, and spew, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.
28 And it shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at your hand to drink, then shall you say unto them, Thus says the LORD of hosts; You shall certainly drink.
29 For, lo, I begin to bring evil on the city which is called by my name, and should you be utterly unpunished? You shall not be unpunished: for I will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, says the LORD of hosts.
30 Therefore prophesy you against them all these words, and say unto them, The LORD shall roar from on high, and utter his voice from his holy habitation; he shall mightily roar upon his habitation; he shall give a shout [of the archangel, the last trumpet calling all to gather in ONE BODY to Him], as they that tread the grapes [of His wrath], against all the inhabitants of the earth.
31 A noise shall come even to the ends [the end of the old and the beginning of the new] of the earth; for the LORD has a controversy with the nations, he will plead with all flesh; he will give them that are wicked to the sword, says the LORD.
32 Thus says the LORD of hosts, Behold, evil shall go forth from nation to nation, and a great whirlwind [from where this voice of the LORD is heard] shall be raised up [in the son of man, as Moses raised the serpent in the wilderness] from the coasts of the earth [the end of the earth, when God gathers His people, and they sing the song of Moses – See Jeremiah 31:7 thru 9 above].
33 And the slain of the LORD shall be at that day from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung [living flesh without the LORD’s Spirit] upon the ground.
34 Howl, you shepherds, and cry; and wallow yourselves in the ashes, you principal of the flock: for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are accomplished; and you shall fall like a pleasant vessel.
35 And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the principal of the flock to escape.
36 A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and a howling of the principal of the flock, shall be heard: for the LORD has spoiled their pasture.
37 And the peaceable habitations are cut down because of the fierce anger of the LORD.
38 He has forsaken his covert, as the lion: for their land is desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of his fierce anger.

The “controversy” the LORD speaks of, above in verse 31, is from the word riyb, meaning “a contest (personal or legal).” Above it’s when He is pleading with all flesh, making His case to settle the “controversy,” which we understand is about who will (through better ways and ideas) rule the world, Him or the antichrists now controlling it in death and hell where they’ve led it. The song of Moses is sung when God’s people realize He is the one whose argument is victorious, and they gather to Him.

Isaiah 34
8 For it is the day of the LORD’s vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy [riyb] of Zion.
9 And the streams thereof [the word of men deceiving and destroying the world] shall be turned into pitch [seen as darkness], and the dust [the ruin of the earth] thereof into brimstone, and the land [earth] thereof shall become burning pitch.

Isaiah 41
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 and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they that strive [riyb] 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.
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 [the voice of the LORD heard through your song] shall scatter them: and you shall rejoice in the LORD, and shall glory in the Holy One of Israel.
17 When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue fails for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.
18 I will open rivers 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 water.
19 I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together:
20 That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of the LORD has done this, and the Holy One of Israel has created it.
21 Produce your cause [riyb – argue against My rule], says the LORD; bring forth your strong reasons, says the King of Jacob.
22 Let them bring them forth, and show us what shall happen: let them show the former things, what they be, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or declare us things for to come.
23 Show the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that you are gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold it together.
24 Behold, you are of nothing, and your work of naught: an abomination is he that chooses you [the antichrists of this world to continue their rule of the world].

1 John 2
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 appointed flesh: the son in whom the Father dwells]? 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 [the Father] therefore abide in you, which you have heard from the beginning. If that which you have heard from the beginning [from the son] 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 [to which He raised us together with the son].
26 These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you.
27 But the anointing [that Father giving us His Spirit] 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.

1 John 4
1 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
2 Hereby know you the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: [1 Timothy 3:14 These things write I unto you, hoping to come unto you shortly: 15 But if I tarry long, that you may 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.]
3 And every spirit that confesses not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof you have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.
4 You are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he [the Father] that is in you, than he [the spirit of antichrists who have no faith] that is in the world.
5 They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world hears them.
6 We are of God: he that knows God hears us; he that is not of God hears not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

Exodus 15
1 Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the LORD, and spoke, saying, I will sing unto the LORD, for he has triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider has he thrown into the sea.
2 The LORD is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he is my God, and I will prepare him a habitation; my father’s God, and I will exalt him.
3 The LORD is a man of war: the LORD is his name.
4 Pharaoh’s chariots and his host has he cast into the sea: his chosen captains also are drowned in the Red sea.
5 The depths have covered them: they sank into the bottom as a stone.
6 Your right hand, O LORD, is become glorious in power: your right hand, O LORD, has dashed in pieces the enemy.
7 And in the greatness of 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 in the heart of the sea.
9 The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.
10 You did blow with your wind, the sea covered them: they sank as lead in the mighty waters.
11 Who is like unto you, O LORD, among the gods? who is like you, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?
12 You stretched out your right hand, the earth swallowed them.
13 You in your mercy have led forth the people which you have redeemed: you have guided them in your strength unto your holy habitation.
14 The people shall hear, and be afraid: sorrow shall take hold on the inhabitants of Palestina [the invading army who hasn’t assimilated into our better ideas and are at war with us, to destroy our nation and our better culture].
15 Then the dukes of Edom [the enemies mixed among us] shall be amazed; the mighty men of Moab [whose words are the gates of hell], trembling shall take hold upon them; all the inhabitants of Canaan [who’ve exalted themselves above God and their words above His words] shall melt away.
16 Fear and dread shall fall upon them; by the greatness of your arm they shall be as still as a stone; till your people pass over, O LORD, till the people pass over, which you have purchased.
17 You shall bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of your inheritance, in the place, O LORD, which you have made for you to dwell in, in the Sanctuary, O LORD, which your hands have established.
18 The LORD shall reign forever and ever.
19 For the horse of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and the LORD brought again the waters of the sea upon them; but the children of Israel went on dry land in the midst of the sea.
20 And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.
21 And Miriam answered them, Sing you to the LORD, for he has triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider has he thrown into the sea.
22 So Moses brought Israel from the Red sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur [the wall – lies corrupting the waters in which the people trusted]; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water.
23 And when they came to Marah [this time and place of bitter waters], they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of it was called Marah.
24 And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink?
25 And he cried unto the LORD; and the LORD showed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet [when the corruption was removed]: there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved [tried the spirits in the waters] them,
26 And said, If you will diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD your God, and will do that which is right in his sight, and will give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon you, which I have brought upon the Egyptians [your oppressors]: for I am the LORD that heals you [by healing the waters].
27 And they came to Elim [to the palm tree – I Am], where were twelve wells of water, and threescore and ten palm trees: and they encamped there by the waters.

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 [which is the daily sacrifice we make].
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.

May 31, 2022

You drew near in the day that I called upon you: you said, “Fear not.” O LORD, you have pleaded the causes of my soul; you have redeemed my life.

You drew near in the day that I called upon you: you said, “Fear not.” O LORD, you have pleaded the causes of my soul; you have redeemed my life.

The above, Lamentations 3:57 & 58, is the LORD in Jeremiah describing His time in death and hell, as Jonah was in the whale’s belly, and how, from there, He resurrected. As we understand, Jeremiah’s name means Jehovah rising (ruwm), as in Jeremiah, and with His rising in him raising us to life (in us).

Both the Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and the Thayer’s Greek Lexicons define Jeremiah as meaning “whom Jehovah has appointed.” The purpose of the appointment is to be the body the LORD has prepared for Himself, as the hand of God lifted up against His enemies holding us (by their ever-open mouths) down in hell.

Friends, this is not an exercise or a show. The Biblical reality is there are multiple truths we must accept before we (God’s people) can and will comprehend this is THE foretold time, and I Am the One in whom He is first making His presence known, to raise us as His first fruits. This time is hell and all are dead, except the very elect who’ve received Him, as I’ve received Him and am alive. This ascension is into heaven joined with Him, in full understanding (in the firmament where the waters are divided: God’s word above from the words of devils remaining below in hell – in the earth remaining without form, and void, where darkness, ignorance, remains upon the face of the deep).

Isaiah 26
8 Yea, in the way of your judgments, O LORD, have we waited for you; the desire of our soul is to your name, and to the remembrance [zeker] of you.
9 With my soul have I desired you in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek you early: for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
10 Let favor be showed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD.
11 LORD, when your hand is lifted up, they will not see: but they shall see, and be ashamed for their envy at the people; yea, the fire of your enemies shall devour them.
12 LORD, you will ordain peace for us: for you also have wrought all our works in us.
13 O LORD our God, other lords beside you have had dominion [ba’al] over us: but by you only will we make mention [zakar – rememberance] of your name.
14 They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore have you visited [paqad] and destroyed them, and made all their memory [zeker] to perish.
15 You have increased the nation, O LORD, you have increased the nation: you are glorified: you had removed it far unto all the ends of the earth.
16 LORD, in trouble have they visited [paqad] you, they poured out a prayer when your chastening [correction] was upon them.
17 Like as a woman with child, that draws near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and cries out in her pangs; so have we been in your sight, O LORD.
18 We have been with child, we have been in pain [to bring forth the I Am among us], we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen [into the birth canal].
19 Your dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise [as ONE BODY]. Awake and sing, you that dwell in dust [the ruin from where you shall rise to life]: for your dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
20 Come, my people, enter you into your chambers, and shut your doors about you: hide yourself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.
21 For, behold, the LORD comes out of his place to punish [paqad] the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.

Jeremiah, in Lamentation 3, precisely describes the resurrection (the LORD’s and ours, as ONE BODY) predicated on understanding the magnitude of the moment’s experience and its cause and effect (in death and hell). He/we (in the identical pattern of Jonah 2) realizes He is (we are) spiritually dead in hell: society (now the world) in a constant state of confusion, agitation, and turmoil (tribulation as the storm upon the sea), caused by the mouths of men: demagogues and their devices, community agitators raised into power: lawless abusers who’ve become tyrants.

This realization comes when Jeremiah (in Jeremiah 15) tells of His finding the word of God, the roll he, as does Ezekiel, eats and understands it’s the LORD in it, revealing His presence. These men comprehended the pattern sent forward to them (as Ezekiel’s wheel within a wheel) in which understanding (unfolding light) was life.

People of God, I say again, THIS IS NOT A DRILL. You called and, as He promised, God has sent (manifested Himself in) His message, His living word, as you’ve asked. All you need to do is hear Him and, by faith, respond to His commands.

Ephesians 5
14 Wherefore he says, Awake you that sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give you light [understanding].
15 See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,
16 Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
17 Wherefore be you not unwise, but understanding what the will of the LORD is.

Lamentations 3
26 It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.
27 It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
28 He sits alone and keeps silence, because he has borne it upon him.
29 He puts his mouth in the dust [the ruin of the earth – from where He creates man]; if so be there may be hope.
30 He gives his cheek to him that smites him: he is filled full with reproach.
31 For the LORD will not cast off forever:
32 But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.
33 For he does not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.
34 To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth.
35 To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the Most High,
36 To subvert a man in his cause, the LORD approves not.
37 Who is he that says, and it comes to pass, when the LORD commands it not?
38 Out of the mouth of the Most High proceeds not evil and good?
39 Wherefore does a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
40 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
41 Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.
42 We have transgressed and have rebelled: you have not pardoned.
43 You have covered with anger, and persecuted us: you have slain, you have not pitied.
44 You have covered yourself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.
45 You have made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.
46 All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.
47 Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.
48 Mine eye run down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
49 Mine eye trickle down, and ceases not, without any intermission.
50 Till the LORD looks down, and beholds from heaven.
51 Mine eye affects mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.
52 Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.
53 They have cut off my life [as Messiah is cut off, but not from Himself] in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me [as upon the mouth of the tomb].
54 Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.
55 I called upon your name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.
56 You have heard my voice: hide not your ear at my breathing, at my cry.
57 You drew near in the day that I called upon you: you said, Fear not.
58 O LORD, you have pleaded the causes of my soul; you have redeemed my life.
59 O LORD, you have seen my wrong: judge you my cause.
60 You have seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me.
61 You have heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me;
62 The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.
63 Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their music.
64 Render unto them a recompense, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.
65 Give them sorrow of heart, your curse unto them.
66 Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.

Jonah 2
1 Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of the fish’s belly,
2 And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell [sheol – the place where the dead reside] cried I, and you heard my voice.
3 For you have cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all your billows and your waves passed over me.
4 Then I said, I am cast out of your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple.
5 The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head.
6 I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me forever: yet have you brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God.
7 When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came in unto you, into your holy temple.
8 They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
9 But I will sacrifice unto you with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that that I have vowed. Salvation is of the LORD.
10 And the LORD spoke unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.

Jonah 3
1 And the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the second time, saying,
2 Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid you.

Matthew 12
40 For as Jonah [dove – the only sign of the end] was three days and three nights in the whale’s [ketos] belly [swallowed by the ever-open mouths of false prophets and false teachers]; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
41 The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here.
42 The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.

Jonah 3
3 So Jonah arose, [kept his vow] and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days’ journey.

In Jeremiah 15, the LORD tells of His people no longer comprehending or knowing (the earth without light) the words of Moses and Samuel; names meaning drawn (separated) from the waters (below) and (written by) those who hear Him speaking. He says they forgot and abandoned Him from the time of king Manasseh, meaning those who’ve forgotten (God).

He (Manasseh) brought in idol worship, producing the affliction (tribulation and separation from God) they suffer under those leading and teaching them with corrupt words and ideas mixed with His (creating the mired waters of confusion that bring desolation to men and nations). He says none have pity on or bemoan His fallen people: here described as (His ONE BODY) scattered.

It is into this condition The LORD (Jehovah) manifests Himself, rising first in Jeremiah, whose father finds (rediscovers) the book: the written word abandoned. He reads it and first (the prerequisite) understands the condition (the state of the people and nation) is as foretold therein: desolation that comes from no longer hearing the word of God as the word from His mouth, and not listening, falling into the tribulation (tsarah) He said follows.

This, finding the word, is the same Daniel speaks of in Daniel 9, there saying he found the book of Jeremiah (the wheel within the wheel, the word of God sent forward to give life to those it gives understanding). He says He (as a prerequisite) understood the desolation, the condition of the nation and God’s people: their confusion of face come from not hearing and following the LORD.

He (Daniel, after His prayer of confession and repentance – steps now forgotten, abandoned, and vilified) ends the chapter telling of our time, when the daily sacrifice: the knowledge of God bringing (by the necessary sacrifice of self) His righteous judgment (Daniel – God’s Judgment) and His mercy. It speaks of this as the time when Messiah the Prince (the anointed and appointed one, the king in waiting, of God’s choosing) is cut off, but not from Himself.

The word rendered “cut off,” in Daniel 9:26, is karath, which tells of God’s people leaving Him, forgetting the covenant he “made” with them. It’s referring us to its use, in Jeremiah 11:19, telling of Jeremiah’s understanding (having knowledge of) it, the necessary sacrifice, and the destruction of the men (of Anathoth – who prayed for deliverance, and hearing God speaking, rejected His commandments) who hear it.

Jeremiah, in Jeremiah 12, then talks to the LORD about His (longsuffering) judgment. He asks why the wicked are prospering and saying, “He [The LORD unknown in Jeremiah] shall not see our last end.” The LORD (speaking of the last end and His being “cut off,” but not from Himself, unknown walking in the furnace with them as a burning lamp) tells Jeremiah that time is when he is running with the footman. He (the LORD) asks, if they have wearied him then, how is going to do in this time of war, in the swelling (ga’own – pride) of Jordan. As we understand, this phrase means this time when the waters, wherein, below its surface, lurks death, and they (the waters) carry all men into it (the dead sea). It’s when these dark waters overflow their banks, as the swelled pride of men, whose power is to deceive, exceeds all moral and ethical boundaries.

Jeremiah 11
1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD saying,
2 Hear you the words of this covenant, and speak unto the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem;
3 And say you unto them, Thus says the LORD God of Israel; Cursed be the man that obeys not the words of this covenant,
4 Which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, Obey my voice, and do them, according to all which I command you: so shall you be my people, and I will be your God:
5 That I may perform the oath which I have sworn unto your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is this day. Then answered I, and said, So be it, O LORD.
6 Then the LORD said unto me, Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, Hear you the words of this covenant, and do them.
7 For I earnestly protested unto your fathers in the day that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even unto this day, rising early and protesting, saying, Obey my voice.
8 Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked every one in the imagination of their evil heart: therefore I will bring upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do: but they did them not.
9 And the LORD said unto me, A conspiracy [a plot against Me] is found among the men of Judah, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
10 They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, which refused to hear my words; and they went after other gods to serve them: the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers.
11 Therefore thus says the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and though they shall cry unto me, I will not hearken unto them.
12 Then shall the cities of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem go, and cry unto the gods unto whom they offer incense: but they shall not save them at all in the time of their trouble.
13 For according to the number of your cities were your gods, O Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have you set up altars to that shameful thing, even altars to burn incense unto Baal.
14 Therefore pray not you for this people, neither lift up a cry or prayer for them: for I will not hear them in the time that they cry unto me for their trouble.
15 What has my beloved to do in mine house, seeing she has wrought lewdness with many, and the holy flesh is passed from you? when you do evil, then you rejoice.
16 The LORD called your name, A green olive tree, fair, and of goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he has kindled fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken.
17 For the LORD of hosts, that planted you, has pronounced evil against you, for the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have done against themselves to provoke me to anger in offering incense unto Baal.
18 And the LORD has given me knowledge of it, and I know it: then you showed me their doings.
19 But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
20 But, O LORD of hosts, that judges righteously, that tries the reins and the heart, let me see your vengeance on them: for unto you have I revealed my cause.
21 Therefore thus says the LORD of the men of Anathoth [who’ve prayed for my help and now reject it once it’s come], that seek your life [causing you to have to sacrifice your life to deliver my message], saying, Prophesy not in the name of the LORD, that you die not by our hand:
22 Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will punish them: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine:
23 And there shall be no remnant of them: for I will bring evil upon the men of Anathoth, even the year of their visitation.

Jeremiah 12
1 Righteous are you, O LORD, when I plead with you: yet let me talk with you of your judgments: Wherefore does the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?
2 You have planted them, yea, they have taken root: they grow, yea, they bring forth fruit: you are near in their mouth, and far from their reins.
3 But you, O LORD, know me: you have seen me, and tried mine heart toward you: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.
4 How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of every field wither, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? the beasts are consumed, and the birds; because they said, “He shall not see our last end.”
5 [And the LORD in him answered,] If you have run with the footmen, and they have wearied you, then how can you contend with horses? and if in the land of peace, wherein you trusted, they wearied you, then how will you do in the swelling [ga’own] of Jordan?
6 For even your brethren, and the house of your father [my own people have cut a covenant with the men they’ve put in my place: calves they call their gods], even they have dealt treacherously with you; yea, they have called a multitude after you: believe them not, though they speak fair words unto you.
7 I have forsaken mine house, I have left mine heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.

Jeremiah 15
5 For who shall have pity upon you, O Jerusalem? or who shall bemoan you? or who shall go aside to ask how you do?
6 You have forsaken me, says the LORD, you are gone backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against you, and destroy you; I am weary with repenting.
7 And I will fan them with a fan in the gates [between heaven and hell] of the land; I will bereave them of children, I will destroy my people since they return not from their ways.
8 Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas: I have brought upon them against the mother of the young men a spoiler at noonday: I have caused him to fall upon it suddenly, and terrors upon the city.
9 She that has borne seven languish [the church]: she has given up the ghost; her sun [church – as God intended it to shine His understanding upon the earth] is gone down while it was yet day [while I was among them as a burning lamp]: she has been ashamed and confounded [she hasn’t reached the end her false prophets and false teacher have, in my name, told them of]: and the residue of them will I deliver to the sword [this word of God they reject] before their enemies, says the LORD.
10 Woe is me, my mother [wisdom], that you have borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury [I have not given them more or less than I expect in return, as we covenanted], nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them does curse me.
11 The LORD said, Truly it shall be well with your remnant [the elect whom I’ve awakened as My first fruits]; truly I will cause the enemy to entreat you well in the time of evil and in the time of affliction.
12 Shall [not My] iron [strength] break the northern iron [the strength of darkness] and the steel [the power of ignorance]?
13 Your substance and your treasures [the things you think are valuable, which are the dust and ruin of the earth] will I give to the spoil without price, and that for all your sins, even in all your borders.
14 And I will make you to pass with your enemies into a land [Babylon, the confusion wherein you now unknowingly dwell] which you know not: for a fire is kindled in mine anger, which shall burn upon you.
15 O LORD, you know: remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in your longsuffering: know that for your sake I have suffered rebuke.
16 Your words [which were abandoned and forgotten] were found, and I did eat them; and your word was unto me the joy [as in Job 38:7, when all the morning stars {first fruits} sang together {again risen into heaven: into full understand} and shout for joy] and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by your name {Jeremiah: Jehovah’s Salvation in the flesh: Jesus}, O LORD God of hosts.
17 I sat not in the assembly of the mockers [who reject and vilify Your word and work, Your presence, of which they are ignorant], nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of your hand: for you have filled me with indignation.
18 Why is my pain [longsuffering to bring to life Your ONE BODY] perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? will you be altogether unto me as a liar [as these men who speak words that never come to pass], and as waters [words] that fail?
19 Therefore thus says the LORD [to His people], If you return, then will I bring you again, and you shall stand before me: and if you take forth the precious from the vile [separating my words {This Word} from the corrupt words of false prophets and false teachers], you shall be as my mouth: let them return unto you; but return not you unto them.
20 And I will make you unto this people a fenced brazen wall: and they shall fight against you, but they shall not prevail against you: for I am with you to save you and to deliver you, says the LORD.
21 And I will deliver you out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem you out of the hand of the terrible.

Jeremiah 50
43 The king of Babylon [the confusion that now rules the world] has heard the report of them, and his hands waxed feeble: anguish [tsarah – the tribulation they’ve caused] took hold of him, and pangs as of a woman in travail [the confusion and affliction that brings forth the appointed and anointed king, the shepherd and stone sent for this rescue].
44 Behold, he [the LORD] shall come up like a lion from the swelling [ga’own] of Jordan [against the pride of those whose words have carried all the world into death and hell] unto the habitation of the strong: but I will make them [the enemies mixed among My people, who’ve led them into death and hell] suddenly run away from her: and who is a chosen [anointed] 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?
45 Therefore hear you the counsel of the LORD, that he has taken against Babylon; and his purposes, that he has purposed against the land of the Chaldeans [those using their words to manipulate and control the world]: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out: surely he shall make their habitation desolate with them.
46 At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth is moved, and the cry is heard among the nations.

The word “cry,” above in verse 46, is the Hebrew word za’aq, which refers us to its use in Ecclesiastes 9:17, also rendered “cry,” telling us of the voice of God’s wisdom, which is despised and not heard among the so-called wise of the world. BUT, the Word of God takes the city of Babylon, and their cry is heard when it comes.

Ecclesiastes 9
11 I returned, and saw under the sun [when His light is upon the earth], that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happens to them all [as God wills it for His purpose].
12 For man also knows not his time [this time which Only I know, because the One who lives in me told me so]: as the fishes [those whose misleading words, death lurking below the surface of the waters, cause the blinding ignorance that agitates humanity {the sea}, swallowing up their understanding of the LORD here with them the belly of hell], that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds [who are supposed to be soaring in heaven, in the air, with full understanding] that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly upon them.
13 This wisdom have I seen also under the sun [when I received understanding], and it seemed great unto me:
14 There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king [of Babylon] against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it:
15 Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered [in whom the LORD did His work] that same poor man.
16 Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless, the poor man’s wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard [among the so-called wise and powerful of the world].
17 The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry [za’aq] of him that rules among fools.
18 Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner [in power] destroys much good.

When Jeremiah, in Lamentations 3:53 & 55, tells of the “dungeon” where they took (cut off) his life, the word is “bowr,” meaning “pit hole (especially one used as a cistern or a prison):–cistern, dungeon, fountain, pit, well.” It is the “pit” Joseph’s brothers put him in before selling him into slavery, and it’s the “dungeon” he was later cast into in Egypt. It’s from the latter he was raised to the throne of Egypt.

We’re told, in Jeremiah 38, it’s the “dungeon” of Malchiah, the son of Melek, names respectively meaning “king of (i.e. appointed by) Jah [Jehovah],” the son of (David) the “King.”

After saying Jeremiah was cast therein, it says “and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire [the cloudy waters of confusion].”

We understand, by the word chebel rendered “cords,” this descent into hell, is for the purposes of the right assessment determined (by the measuring “line”), declared (confessed) to be the “bands” holding God’s people therein, which (lacking these steps) is the “snare” in which all the world now finds itself caught.

Zechariah 2
1 I lifted up my eyes again, and looked, and behold a man with a measuring line [chebel] in his hand.
2 Then said I, Where go you? And he said unto me, To measure Jerusalem [God’s people in who he will dwell, in peace by the words that flow from Him], to see what is the breadth thereof, and what is the length thereof.
3 And, behold, the angel that talked with me went forth [bringing this message], and another angel went out to meet him [to receive the message sent to those who become the heirs of Salvation],
4 And said unto him, Run, speak to this young man, saying, Jerusalem shall be inhabited as towns without walls for the multitude of men and cattle therein:
5 For I, says the LORD, will be unto her a wall of fire round about, and will be the glory in the midst of her.
6 Ho, ho, come forth, and flee from the land of the north [darkness and ignorance], says the LORD: for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heaven, says the LORD.
7 Deliver yourself, O Zion, that dwellest with the daughter of Babylon [confusion].
8 For thus says the LORD of hosts; After the glory has he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that touches you touches the apple of his eye. [The word “apple” is the once used word babah, meaning it is the gate out of Babel, Babylon, for those who see with the “eye” of the LORD. It, therefore, tells of Him telling Babylon, those who touch us, touch those he brings through the gates out of Babylon: confusion]
9 For, behold, I will shake mine hand upon them, and they shall be a spoil to their servants: and you shall know that the LORD of hosts has sent me.
10 Sing and rejoice [shout for joy children of the God], O daughter of Zion: for, lo, I come, and I will dwell in the midst of you, says the LORD.
11 And many nations shall be joined to the LORD in that day, and shall be my people: and I will dwell in the midst of you, and you shall know that the LORD of hosts [who is a man of war] has sent me unto you.
12 And the LORD shall inherit Judah [His elect remnant] his portion in the holy land, and shall choose Jerusalem [His people at large] again.
13 Be silent, O all flesh, before the LORD: for he is raised up [as in Jeremiah] out of his holy habitation.

2 Samuel 22
…The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer;
3 The God of my rock; in him will I trust: he is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my savior; you saved me from violence.
4 I will call on the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.
5 When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid;
6 The sorrows [chebel] of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me;
7 In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried to my God: and he did hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry did enter into his ears.
8 Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations of heaven moved and shook, because he was wroth.
9 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
10 He bowed the heavens also, and came down; and darkness was under his feet.
11 And he rode upon a cherub [His messenger by who His presence is manifested to those who receive the report], and did fly: and he was seen upon the wings of the wind [by His Spirit soaring in heaven: in full understanding].
12 And he made darkness [ignorance] pavilions round about him, dark waters [word of men: ignorance concealing Him], and thick clouds of the skies.
13 Through the brightness [His understanding sent forth] before him were coals of fire kindled.
14 The LORD thundered from heaven, and the Most High uttered his voice.
15 And he sent out arrows [His people with His message], and scattered them [the ignorant]; lightning [understanding], and discomfited them.
16 And the channels [the water flowing to all] of the sea appeared, the foundations of the world were discovered [to be out of course and needing to be again laid: remembered], at the rebuking of the LORD, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.
17 He sent from above, he took me; he drew me out of many waters [separated me from the waters below];
18 He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them that hated me: for they were too strong for me.
19 They prevented [went before] me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay.
20 He brought me forth also into a large place: he delivered me, because he delighted in me.
21 The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness: according to the cleanness of my hands has he recompensed me. [Hebrews 11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.]
22 For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

Job 18
5 Yea, the light [understanding] of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.
6 The light shall be dark [what they understand is ignorance] in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.
7 The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.
8 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.
9 The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him.
10 The snare [chebel] is laid for him in the ground [in the earth], and a trap for him in the way.

These bands, the ways of the wicked, the strength in which they trust, are what Jeremiah describes, in Lamentation 3:62, as the “device” of the wicked against him. He earlier, in verse 60, calls their “device” their “imaginations,” respectively from the words, higgayown (their murmuring against), and machashabah (their plot against {God raising His people}).

Strong’s #1902: higgayown (pronounced hig-gaw-yone’); intensive from 1897; a murmuring sound, i.e. a musical notation (probably similar to the modern affettuoso to indicate solemnity of movement); by implication, a machination.

Strong’s #4284: machashabah (pronounced makh-ash-aw-baw’); or machashebeth {makh-ash-eh’-beth}; from 2803; a contrivance, i.e. (concretely) a texture, machine, or (abstractly) intention, plan (whether bad, a plot; or good, advice).

Lamentation 3
60 You have seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations [machashabah] against me.
61 You have heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me;
62 The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device [higgayown] against me all the day.

Job 5 [Speaking of the vengeance of the wicked]
2 For wrath kills the foolish man, and envy slays the silly one.
3 I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
4 His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.
5 Whose harvest the hungry eat up, and taketh it even out of the thorns [from the misleaders mixed among us], and the robber swallows up their substance.
6 Although affliction comes not forth of the dust, neither does trouble spring out of the ground [out of the earth, without the wicked stirring it with His devices];
7 Yet man is born unto trouble [as a snare], as the sparks [in which there is no enlightenment] fly upward.
8 I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:
9 Which does great things and unsearchable; marvelous things without number:
10 Who gives rain [His word from heaven] upon the earth, and sends waters upon the fields [to bring life where nothing has grown]:
11 To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.
12 He disappoints the devices [machashabah] of the crafty [those who think they are the wise of the world], so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
13 He takes the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong [into destruction].
14 They meet with darkness [ignorance] in the daytime [when understanding is present], and grope in the noonday [now when understanding is at its highest] as in the night [they choose to remain in darkness because their deeds are evil].
15 But he [the LORD] saves the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.
16 So the poor has hope, and iniquity stops her mouth.
17 Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects: therefore despise not you the chastening of the Almighty:
18 For he makes sore, and binds up: he wounds, and his hands make whole.
19 He shall deliver you in six troubles [tsarah – tribulations, caused by the words of wicked and evil men]: yea, in seven [when His angel, His messenger, comes with His correction] there shall no evil touch you [and He shall lead you out through the gates of Babylon, out of death and hell into heaven: full understanding].

Job 27
27 Behold, I know your thoughts [machashabah], and the devices which you wrongfully imagine [your plot to do violence] against me.
28 For you say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?
29 Have you not asked them that go by the way? and do you not know their tokens,
30 That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.
31 Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he has done?
32 Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb [among the dead].

Psalms 9
1 I will praise you, O LORD, with my whole heart; I will show forth all your marvelous 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 sit 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 [tsarah – in the tribulations].
10 And they that know your name will put their trust in you: for you, LORD, have not forsaken them that [diligently] 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 liftest 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 [by their murmuring and plotting again Him]. Selah [stop, think, and understand what you are experiencing, seeing with your own eyes].
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 [as Your eyes see].
20 Put them in fear, O LORD: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah [stop, think, and understand what you are experiencing, seeing with your own eyes].

May 28, 2022

Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is your eye evil, because I am good?

Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is your eye evil, because I am good?

The above comes as the LORD is declaring His (like ours, as God-given) right to do with His property (money) as He decides. Here He’s agreed to pay a preset amount to those working for Him, and when He does so, those who worked longer complained. The “good” He speaks of is His doing what was pre-agreed (the contracted work and payment), and the “evil” is those who think He owes them more than agreed. When receiving promised payment, they murmur against Him (because of what He agreed to and paid others).

The word rendered “lawful,” here in Matthew 20:15, is the Greek word exesti, from the words ex (ek), meaning origin, from which it comes; and esti, from eimi, emphatically meaning, I exist. The word is saying, “through my existence,” through the endowment that comes with my existence: from the time it occurs: becomes living flesh, until the time it ends; this is among the rights God has given (endowed) me, placed into my flesh, as His creation.

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

Friends, accept it or not, this document, the Declaration of Independence, is a contract (covenant) between God and our national forefathers when they assumed “among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitle them.” They did so while “appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude [righteousness] of our intentions,” and “with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.”

Now, I ask you a question, “Is God unrighteous (evil)?” If He contracted with our forefathers and promised a return for their work, do you speak evil against Him because He gives the payment (Divine Providence upon which they had reliance: faith) He promised? Is it not His right and obligation, as the Supreme Judge of the world, to stand with the righteous and reestablish order lost to the wicked who now lawlessly rule?

Numbers 23
19 God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: has he said, and shall he not do it? or has he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
20 Behold, I have received commandment to bless: and he has blessed; and I cannot reverse it.
21 He [has pardoned, and therefore] has not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither has he seen perverseness in Israel: the LORD his God is with him, and the shout of a king [the voice of His archangel, the arch messenger whose voice is the last trumpet sounding, I Am, the Father’s presence, gathering all God’s people to join with me in the battle before us] is among them.
22 God brought them out of Egypt [out from among their oppressors, from under the deceptive power of tyrants and despots]; he has as it were the strength of a unicorn [the Only and Almighty power of God, the Pantokrator, the Supreme Judge of the world].
23 Surely there is no enchantment [spells of men] against Jacob [the whole family of God, all who will become His children by receiving Him as their Father], neither is there any divination against Israel [who will reign over the world as God reigns]: according to this time [now at the ends of the world] it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, What has God wrought!
24 Behold [See what He has wrought], the people shall rise up [to the battle] as a great lion, and lift up himself as a young lion: he shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and drink the blood of the slain.

The word “unicorn,” meaning a single power, is in Hebrew r’am (referring to its conspicuousness), from the once used word ra’am, meaning “to rise:– be lifted up.” The word’s (ra’am) only use is in Zachariah 14:10, there speaking of when the king is “lifted up” over all the world (in the name of the Supreme Judge of it).

Zechariah 14
6 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark [understanding, light, shall be present but not clear: not comprehended]:
7 But it shall be one day which shall be known to [understood by me] the LORD, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time [when understanding, light, has left the earth, no longer seen] it shall be light [understand shall, has, come uncomprehended].
8 And it shall be in that day, that living waters [light that is the life of the world: giving understanding] shall go out from Jerusalem [from where flows the LORD words and ways of sustainable peace and civilization]; half of them toward the former sea [the old world], and half of them toward the hinder sea [the new that is beginning]: in summer and in winter [to both those who understand and those who remain ignorant] shall it be.
9 And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one.
10 All the land shall be turned as a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem [the earth shall understand, when the high place of the earth are brought down, and the fruit comes from the words of peace that flow from the LORD]: and it [the One power] shall be lifted up [ra’am], and inhabited in her place, from Benjamin’s [from the son who is at God’s right hand] gate unto the place of the first gate [the entry into His righteousness in His new world], unto the corner gate [when His people turn to Him], and from the tower of Hananeel [where God people, whom He’s favored, see His coming] unto the king’s winepresses [the grapes, fruit of His wrath, judgment and mercy].
11 And men shall dwell in it, and there shall be no more utter destruction; but Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited.
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their [works of the] flesh shall consume [maqaq – melt away in the fire they’ve caused] away while they stand upon their feet [are risen in the flesh], and their eyes [what they’ve seen, their corrupt understanding] shall consume [maqaq – shall melt] away in their holes, and their tongue [their word they have exalted above God’s, with which they misled and destroyed the world] shall consume [maqaq – shall melt] away in their mouth.
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbor, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbor.
14 And Judah also shall fight at Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the heathen round about shall be gathered together, gold, and silver, and apparel, in great abundance.
15 And so shall be the plague of the horse, of the mule, of the camel, and of the ass, and of all the beasts that shall be in these tents, as this plague.
16 And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles [leaving their houses to dwell in Him].
17 And it shall be, that whoso will not come up of all the families [separated from the misleaders, the dead who’ve been their kings] of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the [ONE] King, the LORD of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain.
18 And if the family of Egypt [the separated families who were oppressed by their misleaders] go not up, and come not, that have no rain [no word of God, the light, understanding that only come from Him, which only brings life again in the earth]; there shall be the plague, wherewith the LORD will smite the heathen that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.
19 This shall be the punishment of Egypt [the oppressors], and the punishment of all nations that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.
20 In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses [ringing out from the strong], Holiness Unto The LORD; and the pots in the LORD’s house shall be like the bowls before the altar [filled with the blood of His sacrifice].
21 Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto the LORD of hosts: and all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and seethe therein: and in that day there shall be no more the Canaanite [those zealous against the living God and His children] in the house of the LORD of hosts [who is a man of war].

Haggai 2
1 In the seventh month [in the perfect time], in the one and twentieth day of the month, came the word of the LORD by the prophet Haggai, saying,
2 Speak now to Zerubbabel [those born again by coming out of confusion] the son of Shealtiel [for which they asked God], governor of Judah, and to Joshua [the cleansed priesthood, the body of Jesus, Jehovah’s Salvation personified] the son of Josedech [who are Jehovah’s righteousness], the high priest, and to the residue of the people, saying,
3 Who is left among you that saw this house in her first glory? and how do you see it now? is it not in your eyes in comparison of it as nothing?
4 Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, says the LORD; and be strong, O Joshua, son of Josedech, the high priest; and be strong, all you people of the land, says the LORD, and work: for I am with you, says the LORD of hosts:
5 According to the word that I covenanted with you when you came out of Egypt, so my spirit remains among you: fear you not.
6 For thus says the LORD of hosts; Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens [the corrupted understanding covering all the world in darkness], and the earth [this generation], and the sea [all the nations and people], and the dry land [where My word is not heard];
7 And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory [My presence in My People], says the LORD of hosts [who is a man of war].
8 The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, says the LORD of hosts.
9 The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, says the LORD of hosts: and in this place will I give peace, says the LORD of hosts.
10 In the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying,
11 Thus says the LORD of hosts; Ask now the priests concerning the law, saying,
12 If one bear holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and with his skirt do touch bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any meat, shall it be holy? And the priests answered and said, No.
13 Then said Haggai, If one that is unclean by a dead body touch any of these, shall it be unclean? And the priests answered and said, It shall be unclean.
14 Then answered Haggai, and said, So is this people, and so is this nation before me, says the LORD; and so is every work of their hands; and that which they offer there is unclean.
15 And now, I pray you, consider from this day and upward, from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the LORD:
16 Since those days were, when one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were but ten: when one came to the press-fat for to draw out fifty vessels out of the press, there were but twenty.
17 I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the labors of your hands; yet you turned not to me, says the LORD.
18 Consider now from this day and upward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, even from the day that the foundation of the LORD’s temple was laid, consider it.
19 Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, as yet the vine, and the fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive tree, has not brought forth: from this day will I bless you.
20 And again the word of the LORD came unto Haggai in the four and twentieth day of the month, saying,
21 Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, I will shake the heavens and the earth;
22 And I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms [of the wicked], and I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the heathen; and I will overthrow the chariots, and those that ride in them; and the horses and their riders shall come down, every one by the sword of his brother.
23 In that day, says the LORD of hosts, will I take you, O Zerubbabel, my servant, the son of Shealtiel, says the LORD, and will make you as a signet [chowtham – My signature pressed into the earth]: for I have chosen you, says the LORD of hosts.

Psalms 71
1 In you, O LORD, do I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion.
2 Deliver me in your righteousness, and cause me to escape: incline your ear unto me, and save me.
3 Be you my strong habitation, whereunto I may continually resort: you have given commandment to save me; for you are my rock and my fortress.
4 Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.
5 For you are my hope, O LORD God: you are my trust from my youth.
6 By you have I been held up from the womb: you are he that took me out of my mother’s bowels: my praise shall be continually of you.
7 I am as a wonder unto many; but you are my strong refuge.
8 Let my mouth be filled with your praise and with your honor all the day.
9 Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength fails.
10 For mine enemies speak against me; and they that lay wait for my soul take counsel together,
11 Saying, God has forsaken him: persecute and take him; for there is none to deliver him.
12 O God, be not far from me: O my God, make haste for my help.
13 Let them be confounded and consumed that are adversaries to my soul; let them be covered [‘atah] with reproach and dishonor that seek my hurt.
14 But I will hope continually, and will yet praise you more and more.
15 My mouth shall show forth your righteousness and your salvation all the day; for I know not the numbers thereof.
16 I will go in the strength of the LORD God: I will make mention of your righteousness, even of yours only.
17 O God, you have taught me from my youth: and hitherto have I declared your wondrous works.
18 Now also when I am old and grey-headed, O God, forsake me not; until I have shown your strength unto this generation, and your power to every one that is to come.
19 Your righteousness also, O God, is very high, who have done great things: O God, who is like unto you!
20 You, which have shown me great and sore troubles, shall quicken me again, and shall bring me up again from the depths of the earth.
21 You shall increase my greatness, and comfort me on every side.
22 I will also praise you with the psaltery, even your truth, O my God: unto you will I sing with the harp, O you Holy One of Israel.
23 My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing unto you; and my soul, which you have redeemed.
24 My tongue also shall talk of your righteousness all the day long: for they are confounded, for they are brought unto shame, that seek my hurt.

In Job 38, the LORD speaks of shaking the wicked from the ends (ending the old and creating the new) of the earth when understanding comes as the light of the new day. He says it’s as a garment covering the world, changed as His signature (chowtham) into it pressed. As we know, the chapter begins with His voice heard from the whirlwind taking away those who’ve darkened the earth by their counsel, which is without the knowledge of God. He asks where these ignorant men were when He created and engineered all these things (Divine Providence) into their orderly arrangement.

Job 21
13 They [the wicked] spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave [Sheol – hell, where the dead are housed, of which they are ignorant].
14 Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of your ways [derek – His way, which is to send light, understanding, in the messenger He sends, even into hell’s darkness and there rise from death].
15 What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto [ask for understanding from] him?
16 Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
17 How oft is the candle [the little understanding they have to guide them in the darkness] of the wicked put out! and how oft comes their destruction upon them! God distributes sorrows [letting them go their own way] in his anger.
18 They are as stubble before the wind [taken away], and as chaff that the storm carries away.
19 God lays up his iniquity for his children: he rewards him [by their own ways, ignorance which destroys them], and he shall know it.
20 His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath [this word] of the Almighty.
21 For what pleasure has he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?
22 Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judges those that are high [exalt themselves and their ways above God’s, even as their ways are destroying them and all they mislead].

Job 38
1 Then the LORD answered Job 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 [kowkab – 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 to know his place;
13 That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it?
14 It is turned as clay to the seal [chowtham]; 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 dwells? and as for darkness, where is the place thereof,
20 That you should take it to the bound thereof, and that you should know the paths to the house thereof?
21 Know you it, because you were then born? or because the number of your days is great?
22 Have you entered into the treasures of the snow? or have you seen the treasures of the hail, [these speak of God’s word frozen {reserved} in heaven, for this moment]
23 Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?
24 By what way is the light parted [into the rainbow], which scatter the east wind upon the earth?
25 Who has divided a watercourse for the overflowing of waters, or a way for the lightning of thunder [understand and its voice – these are speaking of what is written in Revelation 10:1 thru 4, of understanding reserved for this moment];
26 To cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is; on the wilderness, wherein there is no man [referring us to Jeremiah 4:25, after verse 23 says, “I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.”];
27 To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?
28 Has the rain a father? or who has begotten the drops of dew?
29 Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who has gendered it?
30 The waters are hid as with a stone [who is Christ – see 1 Corinthians 10:1 thru 4], and the face of the deep is frozen.
31 Can you bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?
32 Can you bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or can you guide [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].

The name Acturus is said to be from the once used word ‘uwsh, meaning “to hasten:–assemble self,” and Mazzaroth is said to be from nazar, meaning separation. The terms tell of hastening back to the One from who we were separated, referring to Joseph (Shiloh).

Deuteronomy 33
13 And of Joseph he said, Blessed of the LORD be his land, for the precious things of heaven [understanding held there until this moment], for the dew, and for the deep that couches beneath,
14 And for the precious fruits brought forth by the sun [church], and for the precious things put forth by the moon [civil government],
15 And for the chief things of the ancient mountains [the path to life], and for the precious things of the lasting hills,
16 And for the precious things of the earth and fullness thereof, and for the good will [God’s will is our good, for which He comes in flaming fire] of him that dwelt in the bush: let the blessing come upon the head of Joseph, and upon the top of the head of him that was separated from his brethren.
17 His [Joseph’s – Jesus’] glory is like the firstling [the firstborn among God’s flock] of his bullock, and his horns [power to reign] are like the horns of unicorns [as the only power, the Most High, the Almighty]: with them he shall push the people together [into one Body] to [at] the ends of the earth: and they are the ten thousands of Ephraim [upon who this second blessing has come], and they are the thousands of Manasseh [who forgot God, and now remember Him and His ways].

When the LORD, in Job 38:31 & 32, speaks of influencing and loosening the bands of His people, for which they sing and shout for joy, He says it’s when He “guided” them. As we see, the word “guide” is from the Hebrew word nachah, meaning “to guide; by implication, to transport (into exile, or as colonists) :–bestow, bring, govern, guide, lead (forth), put, straiten.”

The following, ending with Psalms 143, is reposted from 15 September 2021, as is some of the above:

Quicken me, O LORD, for your name’s sake: for your righteousness’ sake bring my soul out of trouble.

The above, Psalms 143:11, is David asking the LORD to bring him to life by leading him out of trouble and into the land of righteousness. The word “trouble” is the Hebrew word tsarah, the same word used in Jeremiah 30:7 when describing the time of Jacob’s “trouble” (the tribulation).

Before going forward, a warning: the modern false prophets and false teachers have from their imaginations dreamed up lies, saying the LORD says, when He says He hasn’t said anything to them. They will tell you this isn’t the time, and this isn’t the LORD’s word: deception by which they’ll lead those who follow them into further confusion, delusion, and eventual perdition. They, these devils put in God’s place, will tell you to sit still: either doing nothing or waiting to fly away, while their misleading destroys you. “Then the LORD said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spoke unto them: they prophesy unto you a false vision and divination, and a thing of naught, and the deceit of their heart.” Jeremiah 14:14

Jeremiah 30
5 For thus says the LORD; We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace.
6 Ask you now, and see whether a man does travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness [the shame that comes when what is brought forth isn’t what the false prophets said]?
7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble [tsarah], 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.
10 Therefore fear you not, O my servant Jacob, says the LORD; neither be dismayed, O Israel: for, lo, I will save you from afar, and your seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be in rest, and be quiet, and none shall make him afraid.
11 For I am with you, says the LORD, to save you: though I make a full end of all nations whither I have scattered you, yet I will not make a full end of you: but I will correct you in measure, and will not leave you altogether unpunished.
12 For thus says the LORD, Your bruise is incurable, and your wound is grievous.
13 There is none to plead your cause, that you may be bound up: you have no healing medicines.
14 All your lovers have forgotten you; they seek you not; for I have wounded you with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the multitude of your iniquity; because your sins were increased.
15 Why cry you for your affliction? your sorrow is incurable for the multitude of your iniquity: because your sins were increased, I have done these things unto you.
16 Therefore all they that devour you shall be devoured; and all your adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; and they that spoil you shall be a spoil, and all that prey upon you will I give for a prey.
17 For I will restore health unto you, and I will heal you of your wounds, says the LORD; because they called you an Outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no man seeks after.
18 Thus says the LORD; Behold, I will bring again the captivity of Jacob’s tents, and have mercy on his dwelling-places; and the city shall be built upon her own heap, and the palace shall remain after the manner thereof.
19 And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small.
20 Their children also shall be as aforetime, and their congregation shall be established before me, and I will punish all that oppress them.
21 And their nobles shall be of themselves, and their governor shall proceed from the midst of them; and I will cause him to draw near, and he shall approach unto me: for who is this that engaged his heart to approach unto me? says the LORD.
22 And you shall be my people, and I will be your God.
23 Behold, the whirlwind of the LORD goes forth with fury, a continuing whirlwind: it shall fall with pain upon the head of the wicked.
24 The fierce anger of the LORD shall not return, until he has done it, and until he has performed the intents of his heart: in the latter days you shall consider it.

Isaiah 8
13 Sanctify [declare Him, His word, holy] 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 offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
15 And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.
16 Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.
17 And I will wait upon the LORD, that hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.
18 Behold, I and the children whom the LORD has given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, which dwells in mount Zion.
19 And when they shall say unto you, “Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter:” should not a people seek unto their God? [or look] for the living [God] to the dead [where He isn’t]?
20 [Or] To the law and to the testimony [?]: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light [understanding, or life] 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, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king [I Am] and their God [His presence in Me], and look upward.
22 And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble [tsarah] and darkness [ignorance of those misleading it], dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness [deeper into the cultivated delusions of the day, and the resulting insanity].

Proverbs 1
20 Wisdom cries without; she utters her voice in the streets:
21 She cries in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,
22 How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
23 Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
24 Because I have called, and you refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
25 But you have set at naught all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
26 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear comes;
27 When your fear comes as desolation, and your destruction comes as a whirlwind; when distress [tsarah] and anguish comes upon you.
28 Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:
29 For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
30 They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
31 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
32 For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
33 But whoso hearkens unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.

Psalms 143
1 Hear my prayer, O LORD, give ear to my supplications: in your faithfulness answer me, and in your righteousness.
2 And enter not into judgment with your servant: for in your sight shall no man living be justified.
3 For the enemy has persecuted my soul; he has smitten my life down to the ground; he has made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.
4 Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.
5 I remember the days of old; I meditate on all your works; I muse on the work of your hands.
6 I stretch forth my hands unto you: my soul thirsts after you, as a thirsty land. Selah.
7 Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit fails: hide not your face [presence] from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit [grave].
8 Cause me to hear your lovingkindness in the morning; for in you do I trust: cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; for I lift up my soul unto you.
9 Deliver me, O LORD, from mine enemies: I flee unto you to hide me.
10 Teach me to do your will; for you are my God: your spirit is good; lead [nachah] me into the land [earth] of uprightness.
11 Quicken me, O LORD, for your name’s sake: for your righteousness’ sake bring my soul out of trouble [tsarah].
12 And of your mercy cut off mine enemies, and destroy all them that afflict my soul: for I am your servant.

This day is foretold in Number 24:17, when the One Star (kowkab) rises out of Jacob, who is Joseph returning to the throne, as it began in Him in Egypt. It is telling of what is later seen in the Star of David (who we understand is an Ephraimite residing in Judah, as the king line with him resided in Judah, until Shiloh comes, whose right it is, the king of peace out of Joseph, who is the Shepherd and Stone of Israel – as foretold in Genesis 49). As above, in Job 38:7, this uniting (represented in the star of David, two separated triangles {Judah and Israel} brought together under David) is when the eleven stars Joseph saw (Genesis 37:9) are again gathered, and all the children of God sing for joy.

(FYI: the star of David has twelve lines making up its outer points. These lines are on a six-sided center representing the man (6) who is at the center of uniting the twelve tribes, the number (12) representing governmental perfection in church and state.)

Genesis 37
8 And his [Joseph’s] brethren said to him, Shall you indeed reign over us? or shall you indeed have dominion over us? And they hated him yet the more for his dreams, and for his words.
9 And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun [church government] and the moon [civil government] and the eleven stars [kowkab – his brothers] made obeisance to me.
10 And he told it to his father, and to his brethren: and his father rebuked him, and said unto him, What is this dream that you have dreamed? Shall I and your mother and your brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to you to the earth?
11 And his brethren envied him; but his father observed the saying.

Genesis 49
1 And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days.
2 Gather yourselves together, and hear, you sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father.
3 Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power:
4 Unstable [pachaz – ebullition] as water [this tells of the advice of the serpent, as one of God’s children, with unbridled license, recklessly reinterpreting His word], you shall not excel; because you went up to your father’s bed [went into the women – God’s people who have His words]; then defiled you it: he went up to my couch [took God’s place].

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

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.

Numbers 24
16 He has said, which heard the words of God, and knew the knowledge of the Most High, which saw the vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open:
17 I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not nigh: there shall come a Star [kawkab] out of Jacob, and a Scepter [the power to rule] shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab [the open mouths of men, which are the gates holding the world in hell], and destroy all the children of Sheth [misleaders who put themselves in God place, who say they are His people].
18 And Edom [enemies among us saying they are our brethren while they war against us to destroy our nation and better culture] shall be a possession, Seir [the places where these enemies rule, as devils misleading] also shall be a possession for his enemies; and Israel shall do valiantly.
19 Out of Jacob shall come he that shall have dominion, and shall destroy him that remains of the city.
20 And when he looked on Amalek [the king who isn’t our king], he took up his parable, and said, Amalek [like Reuben, the pattern of the son of perdition] was the first of the nations; but his latter end shall be that he perish for ever.
21 And he looked on the Kenites [the many antichrists], and took up his parable, and said, Strong is thy dwelling-place, and you put thy nest in a rock [in the false church].
22 Nevertheless the Kenite shall be wasted until [your end when] Asshur [communists] shall carry you away captive [as he now has].
23 And he took up his parable, and said, Alas, who shall live when God doeth this!

Ezekiel 21
24 Therefore thus saith the LORD God; Because you have made your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are discovered, so that in all your doings your sins do appear; because, I say, that you are come to remembrance, you shall be taken with the hand.
25 And you, profane wicked prince of Israel [who are as Reuben, the son of perdition], whose day is come, when iniquity shall have an end,
26 Thus say the Lord God; Remove the diadem, and take off the crown: this shall not be the same: exalt him that is low, and abase him that is high.
27 I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it: and it shall be no more, until he comes whose right it is; and I will give it him.

Psalms 148
1 Praise you the LORD. Praise you the Lord from the heavens: praise him in the heights.
2 Praise you him, all his angels: praise you him, all his hosts.
3 Praise you him, sun and moon: praise him, all you stars [kowkab] of light [understanding].
4 Praise him, you heavens of heavens, and you waters [that are God’s word] that be above the heavens.
5 Let them praise the name of the LORD: for he commanded, and they were created.
6 He hath also established them forever and ever: he has made a decree which shall not pass.
7 Praise the LORD from the earth, you dragons [you whales, who with open mouths devour], and [who darken] all deeps:
8 Fire, and hail; snow, and vapors; stormy wind fulfilling his word:
9 Mountains, and all hills; fruitful trees, and all cedars:
10 Beasts, and all cattle; creeping things, and flying fowl:
11 Kings of the earth, and all people; princes, and all judges of the earth:
12 Both young men, and maidens; old men, and children:
13 Let them praise the name [identity manifested] of the LORD: for his name alone is excellent; his glory is above the earth and heaven.
14 He also exalts the horn [power to rule, His chosen king] of his people, the praise of all his saints; even of the children of Israel, a people near unto him. Praise you the LORD.

May 26, 2022

Fear not; for you shall not be ashamed: neither be you confounded; for your Maker is your husband; the LORD of hosts [a man of war] is his name; and your Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called

Fear not; for you shall not be ashamed: neither be you confounded; for your Maker is your husband; the LORD of hosts [a man of war] is his name; and your Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called.

The word above (from Isaiah 54:4 & 5) rendered “husband” is the fifteen times used Hebrew word ba’al (1166), meaning “to be master; hence, (as denominative from 1167) to marry:–have dominion (over), be husband, marry(-ried, X wife).”

It (ba’al) is referring back to the LORD using it in verse 1, saying “Sing [shout the word of the LORD in triumph], O barren, you that did not bear; break forth into singing [repeating the word He’s put in our mouths], 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 [ba’al – than the children of the one who has the Husband], says the LORD.”

(Friends, believe, have faith in the reality at hand. The LORD is in my flesh speaking and working, His warring, which only ends in His and our victory. The only question is – whose side will you choose? The heavenly or the hellish? The good or the evil?)

Now I Timothy, a man of war, myself implore you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ in me, who in fleshly presence I Am base among you, but being absent I Am standing boldly against the wicked among you: But I implore you, that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence, wherewith I think to be bold against some, which think of us as if we walked according to the flesh.

2 Corinthians 10
3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:
4 (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of [evil’s] strong holds;)
5 Casting down imaginations [the fabrications of misleaders among you], and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ [the living God in our flesh];
6 And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled [when you join in ONE BODY and boldly speak this word, and condemn this evil generation].
7 Do you look on things after the outward appearance? if any man trust to himself that he is Christ’s, let him of himself think this again, that, as he [thinks he] is Christ’s, even so, are we [truly] Christ’s.
8 For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the LORD has given us for edification [to build, increase you, by good education], and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed [but instead, reach our expected and foretold end]:
9 That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.
10 For his letters say they, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.
11 Let such a one think this, that, such as we are in word by letters when we are absent, such will we be also in deed when we are present.
12 For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise.
13 But we will not boast of things without our measure, but according to the measure of the rule which God has distributed to us, a measure to reach even unto you [publishing, making public this good news].
14 For we stretch not ourselves beyond our measure, as though we reached not unto you: for we are come as far as to you also in preaching the gospel of Christ:
15 Not boasting of things without our measure, that is, of other men’s labors; but having hope, when your faith is increased [by understanding], that we shall be enlarged [see Isaiah 54:2] by you according to our rule [kanon – this standard lifted up] abundantly,
16 To preach the gospel in the regions beyond you, and not to boast in another man’s line of things made ready to our hand.
17 But he that glories, let him glory in the LORD [who commends, shows His approval of, us by giving us His treasure to be freely given from our hand].
18 For not he that commend himself is approved, but whom the LORD commends.

The word “commend” is from the Greek word suniemi, from two words meaning with and stand, which tell of God showing His approval by standing with those who boldly stand with Him against evil.

The word “approved” is from the seven times used Greek word dokimos, meaning “acceptable (current after assayal), i.e. approved:–approved, tried.”

These words speak of the substance known after an analysis (tested under attack and found to remain standing).

1 Corinthians 11
17 Now in this that I declare unto you I praise you not, that you come together not for the better, but for the worse.
18 For first of all, when you come together in the church, I hear that there be divisions among you [you are not ONE BODY by One mind of Christ]; and I partly believe it.
19 For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved [dokimos] may be made manifest among you.

Romans 14
15 But if your brother [who is dead in Christ with heresies among you] be grieved with your meat [your deep understanding that will strengthen him to life], now walk you not charitably [agape – do you walk away from him and not continue, not long-suffering, to give him understanding, love that is light and the life man]. Destroy not him with your meat [with your deep understanding], for whom Christ died.
16 Let not then your good be evil spoken of:
17 For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost [the LORD speaking and working unknown until He is known].
18 For he that in these things serves Christ is acceptable to God, and approved [dokimos] of men.
19 Let us, therefore, follow after the things which make for peace [in which is the ONE BODY], and things wherewith one may edify [build up by educating] another.

As we know, the word “agape” speak of the true love of God, His mercy in judgment, a long-suffering charity that gives, again and again, His treasures, His understanding that is the light and life of the world.

1 Corinthians 13
1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity [agape], I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity [agape], I am nothing.
3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity [agape], it profits me nothing.
4 Charity [agape] suffers long, and is kind; charity [agape] envies not; charity [agape] vaunts not itself, is not puffed up,
5 Does not behave itself unseemly, seeks not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
6 Rejoices not in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth;
7 Bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Charity [agape] 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.
9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
10 But when that which is perfect [this full 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; but then face to face [the presence of God with us and the light in us]: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
13 And now abides faith, hope, charity [agape], these three; but the greatest of these is charity [agape].

2 Timothy 2
1 You, therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.
2 And the things that you have heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit you to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.
3 You, therefore, endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
4 No man that wars entangle himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who has chosen him to be a soldier.
5 And if a man also strives for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strives lawfully.
6 The husbandman that labors [diligently seeks] must be the first partaker [the first to who it is opened] of the fruits [these treasure, the fruit of our labor, our diligently seeking the mind of Christ].
7 Consider what I say; and the LORD give you understanding in all things.
8 Remember that Jesus Christ of the seed of David was raised from the dead [in me] according to my gospel:
9 Wherein I suffer trouble, as an evildoer, even unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound [it is opened to those who diligently seek Him, and when finding Him believe, have faith, it is Him they’ve found].
10 Therefore I endure all things for the elect’s sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
11 It is a faithful saying [regarding the resurrection of the dead and our taking up our cross to quicken the dead to life]: For if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him:
12 If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny [it is] him, he also will deny us:
13 If we believe not, yet he abides faithful: he cannot deny himself.
14 Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the LORD that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers.
15 Study to show yourself approved [dokimos – still standing and the substance, The LORD, is realized in you] unto God, a workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
16 But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.
17 And their word will eat as does a canker: of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus [who hiding behind a spurious mask of fake love {pseudo-agape} hold you down {katecho} from rising to join with the LORD in His ONE BODY, which is the resurrection];
18 Who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection [which only comes with joining the LORD in heaven: His mind, His full understanding] is past already; and overthrow the faith of some.
19 Nevertheless the foundation of God stands sure, having this seal, The LORD knows them that are his. And, let everyone that names the name of Christ depart from iniquity.
20 But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honor, and some to dishonor.
21 If a man, therefore, purge himself from these [dishonorable men, whose inner substance is found to be corrupt], he shall be a vessel unto honor, sanctified, and meet for the master’s use, and prepared unto every good work.
22 Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity [agape], peace, with them that call on the LORD out of a pure heart [by which only do men see God].
23 But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strife [they are intentionally meant to cause endless argument].
24 And the servant of the LORD must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient,
25 In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;
26 And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.

Isaiah 54
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 [zakar] the reproach of your widowhood any more.
5 For your Maker is your husband [ba’al]; 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 wast 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 colours, 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 you shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, says the LORD.

Matthew
40 For as Jonah [the sign of the end reached] was three days and three nights in the whale’s [ketos] belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart [hidden from the minds of men by the ever-open mouths {chasma} of men who put themselves in God’s place] of the earth.
41 The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and, behold, a greater than Jonah is here.
42 The queen of the south shall rise up [in the resurrection] in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.
43 When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places [without this word of God], seeking rest, and finds none.
44 Then he says, I will return into my house [the churches] from whence I came out; and when he is come, he finds it empty, swept, and garnished [outwardly clean].
45 Then goes he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits [false doctrines of devils] more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first [because he in ignorance thinks he is saved when he is dead among the dead]. Even so, shall it be also [as it now is] unto this wicked generation.
46 While he yet talked to the people, behold, his mother and his brethren stood without, desiring to speak with him.
47 Then one said unto him, Behold, your mother and your brethren stand without, desiring to speak with you.
48 But he answered and said unto him that told him, Who is my mother? and who are my brethren?
49 And he stretched forth his hand toward his disciples, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren!
50 For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven [calling all to gather into His ONE BODY to speak His One Mind], the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.

Isaiah 26
1 In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks.
2 Open you the gates, that the righteous nation which keeps the truth may enter in.
3 You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on you: because he trusts in you.
4 Trust you in the LORD forever: for in the LORD Jehovah is everlasting strength:
5 For he bringeth down them that dwell on high; the lofty city, he lays it low; he lays it low, even to the ground; he bringeth it even to the dust.
6 The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy.
7 The way of the just is uprightness: you, most upright, do weigh the path of the just.
8 Yea, in the way of your judgments, O LORD, have we waited for you; the desire of our soul is to your name, and to the remembrance [zeker] of you.
9 With my soul have I desired you in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek you early: for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
10 Let favor be showed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD.
11 LORD, when your hand is lifted up, they will not see: but they shall see, and be ashamed for their envy at the people; yea, the fire of your enemies shall devour them.
12 LORD, you will ordain peace for us: for you also have wrought all our works in us.
13 O LORD our God, other lords beside you have had dominion [ba’al] over us: but by you only will we make mention [zakar – rememberance] of your name.
14 They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore have you visited [paqad] and destroyed them, and made all their memory [zeker] to perish.
15 You have increased the nation, O LORD, you have increased the nation: you are glorified: you had removed it far unto all the ends of the earth.
16 LORD, in trouble have they visited [paqad] you, they poured out a prayer when your chastening [correction] was upon them.
17 Like as a woman with child, that draws near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and cries out in her pangs; so have we been in your sight, O LORD.
18 We have been with child, we have been in pain [to bring forth the I Am among us], we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen [into the birth canal].
19 Your dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise [as ONE BODY]. Awake and sing, you that dwell in dust [the ruin from where you shall rise to life]: for your dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
20 Come, my people, enter you into your chambers, and shut your doors about you: hide yourself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.
21 For, behold, the LORD comes out of his place to punish [paqad] the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.

James 1
5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that gives to all men liberally, and upbraids not; and it shall be given him.
6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavers is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
7 For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the LORD.
8 A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
9 Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:
10 But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower [anthos – the word and works he has wrought] of the grass he shall pass away.
11 For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withers the grass, and the flower [anthos] thereof falls, and the grace of the fashion of it perishes: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
12 Blessed is the man that endures temptation: for when he is tried [dokimos], he shall receive the crown of life, which the LORD has promised to them that love him.
13 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempts he any man:
14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
15 Then when lust has conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
16 Do not err, my beloved brethren.
17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights [understanding], with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
18 Of his own will begat he us [into life in His family, after His own kind] with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first-fruits of his creatures.
19 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
20 For the wrath of man works not the righteousness of God [whose wrath is against the inventions of men who’ve removed God from their knowledge and are thereby without understanding].

Friends, it’s pretty evident the world has gone to hell. The men who’ve led it there, denying culpability, now claim they will fix it and restore peace by finishing their course of “building back better.”

Those leading God’s people tell them to listen for His voice, while they keep talking over Him, spewing the same old ideas that have led them to lukewarm and sitting still in silence. The LORD says to follow him, take up your cross, and follow Him as He has risen to condemn this evil generation.

Romans 1
18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, [against the inventions of this evil generation] who hold the truth in unrighteousness;
19 Because that [truth] which may be known of [from] God is manifest in them; for God has shown it unto them.
20 For the invisible things of Him [the unseen truth hidden in these misleaders’ ignorance] from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made [now appear], even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened [they became the ignorant they are].
22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things.
24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves:
25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet [the deserved end they inevitably meet with].
28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder [even of children and the unborn], debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
31 Without understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same but have pleasure in them that do them.

Amos 6
1 Woe to them that are at ease [lukewarm and comfortable] in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria [the high places of the earth where idols are put in God’s place and called by His Holy name], which are named chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel came!
2 Pass you unto Calneh [the protection of your idols], and see; and from thence go you to Hamath [their fortress] the great: then go down to Gath [the winepress – of wrath] of the Philistines [the invading army among you destroying you]: be they better than these kingdoms? or their border greater than your border [is this end greater than the end the LORD foretold]?
3 You that put far away the evil day [this end you refuse to see, because of those you’ve listened to and followed into ignorance], and cause the seat of violence to come near [cause the tribulation to increase until it’s now destroying you as you sit still and do nothing about it];
4 That lie [in comfort] upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall;
5 That chant to the sound of the viol, and invent [chashab – fabricate] to themselves instruments [prepared words to be repeated] of music, like David;
6 That drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief ointments: but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph [God’s people and their king in this evil generation].
7 Therefore now shall they go captive with the first that go captive, and the banquet of them that stretched [exceeded their authority] themselves shall be removed.
8 The LORD God has sworn by himself, says the LORD the God of hosts [who is a man of war], I abhor the excellency of Jacob [My people who are still unknowingly wrestling with Me and My words], and hate his palaces: therefore will I deliver up the city with all that is therein.
9 And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in one house, that they shall die.
10 And a man’s uncle [Reuben, the son of perdition, who puts himself in his father’s place] shall take him up, and he that burns him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say unto him that is by the sides of the house, Is there yet any with you? and he shall say, No [the whole body is desolate]. Then shall he say, Hold your tongue [hacah – saying, stay still in “silence”]: for we may not make mention [zakar – bring to remembrance] of the name [identity] of the LORD.

Ezekiel 28
18 You have defiled your sanctuaries by the multitude of your iniquities, by the iniquity of your traffic; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of you, it shall devour you, and I will bring you to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold you.
19 All they that know you among the people shall be astonished at you: you shall be a terror, and never shall you be any more.
20 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
21 Son of man, set your face against Zidon [those who hunt the souls of men], and prophesy against it,
22 And say, Thus says the LORD God; Behold, I am against you, O Zidon; and I will be glorified in the midst of you: and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall have executed judgments in her, and shall be sanctified in her.
23 For I will send into her pestilence, and blood into her streets [as it is this day]; and the wounded shall be judged in the midst of her by the sword [this word from the mouth of God] upon her on every side; and they shall know that I am the LORD.

Friends, those you’ve followed into this current condition, will lead you into destruction, and the only way to salvation is to take them out of the way. Follow me as I follow the One who sent me on this mission.

The “silence” about the LORD’s presence here manifested, above in Amos 6:10, from hacah, is only spoken of one other time by Amos. In Amos 8:3, it’s the cause of death of those these wicked men have swallowed with the ever-open mouths spewing the gates of hell.

Amos 8
1 Thus has the LORD God shown unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit.
2 And he said, Amos, what see you? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said the LORD unto me, The end [harvest] is come upon my people of Israel; I will not again pass by them anymore.
3 And the songs of the temple shall be howling in that day, says the LORD God: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them forth with silence [hacah].
4 Hear this, O you that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,
5 Saying, When will the new moon [the new government God is bringing with His presence] be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath [this interruption of the LORD whose come for our correction], that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit [they are asking when the LORD will leave them so they can get back to their same old destruction and misleading]?
6 That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?
7 The LORD has sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their [wicked] works.
8 Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein? and it shall rise up wholly as a flood [this word of God returned and flooding from His people]; and it [the wicked] shall be cast out and drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.
9 And it shall come to pass in that day, says the LORD God, that I will cause the sun [the old corrupt churches] to go down at noon [when the light, this understanding of God’s word, reaches its apex in heaven: in full understanding], and I will darken [cause the ignorance of the world to be seen] the earth in the clear day [when I meet with My people in the cleared air]:
10 And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son [when the kings they’ve followed are realized to be the dead], and the end thereof as a bitter day.
11 Behold, the days come, says the LORD God, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD [speaking of this word from the mouth of God, silenced as it has been by those who’ve put themselves and their idols in God’s place]:
12 And they shall wander from sea to sea [from generation to generation, as they have these seventy years in desolation], and from the north [ignorance in darkness] even to the east [until they look to this sun rising light], they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it [because those they follow are telling them to look elsewhere, to the idols they’ve put in the LORD’s place].
13 In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst [without this word of God].
14 They that swear by the sin of Samaria [worshipping idols they call by God’s name], and say, Your god [calves], O Dan [judgment], lives; and, The manner of Beersheba lives [were idols corrupt the wells that should flow God’s word and they instead mislead into death]; even they shall fall, and never rise up again.

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 flee of them shall not flee away, and he that escape of them shall not be delivered.
2 Though they dig into hell, thence shall mine hand take them; though they climb up 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 [the deadly word of the men they continue to follow], 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 [because they reject this word] I will set mine eyes upon them for evil [they choose to follow], and not for good [this truth they reject].
5 And the LORD God of hosts is he that touches the land, and it shall melt, and all that dwell therein shall mourn: and it shall rise up 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 [by His full understanding], and has founded his troop in the earth [His army who receives Him]; he that calleth for the waters [bringing into the light the words of wicked men] 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 [covered in darkness] unto me, O children of Israel? says the LORD. Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt [haven’t I freed them from the words, the misleading of their oppressors]? and the Philistines [the invading enemy are army among us] from Caphtor [whose king sits crowned and ruling over you], and the Syrians [those who exalt themselves and their words above God] from Kir [whose lies upon lies are the wall they and you trust in, separating you from God]?
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 [reestablishing the king line and gathering all God’s people again into ONE BODY under one king of God’s choosing]; 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, claiming they are our brothers and countrymen at peace with us, as they are at war destroying our nation and better culture], and of all the heathen [who don’t really know me], 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 [plowing under the current corrupt crop], and the treader of grapes [of wrath] him that soweth 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.

Psalms 99
1 The LORD reigns; let the people tremble: he sits between the cherubims [where He manifests His presence]; 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 [those pulled from the waters below] and Aaron [those who bring this light] among his priests, and Samuel [those who hear this voice as the voice of God, as it is] 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 [from where His understanding is held]: 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.

May 25, 2022May 25, 2022

Reality Check!

May 24, 2022

This “evil generation” is ruled by confusion (Biblical Babylon: the devouring Beast), generated by a mass media (news and social) and their handlers in power (godless and lawless scientific materialists, communists, globalists, and anarchists), whose foundational power is to deceive, which is the source of the world’s confusion now become mass delusion and insanity (the inability to distinguish between reality and their delusions).

This “evil generation” is ruled by confusion (Biblical Babylon: the devouring Beast), generated by a mass media (news and social) and their handlers in power (godless and lawless scientific materialists, communists, globalists, and anarchists), whose foundational power is to deceive, which is the source of the world’s confusion now become mass delusion and insanity (the inability to distinguish between reality and their delusions).

These wicked rulers use false information (religious, political, medical, economic, etc.), spuriously mimicking God; as the evil gods of this world, they speak their will into existence (only) in the minds of the complicit and those they deceive. Their only power is over the mind of those who surrender to the spells these modern sorcerers cast.

Combative truth and a sound (awakened) mind are the only necessary inoculation (our natural immune response) against all such evil! They (truthful awakening) are the only way to peace. So, the church must take up its cross, as Christ calls us; condemn this evil generation, and, overcoming the evil’s censorship, preach the good news of the cure for this evil generation’s delusions and insanity.

Revelation 3
13 He that has an ear let him hear what the Spirit says unto the churches.
14 And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans [meaning they are the church in this generation, who must awaken and bring “justice to the people”] write; These things says the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the [new] creation of God;
15 I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot: I would thou were cold or hot.
16 So then, because you are lukewarm and neither cold nor hot, I will spew you out of my mouth.
17 Because thou say, “I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing;” and know not that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked:
18 I counsel you to buy of me gold tried in the fire [these treasures of heaven, God’s understanding revealed], that you may be rich; and white raiment [of purity], that thou may be clothed [with My righteousness], and that the shame [of not reaching what your false prophets and false teachers said they saw and understood] of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint your eyes with eye-salve [this eye-opening truth], that you may see.
19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten [correct]: be zealous therefore, and repent [come back to the path from which you’ve strayed].
20 Behold, I stand at the door and knock: if any man hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will sup with him, and he with me.
21 To him that overcomes will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.
22 He that hath an ear let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.