A “subplot (2a below)” may be for the blue cities and states to allow UN troops into their areas of control to help enforce the lockdowns and put down the ensuing riots.? The time demands we consider (war game) the inconceivable.
Save the Vote!
Stop the Left (godless and lawless communists, globalists, and anarchists) from ever again stealing an election – as they did the presidency in 2020. If you doubt the steal, you’re a reality denier or, at best, ignorant. Either way, you’re a surrendered victim of the thieves’ gaslighting (outright lies and false accusations against truth and its tellers).
It (the steal) occurred as we knew it would, in several “swing states,” through criminal conspiracy (violation of RICO: Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act), these criminals used thousands of Democrat Party 501Cs (supposed impartial, tax-exempt nonprofits), to harvest votes. These nonprofits then recruited and deployed tens of thousands of mules to systematically carry and deposit these votes (each going) to numerous “vote drop boxes.”
Thanks to the availability of geo-tracking data, True the Vote, through a massive technological effort, compiled this data to show these mules visited these 501Cs many times and then went to many different drop boxes they stuffed with their illegal votes. They were able to track the number of votes cast and show they, through their criminal effort to change the outcome, denied Trump his victory and fraudulently gave it to Biden.
By the way, all this indisputable evidence is presented in the documentary “2000 Mules.” The movie also has much of the obvious “box stuffing” on video, thanks to many locations having and not turning off their surveillance cameras.
Remember, these drop boxes were in response to COVID, when the same perpetrators HYPED a virus, which (HYPE – irrational reaction) they used to justify their unelected Election Boards to unilaterally rewrite election laws allowing them (the boxes), and lacking normal oversight, the lawless did as the lawless do: they broke the law. And they devised and perpetrated this crime with funding from many other extremely well-capitalized nonprofits (Mark Zuckerberg’s the largest, donating hundreds of millions – Zuckerberg who continues to conspire to cover up these, his and others, crimes by censoring anything that brings it to light).
The solution to this specific problem (while remembering that the lawless will always look for other ways to break the law: because they are habitually lawless. Also, remember, never underestimate the magnitude of the evil arrayed again us, the law-abiding, or their willingness to be who they are: evil and lawless):
- Poll watchers must observe all voting, therefore:
a. Drop boxes should be illegal.
b. Mail-in voting should be illegal.
c. Voter ID should be mandatory. - Due to the effects of these types of voting on the nation, these should be National Law.
Let all those that seek you rejoice and be glad in you: let such as love your salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified.
Let all those that seek you rejoice and be glad in you: let such as love your salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified.
The above, Psalms 40:16, is David speaking of the LORD being found by those who diligently seek Him, love His salvation, and “magnify” Jehovah.
The passage is speaking about ordinal growth (ordained and occurring in a systematic and programed sequence) as John speaks of it in John 3:30. He is speaking of the LORD working unknown in Him, and Christ only coming when the person prepared by the LORD unknown (the Holy Ghost) in him, joins with Him themselves, (the body he has prepared for Himself) are born again from above, and the LORD rises in them as Christ in their flesh.
Thus is the return to (not of) the LORD, who is already present (unknown) in the one through whom He is speaking and working, as the Paraclete: the comforter who comes alongside to lead us into all truth. The place He leads us is into heaven, full understanding, where we (the sleeping, by awakening) understand God has sent us, with Him, as He promised we would forever be.
John 3
27 John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven [the place of full understanding expounded: in the firmament].
28 You yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but that I am sent before him.
29 He that has the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, which stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled.
30 He must increase [in you be magnified], but I must decrease.
31 He that comes from above is above all: he that is of the earth is earthly, and speaks of the earth: he that comes from heaven is above all.
32 And what he has seen and heard, that he testifies; and no man receives his testimony.
33 He that has received his testimony has set to his seal that God is true.
34 For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God: for God gives not the Spirit by measure unto him.
35 The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand.
36 He that believes on the Son has everlasting life: and he that believes not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abides on him.
John 3
11 Truly, truly, I say unto you, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and you receive not our witness.
12 If I have told you earthly things, and you believe not, how shall you believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?
13 And no man has ascended up to heaven [as the son of man has been lifted up], but he that came down [received full understand] from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.
14 And as Moses lifted up [magnified] the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up [so the LORD in me is magnified]:
15 That whosoever believes [the LORD is speaking and working] in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son [of God], that whosoever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting life [as they are begotten, given full understanding, by Him].
17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
18 He that believes on him is not condemned: but he that believes not is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name [Jesus: Jehovah’s salvation manifested in the flesh] of the only begotten Son of God [given understanding without an intermediary, as occurs with all others]. [“so in Christ shall all be made alive. But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.” 1 Corinthians 15:22 & 3]
19 And this is the condemnation, that light [understanding] is come into the world, and men loved darkness [ignorance] rather than light [understanding], because their deeds were evil [misleading into continued death].
20 For every one that does evil hates the light [understanding], neither comes to the light [understanding], lest his deeds should be reproved [proven to be untrue].
21 But he that does truth comes to the light [understanding], that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
1 Corinthians 15
16 For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ [God’s anointed] raised:
17 And if Christ is not raised, your faith is vain; you are yet in your sins.
18 Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ have perished.
19 If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.
20 But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.
21 For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.
22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.
24 Then comes the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule [the corrupt who now have dominion over the earth] and all [the corrupt] authority and power [of the world].
25 For he must reign, till he has put all enemies under his feet.
26 The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
27 For he has put all things under his feet. But when he says all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him.
28 And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.
Matthew 11
25 At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank you, O Father, LORD of heaven and earth, because you have hid these things from the wise and prudent, and have revealed them unto babes.
26 Even so, Father: for so it seemed good in your sight.
27 All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knows the Son, but the Father; neither knows any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.
28 Come unto me, all you that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek [not using my power to destroy] and lowly [not making you my servants] in heart: and you shall find rest unto your souls.
30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
1 Thessalonians 4
4 That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification [making what is in you pure, separated from the corrupt ideas and way of those who don’t know God] and honor;
5 Not in the lust [pathos] of concupiscence [trespassing into, coveting, things forbidden and defrauding the brethren], even as the Gentiles which know not God:
6 That no man go beyond and defraud [deceive and mislead] his brother in any matter: because that the LORD is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.
7 For God has not called us unto uncleanness [wallowing in the mire stirred by the ungodly], but unto holiness.
8 He, therefore, that despises, despises not man, but God, who has also given unto us his holy Spirit [Himself, unknown in our flesh].
9 But as touching brotherly love you need not that I write unto you: for you yourselves are taught of God to love [agapao – giving the awakening gifts of understanding to] one another.
10 And indeed you do it toward all the brethren which are in all Macedonia [the houses of dead flesh, the churches and synagogues]: but we beseech you, brethren, that you increase more and more [in the knowledge of God];
11 And that you study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;
12 That you may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that you may have lack of nothing.
13 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that you sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
14 For if we believe that Jesus [Jehovah’s Salvation, in {man} the flesh] died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
15 For this we say unto you by the word of the LORD, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the LORD shall not prevent [be resurrected before] them which are asleep.
16 For the LORD himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel [arch-messenger], and with the trump of God [calling all to gather to the LORD, in His ONE BODY]: and the dead in Christ shall rise [awaken] first:
17 Then we which are alive [already awake] and remain shall be caught up [harpazo – pulling us from the fires of tribulation] together with them in the clouds [into full understanding], to meet the LORD in the air [in the clarity He brings]: and so shall we ever be with the LORD [in heaven {full understanding} in the flesh].
18 Wherefore comfort [lead into all truth] one another with these words.
John 14
20 At that day you shall know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.
21 He that has my commandments, and keeps them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.
22 Judas [Judah, the new crop of leaders, the elect remnant] says unto him, not Iscariot [not the misleaders who’ve betrayed Him], LORD, how is it that you will manifest [emphanizo – declare by your word] yourself unto us, and not unto the world?
23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him [in the flesh, the mystery of Godliness, God is manifested in the flesh], and make our abode with him [in the flesh of those receiving Him at His coming].
24 He that loves me not keeps not my sayings: and the word which you hear is not mine, but the Father’s which sent me.
25 These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you.
26 But the Comforter [the Paraclete, the LORD in the flesh unknown], which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance [hupomimnesko – see Jonah 2:7 below], whatsoever I have said unto you.
27 Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world gives, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
28 You have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If you loved me, you would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I.
29 And now I have told you before it come to pass, that, when it is come to pass, you might believe.
30 Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world comes [the wicked who bring in ignorance and darkness, by putting themselves in God’s place], and has nothing in me.
31 But that the world may know that I love the Father; and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence [and here we are, the place where He is again seen, through understanding, comprehending the experience].
John 14
1 Let not your heart be troubled: you believe in God, believe also in me.
2 In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
4 And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.
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 habitations of the dead] cried I, and you heard my voice.
3 For you had cast me into the deep [these three days in the ignorance caused by the wicked who put themselves in God’s place], 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 [of these wicked men], 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: [to preach that] Salvation is of the LORD.
10 And the LORD spake unto the fish [dag, the source of the agitation of humanity {as Nineveh}, these men’s word’s causing mass ignorance of God, hiding the LORD here in the belly of the earth these three days], and it vomited [with these mens’ spewing the LORD awakens to judgment – see Psalms 35 below] out Jonah [the dove, the sign of the end reached] upon the dry land [where God’s word hasn’t been heard – see John 14:30 above].
Psalms 40
1 I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.
2 He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.
3 And he has put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD.
4 Blessed is that man that makes the LORD his trust, and respects not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies. [As Jonah says, in Jonah 2:8, when He calls to the LORD to save him from, pull him from, the belly of hell, where the enemies among us rule, saying of this mercy, “They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.”
5 Many, O LORD my God, are your wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto you: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.
6 Sacrifice and offering you did not desire; mine ears have you opened: burnt offering and sin offering have you not required.
7 Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me, [In the volume of the book I found myself written.]
8 I delight to do your will, O my God: yea, your law is within my heart.
9 I have preached righteousness in the great congregation [As in Nineveh]: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, you know.
10 I have not hid your righteousness within my heart; I have declared your faithfulness and your salvation: I have not concealed your lovingkindness and your truth from the great congregation.
11 Withhold not you your tender mercies from me, O LORD: let your lovingkindness and your truth continually preserve me.
12 For innumerable evils [of the enemies among us] have compassed me about: mine iniquities [not standing boldly against them] have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up [to your place of full understanding – see Jonah 2:4]; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart fails me [the foundation of the earth are destroyed].
13 Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help me.
14 Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.
15 Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha.
16 Let all those that seek you rejoice and be glad in you: let such as love your salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified.
17 But I am poor and needy; yet the LORD thinks upon me: you are my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.
When the above says these men are saying (to David) “aha, aha,” it’s in relation to “shame” that comes from not reaching the end expected and proclaimed. In other words, they think they have seen the end of David (swallowed up in the agitation, tribulation, storm caused by the mouths of these wicked men, as devouring whales with wide-open mouths), to which the LORD opens his mouth, awakening in judgment.
Psalms 35
7 For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.
8 Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he has hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.
9 And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD: it shall rejoice in his salvation.
10 All my bones shall say, LORD, who is like unto you, which delivers the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoils him?
11 False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.
12 They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul.
13 But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.
14 I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourns for his mother.
15 But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:
16 With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.
17 LORD, how long will you look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions.
18 I will give you thanks in the great congregation: I will praise you among much people.
19 Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hates me without a cause.
20 For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.
21 Yea, they opened their mouth wide [as whales] against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye has seen it.
22 This you have seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O LORD, be not far from me.
23 Stir up yourself, and awake to my judgment, even unto my cause, my God and my LORD.
24 Judge me, O LORD my God, according to your righteousness; and let them not rejoice over me.
25 Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up.
Matthew 12
30 He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathers not [into ONE BODY] with me scatters abroad.
31 Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost [whose word and word are to gather God’s people into His ONE BODY] shall not be forgiven unto men.
32 And whosoever speaks a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaks against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this [old] world, neither in the [new] world to come.
33 Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit.
34 O generation of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
35 A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil [misleading and scattering] things.
36 But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
37 For by your words you shall be justified, and by your words you shall be condemned.
38 Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from you.
39 But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonah:
40 For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; 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 Jonah is here.
42 The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall [for their words] 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 [speaking this word of God’s truth].
As often discussed, the word “whale’s” above is the once used Greek word ketos, meaning “from the base of 5490; a huge fish (as gaping for prey [with open mouths devouring]):–whale.” It’s from the once used word chasma, meaning “from a form of an obsolete primary chao (to “gape” or “yawn”); a “chasm” or vacancy (impassable interval):–gulf.”
The latter word is used in telling of the great uncrossable space between heaven and hell, which is described above, in Matthew 12:31 & 32, as the open mouths of men, speaking against the Holy Spirit: the LORD unknown, speaking and working to bring all who receive Him into heaven (full understanding, in One Mind and BODY of Christ). These wicked men, liars against the truth, can never come to understanding, the light, unable to cross because of their own words (evil deeds) rejecting the entrance He is preaching and teaching. And those who have received Him cannot cross again into the place of the dead: in the hell of ignorance: the darkness now the snare in which they are trapped.
Psalms 69
12 They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.
13 But as for me, my prayer is unto you, O LORD, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of your mercy hear me, in the truth of your salvation.
14 Deliver me out of the mire [the waters muddied by these men, clouding understanding], and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.
15 Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the [ignorance of the] deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.
16 Hear me, O LORD; for your lovingkindness is good: turn unto me according to the multitude of your tender mercies.
17 And hide not your face from your servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily.
18 Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of mine enemies.
19 You have known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonor: mine adversaries are all before you.
20 Reproach has broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.
21 They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
22 Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.
23 Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake.
24 Pour out your indignation upon them, and let your wrathful anger take hold of them.
25 Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents.
26 For they persecute him whom you have smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom you have wounded.
27 Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into your righteousness.
28 Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.
29 But I am poor and sorrowful: let your salvation, O God, set me up on high.
In the title verse, Psalms 40:16, the word rendered “magnify” is gadal, meaning “to twist (compare 1434), i.e. to be (causatively make) large (in various senses, as in body, mind, estate or honor, also in pride).” It is speaking of the gathering, the enlarging of His ONE BODY rising with the lifting up of the son of man, as Moses lifted the serpent in the wilderness.
The word refers us to its use in Numbers 14:17, where we’re told of what Moses thinks the enemy will say if the LORD lets His people all die in the wilderness; and then in Joshua 3:7 & 4:14 as we’re told who is “magnified.” In the first the people are planning to appoint others to lead them as they return back to Egypt (in doing so, they would have all died, and the LORD fearing for them, from this saves them instead). Deuteronomy 32:27 Were it not that I feared [for them] the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the LORD has not done all this. 28 For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them. 29 O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
Numbers 14
17 And now, I beseech you, let the power of my LORD be great [gadal – magnified as You, by mercy, enlarge Your people], according as you have spoken, saying,
18 The LORD is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.
19 Pardon, I beseech you, the iniquity of this people according unto the greatness of your mercy, and as you have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.
20 And the LORD said, I have pardoned according to your word:
21 But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD.
22 Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;
23 Surely they shall not see the land which I swore unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:
24 But my servant Caleb [and Joshua], because he had another spirit [seeing as God’s sees, with One mind] with him, and has followed Me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it.
Joshua 3
2 And it came to pass after three days, that the officers went through the host;
3 And they commanded the people, saying, When you see the ark of the covenant [this Testimony by which the LORD manifests His presence] of the LORD your God, and the priests the Levites bearing it, then you shall remove from your place, and go after it.
4 Yet there shall be a space between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure: come not near unto it, that you may know the way by which you must go: for you have not passed this way heretofore.
5 And Joshua [progeny of Joseph, the king line in the perpetual son: the son of Nun: in perpetuity – Jesus: Jehovah’s Salvation manifested in the flesh] said unto the people, Sanctify yourselves [separate yourselves from corruption, make yourselves pure and see God, and join Him in His work]: for to morrow the LORD will do wonders among you.
6 And Joshua spoke unto the priests, saying, Take up the ark of the covenant, and pass over before the people. And they took up the ark of the covenant, and went before the people.
7 And the LORD said unto Joshua, This day will I begin to magnify [gadal] you in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that, as I was with Moses, so I will be with you.
8 And you shall command the priests that bear the ark of the covenant, saying, When you are come to the brink of the water of Jordan [the words that carry all the world into death], you shall stand still [‘amad – the stand at this end of days, when Michael stand and we awaken from the dust of the earth] in Jordan.
9 And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, Come hither, and hear the words of the LORD your God.
10 And Joshua said, Hereby you shall know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive out from before you [all who now possess the land by their deceptions and insanity].
Daniel 12
1 And at that time shall Michael stand up [‘amad], the great prince which stands [‘amad] for the children of your people: and there shall be a time of trouble [tsarah – the tribulation], such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time your people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the [opened] 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 [giving understanding] of the firmament [the rightly divided word, separating God’s from the words of death, which God called heaven]; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars [giving light in heaven to the ignorant] forever and ever.
4 But you, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro [diligently seeking the LORD], and knowledge shall be increased.
5 Then I Daniel looked, and, behold, there stood other two, the one on this side of the bank of the river, and the other on that side of the bank of the river.
12 Blessed is he that waits, and comes to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days [when the book was opened ending the darkness].
13 But go you your way till the end be: for you shall rest, and stand [‘amad] in your lot at the end of the days.
Joshua 3
11 Behold, the ark of the covenant of the LORD of all the earth passes over before you into Jordan.
12 Now, therefore, take you twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, out of every tribe a man.
13 And it shall come to pass, as soon as the soles of the feet of the priests that bear the ark of the LORD, the LORD of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of Jordan, that the waters of Jordan shall be cut off [rightly divide] from the waters that come down from [heaven] above; and they shall stand [those who have this word of God and boldly stand against the waters and ways of death] upon a heap.
14 And it came to pass, when the people removed from their tents, to pass over Jordan [the words that have carried all into death], and the priests bearing the ark of the covenant before the people;
15 And as they that bare the ark were come unto Jordan, and the feet of the priests that bare the ark were dipped in the brim of the water, (for Jordan overflows [swells with the pride of men] all his banks all the time of harvest,)
16 That the waters which came down from above [heaven] stood [‘amad] and rose up upon a heap very far [a chasma – between hell and heaven] from Adam [the second Adam, who is a quickening spirit], to the city that is beside Zaretan [tsarthan – their distress, in tribulation]: and those that came down toward the sea of the plain [were verse clearly stated to the people at large], even the salt sea [the wisdom of the so-called wise of the world], failed, and were cut off: and the people passed over right against Jericho [the moons – civil governments now based upon lies upon lies, and upon a foundation of confusion they built a wall – and I beheld the earth, and it had become without form, and void].
17 And the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firm on dry ground in the midst of Jordan, and all the Israelites passed over on dry ground, until all the people were passed clean over Jordan.
The word rendered “cut off,” in verse 16 above, is the Hebrew word karath, meaning “to cut (off, down or asunder); by implication, to destroy or consume; specifically, to covenant (i.e. make an alliance or bargain, originally by cutting flesh and passing between the pieces).”
It (karath) is a word (definitively) used only twice in Genesis. The first is when the LORD says he will never again “cut off” all flesh with a flood. The flood then was when the LORD allowed the ignorance of man, their corrupt ideas and ways to have their full course, destroying and ending the old world. The second use, in Genesis 15:18, is when the LORD “made” a covenant with Abram, therein describing the time of Abraham’s (Abram’s) sleep, which ends when described by Daniel above.
In Genesis, the time between then and now is in the smoking furnace when men’s wickedness again runs its full course; when the LORD in the flesh, as a burning lamp, would be among us unknown, preparing all things for this moment. This is the gospel, the good news that He has prepared an escape for those who now receive it as He manifests His presence.
Isaiah 55
1 Ho, every one that thirsts, come you to the waters [this word of God], and he that has no money; come you, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
2 Wherefore do you spend money for that which is not bread? and your labor for that which satisfies not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat you that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness [in the prosperity that comes with hearing and following the good that comes from the LORD].
3 Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make [karath] an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David [correcting those who receive it and become the children of God].
4 Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people.
5 Behold, you shall call a nation that you know not, and nations that knew not you shall run unto you because of the LORD your God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he has glorified you.
6 Seek you the LORD while he may be found, call you upon him while he is near:
7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, says the LORD.
9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
10 For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and returns not thither, but waters the earth, and makes it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:
11 So shall my word be that goes forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
12 For you shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees [the upright in Spirit] of the field shall clap their hands.
13 Instead of the thorn [misleaders] shall come up the fir tree [the upright], and instead of the brier [deceivers] shall come up the myrtle tree [the righteous]: and it shall be to the LORD for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off [karath].
Ezekiel 37
19 Say unto them, Thus says the LORD God; Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, even with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they [My divided people] shall be one [BODY of Christ] in mine hand.
20 And the sticks whereon you write shall be in your hand before their eyes.
21 And say unto them, Thus says the LORD God; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, where they have gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land:
22 And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all.
23 Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwelling-places, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.
24 And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them.
25 And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their children’s children forever: and my servant David shall be their prince forever.
26 Moreover I will make [karath] a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore.
27 My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
28 And the heathen shall know that I the LORD do sanctify Israel [do purify and separate them to rule the world as God rules, in righteousness: with judgment and mercy], when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore.
Psalms 37
1 Fret not yourself because of evildoers, neither be you envious against the workers of iniquity.
2 For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.
3 Trust in the LORD, and do good; so shall you dwell in the land, and truly you shall be fed.
4 Delight yourself also in the LORD: and he shall give you the desires of your heart.
5 Commit your way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.
6 And he shall bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your judgment as the noonday.
7 Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not yourself because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.
8 Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not yourself in any wise to do evil.
9 For evildoers shall be cut off [karath]: but those that wait upon the LORD, they shall inherit 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 gnash upon him with his teeth [to devour and swallow him up].
13 The LORD shall laugh at him: for he sees that his day is coming.
14 The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of upright conversation.
15 Their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bows shall be broken.
16 A little that a righteous man has is better than the riches of many wicked.
17 For the arms of the wicked shall be broken: but the LORD upholds the righteous.
18 The LORD knows the days of the upright: and their inheritance shall be forever.
19 They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.
20 But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the LORD shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away.
21 The wicked borrows, and pays not again: but the righteous shows mercy, and gives.
22 For such as be blessed of him shall inherit the earth; and they that be cursed of him shall be cut off [karath].
23 The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he delights in his way.
24 Though he falls, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the LORD upholds him with his hand.
25 I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.
26 He is ever merciful, and lends; and his seed is blessed.
27 Depart from evil, and do good; and dwell for evermore.
28 For the LORD loves judgment, and forsakes not his saints; they are preserved forever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off [karath].
29 The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell therein forever.
30 The mouth of the righteous speaks wisdom, and his tongue talks of judgment.
31 The law of his God is in his heart; none of his steps shall slide.
32 The wicked watch the righteous, and seeks to slay him.
33 The LORD will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged.
34 Wait on the LORD, and keep his way, and he shall exalt you to inherit the land: when the wicked are cut off [karath], you shall see it.
35 I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.
36 Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
37 Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace.
38 But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of the wicked shall be cut off [karath].
39 But the salvation of the righteous is of the LORD: he is their strength in the time of trouble.
40 And the LORD shall help them, and deliver them: he shall deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in him.
Come near, you nations, to hear; and hearken, you people: let the earth hear, and all that is therein; the world, and all things that come forth of it.
Come near, you nations, to hear; and hearken, you people: let the earth hear, and all that is therein; the world, and all things that come forth of it.
The above is Isaiah 34:1, and is the LORD calling all the earth to hear what He, later in verse 8, calls “the controversy of Zion.” He says it is the day of His vengeance and the year of recompense for it (the controversy), when He stretches a (measuring – assessing) line upon the earth and finds its foundation to be confusion, and the stones built upon it to be emptiness (worthless).
As we’ve many times discussed, “confusion” and “emptiness” are from the Hebrew words tohuw and bohuw. The first and last time each of these words is used, the two other of the three times they appear together, speaking of the condition the earth has become (hayah), they are identically rendered “without form, and void.” The first of these is in Genesis 1:2, there followed by speaking of the darkness (ignorance) that covers the deep understanding of the present word of God, upon which (the word) the Spirit of God moved, and light (understanding) was created.
The creation of understanding is later more precisely defined by John, in John 1, where we’re told in the beginning was the Word, and the was with God and was God. It says in Him, in His initial self-manifestation of His presence as the word, was life that was the light (understanding) of men, and this understanding was in the world, but, because of the darkness (ignorance) covering the earth, men couldn’t comprehend what they were experiencing.
John continues, saying (in the beginning) this was the word of God made flesh, dwelling in the first begotten, and as many as received Him (as such) gave He the power to become the children of God. John tells us the difference between Him and all others is He is begotten “of God” Himself, and all others are begotten by the first-begotten (quickened) from the dead: filled with God’s glory: His grace and truth. “And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.” 1 Corinthians 15:45
1 Corinthians 15
16 For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ [God’s anointed] raised:
17 And if Christ is not raised, your faith is vain; you are yet in your sins.
18 Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ have perished.
19 If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.
20 But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.
21 For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.
22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.
24 Then comes the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule [the corrupt who now have dominion over the earth] and all [the corrupt] authority and power [of the world].
25 For he must reign, till he has put all enemies under his feet.
26 The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
27 For he has put all things under his feet. But when he says all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him.
28 And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.
As we know, in this same chapter, Paul later speaks of death’s destruction in verse 54, saying it’s “when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.”
This victory is what he (Paul), earlier in verse 51, calls a “mystery” when all are changed (by the light: understanding that ends the corruption clouding our minds and we, thereby, put on immortality. He says, in verse 52, this happens “In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.”
In describing the time of this change, Paul uses several words that only appear in this one verse (52); the first atomos, rendered “moment;” and rhipe, rendered “twinkling.” The first (atomos) accurately translated means uncut, and refers to the undivided ONE BODY of Christ, and the second (rhipe), more correctly, means to toss out – the eye (ophthalmos). This latter aspect (of the change) modifies the first, speaking of what the LORD tells us about the “eye.”
Matthew 6
22 The light [understanding] of the body [of Christ] is the eye [ophthalmos]: if therefore your eye [ophthalmos] be single [undivided], your whole body [of Christ] shall be full of light [understanding].
23 But if your eye [ophthalmos] is evil [misleading], your whole body [of Christ] shall be full of darkness [ignorant and dead]. If therefore the light [understanding] that is in you be darkness [ignorance], how great is that darkness [ignorance]!
Matthew 5
29 And if your right eye [ophthalmos] offends you, pluck it out, and cast it from you: for it is profitable for you that one of your members should perish, and not that your whole body [of Christ] should be cast into hell [and death].
Matthew 7
5 You hypocrite, first cast out the beam [the ideas that blind] out of your own eye [ophthalmos]; and then shall you see clearly to cast out the mote out of your brother’s eye [ophthalmos].
Matthew 9
27 And when Jesus departed thence, two blind men followed him, crying, and saying, You son of David, have mercy on us.
28 And when he came into the house, the blind men came to him: and Jesus says unto them, Believe you that I am able to do this? They said unto him, Yea, LORD.
29 Then touched he their eyes [ophthalmos], saying, According to your faith be it unto you.
30 And their eyes [ophthalmos] were opened; and Jesus straitly charged them, saying, See that no man know it.
31 But they, when they were departed, spread abroad his fame in all that country.
32 As they went out, behold, they brought to him a dumb man possessed with a devil [the ideas of misleaders].
33 And when the devil was cast out, the dumb spoke: and the multitudes marveled, saying, It was never so seen [until the eyes are opened] in Israel.
Matthew 13
10 And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speak you unto them in parables?
11 He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.
12 For whosoever has [faith], to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever has not [faith, believing it the LORD speaking], from him shall be taken away even that he has.
13 Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.
14 And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah, which says, By hearing you shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing you shall see, and shall not perceive:
15 For this people’s heart [foundational understanding] is waxed gross [into darkness], and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes [ophthalmos] they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes [ophthalmos] and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted [changed], and I should heal them.
16 But blessed are your eyes [ophthalmos], for they see: and your ears, for they hear.
17 For truly I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which you see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which you hear, and have not heard them.
This blindness caused by the corruption of understanding (critical thinking and truthful discourse destroyed) is the darkness upon the deep, in the earth become without form (tohuw – used seventeen other times), and void (bohuw – only used in the three times mentions above), is further explained (cause, effect, and rescue) in the other times tohuw appears.
Before looking at these, Jeremiah, in the final use of both words, tells us precisely, the trumpet is the voice heard from the standard (nec – the pole upon which the son of man must be lifted). He describes it as the light coming into the darkness still not comprehending it as such, and the darkness as His people not having understanding or knowledge and therefore not knowing Him.
(Friends, the world only knows what the unrepentant and incorrigible false prophets and false teachers tell them. It must be understood that these are those chained to their own darkness, bound by their own words misleading them to perish (remain dead) in the hell of their own creation. As long as the world follows them, and rejects this word, it will further descend into fear, insanity, destruction, and mass misery, while they all insanely wait for the same false prophets and false teacher to lead them out.)
2 Thessalonians 2
5 Remember you not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things [about the sons of perdition]?
6 And now you know what withholds [katecho – this corruption of truth, the misleading of false prophets and false teaching, holds you down] that he might be revealed in his time.
7 For the mystery of iniquity does already work: only he who now lets [katecho – those who now hold you down] will let [will hold down, in the fall], until he is taken out of the way [mesos – out of our midst].
8 And then shall that Wicked [the same “unreasonable and wicked men” Paul tells us, in 2 Thessalonians 3:2, we should pray to be “delivered ” {saved} from] be revealed, whom the LORD shall consume with the Spirit of [the fire of God] his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness [the understanding now given as He manifests His presence] of his coming:
9 Even him [The LORD – coming after the world has been made ignorant of His manner, 1 Timothy 3:16, the mystery revealed, manifested in the flesh], whose coming is after the working of Satan [resisting and opposing God] with all power and signs and lying wonders,
10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish [by following his false prophets and false teaching]; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved [by Jehovah’s Salvation manifested in our flesh].
11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
13 But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethren beloved of the LORD, because God has from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification [by separating you from corruption to His work] of the Spirit and belief of the truth:
14 Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory [His grace and truth in you] of our LORD Jesus Christ.
Jeremiah 4
16 Make you mention to the nations; behold, publish against Jerusalem, that watchers [evil messengers, angels of darkness, waiting and watching for an opportunity to destroy God’s people with their misleading] come from a far country, and give out their voice against the cities of Judah.
17 As keepers of a field, are they against her round about; because she has been rebellious against me, says the LORD.
18 Your way and your doings have procured these things unto you; this is your wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reaches unto your heart.
19 My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart makes a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because you have heard, O my soul, the sound [the voice of the LORD’s presence] of the trumpet, the alarm of war [calling all to muster to Him].
20 Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, and my curtains in a moment.
21 How long shall I see the standard [how long shall you see the son of man lifted as a brazen serpent devouring the serpents among us], and hear the sound [qowl – this voice of the archangel, in whom is manifested the LORD’s presence, calling all to gather in ONE BODY to Him] of the trumpet?
22 For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
23 I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was [hayah – had become] without form [tohuw], and void [bohuw]; and the heavens, and they had no light.
24 I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly.
25 I beheld, and, lo, there was no man [with His spirit], and all the birds [those who soar by His understanding in them] of the heavens were fled.
26 I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the LORD, and by his fierce anger.
27 For thus has the LORD said, The whole land [earth] shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end.
28 For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black [without any understanding or knowledge, and thereby ignorant of Him]; because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will not repent, neither will I turn back from it.
29 The whole city shall flee for the noise [the voice of God’s army, His ONE BODY proclaiming His presence] of the horsemen and bowmen; they shall go into thickets, and climb up upon the rocks: every city shall be forsaken, and not a man dwell therein.
30 And when you are spoiled, what will you do? Though you clothe yourself with crimson, though you deck you with ornaments of gold, though you rent your face with painting, in vain shall you make yourself fair; your lovers [the false prophets and false teachers: the misleaders you follow, who are destroying you] will despise you, they will seek your life [they will lead you into destruction rather than repent and receive the love of the truth].
31 For I have heard a voice [qowl] as of a woman in travail, and the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child [the first-begotten of God’s only begotten], the voice [qowl] of the daughter of Zion, that bewail herself, that spreads her hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers [those among you misleading into self-destruction and blaming you for the evil they’ve wrought].
So, just to be sure I have this right: God’s people and His better ideas, and our traditional Christian culture, are being systematically destroyed and replaced by evil, aren’t doing anything to combat it because the perpetrators tell you they aren’t doing what you plainly see, and saying if you see it you’re evil? Did I get that right? “My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart makes a noise [hamah – the “hum” of a song, that brings these word to mind] in me; I cannot hold my peace, because you have heard, O my soul, the sound [voice] of the trumpet, the alarm of war.”
The second time the word tohuw (“without form” which is “confusion”) is used, after the first in Genesis 1:2, is in Deuteronomy 32:10, rendered “waste” as the LORD foretells the place He’s now come to raise us once again.
Deuteronomy 32
2 My doctrine shall drop as the rain [God’s word from heaven], my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass [bringing life again to the dry ground of the earth that has been without it]:
3 Because I will publish the name of the LORD [I Am “That” I Am]: ascribe you greatness unto our God.
4 He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
5 They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation.
6 Do you thus requite [speak resistance against] the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is not he your father that has bought you? has he not made you, and established you? [2 Peter 2:1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable {apoleia – worthy of perdition} heresies, even denying the LORD that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction {apoleia – perdition}. 2 And many shall follow their pernicious {apoleia} ways {worthy of perdition}; 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 – perdition} slumbers not.]
7 Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask your father, and he will show you; your elders, and they will tell you.
8 When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated [for His work] the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.
9 For the LORD’s portion [inheritance] is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.
10 He found him in a desert land, and in the waste [tohuw – without form, in confusion] howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
11 As an eagle stirs up her nest, flutters over her young, spreads abroad her wings, taketh them, bears them on her wings:
12 So the LORD alone did lead him [to raise them to soar in full understanding: in heaven], and there was no strange god with him.
13 He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey [sweetness from His mouth that is His strength] out of the rock [His word flowing from the flesh He chooses], and oil [anointing us] out of the flinty rock [that when struck brings forth fire];
14 Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and you did drink the pure blood of the grape.
15 But Jeshurun [and when He fed us {His nation, under Him} and filled us with His feast, we prospered by heeding His word: following His good advice] waxed fat, and kicked: you are waxen fat, you are grown thick, you are covered with fatness; then he [we] forsook God which made him [us], and lightly esteemed the Rock [Christ – the Father manifesting His presence in the one He chooses and anoints] of his salvation.
16 They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations [the creations of men, which they put in God’s place and called by His name] provoked they him to anger.
17 They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.
18 Of the Rock that begat you you are unmindful, and have forgotten God that formed you.
2 Corinthians 11
12 But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion [to keep you down]; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we [as men possessed by a spirit: us of God and them of Satan resisting Him].
13 For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
15 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also are transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works [the darkness to which they are chained].
16 I say again, let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little.
17 That which I speak, I speak it not after the LORD, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.
18 Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.
19 For you suffer fools gladly, seeing you yourselves are wise.
20 For you suffer, if a man brings you into bondage, if a man devours you, if a man takes of you, if a man exalts himself; if a man smites you on the face.
1 Corinthians 4
9 For I think that God has set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.
10 We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ; we are weak, but you are strong; you are honorable, but we are despised [called evil by the current corrupt and evil culture].
11 Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling-place;
12 And labor, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:
13 Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day.
14 I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you.
15 For though you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have you not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.
16 Wherefore I beseech you, be you followers of me.
17 For this cause have I sent unto you Timotheus [I Am “That” Tim of God], who is my beloved son, and faithful in the LORD, who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways which be in Christ, as I teach every where in every church.
18 Now some are puffed up, as though I would not come to you.
19 But I will come to you shortly, if the LORD will, and [you] will know, not the speech of them which are puffed up, but the power [of God in Me].
20 For the kingdom of God is not in word [the vain word of men who are puffed up, swelled with pride in their power to deceive], but in power [of God, giving His light, which is the life of the world].
21 What will you? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?
1 Samuel 12
19 And all the people said unto Samuel [who heard the LORD speaking], Pray for your servants unto the LORD your God, that we die not: for we have added unto all our sins this evil, to ask us a king [of our choosing].
20 And Samuel said unto the people, Fear not: you have done all this wickedness: yet turn not aside from following the LORD, but serve the LORD with all your heart;
21 And turn you not aside: for then should you go after vain [tohuw – confusing] things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain [tohuw – they will bring confusion].
22 For the LORD will not forsake his people for his great name’s sake: because it has pleased the LORD to make you his people.
23 Moreover as for me, God forbid that I should sin against the LORD in ceasing to pray for you: but I will teach you the good and the right way:
24 Only fear the LORD, and serve him in truth with all your heart: for consider how great things he has done for you.
25 But if you shall still do wickedly, you shall be consumed [in the fire], both you and your king [you choose to follow into wickedness].
Isaiah 24
10 The city of confusion [tohuw] is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in.
11 There is a crying for wine [that changes minds away from God’s understanding] in the streets; all joy is darkened [become ignorance], the mirth of the land [earth] 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 They shall lift up their voice [qowl], they shall sing for the majesty of the LORD, they shall cry aloud from the sea [among the people at large].
15 Wherefore glorify you the LORD in the fires, even the name of the LORD God of Israel in the isles [the places that have not heard His word] 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 [qowl – the voices of the treachery] 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 down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
20 The 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 [the army of the wicked] 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 [of their own lies], and after many days shall they be visited [paqad – punished].
23 Then the moon [the corrupt civil governments of the world – all] shall be confounded, and the sun [the corrupt churches – all] ashamed, when the LORD of hosts [who is a man of war] shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.
Isaiah 29
18 And in that day shall the deaf hear [with understanding] the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and [come] out of darkness [ignorance].
19 The meek also shall increase their joy in the LORD, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
20 For the terrible one is brought to naught, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off:
21 That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproves in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of naught [tohuw].
22 Therefore thus says the LORD, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob, Jacob shall not now be ashamed [he shall reach the promised land], neither shall his face now wax pale [but shall rise in the LORD’s strength].
23 But when he sees his children, the work of mine hands, in the midst of him, they shall sanctify my name, and sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel.
24 They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine.
Isaiah 40
17 All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity [tohuw].
18 To whom then will you liken God? or what likeness will you compare unto him?
19 The workman [makes an idol they call by God’s name] melts a graven image, and the goldsmith spreads it over with gold, and casts silver chains [by which they bind themselves in darkness].
20 He that is so impoverished [without these treasures of heaven] that he has no oblation chooses a tree [a man he thinks is upright] that will not [in his mind] rot; he seeks unto him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image, that shall not be moved [from God’s place].
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 of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretches out the heavens as a curtain, and spreads them out as a tent to dwell in:
23 That bringeth the princes to nothing; he makes the judges of the earth as vanity [tohuw].
24 Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind [from where the LORD speaks] 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 hidden from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God?
28 Have you not known? have you not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, faints not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.
29 He gives power to the faint; and to them that have no might 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 [that comes with understanding]; they shall mount up with wings as eagles [into heaven, full understanding, with Him]; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
Isaiah 41
21 Produce your cause, 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.
25 I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come: from the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name: and he shall come upon princes as upon mortar, and as the potter treads clay.
26 Who has declared [nagad – who stood boldly against these misleaders] from the beginning, that we may know? and before-time, that we may say, He is righteous? yea, there is none that shows, yea, there is none that declares, yea, there is none that heareth your words.
27 The first [begotten of God] shall say to Zion, Behold, behold them [see these misleaders]: and I will give to Jerusalem one that bringeth good tidings.
28 For I beheld, and there was no man; even among them, and there was no counselor, that, when I asked of them, could answer a word.
29 Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion [tohuw].
How do we know when these men are misleading? They’re breathing, and their lips are moving.
Isaiah 44
6 Thus says the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts [who is a man of war]; I Am the first, and I Am the last; and beside me there is no God.
7 And who, as I, shall call, and shall declare it, and set it in order for me, since I appointed the ancient people? and the things that are coming, and shall come, let them show unto them.
8 Fear you not, neither be afraid: have not I told you from that time, and have declared it? you are even my witnesses. Is there a God beside me? yea, there is no God; I know not any.
9 They that make a graven image are all of them vanity [tohuw]; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses [when their lip are moving]; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.
10 Who has formed a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing?
11 Behold, all his fellows shall be ashamed: and the workmen [that make idols they put in God’s place], they are of men: let them all be gathered together, let them stand up; yet they shall fear, and they shall be ashamed together.
Isaiah 45
18 For thus says the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he has established it, he created it not in vain [tohuw – not without form], he formed it to be inhabited: I Am the LORD; and there is none else.
19 I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place [not from the places of ignorance] of the earth: I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek you me in vain [tohuw – not in the places of confusion]: I the LORD speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.
20 Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, you that are escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot save.
21 Tell you, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together: who has declared this from ancient time? who has told it from that time? have not I the LORD? and there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Savior; there is none beside me.
22 Look unto me, and be you saved, all the ends of the earth: for I Am God, and there is none else.
23 I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.
24 Surely, shall one say, in the LORD have I righteousness and strength: even to him shall men come; and all that are incensed against him shall be ashamed.
25 In the LORD shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory.
Isaiah 49
1 Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, you people, from far; The LORD has called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother has he made mention of my name [I Am Tim of God].
2 And he has made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand has he hid me, and made me a polished shaft; in his quiver has he hid me;
3 And said unto me, You are my servant, O Israel [who shall reign on earth as God reigns], in whom I will be glorified.
4 Then I said, I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for naught [tohuw], and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the LORD, and my work with my God.
5 And now, says the LORD that formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, Though Israel be not gathered, yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the LORD, and my God shall be my strength.
6 And he said, It is a light thing that you shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give you for a light to the Gentiles, that you mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.
7 Thus says the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers, Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of the LORD that is faithful, and the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose you.
8 Thus says the LORD, In an acceptable time have I heard you, and in a day of salvation have I helped you: and I will preserve you, and give you for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages;
9 That you mayest say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that are in darkness [in obscurity: by ignorance unknown to themselves], Show yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall be in all high places.
Isaiah 59
1 Behold, the LORD’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:
2 But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.
3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue has muttered perverseness.
4 None calleth for justice, nor any pleads for truth: they trust in vanity [tohuw – confusion], and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
5 They hatch cockatrice’ eggs, and weave the spider’s web: he that eats of their eggs dies, and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper.
6 Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.
7 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.
8 The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goes therein shall not know peace.
9 Therefore is judgment far from us, neither does justice overtakes us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.
10 We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.
11 We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.
12 For our transgressions are multiplied before you, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them;
13 In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
14 And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.
15 Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.
16 And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him.
17 For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloak.
18 According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompense to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompense.
19 So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.
20 And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, says the LORD.
21 As for me, this is my covenant with them, says the LORD; My spirit that is upon you, and my words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your seed, nor out of the mouth of your seed’s seed, says the LORD, from henceforth and forever.
Psalms 48
1 Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness.
2 Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.
3 God is known in her palaces for a refuge.
4 For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together.
5 They saw it, and so they marveled; they were troubled, and hasted away.
6 Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in travail.
7 You break the ships of Tarshish [those trying to escape their vows] with an east wind.
8 As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it forever. Selah.
9 We have thought of your lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of your temple.
10 According to your name, O God, so is your praise unto the ends of the earth: your right hand is full of righteousness.
11 Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of your judgments.
12 Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof.
13 Mark you well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that you may tell it to the generation following.
14 For this God is our God forever and ever: he will be our guide even unto [and out of] death.
But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it.
But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it.
The above, Micah 4:1, come after the LORD tells the heads of His people, after He (as in me) has pronounced His judgment against the prophets, seers, and diviners, who say we will have peace, while, by their deceptions, they are at war against Him.
Micah 3
1 And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and you princes of the house of Israel; Is it not for you to know judgment?
2 Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;
3 Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.
4 Then shall they cry unto the LORD, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings.
5 Thus says the LORD concerning the prophets that make my people err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that put not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him.
6 Therefore night shall be unto you, that you shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark unto you [you shall be ignorant of it], that you shall not divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets [this tells of understanding leaving the church, because they are following these false prophets and false teachers], and the day shall be dark over them [and ignorance covers the earth, as it is this day].
7 Then shall the seers be ashamed [when their promised end doesn’t come and they are proven ignorant], and the diviners confounded: yea, they shall all cover their lips [shut their mouths]; for there is no answer of God [Whose judgment has come against them, and against Who they are at war].
8 But truly I AM full of power by the Spirit of the LORD [of Whom they are ignorant], and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.
9 Hear this, I pray you, you heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity.
10 They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.
11 The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? no evil can come upon us.
12 Therefore [because of these deceivers and misleaders in power] shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest [as opposed to a city where the people are gathered].
The word used, above in verse 8, to tell of the LORD in Micah confronting, by manifesting (“declaring”) His presence against these misleaders, is the Hebrew word nagad, meaning “to front, i.e. stand boldly out opposite; by implication (causatively), to manifest; figuratively, to announce (always by word of mouth to one present); specifically, to expose, predict, explain, praise.”
This act, the LORD manifesting His mercy in judgment, is understood in one of the other two times the word (nagad) is used by Micah, in Micah 6:8.
Micah 6
1 Hear you now what the LORD says; Arise [from silence and ignorance], contend you before the mountains, and let the hills hear your voice.
2 Hear you, O mountains, the LORD’s controversy, and you strong foundations of the earth: for the LORD has a controversy with his people, and he will plead with Israel.
3 O my people, what have I done unto you? and wherein have I wearied you? testify against me.
4 For I brought you up out of the land of Egypt [from the oppressors], and redeemed you out of the house of servants; and I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.
5 O my people, remember now what Balak [the devastator] king of Moab [the king of those whose words are the gates holding God’s people in death and hell] consulted, and what Balaam [not of the people] the son of Beor [burning] answered him from Shittim [the fruitful place] unto Gilgal [the swirling waters, the word of agitation]; that you may know the righteousness of the LORD. [Selah! This is referring to Numbers 23:12, when Balak sent Balaam to curse God’s people, and the LORD intervened, and Balaam said {answered Balak} “Must I not take heed to speak that which the LORD has put in my mouth?”
6 Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old?
7 Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
8 He has shown [nagad – declared to] you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
9 The LORD’s voice cries unto the city, and the man of wisdom shall see your name: hear you the rod [this voice of the LORD], and who has appointed it.
10 Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable?
11 Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?
12 For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
13 Therefore also will I make you sick in smiting you, in making you desolate because of your sins.
14 You shall eat, but not be satisfied; and your casting down shall be in the midst of you; and you shall take hold, but shall not deliver; and that which you deliver will I give up to the sword.
15 You shall sow, but you shall not reap; you shall tread the olives, but you shall not anoint you with oil; and sweet wine, but shall not drink wine.
16 For the statutes of Omri [who worshipped idols, after the manner of Jeroboam, making calves and appointing devils to mislead the people, telling them these idols were God] are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab [who also put these idols in God’s place, and made altars to them], and you walk in their counsels; that I should make you [by these abominations] a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof a hissing [calling all to their idols]: therefore you shall bear the reproach of my people.
Numbers 23
1 And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven oxen and seven rams.
2 And Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bullock and a ram.
3 And Balaam said unto Balak, “Stand by your burnt offering, and I will go: peradventure the LORD will come to meet me: and whatsoever he shows me I will tell you. And he went to a high place.”
4 And God met Balaam: and he said unto Him, “I have prepared seven altars, and I have offered upon every altar a bullock and a ram.”
5 And the LORD put a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus you shall speak.
6 And he returned unto him, and, lo, he stood by his burnt sacrifice, he, and all the princes of Moab.
7 And he took up his parable, and said, “Balak the king of Moab has brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, saying, ‘Come, curse me Jacob, and come, defy Israel.’
8 How shall I curse, whom God has not cursed? or how shall I defy, whom the LORD has not defied?
9 For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold him: lo, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations.
10 Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!”
11 And Balak said unto Balaam, “What have you done unto me? I took you to curse mine enemies, and, behold, you have blessed them altogether.”
12 And he answered and said, “Must I not take heed to speak that which the LORD has put in my mouth?”
13 And Balak said unto him, “Come, I pray you, with me unto another place, from whence you mayest see them: you shall see but the utmost part of them [the one forth part], and shall not see them all: and curse me them from thence.”
14 And he brought him into the field of Zophim [the watchers: waiting for their chance to destroy God’s people], to the top of Pisgah [the cleft – thought to be inaccessible place], and built seven altars, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar.
15 And he said unto Balak, “Stand here by your burnt offering, while I meet the LORD yonder.”
16 And the LORD met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, “Go again unto Balak, and say thus.”
17 And when he came to him, behold, he stood by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said unto him, “What has the LORD spoken?”
18 And he took up his parable, and said, “Rise up, Balak [devastator of God’s people], and hear; hearken unto me, you son of Zippor [a pupil of God – whose mouths have become the gates of hell]:
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 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 is among them.
22 God brought them out of Egypt; He [God] has as it were the strength of a unicorn [The Only Almighty Power – as in Pantokrator: Omnipotent].
23 Surely there is no enchantment [no spell, no manipulation by words, in a curse of man, that has power over what God says] against Jacob, neither is there any divination [no false prophecy or false teaching that can take them to an end other than what God has promised] against Israel: according to this time it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, ‘What has God wrought!’
24 Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion [My great army, My ONE BODY], 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.”
25 And Balak said unto Balaam, “Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all.” [Speak only this word from the mouth of God.]
26 But Balaam answered and said unto Balak, “Told not I you, saying, All that the LORD speaks, that I must do?”
27 And Balak said unto Balaam, “Come, I pray you, I will bring you unto another place; peradventure it will please God that you mayest curse me them from thence.”
28 And Balak [the devastators] brought Balaam [who aren’t God’s people] unto the top of Peor [to another place they think is inaccessible], that look toward Jeshimon [to the desolation they have wrought, now claiming they will rebuild the same alters to the idols they’ve created and put is God’s place, calling them God].
29 And Balaam said unto Balak, “Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams.”
30 And Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar.
It is of this futility and insanity, the LORD speaks in Micah 6 above, saying:
6 Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old?
7 Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
8 He has shown [nagad – declared to] you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
9 The LORD’s voice cries unto the city, and the man of wisdom shall see your name [the mark of your idenity]: hear you the rod [this voice of the LORD], and who has appointed it.
10 Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable?
Micah 4
1 But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it.
2 And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
3 And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.
4 But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the LORD of hosts has spoken it.
5 For all people will walk every one in the name of his god [and they will understand these are idols who cannot save or deliver], and we will walk in the name of the LORD our God forever and ever.
6 In that day, says the LORD, will I assemble her that halts [went lame and strayed from God’s path], and I will gather her that is driven out, and her that I have afflicted;
7 And I will make her that halted a remnant, and her that was cast far off a strong nation: and the LORD shall reign over them in mount Zion from henceforth, even forever.
8 And you, O tower of the flock, the stronghold of the daughter of Zion, unto you shall it come, even the first dominion; the kingdom shall come to the daughter of Jerusalem.
9 Now why do you cry out aloud? is there no king in you? is your counselor perished? for pangs have taken you as a woman in travail.
10 Be in pain, and labor to bring forth [your king], O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail: for now shall you go forth out of the city, and you shall dwell in the field, and you shall go even to Babylon [back to the same confusion that has ruled the world into desolation]; there shall you be delivered; there the LORD shall redeem you from the hand of your enemies.
11 Now also many nations are gathered against you, that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye look upon Zion.
12 But they know not the thoughts of the LORD, neither understand they his counsel: for he shall gather them as the sheaves into the floor.
13 Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will make your horn iron, and I will make your hoofs brass: and you shall beat in pieces many people: and I will consecrate their gain unto the LORD, and their substance unto the LORD of the whole earth.
2 Corinthians 6
1 We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that you receive not the grace of God in vain.
2 (For he says, I have heard you in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succored you: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)
3 Giving no offense in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed:
4 But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,
5 In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;
6 By pureness, by knowledge, by long suffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,
7 By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,
8 By honor and dishonor, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true;
9 As unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed;
10 As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
11 O you Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged [you now understand the LORD is in us working and speaking His will].
12 You are not straitened [not restricted by Him that is] in us, but you are straitened in your own bowels [you are restricted by your own false ideas you’ve been misled into believing].
13 Now for a recompense in the same, (I speak as unto my children,) be you also enlarged [receive the mind of Christ, and He will manifest His glory in and through you].
14 Be you not unequally yoked together with unbelievers [who don’t believe God manifests Himself in the flesh, at His will]: for what fellowship has righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion has light [understanding] with darkness [with those who choose to remain ignorant of the LORD’s presence]?
15 And what concord has Christ with Belial [the idols men put in His place]? or what part has he that believes with an infidel [those who’ve been without faith in the LORD]?
16 And what agreement has the temple of God with idols [as calves put in His place]? for you are the temple of the living God; as God has said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
17 Wherefore come out from among them [these unbelievers], and be you separate, says the LORD, and touch not the unclean thing [that defile the mind and keep it stupefied in darkness]; and I will receive you.
18 And will be a Father unto you, and you shall be my sons and daughters, says the LORD Almighty [Pantokrator, Omnipotent].
This chapter (2 Corinthians 6) begins with the LORD (in Paul) telling us it is the rescue; when he has heard (quoting Isaiah 49:8) us and answers by manifesting Himself into this day of salvation. The means and end of the old corrupt heaven and earth are then spoken of as he calls us out (quoting Isaiah 52:11) from among the unbelievers to who we are unequally yoked. The new heaven and earth are then described (quoting 2 Samiel 7:14) when He is dwelling and walking in us, and we, by this course correction, become His sons and daughters.
Isaiah 49
5 And now, says the LORD that formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, Though Israel be not gathered, yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the LORD, and my God shall be my strength.
6 And he said, It is a light thing that you shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give you for a light to the Gentiles, that you mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.
7 Thus says the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhor, to a servant of rulers, Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of the LORD that is faithful, and the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose you.
8 Thus says the LORD, In an acceptable time have I heard you, and in a day of salvation have I helped you: and I will preserve you, and give you for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages;
9 That you mayest say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, Show yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall be in all high places.
10 They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them: for he that has mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them.
11 And I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall be exalted.
Isaiah 52
6 Therefore my people shall know my name: therefore they shall know in that day that I Am he that does speak: behold, it is I.
7 How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publishes peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publishes salvation; that says unto Zion, Your God reigns!
8 Your watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall they sing: for they shall see eye to eye, when the LORD shall bring again Zion.
9 Break forth into joy, sing together, you waste places of Jerusalem: for the LORD has comforted his people, he has redeemed Jerusalem.
10 The LORD has made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.
11 Depart you, depart you, go you out from thence, touch no unclean thing; go you out of the midst of her; be you clean, that bear the vessels of the LORD.
12 For you shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for the LORD will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your reward.
13 Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high.
14 As many were astonished at you; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:
15 So shall he sprinkle many nations; the kings shall shut their mouths at him: for that which had not been told them shall they see; and that which they had not heard shall they consider.
Isaiah 53
1 Who has believed our report [shmuw’ah – this teaching sound doctrine]? and to whom [through understanding] is the arm of the LORD revealed?
2 Samuel 7
13 He [the son of David, who reestablish the king line] shall build a house for my name [wherein the LORD will dwell], and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.
14 I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men:
15 But my mercy shall not depart away from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before you.
16 And your house and your kingdom shall be established forever before you: your throne shall be established forever.
In these above passages, the LORD leads us to understand the cause of the fall (into abeyance) of the king line. It’s alluded to as the LORD speaks of when He “took it from Saul,” and gave it to the family of David forever. It is revealed in understanding the succession of Samuel the “seer” (ho’eh), to Nathan the prophet (nabiy’), and finally to Gad the seer (chozeh).
Here are the Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary definitions of these words:
Strong’s #7203: ro’eh (pronounced ro-eh’) [used six times]; active participle of 7200; a seer (as often rendered); but also (abstractly) a vision:–vision.
Strong’s #5030: nabiy’ (pronounced naw-bee’) [used 315 times]; from 5012; a prophet or (generally) inspired man:–prophecy, that prophesy, prophet.
Strong’s #2374: chozeh (pronounced kho-zeh’) [used 18 times]; active participle of 2372; a beholder in vision; also a compact (as looked upon with approval):–agreement, prophet, see that, seer, (star-)gazer.
The first word tells of the original state of man (6), in understanding, when hearing only God (Samuel – shmuw’el) and (believing the report, shmuw’ah) heeding His good advice (obeying His commandments).
The second tells of when the first is neglected and abandoned (as a garden overgrown with thorns and briers, and misleaders come to power) and the prophets are many times (315 = 45 x 7) sent (in diverse manners), only seeing and speaking the promises in parts they saw fulfilled far off (perfected now in one concorded message).
The last defines the cause of the condition of ignorance [18 = 6 + 6 + 6], blinded and deaf to the prophets speaking God’s word and warning of the judgment that would ultimately come.
The first ends with the death of Samuel, and Saul (the king “desired” by the people, chosen by the crowd, and not by God) sought the advice of familiar spirits (the known dead), after the LORD stopped speaking to Him; after he disobeyed His commandment.
The commandment He disobeyed was to “utterly destroy” Amalek (who is not our king – or of God’s choosing), an Edomite (descended from Esau) king; the LORD thereby telling us he is an enemy mixed among us, as a brother and countryman at war against us (a misleader – against our better culture under God).
We know this king from Exodus 17, after water, the word of God, flows from the Rock (Christ unknown in Moses), and God’s people go to war with him. During the battle, Moses is upon this Rock, on a mountain as a banner lifted up where all could see Him. When he held up his hand (the arm of the LORD revealed, in the report, the water from the Rock), God’s people prevailed, and when he let it down, when it wasn’t seen, Amalek prevailed.
The final (finisher) king (I Am) comes to do what Saul wouldn’t, end the war, and destroy the power of these would-be (wannabe) kings to control (disrupt and delude) the minds of men. The one leading the battle on the ground (earth) is Joshua the son of Nun: Jesus: Jehovah’s salvation manifested in the flesh, the perpetual son of God and man.
The LORD tells Moses to write this for a memorial in a book, and that He will utterly extinguish the remembrance of Amalek. Moses then built an altar and called the name of it Jehovah-Nissi, from the word nec; the pole upon which Moses lifted the brazen serpent. This tells us Jehovah is in the flesh of the son of man who must be lifted, from who God’s word flows, so all who believe (this report) can look to Him and (receiving the light) live. Doing this, heeding the warnings, and following His commands, the venomous words of the serpents mixed among these believers no longer have an effect.
Exodus
14 And the LORD said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly put out the remembrance [zeker] of Amalek from under heaven.
15 And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it Jehovah-Nissi:
16 For he said, “Because the LORD has sworn that the LORD will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.”
The “remembrance” is spoken of in the only two times the word zeker appears in Isaiah, in Isaiah 26:8 & 14. The first of these refers to the first appearance of the word (zeker), in Exodus 3:14, as The LORD God tells Moses His name, “I Am That I Am,” is a memorial to all generations, meaning He is the living God to be remembered in every generation, as he was with (in) Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He tells Moses to go tell this to the elders, that it’s God visiting His people, making His presence known, manifested in Moses to save them from those oppressing them (Jehovah’s Salvation manifested in the flesh, as I Am).
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 over us: but by you only will we make mention 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.
The end of the “seer [ro’eh – who see clearer than the chozeh],” Samuel (shmuw’el – hearing God), ends the sequence 1 Chronicles 29:29 describes as “the book of Gad [the crowd] the seer [chozeh],” speaking of the subsequent fall of the king line. It speaks of when Solomon died and His son Rehoboam, instead of lessening the burden on the people of Israel (the northern ten tribes), as was advised by the elders who stood with Solomon, listened to the younger crowd he grew up with and increased the burden. This led to the dividing (and eventual conquering) of the kingdom united under David and started a continuing degeneration resulting in the end of both parts (Judah and Israel).
According to God, according to His word, the division is part of His plan to enlarge His people, scattering them among all nations, purposefully for the moment when He gathers all who receive Him in His ONE BODY, under His one chosen king and shepherd.
The name Rehoboam, is from the Hebrews words rachab, meaning “to broaden (intransitive or transitive, literal or figurative):–be an en-(make) large(-ing), make room, make (open) wide,” and ‘am, meaning “a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock:–folk, men, nation, people.”
We are told, in Deuteronomy 33:20, it is Gad (the LORD’s army, His ONE BODY when it rises) that is enlarged (rachab). This is the same “enlarged” Body foretold in Isaiah 60:5 and Genesis 49:19, the latter saying they were (Gad was) overcome, and in this end-time overcome (the army that receives the victory over) the world.
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.
18 (I have waited for your salvation, O LORD.)
19 Gad [the LORD’s army, overcome until their return to Him], a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last.
20 Out of Asher [happy] his bread shall be fat [happiness returns when the word of God prospers], and he shall yield royal dainties [ma’adan – speaking of the royal line again raised up – referring us to its use in Proverbs 29:17, telling us this is when rest returns, when we, by correction, give the Father “delight”].
21 Naphtali [by this wrestling – unknowingly with the LORD] is a hind let loose: he gives goodly words [our tongue {the word of God} is loosed and we teach it as received directly from Him].
22 Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well [a tree of life by these waters of God]; whose branches run over the wall [the wall of lies men have created and teach]:
23 The archers [ba’al – the gods of this world whose teaching has blinded all form seeing the Father, in the son, the seed of the women who brings forth the man child – see Revelation 12:17] have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him:
24 But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:)
25 Even by the God of your father, who shall help you; and by the Almighty, who shall bless you with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lies under [the deep meaning that lies below the surface], blessings of the breasts [drawing from the Ancient of days: wisdom], and of the womb [seed, the son]:
26 The blessings of your father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors [all those who have come before us, and only blessed with part of what is perfected in our return to the LORD] unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.
Deuteronomy 33
13 And of Joseph he said, Blessed of the LORD be his land, for the precious things of heaven, for the dew, and for the deep that couches beneath [these treasures found below the surface of His word],
14 And for the precious fruits brought forth by the sun [the church shining the light of this new day], and for the precious things put forth by the moon [civil government also bringing light into the darkness],
15 And for the chief things of the ancient mountains [these high places bringing light as God intended them], and for the precious [these treasure given as God freely gave them] things of the lasting [because they are good, better ideas on high] hills,
16 And for the precious things of the earth and fulness thereof, and for the good will of him that dwelt in the bush [in the fire that never burns Him, as the Son of God walking in the furnaces]: let the blessing come upon the head of Joseph, and upon the top of the head of him that was separated from his brethren [for the work of God].
17 His glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and his horns are like the horns of unicorns [the Only power, the pantokrator, Omnipotent and Almighty]: with them he shall push the people together to the ends [the end of the old and beginning the new] of the earth: and they are the ten thousands of Ephraim [God’s people in this generation, upon whom this blessing has come], and they are the thousands of Manasseh [those who forgot the LORD and now remember Him].
18 And of Zebulun he said, Rejoice, Zebulun, in your going out; and, Issachar, in your tents.
19 They shall call the people unto the mountain; there they shall offer sacrifices of righteousness: for they shall suck of the abundance of the seas, and of treasures hid in the sand [in His many people].
20 And of Gad he said, Blessed be he that enlarges [rachab] Gad: he dwells as a lion, and tears the arm [the works of the wicked] with the crown of the head.
21 And he provided the first part for himself [the husbandman who labors is the first partaker], because there, in a portion of the lawgiver, was he seated [enthroned]; and he came with the heads of the people, he executed the justice of the LORD, and his judgments with Israel.
Isaiah 60
1 Arise, shine; for your light [understanding and life] is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon you.
2 For, behold, the darkness [ignorance] shall cover the earth, and gross darkness [ignorance] the people: but the LORD shall arise upon you, and his glory shall be seen upon you.
3 And the Gentiles [those who don’t God] shall come to your light [understanding], and kings to the brightness [the light in us as His glory manifesting His presence] of your rising.
4 Lift up your eyes round about, and see: all they gather themselves together, they come to you: your sons shall come from far, and your daughters shall be nursed at your side.
5 Then you shall see, and flow together, and your heart shall fear, and be enlarged [rachab – into His ONE BODY]; because the abundance of the sea [humanity at large] shall be converted unto you, the forces of the Gentiles [the army that doesn’t know God] shall come unto you.
Psalms 4
1 Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: you have enlarged [rachab] me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.
2 O you sons of men, how long will you turn my glory into shame? how long will you love vanity, and seek after falsehood? Selah.
3 But know that the LORD has set apart [separated] him that is godly for himself [the flesh in whom He manifests Himself]: the LORD will hear when I call unto him.
4 Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.
5 Offer the sacrifices of righteousness [good judgment and mercy], and put your trust in the LORD.
6 There be many that say, “Who will show us any good?” LORD, lift you up the light of your countenance [the understanding of your presence] upon us.
7 You have put gladness in my heart, more [in this harvest of your treasures] than in the time that their corn and their wine increased.
8 I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for you, LORD, only make me dwell in safety.
2 Samuel 22
37 You have enlarged [rachab] my steps under me; so that my feet did not slip.
38 I have pursued mine enemies, and destroyed them; and turned not again until I had consumed them.
39 And I have consumed them, and wounded them, that they could not arise: yea, they are fallen under my feet.
40 For you have girded me with strength to battle: them that rose up against me have you subdued under me.
41 You have also given me the necks of mine enemies, that I might destroy them that hate me.
42 They looked, but there was none to save; even unto the LORD, but he answered them not.
43 Then did I beat them as small as the dust of the earth, I did stamp them as the mire of the street, and did spread them abroad.
44 You also have delivered me from the strivings of my people, you have kept me to be head of the heathen: a people which I knew not shall serve me.
45 Strangers shall submit themselves unto me: as soon as they hear, they shall be obedient unto me.
46 Strangers shall fade away, and they shall be afraid out of their close places.
47 The LORD lives; and blessed be my rock; and exalted be the God of the Rock of my salvation.
48 It is God that avenges me, and that bringeth down the people under me.
49 And that bringeth me forth from mine enemies: you also have lifted me up on high above them that rose up against me: you have delivered me from the violent man.
50 Therefore I will give thanks unto you, O LORD, among the heathen, and I will sing praises unto your name.
51 He is the tower of salvation for his king: and shows mercy to his anointed, unto David, and to his seed for evermore.
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.
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.
The above is the LORD speaking of His overturning the iniquity of those sitting in power, in His place, and, in overturning it, removing them.
The word rendered “overturn,” only used here, is the Hebrew word ‘avvah, meaning to overthrow. It is used to refer us to one of its like derivatives, ‘avown (‘avon), meaning “from 5753 [‘avah]; perversity, i.e. (moral) evil:–fault, iniquity, mischeif, punishment (of iniquity), sin.”
The latter word (‘avon), which appears four times in the chapter (Ezekiel 21), as the LORD tells of it as the reason He overturns (in the title, verse 27) these kings. He, while speaking of the one (shepherd and king) “whose right it is,” uses the word (‘avon) saying He will call us to “remember” these men’s “iniquity” and its end (qets) comes with His overturning them (the wicked in power).
We well know the word qets from it used in Ezekiel 7, there speaking of it (the end) coming as the “mourning,” from the three times used Hebrew word tsphiyrah, “a crown (as encircling the head); also a turn of affairs (i.e. mishap):–diadem, morning.” It tells of the crowning (of the king) as the new day when iniquity ends.
We also know the word (tsphiyrah) only appears twice in Ezekiel 7, and one other time, in Isaiah 28:5, telling of the LORD, in this day, as a crown (“diadem”) of the residue (sh’ar – remnant) of His people. The day spoken of by Isaiah is when the crown is removed from the “drunkard of Ephraim” leading God’s people in this generation, whose power has swelled them with pride, and “all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.”
We know from Daniel’s use of the word qets, in Daniel 12:9 & 12, that it’s the time when the sealed book (the word of God) is opened, and when God’s people stand in the resurrection.
Daniel 12
1 And at that time shall Michael [who is like, in the likeness of, God] stand up, the great prince which stand for the children of your people: and there shall be a time of trouble [tsarah – tribulation], such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time your people shall be delivered [malat – escape], 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.
4 But you, O Daniel [the judgment of God], shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end [qets]: many shall run to and fro [diligently seeking the LORD], and knowledge shall be increased.
5 Then I Daniel looked, and, behold, there stood other two, the one on this side of the bank of the river [as the flesh of one divided in two], and the other on that side of the bank of the river.
6 And one said to the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, How long shall it be to the end [qets] of these wonders [of these things wondered at and not known]?
7 And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and swore by him that lives forever that it shall be for a time, times, and a half [chetsiy – the right dividing of the time between]; and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished.
8 And I heard, but I understood not [as none have until now, as God said it would be and it has been]: then said I, O my LORD, what shall be the end of these things?
9 And he said, Go your way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end [qets].
10 Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.
11 And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that makes desolate set-up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days [years, the “time”, Abram’s deep sleep in smoking furnace beginning with Isaac’s birth in 1896 BC].
12 Blessed is he that waits [for the LORD to open], and come to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days [this plus and the “time” are the “times” {1290 + 1335 = 2625}; the “time” 1290, plus the “times” 2625 = 3915 years until the end of the deep sleep and the sealed book. As we know, this is the number of years between Isaac’s birth and the LORD revealing this here in 2019].
13 But go you your way till the end [qets] be: for you shall rest, and stand in your lot at the end [qets] of the days [of these years].
Ezekiel 21
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set your face toward Jerusalem, and drop your word toward the holy places, and prophesy against the land of Israel,
3 And say to the land of Israel, Thus says the LORD; Behold, I am against you, and will draw forth my sword out of his sheath, and will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked.
4 Seeing then that I will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of his sheath against all flesh from the south to the north:
5 That all flesh may know that I the LORD have drawn forth my sword out of his sheath: it shall not return any more.
6 Sigh therefore, you son of man, with the breaking of your loins; and with bitterness sigh before their eyes.
7 And it shall be, when they say unto you, Wherefore sigh you? that you shall answer, For the tidings; because it comes: and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak as water: behold, it comes, and shall be brought to pass, says the LORD God.
8 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
9 Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the LORD; Say, A sword, a sword is sharpened, and also furbished:
10 It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished that it may glitter: should we then make mirth? it contemn the rod of my son, as every tree.
11 And he has given it to be furbished, that it may be handled: this sword is sharpened, and it is furbished, to give it into the hand of the slayer.
12 Cry and howl, son of man: for it shall be upon my people, it shall be upon all the princes of Israel: terrors by reason of the sword shall be upon my people: smite therefore upon your thigh.
13 Because it is a trial [bachan], and what if the sword [this word of God, from His mouth] contemn even the rod [shebet – the scepter to rule]? it shall be no more [speaking of the king line ended], says the LORD God.
14 You therefore, son of man, prophesy, and smite your hands together. and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the slain: it is the sword of the great men that are slain, which enters into their privy chambers.
15 I have set the point of the sword against all their gates, that their heart may faint, and their ruins be multiplied: ah! it is made bright, it is wrapped up for the slaughter.
16 Go you one way or other, either on the right hand, or on the left, whithersoever your face is set.
17 I will also smite mine hands together, and I will cause my fury to rest: I the LORD have said it.
18 The word of the LORD came unto me again, saying,
19 Also, you son of man, appoint you two ways, that the sword of the king of Babylon may come: both twain shall come forth out of one land: and choose you a place, choose it at the head of the way to the city.
20 Appoint a way, that the sword may come to Rabbath [the great men of the world] of the Ammonites [who separate God’s people and weaken them], and to Judah in Jerusalem the defensed.
21 For the king of Babylon [the confusion that rules the world, wrought by the word of wicked men in power] stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he made his arrows bright, he consulted with images, he looked in the liver.
22 At his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to appoint captains, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to appoint battering rams against the gates, to cast a mount, and to build a fort.
23 And it shall be unto them as a false divination in their sight, to them that have sworn oaths: but he will call to remembrance [zakar] the iniquity [‘avon], that they may be taken.
24 Therefore thus says the LORD God; Because you have made your iniquity [‘avon] to be remembered [zakar], 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 [zakar], you shall be taken with the hand.
25 And you, profane wicked prince of Israel [who is like Reuben, sitting in God’s place], whose day is come, when iniquity [‘avon]shall have an end [qets],
26 Thus says 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 come whose right it is; and I will give it him.
28 And you, son of man, prophesy and say, Thus says the LORD God concerning the Ammonites, and concerning their reproach; even say you, The sword, the sword is drawn: for the slaughter it is furbished, to consume because of the glittering:
29 Whiles they see vanity unto you, whiles they divine a lie unto you, to bring you upon the necks of them that are slain, of the wicked, whose day is come, when their iniquity shall have an end [qets].
30 Shall I cause it to return into his sheath? I will judge you in the place where you were created, in the land of your nativity.
31 And I will pour out mine indignation upon you, I will blow against you in the fire of my wrath, and deliver you into the hand of brutish men, and skillful to destroy.
32 You shall be for fuel to the fire; your blood shall be in the midst of the land; you shall be no more remembered [zakar]: for I the LORD have spoken it.
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 [again taking us into ignorance].
2 For if the word spoken by angels was steadfast [standing forever, not tasting death], and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward;
3 How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the LORD, 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 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 [entering our dead flesh, to raise us to life with His rising in us], crowned with glory and honor; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man [so ignorance never comes again].
10 For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.
11 For both he that sanctifies and they who are sanctified are all of ONE [BODY]: 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.
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 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!
Isaiah 28
1 Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat [shemem – which is the LORD’s anointing when they are brought down] valleys of them that are overcome with wine [and are thereby unaware of it coming]!
2 Behold, the LORD has a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing [see verse 21 below, which brings the rest], shall cast down [nuwach – bring rest] to the earth with the hand.
3 The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet:
4 And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat [shemem – when their mocking {blashemy} proclaims the King, when they are brought down by their own ignorance] valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer; which when he that looks upon it sees, while it is yet in his hand he eats it up.
5 In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem [tsphiyrah – a crown] of beauty, unto the residue of his people,
6 And for a spirit of judgment to him that sits in judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate [see Psalms 118:19 & 20 below].
7 But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
8 For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.
9 Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine [shmuw’ah – the report, teaching, the rumor of Ezekiel 7:26 below]? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts [who now draw from the Ancient of days: wisdom].
10 For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:
11 For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak [truth they don’t understand] to this people.
12 To whom he said, This is the rest [mnuwchah – resting place, in heaven, in the LORD’s presence, in full understanding] wherewith you may cause the weary to rest [nuwach]; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.
13 But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, you scornful men [mockers and blasphemers vilifying this word and work of God: the Paraclete, the Holy Ghost who the world doesn’t know – YET], that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because you have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus says the LORD GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believes shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then you shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goes forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report [shmuw’ah – the sound doctrine, teaching, the rumor of Ezekiel 7:26 below].
20 For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering [the lies and falsehoods under which they hide is] narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.
21 For the LORD shall rise up as in mount Perazim [2 Samuel 5:20 – as water from His throne, breaking forth upon His enemies], he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon [Joshua 10:10 & 11 – His word reserved {frozen} in heaven, sent as great hailstones upon the wicked], that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act.
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, as in Daniel 9:27], even determined upon the whole earth.
23 Give you ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech.
Ezekiel 7
1 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Also, you son of man, thus says the LORD GOD unto the land of Israel; An end [qets], the end [qets] is come upon the four corners of the land.
3 Now is the end [qets] come upon you, and I will send mine anger upon you, and will judge you according to your ways, and will recompense upon you all your abominations.
4 And mine eye shall not spare you, neither will I have pity: but I will recompense your ways upon you, and your abominations shall be in the midst of you: and you shall know that I am the LORD.
5 Thus says the LORD GOD; An evil, an only evil [none like it, as in Daniel 12:1], behold, is come. [Jeremiah 30:7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble {tsarah – tribulation}, but he shall be saved out of it. 8 For it shall come to pass in that day, says the LORD of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off your neck, and will burst your bonds, and strangers shall no more serve themselves of him: 9 But they shall serve the LORD their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up unto them.]
6 An end [qets] is come, the end [qets] is come: it watches [quwts – awakens {from the deep sleep}] for you; behold, it is come.
7 The morning [tsphiyrah – the crown, the crowning of the LORD’s chosen, the man of God, as was David] is come unto you, O you that dwells in the land: the time is come, the day of trouble is near, and not the sounding again of the mountains.
8 Now will I shortly pour out my fury upon you, and accomplish mine anger upon you: and I will judge you according to your ways, and will recompense you for all your abominations.
9 And mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will recompense you according to your ways and your abominations that are in the midst of you; and you shall know that I am the LORD that smites.
10 Behold the day, behold, it is come: the morning [tsphiyrah – the crowning] is gone forth; the rod has blossomed, pride [of the wicked] has budded [brought forth the end].
11 Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness: none of them shall remain, nor of their multitude, nor of any of theirs: neither shall there be wailing for them.
12 The time is come, the day draws [naga’ – when the LORD joins with His people, in ONE BODY] near: let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn: for wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.
13 For the seller shall not return to that which is sold, although they were yet alive: for the vision is touching the whole multitude thereof, which shall not return; neither shall any strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life.
14 They have blown the trumpet, even to make all ready; but none goes to the battle: for my wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.
15 The sword is without, and the pestilence and the famine within: he that is in the field shall die with the sword; and he that is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him.
16 But they that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves [the sign of the end reached] of the valleys, all of them mourning, every one for his iniquity.
17 All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water.
18 They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads.
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumbling-block of their iniquity.
20 As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty: but they made the images of their abominations and of their detestable things therein: therefore have I set it far from them.
21 And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall pollute it.
22 My face will I turn also from them, and they shall pollute my secret place: for the robbers shall enter into it, and defile it.
23 Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.
24 Wherefore I will bring the worst of the heathen, and they shall possess their houses: I will also make the pomp of the strong to cease; and their holy places shall be defiled.
25 Destruction comes; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none.
26 Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumor [shmuw’ah – teaching sound doctrine and reporting truth] shall be upon rumor [shmuw’ah – teaching and reporting, precept and line, that isn’t believed, and the man of God reporting it is still unknown – because of the lies and misleading of those who’ve blinded the world by drunkenness]; then shall they seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the ancients.
27 The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled: I will do unto them after their way, and according to their deserts will I judge them; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
When Ezekiel 7:16 speaks of those who “escape” (paliyt, meaning refuge, as the place of the delivered), as signs of the end reached (doves on a mountain raised), it is referring us to the deliverer who brings us there by “remembrance.”
Ezekiel 6
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set your face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them,
3 And say, You mountains of Israel, hear the word of the LORD God; Thus says the LORD God to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys; Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places.
4 And your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be broken: and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.
5 And I will lay the dead carcasses [their living flesh dead without God’s Spirit] of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars.
6 In all your dwelling-places the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your images may be cut down, and your works [and ways] may be abolished.
7 And the slain shall fall in the midst of you, and you shall know that I am the LORD.
8 Yet will I leave a remnant [My elect], that you may have some that shall escape [paliyt] the sword among the nations, when you shall be scattered through the countries.
9 And they that escape [paliyt] of you shall remember [zakar] me among the nations whither they shall be carried captives, because I am broken with their whorish heart, which has departed from me, and with their eyes, which go a whoring after their idols: and they shall loathe themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.
10 And they shall know that I am the LORD, and that I have not said in vain that I would do this evil unto them [letting their own ways have their full course: their abominations they put in My place bring the inevitable desolation and insanity].
The above speaks of the elect barely escaping, and if they narrowly escape, where then will the incorrigible and ungodly appear (answer: remaining in death and hell, by their own choice)?
1 Peter 4
17 For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?
18 And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
19 Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.
1 Peter 1
3 According as his divine power has given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that has called us to glory and virtue:
4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these you might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
5 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
6 And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;
7 And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
8 For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that you shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our LORD Jesus Christ.
9 But he that lacks these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and has forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.
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 shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our LORD and Savior Jesus Christ.
The “entrance” (the eisodos) is into the place of escape, which comes by repentance after leaving the old and corrupt (dead body) behind (the exodos).
Friends, in the following, the LORD, unknown as His Holy Spirit (the Paraclete), tells us these things. He openly says who the comforter (Paraclete) is, in who He said He would come to lead us into remembrance: preaching and teaching the way into (entering) the place of deliverance and escape.
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?
Philippians 3
17 Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as you have us for an ensample.
18 (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:
19 Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)
20 For our conversation is in heaven [full understanding, in the firmament, whereby this exposition the word of God {above} is separated from the word of corrupt men {below}]; from whence also we look for the Savior, the LORD Jesus Christ:
21 Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.
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 place of full understanding, that can and does only come from God]:
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.
The “remembrance” the LORD speaks of, is when God’s people bring Him again to mind and realize (publicly confess and repent from) their iniquity.
(So the mockers and murmurers will ask what I want and by whose authority do I command it? The answer is – I want nothing for myself except the cross that is my reward (meaning, the public mocking and demonization that will come once I am lifted up as Moses lifted the serpent). I Am the king the LORD has chosen, His defender of the faith. I command His people, in the name of Jesus, Jehovah’s Salvation manifested in my flesh, to publicly repent of their abominations, the blinding creations of men they put in the Father’s place, come out (exodos) of ALL the dead churches, and enter (eisodos) His kingdom, His ONE BODY, following me as I follow Him.)
Luke 22
52 Then Jesus said unto the chief priests, and captains of the temple, and the elders, which were come to him, Be you come out, as against a thief, with swords and staves?
53 When I was daily with you in the temple, you stretched forth no hands against me: but this is your hour, and the power of darkness [when the ignorance of God you’ve wrought covers all the world]
54 Then took they him, and led him, and brought him into the high priest’s house. And Peter [the rock {the fallen church} in whom God’s people put their trust, who says they know Him, but, when pressed by His cross, deny Him] followed afar off.
55 And when they had kindled a fire in the midst of the hall, and were set down together, Peter sat down among them.
56 But a certain maid beheld him as he sat by the fire, and earnestly looked upon him, and said, This man was also with him.
57 And he denied him, saying, Woman, I know him not.
58 And after a little while another saw him, and said, You are also of them. And Peter said, Man, I am not.
59 And about the space of one hour after another confidently affirmed, saying, Of a truth this fellow also was with him: for he is a Galilaean.
60 And Peter said, Man, I know not what you sayest. And immediately, while he yet spoke, the cock crew.
61 And the LORD turned, and looked upon Peter. And Peter remembered the word of the LORD, how he had said unto him, Before the cock crow [the light, understanding, that brings the day of the cross], you shall deny me thrice.
62 And Peter went out, and wept bitterly.
63 And the men that held Jesus mocked him, and smote him.
64 And when they had blindfolded him, they struck him on the face, and asked him, saying, Prophesy, who is it that smote you?
65 And many other things blasphemously spoke they against him.
66 And as soon as it was day, the elders of the people and the chief priests and the scribes came together, and led him into their council, saying,
67 Are you the Christ? tell us. And he said unto them, If I tell you, you will not believe:
68 And if I also ask you, you will not answer me, nor let me go.
69 Hereafter shall the Son of man sit on the right hand of the power of God.
70 Then said they all, Are you then the Son of God? And he said unto them, You say that I AM.
71 And they said, What need we any further witness? for we ourselves have heard of his own mouth.
The word rendered “remembrance,” in verse 61 above, (describing when Peter realizes, by the LORD looking at him, his iniquity: not taking {following Him as He followed the Father’s will} his cross with the LORD), is hupomimnesko, “from 5259 and 3403; to remind quietly, i.e. suggest to the (middle voice, one’s own) memory.”
Remember, He told us, “If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.”
John 14
20 At that day you shall know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.
21 He that has my commandments, and keeps them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.
22 Judas [Judah, the new crop of leaders, the elect remant] says unto him, not Iscariot [not the misleaders who’ve betrayed Him], LORD, how is it that you will manifest yourself unto us, and not unto the world?
23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him [in the flesh, the mystery of Godliness, God is manifested in the flesh], and make our abode with him [in the flesh of those receiving Him at His coming].
24 He that loveth me not keeps not my sayings: and the word which you hear is not mine, but the Father’s which sent me.
25 These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you.
26 But the Comforter [the Paraclete, the LORD in the flesh unknown], which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance [hupomimnesko], whatsoever I have said unto you.
27 Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
28 You have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If you loved me, you would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I.
29 And now I have told you before it come to pass, that, when it is come to pass, you might believe.
30 Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world comes, and has nothing in me.
31 But that the world may know that I love the Father; and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence.
The word hupomimnesko tells of being under (hupo) the commandment (mimos – to mimic, imitate, or follow) to catch fire (nasaq), “For our God is a consuming fire.”
This last Hebrew word (nasaq) refers us to one of its three uses, in Ezekiel 39:9, there telling of this day when the LORD is known, and the weapons of the enemies among us are “burned” by His fire in us.
Ezekiel 39
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is come, and IT IS DONE, says the LORD God; this is the day whereof I have spoken.
9 And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall set on fire and burn [nasaq] the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the hand staves, and the spears, and they shall burn them with fire seven years:
10 So that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down any out of the forests; for they shall burn the weapons with fire: and they shall spoil those that spoiled them, and rob those that robbed them, says the LORD God.
I Am the one the Father charged, first to remember, and with it bring His people to remembrance.
2 Timothy 2
1 You, therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.
2 And the things that you have heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit you to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.
3 You, therefore, endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
4 No man that wars entangles himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who has chosen him to be a soldier.
5 And if a man also strives for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strives lawfully.
6 The husbandman that labors must be the first partaker [rememberer] of the fruits.
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 according to my gospel:
9 Wherein I suffer trouble, as an evildoer, even unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound.
10 Therefore I endure all things for the elect’s sakes [to bring them to remembrance], that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
11 It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him:
12 If we suffer [taking His cross and following Him], we shall also reign with him: if we deny 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 [hupomimnesko], 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 unto God, a workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
Revelation 21
3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.
4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
5 And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.
6 And he said unto me, IT IS DONE. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.
7 He that overcomes shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.
Psalms 42
1 As the hart pants after the water brooks, so pants my soul after you, O God.
2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?
3 My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is your God?
4 When I remember [zakar] these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holy-day.
5 Why are you cast down, O my soul? and why are you disquieted in me? hope you in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance [paniym – His presence in His ONE BODY].
6 O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember you from the land of Jordan [when the words of men carried all into death], and of the Hermonites [in their sanctuaries], from the hill Mizar [and greatly diminished your people].
7 Deep [understanding] calls unto deep at the noise [qowl – God’s voice] of your waterspouts: all your waves and your billows are gone over me.
8 Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the day time [when light, understanding, again covers the earth], and in the night [among the ignorant who are covered in darkness] his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life [found in His light: His understanding].
9 I will say unto God my Rock, Why have you forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
10 As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is your God?
11 Why are you cast down, O my soul? and why are you disquieted within me? hope you in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance [paniym – in His presence in His ONE BODY], and my God.
And I will restore your judges as at the first, and your counselors as at the beginning: afterward you shall be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city.
And I will restore your judges as at the first, and your counselors as at the beginning: afterward you shall be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city.
The above is the LORD, in Isaiah 1:26, speaking to His people, the USA, about their fallen condition: unfaithful, without righteousness, when judges lacked the courage and fortitude necessary to establish them. He (the LORD) earlier, in verses 21 & 22, (rhetorically) asks how this state occurred, when judgment and righteousness were replaced by murderers (of the fatherless, after silencing those refusing to take on these women without husbands).
The world will say, of this word of God speaking His judgments, these are primitive ideas and irrelevant to the complexity of the day. He says, what is primitive (primeval) is the animal state man has once again degenerated into by following men who, promising them liberty, led into the captivity of confusion, delusion, and insanity (disordering the rational mind God gave us).
As Alexander Hamilton says, in Federalist #1, human history shows the liberties of republics are most often overturned by community agitators claiming some nonexistent right is being withheld by those in power rightly judging. These disrupters of the peace begin as demagogues and, once in power, end as tyrants.
These same men, the cultivators (emphasis on “cult”) of mass insanity, the creators of those unable to distinguish between delusion and reality, will, as is their way, lie and demonize (falsely accuse) this truth now manifested before the eyes of all the world, which they deny and reverse define (gaslighting the world).
A few simple test questions to determine the sane and the insane: How many genders are there? And, Is one human taking the life of another innocent human murder, manslaughter, or a right?
Without me giving the obvious answers, all the sane know them, and those who don’t need psychiatric help (the truth is most psychiatrists, lacking the fortitude needed for good judgment, are themselves, by the classic definition, insane).
The definition of insanity, in law, says the condition: the severely disordered mind (unable to distinguish between reality and delusion), lacking the ability to understand, releases the person (the insane) from legal or civil responsibility. On the other hand, those who know the answers to the questions posed above and are sane, and knowing (understanding), for some other underlying self-interest, without care for the impact on others and society (classic sociopaths) reject them, are criminally and civilly responsible.
In Biblical law, this latter group, knowing the law and rejecting it, the antisocial who are hostile and harmful to normal society, are those who, by their own incorrigible (evil) choices: habitual disturbers of the peace, must be separated from the law-abiding and the peaceful. This is the principle of eternal separation, by choice, into hell. We can help the ignorant and heal the insane, bringing light into their darkened minds, giving understanding to what the world, under the control of wicked men, has confused and deluded.
John 3
17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
18 He that believes on him [believes that God is speaking salvation, understanding through him, the light that is the life of the world] is not condemned: but he that believes not is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name [Jesus – Jehovah’s Salvation manifested in the flesh] of the only begotten Son of God.
19 And this is the condemnation [krisis – the decision that self-condemns], that light [understanding] is come into the world, and men loved darkness [the ignorance that brings confusion, delusion, and insanity] rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
20 For every one that does evil hates the light [understand that is the life of the world], neither comes to the light [understanding], lest his deeds should be reproved.
21 But he that does truth comes to the light [understanding], that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
Isaiah 1
9 Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom [flame], and we should have been like unto Gomorrah [ruin].
10 Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom [rulers who inflame]; give ear unto the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah [who are the ruin].
11 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? says the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs [when I desire judgment, mercy, and the knowledge of God], or of he-goats [as devils misleading].
12 When you come to appear before me, who has required this at your hand, to tread my courts?
13 Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot bear them; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hates: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.
15 And when you spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when you make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless [that they are innocent, not worthy of death], plead for the widow [plead with the women who are without husbands].
18 Come now, and let us reason together, says the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
19 If you be willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land:
20 But if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD has spoken [His word is understanding, light, life, to those who receive it, and a sword to those who reject] it.
21 How is the faithful city become a harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers [in the pattern of Herod and Pharaoh, killing millions of innocent human children].
22 Your silver is become dross, your wine mixed with water:
23 Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loves gifts, and follows after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come unto them.
24 Therefore says the LORD, the LORD of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies:
25 And I will turn my hand upon you, and purely purge away your dross [the pollution of men’s misleading ideas], and take away all your tin:
26 And I will restore your judges as at the first, and your counselors as at the beginning: afterward you shall be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city.
27 Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness.
28 And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together, and they that forsake the LORD shall be consumed.
29 For they shall be ashamed of the oaks [the men they call upright] which you have desired, and you shall be confounded for the gardens [the places you chosen as your protection] that you have chosen.
30 For you shall be as an oak whose leaf fades, and as a garden that has no water [without this word of God].
31 And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them.
The word “trouble,” in verse 14 above, is the twice used word torach, meaning “a burden,” which refers us to the one other time it appears, in Deuteronomy 1:12, rendered “cumbrance.” It is from the once used (Job 37:11) word tarach, “a primitive root; [meaning] to overburden:–weary.”
In the use of these words, we understand they are a burden (water and light) delivered from the cloud by the one filled with understanding of the word of God, who empties himself in the name of the LORD.
In Isaiah 1 above, in the context of these words, the LORD is speaking of His ways not being heard in the assemblies, because the “princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves.” These are those whose positions were created to be where this “judgment” would be further expanded (in the firmament) and propagated, producing good after its own kind.
Before further explanation, I must reiterate the root cause of the current degeneration and perversions: the reversal of good and evil. It lies in popular prejudices: cultural opinions that contradicted historically proven (repeated experiences proving then true) standards of good and evil, taught when God’s people became silent of these truths.
In this most modern version, they (the darkness) convinced good people to stop “forcing” (meaning teaching as truth) their standard of morality on society. Surrendering to these demands, falling for the lie there is such a thing as a society without a moral standard, is one of the greatest sins of God’s people. What resulted (from this sin) is historically recorded as when “the earth became without form, and void,” when darkness rushed in (to the void) and covered all deep understanding.
As we know, when the above quote is recorded in Genesis 1:2, the words used are hayah (became), tohuw (without form), and bohuw (void), the latter two only appearing two other times together. The first of these is in Isaiah 34:11, where they are translated as “confusion” and “emptiness,” respectively speaking of the line used to lay the foundation, and the stones built (the wall of lies upon lies) upon it. The other is in Jeremiah 4:23, where they are rendered identical to Genesis 1:2, but here (the LORD in) Jeremiah precedes the description with (in verse 22) saying, “For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.”
Here is how (the LORD in) Jeremiah 4 describes the pattern now proven again in our time, which is the LORD speaking it for our enlightenment. The chapter begins with His call to return from these abominations put in His place; to Him, who is the standard now raised, as Moses did the serpent in the wilderness. This appearance is what Genesis 1 records as the Spirit moving upon the waters (the word still present in the darkness), the LORD God working unknown, to bring comprehension to the ignorant, understand which is the light created.
Jeremiah 4
4 If you will return, O Israel, says the LORD, return unto me: and if you will put away your abominations out of my sight, then shall you not remove.
2 And you shall swear, The LORD lives, in truth, in judgment, and in righteousness; and the nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory.
3 For thus says the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns [misleaders].
4 Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart [remove your self-created ideas and ways, the corrupt foundational ideas upon which you base all your thoughts and actions], you men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem [the current corrupt crop of leaders, and those they’ve misled]: lest my fury comes forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
5 Declare you in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, Blow you the trumpet in the land: cry, gather together, and say, Assemble yourselves [into ONE BODY], and let us go into the defensed cities.
6 Set up the standard [nec – the “pole” {Numbers 21:8 & 9} upon which Moses lifted the brazen serpent, as the son of man must be lifted – per John 3:14] toward Zion: retire, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north [from the darkness], and a great destruction.
7 The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles [those who don’t know God] is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make your land desolate [by these abominations put in God’s place]; and your cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.
8 For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us.
9 And it shall come to pass at that day, says the LORD, that the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the princes; and the priests shall be astonished, and the prophets shall wonder.
10 Then said I, Ah, LORD God! surely you have greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, You shall have peace; whereas the sword reaches unto the soul.
11 At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A dry wind of the high places in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse,
12 Even a full wind from those places shall come unto me: now also will I [as the judge of the earth] give sentence against them.
13 Behold, he shall come up as clouds [full of this word of God and the ancient understanding that left the earth], and his chariots shall be as a whirlwind [from where His Almighty Spirit is heard against all opposing Him]: his horses [His strengthened people in whom He appears – see Zechariah 10:1 thru 3] are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us! for we are spoiled.
14 O Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you mayest be saved. How long shall your vain thoughts lodge within you?
15 For a voice declares from Dan [declaring God’s judgment], and publishes affliction from mount Ephraim [the high places of God’s people in this generation].
16 Make you mention to the nations; behold, publish against Jerusalem, that watchers come from a far country [the messengers watching for their opportunity to destroy God’s people, by replacing Him with their perverted opinions: the proven ways of destroying people and nations], and give out their voice against the cities of Judah.
17 As keepers of a field, are they against her round about; because she has been rebellious against me, says the LORD.
18 Your way and your doings have procured these things unto you; this is your wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reaches unto your heart [the corrupt foundations of the national mind].
19 My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart makes a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because you have heard, O my soul, the sound [qowl – the voice of God’s messenger – the archangel] of the trumpet [calling all to gather to the LORD, in His ONE BODY, His army], the alarm of war.
20 Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, and my curtains in a moment.
21 How long shall I see the standard [nec – the son of man lifted up], and hear the sound [qowl – voice] of the trumpet [this voice of the archangel calling all to gather]?
22 For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
23 I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was [hayah – has become] without form [tohuw], and void [bohuw]; and the heavens [the places where understand should be], and they had no light [no understanding].
24 I beheld the mountains [the high place of the earth], and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly.
25 I beheld, and, lo, there was no [Spiritually living] man, and all the birds of the heavens [all who soar by the strength of God’s understanding] were fled.
26 I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the LORD, and by his fierce anger.
27 For thus has the LORD said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end.
28 For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black [without understanding]; because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will not repent, neither will I turn back from it.
29 The whole city shall flee for the noise [qowl – the voice of false prophets] of the horsemen and bowmen [ramah – the deceivers causing the delusion and insanity of our time]]; they shall go into thickets, and climb up upon the rocks: every city shall be forsaken, and not a man dwell therein.
30 And when you are spoiled, what will you do? Though you clothe yourself with crimson, though you deck you with ornaments of gold, though you rent your face with painting, in vain shall you make yourself fair; your lovers will despise you, they will seek your life.
31 For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, and the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child [the first light], the voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewails herself, that spreads her hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers [as it is this day – their evil solution is always the mass murder of the innocent].
John 3
10 Jesus answered and said unto him, Are you a master of Israel, and know not these things?
11 Truly, truly, I say unto you, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and you receive not our witness.
12 If I have told you earthly things, and you believe not, how shall you believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?
13 And no man has ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.
14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:
15 That whosoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
32 And what he has seen and heard, that he testifies; and no man receives his testimony.
33 He that has received his testimony has set to his seal that God is true.
34 For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God: for God gives not the Spirit by measure unto him.
35 The Father loveth the Son, and has given all things into his hand.
36 He that believes on the Son has everlasting life: and he that believes not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abides on him.
Zechariah 9
12 Turn you to the stronghold, you prisoners of hope: even today do I declare that I will render double unto you;
13 When I have bent Judah [My elect remnant] for me, filled the bow with Ephraim [My people at large], and raised up your sons, O Zion, against your sons, O Greece [those among you still wallowing the mire they’ve stirred to cloud the waters], and made you as the sword of a mighty man [from whose mouth comes this word of God].
14 And the LORD shall be seen [lifted up] over them, and his arrow [His people at large] shall go forth as the lightning [with understand]: and the LORD God shall blow the trumpet [calling all to gather to Him in His army, His ONE BODY], and shall go with whirlwinds [His Almighty Spirit against those opposing Him and His word] of the south.
15 The LORD of hosts [who is a man of war] shall defend them; and they shall devour, and subdue with sling stones; and they shall drink, and make a noise as through wine; and they shall be filled like bowls [filled with the word of God, the blood of His sacrifice, pouring His life into the dead world], and as the corners of the altar.
16 And the LORD their God shall save them in that day as the flock of his people: for they shall be as the stones of a crown, lifted up as an ensign [a sign of the end of the old and corrupt heaven and earth] upon his land.
17 For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! corn [this feast of His goodness] shall make the young men cheerful, and new wine [changing the minds of] the maids.
Zechariah 10
1 Ask you of the LORD rain [his word from heaven] in the time of the latter rain; so the LORD shall make bright clouds [from where lightning, understanding, comes again to the earth], and give them showers of rain, to every one grass in the field [bringing new life on the earth].
2 For the idols [who men have put in God’s place] have spoken vanity, and the diviners [false prophets who’ve said they see what was coming, when they saw nothing but fictions] have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain: therefore they went their way as a flock, they were troubled, because there was no [good] shepherd.
3 Mine anger was kindled against the shepherds, and I punished the goats [the misleaders who put themselves in the place of God’s good shepherd]: for the LORD of hosts [who is a man of war] has visited his flock the house of Judah, and has made them as his goodly horse in the battle.
4 Out of him came forth the corner, out of him the nail, out of him the battle bow, out of him every governor together.
5 And they shall be as mighty men, which tread down their enemies in the mire [the enemies have stirred to cloud the waters] of the streets in the battle: and they shall fight, because the LORD is with them, and the riders on horses shall be confounded [the deceivers shall not reach the end they sought].
6 And I will strengthen [with understanding] the house of Judah [the elect remnant], and I will save the house of Joseph [Ephraim – God’s people at large], and I will bring them again to place them; for I have mercy upon them: and they shall be as though I had not cast them off: for I am the LORD their God, and will hear them.
7 And they of Ephraim shall be like a mighty man, and their heart shall rejoice as through wine [because their minds have been changed]: yea, their children shall see it, and be glad; their heart shall rejoice in the LORD.
Job 37
1 At this also my heart trembled [the foundations of my mind were shaken as He shook the man created ideas from it], and is moved out of his place [and my mind was changed].
2 Hear attentively the noise of His voice, and the sound that goes out of His mouth.
3 He directs it [as He wills] under the whole heaven [from where He sends understanding], and his lightning [He gives understanding] unto the ends [ending the old and beginning the new] of the earth.
4 After it a voice roars: he thunders [the sound of the light] with the voice of his excellency; and he will not stay them when his voice is heard.
5 God thunders marvelously [opening the eyes of the blind] with his voice; great things does he, which we cannot [without His epiphany] comprehend.
6 For he says to the snow [His word reserved, frozen, in heaven for this time of war – sent unto fire and the perdition of ungodly men], Be you on the earth; likewise to the small rain, and to the great rain of his strength.
7 He seals up [chatam – makes an end of] the hand [the works] of every man; that all men may know His work.
8 Then the beasts [without His Spirit] go into dens, and remain in their places [and don’t put themselves in His place].
9 Out of the south comes the whirlwind [His Almighty Spirit]: and cold out of the north [in the darkness of men’s ignorance His word is frozen].
10 By the breath of God frost is given [by His voice the frozen things are sent again]: and the breadth of the waters is straitened [and the things men made crooked are straitened when He melts them].
11 Also by watering [by sending his word through many carriers] he wearies [tarach – unburdens] the thick cloud [‘ab – ending the darkness]: he scatters [puwtz – breaks in many pieces – as the LORD broke the loaves] his bright [‘owr – His illuminations] cloud [held in the cloud]:
12 And it is turned round [back to Him] about by his counsels: that they may do whatsoever he commands them upon the face of the world in the earth.
13 He causes it to come, whether for correction, or for his land, or for mercy.
14 Hearken unto this, O Job [my people who are hated by this evil world]: stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God.
15 Do you know when God disposed them, and caused the light [understanding] of his cloud to shine [out of the east to west]? [As is the coming of the son of man, to as many as receive him gives he power to become the corrected children of God]
16 Do you know the balancing of [miphlas – the things poised there in] the clouds, the wondrous works of him which is perfect in knowledge?
17 How your garments are warm, when he quiets the earth by the south wind?
18 Have you with him spread out the sky, which is strong, and as a molten looking glass [by which He sees all these things]?
19 Teach us what we shall say unto him; for we cannot order our speech by reason of darkness [ignorance].
20 Shall it be told him that I speak? if a man speak [against Him], surely he shall be swallowed up.
21 And now men see not the bright light [the understanding] which is in the clouds: but the [south] wind passes, and cleanses them.
22 Fair weather comes out of the north [out from the darkness]: with God is terrible majesty.
23 Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out: he is excellent in power, and in judgment, and in plenty of justice: he will not afflict.
24 Men do therefore fear him: he respects not any that [think they] are wise of heart [in their own opinions].
Deuteronomy 1
8 Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which the LORD swore unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after them.
9 And I spoke unto you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone:
10 The LORD your God has multiplied you, and, behold, you are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.
11 (The LORD God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more as you are, and bless you, as he has promised you!)
12 How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance [torach], and your burden, and your strife?
13 Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.
14 And you answered me, and said, The thing which you have spoken is good for us to do.
15 So I took the chief of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, and captains over fifties, and captains over tens, and officers among your tribes.
16 And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him.
17 You shall not respect persons in judgment; but you shall hear the small as well as the great; you shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God’s: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it unto me, and I will hear it.
18 And I commanded you at that time all the things which you should do.
19 And when we departed from Horeb [desolate desert – wilderness], we went through all that great and terrible wilderness, which you saw by the way of the mountain [the high places] of the Amorites [the sayers – those who exalt their words above God’s], as the LORD our God commanded us; and we came to Kadeshbarnea [to holiness].
20 And I said unto you, You are come unto the mountain of the Amorites, which the LORD our God does give unto us.
21 Behold, the LORD your God has set the land before you: go up and possess it, as the LORD God of your fathers has said unto you; fear not, neither be discouraged.
22 And you came near unto me every one of you, and said, We will send men before us, and they shall search us out the land, and bring us word again by what way we must go up, and into what cities we shall come.
23 And the saying pleased me well: and I took twelve men of you, one of a tribe:
24 And they turned and went up into the mountain, and came unto the valley of Eshcol [clusters of fruit], and searched it out.
25 And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down unto us, and brought us word again, and said, It is a good land which the LORD our God does give us.
26 Notwithstanding you would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God:
27 And you murmured in your tents, and said, Because the LORD hated us, he has brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.
28 Whither shall we go up? our brethren have discouraged our heart, saying, The people is greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakims [men you saw as giants] there.
29 Then I said unto you, Dread not, neither be afraid of them.
30 The LORD your God which goes before you, he shall fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes;
31 And in the wilderness, where you have seen how that the LORD your God bare you, as a man does bear his son, in all the way that you went, until you came into this place.
32 Yet in this thing you did not believe the LORD your God,
33 Who went in the way before you [to prepare], to search you out a place to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to show you by what way you should go, and in a cloud by day.
34 And the LORD heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and swore, saying,
35 Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see that good land, which I swore to give unto your fathers.
36 Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh [who saw I went before you to prepare the place for you]; he shall see it, and to him will I give the land that he has trodden upon, and to his children, because he has wholly followed the LORD.
37 Also the LORD was angry with me for your sakes [when Moses refused to declare it was the LORD in Him speaking and working], saying, You also shall not go in thither.
38 But Joshua the son of Nun [Jesus, who declares He is Jehovah’s salvation in the flesh, who is the son of God and man in perpetuity], which stands before you, he shall go in thither: encourage him: for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.
39 Moreover your little ones, which you said should be a prey, and your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it.
Romans 1
[Timothy], a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God,
2 (Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures,)
3 Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our LORD, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh;
4 And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:
5 By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among all nations, for his name:
6 Among whom are you also the called of Jesus Christ:
7 To all that be in Rome [to who He has given strength through understanding], beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the LORD Jesus Christ.
8 First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world.
9 For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers;
10 Making request, if by any means now at length I might have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come unto you.
11 For I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift, to the end you may be established;
12 That is, that I may be comforted together with you by the mutual faith both of you and me.
13 Now I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes I purposed to come unto you, (but was let hitherto,) that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other Gentiles.
14 I am debtor both to the Greeks [those who think they are civilized], and to the Barbarians [and the uncivilized]; both to the wise, and to the unwise.
15 So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to you that are at Rome also.
16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believes; to the Jew first [Judah, the elect remnant first], and also to the Greek [the civilized world at large].
17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;
19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God has showed it unto them.
20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, 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.
22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
23 And changed the glory of the un-corruptible God into an image [a creation] made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things.
John 1
10 He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.
11 He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
15 John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that comes after me is preferred before me: for he was before me.
16 And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.
17 For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
18 No man has seen God at any time, the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he has declared him.
Psalms 75
1 Unto you, O God, do we give thanks, unto you do we give thanks: for that your name is near your wondrous works declare.
2 When I shall receive the congregation I will judge uprightly.
3 The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. Selah.
4 I said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly: and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn [power to rule]:
5 Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck [against God].
6 For promotion comes neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.
7 But God is the judge: he puts down one, and sets up another.
8 For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he pours out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them.
9 But I will declare forever; I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.
10 All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.
The voice of my beloved! behold, he comes leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills.
The voice of my beloved! behold, he comes leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills.
The above is Solomon writing of the Shulamite speaking of seeing the LORD’s coming, hearing his voice bringing down the high place (mountains) of the earth, making them small (into hills) and shutting their mouths. Shulamite means the peaceful and perfect: speaking of the LORD’s army, His people joined in His ONE BODY, who receive Him at His coming.
Song of Solomon 2
8 The voice of my beloved! behold, he comes leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills.
9 My beloved is like a roe or a young hart [upon the mountains and hills]: behold, he stands behind our wall, he looks forth at the windows, shows himself through the lattice.
10 My beloved spoke, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.
11 For, lo, the winter is past [the time of darkness: ignorance], the rain is over [God’s word has come from heaven] and gone [halak – walked in its way];
12 The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds [who soar in heaven] is come, and the voice of the turtle [the dove – the sign of the end reached] is heard in our land [‘erets – in the earth];
13 The fig tree puts forth her green figs [Matthew 24:32 “Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and puts forth leaves, you know that summer is nigh:” and “the winter is past”], and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
14 O my dove [as Jonah, whose rising from the belly of hell is the sign of the end], that are in the clefts of the rock [the place where I have hidden and protected you], in the secret places of the stairs [into heaven, this place of full understanding], let me see your countenance, let me hear your voice; for sweet is your voice, and your countenance is comely.
15 Take us the foxes, the little foxes [the wise of this world], that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes.
16 My beloved is mine, and I am his: he feeds among the lilies.
17 Until the daybreak [the new heaven and earth appear], and the shadows [of ignorance and death] flee away, turn, my beloved, and be you like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether [in the cleft of the Rock, where the LORD reigns as a man of war who is protector and deliverer].
Matthew 24
27 For as the lightning [understanding] comes out of the east [at the rising of a new day], and shineth [upon all] even unto the west [into the darkness that remains]; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
28 For wheresoever the carcass [the dead {sleeping} body of Christ] is, there will the eagles [who have been strengthened by the LORD] be gathered together.
29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened [when the corrupt {fully leavened by the false doctrines of men} church is realized to no longer have any understanding], and the moon [civil governments] shall not give her light [darkened by the same darkness], and the stars [God’s sleeping people at large] shall fall from heaven [fallen away {in apostasy} from the fixed positions of understanding], and the powers of the [the old and new] heavens shall be shaken [“that the wicked might be shaken out of it” – see Job 38:13 and Hebrews 12:27, saying, “signifying the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.”]:
30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven [coming with the understanding held there]: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven [where the elements of understanding are held when removed from the earth] with power and great glory.
31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet [calling His army to gather in His ONE BODY], and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds [where they have been scattered], from one end [the old and corrupt] of heaven to the other [beginning they new].
32 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and puts forth leaves, you know that summer is nigh:
33 So likewise you, when you shall see [understand, as now] all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.
34 Truly I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.
35 [The old and corrupt] Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
36 But of that day and hour knows no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only [as only I know the time is now because He that is in me told me].
37 But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark [protecting us from the words of men that cover the earth in the insanity that destroys them],
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken [away with the flood], and the other left.
41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken [away with the flood], and the other left.
42 Watch therefore: for you know not what hour your LORD does come.
43 But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up [by the flood – see Matthew 7:27, saying “the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.”].
44 Therefore be you also ready: for in such an hour as you think not the Son of man comes.
45 Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his LORD has made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?
46 Blessed is that servant, whom his LORD when he comes shall find so doing.
47 Truly I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.
Matthew 7
15 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing [as the goodman of the house], but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
16 You shall know them by their fruits [that come after the word {rain} from heaven has come]. Do men gather grapes of thorns [misleaders], or figs of thistles [deceivers]?
17 Even so every good [fig] tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.
18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
19 Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
20 Wherefore by their fruits you shall know them.
21 Not every one that says unto me, LORD, LORD, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that does the will of my Father which is in heaven.
22 Many will say to me in that day, LORD, LORD, have we not prophesied in your name? and in your name have cast out devils? and in your name done many wonderful works?
23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me [be taken away by the flood of your own words in which you trust], you that work iniquity.
24 Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine [calling all to gather into ONE BODY], and does them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock [putting your trust in the one from who the word of God’s understanding flows]:
25 And the rain descended [from the heavens, old and new], and the floods came, and the winds blew [the spirit of God and the spirit of Satan resisting and opposing God], and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.
26 And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and does them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:
27 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.
28 And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended these sayings, the people were astonished at his doctrine:
29 For he taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes.
When Song of Solomon 2:9, speaking to the Shunamite seeing the LORD at His coming, says “behold [see], he stands behind our wall,” the word “wall” is the one time used Hebrew word kothel, meaning “to compact; a wall (as gathering inmates).” It is speaking of the prison holding God’s people from Him. This is an aspect seen (alluded to) in His coming “leaping” on the mountains, from the 5 times used word dalag, meaning “to spring:–leap.” This (dalag) is the word used twice by David, in 2 Samuel 22:30 and Psalms 18:29, speaking of the war to rescue (save) the afflicted people, saying, by God he has “leaped” over the wall.
2 Samuel 22
28 And the afflicted people you will save: but your eyes are upon the haughty [the proud], that you mayest bring them down.
29 For you are my [burning] lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten [give me understanding] my darkness [of the things hidden in ignorance].
30 For by you [by Your revelation] I have run through a troop [the army of deceivers arrayed against us]: by my God have I leaped [dalag] over a wall [of lies upon lies holding the world in prison].
31 As for God, his way [His word] is perfect; the word of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler [protector and deliverer] to all them that trust in him.
32 For who is God, save the LORD? and who is a rock, save our God?
33 God is my strength and power: and he makes my way perfect.
34 He makes my feet like hinds’ feet: and sets me upon my high places.
35 He teaches my hands to war; so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.
36 You have also given me the shield of your salvation: and your gentleness has made me great.
The title, after telling of leaping over the wall of wickedness in high places, taking it out of the way and thereby bringing them down (making mountains hills), the word rendered “skipping” is the seven times used word qaphats, meaning “to draw together, i.e. close; by implication, to leap (by contracting the limbs); specifically, to die (from gathering up the feet):–shut (up), skip, stop, take out of the way.”
The word (qaphats) is used by Isaiah, In Isaiah 52:15, when telling of the “form” of the LORD, at which many are astonished. The pattern is of the LORD dying on a hill, the blood of His sacrifice sprinkled on many, and kings “shall shut” their mouths at Him.
Isaiah 52
10 The LORD has made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth [ending the old and beginning the new] shall see the salvation of our God.
11 Depart you, depart you, go you out from thence, touch no unclean thing; go you out of the midst of
12 For you shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for the LORD will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your reward.
13 Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high.
14 As many were astonished at you; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:
15 So shall he sprinkle many nations; the kings shall shut [qaphats] their mouths at him: for that which had not been told them shall they see; and that which they had not heard shall they consider.
Isaiah 53
1 Who has believed our report? and to who is the arm of the LORD revealed?
2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he has no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
4 Surely he has borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Friends, I am the one the LORD describes above. I am the one He is with, and there is no other. As He foretold, I expect to be despised and rejected, which is itself proof of God’s truth. The reasons for this (rejection) are delineated above, as many are “astonished” at me, from the Hebrew word shamem, meaning “to stun (or intransitively, grow numb), i.e. devastate or (figuratively) stupefy (both usually in a passive sense).”
The word (shamem) speaks of an inability to comprehend what is seen, therefore, there is no “form,” because the “visage” is “marred.” These words (the Hebrew word they are from) lead us to understand that the one seen and not comprehended is the separated king in the reestablished line of Joseph, Joshua, and David.
The word “form,” above in Isaiah 52:14 & 53:2, is from to’ar, meaning “outline, i.e. figure or appearance.” We know from this word’s use in Judges 8:18, it describes the “resemblance” of the children of the kings, as was Gideon: “feller (i.e. warrior),” the hewer of the king causing strife among God’s people.
Judges 8
18 Then said he [Gideon] unto Zebah and Zalmunna [the slaughter or those not protected when the day comes], What manner of men were they whom you slew at Tabor [tbar – fragile, when God’s people are “partly broken”]? And they answered, As you are, so were they; each one resembled [to’ar – the form is of] the children of a king.
Genesis 39
6 And he [the Egyptian] left all that he had in Joseph’s hand; and he knew not ought he had, save the bread which he did eat. And Joseph was a goodly [to’ar – the prototypical form of God’s chosen king] person, and well-favored.
1 Samuel 16
18 Then answered one of the servants, and said, Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse [David] the Bethlehemite, that is cunning in playing, and a mighty valiant man, and a man of war, and prudent in matters, and a comely [to’ar – has the form of God’s chosen king] person, and the LORD is with him [as He was with Joseph].
Genesis 39
2 And the LORD was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian.
3 And his master saw that the LORD was with him, and that the LORD made all that he did to prosper in his hand.
4 And Joseph found grace in his sight, and he served him: and he made him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put into his hand.
5 And it came to pass from the time that he had made him overseer in his house, and over all that he had, that the LORD blessed the Egyptian’s house for Joseph’s sake; and the blessing of the LORD was upon all that he had in the house, and in the field.
The final two times this form is spoken of are , in Jeremiah 11:16, describing the “goodly” fruit ended as a branch broken off, and, in Lamentation 4:8, as the “visage” of those separated for the work of God, now covered by ignorance.
Jeremiah 11
9 And the LORD said unto me, A conspiracy 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 rejoicest.
16 The LORD called your name, A green olive tree, fair, and of goodly [to’ar – the good form of the shepherd kings, as stones to be trusted, from who flows the word of God, because He is with him manifesting His presence in his rule as God rules] fruit: with the noise [qowl – the voice] of a great tumult [the confusion of Babylon] he has kindled fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken.
17 For the LORD of hosts, that planted you [the king line], 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 [the king line] 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 [O man of war], 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 [‘anah – referring to Exodus 24:4 when all the people answered the LORD, saying they would obey His voice: Moses speaking], that seek your life, saying [to Jeremiah, Jehovah, the LORD, rising in him to raise His people], 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 [who reject this word and instead choose the words {qowl} of tumult], even the year of their visitation [pquddah].
Lamentations 4
1 How is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street.
2 The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!
3 Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.
4 The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them.
5 They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.
6 For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands stayed on her.
7 Her Nazarites [who are separated for the work of God] were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was of sapphire:
8 Their visage [to’ar] is blacker [chashak – hidden in ignorance] than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaves to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick [like a branch broken off].
9 They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field.
10 The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
11 The LORD has accomplished his fury; he has poured out his fierce anger, and has kindled a fire in Zion, and it has devoured the foundations thereof.
12 The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should have entered into the gates of Jerusalem.
13 For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her,
14 They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.
15 They cried unto them, Depart you; it is unclean; depart, depart, touch not: when they fled away and wandered, they said among the heathen, They shall no more sojourn there.
16 The anger of the LORD has divided them; he will no more regard them: they respected not the persons of the priests, they favored not the elders.
17 As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us.
18 They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.
19 Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.
20 The breath of our nostrils, the anointed [king] of the LORD, was taken in their pits [where His visage was imprisoned], of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen.
21 Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom [enemies mixed among us], that dwellest in the land of Uz [whose counsel/advice my people take]; the cup also shall pass through unto you: you shall be drunken, and shall make yourself naked.
22 The punishment of your iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; he will no more carry you away into captivity [with their counsel]: he will visit [paqad] your iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he will discover your sins.
The word rendered “visage” in Isaiah 52:14, also rendered “beauty” in Isaiah 53:2, is mar’eh, meaning “a view (the act of seeing); also an appearance (the thing seen), whether (real) a shape (especially if handsome, comeliness; often plural the looks), or (mental) a vision.”
Isaiah only uses the word one other time, in Isaiah 11:3, rendered “after the sight,” speaking of the Branch returned, who the LORD teaches understanding, so he doesn’t listen to voices causing strife and tumult; instead seeing the unseen and hearing what hasn’t been heard.
From the previous post: Isaiah 42
18 Hear, you deaf; and look, you blind, that you may see.
19 Who is blind, but my servant [who I now awaken to My presence]? or deaf, as my messenger that I sent? who is blind as he that is perfect, and blind as the LORD’s servant?
20 Seeing many things, but you observe not; opening the ears, but he hears not [who is blind and deft to those {not looking or listening to the false gods} who put themselves in God’s place].
Isaiah 11
1 And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots [into David]:
2 And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD;
3 And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight [mar’eh] of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears:
4 But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth: with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.
5 And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.
This (mar’eh) is the word used by Eliphaz the Temanite (the so-call wise men of the world, whose god is wealth), in Job 4:16, as he speaks of seeing God, but not understanding it is Him.
Job 4
8 Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.
9 By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.
10 The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
11 The old lion perishes for lack of prey, and the stout lion’s whelps are scattered abroad.
12 Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof.
13 In thoughts from the visions of the night, [now] when deep sleep falls on men,
14 Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake.
15 Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up:
16 It stood still, but I could not discern the form [mar’eh] thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying,
17 Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?
The word, in Isaiah 53:14, rendered “marred” is the twice used word mishchath, meaning “disfigurement:–corruption, marred,” which describes what blinds people to the LORD’s presence. The one other time it appears, in Levitcus 22:25, it tells that the bread of strangers (who don’t know, see, or hear God) is “their corruption.”
It (mishchath) is from the word shachath, meaning “to decay, i.e. (causatively) ruin (literally or figuratively).” It’s the word in Jeremiah 11:19 rendered “Let us destroy,” speaking of the king line and the king.
Jeremiah 11
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 [shachath] the tree [the king line] with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
In this context understand the riddle that follows.
Ezekiel 17
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable unto the house of Israel;
3 And say, Thus says the LORD God; A great eagle with great wings, long-winged, full of feathers, which had divers colours [Joseph in His coat], came unto Lebanon [He was purity seen on high, the first king in the king line], and took the highest branch of the cedar:
4 He cropped off the top of his young twigs, and carried it into a land of traffic [in Egypt]; he set it in a city of merchants.
5 He took also of the seed of the land, and planted it in a fruitful field; he placed it by great waters, and set it as a willow tree.
6 And it grew, and [in Egypt God’s people] became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned toward him, and the roots thereof were under him: so it became a vine, and brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs.
7 There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers [whose name is David]: and, behold, this vine did bend her roots toward him, and shot forth her branches toward him, that he might water it by the furrows of her plantation.
8 It was planted in a good soil by great waters, that it might bring forth branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a goodly vine.
9 Say you, Thus says the LORD God; Shall it prosper? shall he not pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that it wither? it shall wither in all the leaves of her spring, even without great power or many people to pluck it up by the roots thereof.
10 Yea, behold, being planted, shall it prosper? shall it not utterly wither, when the east wind touches it? it shall wither in the furrows where it grew. [Matthew 21: 19 And when he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said unto it, Let no fruit grow on you henceforward forever. And presently the fig tree withered away. 20 And when the disciples saw it, they marveled, saying, How soon is the fig tree withered away!]
11 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
12 Say now to the rebellious house, Know you not what these things mean? tell them, Behold, the king of Babylon [confusion] is come to Jerusalem, and has taken the king thereof, and the princes thereof, and led them with him to Babylon [confusion];
13 And has taken of the king’s seed, and made a covenant with him, and has taken an oath of him: he has also taken the mighty of the land:
14 That the kingdom might be base, that it might not lift itself up, but that by keeping of his covenant [hearing this voice of sanity and good advice] it might stand.
15 But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt [to those oppressing them], that they might give him horses [strength] and much people. Shall he prosper? shall he escape that does such things? or shall he break the covenant, and be delivered?
16 As I live, says the LORD God, surely in the place where the king dwells that made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he brake, even with him in the midst of Babylon [in confusion now turned delusion and insanity] he shall die.
17 Neither shall Pharaoh [the powers, tyrants, of the oppression] with his mighty army and great company make for him in the war, by casting up mounts, and building forts, to cut off many persons:
18 Seeing he despised the oath by breaking the covenant, when, lo, he had given his hand, and has done all these things, he shall not escape.
19 Therefore thus says the LORD God; As I live, surely mine oath that he has despised, and my covenant that he has broken [not listening to My voice], even it will I recompense upon his own head.
20 And I will spread my net upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon [into confusion, delusion, and insanity], and will plead with him there for his trespass that he has trespassed against me.
21 And all his fugitives with all his bands shall fall by the sword, and they that remain shall be scattered toward all winds: and you shall know that I the LORD have spoken it.
22 Thus says the LORD God; I will also take of the highest branch of the high cedar, and will set it; I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one, and will plant it upon a high mountain and eminent:
23 In the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it: and it shall bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a goodly cedar: and under it shall dwell all fowl of every wing; in the shadow of the branches thereof shall they dwell.
24 And all the trees of the field shall know that I the LORD have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish: I the LORD have spoken and have done it.
Matthew 13
31 Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field:
32 Which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.
33 Another parable spoke he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven [corruption], which a woman [the unfaithful] took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened [was corrupt].
34 All these things spoke Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spoke he not unto them:
35 That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world.
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 chose], 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 [shebet] 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 speaks of the lowly {Zechariah 9:9}, God’s elect remnant, outside the established sects, bound until Shiloh comes, when they are loosed]; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes:
12 His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.
18 (I have waited for your salvation, O LORD.)
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 form seeing the Father, in the son, the seed of the women who brings forth the man child – see Revelation 12:17] have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him:
24 But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:)
25 Even by the God of your father, who shall help [‘azar – as in Eleazar] you; and by the Almighty, who shall bless you with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lies under [the deep meaning that lies below the surface], blessings of the breasts, and of the womb [seed, the son]:
26 The blessings of your father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors [all those who have come before us, and were only blessed with part of what is perfected in our return to the LORD] unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.
Proverbs 1
5 A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
6 To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
8 My son, hear the instruction of your father, and forsake not the law of your mother:
9 For they shall be an ornament of grace unto your head, and chains about your neck.
10 My son, if sinners entice you, consent you not.
11 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
12 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
13 We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:
14 Cast in your lot among us; let us all have one purse:
15 My son, walk not you in the way with them; refrain your foot from their path:
16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
17 Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
18 And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.
19 So are the ways of everyone that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
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 utters 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 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 49
1 Hear this, all you people; give ear, all you inhabitants of the world:
2 Both low and high, rich and poor, together.
3 My mouth shall speak of wisdom; and the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding.
4 I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying upon the harp.
5 Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, when the iniquity of my heels shall compass me about?
6 They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;
7 None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him:
8 (For the redemption of their soul is precious, and it ceases forever:)
9 That he should still live forever, and not see corruption.
10 For he sees that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.
11 Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue forever, and their dwelling places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names.
12 Nevertheless man being in honor abides not: he is like the beasts that perish.
13 This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah.
14 Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling.
15 But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah.
16 Be not you afraid when one is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased;
17 For when he dies he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall not descend after him.
18 Though while he lived he blessed his soul: and men will praise you, when you do well to yourself.
19 He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light.
20 Man that is in honor, and understands not, is like the beasts that perish.
Psalms 11
1 In the LORD put I my trust: how say you to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?
2 For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart.
3 If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?
4 The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD’s throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.
5 The LORD tries the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hates.
6 Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and a horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.
7 For the righteous LORD loveth righteousness; his countenance does behold the upright.
The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.
The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.
The Hebrew word above rendered “perfect” is tamiym, meaning “entire (literally, figuratively or morally); also (as noun) integrity, truth:–without blemish, complete, full, perfect, sincerely (-ity), sound, without spot, undefiled, upright(-ly), whole.”
The word “converting” is shuwb, here speaking of the return to the state, not the time, before the fall, when man walked in agreement with God and followed Him only. Its meaning, from the Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary, is: “to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point); generally to retreat; often adverbial, again.”
In the above context, we can properly understand the subject is “making wise [chakam] the simple [pthiy],” converting them by the perfect and sure word of God.
Proverbs 19
20 Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that you may be wise in [this] your latter end.
21 There are many devices [mashachabah – as when the evil thoughts of men were great in the earth, which brought the flood in the days of Noah] in a man’s heart; nevertheless the counsel of the LORD, that shall stand.
25 Smite a scorner, and the simple [pthiy] will beware: and reprove one that has understanding, and he will understand knowledge.
The title is Psalms 19:7, which begins by telling us this work of the LORD is in the firmament and is His glory declared in the heavens.
The depth in this statement, found in the understanding He’s given us, is that the firmament (which God called heaven: full understanding), from the word raqiya’, meaning an expanse, tells of when and how the LORD separated the waters above from the waters below (as in Genesis 1:6 thru 8): meaning His word from the words of men that corrupt and darken its depth.
In the title, David, who tells us in 2 Samuel 23:2, the Spirit of the LORD spoke by Him, and His word was his tongue, uses the word “heavens” to tell us this handiwork of God, ends the old corrupt understanding (heaven) and creates the new (heaven).
The word raqiya’ is from the eleven times used word raqa’, meaning “to pound the earth (as a sign of passion); by analogy to expand (by hammering); by implication, to overlay (with thin sheets of metal).”
The idea of men’s corruption is seen when raqa’ is used, in Isaiah 40:19 to tell of the makers of idols “spreading them over” with gold. Isaiah then uses the word two other times, in Isaiah 42:5, rendered “spread forth” in telling of the LORD’s work in the heaven and earth; and in Isaiah 44:24 where the LORD says its Him alone, who is our Redeemer, who has done these things.
Isaiah 40
5 And the glory [in the heavens, ending the old and creating the new] of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the LORD has spoken it.
6 The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:
7 The grass [the corrupt understanding of men] withers, the flower [the glory of men] fades: because the spirit of the LORD blows [moves unknown] upon it: surely the people is grass.
8 The grass withers, the flower fades: but the word of our God shall stand forever [to bring light into the darkness when He wills].
9 O Zion, that brings good tidings, get you up into the high mountain [when the glory of the LORD is revealed]; O Jerusalem, that bring good tidings, lift up your voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, “Behold [see] your God!”
10 Behold, the LORD God will come with a strong hand, and his arm [revealed] shall rule for him: behold, his reward is with him, and his work [in the firmament, separating His word from the corruption of men who’ve polluted it] before him [paniym – revealed by His presence].
11 He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm [into ONE BODY], and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.
12 Who has measured the waters [above and below] in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven [full understanding] with the span, and comprehended the dust [the ruin and corruption] of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains [the high places of the earth] in scales, and the hills in a balance [making the high places small]?
13 Who has directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his counselor has taught him?
14 With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and showed to him the way of understanding?
15 Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles [the dry place of the earth, among the people at large, that are without this word of God] as a very little thing.
16 And Lebanon [the high places where purity should be seen] is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering.
17 All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.
18 To whom then will you liken God? or what likeness will you compare unto him?
19 The workman melts a graven image [an idol they put in God’s place], and the goldsmith spread it over [raqa’ – hiding what is below] with gold, and casts silver chains [with which they hold men in darkness: ignorance].
20 He that is so impoverished [lacking these treasures of God] that he has no oblation chooses a tree [the dead-wood overlayed with gold] that will not rot; he seeks unto him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image [an abomination], that shall not be moved [from the place of the holy].
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 [circuit – the ends and beginnings] of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers [whose glory fades away as they destroy all flesh/grass]; that stretch out the heavens 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 earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind 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 calls 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 hidden from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God?”
28 Have you not known? have you not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends [endings and the beginnings] of the earth, faints not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.
29 He gives power to the faint; and to them that have no might 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.
Isaiah 42
1 Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delight; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles [those who don’t know me, even My sleeping people who think they do, while they worship idols men put in My place and called by My name].
2 He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street.
3 A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench [speaking of the wick of a lamp, whose light is almost completely extinguished, which the LORD trims so it again shines brightly]: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth.
4 He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth: and the isles [the place without this word of God] shall wait for his law.
5 Thus says God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth [raqa’ – covers with His understanding] the earth, and that which comes out of it; he that gives breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:
6 I the LORD have called you in righteousness, and will hold your hand, and will keep you, and give you for a covenant of the people, for a light [understanding] of the Gentiles [who don’t know Me];
7 To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness [ignorance] out of the prison house.
8 I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images [men put in My place].
9 Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.
10 Sing unto the LORD a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth, you that go down to the sea, and all that is therein; the isles, and the inhabitants thereof.
11 Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar [darkness – ignorance] does inhabit: let the inhabitants of the rock sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains.
12 Let them give glory unto the LORD, and declare his praise in the islands.
13 The LORD shall go forth as a mighty man, he shall stir up jealousy like a man of war: he shall cry, yea, roar; he shall prevail against his enemies.
14 I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman [to bring forth God’s children]; I will destroy and devour at once.
15 I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs [their glory]; and I will make the rivers islands [their words that flow to the sea; the people at large], and I will dry up the pools [the place where their corrupt words are aggregated].
16 And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.
17 They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed [they shall be disappointed when they don’t reach the end their false prophets told them they would], that trust in graven images [false gods they follow, who’ve put themselves in My place], that say to the molten images, You are our gods.
18 Hear, you deaf; and look, you blind, that you may see.
19 Who is blind, but my servant [who I now awaken to My presence]? or deaf, as my messenger that I sent? who is blind as he that is perfect, and blind as the LORD’s servant?
20 Seeing many things, but you observe not; opening the ears, but he heareth not [who is blind and deft to those, the false gods, who put themselves in God’s place].
21 The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness’ sake; he will magnify the law [the word of God], and make it honorable.
22 But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses [holding them down in ignorance, death, and hell]: they are for a prey, and none delivers; for a spoil, and none says, Restore [take these false gods they follow out of the way {mesos}, and restore understanding].
23 Who among you will give ear to this? who will hearken and hear for the time to come?
24 Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not the LORD, he against whom we have sinned? for they would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient unto his law [His word].
25 Therefore he has poured upon him the fury of his anger, and the strength of battle: and it has set him on fire round about, yet he knew not [because they are sleeping in ignorance: dead in hell]; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart.
Isaiah 44
1 Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant; and Israel, whom I have chosen:
2 Thus says the LORD that made you, and formed you from the womb, which will help you; Fear not, O Jacob, my servant; and you, Jesurun [God’s people who prosper when they follow only Him], whom I have chosen.
3 For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon your seed, and my blessing upon your offspring:
4 And they shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by the watercourses.
5 One shall say, I am the LORD’s; and another shall call himself by the name of Jacob; and another shall subscribe with his hand unto the LORD, and surname himself by the name of Israel.
6 Thus says the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God.
7 And who, as I, shall call, and shall declare it, and set it in order for me, since I appointed the ancient people? and the things that are coming, and shall come, let them show unto them.
8 Fear you not, neither be afraid: have not I told you from that time, and have declared it? you are even my witnesses. Is there a God beside me? yea, there is no God; I know not any.
9 They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.
10 Who has formed a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing?
11 Behold, all his fellows shall be ashamed: and the workmen, they are of men: let them all be gathered together, let them stand up; yet they shall fear, and they shall be ashamed together.
12 The smith with the tongs both worketh in the coals, and fashioned it with hammers, and worketh it with the strength of his arms: yea, he is hungry, and his strength fails: he drinks no water, and is faint.
13 The carpenter stretches out his rule; he marks it out with a line; he fits it with planes, and he marks it out with the compass, and makes it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the house.
14 He hews him down cedars, and taketh the cypress and the oak, which he strengthens for himself among the trees of the forest: he plant an ash, and the rain does nourish it.
15 Then shall it be for a man to burn: for he will take thereof, and warm himself; yea, he kindles it, and bakes bread; yea, he makes a god, and worships it; he makes it a graven image, and falls down thereto.
16 He burns part thereof in the fire; with part thereof he eats flesh; he roasts a roast, and is satisfied: yea, he warms himself, and says, Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire:
17 And the residue thereof he makes a god, even his graven image: he falls down unto it, and worships it, and prays unto it, and says, Deliver me; for you are my god.
18 They have not known nor understood: for he has shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand.
19 And none considers in his heart, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yea, also I have baked bread upon the coals thereof; I have roasted flesh, and eaten it: and shall I make the residue thereof an abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of a tree [even if it is covered in gold: the things in which men mistakenly put their trust]?
20 He feeds on ashes: a deceived heart has turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?
21 Remember these, O Jacob and Israel; for you are my servant: I have formed you; you are my servant: O Israel, you shall not be forgotten of me.
22 I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions, and, as a cloud, your sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed you.
23 Sing, O you heavens; for the LORD has done it: shout, you lower parts of the earth: break forth into singing, you mountains, O forest, and every tree therein: for the LORD has redeemed Jacob, and glorified himself in Israel.
24 Thus says the LORD, your redeemer, and he that formed you from the womb, I am the LORD that makes all things; that stretches forth the heavens alone; that spreads abroad [raqa’ – covers with understanding] the earth by myself;
25 That frustrates the tokens of the liars, and makes diviners mad; that turns wise men backward, and makes their knowledge foolish;
26 That confirms the word of his servant, and performs the counsel of his messengers; that says to Jerusalem, You shall be inhabited; and to the cities of Judah, You shall be built, and I will raise up the decayed places thereof:
27 That says to the deep [the understanding of men], Be dry, and I will dry up your rivers [your words that flow to My people]:
28 That says of Cyrus [the LORD of the furnace], He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure: even saying to Jerusalem, You shall be built; and to the temple [God’s people in whom He dwells], Your foundation shall be laid.
As we know, the furnace is the time of terror, darkness, and the deep sleep of God’s people in it, which began when God made His covenant with Abram and Isaac was born. As we also know, this is the same furnace in which Daniel saw the son of God walking, and the time of sleep as a time, a times, and a (rightly) dividing of time, which he describes in chapter 12 showing it ends now in these last days when the resurrection occurs.
Before posting these chapters again, here is the formula revealed in these times.
The time of the deep sleep, the walk in the furnace, ends when, as God promised, Abraham’s seed has become a great multitude. When God, in Genesis 15, tells this to Abraham, it is the year 1897 BC, and Isaac is born the following year.
In Daniel 12, we are told the end comes after a time, a times, and a half, when the power of God’s holy people is scattered. The word “half” is the Hebrew word chetsiy, meaning “the half or middle:–half, middle, mid(-night), midst, part, two parts.” It’s from the word chatsah, meaning “to cut or split in two; to halve:–divide, X live out half, reach to the midst, participle.”
These words are telling of rightly dividing (understanding) the time Daniel is told the book is sealed and opened, both by the two men seen on the two sides of the river. The one he sees upon the waters of the river is the word of God made flesh, the one like the son of God, always here walking in the fires of the furnace with us. Abram, in Genesis 15, sees this man as a burning lamp, after the sun went down (the book sealed) and darkness (ignorance) came, and the burning lamp passed (the son in who understanding has always been the light) between the two cut pieces of the sacrifice.
Daniel then, in Daniel 12:11 & 12, tells of the time, and the times, of this opening of the sealed book. He gives two times, 1290 days (years) and 1335 day (years), of the latter, saying blessed are those who come to it. The formula is this: the time is 1290 years, followed by a times (both these numbers) 1290 + 1335, all equaling 3915 years passing. We know it began at Isaac’s birth, 1896 BC, which when removed from 3915 years leaves 2019, the year the LORD showed me this sealed treasure. (The math doesn’t lie, and all the above is true. Receive and understand the time we are living in is the time the angel told Daniel of, when we stand in our lot at the end of days).
1 Thessalonians 4
13 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that you sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
15 For this we say unto you by the word of the LORD, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the LORD shall not prevent them which are asleep.
16 For the LORD himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the LORD in the air: and so shall we ever be with the LORD.
18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
As we’ve seen, this “air” wherein we meet the LORD, is from the seven times used Greek word aer, meaning “(to breathe unconsciously, i.e. respire; by analogy, to blow); “air” (as naturally circumambient):–air”. As seen here, the word tells of the air becoming clear, after the LORD has given understanding in the cloud (where the elements of understanding are held when they leave the earth).
John, using the word in Revelation 9:2 and 16:17, tells us how the air became unclear, where we couldn’t see and understand. He says it’s from the same smoke Abram saw in the furnace before the burning lamp passed. The light (understand) of the lamp is what ends the ignorance that caused the sleep and the unclarity.
Revelation 9
2 And he opened the bottomless pit [the endless fall away from God – apostasy]; and there arose a smoke [so no man could see clearly] out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun [the church] and the air [aer – clarity of sight] were darkened [became ignorant] by reason of the smoke of the pit.
3 And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth [to devour]: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power [to rot men from the inside, in their mind, causing death: sleep].
Revelation 16
17 And the seventh angel [God’s finisher – the archangel] poured out his vial into the air [aer – to clear it of the smoke]; and there came a great voice [the shout of the archangel] out of the temple of heaven [God’s people with full understanding], from the throne, saying, “It is done.”
18 And there were voices [of understanding], and thunders [the sound of the light – understanding heard], and lightning [understand as light from the cloud]; and there was a great earthquake [the voices shaking the earth, so the creations of the wicked are shaken from it], such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great.
19 And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon [the confusion that has ruled over the world causing its desolation] came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath [the word of God, the sword of His truth, destroying the evil works of wicked and misleading men].
20 And every island fled away [and these waters, this word of God was heard everywhere], and the mountains [the wicked high place of the old earth] were not found.
21 And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven [the word of God reserved, frozen there to be released unto fire in this time of war], every stone [from where this word of God flows] about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed [vilified and demonized] God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great.
Daniel 12
1 And at that time shall Michael [who is like, in the likeness of, God] stand up, the great prince which stand for the children of your people: and there shall be a time of trouble [tsarah – 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.
4 But you, O Daniel [the judgment of God], shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro [diligently seeking the LORD], and knowledge shall be increased.
5 Then I Daniel looked, and, behold, there stood other two, the one on this side of the bank of the river [as the flesh of one divided in two], and the other on that side of the bank of the river.
6 And one said to the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, How long shall it be to the end of these wonders [of these things wondered at and not known]?
7 And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and swore by him that lives forever that it shall be for a time, times, and a half [chetsiy – the right dividing of the time between]; and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished.
8 And I heard, but I understood not [as none have until now, as God said it would be and it has been]: then said I, O my LORD, what shall be the end of these things?
9 And he said, Go your way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.
10 Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.
11 And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that makes desolate set-up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days.
12 Blessed is he that waits [for the LORD to open], and come to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days.
13 But go you your way till the end be: for you shall rest, and stand in your lot at the end of the days.
Genesis 15
5 And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if you be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall your seed be.
6 And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.
7 And he said unto him, I am the LORD that brought you out of Ur [out of the flame {of the furnace}] of the Chaldees [those who used the word to manipulate and control and oppress], to give you this land to inherit it.
8 And he said, LORD God, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?
9 And he said unto him, Take me a heifer of three years old, and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon.
10 And he took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another: but the birds divided he not.
11 And when the fowls came down upon the carcasses, Abram drove them away.
12 And when the sun [when understanding] was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness [ignorance] fell upon him.
13 And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that your seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred [four thousand] years;
14 And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.
15 And you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age.
16 But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites [the sayers – those speaking against God and exalting their words above His] is not yet full.
17 And it came to pass, that, when the sun [the light in the church] went down, and it was dark [and ignorance covered the earth], behold a smoking furnace [and no man saw clearly], and a burning lamp [Christ – God’s anointed] that passed between those pieces.
18 In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto your seed have I given this land [the USA].
Isaiah 62
1 For Zion’s sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burns.
2 And the Gentiles shall see your righteousness, and all kings your glory: and you shall be called by a new name, which the mouth of the LORD shall name.
3 You shall also be a crown of glory in the hand of the LORD, and a royal diadem in the hand of your God.
4 You shall no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall your land any more be termed Desolate: but you shall be called Hephzibah [the LORD’s delight], and your land Beulah [the LORD’s dominion]: for the LORD delights in you, and your land shall be married.
5 For as a young man marries a virgin, so shall your sons marry you: and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall your God rejoice over you.
6 I have set watchmen upon your walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: you that make mention of the LORD, keep not silence,
7 And give him no rest, till he establishes, and till he makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
8 The LORD has sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no more give your corn to be meat for your enemies; and the sons of the stranger shall not drink your wine, for that which you have labored:
9 But they that have gathered it shall eat it, and praise the LORD; and they that have brought it together shall drink it in the courts of my holiness.
10 Go through, go through the gates; prepare you the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a standard for the people.
11 Behold, the LORD has proclaimed unto the end of the world, Say you to the daughter of Zion, Behold, your salvation comes; behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.
12 And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of the LORD: and you shall be called, Sought out, A city not forsaken.
Isaiah 63
1 Who is this [a man of war] that comes from Edom [from the enemies mixed among us], with dyed garments from Bozrah [from the sheepfold]? this that is glorious in his apparel, traveling in the greatness of his strength? [Daniel 3: 25 He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God.] I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save.
2 Wherefore are you red in your apparel, and your garments like him that treads in the wine fat?
3 I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment.
4 For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come.
5 And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me.
6 And I will tread down the people in mine anger, and make them drunk in my fury, and I will bring down their strength to the earth.
7 I will mention the loving-kindnesses of the LORD, and the praises of the LORD, according to all that the LORD has bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he has bestowed on them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his loving-kindnesses.
8 For he said, Surely they are my people, children that will not lie: so he was their Savior.
9 In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.
10 But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.
11 Then he remembered the days of old, Moses, and his people, saying, Where is he that brought them up out of the sea with the shepherd of his flock? where is he that put his holy Spirit within him?
12 That led them by the right hand of Moses with his glorious arm, dividing the water before them, to make himself an everlasting name?
13 That led them through the deep, as a horse in the wilderness, that they should not stumble?
14 As a beast goes down into the valley, the Spirit of the LORD caused him to rest: so did you lead your people, to make yourself a glorious name.
15 Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of your holiness and of your glory: where is your zeal and your strength, the sounding of your bowels and of your mercies toward me? are they restrained?
16 Doubtless you are our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: you, O LORD, are our father, our redeemer; your name is from everlasting.
17 O LORD, why have you made us to err from your ways, and hardened our heart from your fear? Return for your servants’ sake, the tribes of your inheritance.
18 The people of your holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down your sanctuary.
19 We are yours: you never barest rule over them; they were not called by your name.
Psalms 19
1 The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament shows his handy-work.
2 Day unto day utters speech, and night unto night shows knowledge.
3 There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.
4 Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them has he set a tabernacle for the sun,
5 Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoices as a strong man to run a race.
6 His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends 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.
11 Moreover by them is your servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward.
12 Who can understand his [own] errors? cleanse you me from secret faults.
13 Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression.
14 Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in your sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.
Mine eyes have seen your salvation, Which you have prepared before the face of all people; A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of your people Israel.
Mine eyes have seen your salvation, Which you have prepared before the face of all people; A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of your people Israel.
The word above rendered “salvation” is the five times used Greek word soterion, meaning “defender or (by implication) defense:–salvation.”
This word speaks of the one in whose face (presence) salvation is “seen,” by the preparation (their repentance) as glory in His people (God in the flesh of those who’ve received Him), who become the carrier of His light to lighten those who don’t know God or His manner (giving understanding of, making straight, His way before them).
It (soterion) is from the word soteria (salvation itself), from the word soter (the Savour), from soza (the saving), from sos, meaning to save.
In Luke, the word soza is used of those who’ve been saved already (by faith), and telling of the those who seek to save (soza) their own lives losing them, and those who lose their lives shall preserve them. This last aspect is described in the later uses of soza, when, during the crucifixion, people are calling for the LORD to save (soza) Himself.
It (this manner of salvation) is also seen when soza is used in 1 Timothy 4:16. There Paul, speaking of faith in the Word of God, tells Timothy, “Take heed unto yourself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this you shall both save [soza] yourself, and them that hear you.”
Romans 10
6 But the righteousness which is of faith [believing it is the LORD speaking through His Word] speaks on this wise, Say not in your heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down from above:)
7 Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.)
8 But what says it? The word is nigh you, even in your mouth [which is where He rises, in His word spoken through us], and in your heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach;
9 That if you shall confess with your mouth the LORD Jesus [is speaking through us, as He is speaking through me], and shall believe in your heart that God has raised him [in us] from the dead, you shall be saved [soza].
10 For with the heart man believes unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
11 For the scripture says, Whosoever believes on him shall not be ashamed.
12 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same LORD over all is rich unto all that call upon him.
13 For whosoever shall call upon the name [His identity in us] of the LORD shall be saved [soza]. [Hebrews 7:25 Wherefore he is able also to save {soza} them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever lives to make intercession for them. Hebrews 11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that comes to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.]
14 How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?
15 And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things! [This is from Isaiah 52:7, speaking of the report heard, the previous verse saying, “Therefore my people shall know my name: therefore they shall know in that day that I am he that does speak: behold, it is I.” The here quoted portions of verse 7, speaking of His appearing {epihaneia} and kingdom, finishes saying, “that says unto Zion, Your God reigns!]
16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah [in Isaiah 53:1] says, LORD, who has believed our report? [and to who {except those who believe He is speaking the report} is the arm of the revealed?]
17 So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
18 But I say, Have they not heard? Yes truly, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world.
19 But I say, Did not Israel know? First Moses says [Deuteronomy 32:21 – see below], I will provoke you to jealousy by them that are no people, and by a foolish nation I will anger you.
20 But Isaiah [in Isaiah 65:1 & 2 – see below] is very bold, and says, I was found of them that sought me not; I was made manifest unto them that asked not after me.
21 But to Israel he says, All day long I have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people.
Titus 2
11 For the grace of God that bringeth salvation [soterion] has appeared [epiphaino] to all men,
12 Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly [rejecting the world’s delusions and insanity], righteously, and godly, in this present world;
13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing [epiphaneia] of the great God and our Savior [soter] Jesus Christ;
14 Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
15 These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise you.
1 Timothy 2
3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior [soter];
4 Who will have all men to be saved [soza], and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
6 Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.
Luke, using the word soterion one other time, in Luke 3:6, speaks of the “salvation” seen in John the Baptist, preaching the preparation of repentance (the LORD working through and in Him unknown). The first effect, the firstborn from this Baptism, is Jesus, after coming up out of the waters as the known presence of God.
Luke 3
2 Annas and Caiaphas being the high priests, the word of God came unto John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness.
3 And he came into all the country about Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins;
4 As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare you the way of the LORD, make his paths straight.
5 Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth;
6 And all flesh shall see the salvation of God.
7 Then said he to the multitude that came forth to be baptized of him, O generation of vipers, who has warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
8 Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and begin not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, That God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.
9 And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: every tree therefore which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
10 And the people asked him, saying, What shall we do then?
11 He answered and said unto them, He that has two coats, let him impart to him that has none; and he that has meat, let him do likewise.
12 Then came also publicans to be baptized, and said unto him, Master, what shall we do?
13 And he said unto them, Exact no more than that which is appointed you.
14 And the soldiers likewise demanded of him, saying, And what shall we do? And he said unto them, Do violence to no man, neither accuse any falsely; and be content with your wages.
15 And as the people were in expectation, and all men mused in their hearts of John, whether he was the Christ, or not;
16 John answered, saying unto them all, I indeed baptize you with water; but one mightier than I comes, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire:
17 Whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge [of sin, as in Isaiah 27:8 & 9, when it shoot forth you shall debate with it, and he shall take away all the sins of those who receive Him as He is] his floor, and will gather the wheat into His [into ONE BODY] garner; but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable.
18 And many other things in his exhortation preached he unto the people.
19 But Herod [the heroes of the enemies mixed among us, at war with us and tyrannically ruling over us] the tetrarch, being reproved by him for Herodias his brother Philip’s wife, and for all the evils which Herod had done,
20 Added yet this above all, that he shut up John in prison [these enemies mixed among stopped all calls to repentance].
21 Now when all the people were baptized [and began to repent, to end their silence], it came to pass, that Jesus also being baptized, and praying, the heaven was opened,
22 And the Holy Ghost [the LORD God unknown] descended in a bodily shape like a dove [as on Jonah, and as John, signs of the end] upon him, and a voice came from heaven [the LORD making His presence known in Him], which said, “You are my beloved Son; in you I am well pleased.”
23 And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph.
2 Thessalonians 2
8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the LORD shall consume with the spirit of his mouth [speaking this Word of God], and shall destroy with the brightness [epiphaneia] of his coming:
9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan [who led all astray, away from God, into the endless fall away from Him in the bottomless pit] with all power and signs and lying wonders,
10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth [the brightness of His coming, HIS GRACE AND TRUTH upon all], that they [as many as comprehend and receive Him,] might be saved [soza].
11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion [the insanity that covers the world, wherein men can’t distinguish between their delusion and reality, not even knowing the difference between men and women], that they should believe a lie:
12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
13 But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethren beloved of the LORD, because God has from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit [Him working and speaking unknown] and belief of the truth [that it is Him speaking]:
14 Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our LORD Jesus Christ [when He is known].
15 Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which you have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.
16 Now our LORD Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which has loved us, and has given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace,
17 Comfort your hearts, and establish you in every good word and work.
Genesis 1
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2 The same was in the beginning with God [only, when darkness covered the face of the deep, when the world became ignorant of what is below the surface of the word still present].
3 All things were made by him [the Word of God, by which He framed the worlds: beginnings and endings]; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
4 In him was life; and the life was the light [understanding – comprehension] of men.
5 And the light shineth in darkness [understand came into the flesh of God’s anointed: the son who received understanding directly from the Father]; and the darkness [the ignorant] comprehended it not.
6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.
7 The same came for a witness [calling all to repentance, purging out corruption], to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe.
8 He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light.
9 That was the true Light, which lights every man that comes into the world [into new life, quickened by the understanding of the second Adam, God’s Spirit in the flesh doing His work, bringing many sons to glory].
10 He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.
11 He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name [God’s signature seen in Him]:
13 Which were born [again], not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld [saw] his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of GRACE AND TRUTH.
15 John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that comes after me is preferred before me: for he was before me.
16 And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.
My reference above to God’s “framing” the worlds points to Hebrews 11:3 where it’s stated while the writer is speaking of faith. It is describing the faithful throughout history, who heard and believed God, and saw the promises far off, perfected in our time, verses 40 saying, “God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.”
Hebrews 11
1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for [heard but not received], the evidence [the promise they would appear] of things not [yet] seen.
2 For by it the elders obtained a good report [as here, God testifying to their faith in Him].
3 Through faith we understand that the worlds [beginnings and endings] were framed by the word of God [in those He anointed], so that things which are seen [not yet comprehended] were not made of things which do appear [phaino – lightened, shined and shown].
4 By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaks.
5 By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.
6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that comes to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
7 By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.
8 By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.
9 By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:
10 For he looked for a city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
When verse 10 speaks of God as the builder and maker of the foundations of the city, it speaks of when and how it was “framed” by Him. It is from the Greek word katartizo, meaning “to complete thoroughly, i.e. repair (literally or figuratively) or adjust:–fit, frame, mend, (make) perfect(-ly join together), prepare, restore.”
The word speaks of the mechanism God put in place, which created the world, and which refreshes it when needed, restoring order and re-establishing the foundations. It is Him manifesting Himself in the flesh, revealing the things that remain present in His word but are unseen by the world degenerated into ignorance by following small men (misleaders) who (ignorantly proud) think they are great.
23 Know you that our brother Timothy is set at liberty [freed from death and sent on this mission, as a man of war]; with whom, if he comes shortly, I will see you., it tells of the body the LORD has “prepared,” the one who comes to do His will, who comes in the volume book, revealing God in Him: the word of God made flesh. When this is said, it’s quoting Psalms 40:6 thru 8, which further speaks of how he, the Word of God, comes to take away sins caused by falling away from God and His truth: by following the unrighteous misleaders who put themselves in God’s place and are now sitting in His seat teaching error.
Hebrews 10
4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
5 Wherefore when he comes into the world, he says, Sacrifice and offering you would not, but a body have you prepared [katartizo] me:
6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you have had no pleasure.
7 Then said I, Lo, I come ([hidden in the unknown deep] 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 [offering by the law, which cannot take away errors], that he may establish the second [doing His will, to take away errors, as stated below in the following verses of Psalms 40].
Psalms 40
4 Blessed is that man that makes the LORD his trust, and respect not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.
5 Many, O LORD my God, are your wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are to us-ward [Your ONE BODY ]: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto you: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.
6 Sacrifice and offering you did not desire; mine ears have you opened: burnt offering and sin offering have you not required.
7 Then said I, “Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me,
8 I delight to do your will, O my God: yea, your law is within my heart.
9 I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, you know.
10 I have not hid your righteousness within my heart; I have declared your faithfulness and your salvation: I have not concealed your lovingkindness and your truth from the great congregation.
11 Withhold not you your tender mercies from me [Your ONE BODY], O LORD: let your lovingkindness and your truth continually preserve me [perfecting us into new life].
12 For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me [and scattered our parts], so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart [understanding] fails me [Your ONE BODY].
13 Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help me.
14 Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.
15 Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, ‘Aha, aha.’
16 Let all those that [diligently] seek you rejoice and be glad in you: let such as love your salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified.
17 But I am poor and needy; yet the LORD think upon me: you are my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.”
Hebrews 13
5 Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as you have: for he has said, I will never leave you, nor forsake you.
6 So that we may boldly say, The LORD is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.
7 Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation.
8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever.
9 Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.
10 We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle.
11 For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp.
12 Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.
13 Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.
14 For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.
15 By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.
16 But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
17 Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.
18 Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live honestly.
19 But I beseech you the rather to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner.
20 Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our LORD Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,
21 Make you perfect [katartizo] in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well-pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.
22 And I beseech you, brethren, suffer the word of exhortation: for I have written a letter unto you in few words.
23 Know you that our brother Timothy is set at liberty [freed from death and sent on this mission, as a man of war]; with whom, if he come shortly, I will see you.
24 Salute all them that have the rule over you, and all the saints. They of Italy salute you.
25 Grace be with you all. Amen.
1 Peter 4
17 For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?
18 And if the righteous scarcely be saved [soza], where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
19 Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.
1 Peter 5
1 The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:
2 Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;
3 Neither as being lords over God’s heritage, but being examples to the flock.
4 And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, you shall receive a crown of glory that fades not away.
5 Likewise, you younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resists the proud, and gives grace [and TURH] to the humble.
6 Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:
7 Casting all your care upon him; for he cares for you.
8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
9 Whom resist steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.
10 But the God of all grace, who has called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that you have suffered a while, make you perfect [katartizo], establish, strengthen, settle you.
11 To him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
Paul, in 1 Corinthians 1:10, describes the “perfecting” in being in ONE BODY, with one mind of Christ.
1 Corinthians 1
10 Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our LORD Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that you be perfectly [katartizo] joined together [in ONE BODY] in the same mind and in the same judgment.
11 For it has been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them which are of the house of Chloe [chloros – the “pale” horse whose name is Death, and Hell followed with him], that there are contentions among you [that have divided and scattered you, in this house].
12 Now this I say, that every one of you says, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ.
13 Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were you baptized in the name of Paul?
14 I thank God that I baptized none of you, but Crispus and Gaius;
15 Lest any should say that I had baptized in mine own name.
16 And I baptized also the household of Stephanas: besides, I know not whether I baptized any other.
17 For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel [which gathers you from the names you’ve taken, and joins you into ONE BODY]: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ [long-suffering to bring this word of God, which effectually works to produce One Mind of Christ in you] should be made of none effect.
18 For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved [soza] it is the power of God.
19 For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.
20 Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
21 For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save [soza] them that believe [it is Him speaking].
The word “settle” in 1 Peter 5:10 above is the six times used Greek word themelioo, meaning “to lay a basis for, i.e. (literally) erect, or (figuratively) consolidate:–(lay the) found(- ation), ground, settle.” It tells of the consolidation into ONE BODY, by laying the foundations and order that erects us, raising us from our fallen state in death and hell.
Hebrews 1
10 And, You, LORD, in the beginning, have laid the foundation [themelioo] of the earth; and the heavens [separating the word {waters} of God from the errors of man, bringing full understanding in the firmament: this exposition] are the works of your hands:
11 They shall perish [the old corrupt heaven and earth]; but you [the Word of God] remain; and they all shall wax old as does a garment;
12 And as a vesture shall you fold them up, and they shall be changed [purged from corruption, creating a new heaven and earth, wherein dwells righteousness]: but you are the same, and your years shall not fail.
13 But to which of the angels [His messengers] said he at any time, “Sit on my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool?”
14 Are they not all ministering spirits, [not sitting still, but] sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation [soteria]?
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 [soteria]; which at the first began to be spoken by the LORD, and was confirmed unto us by them [ministering spirits] that heard him;
4 God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost [the LORD unknown, working and speaking these treasures He’s freely given us], according to his own will?
Isaiah 65
1 I am sought of them that asked not for me; I am found of them that sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation that was not called by my name.
2 I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which walketh in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts;
3 A people that provoke me to anger continually to my face [my presence]; that sacrifice in gardens, and burn incense upon altars of brick [the creations of men];
4 Which remain among the graves [in hell], and lodge in the monuments [among the dead], which eat swine’s flesh [every unclean thing], and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;
5 Which say, “Stand by yourself, come not near to me; for I am holier than you.”
Deuteronomy 32
17 They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.
18 Of the Rock that begat you you are unmindful, and have forgotten God that formed you.
19 And when the LORD saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.
20 And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for they are a very froward generation [twisting and perverting truth], children in whom is no faith.
21 They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
22 For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.
23 I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.
24 They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.
25 The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.
26 I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:
27 Were it not that I feared [for them] the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the LORD has not done all this.
28 For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them.
29 O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
30 How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up?
31 For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies [mixed among us] themselves being judges.
Isaiah 40
3 The voice of him that cries in the wilderness, Prepare you the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
4 Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain:
5 And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the LORD has spoken it.
6 The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:
7 The grass withers, the flower fades: because the spirit of the LORD blows upon it: surely the people is grass.
8 The grass withers, the flower fades: but the word of our God shall stand forever.
9 O Zion, that brings good tidings, get you up into the high mountain; O Jerusalem, that brings good tidings, lift up your voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God!
10 Behold, the LORD God will come with a strong hand, and his arm shall rule for him: behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.
Exodus 15
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.
Psalms 108
1 O God, my heart is fixed; I will sing and give praise, even with my glory.
2 Awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early.
3 I will praise you, O LORD, among the people: and I will sing praises unto you among the nations.
4 For your mercy is great above the heavens: and your truth reaches unto the clouds.
5 Be you exalted, O God, above the heavens: and your glory above all the earth;
6 That your beloved may be delivered: save with your right hand, and answer me.
7 God has spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.
8 Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of mine head; Judah is my lawgiver;
9 Moab is my washpot [I will cleanse them at the gates of hell]; over Edom [the enemies mixed among us] will I cast out my shoe [taking them captive]; over Philistia [the invaders among us who refuse to assimilate into our better culture] will I triumph.
10 Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into Edom [as a man or war against the enemies]?
11 Will not you, O God, who have cast us off? and will not you, O God, go forth with our hosts?
12 Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.
13 Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies.
