28 August – 1 September 2025
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.
The LORD begins today, above in Isaiah 1:18, referring to His correction in this conversation and its effect on the willing who obey Him.
The word “reason” is yakach, meaning “to be right (i.e. correct); reciprocal, to argue; causatively, to decide, justify or convict.”
As we know, the “snow” speaks of the words of God reserved (frozen) in heaven; reassembled elements (stoicheion) sent from the LORD, in this time of war, from the cloud as this conversation, against the darkness (ignorance of the ever-present LORD) that covers the earth.
Job 38
22 Have you entered into the treasures [this understanding] of the snow [sheleg]? or have you seen the treasures of the hail [sent against the current crop of corrupt leaders],
23 Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?
The word rendered “trouble” is tsar, which we know (as in tsarah) is used to describe the time of battle and war: the tribulation in these last days (Deuteronomy 4:30), when the LORD’s voice is heard as fire from His mouth.
Deuteronomy 4
24 For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, even a jealous [qanna’ – only used six times, always speaking of] God.
25 When you shall beget children, and children’s children, and you shall have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image [the idols men created and put in God’s place], or the likeness of any thing, and shall do evil in the sight of the LORD your God, to provoke him to anger:
26 I call [the condition of] heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that you shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto you go over [‘abar – from death into life] Jordan [overcoming the words of men that carried all in the “descent” into death and hell] to possess it; you shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed [the warning of where we’ve come to and will again go if we forget it].
27 And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations, and you shall be left few in number among the heathen [only a few now truly know the LORD, and all others are ignorant of Him], whither the LORD shall lead you.
28 And there you shall serve gods, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
29 But if from thence [there and then] you shall [diligently work to] seek the LORD your God, you shall find him, if you seek him with all your heart and with all your soul. [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.]
30 When you are in tribulation [tsar], and all these things are come upon you, even in the latter days [‘achariyth – this after life now come to those who find Him], if you turn to the LORD your God, and shall be obedient unto his voice;
31 (For the LORD your God is a merciful God;) he will not forsake you, neither destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which he swore unto them.
32 For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from the one side of heaven unto the other, whether there has been any such thing as this great thing is, or has been heard like it?
33 Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and live?
34 Or has God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, [now] according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
35 Unto you it was shown, that you might know that the LORD he is God; there is none else beside him.
36 Out of heaven he made you to hear his voice, that he might instruct you: and upon earth he showed you his great fire; and you heard his words out of the midst of the fire.
Hebrews 12
1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which does so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
2 Looking unto Jesus [Jehovah’s Salvation manifested in the flesh of the one He chooses to speak, and manifest His presence, through] the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy [the realization of His presence] that was set before him endured the cross [the necessary sacrifice to declare Him with us, in us speaking and working], despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
3 For consider him that endured [long-suffered in the Father’s name] such contradiction of sinners [the arguments of the ignorant] against himself, lest you be wearied and faint in your minds.
4 You have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.
5 And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks unto you as unto children, My son, despise not you the chastening [this correction, in this conversation] of the LORD, nor faint when you are rebuked of him:
6 For whom the LORD loves he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives.
As we know, this “scourge” is that spoken of in Isaiah 28:18, that (here and now) comes to rescue those whose covenant is with death and their agreement with hell.
Isaiah 28
16 Therefore, thus says the LORD God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone [from where these life-giving waters flow], a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believes shall not make haste [they shall not be ashamed, but shall reach this promised end].
17 Judgment [this right assessment of condition] also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail [against the current crop of corrupt leaders] shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow [shataph] the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing [shataph] scourge [showt] shall pass through [‘abar – bringing you from death into life], then you shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goes forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over [‘abar – bringing to life those who receive it as the LORD’s voice, His work revealed], by day and by night [giving understanding to those held in darkness]: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report [shmuw’ah – the voice of the LORD heard].
Again, we know the shmuw’ah (Jehovah’s voice heard) is the same “report,” spoken of in Isaiah 53:1, which says that to those who hear it as His, it is the arm (work) of the LORD revealed.
Hebrews 12
9 Furthermore, we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?
10 For they truly for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit [sumphero – to drive together, the same meaning as prokope, see 1 Timothy 4:15 and Philippians 1:15 & 25 below], that we might be partakers of his holiness.
11 Now no chastening for the present seems to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless, afterward, it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.
Hebrews 12
22 But you are come unto mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the [New] heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels [the LORD’s messengers, all speaking this same message as received], [Isaiah 8:18 Behold, I and the children whom the LORD has given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel {His people who receive Him and this promised end} from the LORD of hosts, which dwells in mount Zion. 19 And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards {the wise of this dark world} that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? {and no longer look} for the living to the dead? 20 {They will look} To the law and to the {this} testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because {they are in agreement with hell, and } there is no light {understanding} in them.]
23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaks better things than that of Abel.
25 See that you refuse not him that speaks. For if they escaped not who refused him that spoke on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaks from heaven [this place of full understanding]:
26 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he has promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven [to shake the wicked from them].
27 And this word, Yet once more, signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made [by men, the corruption they’ve added], that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.
28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace [this gift], whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
29 For our God is a consuming fire.
The (four times used) word gumnazo, rendered “exercise” in Hebrews 12:11 above, speaking of corruption “worked out” of man, is the necessary work all must do to reach the perfection (like-mindedness) that pleases the LORD. It is used earlier in Hebrews 5:14, speaking of the High Priest through whom the LORD works, first purifying himself, and then helping to bring the same purity to others.
The latter chapter begins, speaking of Christ (Jehovah manifesting His presence in the flesh of those He has called and anointed by His declaration) as our High Priest, working, transmitting this conversation, and declaring Him with us, in us (His sons, created by His correction). It ends telling of this work (effectually to us, in us) in those who reach its completeness (teleios), by habitually (hexis) working out (corruption), resulting in their being able to discern (by deliberation, by judicial estimation – diakrisis) good and evil (thereby choosing good and refusing evil).
Hebrews 5
1 For every high priest taken from among men is ordained [kathistemi – literally speaking being brough down to be raised up: stand – become as little children knowing nothing and willing to receive this ingrafted word] for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts [this word as received] and [the necessary] sacrifices for sins [to deliver this word of God to those who haven’t known Him]:
2 Who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the way; for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity [weakness, without strength, this deep understanding that can only be received].
3 And by reason hereof he ought [opheilema], as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins [hamartia – missing the mark, error, and therefore straying off the course to the promised end].
4 And no man takes this honor unto himself, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron [who was made a light bringer].
5 So also Christ glorified not himself to be made a high priest; but he [Jehovah alive declaring Himself] that said [in Psalms 2:7] unto him, “You are my Son, today have I begotten you.”
6 As he says also in another place [in Psalms 110:4], “You are a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.”
7 Who in the days of [when light was in the earth in] his flesh, when he [realizing He was dead without the Father’s like mind] had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard [by the Father] in that [apo – was brough down; subordinated His mind to the Father’s] he feared [eulabeia – eu lambano: and was seized by good];
8 Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience [as all men must, if they will enter this priesthood] by the things which he suffered [the necessary scourging];
9 And being made perfect [teleioo – completed, became like-minded, and well pleased the Father], he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;
10 Called of God a high priest after the order of Melchisedec.
11 Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing you are [remaining with childish thoughts] dull of hearing [but to those who receive Him, by His correction, they are heard from Him here and now].
12 For when for the time you ought [opheilema – as in verse 3 above, to “have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the way”] to be teachers, you have need that one teach you again which be the first principles [stoicheion – these elements of understanding] of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.
13 For every one that uses milk is unskillful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe [only knowing childish things of an undeveloped mind].
14 But strong meat [this deep understanding] belongs to them that are of full age [teleios – completed], even those who by reason of use [hexis – by habit] have their senses [aistheterion – only used here, meaning “faculty of the mind for perceiving, understanding, judging”] exercised [gamnazo – working out corruption from the mind] to discern [diakrisis] both good and evil.
As we know, and in the context of hearing Him now, Hebrews is written initially as a letter of introduction (as a pattern) of Timothy, a high priest (Bishop), a gentile, to the Hebrews (from ‘eber, from ‘abar – pilgrims, those who’ve reached this other side of death). They (Hebrews) were reluctant to receive him, because His father was a Greek, and they felt this disqualified him. To further describe the pattern, Paul speaks of Christ coming as such: a High Priest outside of the tribe of Levi, in the pattern of Melchizedek, the first High Priest of God (long before Levi was born). The passage further tells of the priesthood changed into Christ in us, and our following Jesus as the forerunner, appearing in and as the LORD’s presence, at His mercy seat, in the conversation with Him.
Friends, I must once again emphasize that the word of God must be received as the LORD speaking, as it is to us today, right now, in this world, in this word, manifesting His presence with us, in us, in Spirit and Truth.
John 4
23 But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship [proskuneo – said be literally like a dog {kuon} before {pros} Him: actually means, bringing down self, become the forefront, the outward appearance {pro} of His dwelling place {skenos}] the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeks such to worship [proskuneo] him.
24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship [proskuneo] him must worship [proskuneo] him in spirit and in truth.
Philippians 2
1 If there be therefore any [ei tis – when a man] consolation [paraklesis – calls to you] in Christ [the LORD alive in my flesh], if any comfort [paramuthion – only appearing here, meaning this persuasive address] of love [agape – giving this word of the LORD as received], if any fellowship [koinania – joint participation] of the Spirit, if any bowels and [if in these is revealed the LORD’s] mercies,
2 Fulfil you my joy, that you be likeminded, having the same love [agape – giving the same word as received], being of one accord, of one mind.
3 Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
4 Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.
5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
9 Wherefore God also has highly exalted him, and given him a name [Timothy – time of Theos] which is above every name: [the word time {Tim} means “a value, i.e. money paid, or (concretely and collectively) valuables; by analogy, esteem (especially of the highest degree), or the dignity itself.” It is a name never given in my family. It is given by God {Theos}, intentionally telling of the “time” no man would know, and only my father knew. The LORD spoke of sending me long ago, revealing me in His time, this Day when His understanding covers the earth.]
10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;
11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ [Jehovah Salvation manifested in the flesh] is LORD, to the glory of God the Father.
12 Wherefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed [in all ways obey], not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out [katergazomai – this is the LORD’s work in and through us: from the inside outward] your own salvation with fear and trembling.
13 For it is God which works in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
14 Do all things without murmurings and disputing:
15 That you may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom you shine as lights [understanding] in the world;
16 Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither labored in vain.
17 Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.
18 For the same cause also do you joy, and rejoice with me.
19 But I trust in the LORD Jesus to send Timotheus [Timothy – the time of God] shortly unto you, that I also may be of good comfort, when I know your state [when your obedience is fulfilled].
20 For I have no man likeminded, who will naturally care for your state.
21 For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ’s.
22 But you know the proof of him, that, as a son with the father, he has served with me in the gospel.
Isaiah 53
1 Who has believed our report [shmuw’ah – who has heard these words as the voice of the LORD, as it is]? and to whom [but those who’ve heard it as such] is the arm of the LORD revealed? [1 Thessalonians 2:13 For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when you received the word of God which you heard of us, you received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually works also in you that believe. & 19 For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even you in the presence of our LORD Jesus Christ at his coming?]
2 For he shall grow up before him [paniym – into His presence manifested before the eyes of the world] as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground [‘erets – the earth without this word of God]: 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 [paniym – hiding His presence meant to be revealed in us, and will be when awakened by] him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not [remember the meaning of the name Timothy, the name of the highest esteemed of God].
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 [daka’] for our iniquities: the chastisement [correction] of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
6 All we like sheep have gone astray [into apostacy]; we have turned every one to his own way [forgetting the only way is the LORD’s]; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep [rachel, like Rachel – her child whose birthright is the throne, traveling, journeying, through the generations] before her shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth.
8 He was taken from prison and from judgment [as was Joseph, Rachel’s child]: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living [sent here into death and hell]: for the transgression of my people was he stricken [with them].
9 And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
10 Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise [daka’] him; he has put him to grief: when you [God’s people] shall make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
11 He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
12 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he has poured out his soul unto [as a willing servant sent here into] death: and he was numbered with the transgressors [as I now Am]; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
Hebrews 12
12 Wherefore [being exercised] lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;
13 And make straight paths for your feet [back onto the right way, the LORD’s highway], lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.
14 Follow [the path to] peace with all men, and holiness [purity – when all corruption is worked out], without which no man shall see the LORD:
15 Looking [for Him] diligently [habitually] lest any man fail [by refusing this correction] of the grace [this free gift] of God; lest any root of bitterness [pikria – only used three other times, the others speaking of those thinking salvation can be bought with money, and thereby their corrupt communication curses any who believe thier teaching] springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;
16 Lest there be any fornicator, or profane [bebelos] person, as Esau [the enemies mixed among us, claiming they are at peace with us while warring against us], who for one morsel of meat [for the love of money] sold his birthright.
17 For you know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.
The five times used word bebelos (profane) meaning “from the base of 939 [basis – meaning to stand, and baino {walk}, as in lambano {seized}], and belos (a threshold); accessible (as by crossing the door-way), i.e. (by implication, of Jewish notions) heathenish, wicked,” speaking of those seized by evil. All four other uses are in Paul’s warning and charging Timothy to avoid these trespasses, not crossing this threshold into wickedness (missing the prize, selling the birthright, not reaching resurrection).
In all except one of these other four uses (of bebelos), the word astocheo appears, meaning these trespasses are not even separated elements of understanding, but are instead complete fabrications from men’s imaginations.
1 Timothy 4
1 Now the Spirit speaks expressly [specifically], that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
3 Forbidding to marry [as in the name Hymenaeus, from hymeneal, an idol that supposedly forbid marriage unless he was present and blessed it, here forbidding to join with the LORD in His ONE BODY], and commanding to abstain from meats [these deep things that strengthen and join us], which God has created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe [this word is His word] and know the truth.
4 For every creature [creation] of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving [recognizing God has given it for our good]:
5 For it is sanctified [declared good – pure and holy] by the word of God and prayer [conversing with Him to receive understanding].
6 If you put the brethren in remembrance of these things, you shall be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, whereunto you have attained.
7 But refuse profane [bebelos] and old wives’ fables, and exercise [gumnazo] yourself [work them out of yourself] rather unto godliness [defined in the mystery, in the law of the house of God, how we should conduct ourselves therein, revealed in 1 Timothy 3:16, alluding to the four faces {a man, a lion, an ox, and an eagle} of the unfolding presence of the LORD, saying “And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was {is} manifest in the flesh {a man, those who’ve received His word as the word of God, heard as lion roaring}, justified in the Spirit {while unknown working and speaking, like an ox doing this work in the earth}, seen of angels {those made pure, who become His messengers doing His work, delivering His message as received}, preached unto the Gentiles {those who haven’t known the LORD among us}, believed on in the world, received up into glory {exalted into heaven like an eagle flying, which is His presence realized in this way}.”].
8 For bodily exercise [gumnasia] profits little: but godliness is profitable [the profiting of Timothy, spoken of in verse 15 below] unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
9 This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation.
10 For therefore we both labor and suffer reproach [from those who don’t believe He is speaking], because we trust in the living God [now alive in us: risen in our flesh which was dead without Him], who is the Savior of all men, especially of those that believe [the LORD is with us and in us].
11 These things command and teach.
12 Let no man despise your youth [when I was also ignorant of His presence – although I unknowingly felt it often]; but be you an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
13 Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.
14 Neglect not the gift that is in you, which was given you by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery [the elders, who like Paul, prepared and delivered the inspired written word to us].
15 Meditate upon these things; give yourself wholly to them; that your profiting [prokope – only appearing here and in Philippians 1:12 & 25, meaning, driving forward] may appear to all.
16 Take heed unto yourself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this [this good work] you [as a faithful watchman warning all] shall both save yourself, and them that hear you.
The word prokope is from prokopto, from pro (forward) and kopto, an eight times used word, meaning “to “chop”; specially, to beat the breast in grief.” It’s used telling of lamenting death (of Babylon’s fall), of the branches cut and laid before the LORD at His coming, of the ax laid to the root of the tree that no longer brought forth fruit, and once, in Revelation 1:7, of when every eye sees (as in verse 15 above, speaking of the salvation that shall “appear to all”) the LORD coming in the clouds (in this understanding).
Revelation 1
3 Blessed is he that reads, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.
4 John [the dove, the sign of the end reached] to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace be unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come; and from the seven Spirits [the Church resurrected] which are before his throne;
5 And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,
6 And has made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
7 Behold, he comes with clouds [this understanding reserved there in separated elements, to be reassembled, revealed now in this time of war, to end the darkness]; and every eye shall see him [this profiting], and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail [kopto] because of him. Even so, Amen [this is the Truth].
8 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending [of ages], says the LORD, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.
9 I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos [the place where the word of is no longer heard, when the end is no longer understood, at “my killing”], for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.
10 I was in the Spirit on the LORD’s day [this time when His light has returned], and heard behind me a great voice [of the LORD, from His archangel], as of a trumpet [calling all to gather to this battle with Him],
11 Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What you see, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches (and they will be resurrected).
Philippians 1
2 Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the LORD Jesus Christ.
3 I thank my God upon every remembrance of you,
4 Always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy,
5 For your fellowship in the Gospel from the first day until now;
6 Being confident of this very thing, that he which has begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:
7 Even as it is meet for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in the defense and confirmation of the Gospel, you all are partakers of my grace.
8 For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.
9 And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;
10 That you may approve things that are excellent; that you may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ.
11 Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.
12 But I would you should understand, brethren, that the things which happened unto me have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of [prokope – driving forward; scourging, goading, leading humanity into salvation by] the Gospel;
13 So that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the palace, and in all other places;
14 And many of the brethren in the LORD, waxing confident by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.
15 Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will:
16 The one preaches Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds:
17 But the other of love, knowing that I am set for the defense of the Gospel.
18 What then? notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretense, or in truth, Christ is preached; and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.
19 For I know that this shall turn to my salvation through your prayer, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,
20 According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death.
21 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
22 But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labor: yet what I shall choose I wot not.
23 For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:
24 Nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you.
25 And having this confidence, I know that I shall abide and continue with you all for your furtherance [prokope – driving forward] and joy of faith;
26 That your rejoicing [your realization of the LORD’s presence herein manifested with us, in us] may be more abundant in Jesus Christ for me by my coming to you again.
27 Only let your conversation [in which the LORD is manifested above His mercy seat] be as it becomes the Gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the Gospel;
28 And in nothing terrified by your adversaries: which is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that of God.
29 For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake;
30 Having the same conflict which you saw in me, and now hear to be in me.
All the following is from the post of 29 October 2023, with today’s additions in double brackets.
1 Timothy 6
1 Let as many servants as are under the yoke [[of Christ]] count their own masters [[despotes – meaning “an absolute ruler”]] worthy of all honor, that the name [[identity]] of God and his doctrine [[didaskalia – teaching]] be not blasphemed [[vilified and demonized]].
2 And they that have believing masters [[despotes – see its use in 2 Timothy 2:21 below where it is “meet for the master’s use”]], let them not despise them, because they are brethren; but rather do them service, because they are faithful and beloved, partakers of the benefit. These things teach [[didasko]] and exhort [[parakaleo – call others to obey]].
3 If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our LORD Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness;
4 He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strife of words, whereof comes envy, strife, railings, evil surmising,
5 Perverse disputing of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw yourself.
6 But godliness with contentment is great gain.
7 For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.
8 And having food and raiment let us be therewith content.
9 But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.
10 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
11 But you, O man of God [I Am, Timothy, the title only appearing here in the New Testament], flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.
12 Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto you are also called, and have professed [homologeo] a good profession [homologia] before many witnesses.
13 I give you charge in the sight of God, who quickens all things [[out of darkness and death into His marvelous light and life]], and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession [homologia];
14 That you keep this commandment without spot, unrebukable, until the appearing [[epiphaneia – the epiphany, when what is present becomes apparent]] of our LORD Jesus Christ:
15 Which in his times he shall show, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and LORD of lords;
16 Who only has immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man has seen, nor can see: to whom be honor and power everlasting. Amen.
17 Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not high-minded [thinking their wealth makes them superior], nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who gives us richly all things to enjoy;
18 That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate [this good word of God];
19 Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay [as I have] hold on eternal life.
20 O Timothy, keep that which is committed to your trust [this dispensation the Father has Given me], avoiding profane [[bebelos]] and vain babblings [which have become the language of this generation], and oppositions of science falsely so called [antithesis gnosis pseudonumos – the arguments falsely named knowledge {anti-truth used against this truth of God}]:
21 Which some professing [epaggellos – announce themselves as if they are authors and finishers] have erred [[astocheo – with fabrications that are not elements of understanding]] concerning the faith. Grace [this gift of salvation, from which these men have erred] be with you. Amen.
The word, above in verse 21, rendered “erred” is astocheo, a negative (opposite) of stoicheo (as in stoicheion, rendered elements, rudiments, and principles, meaning “something orderly in arrangement, i.e. (by implication) a serial (basal, fundamental, initial) constituent (literally), proposition (figuratively).”
It (astocheo) only appears two other times, both in Paul’s letters to Timothy, further describing the error of the wicked he speaks of above. The LORD, in these passages, speaks to us (here and now) of the errors of the corrupt church (the institution as a whole, without light, one body united in Babylon, their confusion that resulted from following the corruptors into death and hell).
In the first of these, 1 Timothy 1:6, the LORD’s commandment is to charge men that they teach no other doctrine nor heed fables (the creations of men’s imaginations).
1 Timothy 1
5 Now the end of the commandment is charity [agape – giving as received, which is Christian love] out of a pure heart [giving this word as received, without again adding corruption], and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned [anupokritos – without dissimulation, as in Romans 12:9 Let love {agape} be without dissimulation {anupokritos}. Abhor that which is evil; cleave [[kallao]] to that which is good.]:
6 From which some having swerved [astocheo [[crossed the threshold into fabrication of their own imaginations]]] have turned aside unto vain jangling;
7 Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm.
8 But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully;
9 Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane [[bebelos]], for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
10 For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for men-stealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;
11 According to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which [dispensation] was committed to my trust.
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 [Jehovah’s Salvation in the flesh].
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 strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully.
6 The husbandman [he that works in the earth] that labors must be first partaker of the fruits [[is the first given this understanding]].
7 Consider what I say; and the LORD give you [first] understanding in all things.
8 Remember that Jesus Christ of the seed of David was raised from the dead [the first- fruit, now, of the resurrection of the dead] according to my gospel:
9 Wherein I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, even unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound [nor can any man shut what the LORD has now opened].
10 Therefore I endure all things for the elect’s sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
11 It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him:
12 If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us:
13 If we believe not [He is resurrected in me], yet he abides faithful [in me]: he cannot deny himself. [I tell you the truth, I confess without fear, Jehovah’s Salvation, Jesus, is alive from the dead, Christ, in my flesh!]
14 Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the LORD that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers.
15 Study to show yourself approved unto God, a workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
16 But shun profane [[bebelos]] and vain babblings: for they will increase [[prokopto]] unto more ungodliness.
17 And their word will eat as does a canker: of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus [those who forbid your Joining with the LORD, in His ONE BODY, one flesh, as His only son, and forbidding this they hide behind the spurious mask of caring for your soul];
18 Who concerning the truth have erred [astocheo [[into their own fabrications]]], saying that the resurrection is past already [the resurrection comes when you are freed from the lies of the false prophets and false teachers whose words and ways have carried Humanity into death and hell]; and overthrow the faith of some.
19 Nevertheless the foundation [I Am] of God stands sure, having this seal, The LORD knows them that are his. And, let every one that names the name of Christ depart [[aphistemi – meaning “to remove, i.e. (actively) instigate to revolt; usually (reflexively) to desist, desert, etc.”]] from [purge out, incise, exercise, work out of yourself] iniquity.
20 But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honor, and some to dishonor.
21 If a man therefore purge himself from these [the vessels of dishonor, in which remains the scum], he shall be a vessel unto honor, sanctified [made holy], and meet for the master’s use [[despotes]], and prepared unto every good work.
22 Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the LORD out of a pure heart.
23 But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strife [the way of the wicked, argument, continuously questioning with known lies and false accusation, intended to produce endless confusion].
24 And the servant of the LORD must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient,
25 In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;
26 And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil [endless questioning, using lies and false accusation, even when known to be such – with intention, leading captive silly women who are never able to come to the knowledge of the truth], who are taken captive by him at his will.
2 Timothy 3
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
4 Traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such [devils taking you captive] turn away.
6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
8 Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses [against him casting down rods which turned to serpents, which Aaron’s rod, turned into a serpent, ate] so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith [false prophets with not a word of God in them, speaking their own words against the son of man God has sent to free His people from this oppression].
9 But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as theirs also was.
10 But you have fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, charity, patience,
11 Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the LORD delivered me.
12 Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.
13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
14 But continue you in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing of whom you have learned them;
15 And that from a child you have known the holy scriptures, which are able to make you wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
17 That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works [which is the good fight we fight].
2 Timothy 4
1 I charge you therefore before God, and the LORD Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;
2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine.
3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
5 But watch you in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of your ministry.
Hebrews 3
1 Wherefore [He is able to recuse, succor, us from our doubt], holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling [to declare Him present, and this word as His voice], consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession [homologia – giving us His word to declare], Christ Jesus;
2 Who was [is] faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house.
3 For this man was [is] counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who has built the house has more honor than the house.
4 For every house is built by some man; but he that built all things is God.
5 And Moses truly was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony [speaking the words God gave him] of those things which were to be spoken after;
6 But Christ as a son over his own house [has given us His word to be spoken after our obedience is fulfilled]; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence [that the words are His] and the rejoicing of the hope [of His presence] firm unto the end [when we again see Him after we’ve heard Him].
7 Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost says, Today if you will hear his voice,
8 Harden not your hearts [mind that remain blinded and in disobedience], as in the provocation, in the day of temptation [doubting His presence] in the wilderness [referring to Exodus 17:6 & 7, saying “Behold, I will stand before you there upon the rock in Horeb; and you shall smite the Rock {Christ}, and there shall come water {the word of God} out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel. And he called the name of the place Massah {temptation}, and Meribah {strife and contention}, because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the LORD, saying, “Is the LORD among us, or not?”]:
9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
10 Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do always err [planao – as in the planets, wandering stars, deceives in the darkness that, because of their wandering, can’t be trusted to show the way] in their heart [[minds]]; and they have not known my ways.
11 So I swore in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)
12 Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart [misled mind] of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
Hebrews 10
1 For the law having a shadow [of ignorance] of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect [in full understanding, seeing the Father in the son, behind the veil of flesh, His presence from there leading us into salvation].
2 For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged [from blinding ignorance and corruption] should have had no more conscience of [mind in error committing] sins.
3 But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins [committed] every year.
4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away [aphaireo – to prefer by choice – literally taking away {apo} bad choices {haireomai}] sins.
5 Wherefore when he comes into the world, he says, Sacrifice and offering you would not, but a body have you prepared me [flesh in which He manifests His presence, unknown as the Paraclete {the Comforter}, the Holy Ghost, leading us away from darkness {ignorance} into His marvelous light {full understanding}, as in the name Nehemiah meaning Jehovah’s Comforter]:
6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you have had no pleasure.
7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do your will [that none would perish but that all would come to salvation], 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 [as the prescription of] the law [foreshadowing the One coming];
9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do your will, O God. He takes away the first [the shadow of ignorance of the underlying deep meaning], that he may establish the second [full understanding in the Father’s presence].
10 By the which will we are sanctified [made holy, purified from pollution] through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ [Jehovah’s Salvation manifested in the flesh] once for all.
11 And every priest stands daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. [The word here rendered “take away” is the four times used word periaireo {peri haireomai} – referring us to its use in 2 Corinthians 3:16, when the veil of ignorance of the Old Testament is “taken away,” now when we have turned to {returned to seeing} the LORD, the Father manifested in the flesh, as in Moses, as in Christ the perpetual son of ONE God in him leading His people into salvation]:
12 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God [from where he now exhibits the Father’s power in us and through us];
13 From henceforth expecting [ekdechomai – waiting expectantly, tarrying, long-suffering until He is again seen] till his enemies [whose pervading ignorance] be made his footstool.
14 For by one offering he has perfected forever them that are sanctified [by it cleared of all corruption that blinded their minds].
15 Whereof the Holy Ghost [the Father, ONE God, unknown speaking and working] also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before [in Jeremiah 31:31 – 34],
16 “This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the LORD, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;
17 And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.”
18 Now where remission [aphesis – freedom, which comes from the LORD shedding His blood: His voice speaking better things than Abel, which voice is now shaking heaven and earth, and the wicked shall be shaken from them: the voice we are warned not to ignore] of these is, there is no more offering for sin.
19 Having, therefore, brethren, boldness to enter [the presence of God above His mercy seat] into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,
20 By a new and living way [by the resurrection from death], which he has consecrated [egkainizo – inaugurated by His blood testament – the word only appearing one other time, Hebrews 9:18, where it is rendered, “testament was dedicated” {by “blood”}] for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;
21 And having a high priest over the house of God;
22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
23 Let us hold fast the profession [homologia – this same word repeated as received, which is the law of the LORD written into our minds, effectually working to change them, producing the good conscience] of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)
24 And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:
25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together [into His ONE BODY], as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as you see the day approaching.
26 For if we sin willfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more sacrifice for sins,
27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
28 He that despised Moses’ law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:
29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose you, shall he be thought worthy, who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and has done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
30 For we know him that has said [in Deuteronomy 32:35 & 36], Vengeance belongs unto me, I will recompense, says the LORD. And again, The LORD shall judge his people.
31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
32 But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after you were illuminated [given this understanding], you endured a great fight of afflictions [at the hand of those denying and mocking the LORD at His appearing and kingdom];
33 Partly, whilst you were made a gazing-stock [held up for public ridicule] both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst you became companions of them that were so used.
34 For you had compassion [had sympathy when I was publicly mocked] of me in my bonds [in this prison, the pit of mire stirred by the feet of evil doers: misleaders and false accusers: known liars telling known lies], and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods [the worthless ways and ideas the world says are valuable], knowing in yourselves that you have in heaven a better and an enduring substance [these treasures God has given us, and the eternal and abundant life they produce: as fruit].
35 Cast not away therefore your confidence, which [faith in the LORD and believing His promises] has great recompence of reward.
36 For you have need of patience, that, after you have done the will of God, you might receive the promise.
37 For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.
38 Now the just shall live by faith [in the Father]: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
39 But we are not of them who draw back [into corruption] unto perdition; but of them that believe [the Father] to the saving of the soul.
1 Corinthians 10
1 Moreover, brethren, I would not that you should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;
2 And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;
3 And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.
5 But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
6 Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
7 Neither be you idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.
8 Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
9 Neither let us tempt [doubt] Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.
10 Neither murmur you, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.
11 Now all these things happened unto them for examples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come [ending the old and corrupt and beginning the new].
12 Wherefore let him that thinketh he stands take heed lest he fall.
13 There has no temptation [doubt] taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that you are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that you may be able to bear it.
14 Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry [escape those who put themselves in God’s place, the men with which you are joined].
15 I speak as to wise men; judge you what I say.
16 The cup of blessing which we [here] bless, is it not the communion [koinonia – meaning “partnership, i.e. (literally) participation, or (social) intercourse, or (pecuniary) benefaction.”] of the blood of Christ? The bread which we [here] break, is it not the communion [koinonia] of the body of Christ?
17 For we being many are [here] one bread, and ONE BODY: for we are all partakers of that one bread [this word from the mouth of the present LORD, by which man lives].
Psalms 46
1 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble [tsarah – this tribulation].
2 Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains [the governments that have risen over the earth] be carried into the midst of the sea [the people at large];
3 Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.
4 There is a river, the streams [this word of God that flows into the sea] whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the Most High.
5 God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right early.
6 The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted.
7 The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
8 Come, behold the works of the LORD, what desolations he has made in the earth.
9 He makes wars to cease unto the end of the [old and corrupt] earth; he breaks the bow, and cuts the spear in sunder; he burns the chariot in the fire.
10 Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
11 The LORD of hosts is [a man of war, I Am] with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
