I indeed have baptized you with water: but he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost.
As we know, baptism is the act of taking us below the surface of the waters, into the deep held therein. The latter half of the title verse, Mark 1:8, speaks of Jesus (He) taking us below the surface of His flesh, revealing the Father (Jehovah) therein unknown (the Holy Spirit) speaking and working His salvation plan. In it (this latter statement) is contained the mystery of the Trinity: the Father in the Son, unknown (veiled in the flesh) among us as the Holy Spirit speaking and working to reveal Himself as One LORD, One God, bringing many sons to the same glory, in His ONE BODY.
The word rendered “Ghost” and “Spirit” when speaking of the LORD’s unknown presence, also used when speaking of our unknown identity, the inner immortal (“spirit”) present in our flesh, is pneuma, meaning “from 4154 [pneo – “to breathe hard, i.e. breeze”]; a current of air, i.e. breath (blast) or a breeze; by analogy or figuratively, a spirit, i.e. (human) the rational soul, (by implication) vital principle, mental disposition, etc., or (superhuman) an angel, demon, or (divine) God, Christ’s spirit, the Holy Spirit.”
The deeper meaning is in the seven times used word pneo, speaking of the spirits at work on the earth and of the Holy Spirit (the Father and the Son unknown, not seen) unrealized during the time the word of God is sealed (not heard from His people until this end reached).
Matthew 7 13 Enter you in at the strait [stenos – only used three times, meaning “narrow (from obstacles standing close about)” that must be avoided, speaking of the false prophets and false teachers blocking the] gate: for wide [platus – only used here, from the plasso, meaning “to mold, i.e. to shape or fabricate” speaking of the work of the same false prophets and false teachers, fabrication with which they replaced truth] is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: 14 Because strait [stenos] is the gate, and narrow [thlibo – meaning “to crowd,” speaking of the tribulation, the affliction of the crowd, the endless ignorant voices forcing their opinions as truth and increasing the confusion into now total delusion] is the way, which leadeth unto life [I Am the way the Father sent], and few there be that find it.
1 Thessalonians 3 1 Wherefore when we could no longer forbear, we thought it good to be left at Athens [among the ignorant and uncertain] alone; 2 And sent Timothy [the Comforter, the Paraclete], our brother, and minister of God, and our fellow laborer in the gospel of Christ, to establish you [give you certainty], and to comfort [parakaleo] you [leading you into all truth] concerning your faith: 3 That no man should be moved by these afflictions [thlipsis – the tribulation]: for yourselves know that we are appointed [keimai – this is the word used to tell of where the dead body of Christ was “laid,” from where He was, and we are, raised] thereunto. 4 For truly, when we were with you, we told you before that we should suffer tribulation [thlibo]; even as it came to pass, and you [now] know [is upon us]. 5 For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter [the false prophets and false teachers who are deceiving spirits possessed by Satan] have tempted you [to deny the LORD’s presence with us, in us], and our labor be in vain.
Matthew 7 15 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves [with their mouths tearing in pieces the ONE BODY]. 16 You shall know them by their fruits [their ever-open mouths spewing poison, the word of God leavened with their corruption]. Do men gather grapes of thorns [misleaders], or figs of thistles [deceivers]? 17 Even so every good tree brings forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree brings 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 brings not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. 20 Wherefore by their fruits you shall know them. [“If they speak not according to this word it is because there is no light in them.”] 21 Not every one [not the false prophets and false teachers] that says unto me, LORD, LORD, shall enter [the gate they are blocking] into the kingdom of heaven; but he that does the will of my Father which is in heaven [from where He sends this understanding the builders refuse – Psalms 127:1 Except the LORD build the house, they labor in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman wakes but in vain.]. 22 Many will say to me in that day, LORD, LORD, have we not prophesied in your name? and in your name have cast out devils? and in your name done many wonderful works? 23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, you that work iniquity [your own works, while denying the LORD’s presence, proving you don’t know Him]. 24 Therefore whosoever hears THESE sayings of mine, and [obeying] does them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: 25 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew [pneo – the spirits moved unknown], and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock [Christ, the LORD’s Spirit in the flesh from where His word flows]. 26 And every one that hears THESE sayings of mine, and does them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: 27 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew [pneo], 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.
1 Corinthians 9 24 Know you not that they which run in a race run all, but one receives the prize [Do the false prophets and false teachers understand this warning?]? So run, that you may obtain. 25 And every man that strives for the mastery [agonizomai – leads in this good fight of faith] is temperate [egkrateuomai – exercises self-restraint] in all things. Now they [the losers and winners] do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. 26 I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beats the air [aer – one of the seven times the word appears, here speaking of not fighting against the clarity, the purity by which we see God]: 27 But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection [subordination of my will to the Father’s]: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway [adokimos – “unapproved, i.e. rejected; by implication, worthless (literally or morally):–castaway, rejected, reprobate.”].
1 Corinthians 10 1 Moreover, brethren, I would not that you should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud [where understanding is held and is sent], and all passed through [dierchomai] the sea [Matthew 12:43 When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walks {dierchomai} through dry places, seeking rest, and finds none.]; 2 And were all baptized [into this same deep understand below the surface] unto Moses [revealing the LORD in the flesh speaking and working] in the cloud [given understanding from heaven] and in the sea [received by that generation, and written for all humanity to receive]; 3 And did all eat [received the same bread of heaven, from the mouth of the LORD, by which men live] the same spiritual meat [that strengthens]; 4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink [that changes the mind and loosens the lips]: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ [the LORD openly manifesting Himself in the flesh He’s chosen]. 5 But with many of them [who refused Him and His place as the head of His people] 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 [of misleader among them, creations of their own darkened minds], as they also lusted. 7 Neither be you idolaters [following these things put in God’s place], as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play. [Quoted from Exodus 32:6, speaking of when the LORD sends one from His presence to correct His people back into line, verses 7 & 8 saying, “And the LORD said unto Moses, Go, get you down; for your people, which you brought out of the land of Egypt {out of the oppression of the crowd}, have corrupted themselves: They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These be your gods, O Israel, which have brought you up out of the land of Egypt.”] 8 Neither let us commit fornication [intercourse, having the minds pierced by interaction with these idols they are joined with], as some of them committed, and fell [into the bottomless pit from which there is no rising for those who refuse the LORD’s correction] in one day three and twenty thousand. 9 Neither let us tempt Christ [doubting the LORD’s presence sent in this way], as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents [by following the men among them whose words are poisonous and delivered oh so subtly]. 10 Neither murmur you, as some of them also murmured [against the one He sends], 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. 12 Wherefore let him that thinks he stands [in the truth for the LORD, of whom all have been ignorant] take heed [be warned here and now], lest he fall [into the same bottomless pit from where there is no rising for those who reject him]. 13 There has no temptation [doubting the LORD’s presence] 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 [to eventually comprehend]; 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 [the idols men put in His place and call by His name]. 15 I speak as to wise men; judge you what I say. 16 The cup [here and now] of blessing which we bless [thank the LORD for], is it not the communion [our common union] of the blood of Christ [His sacrifice in the flesh to deliver it as received from the Father, in His name, His true identity manifesting His presence therein]? The bread which we break [this complete work, rightly divided from His mouth, by which man lives], is it not the communion [common union] of the [ONE] BODY of Christ? 17 For we being many are one bread [completed by his work], and ONE BODY: for we are all partakers of that one bread [His completing, perfecting, work]. 18 Behold Israel after the flesh: are not they which eat of the sacrifices partakers of the altar? 19 What say I then? that the idol [things which men put in His place and called by His name] is any thing, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing? 20 But I say, that the things which the Gentiles [those who don’t know the LORD, even those calling their idols by His name] sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils [the miseaders they follow into perdition], and not to God: and I would not that you should have fellowship with devils. 21 You cannot drink the cup of the LORD, and the cup of devils [misleaders possessed by Satan]: you cannot be partakers of the LORD’s table, and of the table of devils.
Friends, I tell you the truth: the word of God was sealed for many generations before this last evil generation into which the LORD sent me. “For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.”
Isaiah 28 1 Woe to the crown of pride [proud of the things they know and teach, which just aren’t true], to the drunkards of Ephraim [the misleaders and the misled of God’s people who are a double ruin in this evil generation, who’ve eaten and drank what is delivered from idols they put in God’s place and call by His name], whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine! 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, shall cast down to the earth with the hand [this work for which He’s sent me]. 3 The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet [of those who receive this understand, His manifested presence speaking and working, and willingly submit to the will of God: do the work that pleases the Father]: 4 And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer; which when he that looketh upon it sees, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up [as the glory of the drunkard is eaten up by the LORD’s manifested presence]. 5 In that day [this time when light has returned] shall the LORD of hosts [a man of war, and the Head of the ONE BODY, the Commander of the army of heaven] be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem [tsphiyrah – only appearing two other places, both in Ezekiel 7, a chapter speaking this end come; there rendered “morning” when this crowning occurs, when His word, this word, is exalted above all other voices] of beauty, unto the residue of his people, [Ezekiel 7:7 The morning [tsphiyrah – of this crowning] is come unto you, O you that dwell in the land {‘erets – this earth moment}: the time is come, the day of trouble is near {qarowb – upon us}, and not the sounding again of the mountains {no longer hearing and obeying the words of the misleaders in power in church and state}.] 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 [trampling down the gates of hell, the mouth of men who are ignorant of God, and proud of what they think they know, even calling them by His name, saying “He said,” when they never knew Him]. 7 But they [those who sit in His judgment seat, His mercy seat from where His voice should be heard] 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 [into the belly of hell] of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision [saying they see when they see nothing but darkness], 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 – shama’ Jehovah, this report, to understand it is the voice of the LORD heard and obeyed]? them that are weaned from the milk [don’t remain in a childish state, only seeing superficially], and drawn [attiyq – only used elsewhere in 1 Chronicles 4:22] from the breasts. [1 Chronicles 4:22, speaking of those who “dwelt with the king for his work,” saying “And Jokim {who Jehovah raises up}, and the men of Chozeba {against falsehood}, and Joash {given, sent, by Jehovah} and Saraph {to burn up all falsehood in the trial in hell’s fires}, who had the dominion in Moab {power over the gates of hell, the mouths of wicked men}, and Jashubilehem {by the return of this bead, this word from the mouth of the LORD, by which man lives}. And these are ancient {attiyq} things.”] 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 [this truth which is thought to be vain repetition and a foreign language to those who only know lies] will he speak to this people. [In this verse the mystery {the sealed truth} of Pentecost is reveals to be when men who’ve received this word of God, by the work of the LORD unknown {as the Holy Ghost}, repeat it as receives, which the ignorant can’t understand, but the wise do understand. Daniel 12:9 And he said, Go your way, Daniel {judgment of God}: 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.] 12 To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith you may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear [shama’ – refusing to hear it as His voice, and obey]. 13 But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken. 14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, you scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem. 15 Because you have said, “We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:” 16 Therefore thus says the LORD GOD [‘Adonay Jehovih – KING of kings and LORD of lords], 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 [not flee from Him in shame]. [Psalms 118:22 The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner {turning our heads again to the Father in heaven}. 23 This is the LORD’s doing; it is marvellous in {opening} our eyes {to His presence}. 24 This is the day {time of His light rising} which the LORD has made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.] 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 [maveth] shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell [sheol] shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then you shall be trodden down by it. 19 From the time that it goes forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report [shmuw’ah – the sound doctrine, teaching, and the “rumor” of Ezekiel 7:26, which is the voice of Jehovah heard]. 20 For the bed is shorter than that a [sleeping] 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 [Jehovah] shall rise up as in mount Perazim [2 Samuel 5:20 – as water from His throne, breaking forth upon His and David’s 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: the current corrupt crop sitting in power], that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange [known to no one except Him] act. 22 Now therefore be you not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the LORD GOD [‘Adonay Jehovih – KING of kings and LORD of lords], of hosts [a man of war and Commander, Chief, of the army of heaven] a consumption [kalah – a full end, as in Daniel 9:27], even determined [charats – decreed, as in Joshua 10:21 saying “And all the people returned to the camp to Joshua {Jesus} at Makkedah {as one flock under one shepherd} in peace: none moved {charats} his tongue against any of the children of Israel.” And 2 Samiel 5:24, the LORD saying to David, “And let it be, when you hear {shama’ – obey} the sound {qowl – the voice} of a going in the tops of the mulberry trees {baka’, from which come bkowr – telling us this is the voice of the “firstborn”}, that then you shall bestir yourself: for then shall the LORD go out before {paniym – His presence will be manifested with, in} you, to smite the host of the Philistines {the enemy army now mixed among you}.”] upon the whole earth [‘erets]. 23 Give you ear, and hear [shama’ – and obey] my voice [qowl]; hearken, and hear [shama’ – and obey] my speech.
Ezekiel 7 8 Now will I shortly [qarowb] pour out my fury upon you, and accomplish [kalah – as used twice in Daniel 12:7; to finish] my anger upon you: and I will judge you according to your ways, and will recompense you for all your abominations [tow’ebah]. 9 And my eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will recompense you according to your ways and your abominations [tow’ebah] 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 [tsphiyray – the crowning] is gone forth; the rod has blossomed, pride has budded. 11 Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness: none of them shall remain, nor of their multitude, nor of any of theirs: neither shall there be wailing for them. 12 The time is come, the day draws 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 [the faithful of the LORD] have blown the trumpet [giving ample warning], even to make all ready; but none goes to the battle: for my wrath is upon all the multitude thereof. 15 The sword [this word they refuse] is without [the camp], and the pestilence [the disease that comes upon the wicked at My presence manifested] and the famine [God’s people refusing His word] 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 [palat] of them shall escape [paliyt], and shall be on the mountains [going into God’s new government] like doves of the valleys [as signs to the lowly of the end reached], all of them mourning [the end of the old and corrupt heaven and earth], 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 [all the things the old and corrupt world thought were of value] 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 [the things in which they trust] is the stumbling-block [mikshowl – the likeness of hell, following things desired] of their iniquity. 20 As for the beauty of his ornament [the words with which the LORD has clothed, adorned, us], he set it in majesty [ga’own – He exalted it above all worldly value]: but they made the images of their abominations [tow’ebah] and of their detestable things therein: therefore have I set it [My majesty] far from them. 21 And I will give it [images you’ve created] 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 [paniym – My presence] will I turn also from them, and they shall pollute my secret [tsaphan] place [so none see any value in these treasures]: for the robbers shall enter into it, and defile it. 23 Make a chain [rattowq – only used elsewhere in 1 Kings 6:21, where it’s a “chain” overlayed {tsaphah} with gold, desired worldly value, that hides the true treasure within {the ‘abar – the way to pass over from death into life} in the oracle {the holy of holies, in the LORD’s presence manifested in the conversation}]: for the land is full of bloody crimes [against truth tellers], and the city is full of violence [against this word of God]. 24 Wherefore I will bring the worst of the heathen, and they shall possess their houses [as they now do]: I will also make the pomp of the strong to cease; and their holy places shall be defiled [as they are: Isaiah 28:8 For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.]. 25 Destruction comes; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none. 26 Mischief [hovah, from havah] shall come upon mischief [hovah], and rumor [shmuw’ah – this voice of Jehovah heard] shall be upon rumor [shmuw’ah – His voice teaching, precept upon precept, line upon line, not yet believed to be the voice of Jehovah] then shall they seek a vision of the [false] prophet[s]; but the law shall perish from the priest[s], and counsel from the ancients [all the robbers who’ve put themselves in My place]. [The word hovah, referring to the effects of the strong delusion the LORD has sent upon the insane, only appears one other time, in Isaiah 47:11, saying “Therefore shall evil come upon you; you shall not know from whence it rises: and mischief {hovah} shall fall upon you; you shall not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon you suddenly, which you shall not know {because you’ve been chained in your own ignorance}.”] 27 The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land [‘erets – the earth] shall be troubled: I will do unto them after their way, and according to their deserts [mishpat – according to their corrupt judgment, by the precedent of their evil shall the evil judge them, and thereby] will I judge them; and they shall know that I am the LORD
The following, ending in Revelation 22, is the complete post from 18 February 2018 (with today’s additions in double brackets).
He, that being Often Reproved Hardens His Neck, shall Suddenly be Destroyed, and that Without Remedy (and the wheels comes quickly)
Continuing: the title is Proverbs 29:1, a chapter that goes on to detail self-chosen destruction as the choice of fools, usually in power and misleading many. The title speaks of the stiff-necked, those who are unwilling to turn their heads, to look in a direction different than where they are focused. The direction they are rejecting is correction, and their destruction comes “because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.” This is what shows them to be foolish, and those who the LORD corrects many times, as were those in the time of Noah, as was Pharaoh, yet they continue in their foolishness.
Proverbs 29 1 He, that being often reproved hardens his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy. 2 When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked bears rule, the people mourn. 3 Whoso loves wisdom rejoices his father: but he that [is unfaithful to wisdom] keeps company with harlots spends his substance. 4 The king by judgment establishes the land: but he that receives gifts overthrows [as have those who’ve made themselves rich by doing their duty]. 5 A man that flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet. 6 In the transgression of an evil man there is a snare: but the righteous does sing and rejoice. 7 The righteous considers the cause of the poor: but the wicked regards not to know it [as have all those who have ignored the abominations and the desolation done in the name of Christ]. 8 Scornful men bring a city into a snare: but wise men turn away wrath. 9 If a wise man contends with a foolish man, whether he rage or laugh, there is no rest [so, I speak to the wise, so they understand why destruction comes to the stiff necked, after much longsuffering]. 10 The bloodthirsty hate the upright: but the just seek [[to save]] his soul. 11 A fool utters all his mind: but a wise man keeps it in till afterwards. 12 If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked. 13 The poor and the deceitful man meet together: the LORD lightens both their eyes. 14 The king that faithfully judges the poor, his throne shall be established for ever. 15 The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself brings his mother to shame. 16 When the wicked are multiplied, transgression increases: but the righteous shall see their fall. 17 Correct your son, and he shall give you rest; yea, he shall give delight unto your soul. 18 Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keeps the law, happy is he. 19 A servant will not be corrected by words: for though he understand he will not answer. 20 See you a man that is hasty in his words? there is more hope of a fool than of him. 21 He that delicately brings up his servant from a child shall have him become his son at the length [refer to verse 19 – a son corrected will correct]. 22 An angry man stirs up strife, and a furious man abounds in transgression. 23 A man’s pride shall bring him low: but honor shall uphold the humble in spirit. 24 Whoso is partner with a thief hates his own soul: he hears cursing, and rebukes it not. 25 The fear of man brings a snare: but whoso puts his trust in the LORD shall be safe. 26 Many seek the ruler’s favor; but every man’s judgment comes from the LORD. 27 An unjust man is an abomination to the just: and he that is upright in the way is abomination to the wicked.
Here, in the final verse is the mystery solved: what is the abomination that has caused the desolation of God’s people, and what triggers the sudden end that destroys the wicked?
The word used here, rendered “abomination,” is tow`ebah, meaning something that is considered morally disgusting. We know the ways of the just are faithfulness, wisdom, truth, and morality based on the natural state and, therefore, normal. The course of fools is to reject wisdom, rely on deception, to pervert the natural/normal, and to achieve this, they must reject and redefine both the apparent reality and the right connecting of cause and effect.
The LORD tells us we will know this time when we see [understand] the abomination that causes desolation; Matthew saying it will be in the holy place, and Mark says it will be where it ought not.
The Greek word the LORD uses is bdelugma, meaning detestable, as in idolatry. It is from the words bdeo, meaning to stink, and logismos, meaning computation; reasoning, as conscience or conceit. To understand this stink [[perceiving something not seen or heard]], see the recent post titled, “The LORD Knows Those that are His – by Their Smell.”
The word logismos is only used two times: once in Romans 2:15 as “thoughts” and the other in 2 Corinthians 10:5 as “imaginations.”
In Romans 2 it tells of the Gospel, the good news of the LORD’s appearing to justify those whose thoughts are in agreement with His, and who are not only teachers of the law but also doers. It is defining the “just” we’re told of in Proverbs 29:27, and in Romans 2, the “just” God who will judge all without respect of person.
Romans 2 1 Therefore you are inexcusable, O man, whosoever you are that judges: for wherein you judges another, you condemns yourself; for you that judges does the same things. 2 But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things. 3 And think you this, O man, that judges them which do such things, and does the same, that you shall escape the judgment of God? 4 Or despises you the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance? 5 But after your hardness and impenitent heart treasures up unto yourself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God; 6 Who will render to every man according to his deeds: 7 To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, eternal life: 8 But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, 9 Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that does evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile; 10 But glory, honor, and peace, to every man that works good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile: 11 For there is no respect of persons with God. 12 For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law; 13 (For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified. 14 For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves: 15 Which show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts [logismos] the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;) 16 In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel. 17 Behold, you are called a Jew, and rests in the law, and makes your boast of God, 18 And know his will, and approves the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law; 19 And are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness, 20 An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which have the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law. 21 You therefore which teaches another, teaches you not yourself? you that preaches a man should not steal, do you steal? 22 You that says a man should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? you that abhors idols, do you commit sacrilege? 23 You that make your boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonor you God? 24 For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written. 25 For circumcision truly profits, if you keep the law: but if you be a breaker of the law, your circumcision is made uncircumcision. 26 Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision? 27 And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge you, who by the letter and circumcision do transgress the law? 28 For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: 29 But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.
In 2 Corinthians 10:5 logismos is telling of the imaginations, and everything that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, which, therefore, must be cast down. Paul defines this as our warfare, pulling down these strongholds. This chapter, as does Romans 2, is describing the antichrists, the fakes sitting in God’s seats of justice, and their abominations, the stinking, rotten fruit they’ve produced: the fables they have created from their conceit and imaginations. These are what have caused the desolation of the church in total, the one body now as sheep scattered to the four winds, and these men in making merchandise of those scattered have become rich, and/or have ascended to power. The gospel written in Romans 2, the good news that the Father sent the son into the world, not to condemn men, but to pull them from the fires in this world now become hell, is the gospel the LORD tells of in Matthew 24. He says so just before speaking of this moment when all “see the abomination” standing in the holy place where it ought not. It is defining the time to run from these places, as discussed in recent posts, that we are not partakers in their plagues (disease).
Matthew 24 11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many [as it is now]. 12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. 13 But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved. 14 And THIS gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come. 15 When you therefore shall see the abomination [[bdelugma]] of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso reads, let him understand:) 16 Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains: 17 Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house: 18 Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes. 19 And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days! 20 But pray you that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the Sabbath day: 21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. 22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened. 23 Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not. 24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. 25 Behold, I have told you before. 26 Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not. 27 For as the lightning comes out of the east, and shines even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be [the true Christ comes as the sun, shining on every man, and to every man. It is the door of your own mind every person must open to Him. This is the hope we hope for, Christ in us]. 28 For where-so-ever the carcasses [of the church] is, there will the eagles be gathered together [the vultures to devour, and the LORD to stir His own nest so His young [[eagles]] will fly].
2 Corinthians 10 1 Now I Timothy myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence am base among you, but being absent am bold toward you: 2 But I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence, wherewith I think to be bold against some, which think of us as if we walked according to the flesh. 3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: 4 (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) 5 Casting down imaginations [logismos], and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; 6 And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled. 7 Do you look on things after the outward appearance? if any man trust to himself that he is Christ’s, let him of himself think this again, that, as he is Christ’s, even so are we Christ’s. 8 For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the LORD has given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed: 9 That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters. 10 For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible. 11 Let such an one think this, that, such as we are in word by letters when we are absent, such will we be also in deed when we are present. 12 For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise. 13 But we will not boast of things without our measure, but according to the measure of the rule which God has distributed to us, a measure to reach even unto you. 14 For we stretch not ourselves beyond our measure, as though we reached not unto you: for we are come as far as to you also in preaching the gospel of Christ: 15 Not boasting of things without our measure, that is, of other men’s labors; but having hope, when your faith is increased, that we shall be enlarged by you according to our rule abundantly, 16 To preach the gospel in the regions beyond you, and not to boast in another man’s line of things made ready to our hand. 17 But he that glories, let him glory in the LORD. 18 For not he that commends himself is approved, but whom the LORD commends.
Bdelugma is only used six times, twice as already mentioned, and three times in Revelation, describing the abominations of the mystery women of Babylon. The final time is in Luke 16:15, as the LORD explains what is an abomination in the sight of God: seeing it as God sees it. The abomination is unfaithfulness: through conceit and imagination (damnable heresies) leaving God and His ways, and in the case of those who now control His church and His nation, it is following the idols who have destroyed so many people and nations before them. This is the harlotry described in Revelation 17:4 & 5, and the abominations spoke of in Revelation 21:27 that (and those who work them) will not enter New [[Heavenly]] Jerusalem.
Luke 16 11 If therefore you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches? 12 And if you have not been faithful in that which is another man’s, who shall give you that which is your own? 13 No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. 14 And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him. 15 And he said unto them, You are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knows your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination [[bdelugma]] in the sight of God. 16 The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presses [[biazo – “to force, i.e. (reflexively) to crowd oneself (into), or (passively) to be seized”]] into it. 17 And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law [[the written word]] to fail.
Revelation 17 1 And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will show unto you the judgment of the great whore that sits upon many waters: 2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication. 3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman [God’s people] sit upon a scarlet colored beast [blood – advice of the mass media], full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns [the church and her creations – false doctrines which give her power]. 4 And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet color, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations [[bdelugma]] and filthiness of her fornication: 5 And upon her forehead was a name written, Mystery, Babylon [confusion – tohuw] The Great, The Mother Of Harlots And Abominations [[bdelugma]] Of The Earth. 6 And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration. 7 And the angel said unto me, Wherefore did you marvel? I will tell you the mystery of the woman [the unfaithful people of God], and of the beast [mass media] that carries her, which has the seven heads and ten horns [the church and the creations that give her power]. 8 The beast that you saw was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit [the projection of bad advice, and the never-ending fall away from God it produces], and go into perdition [perishing]: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is. 9 And here is the mind which has wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains [seats of God where the fallen church sit as if it is God], on which the woman sits. 10 And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he comes, he must continue a short space. 11 And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth [[the final totally corrupt church that is part of Babylon: ruled by the common delusions that rule all the corrupt institutions of this evil generation]], and is of the seven, and goes into perdition [perish in the total desolation come from their abominations]. 12 And the ten horns which you saw are ten kings [[the powers, all civil governments]], which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast [these are the creation of those sitting in Gods seats, which they project and use to keep Gods people under confusion’s rule]. 13 These have one mind. [[common confusion turned insanity]], and shall give their power and strength unto the beast [[without the LORD’s Spirit]]. 14 These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is LORD of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful. 15 And he said unto me, The waters which you saw, where the whore sits, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues. 16 And the ten horns [false doctrines [[spawning corruption in civil government]]] which you saw upon the beast [[[insanity without the LORD’s Spirit]] projected through mass media], these shall hate the whore [the people of God], and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with [[hell’s]] fire. 17 For God has put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast [the mass media and the culture it has created], until the words of God shall be fulfilled. 18 And the woman which you saw is that great city [[Babylon]], which reigns over the kings of the earth.
Revelation 18 [the end of Confusion – Babylon] 1 And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened [[given understanding]] with his glory. 2 And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird [[that flies in heaven, the places where understanding should be found and is no longer]]. 3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies. 4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that you be not partakers of her sins, and that you receive not of her plagues. 5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities. 6 Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she has filled fill to her double. 7 How much she has glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she says in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow. 8 Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the LORD God who judges her. 9 And the kings [[the ten horns]] of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning, 10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is your judgment come. 11 And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buys their merchandise any more: 12 The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble, 13 And cinnamon, and odors, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men. 14 And the fruits that your soul lusted after are departed from you, and all things which were dainty and goodly are departed from you, and you shall find them no more at all. 15 The merchants of these things, which were made rich by her, shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping and wailing, 16 And saying, Alas, alas that great city, that was clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls! 17 For in one hour so great riches is come to naught. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off, 18 And cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like unto this great city! 19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate. 20 Rejoice over her, you heaven, and you holy apostles and prophets; for God has avenged you on her. 21 And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all. 22 And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in you; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more in you; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in you; 23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in you; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in you: for your merchants were the great men of the earth; for by your sorceries were all nations deceived. 24 And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.
Revelation 21 22 And I saw no temple therein: for the LORD God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. 23 And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof. 24 And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honor into it. 25 And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there. 26 And they shall bring the glory and honor of the nations into it. 27 And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defiles, neither whatsoever works abomination [[bdelugma]], or makes a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb’s book of life.
Revelation 22 1 And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. 2 In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. 3 And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him: 4 And they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads. 5 And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the LORD God gives them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever. 6 And he said unto me, These sayings are faithful and true: and the LORD God of the holy prophets sent his angel to show unto his servants the things which must shortly be done. 7 Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he that keeps the sayings of the prophecy of this book.
From the post of 19 March 2021:
John 3 5 Jesus answered, Truly, truly, I say unto you, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. 6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. 7 Marvel not that I said unto you, You must be born again. 8 The wind blows [[pneo]] where it lists [the Spirit move as He wills], and you hear the sound [the voice] thereof, but can not tell from where it comes, and where it goes: so is every one that is born of the Spirit. 9 Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be? 10 Jesus answered and said unto him, Are you a master [teachers] 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 [upon the nec – the pole already raised], 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. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believes on him is not condemned: but he that believes not is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation [krisis – the decision point], that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that does evil hates the light, neither comes to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that does truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
From 13 April 2018:
2 Samuel 22 8 Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations of heaven moved and shook, because he was wroth. 9 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it. 10 He bowed the heavens also, and came down; and darkness was under his feet. 11 And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly [[like an eagle]]: and he was seen upon the wings of the wind. 12 And he made darkness [[men’s ignorance]] pavilions round about him, dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies. 13 Through the brightness [[understanding]] before him were coals of fire kindled. 14 The LORD thundered [[the voice of the light, as a lion roaring]] from heaven, and the most High uttered his voice.
2 Thessalonians 1 7 And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the LORD Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, 8 In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our LORD Jesus Christ: 9 Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the LORD, and from the glory of his power; 10 When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.
Psalms 118 1 O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: because his mercy endures forever. 2 Let Israel now say, that his mercy endures forever. 3 Let the house of Aaron now say, that his mercy endures forever. 4 Let them now that fear the LORD say, that his mercy endures forever. 5 I called upon the LORD in distress: the LORD answered me, and set me in a large place. 6 The LORD is on my side; I will not fear: what can man do unto me? 7 The LORD takes my part with them that help me: therefore shall I see my desire upon them that hate me. 8 It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man. 9 It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in princes. 10 All nations compassed me about: but in the name [[manifesting the presence alive in me]] of the LORD will I destroy them. 11 They compassed me about [[spewing their ignorance against me]]; yea, they compassed me about: but in the name of the LORD I will destroy them. 12 They compassed me about like bees: they are quenched as the fire of thorns [[misleaders]]: for in the name [[identity]] of the LORD I will destroy them. 13 You have thrust sore at me that I might fall: but the LORD helped me. 14 The LORD is my strength and song [[the words in my mouth that I repeat as received]], and is become my salvation. 15 The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tabernacles of the righteous: the right hand of the LORD does valiantly. 16 The right hand of the LORD is exalted: the right hand of the LORD does valiantly. 17 I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the LORD. 18 The LORD has chastened me sore: but he has not given me over unto death. 19 Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will go into them, and I will praise the LORD: 20 This gate of the LORD, into which the righteous shall enter. 21 I will praise you: for you have heard me, and are become my salvation. 22 The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner [[turning our head back to the LORD]]. 23 This is the LORD’s doing; it is marvelous in [[opening]] our eyes. 24 This is the day which the LORD has made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. 25 Save now [[Hosanna]], I beseech you, O LORD: O LORD, I beseech you, send now prosperity. 26 Blessed be he that comes in the name [[declared the presence with us, in us]] of the LORD [[these are words that will be heard from those that now see the LORD again – Matthew 23:39 For I say unto you, You shall not see me henceforth, till you shall say, Blessed is he that comes in the name of the LORD.]]: we have blessed you out of the house of the LORD. 27 God is the LORD, which has shown us light: bind the sacrifice with cords, even unto the horns of the altar [[the power in repeating these words as received, in the name, declaring the identity, of the LORD alive with us, in us]]. 28 You are my God, and I will praise you: you are my God, I will exalt you [[Your voice above all other voices]]. 29 O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endures forever.
Thus says the LORD of hosts; Turn you unto me, says the LORD of hosts, and I will turn unto you, says the LORD of hosts.
The above is the LORD, through (in) Zechariah, speaking to His people about His displeasure with those before them who led them into self-destruction. It comes after (like here and now) the nation was destroyed from within (by worshipping idols, men’s creations, put in the LORD’s place), and they were held captive under the control of their enemies for seventy years.
The LORD (like now) addresses His people (who’ve turned from Him), identifying Himself as the LORD of hosts, speaking of His position as the Chief of the army of heaven, and Himself as a man of war. The idea of war relates to Him (once He’s begun), not stopping until He’s achieved His objectives and His enemies are vanquished.
As we know, Zechariah (those who remember, zakar, Jehovah), in chapters 3 & 4, tells of Him (the LORD) reestablishing His government on the earth, first cleansing the priesthood (described as Joshua, Jesus: Jehovah’s Salvation manifested in living, cleansed, flesh) and then civil government (Zerubbabel, those born again by coming out of confusion).
In chapter 3, the enemy is identified as Satan standing at the right hand of the priesthood to “resist” (from the word satan) the LORD’s work. Against him, the LORD says, “The LORD rebuke you, O Satan; even the LORD that has chosen [New Heavenly] Jerusalem rebukes you: is not this a brand plucked out of the fire?”
The word “chosen” is from the Hebrew word bachar, meaning “properly, to try, i.e. (by implication) select.” The word reveals the LORD assessing His people in the fire (the trial) to determine who He will use and who He will (those opposing Him) rebuke. As we know, those “plucked” (natsal) are the same Paul speaks of (in 1 Thessalonians 4:17) as “caught up” (harpazo) into heaven.
This (harpazo) is the LORD choosing, in the preparation, who He will use, “seizing” them to Himself and away from the possession of Satan (who rules hell on earth). This event is (as now) when He is working here on the earth, seizing minds, mustering His army, out of (cleansing from) confusion into full understanding (into heaven with Him on the earth). (And among those the LORD rebukes are those resisting Him: still taking His name in vain and preaching an off-the-planet “rapture.”)
Jude 1 8 Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities. 9 Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, does not bring against him a railing accusation, but says, “The LORD rebukes you.” 10 But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves. 11 Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain (who killed his brother, and why did he kill him? because his {Abel’s} words and works were more righteous than his and were accepted by God) and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward (who hired himself out to curse God’s people, which {curse} God turned into a blessing), and perished in the gainsaying of Core (Korah, who opposed the declared will of God, spoken from the flesh of His choosing, and for it was swallowed by the earth). 12 These are spots in your feasts of charity [agape – giving this word of God as received], when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds [where understanding should be found] they are without water [without the true word of God in them], carried about of winds [of false doctrine]; trees whose fruit withers, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; 13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars [planets, without fixed positions, deceiving those trying to navigate in the darkness], to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness [their own ignorance] forever. 14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the LORD comes with ten thousands of his saints [whose lot is cast into this evil time, at the LORD’s will], 15 To execute judgment [krisis – forcing men to decide between good and evil] upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly [who are as proud waves raging against the truth] among them of all their ungodly deeds [the work of evil we now see and know] which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches [skleros] which ungodly sinners have spoken against him. [In this verse the LORD gives us the key to victory, the choice is between them and us, the repulsive reality they themselves uncover, the truly weird, abnormal, evil in them, in this apocalypse.] 16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth [devouring as serpents and whales] speaking great swelling words, having men’s [perverse] persons in admiration [condemning or forgiving] because of advantage [their positions of worldly power over God’s people]. 17 But, beloved, remember you the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our LORD Jesus Christ; 18 How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time [these last days we know are upon us], who should walk after their own ungodly lusts. 19 These be they who separate themselves [from the LORD, saying they are holier than He], sensual, having not the Spirit. 20 But you, beloved, building up [edifying] yourselves [accepting the change, putting] on your most holy faith [which was once delivered, the first dominion, to His saints appearing with Him], praying in the Holy Ghost [revealing the LORD, unknown to the ungodly, in and through you speaking and working]. 21 Keep [protect] yourselves in the love [agape – by giving this word] of God [with us, in us], looking for the mercy [correction and not destruction] of our LORD Jesus Christ [manifested in His unrelenting conversation here above His mercy seat] unto eternal life. 22 And of some have compassion, making a difference: 23 And others save with fear [making them aware they are perishing by following the perverse ways of the wicked powers of darkness], pulling [harpazo – the word rendered “caught up” {meaning to seize} in 1 Thessalonians 4:17] them out of the [hell] fire; hating even the garment [the dead flesh] spotted [stained] by the flesh [of those spoken of in verse 12 above]. 24 Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, 25 To the only wise God our Savior, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.
Deuteronomy 33 20 And of Gad [the LORD’s saints as His risen army] he said, Blessed be he that enlargeth Gad: he dwells as a lion [from whom this word is heard roaring], and tears the arm with the crown of the head [the strength of the those in power]. 21 And he provided the first part for himself, because there, in a portion of the lawgiver, was he seated; and he came [‘athah – the LORD arrived] with the heads of the people, he [in His army] executed the justice of the LORD, and his judgments with Israel.
The final use of the word ‘athah, speaking of the arrival of God, His appearing in His kingdom on the earth, comes in Micah 4:8.
Micah 4 1 But in the last days [‘achariyth] it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains [His government above all others], and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow [as the waters of the sea] 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 [yarah, as in Jerusalem, yara’ shalam: flow His ways of sustainable peace and security into us, as living waters into the sea] us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion [My throne here on the earth], and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. 3 And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off [rachowq – this time when the earth is ruled by the evil decrees of wicked men]; 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 any more. 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 [who is a man of righteous war] has spoken it. 5 For all people [if they choose] will walk everyone in the name of his god [men putting themselves in the place of the true God], and we [demonstrating His better ways and ideas] 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 halted [went lame and strayed from My high {better} way], and I will gather her that is driven out, and her that I have afflicted [letting them experience the consequences of following men who put themselves in My place]; 7 And I will make her that halted [those who strayed] a remnant [My elect remnant in these last days, those remaining alive with me], and her that was cast far off [from Me] a strong nation: and the LORD shall reign over them in mount Zion [My kingdom on the earth, where I will dwell] from henceforth, even forever. 8 And you, O tower [you that see these things and understand what has come and is coming] of the flock, the strong hold of the daughter of Zion, unto you shall it come [‘athah – to the LORD’s arrival], even the first dominion; the kingdom shall come to the daughter of Jerusalem [His saints into whom these living waters have flowed His life]. 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 [to bring forth the king in your midst – I Am]. 10 Be in pain, and labor to bring forth, 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 [realizing and confessing the confusion in the corrupt city where you dwell apart from the LORD]; there shall you be delivered; there the LORD shall redeem you from the hand of your enemies. 11 Now also many nations [those who don’t know the LORD and therefore can’t see His presence] are gathered against you [against those that do see Him, as they are this day], that say, Let her be defiled [by their evil words and false accusations], and let our eye look upon Zion [proclaiming what their evil eye sees here in the LORD’s kingdom among them]. 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 [to be separated from His people as chaff separated from wheat]. 13 Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion [the government of God on the earth, ruling in His people]: for I will make your horn [power] 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.
Zechariah (in chapters 1 & 2), after speaking of the workmen, those the LORD first separates from the voices misleading them, ends chapter 2 telling of His next objective.
Zechariah 2 5 For I, says the LORD, will be unto her a wall of [protective] fire round about [cabiyb – the full circuit of the LORD’s work, as Ezekiel saw as His presence in the wheels], and will be the glory in the midst of her [in His people]. 6 Ho, ho, come forth, and flee from the land [‘erets] of the north [the earth covered in darkness: complete ignorance of His presence], says the LORD: for I have spread you abroad [paras – as Ezekiel 2:10; this written word sent as the LORD presence, in this exposition] as the four winds of the heaven [giving full understanding of the time, fallen condition, and mission], says the LORD. [Ezekiel 2:9 And when I looked, behold, a hand was sent unto me; and, lo, a roll of a book was therein; 10: And he spread {paras} it {paniym – as His presence} before me; and it was written within {paniym – of His presence} and without {achowr – in these last days of darkness}: and there was written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe.] 7 Deliver yourself, O Zion [My new government], that dwell with the daughter of Babylon [come out of confusion and be born again]. 8 For thus says the LORD of hosts; After the glory [to bring it into His people at large] has he sent me unto the nations [those who haven’t known Me] which spoiled you: for he that touches you touches the apple of his eye [those the LORD has taught to see as He sees]. 9 For, behold, I will shake my hand upon them [those who’ve spoiled and touched you], and they shall be a spoil to their servants: and you shall know that the LORD of hosts has sent me. 10 Sing [repeat these words with me] and rejoice [showing you realized His presence with us, in us], O daughter of Zion [the LORD’s people under His rule]: for, lo, I come, and I will dwell in the midst of you [with you, in you], says the LORD. 11 And many nations [who haven’t known Him] shall be joined to the LORD in that day [this time when light, understanding, and life have returned], and shall be my people: and I will dwell in the midst of you, and you shall know that the LORD of hosts has sent me unto you. [John 14:19 Yet a little while, and the world sees me no more; but you see me: because I live, you shall live also. 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 loves me {agapao – receives this word as His, and obeying His commandments, gives it as received]: and he that loves {agapao} me shall be loved {agapao} of my Father, and I will love {agapao} him, and will {in this process of giving and receive Me} manifest myself {My presence} to him. 1 John 3:2 Beloved, now are we {by correction} the sons of God, and it does not yet appear {phaneroo – is not yet rendered apparent} what we shall be {when we open our mouths and His glory is revealed in us}: but we know that, when he shall appear {phaneroo – is rendered apparent}, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 3 And every man that has this hope in him purifies himself {of blinding corruption}, even as he is pure. 4 Whosoever commits sin {misses the mark of purity} transgresses also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law {not obeying the commands of God}. 5 And you know that he was manifested {present among us} to take away our sins; and in him is no sin. Matthew 5:7 Blessed are the merciful: for they shall {as His mercy seat, in this conversation} obtain mercy. 8 Blessed are the pure in heart {foundational mind}: for they shall {now again} see God.] 12 And the LORD shall inherit Judah [the leaders of My elect remnant first] his portion in the holy land [‘adamah – this last generation I Am raising as the first of My new creation], and shall choose [New Heavenly] Jerusalem [the people into whom His word has flowed, through this teaching, that is their peace and security] again. 13 Be silent, O all flesh, before [paniym – in the presence of] the LORD [His objective]: for he is raised up [‘uwr – by His own power awakened Himself in us] out of his holy habitation [ma’own – what ‘ownah – what cohabitation, the marriage, God and man joining as ONE flesh Body].
Nachum 2 1 He that dashes in pieces is come up before your face [paniym – as the presence of the LORD]: keep the munition, watch [tsaphan – look at these treasures] the [LORD’s] way, make your loins strong [receive His understanding], fortify your power [koach – the strength of the LORD] mightily. 2 For the LORD has turned away the excellency [ga’own – their glory is turned into pride] of Jacob, as the excellency [ga’own – pride] of Israel: for the emptiers have emptied them out [of all the LORD’s glory], and marred their vine branches [into whom once flowed this teaching, from which came forth good fruit]. 3 The shield of his mighty men [who’ve received His understanding] is made red, the valiant men are in scarlet: the chariots shall be with flaming torches in the day of his preparation, and the fir trees [all those the world thinks are upright] shall be terribly shaken. [Isaiah 9: 5 For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire. 6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. 7 Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even forever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.] 4 [In this war] The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall justle one against another in the broad ways: they shall seem like torches, they shall run like the lightnings [understanding coming from the cloud]. 5 He shall recount [zakar – remember] his worthies [those who exalt His word]: they shall [because of the remaining corruption] stumble in their walk; they shall make haste to the wall [protection] thereof, and the defense shall be prepared. 6 The gates [of hell, the mouths of men, holding back this word from being heard and obeyed] of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace [the current corrupt governments] shall be dissolved. 7 And Huzzab [natsab – those standing in this resurrection] shall be led away captive [galah – shall be revealed], she shall be brought up [‘alah – raised from dead flesh], and her maids shall lead her as with the voice of doves [like Jonah, whose word are signs of the end reached], tabering [drumming, beating] upon their breasts [lebab – the heart, quickening minds into life]. 8 But Nineveh [all the perpetual sons] is of old like a pool of water [are held still and the word in them is silent]: yet they shall flee away [from those holding them]. Stand, stand [silent], shall they cry; but none shall look back [at the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah]. 9 Take you the spoil [plunder] of silver, take the spoil [plunder] of gold [these treasures held in silence]: for there is none end [qetseh] of the store [tkuwnah – this word prepared and rightly ordered to raise us {kuwn}, shall have no end] and glory [and the LORD revealed therein] out of all [out of our opened mouths] the pleasant [chemdah – in which He delights] furniture [kliy – as these weapons of His warfare are deployed, meaning “something prepared, i.e. any apparatus (as an implement, utensil, dress, vessel or weapon).” 10 She [the whole earth] is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melt [the corrupt foundation of the collective mind upon which all humanity bases its decisions dissolve in the fires they’ve caused], and [and in fear of this judgment day arrived, all] the knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of [paniym – the presence of the LORD revealed] them all [to all humanity] gather blackness [here in the time when ignorance of Him covers the entire earth and men openly worship Satan who rules here in hell {think logically}]. 11 Where is the dwelling [ma’own] of the lions [bold messengers who’ve joined themselves with the LORD and speak His word], and the feeding place [given this grace as received] of the young lions, where the lion, even the old lion, walked, and the lion’s whelp, and none made them afraid? 12 The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes [the void the earth has become] with prey, and his dens with ravin [tearing in pieces the lies of their wicked possessors]. 13 Behold, I Am [as a lion, an ox, and an eagle] against you [the darkness], says the LORD of hosts [I Am a man of war], and I will burn her chariots in the smoke [that has darkened the earth], and the sword [this word they refuse] shall devour your young lions [those ignorant of their own ignorance, roaring against Me]: and I will cut off [karath] your prey [tereph] from the earth, and the voice of your [evil] messengers [mal’ak – the devils, angels, delivering the words of Satan] shall no more be heard.
Friends, as foretold in Revelation 10 (and elsewhere), the word of God was sealed, meaning, by men’s additions and fabrications, the meaning is withheld, in darkness, ignorance of God and His way of revealing Himself in its revelation (the apocalypse – uncovering the meaning held therein). His way is to choose a person through whom He first reveals Himself in this way, to start the chain reaction of bringing many sons to the same glory.
This is the truth: He chose me. This happened 30 years ago when He made Himself apparent, present, interacting with my mind, and controlling the physical world around me in miraculous, supernatural, ways. Since that time, I realized He is truly alive, not only with me but in me, speaking and working, unfolding Himself, His character, through His word. So, when people have (sincerely looking for the truth) questioned me about who I think I Am, I, without equivocation, answer that I Am a man in whom, through whom, Jesus (Jehovah’s Salvation in my flesh) lives and works. You see, I know Him, and therefore know it’s Him, and the doubting of no man will dissuade me from this truth.
1 Corinthians 11 1 Be you followers of me, even as I also Am of Christ. 2 Now I praise [commend] you, brethren, [because] that you remember me in all things, and keep [katecho – are held by, possessed by] the ordinances [paradosis – these things I’ve transmitted, delivered as received], as I delivered them to you. 3 But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God. 4 Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered [not uncovering, bringing the apocalypse, it the LORD in Him speaking and working], dishonors his head [Christ, the LORD alive in His flesh]. 5 But every woman [church] that prays or prophesies with her head uncovered [speaking words not delivered by a man confessing the LORD is alive in Him speaking and working] dishonors her head: for that is even all one [corrupting the whole body] as if she were shaven [all knowledge that should be apparent is removed]. [Romans 10:9 That if you shall confess with your mouth the LORD Jesus, and shall believe in your heart {believe that He is alive in your mind} that God has raised him from the dead, you shall be saved. 10 For with the heart {mind} 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 {dishonored}.] 6 For if the woman [church] be not covered [by receiving this understanding delivered as received], let her also be shorn [let that church’s ignorance be understood]: but if it be a shame for a woman [church] to be shorn or shaven [without this understanding], let her be covered [by receiving this word of the LORD]. 7 For a man [having put away childish things] indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God [whom he confesses]: but the woman [church] is the glory of the man [from who the word of God is given]. 8 For the man is not of the woman: but the woman of the man. 9 Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man. 10 For this cause ought the woman [church] to have power [this delivered word of God] on her head because of the angels [the messengers of Satan, who are without this word of God and preaching falsehood]. 11 Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman [but is given this word to give the same power to the church], neither the woman without the man [of God], in the LORD [until they are joined in the ONE BODY]. 12 For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman; but all things of God. 13 Judge in yourselves [do you have a man of God speaking this word of God]: is it comely that a woman pray unto [converse with] God uncovered [without this understanding]? [If they speak not according to, in agreement with, this word it’s because there is no understanding {light or life} in them.] 14 Does not even nature [phusis – the things that have grown from the earth] itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair [komao – obtains, creates, his own understanding, and doesn’t receive it from God], it is a shame unto him? 15 But if a woman have long hair [komao – receives this understanding through this teaching], it is a glory to her: for her hair [kome – what the church has learned] is given her for a covering. 16 But if any man seem to be contentious [disputing and doubting this word of God], we have no such custom, neither the churches of God. 17 Now in this that I declare unto you I praise you not, that you come together not for the better, but for the worse [to dispute and contend with this truth]. 18 For first of all, when you come together in the church, I hear that there be divisions [schisma – scattering you into many sects by many differing opinions] among you; and I partly believe it. 19 For there must be also heresies among you [as there are], that they which are approved [dokimos – “acceptable (current after assayal), i.e. approved:–approved, tried”] may be made manifest [phaneros – become apparent] among you. 20 When you [with your opinions] come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the LORD’s supper [not giving this word He provides, but your opinions of which no man is certain]. 21 For in eating every one takes before other his own supper [unreasonable men, incapable of correction, proud, steadfastly choosing their own opinions, delusions, over any other view]: and one is hungry [without this word of God], and another is drunken [ignorant and unreasonable]. 22 What? have you not houses to eat and to drink in [rather than spreading your opinions as leaven corrupting the whole body of the LORD’s word and work]? or despise you the church of God, and shame them that have not [are uncertain and without understanding]? what shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise you not. 23 For I have received of the LORD that which also I delivered unto you, that the LORD Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed [as you betray Him here and now] took bread [the whole of the Father’s word and work in, through, Him, delivering it as received]: 24 And when he had given thanks [to the Father for delivering it to Him], he brake [rightly divided] it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body [the completed word of God made flesh], which is broken for you: this [giving, delivering it as received] do in remembrance of me [of this same manner]. 25 After the same manner [hosautos] also he took the cup, when he had supped [prepared this evening meal], saying, this cup is the new testament in my blood [delivered in this sacrifice necessary to deliver it]: this do you, as oft as you drink it, in remembrance of me [of this same manner]. 26 For as often as you eat this bread, and drink this cup [this same word in which is the power to change men’s minds], you do show the LORD’s death till he come [is manifested apparent, present, in His word received as His word]. [2 Corinthians 4:10 Always bearing about in the body the dying of the LORD Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.] 27 Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the LORD, unworthily [anaxios], shall be guilty of [betraying] the body and blood of the LORD. [The word anaxios only appears here and in verse 29, where it speaks of discernment that only comes from this work of the LORD’s word effectually working in our minds. It refers us to the once used, almost identical, word, as it appears in 1 Corinthians 6:2, the passage, verses 2 – 4, saying “Do you not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are you unworthy {anaxios – without the LORD’s discernment} to judge the smallest matters? Know you not that we shall judge angels {the messengers, discerning if they are of God, speaking this word, or of Satan, speaking their own words}? how much more {shall we judge, spoken} things that pertain to this life? If then you have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church {despised because they rebuke Satan there sitting in the place of the Father}. I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren?”] 28 But let a man examine [dokimazo – test] himself, and so let him eat of that bread [as received from the LORD, manifesting His presence in the clarity revealed in the fire], and drink of that cup [as received]. 29 For he that eats and drinks unworthily [anaxios], eats and drinks damnation [krima – the decisions to speaking falsely, taking the LORD name in vain, saying “He says,” when the words are your opinions: delusions] to himself, not discerning [diakrino – not rightly separating, breaking and delivering, the bread] the LORD’s body. 30 For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep. 31 For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged. 32 But when we are judged, we are chastened [corrected] of the LORD, that we should not be condemned [krima] with the world. 33 Wherefore, my brethren, when you come together to eat, tarry [ekdechomai] one for another [waiting for, long-suffering, those uncertain, until they receive, from the LORD, this understand]. 34 And if any man hunger [desiring this bread], let him eat at home [apart from those teaching corruption in the church]; that you come not together unto condemnation [krima]. And the rest will I set in order when I come.
Galatians 6 1 Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, you which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering yourself, lest you also be tempted. 2 Bear you one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ. 3 For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself. 4 But let every man prove [dokimazo] his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing [realizing the LORD’s presence] in himself alone, and not in another. 5 For every man shall bear his own burden. 6 Let him that is taught [katecheo] in the word communicate unto him that teaches [katecheo] in all good things. 7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man sows, that shall he also reap. 8 For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. 9 And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. 10 As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith [believing the LORD is present with us, in us].
The word ekdechomai, rendered “tarry,” above in 1 Corinthians 11:33, appears in Acts 17:16, speaking of when Paul “waited” in Athens (meaning among the “uncertain”) for Silas and Timothy to come to Him.
Acts 17 16 Now while Paul waited [ekdechomai] for them at Athens [among the uncertain], his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry. 17 Therefore disputed he in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the devout persons, and in the market daily with them that met with him. 18 Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans [epikoureios – upon whom rests the spirit of Korah] and of the Stoicks [stoikos – stoicheo, marching in the ranks of Korah, with the same ignorant foundational principles: elements: stoicheion], encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say [speaking the word of God they couldn’t understand because they are blinded by their own ignorance]? other some [say], He seems to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection [which they are unable to understand because they refuse the enlightenment of this correction]. 19 And they took him, and brought him unto Areopagus [Mars’ hill – at the peak of the battle in which we are engaged], saying, May we know what this new doctrine, whereof you speak, is? 20 For you bring certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean. 21 (For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing [men’s opinions, delusions, they present as truth].) 22 Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars’ hill [Aireos Pagos – at the “peak of martial,” at the peak of this battle], and said, You men of Athens [now when man is certain of nothing, and all knowledge is corrupted by an inability to separate truth from opinions: delusions], I perceive that in all things you are too superstitious [deisidaimonesteros – literally meaning they are afraid, fearing the gods of this world, to receive the treasures that will strengthen them: giving certainty to the uncertain]. 23 For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, To The Unknown God [the Holy Spirit]. Whom therefore you ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you. 24 God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is LORD of heaven and earth, dwells not in temples made with hands [but in the flesh of those through whom He speaks and works]; 25 Neither is worshipped with men’s hands [works], as though he needed any thing, seeing he gives to all life [understanding], and breath [breathed from His mouth: words], and all things [needed]; 26 And has made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined [horizo – from where the sun rises] the times before appointed [protasso – prearranged, prescribed: before written, pre ordained], and the bounds [horothesia – laying out the limit: the termination point] of their habitation; 27 That they should seek the LORD [first], if haply they might feel after him [after He has effectually worked in us], and find him, though he be not far from every one of us [always willing to reveal His presence to those who receive Him manifested in His word]: 28 For in him [only do] we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are [by receiving this understanding] also his offspring [in whom He will live, if we become His prepared habitation, as many before this time did]. 29 Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead [theios] is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man’s device [enthumesis – only appearing four times, all others rendered “thoughts;” here in context discerned to be men’s fictitious writing]. 30 And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commands all men every where to repent [and purge out the blinding corruption]: 31 Because he has appointed a day [a sun rising, after the darkness: this ignorance], in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he has ordained [horizo – who is the place from where the sun rises, beginning this new day: age]; whereof he has given assurance unto all men, in that he has raised him from the dead [out of confusion, out of hell, into life in heaven: the place wherein full understanding is found]. 32 And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, We will hear you again of this matter.
Genesis 49 1 And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days [‘achariyth – in these last days of darkness]. 2 Gather yourselves together, and hear [shama’ – and obey the voice of the LORD], you sons of Jacob; and hearken [shama’ – and obey] unto Israel your father. 3 Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power: 4 Unstable [pachaz – ebullition, effervescence, “recklessness, wantonness, unbridled license, frothiness”] as water [this tells of the advice of the serpent, as one of God’s children, with unbridled license, recklessly reinterpreting His word], you shall not excel [not remain among God’s risen people]; because you went up to your father’s bed [went into the women – God’s people who have His words]; then defiled [corrupted] you it: he went up to my couch [took God’s place among His sleeping people]. 5 Simeon and Levi are brethren [names meaning those hearing and joining this teaching that replaced God’s]; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations. 6 O my soul, come not you into their secret [their hidden counsel, words of darkness]; unto their assembly, my honor, be not you united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their self-will they digged down a wall [by this they brought death on all man, and removed the protection found in the garden]. 7 Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel [speaking of the continual scattering of God’s people into many sects]. 8 Judah [the leaders God chooses], you are he whom your brethren shall praise: your hand shall be in the neck [stopping corrupt words from reaching the mouths] 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 [so he will roar]? 10 The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet [speaking of the Davidic king line], until Shiloh come [meaning peace and tranquility – the one {Joseph’s seed – the one separated} from who it will again flow – see Ezekiel 21:27, overturning it until he comes whose right it is]; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be. 11 Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass’s colt unto the choice vine [this speaking the lowly {Zechariah 9:9}, God’s elect remnant, outside the established sects, bound until Shiloh comes, when they are loosed]; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes: 12 His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.
As we know, the birthright to the throne is in the tribe of Joseph. (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 13 Zebulun [the lowly raised up at the LORD’s coming] shall dwell at the haven of the sea [safe from this evil generation]; and he shall be for a haven of ships [and saving any who come to the LORD through them]; and his border shall be unto Zidon [they will be the end of those, the corrupt institutions of church and state, who’ve hunted souls]. 14 Issachar [through him will come the reward – the fruitful bough] is a strong ass [the LORD’s people, now become His goodly horse in the battle – Zechariah 10:3] couching down between two burdens: 15 And he saw that rest was good, and the land that it was pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto tribute. 16 Dan [the judge – speaking of strength returned and the righteous judgment of the world begins] shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel. 17 Dan shall be a serpent by the way [as a serpent raised as a standard on a pole {nec}, as the son of man must be lifted], an adder in the path, that bites the horse heels [‘aqeb – this is the heel bruised in the judgment, meaning the serpents among the people, are rendered without effect when the corruption they picked up on their journey through time is washed away by these life-giving waters], so that his rider shall fall backward [so the body of Christ will return to the place from which she fell – see, in Isaiah 28:13, what causes them to fall backward, saying “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.”]. 18 (I have waited for [You to finish] your [full circuit of] salvation [yshuw’ah – Joshua, Jesus, Jehovah’s Salvation manifested in the flesh], O LORD [Jehovah].) 19 Gad [the LORD’s army, overcome until their return to Him], a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last [‘aqeb – the heels, when the wicked are taken and snared by this testimony heard, precept upon precept and line upon line]. 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, the written word of God]; whose branches run over the wall [the wall of lies men have created and teach]: 23 The archers [chest ba’al – the arrows of the gods of this world whose teaching has blinded all from seeing the Father in the son, the seed of the woman who brings forth the man child – see Revelation 12:17, saying “And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.”] have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him: 24 But his bow [qesheth – the bow in the cloud] 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, 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. 27 Benjamin [the right hand of God’s power, this last generation that becomes the first born of the woman: Rachel] shall ravin as a wolf [shall tear in pieces the wolf that has scattered the one flock]: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil. [These last words refer us to Maher-shalal-hash-baz, the son spoken of in beginning Isaiah 8, his name meaning he hastes to the spoil and is quick to the prey. He is the son foretold as coming by the virgin, later he is called Immanuel, as the advice, teaching, of the LORD comes, when men have formed a confederacy listening to the dead gods of the world.]
Hebrews 10 12 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God; 13 From henceforth expecting [ekdechomai – He is waited for] till his enemies be made his footstool. 14 For by one offering he has perfected for ever them that are sanctified [purified of corruption]. 15 Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before, 16 This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the LORD, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them; 17 And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. 18 Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin. 19 Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, 20 By a new and living way, which he has consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; 21 And having a high priest over the house of God; 22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. 23 Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;) 24 And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: 25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together [into the LORD’s 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 wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, 27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries. 28 He that despised Moses’ law died without mercy under two or three witnesses: 29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose you, shall he be thought worthy, who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and has done despite unto the Spirit of grace? 30 For we know him that has said, Vengeance belongs unto me, I will recompense, says the LORD. And again, The LORD shall judge his people. 31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
Psalms 120 A Song of Degrees [ma’alah – what rising in the flesh] 1 In my distress I cried unto the LORD, and he heard me. 2 Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue. 3 What shall be given unto you? or what shall be done unto you, you false tongue? 4 Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper. 5 Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech [where the LORD has “drawn out” the deceivers and false tongues into His light], that I dwell in the tents of Kedar [the “darkness,” when all are ignorant of the LORD’s presence]! 6 My soul has long dwelt with him that hate peace. 7 I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war.
Psalms 121 A Song of Degrees 1 [This is the rising:] I will lift up my eyes unto the hills, from whence comes my help. 2 My help comes from the LORD, which made heaven and earth. 3 He will not suffer your foot to be moved: he that keeps [shamar] you will not slumber. 4 Behold, he that keeps [shamar] Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep [but is always present with us, alive but unknown to those without understanding, without this light, without life]. 5 The LORD is your keeper [shamar – even in death]: the LORD is your shade [protection from the destructive understanding of this day] upon your [covering His] right hand [where we sit until our enemies are made His footstool]. 6 The sun [the corrupt church, whose light is darkness] shall not smite you by day [when this true light comes], nor the moon [civil government] by night [when ignorance covers the earth and we wait for understanding to replace it]. 7 The LORD shall preserve [shamar] you from all evil: he shall preserve [shamar] your soul. 8 The LORD shall preserve [shamar] your going out [of darkness] and your coming in [to the light] from this time forth, and even for evermore.
Psalms 122 A Song of Degrees [of this rising] of David 1 I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the LORD. 2 Our feet shall stand within your gates, O [New Heavenly] Jerusalem. 3 Jerusalem is built as a city that is compact together: 4 Whither the tribes go up [‘alah – rising with their king rising], the tribes of the LORD, unto the testimony of Israel [who are His people by receiving this word, His correction, who will rule with Him on the earth] to give thanks unto the name [identity] of the LORD. 5 For there are set thrones of judgment, the thrones of the house of David. 6 Pray for the peace of [New Heavenly] Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love you. 7 Peace be within your walls, and prosperity within your palaces. 8 For my brethren and companions’ sakes, I will now say, Peace be within you. 9 Because of the house of the LORD our God I will seek your good.
Psalms 123 A Song of Degrees 1 Unto you lift I up my eyes, O you that dwellest in the heavens [this time and place of full understanding]. 2 Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our eyes wait upon the LORD our God, until that he have mercy upon us [correcting us into seeing as He sees]. 3 Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt [of the proud in power who’ve become incorrigible]. 4 Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease [sha’anan – thinking they secure in their position of power, in the totally corrupt institutions of church and state], and with the contempt of the proud.
Psalms 124 A Song of Degrees of David 1 If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, now may Israel [those who receive the LORD at His appearing and kingdom, and obeying His commands, will rule with Him on the earth, over the new heaven and earth, wherein dwells His righteousness] say; 2 If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when [wicked] men rose up against us: 3 Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us: 4 Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream [their corrupt words] had gone over our soul: 5 Then the proud waters had gone over our soul. 6 Blessed be the LORD, who has not given us as a prey to their teeth [their mouths that divide and devour flesh]. 7 Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped. 8 Our help is in the name [identity] of the LORD, who made [the old and new] heaven and earth.
Psalms 125 A Song of Degrees 1 They that trust in the LORD shall be as mount Zion [“and {are come} unto the city of the living God, the {New} heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels {His messengers}, 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 speak. 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 speak from {this New} heaven: 26 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he has promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. 27 And this word, Yet once more, signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. 28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace {this gift of the LORD in us}, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: 29 For our God is a consuming fire.”], which cannot be removed, but abide [with the LORD] forever. 2 As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from henceforth even forever. 3 For the rod of the wicked [the corruption they taught the old earth they’ve destroyed, which has now ended] shall not rest upon the lot [those choosing the LORD] of the righteous; lest the righteous put forth their hands unto [working] iniquity [evil misheadling]. 4 Do good, O LORD, unto those that be good, and to them that are upright in their hearts [having the good foundations of their minds reset]. 5 As for such as turn aside [away from the LORD’s good teaching] unto their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: but peace shall be upon Israel [His people who receive this promised end].
Psalms 126 A Song of Degrees 1 When the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion [His people predestined to rule with Him here on the earth], we were like them that dream [while we slept, here in death waiting for Him to finish His work: changing and renewing: creating this understanding in our minds]. 2 Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing [His words He puts in our mouths]: then said they among the heathen [who haven’t known Him], The LORD has done great things for them. 3 The LORD has done great things for us; whereof we are glad. 4 Turn again our captivity, O LORD, [make us] as the streams [of living waters] in the south [to those looking to this light rising]. 5 They that sow in tears [the sorrow realizing how far away from the LORD the world has fallen] shall reap in joy [all realizing He is present with us to restore it]. 6 He that goes forth and weeps, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves [this promised harvest] with him.
Psalms 127 A Song of Degrees for Solomon 1 Except the LORD builds the house, they labor in vain that build it: except the LORD keeps the city, the watchman wakes but in vain. 2 It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he gives his beloved sleep [rest, even in death]. 3 Lo, children are a heritage of the LORD [in whom we rise from death’s sleep with His rising]: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. 4 As arrows [chest – weapons of His warfare sent forth] are in the hand [His work] of a mighty man; so are children of the youth. [Psalms 77:17 The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a sound [qowl – Your voice]: your arrows [chets] also went abroad [halak – walk, His way is long-suffering the piercing words of the ignorant – referring to Genesis 49:23 & 24, saying “The archers {chets} have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him: But his bow {qasheth – the bow in the cloud} 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:)”]. 18 The voice [qowl] of your thunder [the sound of the light] was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook. 19 Your way is in the sea [walking among us], and your path in the great waters, and your footsteps are not known.] 5 Happy is the man [geber – valiant warrior] that has his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak [in this war] with the enemies [here] in the gate [out of hell into heaven].
And I will set my throne in Elam, and will destroy from thence the king and the princes, says the LORD.
The LORD begins today in Jeremiah 49 (above is verse 38), a chapter describing what Ezekiel later sees as the unfolding presence of the LORD.
As we understand, he (Ezekiel), seeing as the LORD sees, depicts himself as one of the cherubims (in Ezekiel 10:14} above the mercy seat, face to face with (in Ezekiel 3:8 & 9 as he is sent to) those to whom, through him, the LORD sends His conversation, to give, in pure form, the understanding he’s received. This (process, full circuit) is the wheel within a wheel he describes, understanding sent, in the written word, to give the same understanding to the recipient. The end, when full understanding comes: when the LORD is realized therein present speaking and working, is the light returned, which recreates, awakens, those sleeping in death.
Ezekiel (in Ezekiel 1:10 as he receives his understanding and speaks of how it came to him) describes this full circuit (wheel) as having four “faces,” using the word paniym, meaning it is the LORD thereby manifesting His presence. The first face is of a man, Ezekiel (like the many writers before him), when he understands His mission, as did Jeremiah, whose name means Jehovah rising, in his flesh speaking and working, to raise His people. The next two faces (paniym) are of a lion, speaking with the LORD’s voice, heard roaring, and of an ox, the LORD working through him in the earth. The fourth face (paniym) is of an eagle, the LORD’s present with full understanding, exalted above all other voices, flying in the heavens, realized by the receivers who receive Him.
Later, he (Ezekiel in chapter 10, speaking of how he is sent) sees the four faces differently: the first as a cherub, the second a man, the third a lion, and the fourth an eagle.
In chapter 3, when He is first commanded to go, the LORD tells him He has made his forehead, against the foreheads of His rebellious people, as an “adamant” harder than flint.
Ezekiel 3 7 But the house of Israel will not hearken [shama’ – hear and obey] unto you; for they will not hearken [shama’ – hear and obey] unto me: for all the house of Israel are impudent and hardhearted. 8 Behold, I have made your face [paniym – My presence in you] strong against their faces [paniym – the presence possessing them], and your forehead strong against their foreheads. 9 As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead: fear them not, neither be dismayed [chatham] at their looks, though they be a rebellious house.
The Hebrew word shamiyr, rendered adamant, is only used 11 times; all except three are in Isaiah, where it’s always rendered “brier.”
In these eight uses in Isaiah, we understand why God’s people refuse to hear the LORD’s voice: because (of deceivers and misleaders) they have the misperception he (Ezekiel) is a deceiver.
John 7 12 And there was much murmuring among the people concerning him: for some said, He is a good man: others said, Nay; but he deceives the people.
The word shamiyr is from shamar, meaning “to hedge about (as with thorns), i.e. guard; generally, to protect, attend to, etc..”
Isaiah 5 5 And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall [protection] thereof, and it shall be trodden down: 6 And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers [shamiyr – deceivers] and thorns [misleaders]: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it [no understanding will be sent from heaven to the earth].
Isaiah 10 17 And the light [understanding] of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns [misleaders] and his briers [shamiyr – deceivers] in one day [when light returns];
The other two uses of shamiyr (other than in Isaiah and Ezekiel) describe (as spoken of above) the process by which understanding leaves and finally, how light returns.
Jeremiah 17 1 The sin of Judah [those leading God’s people] is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond [shamiyr – by deceivers]: it is graven upon the table of their heart [corrupting their minds], and upon the horns of your altars [their creations, the power by which they deceive]; 2 While their children remember their altars [their creation] and their groves by the green trees [the men they made their idols] upon the high hills.
5 Thus says the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from the Lord.
Zechariah 7 11 But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear [shama’ – and obey]. 12 Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone [shamiyr – minds of deceivers], lest they should hear [shama’ – and obey] the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts has sent [as a wheel within a wheel] in his spirit by the former prophets [as described and demonstrated here by Him]: therefore came a great wrath [this word they refuse] from the LORD of hosts. 13 Therefore it is come to pass, that as he cried, and they would not hear [shama’]; so they cried, and I would not hear [shama’], says the LORD of hosts: 14 But I scattered them with a whirlwind [by My Almighty Spirit, from where His voice IS heard and IS obeyed] among all the nations [who haven’t known Him] whom they knew not. Thus the land [‘erets – the earth] was desolate after them, that no man passed through [‘abar – none passed from death into life] nor returned [shuwn – turned to the present LORD, the living God]: for they laid the pleasant land [‘erets – earth] desolate.
In the passages below, as in almost all the LORD’s written word, proper names are strategic, describing identities related to this moment.
Jeremiah 49 1 Concerning the [ben – the sons of] Ammonites [those who’ve scattered the LORD one body], thus says the LORD [Jehovah – ya’ah havah: the breathing one to whom all things appertain, the Living God]; Has Israel [those who receive this promised end, who will now with Him reign on the earth] no sons [ben]? has he [Israel] no heir [to inherit the earth]? why then does their [the Ammonites’] king inherit Gad [the LORD’s army], and his people dwell in his cities? 2 Therefore, behold, the days [have] come, says the LORD, that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard in Rabbah of [rabab – the multitude of God people possessed by] the Ammonites; and it shall be a desolate heap [as they are in the hand of these wicked men], and her daughters shall be burned with fire [caused by following the words and ways of the wicked]: then shall Israel be heir unto [possessing] them that were his heirs [his possessors], says the LORD. 3 Howl, O Heshbon [strongholds, by which they hold My people], for Ai [the heap of ruin, Ephraim {God’s people at large, in this generation}] is spoiled [devastated in your hand]: cry, you daughters of Rabbah [possessed by the wicked], gird you with sackcloth; lament [for this condition of which you are apparently ignorant], and run to and fro [seeking this understanding] by the hedges [the wall of the LORD’s protection]; for their king [the powers leading the totally corrupt civil government, infesting all its institution] shall go into captivity, and his priests [powers leading, infesting, all the corrupt churches] and his princes [these evil powers] together. 4 Wherefore glory you in the valleys [in these darkened deeps], your flowing valley [flowing darkness they call deep understanding], O backsliding daughter [in your endless fall away from the LORD and all truth]? that trusted in her treasures [the darkness, ignorance they teach and preach as the valued things of the dead earth], saying, Who shall come unto me [not know that for this thing the LORD promised he would visit, manifesting His presence as the Chief Overseer]? 5 Behold, I will bring a fear [cabiyb – as in verse 29 below] upon you, says the LORD God of hosts, from all those [the wicked] that be about you; and you shall be driven out [nadach – become outcast in the world, and I will call you Zion] every man right forth [paniym – by My unfolding presence]; and none shall gather up him that wanders. 6 And afterward [after this full circuit] I will bring again the captivity of the children of [possessed by] Ammon, says the LORD. 7 Concerning Edom [the enemies mixed among us, claiming they are our brethren at peace with us, while they openly war against God, us, and His better culture], thus says the LORD of hosts [a man of war, Chief of the army of heaven]; Is wisdom no more in Teman [the places where this understanding should be found]? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom vanished? [The answer is, seeing as the LORD sees, it absolutely has, from these places, perished and vanished.] 8 Flee you [from the ignorant misleading you], turn back [to the LORD], dwell deep [in this place of the LORD’s light], O inhabitants of Dedan [upon whom this double judgment, against the institutions of church and state, has come]; for I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him [Edom, removing the birthright as with Esau, because of His bitterness against His brother], the time that I will visit him [paqad – as a man, the Chief Overseer of the earth manifested, the first face of the wheel]. 9 If grape gatherers come to you [My people], would they not leave some gleaning grapes? if thieves by night [as I have into your ignorance, as a man], they will destroy till they have enough. 10 But I have made Esau bare [removing their cover {in this apocalypse}, all the lies and falsehood under which they think they hide], I have uncovered [galah – revealed, in the Apocalypse {Revelation}] his secret places [referring to Obadiah 1:6, saying “How are the things of Esau searched out! how are his hidden things sought up!”], and he shall not be able to hide himself: his seed is spoiled, and his brethren, and his neighbors, and he [all the enemies mixed among us at war with us] is not. 11 Leave your fatherless children, I will [by this understanding and light] preserve them alive; and let your widows trust in me. 12 For thus says the LORD; Behold, they whose judgment was not to drink of the cup [which I have here given] have assuredly drunken; and are you he that shall altogether go unpunished [naqah – will I not make you clean, remove corruption from your understanding and judgment]? you shall not go unpunished [naqah – uncleaned], but you shall surely drink of it [and thereby this word will effectually work in your mind to bring this change: when the corrupt put on incorruption]. 13 For I have sworn by myself, says the LORD, that Bozrah [the stronghold of corruption] shall become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes. 14 I have heard a rumor [shmuw’ah – the voice of Jehovah heard, but not yet verified] from the LORD, and an ambassador [tsiyr – a man whose voice is the birth pains preceding the One to come] is sent unto the heathen [those not knowing the LORD, and therefore not knowing His voice], saying, Gather you together [again into MY ONE BODY], and come against her [the wicked], and rise up [with Me] to the battle. 15 For, lo, I will make you [the fatherless children of the righteous and the wicked] small among the heathen [who haven’t known me], and despised among men. 16 Your terribleness [tipheltseth – the corruption you put on] has deceived you, and the pride of your heart [the proud waves, pride of your minds, trusting in the corrupt words that carried all into death and hell], O you that dwellest in the clefts of the rock [from where corruption flows, men as idols in which you put your trust], that holdest the height of the hill: though you shouldest make your nest as high as the eagle [as if you have risen there by full understanding], I will bring you down from thence, says the LORD. 17 Also Edom [the unrepentant enemies among us at war with us] shall be a desolation: every one that goes by it [‘abar – from it rises out of death into life] shall be astonished [by the power of the LORD to raise them from there], and shall hiss at [draw attention to] all the plagues thereof. 18 As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor cities thereof, says the LORD, no man shall abide there, neither shall a son of man dwell in it. 19 Behold, he shall come up [‘alah – rise in the flesh of a man] like [the second face of the wheel] a lion from [roaring against] the swelling [pride] of Jordan [the words that carry all in the descent into death and hell] [the LORD roaring] against the habitation of the strong [the wicked in power]: but I will suddenly make him [the wicked] run away from her [God’s people He releases from their possession]: and who is a chosen man [from whom I roar as a lion], that I may appoint [paqad – as the Chief Overseer] over her? for who is like me [created in My image]? and who will appoint me the time? and who is that shepherd [ra’ah – seer seeing as I see] that will stand [‘amad] before me [paniym – in My presence manifesting my presence]? 20 Therefore hear [shama’ – obey] the counsel of the LORD, that he has taken against Edom; and his purposes [machashabah], that he has purposed [chashab – as in verse 30 below] against the inhabitants of Teman [the places where the wise and prudent are in darkness: in ignorance]: Surely the least of the flock [I Am as an ox {the third face of the wheel} doing His work – of the least value in man’s eyes] shall draw them out [the wicked into this light]: surely he shall make [by His quick work upon the earth] their habitations desolate with them. 21 The earth is moved [ra’ash – the shaking that brings the dead bones together, as in Ezekiel 37:7 where it’s an identical word] at the noise of [qowl – by the LORD’s voice, effectually working to bring] their fall, at the cry the noise [qowl – the LORD’s voice roaring] thereof was heard in the Red [reed, referring to the papyrus upon which the written word comes to humanity] sea [the termination point of the proud waves]. 22 Behold [when we see this is the word of the LORD manifesting His presence], he shall come up [‘alah – rise in the flesh of a man in whom His word is exalted, lifted above all] and fly [in the strength of His full understanding given and received] as the eagle [the fourth face of the wheel], and spread his wings [this voice moving His people] over Bozrah [against the stronghold of the wicked]: and at that day [this time of light] shall the heart [minds] of the mighty men of Edom [leading the enemies] be as the heart [mind] of a woman in her pangs [having to idea they are bringing forth the LORD’s ONE united BODY]. 23 Concerning Damascus [God’s people who’ve been silent and in sorrow], Hamath [the stronghold, the powers holding them therein] is confounded [buwsh – ashamed and disappointed by not reaching the end they seek: not able to destroy all humanity], and Arpad [spread out: this exposition in the firmament is laid before them]: for they have heard [shama’ – obeyed, and decreed] evil [ra’] tidings [shmuw’ah – against this voice of the LORD, the report by which His arm, work, is revealed]: they are fainthearted [muwg – their evil decrees and their wicked institutions are dissolved]; there is sorrow [d’agah – this is the agitation, the storm, caused by the whale, the open mouths of the wicked, that swallows men into death and hell] on the sea [against all humanity]; it [the evil voices] cannot be quiet [refuse to be silenced]. 24 Damascus [the LORD’s silent people] is waxed feeble, and turns herself [from Him] to flee [as did Jonah], and fear [of the storm] has seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her [swallowing her into the belly of death and hell], as a woman in travail [needing the bring forth her child, the ONE BODY from the belly of the tanniyn: men, as whales and serpents, dragons who with open mouths devoured them]. 25 How is the city of praise not left [‘azab – not loosed from death and hell], the city of my joy [that should by now realized My presence with them, even here in hell]! 26 Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, says the LORD of hosts. 27 And I will kindle a fire in the wall [of lies and falsehood] of Damascus [holding them in silence and sorrow], and it shall consume [‘akal – eat, swallow, devour] the palaces of Benhadad [the sons of the mighty in power]. 28 Concerning Kedar [the darkness that still covers the earth], and concerning the kingdoms of Hazor [the tower, from where ignorance reigns], which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon [the lies of the false prophet, which have ruled the earth in to confusion now turned insanity] shall smite, thus says the LORD; Arise you [quwm], go up to [‘alah – be lifted from] Kedar [the darkness: ignorance], and spoil the men [ben – sons] of the east [qedem – the ancient, the wicked who’ve been brought here for judgment]. 29 Their tents and their flocks shall they take away: they shall take to themselves their curtains, and all their vessels, and their camels; and they shall cry unto them, Fear [cabiyb] is on every side [as in verse 5 above, when the LORD has visited as the Chief Overseer of the earth]. 30 Flee, get you far off, dwell deep, O you inhabitants of Hazor [the tower, from where ignorance reigns], says the LORD; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon [the lies of your false prophets that have brought the world to desolation] has taken counsel against you, and has conceived [chashab – as in verse 20 above, when all the wise are found to be ignorant] a purpose [machashabah – ma-chashab-ah: what purpose of Jehovah] against you [to send all humanity to this time of His righteous judgment]. 31 Arise [quwm], get you up [‘alah – rise with me in the flesh] unto the wealthy [shelve – in worldly prosperity quieted] nation [gowy – who no longer know Me] that dwell without care [thinking you are secure], says the LORD, which have neither gates nor bars [to keep out the devourers], which dwell alone [separated from Me and My ONE BODY, mocking my flesh because they say they are holier than I Am]. 32 And their camels shall be a booty [baz – plunder, carried away], and the multitude of their cattle [miqneh – your property] a spoil [shalal – also the plunder of war against you]: and I will scatter [as you are now scattered from Me] into all winds [seducing spirits, the false doctrine and evil decrees by which the communists in power in church and state, now rule] them that are in the utmost [qatsats – cut off from me by] corners [pe’ah – mouth, the word of the wicked, as Moab, men who now possess and hold you in hell]; and I will bring their calamity [‘eyd – see its other uses below] from all sides thereof, says the LORD. 33 And Hazor [the tower, from where ignorance reigns] shall be a dwelling for dragons [tanniyn – men as whales and serpents devouring with their wide open mouths], and a desolation forever: there shall no man abide there, nor any son of man dwell in it. 34 The word of the LORD that came [hayah – exists] to [with] Jeremiah [Jehovah rising to raise His people] the prophet [speaking My words] against Elam [all souls throughout eternity, predestined to this moment, in the flesh here and now] in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah [Jehovah’s righteousness] king of Judah [here and now with and in His elect remnant], saying, 35 Thus says the LORD of hosts [a man of war, commanding His army]; Behold [see], I will break [shabar – separate into pieces, the elements of understanding] the bow [qasheth – the sign in the cloud] of Elam [and bring them with Me throughout eternity], the chief of [ra’shiyth – the first principles, beginning] their might [gbuwrah – strength returning with Me]. 36 And upon Elam will I bring the four winds [the fours faces of my presence manifested] from the four quarters [qatsah – the termination, the full circuit] of heaven [returning full understanding], and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation [no people who haven’t known me] whither the outcasts [nadach – God’s people in this generation, whom He calls Zion; referring to its use in Jeremiah 30:17 and verse 5 above] of Elam shall not come [with this understanding they shine upon all]. 37 For I will cause Elam to be dismayed [chathath – confused and in fear, by his separated elements: ignorance] before their enemies, and before them that seek their life: and I will bring evil upon them, even my fierce anger [in this word], says the LORD; and I will send the sword after them [this word against those who reject it], till I have consumed [kalah – this decreed and determined end, as in Daniel 12:7 and Isaiah 10:18 & 25] them: 38 And I will set my throne in Elam [here on and over the earth among all My immortals], and will destroy from thence the king and the princes [the evil misleaders, tyrants oppressing humanity, as thorns in their sides and pricks in their eyes], says the LORD. 39 But it shall come to pass [hayah – come into existence] in the latter days [‘achariyth – this end of darkness], that I will bring again the captivity [shbuwth – a state of prosperity and security under God] of Elam [all those who receive Me], says the LORD.
Daniel 12 1 And at that time shall Michael [who is like God] stand up [‘amad], the great prince which stands [‘amad] for the children of your people: and there shall be a time of trouble [tsarah – this time of 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 [when it is again opened]. 2 And many of them that sleep in the dust [the ashes of the ruin] of the earth shall awake [be resurrected from death into life], some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. 3 And they that be wise shall shine [zahar – shall teach and enlighten] as the brightness of the firmament [this exposition]; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars forever and ever. 4 But you, O Daniel [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, and knowledge [da’ath – the knowledge of the LORD that now fills the earth – as in Habakkuk 2:14, saying “For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge {da’ath} of the glory of the LORD, as the waters {His word} cover {in peace and safety} the sea.”] 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 [sending this word], and the other on that side of the bank of the river [receiving this word]. 6 And one said to the man [I Am] clothed in linen, which was upon [Chief Overseer over] the waters of the river, How long shall it be to the end of these wonders? 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 [mow’ed – this appointed time], times [mow’ed – of this congregation, gathering into ONE BODY], and an half [this rightly dividing, knowing, this time]; and when he shall have accomplished [kalah] to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished [kalah]. 8 And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my LORD, what shall be the end [‘achariyth – these last days of darkness: ignorance] of these things? 9 And he said, Go your way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed [and there shall be no understanding, and confusion shall reign] 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 [this time].
Isaiah 2 2 And it shall come to pass in the last days [‘achariyth], that the mountain [government] of the LORD’s house shall be established in the top of the mountains [over and above all governments], and shall be exalted above the hills [the high places of the earth]; and all nations [who haven’t known Him] shall flow unto it. 3 And many people shall go and say, Come you, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion [His government] shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from [New Heavenly] Jerusalem [His people at large]. 4 And he shall judge among the nations [those who haven’t known Him], and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. 5 O house of Jacob [still wrestling with Him unknown], come you, and let us walk in the light [understanding] of the LORD.
Isaiah 10 16 Therefore shall the LORD, the LORD of hosts [a man of war – see Exodus 15:3], send among his fat [prospering] ones leanness [and their corrupt understanding shall be cleansed], and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire [in which they are refined]. 17 And the light [understanding, strength, now returned] of Israel [those who receive this promised end and will rule with Me over and above the earth] shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns [misleader] and his briers [shamiyr – deceivers] in one day; 18 And shall consume [kalah] the glory of his forest [the falsely so-called upright men], and of his fruitful field [the wickedness in which they’ve prospered], both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standard-bearer [of wickedness and evil] faints. 19 And the rest of the trees [the upright] of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them. 20 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the [elect] remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay [rely] upon him [the wicked powers of the earth] that smote them; but shall stay [rely] upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth. 21 The [elect] remnant shall return [to their right minds], even the [elect] remnant of Jacob [who were before, in ignorance, wrestling with the LORD unknown], unto the mighty God [they shall return]. 22 For though your people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed [charats] shall overflow with righteousness. 23 For the LORD God of hosts shall make a consumption [kalah], even determined [charats], in the midst of all the land [‘erets – the earth]. 24 Therefore thus says the LORD God of hosts, O my people that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian [the communist now in power]: he shall smite you with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against you, after the manner of Egypt [tyrannically oppressing]. 25 For yet a very little while, and the indignation [za’am] shall cease [kalah], and my anger in their destruction.
Jeremiah 30 16 Therefore all they that devour you shall be devoured; and all your adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; and they that spoil you shall be a spoil, and all that prey upon you will I give for a prey. 17 For I will restore health unto you, and I will heal you of your wounds, says the LORD; because they called you an Outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no man seeks after. 18 Thus says the LORD; Behold, I will bring again the captivity of Jacob’s tents, and have mercy on his dwelling-places; and the city shall be built upon her own heap, and the palace shall remain after the manner thereof. 19 And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small. 20 Their children also shall be as aforetime, and their congregation shall be established before me, and I will punish [paqad – visit as the Chief Overseer of the earth] all that oppress them. 21 And their nobles shall be of themselves, and their governor shall proceed from the midst of them; and I will cause him to draw near, and he shall approach unto me: for who is this that engaged his heart [mind] to approach unto me? says the LORD. 22 And you shall be my people, and I will be your God. 23 Behold, the whirlwind [from where this voice] of the LORD goes forth with fury, a continuing whirlwind: it shall fall with pain upon the head of the wicked. 24 The fierce anger of the LORD shall not return, until he has done it, and until he has performed the intents of his heart [mind]: in the latter [‘achariyth] days you shall consider [biyn – understand] it.
Jeremiah 48 35 Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab [whose mouth are the gates holding all the world in death and hell], says the LORD, him that offers [evil, misleading, words] in the high places, and him that burn incense to his gods [worshipping men as idols put in God’s place]. 36 Therefore my heart [mind] shall sound for [hamah – roar and war against] Moab like pipes [chaliyl – to dissolve their words and break their strong hold], and my heart [mind] shall sound [hamah – roar and war] like pipes [chaliyl – to dissolve their words and break their strong hold] for the men of Kirheres [wall of potsherds; earthly understanding, elements broken in pieces and become worthless lies]: because the riches [the understanding they were given] that he has gotten have perished [in their hands]. 37 For every head shall be bald [all the understanding, knowledge, that was formed in his head has perished], and everybeard clipped [all the same knowledge that once came from their mouths has also perished]: upon all the hands [their works of ignorance] shall be cuttings [gduwdah – pressing out any remaining knowledge], and upon the loins sackcloth [sorrow come from this condition, not holding any water: without understanding from the word of God]. 38 There shall be lamentation generally upon all the housetops of Moab, and in the streets thereof: for I have broken Moab like a vessel [into potsherd] wherein is no pleasure [because it holds no water], says the LORD. 39 They shall howl, saying, How is it broken down [chathath – into separated elements]! how has Moab turned the back with shame [unable to reach the end they promised]! so shall Moab [these men as the gates of hell] be a derision and a dismaying to all them about him [cabiyb – all those who’ve followed them into the conclusion, completion, of their circuit, ending held in hell]. 40 For thus says the LORD; Behold, he [the LORD sending me to the rescue] shall fly as an eagle [the culmination in perfection, strength returned], and shall spread his wings [this voice of the LORD, heard and exalted] over Moab [over the mouths of that are the gates of hell]. 41 Kerioth [qarah – upon whom this time of My threshing has come unknown] is taken [lakad – are caught in this trap laid], and the strong holds are surprised, and the mighty men’s hearts [minds] in Moab at that day shall be as the heart [mind] of a woman in her pangs [not knowing they have brought forth a man child, the LORD to the rescue of His people, raising His ONE BODY into life]. 42 And Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he has magnified himself [exalting their lies] against the LORD. 43 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, shall be upon you, O inhabitant of Moab, says the LORD. 44 He that flees from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that getteth up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for I will bring upon it, even upon Moab, the year of their visitation [pquddah – this time of the LORD, Chief Overseer, Commander, of the earth], says the LORD. 45 They that fled [from this visitation] stood under the shadow of [ignorantly thinking they could block out and hide from the light] Heshbon [in their stronghold of lies] because of the force [koach – the strength of the Almighty]: but a fire shall come forth out of Heshbon [the lies in which they trust], and a flame from the midst of Sihon [those warring against the LORD], and shall devour the corner [pe’ah – the mouths] of Moab [the gates of hell], and [the fire and flame shall remove] the crown of the head of the tumultuous [sha’own – uproar, roaring wave against the roaring Lion] ones [warring against the LORD]. 46 Woe be unto you, O Moab! the people of Chemosh [the subduers of God’s people] perishes: for your sons are taken captives, and your daughters captives. 47 Yet will I bring again the captivity of Moab in the latter [‘achariyth] days, says the LORD. Thus far is the judgment of Moab.
Jeremiah 25 30 Therefore prophesy you against them all these words, and say unto them, The LORD shall roar from on high, and utter his voice from his holy habitation; he shall mightily roar upon his habitation; he shall give a shout [the voice of His archangel, His messenger in the flesh, which is the last trumpet sounding], as they that tread the grapes [in this harvest, this judgment], against all the inhabitants of the earth. 31 A noise [sha’own] shall come even to the ends [ending the old and beginning the new] of the earth; for the LORD has a controversy [asking who is more suited to rule the earth, its Creator or those destroying it] with the nations [who haven’t known Him], he will plead with all flesh; he will give them that are wicked to the sword [this word they refuse], says the LORD. 32 Thus says the LORD of hosts, Behold, evil shall go forth from nation to nation, and a great whirlwind [from where this voice is heard] shall be raised up [against the evil] from the coasts of [limit, where the proud ways of the wicked are stopped upon] the earth. 33 And the slain of the LORD shall be at that day from one end [of the old] of the earth even unto the other end of [beginning] the [new] earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung [animated dead flesh] upon the ground. 34 Howl, you shepherds, and cry; and wallow yourselves in the ashes, you principal of the flock: for the days [this time of light returned] of your slaughter and of your dispersions are accomplished; and you shall fall like a pleasant vessel [become worthless because it holds no water]. 35 And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the principal of the flock to escape. 36 A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and a howling of the principal of the flock, shall be heard: for the LORD has spoiled their pasture. 37 And the peaceable [completed in death] habitations are cut down [damam – in silence, “to be dumb; by implication, to be astonished, to stop; also to perish”] because of the fierce anger of the LORD. 38 He has forsaken his covert [the place where they hid His presence, in the false churches of those who haven’t known Him], as the lion [roaring]: for their land is desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of his fierce. anger.
Jeremiah 18 15 Because my people has forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity [worshipped worthless idols they put in My place and call by My name], and they have caused them to stumble in their [corrupt] ways from the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not cast up [not exalting the word of the LORD, which is His high way]; 16 To make their land [‘erets – the earth] desolate, and a perpetual hissing [their voices drawing attention to their desolation]; every one that passes [‘abar – from them into life] thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head [in disbelief they are continuing in self-destruction]. 17 I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will show them the back [My work after it is complete], and not the face [paniym – not My presence while I Am working among them unknown], in the day of their calamity [‘eyd]. 18 Then said they, “Come and let us devise devices against Jeremiah [Jehovah rising {in the flesh} to raise His people]; for the law shall not perish from the [corrupt] priest, nor counsel from the [corrupt] wise, nor the word from the [corrupt] prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue [kill him with our words as we, the corrupt, have killed all others], and let us not give heed to any of his words.” 19 Give heed to me, O LORD, and hearken to the voice of them that contend with me. 20 Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood [‘amad – I Am risen] before you [paniym – in Your presence manifested] to speak good for them, and to turn away your wrath from them [that hear and obey Your voice]. 21 Therefore deliver up their children to the famine [so they no longer are fed their corruption], and pour out [your teaching] their blood [against their teaching that is draining life from them] by the force [hand – Your work] of the sword [this word they refuse]; and let their wives [teaching corruption] be bereaved of their children, and be widows [without the providers of corruption]; and let their men [the providers] be put to death [understood to be the dead]; let their young men be slain by the sword [this word of the LORD] in battle [warring against Him]. 22 Let a cry be heard from their houses, when you shall bring a troop [your risen army] suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to take me [into which they have fallen], and hid snares for my feet [into which they are fallen and snared]. 23 Yet, LORD, you know all their counsel against me to slay me [with their words]: forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from your sight, but let them be overthrown before you [paniym – by Your presence manifested with us, in us]; deal thus with them in the time of your anger.
Proverbs 6 15 Therefore shall his calamity [‘eyd] come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy. 16 These six things does the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: 17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, 18 An heart that devises wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, 19 A false witness that speaks lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren. 20 My son, keep your father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of your mother: 21 Bind them continually upon your heart [in your mind], and tie them about your neck [where they are readied to be spoken]. 22 When you go, it shall lead you; when you sleep, it shall keep you; and when you awake, it shall talk with you. 23 For the commandment is a lamp [showing you the way]; and [in] the law is light [understanding]; and reproofs [correction] of instruction are the way of life: 24 To keep you from the evil woman [the seducers in church and state], from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman [strayed from the LORD].
Obadiah 1 1 The vision of Obadiah [the servant of Jehovah]. Thus says the LORD God concerning Edom [the enemies mixed among us at war with us]; We have heard a rumor [shmuw’ah – heard the voice] from the LORD, and an ambassador [tsiyr – the voice of Jehovah] is sent among the heathen [those who don’t know the LORD], Arise you, and let us rise up against her in battle. 2 Behold [see], I have made you [Jacob – God’s people still wrestling with Him and His voice from His messenger] small [qatan] among the heathen [those who don’t know me]: you are greatly despised. 3 The pride of your heart has deceived you, you that dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high [all the place of teachers and leaders]; that says in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground? 4 Though you exalt yourself as the eagle, and though you set your nest among the stars, thence will I bring you down, says the LORD. 5 If thieves came to you, if robbers by night, (how are you cut off!) would they not have stolen till they had enough? if the grape-gatherers came to you, would they not leave some grapes? 6 How are the things of Esau [the enemies among us in power] searched out! how are his hidden things sought up [ba’ah – a five times used word referring us to its other four uses, all in Isaiah below]! 7 All the men of your confederacy [joining with communists and God haters] have brought you even to the border [this limit, your end]: the men that were at peace with you have deceived you, and prevailed against you; they that eat your bread have laid a wound under you: there is none understanding in him. 8 Shall I not in that day, says the LORD, even destroy the wise men out of Edom [the enemies in power], and understanding out of the mount of Esau? 9 And your mighty men, O Teman [the places where understanding should be found], shall be dismayed, to the end that every one of the mount of Esau may be cut off by slaughter. 10 For your violence against your brother Jacob shame shall cover you, and you shall be cut off forever. 11 In the day that you stood on the other side, in the day that the strangers carried away captive his forces, and foreigners entered into his gates [crossed our borders], and cast lots upon Jerusalem, even you were as one of them. 12 But you shouldest not have looked on the day of your brother in the day that he became a stranger; neither shouldest you have rejoiced over the children of Judah [the leaders of My people] in the day of their destruction; neither shouldest you have spoken proudly in the day of distress. 13 You shouldest not have entered into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity [‘eyd]; yea, you shouldest not have looked on their affliction in the day of their calamity [‘eyd], nor have laid hands on their substance in the day of their calamity [‘eyd]; 14 Neither shouldest you have stood in the crossway, to cut off those of his that did escape; neither shouldest you have delivered up those of his that did remain in the day of distress. 15 For the day of the LORD is near upon all the heathen: as you have done, it shall be done unto you: your reward shall return upon your own head. 16 For as you have drunk upon my holy mountain, so shall all the heathen drink continually, yea, they shall drink, and they shall swallow down, and they shall be as though they had not been. 17 But upon mount Zion shall be deliverance, and there shall be holiness; and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions. 18 And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph [Ephraim] a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, and they shall kindle in them, and devour them; and there shall not be any remaining of the house of Esau; for the LORD has spoken it. 19 And they of the south [in whom My power is revealed] shall possess the mount of Esau; and they of the plain the Philistines [Palestinians – the enemy army now among us plainly seen]: and they [the men of the south] shall possess the fields of Ephraim, and the fields of Samaria: and Benjamin shall possess Gilead [those who become My right hand shall possess this mountain of My testimony]. 20 And the captivity of this host of the children of Israel [the LORD’s people, His army, returned to their right mind] shall possess that of the Canaanites [those zealously evil, fighting against God and His people], even unto Zarephath [when this is realized to be the refining fire]; and the captivity of [in which minds return to the LORD, in New Heavenly] Jerusalem, which is in Sepharad [among those who were before separated from Him], [and they] shall possess the cities of the south [where His power appears to those looking to His light]. 21 And saviors [the ONE BODY of Christ] shall come up on mount Zion [the LORD’s government] to judge the mount of [the rulers, government possessed by] Esau; and the kingdom shall be the LORD’s.
Isaiah 21 5 Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, you princes, and anoint the shield. 6 For thus has the LORD said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he sees. 7 And he saw a chariot with a couple of horsemen, a chariot of asses, and a chariot of camels; and he hearkened diligently with much heed: 8 And he cried, A lion [‘ariy – the body of Christ rising by/with His strength]: My LORD, I stand continually upon the watchtower in the daytime, and I Am set in my ward whole nights: 9 And, behold, here comes a chariot of men, with a couple of horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon [confusion’s rule] is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he has broken unto the ground. 10 O my threshing [opening the word, referring us to Isaiah 28, and destroying the gates of hell], and the corn [ben – sons] of my [threshing] floor: that which I have heard of the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared unto you. 11 The burden of Dumah [short for Edom {Esau} and meaning the silencing of the enemies in our midst – as in verse 2]. He called to me out of [away from] Seir [the high places of Esau, devils misleading the flock], Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night [the time of ignorance, which is caused by their {Edom’s} words]? 12 The watchman said, The morning [understanding coming as the light of the sunrise] comes, and also the night [and these men will reject this word and choose to remain in ignorance]: if you will enquire [ba’ah], enquire you [ba’ah – only used three other times – here referring us back to Obadiah, verse 6, where it is rendered “sought up,” which tells us this is how the secret things of Esau are revealed {by enquiring}]: return [shuwb – turn us], come.
Isaiah 30 8 Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come forever and ever: 9 That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear [shama’ – and obey] the law of the LORD: 10 Which say to the seers [ra’ah], See [ra’ah] not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits [as do the false prophets]: 11 Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One [the son of man in whom the LORD is unknown speaking and working] of Israel to cease from before us [paniym – cease from manifesting the LORD’s presence with us]. 12 Wherefore thus says the Holy One [the son of man, the LORD unknown in the flesh of His chosen] of Israel, Because you despise this word [wherein the Father’s presence is manifested], and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon: 13 Therefore, this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out [ba’ah – inquiring, seeking out the inequity] in a high wall [the lie of those power], whose breaking comes suddenly at an instant. 14 And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters’ [earthen] vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit [wherein they are fallen and snared]. 15 For thus says the LORD God, the Holy One of Israel; In returning [shuwbah – only used here, meaning in returning to Jehovah] and rest [nachath – in his light] shall you be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and you would not. 16 But you said, No; for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall you flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift. 17 One thousand shall flee at [paniym – the presence of the LORD manifested in] the rebuke of one; at [paniym – at the presence of the LORD manifested in] the rebuke of five shall you flee: till you [as the LORD’s saviors] be left as a beacon [of light] upon the top of a mountain [the LORD’s government], and as an ensign [nec – the pole upon which the son of man must be lifted, so the LORD’s word is exalted above all others, as Moses lifted the fiery serpent in the wilderness] on a hill. 18 And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious [finish His work, perfecting us with His gift of full understanding] unto you, and therefore will he be exalted [as an eagle], that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him [to finish His work]. 29 You shall have a song [this word in your mouth, repeated as received], as in the night [this time of darkness: ignorance] when a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goes with a pipe [chaliyl – to dissolve the words of the wicked, the gates of hell, and break their strong hold] to come into the mountain [the government] of the LORD, to the mighty One of Israel. 30 And the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to be heard [shama’ – and obeyed], and shall show the lighting [understanding] down [nachath] of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, with scattering, and tempest, and hailstones [this word reserved in heaven for the time of war]. 31 For through the voice of the LORD shall the Assyrian [communist] be beaten down [chathath – become confused and in fear, by their chosen ignorance], which smote with a rod.
Isaiah 64 1 Oh that you would rend the heavens, that you would come down [as a man], that the mountains might flow down [melt] at your presence [paniym], 2 As when [as a lion roaring] the melting fire burns, the fire causes the waters to boil [ba’ah – inquiring, that inequity is searched out], to make your name [identity] known to your adversaries, that the nations [who haven’t known You] may tremble at your presence [paniym]! 3 When [as an ox working] you did terrible [yare’ – fearful] things which we looked not for, you came down, the mountains flowed down at your presence [paniym]. 4 For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither has the eye seen, O God, beside you, what he has prepared for him that wait for him [to complete His work, strengthening us, and raising us on His wings as an eagle]. 5 You meet him that rejoices [realized this is Your presence manifested] and [made in Your likeness] works righteousness, those that remember you in your ways: behold, you are wroth; for we have sinned: in those [recognizing You and Your way] is continuance, and we shall be saved. 6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses [all the thing we think we know are right] are as filthy rags [‘ed]; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away [from continuing with You]. 7 And there is none that calls upon your name, that stirs up himself to take hold of you: for you have hid your face [paniym – presence] from us, and have consumed us, because of our iniquities. 8 But now, O LORD, you are our father; we are the clay, and you our potter; and we all are the work of your hand. 9 Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity forever: behold, see, we beseech you, we are all your people. 10 Your holy cities are a wilderness, Zion [Your government] is a wilderness, Jerusalem [Your people] a desolation. 11 Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised you, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste. 12 Will you refrain yourself [not reproduce us in Your image] for these things, O LORD? will you hold your peace [not cause Your word to be heard from us], and afflict us very sore [not cause us to rise with Your rising]?
Proverbs 1 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 [sheol – hell]; 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 [your vote] in your lot among us; [as communists saying] let us [through the force of government] 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 [the trap of their evil ways is worthless to catch those who understand it]. 18 And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives. 19 So are the ways of every one 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 utter 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 [see], 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 [‘eyd]; I will mock when your fear [pachad] comes; 27 When your fear [pachad] comes as desolation, and your destruction [‘eyd] comes as a whirlwind [My Almighty Spirit working and speaking]; 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 [the decision by which men condemn themselves]: 30 They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof. 31 Therefore [by choice] 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 [from the present LORD] shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them. 33 But whoso hearkens [shama’ – hears and obeys] unto me shall dwell safely [betach], and shall be quiet [sha’an – be at peace] from fear [pachad] of evil.
Proverbs 3 12 For whom the LORD loves he corrects; even as a father the son in whom he delight. 13 Happy is the man that finds [this] wisdom, and the man that gets [this] understanding. 14 For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. 15 She is more precious than rubies: and all the things you can desire are not to be compared unto her. 16 Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honor. 17 Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. 18 She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retains her. 19 The LORD by wisdom has founded the earth; by understanding has he established the heavens. 20 By his knowledge the depths [of understanding] are broken up, and the clouds [where understanding, when it leaves the earth, is held in separated elements, there reserved for this time of war] drop down the dew [the elements reassembled into His word and are from heaven sent to the earth again]. 21 My son, let not them depart from your eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion: 22 So shall they be life unto your soul, and grace to your neck [this gift in us waiting to be spoken]. 23 Then shall you walk in your way safely [betach], and your foot shall not stumble. 24 When you lay down, you shall not be afraid [pachad]: yea, you shall lie down, and your sleep shall be sweet. 25 Be not afraid [yare’] of sudden fear [pachad], neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it comes. 26 For the LORD shall be your confidence, and shall keep your foot from being taken. 27 Withhold not good [this word of God] from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.
Isaiah 40 26 Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who has created these things, that brings 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 hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over [‘abar – the way by which He brings us from death into life, is hid] 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 [ending the old and beginning the new], faints not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding. 29 He gives power [koach] 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 [to finish His work] shall renew their strength [koach]; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
Hebrews 12 1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which does so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, 2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. 3 For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest you be wearied and faint in your minds. 4 You have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin. 5 And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks unto you as unto children, My son, despise not you the chastening of the LORD, nor faint when you are rebuked of him: 6 For whom the LORD loves he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives.
Isaiah 28 13 But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken. 14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, you scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem. 15 Because you have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves: 16 Therefore thus says the LORD God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone [of My new government], a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believes shall not make haste [to flee away in shame]. 17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail [this word reserved in heaven, sent in this time of war, against the current corrupt crop of leaders] 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 – shama’ Jehovah, the vexation is to understand this is His voice, and hearing Him, obey His commands].
And to those who do hear Him, “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 [His messengers speaking His message],”
Hebrews 12 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 [here] from heaven: 26 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he has promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. 27 And this word, Yet once more, signifies the removing of those things [the blinding corruption] 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.
25 – 27 July 2024
And I will set my throne in Elam, and will destroy from thence the king and the princes, says the LORD.
The LORD begins today in Jeremiah 49 (above is verse 38), a chapter describing what Ezekiel later sees as the unfolding presence of the LORD.
As we understand, he (Ezekiel), seeing as the LORD sees, depicts himself as one of the cherubims (in Ezekiel 10:14} above the mercy seat, face to face with (in Ezekiel 3:8 & 9 as he is sent to) those to whom, through him, the LORD sends His conversation, to give, in pure form, the understanding he’s received. This (process, full circuit) is the wheel within a wheel he describes, understanding sent, in the written word, to give the same understanding to the recipient. The end, when full understanding comes: when the LORD is realized therein present speaking and working, is the light returned, which recreates, awakens, those sleeping in death.
Ezekiel (in Ezekiel 1:10 as he receives his understanding and speaks of how it came to him) describes this full circuit (wheel) as having four “faces,” using the word paniym, meaning it is the LORD thereby manifesting His presence. The first face is of a man, Ezekiel (like the many writers before him), when he understands His mission, as did Jeremiah, whose name means Jehovah rising, in his flesh speaking and working, to raise His people. The next two faces (paniym) are of a lion, speaking with the LORD’s voice, heard roaring, and of an ox, the LORD working through him in the earth. The fourth face (paniym) is of an eagle, the LORD’s present with full understanding, exalted above all other voices, flying in the heavens, realized by the receivers who receive Him.
Later, he (Ezekiel in chapter 10, speaking of how he is sent) sees the four faces differently: the first as a cherub, the second a man, the third a lion, and the fourth an eagle.
In chapter 3, when He is first commanded to go, the LORD tells him He has made his forehead, against the foreheads of His rebellious people, as an “adamant” harder than flint.
Ezekiel 3 7 But the house of Israel will not hearken [shama’ – hear and obey] unto you; for they will not hearken [shama’ – hear and obey] unto me: for all the house of Israel are impudent and hardhearted. 8 Behold, I have made your face [paniym – My presence in you] strong against their faces [paniym – the presence possessing them], and your forehead strong against their foreheads. 9 As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead: fear them not, neither be dismayed [chatham] at their looks, though they be a rebellious house.
The Hebrew word shamiyr, rendered adamant, is only used 11 times; all except three are in Isaiah, where it’s always rendered “brier.”
In these eight uses in Isaiah, we understand why God’s people refuse to hear the LORD’s voice: because (of deceivers and misleaders) they have the misperception he (Ezekiel) is a deceiver.
John 7 12 And there was much murmuring among the people concerning him: for some said, He is a good man: others said, Nay; but he deceives the people.
The word shamiyr is from shamar, meaning “to hedge about (as with thorns), i.e. guard; generally, to protect, attend to, etc..”
Isaiah 5 5 And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall [protection] thereof, and it shall be trodden down: 6 And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers [shamiyr – deceivers] and thorns [misleaders]: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it [no understanding will be sent from heaven to the earth].
Isaiah 10 17 And the light [understanding] of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns [misleaders] and his briers [shamiyr – deceivers] in one day [when light returns];
The other two uses of shamiyr (other than in Isaiah and Ezekiel) describe (as spoken of above) the process by which understanding leaves and finally, how light returns.
Jeremiah 17 1 The sin of Judah [those leading God’s people] is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond [shamiyr – by deceivers]: it is graven upon the table of their heart [corrupting their minds], and upon the horns of your altars [their creations, the power by which they deceive]; 2 While their children remember their altars [their creation] and their groves by the green trees [the men they made their idols] upon the high hills.
5 Thus says the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from the Lord.
Zechariah 7 11 But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear [shama’ – and obey]. 12 Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone [shamiyr – minds of deceivers], lest they should hear [shama’ – and obey] the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts has sent [as a wheel within a wheel] in his spirit by the former prophets [as described and demonstrated here by Him]: therefore came a great wrath [this word they refuse] from the LORD of hosts. 13 Therefore it is come to pass, that as he cried, and they would not hear [shama’]; so they cried, and I would not hear [shama’], says the LORD of hosts: 14 But I scattered them with a whirlwind [by My Almighty Spirit, from where His voice IS heard and IS obeyed] among all the nations [who haven’t known Him] whom they knew not. Thus the land [‘erets – the earth] was desolate after them, that no man passed through [‘abar – none passed from death into life] nor returned [shuwn – turned to the present LORD, the living God]: for they laid the pleasant land [‘erets – earth] desolate.
In the passages below, as in almost all the LORD’s written word, proper names are strategic, describing identities related to this moment.
Jeremiah 49 1 Concerning the [ben – the sons of] Ammonites [those who’ve scattered the LORD one body], thus says the LORD [Jehovah – ya’ah havah: the breathing one to whom all things appertain, the Living God]; Has Israel [those who receive this promised end, who will now with Him reign on the earth] no sons [ben]? has he [Israel] no heir [to inherit the earth]? why then does their [the Ammonites’] king inherit Gad [the LORD’s army], and his people dwell in his cities? 2 Therefore, behold, the days [have] come, says the LORD, that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard in Rabbah of [rabab – the multitude of God people possessed by] the Ammonites; and it shall be a desolate heap [as they are in the hand of these wicked men], and her daughters shall be burned with fire [caused by following the words and ways of the wicked]: then shall Israel be heir unto [possessing] them that were his heirs [his possessors], says the LORD. 3 Howl, O Heshbon [strongholds, by which they hold My people], for Ai [the heap of ruin, Ephraim {God’s people at large, in this generation}] is spoiled [devastated in your hand]: cry, you daughters of Rabbah [possessed by the wicked], gird you with sackcloth; lament [for this condition of which you are apparently ignorant], and run to and fro [seeking this understanding] by the hedges [the wall of the LORD’s protection]; for their king [the powers leading the totally corrupt civil government, infesting all its institution] shall go into captivity, and his priests [powers leading, infesting, all the corrupt churches] and his princes [these evil powers] together. 4 Wherefore glory you in the valleys [in these darkened deeps], your flowing valley [flowing darkness they call deep understanding], O backsliding daughter [in your endless fall away from the LORD and all truth]? that trusted in her treasures [the darkness, ignorance they teach and preach as the valued things of the dead earth], saying, Who shall come unto me [not know that for this thing the LORD promised he would visit, manifesting His presence as the Chief Overseer]? 5 Behold, I will bring a fear [cabiyb – as in verse 29 below] upon you, says the LORD God of hosts, from all those [the wicked] that be about you; and you shall be driven out [nadach – become outcast in the world, and I will call you Zion] every man right forth [paniym – by My unfolding presence]; and none shall gather up him that wanders. 6 And afterward [after this full circuit] I will bring again the captivity of the children of [possessed by] Ammon, says the LORD. 7 Concerning Edom [the enemies mixed among us, claiming they are our brethren at peace with us, while they openly war against God, us, and His better culture], thus says the LORD of hosts [a man of war, Chief of the army of heaven]; Is wisdom no more in Teman [the places where this understanding should be found]? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom vanished? [The answer is, seeing as the LORD sees, it absolutely has, from these places, perished and vanished.] 8 Flee you [from the ignorant misleading you], turn back [to the LORD], dwell deep [in this place of the LORD’s light], O inhabitants of Dedan [upon whom this double judgment, against the institutions of church and state, has come]; for I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him [Edom, removing the birthright as with Esau, because of His bitterness against His brother], the time that I will visit him [paqad – as a man, the Chief Overseer of the earth manifested, the first face of the wheel]. 9 If grape gatherers come to you [My people], would they not leave some gleaning grapes? if thieves by night [as I have into your ignorance, as a man], they will destroy till they have enough. 10 But I have made Esau bare [removing their cover {in this apocalypse}, all the lies and falsehood under which they think they hide], I have uncovered [galah – revealed, in the Apocalypse {Revelation}] his secret places [referring to Obadiah 1:6, saying “How are the things of Esau searched out! how are his hidden things sought up!”], and he shall not be able to hide himself: his seed is spoiled, and his brethren, and his neighbors, and he [all the enemies mixed among us at war with us] is not. 11 Leave your fatherless children, I will [by this understanding and light] preserve them alive; and let your widows trust in me. 12 For thus says the LORD; Behold, they whose judgment was not to drink of the cup [which I have here given] have assuredly drunken; and are you he that shall altogether go unpunished [naqah – will I not make you clean, remove corruption from your understanding and judgment]? you shall not go unpunished [naqah – uncleaned], but you shall surely drink of it [and thereby this word will effectually work in your mind to bring this change: when the corrupt put on incorruption]. 13 For I have sworn by myself, says the LORD, that Bozrah [the stronghold of corruption] shall become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes. 14 I have heard a rumor [shmuw’ah – the voice of Jehovah heard, but not yet verified] from the LORD, and an ambassador [tsiyr – a man whose voice is the birth pains preceding the One to come] is sent unto the heathen [those not knowing the LORD, and therefore not knowing His voice], saying, Gather you together [again into MY ONE BODY], and come against her [the wicked], and rise up [with Me] to the battle. 15 For, lo, I will make you [the fatherless children of the righteous and the wicked] small among the heathen [who haven’t known me], and despised among men. 16 Your terribleness [tipheltseth – the corruption you put on] has deceived you, and the pride of your heart [the proud waves, pride of your minds, trusting in the corrupt words that carried all into death and hell], O you that dwellest in the clefts of the rock [from where corruption flows, men as idols in which you put your trust], that holdest the height of the hill: though you shouldest make your nest as high as the eagle [as if you have risen there by full understanding], I will bring you down from thence, says the LORD. 17 Also Edom [the unrepentant enemies among us at war with us] shall be a desolation: every one that goes by it [‘abar – from it rises out of death into life] shall be astonished [by the power of the LORD to raise them from there], and shall hiss at [draw attention to] all the plagues thereof. 18 As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor cities thereof, says the LORD, no man shall abide there, neither shall a son of man dwell in it. 19 Behold, he shall come up [‘alah – rise in the flesh of a man] like [the second face of the wheel] a lion from [roaring against] the swelling [pride] of Jordan [the words that carry all in the descent into death and hell] [the LORD roaring] against the habitation of the strong [the wicked in power]: but I will suddenly make him [the wicked] run away from her [God’s people He releases from their possession]: and who is a chosen man [from whom I roar as a lion], that I may appoint [paqad – as the Chief Overseer] over her? for who is like me [created in My image]? and who will appoint me the time? and who is that shepherd [ra’ah – seer seeing as I see] that will stand [‘amad] before me [paniym – in My presence manifesting my presence]? 20 Therefore hear [shama’ – obey] the counsel of the LORD, that he has taken against Edom; and his purposes [machashabah], that he has purposed [chashab – as in verse 30 below] against the inhabitants of Teman [the places where the wise and prudent are in darkness: in ignorance]: Surely the least of the flock [I Am as an ox {the third face of the wheel} doing His work – of the least value in man’s eyes] shall draw them out [the wicked into this light]: surely he shall make [by His quick work upon the earth] their habitations desolate with them. 21 The earth is moved [ra’ash – the shaking that brings the dead bones together, as in Ezekiel 37:7 where it’s an identical word] at the noise of [qowl – by the LORD’s voice, effectually working to bring] their fall, at the cry the noise [qowl – the LORD’s voice roaring] thereof was heard in the Red [reed, referring to the papyrus upon which the written word comes to humanity] sea [the termination point of the proud waves]. 22 Behold [when we see this is the word of the LORD manifesting His presence], he shall come up [‘alah – rise in the flesh of a man in whom His word is exalted, lifted above all] and fly [in the strength of His full understanding given and received] as the eagle [the fourth face of the wheel], and spread his wings [this voice moving His people] over Bozrah [against the stronghold of the wicked]: and at that day [this time of light] shall the heart [minds] of the mighty men of Edom [leading the enemies] be as the heart [mind] of a woman in her pangs [having to idea they are bringing forth the LORD’s ONE united BODY]. 23 Concerning Damascus [God’s people who’ve been silent and in sorrow], Hamath [the stronghold, the powers holding them therein] is confounded [buwsh – ashamed and disappointed by not reaching the end they seek: not able to destroy all humanity], and Arpad [spread out: this exposition in the firmament is laid before them]: for they have heard [shama’ – obeyed, and decreed] evil [ra’] tidings [shmuw’ah – against this voice of the LORD, the report by which His arm, work, is revealed]: they are fainthearted [muwg – their evil decrees and their wicked institutions are dissolved]; there is sorrow [d’agah – this is the agitation, the storm, caused by the whale, the open mouths of the wicked, that swallows men into death and hell] on the sea [against all humanity]; it [the evil voices] cannot be quiet [refuse to be silenced]. 24 Damascus [the LORD’s silent people] is waxed feeble, and turns herself [from Him] to flee [as did Jonah], and fear [of the storm] has seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her [swallowing her into the belly of death and hell], as a woman in travail [needing the bring forth her child, the ONE BODY from the belly of the tanniyn: men, as whales and serpents, dragons who with open mouths devoured them]. 25 How is the city of praise not left [‘azab – not loosed from death and hell], the city of my joy [that should by now realized My presence with them, even here in hell]! 26 Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, says the LORD of hosts. 27 And I will kindle a fire in the wall [of lies and falsehood] of Damascus [holding them in silence and sorrow], and it shall consume [‘akal – eat, swallow, devour] the palaces of Benhadad [the sons of the mighty in power]. 28 Concerning Kedar [the darkness that still covers the earth], and concerning the kingdoms of Hazor [the tower, from where ignorance reigns], which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon [the lies of the false prophet, which have ruled the earth in to confusion now turned insanity] shall smite, thus says the LORD; Arise you [quwm], go up to [‘alah – be lifted from] Kedar [the darkness: ignorance], and spoil the men [ben – sons] of the east [qedem – the ancient, the wicked who’ve been brought here for judgment]. 29 Their tents and their flocks shall they take away: they shall take to themselves their curtains, and all their vessels, and their camels; and they shall cry unto them, Fear [cabiyb] is on every side [as in verse 5 above, when the LORD has visited as the Chief Overseer of the earth]. 30 Flee, get you far off, dwell deep, O you inhabitants of Hazor [the tower, from where ignorance reigns], says the LORD; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon [the lies of your false prophets that have brought the world to desolation] has taken counsel against you, and has conceived [chashab – as in verse 20 above, when all the wise are found to be ignorant] a purpose [machashabah – ma-chashab-ah: what purpose of Jehovah] against you [to send all humanity to this time of His righteous judgment]. 31 Arise [quwm], get you up [‘alah – rise with me in the flesh] unto the wealthy [shelve – in worldly prosperity quieted] nation [gowy – who no longer know Me] that dwell without care [thinking you are secure], says the LORD, which have neither gates nor bars [to keep out the devourers], which dwell alone [separated from Me and My ONE BODY, mocking my flesh because they say they are holier than I Am]. 32 And their camels shall be a booty [baz – plunder, carried away], and the multitude of their cattle [miqneh – your property] a spoil [shalal – also the plunder of war against you]: and I will scatter [as you are now scattered from Me] into all winds [seducing spirits, the false doctrine and evil decrees by which the communists in power in church and state, now rule] them that are in the utmost [qatsats – cut off from me by] corners [pe’ah – mouth, the word of the wicked, as Moab, men who now possess and hold you in hell]; and I will bring their calamity [‘eyd – see its other uses below] from all sides thereof, says the LORD. 33 And Hazor [the tower, from where ignorance reigns] shall be a dwelling for dragons [tanniyn – men as whales and serpents devouring with their wide open mouths], and a desolation forever: there shall no man abide there, nor any son of man dwell in it. 34 The word of the LORD that came [hayah – exists] to [with] Jeremiah [Jehovah rising to raise His people] the prophet [speaking My words] against Elam [all souls throughout eternity, predestined to this moment, in the flesh here and now] in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah [Jehovah’s righteousness] king of Judah [here and now with and in His elect remnant], saying, 35 Thus says the LORD of hosts [a man of war, commanding His army]; Behold [see], I will break [shabar – separate into pieces, the elements of understanding] the bow [qasheth – the sign in the cloud] of Elam [and bring them with Me throughout eternity], the chief of [ra’shiyth – the first principles, beginning] their might [gbuwrah – strength returning with Me]. 36 And upon Elam will I bring the four winds [the fours faces of my presence manifested] from the four quarters [qatsah – the termination, the full circuit] of heaven [returning full understanding], and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation [no people who haven’t known me] whither the outcasts [nadach – God’s people in this generation, whom He calls Zion; referring to its use in Jeremiah 30:17 and verse 5 above] of Elam shall not come [with this understanding they shine upon all]. 37 For I will cause Elam to be dismayed [chathath – confused and in fear, by his separated elements: ignorance] before their enemies, and before them that seek their life: and I will bring evil upon them, even my fierce anger [in this word], says the LORD; and I will send the sword after them [this word against those who reject it], till I have consumed [kalah – this decreed and determined end, as in Daniel 12:7 and Isaiah 10:18 & 25] them: 38 And I will set my throne in Elam [here on and over the earth among all My immortals], and will destroy from thence the king and the princes [the evil misleaders, tyrants oppressing humanity, as thorns in their sides and pricks in their eyes], says the LORD. 39 But it shall come to pass [hayah – come into existence] in the latter days [‘achariyth – this end of darkness], that I will bring again the captivity [shbuwth – a state of prosperity and security under God] of Elam [all those who receive Me], says the LORD.
Daniel 12 1 And at that time shall Michael [who is like God] stand up [‘amad], the great prince which stands [‘amad] for the children of your people: and there shall be a time of trouble [tsarah – this time of 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 [when it is again opened]. 2 And many of them that sleep in the dust [the ashes of the ruin] of the earth shall awake [be resurrected from death into life], some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. 3 And they that be wise shall shine [zahar – shall teach and enlighten] as the brightness of the firmament [this exposition]; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars forever and ever. 4 But you, O Daniel [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, and knowledge [da’ath – the knowledge of the LORD that now fills the earth – as in Habakkuk 2:14, saying “For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge {da’ath} of the glory of the LORD, as the waters {His word} cover {in peace and safety} the sea.”] 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 [sending this word], and the other on that side of the bank of the river [receiving this word]. 6 And one said to the man [I Am] clothed in linen, which was upon [Chief Overseer over] the waters of the river, How long shall it be to the end of these wonders? 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 [mow’ed – this appointed time], times [mow’ed – of this congregation, gathering into ONE BODY], and an half [this rightly dividing, knowing, this time]; and when he shall have accomplished [kalah] to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished [kalah]. 8 And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my LORD, what shall be the end [‘achariyth – these last days of darkness: ignorance] of these things? 9 And he said, Go your way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed [and there shall be no understanding, and confusion shall reign] 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 [this time].
Isaiah 2 2 And it shall come to pass in the last days [‘achariyth], that the mountain [government] of the LORD’s house shall be established in the top of the mountains [over and above all governments], and shall be exalted above the hills [the high places of the earth]; and all nations [who haven’t known Him] shall flow unto it. 3 And many people shall go and say, Come you, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion [His government] shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from [New Heavenly] Jerusalem [His people at large]. 4 And he shall judge among the nations [those who haven’t known Him], and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. 5 O house of Jacob [still wrestling with Him unknown], come you, and let us walk in the light [understanding] of the LORD.
Isaiah 10 16 Therefore shall the LORD, the LORD of hosts [a man of war – see Exodus 15:3], send among his fat [prospering] ones leanness [and their corrupt understanding shall be cleansed], and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire [in which they are refined]. 17 And the light [understanding, strength, now returned] of Israel [those who receive this promised end and will rule with Me over and above the earth] shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns [misleader] and his briers [shamiyr – deceivers] in one day; 18 And shall consume [kalah] the glory of his forest [the falsely so-called upright men], and of his fruitful field [the wickedness in which they’ve prospered], both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standard-bearer [of wickedness and evil] faints. 19 And the rest of the trees [the upright] of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them. 20 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the [elect] remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay [rely] upon him [the wicked powers of the earth] that smote them; but shall stay [rely] upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth. 21 The [elect] remnant shall return [to their right minds], even the [elect] remnant of Jacob [who were before, in ignorance, wrestling with the LORD unknown], unto the mighty God [they shall return]. 22 For though your people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed [charats] shall overflow with righteousness. 23 For the LORD God of hosts shall make a consumption [kalah], even determined [charats], in the midst of all the land [‘erets – the earth]. 24 Therefore thus says the LORD God of hosts, O my people that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian [the communist now in power]: he shall smite you with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against you, after the manner of Egypt [tyrannically oppressing]. 25 For yet a very little while, and the indignation [za’am] shall cease [kalah], and my anger in their destruction.
Jeremiah 30 16 Therefore all they that devour you shall be devoured; and all your adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; and they that spoil you shall be a spoil, and all that prey upon you will I give for a prey. 17 For I will restore health unto you, and I will heal you of your wounds, says the LORD; because they called you an Outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no man seeks after. 18 Thus says the LORD; Behold, I will bring again the captivity of Jacob’s tents, and have mercy on his dwelling-places; and the city shall be built upon her own heap, and the palace shall remain after the manner thereof. 19 And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small. 20 Their children also shall be as aforetime, and their congregation shall be established before me, and I will punish [paqad – visit as the Chief Overseer of the earth] all that oppress them. 21 And their nobles shall be of themselves, and their governor shall proceed from the midst of them; and I will cause him to draw near, and he shall approach unto me: for who is this that engaged his heart [mind] to approach unto me? says the LORD. 22 And you shall be my people, and I will be your God. 23 Behold, the whirlwind [from where this voice] of the LORD goes forth with fury, a continuing whirlwind: it shall fall with pain upon the head of the wicked. 24 The fierce anger of the LORD shall not return, until he has done it, and until he has performed the intents of his heart [mind]: in the latter [‘achariyth] days you shall consider [biyn – understand] it.
Jeremiah 48 35 Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab [whose mouth are the gates holding all the world in death and hell], says the LORD, him that offers [evil, misleading, words] in the high places, and him that burn incense to his gods [worshipping men as idols put in God’s place]. 36 Therefore my heart [mind] shall sound for [hamah – roar and war against] Moab like pipes [chaliyl – to dissolve their words and break their strong hold], and my heart [mind] shall sound [hamah – roar and war] like pipes [chaliyl – to dissolve their words and break their strong hold] for the men of Kirheres [wall of potsherds; earthly understanding, elements broken in pieces and become worthless lies]: because the riches [the understanding they were given] that he has gotten have perished [in their hands]. 37 For every head shall be bald [all the understanding, knowledge, that was formed in his head has perished], and everybeard clipped [all the same knowledge that once came from their mouths has also perished]: upon all the hands [their works of ignorance] shall be cuttings [gduwdah – pressing out any remaining knowledge], and upon the loins sackcloth [sorrow come from this condition, not holding any water: without understanding from the word of God]. 38 There shall be lamentation generally upon all the housetops of Moab, and in the streets thereof: for I have broken Moab like a vessel [into potsherd] wherein is no pleasure [because it holds no water], says the LORD. 39 They shall howl, saying, How is it broken down [chathath – into separated elements]! how has Moab turned the back with shame [unable to reach the end they promised]! so shall Moab [these men as the gates of hell] be a derision and a dismaying to all them about him [cabiyb – all those who’ve followed them into the conclusion, completion, of their circuit, ending held in hell]. 40 For thus says the LORD; Behold, he [the LORD sending me to the rescue] shall fly as an eagle [the culmination in perfection, strength returned], and shall spread his wings [this voice of the LORD, heard and exalted] over Moab [over the mouths of that are the gates of hell]. 41 Kerioth [qarah – upon whom this time of My threshing has come unknown] is taken [lakad – are caught in this trap laid], and the strong holds are surprised, and the mighty men’s hearts [minds] in Moab at that day shall be as the heart [mind] of a woman in her pangs [not knowing they have brought forth a man child, the LORD to the rescue of His people, raising His ONE BODY into life]. 42 And Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he has magnified himself [exalting their lies] against the LORD. 43 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, shall be upon you, O inhabitant of Moab, says the LORD. 44 He that flees from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that getteth up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for I will bring upon it, even upon Moab, the year of their visitation [pquddah – this time of the LORD, Chief Overseer, Commander, of the earth], says the LORD. 45 They that fled [from this visitation] stood under the shadow of [ignorantly thinking they could block out and hide from the light] Heshbon [in their stronghold of lies] because of the force [koach – the strength of the Almighty]: but a fire shall come forth out of Heshbon [the lies in which they trust], and a flame from the midst of Sihon [those warring against the LORD], and shall devour the corner [pe’ah – the mouths] of Moab [the gates of hell], and [the fire and flame shall remove] the crown of the head of the tumultuous [sha’own – uproar, roaring wave against the roaring Lion] ones [warring against the LORD]. 46 Woe be unto you, O Moab! the people of Chemosh [the subduers of God’s people] perishes: for your sons are taken captives, and your daughters captives. 47 Yet will I bring again the captivity of Moab in the latter [‘achariyth] days, says the LORD. Thus far is the judgment of Moab.
Jeremiah 25 30 Therefore prophesy you against them all these words, and say unto them, The LORD shall roar from on high, and utter his voice from his holy habitation; he shall mightily roar upon his habitation; he shall give a shout [the voice of His archangel, His messenger in the flesh, which is the last trumpet sounding], as they that tread the grapes [in this harvest, this judgment], against all the inhabitants of the earth. 31 A noise [sha’own] shall come even to the ends [ending the old and beginning the new] of the earth; for the LORD has a controversy [asking who is more suited to rule the earth, its Creator or those destroying it] with the nations [who haven’t known Him], he will plead with all flesh; he will give them that are wicked to the sword [this word they refuse], says the LORD. 32 Thus says the LORD of hosts, Behold, evil shall go forth from nation to nation, and a great whirlwind [from where this voice is heard] shall be raised up [against the evil] from the coasts of [limit, where the proud ways of the wicked are stopped upon] the earth. 33 And the slain of the LORD shall be at that day from one end [of the old] of the earth even unto the other end of [beginning] the [new] earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung [animated dead flesh] upon the ground. 34 Howl, you shepherds, and cry; and wallow yourselves in the ashes, you principal of the flock: for the days [this time of light returned] of your slaughter and of your dispersions are accomplished; and you shall fall like a pleasant vessel [become worthless because it holds no water]. 35 And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the principal of the flock to escape. 36 A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and a howling of the principal of the flock, shall be heard: for the LORD has spoiled their pasture. 37 And the peaceable [completed in death] habitations are cut down [damam – in silence, “to be dumb; by implication, to be astonished, to stop; also to perish”] because of the fierce anger of the LORD. 38 He has forsaken his covert [the place where they hid His presence, in the false churches of those who haven’t known Him], as the lion [roaring]: for their land is desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of his fierce. anger.
Jeremiah 18 15 Because my people has forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity [worshipped worthless idols they put in My place and call by My name], and they have caused them to stumble in their [corrupt] ways from the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not cast up [not exalting the word of the LORD, which is His high way]; 16 To make their land [‘erets – the earth] desolate, and a perpetual hissing [their voices drawing attention to their desolation]; every one that passes [‘abar – from them into life] thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head [in disbelief they are continuing in self-destruction]. 17 I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will show them the back [My work after it is complete], and not the face [paniym – not My presence while I Am working among them unknown], in the day of their calamity [‘eyd]. 18 Then said they, “Come and let us devise devices against Jeremiah [Jehovah rising {in the flesh} to raise His people]; for the law shall not perish from the [corrupt] priest, nor counsel from the [corrupt] wise, nor the word from the [corrupt] prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue [kill him with our words as we, the corrupt, have killed all others], and let us not give heed to any of his words.” 19 Give heed to me, O LORD, and hearken to the voice of them that contend with me. 20 Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood [‘amad – I Am risen] before you [paniym – in Your presence manifested] to speak good for them, and to turn away your wrath from them [that hear and obey Your voice]. 21 Therefore deliver up their children to the famine [so they no longer are fed their corruption], and pour out [your teaching] their blood [against their teaching that is draining life from them] by the force [hand – Your work] of the sword [this word they refuse]; and let their wives [teaching corruption] be bereaved of their children, and be widows [without the providers of corruption]; and let their men [the providers] be put to death [understood to be the dead]; let their young men be slain by the sword [this word of the LORD] in battle [warring against Him]. 22 Let a cry be heard from their houses, when you shall bring a troop [your risen army] suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to take me [into which they have fallen], and hid snares for my feet [into which they are fallen and snared]. 23 Yet, LORD, you know all their counsel against me to slay me [with their words]: forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from your sight, but let them be overthrown before you [paniym – by Your presence manifested with us, in us]; deal thus with them in the time of your anger.
Proverbs 6 15 Therefore shall his calamity [‘eyd] come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy. 16 These six things does the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: 17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, 18 An heart that devises wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, 19 A false witness that speaks lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren. 20 My son, keep your father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of your mother: 21 Bind them continually upon your heart [in your mind], and tie them about your neck [where they are readied to be spoken]. 22 When you go, it shall lead you; when you sleep, it shall keep you; and when you awake, it shall talk with you. 23 For the commandment is a lamp [showing you the way]; and [in] the law is light [understanding]; and reproofs [correction] of instruction are the way of life: 24 To keep you from the evil woman [the seducers in church and state], from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman [strayed from the LORD].
Obadiah 1 1 The vision of Obadiah [the servant of Jehovah]. Thus says the LORD God concerning Edom [the enemies mixed among us at war with us]; We have heard a rumor [shmuw’ah – heard the voice] from the LORD, and an ambassador [tsiyr – the voice of Jehovah] is sent among the heathen [those who don’t know the LORD], Arise you, and let us rise up against her in battle. 2 Behold [see], I have made you [Jacob – God’s people still wrestling with Him and His voice from His messenger] small [qatan] among the heathen [those who don’t know me]: you are greatly despised. 3 The pride of your heart has deceived you, you that dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high [all the place of teachers and leaders]; that says in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground? 4 Though you exalt yourself as the eagle, and though you set your nest among the stars, thence will I bring you down, says the LORD. 5 If thieves came to you, if robbers by night, (how are you cut off!) would they not have stolen till they had enough? if the grape-gatherers came to you, would they not leave some grapes? 6 How are the things of Esau [the enemies among us in power] searched out! how are his hidden things sought up [ba’ah – a five times used word referring us to its other four uses, all in Isaiah below]! 7 All the men of your confederacy [joining with communists and God haters] have brought you even to the border [this limit, your end]: the men that were at peace with you have deceived you, and prevailed against you; they that eat your bread have laid a wound under you: there is none understanding in him. 8 Shall I not in that day, says the LORD, even destroy the wise men out of Edom [the enemies in power], and understanding out of the mount of Esau? 9 And your mighty men, O Teman [the places where understanding should be found], shall be dismayed, to the end that every one of the mount of Esau may be cut off by slaughter. 10 For your violence against your brother Jacob shame shall cover you, and you shall be cut off forever. 11 In the day that you stood on the other side, in the day that the strangers carried away captive his forces, and foreigners entered into his gates [crossed our borders], and cast lots upon Jerusalem, even you were as one of them. 12 But you shouldest not have looked on the day of your brother in the day that he became a stranger; neither shouldest you have rejoiced over the children of Judah [the leaders of My people] in the day of their destruction; neither shouldest you have spoken proudly in the day of distress. 13 You shouldest not have entered into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity [‘eyd]; yea, you shouldest not have looked on their affliction in the day of their calamity [‘eyd], nor have laid hands on their substance in the day of their calamity [‘eyd]; 14 Neither shouldest you have stood in the crossway, to cut off those of his that did escape; neither shouldest you have delivered up those of his that did remain in the day of distress. 15 For the day of the LORD is near upon all the heathen: as you have done, it shall be done unto you: your reward shall return upon your own head. 16 For as you have drunk upon my holy mountain, so shall all the heathen drink continually, yea, they shall drink, and they shall swallow down, and they shall be as though they had not been. 17 But upon mount Zion shall be deliverance, and there shall be holiness; and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions. 18 And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph [Ephraim] a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, and they shall kindle in them, and devour them; and there shall not be any remaining of the house of Esau; for the LORD has spoken it. 19 And they of the south [in whom My power is revealed] shall possess the mount of Esau; and they of the plain the Philistines [Palestinians – the enemy army now among us plainly seen]: and they [the men of the south] shall possess the fields of Ephraim, and the fields of Samaria: and Benjamin shall possess Gilead [those who become My right hand shall possess this mountain of My testimony]. 20 And the captivity of this host of the children of Israel [the LORD’s people, His army, returned to their right mind] shall possess that of the Canaanites [those zealously evil, fighting against God and His people], even unto Zarephath [when this is realized to be the refining fire]; and the captivity of [in which minds return to the LORD, in New Heavenly] Jerusalem, which is in Sepharad [among those who were before separated from Him], [and they] shall possess the cities of the south [where His power appears to those looking to His light]. 21 And saviors [the ONE BODY of Christ] shall come up on mount Zion [the LORD’s government] to judge the mount of [the rulers, government possessed by] Esau; and the kingdom shall be the LORD’s.
Isaiah 21 5 Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, you princes, and anoint the shield. 6 For thus has the LORD said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he sees. 7 And he saw a chariot with a couple of horsemen, a chariot of asses, and a chariot of camels; and he hearkened diligently with much heed: 8 And he cried, A lion [‘ariy – the body of Christ rising by/with His strength]: My LORD, I stand continually upon the watchtower in the daytime, and I Am set in my ward whole nights: 9 And, behold, here comes a chariot of men, with a couple of horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon [confusion’s rule] is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he has broken unto the ground. 10 O my threshing [opening the word, referring us to Isaiah 28, and destroying the gates of hell], and the corn [ben – sons] of my [threshing] floor: that which I have heard of the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared unto you. 11 The burden of Dumah [short for Edom {Esau} and meaning the silencing of the enemies in our midst – as in verse 2]. He called to me out of [away from] Seir [the high places of Esau, devils misleading the flock], Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night [the time of ignorance, which is caused by their {Edom’s} words]? 12 The watchman said, The morning [understanding coming as the light of the sunrise] comes, and also the night [and these men will reject this word and choose to remain in ignorance]: if you will enquire [ba’ah], enquire you [ba’ah – only used three other times – here referring us back to Obadiah, verse 6, where it is rendered “sought up,” which tells us this is how the secret things of Esau are revealed {by enquiring}]: return [shuwb – turn us], come.
Isaiah 30 8 Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come forever and ever: 9 That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear [shama’ – and obey] the law of the LORD: 10 Which say to the seers [ra’ah], See [ra’ah] not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits [as do the false prophets]: 11 Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One [the son of man in whom the LORD is unknown speaking and working] of Israel to cease from before us [paniym – cease from manifesting the LORD’s presence with us]. 12 Wherefore thus says the Holy One [the son of man, the LORD unknown in the flesh of His chosen] of Israel, Because you despise this word [wherein the Father’s presence is manifested], and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon: 13 Therefore, this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out [ba’ah – inquiring, seeking out the inequity] in a high wall [the lie of those power], whose breaking comes suddenly at an instant. 14 And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters’ [earthen] vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit [wherein they are fallen and snared]. 15 For thus says the LORD God, the Holy One of Israel; In returning [shuwbah – only used here, meaning in returning to Jehovah] and rest [nachath – in his light] shall you be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and you would not. 16 But you said, No; for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall you flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift. 17 One thousand shall flee at [paniym – the presence of the LORD manifested in] the rebuke of one; at [paniym – at the presence of the LORD manifested in] the rebuke of five shall you flee: till you [as the LORD’s saviors] be left as a beacon [of light] upon the top of a mountain [the LORD’s government], and as an ensign [nec – the pole upon which the son of man must be lifted, so the LORD’s word is exalted above all others, as Moses lifted the fiery serpent in the wilderness] on a hill. 18 And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious [finish His work, perfecting us with His gift of full understanding] unto you, and therefore will he be exalted [as an eagle], that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him [to finish His work]. 29 You shall have a song [this word in your mouth, repeated as received], as in the night [this time of darkness: ignorance] when a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goes with a pipe [chaliyl – to dissolve the words of the wicked, the gates of hell, and break their strong hold] to come into the mountain [the government] of the LORD, to the mighty One of Israel. 30 And the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to be heard [shama’ – and obeyed], and shall show the lighting [understanding] down [nachath] of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, with scattering, and tempest, and hailstones [this word reserved in heaven for the time of war]. 31 For through the voice of the LORD shall the Assyrian [communist] be beaten down [chathath – become confused and in fear, by their chosen ignorance], which smote with a rod.
Isaiah 64 1 Oh that you would rend the heavens, that you would come down [as a man], that the mountains might flow down [melt] at your presence [paniym], 2 As when [as a lion roaring] the melting fire burns, the fire causes the waters to boil [ba’ah – inquiring, that inequity is searched out], to make your name [identity] known to your adversaries, that the nations [who haven’t known You] may tremble at your presence [paniym]! 3 When [as an ox working] you did terrible [yare’ – fearful] things which we looked not for, you came down, the mountains flowed down at your presence [paniym]. 4 For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither has the eye seen, O God, beside you, what he has prepared for him that wait for him [to complete His work, strengthening us, and raising us on His wings as an eagle]. 5 You meet him that rejoices [realized this is Your presence manifested] and [made in Your likeness] works righteousness, those that remember you in your ways: behold, you are wroth; for we have sinned: in those [recognizing You and Your way] is continuance, and we shall be saved. 6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses [all the thing we think we know are right] are as filthy rags [‘ed]; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away [from continuing with You]. 7 And there is none that calls upon your name, that stirs up himself to take hold of you: for you have hid your face [paniym – presence] from us, and have consumed us, because of our iniquities. 8 But now, O LORD, you are our father; we are the clay, and you our potter; and we all are the work of your hand. 9 Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity forever: behold, see, we beseech you, we are all your people. 10 Your holy cities are a wilderness, Zion [Your government] is a wilderness, Jerusalem [Your people] a desolation. 11 Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised you, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste. 12 Will you refrain yourself [not reproduce us in Your image] for these things, O LORD? will you hold your peace [not cause Your word to be heard from us], and afflict us very sore [not cause us to rise with Your rising]?
Proverbs 1 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 [sheol – hell]; 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 [your vote] in your lot among us; [as communists saying] let us [through the force of government] 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 [the trap of their evil ways is worthless to catch those who understand it]. 18 And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives. 19 So are the ways of every one 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 utter 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 [see], 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 [‘eyd]; I will mock when your fear [pachad] comes; 27 When your fear [pachad] comes as desolation, and your destruction [‘eyd] comes as a whirlwind [My Almighty Spirit working and speaking]; 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 [the decision by which men condemn themselves]: 30 They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof. 31 Therefore [by choice] 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 [from the present LORD] shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them. 33 But whoso hearkens [shama’ – hears and obeys] unto me shall dwell safely [betach], and shall be quiet [sha’an – be at peace] from fear [pachad] of evil.
Proverbs 3 12 For whom the LORD loves he corrects; even as a father the son in whom he delight. 13 Happy is the man that finds [this] wisdom, and the man that gets [this] understanding. 14 For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. 15 She is more precious than rubies: and all the things you can desire are not to be compared unto her. 16 Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honor. 17 Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. 18 She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retains her. 19 The LORD by wisdom has founded the earth; by understanding has he established the heavens. 20 By his knowledge the depths [of understanding] are broken up, and the clouds [where understanding, when it leaves the earth, is held in separated elements, there reserved for this time of war] drop down the dew [the elements reassembled into His word and are from heaven sent to the earth again]. 21 My son, let not them depart from your eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion: 22 So shall they be life unto your soul, and grace to your neck [this gift in us waiting to be spoken]. 23 Then shall you walk in your way safely [betach], and your foot shall not stumble. 24 When you lay down, you shall not be afraid [pachad]: yea, you shall lie down, and your sleep shall be sweet. 25 Be not afraid [yare’] of sudden fear [pachad], neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it comes. 26 For the LORD shall be your confidence, and shall keep your foot from being taken. 27 Withhold not good [this word of God] from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.
Isaiah 40 26 Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who has created these things, that brings 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 hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over [‘abar – the way by which He brings us from death into life, is hid] 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 [ending the old and beginning the new], faints not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding. 29 He gives power [koach] 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 [to finish His work] shall renew their strength [koach]; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
Hebrews 12 1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which does so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, 2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. 3 For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest you be wearied and faint in your minds. 4 You have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin. 5 And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks unto you as unto children, My son, despise not you the chastening of the LORD, nor faint when you are rebuked of him: 6 For whom the LORD loves he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives.
Isaiah 28 13 But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken. 14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, you scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem. 15 Because you have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves: 16 Therefore thus says the LORD God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone [of My new government], a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believes shall not make haste [to flee away in shame]. 17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail [this word reserved in heaven, sent in this time of war, against the current corrupt crop of leaders] 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 – shama’ Jehovah, the vexation is to understand this is His voice, and hearing Him, obey His commands].
And to those who do hear Him, “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 [His messengers speaking His message],”
Hebrews 12 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 [here] from heaven: 26 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he has promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. 27 And this word, Yet once more, signifies the removing of those things [the blinding corruption] that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. 28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: 29 For our God is a consuming fire.
Psalms 77 1 I cried unto God with my voice, even unto God with my voice; and he gave ear unto me. 2 In the day of my trouble [tsarah – tribulation] I sought the LORD: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted [nacham]. 3 I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah [think!]. 4 You hold my eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak. 5 I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times. 6 I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with my own heart [mind]: and my spirit made diligent search. 7 Will the LORD cast off forever? and will he be favorable no more? 8 Is his mercy clean gone forever? does his promise fail forevermore? 9 Has God forgotten to be gracious? has he in anger shut up his tender mercies [His promise to correct and not destroy us]? Selah [think!]. 10 And I said, This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the Most High. 11 I will remember the works of the LORD: surely I will remember your wonders of old. 12 I will meditate also of all your work, and talk of your doings. 13 Your way, O God, is in the sanctuary: who is so great a God as our God? 14 You are the God that does wonders: you have declared your strength among the people. 15 You have with your arm redeemed your people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah [think!]. 16 The waters saw you, O God, the waters saw you; they were afraid: the depths also were troubled. 17 The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a sound [qowl – Your voice]: your arrows [chets] also went abroad [halak – walk, His way is long-suffering the piercing words of the ignorant – referring to Genesis 49:23 & 24, saying “The archers {chets} have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him: But his bow {qasheth – the bow in the cloud} 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:)”]. 18 The voice [qowl] of your thunder [the sound of the light] was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook. 19 Your way is in the sea [walking among us], and your path in the great waters, and your footsteps are not known. 20 You led your people like a flock by the hand of Moses [those drawn out from the corrupt waters] and Aaron [those bearing the light as received].
Psalms 77 1 I cried unto God with my voice, even unto God with my voice; and he gave ear unto me. 2 In the day of my trouble [tsarah – tribulation] I sought the LORD: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted [nacham]. 3 I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah [think!]. 4 You hold my eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak. 5 I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times. 6 I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with my own heart [mind]: and my spirit made diligent search. 7 Will the LORD cast off forever? and will he be favorable no more? 8 Is his mercy clean gone forever? does his promise fail forevermore? 9 Has God forgotten to be gracious? has he in anger shut up his tender mercies [His promise to correct and not destroy us]? Selah [think!]. 10 And I said, This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the Most High. 11 I will remember the works of the LORD: surely I will remember your wonders of old. 12 I will meditate also of all your work, and talk of your doings. 13 Your way, O God, is in the sanctuary: who is so great a God as our God? 14 You are the God that does wonders: you have declared your strength among the people. 15 You have with your arm redeemed your people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah [think!]. 16 The waters saw you, O God, the waters saw you; they were afraid: the depths also were troubled. 17 The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a sound [qowl – Your voice]: your arrows [chets] also went abroad [halak – walk, His way is long-suffering the piercing words of the ignorant – referring to Genesis 49:23 & 24, saying “The archers {chets} have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him: But his bow {qasheth – the bow in the cloud} 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:)”]. 18 The voice [qowl] of your thunder [the sound of the light] was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook. 19 Your way is in the sea [walking among us], and your path in the great waters, and your footsteps are not known. 20 You led your people like a flock by the hand of Moses [those drawn out from the corrupt waters] and Aaron [those bearing the light as received].
And they were astonished at his doctrine: for he taught them as one that had authority, and not as the scribes.
The above, Mark 1:22, occurs in Capernaum, a Hebrew name from the words kaphar and nachum.
Their Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary definitions are:
Strong’s #3723: kaphar: from 3722 [kaphar – in context meaning to cover, to remove, to placate or cancel; most often translated “to make an atonement”]; a village (as protected by walls):– village.
Strong’s #5162: nacham: a primitive root; properly, to sigh, i.e. breathe strongly; by implication, to be sorry, i.e. (in a favorable sense) to pity, console or (reflexively) rue; or (unfavorably) to avenge (oneself):– comfort (self), ease (one’s self), repent(-er,-ing, self).
The word kaphar (3723) only appears twice, both times rendered “in the villages,” speaking of the place of “atonement.” It first appears in 1 Chronicles 27:25 and after in Song of Solomon 7:11.
1 Chronicles 27 25 And over the king’s treasures [‘owtsar, the armory, holding this hidden understanding] was Azmaveth [the strength to overcome death] the son of Adiel [adorning, putting on, these treasures of God]: and over the storehouses [‘owtsar – sent from their hiding place in this time of spiritual warfare] in the fields [sadeh – spread, in this exposition, before all God’s people], in the cities [‘iyr – guarded against corruption by those seeing the LORD and walking, as disciples, with Him in His work], and in the villages [kaphar – to make an atonement], and in the castles [migdal – the towers, those raised by seeing His coming], was Jehonathan [by this gift given by Jehovah] the son of Uzziah [which, understanding, is the strength of Jehovah]:
Song of Solomon 7 1 How beautiful are your feet [ways of the LORD’s people] with shoes [ na’al – from na’al, “a spring shut up, a fountain sealed,” as in Song of Solomon 4:12], O prince’s daughter! the joints of your thighs are like jewels [chaliy – as the obedient joined with a wise reprover; the understanding you’ve received, as the treasure, are joined into a concise and precise awareness], the work of the hands of a cunning workman. 2 Your navel [covering, source from where life flows] is like a round goblet [as a cup filled by the LORD], which wants not liquor [lacking not this water turned to wine]: your belly [this hell, holding you before our birth] is like a heap of wheat [chittah, with affinity to Chittim, speaking of this message sent to the good seed] set about with lilies [as the LORD’s trumpet calling all to gather to His salvation; showshannah, hosanna: God’s protected people now saved, saying “blessed is he that comes in the name of the LORD”]. 3 Your two breasts [the power of the Almighty flowing into the righteous and the wicked] are like two young roes [tsbiyah – are as armies arrayed] that are twins [ta’own – other than here and above, only used twice, in Genesis 25:25 & 38:27, the first speaking of Jacob and Esau, the other of Tamar’s children Pharez (breach) and Zarah (rising) whose hand came out of the womb {beten – belly, like hell, were the living unborn wait to be born again: raised} and a scarlet thread was tied around his hand {work} before he pulled it back and his brother was born first. As we know, Tamar {palm tree} and her two children are mentioned in Matthew’s recording of Jesus’ bloodline {generation}, which he records {Matthew 1:3} continuing through Pharez. The LORD’s bloodline continues in Zarah, in His resurrection, referred to in the only use of the word zerach {meaning “a rising of light”}, from where the name comes. Isaiah 60:1 Arise, shine; for your light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen {zarach – from zerach} upon you. 2 For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise {zarach} upon you, and his glory shall be seen upon you. 3 And the Gentiles shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising {zerach}.]. 4 Your neck is as a tower of ivory [words waiting to be spoken were seen coming and are in your mouth as teeth with which you devour dead flesh]; your eyes like the fish-pools in Heshbon [the things you’ve seen, life below these written words’ surface, are your stronghold], by the gate of Bathrabbim [the way out of hell into heaven for the multitude of scattered churches]: your nose is as the tower of Lebanon [perceiving these things as purity from the Highest] which looks toward Damascus [is sight for those who remain drunken with pride and therefore silent in sorrow]. 5 Your head [leadership] upon you is like Carmel [is a nation of gardens], and the hair of your head [this understanding that has enlarged your mind] like purple [of a virtuous woman: church]; the king is held in the galleries [the king is there joined with you in this watering]. 6 How fair and how pleasant are you, O love, for delights! 7 This your stature [gowmah – highness] is like to a palm tree [tamar], and your breasts [your nourishing your children] to clusters of grapes. 8 I said, I will go up to the palm tree [tamar], I will take hold of the boughs thereof: now also your breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of your nose [your deep perception] like apples [tappuwach, the fruit of a good tree]; 9 And the roof of your mouth [speaking this word] like the best wine [saved for last] for my beloved, that goes down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak. [What part of this is hard to understand?]. 10 I am my beloved’s, and his desire is toward me [I and the children the LORD has given me]. 11 Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field [the earth wherein the LORD has planted us]; let us lodge in the villages [kaphar – in this atonement]. 12 Let us get up early [awake from our sleep in death] to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth [as in Luke 21:29, when we see the fig tree and all the trees, bring forth new life, you know the kingdom of God is at hand]: there will I give you my loves. 13 The mandrakes [duwday – the baskets of fruit] give a smell [by which we perceive its presence], and at our gates [this word of God] are all manner of pleasant [meged] fruits, new and old, which I have laid up [tsaphan – as treasure reserved for this moment] for you, O my beloved [dowd – David, I Am].
Jeremiah 24 1 The LORD showed me, and, behold, two baskets [duwday] of figs were set before the temple of the LORD, after that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon [the lies of false prophets and false teachers that carried all into the desolation and confusion that now rules the world] had carried away captive Jeconiah [who Jehovah will establish] the son of Jehoiakim [who Jehovah raises up] king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the carpenters and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon [to this world ruled by confusion and delusion]. 2 One basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are [now] first ripe: and the other basket had very naughty [ra’ – evil] figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad [roa’]. 3 Then said the LORD unto me, What see you, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the evil [ra’], very evil [ra’], that cannot be eaten, they are so evil [roa’]. 4 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 5 Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel; Like these good figs, so will I acknowledge them that are carried away captive of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans [among those using their words to oppress and manipulate into evil] for their good. 6 For I will set my eyes upon them for good, and I will bring them again to this land [‘erets – the new earth]: and I will build them, and not pull them down; and I will plant them, and not pluck them up. 7 And I will give them a heart [a mind] to know me, that I Am the LORD: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall return unto me with their whole heart [mind].
John 2 1 And the third day [this resurrection day] there was a marriage [all joining the LORD in His ONE BODY] in Cana [reeds – reaching the limit of humanity, where the proud waves are stayed] of Galilee [circuit – this end of the age, and beginning the new heaven and earth, in His inner circle who’ve received the understanding He’s given: the wheel with the wheel: this understand sent to give understanding]; and the mother [those who must rebel against the corrupt status quo, and be filled with His Spriit] of Jesus was there: 2 And both Jesus was called, and his disciples [students], to the marriage. 3 And when they wanted wine [this word that, aging, fills them with the Spirit, and changes men’s minds], the mother of Jesus says unto him, They have no wine. 4 Jesus says unto her, Woman [church], what have I to do with you? my hour is not yet come. 5 His mother said [as the church should be saying] unto the servants, Whatsoever he says unto you, [obey and] do it. 6 And there were set there six [the number of man] waterpots [hudria – vessels for holding rainwater] of stone [men from whom this understanding will flow], after the manner of the purifying [for washing away corruption] of the Jews [Judah – those now leading God’s people who call themselves believers], containing two or three firkins apiece. 7 Jesus says unto them, Fill the waterpots with water [the written word sent from heaven, in which is hidden all understanding, reserved there for this time of Christs’ War]. And they filled them up to the brim [ano – an eight times used word, speaking of this filling as what lifts us above the corrupt world into life]. 8 And he says unto them, Draw out now [antieo – as living waters flowing from your bellies; referring to John 7:38 below], and bear unto the governor [architriklinos – those awakened by the power of the Father on this third day] of the feast. And they [obeying as commanded] bare it. 9 When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, and knew not whence it was [from the LORD of whom they are ignorant]: (but the servants which drew the water knew;) the governor of the feast called the bridegroom, 10 And say unto him, Every man at the beginning does set forth good wine; and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse [leaving men in a worse condition than when they first heard]: but you have kept the good wine until now. 11 This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and manifested forth his glory; and his disciples [students] believed on him. 12 After this he went down to Capernaum [the place of the Comforter, the Paraclete, I Am, who the Father has sent to lead His people into all truth, in this new heaven and earth, wherein dwells righteousness], he, and his mother, and his brethren, and his disciples [all doing the Father’s will]: and they continued there not many days [“for he should not stay long in the place of the breaking forth of children”]. 13 And the Jews’ [the leaders of God’s people] passover [from death into life] was at hand, and Jesus [Jehovah’s Salvation manifested in the flesh] went up [is risen] to Jerusalem [among God’s people at large, into whom His word, teaching, will flow]. 14 And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting: 15 And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers’ money, and overthrew the tables; 16 And said unto them that sold doves [fictitious tales of the end time], Take these things hence; make not my Father’s house [where this word should be freely given] a house of merchandise. 17 And his disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of your house has eaten me up. [This is quoted from Psalms 69:9, after verse 8 says, “I am become [as a Holy Ghost] a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother’s children.”] 18 Then answered the Jews [the current crop of corrupt leaders] and said unto him, What sign show you unto us, seeing that you do these things? 19 Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple [My ONE BODY, as they have], and in three days I will raise it up.
Hosea 13 9 O Israel, you have destroyed yourself; but in me is your help. 10 I will be your king: where is any other that may save you in all your cities? and your judges of whom you said, Give me a king and princes? 11 I gave you a king in my anger, and took him away in my wrath. 12 The iniquity of Ephraim [all God’s people in these last days, who are a “double ash-heap: I shall be doubly fruitful”] is bound up; his sin is hid. 13 The sorrows of a travailing woman shall come upon him: he is an unwise son; for he should not stay long in the place of the breaking forth of children. 14 I will [by removing corruption and awakening to put on immortality] ransom them from the power of the grave [sheol – hell, this habitation of the dead, in the earth]; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be your plagues; O grave [sheol – hell], I will be your destruction: repentance [nocham – only used here, meaning, I will never desist, and nothing] shall be hid from my eyes. 15 Though he be fruitful among his brethren, an east wind shall come, the wind of the LORD shall come up from the wilderness, and his [corrupt] spring shall become dry, and his [corrupt] fountain shall be dried up: he shall spoil the [corrupt] treasure of all pleasant vessels [removing them from the people to which they brought death]. 16 Samaria [those worshipping idols men created, put in My place, and call by My name] shall become desolate; for she has rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword [this word of God upon those who refuse it]: their infants [those being nourish by the corrupt flowing from them] shall be dashed in pieces, and their women [their corrupt churches] with child shall be ripped up [baqa’ – freeing those cleaving to their corruption].
John 7 24 Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment. 25 Then said some of them of Jerusalem [all God people at large], Is not this he, whom they seek to kill [with their words make dead like all the others they made dead]? 26 But, lo, he speaks boldly [this life-giving water], and they say nothing unto him. Do the [corrupt] rulers know indeed that this is the very Christ? 27 Howbeit we know this man whence he is: but when Christ comes, no man knows whence [where or when] he is [as it is this day]. 28 Then cried Jesus in the temple as he taught, saying, “You both know me, and you know whence [where and when] I Am: and I Am not come of myself, but he that sent me is true, whom you know not. 29 But I know him: for I am from him, and he has sent me.” 30 Then they sought to take him: but no man laid hands on him, because his hour was not yet come. 31 And many of the people believed on him, and said, “When Christ comes, will he do more miracles than these which this man has done?” 32 The Pharisees [the religious leaders who’ve scattered the flock] heard that the people murmured such things concerning him; and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers to take him. 33 Then said Jesus unto them, Yet a little while am I with you, and then I go unto him that sent me. 34 You shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, thither ye cannot come. 35 Then said the Jews among themselves, Whither will he go, that we shall not find him? will he go unto the dispersed among the Gentiles, and teach the Gentiles? 36 What manner of saying is this that he said, You shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, thither you cannot come? 37 In the last day [this ‘achariyth], that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. 38 He that believes on me, as the scripture has said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. 39 (But this spoke he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost [the LORD in them working and speaking, unknown to the ignorant not knowing Him] was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.) 40 Many of the people therefore, when they heard this saying, said, Of a truth this is the Prophet.
John 8 20 These words spoke Jesus in the treasury, as he taught in the temple [He is now raising]: and no man laid hands on him; for his hour [to be lifted above all others] was not yet come. 21 Then said Jesus again unto them, I go my way, and you shall seek me, and shall die in your sins: whither I go, you cannot come. 22 Then said the Jews, Will he kill himself? because he say, Where I go [where I Am lifted above], you cannot come. 23 And he said unto them, You are from beneath; I am from above [ano]: you are of this [corrupt] world; I Am not of this [corrupt] world. 24 I said therefore unto you, that you shall die in your sins [as all have]: for if you believe not that I Am he, you shall die in your sins [as all have by their unbelief, refusing to obey these life-giving waters]. 25 Then said they unto him, Who are you? And Jesus says unto them, Even the same that I said unto you from the beginning. 26 I have many things to say and to judge of you: but he that sent me is true; and I speak to the [corrupt and dead] world those things which I have heard of him. 27 They understood not that he spoke to them of the Father. 28 Then said Jesus unto them, When you have lifted up the Son of man [exalting, above all other voices, this word of my Father flowing from me], then shall you know that I Am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father has taught me, I speak these things. 29 And he that sent me is with me: the Father has not left me alone [He is alive with me, in me]; for I do always those things that please him. 30 As he spoke these words, many believed on him. 31 Then said Jesus to those Jews [the new crop of godly leaders] which believed on him, If you continue in my word, then are you my disciples [students, I have disciplined] indeed; 32 And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
John 11 37 And some of them said, Could not this man, which opened the eyes of the blind, have caused that even this man [Lazarus – the priesthood] should not have died? 38 Jesus therefore again groaning in himself comes to the grave [this earth where the dead are housed]. It was a cave [in the earth], and a stone lay [mouths of corruption held them therein] upon it. 39 Jesus said, Take you away the stone [of corruption, the words of men that are the gates of hell]. Martha [rebelling against the status quo], the sister of him that was dead, say unto him, LORD, by this time he stinks [by which we perceive he is dead]: for he has been dead four days. 40 Jesus says unto her, Said I not unto you, that, if you would believe, you shouldest see the glory of God [manifested in raising the dead]? 41 Then they took away the stone [of corruption] from the place where the dead was laid. And Jesus lifted up [ano – filled him with these words of life] his eyes [these two words, “his eyes,” don’t appear in the original text], and said, Father, I thank you that you have heard me. 42 And I knew that you hear me always: but because of the people which stand by I [out loud] said it, that they may believe that you have sent me. 43 And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice [the voice of the arch-messenger, as a trumpet], Lazarus [the dead priesthood, now cleansed, as a brand plucked from the fire, as in Zachariah 3:2], come forth [come forth to the Father who is above the world, as in 1 Thessalonians 4:16 & 17]. 44 And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus says unto them, Loose him, and let him go [from the garments corrupted by death, so he can put on the garments of the cleansed priesthood, as in Zachariah 3:5]. 45 Then many of the Jews which came to Mary [the church that rebelled against the status quo, and has seen all these things], and had seen the things which Jesus did, believed on him. 46 But some of them went their ways to the Pharisees [the old corrupt priesthood, who scattered the dead bones of God’s people], and told them what things Jesus had done. 47 Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council, and said, What do we? for this man does many miracles. 48 If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him: and the Romans [Babylon, the confusion that now rules the insane world] shall come and take away both our place and nation. 49 And one of them, named Caiaphas [the prominent voices among the corrupt], being the high priest that same year, said unto them, You know nothing at all, 50 Nor consider that it is expedient for us, that one man should die [be destroyed by their words] for the people, and that the whole nation perish not. 51 And this spoke he not of himself: but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die [this voice exalted so the corrupt mass media can destroy me] for that nation; 52 And not for that nation only, but that also he should gather together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad. 53 Then from that day forth they took counsel together for to [with their words] put him to death. 54 Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews [the corrupt]; but went thence unto a country near to the wilderness, into a city called Ephraim [where He is, I Am, with this generation, in those who receive this word as His word], and there continued with his disciples [students who receive this course correction]. 55 And the Jews’ passover [raising new leaders from death into life] was nigh at hand: and many went out of the country up to Jerusalem before the passover, to purify themselves [of the corruption, the leaven of the dead institutions]. 56 Then sought they for Jesus, and spoke among themselves, as they stood in the temple, What think you, that he will not come to the feast? 57 Now both the chief priests and the Pharisees [the old and corrupt religious institution] had given a commandment, that, if any man knew where he were, he should show it, that they might take him [to destroy Him with their word].
Acts 2 12 And they were all amazed, and were in doubt, saying one to another, What means this? 13 Others mocking said, These men are full of new wine. 14 But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said unto them, You men of Judaea [Judah], and all you that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words: 15 For these are not drunken, as you suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day. 16 But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel; [in Joel 2:28 – 32, after saying it is when He, in this feast, restores all that was devoured by the destroyers, verse 27 says, “And you shall know that I Am in the midst of Israel, and that I Am the LORD your God, and none else: and my people shall never be ashamed.”] 17 And it shall come to pass in the last days [the ‘achar{iyth}] say God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy [speaking these words, this message, I’ve put in their mouths, speaking with this full understanding to all], and your young men shall see visions [see as the LORD see], and your old men shall dream dreams [these new things I am creating in their minds, making all things new again]: 18 And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days [this time of light] of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy: 19 And I will show wonders in heaven above [ano – from there filling them and lift them there with Me], and signs in the [old and corrupt] earth beneath; blood [draining life from humanity], and fire [of hell, caused the corruption and insanity men follow], and vapor [the elements of understanding separated and removed] of smoke [from the bottomless pit, the endless fall away from God and truth, by which all its institutions are darkened]: 20 The sun [the church] shall be turned into darkness [without this understanding], and the moon [civil governments] into blood [draining the life from humanity], before the great and notable day [this time of light, this understanding and life] of the LORD come: 21 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be saved. 22 You men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God [alive in him] did by him in the midst of you, as you yourselves also know: 23 Him, being delivered by [ekdotes – only used here, meaning made the giver of] the determinate [horizo – the place from where His light rises] counsel [boula – at His will] and foreknowledge [prognosis] of God, you have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain: [the word dotes only appears once, in 2 Corinthians 9:7, verses 6 & 7 saying “But this I say, He which sows {this word} sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which sows {this word} bountifully shall reap also bountifully. Every man according as he purposes in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loves {agapao – gives these treasure, gifts of His grace, to} a cheerful giver {dotes}.] 24 Whom God has raised up [from among the dead], having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be held of it. 25 For David speaks [in Psalms 16::8 – 11] concerning him, “I foresaw the LORD always before my face [present with me, in me], for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved: 26 Therefore did my heart rejoice, and my tongue was glad; moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope: 27 Because you will not leave my soul in hell, neither will you suffer your Holy One to see corruption. 28 You have made known to me the ways of life; you shall make me full of joy with your countenance [realizing Your presence].” 29 Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulcher is with us unto this day. 30 Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God [by His prognosis] had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ [in the flesh] to sit on his throne; 31 He seeing this before [by the foreknowledge of God given to him] spoke of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption. 32 This Jesus has God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses. 33 Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted [His voice in him above all other voices], and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost [Himself speaking and working unknown, to reveal Himself], he has shed forth this, which you now see and hear. 34 For David is not ascended into the heavens: but he says himself, The LORD said unto my LORD, Sit you on my right hand, 35 Until I make your foes your footstool. 36 Therefore let all the house of Israel [all God’s people who receive Him and His promise] know assuredly, that God has made the same Jesus, whom you have crucified, both LORD and Christ.
Nahum 1 1 The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum [nacham – the comforter, leading us into all truth] the Elkoshite [who is also God the ensnarer, speaking and working among us unknown, to reveal Himself]. 2 God is jealous, and the LORD revenges; the LORD revenges, and is furious; the LORD will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserves wrath for his enemies. 3 The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the LORD has his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet. 4 He rebukes the sea, and makes it dry, and dries up all the rivers: Bashan languishes, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languishes. 5 The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein. 6 Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him. 7 The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knows them that trust in him. 8 But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end [kalah] of the place thereof, and darkness [their own ignorance] shall pursue his enemies. 9 What do you imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter end [kalah]: affliction shall not rise up the second time. 10 For while they be folded together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry. 11 There is one come out of you, that imagines evil [ra’] against the LORD, a wicked counselor [ya’ats]. 12 Thus says the LORD; Though they be quiet [shalam – though they think their power is secure], and likewise many, yet thus shall they be cut down [gazaz], when he shall pass through [‘abar – passing over to bring us from death into life]. Though I have afflicted you, I will afflict you no more. 13 For now will I break his yoke [of the wicked joined among you] from off you, and will burst your bonds in sunder. 14 And the LORD has given a commandment concerning you, that no more of your name be sown: out of the house of your gods will I cut off [karath] the graven image and the molten image: I will make your grave; for you are vile. 15 Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that brings good tidings, that publishes peace! O Judah, keep your solemn feasts, perform your vows [neder]: for the wicked shall no more pass through you [‘abar – no longer bring the living into death]; he is utterly cut off [karath].
1 Corinthians 15 51 Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed [allasso], 52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye [seeing this light], at the last trump [this voice of the LORD’s archangel]: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed [allasso]. 53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. 54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. 55 O death, where is your sting? O grave [sheol – hell], where is your victory?
Mark 1 22 And they were astonished at his doctrine: for he taught them as one that had authority, and not as the scribes [who falsely claim they know the written word]. 23 And there was in their synagogue a man [represent these scribes] with an unclean spirit [of corruption that defiled the pure word]; and he cried out, 24 Saying, ”Let us alone; what have we to do with you, you Jesus of Nazareth [the guarded one; who the Father protects and defends from men’s corruption]? are you come to destroy us? I [now] know you who you are, the Holy One of God.” 25 And Jesus rebuked him, saying, “Hold your peace [silence the gates holding men in hell], and come [with your corruption] out of him.” 26 And when the unclean spirit had torn him [sparasso – drawn him into open sight, into the light], and cried with a loud [megas – speaking the LORD’s] voice, he came out of him. 27 And they were all amazed, insomuch that they questioned among themselves, saying, What thing is this? what new doctrine is this? for with authority commands he even the unclean spirits [as frogs before hidden below the surface of their word in God’s name], and they do obey [hupakouo – meaning “to hear under (as a subordinate), i.e. to listen attentively; by implication, to heed or conform to a command or authority”] him. 28 And immediately his fame spread abroad throughout all the region round about Galilee [those understanding the wheel, and by it coming to the light].
Galatians 4 19 My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you, 20 I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you [not hearing the signs of life, wondering if the LORD is risen in you yet]. 21 Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, do you not hear the [uncorrupted] law? 22 For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman. 23 But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise [this end, by faith in the LORD’s presence speaking to and working in you, now reached]. 24 Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai [among thorns, misleaders who only partially know the law and therefore add their ignorance corrupting it], which genders to bondage, which is Agar [said to mean flight; from hegeh; a three times used word, as in Psalms 90:9, speaking of God’s people, when they are without Him and His understanding, verses 8 & 9 saying “You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your countenance {presence}. For all our days are passed away in your wrath: we spend our years as a tale {hegeh} that is told.”]. 25 For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answers to [old and corrupt] Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage [held in corruption] with her children. 26 But [New Heavenly] Jerusalem [into whom this understanding, the LORD’s teaching, flows] which is above [ano – filled and lifted into life] is free, which is the mother [bringing us up into manhood] of us all. 27 For it is written [in Isaiah 54:1], Rejoice, you barren that bears not; break forth and cry, you that travail not: for the desolate [brough up by thorns] has many more children than she which has [the LORD as] a husband. 28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of [this] promise[d end]. 29 But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now. 30 Nevertheless what say the scripture [in Genesis 21:10]? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir [of this world] with the son of the free woman. 31 So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.
Galatians 5 1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ has [by this truth] made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage [joined with the ignorant who refuse this truth and thereby condemn themselves to perdition].
Philippians 3 8 Yea doubtless, and I count all things [to which I was in bondage and separated from the LORD’s truth] but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my LORD: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, 9 And be found in him, not having my own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ [the LORD alive in our flesh, through His word effectually working to bring us to this promised end], the righteousness which is of God by faith [in His presence with us, in us]: 10 That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death [for speaking this word of the LORD, in His name, His identity]; 11 If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead. 12 Not as though I had already attained [not that He is already known, resurrected, alive, in me], either were already perfect[ed in His revelation of Himself]: but I follow after [His leading], if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. 13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, 14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high [ano – filled and lifted by] calling of God in Christ Jesus [Jehovah’s Salvation realized, manifested, in the flesh of those perfected]. 15 Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing you be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you. 16 Nevertheless, whereto [this understanding] we have already attained [where we now stand], let us walk [stiecheo – meaning “to march in (military) rank (keep step), i.e. (figuratively) to conform to virtue and piety:–walk (orderly),” and not according to the corrupt element, rudiments, stoicheion, of the world, which melt away in the fire they cause] by the same rule [kanon – canon], let us mind [phroneo – exercise our mind, working out corrupt, to reach] the same thing [the mind of Christ, our perfection in the LORD, and He in us]. 17 Brethren, be followers together of me, and [understanding this good fruit] mark them which walk so as you have us for an ensample. 18 (For many walk [in the way of the corrupt elements of the world, misleading the many who follow them], of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ [in us, long suffering to speak this truth in the Father’s name]: 19 Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly [the hell into which they swallow and hold all their followers], and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.) 20 For our conversation [in the LORD’s presence] is in heaven; from whence [in this conversation at His mercy seat] 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 [effectual] working [of His word in us] whereby he is able even to subdue [hupotasso – meaning “to subordinate; reflexively, to obey”] all things unto himself.
Colossians 3 1 If you then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above [ano – those things with which He has filled and lifted us], where Christ sit on the right hand of God. 2 Set your affection [phroneo – your exercised mind] on things above [ano – that fill and lift others], not on [the corrupt] things on the earth. 3 For you are dead [until He is risen in you], and your life is hid [krupto – this is the cover removed in the apocalypse: meaning taking away the cover] with Christ in God. 4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear [phaneroo], then shall you also appear [phaneroo] with him in glory. 5 Mortify [nekroo – deaden] therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, [all of] which is idolatry [worshipping corruption]: 6 For which things’ sake the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience [who refuse to obey His truth, His good leading]: 7 In the which [refusing to obey] you also walked some time, when you lived in them. 8 But now you also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth [all of which is worshipping corruption]. 9 Lie not one to another, seeing that you have put off the old [corrupt] man with his deeds; 10 And have put on the new man [wherein dwells the LORD’s righteousness, His mind, by which His Glory is revealed: Him alive in us, with us], which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him: 11 Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all. 12 Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, long-suffering; 13 Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do you. 14 And above all these things put on charity [agape – giving the same word as received], which is the bond of perfectness [what joins us together in this resurrection of the dead]. 15 And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also you are called in ONE BODY; and be you thankful. 16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts [this gift in your minds] to the LORD. 17 And whatsoever you do in word or deed, do all in the name [identity] of the LORD Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.
All following is from the post of 6 March 2024.
Psalms 34 1 I will bless the LORD at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth. 2 My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear [shama’ – hear it as His voice and obey] thereof, and be glad. 3 O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name [identity] together. 4 I sought the LORD, and he heard [‘anah – responded, with His voice, to] me, and delivered me from all my fears. 5 They looked unto him, and were lightened [given understanding, wherein is our way forward into new life]: and their faces were not ashamed [not disappointed, realizing He is our promised end]. 6 This poor man [without worldly power] cried, and the LORD heard [shama’] him [heard his obedience, the product of their understanding], and saved him out of all his troubles [tsarah – tribulation]. [Romans 10: 8 But what says it {Deuteronomy 30:14, speaking of how the LORD comes from heaven and is raised from death out of hell}? The word is near you, even in your mouth, and in your heart {from your mind revealed in your spoken thought}: that is, the word of faith {by which you are saved, and raised with Him}, which we preach; 9 That if you shall confess with your mouth the LORD Jesus, and shall believe in your heart {mind} that God has raised him from the dead, you shall be saved. 10 For with the heart {mind} man believes unto righteousness {correct, right, thinking}; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. 11 For the scripture says, Whosoever believes on him shall not be ashamed {not disappointed}.] 7 The angel [mal’ak – messenger, the cherubim manifesting His presence at the mercy seat] of the LORD encamps round about them that fear him, and delivers them. 8 O taste [these words] and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusts in him. 9 O fear the LORD, you his saints [qadowsh – His holy place, wherein He dwells and from where He is manifested present]: for there is no want to them that fear him. 10 The young lions do lack, and [without His word] suffer hunger: but they that [diligently, in faith] seek the LORD shall not want any good thing. [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.] 11 Come, you children [born again by our Father’s correction], hearken unto [shama’ – and hearing His voice, obey] me: I will teach you the fear of the LORD. 12 What man is he that desires life, and loves many days, that he may see good? 13 Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking guile [deception, fraud]. 14 Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace [that only flows from the Father’s teaching], and pursue it. 15 The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous [those not speaking evil or guile, but according to this good word from the mouth of the LORD], and his ears are open unto their cry. 16 The face [paniym – presence] of the LORD is against them that do evil [misleading the sheep], to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth. 17 The righteous cry, and the LORD hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles [tsarah – the current tribulation, hell on earth, which the dead, the ignorant, deny and think is normal]. 18 The LORD is near unto them that are of a broken heart [minds realizing they strayed into death]; and saves such as be of a contrite [dakka’ – meaning powder, as in, realizing they are a product of the afflictions that ruined, crushed, the earth’s] spirit. 19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivers him out of them all. 20 He keeps all his bones [from being crushed into powder]: not one of them is broken. 21 Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate. 22 The LORD redeems the soul of his servants: and none of them that trust in him shall be desolate.
The word dakka’ appears only two other times: in Psalms 90:3, it is rendered “destruction,” and in Isaiah 57:15, it speaks of those who “are of a contrite” and humble spirit (able and willing to be corrected).
Psalms 90 1 LORD, you have been our dwelling place [ma’own, literally asking, what ‘own, meaning “(in the sense of effort, but successful); ability, power, (figuratively) wealth:–force, goods, might, strength, substance” {in us}] in all generations. [1 John 4:12 No man has seen God at any time. If we love {agapao – giving His word as received, as His, to} one another, God dwells in us, and his love {agape – his word received as His} is perfected {teleioo – “to complete, i.e. (literally) accomplish, or (figuratively) consummate (in character):–consecrate, finish, fulfil, make) perfect.”} in us. 13 Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit {His presence with us unknown, leading us into all truth, and, in the process, revealing Himself as the ONE, the Father in His children doing the work and speaking}. 14 And we have seen and do testify {unto salvation} that the Father sent the Son {His children, His ONE flesh BODY in which He dwells} to be the Savior of the world.] 2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God. 3 You turn man to destruction [dakka’ – bringing his ways to ruin, to humble him, the contrite, into knowing his need for correction]; and say, Return [to Me], you children of men. 4 For a thousand years in your sight are but as yesterday when it is past [any given time past is perceived as a percentage of the total time of consciousness], and as a watch in the night [awake while man sleeps in ignorance waiting for this day to come]. 5 You carry them away [into darkness] as with a flood [of their own ignorance]; they are as a sleep [in death]: in the morning [when understanding comes as the light of a new day] they are like grass which grows up [new life rising out of the earth, out of the belly of hell]. 6 In the morning [when light has come] it flourish, and grows up [chalaph – as a change of garment, their flesh cover]; in the evening [when darkness, ignorance, returns] it is cut down [muwl – circumcised, their worthless flesh is removed], and withers [as it now has]. 7 For we are consumed by your anger, and by your wrath [this word sent to the dead who reject it] are we troubled. 8 You have set our iniquities before you [making them known and correcting them away], our secret “sins in the light” [ma’owr – the power, in us effectually working Your revelation, and working out iniquity] of your countenance [paniym – by Your presence]. 9 For all our days [man’s false understanding] are passed away [panah – appear] in your wrath [this word the ignorant reject]: we spend our years [shaneh – changes] as a tale [hegeh – man’s thoughts, the muttering of fools] that is told. 10 The days [man’s false understanding] of our years [shaneh – of his evolution] are threescore years and ten [when Divine order returns]; and if by reason of strength [men in power] they be fourscore years [only understood after His perfecting in the New Creation], yet is their strength [men in power] labor and sorrow; for it [the wicked in power] is soon cut off [guwz], and we fly away [these last words refer to the only other time guwz is used, in Numbers 11:31, saying, of the wicked powers that, as quals, are taken away by the LORD’s Almighty Spirit, and fall around us, “And there went forth a wind {His Almighty Spirit} from the LORD, and brought {quwz – cut off} quails from the sea {people at large, who they, by their evil, misled}, and let them fall {natash – be beaten down} by the camp, as it were a day’s journey {derek – a conversation giving understanding} on this side {then}, and as it were a day’s journey {a conversation giving light, as a wheel within a wheel, received} on the other side {now}, round about the camp, and as it were two cubits {‘ammah – mother, a teacher who raises us} high upon the face of {paniym – in the LORD’s presence on} the earth.”]. 11 Who knows the power of your anger [Your word, the scourging that effectually works in those who receive it as Your word working out of them corruption]? even according to your fear, so is your wrath [giving this word, even to those who reject it, warning them they are, by refusing to receive it as My word, destroying themselves]. 12 So teach us to number [assess] our days [the things you think you know], that we may apply our hearts [minds] unto [Your] wisdom. 13 Return [to the sight of Your people], O LORD, how long? and let it repent you concerning your servants. [Galatians 4:18 But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you. 19 My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you, 20 I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you {while I wait patiently for your conversion, when your mouths are opened as is necessary for the world’s good}.] 14 O satisfy us early with your mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days [when full understanding comes and is, to the world, apparent in your opened mouths]. 15 Make us glad according [as promised during the time of correction] to the days wherein [while all were still in ignorance of the LORD’s presence] you have afflicted us, and the years [shaneh] wherein we have seen evil [which produced our change, evolution]. 16 Let your work [changing us] appear unto your servants, and your glory [Your apparent presence in us] unto their children. 17 And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish you the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands [in us] establish you it [to the world through us].
Isaiah 57 11 And of whom have you been afraid or feared, that you have lied, and have not remembered me, nor laid it to your heart? have not I held my peace [not speaking] even of old, and you fear me not [now that I have spoken against you]? 12 I will declare your [self-presumed, falsely so-called] righteousness, and your works; for they shall not profit you. 13 When you cry [to Me], let your companies deliver you; but the wind [My Almighty Spirit] shall carry them all away; vanity shall take them: but he that puts his trust in me shall possess the land [‘erets – the earth], and shall inherit my holy mountain; 14 And shall say, Cast you up, cast you up, prepare the way, take up the stumbling-block [of men’s corruption] out of the way of my people. 15 For thus says the high and lofty One that inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite [dakka’] and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive [chayah – quicken from death into life] the heart [minds] of the contrite [daka’] ones. 16 For I will not contend forever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made. 17 For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me [in the darkness of their ignorance], and was wroth, and he went on frowardly [twisting and perverting truth] in the way of his heart [mind]. 18 I have seen his [blind and lame] ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also [into all truth], and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners. 19 I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him that is far off [rachowq – those here in the time when the world is ruled by the unrighteous decrees of evil men in power], and to him that is near [destruction], says the LORD; and I will heal him. 20 But the wicked are like the troubled sea [constantly agitated and agitating], when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt [destroying all truthful discourse]. 21 There is no peace, says my God, to the wicked.
As we’ve seen, in the post of 27 February 2017, per (as it pertains to) Psalms 119 in the previous post, the word chayah, a product of the dakka’ (daka’), is the LORD’s effectual work in us bringing the contrite from death into life: by bringing us from ignorance (taught by corrupt men) into His light (taught by our incorruptible God).
Now I ask the proud again, are you better (holier than) the one the Father calls the Holy One, who you call your LORD as you worship idols you created and put in His place, while you (witnessing against yourselves) prove yourselves ignorant of Him and His way?
As we’ve seen, the LORD suffered this scourging (daka’), which Paul speaks of many times, which Isaiah foretold, as Psalms 119 does of the affliction of God’s children, which (tribulation – evil men pressing upon us: oppressing us) turn us again to Him, purging us of (His word effectually working out of us) corruption into life.
Hebrews 2 (after describing the messengers the LORD sends, led by the son He filled full, through whom He speaks in these last days, as flames of fire sent to minister this word to those who inherit Salvation), in context, says:
1 Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to [obey] the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip. 2 For if the word spoken by angels [His messengers sent] was steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward; 3 How [if we refuse to obey] shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the LORD [the Father revealed in the son first, to bring all His children He has given me, to the same glory], and was confirmed [repeating the same message the LORD gave them] unto us by them that heard him; 4 God also bearing them witness, both with [Isaiah 8:18, saying “I and the children the LORD has given me, are for”] signs and wonders [to His people at large], and with divers miracles [this alludes to the “divers” manner spoken of in Hebrews 1:1; of the many different ways and times, by which the Father previously spoke through men, until now when He, in the son He filled full of understanding all these divers elements, congealed them in him, into this miraculous, eye-opening, gospel], and gifts [these treasures sent] of the Holy Ghost [as He works unknown leading us into all truth], 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 [Psalms 8] testified [of the son], saying, “What is man, that you are mindful of him? or the son of man that you visit [paqad – manifest Your presence as the Chief Overseer of the earth, in] him? 7 You madest him a little lower than the angels [as we’ve seen, the words here are chacer ‘elohiym, telling us the son is intentionally sent lacking the full knowledge of God; the Psalm then saying this is planned so the son {I Am: His presence in this moment manifested in the flesh He’s chosen} can be crowned by the Father with His understanding: revelation only known to the Father]; 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 [in our blindness] see not yet [that] all things [are] put under him [not hearing and obeying this word as the Father’s voice, as it is]. 9 But we [again] see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death [sent without understanding], [now, when we see Him again] crowned with glory and honor [raised to life by the light of the Father in him]; that he by the grace of God should taste death [and be raise from it] for every man. 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 [archegos – only used three other times; in Acts 3:15, speaking of the son as the “Prince” of life, who the religious and civil power denied, conspired against, and killed; Acts 5:31 as the risen “Prince” who is seated at the Father’s right hand {from where Habakkuk 3:4 says, in this writing, comes His hidden power as rays of light}; and Hebrews 12:2 saying He is “the Author and Finisher of our Faith”] of their salvation perfect [teleioo – made complete, filled full] through sufferings [the same affliction, tribulation, doubting the LORD is present, the daka’, that, through proof of him {I Am}, makes us ready, willing, to be quickened from corruption into life]. 11 For both he that sanctifies [purges us from corruption, making us holy] and they who are sanctified [purged and made holy] are all of one [Body of Christ]: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren, 12 Saying, I will declare your name [identity] unto my brethren, in the midst of the church will I sing [repeating the words You’ve given me] 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 [when our mouths are opened with His words, are for signs and wonders to God’s people at large]. 14 Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he [the Father] also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death [coming lacking understanding] he might [self-manifesting His light, life, in the flesh, to] destroy him that had the power of [to deceive men into ignorance of God and to instead follow them into] death, that is, the devil [the misleaders who put themselves in His place]; 15 And deliver them [the misled] who through fear of death [not understanding it is a state of mind], were all their lifetime subject to bondage [but you shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free from death]. 16 For truly he took not on him the nature of angels [a mere messenger given a message]; but he took on him the seed of Abraham [to which the LORD promised a son, an heir who would become as many as the sand of the shore and the stars of heaven]. 17 Wherefore in all things it behooved him to be made like unto his brethren [born into dead flesh here in hell], that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people. 18 For in that he himself has suffered being tempted [to doubt the Father’s presence with him here in hell, to from it raise us], he is able to succor [rescue] them that are tempted [to doubt Him].
Psalms 8 A Psalm of David 1 O LORD [Jehovah], our LORD [‘adown – our king], how excellent is your name [identity] in all the earth! who have set [nathan – given] your glory [Your manifested presence] above the heavens [the places where understanding should be found]. 2 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings [declaring Your word as You commanded, saying “Hosanna {save now}, Blessed is he who comes in the name {identity} of the LORD] have you ordained strength because of your enemies, that you might still [shabath – sabbath: interrupting their work, putting them to silence so Your correction is heard above all other voices of] the enemy and the avenger. 3 When I consider your heavens [this understanding You’ve given to us], the work of your fingers, the moon [just civil government; ruling as You rule, with truth and equal justice] and the stars [Your people in this new heaven, filled with Your light here on earth, wherein dwells righteousness], which you have ordained [kuwn – prepared, raised, and established]; 4 What is man, that you are mindful of him? and the son of man, that you visit [paqad] him? 5 For you have made him a little lower than [chacer – lacking the understanding] the angels [‘elohiym – of God], and have crowned him with [Your] glory and [Your] honor [His understanding given to and through me]. 6 You made him to have dominion [mashal – rule] over the works of your hands [referring to this light given from there]; you have put all things under his feet: 7 All sheep and oxen [Your flock], yea, and the beasts of the field [the dead in the earth, those without Your Spirit]; 8 The fowl of the air [those who, by Your strength, rise into the place where understanding should be found], and the fish of the sea [the life unseen and found below the surface of the waters of the earth], and whatsoever passes through the paths of the seas [man on his unknowing journey through generations]. 9 O LORD our LORD, how excellent is your name [identity] in all the earth!
What will you say when he shall punish you? for you have taught them to be captains, and as chief over you: shall not sorrows take you, as a woman in travail?
The word “punish,” above in Jeremiah 13:21, is paqad, meaning “to visit (with friendly or hostile intent); by analogy, to oversee, muster, charge, care for, miss, deposit, etc..” As often discussed, it speaks of the LORD openly manifesting His presence, in His word and work, as the Chief Overseer of the earth, declaring righteous decrees that combat the evil decrees (now) ruling the earth.
One such decree concerns current government institutions (of church and state), degenerated into the control of those antithetical to their Constitution. No longer are they controlled by (the consent of) the constituents who elect representatives to carry out their will, within the framework of the powers vested in their institutions by its Law. This will, as established in our Declaration, is that we are entitled to live under “the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God (the Creator),” who has endowed us with unalienable Rights, among them Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, and to secure these unalienable Rights governments are instituted.
As we know, the “Bill of Rights,” the first ten amendments to the Constitution, state additional rights essential to “securing” ourselves against despots abusing government power. They specifically protect against demagogues that might rise and end as tyrants threatening our Lives and Liberty. They additionally state our Right to Pursue Happiness includes our right to acquire and keep secure our private property.
The current governments, riddled by millions of unelected self-servants, now led by devils (possessed by the spirit of Satan), abandoned, not only the Laws of Nature and Nature’s God, but also, the Spirit in these Laws (securing our God-Given Rights, our neighbors’ and our own: reciprocal security, the way to peace and sustainable civilization), and now control, by evil decree and corrupt judgment, virtually every aspect of our existence.
The LORD has righteously decreed they will not continue.
2 Peter 3 9 The LORD is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness [ignorant of the fact He is always here with us]; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. 10 But the day of the LORD will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements [stoicheion – the rudiments of the world, the corruption and insanity now possessing humanity] shall melt with fervent heat [the fires of hell these elements themselves create], the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. 11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in all holy [this pure, uncorrupted, word] conversation [wherein the LORD’s presence is manifested] and godliness [eusebeia – literally meaning to revere good; the same word as in 1 Timothy 3:16, saying, “And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness {eusebeia}: God was {is} manifest in the flesh {of those speaking His word}, justified in the Spirit {while unknown speaking and working}, seen of angels {those made pure who become His messengers speaking His word}, preached unto the Gentiles {to those who don’t know Him}, believed on in the world {He is now creating}, received up into glory {in those exalting His voice above all other voices}.], 12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the [old and corrupted] heavens [where this understanding should be found] being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements [stoicheion – the corrupt foundational ideas of the wicked in power] shall melt [be dissolved] with fervent heat? 13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwells righteousness. 14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that you look for such things, be diligent that you may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless. 15 And account that the longsuffering of our LORD is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him has written unto you; 16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrestle, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction [apoleia – perdition]. 17 You therefore, beloved, seeing you know these things before, beware lest you also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own steadfastness. 18 But grow in grace [this gift], and in the knowledge of our LORD and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and forever. Amen.
The word above, in 1 Timothy 3:16, dubiously rendered “without controversy,” only appearing here, is homologoumenos, from the word homou (same) logos (words) and menuo, meaning “probably from the same base as 3145 [masso – to handle, as in 1 John 1 below] and 3415 [mnaomai – to mentally grasp] (i.e. mao, to strive); to disclose (through the idea of mental effort and thus calling to mind), i.e. report, declare, intimate:–show, tell.”
In this verse (1 Timothy 3:16) Paul says homologoumenos (this same word declared) megas (the greatness found therein) eusebeia (is revering good) musterion Theos phaneroo en sarx (is the mystery of God manifested in the flesh).
This statement comes after (in verse 15) he (Paul) just spoke to Timothy so he would know how to behave (anastrepho – return: in the conversation) to “the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.”
Acts 15 15 And to this agree the words of the prophets; as it is written, 16 After this I will return [anastrepho], and will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up: 17 That the residue of men might seek after the LORD, and all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, says the LORD, who does all these things. 18 Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.
2 Corinthians 1 9 But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raises the dead: 10 Who delivered us from so great a death, and does deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us; 11 You also helping together [under the same sentence, doing the same work] by prayer for us, that for the gift [this understanding from the LORD] bestowed upon us by the means [of answering the prayers] of many persons thanks may be given by many on our behalf [thanking the LORD for our deliverance and theirs]. 12 For our rejoicing [the LORD’s presence realized in this word] is this, the testimony of our conscience [suneidesis – our co-perspective with the LORD], that in simplicity [haplotes – meaning “singleness, i.e. (subjectively) sincerity (without dissimulation or self-seeking), or (objectively) generosity (copious bestowal)] and godly [Theos – from God] sincerity [without leaven: uncorrupted], not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace [this gift] of God, we have had our conversation [anastrepho – in which the LORD is] in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward. 13 For we write none other things unto you, that what you read or acknowledge [epiginosko – this dispensation of knowledge by the LORD through His gift to us, in this conversation]; and I trust you shall acknowledge [epiginosko – receive the dispensation of knowledge] even to the end [when we receive this full understanding, the light and life of the LORD]; 14 As also you have acknowledged [epiginosko – received the dispensation from] us in part, that we are your rejoicing [realizing it is the LORD manifesting His presence in the conversation], even as you also are ours [rejoicing] in the day [when the light and life] of the LORD Jesus [is manifested from you].
1 John 1 1 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life; 2 (For the life [light and understanding] was manifested, and we have seen it [in the flesh], and bear witness, and show unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us [in His son, and the children given to him];) 3 That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that you also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ. 4 And these things write we unto you, that your joy [realizing His presence in this manner] may be full. 5 This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light [understanding and life], and in him is no darkness [ignorance] at all.
Ephesians 2 1 And you has he quickened [from the dead into life], who were dead in trespasses and sins; 2 Wherein in time past you walked according to the course [aion – this age of ignorance] of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air [aer – one of the seven times this word appears, here referring to it and the church darkened by the smoke that comes from the bottomless pit {Revelation 9:2}, meaning all understanding is gone, in the endless fall away from God], the spirit [of ignorance] that now works in the children of disobedience: 3 Among whom also we all had our conversation [anastrepho] in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. 4 But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, 5 Even when we were dead in sins, has [clearing the air, as in Revelation 16:17] quickened us [from death into life] together with Christ, (by grace [this gift of understanding, light, life] you are saved;) 6 And has raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places [with full understanding] in Christ Jesus: 7 That in the ages to [aion – the new age now] come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us [giving this understanding] through Christ Jesus [Jehovah’s Salvation manifested in the conversation from the flesh He chooses]. 8 For by grace [this word] are you saved through faith [it is His manifesting His presence with us, in us]; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift [given] of God: 9 Not of works, lest any man should boast. 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works [to give His word as received], which God has before ordained that we should walk in them. 11 Wherefore remember, that you being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands; 12 That at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and [by ignorance] without God in the world: 13 But now in Christ Jesus you who sometimes were far off are made near by the blood [this necessary sacrifice] of Christ [the flesh through which the Father speaks manifesting His presence]. 14 For he is our peace, who has made both [God and man] one, and has broken down the middle wall [the veil of flesh] of partition between us; 15 Having abolished in his flesh the enmity [the ignorance by which we oppose His word and work], even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man [understanding the letter and Spirit of life in the Law], so making peace; 16 And that he might reconcile [apokatallasso – change {allasso} us by not only putting down {kata}, but taking away {apo} the sin of ignorance] both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity [the reason for opposition] thereby: 17 And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were near. 18 For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father. 19 Now therefore you are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household [family] of God; 20 And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; 21 In whom all the building fitly framed together grows unto a holy temple in the LORD: 22 In whom you also are built together for a habitation of God through the Spirit [into His ONE BODY].
The passages above, in verses 13 & 17, describes the reconciling of those “far off” and “near,” talking about those experiencing it, at first in total ignorance (far off), and those now receiving His word (the “access” – prosagoge, literally meaning led forth [by His] leading), drawing nearer (to completion of His work) than the day they first believed.
Romans 13 11 And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we [first] believed [the LORD is with us, in us]. 12 The night [the ignorance that covers the earth] is far spent, the day [this light, life, and understanding] is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness [ignorance], and let us put on the armor [the protection] of light [found in His life and understanding]. 13 Let us walk honestly [not handling the word of God deceitfully], as in the day [with this understanding He is freely giving us]; not in rioting [not without self-control] and drunkenness [having our minds, and words, clear of what corrupts them], not in chambering and wantonness [not desiring to be what we are not], not in strife and envying [opposing those who have seen and do know]. 14 But put you on the LORD Jesus Christ [this same mind: understanding and life found therein], and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
Friends, Paul, the LORD in him speaking, at Mars’ Hill (meaning at the peak of this war between reality and delusion) speaks of this moment when all men have become too superstitious, thinking all is either metaphysical or fictional, and thereby missing the physical reality they are experiencing.
Acts 17 22 Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars’ hill [Aireos Pagos – at the “peak of martial,” of God’s people to this battle], and said, You men of Athens [now when man is certain of nothing, and all knowledge is corrupted by an inability to separate truth from opinions: delusions], I perceive that in all things you are too superstitious [deisidaimonesteros – literally meaning they are afraid, fearing the gods of this world, to receive the treasures that will strengthen them: giving certainty to the uncertain]. 23 For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, To The Unknown God [the Holy Spirit]. Whom therefore you ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you. 24 God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is LORD of heaven and earth, dwells not in temples made with hands [but in the flesh of those through whom He speaks and works]; 25 Neither is worshipped with men’s hands [works], as though he needed any thing, seeing he gives to all life [understanding], and breath [breathed from His mouth: words], and all things [needed]; 26 And has made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined [horizo – from where the sun rises] the times before appointed [protasso – prearranged, prescribed: before written, pre ordained], and the bounds [horothesia – laying out the limit: the termination point] of their habitation; 27 That they should seek the LORD [first], if haply they might feel after him [after He has effectually worked in us], and find him, though he be not far from every one of us [always willing to reveal His presence to those who receive Him manifested in His word]: 28 For in him [only do] we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are [by receiving this understanding] also his offspring [in whom He will live, if we become His prepared habitation]. 29 Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead [theios] is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man’s device [enthumesis – only appearing four times, all others rendered “thoughts;” here in context discerned to be men’s fictitious writing]. 30 And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commands all men every where to repent [and purge out the blinding corruption]: 31 Because he has appointed a day [a sun rising, after the darkness: this ignorance], in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he has ordained [horizo – who is the place from where the sun rises, beginning this new day: age]; whereof he has given assurance unto all men, in that he has raised him from the dead [out of confusion, out of hell, into life in heaven: the place wherein full understanding is found]. 32 And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, We will hear you again of this matter.
2 Thessalonians 2 1 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming [parousia] of our LORD Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together [episunagoge – only used here and in Hebrews 10:25 where we’re told not to forsake this {egkateleipo – meaning let this survive when all else doesn’t, as in Hebrews 13:5, when the LORD says He is the one who will remain when all others don’t} as do others; it means a complete collection] unto him, 2 That you be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. 3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away [apostasia – apostasy, defection from truth, standing away from God {because the fallen say they are holier than Him, as in Isaiah 65:5}, as in the bottomless pit John see in Revelation 9:2] first, and that man of sin be revealed [those putting themselves in the Father’s place, in the pattern of Rueben], the son of perdition [apoleia – as in 2 Peter 2:1, 2 & 3 & 3:7 & 16, as used in Revelation twice {in Revelation 17:8 & 11, which happen to the eighth church, who becomes part of Babylon {the mass confusion that rules the world} and ascended from the bottomless pit into perdition, which we’re told in 2 Peter 3:16 is the destruction that comes to the ignorant who wrestle with this word of God to their own “destruction”]; 4 Who oppose and exalt himself [Satan in them working and speaking] above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sits in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God [as do the many antichrists among us, preaching and teaching their own ways and ideas in LORD’s name]. 5 Remember you not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? 6 And now you know what withholds [katecho – holds you, keeping God’s people from joining Him in His ONE BODY] that he might be revealed in his time. 7 For the mystery of iniquity does already work [these wicked men we’re already working, as Paul earlier describes in 1 Thessalonians 2, Satan working in them to keep this true word of God from being heard, as he also speaks of in 2 Thessalonians 3] only he who now lets [katecho – who were then holding God’s people down, oppressing them so the word of God wouldn’t have free course and be receives as His, as it is] will let [will hold you down], until he be taken out of the way [mesos – these men and their teaching taken out of our midst]. 8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the LORD shall consume [as in Hebrews 12, by His correction] with the spirit of [fire from] His mouth [shaking heaven and earth, so the wicked are shaken from them], and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming [parousia]: 9 Even him [the LORD], whose coming [parousia] is after the working of Satan [in wicked men] with all power [in church and state] and signs and lying wonders [which caused the apostasy and fool men into following them and not the LORD among us, who said “I will never leave you or forsake you”], 10 And [these wicked men] with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. [And I must again here digress; I hear many people speaking of those they think are prophets because they saw this or that event occurring. These men are not prophets of God, and we know because they lack one thing, the knowledge of God. These are those bumbling about seeking what they will never find, never saying “Thus says the LORD” and, not knowing the time of their visitation, never speaking the words He here alone reveals. Thus says the LORD, “If they speak not according to this word there is no light in them.” They are those, too superstitious, Paul {the LORD in him} speaks to and of on Mars’ Hill.] 11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie [believing their own opinions are truth, as they do: “I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spoke, they did not hear: but they did evil before my eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not.” Isaiah 66:4]: 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 and belief of the truth: 14 Whereunto he called [kaleo] you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our LORD Jesus Christ. 15 Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions [paradosis – transmitted, given as received, as in I Corinthians 11:2] 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 [agapao – given His word to] us, and has given us everlasting consolation [paraklesis – from the Paraclete, the LORD working among us unknown] and good hope through grace [this gift], 17 Comfort [parakaleo] your hearts [continue His calling from your sound mind], and establish you in every good word and work.
1 Peter 2 1 Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speaking, 2 As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that you may grow thereby: 3 If so be you have tasted that the LORD is gracious. 4 To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen [eklektos] of God, and precious, 5 You also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. 6 Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Zion a chief corner stone, elect [eklektos], precious: and he that believes on him shall not be confounded. 7 Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner, 8 And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed. 9 But you are a chosen [eklektos] generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people; that you should show forth the praises of him who has called you out of darkness into his marvelous light; 10 Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy. 11 Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; 12 Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles [those who don’t know the LORD]: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation [episkope – the days of the Chief Overseer].
As previously discussed, Jeremiah 13 begins with the LORD telling Jeremiah to take a girdle (a preparation, for a journey) and hide it in a hole in a rock near Euphrates.
Jeremiah 13 5 So I went, and hid it by Euphrates [this river of fruitfulness, wherein it should be found], as the LORD commanded me. 6 And it came to pass after many days [in these last days], that the LORD said unto me, Arise [rise to life from death’s sleep], go to Euphrates [this fruitful river in which is the preparation], and take the girdle [preparation] from thence, which I commanded you to hide there. 7 Then I went to Euphrates, and digged, and took the girdle from the place where I had hid it: and, behold, the girdle was marred [shachath – decayed and ruined in the earth], it was profitable for nothing.
As we know, from Revelation 16, this river is now dried up (by the sixth angel poring out the LORD’s wrath upon it: this word they reject) and what is (now was) hidden below its surface is revealed.
[From the post of 17 January 2024] In Revelation 16, between the sixth and seventh angel sounding, the LORD tells of manifesting His presence (name and identity) through (with and in) the seventh messenger (the only voice speaking for Him, with His authority),
after men began worshipping confusion (taking the mark [[of possession]] in their hand and head: in their works and words: their ways and ideas),
and all the waters became blood, words draining life from the world, and all living became dead,
and all the rivers of blood continued to flow the blood of dead men, keeping all dead in hell,
5 And I heard the angel of the [[pure]] waters say, You are righteous, O LORD, which are, and was, and shall be, because you have judged thus. 6 For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets [[destroying the understanding, life, they were given]], and you have given them blood to drink; for they are worthy. 7 And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, LORD God Almighty, true and righteous are your judgments.
and the church caused men to pass through the fires their darkness caused, and they vilified God’s word and work sent to correct them and refused His calls for them to repent,
10 And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat [of power] of the beast [the confusion that rules the world]; and his kingdom was full of darkness [ignorance]; and they gnawed their tongues for pain [[devouring themselves with their own corrupt words]], 11 And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds. 12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great [[megas]] river Euphrates [from where the word of God once flowed producing the fruitfulness of the earth]; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might [[those deceiving and manipulating the world]] be prepared. 13 And I saw three unclean [defiled] spirits like frogs [which were before hidden below the surface of the waters: evil in their words] come out of the mouth of the dragon [those who, as serpents and whales, swallow men into the belly of hell], and out of the mouth of the beast [the insanity, Babylon that rules the world], and out of the mouth of the false prophet [the known liars and false accusers in church and state media]. 14 For they are the spirits of devils [misleaders who put themselves in God’s place], working miracles [saying they are opening eyes to knowledge not before known], which go forth unto the kings [ruling powers] of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great [[megas]] day [[time of this light returning]] of God Almighty [at the time He decreed, which no man knows].
The LORD then speaks of this moment, when He has come and done His work, of which none are aware;
15 Behold, I [have] come as a thief. Blessed is he that watches, and keeps his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame [disappointment when what {I Am} they didn’t expect comes]. 16 And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon [this mountain of the rendezvous at this decreed time]. 17 And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air [clearing the smoke [[that came from the fall in the bottomless pit – Revelation 9:2]] so everything is clearly seen as it is]; and there came a [one] great [[megas]] voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne [of God], saying, “It is done.” 18 And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great [[megas]] earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake [to shake the wicked from heaven and earth], and so great. [Are you ready?] 19 And the great [[megas]] city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath. 20 And every island fled away [and this word of God will be heard in all the places that have been without it], and the mountains [the high places, seats of power of the wicked] were not found. 21 And there fell upon men a great [[megas]] hail out of heaven [this word reserved there for this moment, sent [[in this time of war]] to destroy the current crop of corrupt leaders], every stone about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great.
Jeremiah 13 9 Thus says the LORD, After this manner will I mar [shachath – cause to decay into ruin] the pride of Judah [the preparation the leaders of God’s people corrupted, and in their pride refuse to hear My correction back to purity], and the great pride of Jerusalem [God’s people into which these unfaithful leaders worked their leaven, until the whole is corrupted and worthless]. [Matthew 16:12 “Then understood they how that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of” their leaders who’ve corrupted God’s word as delivered and thereby led the world into darkness and death]. 10 This evil people, which refuse to hear [shama’ – or obey] my words, which walk in the imagination of their heart [the creation of their own minds: abomination {opinions: delusions} they created, put in My place, and call by My name], and walk after other gods, to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle [‘ezowr – the preparation left them], which is [now corrupt and] good for nothing. 11 For as the girdle [‘ezowr] cleaves [dabaq] to the loins of a man, so have I caused to cleave [dabaq] unto me [alone] the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah, says the LORD; that they might be unto me for a people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for a glory: but they would not hear [shama’ – or obey My good leading].
The word dabaq, meaning “to impinge, i.e. cling or adhere; figuratively, to catch by pursuit,” speaks of the snare upon all the earth, in which man is “caught up” (Hebrew, natsal or Greek, harpazo – seized) by God. Above, it speaks, as now, of men refusing this rescue.
The Greek equivalent of the word dabaq, is kollao (the origin of the name Colossians), meaning “from kolla (“glue”); to glue, i.e. (passively or reflexively) to stick (figuratively):–cleave, join (self), keep company.”
1 Corinthians 6 14 And God has both raised up the LORD, and will also raise up us by his own power [His word that effectually works in us, changing our mind to be like His]. 15 Know you not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of a harlot [the unfaithful who’ve left the LORD and follow men who put themselves in His place]? God forbid. 16 What? know you not that he which is joined [kallao] to a harlot [the unfaithful who sleep in death with these wicked men] is one body? for two, says he, shall be one flesh. 17 But he that is joined [kallao – cleaves] unto the LORD is one spirit. 18 Flee fornication [interaction with these men who’ve become idols who’ve put themselves in the LORD’s place]. Every sin that a man does is without the body; but he that commits fornication [whose interaction is the wicked and not the LORD] sins against his own body [choosing this darkness chooses condemnation]. 19 What? know you not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost [the LORD whom you apparently don’t know] which is in you, which you have of God, and you are not your own? 20 For you are bought with a price [time – Tim]: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.
Colossians 1 1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timotheus [meaning time {price} of God] our brother [I Am], 2 To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ which are at Colosse [who now cleave to the LORD, joined with Him as ONE BODY]: Grace [this gift] be unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the LORD Jesus Christ. 3 We give thanks to God and the Father of our LORD Jesus Christ, praying always for you, 4 Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love [agape – giving this word as received] which you have [received as His word] to all the saints, 5 For the hope which is laid up [prepared] for you in heaven, whereof you heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel; 6 Which is come unto you, as it is in all the world; and brings forth fruit, as it does also in you, since the day you heard of it, and knew [it is] the grace of God in truth: 7 As you also learned of Epaphras [from whom this fruitfulness flows] our dear fellow-servant, who is for you a faithful minister of Christ; 8 Who also declared unto us your love [agape – your charity, freely give this word] in the Spirit [the LORD, unknown to the world, working through you, in you]. 9 For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that you might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; 10 That you might walk worthy of the LORD unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God; 11 Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power [of His word effectually working], unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness [realizing it is the LORD’s presence manifested in you, through you]; 12 Giving thanks unto the Father, which has made us meet [hikanoo – meaning “to enable, i.e. qualify:–make able (meet)] to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light [this understanding, this life]: 13 Who has delivered us from the power of darkness [ignorance], and has translated us [methe – carried us away from ignorance and corruption] into the kingdom of his dear Son: 14 In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins: 15 Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature [ktisis – this new creation]: 16 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: 17 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist. 18 And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence. 19 For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness [of His understanding] dwell; 20 And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile [apokatallasso] all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven. 21 And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now has he reconciled [apokatallasso] 22 In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight: 23 If you continue in the faith [that the Father is always with us, in us] grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which you have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Am made a minister; 24 Who now rejoice [realizing the LORD’s presence is manifested] in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the church [His ONE BODY]: 25 Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil [accomplish and complete] the word of God; 26 Even the mystery which has been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints: 27 To whom God would make known what is the riches [this full understanding] of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles [who don’t know Him and are therefore blinded to His presence]; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: 28 Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus: 29 Whereunto I also labor, striving according to his working, which works in me mightily.
Jeremiah 13 15 Hear [shama’ – and obey] you, and give ear; be not proud: for the LORD has spoken. 16 Give glory to the LORD your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it gross darkness. 17 But if you will not hear [shama’ – and obey] it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride; and my eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the LORD’s flock is carried away captive. 18 Say unto the king and to the queen, Humble yourselves, sit down: for your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory. 19 The cities of the south shall be shut up, and none shall open them: Judah shall be carried away captive all of it, it shall be wholly carried away captive. 20 Lift up your eyes, and behold them that come from the north [out of darkness]: where is the flock that was given you, your beautiful flock? 21 What will you say when he shall punish [paqad – comes as the Chief Overseer of the earth, to] you? for you have taught them [the rulers of the darkness] to be captains, and as chief over you: shall not sorrows take you, as a woman in travail [readied to bring forth the seed of David, the seed of Joseph his ‘adown]? 22 And if you say in your heart, Wherefore come these things upon me? For the greatness of your iniquity are your skirts discovered, and your heels made bare. 23 Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may you also do good, that are accustomed to do evil [whose flesh mind is stained by darkness and misled you into desolation and tribulation]. 24 Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passes away by the wind of [their false doctrines: corruption they learned, which brought them into] the wilderness. 25 This is your lot [of those who refuse to hear His voice and obey His commands], the portion of your measures from me, says the LORD; because you have forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.
Amos 9 8 Behold, the eyes of the LORD God are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; saving that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, says the LORD. 9 For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel [the people who receive Me and My promise] among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth. 10 All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us. 11 In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old: 12 That they may possess the remnant of Edom [the enemies mixed among us at war with us while calling it peace], and of all the heathen [who refuse to know Me], which are called by my name, says the LORD that does this.
Psalms 27 A Psalm of David 1 The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength [understanding] of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? 2 When the wicked, even my enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell. 3 Though a host [an army] should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident. 4 One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple. 5 For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock. 6 And now shall my head be lifted up above my enemies round about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the LORD. 7 Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer me. 8 When you said, Seek you my face [paniym – presence]; my heart said unto you, Your face [paniym – presence], LORD, will I seek. 9 Hide not your face [paniym – presence] far from me; put not your servant away in anger: you have been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation. 10 When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up. 11 Teach me your way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path, because of my enemies. 12 Deliver me not over unto the will of my enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty. 13 I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living. 14 Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart [give understanding into the minds of those who]: wait, I say, on the LORD.
You did run well; who did hinder you that you should not obey the truth?
The above, Galatians 5:7, comes as Paul, the LORD alive in him speaking, discusses obeying the Law or Christ, the written letter, or diligently seeking to fulfill its underlying Spirit. Paul speaks of preaching the Law and circumcision of the mind, by which understanding comes, “For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
He (Paul), describing his suffering for preaching this underlying rudimentary principle, says, “And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? then is [if I did not necessarily suffer this tribulation for your sakes] the offense of the cross ceased.”
As previously discussed, the word rendered “offense” is the skandalon (scandal), meaning “a trap-stick (bent sapling), i.e. snare (figuratively, cause of displeasure or sin).” It speaks of the “snare” that has now come upon all the world, and specifically God’s “holier than thou” people who are offended at the Father’s appearance in (what they define as) my scandalous flesh.
The word is said to be derived from the kampto, meaning “to bend.” It (kampto) is used four times, all telling of who men “bow” their knee to, men as idols who put themselves in His place or the LORD to whom all will “bow.”
Galatians 5 12 I would they [those who make themselves gods, idols, the hyper-religious, who, claiming they know the “Law,” put themselves in the Father’s place] were even cut off which trouble you. 13 For, brethren, you have been called unto liberty [away from the rudiments of this world, the corrupt elements, partials understanding without the Spirit]; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love [agape – leading the world out of darkness into the light: giving this understanding as received by the Spirit of truth, the Paraclete, the LORD working among us unknown, whose led us into it] serve one another. 14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word [logos – “Divine Expression”], even in this; You shall love [agapao] your neighbor as yourself. 15 But if you bite and devour one another [as serpents and whales mixed among God’s people], take heed [be warned] that you be not consumed one of another. 16 This I say then, Walk in the [high way of the] Spirit [the truth into which He’s led us], and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.
The word rendered “consume” is the three times used word analisko, meaning “to use up, i.e. destroy:–consume.” The first of these other uses comes in Luke 9:54, as James and John, seeing rejected the messengers the LORD sent to prepare the way before Him, ask the LORD, “will you that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume [analisko] them, even as Elijah did?”
Luke 9 55 But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, You know not what manner of spirit you are of. 56 For the Son of man is not come to destroy men’s lives, but to save them. And they went to another village.
Before looking at the other use of analisko, we must remember the LORD’s words from John 3, first saying the Son of man has come to save the world, but there is a decision (krisis) by which men condemn themselves when this truth (understanding, light, life) has come, and men choose to remain the darkness (ignoring the light) because their deeds are evil.
2 Thessalonians 2 8 And then shall that Wicked [who are offended by this word, who trouble you and seek to keep you held down in their darkness] be revealed, whom the LORD shall consume [analisko] with the spirit of [this word from] his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness [shining this understanding as the light] of his coming: 9 Even him [I Am], whose coming is after [the falling away from truth and light, which is among you] the working of Satan 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 [agape – leading us out darkness, by] the truth [light and life], that they might be saved. 11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion [the insanity that now permeates all the institutions of church and state that are possessed by Satan], that they should believe a lie: 12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness [as they do, with pride].
Romans 11 2 God has not cast away his people [those held in the places possessed by Satan, here in hell] which he foreknew. Wot you not what the scripture says of Elijah? how he made intercession to God against Israel saying, 3 LORD, they have killed your prophets, and digged down your altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life. 4 But what says the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed [kampto] the knee to the image of Baal [the gods of this evil world]. 5 Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace [given this gift from the LORD, His testimony by which he saves us]. 6 And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace [the gift] is no more grace [is not a gift]. But if it be of [men’s] works, then it is no more grace [a gift from God]: otherwise work [to which he has called us] is no more work [for which we are prepared, to deliver the gift freely, as received]. 7 What then? Israel has not obtained that which he seeks for; but the election has obtained it, and the rest were blinded.
2 Corinthians 4 1 Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not; 2 But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully [as is the work of Satan]; but by manifestation of [phanerosis – making apparent] the truth commending ourselves [suniemi – introducing, establishing] to every man’s conscience [suneidesis – to produce a co-perspective, agreement with Him, seeing as He sees] in the sight [realizing the presence] of God. 3 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: 4 In whom the god [men as idols] of this world has blinded the minds of them which believe not [the LORD is present with us, in us], lest the light [understanding] of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them. 5 For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the LORD; and ourselves your servants [working] for Jesus’ sake. 6 For God, who commanded the light [this understanding] to shine out of darkness [among the ignorant], has shined in our hearts [minds], to give the light [understanding] of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face [presence] of Jesus Christ [Jehovah’s Salvation manifested in this high way, in scandalous flesh].
Romans 11 8 (According as it is written, God has given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day.
Isaiah 29 9 Stay yourselves, and wonder [not knowing what you are experiencing]; cry you out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink. 10 For the LORD has poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep [with no signs of life], and has closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers [ra’ah – those who see as God sees] has he covered [kacah]. 11 And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book [cepher] that is sealed [chatham], which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray you: and he says, I cannot; for it is sealed [chatham]: 12 And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray you: and he says, I am not learned. 13 Wherefore the LORD said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honor me, but have removed their heart [the foundations of their mind – their stiocheion, the elements of their understanding, are corrupt and disordered] far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men: 14 Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvelous [eye opening] work among this people, even a marvelous work and a wonder [pele’ – at which all have wondered]: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid. 15 Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their [wicked] counsel [‘etsah] from the LORD, and their works are in the dark [their own ignorance of reality and truth they can’t understand because it is as a foreign language], and they say, Who sees us? and who knows us? 16 Surely your turning of things upside down [the overthrow] shall be esteemed as the potter’s [yatsar] clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed [yatser] say of him that framed [yatsar] it, He had no understanding? 17 Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon [where purity should be seen in high places] shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest [of upright men]? 18 And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness. 19 The meek [who shall inherit the earth] also shall increase their joy in [realizing the presence of] the LORD, and the poor [those without worldly power] 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 [scandalous] for a word [they say violates the falsely so-called “moral” code on this evil time: the rudiments, stoicheion, of this evil world], and lay a snare for him that reproves in the gate [out of hell into the kingdom of God], and turn aside the just [from entering] for a thing of naught [an offense that isn’t one]. 22 Therefore thus says the LORD, who redeemed [padah] Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob, Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his face now wax pale [but they will reach the end promised]. 23 But when he sees his children [who have been born again out of death and hell], the work of my hands, in the midst of him, they shall sanctify my name [declare My identity Holy], 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 [against me] shall learn doctrine.
Romans 11 9 And David says, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumbling-block [skandalon], and a recompence unto them: 10 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back always.
Psalms 69 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 [of men’s corruption, that has clouded these waters, and hidden understanding from their eyes], and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters [the wicked in power have darkened]. 15 Let not the waterflood [of the wicked] overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me. 16 Hear me, O LORD; for your lovingkindness is good: turn unto me according to the multitude of your tender mercies. 17 And hide not your face [paniym – Your presence] from your servant; for I am in trouble [tsar – under enemy attack]: hear me speedily. 18 Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of my enemies [‘oyeb – who hate me]. 19 You have known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonor: my adversaries [who heap these things upon me] 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 [At my cross] They gave me also gall [their poisonous words] for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink. 22 Let their table become a snare before [paniym – by Your presence unknown to] them: and that [this word they reject] 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 [za’am – that ends in their destruction] 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.
Romans 11 11 I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles [unbelievers, who haven’t known the LORD], for to provoke them to jealousy [parazeloo – bring heat to those who call themselves believers, who are ignorant of their fallen condition]. 12 Now if the fall of them be the riches of [this gift, grace to] the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness [when they likewise receive this gift]? 13 For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify my office: 14 If by any means I may provoke to emulation [parazeloo – bring heat to] them which are my flesh, and might save some of them. 15 For if the casting away of them be the reconciling [katallage – the course adjustment] of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead? 16 For if the first-fruit [the elect remnant] be holy, the lump [the risen BODY they’ve provoked to emulation] is also holy: and if the root [from where this gift flows] be holy, so are the branches.
The “fall,” into death’s sleep, Paul speaks of twice above, is the Greek word paraptoma, said to mean “a side-slip (lapse or deviation), i.e. (unintentional) error or (wilful) transgression.” Its deeper meaning is in the words para (from beside or near) and potamos, meaning “a current, brook or freshet (as drinkable), i.e. running water.” This latter word (patomos) speaks of water that flows as a flood against humanity and those combating them as “rivers” of pure living water whose origin is the Father in heaven.
Romans 9 27 Isaiah also cries [in Isaiah 1:9] concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved: 28 For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the LORD make upon the earth. 29 And as Isaiah said before, Except the LORD of Sabaoth [commander of the army of heaven] had left us a seed, we had been as Sodom, and been made like unto Gomorrah. [Isaiah 1:9 Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah. 10 Hear {shama’ – and obey} the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah.] 30 What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed [obeyed] not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith. 31 But Israel, which followed [obeyed] after the law of righteousness, has not attained to the law of righteousness. 32 Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumbling-stone; 33 As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumbling-stone and rock of offence [skandalon – the scandal of the LORD’s word flowing from the flesh of a man disapproved by the self-righteous who say it should be otherwise, according to their words]: and whosoever believes on [the Father’s words from] him shall not be ashamed.
Remember, this last verse is quoted from Isaiah 28:16, which speaks to and of the same people as above at this moment. It speaks of those who’ve made a covenant with death, and are in agreement with hell, to whom comes this rest and refreshing, which they refuse.
Isaiah 28 5 In that day [today is the day, this time of light] shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem [tsphiyrah – only appearing two other times, in Ezekiel 7:7 and 7:10, when it is the “morning” that has now come, saying “The morning {tsphiyrah} is come unto you, O you that dwellest in the land: the time is come, the day of trouble is near, and not the sounding again of the mountains.” and “Behold the day, behold, it is come: the morning {tsphiyrah} is gone forth; the rod has blossomed, pride has budded.”] 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. [Ezekiel 7:8 & 9 say, “Now will I shortly {a short work will the LORD make upon the earth, because the bed upon which humanity sleeps is shorter than humanity itself, who will remain} pour out my fury upon you, and accomplish my anger upon you: and I will judge you according to your ways, and will recompense you for all your abominations. And my 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.”] 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 [that have become a snare upon them] 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 – {shama’ Yahh} heard and obeyed this voice of Jehovah teaching]? them that are weaned from the milk [receiving the foundational element of truth, have advanced in understanding, into perfection], and drawn [now draw] from the breasts [of the Ancient of Days – as we know, the word here rendered “drawn” is ‘attiyq, only appearing elsewhere in 1 Chronicles 4:22, where it speaks of the “ancient” things, the work of those that dwelt with the king]. 10 For [as here] 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 [the truth: a foreign language to those who only know corruption] will he speak to this people. 12 To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith you may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they [refused and] would not hear [shama’ – and obey]. 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 [shama’ – and obey] the word of the LORD, you scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem. 15 Because you have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the [this] 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 [shall not be taken away with the flood of men’s lying words, the shame that comes upon those who refuse this rest and refreshing]. 17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and [the] righteousness [of God] to the plummet [against which your righteousness shall be judged]: and the hail [the word frozen in heaven, reserved there for this moment] shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters [His word from heaven] shall overflow the hiding place. 18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell [sheol] shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge [showt] shall pass through, then you shall be trodden down by it. 19 From the time that it goes forth it shall take you [in its snare]: for morning by morning shall it pass over [‘abar – the bringing the Passover from death into life for those who receive it as His word], by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report [shmuw’ah – only to understand it is the voice of Jehovah manifesting His presence to those who receive Him]. 20 For the bed is shorter than that a man [sleeping in death] can stretch himself on it: and the covering [of lies and falsehood] narrower than that he can wrap [hide] himself in it. 21 For the LORD [Jehovah] shall rise up as in mount Perazim [2 Samuel 5:20 – as water from His throne, breaking forth upon His and David’s 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: the current corrupt crop sitting in power], that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange [known to no one except Him] act. 22 Now therefore be you not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the LORD GOD [‘Adonay Jehovih – KING of kings and LORD of lords] of hosts [a man of war and Commander, Chief, of the army of heaven] a consumption [kalah – a full end, as in Daniel 9:27], even determined [charats – decreed, as in Joshua 10:21 saying “And all the people returned to the camp to Joshua {Jesus} at Makkedah {as one flock under one shepherd} in peace: none moved {charats} his tongue against any of the children of Israel.” And 2 Samiel 5:24, the LORD saying to David, “And let it be, when you hear {shama’ – obey} the sound {qowl – the voice} of a going in the tops of the mulberry trees {baka’, from which come bkowr – telling us this is the voice of the “firstborn”}, that then you shall bestir yourself: for then shall the LORD go out before {paniym – His presence will be manifested with, in} you, to smite the host of the Philistines {the enemy army now mixed among you}.”] upon the whole earth. 23 Give you ear, and hear [shama’ – and obey] my voice; hearken, and hear [shama’ – and obey] my speech.
1 Peter 2 1 Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speaking, 2 As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that you may grow thereby: 3 If so be you have tasted that the LORD is gracious [freely giving this gift to all]. 4 To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious, 5 You also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. 6 Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Zion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believes on him shall not be confounded. 7 Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them [those who claim they are builders but are in truth the destroyers of the world] which be disobedient [incorrigibles who refuse to obey], the stone [I Am] which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner [turning men’s heads back to the LORD], 8 And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense [skandalon], even to them which stumble at the word [this word from the mouth of the LORD, with which they ignorantly wrestle into perdition], being disobedient [refusing to obey the voice of the Father]: whereunto also they were appointed. 9 But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people; that you should show forth the praises of him who has called you out of darkness [the ignorance and insanity that covers the now dead world] into his marvelous [eye opening] light [understanding and life]; 10 Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
Jonah 2 1 Then Jonah [the dove, whose voices are the sign of the end reached] prayed unto the LORD his God out of the fish’s [dagah] belly [the source of the agitation of humanity, the evil intention, below the surface of men’s words, to gain and keep power], 2 And said, I cried by reason of my affliction [tsarah – this tribulation] unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell [sheol] cried I, and you heard my voice. 3 For you had cast me into the deep [this full circuit into understanding], in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all your billows and your waves passed over me [‘abar – to bring me from death into life again]. 4 Then I said, I am cast out of your sight [no longer seeing as you see]; 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 [to the lowest degeneration of the earth ruled by tyrants in power over church and state]; the earth with her bars was about me forever: yet have you brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God. 7 When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came in unto you, into your holy temple. 8 They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy. 9 But I will sacrifice unto you with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that [to open my mouth when You call] that I have vowed [the mission on which we are sent]. Salvation [yshuw’ah – Jesus] is of the LORD [Jehovah manifesting His salvation in our flesh]. 10 And the LORD spoke unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land [where this word of LORD isn’t yet heard].
Romans 4 13 For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith [acting, hearing the LORD’s voice and obeying His commands, in the moment]. 14 For if they which are of the law [the written word, the spirit of which is always corrupt in the hands of those it is left to be protected in pure form] be heirs, faith [hearing the LORD’s voice that comes to interrupt the strays and correct them back on His course] is made void, and the promise [of this salvation, His promised rescue] made of none effect: 15 Because the law [in man’s hands] works wrath: for where no law is [when a state of nature exists, without any pure law], there is no transgression [only consequence]. [Romans 3:31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law {restoring it to its holy place in pure form}.] 16 Therefore it [receiving the LORD at His interruption and correction] is of faith, that it might be by grace [the free gift given – to those who receive or refuse it]; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed [who do receive it]; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of [hearing the LORD’s voice and following His commands, as did] Abraham; who is the father of us all [who receive this promise [now at His appearing and kingdom], 17 (As it is written, I have made you a father of many nations,) before him [in the LORD’s presence] whom he believed [and acted], even God, who quickens the dead [to life], and calls [brings to light] those things which be not [yet seen] as though they were [always there, prepared, waiting for His revelation]. 18 Who against hope [stated in His promise] believed in hope [of receiving it when it comes], that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall your seed be. [Genesis 22:17 That in blessing I will bless you {with this gift}, and in multiplying I will multiply your seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore {when humanity reaches this appointed time, this limit, where the proud waves of the wicked are stopped}; and your seed shall possess the gate of his enemies {holding humanity in death and hell}; 18 And in your seed {who receive the promise by faith} shall all the nations of the earth be blessed {by this same gift of light: synonymously life and understanding} because you have obeyed {shama’} my voice.] 19 And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about a hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah’s womb: 20 He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God [who manifests Himself in things the unfaithful thinks are impossible]; 21 And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform. 22 And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness. 23 Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him; 24 But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our LORD from the dead; 25 Who was delivered for [because of] our offences [paraptoma – the degeneration of understanding the Spirit in the law], and was raised again for our justification [to restore this understanding through judgment].
Here Him, not me.
Romans 5 1 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our LORD Jesus Christ: 2 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace [this gift of light] wherein we stand [and live], and rejoice in hope of the glory of God [revealed to us, and in us]. 3 And not only so, but we glory [know He is presence with us] in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation works patience; 4 And patience [waiting for Him to finish His short work upon the earth], experience; and experience[ing Him in His word and work], hope: 5 And hope [knowing He will finish it] make not ashamed [we will not be disappoint because we will reach the end He promises]; because the love of God is shed abroad [ekphuo – through springing forth from good ground] in our hearts [minds] by the Holy Ghost [the LORD with us, working and speaking unknown to reveal Himself to us, in us] which is given unto us. [One of the three times the word phuo appears is in Luke 8:8, saying, “And other fell on good ground, and sprang up {phuo}, and bare fruit an hundredfold. And when he had said these things, he cried, He that has ears to hear, let him hear.”] 6 For when we were yet without strength [understanding by which we rise to life], in due time Christ died [to give us this understanding] for the ungodly. 7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. 8 But God commends his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died [and came here to hell where all are held in death] for us. 9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood [the sacrifice necessary to bring this message, manifesting therein the Father’s identity], we shall be saved from wrath through him [which comes upon those who refuse correction and continue into the consequence of going their own way]. 10 For if, when we were enemies [opposing Him here in hell], we were reconciled [katallasso – the change away from corruption] to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled [katallasso – changed away from corruption], we shall be saved by his life [risen here in hell to free us by His truth]. [1 Corinthians 15:51 Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed {allasso}, 52 In a moment, in the twinkling {of stars to light} of an eye {by seeing as the LORD sees}, at the last trump {this voice of His archangel}: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed {allasso}. 53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. 54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.] 11 And not only so, but we also joy in God [realizing His presence with us] through our LORD Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement [katallage – this needed adjustment]. 12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned [hamartano – strayed from the course to this goal and were on a trajectory that would miss the target]: 13 (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law [only consequence, missing the promised end]. 14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam’s transgression, who is the figure [the first man of this new heaven and earth] of him that was to come [I Am]. 15 But not as the offence [paraptoma], so also is the free gift [shed upon all]. For if through the offence [paraptoma] of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ [Jehovah’s Salvation manifested in my flesh], has abounded unto many [to be manifested in their flesh; I and the children the LORD has given me: His ONE BODY]. 16 And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift [not by one who is missing the mark]: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences [paraptoma] unto justification. 17 For if by one man’s offence [paraptoma] death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.) 18 Therefore as by the offence [paraptoma] of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life [understanding and light]. 19 For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience [to the commands of the LORD] of one [I have been sent for this purpose, this is my mission] shall many be made righteous. 20 Moreover the law entered, that the offence [paraptoma] might [not receiving correction] abound. But where sin abounded, grace [this gift, the full circuit, the LORD’s long suffering, that brings victory over death and hell] did much more abound [bringing the correction]: 21 That as sin has reigned unto death, even so might grace reign [the gift now exalted above all the words of corruption] through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our LORD.
The word katallage, meaning “exchange (figuratively, adjustment), i.e. restoration to (the divine) favor,” appears two other times, in 2 Corinthians 5. In the same chapter the word katallasso also appears three times (of six total uses).
2 Corinthians 5 1 For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle [our flesh] were dissolved, we have a building of God, a [spirit] house [the OND BODY] not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. [1 Corinthians 15:45 And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. 46 Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual. 47 The first man is of the earth, earthy; the second man is the LORD from heaven. 48 As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. 49 And as we have borne the {mortal} image of the earthy, we shall also bear the {immortal} image of the heavenly. 50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot {without a living spirit, quickened in our dead flesh} inherit the kingdom of God; neither does corruption {of the flesh} inherit incorruption {of the Spirit}. 51 Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all {in the flesh} be changed {allasso}, 52 In a moment, in the twinkling {of stars to light} of an eye {by seeing as the LORD sees}, at the last trump {this voice of His archangel}: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised {their dead flesh brought to life} incorruptible, and we shall be changed {allasso}. 53 For this corruptible {flesh} must put on {be clothed upon with} incorruption, and this mortal {flesh} must put on {be clothed upon with} immortality. 54 So when this corruptible {flesh} shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal {flesh} shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.] 2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house [in the LORD ONE incorruptible BODY] which is from heaven: 3 If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked. 4 For we that are in this [flesh] tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life. 5 Now he that has wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also has given unto us the earnest of [the deposit, of Himself risen from the dead, alive in] the Spirit. 6 Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home [endemeo – bound to this evil generation] in the body [soma – in the corrupt body], we are absent [ekdemos – by being joined being joined with that body] from [apo – away from] the LORD: 7 (For we walk by faith [believing the LORD is alive in us], not by sight [the temporal, outward appearance]:) 8 We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent [ekdemeo – by being joined with the LORD] from the body [soma – not part of the corrupt body], and to be present [endemeo – at home] with the LORD [dwelling in Him, and He in us]. 9 Wherefore we labor, that, whether present [endemeo] or absent [ekdemeo], we may be accepted of [euarestos – we may be made well by agreement with] him. 10 For we must all appear before the judgment [mercy] seat of Christ [Jonah 2:8 They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.]; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he has done, whether it be good or bad. 11 Knowing therefore the terror of the LORD, we persuade men [to agree with Him, that they be not consumed by the own corrupt understanding]; but we are made manifest unto [phaneroo – rendering apparent] God [in us]; and I trust also are made manifest [phaneroo – we render His presence in us] in your consciences [suneidesis – your co-perspective, your agreement with Him, seeing as He sees]. 12 For we commend [suniemi – introduce, establish] not ourselves again unto you, but give you occasion to glory on our behalf [realizing He is manifesting His presence in us, through us], that you may have somewhat to answer them which glory in [their outward, temporal] appearance, and not in heart [His mind given to us, by which He lives in us and we in Him]. 13 For whether we be beside ourselves [existemi – astounded at this revelation, still not understanding the difference between reality and man’s delusions: insanity], it is to God [to bring you to His understanding, at His will]: or whether we be sober [sophroneo – sane], it is for your cause [that thought us He may work His will]. 14 For the love of Christ constrains us [sunecho – holds us together]; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead [needing to hear His word, by which man lives]: 15 And that he died for all [to bring this life to us], that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but [denying themselves, live] unto him which died for them, and rose again. 16 Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh [the outward appearance]: yea, though we have known Christ after [He was manifested in] the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more [by His flesh]. 17 Therefore if any man be in Christ [and Christ in him], he is a new creature: old [dead] things are passed away; behold, all things [by His Spirit working and speaking unknown in the flesh] are become new. 18 And all things are of God, who has reconciled [katallasso – changed us by putting down the power of corruption] us to himself by Jesus Christ [Jehovah manifesting Himself in the flesh, to rescue us from ourselves], and has given to us the ministry [diakonia] of reconciliation [katallage]; 19 To wit [hos – In this manner], that God was [is] in Christ, reconciling [katallasso] the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and has committed unto us the word of reconciliation [katallage]. 20 Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though [hos – in this manner] God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be you reconciled [katallasso] to God. 21 For he has made him to be sin [here in scandalous flesh] for us, who [before his corrupted flesh] knew no sin; that we might be made [as I have] the righteousness of God in him.
The word diakonia, rendered “ministry” in verse 18 above, is said to mean “attendance (as a servant, etc.); figuratively (eleemosynary) aid, (official) service (especially of the Christian teacher, or technically of the diaconate).” The word konia means to whiten, and dia means the channel through which it comes, above telling us the course adjustment(katallage) comes through whitening, purity by which we see God, not as man sees, but with His eyes seeing the unseen and eternal.
1 John 1 1 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life; 2 (For the life [light and understanding] was manifested, and we have seen it [in the flesh], and bear witness, and show unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us [in His son, and the children given to him];) 3 That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that you also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ. 4 And these things write we unto you, that your joy [realizing His presence in this manner] may be full. 5 This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light [understanding and life], and in him is no darkness [ignorance] at all. 6 If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness [in ignorance of His presence with us, in us], we lie, and do not the truth: 7 But if we walk in the light [His understanding given], as [hos – in the same manner] he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanses us from all sin. 8 If we say that we have no sin [no corruption that needs to be washed away, whitened, by His word], we deceive [planao] ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
1 John 2 1 My little children, these things write I unto you, that you sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: 2 And he is the propitiation [hilasmos, with affinity to hileos, equivalent of the Hebrew word calach, referring us to Exodus 34:9 saying, “And he {Moses} said, If now I have found grace in your sight, O LORD, let my LORD, I pray you, go among us; for it is a stiff-necked people; and pardon {calach} our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance.” And speaking of when all will, by His teaching, know the LORD, saying in Jeremiah 31:34, “And they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, says the LORD: for I will forgive {calach – hileos in Hebrews 8:12} their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”] for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. 3 And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. 4 He that says, I know him, and keeps not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. 5 But whoso keeps [tereo – guards from corruption] his word, in him truly is the love [agape – leading men out of darkness, by giving the uncorrupted word as received] of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him. 6 He that says he abides in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked [in the same manner]. 7 Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which you have heard from the beginning. 8 Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now shines. 9 He that says he is in the light [has this understanding], and hates [refuses to give it to] his brother, is in darkness even until now. 10 He that loves his brother abides in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling [skandalon] in him [not thinking the LORD speaking from the flesh is scandalous]. 11 But he that hate his brother is in darkness, and walketh [his own way is] in darkness, and knows not whither he goes, because that darkness has blinded his eyes. 12 I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name’s sake [to make His identity known]. 13 I write unto you, fathers, because you have known him that is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because you have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, because you have known the Father [manifested in His voice]. 14 I have written unto you, fathers, because you have known him that is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the wicked one [the devils among us opposing and resisting the LORD’s work through us, in us]. 15 Love not the [current corrupt] world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. 17 And the world passes away, and the lust thereof: but he that does the will of God abides forever. 18 Little children, it is the last time [‘achariyth in Hebrew]: and as you have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time. 19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us. 20 But you have an unction [chrisma – an anointing] from the Holy One, and you know all things. 21 I have not written unto you because you know not the truth, but because you know it, and that no lie is of the truth. 22 Who is a liar but he that denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denies the Father and the Son. 23 Whosoever denies the Son, the same has not the Father: he that acknowledges the Son has the Father also. 24 Let that therefore abide in you, which you have heard from the beginning. If that which you have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, you also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father. 25 And this is the promise that he has promised us, even eternal life. 26 These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce [planao – deceive] you. 27 But the anointing [this word and calling] which you have received of him abides in you, and you need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teaches you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it has taught you, you shall abide in him. 28 And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear [phaneroo – is rendered apparent], we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming. 29 If you know that he is righteous, you know that every one that does righteousness is born of him.
Psalms 139 1 O LORD, you have searched me, and known me. 2 You know my down-sitting and my uprising, you understand my thought afar off [rachowq – this time when the world is ruled by the evil decrees of wicked men in power]. 3 You compasses my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways. 4 For there is not a word in my tongue [that is good, except for Your words], but, lo, O LORD, you know it altogether. 5 You have beset me behind and before, and laid your hand upon me. 6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it. 7 Whither shall I go from your spirit? or whither shall I flee from your presence? 8 If I ascend up into heaven, you are there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, you are there. 9 If I take the wings of the morning [rising by this light you have given me], and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; 10 Even there shall your hand lead me, and your right hand shall hold me. 11 If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night [revealing this time when ignorance covers the earth] shall be light [shall be understood] about me. 12 Yea, the darkness [men’s ignorance] hides not from you; but the night shineth [is by You given understanding] as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to you. 13 For you have possessed my reins: you have covered me in my mother’s womb. 14 I will praise you; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvelous are your works; and that my soul knows right well. 15 My substance was not hid from you, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. 16 Your eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in your book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them. 17 How precious also are your thoughts unto me, O God! how significant is the sum of them! 18 If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with you. 19 Surely you will slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, you bloody men. 20 For they speak against you wickedly, and your enemies take your name in vain. 21 Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate you? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against you? 22 I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them my enemies. 23 Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: 24 And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand.
The above, in which the LORD begins today, is Daniel 8:25, speaking of the one who embodies Satan, the leader of the antichrist movement: the rebellion against God and all that is good. He is said to “stand up against the Prince of princes,” the coming king, engaged in this battle to retake the throne.
When this satanic figure is said to “magnify” himself in his own mind, the word is gadal, meaning he exalts himself above God’s presence in the Prince, and does it by “peace,” from the word shalvah, meaning “security (genuine or false):–abundance, peace(-ably), prosperity, quietness.”
As we know, this word describes the enemies (and their leaders) among us as our friends, neighbors, and brethren (like Esau), who are stealthily warring against us, our better ideas (culture), and our nation as constituted.
We know (from verse 26) the time described is “of the evening and the morning,” which tells of the darkness (mass ignorance of God’s presence) coming and of understanding returning after the vision is shut up, “for it shall be for many days.”
The time is expressly spoken of, first in verse 19, and after in verse 23. Before reading the following passage, remember all the meaning therein has been sealed (as the LORD proclaimed it would be), always present but unknown in the darkness, in the furnace of the earth, which Abraham saw, held (in men’s ignorance and given false meanings from their imaginations) behind the gates of hell in the belly of the earth.
Daniel 8 15 And it came to pass, when I, even I Daniel, had seen the vision, and sought for the meaning, then, behold, there stood before me as the appearance of a man. 16 And I heard a man’s voice between the banks of Ulai [the river of Elam, carrying the LORD’s written word through eternity – said to mean “my leaders (mighties),” in whose voices Daniel heard the LORD’s presence unfolding], which called, and said, Gabriel [meaning “warrior of God” and “man of God”], make this man to understand the vision. 17 So he came near where I stood: and when he came, I was afraid, and [realizing it was the presence of the LORD manifested] fell upon my face: but he said unto me, Understand, O son of man: for at the time of the end [qets – now when the light returnes] shall be the vision [mar’eh – it shall come into view: its meaning will appear]. 18 Now as he was speaking [from the written word, the LORD’s power working in my mind] with me, I [realized I] was in a deep sleep [radam – the time Abraham saw would come; as was Jonah before he realized he was in the belly of hell] on my face [paniym – present] toward the ground [‘erets – in the earth]: but he touched me, and set me upright. 19 And he said, Behold, I will make you know what shall be in the last end [‘achariyth – these last days of darkness] of the indignation [za’am – which ends in the destruction of the wicked]: for at the time appointed [mow’ed – the time of the “congregation,” the gathering of the LORD’s ONE BODY] the end [qets] shall be. 20 The ram [Abraham saw] which you saw having two horns [caught in the thicket, powers bound together] are the kings of Media [over the people caught in the middle of the time between then and now] and Persia [and over all purity, uncorrupted truth, ending it]. 21 And the rough [sa’iyr – the devil, as Esau, enemies among us at war with us, neighbors and brethren, calling it peace] goat [misleading the people of God’s promise] is the king of Grecia [yavah – whose effervescing produced the next four kingdoms, the children of Edom]: and the great horn [power to rule] that is between his eyes [seeing the ways into darkness] is the first [chief] king. 22 Now that being broken [shabar – this is the end of understanding; referring us to its used in Job 38:10 & 15, when understanding was taken from the earth, and darkness reigned until the end, when it’s withheld from the wicked, until the morning {boqer}], whereas four stood up for it, four kingdoms shall stand up out of the nation [the four sons of Esau], but not in his power. 23 And in the latter time [‘achariyth – these last days of darkness] of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king [this is Obama, the fifth child of Esau, see Genesis 36 below] of fierce [‘az – this is the pattern repeated in a direct reference to Rueben, Simeon, and Levi, as described in Genesis 49: 3 & 7; {Reuben} as the son of perdition and those who followed what effervesced from his putting himself in his father’s place; see below] countenance [paniym – Satan’s presence in Obama in these patterns], and understanding dark sentences [chiydah – the ways into darkness, as a child of Lucifer, the false light, “Rules For Radicals”], shall stand up. 24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power [but in the power of Satan manifested in him]: and he shall destroy wonderfully [all wondering who it is destroying], and shall prosper [by deception], and practice [the “Rules” he understands], and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people [see Deuteronomy 32:36, which speaks of when the LORD sees His people’s power is gone and none are left with understanding, He appears]. 25 And through his policy [sekel – His understanding; the evil decrees by which tyrants now rule the world] also he shall cause craft [mirmar – deception] to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify [gadal – exalt] himself in his heart, and by [claims of] peace [masking his war of deception against God and His people] shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes [I Am]; but he shall be broken without hand. 26 And the vision of the evening [understanding leaving for many days] and the morning [boqer – it returning as the light of this new day] which [which is the subject] was told is true: wherefore [until the morning] shut you up [in men’s ignorance] the vision; for it shall be for many days [the end now reached]. 27 And I Daniel [the judgment of God] fainted, and was sick [became without strength] certain days; afterward I rose up [quwm – in this resurrection], and did the king’s business [the work, the course, the LORD has set before us]; and I was astonished at [shamem – realizing these things now seen in] the vision, but none understood it.
Genesis 49 1 And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days [‘achariyth – in these last days of darkness]. 2 Gather yourselves together, and hear [shama’ – and obey the voice of the LORD], you sons of Jacob; and hearken [shama’ – and obey] unto Israel your father. 3 Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power: 4 Unstable [pachaz – ebullition, effervescence, “recklessness, wantonness, unbridled license, frothiness”] as water [this tells of the advice of the serpent, as one of God’s children, with unbridled license, recklessly reinterpreting His word], you shall not excel [not remain among God’s risen people]; because you went up to your father’s bed [went into the women – God’s people who have His words]; then defiled [corrupted] you it: he went up to my couch [took God’s place among His sleeping people]. 5 Simeon and Levi are brethren [names meaning those hearing and joining this teaching that replaced God’s]; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations. 6 O my soul, come not you into their secret [their hidden counsel, words of darkness]; unto their assembly, my honor, be not you united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their self-will they digged down a wall [by this they brought death on all man, and removed the protection found in the garden]. 7 Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel [speaking of the continual scattering of God’s people into many sects]. 8 Judah [the leaders God chooses], you are he whom your brethren shall praise: your hand shall be in the neck of your enemies; your father’s children shall bow down before you. 9 Judah is a lion’s whelp: from the prey, my son, you are gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up? 10 The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet [speaking of the Davidic king line], until Shiloh come [meaning peace and tranquility – the one {Joseph’s seed – the one separated} from who it will again flow – see Ezekiel 21:27, overturning it until he comes whose right it is]; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be. 11 Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass’s colt unto the choice vine [this speaking the lowly {Zechariah 9:9}, God’s elect remnant, outside the established sects, bound until Shiloh comes, when they are loosed]; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes: 12 His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.
As we know, the birthright to the throne is in the tribe of Joseph. (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 13 Zebulun [the lowly raised up at the LORD’s coming] shall dwell at the haven of the sea [safe from this evil generation]; and he shall be for a haven of ships [and saving any who come to the LORD through them]; and his border shall be unto Zidon [they will be the end of those, the corrupt institutions of church and state, who’ve hunted souls]. 14 Issachar [through him will come the reward – the fruitful bough] is a strong ass [the LORD’s people, now become His goodly horse in the battle – Zechariah 10:3] couching down between two burdens: 15 And he saw that rest was good, and the land that it was pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto tribute. 16 Dan [the judge – speaking of strength returned and the righteous judgment of the world begins] shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel. 17 Dan shall be a serpent by the way [as a serpent raised as a standard on a pole {nec}, as the son of man must be lifted], an adder in the path, that bites the horse heels [this is the heel bruised in the judgment, meaning the serpents among the people, are rendered without effect when the corruption they picked up on their journey through time is washed away by these life-giving waters], so that his rider shall fall backward [so the body of Christ will return to the place from which she fell – see, in Isaiah 28:13, what causes them to fall backward, saying “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.”]. 18 (I have waited for your salvation [yshuw’ah – Joshua, Jesus, Jehovah’s Salvation manifested in the flesh], O LORD [Jehovah].) 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, the written word of God]; whose branches run over the wall [the wall of lies men have created and teach]: 23 The archers [ba’al – the gods of this world whose teaching has blinded all from seeing the Father in the son, the seed of the woman who brings forth the man child – see Revelation 12:17, saying “And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.”] 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, 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. 27 Benjamin [the right hand of God’s power, this last generation that becomes the first born of the woman: Rachel] shall ravin as a wolf [shall tear in pieces the wolf that has scattered the one flock]: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil. [These last words refer us to Maher-shalal-hash-baz, the son spoken of in beginning Isaiah 8, his name meaning he hastes to the spoil and is quick to the prey. He is the son foretold as coming by the virgin, later called Immanuel, as the advice, teaching, of the LORD comes, when men have formed a confederacy listening to the dead gods of the world.]
Genesis 36 1 Now these are the generations of Esau [from ‘ashoq, ‘ashowq, meaning tyrant and deceiver], who is Edom [the same as ‘adam, both meaning red, which is the origin of the devil’s depicted red color]. 2 Esau took his wives of the daughters of Canaan [nations Israel later conquers and inhabits]; Adah [‘adah {‘ada’} – as used nine times by Daniel, of whose dominion will and will not continue] the daughter of Elon [the mighty] the Hittite [from chathath – who descended into confusion and fear], and Aholibamah [who inhabit the places that have risen over the earth] the daughter of Anah [whose solutions: answers] the daughter of Zibeon [colors – were false divinations, as light divided] the Hivite [and had dominion in all their cities]; 3 And Bashemath [fragrance: their perception] Ishmael’s [producing solutions God heard] daughter, sister of Nebajoth [heights – ideas of men {that have dominion as tyrants over other men} that were {are} exalted in the earth]. 4 And Adah [whose dominion will not remain] bare to Esau [tyrants and oppressors] Eliphaz [whose god is gold: wealth plundered by deception: false interpretation as justification]; and Bashemath [and this perception: perspective] bare Reuel [dominated in many forms among the people of God, causing endless agitation, strife, and war]; 5 And Aholibamah [those who by this means have risen into power over the earth] bare Jeush [those who “hurry to the aid” of others, with this underlying purpose of plunder], and Jaalam [concealed: are their motives therein their false claims of aid], and Korah [ultimately from quwr, meaning he is thrown forth, into this light, morning, to destroy all these traits in leadership now ruling the earth {the fifth kingdom, now led by him, Obama}; Korah meaning bald {removing ideas that have grown from the head} and “ice,” describing all these traits reserved in him, to be taken out of the earth they rules from his place of concealment]: these are the sons of Esau [tyrants and deceivers throughout history], which were born unto him in the land of Canaan [the earth God’s people will now inherit]. 6 And Esau took his wives, and his sons, and his daughters, and all the persons of his house, and his cattle, and all his beasts, and all his substance, which he had got in the land of Canaan; and went into the country [‘erets – the earth at this time] from the face of [paniym – away from the presence of the God manifested with] his brother Jacob. 7 For their riches [their evil ideas and the wealth they accumulated thereby, separating them from God] were more than that they might dwell together; and the land [‘erets – this new earth wherein dwells God’s righteousness] wherein they were strangers [wherein their ideas are far from God’s] could not bear them because of their cattle [miqneh – all the people who choose to remain without the LORD’s Spirit, who they possess and hold in hell]. 8 Thus dwelt Esau [the place of tyrants and deceivers is] in mount Seir [se’iyr – the high places that have risen over the old and corrupt earth, where devils possessed by Satan rule]: Esau is Edom [the tyrants and deceivers are devils depicted in red].
Today (3 July 2024), from this point of realization, the LORD takes us to Ezekiel 21, specifically focusing on verse 22. This verse speaks of this moment when choices are being made by those in power, which leads to their overturning and lifting the lowly. This overturning is by the LORD’s sword drawn and furbished, ending the presumptuous ideas created in the minds of the ignorant.
Ezekiel 21 1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 2 Son of man [I Am], set your face [paniym – My presence manifested] toward Jerusalem, and drop your word toward the holy places, and prophesy against the land [‘adamah – this corrupted generation of My people] of Israel, 3 And say to the land [‘adamah] of Israel, Thus says the LORD; Behold, I am against you, and will draw forth my sword [this word from My mouth which you refuse to hear and obey] out of his sheath, and will cut off [karath] from you the righteous and the wicked. 4 Seeing then that I will cut off [karath] from you the righteous and the wicked [who men are listening to and obeying in My stead], therefore shall my sword [this word from My mouth] go forth out of his sheath against all flesh from the south [those looking for this sun rising, the morning: understanding] to the north [those choosing to remain in darkness]: 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. [Woe to this world and the evil figs, “And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceives the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels {his messengers} were cast out with him. And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night. And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death. Therefore rejoice, you heavens, and you that dwell in them {with Me}. Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knows that he has but a short time.] 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.
Isaiah 45 19 I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth [who by choice remain ignorant of My presence]: I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek you me in vain: 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 [those who refuse to know Me]: they have no knowledge that set up the [dead] 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 [shama’ – where it was first heard and obeyed] this from ancient time [qadem – the first light rising in Eden]? 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 [panah – turn your heads toward] me, and be you saved, all the ends of the earth [ending the old beginning the new]: 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 [not reaching the end they have foretold and sought]. 25 In [turning toward] the LORD shall all the seed of Israel [all who enter this promise] be justified, and shall glory.
2 Corinthians 3 12 Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech: 13 And not as Moses, which put a veil over his face [Hiding the LORD’s presence in him], that the children of Israel could not steadfastly look to the end of that which is abolished [the veil of flesh covering His presence manifested in His word, written and spoken]: 14 But their minds were blinded: for until this day remains the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ [the son, children, in who He reveals Himself, declared in the same word written and spoken]. 15 But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart [minds blinded to His presence therein]. 16 Nevertheless when it [all heads] shall turn to [hear and obey] the LORD, the vail shall be taken away. 17 Now the LORD is that Spirit [unknown working until He is realized]: and where the Spirit of the LORD is, there is liberty [freeing us from the gods of this world who’ve blinded to this glorious good news all those they possess]. 18 But we all, with open face [understanding His presence is manifested in the flesh] beholding as in a glass [mirror] the glory of the LORD, are changed into the same image from [seeing Him is those speaking His word] glory to glory [manifested in us in the same manner], even as by the Spirit of the LORD [working unknown to reveal Himself].
2 Corinthians 4 1 Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not; 2 But have renounced the hidden things [the darkness men have added] of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness [creating images that are not true], nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth [of God in us] commending [suniemi – to exhibit and introduce] ourselves [heautow – Himself] to every man’s conscience [suniedesis – producing the same pure perspective] in the sight [enopion – as the presence] of God. 3 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: 4 In whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of them which believe not [the LORD is with us, in us working to reveal Himself present], lest the light [this understanding] of the glorious gospel of Christ [the LORD revealing His presence in our flesh by speaking His word as received], who is the [true] image of God, should shine [this co-perspective] unto them. 5 For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the LORD; and ourselves your servants for Jesus’ sake [Jehovah’s, the Father’s, Salvation manifested]. 6 For God, who commanded the light to shine [the understanding to be sent] out of darkness [from the place where it became hidden, from this word of which men have become ignorant], has shined [is sent as light] in our hearts [into our minds], to give the light [understanding] of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face [the manifested presence] of Jesus Christ. 7 But we have this treasure [this gift from the Father] in earthen vessels [our flesh], that the excellency of the power may be [understood to be] of God, and not of us. 8 We are [because we deliver this message as received, while declaring it is His presence manifested with us, in us] troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; 9 Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; 10 Always bearing about in the body the dying of the LORD Jesus, that the life also of Jesus [in this resurrection of the dead] might be made manifest in our body.
Ezekiel 21 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 [marat – meaning “to polish; by implication, to make bald (the head), to gall (the shoulder); also, to sharpen”]: 10 It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished that it may glitter: should we then make mirth? it contemns [ma’ac – takes away] the rod [the scepter – to rule] of my son[s], as every tree [the righteous and the wicked]. 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 [harag – as Gideon, the hewer of the mighty, as at the rock of Oreb: from where darkness flowed]. 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, and what if the sword [this word as fire from My mouth] contemn [ma’ac – takes away] even the rod [the scepter – to rule]? it shall be no more, says the LORD God. [See verse 26 & 27 below] 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 [the powers who’ve led the earth into hell] that are slain, which entered [as did Jael – Judges 4:21] into their privy chambers [chadar]. 15 I have set the point of the sword against all their gates [holding humanity in hell], that their heart may faint, and their ruins be multiplied: ah! it is made bright, it is wrapped up [ma’ot – only used here, from ma’at, meaning to pare off, as in shaving the head to make it bald] for the slaughter. 16 Go you one way or other, either on the right hand, or on the left, whithersoever your face [My presence] is set [ya’ad – as two baskets of figs at this appointed time, “the good figs, very good; and the evil, very evil, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil.”]. 17 I will also smite my hands together, and I will cause my fury to rest: I the LORD have said it.
The word ya’ad only appears this once in Ezekiel and three other times in Jeremiah, after it appears in Jeremiah 24:1, speaking of where the evil and good figs are “set.”
Jeremiah 47 1 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Philistines [the invading army among us], before that Pharaoh [the tyrants now oppressing God’s people] smote Gaza [from ‘az, the word used in Genesis 49:3 above to describe Reuben’s “power,” speaking of the sons of perdition, false prophets and false teachers, who put themselves the Father’s place]. 2 Thus says the LORD; Behold, waters [words of tyrants and false prophets] rise up out of the north [darkness: ignorance], and shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the land, and all that is therein; the city, and them that dwell therein: then the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl. 3 At the noise [qowl – the voices of these men] of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong horses, at the rushing of his chariots [carrying them into this battle of which they are ignorant], and at the rumbling of his wheels [galgal – the wheels Ezekiel saw, which are the word of God sent forward in time, understanding held therein, sent to give understanding, in which process is the unfold of the LORD’s manifested presence], the fathers [who sent the word] shall not look back [panah – shall not turn their heads, their minds’ understanding] to their children for feebleness of hands [because they refuse to receive it as the work of the LORD]; 4 Because of the day [this time of light] that comes to spoil all the Philistines [the invading army among us, who deny the LORD’s presence], and to cut off [karath] from Tyrus [the false rock: the false church] and Zidon [who hunt souls and carry them away into hell] every helper [helping in this evil] that remains: for the LORD will spoil the Philistines [the spoilers], the remnant of the country of Caphtor [the crown – the spiritually wicked sitting in seats of power over the earth]. 5 Baldness [removing their ideas from the head, places of leadership] is come upon Gaza [the false prophets and false teachers]; Ashkelon [the infamous, in this trial in these fires] is cut off [damah – are silenced and destroyed] with [from] the remnant of their valley [the lowly]: how long will you cut yourself [gadal – how long will you assemble yourselves as an army against the LORD and His people]? 6 [And the ignorant say] O you sword of the LORD [this word of the LORD they refuse], how long will it be ere you be quiet? put up yourself into your scabbard [ta’ar – put Your razor into its sheath], rest, and be still [damam – be silent]. 7 How can it be quiet, seeing the LORD has given it a charge against Ashkelon [the infamous], and against the sea shore [this place humanity has reached, at the swelling of Jordan, where the proud words of the dead are stopped]? there has he appointed [ya’ad] it.
Jeremiah 49 14 I have heard a rumor [shmuw’ah – heard the voice] from the LORD, and [with the word heard as the LORD’s] an ambassador [tsiyr – upon whose words heads turn] is sent unto the heathen [God’s people who haven’t known Him], saying, Gather you together, and come against her [Bozrah – the fortress, tyrany and deception, of Edom], and rise up to the battle. 15 For, lo, I will make you small [of little power] among the heathen [My ignorant people who haven’t known Me], and despised among men [‘adam – the people I Am creating]. 16 Your terribleness [your fear of the heathen, the men who despise you] has deceived you, and the pride of your heart [your pride in your power to deceive], O you that dwell in the clefts of the rock [your fortress, from where your deceptions flow], that hold the height of the hill [the high places, Seir, risen over the earth]: though you should make your nest as high as the eagle [saying you are risen there by your understanding], I will bring you down from there, says the LORD. 17 Also Edom shall be a desolation: every one that goes by it shall be astonished [at your ignorance and deception revealed], and shall hiss at [drawing the world’s attention to] all the plagues thereof. 18 As in the overthrow of Sodom [in flames] and Gomorrah [a perpetual ruin] and the neighbor cities thereof, says the LORD, no man shall abide there, neither shall a son of man dwell in it. 19 Behold, he [the LORD] shall come up like a lion [roaring] from the swelling of Jordan [against those swelled with pride in their words that carried all the world in its descent into death] against the habitation of the strong [the spiritually wicked sitting in power over the earth]: but I will suddenly make him [the wicked] run away from her [My people when I have given them the strength of this understanding]: and who is [declared by Me] a chosen man, that I may appoint [paqad – as the Chief Overseer of the earth] over her [My people]? for who is like me [and stands with Me against evil]? and who will appoint [ya’ad] me the time? and who is that shepherd [ra’ah – seeing as I see] that will stand [‘amad] before me [paniym – as My presence manifested]? 20 Therefore hear [shama’ – and obey] the counsel of the LORD, that he has taken against Edom; and his purposes, that he has purposed against the inhabitants of Teman [the place where understanding should be found, but isn’t, and instead devils reside therein]: Surely the least of the flock [I Am, without any worldly power] shall draw them out [into the light]: surely he shall make their [the devils’ in power] habitations [hell] desolate with them. 21 The earth [‘erets] is moved [ra’ash – bringing the dead bones of the ONE BODY together, when men, knowing words are the way into heaven or hell, are cautious about whose words they listen to and obey] at the noise [qowl – the voice of Jehovah heard as His voice] of their fall [shaking the wicked from His new earth], at the cry the noise [qowl – the voices] thereof was [when the Egyptians were overflowed] heard in the Red sea [at their destruction].
Hebrews 12 21 And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:) 22 But you are come unto mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the [New] Heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels [the LORD’s messengers speaking the words He’s given], 23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, 24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaks better things than that of Abel. 25 See that you refuse not him that speaks. For if they escaped not who refused him that spoke on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaks from heaven: 26 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he has promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. 27 And this word, Yet once more, signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. 28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace [receive this gift spoken], whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: 29 For our God is a consuming fire.
Micah 6 1 Hear [shama’ – and obey] you now what the LORD says; Arise, contend [riyb – with My word] you before the mountains [the power of this corrupt world], and let the hills hear your voice. 2 Hear [shama’ – and obey] you, O mountains [governments of the world in church and state], the LORD’s controversy [riyb], and you strong [corrupt] foundations of the earth: for the LORD has a controversy [riyb] with his people, and he will plead with [yakach – meaning “to be right (i.e. correct); reciprocal, to argue; causatively, to decide, justify or convict”] Israel. 3 O my people [whose inheritance is as I promised], 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, 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 king of Moab consulted, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim [when he decided {bowed} to speak only the words God put in his mouth] unto Gilgal [when the LORD turned the curse of the enemies into a blessing]; that you may know the righteousness of the LORD. 6 Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself [kaphaph] before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old? [Hosea 14:2 Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say unto him, Take {correct} away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we render the calves of our lips.] 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 showed you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require [darash] 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 LORD’s identity alive in me, in us]: hear [shama’ – obey] you the rod [of correction from His mouth], and who has appointed [ya’ad] it. 10 Are there yet the treasures [ideas and words they falsely claim have value] of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable? 11 Shall I count them [their abomination they put in place of the holy] pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of [their] 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 [choosing their words over this word from the mouth of God], but not be satisfied [never saying it’s enough – ever learning and never coming to the knowledge of God with us]; and your casting down shall be in the midst of you; and you [your false words of salvation] shall take hold, but shall not deliver [not save anyone that obeys them]; and that which you [say you will thereby] deliver will I give up to the sword [this word of God they refuse, when what I have warned against comes, by your choice]. 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 are kept [1 Kings 16:25 But Omri wrought evil in the eyes of the LORD, and did worse than all that were before him], and all the works of the house of Ahab, and you walk in their counsels; that I should make you a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof a hissing [drawing attention to them and their chosen self-destruction]: therefore you shall bear the reproach [cherpah] of my people [that do choose Me].
Jeremiah 50 33 Thus says the LORD of hosts; The children of Israel and the children of Judah were oppressed together: and all that took them captives held them fast; they refused to let them go. 34 Their Redeemer is strong; the LORD of hosts is his name: he shall thoroughly plead [riyb] their cause [riyb], that he may give rest to the land, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon. 35 A sword is upon [this word of God is against] the Chaldeans [who’ve used their deceptive words to manipulate and control humanity into death and hell], says the LORD, and upon the inhabitants of Babylon [the confusion that ruled the world into insanity], and upon her princes, and upon her wise men. 36 A sword is upon [this word of God is against] the liars; and they shall dote: a sword is upon [this word of God is against] her mighty men; and they shall be dismayed. 37 A sword is upon [this word of God is against their army] their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the mingled people [an enemy army] that are in the midst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword [the words of the enemy] is upon her treasures [corrupting this understanding]; and they shall be robbed. 38 A drought [for hearing this word of God, and truth in general] is upon her waters; and they shall be dried up: for it is the land of graven images [creations of men, opinions replacing truth, delusions they can’t tell from reality], and they are mad [insane] upon their idols. 39 Therefore the wild beasts [those without My Spirit] of the desert with the wild beasts [those without My Spirit] of the islands shall dwell there, and the owls [who hunt the souls of the ignorant] shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited forever; neither shall it be dwelt in from [the old, corrupt, and evil] generation to [the new] generation [I Am creating]. 40 As God overthrew Sodom [in flames] and Gomorrah [ruin] and the neighbor cities thereof, says the LORD; so shall no man abide there, neither shall any son of man dwell therein [the old and corrupt]. 41 Behold, a people shall come from the north [out of darkness], and a great nation [that hasn’t known Me], and many kings shall be raised up from the coasts [ends] of the earth. 42 They shall hold the bow and the lance: they are cruel [‘akzariy – brave], and will not show mercy [to those who haven’t shown mercy, who observe lying vanities]: their voice shall roar like the sea [against the swelling of Jordan], and they shall ride upon horses, every one put in [battle] array, like a [ONE] man to the battle, against you, O daughter of Babylon. 43 The king of Babylon has heard [shama’] the report [shema’] of them [the voice of the LORD heard from His people who obey His commands and prevail], and his [the king of confusion – Obama and his idiot son Brandon] hands waxed feeble: anguish took hold of him, and pangs as of a woman in travail [now understanding what, a man born again, they brought forth]. 44 Behold, he [the LORD] shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan unto the habitation of the strong: but I will make them suddenly run away from her: and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over her? for who is like me? and who will appoint [ya’ad] me the time? and who is that shepherd that will stand before me? 45 Therefore hear [shama’ – and obey] you the counsel of the LORD, that he has taken against Babylon; and his purposes, that he has purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the least of the flock [I Am] shall draw them out [into this light]: surely he shall make their habitation desolate with them. 46 At the noise [His voice] of the taking of Babylon the earth is moved [ra’ash – shaken], and the cry is heard [shama’ – is obeyed] among the nations [those who haven’t known Him until now].
Ezekiel 21 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 of the Ammonites [this word upon the great men of the old world, who exalt themselves above God], and to Judah in [New Heavenly] Jerusalem the defenced [where God’s elect are protected in peace]. 21 For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use [qacam] divination [qecem]: he made his arrows bright, he consulted with images [men created], he looked in the liver [the dark sentences of evil]. 22 At his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to appoint [evil] captains, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to appoint battering rams against the gates [of New Heavenly Jerusalem], to cast a mount, and to build a fort. 23 And it shall be unto them as a false divination [qacam] in their sight, to them that have sworn oaths [shbuw’ah]: but he will call to remembrance the iniquity, that they may be taken. 24 Therefore thus says the LORD God; Because you have made your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are discovered [your sins unsealed], so that in all your doings your sins do appear [ra’ah – are in open sight]; because, I say, that you are come to remembrance, you shall be taken with the hand. 25 And you, profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come, when iniquity 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 [Shiloh, who is the shepherd and stone] come whose right it is [the seed of Joseph]; 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 [baraq – the lightning from it]: 29 While they see vanity [worthlessness] unto you, while they divine [qacam] 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 my indignation [za’am] 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: for I the LORD have spoken it.
Psalms 42 A Maschil [an instruction] to the sons of Korah [the bald] 1 As the hart pant after the water brooks, so pants my soul after you, O God [for Your word]. 2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear [ra’ah – be seen] before [paniym – in the presence of] God? 3 My tears have been my meat [My sorrow is the deep meaning You have given me through Your word and leading] day and night [giving understanding of the treasure held there in ignorance], while they [those remaining in darkness] continually say unto me, Where is your God [not realizing Your presence is manifested herein]? 4 When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me [giving Your word as you have given it]: for I had [before] gone with the multitude [in ignorance], I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise [making you presence known], with a multitude that kept holyday [chagag – this promised feast day: this time of light given from heaven, the word from the mouth of God, by which man lives]. 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 [yshuw’ah – Jesus, His, Jehovah’s, Salvation manifested in me] of his countenance [paniym – revealing His presence]. 6 O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember [zakar] you from the land [‘erets – the earth] of Jordan [carried by the words of the dead in the descent into death], and of the Hermonites [of Your sanctuary that is the Highest], from the hill Mizar [and purity seen there, upon which men put little value]. 7 [From Your Highness] Deep [your understanding of this held in darkness] calls unto deep [these treasures from there revealed] at the noise [qowl – Your voice heard] of your waterspouts [the channel through which Your words come from heaven to earth]: all your waves [of water and light – in writing and through the aether] and your billows are gone over me. 8 Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the day time [of light, when understanding covers the earth], and in the night [when the earth is void of understanding] his song [His word repeated as received] shall be with me, and my prayer [conversation] unto the God of my life. 9 I will say unto God my rock [from whom this word flows], Why have you forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? 10 As with a sword in my bones, my 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 [yshuw’ah] of my countenance [paniym – Jesus present with me, alive in Me], and my [ONE] God.
Psalms 47 1 O clap your hands, all you people; shout unto God with the voice of [His and our] triumph. 2 For the LORD Most High is terrible; he is a great King over all the earth. 3 He shall subdue the people under us, and the nations under our feet. 4 He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah. 5 God is gone up with a shout [of His archangel, I Am], the LORD with [His voice as] the sound of a trumpet. 6 Sing [these songs of] praises to God, sing praises: sing praises unto our King, sing praises. 7 For God is the King of all the earth: sing you praises with [His] understanding. 8 God reigns over the heathen: God sits upon the throne of his holiness. 9 The princes of the people are gathered together, even the people of the God of Abraham: for the shields of the earth belong unto God: he is greatly exalted.
Who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?
In the above, from Job 38:8, the LORD, from the whirlwind, speaks of humanity as the sea, telling of it as in its infancy, wherein it’s now suspended until it gets its mind right. He, in descriptive terms, tells of its ignorance as a swaddling band of darkness, which protects it (and all creation) from its uncontrollable flailing. He says it’s at this moment of enlightenment that humanity realizes His presence in His work of correction out of darkness, when all the sons of God shout for joy (as a trumpet sounding, calling all His children to gather, at this resurrection from death, into life in His ONE BODY).
To those who know it’s Him, He’s sent the following message.
The words “break forth” are from the six times used word giyach, meaning “to gush forth (as water), generally to issue.” It is used in the patterns below to tell of this moment and the battle at hand.
Because it is written to you alone, to you who have loved and kept this word, who understand His language, I will not add any additional meanings (because you know them or how to find them).
Job 38
3 Gird up now your loins like a man; for I will demand of you, and answer you me.
4 Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if you have understanding.
5 Who has laid the measures thereof, if you know? or who has stretched the line upon it?
6 Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;
7 When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
8 Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth [giyach – with its own ignorant words and ways], as if it had issued out of the womb?
9 When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddling-band for it,
10 And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,
11 And said, Hitherto shall you come, but no further: and here shall your proud waves be stayed?
12 Have you commanded the morning since your days; and caused the dayspring to know his place;
13 That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it?
14 It is turned as clay to the seal; and they stand as a garment.
15 And from the wicked their light is withholden, and the high arm shall be broken.
16 Have you entered into the springs of the sea? or have you walked in the search of the depth?
17 Have the gates of death been opened unto you? or have you seen the doors of the shadow of death?
18 Have you perceived the breadth of the earth? declare if you know it all.
19 Where is the way where light dwelleth? and as for darkness, where is the place thereof,
20 That you shouldest take it to the bound thereof, and that you shouldest know the paths to the house thereof?
21 Know you it, because you were then born? or because the number of your days is great?
22 Have you entered into the treasures of the snow? or have you seen the treasures of the hail,
23 Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?
24 By what way is the light parted, which scatters the east wind upon the earth?
25 Who has divided a watercourse for the overflowing of waters, or a way for the lightning of thunder;
26 To cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is; on the wilderness, wherein there is no man;
27 To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?
28 Has the rain a father? or who has begotten the drops of dew?
29 Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who has gendered it?
30 The waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.
31 Can you bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?
32 Can you bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or can you guide Arcturus with his sons?
33 Know you the ordinances of heaven? can you set the dominion thereof in the earth?
34 Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover you?
35 Can you send lightnings, that they may go and say unto you, Here we are?
36 Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? or who has given understanding to the heart?
37 Who can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay the bottles of heaven,
38 When the dust grows into hardness, and the clods cleave fast together?
39 Will you hunt the prey for the lion? or fill the appetite of the young lions,
40 When they couch in their dens, and abide in the covert to lie in wait?
41 Who provides for the raven his food? when his young ones cry unto God, they wander for lack of meat.
Job 40
1 Moreover the LORD answered Job, and said,
2 Shall he that contends with the Almighty instruct him? he that reproves God, let him answer it.
3 Then Job answered the LORD, and said,
4 Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer you? I will lay my hand upon my mouth.
5 Once have I spoken; but I will not answer: yea, twice; but I will proceed no further.
6 Then answered the LORD unto Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
7 Gird up your loins now like a man: I will demand of you, and declare you unto me.
8 Will you also disannul my judgment? will you condemn me, that you mayest be righteous?
9 Have you an arm like God? or can you thunder with a voice like him?
10 Deck yourself now with majesty and excellency; and array yourself with glory and beauty.
11 Cast abroad the rage of your wrath: and behold every one that is proud, and abase him.
12 Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place.
13 Hide them in the dust together; and bind their faces in secret.
14 Then will I also confess unto you that your own right hand can save you.
15 Behold now behemoth, which I made with you; he eats grass as an ox.
16 Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly.
17 He moves his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together.
18 His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron.
19 He is the chief of the ways of God: he that made him can make his sword to approach unto him.
20 Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play.
21 He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens.
22 The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about.
23 Behold, he drinks up a river, and hastes not: he trusts that he can draw up [giyach – the words of dead] Jordan into his mouth.
24 He taketh it with his eyes: his nose pierces through snares.
Judges 20
1 Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was gathered together as one man, from Dan even to Beersheba, with the land of Gilead, unto the LORD in Mizpeh.
2 And the chief of all the people, even of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen that drew sword.
3 (Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel were gone up to Mizpeh.) Then said the children of Israel, Tell us, how was this wickedness?
4 And the Levite, the husband of the woman that was slain, answered and said, I came into Gibeah that belongs to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to lodge.
5 And the men of Gibeah rose against me, and beset the house round about upon me by night, and thought to have slain me: and my concubine have they forced, that she is dead.
6 And I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel: for they have committed lewdness and folly in Israel.
7 Behold, you are all children of Israel; give here your advice and counsel.
8 And all the people arose as one man, saying, We will not any of us go to his tent, neither will we any of us turn into his house.
9 But now this shall be the thing which we will do to Gibeah; we will go up by lot against it;
10 And we will take ten men of an hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and an hundred of a thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to fetch victual for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly that they have wrought in Israel.
11 So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, knit together as one man.
12 And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, What wickedness is this that is done among you?
13 Now therefore deliver us the men, the children of Belial, which are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and put away evil from Israel. But the children of Benjamin would not hearken to the voice of their brethren the children of Israel.
14 But the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities unto Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel.
15 And the children of Benjamin were numbered at that time out of the cities twenty and six thousand men that drew sword, beside the inhabitants of Gibeah, which were numbered seven hundred chosen men.
16 Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men lefthanded; every one could sling stones at an hair breadth, and not miss.
17 And the men of Israel, beside Benjamin, were numbered four hundred thousand men that drew sword: all these were men of war.
18 And the children of Israel arose, and went up to the house of God, and asked counsel of God, and said, Which of us shall go up first to the battle against the children of Benjamin? And the LORD said, Judah shall go up first.
19 And the children of Israel rose up in the morning, and encamped against Gibeah.
20 And the men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin; and the men of Israel put themselves in array to fight against them at Gibeah.
21 And the children of Benjamin came forth out of Gibeah, and destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites that day twenty and two thousand men.
22 And the people the men of Israel encouraged themselves, and set their battle again in array in the place where they put themselves in array the first day.
23 (And the children of Israel went up and wept before the LORD until even, and asked counsel of the LORD, saying, Shall I go up again to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother? And the LORD said, Go up against him.)
24 And the children of Israel came near against the children of Benjamin the second day.
25 And Benjamin went forth against them out of Gibeah the second day, and destroyed down to the ground of the children of Israel again eighteen thousand men; all these drew the sword.
26 Then all the children of Israel, and all the people, went up, and came unto the house of God, and wept, and sat there before the LORD, and fasted that day until even, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the LORD.
27 And the children of Israel enquired of the LORD, (for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days,
28 And Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, stood before it in those days,) saying, Shall I yet again go out to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother, or shall I cease? And the LORD said, Go up; for to morrow I will deliver them into your hand.
29 And Israel set liers in wait round about Gibeah.
30 And the children of Israel went up against the children of Benjamin on the third day, and put themselves in array against Gibeah, as at other times.
31 And the children of Benjamin went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city; and they began to smite of the people, and kill, as at other times, in the highways, of which one goes up to the house of God, and the other to Gibeah in the field, about thirty men of Israel.
32 And the children of Benjamin said, They are smitten down before us, as at the first. But the children of Israel said, Let us flee, and draw them from the city unto the highways.
33 And all the men of Israel rose up out of their place, and put themselves in array at Baal-tamar: and the liers in wait of Israel came forth [giyach – speaking this word of the LORD] out of their places, even out of the meadows of Gibeah.
34 And there came against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and the battle was sore: but they knew not that evil was near them.
35 And the LORD smote Benjamin before Israel: and the children of Israel destroyed of the Benjamites that day twenty and five thousand and a hundred men: all these drew the sword.
36 So the children of Benjamin saw that they were smitten: for the men of Israel gave place to the Benjamites, because they trusted unto the liers in wait which they had set beside Gibeah.
37 And the liers in wait hasted, and rushed upon Gibeah; and the liers in wait drew themselves along, and smote all the city with the edge of the sword.
38 Now there was an appointed sign between the men of Israel and the liers in wait, that they should make a great flame with smoke rise up out of the city.
39 And when the men of Israel retired in the battle, Benjamin began to smite and kill of the men of Israel about thirty persons: for they said, Surely they are smitten down before us, as in the first battle.
40 But when the flame began to arise up out of the city with a pillar of smoke, the Benjamites looked behind them, and, behold, the flame of the city ascended up to heaven.
41 And when the men of Israel turned again, the men of Benjamin were amazed: for they saw that evil was come upon them.
42 Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel unto the way of the wilderness; but the battle overtook them; and them which came out of the cities they destroyed in the midst of them.
43 Thus they enclosed the Benjamites round about, and chased them, and trode them down with ease over against Gibeah toward the sunrising.
44 And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men; all these were men of valour.
45 And they turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the rock of Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men; and pursued hard after them unto Gidom, and slew two thousand men of them.
46 So that all which fell that day of Benjamin were twenty and five thousand men that drew the sword; all these were men of valor.
47 But six hundred men turned and fled to the wilderness unto the rock Rimmon, and abode in the rock Rimmon four months.
48 And the men of Israel turned again upon the children of Benjamin, and smote them with the edge of the sword, as well the men of every city, as the beast, and all that came to hand: also they set on fire all the cities that they came to.
Ezekiel 32
1 And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, You art like a young lion of the nations, and you art as a whale in the seas: and you came forth [giyach – with words of death] with your rivers, and troubled the waters with your feet, and fouled their rivers.
3 Thus says the LORD God; I will therefore spread out my net over you with a company of many people; and they shall bring you up in my net.
4 Then will I leave you upon the land, I will cast you forth upon the open field, and will cause all the fowls of the heaven to remain upon you, and I will fill the beasts of the whole earth with you.
5 And I will lay your flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with your height.
6 I will also water with your blood the land wherein you swim, even to the mountains; and the rivers shall be full of you.
7 And when I shall put you out, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light.
8 All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over you, and set darkness upon your land, says the LORD God.
9 I will also vex the hearts of many people, when I shall bring your destruction among the nations, into the countries which you have not known.
10 Yea, I will make many people amazed at you, and their kings shall be horribly afraid for you, when I shall brandish my sword before them; and they shall tremble at every moment, every man for his own life, in the day of your fall.
11 For thus says the LORD God; The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon you.
12 By the swords of the mighty will I cause your multitude to fall, the terrible of the nations, all of them: and they shall spoil the pomp of Egypt, and all the multitude thereof shall be destroyed.
13 I will destroy also all the beasts thereof from beside the great waters; neither shall the foot of man trouble them any more, nor the hoofs of beasts trouble them.
14 Then will I make their waters deep, and cause their rivers to run like oil, says the LORD God.
15 When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate, and the country shall be destitute of that whereof it was full, when I shall smite all them that dwell therein, then shall they know that I am the LORD.
16 This is the lamentation wherewith they shall lament her: the daughters of the nations shall lament her: they shall lament for her, even for Egypt, and for all her multitude, says the LORD God.
17 It came to pass also in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
18 Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, even her, and the daughters of the famous nations, unto the nether parts of the earth, with them that go down into the pit.
19 Whom do you pass in beauty? go down, and be you laid with the uncircumcised.
20 They shall fall in the midst of them that are slain by the sword: she is delivered to the sword: draw her and all her multitudes.
21 The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of hell with them that help him: they are gone down, they lie uncircumcised, slain by the sword.
22 Asshur is there and all her company: his graves are about him: all of them slain, fallen by the sword:
23 Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit, and her company is round about her grave: all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which caused terror in the land of the living.
24 There is Elam and all her multitude round about her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which are gone down uncircumcised into the nether parts of the earth, which caused their terror in the land of the living; yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit.
25 They have set her a bed in the midst of the slain with all her multitude: her graves are round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword: though their terror was caused in the land of the living, yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit: he is put in the midst of them that be slain.
26 There is Meshech, Tubal, and all her multitude: her graves are round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword, though they caused their terror in the land of the living.
27 And they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of the uncircumcised, which are gone down to hell with their weapons of war: and they have laid their swords under their heads, but their iniquities shall be upon their bones, though they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.
28 Yea, you shall be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised, and shall lie with them that are slain with the sword.
29 There is Edom, her kings, and all her princes, which with their might are laid by them that were slain by the sword: they shall lie with the uncircumcised, and with them that go down to the pit.
30 There be the princes of the north, all of them, and all the Zidonians, which are gone down with the slain; with their terror they are ashamed of their might; and they lie uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword, and bear their shame with them that go down to the pit.
31 Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be comforted over all his multitude, even Pharaoh and all his army slain by the sword, says the LORD God.
32 For I have caused my terror in the land of the living: and he shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that are slain with the sword, even Pharaoh and all his multitude, says the LORD God.
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 any more.
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 we will walk in the name of the LORD our God for ever and ever.
6 In that day, says the LORD, will I assemble her that halts, 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 for ever.
8 And you, O tower of the flock, the strong hold 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 counsellor perished? for pangs have taken you as a woman in travail.
10 Be in pain, and labor to bring forth [giyach – these life-giving waters], 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; 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.
Psalms 22
1 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? why art you so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?
2 O my God, I cry in the day time, but you hear not; and in the night season, and am not silent.
3 But you art holy, O you that inhabits the praises of Israel.
4 Our fathers trusted in you: they trusted, and you did deliver them.
5 They cried unto you, and were delivered: they trusted in you, and were not confounded.
6 But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.
7 All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,
8 He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.
9 But you art he that took me [giyach – speaking Your words to me] out of the womb: you did make me hope when I was upon my mother’s breasts.
10 I was cast upon you from the womb: you art my God from my mother’s belly.
11 Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help.
12 Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.
13 They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.
14 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.
15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaves to my jaws; and you have brought me into the dust of death.
16 For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
17 I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.
18 They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.
19 But be not you far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste you to help me.
20 Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog.
21 Save me from the lion’s mouth: for you have heard me from the horns of the unicorns.
22 I will declare your name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise you.
23 You that fear the LORD, praise him; all you the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all you the seed of Israel.
24 For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither has he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard.
25 My praise shall be of you in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him.
26 The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.
27 All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before you.
28 For the kingdom is the LORD’s: and he is the governor among the nations.
29 All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul.
30 A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the LORD for a generation.
31 They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he has done this.
Seek you out of the book of the LORD, and read: no one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my mouth it has commanded, and his spirit it has gathered them.
The above, Isaiah 34:16, is the LORD cryptically announcing a warning to all the earth’s current inhabitants. As often discussed here, He, in this chapter (in verse 11), speaks of its (the earth’s) current condition in one of the three times the word bohuw appears. Here, it’s rendered “emptiness,” speaking of the stones from where (the wicked sitting in seats of power, mated as Babylon in church and state) flows the words in which men put their trust. The word tohuw, in the same verse rendered “confusion,” describes the foundation upon which these stones are built into (two) protective walls of lies (of these same stones: false prophets and false teachers together as false lights possessed by Satan).
To reiterate, in the other two uses (of tohuw and bohuw together, in Genesis 1:2 and Jeremiah 4:23), they are rendered identically, “without form, and void;” both speaking of a time (such as now) when darkness (man’s ignorance of God) covers the earth. Jeremiah says it’s when God’s people have become foolish and without understanding. Genesis tells us it’s when darkness was upon the (sur)face of the (paniym – present) deep, and when the LORD’s Almighty Spirit moves upon the face (paniym – the present word, sent as a wheel within a wheel) of the waters, revealing the light (life hidden there in the wheel sent) held there in the darkness (men’s ignorance).
As we know, John (dove) 1 speaks of himself as the dove (the sign of the end reached, like Jonah (dove) from the belly of hell in the darkened deep, sent from the belly of the whale (tanniyn, which is Leviathan, the Levitical priesthood, the crooked serpent, out of which he comes, through Zechariah his father, who remembers Jehovah), like the ark, holding therein all those and their mates, who are, without the LORD’s Spirit, as beasts, like those spoken of in Isaiah 34. These (two doves) are as I Am sent, not as the light, but (like Jonah to Nineveh, and John to God’s fallen people) calling all to repentance, acceptance of cleansing pure word of God’s, by which, after it passes, we see Him as the word made flesh and dwelling among us, in us, speaking and working.
In John’s time this presence was made known to those cleansed in His Baptism, taking them below the surface of the waters into the deep. This was as Jonah was taken in the belly of the whale, like Noah (rest) and the dove(the sign of the end) in the belly of the ark. The end came when the corrupt waters of men were abated and new life was found by the dove.
The One who appeared, after coming from the waters of John’s Baptism, was Jesus Christ (as the dove was seen coming from heaven and resting upon Him, as His Spirit unknown), sent by the Father to fill the void (the emptiness, the void realized as the men’s words where dried up) and to, by the word of God spoken from His flesh, fill the earth again with life, by these living waters. Now, the ONE to come, after this same baptism, as in the days of Noah, as the sign of Jonah, at this Second coming without sin (removed and forgotten in this washing), is His ONE BODY, risen to life by the LORD’s work, His Spirit among us unknown, speaking and working to manifest His identity, His forever presence with us, and alive in us, revealed.
Friends, I boldly, in the name (identity) of the LORD Jesus Christ alive in me, declare this is His “Second Coming,” appearing to those He’s called and chosen, predestined for this moment when we see Him as He is.
John 1 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 The same was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. 4 In him was life; and the life was the light [understanding] of men. 5 And the light shines in darkness [to those ignorant of Him]; and the darkness comprehended it not. 6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John [the dove, the sign of the end reached]. 7 The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe [that the LORD is present in His word, this conversation that enlightens those who receive Him]. 8 He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light. 9 That was the true Light, which lights [upon] every man that comes into the world [born in the flesh]. 10 He was in the world, and the world was made by him [by His word, the correction and understanding that comes to those who receive Him], and [because of the darkness, the corruption of false prophets and false teachers] 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 [identity manifested]: 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 [these treasure of heaven] and truth. 15 John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spoke, He that comes after me is preferred before me: for he was before me [in the beginning]. 16 And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace [giving as the Father has given]. 17 For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. 18 No man has [because of men’s corruption] seen God at any time, the only begotten Son [who the Father chose from the beginning], which is in the bosom of the Father [dwelling in the Father and the Father in him, as in us, when we receive Him] he [as have I] has declared him. 19 And this is the record of John, when the Jews [Judah, the current crop of corrupt leaders] sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who are you? 20 And he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ. 21 And they asked him, What then? Are you Elias? And he says, I am not. Are you that prophet? And he answered, No [He is Jonah, John, the dove, the sign of the end reached]. 22 Then said they unto him, Who are you? that we may give an answer to them that sent us. What sayest you of yourself? 23 He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness [to the desolated here in Nineveh], Make [the crooked places, the winding river] straight the way [so what is ahead of this repentance can be seen], of the LORD, as said the prophet Isaiah. 24 And they which were sent were of the Pharisees [to those who’ve weakened and scattered God’s people]. 25 And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptize you then, if you [then] be not that Christ [because the LORD didn’t reveals Himself in his flesh], nor Elijah [because it isn’t the time of the full purification, the destruction of all the false prophets and false teachers], neither that prophet [spoken of in Deuteronomy 18:18 & 19, who the people will hear and obey]? 26 John answered them, saying, I baptize with water: but there stands one among you [always], whom you know not; 27 He it is, who coming after me [the baptism that purifies minds] is preferred before me, [who journeys from then to now unknown] whose shoe’s latchet I am not worthy to unloose [ending His journey]. 28 These things were done in Bethabara [house of the ford] beyond Jordan [before this time when the words of men that carried all in the descent into death are passed over and those who receive the LORD pass from death into life with Him], where John was baptizing.
When Isaiah 34:14 speaks of this time as when God’s people find this place of “rest,” it’s the seven times used Hebrew word manowach, meaning “quiet, i.e. (concretely) a settled spot, or (figuratively) a home:–(place of) rest.” The word’s deeper meaning is found in its deconstruction into ma Noah, meaning “what [time of] rest?”
It (manowach) is first used in Genesis 8:9, speaking of the time (when all understanding is suspended because of men’s corrupt waters covering the earth) then until now, saying:
Genesis 8 6 And it came to pass at the end [qets – this end] of forty days [the full course of the life-giving creature, the four faces, the LORD’s presence manifesting therein words and work, of the wheel Ezekiel saw as the LORD’s unfolding appearance], that Noah [rest – in the LORD presence realized] opened the window of [through which Ezekiel sees] the ark [wherein the testimony, the preparation of rest, is kept, suspended, reserved, until its time of revealing] which he had made: 7 And he sent forth a raven [a cover of darkness to cover the heavens], which went forth to and fro [yatsa’], until the [corrupt] waters [of corrupt men] were dried up from off the earth [‘erets]. 8 Also he sent forth a dove [yownah – Jonah] from him, to see if the [corrupt] waters were abated [qalal – made bright] from off [ma’al – lifting the cover of treachery from] the face [paniym – the present deep] of the ground [‘adamah – darkening the minds of man who God created]; 9 But the dove [yownah] found no rest [manowach] for the sole of her foot [the work for which he was sent], and she returned unto him into the ark [suspense, to be held there in silence], for the waters [corrupt waters] were on the face [paniym – covering the present deep in darkness] of the whole earth [‘erets]: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark. 10 And he stayed yet other seven days; and again [yacaph – the same as Joseph, meaning another son, his seed] he sent forth the dove [yownah – John] out of the ark; 11 And the dove came in to him in the evening [from the darkness]; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off [taraph – only used elsewhere in Ezekiel 17:9]: so Noah knew that the [corrupt] waters were abated [qalal – by understanding] from off [ma’al – removing the cover of treachery from] the earth. 12 And he stayed [remained in suspense] yet other [‘acher – as in ‘achariyth, until these last] seven days; and sent forth the dove [now again]; which returned not again [yacaph – never to be separated, in suspense, from his brethren again] unto him any more.
Matthew 3 1 In those days came John the Baptist [the dove sent out again to dry up the corrupt waters by immersing us in the LORD’s words], preaching in the wilderness of Judaea [the desolation of God’s leaders: teachers and preachers who became the whale’s belly], 2 And saying, Repent you: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand [when the devils are cast out by the finger of God pointing them out]. 3 For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness [among the desolate], Prepare you the way of the LORD, make his paths [which the serpents made crooked] straight. 4 And the same John had his raiment of camel’s hair [the burden covering the beast of the earth], and a leathern girdle [the preparation that remained present in the dead carcass] about his loins; and his meat was locusts [his deep understanding devoured the devourers of all life on the earth] and wild honey [the strength found in the LORD’s systematic discourse, rightly ordered words, speaking and working unknown through Him]. 5 Then went out to him [old and corrupt] Jerusalem [where the dead carcass remained], and all Judaea [the corrupt leaders], and all the region round about Jordan [where were the word that flowed to all and carried them in their descent into death], 6 And were baptized of him [cleansing them in the corrective discourse revealed in the same word that were before darkened] in Jordan, confessing their sins [harmatia – missing the mark aimed at, the destination journeyed toward, and, therefore, not reaching the prize, the expected end in the presence of the LORD revealed to our eyes]. 7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees [the religious, those who’ve scattered the body, and those who reject this resurrection] come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who has warned you to flee from the wrath to come [against those who refuse to obey the LORD’s commands? 8 Bring forth therefore [good] fruits meet for repentance [from the evil work done previously]: 9 And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these [empty] stones to raise up children unto Abraham. 10 And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the [corrupt] trees [whose fruit remains evil]: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire [this word as a sword from the mouth of the LORD]. 11 I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance. but he that comes after me is mightier than I, whose shoes [the mission on which the Father has sent him, and me, I Am, to finish the work and lead God’s people into all truth] I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with [this understanding by] the Holy Ghost [the Father in him first revealing Himself], and with fire [His all-consuming presence revealed]: 12 Whose fan is in his hand [in this work] and he will thoroughly purge [purify by threshing] his floor [of the worthless chaff], and gather his wheat [the good seed] into the garner [into His storehouse, where all these treasures were reserved for them]; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire. 13 Then comes Jesus [Jehovah’s Salvation manifested in the flesh] from Galilee [the inner circle who don’t yet know it’s Him] to Jordan [the words that carried all into ignorance and death] unto John, to be baptized of him [removing the corruption that blinded men to the LORD’s presence in the flesh]. 14 But John forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptized of you, and come you to me? 15 And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness [the same blinding corruption must be removed from all, so all will see the Father who desires to dwell in our flesh]. Then he suffered him. 16 And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out [ascended above] of the water [of corruption]: and, lo, the heavens [the windows therein] were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove [the sign of the end reached], and lighting upon him: 17 And lo a voice [declaring him the first begotten in whom the Father’s presence is no longer concealed] from heaven [with full understanding], saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
It is this full understanding that is the “one thing” lacking in those who say they know the LORD: which is refusing the leadership of (the Father’s vested authority in) the son, thereby denying the Father and the son.
And they all say, “For what purpose should we obey?” To save the world, and more precisely, those receiving His teaching at the Father’s appearing in him (I Am).
There have been many so-called “revivals” in the past that have stopped evil’s advance. It is such a time we now find ourselves: when those leading it believe they’ve reached a time when they rest in the peace produced. This hearkens back to the now well-broadcast principle that “hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times.” These (this present moment) are those hard times.
The following (ending with 2 Peter 3) is the post from 23 March 2017 (of course: with today’s additions in double brackets).
Things tend toward degeneration, and without vigilance, constant maintenance, and reform, decline into total decay and finally destruction. So, now as a church and nation we stand at this precipice, having lacked the will and fortitude to perform the necessary periodic maintenance, without the strength to reform, choosing comfort and “peace,” thinking it is found in sloth and abandoning our natural instincts to fight, have opted instead to lay down in surrender and die a death by suicide. Even the strongest among us now has become as a woman, without strength, choosing the comfort in the arms of the same domestic enemies who pillaged our treasure, perverted all equity in judgment, as they destroyed all truth and rational discourse. These, our captors, use their power in government to force all into relying on its protection and provision, and have rendered inviable all other options. The end they have inevitably chosen for us is a self-inflicted collapse.
Of course, these same people seeing only from the perspective of their power think themselves immune to what they have inescapably inflicted on those they have led into this abyss. They, blinded as was Samson, realizing they have become captive of their own lacking and lust, have (seemingly) chosen to use their final remaining strength to pull the house down upon itself.
Friends, I have hoped we would reform, but I fear we (church and nation) have instead chosen the end we have here discussed many times – total collapse. The ship [[the wholly corrupt institutions of church and state governments]] will not make it through this [[will never again be the place relied upon to ensure strong men don’t rest, don’t produce weak men who produce hard times]]. There will be a remnant [[My tenth]] that will make it through, and they should [[but lack this aspect and, without foresight, don’t]] consider what will be built upon the rubble.
Thus says the LORD:
21 And when eight days were accomplished for the circumcising [[remove the flesh covering the mind]] of the child, his name was called JESUS [Jehovah’s Salvation, His mind, revealed in the flesh]], which was so named of the angel before he was conceived in the womb [[the belly of the earth, the hardest of times, here in hell]]. 22 And when the days of her purification [[after forty days, the full course of the life-giving creature, the four faces, the LORD’s presence manifesting therein words and work, of the wheel Ezekiel saw as the LORD’s unfolding appearance]] according to the law of Moses were accomplished, they brought him to [[New Heavenly]] Jerusalem [[all God’s people who’ve reached this destination, for which they were predestined]], to present him to the LORD; 23 (As it is written in the law of the LORD, Every male that opens the womb [[is here and now born again by His work]] shall be called holy to the LORD;) 24 And to offer a sacrifice according to that which is said in the law of the LORD, A pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons. 25 And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon [those hearing/understanding [[now seeking rest in the expected end reached]]]; and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation [[paraklesis, the work of the Paraclete, the LORD’s teaching, leading us into all truth, Who we see as he is, in the flesh, by this purification now accomplished]] of Israel: and the Holy Ghost [[the LORD unknown speaking and working until He reveals Himself in the son, and in His children who receive the son He sends]] was upon him. 26 And it was revealed unto him by the Holy Ghost, that he should not see death, before he had seen the LORD’s Christ. 27 And he came by the Spirit into the temple: and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him after the custom of the law, 28 Then took he him up in his arms, and blessed God, and said, 29 LORD, now let you your servant depart in peace, according to your word: 30 For my eyes have seen your salvation, 31 Which you have prepared before the face of all people; 32 A light to lighten the Gentiles [[to give understanding to all who haven’t known the Father or His ways of sustainable peace, sustainable civilization, sustainable good times through strong men, who, as iron, vigilantly sharpening iron]], and the glory of [[your constant presence in and among ]] your people Israel. 33 And Joseph [those separated as divine provision] and his mother marveled at those things which were spoken of him. 34 And Simeon blessed them, and said unto Mary [those rebelling against the corrupted establishment] his mother, Behold, this child is set for the fall [[now ending the darkness]] and rising again [[with this life which is the life of the world]] of many in Israel [[those who receive Him, become His children, and reign with Him here on the earth]]; and for a sign which shall be spoken against [[as it now is by the corrupt powers who must be taken out of the way]]; 35 (Yea, a sword shall pierce through your own soul also,) that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed [[as they know are laid bare by this word of the LORD]]. 36 And there was one Anna [favored [[like Hannah, who brings forth those who will hear and obey the LORD’s voice]]], a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel [those seeing the face [[presence]] of God], of the tribe of Asher [those prospering honestly – happy (blessed) are they]: she was of a great age, and had lived with an husband seven years from her virginity; 37 And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fasting [[refuse the corrupt word of the wicked in power]] and prayer [[in this conversation with the LORD]] night and day. 38 And she coming [[ephistemi – standing upon His word]] in that instant [[hora – the hour of the LORD’s appearing to her sight]] gave thanks likewise unto the LORD, and [[opening her mouth as commanded]] spoke of him to all them that looked for redemption [[lutrosis – luo throchos, loosed in this course, in full circuit, in the wheel]] in [[New Havenly]] Jerusalem. 39 And when they had performed all things according to the law of the LORD, they returned into Galilee [the inner circle], to their own city Nazareth [those separated for God’s purposes]. 40 And the child grew, and waxed strong [[in thses hard times]] in spirit, filled with wisdom: and the grace of God was upon him. 41 Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the Passover. 42 And when he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem after the custom of the feast. 43 And when they had fulfilled the days, as they returned, the child Jesus tarried behind in Jerusalem; and Joseph and his mother knew not of it. 44 But they, supposing him to have been in the company, went a day’s journey; and they sought him among their kinsfolk and acquaintance. 45 And when they found him not, they turned back again to Jerusalem, seeking him. 46 And it came to pass, that after three days [[in the belly of the earth]] they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them, and asking them questions. 47 And all that heard him were astonished at his understanding and answers. 48 And when they [[realizing the LORD presence in Him]] saw him, they were amazed: and his mother said unto him, Son, why have you thus dealt with us? behold, your father and I have sought you sorrowing. 49 And he said unto them, How is it that you sought me? know you not that I must be about my Father’s business [[doing the work for which He’s sent me]]? 50 And they understood not the saying which he spoke unto them. 51 And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto them: but his mother kept all these sayings in her heart. 52 And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man.
This is the LORD telling us of the consolation that comes as we are being blessed with a child born, as the establishment, the corrupted nation, and church destroy themselves. Telling of this was also the prominent accusation against the LORD at His crucifixion, as it is again now, saying that he said, “I will destroy these, and in three days raise them up.” What he actually said was, what I am actually saying is, “You will (have by neglect) destroy these, and after three days I will (I am [[will]]) raise them up again.”
The aspect of those thinking they will use the same old destructive and corrupted ways to rebuild, even now that they know it [[rebuilding what they ruined]] is the only way, [[is them]] refusing to acknowledge they can’t use the same means that destroyed church and nation to raise it to life. Should the people look for life to the dead?
Isaiah 8 begins by speaking of the writer going into the prophetess [[as Anna above]] and she bearing a son named Maher-shalal-hash-baz, meaning hastes (instant) to the spoil, eagerly to the plunder. This is the original reference to what is said in Luke 2:36 above and the prophetess who comes to the LORD in that instant (verse 38) and speaks to all those looking for redemption [[that only comes by hearing and obeying]] in Jerusalem.
All of these facets are spoken of in Isaiah 7, 8 & 9, which were discussed in the prior post. This is the light sent into the darkness, that lights upon Israel [Luke 2:32 & Isaiah 9:8] – those who will see the face of God and rule with Him as He raises up His nation and church in righteousness. (Read the prior post.) [[https://wordxp.com/2017/03/21/invincibility-squandered-in-a-confederacy-rejecting-gods-advice/]]
Isaiah 9 2 The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them has the light shined. 3 You have multiplied the nation, and not increased the joy: they joy before you according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil. 4 For you have broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian. 5 For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; but this [[battle]] shall be with burning and fuel of fire. 6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. 7 Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even forever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this. 8 The LORD sent a word into Jacob, and it has lighted upon Israel. 9 And all the people shall know, even Ephraim [[God’s people in this last generation, who, only when recieving Him and His blessing sent, become the first of the new]] and the inhabitant of Samaria [[worshipping idols men created, put in God’s place, and call by His name]], that say in the pride and stoutness of heart, 10 The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones [[the same corrupt and weak men they formed]]: the sycamores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars [[other men they also cut down]]. 11 Therefore the LORD shall set up the adversaries of Rezin against him, and join his enemies together; 12 The Syrians [[the communists]] before, and the Philistines [[the ivading army among us]] behind; and they shall devour Israel with open mouth [[their ways far from God’s, by which they consusme our life, liberty, and estate]]. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand [[work of salvation]] is [[here]] stretched out still. 13 For the people turns not unto him that smites them, neither do they seek the LORD of hosts [[I Am, a man a war among us]]. 14 Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day. 15 The ancient and honorable, he is the head; and the prophet [[those declaring their opinions are truth, delusions that mislead people into looking for an end, taught by false teachers among them, the leaven of corruption, which will never come, and missing the end at hand]] that teaches lies, he is the tail [[this end]]. 16 For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed.
Friends, those ignorant men who have led us into hell think this is some kind of game they can play, making up their own rules as they go. They have chosen their end. This isn’t a game, and they don’t make or change My rules.
Luke 2:32 above is quoted from Isaiah 42:6, not only telling of the LORD coming as a light to lighten the gentiles, but as a covenant to Israel. Isaiah goes on to end the chapter speaking of these men as those who, by rejecting the LORD’s advice, have set themselves on fire, and they don’t even know it. These are the same fires 2 Peter 3 speaks of. Again, as we have many times discussed, their corrupted thinking, the foundational ideas upon which these destroyers of the earth base their decisions and policy, are the “element” that melt away. We know the word there used to tell of the “elements,” that melt from the fires their corrupted ideas create, is stoicheion, meaning foundational principles. We are told there of our looking for a New Heaven, and New Earth, wherein dwells righteousness (truth and equitable justice).
When Luke 2:25 speaks of this as the “consolation” of Israel (the light to the Gentiles and the glory in Israel as the light lighted upon them) Luke uses the Greek word paraklesis, meaning the work of the Paraclete, the Holy Spirit (the one unseen and unknown – secreted name).
This word is used to perfectly describe what is waited for. It is translated as “exhortation” in Hebrew 12:5 to tell us what we have forgotten if we think this correction from the LORD is some strange thing.
It says, “5 And you have forgotten the exhortation [[paraklesis]] which speaks unto you as unto children, ‘My son, despise not you the chastening of the LORD, nor faint when you are rebuked of him: 6 For whom the LORD loves he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives.’”
This is a quote from Proverbs 3:11 & 12, and there we see the full context of the correction and the way of the LORD is creating His New Heaven and New Earth, wherein dwells righteousness.
Proverbs 3 1 My son, forget not my law; but let your heart keep my commandments: 2 For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to you. 3 Let not mercy and truth forsake you: bind them about your neck; write them upon the table of your heart: 4 So shall you find favor and good understanding in the sight of God and man. 5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart; and lean not unto your own understanding. 6 In all your ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct your paths. 7 Be not wise in your own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil. 8 It shall be health to your navel, and marrow to your bones. 9 Honor the LORD with your substance, and with the first-fruits of all your increase: 10 So shall your barns be filled with plenty, and your presses shall burst out with new wine. 11 My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction: 12 For whom the LORD loves he corrects; even as a father the son in whom he delights. 13 Happy [blessed] is the man that finds wisdom, and the man that gets understanding. 14 For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. 15 She is more precious than rubies: and all the things you can desire are not to be compared unto her. 16 Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honor. 17 Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. 18 She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retains her. 19 The LORD by wisdom has founded the earth; by understanding has he established the heavens. 20 By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew. 21 My son, let not them depart from your eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion: 22 So shall they be life unto your soul, and grace to your neck. 23 Then shall you walk in your way safely, and your foot shall not stumble. 24 When you lie down, you shall not be afraid: yea, you shall lie down, and your sleep shall be sweet. 25 Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it comes. 26 For the LORD shall be your confidence, and shall keep your foot from being taken. 27 Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it. 28 Say not unto your neighbor, Go, and come again, and to morrow I will give; when you have it by you. 29 Devise not evil against your neighbor, seeing he dwells securely by you. 30 Strive not with a man without cause, if he have done you no harm. 31 Envy you not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways. 32 For the forward [twisted or perverted [[truth]]] is abomination to the LORD: but his secret [[truth He protects and resevres, to be revealed against abomination men, by twisting and prevert truth, put in His place]] is with the righteous. 33 The curse [[this word]] of the LORD is in the house of the wicked: but he [[by this same word]] blesses the habitation of the just. 34 Surely he scorns the scorners: but he gives grace unto the lowly. 35 The wise shall inherit [[His]] glory: but shame [[not reaching the end they seek by their false proclamations: evil decrees]] shall be the promotion of fools.
Isaiah 42 1 Behold my servant, whom I uphold; my elect [[I and the children the LORD has given me, who are for signs and wonderd among His people]], in whom my soul delights [[becaus ethey have received Me, Father and son, and My correction]]; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles. [[who haven’t known Me or My children]]. 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 [[but trim it into a bright light]]: 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 dry place without this word of the LORD]] shall wait for his law. 5 Thus says God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which comes out of it; he that gives breath [[life from His mouth]] unto the people upon it [[bringing life from their mouths]], and [[His Spirit bringing life to the]] 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 [[new]] covenant [[as spoken of in Jeremiah 31:33 & 34]] of the people, for a light of the Gentiles [[understanding given to be given to those in darkness]]; 7 To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness 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. 9 Behold, the former things are come to pass, and [[these]] new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them. 10 Sing unto the LORD a new song [[this word as received from His mouth]], and his praise from the end of the [[old and corrupt]] earth, you that go down to the sea [[speaking this word to all humanity at large]], and all that is therein; the isles, and the inhabitants thereof. 11 Let the wilderness [the desolate now therein purified]] and the cities thereof lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar [[that were covered in darness]] does inhabit: let the inhabitants of the Rock [[in Christ]] sing, let them shout [[as my archangel, like the messenger I have have sent]] from the top of the mountains. [[My new government, of My resurrected church and state, on My new earth]]. 12 Let them give glory unto the LORD, and declare his praise in the islands [[who’ve beein without this word of God]]. 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 [[as the lion of Judah]]; he shall prevail against his enemies. 14 I have long time held my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once. 15 I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools. 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, that trust in graven images, 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? 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 [[as the LORD sees]], but you observe not [[the corruption of men]]; opening the ears, but he hears not [[obeys not their corruption]]. 21 The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness’ sake; he will magnify [[gadal – make great]] the law, 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: they are for a prey, and none delivers [[natsal – none pluck them from these fires of hell]]; for a spoil, and none says, Restore [[shuwb – return to the LORD whose manfested His presence to save us]]. 23 Who among you will give ear to this? who will hearken and hear [[shama’ – and obey]] 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 [[shama’]] unto his law. 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; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart.
2 Peter 3 1 This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance: 2 That you may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the LORD and Savior: 3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, 4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. 5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: 6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: 7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition [[apoleia – destruction that comes to those who enlessly wrestle with the word of God, because of what they think they know]] of ungodly men. 8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the LORD as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. 9 The LORD is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness [[ignorant that His seven days, and His three days and nights, in the furnace of hell, with us, in the belly of the earth, are the many thousands of years He’s been among us working, long-suffering our ignorance of Him, to save us from our self-destruction, by creating us in His image and now His likeness]]; but is long-suffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. 10 But the day [[this end when the this light has come]] of the LORD will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens [[the corrupt understanding that is now falsely called truth]] shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements [[stoicheion – the corrupt foundational thinking of this generation]] shall melt with fervent heat, the [[old and corrupt]] earth also and the [[corrupt]] works that are therein shall be burned up. 11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in all holy conversation and godliness, 12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day [[this time when light returns]] of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements [[stoicheion]] shall melt with fervent heat? 13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwells righteousness. 14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that you look for such things, be diligent [[seaching for Him]] that you may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless. 15 And account that the longsuffering of our LORD is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him has written unto you; 16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrestle, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction [[apoleia – perdition]]. 17 You therefore, beloved, seeing you know these things before, beware lest you also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own steadfastness. 18 But grow in grace [[this gift]], and in the knowledge of our LORD and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and forever. Amen.
Isaiah 34 1 Come near, you nations, to hear [shama’ – obey]; and hearken, you people: let the earth hear [shama’ – obey], and all that is therein; the world, and all things that come forth of it. 2 For the indignation of the LORD is upon all nations, and his fury upon all their armies [fighting against Him with their words of ignorance]: he has utterly destroyed them, he has delivered them to the slaughter [they are all dead flesh]. 3 Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up out of their carcasses [of dead flesh perceived], and the mountains [the institution of government, church and state, they have corrupted] shall be melted with their blood. 4 And all the host [this army] of heaven [the corrupt places where understanding should be] shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together [galal] as a scroll [their ignorance shall be silenced, like a stone rolled to cover their wells]: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falls off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree [and men shall no longer be fed their confusion]. 5 For my sword [this word from the mouth of the LORD] shall be bathed in heaven [places where understanding should be found and isn’t]: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea [Esau, the enemies mixed among us], and upon the people of my curse, to judgment. 6 The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah [among His flock], and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea. 7 And the unicorns [the one power – all Babylon, all confusion’s rule] shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness. 8 For it is the day of the LORD’s vengeance, and the year of recompenses for the controversy of Zion. 9 And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch [burning fires of darkness]. 10 It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up forever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it forever and ever. 11 But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl [those who hunt souls in the darkness] also and the raven [those covered in darkness] shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion [tohuw – without form], and the stones of emptiness [bohuw – and void – as in Genesis 1:2]. 12 They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all her princes shall be nothing. 13 And thorns [misleaders] shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles [deceivers and destroyers overgrowing all life] in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be a habitation of dragons [those, as serpents and whales, who poison and devour with their ever-open mouths], and a court for owls [who hunt souls in the darkness]. 14 The wild beasts of the desert [those without My Spirit in this time of desolation] shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island [those without My Spirit because they are without My word], and the satyr [sa’iyr – devils, as enemies before mixed among us] shall cry to [against] his fellow; the screech owl [speaking the word with which they hunt ignorant souls in the darkness] also shall rest [raga’ – suddenly be silenced] there, and find for herself a place of rest [manowach – this rest that comes when their words of death are no longer exalted and broadcasted from places where understanding and light, life, should be]. 15 There shall the great owl [qippowz – only used here, meaning to contract, coil back to spring forward] make her nest [qanan – then shall they rise and become a place of those who know this end is reached], and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow: there shall the vultures [dayah – those who fly swiftly, those quickened into this full understanding] also be gathered, every one with her mate [ready to leave the belly of the ark, the belly of the earth, the belly of hell among those without the LORD’s Spirit]. 16 Seek you out of the book of the LORD, and read: no one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my mouth it has commanded, and his spirit it has gathered [collected and assembled] them [to this expected end, calling all to join Him in His ONE BODY]. 17 And he has cast the lot [gowral – predestined] for them, and his hand has [rightly] divided it unto them by line [upon line, precept upon precept]: they shall possess it forever, from generation to generation shall they dwell therein.
Proverbs 16 22 Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that has it: but the instruction of fools is folly. 23 The heart of the wise teaches his mouth, and adds learning to his lips. 24 Pleasant words are as an honeycomb [rightly ordered and systematically fit together], sweet to the soul, and health to the bones. 25 There is a way that seems right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death. 26 He that labors [to do evil] labors for himself; for his mouth craves it of him. 27 An ungodly man digs up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire. 28 A froward [twisting and perverting truth] man soweth strife: and a whisperer separates chief friends. 29 A violent man entices his neighbor, and leadeth him into the way that is not good. 30 He shuts his eyes [to reality and truth] to devise froward things [twisting and perverting truth]: [and we know he is lying when] moving his lips he brings evil to pass. 31 The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness. 32 He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that rule his spirit than he that taketh a city. 33 The lot [gowral] is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing [misphat – verdict, the decreed end of judgment] thereof is of the LORD.
Psalms 81 1 Sing [this new song] aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob. 2 Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery. 3 Blow up the trumpet in the new moon [His government upon the earth], in the time appointed [kece’ – only used elsewhere in Proverbs 7:20, there speaking of when the LORD left our sight, with Him took His treasures {keceph}, and of his return at the day “appointed,” speaking of it as when His treasures return], on our solemn feast day [in which He gives us this light: His treasures]. 4 For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob. 5 This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony [this word prepared for the children of His promise, who receive Him], when he went out through the land of Egypt [among our oppressors]: where I heard a language that I understood not. 6 I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots. 7 You called in trouble [tsarah – these hard times in this tribulation], and I delivered you; I answered you in the secret place of thunder [this sound of the light]: I proved you at the waters of Meribah [strife and contention; when usurpers, with their bitter blasphemies, warred against Me and refused the leader I sent]. Selah. 8 Hear [shama’ – and obey], O my people, and I will testify unto you: O Israel, if you will hearken [shama’ – and obey] unto me; 9 There shall no strange god be in you; neither shall you worship any strange god. 10 I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt: open your mouth wide [speak this word as received], and I will fill it. 11 But my people would not hearken to [shama’ – and obey] my voice; and Israel would none of me. 12 So I gave them up unto their own hearts’ lust: and they walked in their own counsels. 13 Oh that my people had hearkened [shama’ – and obeyed] unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways! 14 I would soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries. 15 The haters of the LORD would have submitted themselves unto him: but their time would have endured forever. 16 He would have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the Rock would I have satisfied you.
They that forsake the law praise the wicked: but such as keep the law contend with them. Evil men understand not judgment: but they that seek the LORD understand all things.
Friends, the object of the “law” is to bring us to a state of peace, first in mind and then, thereby, in body. This peace in mind (spirit) comes with the first of the two greatest commandments, and in body (the physical) comes with the addition of keeping the second.
Let us consider the LORD speaking, through His word, giving us understanding, in this conversation, of these two commandments; them as the Law of God; of men who keep this law, even those doing so (naturally – as the law of nature) while ignorant of them (God’s spoken and written Law) and Him; of what it means to keep this law (through loving God, self, and our neighbor); to enlighten us and dispel the pervading darkness (breaking ignorance’s spell cast by the real sorcerers among us peeping and muttering).
Bringing understanding to these things is the battle spoken of in the title verses, Proverbs 28:4 & 5, where the word rendered “contend” is garah, which we saw in the previous post as it appears in Jeremiah 50:24.
From that post: Jeremiah 50 24 I have laid a snare for you, and you are also taken, O Babylon, and you were not aware: you are found, and also caught, because you have strived [garah – waged war] against the LORD. 25 The LORD has opened [pathach – as when one like the son of man touched Daniel’s mouth and it was “opened” – Daniel 10:16] his armory [‘owtsar], and has brought forth the weapons of his indignation [za’am]: for this is the work of the LORD God [[‘Adonay Jehovih, the King of kings and LORD of lords]] of hosts in the land of the Chaldeans [against those who’ve used their words to manipulate humanity into hell]. 26 Come against her from the utmost border [qets – this full end], open her storehouses: cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly: let nothing of her be left. 27 Slay all her bullocks [those doing this work of misleading into hell]; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation [pquddah – now, when I Am here as the Chief Overseer of the earth]. 28 The voice of them that flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to [open their mouth and] declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, the vengeance of his temple.
The LORD begins today’s elucidation with a rebuke of Satan, the false light, and those possessed by him doing his work of misleading silly women and weak-minded men. There is, and has been, a long-running national ad campaign (“Jesus gets us”) that shows people who have fallen into physical sin, or they reduce them to their appearance, and calls them our neighbors we should love.
The ignorance taught is what is “love,” which, in changing it, they create their own Jesus. Their (the false lights’) love is fleeting, condoning sin and leaving people (making them comfortable) therein.
This rebuke takes us to the story of the good Samaritan, who, as the subject of the story, if loving as these men say we should, finding the man beaten and robbed, lying near death in the street, would have given him a pillow to rest his head upon while he died, and gone his way feeling “good” about himself.
The real story is that “good” is (as in the words harpazo or natstal) pulling the man from this peril (beaten, robbed, and left there to die) and giving him (this world) what is needed (this good the world needs) to recover from the condition in which they (the robbers who’ve turned the LORD’s house into a den of thieves) left him.
Matthew 6 1 Take heed that you do not your alms [giving this word as received, not making a show of charity, or instead giving a few of your own words that make you feel good about yourself] before men, to be seen [admired and praised] of them: otherwise you have no reward of your Father which is in heaven. 2 Therefore when you do your alms, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Truly I say unto you, They have their reward. 3 But when you do alms [giving this word], let not your left hand know what your right hand does [Ecclesiastes 11:1 Cast your bread upon the waters {giving it to those who don’t know its manna from the mouth of the LORD}: for you shall find it after many days.]: 4 That your alms [what you are giving] may be in secret: and your Father which sees in secret himself shall reward you openly [opening these treasures to those who then obey and give as He has given]. 5 And when you pray [speak, converse, with the Farther], you shall not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Truly I say unto you, They have their reward. 6 But you, when you pray [converse with the Father], enter into your closet [tameion – a four times used word, here meaning storage room], and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father which is in secret; and your Father which sees in secret shall reward you openly. [This verse refers us to Luke 12:2 & 3, saying “For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known. Therefore, whatsoever you have spoken in darkness {to the deaf and ignorant} shall be heard in the light {when understanding comes}; and that which you have spoken in the ear in closets {tameion} shall be proclaimed upon the housetops {openly}.”] 7 But when you pray, use not vain [worthless] repetitions, as the heathen [who don’t know the LORD] do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. 8 Be not you therefore like unto them: for your Father knows what things you have need of, before you ask him. 9 After this manner [ask for things of true value] therefore pray you: Our Father which are in heaven, Hallowed be your name [your identity when it’s revealed from Your place of full understanding]. 10 Your kingdom come, Your will be done in earth, as it is in heaven [sending this full understanding upon all freely, as received]. 11 Give us this day our daily bread [this word from Your mouth]. 12 And forgive us our debts [the sin on our account, for which we cannot pay], as we forgive our debtors. 13 And lead us not into temptation [as those who’ve misled have doubted Your presence with us], but deliver us from evil [the misleading of these doubters]: For yours is the kingdom, and the power [to change us], and the glory [Your presence therein manifested], forever. Amen. 14 For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: 15 But if you forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. 16 Moreover when you fast [abstaining from men’s corrupt teaching], be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Truly I say unto you, They have their reward. 17 But you, when you fast, anoint your head, and wash your face; 18 That you appear not unto men to fast, but unto your Father which is in secret: and your Father, which sees in secret, shall reward you openly. 19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth [to be admired and praised of men], where moth and rust does corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: 20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven [from where is received this understanding, which is of the greatest value], where neither moth nor rust does corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: 21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. 22 The light [understanding] of the body is the eye [seeing as the LORD sees], if therefore your eye be single [all seeing as the LORD sees], your whole [ONE] body shall be full of light [this understanding]. 23 But if your eye be evil [misleading], your whole body shall be full of darkness [in ignorance]. If therefore the light [understanding] that is in you be darkness [ignorance], how great is that darkness [ignorance]! 24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon [confidence in self or earthly wealth, the darkness that comes by trusting your own worthless opinions, as if they were truth]. 25 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what you shall eat, or what you shall drink; nor yet for your body, what you shall put on. Is not the life more than meat [more than your flesh], and the body [is more] than raiment [your flesh cover]? 26 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much better than they? 27 Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? 28 And why take you thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: 29 And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 30 Wherefore, if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow [aurion – as waves of light sent into this time of clarity] is cast into the oven [klibano – when the LORD takes hold of those He’s called], shall he not much more clothe you [into His Glorious ONE BODY], O you of little faith? 31 Therefore take no thought [be careful not to create your own worthless bread and water: words and ways], saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? 32 (For after all these things do the Gentiles [who don’t know the LORD will provide the things we need] seek:) for your heavenly Father knows that you have need of all these things [and he will give bread, water, and a body to cover us]. 33 But seek you first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. 34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow [aurion – the manifestations of the metaphysical into reality]: for the morrow [aurion – the metaphysical] shall take thought [make provisions] for the things of itself. Sufficient [arketos – to swallow itself and thereby take itself away] unto the day [in this time of light] is the evil [kakia – malice] thereof.
The word, in Matthew 22:36 & 38 below, rendered “great,” is said to be megas, meaning big (large). It is, in context, in the original text, the LORD referring us to the twice used word megaleios, meaning “magnificent, i.e. (neuter, plural as noun) a conspicuous favor, or (subjectively) perfection:–great things, wonderful works;” and the eight times used word megaluna, meaning “to make (or declare) great, i.e. increase or (figuratively) extol:–enlarge, magnify, show great.”
These words harken back to Matthew 6 above, speaking of who should be enlarged, magnified, by the words we speak, who is the LORD, not us seeking our own glory, but instead to reveal His in us working and speaking, by which (His glory realized) He enlarges us.
Matthew 22 35 Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him [doubting the LORD’s presence manifested in his flesh], and saying, 36 Master, which is the great [in the original text – megale, by which the LORD is magnified] commandment in the law? 37 Jesus said unto him, You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. 38 This is the first [protos] and great [megale] commandment [that, obeying it, magnifies the LORD above all]. 39 And the second is like [the same] unto it [speaking of our conscience, suneidesis, co-perspective, the same minds as God, doing to us as He would have us do unto himself, His ONE BODY, our own flesh], You shall love [agapao – as did the law and the prophets, as He has given to us, we should give] your neighbor as yourself. 40 On these two commandments [by this clear conscience, co-perspective with the LORD] hang all the law and the prophets. 41 While the Pharisees [the religious who’ve scatter the flock] were gathered together, Jesus asked them, 42 Saying, What think you of Christ? whose son is he [Christ is Joseph’s son]? They say unto him, The son of David. 43 He says unto them, How then does David in spirit call him LORD [‘adown – in the original quote from Psalms 110:1], saying, 44 The LORD [Jehovah] said unto my LORD [‘adown – speaking of Joseph, David’s king and forefather], Sit you on my right hand, till I make your enemies your footstool [when My way upon the earth is manifested in My prevailing against those choosing to war against Me and My anointed]? 45 If David then call him LORD, how is he his son? 46 And no man was able to answer him a word, neither durst any man from that day forth ask him any more questions.
The word above, in verse 40 rendered “hang,” is the seven times used Greek word kremannumi, which we know, from its uses quoting Deuteronomy 21:23 while speaking of the LORD’s crucifixion, is the equivalent of the Hebrew word talah. We’ve previously discussed this word (talah) as it appears in Job 26:7, there speaking of now when the earth has again become (hayah) without form (tohuw), and void (bohuw), when the law, the prophets, and Christ in the flesh, are “suspended” in the darkness.
Here’s one of those discussions, from the post of 14 September 2023, ending with Acts 13, with today’s addition in double brackets.
Job 26 2 How have you [as the LORD has here] helped him that is without power [[giving this understanding to those in need]]? how save you the arm that has no strength? 3 How have you counseled him that has no wisdom? and how have you plentifully declared the thing as it is? 4 To whom have you uttered words? and whose spirit came from you? 5 Dead [rapha’] things [the matters of death and life] are formed from under the waters [in the darkened deep], and the inhabitants thereof. 6 Hell is naked before him, and destruction has no covering. 7 He stretches out the north [darkness – ignorance, the cover spread over the deep] over the empty place [tohuw – “without form”], and hangs [talah – suspends [[this understanding of the law, the prophets, and Christ Himself in the flesh]]] the earth upon nothing [bliymah – only used here; nothingness: “the void”]. 8 He binds up the waters in his thick clouds [the elements of understanding therein suspended]; and the cloud is not rent under them [they remain reserved there until the LORD, in His time, sends them]. 9 He holds back [‘achaz – covers] the face [paniym – the presence] of his throne, and spreads [parshez – only appears here, meaning His throne is the place where He holds the separated elements] his cloud upon it. 10 He has compassed [choq chuwg – decrees the full circle: where the end meets the beginning again] the waters with bounds [in His word], until the day [light] and night [darkness] come to an end [tiklah – the completion: in perfection]. 11 The pillars of heaven tremble [so corruption is from there removed] and are astonished [tamahh – wonder marvelously] at his reproof [correction]. 12 He divides the sea with his power, and by his understanding he smites through the proud. 13 By his spirit he has garnished the heavens [filling it again with His light]; his hand has formed the crooked serpent. 14 Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him [men still refusing to declare His presence manifested in His way, which they, seeing them, still wonder and are dumbfounded]? but the thunder [the voice of the light] of his power who can understand?
The word [[above in verse 13]] rendered “crooked,” bariyach, only appears two other times, in Isaiah 21:7 and 43:14. In the first of these uses, we understand it is leviathan, which we know is also used in describing Satan’s work through Job’s three so-called friends. It (leviathan) has the same origin as the name Levites, speaking of the priesthood, from whom the word from the mouth of God is supposed to be spoken [[which, as a “crooked serpent,” has become as a winding river without foresight]]. It is also there His word was and is corrupted (“piercing [bariyach]” the LORD’s hands and feet [[suspending His work and way]]), and from where such corruption now flows in its place. It (bariyach), in Isaiah’s second use of it, tells us these corruptors are the “nobles [bariyach]” of Babylon, speaking of those whose power to rule is the corruption they speak and its resulting confusion, now turned mass insanity (the mass inability to distinguish between their delusions and reality).
Isaiah 27 1 In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish [paqad – visit as the Chief Overseer of the earth] leviathan [those to which the people are joined] the piercing [bariyach] serpent [as misleaders among them], even leviathan [Levi – the priesthood] that crooked serpent [as thorns and briers]; and he [the LORD with us] shall slay the dragon [tanniyn – the whale, the open mouths of men that carried all humanity into the belly of hell and holds it therein – or the crocodile, death lurking below the surface of these men’s words [[in their rivers]]] that is in the sea [that flows to the people]. 2 In that day sing [repeat these words] you unto her, A vineyard of red wine [to change their minds]. 3 I the LORD do keep it [the earth]; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day. 4 Fury is not in me: who would set the briers [deceivers] and thorns [misleaders] against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together. 5 Or let him take hold of my strength [this understanding], that he may make peace with me; and he shall make peace with me. 6 He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.
Isaiah 43 7 Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him. 8 Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf that have ears. 9 Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the people be assembled: who among them can declare this, and show us former things? let them bring forth their witnesses, that they may be justified: or let them hear, and say, It is truth. 10 You are my witnesses, says the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that you may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me. 11 I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no savior. 12 I have declared, and have saved, and I have shown, when there was no strange god among you: therefore you are my witnesses, says the LORD, that I am God. 13 Yea, before the day was I am he; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let [[withhold]] it? 14 Thus says the LORD, your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and have brought down all their nobles [bariyach], and the Chaldeans, whose cry is in the ships [all the corrupt institutions of church and state]. 15 I am the LORD, your Holy One, the creator of Israel, your King. 16 Thus says the LORD, which makes a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters; 17 Which bringeth forth the chariot and horse, the army and the power; they shall lie down together, they shall not rise: they are extinct, they are quenched as tow. 18 Remember you not the former things, neither consider the things of old. 19 Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall you not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers [[of these life-giving waters]] in the desert .
Acts 13 38 Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins: 39 And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses. 40 Beware therefore, lest that come upon you, which is spoken of in the prophets [in Habakkuk 1:5]; 41 Behold, you despisers, and wonder [wonder marvelously – tamahh tamahh], and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which you shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto you.
Romans 2 8 But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, [upon them is My] indignation and wrath [in this word they reject], 9 Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that does evil, of the Jew first [Judah, those who say they are the leaders, the chosen, of God], and also of the Gentile [all who haven’t known God, and especially those who worship idols put in His place and are called by His name]; 10 But glory, honor, and peace, to every man that works good [as did the Samaritan], to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile: 11 For there is no respect of persons with God. 12 For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law [as described in Matthew 22 above]: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law; 13 (For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified. 14 For when the Gentiles [who haven’t know me], which have not the law, do by nature [under natural law in this “state of nature” {without maximums, megaleios, law exalted above all other} that now exists in this world become without from and void: confused {tohuw,} and empty {bohuw}] the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves [by reflexively, by their id, obeying God]: 15 Which show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience [suneidesis – the co-perspective causing them to do evil or good] also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;) 16 In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel. 17 Behold, you are called a Jew [Judah, do you think you are My chosen when you know not, and obey not, My voice], and rest in the law, and make your boast of God, 18 And know his will, and approve the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law; 19 And are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness, 20 An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which have the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law. 21 You therefore which teaches another, teaches you not yourself? you that preaches a man should not steal, do you steal [My words and My tithes from Me and My people]? 22 You that sayest a man should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery [leaving the LORD to follow wicked men who put their idols in My place and told you these are your gods]? you that abhors idols, do you commit sacrilege [heirosuleo – plunder My house]? 23 You that make your boast of the law, through breaking the law [not obey My voice] dishonor you God? 24 For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.
The above is given context as Paul, the LORD in Him speaking and working, in verse 24, quotes from Ezekiel 36:20 & 23.
Ezekiel 36 1 Also, you son of man, prophesy unto the mountains [the government of church and state] of Israel [now unjustly governing My people while taking My name in vain], and say, You mountains of Israel, hear the word of the LORD [which you have blasphemed, demonizing and vilifying Me, My word, My work, manifesting My presence among you]: 2 Thus says the LORD God [‘Adonay Jehovih, the King of kings and LORD of lords]; Because the enemy has said against you, Aha, even the [My] ancient high places are ours in possession [morashah – the evil that now possess these places]: 3 Therefore prophesy and say, Thus says the LORD God [‘Adonay Jehovih, the King of kings and LORD of lords]; Because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side [into the belly of hell], that you might be a possession [morashah] unto the residue of the heathen, and you are taken up [‘alah] in the lips of talkers [who’ve exalted their words above the LORD’s], and are an infamy of the people: 4 Therefore, you mountains of Israel, hear the word of the LORD God [‘Adonay Jehovih, the King of kings and LORD of lords]; Thus says the LORD God [‘Adonay Jehovih, the King of kings and LORD of lords] to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers [through which your corrupt words and evil ways flow to My people], and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes, and to the cities that are forsaken [by those in power who’ve misled them into this hell], which became a prey and derision to the residue of the heathen that are round about; 5 Therefore thus says the LORD God [‘Adonay Jehovih, the King of kings and LORD of lords]; Surely in the fire of my jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the heathen, and against all Idumea [Edom, Esau: the enemies mixed among us as our countrymen and brethren, who are at war with God and His faithful people], which have appointed [nathan – given] my land [‘erets – My earth] into their possession [morashah] with the joy of all their heart [in their minds thinking they are gods], with despiteful minds, to cast it out [to drive My people from Me] for a prey. 6 Prophesy therefore concerning the land [‘adamah – this new generation I Am creating] of Israel [who will rule the earth as I intended, to secure the rights with which I have endowed man], and say unto the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, Thus says the LORD God [‘Adonay Jehovih, the King of kings and LORD of lords]; Behold, I have spoken in my jealousy and in my fury, because you have borne the shame of the heathen [who haven’t known Me or My ways]: 7 Therefore thus says the LORD God [‘Adonay Jehovih, the King of kings and LORD of lords]; I have lifted up my hand, Surely the heathen that are about you, they shall bear their shame [they will not reach the end they seek]. 8 But you, O mountains of Israel [My government as I intended it, MAGA – Making America Godly {megale-Yahh} Again], you [when My righteousness rules in the minds of men] shall shoot forth your branches, and yield your fruit to my people of Israel; for they are at hand [garab] to come [when they offer the sacrifice, speaking these words giving this understanding of the moment, in which I delight]. 9 For, behold, I Am for you, and I will turn unto you, and you shall be tilled and sown: 10 And I will multiply men upon you, all the house of Israel, even all of it: and the cities shall be inhabited, and the wastes shall be built: 11 And I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increase and bring fruit: and I will settle you after your old estates, and will do better unto you than at your beginnings [of the last age]: and you shall know that I Am the LORD. 12 Yea, I will cause men to walk upon you, even my people Israel; and they shall possess you [dispossessing those who’ve possessed humanity and the earth], and you shall be their inheritance, and you shall no more henceforth bereave them of [godly] men. 13 Thus says the LORD God [‘Adonay Jehovih, the King of kings and LORD of lords]; Because they say unto you, You land devourest up men, and have bereaved your nations [who haven’t know Me]: 14 Therefore you shall devour men no more, neither bereave your nations any more, says the LORD God [‘Adonay Jehovih, the King of kings and LORD of lords]. 15 Neither will I cause men to hear [shama’ – and obey] in you the shame [your false promises of an end that cannot, and will not, ever come] of the heathen any more, neither shall you bear the reproach of the people any more, neither shall you cause your nations to fall [away from Me] any more, says the LORD God [‘Adonay Jehovih, the King of kings and LORD of lords]. 16 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 17 Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land [‘adamah – this last evil generation], they defiled it by their own way and by their doings: their way was before me as the uncleanness of a removed woman [defiled by the blood she shed]. 18 Wherefore I poured my fury upon them for the blood that they had shed upon the land [‘erets – the earth], and for their idols wherewith they had polluted it: 19 And I scattered them among the heathen, and they were dispersed through the countries [‘erets – the earth]: according to their way and according to their doings I judged them. 20 And when they entered unto the heathen, whither they went, they profaned [blasphemed] my holy name, when they said to them, These are the people of the LORD, and are gone forth out of his land [‘erets – left the earth as given by the LORD, for which, the blood they shed, the life they drain away with their words and ways they put in My place, I Am demonized and vilified]. 21 But I had pity for my holy name [My true identity manifested], which the house of Israel had profaned [blasphemed] among the heathen, whither they went. 22 Therefore say unto the house of Israel, thus says the LORD God [‘Adonay Jehovih, the King of kings and LORD of lords]; I do not this for your sakes, O house of Israel, but for my holy name’s sake, which you have profaned [blaspheming My identity manifested], among the heathen, whither you went. 23 And I will sanctify my great [gadowl – megaleios] name [glory revealed], which was profaned [blasphemed] among the heathen, which you have profaned [blasphemed] in the midst of them; and the heathen shall know that I Am the LORD, says the LORD God [‘Adonay Jehovih, the King of kings and LORD of lords], when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes. 24 For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries [‘erets – all the earth], and will bring you into your own land [‘adamah – this new generation I Am creating]. 25 Then will I sprinkle clean [tahowr, from taher] water [this purified word] upon you, and you shall be clean [taher – bright: enlightened by purification]: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse [taher] you. 26 A new heart [mind] also will I give you, and a new [cleansed from the evil possessing you] spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart [needing to constantly hear My word from someone else] out of your flesh, and I will give you a [new] heart [mind with a co-perspective with Mine] of [written into your] flesh. [As in Jeremiah 31:33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, says the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. 34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, says the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.] 27 And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and you shall keep my judgments, and do them. 28 And you shall dwell in the land [‘erets – the earth] that I gave to your fathers; and you shall be my people, and I will be your God. 29 I will also save you from all your uncleanness: and I will call for the corn, and will increase it, and lay no famine [for hearing this word of God] upon you. 30 And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that you shall receive no more reproach of famine among the heathen [resulting from not giving this word of God, as commanded, to those who haven’t known Me, for all shall know Me]. 31 Then shall you remember your own evil ways, and your doings that were not good, and shall lotahe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations [you created, put in My place, and called by My name]. 32 Not for your sakes do I this, says the LORD God [‘Adonay Jehovih, the King of kings and LORD of lords], be it known unto you: be ashamed and confounded for your own ways, O house of Israel. 33 Thus says the LORD God [‘Adonay Jehovih, the King of kings and LORD of lords]; In the day that I shall have cleansed [taher – enlighten] you from all your iniquities I will also cause you to dwell in the cities, and the wastes shall be built. 34 And the desolate land [‘erets – earth] shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by. 35 And they shall say, This land [‘erets – this old and corrupt earth] that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are become fenced [protected from the attacks of evil, by their new minds], and are inhabited. 36 Then the heathen [who refuse to know Me] that are left round about you shall know that I the LORD build the ruined places, and plant that that was desolate: I the LORD have spoken it, and I will do it. 37 Thus says the LORD God [‘Adonay Jehovih, the King of kings and LORD of lords]; I will yet for this be enquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them; I will increase them with men like a flock. 38 As the holy flock, as the flock of [New Heavenly] Jerusalem in her solemn feasts; so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
Luke 1 28 And the angel came in unto her [Mary, the rebel who now rebels against the corrupt institutional status quo in church and state], and said, Hail, you that are highly favored [charitoo – only appearing elsewhere in Ephesians 1:6, saying “To the praise of the glory of his grace {charis – this gift given in Divine charity: love}, wherein he has made us accepted {charitoo – the Father magnifying His glory with us and in us} in the beloved {the son of David, I Am, His presence in the perpetual Son: Jesus, Jehovah’s Salvation manifested in the flesh of His chosen}.”], the LORD is with you: blessed are you among women [among all the churches]. 29 And when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying, and cast in her mind [deliberated] what manner of salutation this should be. 30 And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for you have found favor [like Hannah, bringing forth the ONE BODY that hears the Father speaking, and therefore obeys His commands, doing His will] with God. 31 And, behold, you shall conceive in your womb, and bring forth a son, and shall call his name Jesus [Jehovah’s Salvation manifested in His ONE flesh BODY]. 32 He shall be great [megas – the Father’s glory shall be manifest with Him and in Him], and shall be called the Son of the Highest [hupsistos]: and the LORD God shall give unto him the throne of his father David: 33 And he shall reign over the house of Jacob forever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end. 34 Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man? 35 And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost [the LORD speaking and working unknown until His presence is realized therein] shall come upon you, and the power of the Highest [hupsistos] shall overshadow you [blocking the false light that has blinded all the world to His presence]: therefore also that holy [pure] thing which shall be born of you shall be called the Son of God. 36 And, behold, your cousin Elisabeth [the oath, the sign, of the end promised end], she has also conceived a son in her old age: and this is the sixth month with her, who was called barren. 37 For with God nothing shall be impossible. 38 And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the LORD; be it unto me according to your word. And the angel departed from her. 39 And Mary arose in those days, and went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Juda [Judah – among the leaders of God people]; 40 And entered into the house of Zacharias [Zechariah, who remember {zakar} Yahh], and saluted Elisabeth. 41 And it came to pass, that, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost: 42 And she [opened her mouth as the LORD commanded] spoke out with a loud voice, and said, Blessed are you among women [among all the churches], and blessed is the fruit of your womb [The ONE BODY of Christ]. 43 And whence is this to me, that the mother of my LORD should come to me? 44 For, lo, as soon as the voice of your salutation sounded in my ears, the babe [the pure word of God in her] leaped in my womb for joy [recognizing the LORD’s voice and realizing His presence]. 45 And blessed is she that believed [the voice heard is the LORD’s]: for there shall be a performance [teleiosis – completion and verification] of those things which were told her from the LORD. 46 And Mary said, My soul does magnify [megaluno – magnify the glory of] the LORD, 47 And my spirit has rejoiced in [recognizing and realizing] God my Savior. 48 For he has regarded the low estate of his handmaiden: for, behold, from henceforth all generations [that come after this first generation] shall call me blessed. 49 For he that is mighty has done to me great things [megaleios – magnifying His glory has enlarged us]; and holy is his name [His identity revealed]. 50 And his mercy is on them that fear him from generation to generation. 51 He has shown strength with his arm [His word in which He is revealed in the report heard as His voice declaring Himself]; he has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts [the inventions of their minds, falsehoods with which they war against the Almighty]. 52 He has put down the mighty from their seats [of power], and exalted [hupsoo – above all other voices] them of low degree. 53 He has filled the hungry with [His] good things [these treasures]; and the rich [of this corrupt world, the powers who reject Him] he has sent empty away. 54 He has helped his servant Israel [we the seed {sons, children of His promise} He awakens in the furnace, when we possess the gate of our enemies, as He promised Abraham – see Genesis 15:17 & 22:17], in remembrance of his mercy [magnifying His presence]; 55 As he spoke to our fathers, to Abraham, and to his seed forever.
1 John 3 1 Behold, what manner of love the Father has bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knows us not, because it knew him not. 2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it does not yet appear [phaneroo – is not yet apparent] what we shall be [become]: but we know that, when he shall appear [phaneroo – becomes apparent], we shall be [become] like him; for we shall see him [again] as he is [yesterday, today, and forever]. 3 And every man that has this hope in him purifies himself [of the corruption that blinds us to his forever presence], even as he is pure [of corruption]. [Matthew 5:8 Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God. Hebrews 13:5 Let your conversation {with the LORD} be without covetousness {corruption}; and be content with such things {these gifts of the LORD} 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 {the LORD is alive in} them which {He sends to} 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 {these treasures are given so} that the heart be established with {the LORD’s} grace; not with meats {dead flesh speaking things men covet, not what they need}, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.] 4 Whosoever commits sin [hamartia – to miss the mark aimed at, and therefore doesn’t share in the prize: our inheritance, dwelling in, joining, the LORD in full understanding, heaven, which is light and eternal life] transgresses also the law [anomia – is without the law, not obeying the great commandments upon which all the law and prophets hang]: for sin [hamartia] is the transgression the law [anomia – not obeying the LORD’s commands]. 5 And you know that he was manifested [phaneroo – is made apparent by His light] to take away our sins [hamartia]; and in him is no sin [hamartia – no missing the target]. [John 14:19 Yet a little while, and the world sees me no more; but you see me: because I live, you shall live also. 20 At that day {today is the day of salvation} 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 [emphanizo – “to exhibit (in person) or disclose (by words)”] myself to him. 6 Whosoever abides in him [in His light] sins [hamartia – misses] not [the mark]: whosoever sins [hamartia] has not seen him, neither known him. 7 Little children, let no man deceive you: he that does righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous. 8 He that commits sin [hamartia] is of the devil [a product of the false preachers and false teachers mixed among us: misleaders possessed by Satan: evil embodied in his one dead body]; for the devil sinned [hamartano] from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested [phaneroo – is made apparent], that he might destroy the works of the devil. 9 Whosoever is born of God [by correction become his children] does not commit sin [hamartia] for his [good] seed remains in him: and he cannot sin [hamartano], because he is born of God. 10 In this the children of God are manifest [phaneros – referring back to verse 2, when we see him as he is and become like Him], and the children of the devil [the dead who keep not, obey not, His commands]: whosoever does not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loves not his brother [as commanded]. 11 For this is the message that you heard from the beginning, that we should love [giving this word of God as received] one another. 12 Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous. 13 Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you. 14 We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loves not his brother abides in death. 15 Whosoever hates his brother is a murderer: and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him. 16 Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. 17 But whoso has this world’s good [these treasures given by the LORD, to be given as received, the good news of His presence made apparent with us, in us – if they speak not according to this word it is because there is no light, no life, in them or their words], and sees his brother have need, and shuts up his bowels of compassion from him [keeping these treasure inside himself and not giving them as commanded], how dwells the love of God in him? 18 My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue [based on self-conceit, pride in your own opinions, exalting them above truth, saying your words and ways are the love of God]; but in deed [giving as the LORD has given, doing His work] and in truth. 19 And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure [peitho – convinced, be in agreement, in accord speaking His words] our hearts before him [our minds manifesting His presence]. 20 For if our heart [minds] condemn [kataginosko – cast down this knowledge] us [to not obeying His commands, not convinced of His presence], God is greater than our heart, and knows all things. 21 Beloved, if our heart condemn [kataginosko] us not [receiving this knowledge, knowing it’s Him], then have we confidence [parrhesia – “all out-spokenness, i.e. frankness, bluntness, publicity; by implication, assurance”] toward [pros – pertaining to] God [Yahh – to whom all good things appertain]. 22 And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight. 23 And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name [identity] of his Son Jesus Christ, and love [agapao – ago apo: lead away; out of darkness] one another, as he gave us commandment [to give this word as received]. 24 And he that keeps his commandments dwells in him [in His light], and he [His light: life] in him. And hereby we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit [His presence come to us unknown speaking and working, giving us His hidden {in darkness} treasures] which he has given us.
Isaiah 22 1 The burden of the valley of vision [chizzayown – revelation of this expected end]. What ails you now, that you are wholly gone up to the housetops? 2 You that are full of stirs, a tumultuous city, joyous city: your slain men are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle. 3 All your rulers are fled together, they are bound by the archers: all that are found in you are bound together, which have fled from far [rachowq – this time when the earth is rule by the evil decrees of wicked men in power]. 4 Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labor not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people. 5 For it is a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of perplexity by the LORD God [‘Adonay Jehovih – the King of kings and LORD of lords] of hosts in the valley of vision [chizzayown], breaking down the walls [the lies that protect the wicked powers], and of crying to [showa’ – freedom from] the mountains [the wicked in power]. 6 And Elam bare the quiver [all the children of eternity, carryied as] with chariots of men and horsemen [into this battle], and Kir [the wall of lies] uncovered the shield [the defense the LORD prepared against this time]. 7 And it shall come to pass, that your choicest valleys shall be full of chariots, and the horsemen shall set themselves in [battle] array at the gate [of the enemies]. 8 And he [the LORD] discovered [removed in this apocalypse] the covering of Judah [the lies upon which hangs all their misleading works], and you did look in that day to the armor [to equip My army] of the house of the forest [Hareth, where David was again given the sword of Goliath, which he earlier uncovered]. 9 You have seen also the breaches of the city of David, that they are many: and you gathered together the waters [the words of the wicked] of the lower pool. 10 And you have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses have you broken down to fortify the wall [of lies]. 11 You made also a ditch between the two walls [of false prophets and false teachers] for the water of the old pool [to withhold this word of God, not giving it free course]: but you have not looked unto the maker thereof, neither had respect unto him that fashioned it long ago. 12 And in that day did the LORD God [‘Adonay Jehovih] of hosts [because of the violence these wicked men have done to the LORD’s given word] call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth: 13 And behold [instead] joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we shall die. 14 And it was revealed in my ears by the LORD of hosts, Surely this iniquity shall not be purged from you till you die [and all these wicked men are, without My Spirit, dead], says the LORD God of hosts. 15 Thus says the LORD God of hosts, Go, get you unto this treasurer [where these treasure should be found and heard], even unto Shebna [who should be alive and giving life], which is over the house, and say, 16 What have you here? and whom have you here, that you have hewed you out a sepulcher here [and made it a place where the dead and death are found], as he that hews him out a sepulcher on high, and that graven a habitation for himself [among the dead] in a rock [in this place where men look for understanding, but instead are given the creation of evil men, in which the dead trust]? 17 Behold, the LORD will carry you away with a mighty captivity, and will surely cover you [close your mouths]. 18 He will surely violently turn and toss you like a ball into a large country: there shall you die, and there the chariots of your glory shall be the shame of your [evil] lord’s house. 19 And I will drive you from your station, and from your state shall he pull you down. 20 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim [who God raises] the son of Hilkiah [whose inheritance is Jehovah]: 21 And I will clothe him with your robe [Joseph’s coat, which was taken from Him, as the LORD’s vesture was taken from Him at the cross], and strengthen him with your girdle [this preparation prepared for Shiloh], and I will commit your [now in the hands of the spiritually wicked] government into his hand: and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of [New Heavenly] Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah [the new crop of God’s leaders He with me raise]. 22 And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; so he shall open [as He has], and none shall shut; and he shall shut [as He has], and none shall open. 23 And I [My Father] will fasten him as a nail in a sure place [that can be trusted]; and he shall be for a glorious throne to his father’s house. 24 And they shall hang [talah] upon him all the glory of his father’s house, [all the blessings of] the offspring [upon Joseph’s seed] and the issue, all vessels of small quantity, from the vessels of cups, even to all the vessels of flagons. 25 In that day, says the LORD of hosts, shall the nail that is fastened in the sure place [the current corrupt governments of church and state] be removed, and be cut down, and fall; and the burden that was upon it shall be cut off: for the LORD has spoken it.
Psalms 3 1 LORD, how are they increased that trouble me! many are they that rise up against me. 2 Many there be which say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. Selah. 3 But you, O LORD, are a shield [uncovered] for me; my glory, and the lifter up of my head. 4 I cried unto the LORD with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill. Selah. 5 I laid me down and slept [in death]; I awaked [into life]; for the LORD sustained me. 6 I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, that have set themselves against me round about. 7 Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God: for you have smitten all my enemies upon the cheek bone; you have broken the teeth of the ungodly. 8 Salvation belongs unto the LORD: your blessing is [these treasures] upon your people. Selah.
