19 / 11 / 2024

For indeed I am raising up the Chaldeans, a bitter and hasty nation  / O coastlands which marches through the breadth of the earth, to possess dwelling places that are not their. They are terrible and dreadful; their judgment and their dignity proceed from themselves. Their horses also are swifter than leopards, and more fierce than evening wolves.Their chargers charge ahead; their cavalry comes from afar; they fly as the eagle that hastens to eat. They all come for violence; their faces are set like the east wind.They gather captives like sand. They scoff at kings, and princes are scorned by them.They deride every stronghold, for they heap up earthen mounds and seize it. Then his / this world mind changes, and he transgress; he commit offense, ascribing this power to his god /Levianthan the fleeing serpent. Are You not from everlasting, O LORD my God, my Holy One? We shall not die. O LORD, You have appointed them for judgment; O Rock, You have marked them for correction. You are of purer eyes than to behold evil, and cannot look on wickedness. Why do You look on those who deal tracherously, and hold Your tongue when the wicked devours a person more righteous than he? Why do You make men like fish of the sea, like creeping things / this image of jealousy / Levianthan that twisted serpent / this world that have no ruler over them? They take up all of them with a  hook, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their dragnet. Therefore they rejoice and are glad. Therefore they sacrifice to their net, and burn incense to their dragnet; because by them their share is sumptuous and their food plentiful. Shall they therefore empty their net, and continue to slay nations without pity? HABAKKUK 1:6-17

                                        And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, on the fifth day of the month, as I sat in my house with elders of Judah sitting before me, that the hand of the Lord GOD fell upon me there. Then I looked, and there was a likeness, like the appearnance of fire - from the appearance of His waist and downward, fire; and from His waist and upward, like the appearnce of brightness, like the color of amber. He stretched out the form of a hand, and took me by a lock of my hair; and the Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven, and brought me in vision of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the north gate of the inner court, where the seat of the image of jealousy was, which provokes to jealousy. And behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, like the vision that I saw in the plain. Then He said to me, "Son of man, lift your eyes now toward the north." So I lifted my eyes toward north, and there, north of the altar gate, was this image of jeaolousy in the enterance. Futhermore He said to me, "Son of man, do you see what they are doing, the great abominations that the house of Israel commit here, to make Me go far away from My sanctuary? Now turn again, you will see great abomination." So He brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, there was a hole in the wall. Then He said me, "Son of man, dig into the wall"; and when I dug into the wall, there was a door. And He said to me, "Go in, and see the wicked abominations which they are doing there." So I went in and saw, and there - every sort of creeping thing, abominable beasts, and all idols of the house of Israel, portrayed all around the walls. And there stood before them seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel, and in their midst stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan. Each man had a censer in his hand, and a thick cloud of incense went up. Then He said to me, "Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the room of his idols? For they say, 'The LORD does not see us, the LORD has forsaken the land.' " And He said to me, "Turn again and you will see greater abomination that they are doing."  So He brought me to the door of the north gate of the LORD's house; and to my dismay, woman were sitting there weeping for Tammuz. Then He said to me, "Have you seen this, O son of men? Turn again, you will see greater abominations than these. "So he brought me into the inner court of the LORD's house; and there, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and altar, were about twenty - five men with their backs toward the temple of the LORD and ther faces toward the east, and they were worshiping the sun toward the east. Ezekiel 8:1-16

                                          O LORD, You are my God. I will exalt You, I will praise Your name, for You have done wonderful things, Your counsels of old are faithfulness and truth. For You have made a city a ruin, a fortified city a ruin, a palace of foreigners to be a city no more: it will never be rebuilt. Therefore the strong people will glorify You; the city of terrible nations will fear You. For You have been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuse from the strom, a shade from the heat; for the blast off terrible ones is a strom against the wall You will reduce the noise of aliens, as heat in a dry palace; as heat in the shadow of a cloud, the song of the terrible ones ( this world,  the prince of power of  the air, the spirit who / a woman sitting in the basket now work in the son of disobedience ) will be diminish. And in this mountain the LORD of hosts will make for all people a feast of choice pieces, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of well–refined wines on the lees. And He will destroy on this mountain the surface of the covering cast over all people, and the veil that is spread over all nations. He will swallow up death forever, and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from all faces; the rebuke of His people He will take away from all the earth; for the LORD has spoken. And it will be said in that day: ”Behold, this is our God; we have waited for Him; and He will save us.This is the LORD; we have waited for Him; we will be glad and rejoice in His salvation.”  iSAIAH 25:1-9

                                LISTEN, O coastlands, to Me, and take heed, you peoples from afar! The LORD has called Me from the womb; from the matrix of My mother He has made mention of My name.  And He has made My mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of His hand He has hidden Me, and a polished shaft; in His quiver He has hidden Me." And He said to me, 'You are My servant, O Israel,  in whom I will be glorified.' Then I said, ''I have lobaored in vain, I have spent my strength for nothing and in vain; yet surely my just reward with the LORD, and my work with my God.'"  "And now the LORD says, who formed Me from the womb to be His Servant, to bring Jacob back to Him, so that Israel is gathered to Him ( For I shall be glorious in the eyes of the LORD, and My God shall be My strength ),  Indeed He says, 'It is too small thing that You should be Me Servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved ones of Israel; I will also give You  as light to the Gentiles, that You should be My salvation to the ends of the earth.' " Thus  says the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, their Holy One, to Him whom man despises, to Him whom the nations abhors, to the servants of rulers: "Kings, shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of the LORD who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel; and He has chosen you." Thus says the LORD: "In an acceptable time I have heard You, and in the day of salvation I have helped You; I will preserve You  and give You as a covenant to the people, to restore the earth, to cause them to inherit the desolate heritages; That You may say to the prisoners, 'Go forth,' to those who are in darkness, 'Show yourselves.' "They shall feed along the roads, and their pastures shall be on all desolate heights. They shall neither hunger nor thrist, neither heat  nor shall strike them; for He who has mercy on them will lead them, even by the springs of water He guide them. I will make each of My mountains a road, and My highways shall be elevated. Surely these shall come from afar; look! Those from the north and the west, and these from the land of Sinim. " Sing, O heavens! Be joyful, O earth! And break out in singing, O mountains! For the LORD has comforted His people, and will have mercy on His afflicted. But Zion said, "The LORD has forsaken me, and my Lord has forgotten me." Can a woman forget her nursing child, and have compassion on the son of her womb? Surely they may forget, yet I will not forget you. See, I have inscribed you on the palms of My hands; your walls are  continually before Me. Your sons shall make haste; your destroyers and those who laid you waste shall go away from you. Lift up your eyes, look around and see; all these gather togather and come to you. As I live, "says the LORD, "You shall surely clothe yourselves with them all as an ornament, and bind them on you as a bride does. "For your waste and desolate  places, and the land of your destruction, will even now be too small for inhabitants; and those who swallowed you up will be far away. The children you will have, after you have lost the others, will say again in your ears, 'The place is too small for me; give me a place where I may dwell.' Then you will say in your heart, 'Who has begotten these for me, since I have lost my children and am desolate, a captive, and wandering to and fro? And who has brought these up? There I was left alone; but these, where were they? ' " Thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, I will lift My hand in an oath to nations, and set up My standard for the peoples; they shall bring your sons in their arms, and your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders; Kings shall be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers; they shall bow down to you with  their faces to the earth, and lick up the dust of your feet. Then you will know that I am the LORD, for they shall not be ashamed who wait for Me. Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the captives of the righteous be delivered? But thus says the LORD: "Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible / the image of jealousy / like creeping things / this world / Levianthan that twisted serpent be delivered; for I contend with him who contends with you, and I will save your children. I feed those who oppress you with their own flesh, and they shall be drink with their own blood as with sweet wine. All flesh shall know that I, the LORD, am your Savior, your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob." ISAIAH  49:1-26

                                         "I was sought by those who did not ask for Me; I was found by those who did not seek Me. I said, 'Here I am, here I am, 'to a nation / O coastlands / a bitter and hasty nation / a rebellious people that was not called by My name. I have stretched out My hands all day long to a rebellious people, who walk in way that is not good,  according to their own thoughts; A people who provoke Me to anger continually to My face; who sacrifice in gardens, and burn incense to altars of brick; Who sit among the graves, and spend the night in the tombs; who eat swine's flesh, and the broth of abominable things is in their vessels. Who say, 'Keep to yourself, do not come near me, for I am holier than you! 'These are smoke in My nostrils, a fire that burns all the days. "Behold, it is written before Me: I will not keep silence, but will repay - even repay into their bosom -  Your iniquities and the iniquities of your fathers togather, "says the LORD, "Who have burned incense on the mountains and blasphemed Me on the hills; therefore I will measure their former work into their bosom." Thus says the LORD: "As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one says, 'Do not destroy it, for a blessing is in it, 'so will I do for My servants' sake, that I may not destroy them all. I will bring forth the descendants from Jacob, and from Judah an heir of My mountains; My elect shall inherit it, and My servant shall dwell there. Sharon shall be fold of flocks, and the Valley of Achor a place for herds to lie down, for My people who have sought Me. "But you are those who farsake the LORD, who forget My holy mountain, who prepre  a table for Gad, and who furnish a drink offering for Meni. Therefore I will number you for the sword, and you shall all bow down to the slaughter; because, when I called, you did not answer; when I spoke, you did not hear, but did evil before My eyes, and chose that in which I do not delight. Therfore thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, My servants shall eat, but you shall be hungery; behold, My servants shall drink, but you shall be thirsty; behold, My sevants shall rejoice, but you shall be ashamed; Behold, My servant shall sing for joy of heart, but you shall cry for sorrow of heart, and wail for grief of spirit.  You shall leave your name as acurse to My choosen; for the Lord GOD will slay you, and call His servants by another name; So that he who blessed himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth; and he who swears in the earth shall swear by the God of truth; becuase the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hidden from My eyes.  "For behold, I creat new heaven and a new earth; and former shall not be remembered or come to mind. But be glad and rejoice forever in what I creat; for behold, I creat Jerusalem as rejoicing, and her people a joy. I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in My people; the voice of weeping shall no longer be heard in her, nor the voice of crying. "No more shall an infant from there lives but a few days, nor an old man who has not fulfilled his days; for the child shall die one hundred years old, but the sinner being one hundred years old shall be accursed. They shall build houses and inhabit them; they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit. They shall not build and another inhabit; they shall not plant and another eat; for as the days of  a tree, so shall be the days of My people, and My elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands. They shall not labor in vain, nor bring forth children for trouble; for they shall be the descendants of the blessed of the LORD, and their offspring with them. "It shall come to pass that before they call, I will answer; and while they are still speaking, I will hear. The wolf and the lamb shall freed togather, the lion shall eat straw like the ox, and dust shall be the serpent's food. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain," says the LORD. ISAIAH 65:1-25

                                              IN that day the LORD with His severe sword, great and strong, will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent / the evil one / the flesh / the world / thatserpent of old of the earth, Leviathan that twisted serpent / this world; and He will slay the reptile that is in the sea. In that day sing to her, "A vineyard of red wine! I, the LORD, keep it, I water it every moment; lest any hurt it, I keep it night and day. Fury is not in Me, who would set briers and throns against Me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them togather. Or let him take hold of My strength, that he may make peace with Me; and he shall peace with Me." Those who come He shall cause to take root in Jacob; Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.  Has He struck Israel as He struck those who struck him? Or has He been slain according to the slaughter of those who were slain by Him? In measure, by sending it away, you contended with it. He removes it by His rough wind in the day of the east wind. Therefore by this the iniquity of Jacob will be covered; and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: when he makes all the stones of the altar like chalkstones that are beaten to dust, wooden images and incense altars shall not stand. Yet the fortified city will be desolate, the habitation forsaken and left like a wilderness; there the calf will feed, and ther it will lie down and consume its branches. When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off; the woman come and set them on fire. For it is a people of no understanding; therefore He who made them will not have mercy on them, and He who formed then will show them no favor. And it shall come to pass in that day that the LORD will thresh, from the channel of the River to the Brook of Egypt; and you will be gathered one by one, O you children of Israel. So it shall be in that day: the great trumpt will be blown; they will come,who are about to perish in the land of Assyria,and they who are outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem. ISAIAH 27:1-13 

                   THEN I turned and raised my eyes, and saw there was a flying scroll. And he said to me, "What do you see?" So I answered, "I see a flying scrol. Its length is twenty cubits and its width ten cubit. Then he said to me, "This is the curse that go over the face of whole earth: 'Every thief shall be expelled,' according to this side of the scroll; and, 'Every perjurer shall be expelled, 'according to that side of it. "I will send out the curse, "says the LORD of hosts; "It shall enter the house of thief and the house of the one who swears falsely by My name. It shall remain in the midst of his house and consume it, with its timber and stones. Then the angel who talked with me came out and said to me, "Lift your eyes now, and see what is that goes forth. So I asked, "What is it?" And he said, "It is a basket that is going forth, "He said, "This is their resemblance throughout the earth: "Here is a lead disc lifted up, and the spirit who / this is a woman sitting inside the basket now works in the sons of disobedience. Then he said, "This is wickedness! "And he thrust her down into the basket, and threw the lead cover over its mouth. Then I raised my eyes and looked, and there were two women, coming with the wind in their wings; for they had wings like the wings of a stroke, and they lifted up the basket between earth and heaven. So I said the angel who talked with me, "Where are they carrying the basket?" And he said to me, "To build a house for it in the land of Shinar; when it is ready, the basket will be set there on its base." ZECHARIAH 5:1-11                   

                              Then I saw another beast / the spirit of the Egypt coming up out of the earth, and he had two horns like a lamb and spoke like a dragon. And he excercise all authority of the first beast in his presence, and cause the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. He performs great signs, so that he even makes fire come down from heaven on the earth in sight of men. And he decieves those who dwell on the earth by those signs which he was granted do in the sight of the beast, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast who was wounded by the sword and lived. He was granted power to give breath to the image of the beast / a forth beast / the son of perdition, that the image of the beast should both speak and cause many as would not worship the image of beast to be killed. He cause all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to recieve a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, And that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His name is 666 / a little horn / the false prophet / a perverse spirit. REVELATION 13:11-18

                                            "After this I looked, and there was another, like a leopard / the beast, which had on its back four wing of a bird. The beast / like a leopard also had four heads, and dominion was given on earth to it. DANIEL 7:6  

                                        "After this I saw in the vision, and behold, a fourth beast / image of the beast / the son of perdition, dreadful and terrible, exceedingly strong. It had huge iron teeth; it was devoured, breaking in pieces, and tramped the residue with its feet. It was differnt from it, and it had ten horns. "I was considering the horns, and there was another horn, a little one / 666 / a perverse spirit / the false prophet, coming up among them, before whom three of the first horns were plucked up by the roots. And there, in this horn, were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking pompous words. "I watched till thrones were put in place, and the Ancient of Days was seated; His garment was white as snow, and the hair of His head was like  pure wool. His throne was a fiery flame, its wheels a burning fire; A fiery stream issued and came forth from before Him. A thousand thousands ministered to Him; ten thousand times ten thousand stood before Him. The court was seated, and the books were opened.  "I watched then because of the sound of the pompous words which the horn was speaking; I watched till the beast was slain, and its body destroyed and given to the burning flame. "As for the rest of the beasts, they had their dominion taken away, yet their lives were prolonged for a season and a time. "I was watching in the night vision, and One like the Son of Man / LORD, coming with clouds of heaven! He came to the Ancient of Days, and they brought Him near before Him. Then to Him was given dominion and glory and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages should serve Him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and His kingdom the one which shall not be destroyed. " I Daniel, was grieved in my spirit within my body, and the vision of my head troubled me. "I came near to one of those who stood by, and asked him the truth by and asked him the truth of all this. So he told me and made known to me the interpretation of these things. 'Those great beasts, which are four, are four kings arise out of the earth. 'But the saints of Most High shall recieve the kingdom, and possess the kingdom forever, even forever and ever.'  "Then I wished to know the truth about the fourth beast, which was exceedingly dreadful, with its teeth of iron and its nails of bronze, which devoured, broke in pieces, and trempled the residue with its feet. "And the ten horns that were on its head, and the other horn which came up, before which three fell, namely, that horn which had eyes and a mouth which spoke pompous words, whose appearnce was greater than his fellows. " I was watching; the same horn was making war against the saints, and prevail against them, "Until the Ancient of Days came, and a judment was made in favor of the saints of Most High, and the time came for the saints to possess the kingdom. "Thus he said: The fourth beast shall be a forth kingdom on earth, which shall be differnt from all other kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth it and break it and break it in pieces. The ten horns are ten kings who shall arise from this kingdom. And another / 666 / the false prophet / a perverse spirit shall rise after them;  he shall be differnt from the first ones, and shall subdue three kings. He shall speak pompous words against the Most High, shall persecute the saints of the Most High, and shall intend to change times and law. Then the saints shall be given into his hand  for a time and times and half a time. 'But the court shall be seated, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and destroy it forever. Then the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people, the saints of Most High. His kingdom is an everlasting  kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey Him. "This is the end of the acount. As for me, Daniel, my thoughts greatly troubled me, and my countenance changed; but I kept the matter im my heart. DANIEL 7:7-28

                                              AND you He made alive, who were dead in tresspasses and sins, In which you once walked according to the course of this world / Levianthan that twisted serpent, accoriding to the prince of the power of the air / 666 / the false prophet / perverse spirit / a little horn, the spirit who / this is a woman sitting in the basket now works in the sons of disobedience. Ephesians 2:1-2