Is God With You?

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SRP > Your Desolate > God has Left You!

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GWY Gaps:

What specific conditions determine whether God's promise to remain with us is conditional or unconditional? How does the concept of apostasy apply to personal faith and everyday life? What are the implications of feeling God's absence, and how can one recognize the signs of desolation in their spiritual journey?

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Goal: God With Us!

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Isa_7: God with Us

The Goal…

Isa_7:14 WEB Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. [Behold: Gen_3:15, Jer_31:22, Mat_1:23, Luk_1:35]

Isa_7:14 LB Therefore the Lord Himself shall give you a sign; behold, a virgin shall conceive in the womb, and shall bring forth a son, and you shall call His name Emmanuel.

Isa_7:14 διὰ τοῦτο δώσει κύριος αὐτὸς ὑμῖν σημεῖον· ἰδοὺ ἡ παρθένος ἐν γαστρὶ ἕξει καὶ τέξεται υἱόν, καὶ καλέσεις τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ Εμμανουηλ·

Isa_7:14 NKJV Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel.

Mat_1: Jesus Fulfilled ‘God With Us’!

Mat_1:22 CAB Now all this came to pass that the thing spoken by the Lord through the prophet might be fulfilled, saying,

Mat_1:22 Τοῦτο δὲ ὅλον γέγονεν ἵνα πληρωθῇ τὸ ῥηθὲν ὑπὸ τοῦ Κυρίου διὰ τοῦ προφήτου λέγοντος·

Mat_1:22 τουτο δε ολον γεγονεν ινα πληρωθη το ρηθεν υπο TSBτου κυριου δια του προφητου λεγοντος

Mat_1:23 "Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel," which is translated, "God with us."

Mat_1:23 ἰδοὺ ἡ παρθένος ἐν γαστρὶ ἕξει καὶ τέξεται υἱόν, καὶ καλέσουσι τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ ᾿Εμμανουήλ, ὅ ἐστι μεθερμηνευόμενον, μεθ᾿ ἡμῶν ὁ Θεός.

Mat_1:23 NKJV Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and bear a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel, which is translated, “God with us.”

√ GNT-V

Isa_8: Our Enemies = Defeated, When God is With Us!

Isa_8:7 WEB now therefore, behold, the Lord brings upon them the mighty flood waters of the River: the king of Assyria and all his glory. It will come up over all its channels, and go over all its banks.

Isa_8:7 LB therefore behold, the Lord shall bring upon you the water of the river, strong and abundant, even the king of the Assyrians, and his glory; and he shall come up over every valley of yours, and shall walk over every wall of yours;

Isa_8:7 διὰ τοῦτο ἰδοὺ ἀνάγει κύριος ἐφ᾿ ὑμᾶς τὸ ὕδωρ τοῦ ποταμοῦ τὸ ἰσχυρὸν καὶ τὸ πολύ, τὸν βασιλέα τῶν Ἀσσυρίων καὶ τὴν δόξαν αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἀναβήσεται ἐπὶ πᾶσαν φάραγγα ὑμῶν καὶ περιπατήσει ἐπὶ πᾶν τεῖχος ὑμῶν

Isa_8:8 WEB It will sweep onward into Judah. It will overflow and pass through; it will reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of its wings will fill the breadth of your land, Immanuel.

Isa_8:8 and he shall take away from Judah every man who shall be able to lift up his head, and everyone able to accomplish anything; and his camp shall fill the breadth of your land, O Immanuel.” [μεθ᾿ ἡμῶν ὁ θεός]

Isa_8:8 καὶ ἀφελεῖ ἀπὸ τῆς Ιουδαίας ἄνθρωπον ὃς δυνήσεται κεφαλὴν ἆραι ἢ δυνατὸν συντελέσασθαί τι, καὶ ἔσται ἡ παρεμβολὴ αὐτοῦ ὥστε πληρῶσαι τὸ πλάτος τῆς χώρας σου· μεθ᾿ ἡμῶν ὁ θεός.

Isa_8:9 WEB Make an uproar, you peoples, and be broken in pieces! Listen, all you from far countries: dress for battle, and be shattered! Dress for battle, and be shattered!

Isa_8:9 Know, you Gentiles, and be conquered [ἡττᾶσθε ← ἡττάω (Google: to make inferior, to vanquish); 2Co_12:13: Aησσωθητε TSBηττηθητε υπερ τας λοιπας εκκλησιας]; listen, even to the extremity of the earth; be conquered [ἡττᾶσθε], after you strengthened yourselves; for even if you should again strengthen yourselves, you shall again be conquered. [ἡττηθήσεσθε]

Isa_8:9 γνῶτε ἔθνη καὶ ἡττᾶσθε, ἐπακούσατε ἕως ἐσχάτου τῆς γῆς, ἰσχυκότες ἡττᾶσθε· ἐὰν γὰρ πάλιν ἰσχύσητε, πάλιν ἡττηθήσεσθε.

Isa_8:10 WEB Take counsel together, and it will be brought to nothing; speak the word, and it will not stand: for God is with us."

Isa_8:10 And whatever counsel you shall take, the Lord shall bring it to nought; and whatever word you shall speak, it shall not stand among you; for [|our Lord|, the] God is with us [ὅτι μεθ᾿ ἡμῶν κύριος ὁ θεός].

Isa_8:10 καὶ ἣν ἂν βουλεύσησθε βουλήν, διασκεδάσει κύριος, καὶ λόγον ὃν ἐὰν λαλήσητε, οὐ μὴ ἐμμείνῃ ὑμῖν, ὅτι μεθ᾿ ἡμῶν κύριος ὁ θεός.

Isa_8:8 NKJV He will pass through Judah, He will overflow and pass over, He will reach up to the neck; And the stretching out of his wings will fill the breadth of Your land, O Immanuel.

Isa_8:10 NKJV Take counsel together, but it will come to nothing; Speak the word, but it will not stand, For God is with us.

Notice that when God is with you (i.e. Immanuel), whenever your enemies try to attack you God is going to crush them!

So…

Isa_7: God with us = The Goal of our entire life & Salvation…! > Isa_50: Isa_52: Isa_53:

Stop doubting and testing God…

Exo_17:7 – they tested the Lord by saying, “Is the Lord among us or not?”

But instead obey everything He says so that He will be with you and destroy all of your enemies!

Feeling God in Church

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Unholy Feelings

· Feeling What?: When church people have experiences of supposedly "feeling God" what's actually going on?

· Apostasy: We know that virtually all modern churches are living in rebellion and apostasy and as the Scripture says

>>Scrip: ES

2Pe_2:14 – They cannot cease from sin

2Pe_2:14 NKJV having eyes full of adultery and that cannot cease from sin, enticing unstable souls. They have a heart trained in covetous practices, and are accursed children.

Jer_13:23 NKJV Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard its spots? Then may you also do good who are accustomed to do evil.

Joh_8:34 NKJV Jesus answered them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, whoever commits sin is a slave of sin.”

Sinful Presence

Unbiblical Presence -- While Living in Sin

So why is it that church people have these reported experiences of feeling god, even though we all know they've never really repented from their commitment to keep on sinning?

Psychology of “Feeling god”

A careful analysis of church psychology is very much needed, because that's actually what we're dealing with here: soulishness/psychology!

Soul Created -- Good, by God

Reminders, to be clear:

God created the soul when he created Adam by spiriting into his nostrils the breath of Life which then combined with the dirt to birth and generate a living soul inside of Adam's formed being.

So psychology could have its place, which is the study of the soul, or at least in a reductionist sense, the soul's effect on the brain and potentially other systems.

Again, the soul could be good if used in submission under the Truth, by making way for God's Spirit to be Lord over your feelings (that is, your soul).

“Feeling” = a Problem

Therefore we can approach the question of what does it mean to “feel God”?

Already there is a problem:

Feeling is what the soul does.

“Feeling God” is the experience of your soul, which is not the direct connection to God but is actually oriented toward what is demonic, as James so potently and clearly tells us for our salvation.

Reliability

But in any case, your soul should want to feel like God is there, even though you should not ever rely on your soul to tell you the Truth, because even those who seem to feel God are living in sin which makes their feelings worthless and their soul invalidly stimulated in fatal ways that ends in self-flattery and death.

Emotional Feeling

But getting out the root of the matter, we need to see what it means to have a soul, which has emotions, which feels like God is there:

Emotional Resolve

Virtually always humans are happy when they reach emotional resolve.

You need to decide what you are going to commit to and what you're bound to and what you're going to bind yourself to and then you need to live consistently with that, constantly saying yes and no to what you like and dislike, especially at the end of each day so that you have resolved your soul and settled your psychology, which reaches and emotional resolve, and therefore your soul and psychology can conclude that you have successfully lived according to what you decided that you should do, and therefore you can have a sense of success and gratitude toward whatever God you have committed to.

Emotional resolve is the root cause of feeling God's presence in almost every case.

This in and of itself is not a bad principle per se, but it is very foolish to have faith in your own faith.

Think First!

Changing the way you think changes the way you feel, at least in the ultimate conclusion of your soul.

You need to logically prove that God is with you and then you can allow your soul to rejoice that righteousness has been accomplished in your being.

Soulish Failures

But this will never happen in churchanity because sinners are addicted to themselves, and the self-flattery and boasting of the flesh will not end until fiery judgment slams down on the head of sinners and condemns the fattened indulgers in the midst of their gluttony.

Trusting Your Soul = Esau!

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Trusting Emotional Resolve = Hell

Therefore it is a very dangerous thing to celebrate emotional resolve, since this is all church people are doing when they feel God's presence.

This is in fact in the end no different than Esau who cried at first because he felt like he lost the blessing but as long as he got rich and prosperous and successful he was made happy, even by God's Providence to bless Jacob, but walk away under God's curse and hatred.

>>Scrip: ES

Gen_25:34 – Esau sold his birthright

Gen_25:34 NKJV And Jacob gave Esau bread and stew of lentils; then he ate and drank, arose, and went his way. Thus Esau despised his birthright.

Heb_12:16 NKJV lest there be any fornicator or profane person like Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birthright.

Heb_12:17 NKJV For you know that afterward, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for repentance, though he sought it diligently with tears.

Gen_33:9 – Esau said he had enough

Esau said I have everything I need I don't need any presents

Gen_33:9 NKJV But Esau said, “I have enough, my brother; keep what you have for yourself.”

Rev_3:17 NKJV Because you say, “I am rich, have become wealthy, and have need of nothing”—and do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked—

Mal_1:2-3/Rom_9:13 – Esau I have hated

Mal_1:2 NKJV “I have loved you,” says the LORD. “Yet you say, ‘In what way have You loved us?’ Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?” Says the LORD. “Yet Jacob I have loved;

Mal_1:3 NKJV But Esau I have hated, And laid waste his mountains and his heritage For the jackals of the wilderness.”

Rom_9:13 NKJV As it is written, “Jacob I have loved, but Esau I have hated.”

Choices & Conditionality

See: PFO > Conditionality

Predestination-and-Freewill-Obedience.htm#Conditionality

God Won’t Forsake

Deu_31: God Won’t Forsake

Question: Is God Promise to Remain with you conditional or unconditional??

Feel the Apostasy…

We REALLY need to feel the shock how our flattery blinds us and sets us up for failure…

Deu_31:3 WEB Yahweh your God, he will go over before you; he will destroy these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess them: and Joshua, he shall go over before you, as Yahweh has spoken.

Deu_31:3 LB The Lord your God who goes before you, He shall destroy these nations before you, and you shall inherit them: and it shall be that Joshua shall go before your face, as the Lord has spoken.

Deu_31:3 κύριος ὁ θεός σου ὁ προπορευόμενος πρὸ προσώπου σου αὐτὸς ἐξολεθρεύσει τὰ ἔθνη ταῦτα ἀπὸ προσώπου σου, καὶ κατακληρονομήσεις αὐτούς· καὶ Ἰησοῦς ὁ προπορευόμενος πρὸ προσώπου σου, καθὰ ἐλάλησεν κύριος.

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Deu_31:6 WEB Be strong and of good courage, don't be afraid, nor be scared of them: for Yahweh your God, he it is who does go with you; he will not fail you, nor forsake you.

Deu_31:6 LB Be courageous and strong; fear not, neither be cowardly nor afraid before them; for it is the Lord your God that advances with you in the midst of you, neither will He by any means forsake you, nor desert you. [οὐ μή σε ἀνῇ οὔτε μή σε ἐγκαταλίπῃ (Heb_13:5 ≈ Deu_31:6 LXX)]

Deu_31:6 ἀνδρίζου καὶ ἴσχυε, μὴ φοβοῦ μηδὲ δειλία μηδὲ πτοηθῇς ἀπὸ προσώπου αὐτῶν, ὅτι κύριος ὁ θεός σου ὁ προπορευόμενος μεθ᾿ ὑμῶν ἐν ὑμῖν οὐ μή σε ἀνῇ οὔτε μή σε ἐγκαταλίπῃ.

Deu_31:6 NKJV Be strong and of good courage, do not fear nor be afraid of them; for the LORD your God, He is the One who goes with you. He will not leave you nor forsake you.

>> Sync: WKE | GWY | LOW

Comp. with John 10

· Does this say: you cannot forsake God?

· He will be with you even if you leave Him?

Deu_30

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Jos_1: God Won’t Forsake

Comp. (A) Jos_1: God Won’t Forsake, (B) Jos_7: Defeated After the Promise, & (C) Joshua CONDITIONS

Jos_1:5 WEB No man will be able to stand before you [Deu_11:25] all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not fail you nor forsake you.

Jos_1:5 LB Not a man shall stand against you all the days of your life; and as I was with Moses, so will I also be with you, and I will not fail you, or neglect you [οὐκ ἐγκαταλείψω σε οὐδὲ ὑπερόψομαί σε].

Jos_1:5 οὐκ ἀντιστήσεται ἄνθρωπος κατενώπιον ὑμῶν πάσας τὰς ἡμέρας τῆς ζωῆς σου, καὶ ὥσπερ ἤμην μετὰ Μωυσῆ, οὕτως ἔσομαι καὶ μετὰ σοῦ καὶ οὐκ ἐγκαταλείψω σε οὐδὲ ὑπερόψομαί σε.

>> Sync: herein

Is this protection-promise conditional or unconditional??

Jos_1:9 WEB Haven't I commanded you? Be strong and of good courage. Don't be afraid, neither be dismayed: for Yahweh your God is with you wherever you go.

Jos_1:9 LB Behold, I have commanded you; be strong and courageous [ἴσχυε καὶ ἀνδρίζου], be not cowardly [δειλιάσῃς] nor fearful [φοβηθῇς], for the Lord your God is with you in all places in which you go.”

Jos_1:9 ἰδοὺ ἐντέταλμαί σοι· ἴσχυε καὶ ἀνδρίζου, μὴ δειλιάσῃς μηδὲ φοβηθῇς, ὅτι μετὰ σοῦ κύριος ὁ θεός σου εἰς πάντα, οὗ ἐὰν πορεύῃ.

Jos_1:9 NKJV Have I not commanded you? Be strong and of good courage; do not be afraid, nor be dismayed, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go.

>> Sync: WKE | GWY | LOW

>> Sync: herein

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1Sa_12:22 – God will not forsake His people

Psa_37:28 – God will not forsake His saints

Psa_23:4 – though I walk through death’s shadow…

1Sa_12:22 WEB For Yahweh will not forsake his people for his great name's sake, because it has pleased Yahweh to make you a people to himself.

1Sa_12:22 LB For the Lord will not cast off His people for His great name’s sake, because the Lord graciously took you to Himself for a people.

1Sa_12:22 ὅτι οὐκ ἀπώσεται κύριος τὸν λαὸν αὐτοῦ διὰ τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ τὸ μέγα, ὅτι ἐπιεικέως κύριος προσελάβετο ὑμᾶς αὑτῷ εἰς λαόν.

1Sa_12:23 WEB Moreover as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against Yahweh in ceasing to pray for you: but I will instruct you in the good and the right way.

1Sa_12:23 And far be it from me to sin against the Lord in ceasing to pray for you; but I will serve the Lord, and show you the good and right way.

1Sa_12:23 καὶ ἐμοὶ μηδαμῶς τοῦ ἁμαρτεῖν τῷ κυρίῳ ἀνιέναι τοῦ προσεύχεσθαι περὶ ὑμῶν, καὶ δουλεύσω τῷ κυρίῳ καὶ δείξω ὑμῖν τὴν ὁδὸν τὴν ἀγαθὴν καὶ τὴν εὐθεῖαν·

Psa_37:28 WEB For Yahweh loves justice, and doesn't forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.

Psa_37:28 LB For the Lord loves judgment, and will not forsake His saints; they shall be preserved forever; the blameless shall be avenged, but the descendants of the ungodly shall be utterly destroyed.

Psa_37:28 (36:28) ὅτι κύριος ἀγαπᾷ κρίσιν καὶ οὐκ ἐγκαταλείψει τοὺς ὁσίους αὐτοῦ, εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα φυλαχθήσονται. ἄνομοι δὲ ἐκδιωχθήσονται, καὶ σπέρμα ἀσεβῶν ἐξολεθρευθήσεται·

Psa_37:29 WEB The righteous shall inherit the land, and live in it forever.

Psa_37:29 But the righteous shall inherit the earth, and dwell upon it forever.

Psa_37:29 (36:29) δίκαιοι δὲ κληρονομήσουσι γῆν καὶ κατασκηνώσουσιν εἰς αἰῶνα αἰῶνος ἐπ᾿ αὐτῆς.

Heb_13: Money-Liking vs. Divinely Unforsaken

Heb_13:5 CAB Let your way of life be without loving money [᾿Αφιλάργυρος], being satisfied with what you have [ἀρκούμενοι τοῖς παροῦσιν]. For He Himself has said, "By no means shall I desert you, nor in any way shall I forsake you;" [οὐ μή σε ἀνῶ οὐδ᾿ οὐ μή σε ἐγκαταλίπω (Heb_13:5 ≈ Deu_31:6 LXX (comp. Jos_1:5))]

Heb_13:5 ᾿Αφιλάργυρος ὁ τρόπος, ἀρκούμενοι τοῖς παροῦσιν· αὐτὸς γὰρ εἴρηκεν· οὐ μή σε ἀνῶ οὐδ᾿ οὐ μή σε ἐγκαταλίπω·

Deu_31:6 LXX …οὐ μή σε ἀνῇ οὔτε μή σε ἐγκαταλίπῃ

Jos_1:5 …οὐκ ἐγκαταλείψω σε οὐδὲ ὑπερόψομαί σε

Heb_13:5 αφιλαργυρος ο τροπος αρκουμενοι τοις παρουσιν αυτος γαρ ειρηκεν ου μη σε ανω ουδ ου μη σε Bεγκαταλειπω TSAεγκαταλιπω

Heb_13:6 so that being confident, we may say: "The LORD is my helper; I will not fear. What can man do to me?"

Heb_13:6 ὥστε θαρροῦντας ἡμᾶς λέγειν· Κύριος ἐμοὶ βοηθός, καὶ οὐ φοβηθήσομαι· τί ποιήσει μοι ἄνθρωπος;

Heb_13:6 ωστε θαρρουντας ημας λεγειν κυριος εμοι βοηθος Aκαι TSBκαι ου φοβηθησομαι τι ποιησει μοι ανθρωπος

Church people tend to think of this no-leaving guarantee as a NT promise, but it’s actually quoting and OT promise (Deu_31:6; comp. Jos_1:5) as being still applicable today in the same way.

2Co_4:8-9 – Not Forsaken

ES: Treasure in Jars of Clay

2Co_4:7 CAB But we have this treasure in clay vessels, so that the extraordinary character of the power may be of God and not of us;

2Co_4:7 ῎Εχομεν δὲ τὸν θησαυρὸν τοῦτον ἐν ὀστρακίνοις σκεύεσιν, ἵνα ἡ ὑπερβολὴ τῆς δυνάμεως ᾖ τοῦ Θεοῦ καὶ μὴ ἐξ ἡμῶν,

2Co_4:8 in everything being oppressed, yet not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair;

2Co_4:8 ἐν παντὶ θλιβόμενοι ἀλλ᾿ οὐ στενοχωρούμενοι, ἀπορούμενοι ἀλλ᾿ οὐκ ἐξαπορούμενοι,

2Co_4:9 persecuted, but not abandoned [οὐκ ἐγκαταλειπόμενοι]; cast down, but not destroyed;

2Co_4:9 διωκόμενοι ἀλλ᾿ οὐκ ἐγκαταλειπόμενοι, καταβαλλόμενοι ἀλλ᾿ οὐκ ἀπολλύμενοι,

2Co_4:10 always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, so that also the life of Jesus may be revealed in our body.

2Co_4:10 πάντοτε τὴν νέκρωσιν τοῦ Κυρίου ᾿Ιησοῦ ἐν τῷ σώματι περιφέροντες, ἵνα καὶ ἡ ζωὴ τοῦ ᾿Ιησοῦ ἐν τῷ σώματι ἡμῶν φανερωθῇ.

2Co_4:10 παντοτε την νεκρωσιν του TSBκυριου ιησου εν τω σωματι περιφεροντες ινα και η ζωη του ιησου εν τω σωματι ημων φανερωθη

Benefits

· Song: Trading My Sorrows (Yes Lord) by Darrell Evans

· Song celebrates benefits (“Struck down but no destroyed”) -- but where were the qualifying costs??

Costs

· Did you hear any?

Any Conditions for God Being With You?

Are there any Conditions to these protection promises in Deu_31; Jos_1; Heb_13; and 2Co_4???

Forsaken Feelings

1/10/26-1/11/26; other date(s)?; 2/20/26-2/21/26

Righteous Feeling Forsaken

Jacob’s Tragedy -- After Obeying God to Return

>>Scrip:

· Jacob is told to return to his father Isaac

· Jacob wrestles with an Angel

· Jacob is delivered from Esau

· Rachel dies along the way

Jos_7: Defeated After the Promise

Comp. (A) Jos_1: God Won’t Forsake, (B) Jos_7: Defeated After the Promise, & (C) Joshua CONDITIONS

What happened to Joshua?

Jos_1:5 – promise of non-abandonment & Victory

Jos_7 – when they were defeated at AI

Israel Defeated by Ai

Jos_7:4 WEB So about three thousand men of the people went up there, and they fled before the men of Ai.

Jos_7:4 And there went up about three thousand men, and they fled from before the men of Ai.

Jos_7:4 καὶ ἀνέβησαν ὡσεὶ τρισχίλιοι ἄνδρες καὶ ἔφυγον ἀπὸ προσώπου τῶν ἀνδρῶν Γαι.

Jos_7:5 WEB The men of Ai struck about thirty-six men of them, and they chased them from before the gate even to Shebarim, and struck them at the descent. The hearts of the people melted, and became like water.

Jos_7:5 And the men of Ai struck down about thirty-six men, and they pursued them from the gate, and destroyed them from the steep hill; and the heart of the people was alarmed and became as water.

Jos_7:5 καὶ ἀπέκτειναν ἀπ᾿ αὐτῶν ἄνδρες Γαι εἰς τριάκοντα καὶ ἓξ ἄνδρας καὶ κατεδίωξαν αὐτοὺς ἀπὸ τῆς πύλης καὶ συνέτριψαν αὐτοὺς ἐπὶ τοῦ καταφεροῦς· καὶ ἐπτοήθη ἡ καρδία τοῦ λαοῦ καὶ ἐγένετο ὥσπερ ὕδωρ.

Jos_7:6 WEB Joshua tore his clothes, and fell to the earth on his face before the ark of Yahweh until the evening, he and the elders of Israel; and they put dust on their heads.

Jos_7:6 And Joshua tore his clothes. And Joshua fell to the ground on his face before the Lord until evening, he and the elders of Israel; and they cast dust on their heads.

Jos_7:6 καὶ διέρρηξεν Ἰησοῦς τὰ ἱμάτια αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἔπεσεν Ἰησοῦς ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν ἐπὶ πρόσωπον ἐναντίον κυρίου ἕως ἑσπέρας, αὐτὸς καὶ οἱ πρεσβύτεροι Ισραηλ, καὶ ἐπεβάλοντο χοῦν ἐπὶ τὰς κεφαλὰς αὐτῶν.

Jos_7:7 WEB Joshua said, "Alas, Lord Yahweh, why have you brought this people over the Jordan at all, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to cause us to perish? I wish that we had been content and lived beyond the Jordan!

Jos_7:7 And Joshua said, “I pray, O Lord, why has Your servant brought this people over the Jordan to deliver them to the Amorite to destroy us? If only we would had remained, and settled ourselves beyond the Jordan!

Jos_7:7 καὶ εἶπεν Ἰησοῦς Δέομαι, κύριε, ἵνα τί διεβίβασεν ὁ παῖς σου τὸν λαὸν τοῦτον τὸν Ιορδάνην παραδοῦναι αὐτὸν τῷ Αμορραίῳ ἀπολέσαι ἡμᾶς; καὶ εἰ κατεμείναμεν καὶ κατῳκίσθημεν παρὰ τὸν Ιορδάνην.

Jos_7:8 WEB Oh, Lord, what shall I say, after that Israel has turned their backs before their enemies!

Jos_7:8 And what shall I say since Israel has turned his back before his enemy?

Jos_7:8 καὶ τί ἐρῶ, ἐπεὶ μετέβαλεν Ισραηλ αὐχένα ἀπέναντι τοῦ ἐχθροῦ αὐτοῦ;

Jos_7:9 WEB For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it, and will surround us, and cut off our name from the earth. What will you do for your great name?"

Jos_7:9 And when the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land hear it, they shall compass us round about and destroy us from off the land: and what will You do for Your great name?”

Jos_7:9 καὶ ἀκούσας ὁ Χαναναῖος καὶ πάντες οἱ κατοικοῦντες τὴν γῆν περικυκλώσουσιν ἡμᾶς καὶ ἐκτρίψουσιν ἡμᾶς ἀπὸ τῆς γῆς· καὶ τί ποιήσεις τὸ ὄνομά σου τὸ μέγα;

>> Sync: herein

God’s name/reputation can be defiled if we fail in various ways.

God Forsakes Good Guys???

1/10/26-1/11/26

Good Guys Forsaken?

-- Under Construction --

Good Guys Felt Forsaken

1/10/26; 1/18/26

Rth_1 – Naomi felt forsaken

Rth_1: They All Cried

Rth_1:9 WEB Yahweh grant you that you may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband. Then she kissed them, and they lifted up their voice, and wept.

Rth_1:9 LB The Lord grant you that you may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband.” And she kissed them, and they lifted up their voice, and wept.

Rth_1:9 δῴη κύριος ὑμῖν καὶ εὕροιτε ἀνάπαυσιν ἑκάστη ἐν οἴκῳ ἀνδρὸς αὐτῆς. καὶ κατεφίλησεν αὐτάς, καὶ ἐπῆραν τὴν φωνὴν αὐτῶν καὶ ἔκλαυσαν.

Rth_1:9 NKJV The LORD grant that you may find rest, each in the house of her husband. Then she kissed them, and they lifted up their voices and wept.

…

Rth_1:14 WEB They lifted up their voice, and wept again: and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth joined with her.

Rth_1:14 And they lifted up their voice, and wept again; and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law and returned to her people; but Ruth followed her.

Rth_1:14 καὶ ἐπῆραν τὴν φωνὴν αὐτῶν καὶ ἔκλαυσαν ἔτι· καὶ κατεφίλησεν Ορφα τὴν πενθερὰν αὐτῆς καὶ ἐπέστρεψεν εἰς τὸν λαὸν αὐτῆς, Ρουθ δὲ ἠκολούθησεν αὐτῇ.

Rth_1:14 NKJV Then they lifted up their voices and wept again; and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth clung to her.

Naomi Called Bitter

ES: Naomi and Ruth Return

Rth_1:19 WEB So they two went until they came to Bethlehem. It happened, when they were come to Bethlehem, that all the city was moved about them, and the women said, Is this Naomi?

Rth_1:19 LB Now they both went until they came to Bethlehem. And it came to pass, when they arrived at Bethlehem, that all the city was excited because of them, and they said, “Is this Naomi?”

Rth_1:19 ἐπορεύθησαν δὲ ἀμφότεραι ἕως τοῦ παραγενέσθαι αὐτὰς εἰς Βαιθλεεμ. καὶ ἤχησεν πᾶσα ἡ πόλις ἐπ᾿ αὐταῖς καὶ εἶπον Αὕτη ἐστὶν Νωεμιν;

Rth_1:20 WEB She said to them, "Don't call me Naomi, call me Mara; for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.

Rth_1:20 And she said to them, “No, do not call me Naomi; call me 'Bitter,' for the Mighty One has dealt very bitterly with me.

Rth_1:20 καὶ εἶπεν πρὸς αὐτάς Μὴ δὴ καλεῖτέ με Νωεμιν, καλέσατέ με Πικράν, ὅτι ἐπικράνθη ἐν ἐμοὶ ὁ ἱκανὸς σφόδρα·

Rth_1:21 WEB I went out full, and Yahweh has brought me home again empty; why do you call me Naomi, seeing Yahweh has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me?"

Rth_1:21 I went out full, and the Lord has brought me back empty. And why do you call me Naomi, seeing the Lord has humbled me and the Mighty One has afflicted me?”

Rth_1:21 ἐγὼ πλήρης ἐπορεύθην, καὶ κενὴν ἀπέστρεψέν με ὁ κύριος· καὶ ἵνα τί καλεῖτέ με Νωεμιν; καὶ κύριος ἐταπείνωσέν με, καὶ ὁ ἱκανὸς ἐκάκωσέν με.

Rth_1:22 WEB So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law, with her, who returned out of the country of Moab: and they came to Bethlehem in the beginning of barley harvest.

Rth_1:22 So Naomi and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law, returned from the country of Moab; and they came to Bethlehem at the beginning of barley harvest.

Rth_1:22 καὶ ἐπέστρεψεν Νωεμιν καὶ Ρουθ ἡ Μωαβῖτις ἡ νύμφη αὐτῆς ἐπιστρέφουσα ἐξ ἀγροῦ Μωαβ· αὐταὶ δὲ παρεγενήθησαν εἰς Βαιθλεεμ ἐν ἀρχῇ θερισμοῦ κριθῶν.

Rth_1:19 NKJV Now the two of them went until they came to Bethlehem. And it happened, when they had come to Bethlehem, that all the city was excited because of them; and the women said, “Is this Naomi?”

Rth_1:20 NKJV But she said to them, “Do not call me Naomi; call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.”

Rth_1:21 NKJV I went out full, and the LORD has brought me home again empty. Why do you call me Naomi, since the LORD has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me?

Good Guys Need Correction -- Which is An “Absence”

See: LOV > Long-distance Love

2Ch_32:31 – God left the King to know what was in his heart

2Ch_32:31 WEB However in the business of the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent to him to inquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart.

2Ch_32:31 LB Notwithstanding, in regard to the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who were sent to him, to inquire of him concerning the wonders which came upon the land, the Lord left him, to test him, to know what was in his heart.

2Ch_32:31 καὶ οὕτως τοῖς πρεσβευταῖς τῶν ἀρχόντων ἀπὸ Βαβυλῶνος τοῖς ἀποσταλεῖσιν πρὸς αὐτὸν πυθέσθαι παρ᾿ αὐτοῦ τὸ τέρας, ὃ ἐγένετο ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς, καὶ ἐγκατέλιπεν αὐτὸν κύριος τοῦ πειράσαι αὐτὸν εἰδέναι τὰ ἐν τῇ καρδίᾳ αὐτοῦ.

2Ch_32:31 NKJV However, regarding the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, whom they sent to him to inquire about the wonder that was done in the land, God withdrew from him, in order to test him, that He might know all that was in his heart.

Collaborative Summary:

GPT: “pruned-victory” pattern

In every case, the godly experience shock, fear, defeat, or tragedy that feels like abandonment, but the cause is either:

• Hidden sin (Achan, Uzzah, Israel, Saul)

• Wrong method (David’s cart)

• Testing & refinement (Job, Elijah, Jehoshaphat)

• Presumption on God (Israel with the ark)

God did not leave — He withdrew protection, delayed help, or exposed error so truth and holiness could be restored.

Job – Sudden Catastrophe

· Job_1-3 – God seems gone, though righteous (testing, not rejection)

JOSHUA – Defeat at Ai

· Jos_7:1-26 – Israel defeated though God promised victory (Achan’s hidden sin; devoted things stolen → God withdrew protection until purged)

David’s – Ark Disaster

· 2Sa_6:1-11 / 1Ch_13:1-14 – Uzzah struck dead, David afraid and stops ark (God’s holiness violated; ark moved wrongly on cart not Levites)

· 2Sa_6:12-23 / 1Ch_15:1-29 – David restores ark correctly (Levites, poles, sacrifice → blessing returns)

MOSES – No Water after Obedience

· Exo_17:1-7 – People accuse God of abandoning them (testing God though He was with them)

· Num_20:2-13 – Moses fails in frustration → barred from Canaan (misrepresenting God in crisis)

ELIJAH – Collapse After Victory

· 1Ki_18:36-40 / 1Ki_19:1-18 – Elijah wins at Carmel then feels alone and hunted (burnout; God still with him quietly)

GIDEON – God “left us?”

· Jdg_6:13-16 – Gideon says God abandoned Israel (idolatry caused withdrawal; God still calls him)

ISRAEL – surprise defeat after miracles

· Jdg_2:11-15 – God lets enemies defeat them (idolatry broke protection)

Samuel – National Defeat (Under Eli)

· 1Sa_4:1-11 – Ark captured; Israel thinks God failed (they treated ark like magic, not holiness)

DAVID – Righteous Suffering

· Psa_22:1 / Mat_27:46 – Feeling forsaken though innocent (suffering without abandonment)

JEHOSHAPHAT – helplessness before victory

· 2Ch_20:1-30 – Army overwhelms Judah (God waits for dependence before delivering)

Life-Application of this Paradox

· Life-Mysteries: Conflicting mysteries of the Bible ≈ the real mystery of our very lives

· Bible = Answers: At least the Bible finally gives reliable resolve to these conflicts

· Our Experiences Need Correction: What we feel and what God says are NOT the same thing!

So, Why Did Joshua 7 happen????

ironically, comp. Jos_1:5 & Jos_7 -- Jos_1:5 is CONDITIONAL when compared with Jos_7, when they were defeated at AI…

Root Issue:

We think there is a contradiction (in the Bible and in our lives) because we keep forgetting the conditions of God’s promises!

Conditionality in OT & NT

[Preview:] Deu_31: God Knows their Sins -- Anger & Forsaking Predicted

See: Deu_31: God Knows their Sins -- Anger & Forsaking Predicted

Conditionality of Remaining or Forsaking

Is God’s Promise CONDITIONAL or UNCONDITIONAL -- which is quoted in the NT?

>>>>>>>>>>>>PENDING

2Ch_15:2 – if you forsake Him He will forsake you

>>TSK

2Ch_15:2 WEB and he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: Yahweh is with you, while you are with him; and if you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.

2Ch_15:2 LB And he went out to meet Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin, and said, “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin. The Lord is with you, while you are with Him; and if you seek Him out, He will be found by you; but if you forsake Him, He will forsake you.

2Ch_15:2 καὶ ἐξῆλθεν εἰς ἀπάντησιν Ασα καὶ παντὶ Ιουδα καὶ Βενιαμιν καὶ εἶπεν Ἀκούσατέ μου, Ασα καὶ πᾶς Ιουδα καὶ Βενιαμιν· κύριος μεθ᾿ ὑμῶν ἐν τῷ εἶναι ὑμᾶς μετ᾿ αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐὰν ἐκζητήσητε αὐτόν, εὑρεθήσεται ὑμῖν, καὶ ἐὰν ἐγκαταλίπητε αὐτόν, ἐγκαταλείψει ὑμᾶς.

>>>>!!!

Remember the CONDITIONALITY of choices!!

Is this CONDITIONALITY just OT limitations?

Is the NT unconditionally fireproof?

NT Conditionality of Remaining or Forsaking

Remember: Heb_13: Money-Liking vs. Divinely Unforsaken

Mat_10:33 – Deny before men, denied before Father

2Ti_2:12 – If we deny Him, He will deny us

Rom_11:22 – Behold [ἴδε] the kindness and severity of God

Notice the same conditionality….

Mat_10:32 CAB "Therefore whoever [Πᾶς οὖν ὅστις] who will confess [ὁμολογήσει] Me before men, I also will confess Him [μολογήσω κἀγὼ ἐν αὐτῷ] before My Father who is in heaven.

Mat_10:32 Πᾶς οὖν ὅστις ὁμολογήσει ἐν ἐμοὶ ἔμπροσθεν τῶν ἀνθρώπων, ὁμολογήσω κἀγὼ ἐν αὐτῷ ἔμπροσθεν τοῦ πατρός μου τοῦ ἐν οὐρανοῖς·

Mat_10:32 πας ουν οστις ομολογησει εν εμοι εμπροσθεν των ανθρωπων ομολογησω καγω εν αυτω εμπροσθεν του πατρος μου του εν Aτοις ουρανοις

Mat_10:33 But whoever [ὅστις δ᾿ ἂν] denies [ἀρνήσηταί] Me before men, I also will deny [ἀρνήσομαι] him before My Father who is in heaven.

Mat_10:33 ὅστις δ᾿ ἂν ἀρνήσηταί με ἔμπροσθεν τῶν ἀνθρώπων, ἀρνήσομαι αὐτὸν κἀγὼ ἔμπροσθεν τοῦ πατρός μου τοῦ ἐν οὐρανοῖς.

Mat_10:33 οστις δ αν αρνησηται με εμπροσθεν των ανθρωπων αρνησομαι TSBαυτον καγω Aαυτον εμπροσθεν του πατρος μου του εν Aτοις ουρανοις

See: WS heretical denial of this passage, on G720

Comp. “Denial” by works (BTW Temp Cross-reference):

Tit_1:15 All things indeed are pure to the pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure; but even their mind and conscience have been defiled.

Tit_1:15 πάντα μὲν καθαρὰ τοῖς καθαροῖς· τοῖς δὲ μεμιαμμένοις καὶ ἀπίστοις οὐδὲν καθαρόν, ἀλλὰ μεμίανται αὐτῶν καὶ ὁ νοῦς καὶ ἡ συνείδησις.

Tit_1:15 παντα TSBμεν καθαρα τοις καθαροις τοις δε Aμεμιαμμενοις TSBμεμιασμενοις και απιστοις ουδεν καθαρον αλλα μεμιανται αυτων και ο νους και η συνειδησις

Tit_1:16 They profess to know God [Θεὸν ὁμολογοῦσιν εἰδέναι], but in their works they deny Him [τοῖς δὲ ἔργοις ἀρνοῦνται], being abominable, disobedient [ἀπειθεῖς], and disqualified for every good work [πρὸς πᾶν ἔργον ἀγαθὸν ἀδόκιμοι].

Tit_1:16 Θεὸν ὁμολογοῦσιν εἰδέναι, τοῖς δὲ ἔργοις ἀρνοῦνται, βδελυκτοὶ ὄντες καὶ ἀπειθεῖς καὶ πρὸς πᾶν ἔργον ἀγαθὸν ἀδόκιμοι.

√ GNT-V

Jud_1:4 CAB For certain men have crept in unawares, who long ago were marked out for this condemnation, ungodly men, changing the grace of our God into licentiousness and denying [ἀρνούμενοι] the only Master God and our Lord Jesus Christ.

Jud_1:4 παρεισέδυσαν γάρ τινες ἄνθρωποι, οἱ πάλαι προγεγραμμένοι εἰς τοῦτο τὸ κρῖμα, ἀσεβεῖς, τὴν τοῦ Θεοῦ ἡμῶν χάριτα μετατιθέντες εἰς ἀσέλγειαν καὶ τὸν μόνον δεσπότην καὶ Κύριον ἡμῶν ᾿Ιησοῦν Χριστὸν ἀρνούμενοι.

Jud_1:4 παρεισεδυσαν γαρ τινες ανθρωποι οι παλαι προγεγραμμενοι εις τουτο το κριμα ασεβεις την του θεου ημων Aχαριτα TSBχαριν μετατιθεντες εις ασελγειαν και τον μονον δεσποτην TSBθεον και κυριον ημων ιησουν χριστον αρνουμενοι

Notice: Flattering Benefits without sacrifice/works/proof

Mat_28:18-20 -- I am with you [OBEY-ALL-ERS] always, even to the end of the age (Mar_16:15-18)

Mat_28:18 CAB And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Me.

Mat_28:18 καὶ προσελθὼν ὁ ᾿Ιησοῦς ἐλάλησεν αὐτοῖς λέγων· ἐδόθη μοι πᾶσα ἐξουσία ἐν οὐρανῷ καὶ ἐπὶ γῆς.

Mat_28:18 και προσελθων ο ιησους ελαλησεν αυτοις λεγων εδοθη μοι πασα εξουσια εν ουρανω και επι Aτης γης

Mat_28:19 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

Mat_28:19 πορευθέντες μαθητεύσατε πάντα τὰ ἔθνη, βαπτίζοντες αὐτοὺς εἰς τὸ ὄνομα τοῦ Πατρὸς καὶ τοῦ Υἱοῦ καὶ τοῦ ῾Αγίου Πνεύματος,

Mat_28:19 πορευθεντες TSAουν μαθητευσατε παντα τα εθνη βαπτιζοντες αυτους εις το ονομα του πατρος και του υιου και του αγιου πνευματος

Mat_28:20 teaching them to observe everything that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." Amen.

Mat_28:20 διδάσκοντες αὐτοὺς τηρεῖν πάντα ὅσα ἐνετειλάμην ὑμῖν· καὶ ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ μεθ᾿ ὑμῶν εἰμι πάσας τὰς ἡμέρας ἕως τῆς συντελείας τοῦ αἰῶνος. ἀμήν.

Mat_28:20 διδασκοντες αυτους τηρειν παντα οσα ενετειλαμην υμιν και ιδου εγω μεθ υμων ειμι πασας τας ημερας εως της συντελειας του αιωνος TSBαμην

IF x4: Martyr’s Life Required for Heaven!!!

2Ti_2:11 CAB Faithful is this word: For if we died with Him, we shall also live with Him.

2Ti_2:11 πιστὸς ὁ λόγος· εἰ γὰρ συναπεθάνομεν, καὶ συζήσομεν·

2Ti_2:12 If we endure, we shall also reign with Him. If we deny Him, He also will deny us.

2Ti_2:12 εἰ ὑπομένομεν, καὶ συμβασιλεύσομεν· εἰ ἀρνούμεθα, κἀκεῖνος ἀρνήσεται ἡμᾶς·

2Ti_2:12 ει υπομενομεν και συμβασιλευσομεν ει Aαρνησομεθα TSBαρνουμεθα κακεινος αρνησεται ημας

2Ti_2:13 If we are faithless, He remains faithful; He cannot deny Himself.

2Ti_2:13 εἰ ἀπιστοῦμεν, ἐκεῖνος πιστὸς μένει· ἀρνήσασθαι ἑαυτὸν οὐ δύναται.

2Ti_2:13 ει απιστουμεν εκεινος πιστος μενει αρνησασθαι Aγαρ εαυτον ου δυναται

Notice: IF x4

Kindness and Severity of God

See: Chopped Out Children

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Cut Out Gentiles

Rom_11:20 CAB Well said. By unbelief they were broken off, but you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but fear.

Rom_11:20 καλῶς· τῇ ἀπιστίᾳ ἐξεκλάσθησαν, σὺ δὲ τῇ πίστει ἕστηκας. μὴ ὑψηλοφρόνει, ἀλλὰ φοβοῦ·

Rom_11:20 καλως τη απιστια εξεκλασθησαν συ δε τη πιστει εστηκας μη Aυψηλα Aφρονει TSBυψηλοφρονει αλλα φοβου

Rom_11:21 For if God did not spare the natural branches, perhaps He may not spare you either.

Rom_11:21 εἰ γὰρ ὁ Θεὸς τῶν κατὰ φύσιν κλάδων οὐκ ἐφείσατο, μήπως οὐδὲ σοῦ φείσεται.

Rom_11:21 ει γαρ ο θεος των κατα φυσιν κλαδων ουκ εφεισατο Aμη Aπως TSBμηπως ουδε σου BAφεισεται TSφεισηται

Rom_11:22 Behold [ἴδε] then the kindness and severity of God: upon those that fell, severity; but upon you, kindness, if you continue in His kindness. Otherwise you also shall be cut off.

Rom_11:22 ἴδε οὖν χρηστότητα καὶ ἀποτομίαν Θεοῦ, ἐπὶ μὲν τοὺς πεσόντας ἀποτομίαν, ἐπὶ δὲ σὲ χρηστότητα, ἐὰν ἐπιμείνῃς τῇ χρηστότητι· ἐπεὶ καὶ σὺ ἐκκοπήσῃ.

Rom_11:22 ιδε ουν χρηστοτητα και αποτομιαν θεου επι μεν τους πεσοντας Aαποτομια TSBαποτομιαν επι δε σε Aχρηστοτης Aθεου TSBχρηστοτητα εαν Aεπιμενης TSBεπιμεινης τη χρηστοτητι επει και συ εκκοπηση

>> Sync: SRP << ISR?

Mat_10:33 (NIV): But whoever disowns me before others, I will disown before my Father in heaven.

2Ti_2:12 (NIV): If we disown him, he will also disown us.

Rom_11:22 (NIV): Consider therefore the kindness and sternness of God: sternness to those who fell, but kindness to you, provided that you continue in his kindness. Otherwise, you also will be cut off

1Co_10:1-13 – Israel Fell out of salvation AS OUR EXAMPLE -- we can fall too, just like them!

(You’re not allowed to disobey the Bible and say that reversing salvation was just the OT)

See: SRP > Salvation Never Ceases to be an Issue & Examples of Those Who Fell

Sin-Repentance-Perfection.htm#SalvationNeverCeasestobeanIssue

Sin-Repentance-Perfection.htm#Examples

The Point: NT = Conditional! -- much like the OT, upon which un-forsake-abilit is based!

God Forsakes & Never Forsake

Summaries

God to Never Forsake -- Summary

1/10/26-1/11/26; 1/18/26

Collaborative Summary:

32 References

GPT: God promises to remain, dwell, abide, keep, stay with, and never forsake those who belong to Him, are in covenant, and are kept by His power — a promise fulfilled fully and permanently in Christ by the indwelling Holy Spirit.

God explicitly promises never to leave, never forsake, remain with, dwell with, or permanently keep His people

(A) OLD TESTAMENT

Gen_28:15 – God will not leave Jacob

Deu_4:31 – God will not forsake (covenant mercy)

Deu_31:6 – God will not leave or forsake

Deu_31:8 – God goes before and stays

Jos_1:5 – God will never leave Joshua

1Sa_12:22 – God will not forsake His people

1Ki_6:13 – God will dwell with Israel

1Ch_28:20 – God will not leave David

2Ch_15:2 – God stays with those who seek Him

Neh_9:19 – God did not forsake in wilderness

Psa_37:28 – God will not forsake His saints

Psa_94:14 – God will not cast off His people

Psa_139:7–10 – God is everywhere with His own

Isa_41:10 – God is with you

Isa_41:17 – God will not forsake the poor

Isa_42:16 – God will not forsake the blind

Isa_43:2 – God will be with you

Isa_49:15 – God will not forget His people

Isa_54:10 – God’s mercy will not depart

Jer_31:3 – God’s love is everlasting

Lam_3:31 – God will not cast off forever

(B) NEW TESTAMENT

Mat_28:20 – Jesus always with His disciples

Joh_10:28 – No one can snatch them away

Joh_14:16 – Spirit abides forever

Joh_14:18 – Jesus will not leave orphans

Rom_8:38-39 – Nothing separates from God’s love

2Co_4:9 – Not forsaken

2Ti_4:16-17 – Lord stood with me

Heb_13:5 – God will never leave or forsake

1Pe_5:10 – God restores and establishes

Jud_1:24 – God keeps from falling

Rev_21:3 – God dwells with His people forever

God Forsakes -- Summary

1/10/26-1/11/26

Collaborative Summary:

51 References

(Remember: God to Never Forsake = 32 References)

= More Forsake than Never Forsake Passages

GPT: God forsakes, withdraws, hides His face, removes His Spirit, abandons to enemies, cuts off from prayer, and gives people over when they persistently reject Him, despise correction, or harden themselves — and this includes both individuals (Saul, Samson) and entire nations (Israel, Judah, churches).

God leaves, forsakes, withdraws, hides His face, or departs — including judicial abandonment, relational withdrawal, loss of empowering presence, and covenantal hiding

(A) OLD TESTAMENT

Gen_6:3 – God’s Spirit stops striving with man

Deu_31:16-18 – God forsakes Israel (idolatry) and hides His face

Deu_32:20 – God hides His face (perversity)

Jdg_2:12-14 – God abandons Israel to enemies (idolatry)

Jdg_10:13 – God refuses to save anymore

Jdg_16:20 – God departs from Samson (secretly)

1Sa_16:14 – Spirit leaves Saul; distressing spirit comes

1Sa_28:15 – God does not answer Saul (dreams, prophets, Urim)

2Ch_12:5 – God leaves Judah (unfaithfulness)

2Ch_15:2 – God leaves those who forsake Him

2Ch_24:20 – God forsaken → enemies prevail

2Ch_36:15-17 – God stops sending help (mocked prophets)

Job_13:24 – God hides His face

Job_23:24 – God withdraws Himself

Psa_13:1 – God hides His face

Psa_22:1 – God forsakes the righteous sufferer

Psa_27:9 – God hides face

Psa_30:7 – God hides face → trouble

Psa_44:24 – God hides face and forgets affliction

Psa_74:1 – God rejects His people

Psa_88:14 – God casts off and hides His face

Psa_104:29 – God hides face → creatures perish

Isa_1:15 – God hides His eyes from prayer

Isa_8:17 – God hides His face from Israel

Isa_50:1 – God sold them away (sin)

Isa_54:7-8 – God hid face briefly (mercy returns)

Isa_59:2 – God hides His face (sin separates)

Isa_64:7 – God hides face (iniquity)

Jer_7:29 – God has rejected His people

Jer_14:8 – God acts like a stranger

Jer_23:39 – God will cast off His people

Lam_2:7 – God rejects altar and sanctuary

Lam_3:43-44 – God shuts out prayer

Eze_10:18-19 – God’s glory leaves the temple

Eze_39:23-24 – God hid His face (uncleanness)

Hos_5:6 – God withdraws Himself

Hos_9:12 – God departs from them

Mic_3:4 – God hides His face (evil deeds)

Zec_7:13-14 – God refused to hear (they refused to hear)

(B) NEW TESTAMENT

Mat_7:23 – Jesus rejects false disciples

Mat_23:38 – God leaves the house desolate

Mat_27:46 – God forsakes the Son (judgment)

Joh_15:6 – Branch cut off and burned

Rom_1:24 – God gives people over

Rom_1:26 – God gives them over

Rom_1:28 – God gives them over

2Th_2:11 – God sends delusion

Heb_6:4-6 – Impossible to renew (fall away)

Heb_10:26-29 – No sacrifice remains

Rev_2:5 – Jesus removes the lampstand

Rev_3:16 – Jesus spits out the lukewarm

God Divorces Israel <<<

Jer_3: Isa_50: Hos_9:

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Make a summary of all of the places in the Bible that describe God divorcing Israel

Rom_11:2 – God has not cast away his people who foreknew

Rom_11:2 CAB God has not cast away His people whom He foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture says in Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel, saying,

Rom_11:2 οὐκ ἀπώσατο ὁ Θεὸς τὸν λαὸν αὐτοῦ ὃν προέγνω. ἢ οὐκ οἴδατε ἐν ᾿Ηλίᾳ τί λέγει ἡ γραφή; ὡς ἐντυγχάνει τῷ Θεῷ κατὰ τοῦ ᾿Ισραήλ λέγων·

Rom_11:2 ουκ απωσατο ο θεος τον λαον αυτου ον προεγνω η ουκ οιδατε εν ηλια τι λεγει η γραφη ως εντυγχανει τω θεω κατα του ισραηλ TSBλεγων

CONDITIONS of God’s Presence

Other date(s) (seen above); 2/6/26

COVENANT Conditions of God’s Presence <<

· Moses worked out a Covenant to get God to live among Israel in a separated tent & temple. (i.e. it’s called, Leviticus, for example.)

· Jesus worked out a Covenant for God to live in us!

· Covenant is required for God’s HOLY Presence

· Jer_3: you lose the BENEFITS, NOT the righteous-moral OBLIGATIONS when you break God’s covenants!

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CONDITIONS of Remaining -- Summary

1/10/26-1/11/26; 1/24/26

Collaborative Summary:

-- Under Construction --

GPT: God does not arbitrarily leave people.

He withdraws from rebellion and abides with faith.

David, Joshua, Elijah, and Job were not abandoned — they were being corrected, refined, or redirected.

Saul, Samson, Israel, and false believers were left because they first left God.

all the forsaking texts, never-forsake promises, and surprise-failure stories (Joshua, David, Samson, etc.) — showing what keeps God present and what causes His withdrawal…

(A) Why God Stays

WHY GOD NEVER FORSAKES

· Faithful to covenant (Deu_4:31; Deu_31:6; Jos_1:5),

· Seeking God earnestly (2Ch_15:2; Jer_29:13),

· Walking in obedience (Jos_1:7-9; Joh_14:21),

· Loving God (Isa_41:10; Rom_8:28-39),

· Trusting God rather than self (Psa_37:28; Pro_3:5-6),

· Repentance when corrected (Jos_7:19-26; 2Sa_6:12-15),

· Humility before God (2Ch_7:14; Isa_57:15),

· Reverence for God’s holiness (1Ch_15:12-15; Heb_12:28),

· Abiding in Christ (Joh_15:4-7),

· Kept by God’s power not self-effort (Joh_10:28; Jud_1:24),

· Dwelt in by the Holy Spirit (Joh_14:16-18; Rom_8:9),

· Covered by Christ’s righteousness (Rom_8:1; Heb_10:14),

· Enduring faith through trial (Job_13:15; 1Pe_5:10),

· God’s covenant mercy and election (Isa_54:10; Rom_11:29)

(B) Why God Leaves

WHY GOD WITHDRAWS, HIDES HIS FACE, & FORSAKES

· Persistent sin (Isa_59:2; Eze_39:23-24),

· Idolatry (Jdg_2:12-14; Hos_9:12),

· Breaking covenant (Deu_31:16-18; Jer_7:29),

· Hardening the heart (Zec_7:11-14; Heb_3:12-15),

· Refusing correction (2Ch_36:15-17; Pro_29:1),

· Secret or hidden sin (Jos_7:1-26; Psa_66:18),

· Treating holy things lightly (1Sa_4:1-11; 2Sa_6:6-7),

· Presumption on God (Jer_7:4-10; Rom_11:20),

· Religious hypocrisy (Isa_1:15; Mat_23:38),

· False discipleship (Mat_7:21-23),

· Lukewarmness (Rev_3:16),

· Rejecting truth (2Th_2:10-12; Rom_1:28),

· Continuing willful sin (Heb_10:26-29),

· Grieving or quenching the Spirit (1Sa_16:14; Eph_4:30),

· Loving the world (Jam_4:4; 1Jn_2:15-17)

Law CONDITIONS -- Summary

Law = Conditional!

The Law of Moses Was Conditional from the beginning when making these promises!

Collaborative Summary:

Deu_4:29-31 – “He will not forsake you”

· Condition summary: seek God with all heart and soul, return to Him in tribulation, obey His voice (otherwise curses come first)

Deu_7:9-11 – Covenant Love & Mercy

· Condition summary: love God, keep His commandments, remain faithful to covenant (disobedience brings repayment)

Deu_28 – 30 – Blessing vs Forsaking Framework

· Deu_28:1-14 – Blessings if obey

· Deu_28:15-68 – Curses if disobey

· Deu_30:1-20 – Restoration if repent and return

Condition summary: love God, obey His voice, cling to Him, choose life (rebellion brings exile and abandonment)

Deu_31:6-8 – “He will not leave you nor forsake you”

· Surrounding conditions (Deu_31:9-29): keep the law, hear and learn it, fear the Lord, do all its words (otherwise God hides His face and disaster comes)

Deu_32:10-20 – why God hides His face

· Condition summary: remain loyal, do not provoke Him, do not corrupt yourselves (God hides His face when they become per:)

Jos_1:5-8 – “I will not leave you”

· Condition summary: be strong, obey all the Law of Moses, do not turn from it, meditate on it day and night (otherwise no success)

Blessings & Curses

· The conditionality of “the Blessings and the Curses” (Deu_11:23-28; Deu_30:16-20) comes clearly before promises of never abandoning (Deu_31; Jos_1; etc.)

The Point: Deu_11 & Deu_30 Conditions → Deu_31/Jos_1 Promises

Therefore: Promises = Conditional

Therefore: Promises condemn Israelite & Church Boasting!

REAL Biblical Promises DON’T Support virtue-desolate Flattery & boasting of rebellious-apostate Israelites & Church people, but actually condemn them outright from the onset/beginning!

Deu_11: CONDITIONS

Deu_11:23 WEB then will Yahweh drive out all these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves.

Deu_11:23 LB then the Lord shall cast out all these nations before you, and you shall inherit great nations stronger than yourselves.

Deu_11:23 καὶ ἐκβαλεῖ κύριος πάντα τὰ ἔθνη ταῦτα ἀπὸ προσώπου ὑμῶν, καὶ κληρονομήσετε ἔθνη μεγάλα καὶ ἰσχυρότερα μᾶλλον ἢ ὑμεῖς.

Deu_11:24 WEB Every place whereon the sole of your foot shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness, and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even to the hinder sea shall be your border.

Deu_11:24 Every place on which the sole of your foot shall tread shall be yours; from the wilderness and Lebanon, and from the great river, the River Euphrates, even as far as the Western Sea shall be your coasts.

Deu_11:24 πάντα τὸν τόπον, οὗ ἐὰν πατήσῃ τὸ ἴχνος τοῦ ποδὸς ὑμῶν, ὑμῖν ἔσται· ἀπὸ τῆς ἐρήμου καὶ Ἀντιλιβάνου καὶ ἀπὸ τοῦ ποταμοῦ τοῦ μεγάλου, ποταμοῦ Εὐφράτου, καὶ ἕως τῆς θαλάσσης τῆς ἐπὶ δυσμῶν ἔσται τὰ ὅριά σου.

Deu_11:25 WEB No man shall be able to stand before you [Jos_1:5]: Yahweh your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you on all the land that you shall tread on, as he has spoken to you.

Deu_11:25 No one shall stand before you; and the Lord your God will put the fear of you and the dread of you on the face of all the land, on which you shall tread, as He told you.

Deu_11:25 οὐκ ἀντιστήσεται οὐδεὶς κατὰ πρόσωπον ὑμῶν· τὸν τρόμον ὑμῶν καὶ τὸν φόβον ὑμῶν ἐπιθήσει κύριος ὁ θεὸς ὑμῶν ἐπὶ πρόσωπον πάσης τῆς γῆς, ἐφ᾿ ἧς ἐὰν ἐπιβῆτε ἐπ᾿ αὐτῆς, ὃν τρόπον ἐλάλησεν κύριος πρὸς ὑμᾶς.

Deu_11:26 WEB Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse:

Deu_11:26 “Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse:

Deu_11:26 Ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ δίδωμι ἐνώπιον ὑμῶν σήμερον εὐλογίαν καὶ κατάραν,

Deu_11:27 WEB the blessing, if you shall listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, which I command you this day;

Deu_11:27 a blessing, if you hearken to the commands of the Lord your God, all that I command you this day;

Deu_11:27 τὴν εὐλογίαν, ἐὰν ἀκούσητε τὰς ἐντολὰς κυρίου τοῦ θεοῦ ὑμῶν, ἃς ἐγὼ ἐντέλλομαι ὑμῖν σήμερον,

Deu_11:28 WEB and the curse, if you shall not listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which you have not known.

Deu_11:28 and a curse, if you do not hearken to the commands of the Lord our God, as many as I command you this day, and you wander from the way which I have commanded you, having gone to serve other gods, which you do not know.

Deu_11:28 καὶ τὰς κατάρας, ἐὰν μὴ ἀκούσητε τὰς ἐντολὰς κυρίου τοῦ θεοῦ ὑμῶν, ὅσας ἐγὼ ἐντέλλομαι ὑμῖν σήμερον, καὶ πλανηθῆτε ἀπὸ τῆς ὁδοῦ, ἧς ἐνετειλάμην ὑμῖν, πορευθέντες λατρεύειν θεοῖς ἑτέροις, οὓς οὐκ οἴδατε.

Deu_30: CONDITIONS

Deu_30:16 WEB in that I command you this day to love Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his ordinances, that you may live and multiply, and that Yahweh your God may bless you in the land where you go in to possess it.

Deu_30:16 If you will obey the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you this day, to love the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways, and to keep His statutes, and His judgments; then you shall live, and shall be many in number, and the Lord your God shall bless you in all the land into which you go to inherit it.

Deu_30:16 ἐὰν εἰσακούσῃς τὰς ἐντολὰς κυρίου τοῦ θεοῦ σου, ἃς ἐγὼ ἐντέλλομαί σοι σήμερον, ἀγαπᾶν κύριον τὸν θεόν σου, πορεύεσθαι ἐν πάσαις ταῖς ὁδοῖς αὐτοῦ, φυλάσσεσθαι τὰ δικαιώματα αὐτοῦ καὶ τὰς κρίσεις αὐτοῦ, καὶ ζήσεσθε καὶ πολλοὶ ἔσεσθε, καὶ εὐλογήσει σε κύριος ὁ θεός σου ἐν πάσῃ τῇ γῇ, εἰς ἣν εἰσπορεύῃ ἐκεῖ κληρονομῆσαι αὐτήν.

Deu_30:17 WEB But if your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but shall be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;

Deu_30:17 But if your heart should change, and you will not obey, and you shall go astray and worship other gods, and serve them,

Deu_30:17 καὶ ἐὰν μεταστῇ ἡ καρδία σου καὶ μὴ εἰσακούσῃς καὶ πλανηθεὶς προσκυνήσῃς θεοῖς ἑτέροις καὶ λατρεύσῃς αὐτοῖς,

Deu_30:18 WEB I denounce to you this day, that you shall surely perish; you shall not prolong your days in the land, where you pass over the Jordan to go in to possess it.

Deu_30:18 I declare to you this day, that you shall utterly perish, and you shall by no means live long upon the land into which you go over the Jordan to inherit it.

Deu_30:18 ἀναγγέλλω σοι σήμερον ὅτι ἀπωλείᾳ ἀπολεῖσθε καὶ οὐ μὴ πολυήμεροι γένησθε ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς, ἧς κύριος ὁ θεός σου δίδωσίν σοι, εἰς ἣν ὑμεῖς διαβαίνετε τὸν Ιορδάνην ἐκεῖ κληρονομῆσαι αὐτήν.

Deu_30:19 WEB I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse: therefore choose life, that you may live, you and your seed;

Deu_30:19 I call both heaven and earth to witness this day against you, I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse: choose life, that you and your offspring may live;

Deu_30:19 διαμαρτύρομαι ὑμῖν σήμερον τόν τε οὐρανὸν καὶ τὴν γῆν Τὴν ζωὴν καὶ τὸν θάνατον δέδωκα πρὸ προσώπου ὑμῶν, τὴν εὐλογίαν καὶ τὴν κατάραν· ἔκλεξαι τὴν ζωήν, ἵνα ζῇς σὺ καὶ τὸ σπέρμα σου,

Deu_30:20 WEB to love Yahweh your God, to obey his voice, and to cleave to him; for he is your life, and the length of your days; that you may dwell in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.

Deu_30:20 to love the Lord your God, to listen to His voice, and cleave to Him; for this is your life, and the length of your days, that you should dwell upon the land, which the Lord swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give to them.

Deu_30:20 ἀγαπᾶν κύριον τὸν θεόν σου, εἰσακούειν τῆς φωνῆς αὐτοῦ καὶ ἔχεσθαι αὐτοῦ· ὅτι τοῦτο ἡ ζωή σου καὶ ἡ μακρότης τῶν ἡμερῶν σου κατοικεῖν σε ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς, ἧς ὤμοσεν κύριος τοῖς πατράσιν σου Αβρααμ καὶ Ισαακ καὶ Ιακωβ δοῦναι αὐτοῖς.

Joshua CONDITIONS

Comp. (A) Jos_1: God Won’t Forsake, (B) Jos_7: Defeated After the Promise, & (C) Joshua CONDITIONS

So…

What about Joshua????

(A) Joshua 1 -- FULL CONTEXT of CONDITIONS

Jos_1:5 WEB No man will be able to stand before you [Deu_11:25] all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not fail you nor forsake you.

Jos_1:5 LB Not a man shall stand against you all the days of your life; and as I was with Moses, so will I also be with you, and I will not fail you, or neglect you [οὐκ ἐγκαταλείψω σε οὐδὲ ὑπερόψομαί σε].

Jos_1:5 οὐκ ἀντιστήσεται ἄνθρωπος κατενώπιον ὑμῶν πάσας τὰς ἡμέρας τῆς ζωῆς σου, καὶ ὥσπερ ἤμην μετὰ Μωυσῆ, οὕτως ἔσομαι καὶ μετὰ σοῦ καὶ οὐκ ἐγκαταλείψω σε οὐδὲ ὑπερόψομαί σε.

Jos_1:6 WEB Be strong and of good courage; for you shall cause this people to inherit the land which I swore to their fathers to give them.

Jos_1:6 Be strong and of good courage, for you shall divide the land to this people, which I swore to give to your fathers.

Jos_1:6 ἴσχυε καὶ ἀνδρίζου· σὺ γὰρ ἀποδιαστελεῖς τῷ λαῷ τούτῳ τὴν γῆν, ἣν ὤμοσα τοῖς πατράσιν ὑμῶν δοῦναι αὐτοῖς.

Jos_1:7 WEB Only be strong and very courageous, to observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded you. Don't turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success wherever you go.

Jos_1:7 Be strong, therefore, and very courageous, to observe and do as Moses My servant commanded you; and you shall not turn from there to the right hand or to the left, that you may be wise in whatsoever you may do.

Jos_1:7 ἴσχυε οὖν καὶ ἀνδρίζου φυλάσσεσθαι καὶ ποιεῖν καθότι ἐνετείλατό σοι Μωυσῆς ὁ παῖς μου, καὶ οὐκ ἐκκλινεῖς ἀπ᾿ αὐτῶν εἰς δεξιὰ οὐδὲ εἰς ἀριστερά, ἵνα συνῇς ἐν πᾶσιν, οἷς ἐὰν πράσσῃς.

Jos_1:8 WEB This book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.

Jos_1:8 And the Book of this Law shall not depart from your mouth, and you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may know how to do all the things that are written in it; then shall you prosper, and make your ways prosperous, and then shall you be wise.

Jos_1:8 καὶ οὐκ ἀποστήσεται ἡ βίβλος τοῦ νόμου τούτου ἐκ τοῦ στόματός σου, καὶ μελετήσεις ἐν αὐτῷ ἡμέρας καὶ νυκτός, ἵνα συνῇς ποιεῖν πάντα τὰ γεγραμμένα· τότε εὐοδωθήσῃ καὶ εὐοδώσεις τὰς ὁδούς σου καὶ τότε συνήσεις.

Jos_1:9 WEB Haven't I commanded you? Be strong and of good courage. Don't be afraid, neither be dismayed: for Yahweh your God is with you wherever you go.

Jos_1:9 LB Behold, I have commanded you; be strong and courageous [ἴσχυε καὶ ἀνδρίζου], be not cowardly [δειλιάσῃς] nor fearful [φοβηθῇς], for the Lord your God is with you in all places in which you go.”

Jos_1:9 ἰδοὺ ἐντέταλμαί σοι· ἴσχυε καὶ ἀνδρίζου, μὴ δειλιάσῃς μηδὲ φοβηθῇς, ὅτι μετὰ σοῦ κύριος ὁ θεός σου εἰς πάντα, οὗ ἐὰν πορεύῃ.

>> Sync: herein

[Joshua Takes Command; CAB: Preparations for the Invasion]

Jos_1:10 WEB Then Joshua commanded the officers of the people, saying,

Jos_1:10 And Joshua commanded the scribes of the people, saying,

Joshua Assumes Command

Jos_1:10 Καὶ ἐνετείλατο Ἰησοῦς τοῖς γραμματεῦσιν τοῦ λαοῦ λέγων

Jos_1:11 WEB "Pass through the midst of the camp, and command the people, saying, 'Prepare food; for within three days you are to pass over this Jordan, to go in to possess the land, which Yahweh your God gives you to possess it.' "

Jos_1:11 “Go into the midst of the camp of the people, and command the people, saying, ‘Prepare provisions; for yet three days and you shall go over this Jordan, entering in to take possession of the land, which the Lord God of your fathers gives to you.’”

Jos_1:11 Εἰσέλθατε κατὰ μέσον τῆς παρεμβολῆς τοῦ λαοῦ καὶ ἐντείλασθε τῷ λαῷ λέγοντες Ἑτοιμάζεσθε ἐπισιτισμόν, ὅτι ἔτι τρεῖς ἡμέραι καὶ ὑμεῖς διαβαίνετε τὸν Ιορδάνην τοῦτον εἰσελθόντες κατασχεῖν τὴν γῆν, ἣν κύριος ὁ θεὸς τῶν πατέρων ὑμῶν δίδωσιν ὑμῖν.

(B) Jos_7: Israel Defeated by Ai -- FULL CONTEXT of CONDITIONS

Jos_7:4 WEB So about three thousand men of the people went up there, and they fled before the men of Ai.

Jos_7:4 And there went up about three thousand men, and they fled from before the men of Ai.

Jos_7:4 καὶ ἀνέβησαν ὡσεὶ τρισχίλιοι ἄνδρες καὶ ἔφυγον ἀπὸ προσώπου τῶν ἀνδρῶν Γαι.

Jos_7:5 WEB The men of Ai struck about thirty-six men of them, and they chased them from before the gate even to Shebarim, and struck them at the descent. The hearts of the people melted, and became like water.

Jos_7:5 And the men of Ai struck down about thirty-six men, and they pursued them from the gate, and destroyed them from the steep hill; and the heart of the people was alarmed and became as water.

Jos_7:5 καὶ ἀπέκτειναν ἀπ᾿ αὐτῶν ἄνδρες Γαι εἰς τριάκοντα καὶ ἓξ ἄνδρας καὶ κατεδίωξαν αὐτοὺς ἀπὸ τῆς πύλης καὶ συνέτριψαν αὐτοὺς ἐπὶ τοῦ καταφεροῦς· καὶ ἐπτοήθη ἡ καρδία τοῦ λαοῦ καὶ ἐγένετο ὥσπερ ὕδωρ.

Jos_7:6 WEB Joshua tore his clothes, and fell to the earth on his face before the ark of Yahweh until the evening, he and the elders of Israel; and they put dust on their heads.

Jos_7:6 And Joshua tore his clothes. And Joshua fell to the ground on his face before the Lord until evening, he and the elders of Israel; and they cast dust on their heads.

Jos_7:6 καὶ διέρρηξεν Ἰησοῦς τὰ ἱμάτια αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἔπεσεν Ἰησοῦς ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν ἐπὶ πρόσωπον ἐναντίον κυρίου ἕως ἑσπέρας, αὐτὸς καὶ οἱ πρεσβύτεροι Ισραηλ, καὶ ἐπεβάλοντο χοῦν ἐπὶ τὰς κεφαλὰς αὐτῶν.

Jos_7:7 WEB Joshua said, "Alas, Lord Yahweh, why have you brought this people over the Jordan at all, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to cause us to perish? I wish that we had been content and lived beyond the Jordan!

Jos_7:7 And Joshua said, “I pray, O Lord, why has Your servant brought this people over the Jordan to deliver them to the Amorite to destroy us? If only we would had remained, and settled ourselves beyond the Jordan!

Jos_7:7 καὶ εἶπεν Ἰησοῦς Δέομαι, κύριε, ἵνα τί διεβίβασεν ὁ παῖς σου τὸν λαὸν τοῦτον τὸν Ιορδάνην παραδοῦναι αὐτὸν τῷ Αμορραίῳ ἀπολέσαι ἡμᾶς; καὶ εἰ κατεμείναμεν καὶ κατῳκίσθημεν παρὰ τὸν Ιορδάνην.

Jos_7:8 WEB Oh, Lord, what shall I say, after that Israel has turned their backs before their enemies!

Jos_7:8 And what shall I say since Israel has turned his back before his enemy?

Jos_7:8 καὶ τί ἐρῶ, ἐπεὶ μετέβαλεν Ισραηλ αὐχένα ἀπέναντι τοῦ ἐχθροῦ αὐτοῦ;

Jos_7:9 WEB For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it, and will surround us, and cut off our name from the earth. What will you do for your great name?"

Jos_7:9 And when the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land hear it, they shall compass us round about and destroy us from off the land: and what will You do for Your great name?”

Jos_7:9 καὶ ἀκούσας ὁ Χαναναῖος καὶ πάντες οἱ κατοικοῦντες τὴν γῆν περικυκλώσουσιν ἡμᾶς καὶ ἐκτρίψουσιν ἡμᾶς ἀπὸ τῆς γῆς· καὶ τί ποιήσεις τὸ ὄνομά σου τὸ μέγα;

[The Sin of Achan]

Jos_7:10 WEB Yahweh said to Joshua, "Get up! Why are you fallen on your face like that?

Jos_7:10 And the Lord said to Joshua, “Rise up; why have you fallen upon your face?

Jos_7:10 καὶ εἶπεν κύριος πρὸς Ἰησοῦν Ἀνάστηθι· ἵνα τί τοῦτο σὺ πέπτωκας ἐπὶ πρόσωπόν σου;

Jos_7:11 WEB Israel has sinned. Yes, they have even transgressed my covenant which I commanded them. Yes, they have even taken of the devoted things, and have also stolen, and also deceived. They have even put it among their own stuff.

Jos_7:11 The people have sinned, and transgressed the covenant which I made with them; they have stolen from the accursed thing, and put it into their store.

Jos_7:11 ἡμάρτηκεν ὁ λαὸς καὶ παρέβη τὴν διαθήκην, ἣν διεθέμην πρὸς αὐτούς, καὶ κλέψαντες ἀπὸ τοῦ ἀναθέματος ἐνέβαλον εἰς τὰ σκεύη αὐτῶν.

Jos_7:12 WEB Therefore the children of Israel can't stand before their enemies. They turn their backs before their enemies, because they have become devoted for destruction. I will not be with you any more, unless you destroy the devoted things from among you.

Jos_7:12 And the children of Israel will not be able to stand before their enemies; they will turn their back before their enemies, for they have become an accursed thing: I will no longer be with you, unless you remove the accursed thing from yourselves.

Jos_7:12 οὐ μὴ δύνωνται οἱ υἱοὶ Ισραηλ ὑποστῆναι κατὰ πρόσωπον τῶν ἐχθρῶν αὐτῶν· αὐχένα ἐπιστρέψουσιν ἔναντι τῶν ἐχθρῶν αὐτῶν, ὅτι ἐγενήθησαν ἀνάθεμα· οὐ προσθήσω ἔτι εἶναι μεθ᾿ ὑμῶν, ἐὰν μὴ ἐξάρητε τὸ ἀνάθεμα ἐξ ὑμῶν αὐτῶν.

Jos_7:13 WEB Get up! Sanctify the people, and say, 'Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow, for Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, "There is a devoted thing in the midst of you, Israel. You cannot stand before your enemies until you take away the devoted thing from among you."

Jos_7:13 Rise up, sanctify the people, and tell them to sanctify themselves for tomorrow. Thus says the Lord God of Israel: The accursed thing is among you; you shall not be able to stand before your enemies, until you have removed the accursed thing from among you.

Jos_7:13 ἀναστὰς ἁγίασον τὸν λαὸν καὶ εἰπὸν ἁγιασθῆναι εἰς αὔριον· τάδε λέγει κύριος ὁ θεὸς Ισραηλ Τὸ ἀνάθεμα ἐν ὑμῖν ἐστιν, οὐ δυνήσεσθε ἀντιστῆναι ἀπέναντι τῶν ἐχθρῶν ὑμῶν, ἕως ἂν ἐξάρητε τὸ ἀνάθεμα ἐξ ὑμῶν.

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1/18/26

· We've been / We’re talking about...

·the conditionality of God being with you

·Abominations can make Him depart
So...

·We need to Get holy so you can move from apostasy to remnant

STOP Forgetting Choices, Conditions, & Consequences!

· We forget the conditions with Moses & Joshua.

· Church forgets the conditions of Jesus.

· “Lord, Lord” (in Mat_7) = cries of those condemned for forgetting obedience-conditions of the Good Message proclaim

· today (Mat_7; Mat_28:18-20; Mar_16:15-18)

Why Leave???

· Special Presence = Covenant: God doesn’t leave those who remain in covenant with Him, but He does forsake rebellious apostates! -- (even if He doesn’t completely forsake Israel all-together)

· Flesh ≠ Covenant: Your wicked flesh (active body of sin -- Rom_6) does NOT have the promises & benefits of God’s covenant! -- that’s Misapplied self-flattering boasting!

· Apostasy ≠ Assured Special Presence God: Stop self-flattering, boasting, & claiming Promises of un-forsake-ability when apostating from God! (for your own flesh & for others)

· Predators Boast: Your wicked flesh does NOT get unconditional benefits -- that evil imagination (Gen_6) is exactly the type of boasting that predators madden themselves with to commit the worst hateful crimes! (The REAL Cause of immeasurable Evil)

· (Predator Mentality: I had many years to carefully observe and study nearly every detail of the psychological madness of a predator, and indeed the overconfidence, boasting, self-flattering of churchianity is a vital undeniable cause and partner in crime with all that confident religious people do.)

· Sinner’s Pride: Flattery-boasting = the wicked overconfidence of rebels, perverts, and apostate murderers (Joh_8)

· CONSEQUENCES Defeat Lies: Conditionality overthrows the boasting confidence of the wicked self-flattering Satan-worshiping flesh --

· Accountability: There is No Goodness for yourself & your identity when choosing bad.

>>PENDING \/\/

Mal_2: Why Tears?

Mal_2:13 WEB This again you do: you cover the altar of Yahweh with tears, with weeping, and with sighing, because he doesn't regard the offering any more, neither receives it with good will at your hand.

Mal_2:13 LB “And these things which I hated, you did: you covered with tears the altar of the Lord, and with weeping and groaning because of troubles: is it right for Me to have respect for your sacrifice, or to receive anything from your hands with goodwill?

Mal_2:13 καὶ ταῦτα, ἃ ἐμίσουν, ἐποιεῖτε· ἐκαλύπτετε δάκρυσιν τὸ θυσιαστήριον κυρίου καὶ κλαυθμῷ καὶ στεναγμῷ ἐκ κόπων. ἔτι ἄξιον ἐπιβλέψαι εἰς θυσίαν ἢ λαβεῖν δεκτὸν ἐκ τῶν χειρῶν ὑμῶν;

Mal_2:14 WEB Yet you say, 'Why?' Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant.

Mal_2:14 Yet you said, ‘For what reason?’ Because the Lord has borne witness between you and the wife of your youth, whom you have forsaken, and yet she was your partner, and the wife of your covenant.

Mal_2:14 καὶ εἴπατε Ἕνεκεν τίνος; ὅτι κύριος διεμαρτύρατο ἀνὰ μέσον σοῦ καὶ ἀνὰ μέσον γυναικὸς νεότητός σου, ἣν ἐγκατέλιπες, καὶ αὐτὴ κοινωνός σου καὶ γυνὴ διαθήκης σου.

The Point: The Flesh’s apostasy (Deu_31:16-18) matches God’s departure & forsaking you (Deu_31:17-18) which is reaffirmed all throughout the New Covenant (Mat_10:32-33; 2Ti_2:11-13; Rom_11:20-22; 1Co_10:1-13; etc.)

So what do you do with the boasting flesh?

Separation Punishment

[LOV: 4/22/17-4/23/17; 4/30/17; 5/6/17-5/7/17; 5/13/17; 5/19/17-5/20/17; 5/25/17-5/26/17; 6/3/17; 6/6/17-6/10/17-6/11/17; other dates (below); 6/15/17; 7/1/17-7/2/17; 1/30/26]

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Gen_3: God Walked with Them? -- Then Drove Them Out…

How Did Separation from God Happen to Begin With?

Let’s The First Step Back to the beginning…

(A) God Walked; Humans Hid

Gen_3:7 WEB The eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.

Gen_3:7 LB And the eyes of both of them were opened, and they perceived that they were naked, and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves coverings to go [be yoked] around them [i.e. ~ ‘pants’].

Gen_3:7 καὶ διηνοίχθησαν οἱ ὀφθαλμοὶ τῶν δύο, καὶ ἔγνωσαν ὅτι γυμνοὶ ἦσαν, καὶ ἔρραψαν φύλλα συκῆς καὶ ἐποίησαν ἑαυτοῖς περιζώματα.

Gen_3:8 WEB They heard the voice of Yahweh God walking in the garden [“בגן” (LEX: גּן)] in the cool [“היום” (LEX: רוּח) – i.e. spirit; Vul: auram post meridiem (evening breeze)] of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Yahweh God among the trees of the garden.

Gen_3:8 And they heard the voice [τὴν φωνὴν – i.e. sound] of the Lord God [κυρίου τοῦ θεοῦ] walking [around] [περιπατοῦντος] in the garden [παραδείσῳ < “פּרדּס” (used later in OT: Neh_2:8; Ecc_2:5; Son_4:13)] in the cool of the day [τὸ δειλινόν – ABP: at dusk; CT: evening]; and both Adam and his wife hid themselves from the face of the Lord God in the midst of the trees of the garden.

Gen_3:8 Καὶ ἤκουσαν τὴν φωνὴν κυρίου τοῦ θεοῦ περιπατοῦντος ἐν τῷ παραδείσῳ τὸ δειλινόν, καὶ ἐκρύβησαν ὅ τε Αδαμ καὶ ἡ γυνὴ αὐτοῦ ἀπὸ προσώπου κυρίου τοῦ θεοῦ ἐν μέσῳ τοῦ ξύλου τοῦ παραδείσου.

Gen_3:9 WEB Yahweh God called to the man, and said to him, "Where are you?"

Gen_3:9 And the Lord God called Adam and said to him, “Adam, where are you?”

Gen_3:9 καὶ ἐκάλεσεν κύριος ὁ θεὸς τὸν Αδαμ καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῷ Αδαμ, ποῦ εἶ;

Gen_3:10 WEB The man said, "I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself."

Gen_3:10 And he said to Him, “I heard Your voice as You walked in the garden, and I feared because I was naked and I hid myself.”

Gen_3:10 καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῷ Τὴν φωνήν σου ἤκουσα περιπατοῦντος ἐν τῷ παραδείσῳ καὶ ἐφοβήθην, ὅτι γυμνός εἰμι, καὶ ἐκρύβην.

(B) Clothes

Gen_3:21 WEB Yahweh God made coats of skins for Adam and for his wife, and clothed them.

Gen_3:21 And the Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife, and clothed them.

Gen_3:21 Καὶ ἐποίησεν κύριος ὁ θεὸς τῷ Αδαμ καὶ τῇ γυναικὶ αὐτοῦ χιτῶνας δερματίνους καὶ ἐνέδυσεν αὐτούς. --

Sin Can = Real Knowledge

Adam’s knowledge (Gen_3:7) is acknowledged by God (Gen_3:22)

Even though it is also unapproved/illicit/unauthorized/tainted/invalidated/profaned

Adam’s knowledge (Gen_3:7, Gen_3:22) included clothes (Gen_3:7) & nakedness awareness (Gen_3:10), better than what we have today.

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1Co_8: Sinful Knowledge Puffs Up

Food Offered to Idols

1Co_8:1 CAB Now concerning the things offered to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love edifies.

1Co_8:1 Περὶ δὲ τῶν εἰδωλοθύτων, οἴδαμεν ὅτι πάντες γνῶσιν ἔχομεν. ἡ γνῶσις φυσιοῖ, ἡ δὲ ἀγάπη οἰκοδομεῖ.

1Co_8:2 And if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he has come to know nothing yet as he ought to know.

1Co_8:2 εἴ δὲ τις δοκεῖ εἰδέναι τι, οὐδέπω οὐδὲν ἔγνωκε καθὼς δεῖ γνῶναι·

1Co_8:2 ει TSBδε τις δοκει Aεγνωκεναι TSBειδεναι τι Aουπω Aεγνω TSBουδεπω TSBουδεν TSBεγνωκεν καθως δει γνωναι

1Co_8:3 But if anyone loves God, this one has been known by Him.

1Co_8:3 εἰ δέ τις ἀγαπᾷ τὸν Θεόν, οὗτος ἔγνωσται ὑπ᾿ αὐτοῦ.

1Co_8:4 Therefore concerning the eating of the things offered to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one.

1Co_8:4 Περὶ τῆς βρώσεως οὖν τῶν εἰδωλοθύτων, οἴδαμεν ὅτι οὐδὲν εἴδωλον ἐν κόσμῳ, καὶ ὅτι οὐδεὶς Θεὸς ἕτερος εἰ μὴ εἷς.

1Co_8:4 περι της βρωσεως ουν των ειδωλοθυτων οιδαμεν οτι ουδεν ειδωλον εν κοσμω και οτι ουδεις θεος TSBετερος ει μη εις

See:

>>>>>>>>>PENDING

Rotten Knowledge -- Throughout Corinthian Letters

2Co_11:3 But I fear, lest perhaps as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, so your ·[knowledge] minds [νοήματα – i.e. incl. brain] may be corrupted from the simplicity [ἁπλότητος] that is in Christ.

2Co_11:3 φοβοῦμαι δὲ μήπως, ὡς ὁ ὄφις Εὕαν ἐξηπάτησεν ἐν τῇ πανουργίᾳ αὐτοῦ, οὕτω φθαρῇ τὰ νοήματα ὑμῶν ἀπὸ τῆς ἁπλότητος τῆς εἰς τὸν Χριστόν.

2Co_11:3 φοβουμαι δε Aμη Aπως TSBμηπως ως ο οφις TSBευαν εξηπατησεν Aευαν εν τη πανουργια αυτου TSBουτως φθαρη τα νοηματα υμων απο της απλοτητος Aκαι Aτης Aαγνοτητος της εις τον χριστον

Vs. Paul’s Knowledge

2Co_11:6 But even if I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not inferior in knowledge, but in every way I was made known to you in all things.

2Co_11:6 εἰ δὲ καὶ ἰδιώτης τῷ λόγῳ, ἀλλ᾿ οὐ τῇ γνώσει, ἀλλ᾿ ἐν παντὶ φανερωθέντες ἐν πᾶσιν εἰς ὑμᾶς.

2Co_11:6 ει δε και ιδιωτης τω λογω αλλ ου τη γνωσει αλλ εν παντι Aφανερωσαντες TSBφανερωθεντες εν πασιν εις υμας

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Note: sacrifice (skins) & clothes (modesty) came before leaving the garden.

An established covenant of redemption was put in place to satisfy against their new life and death with sin.

(C) Driven Out

Gen_3:22 WEB Yahweh God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, lest he put forth his hand, and also take of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever..."

Gen_3:22 LB And God said, “Behold, Adam has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil; and now, lest at any time he stretch forth his hand, and take of the tree of life and eat, and so he shall live forever”—

Gen_3:22 καὶ εἶπεν ὁ θεός Ἰδοὺ Αδαμ γέγονεν ὡς εἷς ἐξ ἡμῶν τοῦ γινώσκειν καλὸν καὶ πονηρόν, καὶ νῦν μήποτε ἐκτείνῃ τὴν χεῖρα καὶ λάβῃ τοῦ ξύλου τῆς ζωῆς καὶ φάγῃ καὶ ζήσεται εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα.

Gen_3:23 WEB Therefore Yahweh God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.

Gen_3:23 so the Lord God sent him forth out of the garden of Eden, to cultivate the ground out of which he was taken.

Gen_3:23 καὶ ἐξαπέστειλεν αὐτὸν κύριος ὁ θεὸς ἐκ τοῦ παραδείσου τῆς τρυφῆς ἐργάζεσθαι τὴν γῆν, ἐξ ἧς ἐλήμφθη.

Gen_3:24 WEB So he drove out the man; and he placed Cherubs at the east of the garden of Eden, and the flame of a sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.

Gen_3:24 And He cast out Adam and caused him to dwell outside of the garden of Eden, and stationed the cherubim and the fiery sword that turns about to keep the way of the tree of life.

Gen_3:24 καὶ ἐξέβαλεν τὸν Αδαμ καὶ κατῴκισεν αὐτὸν ἀπέναντι τοῦ παραδείσου τῆς τρυφῆς καὶ ἔταξεν τὰ χερουβιμ καὶ τὴν φλογίνην ῥομφαίαν τὴν στρεφομένην φυλάσσειν τὴν ὁδὸν τοῦ ξύλου τῆς ζωῆς.

The Point: Sin disrupts/stops walking with God. Separation = Punishment/consequences

God’s Closeness After Sin

Even though they were driven out of the garden, God was still closely talking with them.

Persistent Close-ness with God

· There Still Used to Be Closeness with The Creator, even after sin

· Genesis 1 – 4 – God used to talk much more freely with Adam, Eve, Cain, and presumably Able.

· Notice that this applies to even a sinful murderer like Cain (Genesis 4)!

God Talked with Cain -- After Murder!

Gen_4:9 WEB Yahweh said to Cain, "Where is Abel, your brother?" He said, "I don't know. Am I my brother's keeper?"

Gen_4:9 LB And the Lord God said to Cain, “Where is Abel your brother?” And he said, “I do not know—am I my brother’s keeper?”

Gen_4:9 καὶ εἶπεν ὁ θεὸς πρὸς Καιν Ποῦ ἐστιν Αβελ ὁ ἀδελφός σου; ὁ δὲ εἶπεν Οὐ γινώσκω· μὴ φύλαξ τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ μού εἰμι ἐγώ;

Cain Driven Away Further

Gen_4:13 WEB Cain said to Yahweh, "My punishment is greater than I can bear.

Gen_4:13 LB And Cain said to the Lord God, “My crime is too great for me to be forgiven.

Gen_4:13 καὶ εἶπεν Καιν πρὸς τὸν κύριον Μείζων ἡ αἰτία μου τοῦ ἀφεθῆναί με·

Gen_4:14 WEB Behold, you have driven me out this day from the surface of the ground. I will be hidden from your face, and I will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth. It will happen that whoever finds me will kill me."

Gen_4:14 If You cast me out this day from the face [προσώπου] of the earth [Gen_4:14, Gen_4:16, Deu_32:20], and I shall be hidden from Your presence [προσώπου], and I shall be groaning and trembling upon the earth, then it will be that anyone that finds me shall kill me.”

Gen_4:14 εἰ ἐκβάλλεις με σήμερον ἀπὸ προσώπου τῆς γῆς καὶ ἀπὸ τοῦ προσώπου σου κρυβήσομαι, καὶ ἔσομαι στένων καὶ τρέμων ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς, καὶ ἔσται πᾶς ὁ εὑρίσκων με ἀποκτενεῖ με.

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LB: The Beginnings of Civilization

Gen_4:16 WEB Cain went out from Yahweh's presence, and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.

Gen_4:16 So Cain went forth from the presence [προσώπου] of God [Gen_4:14, Gen_4:16, Deu_32:20], and dwelt in the land of Nod opposite Eden.

Gen_4:16 ἐξῆλθεν δὲ Καιν ἀπὸ προσώπου τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ ᾤκησεν ἐν γῇ Ναιδ κατέναντι Εδεμ.

Proof of Closeness After Sin

· God’s “face”-presence was still with humans after they sinned, which was still close to Eden at that time.

· Only after murder was Cain driven even further from God’s felt presence (Eden to Nod)

From Close to Far -- Cain Summary

Cain (Eden/Face/Presence/Divine Communication) → Murder → Nod (away / east of Eden)

Textual Variation Preserves Walking Even More?

· MT Says the righteous “walked with God” -- like Enoch & Noah

· LXX & NT: they were pleasing to God (Heb_11)

· This implies an ancient idea that pleasing God (LXX 7 NT) ≈ getting to walk with Him (MT)

Reconnection Efforts Began -- Seeking Closeness

Gen_4:26 WEB There was also born a son to Seth, and he named him Enosh. Then men began to call on Yahweh's name.

Gen_4:26 LB And Seth had a son, and he called his name Enosh; he hoped to call on the name of the Lord God.

Gen_4:26 καὶ τῷ Σηθ ἐγένετο υἱός, ἐπωνόμασεν δὲ τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ Ενως· οὗτος ἤλπισεν ἐπικαλεῖσθαι τὸ ὄνομα κυρίου τοῦ θεοῦ.

Prayer for Closeness Began (in an important sense).

Multiplied Distance -- from Sinning Against Marriage

Marriage Defilement Brought Profoundly Deepened Distance from God

Gen_6:3 WEB Yahweh said, "My Spirit will not strive [i.e. go toward judgement] with man forever, because he also is flesh; yet will his days be one hundred twenty years."

Gen_6:3 CAB And the Lord God [κύριος ὁ θεός] said, “·My Spirit [τὸ πνεῦμά μου] shall ·by no means [Οὐ μὴ] remain [καταμείνῃ] with [ἐν – in/among] ·[that of] these men [τοῖς ἀνθρώποις τούτοις] ·[into the] forever [εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα], ·for [διὰ τὸ] they are [being] flesh [διὰ τὸ εἶναι αὐτοὺς σάρκας], but their days shall be 120 years.”

Gen_6:3 καὶ εἶπεν κύριος ὁ θεός Οὐ μὴ καταμείνῃ τὸ πνεῦμά μου ἐν τοῖς ἀνθρώποις τούτοις εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα διὰ τὸ εἶναι αὐτοὺς σάρκας, ἔσονται δὲ αἱ ἡμέραι αὐτῶν ἑκατὸν εἴκοσι ἔτη.

Deu_31: God Knows their Sins -- Anger & Forsaking Predicted

Deu_31:16 WEB Yahweh said to Moses, Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers; and this people will rise up, and play the prostitute after the strange gods of the land, where they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.

Deu_31:16 And the Lord said to Moses, “Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers, and this people shall arise and whore after the strange gods of the land, into which they are entering: and they will forsake Me, and break My covenant, which I made with them.

Deu_31:16 καὶ εἶπεν κύριος πρὸς Μωυσῆν Ἰδοὺ σὺ κοιμᾷ μετὰ τῶν πατέρων σου, καὶ ἀναστὰς ὁ λαὸς οὗτος ἐκπορνεύσει ὀπίσω θεῶν ἀλλοτρίων τῆς γῆς, εἰς ἣν οὗτος εἰσπορεύεται ἐκεῖ εἰς αὐτήν, καὶ ἐγκαταλείψουσίν με καὶ διασκεδάσουσιν τὴν διαθήκην μου, ἣν διεθέμην αὐτοῖς.

Deu_31:17 WEB Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall come on them; so that they will say in that day, Haven't these evils come on us because our God is not among us?

Deu_31:17 And I will be very angry [ὀργισθήσομαι θυμῷ] with them in that day, and I will leave them [καταλείψω αὐτοὺς] and turn My face away from them, and they shall be devoured. And many evils and afflictions shall come upon them, and they shall say in that day, ‘Because the Lord my God is not with me, these evils have come upon me.’

Deu_31:17 καὶ ὀργισθήσομαι θυμῷ εἰς αὐτοὺς ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἐκείνῃ καὶ καταλείψω αὐτοὺς καὶ ἀποστρέψω τὸ πρόσωπόν μου ἀπ᾿ αὐτῶν, καὶ ἔσται κατάβρωμα, καὶ εὑρήσουσιν αὐτὸν κακὰ πολλὰ καὶ θλίψεις, καὶ ἐρεῖ ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἐκείνῃ Διότι οὐκ ἔστιν κύριος ὁ θεός μου ἐν ἐμοί, εὕροσάν με τὰ κακὰ ταῦτα.

Deu_31:18 WEB I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evil which they shall have worked, in that they are turned to other gods.

Deu_31:18 And I will surely turn away My face from them in that day, because of all their evil doings which they have done [διὰ πάσας τὰς κακίας, ἃς ἐποίησαν], because they turned aside after strange gods.

Deu_31:18 ἐγὼ δὲ ἀποστροφῇ ἀποστρέψω τὸ πρόσωπόν μου ἀπ᾿ αὐτῶν ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἐκείνῃ διὰ πάσας τὰς κακίας, ἃς ἐποίησαν, ὅτι ἐπέστρεψαν ἐπὶ θεοὺς ἀλλοτρίους.

Deu_31:16 NKJV And the LORD said to Moses: “Behold, you will rest with your fathers; and this people will rise and play the harlot with the gods of the foreigners of the land, where they go to be among them, and they will forsake Me and break My covenant which I have made with them.

Deu_31:19-22 – Song testifying against them

>>dragon

Deu_31:21 WEB …for I know their imagination ^H3336 [יצרו – WS: “form, framing, purpose, imagination” (vs. Isa_26:3; 1Ch_29:18/LXX: διανοίᾳ)] which they frame this day, before I have brought them into the land which I swore.

Deu_31:21 LB …for I know their wickedness [ἐγὼ γὰρ οἶδα τὴν πονηρίαν αὐτῶν], what they are doing here this day, before I have brought them into the good land, which I swore to their fathers.”

Deu_31:21 καὶ ἀντικαταστήσεται ἡ ᾠδὴ αὕτη κατὰ πρόσωπον μαρτυροῦσα, οὐ γὰρ μὴ ἐπιλησθῇ ἀπὸ στόματος αὐτῶν καὶ ἀπὸ στόματος τοῦ σπέρματος αὐτῶν· ἐγὼ γὰρ οἶδα τὴν πονηρίαν αὐτῶν, ὅσα ποιοῦσιν ὧδε σήμερον πρὸ τοῦ εἰσαγαγεῖν με αὐτοὺς εἰς τὴν γῆν τὴν ἀγαθήν, ἣν ὤμοσα τοῖς πατράσιν αὐτῶν.

Deu_31:21 NKJV For I know the inclination of their behavior today, even before I have brought them to the land of which I swore to give them.

See: Israel Never Totally Forsaken

MT Hebrew: Same Evil Flesh “Framed” from the beginning:

Gen_6:5; Gen_8:21; Deu_31:21; 1Ch_28:9; 1Ch_29:18; Psa_103:14; Isa_26:3; Isa_29:16; Hab_2:18.

Gen_6:5 WEB Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination ^H3336 of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

Gen_6:5 LB And the Lord God, having seen that the wicked actions of men were multiplied upon the earth, and that everyone in his heart was meditating on evil continually [διανοεῖται ἐν τῇ καρδίᾳ αὐτοῦ],

Gen_6:5 Ἰδὼν δὲ κύριος ὁ θεὸς ὅτι ἐπληθύνθησαν αἱ κακίαι τῶν ἀνθρώπων ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς καὶ πᾶς τις διανοεῖται ἐν τῇ καρδίᾳ αὐτοῦ ἐπιμελῶς ἐπὶ τὰ πονηρὰ πάσας τὰς ἡμέρας,

Gen_8:21 WEB Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, "I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake, because the imagination ^H3336 of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I ever again strike everything living, as I have done.

Gen_8:21 LB And the Lord God smelled a sweet aroma. And the Lord God, having considered all things, said, “I will never again curse the earth, due to the works of men, because the imagination of man is intently bent upon evil things from his youth [διάνοια τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ἐπιμελῶς ἐπὶ τὰ πονηρὰ ἐκ νεότητος], I will never again destroy all living flesh as I have done.

Gen_8:21 καὶ ὠσφράνθη κύριος ὁ θεὸς ὀσμὴν εὐωδίας, καὶ εἶπεν κύριος ὁ θεὸς διανοηθείς Οὐ προσθήσω ἔτι τοῦ καταράσασθαι τὴν γῆν διὰ τὰ ἔργα τῶν ἀνθρώπων, ὅτι ἔγκειται ἡ διάνοια τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ἐπιμελῶς ἐπὶ τὰ πονηρὰ ἐκ νεότητος· οὐ προσθήσω οὖν ἔτι πατάξαι πᾶσαν σάρκα ζῶσαν, καθὼς ἐποίησα.

Deu_31: Moses’ Book & Words Testify Against Rebellion

Being Left by God happens when you leave Bible-Obedience

>>Dragon

God Steps Back: Deu_31:17, etc.

Reminder:

Deu_31:17 WEB Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall come on them; so that they will say in that day, Haven't these evils come on us because our God is not among us?

Deu_31:17 LB And I will be very angry with them in that day, and I will leave them and turn My face away from them, and they shall be devoured. And many evils and afflictions shall come upon them, and they shall say in that day, ‘Because the Lord my God is not with me, these evils have come upon me.’

Deu_31:17 καὶ ὀργισθήσομαι θυμῷ εἰς αὐτοὺς ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἐκείνῃ καὶ καταλείψω αὐτοὺς καὶ ἀποστρέψω τὸ πρόσωπόν μου ἀπ᾿ αὐτῶν, καὶ ἔσται κατάβρωμα, καὶ εὑρήσουσιν αὐτὸν κακὰ πολλὰ καὶ θλίψεις, καὶ ἐρεῖ ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἐκείνῃ Διότι οὐκ ἔστιν κύριος ὁ θεός μου ἐν ἐμοί, εὕροσάν με τὰ κακὰ ταῦτα.

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Deu_31:26 WEB Take this book of the law, and put it by the side of the ark of the covenant of Yahweh your God, that it may be there for a witness against you.

Deu_31:26 LB Take the book of this law, and you shall put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God; and it shall be there among you for a testimony.

Deu_31:26 Λαβόντες τὸ βιβλίον τοῦ νόμου τούτου θήσετε αὐτὸ ἐκ πλαγίων τῆς κιβωτοῦ τῆς διαθήκης κυρίου τοῦ θεοῦ ὑμῶν, καὶ ἔσται ἐκεῖ ἐν σοὶ εἰς μαρτύριον.

Deu_31:27 For I know your rebellion, and your stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, you have been rebellious against Yahweh; and how much more after my death?

Deu_31:27 For I know your provocation, and your stiff neck; for yet during my life with you at this day, you have been provoking in your conduct toward God: how shall you not also be so after my death?

Deu_31:27 ὅτι ἐγὼ ἐπίσταμαι τὸν ἐρεθισμόν σου καὶ τὸν τράχηλόν σου τὸν σκληρόν· ἔτι γὰρ ἐμοῦ ζῶντος μεθ᾿ ὑμῶν σήμερον παραπικραίνοντες ἦτε τὰ πρὸς τὸν θεόν, πῶς οὐχὶ καὶ ἔσχατον τοῦ θανάτου μου;

Deu_31:28 Assemble to me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to witness against them.

Deu_31:28 Gather together to me the heads of your tribes, and your elders, and your judges, and your officers, that I may speak in their ears all these words; and I call both heaven and earth to witness against them.

Deu_31:28 ἐκκλησιάσατε πρός με τοὺς φυλάρχους ὑμῶν καὶ τοὺς πρεσβυτέρους ὑμῶν καὶ τοὺς κριτὰς ὑμῶν καὶ τοὺς γραμματοεισαγωγεῖς ὑμῶν, ἵνα λαλήσω εἰς τὰ ὦτα αὐτῶν πάντας τοὺς λόγους τούτους καὶ διαμαρτύρωμαι αὐτοῖς τόν τε οὐρανὸν καὶ τὴν γῆν·

Deu_31:29 For I know that after my death you will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will happen to you in the latter days; because you will do that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.

Deu_31:29 For I know that after my death you will utterly transgress, and turn aside out of the way which I have commanded you; and evils shall come upon you in the latter days, because you will do evil before the Lord, to provoke Him to anger by the works of your hands.”

Deu_31:29 οἶδα γὰρ ὅτι ἔσχατον τῆς τελευτῆς μου ἀνομίᾳ ἀνομήσετε καὶ ἐκκλινεῖτε ἐκ τῆς ὁδοῦ, ἧς ἐνετειλάμην ὑμῖν, καὶ συναντήσεται ὑμῖν τὰ κακὰ ἔσχατον τῶν ἡμερῶν, ὅτι ποιήσετε τὸ πονηρὸν ἐναντίον κυρίου παροργίσαι αὐτὸν ἐν τοῖς ἔργοις τῶν χειρῶν ὑμῶν.

Deu_31 ≈ Act_20…

Moses is very similar to Paul…

Act_20: Wolves Will Come!

Paul’s Warnings to Ephesus & Asia minor

Act_20:29 CAB For I know this, that savage wolves will come in after my departure, not sparing the flock.

Act_20:29 ἐγὼ γὰρ οἶδα τοῦτο, ὅτι εἰσελεύσονται μετὰ τὴν ἄφιξίν μου λύκοι βαρεῖς εἰς ὑμᾶς μὴ φειδόμενοι τοῦ ποιμνίου·

Act_20:29 εγω TSBγαρ οιδα TSBτουτο οτι εισελευσονται μετα την αφιξιν μου λυκοι βαρεις εις υμας μη φειδομενοι του ποιμνιου

Act_20:30 Also from among you yourselves will arise men speaking things having been distorted, in order to draw away the disciples after them.

Act_20:30 καὶ ἐξ ὑμῶν αὐτῶν ἀναστήσονται ἄνδρες λαλοῦντες διεστραμμένα τοῦ ἀποσπᾶν τοὺς μαθητὰς ὀπίσω αὐτῶν.

Act_20:31 Therefore be alert, remembering that for three years, night and day I did not cease, with tears, exhorting each one.

Act_20:31 διὸ γρηγορεῖτε, μνημονεύοντες ὅτι τριετίαν νύκτα καὶ ἡμέραν οὐκ ἐπαυσάμην μετὰ δακρύων νουθετῶν ἕνα ἕκαστον.

√ GNT-V

Perverse Generation

Deu_32:5 WEB They have dealt corruptly with him, they are not his children, it is their blemish. They are a perverse and crooked generation.

Deu_32:5 LB They have sinned, not pleasing Him; spotted children, a crooked and perverse generation.

Deu_32:5 ἡμάρτοσαν οὐκ αὐτῷ τέκνα μωμητά, γενεὰ σκολιὰ καὶ διεστραμμένη.

Deu_32:5 NKJV They have corrupted themselves; they are not His children, because of their blemish: A perverse and crooked generation.

>> Sync: herein

>>Scrip: Read / ES \/\/\/\/

TSK: a perverse: Deu_9:24, Psa_78:8, Isa_1:4, Mat_3:7, Mat_16:4, Mat_17:17, Luk_9:41, Act_7:51, Phi_2:15

Notice: invalidity!

(as seen in with the perverted seed)

>>Scrip: Read HEBREW \/\/

Deu_32: Hide Face, Then What?

Deu_32:18 WEB Of the Rock who became your father, you are unmindful, and have forgotten God who gave you birth.

Deu_32:18 LB You have forsaken the God that fathered you, and forgotten the God who feeds you.

Deu_32:18 θεὸν τὸν γεννήσαντά σε ἐγκατέλιπες καὶ ἐπελάθου θεοῦ τοῦ τρέφοντός σε.

Deu_32:19 WEB Yahweh saw it, and abhorred them, because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.

Deu_32:19 And the Lord saw, and was jealous; and He was provoked by the anger of His sons and daughters,

Deu_32:19 καὶ εἶδεν κύριος καὶ ἐζήλωσεν καὶ παρωξύνθη δι᾿ ὀργὴν υἱῶν αὐτοῦ καὶ θυγατέρων

Deu_32:20 WEB He said, I will hide my face from them. I will see what their end shall be; for they are a very perverse generation, children in whom is no faithfulness.

Deu_32:20 and said, ‘I will turn away My face from them, and will show what shall happen to them in the last days [ἐπ᾿ ἐσχάτων]; for it is a perverse generation [γενεὰ ἐξεστραμμένη ἐστίν], sons in whom is no faith. [υἱοί, οἷς οὐκ ἔστιν πίστις ἐν αὐτοῖς]

Deu_32:20 καὶ εἶπεν Ἀποστρέψω τὸ πρόσωπόν μου ἀπ᾿ αὐτῶν καὶ δείξω τί ἔσται αὐτοῖς ἐπ᾿ ἐσχάτων· ὅτι γενεὰ ἐξεστραμμένη ἐστίν, υἱοί, οἷς οὐκ ἔστιν πίστις ἐν αὐτοῖς.

Deu_32:21 WEB They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God. They have provoked me to anger with their vanities. I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people. I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

Deu_32:21 They have provoked Me to jealousy by that which is not God, they have exasperated Me with their idols; and I will provoke them to jealousy with them that are not a nation, I will anger them with a nation void of understanding.

Deu_32:21 αὐτοὶ παρεζήλωσάν με ἐπ᾿ οὐ θεῷ, παρώργισάν με ἐν τοῖς εἰδώλοις αὐτῶν· κἀγὼ παραζηλώσω αὐτοὺς ἐπ᾿ οὐκ ἔθνει, ἐπ᾿ ἔθνει ἀσυνέτῳ παροργιῶ αὐτούς.

>> Sync: herein

Deu_32:22 WEB For a fire is kindled in my anger, Burns to the lowest Sheol, Devours the earth with its increase, and sets the foundations of the mountains on fire.

Deu_32:22 For a fire has been kindled out of My wrath, it shall burn to hell below; it shall devour the land, and the fruits of it; it shall set on fire the foundations of the mountains.

Deu_32:22 ὅτι πῦρ ἐκκέκαυται ἐκ τοῦ θυμοῦ μου, καυθήσεται ἕως ᾅδου κάτω, καταφάγεται γῆν καὶ τὰ γενήματα αὐτῆς, φλέξει θεμέλια ὀρέων.

Deu_32:23 WEB I will heap evils on them. I will spend my arrows on them.

Deu_32:23 ‘I will gather evils upon them, and will fight with My weapons against them.

Deu_32:23 συνάξω εἰς αὐτοὺς κακὰ καὶ τὰ βέλη μου συντελέσω εἰς αὐτούς.

Deu_32:20 NKJV And He said: ‘I will hide My face from them, I will see what their end will be, For they are a perverse generation, Children in whom is no faith.’

Note: See/Read Context!

>> NEWER / Still need to quote:

Deu_32:20 WEB He said, I will hide my face from them [Gen_4:14, Gen_4:16, Deu_32:20]. I will see what their end shall be; for they are a very perverse generation, children in whom is no faithfulness.

Deu_32:20 CAB and said, ‘I will turn away My face from them, and will show what shall happen to them in the last days [ἐπ᾿ ἐσχάτων]; for it is a perverse generation, sons in whom is no faith.

Deu_32:20 καὶ εἶπεν Ἀποστρέψω τὸ πρόσωπόν μου ἀπ᾿ αὐτῶν καὶ δείξω τί ἔσται αὐτοῖς ἐπ᾿ ἐσχάτων· ὅτι γενεὰ ἐξεστραμμένη ἐστίν, υἱοί, οἷς οὐκ ἔστιν πίστις ἐν αὐτοῖς.

>> Sync: Lov | LoIs

Insight = Foresight

Moses’ Insight = God’s Foresight

God’s prediction of rebellion (Deu_31:16-21; Deu_32:18-23) matched Moses’ insight and foresight (see: You WILL Know Them; incl. Deu_29:4 – blind; Deu_31:26-29 – forsake)

Moses’ inspired experience matches the same principle as…

Prophet: what do you see? (Amo_7:8; Amo_8:2; Zec_4:2; Zec_5:2, Jer_1:11-13; Eze_8:6; Eze_8:12; Eze_8:15; Eze_8:17; Eze_40:4; Eze_44:5; Joh_1:50; Rev_1:12-13)

God both (A) shows His prophet, as well as (B) prophetically predicts & explains what these experiences mean.

Remember: the only “experience” that is worth anything = with the Word of God! (Heb_5:11-14)

The Point: Stop assuming non-inspired foresight & predictions, when God actually declares His forecast of where you’re headed -- it might be inspired and True

“Hands”/Deeds -- 31 Reverses 30

Deuteronomy 31’s Apostasy = a reversal of Deuteronomy 30’s New Covenant

Notice the reversal of “hands” from 30 to 31…

Deu_30:9 WEB Yahweh your God will make you plenteous in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your body, and in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, for good: for Yahweh will again rejoice over you for good, as he rejoiced over your fathers;

Deu_30:9 And the Lord your God shall bless you in every work of your hands, in the offspring of your body, and in the offspring of your cattle, and in the fruits of your land, because the Lord your God will again rejoice over you for good, as He rejoiced over your fathers,

Deu_30:9 καὶ πολυωρήσει σε κύριος ὁ θεός σου ἐν παντὶ ἔργῳ τῶν χειρῶν σου, ἐν τοῖς ἐκγόνοις τῆς κοιλίας σου καὶ ἐν τοῖς γενήμασιν τῆς γῆς σου καὶ ἐν τοῖς ἐκγόνοις τῶν κτηνῶν σου· ὅτι ἐπιστρέψει κύριος ὁ θεός σου εὐφρανθῆναι ἐπὶ σὲ εἰς ἀγαθά, καθότι ηὐφράνθη ἐπὶ τοῖς πατράσιν σου,

Deu_30:14 WEB But the word is very near to you, in your mouth, and in your heart, that you may do it.

Deu_30:14 The word is very near you, in your mouth, and in your heart, and in your hands, to do it.

Deu_30:14 ἔστιν σου ἐγγὺς τὸ ῥῆμα σφόδρα ἐν τῷ στόματί σου καὶ ἐν τῇ καρδίᾳ σου καὶ ἐν ταῖς χερσίν σου αὐτὸ ποιεῖν.

Deu_31:29 … in the latter days; because you will do that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.

Deu_31:29 … in the latter days, because you will do evil before the Lord, to provoke Him to anger by the works of your hands.”

Deu_31:29 οἶδα γὰρ ὅτι ἔσχατον τῆς τελευτῆς μου ἀνομίᾳ ἀνομήσετε καὶ ἐκκλινεῖτε ἐκ τῆς ὁδοῦ, ἧς ἐνετειλάμην ὑμῖν, καὶ συναντήσεται ὑμῖν τὰ κακὰ ἔσχατον τῶν ἡμερῶν, ὅτι ποιήσετε τὸ πονηρὸν ἐναντίον κυρίου παροργίσαι αὐτὸν ἐν τοῖς ἔργοις τῶν χειρῶν ὑμῶν.

Summary:

>>> Slide/Chat:

Hands (Good or Bad): Deu_30:9; Deu_30:14; Deu_31:29

The Point: What You DO Matters!

What You DO with Your Hands Directly Reveals your Condition

“Hands”/Deeds = Fruit -- What you DO shows What/Who you are!

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The righteous get to testify against your flesh because God says they KNOW YOU based on what you DO!

You WILL Know Them! (Reminder)

12/31/25-1/4/26

See: LOB > You WILL Know Them!

Letteral-Obedience.htm#YouWILLKnowThem

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Divine Knowing!

· God: Deu_31:21 NKJV For I know the inclination of their behavior…

· Moses: Deu_31:27 CAB For I know your rebellion, and your stiff neck…

· Moses: Deu_31:29 CAB For I know that after my death you will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside… [Moses]

· Jesus: Joh_5:42 – I have known you that you do not have the love of God in you…

· To Obeyers: Mat_7:16 – You will know them by their fruits…

The Point: The “Knowing” of God (Deu_31:21), Moses (Deu_31:27, Deu_31:29), Jesus (Joh_5:42), & Obeyers (Mat_7:16) = Paralleled & Consistent Throughout the Bible

If you deny Moses, Jesus, & Obeyers “Knowledge” of rebellion and unsaved apostasy (Deu_31:27, Deu_31:29; Joh_5:42; Mat_7:16), it’s because you yourself are part of that unsaved rebellious apostasy!

Apostasy says: you don't know if people are saved

Moses Jesus says: I know... You [obeyers] will know

Matthew 7

Matthew 12

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Are You “Knowing” or Indifferent?

· Knowing vs. Not Noticing…

· The “Knowing” of the righteous is the direct opposite of the laziness of apostasy…

There is a very conditional Choice “at hand”…

Israelite Distance: The Israelites, God, & the Promised Land <<<<<<<<

7/2/17-7/3/17; 7/8/17; 1/30/26; 2/15/26; 2/17/26

Who Is Causing the Separation Here?

· God truly wanted to be with the Israelites, and,

· Even though they falsely accused God of not wanting to bring them into a good land or "be with/among them",

· Sinful Israelites were actually the ones causing separation.

· Sinful Israelites were prolonging the conquest and inheritance of the Promised Land

Deceptive Inversions of Egocentrism

>>Scrip:

Bitter for sweet

Salt = Peace

Mar_9:50 – Have salt in your selves and be at peace

Salt + Fire / Zeal = Peace, not soft compromise

>>Scrip:

Peace DOERS = Blessed

Lev_11:44 – Be holy as God is Holy

See: PUR > Holy

Purity-Proclamation.htm#HolinessProclamation

Esp.

Purity-Proclamation.htm#InspiredHoliness

Saul: Self-Justifying

1Sa_13:11 NKJV And Samuel said, “What have you done?” Saul said, “When I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that you did not come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines gathered together at Michmash,

1Sa_13:12 NKJV then I said, ‘The Philistines will now come down on me at Gilgal, and I have not made supplication to the LORD.’ Therefore I felt compelled, and offered a burnt offering.”

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1Sa_15:15 NKJV And Saul said, “They have brought them from the Amalekites; for the people spared the best of the sheep and the oxen, to sacrifice to the LORD your God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.”

1Sa_15:20 NKJV And Saul said to Samuel, “But I have obeyed the voice of the LORD, and gone on the mission on which the LORD sent me, and brought back Agag king of Amalek; I have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.

1Sa_15:24 NKJV Then Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned, for I have transgressed the commandment of the LORD and your words, because I feared the people and obeyed their voice.”

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1Sa_15:30 NKJV Then he said, “I have sinned; yet honor me now, please, before the elders of my people and before Israel, and return with me, that I may worship the LORD your God.”

Saul is more concerned about reputation than repentance

2Co_7:10 NKJV For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, not to be regretted; but the sorrow of the world produces death.

Pro_28:13 NKJV He who covers his sins will not prosper, But whoever confesses and forsakes them will have mercy.

Later, Self-Justifying → self-pity:

Saul: Self-pitying

1Sa_18:8 NKJV Then Saul was very angry, and the saying displeased him; and he said, “They have ascribed to David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed only thousands. Now what more can he have but the kingdom?”

1Sa_22:8 NKJV All of you have conspired against me, and there is no one who reveals to me that my son has made a covenant with the son of Jesse; and there is not one of you who is sorry for me or reveals to me that my son has stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as it is this day.

Instead of self-pity, we need to Self-crucify.

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The Point: STOP projecting your own character faults and failures into others, like the hard-hearted Israelites did.

>>Dragon

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Israelites vs. Leah

Comparing & Contrasting the Failure of the Israelites with the Virtue of Leah

· Remember what we said about how Leah did what she could to pursue real love with Jacob.

· Even though Jacob struggled at first to fulfill his role of loving Leah, yet on Leah’s side of the parable, this contradicting story still fulfilled its purpose of drawing out righteous eagerness from Leah.

· And Even though we might wonder how much Leah realized about the greatness-es and glories that were at stake, yet it pleased and fulfilled the mysteries and staggering profoundness of the virtues of heaven for Leah to painfully yearn toward the hidden infinities of greatness concealed in her husband Jacob.

· Even though God never struggles to meet His obligations, yet often times it feels like God hates us when He withdraws from us.

· If you don't have the virtue of Leah, you're in danger of seeming to wait on God, and yet nothing is ever going to move toward closeness until you do your part.

Jam_4:8 CAB Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse [καθαρίσατε] your hands, you sinners; and purify [ἁγνίσατε] your hearts, you double-minded [δίψυχοι – tice-souled / double-soul-ed].

Jas_4:8 ἐγγίσατε τῷ Θεῷ, καὶ ἐγγιεῖ ὑμῖν. καθαρίσατε χεῖρας ἁμαρτωλοί καὶ ἁγνίσατε καρδίας δίψυχοι.

Often times we think we are waiting on God to come close to us, but God is waiting on us to make room and catch up with His passionate jealous-zeal for us, so that we will actually be able to come close to Him.

Suppose there was an example where Jacob was fully righteous without needing to learn a lesson...

remember with the example of the Israelites and the promised land, that

Relationships Punished with Separation

Other date(s) 2017 (seen above & below); 1/30/26-2/1/26; 2/6/26-2/8/26; 2/11/26-2/12/26…2/14/26-2/18/26; 2/20/26

Preview

· Inspiration Exists

· Dual Punishment of Distance = (A) God & (B) (Through) Inspired people

· Reverence of Inspiration = Required

· Real Love is the real goal for monotheists

Preview of People -- Tested with Separation

· Miriam’s Leprosy

· God Left Hezekiah

· Song of Songs: Separations & Reunions

· Hosea & Gomer

· Galatian & Corinthian Discipline

Consider the Relationships Punished by Separation...

· Learn: What do these examples in the Bible teach us today?

· Corrected Relationships: We need to Notice our flesh’s sinfulness, and reverence Obeyer’s inspiration

· Respect & Repent: How can we learn to respond better to various trials like separation with corrective faith and more obedience and virtue, instead of the resentment of ‘despising God's correction’ (Heb_12:5)?

Heb_12:5 CAB And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons: "My son, do not despise the discipline [μὴ ὀλιγώρει παιδείας -- meager + “care” (ὤρα/ōra)] of the LORD, nor be discouraged when you are reproved [ἐλεγχόμενος];

Heb_12:5 καὶ ἐκλέλησθε τῆς παρακλήσεως, ἥτις ὑμῖν ὡς υἱοῖς διαλέγεται· υἱέ μου, μὴ ὀλιγώρει παιδείας Κυρίου, μηδὲ ἐκλύου ὑπ᾿ αὐτοῦ ἐλεγχόμενος.

√ GNT-V

Acknowledge Desolation = Goal of Separation

· Honesty: The Desolation of Separation -- admit the problem! (to begin with; 1^st stage of salvation/solution).

· Learn & Change!: We are supposed to LEARN REPENTANCE through God’s distance and separations from us.

· Defeat Deception & Condemnation: Flattering and boasting, as if “God is still with sinners”, results in deception and ends in permanent separation and ultimate distance from God.

Have you suffered enough discouragement yet?

Whenever you get humble enough you will automatically admire and believe inspiration…

God on Earth (reminder)

· Inspiration: Righteous Relationships ≈ God’s human presence with you (just like Solomon, Hosea, & Paul below) -- if indeed He is within them

· Notice & Care: How can we recover from the rebellion of pretending like Bible obeyers are not inspired representations of God's corrective separations from our lives?

· When Horizontal = Heaven: Make no mistake: being separated from the righteous = being separated from God -- in so many ways

· God in heaven, without God on earth? You do not (A) have God in heaven, as seen in the Bible, while simultaneously (B) not needing the righteous at the same time -- since obeyers are inspired as God on earth throughout the Bible.

· Got Faith?: Can you believe in inspiration? Can you believe that clean people really are that important? Can you submit your personal experience and uninspired intuition to the factual righteousness and inspired Truth of the Scriptures?

· Reality Saves: Logic is your last chance if your conscience is broken and your heart is not right!

See: LOB > God on Earth

Holy Love = Eternal!

Other date(s); 2/17/26

From Miriam, Hezekiah, and Solomon, we need to learn something about relationships that are punished with separation…

Real Love is about (A) treating each other super-important & (B) being separated from the world, including our own sinning

This is how we can promote the consolations of closeness and real Love

Eternal Priorities

· Rules of Love: Holiness really is a prerequisite for real Love (as we are seeing with these examples), Therefore…

· Punishment: Separation from Holiness is required when sinning has not stopped. -- WARNING: God and Holy People are HOLY!

· Get Clean: Holiness is more important than our temporary human relationships, because Real Love makes us related forever -- as seen with the redemption in Hosea & Gomer below…

· Prioritize Forever!: It is better to risk being separated in this life so that we can have a hope of being together forever -- as seen in Galatian & Corinthian Discipline below…

· Real Relationships: You don't even have any Real Love or Truly valuable relationships with anyone unless it is toward holiness & faith in perfectly inspired obedience.

· Remember the Point: The Purpose of Life -- the Human Experience: (1) make more babies, (2) teach them the word of God (Gen_1 – 5)

· Assuming non-inspiration (ANI): Frustrates the very purpose and design of the human experience, because it blocks the transmition of God’s Character and identity (to deprive humans of their moral multiplication of salvation for all humanity).

Heb_12:14 CAB Pursue peace and holiness with all people, without which no one shall see the Lord:

Heb_12:14 Εἰρήνην διώκετε μετὰ πάντων, καὶ τὸν ἁγιασμόν, οὗ χωρὶς οὐδεὶς ὄψεται τὸν Κύριον,

√ GNT-V

Know True Identity: from Earth to Heaven!

· False Identification: Do you want to know others according to the flesh based on just a human relationship? (That is disobeying 2^nd Corinthians 6) Or…

· Inspired Identity: Do you want to enter into perceiving what God is actually saying about someone and fully apprehend who they are into forever?

· Parts Add Up: God has arranged key spiritual people as puzzle pieces on the earth that fit together, as His Body and Bride, which express His Real True identity.

· Identify: Inspiration is about identity -- God on Earth = Who He IS in heaven (1Jn_4:17, quoted below)

· Testing Is the Point: Identifying True vs. False Divine identity is what Moses has been trying to beat through our thick sinful flesh all these years!

· Loving People = Loving God: inspired pieces reveal God's true identity -- that's why your Love for righteous obeyers directly correlates with your real Love for God.

1Jn_4:17 CAB By this love has been perfected with us: that we may have confidence in the day of judgment; because just as He is, we also are in this world.

1Jn_4:17 ἐν τούτῳ τετελείωται ἡ ἀγάπη μεθ᾿ ἡμῶν, ἵνα παρρησίαν ἔχωμεν ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ τῆς κρίσεως, ὅτι καθὼς ἐκεῖνός ἐστι καὶ ἡμεῖς ἐσμεν ἐν τῷ κόσμῳ τούτῳ.

>>Scrip:

We love the brothers when we love God and keep His commandments

Inspiration = God's Love on Earth

2/2/26; 2/7/26; 2/17/26; 2/22/26

· (1) First “Love”?: We (hopefully) first learn that our parents & family love us.

· (2) “God Alone”?: An initial faith-realization is that only God can really Love you. However…

· (3) God is NOT Alone!: A second more deep realization is that God insists on Loving You on Earth through obeyers, as your new family, and in fact, you can also finally Love others perfectly through obedience.

· Moral Maturity: The initial church realization is NOT maturity -- God’s Love on Earth is deeper and more profound and requires the courage & zealous wisdom of Truth obedience to produce an incarnation of divinity that is the real way to grow up and be morally mature.

Humble Response

Other date(s) (seen below); 2/22/26

God’s Presence is At Stake! (Reminders)

· Your flesh is desolate & does NOT know God!

· Jesus is passing by

· He only gets into the boat when you cry out to Him

Quick Humility to Save Your Soul

2/20/26-2/22/26

· Humility in the Wilderness: Miriam & Moses both needed, and made use of humility in different ways with Miriam’s Leprosy in Numbers 12.

· Prioritize Prophecy: Humility = not defending your uninspired flesh, so that God can speak up all the louder

· Restitution Required: Mat_5:21-26 – Relationships -- Reconciliation & Restitution: MSA = Murder, Sacrifice, Adversary

· Zealous Flesh-Incrimination: If you lack virtue in a clash, you better quickly humble yourself to be the first to admit that you are wrong whenever convicted

· Others Might Ask:
How does the meekest man on earth respond to slander?
What if God defends the quiet leader [or rather: obeyer] more fiercely than the loud critic?

Moral Failure Require Humility & Repentance

Here's proof you still need this message:

· You are being chastised / punished for misbehavior but you don't have enough and virtue to get out of probation and pass the test of Trials

· You're not asking for help enough!

· You're not begging when truth could so easily save you

· You're still assuming non-inspiration and therefore not Loving who God says people really are

Poor Enough Yet?

· Do you really Love God enough to desperately beg for His presence?

· Your assumptions make Him far away from you.

· Your resistance makes your prayers unanswered.

· Your lack of Love disqualifies you from having Biblical Faith to receiving the help He has sent to you through others when it's time to answer your prayers.

A Real Answer Saves Desperate People

· Real Love Will save people from suicide when they're desperate and begging for help

· Do you have the truest solution to escape suicide?

· You need to save yourself from Independence and others from the higher nobility of despair?

Sinful Denial, Doesn’t Know God!

· God Denial: Assuming non-inspiration is denying God's real character & Truest identity -- Applies all throughout the Bible, & not only till today, but into the End times…

· Lost Ignorance: Assumptions do not know who God is
Assuming non-inspiration is not knowing who God is

· Correction Proves Legitimacy: God corrects those He knows/receives (Heb_12:) from assuming on inspiration, just like you did with Miriam

Boasting or Begging?

· Boasting: You don't need to like saying, 'g-d talks to me too'.

· Transforming Faith: You need to be transformed into holiness by the breathtaking obedience of inspiration that your flesh does not know.

· Pride vs. Discipleship: Flattery and self-sufficiency lead to hell, and discipleship leads to eternal life.

· Your Lack Proves Your Need: If your personal relationship in your prayer closet is not producing obeying all, then it's emphatically clear you need discipleship, not self-sufficiency, Independence, and boasting in the disqualification your flesh brings about upon you.

Learn from Miriam!

Humility Spirit Tests (reminders)

2/20/26-2/22/26

· Obedient Faith Test: When you pray is it hard or is it easy for you to see obeys as being inspired representatives from God shining salvation into your life?

· Amazement Test: Are you moved when you see people making greater sacrifices than others, and are you breathtaking with amazement at those who are obeying all of the Bible? (see: Ruth’s example, etc.), Or…

· Begging Test: Is it a pleasure or insult for you to beg others who have what you need?

· Equality Detection Test: does your personal activity in your prayer closet make you feel convicted to treat all sincere people the same?

· Comparison Test: Does your personal relationship prayer life put you in a posture of being less than others, or equal with them, or even worse, greater than them?

1Jn Reminder

Remember that the Bible commands us to do these spirit tests…

1Jn_4:1-6, etc. – Test the spirits…whoever listens to us is from God

Obedient Spirit

1Jn_3:22 And whatever we should ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and we do the things pleasing before Him.

1Jn_3:22 καὶ ὃ ἐὰν αἰτῶμεν λαμβάνομεν παρ᾿ αὐτοῦ, ὅτι τὰς ἐντολὰς αὐτοῦ τηροῦμεν καὶ τὰ ἀρεστὰ ἐνώπιον αὐτοῦ ποιοῦμεν.

1Jn_3:22 και ο εαν αιτωμεν λαμβανομεν Aαπ TSBπαρ αυτου οτι τας εντολας αυτου τηρουμεν και τα αρεστα ενωπιον αυτου ποιουμεν

1Jn_3:23 And this is His commandment: that we should believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ and should love one another, just as He gave commandment.

1Jn_3:23 καὶ αὕτη ἐστὶν ἡ ἐντολὴ αὐτοῦ, ἵνα πιστεύσωμεν τῷ ὀνόματι τοῦ υἱοῦ αὐτοῦ ᾿Ιησοῦ Χριστοῦ καὶ ἀγαπῶμεν ἀλλήλους καθὼς ἔδωκεν ἐντολὴν ἡμῖν.

1Jn_3:23 και αυτη εστιν η εντολη αυτου ινα πιστευσωμεν τω ονοματι του υιου αυτου ιησου χριστου και αγαπωμεν αλληλους καθως εδωκεν εντολην TSAημιν

1Jn_3:24 And the one who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in him. And by this we know that He abides in us, from the Spirit whom He gave us.

1Jn_3:24 καὶ ὁ τηρῶν τὰς ἐντολὰς αὐτοῦ ἐν αὐτῷ μένει, καὶ αὐτὸς ἐν αὐτῷ. καὶ ἐν τούτῳ γινώσκομεν ὅτι μένει ἐν ἡμῖν, ἐκ τοῦ Πνεύματος οὗ ἡμῖν ἔδωκεν.

1Jn_3:24 και ο τηρων τας εντολας αυτου εν αυτω μενει και αυτος εν αυτω και εν τουτω γινωσκομεν οτι μενει εν ημιν εκ του πνευματος ου ημιν εδωκεν

Test the Spirits: Incarnation & Listening to US

1Jn_4:1 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are from God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

1Jn_4:1 NKJV Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

1Jn_4:1 ᾿Αγαπητοί, μὴ παντὶ πνεύματι πιστεύετε, ἀλλὰ δοκιμάζετε τὰ πνεύματα εἰ ἐκ τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐστιν· ὅτι πολλοὶ ψευδοπροφῆται ἐξεληλύθασιν εἰς τὸν κόσμον.

1Jn_4:2 By this the Spirit of God is known: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God,

1Jn_4:2 ἐν τούτῳ γινώσκετε τὸ πνεῦμα τοῦ Θεοῦ· πᾶν πνεῦμα ὃ ὁμολογεῖ ᾿Ιησοῦν Χριστὸν ἐν σαρκὶ ἐληλυθότα, ἐκ τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐστι·

1Jn_4:2 εν τουτω Bγινωσκεται TSAγινωσκετε το πνευμα του θεου παν πνευμα ο ομολογει ιησουν χριστον εν σαρκι εληλυθοτα εκ του θεου εστιν

1Jn_4:3 and every spirit which does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard that it is coming, and now is already in the world.

1Jn_4:3 καὶ πᾶν πνεῦμα ὃ μὴ ὁμολογεῖ τὸν ᾿Ιησοῦν ἐκ τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐν σαρκὶ ἐληλυθότα, ἐκ τοῦ Θεοῦ οὐκ ἔστι· καὶ τοῦτό ἐστι τὸ τοῦ ἀντιχρίστου, ὃ ἀκηκόατε ὅτι ἔρχεται, καὶ νῦν ἐν τῷ κόσμῳ ἐστὶν ἤδη.

1Jn_4:3 και παν πνευμα ο μη ομολογει TSAτον ιησουν TSBχριστον TSBεν TSBσαρκι TSBεληλυθοτα εκ του θεου ουκ εστιν και τουτο εστιν το του αντιχριστου ο ακηκοατε οτι ερχεται και νυν εν τω κοσμω εστιν ηδη

1Jn_4:4 You are of God, little children, and you have overcome [νενικήκατε] them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.

1Jn_4:4 ῾Υμεῖς ἐκ τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐστε, τεκνία, καὶ νενικήκατε αὐτούς, ὅτι μείζων ἐστὶν ὁ ἐν ὑμῖν ἢ ὁ ἐν τῷ κόσμῳ.

1Jn_4:5 They are of the world: on account of this they speak of the world, and the world hears them.

1Jn_4:5 αὐτοὶ ἐκ τοῦ κόσμου εἰσί· διὰ τοῦτο ἐκ τοῦ κόσμου λαλοῦσι καὶ ὁ κόσμος αὐτῶν ἀκούει.

1Jn_4:6 We are of God. He that knows God hears us; he that is not of God does not hear us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

1Jn_4:6 ἡμεῖς ἐκ τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐσμεν· ὁ γινώσκων τὸν Θεὸν ἀκούει ἡμῶν. ὃς οὐκ ἔστιν ἐκ τοῦ Θεοῦ οὐκ ἀκούει ἡμῶν. ἐκ τούτου γινώσκομεν τὸ πνεῦμα τῆς ἀληθείας καὶ τὸ πνεῦμα τῆς πλάνης.

√ GNT-V

1Jn_4:6 NKJV We are of God. He who knows God hears us; he who is not of God does not hear us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

So you must listen to those who wrote the Bible, and then by its command, you must submit to and beg those who obey all of it (Heb_6:12 & Heb_13:7)

Bible Reading → Testing

· Question Your Motives: Testing the spirits to prove what you are being motivated by is one of the most practically useful moral things you can do and learn from considering these passages, (and whenever you get to read the Bible in general).

· Reading Tests: While you're reading, keep doing Spirit tests!

· Test Until You Obey: We need to courageously test all hidden spirits/motives by reading the Bible, by holding ourselves accountable to the requirement of obeying all of the Bible as we keep reading each verse...

Miriam Can Help Us Test

· Miriam Test: We can start testing some of these spiritual attitudes by considering Miriam's example…

· Prerequisite Reading: Numbers 12 - read this passage first, if possible, and then key details are rehearsed below as you keep reading…

Faith Spirit Tests (reminders)

2/22/26

Beg = Belief

Biblical Faith Follows Humility (Mat_5:3 → James, etc.)

Miracles Required?

Do you feel like you could easily believe someone was inspired if they were doing miracles?

Small Beginnings

How would you believe Moses was inspired BEFORE he saw the burning bush?

Heart (Obedience/Sacrifice) → Bush → Mountain

Heart ← you faith belong here!

>>Scrip:

God put it in Moses's heart to go down and visit his brothers

Miracles NOT Required!

· Remember if you demand a miracle before having faith then you'll never get one that saves you

· Remember the unbelief of assuming non-inspiration will not ever stop even to the point of blaspheming the revelation of the two witnesses, unless you start repenting right now

Luke 16 = Too Late!

Don't ever let it be that you're burning in hell and you're still thinking that if someone would rise from the dead other people would believe Them when you yourself doubt it inspiration without any rational reason just because there weren't miracles

Perception Spirit Tests (reminders)

Do you know God's voice (Psa_95; Heb_3), & His ways (Exo_33; Heb_3)?

2/23/26; 2/27/26

>>Scrip: ES

Exo_33:13 – Show me your ways!

Exo_33:13 NKJV Now therefore, I pray, if I have found grace in Your sight, show me now Your way, that I may know You and that I may find grace in Your sight.

Psa_25:4 NKJV Show me Your ways, O LORD; Teach me Your paths.

Psa_86:11 NKJV Teach me Your way, O LORD; I will walk in Your truth; Unite my heart to fear Your name.

Num_12: Miriam’s Leprosy

2017; 2026; etc.

See: MOS

Moses-Greatness.htm

God Left Hezekiah!

5/22/17-5/23/17; other date(s); …2/20/26

>> WOW Recompilation

Hezekiah — rebuked for courting Babylon

2Ki_20:14 NKJV Then Isaiah the prophet went to King Hezekiah, and said to him, “What did these men say, and from where did they come to you?” So Hezekiah said, “They came from a far country, from Babylon.”

2Ki_20:15 NKJV And he said, “What have they seen in your house?” So Hezekiah answered, “They have seen all that is in my house; there is nothing among my treasures that I have not shown them.”

2Ki_20:16 NKJV Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear the word of the LORD:

2Ki_20:17 NKJV ‘Behold, the days are coming when all that is in your house, and what your fathers have accumulated until this day, shall be carried to Babylon; nothing shall be left,’ says the LORD.”

– Isaiah confronts Hezekiah for flaunting treasures to Babylonian envoys; worldly alliance leads to future exile judgment.

2Ch_32:30 WEB This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper spring of the waters of Gihon, and brought them straight down on the west side of the city of David. …Hezekiah prospered [εὐοδώθη – good way-ed/road-ed] in all his works.

2Ch_32:30 LB The same Hezekiah stopped up the course of the water of Upper Gihon, and brought the water down straight south of the City of David. And …Hezekiah prospered in all his works.

2Ch_32:30 αὐτὸς Εζεκιας ἐνέφραξεν τὴν ἔξοδον τοῦ ὕδατος Γιων τὸ ἄνω καὶ κατηύθυνεν αὐτὰ κάτω πρὸς λίβα τῆς πόλεως Δαυιδ· καὶ εὐοδώθη Εζεκιας ἐν πᾶσι τοῖς ἔργοις αὐτοῦ.

2Ch_32:31 WEB However in the business of the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent to him to inquire of the wonder that was done in [ἐπὶ] the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart.

2Ch_32:31 Notwithstanding, in regard to the ambassadors [πρεσβευταῖς] of the princes [ἀρχόντων] of Babylon, who were sent [ἀποσταλεῖσιν] to [πρὸς] him, to inquire of him concerning [πυθέσθαι παρ᾿ αὐτοῦ – ?] the wonders [τέρας] which came upon the land, the Lord left him [ἐγκατέλιπεν (same as Hos_5:7)], to test him [τοῦ πειράσαι αὐτὸν], to know [εἰδέναι] what was in his heart [τὰ ἐν τῇ καρδίᾳ αὐτοῦ].

2Ch_32:31 καὶ οὕτως τοῖς πρεσβευταῖς τῶν ἀρχόντων ἀπὸ Βαβυλῶνος τοῖς ἀποσταλεῖσιν πρὸς αὐτὸν πυθέσθαι παρ᾿ αὐτοῦ τὸ τέρας, ὃ ἐγένετο ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς, καὶ ἐγκατέλιπεν αὐτὸν κύριος τοῦ πειράσαι αὐτὸν εἰδέναι τὰ ἐν τῇ καρδίᾳ αὐτοῦ.

2Ch_32:32 WEB Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and his good deeds, behold, they are written in the vision of Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz, in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.

2Ch_32:32 Death of Hezekiah And the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and his kindness, behold, they are written in the prophecy of Isaiah the son of Amoz the prophet, and in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.

2Ch_32:32 καὶ τὰ κατάλοιπα τῶν λόγων Εζεκιου καὶ τὸ ἔλεος αὐτοῦ, ἰδοὺ γέγραπται ἐν τῇ προφητείᾳ Ησαιου υἱοῦ Αμως τοῦ προφήτου καὶ ἐπὶ βιβλίου βασιλέων Ιουδα καὶ Ισραηλ.

TSK: left him: Jdg_16:20, Psa_27:9, Psa_51:11, Psa_51:12, Psa_119:116, Psa_119:117, Joh_15:5

Being Worldly ≠ Having God’s Presence

· Exclusivity Required: Both (A) 2Ch_32 and (B) 1Corinthians 6 simultaneously disqualify you from being connected to (A) the right people and (B) the right God when you are connected with the fleshly praise of worldliness.

· Flattery: If you think you can get worldly and still have God -- your blind and relying on fleshly error.

· No Worldliness Connections: 1Corinthians 6 does not allow you to have worldliness and connection with the righteous people, and by extension, the righteous clean God at the same time.

· Hosea & Paul: These important withdrawal principles are profoundly repeated throughout Hosea and by Paul.

· Corinthians: Don’t be like the apostating, unrepentant Corinthians!

Kings Rebuked for Worldliness

2/20/26

Jehoshaphat — rebuked for loving God’s enemies

2Ch_19:2 NKJV And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to King Jehoshaphat, “Should you help the wicked and love those who hate the LORD? Therefore the wrath of the LORD is upon you.

– Prophet Jehu rebukes Jehoshaphat for alliance with Ahab; friendship with a wicked king brings divine wrath.

Related episode: 2Ch_18:1–3

Jehoshaphat (again) — rebuked for commercial partnership with a wicked king

2Ch_20:35 NKJV After this Jehoshaphat king of Judah allied himself with Ahaziah king of Israel, who acted very wickedly.

2Ch_20:37 NKJV Then Eliezer the son of Dodavah of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, “Because you have allied yourself with Ahaziah, the LORD has destroyed your works.” Then the ships were wrecked, so that they were not able to go to Tarshish.

– Prophet Eliezer rebukes Jehoshaphat for business partnership with wicked Ahaziah; alliance results in divinely wrecked fleet.

Asa — rebuked for relying on pagan alliance

2Ch_16:7 NKJV And at that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah, and said to him: “Because you have relied on the king of Syria, and have not relied on the LORD your God, therefore the army of the king of Syria has escaped from your hand.

2Ch_16:8 NKJV Were the Ethiopians and the Lubim not a huge army with very many chariots and horsemen? Yet, because you relied on the LORD, He delivered them into your hand.

– Prophet Hanani rebukes Asa for seeking security through Syrian alliance rather than trusting the LORD; political friendship replaces faith.

Amaziah — rebuked for bringing back foreign gods after victory

2Ch_25:14 NKJV Now it was so, after Amaziah came from the slaughter of the Edomites, that he brought the gods of the people of Seir, set them up to be his gods, and bowed down before them and burned incense to them.

2Ch_25:15 NKJV Therefore the anger of the LORD was aroused against Amaziah, and He sent him a prophet who said to him, “Why have you sought the gods of the people, which could not rescue their own people from your hand?”

– Prophet rebukes Amaziah for embracing conquered nation’s gods; post-victory worldliness and admiration of pagans.

Solomon’s Separations

Solomon & God

God withdrew, but never fully left Solomon.

Song of Songs: Separations & Reunions

Other date(s); 2/12/26…2/14/26-2/15/26

>>>>PUR -- recompile

Song of Songs = The Word of God

· Song of Songs is vital/Inspired/Scripture! = life-changing Scripture,

· (Never mind the blasphemous atheisms against it from post-christian “revivals” in Nigeria, etc.)

· We can compare SoS with Psa_45 & the NT (such as: he made us accepted into the beloved in Eph_1:5-7), and besides this….

· We can see one of the most important consistent Bible-obedient applications of it below…

The Point: Song of Songs = Important/vital/Inspired/authoritative Truth

Imitation Commanded: It is not just an ideal niceness of celebrating blessing and bliss, it is an imperative example we are commanded to imitate! (Heb_6:12; Heb_13:7; (Heb_10:36 → 1Jn_2:25))

Heb_6:12; Heb_13:7 = Imitate! → get promises

Heb_10:36 CAB For you have need of endurance, so that having done the will of God, you may receive the promise:

Heb_10:36 ὑπομονῆς γὰρ ἔχετε χρείαν, ἵνα τὸ θέλημα τοῦ Θεοῦ ποιήσαντες κομίσησθε τὴν ἐπαγγελίαν.

√ GNT-V

1Jn_2:25 CAB And this is the promise which He Himself promised to you--eternal life.

1Jn_2:25 καὶ αὕτη ἐστὶν ἡ ἐπαγγελία ἣν αὐτὸς ἐπηγγείλατο ἡμῖν, τὴν ζωὴν τὴν αἰώνιον.

√ GNT-V

Never Mind Heretics: post-christian “revivals”

Partial-Inspiration / Canon-Reduction / Miracles over Doctrine / personal revelation over Bible, by "modernist" celebrity Superstar pastors of liberal theology, progressive Christianity / Gnosticism revived / Elite Soulish-Revelation

Jer_23:16 NKJV Thus says the LORD of hosts: “Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you. They make you worthless; They speak a vision of their own heart, Not from the mouth of the LORD.

Eze_13:3 NKJV Thus says the Lord GOD: “Woe to the foolish prophets, who follow their own spirit and have seen nothing!”

Act_17:11 NKJV These were more fair-minded than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness, and searched the Scriptures daily to find out whether these things were so.

Son_2:3 NKJV Like an apple tree among the trees of the woods, So is my beloved among the sons. I sat down in his shade with great delight, And his fruit was sweet to my taste.

Heb_13:4 NKJV Marriage is honorable among all, and the bed undefiled; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

Col_2:18 NKJV Let no one cheat you of your reward, taking delight in false humility and worship of angels, intruding into those things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind.

Gal_1:8 NKJV But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed.

Rev_22:19 NKJV and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the Book of Life.

Faithful Reunions in Song of Songs

· Business Trips: In Song of Songs, Solomon apparently had to go away for some kind of Husbandly and/or kingly business, perhaps sometimes even on extended journeys.

· Returning Home: We see some kinds of themes of reunion in the book.

· Rewarded with Reunion: The privilege of faithful reunions is a result of enduring in faithfulness when there was absence.

· Perfect Love is faithful and delights in being True to the end, throughout all seasons, even when the experience feels deprived.

Ideal Examples Have Questions Too

Ideal Examples Also Have Enigmas to Overcome

Along with the breath-taking wisdom, there are some strange-sounding Enigmas in SoS…

Question

Why can’t the Shulamite wife find her husband in Son_5:6?

Son_5:6 WEB I opened to my beloved; but my beloved left; and had gone away…

How is this romantic?

How is this inspired Truth?

How does that teach doctrine and righteousness to make you into a man or woman of God???

2Ti_3:16 CAB All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness,

2Ti_3:16 πᾶσα γραφὴ θεόπνευστος καὶ ὠφέλιμος πρὸς διδασκαλίαν, πρὸς ἐλεγμόν, πρὸς ἐπανόρθωσιν, πρὸς παιδείαν τὴν ἐν δικαιοσύνῃ,

2Ti_3:16 πασα γραφη θεοπνευστος και ωφελιμος προς διδασκαλιαν προς Aελεγμον TSBελεγχον προς επανορθωσιν προς παιδειαν την εν δικαιοσυνη

2Ti_3:17 that the man of God may be proficient, having been thoroughly equipped for every good work.

2Ti_3:17 ἵνα ἄρτιος ᾖ ὁ τοῦ Θεοῦ ἄνθρωπος, πρὸς πᾶν ἔργον ἀγαθὸν ἐξηρτισμένος.

√ GNT-V

Answer

There is a vital difference between Son 2 and Son 5…

Son 2: Get Up With Excitement!

ES: The Bride Adores Her Beloved

Son_2:7 WEB I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, or by the hinds of the field, that you not stir up, nor awaken love, until it so desires.

Son_2:7 I have charged you, you daughters of Jerusalem, by the powers and by the virtues of the field, that you do not rouse or wake my love, until he please.

Son_2:7 ὥρκισα ὑμᾶς, θυγατέρες Ιερουσαλημ, ἐν ταῖς δυνάμεσιν καὶ ἐν ταῖς ἰσχύσεσιν τοῦ ἀγροῦ, ἐὰν ἐγείρητε καὶ ἐξεγείρητε τὴν ἀγάπην, ἕως οὗ θελήσῃ.

Son_2:8 WEB The voice of my beloved! Behold, he comes, leaping on the mountains, skipping on the hills.

Son_2:8 The voice of my kinsman! Behold, he comes leaping over the mountains, bounding over the hills.

Son_2:8 Φωνὴ ἀδελφιδοῦ μου· ἰδοὺ οὗτος ἥκει πηδῶν ἐπὶ τὰ ὄρη διαλλόμενος ἐπὶ τοὺς βουνούς.

Son_2:9 WEB My beloved is like a roe or a young hart. Behold, he stands behind our wall! He looks in at the windows. He glances through the lattice.

Son_2:9 My kinsman is like a gazelle or a young hart on the mountains of Bethel: behold, he is behind our wall, looking through the windows, peeping through the lattices.

Son_2:9 ὅμοιός ἐστιν ἀδελφιδός μου τῇ δορκάδι ἢ νεβρῷ ἐλάφων ἐπὶ τὰ ὄρη Βαιθηλ. ἰδοὺ οὗτος ἕστηκεν ὀπίσω τοῦ τοίχου ἡμῶν παρακύπτων διὰ τῶν θυρίδων ἐκκύπτων διὰ τῶν δικτύων.

Son_2:10 WEB My beloved spoke, and said to me, "Rise up, my love, my beautiful one, and come away.

Son_2:10 My kinsman answers, and says to me, “Rise up, come, my companion, my fair one, my dove.

Son_2:10 ἀποκρίνεται ἀδελφιδός μου καὶ λέγει μοι Ἀνάστα ἐλθέ, ἡ πλησίον μου, καλή μου, περιστερά μου,

But there are also themes of correction in SoS…

>>Scrip: READ

Testing Separations in Song of Songs

ES: The Bride Searches for Her Beloved

ES: The Bride Searches for Her Beloved

Son_5:2 WEB I was asleep, but my heart was awake. It is the voice of my beloved who knocks: "Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled; for my head is filled with dew, and my hair with the dampness of the night."

Son_5:2 I sleep, but my heart is awake: the voice of my kinsman knocks at the door, saying, “Open, open to me, my companion, my sister, my dove, my perfect one: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.”

Son_5:2 Ἐγὼ καθεύδω, καὶ ἡ καρδία μου ἀγρυπνεῖ. φωνὴ ἀδελφιδοῦ μου, κρούει ἐπὶ τὴν θύραν Ἄνοιξόν μοι, ἀδελφή μου, ἡ πλησίον μου, περιστερά μου, τελεία μου, ὅτι ἡ κεφαλή μου ἐπλήσθη δρόσου καὶ οἱ βόστρυχοί μου ψεκάδων νυκτός.

Son_5:3 WEB I have taken off my robe. Indeed, must I put it on? I have washed my feet. Indeed, must I soil them?

Son_5:3 I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet, how shall I defile them?

Son_5:3 Ἐξεδυσάμην τὸν χιτῶνά μου, πῶς ἐνδύσωμαι αὐτόν; ἐνιψάμην τοὺς πόδας μου, πῶς μολυνῶ αὐτούς;

Son_5:4 WEB My beloved thrust his hand in through the latch opening. My heart pounded for him.

Son_5:4 My kinsman put forth his hand by the hole of the door, and my belly moved for him.

Son_5:4 ἀδελφιδός μου ἀπέστειλεν χεῖρα αὐτοῦ ἀπὸ τῆς ὀπῆς, καὶ ἡ κοιλία μου ἐθροήθη ἐπ᾿ αὐτόν.

Son_5:5 WEB I rose up to open for my beloved. My hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with liquid myrrh, on the handles of the lock.

Son_5:5 I rose up to open to my kinsman; my hands dropped myrrh, my fingers choice myrrh, on the handles of the lock.

Son_5:5 ἀνέστην ἐγὼ ἀνοῖξαι τῷ ἀδελφιδῷ μου, χεῖρές μου ἔσταξαν σμύρναν, δάκτυλοί μου σμύρναν πλήρη ἐπὶ χεῖρας τοῦ κλείθρου.

Son_5:6 WEB I opened to my beloved; but my beloved left; and had gone away. My heart [“נפשׁי” – soul] went out [“יצאה” KJV (fig.): failed] when he spoke. I looked for him, but I didn't find him. I called him, but he didn't answer.

Son_5:6 CAB I opened [ἤνοιξα] to my kinsman [ἀδελφιδῷ]; my kinsman [ἀδελφιδός] was gone [παρῆλθεν]: my soul [ψυχή μου] failed [ἐξῆλθεν – came out; ABP: came forth; CT: melted] at his speech: I sought him, but did not find him; I called him, but he did not answer me.

Son_5:6 ἤνοιξα ἐγὼ τῷ ἀδελφιδῷ μου, ἀδελφιδός μου παρῆλθεν· ψυχή μου ἐξῆλθεν ἐν λόγῳ αὐτοῦ, ἐζήτησα αὐτὸν καὶ οὐχ εὗρον αὐτόν, ἐκάλεσα αὐτόν, καὶ οὐχ ὑπήκουσέν μου.

Understanding the Mistake

· Cost of Delay *: She delayed in opening the door! = Preceding context [* need to calculate it, morally]

· Diligence is Unpunished: When she was prompt there was no separation.

· Our Fall is Further than the Shulamite: Even when she had messed up, this wife was more faithful than we are today: “my soul [ψυχή μου] failed [ἐξῆλθεν – came out; ABP: came forth; CT: melted] at his speech: I sought him…”

· Learn the Parable: the special Parable of marriage illustrates for all of us how real Love engages in diligent eagerness toward each other

· Justice is Right in Front of You!: You don’t just get to “pretend god in heaven” while disobeying God on earth, right in front of you within human parables and divine containers (2Co_4:7 – earthen vessels)

Isa_50: No Answer!

>>Scrip: Read

Isa_50:2 WEB Why, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it can't redeem? or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stink, because there is no water, and die for thirst.

Isa_50:2 LB Why [τί ὅτι] did I come, and there was no man? Why did I call [ἐκάλεσα], and there was none to obey [ὑπακούων]? Is not My hand strong to redeem? Or can I not deliver? Behold, by My rebuke I will dry up the sea, and make rivers a wilderness; and their fish shall be dried up because there is no water, and shall die of thirst.

Isa_50:2 τί ὅτι ἦλθον καὶ οὐκ ἦν ἄνθρωπος; ἐκάλεσα καὶ οὐκ ἦν ὁ ὑπακούων; μὴ οὐκ ἰσχύει ἡ χείρ μου τοῦ ῥύσασθαι; ἢ οὐκ ἰσχύω τοῦ ἐξελέσθαι; ἰδοὺ τῇ ἀπειλῇ μου ἐξερημώσω τὴν θάλασσαν καὶ θήσω ποταμοὺς ἐρήμους, καὶ ξηρανθήσονται οἱ ἰχθύες αὐτῶν ἀπὸ τοῦ μὴ εἶναι ὕδωρ καὶ ἀποθανοῦνται ἐν δίψει.

Luk_12: Ready to Open!

Luk_12:35-40 – Jesus said to Always Be Ready to Open the Door!

ES: You Must Be Ready

Luk_12:35 CAB "Let your waist be girded and your lamps burning;

Luk_12:35 ῎Εστωσαν ὑμῶν αἱ ὀσφύες περιεζωσμέναι καὶ οἱ λύχνοι καιόμενοι·

Luk_12:36 and you yourselves be like men who wait for their master, when he will return from the wedding celebration, so that when he comes and knocks, immediately they may open to him [κρούσαντος εὐθέως ἀνοίξωσιν αὐτῷ].

Luk_12:36 καὶ ὑμεῖς ὅμοιοι ἀνθρώποις προσδεχομένοις τὸν κύριον ἑαυτῶν, πότε ἀναλύσει ἐκ τῶν γάμων, ἵνα ἐλθόντος καὶ κρούσαντος εὐθέως ἀνοίξωσιν αὐτῷ.

Luk_12:36 και υμεις ομοιοι ανθρωποις προσδεχομενοις τον κυριον εαυτων ποτε BAαναλυση TSαναλυσει εκ των γαμων ινα ελθοντος και κρουσαντος ευθεως ανοιξωσιν αυτω

Luk_12:37 Blessed are those servants whom the master, when he comes, will find watching. Assuredly I say to you, that he will gird himself and have them recline to eat, and he will come and serve them.

Luk_12:37 μακάριοι οἱ δοῦλοι ἐκεῖνοι, οὓς ἐλθὼν ὁ κύριος εὑρήσει γρηγοροῦντας· ἀμὴν λέγω ὑμῖν ὅτι περιζώσεται καὶ ἀνακλινεῖ αὐτοὺς, καὶ παρελθὼν διακονήσει αὐτοῖς.

Luk_12:38 And if he comes in the second watch, or comes in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants.

Luk_12:38 καὶ ἐὰν ἔλθῃ ἐν τῇ δευτέρᾳ φυλακῇ καὶ ἐν τῇ τρίτῃ φυλακῇ ἔλθῃ καὶ εὕρῃ οὕτως, μακάριοί εἰσιν οἱ δοῦλοι ἐκεῖνοι.

Luk_12:38 Aκαν TSBκαι TSBεαν TSBελθη εν τη δευτερα Aκαν TSBφυλακη TSBκαι εν τη τριτη φυλακη ελθη και ευρη ουτως μακαριοι εισιν TSBοι TSBδουλοι εκεινοι

Luk_12:39 But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what hour the thief was coming, he would have kept watch, and not allowed his house to be broken into.

Luk_12:39 τοῦτο δὲ γινώσκετε ὅτι εἰ ᾔδει ὁ οἰκοδεσπότης ποίᾳ ὥρᾳ ὁ κλέπτης ἔρχεται, ἐγρηγόρησεν ἂν καὶ οὐκ ἂν ἀφῆκε διορυγῆναι τὸν οἶκον αὐτοῦ.

Luk_12:39 τουτο δε γινωσκετε οτι ει ηδει ο οικοδεσποτης ποια ωρα ο κλεπτης ερχεται TSBεγρηγορησεν TSBαν TSBκαι ουκ αν αφηκεν Aδιορυχθηναι TSBδιορυγηναι τον οικον αυτου

Luk_12:40 Therefore you also be ready, for in an hour that you think not, the Son of Man comes."

Luk_12:40 καὶ ὑμεῖς οὖν γίνεσθε ἕτοιμοι· ὅτι ᾗ ὥρᾳ οὐ δοκεῖτε ὁ Υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ἔρχεται.

Luk_12:40 και υμεις TSBουν γινεσθε ετοιμοι οτι η ωρα ου δοκειτε ο υιος του ανθρωπου ερχεται

The Point: The human parable of separation in Song of Songs parallels with God’s separations with His people

We hope to talk more about this when addressing Hosea (and comparing these things with what Paul says and does to the Corinthians).

Hosea & Gomer <<

Doing-Faithful-Love--04--Hezekiah-Review--Beginning-Hosea--7.23.17.mp3

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Preview: Hosea Tests Gomer with Separation

· Separation is the Point: This testing separation and distance is a big theme of Hosea.

· Waiting for Virtue: Hosea redeemed his wife and then had her sit alone to prove her, to see if she would take up any virtue.

· Truth Tests: Like we said earlier: Truth glories in testing and proving things True.

· Premature Affirmations: If quality time jeopardizes the real faith/faithfulness of real love, it is better to love alone in hurt so we can ultimately rejoice together in hope.

Hosea 3 – Love, Sit, Return

Go Love Gomer Again, Make Her Sit, & Afterward She Will Return -- The Brilliant Formula for Separation Correction

Hos_3:1 WEB Yahweh said to me, "Go again, love^H157 [“אהב”] a woman loved^H157 [“אהבת”] by another [KJV: of her friend] [“רע”^H7453], and an adulteress, even as Yahweh loves^H160 [“כאהבת” (diff Strong’s number, but essentially the same)] the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods, ·and love^H157 [“ואהבי”] cakes of raisins."

Hos_3:1 CAB And the Lord said to [πρός] me, “Go yet [Ἔτι πορεύθητι], and love [ἀγάπησον] a woman that loves [ἀγαπῶσαν] [nasty] evil things [ἀγάπησον γυναῖκα ἀγαπῶσαν πονηρὰ], [and (καὶ) (is)] an adulteress [μοιχαλίν], even as [καθὼς] the Lord [ὁ θεὸς (LXX variation?)] loves [ἀγαπᾷ] the children [υἱοὺς] of Israel, and they have respect [ἀποβλέπουσιν] to [ἐπὶ] strange gods [θεοὺς ἀλλοτρίους], and love [φιλοῦσιν – like / warmly love] cakes of dried grapes [πέμματα μετὰ σταφίδων].”

Hos_3:1 Καὶ εἶπεν κύριος πρός με Ἔτι πορεύθητι καὶ ἀγάπησον γυναῖκα ἀγαπῶσαν πονηρὰ καὶ μοιχαλίν, καθὼς ἀγαπᾷ ὁ θεὸς τοὺς υἱοὺς Ισραηλ καὶ αὐτοὶ ἀποβλέπουσιν ἐπὶ θεοὺς ἀλλοτρίους καὶ φιλοῦσιν πέμματα μετὰ σταφίδων

Hos_3:2 WEB So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer and a half of barley.

Hos_3:2 So I hired [ἐμισθωσάμην] her to myself for fifteen pieces of silver, and a homer of barley, and a flagon of wine.

Hos_3:2 καὶ ἐμισθωσάμην ἐμαυτῷ πεντεκαίδεκα ἀργυρίου καὶ γομορ κριθῶν καὶ νεβελ οἴνου

Hos_3:3 WEB I said to her, "You shall stay [MT: “תשׁבי”^H3427; LXX: καθήσῃ – sit (as in Deu_21:13: MT: “וישׁבה^H3427”; LXX: καθίεται)] with [MT: ?; LXX: ἐπ᾿] me many days. You shall not play the prostitute, and you shall not be with any other man. I will also be so toward you."

Hos_3:3 And I said to her, “You shall wait [καθήσῃ – sit] for me many days [Ἡμέρας πολλὰς καθήσῃ ἐπ᾿ ἐμοὶ]; and ·you shall not [in no way] commit fornication [οὐ μὴ πορνεύσῃς], ·neither shall you be[come] for [or: to] another man [οὐδὲ μὴ γένῃ ἀνδρὶ ἑτέρῳ [as in Rom_7:3 – αρα ουν ζωντος του ανδρος μοιχαλις χρηματισει εαν γενηται ανδρι ετερω]; and I will be for [ἐπὶ] you.”

Hos_3:3 καὶ εἶπα πρὸς αὐτήν Ἡμέρας πολλὰς καθήσῃ ἐπ᾿ ἐμοὶ καὶ οὐ μὴ πορνεύσῃς οὐδὲ μὴ γένῃ ἀνδρὶ ἑτέρῳ, καὶ ἐγὼ ἐπὶ σοί.

Hos_3:4 WEB For the children of Israel shall abide [“ישׁבו”^H3427 – sit (same as before)] many days without king, and without prince, and without sacrifice, and without sacred stone, and without ephod or idols.

Hos_3:4 For the children of Israel shall abide [καθήσονται – sit (same as before)] many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an altar, and without a priesthood, and without manifestations.

Hos_3:4 διότι ἡμέρας πολλὰς καθήσονται οἱ υἱοὶ Ισραηλ οὐκ ὄντος βασιλέως οὐδὲ ὄντος ἄρχοντος οὐδὲ οὔσης θυσίας οὐδὲ ὄντος θυσιαστηρίου οὐδὲ ἱερατείας οὐδὲ δήλων.

Hos_3:5 WEB Afterward the children of Israel shall return, and seek Yahweh their God, and David their king, and shall come with trembling to Yahweh and to his blessings in the last days.

Hos_3:5 And afterward [μετὰ ταῦτα – after this/that] shall the children of Israel return [ἐπιστρέψουσιν], and shall seek [ἐπιζητήσουσιν] the Lord their God, and David their king; and shall be amazed [ἐκστήσονται] at [ἐπὶ] the Lord and at [ἐπὶ] [that (of) (τοῖς)] His goodness in [ἐπ᾿] the latter days [ἐσχάτων τῶν ἡμερῶν].

Hos_3:5 καὶ μετὰ ταῦτα ἐπιστρέψουσιν οἱ υἱοὶ Ισραηλ καὶ ἐπιζητήσουσιν κύριον τὸν θεὸν αὐτῶν καὶ Δαυιδ τὸν βασιλέα αὐτῶν· καὶ ἐκστήσονται ἐπὶ τῷ κυρίῳ καὶ ἐπὶ τοῖς ἀγαθοῖς αὐτοῦ ἐπ᾿ ἐσχάτων τῶν ἡμερῶν.

Bound & Unmarried

· Waiting in your spouse’s house without marriage is an extremely unusual relationship posture for married people…

· But similar principles are echoed throughout the Bible…

· You can be without marriage, even when you are still bound as someone’s lawful spouse.

1Co_7:11 CAB and even if she does [is] separate[d], let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband--and a husband is not to divorce his wife.

1Co_7:11 ἐὰν δὲ καὶ χωρισθῇ, μενέτω ἄγαμος ἢ τῷ ἀνδρὶ καταλλαγήτω· καὶ ἄνδρα γυναῖκα μὴ ἀφιέναι.

√ GNT-V

Sit & Wait Unmarried

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Comp.

Due_21:11-17 – Marrying Female Captives (& Firstborn of Hated)

· Sits in house morning & waiting for marriage

· “Betrothed” & waiting in a man’s house

Love Calls for Faithfulness!

A Lord Uses Love to Call for Faithfulness

Although Hosea was Gomer’s physical, husband-lord (as Genesis 3, Psalm 45, Sarah, & Peter says*) yet he wanted her faithfulness – therefore he used absence (and not “brute force”) to call to her heart and exhort her to choose the Truth willingly.

[* Gen_3:16; Psa_45:11; Gen_18:12; 1Pe_3:6]

>> Sync with other quote herein

>> Exo_21:8 & many others!!!!!

God/Hosea Doing REAL Love

Note: “Love” ≠ Togetherness, but (in this passage) Love actually = sitting & waiting alone without comforts.

>> Sync with other quote herein

God is On Earth!

Hosea ≈ God, in this marriage parable -- and continues unto this day

The Point: How can we cooperate with this “Love, Sit, Return” formula?

“Return” – for Disciples & non-Disciples

The original context was the Jewish nation, but how might that play out with gentiles who stop sinning?

“Return” not only applies to Jews and Gentiles, but it also applies to disciples as well as to those who have never known the way of truth.

(A) “Return” – for Disciples

Rev_2:5 CAB Remember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent and do the first works; but if not, I am coming to you quickly and I will remove your lampstand out of its place, unless you repent.

Rev_2:5 μνημόνευε οὖν πόθεν ^BAπέπτωκας |^TSεκπεπτωκας|, καὶ μετανόησον καὶ τὰ πρῶτα ἔργα ποίησον· εἰ δὲ μή, ἔρχομαί σοι ^SBταχὺ |^Tταχει| καὶ κινήσω τὴν λυχνίαν σου ἐκ τοῦ τόπου αὐτῆς, ἐὰν μὴ μετανοήσῃς.

(B) “Return” – for non-Disciples

Isa_53:6 WEB All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way…

Isa_53:6 CAB All we like sheep have gone astray; everyone has wandered in his way…

Isa_53:6 πάντες ὡς πρόβατα ἐπλανήθημεν, ἄνθρωπος τῇ ὁδῷ αὐτοῦ ἐπλανήθη· καὶ κύριος παρέδωκεν αὐτὸν ταῖς ἁμαρτίαις ἡμῶν.

See: 1Pe_2:25 where Isa_53:6 is specially applied to gentiles.

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And even though it might be difficult to imagine the gentiles returning to what they seem to have never had, yet ultimately, remember what Jesus said in the parable of the prodigal son:

Luk_15:11 CAB Then He said: "A certain man had two sons.

Luk_15:11 Εἶπε δέ· ἄνθρωπός τις εἶχε δύο υἱούς.

Gill: the Targum paraphrases it thus;

"say, O prophet, to her, O congregation of Israel, your sins are the cause that you are carried captive many days; ye shall give yourselves to my worship and not err, nor serve idols, and even I will have mercy on you.''

Pulpit on Hosea_3:5

“ Thou shalt abide for me many days; thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shall not be for another man. The prophet imposes certain restrictions of a very stringent character on his wife; he places her in a state of isolation; her past excesses and his purpose of effecting her reformation necessitate such measures, however strict and severe or even harsh they may appear. She is not to be admitted into full fellowship with her husband, nor is she to be allowed the possibility of intercourse with others. From friend, that is, husband and lovers, she is shut out; all sexual connection, whether illicit or legitimate, is peremptorily cut off. The clause, "thou shalt abide or, "sit still for me," denotes an attitude of waiting, not necessarily in sorrow, like the captive maiden who before marriage with her captor bewailed her parents for the period of a month, but in patient expectation of her husband"s fortune and favor, though in seclusion from him, as also exclusion of all others. During this long period of "many days" she is not only debarred the society of her lawful partner, but forbidden either to play the harlot with several or to attach herself to a single paramour. Jerome directs attention to the fact that the word "another" has no place in the original text; otherwise it would imply that she was prohibited from intercourse with any other than her husband, while the real meaning makes the prohibition absolute and inclusive even of conjugal connection with her husband. So will I also be for thee. The Hebrew expositors, Aben Ezra and Kimchi, repeat the negative flora the preceding clause and translate, "Nor shall I even come to you," that is, for marital society. This is not necessary to bring out the true sense, which is that, as she was to be restrained from intercourse with any and every other man, so he himself also would abstain from intercourse with her. And also I will be for unto thee i.e. thy husband to preserve conjugal fidelity to thee, but hold aloof from thee during thy detention." Thus separated from both lovers and husband, Israel would for many a long day suspend her worship of idols, and be at the same time shut out from her covenant relation to Jehovah. Kimchi"s comment mounts to pretty much the same, as does also that of Aben Ezra. The explanation of the former is, "I said to her, After thou hast committed adultery against me, thy punishment shall be that thou shalt abide in widowhood of life many days; and the meaning of "for me" is, thou shalt be called by my name and not by another man"s; thou shalt say, I am the wife of such a one, and thou shelf not play the harlot with others, and also thou shalt not be the wife of any other man than myself." Aben Ezra makes mention of another interpretation of the verse, to the effect, "If ye shall return to me, I also will return to you." With this the Chaldee Targum is in accord, which represents God as commanding the prophet to say, "O congregation of Israel, your sins have been the cause of your exile for many days; ye shall devote yourselves to my service, and not go astray nor worship idols, and I also will have compassion upon you." Maurer considers the expression yaAlayh equivalent to ya viz. remhabere cum muliere; but to this linguistic usage is opposed. Umbreit renders the phrase, "and I will only be for thee;" this, however, partakes more of the nature of a promise than of a punishment, and is not quite, therefore, in accord with the context. Ewald: "And yet I am kind to thee i.e. love thee;" this is a rather trivial, as also ill-supported idea. Calvin"s exposition is pretty much the same as we have given, and is the following: "I also shall be for thee; that is, I pledge my faith to thee, or I subscribe myself as thy husband: but another time must be looked for; I yet defer my favor, and suspend it until thou givest proof of true repentance. I also shall be for thee; that is, thou shalt not be a widow in vain; if thou complainest that wrong is done to thee, because I forbid thee to marry any one else, I also bind myself in turn to thee." ”

Hosea 5 – The Unfaithful Will Not Find Him Who Has Withdrawn

Hos_5:6 WEB They will go with their flocks and with their herds to seek Yahweh; but they won't find him. He has withdrawn^H2502 himself from them.

Hos_5:6 CAB They shall go [πορεύσονται] with [μετὰ] sheep and calves ·diligently to seek [out] [τοῦ ἐκζητῆσαι] the Lord; but they shall not find Him [οὐ μὴ εὕρωσιν αὐτόν], for He has withdrawn Himself from them [ἐξέκλινεν ἀπ᾿ αὐτῶν – bent/slanted from them; fig. shunned/declined].

Hos_5:6 μετὰ προβάτων καὶ μόσχων πορεύσονται τοῦ ἐκζητῆσαι τὸν κύριον καὶ οὐ μὴ εὕρωσιν αὐτόν, ὅτι ἐξέκλινεν ἀπ᾿ αὐτῶν,

Hos_5:7 WEB They are unfaithful to Yahweh; for they have borne illegitimate^H2114 [זרים (Lexical: זוּר) – turned asside / strange (same as “strange gods” & the “stange woman”* in Proverbs)] children. Now ·the new moon [KJV: a month] will^H2320 [“חדשׁ”] devour them with their fields [flat-ness?].

Hos_5:7 CAB For they have forsaken [ἐγκατέλιπον (same as 2Ch_32:31 with Hezekiah)] the Lord; for strange [ἀλλότρια – lit. other] children [τέκνα] have been born [ἐγεννήθησαν] to them: now [νῦν] shall the cankerworm [ἡ ἐρυσίβη – ABP: blight**] devour [καταφάγεται] them and their heritage [κλήρους].

Hos_5:7 ὅτι τὸν κύριον ἐγκατέλιπον, ὅτι τέκνα ἀλλότρια ἐγεννήθησαν αὐτοῖς· νῦν καταφάγεται αὐτοὺς ἡ ἐρυσίβη καὶ τοὺς κλήρους αὐτῶν.

[* Strange woman: Pro_2:16, Pro_5:3, Pro_5:10, Pro_5:17, Pro_5:20, Pro_22:14]

[** “blight” = “a plant disease, especially one caused by fungi such as mildews, rusts, and smuts” (Google / Oxford American College Dictionary?)]

>> See: LUX | Lov | DHG | FamC (partly)

>> See: Pop: dhg -- for all the context!

>> update formatting LUX > DHG

The unfaithful are living in sin, as He says again a few verses later…

Hosea 5 – God Departs Until They Acknowledge Sin & Seek Earnestly

Hos_5:15 WEB I will go and return to my place, until ·they acknowledge their offense [“יאשׁמו” (Lex: “אשׁם”) – guilt], and seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly."

Hos_5:15 LB ·I will go [πορεύσομαι] and return [ἐπιστρέψω] to [εἰς] My place [τὸν τόπον μου], ·until they are brought to nought [ἕως οὗ ἀφανισθῶσιν – ABP (mostly lit.): “until of which time they should be removed from view”; Note: Gr “un-appear” can = fig. “rot”], ·and then [καὶ] ·shall they seek [upon] [ἐπιζητήσουσιν] My face [τὸ πρόσωπόν μου].”

Hos_5:15 πορεύσομαι καὶ ἐπιστρέψω εἰς τὸν τόπον μου, ἕως οὗ ἀφανισθῶσιν· καὶ ἐπιζητήσουσιν τὸ πρόσωπόν μου, ἐν θλίψει αὐτῶν ὀρθριοῦσι πρός με λέγοντες

Hos_5:15 (I will go and return to my place) ≈ Deu_32:20 (I will hide my face from them. I will see what their end shall be)

Flesh Can’t Find God!!

· As soon as you realize that your flesh CANNOT find God, then you are on a good track to crying out with begging until you finally get the Truth

· The real God in the Bible hides Himself

· “Hid and go seek” is a constant posture of heaven with humans in probation

Hosea 7 – The Unrepentant Waist Away in Ignorant Isolation from Truth

Hos_7:9 WEB Strangers have devoured his strength, and he doesn't realize it. Indeed, gray hairs are here and there on him, and he doesn't realize it.

Hos_7:9 LB Strangers [ἀλλότριοι] devoured [κατέφαγον] his strength [ἰσχὺν], but he did not [δὲ οὐκ] know [ἐπέγνω] it; yes [καὶ], gray hairs came upon him [πολιαὶ ἐξήνθησαν αὐτῷ], yet he did not [οὐκ] know it [ἔγνω].

Hos_7:9 κατέφαγον ἀλλότριοι τὴν ἰσχὺν αὐτοῦ, αὐτὸς δὲ οὐκ ἐπέγνω· καὶ πολιαὶ ἐξήνθησαν αὐτῷ, καὶ αὐτὸς οὐκ ἔγνω.

>> See: Lov | SPI | Greatness > VOY

The Toll of Unrepentance

· Unrepentance takes an unbearable toll on you. (Remember Samson?)

· Until Gomer gets like the virtue of Leah, separations are multiplied, and waiting continues.

· Not Noticing = Dreadful state of continuing in hardened sins

· WARNING: that US if we don’t notice distance & repent!!

Paul ≈ Hosea

Paul later does this exact same (spiritual) withdrawal from the Corinthians (2Co_1:23-24 -- as quoted below).

Take Action to Stop Separation

Unlike hardened sinners, let’s respond faithfully to God’s separations from us!

Galatian & Corinthian Discipline

Paul, the Galatians, & the Corinthians

Other dates; 9/24/17; 10/29/17; 1/30/26-1/31/26…2/15/26

Doing-Faithful-Love--09--Gal-and-Cor-Discipline--10.29.17.mp3

See/Comp.: LOV > Paul Loving At A Distance → GWY > Galatian & Corinthian Discipline

Preview

2Co_1:23-24; 2Co_3:2; 2Co_5:12; 2Co_6:11-18; 2Co_7:1-4; 2Co_11:11; 2Co_12:14-15; 2Co_13:2-3 (1Co_5:3, 2Co_10:1, 2Co_10:11); 3Jn_1:7-11;

It is profitable for us to understand the discipline and probations that come upon us in different ways and different seasons…

Discipline Reminders

We Have Seen the Disciplinary Separations Concerning…

· Miriam’s Leprosy

· The Israelites, God, & the Promised Land

· How God Left Samson! (more on that later)

· Between Saul & Samuel

· (The complex, but partially disciplinary posture between Solomon & God)

· The Testing Separations in Song of Songs

· How God Left Hezekiah!, and especially,

· Between Hosea & Gomer.*

* Hosea Reminders – in Particular

· Hosea 3 – Love, Sit, Return;

· A Lord Uses Love to Call for Faithfulness

· Hosea 5 – The Unfaithful Will Not Find Him Who Has Withdrawn

· Hosea 5 – God Departs Until They Acknowledge Sin & Seek Earnestly

· Hosea 7 – The Unrepentant Waist Away in Ignorant Isolation from Truth

· Cry & Wait for Redemption – The Right Response to Gomer’s Discipline
including…

· Psalms 30 – I Cried When God Hid His Face

· Isiah 8 – I Will Wait For Him Who Hides His Face

· Isiah 54 – A Redeemed Wife, Forsaken No More!

Now let’s compare Hosea’s disciplinary separations with Paul, the Galatians, & the Corinthians.

When Paul was away from the Galatians and the Corinthians there were serious unfaithfulnesses and breaches of lovelessness against Paul and the Truth. But while many of them were unfaithful in their long-distance relationship, Paul held on to absolutely True faith and love for them, enduring long and extended absences without sinning against their life, and profit, and salvation.

Galatian Distance

Paul Risks Galatian Enemies -- for Real Love

Gal_4:10 You observe days and months and seasons and years.

Gal_4:10 ἡμέρας παρατηρεῖσθε καὶ μῆνας καὶ καιροὺς καὶ ἐνιαυτούς.

Gal_4:11 I am afraid for you, lest somehow I have worked hard for you in vain.

Gal_4:11 φοβοῦμαι ὑμᾶς, ^TSBμήπως |^Aμη ^Aπως | εἰκῇ κεκοπίακα εἰς ὑμᾶς.

Gal_4:12 Brothers, I beseech you, become as I am, because I also am as you are. You have not wronged me at all.

Gal_4:12 Γίνεσθε ὡς ἐγώ, ὅτι κἀγὼ ὡς ὑμεῖς, ἀδελφοί, δέομαι ὑμῶν. οὐδέν με ἠδικήσατε·

Gal_4:13 You know that because of weakness in the flesh I preached the gospel to you the former time.

Gal_4:13 οἴδατε δὲ ὅτι δι᾿ ἀσθενείαν τῆς σαρκὸς εὐηγγελισάμην ὑμῖν τὸ πρότερον,

Gal_4:14 And my trial which was in my flesh you did not despise nor disdain, but as an angel of God you received me, even as Christ Jesus.

Gal_4:14 καὶ τὸν πειρασμὸν ^TSBμου ^TSBτὸν |^Aυμων| ἐν τῇ σαρκί μου οὐκ ἐξουθενήσατε οὐδὲ ἐξεπτύσατε, ^TSBἀλλ᾿ |^Aαλλα| ὡς ἄγγελον Θεοῦ ἐδέξασθέ με, ὡς Χριστὸν ᾿Ιησοῦν.

Gal_4:15 What then was your blessing? For I bear you witness that, if possible, you would have torn out your own eyes and given them to me!

Gal_4:15 ^TSBτίς |^Aπου| οὖν ^TSBἦν ὁ μακαρισμὸς ὑμῶν; μαρτυρῶ γὰρ ὑμῖν ὅτι εἰ δυνατὸν τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς ὑμῶν ἐξορύξαντες ^TSBἂν ἐδώκατέ μοι.

Gal_4:16 Have I therefore become your enemy by speaking the truth to you?

Gal_4:16 ὥστε ἐχθρὸς ὑμῶν γέγονα ἀληθεύων ὑμῖν;

Gal_4:17 They are zealous about you in the wrong way; but they wish to shut you out, so that you will be zealous about them.

Gal_4:17 ζηλοῦσιν ὑμᾶς οὐ καλῶς, ἀλλὰ ἐκκλεῖσαι ὑμᾶς θέλουσιν, ἵνα αὐτοὺς ζηλοῦτε.

Gal_4:18 But it is good to be zealous in a good thing always, and not only when I am present with you.

Gal_4:18 καλὸν δὲ ^TSBτὸ ζηλοῦσθαι ἐν καλῷ πάντοτε καὶ μὴ μόνον ἐν τῷ παρεῖναί με πρὸς ὑμᾶς.

Gal_4:19 My little children, for whom I labor in birth again until Christ is formed in you!

Gal_4:19 ^TSBτεκνία |^Aτεκνα| μου, οὓς πάλιν ὠδίνω, |^TSBαχρις| ^Aμέχρις οὗ μορφωθῇ Χριστὸς ἐν ὑμῖν·

/\/\ Gr

Gal_4:20 And I wanted to be present with you just now and to change my tone; because I am uncertain about you.

Gal_4:20 ἤθελον δὲ παρεῖναι πρὸς ὑμᾶς ἄρτι καὶ ἀλλάξαι τὴν φωνήν μου, ὅτι ἀποροῦμαι ἐν ὑμῖν.

>> Lo (Gal_4:19-20) | Lov? (or possibly LLO/Probation)

The Point: it is more important to do Truth that saves people than to have friendship with the world which perishes in hell

Preview of Corinthian Discipline

The Corinthian Correction Particularly Included Distance

· Long-distance Correction: Paul corrected the long-distance unfaithfulness of the Galatians and the Corinthians.

· Paul’s Distance: Interestingly, as we have been seeing, Paul’s correction of the Corinthians especially includes particularly emphasized themes of stepping back and separating from their unfaithful money and their unfaithful company.

· Reconcile At a Distance: Their unfaithfulness was done at a distance, and now Paul exhorts them at a distance to willingly reverse their crying sins of injustice and save themselves.

· Logical Love, BEFORE Feelings: Throughout the Corinthian epistles Paul is not exhorting the Corinthians to Love him when he gets there in person, but for integrity sake, he is exhorting them to do real LOGICAL Love to him and the Truth before he gets there.

Deu_2:4 WEB Command the people, saying, You are to pass through the border of your brothers the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir; and they will be afraid of you: take good heed to yourselves therefore;

Deu_2:4 LB And command the people, saying, “You are going through the territory of your brothers the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir; and they shall fear you, and dread you greatly.

Deu_2:4 καὶ τῷ λαῷ ἔντειλαι λέγων Ὑμεῖς παραπορεύεσθε διὰ τῶν ὁρίων τῶν ἀδελφῶν ὑμῶν υἱῶν Ησαυ, οἳ κατοικοῦσιν ἐν Σηιρ, καὶ φοβηθήσονται ὑμᾶς καὶ εὐλαβηθήσονται ὑμᾶς σφόδρα.

Deu_2:5 WEB don't contend with them; for I will not give you of their land, no, not so much as for the sole of the foot to tread on; because I have given Mount Seir to Esau for a possession.

Deu_2:5 Do not engage in war against them, for I will not give you of their land, not even enough to set your foot upon, for I have given Mount Seir to the children of Esau as an inheritance.

Deu_2:5 μὴ συνάψητε πρὸς αὐτοὺς πόλεμον· οὐ γὰρ μὴ δῶ ὑμῖν ἀπὸ τῆς γῆς αὐτῶν οὐδὲ βῆμα ποδός, ὅτι ἐν κλήρῳ δέδωκα τοῖς υἱοῖς Ησαυ τὸ ὄρος τὸ Σηιρ.

Deu_2:6 WEB You shall purchase food of them for money, that you may eat; and you shall also buy water of them for money, that you may drink.

Deu_2:6 Buy food from them for money, and eat, and you shall receive water from them by measure for money, and drink.

Deu_2:6 βρώματα ἀργυρίου ἀγοράσατε παρ᾿ αὐτῶν καὶ φάγεσθε καὶ ὕδωρ μέτρῳ λήμψεσθε παρ᾿ αὐτῶν ἀργυρίου καὶ πίεσθε.

Galatians: in many ways, Paul corrected the long-distance unfaithfulness of the Galatians based on the Truth that was revealed to him from heaven, which is also perfectly confirmed throughout the Scriptures.

Corinthians: in many ways, Paul corrected the long-distance unfaithfulness of the Corinthians based on Justice crimes against their saving needs for Paul.

To both the Galatians and the Corinthians, Paul corrected them by Real Love and Truth.

2Co_1: Absent to Allow Faith

2nd Corinthians 1 – I No Longer Came in Order To Spare You

Other dates; 6/14/17; 2/17/26

Tags: We delayed coming to spare you

Now let’s talk about 2^nd Corinthians Separations.

[(A) By the Will of God (Greeting)]

2Co_1:1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, to the church of God which is at Corinth, together with all the saints who are in all Achaia:

2Co_1:1 Παῦλος, ἀπόστολος ᾿Ιησοῦ Χριστοῦ διὰ θελήματος Θεοῦ, καὶ Τιμόθεος ὁ ἀδελφός, τῇ ἐκκλησίᾳ τοῦ Θεοῦ τῇ οὔσῃ ἐν Κορίνθῳ σὺν τοῖς ἁγίοις πᾶσι τοῖς οὖσι ἐν ὅλῃ τῇ ᾿Αχαΐᾳ,

2Co_1:1 παυλος αποστολος TSBιησου χριστου Aιησου δια θεληματος θεου και τιμοθεος ο αδελφος τη εκκλησια του θεου τη ουση εν κορινθω συν τοις αγιοις πασιν τοις ουσιν εν ολη τη αχαια

…

[(B) Confirmed & Christ-ified with Sealed Spirit]

2Co_1:21 CAB Now He who establishes [βεβαιῶν – i.e. stable-firm base] us together with you in Christ and who has anointed [χρίσας – i.e. christ-ified] us is God,

2Co_1:21 ὁ δὲ βεβαιῶν ἡμᾶς σὺν ὑμῖν εἰς Χριστὸν καὶ χρίσας ἡμᾶς Θεός,

2Co_1:22 who also has sealed us, and given us the Spirit in our hearts as a pledge.

2Co_1:22 ὁ καὶ σφραγισάμενος ἡμᾶς καὶ δοὺς τὸν ἀρραβῶνα τοῦ Πνεύματος ἐν ταῖς καρδίαις ἡμῶν.

[(C) Sparing Absence = Not Lord-ing]

2Co_1:23 CAB Moreover [δὲ – but] I call upon [the (τὸν)] God ·as a witness [μάρτυρα] against [ἐπὶ – upon] [ἐπικαλοῦμαι ἐπὶ] [that of (τὴν)] my soul, that ·in order to spare* [φειδόμενος (later, he says he will “not spare”: 2Co_13:2 -- quoted below)] you, I came ·no more [οὐκέτι] to [εἰς] Corinth.

2Co_1:23 ᾿Εγὼ δὲ μάρτυρα τὸν Θεὸν ἐπικαλοῦμαι ἐπὶ τὴν ἐμὴν ψυχήν, ὅτι φειδόμενος ὑμῶν οὐκέτι ἦλθον εἰς Κόρινθον.

2Co_1:24 Not that ·we lord it over [κυριεύομεν] your faith, but [ἀλλὰ] are fellow workers [συνεργοί] for your joy [χαρᾶς]; ·for by [the] faith you stand [τῇ γὰρ πίστει ἑστήκατε].

2Co_1:24 οὐχ ὅτι κυριεύομεν ὑμῶν τῆς πίστεως, ἀλλὰ συνεργοί ἐσμεν τῆς χαρᾶς ὑμῶν· τῇ γὰρ πίστει ἑστήκατε.

√ GNT-V

[* “spare” – Str: “Of uncertain affinity”; See (as WS says): “Act_20:29; Rom_8:32 [cf. Sept: Gen_22:12]; 1Co_7:28; 2Co_1:23)”]

Paul’s Inspired Relationship-Discretion

· Inspiration: Will of God (2Co_1:1) & Christ-ified with Sealed Spirit (2Co_1:22) = NOT Human/Uninspired!

· Gentleness: “Not Lording” (2Co_1:24) ≈ Sparing (2Co_1:23)

· Patience: Paul waiting for FAITH just like we said Hosea did with Gomer.

· Saving Faith: Willingness & Not Lording = Faith! (2Co_1:24) = Salvation (2Co_1:7)

Take Action: We need to be wise and have prudent relationship decisions that are gentle and sacrificial enough to produce faith and salvation -- by...
(1) denying our natural soul-ish relationship cravings,
(2) Giving space to others who are not responding well, and,
(3) being humble enough to admit your desolation and finally receiving potent and effective correction.

Let’s consider & apply Paul’s inspired corrective relationship sacrifices more thoroughly…

“Not Lording” = Waiting in Absence for Willing Faith

2nd Corinthians 1 – “Not Lording” = Waiting in Absence for Willing Faith

Other dates; 10/22/17; 10/29/17; 2/7/26; 2/17/26

· We don’t “lord” (it over) your faith, which means…

· We wait on your willing choice (i.e. Paul “spared” [2Co_1:23] as many of them as possible from forced excommunication [2Co_13:2] against their choice), and…

· We wait so your heart will be clean by this “willing choice”, which means…

· We have to wait in absence (Paul “came no more into Corinth”) to reach that far down into a heart that is still needing correction.

· This allows people a chance to thoroughly think and consider so that they might willingly do things in heart-purifying & saving “faith” without any external pressure (which might confuse this heart-issue).

· Remember: Truth glories in proving things True -- If they wait until Paul comes to swiftly punish people in person, and then they supposedly want to “repent” when externally felt social pressure is upon them, then the social accountability of heart-purifying faith is obscured and frustrated and removed, and deception and false repentance is rampant and fortified in the air.

· Paul shuns this perversion and falsehood, even if he is misunderstood as being harsh and unloving in the midst of his wise insistence on real love.

· Important note on Judging the Church: What might it look like if Paul came and did not spare some of them who persisted in unrepentant sin? – they may be put out of the church for a time of “doing penance” before being received again into communion.

· How much more (potentially) permanent separation might it cause, and how much harder it might be to ever admit these back into the church if they did not repent at the hearing of Paul’s letters?

· History (Fact-Check: is this all accurate?): re-admitting apostates, was in fact, the real historical dilemma faced by Cyprian (restoration after serious public penance) & emerging catholic (mainstream) church (regularize readmission procedures for the lapsi) debating the Novatianists (Rome, esp. 251) & Donatists (North Africa): ‘holding that those who denied Christ under persecution could never be forgiven or readmitted to the church’ [& Council of Elvira (c. 300)]

· There is an important sense where even Jesus generally does not force His Lordship over people in this age, so that they can willingly cry out “Lord Jesus” (Rom_10) by real faith.
-- and, of course, in the age to come this changes drastically with “forced Lord-ship”: Php_2:9-11; Isa_45:23-24; Rom_14:11. Therefore,

· If Jesus comes back, what hope will there be for those who have not repented at the hearing of the Scriptures?

· What hope was there for the rich man in hell who did not repent at the hearing of the Law and the Prophets? (Luk_16:22-31)

· Who is being more loving here: Paul, in extending his absence and distance, or the critical Corinthians, who criticized him for it?

· We see that Paul might endanger any hope for many of the Corinthians getting to willingly repent by his premature presence if he were there in person.

· It’s really only those True Monotheists who glory in wording things by faith into acknowledged reality without the stimulation of externally felt experience.

· Those rough and strict Monotheists just keep on denying the natural pleasures of our own assumptions and reaching for something perfect and objective that does not please the flesh.

· They will stop at nothing to absolutely infuriate all flesh in order to please God.

· They “stubbornly” refuse to spare any emotions or feelings in order to obtain real Love.

· Summary: If we “don’t lord” then we have to “wait on your willing choice” which means we have to “wait in absence” for your faithfulness. -- that’s what this sub-point is all about.

Preview/Foreshadowing: We need to keep thinking about The “Sparing” of Paul -- as seen in 2Co_13 below…

And remember we said earlier with Hosea and Gomer:

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Although Hosea was Gomer’s physical, husband-lord (as Genesis 3, Psalm 45, Sarah, & Peter says*) yet he wanted her faithfulness – therefore he used absence (and not “brute force”) to call to her heart and exhort her to choose the Truth.

[* Gen_3:16; Psa_45:11; Gen_18:12; 1Pe_3:6]

>> Sync with other quote herein

Note: “Love” ≠ Togetherness, but (in this passage) Love actually = sitting & waiting without comforts.

>> Sync with other quote herein

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If your faith is being refined, wait patiently and “hasten the day”.

If you’re on probation like the Corinthians,

2Co_6: Self-Restrained -- from Real Love

Other dates; 11/4/17-11/5/17…2/17/26

Doing-Faithful-Love--10--Cor-Discipline-Continued--11.5.17.mp3

2nd Corinthians 3, 5, & 6 – You’re Restrained in Your Own Bowels! -- So Open Up!

We Have Loved You, Now You Love Us

Review…

Now let’s talk more specifically about why there are multiple “separations”* between Paul and the Corinthians: It’s called “LOVE”, and the lack thereof.

(* Think: Geographically, emotionally, spiritually, relationally, etc.)

Hypocritical “Proof” Demands

· Deceptive Demands: The Apostate Corinthians were Hypocritically Demanding Proof just like unbelieving Church people today!

· Christian Atheists: These are the same foolish, dirty and Hypocritical “Proof” Demands that Atheists make against faith in God, even though God is already proven

· Review of God’s Factualness:
(A) First Cause: we know God is there because there is something instead of nothing
(B) Intelligent Design: we know God is smart because we see that He is smart
We can’t help but see His intelligent design in every direction we look -- as a simultaneous 360 degree panorama

· Same Old Rebellious Hypocrisy: Church “Proof” Demands = Atheist “Proof” Demands =

You Are Our Letter -- Preceding Context

2Co_3:2 CAB Do we begin again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as some do, letters of recommendation to you, or letters of recommendation from you?

2Co_3:1 ᾿Αρχόμεθα πάλιν ἑαυτοὺς συνιστάνειν; ^SAἢ |^TBει| μὴ χρῄζομεν, ὥς τινες συστατικῶν ἐπιστολῶν πρὸς ὑμᾶς ἢ ἐξ ὑμῶν ^TSBσυστατικῶν;

2Co_3:2 You are our letter, having been written in our hearts, being known and being read by all men;

2Co_3:2 ἡ ἐπιστολὴ ἡμῶν ὑμεῖς ἐστε, ἐγγεγραμ

2Co_5:12 CAB For we do not commend ourselves again to you, but give to you an opportunity of boasting on our behalf, so that you may have an answer for those who boast in appearance and not ^Ain heart.

2Co_5:12 οὐ ^TSBγὰρ πάλιν ἑαυτοὺς συνιστάνομεν ὑμῖν, ἀλλὰ ἀφορμὴν διδόντες ὑμῖν καυχήματος ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν, ἵνα ἔχητε πρὸς τοὺς ἐν προσώπῳ καυχωμένους καὶ ^TSBοὐ |^Aμη ^Aεν| καρδίᾳ.

The Point: Stop Pretending like more Proof is needed -- when perfect Obedience & Truth is already established in Obeyers

Open Up!

2Co_6:11 CAB O Corinthians! We have spoken openly [Τὸ στόμα ἡμῶν ἀνέῳγε πρὸς ὑμᾶς – we have opened^{V-2RAI-3S (second peRfect)} Our mouth] to[ward] [πρὸς] you, our heart has been ·opened wide^V-RPI-3S [πεπλάτυνται – lit. flattened wide (as a road)].

2Co_6:11 Τὸ στόμα ἡμῶν ἀνέῳγε πρὸς ὑμᾶς, Κορίνθιοι, ἡ καρδία ἡμῶν πεπλάτυνται·

2Co_6:12 You are not restricted [στενοχωρεῖσθε] by [ἐν – in] us, but [δὲ] you are restricted [στενοχωρεῖσθε] by [ἐν – in] ·your own affections [bowels] [τοῖς σπλάγχνοις ὑμῶν].

2Co_6:12 οὐ στενοχωρεῖσθε ἐν ἡμῖν, στενοχωρεῖσθε δὲ ἐν τοῖς σπλάγχνοις ὑμῶν·

2Co_6:13 ·Now in return for the same [τὴν δὲ αὐτὴν ἀντιμισθίαν]--I speak [λέγω] as [ὡς] to children [τέκνοις]--you also be opened wide^{V-APM-2P (Passive iMperative)} [πλατύνθητε – lit. flattened wide (as a road)].

2Co_6:13 τὴν δὲ αὐτὴν ἀντιμισθίαν, ὡς τέκνοις λέγω, πλατύνθητε καὶ ὑμεῖς.

>> Sync: lo | Lov | WoW (partial)

2Co_6:12 CAB …you are restricted [στενοχωρεῖσθε] by [ἐν – in] ·your own affections [bowels] [τοῖς σπλάγχνοις ὑμῶν]…

2Co_6:14 CAB Do not become [Μὴ γίνεσθε] ·unequally yoked [ἑτεροζυγοῦντες] with unbelievers [ἀπίστοις]; for what [τίς γὰρ] participation [μετοχὴ (Lex)^G3352 (fem. noun) < μετέχω^G3348 * (verb - evidently) < μετά^G3326 + ἔχω^G2192] is there for righteousness [δικαιοσύνῃ] with lawlessness [ἀνομίᾳ]? And what [|^Aη| τίς ^TSBδὲ] ·communion is there for [κοινωνία^N-NSF – i.e. reciprocation is there with] light [φωτὶ] with [πρὸς – toward] darkness [σκότος (same as SOM)]?
[* Strong’s: G3348 μετέχω metechō met-ekh'-o From G3326 and G2192; to share or participate; by implication belong to, eat (or drink): - be partaker, pertain, take part, use.]

2Co_6:14 Μὴ γίνεσθε ἑτεροζυγοῦντες ἀπίστοις· τίς γὰρ μετοχὴ δικαιοσύνῃ καὶ ἀνομίᾳ; |^Aη| τίς ^TSBδὲ κοινωνία φωτὶ πρὸς σκότος;

2Co_6:15 ·And [but] what [τίς δὲ] agreement is there for [συμφώνησις^N-NSF – lit. symphony / together-sound-ness is there with] Christ [Anointed one] with Belial [the devil] [^TSBΧριστῷ |^Aχριστου| πρὸς ||^TBAβελιαρ | ^SΒελίαλ||]? Or what [ἢ τίς] part [μερὶς] is there for a believer with an infidel [ἄπιστος (apistos) – an unbeliever]?

2Co_6:15 τίς δὲ συμφώνησις ^TSBΧριστῷ |^Aχριστου| πρὸς ||^TBAβελιαρ | ^SΒελίαλ||; ἢ τίς μερὶς πιστῷ μετὰ ἀπίστου;

2Co_6:16 And [but] what [τίς δὲ] union [συγκατάθεσις^G4783 (lex) (fem. noun) < συγκατατίθεμαι^G4784 * (verb - evid) < σύν^G4862 + κατατίθημι^G2698 < κατά^G2596 + τίθημι^G5087] is there for the temple of God with idols? For you [i.e. Bible Obeyers] are the temple of the living God, just as God has said: "I will dwell in them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be My people."
[* WS on συγκατατίθεμαι (G4784): lit. “To place or lay down with another, to deposit with” (WS), or fig. “to deposit one's vote with others in the urn, to give one's vote with others.” (WS) Or “Figuratively, to assent to, agree with, to consent, with the dat. (Luk_23:51).” (WS)]

2Co_6:16 τίς δὲ συγκατάθεσις ναῷ Θεοῦ μετὰ εἰδώλων; ^TSBὕμεῖς |^Aημεις| γὰρ ναὸς Θεοῦ ^TSBἐστε |^Aεσμεν| ζῶντος, καθὼς εἶπεν ὁ Θεὸς ὅτι ἐνοικήσω ἐν αὐτοῖς καὶ ἐμπεριπατήσω, καὶ ἔσομαι αὐτῶν Θεός, καὶ αὐτοὶ ἔσονταί |^TSBμοι| ^Aμου λαός.

2Co_6:17 Therefore "Come out from the midst of them and be separated," says the Lord. "Do not touch what is unclean, and I will receive you."

2Co_6:17 διὸ |^TSBεξελθετε| ^Aἐξέλθατε ἐκ μέσου αὐτῶν καὶ ἀφορίσθητε, λέγει Κύριος, καὶ ἀκαθάρτου μὴ ἅπτεσθε, κἀγὼ εἰσδέξομαι ὑμᾶς,

2Co_6:18 "I will be a Father to you, and you will be My sons and daughters, says the LORD Almighty."

2Co_6:18 καὶ ἔσομαι ὑμῖν εἰς πατέρα, καὶ ὑμεῖς ἔσεσθέ μοι εἰς υἱοὺς καὶ θυγατέρας, λέγει Κύριος παντοκράτωρ.

>> Sync: JTC | LOB | LOV | WOW

ES: Paul's Joy

2Co_7:1 Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

2Co_7:1 ταύτας οὖν ἔχοντες τὰς ἐπαγγελίας, ἀγαπητοί, καθαρίσωμεν ἑαυτοὺς ἀπὸ παντὸς μολυσμοῦ σαρκὸς καὶ πνεύματος, ἐπιτελοῦντες ἁγιωσύνην ἐν φόβῳ Θεοῦ.

2Co_7:1 ταυτας ουν εχοντες τας επαγγελιας αγαπητοι καθαρισωμεν εαυτους απο παντος μολυσμου σαρκος και πνευματος επιτελουντες αγιωσυνην εν φοβω θεου

2Co_7:2 Receive us in your hearts. We have wronged no one, we have corrupted no one, we have defrauded no one.

2Co_7:2 Χωρήσατε ἡμᾶς· οὐδένα ἠδικήσαμεν, οὐδένα ἐφθείραμεν, οὐδένα ἐπλεονεκτήσαμεν.

2Co_7:2 χωρησατε ημας ουδενα ηδικησαμεν ουδενα εφθειραμεν ουδενα επλεονεκτησαμεν

2Co_7:3 I do not speak to condemn you; for I have said before that you are in our hearts, so that we die together and we live together.

2Co_7:3 οὐ πρὸς κατάκρισιν λέγω· προείρηκα γὰρ ὅτι ἐν ταῖς καρδίαις ἡμῶν ἐστε εἰς τὸ συναποθανεῖν καὶ συζῆν.

2Co_7:3 TSBου προς κατακρισιν Aου λεγω προειρηκα γαρ οτι εν ταις καρδιαις ημων εστε εις το συναποθανειν και συζην

The Point: Probationary separations must happen when people don’t do faithful Love.

We have several things to say about second Corinthians six, but first let’s finish by reading second Corinthians seven.

2Co_6: Return Good to Spiritual Parents

2nd Corinthians 6: “In Return For The Same” – Do Good Back to Those Who Have Done Good to You

Other dates (see above); 7/14/17

· We have heard it said, do unto others as you would have them do unto you. (Mat_7:12; Luk_6:31)

· And now we can also say, do good love back to others as they have done to you.

· (Actually, according to Jesus, we should have already known this from the command to honor your father and mother.)

· Do justice, and complete the loop of kindness, and enter into reciprocation.

·If you haven’t done good unto others as you would have them do unto you, then at least learn from others who have done good to you, and do good back to them.

·Take a hint from a good heart who has done good unto you and learn how to do the same back to them.

The Golden Rule

Mat_7:12 CAB Therefore, whatever you want men to do to you, thus also you do to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.

Mat_7:12 Πάντα οὖν ὅσα ἄν θέλητε ἵνα ποιῶσιν ὑμῖν οἱ ἄνθρωποι, οὕτω καὶ ὑμεῖς ποιεῖτε αὐτοῖς· οὗτος γάρ ἐστιν ὁ νόμος καὶ οἱ προφῆται.

Mat_7:12 παντα ουν οσα Aεαν TSBαν θελητε ινα ποιωσιν υμιν οι ανθρωποι ουτως και υμεις ποιειτε αυτοις ουτος γαρ εστιν ο νομος και οι προφηται

Mat_7:12 NKJV Therefore, whatever you want men to do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.

Luk_6:31 CAB And just as you want men to do to you, you also do to them likewise.

Luk_6:31 καὶ καθὼς θέλετε ἵνα ποιῶσιν ὑμῖν οἱ ἄνθρωποι καὶ ὑμεῖς ποιεῖτε αὐτοῖς ὁμοίως.

Luk_6:31 και καθως θελετε ινα ποιωσιν υμιν οι ανθρωποι TSBκαι TSBυμεις ποιειτε αυτοις ομοιως

Luk_6:31 NKJV And just as you want men to do to you, you also do to them likewise.

Lev_19:18 NKJV You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the LORD.

Pro_24:29 NKJV Do not say, “I will do to him just as he has done to me; I will render to the man according to his work.”

Pro_20:22 NKJV Do not say, “I will recompense evil”; Wait for the LORD, and He will save you.

Rom_13:10 NKJV Love does no harm to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

Gal_5:14 NKJV For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

Jam_2:8 NKJV If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well.

Pro_3:27 NKJV Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do so.

Pro_11:17 NKJV The merciful man does good for his own soul, but he who is cruel troubles his own flesh.

Col_3:12–13 NKJV Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering; bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, if anyone has a complaint against another

The Point of “Returning the Same”

· Breaking the loop of faithful Love is an injustice and unfaithfulness that calls for probationary separations.

· unfaithfulness requires probation -- got that?

· Paul did Truth Love to the Corinthians, and now he waits in a disciplinary posture until they get serious and do Truth love back to him and to the Truth.

2Co_6: Grow Up into Giving Love

2nd Corinthians 6: Children Crave Love, But Grown-Up Perfection Knows How to Give It <<<

Other dates (see above); 7/14/17

· Notice that in 2^nd Corinthians 6, you have to tell “children” to Love (2Co_6:13 -- I speak as to children).

· One sign of being perfectly grown and complete is loving way more than you are asked to love.

· (Interestingly, Paul starts thinking about perfection of growth when talking about Love in 1Co_13.)

· The young begin their lives self-centered.

· The old glorify their lives by learning to care about others.

· The young often want to be known as strong and good looking, but older people are supposed to have gained a reputation for being wise and loving.

· When two people compete, an older person can win an argument by their stunning superior love for the other person.

· Whoever truly loves the other person more, is the ultimate winner of all arguments.

· Though competitions may flare up in a moment of disagreement, yet if thought is involved, when the two go to their rooms the loser and all who saw the argument will have to admit that the one who loved more was more right.

· A wise person will not forget kindness shown in the midst of relationship friction.
How might the eternally wise God think about you if you do real love?
11/6/17

· Want to be perfectly righteous in clean and selfless service unto the Truth and ready for mega rewards and glorification?

· Make sure your zealous ambition never has to be asked or told to love people more.

·Story: Whittemores did not generally have any reasonable love (except Mark Jr.). Mike told me I needed to Love more, and I obsessed over love-truth until I could apprehend something I had never seen anyone else ever apprehend before.

The Point of Childish vs. Perfect Love

· Real Love always makes you the winner of all frictions in relationships.

· Real Love is the highest requirement of faithfulness.

· Through Real Love you can even obligate God to bring you out of probation (including Paul and all other righteous ones)!

· If “unfaithfulness requires probation” then the faithfulness of Real Love calls for togetherness, and

· God will by no means remain indebted to His own justice forever.

2Co_7: Receive Us…You are in our Hearts

2nd Corinthians 7 – Receive Us…You are in our Hearts

Doing-Faithful-Love--11--Cor-Discipline-Concluded--12.3.17.mp3

2Co_7:1 CAB Therefore [ταύτας οὖν], having these promises [ἐπαγγελίας], beloved, let us cleanse [καθαρίσωμεν] ourselves from all filthiness [μολυσμοῦ] ·of the flesh [σαρκὸς] and spirit [πνεύματος], perfecting [ἐπιτελοῦντες] holiness ·in the fear of God [ἐν φόβῳ Θεοῦ – in God phobia/fear].

2Co_7:1 ταύτας οὖν ἔχοντες τὰς ἐπαγγελίας, ἀγαπητοί, καθαρίσωμεν ἑαυτοὺς ἀπὸ παντὸς μολυσμοῦ σαρκὸς καὶ πνεύματος, ἐπιτελοῦντες ἁγιωσύνην ἐν φόβῳ Θεοῦ.

ES: Paul's Joy

2Co_7:2 Receive us in your hearts [i.e. 2Co_6:11-13] [Χωρήσατε ἡμᾶς – (comp. Gen_13:6 LXX {Abraham & Lot}; Mat_15:17 {food in stomach})]. ·We have wronged [ἠδικήσαμεν – i.e. damaged with injustice/unrighteousness] no one [οὐδένα], ·we have corrupted [ἐφθείραμεν] no one [οὐδένα], ·we have defrauded [ἐπλεονεκτήσαμεν] no one [οὐδένα].

2Co_7:2 Χωρήσατε ἡμᾶς· οὐδένα ἠδικήσαμεν, οὐδένα ἐφθείραμεν, οὐδένα ἐπλεονεκτήσαμεν.

2Co_7:3 I do not speak to condemn you [κατάκρισιν]; for I have said before [προείρηκα] that you are in our hearts [ὅτι ἐν ταῖς καρδίαις ἡμῶν ἐστε], so that [εἰς τὸ] we die together [συναποθανεῖν] and we live together [συζῆν].

2Co_7:3 ^TSBοὐ πρὸς κατάκρισιν |^Aου| λέγω· προείρηκα γὰρ ὅτι ἐν ταῖς καρδίαις ἡμῶν ἐστε εἰς τὸ συναποθανεῖν καὶ συζῆν.

2Co_7:4 Great is my confidence toward you, great is my boasting concerning you. I have been filled with comfort. I am exceedingly joyful in all our tribulation.

2Co_7:4 πολλή μοι παρρησία πρὸς ὑμᾶς, πολλή μοι καύχησις ὑπὲρ ὑμῶν· πεπλήρωμαι τῇ παρακλήσει, ὑπερπερισσεύομαι τῇ χαρᾷ ἐπὶ πάσῃ τῇ θλίψει ἡμῶν.

√ GNT-V

>> Sync: Lux / Dis / LO? | Lov / LLO? | RAS | SRP

So, how do you “make room” for people? (i.e. do faithful Love)

You can find answer to the need in v. 2 (Receive us) by looking in v. 1 (preceding: let us cleanse) as well as in v. 3 (following: you are in our hearts…die together…live together).

Compare this with the astounding Faithfulness of Ruth in Rth_1:15-16 (as quoted in Luxury Proves You’re Condemned)!

Comfort is the Result of Making Room

2Co_7:13 CAB Because of this we have been comforted. And in [ἐπὶ – upon] your comfort we rejoiced exceedingly more over [ἐπὶ – upon] the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all.

2Co_7:13 Διὰ τοῦτο παρακεκλήμεθα. ἐπὶ ^BAδὲ τῇ παρακλήσει ^TSBυμων |^Aἡμῶν| περισσοτέρως |^TSδε| μᾶλλον ἐχάρημεν ἐπὶ τῇ χαρᾷ Τίτου, ὅτι ἀναπέπαυται τὸ πνεῦμα αὐτοῦ ἀπὸ πάντων ὑμῶν·

>> Sync: LOV (multiple) | RAS | DAR

Why Switch?

· Why does he switch from rebuking to praising???

· Why Does Paul Switch to Consolation after this?

· Because there are two main groups in Corinth & this is seen in…

· The PAGC: Preceding Authoritative Governing Context…

You Acknowledged us in Part

2Co_1:13 CAB For we do not write other things to you except what you read or also understand. And I hope that you will understand, even until the end

2Co_1:13 οὐ γὰρ ἄλλα γράφομεν ὑμῖν, ἀλλ᾿ ἢ ἃ ἀναγινώσκετε ἢ καὶ ἐπιγινώσκετε, ἐλπίζω δὲ ὅτι καὶ ἕως τέλους ἐπιγνώσεσθε,

2Co_1:13 ου γαρ αλλα γραφομεν υμιν αλλ η α αναγινωσκετε η και επιγινωσκετε ελπιζω δε οτι TSBκαι εως τελους επιγνωσεσθε

2Co_1:14 just as also you have understood [ἐπέγνωτε – i.e. acknowledged-upon] us in part, that we are your boasting, as indeed you also are ours, in the day of the Lord Jesus.

2Co_1:14 καθὼς καὶ ἐπέγνωτε ἡμᾶς ἀπὸ μέρους, ὅτι καύχημα ὑμῶν ἐσμεν, καθάπερ καὶ ὑμεῖς ἡμῶν, ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ τοῦ Κυρίου ᾿Ιησοῦ.

2Co_1:14 καθως και επεγνωτε ημας απο μερους οτι καυχημα υμων εσμεν καθαπερ και υμεις ημων εν τη ημερα του κυριου Aημων ιησου

2Co_11 & 12: Not Because We Don’t Love You

2nd Corinthians 11 & 12

When refusing to receive money from the Corinthians, Paul says:

2Co_11:11 CAB Why [διατί]? Because [ὅτι] I do not love you? God knows [by perception] [οἶδεν]!

2Co_11:11 ^TSδιατί |^BAδια ^BAτι|; ὅτι οὐκ ἀγαπῶ ὑμᾶς; ὁ Θεὸς οἶδεν.

Paul anticipates a soul-ish misunderstanding with refusing their money in much the same way as he had already anticipated their misunderstanding when he passed up their company.

2Co_12:14 CAB Now for the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not burden you. For I do not seek what is yours, but you. For the children ought not to store up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

2Co_12:14 ᾿Ιδοὺ τρίτον ἑτοίμως ἔχω ἐλθεῖν πρὸς ὑμᾶς, καὶ οὐ καταναρκήσω ὑμῶν· οὐ γὰρ ζητῶ τὰ ὑμῶν, ἀλλ᾿ ὑμᾶς. οὐ γὰρ ὀφείλει τὰ τέκνα τοῖς γονεῦσι θησαυρίζειν, ἀλλὰ᾿ οἱ γονεῖς τοῖς τέκνοις.

2Co_12:14 ιδου τριτον ^Aτουτο ετοιμως εχω ελθειν προς υμας και ου καταναρκησω ^TSBυμων ου γαρ ζητω τα υμων ^BAαλλα ^TSαλλ υμας ου γαρ οφειλει τα τεκνα τοις γονευσιν θησαυριζειν ^Aαλλα ^TSBαλλ οι γονεις τοις τεκνοις

2Co_12:15 CAB And I [very] gladly [ἥδιστα – lit. most pleasurably / glad-ist-ly (superlative)] will spend [δαπανήσω (Lex: δαπανάω [verb] < δαπάνη [noun]) – expense/spend/cost] and be expended [ἐκδαπανηθήσομαι – i.e. spent out] for [ὑπὲρ] [that (of)] your souls; ·although [εἰ καὶ] the more abundantly [περισσοτέρως] I love you, ·the less [ἧττον – WS: “Worse, inferior, weaker”] I am loved.

2Co_12:15 ἐγὼ δὲ ἥδιστα δαπανήσω καὶ ἐκδαπανηθήσομαι ὑπὲρ τῶν ψυχῶν ὑμῶν, εἰ ^TSBκαὶ περισσοτέρως ὑμᾶς ^TSBἀγαπῶν |^Aαγαπων| ^TSBἧττον |^Aησσον| ἀγαπῶμαι.

Abstaining = REAL Love

· Paul abstains from their presence and their money -- not because he doesn’t love them, but because they needed to Love him in Truth.

· They might be tempted, as well as we, to say, “if you would just come and spend time with us we could develop our relationship and that would establish our mutual love for each other!” -- and that is just the point… -- You Need to give over REAL Love!

2Co_13: The “Sparing” of Paul

And what does Paul’s distance “spare” them from? -- from forced and swift and potentially harsh excommunication, as he says later in the same letter (as we have already quoted):

2Co_13:2 CAB I have previously said [προείρηκα^V-RAI-1S], and I say beforehand [προλέγω^V-PAI-1S], as being present [παρὼν^V-PAP-NSM] the second time [τὸ δεύτερον], and now being absent [ἀπὼν^V-PAP-NSM νῦν] ^TSBI write to those who have sinned before, and to all the rest, that if I come again I will not spare you [φείσομαι (same as 2Co_1:23 -- quoted above)],

2Co_13:2 προείρηκα καὶ προλέγω, ὡς παρὼν τὸ δεύτερον, καὶ ἀπὼν νῦν ^TSBγράφω τοῖς προημαρτηκόσι καὶ τοῖς λοιποῖς πᾶσιν, ὅτι ἐὰν ἔλθω εἰς τὸ πάλιν οὐ φείσομαι·

>> Sync: Other occurrence herein

Paul’s Parable of Patience

Remember God saying that if He went in the midst of the hard-hearted Israelites for a moment, He would completely consume them?

Reminder: God’s Presence Destroys Sinners

Incl. Exo_33: God’s Presence Would Destroy Israel

And what is Jesus going to do to unbelievers when He returns in person?

In 2^nd Corinthians, we see that Paul is partly being like a parable of Jesus by giving warnings of His coming, and exhorting them to willingly give over faithful love and obedience “from the heart” (as in Rom_6:17, etc.) in the meantime.

(And of course, we can compare this with 1Co_5 and all the other passages on Judging the Church to get a very good picture of what Paul is talking about.)

Doctrine of US: Receiving

3Jn_1:7 for on behalf of the Name they went out, taking nothing from the pagans.

3Jn_1:7 ὑπὲρ γὰρ τοῦ ὀνόματος αὐτοῦ ἐξῆλθον, μηδὲν λαμβάνοντες ἀπὸ τῶν ἐθνικῶν.

3Jn_1:7 υπερ γαρ του ονοματος ^Sαυτου εξηλθον μηδεν λαμβανοντες απο των ^Aεθνικων ^TSBεθνων

3Jn_1:8 We therefore ought to receive such, in order that we may become fellow workers with the truth.

3Jn_1:8 ἡμεῖς οὖν ὀφείλομεν ὑπολαμβάνειν τοὺς τοιούτους, ἵνα συνεργοὶ γινώμεθα τῇ ἀληθείᾳ.

3Jn_1:8 ημεις ουν οφειλομεν ^Aυπολαμβανειν ^TSBαπολαμβανειν τους τοιουτους ινα συνεργοι γινωμεθα τη αληθεια

3Jn_1:9 CAB I wrote to the church, but Diotrephes, who loves the preeminence over them, does not receive us.

3Jn_1:9 ῎Εγραψά τι τῇ ἐκκλησίᾳ· ἀλλ᾿ ὁ φιλοπρωτεύων αὐτῶν Διοτρεφής οὐκ ἐπιδέχεται ἡμᾶς.

3Jn_1:9 εγραψα ^Aτι τη εκκλησια αλλ ο φιλοπρωτευων αυτων διοτρεφης ουκ επιδεχεται ημας

3Jn_1:10 On account of this, if I come, I will call to mind his works which he does, slandering us with evil words. And not being content with that, he does not receive the brothers, and hinders those who desire to, casting them out of the church.

3Jn_1:10 διὰ τοῦτο, ἐὰν ἔλθω, ὑπομνήσω αὐτοῦ τὰ ἔργα ἃ ποιεῖ, λόγοις πονηροῖς φλυαρῶν ἡμᾶς· καὶ μὴ ἀρκούμενος ἐπὶ τούτοις, οὔτε αὐτὸς ἐπιδέχεται τοὺς ἀδελφοὺς καὶ τοὺς βουλομένους κωλύει καὶ ἐκ τῆς ἐκκλησίας ἐκβάλλει.

3Jn_1:10 δια τουτο εαν ελθω υπομνησω αυτου τα εργα α ποιει λογοις πονηροις φλυαρων ημας και μη αρκουμενος επι τουτοις ουτε αυτος επιδεχεται τους αδελφους και τους βουλομενους κωλυει και εκ της εκκλησιας εκβαλλει

3Jn_1:11 Beloved, do not imitate the evil, but the good. He who does good is of God; he who does evil has not seen God.

3Jn_1:11 ᾿Αγαπητέ, μὴ μιμοῦ τὸ κακὸν, ἀλλὰ τὸ ἀγαθόν. ὁ ἀγαθοποιῶν ἐκ τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐστιν· ὁ κακοποιῶν οὐχ ἑώρακε τὸν Θεόν.

3Jn_1:11 αγαπητε μη μιμου το κακον αλλα το αγαθον ο αγαθοποιων εκ του θεου εστιν ο ^TSδε κακοποιων ουχ εωρακεν τον θεον

Judgement is Coming! -- in 1^st & 2^nd Corinthians

1Co_5:3 CAB For I indeed [ἐγὼ μὲν γάρ], ^TSBas [^TSBὡς] ·being absent [lit. (away) from being] in [the] body [ἀπὼν τῷ σώματι (ἀπὼν = ἄπειμι (lex) = ἀπό + εἰμί)] but [δὲ] present [παρὼν = πάρειμι (lex) = παρά + εἰμί, (same as “παρουσίᾳ” in 1Th_2:19 above)] in [the (τῷ)] spirit, have already judged (·as though [ὡς] ·I were present [παρὼν]) him who [τὸν] has ·done this deed [κατεργασάμενον] in this way [οὕτω],

1Co_5:3 ἐγὼ μὲν γάρ ^TSBὡς ἀπὼν τῷ σώματι, παρὼν δὲ τῷ πνεύματι, ἤδη κέκρικα ὡς παρὼν τὸν οὕτω τοῦτο κατεργασάμενον,

Also: 2Co_10:1, 2Co_10:11

2Co_13:2 CAB ·I have previously said [προείρηκα^V-RAI-1S], and ·I say beforehand [προλέγω^V-PAI-1S], as being present [παρὼν^V-PAP-NSM] the second time [τὸ δεύτερον], and ·now being absent [ἀπὼν^V-PAP-NSM νῦν] ^TSBI write [^TSBγράφω] ·to those who have sinned before [τοῖς προημαρτηκόσι], and ·to all the rest [τοῖς λοιποῖς], that [ὅτι] if [ἐὰν] I come again I will not spare you [φείσομαι (same as 2Co_1:23 below, in Lux)],

2Co_13:2 προείρηκα καὶ προλέγω, ὡς παρὼν τὸ δεύτερον, καὶ ἀπὼν νῦν ^TSBγράφω τοῖς προημαρτηκόσι καὶ τοῖς λοιποῖς πᾶσιν, ὅτι ἐὰν ἔλθω εἰς τὸ πάλιν οὐ φείσομαι·

2Co_13:3 since you [ἐπεὶ] are seeking [ζητεῖτε] proof [δοκιμὴν] of [τοῦ – i.e. that] Christ [Χριστοῦ] speaking in me, who is not weak toward you, but [ἀλλὰ] strong [δυνατεῖ] in you.

2Co_13:3 ἐπεὶ δοκιμὴν ζητεῖτε τοῦ ἐν ἐμοὶ λαλοῦντος Χριστοῦ, ὃς εἰς ὑμᾶς οὐκ ἀσθενεῖ, ἀλλὰ δυνατεῖ ἐν ὑμῖν.

>> Sync: Other occurrence herein

>> Sync (partly): Lux | Lov (2Co_13:2-3)

These last two references are in the context of Judging the Church, and besides the primary, original application, these passages (along with the joyfulness of Colossians and Thessalonians) also help us remember and stay aware that throughout many other passages in general, Paul is exhorting the Corinthians (and other Assemblies) to love while not being present. -- And this even includes The Love Chapter of 1^st Corinthians 13!

Although these last two references are about judging the church, many other times Paul exhorts the Assemblies, including Corinth, to love (including the “love chapter” of 1 Corinthians 13), and we see that many of these exhortations are all done while not being present.

And there are many other references to exhortations to Love at a geographical distance throughout the other epistles.

God’s Presence Destroys Sinners <<<<<<<

Paul’s Inspired Parable -- Reminder

Just like we saw with Paul’s coming (previously, above), when God comes to sinful people His presence destroys them with hot unbearable judgement…

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Num_17:12-13 – Everyone who comes near the Tabernacle of the Lord dies!

Num_17:12 NKJV So the children of Israel spoke to Moses, saying, “Surely we die, we perish, we all perish!

Num_17:13 NKJV Whoever even comes near the tabernacle of the LORD must die. Shall we all utterly die?”

Lev_10:1 NKJV Then Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer and put fire in it, put incense on it, and offered profane fire before the LORD, which He had not commanded them.

Lev_10:2 NKJV So fire went out from the LORD and devoured them, and they died before the LORD.

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Notice the pessimism of the flesh: that it does not receive correction well from God (Heb_12:), nor does it have hope in atonement and redemption, to have boldness to run into the cleanness of fire (Heb_12:) after having crucified all sin!

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Psa_90:

Fenced from Glorious Mountain

Exo_19:21 WEB Yahweh said to Moses, "Go down, warn the people, lest they break through to Yahweh to gaze, and many of them perish.

Exo_19:21 LB And God spoke to Moses, saying, “Go down, and solemnly charge the people, lest at any time they draw near to God to gaze, and many of them perish.

Exo_19:21 καὶ εἶπεν ὁ θεὸς πρὸς Μωυσῆν λέγων Καταβὰς διαμάρτυραι τῷ λαῷ, μήποτε ἐγγίσωσιν πρὸς τὸν θεὸν κατανοῆσαι καὶ πέσωσιν ἐξ αὐτῶν πλῆθος·

Exo_19:21-22 NKJV And the LORD said to Moses, “Go down and warn the people, lest they break through to gaze at the LORD, and many of them perish. Also let the priests who come near the LORD consecrate themselves, lest the LORD break out against them.”

Deu_9: Golden Calf = Stiff-necked to be Destroyed

Their Potential Destruction is Memorialized in Deuteronomy:

Almost Destroyed at Horeb (Deuteronomy)

Deu_9:8 WEB Also in Horeb you provoked Yahweh to wrath, and Yahweh was angry with you to destroy you.

Deu_9:8 LB Also in Horeb you provoked the Lord, and the Lord was angry with you, to destroy you;

Deu_9:8 καὶ ἐν Χωρηβ παρωξύνατε κύριον, καὶ ἐθυμώθη κύριος ἐφ᾿ ὑμῖν ἐξολεθρεῦσαι ὑμᾶς

Deu_9:8 NKJV Also in Horeb you provoked the LORD to wrath, so that the LORD was angry enough with you to have destroyed you.

Deu_9:19 NKJV For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure with which the LORD was angry with you, to destroy you.

Wrath Against Idolatry

Deu_9:13 WEB Furthermore Yahweh spoke to me, saying, I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people:

Deu_9:13 LB “And the Lord spoke to me, saying, ‘I have spoken to you once and again, saying, “I have seen this people, and behold, they are a stiff-necked people.”

Deu_9:13 καὶ εἶπεν κύριος πρός με Λελάληκα πρὸς σὲ ἅπαξ καὶ δὶς λέγων Ἑώρακα τὸν λαὸν τοῦτον, καὶ ἰδοὺ λαὸς σκληροτράχηλός ἐστιν·

[ES: The Golden Calf]

Deu_9:14 WEB let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under the sky; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.

Deu_9:14 And now I shall utterly destroy them, and I will blot out their name from under heaven, and will make of you a nation great and strong, and more numerous than this.’

Deu_9:14 ἔασόν με ἐξολεθρεῦσαι αὐτούς, καὶ ἐξαλείψω τὸ ὄνομα αὐτῶν ὑποκάτωθεν τοῦ οὐρανοῦ καὶ ποιήσω σὲ εἰς ἔθνος μέγα καὶ ἰσχυρὸν καὶ πολὺ μᾶλλον ἢ τοῦτο.

Deu_9:15 WEB So I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.

Deu_9:15 And I turned and went down from the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire to heaven; and the two tablets of the testimonies were in my two hands.

Deu_9:15 καὶ ἐπιστρέψας κατέβην ἐκ τοῦ ὄρους, καὶ τὸ ὄρος ἐκαίετο πυρί, καὶ αἱ δύο πλάκες ἐπὶ ταῖς δυσὶ χερσίν μου.

Moses Stops Destruction -- Intercession

Deu_9:18 WEB I fell down before Yahweh, as at the first, forty days and forty nights; I did neither eat bread nor drink water; because of all your sin which you sinned, in doing that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger.

Deu_9:18 LB And I made my petition before the Lord as also at the first forty days and forty nights: I ate no bread and drank no water, on account of all your sins which you sinned in doing evil before the Lord God, to provoke Him.

Deu_9:18 καὶ ἐδεήθην ἐναντίον κυρίου δεύτερον καθάπερ καὶ τὸ πρότερον τεσσαράκοντα ἡμέρας καὶ τεσσαράκοντα νύκτασ-- ἄρτον οὐκ ἔφαγον καὶ ὕδωρ οὐκ ἔπιον--περὶ πασῶν τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν ὑμῶν, ὧν ἡμάρτετε ποιῆσαι τὸ πονηρὸν ἐναντίον κυρίου τοῦ θεοῦ ὑμῶν παροξῦναι αὐτόν.

Deu_9:19 WEB For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, with which Yahweh was angry against you to destroy you. But Yahweh listened to me that time also.

Deu_9:19 And I was greatly terrified because of the wrath and anger, because the Lord was provoked with you utterly, to destroy you; yet the Lord hearkened to me at this time also.

Deu_9:19 καὶ ἔκφοβός εἰμι διὰ τὴν ὀργὴν καὶ τὸν θυμόν, ὅτι παρωξύνθη κύριος ἐφ᾿ ὑμῖν ἐξολεθρεῦσαι ὑμᾶς· καὶ εἰσήκουσεν κύριος ἐμοῦ καὶ ἐν τῷ καιρῷ τούτῳ.

And this reminds us of…

Exo_33: God’s Presence Would Destroy Israel

God Can’t Be in the Middle of Israel without Destroying them!

[Leave Sinai]

Exo_33:1 WEB Yahweh spoke to Moses, "Depart, go up from here, you and the people that you have brought up out of the land of Egypt, to the land of which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, 'I will give it to your seed.'

Exo_33:1 LB The Command to Leave Sinai And the Lord said to Moses, “Go forward, go up from here, you and your people, whom you brought out of the land of Egypt, into the land which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, I will give it to your descendants.

Exo_33:1 Καὶ εἶπεν κύριος πρὸς Μωυσῆν Πορεύου ἀνάβηθι ἐντεῦθεν σὺ καὶ ὁ λαός σου, οὓς ἐξήγαγες ἐκ γῆς Αἰγύπτου, εἰς τὴν γῆν, ἣν ὤμοσα τῷ Αβρααμ καὶ Ισαακ καὶ Ιακωβ λέγων Τῷ σπέρματι ὑμῶν δώσω αὐτήν.

Exo_33:2 WEB I will send an angel before you; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite:

Exo_33:2 And I will send at the same time My Angel before your face, and He shall cast out the Amorite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Girgashite and the Hivite and the Jebusite and the Canaanite.

Exo_33:2 καὶ συναποστελῶ τὸν ἄγγελόν μου πρὸ προσώπου σου, καὶ ἐκβαλεῖ τὸν Αμορραῖον καὶ Χετταῖον καὶ Φερεζαῖον καὶ Γεργεσαῖον καὶ Ευαῖον καὶ Ιεβουσαῖον.

Exo_33:3 WEB to a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of you, for you are a stiff-necked people, lest I consume you in the way."

Exo_33:3 And I will bring you into a land flowing with milk and honey; for I will not go up with you, because you are a stiff-necked people, lest I consume you by the way.”

Exo_33:3 καὶ εἰσάξω σε εἰς γῆν ῥέουσαν γάλα καὶ μέλι· οὐ γὰρ μὴ συναναβῶ μετὰ σοῦ διὰ τὸ λαὸν σκληροτράχηλόν σε εἶναι, ἵνα μὴ ἐξαναλώσω σε ἐν τῇ ὁδῷ.

Exo_33:4 WEB When the people heard this evil news, they mourned: and no one put on his jewelry.

Exo_33:4 And the people, having heard this grievous saying [τὸ ῥῆμα τὸ πονηρὸν], mourned in mourning apparel.

Exo_33:4 καὶ ἀκούσας ὁ λαὸς τὸ ῥῆμα τὸ πονηρὸν τοῦτο κατεπένθησαν ἐν πενθικοῖς.

Exo_33:5 WEB Yahweh said to Moses, "Tell the children of Israel, 'You are a stiff-necked people. If I were to go up into your midst for one moment, I would consume you. Therefore now take off your jewelry from you, that I may know what to do to you.' "

Exo_33:5 For the Lord said to the children of Israel, “You are a stiff-necked people; take heed lest I bring on you another plague and destroy you: now then put off your glorious apparel, and your ornaments, and I will show you what I will do to you.”

Exo_33:5 καὶ εἶπεν κύριος τοῖς υἱοῖς Ισραηλ Ὑμεῖς λαὸς σκληροτράχηλος· ὁρᾶτε μὴ πληγὴν ἄλλην ἐπάξω ἐγὼ ἐφ᾿ ὑμᾶς καὶ ἐξαναλώσω ὑμᾶς· νῦν οὖν ἀφέλεσθε τὰς στολὰς τῶν δοξῶν ὑμῶν καὶ τὸν κόσμον, καὶ δείξω σοι ἃ ποιήσω σοι.

Exo_33:6 WEB The children of Israel stripped themselves of their jewelry from Mount Horeb onward.

Exo_33:6 So the sons of Israel took off their ornaments and their array at the mount of Horeb.

Exo_33:6 καὶ περιείλαντο οἱ υἱοὶ Ισραηλ τὸν κόσμον αὐτῶν καὶ τὴν περιστολὴν ἀπὸ τοῦ ὄρους τοῦ Χωρηβ.

The Tent of Meeting

Exo_33:7 WEB Now Moses used to take the tent and to pitch it outside the camp, far away from the camp, and he called it "The Tent of Meeting." It happened that everyone who sought Yahweh went out to the Tent of Meeting, which was outside the camp.

Exo_33:7 The Tent Outside the Camp And Moses took the tabernacle and pitched it outside the camp, at a distance from the camp; and it was called the Tabernacle of Testimony. And it came to pass that everyone that sought the Lord went forth to the tabernacle which was outside the camp.

Exo_33:7 Καὶ λαβὼν Μωυσῆς τὴν σκηνὴν αὐτοῦ ἔπηξεν ἔξω τῆς παρεμβολῆς μακρὰν ἀπὸ τῆς παρεμβολῆς, καὶ ἐκλήθη σκηνὴ μαρτυρίου· καὶ ἐγένετο πᾶς ὁ ζητῶν κύριον ἐξεπορεύετο εἰς τὴν σκηνὴν ἔξω τῆς παρεμβολῆς.

Exo_33:8 WEB It happened that when Moses went out to the Tent, that all the people rose up, and stood, everyone at their tent door, and watched Moses, until he had gone into the Tent.

Exo_33:8 And whenever Moses went into the tabernacle outside the camp, that all the people rose, everyone watching by the doors of his tent; and when Moses departed, they took notice until he entered into the tabernacle.

Exo_33:8 ἡνίκα δ᾿ ἂν εἰσεπορεύετο Μωυσῆς εἰς τὴν σκηνὴν ἔξω τῆς παρεμβολῆς, εἱστήκει πᾶς ὁ λαὸς σκοπεύοντες ἕκαστος παρὰ τὰς θύρας τῆς σκηνῆς αὐτοῦ καὶ κατενοοῦσαν ἀπιόντος Μωυσῆ ἕως τοῦ εἰσελθεῖν αὐτὸν εἰς τὴν σκηνήν.

Exo_33:9 WEB It happened, when Moses entered into the Tent, that the pillar of cloud descended, stood at the door of the Tent, and spoke with Moses.

Exo_33:9 And when Moses entered into the tabernacle, the pillar of cloud descended, and stood at the door of the tabernacle, and God talked to Moses.

Exo_33:9 ὡς δ᾿ ἂν εἰσῆλθεν Μωυσῆς εἰς τὴν σκηνήν, κατέβαινεν ὁ στῦλος τῆς νεφέλης καὶ ἵστατο ἐπὶ τὴν θύραν τῆς σκηνῆς, καὶ ἐλάλει Μωυσῇ·

Exo_33:10 WEB All the people saw the pillar of cloud stand at the door of the Tent, and all the people rose up and worshiped, everyone at their tent door.

Exo_33:10 And all the people saw the pillar of the cloud standing by the door of the tabernacle, and all the people stood and worshipped, everyone at the door of his tent.

Exo_33:10 καὶ ἑώρα πᾶς ὁ λαὸς τὸν στῦλον τῆς νεφέλης ἑστῶτα ἐπὶ τῆς θύρας τῆς σκηνῆς, καὶ στάντες πᾶς ὁ λαὸς προσεκύνησαν ἕκαστος ἀπὸ τῆς θύρας τῆς σκηνῆς αὐτοῦ.

Exo_33:11 WEB Yahweh spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. He turned again into the camp, but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, didn't depart out of the Tent.

Exo_33:11 And the Lord spoke to Moses face to face, as if one should speak to his friend; and he retired into the camp: but his servant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, did not depart from the tabernacle.

Exo_33:11 καὶ ἐλάλησεν κύριος πρὸς Μωυσῆν ἐνώπιος ἐνωπίῳ, ὡς εἴ τις λαλήσει πρὸς τὸν ἑαυτοῦ φίλον. καὶ ἀπελύετο εἰς τὴν παρεμβολήν, ὁ δὲ θεράπων Ἰησοῦς υἱὸς Ναυη νέος οὐκ ἐξεπορεύετο ἐκ τῆς σκηνῆς.

Exo_33:3 NKJV Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey; for I will not go up in your midst, lest I consume you on the way, for you are a stiff-necked people.

Exo_33:5 NKJV For the LORD had said to Moses, “Say to the children of Israel, ‘You are a stiff-necked people. I could come up into your midst in one moment and consume you. Now therefore, take off your ornaments, that I may know what to do to you.’ ”

Moses’ prayers and God's presence required distance from the Israelites

Moses’ prayer tent requires separation, because it calls for God's presence to come down

Korah Swallowed by Ground

Ground Swallows Korah & Company

Num_16:31 WEB It happened, as he made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground split apart that was under them;

Num_16:31 LB And when he ceased speaking all these words, the ground split apart beneath them.

Num_16:31 ὡς δὲ ἐπαύσατο λαλῶν πάντας τοὺς λόγους τούτους, ἐρράγη ἡ γῆ ὑποκάτω αὐτῶν,

Num_16:32 WEB and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and all the men who appertained to Korah, and all their goods.

Num_16:32 And the ground opened, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that were with Korah, and their cattle.

Num_16:32 καὶ ἠνοίχθη ἡ γῆ καὶ κατέπιεν αὐτοὺς καὶ τοὺς οἴκους αὐτῶν καὶ πάντας τοὺς ἀνθρώπους τοὺς ὄντας μετὰ Κορε καὶ τὰ κτήνη αὐτῶν.

Num_16:33 WEB So they, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into Sheol: and the earth closed on them, and they perished from among the assembly.

Num_16:33 And they went down, they and all that they had, alive into Hades; and the ground covered them, and they perished from the midst of the congregation.

Num_16:33 καὶ κατέβησαν αὐτοὶ καὶ ὅσα ἐστὶν αὐτῶν ζῶντα εἰς ᾅδου, καὶ ἐκάλυψεν αὐτοὺς ἡ γῆ, καὶ ἀπώλοντο ἐκ μέσου τῆς συναγωγῆς.

Num_16:34 WEB All Israel that were around them fled at the cry of them; for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up.

Num_16:34 And all Israel round about them fled from the sound of them, for they said, “Lest the earth swallow us up, too!”

Num_16:34 καὶ πᾶς Ισραηλ οἱ κύκλῳ αὐτῶν ἔφυγον ἀπὸ τῆς φωνῆς αὐτῶν, ὅτι λέγοντες Μήποτε καταπίῃ ἡμᾶς ἡ γῆ.

Num_16:35 WEB Fire came forth from Yahweh, and devoured the two hundred fifty men who offered the incense.

Num_16:35 And fire went forth from the Lord, and devoured the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense.

Num_16:35 καὶ πῦρ ἐξῆλθεν παρὰ κυρίου καὶ κατέφαγεν τοὺς πεντήκοντα καὶ διακοσίους ἄνδρας τοὺς προσφέροντας τὸ θυμίαμα.

Num_16:31-35 NKJV … the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them… and a fire came out from the LORD and consumed the two hundred and fifty men who were offering incense.

Following Context: Censers salvaged (even though rebellious people were destroyed)

Psa_90: Consumed by Wrath -- Psalm of Moses

Psa_90:7 WEB For we are consumed in your anger. We are troubled in your wrath.

Psa_90:7 LB For we have perished in Your anger, and in Your wrath we have been troubled.

Psa_90:7 (89:7) ὅτι ἐξελίπομεν ἐν τῇ ὀργῇ σου καὶ ἐν τῷ θυμῷ σου ἐταράχθημεν.

Psa_90:8 WEB You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.

Psa_90:8 You have set our transgressions before You; our age is in the light of Your countenance.

Psa_90:8 (89:8) ἔθου τὰς ἀνομίας ἡμῶν ἐνώπιόν σου· ὁ αἰὼν ἡμῶν εἰς φωτισμὸν τοῦ προσώπου σου.

Psa_90:9 WEB For all our days have passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh.

Psa_90:9 For all our days are gone, and we have passed away in Your wrath; our years have spun out their tale as a spider.

Psa_90:9 (89:9) ὅτι πᾶσαι αἱ ἡμέραι ἡμῶν ἐξέλιπον, καὶ ἐν τῇ ὀργῇ σου ἐξελίπομεν· τὰ ἔτη ἡμῶν ὡς ἀράχνην ἐμελέτων.

Psa_90:10 WEB The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.

Psa_90:10 As for the days of our years, in them are seventy years; and if men should be in strength, eighty years; and the greater part of them would be labor and trouble; for weakness overtakes us, and we shall be chastened.

Psa_90:10 (89:10) αἱ ἡμέραι τῶν ἐτῶν ἡμῶν, ἐν αὐτοῖς ἑβδομήκοντα ἔτη, ἐὰν δὲ ἐν δυναστείαις, ὀγδοήκοντα ἔτη, καὶ τὸ πλεῖον αὐτῶν κόπος καὶ πόνος· ὅτι ἐπῆλθεν πραύτης ἐφ᾿ ἡμᾶς, καὶ παιδευθησόμεθα.

Psa_90:11 WEB Who knows the power of your anger, your wrath according to the fear that is due to you?

Psa_90:11 Who knows the power of Your wrath?

Psa_90:11 (89:11) τίς γινώσκει τὸ κράτος τῆς ὀργῆς σου καὶ ἀπὸ τοῦ φόβου σου τὸν θυμόν σου;

Psa_90:12 WEB So teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

Psa_90:12 And who knows how to number his days because of the fear of Your wrath? So manifest Your right hand, and those that are instructed in wisdom in the heart.

Psa_90:12 (89:12) ἐξαριθμήσασθαι τὴν δεξιάν σου οὕτως γνώρισον καὶ τοὺς πεπεδημένους τῇ καρδίᾳ ἐν σοφίᾳ.

Psa_90:7-8 NKJV For we have been consumed by Your anger, And by Your wrath we are terrified. You have set our iniquities before You, Our secret sins in the light of Your countenance.

Isa_33: Fire Consumes Sinners

>>Scrip: HEB

Isa_33:14 WEB The sinners in Zion are afraid. Trembling has seized the godless ones. Who among us can live with the devouring fire? Who among us can live with everlasting burning?

Isa_33:14 LB The sinners in Zion have departed; trembling shall seize the ungodly. Who will tell you that a fire is kindled? Who will tell you of the eternal place?

Isa_33:14 ἀπέστησαν οἱ ἐν Σιων ἄνομοι, λήμψεται τρόμος τοὺς ἀσεβεῖς· τίς ἀναγγελεῖ ὑμῖν ὅτι πῦρ καίεται; τίς ἀναγγελεῖ ὑμῖν τὸν τόπον τὸν αἰώνιον;

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Isa_33:15 WEB He who walks righteously, and speaks blamelessly; He who despises the gain of oppressions, who gestures with his hands, refusing to take a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from looking at evil--

Isa_33:15 He that walks in righteousness, speaking rightly, hating transgression and iniquity, and shaking his hands from gifts, stopping his ears that he should not hear the judgment of blood, shutting his eyes that he should not see injustice.

Isa_33:15 πορευόμενος ἐν δικαιοσύνῃ, λαλῶν εὐθεῖαν ὁδόν, μισῶν ἀνομίαν καὶ ἀδικίαν καὶ τὰς χεῖρας ἀποσειόμενος ἀπὸ δώρων, βαρύνων τὰ ὦτα ἵνα μὴ ἀκούσῃ κρίσιν αἵματος, καμμύων τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς ἵνα μὴ ἴδῃ ἀδικίαν,

Isa_33:16 WEB he will dwell on high. His place of defense will be the fortress of rocks. His bread will be supplied. His waters will be sure.

Isa_33:16 He shall dwell in a high cave of a strong rock; bread shall be given to him, and his water shall be sure.

Isa_33:16 οὗτος οἰκήσει ἐν ὑψηλῷ σπηλαίῳ πέτρας ἰσχυρᾶς· ἄρτος αὐτῷ δοθήσεται, καὶ τὸ ὕδωρ αὐτοῦ πιστόν.

Isa_33:17 WEB Your eyes will see the king in his beauty. They will see a distant land.

Isa_33:17 The Land of the Majestic King You shall see a king with glory; your eyes shall behold a land from afar.

Isa_33:17 βασιλέα μετὰ δόξης ὄψεσθε, καὶ οἱ ὀφθαλμοὶ ὑμῶν ὄψονται γῆν πόρρωθεν.

Isa_33:14 NKJV The sinners in Zion are afraid; Fearfulness has seized the hypocrites: “Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? Who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?”

Heb_12: God = Consuming Fire

Heb_12:28 CAB Therefore, since we are receiving an unshakable kingdom, let us have grace, through which we serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear. [TSBαιδους TSBκαι ευλαβειας Aκαι Aδεους ]

Heb_12:28 Διὸ βασιλείαν ἀσάλευτον παραλαμβάνοντες ἔχωμεν χάριν, δι᾿ ἧς λατρεύωμεν εὐαρέστως τῷ Θεῷ μετὰ αἰδοῦς καὶ εὐλαβείας·

Heb_12:28 διο βασιλειαν ασαλευτον παραλαμβανοντες εχωμεν χαριν δι ης Bλατρευομεν TSAλατρευωμεν ευαρεστως τω θεω μετα TSBαιδους TSBκαι ευλαβειας Aκαι Aδεους

Heb_12:29 For our God is a consuming fire.

Heb_12:29 καὶ γὰρ ὁ Θεὸς ἡμῶν πῦρ καταναλίσκον.

√ GNT-V

Heb_12:28-29 NKJV …let us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear. For our God is a consuming fire.

After reviewing all of the wrath in the Old Testament Hebrews reaffirms that God is still a fearful consuming burning fire.

Nadab & Abihu: Burned for Strange Fire

ES: The Death of Nadab and Abihu

Lev_10:1 WEB Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer, and put fire in it, and laid incense on it, and offered strange fire before Yahweh, which he had not commanded them.

Lev_10:1 LB Nadab and Abihu Offer Profane Fire And the two sons of Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, took each his censer, and put fire in it, and threw incense on it, and offered strange fire before the Lord, which the Lord did not command them,

Lev_10:1 Καὶ λαβόντες οἱ δύο υἱοὶ Ααρων Ναδαβ καὶ Αβιουδ ἕκαστος τὸ πυρεῖον αὐτοῦ ἐπέθηκαν ἐπ᾿ αὐτὸ πῦρ καὶ ἐπέβαλον ἐπ᾿ αὐτὸ θυμίαμα καὶ προσήνεγκαν ἔναντι κυρίου πῦρ ἀλλότριον, ὃ οὐ προσέταξεν κύριος αὐτοῖς.

Lev_10:2 WEB And fire came forth from before Yahweh, and devoured them, and they died before Yahweh.

Lev_10:2 and fire came forth from the Lord, and devoured them, and they died before the Lord.

Lev_10:2 καὶ ἐξῆλθεν πῦρ παρὰ κυρίου καὶ κατέφαγεν αὐτούς, καὶ ἀπέθανον ἔναντι κυρίου.

Lev_10:3 WEB Then Moses said to Aaron, "This is what Yahweh spoke of, saying, 'I will show myself holy to those who come near me, and before all the people I will be glorified.' " Aaron held his peace.

Lev_10:3 And Moses said to Aaron, “This is the thing which the Lord spoke, saying, ‘I will be sanctified among them that draw near to Me, and I will be glorified in the whole congregation.’” And Aaron was pricked in his heart.

Lev_10:3 καὶ εἶπεν Μωυσῆς πρὸς Ααρων Τοῦτό ἐστιν, ὃ εἶπεν κύριος λέγων Ἐν τοῖς ἐγγίζουσίν μοι ἁγιασθήσομαι καὶ ἐν πάσῃ τῇ συναγωγῇ δοξασθήσομαι. καὶ κατενύχθη Ααρων.

Lev_10:1-3 NKJV Then Nadab and Abihu… offered profane fire before the LORD… So fire went out from the LORD and devoured them… By those who come near Me I must be regarded as holy.

Act_5: Ananias and Sapphira

Act_5:3 But Peter said, "Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart for you to lie to the Holy Spirit, and for you to keep back for yourself from the price of the land?

Act_5:3 εἶπε δὲ ὁ Πέτρος· ᾿Ανανία, διατί ἐπλήρωσεν ὁ Σατανᾶς τὴν καρδίαν σου, ψεύσασθαί σε τὸ Πνεῦμα τὸ ῞Αγιον καὶ νοσφίσασθαι ἀπὸ τῆς τιμῆς τοῦ χωρίου;

Act_5:3 ειπεν δε Aο πετρος ανανια BAδια BAτι TSδιατι επληρωσεν ο σατανας την καρδιαν σου ψευσασθαι σε το πνευμα το αγιον και νοσφισασθαι Bσε απο της τιμης του χωριου

Act_5:4 While it remained unsold, did it not remain yours? And after it was sold, was it not in your control? Why have you purposed this thing in your heart? You have not lied to men but to God."

Act_5:4 οὐχὶ μένον σοὶ ἔμενε καὶ πραθὲν ἐν τῇ σῇ ἐξουσίᾳ ὑπῆρχε; τί ὅτι ἔθου ἐν τῇ καρδίᾳ σου τὸ πρᾶγμα τοῦτο; οὐκ ἐψεύσω ἀνθρώποις, ἀλλὰ τῷ Θεῷ.

Act_5:4 ουχι μενον σοι εμενεν και πραθεν εν τη ση εξουσια υπηρχεν τι οτι εθου εν τη καρδια σου το πραγμα τουτο ουκ εψευσω ανθρωποις αλλα τω θεω

Act_5:5 Then Ananias, hearing these words, fell down and died. And great fear came upon all those hearing these things.

Act_5:5 ἀκούων δὲ ὁ ᾿Ανανίας τοὺς λόγους τούτους πεσὼν ἐξέψυξε, καὶ ἐγένετο φόβος μέγας ἐπὶ πάντας τοὺς ἀκούοντας ταῦτα.

Act_5:5 ακουων δε BAο ανανιας τους λογους τουτους πεσων εξεψυξεν και εγενετο φοβος μεγας επι παντας τους ακουοντας TSBταυτα

Act_5:9 Then Peter said to her, "Why is it that it was agreed by you to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? Behold, the feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they shall carry you out."

Act_5:9 ὁ δὲ Πέτρος εἶπε πρὸς αὐτήν· τί ὅτι συνεφωνήθη ὑμῖν πειράσαι τὸ Πνεῦμα Κυρίου; ἰδοὺ οἱ πόδες τῶν θαψάντων τὸν ἄνδρα σου ἐπὶ τῇ θύρᾳ καὶ ἐξοίσουσί σε.

Act_5:9 ο δε πετρος TSBειπεν προς αυτην τι οτι συνεφωνηθη υμιν πειρασαι το πνευμα κυριου ιδου οι ποδες των θαψαντων τον ανδρα σου επι τη θυρα και εξοισουσιν σε

Act_5:10 Then immediately she fell down beside his feet and died. And the young men came in and found her dead, and carrying her out, buried her with her husband.

Act_5:10 ἔπεσε δὲ παραχρῆμα παρὰ τοὺς πόδας αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐξέψυξεν· εἰσελθόντες δὲ οἱ νεανίσκοι εὗρον αὐτὴν νεκράν, καὶ ἐξενέγκαντες ἔθαψαν πρὸς τὸν ἄνδρα αὐτῆς,

Act_5:10 επεσεν δε παραχρημα Aπρος TSBπαρα τους ποδας αυτου και εξεψυξεν εισελθοντες δε οι νεανισκοι ευρον αυτην νεκραν και εξενεγκαντες εθαψαν προς τον ανδρα αυτης

Act_5:11 And great fear came to be on all the church and upon all those who were hearing these things.

Act_5:11 καὶ ἐγένετο φόβος μέγας ἐφ᾿ ὅλην τὴν ἐκκλησίαν καὶ ἐπὶ πάντας τοὺς ἀκούοντας ταῦτα.

√ GNT-V

1Co_11:

1Co_11:29 For he that eats and drinks irreverently eats and drinks judgment to himself, not judging correctly the body of the Lord.

1Co_11:29 ὁ γὰρ ἐσθίων καὶ πίνων ἀναξίως κρίμα ἑαυτῷ ἐσθίει καὶ πίνει, μὴ διακρίνων τὸ σῶμα τοῦ Κυρίου.

1Co_11:29 ο γαρ εσθιων και πινων TSBαναξιως κριμα εαυτω εσθιει και πινει μη διακρινων το σωμα TSBτου TSBκυριου

1Co_11:30 Because of this many among you are weak and sick, and many have died.

1Co_11:30 διὰ τοῦτο ἐν ὑμῖν πολλοὶ ἀσθενεῖς καὶ ἄρρωστοι καὶ κοιμῶνται ἱκανοί.

√ GNT-V

The Desolation of Separation <<<

2/5/26-2/6/26-2/8/26; 2/13/26-2/14/26

Dirty Rags of Separation!

Isa_59:2 – Your Sins have separated You!

Isa_64:6 – Filthy Rags; Hidden Face

all our righteousness-es are like filthy rags

PPX: sin separating the people from God and God hiding his face so that he will not hear

Your Sins have separated You!

>>Scrip: TTS

ES: Evil and Oppression

Isa_59:1 WEB Behold, Yahweh's hand is not shortened, that it can't save; neither his ear heavy, that it can't hear:

Isa_59:1 CAB Has the hand of the Lord no power to save? Or has He made His ear heavy, so that He should not hear?

Evil and Oppression

Isa_59:1 Μὴ οὐκ ἰσχύει ἡ χεὶρ κυρίου τοῦ σῶσαι; ἢ ἐβάρυνεν τὸ οὖς αὐτοῦ τοῦ μὴ εἰσακοῦσαι;

Isa_59:2 but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.

Isa_59:2 But rather, your iniquities separate between you and God, and because of your sins has He turned away His face from you, so as not to have mercy upon you.

Isa_59:2 ἀλλὰ τὰ ἁμαρτήματα ὑμῶν διιστῶσιν ἀνὰ μέσον ὑμῶν καὶ τοῦ θεοῦ, καὶ διὰ τὰς ἁμαρτίας ὑμῶν ἀπέστρεψεν τὸ πρόσωπον αὐτοῦ ἀφ᾿ ὑμῶν τοῦ μὴ ἐλεῆσαι.

Isa_59:3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue mutters wickedness.

Isa_59:3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with sins; your lips also have spoken iniquity, and your tongue meditates unrighteousness.

Isa_59:3 αἱ γὰρ χεῖρες ὑμῶν μεμολυμμέναι αἵματι καὶ οἱ δάκτυλοι ὑμῶν ἐν ἁμαρτίαις, τὰ δὲ χείλη ὑμῶν ἐλάλησεν ἀνομίαν, καὶ ἡ γλῶσσα ὑμῶν ἀδικίαν μελετᾷ.

Isa_59:4 None sues in righteousness, and none pleads in truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.

Isa_59:4 None speaks justly, neither is there true judgment; they trust in vanities, and speak empty words; for they conceive trouble, and bring forth iniquity.

Isa_59:4 οὐδεὶς λαλεῖ δίκαια, οὐδὲ ἔστιν κρίσις ἀληθινή· πεποίθασιν ἐπὶ ματαίοις καὶ λαλοῦσιν κενά, ὅτι κύουσιν πόνον καὶ τίκτουσιν ἀνομίαν.

Isa_59:2 NKJV But your iniquities have separated you from your God; And your sins have hidden His face from you, So that He will not hear.

Gen_3:8 NKJV And they heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.

Gen_3:23-24 NKJV therefore the LORD God sent him out of the garden of Eden to till the ground from which he was taken. So He drove out the man; and He placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.

Isa_1:15 NKJV When you spread out your hands, I will hide My eyes from you; Even though you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.

Lam_3:42-44 NKJV We have transgressed and rebelled; You have not pardoned. You have covered Yourself with a cloud, That prayer should not pass through.

Eze_14:3 NKJV Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their hearts and put before them that which causes them to stumble into iniquity. Should I let Myself be inquired of at all by them?

Mic_3:4 NKJV Then they will cry to the LORD, But He will not hear them; He will even hide His face from them at that time, Because they have been evil in their deeds.

Zec_7:11-13 NKJV But they refused to heed… Therefore it happened, that just as He proclaimed and they would not hear, so they called out and I would not listen, Says the LORD of hosts.

Joh_9:31 NKJV Now we know that God does not hear sinners; but if anyone is a worshiper of God and does His will, He hears him.

Rom_1:21 NKJV because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened.

Eph_2:12-13 NKJV that at that time you were without Christ… having no hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.

Col_1:21-22 NKJV And you, who once were alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled…

Isa_64:6 NKJV But we are all like an unclean thing, And all our righteousnesses are like filthy rags; We all fade as a leaf, And our iniquities, like the wind, Have taken us away.

>>> SRP Deprivity references:

Job_14:4 NKJV Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? No one!

Job_15:14 NKJV What is man, that he could be pure? And he who is born of a woman, that he could be righteous?

Psa_14:2-3 NKJV The LORD looks down from heaven upon the children of men, To see if there are any who understand, who seek God. They have all turned aside, They have together become corrupt; There is none who does good, No, not one.

Psa_51:5 NKJV Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, And in sin my mother conceived me.

Pro_20:9 NKJV Who can say, “I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin”?

Ecc_7:20 NKJV For there is not a just man on earth who does good And does not sin.

Isa_1:5-6 NKJV Why should you be stricken again? You will revolt more and more. The whole head is sick, And the whole heart faints. From the sole of the foot even to the head, There is no soundness in it, But wounds and bruises and putrefying sores; They have not been closed or bound up, Or soothed with ointment.

Isa_53:6 NKJV All we like sheep have gone astray; We have turned, every one, to his own way; And the LORD has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.

Jer_17:9 NKJV The heart is deceitful above all things, And desperately wicked; Who can know it?

Dan_9:5 NKJV We have sinned and committed iniquity, we have done wickedly and rebelled, even by departing from Your precepts and Your judgments.

Rom_3:10-12 NKJV As it is written: “There is none righteous, no, not one; There is none who understands; There is none who seeks after God. They have all turned aside; They have together become unprofitable; There is none who does good, no, not one.”

Rom_7:18 NKJV For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells; for to will is present with me, but how to perform what is good I do not find.

Php_3:8-9 NKJV Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord… not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith.

Tit_3:5 NKJV not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us…

Eze_10 – 11 – Glory Leaves Temple

God’s glory literally departing the temple and city

Eze_10:4 NKJV Then the glory of the LORD went up from the cherub, and paused over the threshold of the temple; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of the LORD’s glory.

Eze_10:18-19 NKJV Then the glory of the LORD departed from the threshold of the temple and stood over the cherubim… and they went out.

Eze_11:22-23 NKJV So the cherubim lifted up their wings, with the wheels beside them; and the glory of the God of Israel was high above them. And the glory of the LORD went up from the midst of the city and stood on the mountain which is on the east side of the city.

Ichabod: The Glory Has Departed

1Sa_4: – Ichabod: the ark captured

>>Scrip: ES

1Sa_4:21-22 NKJV Then she named the child Ichabod, saying, “The glory has departed from Israel!” because the ark of God had been captured…

>>Scrip: ES MT vs LXX \/\/

Hos_9:12 NKJV Though they bring up their children, Yet I will bereave them to the last one. Yes, woe to them when I depart from them!

No Answer -- God is Far Away

House Left Desolate

Mat_23:38 NKJV See! Your house is left to you desolate;

Throwaways!

Israel Thrown out of the Promised Land

1Ki_9:6-9/2Ch_7:19-22 – God will “cast” his house “out of [his] sight” and remove Israel from the land if they abandon him

Jeremiah: Thrown Out!

>>Scrip: ES

God will remove them from the land and from his house, describing their going “backward and not forward” until he uproots and banishes them

Jer_7:15 NKJV And I will cast you out of My sight, as I have cast out all your brethren—the whole posterity of Ephraim.

Jeremiah: No Mercy/Atonement

Jer_15:1 NKJV Then the LORD said to me, “Even if Moses and Samuel stood before Me, My mind would not be favorable toward this people. Cast them out of My sight, and let them go forth.

…

Jer_15:4 NKJV And I will hand them over to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth, Because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, For what he did in Jerusalem.

Jeremiah: Not Listening & Backslidden

Jer_7:24 NKJV Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but followed the counsels and the dictates of their evil hearts, and went backward and not forward.

Beloved Given to Enemies

Jer_12:7 NKJV I have forsaken My house, I have left My heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of My soul into the hand of her enemies.

Ripped out of Land

Jer_12:14 NKJV Thus says the LORD: “Against all My evil neighbors who touch the inheritance which I have caused My people Israel to inherit—behold, I will pluck them out of their land and pluck out the house of Judah from among them.

Exiled into Shame

Jer_24:9 NKJV And I will deliver them to trouble into all the kingdoms of the earth, for their harm, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places where I shall drive them.

Watched for Punishment

Jer_31:28 NKJV And it shall come to pass, that as I have watched over them to pluck up, to break down, to throw down, to destroy, and to afflict, so I will watch over them to build and to plant, says the LORD.

Hosea: Thrown out of House

>>Scrip: ES

Hosea 9 I will throw them out of my house

Hos_9:3 NKJV They shall not dwell in the LORD’s land, But Ephraim shall return to Egypt, And shall eat unclean things in Assyria.

Hos_9:9 NKJV They are deeply corrupted, As in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their iniquity; He will punish their sins.

Hos_9:15 NKJV All their wickedness is in Gilgal, For there I hated them. Because of the evil of their deeds I will drive them from My house; I will love them no more. All their princes are rebellious.

Branches Thrown Out & Withered

Joh_15:6 NKJV If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned.

Lukewarm Spit out

Rev_3:16 NKJV So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth.

God Hides [His] Face (Reminder)

>>Scrip: ES \/\/\/

Deuteronomy: Forsaken & Face Hidden

Deu_31:17-18; Deu_32:20 – God will “forsake” them and “hide [his] face” from them

Deu_31:17 NKJV Then My anger shall be aroused against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide My face from them…

Psalms: Face Hiding!

Psa_30:7 – God “hiding his face” or feeling far away

Micah: Face Hidden

“they will cry to the LORD, but he will not hear them; he will even hide his face from them at that time.”

Mic_3:4 NKJV Then they will cry to the LORD, But He will not hear them; He will even hide His face from them at that time, Because they have been evil in their deeds.

Unanswered Prayers

Cries Ignored!

Zec_7:13 NKJV Therefore it happened, that just as He proclaimed and they would not hear, so they called out and I would not listen, Says the LORD of hosts.

Face Covered: Impassable Prayers

Lam_3:44 NKJV You have covered Yourself with a cloud, That prayer should not pass through.

Not Noticing God's Departure <<<<

1/10/26; 1/18/26; 1/24/26; 2/1/26…2/13/26

Comp. SRP > Hating God | GWY (God With You?) > Not Noticing God's Departure

Him or Using His Reputation?

· Are you Concerned with losing the Bible/GOD, or with missing out on using, & being associated with His reputation?

Sometimes (as some say):

Indifference is worse than hatred

Goal: Get Rescued from Blindness

2/1/26; 2/19/26

Get rescued from numbness blindness insensitivity non-discretion

How can you notice that you have not noticed God's departure?

>>Scrip:

1Sa_4 – Ichabod

As seen under: The Desolation of Separation

Not Noticing…

2/4/26

· Holiness is missing

· Hard core obedience is gone

· Lazy complacency is unchecked/un-convicted

· Fleshliness is not changed away & executed

Do special self-denial and see if God comes closer to you

Love the right people and see if you get cleaner so God will listen to you

These are the elements of God’s distance

This is what it practically means to not care if God goes away…

when leaving Hosea, Gomer did NOT notice that the best goodness she had ever had was being shamed and profaned

Elisha NOTICED when Elijah was gone and correctly said ‘the chariots of Israel were gone’

2Co_2:14, etc. -- Good smell of Anointed One

Warning of Dullness

· Blind Indifference: Not Noticing Divine Separation & Distance = big Apostasy problem!

· Pride Doesn’t Notice or Care: Flattery makes you not notice (A) sinning in your life & (B) the absence that results

· Indifferent Ignorance: Careless & Lazy when God or even Obeyers depart from you -- that’s condemned fleshly independence which goes straight to hell (Rev_3:16, etc.)

Your own individual & corporate Apostasy is so perverted it resents Truth and might even rejoice when the Truly Good departs.

Hebrews Warnings

Pay close attention to these warnings echoed all throughout Hebrews!

(as continuously seen below, and also when we get to go into SRP > Apostasy)

Not Bothered by Loss

Sometimes people lose something but it doesn't bother them and they simply say...

"Oh, I wasn't using that anyway*

Synonyms for Not Being Bothered by Loss

· Indifferent to loss

· Loss without pain

· Casual detachment

· Unbothered by removal

· Apathy toward absence

· Shrugging it off

· Emotional distance

· “Good riddance” reaction

· No-skin-in-the-game attitude

· Couldn’t‑care‑less stance

· No perceived deprivation

· Functional indifference

· Zero‑emotional-impact loss

· Non‑ownership feeling

· Utility‑based indifference

· “Wasn’t using it anyway” logic

Should you have this attitude toward wealth, or God?

Non-Inspiration

This is what happens to church people who have no felt need for God's inspiration bound upon their heart, conscience, and soul…

Not Noticing

When God leaves, if he was ever there in the first place, church people never notice...

Claiming God’s Presence -- While Sinning

How can you say, ‘The Lord is among us?’

GPT: Jeremiah — God exposing false confidence in His presence while people are living in rebellion

Jer_7:3 WEB Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.

Jer_7:3 LB Thus says the Lord God of Israel: “Correct your ways and your devices, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.

Jer_7:3 τάδε λέγει κύριος ὁ θεὸς Ισραηλ Διορθώσατε τὰς ὁδοὺς ὑμῶν καὶ τὰ ἐπιτηδεύματα ὑμῶν, καὶ κατοικιῶ ὑμᾶς ἐν τῷ τόπῳ τούτῳ.

Jer_7:4 WEB Don't you trust in lying words, saying, The temple of Yahweh, the temple of Yahweh, the temple of Yahweh, are these.

Jer_7:4 Trust not in yourselves with lying words, for they shall not profit you at all, saying, ‘It is the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord.’

Jer_7:4 μὴ πεποίθατε ἐφ᾿ ἑαυτοῖς ἐπὶ λόγοις ψευδέσιν, ὅτι τὸ παράπαν οὐκ ὠφελήσουσιν ὑμᾶς λέγοντες Ναὸς κυρίου ναὸς κυρίου ἐστίν.

Jer_7:5 WEB For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if you thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor;

Jer_7:5 For if you thoroughly correct your ways and your practices, and do indeed execute judgment between a man and his neighbor;

Jer_7:5 ὅτι ἐὰν διορθοῦντες διορθώσητε τὰς ὁδοὺς ὑμῶν καὶ τὰ ἐπιτηδεύματα ὑμῶν καὶ ποιοῦντες ποιήσητε κρίσιν ἀνὰ μέσον ἀνδρὸς καὶ ἀνὰ μέσον τοῦ πλησίον αὐτοῦ

Jer_7:4 NKJV Do not trust in these lying words, saying, “The temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD are these.”

Horizontal justice required for God’s covenant presence to count for anything!

BTW: Doctrine of US is included in horizontal justice!

Jer_7:8 WEB Behold, you trust in lying words, that can't profit.

Jer_7:8 LB But seeing you have trusted in lying words, whereby you shall not be profited;

Jer_7:8 εἰ δὲ ὑμεῖς πεποίθατε ἐπὶ λόγοις ψευδέσιν, ὅθεν οὐκ ὠφεληθήσεσθε,

Jer_7:9 WEB Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods that you have not known,

Jer_7:9 and you murder, and commit adultery, and steal, and swear falsely, and burn incense to Baal, and have gone after strange gods whom you do not know,

Jer_7:9 καὶ φονεύετε καὶ μοιχᾶσθε καὶ κλέπτετε καὶ ὀμνύετε ἐπ᾿ ἀδίκῳ καὶ ἐθυμιᾶτε τῇ Βααλ καὶ ἐπορεύεσθε ὀπίσω θεῶν ἀλλοτρίων, ὧν οὐκ οἴδατε, τοῦ κακῶς εἶναι ὑμῖν

Jer_7:10 WEB and come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered; that you may do all these abominations?

Jer_7:10 so that it is evil with you; yet have you come, and stood before Me in the house which is called by My name, and you have said, ‘We have refrained from doing all these abominations.’

Jer_7:10 καὶ ἤλθετε καὶ ἔστητε ἐνώπιον ἐμοῦ ἐν τῷ οἴκῳ, οὗ ἐπικέκληται τὸ ὄνομά μου ἐπ᾿ αὐτῷ, καὶ εἴπατε Ἀπεσχήμεθα τοῦ μὴ ποιεῖν πάντα τὰ βδελύγματα ταῦτα,

Jer_7:11 WEB Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I, even I, have seen it, says Yahweh.

Jer_7:11 Is My house, which is called by My name, a den of robbers in your eyes? And behold, I have seen it,” says the Lord.

Jer_7:11 μὴ σπήλαιον λῃστῶν ὁ οἶκός μου, οὗ ἐπικέκληται τὸ ὄνομά μου ἐπ᾿ αὐτῷ ἐκεῖ, ἐνώπιον ὑμῶν; καὶ ἐγὼ ἰδοὺ ἑώρακα, λέγει κύριος.

Jer_7:8 NKJV Behold, you trust in lying words that cannot profit.

Jer_7:9 NKJV Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods whom you do not know,

Jer_7:10 NKJV and then come and stand before Me in this house which is called by My name, and say, “We are delivered to do all these abominations”?

Liking Lies = Not Noticing When God is Gone! (Jer_7:4, Jer_7:8)

Temple-Flattery (Jer_7:4, Jer_7:10) does not remove the guilt if you live in sin, do horizontal injustice (Jer_7:5) and “steal, murder, and commit adultery”, and keep doing idolatry (Jer_7:9).

Wise with Mistranslations

Jer_8:8 WEB How do you say, We are wise, and the law of Yahweh is with us? But, behold, the false pen of the scribes has worked falsely.

Jer_8:8 “How will you say, ‘We are wise,’ and, ‘the law of the Lord is with us?’ In vain have the scribes used a false pen.

Jer_8:8 πῶς ἐρεῖτε ὅτι Σοφοί ἐσμεν ἡμεῖς, καὶ νόμος κυρίου ἐστὶν μεθ᾿ ἡμῶν; εἰς μάτην ἐγενήθη σχοῖνος ψευδὴς γραμματεῦσιν.

Jer_8:8 NKJV How can you say, “We are wise, And the law of the LORD is with us”? Look, the false pen of the scribe certainly works falsehood.

Note: they were supposed to be wise as the light of the world -- by KEEPING the LAW!!!

See: ISR

>>>>>>

2Ti_4:3-4 – Itching ears get mistranslations & goofy preachers

Useless pastors:

Religions-and-Denominations.htm#Pastors

Mic_3:10 WEB They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.

Mic_3:10 LB who build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.

Mic_3:10 οἱ οἰκοδομοῦντες Σιων ἐν αἵμασιν καὶ Ιερουσαλημ ἐν ἀδικίαις·

Mic_3:11 WEB Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money: yet they lean on Yahweh, and say, "Isn't Yahweh in the midst of us? No disaster will come on us."

Mic_3:11 Their heads have judged for gifts, and their priests have answered for hire, and her prophets have divined for silver; and yet they have rested on the Lord, saying, “Is not the Lord among us? No evil shall come upon us.” [Mic_3:12 LXX] Therefore on your account Zion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall be as a storehouse of fruits, and the mountain of the house as a grove of the forest.

Mic_3:11 οἱ ἡγούμενοι αὐτῆς μετὰ δώρων ἔκρινον, καὶ οἱ ἱερεῖς αὐτῆς μετὰ μισθοῦ ἀπεκρίνοντο, καὶ οἱ προφῆται αὐτῆς μετὰ ἀργυρίου ἐμαντεύοντο, καὶ ἐπὶ τὸν κύριον ἐπανεπαύοντο λέγοντες Οὐχὶ κύριος ἐν ἡμῖν ἐστιν; οὐ μὴ ἐπέλθῃ ἐφ᾿ ἡμᾶς κακά.

Mic_3:12 WEB Therefore Zion for your sake will be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem will become heaps of rubble, and the mountain of the temple like the high places of a forest.

Mic_3:12 διὰ τοῦτο δι᾿ ὑμᾶς Σιων ὡς ἀγρὸς ἀροτριαθήσεται, καὶ Ιερουσαλημ ὡς ὀπωροφυλάκιον ἔσται καὶ τὸ ὄρος τοῦ οἴκου ὡς ἄλσος δρυμοῦ.

Mic_3:11 NKJV Her heads judge for a bribe, Her priests teach for pay, And her prophets divine for money. Yet they lean on the LORD, and say, “Is not the LORD among us? No harm can come upon us.”

Church People keep saying “God is with us” -- “Is not the Lord among us?” (Mic_3:11) while living in sins against Him (Mic_3:10).

They say, “god wouldn’t let us get deceived!” -- i.e. “No evil shall come upon us” (Mic_3:11).

To obey this verse, without blaspheming God as a ‘respecter of persons’ (Act_10:34; Rom_2), we’d have to say:

Therefore for your sake the church will be plowed like a field -- and totally flattened and destroyed

And this total destruction of the modern church is precisely what Revelation teaches in Rev_18 & Isa_13:1 to 14:27 (against the religious Babylon-prostitute when she is made violently judged and made desolate under God’s judgement).

The Point: The 1^st step toward God leaving you is pretending like He is still there when you keep sinning!

This is why the bitter reality is so painfully True…

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God's presence will go away

when sin is here to stay.

1/24/26-1/26/26

But, church people don't notice because...

They don't feel a need for God's presence because they are already so full and satisfied by the presence of gods.

How do we know?

Because they can so freely keep sinning!

(Their personal-independent relationship, has done them no good to save them from living in ongoing continual sinning, but only satisfied them without feeling the needs for Truth.)

Go learn this...

If you're not preparing for “the two lamp stands” in the End Times (Rev 11), it's because your laziness proves that your lampstand was already removed a long time ago (Rev_2:5).

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Different Jesus

2/1/26; 2/7/26

2Co_11

See: GOM

Good-Message-of-Sinless-Obedience.htm#AnotherGospel

>> GOM > etc ???

>>>>Or recompile/ed?????

Jer_23:28 – What is the wheat to the chaff?

See: LOB

Jer_23:28 WEB The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream; and he who has my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the straw to the wheat? says Yahweh.

Jer_23:28 LB The prophet who has a dream, let him tell his dream; and he in whom is My word spoken to him, let him tell My word truly. What is the chaff to the wheat? So are My words,” says the Lord.

Jer_23:28 ὁ προφήτης, ἐν ᾧ τὸ ἐνύπνιόν ἐστιν, διηγησάσθω τὸ ἐνύπνιον αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐν ᾧ ὁ λόγος μου πρὸς αὐτόν, διηγησάσθω τὸν λόγον μου ἐπ᾿ ἀληθείας. τί τὸ ἄχυρον πρὸς τὸν σῖτον; οὕτως οἱ λόγοι μου, λέγει κύριος·

Jer_23:28 NKJV The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream; And he who has My word, let him speak My word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? says the LORD.

Jer_23:29 WEB Isn't my word like fire? says Yahweh; and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?

Jer_23:29 “Behold, are not My words as fire?” says the Lord; “and as an axe cutting the rock?

Jer_23:29 οὐχὶ οἱ λόγοι μου ὥσπερ πῦρ φλέγον, λέγει κύριος, καὶ ὡς πέλυξ κόπτων πέτραν;

Jer_23:30 WEB Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, says Yahweh, who steal my words everyone from his neighbor.

Jer_23:30 “Behold, I am therefore against the prophets,” says the Lord God, “that steal My words everyone from his neighbor.

Jer_23:30 διὰ τοῦτο ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ πρὸς τοὺς προφήτας, λέγει κύριος ὁ θεός, τοὺς κλέπτοντας τοὺς λόγους μου ἕκαστος παρὰ τοῦ πλησίον αὐτοῦ.

Mat_3:12 NKJV His winnowing fan is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clean out His threshing floor, and gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.

Psa_1:4 NKJV The ungodly are not so, But are like the chaff which the wind drives away.

Hos_13:3 NKJV Therefore they shall be like the morning cloud And like the early dew that passes away, Like chaff blown off from a threshing floor And like smoke from a chimney.

Isa_41:15–16 NKJV You shall thresh the mountains and beat them small, And make the hills like chaff. You shall winnow them, the wind shall carry them away, And the whirlwind shall scatter them.

Heb_3: Always Wrong

Heb_3: Always Erring in their heart

>> SRP > Desolation!!!

Stop Switching!

STOP flattering yourself by calling evil good!

>>Scrip: ES

Isa_5:20 – Switching bitter for sweet

Isa_5:20 NKJV Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; Who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

NT parallels of moral inversion

Rom_1:25 NKJV who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

Rom_1:32 NKJV who, knowing the righteous judgment of God, that those who practice such things are deserving of death, not only do the same but also approve of those who

This is moral inversion! (seen herein)

See: SRP > Moral Inversion

Sin-Repentance-Perfection.htm#MoralInversion

So…

STOP Equality!

Stop flattening Truth!

It is NOT Justice!

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>>Scrip:

2Co_6:

Exo_33:

Psa_95:

Not Knowing God’s ways

ES: A Rest for the People of God

Heb_3:7 CAB Therefore, just as the Holy Spirit says: [Psa_95:8] "Today, if you will hear His voice,

Heb_3:7 Διό, καθὼς λέγει τὸ Πνεῦμα τὸ ῞Αγιον· σήμερον ἐὰν τῆς φωνῆς αὐτοῦ ἀκούσητε,

Heb_3:8 Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of trial in the wilderness, [Heb_3:7-8, Heb_3:15; Heb_4:7]

Heb_3:8 μὴ σκληρύνητε τὰς καρδίας ὑμῶν ὡς ἐν τῷ παραπικρασμῷ, κατὰ τὴν ἡμέραν τοῦ πειρασμοῦ ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ,

Heb_3:9 Where your fathers tested Me, they tried Me, and saw My works forty years.

Heb_3:9 οὗ ἐπείρασάν με οἱ πατέρες ὑμῶν, ἐδοκίμασάν με, καὶ εἶδον τὰ ἔργα μου

Heb_3:9 ου επειρασαν TSBμε οι πατερες υμων Aεν TSBεδοκιμασαν Aδοκιμασια TSBμε και ειδον τα εργα μου Aτεσσερακοντα TSBτεσσαρακοντα ετη

Heb_3:10 Therefore I was indignant with that generation, and said, 'They [ever-always-cotinually] go astray in their heart [ἀεὶ πλανῶνται τῇ καρδίᾳ]; and they did not know My ways.'

Heb_3:10 τεσσεράκοντα ἔτη· διὸ προσώχθισα τῇ γενεᾷ ἐκείνῃ καὶ εἶπον· ἀεὶ πλανῶνται τῇ καρδίᾳ, αὐτοὶ δὲ οὐκ ἔγνωσαν τὰς ὁδούς μου·

Heb_3:10 διο προσωχθισα τη γενεα Aταυτη TSBεκεινη και ειπον αει πλανωνται τη καρδια αυτοι δε ουκ εγνωσαν τας οδους μου

Heb_3:11 So I swore in My wrath, 'They shall not enter My rest.' "

Heb_3:11 ὡς ὤμοσα ἐν τῇ ὀργῇ μου, εἰ εἰσελεύσονται εἰς τὴν κατάπαυσίν μου.

Heb_3:12 Take heed, brothers, lest there be in anyone of you a wicked heart of unbelief in departing from the living God;

Heb_3:12 Βλέπετε, ἀδελφοί, μή ποτε ἔσται ἔν τινι ὑμῶν καρδία πονηρὰ ἀπιστίας ἐν τῷ ἀποστῆναι ἀπὸ Θεοῦ ζῶντος,

Heb_3:13 but encourage yourselves every day, while it is called "Today," lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

Heb_3:13 ἀλλὰ παρακαλεῖτε ἑαυτοὺς καθ᾿ ἑκάστην ἡμέραν ἄχρις οὗ τὸ σήμερον καλεῖται, ἵνα μὴ σκληρυνθῇ τις ἐξ ὑμῶν ἀπάτῃ τῆς ἁμαρτίας·

Heb_3:13 αλλα παρακαλειτε εαυτους καθ εκαστην ημεραν αχρις ου το σημερον καλειται ινα μη σκληρυνθη TSAτις εξ υμων Bτις απατη της αμαρτιας

“Straying”

“go astray” = Lit. straying or “being tricked”/deceived/going the wrong way.

Deceitfulness: it is NOT obvious when leaving God!

Erroring = Hardened Blindness

As seen with…

Veiled into Blind Error

· 2Co_3: veiled OT reading

· 2Co_4: veiled NT reading/hearing

Always “Straying”

ever straying

Similar to: never stopping sin

>>Scrip: ES

2Pe_2:14 – They cannot cease from sin

2Pe_2:14 NKJV having eyes full of adultery and that cannot cease from sin, enticing unstable souls. They have a heart trained in covetous practices, and are accursed children.

Supporting & parallel warnings

Rom_6:1 NKJV What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound?

Rom_6:2 NKJV Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it?

Joh_8:34 NKJV Most assuredly, I say to you, whoever commits sin is a slave of sin.

Tit_3:3 NKJV For we ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another.

Eph_2:1 NKJV And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins,

Eph_2:2 NKJV in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience,

1Jn_3:8 NKJV He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil.

Heb_10:26 NKJV For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,

Departure

Not noticing God’s departure is a sign of “Always Being Wrong”

Going away from God, leads to God going away from you -- WITHOUT YOU NOTICING IT!

Deu_31 – 32 -- had predicted this departure/apostasy (as seen below)

Is God Irritated/Burdened with you?

1/30/26; 2/1/26

>>Scrip: ES

Eze_36:31 – be burdened with yourself

Not Knowing God

Always Straying = Not Knowing = Angering God = Wrath/Destruction

When Church sings about this “Always straying”, & subconsciously admits they are going to hell

Other date(s); 2/1/26

Repeatedly getting morality wrong and always erring is not knowing God & the judgement of His wrath!

2/1/26

>>Scrip: ES

2Th_1:8 – Wrath on those who do not know God

2Th_1:8 NKJV in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who do not know God, and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.

God’s wrath = Ignorance, Rejection, And Disobedience

Joh_3:36 NKJV He who believes in the Son has everlasting life; and he who does not believe the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him.

Rom_1:18 NKJV For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,

Rom_2:5 NKJV But in accordance with your hardness and your impenitent heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God,

Rom_2:8 NKJV but to those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness—indignation and wrath,

Eph_5:6 NKJV Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

Col_3:6 NKJV Because of these things the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience.

1Th_5:9 NKJV For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

Heb_10:27 NKJV but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries.

Jud_1:15 NKJV to execute judgment on all, to convict all who are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have committed in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.

Our Examples

These are our examples -- they fell in the wilderness (Book of Numbers) (Heb_3: 1Co_10:)

Hebrews = “To Be Continued…”

· We need to come back to Hebrews…

God Left Samson!

5/26/17; 5/28/17; 6/4/17; 7/2/17; 1/30/26…2/1/26

>> Sync: LOV | DWY | DHG

Jdg_16:20 WEB She [Delilah] said, The Philistines are on you, Samson. He awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times, and shake myself free [ואנער]. But he didn't know that Yahweh had departed from him. [“מעליו׃ סר”].

Jdg_16:20 And Delilah said, “The Philistines are upon you, Sampson.” And he awoke out of his sleep and said, “I will go out as at former times, and shake myself”; and he did not know that the Lord had departed from him.

>>>>>>>>

Jdg_16:20 LB And Delilah said, “The Philistines are upon you, Sampson.” And he awoke out of his sleep and said, “I will go out [JdgA: and do (ποιήσω)] ·as at former times [JdgA (ABP): καθώς as αεί continually before; JdgB: ὡς ἅπαξ καὶ ἅπαξ], and ·shake myself [JdgA (ABP): αποτινάξομαι G660 I shall brush myself off – NETS: shake myself free; JdgB: ἐκτιναχθήσομαι – NETS: Will be shaken free]”; and he did not know [ἔγνω] that the Lord had departed from him [JdgA (ABP): απέστη G868 left απ' G575 from αυτού G1473 him; JdgB: ἀπέστη ὁ κύριος ἀπάνωθεν αὐτοῦ -- απέστη = Lex: ἀφίστημι = ἀπό + ἵστημι (“to stand” -- Strong’s)].

Jdg_16:20 καὶ εἶπεν Δαλιδα Ἀλλόφυλοι ἐπὶ σέ, Σαμψων. καὶ ἐξυπνίσθη ἐκ τοῦ ὕπνου αὐτοῦ καὶ εἶπεν Ἐξελεύσομαι ὡς ἅπαξ καὶ ἅπαξ καὶ ἐκτιναχθήσομαι· καὶ αὐτὸς οὐκ ἔγνω ὅτι ἀπέστη ὁ κύριος ἀπάνωθεν αὐτοῦ.

Jdg_16:21 WEB The Philistines laid hold on him, and put out his eyes; and they brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he ground at the mill in the prison.

Jdg_16:21 And the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he became a grinder in the prison house.

Jdg_16:21 καὶ ἐκράτησαν αὐτὸν οἱ ἀλλόφυλοι καὶ ἐξέκοψαν τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς αὐτοῦ· καὶ κατήνεγκαν αὐτὸν εἰς Γάζαν καὶ ἐπέδησαν αὐτὸν ἐν πέδαις χαλκείαις, καὶ ἦν ἀλήθων ἐν οἴκῳ τοῦ δεσμωτηρίου.

Jdg_16:21 WEB The Philistines laid hold on him, and put out his eyes; and they brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he ground at the mill in the prison.

Jdg_16:21 And the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he became a grinder in the prison house.

Jdg_16:21 καὶ ἐκράτησαν αὐτὸν οἱ ἀλλόφυλοι καὶ ἐξέκοψαν τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς αὐτοῦ· καὶ κατήνεγκαν αὐτὸν εἰς Γάζαν καὶ ἐπέδησαν αὐτὸν ἐν πέδαις χαλκείαις, καὶ ἦν ἀλήθων ἐν οἴκῳ τοῦ δεσμωτηρίου.

An Unbearable Sting We Can’t Afford

· There is a certain unbearable sting to the departure of God from Samson.

· It is a weight we can never afford to bear.

· We have no guarantee that we will ever come back to the glory of the Truth like Samson did.

· Samson’s spiritual eyes were not perceiving, and his physical eyes were also put out as well.

· We got to grab hold of Truth to make sure we feel and care and respond faithfully to the absence and withdrawal of God if He ever even slightly steps back!

See: Pulpit on Jdg_16:20

TSK: I will go: Jdg_16:3, Jdg_16:9, Jdg_16:14, Deu_32:30, Isa_42:24, Hos_7:9

Hos_7:9 WEB Strangers have devoured his strength, and he doesn't realize it. Indeed, gray hairs are here and there on him, and he doesn't realize it.

Hos_7:9 LB Strangers devoured his strength, but he did not know it; yes, gray hairs came upon him, yet he did not know it.

Hos_7:9 κατέφαγον ἀλλότριοι τὴν ἰσχὺν αὐτοῦ, αὐτὸς δὲ οὐκ ἐπέγνω· καὶ πολιαὶ ἐξήνθησαν αὐτῷ, καὶ αὐτὸς οὐκ ἔγνω.

Disconnected from Jesus

Of course, Jesus most profoundly mentioned this reality in John 15:

Joh_15:4 Abide in Me, and I in you. Just [καθὼς] as the branch cannot [οὐ δύναται] bear [φέρειν] fruit on its own [ἀφ᾿ ἑαυτοῦ – from itself], unless [ἐὰν μὴ] it abides in the vine, so [οὕτως] neither [οὐδὲ – ABP: not even] ·can [not in Greek] you unless [ἐὰν μὴ] you abide in Me.

Joh_15:4 μείνατε ἐν ἐμοί, κἀγὼ ἐν ὑμῖν. καθὼς τὸ κλῆμα οὐ δύναται καρπὸν φέρειν ἀφ᾿ ἑαυτοῦ, ἐὰν μὴ ^TSBμεινη |^Aμένῃ| ἐν τῇ ἀμπέλῳ, οὕτως οὐδὲ ὑμεῖς, ἐὰν μὴ ἐν ἐμοὶ ^TSBμείνητε. |^Aμενητε|

Joh_15:5 I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears [φέρει] much [πολύν] fruit; because [ὅτι] apart [χωρὶς – separated/spaced] from Me ·you can do [δύνασθε ποιεῖν – SOM word for bearing/doing fruit] nothing [οὐδέν].

Joh_15:5 ἐγώ εἰμι ἡ ἄμπελος, ὑμεῖς τὰ κλήματα. ὁ μένων ἐν ἐμοὶ κἀγὼ ἐν αὐτῷ, οὗτος φέρει καρπὸν πολύν, ὅτι χωρὶς ἐμοῦ οὐ δύνασθε ποιεῖν οὐδέν.

Joh_15:6 If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out [ἐβλήθη ἔξω] like [ὡς] a [τὸ – the] branch and dries up; and they gather [συνάγουσιν] them and throw them ·into ^BAthe fire, and they are burned [εἰς ^BAτὸ πῦρ βάλλουσι, καὶ καίεται].

Joh_15:6 ἐὰν μή τις ^TSBμείνῃ |^Aμενη| ἐν ἐμοί, ἐβλήθη ἔξω ὡς τὸ κλῆμα καὶ ἐξηράνθη, καὶ συνάγουσιν αὐτὰ καὶ εἰς ^BAτὸ πῦρ βάλλουσι, καὶ καίεται.

Joh_15:7 If you abide in Me, and [that of] My words [τὰ ῥήματά μου] abide in you, you will ask [^TSBαιτησεσθε |^Aαἰτήσασθε|] ·what ever [ὃ ἐὰν] you may desire [θέλητε], and ·it shall be done [γενήσεται] for you.

Joh_15:7 ἐὰν μείνητε ἐν ἐμοὶ καὶ τὰ ῥήματά μου ἐν ὑμῖν μείνῃ, ὃ ἐὰν θέλητε ^TSBαιτησεσθε |^Aαἰτήσασθε|, καὶ γενήσεται ὑμῖν.

See the Cringe!

· From these passages, we can certainly feel the unbearable sting of God’s departure, and we ought to all the more cringe lest at any time we come in danger of rejection.

· Let those trials of separation which are already assigned to us suffice us.

· We have no need of trials of shameful departures because we were not True to the holy and righteous zeal in heaven.

After We Take Warning, Let’s Also Take Courage

· Samson faithfully took to heart the severe separation trials and reached out toward the Truth in the mist of his shameful and cold loneliness.

· Samson responded courageously in faithful love to his painful punishment, and gave up his life in faithful power to cling to Monotheism in desperate Love.

· Despite his rough and even perilous beginnings, Samson ended well in the hall of Faith.

· Samson responded well to is trials of separation.

>> partial review :

The Israelites, God, & the Promised Land

Samson -- Compared & Contrasted With Apostasy

Jdg_16:22-31 – Samson LEARNED & was Saved

Heb_11:32 – Samson Ended in the Hall of Faith!

Remember that with Samson, God is saving you when you LEARN how bad you have been and repent…!

Do you want to be saved from apostasy?

Woe/Alase…!

Most church apostasy never notices when God leaves them…

Indifference = The worst Treachery of Apostasy…

Indifference = Not noticing or needing inspiration and Divine cleanness to obey all Truth

Not Learning = Mat_7:21-23 – I Never Knew You (vs. “Lord, Lord…”)

Samson LEARNED -- Unlike Church People

Not Learning Proves church people are nowhere near Samson -- who was punished as a received son (Heb_6, Heb_12:8 vs. Heb_12:3-11, etc.) and LEARNED a Divine lesson to not sin against God.

Not Caring – Results from Not Noticing

Not Noticing → Not Caring

Not Caring Leads to Not Noticing When God Leaves

Warning: Not noticing inevitably degrades into not even caring, even if you notice…

As seen below in Eze_8:8-13 (Secret Idolatry); Eze_9:4-11 (Mourners Marked); Jer_14:9 (Don’t Leave!); Isa_64:6-9 (Hidden Your Face); etc.

Eze_8: Secret Idolatry

Eze_8:8 WEB Then said he to me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and when I had dug in the wall, behold, a door.

Eze_8:8 And He said to me, “Son of man, dig.” So I dug, and behold, there was a door.

Eze_8:8 καὶ εἶπεν πρός με Υἱὲ ἀνθρώπου, ὄρυξον· καὶ ὤρυξα, καὶ ἰδοὺ θύρα μία.

Eze_8:9 WEB He said to me, Go in, and see the wicked abominations that they do here.

Eze_8:9 And He said to me, “Go in, and behold the iniquities which they practice here.”

Eze_8:9 καὶ εἶπεν πρός με Εἴσελθε καὶ ἰδὰ τὰς ἀνομίας, ἃς οὗτοι ποιοῦσιν ὧδε·

Eze_8:10 WEB So I went in and saw; and see, every form of creeping things, and abominable animals, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed around on the wall.

Eze_8:10 So I went in and looked, and I beheld vain abominations, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed upon them round about.

Eze_8:10 καὶ εἰσῆλθον καὶ εἶδον καὶ ἰδοὺ μάταια βδελύγματα καὶ πάντα τὰ εἴδωλα οἴκου Ισραηλ διαγεγραμμένα ἐπ᾿ αὐτοῦ κύκλῳ,

Eze_8:11 WEB There stood before them seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel; and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, every man with his censer in his hand; and the odor of the cloud of incense went up.

Eze_8:11 And seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel, and Jechoniah the son of Shaphan stood in their presence in the midst of them, and each one held his censer in his hand; and the smoke of the incense went up.

Eze_8:11 καὶ ἑβδομήκοντα ἄνδρες ἐκ τῶν πρεσβυτέρων οἴκου Ισραηλ, καὶ Ιεζονιας ὁ τοῦ Σαφαν ἐν μέσῳ αὐτῶν εἱστήκει πρὸ προσώπου αὐτῶν, καὶ ἕκαστος θυμιατήριον αὐτοῦ εἶχεν ἐν τῇ χειρί, καὶ ἡ ἀτμὶς τοῦ θυμιάματος ἀνέβαινεν.

Eze_8:12 WEB Then said he to me, Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in his chambers of imagery? for they say, Yahweh doesn't see us; Yahweh has forsaken the land.

Eze_8:12 And He said to me, “You have seen, son of man, what the elders of the house of Israel do, each one of them in their secret chamber; because they have said, ‘The Lord does not see; the Lord has forsaken the earth.’”

Eze_8:12 καὶ εἶπεν πρός με Υἱὲ ἀνθρώπου, ἑώρακας ἃ οἱ πρεσβύτεροι τοῦ οἴκου Ισραηλ ποιοῦσιν, ἕκαστος αὐτῶν ἐν τῷ κοιτῶνι τῷ κρυπτῷ αὐτῶν; διότι εἶπαν Οὐχ ὁρᾷ ὁ κύριος, ἐγκαταλέλοιπεν κύριος τὴν γῆν.

Eze_8:13 WEB He said also to me, You shall again see yet other great abominations which they do.

Eze_8:13 And He said to me, “You shall see even greater iniquities than these.”

Eze_8:13 καὶ εἶπεν πρός με Ἔτι ὄψει ἀνομίας μείζονας, ἃς οὗτοι ποιοῦσιν.

Eze_8:12 NKJV 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.”

Eze_9: Mourners Marked; Jerusalem Slain

Eze_9:4 WEB Yahweh said to him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark on the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry over all the abominations that are done in its midst.

Eze_9:4 and said to him, “Go through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark on the foreheads of the men that groan and that grieve for all the iniquities that are done in the midst of them.”

Eze_9:4 καὶ εἶπεν πρὸς αὐτόν Δίελθε μέσην τὴν Ιερουσαλημ καὶ δὸς τὸ σημεῖον ἐπὶ τὰ μέτωπα τῶν ἀνδρῶν τῶν καταστεναζόντων καὶ τῶν κατωδυνωμένων ἐπὶ πάσαις ταῖς ἀνομίαις ταῖς γινομέναις ἐν μέσῳ αὐτῆς.

Eze_9:5 WEB To the others he said in my hearing, Go you through the city after him, and strike: don't let your eye spare, neither have you pity;

Eze_9:5 And He said to the first in my hearing, “Go after him into the city, and strike: and let not your eyes spare, neither have mercy.

Eze_9:5 καὶ τούτοις εἶπεν ἀκούοντός μου Πορεύεσθε ὀπίσω αὐτοῦ εἰς τὴν πόλιν καὶ κόπτετε καὶ μὴ φείδεσθε τοῖς ὀφθαλμοῖς ὑμῶν καὶ μὴ ἐλεήσητε·

Eze_9:6 WEB kill utterly the old man, the young man and the virgin, and little children and women; but don't come near any man on whom is the mark: and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the old men that were before the house.

Eze_9:6 Utterly slay old man and youth, and virgin and infants and women: but do not go near any on whom is the mark: begin at My sanctuary.” So they began with the elder men who were within in the house.

Eze_9:6 πρεσβύτερον καὶ νεανίσκον καὶ παρθένον καὶ νήπια καὶ γυναῖκας ἀποκτείνατε εἰς ἐξάλειψιν, ἐπὶ δὲ πάντας, ἐφ᾿ οὕς ἐστιν τὸ σημεῖον, μὴ ἐγγίσητε· καὶ ἀπὸ τῶν ἁγίων μου ἄρξασθε. καὶ ἤρξαντο ἀπὸ τῶν ἀνδρῶν τῶν πρεσβυτέρων, οἳ ἦσαν ἔσω ἐν τῷ οἴκῳ.

Eze_9:7 WEB He said to them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain: go you forth. They went forth, and struck in the city.

Eze_9:7 And He said to them, “Defile the house, and go out and fill the ways with dead bodies, and strike.”

Eze_9:7 καὶ εἶπεν πρὸς αὐτούς Μιάνατε τὸν οἶκον καὶ πλήσατε τὰς ὁδοὺς νεκρῶν ἐκπορευόμενοι καὶ κόπτετε.

Eze_9:8 WEB It happened, while they were smiting, and I was left, that I fell on my face, and cried, and said, Ah Lord Yahweh! will you destroy all the residue of Israel in your pouring out of your wrath on Jerusalem?

Eze_9:8 And it came to pass as they were striking, that I fell upon my face and cried out, and said, “Alas, O Lord! Will You destroy the remnant of Israel, in pouring out Your wrath upon Jerusalem?”

Eze_9:8 καὶ ἐγένετο ἐν τῷ κόπτειν αὐτοὺς καὶ πίπτω ἐπὶ πρόσωπόν μου καὶ ἀνεβόησα καὶ εἶπα Οἴμμοι, κύριε, ἐξαλείφεις σὺ τοὺς καταλοίπους τοῦ Ισραηλ ἐν τῷ ἐκχέαι σε τὸν θυμόν σου ἐπὶ Ιερουσαλημ;

Eze_9:9 WEB Then said he to me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perversion: for they say, Yahweh has forsaken the land, and Yahweh doesn't see.

Eze_9:9 Then He said to me, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah has become exceedingly great: for the land is filled with many nations, and the city is filled with iniquity and uncleanness; because they have said, ‘The Lord has forsaken the earth, the Lord does not see.’

Eze_9:9 καὶ εἶπεν πρός με Ἀδικία τοῦ οἴκου Ισραηλ καὶ Ιουδα μεμεγάλυνται σφόδρα σφόδρα, ὅτι ἐπλήσθη ἡ γῆ λαῶν πολλῶν, καὶ ἡ πόλις ἐπλήσθη ἀδικίας καὶ ἀκαθαρσίας· ὅτι εἶπαν Ἐγκαταλέλοιπεν κύριος τὴν γῆν, οὐκ ἐφορᾷ ὁ κύριος.

Eze_9:10 WEB As for me also, my eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity, but I will bring their way on their head.

Eze_9:10 Therefore My eye shall not spare, neither will I have any mercy: I have recompensed their ways upon their heads.”

Eze_9:10 καὶ οὐ φείσεταί μου ὁ ὀφθαλμός, οὐδὲ μὴ ἐλεήσω· τὰς ὁδοὺς αὐτῶν εἰς κεφαλὰς αὐτῶν δέδωκα.

Eze_9:11 WEB Behold, the man clothed in linen, who had the inkhorn by his side, reported the matter, saying, I have done as you have commanded me.

Eze_9:11 And behold, the man clothed with the long robe, and girded with the belt about his loins, answered and said, “I have done as You have commanded me.”

Eze_9:11 καὶ ἰδοὺ ὁ ἀνὴρ ὁ ἐνδεδυκὼς τὸν ποδήρη καὶ ἐζωσμένος τῇ ζώνῃ τὴν ὀσφὺν αὐτοῦ καὶ ἀπεκρίνατο λέγων Πεποίηκα καθὼς ἐνετείλω μοι.

Eze_9:9 NKJV The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great… for they say, “The LORD has forsaken the land, and the LORD does not see!”

Mourners noticed & Cared! …so they (alone) were spared

Right Response = Urgent Repentance & Begging!

Jer_14: Don’t Leave!

Jer_14:9 WEB Why should you be like a scared man, as a mighty man who can't save? yet you, Yahweh, are in the midst of us, and we are called by your name; don't leave us.

Jer_14:9 LB Will You be as a man asleep, or as a strong man that cannot save? Yet You are among us, O Lord, and we are called by Your name; do not forget [ἐπιλάθῃ] us.

Jer_14:9 μὴ ἔσῃ ὥσπερ ἄνθρωπος ὑπνῶν ἢ ὡς ἀνὴρ οὐ δυνάμενος σῴζειν; καὶ σὺ ἐν ἡμῖν εἶ, κύριε, καὶ τὸ ὄνομά σου ἐπικέκληται ἐφ᾿ ἡμᾶς· μὴ ἐπιλάθῃ ἡμῶν. --

Jer_14:9 NKJV Why should You be like a man astonished, Like a mighty one who cannot save? Yet You, O LORD, are in our midst, And we are called by Your name; Do not leave us!

Jeremiah noticed God’s pending departure, when religious people pretended that God was still there!

Isa_64: Filthy Rags; Hidden Face

Isa_64:6 WEB For we have all become as one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is as a polluted garment: and we all fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

Isa_64:6 LB and we have all become as unclean, and all our righteousness is as a filthy rag; and we have fallen as leaves because of our iniquities; thus the wind shall carry us away.

Isa_64:6 (64:5) καὶ ἐγενήθημεν ὡς ἀκάθαρτοι πάντες ἡμεῖς, ὡς ῥάκος ἀποκαθημένης πᾶσα ἡ δικαιοσύνη ἡμῶν· καὶ ἐξερρύημεν ὡς φύλλα διὰ τὰς ἀνομίας ἡμῶν, οὕτως ἄνεμος οἴσει ἡμᾶς.

Isa_64:7 WEB There is none who calls on your name, who stirs up himself to take hold of you; for you have hid your face from us, and have consumed us by means of our iniquities.

Isa_64:7 And there is none that calls upon Your name, or that remembers to take hold of You; for You have turned Your face away from us, and have delivered us up because of our sins.

Isa_64:7 (64:6) καὶ οὐκ ἔστιν ὁ ἐπικαλούμενος τὸ ὄνομά σου καὶ ὁ μνησθεὶς ἀντιλαβέσθαι σου· ὅτι ἀπέστρεψας τὸ πρόσωπόν σου ἀφ᾿ ἡμῶν καὶ παρέδωκας ἡμᾶς διὰ τὰς ἁμαρτίας ἡμῶν. --

Isa_64:8 WEB But now, Yahweh, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you our potter; and we all are the work of your hand.

Isa_64:8 And now, O Lord, You are our Father, and we are the clay, all of us are the work of Your hands.

Isa_64:8 (64:7) καὶ νῦν, κύριε, πατὴρ ἡμῶν σύ, ἡμεῖς δὲ πηλὸς ἔργον τῶν χειρῶν σου πάντες·

Isa_64:9 WEB Don't be furious, Yahweh, neither remember iniquity forever: see, look, we beg you, we are all your people.

Isa_64:9 Do not be very angry with us, and do not remember our sins forever; but now look on us, for we are all Your people.

Isa_64:9 (64:8) μὴ ὀργίζου ἡμῖν σφόδρα καὶ μὴ ἐν καιρῷ μνησθῇς ἁμαρτιῶν ἡμῶν. καὶ νῦν ἐπίβλεψον, ὅτι λαός σου πάντες ἡμεῖς.

2Th_1: Eternal Separation of Wrath!

2Th_1:7 CAB and to give you who are being afflicted rest along with us at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven [τῇ ἀποκαλύψει τοῦ Κυρίου ᾿Ιησοῦ ἀπ᾿ οὐρανοῦ] with His mighty angels,

2Th_1:7 καὶ ὑμῖν τοῖς θλιβομένοις ἄνεσιν μεθ᾿ ἡμῶν ἐν τῇ ἀποκαλύψει τοῦ Κυρίου ᾿Ιησοῦ ἀπ᾿ οὐρανοῦ μετ᾿ ἀγγέλων δυνάμεως αὐτοῦ

2Th_1:8 in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God, and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.

2Th_1:8 ἐν πυρὶ φλογός, διδόντος ἐκδίκησιν τοῖς μὴ εἰδόσιν Θεὸν καὶ τοῖς μὴ ὑπακούουσι τῷ εὐαγγελίῳ τοῦ Κυρίου ἡμῶν ᾿Ιησοῦ Χριστοῦ,

2Th_1:8 εν πυρι φλογος διδοντος εκδικησιν τοις μη ειδοσιν θεον και τοις μη υπακουουσιν τω ευαγγελιω του κυριου ημων ιησου Bχριστου TSχριστου

2Th_1:9 These shall pay a penalty--eternal destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His might,

2Th_1:9 οἵτινες δίκην τίσουσιν ὄλεθρον αἰώνιον ἀπὸ προσώπου τοῦ Κυρίου καὶ ἀπὸ τῆς δόξης τῆς ἰσχύος αὐτοῦ,

2Th_1:10 whenever He comes, in that Day, to be glorified among His saints and to be marveled among all those having believed, because our testimony among you was believed.

2Th_1:10 ὅταν ἔλθῃ ἐνδοξασθῆναι ἐν τοῖς ἁγίοις αὐτοῦ καὶ θαυμασθῆναι ἐν πᾶσι τοῖς πιστεύσασιν, ὅτι ἐπιστεύθη τὸ μαρτύριον ἡμῶν ἐφ᾿ ὑμᾶς, ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἐκείνῃ.

2Th_1:10 οταν ελθη ενδοξασθηναι εν τοις αγιοις αυτου και θαυμασθηναι εν πασιν τοις BAπιστευσασιν TSπιστευουσιν οτι επιστευθη το μαρτυριον ημων εφ υμας εν τη ημερα εκεινη

2Th_1:11 Therefore we also pray always concerning you that our God may count you worthy of this calling, and may fulfill all the good pleasure of His goodness and the work of faith with power,

2Th_1:11 εἰς ὃ καὶ προσευχόμεθα πάντοτε περὶ ὑμῶν, ἵνα ὑμᾶς ἀξιώσῃ τῆς κλήσεως ὁ Θεὸς ἡμῶν καὶ πληρώσῃ πᾶσαν εὐδοκίαν ἀγαθωσύνης καὶ ἔργον πίστεως ἐν δυνάμει,

2Th_1:12 in order that the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and you in Him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

2Th_1:12 ὅπως ἐνδοξασθῇ τὸ ὄνομα τοῦ Κυρίου ἡμῶν ᾿Ιησοῦ Χριστοῦ ἐν ὑμῖν, καὶ ὑμεῖς ἐν αὐτῷ, κατὰ τὴν χάριν τοῦ Θεοῦ ἡμῶν καὶ Κυρίου ᾿Ιησοῦ Χριστοῦ.

2Th_1:12 οπως ενδοξασθη το ονομα του κυριου ημων ιησου Bχριστου TSχριστου εν υμιν και υμεις εν αυτω κατα την χαριν του θεου ημων και κυριου ιησου χριστου

Revelation of Jesus

Rev_1:1 ≈ 2Th_1:7

Greek is Essentially the same: “Rev_1:1 ᾿Αποκάλυψις ᾿Ιησοῦ Χριστοῦ” Comp. with “2Th_1:7 …τῇ ἀποκαλύψει τοῦ Κυρίου ᾿Ιησοῦ ἀπ᾿ οὐρανοῦ”

Name Glorified = End Times

· Mat_6: Lord’s Prayer

· Rev_11: hidden reference to name glorification

Rom_2:5 – Wrath coming, and

Rom_1:18 – it’s already started

Solutions to God’s Distance

1/21/26; 1/24/26-1/26/26…2/1/26; 2/20/26

Preview

· Embrace your desolation

· Your flesh does NOT know God!

· God is NOT in covenant with your “body of sin”

· You’ll Beg when you’re desperate enough

· Beg for discipleship help from an obeyer

2 Paths: Polarized Promise

2/1/26; 2/6/26

· Keep thinking of the 2 paths -- opposite choices are in front of you

· God leaves vs. God makes you great into eternity

Direction To or From Truth?

1/31/26-2/1/26

No amount of distance from God is tolerable, because that indicates a direction away from heaven!

A life of salvation always gets closer to Truth

Us from God or God from us

Saving Correction

Harsh Correction that Saves

When God is determined to Save Israel...

Deu_31:17-18 – God hides His face, & “many evils and troubles” will come

Jer_2 & Jer_4 – God will show apostates how bitter it is when He departs from them

Jer_2: Wicked Apostasy & Bitter Forsaking

Jer_2:19 WEB Your own wickedness shall correct you, and your backsliding shall reprove you: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and a bitter, that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, and that my fear is not in you, says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.

Jer_2:19 LB Your apostasy [ἀποστασία] shall correct [παιδεύσει] you, and your wickedness [κακία] shall reprove you [ἐλέγξει σε]. Know then, and see [γνῶθι καὶ ἰδὲ], that your forsaking [καταλιπεῖν] Me has been bitter [πικρόν] to you,” says the Lord your God; “and I have taken no pleasure in you [οὐκ εὐδόκησα ἐπὶ σοί],” says the Lord your God.

Jer_2:19 παιδεύσει σε ἡ ἀποστασία σου, καὶ ἡ κακία σου ἐλέγξει σε· καὶ γνῶθι καὶ ἰδὲ ὅτι πικρόν σοι τὸ καταλιπεῖν σε ἐμέ, λέγει κύριος ὁ θεός σου· καὶ οὐκ εὐδόκησα ἐπὶ σοί, λέγει κύριος ὁ θεός σου.

Hebrew: Bitter ≈ Provocation (i.e. rebellion) throughout the prophets

Greek: i.e. bringing next-to-sharpness

Jer_4: Ways & Doings = Wicked & Bitter

Jer_4:17 WEB As keepers of a field are they against her all around, because she has been rebellious against me, says Yahweh.

Jer_4:17 LB As keepers of a field, they have surrounded her; because you,” says the Lord, “have neglected [ἠμέλησας] Me.

Jer_4:17 ὡς φυλάσσοντες ἀγρὸν ἐγένοντο ἐπ᾿ αὐτὴν κύκλῳ, ὅτι ἐμοῦ ἠμέλησας, λέγει κύριος.

Jer_4:18 WEB Your way and your doings have procured these things to you; this is your wickedness; for it is bitter, for it reaches to your heart.

Jer_4:18 Your ways and your devices have brought these things upon you; this is your wickedness [κακία], for it is bitter [πικρά], for it has reached to your heart.”

Jer_4:18 αἱ ὁδοί σου καὶ τὰ ἐπιτηδεύματά σου ἐποίησαν ταῦτά σοι· αὕτη ἡ κακία σου, ὅτι πικρά, ὅτι ἥψατο ἕως τῆς καρδίας σου.

Ways → Doings

· Ways = long-term commitments & directions

· Doings = Results/“fruit” of your thinking

Bad Fruit Proves Bad Root (Mat_7; Mat_12)

Your continual & unrepentant sins (i.e. your “wicked doings”) are not accidental -- ultimately, your repeating sins are caused by your WAY, which is your ongoing choice.

Ongoing Commitment Your WAY of Unstopped sinning is therefore NOT covered by God’s atonement/propitiation/appeasement/satisfaction/covering, in any Biblical covenant that ever existed (OT or NT)

Ongoing Character flaws that are not being dismantled (2Co_10:5) are condemning you to death (1Co_10:5-21; and as seen in Jeremiah above & the rest of the Bible).

See: LPC > [new home?] > 1Co_10:

God Leaves; They Seek

Hos_5:15 WEB I will go and return to my place, until they acknowledge their offense, and seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly."

Hos_5:15 LB I will go and return to My place, until they ·are brought to nought [ἀφανισθῶσιν], and then shall they seek My face.” [ἐπιζητήσουσιν τὸ πρόσωπόν μου, ἐν θλίψει αὐτῶν ὀρθριοῦσι πρός με λέγοντες]

Hos_5:15 πορεύσομαι καὶ ἐπιστρέψω εἰς τὸν τόπον μου, ἕως οὗ ἀφανισθῶσιν· καὶ ἐπιζητήσουσιν τὸ πρόσωπόν μου, ἐν θλίψει αὐτῶν ὀρθριοῦσι πρός με λέγοντες

Bereaved of Children

Hos_9:12 WEB Though they bring up their children, yet I will bereave them, so that not a man shall be left. Indeed, woe also to them when I depart from them!

Hos_9:12 For even if they should rear their children, yet shall they be utterly bereaved. Therefore also there is woe to them, though My flesh is of them.

Hos_9:12 διότι καὶ ἐὰν ἐκθρέψωσιν τὰ τέκνα αὐτῶν, ἀτεκνωθήσονται ἐξ ἀνθρώπων· διότι καὶ οὐαὶ αὐτοῖς ἐστιν, σάρξ μου ἐξ αὐτῶν.

I’ve seen enough death! -- How about you?

Don’t let it come from tragedy to more tragedy!

Repent of Lazy Flesh

· Tired Yet?: Do you feel the bitterness yet, or do you need more trials? -- God will wear you ought, if He even saves you…

· Don’t Be a Glutton for Punishment: Don’t maximize the bitterness of Rebellious apostasy, but turn to the holy remnant and be saved into clean Truth

· Being Lazy = Apostasy/rebellion → severe punishment

Repent of Luxurious Indifference & Lacking Zeal

See: RiFi > Women At Ease

Get Humble Under Harsh Correction

Remember:

BOND = Gospel/Good Message (as in SOM, Mat_5 – 7; Luk_6; & rest of Bible)

(BOND = Beg to Obey-all with No-sin Discipleship)

As seen & confirmed yet again below… (with Joshua, David, Josiah, etc.)

Jos_7:6 – Joshua clothes torn, on face before Ark, Dust on heads

See: Forsaken Feelings

Joshua fell on his face before the ark until evening

>>Scrip: verify verses \/\/\/\/

2Sa_6:1-11 / 1Ch_13:1-14 – David’s Ark Disaster

2Sa_6:9 / 1Ch_13:12 – David was ‘afraid’ of the Lord and said how will I bring the ark

2Ch_34:19 – Josiah tore his clothes and sent to Hulda the prophetess to inquire (2Ch_34:21-28)

Did you notice the BOND Gospel?

Psalms that Beg for Help

Preview: Psa_69:17; Psa_143:7; Psa_51:1

Psa_69: Help Me From Enemies!

Psa_69:17 WEB Don't hide your face from your servant, for I am in distress. Answer me speedily!

Psa_69:17 LB And do not turn away Your face from Your servant; for I am afflicted; hear me speedily.

Psa_69:17 (68:18) μὴ ἀποστρέψῃς τὸ πρόσωπόν σου ἀπὸ τοῦ παιδός σου, ὅτι θλίβομαι, ταχὺ ἐπάκουσόν μου.

Psa_69:18 WEB Draw near to my soul, and redeem it. Ransom me because of my enemies.

Psa_69:18 Draw near to my soul and redeem it: deliver me because of my enemies.

Psa_69:18 (68:19) πρόσχες τῇ ψυχῇ μου καὶ λύτρωσαι αὐτήν, ἕνεκα τῶν ἐχθρῶν μου ῥῦσαί με.

Psa_143: Thirsty Begs for Salvation from Pit

Thirsty Soul-Spirit Begs for Salvation from the Pit

Psa_143:6 WEB I spread forth my hands to you. My soul thirsts for you, like a parched land. Selah.

Psa_143:6 LB I spread forth my hands to You; my soul thirsts for You, as a dry land. Selah.

Psa_143:6 (142:6) διεπέτασα τὰς χεῖράς μου πρὸς σέ, ἡ ψυχή μου ὡς γῆ ἄνυδρός σοι. διάψαλμα.

Psa_143:7 WEB Hurry to answer me, Yahweh. My spirit fails. Don't hide your face from me, so that I don't become like those who go down into the pit.

Psa_143:7 Hear me speedily, O Lord; my spirit has failed; do not hide Your face from me, lest I be like them that go down to the pit.

Psa_143:7 (142:7) ταχὺ εἰσάκουσόν μου, κύριε, ἐξέλιπεν τὸ πνεῦμά μου· μὴ ἀποστρέψῃς τὸ πρόσωπόν σου ἀπ᾿ ἐμοῦ, καὶ ὁμοιωθήσομαι τοῖς καταβαίνουσιν εἰς λάκκον.

Psa_51: Fixed Clean Heart; Spirit-Presence -- Do Not Depart

Psa_51:10 WEB Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.

Psa_51:10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a steadfast spirit in my inward parts.

Psa_51:10 (50:12) καρδίαν καθαρὰν κτίσον ἐν ἐμοί, ὁ θεός, καὶ πνεῦμα εὐθὲς ἐγκαίνισον ἐν τοῖς ἐγκάτοις μου.

Psa_51:11 WEB Don't throw me from your presence, and don't take your holy Spirit from me.

Psa_51:11 Do not cast me away from Your presence; and do not remove Your Holy Spirit from me.

Psa_51:11 (50:13) μὴ ἀπορρίψῃς με ἀπὸ τοῦ προσώπου σου καὶ τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιόν σου μὴ ἀντανέλῃς ἀπ᾿ ἐμοῦ.

Waiting for Salvation

Mic_7: Punished, but Hoping for Vindication Against Enemy

Mic_7:8 WEB Don't rejoice against me, my enemy. When I fall, I will arise. When I sit in darkness, Yahweh will be a light to me.

Mic_7:8 LB Israel’s Confession and Comfort Do not rejoice against me, mine enemy; for I have fallen, yet shall arise; for though I should sit in darkness, the Lord shall be a light to me.

Mic_7:8 μὴ ἐπίχαιρέ μοι, ἡ ἐχθρά μου, ὅτι πέπτωκα· καὶ ἀναστήσομαι, διότι ἐὰν καθίσω ἐν τῷ σκότει, κύριος φωτιεῖ μοι.

Mic_7:9 WEB I will bear the indignation of Yahweh, because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my case, and executes judgment for me. He will bring me forth to the light. I will see his righteousness.

Mic_7:9 I will bear the indignation of the Lord, because I have sinned against Him, until He make good my cause. He also shall maintain my right, and shall bring me out to the light, and I shall behold His righteousness.

Mic_7:9 ὀργὴν κυρίου ὑποίσω, ὅτι ἥμαρτον αὐτῷ, ἕως τοῦ δικαιῶσαι αὐτὸν τὴν δίκην μου· καὶ ποιήσει τὸ κρίμα μου καὶ ἐξάξει με εἰς τὸ φῶς, ὄψομαι τὴν δικαιοσύνην αὐτοῦ.

Mic_7:10 WEB Then my enemy will see it, and shame will cover her who said to me, where is Yahweh your God? Then my enemy will see me and will cover her shame. Now she will be trodden down like the mire of the streets.

Mic_7:10 And she that is my enemy shall see it, and shall clothe herself with shame, who says, “Where is the Lord your God?” My eyes shall look upon her; now shall she be for trampling as mire in the ways.

Mic_7:10 καὶ ὄψεται ἡ ἐχθρά μου καὶ περιβαλεῖται αἰσχύνην ἡ λέγουσα πρός με Ποῦ κύριος ὁ θεός σου; οἱ ὀφθαλμοί μου ἐπόψονται αὐτήν· νῦν ἔσται εἰς καταπάτημα ὡς πηλὸς ἐν ταῖς ὁδοῖς

Psa_40: I Waited Patently

Psa_40:1 WEB I waited patiently for Yahweh. He turned to me, and heard my cry.

Psa_40:1 LB A Psalm of David. I waited patiently for the Lord; and He attended to me, and heard my supplication.

Psa_40:1 (39:1) Εἰς τὸ τέλος· τῷ Δαυιδ ψαλμός . (39:2) Ὑπομένων ὑπέμεινα τὸν κύριον, καὶ προσέσχεν μοι καὶ εἰσήκουσεν τῆς δεήσεώς μου

Psa_40:2 WEB He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay. He set my feet on a rock, and gave me a firm place to stand.

Psa_40:2 And He brought me up out of a pit of misery, and from miry clay; and He set my feet upon a rock, and established my steps.

Psa_40:2 (39:3) καὶ ἀνήγαγέν με ἐκ λάκκου ταλαιπωρίας καὶ ἀπὸ πηλοῦ ἰλύος καὶ ἔστησεν ἐπὶ πέτραν τοὺς πόδας μου καὶ κατηύθυνεν τὰ διαβήματά μου

Psa_40:3 WEB He has put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God. Many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in Yahweh.

Psa_40:3 And He put a new song into my mouth, even a hymn to our God; many shall see it and fear, and shall hope in the Lord.

Psa_40:3 (39:4) καὶ ἐνέβαλεν εἰς τὸ στόμα μου ᾆσμα καινόν, ὕμνον τῷ θεῷ ἡμῶν· ὄψονται πολλοὶ καὶ φοβηθήσονται καὶ ἐλπιοῦσιν ἐπὶ κύριον.

Cry & Wait for Redemption – The Right Response to Gomer’s Discipline

Other dates; 8/20/17; 1/31/26

Doing-Faithful-Love--06--Hosea-Conclusions--8.6.17.mp3

Preview of Crying from Sin

Collaborative Summary

>>Scrip: ES Check

Psa_6 – Plea for mercy amid suffering.

Psa_25 – Confesses iniquity; seeks guidance.

Psa_32 – Acknowledges sin; finds forgiveness.

Psa_38 – Admits transgressions and guilt.

Psa_39 – Confesses fleeting, sinful life.

Psa_40 – Sins numerous, overwhelming me.

Psa_41 – Sins cause my downfall.

Psa_51 – Knows transgressions; deep repentance.

Psa_69 – Acknowledges my foolishness and sin.

Psa_79 – We sinned; forgive us.

Psa_90 – Wrath for hidden sins.

Psa_102 – Affliction from my iniquity.

Psa_106 – We sinned like ancestors.

Psa_107 – Confessed rebellion; He healed.

Psa_119 – Strayed like lost sheep.

Psa_130 – Forgave all my iniquities.

Psa_143 – No good; spirit fails.

Psalms 30 – I Cried When God Hid His Face

Psa_30:6 WEB As for me, I said in my prosperity^H7959 [“בשׁלוי” (Lex: “שׁלו”) – Strong’s: “tranquil, that is, secure or successful” (H7951 > H7959)], "I shall never be moved."

Psa_30:6 LB And I said in my prosperity [εὐθηνίᾳ*], ·“I shall never be moved.” [Οὐ μὴ σαλευθῶ εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα]

Psa_30:6 (29:7) ἐγὼ δὲ εἶπα ἐν τῇ εὐθηνίᾳ μου Οὐ μὴ σαλευθῶ εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα.

Psa_30:7 WEB You, Yahweh, ·when you favored [?] me [YLT: in Thy good pleasure] [“ברצונך” – i.e. Strong’s: “delight, desire, favour, (good) pleasure”], made my mountain stand strong; but when you hid your face, I was troubled.

Psa_30:7 O Lord, in Your ·good pleasure [θελήματί – will (determined / actively chosen / intentional / purposful / decreed)] You added [παρέσχου – lit. held next to] ·strength to my beauty [τῷ κάλλει μου δύναμιν]; but [δὲ] You turned away [ἀπέστρεψας] Your face [τὸ πρόσωπόν σου], and I was troubled ^G5015 [ἐγενήθην τεταραγμένος – i.e. became stirred/troubled/agitated].

Psa_30:7 (29:8) κύριε, ἐν τῷ θελήματί σου παρέσχου τῷ κάλλει μου δύναμιν· ἀπέστρεψας δὲ τὸ πρόσωπόν σου, καὶ ἐγενήθην τεταραγμένος.

Psa_30:8 WEB I cried to you, Yahweh. To Yahweh ·I made supplication [“אתחנן׃” (Lex: “חנן”), (chânan) – Strong’s: properly to bend or stoop in kindness to an inferior; to favor, bestow; causatively to implore (that is, move to favor by petition)]:

Psa_30:8 To[ward] [πρὸς] You, O Lord, ·will I cry [κεκράξομαι]; and to[ward] [πρὸς] [that of] my God [τὸν θεόν μου] ·will I [be bound to] make supplication [δεηθήσομαι (V-FPI-1S)].

Psa_30:8 (29:9) πρὸς σέ, κύριε, κεκράξομαι καὶ πρὸς τὸν θεόν μου δεηθήσομαι

* εὐθηνίᾳ

“A prosperity, plenty, LXX Ge.41.29, al., Ph.2.1, al.;”

“2 personified as a goddess, Abundance, Plenty,”

“3 generally, abundance”

“2 alargess of corn”

http://translate.enacademic.com/%CE%B5%CF%85%CE%B8%CE%B7%CE%BD%CE%AF%CE%B1/el/

8/5/17

Isiah 8 – I Will Wait For Him Who Hides His Face

Isa_8:17 WEB I will wait for Yahweh, who hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.

Isa_8:17 LB And one shall say, “I will wait [Μενῶ] for God, who has turned away [ἀποστρέψαντα] His face [τὸ πρόσωπον αὐτοῦ] from the house of Jacob, and ·I will trust in Him [πεποιθὼς^V-RAP-NS [Lex: πείθω] ἔσομαι^V-FMI-1S ἐπ᾿ αὐτῷ – lit. I will, to myself, have persuaded upon him; ABP: I will be yielding upon him].”

Isa_8:17 καὶ ἐρεῖ Μενῶ τὸν θεὸν τὸν ἀποστρέψαντα τὸ πρόσωπον αὐτοῦ ἀπὸ τοῦ οἴκου Ιακωβ καὶ πεποιθὼς ἔσομαι ἐπ᾿ αὐτῷ.

When Gomer gets like the virtue of Leah, God is about to move in with glorious exaltations of closeness and rewards.

Isiah 54 – A Redeemed Wife, Forsaken No More!

Isa_54:6 WEB For Yahweh has called you as a wife forsaken and grieved ·in spirit [“רוח” (rûach)], even a wife of youth, when ·she is cast off^H3988 [“תמאס” – KJV: thou wast refused; WS: “A verb meaning to reject, to despise, to abhor, to refuse. The primary meaning of this word is to reject or treat as loathsome.”]," says your God.

Isa_54:6 LB The Lord has not [οὐχ] called [κέκληκέν] you as a deserted [καταλελειμμένην] and faint-hearted [ὀλιγόψυχον – meager-soul-ed] woman, nor [οὐδ᾿] as a woman ·hated from her youth [ἐκ νεότητος μεμισημένην],” says your God.

Isa_54:6 οὐχ ὡς γυναῖκα καταλελειμμένην καὶ ὀλιγόψυχον κέκληκέν σε κύριος οὐδ᾿ ὡς γυναῖκα ἐκ νεότητος μεμισημένην, εἶπεν ὁ θεός σου·

Isa_54:7 WEB "For a small moment have I forsaken you; but with great mercies [“וברחמים” – lit. wombs (see: WS)] will I gather you.

Isa_54:7 “·For a little while [χρόνον μικρὸν] ·I left [κατέλιπόν] you; but with [μετὰ] great mercy [ἐλέους μεγάλου] will I have compassion upon [ἐλεήσω – mercy] you.

Isa_54:7 χρόνον μικρὸν κατέλιπόν σε καὶ μετὰ ἐλέους μεγάλου ἐλεήσω σε,

Isa_54:8 WEB In overflowing [“שׁצף”* (shetseph) – surge/outburst; KJV: little] wrath I hid my face from you for a moment; but with everlasting loving kindness will I have mercy on you," says Yahweh your Redeemer.
[* “שׁצף” (H8241) -- from: “שׁטף” (H7857) WS: “gush, to cleanse, to conquer, to drown, to overflow, to overwhelm, to rinse, to run, to rush, to wash away”]

Isa_54:8 In a little wrath [θυμῷ μικρῷ] ·I turned away [ἀπέστρεψα] My ·face [πρόσωπόν] from [ἀπὸ] you; but [καὶ – and] with everlasting mercy [ἐν ἐλέει αἰωνίῳ] will I have compassion upon [ἐλεήσω – I will mercy] you,” says the Lord, your Redeemer [ὁ ῥυσάμενός σε κύριος – that of your rescuer-lord].

Isa_54:8 ἐν θυμῷ μικρῷ ἀπέστρεψα τὸ πρόσωπόν μου ἀπὸ σοῦ καὶ ἐν ἐλέει αἰωνίῳ ἐλεήσω σε, εἶπεν ὁ ῥυσάμενός σε κύριος.

Isa_54:9 WEB "For this is like the waters of Noah to me; for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah shall no more go over the earth, so have I sworn that I will not be angry with you, nor rebuke you.

Isa_54:9 “From the time of the water of Noah this is My purpose; as [καθότι] ·I swore [ὤμοσα] to him ·at that time [ἐν τῷ χρόνῳ ἐκείνῳ], saying of the earth, ‘I will no more ·be angry [θυμωθήσεσθαι] with [ἐπὶ] you, ·neither [μηδὲ] when [ἔτι] you are threatened [ἔτι μηδὲ ἐν ἀπειλῇ σου],

Isa_54:9 ἀπὸ τοῦ ὕδατος τοῦ ἐπὶ Νωε τοῦτό μοί ἐστιν· καθότι ὤμοσα αὐτῷ ἐν τῷ χρόνῳ ἐκείνῳ τῇ γῇ μὴ θυμωθήσεσθαι ἐπὶ σοὶ ἔτι μηδὲ ἐν ἀπειλῇ σου

Isa_54:10 WEB For the mountains may depart, and the hills be removed; ·but my loving kindness [KJV: kindness] [“וחסדי”^H2617 (i.e. chesed) – merciful kind “bowing” Love; some say: loyal/faithful/covenant Love (comp. 2Sa_22:26 ^H2616; Psa_18:25 ^H2616 -- verbal form)] shall not depart from you, neither shall my covenant of peace be removed," says Yahweh who has mercy on you.

Isa_54:10 shall the mountains [ὄρη] depart [μεταστήσεσθαι], nor [οὐδὲ] shall your hills [βουνοί] be removed [μετακινηθήσονται]; so [οὕτως] neither [οὐδὲ] ·shall My mercy fail you [τὸ παρ᾿ ἐμοῦ σοι ἔλεος ἐκλείψει], nor [οὐδὲ] shall the covenant [διαθήκη] ·of [that of] your peace [τῆς εἰρήνης σου] ·be at all removed [οὐ μὴ μεταστῇ]; for [γὰρ] the Lord who is gracious [Ἵλεώς – merciful] to you has spoken it [εἶπεν].’

Isa_54:10 τὰ ὄρη μεταστήσεσθαι οὐδὲ οἱ βουνοί σου μετακινηθήσονται, οὕτως οὐδὲ τὸ παρ᾿ ἐμοῦ σοι ἔλεος ἐκλείψει οὐδὲ ἡ διαθήκη τῆς εἰρήνης σου οὐ μὴ μεταστῇ· εἶπεν γὰρ κύριος Ἵλεώς σοι.

>> Sync: DRRR | Lov? > llo?

This proves there is absolutely no divorce after God takes His people home to be with them after He has permanently redeemed them.

>> Sync: DRRR | Lov? > llo?

And as Isiah says earlier…

>>Scrip: Gr, etc.

Isa_12:1 WEB In that day you will say, "I will give thanks to you, Yahweh; for though you were angry with me, your anger has turned away and you comfort [“ותנחמני׃”^H5162 – sigh/breath/console] me.

Isa_12:1 LB And ·in that day [there] [ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἐκείνῃ] you shall say, “·I will bless [Εὐλογήσω] You, O Lord; for [διότι – through that] ·You were angry with [ὠργίσθης] me, but [καὶ] ·You have turned aside [ἀπέστρεψας] Your wrath [τὸν θυμόν σου], and ·have pitied [ἠλέησάς] me.”

Isa_12:1 Καὶ ἐρεῖς ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἐκείνῃ Εὐλογήσω σε, κύριε, διότι ὠργίσθης μοι καὶ ἀπέστρεψας τὸν θυμόν σου καὶ ἠλέησάς με.

Ways to Inherit Redemption

· Stop taking personal offense. (thinking you deserve better treatment than this)

· See how innocent heaven is in withdrawing from you.

· Get more zealous about giving over justice than you are about feeling forsaken.

· If you have zeal to be affirmed / comforted more, where is your even hotter zeal to change yourself unto justice?

· Stop being amazed at how bad it feels like you have been treated.

· Get much more zealous about how great a debt you owe.

· (Remember: love is an orthodox and healthy debt to go around obsessing over to pay back! -- unlike other obsessive indebtedness-es, etc.)

· So often people can get so zealous about their needs to feel loved and be encouraged, but are so perversely apathetic when it comes to paying back love, honor, and reverence, and eternal thankfulness for what has been done for them.

· Stop being like Cane and get like the “dog woman”.

· Stop being like unfaithful Gomer and get like amazing Leah!

Can You Hope to Be a Redeemed and Beloved Wife?

·Cooperate with the favor of God.

·Believe and fill up in doing justice.

·And even if you are utterly weak…

·I am sure that if you will just do good and innocently love the Truth, this redemption and glorious Love will overtake you and be your inheritance.

TSK on Son_5:6 (enhanced):

but my:

Psa_30:7 – turned away face

Isa_8:17 – wait on turned away face

Isa_12:1 – bless God for returning

Isa_50:2 – God called

Isa_54:6-8 – redemption removes fears of being hated…

>>? Mat_15:22-28 – demonized daughter

>>? [Rev_3:19 (repent after being rebuked)]

Draw Close

Just like…

Going away from God, leads to God going away from you (as seen in Heb_3 -- Remember?)

So Also…

Jam_4: Draw Near to God… Wash Hands Sinners

Jam_4:6 CAB But He gives more grace. Therefore He says: "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."

Jam_4:6 μείζονα δὲ δίδωσι χάριν· διὸ λέγει· ὁ Θεὸς ὑπερηφάνοις ἀντιτάσσεται, ταπεινοῖς δὲ δίδωσι χάριν.

Jam_4:6 μειζονα δε διδωσιν χαριν διο λεγει ο θεος υπερηφανοις αντιτασσεται ταπεινοις δε διδωσιν χαριν

Jam_4:7 Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.

Jam_4:7 ῾Υποτάγητε οὖν τῷ Θεῷ. ἀντίστητε τῷ διαβόλῳ, καὶ φεύξεται ἀφ᾿ ὑμῶν·

Jam_4:7 υποταγητε ουν τω θεω αντιστητε Aδε Bδε τω διαβολω και φευξεται αφ υμων

Jam_4:8 Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

Jam_4:8 ἐγγίσατε τῷ Θεῷ, καὶ ἐγγιεῖ ὑμῖν. καθαρίσατε χεῖρας ἁμαρτωλοί καὶ ἁγνίσατε καρδίας δίψυχοι.

Jam_4:8 εγγισατε τω θεω και εγγιει υμιν καθαρισατε χειρας αμαρτωλοι και αγνισατε καρδιας διψυχοι

Jam_4:9 Lament and mourn and weep! Let your laughter change into mourning and your joy into dejection.

Jam_4:9 ταλαιπωρήσατε καὶ πενθήσατε καὶ κλαύσατε· ὁ γέλως ὑμῶν εἰς πένθος μεταστραφήτω καὶ ἡ χαρὰ εἰς κατήφειαν.

Jam_4:9 ταλαιπωρησατε και πενθησατε και κλαυσατε ο γελως υμων εις πενθος Aμετατραπητω TSBμεταστραφητω και η χαρα εις κατηφειαν

Jam_4:10 Be humbled before the Lord, and He will exalt you.

Jam_4:10 ταπεινώθηκε ἐνώπιον τοῦ Κυρίου, καὶ ὑψώσει ὑμᾶς.

Jam_4:10 ταπεινωθητε ενωπιον TSBτου κυριου και υψωσει υμας

Please Don’t Forsake Me! -- Oh, God!

6/17/17

We should plead that we never suffer stinging and unbearable trials like Sampson suffered.

>>Scrip: Gr, etc.

Psa_27:8 WEB When you said, "Seek my face," my heart said to you, "I will seek your face, Yahweh."

Psa_27:8 LB My heart said to You, “I have diligently sought Your face”; Your face, O Lord, I will seek.

Psa_27:8 (26:8) σοὶ εἶπεν ἡ καρδία μου Ἐζήτησεν τὸ πρόσωπόν μου· τὸ πρόσωπόν σου, κύριε, ζητήσω.

Psa_27:9 WEB Don't hide your face from me. Don't put your servant away in anger. You have been my help. Don't abandon me, neither forsake me, God of my salvation.

Psa_27:9 Do not turn Your face away from me, do not turn away from Your servant in anger; be my helper, O God my Savior, do not forsake me; do not overlook me.

Psa_27:9 (26:9) μὴ ἀποστρέψῃς τὸ πρόσωπόν σου ἀπ᾿ ἐμοῦ, μὴ ἐκκλίνῃς ἐν ὀργῇ ἀπὸ τοῦ δούλου σου· βοηθός μου γενοῦ, μὴ ἀποσκορακίσῃς με καὶ μὴ ἐγκαταλίπῃς με, ὁ θεὸς ὁ σωτήρ μου.

Psa_27:10 WEB When my father and my mother forsake me, then Yahweh will take me up.

Psa_27:10 For my father and my mother have forsaken me, but the Lord has taken me to Himself.

Psa_27:10 (26:10) ὅτι ὁ πατήρ μου καὶ ἡ μήτηρ μου ἐγκατέλιπόν με, ὁ δὲ κύριος προσελάβετό με.

>>Scrip: Gr, etc.

Psa_51:11 WEB Don't throw me from your presence, and don't take your holy Spirit from me.

Psa_51:11 LB Do not cast me away from Your presence; and do not remove Your Holy Spirit from me.

Psa_51:11 (50:13) μὴ ἀπορρίψῃς με ἀπὸ τοῦ προσώπου σου καὶ τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιόν σου μὴ ἀντανέλῃς ἀπ᾿ ἐμοῦ.

Psa_51:12 WEB Restore to me the joy of your salvation. Uphold me with a willing spirit.

Psa_51:12 Restore to me the joy of Your salvation; establish me with Your directing Spirit.

Psa_51:12 (50:14) ἀπόδος μοι τὴν ἀγαλλίασιν τοῦ σωτηρίου σου καὶ πνεύματι ἡγεμονικῷ στήρισόν με.

>>Scrip: Gr, etc.

Psa_119:116 WEB Uphold me according to your word, that I may live. Let me not be ashamed of my hope.

Psa_119:116 LB Uphold me according to Your word, and revive me; and make me not ashamed of my hope.

Psa_119:116 (118:116) ἀντιλαβοῦ μου κατὰ τὸ λόγιόν σου, καὶ ζήσομαι, καὶ μὴ καταισχύνῃς με ἀπὸ τῆς προσδοκίας μου.

Psa_119:117 WEB Hold me up, and I will be safe, and will have respect for your statutes continually.

Psa_119:117 Help me, and I shall be saved; and I will meditate on Your statutes continually.

Psa_119:117 (118:117) βοήθησόν μοι, καὶ σωθήσομαι καὶ μελετήσω ἐν τοῖς δικαιώμασίν σου διὰ παντός.

If we give our bread away, then we have His sure promises to hold us close in trials of distance.

>>Scrip: Gr, etc.

Deu_4:29 WEB But from there you shall seek Yahweh your God, and you shall find him, when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.

Deu_4:29 And there you shall seek the Lord your God, and you shall find Him whenever you shall seek Him with all your heart, and with all your soul in your affliction.

Deu_4:29 καὶ ζητήσετε ἐκεῖ κύριον τὸν θεὸν ὑμῶν καὶ εὑρήσετε, ὅταν ἐκζητήσητε αὐτὸν ἐξ ὅλης τῆς καρδίας σου καὶ ἐξ ὅλης τῆς ψυχῆς σου ἐν τῇ θλίψει σου·

Deu_4:30 WEB When you are in oppression, and all these things are come on you, in the latter days you shall return to Yahweh your God, and listen to his voice:

Deu_4:30 And all these things shall come upon you in the last days, and you shall turn to the Lord your God, and shall hearken to His voice.

Deu_4:30 καὶ εὑρήσουσίν σε πάντες οἱ λόγοι οὗτοι ἐπ᾿ ἐσχάτῳ τῶν ἡμερῶν, καὶ ἐπιστραφήσῃ πρὸς κύριον τὸν θεόν σου καὶ εἰσακούσῃ τῆς φωνῆς αὐτοῦ·

Deu_4:31 WEB for Yahweh your God is a merciful God; he will not fail you, neither destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which he swore to them.

Deu_4:31 Because the Lord your God is a merciful God; He will not forsake you, nor destroy you; He will not forget the covenant of your fathers, which the Lord has sworn to them.

Deu_4:31 ὅτι θεὸς οἰκτίρμων κύριος ὁ θεός σου, οὐκ ἐγκαταλείψει σε οὐδὲ μὴ ἐκτρίψει σε, οὐκ ἐπιλήσεται τὴν διαθήκην τῶν πατέρων σου, ἣν ὤμοσεν αὐτοῖς.

>>Scrip: Gr, etc.

Deu_31:6 WEB Be strong and of good courage, don't be afraid, nor be scared of them: for Yahweh your God, he it is who does go with you; he will not fail you, nor forsake you.

Deu_31:6 LB Be courageous and strong; fear not, neither be cowardly nor afraid before them; for it is the Lord your God that advances with you in the midst of you, neither will He by any means forsake you, nor desert you.

Deu_31:6 ἀνδρίζου καὶ ἴσχυε, μὴ φοβοῦ μηδὲ δειλία μηδὲ πτοηθῇς ἀπὸ προσώπου αὐτῶν, ὅτι κύριος ὁ θεός σου ὁ προπορευόμενος μεθ᾿ ὑμῶν ἐν ὑμῖν οὐ μή σε ἀνῇ οὔτε μή σε ἐγκαταλίπῃ.

>>Scrip: Gr, etc.

Jos_1:5 WEB No man will be able to stand before you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not fail you nor forsake you.

Jos_1:5 LB Not a man shall stand against you all the days of your life; and as I was with Moses, so will I also be with you, and I will not fail you, or neglect you.

Jos_1:5 οὐκ ἀντιστήσεται ἄνθρωπος κατενώπιον ὑμῶν πάσας τὰς ἡμέρας τῆς ζωῆς σου, καὶ ὥσπερ ἤμην μετὰ Μωυσῆ, οὕτως ἔσομαι καὶ μετὰ σοῦ καὶ οὐκ ἐγκαταλείψω σε οὐδὲ ὑπερόψομαί σε.

>>Scrip: Gr, etc.

1Ch_28:20 WEB David said to Solomon his son, Be strong and of good courage, and do it: don't be afraid, nor be dismayed; for Yahweh God, even my God, is with you; he will not fail you, nor forsake you, until all the work for the service of the house of Yahweh is finished.

1Ch_28:20 LB And David said to Solomon his son, “Be strong, and of good courage, and do it: fear not, neither be terrified; for the Lord my God is with you; He will not forsake you, and will not fail you, until you have finished all the work of the service of the house of the Lord. And behold the pattern of the temple, even His house, and its treasury, and the upper chambers, and the inner store rooms, and the place of propitiation, and the plan of the house of the Lord.

1Ch_28:20 καὶ εἶπεν Δαυιδ Σαλωμων τῷ υἱῷ αὐτοῦ Ἴσχυε καὶ ἀνδρίζου καὶ ποίει, μὴ φοβοῦ μηδὲ πτοηθῇς, ὅτι κύριος ὁ θεός μου μετὰ σοῦ, οὐκ ἀνήσει σε καὶ οὐ μή σε ἐγκαταλίπῃ ἕως τοῦ συντελέσαι σε πᾶσαν ἐργασίαν λειτουργίας οἴκου κυρίου.

I Will Hold Your Right Hand

Isa_41:13 WEB For I, Yahweh your God, will hold your right hand, saying to you, 'Don't be afraid. I will help you.'

Isa_41:13 LB For I am your God, who holds your right hand, who says to you,

Isa_41:13 ὅτι ἐγὼ ὁ θεός σου ὁ κρατῶν τῆς δεξιᾶς σου, ὁ λέγων σοι Μὴ φοβοῦ,

Isa_41:14 WEB Don't be afraid, you worm Jacob, and you men of Israel. I will help you," says Yahweh, "and your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.

Isa_41:14 ‘Do not fear, O Jacob, and you Israel, few in number; for I have helped you,’ says your God, He that redeems you, O Israel.

Isa_41:14 Ιακωβ, ὀλιγοστὸς Ισραηλ· ἐγὼ ἐβοήθησά σοι, λέγει ὁ θεὸς ὁ λυτρούμενός σε, Ισραηλ.

Isa_41:15 WEB Behold, I have made you into a new sharp threshing instrument with teeth. You will thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and will make the hills like chaff.

Isa_41:15 Behold, I have made you as new saw-shaped threshing wheels of a wagon; and you shall thresh the mountains, and beat the hills to powder, and make them as chaff;

Isa_41:15 ἰδοὺ ἐποίησά σε ὡς τροχοὺς ἁμάξης ἀλοῶντας καινοὺς πριστηροειδεῖς, καὶ ἀλοήσεις ὄρη καὶ λεπτυνεῖς βουνοὺς καὶ ὡς χνοῦν θήσεις·

Isa_41:16 WEB You will winnow them, and the wind will carry them away, and the whirlwind will scatter them. You will rejoice in Yahweh. You will glory in the Holy One of Israel.

Isa_41:16 and you shall winnow them, and the wind shall carry them away, and a tempest shall scatter them; but you shall rejoice in the holy ones of Israel.

Isa_41:16 καὶ λικμήσεις, καὶ ἄνεμος λήμψεται αὐτούς, καὶ καταιγὶς διασπερεῖ αὐτούς, σὺ δὲ εὐφρανθήσῃ ἐν τοῖς ἁγίοις Ισραηλ. καὶ ἀγαλλιάσονται

Isa_41:17 WEB The poor and needy seek water, and there is none. Their tongue fails for thirst. I, Yahweh, will answer them. I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.

Isa_41:17 “And the poor and the needy shall rejoice; for when they shall seek water, and there shall be none, and their tongue is parched with thirst, I the Lord God, I the God of Israel will hear, and will not forsake them;

Isa_41:17 οἱ πτωχοὶ καὶ οἱ ἐνδεεῖς· ζητήσουσιν γὰρ ὕδωρ, καὶ οὐκ ἔσται, ἡ γλῶσσα αὐτῶν ἀπὸ τῆς δίψης ἐξηράνθη· ἐγὼ κύριος ὁ θεός, ἐγὼ ἐπακούσομαι, ὁ θεὸς Ισραηλ, καὶ οὐκ ἐγκαταλείψω αὐτούς,

>>Scrip: Gr, etc.

Heb_13:5 CAB Let your way of life be without loving money, being satisfied with what you have. For He Himself has said, "By no means shall I desert you, nor in any way shall I forsake you;"

Heb_13:5 ᾿Αφιλάργυρος ὁ τρόπος, ἀρκούμενοι τοῖς παροῦσιν· αὐτὸς γὰρ εἴρηκεν· οὐ μή σε ἀνῶ οὐδ᾿ οὐ μή σε || ^Bεγκαταλειπω | ^TSAἐγκαταλίπω· ||

Heb_13:6 so that being confident, we may say: "The LORD is my helper; I will not fear. What can man do to me?"

Heb_13:6 ὥστε θαρροῦντας ἡμᾶς λέγειν· Κύριος ἐμοὶ βοηθός, ^TSBκαὶ |^Aκαι| οὐ φοβηθήσομαι· τί ποιήσει μοι ἄνθρωπος;

Compare: Spiritual Interface: Salvation Holy Spirit Bible Study

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Joh_14:15-18 – ‘I will come to you…I will not leave you as orphans’

Also: Joh_14:19-29

Especially: Joh_14:25-27

(Spirit of truth: Joh_15:26, Joh_16:13; 1Jo_2:27, 1Jo_4:6)

>> Sync: Lov | SPI > SalHoSp

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Jesus was Forsaken!?

Psa_22: > Gospels

1/29/26; 2/1/26…2/15/26

>>>Link previous

God said He would never leave you

David & Jesus said:

>>Scrip: ES

Psa_22:1 – Why have you forsaken me?

Psa_22:1 NKJV My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me? Why are You so far from helping Me, And from the words of My groaning?

Mat_27:46 NKJV And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?” that is, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?”

Mar_15:34 NKJV And at the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?” which is translated, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?”

Isa_49:14 NKJV But Zion said, “The LORD has forsaken me, And my Lord has forgotten me.”

Lam_5:20 NKJV Why do You forget us forever, And forsake us for so long a time?

Job_13:24 NKJV Why do You hide Your face, And regard me as Your enemy?

Why is this not wrong to say???

How can this be orthodox?

Understanding Jesus’ Sacrifice Explains His Orthodoxy

· Jesus died to SIN (Rom_6 – 8)

· Jesus died to SIN by being MADE SIN (2Co_5:17, 2Co_5:21)

· So: Jesus was treated like a covenant-breaker when God “forsook” Him!

>>>>

See: SRP!

How do you know when you’ve REALLY understood and believed His sacrifice enough?

When you stop forsaking covenant through His death to sin

He was made sin so you would not have to be sinful!!!

You have taken a hold of Jesus’ sacrifice when you ‘take up your cross’ and follow Him!

>>Scrip: /\ >> SRP

In the meantime, we have hope if we have faith -- our hope is that He says He won’t leave us:

Heb_12: Do FAITH into Correction that Saves

Correction Verses

[ES: Jesus, Founder and Perfecter of Our Faith]

Heb_12:1 CAB So therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every impediment, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,

Heb_12:1 Τοιγαροῦν καὶ ἡμεῖς, τοσοῦτον ἔχοντες περικείμενον ἡμῖν νέφος μαρτύρων, ὄγκον ἀποθέμενοι πάντα καὶ τὴν εὐπερίστατον ἁμαρτίαν, δι᾿ ὑπομονῆς τρέχωμεν τὸν προκείμενον ἡμῖν ἀγῶνα,

Heb_12:2 looking unto Jesus, the Author [ἀρχηγὸν – arch-beginner-leader] and Perfecter [τελειωτὴν] of our faith, who for [ἀντὶ] the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Heb_12:2 ἀφορῶντες εἰς τὸν τῆς πίστεως ἀρχηγὸν καὶ τελειωτὴν ᾿Ιησοῦν, ὃς ἀντὶ τῆς προκειμένης αὐτῷ χαρᾶς ὑπέμεινε σταυρὸν, αἰσχύνης καταφρονήσας, ἐν δεξιᾷ τε τοῦ θρόνου τοῦ Θεοῦ κεκάθικεν.

Heb_12:2 αφορωντες εις τον της πιστεως αρχηγον και τελειωτην ιησουν ος αντι της προκειμενης αυτω χαρας υπεμεινεν σταυρον αισχυνης καταφρονησας εν δεξια τε του θρονου του θεου BAκεκαθικεν TSεκαθισεν

[ES: Do Not Grow Weary]

Heb_12:3 For consider [ἀναλογίσασθε] Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, lest you be weary and discouraged in your souls.

Heb_12:3 ἀναλογίσασθε γὰρ τὸν τοιαύτην ὑπομεμενηκότα ὑπὸ τῶν ἁμαρτωλῶν εἰς αὐτὸν ἀντιλογίαν, ἵνα μὴ κάμητε ταῖς ψυχαῖς ὑμῶν ἐκλυόμενοι.

Heb_12:3 αναλογισασθε γαρ τον τοιαυτην υπομεμενηκοτα υπο των αμαρτωλων εις Aεαυτον TSBαυτον αντιλογιαν ινα μη καμητε ταις ψυχαις υμων εκλυομενοι

Heb_12:4 You have not yet resisted to the point of bloodshed, struggling against sin.

Heb_12:4 Οὔπω μέχρις αἵματος ἀντικατέστητε πρὸς τὴν ἁμαρτίαν ἀνταγωνιζόμενοι.

Heb_12:5 And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons: "My son, do not despise the discipline of the LORD, nor be discouraged when you are reproved;

Heb_12:5 καὶ ἐκλέλησθε τῆς παρακλήσεως, ἥτις ὑμῖν ὡς υἱοῖς διαλέγεται· υἱέ μου, μὴ ὀλιγώρει παιδείας Κυρίου, μηδὲ ἐκλύου ὑπ᾿ αὐτοῦ ἐλεγχόμενος.

Heb_12:6 For whom the LORD loves He disciplines, and scourges every son whom He receives."

Heb_12:6 ὃν γὰρ ἀγαπᾷ Κύριος παιδεύει, μαστιγοῖ δὲ πάντα υἱὸν ὃν παραδέχεται.

Heb_12:7 It is for discipline that you endure; God deals with you as with sons. For what son is there whom a father does not discipline?

Heb_12:7 εἰ παιδείαν ὑπομένετε, ὡς υἱοῖς ὑμῖν προσφέρεται ὁ Θεός· τίς γὰρ ἐστιν υἱὸς ὃν οὐ παιδεύει πατήρ;

Heb_12:7 BAεις TSει παιδειαν υπομενετε ως υιοις υμιν προσφερεται ο θεος τις γαρ TSεστιν υιος Bεστιν ον ου παιδευει πατηρ

Heb_12:8 But if you are without discipline, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate and not sons.

Heb_12:8 εἰ δὲ χωρίς ἐστε παιδείας, ἧς μέτοχοι γεγόνασι πάντες, ἄρα νόθοι ἐστὲ καὶ οὐχ υἱοί.

Heb_12:8 ει δε χωρις εστε παιδειας ης μετοχοι γεγονασιν παντες αρα νοθοι TSBεστε και ουχ υιοι Aεστε

Heb_12:9 Furthermore, we have had human fathers who corrected us, and we respected them [ἐνετρεπόμεθα]. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live?

Heb_12:9 εἶτα τοὺς μὲν τῆς σαρκὸς ἡμῶν πατέρας εἴχομεν παιδευτὰς καὶ ἐνετρεπόμεθα· οὐ πολλῷ μᾶλλον ὑποταγησόμεθα τῷ πατρὶ τῶν πνευμάτων καὶ ζήσομεν;

Heb_12:9 ειτα τους μεν της σαρκος ημων πατερας ειχομεν παιδευτας και ενετρεπομεθα ου Aπολυ Aδε TSBπολλω μαλλον υποταγησομεθα τω πατρι των πνευματων και ζησομεν

>> Sync: GWY ISR (Heb_12:5-9)

Heb_12:10 For they indeed for a few days were disciplining us, as seemed best to them, but He for our profit, in order to partake of His holiness.

Heb_12:10 οἱ μὲν γὰρ πρὸς ὀλίγας ἡμέρας κατὰ τὸ δοκοῦν αὐτοῖς ἐπαίδευον, ὁ δὲ ἐπὶ τὸ συμφέρον, εἰς τὸ μεταλαβεῖν τῆς ἁγιότητος αὐτοῦ.

Heb_12:11 Now no discipline seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, later it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those having been trained by it.

Heb_12:11 πᾶσα δὲ παιδεία πρὸς μὲν τὸ παρὸν οὐ δοκεῖ χαρᾶς εἶναι, ἀλλὰ λύπης, ὕστερον δὲ καρπὸν εἰρηνικὸν τοῖς δι᾿ αὐτῆς γεγυμνασμένοις ἀποδίδωσι δικαιοσύνης.

Heb_12:12 Therefore strengthen the hands which are weakened, and the feeble knees,

Heb_12:12 Διὸ τὰς παρειμένας χεῖρας καὶ τὰ παραλελυμένα γόνατα ἀνορθώσατε,

Heb_12:13 and make straight paths for your feet, so that the lame may not be turned aside, but rather be healed.

Heb_12:13 καὶ τροχιὰς ὀρθὰς ποιήσατε τοῖς ποσὶν ὑμῶν, ἵνα μὴ τὸ χωλὸν ἐκτραπῇ, ἰαθῇ δὲ μᾶλλον.

Heb_12:13 και τροχιας ορθας Aποιειτε TSBποιησατε τοις ποσιν υμων ινα μη το χωλον εκτραπη ιαθη δε μαλλον

Heb_12:14 Pursue peace and holiness with all people, without which no one shall see the Lord:

Heb_12:14 Εἰρήνην διώκετε μετὰ πάντων, καὶ τὸν ἁγιασμόν, οὗ χωρὶς οὐδεὶς ὄψεται τὸν Κύριον,

√ GNT-V

Hypocrite: just ‘look unto Jesus’ to be forever saved (Heb_12:2 -- fragmented!)

Obedience: OBEY the personal applications of Jesus’ example!

Obeying Jesus’ Sacrifice -- in Heb_12

· “let us lay aside every impediment, and the sin”

· “let us run with endurance the race” (Heb_12:1)

· “looking unto Jesus” (Heb_12:2)

· “consider [ἀναλογίσασθε] Him…lest you be weary and discouraged in your souls” (Heb_12:3)

· “struggling against sin” (Heb_12:4)

· “do not despise the discipline of the LORD” (Heb_12:5)

· “It is for discipline that you endure” (Heb_12:7)
Because…

· “without discipline” = “illegitimate” (Heb_12:8)

· “be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live” (Heb_12:9)

· “partake of His holiness” (Heb_12:10)

· And… [partake of…]

· “the peaceable fruit of righteousness” (Heb_12:11)

· “strengthen the hands” (Heb_12:12)

· “make straight paths” (Heb_12:13)

So that you can, finally…

Heb_12:14 Pursue [διώκετε] peace and holiness with all people, without which no one shall see the Lord:

Heb_12:14 Εἰρήνην διώκετε μετὰ πάντων, καὶ τὸν ἁγιασμόν, οὗ χωρὶς οὐδεὶς ὄψεται τὸν Κύριον,

Pursue Holy Purity

Heb_12:14 ≈ 2Ti_2:22 + 1Ti_5:2

Greek: “Pursue [διώκετε]...peace…Holiness” in Heb_12:14 = “flee lusts…pursue...peace” in 2Ti_2:22 & ≈ ‘younger women as sisters in all Holy-purity’ in 1Ti_5:2

Hypocrite = Passive Spirituality (Luther’s pet heresy/apostate blasphemy)

Obedience = imitating and doing what Jesus did -- REALLY “looking unto Jesus” (Heb_12:2) analyzing [ἀναλογίσασθε] His sacrifice (Heb_12:3) and running (Heb_12:1) after Him as the beginner-leader [ἀρχηγὸν – arch-beginner-leader] to FOLLOW (Heb_12:2) to get where we going (Heb_12:1-14) and end up with peace and holiness to see Him (Heb_12:14)

Go to Church, or Gather with Obeyers?

Heb_10 ≈ Heb_2

Remember:

BOND = Gospel/Good Message (as in SOM, Mat_5 – 7; Luk_6; & rest of Bible)

(BOND = Beg to Obey-all with No-sin Discipleship)

As seen & confirmed yet again below…

(A) Higher Standard = Obeyer’s Fellowship

Heb_2:2 For if the word which was spoken through angels was confirmed, and every transgression and disobedience received a just reward,

Heb_2:2 εἰ γὰρ ὁ δι᾿ ἀγγέλων λαληθεὶς λόγος ἐγένετο βέβαιος, καὶ πᾶσα παράβασις καὶ παρακοὴ ἔλαβεν ἔνδικον μισθαποδοσίαν,

Heb_2:3 how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation, which in the beginning was spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed to us by those who heard Him,

Heb_2:3 πῶς ἡμεῖς ἐκφευξόμεθα τηλικαύτης ἀμελήσαντες σωτηρίας; ἥτις ἀρχὴν λαβοῦσα λαλεῖσθαι διὰ τοῦ Κυρίου, ὑπὸ τῶν ἀκουσάντων εἰς ἡμᾶς ἐβεβαιώθη,

√ GNT-V

(B) Gathering Ourselves = With OBEYERS!

Heb_10:23 CAB Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful.

Heb_10:23 κατέχωμεν τὴν ὁμολογίαν τῆς ἐλπίδος ἀκλινῆ· πιστὸς γὰρ ὁ ἐπαγγειλάμενος·

Heb_10:24 And let us consider one another for the stirring up of love and of good works,

Heb_10:24 καὶ κατανοῶμεν ἀλλήλους εἰς παροξυσμὸν ἀγάπης καὶ καλῶν ἔργων,

Heb_10:25 not forsaking the assembling of ourselves, just as is the custom for some, but exhorting one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.

Heb_10:25 μὴ ἐγκαταλείποντες τὴν ἐπισυναγωγὴν ἑαυτῶν, καθὼς ἔθος τισίν, ἀλλὰ παρακαλοῦντες, καὶ τοσούτῳ μᾶλλον, ὅσῳ βλέπετε ἐγγίζουσαν τὴν ἡμέραν.

Heb_10:26 For if we sin willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,

Heb_10:26 ῾Εκουσίως γὰρ ἁμαρτανόντων ἡμῶν μετὰ τὸ λαβεῖν τὴν ἐπίγνωσιν τῆς ἀληθείας, οὐκέτι περὶ ἁμαρτιῶν ἀπολείπεται θυσία,

Heb_10:27 but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and fiery zeal being about to devour the adversaries.

Heb_10:27 φοβερὰ δέ τις ἐκδοχὴ κρίσεως καὶ πυρὸς ζῆλος ἐσθίειν μέλλοντος τοὺς ὑπεναντίους.

Heb_10:28 Anyone disregarding the law of Moses dies without compassions on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

Heb_10:28 ἀθετήσας τις νόμον Μωϋσέως χωρὶς οἰκτιρμῶν ἐπὶ δυσὶν ἢ τρισὶ μάρτυσιν ἀποθνῄσκει·

Heb_10:28 αθετησας τις νομον BAμωυσεως TSμωσεως χωρις οικτιρμων επι δυσιν η τρισιν μαρτυσιν αποθνησκει

Heb_10:29 By how much worse punishment, do you think, will he be deemed worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, and has regarded as common the blood of the covenant, by which he was sanctified, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?

Heb_10:29 πόσῳ δοκεῖτε χείρονος ἀξιωθήσεται τιμωρίας ὁ τὸν υἱὸν τοῦ Θεοῦ καταπατήσας καὶ τὸ αἷμα τῆς διαθήκης κοινὸν ἡγησάμενος, ἐν ᾧ ἡγιάσθη, καὶ τὸ Πνεῦμα τῆς χάριτος ἐνυβρίσας;

Heb_10:30 For we know Him who said, "Vengeance is Mine; I will repay," says the Lord. And again, "The LORD will judge His people."

Heb_10:30 οἴδαμεν γὰρ τὸν εἰπόντα· ἐμοὶ ἐκδίκησις, ἐγὼ ἀνταποδώσω λέγει Κύριος· καὶ πάλιν· Κύριος κρινεῖ τὸν λαὸν αὐτοῦ.

Heb_10:30 οιδαμεν γαρ τον ειποντα εμοι εκδικησις εγω ανταποδωσω TSBλεγει TSBκυριος και παλιν TSBκυριος κρινει Aκυριος τον λαον αυτου

Heb_10:31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God!

Heb_10:31 φοβερὸν τὸ ἐμπεσεῖν εἰς χεῖρας Θεοῦ ζῶντος.

√ GNT-V

Church: Go to Church = avoiding apostasy

Bible: Gather with Obeyers, because Church IS apostasy!

The Point: Get around the right people -- in Faith!

· Then you know God’s ways (Heb_3)

· Then God draws near to you (Jam_4:8)

>>Scrip: /\/\ >> Link throughout

God-Fear Stays Close!

Jer_32:40 > Jer_33 (New Covenant)

Jer_32:37 WEB Behold, I will gather them out of all the countries, where I have driven them in my anger, and in my wrath, and in great indignation; and I will bring them again to this place, and I will cause them to dwell safely:

Jer_32:37 LB “Behold, I will gather them out of every land, where I have scattered them in My anger, and My wrath, and great fury; and I will bring them back into this place, and will cause them to dwell safely:

Jer_32:37 (39:37) Ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ συνάγω αὐτοὺς ἐκ πάσης τῆς γῆς, οὗ διέσπειρα αὐτοὺς ἐκεῖ ἐν ὀργῇ μου καὶ τῷ θυμῷ μου καὶ παροξυσμῷ μεγάλῳ, καὶ ἐπιστρέψω αὐτοὺς εἰς τὸν τόπον τοῦτον καὶ καθιῶ αὐτοὺς πεποιθότας,

Jer_32:38 WEB and they shall be my people, and I will be their God:

Jer_32:38 and they shall be to Me a people, and I will be to them a God.

Jer_32:38 (39:38) καὶ ἔσονταί μοι εἰς λαόν, καὶ ἐγὼ ἔσομαι αὐτοῖς εἰς θεόν.

Jer_32:39 WEB and I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for the good of them, and of their children after them:

Jer_32:39 And I will give them another way, and another heart, to fear Me continually, and that for good to them and their children after them.

Jer_32:39 (39:39) καὶ δώσω αὐτοῖς ὁδὸν ἑτέραν καὶ καρδίαν ἑτέραν φοβηθῆναί με πάσας τὰς ἡμέρας εἰς ἀγαθὸν αὐτοῖς καὶ τοῖς τέκνοις αὐτῶν μετ᾿ αὐτούς.

Jer_32:40 WEB and I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from following them, to do them good; and I will put my fear in their hearts, that they may not depart from me.

Jer_32:40 And I will make with them an everlasting covenant, which I will by no means turn away from them, and I will put My fear into their heart, that they may not depart from Me.

Jer_32:40 (39:40) καὶ διαθήσομαι αὐτοῖς διαθήκην αἰωνίαν, ἣν οὐ μὴ ἀποστρέψω ὄπισθεν αὐτῶν· καὶ τὸν φόβον μου δώσω εἰς τὴν καρδίαν αὐτῶν πρὸς τὸ μὴ ἀποστῆναι αὐτοὺς ἀπ᾿ ἐμοῦ.

Jer_32:41 WEB Yes, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul.

Jer_32:41 And I will visit them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land in faithfulness, and with all My heart, and with all My soul.

Jer_32:41 (39:41) καὶ ἐπισκέψομαι τοῦ ἀγαθῶσαι αὐτοὺς καὶ φυτεύσω αὐτοὺς ἐν τῇ γῇ ταύτῃ ἐν πίστει καὶ ἐν πάσῃ καρδίᾳ καὶ ἐν πάσῃ ψυχῇ.

Jer_32:42 WEB For thus says Yahweh: Like as I have brought all this great evil on this people, so will I bring on them all the good that I have promised them.

Jer_32:42 “For thus says the Lord: As I have brought upon this people all these great evils, so will I bring upon them all the good things which I pronounced upon them.

Jer_32:42 (39:42) ὅτι οὕτως εἶπεν κύριος Καθὰ ἐπήγαγον ἐπὶ τὸν λαὸν τοῦτον πάντα τὰ κακὰ τὰ μεγάλα ταῦτα, οὕτως ἐγὼ ἐπάξω ἐπ᾿ αὐτοὺς πάντα τὰ ἀγαθά, ἃ ἐλάλησα ἐπ᾿ αὐτούς.

Jer_32:43 WEB Fields shall be bought in this land, about which you say, It is desolate, without man or animal; it is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.

Jer_32:43 And there shall yet be fields bought in the land, of which you say, ‘It shall be destitute of man and beast; and they are delivered into the hands of the Chaldeans.’

Jer_32:43 (39:43) καὶ κτηθήσονται ἔτι ἀγροὶ ἐν τῇ γῇ, ᾗ σὺ λέγεις Ἄβατός ἐστιν ἀπὸ ἀνθρώπων καὶ κτήνους καὶ παρεδόθησαν εἰς χεῖρας Χαλδαίων.

Admit Responsibility to Beg!

2/8/26; 2/15/26

Admit the Problem

Admitting you Have a Problem

· Admit that you have a problem

· Embrace how deep The desolation of your flesh has separated you from (A) God in heaven & (B) God on Earth

Collaborative Summary:

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Bible Summary of Admitting Problem

Confessing, Acknowledging, Not Hiding

Avoiding Confessions -- Denial

[Isa_59:2 – Your Sins have separated! ↓]

Isa_59:12-13 – Transgressions testify; deny → rebellion

Jer_3:13 – Acknowledge iniquity; return!

Rev_3:17-19 – They think they’re rich; actually wretched; so repent!

Imperfect Confessions

Bumpy Reluctant Problematic Admittance

Gen_3:12-13 – Adam & Eve: “blame-shift” vs. affirming personal failure?

Jos_7:19-21 – Achan confesses hidden sin -- reluctantly, after exposure

1Sa_15:24 – Saul admits sin: feared people, obeyed them

Inspired Confessions

Hos_5:15 – Affliction → seek; acknowledge offense

Psa_32:3-5 – Silence vs confession; sin acknowledged, forgiven

Psa_51:3-4 – Sin ever before me; against You

Job_42:5-6 – Job repents: dust and ashes

[Pro_28:13 MT – conceals → no mercy; confesses → mercy]

Isa_6:5 – Undone; unclean lips; sinful people

Dan_9:4-6 – National confession; sinned, rebelled

Luk_5:8 – Peter: depart from me; I’m a sinful man

Luk_15:18-21 – Prodigal: I’ve sinned against heaven/father

Luk_18:13 – Tax Collector: be appeased/atoning to me, a sinner

Act_19:18 – Many confess deeds (openly/publically)

Joh_1:7-10 – Confess → cleaned/forgiven (denial = liar)

1Co_11:31 – Judge ourselves to avoid judgment

Jam_5:16 – Confess faults to one another

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Ecc_7:20 – no righteous man who does not sin

Joh_1:8-10 – Say no sin → liar; confess → forgiven

Rom_3:10-23 – none righteous; all sinned

2Sa_12:13 – David: I have sinned

Psa_51:10-12 – create clean heart; restore

Confessing is very related to…

Take Responsibility

Take personal responsibility for all the evil that Is there

Heb3

Don't say I need more information

Desolation is your own self-caused problem, and your flesh avoids it, and you need to embrace reality

Collaborative Summary:

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Bible Summary of Taking Responsibility

Owning Guilt, Turning, Correcting

Gen_4:7 – Sin crouching; must rule it

Deu_30:19 – Choose life; you and descendants

Pro_1:23 – Turn at reproof

Pro_4:26-27 – Make straight paths; turn from evil

Pro_28:13 – Forsake sin to obtain mercy

Isa_1:16-18 – Cease evil; reason; be clean

Eze_18:30-32 – Repent; new heart; turn and live

Mat_3:8 – Fruits worthy of repentance

Mat_7:5 – Remove your plank first

Luk_3:8-14 – Baptism: specific corrective actions (tax, soldiers)

Luk_19:8-9 – Zacchaeus restitution → salvation

Act_2:37-38 – Repent; be baptized

Act_26:20 – Repent; turn; deeds fit repentance

Rom_6:11-13 – Present yourselves to God

Rom_12:1-2 – Renew your mind; be transformed

1Co_9:27 – Discipline body; lest I be disqualified

2Co_7:10-11 – Godly sorrow → repentance, change, zeal

Gal_6:5 – Each bears own load

Eph_4:22-24 – Put off old; put on new

Tit_2:11-14 – Deny ungodliness; zealous for good

Jam_1:22 – Be doers, not hearers only

1Pe_4:17 – Judgment begins at God’s house

Rev_2:5 – Remember; repent; do first works

Beg

Not just 'God in heaven', but also God on Earth.

In fact, if you just pray to a God in heaven and atheisticly disarrange on Earth, you are without God, and therefore you’re an atheist who is intercepted by other gods

Heb3 errors avoid the clean faith and justice of begging righteousness right in front of you

Begging from Physical to Spiritual

Flesh sometimes knows how to beg people for money, health, and physical well-being

But atheistically perverts to assume non-inspiration to always error and not be eager to be the righteous

Mat_5:3 – Jesus blessed the SPIRITUAL beggars

You don't need to be a physical beggar of money as much as you need to be spiritual beggar of salvation

Stop Pretending like people don't represent God to you.

Stop pretending like they can't save you if they are righteous and have God's salvation in them and are offering it to you

See: People “Saving” Others

Stop pretending like…

· they need to prove inspiration to you when obedience is already proven

· You just need more information, when you haven't been responsible with the information you've already got

Religion/Luxury Keeps you dry-eyed at the Truth

· Faith makes you respond

· Religion is inconsistent (Mat_23:)

· Inconsistent Hypocrisy: Religion is disconnected from the information and Truth right in front of you

· Truth: Matching what’s there; Correlating with reality

· Consistency: the heart response of brokenness and humble desperation under desolation that produces zealous action from faith in connecting reality to your entire life

>>Scrip: ES

Act_16:14 – God opened Lydia’s heart to listen to the things spoken by Paul

The Lord opened her heart to respond to the things spoken by Paul

Assuming Against Proof/Truth

The wicked flesh not only assumes non-inspiration without evidence, but in fact actually zealously demands non-inspiration contrary to clear scientific proof

People “Saving” Others

Saviors, Deliverers, Human Instruments

Ordained Human agency for salvation is why you need to also Beg God on Earth!

Collaborative Summary:

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Old Testament -- Human Saviors

Jdg_2:16 – LORD raised judges who saved them

Jdg_3:9 – Othniel raised; saved Israel

Jdg_3:15 – Ehud raised; saved Israel

Jdg_6:14 – Gideon commissioned to save

Jdg_8:22 – Gideon called “ruler/savior”

Jdg_10:1 – Tola arose to save Israel

Jdg_12:3 – Jephthah delivered Israel

1Sa_11:13 – Lord worked salvation through Saul (1Sa_11:11)

2Sa_3:18 – David to save Israel from enemies

2Ki_13:5 – Deliverer raised for Israel

Neh_9:27 – God gave them saviors

Oba_1:21 – Saviors come up on Mount Zion

New Testament -- Human Saviors

Mat_10:22 – He who endures saved

Mar_8:35 – Lose life to save it

Act_2:40 – Save yourselves from crooked generation

Rom_11:14 – Paul: Save some of my flesh (Israelites)

1Co_7:16 – Save your husband or wife

1Co_9:22 – Save some by all means

1Ti_4:16 – Save yourself and hearers

Jam_5:19-20 – Turning a sinner saves soul from death

Jud_1:23 – Save others; snatch from fire

Eph_5:22-33 – Husband Savior of wife/body

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Joh_4:42 – Jesus Savior; mediated by woman’s testimony

Luk_1:71 – Salvation through Davidic deliverer (human agency)

The Fruit of Separation

5/19/17; 5/21/17; 5/26/17-5/27/17; 6/11/17; 1/30/26-1/31/26

Why am I Being Tested by Times of Separation?

Probation and/or Refinement -- 2 Reasons for Separation Testing

· Sometimes extended testings of absence are because of the need to reestablish faithfulness. (as seen throughout all of the previous references)

· Other times Separation testings are simply there to refine your faith, “which is more precious than gold” (1Pe_1:7-9 -- quoted below).

· Either your character is still in Probation and/or your faith is being refined as gold

No matter what reason your faith might be tested by difficult separations, make sure you win gloriously so you can be rewarded with greatness and much rejoicing in the end, when all consolations reunite for praises and exaltations and rewards.

So why are you going through long-distance trials?

It actually depends on your level of probation.

The Fruit of Refinement Separation Testing

1Pe_1:7 LB so that the genuineness [testing and approving] of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes, though being tested with fire, may be found to praise, honor, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

1Pe_1:7 ἵνα τὸ δοκίμιον ὑμῶν τῆς πίστεως ^Aπολυτιμότερον |^TSBπολυ ^TSBτιμιωτερον| χρυσίου τοῦ ἀπολλυμένου διὰ πυρὸς δὲ δοκιμαζομένου εὑρεθῇ εἰς ἔπαινον καὶ ^TSBτιμὴν ^TSBκαὶ |^Bεις| δόξαν |^Aκαι ^Aτιμην| ἐν ἀποκαλύψει ᾿Ιησοῦ Χριστοῦ,

1Pe_1:8 Whom not having seen, you love, in whom now not seeing, but believing, you rejoice with inexpressible joy and glorified,

1Pe_1:8 ὃν οὐκ ^SAἰδότες |^TBειδοτες| ἀγαπᾶτε, εἰς ὃν ἄρτι μὴ ὁρῶντες, πιστεύοντες δὲ ἀγαλλιᾶσθε χαρᾷ ἀνεκλαλήτῳ καὶ δεδοξασμένῃ,

1Pe_1:9 obtaining for yourselves the outcome your faith—the salvation of your souls.

1Pe_1:9 κομιζόμενοι τὸ τέλος τῆς πίστεως ^TSBὑμῶν |^Aυμων|, σωτηρίαν ψυχῶν.

The Fruit of Probation Separation Testing

5/21/17; 5/25/17-5/27/17

What is the purpose and hope and goal if you are hurting at a distance because of your own probation?

· The purpose of all of this long-distance testing is to give you a chance to actually have truth and life instead of being evil and treacherous in the Darkness.

· Probation is about quarantine.

· The gratifying stimulation of being around righteous people can madden the unfaithfulness of your already crazy soul.

· If you have nurtured unfaithfulness around the righteous, it is much better for you to face and fix your integrity issues in the pain of loneliness.

· When you are on probation, you do not need more input and investment, you need more output and fruit.

· If justice is your goal, then lonely trials have loads of usefulness and relevance.

· If you are not eager to rejoicing in this opportunity for justice, then why would you pretend to be interested in the Truth to begin with?

· Starve the flesh.

· Build up Godly passions.

· Store up a reward of faithful Love.

· Why should you wish for Moses to bear with unbelieving flesh?

· Why are you not rather burning inside to astonish Jesus with your faith? (i.e. “Faithful Love” -- as we have been talking about)

· Don't buck against God's correction.

· Don't despise His chastening.

· Don't blaspheme and contradict his Orthodox arrangement of your life.

· It will not go better for you if God or people invest more in you.

· It will go better for you if you get up and get jealous to give over some justice and bear some fruit.

· Get jealous and grab your trial by the horns.

· Believe and receive correction until it raises you up from the dead.

· Get like the repentant Corinthians got, and be jealous and indignant to clear yourself.

· Don't be a flesh ball and contradict your correction.

· Get spiritual and outdo the trial of your correction by giving over more faithful Love than is demanded from you.

What Zeal to Clear Yourselves

2Co_7:5 CAB For indeed, when we came to Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were afflicted on every side; outside were fightings, inside were fears.

2Co_7:5 Καὶ γὰρ ἐλθόντων ἡμῶν εἰς Μακεδονίαν οὐδεμίαν ἔσχηκεν ἄνεσιν ἡ σὰρξ ἡμῶν, ἀλλ᾿ ἐν παντὶ θλιβόμενοι· ἔξωθεν μάχαι, ἔσωθεν φόβοι.

2Co_7:6 Nevertheless God, who comforts the downcast, comforted us by the coming of Titus,

2Co_7:6 ἀλλ᾿ ὁ παρακαλῶν τοὺς ταπεινοὺς παρεκάλεσεν ἡμᾶς ὁ Θεὸς ἐν τῇ παρουσίᾳ Τίτου·

2Co_7:7 and not only by his coming, but also by the consolation with which he was comforted over you, as he reported to us your earnest longing, your mourning, your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced even more.

2Co_7:7 οὐ μόνον δὲ ἐν τῇ παρουσίᾳ αὐτοῦ, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐν τῇ παρακλήσει ᾗ παρεκλήθη ἐφ᾿ ὑμῖν, ἀναγγέλλων ἡμῖν τὴν ὑμῶν ἐπιπόθησιν, τὸν ὑμῶν ὀδυρμόν, τὸν ὑμῶν ζῆλον ὑπὲρ ἐμοῦ, ὥστε με μᾶλλον χαρῆναι,

2Co_7:8 Because even if I made you sorry in the letter, I do not regret it, even if I did regret it. For I perceive that the same letter made you sorry, though only for a season.

2Co_7:8 ὅτι εἰ καὶ ἐλύπησα ὑμᾶς ἐν τῇ ἐπιστολῇ, οὐ μεταμέλομαι, εἰ καὶ μετεμελόμην· βλέπω ^TSBγὰρ ^Aγαρ ὅτι ἡ ἐπιστολὴ ἐκείνη, εἰ καὶ πρὸς ὥραν ἐλύπησεν ὑμᾶς.

2Co_7:9 Now I rejoice, not because you were made sorry, but because your sorrow led to repentance; for you were made sorry in a godly manner, that you might suffer loss from us in nothing.

2Co_7:9 νῦν χαίρω, οὐχ ὅτι ἐλυπήθητε, ἀλλ᾿ ὅτι ἐλυπήθητε εἰς μετάνοιαν· ἐλυπήθητε γὰρ κατὰ Θεόν, ἵνα ἐν μηδενὶ ζημιωθῆτε ἐξ ἡμῶν.

2Co_7:10 For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, without regret; but worldly sorrow produces death.

2Co_7:10 ἡ γὰρ κατὰ Θεὸν λύπη μετάνοιαν εἰς σωτηρίαν ἀμεταμέλητον ^TSBκατεργάζεται· |^Aεργαζεται| ἡ δὲ τοῦ κόσμου λύπη θάνατον κατεργάζεται.

2Co_7:11 For behold this very thing, that you sorrowed in a godly manner, how much diligence it produced in you, even an eagerness to defend, even indignation, even fear, even longing, even zeal, even vengeance! In all things you demonstrated yourselves to be pure in this matter.

2Co_7:11 ἰδοὺ γὰρ αὐτὸ τοῦτο, τὸ κατὰ Θεὸν λυπηθῆναι ^TSBὑμᾶς, πόσην κατειργάσατο ὑμῖν σπουδήν, ἀλλὰ ἀπολογίαν, ἀλλὰ ἀγανάκτησιν, ἀλλὰ φόβον, ἀλλὰ ἐπιπόθησιν, ἀλλὰ ζῆλον, ^BAἀλλὰ |^TSαλλ| ἐκδίκησιν. ^TSAἐν παντὶ συνεστήσατε ἑαυτοὺς ἁγνοὺς εἶναι ^TSBἐν τῷ πράγματι.

2Co_7:12 Therefore, although I wrote to you, it was not for the sake of him who did the wrong, nor for the sake of him who was wronged, but so that your diligence on our behalf might be made known to you before God.

2Co_7:12 ἄρα εἰ καὶ ἔγραψα ὑμῖν, οὐχ ^TSBεἵνεκεν |^Aενεκεν| τοῦ ἀδικήσαντος οὐδὲ ^TSBεἵνεκεν |^Aενεκεν| τοῦ ἀδικηθέντος, ἀλλ᾿ ^TSBεἵνεκεν |^Aενεκεν| τοῦ φανερωθῆναι τὴν σπουδὴν ^TBAὑμῶν |^Sημων| τὴν ὑπὲρ ^TBAἡμῶν |^Sυμων| πρὸς ὑμᾶς ἐνώπιον τοῦ Θεοῦ.

2Co_7:13 Because of this we have been comforted. And in your comfort we rejoiced exceedingly more over the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all.

2Co_7:13 Διὰ τοῦτο παρακεκλήμεθα. ἐπὶ ^BAδὲ τῇ παρακλήσει ^TSBυμων |^Aἡμῶν| περισσοτέρως |^TSδε| μᾶλλον ἐχάρημεν ἐπὶ τῇ χαρᾷ Τίτου, ὅτι ἀναπέπαυται τὸ πνεῦμα αὐτοῦ ἀπὸ πάντων ὑμῶν·

>> Sync: LOV (multiple) | DAR

>> Get some of these?

TSK on 2Co_7:11

carefulness: 2Co_7:7, 1Co_12:25, Tit_3:8

clearing: Gen_44:6, Gen_44:7, 1Co_5:13, Eph_5:11, 1Ti_5:21, 1Ti_5:22

indignation: 2Sa_12:5-7, Neh_5:6-13, Neh_13:25, Job_42:6, Jer_31:18-20, Dan_6:14, Mar_3:5, Eph_4:26

fear: 2Co_7:1, Psa_2:11, Pro_14:16, Pro_28:14, Rom_11:20, Phi_2:12, Heb_4:1, Heb_12:15, Heb_12:16, 1Pe_1:17, Jud_1:23

vehement: Psa_38:9, Psa_42:1, Psa_130:6, Psa_145:19, Son_8:6, Isa_26:8, 1Pe_2:2

zeal: 2Co_9:2, Psa_69:9, Psa_119:139, Joh_2:17, Act_17:16

revenge: Psa_35:13, Mat_5:29, Mat_5:30, Mar_9:43-48, Rev_3:19

approved: 2Co_6:4, 2Co_13:7, Rom_14:18, 2Ti_2:15

Jesus’ Only Astonishments in Scripture: Faith & Unfaith

· Mat_8:5-13 – Jesus hot-breathed at such great faith [ὁ ᾿Ιησοῦς ἐθαύμασε]

· Mar_6:1-6 – Jesus hot-breathed because of their unbelief/unfaith [ἐθαύμαζε διὰ τὴν ἀπιστίαν αὐτῶν]

The Answers of Being Faithful & Being Spiritual

6/11/17

Being faithful is your first answer for a trial of separation, and being spiritual is your ultimate answer.

· Jesus is the comforter

· Paul is spiritual and able to be in more than one place at the same time, and rejoices over the good truth in the assemblies.

The Answer of Ruth’s Forsake-All Presence

6/11/17; 1/31/26

Ruth was widowed from all marital affection, but then had a change to leave everything to stay around Naomi and live with the people of God in Israel.

The rewarding answer to painful separation trials is when you finally get to forsake all and gladly be around the righteous!

Obsessing for God's Presence

1/31/26

Identity First!

Prerequisites for Passion (Clean Fire)

· Identify the Right God! -- this is virtually ALWAYS skipped!

· Then you’ll obsess over finding Him being with You!

Collaborative Summary:

-- Under Construction --

Longing, Thirsting, Seeking God’s Presence

Gen_28:16 – God present, awakening

Exo_33:15 – presence required to go

Exo_33:18 – desire to see glory

Deu_4:29 – seek Him with all

Jos_3:5 – God among His people

1Sa_4:21-22 – glory departed grief

1Sa_16:13 – Spirit came upon

2Sa_6:14 – rejoicing before God

1Ki_8:10-11 – glory fills temple

2Ch_7:1-3 – fire, glory fills

Ezr_8:21 – seek safe presence

Neh_1:11 – attentive presence sought

Job_23:3 – longing to find God

Psa_16:11 – fullness of joy

Psa_17:15 – satisfied seeing Him

Psa_24:3-6 – seek His face

Psa_26:8 – love His dwelling

Psa_27:4 – dwell, behold beauty

Psa_27:8 – seek My face

Psa_42:1-2 – thirst for God

Psa_43:3-4 – bring me to You

Psa_63:1-2 – early seek presence

Psa_73:25 – none but You

Psa_84:1-2 – soul longs, faints

Psa_84:10 – better one day

Psa_90:14 – satisfied with mercy

Psa_91:1 – dwell with Most High

Psa_105:4 – seek face continually

Psa_132:7 – worship at footstool

Son_3:1-4 – searching for beloved

Isa_26:9 – soul desires You

Isa_55:6 – seek while near

Jer_29:12-13 – seek, find God

Hos_6:3 – press on know

Zep_2:3 – seek the LORD

Goodness of Being With Truth

God’s Presence as Life, Joy, Protection

Exo_25:8 – dwell among them

Exo_40:34-38 – glory guides Israel

Lev_26:11-12 – God walks among

Num_6:25-26 – face shines

Deu_31:6 - He goes with

Jos_1:9 – God with you

Psa_4:6-7 – joy from face

Psa_21:6 – glad with presence

Psa_46:5 – God in midst

Psa_89:15 – walk in light

Psa_140:13 – dwell in presence

Isa_41:10 – I am with

Isa_57:15 – dwell with humble

Isa_66:2 – Word-Trebeling

Eze_37:27 – dwelling with them

Mat_1:23 – God with us

Mat_28:20 – I am with

Joh_14:23 – make home with

Rom_8:10 – Christ in you

2Co_3:17 – where Spirit is

Col_1:27 – Christ in you

Rev_3:20 – knock, dine together

Rev_21:3 – God with men

Drawing Near,

Psa_73:28 – nearness is good

Heb_4:16 – come boldly

Heb_7:25 – draws near to God

Jam_4:8 – draw near

Remaining in God

Joh_15:4 – abide in Me

1Jn_2:24 – remain in Him

1Jn_3:24 – He abides in

Sizzling Examples of Closeness

People Who Chose God’s Presence Above All

Gen_5:24 – walked with God

Gen_26:24 – I am with you (God of Abraham)

Exo_33:11 – spoke face to face

Deu_34:10 – knew God personally

1Sa_3:10 – speak, LORD

1Ki_19:11-13 – presence in whisper

Dan_10:8-11 – strengthened by presence

Mar_3:14 – be with Him

Luk_10:39-42 – chose better part

Joh_1:39 – stayed with Him

Act_2:28 – joy in presence

Cry out for Holiness!

2/19/26

Are you really desperate for God's presence like so many people claim they are?

Are you really crying out to know who God really is and you'll do whatever it takes to get a hold of them close to him?

Now you finally get to hear the missing puzzle piece:

it's HOLINESS!

You don't really know God or want to be around Him until you find out what it means to get HOLY and PURE, not touching people outside of marriage, getting modest, finally getting pure and chaste and holy.

So many church people use of lot of words (and below a lot of hot air) squawking and talking endlessly about how much they “long for God”, but nobody is really serious about Biblical discipleship and getting trained as (a devoted apprentice in a spiritual internship) and getting serious to finally obey all the Bible in perfect Holiness to connect to the right God, so that you no longer satisfied with the presence of the gods but you actually want the clean and perfect infinite Bible obedient presence of God in the Bible!

Here's the next step if you're serious about Holiness:

Purity-Proclamation.htm#HolinessProclamation

And if you are ever finally convinced of the Truth, here's how you connect the real God through biblical obey-all, forsake-all, no-sin discipleship:

Discipleship-Training-Apprenticeship.htm

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