Behold ...as i was awakened ...these words were spken to me ...and a third measure given of two measures of matters given before ...namely 1st "kingdom within amerias" and namely 2nd "Joseph's people" ...and NOW this third of "Baal Peor" ...
and so it is am i moved to look to these measures of matters ...of Baal Peor ...even as the words were spoken to me ...so even of the spirit and truth do that ...
Of the first place ...place shown in God's 1st Truth ...is:
And Israel dwelt in Sittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab, which called the people unto the sacrifice of their gods. And the people ate and worshipped their gods, and Israel coupled himself unto Baal Peor. Then the Lord was angry with Israel, and said unto Moses: take all the heads of the people, and hang them up unto the Lord against the *son, that the wrath of the Lord may turn away from Israel. And Moses said unto the judges of Israel: go and slay those men that joined themselves unto *Baal Peor.
* this is the exact spelling from the text; sonne which is son, else where in the text sun is spelled sunne. I put nothing of my own understanding to this, * Baal Peor from the Hebrew is "lord of the gap", where "lord is man" as in man lording over himself. OR ...and MARK this ...if ANY man ..."man" ...or organization of man CAN "stand in the gap" ??? tween any soul and God my father ??? NONE ...NO NOT ONE ...only Jesus is able worthy and can mend any soul unto God my father ...ONLY HIM ...
And behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought unto his brethren, a Madianitish wife even in the sight of Moses and in the sight of all the multitude of the children of Israel, as they were weeping in the door of the tabernacle of witness. And when Phineas the son of Eleazer the son of Aaron the priest saw it, he rose up out of the company and took a weapon in his hand, and went after the man of Israel into the whorehouse, and thrust them through: both the man of Israel and also the woman even through the belly of her. And the plague ceased from the children of Israel. And there died in the plague twenty four thousand.
And the Lord spake unto Moses saying: Phineas the son of Eleazer the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned mine anger away from the children of Israel, because he was jealous for my sake among them, that I had not consumed the children of Israel in my jealousy. Wherefore say: behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace, and he shall have it and his seed after him, even the covenant of the priests office for ever, because he was jealous for his Gods sake and made an atonement for the children of Israel.
The name of the Israelite which was smitten with the Madianitish wife, was Simri the son of Salu, a lord of an ancient house among the Simeonites. And the name of the Madianitish wife, was Cosbi the daughter of Zur and head over the people of an ancient house in Madian.
And the Lord spake unto Moses saying: vex the Madianites and smite them, for they have troubled you with their wiles with thee which they have beguiled you, through Peor and through their sister Cosbi the daughter of a lord in Madian, which was slain in the day of the plague for Peors sake.
And after the plague, the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Eleazer saying: take the number of all the multitude of the children of Israel from twenty years and above throughout their fathers houses, all that are able to go to war in Israel. And Moses and Eleazer the priest told them in the fields of Moab, by Jordan fast by Jericho, from twenty years and above, as the Lord commanded Moses. And the children of Israel that came of Egypt were:
evenso it is worthy if any might see to read the "rest" of these measures of matters ...as were the children prepared and a way ..."the way" made for them ...as to the "crossing" over the river Jordan ...
And now hearken Israel unto the ordinances and laws which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live and go and conquer the land which the Lord God of your fathers giveth you. Ye shall put nothing unto the word which I command you neither do ought therefrom, that ye may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you. Your eyes have seen what the Lord did unto Baal Peor: for all the men that followed Baal Peor, the Lord your God hath destroyed from among you. But ye that cleaved unto the Lord your God, are alive every one of you this day. Behold, I have taught you ordinances and laws, such as the Lord my God commanded me, that ye should do even so in the land whither ye go to possess it.
MMM...? is this those 150 dieverse "bibles of man" ...IN witch these have ADDED and TAKEN OUT MUCH ??? ..."Ye shall put nothing unto the word which I command you neither do ought therefrom, that ye may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you."
Keep them therefore and do them, for that is your wisdom and understanding in the sight of the nations: which when they have heard all these ordinances, shall say: O' what a wise and understanding people is this great nation. For what nation is so great that hath gods so nigh unto him: as the Lord our God is nigh unto us, in all things, when we call unto him? Yea, and what nation is so great that hath ordinances and laws so righteous, as all this law which I set before you this day.
Take heed to thyself therefore only and keep thy soul diligently, that thou forget not the things which thine eyes have seen, and that they depart not out of thine heart, all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons sons. The day that I stood before the Lord your God in Horeb, when he said unto me, gather me the people together, that I may make them hear my words that they may learn to fear me as long as they live upon the earth and that they may teach their children: ye came and stood also under the hill, and the hill burnt with fire: even unto the midst of heaven, and there was darkness, clouds and mist. And the Lord spake unto you out of the fire and ye heard the voice of the words: But saw no image, save heard a voice only.
And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to do, even ten verses and wrote them in two tables of stone. And the Lord commanded me the same season to teach you ordinances and laws, for to do them in the land whither ye go to possess it.
Take heed unto yourselves diligently as pertaining unto your souls, for ye saw no manner of image the day when the Lord spake unto you in Horeb out of the fire lest ye marre yourselves and make you graven images after whatsoever likeness it be: whether after the likeness of man or woman or any manner beast that is on the earth or of any manner feathered fowl that flyeth in the air, or of any manner worm that creepeth on the earth or of any manner fish that is in the water beneath the earth: Yea and lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the *son and the moon and the stars and whatsoever is contained in heaven, shouldest be deceived and shouldest bow thyself unto them and serve the things which the Lord thy God hath distributed unto all nations that are under all quarters of heaven.
For the Lord took you and brought you out of the iron furnace of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as it is come to pass this day. Furthermore, the Lord was angry with me for your sakes and sware, that I should not go over Jordan and that I should not go unto that good land, which the Lord thy God giveth thee to inheritance. For I must die in this land, and shall not go over Jordan: But ye shall go over and conquer that good land.
Take heed unto yourselves therefore, that ye forget not the appointment of the Lord your God which he made with you, and that ye make you no graven image of whatsoever it be that the Lord thy God hath forbidden thee. For the Lord thy God is a consuming fire, and a jealous God.
If after thou hast gotten children and childrens children and hast dwelt long in the land, ye shall marre yourselves and make graven images after the likeness of whatsoever it be, and shall work wickedness in the sight of the Lord thy God, to provoke him. I call heaven and earth to record unto you this day, that ye shall shortly perish from off the land whither ye go over Jordan to possess it: Ye shall not prolong your days therein, but shall shortly be destroyed. And the Lord shall scatter you among nations, and ye shall be left few in number among the people whither the Lord shall bring you: and there ye shall serve gods which are the works of mans hand, wood and stone which neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell. Neverthelater ye shall seek the Lord your God even there, and shalt find him if thou seek him with all thine heart and with all thy soul. In thy tribulation and when all these things are come upon thee, even in the latter days, thou shalt turn unto the Lord thy God, and shalt hearken unto his voice. For the Lord thy God is a pitiful God: he will not forsake thee neither destroy thee, nor forget the appointment made with thy fathers which he sware unto them.
For ask pray thee of the days that are past which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth and from the one side of heaven unto the other, whether anything hath been like unto this great thing or whether any such thing hath been heard as it is, that a nation hath heard the voice of God speaking out of fire as thou hast heard, and yet lived? either whether God assayed to go and take him a people from among nations, through temptations and signs and wonders and through war and with a mighty hand and a stretched out arm and with mighty terrible sights, according unto all that the Lord your God did unto you in Egypt before your eyes.
Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest know, how that the Lord he is God and that there is none but he. Out of heaven he made thee hear his voice to nurture thee, and upon earth he shewed thee his great fire, and thou heardest his words out of the fire. And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them and brought thee out with his presence and with his mighty power of Egypt: to thrust out nations greater and mightier than thou before thee, to bring thee in and to give thee their land to inheritance: as it is come to pass this day.
Understand therefore this day and turn it to thine heart, that the Lord he is God in heaven above and upon the earth beneath there is no more: keep therefore his ordinances, and his commandments which I command thee this day, that it may go well with thee and with thy children after thee and that thou mayst prolong thy days upon the earth which the Lord thy God giveth thee thy life long.
Then Moses severed three cities on the other side Jordan toward the *son rising, that he should flee thither which had killed his neighbor unwares and hated him not in time past, and therefore should flee unto one of the same cities and live: Bezer in the wilderness even in the plain country among the Rubenites: and Ramoth in Galaad among the Gadites and Solan in Basan among the Manassites. *exact spelling elsewhere in the text is sun spelled sunne, here is sonne as is son.
This is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel, and these are the witnesses, ordinances and statutes which Moses told the children of Israel after they came out of Egypt, on the other side Jordan in the valley beside Beth Pheor in the land of Sehon king of the Amorites which dwelt at Hesbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel smote after they were come out of Egypt, and conquered his land and the land of Og king of Basan two kings of the Amorites on the other side Jordan toward the *son rising: from Aroer upon the bank of the river Arnon, unto Mount Sion which is called Hermon and all the fields on the other side Jordan eastward: even unto the sea in the field under the springs of Phasgah.*exact spelling elsewhere in the text is sun spelled sunne, here is sonne as is son.
O' give thanks unto the Lord, for he is gracious, and his mercy endureth for ever.
Who can express the noble acts of the Lord, or showeth forth all his praise?
Blessed are they that always keep judgment, and do righteousness.
Remember us, O' Lord, according to the favor that thou bearest unto thy people: O' visit us with thy saving health.
That we may see the pleasure of thy chosen, that we might rejoice in the gladness of thy people, and give thanks with *thine inheritance.
* The Lords inheritance are the Christians whose hearts the holy ghost possesses: which go neareth them by the virtue of the word, after his will and pleasure. MN
We have sinned with our fathers, we have done amiss, we have dealt wickedly.
Our fathers regarded not thy wonders in Egypt, they kept not thy great goodness in remembrance: but were disobedient at the sea, even at the *reed sea.
*KJ = Red sea, the Hebrew for reed means: greening, uncovered, measured, God knows . RN
Nevertheless, he helped them for his names sake, that he might make his power to be known.
He rebuked the reed sea, and it was dried up: so he led them through the deep as in a wilderness.
Thus he saved them from the hand of the hater, and delivered them from the hand of the enemy.
As for those that troubled them the waters overwhelmed them, there was not one of them left.
Then believed they in his word, and sang praise unto him.
But within a while they forgot his works, and would not abide his counsel.
A lust came upon them in the wilderness, so that they tempted God in the desert.
Yet he gave them their desire, and sent them enough at their wiles.
They angered Moses in the tents, and Aaron the sanctity of the Lord.
So that the earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the congregation of Abiram.
*Dathan = "belonging to a fountain" (that is a false fountain) *Abiram= "my father is exalted " or " (the) Exalted One is (my) father"..
The fire was kindled in their company, the flame burned up the wicked.
They made a calf in *Horeb, and worshipped the molten image.
* Horeb = "desert" another name for Mount Sinai from which God gave the law to Moses and the Israelites : to be waste, lay waste, make desolate, be desolate, be in ruins. RN
Thus they turned their glory into the similitude of a calf, that eateth hay.
They forgot God their Savior, which had done so great things in Egypt.
Wondrous works in the land of Ham, and fearful things in the reed sea.
So he said he would have destroyed them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in that gap: to turn away his wrathful indignation, lest he should destroy them.
*Here you have the true sense of "standing in the gap" as found Ezek 22 . RN
Yee, they thought scorn of the pleasant land, and gave no credence to his word.
But murmured in their tents, and hearkened not unto the voice of the Lord.
Then lift he up his own hand against them, to overthrow them in the wilderness.
To cast out their seed among the nations, and to scatter them in the lands.
They joined themselves unto *Baal Peor, and ate the offering of the dead.
* Baal-peor = "lord of the gap" again this is an "earthly Lord" who with spiritual lies and deception ; would have folks believe that he and his company, do stand in the gap between men and God. RN
Thus they provoked him unto anger with their own *inventions, and the plague was great upon them.
Then stood up Phinehas, and executed justice, and so the plague ceased.
*Phinehas = "mouth of brass" RN
And that was counted unto him for righteousness, among all the posterities for evermore.
They angered him also at the waters of strife, so that Moses was punished for their sakes.
Because they provoked his spirit, and he told them plainly with his lips.
Neither destroyed they the Heathen, as the Lord commanded them.
But were mingled among the Heathen, and learned their works.
In so much that they worshipped their images, which turned to their own decay.
Yee, they offered their sons and their daughters unto devils.
And shed the innocent blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they offered unto the images of Canaan, so that the land was defiled with blood.
Thus were they stained with their own works, and went a-whoring with their own inventions.
Therefore was the wrath of the Lord kindled against his people, insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance.
And he gave them over into the hand of the Heathen, and they that hated them, were lords over them.
Their enemies oppressed them, and had them in subjection.
Many a time did he deliver them, but they provoked him with their own inventions, and were brought down for their wickedness.
Nevertheless when he saw their iniquity, he heard their complaint.
He thought upon his covenant, and pitied them, according unto the multitude of his mercies.
Yee he made all those that had led them away captive, to pity them.
Deliver us, O' Lord our God, and gather us from among the Heathen: that we may give thanks unto thy holy name, and to make our boast of thy praise.
Blessed be the Lord God of Israel from everlasting and world without end, and let all the people say: Amen, Amen.
Do not triumph, O Israel make no boasting more then the Heathen, for thou hast committed *advoutry against thy God: strange rewards hast thou loved, more than all thy corn floors. Therefore shall they no more enjoy the corn floors and winepresses, and their sweet wine shall fail in them. They will not dwell in the Lords land, but Ephraim turneth again into Egypt, and eateth unclean things among the Assyrians. They pour out no wine for a drink offering unto the Lord, neither give they him their slain offerings: but they be unto them as mourners meats, wherin all they that eat them, are defiled. For the bread that they have such lust unto, shall not come into the house of the Lord. What will ye do then in the solemn days, and in the feast of the Lord? Lo, they shall get them away for the destruction? Egypt shall receive them, and Noph shall bury them.
*advoutry: prefix "a" meaning not or without, devout: devotion; plain hearted to God, being devoted to something or some one else. see James 2 for adultery
The nettles shall overgrow their pleasant goods, and burrs shall be in their tabernacles. Be ye sure ( O Israel ) the time of visitation is come, the days of recompensing are at hand.
As for the prophet, ye hold him for a fool: and him that is rich in spirit, for a mad man: so great is your wickedness and malice. Ephraim hath made himself a watchman of my God, a prophet that is become a snare to do hurt in every street, an abomination in the house of his God. They be gone too far, like as they did afore time at Gabaa. Therefore their wickedness shall be remembered, and their sins punished.
I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness, and saw their fathers as the first figs in the top of the fig tree. But they are gone to Baal Peor, and ruin. away from me to that shameful Idol, and are become as abominable as their lovers. Ephraim*, flyeth like a bird, so shall their glory also: In so much, that they shall neither beget, conceive nor bare children. And though they bring up any, yet will I make them childless among men. Yee woe shall come to them, when I depart from them. Ephraim (as me think ) is planted in wickedness, like Tyrus, but now must she bring her own children forth to the manslayer.
O' Lord thou shalt give them: what shalt thou give them? give them an unfruitful womb and dry breasts. All their wickedness is done in Gilgall, there do I abhor them. For the ungraciousness of their own inventions, I will drive them out of mine house. I will love them no more, for all their princes are unfaithful. Ephraim is hewn down, their root is dried up, for they shall bring no more fruit: yee and though they bring forth any, yet will I slay even the best beloved fruit of their body. My God shall cast them away, for they have not been obedient unto him, therefore shall they go astray among the Heathen.
Even so of prayer in the midst of the day and of rest ...with these measures of matter on mine heart ...did my Lord minister to me saying "show them ...I hate and abhor your holy days, " ...and so here it is ...and again we see "yet ye set up tabernacles to your Moloch, and images of your Idols, yee and the star of your God *Rempha, figures which ye made to worship them"
I hate and abhor your holy days, and where ye cense me when ye come together I will not except it. And though ye offer me burnt offerings and meat offerings, yet have I no pleasure therin. As for your fat thank offerings, I will not look upon them. Away with the noise of thy songs, I will not hear thy plays of your music: but see that equity flow as water, and righteousness as a mighty stream. O ye house of Israel, gave ye me offerings and sacrifices those forty years long in the wilderness? yet ye set up tabernacles to your Moloch, and images of your Idols, yee and the star of your God *Rempha, figures which ye made to worship them. Therefore will I cause you to be carried away beyond Damascus, saith the Lord, whose name is the God of Hosts. *Rempha : left out of KJV here, but found in Acts .
The question comes ...??? if then God hates and abhors these "holy days and censing ...when THEY CAME TOGETHER...the same days HE gave them ...the same censing HE showed them ...the coming together as HE showed them ...Now we see that they make a mockery of it ...for their own pleasure and chopped and changed the WORD of God ...MMM...question is ...What is He going to do with all these dieverse religions and church practices ...that HE DID NOT GIVE THEM ...???