And measures and matters of The Truth of the "time" we are in ...how "man" ..."thought to change time and times ... wise is the fox...
Dearly beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, how that one day is with the Lord, as a thousand year, and a thousand year as one day. The Lord is not slack to fulfil his promise, as some men count slackness: but is patient to us ward, and would have no man lost, but would receive all men to repentance. creteis@yahoo.com Behold in a dream of the night season ...of the dark season ...of the times and time ..of the season of man ...see son of man ...
and i was taken in the midst of a measure of matters ...
and of course ...most ....all the measures of matters were unseen ...hidden of a few ....hidden from the most ...
Now again ...in the midst of these things ...a voice spoke to me ....
and the voice said "wise is the fox that leadeth the hunters to another prey" ...
and that spoke exactly to me ...and nothing more nor less ...
and when i was awake...when i woke up ...when i opened mine eyes ...
even so i thought to discern this saying of mine own thinking ...NOT!
nevertheless i prayed and went to the word of God ...
even went to the Word of God and prayed ...
and Behold this is what i was shown ...of the Word of God ...
But it chanced within a while after, even in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a Kid. And when he supposed to have gone in unto his wife into the chamber, her father would not suffer him to go in: But said: I thought that thou hadst hated her, and therefore gave I her unto one of thy companions. Howbeit her younger sister is fairer than she. Take her instead of the other. Then said Samson unto them: Now I am blameless concerning the Philistines though I do them evil.
And Samson went out and caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands, and fastened tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the midst between two tails. And he set the firebrands on fire, and put them into the corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the reaped corn and also the standing, with vine and olives. Then the Philistines asked, who had done that? And it was told them that Samson the son in law of the Thamnite, because he had taken his wife and given her to one of his companions. And the Philistines came and burnt her and her father with fire.
And Samson said unto them: should ye do so? for I will surely be avenged of you, and then I will cease. And he smote them leg and thigh with a mighty plague. And then he went and dwelt in the cave of the rock Etam.
SECOND BOOK OF EZDRAS Chpt 4 (called Nehemiah if from the Latin)
But when Sanabalat heard that we builded the wall, he was wroth and took great indignation and mocked the Jews and said before his brethren and the host of Samaria: What do the impotent Jews? shall they be thus *suffered shall they offer? shall they perform it in one day? shall they make the stones whole again that are brought to dust, and are burnt? And Tobiah the Ammonite beside him said: Let them build on, if a fox go up, he shall break down their stoney wall. Hear O' thou our God, how we are despised, turn their shame upon their own head, that thou mayest give them over to despising in the land of their captivity. Cover not their wickedness, and put not out their sin from thy presence: for they have provoked the builders. Yet builded we the wall, and joined it whole together, unto the half height. And the people were well minded to labor.
But when Sanabalat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and Ammonites, and Asdodits heard that the walls of Jerusalem were made up, and that they had begun to stop up the gaps they were very wroth, and conspired all together to come and fight against Jerusalem, and to make a hinderance therein. Nevertheless we made our prayer unto our God, and set watchmen upon the wall day and night over against them. And Judah said: the strength of the bearers is too feeble, and there is too much dust, we are not able to build the wall. And our adversaries thought: they shall not know neither see, till we come in the midst among them, and slay them, and hinder the work. But when the Jews that dwelt beside them, came out of all the places where they dwelt about us, and told us as good as ten times, then set I the people after their kindreds with their swords, spears, and bows beneath in the low places behind the wall, and looked, and gat me up, and said unto the chief men and rulers, and to the other people: Be not ye afraid of them think yee upon the great Lord which ought to be feared and fight for your brethren, sons, daughters, wives, and your houses. Nevertheless when our enemies heard that we had gotten word of it, God brought their counsel to nought, and we turned again to the wall, every one unto his labor. And from that time forth it came to pass, that the half part of the young men did the labor, and the other half part held spears, shields, bows, and breastplates: and the rulers stood behind all the house of Judah, which builded on the wall, and bare burdens, from those that *laded them. With one hand did they the work, and with the other held they their weapon. And everyone that builded, had his sword girded by his side, and so builded they. And the trumpeters stood beside me.
And I said unto the principal men, and rulers, and to the other people: the work is great and large, and we are separated upon the wall one far from another. Look in what place now ye hear the noise of the trumpet, resort ye thither unto us. Our God shall fight for us, and we will be laboring in the work. And the half of them held the spears from the morning spring, till the stars came forth. And at the same time said I unto the people: every one abide with his servant at Jerusalem, that in the night season we may give attendance to the watch, and to labor on the day time. As for me and my brethren, and my servants, and the men of the watch behind me, we put never off our clothes, so much as to wash ourselves.*suffered (allowed/tolerated?) *laded = To load with or as if with cargo (baggage). To place (something) as a load for or as if for shipment (sent to one place or the other). weigh down. To take up or remove (water) with a ladle or dipper.
They seek after my soul, but in vain, for they shall go under the earth.
They shall fall into the sword, and be a portion for foxes.
But the King shall rejoice in God: all they that swear by him, shall be commended, for the mouth of liars shall be stopped.THE BALLET OF BALLETS OF SOLOMON Chpt 2
*I am the flower of the field, a lily of the valleys: as the rose among the thorns, so is my love among the daughters.
Like as the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. My delight is to sit under his shadow, for his fruit is sweet to my throat. He bringeth me in to *his wine cellar, and **loveth me specially well. Refesheth me with grapes, comfort me with apples, for I am sick of love. His left hand layeth under my head, and his right hand embraceth me.
I charge you, (O' ye daughters of Jerusalem) by the Roes and hinds of the field, that ye wake not up my love nor touche her, till she be content herself.
Me think I hear the voice of my beloved: lo, there cometh he hopping upon the mountains, and leaping over the little hills. My beloved is like a Roe or a young hart. Behold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh in at the window, and peepeth through the *grate. My beloved answered and said unto me,
Stand up my love, my dove, my beautiful, and come: For lo, the winter is now past, and the rain is away and gone. The flowers are come up in the field, the twisting time is come, and the voice of the turtle dove is heard in our land. The fig tree bringeth forth her figs, the vines bear blossoms, and have a good smell. Stand up my love, my beautiful, and come (O' my dove) out of the caves of the rocks, out of the holes in the wall: O' let me see thy countenance and hear thy voice, for sweet is thy voice, and fair is thy face.
Get us the foxes, yee the little foxes, that hurt the vines, for our vines bear blossoms.
My love is mine, and I am his, which feedeth among the lilies, until the day break, and till the shadows be gone. Come again privately ( O' my beloved ) like as a Roe or a young hart unto the mountains.*I am the flower of the field, (kjv = rose of Sharon)
*his wine cellar.*kjv = the banqueting house. **loveth me specially well.**kjv = his banner over me was love. *grate (lattice).THE LAMENTATIONS OF JEREMIAH Chpt 5
Afore time we yielded to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, only that we might have enough bread. Our fathers ( which are now gone ) have sinned, and we must bear their wickedness. Servants have rule over us, and no man delivereth us out of their hands. We must get our living with the peril of our lives because of the *drouth of the wilderness.
Our skin is as it had been burnt in an oven, for very sore hunger. The wives are ravished in Sion, and the maidens in the cities of Judah. The princes are hanged up with the hand of the enemies, they have not spared the old *sage men, they have taken young mens lives from them, and the boys are hanged up upon trees. The elders sit no more under the gates, and the young men use no more the playing of Music. The joy of our heart is gone, our merry *query is turned into mourning. The garland of our head is fallen: alas, that ever we sinned so sore.
Therefore our heart is full of heaviness, and our eyes dim: because of the hill of Sion that is destroyed. In so much that the foxes run upon it. But thou, O' Lord, that remainest for evermore, and thy seat world without end: Wherefore wilt thou still forget us, and forsake us so long? O' Lord, turn thou us unto thee, and so shall we be turned. Renew our days as in the old times, for thou hast banished us now long enough, and hast been sore displeased at us.The word of the Lord came unto me, saying: Thou son of man, speak prophesy against those prophets, that preach in Israel: and say thou unto them that prophesy out of their own hearts: Hear ye the word of the Lord, thus saith the Lord God: Woe be unto those foolish prophets, that follow their own spirit, and speak where they have seen nothing. O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes upon the dry field: For they stand not in the gaps, neither made they an hedge for the house of Israel, that men might abide the peril in the day of the Lord. Vain things they see, and tell lies, to maintain their preachings withal. The Lord ( saith they ) hath spoke it, when in very deed the Lord hath not sent them. Vain visions have ye seen, and spoken false prophesies, when ye say: the Lord hath spoken it where as I never said it.
Therefore, thus saith the Lord God: Because your words are vain, and ye seek out lies: Behold, I will upon you, saith the Lord. Mine hands shall come upon the prophets that look out vain things, and preach lies: they shall not be in the counsel of my people, nor shall they be written in the book of the house of Israel, neither shall they come in the land of Israel: that ye shall know, how that I am the Lord God. And that for this cause: they have deceived my people, and told them of peace, where no peace was. One seteth up a wall, and they daub it with loose clay. Therefore tell them that daub it with untempered mortar, that it shall fall. For there shall come a great shower of rain, great stones shall fall upon it, and a sore storm of wind shall break it, so shall that wall come down. Shall it not then be said unto you: where is now the mortar, that ye daubed it withal? Therefore thus saith the Lord God: I will break out in my wrothfull displeasure with a stormy wind, so that in mine anger there shall come a mighty shower of rain, and hailstones in my wrath, to destroy withal.
As for the wall, that ye have daubed with untempered mortar, I will break it down, make it even with the ground: so the foundation thereof shall remove, and it shall fall, yee and ye yourselves shall perish in the midst thereof: to learn you for to know, that I am the Lord. Thus will I perform my wrath upon this wall, and upon them that have daubed it with untempered mortar, and then will I say unto you: The wall is gone, and the daubers are away. These are the prophets of Israel, which prophesy unto the city of Jerusalem, and look out visions of peace for them, where as no peace is, saith the Lord God. Wherefore ( O thou son of man ) set thy face against the daughters of thy people, which prophesy out of their own hearts: and speak thou prophesy against them, and say: Thus saith the Lord God: Woe be unto you, that sew pillows under all armholes, and bolsters under the heads both of young and old, to catch souls withal. For when ye have gotten the souls of my people in your captivity, ye promise them life, and dishonor me to my people, for a handful of barley, and for a piece of bread: when ye kill the souls of them, that die not, and promise life to them, that live not: Thus ye dissemble with my people, that believeth your lies.
Wherefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I will also upon your pillows, wherewith ye catch the souls in flying: them will I take from your arms, and let the souls go, that ye catch in flying. Your bolsters also will I tear in pieces, and deliver my people out of your hand: so that they shall come no more in your hands to be spoiled, and ye shall know, that I am the Lord. Seeing that with your lies you discomfort the heart of the righteous, whom I have not discomforted: Again: For so much as ye courage the hand of the wicked, so that he may not turn from his wicked way, and live: therefore shall ye spy out no more vanity, nor prophecy your own guessings: for I will deliver my people out of your hand, that ye may know, how that I am the Lord.THE GOSPELL OF ST. MATTHEW Chpt 8
When Jesus saw much people about him, he commanded to go over the water. And there came a Scribe and said unto him: Master, I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest. And Jesus said unto him: the foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests, but the son of the man hath not whereon to rest his head. Another that was one of his Disciples said unto him: master, *suffer me first, to go and bury my father. But Jesus said unto him: follow me, and let the dead bury their dead.
THE GOSPELL OF ST. LUKE Chpt 9
And it followed when the time was come that he should be received up, then he set his face to go to Jerusalem, and sent messengers before him. And they went and entered into a city of the Samaritans to make ready for him. But they would not receive him, because his face was as though he would go to Jerusalem. When his disciples James and John saw that, they said. Lord, wilt thou that we command, that fire come down from heaven and consume them, even as *Helias did? Jesus turned about, and rebuked them saying: ye wot not what manner spirit ye are of. The son of man is not come to destroy mens lives, but to save them. And they went to another town. And it chanced as he went in the way, a certain man said unto him: I will follow thee whithersoever thou go. Jesus said unto him: foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests: but the son of man hath not whereon to lay his head.
And he said unto another: follow me. And the same said: Lord suffer me first to go and bury my father. Jesus said unto him. Let the dead, bury their dead: but go thou and preach the kingdom of God.
And another said: I will follow thee Lord: but let me first go bid them farewell, which are at home at my house. Jesus said unto him: No man that putteth his hand to the plough, and looketh back, is apt to the kingdom of God.THE GOSPELL OF ST. LUKE Chpt 13
The same day there came certain of the Pharisees and said unto him: Get thee out of the way, and depart hence: for Herod will kill thee. And he said unto them, Go ye and tell that fox, behold I cast out devils and heal the people today and tomorrow, and the third day I make an end. Nevertheless, I must walk today and tomorrow, and the day following: For it cannot be, that a Prophet perish any other where, save at Jerusalem.
O' Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest Prophets, and stonest them that are sent to thee: how often would I have gathered thy children together, as the hen gathereth her nest under her wings, but ye would not. Behold your habitation shall be left unto you desolate. For I tell you, ye shall not see me until the time come that ye shall say, blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.
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