Book of Obadiah – Oba 1:13 Thou Shouldest not have Entered into the Gate of My People

[Study Aired February 28, 2024]

Oba 1:13  Thou shouldest not have entered into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity; yea, thou shouldest not have looked on their affliction in the day of their calamity, nor have laid hands on their substance in the day of their calamity;

Oba 1:13  Thou shouldest not^H408 have entered^{H935 (H8799 Qal)} into the gate^H8179 of my people^H5971 in the day^H3117 of their calamity;^H343 yea,^H1571 thou^H859 shouldest not^H408 have looked^{H7200 (H8799 Qal)} on their affliction^H7451 in the day^H3117 of their calamity,^H343 nor^H408 have laid^{H7971 (H8799 Qal)} hands on their substance^H2428 in the day^H3117 of their calamity;^H343 

H408 – Al, not, no, nor, neither, nothing, do not, let not, let there not be, a negative particle

H935 – Bo, (Qal) to go, enter, come, come in/with/upon, fall or light upon, attack, come to pass, attain to, be enumerated, a primitive root

H8179 – Shahar, gate, from a primitive root H8176, Shawar, act as gate keeper, to split open, reason out, reckon, estimate, (Qal) to calculate, think Pro 23:7 (Used once in OT)

H5971 – Am, nation, people, persons, members of one’s people, compatriots, country-men, kinsman, kindred, from a primitive root H6004, Amam, to dim, darken, grow dark, eclipse, be held dark, be dimmed, grow dark (Used three times in OT)

H3117 – Yome, day, time, year, a working day, a day’s journey, days, lifetime, period (general), today, yesterday, tomorrow, from an unused root meaning to be hot

H343 – Ade, distress, burden, calamity, disaster, day of calamity from H181, Ood, brand, fire brand, (Used three times in OT) from an unused root meaning to rake together

H1571 – Gam, also, even, indeed, moreover, yea, neither, neither…nor, but, yet, though, yea though, again, alike, by contraction from an unused root

H859 – Attah, you, a primitive pronoun of the second person

H408 – see above

H7200 – Ra’ah, (Qal) to see, look at, inspect, perceive, consider, have vision, regard, look after/at, see after, learn about, observe, watch, look upon/out, find out, give attention to, discern, distinguish, gaze at, a primitive root

H7451 – Ra, bad, evil, disagreeable, malignant, unpleasant, evil, worse than, worst, sad, unhappy, unkind, wicked, distress, misery, injury, calamity, adversity, injury, wrong, from a primitive root H7489, Rawah, to be bad, be evil, be displeasing, be sad, be injurious, be wicked, do an injury or hurt, do evil or wickedly, mischief, to break, to shatter, broken, be broken, be broken in pieces, be broken asunder

H3117 – see above

H343 – see above

H408 – see above

H7971 – Shalach, (Qal) to send, send away, stretch out, extend, direct, let loose, a primitive root

H2428 – Khayil, strength, might, efficiency, wealth, army, ability, force, from a primitive root H2342, Khool, to twist, whirl, dance, writhe, fear, tremble, travail, be in anguish, be pained, whirl, whirl about, bear, bring forth, wait anxiously, be made to writhe/bear, be brought forth, be born, whirling, writhing, suffering torture, wait longingly, be distressed (Used five times in OT)

H3117 – see above

H343 – see above

H5971 (‘Am meaning a people, a flock) is from the root word H6004 aw-mam’ A primitive root meaning to associate; by implication to overshadow (by huddling together): – become dim, hide.

This root word appears three times in the Old Testament:

Lam 4:1  How is the gold become dim [H6004]! how is the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street.
Lam 4:2  The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!

It appears in the prophecy against the Prince of Tyre.

Ezk 28:1  The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,
Ezk 28:2  Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God:
Ezk 28:3  Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide [H6004] from thee:
Ezk 28:4  With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures:
Ezk 28:5  By thy great wisdom and by thy traffick hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches:
Ezk 28:6  Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast set thine heart as the heart of God;
Ezk 28:7  Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness.

It also appears in the prophecy of Ezekiel 31. Similar to the prophecy against the Prince of Tyre, the Egyptian Pharoah has a heart lifted up, a proud heart: “Because thou hast lifted up thyself in height, and he hath shot up his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height).”

We reap what we sow, and the consequences of a proud heart and striving to be tall in stature, striving to be counted worthy of respect, is that we are brought down:

Ezk 31:1  And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third month, in the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Ezk 31:2  Son of man, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude; Whom art thou like in thy greatness?
Ezk 31:3  Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing [H6751] shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs.
Ezk 31:4  The waters made him great, the deep set him up on high with her rivers running round about his plants, and sent out her little rivers unto all the trees of the field.
Ezk 31:5  Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of the field, and his boughs were multiplied, and his branches became long because of the multitude of waters, when he shot forth.
Ezk 31:6  All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under his shadow [H6738] dwelt all great nations.
Ezk 31:7  Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches: for his root was by great waters.
Ezk 31:8  The cedars in the garden of God could not hide [H6004] him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chestnut trees were not like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty.
Ezk 31:9  I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches: so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied him.
Ezk 31:10  Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast lifted up thyself in height, and he hath shot up his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;
Ezk 31:11  I have therefore delivered him into the hand of the mighty one of the heathen; he shall surely deal with him: I have driven him out for his wickedness.
Ezk 31:12  And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the rivers of the land; and all the people [H5971] of the earth are gone down from his shadow [H6738] , and have left him.
Ezk 31:13  Upon his ruin shall all the fowls of the heaven remain, and all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches…

Ezk 31:18  To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord GOD.

A word related to H6004 aw-mam’ (meaning to overshadow (by huddling together) is shadow.

Shadow appears as three Hebrew words:

H6751 (tsaw-lal’) a primitive root meaning to hover over, to shade, twilight, beginning to be dark, shadowing. (2 appearances)

H6752 (tsay’-lel) meaning shade, shadow (4 appearances)

H6738 (tsale) meaning shade, whether literally or figuratively: – defence, shade (-ow) [49 appearances)

Sng 2:17  Till the day doth break forth, And the shadows [H6752] have fled away, Turn [H5437], be like, my beloved, To a roe, or to a young one of the harts, On the mountains of separation!

We are instructed to turn from (avoid) our shadows (our time in the night) and be more like Christ. The Hebrew word for turn is H5437 saw-bab’ meaning to revolve/change

Ezk 7:22  My face will I turn [H5437] also from them, and they shall pollute my secret place: for the robbers shall enter into it, and defile it.

It is our day of calamity that is our day of judgment. The trials that occur in the heat of the day are what force us to turn from our shadows (our time in the night). This day of calamity is the destruction of the old man and his old ways, and judgment is now on the house of God. It is the brightness of Christ that produces in us a desire to daily turn from (avoid) our shadows.

Calamity H343 ‘êyd is from the same as H181 (firebrand, raking together) (in the sense of bending down); oppression; by implication misfortune, ruin: – calamity, destruction.

Jer 49:7  Concerning Edom, thus saith the LORD of hosts; Is wisdom no more in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom vanished?
Jer 49:8  Flee ye, turn back, dwell deep, O inhabitants of Dedan; for I will bring the calamity [H343] of Esau upon him, the time that I will visit him.
Jer 49:9  If grapegatherers come to thee, would they not leave some gleaning grapes? if thieves by night, they will destroy till they have enough.
Jer 49:10  But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, and he shall not be able to hide himself: his seed is spoiled, and his brethren, and his neighbours, and he is not.

Even when we sit in the darkness, we are not able to hide ourself, and we are saved by the light of Christ.

Mic 7:8 Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness [H2822], the LORD shall be a light unto me.

The word for darkness is H2822 (kho-shek’) meaning dark, misery, ignorance, death. The corresponding Greek word is G4655 (skot’-os) meaning darkness, shadiness, obscurity.

Mat 4:16 The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.

Pro 2:10 When wisdom [Christ] entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;
Pro 2:11 Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:
Pro 2:12 To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things;
Pro 2:13 Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness

Pro 4:19 The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.

Mankind, in his darkened, black, fleshly, carnal state cannot see even his righteousnesses are filthy rags and that God creates both light and darkness.

2Co 4:6 For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ [hidden in the ‘letters’ of the Old Testament].

1Pe 2:9 But ye [are] a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light [out of the letter and into the spirit]:

Psa 18:28 For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.

Conclusion and Spiritual Principle. We are first darkness because we are all in Adam (the first Adam shall die), but through Christ we are turned from darkness to light (in Christ all shall be made alive), but each man in his own order.

Act 26:18  To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.

1Co 15:22  For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.

Luk 1:79  To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.

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Revelation 4:6-7 – Four Beasts, Part 5

Updated February 23, 2024

Introduction

Last week we discovered the spiritual significance of the cloud, the four living creatures and the four faces of those four living creatures. Let us not forget that these are all patterns of the things of the heavens themselves:

Heb 9:23 It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these [the blood of bulls and goats]; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
Heb 9:24 For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:

I have been telling you that there were fourteen things which these two chapters have in common, but as my studies continued, I discovered that there are at least sixteen. That is two more which we must examine. Last week we examined three characteristics which Ezekiel 1 and 10 have in common. This week we will examine another five of the remaining thirteen things which these two chapters have in common concerning the spiritual significance of the patterns of the heavenly things themselves.

The five topics we will look at this week are the spiritual meaning of 1) four wings on each of the four cherubs, 2) the hands of a man under the wings of each cherub, 3) the spiritual significance of “they turned not when they went; they went every one straight forward”, 4) the spiritual meaning of “whither the spirit was to go, they went” and 5) “they four had one likeness” as it pertains to the four wheels which are by the four cherubims.

Patterns of The Heavenly Things Themselves

4) Each creature having four wings is common to both chapters. There are four wings because they signify the whole spirit of the whole body of Christ. Four is the whole of anything. In this case, it is the body of Christ and the spirit of Christ in that body.

Here is the link to the study of the number four: Number four

Eze 1:6 And every one had four faces, and every one had four wings.

Eze 1:11 Thus were their faces: and their wings were stretched upward; two wings of every one were joined one to another, and two covered their bodies.

Eze 1:23 And under the firmament were their wings straight, the one toward the other: every one had two, which covered on this side, and every one had two, which covered on that side, their bodies.

Eze 10:21 Every one had four faces apiece, and every one four wings; and the likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings.

It is also under His wings that God protects his elect:

Rth 2:12 The LORD recompense thy work, and a full reward be given thee of the LORD God of Israel, under whose wings thou art come to trust.

Psa 17:8 Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings,

Psa 36:7 How excellent is thy lovingkindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings.

Psa 91:4 He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth [shall be thy] shield and buckler.

Christ tells us that it is under His wings that we are protected.

Luk 13:34 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye would not!

Psa 46:1 A Song upon Alamoth. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

Joh 15:5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.

‘Wings’ in scripture, as do all things in scripture, have both a positive and a negative application. It is on “the wings of a stork” that the “two women” take the curse of wickedness into the land of Babylon or Shinar.

Zec 5:5 Then the angel that talked with me went forth, and said unto me, Lift up now thine eyes, and see what [is] this that goeth forth.
Zec 5:6 And I said, What is it? And he said, This is an ephah that goeth forth. He said moreover, This is their resemblance through all the earth.
Zec 5:7 And, behold, there was lifted up a talent of lead: and this is a woman that sitteth in the midst of the ephah.
Zec 5:8 And he said, This is wickedness. And he cast it into the midst of the ephah; and he cast the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof.
Zec 5:9 Then lifted I up mine eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came out two women, and the wind was in their wings; for they had wings like the wings of a stork: and they lifted up the ephah between the earth and the heaven.
Zec 5:10 Then said I to the angel that talked with me, Whither do these bear the ephah?
Zec 5:11 And he said unto me, To build it an house in the land of Shinar: and it shall be established, and set there upon her own base.

5) “They had the hands of a man under their wings“ is common to both chapters..

Eze 1:8 And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides; and they four had their faces and their wings.

Eze 10:21 Every one had four faces apiece, and every one four wings; and the likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings.

The fact that we are reading of ‘hands’ tells us that God uses Christ as His own hands, and He has placed the implementation of His entire plan into Christ’s hands. Christ, in turn has called and sent us, just as His Father has called and sent Him.

Joh 20:21 Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you.

Mat 10:40 He that receiveth you receiveth me, and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.

This is one more connection between these “four living creatures… four cherubims… and four beasts” to mankind who are “all in Adam.” Remember that many times when you see the word ‘man’ in the Old Testament, it is often translated from the Hebrew word ‘adam.’ These four living creatures, cherubims or beasts, may have wings and four faces on each creature, but one of those faces is “the face of a man”, and they have “the likeness of a man” in an overall way, and now we learn that they “have the hands of a man under their wings.”

Eze 1:5 Also out of the midst thereof [came] the likeness of four living creatures. And this [was] their appearance; they had the likeness of a man.

Eze 1:10 As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an eagle.

These creatures signify just who they tell us they are:

Rev 5:8 And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints.
Rev 5:9 And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;
Rev 5:10 And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.

6) The fact that the four living creatures and the four wheels don’t need to turn to go wherever the spirit wants to go is common to both chapters. They always go straight forward. This is repeated a total of six times in these two chapters.

Eze 1:9 Their wings were joined one to another; they turned not when they went; they went every one straight forward.

Eze 1:12 And they went every one straight forward: whither the spirit was to go, they went; and they turned not when they went.

Eze 1:17 When they went, they went in their four directions: they turned not when they went.

This is repeated three times in this one chapter, and then three more times in chapter 10. This is the holy spirit placing great emphasis upon the sovereignty of God’s “no shadow of turning” hand in all things. This is nothing less than a commentary on both God’s sovereignty and His omnipresence. How else can the four faces never turning be explained?

Eze 10:11 When they went, they went upon their four sides; they turned not as they went, but to the place whither the head looked they followed it; they turned not as they went.

Eze 10:16 And when the cherubims went, the wheels went by them: and when the cherubims lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, the same wheels also turned not from beside them.

What need is there for an omnipresent spirit to ‘turn as he goes’?

Psa 139:5  Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me.
Psa 139:6  Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.
Psa 139:7  Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?
Psa 139:8  If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.
Psa 139:9  If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;
Psa 139:10  Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.
Psa 139:11  If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.
Psa 139:12  Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.

Jas 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.

Eph 1:11 In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:

The “marred vessel of clay”, which we all are, the serpent and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil are one and all proclaimed by their Creator to be “very good” for fulfilling their God-ordained purpose (Gen 1:31). ‘Mankind is but a beast’ and our “evil experience” are all being worked “after the counsel of His own will” (Ecc 3:18, Ecc 1:13, Eph 1:11). There is “one event to all” and it was all ‘written in His book before it ever was’ (Psa 139:16). Therefore He “turns not as He goes.”

7) “Whither the spirit was to go, they went” is common to both chapters. The fact that these four living creatures and their four wheels are led by God’s spirit is emphasized in both chapters. We are thrice told “the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.”

Eze 1:12 And they went every one straight forward: whither the spirit was to go, they went; and they turned not when they went.

Eze 1:20 Whithersoever the spirit was to go, they went, thither was their spirit to go; and the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.
Eze 1:21 When those went, these went; and when those stood, these stood; and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.

Eze 10:17 When they stood, these stood; and when they were lifted up, these lifted up themselves also: for the spirit of the living creature was in them.

The wheels “upon the earth” and the four living creatures have one mind and one spirit and are working in total agreement and in unison.

Eze 1:19 And when the living creatures went, the wheels went by them: and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up.

There is no schism in the true body of Christ. It wants only to please Him.

1Co 1:10 Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

1Co 12:12 For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is [the] Christ.
1Co 12:13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.

1Co 12:25 That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another.

There is no mention of a chariot because, as we are later informed, this whole swirling cloud is His chariot. The Lord presents us as His means of transportation.

Psa 104:3 Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh the clouds his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind:

8)  That the four wheels were all exactly alike is common to both chapters. What this tells us is that what these four living creatures experience, as God’s channel for saving all men, is the “one event” which is common to all men, “the righteous, and the wicked.”

Eze 1:16 The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto the colour of a beryl: and they four had one likeness: and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel.

Eze 10:10 And as for their appearances, they four had one likeness, as if a wheel had been in the midst of a wheel.

This is the “one likeness” of “all things [which] come alike to all” of mankind.

Ecc 9:2 All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as [is] the good, so [is] the sinner; [and] he that sweareth, as [he] that feareth an oath.

Ecc 1:13 I applied my heart to inquiring and exploring by wisdom concerning all that is done under the heavens: it is an experience of evil Elohim has given to the sons of humanity to humble them by it.

1Co 3:21 Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are yours;
1Co 3:22 Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours;
1Co 3:23 And ye are Christ’s; and Christ is God’s.

Summary

The five topics we have examined today are:

1) Four wings on each of the four cherubs. We saw that four, as always, means ‘the whole’ of whatever is under consideration. In this case wings are under consideration, and wings mean protection. What we learn from the four wings on each cherub is that our entire refuge is the Lord, and we can do nothing without Him.

2) The hands of a man under the wings of each cherub. The fact that we are discussing ‘hands’ tells us that this is God’s channel for doing His works. He has placed His entire plan of salvation into the hands of a man named Jesus Christ, and Christ in turn has called and sent us as His Father has called and sent Him. The “hand of a man under the wings of the cherubims” once again connects these cherubims to mankind.

3) The spiritual significance of “they turned not when they went; they went every one straight forward.” This statement is a commentary on both the omnipresence and the omnipotent sovereignty of God. “There is no shadow of turning with Him and all things are being worked by Him, “yes, even the wicked” (Pro 16:4).

4) The spiritual meaning of “whither the spirit was to go, they went;” This, of course, is just one more of the many statements in scripture which inform us that we are not to allow heresies into our spiritual house, and we are to speak the same thing and be of the same mind as the spirit itself. That spirit, of course, is “the Words that I speak unto you.”

Joh 6:63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.

5) “And they four had one likeness:” as it pertains to the four wheels which are by the four cherubims. Once again, the unity of heart, mind, spirit and purpose is being driven home. There are no “nonessentials” anywhere in the Word of God. All mankind will live by every word of God and will all experience “one event”.

Ecc 9:2  All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.

Next week, Lord willing, we will examine a few more of the patterns of the things of the heavens themselves.