Men of Renown
Part xxxv
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The Woman Arrayed in Purple
Part 3
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Mystery, Babylon The Great
The Woman CONTINUES in the Third and Last Woman
in the book of the Revelation
There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown. (Genesis 6:4) And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. (Genesis 6:5)
  This series called Men of Renown will begin with these verses in Chapter 6 of the book of Genesis because it is the perfect scene setter for whatever and whoever follows that enables men of renown to act in conflict against God and His Word. Verses 4 and 5 are an accurate definition of men of renown.
  What drew you to this article? Curiosity or confusion? For those of you who are newcomers to this site, it may be a bit confusing to understand that although the site is called The Genesis Epic, we are in the last book of the Bible called the Revelation of Jesus Christ. And even more confusing, the series is about Men of Renown and here we are dealing with the words a woman and the woman in Revelation Chapter 17. And to add to all this, the word PURPLE is also in the title. Well, it makes sense to me! If you have an extraordinary attention span beyond that of the average television zombie than allow the Holy Spirit of God to bring all these seemingly contrasting points to come together for you, and prayerfully, you and I together will venture into things prepared just for us.
  The game plan is to cover all SIX mentions of a woman, and the woman in Revelation Chapter 17 of Revelation.
1.  So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. (Revelation 17:3)
2. And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: (Revelation 17:4)
3. And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration. (Revelation 17:6)
4. And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns. (Revelation 17:7)
5. And here [is] the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth. (Revelation 17:9)
6. And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth. (Revelation 17:18)
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Woman was Arrayed in Purple and Scarlet
  The word purple plays a role in the Bible through its meaning, its symbolism, and its placement. Every word is right exactly where it needs to be. There is no such thing as coincidence, error, accident, superfluousness or redundancy in the Bible, and following one word, the word purple as it relates to the woman was arrayed in purple is a prime example of the UNSEEN power of the Author of Scripture, the Holy Spirit of God.
  We have followed the word purple from its first mention in the book of Exodus regarding the sanctuary of God in the Tabernacle in the wilderness, to the book of Numbers with the cloth of purple that covered the ashes from the brazen altar, to the purple in the first Temple in Jerusalem built by king Solomon as we followed the man from the tribe of Dan called Hiram/Huram who was assigned by king Solomon to lead in constructing the things of God within this first Temple. Then we tracked the word purple in the book of Esther and this word again is seen through two prisms: Godward and manward ( man being led by his father, the devil), and now, we are on the trail of PURPLE in the books of Proverbs, Song of Songs, Jeremiah and Ezekiel, and hopefully we may come to a trailhead in the Old Testament and another trailhead in the New Testament. If I just lost you . . . its not my fault. Then, who is at fault? . . . if you are not a Christian then you have every reason to be lost in the weeds . . . and for you, I can only wish that you could see that the Bible is without end, it is the most exciting book historically and prophetically. It ventures into the UNSEEN and SEEN forces of our universe and into the UNSEEN and SEEN powers in God’s heavenly realm. Although you may feel a bit lost and even intimidated, ‘nothing ventured, nothing gained,’ you have nothing to lose except for may be a few hours. 🙂 So read on my little scaredy cat.
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The Godly Woman of Purple
Putting On The Purple
She maketh herself coverings of tapestry; her clothing [is] silk and purple. (Proverbs 31:22)
  She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household are clothed with scarlet. (Proverbs 31:21) She maketh herself coverings of tapestry; her clothing is silk and purple. (Proverbs 31:22) The Spirit of God sets this woman as the last thing to be remembered in the thirty-first Chapter, the last Chapter in the book of Proverbs to leave us with the ideal of womanhood. Today, many speak of what appears to be a social concern in, What is a woman? (You know that mankind has lost a grip on reality when this question of ‘what is a woman?’ cannot be answered by the falsely called ‘intellectual’ minds of our age.) God gives us His definition of a woman after His own heart . . . the ideal woman . . . a nameless woman . . . for she represents all godly women through time. I suggest that you CLICK HERE to read a previous article concerning the woman of Proverbs Chapter 21.
  We are not going to be dealing with this ideal woman as a business woman, (although she was), nor as an administrator, (although she was), nor as an employer, (although she was), nor as an importer/exporter (although she was), nor as a faithful and supportive wife (although she was), nor as a nurturing mother (although she was), we are hopefully going to see her as a spiritual woman. She clothed her household with scarlet, and that was addressed in the article xxxiii, and she clothed herself with coverings of tapestry; her clothing is silk and purple. I see elegance, richness, gentleness and royalty. She surrounded herself with coverings of hand woven tapestry of curtains, and window coverings as drapes rich in vivid colors depicting spiritual and earthly scenes of the goodness and richness of Jehovah. Truth should be biased against lies; truth should be intolerant of untruths. Truth and lies have no common ground for compromise.
  Remember when I wrote (many times and in former articles) that through the word purple we have two prisms: Godward and manward. This principle is basic to the understanding of the word of God: the principle being whatever God lays down in truth, Lucifer/Satan lays down his counterfeit to counter God’s truth. Truth should be biased against lies; truth should be intolerant of untruths. Truth and lies have no common ground for compromise. There are things Godward, and there are things manward (led by man’s sin and the master of man, Satan). Through our study of the word purple we have seen this principle repeatedly played out. Now through the word tapestry we also see this same principle in action.
  The word tapestry is only mentioned twice in the entire Bible, and both documentations are in the book of Proverbs. The first mention deals with the woman of Satan I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved [works], with fine linen of Egypt. (Proverbs 7:16) This adulterous woman is seen in this verse attempting to seduce the unsuspecting targeted victim. The second mention deals with God’s woman. In this we also have another foundational principle: the principle of two seeds: the first is removed, so that the second can be established: the first always being the evil seed (Cain), and the second always being the good seed (Abel). This principle is developed further through the twin births of Ishmael and Isaac, and later through Esau and Jacob.
  Her clothing is silk and purple. What did this woman of God clothe herself with? Silk and purple. This is not a treatise on the development of silk or the silk trade. Let’s look at silk as what God desires that we should see through His spiritual prism. The word silk is only mentioned four times, and all are recorded in the New Testament: four is the number of Earth, thus, silk would be the finer things of the earth, yet the Spirit of God drapes this woman in silk. Why? Silk in Proverbs does not represent the finer things of this world. Whatever stage of existence that the silkworm is living through we associate the silkworm and silk production with death: for example, the cocoon. And from this cocoon of death springs forth new life and with the evidence of death and new life we have the finer things: the silk of resurrection, the silk of everlasting life. Therefore, silk spiritually represents the finer things of God that has been given to the newborn creature through the death of Christ. God defines the godly woman as one who covers herself with the blood of Christ. The born again, the new man, is covered with by the more excellent sacrifice of Christ, God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect. (Hebrews 11:40) We have been given the finer things of glory; we have been clothed with the silk of everlasting life. To be called the sons of God and of a heavenly calling, and partakers of the divine nature, can this not be considered BETTER and FINER and MORE EXCELLENT than the skins of death that we once were draped with?
Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they. (Hebrews 1:4)
But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises. (Hebrews 8:6)
By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh. (Hebrews 11:4)
For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. (2nd Peter 1:17)
LORD our Lord, how excellent [is] thy name in all the earth! (Psalms 8:9)
  The first woman, formed by God, was Eve, and He clothed her with the evidence of death through the skins of a dead animal because she was the first to sin and presented sin to her husband, Adam. But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. (2nd Corinthians 11:3) And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression. (1st Timothy 2:14) However, the new woman, newly created by God through the moving of the Spirit of God is clothed with the evidence of life through the death of the Lord Jesus Christ.
  Her clothing is silk and purple. God’s woman, being the ideal woman spiritually, also clothes herself with purple. This is something that adds to the silk and that follows the silk. First, the new born creature dies to life, and lives because of death. I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. (Galatians 2:20) As she put on the silk, we also have put on the silk. Â
For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal [must] put on immortality. (1st Corinthians 15:53) So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. (1st Corinthians 15:54) For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. (Galatians 3:27) And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. (Ephesians 4:24)Â And have put on the new [man], which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him: (Colossians 3:10)
  And she put on the purple. Having gone from death to life, she put on Christ, the righteousness and holiness of Christ was imparted to her symbolically through the purple. Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. (1st John 3:2) Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. (2nd Peter 1:4) Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness. (Romans 6:18)
Side Note: Putting on the Purple. If you remember the first article dealing with purple in xxxv. Purple is the color that represents the Godhead in His all His majesticness, His royalty, His preeminence in all things, and His Sovereignty. Now, let us consider Satan’s coup against God, and how he has (from the very beginning of his rebellion) attempted to rob God. Satan’s rage against his Creator knows no boundaries; therefore, he has brought his rage into the physical realm of man in stealing the purple. Connect the unseen rage with the seen rage. Connect the unseen robbery with the seen robbery. Why has the color PURPLE been accepted as the color that represents sexual perversion? It is much more than two colors mixing to create a third color, or that blue (which indicates a male) and red (pink) indicates a female, and when mixed together becomes purple (supposedly another sex). The stealing of the purple and the rainbow as symbolic of sexual perversion is not accidental, nor is it based on reality. Everything and I mean EVERYTHING that challenges the word of God and attempts to replace truth ALWAYS is initiated by Satan. Man is so stupid that he believes that there is no spiritual connection behind the stealing of the purple, and the stealing of the rainbow. The rainbow BELONGS to God. The rainbow in heaven is part of the glory of God for it surrounds His throne, and by the rainbow He connected His throne with the earth as Sovereign over His creation. And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and [there was] a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald. (Revelation 4:3) The word rainbow is only mentioned twice in the Bible and both times it is documented in the last book of the Bible, the book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ, however, when it is mentioned in the Old Testament, it is referred to as the ‘bow‘ because it is not yet complete symbolically.
 The rainbow followed JUDGMENT and a sign that the Old World had been washed clean from the debasement of its inhabitants that their filth and perversion had even corrupted the ground that they stood on. Because everything that sin touches it destroys; consequently, the rainbow marks JUDGMENT FIRST then mercy. Also note that the first three times that the rainbow (‘bow’) is documented in scripture it is in the 9th Chapter of Genesis, (Genesis 9:13, 14, 16) The number nine (9) is the number of judgment.
  The color PURPLE represents God’s SOVEREIGNTY and MAJESTY and DIVINE ROYALTY over His creation. That is exactly why the world of demonic sexual perversion has attempted to steal the PURPLE and make it their own because they cannot abide with the truth that God is sovereign over them. Do not acquiesce or surrender to the stealing of the purple. CLAIM PURPLE, MAKE IT YOUR STATEMENT THAT GOD IS SOVEREIGN. REFUSE to allow reprobate individuals to STEAL FROM GOD. ♦ End of Side Note – Putting on the Purple.
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The Greatest Love Story
in the Greatest Love Song Ever Written
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He made the pillars thereof [of] silver, the bottom thereof [of] gold, the covering of it [of] purple, the midst thereof being paved [with] love, for the daughters of Jerusalem. (Song of Songs 3:10)
Thine head upon thee [is] like Carmel, and the hair of thine head like purple; the king [is] held in the galleries. (Song of Songs 7:5)
  The Song of Songs, also known as The Canticles, and the Song of Solomon, is the twenty-second (22) book in the Old Testament. This should hint to us that we may have the double witness of God’s revelation of Himself. The first time that God revealed Himself to mankind was through the words, In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. (Genesis 1:1) From that first moment in earth time, God has never ceased to reveal Himself to His creatures and in the New Testament in Hebrews 1:1, we are informed that God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets. Would not our Creator desire that we would know more and more and more about Him? Our great God has disclosed His heart, His mind and His soul through His written word and His Living Word, but it is through The Canticles that He has shown His LOVE through a love song. This 22nd book is like no other Bible book.
  The double witness (22) of His love rests backstage from the eyes of curiosity waiting to appear on the stage to be seen by those with eyes and hearts of wonder and faith. In this 22nd book there are twenty-four (24) verses with the word LOVE, watch how the Holy Spirit of God develops this: but the word LOVE is documented twenty-six (26) times, and the plural word LOVES is only documented ONCE.
  First, let’s tackle the number 24: this number represents both Israel and the Church through the twelve tribes of Jacob, and the twelve apostles of the Lord Jesus Christ. The last book of the Bible, the Revelation of Jesus Christ, ties both Israel and the Church together in the holy Jerusalem that descends out of heaven. Â
And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb’s wife. (Revelation 21:9) And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, (Revelation 21:10) Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal; (Revelation 21:11) And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel: (Revelation 21:12) On the east three gates; on the north three gates; on the south three gates; and on the west three gates. (Revelation 21:13) And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. (Revelation 21:14)
  The twelve gates represent Israel, and the foundation of the wall was laid by the twelve apostles of the Lord Jesus Christ. And together we have the fullness of His servants (Israel and the Church) in the number 24.
  Secondly, the word LOVE is documented twenty-six (26) times. Through this double digit we have God’s baby math (2 x 6 = 12) and (2 + 6 = 8). First, Jehovah created and gave birth to His nation Israel through Jacob’s twelve sons.
But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called [thee] by thy name; thou [art] mine. (Isaiah 43:1)
Thus saith the LORD that made thee, and formed thee from the womb, which will help thee; Fear not, O Jacob, my servant; and thou, Jesurun, whom I have chosen. (Isaiah 44:2)Â
I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles;Â (Isaiah 42:6)Â
And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These [are] the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel. (Exodus 19:6)
  And continuing on with God’s baby math of 26, then God created a new thing (2 + 6 = 8). (Eight (8) is the number of beginnings.) The Church was founded on the blood of Christ, formed by the twelve apostles.
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:Â (1st Peter 2:9) Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy. (1st Peter 2:10)
What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:Â (Romans 9:22) And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory, (Romans 9:23) Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles? (Romans 9:24)
Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:Â (Romans 3:29) Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith. (Romans 3:30) Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law. (Romans 3:31)
For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. (Romans 10:13)
And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed. (Galatians 3:8)
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. (Galatians 3:28) And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise. (Galatians 3:29)
  The third point is that the word LOVES appears in the Book of Love only ONE time. Yet there is also something else that is interesting in the word: it is recorded in the Bible three times: Psalm 45:1; Proverbs 7:18 and Song of Songs 7:12.
1. <<To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, for the sons of Korah, Maschil, A Song of loves.>> My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue [is] the pen of a ready writer. (Psalm 45:1) Although this first appears as merely an introduction to this Psalm, it is still from the voice of the Holy Spirit of God specifically directed to the sons of Korah as a song of instruction and of love teaching the sons of Korah that although Korah died a dreadful death because of his sin of rebellion against God, his descendants and those who continue to serve God would be accepted into His presence because of HIS LOVE towards them.
2. Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves. (Proverbs 7:18) Remember in the first section of this article that dealt with the idolatrous women in Proverbs 7:16, have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved [works], with fine linen of Egypt. It is no coincidence that she again appears connected to the word loves. But this is the loves, the many-sided loves, that mankind wallows in, this is the counterattack by Lucifer/Satan against God to trap mankind into believing that love is sexually forged in lust and acceptably fleeting. This is the loves that the world spins as being righteous because as ‘The Sparkle Creed’ says ‘love is love is love’, and ‘god is non-binary.’ (I kid you not, those who do not know whether they are female, or male are supported in their insanity through a religious creed called, ‘The Sparkle Creed.’Â A faith creed based on nothing except their made-up pretend world of, ‘Let’s Play Church.’ However, they are not even aware that the word ‘sparkle’ indicates a flaming judgment soon to explode over their corrupt and sick church of Laodicea. GOD WILL NOT BE MOCKED.)
3. Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, [whether] the tender grape appear, [and] the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves. (Song of Songs 7:12) The last mention of LOVES and the ONLY mention of LOVES in the Song of loves is the LOVE OF GOD. There in His vineyards, where the vine blooms and produces fruit, and the tender new growth of His fruit is seen as the countless rich red seeds of the pomegranates spring forth with spiritual life it is there will I give thee my loves. His vineyard is the Earth, His vine is His word, His tender grapes are those of who hear His word, and when the Word of faith brings forth the rich red seeds of new life from the pomegranate (the blood of Christ), there will I give thee my loves. As we explore the territory of this vast landscape of LOVES, this book of LOVES flows through dispensations, it can neither be forced into a time frame, nor is it limited to the Jew, nor to the Christian because within the very core of eternity GOD IS LOVE.
  Think of the many ways that God has revealed His love to mankind. In His revealing of Himself, was that not the love of God? In His creation of mankind to share with Him His bounty and His goodness, was not that the love of God? When He provided Himself as the Sacrifice for the sin of the world, was not that the love of God? When He gave His own soul as an offering for sin, was not that the love of God? When He set in motion His plan of redemption, was not that the love of God? When He gave all to restore your soul, was not that the love of God? When He imparted (and imparts) within all believers in Christ His Spirit, was this not the love of God? Are you not clothed with the excellent glory of God IN Christ Jesus, is this not the love of God? In all this and more, we can say, GOD LOVES. He has clothed us IN His purple.
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Putting On The Purple
He made the pillars thereof [of] silver, the bottom thereof [of] gold, the covering of it [of] purple, the midst thereof being paved [with] love, for the daughters of Jerusalem. (Song of Songs 3:10)
   Through the two mentions of love, we have the dual revelation of Israel and the Church in the book of the Song of Love. The first mention of purple is directed for the daughters of Jerusalem. Jehovah symbolically joined Israel to Himself as a marriage relationship. (Jeremiah 3:14, 20). Through the phrase my sister, my spouse (Song of Songs: 4:9, 10, 12; 5:1) (which is ONLY mentioned in this Book of Love), we see a love relationship in two areas: my sister is seen through the connection of blood (the Church), and my spouse (Israel) is seen through a love relationship with Jehovah. The Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, God IN Christ also symbolically joins Himself as in a marriage relationship to His bride, the Church.
And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb’s wife. (Revelation 21:9)
Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready. (Revelation 19:7)
  Let us not merely quickly glance at 3:10 but let us examine and search out all that the Spirit of God has for us in the word purple; therefore, here is the complete 3rd Chapter of the Book of Love. We are assured that this Chapter addresses Israel because of O ye daughters of Jerusalem, and O ye daughters of Zion, and behold king Solomon. With this connection in mind, let us proceed with the concept of a relationship between Israel and their Creator God in a love-marriage relationship with king Solomon representing the ONE who was prophesied to come, the ONE greater than Solomon, the more EXCELLENT King, the Lord Jesus Christ. Christ twice (the evidence of witness) declared Himself to be greater than Solomon in Matthew 12:42 and Luke 11:3 . . . . and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.
• By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not. (Song of Songs 3:1)
• I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not. (Song of Songs 3:2) In Chapter 3, verses 1 and 2, Israel is addressed as a wife, as she rested in the night of loneliness away from her beloved because of her failure; unable to find her husband (Jehovah) no matter where she looked because she searched in the cities of corruption, and in the broad ways traveled by others.
• The watchmen that go about the city found me: to whom I said, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth? (Song of Songs 3:3)
• It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother’s house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me. (Song of Songs 3:4) Four times it is documented of Israel, whom my soul loveth. And twice, Israel is (seen in type) lamenting that throughout all her searching, she found Him not. As the nation of God people journeyed in the wilderness of their sin and rebellion, they found Him NOT. They found Him NOT because all their activities and sinful actions drove His face away from them.
  Here in Song of Songs 3:4, the story of a nation, as a wife, becomes a prophecy, when Israel finally finds Him . . . but I found him whom my soul loveth. She HOLDS Him and will not let him go. Then next she (Israel) brings Him into the mother’s house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me. What house is this, and what chamber is this? The key is in the first time that the words house and chamber are documented together in 1st King 6:6, again note the 6:6. The house and the chamber refer to the first Temple in Jerusalem, built by Solomon, and it is now that we can better comprehend the reference location of 6:6. This first Temple was built on the earth in man’s realm #six, and by man #six. All of this draws us prophetically to the culmination of the last Temple on earth where the Messiah will rule in Jerusalem, in His Millennial Temple, (the Temple of Ezekiel Chapter 40 – 48).
  The principle of the Law of First Mention is not to be overlooked even in the smallest detail. The phrase mother’s house is documented first in relationship to Rebekah, bride of Isaac, and mother of Jacob, the patriarch of the twelve tribes of Israel, the mother’s house.
And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of my master Abraham, who hath not left destitute my master of his mercy and his truth: I being in the way, the LORD led me to the house of my master’s brethren. (Genesis 24:27) And the damsel ran, and told them of her mother’s house these things. (Genesis 24:28)
  All returns spiritually to the love story of Rebekah and Isaac, to the birth of Jacob through the new name (Israel) that God have him which means, Prince with God and leads us into the love story of the love of God for His people, His nation, His wife through the Song of loves when Israel, Prince with God, is fulfilled in the Prince and Savior of Acts 5:31, Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins.
• I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please. (Song of Songs 3:5)
• Who is this that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant? (Song of Songs 3:6)
• Behold his bed, which is Solomon’s; threescore valiant men are about it, of the valiant of Israel. (Song of Songs 3:7)
• They all hold swords, being expert in war: every man hath his sword upon his thigh because of fear in the night. (Song of Songs 3:8)
  From verse 5 to 8, the scene prophetically becomes one of war and victory. . . pillars of smoke . . . . threescore valiant men . . . They all hold swords, being expert in war: every man hath his sword upon his thigh.
• King Solomon made himself a chariot of the wood of Lebanon.(Song of Songs 3:9) The spiritual battle continues on through prophecy by Christ (the greater Solomon, the King of kings) makes HIMSELF a means by which He wars, a chariot of the wood. This is Calvary, this is the cross, this is the tree where the battle was fought by a chariot of the wood . . . in the night.
Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour. (Matthew 27:45) And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour. (Mark 15:33) And it was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour. (Luke 23:44)
  The cross of Christ has been described as many things, but only the Holy Spirit of God could define it as also being a chariot of the wood. Yet, the Holy Spirit does not end with this thought, but He also adds another thought . . . of Lebanon. For those of you who may have missed previous article, you may not know that Lebanon means ‘whiteness,’ ‘white.’ It was there on the cross of Calvary through the sacrifice of His making that He bore the sin of the whole world on HIMSELF. Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. (1st Isaiah1:18)
  The words chariot and chariots are recorded many times throughout Scripture, but ONLY ONCE do we see chariot of fire, and chariot of the cherubim, chariots of God, chariots of thy glory, chariots of salvation, and chariot of the wood because all are directly connected to the UNSEEN heavenly sphere of God. Why is a chariot of the wood different from ‘a chariot of wood’? This particular chariot in Song of Songs is NOT about how the chariot was constructed, it is about THE wood of PURITY, THE CROSS OF PURITY. All within the Song of Songs centers around CHRIST and because the OBJECT of Song of Songs is the Son of God’s love, the Holy Spirit’s ministry is to focus on the object of God’s love, the Lord Jesus Christ.
  On the chariot of THE wood of Lebanon, He who IS pure, judged sin in all His righteous purity. On this chariot of THE wood, Christ, set the prisoners of sin free, He gave the prisoners of sin wings to soar into the heavenly realm of God on chariots of salvation and glory.
  Then the 10th verse describes the pillars of this chariot of the wood of Lebanon. King Solomon made himself a chariot of the wood of Lebanon. (Song of Songs 3:9)
• He made the pillars thereof of silver, the bottom thereof of gold, the covering of it of purple, the midst thereof being paved with love, for the daughters of Jerusalem. (Song of Songs 3:10) This chariot of THE wood (the cross of Christ in all its purity) is foundationally described by the Holy Spirit of God as having PILLARS, and a COVERING. Why pillars and a covering? The cross was the place where God’s redemption for mankind was built on the strength of His PILLARS of holiness and righteousness. He made the pillars thereof of silver, silver is redemption, ‘thirty pieces of silver,’ was the redemption price paid for the soul of the Savior. (Genesis 37:28; Leviticus 5:15; Zechariah 11:12, 13; Matthew 27:6) The purpose of the cross was to secure the souls of man through the soul of the Savior, and what was God purpose and redemption program based on? It was based on gold, the righteousness of God. And everything that the Godhead purposed was because of the love of God, the midst thereof being paved with love. Let’s not forget that everything was under the covering . . . of purple.
  The chariot of the wood of Lebanon (the cross of Christ) made salvation (silver) sure in the words, It is finished. And His chariot of wood (His cross) was founded on God’s righteousness (gold), and God’s SOVEREIGNTY, MAJESTY and DIVINE ROYALTY . . . THE PURPLE covered it all because in the midst of it all, it was paved with love. He made the pillars thereof of silver, the bottom thereof of gold, the covering of it of purple, the midst thereof being paved with love , for the daughters of Jerusalem.
• Go forth, O ye daughters of Zion, and behold king Solomon with the crown wherewith his mother crowned him in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the gladness of his heart. (Song of Songs 3:11)
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Wearing the Purple as a Crown
Thine head upon thee [is] like Carmel, and the hair of thine head like purple; the king [is] held in the galleries. (Song of Songs 7:5)
  This is the second and last time that the word purple is documented in the Song of Songs and it connects purple to Kingship, to the Ancient of Days . . . the Godhead bodily, the Highest of the High. This 7th Chapter is not an easy read. Symbolism, prophesy, and location names in this chapter are intertwined in each verse. But the Chapter number sets the tone of this chapter: seven being the number of God’s perfection, and visible image of God’s perfection is the Lord of glory, the Lord Jesus Christ. Each verse can stand alone, or it can also be part of a theme at the same time. Treat this 7th Chapter as how God the Holy Spirit relates Christ to those who love Him. Christ can stand alone as the Son of man . . . He can also stand alone as the Son of God, but it is when He is appreciated and loved as the Son of God and the Son of man bringing God to man, and man to God, that His children can see His beauty of glory and humility intertwined together. This is how the 7th Chapter is written (by God the Holy Spirit) to show this interlacing and the joining of God with His those whom He loves. How the Holy Spirit of God glorifies the Lord Jesus Christ through this last mention in the Song of Loves is amazing. Notice the word head . . . Thine head upon thee [is] like Carmel. This verse is completely about the Lord Jesus Christ as King, as the Ancient of Days, as the One sent into the garden of God (the earth) to be fruitful. Christ is like Carmel. Carmel means ‘fruitful field,’ ‘a planted field,’ and ‘a garden.’ And again, He is the Head of the prince’s daughter. (Song of Songs 7:1) And His hair on His head is described as purple . . and the hair of thine head like purple. His hair is described as purple . . . as ROYAL MAJESTY. For only the Sovereign God can wear a royal diadem of righteousness, crowned with honor and glory. The next phrase in 7:5 is the king [is] held in the galleries. The Sovereign God is in the heavens above, in the throne room . . . in the galleries . . . of the Highest of the High.
The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail [stones] and coals of fire. (Psalm 18:13) But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and [to] the evil. (Luke 6:35)
  Through the study of scarlet and purple we have been taught by the Holy Spirit of God to comprehend how Satan uses his battlefield Counterfeit Tactics against God and His word. However, in the Song of Songs, or the Song of Love, we do not see this counterfeit employed at all because this book of the Song of Love, or the Song of Loves is totally dedicated to the Loves of God. EVERYTHING in this book of Love, in this Song of Love, revolves around the love of God for His own, and their love for Him. Lucifer/Satan has no place in the book of LOVES.
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Cunning Men Clothed with Blue and Purple
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Their Doctrine of Vanities
Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder: blue and purple [is] their clothing: they [are] all the work of cunning [men]. (Jeremiah 10:9)
  Before we jump into this churning pool of information in the book of Jeremiah, look at the location address: 10:9. If you have been following the design structure of spiritual numbers, you may already have a hunch on what Jeremiah 10:9 is all about. This 10th Chapter enforces the concept of God’s Perfect Order (the number 10) over man’s meaningless, sinful and chaotic existence as his notion of order. Through the number nine (9) the result of all of man’s pointless and absurd activities (religious or nonreligious) is doomed to be JUDGED. Yup that sums up that verse, and the complete Chapter, but it is a good read. NOW, and I really mean it, let’s NOW jump into this verse following the trail of the word purple.
But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities. (Jeremiah 10:8)
Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder: blue and purple is their clothing: they are all the work of cunning men. (Jeremiah 10:9)
But the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation. (Jeremiah 10:10)
Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens. (Jeremiah 10:11)
  Jeremiah 10:8, lays the groundwork for what is in 10:9. But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities. (Jeremiah 10:8) Do you notice any words that seem out of place or unusual? Two words stand out as unusual: doctrine and stock. The word doctrine seems to be more of a New Testament word than an Old Testament word. This word doctrine is documented forty-four (44) times in the New Testament and six (6) times in the Old Testament. Again, SIX is the number of unrepentant man. And Jeremiah 10:8 is the last time that doctrine appears in the Old Testament. This last mention connects doctrine of cunning men with VANITY . . . a doctrine of vanities.
Side Note: Doctrine. The only time that doctrine connects to man is in the last mention of the word. Otherwise, every time that the word doctrine is recorded it connects to God . . . my doctrine . . . my doctrine . . . I give you good doctrine . . . Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? It is through the 6th and last mention that doctrine describes mankind, a doctrine of vanities. This should come as no surprise that man would invent their doctrines based on their vanities because man is born in vanities and dies in vanities (without Christ). King Solomon, one of the wisest kings was also a foolish king, his strength became his weakness. And when he wrote the book of Ecclesiastes (the book of wisdom . . . man’s wisdom) he began with the word vanities in the Chapter 1, verse 2, and in the last Chapter he ended his book with the word vanities, Chapter 12, verses 8; thus, disclosing that the ultimate of man’s wisdom is all surrounded by vanities. Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all [is] vanity. (Ecclesiastes 1:2) Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all [is] vanity.(Ecclesiastes 12:8)
  In the New Testament the word doctrine is recorded in forty-four (44) verses. (Double 4 . . . 44 . . . This number belongs to the earth, the Earth number, and in the doubling of the number there is the witness of the trial of man in the number forty plus another four.) For the Christian, the path of sound doctrine is based on holding fast the faithful word of God, not being enticed to deviate from the His written word, neither from His Living Word. Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers. (Titus 1:9) We are told in 1st Timothy 4:13, Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine. We are not to give attendance to attendance, but to READING, EXHORTATION, and to DOCTRINE. Four times, the phrase sound doctrine is mentioned (1st Timothy 1:9, 10; 2nd Timothy 4:3; Titus 2:1). Again, this number four (IN SOUND DOCTRINE) is for those who are pilgrims on the earth, that we would hold tightly and securely to sound doctrine.
  The last mention of the word doctrine in the New Testament connects the last mention of doctrine in the Old Testament together. But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities. (Jeremiah 10:8)Â
The Doctrine of Balaam. But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication. (Revelation 2:14) Infiltrate and destroy from within is one of Satan’s highly successful programs: the Balaam doctrine, or the Balaam Strategy.
The Doctrine of the Nicolaitans. So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which thing I hate. (Revelation 2:15) Co-mingled pagan worship into the worship of God. CLICK HERE to read more about Nicolaitanism.
The Doctrine in Thyatira – the Depths of Satan, But unto you I say, and unto the rest in Thyatira, as many as have not this doctrine, and which have not known the depths of Satan, as they speak; I will put upon you none other burden. (Revelation 2:24) ♦ End of Side Note. Doctrine.
  It is not a coincidence that the last mention of doctrine in the Old Testament connects to the last mention of doctrine in the New Testament. The Old Testament sets two observations for us: the stock is a doctrine of vanities . . . THE STOCK . . . VANITIES. Stay with me here, for we are building a framework anchored BY the written word of God TO gather a deeper understanding of the word PURPLE as the Holy Spirit intended for us to see in the LAST mention of the word PURPLE in the book of Jeremiah 10:9 through the previous 8th verse. The base of our framework is in verse 8, and the main message is in verse 9. We need verse 8 in order to better understand verse 9. (Confused yet?)
But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities. (Jeremiah 10:8) Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder: blue and purple is their clothing: they are all the work of cunning men. (Jeremiah 10:9)
  The word STOCK is a doctrine of vanities. Remember how the number SIX somehow came up in this study? Well, guess what . . . here it is again! The word stock is mentioned SIX (6) times in the Old Testament. (Leviticus 25:47; Job 14:8; Isaiah 40:24; 44:19; Jeremiah 2:27; Jeremiah 10:8) Stock has two primary meanings: first, it refers to WOOD, and/or the root of a tree; secondly, it can also apply to offspring, genetical roots, as in generational, a member of a specific tribe. So how does this all lead to the word purple? The nation of Israel failed miserably when they left their Creator God, somewhat in the same manner that the first Church, the church of Ephesus, failed when they left their first love, the Lord Jesus Christ. Nevertheless I have [somewhat] against thee, because thou hast left thy first love. (Revelation 2:4)
  Jeremiah 2:27, 28 and Jeremiah 3:9 reveals the vain hearts of the people of Israel when they forsook their God and turned to idols of STONES and STOCKS.
Saying to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth: for they have turned their back unto me, and not their face: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us. (Jeremiah 2:27) But where are thy gods that thou hast made thee? let them arise, if they can save thee in the time of thy trouble: for according to the number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah. (Jeremiah 2:28)Â
And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks. (Jeremiah 3:9)
  The Church committed the same trespass that Israel committed because the infant Church also was plagued by idol worship under the guise of ‘holy worship.’ Chapter 8 of 1st Corinthians reveals how idol worship had already infiltrated into the Church. You may be thinking, Well, I disagree with you because the Church never worshiped STONES and STOCKS! Are you sure about that statement? Then what are the IDOLS in your churches called? Oh, you must mean the statues that represent holy people, those aren’t idols, those are just statues, holy statues, to aid us in prayers and worship. THEY ARE NOT IDOLS! Maybe you have forgotten an important commandment: Thou shalt have no other gods before me. (Exodus 20:3) Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: (Exodus 20:4) Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; (Exodus 20:5)
  Those who bow before idols with ‘holy’ names get around their disobedience of Exodus 20:3 – 5 by simply negating these commandments by saying, We are no longer under Law but we are under Grace. True, except for one small point, the Ten Commandments was not only given to Israel, but to every INDIVIDUAL. It is called the royal law in James 2:8, If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well. In Romans 13:8 and 9 Paul states part of the Ten Commandments as that which should be fulfilled and obeyed, YES, even in the Age of Grace.
  As the last mention in the Old Testament is a testimony of man’s corruption through vanities so also the last mention in the New Testament is also a testimony of man’s corruption. How does the word STOCK connect to a doctrine of vanities?
But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities. (Jeremiah 10:8) Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder: blue and purple is their clothing: they are all the work of cunning men. (Jeremiah 10:9)
 The nation of Israel (during Jeremiah’s age) had married the world of paganism, as the infant Church (through the age of Constantine) had married the world and in doing so, joined herself to idols guided by the master of counterfeits, Satan. Giving names of ‘holy’ people to pagan idols doesn’t make the idols ‘holy.’ A STONE and WOOD, engraved or chiseled, is STILL an IDOL no matter what name you call it Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above. Brutish and foolish men of the nation of Israel created a doctrine centered around a STOCK, a piece of wood. They also created a doctrine based on their traditions of their genetical birth right formed by God their Creator would not be preached to those outside of their nation. They were given the oracles of God, but they refused to open or reveal the oracles of God to those not of the stock of the nation of Israel. Noah preached righteousness to the old world, but those of Israel in the new world kept the righteousness of God to themselves, and only for themselves.
  A false belief system (a false doctrine) was created by using a STOCK, a root of wood. The treason within the Church at Thyatira was a false belief system (a false doctrine) rooted in the cross of Christ making Christ subservient to the brutish and foolish men. Their Christ is ALWAYS seen and worshiped as a defeated Messiah, nailed to a cross, ALWAYS nailed to a STOCK, rarely seen as the resurrected Lord of glory SITTING on His throne of glory. THIS Church became greater, more important, than Christ in the hearts and minds of their followers. The dictates of this corrupt false Church overrode the written word of God and the Living Word of God. Their doctrines were built on the vanities of men, on the pride of men in their robes of blue and purple, (the robes of a stolen priesthood, and the robes of stolen authority, the robes of stolen divinity). How do I know this? Follow how Israel turned to pagan idols and false gods inch by inch until they could neither hear, nor abide God’s prophets, nor God’s written word.
  But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities. (Jeremiah 10:8) The stock is from a tree, it is the wood from a tree, and in man’s foolishness he has created his own means of salvation instead of the cross of Christ, the chariot of THE wood, man has formed his own stock. . . a doctrine of vanities. God has placed around 10:9 a picture of silver (counterfeit redemption) and gold (fictitious righteousness) the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder as the work of cunning men. It is not plural ‘workmen,’ nor ‘founders,’ but it is one entity, one personality ‘the workman,’ and ‘the founder;’ thus, through the ministry of the Holy Spirit, we are led to the workman and the founder behind the scenes of man’s doctrine of vanities, Lucifer/Satan. Mankind is a vain glutton waiting for a religious con man to pounce on him with lies of ‘How to find God and be Rich,’ or ‘How to Get to Heaven and Do It Your Way.’ The vanity of mankind MUST have a religion that accepts the vanities of man. Seeking approval and social acceptance are vanities that the wearers of the stolen blue and purple are trained in.
  To add to their lies (these brutish, foolish, and cunning men) clothe themselves in blue and purple (the robes of a stolen priesthood, and the robes of stolen authority, the robes of stolen divinity) . . . . blue and purple is their clothing. The ministers of Satan set themselves apart and above others as ministers of righteousness by their robes of spiritual grandeur. Remember that there is vast difference between religion and Christianity. Religion is a delusion of spiritual grandeur ruled over by the basest of men. Therefore [it is] no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works. (2nd Corinthians 11:15) Christianity is REVELATION and REGENERATION by God the Holy Spirit and a RELATIONSHIP with God the Father through the sacrificial death of the Son of God and sustained by the power of an endless life in Christ Jesus. Religion is built on the vanities of man, by man, and for man. Christianity is solely built on Christ, for Christ and by Christ.
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PURPLE
Robbers of the Purple
Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which thou spreadest forth to be thy sail; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was that which covered thee. (Ezekiel 27:7)
Syria [was] thy merchant by reason of the multitude of the wares of thy making: they occupied in thy fairs with emeralds, purple, and broidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and agate. (Ezekiel 27:16)
  The last mention of purple is documented in the 27th Chapter of the book of Ezekiel in verses 7 and 16. What does God the Holy Spirit have for our learning in this chapter?
  It’s not over yet. You may want to take a lunch break now . . . and while ya hoeing the corn. Here is a reading assignment. Read Chapters 27 and 28 of Ezekiel . . . keep breathing . . . breath . . . breath . . . . so, I may have asked much from you in reading two chapters, but you’ll survive.
  The great thing about the internet is that no one knows your reading level or your spiritual comprehension capability . . . so you are never rushed, and you can never be intimidated. Reading assignments are not required, just suggested. Hopefully and prayerfully, the Spirit of God will lead you at your spiritual pace, He does this for me and He will do it for you. So therefore, let’s continue to rely on God’s Spirit for guidance and understanding of how He desires that we should see the word purple through His mind, and through His thoughts and through His eyes.
  Most Bible students know that the 28th Chapter of Ezekiel deals with Lucifer, but not many know that the 27th Chapter also is about Lucifer. Chapter 27 has thirty-six (36) verses, and within these verses there are countless threads to unravel; however, let us just consider just a few threads. Always keep in mind that Chapter 27 lays the soil down and Chapter 28 turns the soil over to reveal the worms of corruption in the unseen soil: Lucifer.
  Let’s use the following first three verses as a springboard into seas of the merchandising of avarice and materialism. (Remember, that the fall and iniquity of Lucifer were caused by his insatiable greed for power over his Creator God, and merchandising was his method to achieve a higher position on the angelic realm of God.)
The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, (Ezekiel 27:1) Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus; (Ezekiel 7:2) And say unto Tyrus, O thou that art situate at the entry of the sea, which art a merchant of the people for many isles, Thus saith the Lord GOD; O Tyrus, thou hast said, I am of perfect beauty. (Ezekiel 27:3)
  This 27th Chapter is addressed to Tyrus, and we are comparing Tyrus to Lucifer, and this connection also tie into Babylon. Tyrus is only mentioned in the Old Testament but notice the differences: Tyrus . . . prince of Tyrus . . . king of Tyrus . . . and kings of Tyrus. Tyrus is seen as an individual, as a prince, as a king, and as a geographical location: as Babylon was a city, and a province, and a nation, and symbolically an apostate global religion.
Side Note: The WAR. There are many battles in a WAR. There are many fronts in a battle. The enemy uses both sides of his face through his two-faced profiles to deceive and confuse the enemy. At the same time that the enemy is revealing his peaceable profile, he is also maneuvering his warriors into position to strike with his profile of WAR. As Babylon and Tyrus were many things, so also Babylon, Tyrus and Lucifer today are also many different fronts, and many battles, but there is only ONE WAR: the WAR is to bring God down, to destroy all that God has created: destroy the earth, destroy the environment, the plants and trees, the animals, AND never forget . . . to destroy man. The insanity of hatred is progressive. It was not enough that Satan drew Adam and Eve into his world of sin and death, but the race of man, the species of man cannot be allowed to continue as it was created with a body, soul, and spirit. The body of man has been under attack for millenniums, the spirit of man has never known a moment without war (inward and outward), and the soul of man is in dire urgent need of restoration. (Psalm 23) And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day. (Genesis 1:31) When God said that all He had created was very good, then Satan drew up his battle plan. Can you understand now why man (according to Satan’s plan) must not be allowed to continue to exist in body, soul, and spirit as he was created. Children are being influenced to maim and destroy their own bodies. Humanhood must be changed to ‘almost humanhood,’ or ‘partial humanhood.’ Maleness must be changed to ‘almost maleness,’ or ‘partial maleness,’ and femalehood must also be changed into unrecognizable body parts without souls. How can mankind fight a battle when he is not even aware that there is a WAR for his body, soul, and spirit?
 The Christian speaks of a spiritual battle, but somehow many Christians cannot see that this UNSEEN spiritual battle is being played out in the world of the SEEN, our world: the world of children is under attack, women are degraded into being merely removable or constructed body parts, and men are spiritually, chemically, emotionally and physically being castrated. All that has come upon mankind today originates in the UNSEEN world of spiritual wickedness. Every person who approves, promotes, encourages, and financially backs the devil’s agenda are tools, servants and ministers of Satan himself. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high [places]. (Ephesians 6:12) Be a voice, be a constructive activist in this WAR that Satan is waging against God. Fear no man. For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. (2nd Timothy 1:7) So that we may boldly say, The Lord [is] my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me. (Hebrews 13:6)
 The spiritual battle that we are currently engaged in is not a new battle tactic. While the propagandists dangle ‘the important social talking points’ such as the lies of ‘climate control,’ (they can’t control their mouths, nor their evil, they should not use the word control except in their real agenda, and that is to control YOU), ‘trans-pretenders,’ ‘population-murder,’ the majority cannot see that the end goal is to control the souls of mankind, and to kill those that cannot be enslaved. Why? Lucifer’s insanity extends beyond the angelic spiritual realm. His hatred against the human race only can be satisfied by two things; first and foremost, ALL souls must be his and bow to him and to the man that is the physical manifestation of Satan’s power: The Beast; or secondly, the race of man must be destroyed and completely annihilated because everything that God created must not be allowed to remain in its original created form. (Man is not NOW in his original created form for sin drastically changed that.) Man cannot continue to be male; nor can woman continue to be female. Since man was made in the image of God, the image of the Lord Jesus Christ with a Body, Soul and Spirit; the body, soul and spirit of mankind MUST not be allowed to exist.
  The human race must be spiritually, emotionally and PHYSICALLY changed. And this is where we are today. The battle against man’s bodies has been long in the planning stage and in the experimental stage, but it has moved from experimental to activation. We already have individuals with chip implants in the hands, or wrists, proudly scanning their hands to quickly process through various sales avenues. There are those who eagerly look forward to the ‘brain-chips’ to make them somehow superior and more advanced than the lowly unintelligent serfs. Our bodies have unknowingly been affected by chemicals in our foods, and in our beverages for decades. Our minds have willingly accepted whatever appears before our eyes and ears as desirable truth. Although more and more are beginning to question the goals of those who control our medications, our news, and our foods; there are those, however, who refuse to ask, Why? and Why now? and For what purpose? Lucifer/Satan has many fronts and as a house cat is easily diverted to follow the red laser dot bouncing across a wall, Lucifer also easily diverts our attention with his laser lies bouncing across the scenes and screens of our world. Mankind has been conditioned to accept confusion as a norm and has lost the ability to focus on the hand that holds the laser tool. ♦ End of Side Note: The WAR.
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PURPLE
Wearing the Counterfeit Purple
Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which thou spreadest forth to be thy sail; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was that which covered thee. (Ezekiel 27:7)
Syria [was] thy merchant by reason of the multitude of the wares of thy making: they occupied in thy fairs with emeralds, purple, and broidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and agate. (Ezekiel 27:16)
  Now . . . back to Ezekiel Chapter 27. Three times, the Holy Spirit of God warns that Tyrus will lament in grief over its destruction: Ezekiel 27:2, 32; 28:12. Three times in Chapter 27 the pride of Lucifer is seen in his wisdom and beauty, this is the same vain pride of Tyrus: the man, the prince, the king and the nation. Compare Ezekiel 28:12 with Ezekiel 27:3, 4, and 11.Â
Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. (Ezekiel 28:12) The Spirit of God describes Lucifer before iniquity was found in him.
Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus; (Ezekiel 27:2) And say unto Tyrus, O thou that art situate at the entry of the sea, which art a merchant of the people for many isles, Thus saith the Lord GOD; O Tyrus, thou hast said, I am of perfect beauty. (Ezekiel 27:3) Thy borders are in the midst of the seas, thy builders have perfected thy beauty. (Ezekiel 27:4)
The men of Arvad with thine army were upon thy walls round about, and the Gammadims were in thy towers: they hanged their shields upon thy walls round about;Â they have made thy beauty perfect. (Ezekiel 27:11)
  There is so much in Ezekiel Chapter 27 that lays the groundwork for Lucifer in Chapter 28, such as the words merchant and merchandise are mentioned in twelve (12) verses for a total of seventeen (17) times. Lucifer was the very first entrepreneur, the first merchant, the first trafficker, and although his first venture into the world of business failed in God’s holy realm, nevertheless, Lucifer/Satan regards himself as a successful hustler merchant. Strengths are often indicators of weaknesses.
Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which thou spreadest forth to be thy sail; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was that which covered thee. (Ezekiel 27:7)
  In this verse we again have the colors of blue and purple united. Jeremiah 10:9 and Ezekiel 27:7 are the only two places in the entire Bible that blue and purple are mentioned together without any other color association. Jeremiah 10:9 it was brutish, foolish and cunning men who covered themselves with blue and purple (robbing God’s priesthood and God’s sovereignty). So, with that robbing of the things of God’s priesthood how does Ezekiel 27:7 fit into that thought? Ah . . . the Spirit of God adds fine linen (the purity of the cloth representing the purity of the High Priest of God in the heavenlies, Melchisedec with the ephod of the earthly priest in Exodus 28:4, 5, 6.) Now we have an additional item related to the ephod, and to the earthly high priest of God, and to the heavenly fulfillment of the True High Priest of God in the heavenlies.
  In our study verse, the fine linen is from the land of Egypt. Spiritually Egypt represents worldly treasures. The last word in the first book of the Bible (Genesis) is Egypt and the only time that the word coffin is recorded is in the last verse of the book of Genesis, God connects the treasures of the world with death. So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt. (Genesis 50:26) The Spirit of God just lays it all out there PERFECTLY for all to see, death, coffin, Egypt. You desire the things of the world, then death and a coffin in the world (Egypt) await you.
Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which thou spreadest forth to be thy sail; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was that which covered thee. (Ezekiel 27:7)
  The brutish, foolish, cunning men spread their sails with the treasures of Egypt not caring that their sails lead them to death. Their counterfeit robes of priesthood and religious authority were from the isles of Elishah. Elishah has a dual meaning that is quite fitting for those who wear the counterfeit robes of religion. ‘My God has disregarded,’ and/or ‘God is my salvation.’ God totally disregards and dismisses those who falsely claim that God is their Savior. Nicolaitanism is religion promoting itself as Christianity while worshiping itself covered in the robes of authority and priesthood STOLEN from the True Authority of the Godhead bodily, and the True High Priest of God, Melchisedec, possessor of heaven and earth.
  It is the religious person who is the most intrenched enemy of God. Established embedded religions from the early days of Christianity, or Jewish traditions from men of renown, or pagan cults born from every form of imaginative religiousness are ALL enemies of God. Everything that is formed around man and man’s quest to be something else than what he is, eventually becomes the tool through which he destroys himself.
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Clothed in the Purple of Sovereignty
The Breastplate of Aaron
The Breastplate of Melchisedec
The Covering of Lucifer
Syria [was] thy merchant by reason of the multitude of the wares of thy making: they occupied in thy fairs with emeralds, purple, and broidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and agate. (Ezekiel 27:16)
  This is the last mention of the word purple in the Old Testament. (Hip, hip, hooray, we’ve finally arrived at our destination!) And to remind you that the Holy Spirit of God is addressing Tyrus, the individual, as a prince, and as a king, He spiritually brings in Lucifer through symbolism in the workman and the founder of counterfeit religion in the next Chapter, Chapter 28.
Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. (Ezekiel 28:12) Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created. (Ezekiel 28:13) This description is similar to the description of the breastplate that Aaron, the first high priest of God in the Tabernacle in the wilderness except there were twelve (12) stones on the breastplate, one stone for each tribe of Israel.
And thou shalt make the breastplate of judgment with cunning work; after the work of the ephod thou shalt make it; of gold, of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine twined linen, shalt thou make it. (Exodus 28:15)
And thou shalt set in it settings of stones, even four rows of stones: the first row shall be a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: this shall be the first row. (Exodus 28:17)
And the second row shall be an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond. (Exodus 28:18)
And the third row a ligure, an agate, and an amethyst. (Exodus 28:19)
And the fourth row a beryl, and an onyx, and a jasper: they shall be set in gold in their inclosings. (Exodus 28:20)
Here covering Lucifer there are nine (9) gemstones. Again, a very fitting number representing finality in judgment. There are three gemstones not documented in Ezekiel 28:13, which is the complete third row on the breastplate of Aaron.
  I think the full spiritual differences between the breastplate of Aaron with twelve stones and the breastplate of Lucifer with nine stones is beyond my pay grade, except for this observation. Aaron’s breastplate not only represented the twelve tribes of Israel covering his heart, but the breastplate primarily represented the breastplate in the heavenlies worn by God’s High Priest, Melchisedec.
According to all that I shew thee, [after] the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so shall ye make [it]. (Exodus 25:9)
Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, [that] thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount. (Hebrews 8:5)
  The pattern, or the copy, that Aaron wore was patterned after Melchisedec’s breastplate over His heart. Lucifer (the created angel) was never on an equal footing with Melchisedec (the Creator God), nor would Lucifer ever be allowed to display the total perfection of the High Priest Melchisedec. God, through His foreknowledge, placed on Lucifer nine (9) precious gemstones to reflect God’s perfection in JUDGMENT even before the act of rebellion: as Christ (in His earthly manifestation) knew His adversary was Judas BEFORE the thought of treason even entered into the mind and heart of Judas. Lucifer was already marked with JUDGMENT before his rebellion against God, and Lucifer never knew it, he may be powerful, but he is not omniscient; he is not divine, he is not deity, he does not have a divine nature. Also, there is another point to consider in the difference between the nine gemstones and the twelve gemstones. It is the connection with the number three. And the third row a ligure, an agate, and an amethyst. (Exodus 28:19) The stones in the 3rd row of Aaron’s breastplate is absent from the gemstones documented that Lucifer wore. Lucifer’s gemstones where minus THREE precious stones. Here is another condemnation of Satan (alias Lucifer). Lucifer fell short not only of the glory of God, but he fell short in every aspect of His service thinking that he was equal with God. When Lucifer lusted after Melchisedec’s position, he must also have craved Melchisedec’s beauty and perfection of holiness that truly outshined his own wisdom and beauty. He was not only THREE GEMSTONES short of the twelve gemstones worn by God’s High Priest, but those THREE stones reflected much more than the third row in Aaron’s breastplate, they reflected THE FULLNESS OF THE GODHEAD bodily IN God’s High Priest Melchisedec.
  There is no earthly creature as dangerous as a beautiful, scorned woman, and in the heavenlies, Lucifer could not accept that God placed his beauty, and his wisdom far below and beneath the ONE whose glory he was to reflect through his assigned position leading the worship and praise of the angelic realm. Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee. (Ezekiel 28:17) Attempting to rob God what is due God is no small matter, and yet the brutish, foolish cunning men who wear the blue and purple never consider that they rob God every second of their existence through their doctrines of vanities.
  Syria is mentioned in Ezekiel 27:16, but this was just one nation from all the nations. (Ezekiel 27 is a companion chapter to Revelation Chapter 18.) Don’t focus on any particular nation, but the focus should be on the merchants and the merchandising system throughout the entire world. Economics (MONEY) is the driving force behind every man-made law; economics (the LUST for MONEY) is behind every government and every religion. Man has merely become another form of product to be sold, bartered and used. (Even the bodies of dead babies are bartered and sold for profit. Abortion advocates do not care about ‘rights’ or ‘health,’ it’s a profitable business; a dead baby is worth more to them than a live baby.) And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not. (2nd Peter 2:3)
  In our study verse of Ezekiel 27:16, God the Holy Spirit adds more information so that the reader can see more about this woman . . . arrayed in purple and scarlet colour. This woman is MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. She is Counterfeit Religion, she is Corrupt Government, she is every tyrant that has ever existed, she is the embodiment of Lucifer’s lust for power, worship, and the desire to control the souls of men. As Lucifer formed a counter rogue angelic organization in the heavens to rob God of His realm, so also through MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, mankind has been organized (by Satan) to rob God of His earthly realm. Counterfeit religions dare to deny the true God and claim the colors of purple (Kingship/Sovereign) and scarlet (Redeemer/Savior) for themselves. Mankind is very drawn to religion. He has a deep-seated need to worship. Refusing to accept God man then reaches out in his runaway imaginations to create something to worship, as long as this god of his choosing accepts or excuses man’s rebellious actions and his sin. As we follow the word purple through both Testaments, we will discover how man attempts to rob God of His GODHEAD.
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The PURPLE and THE AGATE
The King and Sovereign God and His Judgment
Syria [was] thy merchant by reason of the multitude of the wares of thy making: they occupied in thy fairs with emeralds, purple, and broidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and agate. (Ezekiel 27:16)
  Tyrus is one among many tyrants who have aided Lucifer in his quest for dominion over the earth. And the last mention of purple in the Old Testament summarizes how Lucifer has come full circle in the hearts and minds of man. Nations have been overcome by merchants. Everywhere you turn you are being constantly bombarded by merchants occupied with the goal to acquire MONEY . . . POWER . . . and CONTROL.
  Read the last mention of purple once again. Syria [was] thy merchant by reason of the multitude of the wares of thy making: they occupied in thy fairs with emeralds, purple, and broidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and agate. (Ezekiel 27:16) Surrounding the purple (robbing God of His authority and sovereignty) we see the words emeralds, and broidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and agate. Man considers all these stones of earth valuable and priceless, but God is also showing us that the last two stones (coral, and agate) documented in 27:16 have an additional price or a cost. One of the root meanings of coral is ‘extremely precious,’ and the other root meaning is ‘to be lifted up.’ Man’s desire to have the precious things of earth comes with a price, the price is ‘vanity.’ The price is the same price that Lucifer paid for his sin of being lifted up with pride. Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil. (1st Timothy 3:6) He was cast down (Revelation12:10). Three (3) times the words lifted up is documented in the 28th Chapter of Ezekiel, the Chapter of Lucifer’s history.
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: (Ezekiel 28:2)
By thy great wisdom [and] by thy traffick hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches: (Ezekiel 28:5)
Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee. (Ezekiel 28:17)
  The Holy Spirit of God just didn’t accidently happen to select coral to place in our study verse. It is also not an accident that the word agate is also included and is ALSO the LAST word in our verse. Three (3) times agate is documented in scripture. (Exodus 28:19, 39:12 and Ezekiel 27:16) This word, this small word, this last word in our verse may be the illusive piece of additional information that would tie the word purple to Lucifer’s failed robbery attempt of the Priesthood in God’s realm.Â
  Agate has a number of interesting root meanings: ‘to transport into captivity,’ ‘to carry away,’ ‘to flame‘ as in ‘sparks,’ and also ‘to fragment,’ ‘break apart,’ ‘ruin,‘ as in ‘to split.’ Here is the connection to Lucifer’s failed robbery in God’s realm when he desired to have Melchisedec’s position as the High Priest of God, possessor of heaven and earth. How do we know this? The first two (2) times that agate is documented in Exodus 28:19 and 39:12 IS the description of the breastplate of Aaron, the earthly high priest of the nation of Israel. Therefore, agate in Ezekiel 27:16 is ALSO about the breastplate, but this breastplate is part of the robbery attempt of stealing THE PURPLE. Through the word agate we do not see a precious mineral of worth, but we see JUDGMENT. The LAST MENTION of purple is connected to the LAST MENTION of agate. Mankind (led by their master and ally) can only see monetary worth, they can only see what exalts them, they are captivated and carried away with their doctrine of vanities . . . emeralds, purple, and broidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and agate. But at the end, God closes the history of man and Lucifer with AGATE . . . JUDGMENT . . . to transport into captivity,’ ‘to carry away,’ ‘to flame‘ as in ‘sparks,’ (remember the ‘Sparkle Creed’) ‘to fragment,’ ‘break apart,’ ‘ruin,‘ as in ‘to split.’
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: (Ezekiel 28:2)
Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from thee:Â (Ezekiel 28:3)
With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures:Â (Ezekiel 28:4)
By thy great wisdom and by thy traffick hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches:Â (Ezekiel 28:5)
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast set thine heart as the heart of God; (Ezekiel 28:6)
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. (Ezekiel 28:7)
They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas. (Ezekiel 28:8)
Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I am God? but thou shalt be a man, and no God, in the hand of him that slayeth thee. (Ezekiel 28:9)
Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD. (Ezekiel 28:10)
Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, (Ezekiel 28:11)
Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. (Ezekiel 28:12)
Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created. (Ezekiel 28:13)
Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. (Ezekiel 28:14)
Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee. (Ezekiel 28:15)
By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. (Ezekiel 28:16)
Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee. (Ezekiel 28:17)
Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee. (Ezekiel 28:18)
All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more. (Ezekiel 28:19)
   This study of purple in the Old Testament is fascinating in how the Spirit of God has led us to spiritually digest how the WAR in heaven was framed in the tangible, the SEEN, WAR on earth, and how the purple relates to the spiritual battle on earth in the UNSEEN. Did ya’ ll get that?Â
   Like an old dog I am not going to give up my ole’ chewed purple bone. Prayerfully, the Lord has more to disclose to us in the New Testament concerning the word purple. So, if anyone is still awake and reading this, all I can say is . . . Good night, and may God richly bless you and yours.Â
Men of renown is a companion piece to Giants in the Earth series.
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