137Babel

Chemah

…Venomous

 

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Qadar | Growing Dark

 

Can Anyone See?

After all the Lord of Babel has said about Egypt, it is a wonder that there is any sand left to throw at the beleaguered pharaoh. But since he viewed him and his vaulted temples as rivals, we have more to endure.

While there is, of course, no indication in the copiously documented annals of Egyptian history that the Lord of Babel killed what he has claimed was the most towering and brilliant of pharaohs, there can be no denying that Satan is intent on burying all indication that he was and remains the Adversary. And that goal remains the purpose of this chapter.

It is perplexing that, in a book where nothing is historically accurate, we find ‘Ezekiel,’ without a calendar or point of reference, ticking down the days as if they mattered. And it is not just that his timeline is invalid, he has not even bothered to explain when he was allegedly captured or whose calendar he was using.

And it is (wa hayah) in the 12^th year (ba shanaym ‘esreh shanah) in the 12^th month (ba shanaym ‘asar chodesh) in the 1^st of the month (ba ‘echad la ha chodesh), it was a word (hayah dabar) of This Is Not Him (#^^#!) to me to say (‘el ‘any la ‘amar), (Yachezq’el / Ezekiel 32:1) son of human (ben ‘adam), you must lift up (nasa’ – it is imperative that you bear and carry (qal imperative second-person masculine singular)) a mournful funeral dirge to lament (qynah) over (‘al) 138Pharaoh (Phar’oah), king of Egypt (melek Mitsraym) so you have said (wa ‘amar) to him (‘el huw’), lion (kaphyr) of gentile nations (gowym), you resemble (damah – you are likened and compared), but (wa) you (‘atah) are like (ka) the monstrous serpentine dragon (tanyn – a limbless amphibious reptile residing in the deepest oceans) within the seas (ba ha yamym).

And you surge forth and thrash about (wa gyach) in your rivers (ba nahary ‘atah). So, you churn up and make turbid (dalach) the waters (maym) with your feet (ba regel ‘atah) and you muddy, roil, and foul, troubling (raphas) their rivers (nachar hem). (Yachezq’el / Ezekiel 32:2)

There would have been no logical or moral reason to mourn for any pharaoh. With few exceptions, they were brutal egomaniacs and were especially hostile toward Yisra’elites. Satan’s sole fixation on him is, therefore, due to the fact that he has projected his adversarial nature on him - and has, thereby, used him as a prop.

This becomes all the more evident with the reference to the lion and monstrous serpentine dragon. It was Yahowah’s people, particularly Yahuwdym, who were depicted as lions. By contrast, the lion was low on the list of Egyptian anthropomorphisms.

The bull was the featured animal of the Pharaoh’s religious cult. Apis the Bull served as the inspiration for the idolatrous Golden Calf fabrication early in the Exodus. And when we look at the images the pharaohs had crafted of themselves, their royal headdress and their death masks, we see cobras to an overwhelming extent, followed by falcons and jackals. Even in the example of the Sphinx, the body is of a crouching lion, but the head resembles a cobra.

When it comes to pharaohs and their anthropomorphic furries, their favorite images after the bull, cobra, falcon, and jackal, included in the order of their importance: the 139sacred scarab beetle, crocodile, baboons, domesticated kitty cats, frogs, geese, herons, and the affable hippopotamus. This was followed by Sekhmet, a lion, ostrich, pig, ram, scorpion, turtle, and vulture.

Then the Lord of Babel attempts to correct himself, and recognizing that Egypt was comprised of gowym, not Yahuwdym, he depicts his caricature of the pharaoh as a tanyn | monstrous serpentine dragon, a limbless amphibious reptile residing in the deepest oceans. He even affirms that this snake lived ba ha yamym | within the seas – and thus prowled among the Gentiles.

But then, as is the Devil’s prerogative, he gets his metaphors all twisted up and has the sea monster thrashing about in his own freshwater rivers as if there were more than one in Egypt. And then the limbless serpent is depicted churning up the waters of other people’s rivers with his feet such that the waters of distant nations are muddied. He is as effective with parables as he is with prophecy.

Since Satan has been using his depiction of the pharaoh as a foil to project his pre-fall grandeur and to bury it as a Phoenix, only to rise unburdened by the adversarial baggage, his mention of the tanyn | sea serpent is telling. Yahowah not only used the metaphor of a lowly and toxic serpent to depict his diminishment of Satan in the Garden, but he also used it again when addressing Satan’s ultimate demise.

In the transition between the 26^th and 27^th chapters of Yasha’yah / Isaiah, we find that certain individuals will be awakened prior to Yahowah’s return. And as these souls are healed and reborn, refreshed and sparkling like the early morning’s light, God is suggesting that the faint of heart take cover for the moment while He and His team take care of business by holding those who have twisted and perverted Yahowah’s testimony accountable. And this is when we discover considerably more about the nature of 140the Adversary and witness his final date with destiny. The prophet’s explanation begins…

“Your dead (muwth ‘atah) will live (chayah). Their bodies will rise (nabelah hem quwm – that which was disregarded and languished, having faded away will be restored to fulfill and accomplish what has been established). Those dwelling in the dust (shakan ‘aphar) will be roused and awakened (qyts – be alive and active) while shouting for joy (wa ranan – calling out and singing). For the dew is now a covering of moisture for you in the sparkling morning light (ky tal ‘orah tal ‘atah). And so, the Land of the departed who have been healed (wa ‘erets raphaym) will give birth to those who have fallen (naphal). (Yasha’yah / Isaiah 26:19)

Of your own initiative, you should move about and walk (halak), My people (‘am ‘any). Come into (bow’ ba – you should choose to enter into) your private and exclusive chambers (cheder ‘atah – your encompassing enclosure). And then, of your own volition, shut your doors (wa sagar deleth ‘atah – close your entrance) behind you (ba’ad ‘atah). You may want to hide (chabah – you should choose to conceal yourself) for what is comparatively just a few moments, a brief instant (ka ma’at rega’), until (‘ad) the righteous indignation (za’am – the anguishing words and tongue-lashing) has passed by (‘abar). (Yasha’yah / Isaiah 26:20)

It is important to pay attention (ky hineh). Yahowah (YaHoWaH) will be descending and coming out (yatsa’ – is conducting an exodus, extending Himself to serve by withdrawing (qal participle)) from His place, His source and home (min maqowm huw’), to reckon with and account for (la paqad) the corruptions, distortions, and perversions (‘awon – the twisting and bending, the depravity of bowing down) of the inhabitants who dwell on the Earth (yashab ha ‘erets) against Him (‘al huw’).

141Then (wa) He will reveal and make known (galah – He will uncover and expose) the bloodshed (‘eth dam hy’) of the Earth (ha ‘erets). So, there will be no hiding (wa lo’ kasah) any longer from her slain (‘owd ‘al harag hy’). (Yasha’yah / Isaiah 26:21)

In this day (ba ha yowm ha huw’), Yahowah (YaHoWaH) will hold accountable as a means of reckoning (paqad – He will take inventory of the evidence which has been recorded, summon the perpetrator, and assign responsibility (qal imperfect)) over and against (‘al) the cruel and unyielding, difficult and perplexing (ha qasheh – the fierce, harsh, and troubling, ultimately obstinate and bad), the strangely astonishing and remarkably important, the spatially and dimensionally elevated, the great and powerful, overwhelmingly exalted and self-promoting (ha gadowl – the enormity and intensity of the personally magnifying, ancient in origin, and loud), tremendously severe, stormy, and militant enabler of empowered leaders as the emboldened (wa ha chazaq – the status-seeking and powerful force behind the most militant, obstinate, and violent rulers as the mightiest) Leviathan (Lowytan – a serpentine whore joining and uniting; from lawah – to join in and attend to, to borrow and to lend, lowy – to join and unite, and tan – a large snake and tanah – repeating the tale of engaging a prostitute for lamentable favors), the hissing and spellbinding serpent, venomous viper, and enchanting snake (nachash – the cold-blooded reptile engaged in divination, supernatural signs, and fortune-telling) who is trying to slip away and flee, who is an injurious fugitive (bariach – who is gliding away in serpentine fashion while escaping [1QIsa written as a verb]), with His cutting implement (ba chereb huw’ – with His desolating dagger reminiscent of the separation made possible through Choreb).

142And opposed to (wa ‘al) the Leviathan (Lowytan – a serpentine whore joining and uniting; from lawah – to join in and attend to, to borrow and to lend, lowy – to join and unite, and tan – a large snake and tanah – repeating the tale of engaging a prostitute for lamentable favors), this coiled and prepared to strike, this twisted and crooked, the distorted and bent out of shape (‘aqalathown), hissing and spellbinding serpent, venomous viper, and enchanting snake (nachash – the cold-blooded reptile engaged in divination, supernatural signs, and fortune-telling), He will smite with terminal effect (wa harag – He will strike with the intent to debilitate at a moment in time (qal perfect)) the monstrous serpentine dragon (‘eth ha tanyn – the limbless amphibious reptile residing in the deepest oceans) which (‘asher) is in the sea (ba ha yam).” (Yasha’yah / Isaiah 27:1)

It wasn’t perchance that the Lord of Babel applied his tanyn | monstrous serpentine dragon designation to the nameless pharaoh playing his foil. He may have lost the ability to maneuver in time, but we can be assured he can still read. He is aware that he is more adroitly described in Yasha’yah / Isaiah than anywhere else. Indeed, Isaiah sets the standard Ezekiel is failing.

In this statement alone, we discover that Yahowah is indignant toward the Tanyn, and He will dispatch him immediately upon His return. After God restores crucial family members, and protects them, we find that Satan will have outlived his purpose. Lead among his crimes will have been corrupting and distorting Yahowah’s testimony, twisting and perverting the truth to lead the unwary away from God. And he will have been deadly in the extreme. Both accusations, of course, are consistent with what we have read throughout Ezekiel.

Apart from the Covenant’s children, God will not forgive and forget. There will be recompense and restitution – especially toward those who manifest the 143aforementioned characteristics. And as we have witnessed ad infinitum, the voice of Ezekiel is particularly qasheh | cruel and unyielding. He is obstinate and troubling. On the spectrum between right and wrong, good and bad, he pegs the bottom end of the scale. He is even perplexing in that he is remarkably forthright in this regard.

Next, we learn that the Tanyn is gadowl | a surprisingly important player in God’s story. He was, and may still be, dimensionally superior to humankind, which would make him considerably more influential. And he is, as we have discovered by reading Ezekiel, self-aggrandizing. He is intense, loud, and very old.

Continuing to paint a portrait of ha Satan, Yasha’yah reveals that he is chazaq | a tempestuous and militant enabler of the most violent rulers. For those seeking status, he is an emboldening and empowering presence.

As we learned in Bare’syth / Genesis 3, Satan is initially introduced as a nachash | snake. And while the Adversary is named Hylel ben Shachar in Yasha’yah / Isaiah 14, here in the 27^th chapter, he is called Lowytan | Leviathan. This designation affirms that Satan is serpentine in nature. This serves to explain his propensity to incapacitate his victims by bending and twisting God’s testimony. It is what he did in the Garden, it is what he is doing here in Ezekiel, it is how he inspired Sha’uwl | Paul to write the Christian New Testament, it is the constant drumbeat of the rabbis throughout the Babylonian Talmud, and it is the essence of the Quran.

Since Lowytan is rooted in lawah, we know that the Tanyn borrows from others rather than creates. He lends but does not invest. And that means he isn’t an equity partner, and so he expects to be paid back with interest. And from lowy, he is a joiner and uniter. Find a large human institution, nation, or empire and he is likely part of the program.

144Based on how the word was actually written, the intended vocalization would have been Lowytan. Lowy, from the verbal root, lawah, means to join and unite. That is either good or bad depending upon the other individual, institution, or nation. The Lowy, for example, served to unite Yisra’el with Yahowah through the Miqra’ey. However, since these lowy are joining in with and uniting others to the tan | great serpent, Lowytan is as bad as it gets.

Digging deeper into the darkness, the actionable root of tan | large snake is tanah. It expresses the idea of repeatedly telling the story of engaging a prostitute for lamentable favors. This whore is religion. Her priests are rabbis – the replacement Lowy of Judaism. As horrific as this may sound, the name Lowytan provides the most sensible explanation of what we have read since we entered Babylon with Daniel and Ezekiel.

The replacement god is actually a snake. And his replacement for the Lowy priests are rabbis. They have been hired as prostitutes to unite Yisra’elites with the Adversary. It is a lamentable tale, one born in Babel | To Confuse by Commingling With the Lord. And it has been repeated ad nauseam throughout Ezekiel and the Babylonian Talmud. But let us not forget the rabbinical connection to composing the Christian New Testament and Quran, as well as corrupting the modern state of Israel. They are the reason Yahuwdym do not know Yahowah.

I would like to go one step further and suggest that the errant transliteration of Lowytan as Leviathan was deliberate. The rabbinical Masoretes were expert at misrepresenting the pronunciation of the letters found in Yahowah’s name – ostensibly to keep Jews from knowing their God. Therefore, owy was perverted to evi. And since these rabbis would have known that Lowytan was scribed with a Taw and not a Theth, the change in vocalization occurred to divert attention away from the snake living among them, misrepresenting the tan as a than. And as a 145result of their malfeasance, they will be among those cast into She’owl along with the Lowytan.

Lowy is the correct pronunciation of Levite, the clan responsible for uniting the Children of Israel with Yahowah by facilitating an understanding of the Towrah, Beryth, and Miqra’ey. Moseh was a Lowy. They were considered uniters and joiners because the name shares commonality with the verb, “lawah – to attend and be joined, to borrow and lend.” When their mission was carried out correctly, the Lowy encouraged Yisra’elites to attend the Miqra’ey to become part of the Beryth. The goal was accomplished by correctly borrowing from and sharing Towrah | Guidance.

Potentially interesting, when Lowytan is scribed in paleo-Hebrew, it reads right to left as – . This is bad because, while the shepherd’s staff  is pointed toward the two letters in Yahowah’s name , they were presented in reverse order. Worse, the concluding Nun  is moving away from the letters in God’s name .

As a general rule, a word is typically positive when a combination of the ten directional Hebrew letters lean toward the three letters which comprise YaHoWaH. When they veer away, bad things happen. And in this case,  reads: a shepherd is established and became influential by presenting a sign which leads children in the wrong direction.

The most often repeated name for ha Satan | the Adversary is Ba’al | Lord, a title which defines his controlling and possessive approach to humankind. This title is also consistent with everything we have read in Ezekiel. However, in our initial Towrah introduction to this menacing spirit, he was portrayed from an entirely different perspective. While he appears as a Lord among men, to God in Bare’syth / Genesis 3:1, he is portrayed as ha nachash | the hissing and spellbinding serpent, 146venomous viper, and enchanting snake. He is a nachash | cold-blooded reptile engaged in divination, supernatural signs, and fortune-telling. Therefore, Lowytan | Joining the Serpent is most accurately assessed when conjuring up the image of a venomous viper luring the unsuspecting into the dark recesses of its den. It is not only a cold-blooded killer with a paralyzing bite, it typically strikes the lower leg when attacking humans – thereby impeding our ability to stand upright and walk to God.

Along these lines, snakes slither in serpentine fashion, moving side to side because they cannot travel straight ahead. In this manner, they represent the opposite of walking along the straight and narrow path to Yahowah along the steps home provided by the Miqra’ey. And of course, snakes cannot stand upright, which means that they can never be right with God.

In his initial introduction as a nachash | spellbinding serpent and venomous viper, Yahowah revealed that Satan was ‘aruwm | cunning and clever, which is not a good combination. He was also shrewd and subtle while appearing sensible. So, he’s either taken a tumble since this assessment was true, or he’s bored with it all and is now just toying with the religious. Ezekiel has been anything but subtle or sensible. ‘Aruwm also reveals that ha Satan, as the nachash | spellbinding serpent and venomous viper, would be crafty, elusive, and ambiguous in his counsel while obscuring the truth. In a word, this snake would be ‘aruwm | treacherous.

In His warning to us, Yahowah went on to say that the Serpent’s ability to ‘aruwm | betray in a clandestine manner min kol chayah | exceeded all other lifeforms ‘asher sadeh | relative to the broad expanse outside of the Garden. The Lowytan is, therefore, a living being. And of the two types, spiritual and animal, since the reference to the nachash is obviously a metaphor, and there is no indication that he is flesh and bone, ha Satan is a spiritual entity. This then, 147brings us back to the tsaba’ and Yahowah’s mal’ak | spiritual messengers and karuwbym | guardian spirits.

There are four more insights I’d like to share before we return to our analysis of Yasha’yah 27 because, in Bare’syth 3:1, Yahowah said, “The spellbinding serpent (wa ha nachash) was (hayah) cunning and clever, shrewd and subtle while appearing sensible, elusive in his counsel and ambiguous when obscuring the truth, and thus treacherous (‘aruwm) beyond all other (min kol) lifeforms and living creatures (chayah) relative to (‘asher) the broad and open way (sadeh) that Yahowah (YaHoWaH), Almighty (‘elohym), had enabled and deployed (‘asah).”

First, both verbs, hayah and ‘asah, were time-constrained in the perfect conjugation. This means that Satan’s ability to be ‘aruwm | subtle and shrewd would be relatively short-lived – explaining the debacle that is Ezekiel. Also, the Serpent would only be deployed for a limited time.

Second, there is no getting around the fact that the subject of ‘asah | to act and engage and, thus, to enable is Yahowah. So, since the object is the Serpent, God is using him and has deployed him for this purpose. Therefore, Satan is playing the role he was designed to fulfill. He makes the decision to avoid Yahowah appear sufficiently reasonable and popular that it takes some effort to become properly informed and make the right choice.

Third, there was intelligent life outside of the Garden. And this, by itself, shapes the referendum between choosing to be with God in the Garden or apart from Him and with other animals, including humans, outside in the broad and open way.

And fourth, while we were introduced to the Serpent, Chawah was not. The next line in Bare’syth 3:2 begins, “And then he said to the woman…” This suggests that she 148was already familiar with him. He did not sneak up on her or startle her. He did not scare her. The fact that he spoke means that he was not actually a snake and that nachash serves as a metaphor. And the realization that Chawah listened and then engaged with him, as if he also knew Yahowah, strongly suggests that he had been around for a considerable time.

Returning to Yahowah’s prophetic portrayal of the Lowytan, he told Yasha’yah that he is bariach | a fugitive trying to slip away, escaping by slithering away in serpentine fashion. It is a participle verb in 1QIsa, the Great Isaiah Scroll, making it actionable, demonstrable, and continual. So, I ask, what would the Tanyn be trying to flee from if not the constraints of the tsaba’, which represents the vast array of spiritual implements doing as Yahowah commands? He went AWOL.

More than this, by using bariach as a verb, we discover that, just as Satan is slithering away from God, he wants as many souls as possible to join him. It is the inverse of the former and future Yatsa’ | Exodus from Mitsraym and Babel. Rather than fleeing the oppressive and controlling nature of mankind’s religious and political schemes, the faithful following the Lowytan become fugitives from Yahowah – distancing themselves from emancipation, enrichment, empowerment, and enlightenment – and into being controlled, degraded, impoverished, and stupefied by man. Cunning, indeed.

The flight of the Nachash will terminate in his complete separation from Yahowah and His people. That is why a cutting implement will be deployed. And the place of desolating separation is She’owl – Satan’s eternal abode.

The next insight provided by Yahowah and His prophet, Yasha’yah, regarding the Adversary reveals that he is ‘aqalathown | coiled and prepared to strike. He is twisted and crooked, distorted and bent out of shape. These 149adjectives are not only fitting for the Tanyn, Nachash, and Lowytan, they provide an undeniable connection between Satan and the ‘awon | corruptions, distortions, and perversions, the twisting and bending of His testimony, causing people to bow down, that Yahowah will reckon with upon His return. As a result of ha Satan’s ‘aqalathown, the inhabitants of the Earth have been separated from God by ‘awon.

Yahowah’s concluding statement in Yasha’yah / Isaiah 27:1 is directly applicable to the story in the Garden because both use nachash and refer to the spellbinding serpent. And it is also applicable to the insights potentially derived from Satan’s confession in Ezekiel 32:2 because both use tanyn | serpentine monster. Further, in both references, we read that the Tanyn is from the sea. This means that he lives among Gentiles, and he has the most influence over them. By making these connections, we learn.

Our only challenge in all of this is the verb, harag, which in the qal perfect says that God will, at the moment of His return, smite and kill the Lowytan | those who have joined with the serpent. And while Yahowah can smite Satan and terminate his outreach and influence, debilitating the Adversary, He cannot kill him because he is not mortal. As a spiritual being, his time among men can be curtailed, but once all contact with the living is severed, Satan will endure an eternity in She’owl. Therefore, we either have to read harag as indicating that he will be struck from the realm of the living, and his influence terminated, or define Lowytan as Those Joining the Serpent – because as mortals, they can die.

It is abundantly apparent that Ezekiel is Satan’s autobiography. He is projecting his perceptions of himself on numerous foils and in multiple places. The more we read, the more we come to understand his nature, purpose, and approach. And as was the case when exposing and 150condemning Muhammad and then Paul, the more we know about the delusional and psychotic anti-Semitic spirit possessing them, and Ezekiel, the easier it is to oppose them and curtail their oppressive and controlling effect.

We are going where none have dared go before. And while it is dark and demonic, even disorienting at times, by exposing what we have found, many souls will be freed of religion, and some will come home to Yah. I am willing to endure this exposure to the Tanyn, Nachash, and Lowytan, the AWOL Karuwb, this Lord of Babel, for however long it takes to free another precious soul for Yahowah’s Kipurym reunion. And for you, my brother or sister in the Covenant, to have made it this far, I know that I am not alone.

Returning to the voice of This Is Not Him and who is Not the Gift, and picking it up from the beginning, we read…

And it is (wa hayah) in the 12^th year (ba shanaym ‘esreh shanah) in the 12^th month (ba shanaym ‘asar chodesh) in the 1^st of the month (ba ‘echad la ha chodesh), it was a word (hayah dabar) of This Is Not Him (#^^#!) to me to say (‘el ‘any la ‘amar), (Yachezq’el / Ezekiel 32:1) son of human (ben ‘adam), you must lift up (nasa’) a mournful funeral dirge to lament (qynah) over (‘al) Pharaoh (phar’oah), king of Egypt (melek Mitsraym) so you have said (wa ‘amar) to him (‘el huw’), lion (kaphyr) of gentile nations (gowym), you resemble (damah), but (wa) you (‘atah) are like (ka) the monstrous serpentine dragon (tanyn) within the seas (ba ha yamym). And you surge forth and thrash about (wa gyach) in your rivers (ba nahary ‘atah). So, you churn up and make turbid (dalach) the waters (maym) with your feet (ba regel ‘atah) and you muddy, roil, and foul, troubling (raphas) their rivers (nachar hem). (Yachezq’el / Ezekiel 32:2)

151Thus said (koh ‘amar) my Lord and Master (‘adony), This Is Not Him (#^^#!), so I will scatter and spread (parash) over you (‘al ‘atah) my net (‘eth resheth ‘any) with a congregation, a large throng and crowd (ba qahal) of many peoples (‘am rab). And they will have lifted you up (wa ‘alah ‘atah) within my devoted and dedicated trap, my consecrated possession (ba cherem ‘any). (Yachezq’el / Ezekiel 32:3)

The Lord of Babel’s apprentice was compelled to tell the pharaoh, a thousand miles distant, that he resembled a lion of gentile nations. Then in the same breath, he was told to contradict himself and claim that the pharaoh was actually a tanyn | monstrous serpentine dragon in the sea. And since the pharaoh said and did nothing, and is simply being slandered with two contradictory and invalid labels, what is the justification for trapping him in a net? The only one trapped here is Satan, for having projected his identity on the ruler of Egypt.

Since it is apparent that Satan’s capabilities are severely limited, and in keeping with the metaphor of being a limbless snake, he must resort to having his minions toss his imaginary net. It must have been embarrassing. Although, to his credit, he could muster a large congregation to do his bidding.

It is hard to know what to do with cherem. Its primary meaning is to be devoted and dedicated as a possession. The only other place it is found is in Chabaquwq / Habakkuk where the primary definition tends to work.

The idea of attacking and punishing someone for having been a victim of slander is indicative of Satan believing that he was wrongly convicted in Eden. So, this is the Nachash complaining that he feels betrayed and abandoned by the Almighty…

Then I will have forsaken and rejected you, having abandoned and deserted you (natash ‘atah).

152In the ground or by the Earth (ba ha ‘erets), upon the presence (‘al paneh) of the open fields and cultivated land, the environs of man (sadeh), I will hurl you, removing you by casting you far away (tuwl ‘atah).

Then I will have dwelt, living and remaining (wa shakan – I will abide and stay (hifil perfect first-person singular)) over you (‘al ‘atah – above and beyond you), including every flying creature of the heavens (kol ‘owph ha shamaym).

So, I will have been satisfied to have had my fill of you (saba’ min ‘atah), including every living being and beast (chayah kol) of the Earth (ha ‘erets). (Yachezq’el / Ezekiel 32:4)

And I will have given (wa nathan) your body and its flesh (‘eth basar ‘atah – your biological life and tissues as meat) upon the mountains (‘al ha harym) and I will fill (wa male’) the valleys (ha gay’) with your repugnant corpse, the bulk refuse of your remaining high and mighty rubbish (ramuwth – ?, used only in Ezekiel). (Yachezq’el / Ezekiel 32:5)

Then I will have made the Earth drink (wa shaqah ‘erets) your bleeding discharge, the outpouring (tsapah ‘atah) of your blood (min dam ‘atah) on the mountains (‘el ha harym) and ravines (wa ‘aphyqym). They will be full of you (male’ min ‘atah). (Yachezq’el / Ezekiel 32:6)

Not that there would ever be a justification for being this sadistic, Satan’s tirade was predicated entirely upon him falsely accusing the nameless pharaoh of being like him. To accuse Carthage of being a monster of the sea, maybe, but apart from cruising the Nile, the Egyptians were landlubbers.

Once again, the Lord of Babel has used natash | to have forsaken and rejected incorrectly. One cannot abandon or desert someone without first having developed 153a relationship with them. And if this were true, then Satan is announcing that he was on the other side during the Yatsa’ | Exodus – and thus in opposition to Yahowah and Yisrael.

Projecting himself into this morbid tale, it was Satan who was cast down to Earth and will be removed to a faraway place in due time. This obviously never happened to this or any pharaoh.

However, by following that bit of revisionist history with the claim that he will then dwell and remain over and above him, we are witnessing Satan’s veiled threat to rise above the Almighty. And if he were to get his way, every flying creature would join him soaring above God.

What follows is horrific, with the Lord of Babel threatening to eat the abandoned pharaoh who has been cast aside. He will have his fill of him and then leave the remains to feed the animals. His body, according to Satan, will be offered upon the mountains, and his repugnant corpse will fill the valleys. And what sane person would think, much less say, that the Earth will be made to drink the bleeding discharge of a man?

What’s particularly disappointing is that the Lord who conveyed these immoral and sadistic threats is worshiped as the god of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism. All three religions claim their god inspired these words. This serves as yet another example of why Yahowah hates religion and why I’ve concluded that we cannot reason with the overtly faithful. What can one say to a person who believes that it is acceptable for their god to be this dysregulated and savage?

Since I know, admire, and respect Yahowah, the only actual God, I’d strongly discourage anyone from trying to replace Him or pretend to be Him. But should doing so float your boat, you are going to have to be a billion times smarter than the Lord of Babel and also be in far greater 154control of your tongue and outbursts. The following is laughable. It did not occur and will never happen. It is embarrassing to see such delirium stain the pages of a book set between legitimate prophets.

And I will have hidden (wa kasah – I will have covered over, concealed, and clothed) by having quenched, snuffing out the flame (ba kabah – in stopping and putting out) of you (‘atah) of heavens, skies, or the realms of the stars (shamaym) and (wa) I will have darkened, eliminating the light, turning black (qadar) their stars (kokab hem), the sun (shemesh), with a cloud (ba ha ‘anan), I will hide and cover her (kasah hy’) and the moon (wa yareach) will not illuminate, shining his light (lo’ ‘owr ‘owr huw’ – he will not light his light). (Yachezq’el / Ezekiel 32:7)

Every one of the sources of light (kol ma’owr ‘owr) in the sky, universe, and heavens (ba ha shamaym), I will cause them to grow dark and become black (qadar hem) over you (‘al ‘atah) and I will provide (wa nathan) darkness, the absence of light (chosek – blackness) over your land (‘al ‘erets ‘atah), prophetically announces (na’um) my Lord (‘adony), This Is Not Him (#^^#!). (Yachezq’el / Ezekiel 32:8)

Pharaoh was not hidden. He was not on fire. No flames were quenched, much less “of you of heavens.” Light was not eliminated in Egypt or on Earth. Neither the light of the stars nor that of the sun was snuffed out. The sun cannot be eliminated with a cloud. The moon is reflective and has never produced its own light. All of the stars in the universe did not become black. And the universe is infinitely bigger than Egypt such that it would be impossible to have only the stars over it fail. And since there hasn’t been a pharaoh for a couple of thousand years, it’s too late to do the impossible.

155Ezekiel 32:7 and 32:8 provide absolute and irrefutable proof that This Is Not Him. It is pure lunacy, demonstrating that the author was out of his mind and that those who believe him are mindless. Given the opportunity, the Lord of Babel would destroy the entire universe to protest God’s diminishment of him as a consequence of what occurred in the Garden. Satan is the one whose light has been dimmed and will be snuffed out. So, once again, this is role reversal – the germ of Replacement Theology – in which an adversarial nincompoop pretends to be God and makes a complete fool of himself. Either that or Satan is smarter than this, in which case, he is proving that the religious are so gullible they will believe anything.

Although, there is a shred of truth. In the 13^th chapter of Yasha’yah / Isaiah, we are told that a day of reckoning will come for the modern manifestations of Babylon. Upon Yahowah’s return, the Roman Catholic and Orthodox Churches representing religious Babel, the United States and the European Union as political Babel, and Iraq and Iran denoting geographical Babel will be devastated and desolated for having misled so many. Here is that text…

“Behold (hineh – look up now and pay attention, this is important), the Day (ha yowm) of Yahowah’s (Yahowah – an accurate transliteration of the name YaHoWaH, our ‘elowah – God as guided by His towrah – instructions regarding His hayah – existence and our shalowm – reconciliation) arrival will come (bow’ – will occur (qal perfect)).

It will be extremely intense (‘akzary – it will transpire with fierce conviction) as an outpouring of His disappointment and displeasure (wa ‘ebrah – as a result of His frustration over their arrogance and opposition) and (wa) burning indignation (charown ‘aph – Him becoming incensed) for having caused (la sym – as a result of trying to make) the Land and Earth (‘erets – the region and material realm) to become (la – move in the direction of) 156an ugly and horrible place, lifeless and appalling (shamah – something terrible to look at, wasted and deflowered, deserted and deplorable).

Because of this (min hy’ – and out of it), He will, therefore, overthrow and exterminate (wa shamad – leading to an extinction event, comprising either death or eternal banishment, the complete annihilation of (hifil imperfect)) the religious who have belligerently misled and forfeited the right to reconciliation (chata’ – the most offensive opposition who are overtly political, religious, and confrontational). (Yasha’yah / Isaiah 13:9)

For indeed (ky), the luminaries and stars (kowkab) of the spiritual realm of the heavens (ha shamaym) and their stupid constellations (kesyl – their clusters of stars forming patterns in the minds of the foolish; from kesyl – to be stupid, insolent, and rebellious, an arrogant fool, simpleton and dullard, lacking understanding) will not be extolled nor seen as praiseworthy (lo’ halal – will no longer shine, be flashy, or boast, no longer be seen as acclaimed because there will be no more Halal (Satan’s name), and no insane, slanderous, or foolish ridicule or bragging) for their light (‘owr hem – their illumination or enlightenment, for their guidance).

The sun’s light (ha shemesh) will be obscured (chashak) with (ba) his withdrawal and descent (yatsa’ huw’ – his exit and departure (qal infinitive construct)) and (wa) the moon (yareach) will not reflect its light (nagah ‘owr huw’).” (Yasha’yah / Isaiah 13:10)

Consistent with what we read in Yasha’yah / Isaiah 26 and 27, Yahowah’s return for Yisra’el marks the end of Satan’s influence. He and those who have served his interests will be eliminated, making this an exceedingly intense moment in time. Man’s dominion over the Earth will culminate with a litany of calamities, with religious, political, military, monetary, and conspiratorial 157malfeasance leading to economic collapse and nuclear annihilation which Yahowah will forestall for the benefit of His people. For the luminaries of Babel, and in particular, Satan, it is game over. And there will be no reset – great or otherwise.

Therefore, the prophecy that the Lord of Babel is corrupting is directed against the modern manifestations of Babylon and not Egypt. It is for tomorrow, not yesterday. And it is both moral and reasonably and intelligently portrayed.

Now returning to the Chronicles of Babylon, in reality, in the battles between titans, there were wins and losses for both sides, even a bloody draw. And yet, in the end, Nebuchadnezzar retreated, and Egypt survived. Therefore, while Ezekiel’s previous statements were scientifically inaccurate, indeed, impossible, the following is invalid historically.

And then I will have angrily provoked, irritated, and vexed (wa ka’as) the hearts (leb) of innumerable people (‘am rab – of many great families) in bringing myself (ba bow’ ‘any – in coming, arriving, including, and pursuing me (hifil infinitive construct)) your crippling destruction and crashing downfall (sheber ‘atah – your fracturing injury and breaking apart) within the gentiles and nations (ba ha gowym) upon the Earth (‘al ‘erets) which you have not known them (‘asher lo’ yada’ hem). (Yachezq’el / Ezekiel 32:9)

So many peoples (wa ‘am rab) I will cause to be devastated, destitute, deserted, and destroyed (shamem) over you (‘al ‘atah).

And their kings (wa melek hem) will bristle and be swept away (sa’ar) over you (‘al ‘atah), horrified and terrified as if a hair caught up in a fierce storm (sa’ar) in flying of me (ba ‘uwph ‘any) my sword (chereb ‘any) over their presence (‘al paneh hem).

158They will tremble and shudder (wa charad) for the moment, instantly and continually (la rega’) as an individual (‘iysh) for his soul (la nepesh huw’) in the day (ba yowm) of your fallen and overthrown carcass (mapheleth ‘atah). (Yachezq’el / Ezekiel 32:10)

The harder the Lord tries to impersonate his sadistic and fearsome interpretation of God, the more pathetic he becomes.

Egypt was not crippled or overthrown by Babylon. Moreover, no one would have cared if it had occurred. The area between the two empires fell under the yoke of one or the other with no discernible difference. They were similarly vicious and equally prone to plunder and enslave their neighbors.

And while no one bristling, swept away, terrified, or trembling, to cite the Lord, if it had not been for the lone inscription on an Elephantine statue, we would not have even known that Nebuchadnezzar minimally and briefly fulfilled Yirma’yah’s prophecy, only to be tossed out and sent home immediately thereafter, never to return. Like so much of what we have read throughout this perverted text, the truth is the opposite of what Ezekiel is claiming.

For indeed (ky), thus said (koh ‘amar) my Lord and my Master, the one possessing and controlling me (‘adony), This Is Not Him (#^^#!), the sword (chereb) of the king of Babylon (melek Babel) will come to you (bow’ ‘atah). (Yachezq’el / Ezekiel 32:11)

By the swords (ba cherebowth) of the powerful and mighty, of great fighters and heroes, and of government and military leaders (gibowr) your uproarious multitude and confused hordes, along with your abundant riches (hamown ‘atah) will fall (naphal) – ruthless and cruel gentiles, and terrifying and tyrannical nations, all of them (‘aryts gowym kol hem).

159So, they will devastate, despoil, and destroy (wa shadad) the majesty and splendor (‘eth ga’own) of Egypt (Mitsraym) and its entire uproarious multitude of confused hordes, along with all of its abundant riches (wa kol hamown hy’) will be decimated, exterminated, and annihilated (shamad). (Yachezq’el / Ezekiel 32:12)

No. This may have been what the Lord of Babel desired, but it is not what occurred.

It is sad to see gibowr, which is lovingly applied to Dowd in Yasha’yah 9:5, perverted in this manner. Moreover, there was merit to hamown when it was ascribed to ‘Abraham’s non-Yisra’elite descendants – in particular Muslims through Ishmael. But it is poorly chosen in this context.

Babylon was not among the most ruthless or cruel of nations, nor the most terrifying and tyrannical. They were hardly the Lollipop Guild, but they were not known for abusing their slaves or keeping them to the extent witnessed by the Egyptians, Assyrians, Greeks, or Romans.

Egypt was never majestic or glorious from Yahowah’s perspective. And from man’s perspective, her splendor was not diminished, much less decimated, on this day. And I’m quite sure that there were Egyptians still living for Greece, Rome, and Islam to conquer, so they were not exterminated.

The Lord of Babel is still rolling a perfect game – all gutter balls. He is yet to predict anything that actually occurred. So based upon this track record, what would you think the odds might be of the Lord of Babel being Yahowah, of Ezekiel being a prophet, of living skeletons emerging out of the Valley of Dry Bones, of there being a Gog who will wage the Magog War, of a New Jerusalem, or of a different set of Feasts? Or do you suspect that the odds are somewhat better of the Book of Ezekiel being Satan’s autobiography?

160Ever on the rampage, meaner than a junkyard dog, the Lord flings yet another gutter ball.

So, I will destroy, such that they no longer exist, squandering and wasting (wa ‘abad) every one of its animals from wild beasts to domesticated herds (‘eth kol bahemah hy’) from upon many great waters (min ‘al maym rab). And there will be no turbid churning (wa lo’ dalach) of them by the foot of man (hem regel ‘adam) ever again (‘owd). And the hooves (wa pharsah) of animals from wild beasts to domesticated herds (bahemah) will not churn or stir them (dalach hem). (Yachezq’el / Ezekiel 32:13)

Then, at that time (‘az), their waters (maym hem) I will sink down to a lower elevation (shaqa’). And their rivers (wa nahar hem) I will cause to travel and go along (halak – I will cause to walk and behave) as (ka – like) olive oil (ha shemen), prophetically declares (na’um) my Lord and my Master, the one possessing and controlling me (‘adony), This Is Not Him (#^^#!). (Yachezq’el / Ezekiel 32:14)

This is easily testable. If there are any animals living in Egypt, the Lord was lying. If the animals of Egypt were not predominantly hanging out above the water, then this was not true. If any man, much less many men, has put a toe into the Nile over the past 2,500 years, Ezekiel was a false prophet. The same would be true pertaining to wild and domesticated animals. If the Nile is not descending below sea level, the Lord was wrong. And if the waters were not turned into olive oil, then Jews, Christians, and Muslims may want to question their god.

However, we should keep in mind that this has as little to do with the pharaoh and Egypt as the previous rant had to do with Tyre and its king. They both served as ploys, decoys really, upon whom Satan projected his perceived glory and then destroyed to rid himself of his adversarial 161designation. All the while he has used them to not only reflect his animosity toward God for having been diminished but, also, to hurt Yahowah and man by pretending to be God.

In giving of myself (ba nathan ‘any), the land of Egypt (‘eth ‘erets Mitsraym) will be uninhabited and ruined, becoming an appalling desolation (shamamah). And the ground and country (wa ‘erets) will be devastated and depopulated, ravaged and abandoned (shamem). What fills the land from it (‘erets min malo’ hy’), I will beat up and strike down, afflicting and slaughtering (nakah) myself (‘any) all who inhabit it and remain in it (‘eth kol yashab ba hy’).

And when everyone has been duly ravaged and properly exterminated…

Then they will have known (wa yada’) that, indeed (ky), I am (‘any) This Is Not Him (#^^#!). (Yachezq’el / Ezekiel 32:15) And the faithful cried out in a suitably mournful voice, “Prophecy fulfilled.”

Never forget, with the Lord of Babel, one should be mournful…

It is (hy’) a mournful lamentation, a funeral dirge (qynah). And it will have been chanted as her morbid song (wa qyn hy’) by the daughters (bath) of the gentiles and nations (ha gowym), chanting it mournfully (qyn ‘eth hy’) over Egypt (‘al Mitsraym) and over all of her confused and clamorous multitude (wa kol hamown hy’). They will continually chant the morbid funeral dirge with her (qyn ‘eth hy’) utters my Lord (na’um ‘adony), This Is Not Him (#^^#!). (Yachezq’el / Ezekiel 32:16)

Taking a sad song and making it worse. I wonder if it will catch on in religious circles.

Three days later, lo and behold…

162And it is (wa hayah) in the 12^th year (ba shanaym ‘esreh shanah) in the 15^th of month (ba ha chamesh ‘asar ha chodesh), it was a word (hayah dabar) of This Is Not Him (#^^#!) to me to say (‘el ‘any la ‘amar), (Yachezq’el / Ezekiel 32:17)

Son of Adam (ben ‘adam), it is imperative that you wail a ritualized and sorrowful taunt (nahah) over the vast multitude of uproarious and agitated hordes (‘al hamown) of Egypt (Mitsraym).

You must bring him down and subjugate him (wa yarad huw’) with her (‘eth hy’) and the daughters of the majestic and mighty gowym of the most magnificent nations (wa bath gowym ‘adayr) to the realm at great depths below (‘el ‘rets tachathy) for those who will go down to the pit (‘eth yarad bowr). (Yachezq’el / Ezekiel 32:18)

There may have been a time out for bad behavior, but there was no discernible improvement. The Lord of Babel remains dysregulated and psychotic. And as is the case with narcissists, he is insistent that his people do as he demands. But even with flying monkeys at the ready, he is otherwise inept. Based on what we are reading, the Lord cannot independently express emotion and he is unable to reach an audience that is not receptive to his ploy. He is even incapable of doing one thing for which he is renowned – taking souls to Hell. In this case, he is soliciting the help of the women he despises.

Satan is so humiliated by his current plight that he must remind us that there was a time when he was magnificent, and people were insignificant by comparison.

Compared to whom (min my) are you admired and appreciated for your beauty (na’em)?

I am emphatic that it is imperative you must be brought down, subjugated, and forced to bow (yarad – 163you are compelled to descend and bow to my will (qal imperative paragogic he cohortative, imperative second-person masculine singular)).

I demand that you must be forced to lie (wa shakab – having no choice in the matter, and doing what I compel, you have to be lain (hofal imperative paragogic he cohortative imperative energic second-person masculine singular)) with the unbelieving and disobedient, the forbidden and unrepentant (‘eth ‘arel – the stubborn and unresponsive; since saying ‘uncircumcised’ is incongruent in this context, we must render ‘arel using its secondary connotations). (Yachezq’el / Ezekiel 32:19)

Up to this point, the grammar has been rather simplistic, but that has changed. Now the demanding nature of the imperative mood is being shaped by the cohortative and paragogic, revealing that abusing his effigy is something the Lord craves. He must bury his adversarial nature to play God. So insistent is he in imposing himself over his foil, he taunts the pharaoh with the most horrific of Hebrew stems – the subjugating hofal.

It is, of course, absurd to use ‘arel to suggest that a gowy would be enshrined in Hell because he deserved the fate of the uncircumcised. Apart from the possibility of there being an individual choosing to embrace Yisra’el and Yahowah, there would not have been a single circumcised gentile on the planet at this time.

More importantly, there is no special, independent fate carved out for non-Yisra’elites. The opposite is true since Yahowah is far more concerned with the wayward behavior of His people than He is with that of others. His instructions regarding gentiles were to ignore them. And that is exactly what He intends to do for most upon their earthly demise.

Upon their death, the soul of ignored individuals will simply cease to exist. Therefore, the overwhelming 164majority of gentiles will avoid She’owl – and that is by design. And, therefore, Satan’s assessment is errant.

In the midst of those pierced and profaned (ba tawek chalal), the men will fall with her having been given to the sword (naphal chereb nathan).

It is imperative that you men drag her away (mashak ‘eth hy’) and all of her agitated and boisterous, uproarious hordes, her abundant wealth and roaring populace (wa kol hamown hy’). (Yachezq’el / Ezekiel 32:20)

The mighty leaders, valiant defenders, and courageous men of character (gibowr), those who lead the flock like rams through the door (‘ayil), they will speak to him (dabar la huw’) from the midst of (min tawek) She’owl (She’owl – Hell, where the eternally separated reside), along with his supporters and assistants (‘eth ‘azary huw’).

The unbelieving and disobedient, the forbidden and unrepentant (ha ‘arel – the stubborn and unresponsive; and likely not the ‘uncircumcised’ because it would be incongruent in this context), they will descend, having been sent down (yarad), they will lie (shakab), pierced, slain, and profaned (chalal) by the sword (chereb). (Yachezq’el / Ezekiel 32:21)

The Assyrian is there (sham ‘Ashuwr) and the entire congregation, all of the religious and military throngs (kol qahal hy’), all around it, his graves (sabyb huw’ qeber huw’) – all of them pierced and slain (kol hem chalal), those fallen by the sword (ha naphal ba ha chereb), (Yachezq’el / Ezekiel 32:22) whose (‘asher) graves (qeber hy’), they are given (nathan) in the remotest areas at the greatest depths (yarekah) of the dungeon prison (bowr).

165He is her religious and political company (qahal hy’), encircling her burial site (sabyb qabuwrah) – all of them pierced, profaned, and slain (kol hem chalal) falling by the sword (naphal ba ha chereb) who they have given, offering (‘asher nathan) terror (chityath – ?, used only in Ezekiel, and soon to appear 7 more times; from chathath – to be shattered, dismayed, broken, and abolished) in the land of the living (ba ‘erets chayym). (Yachezq’el / Ezekiel 32:23)

Ezekiel needs a calendar. Since the Medes and Babylonians sacked Assur and then Nineveh between 614 and 612 BCE, the Assyrian Empire no longer existed. It was absorbed into Babylonia such that picking up the pierced and slain would have been three decades late. And since the Lord was in Babylon when compelling Ezekiel to speak to the Egyptians, who was he bossing around in Assyria? Someone is confused.

That said, because of the Assyrians’ sadistic ruthlessness and designs against God’s people, Yasha’yah used the Assyrian as a metaphor to describe Satan’s manipulative tactics. And now, the Lord, who can apparently read better than he writes, is capitalizing on the prophetic reference, adding ‘Ashuwr to the king of Tyre, the cedar and cherub, as well as the pharaoh, as a ploy to create the impression that the Adversary no longer exists. In so doing, each depicts Satan’s fate, albeit two and a half millennia before its time – thereby, continuing to show a disregard for context and chronology.

Arrogant to the end, even in She’owl, Satan is expecting a glorious reception. All of his pals will be there, the world’s gibowr and ‘ayil. But here’s the rub – while the Lord will likely have served alongside the worst of the world’s leaders, Yasha’yah presents King Dowd as the ultimate gibowr and then as the Pesach ‘Ayil of Isaiah 53. Therefore, the Adversary wants us to believe that the most important individual in Yahowah’s story, and with regard 166to our salvation, is in Hell cheering him on. And if that were not enough to advance his career in Replacement Theology, all of those who have supported and assisted Yahowah and His son will be there too.

Furthering the role reversal, a satanic specialty, it’s the unbelieving and disobedient who will be waiting for the Lord’s arrival. And to this day, this remains the way the religious depict those entering Hell. And by calling Hell’s entrants unbelieving and disobedient, it suggests that believers and the obedient will be destined for Heaven. But nothing could be further from the truth because neither belief nor obedience are encouraged in the Towrah.

Swords, knives, and daggers have no influence on a soul’s fate. Incarceration in She’owl is predicated entirely on what one has done and said to harm others and, in particular, to lead them away from Yah. Therefore, it is not based on what has been done to an individual.

To the extent the reader understands that the Assyrian serves as a metaphor for the Adversary, and that Satan is trying to rid himself of this derogatory title, the reference to him being brought into Hell with all of his supporters is properly understood. And if you gain nothing more from these volumes on Babel | Confusion than the realization that Satan must destroy all association with his Adversarial title to be worshiped as the Lord God, then your time will have been rewarded. This is so vital to Satan’s rise from fallen adversary to God, he has devoted the past seven chapters – from Tyre to Egypt – to this singular purpose.

Satan has many coconspirators…

Elam (‘Eylam – located NE of the Persian Gulf in the modern Luristan and Khuszistan provinces, a place from which Yah will recall His people) is there (sham) and all of her vast multitude of confused and disorderly hordes (wa kol hamown hy’) surrounding the burial site (sabyb qabuwrah hy’), all of them pierced, slain, and defiled (kol 167hem chalal), those fallen (ha naphal) with the sword (ba ha chereb) who (‘asher) had been brought down (yarad) as unrepentant and disobedient, uncircumcised unbelievers (‘arel) to the lowest realm below (‘el ‘erets thachathy) who offered (‘asher nathan) their terror (chithyth hem – ?, used only in Ezekiel; from chathath – to be shattered, broken, and dismayed) in the realm of living (ba ‘erets chayym).

They lift up and carry (wa nasa’) their shameful humiliation and low status, their confusion and ignominy (kalimah hem) for going down to the pit (‘eth yarad bowr). (Yachezq’el / Ezekiel 32:24)

Elam is insignificant apart from Yahowah revealing through Yasha’yah that there will be a few Yisra’elites there prior to His return who will be among those who choose to come home. So, Satan is simply trying to thwart Yahowah’s promise. And while the Adversary will fail, to be clear, there never has been nor will there ever be a multitude of people living in Elam.

The Lord’s fixation with the cutting implement on one hand, which pierces and defiles, and being uncircumcised on the other is an odd juxtaposition. And since the Devil would prefer every man and boy to be uncircumcised, he is using ‘arel to further one of two goals. It is either to suggest that Hell is filled with unrepentant disbelievers who are disobedient, and play into the hands of the religious, or to appeal to the rabbis who profit from turning a sign into a religious ritual.

Terror is terrible, but Elam was nary a source of fear. And since terrorism is a political and religious tactic perpetrated against defenseless civilians, terrorists seldom die from the sword. Moreover, those who are willing to sacrifice their lives for the cause, and who have been sufficiently brainwashed to believe that murdering innocents is virtuous, are never disobedient disbelievers.

168If professing something this stupid once was inappropriate, how much worse is it to be redundant?

In the midst (ba tawek) of the pierced, profane, and slain (chalal), they offer (nathan) a bed (mishkab) to her (la hy’) with all of her agitated multitude (ba kol hamown hy’), surrounding him (sabyb huw’) her graves (qeber hy’), all of them unrepentant and disobedient, uncircumcised unbelievers (kol hem ‘arel), pierced, profaned, and slain by the sword (chalal chereb) because it was given as a gift (ky nathan) of their terror (chityath hem – ?, used only in Ezekiel; from chathath – to be shattered, dismayed, broken, and abolished) in the land of the living (ba ‘erets chayym).

They lift up and carry (wa nasa’) their shameful humiliation and low status, their confusion and ignominy (kalimah hem) for going down to the pit (‘eth yarad bowr) within the midst (ba tawek) of the pierced, profaned, and slain (chalal) he has offered, provided, or given (nathan – he has bestowed (nifal participle third-person masculine singular)). (Yachezq’el / Ezekiel 32:25)

The notion of offering a bed in Hell to one person, much less a multitude, is as ridiculous as the repeated myth that there are gravesites surrounding She’owl. Even on the one subject Satan should know better than anyone, he is hopelessly lost.

And now as a prelude to the Magog War, we read…

There (sham), Meshach (Meshek – son of Japheth and grandson of Noah, meaning to draw up) Tubal (Tubal – son of Japheth and grandson of Noah; from either tebel – world while in the other spelling tuwb ‘al – to be restored for good over and above) and all of her agitated multitude (wa kol hamown hy’), her graves (qeber hy’) surrounding him (sabyb huw’), all of them unrepentant and disobedient, uncircumcised unbelievers (kol hem ‘arel), pierced, profaned, and slain by the sword (chalal 169chereb) for having given as a gift (ky nathan) of their terror (chityath hem – ?, used only in Ezekiel; from chathath – to be shattered, dismayed, broken, and abolished) in the realm of the living (ba ‘erets chayym). (Yachezq’el / Ezekiel 32:26)

In this hyphenated form, Meshech-Tubal is exclusive to Ezekiel. Digging deeper, with only one exception apart from Ezekiel, Meshek is simply Noach’s grandson. The lone anomaly is found in Mizmowr / Psalm 120, where Dowd, representing Yisra’el rather than himself, uses Meshek in conjunction with God’s people. They are shown successfully summoning Yahowah because He answers them during a troubling time – and thus during the Time of Ya’aqob’s Troubles beginning in 2030. Yisra’elites are heard asking God to deliver their souls from the religious who are promoting false beliefs. Dowd then scolds his people for compiling ever more variations of their religious lore. He calls their testimony piercing and divisive, especially for those living as aliens in Meshek and Qedar. Since Dowd never set foot in either place, he is continuing to speak of Yisra’elites living in a hostile environment and awaiting Yahowah’s return.

Also, since there is a direct correlation between meshech | to draw up and the Mizmowr’s introduction as a song to sing for a ma’alah | thoughtful ascent to Yahowah during troubling times, meshech isn’t so much a place as it is descriptive of a difficult circumstance from which to be withdrawn. This is further reinforced by Dowd saying, “I have lived among a great many who oppose reconciliation” in Psalm 120:6. Then he concludes his Song of Ascent with, “I am for reconciliation, but when I speak, sharing the message, they are combative and promote conflict.” (Mizmowr 120:7)

Therefore, the Lord of Babel is portraying Meshach in the opposite way, as a multitude of uncircumcised gowym to be condemned in Hell rather than a tiny remnant of 170Yisra’el invited to ascend to Yah. So, just because the name has been used elsewhere does not mean that Mr. Babel is using it correctly.

Similarly, distinct from its inclusion in Ezekiel, and apart from being presented as a grandson of Noach, Tubal (actually, Tuwbal) is found a single time, and it is also presented in the context of Yahowah’s return. In this case, we find it in Yasha’yah 66. It follows a derogatory reference to Christians (devouring swine’s flesh as the Easter ham) and Muslims (represented by the detestable ‘akbar | mouse of Allahu ‘Akbar fame) and their elimination. Yahowah explains that He will then reach out to the surviving gowym of Tuwbal (spelled differently than in Ezekiel) along with others bearing the names of Noach’s descendants. The five names denote a rescue mission from this hostile world of men, similar to what occurred on the Ark.

In convoluting an important End Times message for God’s people, Satan managed to get everything wrong. There will be a tiny remnant in both cases, not an agitated multitude. There will be no graves, because these men and women will have survived Judaism, Christianity, and Islam based on what we read in the Psalm and then in Isaiah. They will be observant, not obedient, and they will know rather than believe. They will not have been pierced or profaned, and their gift will be the Covenant, not terror.

Continuing to rant and make a fool of himself, the Lord protests…

And they do not lie down (wa lo’ shakab) with the mighty and courageous, the defending heroes and great leaders (‘eth gibowr) fallen (naphal) from (min) the unrepentant and disobedient, the uncircumcised unbelievers (‘arel) who (‘asher) were taken down (yarad) to She’owl (She’owl – Hell, the place of abandonment, questioning, and punishment) with their 171objects and weapons, the implements and apparatus (ba kaly) of their war (milchamah hem – of their battle and conflict).

And they were given (wa nathan) with their swords (‘eth chereb hem) under their heads (thachath ro’sh hem). So their perversions and corruptions, their twisting and distorting (‘awon hem) exist (hayah) upon their bones (‘al ‘etsem hem) for (ky) the terror (chityath hem – ?, used only in Ezekiel; from chathath – to be shattered, dismayed, broken, and abolished) of the mighty and courageous, the defending heroes and great leaders (‘eth gibowr) in the land of the living (ba ‘erets chayym). (Yachezq’el / Ezekiel 32:27)

I think we may have an error in the script. Since we were just told that all of the Meshach-Tubalians were in their graves, how do they become part of the Magog Federation under Gog during the Last Days? And here, is it only the gibowr | courageous leaders who will be offered the opportunity to lie down in the aforementioned bed, such that the Meshach-Tubalians must stand? Since Dowd is presented in Yasha’yah / Isaiah 9 as the ultimate gibowr, why are they shown as uncircumcised? Does Satan want the religious to believe that he is ascending to Heaven while Dowd is cast out?

And since She’owl is for the incarceration of estranged spirits and souls, why would anyone bring a sword? It would be like stabbing the wind while trying to kill the immortal. News Flash: for those in She’owl, the war is over, and you lost. Similarly, there will be no bones in She’owl. And while the Gibowr will be dispatching the worst of men to She’owl, we can be assured Dowd will not be counted among the incarcerated.

At this point, it is anyone’s guess whether the Lord of Confusion is addressing the Assyrian, Elam, Meshach-172Tubal, or the Gibowr. But it cannot be all of the above because ‘atah | you is masculine singular…

And you (wa ‘atah), within the midst (ba tawek) of the unrepentant and disobedient, the uncircumcised unbelievers (‘arel), you are crushed (shabar) and lie with (wa shakab ‘eth) the pierced, profaned, and slain of sword (chalal chereb). (Yachezq’el / Ezekiel 32:28)

Well, he got one thing right. She’owl will be a crushing experience.

We have a new cast member portrayed among the entrants of Hell…

There is (sham) Edom (‘Edowm – descendants of ‘Esauw | Esau residing south of Yisra’el), her kings (melek hy’) and all of her elevated leaders (wa kol nasy’ hy’) who are gifted (‘asher nathan) with their warriors and military might (ba gabuwrah hem) with the pierced and slain by their sword (‘eth chalal chereb hem) with the unrepentant and disobedient, the uncircumcised unbelievers (‘arel), they lie (shakab), and with those going down to the pit (wa ‘eth yarad bowr). (Yachezq’el / Ezekiel 32:29)

Satan craves company. The Edomites will be joining his party, along with their kings, gifted leaders, and military. Whoever is guarding the gnarly gates is going to be busy. And I would presume it will be Paul, not only because his given name, Sha’uwl, is indistinguishable from She’owl, but because he is the Lord’s appointed advocate for the entirety of the uncircumcised.

There (sham), the anointed ones poured out as tribal leaders (nasyky) of the north (tsaphown), all of them (kol hem), and all of the Sidonians (wa kol Tsyodny – everyone from Tsydon | Sidon) who have gone down (‘asher yarad) with the pierced, profaned, and slain (‘eth chalal) by their terror (ba chityath hem – ?, used only in 173Ezekiel; from chathath – to be shattered, dismayed, broken, and abolished) from their warriors and military might (min gabuwrah hem).

They are ashamed and humiliated (bowsh) and they lie (wa shakab) unrepentant and disobedient, as uncircumcised unbelievers (‘arel), with the pierced, profaned, and slain (‘eth chalal) of sword (chereb). And they lift up and carry (wa nasa’) their disgrace and ignominy (kalimah hem – their reproach and dishonor) with those going down to the pit (‘eth yarad bowr). (Yachezq’el / Ezekiel 32:30)

The last time a spokesman in Babel | Babylon directed our attention to a sword-wielding king of the north, he was Macedonian and served as an exemplar of the Towrahless One. Sidon would be rebuilt, but it had been torched by this time. And while neither deployed terrorist tactics, one does not take their military with them into the afterlife, especially in Hell.

And speaking of She’owl, considering the time Satan will be spending there, and the leadership role he is sure to play, one would have thought that he would have spoken less disparagingly of the place.

So perhaps thinking better of it, the Lord paints a different picture because it is party time. We have the return of the pharaoh who had arrived with his multitudes, the Assyrian and his religious associates, the clamorous of Elam, some Meshach-Tubelians, Edomites, the anointed of the north, and Sidonians, all slain with the sword, enjoying the comforts of Hell. Really…

With them (‘eth hem), Pharaoh (Phar’oah) will witness (ra’ah) his entire clamorous and confused populace, the overwhelming roar and commotion of his multitude of people, and all of his abundant wealth (‘al kol hamown huw’), pierced and profaned (chalal) of sword (chereb), and he will be comforted and consoled 174(wa nacham), Pharaoh (Phar’oah), and all (wa kol) of his strength, wealth, ability, and troops (chayl huw’), prophetically declares (na’um) my Lord (‘adony), This Is Not Him (#^^#!). (Yachezq’el / Ezekiel 32:31)

What could be more comforting than seeing all of your people in Hell and then noticing that they had been slain by a sword – unless it is to have all of your wealth available for your indiscretions? And the joy must have been magnified when noticing that he was there with them because it would have proven that the priests were right. His mummification must have worked, because this was proof of an afterlife. And the faithful cried out with glee, “Prophecy fulfilled.”

All that is needed, now that the Lord of Babel has provided us with this word’s-eye view of She’owl as if he were Satan and we were touring his home, is to have him sponsor a little mayhem, perhaps some terrorism and mass murder.

This is because (ky) I had offered as a gift (nathan) this terror which shatters and dismays, the scariest means to confound and dismay (chithyth huw’ – used only in Ezekiel; based upon chathath – to shatter, dismay, break, abolish, beat down, discourage, terrify, and confound) in the realm of the living (ba ‘erets chayym) and he will lie (wa shakab) within the midst (ba tawek) of the unrepentant and disobedient, the uncircumcised unbelievers (‘arel), with those pierced, profaned, and slain of sword (‘eth chalal chereb), Pharaoh (Phar’oah) along with his entire wealth and all of his population, his confused hordes and disorderly military (wa kol hamown huw’), prophetically declares (na’um) my Lord (‘adony), This Is Not Him (#^^#!). (Yachezq’el / Ezekiel 32:32)

With each word, the Lord of Babel sounds ever more like Allah. This is because, throughout the Quran, the 175Islamic god is depicted in Hell torturing unbelievers. The only difference between it and Ezekiel 32 is that there is a wider variety of inmates and a more evenhanded depiction of torments and pleasures in the Bible’s version. Also interesting, in both renditions of the religious god, he is a terrorist noted for tormenting unbelievers and infidels.

Here’s hoping the Lord has had his fill of describing She’owl. It has been depressing and without benefit. Although, it was more peaceable than his previous rendition of 25 ways to kill a Jew.

And is a word (wa hayah dabar) of This Is Not Him (#^^#!) to me (‘el ‘any) to say (la ‘amar), (Yachezq’el / Ezekiel 33:1) son of Adam (ben ‘adam), you are compelled to speak (dabar) to the children of your people (‘el beny ‘am ‘atah) and have said (wa ‘amar) to them (‘el hem), a land (‘erets), indeed (ky), I bring (bow’) over her (‘al hy’) a sword (chereb) and they seize (wa laqach) people of the land (ha ‘erets) one individual (‘iysh ‘echad) from their outskirts, end, and extremity of what they could scrape together (min qatseh hem) and they offer him (wa nathan ‘eth huw’) to them for watchman (la hem la tsaphah), (Yachezq’el / Ezekiel 33:2) and he saw (wa ra’ah) the sword (‘eth ha chereb) coming upon the land (bow’ ‘al ha ‘erets) and he sounds a trumpet (wa taqa’) with the showphar (ba ha showphar) and he has warned the people (wa zaharha ‘am). (Yachezq’el / Ezekiel 33:3)

And then (wa), he has heard (shama’), the one listening (ha shama’) to the sound of the showphar (qowl ha showphar), and he is not warned, enlightened by the appearance of the brilliant and beautiful Zohar (wa lo’ zohar) and the sword comes (wa bow’ chereb) and it 176obtains him (wa laqach huw’), his blood (dam huw’) it is (hayah) in his head (ba ro’sh huw’). (Yachezq’el / Ezekiel 33:4)

With the sound (‘eth qowl) of the showphar (ha showphar), he heard (shama’) and he had not been warned by the enlightenment of the Zohar (wa lo’ zohar), his blood (dam huw’) with him it is and will be (ba huw’ hayah).

And he, himself, warned, brilliantly enlightened by the Zohar (wa huw’ zohar), his soul (nepesh huw’) he would have saved (malat). (Yachezq’el / Ezekiel 33:5)

The moral of the story is that the Lord of Babel is immoral. This is like saying that if a murderer enters your home and shoots and kills your children, it’s their fault, not his, if the burglar alarm sounded. And worse, in this case, the Lord God of Babel is the murderer. He’s the one coming into the home of God’s people wielding the sword.

And to think that this is the book which inspired the rabbinic farce known as the Zohar, providing spiritual enlightenment of this quality for Judaism. Consider this your warning to throw it into the trash.

So, we have done victim blaming, why not blame their oversight too, anyone other than the spirit who has confessed to having attempted to murder Jews in 25 different ways?

Indeed (ky), he sees (ra’ah) the sword (‘eth ha chereb) coming (bow’) and he does not blow (wa lo’ taqa’) into the showphar (ba ha showphar) so the people (wa ha ‘am) are not warned (lo’ zahar – are not shown the brilliant beauty and splendor of the Zohar and the most prominent and shining of celestial beings with the highest status) and the sword comes (wa bow’ chereb) and takes from them (wa laqach min hem) his soul (nepesh huw’), in his perversion and corruption, his twisting and 177bending (ba ‘awon huw’), he was seized (laqach) and his blood (wa dam huw’) from the hand of the watchman (min yad ha tsapah) I will continually seek (darash). (Yachezq’el / Ezekiel 33:6)

Should anyone have lost their place in the Lord’s treatise on morality, it began with him acknowledging that he was the one bringing the sword. Therefore, recognizing that Ezekiel contains copious warnings that the Adversary will continually attempt to kill Jews, the realization that the religious watchmen over the people ignored these warnings and partnered with the Adversary causes Satan to be absolved of liability, having transferred it to Judaism.

In today’s jurisprudence, this would be akin to having the most notorious mass murderer post a message on the door of every religious and government building, saying that he was going to wipe out an entire city, then have the judge and jury exonerate him for having done so because the security cameras failed. Even worse, the relatives of the decapitated would then support having the perpetrator murder everyone associated with the manufacture and installation of the cameras.

I suppose it couldn’t happen to a nicer guy…

So, you (wa ‘atah), son of person (ben ‘adam), watchman (tsaphah) I had appointed you (nathan ‘atah) for the House of Israel (la beyth Yisra’el).

And you have heard from my mouth (wa shama’ min peh ‘any) the word (dabar) so prominently reveal the brightest celestial being with the highest status as a brilliant warning from the Zohar (wa zohar) to them from me (‘eth hem min ‘any). (Yachezq’el / Ezekiel 33:7)

By this time, no one knew the whereabouts of the House of Israel because they had been hauled away into historical oblivion 15 decades ago. Therefore, this “appointment” was as absurd as were the moral 178implications. But at least we are becoming familiar with Kabballah’s Zohar and its connection to the Lord of Babel – the most prominent and brightest celestial being of the highest status, or so he would have the religious believe. Don’t say you weren’t warned.

It's the blame game with a special rendition of pass the buck in which the murderer is absolving himself by blaming the witness.

In saying of me (ba ‘amar ‘any) to the wickedly unrighteous who are guilty of being evil (la ha rasha’), Guilty of Wicked Unrighteousness (rasha’), you must be exterminated and die (muwth muwth), and you have not spoken (wa lo’ dabar) to prominently reveal the brightest celestial being with the highest status as a brilliant warning from the Zohar (wa zohar) to the Guilty of Wicked Unrighteousness (rasha’) out of his way (min derek huw’), he (huw’), the Guilty of Wicked Unrighteousness (rasha’), in his perversion and corruption, his twisting and bending (ba ‘awon huw’), he will die (muwth) and his blood (wa dam huw’) from your hand (min yad ‘atah) I will seek to hold responsible (baqash). (Yachezq’el / Ezekiel 33:8)

And that would have been inevitable since Israel was nowhere to be found. Methinks the Devil does not play fair. Who would have known?

And now we learn that salvation isn’t predicated upon accepting the terms of the Beryth or attending the Miqra’ey but, instead, serving to promote the Adversary’s Zohar.

When you, indeed (wa ‘atah ky), Zohar (Zohar – prominently reveal the brightest celestial being with the highest status as a brilliant warning from the Zohar), the Guilty of Wicked Unrighteousness (rasha’) from his way (min derek huw’), to turn from him (la shuwb min huw’), and he does not turn (wa lo’ shuwb) from his way (min derek huw’), he (huw’) in his perversion and 179corruption, his twisting and bending (ba ‘awon huw’) will die (muwth), and you (wa ‘atah), your soul (nepesh ‘atah), she will have been saved (natsal). (Yachezq’el / Ezekiel 33:9)

No need for the Towrah now. All one has to do is tell Yisra’elites that they are going to die, and they’ll be saved.

So why did Yahowah establish the Covenant, reveal the Miqra’ey, or bother with the Exodus? Why did rabbis write the Talmud? What is the purpose of the New Testament? As for the Zohar, it seems almost sensible by comparison. Although not so much when the fate of Jews is a foregone conclusion with the Beast of Babel…

And you, son of person (wa ‘atah ben ‘adam), it is imperative that you say to the House of Israel (‘amar ‘el beyth Yisra’el), likewise, therefore, you have said (ken ‘amar) to say (la ‘amar), surely, our revolting defection and criminal rebellion (ky pasha’ ‘anachnuw) and our missing the way and leading astray (wa chata’ah ‘anachnuw) is upon us (‘al ‘anachnuw’), and with them (wa ba hem) we, ourselves, rot and decay, dissolving and decomposing (‘anachnuw maqaq). So, how can we live (wa ‘ek chayah)? (Yachezq’el / Ezekiel 33:10)

And all of the good little listeners raised their hands and squirmed in their seats, saying, “Pick me, I know the answer. All we have to do is watch and warn. After all, you wouldn’t have lied to us about this?”

It is imperative that you say to them (‘amar ‘el hem), living myself (chay ‘any), prophetically declares (na’um) my Lord and Master (‘adony), This Is Not Him (#^^#!), if, whenever, whether, or even though (‘im) I want and desire, eagerly delighting and taking pleasure (chaphets) in the plaguing and death (ba maweth) of the Guilty of Wicked Unrighteousness (ha rasha’), for even though (ky ‘im) in turning (ba shuwb) the Guilty of Wicked Unrighteousness (rasha’) from his way (min 180derek huw’) and he will have lived (wa chayah), you must return and it is imperative you change (shuwb shuwb – you have to turn (qal imperative qal imperative)) from your ways (min derek ‘atem) of communal evil, neighborly harm, and bad shepherding (ha ra’).

And for what, why, how, and when (wa la mah) will you continually be plagued and die (muwth – will you constantly be killed (qal imperfect)), House of Israel (beyth Yisra’el)? (Yachezq’el / Ezekiel 33:11)

The realization that the Lord of Babel is alive is hardly reassuring considering his penchant for killing God’s people and gentiles too for that matter. Moreover, ‘im | if, whenever, whether, and even though does not in any way negate the Adversary’s chaphets ba maweth | desire to kill Israelites. Satan revels in plaguing Jews. So, this was a dire confession, one hidden by errant religious renderings.

It is also telling that ha rasha’ | the Guilty of Wicked Unrighteousness are already indicted and condemned. The Beast of Babel is simply toying with them. This becomes evident when we notice that the repetitive verbs, shuwb shuwb, were both scribed in the qal imperative, meaning that the guilty are being controlled and have no choice in the matter. Further, Satan isn’t saying that there is no reason for them to die but, instead, “For what, why, how, and when will you constantly and continually die?”

It’s been a while, so in the midst of the Lord’s odd morality and the certainty of death, it’s time to toss another word salad…

And you, son of person (wa ‘atah ben ‘adam), it is imperative that you say (‘amar) to the sons of your people (‘el beny ‘am ‘atah), righteousness of the righteous (tsadaqah ha tsadaq – justice of the just, innocence of the innocent, correctness of the correct) will not save, deliver, spare, or rescue him (lo’ natsal huw’) in the day (ba yowm) of his defection and rebellion 181(pesha’ huw’), and the wickedness of the wicked (wa risha’ah ha rasha’ – the guilt of the guilty, the evilness of the evil), he will not stumble or stagger by it (lo’ kashal ba hy’ – he will not falter or be overthrown by it) in the day (ba yowm) returns and turns of him (shuwb huw’) from his wickedness and his criminal wrongdoing (min resha’ huw’).

And righteousness, justice, innocence, or correctness (wa tsadyq) he will not be capable of attaining or overcoming, not even daring to understand or endure (lo’ yakol) to live and survive (la chayah) by it (ba hy’) in the day (ba yowm) sins, does wrong for him, and misses his way (chata’ huw’). (Yachezq’el / Ezekiel 33:12)

Loosely translated, “It doesn’t matter who you are, what you think, or how you behave because I will kill you. The same fate awaits the best of the best and worst of the worst. Right or wrong, you will die. Nothing you say or do will save Yisra’el from the Lord God of Babylon” – or so he says.

Using this “reasoning,” there is no benefit to knowing good and bad because they produce the same result. According to Satan, being right cannot save and being wrong will not cause anyone to stumble or fall. Moreover, there is no degree of righteousness nor level of correctness which will ever overcome having missed the way. In other words, there is no hope, no plan of salvation, no reason to know what God is offering or expecting in return. Eat, drink, and be merry or, if you prefer, starve and be miserable, it matters not, because tomorrow we die unless the Lord of Babel contradicts himself – which is his prerogative as the Adversary.

With saying of me (ba ‘amar ‘any) to the righteous and correct, the innocent and just (ha tsadyq), he lives and is alive (chayah chayah), but he has trusted and 182relied on him being correct, innocent, and righteous (‘al tsadaqah huw’ – on him being right), and he acts upon or engages in (wa ‘asah) something wrong (‘awel – something dishonest or errant, even unjust), everything he was correct regarding, all of his fairness, justice, and complete innocence (kol tsadaqah huw’ – him being totally right) will be forgotten, no longer remembered, noticed, or recalled (lo’ zakar), and by him doing something wrong, dishonest, or errant (ba ‘awel huw’) which he has engaged in or acted upon (‘asher ‘asah), with this, he will be plagued and die (ba huw’ muwth). (Yachezq’el / Ezekiel 33:13)

This is the antithesis of Yahowah’s way as His means to reconciliation and life is presented in His Towrah | Guidance. According to God, the imperfect are perfected through the redeeming and restoring, life-extending gifts of Pesach and Matsah leading to Bikuwrym and Shabuw’ah brought to us by Father and Son.

Satan’s proposal is also the inverse of God’s Beryth | Covenant, whereby those who disassociate from the babel of religion and politics and trust and rely upon Him are perfected by walking along the path He has provided. This is also counter to the Messiah and Son of God, Dowd, who, after acknowledging that he was imperfect, was called tsadaq | right and, thus, innocent by his Father. And as a result, he was qualified to serve as the Lamb.

Therefore, we have reached the point of decision. A person can choose to believe the Lord of Babel and die, head spinning in a word salad, or he or she can trust Yahowah, His Towrah, Miqra’ey, Beryth, Mashyach, and Ben and live.

It is, of course, revealing that the Lord’s last declaration is what Sha’uwl | Paul wrote of the Towrah in the Christian New Testament, saying that if someone violated any one aspect of ‘the Law,’ they were condemned 183to die. This should not be surprising since Sha’uwl | Paul admitted to having been controlled by Satan. The wannabe Apostle’s solution was to annul the Towrah and replace it with a belief in his ‘Gospel of Grace.’ However, since the likelihood of God authorizing someone to contradict Him is nil, that wasn’t a very bright idea.

Rabbis simply eliminated the prospect of salvation, suggesting that the goal of life was to be righteous – even though it would be self-defined and for its own sake. Muslims would then make salvation capricious, a function of Allah’s will – although, as we have learned, he could be swayed by killing Jews.

Having shot down those who were right, and then made a single mistake, it was time to exonerate those who are evil once they pledge their loyalty. If the courts ran this way, a person could rob a thousand widows and orphans but, then, be forgiven by telling the judge that he would finish robbing one day and play by the rules.

And in saying of me (wa ba ‘amar) to the unrighteous and guilty (la ha rasha’), you will be plagued, exterminated, and die (muwth muwth).

And he returned (shuwb) from his sin offering for missing the way and to lead astray (min chata’ah huw’) and he has engaged in judgment (‘asah mishpat) and what is honest and right (wa tsadaqah – just and righteous), (Yachezq’el / Ezekiel 33:14) by a pledge of collateral, no matter how corrupt (chabol – ?, used only in Ezekiel; from chabal – to bind by a twisted and corrupt pledge), returns (shuwb) of the wickedly guilty and criminally unrighteous (rasha’).

He agrees to finishing and completing (salem) robbery and stealing by deception (gazelah) with prescriptions and regulations (ba chuqah) of living (ha chayym), having walked (halak) toward not doing (la bilthy ‘asah) wrong, being dishonest and evil (‘awel), he 184will remain alive and continue to live (chayah chayah), he will not die (lo’ muwth). (Yachezq’el / Ezekiel 33:15)

The moral of the story is that the moral will die while it pays to be bad. You don’t even have to stop stealing, return what you have stolen, or say you’re sorry, just offer your soul to Satan as collateral. And then you have his promise that you will live and never die. Except for the fine print, which reads: “After dying, you will live forever in Hell.” This is the essence of Christianity: blindly attempting to enter the doorway to life through Pesach without Matsah’s perfection. It’s a bad idea because it equates to an eternity in She’owl.

Yahowah knows that there are no perfect people, so the initial scenario is not realistic. And since Pesach, Matsah, and Bikuwrym lead to our adoption into His family, He will not and cannot abandon His children for an indiscretion.

The second scenario is also invalid because the souls of misguided individuals have no value as a pledge. So, the opposite is true – Yahowah allowed His Son’s soul to serve as collateral to redeem us. And to capitalize, we must attend the Miqra’ey and act upon the Beryth. While Yah makes promises to us, we are not asked to make promises to Him. It all goes back to the most fundamental aspect of our relationship – listen to Yahowah and then respond. It does a person no good to pray to or plead with Him. It is not His job to listen to us.

All of his sins, whether missing the way or him leading astray (kol chata’ah huw’) which he misses the way and leads astray (‘asher chata’) will not be remembered (lo’ zakar) toward him (la huw’). Just and right (mishpat wa tsadaqah) he will have done (‘asah) to continue living and remain alive (chayah chayah). (Yachezq’el / Ezekiel 33:16)

185Mission accomplished. The religious do this every day and expect the same result from their profession of faith, oath, or pledge of allegiance. And yet, there isn’t a single solitary religious soul in Heaven while Hell is filled with them. When religious Jews set Satan’s trash in the midst of Yahowah’s prophets, they shut the door to Shamaym and opened the floodgates of She’owl.

Those who knew Ezekiel and his Lord best recognized that they were immoral and could not be trusted. This same message is found throughout Paul’s letters, and it dominates the Quran.

And so, the children of your people say (wa ‘amar ben ‘am), the way (derek) of my Lord (‘adon ‘any) is not worth consideration because it is neither equitable nor appropriate (lo’ taken – is incomprehensible and irrational, capricious and unjust). But of them (wa hem), their way (derek hem) is unworthy and unfair, capricious and unjust (lo’ taken – unworthy and inappropriate, insignificant and immaterial). (Yachezq’el / Ezekiel 33:17)

The first to hear this drivel from Ezekiel came to the same conclusion which has filled these pages. They were right.

Since Ezekiel and his Lord cannot defend their position using the word of God, evidence, or reason, their only retort was to deploy the ad hominem fallacy. In other words, you must be irrational if you say we are unreasonable.

One of the things frauds like Ezekiel struggle to keep straight is the voice delivering the message. This begins in the Lord’s voice with “your people say” and transitions mid-sentence to “the way of my Lord.” The reason is obvious – the alleged conversations never occurred, and Ezekiel is a literary device and not a person.

186Repeating nonsense does not make it sensible…

In returning (ba shuwb) righteous (tsadyq – correct, just, and upright, moral and fair) from his righteousness, justice, and him being correct (min tsadaqah huw’ – from justice and innocence), and he does wrong (wa ‘asah ‘awel), so he will have been plagued and die (wa muwth) with it (ba hem). (Yachezq’el / Ezekiel 33:18)

This is eerily similar to Pauline Christianity. Even a murderer and sexual pervert like Paul, who is as prone to misquoting and misappropriating Yahowah’s testimony, as Satan, is saved by accepting the new faith, while those who have been consistently right about God are condemned for the smallest infraction. Lo’ taken, indeed.

And with turning (wa ba shuwb) the wickedly wrong (rasha’ – the criminally guilty) from his evildoing, wickedness, and unrighteousness (min risha’ah huw’ – from his guilt), and he has acted upon and engaged in (wa ‘asah) judgment and justice (mishpat wa tsadaqah), upon this (‘al hem), he, himself, will live (huw’ chayah). (Yachezq’el / Ezekiel 33:19)

It's so devilish of the Lord: be right and die, be wrong and live – just do some mishpat and say a few Hail Marys, maybe engage in a martyrdom mission and kill some Jews. It’ll be great. Trust me.

And you have said (wa ‘amar), the way (derek) of my Lord (‘adon ‘any) is unworthy of consideration because it is neither comprehensible nor rational (lo’ taken – is capricious and unjust).

An individual (‘iysh) according to (ka) his ways (derek huw’) I will judge (shaphat) of you (‘eth ‘atem), House of Israel (beyth Yisra’el). (Yachezq’el / Ezekiel 33:20)

Why aren’t there Jews in Israel like this today? The religious trope was fallacious, it was obvious, they knew it, 187and they said it. Sure, it takes courage to stand up against evil, especially since the religious follow their Lord’s example and resort to ad hominem attacks. They will sting but compare that discomfort to the quantity and quality of the souls who can be liberated, drawn out, protected, enlightened, and saved.

Be mindful, the Lord of Babel has no influence over your soul. He is all bluster and no bite.

Should anyone be prone at this point to believe Ezekiel, or even think that Yachezq’el even existed, the question regarding calendars is being answered. There wasn’t one. He is pretending to be like a prisoner in a cell who carves slashes into a wall to mark the days.

Yahowah’s actual prophets never marked time this way…

And is in (wa hayah ba) the 12^th year (shanaym ‘esreh shanah) in the 10^th in the 5^th month (ba ha ‘asyry ba chamesh la ha chodesh) of our exile into captivity (la galuwth ‘anachnuw), had come to me (bow’ ‘el ‘any), the fugitive escapee (palyth – the survivor who eluded capture) from Jerusalem (min Yaruwshalaim) to say (la ‘amar), the city (ha ‘iyr) has been struck, beaten, and destroyed (nakah). (Yachezq’el / Ezekiel 33:21)

That would have been 4,540 slashes on his forearms, if he was still into that sort of thing, in his tent, which would have been in shreds, or upon the imaginary wall that he was once told to dig under each night. One can only be surprised that there was enough ergot to last that long. But apparently there was because this is delusional.

The imaginary Yachezq’el was, by his own admission, a galuwth | captive. A palyth | escapee is, by definition, not a captive. Therefore, this alleged conversation would have been impossible. But beyond the idiocy of using words like 188a child without a dictionary, think of the level of ignorance required to believe this was true.

The archeological evidence dictates that the initial exile of King Yawyakyn | Jehoiachin and his government, including religious officials and other prominent citizens from Judea to Babylonia occurred in 597 BCE. Should there have been actual individuals named Dany’el and Yachezq’el, their deportation as captives would have commenced in Adar II (March or April) of that year.

Despite warnings from Yirma’yah | Jeremiah, Judean King Tsidqiyah | Zedekiah stopped paying tribute to Nebuchadnezzar II and began bribing Pharaoh Hophra seven years thereafter. This led to a three-year siege of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar, whereupon King Zedekiah and others were then exiled in 587 BCE (although some claim 586). This is when the city and temple were destroyed. Therefore, had Ezekiel been grounded in history, two to three years prior to this time, there would have been another 10,000 Judean captives in Babylon – all of whom would have been witnesses to the city’s destruction.

Based upon Ezekiel’s gross disconnect from what would have been his current reality, one can conclude with absolute certainty that he was not a prophet and in command of times past and future. The book of Ezekiel is a farce.

Not that anything can resolve the Lord’s lack of credibility, I found it interesting to discover that archaeological excavations have led to a verifiable calculation that the population of Judah prior to the Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem was 75,000 Yahuwdym. Therefore, even at the highest tally of potential exiles of 20,000, this means that less than 25% of Jews were taken away as slaves.

189And the hand and influence (wa yad) of This Is Not Him (#^^#!) had been toward me (hayah ‘el ‘any) in the commingling of dusk and night during the evening (ba ha ‘ereb – with the interwoven fabric of light and darkness, of ensuing gloom among foreign people and noxious flies) before the appearance arrived (la paneh bow’) of the fugitive escapee (palyth – the survivor who eluded capture).

And he was opening my mouth (wa pathach ‘eth peh ‘any) until came to me (‘ad bow’ ‘el ‘any) in the morning (ba ha boqer – in the break of day for consideration and questioning). So opened my mouth (wa pathach peh ‘any). And so (wa), I was not dumb (lo’ ‘alam – I was not silenced or speechless, unable to talk) any longer (‘ad). (Yachezq’el / Ezekiel 33:22)

Just when we thought Ezekiel had hit rock bottom and would seek intervention, or perhaps an exorcist, he stumbles upon his beleaguered tongue yet again. While he has been senseless from the beginning, Ezekiel has been anything but speechless. In fact, the last time his vocal prowess was discussed, it was to say…

And you, son of person (wa ‘atah ben ‘adam), it is imperative that you say (‘amar) to the sons of your people (‘el beny ‘am ‘atah), righteousness of the righteous (tsadaqah ha tsadaq) will not save, deliver, or rescue him (lo’ natsal huw’) in the day (ba yowm) of his defection and rebellion (pesha’ huw’), and the wickedness of the wicked (wa risha’ah ha rasha’), he will not stumble or stagger by it (lo’ kashal ba hy’) in the day (ba yowm) returns and turns of him (shuwb huw’) from his wickedness and his criminal wrongdoing (min resha’ huw’). And righteousness and innocence (wa tsadyq), he will not be capable of attaining, not even daring to understand (lo’ yakol) to live (la chayah) by it (ba hy’) in the day (ba yowm) for him misses his way (chata’ huw’). (Ezekiel 33:12)

190Dumb, yes, mute, no.

Continuing to hallucinate and engage in conversations with his imaginary friends, we read…

So a word is (wa hayah dabar) of This Is Not Him (#^^#!) to me to say (‘el ‘any la ‘amar), (Yachezq’el / Ezekiel 33:23) child of person (ben ‘adam) inhabiting (yashab) these desolate desert ruins and rubble (ha charbah ha ‘eleh – this dry, drought-stricken, and hot place) on the ground of Israel (‘al ‘adamah Yisra’el) are saying (‘amar) to say (la ‘amar), one (‘echad) was (hayah) Abraham (‘Abraham) and (wa) he is an heir, having inherited (yarash) the Land (‘eth ha ‘erets). And we many (wa ‘anachnuw rab), to us was given (la ‘anachnuw nathan) the Land (ha ‘erets) as possession (la mowrashah). (Yachezq’el / Ezekiel 33:24)

For those of you who have sojourned through the words of true and false prophets over this score of years, I suspect that you, like me, find this projected ploy a little creepy – like déjà vu all over again. The fulcrum upon which Sha’uwl | Paul projected Christianity away from Yahowah, His Covenant, Invitations, People, and Towrah was claiming that the seed of ‘Abraham was singular and, thus, spoke of the Christian Christ rather than of Yisra’elites. In his twisted, satanically influenced mind, this meant that all of the promises inherited by Israel were magically transferred to his gentile church.

Beyond the haunting tactic, neither Yachezq’el nor Yisra’el were yashab | inhabiting charbah | a desolate desert ruin. Babylon was not only at the peak of her glory, but in the presence of the two rivers, the land was swampy. And while Jerusalem had been ravaged, the climate had not changed. Furthermore, the ten tribes comprising Yisra’el had been removed 15 decades previously. Moreover, the Yahuwdym remaining in Yahuwdah were living in the 191countryside on farms, not amongst the burnt-out rubble of the fallen city.

And even Captain Oblivious would have known that the falsely attributed statement was actually true. The Land of Yisra’el was given to ‘Abraham, and through the Covenant, to Yitschaq and Ya’aqob and, thus, to Yisra’el.

Apparently, however, had the gift been bequeathed by the Lord of Babel, there would be strings attached, albeit they may have required a psychic to decipher the contract and a witness to oppose the spurious accusations…

Therefore (la ken), it is imperative that you say over them (‘amar ‘al hem), thus said (koh ‘amar) my Lord and Master (‘adony), This Is Not Him (#^^#!), you continually eat (‘akal) over the blood (‘al ha dam) and you lift your eyes (wa ‘ayn ‘atem nasa’) to your idols (‘el giluwlym). And blood (wa dam) you are pouring out (shaphak), and the Land (wa ha ‘erets) you are inheriting (yarash). (Yachezq’el / Ezekiel 33:25)

You have presented and stand over your sword (‘amad ‘al chereb ‘atem). You have done abominations (‘asah tow’ebah). And an individual’s woman (wa ‘iysh ‘eth ‘ishah) of his wicked countryman (rea’ huw’) you have defiled (tame’), and the Land (wa ha ‘erets) you are inheriting (yarash). (Yachezq’el / Ezekiel 33:26)

Beyond the issue of Yisra’el being lost to history and thus unavailable for this lecture at this point, who are we to believe the Devil’s Advocate is harassing? With the religious and political leadership of Yahuwdah now in Babylon, all that was left were farmers trying to survive the foregoing carnage. They were not eating over blood, pouring out blood, or ogling idols. If they ever owned swords, they were not brandishing them. And with the Lord of Babel having engaged in pedophilia, rape, and prostitution, he’s not in a position to criticize marital infidelity.

192The entire notion of “God” telling a slave in Babylon to speak to lost tribes of Yisra’el is ludicrous – especially after Yahowah revealed through Howsha’ | Hosea that He would not be speaking to them again for thousands of years. And as for Yahuwdah, their leadership was either dead or camped out next to the Lord’s false prophet.

Here and now (koh), say to them (‘amar ‘el hem), thus said (koh ‘amar) my Lord and Master (‘adony), This Is Not Him (#^^#!), alive me (chay ‘any), if or whether, whenever or even though (‘im) not whomever (lo’ ‘asher) within the desolate desert ruins and rubble (ha charbah – the dry, drought-stricken, and hot places) by the sword (ba ha chereb), they will fall (naphal).

And whoever (wa ‘asher) upon the appearance (‘al paneh) of the open environs (ha sadeh), to the beast (la ha chayah), I have given him (nathan huw’) to eat him (la ‘akal huw’).

And whoever (wa ‘asher) is in the inaccessible strongholds and fortresses (ba ha matsad) or in the caves (ba ha ma’arah), with the pandemic plague and pestilence of words (ba ha deber), they will die (muwth). (Yachezq’el / Ezekiel 33:27)

Judea was not enduring a drought. The remaining Yahuwdym were not living within the rubble of the city. Upon the return of the captives, they would become a nation again, so they were spared from the sword.

While there is no record of this monster, the singular beast must have been the forerunner of Godzilla because there would have been 50,000 Jews to eat. There were no strongholds remaining in Judea and caves would have been few and far between. As for the plague ravaging the hidden remnant, there is no record of either. And so, the believers warmed up their voices to exclaim, “Prophecy fulfilled.”

193This did not occur either, retaining the Lord’s perfect score…

And I have given the gift (wa nathan) with the Land (‘eth ha ‘erets) an uninhabitable desolation (shamamah) and a dried-up desert, a horrible and deflowered wasteland (mashamah). So, it will cease, ending (wa shabath) her strength, power, and might, her stubborn, majesty, splendor, and glory (ga’own ‘oz hy’).

Then the mountains of Israel (wa har Yisra’el) will be deserted and destroyed, destitute and abandoned (shamem) so that none (min ‘ayn) will pass through (‘abar). (Yachezq’el / Ezekiel 33:28)

The Land of Yisra’el has been highly contested, but it has never been uninhabited. Bathed in the westerlies off of the Mediterranean Sea, it has been and remains the most well-watered nation in the Middle East. The Assyrians and Babylonians beat the Adversary to the punch and negated the power of Yisra’el and Yahuwdah prior to Satan’s braggadocio. And apart from Yaruwshalaim under Dowd and his son, neither Judea nor Israel would have been considered majestic or glorious in comparison to other empires. The mountains of Israel stand; they are not deserted or destroyed. And many pass through them to this day.

By continuing to lie, we know This Is Not Him…

Then they will have known (wa yada’) that I am (ky ‘any) This Is Not Him (#^^#!), in offering for me (ba nathan ‘any) the Land (‘eth ha ‘erets) an uninhabitable wasteland, depopulated and devastated (shamamah) and dried up and arid, without water (mashamah) over all of their abominations (‘al kol tow’ebah hem) which they have done (‘asher ‘asah). (Yachezq’el / Ezekiel 33:29)

194The Lord must believe that by repeating a false prophecy he is fulfilling it. Otherwise, what is the point of repeating lies?

And you, child of human (wa ‘atah ben ‘adam), children of your people (beny ‘am ‘atah) who speak with you (ha dabar ba ‘atah) beside the walls (‘etsel ha qyr) and in the doors of the houses (wa ba pethach ha beythym) and they have spoken (wa dabar) of one with one individual (chad ‘eth ‘echad ‘iysh – one with a single person; the initial chad is a spelling error only in Ezekiel) with his brother (‘eth ‘ach huw’) to say (la ‘amar), you must come urgently (bow’ na’) then you must listen (wa shama’).

What is (mah) the word (ha dabar) which comes out and is withdrawn (yatsa’) from (min ‘eth) This Is Not Him (#^^#!)? (Yachezq’el / Ezekiel 33:30)

There was no merit in addressing Ezekiel as a “son of man” once, much less doing so countless times. All humans are sons and daughters of people, so it conveys nothing of value. There is no evidence that the Jewish captives were controlled behind walls. It is certain that they were not inside the walled city, and there is no evidence of walls outside in the swampland, where they would have been difficult to build. In fact, had they existed, we would have expected the Jews to have constructed them while complaining of mixing straw with mud in the scorching sun. It is also unlikely that prisoners would have lived in homes or had the luxury of doors.

And since every conversation up to this point has been as reliable as those found in Homer’s Odyssey, we would do well to conclude that the gossip was fabricated. After all, there would have been no lustful mouths or greedy hearts among people just trying to survive.

Then they come to you (wa bow’ ‘el ‘atah) like people (ka ‘am) of a questionable path and entry point 195(mabow’). And they stay before you (wa yashab la paneh ‘atah) as my people (‘am ‘any).

So, they have heard (wa shama’) your words (dabary ‘atah). But they, themselves, do not act (wa hem lo’ ‘asah) because of erotic love and lustful desires among men (ky ‘egabym – ?, used only in Ezekiel; from ‘agab – a highly charged sexual appetite, masculine plural) in their mouths (ba peh hem – in the orifice for communication of the men). They, themselves, engage and do (hem ‘asah) their ill-gotten behind (‘achar betsa’ – plundering and taking advantage of the rear end, afterward, and hinder part thereafter). Their heart (leb hem) follows along (halak). (Yachezq’el / Ezekiel 33:31)

I am sorry, but I did not see that one coming. And frankly, I do not know what to say. Sodomy is embarrassing – even for Satan. One can only wonder what the holier-than-thou churchgoers would do if they knew that this lurid tale was lurking in the pages of their Bibles.

And behold (wa hineh), you to them are like (‘atah la hem ka) an erotic song of the various lustful desires among men (shyr ‘egabah) of handsome voice (yaphah qowl) and performing better than expected and thus pleasing (wa yathab) playing an instrument (nagan – which Chabad.org claims is a “flute”).

So, they hear (wa shama’) your words (‘eth dabary ‘atah) and do nothing (wa ‘asah ‘ayn), they with them (hem ‘eth hem). (Yachezq’el / Ezekiel 33:32)

And in coming (wa ba bow’), entering it here and there while coming (hy’ hineh bow’), then they will be familiar with and know (yada’) that, indeed (ky), a prophet (naby’), he has been (hayah) inside of them (ba tawek hem – in their midst and through them). (Yachezq’el / Ezekiel 33:33)

196There are no words to explain this. Although some might say that it is proof of the Covenant because they are hoisting the rainbow flag. I hope it is to surrender.