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Module 12: The Judicial Separation and the Investiture of the Redeemer
Behold, 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:
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Yeshayahu 59
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But your iniquities (awonim) have separated between you and your Elohim, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.
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The Indictment of Blood-Guilt and Deceit
For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.
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None calleth for justice (mishpat), nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
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They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.
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Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.
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The Swiftness of Destruction
Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.
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The way of peace (shalom) they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.
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The Confession of Darkness
Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice (tzedaqah) overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.
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We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noon day as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.
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We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.
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For our transgressions (pesha) are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them;
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In transgressing and lying against 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, and departing away from our Elohim, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
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The Failure of Truth in the Gates
And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.
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Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.
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The Divine Warrior and the Armor of Righteousness
And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him.
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For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloak.
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According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompence.
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So shall they fear the name of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 from the west, and his glory (kabod) from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit (Ruach) of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 shall lift up a standard against him.
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The Arrival of the Goel in Tziyon
And the Redeemer (Goel) shall come to Tziyon, and unto them that turn from transgression (pesha) in Ya'aqob, saith 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄.
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As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, from henceforth and for ever.