Today if you will hear His voice

Jesus Christ Is Lord!
28 January 2011

I want to point out an instance in the scriptures where the translators took the same words used in a description of events and translated them differently.

The words are darkness, gloominess, and obscurity.

Isaiah 58
10And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity (choshek), and thy darkness (‘aphelah) be as the noon day:

Isaiah 59
9Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity (choshek); for brightness, but we walk in darkness (‘aphelah).

Joel 2
2A day of darkness (choshek), and of gloominess (‘aphelah), a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations.

Zephaniah 1
15That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness (choshek), and gloominess (‘aphelah), a day of clouds and thick darkness,

This phrasing connects all these chapters.

The reality is that the vast majority aren’t going to ever know what is happening until it is long over. That isn’t meant to anyway diminish their value. In fact it is the opposite. This is for the principalities and the powers, and aimed at the spiritual wickedness in high places that would rather destroy them than see them be converted to the truth.

God knows how to deliver them out of their hand while still destroying the evil.

Isaiah 53, Ephesians 6, 2 Peter 2

Psalms 88
1O lord God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee:
2Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry;
3For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.
4I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:
5Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.
6Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.
7Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.
8Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.
9Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.
10Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah.
11Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or thy faithfulness in destruction?
12Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
13But unto thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee.
14LORD, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me?
15I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.
16Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.
17They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together.
18Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.


In the Name of
Jesus Christ My Lord
Thank You My Father