The Lord LIKENS the WISE (they who BOTH HEAR AND DO) His
SAYINGS to ones who have their HOUSE BUILT on a FOUNDATION of SOLID ROCK (Matthew 7:24) and, thus, able to WITHSTAND the STRONGEST STORMS (Matthew 7:25)
MOSES declared that "the Lord thy GOD WILL RAISE
UP unto thee a PROPHET ... LIKE UNTO ME" (Deuteronomy 18:15) and "WILL PUT MY WORDS IN HIS MOUTH" (Deuteronomy 18:18)
and that "WHOSOEVER WILL NOT HEARKEN UNTO MY WORDS WHICH HE SHALL SPEAK IN MY NAME, I WILL REQUIRE IT OF HIM"
(Deuteronomy 18:19)
The PROPHET LIKE UNTO MOSES will be a LAW GIVER LIKE MOSES
and WILL FULFILL (COMPLETE) THE MOSAIC LAW (Matthew 5:17-20):
"Ye have HEARD that it was SAID by them of OLD TIME
(MOSAIC LAW) ... BUT I SAY unto you (KINGDOM LAW)" (Matthew 5:21-22,27-28,33-34)
"It HATH BEEN SAID (MOSAIC LAW) ... BUT I SAY unto
you (KINGDOM LAW)" (Matthew 5:31-32)
"Ye have HEARD that it HATH BEEN SAID (MOSAIC LAW)
... BUT I SAY unto you (KINGDOM LAW)" (Matthew 5:38-39,43-44)
The MESSIANIC KINGDOM CHURCH will be BUILT UPON PETER'S
CONFESSION, "THOU ART THE CHRIST, THE SON OF THE LIVING GOD" (Matthew 16:16,18):
"THE CHRIST" is "MESSIAH THE PRINCE"
(Daniel 9:25),
i.e. ISRAEL'S PROPHESIED DIVINE RULER (Isaiah 9:6-7) Who will REIGN UPON THE EARTH (Jeremiah 23:5-6)
"THE SON OF THE LIVING GOD" is MESSIAH'S DIVINE
TITLE expressing ONENESS WITH HIS DIVINE FATHER as the AUTHOR OF ALL CREATION (Proverbs 30:4)
In ISRAEL'S FUTURE "FIERY TRIAL" (I Peter 4:12),
i.e. "the DAY that SHALL BURN AS AN OVEN" (Malachi 4:1):
The SURE PROPHETIC WORD will guide ISRAEL'S FAITHFUL (WISE)
TRIBULATION REMNANT through the DARKNESS of the TRIBULATION NIGHT unto the MILLENNIAL DAWN of MESSIAH'S KINGDOM
(II Peter 1:19-21 cf.Daniel 2:29-30,44-45;Daniel 12:4,9-10)
The Lord LIKENS the FOOLISH (they who HEAR AND DO NOT)
His SAYINGS to ones who have their HOUSE BUILT on a FOUNDATION of SINKING SAND (Matthew 7:26) and, thus, NOT able to WITHSTAND even the WEAKEST STORMS (Matthew 7:27)
The Greek word rendered "BEAT UPON" (Matthew 7:27)
means to LIGHTLY "STUMBLE AGAINST" as opposed to the Greek word rendered "BEAT UPON" (Matthew 7:25)
which means to VIOLENTLY "DASH AGAINST"
At "the TIME of the END" (Daniel 12:9),
"the WICKED shall DO WICKEDLY: and NONE of the WICKED shall UNDERSTAND" (Daniel 12:10)
At "the TIME of the END: MANY shall RUN TO AND FRO"
(Daniel 12:4):
The Hebrew word "SHUWT" translated "RUN
TO AND FRO" is very closely related to the Hebrew word "SUWT" translated "TURN ASIDE",
i.e. a NEGATIVE expression as in "TURN ASIDE TO LIES" (Psalms 40:4)
and as in "I HATE the WORK of them that TURN ASIDE: it shall NOT CLEAVE TO ME" (Psalms 101:3)
At "the TIME of the END" (Daniel 8:17), the WICKED (FOOLISH)
will:
Have "NO UNDERSTANDING" of "the SIGNS of
the TIMES" (Matthew 16:1-3) concerning "the TIMES and the SEASONS" associated with "the
DAY of the LORD" when "SUDDEN DESTRUCTION COMETH ... and they shall NOT ESCAPE" (I Thessalonians 5:1-3)
Under this GENTILE "DISPENSATION of the GRACE of
GOD" (Ephesians 3:1-2), the FOOLISH are:
They who MIX "the WORKS of the LAW" with "the
HEARING of FAITH" (Galatians 3:1-3) and, thus, FORSAKE the LIBERTY of GRACE (Galatians 5:1,4) and FORFEIT the EDIFICATION and INHERITANCE associated with "the
WORD of His GRACE" (Acts 20:32
cf. I Corinthians 3:9-15)