Haggai 1:2-8 commentary

 2: Thus HE says YHWH of ARMIES saying This people say The time is not come the time that the House of YHWH should be built ^{Ezra 5:1} 3: Then came the word of YHWH by the hand of Haggai the prophet, saying 4: Is it time for you O ye to dwell in your houses with ceilings and this house lie waste? 5: Now therefore thus He says YHWH of ARMIES Consider your ways 6: You have sown much and bring in little You eat but you have not enough You drink but your thirst is not slacked You clothe yourselves but there is none warm and they ^{Invisible women} that earn wages and them hiring to put it into a pouch with holes. 7: Thus HE says YHWH of ARMIES Consider your ways 8: Go up to the mountain and bring wood and build the house and I will take pleasure in it and I will be glorified HE says YHWH

Comments: Translators consistently fail to translate literally what needs to be translated literally, passages where the Hebrew literally reads “Thus HE says.” When all the words are translated, these passages clearly show the singularity, oneness, and singleness of the plural Godhead, yet the vast majority of translators delete the “HE,” leaving readers with only the words “Thus says” or simply "says," hiding the fact that the HOLY SPIRIT, refers to YHWH ELOHIM, The Godhead, in both the singular and the plural within single statements, therefore cheating the laity, and maintaining power of clergy over laity by withholding knowledge. This is not simply historical but continues to this day, and God says he hates it.

Revelation 2:6: But this you have that you hate the deeds of the Nicolaitans which I also hate … Nico-Laitans is a compound word from the Hebrew words niko (conquer) and laites (people) that translators consistent translate as a single word, when they know it is not. It literally means conquer (overthrow) the laity (people), which is exactly what hierarchical religion continues, to this day, to do.  

Several of the Church Fathers mention the Nico-laitans, associating the heretical sect with Nicolaus, who was one of the seven named in Acts 6:5. There is some debate about the exact nature of the heresy, ranging from the sin of Balaam in overthrowing the people through intermarriage with unbelievers and Pornea with temple prostitutes associated with idol worship to promoting polygamy and gross immorality among Christians. Other early Christian writers claim that Nicolaus’ did not defect from the faith and his name was slandered and borrowed by the sect.

Larkin wrote the following about the Nico-laitans: “They were not a sect but a party in the church who were trying to establish a priestly order. Probably trying to model the church after the Old Testament order of priests, Levites, and common people. This is seen in the meaning of the word, which is from ‘Nico’ to conquer, to overthrow, and ‘Laos’ the people or laity. The object was to establish a holy order of men and place them over the laity, which was foreign to the New Testament plan, and call them not pastors, but—clergy, Bishops, Archbishops, Cardinals, Popes. Here we have the dogma of Apostolic Succession, and the separation of the Clergy from the Laity, a thing that God hates.”

Invisible Women: The reference to invisible women speaks to the fact that in most Bible translations, even contemporary ones, the words "they or them" are usually incorrectly translated as "he or him."