π️s New Testament & Bible prophecy study, verses paraphrased [ ] references { } thots
• 2 Corinthians 13:1-9 John 4:3-26
and Revelation 14:8-13 separately
☀️ 2 Corinthians 13:1-9
1 - I’m on my way to visit you for the third time. And as the Scriptures say, “Any charges must be proved true by at least two or three witnesses.” 2 During my second visit I (Paul) gave warning, as also now while absent, and as I will when I come again. {Keeping “the way” genuine/accurate.} 3 It should prove to you that I’m speaking for Christ, for when he corrects he won't be weak. He will be powerful! {We have to follow “the way” or should do something else, follow another way, not mix the other way into what was being built. Prelude to “the” prophesied millennium? Which surprise is followed by one more - outline, week plus one and within it the Spring and Fall holy days - of Leviticus 23 - as prophecy of 1st and 2nd advents. Wheel within a wheel outline. Meaning outline within an outline, lol.}
4 Yes he was weak when he was nailed to the cross! But he now lives by the power of God. We are weak, just as Christ was.
But you’ll see that we shall live by the power of God, as Christ does. {π€ Literal, during 2nd advent. In Mt.13:30 “first” is Rev.16:14-15-16, and almost simultaneous, Mt.25:1-13. Siren call to the “first” is division, the wolf’s true face.}
5 Test yourselves and find out if you really are true to your faith! If you pass the test, you’ll discover that Christ is living in you. But if Christ isn't living in you, you’ll fail. 6 I hope you’ll discover we haven’t failed. 7 So we pray to God that you may not do wrong, not that we may appear to have met the test, but that you may do what is right, even though we may seem to be unapproved. 8 For nothing can beat down truth, but power [dynamai] is for [hypΓ©r - for, above, beyond, more than, on behalf of] it. 9 And we are happy when we are weak and you are strong. Your restoration is what we pray for.
π John 4:3-26
3 - When Jesus left Judea and departed again for Galilee, 4 he had to pass through Samaria. 5 And he came to Sychar, near the field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph, 6 where Jacob's well is. And Jesus, weary from his journey, was sitting beside the well, and it was about the sixth hour. [Around noon.] 7 And a woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give [didΓ³mi - give, grant] me a drink.”
8 His disciples had gone into the town to buy food. 9 The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me? A woman of Samaria.” It being that Hebrews have no dealings with Samaritans. {Believed to be half Assyrian, Israel was to stay ‘separate’ from the nations.}
10 Jesus said to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that’s saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would ask him, and he would give you living water.”
11 The woman said, “Sir! You have nothing to draw water with. And the well is deep. How will you get the living {fresh} water? 12 Are you greater than our father Jacob? He gave us this well, and drank from it himself. And so did his sons and all his livestock.”
13 Jesus said, “Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again, 14 but whoever drinks of the water that I give will no longer be thirsty. The water that I give becomes a spring of water welling up into nonfading life.” [“AiαΉnios life” - an adjective, derived from aiαΉn - an age, having a particular character and quality of.] 15 The woman said, “Sir, give me this water! So I won’t thirst and have to come here to draw water.”
16 Jesus said to her, “Go and call your husband, and come back.” 17 The woman answered him, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You’re right in saying, ‘I have no husband’ 18 for you’ve had five husbands, and the one you now have isn’t your husband. You’ve said the truth.” 19 The woman said, “Sir, I perceive that you’re a prophet. 20 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you say Jerusalem is the place where people should worship.” {Every pattern has meaning.}
21 Jesus said, “Believe me woman, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. 22 You worship what you don’t know. We worship what we know, for salvation is of the Jews. 23 But the hour’s coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth, for the Father is seeking such to worship him. 24 God is spirit, and those who worship, must worship in spirit and truth.”
25 The woman said, “I know Messiah’s coming, who is called Christ, and when he comes, he will tell us all things.” 26 Jesus said to her, “I who speak to you am he.”
Tomorrows verses, 01/12
2 Corinthians 13:10-14 John 4:27-44
Start the day with a Psalm (jan 1-20, feb-20’s, mar-30’s, apr-40’s, etc. dec-120-150)
have a great day! ☀️π️