09-17 - 1 Thessalonians 1 1-7 Luke 12 22-40

Verses paraphrased due to ©‘s [ref] {thots} (An 8TH ‘DAY’ CU Studies Journal)

            ☀️ A.M. 1 Thessalonians 1:1-7

1 - From Paul, Silvanus/Silas, and Timothy, to the church/believers of Thessalonica. In God the Father and in the Lord Jesus - Grace to you! And peace.

      2 We give thanks always, to God for you! And remember you in our prayers, especially when we think of 3 your faithful work, your loving deeds, and the enduring hope [elpis - expectation] you have because of our Lord Jesus Christ. 4 For we know, brothers and sisters, dearly beloved of God, that he has chosen you. 5 The proof is how our message [euaggelion - good news, the good news of the coming of the Messiah came to you, not only in word, but also with power, in the Holy Spirit(/Presence of God). A full assurance.

     You know how we were when we were among you. An example for your sake. 6 And so you became imitators of us, and of the Lord, for you received the message in the midst of much trouble, yet with joy of the Holy Spirit. 7 And so you (in turn) became an example to all the believers in both Macedonia and in Achaia.

            🌙 P.M. LUKE 12:22-40

22 - Jesus was talking to his disciples, “Don’t worry and be anxious about life, what you’ll eat, or what you’ll wear. 23 For life is more than food, and is more than clothing {and appearance}. 24 Consider the ravens, they don’t sow. They don’t reap nor do they gather into barns and storehouses, yet God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds of the air!

     25 And who of you, by worrying, can add a single hour to your life? 26 If then you’re not able to do such as that, why do you worry about the rest?

     27 Consider the flowers, the lilies of the field. They don’t toil, nor do they spin. But I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory wasn’t clothed like one of these. 28 And if God so clothes the grass, which is alive today, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven {to be used for fuel, or it fades away in the slow burn of entropy} how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith?”

     29 “Don’t labor over what you’re to eat, and what you’re to drink, and don’t fret or be worried. 30 For all the nations of the world seek after these things. But your Father knows you need them. 31 Instead, seek God’s kingdom. And then these other things will be added to you as well!

     32 Fear not, little flock, for it’s your Father's good pleasure and will/intention/plan to give you the kingdom. 33 Sell your possessions! And give to the needy. Provide for yourselves riches that don’t grow old, and treasure unfading in the heavens, that no thief can take away, and no moth can destroy. 34 For where your treasure is, there your heart is!

     35 Stay dressed and ready for action. And keep your lamp burning.” {Oil in our lamp! Ready for Mt.25:1-13(10)’s door to serving, called reigning(?) during his long second advent vs. gathered to Armageddon via the siren call of division, Mt.13:30.}

     36 “Be like those who are waiting for their master/mister to come home from the wedding feast. That they may open the door to him at once when he comes and knocks.” [1Thes.4:17.]

    37 “Blessed are those servants whom the master finds awake when he returns. Truly, I tell you, he will dress himself for service and have them sit at table, and he will come and serve them.

     38 If he comes in the second watch, or in the third, and finds them awake, blessed are those servants! 39 But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming they would be watching and not neglecting the house to be broken into [diorussó - dug through, broken through]. 40 You also must be ready.” [Hetoimos - prepared, ready, because prepared, ready to meet the opportunity or challenge at hand, ready because the necessary preparations are done, “the scripture for training” 2Tim.3:16, training for what? What if his long second advent is a full scope version of his first so brief one?] “Stay ready for the Son of Man comes at an hour you do not suppose.”

           

Jesus “will draw all” Jn.12:32.

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Tomorrows verses, 09/18

1 Thessalonians 1:8-2:7 Luke 12:41-48 and Revelation 6:5-8 separately

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ACTS 10 21-33

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Book of the Acts of the First Believers

21 - Peter went down from the roof, and greeted the men who had arrived, saying, “I’m who you’re looking for. Why have you come?”

     22 And they said, “Cornelius, a centurion (Roman soldier or general) an upright and God-fearing man, who is well spoken of by the whole Jewish nation, was directed by a holy angel to send for you and have you come to his house in order to hear what you have to say.”

     23 So he invited them in to be his guests, and the next day he, and some brothers from Joppa, went with them. 24 And then on the following day they arrived at Caesarea.

     Cornelius was expecting them and had called together his relatives and close friends. 25 When Peter entered, Cornelius met him and fell at his feet so as to worship him. 26 But Peter lifting him back up, said, “Stand up, I am only a man like you!”

     27 And as they were talking, they went in and those Cornelius had gathered were there waiting. 28 And Peter said to them, “You know how it’s against our law, for a Jew (Hebrew) to associate with or visit anyone of another nation” (separated for the sake of birthing Messiah, the “savior of the world” from death and its cause). “But God has shown me I shouldn’t call any person common or unclean. 29 So when I was sent for, I came without objection. So tell me, why have you sent for me.”

     30 Cornelius answered, saying, “Four days ago, I was here  in my house praying at the ninth hour, when a man stood before me in bright clothing! 3 And he said, ‘Cornelius, your prayers have been heard, and your gifts and charity have been remembered before God. 32 Send therefore to Joppa and ask for Simon who’s called Peter. He’s lodging in the house of Simon, a tanner, who lives by the sea.’ 33 So I sent for you at once, and you’ve been kind enough to come. Now therefore we’re all here in the presence of God to hear everything the LORD instructs.”

Next - 10:34-48

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09-16 - James 5 9-20 Luke 12 13-21

Verses paraphrased due to ©‘s [ref] {thots}

(An 8TH ‘DAY’ CU Studies Journal)

            ☀️ A.M. James 5:9-20

9 - Don’t grumble against one another, brothers and sisters, so you may not be judged. For behold! The Judge is {ever} standing at the door. {Reaping as we sow, getting back what it is we put out, is ever ready.}

     10 As an example of patience think of the prophets who spoke in the name of the LORD. 11 We consider as blessed, those who steadfastly endured. You’ve heard of the patience of Job.

     And you’ve seen the purpose of the LORD, how the LORD is compassionate and merciful.

     12 But above all/before all, my brethren, don’t take an oath, either by heaven or by earth or by anything else, just let your “yes” be yes and your “no” be no, so you may not fall under condemnation.

     13 Is anyone among you suffering hardship? They should pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let them sing praises. 14 Is any among you sick? They should call for the elders of the church [ekklésia - from ek - out, and kaleo - called, calling] who will come and pray, and anoint them with oil in the name of the Lord {Jesus/Y’shua}. 15 For the prayer of faith, will save the one who’s sick, and the LORD will raise them up. {Death is the prognosis of imperfect/entropy, because God is Life and “is perfect” mt.5:48..} And if they have done any wrongs, there will be forgiveness. 16 Therefore, confess your sins {wrongs, flaws} to one another {be honest and real, not hypocritical - which word means “wearing a mask”}. And pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power. 17 Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed fervently that it wouldn’t rain, and for three years and six months it didn’t rain, (a 3.5). 18 Then he prayed again, and the heavens gave rain, and the earth bore fruit.

     19 My brothers and sisters, if anyone among you errs from the truth and someone brings them back, 20 know that whoever brings one back from their wandering, will save their souL from-death, and covers [kaluptó - covers, hides, veils, conceals (keeps private?)] a multitude of sins.

     {We confess our errors and flaws, but not another’s? ..James’ last words in this letter, pray for one another’s healing and overlook one another’s flaws..? Friendship between groups, denominations, etc will root out error faster than separation/segregation? Or gulp, accusation?/division.}

            🌙 P.M. LUKE 12:13-21

13 - Someone in the crowd said to Jesus, “Teacher! Tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me!” 14 But Jesus said, “Who made me the judge or executor between you?” 15 And to the crowd, he said, “Be careful and on your guard against covetousness and envy. Life doesn’t consist in the abundance of possessions.”

     16 So he told them a parable, saying, “The land of a rich man produced a great harvest, 17 and he thought to himself, ‘What shall I do? For I haven’t room to store my crops.’ 18 So he said to himself, ‘I know! I’ll tear down my barns and build bigger ones! And so I shall store all my grain and goods.

     19 And I’ll say to myself, ‘Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years. Relax, eat, drink, and be merry.’ 20 But then God said to him, ‘Foolish one, this very night your life [psuche - soul, life, self, personhood, inner being] is required of you, and the things you’ve prepared, whose will they be?’ 21 So are all they who lay up treasure for themselves, and are noT rich toward God.”

          

Jesus “will draw all” Jn.12:32.

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Tomorrows verses, 09/17

1 Thessalonians 1:1-7 Luke 12:22-40 and ACTS 10:21-33 separately

Revelation Study, began on 09/11, Trumpets, Rosh Hashanah - The Vision - 1st week - 6:1-4

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09-15 - James 5 1-8 Luke 12 1-12

Verses paraphrased due to ©‘s [ref] {thots}

(An 8TH ‘DAY’ CU Studies Journal)

            ☀️ A.M. James 5:1-8

1 - Listen, you rich weep and wail over the miseries coming! 2 For your riches will rot {and rust} and your garments will be moth-eaten.

     3 Your gold and silver corrodes, and is a testimony against you, consuming away your life liKe fire stored up for last days. 4 For, behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you! {Injustice cries a voice God hears, like the blood of Abel, and of all martyrs ..In Rev.6, the fifth seal/element of the times, the martyrs are not prisoners held “under the altar” for millennia, while their blood cries out to God!}

     The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the LORD of hosts! 5 You have reveled in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened your hearts for a ‘day’ of great war. 6 You have condemned and murdered the righteous person, who doesn’t (even) resist you. {But will reap what they sow.. Their deeds will return on their own heads - Obadiah 1:15. You will fall into the hole you dig (for others) - Proverbs 26:27.}

     7 Be patient, therefore, brothers and sisters, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient, until the earth receives the early aNd the late rains. (Harvests, 1Cor.15:22-24,28 w/ Mt.13:33, key word 3 ..harvests). 8 You also, be patient. Strengthen your hearts. For the coming of the Lord draws near. {For us all, it’s always near.. life as we presently know it, this imperfection/entropy is brief, Jn.5:28.}

            🌙 P.M. LUKE 12:1-12

 1 - Meanwhile, so many had gathered around Jesus, they were trampling one another. He said to his disciples, “Beware the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy” [hypokrisḗs - literally - acting under a mask]. 2 “Nothing is covered up that won’t be revealed, or hidden that won’t be known. 3 Therefore whatever you have said in the dark will be heard in the light. {What you’ve conspired or slandered, will come to light.} And what you have whispered in private rooms will be as proclaimed from rooftops.

     4 So I tell you, my friends, don’t fear those who kill the body, and after that have nothing more they can do. 5 But I will warn you whom to fear (you pharisees) fear he who, after the destruction/ruin, has authority to cast into Gehenna [from gay - valley, and Hinnom - Gehenna] {Valley of Armageddon, first one was coming in 70 CE}. Yes, I tell you, fear him! {Evildoers!} 6 BecauSe, are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? And not oNe of them is forgotten before God! 7 Why, even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not!! YOU are of more value than many sparrows. {And all victims.}

    8 And I tell you, everyone who acknowledges me before men, also the Son of Man will acknowledge before the angels of God, 9 but the one who denies me before men, will be denied before the angels of God.” (Does noT say ‘forever and ever’.)

     10 “And everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but the one blaspheming against the Holy Spirit(/Presence) of God is not forgiven.” {How can they be? While hating God enough to virulently insult him?}

     11 Then when they bring you before the councils, the rulers and authorities, don’t be anxious about how you should defend yourself or what you should say, 12 for the Holy Spirit(/Presence of God) will guide you in that very hour what you should say.”

Jesus “will draw all” Jn.12:32.

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Tomorrows verses, 09/16

James 5:9-20 Luke 12:13-21

Revelation Study, began on 09/11, Trumpets, Rosh Hashanah - The Vision - 1st week - 6:1-4

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09-14 - James 4 13-17 Luke 11 37-54

Verses paraphrased due to ©‘s [ref] {thots}

(An 8TH ‘DAY’ CU Studies Journal)

            ☀️ A.M. James 4:13-17

13 You who say, “Today or tomorrow we’ll go to such and such a city, spend a year, trade, make a profit”— 14 yet you don’t know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? You’re a mist that appears for a short time and then fades away! 15 Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.” 16 As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting isn’t good!

     17 So whoever knows the right to do and fails to do it, for them it’s sin [hamartia - missing the mark]. {To know right, but choose differently is a missing of the mark🎯. We’re a work in progress, but need to be in the right progression? Otherwise, why bother!?}

            🌙 P.M. LUKE 11:37-54

37 - While Jesus was still speaking, a Pharisee invited him to dine with him at his house, so he went in and reclined at table. 38 The Pharisee was surprised to see that he didn’t wash before the meal. (A Pharisee tradition of ritual washing.) 39 So Jesus said, “You Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and dish. Yet inside there’s greed and wickedness. 40 But didn’t he who made the outside, also make the inside? 41 If you give from within, then the outside is clean as well. 42 But woe to you Pharisees, you tithe mint and rue and every herb, but neglect justice and the love of God. But these you ought to do, without neglecting the rest.

     43 Woe to you Pharisees, you love the best seats in the meeting places and greetings in the marketplace. 44 Woe to you, you’re like unmarked graves, which people walk over, without knowing.”

     45 One of the scribes (lawyers) answered him, “Teacher, in saying these things you’re insulting us also.” 46 But he said, “Woe to you lawyers, you load people with burdens hard to bear, that you would never lift even a finger to bear.. 47 Woe to you, you build the tombs of the prophets, which your fathers killed. 48 So you are witnesses and you show yourself as consenting to the killings, and so you build their tombs. 49 As the wisdom of God has said, ‘I will send prophets and apostles. Some they’ll persecute and some they’ll kill.’ 50 And so the blood of all the prophets, shed from the foundation of the world, will be held against this generation {🤔 held against by whom..?} 51 Yes, I tell you, required of this generation, from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary.

    52 Woe to you scribes, you’ve taken away the key to knowledge. You don’t enter, and you block the way of those who are entering.”

     53 And as he was leaving, the scribes and Pharisees began to pressure him, provoking him to speak about many things, 54 for they were trying to catch him in his words.

           

Tomorrows verses, 09/15

James 5:1-8 Luke 12:1-12

Revelation Study, began on 09/11, Trumpets, Rosh Hashanah - The Vision - 1st week - 6:1-4

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Jesus said he “will draw all” Jn.12:32.

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09-13 - James 4 7-11 Luke 11 29-36

Verses paraphrased due to ©‘s [ref] {thots}

(An 8TH ‘DAY’ CU Studies Journal)

            ☀️ A.M. James 4:7-11

{James. natural birth brother of Jesus, pulls no punches. ..Instead of Galatians 5:20, rivalry, self interest and promotion, etc} 7 - Submit yourselves to God! Resist the devil! {And the devilish.} And he will flee from you. 8 Draw near to God. And he will draw near to you.

     Clean up your lives, you sinners! [Harmatoi - we missing the mark.] Purify your hearts, you people who can't make up your mind! 9 Grieve, mourn, and weep! Turn your laughter to mourning, and your joy to gloom! {Heartfelt remorse for any evils done and even flaws. This is not the world’s racial shaming for political advantage. Or passing judgment on our fellows. It’s self judgment. The contrast (imperfection/straying, the comparison to GOD’s kingdom/perfection) matters, boTh collective, aNd, individual. Imperfect cannot work. God iS life and is perfect, 1Jn.5:20, Mt.5:48, and so, thus, this entropy, a slow gehenna from which “God is savior..” 1Tim.4:10.}

     10 Humble yourselves before the LORD, and he will lift you up! [Hupsoó - to lift or raise up, uplift, lift on high, exalt] {especially during his long second advent?}

     11 Don’t speak evil against one another, brethren/brothers and sisters! {Moderately left and moderately right, hell believers and hell not believers.. on and on?}

     The one who speaks against a brother or sister or judges his brother or sister, speaks evil against the truth. And judges the truth. But if you judge the truth, you’re then not a doer of truth, but a judge.

     12 There is one Lawgiver, who’s able to save and to destroy. Who are you to judge another?

            🌙 P.M. LUKE 11:29-36

(As some were accusing - saying he was casting out demons by the ruler of demons - others were asking him for a sign, and) 29 - As the crowd of people was increasing, Jesus said, “This generation is a troublesome generation. {“This generation” - also humanity as a whole?}

     It seeks for a sign, but there will be no sign but the sign of Jonah. 30 Just as Jonah became a sign to the people of Nineveh, so will the Son of man be to this generation. {To that generation, and ultimately to all humanity. “Wheel within wheel”, stretched from one another, is the shape of a trumpet. The pattern of all prophecy? Fulfilled in scopes, smaller to larger.. Smaller scope to full scope, including the Lord’s advents! To full scope, the end-aim, greek word “tel”. Root of telescope, usually translated ‘end’. Everything has an end-aim.}

     31 The queen of the South will rise up at the judgment, with the men of this generation and give judgment against them, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and look, something greater than Solomon is here!

     32 The men of Nineveh will rise up at the judgment with this generation and express judgment, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and look, something greater than Jonah is here!

     33 “No one lights a lamp and puts it under a bowl, but they put it on a lampstand or table, so those who enter may see by its light.

     34 Your eye is the lamp of your body, and if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eye isn’t good, you’ll be full of darkness. 35 Therefore be careful, lest the light that’s in you is actually darkness, and not light. 36 And if you are full of light, having no darkness, it will be wholly bright, as when a lamp with its - radiance - gives light.” {We’re not perfected until the “last day” at harpazo, Hebrews 11:40. But we (I) should be progressing in love for all.}

           

Tomorrows verses, 09/14

James 4:12-17 Luke 11:37-54

Revelation Study, began on 09/11, Trumpets, Rosh Hashanah - The Vision - 1st week - 6:1-4

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Jesus said he “will draw all” Jn.12:32.

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