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GospeL Verses ~ Matthew 10:27-42
Jesus continues instructing the twelve disciples before sending them out two by two - 27 - “What I tell you in the dark, tell in the light, and what you hear whispered (what you hear in the Quietness) proclaim upon the housetop. 28 And don’t fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul [psuché - psyche, breath, the soul, from psyxō - to breathe, blow, root psyche and psychology,, a person's distinct identity (unique personhood), i.e. individual personality]. Rather fear he who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.” [Translated ‘hell’ - geenna - Gehenna, a valley W. and South of Jerusalem, also a symbolic name for the final place of punishment of the ungodly (Um, who says? The valley - there is prophesied - earthly prophecy like any other - to be a lake of fire in that valley. Hello? What day are we living in? As in.. hello?! Well here’s some more running with the word meaning) — géenna, a transliteration of the Hebrew term, Gêhinnōm, "the valley of Hinnom" – Gehenna, i.e. hell also referred to as the "lake of fire" in Revelation, the place of post-resurrection torment-judgment, refers strictly to the everlasting abode of the unredeemed where they experience divine judgment in their individual resurrection-bodies. Each of the unredeemed receives one at the Great White Throne Judgment, Rev 20:11-15, i.e. a body that "matches" their capacity for torment relating to their unique judgment.”] — (Where in the world did they read thAt!?)
But this is interesting - Quoted from biblehub dot com - “Gehenna, the name of a valley on the south and east of Jerusalem (Winer's Grammar, cf. Joshua 15:8; Pressel in Herzog), which was so called from the cries of the little children who were thrown into the fiery arms of Moloch i. e. of an idol having the form of a bull. The Jews so abhorred the place after these horrible sacrifices - (copied from nations around them, so who’s fantasy of burning people alive in fire?) - had been abolished by king Josiah (2 Kings 23:10) that they cast into it not only all manner of refuse, but even the dead bodies of animals and of unburied criminals who had been executed. And since fires were always needed to consume the dead bodies, that the air might not become tainted by the putrefaction, it came to pass that the place was so called.. found in Rabbi David Kimchi (circa A.D. 1200) on Psalm 27:13. Some suppose the genitive to refer not to purifying fires but to the fires of Moloch; others regard it as the natural symbol of penalty. (In the day of the translators there was widespread belief in an afterlife of punishment or reward. Of immortal soul, and going to places of reward and glory or of punishment and torment. It saturated and permeated the cultures, being very ancient. With right, wrong and the standard for obedience handed down from on high from human leaders. Some say as Christendom has “fallen away” the old ways are returning. But! “Don’t fear them! Nothing is hidden that won’t be revealed” only one to in any case fear, is He, the only one who cAn destroy life and individuality - he can, but he doesn’t. “This is the decree! Jesus the Son - who wiLL draw aLL to himself - JN.12.32.)]
29 “Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father’s knowing. 30 But even the hairs of your head are all numbered. 31 Fear noT, therefore. YOU are of more value than many sparrows.
32 Anyone who acknowledges me before others, I will acknowledge before my Father who is in heaven, 33 but whoever denies me before others, I also will deny before my Father who is in heaven. 34 “Don’t think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. (The red horse and horseman follows the white horse and horseman, Rev.6, Ps.2.) 35 For I come calling a son away from his father, a daughter away from her mother, a daughter in law against her mother in law. 36 And a person's opponents will be those of his own household. 37 Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. 38 And whoever does not take his cross and follow after me is not worthy of me. 39 Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. 40 “Whoever is receptive to you is receptive of me, and whoever is receptive to me is receptive to he who sent me. (Even if they don’t know it yet! Jesus “is an exact representation of his person/character”.) 41 The one who receives a prophet because he is a prophet, will receive a prophet's reward. And whoever receives a good person because he is a good person will receive a good person's reward. 42 And whoever gives one of these little ones even a cup of cold water because he is my disciple, truly, I tell you, he will by no means lose his reward for doing so.”
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From New Testament Letters
(In the Order Believed Written)
~ Romans 6:1-7 ~
1 - What shall we conclude then? Are we to continue sinning so grace may abound? 2 Of course not! How can we who died to sin, live still in it? 3 Don’t we know that all of us having been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 We were buried therefore with him - by baptism into death. So that, just as Christ was raised from the dead, gloriously by the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.
5 Without death, there can be no resurrection (or even newness of life!) 6 We know that our old self was, with him, crucified. This is so the body of sin [of hamartia - missing the mark] might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved. 7 For one who has died has been set free!
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Tomorrow’s Verses:
Matthew 11:1-10
Romans 6:8-16
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Is.11:7 - The lion will eat straw like the ox!⛲️
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