I think “everything sacred/holy” sealed/saturated with God’s Spirit/Presence, is the actual and ultimate blueprint. Before any act of creation God could see all possibilities.. This is why the vastness of the universe, so we know he is totally unfettered Genius. (He’s also Life and he’s perfect, and that makes a conundrum for imperfect.) Logically then, he chose the whole path to attaining a creation and beings saturated and “sealed” in his Spirit/Presence. Non fading life, enduring paradise/perfection. So the first/proto (patterned also in the creation, the) light. The Son being the only straight out from God one.. Which Eph.1:10 says all (beings) of heaven and earth ..will be gathered into him. “The lion will eat straw like the ox.. the bear will graze with the cow” Isaiah 11:7. [Note: it was a biG banG into the universe that is, and then - it was set in motion. No millions/billions of years of a steady state explosion.]
Friday, January 17, 2025
Revelation 20 7-10
WeeKly BooK oF Revelation
By Necessity Slightly
Paraphrased
7 - And when “the” thousand years are ended, Satan will be released 8 and he will come out to mislead the nations that are at the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog {these are, logically, descendants of mortal survivors of the (man done) apocalypse} and he gathers them for battle. Their number is like the sand at the seashore. 9 And they marched up over all the broad plain of earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city. {Do we imagine this takes but a moment or two..?} But - fire - came from the heavens and consumed them. 10 And the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur (second mention of lake of fire) where also the beast and false prophet {were thrown} and (are) tormented day and night - to - the ages of the ages.
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All ππ+π·π️(+Logic)
Logic of things allowed to run their course..
Romans 2 1-5
01/17 ~ From New Testament Letters
π️ (In the Order Believed Written)
Paul’s Letter To The Romans
1 - It is inexcusable for anyone to set theirself up as judge. For in passing judgment upon another is to condemn one’s self, because the same things are done by them. {ALL are prone to “hamartia - missing the mark” translated sin).} 2 We know that the judgment of God rightly falls upon all who practice such things. 3 Do you suppose, O man—you who judge those who practice such and yet do also, that - you - will escape the judgment of God? 4 Or do you despise the riches of his kindness and his forbearance and patience? Knowing not that God's kindness is meant to lead - you - to repentance? 5 But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath. [Orge - passion] {cause and effect? His passion as opposed to creating a mere ant farm! Passion for purity, truth, perfection, for he is Life, aNd, “is Perfect” mt.5:48, so only Perfection can endure, and be God’s will. The biggest cause and effect being that imperfect is entropy the “worm that does not quit” and “fire (THE crucible, selah!) that is not quenched”/put out.} Storing up wrath for yourself upon the day of wrath and revelation of God's righteous judgment. [Next verse: “Who will render to every one according to their deeds”/their own doings.]
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Tomorrows verses - Romans 2:6-16
By Necessity Paraphrased
A Daily ‘Enter the Story’ N.T. Letter Reading & Study
MATTHEW 5 27-37
ππ️01/17 - GospeL Verses ππ️
27 - “You have heard it said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ 28 But I say to you everyone looking upon a woman to lust after her has committed adultery in his heart. 29 If your right eye will cause you to stumble, pluck it out and cast it from you. It’s better to lose it than your whole body be thrown into gehenna.” (Gehenna Valley was the place of the city dump, where even the bodies of criminals were thrown, so the fires were kept burning. It was a great threat and insult to not be properly buried.) 30 “And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and cast it from you! For it’s better you lose it than your whole body go into gehenna.
31 It’s also said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.’ 32 But I say to you, anyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries her commits adultery.
33 Again you’ve heard it said to those of old, ‘You shall not swear falsely, but shall perform to the LORD what you have sworn.’” {Lying wasn’t in the “ten commandments” except not to swear an oath falsely. Not that lying isn’t a “trespass”/missing the mark, translated “sin”.} “But I say to you, don’t take an oath at all! Either by heaven, for it’s the throne of God, 35 or by the earth, for it’s his footstool. Nor by Jerusalem, for it’s the city of the great KING. 36 And don’t take an oath by your head, for you can’t make one hair white or black. 37 Let what you say be simply ‘Yes’ or ‘No’. Anything more than this comes from evil.” [PonΓ©ros - evil, wicked, bad, malicious, slothful, from porneo - to work hard, and ponos - pain ridden, aligns with the Hebrew understanding of evil as anything that opposes God's will and righteousness/rightness.]
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Tomorrows verses - Matthew 5:38-48
By Necessity Paraphrased
A Daily ‘Enter the Story’ Gospel Reading & Study
Thursday, January 16, 2025
Romans 1 24-32
01/16 ~ From New Testament Letters
π️ (In the Order Believed Written)
Paul’s Letter To The Romans
24 - So then God gave them up to the desires of the hearts of them {versus creating an ant farm, let them go the way they wanted} to impurity, the dishonoring of their bodies among theirselves, 25 because they exchanged the truth of God for falsehood and they reverenced and served the created thing rather than the one having created - who is blessed to the ages, amen!
26 So God gave them up to passions of dishonor. For the women exchanged the natural into that contrary to nature. 27 And the men gave up natural relations with women and were inflamed with passion for one another, male committing shameless acts with male and receiving in themselves the recompense {effects} of their error. 28 And since they did not approve of having knowledge of God, he let them go into a counterfeit and unfit mind to do what is not proper. 29 And man [anthropos/mankind] became filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, 31 foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. 32 Though they know God's righteous decree that those practicing such are worthy [axios - from the base of αΌΞ³Ο (agΕ), meaning to lead or to bring, worthy or deserving, implies a sense of balance or equivalence] of death, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.
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Tomorrows verses - Romans 2:1-5
By Necessity Paraphrased
A Daily ‘Enter the Story’ N.T. Letter Reading & Study
MATTHEW 5 13-26
ππ️01/16 - GospeL Verses π
(Jesus continues his teaching while sitting on the hillside, called “the Sermon on the Mountain”.) 13 - “You, are the salt of the earth. But if salt loses its flavor, how shall it be restored? It’s no longer good for anything! Only to be thrown out and trampled under foot.
14 You are the light of the world. A city built on a hill can’t be hidden. 15 Nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket {or under the table} but on a stand, and it gives light to everyone [pas] in the house. 16 In the same way, let your light shine [“let the light of you shine”] so others see your good works and will glorify your Father in the heavens.
17 Don’t think I’ve come to abolish the Law. Or the Prophets. I’ve not come to do away, but to fulfill. 18 For truly, I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not a dot of an i, or a crossing of a t will pass from the Law until all of it is accomplished. 19 Anyone who does away with the least of these and teaches others to do so, they will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever shall keep and teach them, will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. 20 Truly I tell you, if your righteousness does not abound - greater - than that of the scribes and Pharisees, you can not enter the kingdom of heaven.
21 You’ve heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not murder, and whoever murders will be liable to judgment.’ 22 But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment, whoever insults his brother will be liable to the courts, and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be liable to the gehenna of fire. {Gehenna is a valley where the armageddon battle will be fought. To my mind, all fiery judgments are flare ups of this crucible ->imperfection, and its fruit, entropy.}
23 So if you’re offering a gift at the ‘altar’ {including a gift of thanksgiving, sacrifice of praise, or whole burnt offering of our very being} and you remember that your brother or sister/fellow person has something against you. 24 Go and first be reconciled, and then offer your gift.
25 Come to peace terms quickly with an accuser while you’re going with them to court, lest your accuser hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the guard, and you be put in prison. 26 Truly, I tell you, you won’t get out untiL you pay the last penny you owe.
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Tomorrows verses - Matthew 5:27-37
By Necessity Paraphrased
A Daily ‘Enter the Story’ Gospel Reading & Study
Wednesday, January 15, 2025
ACTS 20 17-38
WeekLy BooK oF Acts
17 - When they stopped at Miletus Paul went ashore and sent to Ephesus for the elders of the church, 18 and when they came, he said to them, “You know how I lived among you the whole time [for three years] from the first day I set foot in Asia. 19 By serving the Lord in humility, with tears and trials that happened to me through the plots of the Jewish/Hebrew leaders. 20 But how I didn’t shrink from proclaiming to you anything that was of benefit. And teaching you both in public and from house to house, 21 I testified to both Hebrews and Greeks, the repentance [metanoia - a change of mind, change in the inner person, repentance] toward God, and of faith in our Lord Jesus. 22 And now, I’m going to Jerusalem, bound by the Spirit, not knowing what will happen to me there, 23 except the Holy Spirit has testified to me in every city that imprisonment and affliction awaits me. 24 But! I don’t account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only I may finish my course, the mission I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify and proclaim the gospel of the grace of God. 25 And now I know that none of you to whom I have gone about testifying of the kingdom, will see my face again. 26 Therefore I testify to you this day, that I am innocent of the blood of all. [Ezekiel 3:18 - If I say to the wicked man, ‘You will surely die,’ but you do not warn him or speak out to warn him from his wicked way to save his life, that wicked man will die in his iniquity, and I will hold you responsible for his blood/death.] 27 I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God, 28 so pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Take care of the church of God, which he obtained with his own sufferings. 29 I know that after my departure fierce wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock. 30 And also, from among you yourselves will arise men speaking twisted things, to draw away disciples, into following them.
31 Therefore be alert, remembering that for three years I didn’t cease night or day to teach and warn each one with tears. 32 And now I commend you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up and give you the inheritance - among all those who are sanctified. 33 I coveted no one's silver or gold or apparel. 34 You yourselves know that these hands worked for my necessities and of those who were with me. 35 In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”
36 And when he had said these things, he knelt down and prayed with them. 37 And there was much weeping on the part of everyone. And they embraced Paul and kissed him, 38 being sorrowful most of all because he had said they wouldn’t see him again. And they accompanied him back to the ship.
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By Necessity Paraphrased
Weekly ‘Enter the Story’ Reading & Study
Romans 1 16-23
01/15 ~ From New Testament Letters
π️ (In the Order Believed Written)
Paul’s Letter To The Romans
16 - I’m not ashamed of the gospel, for it’s the power of God to salvation to everyone believing, to the Jew/Hebrew first, and also to the Greek/all others. 17 For in it, the righteousness [dikaiosunΓ© - from dikaios - righteous, just, upright; righteousness, justice] {total fairness} of God is made known from faith to faith, as it was written, the righteous shall live by faith. 18 For the wrath of God {as cause and effect, results, consequences} is revealed from heaven against ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress [the American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition gives three meanings for suppress - “(1) to put an end to forcibly, as in suppress a rebellion - (2) to curtail or prohibit the activities of, as in suppress dissident groups - (3) to keep from being revealed, published, or circulated”] {to prohibit} the truth. 19 For what can be known about God is plain, because God has shown it, 20 for his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, since the creation of the world, in all that has been made. So they are without excuse. 21 For although they know God is, they do not honor him as God, nor give thanks to him. But they become futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts are darkened. 22 Claiming to be wise, they become fools. 23 And they exchange the glory of the immortal God, into the likeness of an image of mortal/carnal man, or of birds, animals, and creeping things.
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Tomorrows verses - Romans 1:24-32
By Necessity Paraphrased
A Daily ‘Enter the Story’ N.T. Letter Reading & Study
MATTHEW 4 24 to 5 12
ππ️01/15 - GospeL Verses ππ️
24 - Jesus’ fame had spread throughout all of Syria, so they brought to him all the sick and afflicted with various diseases and pains, those oppressed by demons, those having seizures, and paralytics, and he healed them all. 25 Great crowds were following him from Galilee and the Decapolis, and from Jerusalem and Judea, and from beyond the Jordan. 5 And seeing the crowds, he sat down at the side of the mountain, and his disciples and followers came to hear him. 2 And he taught them, saying: 3 “Blessed are the poor in spirit (humble) the kingdom of heaven is theirs. 4 Blessed are those who mourn, they will be comforted. 5 Blessed are the meek, they will inherit the earth. 6 Blessed are those hungering and thirsting for righteousness [dikaiosunΓ© - righteousness, justice, quality of being right and just] they will be satisfied. 7 Blessed are the merciful, they will receive mercy. 8 Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. 9 Blessed are the peacemakers {noT adversarial} for they will be called sons and daughters of God.” [Huios - sons - quote biblehub dot com - “the New Testament expands this {greek} word to include all believers as sons of God through faith in Jesus Christ, emphasizing spiritual - inheritance - and identity; equally refers to female believers (Gal 3:28).] 10 “Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for the kingdom of heaven is theirs. 11 Blessed are you when others insult you, treat you badly, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you, falsely, on my account. 12 Rejoice and be glad, for your reward will be great, for so did they persecute the prophets who were before you.” {And they were not Perfect either.}
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Tomorrows verses - Matthew 5:13-26
By Necessity Paraphrased
A Daily ‘Enter the Story’ Gospel Reading & Study
Tuesday, January 14, 2025
Romans 1 8-15
01/14 ~ From New Testament Letters
π️ (In the Order Believed Written)
8 - First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you! Because your faith is proclaimed in all the world. 9 And God - who I serve in my spirit, in the good news of his Son - is my witness, that I always mention you 10 in my prayers. Asking that somehow by God's will I may now at last succeed in coming to you there in Rome. 11 For I long to see you, that I may share with you some spiritual gift to strengthen you. 12 Or that is, that we may be mutually encouraged by each other's faith, both yours and mine. 13 I don’t want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, that I have often intended to come to you in order that I may reap some harvest (believers) among you, and beyond you among the rest of the gentiles/nations. 14 I am under obligation both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish, to all. 15 So I am eager to preach the gospel to you also who are in Rome.
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Tomorrows verses - Romans 1:16-23
By Necessity Paraphrased
A Daily ‘Enter the Story’ N.T. Letter Reading & Study
LUKE 4 16-30
ππ️01/14 - GospeL Verses ππ️
16 - And Jesus came to Nazareth, where he had lived while growing up. And as was his custom, on the Sabbath, he went to the synagogue. And he stood up to read. 17 The scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him by the attendant and he unrolled it and found the place where it was written, 18 “The Spirit of the LORD is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives (both physical and spiritual) and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed 19 to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor.” [Isaiah 61:1-2 - verse two includes not only “the time of the LORD’s favor has come” but included with it - “the day of vengeance”. {Imperfection is bound to include oppressions, which can spiral down way low as to what occurs and what is done. In the New Testament quote, vengeance is from the word ekdikos - “avenger, one who carries out justice”. The rest of verse two points out it’s two sides of the coin, time of the LORD’s favor. And retribution, justice as well. Contrary to what the world says, isn’t that precisely how it should be?! All 3 mentions of lake of fire are at huge fiery events. God’s wrath/orge/passion is surely(?) cause and effect, results, consequences. And because God is Life and is Perfect (Mt.5:48) “the wages of hamartia/missing the mark, translated sin, is..? Death”. And its entropy/slow burn gehenna crucible, with it. But! 1Tim.4:10! And the unspoken part of the verse he read, the other side of the coin, is justice - and it’s aionion/pertaining to the age/aion. The consequences of their own doings ..which siren call is division? Rev.16:13-16, Mt.13:30, Ps.2, Is.24:20.}
20 Then he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant and sat down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fastened upon him. 21 And he said, “Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.” 22 All had heard of him and they wondered at the gracious words he spoke. But they said, “Isn’t this Joseph's son?” 23 And he said, “Doubtless you’ll quote to me this proverb, ‘Physician, heal yourself. What we’ve heard you did at Capernaum, do also here in your hometown. 24 Truly, I tell you, a prophet isn’t accepted in his hometown. 25 There were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heavens were shut up - three years and six months - and a great famine came over all the land, 26 and Elijah was sent to none of them but only to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow. 27 And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha, and none of them were cleansed, except Naaman the Syrian.” 28 When they heard these things, they were filled with wrath, 29 and they drove him out of the synagogue, and out of the town, rushing with him toward the brow of the cliff the town was built on, so they could throw him over the edge. 30 But passing through their midst, he went on his way.
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Tomorrows verses - Matthew 4:24-5:12
By Necessity Paraphrased
A Daily ‘Enter the Story’ Gospel Reading & Study
Monday, January 13, 2025
Romans 1 1-7
Universalism in the New Testament
01/13 ~ From New Testament Letters
π️ (In the Order Believed Written)
Paul’s Letter to the Romans
1 - (From) Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, and set apart for the message of God, 2 which he promised long ago through his prophets, in the holy scriptures, 3 namely his Son {the message, the promise}. He was descended from David according to the earthly (as written) 4 and was declared - in power - to be the Son of God. For it was demonstrated through the Spirit of holiness, by his resurrection from the dead. 5 It is through him, Jesus Christ, our Lord, that we have received grace and this apostleship [apostolΓ© - to be sent] . And this in order to bring about faith and the fruit of obedience to it, for the sake of his name, and his cause among all nations. 6 This includes all of you, who are called [klΓ©tos - called, invited] to belong to Jesus Christ. {During this brief lifetime.}
7 To all those in Rome who are loved by God and called to be saints (believers) - Grace to you! And peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Tomorrows verses - Romans 1:8-15
By Necessity Paraphrased
A Daily ‘Enter the Story’ N.T. Letter Reading & Study
JOHN 4 45-54
ππ️01/13 - GospeL Verses ππ️
45 - So when he came to Galilee (but not yet Nazareth) the people welcomed him, having seen all he had done in Jerusalem at the Passover/Unleavened Bread feast. For they too had gone up to the feast.
46 So he went again to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water into wine. Meanwhile at Capernaum, there was an official whose son was ill. 47 When this man heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and asked him to come down and heal his son, for he was dying. 48 So Jesus said to the crowd, “Unless you people see signs and wonders you’ll not believe.” 49 The official said to him, “Sir, come down before my child dies.” 50 Jesus said to him, “Go. Your son will live.” The man believed what Jesus said, and returned home. 51 When still on his way, his servants met him and told him his son was recovering. 52 So he asked them the hour when he began to get better, and they said, “It was yesterday at the seventh hour that the fever left him.” 53 The father knew that was the hour when Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live.” And so he believed, and so did all his household. 54 This was now the second sign that Jesus did when he came from Judea into Galilee.
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Tomorrows verses - Luke 4:16-30
By Necessity Paraphrased
A Daily ‘Enter the Story’ Gospel Reading & Study
Sunday, January 12, 2025
2 Corinthians 13 10-14
01/12 ~ From New Testament Letters
π️ (In the Order Believed Written)
10 - For this reason I write these things while I am away from you, so when I come I can use the authority the Lord has given me for building up, and not for tearing down.
11 Finally, rejoice! Aim for restoration. Comfort one another, agree with one another, live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.
12 Greet one another with a holy kiss. 13 All the saints greet you. 14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit {Presence of God} be with you all.
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Tomorrows verses - Romans 1:1-7
By Necessity Paraphrased
A Daily ‘Enter the Story’ N.T. Letter Reading & Study
JOHN 4 27-44
ππ️01/12 - GospeL Verses ππ️
(“I am he” - the Christ/Messiah - Jesus told her.) 27 - And just then his disciples came back. They were surprised to find him talking with a woman, but no one asked, “What does she seek?” or, “Why are you talking with her?” 28 So the woman left her water jar at the well and went back into town and told the townspeople, 29 “Come! And see a man who told me all about myself! Can this be the Christ?” 30 So they went out of town to the well to see him.
31 Meanwhile the disciples were urging him to eat something. 32 But he said, “I have food to eat that you don’t know of.” 33 So they asked one another, “Has someone brought him something to eat?”
34 Jesus said, “My food is to do the will of the one who sent me, and to complete his work. 35 Don’t say, ‘There are yet four months, until harvest’. Look, I tell you - lift up your eyes - and see that the fields are ripe for harvest.” {He says as the town is coming out to see him. People went for Jesus.. how is it later at his crucifixion/execution the people cried “crucify him!” ..They were worked upon, agitated. That day made easier perhaps because friends of Barabbas were there? Who agitated? Hint, it was way more political than religious/spiritual?}
36 “Already the one who reaps is receiving wages, and gathering fruit for unfading life {stored in heaven/stored in God} so that sower and reaper will rejoice together. 37 For here the saying holds true, ‘One plants and another harvests.’ 38 I sent you to harvest that for which you didn’t labor. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”
39 Many Samaritans from that town were already believing it was he, because of what the woman had said about him, “He told me all that I ever did!” 40 So they asked him to stay, and he stayed with them for two days. 41 And many more believed because of the things he said. 42 And they said to the woman, “It’s no longer because of what we heard you say, that we believe, but now we have heard him ourselves. And we can see that this is indeed the Savior of the world!”
43 After the two days he left for Galilee. 44 For Jesus himself had said that a prophet has honor last of all, in his own hometown.
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Tomorrows verses - John 4:45-54
By Necessity Paraphrased
A Daily ‘Enter the Story’ Gospel Reading & Study
Saturday, January 11, 2025
2 Corinthians 13 1-9
01/11 ~ From New Testament Letters
π️ (In the Order Believed Written)
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 gave warning, as also now while absent, and as I will when I come again. 3 It should prove to you that I am speaking for Christ, for when he corrects he won't be weak. He will be powerful! 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 will see that we shall live by the power of God, as Christ does. 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 will fail. 6 I hope you will discover we have not 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, though we may seem to be unapproved. 8 For we have no power against the truth, but only for the truth. 9 For we are glad when we are weak and you are strong. Your restoration is what we pray for.
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Tomorrows verses - 2 Corinthians 13:10-14
By Necessity Paraphrased
A Daily ‘Enter the Story’ N.T. Letters Reading & Study
JOHN 4 3-26
ππ️01/11 - GospeL Verses ππ️
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. 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 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 the well and drank from it himself, as 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 not thirst again. The water that I give becomes a spring of water welling up into nonfading (“aionion”) life.” 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 are right in saying, ‘I have no husband’ 18 for you have had five husbands, and the one you now have isn’t your husband. You have said the truth.” 19 The woman said, “Sir, I perceive that you are 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.”
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Tomorrows verses - John 4:27-44
By Necessity Paraphrased
A Daily ‘Enter the Story’ Gospel Reading & Study
Friday, January 10, 2025
2 CORINTHIANS 12 13-21
01/10 ~ From New Testament Letters
π️ (In the Order Believed Written)
13 - Were you in less favor than the rest of the churches? Because I didn’t burden you? Forgive me this wrong! 14 Here for a third time I am ready to come to you. And I won’t be a burden, for I seek not what is yours but you yourselves. For the children aren’t expected to feed the the parents, but parents, the children. 15 So I will gladly even spend my soul {for the Lord’s sheep}. If I love abundantly, am I to be loved less?16 But granting that I myself didn’t burden you, I was crafty, and I caught you. {A fisher of men.} 17 No one I’ve sent, has exploited you.
18 It was me who urged Titus to go to you, and sent the brother with him. And in all innocence, for do we not act in the same spirit? And walk in the same steps? 19 Have you been thinking we’ve been defending ourselves to you? It’s in the sight of God that we’ve been speaking in Christ, and all for your upbuilding, beloved. 20 For I fear that perhaps when I come I may find you not as I wish, and that you may find me not as you wish.
Will there be quarreling? Jealousy? Anger, hostility, slander, gossip, conceit, and disorder? 21 I’m afraid when I come again my God may humble me before you, and I may have to mourn over many of those who sinned earlier and haven’t repented of [changed their mind and turned from] the impurity [akatharsia - from a - not, and katharsis - genuine, to have no mixture or contamination {rev.14:4} root of catharsis; impurity, contamination] they were practicing.
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Tomorrows verses - 2 Corinthians 13:1-9
By Necessity Paraphrased
A Daily ‘Enter the Story’ Reading & Study
MATTHEW 4 18-23
ππ️01/10 - GospeL Verses ππ️
18 - While walking by the Sea of Galilee, Jesus saw two brothers, Simon (who’s called Peter) and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen. 19 And he said to them, “Follow me, and I’ll make you fishers of men!”
20 And immediately they dropped and left their nets, and followed after him. 21 They went on from there, and he saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee and John his brother in the boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets, and he called out to them, 22 and immediately they left the boat and their father, and followed after him.
23 And he went throughout the whole of Galilee, teaching in the synagogues, proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all diseases and afflictions among the people.
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Tomorrows verses - John 4:3-26
By Necessity Paraphrased
A Daily ‘Enter the Story’ Reading & Study
Revelation 20 1-6
WeeKly BooK oF Revelation
By Necessity Slightly
Paraphrased
1 - Then I (John) saw an angel descending from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the abyss and a great chain. 2 And he seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years {God has been permissive?} 3 and threw him into the abyss {imperfection/straying/going rogue is an abyss of potential} and shut it and sealed it over him, so he cannot deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years are over. After that he must be released for a little while. {For the first half of an “8th” millennium.. According to the pattern of the Fall holy days, Leviticus 23.}
4 Then I saw thrones [thronos - seats of authority]. And given judgment were those seated upon them. Also I saw the souls of those beheaded because of the testimony of Jesus and because of the message of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not taken its mark upon their foreheads or upon their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. 5 The rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years are completed. This is the first resurrection. 6 Blessed [makarios - blessed, happy, fortunate] and holy [hagios - holy, sacred, set apart] are those who have a part {& role?} in the first resurrection! Over these the second [second in a series, the second time something occurs] death has no power, but they will be priests [hiereus - minister in a priestly office] {minister what to whom?} of God and of Christ, and they will reign [basileΓΊΕ - exercise dominion] with him {for/during} the thousand years.
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The π️ to clearly seeing the vision is consistent study. Soon it emerges.
All ππ+π·π️(+Logic)
Logic of things allowed to run their course..
Thursday, January 9, 2025
ACTS 20 1-16
WeekLy BooK oF Acts
1 - When the uproar (in Ephesis) was over, Paul sent for the disciples, and after encouraging them, he said farewell and left for Macedonia. 2 When he had gone through there and given much encouragement, he came to Greece. 3 There he spent three months, and as he was about to set sail for Syria, he heard a plot was made against him by the Hebrew leaders, so he decided to return through Macedonia instead. 4 Sopater the Berean, son of Pyrrhus, accompanied him. Also Aristarchus and Secundus from Thessalonica, Gaius and Timothy of Derbe, and the Asians, Tychicus and Trophimus. 5 These went on ahead of us, and were waiting for us at Troas (Luke with them, like in most of chapter 16) 6 but we sailed away from Philippi after the days of Unleavened Bread. [The two days, and the whole week, were referred to as both Passover and Unleavened Bread.] And in five days we arrived there, and we stayed for seven days.
7 Then on the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul was conversing, intending to depart the next day, and was speaking until midnight. 8 We had lit many lamps in the upper room where we were gathered. 9 And a young man named Eutychus, sitting at the window, sank into a deep sleep as Paul talked still longer. And being overcome by sleep, he fell down from the third story and was taken up dead! 10 But Paul went down and bent over him, and taking him in his arms, said, “It’s okay! His life is in him.” 11 And when Paul had gone back up and we had broken bread and eaten, he conversed still a long while, until daybreak, and then we left. 12 And they took the youth away alive, and were greatly encouraged.
13 We went ahead to the ship, and set sail for Assos, but Paul had decided to go by land. 14 And when he met us at Assos, we took him on board and went to Mitylene. 15 And from there, the following day, we sailed opposite Chios. The next day we touched at Samos, and the day after that we went down to Miletus. 16 For Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus, so he wouldn’t spend time in Asia, for he was hoping to be in Jerusalem, if possible, by day of Pentecost.
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By Necessity Paraphrased
Weekly ‘Enter the Story’ Reading & Study
2 Corinthians 12 6-12
01/09 ~ From New Testament Letters
π️ (In the Order Believed Written)
6 - Should I wish to boast, I wouldn’t actually be a fool, for I would be speaking the truth. But I refrain from it, so that no one may think more of me than he sees in me or hears from me. 7 So to keep me from becoming puffed up [huperairΓ³ - lift self up, have exaggerated sense of self-importance] because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited. 8 Three times I pleaded with the Lord that it be removed. 9 But he said, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses! So the power of Christ may rest upon me. 10 For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
11 I have acted a fool! You forced me to do it, for I ought to have been understood by you, that I was not at all inferior to these super-apostles, even though I am no one special either. 12 The signs of a true apostle were performed among you with utmost patience, with signs and wonders and mighty works. {To promote the message, not the messengers.}
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Tomorrows verses - 2 Corinthians 12:13-21
By Necessity Paraphrased
A Daily ‘Enter the Story’ Reading & Study
MATTHEW 4 12-17
ππ️01/09 - GospeL Verses ππ️
12 - When Jesus heard that John had been arrested, he withdrew for a while into Galilee. 13 Then later, after leaving Nazareth he went and lived in Capernaum by the sea, in the territory of Zebulun and Naphtali. 14 And so what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah was fulfilled, 15 “The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, by way of the sea, beyond River Jordan, and Galilee of the nations, 16 the people dwelling in darkness have seen a great light, and for those dwelling in the region and shadow of death, on them a light has shined.”
17 From that time Jesus began to preach, saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”
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Tomorrows verses - Matthew 4:18-23
By Necessity Paraphrased
A Daily ‘Enter the Story’ Reading & Study
Wednesday, January 8, 2025
2 Corinthians 11 30 - 12 5
01/08 ~ From New Testament Letters
π️ (In the Order Believed Written)
30 - If I boast, I think I should be boasting of the things that show my weakness! 31 The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, he who is blessed forever, knows that I’m not lying about all I’ve been through. 32 Then there was the time at Damascus, the governor under King Aretas was guarding the city in order to seize me. 33 But I was let down in a basket through a window in the wall and escaped from his hands.
12:1 - Though there’s nothing to be gained by it, this acting the fool and boasting, I’ll go on to visions and revelations of the Lord. 2 Be aware of a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven—whether bodily, or without the body I don’t know, God knows. 3 And I know that this man was caught up into paradise—whether bodily or without of the body I don’t know, God knows, 4 and he heard things that are beyond understanding, which man cannot express. 5 On behalf of this man I’ll boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, except of my weaknesses—
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Tomorrows verses - 2 Corinthians 12:6-12
By Necessity Paraphrased
A Daily ‘Enter the Story’ Reading & Study
JOHN 3 25 - 4 2
ππ️01/08 - GospeL Verses ππ️
25 - Now a discussion arose between some of John's disciples and another person over purification. 26 So they went to John and said, “Rabbi, he who was with you across the Jordan, the one you bore witness of, is now baptizing, and all are going to him.” 27 John answered them, “A person cannot receive even one thing unless it’s given from heaven. 28 You yourselves bear me witness, that I said, ‘I’m not the Christ, but have been sent before him.’ 29 It’s the one who has the bride, who’s the bridegroom. [A ‘runner’ and announcer would “go before” the bridegroom’s arrival in a Hebrew wedding.] The friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly at the bridegroom's voice. (Telling him to announce.) Therefore this joy of mine is now complete. 30 He must increase, and I will decrease. 31 He who comes from above is above all. He who is of earth belongs to the earth and speaks in an earthly way. He who comes from heaven is above all [pas - all, every, the whole]. 32 He bears witness to/testifies of what he has seen and heard, yet no one receives it {listens, hears it}. 33 Whoever receives his testimony sets this seal, that God is true. 34 For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for without measure does he bestow the Spirit. 35 The Father loves the Son and has given all [pas - all, every, the whole, to which translators through partial unbelief(?) inserted the word “things”] into His hand. 36 Whoever believes in the Son has enduring [aionion/eonian] {brightness of} life {during this age, and will rise into “the” millennium, first half of Jesus’ long second advent}. And whoever is not obeying the Son does not see life, but the wrath of God remains upon them. {The wrath/orge/passion of God being cause and effect as opposed to a merely mechanic, robotic universe containing an ant farm. To believe is to become part of the “first resurrection” which is when entropy is checked by “putting on perfection/incorruption” a total vivification. Imperfect came about by the state of strayed (somewhat) from God who is Life and “is Perfect” - thus the word “reconciled”. Rev.21:5 is (the) second total vivification, to which translators inserted the word “things”. Separated from the “second resurrection” by GWT judgment ‘day’ (“aionion”).}
4:1 - Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John 2 (although Jesus himself did not baptize, but only his disciples).. {Due to human error, mine, the reading for today stops here? lol)
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Tomorrows verses - Matthew 4:12-17
By Necessity Paraphrased
A Daily ‘Enter the Story’ Reading & Study
Tuesday, January 7, 2025
2 Corinthians 11 10-29
01/07 ~ From New Testament Letters
π️ (In the Order Believed Written)
10 - As the truth of Christ is in me (Paul) this boasting of mine won’t be silenced in the regions of Achaia/Greece. 11 And why? Because I don’t love you? God knows I do! 12 And what I’m doing I will continue to do, so as to refute the claim of those who would like to claim that in their boasted {self appointed} mission, they work on the same terms as we do. (Without charge or support.) 13 For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. 14 And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. 15 So it is no surprise if his servants also, masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their ‘end’ [telos - the end-aim, conclusion] will be according to their deeds.
16 I say, let no one think me foolish. But even if you do, accept me as a fool, so that I too may boast a little. 17 What I’m saying with this boastful confidence, I say not as the Lord would, but as a fool. {To have to deal with and talk about such carnal things.} 18 Since many boast according to carnality, I will boast too. 19 For you gladly bear with fools. Being wise yourselves! 20 For you bear it if someone puts you in chains, or bites at you, takes advantage of you, puts on airs, or strikes you in the face. 21 To my shame, I must say! We were too weak for that!
But whatever anyone else dares to boast of - I am speaking as a fool - I also dare to boast of it. 22 Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they offspring of Abraham? So am I. {World stature.} 23 Are they servants of Christ? I am a better one - I’m talking like a madman - with far greater labors, way more imprisonments, with countless beatings, and often near to death! 24 Five times I received at the hands of leaders the forty lashes less one. 25 Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I was shipwrecked. For a night and a day I was adrift at sea, 26 often on journeys, in danger from rivers, from robbers, from my own people, from Gentiles, at danger in the city, at danger in the wilderness, facing dangers at sea, dangers from false brothers. 27 Then in toil and hardship, and through many a sleepless night. Also in hunger and thirst, being often without food, and often cold and in exposure to the elements. 28 And apart from all that, there is the daily pressure of my anxiety for all the churches! 29 Who is weak, and I am not weak in spirit with them? And who is misled and made to fall or fail, and my spirit is not set on fire!
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Tomorrows verses - 2 Corinthians 11:30-12:5
By Necessity Paraphrased
A Daily ‘Enter the Story’ Reading & Study
JOHN 3 13-24
ππ️01/07 - GospeL Verses ππ️
(Jesus is talking with Nicodemus.) 13 - “No one has gone up” or, literal word for word(?) “None [go up, ascend, rise] into heaven, except, he who descended from heaven, the Son of Man. [The word is anabainΓ³.] {Rev.12:5} 14 For, as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up. 15 So that whoever believes in him may have enduring [aion-ian] life. [Jn.12:32 - “..if, or, the greek word ean means - if, whenever, when - I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw all [pas - all, every, the whole, the entire] to myself.” {Pas? Translators, who couldn’t quiTe believe(?) changed “all” into “all things” as often as it would work, in Rev.21:5! Eph.1:10, Jn.13:3! And more. Five times in 1Cor.15:27-28 ..and what, otherwise, is repeated - five times?!}
16 “The truth is, God so loved the world, he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not - perish - but have enduring [aion-ion/ian] life.” {Is immortal soul just a myth to hold up the biG, so ancient, spiritual propaganda - control the masses - myth??}
17 “For {the Truth is} God did not send his Son into the world to condemn [krinΓ³ - to decide, determine, judge] the world. But, in order that the world be saved through him. 18 Everyone believing in him is not judged. But whoever is not believing is judged already by not believing in the name of the only Son of God. {By being not yet on God’s upward path? Through Christ which remedies the law of entropy/imperfection, a “FiRe” that “can’t be put out”?} [See this verse on biblehub dot com’s interlinear.] 19 This moreover is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and man [anthropoi] loves the darkness instead of the light, whose works {motives?} are less than good [ponΓ©ros - (evil) wicked, bad, malicious]. 20 Because anyone who does malicious or wicked things, hates the light and doesn’t come to the light, lest their works be exposed. 21 But whoever does what is true comes to the light, and it’s clearly seen that their works have been carried out in God.” {In the Light and Love. And thus has Nicodemus at least sought him out. And of course he is mentioned again, quite a bit later.}
22 After this Jesus and his disciples went into the Judean countryside, and they stayed there for awhile and Jesus was baptizing. 23 John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because water was plentiful there and people were coming to him and being baptized. 24 For John had not yet been put in prison. {John the baptizer personified the entry level, it’s why he told the Pharisees to show FRUIT.. Which they did not have, showing they had always refused the entry level. They were not genuine. The issue was politics, not religion/spirituality. To know the difference - Satan is a changing angel of (false) light, and plays all angles and ‘sides’ - our face must be toward God..?}
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Tomorrows verses - John 3:25-4:2
By Necessity Paraphrased
A Daily ‘Enter the Story’ Reading & Study
Monday, January 6, 2025
2 Corinthians 11 1-9
JOHN 3 1-12
ππ️01/06 - GospeL Verses ππ️
1 - Now there was a man of the Pharisee party whose name was Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. 2 He came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you’re a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him.” 3 Jesus answered, “Truly, I tell you, unless one is born again they cannot see the kingdom of God.” 4 Nicodemus said, “How can a person be born when they are old? Can they enter a second time into their mother's womb to be born again?” 5 Jesus said, “Unless one is born of water, and, of the Spirit, they cannot enter into the kingdom of God. 6 That produced by flesh is flesh {that which is mortal is mortal} and that which is produced of the Spirit is spirit. 7 Don’t wonder that I said, ‘You must be born again.’ 8 The wind blows where the wind blows, and you hear the sound of it, but you don’t know exactly where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone having been born of the Spirit.”
9 Nicodemus said, “How can this be?” 10 Jesus answered him, “Are you a teacher of Israel and yet you don’t understand? 11 Truly, I tell you, what is known is what is spoken, and what is seen is what is borne witness to. But my witness/testimony isn’t received. 12 If I’ve told you of earthly things and you don’t believe me, how will you believe me if I tell you of heavenly things?
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Tomorrows verses - John 3:13-24
By Necessity Paraphrased
Daily ‘Enter the Story’ Reading & Study
Sunday, January 5, 2025
Revelation 19 17-21
WeeKly BooK oF Revelation
By Necessity Slightly
Paraphrased
17 - Then I (John) saw an angel, radiant, as though standing in the sun. And with a loud voice he called to the birds of midheaven (to the high flying, predator birds, calling them to armageddon battle; the calling to the birds is metaphor for the literal armageddon battle about to be portrayed) saying, “Come, gather for the great supper of God!” {He actually takes responsibility! Having “subjected and consigned all to disobedience” Romans 11:32. Supersized the option to stray in Eden so “all of heaven and of earth” take this unavoidable journey through this all important contrast, all together at once.} 18 “Come to eat the flesh of kings, of captains, of mighty men, of horses and their riders, and of all, both free and slave, both small and great.” {The final war is totally mankind done. It is the last war between human empires, Isaiah 24:20, Rev.10:4, ten, four, end of the Act, over and out. “All the world is a stage” - Shakespeare.}
19 And then I saw the beast and the kings of earth, with their armies, gathered to make war against he who was sitting on the (white) horse and against his army of heaven (the two third faithful angels). {Aka against all knowledge of the one true God. Against national Israel and the grafted in, spiritual Israel, which by then includes many of ethnic Israel.} 20 And the {many headed, geopolitical} beast was taken, and with it the {of the world} false prophet who in its presence had done the signs [sΓ©meion - miracles, signs, marks, tokens] {modern wonders and “miracles to mislead”} by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and who worshiped/were in allegiance to its image. [Mark is from the word - charagma- which is a “mark, stamp, sign, engraving, from charassΕ - meaning to engrave or stamp, the term charagma means a mark or stamp often used to denote ownership or authenticity]. These two were thrown alive {active, as they are not individuals} into the lake of fire {armageddon battle, with global chain reaction} that burns with sulfur {Jude 1:7!} {Both that ‘miracle’ and the “strong delusion” that “seats man/anthropos in the temple as God”/highest power, is from the “false prophet” (Rev.12:15?)
21 And the rest were slain by the sWord {truth, the iron rod/unbreakable measure} that came from the mouth of he who was sitting on the horse, and all the birds were gorged. {Symbolic imagery, aka, build a house on Truth, it endures. Build using unTruth (or guile) and like being built on sand, there’s crashing and fiery apocalypse. It’s what dog eat dog/every self first, does. There are two things that can simply never (ever) work, (1) straying from God who iS Life - logic, yes? To stray from Life, not good. And he “is perfect, so (2) imperfection, logically, is the opposite of Life. And history has - already - proven that (straying and) imperfect is an “abyss” of potential. And logically is entropy, the “worm that doesn’t quit” and the “fire”/slow burn/slow fade/slow gehenna “that cannot be put out” - entropy does not reverse. But you think we humans are inherently immortal? Death is nothing more than another form of life and living? Well that idea/myth was needed for the - extremely ancient - crowd controlling spiritual propaganda myth of afterlife torment.. We will “put on immortality” at one of TWO vivifications - because - we will “put on perfection/incorruptibility”. Clue, the second vivification is not simultaneous with its partner “resurrection”.}
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The π️ to clearly seeing the vision is consistent study. Soon it emerges.
All ππ+π·π️(+Logic)
Logic of things allowed to run their course..
2 Corinthians 10 7-18
01/05 ~ From New Testament Letters
π️ (In the Order Believed Written)
7 - Remember what I told you before, which is so evident. If anyone is confident that they are Christ's, let them remind theirself that just as they are Christ's, so also are we. 8 For I am not ashamed, even if I boast a bit too much about our authority. Which authority the Lord gave for building you up, not for tearing you down. 9 I don’t want to appear to be frightening you with my letters. 10 For they say, “His letters are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech of no account.” 11 Let such a person understand that what we say by letter when absent, we also do when present. 12 Not that we dare to classify or compare ourselves with some of those who are commending themselves. But when they measure themselves by one another and compare themselves with one another, they are without understanding. {Competing.. putting down Paul and others to build theirselves up is not a fruit of the Spirit but of the lower and mortal human nature. Creating levels and assigning self to the higher than others level is no sign of maturity.}
13 But! We will not boast without limit, but will boast only with regard to the area of influence God assigned to us! To reach you, 14 for we are not overextending ourselves, as though we didn’t reach you. For we were the first to come all the way to you with the gospel (good news) of Christ. 15 We don’t boast beyond limit in the labors of others. But our hope is that as your faith increases, our influence among you may become greater, 16 so we may move on to preach the gospel in lands beyond you, without boasting of work already done by another. 17 “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.” 18 For it’s not the one who commends theirself who is approved, but the one whom the Lord commends [sunistΓ©mi and sunistanΓ³ - commend, establish, demonstrate, prove, hold together; from sΓ½n - union, together with, and hΓstΔmi - to stand, stand together, referring to facts lining up with each other to support (commend)]. {He builds upon what he teaches..}
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Tomorrows verses - 2 Corinthians 11:1-9
By Necessity Paraphrased
Daily ‘Enter the Story’ Reading & Study
JOHN 2 13-25
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13 - It was now Passover, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 14 In the temple he found those who were selling oxen and sheep and pigeons, and the money-changers doing business there. 15 So making a whip of ropes, he drove them out of the temple, along with their sheep and oxen. And he dumped out the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables, 16 saying, “Take these things away! Stop making my Father's house a house of buying and selling!” 17 And his disciples remembered that it’s written, “He will have zeal for Your house.”
18 So the leaders said to him, “What sign do you show us that you have authority to do these things?!” 19 Jesus answered, “Destroy this temple! And in three days I will raise it up!” 20 The leaders then said, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will you raise it up in three days?” 21 But he was talking about the temple of his body. 22 When he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this. And they believed the Scripture even more, and the message Jesus had spoken. [“Believe in God and believe in me.. Come follow me.. Father I pray they be one as we are one.. The work of God is this, to believe in the one He has sent.. And this is his commandment, that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he has commanded..]
23 Now when he was in Jerusalem during Passover (week) many believed in his name when they saw the signs (miracles) he was doing. 24 But Jesus on his part didn’t entrust himself to anyone, because he knows all people 25 and doesn’t need anyone to tell him what is in man. {Imperfection, which can be an abyss of potential. It’s why we lock our doors at night?}
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Tomorrows verses - John 3:1-12
By Necessity Paraphrased
Daily ‘Enter the Story’ Reading & Study
Saturday, January 4, 2025
2 Corinthians 10 1-6
01/04 ~ From New Testament Letters
π️ (In the Order Believed Written)
1 - I, Paul, myself, urge [parakaleΓ³ - kaleo - to call to - para - (one's) side; exhort, entreat, encourage, comfort, urge] you, by the meekness and gentleness of Christ - I who am humble when face to face, but bold when I am away! - 2 I beg of you that when I am present I may not have to show boldness as I count on showing to some who accuse us of walking according to the flesh. 3 For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh. 4 For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh (carnal nature of disputes, division, aggression, wars) but are God’s divine power to destroy strongholds {of untrue and damaging things}. 5 We destroy arguments and every so called high and lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obeying Christ. 6 Thus being in readiness to vindicate concerning every disobedience, when ones obedience is fulfilled and complete. {Our thinking conformed to Christ, the logos personified, and to the written logos, pre translator errors of course, errors due, surely(?) to their partial disbelief. Then we can know.. and bring gentLy to others awareness.. gentLy over time. No need, imo, for unnecessary division, accusation, etc. As we are “not battling flesh and blood, aka, other persons, but the battle is with powers and principalities which Truth defeats. The sWord of Truth’s tip can separate true thread from not true.. A tapestry with no true thread becomes a mere pile of unraveled threads. We don’t need to use the sWord as if to slice and dice.. only with patience, the doctrines. While being very mindful of our brothers and sisters not yet liberated from all unTruths. Especially as none of us are totally free of anY unTruth.. Truth is the iron/unbreakable (measuring) rod, so spending time in an untruth is a waste of time.}
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Tomorrows verses - 2 Corinthians 10:7-18
By Necessity Paraphrased
Annual Daily Reading & Study
ACTS 19 21-41
WeekLy BooK oF Acts
21 - Now after all this, Paul resolved in the Spirit to pass through Macedonia and Achaia (Greece) and go to Jerusalem, saying, “After I’ve been there, I must go on to Rome.” 22 And having sent into Macedonia two of his helpers, Timothy and Erastus, he himself stayed in Asia at Ephesus for a while.
23 At about that time there arose no little disturbance concerning the Way. 24 For a man named Demetrius, a silversmith by trade, who made silver shrines of Artemis, brought a lot of business to the craftsmen. 25 So he gathered them together, with other workmen in similar trades, and said, “Men, you know that from this business we have our wealth. 26 And you see and hear that not only in Ephesus but in almost all of Asia this Paul has persuaded and turned away a great many people, saying that gods made with hands are not gods! 27 So there is danger that this trade of ours may come into disrepute. And also the temple of the great goddess Artemis may be abandoned! And so she may even be deposed from her magnificence! She whom all Asia and the world worship!”
28 When they heard this, they were stirred up and became enraged, and began to cry out, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!” 29 Soon the city was filled with confusion, and they rushed together into the theater, dragging with them Gaius and Aristarchus, Macedonians who were Paul's companions in travel. 30 But when Paul wished to go in among the crowd, the disciples wouldn’t let him. 31 And even some of Asia, who were friends of his, sent to him and were urging him not to go into the theater, 32 where some were crying out one thing, and some another. For the gathered crowd and assembly were in confusion, and most didn’t know why they had come together!
33 Some of the crowd put foreard Alexander, whom the Jews (Hebrews) had prompted, so motioning with his hand, he sought to present a defense to the crowd. 34 But when they recognized that he was a Jew, for about two hours they all cried out with one voice, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”
35 Finally, when the town clerk had quieted the crowd, he said, “Men of Ephesus, who is there who doesn’t know that the city of the Ephesians is keeper of the temple of the great Artemis, and of her sacred stone that fell from the sky? 36 Seeing then that these things cannot be denied, you ought to be quiet and do nothing rash. 37 For you have brought these men here who have not been sacrilegious, nor blasphemers of our goddess. 38 If therefore Demetrius and the craftsmen with him have a complaint against anyone, the courts are open, and there are proconsuls. Let them bring charges against them there. 39 For if you seek anything further, it should be settled in the regular assembly. 40 For we really are in danger of being charged with rioting, as there is no cause that we can give to justify this great commotion.” 41 And when he had said these things, he dismissed the assembly and crowd and sent them out of the theater. {How fitting, a dispute of ‘gods’ taking place in a theater.. The gospel rode forth “openly victorious over powers and principalities” taking them down from thrones, “conquering and to conquer”.}
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By Necessity Paraphrased
Weekly ‘Enter the Story’ Reading & Study
JOHN 2 1-12
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1 - On the next day, the third day (says John, John’s third day following, and with Jesus) there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. 2 Jesus and his disciples were invited to the wedding as well. 3 When the wine ran out, Mary said to him, “They have run out of wine.” 4 And Jesus said, “Woman? What’s that have to do with me, my hour has not yet come.” 5 Mary said to those serving, “Do whatever he tells you to.” 6 There were six large stone water jars sitting there for the Jewish practice of purification {frequent washing}, each holding twenty or thirty gallons. 7 Jesus said to them, “Fill the jars with water.” And so they filled them, right up to the brim. 8 And Jesus said, “Now draw some out and take it to the manager of the banquet.” And so they did. 9 When the manager tasted the water that was now wine, he didn’t know where it came from, though the ones who had drawn it knew, he called for the bridegroom, 10 and said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine first, and when people have drank freely, then they bring out the poor wine! But you have kept the best wine until now!” 11 This was a first of Jesus’ signs (we saw him do) at Cana in Galilee, and we witnessed his glory. And they believed in him.
12 After this he went down to Capernaum, with his mother and brothers and disciples. And they stayed there for a few days.
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Tomorrows verses - John 2:13-25
By Necessity Paraphrased
Daily ‘Enter the Story’ Reading & Study
Friday, January 3, 2025
2 Corinthians 9 7-15
01/03 ~ From New Testament Letters
π️ (In the Order Believed Written)
7 - Each one must give as they’ve decided in their heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion. God loves a cheerful giver. 8 And God is able to make all grace abound, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work. 9 As it’s written, “He has distributed freely, he has given to the poor, his righteousness endures forever.”
10 He who supplies seed for the sower and bread as food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and will also increase the harvest of your righteousness. 11 That is to say, you will be enriched in every way, so you can be generous in every way, which will produce thanksgiving to God. 12 For the service of this gift is not only supplying the needs of the saints but is also overflowing in many thanksgivings unto God. 13 And by their approval of it, they will glorify God because of your generosity for them and others, that grew out of your confession of the gospel of Christ, 14 while they have genuine affection for you and pray for you, because of this surpassing grace of God upon us all. 15 Thanks be to God for his inexpressible gift!
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Tomorrows verses - 2 Corinthians 10:1-6
By Necessity Paraphrased
Annual Daily Reading & Study
JOHN 1 35-51
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35 - The next day John was standing with two of his disciples, 36 when he saw Jesus as he was walking by and he said, “Look! The Lamb of God!” {Why? Why a sacrifice? (As portrayed in the O.T. worship. Fulfilled via the only straight out from God one. Forever firstborn Son.) Imagine yourself waking up into the radiance of the GWT judgment ‘day’ and you had been a child sex trafficker.. Or even ‘just’ a child labor trafficker.. Or you had been a cruel and heartless despot, abusing and harming untold numbers of, vulnerable to you, people.. Ultimately is it God’s anger at you that needs to be appeased? As God who is Love (Life and “is Perfect”) would he by then pity you more than hate you? I am very much convinced it is the human conscience that hAs to be appeased.. Imagine the gut wrenching remorse some human players will ultimately experience.. And doesn’t God in his total wisdom, know that’s the onLy “correction” (punishment if you prefer like the partially unbelieving translators) that actually works? Surely the condition of inner, outside of the light darkness, portrayed in the rich man and Lazarus parable, and the outside of the vision narrative of Rev.22, are INITIAL conditions of SOME during that “last great day” ..the “8th day” (second ‘day’ of Jesus’ long second advent -> 1Cor.15:27-28 “all” repeated five times. Changed into ‘all things’ however. Hello?)
“The” millennium/further “training”? Also Sabbath from the adversary&co. to the --> Palin/again war to the —> 500 years (Lev.23) of GWT judgment and discernment ‘day’ an “aionion kolasis, to —> “the regeneration” greek palin/again-genesis, about which God says “behold! I make all new!” Rev.21:(1-)5. — “In the beginning” - the Light. And a biG banG into the universe as is (asis) and theN it was set in motion.. Lev.23 - For 6 millennium things let to run course, interfering only when demise was imminent during formative ages. No option to stray in Eden, and creation would be an ant farm? SO the remedy was “built in”.}
37 The two disciples of John heard him say this, so they left and followed Jesus. 38 Jesus turned and saw them following him and said to them, “What are you seeking?” And they said, “Rabbi” (which means Teacher), “where are you staying?” 39 He said to them, “Come and see.” So they stayed with him that day, for it was about the tenth hour (about 4pm). 40 One of the two who heard John speak and followed Jesus was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother. 41 He first found his own brother Simon and said to him, “We have found the Messiah!” (which means Christ). 42 He brought Simon to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, “You are Simon the son of John. You shall be called Cephas” (which means Peter).
43 The next day Jesus went to Galilee. He found Philip and said to him, “Follow me.” 44 Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter. 45 Philip went and found Nathanael (Mt.10:3, is Bartholomew?) and said to him, “We have found he of whom Moses in the Law and also the prophets wrote! Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.” 46 Nathanael said, “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” Philip said, “Come and see.”
47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him and said, “An Israelite indeed, in whom there is no deception!” 48 Nathanael said, “How do you know me?” Jesus answered, “Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.” 49 Nathanael said, “Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!” 50 Jesus answered, “Because I said to you, ‘I saw you under the fig tree,’ you believe? I tell you, you will see greater things than that. 51 You will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending to the Son of Man.” [Rev.12:5]
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Tomorrows verses - John 2:1-12
By Necessity Paraphrased
Annual Daily Reading & Study
Thursday, January 2, 2025
2 Corinthians 9 1-6
01/02 ~ From New Testament Letters
π️ (In the Order Believed Written)
1 - Now it is actually pointless for me to write to you about this service for the saints, 2 for I know your readiness, of which I boast of you to the people of Macedonia, saying that Achaia has been ready since last year. And your zeal has stirred up most of them. 3 So I’m sending the brothers so you can be ready for it, as I told them you would be. 4 Then if some Macedonian brothers come with me none need be embarrassed. 5 So I thought it good to have the brothers go on ahead to you and arrange in advance, so it may be ready as a gift and not as a burdensome duty. 6 If we sow (share) sparingly we’ll also reap sparingly, but if we share generously, we will reap a spiritual bounty.
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Tomorrows verses - 2 Corinthians 9:7-15
By Necessity Paraphrased
Annual Daily Reading & Study
JOHN 1 29-34
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29 - The next day, John the Baptist/Baptizer saw Jesus coming toward him, and he said, “Look! The Lamb of God, who is taking away the sin [hamartia / missing the mark - cause of life as we presently know it, entropy] of the world! 30 This is he of whom I said, ‘After me comes a man who ranks before me, because he was before me.’ 31 I myself didn’t know him, but for this purpose I came baptizing with water, that he might be revealed to Israel.” [And from Israel to the world, Isaiah 49:6 - “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to bring back the preserved of Israel, I will make you as a light for the nations, that my salvation may reach to the ends of earth.”] 32 And John told them, “I saw the Spirit descend from heaven like a dove, and it remained upon him. 33 I myself didn’t know him, but he who sent me to baptize with water said to me, ‘He on whom you see the Spirit descend and remain, he is the one baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’ {Presence of God.} 34 And I (the baptizer) have seen and I bear witness, that this, is the Son of God.”
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Tomorrows verses - John 1:35-51
By Necessity Paraphrased
Annual Daily Reading & Study
Wednesday, January 1, 2025
2 Corinthians 8 15-24
JOHN 1 19-28
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19 - And this is the testimony of John (the Baptist/baptizer) when the Jewish leaders sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?” 20 He answered them, “I am not the Christ.” 21 And they asked, “Who then? Are you Elijah?” He said, “I am not.” “Are you the Prophet?” And he answered, “No.” 22 So they said to him, “Who are you? We need to give an answer to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?” 23 He said, “I am the voice of one crying out in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord,’ as the prophet Isaiah said.” [Isaiah 40 - 3 The voice of him that cries in the wilderness, “Prepare the way of the LORD! Make a straight path in the desert for our God. 4 Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low. The crooked places will be made straight, and the rough places will be made smooth. 5 And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all shall see it together, for the mouth of the Lord has said it.] 24 They had been sent from the Pharisees, 25 and they asked him, “Then why are you baptizing, if you are neither the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?”
26 John answered, “I baptize with water, but among you stands one you do not know! 27 Even he who comes after me, the strap of whose sandal I’m not worthy to untie.” 28 This was in Bethany across the Jordan, where John was baptizing.
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Tomorrows verses - John 1:29-34
By Necessity Paraphrased
Annual Daily Reading & Study