ACTS 4 23-37

 Luke wrote “of the things fulfilled among us” paraphrased  [ ] ref  { } thots

     Book of the Acts of the First Believers

23 When Peter and John were released {from the sanhedrin/court} they went to the rest of the believers and reported what the chief priests and elders had said. 24 And when they heard it, they lifted their voices together in prayer and praise, saying, “Sovereign LORD, you who made the heavens, the earth, the sea and everything in them, 25 and who through our father David, your servant, said by the Holy Spirit{/Presence of God} — ‘Why do the nations rage?! And the people devise vain things?! 26 The highest ones of earth gather and set theirselves, against the LORD and against his Anointed.’ 27 In fact, this has happened here in this very city! For Herod (Antipas), Pilate the governor, the Gentiles (of the nations) and the people of Israel were united against Jesus. Your holy servant, whom you anointed. 28 But it was your purpose, and your plan, that you ordained to happen! 29 And now, LORD, hear their threats and grant to your servants to speak your word [logos - reasoning, message; root word of logic] with all boldness, 30 while you stretch out your hand to heal, with signs and wonders performed through the name of your holy servant Jesus.”

     31 And when they had prayed, the place in which they were gathered together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit{/Presence of God}. And they continued to speak the word/message of God with boldness. [Ps.2]

     {God is Life and “is perfect” so imperfect is entropy (which “doesn’t quit”) and “God is savior..” 1TIM.4:10. Also “perfect” means the ‘end’ result of this one & done (greek word “tel” the end-aim) can’t be anything but the best one possible.}

     32 Those who believed were of one heart and mind. No one even said what belonged to them was theirs, but they had all things in common. {Not a state supplies.. and thus owns, situation.} 33 And with great power the apostles were proclaiming and testifying to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And great grace was upon them all. 34 And no one among them was in need, for as many as were owners of lands and houses sold them and brought the proceeds of what was sold 35 and put it in the apostle’s hands, and it was distributed to each as any had need. [From a Biblehub commentary (Ellicott’s) - “There was, in this sale of their estates, a proof of faith in the future desolation which Jesus had foretold, having properties in Palestine” (the name began as the world’s name for Israel) “was likely to be a source of anxiety rather than profit. Like Jeremiah had shown his faith in the future restoration of his people by purchasing the field at Anathoth”.]

     36 And so it was too, that Joseph, also called Barnabas, which means son of encouragement [paraklésis], a Levite (line who served in the temple, but not as a priest) and a native of Cyprus, 37 sold a field that belonged to him and brought the money to the apostles.

     {Barnabas goes with Paul on Paul’s first “missionary journey” - the first of his travels proclaiming the good news of resurrection, and belief and following Jesus to inherit the better resurrection - Mt.25:46 “into Life” (Mt.25:1-13!) or into “aionion kolasis / eonian korrection / age of correction - Rev.20, “putting on perfection and (thus) immortality” at the palin(again)genesis, Rev.21:5, tho “all” was changed into “all things”. Still true but a downgrade. Note, the three mentions of lake of fire are at huge, fiery events. Father’s outline(s) - the week plus 1 millennia; the Spring and Fall holy days of Lev.23 as 1st and 2nd advents.}

Next Week - 5:1-16

03-17 - Col-3 Jn-8

N.Testament & Prophecy Advanced CU Study, verses paraphrased  [ ] references { } thots, late been ill

 • Colossians 3:1-11  John 8:21-32

            ☀️ Colossians 3:1-11

1 - So! If you’ve been - raised with Christ - seek the above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. {🤔This proves just because there’s metaphor and spiritual aspect, does not mean there is no literal aspect! As in can we have a metaphor without the literal? As what would the metaphor be about?! Afterall “if there’s no resurrection out-of death, then we of all people are to be most pitied” 1Cor.15:19.}

     2 Set your mind on the above {the higher}, not preoccupied by the mere mundane. 3 For you have died. And your life is hidden with Christ, in God.

     4 And so, when Christ who is your life appears, then you also will be with him in [en - in, on, at, by, with, among] glory {and radiance}. 5 Put to death therefore what is the lowest - sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. 6 On account of these the wrath of God is coming. [Wrath - greek orge - passion] {in my opinion, logically, cause and effect - his passion - as opposed to creation as some sort of ant farm.}

     7 In such things you too (mostly gentiles in that day) were once living in. 8 But now you must put all that away, aLso - anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene jesting. {Division, slander, accusation.} 9 And don’t lie to one another, seeing you have put off the old self that used to act in those way.

     10 For you have put on the new self, the one being renewed in knowledge according to the image of the one having created us. [Image - eikṓn - from eíkō - to be like, reflects its source (what it corresponds to) eikṓn assumes a prototype, of which it not merely resembles, but from which it is drawn" (R. Trench) (eikṓn) then is more than a "shadow" but rather it is a replication.] 11 Where there is not Greek and Hebrew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, or free, but Christ is all, and in all. {NO division.That’s a sentiment of the world, and the “god of it”.}

            🌙 John 8:21-32

21 - Jesus told the people again, “I’m going away. And you’ll look for me, but you’ll die in your sin” [hamartia - missing the mark]. {So will rise that way.} “Where I’m going, you’re not able to go.”

     22 So they said, “Will he kill himself? Since he says, ‘Where I’m going, you can’t go’?” 23 He answered them, “because you’re from below.” {ThiS is the below. And the “lower part of earth” is the grave, originally the hebrew sheol - “where there is no doing nor knowing/awareness” (Ecclesiastes 9:5,10) - if we are genuinely visited by a no longer here loved one it’s from another dimension called the future(?) A direct verse quote only exchanging the greek hades for the hebrew sheol, shows hades is the same place and condition as sheol (Ps.16:10, Acts 2:27), Jesus was in the grave for three days and nights. Logically, his visit to those who were “locked into destruction” was during the one hundred years of Noah’s building the ark. They were ‘locked into destruction’ because they were not listening, and the flood was coming! 1Pet.3:19-20 (“visited them via the Spirit”) being answered by 2Pet.2:5 - “Noah, was a preacher of righteousness”.}

     “I’m from above. You’re of this world, but I’m not of this world. 24 I told you that you would die in your imperfection/missing the mark, for unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your missing the mark (of perfection). {So will rise into the GWT judgment ‘Day’ (“aionion”) - INITIALLY - “still in sin”/missing the mark.}

     That God is life, is the iron/unbreakable natural law, number one. And number two, is he “is perfect”. So imperfect is entropy a process (crucible and gehenna) that does not quit/reverse. “The wage/result of sin is death” Romans 6:23.

     BUT. No option to stray in Eden, and creation would be an ant farm. So the remedy - strong enough to appease eveRy conscience (for imperfect is also an abyss of potential - so the remedy) was built in. During pre-flood even cannibaalism was rife? “Covering angels” of animals joined the “covering angel over Eden” in his rebellion, so some animals turned predator? And if man had not become carnivore, mankind would’ve become prey? How low can we (each of us) go? Depends where God blocks the shaft to the abyss with his hand?}

     25 So they said to him, “Who are you?” Jesus answered, “Just what I’ve been telling you from the beginning. 26 I have many things to tell you and to judge concerning you. But he who sent me is true and genuine, and what I speak to the world is what I hear from him.”

     27 But they didn’t understand he was talking to them about the Father. 28 So Jesus said, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you’ll know that I’m he. And that I do nothing on my own, but I say what the Father has taught me. 29 And he is with me. He has not left me alone, for I always do what is pleasing to him.” {And perfect, an immutable law.} 30 As he was saying these things, many believed in him.

           

Tomorrows verses, 03/18

Colossians 3:12-25  John 8:33-47

Start the day with a Psalm (jan 1-20, feb-20’s, mar-30’s, apr-40’s, etc. dec-120-150)

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

have a great day! ☀️🕊️

God iS LiFe

🔆⛺️ “He is dressed in a robe of light. He stretched out the starry heavens like a tent” Ps.104:2. When done w/ what he’s creating - “God will Tabernacle/Tent with mankind” Rev.21:3.

      “Build a tent..” a replica.. energy of the universe wrapped in gold “take it with you wherever you go”..

     “Soon nothing will be beyond them”… they have split the building block.. “The earth will shake to and fro.. when the seven thunders make their voices heard” Is.24:20/Rev.10:4.. And then..

     Rev.20 is told like describing the crests of waves and not much of the in between.

Jn.12:32, 1Tim.4:10. Then “God will Tabernacle with man” after the “palin/again-genesis” (after the “new heavens and earth”) …”Where is the house you will build for Him?” Acts 7:49.

  🔅 Jesus said, “All those in the tombs/graves will hear God’s voice and will come forth” (from the graves/tombs) “some into the resurrection of life” (into THE millennium, to serve called reigning? for to do His works.. crown of Life, not metal.. during his long second advent, a full scope version of his so brief first one?).. “And some, into the resurrection of (the GWT) judgment” ‘day’ (Jn.5:28-29, part of his second advent) which elsewhere He calls agelasting correction [“kolasin aionion” oR “korrection eonian”] Mt.25:46, logically, the completing of - “drawing all” - Jn.12:32! And surely(?) it’s a same process of refinement/correction for all. The crucible being life as we presently know it - this unavoidable, all important contrast - of imperfection, this slow gehenna fade, entropy, that doesn’t quit or reverse - until vivification either at 1Cor.15:52,53 or at Rev.21:5, 1Cor.15:24-28. We shall all have character that is clear as crystal. Humanity and creation sealed and saturated with God’s Spirit/Presence. ..The dis-ease as part of the cure? ..And immunity! Total ‘herd’ immunity?

MARK 9 33-50

 a paraphrased ‘enter the story

🍃🕊️reading & study 🕊️🍃

   08/31 - GospeL Verses

33 - Then Jesus and the twelve went home to Capernaum. When they were in the house he asked the disciples, “What were you discussing on the way?” 34 They didn’t say anything, because they’d been arguing with one another about who was the greater. 35 So he sat down and called them round, and he said, “If you would be first, you must be last of all, and a servant of all.”

     36 And then he called a small child over to them, and taking him in his arms, he said, 37 “Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me. And whoever receives me, receives not me, but he who sent me.”

     38 John (who also wrote a gospel account/testimony/testament and 1,2 and 3 John) said, “Rabbi/teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in your name, and we tried to stop him, because he’s not with us.” 39 But Jesus said, “Don’t stop him. For anyone who does a mighty work in my name will not be soon able to speak evil of me. 40 For the one who’s not against us is for us. 41 Truly I tell you, whoever may give you a cup of water because you follow me, will by no means lose their reward!

     42 “But whoever guides one of these little ones into error, it would be better for them if a great millstone were hung around their neck and they be thrown into the sea. 43 If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off! It’s better for you to enter [eiserchomai - enter, go into, come into, go through] life crippled than with two hands away into gehenna fire {‘fiery’ trials and troubles} not quenched.” {Entropy (imperfection) which doesn’t quit so naturally ends in death, but can include much dissolution, thus suffering/‘hell’ on the way.}  45 “And if your foot leads you to crime, cut it off! It’s better for you to enter [eiserchomai - from eis - to or into, point reached, and erchomai -  to come, go] {go through?} life lame than with two feet to be thrown into gehenna” (valley dump where criminal’s bodies were thrown so the fires were kept burning, considered a great psychological insult). 47 “And if your eye causes you to do wrong, tear it out! It’s better for you to enter/be in the kingdom of God with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into gehenna, 48 ‘where the worm {of decomposition} does not die and the fire is not quenched’ [sbennumi - extinguished, quenched, suppressed, thwarted, put out]. 49 For - everyone - will be salted with fire.” {God’s wrath is cause and effect/consequences/results. Plus greaT sin will ultimately result in deep heart and gut wrenching remorse. Imagine having been a heartless despot, serial killer, child sex trafficker.. What sort of correction [kolasin] works best? Inner. Inner judgment, inner condemnation.. beating self up “with many stripes?” until realizing Christ Crucified, strong enough to appease every psyche and conscience.}

     50 “Salt is good. But if salt loses its saltiness, how will it be made salty again? Have salt within yourselves! And - be at peace - with one another.”

     {Salt preserves from corruption/rot/entropy. We could say, life as we presently know it - imperfection, thus fading away, is the ‘parable’ of the decomposing ‘apple’ and its worm that doesn’t quit - which iS the decomposing. A slow motion gehenna ‘burning’ away, that at times flares up into fiery judgments and wars. Corruption, decomposing and degrading does not quit until it is dust. “Dust thou art” dust to dust, God’s wrath. But if there had been no option to stray in Eden, creation would have to be an ant farm. So this unavoidable, all important contrast is experienced, and let to run its course, one and done. Humanity and creation will be “sealed”/saturated with God’s Spirit/Presence. “Sealed” (‘herd’ immunity) from straying/imperfection which is an abyss of potential ..versus Ant Farm?

     How do you create genuinely able to think and reason beings, aNd, keep paradise/perfection intact? God is Life and “is perfect” mt.5:48, the ‘end’ result cannot be anything less than the best one possible. God is surely(?) 100% unfettered Genius. And Love! THE utter Perfection. Which shaLL - and hAs to - rule. Since God is Life, nothing besides Perfect can ever work or endure. He is making all perfect. He iS Life, and “is perfect”.}

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🗝️ [  ] - word/language insights, usually from biblehub dot com - peering through translator partial unbelief; cross references, etc.

      {  } - thots

Tomorrows verses - Mark 10:1-9

My own studies, had to paraphrase to post..

Start the day with a Psalm (jan 1-20, feb-20’s, mar-30’s, apr-40’s, etc. dec-120-150)

Hebrews 2 12-14

 a paraphrased ‘enter the story’

 🍃🕊️  reading & study  🕊️🍃

06/14 ~ From New Testament Letters

   (In the Order Believed Written)

12 - The scripture also says, “I will tell of your name [onoma - name, reputation, authority, cause] to my brothers. In the midst of the congregation I will sing your praise.” 13 And again, “I will put my trust in him.” And again, “Behold, I and the children God has given me” (Jn.13:3). 14 And since the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise as well, that through his death he might destroy the one holding the strength of death, that is, the devil [diabolos - devil, accuser, slanderer; defamer in order to hurt, malign, condemn, to bring down, destroy]. {Interrupted the result of the first gone rogue one.. but all surely(?) would go rogue in some thought, word or deed, sooner ot later.. So “GOD has subjected all to disobedience” Ro.11:32, all together at once.. so now this entropy (entropic crucible) which “does not quit”. But because Christ died who was not under imperfection/entropy.. he became the resurrection. And also “the seed” in us when we are “born again and anew” and “reconciled to God” who is Life.}

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🗝️ [  ] - word/language insights, usually from biblehub dot com - peering through translator partial unbelief; cross references, etc.

      {  } - thots

Tomorrows verses - Hebrews 2:15-18

My own studies, had to paraphrase to post..

Start the day with a Psalm (jan 1-20, feb-20’s, mar-30’s, apr-40’s, etc. dec-120-150)

Romans 11 7-11

 Universalism in the New Testament

02/20 ~ From New Testament Letters

  🕊️ (In the Order Believed Written)

        Paul’s Letter To The Romans

7 - What then? Israel failed to achieve what it was seeking. A chosen few obtained it, but the rest were hardened [póroó - hardened, made callous, rendered insensitive] 8 as it’s written, “God gave [didómi - gave, granted] them a spirit of stupor, eyes not seeing and ears not hearing, down to this very day.” 9 And David said, “Let be, their table for a snare and a trap, for a stumbling block and a retribution. 10 Let their eyes be darkened so they do not see, their backs be bent.” {With heavy burden, servitude.. their table, cause and effect. Israel as microcosm, world as macro.}

11 So I ask! Did they stumble in order to perish [piptó - fall, fail, degrade, perish]? Certainly noT! Rather, through their trespass, salvation/rescue has come to the nations! {We are saved from two things. The abyss of death/not being, end result of entropy/corruption, come about because God is Life and “is Perfect” mt.5:48, thus straying and strayed is imperfection, which is entropy. And two - from the abyss of potential which imperfection is. Which has already been proven by history. We are saved from imperfection which is entropy - because God iS life and “is perfect” so reconciles us tonhimself. Imperfection as entropy being a natural law and process that runs its course to completion.. And because God “is Perfect” the ultimate ‘end’ result of all this has to be..?}

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🗝️ [  ] - word/language insights, usually from biblehub dot com - peering through translator partial unbelief; facts, cross references, etc.

      {  } - thots

Tomorrows verses - Romans 11:12-24

My own studies. Verses paraphrased.

Oct-11 From Mk-12 Gal-4

 🕊️ A paraphrased NT scripture study

   (sometimes w/ commentary) 

  [and original language insight]

         📜🍞+🍷🕊️(+Logic)

Today’s GospeL Verses ~ Mark 12:1-11

     (This parable is about the high Seraphim who was a “covering angel over Eden”. And other covering angels joined him. Of course God knew! Waited so long.. This is an unavoidable journey! We’re all in the same boat, and going to the same place, Rev.21:1-5, 2Pet.3:12-13, JN.12:32. “The lion will (once again) eat straw like the ox, and the bear will graze with the cow” Isaiah 11:7.)

     1 - Jesus began to speak to them in parables. He said, “A man planted a vineyard. And he put a fence around it, and he dug a pit for the winepress and built a tower. Then he leased it to tenants and went off to another country. 2 When the season came round, he sent a worker to the tenants to get from them some of the fruit of the vineyard. 3 But they took the worker, and they beat him and sent him away empty-handed. 4 A little later he sent another worker, and they hit him over the head and treated him shamefully. 5 And he sent another, who they killed! And so with many others, some they beat, and some they killed. 6 Then he had still one other, a beloved son. And finally he sent him, thinking to himself, ‘They will respect my son.’ 7 But those (evil) tenants said to one another, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.’ 8 And they took him and killed him and threw him out of the vineyard. 9 What will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the tenants and give the vineyard to others. 10 Have you not read this Scripture, ‘The stone [Christ] the builders rejected is THE chief stone (of humanity and creation) 11 this is the Lord's doing, and it’s marvelous in our eyes’!?”

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From New Testament Letters

     (In the Order Believed Written)

                ~ Galatians 4:1-7 ~

(Speaking of us - ) verse 1 - What I (Paul) mean, is that the heir, as long as they are a child, is no different from a worker or servant, though they are the owner of everything! 2 But they are under guardians and managers until the date set by their father. 3 In the same way we also, when we were children, were held in bondage to the basic principles of the world. 4 But when the fullness of time came, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, and born under the law, 5 to redeem those who were held under by the law. (Truth an iron/unbreakable measuring rod. Imperfection/“missing the mark” is the opposite of Life, because God iS life, and he “is perfect” Mt.5:48. And imperfect is a held in bondage to it condition.) This is all so that we might receive adoption as sons, daughters and heirs (to Life). 6 And because we are his heirs, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Father! My Father!” 7 So you are no longer a servant, but a son or daughter, and if a son or daughter, then an heir through God. (“We shall be like Jesus” 1Jn.3:2. Which God calls his jewels, Malachi 3:17.)

                       ~*~

🗝️ [  ] - word/language insights, usually from biblehub dot com, and facts, cross references, etc.      (  ) - thots

Tomorrow’s Verses:

Mark 12:12-27

Galatians 4:8-20

Acts & Rev - weekly

Recently Jonah, Daniel

psalms - jan-1-19 / feb-2o's / mar-3o's / apr-4o's / may-5o's / jun-6o's / jul-7o's / aug-8o's / sep-9o's / oct-100-110 / nov-11o's / dec-12o-15o ..the psalms are very prophetical in an overview sense.

⛲️ Is.11:7 - The lion will eat straw like the ox!

Humanity and creation will be sealed with God’s Spirit/Presence. This is logic, for is anything else possible? For surely(?) God is Life.

10-10 𝔉𝔯𝔬𝔪 Mk-11 Gal-3

     𝓓aily 𝓖ospel \/erses ✨

         Mark 11:27-33

27 Again they entered Jerusalem. As Jesus was walking through the Temple area, the leading priests, the teachers of religious law, and the elders came up to him. 28 They demanded, “By what authority are you doing all these things? Who gave you the right to do them?” 29 “I’ll tell you by what authority I do these things if you answer me one question,” Jesus replied. 30 “I ask you, was the baptism of John from heaven or from man?” 31 They talked it over among themselves. “If we say it was from heaven, he will ask why we didn’t believe John. 32 But do we dare say it was merely human?” For they were afraid of what the people would do, because everyone believed that John was a prophet. 33 So they finally replied, “We don’t know.” And Jesus responded, “Then I won’t tell you by what authority I do these things.”                   

       🌙☀️🌲🪐🕊️💫

From New Testament Letters

          (In Order Written)

       ~ Galatians 3:22-29 ~

22 But the Scriptures declare that we are all prisoners of sin [greek hamartia - “missing the mark” so imperfect, we are, but God is Life and “is perfect” mt.5:48, so imperfect is the opposite of life, and imperfect cannot make itself perfect. It is a gift from start to finish, all God needs is our enthusiastic agreement) so we - receive - God’s promise of freedom, only by believing in Jesus Christ. 23 Before the way of faith came, we were placed under guard by the law. We were kept in protective custody (and training) so to speak, until the way of faith was revealed. 24 So the law was our guardian and tutor until Christ came that we might be justified by faith. 25 Now that the time for faith is here, we are no longer under a trainer [paidagógos - a trainer, coach, tutor]. 26 For in Christ Jesus you are all sons and daughters of God, through faith, 27 for all of you who were baptized - into - Christ, have clothed yourselves - with - Christ. 28 There is no longer Jew or Gentile, slave or free, male nor female. For you are all one (equal) in Christ Jesus. 29 And now that you belong to Christ, you are the true children of Abraham. You are his heirs, and God’s promise to Abraham belongs to you.

                       ~*~

🗝️ [  ] - 𝕃𝕒𝕟𝕘𝕦𝕒𝕘𝕖 𝕚𝕟𝕤𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕤

      𝒻𝓇𝑜𝓂 𝒷𝒾𝒷𝓁𝑒𝒽𝓊𝒷 𝒹𝑜𝓉 𝒸𝑜𝓂 𝓉𝑜𝑜𝓁𝓈

      (  ) - 𝕥𝕙𝕠𝕦𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕤

𝒯𝑜𝓂𝑜𝓇𝓇𝑜𝓌’𝓈 𝒱𝑒𝓇𝓈𝑒𝓈:

Mark 12:1-11

Galatians 4:1-7

    ✔️= posted

𝒜𝒸𝓉𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓌𝑒𝑒𝓀, 13:1-42

𝑅𝑒𝓋/𝒜𝓅𝑜𝒸 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓌𝑒𝑒𝓀, 14:8-13 

𝒫𝓇𝑜𝓅𝒽𝑒𝓉𝓈 - Isaiah part 1 ✔️

                🗞️📜