Romans 3 24-31

  01/23 ~ From New Testament Letters

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         Paul’s Letter To The Romans

3:24 - (Verse 23 - All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God) 24 aNd, are justified by his grace - as a gift. (We don’t earn life and God owe us!) A gift, that is through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. 25 Whom God put forward as a propitiation [means of appeasement or atonement - I am convinced it’s the human conscience that needs to be appeased.. due to the tricky and trickily honest psyche.. "Propitiation" or "mercy seat"  referring to the lid of the Ark of the Covenant where the high priest would sprinkle the blood of the sacrifice on the “Day” of Atonement] by his blood, the propitiation/pardon to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness! Because in his divine forbearance he has “passed over” our missing the mark. 26 It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus. (Romans 11:32 - “HE has subjected all to disobedience..” Ours to learn “why”.)

     27 So then what becomes of our boasting? It’s done away with! By what kind of law? By a law of works? No, but by the law of faith. 28 For we proclaim that one is justified by faith, apart from works of the law. 29 Or is God the God of Jews only? Is he not the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also, 30 since God is one—who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised by faith as well. 31 Do we then overthrow the law by this faith? No! On the contrary, we uphold the law.

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Tomorrows verses - Romans 4:1-8

By Necessity Paraphrased

A Daily ‘Enter the Story’ N.T. Letter Reading & Study

£XpLaiNing ReVeLaTion 12 1-6

     WeeKly BooK oF Revelation

                paraphrased study

1 - A great sign appeared in heaven! A woman who was clothed with the sun and the moon was under her feet. Upon her head was a crown of twelve stars. {She was a virgin! Code for innocent and of purity. God’s spiritual ideal and blueprint. But if there had been no option to stray in Eden, no power of choice in creation, creation would be an ant farm. So, first, this unavoidable, yet all important contrast is being gone through by “all in heaven and earth” (the angels and humanity).}

     2 She was with child and was crying out because of her birth pains and the torment of giving birth. 3 And then another sign appeared in heaven - behold! A great red dragon. This dragon had seven heads and ten horns. And on the heads were seven royal crowns. [“The ‘god’ of this world” 2Cor.4:4 (who ends up having/being seven “changing” versions of false “light”/entities/‘world’ empires, throughout Earth’s ages.] 4 His tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven and cast them to the earth. {Obviously, this is one third of the angels, as surely(?) some angels followed the cherubim which plotted his revolt using Eden - “you were a covering angel [kerub - probably an order of angelic beings, cherub, cherubim — “Yahweh Sabaoth throned on the cherubim” 1Sam.4:4, referring to the Ark of the Covenant. A symbol. Cherubim - a high angel devised in his heart to “ascend above God”. And from being a high angelic being, became a dragon.}

     And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth [to the Son of man, Messiah Jesus] so that when she bore her child he might devour [kill] it. 5 She gave birth to a manchild, one who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron (with Truth, a measuring rod that cannot be broken). But instead the child was caught up to God and to his throne. 6 And the woman (after the razing of Jerusalem in 70 CE) fled into the wilderness, where she (the faith) had a place prepared by God, in which she was to be fed [trephó - made to grow, nourished] for 1,260 days.

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