1John 3 3-9

 a paraphrased ‘enter the story’

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08/14 ~ From New Testament Letters

   (In the Order Believed Written)

3 - Everyone who is hoping [elpis - expects, hopes] in him purifies their self as he is pure [hagnos - free of contamination].

     4 Anyone who makes a practice of doing wrong is practicing lawlessness. For sin [hamartia - missing the mark, doing wrong] is lawlessness. 5 You know that he appeared in order to take away all that {and ultimately all “missing the mark”/imperfection which is just naturally entropy which “doesn’t quit” because God is Life and “is perfect” Mt.5:48}. And in him there is no sin/missing the mark/imperfection. 6 No one who abides in him, keeps doing wrong, or they have not seen him nor known him. (Which equates to “I never knew you”?) 7 Little children, don’t let anyone mislead you. Whoever practices doing right is righteous, even as he is righteous. 8 Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil [diabolos - in secular Greek means "backbiter," i.e. an accuser (slanderer) diábolos is literally someone who "casts through," i.e. making charges that bring down (destroy) from diaballó - to bring charges with hostile intent] for the devil has been doing wrong from the beginning. {Of creation. God’s patience is shown by his waiting for the first bound to occur rebel thought to not only occur, but to ripen into outright sedition. So “all in heaven and earth” would take this unavoidable journey/lesson all together at once.} For this reason the Son of God appeared and  was revealed, to destroy [luó - loose, release, dissolve] the works [érgon - work, deed (action) that carries out and completes the intention and purpose] of the devil. 9 No one born of God makes a practice of sinning. God's seed abides in them and they cannot keep on sinning, because they have been born of God.

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Tomorrows verses - 1Jn.3:10-14

My own studies, had to paraphrase to post..

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Hebrews 1 1-4

 a paraphrased ‘enter the story’

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06/08 ~ From New Testament Letters

   (In the Order Believed Written)

1 - Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke by the prophets, 2 but in these days he’s spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all [pas - all, every, the whole] through whom also, he created the world [aion(s)] {creation/space and time}. 3 Who being the radiance of God’s glory, and the exact representation of God’s person [hupostasis - substance, essence, reality, nature] upholds all by the word, the power. After making purification for sin [hamartia - missing the mark] {purifies the conscience, free for the purification of heart and mind} he then sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, 4 having become as much superior to angels as the name he has inherited is more excellent than theirs.

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Tomorrows verses - Hebrews 1:5-9

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)

Revelation 4 1-7

BooK of Revelation

                a paraphrased study   

1 - After this I looked, and behold, a door open in heaven! And the first voice [greek phóné] which I had heard earlier speaking to me like a trumpet, said, “Come up here (John) and I will show you what will [dei - necessarily inevitably] happen.” 2 At once I was in the Spirit, and behold, a throne stood in heaven, with one seated upon the throne. 3 And he who sat there was in radiance like fiery gems, and around the throne was a rainbow with the appearance of an emerald. 4 Around the throne [thronos - throne. seat] were twenty-four thrones [thronos] and seated upon them were twenty-four elders, clothed in white garments, with golden crowns on their heads. {Crowns of Life? Gold represents God’s Spirit/Presence.} 5 From the throne came flashes of lightning, rumblings and peals of thunder. And before the throne were seven [hepta] torches of fire burning brightly, which is the sevenfold (full, complete) spirit of God. 6 And before the throne there was as it were a sea of glass, like crystal. {We shall all be pure as crystal. Truly. ..Life as we presently know it, is an unavoidable, but all important contrast.} [Seven - the Hebrew/Old Testament word for seven is shaba - which is from a root word that means to swear or take an oath, and is often associated with the number seven, indicating the completeness or binding nature of an oath {! Isaiah 45:23 - “I have sworn [shaba - to seven oneself, swear on oath] by my own name” (there being none higher) “I have spoken the truth, and I will never go back on my word, every knee will bend to me, and every tongue will declare - allegiance - to me.” Romans 3:4 - “If every person be false, yet God is true! As it’s written, "That You (God) may be justified in Your words, and will prevail in Your being judged." Part of that “8th ‘day’” (millennium, Rev.20.)

     And in the midst of, and all around the throne, on each side of the throne, were four large living creatures, full of eyes in front and behind. 7 The first living creature was like a lion, the second like an ox, the third with the face of a man, and the fourth was like an eagle in flight. {Creation! ..It’s not so much an issue of what God, wonderful God, hAs created, but what he iS creating. Just HOW do you create genuinely able to think and reason beings, aNd, keep paradise/perfection intact? He iS life, so lives through all that ever occurs and endowed thinking/reasoning/logos to mankind and angelkind anyway!}

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Logic of things allowed to run their course..

Romans 8 17-25

 02/09 ~ From New Testament Letters

  🕊️ (In the Order Believed Written)

        Paul’s Letter To The Romans

17 - And if we are (His) children, then we are heirs. Heirs of God, and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him. {Following after Jesus just naturally includes some societal disadvantages, sometimes even in the extreme, plus life’s regular hardships, sorrows, etc.}

     18 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed! (Isaiah 7:11, Micah 4:3-4, and so much more. Also where the door of Mt.25:1-13 goes -> crowns of Life, not metal, of serving, called reigning, during Jesus’ long second advent. Surely(?) a full scope version of his first so brief one. The 2nd advent being “the” millennial Sabbath rest from enmity, then the releasing of the adversary&co ..plus his fiery final defeat, and the GWT judgment/full discernment ‘day’.) 19 For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the children of God. 20 For the creation was subjected to futility {imperfection/“missing the mark”/entropy) not willingly, but HE subjected it, in expectation [elpis - expectation, trust, confidence] (which translators always translate as “hope”. Especially in this case however, it’s not like God aLmighty - who created the vast universe (via a bang into the universe as is, theN it was set in motion) and the great array of life, as but a small clue to his abilities - is merely hoping things go as he wants!) 21 (In expectation/planning/design) that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption {entropy, and predator-ness} and obtain the freedom and glory of the children of God. 22 For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pain of childbirth until now. 23 And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit. We groan inwardly for the {full} adoption as sons and daughters, as we await the redemption of our bodies. 24 For in this hope (expectation!) we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees? 25 But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience… oR “For in this expectation we were saved. Now expectation that is seen and already present, is not expectation. For who is expecting what they already see? 25 But if we are expecting what we don’t see, then we are - waiting for it - with patience.” {A resting in the Lord.}

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Tomorrows verses - Romans 8:26-33

My own studies. Verses paraphrased.

What we pursue is what we conform to?

Limited Scope to Full Scope

 ..🎼 Psalms, to me, seems to suggest Israel is the ‘microcosm’ fulfillment and example. And the world is the macrocosm. First a covenant to birth the Son, God’s blueprint, then the one to birth all the sins and daughters. Isn’t it necessary, if there’s to be thinking and reasoning ability, to let choices other than his, manifest and run their course - first. What I mean is, just how do you create genuinely able to think and reason beings, aNd, keep paradise/perfection intact?

     If there had been no option to stray in Eden, no power of choice in creation, we would have to be an ant farm? God opted instead for total ‘herd’ immunity? The disease is the cure? The crucible, laver, sieve, slow gehenna.. Creation and humanity will be sealed A to Z..?

Feb-09 From Mt-12 Ro-8

  🕊️Enter The Story Daily

 a paraphrased scripture study

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GospeL Verses ~ Matthew 12:14-21

14 - But! The Pharisees went out and were plotting how they might kill Jesus. 15 Aware of this, Jesus went away from there, and a large crowd followed after him, and he healed everyone who was ill among them. 16 He told them not to tell others about him. 17 This fulfilled what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah - 18 “Here is my servant I have chosen, the one I love, and in whom I delight. I will put my Spirit upon him, and he will proclaim justice to the nations. 19 He won’t quarrel nor cry out, and they will not hear his voice in the streets. 20 He will not break a crushed reed and he will not snuff out a barely lit wick, but will lead justice to victory. 21 In his name the nations will put their hope [elpizo - expectation].” (In him, the people will put their hope and their expectation.)

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From New Testament Letters

     (In the Order Believed Written)

                  ~ Romans 8:17-25 ~

17 - Now if we are God’s children, then we are his heirs, and we are co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings (troubles, persecutions, insults, and some much more) in order that we may also share in his glory. (Note, “sharing his glory” - able to heal, etc, has to be after entering the ‘door’ into “the” millennium, Mt.25:1-13, and before “behold! I make all new”. 18 I (Paul) consider that our present sufferings and troubles are not at all comparable with the glory that will be revealed in us. 19 For the creation waits in eager anticipation for the coming to light of the children of God. 20 For the creation (too) was subjected to futility, corruption, fading, not by its own will, but by the choice of the one who subjected it, in expectation 21 — that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay — and brought into the freedom [eleutheria - liberty, freedom] and glory [doxa - praise, honor, glory] of the children of God. 22 We know that the whole creation has been groaning as if in the pains of childbirth from the beginning right up to the present time. 23 Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit (“love, joy, peace” etc.) groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies [apolutrósis - a release effected by payment of ransom]. 24 Indeed it is in this expectation that we are saved. But expectation that is seen is not expectation at all. Because who is expecting what has already arrived? 25 But if we expect what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.

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Tomorrow’s Verses:

Matthew 12:22-37

Romans 8:26-33

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

Genesis Chapter Two

Why is there a second account of the creation of man?

Man is made of the soil of Eden?

Acts 17:26, The Living Bible - "He created all the people of the world from one man, Adam, and scattered the nations across the face of the earth.."

Genesis 3:20 - "The man called his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of all living."

An inheritance from one man - "Romans 5:12 - "Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men.."

The second account is an insert and addendum to the first.
The first says man was created. The second tells us how.

The first account's setting is the world and universe. The second account is how the creation of man and woman occurred in the section of the world designated as the Garden of Eden.

"Then God said, `Let us make man in our image.. ...So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female created He them." (Genesis 1:26,27) with "Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female." (Matthew 19:4) -- Which is what is described in the insert/second account.

Will God Lose Lucifer?

~ Colossians 1:20, New King James Version (NKJV)
"..by Him to reconcile all things to Himself, by Him, whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace through the blood of His cross."
 ~ Colossians 1:20, Contemporary English Version (CEV)
"And God was pleased for him to make peace by sacrificing his blood on the cross, so that all beings in heaven and on earth would be brought back to God."
~ Isaiah 14:12,11, New King James Version (NKJV)
“How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground, you who weakened the nations! Your pomp is brought down to Sheol" (translation="the grave") "And the sound of your stringed instruments; The maggot is spread under you, And worms cover you."
~ All the people were born after Adam and Eve and inherited their imperfect nature. (To turn from God in any teeny, tiny way is to turn from Perfection - which is God - and away from Life, which too is God.- So God sent "the Firstborn of all creation" to rescue us with His 'paid in full for all of us, death upon the cross'. His totally innocent death overcoming death.
~ Therefor we get to thank God for His rescuing us from death. Yet also (for a time) we get to thank Him for death (as an impersonal thing that is) because if it hadn't come to be, it would mean we had all been created as robots or (perhaps?) as forever very small children.
- - Perfection makes no mistakes.

The Letters of "Creation"

Like all words are made up of different combinations of the 26 letters of the alphabet, everything in the world is made up of different combinations of the 118 elements of the periodic table. When scientists can shake a box of letters and come up with a novel, I'll start to consider the theory of evolution. Of course when they do it they will have engineered it (shaken the box) so the results would be invalid. But so it is with "origins"! Very devout followers think of it as 'science' but one doesn't have to dig very deeply to find it really isn't, but is more like assumptions built on assumptions, therefor it's speculation, and a belief.