09-24 - 1 Thessalonians 5 1-14

paraphrased ‘enter the story’

     🕊️reading & study 🕊️

1 - Now concerning the times and the seasons, brothers and sisters, you have no need to have anything written to you. 2 For you yourselves are fully aware that the day of the LORD will come like a thief in the night. (🤔Sneakily! No one knows when “but the Father”.) 3 While they are saying, “Peace and security!”then suddenly upon them comes destruction as labor pains come upon a woman with child, and they will not escape it. [Peace - eiréné - peace, unity; from eirō - to join, tie together into a whole. Security - asphaleia - security, safety, certainty; from A - not, and sphallō - totter.]

     4 But you are not in darkness, that the day should surprise you. 5 For you’re children of the day, and of light. We are not of the night, nor of the darkness. 6 So then let us not be as though asleep, as others, but let us stay awake, and sober. 7 For those who sleep, sleep during the night, and those who get drunk, get drunk at night. 8 But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, having put on the covering and protecting breastplate of faith and love. And for a helmet the hope [elpis - expectation!] of {full and complete} salvation. 9 For God has not destined us for wrath {dust to dust/imperfection-entropy/full gone and, or the fiery judgments/gehenna which are all earthly, even during the millennium that is aFter “the” millennium, Rev.20:7-10. There are three mentions of a lake of fire, all at huge fiery events, armageddon, Mt.13:30/Is.24:20-Rev.10:4; at the fiery final defeat of the adversary/accelerator/first gone rogue one&Co. Rev.20:7-10; and at the fiery “palin/again-genesis”/regeneration/re-”genesis” of Rev.21:1-5, “behold! I make aLL new!”}. (Instead of destined for {the role of wrath in this “all the world’s a stage” age, we are destined) to obtain salvation [sótéria - welfare, prosperity, deliverance, preservation, salvation, safety {Life!}] through our Lord Jesus Christ. 10 Who died for us so that we will live with him, whether we may wait and watch [grégoreó - watch, be vigilant, stay awake and alert] or sleep {in death awaiting}.

     [“For the dead in Christ rise first, then we/those (believers) who are alive will be caught up to join them in the clouds to meet him” 1Thes.4:16,17]. 11 Therefore encourage one another! And build one another up.! Just as you are doing.

     12 We ask you, brothers and sisters, to appreciate those who labor among you, teaching and counseling as leaders and examples in the Lord. 13 And so esteem them very highly in love because of their work. And be at peace among yourselves. 14 And we urge you to admonish the idle, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak. And be patient with all.

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Tomorrow - 1 Thessalonians 5:15-28

My own studies, had to paraphrase to post.. which has turned out to be an interesting way to ‘enter the ‘story’. 

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

Sept-23 From Lk-13 14 1Thes-4

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  [and original language insight]

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Today’s GospeL Verses ~ Luke 13:31-14:6

31 - Right then some of the Pharisee party came and said to Jesus, “Get away from here, for Herod wants to kill you.” 32 And he said to them, “Go and tell that fox, ‘Behold, I cast out demons and perform cures today and tomorrow, and the third day I finish my course. 33 Nevertheless, I must go on my way today and tomorrow, and the day following, for it cannot be that a prophet should perish away from Jerusalem.’ 34 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing! (None of us are, until God calls, Jn.6:44.) 35 Behold, your house is left behind. And I tell you, you will not see me until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!’”

     14 One Sabbath, when he went to dine at the house of a ruler of the Pharisees, they were watching him carefully. 2 And behold, there was a man there who had dropsy [hudrópikos - edema, a disease produced by the accumulation of water in various parts of the body; very distressing, and commonly incurable; notice how Luke the (greek) doctor uses the name of the illness]. 3 And Jesus responded to the lawyers and Pharisees (were they testing him?) saying, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath, or not?” 4 But they remained silent. Then he healed him and sent him on his way. 5 And he said to them, “Which of you, having a son or an ox that has fallen into a well on a Sabbath day, will not immediately pull him out?” 6 And they couldn’t give an answer.

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From New Testament Letters

     (In the Order Believed Written)

                ~ 1 Thessalonians 4:9-18 ~

9 - Now concerning brotherly love you have no need for anyone to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another, 10 for that indeed is what you are doing with all the brothers and sisters throughout Macedonia. And we urge you to do this more and more, 11 and to live quietly, minding your own affairs. And working with your own hands, as we instructed you, 12 so you may walk properly before outsiders and be dependent on no one.

     13 And we don’t want you to be uninformed about those who are asleep (in death) that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope [elpis - expectation] (for the dead, not having heard the “good news for all). 14 For through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep. 15 For we who are alive - who are left until his coming - will not precede those who have fallen asleep. 16 For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. This we declare to you, by a word from the Lord.

     17 Then we who are alive to his coming, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet him, and so we will always be with the Lord. 18 Therefore encourage one another with these words. (Zech.14:4?)

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Tomorrow’s Verses:

Luke 14:7-14

1 Thessalonians 5:1-14

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!⛲️

           Be a whole burnt offering w/

             prayer like incense so this

              gehenna crucible, life as 

                 we presently know it,

                     will make all of 

                        us clear as 

                           crystal.

                               ♢