01-30 - Ro-5 Mt-10

🗝️s New Testament & Bible prophecy study, verses paraphrased [ ] references { } thots

 • Romans 5:11-15  Matthew 10:1-15

            ☀️ Romans 5:11-15

11 - Not only that! But we also boast in God through our Lord Jesus. For it is through him that we have received reconciliation with God. {We are no longer at odds with God, source of life, our dreams, our ever after - in ouR heart - but now we are friends with him.} 12 It’s the same as how sin [hamartia - missing the mark] entered the world through one man, and death came to all, and because all sin [fall short/miss the mark] death came to all.

     {God (surely?) iS life. And “is perfect” Mt.5:48, so imperfect is entropy, a slow gehenna that “doesn’t quit” so death, opposite of life, “came to all” this ‘quick’ one and done, unavoidable, all important contrast..  “The smoke of it will rise up forever” in our memories, hearts, and psyches, long after and all during the “palin/again-genesis”.}

     13 To be sure, sin was in the world before the law was given. But sin is not charged against anyone where there’s no law! No law, no court(s). 14 But regardless, death reigned from the time of Adam to the time of Moses, and Moses’ Law, even over those who never sinned by breaking a direct command, as Adam did. Adam being a pattern (type, shadow) of the one [the real “first”/proto] that was to come. 15 But the gift (from the one that came) isn’t like the trespass. For if “the many” die by the trespass of the one {having inherited that dna and life condition} - how much - moRe - does the gift overflow and abound to “the many”. (The same many.) How much more, the gift that came by the one man, Jesus Christ, and came by God’s grace! [Charis - grace, favor, kindness, blessing, inclined to and favorable towards, leaning towards to share benefit.]

            🌙 Matthew 10:1-15

Jesus called together his twelve disciples and gave them authority over the unclean spirits, to cast them out {and away from people, example, the squealing herd of the Gadarenes} and to heal every disease and affliction. 2 The names of the twelve apostles are these, Simon, who’s called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother; 3 Philip and Bartholomew (the surname of Nathanael); Thomas and Matthew the tax collector; James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus/Jude (brother of this second James? also referred to as Lebbaeus?); 4 Simon the Zealot, and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him.

     5 These twelve Jesus sent out, instructing [paraggello] {telling} them, “Don’t go among the Gentiles and don’t enter any town of the Samaritans, 6 but go instead to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. [Gentile believers are reckoned as in the “commonwealth of Israel”.] {Israel is the name of God’s kingdom. Jerusalem the enduring capital. We thought Satan (the “accuser/slanderer”) and world’s hatred was vain?}

     7 And as you go, proclaim the kingdom of heaven is at hand. {God could have redeemed the world then. And where would we be?} 8 Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, cast out demons. You received without earning or pay, and so give without reward. 9 Acquire no gold or silver or copper. 10 Take no money belt nor bag for your journey, nor two tunics or extra sandals or a staff, for the laborer deserves his keep.” {Be ready, especially within, to go as we are, at a moment’s notice?}

     11 “And whatever town or village you enter, find who’s worthy in it and stay there until you leave. 12 When you enter a house, greet it. 13 And if the house is worthy, let your peace come upon it, but if it’s not worthy, let your peace return to you. 14 And anyone who isn’t receptive and welcoming to you, and won’t hear your words, shake the dust from off your feet when you leave that house or town.” {Don’t ruminate..} 15 “Truly, I tell you, it will be more bearable on the ‘day’ of judgment for the {notorious} land of Sodom and Gomorrah, than it will for that town.” {During GWT Judgment/Discernment/Review/Closure For All ‘DAY’.}

           

Tomorrows verses, 01/31

Romans 5:16-21  Matthew 10:16-26  and ACTS 15:22-41 separately

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

have a great day! ☀️🕊️

Revelation Riddle - Big Beast

The Book of Revelation is full of riddles! But once the mystery of them is unlocked, they fit together like the pieces to a puzzle forming a complete picture. There a lot of ruminating over who (or what) "the beast" of Revelation/Apocalypse chapter 13 is. One of the most important things to notice, and surprisingly, some don't, is that there are two beasts in that chapter! There is the many headed, many horned and many crowned beast of verse 1 through 10, and then there is the (smaller) two horned (two office) beast of verses 11 through 18.
- Of course a big clue to Bible prophecy riddles is cross-references, those other Bible verses which are closely linked, having words or similarities in common. Such a reference to the description of the larger beast of Revelation/Apocalypse chapter 13, verses 1 through 10, is found in Daniel chapter 7, verses 7 and 19.
- Here are the two references - Young's Literal Translation (YLT):

Revelation 13

 ¹And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and I saw out of the sea a beast coming up, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon its horns ten diadems, and upon its heads a name of evil speaking..

Daniel 7

 ⁷After this I was seeing in the visions of the night, and lo, a fourth beast, terrible and fearful, and exceedingly strong; and it hath iron teeth very great, it hath consumed, yea, it doth break small, and the remnant with its feet it hath trampled; and it [is] diverse from all the beasts that [are] before it; and it hath ten horns.
 ¹⁹Then I wished for certainty concerning the fourth beast, that was diverse from them all, fearful exceedingly; its teeth of iron, and its nails of brass, it hath devoured, it doth break small, and the remnant with its feet it hath trampled..

To make the riddle more certain, is the phrase "its teeth of iron, and its nails of brass" which brings us to yet another important cross-reference, one not well noticed, or at least I have never come across any reference to it by any other Bible prophecy buffs.


An Ancient Dream of a Huge Statue - Of Ancient World Empires (with impact upon Israel) and a last World Empire:

Daniel 2

 ³²This image! its head [is] of pure gold, its breasts and its arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of brass;

³³its legs of iron, its feet, part of them of iron, and part of them of clay.. (ten toes)..
( ³⁴Thou wast looking till that a stone hath been cut out without hands, and it hath smitten the image on its feet, that [are] of iron and of clay, and it hath broken them small..)

Bible scholars agree, the brass represented Greece, and the iron represented Rome ("iron teeth", ancient iron columns of Rome!) To find the identity of the many headed, many horned (seated) and many crowned (rulers, modern) we need to look for its Graeco/Roman roots (of philosophy, arts, architecture, politics, etc). Preceeded by the golden head, being Babylon, and the Silver, being (Media)-Persia.

Daniel 7:19 - Amplified Bible (AMP)

¹⁹Then I wished to know the truth about the fourth beast--which was different from all the others, exceedingly terrible and shocking, whose teeth were of iron and its nails of bronze, (or brass) which devoured, broke and crushed, and trampled what was left with its feet-- [What the iron doesn't devour, the Greek (secular humanism / nowadays "humans are the higher power" philosophy) will break up and trample underfoot..]