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. {๐คThis 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 - eikแนn - from eรญkล - to be like, reflects its source (what it corresponds to) eikแนn assumes a prototype, of which it not merely resembles, but from which it is drawn" (R. Trench) (eikแนn) 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”.}
๐ 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! ☀️๐️
