N.Testament & Prophecy Advanced CU Study, verses paraphrased [ ] references { } thots
• Philippians 3:1-7 Matthew 21:10-22
☀️ Philippians 3:1-7
1 - Finally, my brethren! Rejoice in the Lord!
To repeat these things to you is no trouble to me! (Paul.) And it’s safety for you!
2 Look out for the dogs {eat dogs, don’t be like them} look out for the evildoers, for those who mutilate the flesh. 3 For we are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God, and glory in Christ Jesus and we put no confidence in our own efforts {to save us out from death and its cause}.
4 Though I actually could boast and have confidence in those things that are esteemed among man. I could boast more than others! 5 I was circumcised on the “eighth day”, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews. As to the law, a Pharisee. 6 As to zeal, a persecutor of the church! And so, as to righteousness under the law, blameless. 7 But whatever standing I had {in man’s world, in an empire of man} I counted as loss for the sake of Christ.
π Matthew 21:10-22
10 - Jesus had entered Jerusalem (riding a donkey, with a crowd before and behind crying “Hosanna!” and waving palm branches).
And so the whole city (crowds there for Passover) was stirred up. People were saying, “Who is this?!” 11 And others answered, “This is the prophet Jesus, from Nazareth of Galilee!”
12 Meanwhile, Jesus went into the temple, and drove out all who were selling and buying, by overturning the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who were selling. 13 And he said to them, “It is written! ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer’! But you’ve made it a den of thieves!”
14 Then the blind, and the lame, came to him in the temple, and he healed them. 15 But when the chief priests and the scribes (leaders of the nation) saw the wonderful things he was doing, and the children crying out in the temple, “Hosanna to the Son of David!” they were indignant and offended.
16 They said to him, “Do you hear what these children are saying?!” Jesus answered, “Yes. Have you never read, ‘Out of the mouth of infants and nursing babies you have put praise’?”
17 And leaving them, he went out of the city to Bethany and lodged there. 18 Then in the morning, as he was returning to the city, he became hungry. 19 And seeing a fig tree by the wayside, he went to it and found nothing on it but leaves only. {No fruit.} And he said to it, “May you never bear fruit again!”
{Cursed the “fruit” tree! Like saying(?) “Fear God!” if you are abusing others, especially “little ones”.. For it’s He - who cAn destroy body and soul/psyche in gehenna”/this slow fading away/entropy/crucible of imperfection - but who doesn’t! Being “savior of aLL” 1Tim.4:10.}
And the fig tree withered at once. 20 When the disciples saw it, they marveled, saying, “How did the fig tree wither at once like that!?” 21 And Jesus answered, “Truly, I tell you, if you have faith and don’t doubt, you’ll not only do what’s been done to this fig tree, but if you say to this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,’ it will happen.
22 And whatever you ask for in prayer, you will receive. If you have faith.”
Tomorrows verses, 04/15
Philippians 3:8-14 Matthew 21:23-32
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! ☀️π️
