09-12 - James 4 1-6 Luke 11 14-28

Verses paraphrased due to ©‘s [ref] {thots}

(An 8TH ‘DAY’ CU Studies Journal)

            ☀️ A.M. James 4:1-6

1 - What causes quarrels and disputes? (Rivalry.) Is it not your passions [hédoné {ism}] at war within you? 2 You desire and don’t have, so you murder (hate in the heart). You covet and can’t obtain, so you fight and quarrel. {Make wars, large and small, collective and individual.}

     And you don’t have, because you don’t ask! 3 Or you ask and don’t receive, because you ask wrongly, in self interest/obsession(?) [hédoné] {ism}. 4 You unfaithful people! [Gal.5:20]

     Do you not know that friendship with {listening to, siding with} the world is to be adversarial with God? Wishing to be a friend of “the world” makes us an adversary of God. 5 Do you think it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, “With jealousy, yearns God’s Spirit{/Presence} to dwell/settle in us”? 6 Nevertheless his grace is greater! Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud [hyperḗphanos - over shining]. But he gives grace to the humble.” {…”the wisdom of humility”.}

            🌙 P.M. Luke 11:14-28

14 - Jesus healed a man who was mute by casting out a demon, and when the man spoke, the people marveled. 15 But some said, “He casts out demons by Beelzebul, the prince of demons!” {..Spirit (trend) of accusation, and who is “the accuser?}

     16 Even while others, trying to test him, kept asking him for a sign from heaven. 17 But he knew what they were thinking, so he said to them, “Every kingdom/empire/nation/house which is divided against itself will be laid waste.

     For a divided household {and nation, etc.} falls. 18 So if Satan is divided against himself, how will his kingdom continue? 19 If I cast out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your sons cast them out?

     Therefore they will judge you over it. 20 But if it’s by the finger of God that I cast out demons, then the kingdom of God has come among you.

     21 If a strong man {of the household/nation} is fully armed, and is guarded well, the house is safe. 22 But if one stronger than he attacks, and is able to conquer him, his armor in which he trusted is carried away, and his house becomes spoils to be divided among the conquerors. 23 Whoever’s not with me, is {easily} against me, and whoever doesn’t gather with me, scatters.

     24 “When the unclean spirit has gone out of a person {or world/age/nation} it passes through desert places looking for somewhere to settle, and finding none it says, ‘I’ll return to the house where I was.’ 25 And when it comes, it finds the house swept and put in order. 26 Then it goes and gathers seven other spirits more evil than itself! And they enter and make theirselves at home there.

     And the last state is worse than the first.” {The vessel needs to be full ..of God’s Spirit/Presence. ..Barbarism cAn return. ..a note from 2025..}

     27 As he said these things, a woman in the crowd yelled out, “Blessed is the womb that bore you! And the bosom at which you nursed!” 28 But he said, “Rather [menounge - rather, on the contrary] blessed are those who hear the word [logos - reasoning expressed in words] of God and keep it.” [“Thy Logos is Truth” Jn.17:17. The personified aNd the written (with language tools! So we can read the original which God inspired.)

📜🍞 ♱🍷🕊️ (♱𝕝𝕠𝕘𝕚𝕔) plus language tools.]

Tomorrows verses, 09/13

James 4:7-11 Luke 11:29-36

Yesterday separately - Revelation Study, 09/11, Trumpets/Rosh Hashanah - The Vision - 1st week - 6:1-4

Word references - biblehub dot com’s app

Start/End 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 good day! ☀️🕊️

10-18 - Galatians 6 1-8

scriptures paraphrased to post 

   🕊️a reading & study 🕊️

1 - Brethren, if someone has become captured by a transgression {dissolution, corruption} [paraptóma - from parapipto: a side-slip (lapse or deviation), i.e. (unintentional) error or (willful) transgression -- fall, fault, offence, sin, trespass] you who are spiritual should restore them in a spirit of gentleness. But keep a watch upon yourself, lest you be tempted and pulled in as well. 2 But if you carry one another's burdens, you will fulfill the law of Christ. {Versus “bite and devour each other”? Gal.5:15.} 3 For if any of us thinks we are someone, we deceive our self.

     4 We should all test our own work, for then we will have the satisfaction of a job well done and won’t need to compare ourself to another. 5 Everyone has a burden to bear, that is theirs only.

     6 Let the one who is taught the word share all good things with the one who teaches. 7 Don’t be deceived, God is not mocked. [Muktérizó - sneered at, the nose turned up at, contemptuously rejected.😳] {“All the world is a stage” - Shakespeare.} Whatever one sows {puts out} is what they reap. 8 For the one who sows to the {so easily misled} carnal, lower nature {including division/war/beast nature} will reap corruption [phthora - destruction, decay, decomposition] {things fall apart}. But the one who sows to the Spirit, from the Spirit they will reap a harvest of Life enduring!

     “..you who are spiritual should restore them in a spirit of gentleness..”

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🗝️ [  ] - word/language insights, 

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      {  } - thots

Tomorrow - Galatians 6:9-18

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

09-19 - LUKE 12 49-59

paraphrased ‘enter the story’

  🕊️reading & study 🕊️

49 - He also said to the crowds, “I came to bring fire upon the earth, and I wish it were already kindled!” {To be done with this imperfection. He brought a sword. White horse openly victorious over powers and principalities, and the response? Red horse of war.. which is given a long and great sword.. Wars are fiery. And start with the so often popular division. Each new hatred considering itself righteous and enlightened, but is just another fiery siren call. It’s so good to know, all shall dwell together, not just in peace, but in love and genuine affection. And nothing else.}

     50 “I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how great is my distress until it’s finished! 51 Do you think that I have come to bring peace to the earth? No, I tell you, but rather division, the choosing of sides. 52 From now on in one house there will be five divided, three against two and two against three. 53 There will be father against son, son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. 54 When you see a cloud in the west, you say, ‘A shower is coming.’ And so it does. 55 And when you see a south wind blowing, you say, ‘It will be warm,’ and so it is. 56 You are actors. You know how to read earth and sky (weather). Why do you not know how to read the times?” (Divided we fall.) 57 “And why do you not judge for yourselves? 58 As you go to law with your accuser - make every effort to be reconciled - lest you be dragged into court, and the judge hand you over to the officer, and the officer put you in jail. 59 I tell you, you will not get out untiL you pay the last penny owed.”

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🗝️ [  ] - word/language insights,

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      {  } - thots

Tomorrow - Luke 13:1-9

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)

MATTHEW 15 1-20

   🍃🕊️ 02/24 - GospeL Verses 🕊️🍃

1 - Some Pharisees and scribes came along, from Jerusalem and asked Jesus, 2 “Why do your disciples break the - tradition - of the elders? For they don’t wash their hands when they eat.” 3 He answered, “Why do you break the commandment/instruction/law - of God - for the sake of your tradition? 4 For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘the one who curses father or mother in death ends.’ 5 But you say, ‘If anyone tells his father or his mother, “What I would have given to you as aid {in your old age} is instead given [is in trust, as an offering] to God,” 6 then they need not honor mother or father.’ So for the sake of your tradition, you have annulled the word of God. 7 You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, when he said 8 “‘These people honor me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. 9 In vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments, (guidance, instructions) of men.’”

     10 And he called the people to him and told them, “Hear and understand, 11 it’s not what goes into the mouth that ruins a person, but what comes out of the mouth.”

     12 A little later, the disciples said to him, “Do you know the the Pharisees were offended at what you said?” 13 He answered them, “Every plant my heavenly Father has not planted will be rooted up. 14 Let them be, they are blind guides. And if the blind leads the blind, both will fall into a pit.” {The wolf puts on sheep’s clothing. “The World” talks a good talk, and many are misled.} 15 But Peter said, “Explain the parable to us.” 16 And Jesus said, “Are you too without understanding, and still don’t see? 17 What goes into the mouth passes into the stomach and is expelled? 18 But what comes out of the mouth comes from the heart, and this ruins a person. 19 For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness/accusation, slander. 20 These are what pollutes. But to eat with unwashed hands does not pollute.” {Speaking slander and accusation, as they did about Jesus and later believers, is evidence of contamination of the heart. Blind guides guiding - embrace hate, division is unity, the ‘us and them’ mentality the world and its powers find so very useful. Pollutions of heart.. blind leading the blind who receive it.. Also the spiritual teaching of lawlessness. We cannot be transformed by - rules and laws which are external - proven failed with one nation, with the first human pair, and pre flood was hands off, but “the seed” Jesus implanted, and nurtured and watered, does away with lawlessness and the (selfish, lower vibration if you will) pollutions of the heart and mind. And we grow and mature to fuLL transformation at (one of two) vivifications which is the “putting on of perfection/incorruptibility” thus the enduring Life.. Which following blind guides of any sort just slows, delays, stagnates the process. Anything unTrue is a waste of time. 2Tim.3:16 is better, Psalm 1, with offering and sacrifices of praise and thanksgiving.. singing in heart and spirit, with the habitual practice of quiet listening/“waiting upon God”. This will rebound into fruits of the Spirit rather than the common pollutions of the heart, that often masquerade as being the greater good. Fruits of the flesh, “wars among you”, slander, accusations, division, factions, discord and dispute, (embrace the hate) as somehow righteous, Gal.5:19-26. Habitually human, same old, same old, since Cain slew Abel.}

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      {  } - thots

Tomorrows verses - John 6:41-51

My own studies and thoughts. Verses paraphrased.

Gehenna

I think imperfection, by its nature, ends up as war. It begins with competition.. It becomes dog eat dog.. It becomes a fiery gehenna, war. It’s not that all must become incredibly evil (yet given enough time and circumstance). All it takes is some to be willing to do harm in order to be a ‘king of the hill’ - this is the spirit of babylon that is responsible for all slain upon earth.. Yet the kingdom we insist on ruling can be very small..

     God is Life and “is perfect”, Mt.5:48. Imperfect (i.e. straying) can never work. Life as we presently know it (imperfection) is a slow motion gehenna. From which we shall emerge clear as crystal.

The Administration of Ages Post Apocalypse

     Does Revelation chapter 20 portray events as though they are the crests of waves, leaving out the in between? It says “after the thousand years” (commonly called the millennium, a 7th, and Sabbath rest from the adversary) is when the adversary is released from his imprisonment. He then goes out to all the earth, to gather them to the Gog-Magog war. (Final, last war!) He is of course gathering the descendants of natural/mortal survivors of the collapse and war that was apocalypse. They are gathered and they surround the millennial Jerusalem.

     We’ve been sort of taught(?) that both this, and the Great White Throne Judgment, are flash in the pan instantaneous events.

     Jerusalem is surrounded. Fire rains down upon them from above and consumes them. (Middle mention of a lake of fire.) And then, all of the dead, are dead.

     The ancient of days comes and takes his seat and books are opened - yet I no longer see this time as a court like procedure, but more like Shakespeare’s “all the world is a stage”.

     For me, a breakthrough came when I was allowed to imagine mYself rising into the judgment instead of into the millennium (Mt.25:11,12; Rev.20:14,15). If I died “still in my sins” I figured I would rise that way. Much after that of course, I don’t know. Except initiaL conditions for some portrayed in the rich man and Lazarus parable. But we are supposed to believe everyone’s sins are displayed, they stand naked upon a cold, hard courtroom floor and then they are all dumped into a fiery lake until they figure things out. It’s easy to think we’ve been heartless and cruel in our thinking.. and maybe I’m exaggerating.. but isn’t this more likely the continuation of punishing ourselves? We just can’t let go of hell, not all together. Yet I’m not sure why we are so special that for us it’s all mercy and gentle correction. But! Sometimes the human psyche doesn’t make much sense.

     So my perception of ‘great court day’ changed. Jesus said he will draw all (Jn.12:32). Sure some merciless despots, tyrants, slave traffickers, serial killers.. may awaken to a bit of terror. Let us hope so and I don’t apologize for that attitude. But.. can you imagine, eventually, the gut wrenching anguish and remorse! Oh. Dear. To see the faces of your victims.. and theiR anguish, and the anguish of their loved ones. And don’t you think there will be closure for all. All individuals, of all generations of all nations.

     Aren’t those who rose in the “first resurrection” going to serve during the Lord’s (long) second advent? With a crown of Life, not one of metal. Isn’t it called reigning because we will be helping by doing His works? Which he did during his so brief first advent. If we are to “inherit glory” the question to my mind would be, to what purpose? I don’t think it would be any sort of pageant and the crowd goes wild sort of thing. And the “rod of iron” surely(?) is Truth, a measuring rod that simply cannot be broken. Same as the sWord that, yes, destroys, but comes from the mouth of the Lord, from between his lips. (Which makes Rev.11 a little more down to earth also.)

     The root word of logic, is logos. Surely this “administration of the ages” is one process for all. (All mentioned together in 1 Corinthians 15:22-24 and 28, with—Mt.13:33, key word 3. God’s threefold harvest. Barley, wheat, and grape.) And the ancient holy days (Lev.23) being an obvious outline (once we see it) of that entire administration.

What A Long Day!

Can I even remember what was in my mind to blog this morning..?
I came across this sort of, well known saying, recently, "Once abolish the God and the government becomes the God." --G.K.Chesterton.
- And I thought of it later when I read "..the hireling when he sees the wolf, leaves the sheep and flees.." John 10:12,13.
- I hate to leave it at that, after all I don't want to focus on the negative! It's simply preparing just a bit 4 the negative.. and maybe not even us, but maybe our kids and grand kids..
Matthew 24:29-31 "Immediately after the tribulation of those days.. shall they see the Son of man coming on the clouds.. He will send His angels with the great sound of the trumpet and they shall gather His elect from the four winds.."
- "The cow and the bear shall graze,
    their young shall lie down together;
    and the lion shall eat straw like the ox." Isaiah 11:7
- He will settle arguments
between distant
    and powerful nations.
They will pound their swords
and their spears
    into rakes and shovels;
they will never again make war
    or attack one another.
 Everyone will find rest
beneath their own fig trees
    or grape vines,
and they will live in peace.
This is a solemn promise
    of the Lord All-Powerful." Micah 4:4
                   (Contemporary English Version)
- "...from the four winds.." Some versions read "from the four corners" (of the world) and some have used this verse to claim Jesus thought the world was flat. (Rofl! North, South, East, West! dah.. Oh well, I wasn't born believing either!)
-  "The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep.." John 10:11. "My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.." John 10:27. ["..the good shepherd gives his life for the sheep." John 10:11]

The Seven Seals of God (The Second Seal)

Revelation 6:3,4
Good News Translation (GNT)
Then the Lamb broke open the second seal; and I heard the second living creature say,  Come! Another horse came out, a red one. Its rider was given the power to bring war on the earth, so that people should kill each other. He was given a large sword.
- The second galloping, progressing element of the latter age, the years of our Lord, A.D., is war, larger war (world wars), and growing larger weaponry. This is the Second Horseman of the Apocalypse.
- The Book of Revelation was written almost 2000 years ago, by the Apostle John, one of the original twelve disciples of Jesus, in approximately 90 A.D.

Root of All Evil

Any philosophy or thinking that makes the claim one group, party, or race of people is more to 'blame' for earth's woes (or a nation's woes) is a bigotry. When we hear it we need to see it as the propaganda it is, and as the (true) root of most wars. It's the oldest 'game' of all, the blame game and the human race falls for it over and over.. and over..
- And we should despise it any time we see it.

Reading Bible Prophecy 2012, #1

The "four horsemen of the apocalypse" pick up their gallop. The gospel (the first horse and rider, a white horse) picks up its gallop/progression. Then "wars and rumors of war" increase. The 2nd horseman, or element, of the 'latter' age of the year's A.D. is war, a red horse. The 3rd horse's march has to do with trade ("weights and balance" a black horse). All things economic slide. The 4th horseman is called "death" and "the grave" (mass) "follows after him" - this one is "pestilence" including chemical (we've seen this in our age and will see it again). This horseman rides a "pale horse".
- These four horsemen are the first four seals in the Book of Revelation. The 5th seal is persecutions and murders for the faith, and that too accelerates. The 6th  seal is thermal-nuclear winds.
- When each "seal" is described, very early on in the Book of Revelation narrative, they are described in a blend of what they are when first "opened" and what they are at the 'end' in their fully progressed state. [This obscures the Apocalypse vision, a first lock, and key.] This new wind, the sixth seal, was "opened" in 1945, then are seen "four angels at the four corners" (directions, north, south, east, west) "of the world holding back the wind" so it "not harm earth or trees" for a space of time (Rev 7:1). This progressing/galloping element of the years of our Lord A.D. also accelerates, as what's prophesied unfolds and occurs.
- - Matthew 24:7,8 - New King James Version (NKJV) - "For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of sorrows."