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GospeL Verses ~ Matthew 5:27-37
Jesus continues his sermon on the mountain(side) - 27 - “You’ve heard it said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ 28 Yet I tell you, everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has committed adultery with her in his heart. 29 If your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and throw it away. (Logically metaphor, drama.) It is better that you lose one of your eyes than that your whole body be thrown into Gehenna [a valley West and South of Jerusalem] fire [aka judgment]. [A valley where the city dump was where as a great insult, even criminal bodies were thrown, so the “fires” were constant as were the “worms”.] (Life as we presently know it, this all important contrast - is a ‘parable’ of the decomposing ‘apple’ and the worm/imperfection/corruption/impurity that doesn’t quit. One speck on the apple, and the apple cannot reverse its course.) 30 And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your hands than that your whole body go into gehenna fire. [Decomposition is ‘fiery’ - example, the compost pile.. or the dry, dead leaf exposed to constant sunlight. And Gehenna is also the valley where very fiery Armageddon battle will be fought, the culmination of this wayward way, Is.24:20. God’s judgment.] 31 “It’s also said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.’ 32 But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries her commits adultery. 33 And you’ve heard it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not swear falsely, but shall perform the oath you’ve sworn.’ 34 But I yell you, don’t take an oath at all, either by heaven, for it is the throne of God, 35 or by the earth, for it’s his footstool, or by Jerusalem, for it’s the city of the great King. 36 And don’t take an oath by your head, for you can’t make one hair white or black. 37 Let what you say be simply ‘Yes’ or ‘No’, anything more than this comes from the evil one.”
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From New Testament Letters
(In the Order Believed Written)
~ Romans 2:1-5 ~
1 - Therefore you have no excuse, O man [รกnthrลpos – man, mankind, the human race, people, including women and men] every one of you who judges (another rather than self). For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, are the same, with the same shortcomings. (In the same human condition, which is flawed. We’re not perfect. But it’s like a dis-ease, and the prognosis is terminal! Thus the rescue/being saved. We feel immortal, but are we? “He alone is immortal” 1Tim.6:16.) 2 We know however that the judgment of God that falls upon erring man, is according to truth. [Judgment - krima, from krรญnล, "to distinguish, judge.] 3 Do you suppose, O man, that you who judge ‘the others’ practicing such things (still wild weeds) and yet do them yourself (yet you who also are still not perfect) that you will escape the judgment of God? 4 Or do you presume upon the *riches of his kindness and his forbearance and his patience* not knowing that God's kindness is meant to lead to repentance? (Kindness for one. Kindness for all.) 5 But - because of your hard and impenitent heart, you, are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God's righteous judgment will be revealed. (I think his sure and effective judgment is letting us go our own way [chapter 1] and letting everything run its course, especially collectively. Individually, I figure it’s the same for all of us. Why not? “We did not choose God, he chose us.. by lot”. By a lucky shake of the dice. I am struggling with a particular thing. Can it possibly be true that many, even most(?) Christian Universalists actually believe in a temporary ‘hell’? Yes, I am shocked. It’s extremely illogical. God’s judgment is Truth. God’s truth that resounds within us. WhAt needs to be appeased by a blood๐ฉธsacrifice? God?!? No, it’s an “atonement” yes. But for the delicate human psyche, surely? [A greek word translated ‘soul’ which the greek means an individual, a unique personality.] Have you ever beat yourself up over something? In bible speak it’s “with many stripes” during judgment ‘day’. Do we really think God will be flogging people? Instead of Jesus drawing all, Jn.12:32. Not that there are not many, if not all of us that deserve such! But beating ourselves up is part of the process of “repenting/changing”, agreeing to be perfect/perfected. But don’t think this is license and no consequences. No, it’s kind of like giving us (anthropos) enough rope to mess ourselves up.. And the world. Yet we think we are so smart..
And Christian Universalism only has gone so far. We figured out aion and its adjective aionios (root of eon) but then stopped. Is it because of the human tendency toward idols? We make our teachers idols? And so we cannot go beyond them? An artificial limit upon God! With the Lord’s phrase aionios kolasin, we have not escaped the translator’s liberty of choosing and preferring the most extreme usage of the word meaning “correction”. It’s lodged still in our psyche as punishment. Yes, translators interpreted the phrase as ‘never ending punishment’. We have risen above only half of that horrendous translation. We judge those chosen for the role different than ours. We are corrected, but they are punished. But GOD chooses when each one of us are “called” and the blinders come off - whether during this brief lifetime, or during the eonian correction - SAME correction we go through now. We, the saved now, the wheat, get to serve, called reigning, during His long second advent - of “the” millennium and “the judgment/aionois kolasin”, eonian correction. Logically, this is when Jesus will complete his “drawing of all to Himself” Jn.22:32. His long second advent being a wider, longer version of his first so brief one. And for us, the wheat, to help by serving is called reigning, for to do HiS works, surely? is to reign. No need for pitchforks, even temporarily.)
(Clues for us: the “sWord that comes out of Jesus’ mouth with which he will strike the nations” is the exact same thing as the “iron rod” - unbreakable measuring stick/rod - with which “he will shatter and rule the nations” - Rev.19:15, Ps.2, Jn.17:17! ..Which points directly to the rest of the verse - 19:15 - “He will tread the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty!” - What is his wrath? The full cup is the bowls of the revelation vision. Rev.16:13-16, Is.24:20, Zech.14:4.
And the rest of Rev.19 is graphic. Surely, in the vision, it was ww3. The “smoke of which will rise forever” and because of Rev.21:1-5, the rising forever must be in every heart, mind and memory.)
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Tomorrow’s Verses:
Matthew 5:38-48
Romans 2:6-16
A link to the reading schedule is pinned. {God gave the schedule, a section at a time. I’m often impressed with how well the gospel section and the letter section complement one another.}
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Acts last week, 20:1-16 ✔️
Rev/Apoc this week, 20:7-10 ✔️
Prophets - Isaiah summary ✔️ next, Daniel
Prophets - Each part includes the previous parts also. Disclaimer, some are long.
Is.11:7 - The lion will eat straw like the ox!
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