Saturday, January 11, 2025

2 Corinthians 13 1-9

01/11 ~ From New Testament Letters

  πŸ•Š️ (In the Order Believed Written)

1 - I’m on my way to visit you for the third time. And as the Scriptures say, “Any charges must be proved true by at least two or three witnesses.” 2 During my second visit I gave warning, as also now while absent, and as I will when I come again. 3 It should prove to you that I am speaking for Christ, for when he corrects he won't be weak. He will be powerful! 4 Yes he was weak when he was nailed to the cross, but he now lives by the power of God. We are weak, just as Christ was. But you will see that we shall live by the power of God, as Christ does. 5 Test yourselves and find out if you really are true to your faith! If you pass the test, you’ll discover that Christ is living in you. But if Christ isn't living in you, you will fail. 6 I hope you will discover we have not failed. 7 So we pray to God that you may not do wrong, not that we may appear to have met the test, but that you may do what is right, though we may seem to be unapproved. 8 For we have no power against the truth, but only for the truth. 9 For we are glad when we are weak and you are strong. Your restoration is what we pray for.

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Tomorrows verses - 2 Corinthians 13:10-14

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A Daily ‘Enter the Story’ N.T. Letters Reading & Study


JOHN 4 3-26

   πŸƒπŸ•Š️01/11 - GospeL Verses πŸƒπŸ•Š️

3 - When Jesus left Judea and departed again for Galilee, 4 he had to pass through Samaria. 5 And he came to Sychar, near the field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph, 6 where Jacob's well is. Jesus, weary from his journey, was sitting beside the well, and it was about the sixth hour. [Around noon.] 7 And a woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.” 8 His disciples had gone into the town to buy food. 9 The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a woman of Samaria?” It being that Hebrews have no dealings with Samaritans. (Believed to be half Assyrian, Israel was to stay ‘separate’ from the nations.)  10 Jesus said to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that’s saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would ask him, and he would give you living water.”

     11 The woman said, “Sir, you have nothing to draw water with! And the well is deep. How will you get the living (fresh) water? 12 Are you greater than our father Jacob? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and all his livestock.” 13 Jesus said, “Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again, 14 but whoever drinks of the water that I give will not thirst again. The water that I give becomes a spring of water welling up into nonfading (“aionion”) life.” 15 The woman said, “Sir, give me this water! So I won’t thirst and have to come here to draw water.”

     16 Jesus said to her, “Go and call your husband, and come back.” 17 The woman answered him, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You are right in saying, ‘I have no husband’ 18 for you have had five husbands, and the one you now have isn’t your husband. You have said the truth.” 19 The woman said, “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. 20 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you say Jerusalem is the place where people should worship.” {Every pattern has meaning.} 21 Jesus said, “Believe me woman, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father.  22 You worship what you don’t know. We worship what we know, for salvation is of the Jews. 23 But the hour’s coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth, for the Father is seeking such to worship him. 24 God is spirit, and those who worship, must worship in spirit and truth.”

     25 The woman said, “I know Messiah’s coming, who is called Christ, and when he comes, he will tell us all things.” 26 Jesus said to her, “I who speak to you am he.”

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Tomorrows verses - John 4:27-44

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Friday, January 10, 2025

2 CORINTHIANS 12 13-21

  01/10 ~ From New Testament Letters

  πŸ•Š️ (In the Order Believed Written)

13 - Were you in less favor than the rest of the churches? Because I didn’t burden you? Forgive me this wrong! 14 Here for a third time I am ready to come to you. And I won’t be a burden, for I seek not what is yours but you yourselves. For the children aren’t expected to feed the the parents, but parents, the children. 15 So I will gladly even spend my soul {for the Lord’s sheep}. If I love abundantly, am I to be loved less?16 But granting that I myself didn’t burden you, I was crafty, and I caught you. {A fisher of men.} 17 No one I’ve sent, has exploited you.

 18 It was me who urged Titus to go to you, and sent the brother with him. And in all innocence, for do we not act in the same spirit? And walk in the same steps? 19 Have you been thinking we’ve been defending ourselves to you? It’s in the sight of God that we’ve been speaking in Christ, and all for your upbuilding, beloved. 20 For I fear that perhaps when I come I may find you not as I wish, and that you may find me not as you wish.

     Will there be quarreling? Jealousy? Anger, hostility, slander, gossip, conceit, and disorder? 21 I’m afraid when I come again my God may humble me before you, and I may have to mourn over many of those who sinned earlier and haven’t repented of [changed their mind and turned from] the impurity [akatharsia - from a - not, and katharsis - genuine, to have no mixture or contamination {rev.14:4} root of catharsis; impurity, contamination] they were practicing.

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Tomorrows verses - 2 Corinthians 13:1-9

By Necessity Paraphrased

A Daily ‘Enter the Story’ Reading & Study


MATTHEW 4 18-23

  πŸƒπŸ•Š️01/10 - GospeL Verses πŸƒπŸ•Š️

18 - While walking by the Sea of Galilee, Jesus saw two brothers, Simon (who’s called Peter) and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen. 19 And he said to them, “Follow me, and I’ll make you fishers of men!”

    20 And immediately they dropped and left their nets, and followed after him. 21 They went on from there, and he saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee and John his brother in the boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets, and he called out to them,  22 and immediately they left the boat and their father, and followed after him.

23 And he went throughout the whole of Galilee, teaching in the synagogues, proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all diseases and afflictions among the people.

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Tomorrows verses - John 4:3-26

By Necessity Paraphrased

A Daily ‘Enter the Story’ Reading & Study


Revelation 20 1-6

 WeeKly BooK oF Revelation

      By Necessity Slightly 

             Paraphrased      

1 - Then I (John) saw an angel descending from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the abyss and a great chain. 2 And he seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years {God has been permissive?} 3 and threw him into the abyss {imperfection/straying/going rogue is an abyss of potential} and shut it and sealed it over him, so he cannot deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years are over. After that he must be released for a little while. {For the first half of an “8th” millennium.. According to the pattern of the Fall holy days, Leviticus 23.}

     4 Then I saw thrones [thronos - seats of authority]. And given judgment were those seated upon them. Also I saw the souls of those beheaded because of the testimony of Jesus and because of the message of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not taken its mark upon their foreheads or upon their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. 5 The rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years are completed. This is the first resurrection. 6 Blessed [makarios - blessed, happy, fortunate] and holy [hagios - holy, sacred, set apart] are those who have a part {& role?} in the first resurrection! Over these the second [second in a series, the second time something occurs] death has no power, but they will be priests [hiereus - minister in a priestly office] {minister what to whom?} of God and of Christ, and they will reign [basileúō - exercise dominion] with him {for/during} the thousand years.

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Thursday, January 9, 2025

ACTS 20 1-16

         WeekLy BooK oF Acts

1 - When the uproar (in Ephesis) was over, Paul sent for the disciples, and after encouraging them, he said farewell and left for Macedonia. 2 When he had gone through there and given much encouragement, he came to Greece. 3 There he spent three months, and as he was about to set sail for Syria, he heard a plot was made against him by the Hebrew leaders, so he decided to return through Macedonia instead. 4 Sopater the Berean, son of Pyrrhus, accompanied him. Also Aristarchus and Secundus from Thessalonica, Gaius and Timothy of Derbe, and the Asians, Tychicus and Trophimus. 5 These went on ahead of us, and were waiting for us at Troas (Luke with them, like in most of chapter 16) 6 but we sailed away from Philippi after the days of Unleavened Bread. [The two days, and the whole week, were referred to as both Passover and Unleavened Bread.] And in five days we arrived there, and we stayed for seven days.

     7 Then on the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul was conversing, intending to depart the next day, and was speaking until midnight. 8 We had lit many lamps in the upper room where we were gathered. 9 And a young man named Eutychus, sitting at the window, sank into a deep sleep as Paul talked still longer. And being overcome by sleep, he fell down from the third story and was taken up dead! 10 But Paul went down and bent over him, and taking him in his arms, said, “It’s okay! His life is in him.” 11 And when Paul had gone back up and we had broken bread and eaten, he conversed still a long while, until daybreak, and then we left. 12 And they took the youth away alive, and were greatly encouraged.

     13 We went ahead to the ship, and set sail for Assos, but Paul had decided to go by land. 14 And when he met us at Assos, we took him on board and went to Mitylene. 15 And from there, the following day, we sailed opposite Chios. The next day we touched at Samos, and the day after that we went down to Miletus. 16 For Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus, so he wouldn’t spend time in Asia, for he was hoping to be in Jerusalem, if possible, by day of Pentecost.

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2 Corinthians 12 6-12

01/09 ~ From New Testament Letters

  πŸ•Š️ (In the Order Believed Written)

6 - Should I wish to boast, I wouldn’t actually be a fool, for I would be speaking the truth. But I refrain from it, so that no one may think more of me than he sees in me or hears from me. 7 So to keep me from becoming puffed up [huperairΓ³ - lift self up, have exaggerated sense of self-importance] because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited. 8 Three times I pleaded with the Lord that it be removed. 9 But he said, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses! So the power of Christ may rest upon me. 10 For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

     11 I have acted a fool! You forced me to do it, for I ought to have been understood by you, that I was not at all inferior to these super-apostles, even though I am no one special either. 12 The signs of a true apostle were performed among you with utmost patience, with signs and wonders and mighty works. {To promote the message, not the messengers.}

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Tomorrows verses - 2 Corinthians 12:13-21

By Necessity Paraphrased

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MATTHEW 4 12-17

    πŸƒπŸ•Š️01/09 - GospeL Verses πŸƒπŸ•Š️

12 - When Jesus heard that John had been arrested, he withdrew for a while into Galilee. 13 Then later, after leaving Nazareth he went and lived in Capernaum by the sea, in the territory of Zebulun and Naphtali. 14 And so what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah was fulfilled, 15 “The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, by way of the sea, beyond River Jordan, and Galilee of the nations, 16 the people dwelling in darkness have seen a great light, and for those dwelling in the region and shadow of death, on them a light has shined.”

     17 From that time Jesus began to preach, saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”

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Tomorrows verses - Matthew 4:18-23

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Wednesday, January 8, 2025

2 Corinthians 11 30 - 12 5

01/08 ~ From New Testament Letters

  πŸ•Š️ (In the Order Believed Written)

30 - If I boast, I think I should be boasting of the things that show my weakness! 31 The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, he who is blessed forever, knows that I’m not lying about all I’ve been through. 32 Then there was the time at Damascus, the governor under King Aretas was guarding the city in order to seize me. 33 But I was let down in a basket through a window in the wall and escaped from his hands.

     12:1 - Though there’s nothing to be gained by it, this acting the fool and boasting, I’ll go on to visions and revelations of the Lord. 2 Be aware of a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven—whether bodily, or without the body I don’t know, God knows. 3 And I know that this man was caught up into paradise—whether bodily or without of the body I don’t know, God knows, 4 and he heard things that are beyond understanding, which man cannot express. 5 On behalf of this man I’ll boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, except of my weaknesses—

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Tomorrows verses - 2 Corinthians 12:6-12

By Necessity Paraphrased

A Daily ‘Enter the Story’ Reading & Study


JOHN 3 25 - 4 2

   πŸƒπŸ•Š️01/08 - GospeL Verses πŸƒπŸ•Š️

25 - Now a discussion arose between some of John's disciples and another person over purification. 26 So they went to John and said, “Rabbi, he who was with you across the Jordan, the one you bore witness of, is now baptizing, and all are going to him.” 27 John answered them, “A person cannot receive even one thing unless it’s given from heaven. 28 You yourselves bear me witness, that I said, ‘I’m not the Christ, but have been sent before him.’ 29 It’s the one who has the bride, who’s the bridegroom. [A ‘runner’ and announcer would “go before” the bridegroom’s arrival in a Hebrew wedding.] The friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly at the bridegroom's voice. (Telling him to announce.) Therefore this joy of mine is now complete. 30 He must increase, and I will decrease. 31 He who comes from above is above all. He who is of earth belongs to the earth and speaks in an earthly way. He who comes from heaven is above all [pas - all, every, the whole]. 32 He bears witness to/testifies of what he has seen and heard, yet no one receives it {listens, hears it}. 33 Whoever receives his testimony sets this seal, that God is true. 34 For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for without measure does he bestow the Spirit. 35 The Father loves the Son and has given all [pas - all, every, the whole, to which translators through partial unbelief(?) inserted the word “things”] into His hand. 36 Whoever believes in the Son has enduring [aionion/eonian] {brightness of} life {during this age, and will rise into “the” millennium, first half of Jesus’ long second advent}. And whoever is not obeying the Son does not see life, but the wrath of God remains upon them. {The wrath/orge/passion of God being cause and effect as opposed to a merely mechanic, robotic universe containing an ant farm. To believe is to become part of the “first resurrection” which is when entropy is checked by “putting on perfection/incorruption” a total vivification. Imperfect came about by the state of strayed (somewhat) from God who is Life and “is Perfect” - thus the word “reconciled”. Rev.21:5 is (the) second total vivification, to which translators inserted the word “things”. Separated from the “second resurrection” by GWT judgment ‘day’ (“aionion”).}

    4:1 - Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John 2 (although Jesus himself did not baptize, but only his disciples).. {Due to human error, mine, the reading for today stops here? lol)

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Tomorrows verses - Matthew 4:12-17

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Tuesday, January 7, 2025

2 Corinthians 11 10-29

  01/07 ~ From New Testament Letters

    πŸ•Š️ (In the Order Believed Written)

10 - As the truth of Christ is in me (Paul) this boasting of mine won’t be silenced in the regions of Achaia/Greece. 11 And why? Because I don’t love you? God knows I do! 12 And what I’m doing I will continue to do, so as to refute the claim of those who would like to claim that in their boasted {self appointed} mission, they work on the same terms as we do. (Without charge or support.) 13 For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. 14 And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. 15 So it is no surprise if his servants also, masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their ‘end’ [telos - the end-aim, conclusion] will be according to their deeds.

     16 I say, let no one think me foolish. But even if you do, accept me as a fool, so that I too may boast a little. 17 What I’m saying with this boastful confidence, I say not as the Lord would, but as a fool. {To have to deal with and talk about such carnal things.} 18 Since many boast according to carnality, I will boast too. 19 For you gladly bear with fools. Being wise yourselves! 20 For you bear it if someone puts you in chains, or bites at you, takes advantage of you, puts on airs, or strikes you in the face. 21 To my shame, I must say! We were too weak for that!

     But whatever anyone else dares to boast of - I am speaking as a fool - I also dare to boast of it. 22 Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they offspring of Abraham? So am I. {World stature.} 23 Are they servants of Christ? I am a better one - I’m talking like a madman - with far greater labors, way more imprisonments, with countless beatings, and often near to death! 24 Five times I received at the hands of leaders the forty lashes less one. 25 Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I was shipwrecked. For a night and a day I was adrift at sea, 26 often on journeys, in danger from rivers, from robbers, from my own people, from Gentiles, at danger in the city, at danger in the wilderness, facing dangers at sea, dangers from false brothers. 27 Then in toil and hardship, and through many a sleepless night. Also in hunger and thirst, being often without food, and often cold and in exposure to the elements. 28 And apart from all that, there is the daily pressure of my anxiety for all the churches! 29 Who is weak, and I am not weak in spirit with them? And who is misled and made to fall or fail, and my spirit is not set on fire!

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Tomorrows verses - 2 Corinthians 11:30-12:5

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JOHN 3 13-24

   πŸƒπŸ•Š️01/07 - GospeL Verses πŸƒπŸ•Š️

(Jesus is talking with Nicodemus.) 13 - “No one has gone up” or, literal word for word(?) “None [go up, ascend, rise] into heaven, except, he who descended from heaven, the Son of Man. [The word is anabainΓ³.] {Rev.12:5} 14 For, as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up. 15 So that whoever believes in him may have enduring [aion-ian] life. [Jn.12:32 - “..if, or, the greek word ean means - if, whenever, when - I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw all [pas - all, every, the whole, the entire] to myself.” {Pas? Translators, who couldn’t quiTe believe(?) changed “all” into “all things” as often as it would work, in Rev.21:5! Eph.1:10, Jn.13:3! And more. Five times in 1Cor.15:27-28 ..and what, otherwise, is repeated - five times?!}

     16 “The truth is, God so loved the world, he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not - perish - but have enduring [aion-ion/ian] life.” {Is immortal soul just a myth to hold up the biG, so ancient, spiritual propaganda - control the masses - myth??}

     17 “For {the Truth is} God did not send his Son into the world to condemn [krinΓ³ - to decide, determine, judge] the world. But, in order that the world be saved through him. 18 Everyone believing in him is not judged. But whoever is not believing is judged already by not believing in the name of the only Son of God. {By being not yet on God’s upward path? Through Christ which remedies the law of entropy/imperfection, a “FiRe” that “can’t be put out”?} [See this verse on biblehub dot com’s interlinear.] 19 This moreover is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and man [anthropoi] loves the darkness instead of the light, whose works {motives?} are less than good [ponΓ©ros - (evil) wicked, bad, malicious]. 20 Because anyone who does malicious or wicked things, hates the light and doesn’t come to the light, lest their works be exposed. 21 But whoever does what is true comes to the light, and it’s clearly seen that their works have been carried out in God.” {In the Light and Love. And thus has Nicodemus at least sought him out. And of course he is mentioned again, quite a bit later.}

     22 After this Jesus and his disciples went into the Judean countryside, and they stayed there for awhile and Jesus was baptizing. 23 John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because water was plentiful there and people were coming to him and being baptized. 24 For John had not yet been put in prison. {John the baptizer personified the entry level, it’s why he told the Pharisees to show FRUIT.. Which they did not have, showing they had always refused the entry level. They were not genuine. The issue was politics, not religion/spirituality. To know the difference - Satan is a changing angel of (false) light, and plays all angles and ‘sides’ - our face must be toward God..?}

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Tomorrows verses - John 3:25-4:2

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Monday, January 6, 2025

2 Corinthians 11 1-9

01/06 ~ From New Testament Letters
  πŸ•Š️ (In the Order Believed Written)

1 - I hope you will bear with me in a little foolishness! 2 For I feel a divine jealousy for you! For I betrothed you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ. {πŸ—️ to Rev.14:4; 7:9,4; and also key to God being a “jealous God”, which is a - good - thing!} 3 But I’m fearful that as the serpent {seraphim?} [ophis - snake; symbolizing deceit, danger, and evil; serpent] deceived Eve by his cunning, that your thinking will be led astray from the sincere and pure devotion to Christ! 4 For if someone comes and proclaims another Jesus than the one we proclaim, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you first received, or if you accept a different gospel (different message) from the one you accepted, you put up with it readily enough! 5 Let me say {foolishly} that I consider I am not in the least inferior to these ‘superior apostles’ {claiming levels and assigning theirselves as on a higher level than the others is no sign of maturity or superiority}. 6 Even if I were unskilled in my words, I am not so in knowledge. Indeed, we have made this plain to you in many ways and in all things.
     7 Or do I commit a sin in humbling myself so you might be lifted up in your spirit? Or because I preached and taught God's message to you free of charge? 8 I accepted from other churches in order to serve you. 9 And when I was with you and was in need, I didn’t burden anyone, for the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied what I needed. So I refrained and will continue to refrain from burdening you in any way.

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Tomorrows verses - 2 Corinthians 11:10-29

By Necessity Paraphrased
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JOHN 3 1-12

    πŸƒπŸ•Š️01/06 - GospeL Verses πŸƒπŸ•Š️

1 - Now there was a man of the Pharisee party whose name was Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. 2 He came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you’re a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him.” 3 Jesus answered, “Truly, I tell you, unless one is born again they cannot see the kingdom of God.” 4 Nicodemus said, “How can a person be born when they are old? Can they enter a second time into their mother's womb to be born again?” 5 Jesus said, “Unless one is born of water, and, of the Spirit, they cannot enter into the kingdom of God. 6 That produced by flesh is flesh {that which is mortal is mortal} and that which is produced of the Spirit is spirit. 7 Don’t wonder that I said, ‘You must be born again.’ 8 The wind blows where the wind blows, and you hear the sound of it, but you don’t know exactly where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone having been born of the Spirit.”

     9 Nicodemus said, “How can this be?” 10 Jesus answered him, “Are you a teacher of Israel and yet you don’t understand? 11 Truly, I tell you, what is known is what is spoken, and what is seen is what is borne witness to. But my witness/testimony isn’t received. 12 If I’ve told you of earthly things and you don’t believe me, how will you believe me if I tell you of heavenly things?

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Tomorrows verses - John 3:13-24

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Sunday, January 5, 2025

Revelation 19 17-21

 WeeKly BooK oF Revelation

      By Necessity Slightly 

             Paraphrased      

17 - Then I (John) saw an angel, radiant, as though standing in the sun. And with a loud voice he called to the birds of midheaven (to the high flying, predator birds, calling them to armageddon battle; the calling to the birds is metaphor for the literal armageddon battle about to be portrayed) saying, “Come, gather for the great supper of God!” {He actually takes responsibility! Having “subjected and consigned all to disobedience” Romans 11:32. Supersized the option to stray in Eden so “all of heaven and of earth” take this unavoidable journey through this all important contrast, all together at once.} 18 “Come to eat the flesh of kings, of captains, of mighty men, of horses and their riders, and of all, both free and slave, both small and great.” {The final war is totally mankind done. It is the last war between human empires, Isaiah 24:20, Rev.10:4, ten, four, end of the Act, over and out. “All the world is a stage” - Shakespeare.}

     19 And then I saw the beast and the kings of earth, with their armies, gathered to make war against he who was sitting on the (white) horse and against his army of heaven (the two third faithful angels). {Aka against all knowledge of the one true God. Against national Israel and the grafted in, spiritual Israel, which by then includes many of ethnic Israel.} 20 And the {many headed, geopolitical} beast was taken, and with it the {of the world} false prophet who in its presence had done the signs [sΓ©meion - miracles, signs, marks, tokens] {modern wonders and “miracles to mislead”} by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and who worshiped/were in allegiance to its image. [Mark is from the word - charagma- which is a “mark, stamp, sign, engraving, from charassō - meaning to engrave or stamp, the term charagma means a mark or stamp often used to denote ownership or authenticity]. These two were thrown alive {active, as they are not individuals} into the lake of fire {armageddon battle, with global chain reaction} that burns with sulfur {Jude 1:7!} {Both that ‘miracle’ and the “strong delusion” that “seats man/anthropos in the temple as God”/highest power, is from the “false prophet” (Rev.12:15?)

     21 And the rest were slain by the sWord {truth, the iron rod/unbreakable measure} that came from the mouth of he who was sitting on the horse, and all the birds were gorged. {Symbolic imagery, aka, build a house on Truth, it endures. Build using unTruth (or guile) and like being built on sand, there’s crashing and fiery apocalypse. It’s what dog eat dog/every self first, does. There are two things that can simply never (ever) work, (1) straying from God who iS Life - logic, yes? To stray from Life, not good. And he “is perfect, so (2) imperfection, logically, is the opposite of Life. And history has - already - proven that (straying and) imperfect is an “abyss” of potential. And logically is entropy, the “worm that doesn’t quit” and the “fire”/slow burn/slow fade/slow gehenna “that cannot be put out” - entropy does not reverse. But you think we humans are inherently immortal? Death is nothing more than another form of life and living? Well that idea/myth was needed for the - extremely ancient - crowd controlling spiritual propaganda myth of afterlife torment.. We will “put on immortality” at one of TWO vivifications - because - we will “put on perfection/incorruptibility”. Clue, the second vivification is not simultaneous with its partner “resurrection”.}

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2 Corinthians 10 7-18

01/05 ~ From New Testament Letters

  πŸ•Š️ (In the Order Believed Written)

7 - Remember what I told you before, which is so evident. If anyone is confident that they are Christ's, let them remind theirself that just as they are Christ's, so also are we. 8 For I am not ashamed, even if I boast a bit too much about our authority. Which authority the Lord gave for building you up, not for tearing you down. 9 I don’t want to appear to be frightening you with my letters. 10 For they say, “His letters are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech of no account.” 11 Let such a person understand that what we say by letter when absent, we also do when present. 12 Not that we dare to classify or compare ourselves with some of those who are commending themselves. But when they measure themselves by one another and compare themselves with one another, they are without understanding. {Competing.. putting down Paul and others to build theirselves up is not a fruit of the Spirit but of the lower and mortal human nature. Creating levels and assigning self to the higher than others level is no sign of maturity.}

     13 But! We will not boast without limit, but will boast only with regard to the area of influence God assigned to us! To reach you, 14 for we are not overextending ourselves, as though we didn’t reach you. For we were the first to come all the way to you with the gospel (good news) of Christ. 15 We don’t boast beyond limit in the labors of others. But our hope is that as your faith increases, our influence among you may become greater, 16 so we may move on to preach the gospel in lands beyond you, without boasting of work already done by another. 17 “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.” 18 For it’s not the one who commends theirself who is approved, but the one whom the Lord commends [sunistΓ©mi and sunistanΓ³ - commend, establish, demonstrate, prove, hold together; from sΓ½n - union, together with, and hΓ­stΔ“mi - to stand, stand together, referring to facts lining up with each other to support (commend)]. {He builds upon what he teaches..}

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Tomorrows verses - 2 Corinthians 11:1-9

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JOHN 2 13-25

  πŸƒπŸ•Š️01/05 - GospeL Verses πŸƒπŸ•Š️

13 - It was now Passover, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 14 In the temple he found those who were selling oxen and sheep and pigeons, and the money-changers doing business there. 15 So making a whip of ropes, he drove them out of the temple, along with their sheep and oxen. And he dumped out the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables, 16 saying, “Take these things away! Stop making my Father's house a house of buying and selling!” 17 And his disciples remembered that it’s written, “He will have zeal for Your house.”

     18 So the leaders said to him, “What sign do you show us that you have authority to do these things?!” 19 Jesus answered, “Destroy this temple! And in three days I will raise it up!” 20 The leaders then said, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will you raise it up in three days?” 21 But he was talking about the temple of his body. 22 When he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this. And they believed the Scripture even more, and the message Jesus had spoken. [“Believe in God and believe in me.. Come follow me.. Father I pray they be one as we are one.. The work of God is this, to believe in the one He has sent.. And this is his commandment, that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he has commanded..]

     23 Now when he was in Jerusalem during Passover (week) many believed in his name when they saw the signs (miracles) he was doing. 24 But Jesus on his part didn’t entrust himself to anyone, because he knows all people 25 and doesn’t need anyone to tell him what is in man. {Imperfection, which can be an abyss of potential. It’s why we lock our doors at night?}

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Tomorrows verses - John 3:1-12

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Saturday, January 4, 2025

2 Corinthians 10 1-6

 01/04 ~ From New Testament Letters

   πŸ•Š️ (In the Order Believed Written)

1 - I, Paul, myself, urge [parakaleΓ³ - kaleo - to call to - para - (one's) side; exhort, entreat, encourage, comfort, urge] you, by the meekness and gentleness of Christ - I who am humble when face to face, but bold when I am away! - 2 I beg of you that when I am present I may not have to show boldness as I count on showing to some who accuse us of walking according to the flesh. 3 For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh. 4 For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh (carnal nature of disputes, division, aggression, wars) but are God’s divine power to destroy strongholds {of untrue and damaging things}. 5 We destroy arguments and every so called high and lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obeying Christ. 6 Thus being in readiness to vindicate concerning every disobedience, when ones obedience is fulfilled and complete. {Our thinking conformed to Christ, the logos personified, and to the written logos, pre translator errors of course, errors due, surely(?) to their partial disbelief. Then we can know.. and bring gentLy to others awareness.. gentLy over time. No need, imo, for unnecessary division, accusation, etc. As we are “not battling flesh and blood, aka, other persons, but the battle is with powers and principalities which Truth defeats. The sWord of Truth’s tip can separate true thread from not true.. A tapestry with no true thread becomes a mere pile of unraveled threads. We don’t need to use the sWord as if to slice and dice.. only with patience, the doctrines. While being very mindful of our brothers and sisters not yet liberated from all unTruths. Especially as none of us are totally free of anY unTruth.. Truth is the iron/unbreakable (measuring) rod, so spending time in an untruth is a waste of time.}

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Tomorrows verses - 2 Corinthians 10:7-18

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ACTS 19 21-41

        WeekLy BooK oF Acts 

21 - Now after all this, Paul resolved in the Spirit to pass through Macedonia and Achaia (Greece) and go to Jerusalem, saying, “After I’ve been there, I must go on to Rome.” 22 And having sent into Macedonia two of his helpers, Timothy and Erastus, he himself stayed in Asia at Ephesus for a while.

     23 At about that time there arose no little disturbance concerning the Way. 24 For a man named Demetrius, a silversmith by trade, who made silver shrines of Artemis, brought a lot of business to the craftsmen. 25 So he gathered them together, with other workmen in similar trades, and said, “Men, you know that from this business we have our wealth. 26 And you see and hear that not only in Ephesus but in almost all of Asia this Paul has persuaded and turned away a great many people, saying that gods made with hands are not gods! 27 So there is danger that this trade of ours may come into disrepute. And also the temple of the great goddess Artemis may be abandoned! And so she may even be deposed from her magnificence! She whom all Asia and the world worship!”

     28 When they heard this, they were stirred up and became enraged, and began to cry out, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!” 29 Soon the city was filled with confusion, and they rushed together into the theater, dragging with them Gaius and Aristarchus, Macedonians who were Paul's companions in travel. 30 But when Paul wished to go in among the crowd, the disciples wouldn’t let him. 31 And even some of Asia, who were friends of his, sent to him and were urging him not to go into the theater, 32 where some were crying out one thing, and some another. For the gathered crowd and assembly were in confusion, and most didn’t know why they had come together!

     33 Some of the crowd put foreard Alexander, whom the Jews (Hebrews) had prompted, so motioning with his hand, he sought to present a defense to the crowd. 34 But when they recognized that he was a Jew, for about two hours they all cried out with one voice, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”

     35 Finally, when the town clerk had quieted the crowd, he said, “Men of Ephesus, who is there who doesn’t know that the city of the Ephesians is keeper of the temple of the great Artemis, and of her sacred stone that fell from the sky? 36 Seeing then that these things cannot be denied, you ought to be quiet and do nothing rash. 37 For you have brought these men here who have not been sacrilegious, nor blasphemers of our goddess. 38 If therefore Demetrius and the craftsmen with him have a complaint against anyone, the courts are open, and there are proconsuls. Let them bring charges against them there. 39 For if you seek anything further, it should be settled in the regular assembly. 40 For we really are in danger of being charged with rioting, as there is no cause that we can give to justify this great commotion.” 41 And when he had said these things, he dismissed the assembly and crowd and sent them out of the theater. {How fitting, a dispute of ‘gods’ taking place in a theater.. The gospel rode forth “openly victorious over powers and principalities” taking them down from thrones, “conquering and to conquer”.}

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JOHN 2 1-12

   πŸƒπŸ•Š️01/04 - GospeL Verses πŸƒπŸ•Š️

1 - On the next day, the third day (says John, John’s third day following, and with Jesus) there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. 2 Jesus and his disciples were invited to the wedding as well. 3 When the wine ran out, Mary said to him, “They have run out of wine.” 4 And Jesus said, “Woman? What’s that have to do with me, my hour has not yet come.” 5 Mary said to those serving, “Do whatever he tells you to.” 6 There were six large stone water jars sitting there for the Jewish practice of purification {frequent washing}, each holding twenty or thirty gallons. 7 Jesus said to them, “Fill the jars with water.” And so they filled them, right up to the brim. 8 And Jesus said, “Now draw some out and take it to the manager of the banquet.” And so they did. 9 When the manager tasted the water that was now wine, he didn’t know where it came from, though the ones who had drawn it knew, he called for the bridegroom, 10 and said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine first, and when people have drank freely, then they bring out the poor wine! But you have kept the best wine until now!” 11 This was a first of Jesus’ signs (we saw him do) at Cana in Galilee, and we witnessed his glory. And they believed in him.

     12 After this he went down to Capernaum, with his mother and brothers and disciples. And they stayed there for a few days.

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Tomorrows verses - John 2:13-25

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Friday, January 3, 2025

2 Corinthians 9 7-15

01/03 ~ From New Testament Letters

  πŸ•Š️ (In the Order Believed Written)

7 - Each one must give as they’ve decided in their heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion. God loves a cheerful giver. 8 And God is able to make all grace abound, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work. 9 As it’s written, “He has distributed freely, he has given to the poor, his righteousness endures forever.”

     10 He who supplies seed for the sower and bread as food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and will also increase the harvest of your righteousness. 11 That is to say, you will be enriched in every way, so you can be generous in every way, which will produce thanksgiving to God. 12 For the service of this gift is not only supplying the needs of the saints but is also overflowing in many thanksgivings unto God. 13 And by their approval of it, they will glorify God because of your generosity for them and others, that grew out of your confession of the gospel of Christ, 14 while they have genuine affection for you and pray for you, because of this surpassing grace of God upon us all. 15 Thanks be to God for his inexpressible gift!

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Tomorrows verses - 2 Corinthians 10:1-6

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JOHN 1 35-51

  πŸƒπŸ•Š️01/03 - GospeL Verses πŸƒπŸ•Š️

35 - The next day John was standing with two of his disciples, 36 when he saw Jesus as he was walking by and he said, “Look! The Lamb of God!” {Why? Why a sacrifice? (As portrayed in the O.T. worship. Fulfilled via the only straight out from God one. Forever firstborn Son.) Imagine yourself waking up into the radiance of the GWT judgment ‘day’ and you had been a child sex trafficker.. Or even ‘just’ a child labor trafficker.. Or you had been a cruel and heartless despot, abusing and harming untold numbers of, vulnerable to you, people.. Ultimately is it God’s anger at you that needs to be appeased? As God who is Love (Life and “is Perfect”) would he by then pity you more than hate you? I am very much convinced it is the human conscience that hAs to be appeased.. Imagine the gut wrenching remorse some human players will ultimately experience.. And doesn’t God in his total wisdom, know that’s the onLy “correction” (punishment if you prefer like the partially unbelieving translators) that actually works? Surely the condition of inner, outside of the light darkness, portrayed in the rich man and Lazarus parable, and the outside of the vision narrative of Rev.22, are INITIAL conditions of SOME during that “last great day” ..the “8th day” (second ‘day’ of Jesus’ long second advent -> 1Cor.15:27-28 “all” repeated five times. Changed into ‘all things’ however. Hello?)

     “The” millennium/further “training”? Also Sabbath from the adversary&co. to the --> Palin/again war to the —> 500 years (Lev.23) of GWT judgment and discernment ‘day’ an “aionion kolasis, to —> “the regeneration” greek palin/again-genesis, about which God says “behold! I make all new!” Rev.21:(1-)5. — “In the beginning” - the Light. And a biG banG into the universe as is (asis) and theN it was set in motion.. Lev.23 - For 6 millennium things let to run course, interfering only when demise was imminent during formative ages. No option to stray in Eden, and creation would be an ant farm? SO the remedy was “built in”.}

     37 The two disciples of John heard him say this, so they left and followed Jesus. 38 Jesus turned and saw them following him and said to them, “What are you seeking?” And they said, “Rabbi” (which means Teacher), “where are you staying?” 39 He said to them, “Come and see.” So they stayed with him that day, for it was about the tenth hour (about 4pm). 40 One of the two who heard John speak and followed Jesus was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother. 41 He first found his own brother Simon and said to him, “We have found the Messiah!” (which means Christ). 42 He brought Simon to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, “You are Simon the son of John. You shall be called Cephas” (which means Peter).

     43 The next day Jesus went to Galilee. He found Philip and said to him, “Follow me.” 44 Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter. 45 Philip went and found Nathanael (Mt.10:3, is Bartholomew?) and said to him, “We have found he of whom Moses in the Law and also the prophets wrote! Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.” 46 Nathanael said, “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” Philip said, “Come and see.”

     47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him and said, “An Israelite indeed, in whom there is no deception!” 48 Nathanael said, “How do you know me?” Jesus answered, “Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.” 49 Nathanael said, “Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!” 50 Jesus answered, “Because I said to you, ‘I saw you under the fig tree,’ you believe? I tell you, you will see greater things than that. 51 You will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending to the Son of Man.” [Rev.12:5]

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Tomorrows verses - John 2:1-12

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