10-11 - Gal 4 1-7 Mark 12 1-11

8TH ‘DAY’ CU Journal, New Testament In A Year

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            ☀️ A.M. Galatians 4:1-7

1 - What I (Paul) mean, is that an heir, while they are a child, is not much different from a hired servant, though they’re the owner of everything! 2 But they’re under guardians and managers until the date set by their father.

     3 This is us! While children, we’re held in bondage to the basic principles of the world. 4 But when the fullness of time came, God sent forth his Son to us, born of woman, and born under the law, 5 so he could set us free from the Law, and we could become God's sons and daughters.

    6 And because we are his heirs, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, that cries out “Father! My Father!”

     7 So you are no longer a servant, but a son or daughter, and if a son or daughter, then an heir of God. {“We shall be like Jesus” 1Jn.3:2 “the exact representation and image of God’s person” Col.1:15. THE blueprint, Jesus is called “the First” (greek “proto” and “forever preeminent”.}

     […”The lion will eat straw like the ox, the bear will graze with the cow and their young shall lie down together” Isaiah 11:7.]

            🌙 P.M. MARK 12:1-11

    1 - Jesus then began to speak to them in parables.  (To the chief priests and the teachers of the law in Jerusalem.) He said, “A man planted a vineyard. Then he put a fence around it, dug a pit for a winepress, and built a tower for it. Then he hired tenants and went off to another country. 2 When the harvest came, he sent a hired worker to the tenants to get from them some of the fruit of the vineyard. 3 But they took him, and beat him and sent him away empty-handed.

     4 A little later he sent another worker, and they hit him over the head and treated him shamefully. 5 Then he sent another, who they killed! And so with many others. Some they beat, and some they killed. 6 Then he had still one other, a beloved son. And finally he sent him, thinking to himself, ‘They’ll respect my son.’ 7 But those tenants said to one another, ‘This is the heir! Let’s kill him! And the inheritance will be ours.’ 8 So they seized him and killed him and threw him out of the vineyard.

     9 Now what do you think the owner of the vineyard will do? Won’t he come and pay back those evil tenants, and give the vineyard to others?! 10 Have you not read the Scripture, ‘The stone [Christ] the builders rejected is THE chief stone {both of humanity and creation.. and of angels} 11 this is the Lord's doing, and it’s marvelous in our eyes’!?”

           

Jesus “will draw all” Jn.12:32.

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Tomorrows verses, 10/12

Galatians 4:8-20 Mark 12:12-27

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10-10 - Gal 3 22-29 Mark 11 27-33

8TH ‘DAY’ CU Journal, New Testament In A Year

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            ☀️ A.M. Galatians 3:22-29

22 - The Scripture has declared all under sin. [Greek, hamartia - “missing the mark” i.e. imperfection. “HE has subjected (sugkleió - to shut up, enclose, confined) aLL to disobedience (apeitheia - disobedience, unbelief; from A "not" and peíthō - persuaded) SO he may have mercy on all” Ro.11:32] And so - the promise - by faith in Jesus, might be given to those who believe.

     23 Before faith came, we were under the law {like} held in custody, until the way of faith would be revealed. 24 So then, the law was our guardian [paidagógos - a trainer, tutor] until Christ came. This is so we might be justified by faith. 25 And now that faith has come, we are no longer under that guardian, 26 for in Christ Jesus we are sons and daughters of God through faith. 27 And when you were baptized, it represented a putting on of Christ, like putting on new clothing. 28 And therefor, in Christ, there is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, nor male and female, but all are one in Christ Jesus. 29 And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, and an heir according to the PROMISE.

     {Heir to what? To God’s Spirit/Presence, increasing so ultimately we shall be fully “like Jesus”. A full temple of God ..yet each unique, God calls his jewels, Mal.3:17. Heirs to “the kingdom”. All under sin/futility by first pair ‘falling’.. So it’s one and done, “all of heaven and all of earth” taking this unavoidable journey through this all important contrast all together at once. Other option? Ant Farm? ..Instead, total ‘herd’ immunity? To straying from God who iS Life and “is perfect” Mt.5:48. ..So imperfection is entropy.}

            🌙 P.M. MARK 11:27-33

27 - And the next day they went again into Jerusalem. And as Jesus was walking in the temple, the chief priests, scribes and elders (leaders, authorities) came to him, 28 and they asked him, “By what authority are you doing these things? Who gave you this authority to do them?” (He was teaching the people and he had kicked out those buying and selling in the temple court. And had overturned their tables.) 29 Jesus said to them, “I’ll ask you a question. And if you can answer it, I’ll tell you by what authority I’m doing these things. 30 Was the baptism of John from heaven? Or was it from man?”

    31 They discussed this among their selves, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he’ll say, ‘Why then didn’t you believe him?’ 32 But can we say, ‘From man’?” For they were afraid of the people, who all held that John was a prophet. 33 So they answered, “We don’t know.” And Jesus said, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I am doing these things.”

           

Jesus “will draw all” Jn.12:32.

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Galatians 4:1-7 Mark 12:1-11

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REVELATION - 8 1-6

 Weekly Book of Revelation CU Studies Journal, Verses paraphrased due to ©‘s [ref] {thots}                     

1 - Now, when the Lamb opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour. {A turning point, turning of a page?}

     2 And I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and they were given seven trumpets. {Same angels as the angels of the seven churches?} 3 Another angel came, and he stood at the altar. He was holding a golden censer. And then much incense was given to him. Incense, to offer with the prayers of all the saints [believers/followers] upon the gold altar that’s before the throne.

     4 And the smoke of the incense, mingled with the prayers of the saints rose up before God. {Still in the pause of 7:1,3. - Long to us - between the first seal 6 event and the next one (leaving 5 at ‘the end’/culmination? Is.24:20/Rev.10:4). Or.. after the interruption of 7:1,3 is interrupted? — The way the seals (ch 6) are described, veils what they are. And veils a lot of the vision. — This pause - 8:1 (above) I thought might be the space of time between the interruption of 7:1,3 and the Daniel 9:27 lauded by the world treaty/league/covenant, which will only last seven years after all. And will be broken in the middle against Israel. Dn.12:11-12 w/ Lk.19:41,44 and 1Cor.3:16 (and Rev.2:10 as the escalation of it?) But I forgot these next verses come after it, which seems to obviously BE that interruption of 7:1,3.}

     5 Then the angel took the censer. He filled it with fire from the altar. And he threw it on the earth!

     And there were *peals of thunder, rumblings, flashes of lightning, and an earthquake**! 6 And now the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared theirselves to blow their trumpets. [The 7th seal iS the seven trumpets.]

     {The description between * and ** being #2 of 7? #1 was the 1st seal 6 occurrence? (Rev.6:12-17; 4:10) And because the revelation vision is actually told three times, 13:13 is also the 1st seal 6 occurrence (but pinpointing an office, not yet a lawless individual who steps into an office they’re not supposed to? Chapter 6 - the seals - are the elements of the times, described as their full effects, very first to very last - and presented as a sort of swirl - especially seal 6. Their fuLL descriptions given at the BEGINNING of the vision, veils what they are, and also much of the vision.} {So pause 8:1 is part of pause 7:1,3?}

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10-09 - Gal 3 16-21 Mark 11 20-26

8TH ‘DAY’ CU Journal, New Testament In A Year

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            ☀️ A.M. Galatians 3:16-21

16 - The promises were made to Abraham and his offspring. God didn’t say to Abraham, “And to your offsprings,” as though meaning many, but - “to your offspring” - referring to one. And that one, is Christ.

     17 What I mean is this - the law, which came 430 years later, doesn’t cancel a covenant/contract/agreement/guarantee, previously ratified by God, so as to annul the promise. 18 For iF the inheritance comes by the law, then it’s no longer by promise.

     But God gave the promise {gave his word} to Abraham by a promise [epaggelia - a summons, promise, from epí - upon, appropriate, and aggellō - announce – a promise which literally announces what is fitting, epaggelía is a legal term that refers to an “officially sanctioned promise”]. {Fitting because it’s the “one way” that works. Also fitting because it’s “God (who) has consigned all (humanity) to disobedience”? ..To this imperfection/entropy which “doesn’t quit”. Placing and even highlighting the option to stray in Eden. And only after the one igniter/instigator and the influenced third of his angels (messengers, covering angels) were ready to seditiously revolt. Engineering a ‘quick’ one and done? For all humanity and angels. Total ant farm versus total ‘herd’ immunity? The dis-ease (running course) as part of the cure? And immunity.. “The smoke of it will rise up forever” must be as memory, because Rev.21 describes a total ReGenesis, after this unavoidable, all important contrast.}

     19 Why then the law? It was added because of transgression [parabasis - a going aside, from pará - contrary, and bainō - go].

   The law was added, until the offspring should come to whom, and about whom, the promise was made.

     The law was put in place through angels, and by a mediator. Which mediator was Moses. 20 Now a mediator is helpful if more than one party must reach an agreement.

     But God didn’t use a mediator when he gave his promise to Abraham. {HE said it. HE will do it.}

     21 Does the law then contradict the promises God has made? Certainly not! For if a law had been given that can impart life, then indeed, righteousness would come about from the law! {There’s only one source of Life. And Father God has ordained it be given and maintained through his Son, only straight out from Him one. So close, both administer God’s Spirit/Presence. Which the saturation of humanity and creation with, will equal “sealed”. 🕊️⛲️

      How do you create genuinely able to think and reason beings, aNd, keep paradise/perfection intact?

     “God is savior of all, especially” (& currently) “those who believe” 1Tim.4:10. EIGHT millennial ‘days’ =‘s one and done. Jn.12:32, Rev.20.}

            🌙 P.M. MARK 11:20-26

20 - In the morning when they went back by the fig tree that Jesus had cursed, they saw it had withered away. Right down to its roots! 21 And Peter remembering said, “Rabbi, look! The fig tree you cursed has withered.”

     22 And Jesus told his disciples, “Have faith in God. 23 For truly, I tell you - if you say to this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,’ and don’t doubt in your heart, what you say will come to pass. It will be done for you. 24 Therefore I say, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe you receive it, and you shall!” {Especially mountains of difficulty? And much more fulfilled during the Lord’s long second advent? Etc.}

     25 “But whenever you pray, if you have something against someone, forgive them, so your Father who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses [paraptóma - false step, trespass, from parapiptó - to fall in, into or away, to fail; a lapse (deviation) from the truth, an error, slip up, wrong doing that can (even) be unconscious and non-deliberate{!}].”

           

Jesus “will draw all” Jn.12:32.

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Galatians 3:22-29 Mark 11:27-33

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10-08 - Gal 3 8-15 Mark 11 11-19

8TH ‘DAY’ CU Journal, New Testament In A Year

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            ☀️ A.M. Galatians 3:8-15

8 - The Scriptures long ago told how God would accept the nations because of their faith. This is why God told Abraham - the good news - that in him, all nations would be blessed. 9 So then, those who are of faith are blessed with, and like, Abraham. He is called the man of faith.

     10 The thing is, anyone relying on fulfilling of the law, to be accepted, are under a curse! For it’s written, “Cursed is everyone who doesn’t abide by, and do - all - that’s written in the Book of the Law.”

    11 It’s proven, no one is justified - before God - by the law. For it’s written, “The righteous shall live by faith.” 12 And the law is not of faith, rather it’s a way, as it’s written, that “The one who does the law, shall live by all the law.” {Ultimately? The law is Perfection? An iron rod (measuring rod). It’s inescapable.. God iS Life. And he is perfect! 1Jn.5:20 and Mt.5:48. So imperfect is..? A curse, entropy to death - Eccles.9:5,10.}

     13 And Christ rescued us from that curse {and the captivity imperfection is} by becoming a curse for us. As it’s written, “Cursed is everyone who is executed on a tree” — 14 and in this way, the blessing of Abraham in Jesus Christ comes to the nations, so the promise of the Spirit is received through believing/faith [pistis: faith, belief, trust, confidence, fidelity, pledge, from peithô - be persuaded, come to trust – properly, persuasion].

    15 What I’m writing is - even with a man-made covenant/contract, no one annuls it, or adds to it, once it’s been ratified. [What he’s saying is “faith” preceded The Law. Abraham was before Moses. James 2:23, Gen.15:6. We are rescued, aNd receive the Spirit through faith/believing. Trusting.]

            🌙 P.M. MARK 11:11-19

11 - And so Jesus entered Jerusalem and he went into the temple. And when he had looked around at everything, as it was already late, he went back to Bethany with the twelve.

     12 On the following morning, as they were coming from Bethany, he was hungry. 13 And seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to see if he could find any fruit on it. When he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, for it wasn’t yet the season for figs. 14 And he said to it, “May no one ever eat fruit from you again.” And his disciples heard it. {For a living parable?}

     15 When they came to Jerusalem, he entered the temple and began to drive out those who were buying and selling in the temple courts. He turned over the tables of the money-changers along with the seats of those selling pigeons. 16 And he wouldn’t allow anyone to carry anything through the temple. 17 And when he was teaching, he said, “Is it not written? ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you’ve made it into a den of thieves.” 18 And the chief priests and the scribes heard it (the leaders) and they were seeking a way to destroy him, for they feared him {political not religious/devout} because all the crowd was listening to his teaching.

     19 And when evening came, they went back out of the city.

           

Jesus “will draw all” Jn.12:32.

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Galatians 3:16-21 Mark 11:20-26

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ACTS 12 1-25

 Luke wrote “of the things fulfilled among us” paraphrased due to ©‘s [ ] ref  { } thots

     Book of the Acts of the First Believers

 1 - At about that time Herod the king laid violent hands on some who were believers/followers. [This is Herod Antipas, son of Herod the Great who had killed all the Bethlehem children trying to destroy Jesus at birth, Rev.12:4] 2 He killed James the brother of John with the sword, 3 and when he saw that it pleased the leaders of the nation, he proceeded to arrest Peter also. This was during the annual days of Unleavened Bread.

     4 And when he had seized him, he put him in prison, and put four squads of soldiers to guard him, intending after Passover to bring him out to the councils. [The whole week was referred to as either Passover or Unleavened Bread, and the two days, Passover and 1st Day of Unleavened Bread, were also called interchangeably. This hides how veRy perfectly the lord’s 1st brief advent fulfilled the Spring holy days. Holy means set apart.] 5 So Peter was kept in prison, but the rest of the believers were earnestly praying to God for him.

    6 Now on the very night before Herod was planning to bring him out, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound to them with two chains. And sentries were guarding the door of the prison.

     7 When suddenly, a light shone in the cell, and an angel of the Lord was there. He struck Peter on his side to wake him, saying, “Get up quickly.” And the chains fell off.

     8 The angel said, “Dress and put on your sandals.” And then he said, “Wrap your cloak around you and follow me.”

     9 And so they went out. But Peter didn’t realize it was really happening (literal), but thought he was in a vision. 10 When they had passed the first and the second guard, they came to the iron gate leading into the city, and it opened for them. They went out and were going along the street, when the angel left him.

     11 And when Peter realized it, he said, “Now I’m sure the Lord has sent his angel and has rescued me from the hand of Herod and all he had planned!” {Yet he had been soundly sleeping.. I read that in commentaries when reading to be sure I had the “chained - to - the guards right. It was Roman custom to chain hand to hand.}

     12 So then he went to the house of Mary, the mother of John whose other name/surname was Mark {who wrote the gospel of Mark, and was a secretary/scribe for Paul and others}. There were many gathered there together and were praying.

     13 But when he knocked at the door at the gateway, a servant girl named Rhoda came to answer. 14 And when she recognized Peter's voice, in her joy, she forgot to open the gate! And she ran back in and reported that Peter was standing at the door!

     15 They said, “You’re seeing things..” But she kept insisting that it was so, but they said, “It’s his angel [aggelos - angel, messenger, guardian].”

     16 But Peter continued knocking, and when they opened the door and saw him they were amazed. 17 And motioning to them to listen, he described to them how the Lord had set him free and brought him out of the prison. And he said, “Tell all this to James and the brothers.” Then he left.

     18 Now when day came, there was no little disturbance among the soldiers over what had become of Peter. 19 And after Herod searched for him and didn’t find him, he examined the sentries and ordered that they should be put to death. Then he went down from Judea to Caesarea and spent some time there.

     20 Now Herod was very angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon. So they sent a delegation to make peace with him because their cities were dependent upon Herod’s country for food. {Dependence.} The delegates won the support of Blastus, Herod’s personal assistant, and an audience with Herod was granted.

     21 So on an appointed day Herod put on his royal robes. He took his seat on the throne. And he delivered an oration to the people. 22 And the people began shouting, “The voice of a god! The voice of a god! This is not a mere man!” 23 And because of it an angel of the Lord struck him down. {We have here a handed down version?} And because he didn’t {being Hebrew} give God the glory, he was eaten by worms and breathed his last. {Real bad guys, those Herods.. but this one (Antipas) had liked to listen to John the baptist/baptizer.. before he executed him to save face.}

     24 But the word of God increased and multiplied! 25 And Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem (to Antioch) when they had delivered the relief. And they brought with them John, whose surname was Mark.

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