tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15625641396138515892024-03-17T20:04:18.089-07:00End Times Revealed"Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near." Revelations 1:3End Times Prophecy: Are You Prepared?http://www.blogger.com/profile/05192451197130838894noreply@blogger.comBlogger2397125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1562564139613851589.post-33579888879553981342024-03-14T14:30:00.000-07:002024-03-14T14:30:27.883-07:00Book of Joel Chapter 1 Vs. 20<p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"> A Call to Repentance</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></p><p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The
beasts of the field cry also unto thee: for the rivers of waters are
dried up, and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness.
Joel 1:20</b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">The
beasts of... As well as the prophet, in their way; which may be
mentioned, both as a rebuke to such who had no sense of the judgments
upon them, and called not on the Lord; and to express the greatness
of the calamity, of which the brute creatures were sensible, and made
piteous moans, as for food, so for drink.</span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="he-IL" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="zxx"><b>בְּהֵמָה</b></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="en-US">b</span><sup><span lang="en-US">e</span></sup><span lang="en-US">hêmâh</span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>be-hay-maw'</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">From
an unused root (probably meaning to be </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">mute</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">);
properly a </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">dumb</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
beast; especially any large quadruped or </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">animal</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
(often collectively): - beast, cattle.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="he-IL" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="en-US">שָׂדַי
שָׂדֶה</span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="en-US">śâdeh
śâday</span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>saw-deh',
saw-dah'ee</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">From
an unused root meaning to </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">spread</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
out; a </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">field</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
(as </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">flat</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">):
- country, field, ground, land, soil, X wild.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">cry
also unto... Panting thorough excessive heat and vehement thirst, as
the hart, after the water brooks, of which this word is only used
(Psalm 42:1); but in vain.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="he-IL" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>עָרַג</b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">‛<span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><b><span lang="en-US">ârag</span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>aw-rag'</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">A
primitive root; to </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">long</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
for: - cry, pant.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="he-IL" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="en-US">גַּם</span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>gam</b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>gam</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">By
contraction from an unused root meaning to </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">gather</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">;
properly </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">assemblage</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">;
used only adverbially </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">also</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">,
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">even</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">,
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">yea</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">,
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">though</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">;
often repeated as correlation </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">both</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">...
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">and:
- </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">again,
alike, also, (so much) as (soon), both (so) . . . and, but, either .
. . or, even, for all, (in) likewise (manner), moreover, nay . . .
neither, one, then (-refore), though, what, with, yea.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="he-IL" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="en-US">אֶל
אֵל</span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="en-US">'êl
'el</span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>ale,
el</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">(Used
only in the shortened constructive form (the second form)); a
primitive particle, properly denoting motion </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">towards</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">,
but occasionally used of a quiescent position, that is, </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">near</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">,
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">with</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
or </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">among</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">;
often in general, </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">to:
- </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">about,
according to, after, against, among, as for, at, because (-fore,
-side), both . . . and, by, concerning, for, from, X hath, in (-to),
near, (out) of, over, through,to (-ward), under, unto, upon, whether,
with(-in).</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span style="color: black; font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">for
the rivers... Not only springs, and rivulets and brooks of water, but
rivers, places where there were large deep waters. By the excessive
heat and scorching beams of the sun, by which such effects are
produced.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="he-IL" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>כִּי</b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="en-US">kı̂y</span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>kee</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">A
primitive particle (the full form of the prepositional prefix)
indicating </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">causal</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
relations of all kinds, antecedent or consequent; (by implication)
very widely used as a relative conjugation or adverb; often largely
modified by other particles annexed: - and, + (forasmuch, inasmuch,
where-) as, assured [-ly], + but, certainly, doubtless, + else, even,
+ except, for, how, (because, in, so, than) that, + nevertheless,
now, rightly, seeing, since, surely, then, therefore, + (al-) though,
+ till, truly, + until, when, whether, while, who, yea, yet,</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="he-IL" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="en-US">אָפִיק</span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="en-US">'âphı̂yq</span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>aw-feek'</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">From
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">H622</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">;
properly </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">containing</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">,
that is, a </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">tube</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">;
also a </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">bed</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
or </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">valley</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
of a stream; also a </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">strong</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
thing or a </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">hero:
- </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">brook,
channel, mighty, river, + scale, stream, strong piece.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">and
the fire... Whereas the word rendered pastures signifies both them
and habitations. (Joel 1:19)</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="he-IL" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>אֵשׁ</b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="en-US">'êsh</span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>aysh</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">A
primitive word; </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">fire</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
(literally or figuratively): - burning, fiery, fire, flaming, hot.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">This
drought has been so severe, that the rivers and streams have dried
up. There is no water for the crops. There is no water for the people
or the cattle either. Their only chance for help is to cry out to
God.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">We
read in Jeremiah of a drought where the cows had their calves early
and lost them. This was no ordinary dry period. This was a drought so
great that nothing could live. This speaks of horror beyond our
imagination.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Accordance; font-size: x-large;">As
we see, even the streams had dried up, causing the dehydrated wild
animals to pant for water. People will need to cry out to the Lord.</span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br />
</p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US">He
compared the locusts to a </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">fire
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">(in
both Joel 1:19 and Joel 1:20) which destroys everything in its path.
Even </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">the
streams </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">had
</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">dried
up, </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">causing
the dehydrated </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">wild
animals </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">to
</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">pant
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">for
</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">water.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>End Times Prophecy: Are You Prepared?http://www.blogger.com/profile/05192451197130838894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1562564139613851589.post-5049657582752584512024-03-14T13:55:00.000-07:002024-03-14T13:55:16.602-07:00Book of 1 John Chapter 2 Vs. 10<p style="text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: large;">The New Commandment</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></p><p style="font-style: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>1
John 2:10 “He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and
there is none occasion of stumbling in him.”</b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">He
that loveth...</span></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
A man that truly loves his brother has proof of his Christian
experience, and if he continues to love he will not stumble over his
brethren.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">abideth
in the... means to continue to live. Love is a product of Light.
There is no temptation to steal from your brother, if you love him.
There is no desire for things that your brother owns, if you love
him.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Abideth</span></span></span></span></span></span><b><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span></b><b><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">μένει</span></span></span></span></span></b></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">To
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">abide</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">in</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">God</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
is a more common expression with John than </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">to</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">be</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">in</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">God</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">,
and marks an advance in thought. The phrase is a favorite one with
John. See John 15:4 sqq.; John 6:56; 1Jhn. 2:24, 2:27, 2:28; 3:6,
3:24; 4:12 sq.; 4:15 sq. Bengel notes the gradation in the three
phrases </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">to</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">know</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Him</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">,
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">to</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">be</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">in</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Him</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">,
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">to</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">abide</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">in</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Him</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">;
knowledge, fellowship, constancy.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">occasion
of stumbling...</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Greek:
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">proskomma</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">.
Translated stumbling </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">(1Pet.
2:8); stumbling Block (Rom. 14:13; 1Cor. 8:9); and offence (Rom.
14:20).</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">occasion
of stumbling<b> (</b></span></span></span></span></span></span><b><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">σκάνδαλον</span></span></span></span></span></span></b><b><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">)</span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">See
on </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">offend</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">,
Mat. 5:29. For the image in John, see John 6:61; 11:9; 16:1; Rev.
2:14. The meaning is not that he gives no occasion of stumbling to
others, but that there is none in his own way. See John 11:9, John
11:10.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">These
are just two examples, but you can see that loving your brother
causes you to have no desire to do him harm in any way. The lust of
the flesh causes sin. The Light of God helps us see things more clearly and causes us not to lust.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">He
who truly loves not he that saith, verse 9, abideth in the light,
that is, the presence of God. He does not stumble, nor does he cause
others to stumble. John stresses actions, not mere words.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /><br />
</span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">By
contrast, </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">whoever
loves his brother lives in the light</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
of the new Age which has dawned in Christ (cf. 1Jhn. 2:8). </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">There
is nothing in him</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
in one who loves his brother </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">to
make him stumble.</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
Hatred is a kind of internal stumbling block which can lead to
disastrous spiritual falls. But the calamities to which hatred leads
are avoided by one who loves his brother.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>End Times Prophecy: Are You Prepared?http://www.blogger.com/profile/05192451197130838894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1562564139613851589.post-72004643547059514532024-03-08T19:37:00.000-08:002024-03-08T19:37:31.876-08:00Book of Joel Chapter 1 Vs. 19<p style="text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: large;">A Call to Repentance</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></p><p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">O
LORD, to thee will I cry: for the fire hath devoured the pastures of
the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the
field. Joel 1:19</span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></p>
<p lang="zxx" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">O
Lord, to... As the first to call to repentance, the prophet had to be
the first to heed the warning. He had to lead by example and motivate
the people to respond. In the midst of proclaiming judgment, God’s
prophets often led in intercessory prayer for mercy and forgiveness
(Exo. 32:11-14; Jer. 42:1-4; Dan. 9:1-19; Amos 7:1-6).</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="he-IL" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="zxx"><b>יְהֹוָה</b></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="zxx">y</span><sup><span lang="zxx">e</span></sup><span lang="zxx">hôvâh</span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>yeh-ho-vaw'</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">From
H1961; (the) </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">self-Existent</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">
or eternal; </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">Jehovah</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">,
Jewish national name of God: - Jehovah, the Lord. Compare H3050,
H3069.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="he-IL" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="zxx">אֶל
אֵל</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">'êl
'el</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">ale,
el</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">(Used
only in the shortened constructive form (the second form)); a
primitive particle, properly denoting motion </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">towards</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">,
but occasionally used of a quiescent position, that is, </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">near</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">,
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">with</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">
or </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">among</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">;
often in general, </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">to:
- </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">about,
according to, after, against, among, as for, at, because (-fore,
-side), both . . . and, by, concerning, for, from, X hath, in (-to),
near, (out) of, over, through, to (-ward), under, unto, upon, whether,
with(-in).</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">This
is the same problem we read about in Isaiah. There was a drought.
There was fire that burned what did spring up, and there were swords
which killed, as well. It seems that all of nature was in opposition
to them. The truth is that God has sent a curse upon man, and beast,
and the crops of the field. The day of the Lord is approaching.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="he-IL" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>אֵשׁ</b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>'êsh</b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="zxx"><b>aysh</b></span></span></span></span></i></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx">A
primitive word; </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">fire</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx">
(literally or figuratively): - burning, fiery, fire, flaming, hot.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><br />
</span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="zxx">The
prophet, who clearly identified with his suffering nation (cf. my
which occurs three times in </span><span lang="zxx"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Joel
1:6-7), cried out to the Lord in his anguish. He compared the locusts
to a fire (in both Joel 1:19 and 1:20) which destroys everything in
its path.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="he-IL" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="zxx"><b>לָהַט</b></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>lâhaṭ</b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>law-hat'</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">A
primitive root; properly to </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">lick</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">,
that is, (by implication) to </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">blaze:
- </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">burn
(up), set on fire, flaming, kindle.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="he-IL" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="zxx"><b>עֵץ</b></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">‛<span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><b>êts</b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>ates</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">From
H6095; a </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">tree</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">
(from its </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">firmness</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">);
hence </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">wood</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">
(plural </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">sticks</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">):
- + carpenter, gallows, helve, + pine, plank, staff, stalk, stick,
stock, timber, tree, wood.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>End Times Prophecy: Are You Prepared?http://www.blogger.com/profile/05192451197130838894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1562564139613851589.post-68114911247185597142024-03-08T18:55:00.000-08:002024-03-08T18:55:06.219-08:00Book of 1 John Chapter 2 Vs. 9<p style="text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: large;">The New Commandment</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></p><p style="font-style: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>1
John 2:9 “He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother,
is in darkness even until now.”</b></span></span></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">He
that saith... </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">No
man professing a Christian experience who hates his brother has
received a saving knowledge of truth (1Jhn. 2:9, 2:11).</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">This
is just saying, those who hate others are not walking in the Light.
The perfect Light provided for believers leads us into His perfect
love. It does not allow hate of any kind. Hate is of the devil and is
surrounded by darkness.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Hateth</span></span></span></span><b><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
(</span></span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">μισῶν</span></span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">)</span></span></span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">The
sharp issue is maintained here as in Christ's words, He that is not
with me is against me (Luke 11:23). Men fall into two classes, those
who are in fellowship with God, and therefore walk in light and love,
and those who are not in fellowship with God, and therefore walk in
darkness and hatred. A direct opposition says Bengel; where love is
not, there is hatred. The heart is not empty. See John 3:20; 7:7;
15:18 sqq.; John 17:14. The word </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">hate</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
is opposed both to the love </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">of</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">natural</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">affection</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>φιλεῖν</b></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">,
and to the more discriminating sentiment -</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">love</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">founded</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">on</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">a</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">just</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">estimate</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>ἀγαπᾶν</b></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">.
For the former see John 12:25; 15:18, 15:19; compare Luke 14:26. For
the latter, 1Jhn. 3:14, 3:15; 4:20, Mat. 5:43; 6:24; Eph. 5:28, 5:29.
In the former case, </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">hatred</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">,
which may become a moral duty, involves the subjection of an
instinct. In the latter case it expresses a general determination of
character (Westcott).</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">Doctrinal
truth about spiritual matters means nothing without compassion for
others. For John, hateth seems to mean simply fails to love.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">In
the original language, hate coveys the idea of someone who habitually
hates or is marked by a lifestyle of hate.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">His
brother (</span></span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">τὸν
ἀδελφόν</span></span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">)</span></span></span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">His
fellow-Christian. The singular, </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">brother</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">,
is characteristic of this Epistle. See 1Jhn. 2:10, 2:11; 3:10, 3:15,
3:17; 4:20, 4:21; 5:16. Christians are called in the New Testament,
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Christians</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
(Acts 11:26; 26:28; 1Pet. 4:16), mainly by those outside of the
Christian circle. </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Disciples</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">,
applied to all followers of Christ (John 2:11; 6:61) and strictly to
the twelve (John 13:5 sqq.). In Acts 19:1, to those who had received
only John's baptism. Not found in John's Epistles nor in Revelation.
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Brethren</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">.
The first title given to the body of believers after the Ascension
(Acts 1:15, where the true reading is </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>ἀδελφῶν</b></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">brethren</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">,
for </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>μαθητῶν</b></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">disciples</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">).
See Acts 9:30; 10:23; 11:29; 1Thes. 4:10; 5:26; 1Jhn. 3:14; 3Jhn.
1:5, 1:10; John 21:23. Peter has </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>ἡ
ἀδελφότης</b></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">the</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">brotherhood</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
(1Pet. 2:17; 5:9). The </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">believers</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">.
Under three forms: The </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">believers</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>οἱ
πιστοί</b></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">;
Acts 10:45; 1Tim. 4:12; </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">they</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">that</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">believe</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>οἱ
πιστεύοντες</b></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">;
1Pet. 2:7; 1Thes. 1:7; Eph. 1:19); </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">they</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">that</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">believed</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>οἱ
πιστεύσαντες</b></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">;
Acts 2:44; 4:32; Heb. 4:3). The saints </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>οἱ
ἅγιοι</b></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">;
characteristic of Paul and Revelation. Four times in the Acts (Acts
9:13, 9:32, 9:41; 26:10), and once in Jude (Jude 1:3). Also Heb.
6:10; 13:24. In Paul, 1Cor. 6:1; 14:33; Eph. 1:1, 1:15, etc. In Rev.
5:8; 8:3, 8:4; 11:18, etc.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Is
in the darkness even until now: Those who profess to be Christians,
yet are characterized by hate, demonstrate by such action that they
have never been born again. The false teachers made claims to
enlightenment, transcendent knowledge of God, and salvation, but
their actions, especially the lack of love, proved all such claims
false (see also verse 11).</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Until
now</span></span></span></span></span><b><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
(</span></span></span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">ἕως
ἄρτι</span></span></span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">)</span></span></span></span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US">Though
the light has been increasing, and though he may claim that he has
been in the light from the first. The phrase occurs in John 2:10;
5:17; 16:24; and is used by Paul, 1Cor. 4:13; 8:7; 15:6.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #292f33;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-weight: normal;">It
follows that </span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-weight: normal;">anyone
who claims to be in the light but hates his brother is still in the
darkness.</span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
This warning is clearly intended for Christians as the words his
brother plainly show. An unsaved person can indeed hate a brother of
physical kin, but since he has no spiritual kin, he cannot really hate
his (spiritual) brother. If John thought that no Christian could hate
another Christian, there was no need to personalize the relationship
with the word his. But the opinion, held by some, that a true
Christian could never hate another Christian is naive and contrary to
the Bible and experience. Even so great a man as King David was
guilty of murder, which is the final expression of hate. John was
warning his readers against a spiritual danger that is all too real
(cf. </span></span></span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-weight: normal;">1Jhn.
1:8, 1:10)</span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-weight: normal;">.
And he was affirming that a Christian who can hate his fellow
Christian has not genuinely escaped from the darkness of this present
passing Age. To put it another way, he has much to learn about God
and cannot legitimately claim an intimate knowledge of Christ. If he
really knew Christ as he ought, he would </span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">love</span></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
his brother.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>End Times Prophecy: Are You Prepared?http://www.blogger.com/profile/05192451197130838894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1562564139613851589.post-67216442534579941022024-03-03T18:36:00.000-08:002024-03-03T18:36:18.212-08:00Book of Joel Chapter 1 Vs. 18<p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">A Call to Repentance </span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></p><p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>How
do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they
have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate. Joel
1:18</b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">How
do the... Not only are the people out of food, but even the grass of
the field is not producing, and the cattle and sheep are starving.
The drought and the locusts have destroyed everything that even
resembles grain. </span></span></span></span><span style="font-style: normal;">For
want of fodder, all green grass and herbs being eaten up by the
locusts; and also, for want of water to quench their thirst.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="he-IL" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US"><b>מֶה
מַ־ מָ־ מַה מָה</b></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="en-US">mâh
mah mâ ma meh</span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>maw,
mah, maw, mah, meh</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">A
primitive particle; properly interrogitive </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">what</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">?
(including how?</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">why</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">?
and </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">when</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">?);
but also, exclamations like </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">what</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">!
(including </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">how</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">!),
or indefinitely </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">what</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
(including </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">whatever</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">,
and even relatively </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">that
which</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">);
often used with prefixes in various adverbial or conjugational
sneses: - how (long, oft, [-soever]), [no-] thing, what (end, good,
purpose, thing), whereby (-fore, -in, -to, -with), (for) why.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="he-IL" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="en-US">בְּהֵמָה</span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="en-US">b</span><sup><span lang="en-US">e</span></sup><span lang="en-US">hêmâh</span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>be-hay-maw'</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">From
an unused root (probably meaning to be </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">mute</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">);
properly a </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">dumb</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
beast; especially any large quadruped or </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">animal</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
(often collectively): - beast, cattle.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">The
herds of... The larger cattle, as oxen; these were in the utmost
perplexity, not knowing where to go for food or drink.</span></span></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="he-IL" style="font-style: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>עֵדֶר</b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">‛<span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><b><span lang="en-US">êder</span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>ay'-der</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">From
H5737, an </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">arrangement</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">,
that is, </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">muster</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
(of animals): - drove, flock, herd.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">yea,
the flocks... Which have shepherds to lead and direct them to
pastures, and can feed on commons, where the grass is short, which
other cattle cannot. Yet even these were in great distress, and
wasted away, and were consumed for want of nourishment.</span></span></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="he-IL" style="font-style: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>גַּם</b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>gam</b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>gam</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">By
contraction from an unused root meaning to </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">gather</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">;
properly </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">assemblage</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">;
used only adverbially </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">also</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">,
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">even</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">,
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">yea</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">,
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">though</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">;
often repeated as correlation </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">both</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">...
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">and:
- </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">again,
alike, also, (so much) as (soon), both (so) . . . and, but, either .
. . or, even, for all, (in) likewise (manner), moreover, nay . . .
neither, one, then (-refore), though, what, with, yea.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="he-IL" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="en-US">עֵדֶר</span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">‛<span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><b><span lang="en-US">êder</span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>ay'-der</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">From
H5737, an </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">arrangement</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">,
that is, </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">muster</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
(of animals): - drove, flock, herd.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><br />
</span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">With
no harvest available, </span></span></span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">the
storehouses and granaries had been left to deteriorate. The
domesticated animals (cattle.… herds… flocks of sheep) were
suffering from starvation.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>End Times Prophecy: Are You Prepared?http://www.blogger.com/profile/05192451197130838894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1562564139613851589.post-58808302424495808282024-03-03T18:05:00.000-08:002024-03-03T18:05:42.315-08:00Book of 1 John Chapter 2 Vs. 8<p style="text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: large;">The New Commandment</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></p><p style="font-style: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>1
John 2:8 “Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is
true in him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true
light now shineth.”</b></span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="en-US">a
new</span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="en-US">
commandment... Greek: </span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="en-US"><b>kainos</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="en-US">,
renewed; fresh (2Cor. 5:17). This new commandment is an old one
renewed and made complete in meaning by Jesus Christ (1Jhn. 2:7-8;
Lev. 19:18 with John 13:34).</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span style="font-family: Accordance; font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">New
commandment</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">The
commandment of love is both </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">old</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
and </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">new</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">.
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">Old</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">,
because John's readers have had it from the beginning of their
Christian experience. </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">New</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">,
because, in the unfolding of Christian experience, it has developed
new power, meaning, and obligation, and closer correspondence with
the facts of Christ's life, with the crowning mystery of His passion,
and with the facts of the Christian life.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Which
thing is true</span></span></span></span></span></span><b><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
(</span></span></span></span></span></b><b><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">ὅ
ἐστιν ἀληθὲς</span></span></span></span></span></b><b><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">)</span></span></span></span></span></b></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">The
expression </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">which</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">thing</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">,
or </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">that</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">which</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">,
refers either to </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">the</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">commandment</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">of</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">love</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">,
or to the fact stated, viz., </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">that</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">the</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">old</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">commandment</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">is</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">new</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">.
The fact that the old commandment is new is true in Him and in us. On
the whole I prefer this.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">This
is just expressing how much easier it is for us to understand the law
of God, since the Light of Jesus has shown on it. This new
commandment is let Jesus, (the Light of the world), live in you and
through you. We do not have to question about God anymore.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span style="font-family: Accordance; font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-weight: normal;">In
Him and in us</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">For
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">us</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">,
read </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">you</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">.
The fact that the old commandment is new, is true </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">in</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">Him</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
(Christ), since He gave it as a new commandment, and illustrated it
by His word and example. It is true in </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">you</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">,
since you did not receive it until Christ gave it, and since the
person and life of Christ are appealing to you in new lights and with
fresh power as your Christian life develops. </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">In</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">Him</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">,
points back to as </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">He</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">walked</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">His
perfect Light has shined in our heart and made us aware of His
perfect Love. The Light of Jesus brightens our path that we are to
walk. It is not a dark and fearful walk anymore.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span style="font-family: Accordance; font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Because</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US">Explaining
the apparent paradox.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The
darkness</span></span></span></span><b><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
(</span></span></span></b><b><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">ἡ
σκοτία</span></span></span></b><b><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">)</span></span></span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">See
on John 1:5. God is </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">light</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">;
and whatever is not in fellowship with God is therefore </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">darkness</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">.
In all cases where the word is not used of physical darkness, it
means moral insensibility to the divine light, moral blindness or
obtuseness. Compare John 8:12; 12:35, 12:46; 1Jhn. 2:9, 2:11.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Is
past</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><b><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
(</span></span></span></span></span></span></b><b><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">παράγεται</span></span></span></span></span></span></b><b><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">)</span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">Wrong.
The </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">passing</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
is not represented as </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">accomplished</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">,
but as </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">in</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">progress</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">.
Rev., rightly rendering the present tense, </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">is</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">passing</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">away</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The
true light</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><b><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
(</span></span></span></span></span></span></b><b><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">τὸ
φῶς τὸ ἀληθινὸν</span></span></span></span></span></span></b><b><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">)</span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Lit.,
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">the</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">light</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">,
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">the</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">true</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
(light). See on </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">that</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">eternal</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">life</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
(1Jhn. 1:2). </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">True</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">,
not as distinguished from false, but as answering to the true ideal.
See on John 1:9. The </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">true</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">light</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
is the revelation of God in Christ. See on 1Jhn. 1:5.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Shineth</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><b><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
(</span></span></span></span></span></span></b><b><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">φαίνει</span></span></span></span></span></span></b><b><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">)</span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US">See
on John 1:5. Compare Rev. 1:16; 8:12; 21:23; 2Pet. 1:19. See also
Rom. 13:11 sqq.; Tit. 2:11; 3:4.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /><br />
</span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Yet</span></span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
Jesus had called that commandment new (John 13:34) and John pointed
out that it had not lost its freshness. It is really still </span></span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-weight: normal;">a
new command,</span></span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
and </span></span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-weight: normal;">its
truth is seen in Him and you.</span></span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
This last assertion, somewhat freely rendered by NIV, seems to mean
that the command to love came to realization first in Jesus Himself
and then in His followers. The next phrase, </span></span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-weight: normal;">because
the darkness is passing and the true light is already shining,</span></span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
is best related back to the claim that he was after all writing a new
command to them. His point was that the command to love which Jesus
and His followers exhibit belongs to the new Age of righteousness
which has begun to dawn. It does not belong to the old Age of
darkness which was passing away. Christ’s Incarnation brought a
light into the world which can never be extinguished. The love He
manifested and taught His disciples to manifest is a characteristic
of the Age to come. It is the darkness of the present world and all
its hatred which is destined to disappear forever (cf. 1Jhn. 2:17).</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US">In
speaking this way, John gave to the terms light and darkness a slant
differing slightly from what they had in 1Jhn. 1:1-10. There light
was defined in terms of the fundamental character of God (1Jhn. 1:5).
In that sense, the light has been shining as long as there has been a
revelation of God to man. But here John wrote of the Incarnation in
particular as the point at which the light began to shine. The new
Age has dawned, and its true character can now be defined in terms of
the special revelation God has made of Himself in His Son. And above
all, that revelation is a revelation of divine love.</span></span></span></span></p>End Times Prophecy: Are You Prepared?http://www.blogger.com/profile/05192451197130838894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1562564139613851589.post-61805437362584272482024-02-29T18:49:00.000-08:002024-02-29T18:49:44.486-08:00Book of Joel Chapter 1 Vs. 17<p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">A Call to Repentance</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></b></p><p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Verses
17-18: Seed is rotten … beast's groan: From the spiritual realm to
the physical realm, all was in shambles. Though innocent, in judgment
even the animals suffered (Rom. 8:18-22), the loss of food.</span></span></span><span lang="zxx"><b>
</b></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The
seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the
barns are broken down; for the corn is withered. Joel 1:17</b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The
seed is...</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
Here we have the desolation of Israel in the day of the Lord pictured
(Joel 1:17-20; 1:7-13). </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Not
only was all to be cut off for the present, but with it, all hope for
the future. The scattered seed, as it lay, each under its clod known
to God, was dried up, and so decayed.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="he-IL" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span lang="zxx">פְּרֻדָה</span></span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="en-US">p</span><sup><span lang="en-US">e</span></sup><span lang="en-US">rûdâh</span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>per-oo-daw'</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">Feminine
passive participle of H6504; something </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">separated</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">,
that is, a </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">kernel:
- </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">seed.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="he-IL" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span lang="zxx">עָבַשׁ</span></span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">‛<span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><b><span lang="en-US">âbash</span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>aw-bash'</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">A
primitive root; to </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">dry</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
up: - be rotten.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">the
garners are... The treasuries, or storehouses, having nothing in
them, and there being nothing to put into them; Jarchi makes these to
be peculiar for wine and oil, both which failed (Joel 1:10).</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="he-IL" style="font-style: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>אוֹצָר</b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="en-US">'ôtsâr</span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>o-tsaw'</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">From
H686; a </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">depository:
- </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">armory,
cellar, garner, store(-house), treasure (-house) (-y).</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">the
barns are... In which the wheat and barley had used to be laid up;
but this judgment of the locusts and drought continuing year after
year, the walls fell down, and no care was taken to repair them,
there being no use for them; these were the granaries, and, as
Jarchi, for wheat particularly.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="he-IL" style="font-style: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>מַמְּגֻרָה</b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="en-US">mamm</span><sup><span lang="en-US">e</span></sup><span lang="en-US">gûrâh</span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>mam-meg-oo-raw'</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">From
H4048 (in the sense of </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">depositing</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">);
a </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">granary:
- </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">barn.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">for
the corn... That which sprung up withered and dried away, through the
heat and drought: or was ashamed; not answering the expectation of
the sower.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="he-IL" style="font-style: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>דָּגָן</b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="en-US">dâgân</span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>daw-gawn'</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">From
H1711, properly </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">increase</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">,
that is, </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">grain:
- </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">corn
([floor]), wheat.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">This
speaks of a time, when the farmers have given up. The seed rots in
the ground and does not produce. There is nothing to put in the
barn, so the farmer has let it run down.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /><br />
</span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="zxx">We
see drought had apparently set in as well, for the </span><span lang="zxx"><span style="text-decoration: none;">seeds
had shriveled. The clods (Joel 1:17)</span></span><span lang="zxx">
may be translated, their (i.e., the farmers’) shovels. When the
farmers dug into the ground to investigate the absence of green life,
the shovels uncovered seeds that had not germinated. </span></span></span></span>
</p>End Times Prophecy: Are You Prepared?http://www.blogger.com/profile/05192451197130838894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1562564139613851589.post-91542795588167926212024-02-29T18:15:00.000-08:002024-02-29T18:15:50.783-08:00Book of 1 John Chapter 2 Vs. 7<p style="text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: large;">The New Commandment</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">Verses
7-8” John’s commandment is both old and new. This commandment, as
is clear below, is to love one another. Jesus called it “new” (in
John 13:34), thought it appears in similar form (in Lev. 19:18).
By late in John’s life, it is no longer so new; yet in the sense
that it continually transforms and renews the lives of Christians, it
is and ever shall be new indeed.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">Verses
7-17: Love of the brethren constitutes the fourth test of genuine
fellowship. The primary focus of the moral test is obedience to the
command of love because love is the fulfillment of the law (Mat. 22:34-40; Rom. 13:8-10; Jas. 2:8) and is also Christ’s new
command (John 13:34; 15:12, 17). True enlightenment is to love. God’s
light is the light of love, so to walk in light is to walk in love.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>1
John 2:7 “Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old
commandment which ye had from the beginning. The old commandment is
the word which ye have heard from the beginning.”</b></span></span></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">Brethren,
I write... Here, is speaking of those who are of a common faith.
Jesus did not come to do away with the law, but to fulfill it. The
commandment spoken of here, has to do with love. We are taught from
the beginning to love one another.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Brethren</span></span></span><b><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="en-US">
(</span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="en-US">ἀδελφοὶ</span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="en-US">)</span></span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">The
correct reading is </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>ἀγαπηοί</b></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">beloved</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">.
The first occurrence of this title, which is suggested by the
previous words concerning the relation of love.</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Not
referring to new in the sense of time but something that is fresh in
quality, kind or form; something that replaces something else that
has been worn out.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">no
new commandment… John makes a significant word play here. Though he
doesn’t state here what the command is, he does (in 2Jhn. 5-6), it
is to love. Both phrases refer to the same commandment of love.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">No
new commandment</span></span></span></span></span><b><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
(</span></span></span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">οὐκ
ἐντολὴν καινὴν</span></span></span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">)</span></span></span></span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">The
Rev., properly, places these words first in the sentence as emphatic,
the point of the verse lying in the antithesis between the new and
the old. On </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">new</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">,
see on Mat. 26:29.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">The
commandment of love was new because Jesus personified love in a
fresh, new way and it was shed abroad in believer’s hearts (Rom.
5:5) and energized by the Holy Spirit (Gal. 5:22; 1Thes. 4-9). He
raised love to a higher standard for the church and commanded His
disciples to imitate His love as I have loved you.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">The
command was also old because the Old Testament commanded love (Lev.
19:18; Deut. 6:5), and the readers of John’s epistle had heard
about Jesus’ command to love when they first heard the gospel.</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Old</span></span></span></span><b><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
(</span></span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">παλαιὰν</span></span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">)</span></span></span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Four
words are used in the New Testament for </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">old</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
or </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">elder</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">.
Of these </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>γέρων</b></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">and
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>πρεσβύτερος</b></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">refer
merely to the age of men, or, the latter, to official position based
primarily upon age. Hence the official term elder. Between the two
others, </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>ἀρχαῖος</b></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">and
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>παλαιός</b></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">,
the distinction is not sharply maintained. </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>Ἁρχαῖος</b></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">emphasizes
the reaching back to a </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">beginning</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>ἀρχή</b></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
Thus Satan is that </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">old</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>ἀρχαῖος</b></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
serpent, whose evil work was coeval with the beginning of time (Rev.
7:9; 20:2). The world before the flood is the </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">old</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>ἀρχαῖος</b></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
world (2Pet. 2:5). Mnason was an </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">old</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>ἀρχαῖος</b></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
disciple; not aged but</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> having been a disciple from the beginning (Act. 21:16).
Sophocles, in “Trachiniae,” 555, gives both words. I had an
old </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>παλαιὸν</b></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
gift, </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">i</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">.</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">e</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">.,
received long ago, from the </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">old</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>ἀρχαίου</b></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
Centaur. The Centaur is conceived as an old-world creature,
belonging to a state of things which has passed away. It carries,
therefore, the idea of </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">old</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">fashioned:</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
peculiar to an obsolete state of things.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>Παλαιός</b></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">carries
the sense of </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">worn</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">out</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
by time, injury, sorrow, or other causes. Thus the </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">old</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
garment (Mat. 9:16) is </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>παλαιόν</b></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">.
So, the </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">old</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
wineskins (Mat. 9:17). The old men of a living generation compared
with the young of the same generation are </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>παλαιοί</b></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">.
In </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>παλαιός</b></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">the
simple conception of </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">time</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
dominates. In </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>ἀρχαῖος</b></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">there
is often a suggestion of a </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">character</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
answering to the remote age.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">The
commandment is here called </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">old</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
because it belonged to the first stage of the Christian church.
Believers had had it from the beginning of their Christian faith.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Commandment</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US">The
commandment of love. Compare John 13:34. This commandment is
fulfilled in walking as Christ walked. Compare Eph. 5:1, 5:2.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">from
the beginning... This phrase refers not to the beginning of time but
the beginning of their Christian lives, as indicated (by verse 24;
3:11; and 2Jhn. 6). This was part of the ethical instruction they
received from the day of their salvation and not some innovation
invented by John, as the heretics may have said.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><br />
</span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">The
Word is the commandment of God. Jesus said all the law and the
commandments were caught up in loving God first, and then loving your
fellowman as yourself. The commandment, then, is righteous love.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">When
we love Him, we walk as He walked.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /><br />
</span></p>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">1Jhn.
2:3-6 introduce the issue of obedience, though it was surely implicit
also in 1Jhn. 1:5-10. But John’s insistence on obeying God’s
commands as a test of one’s personal intimacy and knowledge of Him
leads to a natural question: Which commands did John have in mind?
The answer is offered here. John did </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">not</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
have in mind some </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">new</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
obligation which his readers had never heard. On the contrary the
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">command</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
foremost in his mind was </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">an
old one, which you have had since the beginning</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
(cf. 2Jhn. 1:5). No doubt John thought here especially of the command
to love one another (cf. 1Jhn. 2:9-11). He emphasized his point by
adding that </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">this
old command is the message</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>logos</b></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">,
lit., word; cf. 1Jhn. 1:5; 3:11) which </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">you
have heard</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
the majority of mss. add again from the beginning. Whatever
innovations the readers might be confronting because of the doctrines
of the antichrists, their real responsibility was to a commandment
which they had heard from the very start of their Christian
experience (cf. heard and from the beginning in 1Jhn. 1:1; 2:24;
3:11).</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">John’s
affectionate concern for them is seen in his use of </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>Agapētoi</b></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">,
literally, Beloved and here rendered </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Dear
friends.</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
He used the same word in 1Jhn. 3:2, 3:21; 4:1, 4:7, 4:11 and </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>Agapēte</b></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
Dear friend in 3Jhn. 1:2, 1:5, 1:11.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>End Times Prophecy: Are You Prepared?http://www.blogger.com/profile/05192451197130838894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1562564139613851589.post-27106679862886303262024-02-23T19:23:00.000-08:002024-02-23T19:23:48.545-08:00Book of Joel Chapter 1 Vs. 16<p style="text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: large;">A Call to Repentance</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></p><p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="zxx">Is
not the meat cut off before our eyes, </span><span lang="zxx"><i>yea,</i></span><span lang="zxx">
joy and gladness from the house of our God? Joel 1:16</span></b></span></span></span></p><p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="zxx"><br /></span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Is
not the... </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
Question 2. Next, Joe. 2:11.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="he-IL" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="zxx">לֹה
לוֹא לֹא</span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="en-US">lô'
lô' lôh</span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>lo,
lo, lo</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">lo</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">;
a primitive particle; </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">not</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
(the simple or abstract negation); by implication </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">no</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">;
often used with other particles: - X before, + or else, ere, +
except, ig [-norant], much, less, nay, neither, never, no ([-ne], -r,
[-thing]), (X as though . . . , [can-], for) not (out of), of nought,
otherwise, out of, + surely, + as truly as, + of a truth, + verily,
for want, + whether, without.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">meat
cut off... Such an interrogation most strongly affirms; it was a
matter beyond all question, but they could see it with their eyes. It
was a plain case, and not to be denied, that every eatable thing or
that of which food was custom to be made, was cut off by the locusts,
or the drought.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="he-IL" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="zxx"><b>אֹכֶל</b></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="en-US">'ôkel</span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>o'-kel</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">From
H398; </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">food:
- </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">eating,
food, meal [-time], meat, prey, victuals.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">yea,
joy and... The harvest being perished, there were no firstfruits
brought to the temple, which used to be attended with great joy. And
the corn and vines being wasted, no meat offerings made of fine
flour, nor drink offerings of wine, were offered, which used to make
God and man glad.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">Nor
any other sacrifices, on which the priests and their families lived,
and were matter of joy to them; and these they ate of in the temple,
or in courts adjoining to it.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">The
meat, corn, and fruit were all cut off. There was famine in the land.
There were no sacrifices, because there was nothing left to
sacrifice. This destruction really comes from God. He may use some
ruler to finalize the destruction, but it is truly from God who is
angry. The loss of foodstuff is a direct judgment from God. The war
is indirect, but it comes from God, too.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="he-IL" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>שִׂמְחָה</b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="en-US">śimchâh</span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>sim-khaw'</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">From
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">H8056</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">;
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">blithesomeness</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
or </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">glee</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">,
(religious or festival): - X exceeding (-ly), gladness, joy
(-fulness), mirth, pleasure, rejoice (-ing).</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="he-IL" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.04in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="zxx"><b>אֱלֹהִים</b></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="en-US">'ĕlôhı̂ym</span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>el-o-heem'</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">Plural
of H433; </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">gods</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus,
especially with the article) of the supreme </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">God</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">;
occasionally applied by way of deference to </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">magistrates</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">;
and sometimes as a superlative: - angels, X exceeding, God (gods)
(-dess, -ly), X (very) great, judges, X mighty.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><br />
</span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="zxx">Joel
1:16-20 contain a detailed description of the aftermath of the locust
plague. By again concentrating on the unique nature of this
particular event, the prophet supported his contention that the
destructive day of the Lord was around the corner (cf. near in Joel
1:15).</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.04in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">The
people were all too aware (before their very eyes) that their food
supply, and with it all reason to rejoice, had disappeared (Joel
1:16).</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>End Times Prophecy: Are You Prepared?http://www.blogger.com/profile/05192451197130838894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1562564139613851589.post-11065570455151824882024-02-23T18:58:00.000-08:002024-02-23T18:58:38.952-08:00Book of 1 John Chapter 2 Vs. 6<p style="text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: large;">Christ Our Advocate</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></p><p style="font-style: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>1
John 2:6 “He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to
walk, even as he walked.”</b></span></span></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">He
that saith...</span></span></span></span><b><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="en-US">Everyone who makes a Christian profession ought to walk as Christ did
</span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">(1Jhn.
2:6; 3:1-10; 4:17; 1Pet. 2:21). To be in Christ means that one is a
new creature and that affections and lusts of the flesh have been
crucified (2Cor. 5:17; Gal. 5:16-26; Rom. 8:12-13; Col. 3:5-10).</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">abideth
in him...</span></span></span></span></span></span><b><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></b><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Ten
proofs of abiding in Christ:</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US">1.
Walking as Christ walked (1Jhn. 2:6)</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US">2.
Love of the brethren (1Jhn. 2:10; 3:14-15)</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US">3.
God’s Word abiding within (</span><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">1Jhn.
2:14</span></span><span lang="en-US">)</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US">4.
Doing the will of God (1Jhn. 2:17)</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US">5.
Permission of individual (1Jhn. 2:24-25)</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US">6.
Continued anointing (1Jhn. 2:27)</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US">7.
Freedom from sin (1Jhn. 3:6)</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US">8.
Keeping commandments (1Jhn. 3:24; John 15:10)</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US">9.
Indwelling Spirit (1Jhn. 3:24)</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US">10.
Fruit bearing (John 15:4, 15:7)</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">He
abideth in Him</span></span></span><b><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
(</span></span></b><b><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">ἐν
αὐτῷ μένειν</span></span></b><b><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">)</span></span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">To
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">abide</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">in</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">God</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
is a more common expression with John than </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">to</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">be</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">in</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">God</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">,
and marks an advance in thought. The phrase is a favorite one with
John. See John 15:4 sqq.; John 6:56; 1Jhn. 2:24, 2:27, 2:28; 3:6,
3:24; 4:12 sq.; 4:15 sq. Bengel notes the gradation in the three
phrases </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">to</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">know</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Him</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">,
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">to</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">be</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">in</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Him</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">,
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">to</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">abide</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">in</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Him</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">;
knowledge, fellowship, constancy.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">Abides
or Abideth is one of John’s favorite terms for salvation. Even as
he walked: Jesus’ life of obedience is the Christian’s pattern.
Those who claim to be Christian's ought to live as He did (John 6:38),
since they possess His Spirit’s presence and power.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Ought
(</span></span></span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">ὀφείλει</span></span></span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">)</span></span></span></span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">An
obligation, put as a </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">debt</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">.
See Luke 17:10, and on </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">debts</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">,
Mat. 6:12. The word expresses a special, personal obligation, and not
as </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">δεῖ
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">must</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="color: #292f33; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">,
an obligation in the nature of things. See John 20:</span>9 and<span style="color: #292f33; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> compare
1Jhn. 3:16; 4:11; 3Jhn. 1:8.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">This
is referring to Jesus’ earthly days. While no one can or need
duplicate Jesus’ atoning ministry, His disciples are called on to
imitate His devotion to God and compassion for others (see John 13:15
and 1Pet. 2:21).</span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">Jesus
placed His footprints for us. If we are following Him as we should,
we will step in those footprints. Walk, in this instance, is speaking
of making it a habit to walk in the footprints of Jesus. This is not
an occasional encounter with God, but a way of life.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">He
(</span></span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">ἐκεῖνος</span></span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">)</span></span></span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Always
of Christ in the Epistles of John. See </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>ἐκείνης</b></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">,
referring to </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>ἁμαρτία</b></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">sin</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">,
1Jhn. 5:16.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">THE
INFLUENCE OF THE GREAT LIFE WALK A PERSONAL INFLUENCE</span></span></b></span></span></span></p><p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><br /></span></span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">This
verse is one of those in reading which we may easily fall into the
fallacy of mistaking familiarity for knowledge.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">Let
us bring out its meaning with accuracy.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span style="color: #292f33; font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US">St.
John’s hatred of unreality, of lying in every form, leads him to
claim in Christians a perfect correspondence between the outward
profession and the inward life, as well as the visible manifestation
of it. He that saith always marks a danger to those who are outwardly
in Christian communion. It is the take notice of a hidden falsity. He
whose claim, possibly whose vaunt, is that he abideth in Christ, has
contracted a moral debt of far-reaching significance. St. John seems
to pause for a moment. He points to a picture in a page of the scroll
which is beside him-the picture of Christ in the Gospel drawn by
himself; not a vague magnificence, a mere harmony of colour, but a
likeness of absolute historical truth. Every pilgrim of time in the
continuous course of his daily walk, outward and inward, has by the
possession of that Gospel contracted an obligation to be walking by
the one great life walk of the Pilgrim of eternity. The very depth
and intensity of feeling half hushes the Apostle’s voice. Instead
of the beloved Name which all who love it will easily supply, St.
John uses the reverential He, the pronoun which specially belongs to
Christ in the vocabulary of the Epistle. He that saith he abideth in
Him is bound, even as He once walked, to be ever walking.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">I
The importance of example in the moral and spiritual life gives
emphasis to this canon of St. John.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">Such
an example as can be sufficient for creatures like us should
be at once manifested in concrete form and susceptible of ideal
application.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">This
was felt by a great, but unhappily antichristian, thinker, the
exponent of a severe and lofty morality. Mr. Mill fully confesses
that there may be an elevating and an ennobling influence in a Divine
ideal; and thus justifies the apparently startling precept-be ye
therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in Heaven is perfect.
But he considered that some more human model was necessary for the
moral striver. He recommends novel readers, when they are charmed or
strengthened by some conception of pure manhood or womanhood, to
carry that conception with them into their own lives. He would have
them ask themselves in difficult positions, how that strong and lofty
man, that tender and unselfish woman, would have behaved in similar
circumstances, and so bear about with them a standard of duty at once
compendious and affecting. But to this there is one fatal
objection-that such an elaborate process of make believe is
practically impossible. A fantastic morality, if it were possible at
all, must be a feeble morality. Surely an authentic example will be
greatly more valuable.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">But
example, however precious, is made indefinitely more powerful when it
is living example, example crowned by personal influence.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">So
far as the stain of a guilty past can be removed from those who have
contracted it, they are improvable and capable of restoration,
chiefly, perhaps almost exclusively, by personal influence in some
form. When a process of deterioration and decay has set in in any
human soul, the germ of a more wholesome growth is introduced in
nearly every case, by the transfusion and transplantation of
healthier life. We test the soundness or the putrefaction of a soul
by its capacity of receiving and assimilating this germ of
restoration. A parent is in doubt whether is susceptible of
renovation, whether the son has not become wholly evil. He tries to
bring the young man under the personal influence of a friend of noble
and sympathetic character. Has his son any capacity left for being
touched by such a character; of admiring its strength on one side,
its softness on another? When he is in contact with it, when he
perceives how pure, how self-sacrificing, how true and straight it
is, is there a glow in his face, a trembling of his voice, a moisture
in his eye, a wholesome self-humiliation? Or does he repel all this
with a sneer and a bitter gibe? Has he that evil attitude which is
possessed only by the most deeply corrupt-they blaspheme, rail at
glories. The Chaplain of a penitentiary records that among the most
degraded of its inmates was one miserable creature. The Matron met
her with firmness, but with a good will which no hardness could break
down, no insolence overcome. One evening after prayers the Chaplain
observed this poor outcast stealthily kissing the shadow of the
Matron thrown by her candle upon the wall. He saw that the diseased
nature was beginning to be capable of assimilating new life, that the
victory of wholesome personal influence had begun. He found reason
for concluding that his judgment was well founded.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span lang="en-US">The
law of restoration by living example through personal influence
pervades the whole of our human relations under God’s natural and
moral government as truly as the principle of mediation. This law
also pervades the system of restoration revealed to us by
Christianity. It is one of the chief results of the Incarnation
itself. It begins to act upon us first, when the Gospels become
something more to us than a mere history, when we realize in some
degree how He walked. But it is not complete until we know that all
this is not merely of the past, but of the present; that He is not dead but living; that we may therefore use that little word is about
Christ in the lofty sense of St. John-even as He is pure; in Him is
no sin; even as He is righteous; He is the propitiation for our sins.
If this is true, as it undoubtedly is, of all good human influence
personal and living, is it not true of the personal and living Christ
in an infinitely higher degree? If the shadow of Peter overshadowing
the sick had some strange efficacy; if handkerchiefs or aprons from
the body of Paul wrought upon the sick and possessed; what may be the
spiritual result of contact with Christ Himself? Of one of those men
specially gifted to raise struggling natures and of others like him,
a true poet lately taken from us has sung in one of his most glorious
strains. Matthew Arnold likens mankind to a host inexorably bound by
divine appointment to march over mountain and desert to the city of
God. But they become entangled in the wilderness through which they
march, split into mutinous factions, and are in danger of battering
on the rocks forever in vain, of dying one by one in the waste. Then
comes the poet’s appeal to the Servants of </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33; font-family: Accordance;">God: -</span></span></p>
<p align="CENTER" lang="en-US" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Then
in the hour of need</span></span></span></p>
<p align="CENTER" lang="en-US" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">Of
your fainting, dispirited race,</span></span></span></p>
<p align="CENTER" lang="en-US" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ye
like angels appear!</span></span></span></p>
<p align="CENTER" lang="en-US" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">Languor
is not in your heart,</span></span></span></p>
<p align="CENTER" lang="en-US" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">Weakness
is not in your word,</span></span></span></p>
<p align="CENTER" lang="en-US" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">Weariness
not on your brow.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="CENTER" lang="en-US" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">Eyes
rekindling, and prayers</span></span></span></p>
<p align="CENTER" lang="en-US" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">Follow
your steps as ye go.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="CENTER" lang="en-US" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ye
fill up the gaps in our file,</span></span></span></p>
<p align="CENTER" lang="en-US" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">Strengthen
the wavering line,</span></span></span></p>
<p align="CENTER" lang="en-US" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">Stablish,
continue our march-</span></span></span></p>
<p align="CENTER" lang="en-US" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">On,
to the bound of the waste-</span></span></span></p>
<p align="CENTER" lang="en-US" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">On
to the City of God."</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">If
all this be true of the personal influence of good and strong
men-true in proportion to their goodness and strength-it must be true
of the influence of the Strongest and Best with Whom we are brought
into personal relation by prayer and sacraments, and by meditation
upon the sacred record which tells us what His one life walk was.
Strength is not wanting upon His part, for He is able to save to the
uttermost. Pity is not wanting; for to use touching words attributed
to St. Paul in a very ancient apocryphal document, He alone
sympathized with a world that has lost its way.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span style="color: #292f33; font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US">Let
it not be forgotten that in that of which St. John speaks lies the
true answer to an objection, formulated by the great antichristian
writer above quoted, and constantly repeated by others. The ideal of
Christian morality, says Mr. Mill, is negative rather than positive;
passive rather than active; innocence rather than nobleness;
abstinence from evil, rather than energetic pursuit of good; in its
precepts as has been well said, thou shalt not predominates unduly
over thou shalt. The answer is this.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span style="color: #292f33; font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US">(1)
A true religious system must have a distinct moral code. If not, it
would be justly condemned for expressing itself (in the words of Mr.
Mill’s own accusation against Christianity elsewhere) in language
most general and possessing rather the impressiveness of poetry or
eloquence than the precision of legislation. But the necessary
formula of precise legislation is, thou shalt not; and without this
it cannot be precise.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">(2)
But further. To say that Christian legislation is negative, a mere
string of thou shalt nots, is just such a superficial accusation as
might be expected from a man who should enter a church upon some rare
occasion, and happen to listen to the Ten Commandments, but fall
asleep before he could hear the Epistle and Gospel. The philosopher
of duty, Kant, has told us that the peculiarity of a moral principle,
of any proposition which states what duty is, is to convey the
meaning of an imperative through the form of an indicative. In his
own expressive, if pedantic, language-its categorical form involves
an epistatic meaning. St. John asserts that the Christian ought to
walk even as Christ walked. To everyone who receives it, that
proposition is therefore precisely equivalent to a command - walk as
Christ walked. Is it a negative, passive morality, a mere system of
thou shalt not, which contains such a precept as that? Does not the
Christian religion in virtue of this alone enforce a great thou
shalt; which every man who brings himself within its range will find
rising with him in the morning, following him like his shadow all day
long, and lying down with him when he goes to rest?</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">II
It should be clearly understood that in the words even as He walked,
the Gospel of St. John is both referred to and attested.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span style="color: #292f33; font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US">For
surely, to point with any degree of moral seriousness to an example,
is to presuppose some clear knowledge and definite record of it. No
example can be beautiful or instructive when its shape is lost in
darkness. It has indeed been said by a deeply religious writer, that
the likeness of the Christian to Christ is to His character, not to
the particular form in which it was historically manifested. And
this, of course, is in one sense a truism. But how else except by
this historical manifestation can we know the character of Christ in
any true sense of the word knowledge? For those who are familiar with
the fourth Gospel, the term walk was tenderly significant. For if it
was used with a reminiscence of the Old Testament and of the language
of our Lord, to denote the whole continuous activity of the life of
any man inward and outward, there was another signification which
became entwined with it. St. John had used the word historically in
his Gospel, not without allusion to the Saviour’s homelessness on
earth, to His itinerant life of beneficence and of teaching. Those
who first received this Epistle with deepest reverence as the
utterance of the Apostle whom they loved, when they came to the
precept-walk even as He walked-would ask themselves how did He walk?
What do we know of the great rule of life thus proposed to us? The
Gospel which accompanied this letter, and with which it was in some
way closely connected, was a sufficient and definite answer.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span style="color: #292f33; font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US">III
The character of Christ in his Gospel is thus, according to St. John,
the loftiest ideal of purity, peace, self-sacrifice, unbroken
communion with God, the inexhaustible fountain of regulated thoughts,
high aims, holy action, constant prayer. We may advert to one aspect
of this perfection as delineated in the fourth Gospel- our Lord’s
way of doing small things, or at least things which in human
estimation appear to be small.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">The
fourth chapter of that Gospel contains a marvelous record of word and
work. Let us trace that record back to its beginning. There are seeds
of spiritual life scattered in many hearts which were destined to
yield a rich harvest in due time; there is the account of one
sensuous nature, quickened and spiritualized; there are promises
which have been for successive centuries as a river of God to weary
natures. All these results issue from three words spoken by a tired
traveler, sitting naturally over a well-give me to drink.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span style="color: #292f33; font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US">We
take another instance. There is one passage in St. John’s Gospel
which divides with the proscenium of his Epistle the glory of being
the loftiest, the most prolonged, the most sustained, in the
Apostle’s writings.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #292f33;"><span lang="en-US">It
is the prelude of a work which might have seemed to be of little
moment. Yet all the height of a great ideal is over it, like the
vault of heaven; all the power of a Divine purpose is under it, like
the strength of the great deep; all the consciousness of His death,
of His ascension, of His coming dominion, of His Divine origin, of
His session at God’s right hand-all the hoarded love in His heart
for His own which were in the world-passes by some mysterious
transference into that little incident of tenderness and of
humiliation. He sets an everlasting mark upon it, not by a basin of
gold crusted with gems, nor by mixing precious scents with the water
which He poured out, nor by using linen of the finest tissue, but by
the absolute perfection of love and dutiful humility in the spirit
and in every detail of the whole action. It is one more of those
little chinks through which the whole sunshine of heaven streams in
upon those who have eyes to see. (</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">John
13:1-6</span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span lang="en-US">)</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span style="color: #292f33; font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US">The
underlying secret of this feature of our Lord’s character is told
by Himself. My meat is to be ever doing the will of Him that sent Me,
and so, when the times come, by one great decisive act to finish His
work. All along the course of that life walk there were smaller
preludes to the great act which won our redemption- multitudinous
daily little perfect epitomes of love and sacrifice, without which
the crowning sacrifice would not have been what it was. The plan of
our life must, of course, be constructed on a scale as different as
the human from the Divine. Yet there is a true sense in which this
lesson of the great life may be applied to us. The apparently small
things of life must not be despised or neglected on account of their
smallness, by those who would follow the precept of St. John.
Patience and diligence in petty trades, in services called menial, in
waiting on the sick and old, in a hundred such works, all come within
the sweep of this net, with its lines that look as thin as cobwebs,
and which yet for Christian hearts are stronger than fibres of
steel-walk even as He walked. This, too, is our only security. A
French poet has told a beautiful tale. Near a river which runs
between French and German territory, a blacksmith was at work one
snowy night near Christmas time. He was tired out, standing by his
forge, and wistfully looking towards his little home, lighted up a
short quarter of a mile away, and wife and children waiting for their
festal supper, when he should return. It came to the last piece of
his work, a rivet which it was difficult to finish properly; for it
was of peculiar shape, intended by the contractor who employed him to
pin the metal work of a bridge which he was constructing over the
river. The smith was sorely tempted to fail in giving honest work, to
hurry over a job which seemed at once so troublesome and so trifling.
But some good angel whispered to the man that he should do his best.
He turned to the forge with a sigh, and never rested until the work
was as complete as his skill could make it. The poet carries us on
for a year or two. War breaks out. A squadron of the blacksmith’s
countrymen is driven over the bridge in headlong flight. Men, horses,
guns, try its solidity. For a moment or two the whole weight of the
mass really hangs upon the one rivet. There are times in life when
the whole weight of the soul also hangs upon a rivet; the rivet of
sobriety, of purity, of honesty, of command of temper. Possibly we
have devoted little or no honest work to it in the years when we
should have perfected the work; and so, in the day of trial, the
rivet snaps, and we are lost.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span style="color: #292f33; font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US">There
is one word of encouragement which should be finally spoken for the
sake of one class of God’s servants.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span style="color: #292f33; font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US">Some
are sick, weary, broken, paralyzed, it may be slowly dying. What-they
sometimes think-have we to do with this precept? Others who have
hope, elasticity, capacity of service, may walk as He walked; but we
can scarcely do so. Such persons should remember what walking in the
Christian sense is all life’s activity inward and outward. Let them
think of Christ upon His cross. He was fixed to it, nailed hand and
foot. Nailed; yet never-not when He trod upon the waves, not when He
moved upward through the air to His throne-never did He walk more
truly, because He walked in the way of perfect love. It is just
whilst looking at the move-less form upon the tree that we may hear
most touchingly the great thou shalt-thou shalt walk even as He
walked.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span style="color: #292f33; font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US">IV
As there is a literal, so there is a mystical walking as Christ
walked. This is an idea which deeply pervades St. Paul’s writings.
Is it His birth? We are born again. Is it His life? We walk with Him
in newness of life. Is it His death? We are crucified with Him. Is it
His burial? We are buried with Him. Is it His resurrection? We are
risen again with Him. Is it His ascension-His very session at God’s
right hand? He hath raised us up and made us sit together with Him in
heavenly places. They know nothing of St. Paul’s mind who know
nothing of this image of a soul seen in the very dust of death,
loved, pardoned, quickened, elevated, crowned, throned. It was this
conception at work from the beginning in the general consciousness of
Christians which moulded round itself the order of the Christian
year.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">It
will illustrate this idea for us if we think of the difference
between the outside and the inside of a church.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span style="color: #292f33; font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US">Outside
on some high spire we see the light just lingering far up, while the
shadows are coldly gathering in the streets below; and we know that
it is winter. Again the evening falls warm and golden on the
churchyard, and we recognise the touch of summer. But inside it is
always God’s weather; it is Christ all the year long. Now the Babe
wrapped in swaddling clothes, or circumcised with the knife of the
law, manifested to the Gentiles, or manifesting Himself with a glory
that breaks through the veil; now the Man tempted in the wilderness;
now the victim dying on the cross; now the Victor risen, ascended,
sending the Holy Spirit; now for twenty-five Sundays worshipped as
the Everlasting Word with the Father and the Holy Ghost. In this
mystical following of Christ also, the one perpetual lesson is - he
that saith he abideth in Him, ought himself also so to walk even as
He walked.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /><br />
</span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #292f33;"><span lang="en-US">John
added, </span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-weight: normal;">This
is how we know we are in Him: Whoever claims to live in Him must walk
as Jesus did.</span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span lang="en-US">
(The translators have supplied the word Jesus which is represented in
the original by a pronoun.) In these statements, John used two other
expressions (in Him and live in Him) which further his thought. As
with the connection he makes between obedience and the knowledge of
God, here too the Upper Room Discourse (John 13-16) is the seed-plot
from which these ideas come. The concept involved is derived
especially from the Parable of the Vine and the Branches (</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">John
15:1-8</span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span lang="en-US">).
The vine-branch relationship is an image of the discipleship
experience. Jesus said, “This is to My Father’s glory, that you
bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be My disciples” (</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">John
15:8). In 1Jhn. 2:5-6 </span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span lang="en-US">discipleship
is also in view, as is seen from the reference to the imitation of
Christ in </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">1Jhn.
2:6</span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span lang="en-US">.
Moreover, the Greek term rendered in the NIV by live (</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>menō</b></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span lang="en-US">)
is the same verb used in </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">John
15:4</span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span lang="en-US">
where the NIV translates it remain.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #292f33;"><span lang="en-US">It
would be a mistake to equate the concept of being in Him as John uses
it here with the Pauline concept of being in Christ. For Paul, the
words in Christ describe a Christian’s permanent position in God’s
Son with all its attendant privileges. With John, the kind of
relationship pictured in the vine-branch imagery describes an
experience that can be ruptured (</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">John
15:6</span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span lang="en-US">)
with a resultant loss of fellowship and fruitfulness. Thus here in
1John, the proof that a person is enjoying this kind of experience is
to be found in a life modeled after that of Jesus in obedience to His
Word. In short, </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">1Jhn.
2:5-6</span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span lang="en-US">
continues to talk about the believer’s fellowship with God.</span></span></span></span></span></p>End Times Prophecy: Are You Prepared?http://www.blogger.com/profile/05192451197130838894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1562564139613851589.post-5816574674254609742024-02-21T19:13:00.000-08:002024-02-21T19:13:47.371-08:00Book of Joel Chapter 1 Vs. 15<p style="text-align: center;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-family: Accordance; font-size: large;"><b>A Call to Repentance</b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span lang="zxx" style="font-size: 20px;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><b>Alas
for the day! for the day of the LORD </b></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><i><b>is</b></i></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><b>
at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come. Joel
1:15</b></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: black; font-family: Accordance; font-size: large;"><span lang="zxx"><b><br /></b></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx">Alas
for the... </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx">The
2nd section of the prophecy of Joel (Joel 1:15-2:11, unfulfilled;
will be fulfilled in the day of the Lord, the battle of Armageddon,
and the second coming of Christ). N</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;">ext,
Joel 2:12.</span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">Forty-four
Predictions—Unfulfilled:</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">1.
The day of the Lord is at hand (Joel 1:15).</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">2.
It will be a day of destruction from the Almighty.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">3.
All worship and rejoicing will be cut off from the temple (Joel
1:16).</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">4.
There will be a crop failure (Joel 1:17).</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">5.
The garners will be desolate.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">6.
The barns will be broken down.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">7.
There will be a great drought (Joel 1:18)</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">8.
The pastures and trees will be destroyed (Joel 1:19).</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="zxx">9.
The beasts of the field will cry to God because the waters are dried
up (Joel 1:20).</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">10.
Fire will devour the pastures of the wilderness.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">11.
The day of the Lord is near (Joel 2:1).</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">12. A Day of darkness and gloominess.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">13. A Day of clouds and thick darkness.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">14.
There will come a great and strong people upon the land (Joel 2:2)</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">15.
There never has been nor ever will be again, even for many
generations, a people coming into the land like this.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">16.
A fire will devour before them (Joel 2:3).</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">17.
Behind them a flame will burn.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">18.
The land before them will be like the garden of Eden; and what they
have gone over will be like a wilderness.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">19.
Nothing will escape them.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">20.
Their appearance is like horses and horsemen; so shall they run (Joel
2:4).</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">21.
Their noise will be like chariots on the tops of the mountains (Joel
2:5).</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">22.
It will be like the flame of fire that devours stubble.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">23.
They will be as a strong people in battle array.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">24.
Before their face the people will be much pained (Joel 2:6)</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">25.
All faces will gather darkness.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">26.
They will run like mighty men (Joel 2:7)</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">27.
They will climb the wall like men of war.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">28.
They will march every one on his ways.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">29.
They will not break their ranks.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">30.
They will not thrust one another (Joel 2:8).</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">31.
They will walk every one in his path.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">32.
When they fall upon the sword they will not be wounded.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">33.
They will run to and fro in the city (Joel 2:9).</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">34.
They will run upon the wall.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">35.
They will climb upon the houses.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">36.
They will enter the windows.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">37.
The earth will shake before them.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">38.
The heavens will tremble (Joel 2:10).</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">39.
The sun and moon will be dark.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">40.
The stars will withdraw their shining.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">41.
The Lord will be their commander and utter His voice before His army
(Joel 2:11).</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">42.
His camp will be very great.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">43.
He is strong that will execute His word.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">44.
The day of the Lord will be great and very terrible.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">אֲהָהּ</span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="en-US">'ăhâhh</span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>a-haw'</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;">Apparently,</span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"> a primitive word expressing </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">pain</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
exclamatory; </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US">Oh!<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> - ah, alas.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">the
day of...</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
The day of the Lord is mentioned five times in this prophecy, plainly
proving all of it future in that day (Joel 1:15; 2:1, 2:11, 2:31;
3:14). </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">This
is the first occurrence of the theme. Later in the book (2:18; 3:1,
18-21), the Day of the Lord (the occasion when God pours out His
wrath on man), results in blessing and exoneration for God’s people
and judgment toward Gentiles (Isa. 13:6; Eze. 30:3), but here Joel
directs the warning toward his own people.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="he-IL" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span lang="zxx">יוֹם</span></span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="en-US">yôm</span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>yome</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">From
an unused root meaning to </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">be
hot</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">;
a </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">day</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
(as the </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">warm</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
hours), whether literally (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset
to the next), or figuratively (a space of time defined by an
associated term), (often used adverbially): - age, + always, +
chronicles, continually (-ance), daily, ([birth-], each, to) day,
(now a, two) days (agone), + elder, X end, + evening, + (for) ever
(-lasting, -more), X full, life, as (so) long as (. . . live), (even)
now, + old, + outlived, + perpetually, presently, + remaineth, X
required, season, X since, space, then, (process of) time, + as at
other times, + in trouble, weather, (as) when, (a, the, within a)
while (that), X whole (+ age), (full) year (-ly), + younger.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">The
Day of the Lord is speedily approaching; unless sinners repent, dire
consequences await them.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="he-IL" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="zxx"><b>יְהֹוָה</b></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="en-US">y</span><sup><span lang="en-US">e</span></sup><span lang="en-US">hôvâh</span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>yeh-ho-vaw'</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">From
H1961; (the) </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US">self-Existent<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> or eternal; </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">Jehovah</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">,
Jewish national name of God: - Jehovah, the Lord. Compare H3050,
H3069.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">a
destruction from... </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Fifteen
Curses of the Day of the Lord</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">1. A Day of destruction from God (Joel 1:15).</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">2. A Day of darkness and gloominess (Joel 2:2).</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">3. A Day of clouds and thick darkness.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">4. A Day of invasion of earth by the armies of the Lord coming from
heaven (Joel 2:2-11).</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">5. A Day of devouring fire destroying all before it (Joel 2:3).</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">6. A Day when men will be much pained and discouraged (Joel 2:6).</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">7. A Day when supernatural beings and all heavenly armies will appear on
earth to destroy multitudes (Joel 2:4-11; 3:14).</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">8.
A great and terrible day with only a few livings through it (Joel
2:11, 2:31).</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">9. A Day preceded by a great outpouring of the Holy Spirit (Joel
2:28-32).</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">10. A Day when all nations gathered against Jerusalem will be destroyed
(Joel 3:2-16; Zec. 14:1-5, 14:14-15; 2Thes. 1:7-10; Rev. 19:11-21).</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">11. A Day of war and destruction (Joel 2:1; 3:9-16).</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">12. A Day of judgment for the nations (Joel 3:11-12; Mat. 25:31-46).</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">13. A Day of decision—one to decide the rulership of the earth forever
(Joel 3:14-16; Rev. 11:15; 10:11-21; 20:1-10).</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">14. A Day of darkness of the sun, moon, and stars (Joel 3:15; Mat.
24:29-31).</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">15. A Day of great earthquakes (Joel 1:16; Zec. 14:4-5; Rev. 16:17-21).</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="he-IL" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="zxx"><b>שׁוֹד
שֹׁד</b></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="en-US">shôd
shôd</span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>shode,
shode</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">From
H7736; </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">violence</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">,
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">ravage:
- </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">desolation,
destruction, oppression, robbery, spoil (-ed, -er, -ing), wasting.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">The
Hebrew term destruction forms a powerful play on words with the
Almighty. The notion of invincible strength is foremost; destruction
at the hand of omnipotent God is coming.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">Again,
this had a near fulfillment to then. Now there is also, coming a Day
of the Lord at the end of this Gentile age. The judgment of God was
upon them for the sins in their lives. The wrath of God will fall
upon the disobedient, in our generation as well. It is bad to fall
into the hands of the devil or Satan, but it is much worse to fall
into the hands of God, when He pours out His wrath.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="he-IL" style="font-style: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>בּוֹא</b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="en-US">bô'</span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>bo</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">A
primitive root; to </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">go</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
or </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">come</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
(in a wide variety of applications): - abide, apply, attain, X be,
befall, + besiege, bring (forth, in, into, to pass), call, carry, X
certainly, (cause, let, thing for) to come (against, in, out, upon,
to pass), depart, X doubtless again, + eat, + employ, (cause to)
enter (in, into, -tering, -trance, -try), be fallen, fetch, + follow,
get, give, go (down, in, to war), grant, + have, X indeed, [in-]vade,
lead, lift [up], mention, pull in, put, resort, run (down), send,
set, X (well) stricken [in age], X surely, take (in), way.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /><br />
</span></p>
<p align="CENTER" lang="zxx" style="font-style: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><b>The
significance of the plague </b></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.04in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="zxx" style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration-line: none;">This
locust plague was meaningful because of its role as a harbinger of
the day of the Lord. The locusts had destroyed the crops in the
fields (see esp. Joel 1:10, where the Heb. verb </span><span lang="zxx" style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>šāḏaḏ</b></span></span><span lang="zxx">
is used twice and is trans. ruined and destroyed in the NIV). Similarly, this coming day would be one of destruction </span><span lang="zxx" style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>šōḏ</b></span></span><span lang="zxx" style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration-line: none;">,
related to the verb </span><span lang="zxx" style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>šāḏaḏ</b></span></span><span lang="zxx" style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration-line: none;">
from the Almighty </span><span lang="zxx" style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>šadday</b></span></span><span lang="zxx">;
cf. sees Gen. 17:1; this divine name was probably used here because of
its similarity in sound to the word </span><span lang="zxx" style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>šōḏ</b></span></span><span lang="zxx" style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration-line: none;">,
destruction).</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.04in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">It
was natural for the prophet to see this plague as an ominous sign of
an extraordinary event. In Egypt a locust plague (Exo. 10:1-20) had
preceded the final plagues of darkness (Exo. 10:21-29; cf. Joel 2:2)
and death (Exo. 11:1-10; 12:29-30). The Deuteronomic curses
threatened locust plagues (Deut. 28:38, 28:42) in conjunction with
exile and death (Deut. 28:41, 28:48-57, 28:64-68).</span></span></span></p>End Times Prophecy: Are You Prepared?http://www.blogger.com/profile/05192451197130838894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1562564139613851589.post-43375018508556177772024-02-21T18:37:00.000-08:002024-02-21T18:37:17.795-08:00Book of 1 John Chapter 2 Vs. 5<p style="text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: large;">Christ Our Advocate</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></p><p style="font-style: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration: none; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>1
John 2:5 “But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of
God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.”</b></span></span></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration: none; widows: 2;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Keepeth
His word</span></span></span></span></span><b><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
(</span></span></span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">τηρῇ
αὐτοῦ τὸν λόγον</span></span></span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">)</span></span></span></span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Note
the changed phrase: </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">word</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">for</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">commandments</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">.
The </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">word</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
is the revelation regarded as a whole, which includes all the
separate </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">commandments</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
or </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">injunctions</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">.
See the use of </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>λόγος</b></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">word,
and </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>ἐντολή
</b></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">precept</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">,
in John 14:21-24.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">of
God perfected... Is in the perfect tense. John refers to the decisive
and enduring effect of the indwelling love of God. But the test of
knowing God’s love is keeping His Word.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">is
the love of God perfected</span></span></span></span><b><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
(</span></span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">ἡ
ἀγάπη τοῦ Θεοῦ τετελείωται</span></span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">)</span></span></span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">Rev.,
rendering the perfect tense more closely, </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">hath</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">the</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">love</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">of</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">God</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">been</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">perfected</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">.
The change in the form of this antithetic clause is striking. He who
claims to know God, yet lives in disobedience, is a liar. We should
expect as an offset to this: He that keepeth His commandments </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">is</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">of</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">the</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">truth</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">;
or, </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">the</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">truth</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">is</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">in</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">him</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">.
Instead we have, In him has the love of God been perfected. In other
words, the obedient child of God is characterized, not by any
representative trait or quality of his own personality, but merely as
the subject of the work of divine love: as the sphere in which that
love accomplishes its perfect work.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">The
phrase </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>ἡ
ἀγάπη τοῦ Θεοῦ</b></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">the
love of God, may mean either </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">the</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">love</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">which</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">God</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">shows</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">,
or </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">the</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">love</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">of</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">which</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">God</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">is</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">the</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">object</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">,
or </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">the</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">love</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">which</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">is</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">characteristic</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">of</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">God</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
whether manifested by Himself or by His obedient child through His
Spirit. John's usage is not decisive like Paul's, according to which
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">the</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">love</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">of</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">God</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
habitually means the love which proceeds from and is manifested by
God. </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US">The exact phrase, the love of God or the love of the Father<span style="color: #292f33; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> is found in </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">1Jhn.
3:16; 4:9, in the undoubted sense of </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">the</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">love</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">of</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">God</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">to</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">men</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">.
The same sense is intended in 1Jhn. 3:1, 3:9, 3:16, though
differently expressed. The sense is doubtful in 1Jhn. 2:5; 3:17;
4:12. </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Men's</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">love</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">to</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">God</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
is clearly meant in 1Jhn. 2:15; 5:3. The phrase occurs only twice in
the Gospels (Luke 6:42; John 5:42)</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">,
and in both cases the sense is doubtful. Some, as Ebrard, combine the
two, and explain the </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">love</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">of</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">God</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
as </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">the</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">mutual</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">relation</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">of</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">love</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">between</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">God</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">and</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">men</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">It
is not possible to settle the point decisively, but I incline to the
view that the fundamental idea of the love of God as expounded by
John is </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">the</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">love</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">which</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">God</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">has</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">made</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">known</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">and</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">which</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">answers</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">to</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">His</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">nature</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">.
In favor of this is the general usage of </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>ἀγάπη</b></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">love</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">,
in the New Testament, with the subjective genitive. The object is
more commonly expressed by </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>εἰς</b></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">towards</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">,
or </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">to</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">.
See </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">1Thes.
3:12; Col. 1:4; 1Pet. 4:8. Still stronger is John's treatment of the
subject in chapter 4. Here we have, 1Jhn. 4:9, the </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">manifestation</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
of the love of God in us </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>ἐν
ἡμῖν</b></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="color: #292f33; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span>by<span style="color: #292f33; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> our life in Christ and our love to God we are a manifestation of
God's love. Directly following this is a definition of the essential
nature of love. In </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">this</span></span></span></span></span></span><span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="color: #292f33; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
is </span><span style="color: #292f33;">love,</span><span style="color: #292f33; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> i.e., </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">herein</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span><span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="color: #292f33;">consists of</span><span style="color: #292f33; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">love:</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">not</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">that</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">we</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">have</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">loved</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">God</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">,
but </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">that</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">He</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">loved</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">us
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">(1Jhn.
4:10). Our mutual love is a proof that God dwells in us. God dwelling
in us, His love is perfected in us (1Jhn. 4:12). The latter clause,
it would seem, must be explained according to 1Jhn. 4:10. Then (1Jhn.
4:16), We have known and believed the love that God </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">hath</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">in</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">us</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
(see on John 16:22, on the phrase </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">have</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">love</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">.
God is love; that is His nature, and He imparts this nature to be the
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">sphere</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
in which His children dwell. He that dwelleth in love dwelleth in
God. Finally, our love is engendered by His love to us. “We love
Him because He first loved us” (1Jhn. 4:19).</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">In
harmony with this is John 15:9. </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">“As
the Father loved me, I also loved you. Continue ye </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">in</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">my</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">love</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">.”
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">My</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">love</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
must be explained by </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">I</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">loved</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">you</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">.
This is the same idea of divine love as the </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">sphere</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
or </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">element</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
of renewed being; and this idea is placed, as in the passage we are
considering, in direct connection with the keeping of the divine
commandments. If ye keep my commandments ye shall abide in my love.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">This
interpretation does not exclude man's love to God. On the contrary,
it includes it. The love which God has, is revealed </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">as</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">the</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">love</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">of</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">God</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="color: #292f33; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
in the love of His children towards Him, no less than in His
manifestations of love to them. The idea of divine love is thus
complex. Love, in its very essence, is reciprocal. </span>Its<span style="color: #292f33; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> perfect ideal
requires two parties. It is not enough to tell us, as a bare,
abstract truth, that God is love. The truth must be rounded and
filled out for us by the appreciable exertion of divine love upon an
object, and by the response of the object. The love of God is
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">perfected</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
or </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">completed</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
by the perfect establishment of the relation of love between God and
man. When man loves perfectly, his love is the love of God shed
abroad in his heart. His love owes both its origin and its nature to
the love of God.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">The
word </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">verily</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>ἀληθῶς</b></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
is never used by John as a mere formula of affirmation, but has the
meaning of a qualitative adverb, expressing not merely the </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">actual</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">existence</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
of a thing, but its existence in a manner most absolutely
corresponding to </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>ἀλήθεια</b></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">truth</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">.
Compare </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">John
1:48; 8:31</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">.
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">Hath</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">been</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">perfected</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">.
John is presenting the </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">ideal</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
of life in God. This is the love of God that we keep His
commandments. Therefore whosoever keepeth God's </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">word</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">,
His message in its entirety, realizes the perfect relation of love.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration: none; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">Is
the Word of God the most important thing you have? When you really
love, it is the desire of your heart to please the one you love. To
perfect the Love of God within yourself is to be completely sold out
to Him.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration: none; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">we
are in Him... And He in us, if His love is perfected in us. All
through the Bible, there are blessings, if we are obedient to God,
and curses, if we are not. This is no exception to that.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">We
are in </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;">Him.</span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The
love of the Father</span></span></span><b><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
(</span></span></b><b><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">ἡ
ἀγάπη τοῦ πατρὸς</span></span></b><b><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">)</span></span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span><span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">The
phrase occurs only here in the New Testament. It means love </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">towards</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="color: #292f33; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
the Father, yet as generated by the F</span>ather's<span style="color: #292f33; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> love to man. Compare
1Jhn. 3:1. See on </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">love</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">of</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">God</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">,
1Jhn. 2:5. </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Compare
Act. 17:28. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /><br />
</span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">On
the other hand, obedience to God’s </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Word</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
His commands, 1Jhn. 2:3) results in a rich and full experience of
God’s love: </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">God’s
love is truly made complete in him.</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
The Greek expression the love of God (rendered God’s love) could
mean either His love for a Christian or a Christian’s love for God.
But the NIV rendering is perhaps the best, particularly in light of
John 14:21-23. In that passage an obedient disciple is promised a
special experience of the love of the Father and Son. Since a
Christian is already the object of God’s saving love, this
additional, experiential realization of the divine affection may be
properly said to make God’s love complete in him (cf. 1Jhn. 4:12,
4:17). That is to say, an obedient believer has a deep, full-orbed
acquaintance with God’s love. Since God is love (1Jhn. 4:16), to
know God intimately is to know His love intimately.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">John
then added, </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US">this<span style="color: #292f33; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> is how we know we are in Him: Whoever claims to live in Him must walk
as Jesus did.</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
(The translators have supplied the word “Jesus” which is
represented in the original by a pronoun.) In these statements, John
used two other expressions (in Him and live in Him) which further his
thought. As with the connection he makes between obedience and the
knowledge of God, here too the Upper Room Discourse (John 13-16) is
the seed-plot from which these ideas come. The concept involved is
derived especially from the Parable of the Vine and the Branches
(John 15:1-8). The vine-branch relationship is an image of the
discipleship experience. Jesus said, “This is to My Father’s
glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be My
disciples” (John 15:8). In 1Jhn. 2:5-6 discipleship is also in
view, as is seen from the reference to the imitation of Christ in
1Jhn. 2:6. Moreover, the Greek term rendered in the NIV by live </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>menō</b></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
is the same verb used in John 15:4 where the NIV translates it
remain.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>End Times Prophecy: Are You Prepared?http://www.blogger.com/profile/05192451197130838894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1562564139613851589.post-1473425026401231152024-02-13T17:59:00.000-08:002024-02-13T17:59:17.136-08:00Book of Revelation Chapter 1 Vs. 4<p><br /></p><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Greeting to the Seven Churches</span></b></div><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><br />Rev. 1:4 John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace [be] unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne;</span></b><br /><br /><br /> <br /><span style="font-size: large;">The traditional translations use the word churches here, but that is misleading. The Greek word means assemblies in this case probably small groups of Jewish believers that met in private homes. In the Hellenistic context, many such groups functioned as religious or ethnic associations, much like modern clubs, trade guilds, and professional groups. <br /><br /> John wrote about real issues of relevance for each of these seven groups living in the Roman province of Asia. <br /><br /> At the same time, the letter claims to be an apocalyptic or revelatory text that contains prophecy see (Rev. 1:1, 1:3, 22:7). Both aspects of revelation are critical to keep in mind. <br /><br /> John provided a general introduction (Rev. 1) as well as seven unique messages (letters within the letter) that act as more specific words for each community (Rev 2-3). <br /><br /> He designed a kind of interactive text to be read in seven different cities and from seven different perspectives. <br /><br /> He then wove these different perspectives together into a single coherent message in the remainder of his scroll. <br /><br /> The book of Revelation confronts each of the seven communities with an alternative image of the world. Living in the great cities of the Provence of Asia, the letters recipients would have been extremely familiar with powerful images of Roman imperial greatness, excellence, and domination pagan worship. <br /><br /> Johns letter claims to reveal an invisible but much truer reality. <br /><br /> The visual power of Johns letter stands in opposition to dominant reality in order to cleans or refresh the minds of his hearers. <br /><br /> But John is not the only one who is sending this message. <br /><br /> The Greek expression (<b>ho on</b>) literally means the being one or the one who is. Its usage here represents an illusion to the Name of God revealed to Moses (Exo. 3:14). <br /><br /> Besides the hint that God himself is the author we also see that Jesus Christ and the seven Spirits before the throne are there in the letter greeting. <br /><br /> John to the... They were located in Asia Minor (Rev. 1:11).<br /><br /><br /> <br /><br /><b> Seven Churches </b><br /><br /> Not all the churches in Asia are meant, since the list of those addressed in Revelation does not include Colossae, Miletus, Hierapolis, or Magnesia. The seven named are chosen to symbolize the whole Church. Compare Rev. 2:7. Seven being the number of the covenant, we have in these seven a representation of the Church universal.<br /><br /><br /> <br /><br /><b> Asia </b><br /><br /> Not the Asiatic continent nor Asia Minor. In the time of the apostles the term was commonly understood of the proconsular province of Asia, principally of the kingdom of Pergamus left by Attalus III. to the Romans, and including Lydia, Mysia, Caria, and at times parts of Phrygia. The name Asia Minor did not come into use until the fourth century of our era. <br /><br /> <br /> <br /><br /><b>Grace - peace </b><br /><br /> For grace <b>χάρις</b>, see on Luke 1:30. Both words are used by Paul in the salutations of all his Epistles, except the three Pastorals. <br /><br /> From Him which is, and which was, and which is to come (<b>ἀπὸ τοῦ ὁ ὢν καὶ ὁ ἦν καὶ ὁ ἐρχόμενος</b>) <br /><br /> The whole salutation is given in the name of the Holy Trinity: The Father Him which is, and was, and is to come, the Spirit the seven spirits, the Son Jesus Christ. See further below. This portion of the salutation has no parallel in Paul and is distinctively characteristic of the author of Revelation. It is one of the solecisms in grammatical construction which distinguishes this book from the other writings of John. The Greek student will note that the pronoun which (<b>ὁ</b> ) is not construed with the preposition from (<b>ἀπό</b>), which would require the genitive case, but stands in the nominative case. <br /><br /> Each of these three appellations is treated as a proper name. The Father is Him which is, and which was, and which is to come. This is a paraphrase of the unspeakable name of God (Exo. 3:14), the absolute and unchangeable. <b>Ὁ ὢν</b>, the One who is, is the Septuagint translation of Exo. 3:14, I am the <b>ὁ ὢν</b> I am: <b>ὁ ὢν</b> I am, hath sent me unto you. The One who was<b> ὁ ἦν</b>. The Greek has no imperfect participle, so that the finite verb is used. Which is and which was form one clause, to be balanced against which is to come. Compare Rev. 11:17; 16:5; and was ἦν in the beginning with God (John 1:2). Which is to come<b> ὁ</b> <b>ἐρχόμενος</b>. Lit., the One who is coming. This is not equivalent to who shall be, i.e., the author is not intending to describe the abstract existence of God as covering the future no less than the past and the present. If this had been his meaning, he would have written <b>ὁ ἐσόμενος</b>, which shall be. The phrase which is to come would not express the future eternity of the Divine Being. The dominant conception in the title is rather that of immutability. Further, the name does not emphasize so much God's abstract existence, as it does His permanent covenant relation to His people. Hence the phrase, which is to come, is to be explained in accordance with the keynote of the book, which is the second coming of the Son (Rev. 1:7; 22:20). <br /><br /> The phrase, which is to come, is often applied to the Son (see on 1Jhn. 3:5), and so throughout this book. Here it is predicated of the Father, apart from whom the Son does nothing. The Son is never alone, even as Redeemer (Milligan). Compare We will come unto him, John 14:23. Origen quotes our passage with the words: But that you may perceive that the omnipotence of the Father and of the Son is one and the same, hear John speaking after this manner in Revelation, 'Who is, etc.' Dean Plumptre compares the inscription over the temple of Isis at Sais in Egypt: I am all that has come into being, and that which is, and that which shall be, and no man hath lifted my veil.<br /><br /><br /> <br />John became the apostolic leader of the church at Ephesus following the death of Paul and the destruction of Jerusalem by Rome (A.D. 70). The Ephesian church had established a number of daughter churches throughout the province of Asia western Asia Minor, and John exercised pastoral and apostolic care of them. The blessing of verse 4 comes from the Triune Godhead: God the Father, the Holy Spirit, and Jesus Christ. Him which is a paraphrase of the name Jehovah or Yahweh (Exo. 3:14): I AM, <br /><br /><br />Note the absence of all official titles, such as are found in Paul; showing that John writes as one whose position is recognized.<br /><br /><br />The number seven means spiritual perfection and completeness and represents the fullness of the Spirit in the life and ministry of Christ. We should believe this number is symbolic of all churches for all time. These seven churches were literal churches of that day as well as giving us a view of the churches of our day in general and is applicable to all peoples of the present time, 2Tim. 3:15-17. These seven Spirits take in all the Spirits of God.<br /> <br /><br /><b> Seven </b><br /><br /> Among every ancient people, especially in the East, a religious significance attaches to numbers. This grows out of the instinctive appreciation that number and proportion are necessary attributes of the created universe. This sentiment passes over from heathenism into the Old Testament. The number seven was regarded by the Hebrews as a sacred number, and it is throughout Scripture the covenant number, the sign of God's covenant relation to mankind, and especially to the Church. The evidences of this are met in the hallowing of the seventh day; in the accomplishment of circumcision, which is the sign of a covenant, after seven days; in the part played by the number in marriage covenants and treaties of peace. It is the number of purification and consecration (Lev. 4:6, 4:17; 8:11, 8:33; Num. 19:12). Seven is the number of every grace and benefit bestowed upon Israel; which is thus marked as flowing out of the covenant, and a consequence of it. The priests compass Jericho seven days, and on the seventh day seven times, that all Israel may know that the city is given into their hands by God, and that its conquest is a direct and immediate result of their covenant relation to Him. Naaman is to dip in Jordan seven times, that he may acknowledge the God of Israel as the author of his cure. It is the number of reward to those who are faithful in the covenant (Deut. 28:7; 1Sam. 2:5); of punishment to those who are froward in the covenant (Lev. 26:21, 26:24, 26:28; Deut. 28:25), or to those who injure the people in it (Gen. 4:15, 4:24; Exo. 7:25; Psm. 79:12). All the feasts are ordered by seven, or else by seven multiplied into seven, and thus made intenser still. Thus it is with the Sabbath, the Passover, the Feast of Weeks, of Tabernacles, the Sabbath-year, and the Jubilee. <br /><br /> Similarly the number appears in God's dealing with nations outside the covenant, showing that He is working for Israel's sake and with respect to His covenant. It is the number of the years of plenty and of famine, in sign that these are for Israel's sake rather than for Egypt's. Seven times pass over Nebuchadnezzar, that he may learn that the God of his Jewish captives is king over all the earth partly quoted and partly condensed from Trench's Epistles to the Seven Churches. <br /><br /> Seven also occurs as a sacred number in the New Testament. There are seven beatitudes, seven petitions in the Lord's Prayer; seven parables in Mat. 13; seven loaves, seven words from the cross, seven deacons, seven graces (Rom. 12:6-8), seven characteristics of wisdom (Jas. 3:17). In Revelation the prominence of the number is marked. To a remarkable extent the structure of that book is molded by the use of numbers, especially of the numbers seven, four, and three. There are seven spirits before the throne; seven churches; seven golden candlesticks; seven stars in the right hand of Him who is like unto a son of man; seven lamps of fire burning before the throne; seven horns and seven eyes of the Lamb; seven seals of the book; and the thunders, the heads of the great dragon and of the beast from the sea, the angels with the trumpets, the plagues, and the mountains which are the seat of the mystic Babylon, - are all seven in number. <br /><br /> So there are four living creatures round about the throne, four angels at the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds; the New Jerusalem is foursquare. Authority is given to Death to kill over the fourth part of the earth, and he employs four agents. <br /><br /> Again the use of the number three is, as Professor Milligan remarks, so remarkable and continuous that it would require an analysis of the whole book for its perfect illustration. There are three woes, three unclean spirits like frogs, three divisions of Babylon, and three gates on each side of the heavenly city. The Trisagion, or thrice holy, is sung to God the Almighty, to whom are ascribed three attributes of glory.<br /><br /><br /> <br /><br /> the seven Spirits... Not seven titles of the Holy Spirit, for there are more titles than this that are applied to the Spirit. Since the Lamb has the seven horns and seven eyes, since we know there is but one Holy Spirit (Eph. 4:4-6), and since the Lamb is a symbol of Christ, the seven lamps of fire (Rev. 4:5), the seven horns, and seven eyes are all symbolic of the one Holy Spirit and can only denote His fullness and power upon the Lamb and before the throne (John 3:34; Isa. 11:2; 42:1-7; 61:1-2; Acts 10:38). There are actually many more than seven Spirits. This seven is a symbolic number meaning all (completeness). Spirits is capitalized so this is the Holy Spirit in all His workings. When it speaks of these Spirits ever before the throne, we see Teacher, Guide, Helper, Provider, as just a few of the works of the Holy Spirit. John explains in this who Jesus is.<br /> <br /><br /> The Spirit is designated by.<br /><br /><br />The seven Spirits (<b>τῶν ἑπτὰ πνευμάτων</b>) <br /><br /> Paul nowhere joins the Spirit with the Father and the Son in his opening salutations. The nearest approach is 2Cor. 13:13. The reference is not to the seven principal angels (Rev. 8:2). These could not be properly spoken of as the source of grace and peace; nor be associated with the Father and the Son; nor take precedence of the Son, as is the case here. Besides, angels are never called spirits in this book. With the expression compare Rev. 4:5, the seven lamps of fire, which are the seven Spirits of God: Rev. 3:1, where Jesus is said to have the seven Spirits of God. Thus the seven Spirits belong to the Son as well as to the Father (see John 15:26). The prototype of John's expression is found in the vision of Zechariah, where the Messiah is prefigured as a stone with seven eyes, the eyes of the Lord, which run to and fro through the whole earth (Zec. 3:9; 4:10). Compare also the same prophet's vision of the seven-branched candlestick (Zec. 4:2). <br /><br /> Hence the Holy Spirit is called the Seven Spirits; the perfect, mystical number seven indicating unity through diversity (1Cor. 12:4). Not the sevenfold gifts of the Spirit are meant, but the divine Personality who imparts them; the one Spirit under the diverse manifestations. Richard of St. Victor cited by Trench, Seven Churches says: And from the seven Spirits, that is, from the sevenfold Spirit, which indeed is simple in nature, sevenfold in grace. <br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br /><b> Salutation </b><br /><br /> This salutation - like Paul’s salutations in his epistles and the salutation of John himself in 2 John - specifies the book’s destination. The recipients of this message were the seven churches in the Roman province of Asia in Asia Minor (Rev. 1:11; 2:1-29 and Rev. 3:1-22). The words grace and peace concisely summarize both a Christian’s standing before God and his experience. Grace speaks of God’s attitude toward believers; peace speaks both of their standing with God and their experience of divine peace. <br /><br /> Again, the salutation is unusual in that it describes God the Father as the One who is, and who was, and who is to come (cf. Rev. 1:8). The seven spirits probably refer to the Holy Spirit (cf. Isa. 11:2-3; Rev. 3:1; 4:5; 5:6), though it is an unusual way to refer to the third Person of the Trinity.</span>End Times Prophecy: Are You Prepared?http://www.blogger.com/profile/05192451197130838894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1562564139613851589.post-86420639403653700952024-02-08T18:28:00.000-08:002024-02-08T18:28:00.023-08:00Book of Joel Chapter 1 Vs. 14<p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"> A Call to Repentance</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></p><p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Sanctify
ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders <i>and</i>
all the inhabitants of the land <i>into </i>the
house of the LORD your God, and cry unto the LORD, Joel 1:14</b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Sanctify
ye a fast]</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
Sanctify—used three times in Joel:</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">1.
Sanctify a fast (Joel 1:14).</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">2.
Sanctify a fast (Joel 2:15).</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">3.
Sanctify the congregation (Joel 2:16).</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">The
use of the word here, as in all other places in Scripture, indicates
setting something apart for a sacred use. Removing what is sometimes
called the old man is not the idea, as can be seen, for fasts and
many other things mentioned in the Bible as being sanctified do not
have such to be taken out.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: large;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>קָדַש</b></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="en-US">qâdash</span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>kaw-dash'</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">A
primitive root; to </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">be</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
(causatively </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">make</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">,
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">pronounce</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
or </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">observe</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
as) </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">clean</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
(ceremonially or morally): - appoint, bid, consecrate, dedicate,
defile, hallow, (be, keep) holy (-er, place), keep, prepare,
proclaim, purify, sanctify (-ied one, self), X wholly.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-style: normal;">The
prophet called the priest to take action, first by example (verse
13), and then by proclamation (verse 14). As the official leaders, it
was their duty to proclaim a public fast so that the entire nation
could repent and petition the Lord to forgive and restore. Here they
were admonished to consecrate a fast, denoting its urgent, sacred
character.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="he-IL" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="zxx"><b>צֹם
צוֹם</b></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="en-US">tsôm
tsôm</span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>tsome,
tsome</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">From
H6684; a </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">fast:
- </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">fast
(-ing).</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">a
solemn assembly...</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
A solemn assembly was a day of restraint, a religious and political
gathering of a serious nature (Joel 2:15; 2Kgs. 10:20; 2Chr. 7:9;
Neh. 8:18; Isa. 1:13). Here it was a call to cry to God for mercy and
deliverance. </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Directives
for calling an assembly, generally for uncontrollable purposes (2Chr.
7:9; Neh. 8:18), are given (in Num. 10:3). Parallel in thought to
consecrate a fast, no work was permitted on such days (Lev. 23:36;
Num. 29:35; Deut. 16:8).</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="he-IL" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>עֲצֶרֶת
עֲצָרָה</b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">‛<span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><b><span lang="en-US">ătsârâh
‛ătsereth</span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>ats-aw-raw',
ats-eh'-reth</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">From
H6113; an </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">assembly</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">,
especially on a </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">festival</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
or </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">holiday:
- </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">(solemn)
assembly (meeting).</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">The
fast was used to show the LORD the sincerity of the prayer being
prayed. The assembly was not to be one of joy, but sorrow. This is a
call of prayer by all of the inhabitants of the land to reach God.
The leaders and the ministers were probably, remembering the
following Scripture.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">2Chr.
7:14 “If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble
themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked
ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and
will heal their land.”</span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /><br />
</span></p>
<p align="CENTER" style="font-style: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="zxx">A
call to repentance</span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="CENTER" style="font-style: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;">
</span><br /><br />
</span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="margin-bottom: 0.04in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">The
priests were told not only to mourn (Joel 1:13) but also to call a
sacred assembly at the temple for all the people. The nation was too fast and cry out to the Lord. Fasting was often associated with
repentance (cf. 1Sam. 7:6; Neh. 9:1-2; Jon. 3:5). The attitude that
was to accompany this outward act is emphasized in Joel 2:12-17.</span></span></span></p>End Times Prophecy: Are You Prepared?http://www.blogger.com/profile/05192451197130838894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1562564139613851589.post-46708569723208052302024-02-08T18:00:00.000-08:002024-02-08T18:00:06.664-08:00Book of 1 John Chapter 2 Vs. 4<p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Christ Our Advocate </span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></p><p style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>1
John 2:4 “He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his
commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.”</b></span></span></span></span></p><p style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Accordance; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-weight: normal;">He
that saith...</span></span></span><b style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #2e78c2;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span></b><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="color: black;">If
any man professing to be saved does not keep the </span>commandments,<span style="color: black;"> he is a
liar (</span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Accordance; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">1Jhn.
2:4-5</span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="en-US">).
This is a death blow to the claim of those who live in sin and say
the blood of Christ covers their ungodliness.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /><b style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="en-US">A
liar</span></b></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Compare
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">we</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">lie</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">,
1Jhn. 1:6.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">There
are many who profess to be a Christian who are not living their day
to day lives for Christ. This is what this Scripture is about. There
will be some who will stand before Jesus on judgment day who will
say:</span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">Matthew
7:21-23 “Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter
into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father
which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have
we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils?
and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess
unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.”</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">In
him</span></span></span><b><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
(</span></span></b><b><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">ἐν
τούτῳ</span></span></b><b><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">)</span></span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Emphatic.
Lit., </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">in</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">this</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">one</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">the</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">truth</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">is</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">not</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">.
See on 1Jhn. 1:8.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">God
looks on the heart of man. The face we show the world is not always
what we really are.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /><br />
</span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">It
follows, therefore, that </span></span><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">the
man who says, I know Him, but does not do what He commands is a liar.</span></span></span><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
As in 1Jhn. 1:6, someone may profess a fellowship with God which his
life shows he does not possess. John was not afraid to call this kind
of claim what it really is: a lie. Furthermore, it may be said of the
same person that </span></span><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">the
truth is not in him.</span></span></span><span lang="en-US"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
The idea is similar to the statements made earlier about false claims
(1Jhn. 1:6, 1:8, 1:10). In such a person the truth is not a dynamic,
controlling influence. He is seriously out of touch with spiritual
reality.</span></span></span></span></span></p>End Times Prophecy: Are You Prepared?http://www.blogger.com/profile/05192451197130838894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1562564139613851589.post-72796644335196215382024-02-04T18:39:00.000-08:002024-02-04T18:39:55.228-08:00Book of Joel Chapter 1 Vs. 13<p> </p><p align="CENTER" lang="zxx" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>A
Call to Repentance</b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="CENTER" lang="zxx" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Gird
yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar:
come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the
meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of
your God. Joel 1:13</b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">Gird
yourselves, and... Prepare and be ready to raise up lamentation and
mourning; or gird yourselves with sackcloth, and mourn in that, as
Aben Ezra and Kimchi supply the words (see Jer. 4:8).</span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="he-IL" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="zxx"><b>חָגַר</b></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="en-US">châgar</span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>khaw-gar'</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">A
primitive root; to </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">gird</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
on (as a belt, armor, etc.): - be able to put on, be afraid,
appointed, gird, restrain, X on every side.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="he-IL" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="en-US">סָפַד</span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="en-US">sâphad</span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>saw-fad'</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">A
primitive root; properly to </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">tear</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
the hair and </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">beat</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
the breasts (as Orientals do in grief); generally to </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">lament</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">;
by implication to </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">wail:
- </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">lament,
mourn (-er), wail.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">howl,
ye ministers... Who served there, by laying on and burning the
sacrifices, or offering incense.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="he-IL" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>יָלַל</b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="en-US">yâlal</span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>yaw-lal'</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">A
primitive root; to </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">howl</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
(with a wailing tone) or </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">yell</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
(with a boisterous one): - (make to) howl, be howling.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="he-IL" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="en-US">שָׁרַת</span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="en-US">shârath</span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>shaw-rath'</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">A
primitive root; to </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">attend</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
as a menial or worshipper; figuratively to </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">contribute</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
to: - minister (unto), (do) serve (-ant, -ice, -itor), wait on.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">come,
lie all... That is, come into the house of the Lord, as Kimchi; into
the court of the priests, and there lie all night, in the sackcloth
girded with; putting up prayers to God, with weeping and
lamentations, that he would avert the judgments that were come or
were coming upon them.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="he-IL" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>בּוֹא</b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="en-US">bô'</span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>bo</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">A
primitive root; to </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">go</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
or </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">come</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
(in a wide variety of applications): - abide, apply, attain, X be,
befall, + besiege, bring (forth, in, into, to pass), call, carry, X
certainly, (cause, let, thing for) to come (against, in, out, upon,
to pass), depart, X doubtless again, + eat, + employ, (cause to)
enter (in, into, -tering, -trance, -try), be fallen, fetch, + follow,
get, give, go (down, in, to war), grant, + have, X indeed, [in-]vade,
lead, lift [up], mention, pull in, put, resort, run (down), send,
set, X (well) stricken [in age], X surely, take (in), way.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">for
the meat... This offering and the drink offering are withholden from
the house of your God" (see Joel 1:9).</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="he-IL" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>לִין
לוּן</b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="en-US">lûn
lı̂yn</span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>loon,
leen</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">A
primitive root; to </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">stop</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
(usually </span>overnight<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">); by implication to </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">stay</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
permanently; hence (in a bad sense) to be </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">obstinate</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
(especially in words, to </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">complain</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">):
- abide (all night), continue, dwell, endure, grudge, be left, lie
all night, (cause to) lodge (all night, in, -ing, this night), (make
to) murmur, remain, tarry (all night, that night).</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">They
were to gird themselves with the sackcloth of mourning. Being gird
with sackcloth was an outward expression of the sorrow of their
hearts. They were to pray night and day. The daily sacrifice has been
taken away. In their time, this meant the loss of daily fellowship
with their God. In our day, this means that all symbols of
Christianity have been taken away.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">Notice
the mention of ministers here, which makes me believe these warnings
are for their immediate future, and for our day, as well.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><br />
</span></p>
<p align="CENTER" lang="zxx" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Priests
Should Mourn</b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="CENTER" lang="zxx" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.04in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">The
priests were told to take part (wail) in this lament because, as
already noted (Joel 1:9), the ingredients for certain daily offerings
were no longer available. (On sackcloth, see Joel 1:8.)</span></span></span></p>End Times Prophecy: Are You Prepared?http://www.blogger.com/profile/05192451197130838894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1562564139613851589.post-56860468910734952982024-02-04T18:07:00.000-08:002024-02-04T18:07:15.652-08:00Book of 1 John Chapter 2 Vs. 3<p style="text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: large;">Christ Our Advocate</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></p><p style="font-style: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration: none; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>1
John 2:3 “And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his
commandments.”</b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">hereby
we do...</span></span></span><span lang="zxx"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span><span lang="zxx"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Twenty-one
reasons we do know that we know Him:</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">1.
personal fellowship (1Jhn. 1:3-7; 2:13)</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">2.
Fullness of joy in the heart (1Jhn. 1:4)</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">3.
Keeping His commandments (1Jhn. 2:3; 3:22)</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">4.
Walking even as He walked (1Jhn. 2:6)</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">5.
Love of the brethren (1Jhn. 2:9-11; 3:10-19, 3:23; 4:7-21; 5:1)</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">6.
Overcoming the world and Satan (1Jhn. 2:13-14; 5:4, 5:18)</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">7.
Hatred of the world (1Jhn. 2:15-17)</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">8.
Being one with Christians (1Jhn. 2:19)</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">9.
Holy Spirit anointing (1Jhn. 2:20-27)</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">10.
Knowing the truth that sets free (1Jhn. 2:21; John 8:32-36)</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">11.
Acknowledging God and Christ (1Jhn. 2:22-25)</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">12.
Doing righteousness (1Jhn. 2:29; 3:7-10; 5:1-4, 5:18)</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">13.
Purifying ourselves (1Jhn. 3:3)</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">14.
Being born again (1Jhn. 2:29; 3:9; 5:1-18)</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">15.
Cleansing from sin (1Jhn. 1:7-9; 3:5-10)</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">16.
Freedom from condemnation (1Jhn. 3:20-24)</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">17.
The indwelling Spirit (1Jhn. 3:24; 4:4, 4:13)</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">18.
Faith (1Jhn. 2:23; 5:1, 5:10)</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">19.
Confessing Christ (1Jhn. 4:14-15)</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">20.
Receiving Christ (1Jhn. 5:10-13; John 1:12)</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">21.
Answered prayer (1Jhn. 3:21-22; 5:14-15)</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Hereby</span></span></span><b><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">
(</span></span></b><b><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">ἐν
τούτῳ</span></span></b><b><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">)</span></span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Lit.,
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">in</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">this</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">.
Characteristic of John. See John 8:35; 15:8; 16:30; 1Jhn. 2:5; 3:24;
4:13; 5:2; 3:16; 3:19; 4:2. The expression points to what follows, if
we keep His commandments, yet with a covert reference to that idea as
generally implied in the previous words concerning fellowship with
God and walking in the light.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">We
know</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><b><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
(</span></span></span></span></span></span></b><b><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">γινώσκομεν</span></span></span></span></span></span></b><b><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">)</span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;">Or</span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">perceive</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">.
By experience, from day to day; distinguished from </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>οἴδαμεν</b></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">we</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">know</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">,
expressing absolute, immediate knowledge of a fact once for all.
Compare </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">1Jhn.
3:2.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">That
we know</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><b><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
(</span></span></span></span></span></span></b><b><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">ὅτι
ἐγνώκαμεν</span></span></span></span></span></span></b><b><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">)</span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Or,
more literally, </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">have</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">come</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">to</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">know</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">.
John does not use the compound forms </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>ἐπιγινώσκειν</b></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">and
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>ἐπίγνωσις</b></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
(see on Mat. 7:16. See Luke 1:4; Acts 4:13; Rom. 1:28; Eph. 1:17,
etc.), nor the kindred word </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>γνῶσις</b></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">knowledge</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
(Luke 1:77; Rom. 2:20, etc.).</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">if
we keep...</span></span></span><span lang="zxx">
To be saved one must keep His commandments; not merely start keeping them but continue in keeping them. If the condition is to keep them,
then upon this basis only will God bless and save people (Rom. 1:5;
Jas. 1:22-25; 1Pet. 1:2).</span><span style="color: #292f33; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="zxx">
</span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">We
keep His commandments</span></span></span><b><span lang="zxx"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
(</span></span></b><b><span lang="zxx"><span style="text-decoration: none;">τὰς
ἐντολὰς αὐτοῦ τηρῶμεν</span></span></b><b><span lang="zxx"><span style="text-decoration: none;">)</span></span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">A
phrase peculiar to John and occurring elsewhere only Mat. 19:17;
1Tim. 6:14. In 1Cor. 7:19, we find </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>τήρησις
ἐντολῶν</b></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">the</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">keeping</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">of</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">the</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">commandments</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">.
On </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>τηρέω</b></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">to</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">keep</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">,
see on 1Pet. 1:5.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">John
writes so that his readers may not sin (verse 1). Now he sets forth a
characteristic of genuine knowledge of God: obedience to His
commandments. This is a major teaching of Jesus.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">A
Christian is a follower of, and a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ.
If we desire in our heart to please Him, because we love Him, we will
keep His commandments. It must be the desire of our heart not to sin.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">John
14:15 Jesus said: “If you love me, keep my commandments.”</span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">In
this verse and the next, the repetition of the words know … keep
emphasizes that those genuinely born again display the habit of
obedience. Obedience results in assurance of salvation, (Eph. 2:2; 1
Peter 1:14).</span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">That
these two words are among John’s favorites is clear since he uses
know approximately 40 times and keep approximately 10 times in this
epistle.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="CENTER" style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="zxx"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Basic
principles of knowing God</span></span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">John’s
transition (1Jhn. 2:3) to the subject of knowing God may seem more
abrupt than it really is. In ancient thought, the concept of light
readily suggested the idea of vision, perception, or knowledge. It
seems obvious that a life of fellowship with God in the light ought
to lead to knowing Him. Of course in a sense all true Christians know
God (John 17:3), but sometimes even genuine believers can be said not
to know God or Christ (John 14:7-9). Furthermore, Jesus promised His
disciples a special self-disclosure that was predicated on their
obeying His commands (John 14:21-23). It is clear that such an
experience involves the knowledge of God. Finally, fellowship
naturally leads to knowing the One with whom that fellowship takes
place. Even on the level of human experience this is true. If a
father and son live apart, they will not know each other as well as
if they lived together, even though their parent-child relationship
continues to exist.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="zxx">It
would be wrong, therefore, to read 1Jhn. 2:3-11 as if John had left
the subject of fellowship with God behind. On the contrary, the
subject of knowing God is its logical continuation.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /><br />
</span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="text-decoration: none;">For
readers who wish to decide whether their experience of fellowship
with God has led them really to know Him in a personal way, John gave
a simple test: </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">We
know that we have come to know Him if we obey His commands.</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="text-decoration: none;">The
two occurrences of the word know </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>ginōskō</b></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
in this verse are the first of 23 times John used this word in this
epistle. A synonym, </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>oida</b></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="text-decoration: none;">,
occurs six times: 1Jhn. 3:2; 5:15 [twice], 1Jhn. 5:18-20. As often in
Johannine usage, the word Him might refer either to God or to Christ.
For John, Jesus is so closely linked with the Father that a precise
distinction between the Persons of the Godhead sometimes seems
irrelevant. Fellowship is with both the Father and the Son (1Jhn.
1:3) and to know One of Them intimately is to know the Other. But
obedience is the condition for such knowledge (cf. John 14:21-23). It
is also the means by which a Christian can be sure that he has really
come to know his Lord (cf. obey His commands in 1Jhn. 3:22, 3:24;
5:2-3).</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>End Times Prophecy: Are You Prepared?http://www.blogger.com/profile/05192451197130838894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1562564139613851589.post-74465614840188930882024-02-04T12:26:00.000-08:002024-02-04T12:26:43.143-08:00Book of Revelation Chapter 1 Vs. 3<p style="text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: large;">Prologue</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Rev. 1:3 Blessed [is] he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time [is] at hand.</b><br /><br />The text of Revelation has an intentionally crafted and nuanced literary structure, which is characteristic of the Jewish apocalyptic tradition. Writings belonging to the genre often combine the various modes of letter, prophecy and poetry. Already in the third verse of Revelation, we encounter the first blessing of a carefully composed series of seven that will be interspersed through the letter. <br /><br /> Seven is a key number in the Biblical Hebrew tradition. It appears in the very beginning as the very culmination of God's creation, God's rest. John is very fond of it and uses it throughout the book of Revelation. There are seven assemblies, seven lamps, seven seals, seven trumpets, seven bowls of judgment. <br /><br /> The name Jesus <b>Ἰησοῦς</b> <b>Iesus</b> appears 14 times (= 2x7) in the Greek text. So, it is not just seven but its multiples as well. This is in line with the seven sevens and the seventy sevens of Daniel (9:24-25) or the seven weeks of <b>Shavout</b> (Pentecost) <br /><br /> The first blessing of Revelation represents a kind of prologue for a chiastic structure that will follow. <br /><br /> The blessing summarizes or sets the stage for the remaining six blessings, which are expressed in the chaistic form of Semitic parallelism. This special literary structure comes into view only once one sees the entire set of blessings as a unit. Then the parallelism of meaning becomes obvious, and the choice of a seven-fold structure more understandable. Viewed in isolation, however, the blessings may seem unexceptional. <br /><br /> Blessed is he... Three classes blessed: <br /><br /> 1. Those who read the Revelation. <br /><br /> 2. Those who hear it. <br /><br /> 3. Those who keep things written therein. <br /><br /> Blessed (<b>μακάριος</b>) <br /><br /> As this word and its cognates occur at least fifty-five times in the New Testament, it is important to understand its history, which is interesting because it is one of those numerous words which exhibit the influence of Christian association and usage in enlarging and dignifying their meaning. It is commonly rendered blessed, both in the A. V. and Rev., and that rendering might properly be given it in every instance. <br /><br /> Its root is supposed to be a word meaning great, and its earlier meaning appears to be limited to outward prosperity; so that it is used at times as synonymous with rich. It scarcely varies from this meaning in its frequent applications to the Grecian gods, since the popular Greek ideal of divine blessedness was not essentially moral. The gods were blessed because of their power and dignity, not because of their holiness. In general, says Mr. Gladstone Homer and the Homeric Age the chief note of deity with Homer is emancipation from the restraints of moral law. Though the Homeric gods have not yet ceased to be the vindicators of morality upon earth, they have personally ceased to observe its rules, either for or among themselves. As compared with men, in conduct they are generally characterized by superior force and intellect, but by inferior morality. <br /><br /> In its peculiar application to the dead, there is indicated the despair of earthly happiness underlying the thought of even the cheerful and mercurial Greek. Hence the word was used as synonymous with dead. Only the dead could be called truly blessed. <br /><br /> The biblical use of the word lifted it into the region of the spiritual, as distinguished from the merely intellectual, and besides, entrusted to it alone the task of representing this higher conception. The pagan word for happiness <b>εὐδαιμονία</b>, under the protection of a good genius or daemon nowhere occurs in the New Testament nor in the Scriptures, having fallen into disrepute because the word daemon, which originally meant a deity, good or evil, had acquired among the Jews the bad sense which we attach to demon. Happiness, or better, blessedness, was therefore represented both in the Old and in the New Testament by this word <b>μακάριος</b>. In the Old Testament the idea involves more of outward prosperity than in the New Testament, yet it almost universally occurs in connections which emphasize, as its principal element, a sense of God's approval founded in righteousness which rests ultimately on love to God. <br /><br /> He that readeth (<b>ὁ ἀναγινώσκων</b>) <br /><br /> See on Luke 4:16. The Reader in the Church. See 2Cor. 3:14. They that hear, the congregation. The words imply a public, official reading, in full religious assembly for worship. The passage is of some weight in determining the date of this book. The stated reading of the Apostolical writings did not exist as a received form before the destruction of Jerusalem, a.d. 70. <br /><br /> And keep (<b>καὶ τηροῦντες</b>) <br /><br /> The absence of the article from τηροῦντες keeping compare οἱ <b>ἀκούντες</b> they that hear, shows that the hearers and the keepers form one class. Τηρεῖν to keep, is a peculiarly Johannine word, and is characteristic of Revelation as of the other writings in its own peculiar sense of keeping in the exercise of active and strenuous care, rather than of watching over to preserve. See on reserved, 1Pet. 1:4. <br /><br /> of this prophecy... Greek: propheteia, occurring seven times in Revelation, indicating the prophetic aspect of the book (Rev. 1:3; 11:6; 19:10; 22:7, 22:10, 22:18, 22:19). <br /><br /> Seven rules regarding prophecy: <br /><br /> 1. Understand prophecy as history written beforehand. <br /><br /> 2. Give the same meaning to words of prophecy as you do the words of history. <br /><br /> 3. Do not seek for hidden meanings. <br /><br /> 4. Do not think prophecy must be fulfilled before it can be understood. <br /><br /> 5. Do not interpret God’s own interpretation of anything in prophecy. <br /><br /> 6. Take all prophecy literally unless it is clear that it cannot have a literal meaning. Then get the literal truth conveyed by the figurative language. <br /><br /> 7. Let the Bible be its own interpreter. <br /><br /> Prophecy <br /><br /> A prophet (<b>προφήτην</b>) <br /><br /> The popular conception of a prophet is limited to his foretelling future events. This is indeed included in the term but does not cover its meaning entirely. The word is from <b>φημί</b>, to speak, and <b>πρό</b>, before, in front of. This meaning of the preposition may have reference to time, viz., before, beforehand; or to place, viz., in front of, and so, publicly; and this latter meaning, in turn, easily runs into that of on behalf of; for. The prophet is, therefore, primarily, one who speaks standing before another, and thus forming a medium between him and the hearer. This sense runs naturally into that of instead of. Hence it is the technical term for the interpreter of a divine message. So, Plato: or this reason it is customary to appoint diviners or interpreters to be judges of the true inspiration. Some persons call them diviners, seers <b>μάντεις</b>; they do not know that they are only repeaters of dark sayings and visions, and are not to be called diviners at all, but interpreters <b>προφῆται</b> of things divine <b>Timaeus</b>, 72). Similarly of an advocate to speak for, or instead of one. The central idea of the word is, one to whom God reveals himself and through whom he speaks. The revelation may or may not relate to the future. The prophet is a forth-teller, not necessarily a fore-teller. The essence of the prophetic character is immediate intercourse with God. One of the Hebrew names for prophet, and, as some maintain, the earlier name, signified a shewer or seer. See 1Sam. 9:10; and in 1Cor. 14:26-30, Paul shows that revelation stands in necessary connection with prophesying. <br /><br /> and keep... Greek: <b>tereo</b>, to attend to carefully, guard, take care of. Translated keep (Rev. 1:3; 2:26; 3:8, 3:10; 12:17; 14:12; 16:15; 22:7, 22:9); and hold fast (Rev. 3:3). Its main idea in Revelation is that of keeping the Word of God. <br /><br /> And keep (<b>καὶ τηροῦντες</b>) <br /><br /> The absence of the article from <b>τηροῦντες</b> keeping compare <b>οἱ</b> <b>ἀκούντες</b> they that hear, shows that the hearers and the keepers form one class. Τηρεῖν to keep, is a peculiarly Johannine word, and is characteristic of Revelation as of the other writings in its own peculiar sense of keeping in the exercise of active and strenuous care, rather than of watching over to preserve. <br /><br /> Prophecy <br /><br /> Ref. Vs. 2 <br /><br /> Which are written (<b>τὰ γεγραμμένα</b>) <br /><br />Perfect participle has been written, and therefore stand written. <br /><br /> The time (<b>ὁ καιρὸς</b>) <br /><br /> Time (<b>καιπῷ</b> ) <br /><br /> Rev., season. The word implies particular time; as related to some event, a convenient, appropriate time; absolutely, a particular point of time, or a particular season, like spring or winter. <br /><br /> Is an interesting true statement. Even the people that read these things a thousand years ago saw this happen in sixty or seventy years, because they died. Of course, it is even more current to our generation, because the rapture of the church is imminent. <br /><br /> At hand (<b>ἐγγύς</b>) <br /><br /> Lit., near. See on shortly, Rev. 1:1 <br /><br /> Therefore may he now, ere yet he enters upon his task, pronounce a blessing upon those who shall pay due heed to what he is to say. Does he think of the person by whom the apostolic writings were read aloud in the midst of the Christian congregation? then, Blessed is he that readeth. Does he think of those who listen? then, Blessed are they that hear the words of the prophecy. Or, lastly, does he think not merely of reading and hearing, but of that laying up in the heart to which these were only preparatory? then, Blessed are they that keep the things which are written therein, for the season, the short season in which everything shall be accomplished, is at hand. <br /><br /> The first of a sevenfold blessing is pronounced in Rev. 1 v.3 and expanded in the remainder of the book. As a child of God, each of these blessings are yours to claim: <br /><br /> The prologue concludes with a blessing on each individual who reads the book as well as on those who hear it and take to heart what is written in it. The implication is that a reader will read this message aloud to an audience. Not only is there a blessing for the reader and the hearers, but there is also a blessing for those who respond in obedience. <br /><br /> Therefore may he now, ere yet he enters upon his task, pronounce a blessing upon those who shall pay due heed to what he is to say. Does he think of the person by whom the apostolic writings were read aloud in the midst of the Christian congregation? then, Blessed is he that readeth. Does he think of those who listen? then, Blessed are they that hear the words of the prophecy. Or, lastly, does he think not merely of reading and hearing, but of that laying up in the heart to which these were only preparatory? then, Blessed are they that keep the things which are written therein, for the season, the short season in which everything shall be accomplished, is at hand. <br /><br /> John concluded his prologue with the time is near. The word time <b>kairos</b> refers to a period of time, that is, the time of the end (Dan. 8:17; 11:35, 11:40; 12:4, 12:9). The end time, as a time period, is mentioned in Rev. 11:18 and Rev. 12:12. In Rev. 12:14 the word time means a year (cf. Dan. 7:25); and the phrase time, times, and half a time means one year time plus two years times plus six months half a time, totaling three and one-half years - the length of the time of the end. Rev. 1:3 includes the first of seven beatitudes in the book (Rev. 1:3; 14:13; 16:15; 19:9; 20:6; 22:7, 22:14). <br /><br /> The prologue presents concisely the basic facts underlying the entire book: its subjects, purpose, and angelic and human channels. It is most important to observe that the book was primarily intended to give a practical lesson to those who read and heed its contents. <br /> <br /> <br />The Seven Beatitudes in Revelation:<br /> <br /> <br />Blessed is the one who reads the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear it and take to heart what is written in it, because the time is near (Rev. 1:3). <br /> <br /><br /> Then I heard a voice from heaven say, ‘Write: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on. Yes,’ says the Spirit, ‘they will rest from their labor, for their deeds will follow them’ (Rev. 14:13). <br /> <br /><br /> Behold, I come like a thief! Blessed is he who stays awake and keeps his clothes with him, so that he may not go naked and be shamefully exposed (Rev. 16:15). <br /> <br /><br /> Then the angel said to me, ‘Write: Blessed are those who are invited to the wedding supper of the Lamb!’ And he added, ‘These are the true words of God’ (Rev. 19:9). <br /> <br /><br /> Blessed and holy are those who have part in the first resurrection. The second death has no power over them, but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with Him for a thousand years (Rev. 20:6). <br /> <br /><br /> Behold, I am coming soon! Blessed is he who keeps the words of the prophecy in this book (Rev. 22:7). <br /> <br /> <br /><br /> Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they may have the right to the tree of life and may go through the gates into the city (Rev. 22:14). <br /> <br /><br /> The early church read the entire book of Revelation every time they met. This is the only book in the Bible that promises a blessing to those who read it, and those who listen to it being read. The preacher and the congregation that heed the teachings taught here will be blessed.</span>End Times Prophecy: Are You Prepared?http://www.blogger.com/profile/05192451197130838894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1562564139613851589.post-51785606658036852062024-01-31T11:34:00.000-08:002024-01-31T11:34:37.830-08:00Book of Revelation Chapter 1 Vs. 2<p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Prologue </span></b></p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><b>Rev. 1:2 Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw.</b><br /><br /><br />To bare record indicates that John actually saw these things. John proclaims in his books that he is an eyewitness testifying of all he saw and heard. <br /><br /> Bare record (ἐμαρτύρησεν) <br /><br /> See on John 1:7. Rev., bear witness. The reference is to the present book and not to the Gospel. The aorist tense is the epistolary aorist. See on 1Jhn. 2:13, and compare the introduction to Thucydides' History: Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote ξυνέγραψε the history of the war, etc.; placing himself at the reader's standpoint, who will regard the writing as occurring in the past. <br /><br /> John could easily bear record of the Word Jesus. He was a daily companion of Jesus. This particular Scripture however is speaking of the things that John sees in his visions. The testimony of Jesus is salvation to all who believe. <br /><br /> Word of God <br /><br /> Not the personal Word, but the prophetic contents of this book. <br /><br /> The Lord God (Κύριος ὁ Θεὸς) <br /><br /> Rather, as Rev., the Lord, the God. <br /><br /> Of the holy prophets (τῶν ἁγίων προφητῶν) <br /><br /> For ἁγίων holy substitute πνευμάτων spirits, and render, as Rev., the God of the spirits of the prophets. <br /><br /> Be done (γεγέσθαι) <br /><br /> Better, as Rev., come to pass. <br /><br /> The authenticity of the Revelation is based upon the testimony of God the Father, Jesus Christ the Son, and John who was moved upon by the Holy Spirit to record all things that he saw past from the Father and the Son. <br /><br /> Testimony (μαρτυρίαν) <br /><br /> For the phrase to witness a witness see John 4:32. For the peculiar emphasis on the idea of witness in John, see on John 1:7. The words and the ides are characteristic of Revelation as of the Gospel and Epistles. <br /><br /> And (τε) <br /><br /> Omit. The clause all things that he saw is in apposition with the Word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ, marking these as seen by him. Rev. adds even. <br /><br /> All things that he saw (ὅσα εἶδεν) <br /><br /> Lit., as many things as he saw. In the Gospel John uses the word εἶδεν saw, only twice of his own eyewitness (John 1:40; 20:8). In Revelation it is constantly used of the seeing of visions. Compare Rev. 1:19. For the verb as denoting the immediate intuition of the seer, see on John 2:24. <br /><br /> Such is the general character of that revelation which Jesus Christ sent and signified through His angel unto His servant John. And that Apostle faithfully recorded it for the instruction and comfort of the Church. Like his Divine Master, with whom throughout all this book believers are so closely identified, and who is Himself the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the disciple whom He loved stands forth to bear witness of the word of God thus given him, of the testimony of Jesus thus signified to him, even of all things that he saw. He places himself in thought at the end of the visions he had witnessed and retraces for others the elevating pictures which had filled, as he beheld them, his own soul with rapture. <br /><br /> <br /><br />Again, John faithfully described what he saw as the Word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ. What John saw was a communication from and about Jesus Christ Himself.</span>End Times Prophecy: Are You Prepared?http://www.blogger.com/profile/05192451197130838894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1562564139613851589.post-85388364263013773262024-01-30T19:00:00.000-08:002024-01-30T19:00:05.903-08:00Book of Joel Chapter 1 Vs. 12<p style="text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: large;">An Invasion of Locusts</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></p><p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="zxx"><b>The
vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth; the pomegranate tree,
the palm tree also, and the apple tree, </b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="zxx"><i><b>even</b></i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="zxx"><b>
all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy is withered
away from the sons of men. Joel 1:12</b></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="he-IL" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="zxx"><b>גֶּפֶן</b></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="en-US" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>gephen</b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>gheh'-fen</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">From
an unused root meaning to </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">bend</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">;
a </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">vine</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
(as </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">twining</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">),
especially the grape: - vine, tree.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="he-IL" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="en-US">יָבֵשׁ</span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="en-US">yâbêsh</span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>yaw-bashe'</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">A
primitive root; to </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">be
ashamed</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">,
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">confused</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
or </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">disappointed</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">;
also (as failing) to </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">dry</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
up (as water) or </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">wither</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
(as herbage): - be ashamed, clean, be confounded, (make) dry (up),
(do) shame (-fully), X utterly, wither (away).</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="he-IL" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US"><b>תְּאֵנָה
תְּאֵן</b></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="en-US">t</span><sup><span lang="en-US">e</span></sup><span lang="en-US">'ên
t</span><sup><span lang="en-US">e</span></sup><span lang="en-US">'ênâh</span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>teh-ane',
teh-ay-naw'</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">The
second form being singular and feminine; perhaps of foreign
derivation; the </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">fig</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
(tree or fruit): - fig (tree).</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="he-IL" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US"><b>אָמַל</b></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US"><b>'âmal</b></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>aw-mal'</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">A
primitive root; to </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">droop</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">;
by implication to </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">be
sick</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">,
to </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">mourn:
- </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">languish,
be weak, wax feeble.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="color: black;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-weight: normal;">all
the trees... The picture was bleak, for even the deep roots of the
trees could not withstand the torturous treatment administered by the
locusts, especially when accompanied by an extended drought. </span></span></span></span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="he-IL" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="en-US">עֵץ</span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">‛<span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><b><span lang="en-US">êts</span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>ates</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">From
H6095; a </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">tree</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
(from its </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">firmness</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">);
hence </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">wood</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
(plural </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">sticks</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">):
- + carpenter, gallows, helve, + pine, plank, staff, stalk, stick,
stock, timber, tree, wood.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">because
Joy is... This is speaking of a time, when the joy of the people has
withered away. None of the fruit trees produce. There is a curse upon
the fruit and vegetables, as well as on the people. The judgment of
God has fallen upon them.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="he-IL" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>כִּי</b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="en-US">kı̂y</span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>kee</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">A
primitive particle (the full form of the prepositional prefix)
indicating </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">causal</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
relations of all kinds, antecedent or consequent; (by implication)
very widely used as a relative conjugation or adverb; often largely
modified by other particles annexed: - and, + (forasmuch, inasmuch,
where-) as, assured [-ly], + but, certainly, doubtless, + else, even,
+ except, for, how, (because, in, so, than) that, + nevertheless,
now, rightly, seeing, since, surely, then, therefore, + (al-) though,
+ till, truly, + until, when, whether, while, who, yea, yet,</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="he-IL" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="en-US">שָׂשׂן
שָׂשׂוֹן</span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="en-US">śâśôn
śâśôn</span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>saw-sone',
saw-sone'</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">From
H7797; </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">cheerfulness</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">;
specifically </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">welcome:
- </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">gladness,
joy, mirth, rejoicing.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">There
is no fruit on the vine.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">All
of the above trees have symbolized God's people at some time, when
the blessings of God were upon them. The trees with no fruit, also,
symbolize the fact that God has taken His blessings away.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">is
withered away... Human joy and delight had departed from all
segments of society; none had escaped the grasp of the locusts. The
joy that normally accompanied the time of harvest had been replaced
with despair.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="he-IL" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>יָבֵשׁ</b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="en-US">yâbêsh</span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>yaw-bashe'</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">A
primitive root; to </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">be
ashamed</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">,
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">confused</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
or </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">disappointed</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">;
also (as failing) to </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">dry</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
up (as water) or </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">wither</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
(as herbage): - be ashamed, clean, be confounded, (make) dry (up),
(do) shame (-fully), X utterly, wither (away).</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><br />
</span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="zxx" style="font-weight: normal;">And
these five kinds of fruits (grapes, figs, pomegranates, dates from
</span><span lang="zxx">palm
trees, and apples). Because of the destruction of their crops, they
did not experience the joy of the harvest (cf. Psm. 4:7).</span></span></span></span></p>End Times Prophecy: Are You Prepared?http://www.blogger.com/profile/05192451197130838894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1562564139613851589.post-26791464324834039062024-01-30T18:26:00.000-08:002024-01-30T18:26:30.407-08:00Book of 1 John Chapter 2 Vs. 2<p style="text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: large;">Christ Our Advocate</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></p><p style="font-style: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>1
John 2:2 “And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours
only, but also for [the sins of] the whole world.”</b></span></span></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">And
He</span></span></span><b><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">
(</span></span></b><b><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">καὶ
αὐτὸς</span></span></b><b><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">)</span></span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">The
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">He</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">
is emphatic: </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">that</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">same</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">Jesus</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">:
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">He</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">himself</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">Propitiation,
in this verse means appeasement or satisfaction. An atoning sacrifice
that Jesus bore in His body for the punishment due us for our sin. In
so doing He propitiated God; satisfied God’s just demand that sin
be punished. Thus, Jesus is both the advocate for sinners (verse 1),
and the sacrifice for their sins.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The
propitiation</span></span></span></span><b><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
(</span></span></span></b><b><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">ἱλασμός</span></span></span></b><b><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">)</span></span></span></b></span></span></span></p>
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<span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Only
here and 1Jhn. 4:10. From </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>ἱλάσκομαι</b></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">to</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">appease</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">,
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">to</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">conciliate</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">to</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">one's</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">self</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">,
which occurs Luke 18:13; Heb. 2:17. The noun means originally </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">an</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">appeasing</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
or </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">propitiating</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">,
and passes, through Alexandrine usage, into the sense of </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">the</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">means</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">of</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">appeasing</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">,
as here. The construction is to be particularly noted; </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">for</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">,
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">in</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">the</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">matter</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">of</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>περί</b></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">our</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">sins</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">;
the genitive case of that </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">for</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">which</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
propitiation is made. In Heb. 2:17, the accusative case, also of </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">the</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">sins</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
to be propitiated. In classical usage, on the other hand, the
habitual construction is the accusative direct objective case, of </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">the</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">person</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="color: #292f33; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
propitiated. </span>So,<span style="color: #292f33; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> in Homer, of the gods. </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>Θεὸν
ἱλάσκεσθαι</b></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">is
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">to</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">make</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">a</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">God</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">propitious</span></span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="color: #292f33; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
to one. See Iliad, i., 386, 472. Of men whom one wishes to conciliate
by divine honors after death. </span><span style="color: #292f33; font-family: Accordance;">So,</span><span style="color: #292f33; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"> Herodotus, of Philip of Crotona. His
beauty gained him honors at the hands of the Egestaeans which they
never accorded to </span>anyone<span style="font-family: Accordance;"> else; for they raised a hero-temple over
his grave, and they still </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">propitiate</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">him</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>αὐτὸν
ἱλάσκονται</b></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
with sacrifices (v., 47). Again, The Parians, having </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">propitiated</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Themistocles</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>Θεμιστοκλέα
ἱλασάμενοι</b></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>
</b></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">with
gifts, escaped the visits of the army (viii., 112). The change from
this construction shows, to quote Canon Westcott, that the scriptural
conception of the verb is not that of appeasing one who is angry,
with a personal feeling, against the offender; but of altering the
character of that which, from without, occasions a necessary
alienation, and interposes an inevitable obstacle to fellowship. Such
phrases as 'propitiating God,' and God 'being reconciled' are foreign
to the language of the New Testament. </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Man</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
is reconciled (2Cor. 5:18 sqq.; Rom. 5:10 sq.). There is a
propitiation in the matter of </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">the</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">sin</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
or of </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">the</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">sinner</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">not
for ours...</span></span></span></span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
Not for us apostles or the Jews only, but also for Gentiles (Eph.
2:11-18; 2Cor. 5:14-21; John 3:16).</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">for
the sins... This is a generic term, referring not to every single
individual, but to mankind in general. Christ actually paid the
penalty only for those who would repent and believe. A number of
Scriptures indicate that Christ died for the world (John 1:29; 3:16;
6:51; 1Thes. 2:6; Heb. 2:9).</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">For
the sins of the whole world</span></span></span></span><b><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
(</span></span></span></b><b><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">περὶ
ὅλου τοῦ κόσμου</span></span></span></b><b><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">)</span></span></span></b></span></span></span></p>
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<span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">The</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">sins</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">of</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="color: #292f33; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
(A. V., italicized) should be </span>omitted,<span style="color: #292f33; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> as in Revelation, </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">for</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">the</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">whole</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">world</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">.
Compare 1Jhn. 4:14; John 4:42; 7:32. The propitiation is as wide as
the sin (Bengel). If men do not experience its benefit, the fault is
not in its efficacy. </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>Düsterdieck</b></span></span></span></span></span></span><span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="color: #292f33; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
(cited by Huther) says, The propitiation has its real efficacy for
the whole world; to believers it brings life, to </span><span style="color: #292f33;">unbelievers'</span><span style="color: #292f33; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> death.
Luther: It is a patent fact that thou too art a part of the whole
world; so that thine heart cannot deceive itself, and think, the Lord
died for Peter and Paul, but not for me. On </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>κόσμου</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The
world</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><b><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
(</span></span></span></span></span></span></b><b><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">τὸν
κόσμον</span></span></span></span></span></span></b><b><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">)</span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">As
in John 1:3, the creation was designated </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">in</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">its</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">several</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">details</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
by </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>πάντα</b></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">,
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">all</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">things</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">,
so here, creation is regarded </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">in</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">its</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">totality</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">,
as an ordered whole. See on Acts 17:24; see on Jas. 3:6. Four words
are used in the New Testament for </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">world</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">:</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">(1)
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>γῇ</b></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">,</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">land</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">,
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">ground</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">,
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">territory</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">,
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">the</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">earth</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">,
as distinguished from the heavens. The sense is purely physical.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">(2)
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>οἰκουμένη</b></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">,
which is a participle, meaning </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">inhabited</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">,
with </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>γῆ</b></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">,
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">earth</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">,
understood, and signifies the earth as </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">the</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">abode</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">of</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx">men,<span style="color: #292f33; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> the whole </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">inhabited</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
world. See on Mat. 24:14; see on Luke 2:1. Also in a physical sense,
though used once of the world to come (Heb. 2:5).</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">(3)
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>αἰών</b></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">,
essentially </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">time</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">,
as the condition under which all created things exist, and the
measure of their existence: a </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">period</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">of</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">existence;</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">a</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">lifetime;</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">a</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">generation;</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
hence, a </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">long</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">space</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
of time; an </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">age</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">,
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">era</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">,
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">epoch</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">,
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">period</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">of</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">a</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">dispensation</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">.
On this primary, physical sense there arises a secondary sense, </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>viz.</b></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">,
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">all</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">that</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">exists</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">in</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">the</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">world</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">under</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">the</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">conditions</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">of</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">time</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">.
From this again develops a more distinctly ethical sense, </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">the</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">course</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">and</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">current</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">of</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">this</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">world's</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">affairs</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
compare the expression, </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">the</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">times</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="color: #292f33; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">,
and this course as corrupted by </span>sin,<span style="color: #292f33; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> hence </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">the</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">evil</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">world</span></span></span></span></span></span><span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="color: #292f33; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">. </span><span style="color: #292f33;">So,</span><span style="color: #292f33; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Gal. 1:4; 2Cor. 4:4.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">(4)
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>κόσμος</b></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">,
which follows a similar line of development from the physical to the
ethical sense; meaning (a) </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">ornament</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">,
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">arrangement</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">,
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">order</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
(1Pet. 3:3); (b) </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">the</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">sum-total</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">of</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">the</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">material</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">universe</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">considered</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">as</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">a</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">system</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
(Mat. 13:35; John 17:5; Acts 17:24; Phlp. 2:15). Compare Plato. He
who is incapable of communion is also incapable of friendship. And
philosophers tell us, Callicles, that communion and friendship and
orderliness and temperance and justice bind together heaven and earth
and gods and men, and that this universe is therefore called Cosmos,
or order, not disorder or misrule (Gorgias, 508). (c) </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">That</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">universe</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">as</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">the</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">abode</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">of</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">man</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
(John 16:21; 1Jhn. 3:17). (d) </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">The</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">sum-total</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">of</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">humanity</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">in</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">the</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">world;</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">the</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">human</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">race</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
(John 1:29; 4:42). (e) In the ethical sense, </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">the</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">sum-total</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">of</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">human</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">life</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">in</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">the</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">ordered</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">world</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">,
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">considered</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">apart</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">from</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">,
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">alienated</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">from</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">,
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">and</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">hostile</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">to</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">God</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">,
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">and</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">of</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">the</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">earthly</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">things</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">which</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">seduce</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">from</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">God</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
(John 7:7; 15:18; 17:9, 17:14; 1Cor. 1:20, 1:21; 2Cor. 7:10; Jas.
4:4).</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="color: #292f33; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This
word is characteristic of John, and pre-eminently in this last,
ethical sense, in which it is rarely used by the </span>Synoptists,<span style="color: #292f33; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> while
John nowhere uses </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>αἰών</b></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">of
the moral order. In this latter sense the word is wholly strange to
heathen literature, since the heathen world had no perception of the
opposition between God and sinful man; between the divine order and
the moral disorder introduced and maintained by sin.</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">see
on John 1:9.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">Most
of the world will be eternally condemned to hell to pay for their own
sins, so they could not have been paid for by Christ. The passages
which speak of Christ’s dying for the whole world must be
understood to refer to mankind in general (as in Tit. 2:3-4). World
indicates the sphere, the beings toward whom God seeks reconciliation
and has provided propitiation.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">God
has mitigated His wrath on sinners temporarily; by letting them live
and enjoy earthly life. In that sense, Christ has provided a brief,
temporal propitiation for the whole world. But He satisfied fully the
wrath of God eternally only for the elect who believe.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">Christ’s
death had unlimited and infinite value because He is Holy God. Thus,
His sacrifice was sufficient to pay the penalty for all the sins of
all whom God brings to faith. But the actual satisfaction and
atonement was made only for those who believe.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">The
pardon for sin is offered to the whole world, but received only by
those who believe. There is no other way to be reconciled to God.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration: none; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>MISSIONARY
APPLICATION OF THE EXTENT OF THE ATONEMENT</b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">LET
us now consider the universal and ineradicable wants of man.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">Such
a consideration is substantially unaffected by speculation as to the
theory of man’s origin. Whether the first men are to be looked for
by the banks of some icy river feebly shaping their arrowheads of
flint, or in godlike and glorious progenitors beside the streams of
Eden; whether our ancestors were the result of an inconceivably
ancient evolution, or called into existence by a creative act, or
sprung from some lower creature elevated in the fullness of time by a
majestic inspiration, at least, as a matter of fact, man has other
and deeper wants than those of the back and stomach. Man, as he is having five spiritual instincts. How they came to be there, let it be
repeated, is not the question. It is the fact of their existence, not
the mode of their genesis, with which we are now concerned.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">(1)
There is almost, if not quite, without exception the instinct which
may be generally described as the instinct of the Divine. In the
wonderful address where St. Paul so fully recognises the influence of
geographical circumstance and of climate, he speaks of God having
made out of one blood every nation of men to seek after their Lord,
if haply at least as might be expected they would feel for Him-like
men in darkness groping towards the light.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">(2)
There is the instinct of prayer, the testimony of the soul naturally
Christian. The little child at our knees meets us halfway in the
first touching lessons in the science of prayer. In danger, when the
vessel seems to be sinking in a storm, it is ever as it was in the
days of Jonah, when the mariners cried every man unto his God.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">(3)
There is the instinct of immortality, the desire that our conscious
existence should continue beyond death.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="CENTER" lang="zxx" style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Who
would lose,</span></span></span></p>
<p align="CENTER" lang="zxx" style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">Though
full of pain, this intellectual being,</span></span></span></p>
<p align="CENTER" lang="zxx" style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">These
thoughts that wander through eternity,</span></span></span></p>
<p align="CENTER" lang="zxx" style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">To
perish rather swallow’d up and lost</span></span></span></p>
<p align="CENTER" lang="zxx" style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">In
the wide womb of uncreated night?"</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">(4)
There is the instinct of morality, call it conscience or what we
will. The lowest, most sordid, most materialized languages are never
quite without witness to this nobler instinct. Though such languages
have lien among the poets, yet their wings are as the wings of a dove
that is covered with silver wings and her feathers like gold. The
most impoverished vocabularies have words of moral judgment, good or
bad; of praise or blame, truth and lie; above all, those august words
which recognise a law paramount to all other laws, I must, I ought.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">(5)
There is the instinct of sacrifice, which, if not absolutely
universal, is at least all but so-the sense of impurity and
unworthiness, which says by the very fact of bringing a victim,</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-left: 0.33in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">"I
am not worthy to come alone; may my guilt be transferred to the
representative which I immolate."</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="zxx" style="font-style: normal; text-decoration-line: none;">(1)
Thus then man seeks after God. Philosophy unaided does not succeed in
finding Him. The theistic systems marshal their syllogisms; they
prove, but do not convince. The pantheistic systems glitter before
man’s eye; but when he grasps them in his feverish hand, and
brushes off the mystic gold dust from the moth’s wings, a death’s
head mocks him. St. John has found the essence of the whole question,
stripped from it all its plausible disguises, and characterizes
Mahommedan and Judaistic Deism in a few words. Nay, the philosophical
deism of Christian countries comes within the scope of his terrible
proposition. </span><span lang="zxx" style="font-style: normal; text-decoration-line: none;"><b>Deo erexit Voltairius</b></span><span lang="zxx">,
was the philosopher’s inscription over the porch of a church; but
Voltaire had not in any true sense a God to whom he could dedicate
it. For St. John tells us-whosoever denieth the son, the same hath
not the Father. Other words there are in his Second Epistle whose
full import seems to have been generally overlooked, but which are of
solemn significance to those who go out from the camp of Christianity
with the idea of finding a more refined morality and a more ethereal
spiritualism. Whosoever goeth forward and abideth not in the doctrine
of Christ; whosoever writes progress on his standard, and goes
forward beyond the lines of Christ, loses natural as well as
supernatural religion-he hath not God.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">(2)
Man wants to pray. Poor disinherited child, what master of requests
shall he find? Who shall interpret his broken language to God, God’s
infinite language to him?</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">(3)
Man yearns for the assurance of immortal life. This can best be given
by one specimen of manhood risen from the grave, one traveler come
back from the undiscovered bourne with the breath of eternity on His
cheek and its light in His eye; one like Jonah, Himself the living
sign and proof that He has been down in the great deeps.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">(4)
Man needs a morality to instruct and elevate conscience. Such a
morality must possess these characteristics. It must be
authoritative, resting upon an absolute will; its teacher must say,
not I think, or I conclude, but-verily, verily I say unto you. It
must be unmixed with baser and more questionable elements. It must be
pervasive, laying the strong grasp of its purity on the whole domain
of thought and feeling as well as of action. It must be exemplified.
It must present to us a series of pictures, of object lessons in
which we may see it illustrated. Finally, this morality must be
spiritual. It must come to man, not like the Jewish Talmud with its
seventy thousand precepts which few indeed can ever learn, but with a
compendious and condensed, yet all-embracing brevity-with words that
are spirit and life.</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="zxx">(5)
As man knows duty more thoroughly, the instinct of sacrifice will
speak with an ever-increasing intensity. My heart is overwhelmed by
the infinite purity of this law. Lead me to the rock that is higher
than I; let me find God and be reconciled to Him. When the old Latin
spoke of propitiation he thought of something which brought near
</span><span lang="zxx"><b>prope</b></span><span lang="zxx">; his
inner thought was-let God come near to me, that I may be near to God.
These five ultimate spiritual wants, these five ineradicable
spiritual instincts, He must meet, of whom a master of spiritual
truth like St. John can say with his plenitude of insight-He is the
propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the
whole world.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">We
shall better understand the fullness of St. John’s thought if we
proceed to consider that this fitness in Christ for meeting the
spiritual wants of humanity is exclusive.</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="zxx">Three
great religions of the world are more or less missionary. Hinduism,
which embraces at least a hundred and ninety millions of souls, is
certainly not in any sense missionary. For Hinduism transplanted from
its ancient shrines and local superstitions dies like a flower
without roots. But Judaism at times has strung itself to a kind of
exertion almost inconsistent with its leading idea. The very word
proselyte attests the unnatural fervour to which it had worked itself
up in our Lord’s time. The Pharisee was a missionary sent out by
pride and consecrated by self-will. Ye compass sea and land to make
one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him tenfold more the
child of hell than yourselves. Buddhism has had enormous missionary
success from one point of view. Not long ago it was said that it
outnumbered Christendom. But it is to be observed that it finds
adherents among people of only one type of thought and character.
Outside these races it is and must ever be, non-existent. We may
except the fanciful perversion of a few idle people in London,
Calcutta, or Ceylon, captivated for a season or two by the light of
Asia. We may except also a very few more remarkable cases where the
esoteric principle of Buddhism commends itself to certain profound
thinkers stricken with the dreary disease of modern sentiment.
Mohammedanism has also, in a limited degree, proved itself a
missionary religion, not only by the sword. In British India it
counts millions of adherents, and it is still making some progress in
India. In other ages whole Christian populations but belonging to
heretical and debased forms of Christianity have gone over to
Mohammedanism. Let us be just to it. It once elevated the pagan
Arabs. Even now it elevates the Negro above his fetich. But it must
ever remain a religion for stationary races, with its sterile God and
its poor literality, the dead book pressing upon it with a weight of
lead. Its merits are these-it inculcates a lofty, if sterile, Theism;
it fulfills the pledge conveyed in the word Moslem, by inspiring a
calm, if frigid, resignation to destiny; it teaches the duty of
prayer with a strange impressiveness. But whole realms of thought and
feeling are crushed out by its bloody and lustful grasp. It is
without purity, without tenderness, and without humility.</span></span></span></span></p>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">Thus,
then, we come back again with a truer insight to the exclusive
fitness of Christ to meet the wants of mankind.</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">Others
besides the Incarnate Lord have obtained from a portion of their
fellow men some measure of passionate enthusiasm. Each people have a
hero during this life, call him demigod, or what we will. But such
men are idolized by one race alone. The very qualities which procure
them an apotheosis are precisely those which prove how narrow the
type is which they represent; how far they are from speaking to all
humanity. A national type is a narrow and exclusive type.</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">No
European, unless effeminated and enfeebled, could really love an
Asiatic Messiah. But Christ is loved everywhere. No race or kindred
is exempt from the sweet contagion produced by the universal appeal
of the universal Saviour. From all languages spoken by the lips of
man, hymns of adoration are offered to Him. We read in England the
Confessions of St. Augustine. Those words still quiver with the
emotions of penitence and praise; still breathe the breath of life.
Those ardent affections, those yearnings of personal love to Christ,
which filled the heart of Augustine fifteen centuries ago, under the
blue sky of Africa, touch us even now under this grey heaven in the
fierce hurry of our modern life. But they have in them equally the
possibility of touching the Shanar of Tinnevelly, the Negro-even the
Bushman, or the native of Tierra del Fuego. By a homage of such
diversity and such extent we recognise a universal Saviour for the
universal wants of universal man, the fitting propitiation for the
whole world.</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">Towards
the close of this Epistle St. John oracularly utters three great
canons of universal Christian consciousness-we know, we know, we
know. Of these three canons the second is-we know that we are from
God, and the world lieth wholly in the wicked one. A characteristic
Johannic exaggeration! some critic has exclaimed; yet surely even in
Christian lands where men lie outside the influences of the Divine
society, we have only to read the Police reports to justify the
Apostle. In columns of travels, again, in the pages of Darwin and
Baker, from missionary records in places where the earth is full of
darkness and cruel habitations, we are told of deeds of lust and
blood which almost make us blush to bear the same form with creatures
so degraded. Yet the very same missionary records bear witness that
in every race which the Gospel proclamation has reached, however low
it may be placed in the scale of the ethnologist; deep under the
ruins of the fall are the spiritual instincts, the affections which
have for their object the infinite God, and for their career the
illimitable ages. The shadow of sin is broad indeed. But in the
evening light of God’s love the shadow of the cross is projected
further still into the infinite beyond. Missionary success is
therefore sure, if it be slow. The reason is given by St. John. He is
the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but for the
whole world.</span></span></span></p><p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></p>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-weight: normal;">If
God extends mercies to a sinning believer - and the believer does not
reap the full consequences of his failure in his personal experience
- that fact is not due to the merits of that believer himself. On the
contrary, the grace obtained through the advocacy of Christ is to be
traced, like all of God’s grace, to His all-sufficient sacrifice on
the cross. Should any sinning believer wonder on what grounds he
might secure God’s mercy after he has failed, the answer is found
in this verse. So adequate is Jesus Christ as God’s </span></span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-weight: normal;">atoning
Sacrifice</span></span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
that the efficacy of His work extends </span></span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-weight: normal;">not</span></span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
merely to the </span></span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-weight: normal;">sins</span></span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
of Christians themselves, </span></span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-weight: normal;">but
also</span></span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
to </span></span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-weight: normal;">the
sins of the whole world.</span></span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
In saying this, John was clearly affirming the view that Christ
genuinely died for everyone (cf. 2Cor. 5:14-15, 5:19; Heb. 2:9). This
does not mean, of course, that everyone will be saved. It means
rather that anyone who hears the gospel </span></span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">can</span></span></span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
be saved if he so desires (Rev. 22:17). In context, however, John’s
point is to remind his readers of the magnificent scope of Christ’s
atoning sacrifice in order to assure them that His advocacy as the
Righteous One on their behalf is fully consistent with God’s
holiness.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">In
recent times there has been much scholarly discussion of the Greek
word </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>hilasmos</b></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">,
which the NIV renders as atoning Sacrifice. (The word occurs in the
NT only here and in 1Jhn. 4:10.) Some say the term is not the
placating of God’s wrath against sin, but rather is an expiation or
cleansing of sin itself. But the linguistic evidence for this
interpretation is not persuasive. The view has been capably discussed
and refuted by Leon Morris in </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The
Apostolic Preaching of the Cross</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
(Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1965, pp. 125-85).</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">God’s
wrath against sin may not be a concept congenial to the modern mind,
but it is thoroughly biblical. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>Hilasmos</b></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
could be fittingly rendered propitiation (cf. the noun </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>hilastērion</b></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">,
propitiation, in Rom. 3:25 and the verb </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>hilaskomai</b></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">,
to propitiate, in Luke 18:13 and Heb. 2:17). The Cross has indeed
propitiated satisfied God and has met His righteous demands so
thoroughly that His grace and mercy are abundantly available to both
saved and unsaved alike.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>End Times Prophecy: Are You Prepared?http://www.blogger.com/profile/05192451197130838894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1562564139613851589.post-16178190938688847122024-01-29T13:53:00.000-08:002024-01-29T13:53:01.572-08:00Book of Revelation Chapter 1 Vs. 1<span style="font-size: large;"><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Prologue</b></div><br /><br /><b>Rev. 1:1 The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified [it] by his angel unto his servant John:</b><br /><br />We start Revelation chapter one with not a theological trip, but a spiritual journey of the past, present and future as written by John the Apostle while imprisoned on the Island of Patmos. John didn't receive a dry, dead, theological explanation of past, present and future events. He received a powerful, dynamic, life changing prophetic revelation. He received a revelation of Christ in all His Glory, he saw into the throne room of Heaven, and he received a supernatural unveiling of God's plan. <br /><br /> We can therefore say that the Book of Revelation fits very well in to the framework of ancient Jewish literature. One Jewish apocalyptical writing that illustrates such similarities is the Book of Enoch. <br /><br /> Enoch was a righteous man who was with God... saw a holy vision in the heavens; and means of communication from the angels or messengers showed me. From them I heard all things and understood what I saw: that which will not take place in this generation, but in a generation that shall follow at a distant time, on account of the chosen ones (Enoch 1:2). <br /><br /> Revelation is a real letter. It is a public message to seven very real, historical assemblies of Christ followers undergoing persecution. <br /><br /> Revelation is a prophetic message. Israels' prophets always rebuked sin and proclaimed future hope. In like manner Revelation issues stern warnings to those who go astray towards paganism and offers rewards of bright future and praise to the faithful who persevere the persecutions remain faithful to the God of Israel. <br /><br /> Revelation is about 1st century events. The author says his visions will come to pass very soon. The message was meant to be fully understood and embraced by the 1st century believers. <br /><br /> Revelation is about future events as well. The visions of future events are included as expected of prophecy, but the core of the message is focused on the time at hand. <br /><br /> It was so awesome that John actually fell down as though he were dead in several instances we will study: <br /><br /> As we begin the study of the Book of Revelation we read: <br /><br /> The Greek word, <b>Apokalupsis</b>, means to reveal or unveil that which is hidden. The term signified does not mean that this is a book is of unknowable signs, but that God signified it by the miraculous presence of the announcing angel that the message was from Him. <br /><br /> This Revelation is a revealing of the mysteries of Jesus Christ. God the Father gives this message to Jesus, Jesus gives it to His personal angel, the angel gives the message to John, and John writes this message to all believers in the Lord Jesus Christ. The revelation had its origin in the mind of God. The things contained therein were in His mind from eternity, but were not given to Christ until after He was exalted as the head of the Church. It is not the unveiling of Christ in His person, offices and glory in any greater measure than what has already been unveiled in the rest of the Bible. It is simply a revelation of things which must shortly come to pass. Christ is just one of the many persons of the activities of the book. This message is given to John to encourage us Christians. These Christians should not be caught unaware. These things must come to pass because it is the will of the Father. <br /><br /> The Revelation (<b>ἀποκάλυψις</b>) <br /><br /> The Greek word is transcribed in Apocalypse. The word occurs only once in the Gospels, Luke 2:32, where to lighten should be rendered for revelation. It is used there of our Lord, as a light to dispel the darkness under which the heathen were veiled. It occurs thirteen times in Paul's writings, and three times in first Peter. It is used in the following senses: <br /><br /> (a.) The unveiling of something hidden, which gives light and knowledge to those who behold it. See Luke 2:32 (above). Christianity itself is the revelation of a mystery (Rom. 16:25). The participation of the Gentiles in the privileges of the new covenant was made known by revelation (Eph. 3:3). Paul received the Gospel which he preached by revelation (Gal. 1:12), and went up to Jerusalem by revelation (Gal. 2:2). <br /><br /> (b.) Christian insight into spiritual truth. Paul asks for Christians the spirit of revelation (Eph. 1:17). Peculiar manifestations of the general gift of revelation are given in Christian assemblies (1Cor. 14:6, 14:26). Special revelations are granted to Paul (2Cor. 12:1, 12:7). <br /><br /> (c.) The second coming of the Lord (1Pet. 1:7, 1:13; 2Thes. 1:7; 1Cor. 1:7) in which His glory shall be revealed (1Pet. 4:13), His righteous judgment made known (Rom. 2:5), and His children revealed in full majesty (Rom. 8:19). <br /><br /> The kindred verb <b>ἀποκαλύπτω</b> is used in similar connections. Following the categories given above, <br /><br /> (a.) Gal. 1:16; 3:23; Eph. 3:5; 1Pet. 1:12. <br /><br /> (b.) Mat. 11:25, 11:27; 16:17; Luke 10:21, 10:22; 1Cor. 2:10; 14:30; Phlp. 3:15. <br /><br /> (c.) Mat. 10:26; Luke 2:35; 12:2; 17:30; Rom. 1:17, 1:18; 8:18; 1Cor. 3:13; 2Thes. 2:3, 2:6, 2:8; 1Pet. 1:5; 5:1. <br /><br /> The word is compounded with <b>ἀπό</b> from, and <b>καλύπτω</b> to cover. Hence, to remove the cover from anything; to unveil. So, of Balaam, the Lord opened or unveiled his eyes <b>ἀπεκάλυψεν τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς</b>: Num. 22:31. So Boaz to Naomi's kinsman: I thought to advertise thee: Rev., disclose it unto thee <b>ἀποκαλύψω τὸ οὖς σου</b>: Ruth. 4:4. Lit., I will uncover thine ear. <br /><br /> The noun <b>ἀποκάλυψις</b> revelation, occurs only once in the Septuagint (1Sam. 20:30), in the physical sense of uncovering. The verb is found in the Septuagint in Dan. 2:19, 2:22, 2:28. <br /><br /> In classical Greek, the verb is used by Herodotus (i., 119) of uncovering the head; and by Plato: thus, reveal <b>ἀποκαλύψας</b> to me the power of Rhetoric (Gorgias, 460): Uncover your chest and back Protagoras, 352. Both the verb and the noun occur in Plutarch; the latter of uncovering the body, of waters, and of an error. The religious sense, however, is unknown to heathenism. <br /><br /> The following words should be compared with this: <b>Ὀπτασία</b> a vision (Luke 1:22; Acts 26:19; 2Cor. 12:1). <b>Ὅραμα</b> a vision (Mat. 17:9; Acts 9:10; 16:9). <b>Ὅρασις</b> a vision (Acts 2:17; Rev. 9:17. Of visible form, Rev. 4:3). These three cannot be accurately distinguished. They all denote the thing seen or shown, without anything to show whether it is understood or not. <br /><br /> As distinguished from these, <b>ἀποκάλυψις</b> includes, along with the thing shown or seen, its interpretation or unveiling. <br /><br /><b> Ἐπιφάνεια</b> appearing hence our epiphany, is used in profane Greek of the appearance of a higher power in order to aid men. In the New Testament by Paul only, and always of the second appearing of Christ in glory, except in 2Tim. 1:10, where it signifies His first appearing in the flesh. See 2Thes. 2:8; 1Tim. 6:14; Tit. 2:13. As distinguished from this, <b>ἀπολάλυψις</b> is the more comprehensive word. An apocalypse may include several <b>ἐπιφάνειαι</b> appearing. The appearing are the media of the revealing's. <br /><br /><b> Φανέρωσις</b> manifestation; only twice in the New Testament; 1Cor. 12:7; 2Cor. 4:2. The kindred verb <b>φανερόω</b> to make manifest, is of frequent occurrence. See on John 21:1. It is not easy, if possible, to show that this word has a less dignified sense than <b>ἀποκάλυψις</b>. The verb <b>φανερόω</b> is used of both the first and the second appearing of our Lord (1Tim. 3:16; 1Jhn. 1:2; 1Pet. 1:20; Col. 3:4; 1Pet. 5:4). See also John 2:11; 21:1. <br /><br /> Some distinguish between <b>φανέρωσις</b> as an external manifestation, to the senses, but single and isolated, while <b>ἀποκάλυψις</b> is an inward and abiding disclosure. According to these, the Apocalypse or unveiling, precedes and produces the <b>φανέρωσις</b> or manifestation. The Apocalypse contemplates the thing revealed; the manifestation, the persons to whom it is revealed. <br /><br /> The Revelation here is the unveiling of the divine mysteries. <br /><br /> Of Jesus Christ <br /><br /> Not the manifestation or disclosure of Jesus Christ, but the revelation given by Him. <br /><br /> to shew unto..; The purpose was to show, not hide from His servants, events from John’s day into all eternity (Rev. 21-22). <br /><br /> To shew (<b>δεῖξαι</b>) <br /><br /> Frequent in Revelation (Rev. 4:1; 17:1; 21:9; 22:1). Construe with <b>ἔδωκεν</b> gave him to shew. Compare I will give him to sit (Rev. 3:21): It was given to hurt (Rev. 7:2): It was given him to do; (A.V. had power to do; Rev. 13:14). <br /><br /> his servants... Greek: <b>doulos</b>, used 14 times in Revelation and 111 times in the rest of the New Testament <br /><br /> Servants (<b>δούλοις</b>) <br /><br /> Properly, bond-servants. See on Mat. 20:26; see on Mark 9:35. <br /><br /> things which must... These things i.e. events which must shortly come to pass are the subject matter of the book: <br /><br /> 1. Events of the whole church age (Rev. 1-3) <br /><br /> 2. Events in heaven (Rev. 4-5) <br /><br /> 3. Events of the future tribulation of Daniel’s 70th week (Rev. 6-19) <br /><br /> 4. Events of the Millennium (Rev. 20:1-15) <br /><br /> 5. Events of the eternal new heavens and the new earth (Rev. 21-22) <br /><br /> Must (<b>δεῖ</b> ) <br /><br /> As the decree of the absolute and infallible God. <br /><br /> shortly come to... Greek: <b>tachos</b>, swiftness; speed; quickly. Translated shortly (Rev. 1:1; 22:6; Acts 25:4; Rom. 16:20); quickly (Acts 12:7; 22:18; Rev. 2:5); and speedily (Luke 18:8). The idea is that this series of events must begin quickly. <br /><br /> Shortly come to pass (<b>γενέσθαι ἐν τάχει</b>) <br /><br /> For the phrase <b>ἐν τάχει</b> shortly, see Luke 18:8, where yet long delay is implied. Expressions like this must be understood, not according to human measurement of time, but rather as in 2Pet. 3:8. The idea is, before long, as time is computed by God. The aorist infinitive <b>γενέσθαι</b> is not begun to come to pass but denotes a complete fulfillment: must shortly come to pass in their entirety. <br /><br /> He sent (<b>ἀποστείλας</b>) <br /><br /> Apostles (<b>ἀποστόλων</b>) <br /><br /> Compare disciples, Mat. 10:1. Apostles is the official term, used here for the first time. They were merely learners' disciples, <b>μαθηταὶ</b> until Christ gave them authority. From <b>ἀποστέλλω</b>, to send away. An apostle is one sent forth. Compare John 13:16 and Rev., one that is sent. Cremer Biblico-Theological Lexicon suggests that it was the rare occurrence of the word in profane Greek that made it all the more appropriate as the distinctive appellation of the twelve. Compare Luke 6:13; Acts 1:2. Also, John 17:18, I have sent. The word is once used of Christ (Heb. 3:1), and in a very general sense to denote an, one sent (2Cor. 8:23; Phlp. 2:25). <br /><br /> and signified by... Greek: <b>semaino</b>, to show or point out; announce; to make a note of. That it does not mean that all things are in symbols is clear from its use elsewhere (Rev. 1:1; John 12:33; 18:32; 21:19; Acts 11:28; 25:27). It simply means to make a clear record. <br /><br /> Signified (<b>ἐσήμανεν</b>) <br /><br /> From <b>σῆμα</b> a sign. Hence, literally, give a sign or token. The verb occurs outside of John's writings only in Acts 11:28; 25:27. See John 12:33; 18:32; 21:19. This is its only occurrence in Revelation. The word is appropriate to the symbolic character of the revelation, and so in John 12:33, where Christ predicts the mode of His death in a figure. Compare sign, Rev. 12:1. <br /><br /> Angels are ministering spirits. This particular angel was Jesus' own personal angel who brought this message. Jesus Christ means the Savior, the Anointed One. <br /><br /> Angel (<b>ἀγγέλου</b>) <br /><br /> Strictly, a messenger. See Mat. 11:10; Luke 8:24; 9:52. Compare the mediating angel in the visions of Daniel and Zechariah (Dan. 8:15, 8:16; 9:21; 10:10; Zec. 1:19). See on John 1:51. <br /><br /> unto his servant... The book was transmitted from God to Christ, to the angel, to John, to the churches, to us (Rev. 1:1, 1:11). <br /><br /> Servant <br /><br /> Designating the prophetic office. See Isa. 59:5; Amos 3:7; compare Rev. 19:10; 22:9. <br /><br /> John <br /><br /> John does not name himself in the Gospel or in the Epistles. Here we are dealing with prophecy, and prophecy requires the guarantee of the individual who is inspired to utter it (Milligan). Compare Dan. 8:1; 9:2. <br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b>What You Have Seen</b></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Prologue</b></div><br /> Again, the opening words, The revelation of Jesus Christ, indicate the subject of the entire book. The word revelation is a translation of the Greek <b>apokalypsis</b>, meaning an unveiling or a disclosure. From this word comes the English apocalypse. The revelation was given to John to communicate to others, His servants, and it prophesies what must soon take place, rather than relating a historic presentation as in the four Gospels. The word soon <b>en tachei</b>; cf. Rev. 2:16; 22:7, 22:12, 22:20) means that the action will be sudden when it comes, not necessarily that it will occur immediately. Once the end-time events begin, they will occur in rapid succession (cf. Luke 18:8; Acts 12:7; 22:18; 25:4; Rom. 16:20). The words, He made it known, are from the Greek verb <b>esēmanen</b>, meaning to make known by signs or symbols, but the verb also includes communication by words. The angel messenger is not named but some believe he was Gabriel, who brought messages to Daniel, Mary, and Zechariah (cf. Dan. 8:16; 9:21-22; Luke 1:26-31). The reference to John as a servant <b>doulos</b>, which normally means slave is the term used by Paul, James, Peter, and Jude (cf. Rom. 1:1; Phlp. 1:1; Tit. 1:1; Jas. 1:1; 2Pet. 1:1; Jude 1:1) in speaking of their positions as God’s servants.</span>End Times Prophecy: Are You Prepared?http://www.blogger.com/profile/05192451197130838894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1562564139613851589.post-65833942977605477662024-01-26T19:34:00.000-08:002024-01-26T19:34:42.547-08:00Book of Joel Chapter 1 Vs. 11<p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">An Invasion of Locusts</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></b></p><p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>Joel
1:11 “Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers, for
the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is
perished.”</b></span></span></span></span></span></strong></p>
<p style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><br />
</span></p>
<p style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Be
ye ashamed... The primary emphasis of the Hebrew term connotes a
public disgrace, a physical state to which the guilty party has been
forcibly bought.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>בּוּשׁ</b></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="en-US">bûsh</span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>boosh</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">A
primitive root; properly to </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">pale</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">,
that is, by implication to </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">be
ashamed</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">;
also (by implication) to </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">be
disappointed</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">,
or </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">delayed:
- </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">(be,
make, bring to, cause, put to, with, a-) shame (-d), be (put to)
confounded (-fusion), become dry, delay, be long.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">O
ye husbandmen... It is not the fault of the vinedressers, or the
husbandmen that the locust has come and eaten the crops. This is
speaking from a spiritual standpoint. The vinedressers and the
husbandmen were those who cared for the souls of the people. This is
saying that those who were supposed to be watching for the souls of
the people have fallen down on their job.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="he-IL" style="font-style: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>אִכָּר</b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="en-US">'ikkâr</span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>ik-kawr'</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">From
an unused root meaning to </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">dig</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">;
a </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">farmer:
- </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">husbandman,
ploughman.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">For
the wheat... Symbolizes the believers in Christ. It would be a
terrible shame for those who had accepted Christ as their Savior to
be lost, because they had not been guided correctly by their
ministers. The fall of Judah could be lain at the feet of the
spiritual leaders. They did not teach their people the terrible
dangers of falling away from God.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="he-IL" style="font-style: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>עַל</b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">‛<span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><b><span lang="en-US">al</span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>al</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">Properly
the same as H5920 used as a preposition (in the singular or plural,
often with prefix, or as conjugation with a particle following);
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">above</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">,
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">over</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">,
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">upon</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">,
or </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">against</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
(yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great
variety of applications: - above, according to (-ly), after, (as)
against, among, and, X as, at, because of, beside (the rest of),
between, beyond the time, X both and, by (reason of), X had the
charge of, concerning for, in (that), (forth, out) of, (from) (off),
(up-) on, over, than, through (-out), to, touching, X with.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="he-IL" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="en-US">חִטָּה</span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="en-US">chiṭṭâh</span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>khit-taw'</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">Of
uncertain derivation; </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">wheat</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">,
whether the grain or the plant: - wheat (-en).</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-weight: normal;">field
is perished...</span></span></strong><strong><span lang="en-US"><b>
</b></span></strong>They not only, allowed their people to fall into
false worship, but were guilty themselves. Ministers now, and priests
then, were supposed to watch and warn of any danger. They should have
preached about the danger of worshipping false gods.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="he-IL" style="font-style: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>אָבַד</b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="en-US">'âbad</span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>aw-bad'</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">A
primitive root; properly to </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">wander</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
away, that is </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">lose</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
oneself; by implication to </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">perish</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
(causatively, </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">destroy</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">):
- break, destroy (-uction), + not escape, fail, lose, (cause </span>to<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> make) perish, spend, X and surely, take, be undone, X utterly, be
void of, have no way to flee.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="CENTER" style="font-style: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="en-US">Farmers
Should Mourn</span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-weight: normal;">farmers
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-weight: normal;">and
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-weight: normal;">vine
growers </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-weight: normal;">also
had reason to mourn since the fruit of their labor had been
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-weight: normal;">destroyed.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>End Times Prophecy: Are You Prepared?http://www.blogger.com/profile/05192451197130838894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1562564139613851589.post-50331343824038893652024-01-26T18:13:00.000-08:002024-01-26T18:13:53.158-08:00Book of 1 John Chapter 2 Vs. 1<p style="text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: large;">Christ Our Advocate</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></p><p style="font-style: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>1
John 2:1 “My little children, these things write I unto you, that
ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father,
Jesus Christ the righteous:”</b></span></span></span></p>
<p style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">My
little children... </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">A
term used nine times in this epistle (1Jhn. 2:1, 2:12, 2:13, 2:18,
2:28; 3:7, 3:18; 4:4, 4:21). It is used elsewhere only in John 13:33;
Gal. 4:19.</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
I</span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">ndicates
John’s deep concern for his readers. In preceding verses, he had
been concerned with erroneous notions that some may have held and
advocated; now he turns directly to his addressees.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">John
calls the Christians, my little children. That is what we really are, sons of God. In this, John is expressing the Christians relationship
with the Father. The desire of the heart of the Christian must be to
sin not. If we commit a sin and confess it, Jesus will represent us
to the Father.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">This
does not, however, mean that we continually sin, which would be a
sinful way of life. If we live continually in sin, we have chosen
darkness over Light.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">My
little children</span></span></span></span><b><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
(</span></span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="text-decoration: none;">τεκνία
μου</span></span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="text-decoration: none;">)</span></span></span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>Τεκνίον</b></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">,
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">little</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">child</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">,
diminutive of </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>τέκνον</b></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">child</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">,
occurs in John 8:33; 1Jhn. 2:12, 2:28; 3:7, 3:18; 4:4; 5:21. This
particular phrase is found only here best texts omit </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx">me<span style="color: #292f33; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> in 1Jn. 3:18). Used as a term of affection, or possibly with
reference to the writer's advanced age. Compare Christ's word,
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>παιδία</b></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">children</span></span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="color: #292f33; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
(John 21:5) which John also uses (1Jhn. 2:13, 2:18). In the familiar
story of John and the young convert who became a robber, it is
related that the aged apostle repaired to the robber's haunt, and
that the young man, on seeing him, took to flight. John, forgetful of
his age, ran after him, crying: O my son why dost thou fly from me
thy father? Thou, an armed man, - I, an old, defenseless one! Have
pity upon me! </span><span style="color: #292f33; font-family: Accordance;">My son</span><span style="color: #292f33; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"> </span>does<span style="font-family: Accordance;"> not fear! There is still hope of life for
thee. I wish myself to take the burden of all before Christ. If it is
necessary, I will die for thee, as Christ died for us. Stop! Believe!
It is Christ who sends me.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">I </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;">write.</span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">More
personal than </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">we</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">write</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
(1Jhn. 1:4), and thus better suiting the form of address, </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">my</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">little</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">children</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">ye
sin not...</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
This is the purpose and demand of the gospel (Mat. 1:21; Rom.
6:16-23; 8:1-13; Gal. 5:16-26; Col. 3:5-10; Tit. 2:11-12).</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Accordance; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">if
any man...</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx">
We do not sin if we walk in the light (1Jhn. 1:7, 1:9), but if one
does fall into sin, he still has hope: he can confess sin and be
cleansed again (1Jhn. 1:9; Gal. 4:19.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span style="font-family: Accordance; font-size: large;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">If
any man sin, we have</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">The
change from the indefinite third person, </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">any</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">man</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">,
to the first person, </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">we</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">have</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">,
is significant. By the </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">we</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">have</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="color: #292f33; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">,
John assumes the possibility of sinful acts on the part of
Christians, and of himself in common with them, and their common need
of the intervention of the divine Advocate. </span>So,<span style="color: #292f33; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Augustine: He said,
not '</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">ye</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">
have,' nor 'ye have </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">me</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">,'
nor '</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">ye</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">
have Christ himself;' but he put </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">Christ</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">,
not </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">himself</span></span></span></span></span><span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="color: #292f33; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">,
and </span><span style="color: #292f33;">said,</span><span style="color: #292f33; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> '</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">we</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">
have,' and not '</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">ye</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">
have.' He preferred to place himself in the number of sinners, so
that he might have Christ for his advocate, rather than to put
himself as the advocate instead of Christ, and to be found among the
proud who are destined to condemnation.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">advocate
with the...</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
Three things Christ is to believers:</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="zxx">1.
Greek: </span><span lang="zxx"><b>parakletos</b></span><span lang="zxx">,
a Helper; Advocate (see, John 14:26)</span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">2.
The Righteous One, having suffered, the just for the unjust (1Jhn.
2:1; 1Pet. 3:18; 1Cor. 1:30; 2Cor. 5:14-21)</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="text-decoration: none;">3.
Greek: </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>hilasmos</b></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="text-decoration: none;">,
the atoning sacrifice for sins (1Jhn. 2:2; 4:10) </span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span lang="zxx">a</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">dvocate
means intercessor, or comforter. This is the only mention of this
word.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">An
advocate (</span></span></span></span></span></span></b><b><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">παράκλητον</span></span></span></span></span></span></b><b><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">)</span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">Only
in John's Gospel and First Epistle (John 14:16, 14:26; 15:26; 16:7;
1Jhn. 2:13. From </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>παρά</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">,
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">to</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">the</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">side</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">of</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">,
and </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>καλέω</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">,
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">to</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">summon</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">.
Hence, originally, </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">one</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">who</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">is</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">called</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">to</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">another's</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">side</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">to</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">aid</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">him</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">,
as an advocate in a court of justice. The later, Hellenistic use of
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>παρακαλεῖν</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">and
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>παράκλησις</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">,
to denote </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">the</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">act</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">of</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">consoling</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">
and </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">consolation</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">,
gave rise to the rendering </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">Comforter</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">,
which is given in every instance in the Gospel, but is changed to
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">advocate</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">
in 1Jhn. 2:1, agreeably to its uniform signification in classical
Greek. The argument in favor of this rendering </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">throughout</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">
is conclusive. It is urged that the rendering </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">Comforter</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">
is justified by the fact that, in its original sense, it means more
than a mere </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">consoler</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">,
being derived from the Latin </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">confortare</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">,
to </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">strengthen</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">,
and that the Comforter is therefore one who strengthens the cause and
the courage of his client at the bar: but, as Bishop Lightfoot
observes, the history of this interpretation shows that it is not
reached by this process, but grew out of a grammatical error, and
that therefore this account can only be accepted as an apology after
the fact, and not as an explanation of the fact. The Holy Spirit is,
therefore, by the word </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>παράκλητος</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">,
of which </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>Paraclete</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">
is a transcription, represented as our </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">Advocate</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">
or </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">Counsel</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">,
who suggests true reasonings to our minds, and true courses of action
for our lives, who convicts our adversary, the world, of wrong, and
pleads our cause before God our Father. It is to be noted that </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">Jesus</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">
as well as the </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">Holy</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">Spirit</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">is</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">
represented as </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>Paraclete</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">.
The Holy Spirit is to be </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">another</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>Paraclete</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">,
and this falls in with the statement in the First Epistle, we have an
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">advocate</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">
with God, even </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">Jesus</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">Christ</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">.
Compare Rom. 8:26. See on Luke 6:24. Note also that the word </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">another</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">
is </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>ἄλλον</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">,
and not </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>ἕτερον</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">,
which means </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">different</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">.
The advocate who is to be sent is not </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">different</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">
from Christ, but </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">another</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">
similar to Himself.</span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx">See on
John 14:16.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">With
the Father</span></span></span></span><b><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">
(</span></span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">πρὸς
τὸν πατέρα</span></span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">)</span></span></span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">See
on </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">with</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">God</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">,
John 1:1. An active relation is indicated. On the terms </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">the</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
Father and </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">my</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
Father, see on John 4:21.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The
righteous, </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx">just<span style="color: #292f33; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b> (</b></span></span></span></span></span><b style="color: #292f33; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">δίκαιος</span></span></span></span></span></span></b><b style="color: #292f33; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">)</span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Rev.,
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">righteous</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">.
From </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>δίκη</b></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">right</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">.
The term is applied both to God and to Christ. See Rev. 16:5; John
17:25; 1Jhn. 2:1; 3:7; 1Pet. 3:18. The two words, </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">faithful</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
and </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">righteous</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">,
imply each other. They unite in a true conception of God's character.
God, who is absolute </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">rightness</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">,
must be </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">faithful</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
to His own nature, and His righteous dealing with men who partake of
that nature and walk in fellowship with Him, is simply fidelity to
Himself. Righteousness is truth passing into action (Westcott).</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Compare
righteous, 1Jhn. 1:9. There is no article in the Greek. </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Jesus</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Christ</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">righteous</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span style="color: black; font-size: large;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Although
a Christian must continually acknowledge and confess sin (1:9), he is
not powerless against it. Fulfilling the duty of confession does not
give license to sin. Sin can and should be conquered through the
power of the Holy Spirit.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">John
16:7 translates advocate as Helper, literally one called alongside.
Perhaps a modern concept of the term would be a defense attorney.
Although Satan prosecutes believers’ night and day before the
Father due to sin (Rev. 12:10), Christ’s High-Priestly ministry
guarantees not only sympathy but also acquittal (Heb. 4:14-16).</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">Then,
as if suddenly fired by a great thought, St. John’s view broadens
over the whole world beyond the limits of the comparatively little
group of believers whom his words at that time could reach. The
Incarnation and Atonement have been before his soul. The Catholic
Church is the correlative of the first, humanity of the second. The
Paraclete whom he beheld is ever in relation with, ever turned
towards, the Father. His propitiation is, and He is it. It was not
simply a fact in history which works on with unexhaustible force. As
the Advocate is ever turned towards the Father, so the propitiation
lives on with unexhausted life. His intercession is not verbal,
temporary, interrupted. The Church, in her best days, never prayed Jesus, pray for me! It is interpretative, continuous,
unbroken. In time it is eternally valid, eternally present. In space
it extends as far as human need, and therefore takes in every place.
Not for our sins only, but for men universally, for the whole world.
It is implied then in this passage, that Christ was intended as a
propitiation for the whole world; and that He is fitted for
satisfying all human wants.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">(1)
Christ was intended for the whole world. Let us see the Divine
intention in one incident of the crucifixion. In that are mingling
lines of glory and of humiliation. The King of humanity appears with
a scarlet camp mantle flung contemptuously over His shoulders; but to
the eye of faith, it is the purple of empire. He is crowned with the
acanthus wreath; but the wreath of mockery is the royalty of our
race. He is crucified between two thieves; but His cross is a
Judgment Throne, and at His right hand and His left are the two
separated worlds of belief and unbelief. All the Evangelists tell us
that a superscription, a title of accusation, was written over His
cross; two of them add that it was written over Him in letters of
Greek, and Latin, and Hebrew or in Hebrew, Greek, Latin. In
Hebrew-the sacred tongue of patriarchs and seers, of the nation all
whose members were in idea and destination those of whom God said, My
prophets. In Greek-the musical and golden tongue which gave a soul to
the objects of sense and a body to the abstractions of philosophy;
the language, of a people whose mission it was to give a principle of
fermentation to all races of mankind, susceptible of those subtle and
largely indefinable influences which are called collectively
Progress. In Latin-the dialect of a people originally the strongest
of all the sons of men. The three languages represent the three races
and their ideas-revelation, art, literature: progress, war, and
jurisprudence. Beneath the title is the thorn-crowned head of the
ideal King of humanity.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">Wherever
these three tendencies of the human race exist, wherever annunciation
can be made in human language, wherever there is a heart to sin, a
tongue to speak, an eye to read, the cross has a message. The
superscription, written in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin, is the
historical symbol translated into its dogmatic form by St. John -He
is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for
the whole world.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="CENTER" lang="zxx" style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>EXTENT
OF THE ATONEMENT</b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">Of
the Incarnation of the Word, of the whole previous strain of solemn
oracular annunciation, there are two great objects. Rightly
understood, it at once stimulates and soothes; it supplies
inducements to holiness, and yet quiets the accusing heart.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">(1)
It urges to a pervading holiness in each recurring circumstance of
life. That ye may not sin is the bold universal language of the
morality of God. Men only understand moral teaching when it comes
with a series of monographs on the virtues, sobriety, chastity, and
the rest. Christianity does not overlook these, but it comes first
with all-inclusive principles. The morality of man is like the
sculptor working line by line and part by part, partially and
successively. The morality of God is like nature and works in every
part of the flower and tree with a sort of ubiquitous presence. These
things write we unto you. No dead letter-a living spirit infuses the
lines; there is a deathless principle behind the words which will
vitalize and permeate all isolated relations and developments of
conduct. These things write we unto you that ye may not sin.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">(2)
But further, this announcement also soothes. There may be isolated
acts of sin against the whole tenour of the higher and nobler life.
There may be, God forbid! - but it may be-some glaring act of
inconsistency. In this case the Apostle uses a form of expression
which includes himself, we have, and yet points to Christ, not to
himself, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ-and that
in view of His being One who is perfectly and simply righteous; "and
He is the propitiation for our sins.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Some
of John’s readers might have thought his insistence on the
sinfulness of Christians somehow would discourage holiness. The
opposite was John’s intention as he affirmed: </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">My
dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin.</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">He
addressed them affectionately as an apostle with a fatherly concern
(The Gr. word for children dear is not in the Gr. is </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>teknia</b></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
lit., little born ones, used seven times by John in this epistle
[1Jhn. 2:1, 2:12, 2:28; 3:7, 3:18; 4:4; 5:21] and once in his Gospel
[John 13:33]. A similar word </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>tekna</b></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
born ones occurs in John 1:12; 11:52; 1Jhn. 3:2, 3:10 [twice]; 1Jhn.
5:2; 2Jhn. 1:1, 1:4, 1:13; and 3Jhn. 1:4. On the other hand </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>paidia</b></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
children occurs only twice in 1Jhn. 2:13, 2:18].)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="color: #292f33; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The
statements in 1Jhn. 1:8, 1:10 about believers’ sinful tendencies do
not encourage sin; they actually put perceptive Christians on guard
against it. If a believer tries to make the claims denounced in 1Jhn.
1:8 and 1Jhn. 1:10, then he is most likely to fail to recognize and
reject sin. But sin is nevertheless a reality, however much John
wished his readers would not commit it. </span>Accordingly,<span style="color: #292f33; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> he assured them, </span></span></span></span></span><span><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="color: #292f33;">but</span><span style="color: #292f33; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> if anybody does sin, we have One who speaks to the Father in our
defense - Jesus Christ the Righteous One.</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
John did not want his readers to sin, but he knew that none of them
was perfect and that all would need the help available from their
Advocate.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">The
words One who speaks… in our defense” translate a single term
</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>paraklēton</b></span></span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="color: #292f33; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Accordance;">It's</span><span style="color: #292f33; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Accordance;"> essential meaning is captured by the KJV’s familiar Advocate.
John is the only New Testament writer to use it of the Holy Spirit
four times in his Gospel: John 14:16, 14:26; 15:26; 16:7). In these
four verses the NIV renders it Counselor each time (cf. KJV’s
Comforter). The thought here in 1Jhn. 2:1 is of a defense attorney
who takes up the case of his client before a tribunal. The way in
which the advocacy of the Lord Jesus works for His sinning people is
admirably illustrated in His prayer for Peter (Luke 22:31-32). In
anticipation of Peter’s approaching denial, Jesus asked the Father
to prevent Peter’s faith from collapsing. He also had in mind
Peter’s future helpfulness to his Christian brethren. There is no
reason to suppose that Christ must ask God to keep a Christian from
going to hell as a result of his sin. Eternal life is fully
guaranteed to those who have trusted Jesus for it (John 3:16; 5:24;
etc.). But the consequences of a believer’s failure, his
restoration, and future usefulness are all urgent matters which Jesus
takes up with God when sin occurs. His own personal righteousness He
is the Righteous One; cf. 1Jhn. 1:9, God </span>is just<span style="color: black; font-family: Accordance;"> what uniquely
suits Christ for His role as a Christian’s Advocate after he sins.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>End Times Prophecy: Are You Prepared?http://www.blogger.com/profile/05192451197130838894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1562564139613851589.post-9353769053855330492024-01-22T16:26:00.000-08:002024-01-22T16:26:15.328-08:00Book of Joel Chapter 1 Vs. 10<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">An Invasion of Locusts </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>The
field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new
wine is dried up, the oil languisheth. Joel 1:10</b></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The
field is ... By the locust, that eats up all green things, the grass
and herbs, the fruit and leaves of trees.</span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="he-IL" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="zxx"><b>שָׂדַי
שָׂדֶה</b></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>śâdeh
śâday</b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>saw-deh',
saw-dah'ee</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">From
an unused root meaning to </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">spread</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">
out; a </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">field</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">
(as </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">flat</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">):
- country, field, ground, land, soil, X wild.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="he-IL" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="zxx"><b>שָׁדַד</b></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>shâdad</b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>shaw-dad'</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">A
primitive root; properly to </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">be
burly</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">,
that is, (figuratively) </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">powerful</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">
(passively </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">impregnable</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">);
by implication to </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">ravage:
- </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">dead,
destroy (-er), oppress, robber, spoil (-er), X utterly, (lay) waste.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">the
land mourneth... Being destitute, nothing growing upon it, and so
looked dismally, and of a horrid aspect; or the inhabitants of it,
for want of provision.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">for
the corn... By the locusts, and so by the Assyrian or Chaldean army,
before it came to perfection.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="he-IL" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>אֲדָמָה</b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>'ădâmâh</b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>ad-aw-maw'</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">From
H119; </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">soil</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">
(from its general </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">redness</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">):
- country, earth, ground, husband [-man] (-ry), land.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="he-IL" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="zxx"><b>אָבַל</b></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>'âbal</b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>aw-bal'</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">A
primitive root; to </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">bewail:
- </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">lament,
mourn.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">the
new wine... In the grape, through the drought after mentioned: or, is
ashamed; not answering the expectations of men, who saw it in the
cluster, promising much, but failed.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="he-IL" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>תִּירֹשׁ
תִּירוֹשׁ</b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>tı̂yrôsh
tı̂yrôsh</b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>tee-roshe',
tee-roshe'</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">From
H3423 in the sense of </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">expulsion</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">;
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">must</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">
or fresh grape juice (as just </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">squeezed</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">
out); by implication (rarely) fermented </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">wine:
- </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">(new,
sweet) wine.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">the
oil languisheth... Or sickens; the olive trees withered; the olives
fell off, as the Targum, and so the oil failed. The corn, wine, and
oil, are particularly mentioned, not only as being the chief support
of human life, as Kimchi observes, and so the loss of them must be
matter of lamentation to the people in general.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="he-IL" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>יִצְהָר</b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" lang="zxx" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>yitshâr</b></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>yits-hawr'</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0.09in; margin-top: 0.09in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">From
H6671; </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">oil</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">
(as producing </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">light</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">);
figuratively </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">anointing:
- </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">+
anointed, oil.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">But
because of these the meat and drink offerings were, and therefore the
priests in particular had reason to mourn.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">The
offering stopped, because of the failure of the crops. We will study
in the book of Isaiah that much of the devastation was from natural
causes.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;">Isa.
24:3 "The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled:
for the LORD hath spoken this word."</span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><br />
</span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Accordance;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="zxx">The
destruction of the crops (grain, grapes, and olive oil, Joel 1:10;
cf. Hos. 2:22) had left the priests who served in the house of the
Lord without the essentials for the daily grain offerings </span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>minḥâh</b></span></span><span lang="zxx">,
which included flour and oil (cf. Num. 28:5), and drink offerings
</span><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>nesek</b></span></span><span lang="zxx">,
which included wine (cf. Exo. 29:40; Num. 28:7).</span></span></span></span></p>End Times Prophecy: Are You Prepared?http://www.blogger.com/profile/05192451197130838894noreply@blogger.com0