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49) God and Daniel / Daniel and God


Daniel 7:


- First, Daniel has a dream and visions!


- Then he writes down the dream!


- He records a complete account of the matters!


- He is a civil servant!


- He is used to doing things according to a particular procedure!


- Thus he gives all the details!


- Moreover, it comes from God!


- And what he sees is not usual!

- And it is certainly not pleasant!


- His spirit is distressed because the visions frighten him!


- He is the only one who receives such visions!


- Even his three companions don’t receive such visions!


- It means Daniel is really precious to God!


- It is a privilege!
 

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EXODUS 3:15

YAH.WEH THE GOD OF YOUR FATHERS – THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, THE GOD OF ISAAC, AND THE GOD OF JACOB – HAS SENT ME TO YOU.
THIS IS MY NAME FOREVER, AND THIS IS HOW I AM TO BE REMEMBERED IN EVERY GENERATION IN EVERY GENERATION.

__________________________________________________________________________

Jesus had siblings :

- Guess what: the Bible is the history of the Israelites!
- Each page tells you that!
- Each story tells you that!
- Each family tells you that!
- The book of Adam's story tells you that!

____________________________________________________________

  • Remember:
  • Daniel is a great example of integrity!
  • His example shows the importance of an education where Yah·weh is omnipresent!
  • An education which leads to an accurate knowledge of the Bible away from today’s corruption!
  • So different from today’s world!
  • But accurate knowledge doesn’t occur by chance!
  • It means hard work and regularity and being 100% active not passive!
  • Yah.weh answered Daniel’s prayer by saying rebuilding followed by the destruction of Jerusalem!

__________________________________________________________________________

Remember:

  • If you think like today’s people, you will never understand the Bible!
  • They used to write differently!
  • They used to speak differently!
  • They used to think differently!
  • They used to act differently!
__________________________________________________________________________

Remember:

Biblical Hebrew has a very small number of words, about 8,000, and around 1,700 of those words are hapax legomena (being said once) in the Hebrew Bible. Modern Hebrew has about 100,000 words. For comparison modern English has over 450,000 words, and Spanish has just over 175,000 words. Standard English dictionaries typically have about 200,000 words, whereas Spanish dictionaries have about 80,000 words.

This means words often have multiple meanings determined by context.

Although yom is commonly rendered as day in English translations, the word yom can be used in different ways to refer to different time spans:


  • Point of time (a specific day)
  • time period of a whole or half a day:
    • Period of light (as contrasted with the period of darkness),
    • Sunrise to sunset
    • Sunset to next sunset
  • General term for time ( as in 'days of our lives')
  • A year "lived a lot of days"
  • Time period of unspecified length. "days and days"
__________________________________________________________________________

The Greek language is ranked as the richest in the world with 5 million words and 70 million word types. According to Dr. MacDonald, only 600,000 Greek words are used today, making the Greek vocabulary the largest in the world and 3.5 times bigger than the English vocabulary.

Though there are 138,607 words in the Greek New Testament, only 5,394 are unique.

__________________________________________________________________________
 

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50) God and Daniel / Daniel and God


Daniel 8:


- Daniel has a vision!


- He tries to understand it!


- He hears the voice of a man!


- This man talks to him!


- Daniel is so terrified that he falls facedown!


- He falls asleep!


- The man wakes him up!


- Daniel is exhausted and is sick for a few days!


- Each time Daniel has a vision it is as if the scene occurs before him!


- As if it was real!


- Daniel is at the same time inside and outside the vision!


Thus we get more information about the depth of his relationship with God!

- It is really deep, really close!


- Daniel is able to visualize scenes very few people have the opportunity to see!- it is not given to everybody!


- When we think about Daniel’s life, we understand why!


- It questions oneself about the depth of our relationship to God and about where it is going!


- Do we build it up or not?
 

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EXODUS 3:15

YAH.WEH THE GOD OF YOUR FATHERS – THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, THE GOD OF ISAAC, AND THE GOD OF JACOB – HAS SENT ME TO YOU.
THIS IS MY NAME FOREVER, AND THIS IS HOW I AM TO BE REMEMBERED IN EVERY GENERATION IN EVERY GENERATION.

__________________________________________________________________________

Jesus had siblings :

- Guess what: the Bible is the history of the Israelites!
- Each page tells you that!
- Each story tells you that!
- Each family tells you that!
- The book of Adam's story tells you that!

____________________________________________________________

  • Remember:
  • Daniel is a great example of integrity!
  • His example shows the importance of an education where Yah·weh is omnipresent!
  • An education which leads to an accurate knowledge of the Bible away from today’s corruption!
  • So different from today’s world!
  • But accurate knowledge doesn’t occur by chance!
  • It means hard work and regularity and being 100% active not passive!
  • Yah.weh answered Daniel’s prayer by saying rebuilding followed by the destruction of Jerusalem!

__________________________________________________________________________

Remember:

  • If you think like today’s people, you will never understand the Bible!
  • They used to write differently!
  • They used to speak differently!
  • They used to think differently!
  • They used to act differently!
__________________________________________________________________________

Remember:

Biblical Hebrew has a very small number of words, about 8,000, and around 1,700 of those words are hapax legomena (being said once) in the Hebrew Bible. Modern Hebrew has about 100,000 words. For comparison modern English has over 450,000 words, and Spanish has just over 175,000 words. Standard English dictionaries typically have about 200,000 words, whereas Spanish dictionaries have about 80,000 words.

This means words often have multiple meanings determined by context.

Although yom is commonly rendered as day in English translations, the word yom can be used in different ways to refer to different time spans:


  • Point of time (a specific day)
  • time period of a whole or half a day:
    • Period of light (as contrasted with the period of darkness),
    • Sunrise to sunset
    • Sunset to next sunset
  • General term for time ( as in 'days of our lives')
  • A year "lived a lot of days"
  • Time period of unspecified length. "days and days"
__________________________________________________________________________

The Greek language is ranked as the richest in the world with 5 million words and 70 million word types. According to Dr. MacDonald, only 600,000 Greek words are used today, making the Greek vocabulary the largest in the world and 3.5 times bigger than the English vocabulary.

Though there are 138,607 words in the Greek New Testament, only 5,394 are unique.

__________________________________________________________________________
 

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51) God and Daniel / Daniel and God


Daniel 9:


- Here Daniel is not making the usual daily prayer!


- It is about the rebuilding of Jerusalem!


- Thus for Daniel it is really important!


- Thus he prepares himself by fasting and sackcloth and ashes!


- It appears like a ceremony!


- He starts by magnifying God: “the true God, the great and awe-inspiring One, who keeps his covenant and shows loyal love to those who love him and keep his commandments!


- And as usual Israel hasn’t been playing its part of the relationship!


- Thus many don’t do anything and then they think that God is going to listen to them!


- Once again, man’s way is far away from God’s way!


- And we just have to open the bible and read it carefully again and again!

- It doesn’t work if we open the Bible from time to time saying I don’t understand anything!


- When we take all the faithful servants of God in the Bible, their relationship with God is a strong connection based on mutual efforts!

- And when Daniel prays to God about Israel’s sins which are countless, he always says “we” even if he has a special relationship with God!


- He speaks about the responsibility of Israel as a people!


- And he feels guilty because of what Israel did against God!


- Here he doesn’t take into account the fact that he has a privileged position!


- And he is clear about the shame of all the Israelites because of their countless sins!


- And they did everything wrong!


- And Daniel doesn’t have to wait long for getting an answer!


- He is called “very precious”!


- And he is told that Jerusalem will be rebuilt but also destroyed again as the Messiah will be cut off!


- And we know why!
 

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  • Maybe you remember that Yah.weh prevented David from building his temple because he was a soldier and he spent a big part of his life making war!
  • Jesus clearly said a Christian can’t do that!
  • In fact, everything we hear in the first part of the Bible has nothing but nothing to do with what a Christian must or mustn’t do!
  • THUS WHEN PEOPLE USE THE FIRST PART OF THE BIBLE TO JUSTIFY ANY PRACTICE IS TOTALLY WRONG AND HAS NOTHING BUT NOTHING TO DO WITH JESUS’ TEACHING!
  • I CAN’T EVEN IMAGINE HOW IT IS POSSIBLE TO THINK ABOUT IT!
__________________________________________________________________________

EXODUS 3:15

YAH.WEH THE GOD OF YOUR FATHERS – THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, THE GOD OF ISAAC, AND THE GOD OF JACOB – HAS SENT ME TO YOU.
THIS IS MY NAME FOREVER, AND THIS IS HOW I AM TO BE REMEMBERED IN EVERY GENERATION IN EVERY GENERATION.

__________________________________________________________________________

Jesus had siblings :

- Guess what: the Bible is the history of the Israelites!
- Each page tells you that!
- Each story tells you that!
- Each family tells you that!
- The book of Adam's story tells you that!

____________________________________________________________

  • Remember:
  • Daniel is a great example of integrity!
  • His example shows the importance of an education where Yah·weh is omnipresent!
  • An education which leads to an accurate knowledge of the Bible away from today’s corruption!
  • So different from today’s world!
  • But accurate knowledge doesn’t occur by chance!
  • It means hard work and regularity and being 100% active not passive!
  • Yah.weh answered Daniel’s prayer by saying rebuilding followed by the destruction of Jerusalem!

__________________________________________________________________________

Remember:

  • If you think like today’s people, you will never understand the Bible!
  • They used to write differently!
  • They used to speak differently!
  • They used to think differently!
  • They used to act differently!
__________________________________________________________________________

Remember:

Biblical Hebrew has a very small number of words, about 8,000, and around 1,700 of those words are hapax legomena (being said once) in the Hebrew Bible. Modern Hebrew has about 100,000 words. For comparison modern English has over 450,000 words, and Spanish has just over 175,000 words. Standard English dictionaries typically have about 200,000 words, whereas Spanish dictionaries have about 80,000 words.

This means words often have multiple meanings determined by context.

Although yom is commonly rendered as day in English translations, the word yom can be used in different ways to refer to different time spans:


  • Point of time (a specific day)
  • time period of a whole or half a day:
    • Period of light (as contrasted with the period of darkness),
    • Sunrise to sunset
    • Sunset to next sunset
  • General term for time ( as in 'days of our lives')
  • A year "lived a lot of days"
  • Time period of unspecified length. "days and days"
__________________________________________________________________________

The Greek language is ranked as the richest in the world with 5 million words and 70 million word types. According to Dr. MacDonald, only 600,000 Greek words are used today, making the Greek vocabulary the largest in the world and 3.5 times bigger than the English vocabulary.

Though there are 138,607 words in the Greek New Testament, only 5,394 are unique.

__________________________________________________________________________
 

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Daniel 10:


- As usual before a special event, here is a vision, Daniel prepares himself!


- He has been mourning for three full weeks!


- No rich food, no meat or wine, no oil on himself!

- Then he gets the vision!


- he is with other men but he is the only one to see the vision!


- The others have a great tremor and run away and hide!


- He has no power left in him!


- His dignified appearance leaves him!


- He loses all his strength!


- It is not something usual but extraordinary!


- And the man in the vision speaks to him!


- And once again he is called a very precious man!


- And he keeps trembling!
 

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  • Maybe you remember that Yah.weh prevented David from building his temple because he was a soldier and he spent a big part of his life making war!
  • Jesus clearly said a Christian can’t do that!
  • In fact, everything we hear in the first part of the Bible has nothing but nothing to do with what a Christian must or mustn’t do!
  • THUS WHEN PEOPLE USE THE FIRST PART OF THE BIBLE TO JUSTIFY ANY PRACTICE IS TOTALLY WRONG AND HAS NOTHING BUT NOTHING TO DO WITH JESUS’ TEACHING!
  • I CAN’T EVEN IMAGINE HOW IT IS POSSIBLE TO THINK ABOUT IT!
__________________________________________________________________________

EXODUS 3:15

YAH.WEH THE GOD OF YOUR FATHERS – THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, THE GOD OF ISAAC, AND THE GOD OF JACOB – HAS SENT ME TO YOU.
THIS IS MY NAME FOREVER, AND THIS IS HOW I AM TO BE REMEMBERED IN EVERY GENERATION IN EVERY GENERATION.

__________________________________________________________________________

Jesus had siblings :

- Guess what: the Bible is the history of the Israelites!
- Each page tells you that!
- Each story tells you that!
- Each family tells you that!
- The book of Adam's story tells you that!

____________________________________________________________

  • Remember:
  • Daniel is a great example of integrity!
  • His example shows the importance of an education where Yah·weh is omnipresent!
  • An education which leads to an accurate knowledge of the Bible away from today’s corruption!
  • So different from today’s world!
  • But accurate knowledge doesn’t occur by chance!
  • It means hard work and regularity and being 100% active not passive!
  • Yah.weh answered Daniel’s prayer by saying rebuilding followed by the destruction of Jerusalem!

__________________________________________________________________________

Remember:

  • If you think like today’s people, you will never understand the Bible!
  • They used to write differently!
  • They used to speak differently!
  • They used to think differently!
  • They used to act differently!
__________________________________________________________________________

Remember:

Biblical Hebrew has a very small number of words, about 8,000, and around 1,700 of those words are hapax legomena (being said once) in the Hebrew Bible. Modern Hebrew has about 100,000 words. For comparison modern English has over 450,000 words, and Spanish has just over 175,000 words. Standard English dictionaries typically have about 200,000 words, whereas Spanish dictionaries have about 80,000 words.

This means words often have multiple meanings determined by context.

Although yom is commonly rendered as day in English translations, the word yom can be used in different ways to refer to different time spans:


  • Point of time (a specific day)
  • time period of a whole or half a day:
    • Period of light (as contrasted with the period of darkness),
    • Sunrise to sunset
    • Sunset to next sunset
  • General term for time ( as in 'days of our lives')
  • A year "lived a lot of days"
  • Time period of unspecified length. "days and days"
__________________________________________________________________________

The Greek language is ranked as the richest in the world with 5 million words and 70 million word types. According to Dr. MacDonald, only 600,000 Greek words are used today, making the Greek vocabulary the largest in the world and 3.5 times bigger than the English vocabulary.

Though there are 138,607 words in the Greek New Testament, only 5,394 are unique.

__________________________________________________________________________
 

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53) God and Daniel / Daniel and God


Daniel 11- 12


- Daniel tells us all the details of the vision!


- Then he talks about a dialogue!


- And finally he is told about a cleansing and a whitening and a refinement and about understanding!


- And the wicked will keep acting wickedly and won’t understand!


- Another warning to be taken seriously by those who want to be refined!


- And not seriously by those who don’t want to be refined!


- Only two options!


- And one personal choice!


- Which includes a personal relationship to God or not!


- Then everything is clear for those who understand and for those who don’t want to understand!
 

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  • Remember Eleazar the priest: HE TOOK A SPEAR AND HE KILLED THE ISRAELITE AND THE MIDIANITE WOMAN WHO WERE COMMITTING IMMORALITY IN FRONT OF ALL THE ISRAELITES WHEN THEY WERE WEEPING!

  • WITH ONE ACTION HE STOPPED THE SCOURGE AGAINST
ISRAEL AND YAH.WEH’S ANGER WENT AWAY!

  • BUT 24,000 DIED!

- WHAT ABOUT US?

____________________________________________________________

  • Many people think they read the Bible but when you listen to them, it is clear they don’t read it!
  • THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY TO READ THE BIBLE: TO TELL THE PEOPLE ABOUT WHAT YOU READ!
  • IT DOESN’T MATTER IF YOU MAKE MISTAKES!
  • YOU MUST DO IT AGAIN AND AGAIN, THEN YOU WILL START TO LEARN ABOUT THE BIBLE!
____________________________________________________________
  • In Luke 19, Jesus tells us an interesting illustration about God’s kingdom!
  • An important man must go to a distant land to secure kingly power!
  • To his ten slaves he gives money to do business with it till he comes back!
  • When he comes back, he wants to know what his slaves have done with their business activity!
  • According to what they have done he gives them authority over cities!
  • BUT ONE SLAVE HASN’T DONE ANYTHING!
  • And he takes what he gave to this slave and gives it to the one who did the best job!
  • SO THOSE WHO HAVE MORE WILL BE GIVEN!
  • BUT THOSE WHO DON’T HAVE IT WILL BE TAKEN AWAY WHAT THEY HAVE!
  • What about you?

_______________________________________________________

  • Maybe you remember that Yah.weh prevented David from building his temple because he was a soldier and he spent a big part of his life making war!
  • Jesus clearly said a Christian can’t do that!
  • In fact, everything we hear in the first part of the Bible has nothing but nothing to do with what a Christian must or mustn’t do!
  • THUS WHEN PEOPLE USE THE FIRST PART OF THE BIBLE TO JUSTIFY ANY PRACTICE IS TOTALLY WRONG AND HAS NOTHING BUT NOTHING TO DO WITH JESUS’ TEACHING!
  • I CAN’T EVEN IMAGINE HOW IT IS POSSIBLE TO THINK ABOUT IT!
__________________________________________________________________________

EXODUS 3:15

YAH.WEH THE GOD OF YOUR FATHERS – THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, THE GOD OF ISAAC, AND THE GOD OF JACOB – HAS SENT ME TO YOU.
THIS IS MY NAME FOREVER, AND THIS IS HOW I AM TO BE REMEMBERED IN EVERY GENERATION IN EVERY GENERATION.

__________________________________________________________________________

Jesus had siblings :

- Guess what: the Bible is the history of the Israelites!
- Each page tells you that!
- Each story tells you that!
- Each family tells you that!
- The book of Adam's story tells you that!

____________________________________________________________

  • Remember:
  • Daniel is a great example of integrity!
  • His example shows the importance of an education where Yah·weh is omnipresent!
  • An education which leads to an accurate knowledge of the Bible away from today’s corruption!
  • So different from today’s world!
  • But accurate knowledge doesn’t occur by chance!
  • It means hard work and regularity and being 100% active not passive!
  • Yah.weh answered Daniel’s prayer by saying rebuilding followed by the destruction of Jerusalem!

__________________________________________________________________________

Remember:

  • If you think like today’s people, you will never understand the Bible!
  • They used to write differently!
  • They used to speak differently!
  • They used to think differently!
  • They used to act differently!
__________________________________________________________________________

Remember:

Biblical Hebrew has a very small number of words, about 8,000, and around 1,700 of those words are hapax legomena (being said once) in the Hebrew Bible. Modern Hebrew has about 100,000 words. For comparison modern English has over 450,000 words, and Spanish has just over 175,000 words. Standard English dictionaries typically have about 200,000 words, whereas Spanish dictionaries have about 80,000 words.

This means words often have multiple meanings determined by context.

Although yom is commonly rendered as day in English translations, the word yom can be used in different ways to refer to different time spans:


  • Point of time (a specific day)
  • time period of a whole or half a day:
    • Period of light (as contrasted with the period of darkness),
    • Sunrise to sunset
    • Sunset to next sunset
  • General term for time ( as in 'days of our lives')
  • A year "lived a lot of days"
  • Time period of unspecified length. "days and days"
__________________________________________________________________________

The Greek language is ranked as the richest in the world with 5 million words and 70 million word types. According to Dr. MacDonald, only 600,000 Greek words are used today, making the Greek vocabulary the largest in the world and 3.5 times bigger than the English vocabulary.

Though there are 138,607 words in the Greek New Testament, only 5,394 are unique.

__________________________________________________________________________
 

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54) A very precious man and a top official


Daniel 1: But Daniel resolves in his heart that he doesn’t want to defile himself with the king’s delicacies or with the wine he drinks.


- Resolute: admirably purposeful, determined and unwavering!


- Daniel is definitely resolute or determined!


- He wants to keep his traditions, his faith, he doesn’t want to contaminate himself mentally and physically!


- Thus he always knows where he goes!


- He will keep his direction whatever may happen!


- Thus he can stay strong!


- He has deep roots!


- He won’t be destabilized by a big storm or a tsunami!
 

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  • Remember Eleazar the priest: HE TOOK A SPEAR AND HE KILLED THE ISRAELITE AND THE MIDIANITE WOMAN WHO WERE COMMITTING IMMORALITY IN FRONT OF ALL THE ISRAELITES WHEN THEY WERE WEEPING!

  • WITH ONE ACTION HE STOPPED THE SCOURGE AGAINST
ISRAEL AND YAH.WEH’S ANGER WENT AWAY!

  • BUT 24,000 DIED!

- WHAT ABOUT US?

____________________________________________________________

  • Many people think they read the Bible but when you listen to them, it is clear they don’t read it!
  • THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY TO READ THE BIBLE: TO TELL THE PEOPLE ABOUT WHAT YOU READ!
  • IT DOESN’T MATTER IF YOU MAKE MISTAKES!
  • YOU MUST DO IT AGAIN AND AGAIN, THEN YOU WILL START TO LEARN ABOUT THE BIBLE!
____________________________________________________________
  • In Luke 19, Jesus tells us an interesting illustration about God’s kingdom!
  • An important man must go to a distant land to secure kingly power!
  • To his ten slaves he gives money to do business with it till he comes back!
  • When he comes back, he wants to know what his slaves have done with their business activity!
  • According to what they have done he gives them authority over cities!
  • BUT ONE SLAVE HASN’T DONE ANYTHING!
  • And he takes what he gave to this slave and gives it to the one who did the best job!
  • SO THOSE WHO HAVE MORE WILL BE GIVEN!
  • BUT THOSE WHO DON’T HAVE IT WILL BE TAKEN AWAY WHAT THEY HAVE!
  • What about you?

_______________________________________________________

  • Maybe you remember that Yah.weh prevented David from building his temple because he was a soldier and he spent a big part of his life making war!
  • Jesus clearly said a Christian can’t do that!
  • In fact, everything we hear in the first part of the Bible has nothing but nothing to do with what a Christian must or mustn’t do!
  • THUS WHEN PEOPLE USE THE FIRST PART OF THE BIBLE TO JUSTIFY ANY PRACTICE IS TOTALLY WRONG AND HAS NOTHING BUT NOTHING TO DO WITH JESUS’ TEACHING!
  • I CAN’T EVEN IMAGINE HOW IT IS POSSIBLE TO THINK ABOUT IT!
__________________________________________________________________________

EXODUS 3:15

YAH.WEH THE GOD OF YOUR FATHERS – THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, THE GOD OF ISAAC, AND THE GOD OF JACOB – HAS SENT ME TO YOU.
THIS IS MY NAME FOREVER, AND THIS IS HOW I AM TO BE REMEMBERED IN EVERY GENERATION IN EVERY GENERATION.

__________________________________________________________________________

Jesus had siblings :

- Guess what: the Bible is the history of the Israelites!
- Each page tells you that!
- Each story tells you that!
- Each family tells you that!
- The book of Adam's story tells you that!

____________________________________________________________

  • Remember:
  • Daniel is a great example of integrity!
  • His example shows the importance of an education where Yah·weh is omnipresent!
  • An education which leads to an accurate knowledge of the Bible away from today’s corruption!
  • So different from today’s world!
  • But accurate knowledge doesn’t occur by chance!
  • It means hard work and regularity and being 100% active not passive!
  • Yah.weh answered Daniel’s prayer by saying rebuilding followed by the destruction of Jerusalem!

__________________________________________________________________________

Remember:

  • If you think like today’s people, you will never understand the Bible!
  • They used to write differently!
  • They used to speak differently!
  • They used to think differently!
  • They used to act differently!
__________________________________________________________________________

Remember:

Biblical Hebrew has a very small number of words, about 8,000, and around 1,700 of those words are hapax legomena (being said once) in the Hebrew Bible. Modern Hebrew has about 100,000 words. For comparison modern English has over 450,000 words, and Spanish has just over 175,000 words. Standard English dictionaries typically have about 200,000 words, whereas Spanish dictionaries have about 80,000 words.

This means words often have multiple meanings determined by context.

Although yom is commonly rendered as day in English translations, the word yom can be used in different ways to refer to different time spans:


  • Point of time (a specific day)
  • time period of a whole or half a day:
    • Period of light (as contrasted with the period of darkness),
    • Sunrise to sunset
    • Sunset to next sunset
  • General term for time ( as in 'days of our lives')
  • A year "lived a lot of days"
  • Time period of unspecified length. "days and days"
__________________________________________________________________________

The Greek language is ranked as the richest in the world with 5 million words and 70 million word types. According to Dr. MacDonald, only 600,000 Greek words are used today, making the Greek vocabulary the largest in the world and 3.5 times bigger than the English vocabulary.

Though there are 138,607 words in the Greek New Testament, only 5,394 are unique.

__________________________________________________________________________
 

JLG

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55) A very precious man and a top official


Daniel 1: And the true God caused the principal court official to show Daniel favor and mercy!


- Faithful: remaining loyal and steadfast!


- Daniel is faithful to God who blesses him!

- He always walks with God!


- God is present in all his life!

- Communicating with God is a necessity!


- Being faithful to God helps him stay a rock!


- Resolute and faithful are deeply connected!
 

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- First I don't teach people!

- I read the Bible and I tell people about what I learn!

- When they ask me questions, I try to answer them!

- When it is possible to have a discussion, we have a discussion!

- If you look at the titles of my threads, I speak about the books of the Bible and especially about the faithful servants of Yah.weh!

- When it is different, it is because many people repeat the same arguments without knowing so I have to show how it works!

- It is necessary to check!

- About John 1:1, it is necessary to check through the Gospel of John about the use of the definite article or not!

- About Jesus' siblings, it is necessary to check the vocabulary used and the context in the different Gospels!

- About the reality of translations, it is necessary to analyze them!

- Before publishing a message, I usually publish the same information connected to the usual mistakes people make!


- Or important facts which must be remembered !


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  • Remember Eleazar the priest: HE TOOK A SPEAR AND HE KILLED THE ISRAELITE AND THE MIDIANITE WOMAN WHO WERE COMMITTING IMMORALITY IN FRONT OF ALL THE ISRAELITES WHEN THEY WERE WEEPING!

  • WITH ONE ACTION HE STOPPED THE SCOURGE AGAINST
ISRAEL AND YAH.WEH’S ANGER WENT AWAY!

  • BUT 24,000 DIED!

- WHAT ABOUT US?

____________________________________________________________

  • Many people think they read the Bible but when you listen to them, it is clear they don’t read it!
  • THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY TO READ THE BIBLE: TO TELL THE PEOPLE ABOUT WHAT YOU READ!
  • IT DOESN’T MATTER IF YOU MAKE MISTAKES!
  • YOU MUST DO IT AGAIN AND AGAIN, THEN YOU WILL START TO LEARN ABOUT THE BIBLE!
____________________________________________________________
  • In Luke 19, Jesus tells us an interesting illustration about God’s kingdom!
  • An important man must go to a distant land to secure kingly power!
  • To his ten slaves he gives money to do business with it till he comes back!
  • When he comes back, he wants to know what his slaves have done with their business activity!
  • According to what they have done he gives them authority over cities!
  • BUT ONE SLAVE HASN’T DONE ANYTHING!
  • And he takes what he gave to this slave and gives it to the one who did the best job!
  • SO THOSE WHO HAVE MORE WILL BE GIVEN!
  • BUT THOSE WHO DON’T HAVE IT WILL BE TAKEN AWAY WHAT THEY HAVE!
  • What about you?

_______________________________________________________

  • Maybe you remember that Yah.weh prevented David from building his temple because he was a soldier and he spent a big part of his life making war!
  • Jesus clearly said a Christian can’t do that!
  • In fact, everything we hear in the first part of the Bible has nothing but nothing to do with what a Christian must or mustn’t do!
  • THUS WHEN PEOPLE USE THE FIRST PART OF THE BIBLE TO JUSTIFY ANY PRACTICE IS TOTALLY WRONG AND HAS NOTHING BUT NOTHING TO DO WITH JESUS’ TEACHING!
  • I CAN’T EVEN IMAGINE HOW IT IS POSSIBLE TO THINK ABOUT IT!
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EXODUS 3:15

YAH.WEH THE GOD OF YOUR FATHERS – THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, THE GOD OF ISAAC, AND THE GOD OF JACOB – HAS SENT ME TO YOU.
THIS IS MY NAME FOREVER, AND THIS IS HOW I AM TO BE REMEMBERED IN EVERY GENERATION IN EVERY GENERATION.

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Jesus had siblings :

- Guess what: the Bible is the history of the Israelites!
- Each page tells you that!
- Each story tells you that!
- Each family tells you that!
- The book of Adam's story tells you that!

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  • Remember:
  • Daniel is a great example of integrity!
  • His example shows the importance of an education where Yah·weh is omnipresent!
  • An education which leads to an accurate knowledge of the Bible away from today’s corruption!
  • So different from today’s world!
  • But accurate knowledge doesn’t occur by chance!
  • It means hard work and regularity and being 100% active not passive!
  • Yah.weh answered Daniel’s prayer by saying rebuilding followed by the destruction of Jerusalem!

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Remember:

  • If you think like today’s people, you will never understand the Bible!
  • They used to write differently!
  • They used to speak differently!
  • They used to think differently!
  • They used to act differently!
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Remember:

Biblical Hebrew has a very small number of words, about 8,000, and around 1,700 of those words are hapax legomena (being said once) in the Hebrew Bible. Modern Hebrew has about 100,000 words. For comparison modern English has over 450,000 words, and Spanish has just over 175,000 words. Standard English dictionaries typically have about 200,000 words, whereas Spanish dictionaries have about 80,000 words.

This means words often have multiple meanings determined by context.

Although yom is commonly rendered as day in English translations, the word yom can be used in different ways to refer to different time spans:


  • Point of time (a specific day)
  • time period of a whole or half a day:
    • Period of light (as contrasted with the period of darkness),
    • Sunrise to sunset
    • Sunset to next sunset
  • General term for time ( as in 'days of our lives')
  • A year "lived a lot of days"
  • Time period of unspecified length. "days and days"
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The Greek language is ranked as the richest in the world with 5 million words and 70 million word types. According to Dr. MacDonald, only 600,000 Greek words are used today, making the Greek vocabulary the largest in the world and 3.5 times bigger than the English vocabulary.

Though there are 138,607 words in the Greek New Testament, only 5,394 are unique.

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56) A very precious man and a top official


Daniel 1: But the principal court official says to Daniel: “I am afraid of my lord the king, who has assigned your food and drink. What if he should see you looking worse in appearance than the other youths* of your age? You would make me guilty before the king.”


- Daniel is a good listener !


- He takes into account what the principal court official says and his fears !


- Moreover, he listens carefully to God !


- As a consequence, he is the only one to receive visions !


- And he tells these visions with all the details !


- When someone listens carefully to what people say, he shows he cares about their opinions and their feelings !


- So Daniel cares about God and men !


- RESOLUTE / FAITHFUL / GOOD LISTENER !
 

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Daniel 1: But Daniel says to the guardian whom the principal court official has appointed over Daniel, Han·a·niʹah, Mishʹa·el, and Az·a·riʹah: “Please, test your servants for ten days, and let us be given some vegetables to eat and water to drink; then compare our appearance with the appearance of the youths who are eating the king’s delicacies, and deal with your servants according to what you see.”


- Daniel is proactive!


- First he is a good listener and then he proposes a solution adapted to the situation!


- Proactive Attitude (PA) is a personality characteristic which has implications for motivation and action. It is a belief in the rich potential of changes that can be made to improve oneself and one's environment. This includes various facets such as resourcefulness, responsibility, values, and vision !


- Being a good listener and being proactive are connected !


- It’s a combination !


- you have to follow the two steps !


- RESOLUTE / FAITHFUL / GOOD LISTENER / PROACTIVE
 

JLG

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58) A very precious man and a top official


Daniel 1: So the guardian takes away their delicacies and their wine and gives them vegetables. And the true God gives these four youths knowledge and insight into every kind of writing and wisdom; and Daniel is given understanding in all sorts of visions and dreams.


- Once again, Daniel shows how Faithful he is !


- As a consequence, he receives knowledge and insight and wisdom and understanding !


- We can see it is a process !


- Qualities are to be developed !


- It must grow and grow !


- And there is no limit !




- God’s creation keeps growing !


- The universe keeps growing !


- The brain keeps growing if you don’t listen to human society !


- Getting older is a fake !


- We shouldn’t get older !


- There is no limit to the capacities of the brain !


- There is if we stop using it !


- There is no limit to the capacity of creating and developping ideas !


- So if we want to follow God’s example, we need to keep using our brains and being creative !


RESOLUTE / FAITHFUL / GOOD LISTENER / PROACTIVE / FAITHFUL
 

JLG

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59) A very precious man and a top official


Daniel 1: When the king speaks with them, no one in the entire group is found to be like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah; and they continue to serve before the king. In every matter requiring wisdom and understanding that the king asks them about, he finds them ten times better than all the magic-practicing priests and the conjurers in his entire realm. And Daniel remains there until the first year of King Cyrus.


- Again and again, Daniel shows himself faithful !


- That’s his main quality !

- He shines with faithfulness!


- And everybody can see it!

- And he is blessed again and again!


- And his faithfulness keeps growing bigger and bigger!


- it is so big that there is no room for the other people!


- Ten times better!


- And Daniel has visions he can explain!


- RESOLUTE / FAITHFUL / GOOD LISTENER / PROACTIVE / FAITHFUL / FAITHFUL
 

JLG

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60) A very precious man and a top official


Daniel 2:


- King Nebuchadnezzar has a dream!


- He wants the wise men of Babylon to tell him the dream and its interpretation!


- But nobody is able to do it!


- As a consequence, the king orders all the wise men of Babylon to be killed!


- When Daniel hears about it, he discreetly and cautiously speaks to Arioch the chief of the king’s bodyguard, who has gone out to kill the wise men of Babylon!


- Here we get two qualities: Daniel is discreet and cautious!


- Discreet: careful and prudent in one's speech or actions, especially in order to keep something confidential or to avoid embarrassment !


- Cautious: careful to avoid potential problems or dangers !


- Discreet is respectful of privacy or secrecy; quiet; diplomatic while cautious is careful; using or exercising caution; tentative.


- RESOLUTE / FAITHFUL / GOOD LISTENER / PROACTIVE / FAITHFUL / FAITHFUL / DISCREET AND CAUTIOUS
 

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61) A very precious man and a top official


Daniel 2:


He asks Arʹi·och the officer of the king: “Why is there such a harsh order from the king?” Then Arʹi·och informs Daniel about the matter. So Daniel goes in and asks the king to grant him time to tell the interpretation to the king.


- That’s what we call to be resolute !


- He goes straight away to the king !




- He knows what to do and he does it !


- He doesn’t lose time !


- RESOLUTE / FAITHFUL / GOOD LISTENER / PROACTIVE / FAITHFUL / FAITHFUL / DISCREET AND CAUTIOUS / RESOLUTE AND PROACTIVE


- Faithful (3)

- Resolute (2)

- Proactive (2)

- Good listener (1)

- Discreet and cautious (1)
 
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