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- 1 Timothy 5:9

A widow
Χήρα (Chēra)
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 5503: Feminine of a presumed derivative apparently from the base of chasma through the idea of deficiency; a widow, literally or figuratively.

should be enrolled
καταλεγέσθω (katalegesthō)
Verb - Present Imperative Middle or Passive - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 2639: To enter in a list, register, enroll. From kata and lego; to lay down, i.e. to enrol.

if she is
γεγονυῖα (gegonuia)
Verb - Perfect Participle Active - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 1096: A prolongation and middle voice form of a primary verb; to cause to be, i.e. to become, used with great latitude.

[at least]
ἔλαττον (elatton)
Adjective - Accusative Neuter Singular - Comparative
Strong's 1640: Less, smaller; poorer, inferior. Or elatton el-at-tone'; comparative of the same as elachistos; smaller.

sixty
ἑξήκοντα (hexēkonta)
Adjective - Genitive Neuter Plural
Strong's 1835: Sixty. The tenth multiple of hex; sixty.

years [old],
ἐτῶν (etōn)
Noun - Genitive Neuter Plural
Strong's 2094: A year. Apparently a primary word; a year.

[the] wife
γυνή (gynē)
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 1135: A woman, wife, my lady. Probably from the base of ginomai; a woman; specially, a wife.

of one
ἑνὸς (henos)
Adjective - Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong's 1520: One. (including the neuter Hen); a primary numeral; one.

man,
ἀνδρὸς (andros)
Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong's 435: A male human being; a man, husband. A primary word; a man.

- It corresponds to a woman who is really a widow !

- She must be 60 or more !

- Married to one man !

- We understand that a young widow can care for herself !

- And her marital status must be clear !
 
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1 Timothy 5:10

[and] well known
μαρτυρουμένη (martyroumenē)
Verb - Present Participle Middle or Passive - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 3140: To witness, bear witness, give evidence, testify, give a good report. From martus; to be a witness, i.e. Testify.

for
ἐν (en)
Preposition
Strong's 1722: In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc.

good
καλοῖς (kalois)
Adjective - Dative Neuter Plural
Strong's 2570: Properly, beautiful, but chiefly good, i.e. Valuable or virtuous.

deeds
ἔργοις (ergois)
Noun - Dative Neuter Plural
Strong's 2041: From a primary ergo; toil; by implication, an act.

[such as]
εἰ (ei)
Conjunction
Strong's 1487: If. A primary particle of conditionality; if, whether, that, etc.

bringing up children,
ἐτεκνοτρόφησεν (eteknotrophēsen)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 5044: To bring up children, rear young. From a compound of teknon and trepho; to be a childrearer, i.e. Fulfil the duties of a female parent.

entertaining strangers,
ἐξενοδόχησεν (exenodochēsen)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 3580: To entertain strangers, practice hospitality. From a compound of xenos and dechomai; to be hospitable.

washing
ἔνιψεν (enipsen)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 3538: To wash; mid. I wash my own (hands, etc.). To cleanse; ceremonially, to perform ablution.

[the] feet
πόδας (podas)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Plural
Strong's 4228: The foot. A primary word; a 'foot'.

of the saints,
ἁγίων (hagiōn)
Adjective - Genitive Masculine Plural
Strong's 40: Set apart by (or for) God, holy, sacred. From hagos; sacred.

imparting relief
ἐπήρκεσεν (epērkesen)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 1884: To aid, relieve, do service, render help, be strong enough for. From epi and arkeo; to avail for, i.e. Help.

to the afflicted,
θλιβομένοις (thlibomenois)
Verb - Present Participle Middle or Passive - Dative Masculine Plural
Strong's 2346: (a) I make narrow (strictly: by pressure); I press upon, (b) I persecute, press hard. Akin to the base of tribos; to crowd.

[and]
εἰ (ei)
Conjunction
Strong's 1487: If. A primary particle of conditionality; if, whether, that, etc.

devoting herself to
ἐπηκολούθησεν (epēkolouthēsen)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 1872: To follow close after, accompany, dog; I imitate, pursue, be studious of. From epi and akoloutheo; to accompany.

every
παντὶ (panti)
Adjective - Dative Neuter Singular
Strong's 3956: All, the whole, every kind of. Including all the forms of declension; apparently a primary word; all, any, every, the whole.

good
ἀγαθῷ (agathō)
Adjective - Dative Neuter Singular
Strong's 18: A primary word; 'good'.

work.
ἔργῳ (ergō)
Noun - Dative Neuter Singular
Strong's 2041: From a primary ergo; toil; by implication, an act.




- She must have a good reputation !
 
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1 Timothy 5:11

But
δὲ (de)
Conjunction
Strong's 1161: A primary particle; but, and, etc.

refuse [to enroll]
παραιτοῦ (paraitou)
Verb - Present Imperative Middle or Passive - 2nd Person Singular
Strong's 3868: From para and the middle voice of aiteo; to beg off, i.e. Deprecate, decline, shun.

younger
Νεωτέρας (Neōteras)
Adjective - Accusative Feminine Plural - Comparative
Strong's 3501: (a) young, youthful, (b) new, fresh.

widows.
χήρας (chēras)
Noun - Accusative Feminine Plural
Strong's 5503: Feminine of a presumed derivative apparently from the base of chasma through the idea of deficiency; a widow, literally or figuratively.

For
γὰρ (gar)
Conjunction
Strong's 1063: For. A primary particle; properly, assigning a reason.

when
ὅταν (hotan)
Conjunction
Strong's 3752: When, whenever. From hote and an; whenever; also causatively inasmuch as.

their passions draw them away
καταστρηνιάσωσιν (katastrēniasōsin)
Verb - Aorist Subjunctive Active - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 2691: To grow wanton towards. From kata and streniao; to become voluptuous against.

from Christ,
Χριστοῦ (Christou)
Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong's 5547: Anointed One; the Messiah, the Christ. From chrio; Anointed One, i.e. The Messiah, an epithet of Jesus.

they will want
θέλουσιν (thelousin)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 2309: To will, wish, desire, be willing, intend, design.

to marry,
γαμεῖν (gamein)
Verb - Present Infinitive Active
Strong's 1060: To marry, used of either sex. From gamos; to wed.

- But younger widows must not be put on the list !




https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/δέ

Particle​

δέ • (dé) (discourse particle)

  1. but, and

Conjunction​

δέ • (dé)

  1. but, and
https://www.billmounce.com/greek-dictionary/de

Statistics

Frequency in New Testament:

2792

Morphology of Biblical Greek Tag:

particle

Gloss:

but, and, then, rather

Definition:

a conjunctive particle, marking the superaddition of a clause, whether in opposition or in continuation, to what has preceded, and it may be variously rendered but, on the other hand, and, also, now, etc.; καὶ δέ, when there is a special superaddition in continuation, too, yea, etc. It sometimes is found at the commencement of the apodosis of a sentence, Acts 11:17. It serves also to mark the resumption of an interrupted discourse, 2 Cor. 2:10; Gal. 2:6




- Here we get opposition or continuation to what has preceded !

- Thus it is completely connected !
 
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https://www.ancientgreekkeyboard.com/grammar-practice/present-middle-imperative-verb-endings.html

- Present middle imperative verb test :

The « present tense » of Present Middle Imperatives refers not to time but to the aspect of the orders. In short, present Middle Imperatives are commands that are expected to be followed not once, but as an ongoing process.

For example, a doctor might tell a patient, « Eat less fatty food ! » In this exhortation, the doctor is issuing an order which should always be folloed. (ie : it is not an order that is to be folloed one time and then forgotten about.)

- So this tense is to give an order !

- Thus refuse (to enroll) younger widows !
 
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Verb - Aorist Subjunctive Active :

What is aorist subjunctive active?


It is an action without history or continuation. A "pure form". A definite outcome that will happen as a result of another stated action.



- Thus it has nothing to do with past but with the future !

- it will happen !

- their passions draw them away (it will happen in the future)

- from Christ,
Χριστοῦ (Christou)
Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular

https://www.billmounce.com/greek-dictionary/katastreniao

Forms of the word

Dictionary:

καταστρηνιάω

Greek transliteration:

katastrēniaō

Simplified transliteration:

katastreniao

Principal Parts:

-, κατεστρηνίασα, -, -, -

Numbers

Strong's number:

2691

GK Number:

2952

Statistics

Frequency in New Testament:

1

Morphology of Biblical Greek Tag:

cv-1d(1b)

Gloss:

to be filled with desires that conflict with dedication to someone

Definition:

to be headstrong, or wanton towards, 1 Tim. 5:11*



- Thus to be filled with desires that conflict with dedication to Christ !



- As a consequence,



- they will want
θέλουσιν (thelousin)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 2309: To will, wish, desire, be willing, intend, design.

- to marry,
γαμεῖν (gamein)
Verb - Present Infinitive Active
Strong's 1060: To marry, used of either sex. From gamos; to wed.



- Thus Paul only speaks about the necessity of widows who really need to be cared for, not the widows who are younger and who are going to marry again !

- Paul is practical !

- We must remember he is a tent maker !

- And his activity is connected to effectiveness !
 
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1 Timothy 5:12

[and thus] will incur
ἔχουσαι (echousai)
Verb - Present Participle Active - Nominative Feminine Plural
Strong's 2192: To have, hold, possess. Including an alternate form scheo skheh'-o; a primary verb; to hold.

judgment
κρίμα (krima)
Noun - Accusative Neuter Singular
Strong's 2917: From krino; a decision ('crime').

because
ὅτι (hoti)
Conjunction
Strong's 3754: Neuter of hostis as conjunction; demonstrative, that; causative, because.

they are setting aside
ἠθέτησαν (ēthetēsan)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 114: From a compound of a and a derivative of tithemi; to set aside, i.e. to disesteem, neutralize or violate.

[their]
τὴν (tēn)
Article - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

first
πρώτην (prōtēn)
Adjective - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's 4413: First, before, principal, most important. Contracted superlative of pro; foremost.

faith.
πίστιν (pistin)
Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's 4102: Faith, belief, trust, confidence; fidelity, faithfulness.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ἔχω#Ancient_Greek




Noun​

πῐ́στῐς • (pístis) f (genitive πῐ́στεως or πῐ́στῐος); third declension

  1. trust in others, faith
  2. belief in a higher power, faith
  3. the state of being persuaded of something: belief, confidence, assurance
  4. trust in a commercial sense: credit
  5. faithfulness, honesty, trustworthiness, fidelity
  6. that which gives assurance: treaty, oath, guarantee
  7. means of persuasion: argument, proof
  8. that which is entrusted



Adjective​

πρῶτος • (prôtos) m (feminine πρώτη, neuter πρῶτον); first/second declension

  1. first
  2. earliest
  3. foremost, most prominent
  4. (mathematics) prime



Verb​

ἔχω • (ékhō)

  1. I have, possess, contain, own
  2. I keep, have charge of
  1. I hold fast, grip
  • (with infinitive) I have means to do, I am able
  1. I have to, must
  • (followed by a dependent clause) I know
  1. I hold fast
  • (with genitive) I keep from
  • I am
  • (with adverbs of manner) I am, I happen
  • (with εὖ and genitive of manner) I am well off for something; I abound in it
  • (post-Homeric, with aorist participle) I keep (doing something)
  • (middle) I hold myself fast, cling closely to
  1. I come next to, follow closely, neighbour
  1. I am connected with by etymology
  1. (with accusative) I repel from myself
- And thus will incur judgment !

- because they are setting aside their first faith !

- Again the the tense verb is Aorist Indicative Active !

- Thus again it has nothing to do with past but with the future !

https://www.billmounce.com/greek-dictionary/atheteo

Dictionary:

ἀθετέω

Greek transliteration:

atheteō

Simplified transliteration:

atheteo

Principal Parts:

ἀθετήσω, ἠθέτησα, -, -, -

Numbers

Strong's number:

114

GK Number:

119

Statistics

Frequency in New Testament:

16

Morphology of Biblical Greek Tag:

v-1d(2a)

Gloss:

to reject, set aside

Definition:

pr. to displace, set aside; to abrogate, annul, violate, swerve from; reject, condemn
 
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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:

  • 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"
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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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52) CAIN and ABEL


- The first two sons of Adam and eve are Cain and Abel!


- Abel became a shepherd of the flock, but Cain became a cultivator of the ground.


- After some time, Cain brought some fruits of the land as an offering to God. But Abel brought some firstlings of his flock, including their fat.


- While God looked with favor on Abel and on his offering, he did not look with any favor on Cain and on his offering.


- So Cain grew hot with anger and was dejected.


- Then God said to Cain: “Why are you so angry and dejected? If you turn to doing good, will you not be restored to favor? But if you do not turn to doing good, sin is crouching at the door, and its craving is to dominate you; but will you get the mastery over it?”


- After that Cain said to his brother Abel: “Let us go over into the field.” So while they were in the field, Cain assaulted his brother Abel and killed him.

- Cain went the wrong way!


- God told him to change his way!


- But he kept going the wrong way!


- As a consequence, he killed his brother!


- That’s man’s reality!


- We see the same history everywhere in the Bible, especially with the Israelites!


- And God warned them again and again so many times that it is ridiculous for them!


- And humanity keeps doing the same!


- And look at where we are and where we are going!
 
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yes, living in America we are very sheltered, especially since we have a great ocean between us and the rest of the other places of horror and evil around the world.
 
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Speak Light said:
yes, living in America we are very sheltered, especially since we have a great ocean between us and the rest of the other places of horror and evil around the world.
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What is the homicide rate in the United States?



America's high homicide rate - N-IUSSP


Introduction. Among advanced developed countries, the United States has the highest homicide rate: 7.8 per 100,000 population in 2020. Most others, including Germany, France, Italy, Japan, Spain and the United Kingdom, have homicide rates that are a fraction of this level (Figure 1).6 feb 2023

America's high homicide rate - N-IUSSP​

 
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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?

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  • 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.

__________________________________________________________________________

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) NOAH

- After Noah reached 500 years of age, he became father to Shem, Ham, and Japheth!

- He was a righteous man!

- He was a faithful servant of God!

- But the earth was filled with violence!

- Everything was corrupted!

- So God decided to destroy humanity except Noah and his family!

- Think of that: Only Noah found favor in the eyes of God!

- Think about what will happen when Jesus comes back to clean the earth!

- That’s why it is important to read all the Bible not to forget!

- And if we forget or we don’t care that’s our responsibility!

- God told Noah to build an ark!

- He did exactly what God told him!

- Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters came upon the earth!

- Once again, only Noah and his family found favor in God’s eyes!

- What a shame for all humanity!

- A lot to think about!
 
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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.

__________________________________________________________________________

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) Abraham

- Chapter 11-12

- Abram’s wife Sarai was barren; she had no child!

- Terah took Abram his son and Lot his grandson, the son of Haran, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, the wife of Abram his son, and they went with him out of Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan. In time they came to Haran and began dwelling there. The days of Terah were 205 years. Then Terah died in Haran.

- God told Abram to go to Canaan!

- So Abram was 75 when he left haran and he left with his whole family!

- They went to Sheshem and God told him that he would give his offspring the land of Canaan!

- Because of the famine, Abram went to Egypt!

- Abram told his wife to say to the Egyptians that she was his sister so he would stay alive!

- Sarai was brought to Pharaoh’s house!

- But God struck Pharaoh because of Sarai!

- So Pharaoh gave back Sarai to Abram and he left!
 
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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?

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  • 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!
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  • 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?


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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!
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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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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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55) ABRAHAM

Chapter 13

- Abraham went out of Egypt to the Negeb and Bethel!

- Lot was with him!

- Both had too much livestock for the land!

- So Abraham told Lot a place to go and Abraham went to another place!

- And Lot went to live in Sodom!

- Now the men of Sodom were wicked, gross sinners against God!

- God told Abraham that he was going to give him the land he was living in!
 
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Somebody says :




A bad translations tells us that God Gave Abraham all of the land that he had walk upon and seen. However, Stephen in Acts 7 states that Abraham received no portion in the Land of Canaan, even to rest his foot upon. If we correctly understand the Hebrew text, then a very different conclusion is reached as how verse Genesis 13:14-15 should be paraphrased in English.

However, if we consider the Hebrew text and correctly translate into English so that the same context is found in both, then the English translation should read in this fashion: -

Genesis 13:14-15: - 14 And the Lord said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him: "Lift your eyes now and look from the place where you are — northward, southward, eastward, and westward; 15 for all the earth which you see, {that (entity)}, I will give to your descendants for a long period of time whose ending, which is beyond man’s comprehension, is at the vanishing point, {of this particular time period}, in the future.[1]

In Genesis 12:1-3 we find that God promised Abraham the whole earth and not a skimpy/small piece of ground.

Genesis 12:1-3: - 12:1 Now the Lord had said[1] to Abram:[2]


"Get out of your country,

From your family

And from your father's house,

To an earth that I will show you.

2 I will make you a great nation;

I will bless you

And make your name great;

And you shall be a blessing.

3 I will bless those who bless you,

And I will curse him who curses you;

And through you all the families of the ground/land/fertile fields [3] shall be blessed."


How our understanding changes when we read a good/better translation.

[1] The Lord called Abram while he was in Ur (see Gen 15:7; Acts 7:2); but the sequence here makes it look like it was after the family left to migrate to Canaan (11:31-32). Genesis records the call of Abram at this place in the narrative because it is the formal beginning of the account of Abram. The record of Terah was brought to its end before the narrative of Abraham begins.
[2] The call of Abram begins with an imperative לֶךְ־ לְךָ֛ (lekh-l®kha, "go out") followed by three cohortatives (v. 2 a) indicating purpose or consequence ("that I may" or "then I will"). If Abram leaves, then God will do these three things. The second imperative (v. 2 b, literally "and be a blessing") is subordinated to the preceding cohortatives and indicates God's ultimate purpose in calling and blessing Abram. On the syntactical structure of vv. 1-2 see R. B. Chisholm, "Evidence from Genesis," A Case for Premillennialism, 37. For a similar sequence of volitive forms see Gen 45:18.
It would be hard to overestimate the value of this call and this divine plan for the theology of the Bible. Here begins God's plan to bring redemption to the world. The promises to Abram will be turned into a covenant in Gen 15 and 22 (here it is a call with conditional promises) and will then lead through the Bible to the work of the Messiah.
[3] The Hebrew Root of הָאֲדָמָֽה, H:0127, has the meaning of soil, and is akin to a fertile field/face of the land/world.
Genesis 2:7: –– 7 And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.
One could argue that what is being said here is that all of the peoples of the world that occupy God’s fertile field/ground will be blessed. The flip side of this covenant is that all of the people who do not occupy God’s fertile field/ground will be cursed.

[1] Another way of saying this verse might be: - “15 for all the earth which you see, that entity, I will give to your descendants for a long period of time where the end point of that time period, will be beyond your descendants capacity to comprehend when the possession of the described land will end.
 
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1) My answer :

- Have a look at Exodus 3:8:

I have come down

וָאֵרֵ֞ד (wā·’ê·rêḏ)

Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - first person common singular

Strong's 3381: To come or go down, descend




to rescue

לְהַצִּיל֣וֹ ׀ (lə·haṣ·ṣî·lōw)

Preposition-l | Verb - Hifil - Infinitive construct | third person masculine singular

Strong's 5337: To strip, plunder, deliver oneself, be delivered, snatch away, deliver




them from

מִן־ (min-)

Preposition

Strong's 4480: A part of, from, out of




the hand

מִיַּ֣ד (mî·yaḏ)

Preposition-m | Noun - feminine singular construct

Strong's 3027: A hand




of the Egyptians

מִצְרַ֗יִם (miṣ·ra·yim)

Noun - proper - feminine singular

Strong's 4713: Egyptian -- inhabitant of Egypt




and to bring them

וּֽלְהַעֲלֹתוֹ֮ (ū·lə·ha·‘ă·lō·ṯōw)

Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l | Verb - Hifil - Infinitive construct | third person masculine singular

Strong's 5927: To ascend, in, actively




up out of that

הַהִוא֒ (ha·hi·w)

Article | Pronoun - third person feminine singular

Strong's 1931: He, self, the same, this, that, as, are




land

הָאָ֣רֶץ (hā·’ā·reṣ)

Article | Noun - feminine singular

Strong's 776: Earth, land




to

אֶל־ (’el-)

Preposition

Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to




a good

טוֹבָה֙ (ṭō·w·ḇāh)

Adjective - feminine singular

Strong's 2896: Pleasant, agreeable, good




and spacious

וּרְחָבָ֔ה (ū·rə·ḥā·ḇāh)

Conjunctive waw | Adjective - feminine singular

Strong's 7342: Wide, broad




land,

אֶ֤רֶץ (’e·reṣ)

Noun - feminine singular

Strong's 776: Earth, land




a land

אֶ֛רֶץ (’e·reṣ)

Noun - feminine singular

Strong's 776: Earth, land




flowing

זָבַ֥ת (zā·ḇaṯ)

Verb - Qal - Participle - feminine singular construct

Strong's 2100: To flow freely, to have a, flux, to waste away, to overflow




with milk

חָלָ֖ב (ḥā·lāḇ)

Noun - masculine singular

Strong's 2461: Milk




and honey—

וּדְבָ֑שׁ (ū·ḏə·ḇāš)

Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular

Strong's 1706: Honey, syrup




the home

מְק֤וֹם (mə·qō·wm)

Noun - masculine singular construct

Strong's 4725: A standing, a spot, a condition




of the Canaanites,

הַֽכְּנַעֲנִי֙ (hak·kə·na·‘ă·nî)

Article | Noun - proper - masculine singular

Strong's 3669: Canaanite -- inhabitant of Canaan




Hittites,

וְהַ֣חִתִּ֔י (wə·ha·ḥit·tî)

Conjunctive waw, Article | Noun - proper - masculine singular

Strong's 2850: Hittite -- a Chittite




Amorites,

וְהָֽאֱמֹרִי֙ (wə·hā·’ĕ·mō·rî)

Conjunctive waw, Article | Noun - proper - masculine singular

Strong's 567: Amorites -- perhaps 'mountain dwellers', a Canaanite tribe




Perizzites,

וְהַפְּרִזִּ֔י (wə·hap·pə·riz·zî)

Conjunctive waw, Article | Noun - proper - masculine singular

Strong's 6522: Perizzite -- a people in the land of Canaan




Hivites,

וְהַחִוִּ֖י (wə·ha·ḥiw·wî)

Conjunctive waw, Article | Noun - proper - masculine singular

Strong's 2340: Hivite -- a Chivvite




and Jebusites.

וְהַיְבוּסִֽי׃ (wə·hay·ḇū·sî)

Conjunctive waw, Article | Noun - proper - masculine singular

Strong's 2983: Jebusite -- inhabitant of Jebus




- If you have a look at the definition of the word, it can mean both the Earth or a land!

- This is the same word for the land of Egypt

- It is spoken as a good and spacious land !

- A land flowing with milk and honey !

- But above all, it is the land of the canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites !

- So it is definitely a precise place !

- This is an essential chapter because there Yah.weh explains the meaning of his personal name which is the tetragram !

- And the fact he has no other name !

- And it means the God of the promise or of the promises, the one that always keeps his promises !
 
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