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What is the Bible about?

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- Let’s start with the book of Matthew !

- In Matthew chapter 1, we are told about Jesus’ genealogy !

- son of (huiou) and noun (genitive)

- Matthew 1:2

Jacob (Iakob) the father (egennesen) of Judah (Ioudan) and (kai) his (autou) brothers (adelphous)

- Matthew 1:11

- And Josiah the father of Jeconiah and (kai) his (autou) brothers (adelphous)

- Matthew 1:16

- And Jacob the father of Joseph, the husband (andra) of mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ

- Matthew 1:18

- This is how the birth of Jesus Christ came about : His mother (metros) Mary was pledged in marriage to Joseph, but before they came together (convene, depart in company with, associate with or cohabit) she was found to be with child through the Holy Spirit.

- Matthew 1:19

- (Because) Joseph her (autes) husband (aner), a righteous man, was unwilling to disgrace her publicly, he resolved to divorce her quietly (secretly).

- Matthew 1:24

When Joseph woke up he did as the angel of (the) Lord had commanded him, and embraced (to receive near, associate with oneself) (Mary as) his (autou) wife (gynaika).

- Matthew 1:25

- (but) he had no union with her ( OR IN OTHER WORDS HE HAD NO SEX WITH HER ) until she gave birth to a Son (huion). And he gave Him the name Jesus.



CONCLUSION OF MATTHEW CHAPTER 1 :



- We have the following words :

- son of (huiou) and noun (genitive)

- the father (egennesen) of

- the father (egennesen) of ... and (kai) his (autou) brothers (adelphous)

- the husband (andra) of

- His mother (metros)

- her (autes) husband (aner)

- his (autou) wife (gynaika)

- a Son (huion)



- (but) he had no union with her ( OR IN OTHER WORDS HE HAD NO SEX WITH HER ) until she gave birth to a Son (huion). And he gave Him the name Jesus.

- Thus Joseph had no sex with Mary until she gave birth to her son meaning he was going to have sex with her after meaning he would have children with her !
 

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Someone says :



And this impotent response does NOT address the fact I presented about the Biblical use of the Greek word, “Adelphos”.

EPIC FAIL on your part . . .
 

JLG

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- My answer :

- I am used to answering people who do as you do !

- That’s what you learned at school !

- Maybe you should go back to school !

- First, you mix Hebrew and Greek !

- I explained in few words it doesn’t work !

- That’s the usual mistake amateurs make !

- Second, you only give figures about the second part of the Bible !

- So what ?

- What about the different contexts ?

- What about the different books ?

- What about the different writers ?

- I am a fact checker !

- I am learning at the same time !

- And people can learn too !

- If I study a point, I do it seriously !

- I have only looked at the first chapter and the last verse contradict what you say !

- And it is only the beginning !

- You are too short man !

- It is too ridiculous !
 

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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!
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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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JLG

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29) Cold or Hot Anger?

  • In numbers chapter 20, Israel is in Kadesh and there is no water!
  • So the people quarrel against Moses and Aaron!
  • Yah.weh tells Moses to get water from the crag!
  • But Moses and Aaron don’t glorify Yah.weh when they strike the crag!
  • They speak in their names not in Yah.weh’s name!
  • As a consequence, Yah.weh tells them they won’t get into the promised land!
  • It shows that we must not let ourselves be influenced by others!
  • We must not let others prevent us from entering the promised land!
  • We can help them but we must help ourselves too!
  • There is too much to lose and too much to win!
 

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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:

  • 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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JLG

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30) Cold or Hot Anger?

  • In Numbers chapter 21, Israel complains and speaks against Moses because of the lack of food and water!
  • So Yah.weh sends poisonous serpents to bite Israel!
  • And many people die!
  • Then Israel asks Moses to speak to Yah.weh to get away with the poisonous serpents!
  • Then Yah.weh tells Moses to make a serpent of copper and the people must look at it to survive!
  • And Yah.weh defeats Israel’s enemies!
 

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2) The siblings of Jesus



Matthew 2:11



- They saw the Child (paidion) with His (autou) mother (metros) Mary (marias)



Matthew 2:13



- Take the Child (paidion) and His (autou) mother (metera)



- For Herod is going to search for the Child (paidion)



Matthew 2:14



- The Child (paidion) and His (autou) mother (metera)

Matthew 2:15



- My (mou) Son (huion)



Matthew 2:20



- The Child (paidion) and His (autou) mother (metera)



- The Child’s (paidiou) life (psychen)



Matthew 2:21



- The child (paidion) and His (autou) mother (metera)



CONCLUSION OF MATTHEW CHAPTER 2 :



- We have the following words :



- The Child (paidion) with His (autou) mother (metros) Mary (marias)



- The Child (paidion) and His (autou) mother (metera) (5 times)



- The Child (paidion)



- My (mou) Son (huion)



- The Child’s (paidiou) life (psychen)



- Thus the expression the Child and his mother appears regularly !
 

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- First of all, in Revelation Chapter 21, we are told about the New Jerusalem coming down out of Heaven !

- It has nothing to do with Israel and its capital city Jerusalem !

- And the extraordinary description shows that it has nothing to do with any human city !

- And Yah.weh and Jesus are its temple !

Now if we look at Revelation 20 : 4-6, we are told about those who are going to be kings with the Christ for the 1,000 years and priests of Yah.weh and of the Christ !

- They have been beheaded for their testimony of Jesus and for the word of God and so on !

- They have nothing to do with the Israelites as a people !

- They are the only ones who are going to be kings and priests !

- Now in Revelation chapter 7, we are told about two groups :

- A small definite group and a big indefinite one !

- The small one will rule and the big one will be ruled !

- And Revelation 14 gives more details !

- And the big one comes from every nation and tribe and tongue and people !

- And they come out of the Great tribulation !
 

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- Those who will be priests and kings and who will rule with Christ for 1,000 years take part in the first resurrection and the second death has no authority on them (revelation 20:4-6) !

- They are killed because of their witness about Jesus and because they speak about God !

- After the 1,000 years the devil will be released to mislead the people on earth before the final war (Revelation 20:7,8) !

- Then the devil will be destroyed (Revelation 20:10) !

- People will be judged (Revelation 20:13) !

- Then death and Hades and those who are not in the book of life will be destroyed (Revelation 20:14,15) ! It is the second death ! Death will completely disappear !
 

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Revelation 22:3

- The throne of God and of the lamb will be within the city, and his servants will worship him (or serve) .

Revelation 22:4

- They will see His face, and His name will be on their foreheads .

Revelation 22:5

- … and they will reign forever and ever .

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- Those who will reign forever and ever have his name on their foreheads !

- So here we have those who will reign forever !

- Those who rule imply those who be ruled !
 

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2)

Revelation 21:3

- ...the dwelling place of God is with man, and he will live with them. They will be His people, and God himself will be with them as their God.

Revelation 21:4

- He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and there will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the formler things have passed away.


Revelation 21:8

- … the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.

Revelation 21:24

- by its light the nations will walk, and into it the kings of the earth will bring their glory.

Revelation 21:27

- … only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life (will enter).

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- Here we are told about God’s people !

- They will walk with God !

- Death will finally disappear !

- We are told about those who are written in the lamb’s book of life !

- Here we are those who will be ruled !
 

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3)

Revelation 20:4

- We are told about those who have been killed or beheaded for their testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, they have not worshipped the beast or its image, and they have not received its mark on their foreheads or hands. And they came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.

Revelation 20:5

- The rest of the dead did not come back to life until the thousand years were complete. This is the first resurrection.

Revelation 20:6

- Those who share 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.

- Then after the 1,000 years and the final war:
Revelation 20:12, 13

- We are told that the dead are judged according to their deeds

Revelation 20 :14

- Death and Hades are thrown into the lake that burns with fire and sulfur meaning that death will disappear forever ! ( This lake means the second death meaning total destruction)

Revelation 22:15

- Those who are not found in the book of like will be thrown into this lake meaning they will be destroyed forever !
 

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4)

Revelation 14 :1

- The 144,000 are with the Lamb on Mount Zion, they have His name and His father’s name written on their foreheads.

Revelation 14:2,3

- They are the only ones who can sing a new song.

- And they have been bought from the earth.

- As firstfruits
 

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5)

Revelation 7:3

- We are told about servants of God with their foreheads sealed.

Revelation 7:4

- This group is definite !

Revelation 7:9

- This group is indefinite !

- A multitude !

- From every nation and tribe and people and tongue !

- They wear white robes and hold palm branches !

Revelation 7:13

- Who are they and where did they come from ?

Revelation 7 :14

- They have come out of the great tribulation !

- They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb !

Revelation 7 :15

- They serve God day and night in his temple !

- They will never hunger nor thirst !

Revelation 7:17

- the Lamb will be their shepherd !

- He will lead them to springs of living water !

- God will wipe away every tear from their eyes !
 

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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.

__________________________________________________________________________

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:

  • 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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31) Cold or Hot Anger?

  • In Numbers 25, we are told about the Israelites committing sexual immorality with the daughters of Moab!
  • And spiritual prostitution with their gods!
  • Once again they oppose God!
  • Once again we have a good example of the consequences of polygamy!
  • And Yahweh becomes enraged with Israel!
  • So Yah.weh tells Moses to hang up on all the leaders of this action!
  • Worse, an Israelite comes with a Midianite woman before Moses and all the Israelites when they are weeping!
  • And Eleazar the priest takes a spear in his hand and pierces both of them through their genital parts!
  • BECAUSE OF HIS ACTION, the scourge is halted with a total of 24,000 dead!
  • ONCE AGAIN, ISRAEL IS SAVED BY THE ACTION OF ONE MAN!
  • OTHERWISE YAH.WEH WOULD HAVE EXTERMINATE THE ISRAELITES!
 

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3) The siblings of Jesus

Matthew 3:9

- We have Abraham (as our) father (patera = accusative)

- Children (tekna) for (to) Abraham (Abraam)

Matthew 3:17

- This is My (mou) Beloved (agapetos) Son (Huios)

CONCLUSION OF MATTHEW CHAPTER 3 :

- We have the following words :

- father (patera = accusative)

- Children (tekna) for (to)

- My (mou) Beloved (agapetos) Son (Huios)
 

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4) The siblings of Jesus



Matthew 4 :6



- (The) Son of God (Huios Theou) = a son of God



Matthew 4:18



- Two brothers, Simon called Peter and his brother Andrew (dyo adelphous Simona legomenon Petron kai autou adelphon Andrean)



Matthew 4:21



- Two other brothers, James (son) of Zebedee and his brother John (dyo allous adelphous Iakobon ton Zebedaiou kai autou adelphon Ioannen)



- With their father Zebedee (meta auton patros Zebedaiou)



CONCLUSION OF MATTHEW CHAPTER 4 :



- We have the following words :



- (The) Son of God (Huios Theou) = a son of God



- Two brothers, Simon called Peter and his brother Andrew (dyo adelphous Simona legomenon Petron kai autou adelphon Andrean)



- Two other brothers, James (son) of Zebedee and his brother John (dyo allous adelphous Iakobon ton Zebedaiou kai autou adelphon Ioannen)



- With their father Zebedee (meta auton patros Zebedaiou)



- Thus here therev is no possible discussion !



- Everything is clear !
 

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5) The siblings of Jesus



Matthew 5:22 (twice)



- his brother (autou adelpho) = A brother, member of the same religious community, especially a fellow-Christian. A brother near or remote.



Matthew 5:24

- Your brother (sou adelpho) = A brother, member of the same religious community, especially a fellow-Christian. A brother near or remote.

Matthew 5 :31



- His wife (autou gynaika) = A woman, wife, my lady. Probably from the base of ginomai; a woman; specially, a wife



Matthew 5:45



- sons of your Father in heaven (huioi tou hymon patros en ouranois)



Matthew 5:47



- your brothers (hymon adelphous) = A brother, member of the same religious community, especially a fellow-Christian. A brother near or remote.



Matthew 5:48



- Your heavenly Father (hymon ouranios Pater)





CONCLUSION OF MATTHEW CHAPTER 5 :



- We have the following words :



- his brother (autou adelpho) = A brother, member of the same religious community, especially a fellow-Christian. A brother near or remote.



- Your brother (sou adelpho) = A brother, member of the same religious community, especially a fellow-Christian. A brother near or remote.



- His wife (autou gynaika) = A woman, wife, my lady. Probably from the base of ginomai; a woman; specially, a wife



- sons of your Father in heaven (huioi tou hymon patros en ouranois)



- your brothers (hymon adelphous) = A brother, member of the same religious community, especially a fellow-Christian. A brother near or remote.



- Your heavenly Father (hymon ouranios Pater)
 
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