Posted on 02/09/2014 9:26:46 AM PST by Errant
Parenthetical clauses are used throughout scripture to explain how, why, when and where in close proximity to the main subject and verb.
Parentheses in the book of The Revelation explain cause and effect. They tie together the events that happen previously, to the events that transpire subsequently on the prophetic timeline. Unfortunately, parentheses, as a literary devise, come centuries after the actual parenthetical clauses so prevalent in both Hebrew and Greek linguistic constructions. Because of their late arrival into the English language, the parentheticals in the book of The Revelation have never been either deservedly researched or accurately articulated. Now, after more than 40 years in the making, The Chronological Gospels is complete with all of the extensive parenthetical clauses accurately assigned throughout the book of The Revelation.
Now, with its impending fulfillment looming large on the horizon, The Revelation can finally be understood with clarity and lived with integrity. This one feature (the parenthetical clauses in The Revelation) in The Chronological Gospels is worth one thousand times the price of the book itself.
Join Michael Rood for the first of the last four teachings on the very last book of the Bible, “Parenthetically Speaking (Before We Are Saved From the Wrath To Come)”.
....”He broke one of the laws? Doesn’t that make him guilty of breaking all of them?”....
(James 2:10 For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.)
Yes, which ‘shows’ that it’s impossible for any to keep even one point of the Law....The Law did there exactly what it was designed to do...”show” us we are sinners and cannot keep the Law...none of it!
And that is the rock and hard place people find themselves in when they ‘add’ the Law to Grace. It’s mixing oil and water which never works.....and breaking that one Law will doom any for they are then indeed guilty of them all. ...No escape.....and if they live by the Law they will surely die by it and fall under the Judgement of God.
Thanks be to God that for those who believe in the ‘finished’ work of Jesus Christ...there is NOW therefore no condemnation to them who are In Christ Jesus. For He nailed the Law and all it’s offences to the Cross....it’s a done deal!
Amen and Amen!
....”I’ve never heard anybody say anything like that”.....
Well if you’d turn off your earphone from the Roody TV and videos, and start listening to those who do know what’s going on you might find yourself informed....
It’s like the liberals who refuse to listen to Fox News or Rush and some of the others who try to inform the people...they’ll never know the truth staying tuned to just the MSM.
....”What more is there to discuss???....It is undeniable”....
Exactly and true...but begs the question... then why do people hold on white knuckled to false teaching when the evidence is so astoundingly clear otherwise?
Is it perhaps because the house of cards they have allowed to be built underneath them is ready to collapse and they know it? Do they not realize the cloud of witnesses waiting around them will soften the fall?
You keep telling us we’re wrong about just about everything we’ve posted and all we keep getting is your unsupported opinion. NEVER any Scripture and never any specifics about what you say we’re wrong about.
Your say so doesn’t count for anything.
Know then that it is those of faith who are the sons of Abraham. And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, “In you shall all the nations be blessed.” So then, those who are of faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith.
For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, “Cursed be everyone who does not abide by all things written in the Book of the Law, and do them.” Now it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law, for “The righteous shall live by faith.” But the law is not of faith, rather “The one who does them shall live by them.” Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree”— so that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we might receive the promised Spirit through faith.
To give a human example, brothers: even with a man-made covenant, no one annuls it or adds to it once it has been ratified. Now the promises were made to Abraham and to his offspring. It does not say, “And to offsprings,” referring to many, but referring to one, “And to your offspring,” who is Christ. This is what I mean: the law, which came 430 years afterward, does not annul a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to make the promise void. For if the inheritance comes by the law, it no longer comes by promise; but God gave it to Abraham by a promise.
Why then the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the offspring should come to whom the promise had been made, and it was put in place through angels by an intermediary. Now an intermediary implies more than one, but God is one.
Is the law then contrary to the promises of God? Certainly not! For if a law had been given that could give life, then righteousness would indeed be by the law. But the Scripture imprisoned everything under sin, so that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.
Now before faith came, we were held captive under the law, imprisoned until the coming faith would be revealed. So then, the law was our guardian until Christ came, in order that we might be justified by faith. But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian, for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith. For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise.
Indeed. I have asked questions to Messianic Jews on the trinity. How they answered me is “ Yeshua is YHWH manifest in the flesh.
Good question all should ask themselves....I have narrowed the passages down to some specific facts...hope you don’t mind...
Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law or by hearing with faith?
Abraham “believed” God........counted to him as righteousness.
Those ‘of faith’ are the sons of Abraham.
God would justify the Gentiles ‘by faith’.
Those who are ‘of faith’ are blessed ‘along with’ Abraham.
All ‘who rely on works’ of the law are under a curse.
It’s ‘evident’ no one is justified before God... by the law.
The righteous shall ‘live by faith’.
The ‘Law is not of faith’.
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law..... by Becoming a curse..... ‘for us’
In Christ Jesus ...the blessing of Abraham to the Gentiles....... so that we receive the promised Spirit... ‘through faith’.
Even with a man-made covenant.... no one annuls it or adds to it ‘once it has been ratified’.
Promises were made to Abraham..... and to his offspring.
It does not say.....”offsprings,”...... referring to many....Referring to “one”......who is Christ..
The Law...... came 430 years afterward...... ‘does not annul a covenant previously ratified by God’.... so as to make the promise void.
Why then the law?
Because of transgressions........ ‘until’ the offspring should come to whom the promise had been made.
If a law had been given that could ‘give life’, then righteousness would indeed be by the law.
Before faith came ....we were held ‘captive’ under the law.... ‘imprisoned’..... ‘until the coming faith would be revealed’.
Now ‘faith has come’.... we are no longer under a guardian.... for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God .....through faith.
There is neither Jew nor Greek
there is neither slave nor free
there is no male and female
You are ‘all’ one in Christ Jesus.
If you are Christ’s.... then you are Abraham’s offspring............. ‘heirs according to promise’.
15 For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
16 “I Jesus have sent Mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches, I am the Root and the Offspring of David, and the bright and morning Star.”
17 And the Spirit and the bride say, Come, And let him that heareth say, Com. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.
18 For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, IF any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:
19 And IF any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.”
The ‘law’ is not what saves us, however, GRACE - salvation, unmerited favor will be withdrawn IF those commandments are ignored. As it is Written.
If you only "find" your error after the date passes and the event doesn't happen, is that really correcting it yourself? And, though he may have "corrected" his prediction, it STILL didn't even happen on the corrected date, did it?
Harold Camping was rightfully ridiculed for predicting a date for the Rapture and then resetting that date several MORE times. When he couldn't get ANY of them right, he finally got out of the prognosticating business. REAL prophets of the Lord are NEVER incorrect - that was one of the major ways the Lord told His people they could tell true ones from false ones.
So, I take it you now DO believe that Jesus is Almighty God incarnate? Why all the argument against it? Describing Almighty God as a "Trinity" is nothing more than using a Latin word which means "three". Scripture says quite clearly that there is only ONE true God. The Father is God, the Son is God, the Holy Spirit is God - three, yet still ONE God. Why in the world would men have ever thought up something like this on a whim? Were it not for God's revelation in Scripture, we wouldn't have any ground to stand on defending it. Those who DENY the Trinity are the ones who have the burden of disproving it from the same Scripture.
As for the Great White Throne Judgment, I have no need to fear for the condition of my feet since it is not going to BE a judgment of the redeemed in Christ. I will have already been judged righteous in the blood of my Savior, Jesus Christ. Thanks for your concern, though.
After all, fantastic claims should be supported by fantastic evidence, right?
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Deconstructing Linus: Portrait of a True Believing Pumpkinist as a Young Man "Each year on Halloween night, the Great Pumpkin rises out of the pumpkin patch that he thinks is the most sincere and flies through the air with his pack of toys for all the good little children in the world." No. This is about sincerity, a subjective standard by any definition. |
I wonder if Linus blames himself every year for not picking the most sincere pumpkin patch for his vigil?
I wonder if other Great Pumpkinists castigate Linus by asserting if he were more in tune with the Spirit of the Great Pumpkin, if he were more prayerful, if he read the Holy Writ of the Great Pumpkin with a greater sincerity, that he could indeed rise to the challenge and, via the Spirit, be lead to choose the most sincere pumpkin patch?
I wonder how many years Linus will feel guilty for this failure and blame himself for receiving no answer no matter how sincere he believes himself to be?
I wonder if Linus ever gets frustrated because there is no objective way to measure sincerity? And if he realizes there is no objective standard for such a thing, I wonder if it ever creeps into his mind that his annual mission is nothing more than mindless busywork?
I wonder, does Linus ever has doubts?
For the time being, however, Linus will put aside his doubts and, perhaps as a means of proving his sincerity, begins to proselyte among his friends for converts. Most shrug him off. But Sally, who has a crush on him, believes Linus and agrees to spend Halloween in Linus’ Pumpkin Patch.
Linus then explains that by using positive language and positive thinking, they may be able to attract the Great Pumpkin to their Patch. He also cautions Sally that negative language and negative thinking will cause the Great Pumpkin to pass them by.
There is no room for doubt when one is a Great Pumpkinist. One should never say if the Great Pumpkin comes but always when the Great Pumpkin comes. "One little slip like that, can cause the Great Pumpkin to pass you by!" It’s hard to imagine a benevolent icon such as the Great Pumpkin punishing TBPs (True Believing Pumkinists) for such a minor infraction, but there you have it.
Sally: The Birth of an Ex-Pumpkinist
Because Sally loves her “sweet baboo” Linus, she sets aside her own Halloween plans of trick-or-treating and a Halloween party in order to spend the evening in the Pumpkin Patch. She converts to Great Pumpkinism because she loves Linus. She respects his opinion. And she wants to make him happy and be supportive. And besides, if it’s really true, WOW! Wouldn’t that be fantastic?
But in the end, the only Being that shows up in the Pumpkin Patch is Snoopy. Linus, believing Snoopy to be the Great Pumpkin, swoons into an ecstatic faint, happy in the knowledge that he has finally deciphered the Great Pumpkin’s standard for sincerity. But, alas, it is a misplaced hope, and when Linus regains consciousness, there is not only no Great Pumpkin there to reward him, there is one upset little girl.
"I was robbed! I spent the whole night waiting for the Great Pumpkin when I could have been out for tricks or treats! Halloween is over and I missed it! You blockhead! You kept me up all night waiting for the Great Pumpkin and all that came was a beagle!"
"I didn't get a chance to go out for tricks or treats! And it was all your fault! I'll sue! What a fool I was. And I could have had candy apples and gum! And cookies and money and all sorts of things! But no, I had to listen to you! You blockhead. What a fool I was. Trick or treats come only once a year. And I missed it by sitting in a pumpkin patch with a blockhead. You owe me restitution!"
Luckily for Sally, she only missed one Halloween. And though she is demanding restitution, because her participation was voluntary, she will never receive said restitution. She’ll simply have to accept the experience as one of life’s absurdities and move on.
However, one can hope that this experience has made Sally a more skeptical person, so that the next time she is presented with such fantastic claims, she’ll perhaps be inclined to do her research before committing any time, money or emotion.
After all, fantastic claims should be supported by fantastic evidence, right?
The question now becomes, has this experience made Linus a skeptic? After yet again not having his Pumpkin Patch recognized as sincere and after having endangered his friendship with Sally, will he continue to believe?
In spite of a complete and utter lack of evidence pointing to the existence of the Great Pumpkin, and a complete and utter lack of the Great Pumpkin’s Promise ever having been fulfilled, Linus is a True Believing Pumpkinist to the core. To even admit the possibility that he may be wrong would be to negate all those years of hard work and sincere belief. Linus simply cannot turn his back on his belief.
So if Linus doesn't become an ex-Pumpkinist, what is his strategy? Well, he’s going to keep on trying, isn't he?
"What do you mean, 'stupid'? Just wait until next year. I'll find a pumpkin patch, and I'll sit in that pumpkin patch and it'll be a sincere pumpkin patch, and the Great Pumpkin will come! Just you wait and see! I'll sit in that pumpkin patch, and I'll see the Great Pumpkin. Just wait until next year!"
What is written is ....
Romans 5:8-11 but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God. For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life. More than that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.
Galatians 3 also addresses that. If we are saved by grace, are we kept by the Law? No, is Paul's answer.
As for Revelation 22:14-19, those who are saved by faith in Christ are NOT those listed in that passage. On the contrary, we are the righteousness of Christ, it has been imputed to us BY God.
We are new creatures in Christ, having had the new birth. When God sees us, He sees Christ's righteousness, so those verse do not apply to the believer.
We can either depend on our own righteousness, which is what's listed there, or we can depend on Christ's righteousness. If we want to be judged by our works, God will do that but it will not turn out so well.
Of course He is. If they understood the Old Testament they could have known that as it was foretold.
Daniel 7:13 I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him. 14 And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.
Revelation 1:6 And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen. 7 Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen. 8 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.
Isaiah 44: 6 Thus saith the Lord the King of Israel, and his redeemer the Lord of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God. 7 And who, as I, shall call, and shall declare it, and set it in order for me, since I appointed the ancient people? and the things that are coming, and shall come, let them shew unto them. 8 Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that time, and have declared it? ye are even my witnesses. Is there a God beside me? yea, there is no God; I know not any.
Thanks to redleghunter who is on mobile and sent me the passages but couldn’t post this.
But is seems he now has another conundrum in that he now has to explain how both the Father and the Son are God but not one God. He has also indicated that he believes there are others as well.
In post 255 he said this: “So far I can count 1 Father, 1 son, and at least 7 spirits mentioned in the Word. Or is that 8 spirits?”
It would seem that to him there is a pantheon of gods.
Revelation 22:14-19 is written to the churches of Revelation 2-3. It says so. Nobody whose name is not written in the book of life is getting ‘grace’ salvation. It says so.
And it says the way to have ones name listed in the book of life is to keep His commandments. There is no such thing as once saved always saved, IF the individual turns their back on the Creator. God loves us and He intends to not have eternity with the rebels causing confusion. And the way we can demonstrate our love is by having no other gods before him. That is the first commandment.
God does not impute His righteousness upon the sorcerers, whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie. Those all are ‘law’ breakers.
God is the same yesterday, today and forever, and He does not have two paths to salvation.
Ezekiel 18:4 Behold, all souls are Mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is Mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.
Sin is the transgression of the law. And when Ezekiel penned this it was looking forward to now and yet even future.
So, then, are we to presume that you never sin?
A ridiculous statement. There is NONE perfect but Christ that has walked this flesh age. All sin, but in Christ, not a blood sacrifice (that was the law nailed to the cross), and a changed heart blots out sin. Well, except for premeditated murderers, God still expects them to be returned to Him to have a face to face with the soul that was murdered.
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