I love these commentaries. They're such a good laugh enveloped in so much truth. Thank you for putting your spin on the outlandish extremes of our current society. History will thank you for your candor. I often wonder if the things written in Revelation are not almost completely identical to the plagues in the Exodus. Isaiah and Jeremia…
I love these commentaries. They're such a good laugh enveloped in so much truth. Thank you for putting your spin on the outlandish extremes of our current society. History will thank you for your candor. I often wonder if the things written in Revelation are not almost completely identical to the plagues in the Exodus. Isaiah and Jeremiah also hold truths to the Babylon mystery of lawlessness. More or less, "God is going to turn your world upside-down if you follow after the self instead of putting him first." We all have these "Kings" to overcome before the captive one who listens to God is separated, and the strong man of self, who is stood up to face the battle is slain in judgement. It's just that the NT isn't written that way. I guess what it takes is commitment, seeking and knowing God, and studying the best way that you can to the most original text. The word has been preserved enough to get us to enlightenment if we put our faith and trust in Christ. The cataclysms of the Revelation point to how God is destroying the rule of the kingdoms who went their own way and set themselves up as gods. We've all believed it. What Eve believed, that we could be like God. We may not know that we have believed it, but anytime we trust in our own selves and live selfishly or for self, we are participating in that. Why do we do certain things? Is it for the honor of men? For wealth and power? For praise and adoration? It all depends on whether our hearts are with God or if we are following after the desires of our own hearts. Apart from God, the sun is dark, nothing is right, we are separated from God in instability, but when we just look to Christ, his peace stabilizes all that is wrong in the world, and we fear not. That's real rest and peace. We only need to keep our faith and trust in him. The coming day of the Lord will be when he reveals himself to us after we have known him. He will glorify us by his glory. But, we're going to have to go through some things of ridding ourselves of ourselves first, and we're going to experience calamities to rid ourselves of demonic forces that were imparted to us at the fall to be replaced by the 7 Spirits that stand before the throne of God. This is what's happening. We're being remade in God's image, re-clothed, rebreathed upon, extended a helping hand, having our heads anointed with the oil of gladness, and our feet to tread upon the serpent and be loosed from the bonds of self. He's making a new heaven and a new earth, a new creation. He always used allegories of the earth and his creation to explain things to us. It's very hard to read it in the Literal Translation of Greek, but I think it's worth doing, because at least we can look up these words or phrases and maybe get a clearer understanding of what Jesus was saying. He always referred back to the OT.
I love these commentaries. They're such a good laugh enveloped in so much truth. Thank you for putting your spin on the outlandish extremes of our current society. History will thank you for your candor. I often wonder if the things written in Revelation are not almost completely identical to the plagues in the Exodus. Isaiah and Jeremiah also hold truths to the Babylon mystery of lawlessness. More or less, "God is going to turn your world upside-down if you follow after the self instead of putting him first." We all have these "Kings" to overcome before the captive one who listens to God is separated, and the strong man of self, who is stood up to face the battle is slain in judgement. It's just that the NT isn't written that way. I guess what it takes is commitment, seeking and knowing God, and studying the best way that you can to the most original text. The word has been preserved enough to get us to enlightenment if we put our faith and trust in Christ. The cataclysms of the Revelation point to how God is destroying the rule of the kingdoms who went their own way and set themselves up as gods. We've all believed it. What Eve believed, that we could be like God. We may not know that we have believed it, but anytime we trust in our own selves and live selfishly or for self, we are participating in that. Why do we do certain things? Is it for the honor of men? For wealth and power? For praise and adoration? It all depends on whether our hearts are with God or if we are following after the desires of our own hearts. Apart from God, the sun is dark, nothing is right, we are separated from God in instability, but when we just look to Christ, his peace stabilizes all that is wrong in the world, and we fear not. That's real rest and peace. We only need to keep our faith and trust in him. The coming day of the Lord will be when he reveals himself to us after we have known him. He will glorify us by his glory. But, we're going to have to go through some things of ridding ourselves of ourselves first, and we're going to experience calamities to rid ourselves of demonic forces that were imparted to us at the fall to be replaced by the 7 Spirits that stand before the throne of God. This is what's happening. We're being remade in God's image, re-clothed, rebreathed upon, extended a helping hand, having our heads anointed with the oil of gladness, and our feet to tread upon the serpent and be loosed from the bonds of self. He's making a new heaven and a new earth, a new creation. He always used allegories of the earth and his creation to explain things to us. It's very hard to read it in the Literal Translation of Greek, but I think it's worth doing, because at least we can look up these words or phrases and maybe get a clearer understanding of what Jesus was saying. He always referred back to the OT.