TNDL: John 8 (NKJV)
Jesus the Light of the World
8 But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.
2 Now [a]early in the morning He came again into the temple, and all the people came to Him, and He sat down and taught them. 3 Then the scribes and Pharisees brought to Him a woman caught in adultery. And when they had set her in the midst, 4 they said to Him, “Teacher, [b]this woman was caught in adultery, in the very act. 5 Now [c]Moses, in the law, commanded us [d]that such should be stoned. But what do You [e]say?” 6 This they said, testing Him, that they might have something of which to accuse Him. But Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with His finger, [f]as though He did not hear.
7 So when they continued asking Him, He [g]raised Himself up and said to them, “He who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone at her first.” 8 And again He stooped down and wrote on the ground. 9 Then those who heard it, being[h] convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning with the oldest even to the last. And Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. 10 When Jesus had raised Himself up [i]and saw no one but the woman, He said to her, “Woman, where are those accusers [j]of yours? Has no one condemned you?”
11 She said, “No one, Lord.”
And Jesus said to her, “Neither do I condemn you; go [k]and sin no more.”
12 Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.”
Jesus Defends His Self-Witness
13 The Pharisees, therefore, said to Him, “You bear witness of Yourself; Your witness is not [l]true.”
14 Jesus answered and said to them, “Even if I bear witness of Myself, My witness is true, for I know where I came from and where I am going, but you do not know where I come from and where I am going. 15 You judge according to the flesh; I judge no one. 16 And yet if I do judge, My judgment is true; for I am not alone, but I am with the Father who sent Me. 17 It is also written in your law that the testimony of two men is true. 18 I am One who bears witness of Myself, and the Father who sent Me bears witness of Me.”
19 Then they said to Him, “Where is Your Father?”
Jesus answered, “You know neither Me nor My Father. If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also.”
20 These words Jesus spoke in the treasury, as He taught in the temple; and no one laid hands on Him, for His hour had not yet come.
Jesus Predicts His Departure
21 Then Jesus said to them again, “I am going away, and you will seek Me, and will die in your sin. Where I go you cannot come.”
22 So the Jews said, “Will He kill Himself, because He says, ‘Where I go you cannot come’?”
23 And He said to them, “You are from beneath; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world. 24 Therefore I said to you that you will die in your sins; for if you do not believe that I am He, you will die in your sins.”
25 Then they said to Him, “Who are You?”
And Jesus said to them, “Just what I have been saying to you from the beginning. 26 I have many things to say and to judge concerning you, but He who sent Me is true, and I speak to the world those things which I heard from Him.”
27 They did not understand that He spoke to them of the Father.
28 Then Jesus said to them, “When you lift[m] up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He and that I do nothing of Myself; but as My Father taught Me, I speak these things. 29 And He who sent Me is with Me. The Father has not left Me alone, for I always do those things that please Him.” 30 As He spoke these words, many believed in Him.
The Truth Shall Make You Free
31 Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed Him, “If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. 32 And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
33 They answered Him, “We are Abraham’s descendants, and have never been in bondage to anyone. How can You say, ‘You will be made free’?”
34 Jesus answered them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, whoever commits sin is a slave of sin. 35 And a slave does not abide in the house forever, but a son abides forever. 36 Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed.
Abraham’s Seed and Satan’s
37 “I know that you are Abraham’s descendants, but you seek to kill Me, because My word has no place in you. 38 I speak what I have seen with My Father, and you do what you have [n]seen with your father.”
39 They answered and said to Him, “Abraham is our father.”
Jesus said to them, “If you were Abraham’s children, you would do the works of Abraham. 40 But now you seek to kill Me, a Man who has told you the truth which I heard from God. Abraham did not do this. 41 You do the deeds of your father.”
Then they said to Him, “We were not born of fornication; we have one Father—God.”
42 Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I proceeded forth and came from God; nor have I come of Myself, but He sent Me. 43 Why do you not understand My speech? Because you are not able to listen to My word. 44 You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it. 45 But because I tell the truth, you do not believe Me. 46 Which of you convicts Me of sin? And if I tell the truth, why do you not believe Me? 47 He who is of God hears God’s words; therefore you do not hear, because you are not of God.”
Before Abraham Was, I AM
48 Then the Jews answered and said to Him, “Do we not say rightly that You are a Samaritan and have a demon?”
49 Jesus answered, “I do not have a demon, but I honor My Father, and you dishonor Me. 50 And I do not seek My own glory; there is One who seeks and judges. 51 Most assuredly, I say to you, if anyone keeps My word he shall never see death.”
52 Then the Jews said to Him, “Now we know that You have a demon! Abraham is dead, and the prophets; and You say, ‘If anyone keeps My word he shall never taste death.’ 53 Are You greater than our father Abraham, who is dead? And the prophets are dead. Who do You make Yourself out to be?”
54 Jesus answered, “If I honor Myself, My honor is nothing. It is My Father who honors Me, of whom you say that He is [o]your God. 55 Yet you have not known Him, but I know Him. And if I say, ‘I do not know Him,’ I shall be a liar like you; but I do know Him and keep His word. 56 Your father Abraham rejoiced to see My day, and he saw it and was glad.”
57 Then the Jews said to Him, “You are not yet fifty years old, and have You seen Abraham?”
58 Jesus said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM.”
59 Then they took up stones to throw at Him; but Jesus hid Himself and went out of the temple, going[p] through the midst of them, and so passed by.
Sunday, March 31, 2019
TNDL: JOHN 15:15 THE NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION.QUESTION HAVE YOU REACH THE STATUS OF BEING YESHUA FRIEND, OR JUST ONLY HIS SERVANTS?
Henceforth I call you not servants - Which he at least indirectly had done, John 13:16; Matthew 10:24, Matthew 10:25; Luke 17:10.
I have called you friends - I have admitted you into a state of the most intimate fellowship with myself, and have made known unto you whatsoever I have heard from the Father, which, in your present circumstances, it was necessary for you to be instructed in. ALSO WHAT IS PREREQUISITE TO BECOMING A TRUE FRIEND OF YESHUA EMANUEL?
I have called you friends - I have admitted you into a state of the most intimate fellowship with myself, and have made known unto you whatsoever I have heard from the Father, which, in your present circumstances, it was necessary for you to be instructed in. ALSO WHAT IS PREREQUISITE TO BECOMING A TRUE FRIEND OF YESHUA EMANUEL?
“YESHUA, THE GOD-MAN, WHO TAUGHT THE GOSPEL OF AGAPE, NOT HATE VS OTHER GODS WHOSE TEACHINGS WERE OF HATE.
John 14 New King James Version (NKJV)
The Way, the Truth, and the Life
14 “Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. 2 In My Father’s house are many [a]mansions; if it were not so, [b]I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also. 4 And where I go you know, and the way you know.”
5 Thomas said to Him, “Lord, we do not know where You are going, and how can we know the way?”
6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
The Father Revealed
7 “If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; and from now on you know Him and have seen Him.”
8 Philip said to Him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is sufficient for us.”
9 Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and yet you have not known Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; so how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? 10 Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak on My own authority; but the Father who dwells in Me does the works. 11 Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father in Me, or else believe Me for the sake of the works themselves.
The Answered Prayer
12 “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father. 13 And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 If you [c]ask anything in My name, I will do it.
Jesus Promises Another Helper
15 “If you love Me, [d]keep My commandments. 16 And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another [e]Helper, that He may abide with you forever— 17 the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you. 18 I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you.
Indwelling of the Father and the Son
19 “A little while longer and the world will see Me no more, but you will see Me. Because I live, you will live also. 20 At that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you. 21 He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and [f]manifest Myself to him.”
22 Judas (not Iscariot) said to Him, “Lord, how is it that You will manifest Yourself to us, and not to the world?”
23 Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him. 24 He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the word which you hear is not Mine but the Father’s who sent Me.
The Gift of His Peace
25 “These things I have spoken to you while being present with you. 26 But the [g]Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you. 27 Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. 28 You have heard Me say to you, ‘I am going away and coming back to you.’ If you loved Me, you would rejoice because [h]I said, ‘I am going to the Father,’ for My Father is greater than I.
29 “And now I have told you before it comes, that when it does come to pass, you may believe. 30 I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming, and he has nothing in Me. 31 But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father gave Me commandment, so I do. Arise, let us go from here.
Footnotes:
John 14:2 Lit. dwellings
John 14:2 NU would I have told you that I go or I would have told you; for I go
John 14:14 NU ask Me
John 14:15 NU you will keep
John 14:16 Comforter, Gr. Parakletos
John 14:21 reveal
John 14:26 Comforter, Gr. Parakletos
John 14:28 NU omits I said
The Way, the Truth, and the Life
14 “Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. 2 In My Father’s house are many [a]mansions; if it were not so, [b]I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also. 4 And where I go you know, and the way you know.”
5 Thomas said to Him, “Lord, we do not know where You are going, and how can we know the way?”
6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
The Father Revealed
7 “If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; and from now on you know Him and have seen Him.”
8 Philip said to Him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is sufficient for us.”
9 Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and yet you have not known Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; so how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? 10 Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak on My own authority; but the Father who dwells in Me does the works. 11 Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father in Me, or else believe Me for the sake of the works themselves.
The Answered Prayer
12 “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father. 13 And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 If you [c]ask anything in My name, I will do it.
Jesus Promises Another Helper
15 “If you love Me, [d]keep My commandments. 16 And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another [e]Helper, that He may abide with you forever— 17 the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you. 18 I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you.
Indwelling of the Father and the Son
19 “A little while longer and the world will see Me no more, but you will see Me. Because I live, you will live also. 20 At that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you. 21 He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and [f]manifest Myself to him.”
22 Judas (not Iscariot) said to Him, “Lord, how is it that You will manifest Yourself to us, and not to the world?”
23 Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him. 24 He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the word which you hear is not Mine but the Father’s who sent Me.
The Gift of His Peace
25 “These things I have spoken to you while being present with you. 26 But the [g]Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you. 27 Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. 28 You have heard Me say to you, ‘I am going away and coming back to you.’ If you loved Me, you would rejoice because [h]I said, ‘I am going to the Father,’ for My Father is greater than I.
29 “And now I have told you before it comes, that when it does come to pass, you may believe. 30 I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming, and he has nothing in Me. 31 But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father gave Me commandment, so I do. Arise, let us go from here.
Footnotes:
John 14:2 Lit. dwellings
John 14:2 NU would I have told you that I go or I would have told you; for I go
John 14:14 NU ask Me
John 14:15 NU you will keep
John 14:16 Comforter, Gr. Parakletos
John 14:21 reveal
John 14:26 Comforter, Gr. Parakletos
John 14:28 NU omits I said
YESHUA, THE GOD OF AGAPE (LOVE) VS THE JEWS, PHARISEES AND SATAN, THE DEVIL, THE GOD OF HATE! ACCORDING TO JOHN 8. 39”
“They answered and said to Him, “Abraham is our father.”
Jesus said to them, “If you were Abraham’s children, you would do the works of Abraham. 40 But now you seek to kill Me, a Man who has told you the truth which I heard from God. Abraham did not do this. 41 You do the deeds of your father.”
Then they said to Him, “We were not born of fornication; we have one Father—God.”
42 Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I proceeded forth and came from God; nor have I come of Myself, but He sent Me. 43 Why do you not understand My speech? Because you are not able to listen to My word. 44 You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it. 45 But because I tell the truth, you do not believe Me. 46 Which of you convicts Me of sin? And if I tell the truth, why do you not believe Me? 47 He who is of God hears God’s words; therefore you do not hear, because you are not of God.”
Before Abraham Was, I AM
48 Then the Jews answered and said to Him, “Do we not say rightly that You are a Samaritan and have a demon?”
49 Jesus answered, “I do not have a demon, but I honor My Father, and you dishonor Me. 50 And I do not seek My own glory; there is One who seeks and judges. 51 Most assuredly, I say to you, if anyone keeps My word he shall never see death.”
52 Then the Jews said to Him, “Now we know that You have a demon! Abraham is dead, and the prophets; and You say, ‘If anyone keeps My word he shall never taste death.’ 53 Are You greater than our father Abraham, who is dead? And the prophets are dead. Who do You make Yourself out to be?”
54 Jesus answered, “If I honor Myself, My honor is nothing. It is My Father who honors Me, of whom you say that He is [o]your God. 55 Yet you have not known Him, but I know Him. And if I say, ‘I do not know Him,’ I shall be a liar like you; but I do know Him and keep His word. 56 Your father Abraham rejoiced to see My day, and he saw it and was glad.”
57 Then the Jews said to Him, “You are not yet fifty years old, and have You seen Abraham?”
58 Jesus said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM.”
59 Then they took up stones to throw at Him; but Jesus hid Himself and went out of the temple, going[p] through the midst of them, and so passed by.
Jesus said to them, “If you were Abraham’s children, you would do the works of Abraham. 40 But now you seek to kill Me, a Man who has told you the truth which I heard from God. Abraham did not do this. 41 You do the deeds of your father.”
Then they said to Him, “We were not born of fornication; we have one Father—God.”
42 Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I proceeded forth and came from God; nor have I come of Myself, but He sent Me. 43 Why do you not understand My speech? Because you are not able to listen to My word. 44 You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it. 45 But because I tell the truth, you do not believe Me. 46 Which of you convicts Me of sin? And if I tell the truth, why do you not believe Me? 47 He who is of God hears God’s words; therefore you do not hear, because you are not of God.”
Before Abraham Was, I AM
48 Then the Jews answered and said to Him, “Do we not say rightly that You are a Samaritan and have a demon?”
49 Jesus answered, “I do not have a demon, but I honor My Father, and you dishonor Me. 50 And I do not seek My own glory; there is One who seeks and judges. 51 Most assuredly, I say to you, if anyone keeps My word he shall never see death.”
52 Then the Jews said to Him, “Now we know that You have a demon! Abraham is dead, and the prophets; and You say, ‘If anyone keeps My word he shall never taste death.’ 53 Are You greater than our father Abraham, who is dead? And the prophets are dead. Who do You make Yourself out to be?”
54 Jesus answered, “If I honor Myself, My honor is nothing. It is My Father who honors Me, of whom you say that He is [o]your God. 55 Yet you have not known Him, but I know Him. And if I say, ‘I do not know Him,’ I shall be a liar like you; but I do know Him and keep His word. 56 Your father Abraham rejoiced to see My day, and he saw it and was glad.”
57 Then the Jews said to Him, “You are not yet fifty years old, and have You seen Abraham?”
58 Jesus said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM.”
59 Then they took up stones to throw at Him; but Jesus hid Himself and went out of the temple, going[p] through the midst of them, and so passed by.
Friday, March 29, 2019
DEFINITION OF PRAISE BE TO GOD
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—used to express happiness or relief that something did or did not happen
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TNDL: “WHO WROTE THE BOOKS FIRST FROM THE TIME PERIOD OF CREATION OF THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH, ACCORDING TO THE STORIES IN GENESIS 1-5? ALSO, WHEN DID MEN FIRST LEARNED TO WRITE, AND READ AND WHERE.? WERE THE WRITERS PEOPLE OF CAIN, OR THE DESCENDANTS OF ADAM?”
The earliest writing we know of dates back to around 3,000 B.C.E. and was probably invented by the Sumerians, living in major cities with centralized economies in what is now southern Iraq. The earliest tablets with written inscriptions represent the work of administrators, perhaps of large temple institutions, recording the allocation of rations or the movement and storage of goods. Temple officials needed to keep records of the grain, sheep and cattle entering or leaving their stores and farms and it became impossible to rely on memory. So, an alternative method was required and the very earliest texts were pictures of the items scribes needed to record (known as pictographs).
Writing, the recording of a spoken language, emerged from earlier recording systems at the end of the fourth millennium. The first written language in Mesopotamia is called Sumerian. Most of the early tablets come from the site of Uruk, in southern Mesopotamia, and it may have been here that this form of writing was invented.
These texts were drawn on damp clay tablets using a pointed tool. It seems the scribes realized it was quicker and easier to produce representations of such things as animals, rather than naturalistic impressions of them. They began to draw marks in the clay to make up signs, which were standardized so they could be recognized by many people.
Early writing tablet recording the allocation of beer, probably from southern Iraq, Late Prehistoric period, clay, 3100-3000 B.C.E. (The British Museum)
Early writing tablet recording the allocation of beer, probably from southern Iraq, Late Prehistoric period, clay, 3100-3000 B.C.E. (The British Museum)
Early Writing Tablet recording the allocation of beer, 3100-3000 B.C.E, Late Prehistoric period, clay, probably from southern Iraq.
© Trustees of the British Museum. The symbol for beer, an upright jar with pointed base, appears three times on the tablet. Beer was the most popular drink in Mesopotamia and was issued as rations to workers. Alongside the pictographs are five different shaped impressions, representing numerical symbols. Over time these signs became more abstract and wedge-like, or “cuneiform.” The signs are grouped into boxes and, at this early date, are usually read from right to left and top to bottom. One sign, in the bottom row on the left, shows a bowl tipped towards a schematic human head. This is the sign for “to eat.”
Cuneiform
From these beginnings, cuneiform signs were put together and developed to represent sounds, so they could be used to record spoken language. Once this was achieved, ideas and concepts could be expressed and communicated in writing.
Cuneiform is one of the oldest forms of writing known. It means "wedge-shaped," because people wrote it using a reed stylus cut to make a wedge-shaped mark on a clay tablet.
Letters enclosed in clay envelopes, as well as works of literature, such as the Epic of Gilgamesh have been found. Historical accounts have also come to light, as have huge libraries such as that belonging to the Assyrian king, Ashurbanipal (668-627 B.C.E.).
Cuneiform writing was used to record a variety of information such as temple activities, business and trade. Cuneiform was also used to write stories, myths, and personal letters.
The latest known example of cuneiform is an astronomical text from C.E. 75. During its 3,000-year history cuneiform was used to write around 15 different languages including Sumerian, Akkadian, Babylonian, Assyrian, Elamite, Hittite, Urartian and Old Persian.
Cuneiform tablets at The British Museum
The department’s collection of cuneiform tablets is among the most important in the world. It contains approximately 130,000 texts and fragments and is perhaps the largest collection outside of Iraq.
The centerpiece of the collection is the Library of Ashurbanipal, comprising many thousands of the most important tablets ever found. The significance of these tablets was immediately realized by the Library’s excavator, Austin Henry Layard, who wrote.
Writing, the recording of a spoken language, emerged from earlier recording systems at the end of the fourth millennium. The first written language in Mesopotamia is called Sumerian. Most of the early tablets come from the site of Uruk, in southern Mesopotamia, and it may have been here that this form of writing was invented.
These texts were drawn on damp clay tablets using a pointed tool. It seems the scribes realized it was quicker and easier to produce representations of such things as animals, rather than naturalistic impressions of them. They began to draw marks in the clay to make up signs, which were standardized so they could be recognized by many people.
Early writing tablet recording the allocation of beer, probably from southern Iraq, Late Prehistoric period, clay, 3100-3000 B.C.E. (The British Museum)
Early writing tablet recording the allocation of beer, probably from southern Iraq, Late Prehistoric period, clay, 3100-3000 B.C.E. (The British Museum)
Early Writing Tablet recording the allocation of beer, 3100-3000 B.C.E, Late Prehistoric period, clay, probably from southern Iraq.
© Trustees of the British Museum. The symbol for beer, an upright jar with pointed base, appears three times on the tablet. Beer was the most popular drink in Mesopotamia and was issued as rations to workers. Alongside the pictographs are five different shaped impressions, representing numerical symbols. Over time these signs became more abstract and wedge-like, or “cuneiform.” The signs are grouped into boxes and, at this early date, are usually read from right to left and top to bottom. One sign, in the bottom row on the left, shows a bowl tipped towards a schematic human head. This is the sign for “to eat.”
Cuneiform
From these beginnings, cuneiform signs were put together and developed to represent sounds, so they could be used to record spoken language. Once this was achieved, ideas and concepts could be expressed and communicated in writing.
Cuneiform is one of the oldest forms of writing known. It means "wedge-shaped," because people wrote it using a reed stylus cut to make a wedge-shaped mark on a clay tablet.
Letters enclosed in clay envelopes, as well as works of literature, such as the Epic of Gilgamesh have been found. Historical accounts have also come to light, as have huge libraries such as that belonging to the Assyrian king, Ashurbanipal (668-627 B.C.E.).
Cuneiform writing was used to record a variety of information such as temple activities, business and trade. Cuneiform was also used to write stories, myths, and personal letters.
The latest known example of cuneiform is an astronomical text from C.E. 75. During its 3,000-year history cuneiform was used to write around 15 different languages including Sumerian, Akkadian, Babylonian, Assyrian, Elamite, Hittite, Urartian and Old Persian.
Cuneiform tablets at The British Museum
The department’s collection of cuneiform tablets is among the most important in the world. It contains approximately 130,000 texts and fragments and is perhaps the largest collection outside of Iraq.
The centerpiece of the collection is the Library of Ashurbanipal, comprising many thousands of the most important tablets ever found. The significance of these tablets was immediately realized by the Library’s excavator, Austin Henry Layard, who wrote.
TNDL: “WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THE WORDS: PRAISE, WORSHIP, FEARING GOD, MOST HIGH, AND GIVING GLORY?”
How Important is Reverence?
By Dr. Richard J. Krejcir
Are you Reverent, is this Relevant?
Psalm 89:5-18; Proverbs 1:7, 29: 3:5-9; 2 Corinthians 7:1; Ephesians 5:21; 1 Thessalonians 5:12-13; 1 Peter 2:13-14; 3:15a
VERY! Reverence is an aspect of adoration, it is the true response that leads to worship to all that come before God. It is recognizing and honoring the authority of God with awe and fear because He is God, and He is more awesome than anything or anyone--period. It also means respecting people, not just because of their position and authority, but as brothers and sisters in the Lord, regardless of their personality, and knowing He loves them too!
Hatred, disdain, disloyalty, and contempt are the opposites. With these attitudes, we will flee from God's love and precepts, ignore His call, and just do our own thing. We will have no fear of God; we will do as we please, thus placing us on a path of chaos, strife, and destruction. We will have no desire to serve Him or do the right thing, outside of obligation. We will miss out on true intimacy with Him, destroy relationships, hinder growth in ourselves, others, our church, and miss out on the process of maturity, as well as the wonder of His plan.
Proverbs tells us that the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom. This type of fear is not being scared, or fearful of what will happen, nor is it distrust or terror of God. Rather, it is reference and awe that fuels our worship and faith. It is the understanding of the wonder and majesty of our incredible God, who transcends time and space, and who is bigger than the entire universe He created, yet, He personally knows and loves us with deeper and more love than we could ever comprehend. In the Old Testament, the stipulation put to the Jews was that they follow their God and stick to the covenant. The covenant we have now is grace; the stipulation is that we accept it by faith. The growth of our fear (awe) is the response to His Majesty. Reverence is taking the incredible knowledge of His majesty, and applying it to our lives, so we will walk with confidence in our Lord, and operate with respect to Him, and to the others whom He knows and loves.
Reverence leads to worship because we can acknowledge whom God is, and respond in the only way we can, to surrender our will to Him and worship Him! As His created being, saved by His grace from a destiny we created and deserved, we have an obligation to give Him all of our honor, all our praise, and all our adoration. This is the reason for the primary purpose of our saved lives--to give God the glory that is rightly due Him. Why must we? Because He is the Holy, Sovereign, the Creator (Duet. 7:21; Neh. 4:14; Psalm 48:1; 86:10; 95:3; 97:2; 145:3; Dan. 9:4; 1 Cor. 13:12; Heb. 12:28,29)!
The Bible plainly tells us that we are to show reverence to God and to the things that represent His person and presence (Heb. 12:28,29). Most Christians will say, yes, to the first part, to fear and respect God, but do they do so with one another? What about the things and stuff that represent God, such as stained glass, icons, pews, and the church lobby? Many Christians today do not believe that church facilities need respect. Yet, God's Word tells us, "Observe my Sabbaths and have reverence for my sanctuary. I am the LORD" (Lev. 19:30, 26:2). This passage is referring to a tent where God's sanctuary was set up, not the great temple of Solomon that was built later. So, even the most commonplace location is considered very special to God and thus is also deserving of our reverence.
Reverence is a very important character regarding how we relate to both God and others. Reverence and respect have similar meanings. However, reverence has more of the meaning of worship and pertains to God. We used to call our ministers, "Reverend" as a means of respect. However, we do not worship them, only God. Ministers are God's representatives, and to a degree, all Christians are included in the doctrine of the "priesthood of the Believer." But, most people no longer call their pastors, reverend, no longer do children respect their parents. Often they even call them by their first names. We mock our church leaders; ignore their advice, while our churches run down into dysfunction and irrelevancy. We need to be respectful to all people, whether we agree with them or not. We need to recapture the respect of parents and authorities, something that has eroded, and caused so much rebellion, creating strife, dysfunction, and chaos in our society (Rom. 12:10; 1 Peter 5:5).
When we grow in maturity in the Christian walk, we will naturally show more reverence and respect for God's presence. This mindset must also transfer to how we deal with His creation, with people, and with what represents Him.
We do not wake up one day with Character. When we do have it, others will see it, may even point to it, or be discipled from it.
Questions
How would you define Reverence? Do you fear God?
What part do reverence and respect play in our relationships with church leaders, the elderly, and to one another? Do you think God desires that we give special care or reverence to the church sanctuary and facilities? What about traditions?
How does Contempt counteract Reverence? What is the cost to others (God, family, friends, neighbors, church, workplace, etc.) when you are a disloyal person?
What happens to your relationship with God, with others, and with the opportunities God gives you, when you are disrespectful?
When have you been filled with Reverence the most? Do people have to earn your respect? If so, why? Is that Biblical?
In what situation did you fail to be respectful to someone when you should have been?
What issue is in your life that would improve with more Reverence?
Think through the steps you need to take to put Reverence into action in a specific instance. What can you do to develop a deeper since of reverence to God? How would this respect and honor of God affect your relationships?
By Dr. Richard J. Krejcir
Are you Reverent, is this Relevant?
Psalm 89:5-18; Proverbs 1:7, 29: 3:5-9; 2 Corinthians 7:1; Ephesians 5:21; 1 Thessalonians 5:12-13; 1 Peter 2:13-14; 3:15a
VERY! Reverence is an aspect of adoration, it is the true response that leads to worship to all that come before God. It is recognizing and honoring the authority of God with awe and fear because He is God, and He is more awesome than anything or anyone--period. It also means respecting people, not just because of their position and authority, but as brothers and sisters in the Lord, regardless of their personality, and knowing He loves them too!
Hatred, disdain, disloyalty, and contempt are the opposites. With these attitudes, we will flee from God's love and precepts, ignore His call, and just do our own thing. We will have no fear of God; we will do as we please, thus placing us on a path of chaos, strife, and destruction. We will have no desire to serve Him or do the right thing, outside of obligation. We will miss out on true intimacy with Him, destroy relationships, hinder growth in ourselves, others, our church, and miss out on the process of maturity, as well as the wonder of His plan.
Proverbs tells us that the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom. This type of fear is not being scared, or fearful of what will happen, nor is it distrust or terror of God. Rather, it is reference and awe that fuels our worship and faith. It is the understanding of the wonder and majesty of our incredible God, who transcends time and space, and who is bigger than the entire universe He created, yet, He personally knows and loves us with deeper and more love than we could ever comprehend. In the Old Testament, the stipulation put to the Jews was that they follow their God and stick to the covenant. The covenant we have now is grace; the stipulation is that we accept it by faith. The growth of our fear (awe) is the response to His Majesty. Reverence is taking the incredible knowledge of His majesty, and applying it to our lives, so we will walk with confidence in our Lord, and operate with respect to Him, and to the others whom He knows and loves.
Reverence leads to worship because we can acknowledge whom God is, and respond in the only way we can, to surrender our will to Him and worship Him! As His created being, saved by His grace from a destiny we created and deserved, we have an obligation to give Him all of our honor, all our praise, and all our adoration. This is the reason for the primary purpose of our saved lives--to give God the glory that is rightly due Him. Why must we? Because He is the Holy, Sovereign, the Creator (Duet. 7:21; Neh. 4:14; Psalm 48:1; 86:10; 95:3; 97:2; 145:3; Dan. 9:4; 1 Cor. 13:12; Heb. 12:28,29)!
The Bible plainly tells us that we are to show reverence to God and to the things that represent His person and presence (Heb. 12:28,29). Most Christians will say, yes, to the first part, to fear and respect God, but do they do so with one another? What about the things and stuff that represent God, such as stained glass, icons, pews, and the church lobby? Many Christians today do not believe that church facilities need respect. Yet, God's Word tells us, "Observe my Sabbaths and have reverence for my sanctuary. I am the LORD" (Lev. 19:30, 26:2). This passage is referring to a tent where God's sanctuary was set up, not the great temple of Solomon that was built later. So, even the most commonplace location is considered very special to God and thus is also deserving of our reverence.
Reverence is a very important character regarding how we relate to both God and others. Reverence and respect have similar meanings. However, reverence has more of the meaning of worship and pertains to God. We used to call our ministers, "Reverend" as a means of respect. However, we do not worship them, only God. Ministers are God's representatives, and to a degree, all Christians are included in the doctrine of the "priesthood of the Believer." But, most people no longer call their pastors, reverend, no longer do children respect their parents. Often they even call them by their first names. We mock our church leaders; ignore their advice, while our churches run down into dysfunction and irrelevancy. We need to be respectful to all people, whether we agree with them or not. We need to recapture the respect of parents and authorities, something that has eroded, and caused so much rebellion, creating strife, dysfunction, and chaos in our society (Rom. 12:10; 1 Peter 5:5).
When we grow in maturity in the Christian walk, we will naturally show more reverence and respect for God's presence. This mindset must also transfer to how we deal with His creation, with people, and with what represents Him.
We do not wake up one day with Character. When we do have it, others will see it, may even point to it, or be discipled from it.
Questions
How would you define Reverence? Do you fear God?
What part do reverence and respect play in our relationships with church leaders, the elderly, and to one another? Do you think God desires that we give special care or reverence to the church sanctuary and facilities? What about traditions?
How does Contempt counteract Reverence? What is the cost to others (God, family, friends, neighbors, church, workplace, etc.) when you are a disloyal person?
What happens to your relationship with God, with others, and with the opportunities God gives you, when you are disrespectful?
When have you been filled with Reverence the most? Do people have to earn your respect? If so, why? Is that Biblical?
In what situation did you fail to be respectful to someone when you should have been?
What issue is in your life that would improve with more Reverence?
Think through the steps you need to take to put Reverence into action in a specific instance. What can you do to develop a deeper since of reverence to God? How would this respect and honor of God affect your relationships?
ALL THAT WAS HIDDEN SHALL COME TO LIGHT
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“Nothing is covered that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not be ...
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TNDL: Mark 4:22 For there is nothing hidden that will not be disclosed, and nothing concealed that will not be brought to light.
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"For nothing is hidden, except to be revealed; nor has anything been secret, but ... 21Jesus also said to them, “Does anyone bring in a lamp so he can place it ...
Luke 8:17 - For there is nothing hidden that will not be disclosed, and ...
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Wednesday, March 27, 2019
THE GLOBALIST IS PUSHING THEIR ADENDA
“About 10 years ago the Lord said, while I was praying and seeking to know what will happen in the near future of nations and nation States in the developed world, ‘Europe will be in shamble.’ Now I see the Lord’s word coming to past. The globalist is pushing their agenda to totally destroy the true teachings of the Church of Christ and God, Most High. Secularism is preferred than ‘THE WAY, THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE,’ According to the gospel of John 14 Whereby, Yeshua proclaimed that he Is, the way, the truth and the life, and no one goes to the eternal heavenly Father but through him. Also, he gave prerequisite as to how one can
attain to become true followers of him and his eternal heavenly Father, in John 12:20! However, human beings love and desire is to do what they like and want rather than pleasing the Highest the Creator of heaven and earth. Is this not the nature of Cain’s descendants of the children of disobedience? See Genesis 3-5..” (TNDL)
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attain to become true followers of him and his eternal heavenly Father, in John 12:20! However, human beings love and desire is to do what they like and want rather than pleasing the Highest the Creator of heaven and earth. Is this not the nature of Cain’s descendants of the children of disobedience? See Genesis 3-5..” (TNDL)
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TNDL: “WHAT WAS THE HISTORICITY OF JOSEPH WHO WAS SOLD INTO EGYPT AND HIS FATHER JACOB AND HIS 11 OTHER SONS LIKE? HERE IS A BRIEF SYNOPSIS ABOUT THEIR SOJOURN.”
Joseph, son of Jacob. Geneses 41, Geneses 47, AND Geneses 48.
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Joseph interprets the dream of the Pharaoh, by Peter von Cornelius.
Joseph or Yosef (Hebrew: יוֹסֵף, Arabic: يوسف, Yusuf; "The Lord increases") is a major figure in the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament). He was Jacob's eleventh son and Rachel's first.
Known best for his coat of "many colors" and his God-given ability to interpret dreams, Joseph was sold into slavery by his jealous half-brothers. He worked under the Egyptian official Potiphar but was freed and became the chief adviser (vizier) to the Egyptian Pharaoh. His estranged brothers later reunited with him when they came to Egypt to buy grain during a famine, and thus Joseph became the central figure to lead the children of Israel (Jacob) during their course of exile in Egypt. Moses followed Joseph's pattern in rising from slavery to a position of royal favor in the court of the pharaohs, and would later lead the Israelites out of Egypt and back to the land of Canaan.
The historicity of Joseph's story is debated, with dates ranging from an early estimate beginning around 2000 B.C.E. during the Egyptian Middle Kingdom, to a later time during the Hyksos Era (1648–1540 B.C.E.), and as recently as the reign of Pharaoh Merneptah about 1200 B.C.E.
Contents
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1 The Genesis story of Joseph
1.1 Joseph in Egypt
1.2 A strange reunion
1.3 Legacy
2 Joseph in rabbinical literature
3 Joseph in Christianity and Islam
4 Critical views
5 Joseph in literature and culture
6 References
7 Credits
The shrine called Joseph's Tomb in Nablus/Shechem is traditionally considered to be his tomb. In Jewish tradition, Joseph was the progenitor of the northern tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh, named for his two sons. More rabbinical literature has been generated concerning him than any of the other sons of Jacob, and he is also a significant figure in Islamic tradition.
The Genesis story of Joseph
According to the biblical account, Joseph was the son of Jacob by Rachel, the patriarch's favorite wife (Gen. 30:23, 24), who, on the occasion of Joseph's birth, said, "The Lord shall add [Heb. yosef] to me another son." (Gen. 30:24) He was born in Padan-aram when Jacob was about 90 years old. Joseph would have been approximately six years old when his family returned from Haran to Canaan. He was present at Jacob's famous reconciliation with his brother Esau. Soon, the family took up residence in the town of Bethel and later moved to Hebron. In the interim, Joseph's mother died giving birth to his brother, Benjamin.
Jacob beholds Joseph's bloodied coat.
Joseph was the favorite son of his father, who made him a richly ornamented coat. popularly referred to as a "coat of many colors." As a result, he was envied by his half-brothers. His brothers' jealousy grew when Joseph told them of his two dreams (Gen. 37:11) in which all the brothers, as well as his parents, bowed down to him.
After this, his brothers plotted against him and would have killed him had not his brother Reuben intervened. He persuaded them to throw Joseph into a pit and secretly planned to rescue him later. Judah, too, counseled against murder and convinced the brothers to sell Joseph to a company of Ishmaelite merchants, who bought him in exchange for 20 shekels of silver. The brothers then dipped Joseph's coat in goat's blood and, returning home, showed it to their father, who concluded that Joseph had been torn apart by a wild beast.
Joseph in Egypt
Joseph and the Wife of Potiphar, by Philipp Veit
The merchants, meanwhile, brought Joseph to Egypt, where he was sold to Potiphar, an "officer of Pharaoh's, and captain of the guard" (Gen. 37:36). Joseph prospered in Potiphar's household and was eventually made head of the servants.
After Joseph rejected the attempts of Potiphar's wife to seduce him, she accused him of attempted rape, and he was cast into the state prison (Gen. 39:40), where he became the most trusted inmate and remained for at least two years. The story tells of two servants of Pharaoh's household who were in jail with Joseph and asked him to interpret their dreams. Joseph correctly predicted their futures: one would be reinstated in his post while the other would be executed. Joseph urged the first, a royal cupbearer, to get him out of prison once he was reinstated, but the cupbearer took no action on his behalf for two more years.
At the end of that period, the Pharaoh had a strange dream which none of his advisers could interpret. The cupbearer took this opportunity to inform the king of Joseph's gift and recommended his services. Joseph was brought from prison to interpret the king's dream. Joseph predicted seven years of plenty to be followed by seven years of famine and advised the Pharaoh to appoint someone to store up surplus grain. Pharaoh was pleased with Joseph's interpretation and gave him authority to carry out the suggested policy (Gen. 41:46). He became the second most powerful man in all Egypt. At the age 30, Joseph married Asenath, the daughter of the priest of Heliopolis.
As Joseph had foreseen, seven years of plenty came, during which he stored up a great abundance of grain in granaries built for the purpose. These years were followed by seven years of famine "over all the face of the earth," when "all countries came into Egypt to Joseph to buy grain" (Gen. 41:56, 57; 47:13,14). Thus, "Joseph gathered up all the money that was in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the grain which they bought."
A strange reunion
Joseph embraces Benjamin, detail of a painting by Peter von Cornelius
During this period of famine, Joseph's brothers, except for Benjamin, also came down to Egypt to buy grain. At their first meeting, the brothers did not recognize him. Seeing only the powerful minister who controlled their lives and fortunes, they "bowed themselves before him with their faces to the ground" (Gen. 42:6), thus fulfilling in part his earlier prophetic dream. Joseph disguised his identity and devised a plot to bring the rest of the family to him: He accused them of being spies and imprisoned them for three days. He then sent them away with grain, retaining Simeon as a hostage (Gen. 42:1-25), while ordering them not to return without Benjamin, the only one of his brothers born of Joseph's own mother, Rachel.
Upon their return to Egypt with Benjamin, Joseph received them kindly and prepared a feast for them. The narrative describes his emotional reaction upon seeing Benjamin: "Deeply moved at the sight of his brother, Joseph hurried out and looked for a place to weep. He went into his private room and wept there. After he had washed his face, he came out and, controlling himself, said, 'Serve the food'" (Gen 43:30-32). He then tested them further, by accusing Benjamin of theft. But Judah pleaded for Benjamin, offering himself as a slave instead. Convinced of his brothers' repentance and overcome with emotion, Joseph finally revealed himself to them. He forgave them and sent for Jacob and the entire household to come to Egypt.
The later reunion of Joseph with Jacob (Israel), though anti-climactic after two previous reunions with his brothers, is one of the most poignant in the Bible. Old and nearly blind, Jacob is overwhelmed with joy, saying: "I never expected to see your face again, and now God has allowed me to see your children too" (Gen 48:11). The scene is a fitting resolution to Jacob's own drama, in which his father, Isaac, had been old and blind when Jacob himself deceived deceived him in order to obtain his blessing, meant for Esau.
Joseph settled Jacob's growing clan with Pharaoh's blessing in the Land of Goshen (Gen. 47:29). After Jacob's death, Joseph received the Pharaoh's permission to travel with a great caravan to Canaan in order to bury the patriarch. "All Pharaoh's officials accompanied him—the dignitaries of his court and all the dignitaries of Egypt—besides all the members of Joseph's household and his brothers and those belonging to his father's household... Chariots and horsemen also went up with him. It was a very large company." (Gen 50:7-9)
Joseph's own remains were reportedly taken by Moses with the Israelites during the Exodus (Exodus 13:19) and later buried at Shechem (Joshua 24:32).
Legacy
Jacob, before he died, blessed each of his sons and two of his grandsons, the two sons of Joseph. Indeed, he blessed Joseph's sons before all the rest. Though Manasseh was the older brother, Jacob placed his right hand on Ephraim, the younger, and gave him the greater blessing. He then gave his blessing upon all of his sons, and the blessing he gave to Joseph was the greatest of all:
Joseph is a fruitful tree by a spring
whose branches climb over the wall...
By the power of the Strong One of Jacob
by the name of the Shepherd of Israel,
by the God of your father—so may he help you!
by God Almighty—so may he bless you
with the blessings of heaven above
and the blessings of the deep that lies below!
the blessings of breast and womb
and the blessings of your father, stronger
than the blessings of the eternal mountains
and the bounty of the everlasting hills.
May they rest on the head of Joseph
on the brow of him who was prince among his brothers.' (Genesis 49:22-26)
Joseph's sons Ephraim and Manasseh multiplied to become two separate tribes of Israel. Ephraim was one of the major northern tribes, just north of the territory of Judah. Half of Manasseh's tribe settled east of the Jordan, while the other half settled west of it. The two halves of Manasseh were often treated as two separate units in the biblical account. Both the term "Joseph" and the term "Ephraim" were also frequently used by the biblical writers to refer to the norther tribes generally or to the later northern kingdom, usually called Israel.
Previous (Joseon Dynasty)Next (Joseph-Louis Lagrange)
Joseph interprets the dream of the Pharaoh, by Peter von Cornelius.
Joseph or Yosef (Hebrew: יוֹסֵף, Arabic: يوسف, Yusuf; "The Lord increases") is a major figure in the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament). He was Jacob's eleventh son and Rachel's first.
Known best for his coat of "many colors" and his God-given ability to interpret dreams, Joseph was sold into slavery by his jealous half-brothers. He worked under the Egyptian official Potiphar but was freed and became the chief adviser (vizier) to the Egyptian Pharaoh. His estranged brothers later reunited with him when they came to Egypt to buy grain during a famine, and thus Joseph became the central figure to lead the children of Israel (Jacob) during their course of exile in Egypt. Moses followed Joseph's pattern in rising from slavery to a position of royal favor in the court of the pharaohs, and would later lead the Israelites out of Egypt and back to the land of Canaan.
The historicity of Joseph's story is debated, with dates ranging from an early estimate beginning around 2000 B.C.E. during the Egyptian Middle Kingdom, to a later time during the Hyksos Era (1648–1540 B.C.E.), and as recently as the reign of Pharaoh Merneptah about 1200 B.C.E.
Contents
[hide]
1 The Genesis story of Joseph
1.1 Joseph in Egypt
1.2 A strange reunion
1.3 Legacy
2 Joseph in rabbinical literature
3 Joseph in Christianity and Islam
4 Critical views
5 Joseph in literature and culture
6 References
7 Credits
The shrine called Joseph's Tomb in Nablus/Shechem is traditionally considered to be his tomb. In Jewish tradition, Joseph was the progenitor of the northern tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh, named for his two sons. More rabbinical literature has been generated concerning him than any of the other sons of Jacob, and he is also a significant figure in Islamic tradition.
The Genesis story of Joseph
According to the biblical account, Joseph was the son of Jacob by Rachel, the patriarch's favorite wife (Gen. 30:23, 24), who, on the occasion of Joseph's birth, said, "The Lord shall add [Heb. yosef] to me another son." (Gen. 30:24) He was born in Padan-aram when Jacob was about 90 years old. Joseph would have been approximately six years old when his family returned from Haran to Canaan. He was present at Jacob's famous reconciliation with his brother Esau. Soon, the family took up residence in the town of Bethel and later moved to Hebron. In the interim, Joseph's mother died giving birth to his brother, Benjamin.
Jacob beholds Joseph's bloodied coat.
Joseph was the favorite son of his father, who made him a richly ornamented coat. popularly referred to as a "coat of many colors." As a result, he was envied by his half-brothers. His brothers' jealousy grew when Joseph told them of his two dreams (Gen. 37:11) in which all the brothers, as well as his parents, bowed down to him.
After this, his brothers plotted against him and would have killed him had not his brother Reuben intervened. He persuaded them to throw Joseph into a pit and secretly planned to rescue him later. Judah, too, counseled against murder and convinced the brothers to sell Joseph to a company of Ishmaelite merchants, who bought him in exchange for 20 shekels of silver. The brothers then dipped Joseph's coat in goat's blood and, returning home, showed it to their father, who concluded that Joseph had been torn apart by a wild beast.
Joseph in Egypt
Joseph and the Wife of Potiphar, by Philipp Veit
The merchants, meanwhile, brought Joseph to Egypt, where he was sold to Potiphar, an "officer of Pharaoh's, and captain of the guard" (Gen. 37:36). Joseph prospered in Potiphar's household and was eventually made head of the servants.
After Joseph rejected the attempts of Potiphar's wife to seduce him, she accused him of attempted rape, and he was cast into the state prison (Gen. 39:40), where he became the most trusted inmate and remained for at least two years. The story tells of two servants of Pharaoh's household who were in jail with Joseph and asked him to interpret their dreams. Joseph correctly predicted their futures: one would be reinstated in his post while the other would be executed. Joseph urged the first, a royal cupbearer, to get him out of prison once he was reinstated, but the cupbearer took no action on his behalf for two more years.
At the end of that period, the Pharaoh had a strange dream which none of his advisers could interpret. The cupbearer took this opportunity to inform the king of Joseph's gift and recommended his services. Joseph was brought from prison to interpret the king's dream. Joseph predicted seven years of plenty to be followed by seven years of famine and advised the Pharaoh to appoint someone to store up surplus grain. Pharaoh was pleased with Joseph's interpretation and gave him authority to carry out the suggested policy (Gen. 41:46). He became the second most powerful man in all Egypt. At the age 30, Joseph married Asenath, the daughter of the priest of Heliopolis.
As Joseph had foreseen, seven years of plenty came, during which he stored up a great abundance of grain in granaries built for the purpose. These years were followed by seven years of famine "over all the face of the earth," when "all countries came into Egypt to Joseph to buy grain" (Gen. 41:56, 57; 47:13,14). Thus, "Joseph gathered up all the money that was in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the grain which they bought."
A strange reunion
Joseph embraces Benjamin, detail of a painting by Peter von Cornelius
During this period of famine, Joseph's brothers, except for Benjamin, also came down to Egypt to buy grain. At their first meeting, the brothers did not recognize him. Seeing only the powerful minister who controlled their lives and fortunes, they "bowed themselves before him with their faces to the ground" (Gen. 42:6), thus fulfilling in part his earlier prophetic dream. Joseph disguised his identity and devised a plot to bring the rest of the family to him: He accused them of being spies and imprisoned them for three days. He then sent them away with grain, retaining Simeon as a hostage (Gen. 42:1-25), while ordering them not to return without Benjamin, the only one of his brothers born of Joseph's own mother, Rachel.
Upon their return to Egypt with Benjamin, Joseph received them kindly and prepared a feast for them. The narrative describes his emotional reaction upon seeing Benjamin: "Deeply moved at the sight of his brother, Joseph hurried out and looked for a place to weep. He went into his private room and wept there. After he had washed his face, he came out and, controlling himself, said, 'Serve the food'" (Gen 43:30-32). He then tested them further, by accusing Benjamin of theft. But Judah pleaded for Benjamin, offering himself as a slave instead. Convinced of his brothers' repentance and overcome with emotion, Joseph finally revealed himself to them. He forgave them and sent for Jacob and the entire household to come to Egypt.
The later reunion of Joseph with Jacob (Israel), though anti-climactic after two previous reunions with his brothers, is one of the most poignant in the Bible. Old and nearly blind, Jacob is overwhelmed with joy, saying: "I never expected to see your face again, and now God has allowed me to see your children too" (Gen 48:11). The scene is a fitting resolution to Jacob's own drama, in which his father, Isaac, had been old and blind when Jacob himself deceived deceived him in order to obtain his blessing, meant for Esau.
Joseph settled Jacob's growing clan with Pharaoh's blessing in the Land of Goshen (Gen. 47:29). After Jacob's death, Joseph received the Pharaoh's permission to travel with a great caravan to Canaan in order to bury the patriarch. "All Pharaoh's officials accompanied him—the dignitaries of his court and all the dignitaries of Egypt—besides all the members of Joseph's household and his brothers and those belonging to his father's household... Chariots and horsemen also went up with him. It was a very large company." (Gen 50:7-9)
Joseph's own remains were reportedly taken by Moses with the Israelites during the Exodus (Exodus 13:19) and later buried at Shechem (Joshua 24:32).
Legacy
Jacob, before he died, blessed each of his sons and two of his grandsons, the two sons of Joseph. Indeed, he blessed Joseph's sons before all the rest. Though Manasseh was the older brother, Jacob placed his right hand on Ephraim, the younger, and gave him the greater blessing. He then gave his blessing upon all of his sons, and the blessing he gave to Joseph was the greatest of all:
Joseph is a fruitful tree by a spring
whose branches climb over the wall...
By the power of the Strong One of Jacob
by the name of the Shepherd of Israel,
by the God of your father—so may he help you!
by God Almighty—so may he bless you
with the blessings of heaven above
and the blessings of the deep that lies below!
the blessings of breast and womb
and the blessings of your father, stronger
than the blessings of the eternal mountains
and the bounty of the everlasting hills.
May they rest on the head of Joseph
on the brow of him who was prince among his brothers.' (Genesis 49:22-26)
Joseph's sons Ephraim and Manasseh multiplied to become two separate tribes of Israel. Ephraim was one of the major northern tribes, just north of the territory of Judah. Half of Manasseh's tribe settled east of the Jordan, while the other half settled west of it. The two halves of Manasseh were often treated as two separate units in the biblical account. Both the term "Joseph" and the term "Ephraim" were also frequently used by the biblical writers to refer to the norther tribes generally or to the later northern kingdom, usually called Israel.
THE ONE RIDING ON THE WHITE HORSE
“Yes, the New Zelon removes Jesus, which identifies their government as one of the Antichrist government of the world of Babylon, the great mystery of the harlot woman, according to revelation 17 &18. However, in Revelation 19, the ‘ONE’ riding on the white horse with his vesture as it was, dippped in blood, also the double edged Sword, which is the ‘WORD OF GOD MOST HIGH.’HE COMES WITH HIS NEW NAME, THE WORD OF GOD, Revelation 19 11-15. Yet, Yeshua still loves his people in that county/of Nation State!” (TNDL)
“What a friend we have in Yeshua of Nazareth, when the storms of life come, we have an anchor who is our Rock in the times of trouble 23 Psalm and the 91 Psalm says it all. Blessed is the name of the Lord Yeshua Michael, because he is good, and his fullness of Agape (Love) Grace and truth abides forever. Glory to the eternal heavenly Father, and to his only begotten son and to the Holy Ghost Spirit, forevermore! What a friend we have in Yeshua. Is he not wonderful?” (TNDL)
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“What a friend we have in Yeshua of Nazareth, when the storms of life come, we have an anchor who is our Rock in the times of trouble 23 Psalm and the 91 Psalm says it all. Blessed is the name of the Lord Yeshua Michael, because he is good, and his fullness of Agape (Love) Grace and truth abides forever. Glory to the eternal heavenly Father, and to his only begotten son and to the Holy Ghost Spirit, forevermore! What a friend we have in Yeshua. Is he not wonderful?” (TNDL)
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“YESHUA IS NEWNESS!!!
Because of Yeshua (the Christ) Son of Man, *Anthropos,
humanity is having a new start or new beginning. Isn’t that wonderful and amazing to have perfect wisdom and deliverance from the fallen evil ones? *Anthropos (=Man in Greek)” (TNDL)
humanity is having a new start or new beginning. Isn’t that wonderful and amazing to have perfect wisdom and deliverance from the fallen evil ones? *Anthropos (=Man in Greek)” (TNDL)
TNDL: “THE SIGNS OF THE TIME OF THE END OF THE AGE, LET NO ONE DECEIVE YOU!”
Luke 21 New International Version (NIV)
The Widow’s Offering
21 As Jesus looked up, he saw the rich putting their gifts into the temple treasury. 2 He also saw a poor widow put in two very small copper coins. 3 “Truly I tell you,” he said, “this poor widow has put in more than all the others. 4 All these people gave their gifts out of their wealth, but she out of her poverty put in all she had to live on.”
The Destruction of the Temple and Signs of the End Times
5 Some of his disciples were remarking about how the temple was adorned with beautiful stones and with gifts dedicated to God. But Jesus said, 6 “As for what you see here, the time will come when not one stone will be left on another; every one of them will be thrown down.”
7 “Teacher,” they asked, “when will these things happen? And what will be the sign that they are about to take place?”
8 He replied: “Watch out that you are not deceived. For many will come in my name, claiming, ‘I am he,’ and, ‘The time is near.’ Do not follow them. 9 When you hear of wars and uprisings, do not be frightened. These things must happen first, but the end will not come right away.”
10 Then he said to them: “Nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom. 11 There will be great earthquakes, famines, and pestilences in various places, and fearful events and great signs from heaven.
12 “But before all this, they will seize you and persecute you. They will hand you over to synagogues and put you in prison, and you will be brought before kings and governors, and all on account of my name. 13 And so you will bear testimony to me. 14 But make up your mind not to worry beforehand how you will defend yourselves. 15 For I will give you words and wisdom that none of your adversaries will be able to resist or contradict. 16 You will be betrayed even by parents, brothers and sisters, relatives and friends, and they will put some of you to death. 17 Everyone will hate you because of me. 18 But not a hair of your head will perish. 19 Stand firm, and you will win life.
20 “When you see Jerusalem being surrounded by armies, you will know that its desolation is near. 21 Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, let those in the city get out, and let those in the country not enter the city. 22 For this is the time of punishment in fulfillment of all that has been written. 23 How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers! There will be great distress in the land and wrath against this people. 24 They will fall by the sword and will be taken as prisoners to all the nations. Jerusalem will be trampled on by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
25 “There will be signs in the sun, moon and stars. On the earth, nations will be in anguish and perplexity at the roaring and tossing of the sea. 26 People will faint from terror, apprehensive of what is coming on the world, for the heavenly bodies will be shaken. 27 At that time they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. 28 When these things begin to take place, stand up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.”
29 He told them this parable: “Look at the fig tree and all the trees. 30 When they sprout leaves, you can see for yourselves and know that summer is near. 31 Even so, when you see these things happening, you know that the kingdom of God is near.
32 “Truly I tell you, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened. 33 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.
34 “Be careful, or your hearts will be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness and the anxieties of life, and that day will close on you suddenly like a trap. 35 For it will come on all those who live on the face of the whole earth. 36 Be always on the watch, and pray that you may be able to escape all that is about to happen, and that you may be able to stand before the Son of Man.”
37 Each day Jesus was teaching at the temple, and each evening he went out to spend the night on the hill called the Mount of Olives, 38 and all the people came early in the morning to hear him at the temple.
The Widow’s Offering
21 As Jesus looked up, he saw the rich putting their gifts into the temple treasury. 2 He also saw a poor widow put in two very small copper coins. 3 “Truly I tell you,” he said, “this poor widow has put in more than all the others. 4 All these people gave their gifts out of their wealth, but she out of her poverty put in all she had to live on.”
The Destruction of the Temple and Signs of the End Times
5 Some of his disciples were remarking about how the temple was adorned with beautiful stones and with gifts dedicated to God. But Jesus said, 6 “As for what you see here, the time will come when not one stone will be left on another; every one of them will be thrown down.”
7 “Teacher,” they asked, “when will these things happen? And what will be the sign that they are about to take place?”
8 He replied: “Watch out that you are not deceived. For many will come in my name, claiming, ‘I am he,’ and, ‘The time is near.’ Do not follow them. 9 When you hear of wars and uprisings, do not be frightened. These things must happen first, but the end will not come right away.”
10 Then he said to them: “Nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom. 11 There will be great earthquakes, famines, and pestilences in various places, and fearful events and great signs from heaven.
12 “But before all this, they will seize you and persecute you. They will hand you over to synagogues and put you in prison, and you will be brought before kings and governors, and all on account of my name. 13 And so you will bear testimony to me. 14 But make up your mind not to worry beforehand how you will defend yourselves. 15 For I will give you words and wisdom that none of your adversaries will be able to resist or contradict. 16 You will be betrayed even by parents, brothers and sisters, relatives and friends, and they will put some of you to death. 17 Everyone will hate you because of me. 18 But not a hair of your head will perish. 19 Stand firm, and you will win life.
20 “When you see Jerusalem being surrounded by armies, you will know that its desolation is near. 21 Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, let those in the city get out, and let those in the country not enter the city. 22 For this is the time of punishment in fulfillment of all that has been written. 23 How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers! There will be great distress in the land and wrath against this people. 24 They will fall by the sword and will be taken as prisoners to all the nations. Jerusalem will be trampled on by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
25 “There will be signs in the sun, moon and stars. On the earth, nations will be in anguish and perplexity at the roaring and tossing of the sea. 26 People will faint from terror, apprehensive of what is coming on the world, for the heavenly bodies will be shaken. 27 At that time they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. 28 When these things begin to take place, stand up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.”
29 He told them this parable: “Look at the fig tree and all the trees. 30 When they sprout leaves, you can see for yourselves and know that summer is near. 31 Even so, when you see these things happening, you know that the kingdom of God is near.
32 “Truly I tell you, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened. 33 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.
34 “Be careful, or your hearts will be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness and the anxieties of life, and that day will close on you suddenly like a trap. 35 For it will come on all those who live on the face of the whole earth. 36 Be always on the watch, and pray that you may be able to escape all that is about to happen, and that you may be able to stand before the Son of Man.”
37 Each day Jesus was teaching at the temple, and each evening he went out to spend the night on the hill called the Mount of Olives, 38 and all the people came early in the morning to hear him at the temple.
TNDL: “THE DISOBEDIENCE OF ADAM AND EVE AND THE FALL OF ADAM AND EVE AND THEIR OFFSPRING, UNTIL YESHUA EMMANUEL, MESSIAH, COMES!”
Genesis 3-5 New International Version (NIV)
The Fall
3 Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”
2 The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, 3 but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’”
4 “You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman. 5 “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
6 When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. 7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.
8 Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden. 9 But the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?”
10 He answered, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.”
11 And he said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”
12 The man said, “The woman you put here with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”
13 Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?”
The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
14 So the Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this,
“Cursed are you above all livestock
and all wild animals!
You will crawl on your belly
and you will eat dust
all the days of your life.
15 And I will put enmity
between you and the woman,
and between your offspring[a] and hers;
he will crush[b] your head,
The Fall
3 Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”
2 The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, 3 but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’”
4 “You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman. 5 “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
6 When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. 7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.
8 Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden. 9 But the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?”
10 He answered, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.”
11 And he said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”
12 The man said, “The woman you put here with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”
13 Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?”
The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
14 So the Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this,
“Cursed are you above all livestock
and all wild animals!
You will crawl on your belly
and you will eat dust
all the days of your life.
15 And I will put enmity
between you and the woman,
and between your offspring[a] and hers;
he will crush[b] your head,
Tuesday, March 26, 2019
TNDL: “THE LORD, YAH SAID, WHOEVER TOUCHES ISRAEL, MY HERITAGE, TOUCHES THE APPLE OF MY EYE>
Zechariah 2:8 ►
New International Version
For this is what the LORD Almighty says: "After the Glorious One has sent me against the nations that have plundered you--for whoever touches you touches the apple of his Eyes!!!!!
New International Version
For this is what the LORD Almighty says: "After the Glorious One has sent me against the nations that have plundered you--for whoever touches you touches the apple of his Eyes!!!!!
TNDL: Zachariah 2.10 “Shout and be glad, Daughter Zion. For I am coming, and I will live among you,” declares the Lord. 11 “Many nations will be joined with the Lord in that day and will become my people. I will live among you and you will know that the Lord Almighty has sent me to you. 12 The Lord will inherit Judah as his portion in the holy land and will again choose Jerusalem. 13 Be still before the Lord, all mankind because he has roused himself from his holy dwelling.”
WHO IS ISREAL’S GOD AND CREATOR
TNDL: “WHO IS ISRAEL’S GOD AND CREATOR, ACCORDING TO DEUTERONOMY 32:8- AND WHO IS THE GENTILES GOD? HERE ARE SOME FACTS OF MOSES SONG OF PRAISE, AND REVELATION.9”
2
4QDeutj
"When Elyon gave the nations as an inheritance when he separated the sons of man, he set the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God (bny 'l[hym]). For Yahweh's portion was his people; Jacob was the lot of his inheritance".
LXX
"When the Highest divided the nations when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the boundaries of the nations according to the number of the angels of God (aggelón theou). And his people Jacob became the portion of the Lord, Israel was the line of his inheritance".
2
4QDeutj
"When Elyon gave the nations as an inheritance when he separated the sons of man, he set the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God (bny 'l[hym]). For Yahweh's portion was his people; Jacob was the lot of his inheritance".
LXX
"When the Highest divided the nations when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the boundaries of the nations according to the number of the angels of God (aggelón theou). And his people Jacob became the portion of the Lord, Israel was the line of his inheritance".
TNDL: “ARE YAH AND EL TWO DIFFERENT GODS, ACCORDING TO DEUTERONOMY 32:8-9? HERE ARE SOME ORIGINAL FACT THAT YOU MAY WANT TO KNOW AND UNDERSTAND!”
Are Yahweh and El Distinct Deities in Deut? 32:8-9 and Psalm 82?
Dr. Michael S. Heiser
Academic Editor, Logos Bible Software, Bellingham, WA
mheiser@logos.com
Citation: Michael S. Heiser, “Are Yahweh and El Distinct Deities in Deut 32:8-9 and Psalm
82?” Hiphil 3 [http://www.see-j.net/hiphil] (2006). Published on October 3, 2006. Read
DD.MM.YYYY.
Introduction
The polytheistic nature of pre-exilic Israelite religion and Israel’s gradual evolution toward
monotheism are taken as axiomatic in current biblical scholarship. This evolution, according
to the consensus view, was achieved through the zealous commitment of Israelite scribes who
edited and reworked the Hebrew Bible to reflect emerging monotheism and to compel the
laity to embrace the idea. One specific feature of Israelite religion offered as proof of this
development is the divine council. Before the exile, Israelite religion affirmed a council of
gods which may or may not have been headed by Yahweh. During and after the exile, the
gods of the council became angels, mere messengers of Yahweh, who by the end of the exilic
period was conceived of as the lone council head over the gods of all nations. Deuteronomy
32:8-9 and Psalm 82 are put forth as rhetorical evidence of this redactional strategy and
assumed religious evolution. The argument is put forth that these texts suggest Yahweh was at
one time a junior member of the pantheon under El the Most High, but that he has now taken
control as king of the gods. Mark S. Smith’s comments are representative:
The author of Psalm 82 deposes the older theology, as Israel's deity is called to assume a new role as judge of all the world. Yet at the same time, Psalm 82, like Deut 32:8-9, preserves the
outlines of the older theology it is rejecting. From the perspective of this older theology,
Yahweh did not belong to the top tier of the pantheon. Instead, in early Israel the god of Israel
apparently belonged to the second tier of the pantheon; he was not the presider god, but one of
his sons.
1
The focus of this paper concerns the position expressed by Smith and held by many
others: whether Yahweh and El are cast as separate deities in Psalm 82 and Deuteronomy 32.
This paper argues that this consensus view lacks coherence on several points. This position is
in part based on the idea that these passages presume Yahweh and El are separate, in concert
with an “older” polytheistic or henotheistic Israelite religion, and that this older theology
collapsed in the wake of a monotheistic innovation. The reasoning is that, since it is presumed
that such a religious evolution took place, these texts evince some sort of transition to
monotheism. The alleged transition is then used in defense of the exegesis. As such, the
security of the evolutionary presupposition is where this analysis begins.
Backdrop to the problem
In the spirit of going where angels—or perhaps gods in this case—fear to tread, in my
dissertation I asked whether this argumentation and the consensus view of Israelite religion it
produces were coherent.2
I came to the position that Israelite religion included a council of
1
Mark S. Smith, The Origins of Biblical Monotheism: Israel’s Polytheistic Background and the Ugaritic Texts (Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2001), 49.
2 Michael S. Heiser, “The Divine Council in Late Canonical and Non-Canonical Second temple Jewish
Michael S. Heiser, “Are Yahweh and El Distinct Deities in Deut 32:8-9 and Psalm 82?” Hiphil 3
[http://www.see-j.net/hiphil] (2006). Published October 3, 2006
2
gods (אלהים (and servant angels (מלאכים (under Yahweh-El from its earliest conceptions
well into the Common Era. This conception included the idea that Yahweh was “species
unique” in the Israelite mind, and so terms such as henotheism, polytheism, and even
monolatry are not sufficiently adequate to label the nature of Israelite religion. Those who
use such terms also assume that אלהים is an ontological term in Israelite religion, denoting
some quality or qualities that points to polytheism if there are more than one אלהים .This
fails to note the use of the term within and without the Hebrew Bible for the departed human
dead and lower messenger beings (מלאכים.(3
Rather, אלהים in Israelite religion denotes the
“plane of reality” or domain to which a being properly belongs (for example, the “spirit
world” versus the “corporeal world”). For these reasons and others it is more fruitful to
describe Israelite religion than seek to define it with a single term.
Questioning the consensus on such matters requires some explanation, and so the path
toward consensus, skepticism is briefly traced below via several examples where the
consensus view suffers in coherence. These examples demonstrate that the consensus view
has been elevated to the status of a presupposition brought to the biblical text that produces
circular reasoning in interpretation.
First, Deutero-Isaiah is hailed as the champion of intolerant monotheism, giving us the
first allegedly clear denials of the existence of other gods. And yet it is an easily demonstrated
fact that every phrase in Deutero-Isaiah that is taken to deny the existence of other gods has
an exact or near exact linguistic parallel in Deuteronomy 4 and 32—two passages which
every scholar of Israelite religion, at least to my knowledge, rightly sees as affirming the
existence of other gods. Deutero-Isaiah actually puts some of the same denial phrasing into
the mouth of personified Babylon in Isaiah 47:8, 10. Should readers conclude that the author
has Babylon denying the existence of other cities? Why is it that the same phrases before
Deutero-Isaiah speak of the incomparability of Yahweh, but afterward communicate a denial
that other gods exist?
Second, the rationale for the shift toward intolerant monotheism is supported by
appeal to the idea that since Yahweh was once a junior member of the pantheon, the belief in
his rulership over the other gods of the nations in a pantheon setting is a late development.
The consensus thinking argues that Yahweh assumes a new role as judge over all the world
and its gods as Israel emerges from the exile.
This assertion is in conflict with several enthronement psalms that date to well before
the exilic period. Psalm 29 is an instructive example. Some scholars date the poetry of this
psalm between the 12th and 10th centuries B.C.E.4 The very first verse contains plural
imperatives directed at the ליםִ֑א ֵניֵ֣בּ , ְpointing to a divine council context. Verse 10
;flood the over enthroned sits LORD Theְ֭ (“יהָוה ַלַמּ֣בּוּל ָיָ֑שׁב ַוֵ֥יּ ֶשׁב ְ֝יהָ֗וה ֶ֣מֶל ְלעוָֹ ֽלם׃ :declares
the LORD sits enthroned as king forever”). In Israelite cosmology, the flood upon which
Yahweh sat was situated over the solid dome that covered the round, flat earth. Since it cannot
coherently be asserted that the author would assert that Gentile nations were not under the
dome and flood, this verse clearly reflects the idea of world kingship. And in Israelite cosmic
geography, reflected in Deuteronomy 32:8-9 and 4:19-20, the nations and their gods were
inseparable. The Song of Moses, among the oldest poetry in the Hebrew Bible, echoes the
Literature” (Ph.D. diss., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2004).
3
Examples in the Hebrew Bible would include Genesis 28:12 (compared with Genesis 32
Dr. Michael S. Heiser
Academic Editor, Logos Bible Software, Bellingham, WA
mheiser@logos.com
Citation: Michael S. Heiser, “Are Yahweh and El Distinct Deities in Deut 32:8-9 and Psalm
82?” Hiphil 3 [http://www.see-j.net/hiphil] (2006). Published on October 3, 2006. Read
DD.MM.YYYY.
Introduction
The polytheistic nature of pre-exilic Israelite religion and Israel’s gradual evolution toward
monotheism are taken as axiomatic in current biblical scholarship. This evolution, according
to the consensus view, was achieved through the zealous commitment of Israelite scribes who
edited and reworked the Hebrew Bible to reflect emerging monotheism and to compel the
laity to embrace the idea. One specific feature of Israelite religion offered as proof of this
development is the divine council. Before the exile, Israelite religion affirmed a council of
gods which may or may not have been headed by Yahweh. During and after the exile, the
gods of the council became angels, mere messengers of Yahweh, who by the end of the exilic
period was conceived of as the lone council head over the gods of all nations. Deuteronomy
32:8-9 and Psalm 82 are put forth as rhetorical evidence of this redactional strategy and
assumed religious evolution. The argument is put forth that these texts suggest Yahweh was at
one time a junior member of the pantheon under El the Most High, but that he has now taken
control as king of the gods. Mark S. Smith’s comments are representative:
The author of Psalm 82 deposes the older theology, as Israel's deity is called to assume a new role as judge of all the world. Yet at the same time, Psalm 82, like Deut 32:8-9, preserves the
outlines of the older theology it is rejecting. From the perspective of this older theology,
Yahweh did not belong to the top tier of the pantheon. Instead, in early Israel the god of Israel
apparently belonged to the second tier of the pantheon; he was not the presider god, but one of
his sons.
1
The focus of this paper concerns the position expressed by Smith and held by many
others: whether Yahweh and El are cast as separate deities in Psalm 82 and Deuteronomy 32.
This paper argues that this consensus view lacks coherence on several points. This position is
in part based on the idea that these passages presume Yahweh and El are separate, in concert
with an “older” polytheistic or henotheistic Israelite religion, and that this older theology
collapsed in the wake of a monotheistic innovation. The reasoning is that, since it is presumed
that such a religious evolution took place, these texts evince some sort of transition to
monotheism. The alleged transition is then used in defense of the exegesis. As such, the
security of the evolutionary presupposition is where this analysis begins.
Backdrop to the problem
In the spirit of going where angels—or perhaps gods in this case—fear to tread, in my
dissertation I asked whether this argumentation and the consensus view of Israelite religion it
produces were coherent.2
I came to the position that Israelite religion included a council of
1
Mark S. Smith, The Origins of Biblical Monotheism: Israel’s Polytheistic Background and the Ugaritic Texts (Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2001), 49.
2 Michael S. Heiser, “The Divine Council in Late Canonical and Non-Canonical Second temple Jewish
Michael S. Heiser, “Are Yahweh and El Distinct Deities in Deut 32:8-9 and Psalm 82?” Hiphil 3
[http://www.see-j.net/hiphil] (2006). Published October 3, 2006
2
gods (אלהים (and servant angels (מלאכים (under Yahweh-El from its earliest conceptions
well into the Common Era. This conception included the idea that Yahweh was “species
unique” in the Israelite mind, and so terms such as henotheism, polytheism, and even
monolatry are not sufficiently adequate to label the nature of Israelite religion. Those who
use such terms also assume that אלהים is an ontological term in Israelite religion, denoting
some quality or qualities that points to polytheism if there are more than one אלהים .This
fails to note the use of the term within and without the Hebrew Bible for the departed human
dead and lower messenger beings (מלאכים.(3
Rather, אלהים in Israelite religion denotes the
“plane of reality” or domain to which a being properly belongs (for example, the “spirit
world” versus the “corporeal world”). For these reasons and others it is more fruitful to
describe Israelite religion than seek to define it with a single term.
Questioning the consensus on such matters requires some explanation, and so the path
toward consensus, skepticism is briefly traced below via several examples where the
consensus view suffers in coherence. These examples demonstrate that the consensus view
has been elevated to the status of a presupposition brought to the biblical text that produces
circular reasoning in interpretation.
First, Deutero-Isaiah is hailed as the champion of intolerant monotheism, giving us the
first allegedly clear denials of the existence of other gods. And yet it is an easily demonstrated
fact that every phrase in Deutero-Isaiah that is taken to deny the existence of other gods has
an exact or near exact linguistic parallel in Deuteronomy 4 and 32—two passages which
every scholar of Israelite religion, at least to my knowledge, rightly sees as affirming the
existence of other gods. Deutero-Isaiah actually puts some of the same denial phrasing into
the mouth of personified Babylon in Isaiah 47:8, 10. Should readers conclude that the author
has Babylon denying the existence of other cities? Why is it that the same phrases before
Deutero-Isaiah speak of the incomparability of Yahweh, but afterward communicate a denial
that other gods exist?
Second, the rationale for the shift toward intolerant monotheism is supported by
appeal to the idea that since Yahweh was once a junior member of the pantheon, the belief in
his rulership over the other gods of the nations in a pantheon setting is a late development.
The consensus thinking argues that Yahweh assumes a new role as judge over all the world
and its gods as Israel emerges from the exile.
This assertion is in conflict with several enthronement psalms that date to well before
the exilic period. Psalm 29 is an instructive example. Some scholars date the poetry of this
psalm between the 12th and 10th centuries B.C.E.4 The very first verse contains plural
imperatives directed at the ליםִ֑א ֵניֵ֣בּ , ְpointing to a divine council context. Verse 10
;flood the over enthroned sits LORD Theְ֭ (“יהָוה ַלַמּ֣בּוּל ָיָ֑שׁב ַוֵ֥יּ ֶשׁב ְ֝יהָ֗וה ֶ֣מֶל ְלעוָֹ ֽלם׃ :declares
the LORD sits enthroned as king forever”). In Israelite cosmology, the flood upon which
Yahweh sat was situated over the solid dome that covered the round, flat earth. Since it cannot
coherently be asserted that the author would assert that Gentile nations were not under the
dome and flood, this verse clearly reflects the idea of world kingship. And in Israelite cosmic
geography, reflected in Deuteronomy 32:8-9 and 4:19-20, the nations and their gods were
inseparable. The Song of Moses, among the oldest poetry in the Hebrew Bible, echoes the
Literature” (Ph.D. diss., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2004).
3
Examples in the Hebrew Bible would include Genesis 28:12 (compared with Genesis 32
TNDL: “WHO IS ISRAEL’S GOD AND CREATOR, ACCORDING TO DEUTERONOMY 32:8- AND WHO IS THE GENTILES GOD? HERE ARE SOME FACTS OF MOSES SONG OF PRAISE, AND REVELATION.9”
2
4QDeutj
"When Elyon gave the nations as an inheritance when he separated the sons of man, he set the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God (bny 'l[hym]). For Yahweh's portion was his people; Jacob was the lot of his inheritance".
LXX
"When the Highest divided the nations when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the boundaries of the nations according to the number of the angels of God (aggelón theou). And his people Jacob became the portion of the Lord, Israel was the line of his inheritance".
2
4QDeutj
"When Elyon gave the nations as an inheritance when he separated the sons of man, he set the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God (bny 'l[hym]). For Yahweh's portion was his people; Jacob was the lot of his inheritance".
LXX
"When the Highest divided the nations when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the boundaries of the nations according to the number of the angels of God (aggelón theou). And his people Jacob became the portion of the Lord, Israel was the line of his inheritance".
ARE THESE THE PEOPLE WHO CALLED THEMSELVES JEWS AND ARE NOT?
“I ALWAYS WONDER WHY THE JEWS CHANGED THE INCIDENT ORIGINAL SCRIPTURE OF MOSES TO WHAT THEY NEED, IN ORDER TO INVENT THEIR OWN APOSTATE RELIGION? ARE THESE THE PEOPLE WHO CALL THEMSELVES JEW AND ARE NO? YESHUA CALLED THEM THE SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN? REVELATION 1-3. IT IS NO SURPRISE WHY YESHUA SPOKE AGAINST THESE UNHOLY PEOPLE, IS IT NOT?” (TNDL)
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TNDL: “THE HISTORY OF NIMROD, THE FIRST KING, OF THE ANCIENT WORLD.” GENESES 10:8.Nimrod
This article is about the biblical king. For other uses, see Nimrod (disambiguation).
Nimrod by David Scott, 1832
Nimrod (/ˈnɪmrɒd/;[1] Hebrew: נִמְרוֹדֿ, Modern: Nimrôd, Tiberian: Nimrôḏ, Aramaic: ܢܡܪܘܕ, Arabic: النمرود an-Namrūd), a biblical figure described as a king in the land of Shinar (Mesopotamia), was, according to the Book of Genesis and Books of Chronicles, the son of Cush, the son of Ham, son of Noah. The Bible states that he was "a mighty hunter before the Lord [and] .... began to be mighty in the earth".[2] Extra-biblical traditions associating him with the Tower of Babel led to his reputation as a king who was rebellious against God.
Attempts to match Nimrod with historically attested figures have failed. Nimrod may not represent any one personage known to history and various authors have identified him with several real and fictional figures of Mesopotamian antiquity, including the Mesopotamian god Ninurta or a conflation of two Akkadian kings Sargon and his grandson Naram-Sin (2254–2218 BCE), and Tukulti-Ninurta I (1243–1207 BCE).
Contents
1 Biblical account
2 Traditions and legends
2.1 Evil Nimrod vs. the righteous Abraham
2.2 Islamic narrative
2.3 Text of the Midrash Rabba version
3 Historical interpretations
4 Literature
5 Idiom
6 See also
7 References
7.1 Citations
7.2 Sources
8 External links
Biblical account
Pieter Bruegel's The Tower of Babel depicts a traditional Nimrod inspecting stonemasons.
The first biblical mention of Nimrod is in the Table of Nations.[3][4] He is described as the son of Cush, grandson of Ham, and great-grandson of Noah; and as "a mighty one in the earth" and "a mighty hunter before the Lord". This is repeated in the First Book of Chronicles 1:10, and the "Land of Nimrod" used as a synonym for Assyria or Mesopotamia, is mentioned in the Book of Micah 5:6:
And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: thus shall he deliver us from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our borders.
Genesis says that the "beginning of his kingdom" (reshit mamlakto) were the towns of "Babel, Erech, Akkad and Calneh in the land of Shinar" (Mesopotamia) (Gen 10:10)—understood variously to imply that he either founded these cities, ruled over them, or both. Owing to an ambiguity in the original Hebrew text, it is unclear whether it is he or Ashur who additionally built Nineveh, Resen, Rehoboth-Ir and Calah (both interpretations are reflected in various English versions). Sir Walter Raleigh devoted several pages in his History of the World (c. 1616) to reciting past scholarship regarding the question of whether it had been Nimrod or Ashur who built the cities in Assyria.[5]
Traditions and legends
In Hebrew and Christian tradition, Nimrod is considered the leader of those who built the Tower of Babel in the land of Shinar,[6] though the Bible never actually states this. Nimrod's kingdom included the cities of Babel, Erech, Akkad, and perhaps Calneh, in Shinar (Ge 10:10).[7] Flavius Josephus believed that it was likely under his direction that the building of Babel and its tower began; in addition to Josephus, this is also the view found in the Talmud (Chullin 89a, Pesahim 94b, Erubin 53a, Avodah Zarah 53b), and later midrash such as Genesis Rabba. Several of these early Judaic sources also assert that the king Amraphel, who wars with Abraham later in Genesis, is none other than Nimrod himself.
Since Accad (Babylonian Akkad) was destroyed and lost with the destruction of its Empire in the period 2200–2154 BCE (long chronology), the stories mentioning Nimrod seem to recall the late Early Bronze Age. The association with Erech (Babylonian Uruk), a city that lost its prime importance around 2,000 BCE as a result of struggles between Isin, Larsa and Elam, also attests the early provenance of the stories of Nimrod. According to some modern-day theorists, their placement in the Bible suggests a Babylonian origin—possibly inserted during the Babylonian captivity.[8]
Judaic interpreters as early as Philo and Yochanan ben Zakai (1st century AD) interpreted "a mighty hunter before the Lord" (Heb.: גבר ציד לפני יהוה, ḡibbōr-ṣayiḏ lip̄nê Yahweh, lit. "in the face of Yahweh") as signifying "in opposition to the Lord"; a similar interpretation is found in Pseudo-Philo, as well as later in Symmachus. Some rabbinic commentators have also connected the name Nimrod with a Hebrew word meaning 'rebel'. In Pseudo-Philo (dated ca. AD 70), Nimrod is made leader of the Hamites, while Joktan as leader of the Semites, and Fenech as leader of the Japhethites, are also associated with the building of the Tower.[9] Versions of this story are again picked up in later works such as Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius (7th century AD).
The Book of Jubilees mentions the name of "Nebrod" (the Greek form of Nimrod) only as being the father of Azurad, the wife of Eber and mother of Peleg (8:7). This account would thus make Nimrod an ancestor of Abraham, and hence of all Hebrews.
Josephus wrote:
Nimrod by Yitzhak Danziger
Now it was Nimrod who excited them to such an affront and contempt of God. He was the grandson of Ham, the son of Noah, a bold man, and of great strength of hand. He persuaded them not to ascribe it to God, as if it were through his means they were happy, but to believe that it was their own courage which procured that happiness. He also gradually changed the government into tyranny, seeing no other way of turning men from the fear of God, but to bring them into a constant dependence on his power. He also said he would be revenged on God, if he should have a mind to drown the world again; for that he would build a tower too high for the waters to reach. And that he would avenge himself on God for destroying their forefathers.
Now the multitude were very ready to follow the determination of Nimrod, and to esteem it a piece of cowardice to submit to God; and they built a tower, neither sparing any pains, nor being in any degree negligent about the work: and, by reason of the multitude of hands employed in it, it grew very high, sooner than any one could expect; but the thickness of it was so great, and it was so strongly built, that thereby its great height seemed, upon the view, to be less than it really was. It was built of burnt brick, cemented together with mortar, made of bitumen, that it might not be liable to admit water. When God saw that they acted so madly, he did not resolve to destroy them utterly, since they were not grown wiser by the destruction of the former sinners; but he caused a tumult among them, by producing in them diverse languages, and causing that, through the multitude of those languages, they should not be able to understand one another. The place wherein they built the tower is now called Babylon, because of the confusion of that language which they readily understood before; for the Hebrews mean by the word Babel, confusion ...
An early Arabic work known as Kitab al-Magall or the Book of Rolls (part of Clementine literature) states that Nimrod built the towns of Hadāniūn, Ellasar, Seleucia, Ctesiphon, Rūhīn, Atrapatene, Telalān, and others, that he began his reign as king over earth when Reu was 163, and that he reigned for 69 years, building Nisibis, Raha (Edessa) and Harran when Peleg was 50. It further adds that Nimrod "saw in the sky a piece of black cloth and a crown." He called upon Sasan the weaver and commanded him to make him a crown like it, which he set jewels on and wore. He was allegedly the first king to wear a crown. "For this reason people who knew nothing about it, said that a crown came down to him from heaven." Later, the book describes how Nimrod established fire worship and idolatry, then received instruction in divination for three years from Bouniter, the fourth son of Noah.[10]
In the Recognitions (R 4.29), one version of the Clementines, Nimrod is equated with the legendary Assyrian king Ninus, who first appears in the Greek historian Ctesias as the founder of Nineveh. However, in another version, the Homilies (H 9:4–6), Nimrod is made to be the same as Zoroaster.
The Syriac Cave of Treasures (ca. 350) contains an account of Nimrod very similar to that in the Kitab al-Magall, except that Nisibis, Edessa and Harran are said to be built by Nimrod when Reu was 50, and that he began his reign as the first king when Reu was 130. In this version, the weaver is called Sisan, and the fourth son of Noah is called Yonton.
Jerome, writing ca. 390, explains in Hebrew Questions on Genesis that after Nimrod reigned in Babel, "he also reigned in Arach [Erech], that is, in Edissa; and in Achad [Accad], which is now called Nisibis; and in Chalanne [Calneh], which was later called Seleucia after King Seleucus when its name had been changed, and which is now in actual fact called Ctesiphon." However, this traditional identification of the cities built by Nimrod in Genesis is no longer accepted by modern scholars, who consider them to be located in Sumer, not Syria.
The Ge'ez Conflict of Adam and Eve with Satan (ca. 5th century) also contains a version similar to that in the Cave of Treasures, but the crown maker is called Santal, and the name of Noah's fourth son who instructs Nimrod is Barvin.
However, Ephrem the Syrian (306–373) relates a contradictory view, that Nimrod was righteous and opposed the builders of the Tower. Similarly, Targum Pseudo-Jonathan (date uncertain) mentions a Jewish tradition that Nimrod left Shinar in southern Mesopotamia and fled to Assyria in northern Mesopotamia, because he refused to take part in building the Tower—for which God rewarded him with the four cities in Assyria, to substitute for the ones in Babel.
Pirke De-Rabbi Eliezer (c. 833) relates the Jewish traditions that Nimrod inherited the garments of Adam and Eve from his father Cush, and that these made him invincible. Nimrod's party then defeated the Japhethites to assume universal rulership. Later, Esau (grandson of Abraham), ambushed, beheaded, and robbed Nimrod. These stories later reappear in other sources including the 16th century Sefer haYashar, which adds that Nimrod had a son named Mardon who was even more wicked.[11]
In the History of the Prophets and Kings by the 9th century Muslim historian al-Tabari, Nimrod has the tower built in Babil, Allah destroys it, and the language of mankind, formerly Syriac, is then confused into 72 languages. Another Muslim historian of the 13th century, Abu al-Fida, relates the same story, adding that the patriarch Eber (an ancestor of Abraham) was allowed to keep the original tongue, Hebrew in this case, because he would not partake in the building. The 10th-century Muslim historian Masudi recounts a legend making the Nimrod who built the tower to be the son of Mash, the son of Aram, son of Shem, adding that he reigned 500 years over the Nabateans. Later, Masudi lists Nimrod as the first king of Babylon, and states that he dug great canals and reigned 60 years. Still elsewhere, he mentions another king Nimrod, son of Canaan, as the one who introduced astrology and attempted to kill Abraham.
In Armenian legend, the ancestor of the Armenian people, Hayk, defeated Nimrod (sometimes equated with Bel) in a battle near Lake Van.
In the Hungarian legend of the Enchanted Stag (more commonly known as the White Stag [Fehér Szarvas] or Silver Stag), King Nimród (aka Ménrót and often described as "Nimród the Giant" or "the giant Nimród", descendant of one of Noah's "most wicked" sons, Kam (references abound in traditions, legends, several religions and historical sources to persons and nations bearing the name of Kam or Kám, and overwhelmingly, the connotations are negative), is the first person referred to as forefather of the Hungarians. He, along with his entire nation, is also the giant responsible for the building of the Tower of Babel—construction of which was supposedly started by him 201 years after the event of the Great Flood (see biblical story of Noah's Ark). After the catastrophic failure (through God's will) of that most ambitious endeavour and in the midst of the ensuing linguistic cacophony, Nimród the giant moved to the land of Evilát, where his wife, Enéh gave birth to twin brothers Hunor and Magyar (aka Magor). Father and sons were, all three of them, prodigious hunters, but Nimród especially is the archetypal, consummate, legendary hunter and archer. Both the Huns' and Magyars' historically attested skill with the recurve bow and arrow are attributed to Nimród. (Simon Kézai, personal "court priest" of King Ladislaus the Cuman, in his Gesta Hungarorum, 1282-85. This tradition can also be found in over twenty other medieval Hungarian chronicles, as well as a German one, according to Dr Antal Endrey in an article published in 1979).
The twin sons of King Nimród, Hunor and Magor, each with 100 warriors, followed the White Stag through the Meotis Marsh, where they lost sight of the magnificent animal. Hunor and Magor found the two daughters of King Dul of the Alans, together with their handmaidens, whom they kidnapped. Hungarian legends held Hunor and Magyar (aka Magor) to be ancestors of the Huns and the Magyars (Hungarians), respectively. According to the Miholjanec legend, Stephen V of Hungary had in front of his tent a golden plate with the inscription: "Attila, the son of Bendeuci, grandson of the great Nimrod, born at Engedi: By the Grace of God King of the Huns, Medes, Goths, Dacians, the horrors of the world and the scourge of God."
Nimrod figures in some very early versions of the history of Freemasonry, where he was said to have been one of the fraternity's founders. According to the Encyclopedia of Freemasonry: The legend of the Craft in the Old Constitutions refers to Nimrod as one of the founders of Masonry. Thus in the York MS., No. 1, we read: "At ye making of ye toure of Babell there was a Masonrie first much esteemed of, and the King of Babilon yt called Nimrod was a Mason himself and loved well Masons." However, he does not figure in the current rituals.[citation needed]
The demon Nyyrikki, figuring in the Finnish Kalevala as a helper of Lemminkäinen, is associated with Nimrod by some researchers and linguists.[12] THE HISTORY OF NIMROD THE FIRST KINGDOM OD ANCIENT TIMES.
Nimrod by David Scott, 1832
Nimrod (/ˈnɪmrɒd/;[1] Hebrew: נִמְרוֹדֿ, Modern: Nimrôd, Tiberian: Nimrôḏ, Aramaic: ܢܡܪܘܕ, Arabic: النمرود an-Namrūd), a biblical figure described as a king in the land of Shinar (Mesopotamia), was, according to the Book of Genesis and Books of Chronicles, the son of Cush, the son of Ham, son of Noah. The Bible states that he was "a mighty hunter before the Lord [and] .... began to be mighty in the earth".[2] Extra-biblical traditions associating him with the Tower of Babel led to his reputation as a king who was rebellious against God.
Attempts to match Nimrod with historically attested figures have failed. Nimrod may not represent any one personage known to history and various authors have identified him with several real and fictional figures of Mesopotamian antiquity, including the Mesopotamian god Ninurta or a conflation of two Akkadian kings Sargon and his grandson Naram-Sin (2254–2218 BCE), and Tukulti-Ninurta I (1243–1207 BCE).
Contents
1 Biblical account
2 Traditions and legends
2.1 Evil Nimrod vs. the righteous Abraham
2.2 Islamic narrative
2.3 Text of the Midrash Rabba version
3 Historical interpretations
4 Literature
5 Idiom
6 See also
7 References
7.1 Citations
7.2 Sources
8 External links
Biblical account
Pieter Bruegel's The Tower of Babel depicts a traditional Nimrod inspecting stonemasons.
The first biblical mention of Nimrod is in the Table of Nations.[3][4] He is described as the son of Cush, grandson of Ham, and great-grandson of Noah; and as "a mighty one in the earth" and "a mighty hunter before the Lord". This is repeated in the First Book of Chronicles 1:10, and the "Land of Nimrod" used as a synonym for Assyria or Mesopotamia, is mentioned in the Book of Micah 5:6:
And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: thus shall he deliver us from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our borders.
Genesis says that the "beginning of his kingdom" (reshit mamlakto) were the towns of "Babel, Erech, Akkad and Calneh in the land of Shinar" (Mesopotamia) (Gen 10:10)—understood variously to imply that he either founded these cities, ruled over them, or both. Owing to an ambiguity in the original Hebrew text, it is unclear whether it is he or Ashur who additionally built Nineveh, Resen, Rehoboth-Ir and Calah (both interpretations are reflected in various English versions). Sir Walter Raleigh devoted several pages in his History of the World (c. 1616) to reciting past scholarship regarding the question of whether it had been Nimrod or Ashur who built the cities in Assyria.[5]
Traditions and legends
In Hebrew and Christian tradition, Nimrod is considered the leader of those who built the Tower of Babel in the land of Shinar,[6] though the Bible never actually states this. Nimrod's kingdom included the cities of Babel, Erech, Akkad, and perhaps Calneh, in Shinar (Ge 10:10).[7] Flavius Josephus believed that it was likely under his direction that the building of Babel and its tower began; in addition to Josephus, this is also the view found in the Talmud (Chullin 89a, Pesahim 94b, Erubin 53a, Avodah Zarah 53b), and later midrash such as Genesis Rabba. Several of these early Judaic sources also assert that the king Amraphel, who wars with Abraham later in Genesis, is none other than Nimrod himself.
Since Accad (Babylonian Akkad) was destroyed and lost with the destruction of its Empire in the period 2200–2154 BCE (long chronology), the stories mentioning Nimrod seem to recall the late Early Bronze Age. The association with Erech (Babylonian Uruk), a city that lost its prime importance around 2,000 BCE as a result of struggles between Isin, Larsa and Elam, also attests the early provenance of the stories of Nimrod. According to some modern-day theorists, their placement in the Bible suggests a Babylonian origin—possibly inserted during the Babylonian captivity.[8]
Judaic interpreters as early as Philo and Yochanan ben Zakai (1st century AD) interpreted "a mighty hunter before the Lord" (Heb.: גבר ציד לפני יהוה, ḡibbōr-ṣayiḏ lip̄nê Yahweh, lit. "in the face of Yahweh") as signifying "in opposition to the Lord"; a similar interpretation is found in Pseudo-Philo, as well as later in Symmachus. Some rabbinic commentators have also connected the name Nimrod with a Hebrew word meaning 'rebel'. In Pseudo-Philo (dated ca. AD 70), Nimrod is made leader of the Hamites, while Joktan as leader of the Semites, and Fenech as leader of the Japhethites, are also associated with the building of the Tower.[9] Versions of this story are again picked up in later works such as Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius (7th century AD).
The Book of Jubilees mentions the name of "Nebrod" (the Greek form of Nimrod) only as being the father of Azurad, the wife of Eber and mother of Peleg (8:7). This account would thus make Nimrod an ancestor of Abraham, and hence of all Hebrews.
Josephus wrote:
Nimrod by Yitzhak Danziger
Now it was Nimrod who excited them to such an affront and contempt of God. He was the grandson of Ham, the son of Noah, a bold man, and of great strength of hand. He persuaded them not to ascribe it to God, as if it were through his means they were happy, but to believe that it was their own courage which procured that happiness. He also gradually changed the government into tyranny, seeing no other way of turning men from the fear of God, but to bring them into a constant dependence on his power. He also said he would be revenged on God, if he should have a mind to drown the world again; for that he would build a tower too high for the waters to reach. And that he would avenge himself on God for destroying their forefathers.
Now the multitude were very ready to follow the determination of Nimrod, and to esteem it a piece of cowardice to submit to God; and they built a tower, neither sparing any pains, nor being in any degree negligent about the work: and, by reason of the multitude of hands employed in it, it grew very high, sooner than any one could expect; but the thickness of it was so great, and it was so strongly built, that thereby its great height seemed, upon the view, to be less than it really was. It was built of burnt brick, cemented together with mortar, made of bitumen, that it might not be liable to admit water. When God saw that they acted so madly, he did not resolve to destroy them utterly, since they were not grown wiser by the destruction of the former sinners; but he caused a tumult among them, by producing in them diverse languages, and causing that, through the multitude of those languages, they should not be able to understand one another. The place wherein they built the tower is now called Babylon, because of the confusion of that language which they readily understood before; for the Hebrews mean by the word Babel, confusion ...
An early Arabic work known as Kitab al-Magall or the Book of Rolls (part of Clementine literature) states that Nimrod built the towns of Hadāniūn, Ellasar, Seleucia, Ctesiphon, Rūhīn, Atrapatene, Telalān, and others, that he began his reign as king over earth when Reu was 163, and that he reigned for 69 years, building Nisibis, Raha (Edessa) and Harran when Peleg was 50. It further adds that Nimrod "saw in the sky a piece of black cloth and a crown." He called upon Sasan the weaver and commanded him to make him a crown like it, which he set jewels on and wore. He was allegedly the first king to wear a crown. "For this reason people who knew nothing about it, said that a crown came down to him from heaven." Later, the book describes how Nimrod established fire worship and idolatry, then received instruction in divination for three years from Bouniter, the fourth son of Noah.[10]
In the Recognitions (R 4.29), one version of the Clementines, Nimrod is equated with the legendary Assyrian king Ninus, who first appears in the Greek historian Ctesias as the founder of Nineveh. However, in another version, the Homilies (H 9:4–6), Nimrod is made to be the same as Zoroaster.
The Syriac Cave of Treasures (ca. 350) contains an account of Nimrod very similar to that in the Kitab al-Magall, except that Nisibis, Edessa and Harran are said to be built by Nimrod when Reu was 50, and that he began his reign as the first king when Reu was 130. In this version, the weaver is called Sisan, and the fourth son of Noah is called Yonton.
Jerome, writing ca. 390, explains in Hebrew Questions on Genesis that after Nimrod reigned in Babel, "he also reigned in Arach [Erech], that is, in Edissa; and in Achad [Accad], which is now called Nisibis; and in Chalanne [Calneh], which was later called Seleucia after King Seleucus when its name had been changed, and which is now in actual fact called Ctesiphon." However, this traditional identification of the cities built by Nimrod in Genesis is no longer accepted by modern scholars, who consider them to be located in Sumer, not Syria.
The Ge'ez Conflict of Adam and Eve with Satan (ca. 5th century) also contains a version similar to that in the Cave of Treasures, but the crown maker is called Santal, and the name of Noah's fourth son who instructs Nimrod is Barvin.
However, Ephrem the Syrian (306–373) relates a contradictory view, that Nimrod was righteous and opposed the builders of the Tower. Similarly, Targum Pseudo-Jonathan (date uncertain) mentions a Jewish tradition that Nimrod left Shinar in southern Mesopotamia and fled to Assyria in northern Mesopotamia, because he refused to take part in building the Tower—for which God rewarded him with the four cities in Assyria, to substitute for the ones in Babel.
Pirke De-Rabbi Eliezer (c. 833) relates the Jewish traditions that Nimrod inherited the garments of Adam and Eve from his father Cush, and that these made him invincible. Nimrod's party then defeated the Japhethites to assume universal rulership. Later, Esau (grandson of Abraham), ambushed, beheaded, and robbed Nimrod. These stories later reappear in other sources including the 16th century Sefer haYashar, which adds that Nimrod had a son named Mardon who was even more wicked.[11]
In the History of the Prophets and Kings by the 9th century Muslim historian al-Tabari, Nimrod has the tower built in Babil, Allah destroys it, and the language of mankind, formerly Syriac, is then confused into 72 languages. Another Muslim historian of the 13th century, Abu al-Fida, relates the same story, adding that the patriarch Eber (an ancestor of Abraham) was allowed to keep the original tongue, Hebrew in this case, because he would not partake in the building. The 10th-century Muslim historian Masudi recounts a legend making the Nimrod who built the tower to be the son of Mash, the son of Aram, son of Shem, adding that he reigned 500 years over the Nabateans. Later, Masudi lists Nimrod as the first king of Babylon, and states that he dug great canals and reigned 60 years. Still elsewhere, he mentions another king Nimrod, son of Canaan, as the one who introduced astrology and attempted to kill Abraham.
In Armenian legend, the ancestor of the Armenian people, Hayk, defeated Nimrod (sometimes equated with Bel) in a battle near Lake Van.
In the Hungarian legend of the Enchanted Stag (more commonly known as the White Stag [Fehér Szarvas] or Silver Stag), King Nimród (aka Ménrót and often described as "Nimród the Giant" or "the giant Nimród", descendant of one of Noah's "most wicked" sons, Kam (references abound in traditions, legends, several religions and historical sources to persons and nations bearing the name of Kam or Kám, and overwhelmingly, the connotations are negative), is the first person referred to as forefather of the Hungarians. He, along with his entire nation, is also the giant responsible for the building of the Tower of Babel—construction of which was supposedly started by him 201 years after the event of the Great Flood (see biblical story of Noah's Ark). After the catastrophic failure (through God's will) of that most ambitious endeavour and in the midst of the ensuing linguistic cacophony, Nimród the giant moved to the land of Evilát, where his wife, Enéh gave birth to twin brothers Hunor and Magyar (aka Magor). Father and sons were, all three of them, prodigious hunters, but Nimród especially is the archetypal, consummate, legendary hunter and archer. Both the Huns' and Magyars' historically attested skill with the recurve bow and arrow are attributed to Nimród. (Simon Kézai, personal "court priest" of King Ladislaus the Cuman, in his Gesta Hungarorum, 1282-85. This tradition can also be found in over twenty other medieval Hungarian chronicles, as well as a German one, according to Dr Antal Endrey in an article published in 1979).
The twin sons of King Nimród, Hunor and Magor, each with 100 warriors, followed the White Stag through the Meotis Marsh, where they lost sight of the magnificent animal. Hunor and Magor found the two daughters of King Dul of the Alans, together with their handmaidens, whom they kidnapped. Hungarian legends held Hunor and Magyar (aka Magor) to be ancestors of the Huns and the Magyars (Hungarians), respectively. According to the Miholjanec legend, Stephen V of Hungary had in front of his tent a golden plate with the inscription: "Attila, the son of Bendeuci, grandson of the great Nimrod, born at Engedi: By the Grace of God King of the Huns, Medes, Goths, Dacians, the horrors of the world and the scourge of God."
Nimrod figures in some very early versions of the history of Freemasonry, where he was said to have been one of the fraternity's founders. According to the Encyclopedia of Freemasonry: The legend of the Craft in the Old Constitutions refers to Nimrod as one of the founders of Masonry. Thus in the York MS., No. 1, we read: "At ye making of ye toure of Babell there was a Masonrie first much esteemed of, and the King of Babilon yt called Nimrod was a Mason himself and loved well Masons." However, he does not figure in the current rituals.[citation needed]
The demon Nyyrikki, figuring in the Finnish Kalevala as a helper of Lemminkäinen, is associated with Nimrod by some researchers and linguists.[12] THE HISTORY OF NIMROD THE FIRST KINGDOM OD ANCIENT TIMES.
Saturday, March 23, 2019
Friday, March 22, 2019
YESHUA THE LAMB SHED HIS BLOOD
Rev/Vision: June 15, 2015: “I saw and heard the Spirit of El Elyon Yeshua Michael, the new Divine Logos and eternal Father, say that, ‘The blood of Yeshua, the Lamb of Elyon, that flows from day to day, shall never lose its power.’ Also, I saw and heard that, ‘Yeshua, the Lamb, died for sinners! He is a very special person.’ I saw and heard also that, ‘Only Yeshua’s fullness of Grace could make Yeshua die for sinners.’ ” (TNDL)
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TNDL: “THE NEW COVENANT YAHWEH SHALL MAKE WITH THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL, HIS WIFE, AFTER THEY REPENT AND RETURN TO THEIR FORMER HUSBAND.”
A New Covenant
31 “Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah— 32 not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, [h]though I was a husband to them, says the Lord. 33 But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their [i]hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. 34 No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.”
35 Thus says the Lord,
Who gives the sun for a light by day,
The ordinances of the moon and the stars for a light by night,
Who disturbs the sea,
And its waves roar
(The Lord of hosts is His name):
36 “If those ordinances depart
From before Me, says the Lord,
Then the seed of Israel shall also cease
From being a nation before Me forever.”
31 “Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah— 32 not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, [h]though I was a husband to them, says the Lord. 33 But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their [i]hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. 34 No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.”
35 Thus says the Lord,
Who gives the sun for a light by day,
The ordinances of the moon and the stars for a light by night,
Who disturbs the sea,
And its waves roar
(The Lord of hosts is His name):
36 “If those ordinances depart
From before Me, says the Lord,
Then the seed of Israel shall also cease
From being a nation before Me forever.”
FEAR THE MOST HIGH GOD AND GIVE HIM THE GLORY!!!
“FEARING THE MOST HIGH GOD AND GIVING HIM THE GLORY THAT HE DESERVES REVELATION 14:7, IS TO MAKE HIM AND HIS NAME AND WAYS KNOWN TO ALL PEOPLE AND NATIONS OF THE EARTH IN PRAISE, GLORY, THANKSGIVING, HONOUR AND MUCH RESPECT! THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT CAIN AND HIS DESCENDANTS HAVE BEEN DOING SINCE CAIN MURDERED ABEL, GENESIS CHAPT. 3 & 4. SINCE THE DAYS of ENOCH, CAIN'S GRANDSON, NOT ENOCH WHO WALKED WITH GOD, MOST HIGH, AND WAS TAKEN BY GOD. CAIN'S ENOCH, GOT HIS DESCENDANTS TO REJECT THE CREATOR OF HEAVEN AND EARTH, AND DID EVERYTHING THAT DISPLEASES GOD. THE CAIN'S VIEW IS THAT MAN DEPENDS UPON HIS OWN MERIT AND RIGHTEOUSNESS FOR HIS SALVATION AND NOT ANY OTHER GOD. THEREFORE, SINCE CAIN KILLED ABEL AND JUDGEMENT WAS PRONOUNCED ON CAIN, THERE HAS BEEN A REBELLIOUS WAR BETWEEN CAIN’S PEOPLE AND THE DESCENDANTS OF ADAM. THIS WAR CONTINUED UNTO THIS DAY. THE BLOODLINE OF CAIN ARE STILL BY THEIR NATURE, MURDERERS, HAVE NO EMPATHY FOR ADAM'S PEOPLE. NOR DO THEY FEAR THE LORD, YAHWEH ELYON, THE CREATOR OF HEAVEN AND EARTH. CAIN'S BLOODLINE WAS IN NOAH’S ARK THROUGH HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN. WHEN NOAH LANDED ON THE OTHER SIDE SAFELY, HIS 3 SONS AND THEIR WIVES STARTED A NEW AGE OF PEOPLE. THEN CAME NIMROD, WHO ALSO REBELLED AGAINST THE CREATOR OF HEAVEN AND EARTH. THE NEW AGE PEOPLE OF NIMROD’S TIME PERIOD ALSO PRAISED THEMSELVES, AND NOT GOD, MOST HIGH, NOR DID THEY RELIED ON GOD MERIT AND RIGHTEOUSNESS FOR THEIR SALVATION, THEY DEPEND ON THEIR OWN. SO THEY DID NOT FEAR GOD NOR GIVE HIM GLORY! THIS IS THE ENMITY BETWEEN ADAM’S SEED AND THE SERPENT’S IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN. GENESIS 3 15. THEREFORE, ACCORDING TO REVELATION 14:7, THERE WILL BE A NEW GOSPEL (GOO NEWS) WHICH IS TO FEAR GOD AND GIVE GLORY! AT THAT TIME OF THE AGE, ALL THINGS SHALL BE MADE NEW.” (TNDL)
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THE HIGHEST GOD WILL POUR OUT OF HIS SPIRIT UPON ALL FLASH
TNDL: ‘According to the seer prophet Joel 2, the Highest GOD, will pour out of his Spirit upon ‘ALL FLESH: people, men, women, children, girls, boys, elderly people, leaders and servants. Not as He did with the children of the Israelites, whereby most of the Old Testament were Seer prophets, only a few distinct women were Seer prophets. Joel 2. God’s Spirit Poured Out”
28 “And it shall come to pass afterward
That I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh;
Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,
Your old men shall dream dreams,
Your young men shall see visions.
29 And also on My menservants and on My maidservants
I will pour out My Spirit in those days.
30 “And I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth:
Blood and fire and pillars of smoke.
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness,
And the moon into blood,
Before the coming of the great and awesome day of the Lord.
32 And it shall come to pass
That whoever calls on the name of the Lord
Shall be [l]saved.
For in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be [m]deliverance,
As the Lord has said,
Among the remnant whom the Lord calls. (TNDL)
28 “And it shall come to pass afterward
That I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh;
Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,
Your old men shall dream dreams,
Your young men shall see visions.
29 And also on My menservants and on My maidservants
I will pour out My Spirit in those days.
30 “And I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth:
Blood and fire and pillars of smoke.
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness,
And the moon into blood,
Before the coming of the great and awesome day of the Lord.
32 And it shall come to pass
That whoever calls on the name of the Lord
Shall be [l]saved.
For in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be [m]deliverance,
As the Lord has said,
Among the remnant whom the Lord calls. (TNDL)
Thursday, March 21, 2019
TNDL: “THE WICKEDNESS OF HUMANS BECAME SO GREAT ON THE EARTH, THAT HE HAD TO DESTROY THE GIANT PEOPLE WITH A FLOOD OF WATER! “
Genesis 6 New International Version (NIV)
Wickedness in the World
6 When human beings began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them, 2 the sons of God saw that the daughters of humans were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose. 3 Then the Lord said, “My Spirit will not contend with[a] humans forever, for they are mortal[b]; their days will be a hundred and twenty years.”
4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.
5 The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time. 6 The Lord regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled. 7 So the Lord said, “I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created—and with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the ground—for I regret that I have made them.” 8 But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord.
Noah and the Flood
9 This is the account of Noah and his family.
Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked faithfully with God. 10 Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham and Japheth.
11 Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight and was full of violence. 12 God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways. 13 So God said to Noah, “I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth. 14 So make yourself an ark of cypress[c] wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out. 15 This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high.[d] 16 Make a roof for it, leaving below the roof an opening one cubit[e] high all around.[f] Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks. 17 I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish. 18 But I will establish my covenant with you, and you will enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you. 19 You are to bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you. 20 Two of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal and of every kind of creature that moves along the ground will come to you to be kept alive. 21 You are to take every kind of food that is to be eaten and store it away as food for you and for them.”
22 Noah did everything just as God commanded him.
Footnotes:
Genesis 6:3 Or My spirit will not remain in
Genesis 6:3 Or corrupt
Genesis 6:14 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.
Genesis 6:15 That is, about 450 feet long, 75 feet wide and 45 feet high or about 135 meters long, 23 meters wide and 14 meters high
Genesis 6:16 That is, about 18 inches or about 45 centimeters
Genesis 6:16 The meaning of the Hebrew for this clause is uncertain.
Wickedness in the World
6 When human beings began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them, 2 the sons of God saw that the daughters of humans were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose. 3 Then the Lord said, “My Spirit will not contend with[a] humans forever, for they are mortal[b]; their days will be a hundred and twenty years.”
4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.
5 The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time. 6 The Lord regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled. 7 So the Lord said, “I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created—and with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the ground—for I regret that I have made them.” 8 But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord.
Noah and the Flood
9 This is the account of Noah and his family.
Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked faithfully with God. 10 Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham and Japheth.
11 Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight and was full of violence. 12 God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways. 13 So God said to Noah, “I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth. 14 So make yourself an ark of cypress[c] wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out. 15 This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high.[d] 16 Make a roof for it, leaving below the roof an opening one cubit[e] high all around.[f] Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks. 17 I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish. 18 But I will establish my covenant with you, and you will enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you. 19 You are to bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you. 20 Two of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal and of every kind of creature that moves along the ground will come to you to be kept alive. 21 You are to take every kind of food that is to be eaten and store it away as food for you and for them.”
22 Noah did everything just as God commanded him.
Footnotes:
Genesis 6:3 Or My spirit will not remain in
Genesis 6:3 Or corrupt
Genesis 6:14 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.
Genesis 6:15 That is, about 450 feet long, 75 feet wide and 45 feet high or about 135 meters long, 23 meters wide and 14 meters high
Genesis 6:16 That is, about 18 inches or about 45 centimeters
Genesis 6:16 The meaning of the Hebrew for this clause is uncertain.
TNDL: 7 He saw th~t ma~y of the Phari.sees, that is, Pharizei, and (Sadducees) came to his baptism and he said to them: (Offspring of serpents, who 8 taught you) to flee from the wrath to come from God? Produce the fruit of perfect repentance. 9 Do not say in your heart: Abraham is our father. Truly I say to you that God is able to raise up his son Abraham from these stones 10 • (Already the axe has reached the root of the tree; the one which does not produce good fruit will be cut down and burned in the fire.
YESHUA'S GUIDELINE TO REACH YOUR GOAL
SUCCESS BREEDS SUCCESS. WHEN ONE HAS A VOCATION IN LIFE, IN ORDER TO ATTAIN ONE'S DREAM, HE OR SHE MUST DO FIVE THINGS: (1) SET YOUR GOAL (2) MAKE A PLAN(3) GO TO WORK (4) STICK TO IT, AND (5) REACH YOUR GOAL. WHEN YOU START, NEVER QUITE NOR LET ANYONE STEAL YOUR DREAM, BECAUSE THERE ARE DREAM STEALERS OUT THERE THAT ARE WAITING TO KNOCK YOU OFF YOUR PATH TO SUCCESS. YESHUA TRAVELLED ON THIS PATH AND REACH HIS GOAL. (TNDL)
TNDL: “Geneses 2-5.2. Sin Challenged God’s Authority over His Kingdom
Scripture speaks of Satan’s rebellion against God, which consequently led to the institution of the fallen angel’s establishment of a counterfeit kingdom on earth.”
Revelation 12:4: “Its tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky and flung them to the earth. The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth so that it might devour her child the moment he was born.”
2 Corinthians 4:4: “The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers so that they cannot see the light of the gospel that displays the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.”
In Genesis 2, Satan convinced the first humans to trust in themselves, rather than in God’s wisdom, leading them to break fellowship with their Sovereign Creator. Instead of operating out of respect of God’s sovereignty, man desired to trust in half-truths and personal desire. The consequence of their sin was they had to leave the garden, a symbol of perfect provision by their Sustainer.
Revelation 12:4: “Its tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky and flung them to the earth. The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth so that it might devour her child the moment he was born.”
2 Corinthians 4:4: “The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers so that they cannot see the light of the gospel that displays the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.”
In Genesis 2, Satan convinced the first humans to trust in themselves, rather than in God’s wisdom, leading them to break fellowship with their Sovereign Creator. Instead of operating out of respect of God’s sovereignty, man desired to trust in half-truths and personal desire. The consequence of their sin was they had to leave the garden, a symbol of perfect provision by their Sustainer.
THIS, THEN, IS HOW YOU SHOULD PRAY
Matthew 6 kjv
TNDL: 9 “This, then, is how you should pray:
“‘Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name,
10 your kingdom come,
your will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
11 Give us today our daily bread.
12 And forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven our debtors.
13 And lead us not into temptation,[a]
but deliver us from the evil one.[b]’
14 For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. 15 But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.
TNDL: 9 “This, then, is how you should pray:
“‘Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name,
10 your kingdom come,
your will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
11 Give us today our daily bread.
12 And forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven our debtors.
13 And lead us not into temptation,[a]
but deliver us from the evil one.[b]’
14 For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. 15 But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.
TNDL: “THE SONS OF EL-ELYON ARE GATHERED TOGETHER IN COUNSEL MEETING, AND SATAN ALSO CAME TO JOIN IN THE COUNCIL OF THE HIGHEST AND THE OTHER SONS. “
Job 1 New King James Version (NKJV)
Job and His Family in Uz
1 There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God and [a]shunned evil. 2 And seven sons and three daughters were born to him. 3 Also, his possessions were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and a very large household, so that this man was the greatest of all the [b]people of the East.
4 And his sons would go and feast in their houses, each on his appointed day, and would send and invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them. 5 So it was, when the days of feasting had run their course, that Job would send and [c]sanctify them, and he would rise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, “It may be that my sons have sinned and cursed[d] God in their hearts.” Thus Job did regularly.
Satan Attacks Job’s Character
6 Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and [e]Satan also came among them. 7 And the Lord said to [f]Satan, “From where do you come?”
So Satan answered the Lord and said, “From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking back and forth on it.”
8 Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you [g]considered My servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, one who fears God and [h]shuns evil?”
9 So Satan answered the Lord and said, “Does Job fear God for nothing? 10 Have You not [i]made a hedge around him, around his household, and around all that he has on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land. 11 But now, stretch out Your hand and touch all that he has, and he will surely curse[j] You to Your face!”
12 And the Lord said to Satan, “Behold, all that he has is in your [k]power; only do not lay a hand on his person.”
So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord.
Job and His Family in Uz
1 There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God and [a]shunned evil. 2 And seven sons and three daughters were born to him. 3 Also, his possessions were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and a very large household, so that this man was the greatest of all the [b]people of the East.
4 And his sons would go and feast in their houses, each on his appointed day, and would send and invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them. 5 So it was, when the days of feasting had run their course, that Job would send and [c]sanctify them, and he would rise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, “It may be that my sons have sinned and cursed[d] God in their hearts.” Thus Job did regularly.
Satan Attacks Job’s Character
6 Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and [e]Satan also came among them. 7 And the Lord said to [f]Satan, “From where do you come?”
So Satan answered the Lord and said, “From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking back and forth on it.”
8 Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you [g]considered My servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, one who fears God and [h]shuns evil?”
9 So Satan answered the Lord and said, “Does Job fear God for nothing? 10 Have You not [i]made a hedge around him, around his household, and around all that he has on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land. 11 But now, stretch out Your hand and touch all that he has, and he will surely curse[j] You to Your face!”
12 And the Lord said to Satan, “Behold, all that he has is in your [k]power; only do not lay a hand on his person.”
So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord.
Wednesday, March 20, 2019
YESHUA MICHAEL'S BLESSINGS
TNDL: “THE LORD, YESHUA MICHAEL, THE ONLY BEGOTTEN SON OF EL-ELYON, HAS RECEIVED GREAT ALMIGHTY POWER AND AUTHORITY FROM HIS ETERNAL HEAVENLY FATHER, IN HEAVEN AND ON EARTH, TO EXECUTE BLESSINGS AND JUDGMENT TO ALL PEOPLE ON THE EARTH IN THE CELESTIAL AND THE TERRESTRIAL REALMS. SEE REVELATION 11.15.” And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign forever and ever.
16 And the four and twenty elders, which sat before God on their seats, fell upon their faces, and worshipped God,
17 Saying, We give thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come; because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and hast reigned.(TNDL)
16 And the four and twenty elders, which sat before God on their seats, fell upon their faces, and worshipped God,
17 Saying, We give thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come; because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and hast reigned.(TNDL)
“BRITANNIA ( THE COVENANT PEOPLE OF THE LORD YAH ELYON, THE highest) SHE SHALL NEVER FALL AWAY; SHE remains UNTIL SHILOH COMES. The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be. Geneses 49.10. “ (TNDL)
THE LOGOS WHAT IS IT?
"THE LOGOS (WORD) WHAT IS IT AND WHO WERE THE FIRST ON EARTH TO KNOW ABOUT THE LOGOS? LET US NOT BE IGNORANT OF THIS MOST SIGNIFICANT NAME, BECAUSE IT IS THE ONLY ONE THAT HAS BEEN GIVEN TO MAKE LIFE IN THE KOSMIC UNIVERSE AND GIVE HUMANITY THE HOPE OF SALVATION AND REDEMPTION!" (TNDL)
"KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THE LOGOS (WORD) WHICH WAS KNOWN BEFORE THE CHRISTIAN ERA BY THE ANCIENT ORIGINAL SERVERS, LONG BEFORE ABRAM OF THE CHALDEANS." (TNDL)
WHO IS YESHUA THE LOGOS?
"WHO IS YESHUA, THE LOGOS, GREEK, FOR THE WORD? HE IS THE ONLY BEGOTTEN SON OF HIS ETERNAL HEAVENLY FATHER; HE HIS MANKIND ONLY SAVIOUR, REDEEMER AND WAY TO GOD, MOST HIGH; BUILDER OF HIS FATHER'S SPIRITUAL KINGDOM AND POSSESSOR OF HEAVEN AND EARTH, THE MORNING STAR, ACCORDING TO REVELATION 22. HE IS THE SUN OR RIGHTEOUSNESS IN MALACHI 3, WHO COMES WITH HEALING IN HIS CROWN/WINGS. HE IS OUR ALL IN ALL. THE ‘WORD’, WAS MADE FLESH AND DWELL AMONG US AND WE BEHELD IS GLORY, THE GLORY OF THE BELOVED SON AND ONLY BEGOTTEN SON OF THE ETERNAL HEAVENLY, FULL OF GRACE AND TRUTH. LOOK AT GOSPEL OF JOHN 1 WHICH STATED, ‘IN A BEGINNING WAS THE WORD’. HALLELUJAH, HALLELUJAH, HALLELUJAH! PRAISE HIM, PRAISE HIM AND PRAISE HIM! HE IS THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS AND THE WORD OF GOD, MOST HIGH!" (TNDL)
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"KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THE LOGOS (WORD) WHICH WAS KNOWN BEFORE THE CHRISTIAN ERA BY THE ANCIENT ORIGINAL SERVERS, LONG BEFORE ABRAM OF THE CHALDEANS." (TNDL)
WHO IS YESHUA THE LOGOS?
"WHO IS YESHUA, THE LOGOS, GREEK, FOR THE WORD? HE IS THE ONLY BEGOTTEN SON OF HIS ETERNAL HEAVENLY FATHER; HE HIS MANKIND ONLY SAVIOUR, REDEEMER AND WAY TO GOD, MOST HIGH; BUILDER OF HIS FATHER'S SPIRITUAL KINGDOM AND POSSESSOR OF HEAVEN AND EARTH, THE MORNING STAR, ACCORDING TO REVELATION 22. HE IS THE SUN OR RIGHTEOUSNESS IN MALACHI 3, WHO COMES WITH HEALING IN HIS CROWN/WINGS. HE IS OUR ALL IN ALL. THE ‘WORD’, WAS MADE FLESH AND DWELL AMONG US AND WE BEHELD IS GLORY, THE GLORY OF THE BELOVED SON AND ONLY BEGOTTEN SON OF THE ETERNAL HEAVENLY, FULL OF GRACE AND TRUTH. LOOK AT GOSPEL OF JOHN 1 WHICH STATED, ‘IN A BEGINNING WAS THE WORD’. HALLELUJAH, HALLELUJAH, HALLELUJAH! PRAISE HIM, PRAISE HIM AND PRAISE HIM! HE IS THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS AND THE WORD OF GOD, MOST HIGH!" (TNDL)
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Tuesday, March 19, 2019
THE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE FULL TRUTH
“ABOUT THE ENGLISH VERSION OF JOHN 1. There are some of those bible readers, Cribs, and theologians who are enclosed in a box like mind set, know the truth, but will not give us the truth, due to not wanting their fame or popularity to be taken away. For example: in John I of the English and Greek version, it states, in a beginning was the Logos (Word) whereby, in the several English version it says, in the beginning was the Word. I would say, anyone with at least a grade 12 Greek knowledge knows that in the Greek version it is, ‘In a beginning’, because the gospel of John was written in Greek. Here is what the Greek version says. Koine Greek: Ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ λόγος, καὶ ὁ λόγ... you may notice, that there is a definite article over the an (in Evopxn). Which interprets in a beginning was the Word (Logos) and not in the beginning was the word. All things were made by him. Also notice the word that was used in not '[CREATE, BUT MADE.’ These are two different words which have two different meanings, according to the Oxford Dictionary, in order that the true seekers knowledge of the scriptures is well understood and not be confused. This is the Scribes doing. Remember what Jeremiah 8:8 said about the scribes with the lying pen. Now, in Genesis chap I, it stated that God created the heaven and the earth. Notice: God creates, and His only begotten Son, makes. makes in John 1.” (TNDL)
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EL ELYON THE GREATEST CHESS PLAYER
”Revs/Visions, November 27, 2015: (1) I saw Yahweh Elyon standing behind what appears to be the globe (the whole earth). I was made to understand in the vision that the earth is the Most High GOD chessboard. And what is happening in the world today, it is His game that is played out. It is the chess game that has been going on for a very long time. To truly understand what is going on in the world, we have to be able to see it through the e...yes of our Eternal Father (Yahweh Elyon). To understand the essence of this global game, we must get to know or plug into Yahweh Elyon Yeshua, so that He can explain it to us.” (JW/TNDL)
(2) “I saw myself climbing a very high and steep mountain. It was explained to me that getting to know Yahweh Elyon and follow His ways is like climbing a very high mountain. At times, it is disheartening and scary, but we must keep going.” (JW/TNDL)
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(2) “I saw myself climbing a very high and steep mountain. It was explained to me that getting to know Yahweh Elyon and follow His ways is like climbing a very high mountain. At times, it is disheartening and scary, but we must keep going.” (JW/TNDL)
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Monday, March 18, 2019
SIN-CHALLENGE OF GOD'S AUTHORITY
TNDL: “Geneses 2-5.2. Sin Challenged God’s Authority over His Kingdom.
Scripture speaks of Satan’s rebellion against God, which consequently led to the institution of the fallen angel’s establishment of a counterfeit kingdom on earth.”
Revelation 12:4: “Its tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky and flung them to the earth. The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth so that it might devour her child the moment he was born.”
2 Corinthians 4:4: “The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers so that they cannot see the light of the gospel that displays the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.”
In Genesis 2, Satan convinced the first humans to trust in themselves, rather than in God’s wisdom, leading them to break fellowship with their Sovereign Creator. Instead of operating out of respect of God’s sovereignty, man desired to trust in half-truths and personal desire. The consequence of their sin was they had to leave the garden, a symbol of perfect provision by their Sustainer.
Scripture speaks of Satan’s rebellion against God, which consequently led to the institution of the fallen angel’s establishment of a counterfeit kingdom on earth.”
Revelation 12:4: “Its tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky and flung them to the earth. The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth so that it might devour her child the moment he was born.”
2 Corinthians 4:4: “The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers so that they cannot see the light of the gospel that displays the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.”
In Genesis 2, Satan convinced the first humans to trust in themselves, rather than in God’s wisdom, leading them to break fellowship with their Sovereign Creator. Instead of operating out of respect of God’s sovereignty, man desired to trust in half-truths and personal desire. The consequence of their sin was they had to leave the garden, a symbol of perfect provision by their Sustainer.
SATAN IS THE CAUSE OF SIN
TNDL: “Who was it that caused sin, the fall of humanity and the end of El-ELYON Sovereign rule and the Kingdom of heaven on earth, according to Genesis 2-5? It was Satan, the red dragon or the Snake man. So, who is to blame? Lucifer, the bearer of the false light, evil men of authority, as Cain descendants or all three? 2 Corinthians 4:4: ‘The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers so that they cannot see the light of the gospel that displays the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.’
In Genesis 2, Satan convinced the first humans to trust in themselves, rather than in God’s wisdom, leading them to break fellowship with their Sovereign Creator. Instead of operating out of respect of God’s sovereignty, man desired to trust in half-truths and personal desire. The consequence of their sin was they had to leave the garden, a symbol of perfect provision by their Sustainer.” TNDL
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In Genesis 2, Satan convinced the first humans to trust in themselves, rather than in God’s wisdom, leading them to break fellowship with their Sovereign Creator. Instead of operating out of respect of God’s sovereignty, man desired to trust in half-truths and personal desire. The consequence of their sin was they had to leave the garden, a symbol of perfect provision by their Sustainer.” TNDL
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Sunday, March 17, 2019
TNDL: “KING DAVID’S NEW ZION AND NEW JERUSALEM!”
The Glory of God in Zion
A Song. A Psalm of the sons of Korah.
1Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised
In the Ps. 46:4; 87:3; Matt. 5:35city of our God,
In His holy mountain.
2Ps. 50:2Beautiful in elevation,
The joy of the whole earth,
Is Mount Zion on the sides of the north,
The city of the great King.
3God is in her palaces;
He is known as her refuge.
4For behold, 2 Sam. 10:6, 14the kings assembled,
They passed by together.
5They saw it, and so they marveled;
They were troubled, they hastened away.
6Fear Ex. 15:15took hold of them there,
And pain, as of a woman in birth pangs,
7As when You break the 1 Kin. 10:22; Ezek. 27:25ships of Tarshish
With an east wind.
8As we have heard,
So we have seen
In the city of the Lord of hosts,
In the city of our God:
God will (Ps. 87:5; Is. 2:2); Mic. 4:1establish it forever.
Selah
9We have thought, O God, on Ps. 26:3Your lovingkindness,
In the midst of Your temple.
10According to (Deut. 28:58); Josh. 7:9; Mal. 1:11Your name, O God,
So is Your praise to the ends of the earth;
Your right hand is full of righteousness.
11Let Mount Zion rejoice,
Let the daughters of Judah be glad,
Because of Your judgments.
12Walk about Zion,
And go all around her.
Count her towers;
13Mark well her bulwarks;
Consider her palaces;
That you may (Ps. 78:5–7)tell it to the generation following.
14For this is God,
Our God forever and ever;
Is. 58:11He will be our guide
Even to death.
A Song. A Psalm of the sons of Korah.
1Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised
In the Ps. 46:4; 87:3; Matt. 5:35city of our God,
In His holy mountain.
2Ps. 50:2Beautiful in elevation,
The joy of the whole earth,
Is Mount Zion on the sides of the north,
The city of the great King.
3God is in her palaces;
He is known as her refuge.
4For behold, 2 Sam. 10:6, 14the kings assembled,
They passed by together.
5They saw it, and so they marveled;
They were troubled, they hastened away.
6Fear Ex. 15:15took hold of them there,
And pain, as of a woman in birth pangs,
7As when You break the 1 Kin. 10:22; Ezek. 27:25ships of Tarshish
With an east wind.
8As we have heard,
So we have seen
In the city of the Lord of hosts,
In the city of our God:
God will (Ps. 87:5; Is. 2:2); Mic. 4:1establish it forever.
Selah
9We have thought, O God, on Ps. 26:3Your lovingkindness,
In the midst of Your temple.
10According to (Deut. 28:58); Josh. 7:9; Mal. 1:11Your name, O God,
So is Your praise to the ends of the earth;
Your right hand is full of righteousness.
11Let Mount Zion rejoice,
Let the daughters of Judah be glad,
Because of Your judgments.
12Walk about Zion,
And go all around her.
Count her towers;
13Mark well her bulwarks;
Consider her palaces;
That you may (Ps. 78:5–7)tell it to the generation following.
14For this is God,
Our God forever and ever;
Is. 58:11He will be our guide
Even to death.
THE END TIME IS HERE!!
Prophecies throughout the ages which must come to pass.
Be aware of the appearance of Satan and his opposition
Michael the great Archangel. Satan comes in the form of
evil in the mind, soul, and spirit of men. However,
Michael (the One who is like GOD, Elyon/Yeshua) comes as
the true living Light who will defeat and destroy the
Evil one, Lucifer and his works, giving earth perfect deliverance. (TNDL)
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Be aware of the appearance of Satan and his opposition
Michael the great Archangel. Satan comes in the form of
evil in the mind, soul, and spirit of men. However,
Michael (the One who is like GOD, Elyon/Yeshua) comes as
the true living Light who will defeat and destroy the
Evil one, Lucifer and his works, giving earth perfect deliverance. (TNDL)
Copyright 2019 TNDL
Saturday, March 16, 2019
ELYON/YESHUA'S MIGHTY HOLY SPIRIT
“THE LAMB WILL TRANSFORM HIMSELF INTO THE LION (YESHUA) FROM THE DIVINE REALM--THE MOUNT OF GOD, ELYON. HE IS APPEARING TO ALL HIS PEOPLE AT THIS TIME. HE IS THE NEW LIFE OF THE WORLD THAT WILL REVOLUTIONISE EVERYTHING. HE SAID LOOK! I MAKE ALL THINGS NEW IN HEAVEN, IN EARTH AND THE DIVINE REALMS, (Rev. 21-22). In the following, I will discuss the three steps of the rebirth and newness of Life that Elyon/Yeshua gives: First, Yeshua will start the process of cleansing and purifying of all those who accepted the Divine Logos, the Lamb's teachings and his true name of power, ‘YESHUA’. Second, he is writing new words of true Light and full Truth in his children’s spirit, soul and mind in order to make new beings of them, as oppose to the external person and non-living things as it was in ancient times. Third, Elyon Yeshua is also pouring out his mighty holy Spirit and his name into his people by way of sealing them. Hence, replacing the old nature of the evil spirits of man and all living things, with the Spirit nature of the returning Yeshua Moshe. Yeshua's original name is a living entity, not the interpretive Greek version Yeses Christos, followed by the English version: Christ Jesus, which were made up by men. The living true Light is here now to give Life to all living beings. Yeshua is our Lion King of the Kosmic Kings, not just for Kings of the earth. Glory to our eternal Father Yahweh Elyon and His Son, Yeshua the Logos/Christ, whom have made a new Sky (Heaven) and a new Earth. “ (TNDL)
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TNDL: "REVELATION 11: CHRIST IS VICTORIOUS OVER THE KINGDOMS OF THE WORLD AND HAVE REPLACED THEM WITH HIS RIGHTEOUS KINGDOM."
.15 And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever.
16 And the four and twenty elders, which sat before God on their seats, fell upon their faces, and worshipped God,
17 Saying, We give thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come; because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and hast reigned.
18 And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth
16 And the four and twenty elders, which sat before God on their seats, fell upon their faces, and worshipped God,
17 Saying, We give thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come; because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and hast reigned.
18 And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth
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