Aramaic Writings

By Gman4326



Like any translation there are hidden gems if one looks for them. Hebrew Old Testament is no different. "Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed".
Is one of many things written in Aramaic. Prophet Jeremiah, Daniel and even Ezra were fluent in both Hebrew and Aramaic. Another passage is found Jeremiah 10:11. Daniel living in Babylon wrote Daniel 2:4-7:28 in this language. Ezra the priest wrote 4:8-6:18; 7:12-26 in it as well. This language is living testament of how the old church writings were created over a period of time; and how it does not neatly fit a singular narrative.
https://www.studylight.org/language-studies/aramaic-thoughts.html?article=189

Gman4326 Old Testament Studies booklet

By Gman4326


This is meant to be read by Christians

Preface

List of Old Testament Author's

1. Moses Hebrew (Torah) Christianity (5 Books)

2. Joshua Hebrew (Yeshua) Koine Greek Ieshua (Jesus)

         (Biography)

3. Samuel (Judges and Ruth)

4. Nehemiah (4 books of kings or 1 and 2 Samuel; 1 and 2 Kings)

          (Historian-Biography)

5. Ezra (1 and 2 Chronicles); (Historian-Biography)

6. Unknown (Job)

7. Various Writers (Psalms)

8. Isaiah (Biography)

9. Jeremiah (Lamentations and Biography)

10. Solomon (Proverbs and Song of Solomon)

11. Daniel (Biography)

12. Minor Prophets in their own hand

Chapter 1 Out of Nothing:

This is something we are not able to do. We need either natural or fabricated materials to create something. By supernatural means God spoke things into existence. This form of knowledge is unknown to us. As mere creatures

we can not reduplicate the means into existence either. Natural Revelation can only explained from a Christian Worldview. Read Romans 1:20 and Psalm 19:1 

Other worldviews must borrow from the Christian system of thought. Read Psalm 14:1

However apologetically speaking their method of knowing. Will begin with didactic presuppositions supported by human revelation rather from God. 

On other the hand all of creation is functionally good because God is real. Genesis 1:31 Scripturally speaking, In the beginning God created the heavens

and the earth. Before matter existed God did. HE did this out of nothing. Our Creator spoke the heavens, the governing bodies and everything else in the span of

six days. Earth itself is six thousand years old plus. Garden of Eden was lived in for one thousand years. According to the Gregorian Calendar from 5000 BC to

to 33AD was the period when the old ceremonial law was allowed to flourish. In these last days (passing of the old testament to the beginning of the new testament

period.) we began to live under Jesus Christ rule. Read Psalm 2; 110:1  

Chapter 2 Our first parents:

Every race, color or creed has one set of ancestors in common.

Some time ago there was place called the Garden of Eden. Read Genesis 2:8-14

Revealed knowledge that has been imbued in us. Thou shall not do harm! A desire to confiscate, steal, lust after or supress other's common dreams.

The teaching of A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - J - K - L - M - N - O - P - Q - R - S - T - U- V, W - X - Y and Z. Know i now my abc. 

Will you come and sing along with me. Thank you God for the food on my plate and the drink in the cup. Thank you for mommy and daddy in Jesus name AMEN. 

Spoken by their parents and then kids rehearse it until memorized. This is called General Revelation.  He could not find a helpmate among the creatures. 

The term helpmate in Genesis 2 mean a person who is not equal in likeness or strength. But can share in the same suffering or life

God put man into a deep then used man's rib to create woman. Woman mean after man. By God grace men and women do not think alike nor have the same attributes. 

Men need a companion to exist. Women live longer than men. Since the 16th century the concept of marriage will include friendship and romantic feelings for 

the opposite sex. 

While being married to him. But what happened in the Garden did not stay there. They rebelled against our Creator by eating of the forbidden fruit. 

But why would do that? The serpent convinced Woman that she did not need God to survive. But when the I AM enter the garden they were wearing fig leaves. Come out, Come out wherever you are, calls God. 

Red Clay respond with, we are naked. Who told you this, ask God? Man renamed Adam blamed the woman. Woman gave me a bite of the apple. Woman responds by accusing the serpent. Of persuading her to eat of the fruit. 

What happened with the Adam, Woman and the Serpent? God punished the Serpent to have no legs. God punished the Woman to have birth pains. God punished Adam to hard labor. God promised woman that a child born would crush the head of the serpent. God killed a sheep to cloth Adam and Woman. Then changed the earth so man the couple could live without suffering. Adam renamed woman to Eve. God kicked out the couple for their rebellion.

Look up Ge 1:26,27; Ge 2:17; Ecc 7:29; Job 28:28 Read Genesis 3

 

Mortification Chapter 3

By our first parents choosing to rebel (aka Sin). This condition has been passed to you and me. Jeremiah 17:9 Ecc 7:29 For example Adam first son Cain felt resentful that God approved of Abel offering and not his own.

God did warn Cain not to do it. But he did murder his little brother. Hearing the blood (literally) cried out. God asked a question where is thy brother? Am I my brother's keeper? God punished Cain by changing his profession.

Realizing he murdered Abel. This action could get him killed. God chose to put a mark on Cain back. This was an act of mercy. God would punish Cain after death. His action changed what people thought of him. Made Cain feel guilty.

Finally making his descendants believe that Cain was morally justified in his actions. Genesis 6:5; Ecc 7:20 It is impossible for us to be born good. Secondly, man to save man.

Chapter 4 Covenants

HE does not age or have a time limit. The same yesterday, today and tomorrow. Consistent nature our Creator has. As it is repeated through-out history. We are allowed to make choices. Predestination is not just for knowing who will be sent to Abraham's bosom.

That decision while alive have impact for a future tomorrow as well. In this case God had a plan setup when Adamah chose to fall. 

One or more men are well known on the surface level in the local community. By process, asking another person whether are not a man has an earned. 

A positive public image or not. When it is in the affirmative. A third party is sent to make a scheduled contact. By personal invitation the two parties either in informal attire. As the other person is being treated like family. Other times a formal attire is worn. 

To treat the person and occasion in a more business like atmosphere. On a either event a contract will be signed by both parties. It can go in the 

opposite direction as well. For this chapter sake. That second scenario does not exist. By faith given to certain men. The Great Governor and sustainer of life. Enters into contracts that HE alone could fulfill.

The promised birth of the savior. The Ante-Diluvian man was living a longer. Man was also living under Judgment. Each of these generation's knew of the Holy and Undivided Trinity existence.

Yet believed they could know the difference between right and wrong. God chose Noah to build the very first boat in history. This Boat would take a couple hundred years 

to be built. Jeers and sneers were part of the package as well. In God's timing animals of the land and air would climb aboard. Lastly the Noah family climbed aboard.

Our Creator started raising the water levels, through out the earth. After more than a year the water receded. God made a promise to Noah that HE will never use flood

to judge humanity. The sign GOD chose was the rainbow. Unlike Today Genealogy was very important. It was meant to let the old church know what families the Savior would be born to.

The Savior would be born into the house of Abraham. The oath of Circumcision. The delivery of the chosen from Egypt. The Savior would be a son David. These promises solely rely on the fact that GOD is Good, and eternal.

In capital letters G-O-D in English, tetra-gram YWH in Hebrew, and alternatively JEHOVAH in essence One in being.

Believers in the old testament (testimony or covenant) were given glimpses in to the Trinity. God and the Father; Spirit of God in Genesis 1 is commonly called Holy Spirit or Ghost.

Under the old system animal sacrifices were meant to be a temporary replacement. For the coming messiah who would take away the sins of the world. 

Kosmos in koine Greek is a first person singular noun. The humans or people are being saved are chosen by God. Getting back to the old church system. Who was it that wanted animals to be sacrificed and why?

Who created this system? God created this system? Why did God do so? God did so in order to allow history to move forward. As revealed by the Spirit of God to Moses in 1446BC. No ordinary sacrifice would do.

These sacrifices must be without blemish. Imagine a friend offers you spoiled fruit or meat. Would you accept it? But there is a deeper meaning behind it. An act of wickedness by unbelievers or sin by believers.

Comes at a high cost. That high cost is death. So a substitute must be offered instead. However there was a catch. The person or people must do it because they believe in the One and the three.

God in return must want to accept the sacrifice in return. There was no middle ground when God rejected the sacrifice. Their sins were not forgiven. The crushing of the serpent's head by a decedent of man is called the Adamic Covenant Read Genesis 3:15.

A rainbow as a sign that GOD would no longer flood the entire earth is called the Noahic Covenant Read Genesis 9:8-11. Promise of land and the use of Circumcision is called the Abrahamic Covenant. 

Davidic Covenant Messiah to be born in David's house Read 2 Samuel 7:11. The Temple to be built under the next king Read 2 Samuel 7:12-13; psalm 89:3; 132:11

Chapter 5 LAW

There are different categories found in the old covenant for law. They are called Ceremonial, Civil and Criminal forces. According to the Psalmist the law is meant

to revive the soul and make the simple wise. In prespective the ceremonial in the form of the circumcision came before the blueprints for Tabernacle was given on Mt. Sinai.

Every aspect of the Ceremonial Law was completed in Jesus of Nazareth. Before Levi there was Melchizedek king and priest of Salem. Animal sacrifices were meant to be a temporary

as they did not disobey GOD in the garden. In our time we misunderstand what law was passing away in 33AD. The Decalogue speaks of God character as well as our own. In fact the moral compact

is a written description of what the second half of it found in us already. First half bears witness that we know of Jehovah existence. Psalm 14:1; 53:1 That our conscience knows it is wrong to lie, cheat and steal.

As the True and most Ancient King the civil and criminal code showed how a people were shown mercy. Let me give you an example Hammurabi code made allowances for slavery. By God freeing the Old 

Covenantal Church from slavery. Makes the legal code fair and merciful. I do not use 'freeing the Jews' because that invokes that the Old Testament is seperate from the New Testament.

This textbook is meant for people to read and discuss. It is not meant to be a political tool for those who wish to dismiss the Bible as a book of fables. Properly understood the law was and still is meant to give us

peace and keep us from being in trouble with Jesus Christ the current ruler over the earth.

Chapter 6 Different forms of Literature

The old testament contains different forms literary flourish. The different writer's wrote as 

historians and autobiographers. Then each man would add lyrics, civil and criminal law; wordplays,

allegory, other form's poetic devices, finally plain facts. The common American biblical translator can only use two methods.

Word for word or thought for thought. Hebrew 11:1 Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.

This is from the new international version and it is considered a thought for thought translation. Here is the same verse in a word for

word translation: Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. The NIV seeks to give people a chance

understand what writer intentions are. The KJV gives its readers incite on what the author actual said from the original tongue. The wordsmith

given the task as part of a committee tries to be accurate as possible. But sometimes miss the mark. If you are reading this then know this.

The Old Testament both in the original and in the common tongue is God breathed. It is not a series of books full of fairy tales, myths or lore.

One form of Biblical Entertainment

By Gman4326


Entertainment has an educational component to it. Once you break it down.
Here is an example of it right below
A two Person dialogue
Storyline: two people are reading from a catechism.
Person 1: What is the chief end of man?
Person 2:  Man's chief end is to glorify GOD
Person 1: So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
Person 2: Is it from first Corinthians chapter 10 verse 31?
Person 1: It is from 1 Corinthians 10:31.
Person 2: and to enjoy him forever (Psalm 73:25,26)
Person 1:  Whom have I in heaven but you? I desire you more than anything on earth.
My flesh and my heart may fail, But God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
Person 2: What rule has GOD given to man that we might glorify him?
Person 1: The Word of God which is contained in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments (Eph. 2:20; 2 Tim. 3:16)
Person 2: built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone; All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness,
Person 1: is the only rule to direct us how we may glorify God and enjoy him. (1 john 1:3)
Person 2: We proclaim to you what we ourselves have actually seen and heard so that you may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ.

Red Symbolism

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Gold process and symbolism

By Gman4326

“Sin is cosmic treason. Sin is treason against a perfectly pure Sovereign. It is an act of supreme ingratitude toward the One to whom we owe everything, to the One who has given us life itself. Have you ever considered the deeper implications of the slightest sin, of the most minute peccadillo? What are we saying to our Creator when we disobey Him at the slightest point? We are saying no to the righteousness of God. We are saying, “God, Your law is not good. My judgement is better than Yours. Your authority does not apply to me. I am above and beyond Your jurisdiction. I have the right to do what I want to do, not what You command me to do.”
― R.C. Sproul, The Holiness of God
Chapter 1
Nature of Man's Condition
Our Common Ancestors listened to Satan and chose to rebel against the I AM. Disobedience came at a cost a thousand years without lust, pride or any form punishment. Humanistically speaking, lead to 5000 plus years of selfishness and tyranny. Biblically speaking, Faith from Abel to John the Baptist had to be given to them.
Who is like you, O Lord, among the gods? Who is like you, majestic in holiness, awesome in glorious deeds, doing wonders? Exodus 15:11 Moses could have never sung this according to the means of the flesh.
In holiness God is more clearly seen than in anything else, save in the Person of Christ Jesus the Lord, of whose life such holiness is but a repetition.
Charles Spurgeon
What is Sovereignty? Sovereignty is the Establishment of just punishment's and reward's. Within the limits of its borders. The civil and criminal laws are based on moral principles taught and practiced. Whatever the principles are.  It will effect how people live.
GOD is Sovereign
God is not a mere eternal or random creature born on a planet called heaven.
HIS knowledge is not fallible or limited to the past. LORD does not change His mind.
Without Him there is no Law of Order or the existence of the Good Word.
"The LORD has established His throne in the heavens; and His sovereignty rules over all".
His rule is benevolent and good: Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and unfathomable His ways!"
Romans 11:33,36 (NASB)
God is Holy
Can man see God and live? Without God's mercy man cannot see Him and live.
Son of Amoz was given a vision by the Living Lord and he heard this.
"Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of Hosts; His glory fills all the earth."
Isaiah 6:3b Berean Study Bible
The Word Glory comes from the greek O.T bible. The Hebrew Old Testament uses the word robe.
Sources:
God and Government pg 249; pdf pg 262; Gary Demar 2011
biblehub.com/isaiah/6-3.htm
christianquotes.info/top-quotes/20-amazing-quotes-about-gods-holiness/
goodreads.com/quotes/tag/sovereignty-of-god

Victory in Jesus the King of Kings

By Gman4326

It is inescapable fact that in every society. That culture promotes Public worship. And the law enforces Moral Values. But wait a minute Christ has yet to rule. Says who, Charles Finney the father of Decision theology.  No wait a minute it must be John Nelson Darby father of Dispensationalism. This has bothered me for some time now. How can we in the United States call ourselves a Christian nation and not public promote the faith. The Lord of hosts did not hide his ministry in a bushel. He lived it out openly. The victory in Christ is real. We only need to stop being pessimists and live it out. 

How art as a means to edify?

By Gman4326

Augustine of Hippo as well as many well intentioned Catholic scholar's for centuries saw marriage as utilitarian. Speculatively speaking this led them to see that what happens with a married couple as evil. This flew in the face of what Christ Jesus did in Cana and the LORD said to Jeremiah on knowing him. Before he was born. It took generations to go from troubadours telling tales of knights errand to King James to write a love poem to his wife. In regards to documentaries, I don't see it as a form adultery. Rather as an asethic instruction. When the reformers and the dispensationalist fundamentalists withdrew from secular life. For a time the Catholics in America filled the gap by airing Greatest Story Ever Told and the Ave Maria hour. Under Dobson Focus on the Family worked with porchlight and others to create audio dramas. Tyndale publisher's, and CBN (family Channel) with Zorro 1990 tv series. The current understanding of edification is to rigid for my taste. Edification needs to include scripted story telling. Let us recall the past as means to learn a lesson. For the Glory of the Most Holy and Undivided Trinity alone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zorro_%281990_TV_series%29
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Greatest_Story_Ever_Told_%28radio_program%29
https://www.blogtalkradio.com/fr-bob-warren
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpIbHiqjqUo
https://store.focusonthefamily.com/radio-theatre-ben-hur