Sunday 2020.05.31
Reading 1 Peter Chapter 4, Young's Literal Translation
A reminder to show earnest love to fellow believers, by way of hospitality and ministering spiritual gifts to benefit one another, e.g. speaking and serving, that God may be glorified through Iesou Christou.
1 Peter 4:7 - 11 YLT
7 And of all things the end hath come nigh; be sober-minded, then, and watch unto the prayers,
8 and, before all things, to one another having the earnest love, because the love shall cover a multitude of sins;
9 hospitable to one another, without murmuring;
10 each, according as he received a gift, to one another ministering it, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God;
11 if any one doth speak -- `as oracles of God;` if any one doth minister -- as of the ability which God doth supply;` that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom is the glory and the power -- to the ages of the ages. Amen.
Sunday, May 31, 2020
Monday, May 25, 2020
From Yeshua to Jesus: transliterations of the Lord's Name
The following list shows how the Name of the Messiah, the Anointed One, was pronounced by different communities in different places over the years:
- Hebrew — Yeshua or Yehoshua (Joshua)
- Greek — Iesou (Iesous for masculine nominative case)
- Latin — Iesus
- Geneva Bible 1557 — Jesus. (In Switzerland, "J" sounds like "Y", pronounced Yesus)
- King James Version in 1611 — Iesus
- By 1769, the Geneva spelling Jesus was adopted by English translations, but not the "Y" sound.
It is the failure of the English translations to adopt the Y sound from the Geneva Bible that has led to mispronounciation of the Lord's Name today.
Instead of calling upon "Yesou" or even "Yesus", most Christians are calling upon "Jesus".
Thankfully, such a departure from the original Y sound did not happen in the Chinese and Tamil translations of the New Testament. The Chinese transliteration for the Lord's Name is "Ye su" in Mandarin, or "Yeh Sow" in Cantonese dialect, while the Tamil transliteration is "Yeso". Both maintain strong resemblance to the Greek Iesou, for Yeshua.
Reference:
Sunday, May 24, 2020
Everyone who is loving is begotten of God
Sunday, 2020.05.24
Reading 1 John Chapter 4, Young's Literal Translation
Your faith is shown by your works. It is by what you do that you show to God and to the world around you whether you have the presence of God, His Spirit, in you:
(1) Love one another
1 John 4:7 " . . . every one who is loving, of God he hath been begotten, and doth know God;"
1 John 4: 12, 13 " . . . God no one hath ever seen; if we may love one another, God in us doth remain, and His love is having been perfected in us; in this we know that in Him we do remain, and He in us, because of His Spirit He hath given us"
1 John 4: 16 "and we -- we have known and believed the love, that God hath in us; God is love, and he who is remaining in the love, in God he doth remain, and God in him"
1 John 4: 20,21 "if any one may say -- `I love God,` and his brother he may hate, a liar he is; for he who is not loving his brother whom he hath seen, God -- whom he hath not seen -- how is he able to love? and this is the command we have from Him, that he who is loving God, may also love his brother.
(2) Confess, testify
1 John 4: 14-15 "And we -- we have seen and do testify, that the Father hath sent the Son -- Saviour of the world; whoever may confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God in him doth remain, and he in God;"
Reading 1 John Chapter 4, Young's Literal Translation
Your faith is shown by your works. It is by what you do that you show to God and to the world around you whether you have the presence of God, His Spirit, in you:
(1) Love one another
1 John 4:7 " . . . every one who is loving, of God he hath been begotten, and doth know God;"
1 John 4: 12, 13 " . . . God no one hath ever seen; if we may love one another, God in us doth remain, and His love is having been perfected in us; in this we know that in Him we do remain, and He in us, because of His Spirit He hath given us"
1 John 4: 16 "and we -- we have known and believed the love, that God hath in us; God is love, and he who is remaining in the love, in God he doth remain, and God in him"
1 John 4: 20,21 "if any one may say -- `I love God,` and his brother he may hate, a liar he is; for he who is not loving his brother whom he hath seen, God -- whom he hath not seen -- how is he able to love? and this is the command we have from Him, that he who is loving God, may also love his brother.
(2) Confess, testify
1 John 4: 14-15 "And we -- we have seen and do testify, that the Father hath sent the Son -- Saviour of the world; whoever may confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God in him doth remain, and he in God;"
Saturday, May 23, 2020
A Chronology of Noah and the Flood
Reading from the Septuagint,
Genesis chapters 7 and 8.
(A) Genesis 7: 6-10 appears to be an overview, or an introduction of the account of the Flood.
(1) Noe (Noah) was 600 years old when the flood occurred.
(2) Noah and his family went into the ark. (Gen 7:6-7).
(3) After seven days, the flood began. (Gen 7:10)
(B) The chronological details of the Flood begins from Genesis 7: 11 onwards.
(4) In the 600th year of Noe, 2nd month, 27th day (Gen 7:11) "all the fountains of the abyss were broken up, and the flood-gates of heaven were opened",
(5) "on that day" Noe and his family entered the ark (Gen 7:13)
(6) It rained 40 days and 40 nights. (Gen 7:12)
(7) The flood was upon the earth for 40 days and 40 nights (Gen7:17). This verse may refer to 40 days of flood subsequent to 40 days of rain, or it may be a reiteration of Gen. 7:12 above.
(C) The end of the Flood is chronicled in Genesis chapter 8.
(8) After 150 days, the water "was diminished", and on 600th year, 7th month, 27th day, the ark rested on the mountains of Ararat. (Gen 8:3)
Question: How do we reconcile this 150 days of flood water with the 40 days of rain (Gen 7:12) and / or 40 days of flood (Gen 7:17)?
(9) On the 600th year, 10th month, 1st day, the mountain tops were seen. (Gen 8:5)
(10) After 40 days, a raven was sent out, followed by a dove the first time (Gen 8:7).
(11) After another 7 days, the dove was sent out a second time (Gen 8:10).
(12) After yet another 7 days, the dove was sent out for the third time (Gen 8:12).
(D) The opening of the ark and the return to dry land is accounted from Genesis 8:13 onwards.
(13) On the 601st year, 1st month, 1st day, the covering of the ark was opened (Gen 8:13).
(14) Finally, on the 601st year, 2nd month, 27th day, the earth was dried (Gen 8:14).
Altogether, from the 27/2/600 year of Noe until the 27/2/601 year, Noe and his wife, and his three sons and daughters-in-law, and all the chosen animals, spent an entire year in the ark.
Genesis chapters 7 and 8.
(A) Genesis 7: 6-10 appears to be an overview, or an introduction of the account of the Flood.
(1) Noe (Noah) was 600 years old when the flood occurred.
(2) Noah and his family went into the ark. (Gen 7:6-7).
(3) After seven days, the flood began. (Gen 7:10)
(B) The chronological details of the Flood begins from Genesis 7: 11 onwards.
(4) In the 600th year of Noe, 2nd month, 27th day (Gen 7:11) "all the fountains of the abyss were broken up, and the flood-gates of heaven were opened",
(5) "on that day" Noe and his family entered the ark (Gen 7:13)
(6) It rained 40 days and 40 nights. (Gen 7:12)
(7) The flood was upon the earth for 40 days and 40 nights (Gen7:17). This verse may refer to 40 days of flood subsequent to 40 days of rain, or it may be a reiteration of Gen. 7:12 above.
(C) The end of the Flood is chronicled in Genesis chapter 8.
(8) After 150 days, the water "was diminished", and on 600th year, 7th month, 27th day, the ark rested on the mountains of Ararat. (Gen 8:3)
Question: How do we reconcile this 150 days of flood water with the 40 days of rain (Gen 7:12) and / or 40 days of flood (Gen 7:17)?
(9) On the 600th year, 10th month, 1st day, the mountain tops were seen. (Gen 8:5)
(10) After 40 days, a raven was sent out, followed by a dove the first time (Gen 8:7).
(11) After another 7 days, the dove was sent out a second time (Gen 8:10).
(12) After yet another 7 days, the dove was sent out for the third time (Gen 8:12).
(D) The opening of the ark and the return to dry land is accounted from Genesis 8:13 onwards.
(13) On the 601st year, 1st month, 1st day, the covering of the ark was opened (Gen 8:13).
(14) Finally, on the 601st year, 2nd month, 27th day, the earth was dried (Gen 8:14).
Altogether, from the 27/2/600 year of Noe until the 27/2/601 year, Noe and his wife, and his three sons and daughters-in-law, and all the chosen animals, spent an entire year in the ark.
Friday, May 22, 2020
This is His command
Reading from the Young's Literal Translation.
Fri 20200522
1 John 3: 21-24 YLT "The commands of God - to believe, to love one another"
21 Beloved, if our heart may not condemn us, we have boldness toward God,
22 and whatever we may ask, we receive from Him, because His commands we keep, and the things pleasing before Him we do,
23 and this is His command, that we may believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and may love one another, even as He did give command to us,
24 and he who is keeping His commands, in Him he doth remain, and He in him; and in this we know that He doth remain in us, from the Spirit that He gave us.
The above, especially verse 23, sheds light on an earlier passage about keeping "an old command" in 1 John 2: 3-11 YLT
3 and in this we know that we have known him, if his commands we may keep;
4 he who is saying, `I have known him,` and his command is not keeping, a liar he is, and in him the truth is not;
5 and whoever may keep his word, truly in him the love of God hath been perfected; in this we know that in him we are.
6 He who is saying in him he doth remain, ought according as he walked also himself so to walk.
7 Brethren, a new command I write not to you, but an old command, that ye had from the beginning -- the old command is the word that ye heard from the beginning;
8 again, a new command I write to you, which thing is true in him and in you, because the darkness doth pass away, and the true light doth now shine;
9 he who is saying, in the light he is, and his brother is hating, in the darkness he is till now;
10 he who is loving his brother, in the light he doth remain, and a stumbling-block in him there is not;
11 and he who is hating his brother, in the darkness he is, and in the darkness he doth walk, and he hath not known whither he doth go, because the darkness did blind his eyes.
Notes:
(1) The "old command" that the disciples had from the beginning was reiterated in the "new command" that John wrote about in 1 John 2: 8 - 11, that is, to love your brethren in the Lord.
(2) Later, John sums it up in 1 John 3: 23 by saying that this is the command from God our Father, "and this is His command, that we may believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and may love one another, even as He did give command to us,"
(3) It is by obeying this God given command, both to believe in the Name of Iesou the Anointed One, and to love one another, that makes us pleasing to him (1 John 3: 22) and that gives us boldness towards God our Father in Heaven, who answers our prayers and supplications (1 John 3:21 - 22).
Fri 20200522
1 John 3: 21-24 YLT "The commands of God - to believe, to love one another"
21 Beloved, if our heart may not condemn us, we have boldness toward God,
22 and whatever we may ask, we receive from Him, because His commands we keep, and the things pleasing before Him we do,
23 and this is His command, that we may believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and may love one another, even as He did give command to us,
24 and he who is keeping His commands, in Him he doth remain, and He in him; and in this we know that He doth remain in us, from the Spirit that He gave us.
The above, especially verse 23, sheds light on an earlier passage about keeping "an old command" in 1 John 2: 3-11 YLT
3 and in this we know that we have known him, if his commands we may keep;
4 he who is saying, `I have known him,` and his command is not keeping, a liar he is, and in him the truth is not;
5 and whoever may keep his word, truly in him the love of God hath been perfected; in this we know that in him we are.
6 He who is saying in him he doth remain, ought according as he walked also himself so to walk.
7 Brethren, a new command I write not to you, but an old command, that ye had from the beginning -- the old command is the word that ye heard from the beginning;
8 again, a new command I write to you, which thing is true in him and in you, because the darkness doth pass away, and the true light doth now shine;
9 he who is saying, in the light he is, and his brother is hating, in the darkness he is till now;
10 he who is loving his brother, in the light he doth remain, and a stumbling-block in him there is not;
11 and he who is hating his brother, in the darkness he is, and in the darkness he doth walk, and he hath not known whither he doth go, because the darkness did blind his eyes.
Notes:
(1) The "old command" that the disciples had from the beginning was reiterated in the "new command" that John wrote about in 1 John 2: 8 - 11, that is, to love your brethren in the Lord.
(2) Later, John sums it up in 1 John 3: 23 by saying that this is the command from God our Father, "and this is His command, that we may believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and may love one another, even as He did give command to us,"
(3) It is by obeying this God given command, both to believe in the Name of Iesou the Anointed One, and to love one another, that makes us pleasing to him (1 John 3: 22) and that gives us boldness towards God our Father in Heaven, who answers our prayers and supplications (1 John 3:21 - 22).
Tuesday, May 19, 2020
Adam was a son of God
In Luke 3: 36b - 38 YLT an account of the ten generations of descendants from Adam is written as follows:
"the son of Noah, the son of Lamech,
37 the son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch, the son of Jared, the son of Mahalaleel,
38 the son of Cainan, the son of Enos, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God."
Adam is called the son of God in Luke 3:38.
Today, reading from the Septuagint:
When we look back into Genesis 5: 1-5, we read that the name Adam was given by God Himself. In like manner, Adam went on to give a name, Seth, to his own son.
Adam was the son of God, just as Seth was the son of Adam. Thus began the use of the term "ben", meaning "son of". In other words we call the first man Adam ben Elohim, and his son, Seth ben Adam.
Genesis 5:1-5 LXX
"This is the genealogy of men in the day in which God made Adam; in the image of God he made him: male and female he made them, and blessed them; and he called his name Adam, in the day in which he made them. And Adam lived two hundred and thirty years, and begot a son after his own form, and after his own image, and he called his name Seth. And the days of Adam, which he lived after his begetting Seth, were seven hundred years; and he begot sons and daughters. And all the days of Adam which he lived were nine hundred and thirty years, and he died."
Note from the passage above:
(1) Adam was made by God in the image of God, male and female were they made. The making of Adam included Eve, for Eve was made out of the body of Adam.
(2) Adam was the name given by God, on the day he was made by God, in the image of God Himself.
(3) Seth was the name called by Adam, he bore the form and image of Adam
"the son of Noah, the son of Lamech,
37 the son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch, the son of Jared, the son of Mahalaleel,
38 the son of Cainan, the son of Enos, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God."
Adam is called the son of God in Luke 3:38.
Today, reading from the Septuagint:
When we look back into Genesis 5: 1-5, we read that the name Adam was given by God Himself. In like manner, Adam went on to give a name, Seth, to his own son.
Adam was the son of God, just as Seth was the son of Adam. Thus began the use of the term "ben", meaning "son of". In other words we call the first man Adam ben Elohim, and his son, Seth ben Adam.
Genesis 5:1-5 LXX
"This is the genealogy of men in the day in which God made Adam; in the image of God he made him: male and female he made them, and blessed them; and he called his name Adam, in the day in which he made them. And Adam lived two hundred and thirty years, and begot a son after his own form, and after his own image, and he called his name Seth. And the days of Adam, which he lived after his begetting Seth, were seven hundred years; and he begot sons and daughters. And all the days of Adam which he lived were nine hundred and thirty years, and he died."
Note from the passage above:
(1) Adam was made by God in the image of God, male and female were they made. The making of Adam included Eve, for Eve was made out of the body of Adam.
(2) Adam was the name given by God, on the day he was made by God, in the image of God Himself.
(3) Seth was the name called by Adam, he bore the form and image of Adam
Lamech prophesied about Noah
Reading from the LXX Septuagint (Brenton).
Did Lamech know something about his son Noe, that few of us were told?
Genesis 5: 28-30 LXX
"And Lamech lived an hundred and eighty and eight years, and begot a son. And he called his name Noe, saying, This one will cause us to cease from our works, and from the toils of our hands, and from the earth, which the Lord God has cursed. And Lamech lived after his begetting Noe, five hundred and sixty and five years, and begot sons and daughters. And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred and fifty-three years, and he died."
Notes :
(1) Noe was a name called by Lamech, who said that Noe will cause us to "cease from our works, and from the toils of our hands, and from the earth, which the Lord God has cursed".
(2) Question: Does this mean that the Curse upon Adam, pronounced by the Lord God in Genesis 3:18b - 20, was to cease in the generation of Noe, the tenth generation of Adam?
see Genesis 8:21 lxx
"I will not any more curse the earth, because of the works of men, because the imagination of man is intently bent upon evil things from his youth, I will not therefore any more smite all living flesh as I have done. All the days of the earth, seed and harvest, cold and heat, summer and spring, shall not cease by day or night."
(3) If so, was this brought about by the new covenant established by God after the Great Flood, in Genesis 9: 1 - 17, when God commanded Man to "increase, fill the earth and have dominion over it" (Gen 9:1) a second time? (The first time was in Gen 1: 28, when God commanded Adam to "Increase and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it, . . .")
cf the Curse upon Adam in Genesis 3: 18b-20:
"cursed is the ground in thy labours, in pain shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life. Thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to thee, and thou shalt eat the herb of the field. In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat thy bread until thou return to the earth out of which thou wast taken, for earth thou art and to earth thou shalt return."
Did Lamech know something about his son Noe, that few of us were told?
Genesis 5: 28-30 LXX
"And Lamech lived an hundred and eighty and eight years, and begot a son. And he called his name Noe, saying, This one will cause us to cease from our works, and from the toils of our hands, and from the earth, which the Lord God has cursed. And Lamech lived after his begetting Noe, five hundred and sixty and five years, and begot sons and daughters. And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred and fifty-three years, and he died."
Notes :
(1) Noe was a name called by Lamech, who said that Noe will cause us to "cease from our works, and from the toils of our hands, and from the earth, which the Lord God has cursed".
(2) Question: Does this mean that the Curse upon Adam, pronounced by the Lord God in Genesis 3:18b - 20, was to cease in the generation of Noe, the tenth generation of Adam?
see Genesis 8:21 lxx
"I will not any more curse the earth, because of the works of men, because the imagination of man is intently bent upon evil things from his youth, I will not therefore any more smite all living flesh as I have done. All the days of the earth, seed and harvest, cold and heat, summer and spring, shall not cease by day or night."
(3) If so, was this brought about by the new covenant established by God after the Great Flood, in Genesis 9: 1 - 17, when God commanded Man to "increase, fill the earth and have dominion over it" (Gen 9:1) a second time? (The first time was in Gen 1: 28, when God commanded Adam to "Increase and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it, . . .")
cf the Curse upon Adam in Genesis 3: 18b-20:
"cursed is the ground in thy labours, in pain shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life. Thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to thee, and thou shalt eat the herb of the field. In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat thy bread until thou return to the earth out of which thou wast taken, for earth thou art and to earth thou shalt return."
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