Wednesday, April 21, 2021
Saturday, April 17, 2021
The Exegesis on the New Covenant.
It feel like old times doing this. The Old Covenant was part of the Old Testament among Jewish people and God. It was codified during the days of Moses and ended by the Death and Resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. It dealt with sacrifices at the Temple, following over 600 commandments, and it was conditionally on obedience. In fact, before Moses, the Mosaic covenant with Sabbath keeping never existed. Adam, Noah, Abraham, and Shem never followed the Old Covenant or the Sabbath. It was revealed by God to Moses (Nehemiah 9:13-14). IN OTHER WORDS, THE LAW OF GOD EXISTED BEFORE THE LAW OF MOSES. In God's foreknowledge, he knew that the Second Temple would be completely destroyed by 70 A.D. in Jerusalem. That would make the old covenant impossible to kept, because to fulfill the old law, you have to go to the Temple of Jerusalem. If you violate one part of the old law, you violate them all. The New Covenant unconditional brought about by the blood of the Lamb. The New Covenant is meant for both Jewish people and Gentiles as God is no respector of persons. A person's heart matters to God not a person's color or sex. In this generation, there has been an increase of not only God haters, but blasphemers who denied the existence of the Son of the living God, deny the bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ, and even deny the Godhead. Tons of Christians were martyrs of the faith, and I will never deny the Father nor the Son. SO, WE ARE UNDER THE NEW LAW UNDER THE SON OF GOD NOT THE OLD LAW. The following verses define the new covenant and its components.
1. Jeremiah 31:31-34 defines the new covenant in the future that God deals with the Children of Israel.
2. Hebrews 7:18 mentions that the old commandment is annulled.
3. John 10:27-28 says that Yeshua gives people eternal life.
4. Hebrews 8:13 explicitly mentions the new law as the old law has passed away.
5. Hebrews 7: 21-28 outlined the truth that Jesus Christ has a better testament. The Old Testament made constant sacrifices a duty among believers, but with the new covenant Jesus Christ made one sacrifice alone for all people.
6. Romans 8:2 says that the law of the spirit of life is found in Jesus Christ, and he makes people free form the law of sin and death.
7. Hebrews 9:15 shows the truth that Yeshua has a better testament beyond the old testament.
8. Jesus give redemption to humanity via his blood, his forgiveness of sins, and his grace is from Ephesians 1:7..
9. Heb.9:12-12: "Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
10. Col. 2:14-17 says that people shouldn't judge people in meat, celebration of Holy Days, and the Sabbath. So, it is not wrong to celebrate holy days or the Sabbath, but they are not required for believers in God to follow during this era of time. Christians can meet on the FIRST day of the week (Acts 20), take up collection on the FIRST day of the week (1 Cor. 16:1-4), and preach the FIRST day of the week (Acts 20:7), because the Saviour rose the FIRST day of the week (Luke 24, Matt. 28) and the Holy Spirit came down the FIRST day of the week (Acts 2:1-6). According to the HISTORY OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH: "Hence, the first day was already in the apostolic age honorably designated as "the Lord's Day." ...it appears, therefore, from the New Testament itself, that Sunday was observed as a day of worship, and in special commemoration of the Resurrection, whereby the work of redemption was finished. The universal and uncontradicted Sunday observance in the second century can only be explained by the fact that it has its roots in apostolic practice." (Philip Schaff, , vol. 1, pg. 478-479).
11. Romans 8:2-4: The law of the spirit of Christ makes people free. It is not like the old law, and the law of righteousness walks in the spirit.
12. Jesus broke the Sabbath without sin in John 5:18 when he healed a person. This proves the Sabbath was not a moral law but a ceremonial one.
Saturday, April 03, 2021
An Exegesis on the Trinity.
It has been a while since I did an exegesis, but now it's the perfect time to do this. I wanted to do it, because many young Christians don't know what the Trinity is. Another reason why I did it is because we have a new generation of people who not only disagree with the Trinity but bash it like the false preacher Gino Jennings (who preaches the heresy of Oneness modalism. Gino Jennings supports the witchcraft glorifying, false Apocrypha books too).
So, this work will stand out with evidence from the Scriptures to confirm the Trinity 100 percent. The Trinity means that one God exists in three persons. These persons are God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. They have existed since the beginning of the Universe. They exist simultaneously. The Son is not the Father or the Holy Spirit. The Trinity exists as one substance, power, nature, and essence. This concept is found in Nature. A human has a mind, body, and spirit. So, humans have a compound unity. So, God is a complex, compound, yet unified being.
Distinctions and Differences between the Father and the Son:
1.Matthew 3:13-17 mentioned that God the Father said in an audible voice that Jesus is his beloved Son that he is well pleased. The Father in that situation identifies Jesus Christ as his Son.
2. 1 John 1:1-3 proved that the Father exists with the Son in distinction of person. If the Father was the same as the Son, the Bible would say that the Father is the Son. Yet, that isn't the case.
3. John 3:14-19 is a verse saying that God gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life. The Bible explicitly only calls the Son (Jesus Christ not God the Father) alone being begotten.
4. John 16:3 showed Jesus saying a distinction between him and the Father. If the Son was the same as the Father, the Bible would so. It doesn't, because the Son is making a distinction between him and the Father in person not in nature
5. Matthew 26:39-42 outlines how Jesus Christ prayed to the Father three times in doing his will.
6. Matthew 24:36 is explicitly clear that only the Father knows the day or the hour of the end, not the Son. This is the smoking gun evidence proving a distinction between the Father and the Son. If both are completely the same, the Son would know the day or the hour of the end.
7. Philippians 2:5-6 outlines how the Lord Jesus Christ and the Father have equality.
8. John 5:19 is another verse showing that Jesus or the Son saying that when the Father does something, he will do it also.
9. John 1:18 outlines that no human has seen God the Father only the begotten Son of God.
10. John 8:15-18 mentioned that Jesus Christ said that the Father sent him. If the Son and the Father were the same person, the Son wouldn't have made these comments. It is obvious that the New Testament makes it clear that there is a distinction between the Father and the Son.
The Plurality and Compound Unity of one God:
1. Genesis 1:1-4, 26 said that God created the heavens and the Earth in the beginning. Later, it mentioned God saying Let us make man in our image. God in those verses means Elohim, and Elohim is a Hebrew plural noun signifying a unified compound being.
2. Deutonomy 6:4 shows that "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD" and when that is literally translated it reads Shema Israel, Yehovah Elohim (Adonai) echad! One is translated as echad meaning a group united as one not a solitary one which would mean yachid in Hebrew. This source outlines this, "the only word that applies to God (Elohim) in the O.T., then this would be a death sentence of the Trinitarian believers. The word yachid means an absolute or solitary one." (Francis Brown, S. R. Drivr, and Charles Briggs, A Hebrew English Lexicon of the Old Testament. Oxford, Charendon, 1966, pg. 402).
"Elohim conveys both the unity of the one God, and yet allows for the plurality of Divine Persons as expressed in the historical Christian doctrine of the Trinity. It is unique to monotheistic Israel and is not found in the language of any of her polytheistic, Semitic neighbors (Jack B. Scott, S.V. "elohim", in Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament, 2 vols:, Chicago, Moody Press, 1980, 1:44).
The unity in multiplicity is the essence of the Trinity or a plurality in one unity (God)
The Holy Spirit being a Different Person than the Father
1. John 15:26-27 said that the Comforter proceeds from the Father. The Comforter is the Holy Spirit.
2. 2 Corinthians 13:14 outlines the distinction of the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit.
3. 2 Cor 13:14 and Mt 28:19 document the personality of the Holy Spirit.
4. II Peter 1:21 mentioned that the prophets were moved by the Holy Spirit.
5. Matthew 28:19 shows the words of Jesus Christ being a direct commandment to his absolutes and followers. Jesus Christ said, "Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost." The singular use of "name" does NOT indicate a single name for all three, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. It indicates a singular name for each one.
The Greek reads:
"eiV to onoma tou PatroV kai tou Uiou kai tou Hagiou PneumatoV"
"in the name the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost."
Furthermore, had Jesus used the plural (names), the grammar would indicate a plurality of names for each individual one ("the names of the Father, and the names of the Son, and the names of the Holy Ghost.")
Following is another verse where Granville Sharp applies:
1 John 2:22 Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.
(KJV)
The last line in Greek reads:
"o arnoumenoV ton Patera kai ton Uion."
"that denieth the Father and the Son."
The definite article "tou" (the) before Son and Holy Ghost indicates that they are all different things or persons. The grammatical rule in Greek for determining whether a single thing or person is meant, or different things or persons is meant, when "and" appears, is called the "Granville Sharp rule." The basic rule is as follows:
"If two nouns of the same case are connected by a "kai" (and) and the article (the) is used with both nouns, they refer to different persons or things. If only the first noun has the article, the second noun refers to the same person or thing referred to in the first." {Curtis Vaughn, and Virtus Gideon, A Greek Grammar of the New Testament" (Nashville: Broadman Press, 1979), p. 83.}"
The presence of the article "the" before Son and Holy Spirit where all three are connected by "and" indicates three separate persons. The singular use of "name" implies that each has a separate name.
More References of the Trinity in the Old Testament
1. Isaiah 48:16 mentioned the distinctions of the Holy Spirit, the Father, and the Son overtly.
2. Psalm 2:1-9 truly mentioned a conversation between the Father and the Son, and the Father said that he has witnessed the begotten Son.
3. Psalm 110:1-5 showed verses about the God the Father and the Messiah (the Son) making God's enemies his footstool.
4. Proverbs 30:4 described the power of God and His Son in very great detail.
The Historical Support of the Trinity by the Early Church
1. Theophlius of Antioch in 180 A.D. wrote of the Trinity in his Chapter XV-Of the Fourth Day, To Autolycus 2:15). Other early Christians like Justin Martyr, Ignatius, Polycarp, Athenagrius, and other have written quotes believing in distinctions of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and other concepts of the Trinity.
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