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3601 | 2 Timothy 2:15 is our mandate! | Revelation | Makarios | 7616 | ||
Yes, the mandate is clear! MacArthur's Study Bible says, concerning this verse, "Be diligent. This word denotes zealous persistence in accomplishing a goal. Timothy, like all who preach or teach the Word, was to give his maximum effort to impart God's Word completely, accurately, and clearly to his hearers. This is crucial to counter the disastrous effects of false teaching (vv. 14,16,17). 'rightly dividing' Lit. "cutting it straight"- a reference to the exactness demanded by such trades as carpentry, masonry, and Paul's trade of leather working and tentmaking. Precision and accuracy are required in biblical interpretation, beyond all other enterprises because the interpreter is handling God's Word. Anything less is shameful." |
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3602 | Original language of Revelation | Revelation | Makarios | 10749 | ||
"Several scholars believe Revelation to have been originally written in Aramaic. Here's a few references on that issue. A SEMITIC APROACH TO THE TEXT OF REVELATION by James Scott Trimm containing TWO books published as one together... The Original Language of the Apocalypse by Robert B. Y. Scott, The Language and Date of the Apocalypse by Charles Cutler Torrey, The Apocalypse of St. John in a Syriac Version by John Gwynn The Greek version of Revelation is hard to defend as the inspired original text, in that it has an enourmous number of errors that don't appear in the Aramaic versions. ERRORS ONLY IN THE GREEK VERSION OF REVELATION (and other translational evidence) Charles Cutler Torrey gives ten examples of improper Greek grammar in the Greek version of Revelations as listed below... Rev. 1:4 "Grace to you, and peace, from he who is and who was and who is to come" (all nom. case) Rev. 1:15 "His legs were like burnished brass (neut. gender dative case) as in a furnace purified" (Fem. gender sing. no., gen. case) Rev. 11:3 "My witness (nom.) shall prophesy for many days clothed (accus.) in sackcloth." Rev. 14:14 "I saw on the cloud one seated like unto a Son of Man (accus.) having (nom.) upon his head a golden crown." Rev. 14:19 "He harvested the vintage of the earth, and cast it into the winepress (fem), the great [winepress] (masc.) of the wrath of God." Rev. 17:4 "A golden cup filled with abominations (gen.) and with unclean things" (accus.) Rev. 19:20 "The lake of blazing (fem.) fire (neut.). Rev. 20:2 "And he seized the dragon (accus.), the old serpent (nom.) who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him." Rev. 21:9 "Seven angels holding seven bowls (accus.) filled (gen.) with the seven last plagues." Rev. 22:5 "They have no need of lamplight (gen.) nor of sunlight (accus.)." Now did God inspire John to write in Greek with all those errors, or did John write in the language he knew best (Aramaic) followed by a less than perfect translation into Greek? The Aramaic version of Revelation does not have these "bad grammar" problems. The errors in the Greek text are at least one reason many scholars believe in an Aramaic origin to the book. There are other reasons involving style and how the Greek text tends to use phrasing that is closer to typical Aramaic phrasing than typical Greek phrasing, but this is a difficult thing to demonstrate in a short post like this. One thing that always struck me as odd about the Greek version of Revelations is why it calls him the ""Alpha" and the "O"". That is the word "Alpha" is spelled out but "Omega" is not - it just has the letter Omega there. I always thought it was strange until I read the Aramaic version for the first time, and then the answer became crystal clear. In the Aramaic version, it says "I am the Aleph and the Tau", spelling out both the first and last letter of the alphabet. Thus, there is no inconsistancy about how these two letters are referenced. However, In Aramaic, the "Tau" is written with a Tau and a Waw. The shape of a Waw follows the outline of the near side of a Tau so closely in the square Aramaic lettering, that if they were handwritten close enough, one could easily mistake a Tau and a Waw for a fat Tau, and thus translate the Aramaic "Tau" into Greek with a single letter (O - Omega) to try to render the same "sense". There are two Aramaic versions of Revelation. 1. Peshitta - There's the one that appears in the Peshitta / Peshitto and canonized by the portions of the Eastern Church of Syria (though it had been in circulation before that time). They cannonized the first 22 books of the Bible early, but did not cannonize Revelation and the other of the last 5 books of the New Testament until 508 AD. 2. The Crawford Manuscript of Revelation is published in the last book mentioned above. Does it matter? Well, each language tells the gospel story of Jesus's death, resurrection, atonement, etc., more or less the same way. It's really the more minor issues that differences could be drawn. Because the grammar is different, one might get different hint or clues as to the timing of the rapture in reading different manuscripts. So for end times hints, maybe correctly understanding the right source text might matter to some degree. But most importantly IT MATTERS IN ORDER TO DEFEND THE INTEGRITY OF THE SCRIPTURES, since the Greek version is filled with bad grammar but the Aramaic version is rather clean." Part 1 of 2 |
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3603 | Original language of Revelation | Revelation | Makarios | 10750 | ||
"Here's a few differences in how the Greek and Aramaic versions of Revelation read: Rev 2:22 "I will cast her into the COFFIN." The original Aramaic word here is spelled Ayin, Resh Sammekh Alef and can be translated as either "coffin" or "bed". "Bed" appears in the Greek text, but perhaps "coffin" makes more sense. Why would he throw her on a bed with her companions? Note Rev 2:23 says "I will kill her sons..." Why would God's judgement be to kill her sons and not kill her...but just throw her on a bed? Beds are where nice things happen - rest, relaxation....this is clearly a judgement, not a free pass to a spa. It's also easy to see how this could have been translated from Aramaic to Greek the way it was. Rev 10:1 Greek - "and His FEET were like pillars of fire" Aramaic - "and His LEGS were like pillars of fire". The Aramaic word for "legs" here can mean legs or feet or both. But since they are compared to "pillars", "legs" is probably a better translations. So we see how the imagery of the Aramaic version makes more sense. Rev 1:15 strongly suggests an Aramaic origin to Revelation: Greek - "...And his feet were were like brass (calko) burnished (libano) as if in a furnace, glowing/afire." Now the KJV translates "libano" as "burnished", but the word has no real meaning in Greek. It's actually a Hebrew/Aramaic word. Aramaic has two possible translations... "...And his feet were in the form of the Lebanese brass that is burned in a furnace" "...And his feet were in the form of the whitening brass that is burned in a furnace" The first is the most common, while the second is an arguably possible translation. When brass is burned in a furnace, it turns white. "Lebanon" in Hebrew/Aramaic shares roots with the Hebrew word for "to make white". It could be saying the brass is from Lebanon or it could be using this to say the brass is turning white. The same descrepency also appears in Rev 2:18. The Greek text is definitely using a Hebrew/Aramaic word - no question about it. A Hebrew/Aramaic word just simply suddenly appears in the middle of this otherwise Greek sentence. It would appear that when Revelation was translated from Aramaic to Greek, they simply transliterated this word instead of finding a Greek equivalent. Perhaps the translators did not know what it meant, so they just transliterated it. One problem with Aramaic is that it is a rather fluid language with several dialects, and the Greek traslators may not have known the dialect they were translating from, but only had info on a close, but not identical dialect of Aramaic. Rev 9:11 Aramaic - "...whose name in Hebrew is 'Avadu' and in Aramaic 'Sh'ra'" Greek - "...whose name in Hebrew is 'Abaddon' and in Greek 'Apollyon'" Rev 8:2 says the angels were given 7 Shofars -indicating what type of trumpet it was. The Torah discusses the Shofar made from a Ram's horn as well as silver trumpets. These two types of trumpets were used for different purposes in different times. So the fact that the Aramaic text could be telling us what kind of trumpet this was is significant in that this is lost in the Greek version. Now there's other subtleties that come through in the Aramaic that don't come through in the Greek. For example, when Jesus said He was the "Alef and the Tau", there's something hinted here that doesn't come through by translating this as "Alpha and Omega" or "A and the Z". Alef and Tau spell the word "ET" in Hebrew, which has an important grammatical usage that parallels Jesus's atonement in a spiritual way. Genesis 1:1 says... "In the beginning God created it; the heavens and the earth" This is probably the most literal way you could translate "ET". "ET" here is translated as the word "it". When an indirect object appears in a Hebrew sentence, it has to be preceeded by the word "ET", spelled Alef Tau. So it takes the place of an indirect object and must come before it. Now just as "ET" takes the place of an indirect object, Jesus took our place on the cross, and He had to come before us! Praise Him forevermore!!!!" part 2 of 2 (Taken from a thesis of the authorship of Revelation from my friend who is a Messianic Jew) |
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3604 | muslims - 144,000? | Revelation | Makarios | 10754 | ||
Dear Isa, We stand on the Word of God alone, that is, the Holy Bible. We believe that the Holy Bible is the inspired, inerrant Word of God! We would appreciate it if you wouldn't try to 'win any converts' here to Islam. Thank you. I suggest that you learn as much about Christianity as possible, and the best way to do so is to read about Him in the Bible. Nolan |
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3605 | computers... | Revelation | Makarios | 12676 | ||
Excellent observation EdB! My experience programming in C (plus plus), Assembly/Machine Language, COBOL, FORTRAN, UNIX and other various forms of code have all confirmed the truth of your explanation on hexidecimal connotation! Any good compiler with an error message of "Hex 'such and such'" is a good 'confirmation' of this! :) Of course, all computers (all the way back to the very first 8088 chip) used hexdecimal connotation.. And all Intel computers now are an 'offshoot' or descendant of this chip. Excellent post EdB! --Nolan |
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3606 | The Great Prostitue? | Revelation | Makarios | 12727 | ||
Dear Jackie, I disagree. I believe that the church is not the Great Harlot of Rev. 17, but the Bride of Christ! Here is Scripture to support my claim that the church is, in fact, the Bride of Christ: Isaiah 62:5, Jeremiah 2:32, Revelation 18:23, 21:2,9, and Revelation 22:17 which states, "Rev 22:17 And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And he that heareth, let him say, Come. And he that is athirst, let him come: he that will, let him take the water of life freely." (ASV 1901) --Nolan |
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3607 | The Rapture in Revelation | Revelation | Makarios | 13870 | ||
Blessings Tim! Sorry to throw you a curve.. :) I find your reference to Revelations 14 very interesting! I had never really looked at this verse in regards to the rapture, but I see your reasoning here. Good study! What I wrote you about Revelations 19:9 was completely from my own personal study. I did not get that from any source. :) Have an excellent day! --Nolan |
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3608 | Good study guide for Revelation? | Revelation | Makarios | 23943 | ||
Can you recommend a good study guide for the book of Revelation? http://www.revelationcommentary.org - Nolan |
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3609 | thw 24 elders Revelations 19:8 | Revelation | Makarios | 23980 | ||
Heresies of the Baha'i Cult ************************************* Info at a Glance: Purpose: To unite the entire world in one common faith. Founders: "The Bab" (Syyid, or Mirza, Ali Muhammed); Baha'u'llah. (In Baha'ism, the words "Syyid" and "Mizra" are designations of spiritual authority.) Source of authority: The writings of Baha'u'llah. Claim: To be the fulfillment of all world religions and prophecies. Occult dynamics: Mystical practices influenced by Shiite Islam. Examples of key literature: The Al-Kitab Al-Aqdas (The Most Holy Book), The Kitab-I-Iqan (The Book of Certitude), Gleanings From the Writings of Baha'u'llah; Baha'i World Faith. Attitude toward Christianity: Rejecting. Doctrinal Summary: ------------------------------ God: Unknowable, except through His or Its historic Manifestations. Jesus: A Prophet; a Manifestation of God (one of nine or more); never God-incarnate. Holy Spirit: The "impersonal" active force of God. Trinity: An irrational concept reinterpreted in light of Baha'i teachings, especially by Baha'u'llah. Salvation: By belief in the Manifestations of God and good works. Man: A son of God. Satan: A Christian myth. Second Coming: Baha'u'llah represents the Second Coming of Christ. Bible: One of many divine scriptures. Death: Generally, death brings an improved state of existence. Heaven and Hell: Conditions, not places. This post was written to better explain the heresies of the Baha'i Cult. This information was taken from "Encyclopedia of Cults and New Religions" by John Ankerberg and John Weldon. - Nolan |
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3610 | We are to know about al of the Churches | Revelation | Makarios | 25595 | ||
Well, that is great news, newsponge! I hope that you learn much! - Nolan |
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3611 | John-author of Gospel and Revelation? | Revelation | Makarios | 26589 | ||
Greetings SRN! Wherever you found that, that speculation is neither Biblically founded nor Traditionally founded.. Mary Magdalene never wrote under the guise of John. - Nolan |
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3612 | Who is the Bride of Christ? | Revelation | Makarios | 30371 | ||
Excellent answer, SULEYFUN! Here is some support that the Bible does, in fact, say that the church is the Bride of Christ: 2 Cor. 11:2, Rev. 19:7, Rev. 21:2-9, Matt. 22:2, Matt. 25:6,10... - Nolan |
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3613 | Original language of Revelation | Revelation | Makarios | 31881 | ||
Yes, there is a way- but I'll have to find the webpage, which was the source of all of that material that I posted back in July.. Shame on me for not citing it in the post back then! As soon as I find it, I will send it on to you. | ||||||
3614 | Original language of Revelation | Revelation | Makarios | 31991 | ||
Greetings, Dave! Finally, here is the website that was created by my friend Joe, who is a Messianic Jew. I had to search long and diligently to find it, but I have finally! :-) http://members-http-2.rwc1.sfba.home.net/joe.viel/learn/mc/NTlang2.htm Blessings to you, Makarios |
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3615 | Original language of Revelation | Revelation | Makarios | 32166 | ||
Thanks Dave, That is interesting (about the word "ET").. I'll have to give my friend Joe a 'hard time' about not citing his sources!! :-) Makarios |
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3616 | U.S.A. in Bible Prophesy? | Revelation | Makarios | 44795 | ||
Greetings EdB! Long time, no see! Good to hear from you from sunny Florida! :-) Blessings to you, Makarios |
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3617 | U.S.A. in Bible Prophesy? | Revelation | Makarios | 44803 | ||
Hello Ed! Thats great and a blessing that you were able to see your brother in law! As for the snow, I would be glad to share some with you when winter comes around! :-) You haven't seen snow in 23 years! Lol! I used to live in northwest Arkansas, and I don't remember seeing any snow until we came back to Indiana.. I enjoyed the Arkansas summers though, which seemed to simmer as the summer wore on.. Good to have you back, if only 'partially' active! Your Brother in Christ, Makarios |
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3618 | Add notes Revelation 21 | Revelation | Makarios | 46109 | ||
Greetings Diana! Here is some commentary to Revelation 21.. "ANALYSIS OF CHAPTER 21., 22 1-5 THE whole of chapter 21, and the first five verses of chapter 22, relate to scenes beyond the judgment, and are descriptive of the happy and triumphant state of the redeemed church, when all its conflicts shall have ceased, and all its enemies shall have been destroyed. That happy state is depicted under the image of a beautiful city, of which Jerusalem was the emblem, and it was disclosed to John by a vision of that city--the New Jerusalem--descending from heaven. Jerusalem was regarded as the peculiar dwelling-place of God, and to the Hebrews it became thus the natural emblem or symbol of the heavenly world. The conception having occurred of describing the future condition of the righteous under the image of a beautiful city, all that follows is in keeping with that, and is merely a carrying out of the image. It is a city with beautiful walls and gates; a city that has no temple--for it is all a temple; a city that needs no light--for God is its light; a city into which nothing impure ever enters; a city filled with trees, and streams, and fountains, and fruits--the Paradise Regained. The description of that blessed state comprises the following parts:-- I. A vision of a new heaven and a new earth, as the final abode of the blessed, #Rev 21:1. The first heaven and the first earth passed away at the judgment, #Rev 21:11-15 to be succeeded by a new heaven and earth fitted to be the abode of the blessed. II. A vision of the holy city--the New Jerusalem--descending from heaven, as the abode of the redeemed, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband--representing the fact that God would truly abide with men, #Rev 21:2-4. Now all the effects of the apostasy will cease; all tears will be wiped away, and in that blessed state there will be no more death, or sorrow, or pain. This contains the general statement of what will be the condition of the redeemed in the future world. God will be there; and all sorrow will cease. III. A command to make a record of these things, #Rev 21:5. IV. A general description of those who should dwell in that future world of blessedness, #Rev 21:6-8. It is for all who are athirst; for all who desire it, and long for it; for all who "overcome" their spiritual enemies, who maintain a steady conflict with sin, and gain a victory over it. But all who are fearful and unbelieving--all the abominable, and murderers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and liars--shall have their part in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone. That is, that world will be pure and holy. V. A- minute description of the city, representing the happy abode of the redeemed, #Rev 21:9-26. This description embraces many particulars:-- (1.) Its general appearance, #Rev 21:11,18,21. It is bright and splendid--like a precious jasper-stone, clear as crystal, and composed of pure gold. (2.) Its walls, #Rev 21:12,18. The walls are represented as "great and high," and as composed of 'jasper.' (3.) Its gates, #Rev 21:12,13,21. The gates are twelve in number, three on each side; and are each composed of a single pearl. (4.) Its foundations, #Rev 21:14,18-20. There are twelve foundations, corresponding to the number of the apostles of the Lamb. They are all composed of precious stones--jasper, sapphire, chalcedony, emerald sardonyx, sardius, chrysolite, beryl, topaz, chrysoprasus, jacinth, and amethyst. (5.) Its size, #Rev 21:15-17. It is square--the length being as great as the breadth, and its height the same. The extent of each dimension is twelve thousand furlongs--a length on each side and in height of three hundred and seventy-five miles. It would seem, however, that though the city was of that height, the wall was only an hundred and forty-four cubits, or about two hundred and sixteen feet high. The idea seems to be that the city--the dwellings within it--towered high above the wall that was thrown around it for protection. This is not uncommon in cities that are surrounded by walls." (more available upon request) [Taken from Barnes' Notes on the NT] |
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3619 | How do we know the Lord if He returns? | Rev 1:1 | Makarios | 94557 | ||
DarcyA, Excellent verses, and thank you for posting those! :-) Those verses give better support to the fact that we will know, beyond any doubt, that He has returned! Blessings to you, Makarios |
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3620 | How do we know the Lord if He returns? | Rev 1:1 | Makarios | 94662 | ||
Thats an interesting point of view, Pooh Wong.. I pray that we will be able to discern people by the "fruits" of their labor.. But I do agree that we ought to be careful, in a certain regard. Makarios |
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