The meaning of the names of the lineage from Adam to Jesus form an interesting message. Bible-codes.org has this interesting information.
Posted by: biblestudyseattle | May 7, 2014
72 Names
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Posted by: biblestudyseattle | May 6, 2014
Joseph Evidence
Is there secular Egyptian evidence for Joseph? Apparently, Imhotep fits pretty well. He was prime minister during the reign of Pharoah Djoser. The Egyptian details are slightly different, but similar. Some state that Djoser reigned about 2700BC, but Joseph was about 1900BC. Evidently the huge grain storage complex was at Sakkara. The book The Exodus Case has many details.
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Posted by: biblestudyseattle | May 5, 2014
Feast overlays
The Spring and Fall feasts overlay. Why?
The sacred year starts Nisan 1. The Passover lambs (or goats) are selected Nisan 10. They are kept in the house and examined for any defects. They are slain toward to end of Nisan 14 to be eaten in haste the beginning evening of Nisan 15. About midnight of Nisan 15 is when the Israelites left Egypt. The feast of unleavened bread is Nisan 15-21. The waving of the sheaf of Firstfruits is Nisan 16. 50 days later is Pentecost.
The Fall feasts are similar, six months later. Tishri 1 is the Feast of Trumpets. Tishri 10 is Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. Tishri 15-21 is the Feast of Tabernacles. Tishri 22 is a sacred assembly.
Nisan 14 and Pentecost have no counterparts in the fall. And the sacred assembly of Tishri 22 has no counterpart in the Spring. What does this foreshadow?
Prophetically, the Spring Feasts have to do with the firstborn, the church. And the Fall Feasts have to do with Israel and the second born. At least that’s what we think. Israel sometimes is referred to as a firstborn, so we will see how this plays out.
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Posted by: biblestudyseattle | May 4, 2014
Colossians 2:14
The NRSV has Colossians 2:13-14 as:
” And when you were dead in trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you alive together with him, when he forgave us all our trespasses, erasing the record that stood against us with its legal demands. He set this aside, nailing it to the cross.”
Many see this as Jesus nailing the Mosaic Law to the cross, giving us untold freedom. But Jesus did not nail the Mosaic Law to the cross.
“having canceled the charge of our legal indebtedness, which stood against us and condemned us; he has taken it away, nailing it to the cross.” Colossians 2:14 NIV
Jesus nailed our indebtedness to the law to the cross. That a fancy way of saying our sins. Jesus said he came to fulfill the law, not end it. Ultimately, his sacrifice will help us to keep and fulfill the law in the next age.
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Posted by: biblestudyseattle | May 3, 2014
Funeral promises
At many memorial services John 11:25-26 is quoted. It’s quoted something like, “Jesus said that even though a man dies, he that believes in him will not really die.” It actually says,
“Martha saith to him, `I have known that he will rise again, in the rising again in the last day;’
Jesus said to her, `I am the rising again, and the life; he who is believing in me, even if he may die, shall live;
and every one who is living and believing in me shall not die — to the age;”. John 11:24-26
Why does Martha say Lazarus will rise in the last day? What’s the last day? The seventh! In this case the 1,000 year long Millennial Sabbath. Verse 25 does not say he won’t really die. It merely says that a person will live again after he dies. That’s the resurrection. A long period of ‘sleep’ may pass between death and resurrection. Saying that Jesus says a person won’t really die is akin to Satan’s lie to Eve that she wouldn’t really die if she ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. And why does verse 26 say, “to the age?” Here again is reference to the millennial Sabbath. Remember when the Pharisees were complaining about Jesus ‘working’ on the Sabbath? Jesus replies that he is Lord of the Sabbath! If they only understood what that meant!
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Posted by: biblestudyseattle | May 3, 2014
Millennial Feasts
Zechariah 14 states that all nations must come up to Jerusalem to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles in the Millennium. But what about Passover? It must be that all the Passover typology will have been fulfilled at that point.
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Posted by: biblestudyseattle | May 3, 2014
Judgment of Parents
God has provided a judgment of parents in their kids. The kids mimic the parents behaviors and speech. This provides a mirror that is sometimes alarming. When you hear your kids say something you do that’s ugly, it provides a gentle reminder of bad behavior. This has to be a taste of the bigger judgment in the Millennium. The judgment will not be harsh, but just the right amount to bring self awareness to the matter.
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Posted by: biblestudyseattle | April 30, 2014
Palm Saturday
Jesus died about 3pm on Nisan 14. This was ‘between the evenings’, noon being the first evening, 6pm being the second. This rules out Nisan 16 for the resurrection, as that would be a maximum of one and three quarter days from 3pm Nisan 14. This can’t satisfy the prophecy of Jonah: three days and three nights in the tomb. Therefore, he rose on Nisan 17th, before dawn. Scripture tells us that he rose on the first Sabbath in the count of seven to Pentecost. Therefore, Nisan 10 was also a Sabbath. Palm Sunday was actually Palm Saturday!
“Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, ‘On the tenth of this month they are each one to take a lamb for themselves, according to their fathers’ households, a lamb for each household. Now if the household is too small for a lamb, then he and his neighbor nearest to his house are to take one according to the number of persons in them; according to what each man should eat, you are to divide the lamb. Your lamb shall be an unblemished male a year old; you may take it from the sheep or from the goats. You shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month, then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel is to kill it between the evenings.” Exodus 12:3-6
From the Tenth of the month when Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a donkey, to the Fourteenth of the month, Jesus was examined to determine if he had any blemish or spot. No one could find fault as hard as they tried.
“As they were leaving Jericho, a large crowd followed Him. And two blind men sitting by the road, hearing that Jesus was passing by, cried out, “Lord, have mercy on us, Son of David!” The crowd sternly told them to be quiet, but they cried out all the more, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us!” And Jesus stopped and called them, and said, “What do you want Me to do for you?” They *said to Him, “Lord, we want our eyes to be opened.” Moved with compassion, Jesus touched their eyes; and immediately they regained their sight and followed Him. When they had approached Jerusalem and had come to Bethphage, at the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples, saying to them, “Go into the village opposite you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied there and a colt with her; untie them and bring them to Me. If anyone says anything to you, you shall say, ‘The Lord has need of them,’ and immediately he will send them.” This took place to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet:
“Say to the daughter of Zion,
‘Behold your King is coming to you,
Gentle, and mounted on a donkey,
Even on a colt, the foal of a beast of burden.’”
The disciples went and did just as Jesus had instructed them, and brought the donkey and the colt, and laid their coats on them; and He sat on the coats. Most of the crowd spread their coats in the road, and others were cutting branches from the trees and spreading them in the road. The crowds going ahead of Him, and those who followed, were shouting,
“Hosanna to the Son of David;
Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord;
Hosanna in the highest!”
When He had entered Jerusalem, all the city was stirred, saying, “Who is this?” And the crowds were saying, “This is the prophet Jesus, from Nazareth in Galilee.” Matthew 20:29-21:11
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Posted by: biblestudyseattle | April 30, 2014
Book
For a good thorough look at the Exodus, read The Exodus Case by Dr. Lennert Moller. Theexoduscase.org.
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Posted by: biblestudyseattle | April 28, 2014
Matthew 28:2-4
“and lo, there came a great earthquake, for a messenger of the Lord, having come down out of heaven, having come, did roll away the stone from the door, and was sitting upon it, and his countenance was as lightning, and his clothing white as snow,
and from the fear of him did the keepers shake, and they became as dead men.” Matthew 28:2-4
Sometime around dawn, as the women arrived, there was a great earthquake. Will there be a great earthquake around the dawn of the Millennium?
“Behold, a day is coming for the Lord when the spoil taken from you will be divided among you. For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city will be captured, the houses plundered, the women ravished and half of the city exiled, but the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city. Then the Lord will go forth and fight against those nations, as when He fights on a day of battle. In that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, which is in front of Jerusalem on the east; and the Mount of Olives will be split in its middle from east to west by a very large valley, so that half of the mountain will move toward the north and the other half toward the south. You will flee by the valley of My mountains, for the valley of the mountains will reach to Azel; yes, you will flee just as you fled before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the Lord, my God, will come, and all the holy ones with Him!” Zechariah 14:1-5
Aren’t these two accounts similar? An angelic being, white as snow, comes down with a huge earthquake, and they are very afraid. Perhaps this is reading too much into the resurrection morning account, but who knows?
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