Our Daily Time With The Lord

Hey guys ! Thank you for sending me this post about the "myth" theories. Unfortunatelly it is not available in Greek, and I didnt know how to search for it in google. I put some key words but didnt found any results even in gotquestions website, so that was really useful!!!

I studied Luke chapter 2. I want us to discuss about verses 34-35. Did Symeon was reffering also to the future, not only the near future, but about the events in Tribulation and after this?

That's one of the reasons you have to be careful about accepting what the commentaries say about what you're reading. What Peter said, wasn't even really inappropriate.  He didn't say anything that was wrong at all. Nor was he putting them all at the same level. So when you do read things like that, then go back to your bible and read the section again asking the Lord to show you the Truth that He wants you to learn.

Here's what one commentary says that agrees with the inappropriate remark:
Mark’s explanatory (“for”) comment is set off as a parenthesis. It shows that Peter, as spokesman, responded inappropriately because (“for”) they were so frightened.  ^{The Bible Knowledge Commentary}

Other commentaries say, what I also believe is true, that God spoke at that time and said what He did, in order to take their attention away from the "experience" and "feelings" and place it where it belongs, which is on God's Word.

The Father interrupted Peter’s speech and focused their attention, not on the vision, but on the Word of God: “Hear Him!” The memory of visions will fade, but the unchanging Word abides forever. The glorious vision was not an end in itself; it was God’s way of confirming the Word (see 2 Peter 1:12–21). Discipleship is not built on spectacular visions but on the inspired, unchanging Word of God. ^{The Bible exposition commentary}

here's what MacArthur says: Rabbi. Lit. “my master.” A title of esteem and honor given by the Jews to respected teachers. In the NT, it is also used of John the Baptist (Jn 3:26). let us make three tabernacles. So as to make the 3 illustrious figures’ stay permanent. It is also possible that Peter’s suggestion reflected his belief that the millennial kingdom was about to be inaugurated (cf. Zec 14:16).  He mentions nothing about any offense or misjudgement of Peter here or in the rest of the section.

I looked through all my commentaries and about half of them say something that indicates they think Peter goofed and said something he shouldn't have in one way or another.  The rest say nothing like that at all and take what's written to mean just exactly what it says, without trying to read things into it.  Obviously, they all can't be right, so some of them are wrong.

So when you read what a commentary says, you cannot ever simply accept that any commentary or article, including what I write, are 100% right, no matter who wrote them, because they are all written by a fallible human being. They are a good tool to give you ideas, things to think about and ask the Lord about, references you can check out, etc. But you need to then go back and read the section again and ask the Lord what the Truth is, remembering to read it the same way you would read what I'm writing to you here, in other words, you take what I say literally, and that's how we take what God says too.  So, if you're not sick to death of it yet, lol, go back and read it again, asking the Lord what the truth is about it. You can disagree with me about it, that's fine. I just don't want you to accept what a commentary says because you think they're better than you are at understanding God's Word.  The same God who taught them, is teaching you. 
 

Ah, yes, a difficult subject for many in our times.

Hey guys :)
Yesterday I didnt manage to do much. I dont know how but yesterday I fell asleep at 8 pm! And woke up somewhere around 00.30 and then fell asleep again ...
Probably I am over tired, more than I can handle. Its actually the first time after many years that something like this happens, to fall asleep so early and sleep for so many hours! It used to happen when I was on antidepressants many years ago. But I dont remember to have such problems after this. I mean it does happen but not so early. It might happen when I am stuggling to do things in 00.30 am...
Anyway, I managed to go to Luke chapter 3-4 I will move a bit further and soon I will write my thoughts about this.
And I found something to show you a bit of my life, thanks to google street view www.google.gr/maps/@36.4368704,28.2376797,3a,75y,113.56h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1swJT0umjlWSwAAAQzeXmXuA!2e0!7i10000!8i5000!6m1!1e1
This is where I work. You see when it has a "wind" sign? This is practically where I am. But, because in Greece it doesnt work that way, I am actually there and on the mobile phones, tablets, laptops and accessories, and sometimes at cameras and mp3s also. You can follow the link and see the store and "walk" there and see what I am talking about. Also you can see the area outside. I will see if I can find the area I live in google street view , so you will get an idea also

Hey guys I studied Luke chapter 6 and 7.

6:27-36
As I read this again I feel that I have to make more effort on this. I believe that this is the hardest thing of all. Its hardest from all the commandments. To chose to love Gods way, the most important commandment and the hardest one.
And 7:36-50 is quite similar too.

In 7:18-23
I remember we said before that John was not sure because he was in prison and that was an example of how a human can have doubts under these circumstances. But, after reading again Luke, didnt he know from his parents and their story ase we read it in Luke chapter 1?

Yes, love is the key to how we're to live and act toward everyone.

Eva, you really, really need to write this down in your bible next to Matt 11:2–19; and Luke 7:18–35 so you don't forget. You don't have to write all of this, just enough to remind you what it means.

 We studied this years ago and have discussed it any number of times since then.  Of course he knew about all of that, he was the one who told everyone that Jesus was the Lamb of God who came to take away the sins of the world. (John 1:29) But John was just a regular guy, a regular person like you and me. He had told Israel that the Messiah was coming and they had better repent of their sins and shape up.  (Matthew 3:1–2 and especially Matthew 3:7–10) John could see as well as anyone that the people, especially the leaders hadn't repented, and he was waiting for the ax to fall - for judgment to come on them. Remember, the Jew's did not know that there was only going to be one Messiah.  They thought there would be two of them - one who would be the conqueror, and the other one who would be the suffering servant.  They were not at all interested in the suffering servant, they wanted the conqueror to come.  They wanted to be freed from Rome's oppression of them.  We can look back at history and understand the scriptures easily, but they were living them and didn't understand them at all. They could not figure out how one person could suffer and die and yet still start the Millennial Kingdom, freeing them from Rome (or whoever was oppressing them at the time) and making them the head of all nations.  If they had accepted Jesus as their Messiah, He still would have had to die for their sins and ours, but after His resurrection, He would have started the Millennial Kingdom right then.  Since they did not accept Him, it meant that He would start the church instead, and then when He returns again start the Millennial Kingdom.  Even John did not understand this then.  Plus, being human, he was under a great deal of stress, and most likely other people were planting doubts in his mind too or he was at least hearing the doubts that other people talked about. 

Jesus did not try to teach him about everything.  Instead He answered his question by proving who He was with actions. Without saying anything, Jesus immediately started performing miracles right in front of John's disciples—curing diseases, casting out demons, and giving sight to the blind. He did not speak to them until He was finished. His reply summarized what Isaiah said about Him: Isaiah 35:5–6; Isaiah 26:19; Isaiah 61:1; Isaiah 29:18, and Isaiah 11:4.  He even added the sign curing of leprosy which only Moses (Numbers 12:10–15)  and Elisha (2 Kings 5) had done before. By doing that, it would remind John of what Moses had said in Deut 18:15 - that one day God would send them a prophet like Moses and they should listen to Him. This was all complete and total proof that He was the Messiah John was looking for, and this is what John's disciples went back and told him. Basically, Jesus was telling them to tell John that even if the Jew's are not accepting Him, that He was doing everything that the Old Testament said the Messiah would do. He then said, “Blessed is the man who does not fall away on account of me.”” (Luke 7:23)  He was gently saying to John, not to allow his preconceived ideas about the Messiah to interfere with what he already knew to be true about Him.  John was in danger of being trapped in one of Satan's snares because of his concern about what Jesus was not doing - because Jesus had not yet judged anyone (that would happen in ad 70). Jesus gently told him to have faith, that He knew what He was doing.


Remember when you asked me about Jesus cursing the fig tree? I was thinking about it and I'm not sure I explained it completely.  Jesus created that tree and was entitled to get fruit from it.  When it didn't have the fruit He wanted, He cursed it and it died.  It was an example of human beings. Jesus created us and expects us to bear fruit for Him.  Those who do not, will be cursed & die the second death, spending eternity in Hell, because they were never saved.  The tree was also an example of Israel. Jesus had created them, tended them, nourished them, and expected them to bear fruit by recognizing Him as their Savior and being saved.  The nation did not and as such was cursed, and the curse was carried out in ad 70.  We don't like to think about it, but because God created us, and even keeps us alive - because we could not continue to live unless he kept the earth rotating, and kept our bodies breathing, etc. - because of all of that, God owns us. We belong to Him and He can do anything at all He pleases with us or to us.  If He was not loving, He would have tortured us and cast us all in Hell a long time ago. There is not one single human being alive that deserves to be saved, not one single infant, child, woman or man.  Everything good that we have, is because He gave it to us.  Everything good within us is because He caused it to be a part of us.  We did not do anything on our own, we did not even choose to be saved on our own, He had to first cause us to recognize that we needed a Savior and make us want one!  So it's His right to do whatever He wants to with any human being, or any animal, bird, fish, tree, plant, rock, or anything else He created.  This is some of what the bible tells us about this:

 “You turn things upside down, as if the potter were thought to be like the clay! Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, “He did not make me”? Can the pot say of the potter, “He knows nothing”?” (Isaiah 29:16)
““Woe to him who quarrels with his Maker, to him who is but a potsherd among the potsherds on the ground. Does the clay say to the potter, ‘What are you making?’ Does your work say, ‘He has no hands’? Woe to him who says to his father, ‘What have you begotten?’ or to his mother, ‘What have you brought to birth?’ “This is what the LORD says— the Holy One of Israel, and its Maker: Concerning things to come, do you question me about my children, or give me orders about the work of my hands? It is I who made the earth and created mankind upon it. My own hands stretched out the heavens; I marshaled their starry hosts.” (Isaiah 45:9–12)
“But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? “Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, ‘Why did you make me like this?’ ” Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for noble purposes and some for common use? What if God, choosing to show his wrath and make his power known, bore with great patience the objects of his wrath—prepared for destruction? What if he did this to make the riches of his glory known to the objects of his mercy, whom he prepared in advance for glory— even us, whom he also called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?” (Romans 9:20–24)

Amen!!!!

the last paragraph I wrote to Eva above is about the fig tree LOL

about that prayer:  ‎Notice that Jesus did not say any mountain, but ‘this’ mountain. He would have been standing on the Mount of Olives at the time, and it is significant that it will one day be the will of God to split this mountain in two and for a huge river to flow through that split (Zech 14:4–8). This will happen when Christ returns, so this circumstance will then be related to His faith as well as in the will of God.

As far as giving us whatever we ask for believing etc. we have to remember that we can't take any scripture and "claim" it without including all the scriptures in the bible about that subject.  Concerning prayer we're also told elsewhere that we must pray according to God's Will, not our own, and that we cannot be unreconciled to anyone because of unforgiveness in our hearts, nor can we be living in sin that we have not repented of. Plus, if we look at what the words mean in the original language, the "you' is plural, (you all) which indicates that Jesus is speaking of something that the body of Christ is praying for in agreement.

But I know what you mean about not being able to imagine it lol



You're doing really well Barbara!

Sorry I haven't been here for the last few days.  I haven't been well and it's been crazy here, will be again today, so I won't have time to do the other thread until tomorrow.  Sorry guys.

Barbara you wrote that the Jews thought there would be 2 Messiahs? Really?

"He even added the sign curing of leprosy which only Moses (Numbers 12:10–15) and Elisha (2 Kings 5) had done before. By doing that, it would remind John of what Moses had said in Deut 18:15 - that one day God would send them a prophet like Moses and they should listen to Him. "


Can we discuss this a bit more?