Words Not in the Bible: 1.Eternal 2.Cross 3.Gentile 4.Hell 5.Sunday
1. ETERNAL
Luke 10:25 (KJV) And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?
Luke 10:25 (CLV) And lo! a certain lawyer rose, putting Him on trial, and saying, “Teacher, by doing what should I enjoy the allotment of life eonian?
Luke 10:25 (JMNT) Later – look and consider! – a certain man versed in the Law (a lawyer and a legal theologian; a Torah expert) rose (or: stood) up, proceeding to put Him on trial and test [Him] out by saying, “Teacher, by doing what shall I proceed in inheriting eonian life (or: in what performing will I proceed to be enjoying an allotment of a life which has the character and qualities of the Age [of Messiah] and an age-enduring life)?“
When a lawyer under old covenant law asks a question to the only person to ever keep the law, he’s going to get defensive. The lawyer that is. The lawyer should be an expert at his practice, which is law, but he cant keep it perfectly. The law came after the promise, to further reveal the need for God’s grace, not to actually save anyone. Jesus’ answer to the lawyer is to keep the law, of course. And when the lawyer justified himself and questioned Jesus more, Jesus’ reply to him was to keep the spirit of the law. The law was God’s image written on stone. Jesus fleshed it out perfectly and the lawyer missed it. The image of Christ was in the Samaritan’s sacrificial behavior. It was not in the hypocritical leadership class in Jerusalem who showed no mercy.
The lawyer wants to know who his neighbor is so he can be sure he loves him, like he claims to love God. In Jesus’ story the neighbor is someone the lawyer doesn’t love. The neighbor is the Samaritan. The Jews did not like the Samaritans. Yet the Samaritan acted in God’s image. God is the neighbor the lawyer needs to love. The lawyer needs to love the God of grace to be saved, not social status. The lawyer loved his own interpretation of the stone law because it gave him social standing, but he didn’t recognize the Word of God in the flesh.
Two problems present themselves. Nobody is in the old covenant and even if they were they couldn’t flesh it out perfectly. Only Jesus could live that life in human flesh, to the age.
The next question that should naturally present itself is, “What age?” What age were the humans trying to blamelessly live to under law? And why do we in the new covenant age anachronistically call that “eternal life”? Answer: Eternal life is in the human body of Christ. Eternal life was only in the singular body of Christ in the old age, because only He could stand in the flesh, under law. But that Jewish body was raised into a new covenant creation in Jerusalem, so He could take His church to the age, with Himself. The body of Christ is in the never-ending new covenant age now. In Christ is the only way to live forever. Only He over-ruled our human flesh mode.
Acts 13:39 was spoken by a Hebrew, on the sabbath, in a synagogue, to Jews and proselytes.
Acts 13:39 Through Him everyone who believes is justified from everything you could not be justified from by the law of Moses.
2. CROSS – Although ‘cross’ is probably the anachronistic meaning applied to the word σταυρός, Christians of the first centuries are unanimous in describing the structure on which Jesus died as having a transom, not just a simple upright.
Matthew 16:24-26 CLV 24 Then Jesus said to His disciples: “If anyone is wanting to come after Me, let him renounce himself and pick up his cross and follow Me.” 25 For whosoever may be wanting to save his soul shall be destroying it. Yet whoever should be destroying his soul on My account shall be finding it. 26 For what will a human be benefited, if he should ever be gaining the whole world, yet be forfeiting his soul? Or what will a human be giving in exchange for his soul?
Whether the word translated here as “cross” refers to the upright timber used by the Romans for execution or the post and lintel that the blood of the passover lamb was applied to, the Greek word does not primarily mean “cross“. Once again we read back into it what we think it should mean today. Even if the execution post had a cross timber, the biblical imagery was originally the tree of the knowledge of good and evil that first Adam died on; or the doorway to the death of the firstborn during the exodus. Jesus became the substitutionary death of the firstborn. He became the spiritual tree of life after He overcame the tree of death that firstborn Adam died on. The Romans were persuaded by the satanic religious leaders living in the covenant land, to nail the ‘disobedient one’ to the tree, knowing full well He was innocent. They nailed Him to the tree to make sure He died on it, since Satan himself failed to tempt Him into falling like first Adam.
1 Peter 2:24
On a more certain false picture side note: The way we picture Jesus with long hair in the picture above began in the 4th Century. The Byzantines were more interested in the contemporary symbolism their pictures conveyed to their culture rather than the historical accuracy. They based their image of Jesus on that of an enthroned emperor. Since Jesus is the heavenly ruler of all the cosmos, they pictured Him just as their earthly rulers were pictured. Augustus had an image of himself made like Zues; the famous long-haired and bearded Father of all Greek gods, minus the long hair and beard. But Jesus was depicted as a younger version of the enthroned Zeus, retaining the long hair and beard. The Bible mentions Jesus’ beard but not long hair. The 70’s hippie Jesus only accentuated the young Zeus image. But a Jew with uncut hair was seen as ungodly, unless he was keeping a Nazarite vow. Jesus did not take a Nazarite vow. His critics falsely accuse him of drinking too much wine by calling Him a drunkard not a vow breaker.
Cross, Crucify – Vine’s Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words
Cross, Crucify
[ A-1, Noun, G4716, stauros ]
denotes, primarily, an upright pale or stake.” On such malefactors were nailed for execution. Both the noun and the verb stauroo, “to fasten to a stake or pale,” are originally to be distinguished from the ecclesiastical form of a two beamed “cross.” The shape of the latter had its origin in ancient Chaldea, and was used as the symbol of the god Tammuz (being in the shape of the mystic Tau, the initial of his name) in that country and in adjacent lands, including Egypt. By the middle of the 3rd cent. A.D. the churches had either departed from, or had travestied, certain doctrines of the Christian faith. In order to increase the prestige of the apostate ecclesiastical system, pagans were received into the churches apart from regeneration by faith, and were permitted largely to retain their pagan signs and symbols. Hence the Tau or T, in its most frequent form, with the cross-piece lowered, was adopted to stand for the “cross” of Christ.
We don’t know if Jesus was killed on a cross or just a post. The symbolic appeal the T shape held for some pagans is not proof that He was not killed on a cross. Many features of Christianity appeal to pagans.
After Jesus told Peter that He would use him to build His called-out ones, Jesus tells Peter that He would soon be killed by the old covenant leadership in Jerusalem. Peter tells Jesus not to die in Jerusalem and Jesus calls Peter the adversary. Satan had tempted Jesus with the same thing; avoid an old covenant death by accepting the status quo. The leadership of humanity in Jerusalem was the offspring of the adversary and Jesus was calling His followers out; stop bowing to the enemy. The old covenant of death was soon to be destroyed.
The adversary wanted to stay in the old covenant world of death because he ruled it. The death of Christ overcame Satan’s authority in that death. Jesus rules His people in the new life of the Spirit. Satan had them by the law of sin and death.
Luke 4:7-8 YLT 7 thou, then, if thou mayest bow before me—all shall be thine.’ 8 And Jesus answering him said, `Get thee behind me, Adversary, for it hath been written, Thou shalt bow before the Lord thy God, and Him only thou shalt serve.
Jesus was offered the whole world, if only He would bow to Satan. Jesus called them out of that old covenant kingdom, that Satan tempted them with. He was on a mission to overcome their death under law.
Matthew 16:23-24 ‘JMNT 23 Now, being turned, He said to Peter, “Proceed leading the way (or: bringing things under control) behind Me, O adversary. You are My bait-stick, ensnaring and leading Me into a trap, because you are not in the habit of setting your mind on or having the attitude pertaining to the things of God, but instead, [you continually have opinions which align with] the things of these humans (or: mankind).“ 24 At that point Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone continues intending (purposing; willing; wanting) to come on behind Me, let him at once deny, reject and disown himself, and then in one move lift up his execution stake (cross), and after that proceed to be by habit continuously following after Me!
Exodus 12:7
Brown-Driver-Briggs’ Hebrew Definitions
גּי גּוי
gôy gôy
go’ee, go’-ee
a. nation, people
1. usually of non-Hebrew people
2. of descendants of Abraham
3. of Israel
b. of swarm of locusts, other animals (fig.) n pr m
c. Goyim? = “nations
“The Latin versions of the Bible translated goyim as gentes (singular gens) or gentiles (an adjectival form of gens).
The bottom line is this; when the word for nation is used to speak of non-Hebrew nations, it is often translated today as Gentile. But that misses the point. The original great commission to Adam was for humanity to rule among the animals. Notice in the definition above, nations who invaded Israel were figuratively called animals. In James 3:7 (Jacob 3:7) The twelve tribes’ success at taming the animals is acknowledged. The diaspora Hebrews were humanizing all the animal nations. Peter was told three times in a vision to take the original animal creations into his hitherto Jewish only church body.
The lost tribes had humanized and morphed into the nations. The word Gentile is a word that perpetuates a false division by obscuring the outcome of the old testament age. In the new age, there is no difference between Jews and nations. The tribe of Judah in the land is no longer to be distinct from the lost and assimilated tribes living outside the nation of Israel. Life to the age was only reached by those who had the Spirit of Christ, regardless of location or tribal affiliation. Eternal life is in Christ. We no longer call it “life to the age” because we are no longer trying to live to the age. The never-ending humanity can be in any nationality today. The church has been decentralized even more so than the original 12 tribes (nations) scattered throughout the typical promised land. The nations Abraham was called out of are now blessed with spiritually called out ones; known as new covenant humanity.
Jacob (James) 1:1 (YLT) 1 James, of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ a servant, to the Twelve Tribes who are in the dispersion: Hail!
James 3:7 (YLT) 7 For every nature, both of beasts and of fowls, both of creeping things and things of the sea, is subdued, and hath been subdued, by the human nature,
4. HELL
The Jewish authors of both the Septuagint and what we call the New Testament books used the Greek word Hades for the Hebrew word Sheol. Both words represented the same place; the place of the dead, prior to the new covenant age. The old covenant still existed during the writing of the Bible and so did Hades. English translators now have Greek concepts in mind, rather than Jewish, when they insert the word Hell, in place of all three distinct Greek words. The Jews chose to use the words Hades, Gehenna and Tartarus. To the Hebrews, Tartarus is where the fallen angels (watchers) were imprisoned. It was much deeper than Hades. In other words Tartarus was a place for the condemned and irredeemable gods to be held for judgement day (to the age). The lake of fire is an unseen place of destruction represented in the land by Gehenna. The lake of fire is where the old covenant death and the old covenant place of the dead were both destroyed. That destruction event was most likely when the old covenant ended. Jesus said the destruction of the old covenant soul would be by Gehenna fire.
Both death and Hades belonged to that old covenant age and they were both destroyed in the lake of fire. Jesus had told the old covenant hold-outs that they would burn up in the perpetual fires of Gehenna, if they refused to give up their soul in order to save it; meaning, leave the old covenant death for the new covenant life. Those who refused to choose life, went to their second death, which was permanent. The death of death included those who chose to stay in that death. Otherwise, people in the new covenant would still go the the place of the spiritually dead ones when they physically die. but people in the new covenant were given spiritual life. They don’t go to old covenant Hades. People not in the new covenant today simply die like animals. They don’t go anywhere when they die. They die dead.
Job 27:8 (Brenton) For what is the hope of the ungodly, that he holds to it? will he indeed trust in the Lord and be saved?
Job 27:8 (KJV) For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?
Jesus only addressed old covenant souls in the four gospels. There were no new covenant souls.
Matthew 16:25-28 (CLV) 25 For whosoever may be wanting to save his soul shall be destroying it. Yet whoever should be destroying his soul on My account shall be finding it. 26 For what will a man be benefited, if he should ever be gaining the whole world, yet be forfeiting his soul? Or what will a man be giving in exchange for his soul? 26 For the Son of Mankind is about to be coming in the glory of His Father, with His messengers, and then He will be paying each in accord with his practice.” 27 Verily I am saying to you that there are some of those standing here who under no circumstances should be tasting death till they should be perceiving the Son of Mankind coming in His kingdom.”
5. Sunday
The “day of the sun” has been set aside since ancient Egyptian times in honor of the sun-god, beginning with Ra. But biblically the first day of the week is a work day, not a rest day. The seventh day of rest is what we are counting on getting to, because we are tired from working for six days already. Did Jesus take on flesh only to take us back to day one or did he enter the old covenant in order to seven us?
The word Sunday is not part of the biblical text. The phrase, “first day of the week” is nowhere to be found in the Bible either. If these two facts don’t spark your interest then I’m guessing nothing will.
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The following letter is from T. Enright CssR, Bishop of St. Alphonsus C hurch, St. Louis, Missouri, June, 1905. |
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“Dear Friend, I have offered and still offer $1000 to any one who can prove to me from the Bible alone that I am bound, under grievous sin to keep Sunday holy. It was the Catholic Church which made the law obliging us to keep Sunday holy. The church made this law long after the Bible was written. Hence said law is not in the Bible. Christ, our Lord empowered his church to make laws binding in conscience. He said to his apostles and their lawful sucessors in the priesthood “Whatsoever you shall bind on earth shall be binding in heaven.” Mth. 16:19. Mth. 18:17. Luke 16:19. The Cath. Church abolished not only the Sabbath, but all the other Jewish festivals. Pray and study. I shall be always glad to help you as long as you honestly seek the truth. Respectfully, T. Enright CssR |