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JLG

- First I don't teach people!

- I read the Bible and I tell people about what I learn!

- When they ask me questions, I try to answer them!

- When it is possible to have a discussion, we have a discussion!

- If you look at the titles of my threads, I speak about the books of the Bible and especially about the faithful servants of Yah.weh!

- When it is different, it is because many people repeat the same arguments without knowing so I have to show how it works!

- It is necessary to check!

- About John 1:1, it is necessary to check through the Gospel of John about the use of the definite article or not!

- About Jesus' siblings, it is necessary to check the vocabulary used and the context in the different Gospels!

- About the reality of translations, it is necessary to analyze them!

- Before publishing a message, I usually publish the same information connected to the usual mistakes people make!

- Or important facts which must be remembered!

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  • Remember Eleazar the priest: HE TOOK A SPEAR AND HE KILLED THE ISRAELITE AND THE MIDIANITE WOMAN WHO WERE COMMITTING IMMORALITY IN FRONT OF ALL THE ISRAELITES WHEN THEY WERE WEEPING!

  • WITH ONE ACTION HE STOPPED THE SCOURGE AGAINST
ISRAEL AND YAH.WEH’S ANGER WENT AWAY!

  • BUT 24,000 DIED!

- WHAT ABOUT US?

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  • Many people think they read the Bible but when you listen to them, it is clear they don’t read it!
  • THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY TO READ THE BIBLE: TO TELL THE PEOPLE ABOUT WHAT YOU READ!
  • IT DOESN’T MATTER IF YOU MAKE MISTAKES!
  • YOU MUST DO IT AGAIN AND AGAIN, THEN YOU WILL START TO LEARN ABOUT THE BIBLE!
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  • In Luke 19, Jesus tells us an interesting illustration about God’s kingdom!
  • An important man must go to a distant land to secure kingly power!
  • To his ten slaves he gives money to do business with it till he comes back!
  • When he comes back, he wants to know what his slaves have done with their business activity!
  • According to what they have done he gives them authority over cities!
  • BUT ONE SLAVE HASN’T DONE ANYTHING!
  • And he takes what he gave to this slave and gives it to the one who did the best job!
  • SO THOSE WHO HAVE MORE WILL BE GIVEN!
  • BUT THOSE WHO DON’T HAVE IT WILL BE TAKEN AWAY WHAT THEY HAVE!
  • What about you?

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  • Maybe you remember that Yah.weh prevented David from building his temple because he was a soldier and he spent a big part of his life making war!
  • Jesus clearly said a Christian can’t do that!
  • In fact, everything we hear in the first part of the Bible has nothing but nothing to do with what a Christian must or mustn’t do!
  • THUS WHEN PEOPLE USE THE FIRST PART OF THE BIBLE TO JUSTIFY ANY PRACTICE IS TOTALLY WRONG AND HAS NOTHING BUT NOTHING TO DO WITH JESUS’ TEACHING!
  • I CAN’T EVEN IMAGINE HOW IT IS POSSIBLE TO THINK ABOUT IT!
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EXODUS 3:15

YAH.WEH THE GOD OF YOUR FATHERS – THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, THE GOD OF ISAAC, AND THE GOD OF JACOB – HAS SENT ME TO YOU.
THIS IS MY NAME FOREVER, AND THIS IS HOW I AM TO BE REMEMBERED IN EVERY GENERATION IN EVERY GENERATION.

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Jesus had siblings :

- Guess what: the Bible is the history of the Israelites!
- Each page tells you that!
- Each story tells you that!
- Each family tells you that!
- The book of Adam's story tells you that!

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Remember:

  • He is the only man of whom Yah·weh said: there is no one like him on earth!
  • No man has faced such a trial!
  • He is the example of faithfulness!
  • He lost everything!
  • Yah.weh gave him back everything!
  • He proved the devil is a liar!
  • When we feel depressed, we may find comfort through the pages of his book!
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Remember:

  • If you think like today’s people, you will never understand the Bible!
  • They used to write differently!
  • They used to speak differently!
  • They used to think differently!
  • They used to act differently!
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Remember:

Biblical Hebrew has a very small number of words, about 8,000, and around 1,700 of those words are hapax legomena (being said once) in the Hebrew Bible. Modern Hebrew has about 100,000 words. For comparison modern English has over 450,000 words, and Spanish has just over 175,000 words. Standard English dictionaries typically have about 200,000 words, whereas Spanish dictionaries have about 80,000 words.

This means words often have multiple meanings determined by context.

Although yom is commonly rendered as day in English translations, the word yom can be used in different ways to refer to different time spans:


  • Point of time (a specific day)
  • time period of a whole or half a day:
    • Period of light (as contrasted with the period of darkness),
    • Sunrise to sunset
    • Sunset to next sunset
  • General term for time ( as in 'days of our lives')
  • A year "lived a lot of days"
  • Time period of unspecified length. "days and days"
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The Greek language is ranked as the richest in the world with 5 million words and 70 million word types. According to Dr. MacDonald, only 600,000 Greek words are used today, making the Greek vocabulary the largest in the world and 3.5 times bigger than the English vocabulary.

Though there are 138,607 words in the Greek New Testament, only 5,394 are unique.

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56) Looking for Job


Job 9:

He made the Ash, the kesil, and the Kimah

constellations,

And the constellations of the southern

sky;


- Just opening our eyes at night when we can see some stars!


- Everything made by God is incredible!


- We can’t say the same with man!


- On the contrary, man is a pale imitator!


- Man can only destroy and pollute!
 
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57) Looking for Job


Job 9:

He does great and unsearchable things,

Wonderful things that cannot be counted.


- They are so great and so numerous!


- And he used all his huge army of angels!


- God’s creation is so complex that man will never understand anything!


- Only crumbs!
 
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58) Looking for Job


Job 9:

He passes by me, and I cannot see him;

He moves past me, but I do not discern him.


- God’s creation tells about god himself!


- We don’t understand his creation: that’s one thing!


- But God himself: no way, he is unbelievable!


- We can only approach his nature through his creation looking down!
 
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59) Looking for Job


Job 9:

When he snatches something, who can resist

him?

Who can say to him, “What are you doing?”


- God could have erased the devil and the demons and Adam and so on as the ridiculous human dictators usually do!


- But no, he let them all act to prove through God’s justice that they are liars and that God is the only one who can govern the universe and all its creatures!


- That’s why we have to bear human rats acting and bringing misery to humanity till God would have proved we are only rats unable to govern ourselves!


- That’s why we have to wait for God to put an end to this FARCE!
 
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60) Looking for Job


Job 9:

God will not restrain his anger;

Even the helpers of Rahab will bow down to him.


- When we think about the Israelites, they had to pay the price for their unfaithfulness and it happened many times I would say all the time!


- But Moses could prevent God from annihilating them all at once!


- So here again God is incredible because there is no one like him but he lets faithful human beings influence him: this is unbelievable!
 
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61) Looking for Job


Job 9:

How much more when I answer him

Must I choose my words carefully to argue

with him!


- This verse is incredible: it tells a lot about Job’s relationship with God!


- You can be close to someone but yet show respect and here Job says “choose my words carefully to argue with him”!


- I don’t remember something so deep!
 
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62) Looking for Job


Job 9:

Even if I were in the right, I would not answer him.

I could only plead for mercy from my judge.


- What does being right in front of God mean?


- He is the creator of everything!


- The universe is incredible!


- We don’t know anything!


- We have everything to learn from God!


- Even the possibility of living forever in the future won’t be enough!
 
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63) Looking for Job


Job 9:

If I call out to him, will he answer me?

I do not believe that he will listen to my voice,


- A human being is nothing compared to God!


- A creator of the universe and one small creature of his creation!


- Just think about the few cases who had the opportunity to have a personal contact with him!
 
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64) Looking for Job


Job 9:

For he crushes me with a storm

And multiplies my wounds for no reason.


- Here we go: Now Job finally speaks about what happened to him. He lost everything and even his health and so on. And here is the point: he only knows God and he has always served him faithfully and he has been blessed by him. And he keeps being faithful and he has lost everything all at once and he knows that it is not natural! So he can only think about God and he doesn’t understand why!


- Think about the Israelites: they only knew God! When they acted according to God’s will, they were blessed, but when they acted against him, they were struck!


- So the devil is really tricky because he knows that and he knows that Job will think that God is against him without any reason! So it is really insane!


- NOT UNDERSTANDING THIS ESSENTIAL ELEMENT AND WE MISS THE WHOLE STORY!
 
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65) Looking for Job


Job 9:

He does not let me catch my breath;

He keeps filling me with bitter things.


- Of course! And Job speaks about his physical and mental health!


- He speaks about his stress and his anguish and his lack of rest: In fact, he has no rest!


- It is worst than torture!
 
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66) Looking for Job


Job 9:

it is a matter of power, he is the strong one.

If it is a matter of justice, he says: “Who can

call me to account?”

- These words of Job clearly show his misunderstanding of the situation!


- Now think about God: For God there is no one like Job on earth, there is no one as faithful as him, and he must let Job think what he thinks because of the devil to show that he is a liar and also because all the angels are observing the situation! The more we learn about God, the more we may understand it was a really difficult and painful situation for God because he really cares about his faithful servants!
 
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67) Looking for Job


Job 9:

If I were in the right, my own mouth would

condemn me;

Even if I keep my integrity, he will declare

me guilty.


- Job has so few elements so he can only be lost!


- Once again he only knows God, his only reference is God, there is nothing else!
 
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Someone says:

If our mouth praises us, we need to examine to see if we are wrong.

My answer:

- In fact, our mouths should never praise us!

- We should tend to accurate knowledge!

- Meaning it's a path we must keep going!

- Meaning there is always a lot more to learn!

- And constantly checking what we know!

- What we know today may be wrong tomorrow!

- Depending on the elements we have or not!
 
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68) Looking for Job


Job 9:

Even if I keep my integrity, I am not confident

about myself;

I reject this life of mine.


- Job is faithful to God and he is not going to change!


- But he knows his situation and he can’t bear it, he has enough of it!


- The use of the two verbs keep / reject are clear: he makes a difference between his faith in God and his life!


- Remember his personal situation: month after month, nothing improves, on the contrary, everything goes worse!


- And the three individuals are there to make it worse so he doesn’t get any rest!


- But whatever happens, his faithfulness is not for sale!


- But he has no hope, so it would be better to put an end to it!
 
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69) Looking for Job


Job 9:

It is all the same. That is why I say,

“He destroys the innocent and the wicked alike.”


- When Job thinks of his dreadful situation, knowing that he has done nothing wrong, there is no difference between being innocent and wicked!


-Think about Job’s feelings!


- He is bitter!


- He has no hope!


- And time is working against him!
 
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70) Looking for Job


Job 9:

If a flash flood should cause sudden death,

He would mock the despair of the innocent.


- Job can be killed, the innocent can be killed!


- But they will keep being innocent!


- It won’t change anything!
 
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71) Looking for Job


Job 9:

The earth has been handed over to the

wicked;

He covers the eyes of its judges.

If it is not he, then, who is it?




- Here we are again: Job only knows God!

- He doesn’t know that the devil is controlling the world and he is the one who is responsible!


- In fact, in a way, the world is in Job’s situation, but it is the world, not only one man but the whole of humanity, and who is going to be faithful like Job?
 
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72) Looking for Job


Job 9:

Now my days are swifter than a runner;

They run away without seeing good.


- Whatever may happen to Job, in spite of his stress, his ideas about his personal situation are clear: every day is alike, Job doesn’t wait for anything, he has no hope!


- Whatever the three individuals say, Job won’t change his mind!


- He keeps straight in his boots!
 
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73) Looking for Job


Job 9:

They glide by like reed boats,

Like eagles that swoop down on their prey.


- Job’s mind is so clear!


- His images are so precise!


- What a man!


- Who in such a situation would be able to stand mentally straight!


- He always fights back!


- Nobody can stop him speaking and opening his mind!
 
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